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Lake-Le man
Prepares For
Commencement
Joint Schools To
Present 96 For
Graduation June 13
Lake-Lehman will give diplomas
to 96 seniors at Commencement '
June 13. Anthony Marchakitus, high
school principal, presented names at
the joint school board meeting held |
May 9 at the Lake building,
Board members, following estab-
lished custom, will join the line of
on!
Commencement night, and presi-
dent Edgar Lashford will present
diplomas to graduates.
The board approved a school cal- |
endar of 188 days for 1961-1962,
|
180 days classified as student, ap-
proved participation of all seven |
custodians in the annual Custodians !
Workshop at Pennsylvania State |
University June 19, 20, and 21.
Building ‘and Grounds Committee
reported on all furniture and dis-
cussed the possibility of repairing
and using some of it in the new
building and at the Lehman Build-
ing after alterations.
Supply Committee awarded the
entire bid for General Art and Dup- |
licating Supplies to the lowest bid-
der, Kurtz Bros., and to Crawford
of Nanticoke on his low bid on Ath-
letic Supplies.
Public Relations Coit pro-
posed that a letter be mailed to all
taxpayers of the area containing
vital information on the three proj-
ects being undertaken by the Joint
Board.
Project Committee reported on
clearing up incidental matters prep-
aratory to advertising for bids on
the new high school building and
other projects. Plans and specifi-
cations have been approved by the
Department of Labor and Industry
and the Department of Public In-
struction.
John Sidler was authorized to
take some of the top students to
Penn State during the last week of
school for a few days to enter the |
annual judging contest,
The Board approved the same
dairies now furnishing milk to the
various schools for the school year
1961-62: Crispell’s at Noxen; Shady~
side in Lake, Huntington in Ross,
and Chase Dairy in Leaman.
Teachers
Approved professional contracts
for three teachers, subject to ap-
proval by the County Office: Sam-
uel M. Davenport, Stanley J! Gul
bish and Janet Turner.
Approved appointment of Mrs.
Janet R. Reynolds of Tunkhannock,
graduate of Pennsylvania State
University, as Girls Physical Educa-
tion Instructor for the High School.
Approved a $200.00 increase in
salary to members of the present
secretarial staff.
Approved appointment of Myron
Moss as head teacher at Ross.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Because of the Memorial
Day holiday, the Post will be
published on Friday of next
week instead of Thursday.
Correspondents, ministers, pub-
licity chairmen, and others
handling news are asked, how-
ever, to have their copy in the
office on the usual days. Em-
ployees of the Post will not
work on Tuesday.
Roy Hall To Be
An Eagle Scout
Will Receive Citation
At Father-Son Banquet
Roy Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Hall, Shavertown, will re-
ceive the coveted Eagle Scout award
June 4 at the fifteenth annual
Father and son Banquet of Troop
932, at St. Therese’s Auditorium.
‘Charges to the Eagle Scout will be
made by: George M. McCutcheon,
representing the school; Dr. Frank
Speicher, the community; Rev, Wil-
liam McClelland, Church and Home.
Presentation will be by Jarrett Mil-
ler, Boy Scout executive,
Honor Scout award will be made
by Scoutmaster John Butler.
Presentation of the colors will be
in the hands of Robert Wolensky
and the Bob-Cat Patrol; invocation
i
by Rev. John Walsh, Pastor: opening |
remarks by Paul Monahan.
Toastmaster is Explorer . Scout
Paul Siket; Scout Paul Gates will
give the address of welcome, and his
father, Paul Gates ,will make re-
marks on behalf of dads. Rev. And-
rew McGowan will give the address,
Tenderfoot investiture and Scout
awards will be handled by assistant
Scoutmaster Peter Lukasavage.
Rev. Francis Brennan will speak
briefly, and upon conclusion of the
program, pronounce the benediction.
