72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain THE DALLAS POST TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers ORchard 4-5656 OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY—FOURTEEN PAGES Can Lal Farmer Killed «Fighting Fire Home Complete Loss At Center Moreland A charred ladder and an over- turned water bucket remain to tell of a 79-year-old Center Moreland farmer’s vain attempt to save his burning home last Thursday. Sidney J. Levitt, a resident of Center Moreland for 43 years, died of third degree burns after falling 15 feet from a ladder he was using to fight the fire. Wyoming County Coroner Brice Sheldon stated the man may have been knocked off the ladder by an explosion which occurred during the height of the blaze. It was thought, by authorities, the ° ex- plosion may have occurred when fire set off gas from an appliance in the home. Coroner Sheldon said a wound on the victim’s forehead indicated his head struck a stone walk in the fall. A A neighbor Mark H. Brown called W Kunkle Fire Company when the explosion occurred and flames were seen shooting from the Levitt home one-quarter mile away. Cause of the fire was not determined. The seven-room home was al- most completely destroyed when firemen arrived at 4:45 a.m. and found the victim's body. Tunkhan- nock State Police were notified. A Firemen stood by to keep flames | from spreading to a large barn | about 200 feet away. no other buildings in the immedi- | ate vicinity of the home. Levitt, whose residence was lo- cated on a 100 acre farm, had | given up active farming some years | ago. He continued to raise pro- duce for his own use. The - burned home is located on a dirt road leading to Beaumont about 1% miles from Center More- land. Two piecese of fire equipment at the 's “ne were. manned by ‘nine firemen" headed by Fire Chief Fred ode Others responding to the J%call were Assistant Chief Corey Besteder, Austin Workman, Con- ss rad Honeywell, Delmar Shupp, Brussel! Transue, Albert Patton and George Landon. Dallas Township Police Chief Irwin Coolbaugh was also on the scene. Levitt was born Sept. 6, 1882 in England. He operated a truck farm in Kingston before moving to Center Moreland. He was a mem- ber of the Center Moreland Metho- dist Church. His wife, the former Mary Moore of Kingston, died 18 years ago. Funeral services were held from Disque Funeral, Dallas, last Satur- day at 11 a.m. He was buried in Marsh Cemetery, Center Moreland. Surviving are brothers Fred and Asher England; a sister Liza, Eng- land. Children, Celeste Ruth, Phil- adelphia; Sidney, Jr. Titusville, Fla.; Mrs. George Deremer, Har- veys Lake; also 17 grandchildren | three greatgrandchildren. “Tragic Acciden ragic Accident Fatal To Son Tractor-Trailer Hits Car On Curve At Utica Mr. and Mrs. William Marson Sr., Main Road, Trucksville, lost a son in a tragic accident Monday after- noon. William Marson Jr., 31, on his way through (Utica, returning with his wife from a vacation in Canada to his home in Newtown, N. J. was instantly killed when his car was struck by a tractor trailer swinging wide on a curve. His wife was treat- ed for bruises and shock at the Utica Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Marson, residents of *. rucksville for the past six years, are leaving this morning for New Jersey. Their son will be buried to- morrow. The young couple had no children. { There were | i “Tiger” MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION ‘ Dallas - Mocanaqua eet Sunday Afternoon In Booster Attraction Dairymen Can Sew-up Manage To Squeeze Championship With Win; By Swoyersville 2-1 RALPH HENDERSHOT Dallas Dairy can wrap up another ry Lengy eo championship Sun. | | Hf the ret by Mocanaqua in a & Boos hasnt #ithaction at the Dal- | las diamond. Over the past season Mocanaqua | has always been the roughest op- ponent and keenest rival. The down river boys managed by Denoy are in second g 5 with a 7-2 record, while the Dairy- | men are on top witl 12 wins and | | 0 losses. The Dairymen should be at full strength for this contest sincg John Dorish returned to the line-up last | week and Jack Sims will return | this week-end after a five week lay- off with a knee injury. | Ralph Hendershot thas been one of the mainstays of the Dairy nine in recent weeks as; Jaotnaised hi | woatting. adcyage. ov CE weed | points since he was married. Ralph has always been rough on Mocanagua ! hurling and a few years back hit | three homers in one contest against them. Joe Yeninas also has been playing fine defensive baseball and coming through with base hits in timely spots for the Dairymen this season. [Tom Carter will probably get the starting nod from manager: Bob | Grose in this contest. The e lefty will Sandsdale Bulls Will Get Royal . JOE YENINAS have his work cut out for him with such hitters as Handzelek, Gregory ‘and Uram in the A’s line-up. Game time is scheduled for 2:30. Busine§s manager Jay Llewellyn Jr. has announced that a number of door prizes will be awarded lucky ticket holders at Sundays’ game. Win Heart Fund Game Dallas Dairy scored five times in | the first inning last Saturday as they defeated Pittston Junction 6-1 |in an exhibition game with proceeds going’ to the Luzerne County Heart Fund Association. Billy Shalata