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| *Harveys Lake Ridge Runners Make
Jeep Tour Over Logging Roads
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Sunday morning at 10:30, twenty-
eight jeeps lined up at Rinken's,
Harveys Lake, for a picture by offi-
cial photographer Jimmie Kozem-
chak, Jr., before starting on a gruel-
ling logging trail tour which took
them from Root Hollow to Mehoop-
any, through the water, up Dutch
Mountain and Red Rock, and back
home at 6:30.
Encounters with snakes, and a
jeep submerged in the swimming
hole on Mehoopany Creek, were
just part of the day, not on the
agenda, but nothing to stop any-
body. Jeep drivers are a hardy
crew. :
When Billy Shalanski’s jeep
missed the crossing and sank in
deep water, Jim Casterline hitched
a chain to it and hauled it to shore.
Dried out, it sputtered, took hold,
and joined its, roar to that of other
waiting jeeps.
On the 35% grade up a rough
field, where for a quarter mile jeeps
competed for a record runs Eial Mec-
Carty. made the winning time of ‘31
Jeeps Line Up At Rinken's For Start Of Dutch Mountain Climb
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
American Legion
Elects Buckley
Installation Set
For October 13
Idetown Firemen
Sponsor Circus
Beers Barnes Show
Coming August 22
One of the finest tented circuses
touring the Eastern United States
this season will make a one-day ap-
| pearance Tuesday, August 22 at
Idetown under Jonathan R. Davis
Fire Department Idetown Aus-
‘pices, it was announced by Sheldon
Cave.
Under a Mammoth Big Top,
Beers-Barnes Circus will exhibit at |
the lot across from the Fire House
with one hour and half perform-
ances at 2 and 8 P.M.
The 1960 edition of the show, ac-
cording to their Advance Agent,
will bring a grand sparkling new
program in mass entertainment.” A
gorgeous, colorful panorama of
Spangleland is promised.
"There will be performing ele-
phants, trained seals, beautiful
hots,” Rancing ponies, talented
" canines, thrilling aerialists, artistic
wirewalkers, ridiculous clowns, and
Dallas Schools Again Plan
Adult Extension Courses
i Registration for adult classes of-
fered by Dallas Schools will take
place early in September in the new
high school cafeteria. Evening ex-
tension classes, approximately
thirty-eight courses, will start Oct-
| ober 4, end April 16, 1962. Depend-
|ing upon registration and demand,
| classes will meet on Monday, Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday eve-
nings for:two and one half hour ses-
sions.
Alfred M. Camp, Adult School
Principal, states that conversational
| German drew the largest number
of students last year. Art, dressmak-
ing, and shop courses were also
popular. Scope of courses may be
broadening this year. Mr. Camp will
announce - definite dates for regis-
tration, following the School Board
meeting September (12, and subject
| to its approval.
On Youth Committee
TAX-PAYERS URGED
TO ATTEND SESSION
AT LEHMAN MONDAY
Tax-payers of the five school
districts composing Lake-Leh-
man area jointure are urged to
attend an open meeting of the
Lehman Building Authority and
Lake-Lehman School Board
Monday night at 8 in the Leh-
man school auditorium.
Opposition to the proposed
buiiaing program mandates a
meeting at which both sides
may be heard, and the real feel-
ing of the community assayed.
Expansion is necessary. The
question is, “How much?” and
“When?”
Shall present plans be jettis-
cned at great expense and fur-
ther delay ?
The tax-payers must decide
for or against progress.
Whitesell Robber
Sentenced Friday
A 27-year-old Philadelphia man,
formerly of Wilkes-Barre, who rec-
ently burglarized Whitesell Lumber
Company, was given a six months
to three years sentence Friday by
Judge Robert W. Trembath, Wyom-
ing County, sitting in Luzerne Coun-
ty Court.