Arrangements for the baked ham
dinner are in the hands of Scout
Mothers. :
Mr. Butler says, ‘The Scouting
trail to the Eagle is not an easy
one. The majority of Scouts do not
‘persevere in their quest, and stop
income and expenditures necessary
| dollar business that our local schools
Mellman Outlines | Lake-Lehman's Top-Ranking Honor
‘MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
School Budget Students To Speak At Graduation
‘Better Schools Group
Told Of Increases
[Citizens Committee for Better
Schools heard Dr. Robert Mellman
explain the budget for the Dallas
School District for 1961-62. In a
step by step resume of anticipated
for efficient operation of the million
1 have become. Reimbursements from #
the State were explained, and
changes over last year’s budget. Mrs.
Harriet Stahl, secretary and busi-
ness manager for the school district,
offered detailed information.
Increases are accounted for prin-
cipally by additions to the teaching
| staff. Eight new teachers of English
composition will ' reduce the ratio
of pupils per teacher in line with
State remommendations. There will
also be a new biology teacher and
one new commercial teacher for
| the high school.
Requests have also been made for
an additional guidance councilor for
the Junior/Senior high schools and
for clerical help to relieve teachers
of some of their non-teaching chores.
New textbooks are also needed, Dr.
Mellman also explained that it will
be necessary to take a school popu-
lation census this year, in line with
the new ° State regulation for a
school census every third year.
Present school population of the
Back Mountain area is 3193 with
2450 in public schools, and 743 in
private and parochial schools.
To Visit Far Lands
SAMUEL M. DAVENPORT
Samuel M, Davenport, teacher of
English at the Lehman building of
Lake-Lehman area joint schools,
will take part this summer in the
Whittier College Study Tour of fifty
concentrated days of visitation of
many lands, starting from Idlewild
Airport June 21 for the jet flight
to. Copenhagen.
Until August 9, when the tour of-
ficially ends in Switzerland, every
day is packed.
The itinerary includes Stockholm,
Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Smer-
inka, Budapest, Vienna, and
Switzerland, partly by plane, part-
ly by train.
The goal is to become better in-
formed on ‘social, economic, and
political situations in the various
countries; to see’ first hand the
forces of the East and the West,
and to ascertain conflicts of ideolo-
gies. Meetings with local people
will be stressed, through the media
of formal and informal discussions,
hikes, social occasions, and just
plain talk and living together.
Some of the tour members of the
tour sponsored by Whitter College
in California, will take an addition-
al tour which will include several
days in Germany, Belgium, France
and England. 2
"Mr. Davenport is son of Mr. and
Mrs, S. M. Davenport, of Kingston.
Satellite Echo May Be
Seen Over This Weekend
Tonight the satellite Echo will be
seen at 10:32 p.m. south of the zen-
ith; tomorrow night at 9:55, some-
what higher,
north of the zenith, 83 degrees
above the horizon. Always to the |
horizon. Always to the southeast,
and scurrying like mad,
Ray Titus To Head Up
C. D. Ruxiliary Police
Ray Titus has been named head
Dallas Borough. Instructors of rook-
ies in this service, which will be of
great benefit in case of disaster will
be ‘the regular police force. Anyone
interested in joining may call Mr.
Titus.
Special Notice
Westmoreland Parent
31 in Westmoreland High School at
> 5. Parents of all 9th, 10th, 11th |
d 12th grade students are urged
along the way.”
ne xt year’s’ Pogue
Hr
but still south of the |
zenith; and Saturday, returning to |
of Civil Defense Auxiliary Police for |
Teacher |
Council will meet ‘Wednesday, May |
JOHN NORMAN LANDIS
JACQUELYN RUFF
Lake-Lehman’s top ranking hon-
or students are: John Landis and
Sandra Slimak in the Lehman
building; Donna Meeker and Jac-
quelya Ruff, in the Lake building, |
The two" top students, John and!
Donna, will each give a five minute
address at Commencement, a joint
high school ceremony scheduled for
June 13 in the Lehman gymnasium.
