~ 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain ) FRA THE DALLAS POST TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers ORchard .4-5656 OR 4.7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY—SIXTEEN PAGES Misericordia Home-Coming Next Week End Mrs. Willard Garey, New Secretary, Will Direct Activities College Misericordia alumnae from all parts of the United States will return to Dallas on September 8, 9, and 10 for their annual Homecom- ing Weekend. MRS. WILLARD L. GAREY Mrs. Willard Garey of Maple Hills, ! Lehman, will direct Weekend activ- ities in’ her mew post as Executive Secretary of the College Misericor- dia Alumnae Association. She suc- ceeds Miss Kathleen Piazzi who will leave Misericordia today for grad- uate work at University of Pennsyl- vania after four years as Executive Secretary. Mrs. Garey is the immediate past president of the Alumnae Associ tion. She is a member of the Dal- lag Senior Women’s Club, Wyoming Valley Girl Scout Council, and is past president of the Altar and Ros- ary Society of St. Therese’s Church in- Shavertown. She has been a substitute teacher in the Dallas and : Lake-Lehman Schools. Academic and social activities will | share the spotlight®in “their sched- uled Weekend activities. On Satur- \ day, Septembér 9, alumnae will re- turn to the classroom as ‘students’ | once again.' They will hear a lecture | on “Contemporary Problems in Int- | ernational Rélations” by Dr. Robert | J. Alexander, a member of College | Misericordia graduate program fac- ulty.. . Following Dr. Alexander's lecture, Misericordia alumnae will hear a panel presentation on ‘‘Misconcep- tions of the Law’ by four Wilkes- Barre lawyers. The lectures are in | keeping with an emphasis on contin- | uing edsication in the College Miseri- cordia Alumnae Association. Other features of the Homecoming | Weekend will be the annual meet- | Sy | ing of the association, a Homecom- | ing luncheon, a reception with Mis- ericordia’s president and faculty, the annual dinner honoring reunion classes, and a Mass in the college | chapel followed by a Communion | Breakfast. | Civil Defense Forum Sept. 14 This meeting could be responsible | for saving your life! World tension | as it is today everyoné owes it to | himself to be prepared. A Deputy Director of Local civil | defense, Stefan Hellersperk, an- | nounced that a Civil Defense Forum | to. be held September 14, in Dal- | las High School Auditorium will give the public an opportunity to ask | questions on Civil Defense experts. | The program will begin at 8 with | informal talks by Colonel Leon ! Beisel, instructor in survival service | for Luzerne County; Nicholas H. | Souchik, administrator of Civil De- fense in the County, and Dr. Jay | Young, professor of chemistry at | King’s College. | The talks, will be limited to fif- | teen minutes each and will be fol- | lowed by a discussion period. —————— | Clubs Planning Joint Dinner | | | | { | clubs will hold a joint club dinner | at 6:30 September 13 at Trem | Temple Country Club. This is the | first step in forming a permanent | inter-service club council and an annual joint dinner. The proposed council would con- | sist of representatives from the | three service clubs and would en- | courage their joint co-operation and | progressive leadership in communi- | ty affairs. Alfred H. Ackerson, secretary of Dallas Kiwanis Club, is chairman of | and arrangements for the dinner will be assisted by Merton Jones, Rotary; Richard O. Myers, Lions secretary; president; James Alexander, Rotary | to find replacements for 34 members | that group who, Fatuniey in | president; and James’ C. Thomas, Hous president. Is Newly Formed | at College Misericordia. | officers and formulate by-laws, ac- | abeth, RSM, temporary chairman. | district. A discussion period and cof- | fee hour will follow. | nominating committee: Joseph Mar- | tin, | considered then the possibility of | such an organization, | tional Reading Asociation, Dr. Mary | C. Austin, Harvard University, who Pa | band will be seen on a national | television hook up, and forty-four | pp otich. She io cartifiod to. teach | SPECIAL