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Library Auction |Second Terrific Electric Storm
Launched At
Kick-Off Dinner
Enthusiastic Throng
Enjoys Smorgashoard
® And Entertainment
~The Fifteenth Library Auction
got off to a flying start Thursday
night with a rousing Kick-Off din-
ner at the Irem Country Club, when
250 Library enthusiasts enjoyed a
smorgasbord and a fast stepping
program.
Auctioneering of a few choice
articles was the closing feature, fol-
lowing entertainment, words from
key men and women, and intro-
duction of committee chairmen,
Smorgasbord serving was accom-
plished table by table, with no de-
lay, and guests agreed that the food
was delicious and of wide varie-
fy. B
Charles Mannear and George
McCutcheon superintended the lines
of guests moving toward the smor-
gasbord table and saw to accom-
modation of late-comers who con-
§ifued an overflow attendance.
A special place was reserved for
iss Frances Dorrance, one of the
founders. without whom the
brary could not have attained its
present stature.
At the head table were Howard
Risley: , “Mr. Auction” himself, who |
aid a few words; Robert Bachman,
president of the Library Association,
and chairman of auctioneers, a
former Auction chairman, who held
his remarks to the minimum in
accordance with a prearranged plan
to have no lengthy speeches; Myron
Baker, last year’s auction chair-
man; Richard Demmy and John N.
Conyngham, co-chairman; Dr. L, E.
Jordan, chairman; 'Rev. Richard
Frank, who gave the invocation;
Rev. Robert E. Germond, who
pronounced the benediction; - Mrs.
Risley, Mrs. Baker; Mrs. Bachman,
Mrs. Conyngham, and Miss Dor-
rance.
Dr. Jordan, emcee, introduced
special guests, among them Mrs.
Lee Tracy, wife of the Broadway
star ‘of “The Best Man,” house
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M.
Scott, staunch supporter of the
Library and the Auction.
Dr. Jordan also asked chairmen
of committens listed on the wragram
to taki a- bavi, 3 ;
The dinner started exactly
time, 6:30, and people who had
drifted away to find a bit of re-
‘ td before the smorgasbord:
‘#found to their astonishment that
guests were going in, and choice
places were being taken.
Many hardy perennials of auction
year commented on the number of
young people and new members
of the community who were pre-
sent, among them Dr. Robert A.
Mellman, new superintendent of
Dallas Schools, who called attention
to the blazing windows of the new
high school, plainly visible across
the valley in the rays of the setting
sun.
Last Auction For Miriam
Miss Miriam Lathrop, librarian
since the library was founded in
1945, attended her last Auction
Dinner. Next year at Auction time
she will be in her new home in Sun-
City Arizona, already completed and
ready for occupancy. Miss Lathrop
& with Alice Howell and Jean
Sutchison, vitally interested library
supporters from the first, without
whom an Auction would not be com-
on
anlete.
» The Rotary International Jazz
Band Quintet plus 1. in zebra
jackets, entertained, giving several
numbers, including specialties.
Three students from the Junior
High School band, Wesley Cave,
Patricia Evans, and Robert Allen,
were accompanied by Lee Philo in
a trumpet trio.
Mrs. Lester Hauck modeled
dainty lingerie and a_pastel angora
sweater, which were both knocked
down to Mrs. Lee Tracey by Myron
Baker, who discovered for himself an
outstanding talent for auctioneering
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The second of two terrific electric!
storms struck the area late Tuesday
afternoon, delivering tons of ice to
some areas, sluicing rain to others,
and putting power service out of
commission over a scattered area.
Monday night's torrential down-
pour was not accompanied by hail.
Tuesday nights storm had all the
trimmings, including a cloudburst,
and a freakish high wind which tore
through the area with the force of
a tornado.
At Kunkle, Philip Ellsworth’s barn
blew down in a sudden twister that
roared in and roared out in twenty
seconds, sounding like a jet plane,
Thirteen cows were in the barn.
One was killed. The others got to
their feet as heavy timbers pinning
them down were lifted.
Basil Frantz's garage was ripped
apart, and windows in his barn
smashed, while the house remained
untouched.
