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72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
Oldest Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
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Telephone Numbers
4-5656 OR 4-7676
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Back Mountain To
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Dallas Directors
Adhere To State
Directed Limit
Annual Complication
On Picking Up Pupils
Under Mile And Half
Joseph Simms, Overbrook Road,
stated the case for bus transporta-
tion of eight pupils from his area
Tuesday night, when appearing be- |
fore directors of the Dallas School
District, meeting for the first time i
at the new senior high school.
Mr. Simms said that he realized
" that the State mandated no bus
service - under one and one half
miles, and that his home missed
that requirement by two-tenths of a
mile.
He cited especially the dangerous
condition of Pioneer Avenue during '
winter months at its intersection
with Main Street.
Pupils from Fernbrook, within a
mile of Dallas Borough school, must
traverse that same icy curve, also
any children from Pioneer Avenue. ;
The State law will cancel reim-
bursement for buses unless the let-
ter of the law is lived up to.
The law does not require the chil-
dren to walk. It states.only that
they will not be picked up by
school bus. There is nothing that
prevents parents from forming a car
pool, or from contracting for a pri-
vate bus, as was done during the |
first year of kindergarten in 1951.
Parents from Carverton Road, al- |
so lacking a short distance inquired
if they could arrange payment for
their children for school bus ser-
vice. The answer to this was no, not
in buses’ under ‘ contract to the
schools. Parents must make their
own arrangements.
William "A. A¥stin, elementary
¢ supervisor and chief of transporta- |
tion, explained that the State sets |
the distance between the nearest |
i" point of the school grounds to the'|
" highway, and the entrance of the |
lane or roadway leading to the
portal-to-portal distance. On
other hand, distance is measured |
over the highway, not as the crow |
flies.
There was discussion about pos-
sible extension of Parrish Street to
intersect Overbrook Road, as a
means of relieving pupils of neces-
sity for travelling Pioneer Avenue,
where snow-ploughs block shoulders
and ‘make walking hazardous.
One bright spot in the situation is
that with delayed starting: hours
‘for elementary children, the peak
load of Valley-bound traffic is well
out of the way before children leave
their homes.
Charles Mannear, president, said
that his hands were tied. Dr. Robert
#4 A. Mellman, superintendent, asked
who could determine what children
would be picked ‘up, in an under-
limits area? There has to be a
dividing line, just as there is a
dividing line of age in admission to
first grade and kindergarten,
Parents called attention to current
infractions of the law, in picking up
passengers. Mr. Mannear said that
if such conditions existed, there
would be no more of it.
Dr. Mellman asked for a survey
of the transportation system, by
Harrisburg Department of Instruc-
tion analysts.
Harry Sickler, from Orange, said
he didn’t blame the parents at all
. that Overbrook Road had had | §
transportation last year, that this
year taxes had skyrocketed, and
now transportation was denied.
Jonathan Valentine, solicitor,
called attention to a sharp letter
Your years ago from the State, in
which the district was told to keep |
to the letter of the law, or lose its |
bus. reimbursement. State Police at |
this time were requested to follow |
buses on their rounds and check |
mileage.
Mr. Sickler,
lin Township, said he had personally
checked on arrival of buses = and
every bus was loaded to the gills.
Far from arriving partially empty,
as parents who wished their chil-
dren picked up in areas under the
mandated mileage limit had implied,
they were disgracefully crowded.
IF YOU HAVE A
“FALLOUT SHELTER
LET THE POST KNOW
Ii you have a fall-out shel-
ter, stocked with food and sup-
plies, capable of being lived in
for two. weeks, let the Dallas
Post know.
We will publish names of
people who have taken Civil
Defense directions seriously.
Community
director from Frank- |
Gas and Water
| Company revealed its confidence in |
| Pennsylvania
the growth of the Back Mountain |
{ Community ' Friday night at Irem
| Temple Country Club where it an- |
: | nounced to municipal officers that |
pupil’s home, as the distance, not a | > |
the |
it will immediately embark on an |
| expansion program here, the first
| stages of which will cost $300,000.
Seated from left to right are:
Frank Bennett, P. G. & Ww. Indus- |
Gate Of Heaven
Enrollment 806
Gate of Heaven Parochial School
has a total enrollment of 806 stud-
ents, a few more than were regis-
tered. last year. Gate of Heaven
has eight grades, sixteen classrooms,
a large assembly hall which doubles
as -a cafeteria,
minute kitchen.
Little girls donned their green
jumper uniforms, and little boys
their green trousers and ties last
Tuesday for the-first time this year.
Bus routes cover the entire Back
Mountain, with St, Therese’s parish
and St. Francis Cabrini operating
their own buses.