John Norman Landis is son of Mr.
and Mrs, ‘John N. Landis of Oak
Hill. Mr. Landis is the District Man-
ager of the Commonwealth Tele-
phone Company.
An academic student, he plans to
attend Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity.
He has been in the senior band |
six years, and senior chorus three;
a member of the National Honor
Society three years and treasurer
for two years; has been assistant
editor of the school yearbook and |
sports editor of the school news- |
paper; earned two letters in foot-
ball and has participated in other
sports. John is a member of the
Letterman’s Club; has been presi-
dent of the Hunting and Fishing
Club for the past three years; was
in the Junior and Senior plays, He
is an officer of the Future Teachers
of American Club at Lehman.
Donna Meeker is daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Donald G. Meeker of
Noxen. Donna took the Commercial
course and upon graduation plans
to attend the Wilkes-Barre Business
College.
Her many activities include Band,
Chorus, Tri-Hi-Y Club, Newspaper
Crash Casualties
Four Baby Birds
Harold Blizzard Is In
Good Shape At General
~ Harold Blizzard, 20,
®
badly shaken in a car crash Friday
of Noxen,
morning at 10, remains at General
Hospital on the fourth floor. His
condition is reported good.
Mr. Blizzard, subject to black-out'
spells since childhood, was driving |
his brother Arthur's car. At the |
turn-off from highway 309 which
leads to Demunds and Orange, he
| lost control of the car and smashed |
(lato a car belonging to Charles Van-
Horn, parked in the driveway of
the Daubert home at the branch of |
| the road. |
| The VanHorn car slammed into |
| the new porch Mrs. Edith Daubert |
| had been enjoying this spring, |
knocked out two posts and part of
| the railing, and uprooted a small’
| spruce tree at the corner. The
spruce tree had in its top branches |
a nest of four baby robins. The |
| robins, fledged out and nearly ready |
to take wing, were thrown with |
Four dead robins lay in a row un- |
| Staff,
SANDRA SLIMAK
DONNA MEEKER
Yearbook Staff, and Rain- |
bow Girls. She was also chosen as |
“Girl of the Month” for December,
1960. Donna was secretary of the
senior class,
Donna is a member of St. Luke's
Lutheran Church and is secretary
of the Sunday School. ’
Sandra Skimak of “R.. D.5¥%
Plymouth is daughter of Mrs. Ber-
tha Slimak. Sandra took the aca-
demic course and upon graduation
plans to attend Prairie Bible Insti- |
tute, Three Hills, Alberta Canada. |
Her activities include Band,
Chorus, National Honor Society,
Future Teachers of America, Char-
ades Club, Tri-Hi-Y Club, News-
paper Staff,
She
View
Sunday School
is . a member of the Valley
She
Class.
sings in the senior
Pioneer Youth Club.
Jacquelyn Ruff is daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ruff, Noxen.
Jacquelyn took the academic course |
and after graduation plans to enter |
Bloomsburg State College to pre-
pare for teaching.
She was a member of the band, |
and treasurer of the Chorus. \ She
is a member of the Newspaper staff,
Yearbook staff, Future Teachers of |
America, National
She was active in the Tri-Hi-Y and |
also taught the twirling club at |
school. She is a member of the |
Rainbow Girls and was chosen “Girl
of the Month” in 1959.
Jacquelyn attends St. Luke’s Lu-
theran Church of Noxen.
. | Leonard Harvey; Fern Knoll,
She teaches twirling. |
Hobby Club, and Li- |
| brarian of the School Library.
Church and President of the |
is a
Teacher in the primary department, |
choir, and her |
| favorite pastime is working for the!
Honor Society, |
and participated in the junior play. |
Dallas Legion
Memorial Day
Parade Tuesday
Starts From Post,
Goes To Honor Roll
Thence To Woodlawn
Daddow-Isaacs Post 672, Ameri-
can Legion, will hold its Memorial
Day parade Tuesday beginning at
9:30 sharp from the Post Home on
Memorial Highway.