Out at W. Curtis Prothero’s place
near the Outdoor Theatre, glass hot-
bed frames were smashed, the sec-
ond time in two weeks that elect-
rical storms have created havoc.
Jagged chunks of ice were collected
for samples and stowed in the ice
trays.
* Storm Notes
Where the hailstorm struck with
full fury, hail was two inches deep
on the roads, and drivers stopped
their cars, unable to make headway
or buck the terrible downpour.
In central Dallas, Henry's neon
sign and the ice-cream
Kuehn's drugstore were wrecked,
and a river ran through the fire-hall.
Firemen opened the overhead door
to let out the flood.
hailstones had wrecked the top of
his convertible.
yard.
Mrs. Earl Evans, 107 E. Center
Hill Road, lost a lime tree a fig tree
and a lemon tree during the hard
winter, and Tuesday night's storm
smashed most of the top windows
in her greenhouse at Idetown.
And on the other hand, Loren
Keller had only a spatter of hail,
and his greenhouse glass remained
intact.
Not so the Risleys. Myra lost most
of the glass inher greenhouse, and
| the ‘place is a mess.
Li Hillside, on a lower level, the
greenhouses suffered no damage.
There was only a light spatter of
hailstones, And at Ziba Smith’s, out
only a slight spatter of hail, but
torrential rain’,
At the Dallas School Board meet-
ing, Henry Hess reported hailstones
as big as golf balls. “Come off it,
Henry,” jibed some of the directors
who lived on lower levels, “You
probably mean gall-stones.”
Just then Jack Stanley arrived.
“Just how big were those hailstones
at New Goss Manor, Jack ?”
“Big as golf balls.”
Solid citizens, counteracting the
shock of finding cold-frames splin-
tered and their flowering magnolias
stripped, gathered hailstones and
had Scotch on the rocks.
Mrs. George Shepherd, Goss
Manor, following her late grand-
mother's advice to sit with her feet
on a thick carpet during thunder-
storms, sat with her feet on a thick
carpet just as her west window
crashed.
Board Meets May 21
Dallas Community Ambulance
Board, scheduled to meet on Sun-
day, will be postponed until the
following Sunday: May 21, because
of Mother’s Day.
Crew for the coming week: Ray
Titus, captain; Jack Berti, Jim
| Wertman, Les Tinsley, Jack Stan-
| ley. >
| Recent calls: May 3, Mrs. McCor-
{ mick, New Goss Manor, to Nesbitt.
Bulford, Flack, Block; Mr. Mintzer,
' Church Street to Nesbitt, same
| crew.
| May 6. Mrs. Nelson, Parrish St.,
|
on the Ceasetown Road, there was |
| Pete Wolfe, Tim Groff, John Zarno,
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Brings Rain, Hail, Destruction
Meadowcrest Child
On Critical List
A four-year old Meadowecrest child
was critically injured late Tuesday
afternoon when she ran in front of
a slowly moving car driven by 17
year old Sarah Elizabeth Belvin of
Trucksville. Admitted to Nesbitt
Hospital by Kingston Township am-
bulance, Kathy Novick was found
to have serious head injuries.
Westmoreland Students
Ready For Junior Prom
On Friday, May 12, the Junior
Class of Westmoreland High School
will present its annual prom at the
Irem Temple Country Club. The
theme will be centered on “An
Evening in Paris.” Music will be
supplied by Tommy Donlin and his
orchestra from 9:00 p. m. til 12:00
p- m. Mr. A, Hontz, Mr. T. Jenk-
ins, Mr. K. Kirk, Mrs. J. Lord, Mr.
C. Molley, and Mr. J. Rakshays are
Junior Class homeroom teachers
sponsoring the prom. The student
co-chairmen are Rarbara Tag and
Michael Kowaleski, Barbara Prok-
opchak is chairman of the policy
committee which also includes Dor-
othy Eck, Irvin Barber and Stuart
Stahl. Invitations committee con-
sists of Mary Alice Knecht, Mary
Zarychta, Linda Condon, Cheryl
Foss, Diane Payne, and Carol Spare
sign at
Ralph Frantz, Huntsville, found and Betty Mannear.
