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Editorially Speaking:..
rn NOW IS THE TIME
If there was ever an opportunity for the planned
development of the commercial and cultural center of
‘Kingston Township, Dallas Borough and Dallas Township,
it is now.
‘Not only will the new Luzerne-Dallas Highway re-
move all the unsightly billboards that have marred the
beauty of the area, it will also remove practically all
business places from Blazes Stone House on the Big Curve
to Hall’s Drug Store at Center Street, Shavertown. An
-almost equal number of properties will be removed on
the other side of the road from Bulford’s Farm Supply
Store to Howard Isaacs Display Room and then from the
:Isaacs’ Property to Back Mountain Shopping Center
there will remain only two or three isolated business pro-
Jperties. The good and the bad will go.
Picture this, if you can, and you will wonder what
is to become of the shoemaker, the nurseryman, the ser-
Vice station operator, the beverage distributor, the lawn-
mower repair man, the television service man, the sport-
ing goods merchant, and the produce dealer. These ser-
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vices will be gone and there will be no place for them"
‘to locate between Dallas and Luzerne, for the State High- Si
way Department is not buying frontage alone. It i is. buying
‘complete properties to their rear lines.
This exodus may create a flurry of interest in’ the:
vacant business properties on Main ‘Street, Dallas; but
Dallag cannot accommodate the number of business places
that are required to service our expanding ‘population.
Neither can ‘the Back Mountain and Dallas Shopping
Centers.
service clubs, municipal governing bodies, businessmen
and all others interested in the future development and
beauty of this community, get together around a dinner
table with members of Luzerne County Planning Com-
mission and do some hard, fast and constructive thinking
preparatory toward making this not only the most beau-
tiful but one of the best suburban communities in Penn-
sylvania. |
Six months from now will be too late!
~ We need a central municipal building, sonsolidated
police. force, unified street department, community build-
ing and the library in a new centrally located building.
We need an adequate and attractive commercial center
for small and large businesses. :
#* This ig our opportunity to prove that we can do
Zs ings in a really big way not at excessive cost!
What is required now is that representatives of our
CASTERLINE REUNION
The ‘annual family reunion of the
SAFETY VALVE
George E. Casterline family was held
August 27, at the family homestead
on Carpenter Road, Harvey's Lake.
Games and entertainment fol-
lowed a fried chicken and baked
ham dinner:
Attending were: Mr.
Claude, Lapp, Sr., Cassie, Tommy
and John, Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Lapp, Jr., Chris, Mike and Donna,
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood McKenna,
Joan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard McKen-
na, Carol, all of Bethesda, Md.;
Shirley Lawrence, Timmy O'Brian,
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Barbara
Haynes, Baltimore, Md:; Mr. and
Mrs, Albert London, Judy Van Cam-
pen, Mrs. Steve Tomari, Rahway,
N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. William Caster-
line, Thomas Coburn Sr., John
Van Campen, John, Jr., Mrs. Fred
Evans, all of Harvey's Lake; Mrs.
Margaret Chesko, Cassie, Jimmie,
Montrose; Mr. and Mrs, James Bar-
rall, children, Sandra, Jimmy, Billy,
Chase; Raymond G. Malkemes, Ray,
Jr.,. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mal-
kemes and Charles, and James
Malkemes, Shavertown; James Cas-
terline, Bobby, Doris Casterline, Mr.
and Mrs, James Lee Casterline and
children, Sherry and James, Sr.
Laketon; Mrs, Joshua Ferry, son,
Albert, Sweet Valley; guest of honor,
George Casterline, Harvey's Lake.
and Mrs.
Protective Assoc. Tonight
Back Mountain Protective Associ~
ation will meet tonight at 8 in the
Library Annex, to digosae taxes and
Sum, | i
SHOW WAS SUCCESS
Dear Sirs:
I should like to extend the sin-
cere thanks of Mrs. C. Welles Belin,
Chairman, and the members of her
committees, for the fine publicity
you gave the 18th Annual Antique
Show and Sale, held recently at
the Waverly Community House.
Our attendances were good -—
the Show and Sale was a success!
We are most grateful for your
cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
Mary Fornwald
(Mrs. William L. Fornwald)
Chairman - Newspaper Publicity
Stanton Repaces Wade
Warren Stanton was elected serg-
eant-of-arms of Dallas Rotary Club,
replacing Robert Wade, who has
sent his resignation from Chicago.
‘school.
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
ir aPPENED 3() YEARS Aco:
Simeon Lewis, almost ‘97 years
old, died at the home of his son,
L. N- Lewis at Pikes Creek.
A site suitable for a college for
men was being sought in the area.
Interested parties were scouting
around for land suitable for erection
of a local hospital.