tossed a six-hitter in gaining the wictory. Dorish' Wins Sunday John Dorish back in uniform kept his winning streak alive by down- ing Swoyersville 2.1. Sunday in a niv n-tuck affair. eb ashko handcuffed. the Dallas hitters for seven innings without a "hit or Fun, but the Dairymen reached him for two runs in the 8th to take ja 2-0 lead. Swoyersville rallied for one run in: the bottom of the ninth in an effort to tie the score. Fach team collected six hits. Washko finally stopped’ Bill Sha- lata’s 48 game hitting streak as Bill went hitless in four trips. Reception In Canada This Sunday "A week in isolation at the Canadian border did not dampen the spirits of Sandsdale Rocket Masterpiece, prize bull recently sold to the Oxford and District Breeders Association of Wood- stock, (mtario, by Ralph Sands, but it did throw a hitch into the Open House Ceremonies at Oxford where 3,000 persons waited to no avail to see Rocket and his companion, Ro- safe Supreme Reflection (vg) The two animals were trans- ported ‘from <Carverton to the border by H. S. Knill of Paris, On- tario, accompanied by Paul Jensen of the Breeding Cooperative. They were delayed at the border from last Tuesday until this Mon- day because permits for transpor- tation across the line had not been signed by a Federal Veterinarian. The permits had been signed by Dr. Thomas Shoemaker Jr., of Tunkhannock who is authorized to sign them for any destination in the United States but not to foreign countries. The animals had to be held in isolation at Customs until Dr. Boon, Federal Veterinarian of Harrisburg returned from vacation to sign the papers. In the meantime the breeders of Oxford have postponed their Open House until this Sunday when Mr. and Mrs. Sands and daughter, I Har- Primitive Methodists Excavate For S. S. Addition, Start Construction Primitive Methodist Church at Fernbrook broke ground for its church school addition last week, with excavation now complete and cinder block laying well under way for the footings. Rev. Andrew Derrick states that the building will be attached to the main edifice, a 15 x 36 foot two story addition, to contain six class rooms for accommodation of a steadily growing Sunday School. ~ Men of the congregation are dona- ting their services which will ‘hold the cost to a minimum. - For the past year, when the con- gregation doubled, Rev. Derrick hag seen a building program essential. Eventually, he is convinced, it will be necessary to give up the church on its constricted corner lot, and build another one on level ground. The present arrangement provides no parking space, and no room 'for riet, will be on hand to take part in the ceremonies. Rosafe Supreme Reflection (v.g) is the Pennsylvania Aged Bull of 1960 and was First Prize Winner and reserve Grand Champion at the Pennsylvania Black & White Show held last year in Harrisburg. He is 7% years old and will be on test in Canada for the next 120 days, after which he may, too, be pur- chased by the Canadian Co- -opera- tive. Rosafe’s daughters have been terrific and he was extremely pop- ular with Pennsylvania breeders last season. The two animals are among the most valuable in the Sands herd, and Mr. Sands expects to breed to them artificially from Canada. But the Ace still remaining in the Sands ~ herd is Glo-Mor Master King, All Pennsylvania. Junior champion yearling of 1960. Shown last year in the big leagues at the National Dairy Show in Waterloo, Iowa, Glo-Mor came in sixth. Library Auction Gets Unexpected 3 Dollars Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction received an anonymous $3 donation from a conscience ridden citizen Friday. The envelope bore a Pittston postmark. Inside a pencil written note said the money was owed to the Auction sales and concluded { 5 | “God bless and please forgive me, forever. Amen.” Pope once said, “An honest man’s the noblest work of God. Tommy Andrew Will future expansion. Tt is a small church. When Rev. Derrick moved, to ‘Fernbrook four years ago, twelve loyal members of the congregation greeted him, to listen to his first sermon. Eighteen children appeared for Sunday School. Since that time, much progress has been made. To date, the capa- city of the main auditorium has never been tested. But Rev. Der- rick forsees a day when the 125 Have Skin-Grafting Tommy Andrew, proprietor of the T-Bar-A [Rabbitry at Shavertown, and instructor in art in Plymouth schools, has spent three weeks rec- ently at the Veterans Hospital, bat- tling with an extremely painful car- buncle. August 13, he will return to the hospital for extensive skin graft, an operation which will release him just in time to judge in a rabbit seats will not be adequate. He is looking to the future, Rodiar’ (on and cavey show at Courtland; N.Y. ga 11. ’ than half million members of the! Highway Stakes Cut Into Middle Of Harter Homes Bulford’s Hardware, Tommy Noon's Garage Directly In Line No official notice has yet been received by residents who have homes or business places in the path of the widened highway project along route '309 from Luzerne to the Y at Orchard Farms Restaurant and the new A&P market. But a number of people have been notified that their property would be taken, to ease curves in the road. Tommy Joon, whose garage is located dangerously