Commander William O’Brien an-
nounced that Paul Shaver will head
plans for the event.
The honor roll in Dallas will be
the scene of the first part of the
program, including the placing of
a wreath furnished by the Post Aux-
iliary, placed by Boy and Girl Scouts.
Rev. Francis Kane, pastor of Gate
of Heaven Church, will give the
prayer.
At Woodlawn Cemetery prayer
Iwill be offered by Rev. Reining of
| Dallas Free Methodist Church, fol-
Legion Firing Squads,
Atty. Robert Fleming Dallas, will
be the speaker.
| Participating organizations will
| be Westmoreland Band, Key Club,
Boy and Girl Scouts, Cub and
Brownie Troops, Dallas Fire Com-
pany, Ambulance and fire equip-
| ment, Back Mountain Police and
| American Legion, Any other organ-
| izations wishing to be in the parade |
|may call Paul Shaver,
The Legion will distribute flags
| to the following cemeteries this
| week: Woodlawn, Paul Shaver,
Tom
| Kane, Dick Fuller, Edward Buckley;
| Warden, Clara Winters; Rice and
| Shaver, Charles [Stoekey;
| Lawn and Idetown, Tom Reese, Lew
| Reese, Harold Brobst; Mt. Green-
| wood ‘and Evergreen Cemeteries,
Shavertown, Dick Staub, Dave Ros-
mick, John Richards, Dale Parsons.
| In case of ' any graves being
| missed kindly contact the Dallas
American Legion which will take
[care of it immediately.
Thieves Get $100 From
Merl's Service Station
Merl Rigelow’s Sinclair Service
Static Sin Shaverts in aras robbed
early da morning, thieves eén-
tering through a smashed window,
and taking $100 in coins and cash
money. Walter Shaver saw a car
driving round and round the sta-
| tion’ at 2:30 a.m. Merl says he
doesn’t think it was a local gang
that did it, because the window
in the Ladies Room was smashed
first, and then another that gave
access to the snack shop.
Vandals Destroy Planting
The sportive youth of the area
have discovered the pleasures of
driving across lawns, uprooting
| newly set trees as they go, and
| leaving raw tire marks in newly
| seeded lawns. West Dallas homes
| have been the victims.
|
Alumni To Hear Organ
| = Ten members of the class of 1896
| will attend the Alumni Day pro- |
| gram of East Stroudsburg State Col-
| lege this Saturday. At 10 a.m. there |
| will ‘be a concert on the electronic
organ recently given to the col-
lege by the ‘alumni.
More Trout Stocked
| Ls
| Pennsylvania Fish Commission
| continued its trout stocking pro-
gram in nearby lakes and streams |
| this week
| lowed by salutes from American |
| Post and Auxiliary members of the |
Chapel |-
VOL. 73, NO. 21, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1961
Ruction Heads
Meet To Lay
Final Plans
Innovation Will Be
Choice Of Corvair
Or Fine Carpeting
Back Mountain Memorial Library
Auction chairmen were briefed on
their responsibilities by general
chairman Dr. L. E. Jordan Friday
night at the Library Annex.
Only three more general meet-
ings are planned: June 2, June 15,
and June 28
Innovations were announced.
holder of the winning number will
have the choice of a Corvair two-
door sedan or 100 square yards of
wall-to-wall carpeting, with mat
and installation.
Introduced as new chairman of
New Goods, replacing Walter Mohr
who for business reasons cannot
serve, was Dr. Stanley Hozempa.
A number of new features for the
Arts and Crafts tent were dis-
! | cussed, with possibility of obtaining
a number of signed paintings: by
| local and Wyoming Valley artists,
and an invitation of craftsmen to
demonstrate their skills.
A definite advantage will be
gained by display of important new
goods in advance, together with tags
showing when the items may be
expected to be auctioned off. It|
has long been felt that new goods |
would bring more substantial re- |
turns if people had a chance to ex- |
amine them before they were of-|
fered on the block.