Abe Slater pleaded guilty to char-
ges of burglary and larceny, was
ordered inprisoned in Eastern Penn-
sylvania Correctional and. Diagnos-
tic Center, Philadelphia.
The defendent was arrested earlier
this month ‘after stopping ‘at a
Heights tavern, Wilkes-Barre, and
change.” City police were notified
A red brick in the trunk of Slat-
er’s car connected him with the Back
Mountain burglary, according to
State Police. About $90 in cash was
taken by the thief who smashed a
window of the lumber company
building with a red brick. Fragments
matched the part of the brick found
in Slater's car. He later confessed he
brought the brick from Philadelphia.
The defendent was arrested in
1955 for armed robbery of Hud's
| Diner, near Bloomsburg and later
| escaped from Rockview Penitentiary.
| Slater broke parole wiien he came
| here from Philadelphia to visit rela-
| tives. The Back Mountain burglary
{ occurred while on the visit.
The defendent, who was represen-
ted by court-appointed counsel, At-
torney George B. Ritchie, was also
ordered to make restitution and
pay ‘costs of prosecution.
inquiring if he could “cash in some |
VOL. 73, NO. 31,
Car Turns Turtle At Huntsville Intersection
By some ‘miracle, the driver of
this 1951 Buick coupe was not in-
jured when it turned turtle on the
Hillside Road at Huntsville Sunday
night at 7:35. Thomas Pilcavage,
20, Wilkes-Barre, crawled out un-
scratched. Birth’s (Garage wrecking
truck removed the car. State Police
investigated, and Jackson Township
Chief of Police Robert Cooper direct-
ed traffic.
Pilcavage
was traveling from
Dallas at what spectators describe
as a high rate of speed. Not able
{to stop on the sudden downgrade
when a car ahead of him braked
at the Stop Sign. Pilcavage, to
{avoid hitting a car with a number
of passengers in it, took the hairpin
turn to the left, attempting to
enter Sutton Road, and struck the
‘culvert. The car somersaulted end
over end.
Photo by Kozemchak, Jr.
~ Jeepsters Get Two Snakes On Mountain Climb
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1961
Picketers Halt
Construction
At High School
Building Is Within
Ten Working Days
Of Being Finished
Picketers moved in on the new
Dallas High School on Tuesday, as
fifty workmen making finishing
touches on a school building which
is within ten working days of com-
pletion, went on strike.
Workmen struck against Boyd
Kline Construction Company at
White Haven last week, stopping
work on a school for retarded child-
ren.
The strike spread to a Mountain
Top school construction job, and
ta Dallas. :
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1 [Picketers prevented delivery of a
truckload of folding tables to the
new Dallag Senior High School. Del-
ivery was made to Dallas elementary
school, where tables are now stacked
in the gymnasium.
Commonwealth Telephone Comp-
any men, not bound by a pronounce-
ment of the Hod-Carriers Union,
prepared on ‘Wednesday to go ahead
with installation of two trunk lines
and ten extensions in the new build-
mg. i
On Wednesday, faced with a dren-
ching rain, picketers at the Dallas
High School did their picketing in
comfort from a sedan parked at the
entrance to the school grounds and
appropriately labelled.
Rain dripped dismally from the
| roofs, glistened on the vast black-
! topped parking lot.
| Everything was as silent as the
grave, doors locked, empty halls re-
| sounding.
Dr. Robert Mellman, superinten-
dent of schools William A. Austin,
elementary supervisor, and Charles
‘Mannear, president of the school
board inspected the shut-down, ac-
companied by Mr. Hoban who had
assured the school board at the July
11th meeting that the plant would
be in operation early in August,
with sewage disposal plant sure to
be completed in time for the cafe-
teria workshop two-day project in
mid-August.
A preliminary injunction was
sought last night, against stoppage of
the work, before Judge Jacob Shiff-
man in the Court of Common Pleas
Time schedule for schoolopening w
wassalready very tight. Any prolong-
ed work stoppage said Mr. Mannear,
might be disastrous to a calendar
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32, and Russ Spencer -33.
