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Jubilant Midnight
Motorcade Greets
Prize-Winning Lake-Lehman Band
A jubilant throng greeted Lake-'
Lehman Band late Saturday night,
over 100 cars driving out highway
309 to wait for the four buses
coming in from New York State,
half-way to Tunkhannock.
As the first bus crested the hill
and rounded the curve, pande-
monium broke loose. Two other
4 buses followed in quick succession,
but the fourth bus was somewhat
delayed, giving Dean Long, band
president, a good opportunity, to
show off the two mannouth trop-
hies.
The cheering supporters, all anx-
ious to get on the band wagon, fol-
lowed the buses in an orgy of ex-
citement, down Highway 309 to
Orchard Farm, up the highway
leading through Dallas and to Har-
veys Lake, around the Lake with
police and ambulance sirens clear-
ing the path, out to Noxen, through
Sweet Valley, and finally, at 1 a.m,,
home to Lehman where the Mid-
night motorcade broke up.
John WMiliauskas and his' prize
135 piece band took top honors in
tough competition against all AA
bands in Sherburne N. Y., in the
afternoon marching Contest; and
third place in the morning orches-
F tra competition.
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Lake-Lehman Band, present by
invitation, was the only Pennsyl-
vania band invited, among thirty
New York State entries, most of
them with a long history of wins
in close competition. Invitation fol-
lowed an audition of the band by
Carroll Davenport, band director of
Guilford N. Y. High School, brother
of Reynald Davenport, one of the
Lake-Lehman musicians.
The expedition: was financed by
Band Parents Association, Carl T.
Swanson chairman. Mrs. Florence
Worth was chairman of chaperones,
and John Sidley dinner chairman.
On the way home, students dined
at Canaswacta Country Club in
Norwich. \
‘Most band members, dog tired
from a long ‘day of travel
and competition, were half asleep
when the motorcade greeted them
with blaring horns and shrieking
sirens. N
Mountain View Inn, closed for the
evening,
coffee maker going again, to ac-
commodate the chilly greeters as
they waited for return of Chief Ed-
gar Hughes’ police car, which had
gone on 40 Tunkhannock to spot
thé returning buses. ¢ Horns re-
= doubled their efforts as the first
bus came in view.
Dean Long, president of the band,
and Dick Williams, drum major,
holding the ‘trophies rode the Lake
Township fire truck on the tour
of the Back Mountain, as more and
more cars joined the procession.
Lights flashed on all along the
route, as folks who had gone to
bed, heard the approaching motor-
cade and craned heads from win-
dows as it swept past on the wings
of some of the most enthusiastic
racket the Back Mountain has
heard for years.
It was a triumph for not only
Mr. - Miliauskas and his Lake-Leh-
man Band, but for a region that
has followed the band’s’ progress
ever since it started making head-
lines.
~ Brent Yeisly Is
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"Making Progress
Two Other Victims
0f Speed Improving
Brent Yeisley, critically injured
in a recent car crash, remains in
the Continuous Care rooms at Gei-
singer Memorial Hospital, where he
submitted to brain surgery for re-
moval of a clot of blood behind the
left ear. ’
Keith Yeisley, Brent's brother, in
constant touch with him,
that he is now conscious, that he
sleeps normally, is ‘completely
aware of everything that goes on,
but that he has no recollection of
the crash which fractured his skull.
Earl Van Campen, his cousin,
suffering from a badly compounded
Af fracture of the leg, is still at Nesbitt
i Hospital. Infection is clearing up.
Joseph Gallagher, the third in-
jured man, has had an operation
for placing of a. supporting pin in
his hip to hasten union.
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Dr. Hood, brain surgeon of Mayo !
Clinic fame, states that he is much
pleased with Brent's progress at
Geisinger. Precautions are being
taken to guard against a- fall from
bed. Contrary to feverish first re-
ports, young Yeisley lost no brain |
tissue. He is getting along fine.
Dallas Atlantic Station
Under New Management
Raymond E. Malkemes, Franklin
Street, Shavertown, has taken over
the Atlantic Service Station, located
in the center of Dallas.
Assisting Mr. Malkemes, will be
his three sons, Ray, Charles and
James. They expect to specialize in
brake adjustments and repairs. Mr.
Malkemes was associated with Forty
Forty Dairy for over ten years
reports |
Wins Danforth Award
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DEAN LONG
Dean Long, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Long, Sweet Valley, won
the Danforth Award for leadership,
and the American Legion Award
for citizenship at Class Night May
26 at Lehman High School.