Chicken Barbecue on Gate of |
Heaven school grounds is set for |
July 6, with a brief warm-up auc-|
tion to follow in advance of the
two big nights. Earl Phillips is in!
charge.
Reporting on progress of their |
assignments were these chairmen:
Dick Demmy, and Jack Conyngham,
general co-chairmen; Stanley Ho-
Sempa, William-2foss, Mrs. Russell
Lawry, Mrs. W. H. Pierce Jr.; Mrs.
John Rogers, Mrs. Edward Ratcliffe,
Mrs. Ross Kimball, Douglas J. Jones,
Earl Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Lester
W. Hauck, Ziba Smith, Mrs. DeWitt
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stan-
ley, Mrs. Albert E. Torr, E. V.
Chadwick, Barbara Vivian, Spencer
Martin, Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks.
Beaumont Loses
To Forkston 5-4
Despite a 14-hit attack, Beaumont
dropped a 10 inning 5-4 affair to
Forkston Sunday on the winners
diamond,
Gene Brobst started on the hill for
Beaumont but was shelled for four
runs in the first frame and Beau-
mont was unable to master a con-
stant attack until the eighth frame
when it knotted the score at 4-all.
Alex Wilson turned in a fife job
{until Forkston pushed across the
| winning marker in the bottom of
the 10th frame.
Forkston collected nine safeties
with Fassett and Salsman collecting
five between them.
Carl Crispell and Bob Harris each
collected three for Beaumont, while
Brobst, Cook and Larry Crispell each
| came along with two each.
“Sunday afternoon Beaumont trav-
els to South Auburn with game time
{set for 2 p.m.
mg
Celia Monka was chosen as
Queen”
“May ,
| Westmoreland athletic field,
Westmoreland May Queen Reigns Over Annual Pageant
Senior girls wearing pastel gowns’
of the Senior Class at the | and carrying nosegays, opened the | tumes.
| great violence to the porch floor. May Day Pageant held Thursday at | | festival in a, procession through an |
At- | honor guard of the Keyette’s Drill | and credit goes to Miss Mabel Jenk-
| der stripped ‘branches and splint- tired in a lovely floor length white | Team.
| ered railings, |
Dallas
staffed by Shaffer and Bulford was
summoned, but Blizzard was able
to walk'away from the wreck. As-
sistant Chief Lange took him to Dr. |
J pital,
gown, she was crowned by Mary
‘members as Junior Class Crown
| Bearer. Maureen Conaghan and
Harry Harter were train bearers.
In the Court of Attendants were
3 attend and help make plans for Gallagher, and lgter to General Hos- | Beverly King, Sandra Chere, Sharon
Samuels and Karen Samuels, :
The Queen, her court and senior !
Community Ambulance | Bennett, who was selected by faculty | girls and a large crowd were en-
tertained by Sophomore and Junior
| girls in a program with an old-
fashioned western theme, There
5 were the traditional May Pole dance,
| farmer dancing, Cowboy and Indian !
[routines a clown act apd a dance
x {i LY
{ .
by saloon lassies in can-can cos-
The outfits were all very clever,
| ins who directed and produced the
selections. The weather man was
cooperative and everyone was in a
gay and festive mood.
Left to right are Beverly King,
Karen ‘Samuels, Mary Bennett,
Celia Monka, Harry Harter, Sharon
Samuels, and Sandra Chere,
Dallas On Trial Along With Youthful Slayer
As Fatal Shooting Of Father Is Investigated
by HIX
Dallas was on trial this week at Luzerne County Court.
house.
Dallas residents testified, Dallas officers reluctantls
gave their stories, Dallas attorneys defended the Dallas bo:
who on November 20, 1960, shot and killed his father, “against
the peace and dignity of the State of Pennsylvania.”