A Willys regional factory repre-
Y sentative accompanied local men on
the tour, and Duncan Taylor, sec-
retary of Eberhart Faber Co. resi-
dent of White Haven, joined the
150 drivers and passengers who
rocketed up the logging trails,
narrowly missing boulders and
fallen trees, descending on the
other side of the mountain in a
series of hair-raising swoops.
© One of the unexpected happen-
ings of the day was the killing of
a three and a half foot rattlesnake
with nine rattles and a button, and
of a blacksnake over six feet long.
The men were on the lookout for
rattlers. Last year, at Forkston
Tower, they encountered one.
Jeep enthusiasts have formed an
organization, to be known as the
Harveys Lake Ridge Runners. The
group made its first mountain trail
tour last year, and expects to travel
wo or three times a season from
DOW On.
George Alles was elected presi-
dent; Jim Casterline, vice president;
§Cem Rinken, secretary, and Hulme
JDaron, treasurer.
Daron took movies which will be
sent to the Willys Company in To-
ledo,. Ohio, with permission to use
them in advertising.
Company Asked
To Speed Meters
Dallas Water Company was dir-
ected last week by the Public Util-
ity Commission to make “all reason- |
able efforts” to complete its meter-
ing program as soon as possible.
Commission action followed com-
plaints from a group of consumers
What the company’s metering meth-
ods were discriminatory because
certain ‘users were ‘singled out”
ahead of others.
The Water Company said it ex-
pects to have all consumers in the
Dallas area on. meters by Dec. 31,
1962, but the PUC urged completion
at the “earliest date.”
The commission urged that an
“orderly procedure” of metering all
customers on a given street or area
on a concurrent basis be inaugurated
to avoid unwarranted discrimina-
tion.
Pending completion of the meter-
ing program, the company was
ordered to submit quarterly re-
ports, starting Sept. 30, showing the
number of customers served under
meter rates. The record showed that
as of last Aug. 31 the utility had
624 metered and 403 unmetered
customers.
Meets On Tuesday Night
Jackson Township “School Board
will hold an adjourned meeting for |
the adoption of the Budget at a
meeting Tuesday night, August 8,
at Jackson Township Fire Hall,
1 He is a member of Veterans Foreign
EDWARD BUCKLEY
Edward Buckley was recently elec-
ted Commander of American Legion
Daddow-Isaacs Post No. 672.
Buckley, a member of the Dallas
Post Office staff, entered the serv-
ice in 1945 as a technical sergeant
with Headquarters and Service Co.
78th Combat Engineers, serving in
Puerto Rico, Philippines and Japan.
Other officers elected were James
Davenport, senior vice commander;
Richard Staub, treasurer; William
O’Brien, service officer; Bernard Mc-
Dermott, historian; George Cave,
chaplain; Tom Kame and Richard
Fuller, sergeants at arms.
Commander-elect Buckley appoin-
ted Thomas Reese, adjutant.
Elected to the Board of Directors
of the Post were William O’Brien,
Thomas Reese, Harold Brobst, Wil-
liam Moran and Arthur Garinger.
The newly elected commander has
been a member of the Board of Dir-
! ectors for the last eight years and
is also past president of the Board. |
War Post 283, Kingston, Pa., and
past state chairman of the American
Legion Boy Scout Committee.
Buckley is a graduate of ‘St. Vin-
| cent High School, Plymouth. He
attended University of Pennsylvania,
‘Wharton School of Fimance and
Wilkes College.
The commander-elect is married
| to the former Jean Ritchie of Dallas
and has a son James.
J Installation of officers will be held
October 13 at the Post home.