Dean, 18, has been accepted at
Bloomsburg, where he will enter
the freshman class in September,
majoring in English.
He was voted Mr. Senior, and
Pat Hoover was voted Miss Senior.
As president of the Band, he ac-
cepted the trophies for band excel-
lence at the Sherburne competition
on Saturday, and with Dick Wil-
liams, drum major, carried them in
a triumphal progress through the
ship fire truck.
Dean is senior class
student council vice president;
Honor Society, vice president of the
FFA. Has been in the band four
years, the chorus three, student
council four; took part in junior
and senior plays, was on the year-
book and newspaper staff.
In addition to school
lighted up and got the | he has been for four years pianist |
| at Sweet Valley First Christian
i Church, and for
| president of the
| group. gs awvell as
| Sur:day fc
Young People’s
secretary for the
Loa
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‘Baccalaureate At
| Lake-Lehman Sunday
Baccalaureate Service for the
| Lake-Lehman Area Joint High
! School will be held on Sunday,
8:15 p. m. at the Lehman School
| Audtorium.
|" Reverend William A. Hughes,
| minister of the Church of Christ,
‘Sweet Valley, will speak to the
| class concerning “The Keys to the
i Secret of Peace’.
“I Whistle a Happy Tune” by
| Rogers-Hammerstein and “Give Me
| Your Tired, Your Poor” by Berlin-
Lazarus will be sung for the grad-
uates by the Senior Chorus under
the direction of Bernard Gerrity.
Accompanists will be Larry Car-
penter and Mary Ann Laskowski.
Back Mountain on the Lake Town- |
president; |
activities, |
three years was |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Wins Recognition
In Lens Research
Dr. Lisses’ Paper
To Be Published
Dr. Aaron Lisses, Dallas optome-
trist, has: the distinction of having
his paper on contact lenses selected
for publication in the August
Pennsylvania Optometrist, Dr. Lis-
sés, while attending the State Con-
vention at Bedford Springs May 21
to 23, gave the paper as part’ of
the program.
It dealt with the scientific ap-
proach to fitting with contact
lenses patients who had sub-
mitted to cataract operations, a
tremendous stride in after-care of
cataract sufferers, resulting in
normal vision without disfiguring
heavy lenses.
Dr. Lisses has an
plaque in = recognition
pioneering in this field.
engraved
of his
| Teddy Whipp Has Brain
Surgery Et Geisinger
Teddy Whipp, ten year old son of
{Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Whipp, Shav-
| ertown, was admitted to Geisinger
Hospital on Monday, and submitted
to brain surgery Wednesday after-
ncon. The specialist who performed
the operation was Dr. Hood, the
| same then whe operated success-
fully on Brent Yeisley last week.
| Teddy had been a patient at Gen-
| eral Hospital for one week prior to
| admission to Geisinger. There is no
| apparent history of injury.
president of the chorus and of the |
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elected officers of the
Athletic Association
are, left to right, Elaine Chernesky,
publicity = officer, Kingston; Jean
Drapiewski, vice-president, Lehman;
Sara Gregory, President, Lehman;
Ellen Curry, secretary, Pittston. The
two Back Mountain girls are both
graduates of Lake-Lehman High
Newly
| Misericordia
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College Athletic Association Officers
Dixon's Robbed
Tuesday Night
Thieves Take Money
SPCA, Yeisley: Fund
Thieves breaking’ into Dixon’s
Restaurant through a Lake Street
window sometime Tuesday night,
{ not only lifted $20 in silver from
the cash register, but disemboweled
. the SPCS dog container for sup-
port of the animal shelter, and
took a container holding contri-
butions for Brent Yeisley, who is
Hospital.
No clue was left. Papers were
scattered, cigarettes spilled on the
| floor, but only one carton stolen.
| Al Shaffer investigated. The theft
occurred sometime after the res-
| taurant was closed for the night
at 11:30.
Commencement Sunday
Gate of Heaven graduating class
will have commencement exercises
Sunday morning at the 9 o'clock
mass, Rev. Francis A. Kane presid-
ing. This is the first school to grad-
| uate in the Back Mountain this year.
| Students will wear academic cos-
tome.| Many of the eighth grade
students will be admitted to West
Side Central Catholic School in Sept-
ember,
Entiques For Auction
Mary Frantz has decorated a
| the Library Auction, and Mrs. Dwight
| Fisher has decorated a straight chair
with spindles.