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Ray Titus, who had just graded | gie Walp is chairman.
over a newly installed septic tank, 'rance is chairman of the selection
found the grading in his neighbor's of the Queen committee and its
is the chairman.
Libby Cleasby is chairman of the
programs committee which also in-
cludes Kathy Bossert, Louise Had-
sall, Donna Rishell, Catherine Ide,
Dale Mosier
and Barbara Tag are members of
the theme committee of which Mar-
Susan Dor-
members include Russell Hoover,
| Sandy Strazdus, Barry Kennington,
.| essary duplication of
and Marie Mashinski. The orchestra
committee is comprised of Dale
Mosier, Harold Hislop, Margie Walp,
Robert Peterson, and Sue Roberts,
and Sally Moyer is chairman. Glenda
Williams is chairman of the decora-
tions committee which includes Dale
Mosier, Harold Hislop, Sue Roberts,
Margie Walp, Bob Peterson, - Linda
Wolfe, Charles Kishbaugh, Jean
Kingsbury, Sandra Ambrose, and
Barbara Hildebrand. Junior Class
officers and their dates will com-
prise the reception line and hos-
tesses will be Nancy Siebern, Gloria
Dolbear, and Marjorie Baird. The
waiters will be Gard Cobb, Bob Letts,
Del Voight, and Don Anderson.
Route Number Change
Affects Local Highways,
Motor Club Announces
Wyoming Valley Motor Club has
been advised by William C. Klein,
Pennsylvania Department of High-
ways, of a drastic change in the
numbering of a State Highway
heavily used by local motorists.
Effective May 1 Pennsylvania
Route 115 from Easton will termi-
nate at the intersection of Scott and
Kidder Streets, Wilkes-Barre. From
the Scott Street-Kidder Street inter-
section the Pennsylvania 115 signs
will be removed as far as the “Y”
just east of Dallas. Over this distance
only U. S. 309 markers will be found.
That portion of the route, familiar
to local motorists as Pennsylvania
115, from Dallas to Hughesville will
bear Pennsylvania 118 markers.
This re-numbering project has
been planned for two important
reasons—the elimination of unnec-
state and
Federal highway markings and to
coincide with a general highway
numbering policy for all highways
whereby east-west routes carry even
and morth-south routes odd num-
bered markers.
In effect Pennsylvania 115 will
extend from Easton to Scott and
Kidder Streets in Wilkes-Barre;
U. S. 309 from Scott and Kidder
two years ago at the Library Auc- | administration of oxygen, no trip. | Streets in Wilkes-Barre to Dallas
tion.
| Titus, Berti, Tinsley. {
and Pennsylvania 118 to Hughesville.
Kingston Township Planning Board Ponders Sub-Divisions
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Planning Commission of Kingston
in session at Kingston
Township building to discuss equit-
able planing for subdivisions last
Wednesday uvight, are left to right:
John M. Porter, engineer; Fred C.
Dingle, banker; Lester W. Hauck,
AIA architect; Samuel Z, Mosko- | visors,
Township,
witz, FAIA architect; and W. Rich- |
ard Mathers, contractor.
| approved by members of the plan- be made of such a meeting, and made ]
brine committee, ready to be sub- residents are advised to attend in Workshop coordinator, East Strouds-
A Town Meeting to lay the find-
ings before the tax-payers is pro-
A final draft for subdivision regu-' posed, prior to passing an ordin- am. Work begins at 10 a.m. the
lation by Kingston Township was ance. Formal announcement will same/ day. Applications should be
{ mitted for approval to the super-|-order to register their opinions.
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Photo by Kozemchak burg, Pa...
Episcopal Churchwomen of the
Prince of Peace Episcopal Church
of Dallas have completed plans for
| Tene ninth annual Antiques Show
| and Sale to be held in the Parish
| House Tuesday and Wednesday
from 11:00 A. M. to 10:00 P.M.
Pictured above, left to right, are:
Mrs Edward Ratcliffe, General
Six Wyoming County
Schools Are Cited
Beaumont Elementary School is
among six Wyoming County Schools
cited for non-compliance with State
Fire and Panic regulations by the De-
partment of Labor and Industry.
The schools are given until Septem-
ber 1, 1961 to make the necessary
corrections.