Randolph . Field in Texas was
being readied for the new Air Corps
Training Center, with 200 students
expected by November 2, including
1st Lt. John P. Kirkendall.
Game Protectors made the annual
plea to well-meaning rescuers of
wild life: Leave the fawn in the
woods, its mother is nearby-
Dallas-Shavertown Water Com-
pany drilled a new well in Shaver-
town, the fourth and largest in that
‘area. ;
Kingston Township School Board
was’ in: the doghouse at the Dallas
Post, for withholding legal advertis-
ing from its pages, following a news
story and editorials on handling of
the Howell insurance compensation
case.
Food prices were following the
depression, lower and lower.
Kingston Township school direct-
ors voted to float a bond issue for
construction of a new high school,
increasing indebtedness from $23,-
800 to $108,000.
rr HappENED 2) YEARS AGO:
Two Christmas letters mailed by
Mrs. George Sawyer, one to Ver-
sailles and one to Orleans, were
returned to Dallas. Mail service to
the two cities in occupied France
had been suspended:
Claude Cooke of Fernbrook in-
| herited a sweet-running 1912 Ford
Phaeton with only 7,000 miles on the
speedometer from an aunt, with
enough Prestolite to keep the lights
ruining for a long time. Latest
report was that Claude was figuring
out a self-starting system and trying
to eliminate cranking. Bought two
new tires from Sears Roebuck.
Contractors were using 17 car-
loads of material a day on the Lake
Highway.
Shel Evans, located in Shaver-
town for several years previously,
moved hig drug store to a site
along the new highway, one of the
first commercial enterprises to take
frontage in that area.
Borough Council approved a $12,-
000 bond issue to wipe out indebted-
ness, ‘and contemplated another
issue of similar size for improvement
of roads.
An editorial stressed the dangers
of no speed limit on Harveys Lake,
following -the fatal accident where
a speedboat ‘crashed into a sea-
plane:
"Norma Knecht, Margaret Brace,
‘| Edith Spencer, Mary Kemmerer, and
Margaret Harris led the cheering
squad at Dallas Township high
Mrs. Lenora Honeywell,
home economics teacher helped
them with their uniforms, red satin
skirts and caps, and: white sweaters.
° Adam Stock, longtime resident of
Shavertown, died at 79.
Fred Eck sat for a pen portrait.
The assistant cashier of Dallag Bank
was a softball player. for Shaver-
town, and had once been with A. G-
Eddinger as a vulcanizing expert. He
was on the way w in «banking
| circles.
Announcement was made of the
marriage of Edith Darling to Ray-
mond Clagget.
Ruby - K. ‘Grabsky became the
bride of Conrad Hislop.
August wedding bells for Eliza-
beth Piscorik and John Pitcavage-
James Franklin, 70, retired from
Dallas Borough Council and secre-
taryship of the TOOF, but kept right
on with his work as a trackman for
the Traction Company. Said retire-
ment was for the birds, but that he
could use a few free evenings at
home.
Mr.
and Mrs. William Baker
niversary.
IT HAPPENED 10 YEARS AGO:
Mr, and Mrs. Humphrey Owen,
married in England, observed their
62nd anniversary. They moved to
their little bungalow on Lehman
Avenue on their Golden Wedding
day.
Frank Hayden Rhoads was upped
to Lt. Colonel, holding the office
of assistant director of flying safety
at Ent Airforce Base, Colorado
Springs,
- Dr. Sherman Schooley started his
26th year of practice in Shavertown.
His first patient was Dorman
Woolbert.
Rev. Robert Webster wag the
subject of a Know-Your-Neighbor.
Lee Honeywell bought the Ashley
PIZZA SHOP
SUNSET
Harveys Lake
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OPEN FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY
also 131 E. MAIN ST., PLYMOUTH
observed their silver wedding an-'
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1961
OPPORTUNITY
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No. one with any knowledge of
conditions can deny that there is
danger of injury to children walk-
| ing to school on some of our roads.
Three have been killed in Dal-
las that are recalled. There may
have been more. Although many
years have passed to the best of
our recollection one was killed on
Church Street ‘walking to school in
Street going home from school in
daylight, and the ‘other on Memor-
ial Highway" in darkness, going from
or to a school band practice.
However the danger to pupils,
especially in daylight, important as
it may be to parents of little ones,
is only slight compared to the over-
all danger all the time, everywhere,
and no good can be served by work-
ing and talking all the time about
the minor danger ‘and completely
overlooking the more general prob-
lem.
Right now there is an epidemic
of bicycle riding, which seems to
come in cycles every few years. And
no one seems to pay any attention
whatever to teenagers and’ even
younger boys and girls riding at
excessive speed’ in the middle of
the road and often the wrong side,
carrying a second child on the
frame. And there is plenty of rac-
ing in which the whole road is oc-
cupied, right ‘in front of my house
where speeding by autos is common
place and visibility for both drivers
and riders limited to a hundred feet
or so. And to make it worse, this
goes on at’ night with no lights’ on
many of the bicycles, and the usual
street light illumination obscured lat
this time of year by branches: of
trees.