Commander William O'Brien a-
'wards a framed certificate to Miss | outstanding
| Miriam Lathrop, winner of the an- |
and an up-to-the |
Lead
| trail Engineer; Stephen Hartman,
| Dallas councilman; Austin Line,
Kingston Township Supervisor; La-
| Roy Ziegler, Kingston Township
Burgess . Thomas Morgan,
Rulison Evans,
Pennsylvania Gas and Water Com- |
| pany; Grace Cave, Dallas Council- |
| man; Arthur Smith, Kingston Town-
f ship Supervisor; Howard Risley, Edi
The Wyoming Valley United Fund
today released figures on the num-
ber of services its member agencies
er Wyoming Valley area during
1960.
The report stated that the Fund's
member agencies provided 91,488
services to individuals in the area
covered by the United Fund. These
services covered a wide range of
Human needs from health programs
to service to the aged, to counsel-
ling individuals and families with
problems,
A breakdown of
the
AMERICAN LEGION POST 672 MAKES 2 AWARD S
| munity service, in
contribution
life and development of
recognition for
to
the area
Supervisor; Atty. Mitchell Jenkins; |
Dallas; |
Chairman of the |
Board and Robert Evans, President, |
United Fund Agencies Assisted
4,728 Persons Here During Year
provided to the people of the Great- |
services :
the | orial Library.
ers Hear About Gas Company Plans
Dallas |
Dallas |
tor of The Dallas Post; Thomas E. | B. Jeter, Treasurer of
Vernon, P. G. & W. Gas Engineer (Bor ough; Wilbur Davis,
(whose wife is a candidate for Dal- !
las School Board) Arthur Williams |
P. G. & W. Superintendent; Roger
McShea Jr., P, G. & W. Vice Presi- |
dent-Financial;
Standing left to right: William | Manager The Dallas Post; Robert
| Brace, Dallas Township Supervisor; | Post, Dallas. Councilman; Roy A.
Robert Brown, Secretary Dallas Transue, Real Estate Department
| Borough; Vincent F. Gutendorf, P. G. & & W. Frank J, Petrosky,
1 advertising and Public Relations; W. { Division Sales Manager P. G. & WwW.
Botary Offers
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las Township Supervisor; Harvey H.
| Johnson, Vice President and Chief |
Engineer P. G. & W,;
Foreign Study
| showed that 4,728 people in the| [Dallas Rotary Club anounces that
| Back Mountain area had received | | opportunities to study for a year in
help during 1960. a foreign country will be made avail-
(Services given by the individual {able to outstanding students of Dal-
agencies were as follows: Health |
Agencies: Association for the Blind, !
27; Council for Mentally Retarded, | :
{ 8; Crippled Children tr | Last year five students from this
: 1 93: Hospital {area were chosen and are now in
bi ol Barres shy | Sweden, The Netherlands, Southern
Mercy, Wyoming Valley, 136; Visit- | Rhodesia and The" Philippines.
ing Nurse Associations—Pittston, | ; Juniors and Seniors in high school
Nanticoke, Wyoming Valley 221. (= the upper
Youth and Recreation Agencies: | ahd at least 16 years of age who
. tholic Yout] are interested in applying should
Boy Sous 779: Catholls Youth Cone contact their high school guidance
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| ccunselors
again this year.
| as librarian of Back Mountain Mem- {Ed Buckley a plaque denoting not-
{ Commander William O'Brien re-|ion under his presidency.
a nual Americanism award for com-'over the period of her incumbency 'ceives from incoming Commander |
Councilman; William Retna] Dal- |
Mrs. Louise C. Marks, Adverse i
las and LakedLehman High School |
third of their class |
{able progress of the American Leg-|
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VOL. 73, NO. 37, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961
Legion Honors
Miriam Lathrop
Gives Award For
Community Service
Miss Miriam Lathrop, retiring lib~
rarian of Back Mountain Memorial
Library, was honored by Daddow
Isaacs Post, American Legion, at the
annual Americanism meeting = Fri-
day night.
Commander William O’Brien, in
presenting the plaque to Miss Lath-
rop, noted her outstanding service
to the community as librarian over
the period of years from 1945, when
she first took charge of the infant
library to the present.
He spoke of the rural one-room
schools where she delivered heavy
consolidation closed their doors,
when ecstatic children hailed her
coming with the shout, “Here's the
Library Lady!”