NOTICE |. Fy oN ew Teachers Employed «By Dallas School District The office of the Dallas Post, closed Saturdays during the summer months, will be open for business from 9 a. m. to 12 noon, starting the Saturday after Labor Day, September 9. Frank Oatridge Is Recovering Lad Was Injured On Bicycle Trip Eight-year-old Frank Oatridge, Jr., Maplecrest, Trucksville is up and around his home following a bicycle accident on Bunker Hill which cost him a brain concussion and hemorrhage. behind one eye. Frank remained in semi-conscious state after the accident, August 7, and did not recognize his parents until the fourth day. Doctors have ordered him to stay quiet, a real chore for the active eight-year-old, and have not yet given the go ahead to start school on schedule. There is no apparent damage, and Mrs. Oatridge “we feel very fortunate.” Mrs. Oatridge added that her son went for his first long bike ride, with a thirteen-year-old girl. The girl was traveling ahead and did not see the mishap. ‘I guess the cause will always be a mystery,” Mrs. Oatridge said. The ‘boy was taken to Dr. Cromp- ton’s office by a passing motorist and was admitted to the hospital half an hour after his’ mother had last seen him, Reading Council brain said, Officers y Be Elected On Tuesday Luzerne County Council of the International Reading Association will meet Tuesday evening at 7:15 The newly formed group will elect cording to Sister M. Celestine Eliz- The first formal meeting of the Council will be followed by a prog- ram in Regina Hall. Participating in a discussion “of réading in the kindergarten and its relationship to | the first grade program will be Sister M. Noreen, RSM, St. Aloysius | School, Wilkes-Barre, and Mrs. Mar- tha Gormley, Hazleton Public School The slate of candidates for new offices will be presented by the supervising principal, Luzerne; | Miss Helen Watters, Wilkes-Barre | city schools; and Mrs. William Ken- nedy, Gate of Heaven School. The Council is a direct outcome of the College Reading Conference | held last April. Interested persons inspired by the past president of the Interna- was principal speaker at the Confer- ence. . In May several educators and interested lay folk gathered to begin organization. Sister Catherine Eliz- abeth, Chairman of the Elementary Department, College ~ Misericordia, was named temporary chairman, and Joseph W. Fenstemacher, founder | and director of the College Miseri- | cordia Educational and Guidance | Clinic, was named temporary Secre- tary-Treasurer. Forty Million ‘Will See Band Lake-Lehman High School Band, 120 strong, will give a nationally televised performance of precision marching at the Philadelphia Eagles | - Cleveland Browns National Foot- | ball League game in Franklin Field, Philadelphia September 17. That day ‘several thousand fans from Wyoming Valley will present car to Swoyersville's Walt Michaels, a oy star with the Browns. This is the first time that a local | million fans are expected to tune | | in. The Lake-Lehman bandsmen will” { play for five minutes before the | | dia, participated in the following | Dallas Kiwanis, Lions, and Rotary | game and for seventeen and a half | | activities: Tri Sigma Sorority, minutes at half time. In' order to get ready for the | Philadelphia performance, the musi- cians have been going through their | paces on the Lake-Lehman football | | field each night. Many townspeople | | have come by to watch, and the | headlights from their cars parked | around the field provide the] illumination to keep the practices | going until 9. . Earlier this year the band copped honors in the AA class at the Sher- | burne Pageant in New York. It] | picked up a pair of trophies, for MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A ConMuUNITY INSTITUTION MRS. LEILA GERHART ANSKIS ALAN DAVENPORT HUSBAND WILLIAM E. PRICE New teachers at Dallas Schools seven men and nine women, who will be allocated throughout ‘the school system. They are William E. Price, Miss Teresa Rakus, Miss Richards, Mrs. Ruth Mercedes Vos- { burgh Fossedal, Arthur D. Hontz, Alan Davenport Husband, Leonard Kozick, Mrs. Lena Misson Moore, Louis Joseph