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Lake Noxen PTA
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Supports School
Executive Board
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Favors Building
Lake-Noxen PTA Executive Board
went solidly on record Monday night
| as supporting the Lake-Lehman
! school building program. Supervis-
| ing principal Lester B. Squier and
assistant Robert Z. Belles were pres-
! ent to explain the program and ans-
| wer questions.
i Mrs. Earl Crispell presided, and
| Mrs. John Culp reported on a recent
program conference. Plans are al-
| ready being laid out for next year’s
activities.
Others in attendance were Mrs]
Carl Newberry, Mrs. Clarence Oberst, |
George M. Stolarick, Mrs, Beulah |
| Bronson, and Mrs, Francis Schenck,
pretty girls.
The Show's 30th season on the
road is being highlighted with such
outstanding circus acts as ‘The
Arias” mid-air marvels of Madrid,
Spain; Gayle DeRiskie of the Whirl-
ing Trapeze; TV's incomparable
“Harold”, the Prince of Waltzing
Steel Wire Artists; Trick Mules and
Clever (Canines; Rajah and His Per-
forming Elephants; Col. Walt Davis
and His “Horses at Liberty”; and
Capt. © Willis with his Educated
Seals, and The Argentinas — Perch
Act. f
Noted as the “Aristocrat of
Spangleland,” the Beers- Barnes
Circus is the oldest circus appear-
ing under canvas. One of the few
on the road which conducts no ad-
vance soliciting promotions of any
kind.
The sponsors, will conduct their
own advance sale of General Ad-
mission Tickets in order to earn a
much higher percentage than that
received at showgrounds, but this
campaign will be handled exclusive-
ly by members of the Jonathan R.
Davis Fire Company.
Harveys Lake Jammed
For the second successive week-
end, Harveys Lake was mobbed Sat-
urday amd Sunday, aceording to re-
ports from Chief, Edgar Hughes.
Bathing beaches were jammed, but
there were no accidents of any' con-
sequence. The entire force arranges
vacation time for months other than
June, July and August. Chief and
Mrs. Hughes expect to get away for
fifteen days the first part of Oct- |
|| exchanged for the fall
ober.
DR. L. E. JORDAN
Dr. L. E. Jordan, 1961 Library
| Auction chairman, has been named
as one of a ten-member Service for
Youth Committee by Rotary Inter-
national. Only one other member
| is from the United States. Members
| were selected on the basis of inter-
est in a specific field of youth act-
ivity.
Member and former president of
| Dallas Rotary Club and District Gov-
| ernor of District 741 representing
seven Northeastern counties, he
| originated and developed the Stud-
{ent Exchange Program during the
| past two years.
{A total of 46 students will be
semester.
Last And Next To Last Graduating
Classes Of Borough Hold Reunion
Classes 1951 and 1950, the last
and next to last to graduate from
Dallas Borough High School en-
joyed a joint reunion July 22 at the
Veterans of Foreign Wars building,
starting with cocktails, ending with
a dinner dance.
Robert Monk and Dr. David
Kunkle were masters of ceremony,
assisted by (Charles Calkins, who
also led devotions. Peter Duda
awarded prizes,
helped make the occasion a success,
including Mrs. Jean DeRemer for
secretarial work, Dr. Kunkle for
starting the reunion ball rolling.
George Schooley, Dr. Kunkle, and |
Charles Calking presented a skit.
‘A prize to the longest married
went to Mr. and Mrs.
Youngblood from Quakertown, who
also won - a prize for the oldest
child. Prize for the youngest child
went to Dr. and Mrs. George Gill.
Mrs. Gill is the former Libby Mec-
Quilkin.
Mauvreen Kelly travelled the far-
and thanks were |
expressed to everybody who had |
Robert |
thest, from Washington, D. C.
Tied for the most children, each
couple. with three, were Mr. and
Mrs. Calkins, Mr. and Mrs. George
Schooley, and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell
Roberts.
Most recently married, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Michel.
. And the baldest, Charles Calkins.