Schools cited ‘are: Beaumont and
Mehoopany and Tunkhannock Jun-
ior High School all of the Tunkhan- |
nock Jointure, and three operated |
by Lackawanna Trail Jointure—
Factoryville, Dalton and Nichoison
Elementary Schools.
Competes In
National Fair
John ‘Young's Tadpoles
Shown In Kansas City
A Dallas boy is competing today
in the National Science Fair at Kan-
sas City.
John Young, 18, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Jay Young of Norton Avenue,
left Tuesday on his first plane trip,
his luggage heavy with tadpoles in
coffee jars, and a small aquarium.
John, senior at West Side Catholic
High School, took first place in the
King’s College Science Fair staged for
high school students. fo
At Hershey, against stiff compe-
tition, he took top honors two weeks
ago, receiving the Science Talent
Award, the only student from North-
eastern Pennsylvania to qualify.
John’s exhibit is pure biology,
designed to show the effects of a
fatal secretion emanating from large
tadpoles, which kills smaller tad-
poles.
Young is a graduate of Gate of
Heaven School. His father is a prof-
essor at King’s College and College
Misericordia.
Summer Seminar
For Teachers
College In Poconos
Offers Workshop
President LeRoy J. Koehler, pres-
ident of East Stroudsburg State
College, announces that the “College |
in the Poconos’ will sponsor a three |
week summer seminar workshop for
elementary in-service teachers, be-
ginning July 10, and offering three
credits.
Keeping Up-to-Date in a Chang-
ing World” is the theme. Visiting
lecturers and consultants will pre-
sent art, music and writing work-
shops. - The program consists of lec-
tures and discussions followed by
committee and library work. There
will be demonstrations and {field
trips. J
‘All work is scheduled in the morn-
ing. Afternoons are free.
It may be used in four ways, as a
free elective in the elementary cur-
riculum; as a refresher course for
graduates who wish to improve
themselves professionally; by sec-
ondary education graduates toward
accreditation in the elementary edu-
cation field; toward making an
elementary certificate permanent.
{ For Pennsylvania- students the
contingent fee is $33.; for Out-of- |
State students, $45. i
| Registration is July 10 at 8:30
to Dr. John R. Wildrick,
| burg State College, East Strouds-
Chairman; Mrs. Charles Flack
Chairman of Dealers; Mrs, William
McClelland Co - Chairman; and
Mrs. Joseph F. Schneider, Chair-
man. of Publicity, °
Also serving on the Publicity
committee with Mrs. Schneider are:
Mrs. John Welker, Mrs. H. Robert |
Plans Completed For Antiques Sale
VOL. 73, NO. 19, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1961 J
Construction Of :
New High School
Teacher Hit By
Lightning Bolt
Breaks Arm As She
Hurtles Thru Door
Mrs. W. Curtis Prothero was
|| struck by a bolt of lightning while
standing in the kitchen of her home
‘| on Route 309, and hurled through
the dining room doorway, followed
| | hotly by a ball of blue flame from
the electric range.
Her right arm was broken by the
jolt. A heavy aluminum saucepan
on the burner had a hole burned
completely through it.
This occurred at the height of an
electrical storm April 28, at 5:30
{| pm. All electric circuits but that con-
{ | trolling the furnace were burned out,
putting the water pump and tele-
phone out of commission
Mr. Prothero came home at 6 p.m.,
unaware of the accident. At the
Lake-Noxen Clinic, Dr. Irvin Jacobs
X-rayed Mrs. Prothero’s arm, re-
| Weaver, Mrs. James Besecker, Jr.,
Mrs. Paul Goddard and Mrs. Walter
| Kozemchak.
A Snack Bar will be in operation
on both days, with hot platters
each evening from 5:30 to 7:00
P. M. No reservations are needed
for the platters.
Three Back Mountain Boys Saw
The Space Capsule Land In Sea
Three boys from? ke Back Moun-
tain stood on the , 4 de:k of the
Aircraft Carrier USS Lake Champlain
as it stood by last Friday to pick
up the astronaut Navy Commander
Alan Shepard after his flight through
space from Cape Canaveral.