{ School where they began their var-
| dia they are teammates—both play
| sity basketball career. At Misericor-
forward positions on the Varsity
Basketball Team.
In September Sara will enter her
junior year and Jean will enter her
senior year.
Representatives from the Back
Mountain Horse Show 4-H Club met
recently with Lehman Volunteer
firemen tc make recommendations
- The club also offered its services
in staging the show, manning re-
freshment stands, etc. Shown here,
seated, first row: Dave Forster, Rus-
sell ‘Coolbaugh; second row: . Dor-
rance Mekeel, Bill Hardisky, Bruce
Varner, Chet Lamoreaux, Lee Went-
zel, fire chief; Ed Powell and Harold
Coclbaugh, co-chairmen of the en-
tire show; Lee Johnson, 4H; Ricky
Edwards, 4H. Standing; Joe Ells-
worth, Glenn Johnson, Myron Baker,
Peggy Houlihan, spokesman for the
for the annual Lehman horse show. | gc
4H Horse Shoe Club.
he 4H Club recommended a scor-
1 for equitation classes which
s the rider of his’ faults ‘and
observed by the
points
as
judges, and gives him an opportun- |
| ity to correct and improve his
| equitation. The Back
| Horse Shoe 4H Club is comprised
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| whom own horses.
| comed their suggestions and express-
lest in the show.
The 17th annual Lehman Horse
| Show will be held Monday after-
| noon and evening July 3, and all
Mountain |
of twenty-eight members, many of |
Firemen wel- |
4.1 Horseshoe Club Advises On Horse-Show
day July 4. The July 3rd show will
start at
and Time Events. Special July 3
features will be a. greased pig chase
and an outdoor square dance,
Because of increased entries, the
July 4 show will start a little earlier
Individuals
in” entering the
promptly at 9:30.
groups interested
| | parade are asked to contact Warren |
i ed appreciation for the group’s inter- { Mekeel or any member of the Back | t6 date maintained an office
| Mountain Horsemens Club.
| At noon July 4 the Fire Auxil-
| lary will serve dinner\ at the show
| grounds.
in serious condition at the Geisinger
lovely old Lincoln rocking chair for |
5 p.m. with Rodeo Races
than usual, the parade promptly at |
8:30 a.m.; the all-day horse show |
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These
are the
a delighted Lake-LLehman band
brought back from Sherburne, N. Y.,
on Saturday. Anybody who wants
to see the winning band march in
full formation, may attend the Out-
door Theatre at the Lake tomorrow
{ night, where the band will parade
{and play selections before the pro-
{ gram, which is sponsored by the
Band Parents.
Holding the trophies, first place
for marching contest and third place
Lake-Lehman Band Officials And Director Display Winning Trophies
trophies which | for concert competition are Dean placements ready to fill the posi-
VOL. 73, NO. 23, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1961
Second Prisoner
Escapes In Less
Than Five Weeks
Few Residents Aware
Of Institution Break
As Search Continues
For the second time in less than
five weeks, an inmate escaped from
the (Correctional Institution at
Chase.
Clifford Lockwood, 30, of Phila-
delphia, almost ready to be re-
leased on parole, walked away from
his work at the sewage disposal
plant outside the walls Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30.
He was not captured until 11:20,
almost ‘seven hours later, when he
was found at Ceasetown near Zig's
store on Route 29.
A siren, blown to announce the
break, was heard by very few peo-
| ple in the area. Police spread the
| word, and the break was announced
over radio.
School buses continued to drop
children after school, to make their
way along country roads for half
or three quarters of a mile.
At the Charles Frantz home, one
Long and Beverly Lord, standing | tions.
on either side of drum major Rich- Trophies will be displayed first
ard Williams. Mary Ann Laskowski, | at the Lake school building, then 4
publicity, and Larry (Carpenter, (at Lehman during graduation days. mile cross country from the prison,
treasurer, stand on the left; on the | During the summer, they will be | Mrs. Frantz did not know until
right are Judy Shalata, vice presi-|on display at the Lucas Music Store | five o'clock that there had been
dent; and John Miliauskas, director. | in Wilkes-Barre, in consideration of | @ break. Her children had walked
Dean is president, Beverly secre-|that company’s having loaned sev- home from the Lake-Lehman bus
tary. eral new instruments for the com- ||Stop, nearly a mile up an empty
Mr. Miliauskas will lose thirty- | petition. road.
four members of his prize-winning A woman who occasionally acts
band next season, but he has re- as sitter in the evenings, called
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Library Ruction
Name-The-Pony
Contest Starts
| Pony End Filly Will
| Be Seen Everywhere
| In Weeks To Come
What is a nice name for a little
pony ?