Present, other than those already
mentioned, ‘were: Mr. ‘and Mrs.
James Moore, from Rochester, N.Y;
Robert Bodycomb, Union, N. J;
| Joan Rukstalis; Mr. and Mrs. Peter
{ Duda, Dallas; Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Gill,
Wilmington, Del.; Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Roberts, Bear Creek; Wesley
Broody, Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and Mrs.
| Kenneth Hunter, Dallas; Mr. and
| Mrs. Max Dreher, Campbell, N. Y;
Diane Myers, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Machell, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Pavlick, Lehman; Mr. and
Mrs. ‘Harrison Cook, Dallas.
Appointed to make arrangements
for another reunion five years from
now were Robert Bodycomb and
Frank Pavlick.
Hymn Favorites
In the current hymn poll, entries
already received by the Dallas Post
include “In The Garden,” ‘What A
Friend We Have in Jesus,’ ‘Jesus
Savior Pilot Me”, “Lead Kindly
Light,” and “When I Survey The
Wondrous Cross.”
Tunk. Vs. Nicholson
Tunkhannock will play’ Nicholson
at Tunkhannock tomorrow might
(Friday) at 8:15 uder the lights in
a Susquehanna-Wyoming County
League Game.
Deaf Boy Scout
Heads For Camp
Honor For Fred Stroud
First From Oral School
A Sweet Valley RD lad of sixteen,
resident student at the Oral School
in Scranton since he was four years
old, is representing his school and
the Scranton Tribune at the annual
encampment of Boy Scouts at Cim-
arron, New Mexico, August 5 to
27. This is the first time that a boy
from the School for the Deaf has
been selected for this honor.
Fred Stroud Jr. son of Mr. and
| Mrs. Fred Stroud, Mooretown, won
[ the distinction because of his super-
ior standing in school and his fantas-
tic number of merit badges won in
Boy Scout Troop 31. Businessmen
are collaborating with the Tribune
in financing the 4,500 mile round
trip, new uniforms and equipment,
and the school is supplying pocket
money and incidentals.
Fred, deaf since birth, excells in
mathematics and courses leading to
blue-printing.
Grandparents on both sides live in
this area; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Stroud, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Rinehimer. -
Ruggles Will Report On
Commemorative Bull Run
Back Mountain (Civil War Round-
table will join in a discussion of
First Manassas (Bull Run) at its
next meeting Friday night, August
11th at the Library Annex.
John Ruggles Jr., Kingston, will
begin the program with a report on
the Commemorative “Battle of Man-
assas’”’ held on July 22 and 23.
The public is invited.
Faculty Endorses Program
Lake-Lehman Educators Associa-
tion gave the administration and
school board a vote of confidence,
‘unanimusly endorsing the propsed
building program at a meeting held
| Tuesday evening,
On their way up Dutch Moun- |
Holding the rattler in the picture
tain, twenty-eight jeeps gathered in [is Basil Frantz while George Alles
for the kill on Sunday, when: George | measures his length against the
Alles steered - his . mount over a |blacksnake. In the background is
blacksnake more than six feet long, | Hulme. Daron, along with. Wilkes-
and a three and a half foot rattle- |
snake with nine rattles bit the dust |
when ‘shot with a .38 calibre gun. |
Key people in the summer recre- |
ational program offered by Dallas |
Schools are starting their last month |
of work. The program will end
August 25.
Standing in the foreground are |
these directors: Elaine Kozemchak,
instructor in Arts and Crafts; Joyce
Sweppenheiser, Square Dancing;
Barre detective John Behm and
Andy Victor. v .
Photo by Kozemchak, Jr.
Directors Of Summer Recreational Program
Nancy Hess, Nature Study; Ann
Dorrance, story-telling and public
speaking.
Standing in. the rear, left to right,
are: Charles James, tumbling and
gymnastics; Gary Dietz, athletics;
Robert Dolbear and Edward Bro-
minski, Coordinators.