Miss Lathrop, lured to the meet-
ing-on the slim excuse that she was
to receive a book for the Library,
was taken completely by surprise,
not realizing when Commander
O'Brien first started to speak, that
he was staging what amounted to
a “This Is Your Life,” beginning
with her girlhood, when the daugh-
ter of a beloved Springville physic-
ian started a library in her own
home, lending books of her own,
He followed her through her
training at Pennsylvania State Col-
lege tq her eng tenure of office
{in the library at Rutgers, and ex-
{ pressed regret that so dedicated a
member of the
{ Community would be lost to the
area when she retires to Sun City,
{ Arizona,
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in - October.
the evening, also paid tribute to
Miss Lathrop’s selfless service, espec-
ially ‘to the children of the comun-
ity, together with the responsibility
entailed by seeing to it that they
were guided in their reading and
had a wealth of suitable books to
enjoy.
Atty. Fleming stréssed responsi-
bility as the character trait that
must go hand in hand with free-
dom, .if liberty is to be preserved.
If the freedom of the individual
is to be a factor in a changing world,
he maintained, it must be dearly
| bought by duty, and free men must
be eternally on guard against en-
i croachment by forces that could
cancel out all that our forefathers
fought for,
Responsibility and = duty, he
in every public servant, but in every
individual who cherishes the Amer-
ican way of life and abhors the
totalitarian type of government.
Atty. Fleming was introduced by
Thomas Reese.
{ [State and Humanitarion awards
were presented to retiring Comman-
der O’Brien by Edward Buckley,
incoming Commander.
Books were presented to schools
of the area and the library. Rev,
Richard Frank, who gave the bene-
diction, accepted for College Miseri-
cordia and for Gate of Heaven; Miss
Clinton Brobst for Dallas Schools:
Books were presented by William
Moran.
Rev.
Huntsville Christian « Church, gave
the invocation, Commander O'Brien
had charge of" opening ceremonies,
including the Pledge of Allegiance.
Thomas Reese, chairman of Amer-
icanism . Night, thanked his com-
mittee.
At the head table were: Bill
Moran, Past Commander; Ed Buck-
ley, Commander Elect, Bill O’Brien
Commander; Atty. Robert Fleming,
Dick Staub,Rev. Frick and’ Father
Frank.
Dick Staub presented National,
State and District awards to O’Brien
for increased membership over a
five-year period, Ed Buckley pre-
{ sented the Humanitarian Award
which the Post won in competition
with 940 American Legion posts.
Mr. Buckley also presented a check
to Mrs. Nelson Thompson for: sup-
port of Dr.
Company, and Dallas Community
Ambulanee,
Mr. Moran gave to Miss Lathrop
a complete set of yearbooks cover-
ling all issues put out
| classes at Dallas « Borough High
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boxes of books in the days before |
stressed, are all important not only |
Lathrop for Back Mountain Library; |
Charles H. Frick, pastor of |
Henry M. Laing Fire |
Atty. Robert Fleming, speaker of |
> “| Crory chain for thirteen years.
y senior
| wife and
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i three, and Vicki,
ave Natural Gas This Fall
Penna. Gas & Water Co. Begins
Building Regulator-Meter Station
Lines Will Run East and West From
Natona To 42nd St. and Shavertown
For the first time in its hi
will ‘have natural gas this fall.
istory the Back Mountain area
Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company, upon approval by
the Federal Power Commission, will introduce natural gas.
Plans have been ‘completed and contracts let fori the construc-
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Back Mountain
Will Construct
New Building
Finer, Better Store
Will Replace One
Destroyed By Fire
A more modern and more beaut-
iful store will arise Phoenix-like out
of the ashes of the Back Mountain
Lumber and Coal Company store
which was totally destroyed early
last Thursday morning in Shaver-
town’s biggest and most costly fire.
This announcement was made
yesterday by Granville Sowden,
general manager and member of
the Lumber Company firm,
Mr. Sowden said work will start
as soon as possible on a new
one-story concrete block and steel
structure with brick veneer front.
The new store will be “more mod-
ern, more efficient, more beautiful
and better in every respect.” It will
have a frontage of 85 feet along
Memorial Highway and a depth of
135. This is 40 feet longer than |
the former hiding. :
Mr; Sowdén said ‘one of the main
FAR | considerations was the kindness and
ac ountain |
concern of the people of the Back |
Mountain ‘region during the hours
immediately following the disaster.
“They were wonderful! “The fire- |
men, the police, everybody did a
magnificant job and their sympa- |
thetic understanding deeply moved
me.”
“Then, too,” he added, “we have |
22 loyal employees whom we must |
look out for and who want to keep |
their jobs and continue to live in!
this Back Mountain country.”