What little boy or girl wouldn’t
like to have a little pony, or a
| gertis mare pony drawing a little
cuvered wagon ?
The Library Auction
ing & +9oony-naming contest,
here is what it is all about:
O’'Malia Laundry is contributing
one of the Bednarski Farm ponies
to the Library Auction. It will be
sold on Saturday, July 8. Boots
will be around the area, ready to
give children a ride in her wagon,
from now until the Auction. On
‘Wednesdays and Fridays, Boots will
be at Shavertown Shopping Center
6 to 9 p.m. and on Saturdays and
{ Sundays, 4 to 8 p.m. For a dime,
is arrang-
and
| a kid can take a ride with Boots, |
| and get a blank for entry of a name |
in the pony-naming contest. |
Boots has a surprise. Boots had |
| a little baby pony four months |
| ago, and Boots needs a name for |
it. A girl's name.
Every time a child takes a ride]
with Boots, he is entitled to another
entry blank and can invent an- |
other name. . . or for the matter |
of that, use the same name he
chose in the first place.
And the winner gets tickets for
the Library Auction Chicken Bar-
becue for himself and his whole |
family; second and third prize win- |
ners get tickets for themselves and |
| their parents.
Dale Mosier is taking care of the |
| pony and her new filly, at the Shel- |
don Mosier Farm. The Mosiers, |
several years ago, reared for the
Library Auction hundreds of broil- |
ers, from peeps to threepounders. |
Jack Conyngham will arrange for
judges of the ponynaming contest.
The small covered wagon is be-
ing loaded by Joseph Rosenfel of
Forty-Fort.
The baby pony is palomino color-
ing with two large white splashes.
She will be as gentle as her mother.
She won't be ready for a saddle
or to drive in a cart for some time,
but when she does grow up, Blue-
Bell, or Sandy, or Flower or Lady
Jane, (you name it), will be a
prized possession for some little
. boy or girl.
She is already weaned, so she
won't feel too desolate without her
mother if the right kind of a boy
or girl bids her in over the Auction
block.
Pearl Wants Diamonds |
Last year, Pearl Gilroy's chair-
| manship of the costume jewelry de-
partment for the Odds and Ends
Booth, brought out the Pearl-Dia-
mond headline. Pearl is. still pitch-
ing for diamonds. Call her if you
| have costume jewelry. She will see
that it gets to Girl Scouts for clean- |
up, polish, and repair. Beads, pen- |
dants, ear-rings, what have-you. |
Moves Office To Dallas |
Dr.” William J. Kennedy, who has |
in |
Wilkes-Barre, has now moved all
| his dental equipment to his Machell |
| Avenue office “in Dallas, and has
become a full-time member of the
| communipy,
At an impressive candlelight Rowett, Sharon Phillips, Jackie | invocation. The leader made the
| ceremony Sunday afternoon’ at | Churry, Elaine Dixon, and Linda | welcome address, and the pledge
Prince = of Peace Episcopal parish | Brague. of allegiance was given in unison,
Photo by Kozemchak
her from Ceasetown to cancel her
appointment for the evening. “I'm
locked in here with my children,”
she said, “and I won't be out to-
night. That man is still at large.
| And guards are all over the place,
College Misericordia Announces
Courses For 35th Summer Session 2% 22%
: | aes, o ts shows that
College Misericordia will offer| College Misericordia is fully ac- |
both graduate and undergraduate | credited by the following agencies: | very few people knew of the escape.