And a Dallas woman, crushed by circumstances and the
ponderous machinery of the law, a victim as surely as wz
her husband, torn between loyalty to her husband and love]
for her son, sat quietly in Luzerne County Courthouse, numbed)
by grief.
“It’s the waiting . . . the waiting for six months,”
Mrs. Kurt Schweiss whispered hopelessly, \
‘and my mothe
is dead in Philadelphia, and I am not allowed to go to her
She turned away with a gesture of resignation.
For Kenneth,
prisoner, sitting by his jailer and
betraying: no outward emotion dur-
ing the trial, the verdict had been
inevitable.
Through his attorneys, Monroe
Houtz and Robert Fleming, he had
pleaded guilty . .but. not to
murder in the first degree.
Kenny, in his dark suit and well-
shined shoes, hands clasped, feet
disciplined to remain side by side,
dark brows above deep-set eyes,
might well have not been present
at all. He was not in the court-
room. He was at the senior prom
. marching to the rostrum to
receive his diploma with the rest
of the Westmoreland seniors of the
class of 1961 . . . hunting with his
father . . . ushering at St. Paul's
. breathing the fresh sweet air
of spring.
_ Speechless and ‘withdrawn into
some inner fastness, he sat while
the story built itself, bit by bit,
each fragment a stone in a prison
wall.
This was no hoodlum from the
slums, no switch-knife juvenile
gangster. This was a boy of better
than average intelligence, a boy
who attended church regularly, a
boy who expected to graduate with
his class in June, a boy who had
entertained thoughts of attending
one of the service academies
but who did not earn good enough
| marks in school to make this a
| possibility.
Brought out by Mrs. Schweiss'
testimony, the story took shape, a
conflict between a State Trooper
who dreamed of higher education
and wider horizons for his only
son, and a son who realized that
he was not living up ti standards
set by his father, resented that
father’s rigid dieipline, and dreamed
of somehow, sometime, breaking
through the barrier that separated
them, by force, if necessary,
Testimony brought out that on
Sunday, November 20, 1960, at five
in the afternoon, Kenny applied the
force.
He shot his father, State Trooper
Kurt Schweiss, and pumped {five
more bullets into his unresisting
body.
“I never saw him alive again,’
testified Mrs. Schweiss.
She was still supporting her hus-
band’s body when Dr. H. G. Gal-
lagher told her that he was dead.
Sober people from Dallas, under
questioning by assistant District
Attorney Vincent Quinn, built the
story.
It was an unsatisfactory report
card that sparked the tragedy . . .
that, and the presence of a gun in
an upstairs bureau drawer.
Officer of quarters at Wyoming
Barracks took a phone message:
“I've shot my father, and I think
he’s dead. You better come right
away.”
Chief Russell Honeywell, ’ Billy
Berti, Sandra Schweiss - Kenny's
sister, Charles Lamoreaux, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hughes, Al Shaffer, Don
Bulford, troopers. from the State
Barracks, Butch Rimple, added their
bit.
The story brought out was brief-
ly this: Kenn§ had brought home
a report card from Westmoreland
that displeased his father. Trooper
Schweiss said that until the next
report card, a better one, was re-
ceived, Kenny would be restricted
to school, work, DeMolay meetings,
Naval Reserves practice, church and
home. He used no uncertain terms
in laying down the law.
That was on Friday, November
18, when Kenny was due at the
Texas Meat Market where he
worked part time.
On Sunday, according to Mrs.
Schweiss’ testimony, after ushering
at church and eating Sunday din-
ner, Kenny went upstairs to do his
homework, took a nap, was again
reprimanded by his father, ordered
not to leave the house, and told
to get his homework done. Kenny
slipped out to go to Butch Rimple’s
home, taking with him his books.
Ordered to come home at once,
he went into what Dr. J. Franklin
Robinson described as an emotional
panic.
He came home, studied for a time
after his father went to Irem Coun- |
try Club for target practice, and
then took a gun from his father’s
bureau drawer.