They were Jim Lonie, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Daniel Meeker, Kunkle;
Bob Spare, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Spare, 'Carverton; and Dan
Congden, son of Mr. and Mrs, C. L:
Congden1, East Dallis,
Jim, home on leave for eleven
days, gives «a first-hand account:
“Bob and Dan and I were all
on the flight deck an hour before
the astronaut came down. We didn’t
hear the blast-off from Cape Canav-
eral, too far away, but we heard the |
capsule bréak the sound barrier
about five minutes before it landed.
We saw the capsule parachute into
the water, and saw the helicopter lift
Commander Shepard up. He had
climbed out of the capsule. The
capsule was rocking on the water.
“The helicopter hooked the capsule
and flew toward the Lake Cham-
plain. It lowered the capsule to the
flight deck, and then landed on the
deck and the astronaut stepped: out.
“We didn’t get a close view of
the astronaut. He was surrounded
and blocked off by security guards.”
| Tickets’ At The Door For
Crazy Day In Wonderland
{ Tickets for the Don Coyote Pup-
| pet Theatre scheduled for Saturday
at 2 p.m. at the Dallas Township
{ School, will be available at the
: door.
| Children expecting to enter the
| Mad Hat Parade which is a color-
{ ful part of the show, are busily
| construrting mad hats, while mad
i‘ mothers¥i'nd a band.
Be sure to be on hand with a mad
hat to enter the Parade and en-
joy the puppets. Crazy Day in
Wonderland is designed to please
everybody, young and old.
Parents, at first advised not to
attend, may now come, if they will
sit in the back and be quiet.
Thomas Jenkins Elected
Assistant Principal
Dallas School directors Tuesday
night adopted a resolution naming
Thomas Jenkins to the post of assis-
tant high school principal beginning
July 1, on a twelve month basis.
Among his duties will be manage-
| ment of the fiscal operation of the
| cafeteria and coordination of the
| continuing census for the school
district.
Back Mountain Cancer Center
Volunteers Hear Dr. Perkins
‘A striking new film, “Time and
Two Women”
cer: dressing volunteers of Back
Mountain area at a tea Wednesday
afternoon at Trucksville Metho-
dist Church, sponsored by the Back
Mountain Cancer Center Board.
The film. which deals with the
early detection of uterine cancer by
means of the Cytology method was
explained by Dr. Charles Perkins,
Trucksville. :
Mrs. Fredric Anderson, Back
Mountain chairman of the board in-
troduced board members and volun-
teers: and told of the services per-
formed by the local unit, the fur-
nishing of drugs, nursing care,
transportation and dressings.
Mrs. Nathaniel R. Elliott, execu-
tive secretary of the Luzerne Coun-
ty Unit American Cancer Society
spoke on the work of the National
Organization.
was shown to can-
Tea Table was attractive with a
| centerpiece of yellow snapdragons
| and daffodils interspersed with
{ white carnations and flanked by tall
| white tapers. Mrs. Elliott poured.
Committee members were Mrs. F.
| W. Anderson, chairman; assisted by
‘ Mrs. Ben Marshall, Jr., Mrs. Harry
| Crawford, Mrs. John H. D. Fergu-
son, Mrs. Budd Hirleman, Mrs.
Lloyd Kear: Mrs. Frank Kreigh.
Present in addition . to above
members were Mesdames Sheldon
| Bennett, Charles Gosart, sr., Charles
| Michel, Charles Sieber, - William
| Alexander, C. F. Kresge, Arthur
| Marth, Walter Gerloch, William
| King, George Pearce: David Perry,
jr., Robert Parrish, Stephen Stearn,
| Kermit Sickler, Donald Lewis,
| George Parrish, Clarke Lewis, Jack
Barnes, Ambrose Gavigan,. Charles
- Palmer: Harold B. Rice, Thomas G.
| Williams, and Laing Coolbaugh.’
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Misericordia’s Dr.
Jane Phelps
To Contribute To Encyclopedia
Sister Mary Celestine 'R. S. N.
nounces that Dr. Jane L. Phelps,
chairman of the department of his-
tory, has been requested to contrib-
ute to a new edition of The Catholic
Encylopedia.