Palermo, Mrs. Leila Gerhart Anskis, Mrs. Carol A. Diehle, Miss Emma Elizabeth Engler, John K. Thomas, Mrs. Sarah Hart Welker, Mrs. Manta Ruth Steele, and Gerald J. Stinson. Of the sixteen, four pictures are unavailable, those of Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Welker, Miss Rakus, and Mrs. | Diehle. Mrs. Leila (Gerhart Anskis, R. D. 1, Centre Hal, was graduated from Bloomsburg State College with al major in Elementary Education. She ‘is certified to teach Kindergarten and all grades of the elementary | full-time substitute during the past | school year. curriculum. Mrs. Anskis was active in the Bloomsburg ‘College ‘“B” Club, the Women’s Athletic Club, Community Government Association, Pep Com- mittee, Student Christian Associa- tion, and the Pennsylvania Student Education Association. Mrs. Anskis will teach Kinder- garten in the Westmoreland Elem- entary School. Miss Emma Elizabeth Engler, Rear 37 Carverton Road, Trucks- ville, graduated from ‘College Miseri- cordia, Dallas, with a major in Secretarial Science and a minor in business subjects and English. Miss Engler, while at Misericor- | Stu- | dent Pennsylvania State Education| Association, Student National Educa- tion Association, Athletic Associa- | | tion, and varsity basketball. Miss Engler graduated from West- | moreland High School and was a! | member of the band, orchestra, chor- | us, newspaper club, girls’ basketball | | team, and the church youth group. Miss Engler | Education subjects in the Dallas | Senior High School. ‘Mrs. Ruth Mercedes Vosburgh Fossedal, 15 Baldwin Street, Dallas, | first place in the marching and third graduated from Beloit College, Wis- place in the concert divisions John | consin, Robert Maturi, Kiwanis Miliauskas, band director, is trying | and Government and a minor in| | Newman Club, Dorm Men Associa= fi Asedaled. Women, : Hn with a major ‘in’ Spanish | Social Studies.- | 5 Mrs. Fossedal was gocrolary of the : Sttdonss and MISS EMMA ELIZABETH ENGLER MRS. RUTH M. V. FOSSEDAL ARTHUR D. HONTZ LEONARD KOZICK MISS JUDITH ANN RICHARDS Vice-President of Mortar while a student at Beloit. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Sig- ma Jota, and Delta Delta Delta, Col- | lege Players, and the Y.W.C.A. Judith Ann | Mrs. Fossedal taught in Baltimore County, Maryland, Irvington, N. J., and Williamsport public schools. Mrs. Fossedal will teach Social Studies in the Dallas Junior High ‘School. Arthur 'D. Hontz, R. D. 1, Shick- shinny, was graduated from Wilkes College with a major in Business Education and a minor in Social Studies. ‘While at Wilkes, Mr. Hontz was active in thé Education Club, the Student National Education Associ-! tion, and the Student Pennsylvania State Education Association. He has been continuing his graduate prog- ram at Bloomsburg State College. Mr. Hontz has been employed by the Dallas School District as a He will teach Business Education at the Dallas Senior High School. Mr. Hontz was recently married | to the former Hanoy Bonham from | Askam. Alan Davenport Husband, 57 N. { Welles Avenue, Kingston, graduated | from Millersville State College with majors in Biological Science and Social Studies. He is certified to will teach Business | teach both subjects in the secondary |'schools. | Mr. Husband was a member of | the varsity wrestling team at Mil- lersville. While a student at King- | ston High School, he was active in | wrestling, track, Key Club, Pi Delta, | Engineering Club, Hi-Y, Spanish [Club Stardust Revue, and the Stu- dent Council. Mr. Husband taught for three years in the Kingston High School. | He will teach Biology and serve as Head Wrestling Coach at Dallas Senior High School. “Leonard Kozick,R. D. 3, Dallas, graduated from Bloomsburg State College with a major in Social Stud- ies and a minor in Geography. He |is certified to teach both sub- | jects in the secondary schools. While at Bloomsburg, Mr. Kozick played varsity basketball and was a member of the Future Teachers lof America, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Lion. and the Varsity Club. Mr. Kozick graduated from Dallas- rankln Toutes High School od a a2 tA ES a Board | | {| Harveys MRS. LENA MISSON MOORE MRS. MANTA RUTH STEELE was outstanding in varsity and intra- mural sports. He was lieutenant governor of the Key Club and was a member of the minstrel show. Mr. Kozick will teach Geography at the Dallas Junior High School. Mrs. Lena Misson Moore,” 539-A, Lake, graduated from Wilkes College with majors in Math- ematices and Science, and minors in English and (Social Studies. She is certified to teach all four sub- jects in the secondary schools: While at Wilkes, Mrs. Moore served as chairman of the Assembly Committee and was active in the Education (Club and Theta Delta Rho. Mrs. Moore taught Mathematics for one year in the Metuchen, N. J. High School and three years in the Mt. View High School, Kingsley- She will teach Mathematics at the Dallas Junior High School. Louis. Joseph Palermo, 69 Am- herst Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, gradu- ated from Bloomsburg State College with a major in Science. He lis cért- ified to teach all science subjects in the secondary schools.. In addition to serving on numer- ous committees while at college, Mr. Palermo was a member of the Sci- ence Club, Men’s Resident Council, Aviation Club, and =the Election Board. He played football, baseball and basketball and served as life guard at the college pool. While a student at Meyers High School, Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Palermo participated in varsity basketball, football, member of the gym team, the M Club, Student Council, the Biology Club, and the Life Saving Club. Mr. Palermo will teach science subjects at the Dallas Senior High School and wil be an assistant coach in football and wrestling. % William E. Price, R. D. 1, North Lake, Sweet Valley, graduated from Bloomsburg State ‘College with a major in Social Studies and a minor in ‘English. He is certified to teach | both subjects ‘in the secondary | schools. and wrestling. He was a! ; pn | from King’s College with a major in LOUIS JOSEPH PALERMO GERALD J. STINSON School, Miss Judith Ann Richards, R. D. 8, Wyoming, graduated from Bucknell University with majors in English and Mathematics. She is certified to teach both subjects in the second- ary schools. Miss Richards was active in the following activities while at Buck- nell: Government-House Council, Cap and Dagger Society, Theta Alpha Phi, Alpha Phi, Mixed Chorus, and the Christian Association. Miss Richards graduated from Westmoreland High School and was a member of the newspaper staff, the Junior Class Play, and the Chor- us. Miss Richards will teach English ‘at Dallas Junior High School. Mrs. Manta Ruth Steele, Lohman Street, Trucksville, graduated from the State Teachers’ College at Bloomsburg and is now maticulated at (College Misericordia. She is cert- ified in the subjects of the Elem- entary curriculum. Mrs. Steele has been a resident of the Jarverton Road section for many years, and has been employed as a full-time teacher in the Dallas Elementary School during the past school year. Mrs. Steele’s son, Howard, is a Senior at the Dallas Senior High School. Mrs. Steele will teach third grade in the Dallas Elementary School. Gerald J. Stinson, 15 Magnolia Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, graduated Social Studies and a minor in Eng- lish. He is certified to teach both, subjects in the secondary schools. While at King's, Mr. Stinson was a member of the Herodatan Club and participated in basketball and base- ball. Mr. Stinson graduated from St. Nicholas High School, Wilkes-Barre and was a member of the varsity | baseball and basketball teams, the Glee Club, and the cast of the Sen- [ior Play. Mr. Stinson ~~ will teach Social Mr. Price was a member of the | Studies at the Dallas Senior High college newspaper staff, Student | N.E. A. and P. S. E. A, and partic- | ipated in rir basketball and foot- | ball. - Mr. Price is a graduate of Lake- I! Mrs. { School. MRS. CAROL A. DIEHLE (no picture available) Carol A. ‘Diechle, R- D:. 