“I thought of shooting myself,”
he said on the witness stand, “and
‘ther all this quarelling would be
over once and for all. And then I
thought, if I could just hold him
at gun point until I could explain
a few things, maybe I could get it
| across to him. He was a lot bigger
bot than Tam
the 17-year old¥®—
He was indicted for murder b:
the Grand Jury late in January
and sent to Danville State Hospital]
for a month for observation. Dur-
ing that time, no evidence of men.
tal disease was observed. He was
returned to Luzerne County Prison.
Witnesses called by defense at-
tourneys Fleming and Houtz in.
cluded Mrs. Clara Shook, who from
ground-floor apartment had lis-
tened in on the telephone conver-|
sation between Kenny and his
father, when Trooper Schweiss
ordered Kenny to come home at
once. “I can’t repeat the language,”
she told Judge Frank Pinola. “Try,”
recommended the Judge succinctly.
Butch and Butch’s parents said
Kenneth had been greatly upset.
Edward Hopa, who had employed
Kenny at one, time, said he was
a good kid, and during the lunch
break, on Tuesday, said if Kenny
by the grace of God was released
tomorrow, there would be a job
waiting for him, that he loved the
boy. That Kenny had said to him
“I wish I could talk to my father.”
He added that Kenny had a t]
deal of mechanical ability. TH
Commander Reese of the Naval
Reserve testified that Kenny had)
earned a good grade in his e
amination. 5
Percy Love testified that Kenny
had been a model Boy Scout; David
Jones that he assumed duties glad-
ly in Sunday School and church.
Mrs. Schweiss, at the beginning
of the trial, said sadly that Kenny]
could not seem to please his father,
and that she realized discord be-!
tween them was mounting.
So sure had she heen that ‘rou
ble was brewing: thal when she]
heard her daughter Sandra, 13,
report that she had heard a funny
click and thought Kenny had a
gun, she sent Sandra outside t
house.
When she accosted Kenny in hh
kitchen, she knew “from his wild
adj
appearance” that something was,
wrong.
Sharp cross-examination by
Quinn Wednesday morning, when
the boy again took the stand after
having testified Tuesday afternoon,
" trosgit out that he had snapped
the trigger twenty times after
pumping lead into his father’s body.,
“I thought he was coming after
me,” he said. :
“Didn't you know that a bullet
would kill him?”
“No, I didn’t think it would.
didn't want to kill him.”
The defense rested.
Judge Pinola asked that briefs
be submitted to him within ten
days, from both Prosecution and de-
fense.
He stated that he woud confer
with two other judges after sly
ing the evidence, and make a
decision later. y
Wilkes Awards
Local Seniors |
Major and Bronson :
Honored At Essembly z
Thirty-one Wilkes College stu~
dents were recognized publicly for |
outstanding scholastic achievements
and/or for extracurricular activity
during the college year. Two Back |
Mountain residents were so honored
during a recent student assembly.
They are Beverly Ann Major, Lei
man, and Janice Nadine Bronson.,
Sweet Valley. :
Miss Major received from ‘Robert |
Morris, administrative assistant to
Dr, Eugene S. Farley, an award for
serving on the Student Gowvern-
ment for the year. The daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bryce Major, she
is a member of the 1961 adusting
class.
During her
senior year, she
senved as editor-in-chief of the Col-
lege year book; was Homecoming
Queen, and is a member of the
Beacon staff, Madrigal Singers and
Class ‘Council.
Miss Bronson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred D. Bronson, re-
ceived the Kickline Award. She, |
too, is a member of the graduating
class and during her senior year
was captain of the Kickline. She
is. also president,, Chapman Hall;
charity chairman, Theta Delta Rho;
chairman, School Spirit; memb
of the senior class executive coun-
cil; Homecoming Princess for 1960
a member of Intercollegiate Cou
on Government and Girl's Glee C
0,
‘and is listed in Who's Who i in Amer- -
ican Set and aortiby,