on a curve, blocking sight of the highway to the left as cars emerge from lower Main Street, Fernbrook, is certain that his property will be taken to give better visibility. The LeRoy Roberts home next door to Noon’s, will also block a widened curve. Mr. Roberts has had no official notice. In the case of the (California Fruit Market, Philip Ansilio was told last summer by highway surveyors that the probable line would snip off about five feet of his parking lot, leaving the building. He has re- ceived no further notice. _ IGuyette in Trucksville, his place of business closely fronting the highway, has had no official notifi- cation, but a persistent rumor says that the highway will be widened at that location. ‘ Mrs. Pauline Besteder, next door, says. she has heard nothing, and thinks her home is safely back, far enough from the widening. Harters Dairy is the chief victim in this area. According to a survey made last week, both Harter homes will be destroyed, though the plant itself will be left. The present survey line runs straight through the middle of Sherman Harter’s home and Marian Harter’s home, slicing off what is the best “Tooking lawn - on the entire route from Luzerne to Dallas. This is the third survey. The first line eliminated houses across the street from Harter’s, the Myhall’s and the Stolaricks. This most recent survey leaves these homes, which were expected to fall and which have therefor not been too well maintained, in ex- pectation of being evacuated. Left also is the Hillside Inn. Bulford’s Hardware Store is in the line of march. Mrs. Harter says, “We've been in business here for fifty years. With the most recent survey cutting away our property, there will be no place for anybody to live, to take care of the plant. A milk plant isn’t something you just lock up and leave. You ‘have to be around to see that the compressors are working properly. And the children feel des- olate about leaving their home.” [People across the road are anx- jous to sell, having made up their minds to the move when the first survey was made. Harters with so much at stake, are anxious to remain. Work on the new road is supposed to start this fall. It has been long delayed, as one plan after another was drawn up and abandoned, end- ing with the recent decision to wid- en the existing road and eliminate as many curves as practical, instead of building a divided one-way high- way- Local Woman At PTA Conference 6350 Delegates Present At Gettysburg College More than 650 local unit P.T.A. delegates were at Gettysburg Col- | lege this past week attending the annual Summer Leadership Session of the Pennsylvania Congress of Par- ents and Teachers. Representing the Back Mountain Area was Mrs. Thelma IC. Culp, Lake- Noxen Schools, Program Chairman of District 7. The delegates, representing more state organization, attended classes and lectures = concerning Parent- Teacher Association {Community | Leadership Responsibilities for | children and youth in health, wel- | fare and education as it . pertains to the home, school, church and community. The conference was under the general supervision of Mrs., Harold G. Moore, [State President. Special consultants and lectures for the conference included Dr. Char- les H. Glatfelter, Acting Dean, Get- tysburg College; Mrs. past vice president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers; A. W. Gottschall, National Confer- ence of (Christians and Jews; and Dr. Eugene P. Bertine, assistant ex- 20 persons on Pennsylvania high- | that Japanese Port to the commerce C. 'S. Garey, | ecutive secretary, Pennsylvania State Education Association. hy Udo man’s New Sch Receives Award Second For the second consecutive year, | Trucksville Free Methodist Sunday | School took the award, ‘‘Sunday School of the Year,” last week at | the New York Conference held on the Free Methodist camp grounds at Demunds. | Receiving the award from Mrs. | Beulah Faulkner, New York Confer- ence Sunday School Executive Secretary, is. Mrs. Frank Mathers, | Sr. At the right, stands Rev. Grove | Armstrong, pastor; at the left, Rev. ls 0 Consecutive Howard = Artz, Director of Field Services for the denomination. The trophy is given to the Sunday School which most successfully meets established requirements, and maintains the best Sunday School program. In winning the award for | the second successive year, Trucks- ville has established a record. Rev. Armstrong was returned to Trucksville for, the sixth year, longer than any other pastor .of the church in its fifty years of history. Governor Urges Local Police To Redouble Traffic Vigilence #7 Urges Use of Every Traffic Tool At Their Command To Stop Recklessness Governor Lawrence this week | made the following statement: “In view of the preliminaty infor- mation presented in the death of ways over the past week end, IT am once again making an urgent appeal to every citizen of our ‘State to drive with caution and prudence at all times. “A review of highway accidents by the State [Police and by the Bureau of Traffic Safety indicates On Active Duty CLIFTON WILLIAMS Clifton ‘Williams, CD3, is serving his two years active duty in the US Naval Reserves on the USS Top- eka. Cliff is a graduate of Westmore. land, class of '59. The Topeka is a cruiser on ‘a mission of readiness and goodwill in the Western Pacific. . In April the men on ship partic- ipated in a Port Festival in Naga- saki commemorating the opening of of the outside world. Cliff works in the carpenter shop where they made two floats for the masquerade par- ade. Topekamen also wave two orphan parties while in Nagasaki. Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny car- toons delighted the children even though they couldn’t understand a word that was said.. The children consumed 20 gallons of ice cream, a large carton of cookies and an unknown quantity of strawberry drink. [Clifton’s brother, = David, West~ ‘moreland Class of '61, is in the 109th Field Artillery of the 28th Division. He is taking basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Clifton and David are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn ‘Williams, R. D, 1, Dallas, Pa. Clear Auction Grounds One of the hardest jobs in con- nection with the Library Auction is preparation of the grounds and cleaning = up after the Auction closes. This year the work has been capably handled under the directiop of Ziba Smith and Tony Hudak, that, in a preponderance of the accidents, the cause is directly at- tributable to speed--driving too fast for conditions. “The majority of these accidents involved single vehicles; they were caused by loss of control on the part of the operator on a two or three-lane highway. Both are evid- ence of excessive speeds under pre- vailing conditions. “In nearly every instance over the past week end, tragedy occurred when caution was abandoned. " “We must reduce to the barest minimum the number of people who persist in ignoring the basic precepts of safety. In consequence, I am in- structing the State Police to mount an all-out offensive, particularly on week ends, against drivers who pro- ceed in reckless disregard for their own safety and for the safety of others. « “To make this campaign most effective, I am also calling upon every other law enforcement offic- ial in Pennsylvania to mount a full- scale crackdown against speeding and recklessness on every highway-- major or minor-- in every part of the State. “We are coming into the time of the year when our highways will continue to.be crowded with famil- ies on vacations and on week-end trips. safety and without fear from sudden death, we must proceed against the incautious drivers--the fringe elem- ent--with every enforcement tool at our command.” - Governor Lawrence also sent the following telegram: To All Police Chiefs: “I know that the members of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Pol- ice Association have been mak- ing a monumental effort in holding traffic accidents to a minimum. But it would seem that we must re-double that effort if our highways are to be safe from a careless and reckless minority such as those responsible for the frightening death toll of twenty over the week end just past. “We are coming into the time of the year when our highways are crowded with families on vacation and week-end trips. It these persons are to use our highways in safety, without fear of sudden death, we must pro- ceed against the incautious dri- ver. with every enforcement tool at our command. “I urge you to call upon the members of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association to mount an all-out - offensive against drivers in their comm- unity who operate with reck- less disregard for either their own safety or the safety of others.” David L Lawrence Governor” If these persons are going | to be able to use our highways in VOL. 73, NO. 30, THURSDAY, JULY 27. 1961 Work Of Years Will Saved? Mortal Blow Struck At Educational Program Of Lake-Lehman Jointure Who Have Faith In The Future Speak Their Mind Lake-Lehman’s proposed new high school is dying. Residents are already preparing for the funeral. : a Unless the thinking people of the community step in, willing to stand up and be counted at an open meeting called for 8 p.m. August 7 in Lehman, the corpse will be buried. It will be a costly funeral. 5 Be Lost Unless Residents WHO SAID WATER IN DALLAS IS NOT FIT FOR DRINKING A Dallas resident purportedly heard on a local radio station Tuesday that water in Dallas was not fit to drink. Lettie Culver, office man- _ ager of the Dallas Water Com- pany, said the Health Depart- ment, Wilkes-Barre had not notified her company that any- thing was amiss. They would be out checking the wells right, now if there were some pol- Iution in the water, she said. Water is under the constant supervision of the State Health Department. Water in Dallas is tested regularly by William J. Breese, registered chemist and head- chemist for the Pennsylvania Gas and Water Co. Breese’s reports are sent to the Health Department, Wilkes-Barre, Mrs. Culver said. Report on the last water check made July 7 said “This water at the time of the check was free from pollution and meets standards of the United States Public Health Depart- ment for drinking water” Administration Ottice To Move ‘To High School School Equipment Starts Moving By End Of Next Week school the latter part of next week, and school equipment will be de- livered at the new school, - begin- ning next week. A cafeteria workshop is sche- duled for August 17 and 18, by which