After years of steady effort, Chief
Russell Honeywell has finally stopped
the school buses parking for loading
and unloading at the ‘exact brow
of the hill at the north corner of
the Huntsville Street School grounds,
also parents stopping there to load
and unload. However bakery, milk,
cleaning, and other service trucks
florist shop, planning to open a
restaurant there.
Fourteen friends of fifty years
standing, met with Mrs. Margaret
Hildebrant on Norton Avenue to
exchange reminiscences of days at
General Hospital. They were all
nurses together. Most of them were
from Wilkes-Barre,
Jeanne Tkeler became the bride
of Theodore Reed.
Warren L. Thomas and Nancy
Roche became man and wife.
Betty Jane Naugle was wed to
Albert E. Agnew:
Marriage of Lorraine Sorber and
Marvin Ellsworth, Jr. was an-
nounced,
daylight, a second on lower Main"
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park there making it necessary for
other cars to swing around on the
wrong side, endangering any child-
ren trying to pass, especially those
entering Norton Avenue.
Thanks to the removal of the
kindergarten to Trucksville, this
year we are free from those mothers,
who having had their children home
for twenty hours, still found it nec-
essary to habitually paik their cars
in traffic and continue to talk to
their little ones already out of the
cars and standing on the sidewalk.
And this is not only a local prob-
lem. This writer has been in traf-
fic jams three blocks long elsewhere
due to the same practice.
The school safety patrols are
probably deing a good job, but in
some places stop signs suspended on
bamboo poles are used more effect-
ively. And at the worst, the passage
of school children requires only a
few minutes, during which time ad-
ditional police protection can be af-
forded.
The accidents reported in the daily
papers seem to show that most fatal
ities ‘occur when children are not
passing to and from school, either
pre-school . children, or
hours, particularly later.
And of course parents lose little
ones from a variety of accidents,
and many others are injured, which
have nothing to do with highway
traffic. One local boy, not little, was
killed in a motorcycle accident, not
on the public highway. Another was
killed in a fall from a tree. A high
school senior was killed in a hunt-
ing accident, and others could be
mentioned.”
~~ Even in the horse and buggy days
there were accidents. Falls in barns
and everywhere were common and
sometimes serious. Some animals
and machines were dangerous, they
still are in fact. Harry Husted was
crippled for months, maybe years,
when his thuggy toppled off a bridge
over the creek while he was travel-
ing on Center Hill Road.
After all, the best safety device is
a careful person, but like any other
kind of knowledge, safety must be
everlastingly taught. A good place
to start would be to get all young-
sters off the streets at night.
And on the highways where there
are no sidewalks, even some school
teachers do not seem to know that
it is safer to walk facing traffic and
not in front of it, in other words on
the wrong side of the road for walk-
ing.
A mother leading a toddler, just
at .the age when he is learning all
the time, will deliberately cross at
dangerous intersections against a
red light.
‘What does she have a right to
expect a few years later?
at other:
pend
Looking al
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With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
BUS STOP, ABC-TV’s most talk-
ed-about series will star Marilyn
Maxwell. Viewers will find that
TV’s “Bus Stop” bears only a remote
resemblance to either William Inge’s
hit play or the movie,
The plot
successful will be used in one epi-
sode, probably the fourth or fifth
show-
Marilyn, who fis 39 and a redhead,
will have the starring role of Grace
Sherwood, a widow in her mid-30s.
In the movies, this was a minor role.
She owns a restaurant at a bus
stop and each episode will be woven
around the different people who
pass: through.
Marilyn has played a blond
straight man to assorted comedians
including Bob Hope for years.
She has been married three times
—to Richard Conte of ‘Matinee
Theatre” fame, to Andy Mclntire, a
restaurateur, and to Jerry David.
She will probably become Mrs.
Rock Hudson when her divorce from
producer Jerry Davis is final: Rock
is 36.
FATHER OF THE, BRIDE will jpre-
miere September 29 on the CBS
network. Myrna Elizabeth Fahey,
the lovely bride in the series got
the part mainly because she did so
well as a perplexed young bride in
a “Thriller” segment last year.
Fletcher Markle, producer of “Thril-
ler,” happens to be director of the
new show.
It was in 1956, with a histrionic
background of just two school plays,
that she decided t6 make the big
move and head, for stardom, alone.
Her first publicity came the next
year when she was chosen one of
the six finalists in the Miss Rhein-
gold contest. She didn’t win but
she received plenty of publicity
She received her live acting ex-
perience in ‘Matine Theater,”
where she appeared eight times.