courses on campus at the thirty-| The Middle States Association of| phe Kupstas family on road to
and Secondary schools; | Huntsville Nursery, and within
fifth summer session of the col-| Colleges
lege. | Pennsylvania Department of Public| 5 mile of the prison, had not heard
Registration for undergraduates Instruction; The Regents of the Uni-| the siren. :
No arrangement has been made,
is ‘scheduled June 23 and 24. Stu- versity of the State of New York |
dents may also register by mail. | and various other. state education | d To
Graduate students will register | departments. Misericordia’s depart-| to date, for relaying of the siren
June 22 and 23 at Misericordia.| ment of music is affiliated with! ghessage from fire-hall to firechall,
Classes on both levels of ‘study be- || Trinity College of:London, England | The first prisoner to escape, 34
gin Monday, June 26. and the National Association of] days earlier; was an 18-year old boy
who terrorized attendants at the
Hillcreast Convalescent Home in
Huntsville, holding a nurse at bay
Undergraduate Courses Schools of Music,
with a ten-inch butcher knife,
Ronald McFarland, also working
outside the walls, had fled into the
woods, and was at large for hours
before being captured at the nurs-
Undergraduate courses leading to
degrees in arts, science, music, edu-
cation, home economics, secretarial
science and nursing education will
be given in the fields of philosophy,
psychology, religion, = education,
English, speech, foreign languages,
FINAL WIND UP OF
SCHOOL SESSONS
COMES NEXT WEEK
Commencement exercises for
Westmoreland are scheduled
t 3 ; for Monday night at 8 at the ing home:
home _economics, music, nursing pavilion, Irem Country Club, This b 1 b
education, science, mathematics, original plans: having been i is boy, also, was about ready
secretarial science, and social abandoned for holding exer- or parole,
sciences.
cises in the new high school
auditorium. Delays in construc-
tion cancelled out plans.
At Lake-Lehman, graduation
Graduate Courses
Sport Car Snaps Pole,
Drops Into Toby's Creek
Graduate courses which will be
open to both men and women at
College ~ Misericordia during the exercises will be Tuesday even- A Wilkes-Barre boy was hurt at
summer session are: Educational ing at 8:15 in the Lehman : :
Philosophy I; Educational Adminis- gymnasium. Birch Grove Sunday night when
the sports car he was driving
snapped off a utility pole, tore out
four guard rails and dropped fif-
teen feet into Toby’s Creek,
Unconscious upon admission to
Nesbitt Hospital by Kingston Town- i
ship ambulance, Jack Smith, 17, §
| suffered severe lacerations. In the
passenger seat, George Serban,
18, also of Wilkes-Barre, was
treated for lacerations of the head
and back injuries.
Assistant Chief Jesse Coslett was
tration; Literary Criticism; Medieval
Drama; Political and Social History
(I to 1783); Political and’ Social
History (II - 1789-1852).
College Misericordia’s Graduate
Program is according to a cooper-
ative agreement with Scranton Uni-
versity. The faculty of the Univer-
sity of Scranton-College Misericor-
dia Graduate Program will be mem-
bers of the cooperating schools.
Credits are granted by the Uni-
versity of Scranton. Charges at the
cooperating schools are identical;
Pictures of area seniors in
academic cap and gown will be
published next week in a grad-
uation issue.
Cuts And Photography
Donated To Auction
Graphic Arts’ notable contri-
- bution to the Library Auction is
donation of all engraving work, a
gift which adds up to a staggering
sum by the time the various Auc-
so also are the Candidacy and Com- | tion committees’ have all their | assisted by special police officers
prehensive Examinations, course pictures in the paper. James Ko-| William Fredericks and Howard
numbering, contents and credits, | zemchak’s contribution is the pho-| Woolbert. Marvin Yeust, Arnold
curricular and departmental re-' ‘tography, a time-consuming and ex- | Yeust, and Ed Carey staffed the
quirements. ambulance.
All Members Of Girl Scout Troop 183 Win Curved Bar
pensive donation.
house, thirteen Girl Scouts of Troop
183, the entire membership, re-
ceived the curved bar award.
Badge presentation was in the | followed by singing of America the
hands of former leader Mrs. Lewis | Beautiful..
Dixon; curved bar awards, leader Serving on the troop committee
Reading from left to right,| Mrs. Robert Block. Both present | are these women: Mrs. William
standing ‘at attention, are: Anne | and former leaders expressed ap-| McClelland, Mrs. Lewis Dixon, and
Marie Goble, Cynthia Galletly, Daisy | preciation for preliminary training | Mrs. H. Galletly. Mrs. Earl Phil-
McClelland, Judy Bergstrasser, Pat- | given to the Girl Scouts troop as| lips is assistant leader.
sy Block, Jean Fleming, leader Mrs. | leader before their own time. . Some of the girls will go on into
Robert Block, Susan Smith, Linda | Rev. William McClelland gave the | senior scouting :