date the contractor gives assurance that the sewage disposal ‘plant will be in operation. Administrative offices are on the second floor, above the gymnasium. They consist of a superintendent’s office, a general administration of- fice, a dental clinic, and a health suite. No date has yet been set for dedication of the new building. It is probable that the laying of the cornerstone and the dedication will take place at one and the same time- Occupancy will be effective al- most immediately, for purposes of installing furniture and equipment. Dr. Robert A. Mellman, who re- cently submitted to surgery, is | cautiously resuming his work in his own home, and beginning with next week, he expects to be able. to time office, increasing the strength returns. as Tax Notices Now In Mail School Tax Is 15 Mills Higher in the Dallas Union School District will be in the mails this weekend bearing a fifteen-mill increase or 80c per $100. valuation for school tax purposes. School millage last year was 65c¢ per $100 valuation. For taxpayers in Dallas Borough this will be the third set of tax | notices received this year from Collector Arthur Dungey. [They previously received notices for Borough and County taxes and sometime later received notifica- ‘| tion of personal property taxes. For Dallas, Franklin and Kings- ton. Townships, however, this week’s mailing will be the, first notices received by taxpayers. The blow will probably be a little hard- er for them but it all sums up to the same thing. It all depends on whether its easier on a dog to cut is tail off a little at a time or all 1 a once. Dallas Schools Administrative of- fices will move to the new high- spend a short time each day in his : Tax notices for all municipalities : It is still possible to apply arti- ficial respiration, if residents who have faith in the future of their community, rise up and become as vocal as the group which is spear= heading a movement to sabotage the educational Program, and which has brought pressure to bear upon the Building Authority. An eminent educator will moder- ate the meeting. i Dr. Eugene A. Farley, president of Wilkes College, who had a vision of the future when he took the presidency of a small and struggling junior college in 1935, and who has wrought a miracle by never recog- nizing the possibility of defeat, will preside. 8 What will it cost NOT to build the school ? These are the things that will be lost if the school is lost: : Architect's fees of $110,674. ti Land contracted for: $42,155. Topographical survey: 1,297; sur- vey of property, $1,825. La Test boring to determine weight bearing: $728; test holes, $96. Drilling of well: $1,700. Viewing: $300. Department of health, $25. Painting of sign for’ school we $35. 3 Add to this total: ten years lost A in development. ; Wholesale resignation of key peo- : ple on the school board, who for no compensation, have given their time, their: effort, their whole selves, to furtherance of an educa- tional program which the residents said they wanted. ri Down the drain, ‘the endless trips to Harrisburg. : oN Lost, with nothing to show for it except a hole in the ground. The five-way jointure was formed in 1958, with the express purpose of building a new high school which would be large enough to house both senior and junior high school students, and still leave Proom for children of newcomers who would be attracted to a com- munity with outstanding school facilities. Win, lose or draw, all components of the five-way jointure are re- sponsible for expenses incurred or contracted for, a sizeable bill which will be rendered with nothing to show for it unless the program is carried to completion. It is still possible to pick up the marbles if people who believe i in education as a foundation for suc- cess and a true, expression of democracy, will attend the August (Continued on Page 2 A) a) Linear Plant On Vacation | For Two Weeks Maintenance Force To Make Necessary Equipment Repairs The plant of Linear Incorporated at Fernbrook will be closed for two weeks starting Monday, July 31, so that office personnel ‘and foremsen can take their vacations and also to permit necessary repairs to equipment The . Maintenance Department, Machine Shop, Boiler operators and a skeleton office force will remain | on duty during the two-week per- iod ending Monday, August 14. P. H. Moore, vice president of manufacturing, said yesterday the last scheduled shift will be Friday and operations will resume at the i beginning of the first scheduled = shift on Monday, August 14. There will be no changes in machinery and equipment for the manufacture of other products. Although there has been a slackening of orders during the early part of the year, it is anti- cipated that the nation’s quickening defense program may improve business during the last half. Officers of the big firm, one of the largest employers in the area are: A. W. Swartz, Sr., Chair- man of the Board; C. H. Carlough, President; T. S. Sadler, Vice-Presi- dent and General Manager; P. H. Moore, Vice President Manufactur- ing; F. A. Lewis, Vice President Sales; J. B. Johnson, Vice President: Technical Director; A. W. Swartz, Jr., Treasurer and B. Grouppo, “ HN Secretary and Lonieeler i
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