3, Lehman High School, where he par- | | Wyoming, graduated from the Drex- ticipated in varsity basketball and | football. : : ; Mr. Price will teach English and Social Studies at the Junior High! - | el Institute of Technology, Philadel- | phia, with a major in home Econ- 3 (Continued on Page 8 A) : ee as IRE VOL. 73, NO. 35, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, To61 Lake-Lehman Board Reluctantly Cuts $89,000 From New School Vote 17 ! 1 To Carry Case To Supreme Court If Building Program Continues To Be Held Up N° COLLEGE STUDENTS PRODUCE THIS ISSUE This issue of the Dallas Post was largely produced by the following college students: Jon Greenwald, Princeton Univer- sity sophomore, son of Atty. and Mrs. Henry Greenwald of Kingston; Betsy Mulcey, Penn- sylvania State University sen- ior,, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mulcey, Overbrook Ave- nue; Grace Ann Bachman, Penn State University sophomore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert Bachman, Dallas, and Rob- in Kadison, Wyoming Seminar junior, Forty Fort. They sparked the office while Mrs. Hicks was on vacation, Mystery Shrouds Sudden Death Of Arthur W. Parks Kunkle Man Found Dying In His Car Parked Near Tavern Arthur W. Parks, 39, a resident of Beaumont for fourteen years, was buried in Orcutt Cemetery, Noxen, following services from Nulton Fu- neral Home Tuesday at 2 p.m. Rev. L. E Peterson, Baptist Church, Beaumont, officiated and Harvey’s [Lake American Legion Post No. 967 conducted military ser- vices at the grave. Parks was pronounced dead of a cerebral hemorrhage late Friday by Deputy Coroner Bryce Sheldon. The victim had left home Thursday evening in good health apparently to spend the nightat a cabin with some friends. He was ‘found, a bit drowsy but conscious, in his car near Mason's Villa, Kunkle, Friday morning by A. C. Mason, The latter was leaving for work and advised Parks to re- turn home. Ha said, he would leave shortly but was found unconscious in the car by: employees of Mason's Villa later that afternoon. The victim was taken to his home where Dr. Walter Mokychic, Noxen, and, the coroner examined the body about fifteen minutes later. It ap- peared the man had been ' dead about six hours, the doctor said. Parks had been scratched some time ago by his collie which may have been rabid, according to re- ports. There is no evidence at pre- sent that this had any connection with the death. A post-mortem in- vestigation is being made. Joseph Fischer, Paul Kleclkner, and Louis Pizzo of State Police Bureau: of Criminal Investigation examined details of the death. A native of Benton, Mr. Parks was the son of the late John F. and Elizabeth Walker Park. He was employed by the Hulbert Forwarding 'Company, Buffalo, N.Y., the past 10 years. He was a member of the Christian Church of Benton; American Legion of Harveys Lake; Rod and Gun Club of Harveys Lake, and Kunkle Volunteer Fire Com- pany. During World War 2, Mr. Parks served with the 759th Military Pol- ice Battalion and saw overseas duty in Rome, France and Central Eur- ope. Surviving are his wife, the former Jane Herdman of Beaumont; two sons, Arthur, Jr., and Cragg, at home; brother, John (Jack) Parks. Benton RD 3; sisters, Mrs. Margaret Weiss and Mrs. Max Young, both of Dallas’ RD 3; Mrs. Oliver Brownell, Postenkill, N. Y.; Mrs. Lloyd Hughey, Middletown, Pa. Notice To Parents Dallas School Administration re- quests that parents of kindergarten children accompany them to and from Westmoreland Elementary Building Wednesday, first day of school, any time from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Automobiles should be parked on the athletic field in back of the building entering at the opposite end of the field from the building. Allabaugh Improves Harold Allabaugh, Monroe Ave. Dallas, is improving at General Hos- pital after submitting to surgery last week: Friends may send cards to Room 2358. The Lake-Lehman Joint School | Board voted 16-2 Monday night to shave 89,000 from their building program bond issue in order to avoid an injunction which could i im- peril plans for the proposed new school. - Attorney Lewis Crisman advised the Board that Judge Thomas Lewis would refuse the injunction, ‘which is being sought by a taxpayers’ as- ot sociation, if the bond issue could be $2,000,000. The