[This is the first time in fifty years
that -a re-editing of this major
lencylopedia has been undertaken
Editor-in-chief ‘Monsignor William
McDonnell, rector of The Catholic
University of America, has selected
representative scholars from all Eng-
lish-speaking nations to write for
this edition of the encylopedia.
Dr. Phelps has been asked to con-
iribute biographies on Francis ‘P.
arvan, assistant District Attorney
»f*New York; Elizabeth S. Kite, edu-
Spa
ator and historian; Clarence H.
i
Mackay, industrialist, Thomas B.
J. Wynne, Postmaster - General
Fitzpatrick Philanthropist, Robert
eral under Theodore Roosevelt. Dr.
Phelps is not a mew-comer to the
field of biographical writing since
her graduate research and articles
recently published have dealt with
Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney-Gen-
eral under Theodore Roosevelt's sec-
ond administration. ;
Dr. Phelps is a member of the
undergraduate and graduate fac-
ulties of (College Misericordia. Sre
is a member of the American Hist-
orical Association honorary frater-
nity, and the American Academy of
Political and Social Science. She
holds MA and Ph.D. degrees from
Georgetown University, Washington,
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duced the fracture, and applied a
cast,
Leonard Kosick is taking Mrs.
Prothero’s place as instructor in
higher mathematics at Westmore-
land High School.
TOWN MEETING ON
SEWAGE DISPOSAL
TONIGHT AT SCHOOL
Dallas Town Meeting on Sewage
Disposal is scheduled for tonight at
8 at Dallas Borough School, Property
owners are urged to be present.
Members of the Borough Council,
headed by Harold Brobst, will be
present. Roy F. Weston, Inc. Sani-
tary engineers, will be represented;
also IC/C. Collins, financial advisors;
and Atty. Joseph Flannigan, legal
advisor.
Lake Rod And Gun Club
Scholarship Committee
Harvey's Lake Rod and Gun Club
at a recent board meeting named
Mrs. Richard Williams, Mrs. Ray-
mond Ganinger and Mrs. Carrie
Rood to a committee for study of
college: entrance - and information
prior to establishing a Scholarship
fund.
Present were Mesdames Wilfred
Ide, Malcolm Nelson, George Sear-
foss, Richard Williams, Darrell Loom-
is, R. Dale Wagner, Howard Jones,
Lee Bicking, Rowland Ritts, Albert
i Armitage, Arthur Darnell, Charles
Williams, Harvey Kitchen, Clarence
Montross, Carrie Rood, Grace Mar-
tin, Miss Treva Traver.
Hostesses were Mrs.
Nelson, Mrs. Albert Armitage, Mrs.
Howard Jones.
DON’T FAIL TO CAST
YOUR BALLOT TUESDAY
AT THE PRIMARIES
Tuesday is Primary Day. Be
sure to cast your ballot. Many
important issues are at stake,
including the wise spending of
your tax money.
If you fail to vote, you have
no reason to complain when
things do not go to suit you.
Only by a complete poll of
opinion of the residents of the
Back Mountain can it be es-
tablished what the area really
wants.
Your vote is important. Elec-
tions have been lost by one
vote. }
In many ways, primaries are
more important than the gen-
eral election. Select the candi-
date who will best represent
you at the polls in November.
Douglas Clewell Named
Niagara Airman Of Month
Airman First Class Douglas Cle-
well, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Clewell, 197 Carverton Road was
elected as the base airman of the
month at Niagara Falls, Air Force
Base, N.Y. of the 4621 St Support
, Group. He entered the air force in
| September, 1954, went to Niagara
Air Force Base from Selfridge Air
Force Base at Mt. Clements, Mich.,
where he served as clerk. He had
been forms manager for Niagara
Falls air base reproduction center for
three years.
Clewell is married to the former
Grace DiGregoreo of Buffalo, N.Y.
For his selection of Airman of the
Month Clewell received a check for
twenty five dollars plus theater pas-
ses and other prizes given by the
business men of Niagara Falls, He
and his wife reside at 858 'W. Utica
‘Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Malcolm |
Still Lagging
Sewage System Will
Not Be Ready Until
At Least Mid-Rugust
Bad weather
spring has hindered :
of the new Dallas High School.
two months ago. :
No occupancy of any sort can
posal plant is in operation, and
according to Joseph Hogan, repre-
senting Lacy Atherton and Davis,
fore late in August. With
opening early in September,
poses a tight schedule.