Photo by Kozemchak
Susan Polachek Follows In Mother's
Footsteps, Turning Out Prize Cake
Following in her mother’s foot-
steps, eight-year old Susan Polachek
last Tuesday was awarded a blue
ribbon for turning out a perfect 4-
H Club layer cake. Mrs. Ruth Dar-
bie, Luzerne County Home-Makers
Extension, instructs members of
the 4-H Clubs of the area in house-
hold arts, but Susan absorbed fine
cookery through her pores by
watching her mother, Mrs. John
Polachek, turn out feathery rolls
and flaky pastry in her own kitchen
at Demunds.
Susan belongs to the 4-H group
which meets with Mrs. James Be-
secker Jr. Before she made the 4-H
Club layer cake, following the
standard recipe in the “Fun to
Bake” handbook, Susan had al-
ready made a birthday cake and
decorated it in her own kitchen
under guidance of her mother,
Mrs. Polachek is considered one
of the very best bakers in the Gate
of Heaven parish turning out wed-
ding cakes, home -baked crusty
loaves, biscuits that threaten to
float away, and the kind of ir-
resistable pastry that leaves dieters
no choice. Mrs. Polachek’s baking
was one of the mainstays of the
former Fiestas presented annually
by Gate of Heaven.
She has a coconut crisp which
she invented herself. And in con-
sequence of having sent im a win-
ning name for a King Midas Flour
bit of baking, she has an electric
teakettle as a prize.
Mrs. Polachek 'is a staunch be-
liever in starting from scratch, not
baking her cakes out of a box. But
she is modern enough to use an
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which hinges upon occupancy of a
fully equipped senior high school
September 6.
Changes are already in progress
at Westmoreland, where structural
modifications have been made to
transform the high school building
to elementary school operation.
{Changes have also been made at
Dallas Junior High School, to con-
vert the former combination junior
high school and elementary school
to junior high school occupancy ex-
clusively.
Residents who have been intrigued
by the plastic bubbles running the
full length of both classroom units,
will be interested to know that a
great deal of light, even on a dark
day, is delivered to halls and class-
rooms.
The building needs only fhe last
little touches, and a clean-up camp-
aign to take care of building equip-
ment which remains in the cafeteria
and other service rooms.
Classrooms await: the furniture.
Outside, planting has been done
to seperate the entrance roads from
the parking area, and large tracts
of field have been graded and seeded.
Roofed-over areas for disembark
ing of students from school buses
give easy access to the Building.
Office staff hoped to move from
present headquarters at Dallas Elem-
entary to the new building this week.
The strike situation interfered.
Woman Injured
In Auto Crash
A 20-year-old Luzerne woman was
injured Thursday when the station
wagon in which she was a passenger
collided with an automobile on.
Route 309 near the Forty-Fort Dairy.
[Stella M. Barber, 80 Mill St., Luz-
erne was treated at Nesbitt Mem-
orial Hospital for bruises of the
right elbow and cheek and injuries of
both knees. She was thrown to the
highway when the front of the stat-
ion wagon flew open as a result of
the collision.
Driver of the station wagon was
identified by Dallas Township Pol-
ice Chief Irwin Coolbaugh as James
Agnew, 15 South Pennsylvania Ave.,
Wilkes-Barre.
The station wagon, owned by the
Salvation Army, was returning from
an outing at Harveys Lake and trav-
eling behind an automobile operated
by Mrs. Leona Stanko, 45 Hughes
St., Luzerne. Police said, the Stanko
car slowed down, suddenly and was
struck by the station wagon.
Mrs. Stanko said & car pulled out
causing her to apply the brakes.
The injured victim was taken to
the hospital by William Frederick,
William Pugh and Arnold Yeust.
‘Assistant Police Chief Pete Lange,
Dallas Township and Kingston, Town-
ship Police Chief Updyke mssisted in"
the investigation.
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