She made two movies, “The Story
on Page 1” with Anthony Franciosa
and “The House of Usher” with Vin-
cent Price.
The series is based on the old
movie of the same name that
starred Liz Taylor and Spencer
Tracy. On TV, the story starts with
her engagement to Burt Metcalfe,
young Canadian actor, but she
doesn’t marry him until January, 17
episodes later.
Myrna has one distinction that
not many young actresses achieve:
she’s in
Women.” Her mother, who was aj
Newcomb, a direct descendant of
Capt- Andrew Newcomb who came |
over on the Mayflower, resides with |
her in Beverly Hills.
ERNIE FORD’S guest star appear-
ances for this season will keep him
busier than his week'y show did last
season.
SAME NAMES. It is interesting
to note how many tele-series have
lbeen inspired by movies of the same
name. There is Lassie, National
Velvet, Naked City and The Roaring
20s, among the older shows, and Dr.
Kildare, Father of the Bride, Bus
Stop and Margie, among the new
entries. One reason for this small-
sized trend is that movie studios
which have gone into TV production
own the basic properties and con-
verted same into video vehicles:
Another reason is that shows with
characters, situations and titles out
of movies have an established iden-
tification with audiences from the
outset: Of course, such series also
take the risk of suffering by com-
parison,
CONNIE HINES of the CBS
“Mister Ed” series comes from a
theatrical background. Her father
had his own stock company in Bos-
ton and her mother was an actress
who quit the stage at 21 to marry |:
him. Even her grandparents (on
her mother’s side) were in the
business, as members of John
Drew’s original Chatauqua group.
Connie started doing commercials
on TV, had an interview show at
night and worked as a secretary
during the day. After a short time
she was able to give up her daytime
job and concentrate solely on act-
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With all this commotion about fallout shelters, it seemed like .
a solid idea to case the basement for possible inspiration.
Could be that Tom’s flagstone floor might come in very handy
at last. Having been laid eight years ago practically over my dead";
body, poetic justice says that maybe it will now shield my dead
body, or with luck, keep it from being dead.
That section of the house has underneath it the lowest ceiling
and the darkest hidey-hole in the entire basement. The front of
+ the basement is airier and roomier, but it does not have the pro-
tection of a flagstone floor to deflect radiation.
The whole business is. pickaxed out of solid rock . . . water-
bearing strata that lets the water in and out with equal ease, the
tide rising in the front of the cellar and flowing smoothly through
to the back, where it leaves by’ other fissures in the rock. This
only happens after a severe and long lasting rain. Could be an
air alert might not synchronize with a cloudburst.
A survey of the snug quarters under the kitchen floor resulted
in some interesting conclusions. That long kitchen table with the
netting coop on top, where we normally cool pies or stash the re-
mains of the Thanksgiving turkey for safe-keeping, for instance.
That table, with the coop removed, and another smaller table placed
at the end, could easily hold a mattress, far above the flood. Room
at the other end for a folded roll-away bed.
Sleeping quarters then, for two people.
And goodness knows it's dark enough down there so that two
people could go into hibernation, and maybe the rays would not be
able to find their way in the gloom.’
That wall cabinet, tall and narrow, with the many shelves.
obviously intended to hold preserves, but it could: just: as easily .
hold canned food, and on the top, large jugs of water. :
Be a good idea to get rid of the lawn-mower and the steplad-
ders. They wouldn’t need protection from fallout, so they can go in:
the front of the cellar. A
How about that half sack of cement? and the eight trowels for
spreading ? How on earth did we get eight trowels in the first place ?
Lemme sea . . . . Tom was building a stone wall outside, strictly
for kicks, and that year we had a lot of grandchildren in residence.
The picture clears up, and there are the grands, each wielding a
miniature trowel. They kept coming in, loaded with cement dust, but
they were happy.
Very unlikely that we will ever have so many small grand- °
children on hand again, burrowing in the cement bag, until the
new crop starts coming. (And with a forty-fifth anniversary in the
bag, that might not be so far off as youd think.)
So, jettison the trowels. No, let's save them, just for old times
sake. And the cement, it could come in very handy in sealing up
the chinks. .
Ooops, there it goes, all over a pair of black canvas sneakers.
That about finished the Sunday morning survey.
But the thing kept coming back in the watches of the night. A
blue-print of the cellar kept outlining itself. If we blocked up that
section ‘of the cellar, using cement blocks with dirt, how would we
reach the back door and the cellar steps?
But it would be unthinkable to lose the beneficial effects of ‘a
protective flagstone floor above our heads for any mundane con-
sideration such as removal of trash and tin cans.
It will be perfectly simple to stock those shelves with food.
Some morning I'll wake up with the complete solution to the hidey-
hole,
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