Board members
meeting registered concern about
the lagging schedule.
interfered: with normal progress.
Interior work is going well, Mr,
Hoban reported that 90 per cent
of the plastering is completed floor-
ing in the gymnasium was started
this week, the painting is started
on the steel work in the corridors
and accoustical ceilings are being
installed.
livered and installed. Equipment for
biology, chemistry and physics
laboratories has begun to arrive.
Fixtures for plumbing will be in~
stalled beginning next week, with
some being installed in the students’
locker area and in the industrial
arts building at present. c “
The heating plant is 50 per cent
ceeding and workmen are beginning
rooms. The architect estimated the
1. The school will be ready to re-
ceive equipment by July 1 and a
September 1.
Back Mt. Lumber Gets Bid
Bids for supplies were opened and
The coal bid was the only one on
which action was taken.
low bidder, was awarded a con-
tract for pea, buckwheat, and rice
coal for $15,530. 1
the baseball diamond at Dallas Jun-
| June, Teachers and Senior Teeners
will use the athletic field during
the summer, and American Legion
Sunday afternoons. : j
Elaine Kozemchak: Wilkes
mer recreation program.
Reimbursement
Dallas School District recently
$212,952.69. Recent collections from
taxes, $17,430.74. Balance, as of
May 1, is $67,006.29. Uncollected
taxes amount to $35,385.60 : $6,-
Dallas Township;
from Kingston Township.
Policy Committee
The Policy committee, William
A. Davis chairman, recommended
that fees for use of gymnasium,
auditorium and cafeteria at the new
buildings be set at two different
levels, one for organizations located
in the geographical area of Dallas
Schools: the other for organiza
tions in other locations.
For home organizations, cafeteria
$10; gymnasium or auditorium,
$50.
For outside organizations, double
that fee. :
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personnel.
Tethered Cocker Spaniel
Mangled By Shotgun Blast
A 12-gauge shotgun ended the
| life of a pet cocker spaniel Friday
| afternoon. When Mrs. Warren Dai-
| ley, Kunkle Road, returned from her
employment late in the afternoon,
she thought that there had been a
dog fight. The little dog, chained to
the dog kennel not ten feet from the
| house, was terribly mangled. :
Dallas Township Chief of Police
Irwin Coolbaugh said,” Dog fight ?
| Not a chance. This dog was shot.”
| Five small children play within
fifty feet of the dog kennel,
Construction of a Dallas South
central office on Lewis Avenue off
of Harris Hill Road has begun: J. N.
Landis, Commonwealth Telephone
district manager, stated today.
The new Dallas South office,
operating as a separate. unit, will
serve the growing Trucksville por-
tion of the Dallas exchange area.
Construction of the building, the
new central office dial switching
equipment and extensive outside
plant construction will cost an es-
New Phone Exchange
Coming To Trucksville
| timated $283.000. The central office
equipment is on order and plans
for the new office’s cut-over to
| service is scheduled for this Novem-
| ber, Manager Landis noted. 3
The Dallas South office will bet-
area and allow for a general up-
grading of service as well as new
ing developments and general res
dential construction.
all winter and
construction
Hopes that the auditorium could be
completed in time for graduation of :
the senior class, were abandoned
be scheduled until the sewage dis-
this is unlikely to be possible be-
school
this
at Tuesday's
Blizzards,
storms, torrential downpours, have
The cabinet work is being de~
completed. Electrical work is pro-
to install fixtures in some class-
school will be completed by August
sewage plant will be completed by
referred to the proper committees.
Back Mountain Little League was
given the annual permission to use
ior High School, starting early’ in
received its State appropriation of
826.98 from Dallas; $12.086.20 from
$2,943.52 from
Franklin Township; and $13,528.90
It was pointed out that expen-
sive new equipment in the cafeteria
ter serve the expanding Trucksville i
| service as occasioned by new hous. |
Col-
lege Junior, will help with the sum-
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Back Mountain Coal Company, A
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