reductions adopted at Monday’s meeting lowered the: total to $1,999,000. There was strong opposition to cutting the bond issue, however, and several members voted in the affirmative only because they feared to lose the whole program. In a further action the School Board resolved 17-1 that if Judge Lewis should grant the injunction, the case would be caried to the Supreme Court in the original amont of $2,088,000. the original amount of $2,088,000. In attacking the reduction Wik lard Sutton, member from Lake Township, said that the money | would have to be spent at a later date. Noting that the revised esti- mates caled for asbestos rather than vinyl tile to be used in the high school project, he said that main- tenance would eventually cost five times the amount of the sum sup- posedly saved. ; %% He also noted that the reductions ] would eliminate a planned on i second boiler for the Lake School and said that this meant the school would have to be closed if the one boiler gives out during the winter as it has done in the past. When he complained that no money would be spent to repair the badly weathered outside of the Lake building, several members of the audience of fifteen murmered that the inside was in even worse shape. “It’s like going out and buying | all new clothes and then never tak- ing a bath,” Mr. Sutton character- ized the reductions. Bob Rodgers of the Lake Town~ ship district complained that the Board's action was “penny wise and dellar foolish.” As the! meeting adjourned several member: grumbicd “I hope we're going to the Supreme Court. : Supervising Principal Lester B. Squier said that the cuts still left the building program 95% intact. Most of the rejected items were in the physical edcation and health programs and in maintenance. ed Largest cut was $11,200 for a bus loading cover in the high school project. $10,500 was dropped for bleachers at the athletic field and $10,000 earmarked for a gym par- tition in the high school was also cut. Other large items killed by the Board’s action include $7,400 for paving at the Lake Township build- ing, $6,000 for the Lake School's second boiler, $5,576 for roadway lighting, 6,800 for a parking lot, and $5,400 for vinyl tile on the high school project. Youth Is Arrested A seventeen year old Courtdale youth, who had stolen & car in Kingston, was arrested Sunday at Sandy Beach, Harvey's Lake, by Police Chief Edgar Hughes. ’ Chief Hughes found the boy, Robert Connole of 268 Courtdale Avenue, breaking into cars parked at the beach and removing wallets from the glove compartments. Upon investigation, it was dis- covered that Connole had stolen a car belonging to Frank Langan of 70 Academy Street, Wilkes-Barre, from in front of O'Connell's Kings- ton House Saturday. Ae Connole, who is oh parole from b Kis Lyn, was turned over to Kings- ton Police and is in the Luzerne County jail. - Army Convoy Stops Motorists last Thursday were sur~ = prised. to see a convoy of fifteen army trucks and jeeps parked alongside the roadway, but they were even more surprised when they saw soldiers walking away from Kibbler's Fruit Stand with bushel baskets of peaches. - The mystery is easily explained. The convoy, on its way to Wilkes- = Barre on a hot summer day, pulled off the road for a short -rest, and the soldiers, spotting the peaches for sale, decided the ride to town in the heat would be more bearable with a little fruit to eat. Surplus Food To Be Distributed At Trucksville Instead Of Dallas The Luzerne County Surplus Food Department will distribute | food commodities to needy families in the Back Mountain area at the | Trucksville Fire House from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, September 14. but few families in Dallas made use = of the program. This was sug- gested by Dallas Burgess Thomas Morgan as a possible reason for the . | switch. As in the past it is necessary for. & The Borough Building in Dallas | persons receiving surplus food to had previously served as ‘the site | bring boxes and _paper containers for dog, Gisirlngtion, in the aren, to loose gt A - Eanes Fah
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