Mr. Sowden said it will be im-
possible to complete the new store
before Christmas but the firm’ will
continue- to supply the needs of
its customers through'its temporary
offices and store in the lumber yard
which was untouched by the fire.
“We will stock hardware, paints,
and builders supplies as well as
many other items”
More than 250 volunteer firemen
from nineteen Back Mountain and
Wyoming Valley companies fought
the stubborn $250,000 blaze for
several hours after its discovery
shortly after 2 a.m. .in the rear of
the lumber company building,
But the fire had such headway
that nothing could be done except
to prevent spread of the fire to
adjacent properties. Companies were
on hand immediately and there was
ample water supply. No professional
companies could have done better.
Absence of any breeze was a God-
send to the hardworking firemen.
Bank Destroyed
For a time it was believed that
the adjacent Back Mountain Branch
of Wyoming National Bank might be
saved,” but flames slowly ate their
way through the roof rafters and
the structure was completely des-
troyed by late morning,
Bank officials were immediately
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Boyer Manages
McCrory Store
Comes Here From
Monongehela Store
Robert M. Boyer has been named
manager of the McCrory Store in
Back Mountain Shopping Center,
succeeding Thomas Hobbs who has
been promoted to a McCrory store
in Lancaster,
A native of DuBois, Mr. Boyer
comes « here from Monongehela
where he was store manager, pre-
viously having been an assistant
manager at Martinsburg, West Va.
He has had three years army
service and has been with the Mec-
He is living at Dallas Motel until
he can find a home: here for his
two children: Bradley,
three months.
» tion of a regulator and meter sta-
tion near Natona Mills and also the
laying of more than five miles
of pipelines at a cost of $200,000
to $300,000 in certain sections of
the Back Mountain area for gas
service to residential, commercial
and industrial customers, it was
announced by Robert .R. Evans,
President of the wtility.
The utility will receive its natural
gas for the area from the Trans-
continental Gas Pipeline ‘Corpor-
ation. Transcontinental’s line passes
through Dallas Borough and Dallas
Township and Pennsylvania Gas and
Water Company will erect its regu-
lator and mefering station just
West of Natona Mills on Memorial
Highway.
Mr. Evans stated that the Penn-
sylvania Gas and Water Company
pipelines ‘will be laid west and
southeast along Memorial Highway
to a point where it intersects with
309 close by the new A&P Market.
‘After ‘the proposed new highway
construction eastward is completed,
the Company will most likely ex-
tend its lines further in that dir-
ection. From opposite the A&P
Market, a pipeline will’ extend to
Pioneer Avenue, then somsgheast to
Center Street in Kingston Township,
and thence continuing to the Back
Mountain Shopping Center at Sha- te
Lvertown, PR
| Immediate’ plans on what the
| Company terms Phase No. 1 of the
project. also include extension of
service facilities to Elmcrest Drive
and College Manor, and also being
considered at the present time is
| the laying of a pipeline west on
Route 415 to what is known as
| the Haddonfield Heights Subdivision
{ with lines running to the new
| housing developments in that par-
| ticular area.
An expansion program has been
adopted by the Company with the
continuing extension of natural gas
pipelines and service facilities in the
area. Where the area demand is
greatest, priority will be given to
that section.
Mr. Evans disclosed, “It has been
the experience of the Company and
its Industrial Development Depart-
ment that the availability of natural
gas for industry’s usage i a most
important and deciding fafor in
many instances for determining new
plant location”.
Anticipating this program, the
Company at the present time is
supplying propane gas to consumers
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Firemen Plan
New Building
Kunkle Structure
To House Equipment
In order to more adequately
house its equipment and to increase
its social facilities for its increasing
membership, Harry Smith Fire
Company will construct another
building on. its lot at Kunkle.
The one-story. concrete block
Structure will be 35 x 44 and will
be constructed adjacent to the pres-
ent building. It will. be used for
equipment only and. the present
building will be devoted entirely
to recreational, social and business
functions. ‘
Plans for the new structure are
available from Fred Dodson. Those
who might like to bid on the con-
struction can obtain them from him.
Sealed bids will be received until
Friday September 29 at 8.
Among the members who attend-
ed the Firemen’s Convention at
West Pittston over the weekend
were:; Allen Brace, William Brace,
Jr., Arthur Trenennick, Stanley
Gardner and Austin Wertman.
The company had one piece of
equipment, the antique fire-engine
in the parade. It was manned by
Austin, Wertman, Harry Hilbert, Ro-
land Spencer and Russell Spencer,
Members of the solicitation com-
mittee are mow picking up the
cards in the annual financial drive
and will make ther report this
Friday night. Those who have cards
and who have not been called on
can turn them in at that time.