*
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_FOHRITEN PAGES
Library Auction Calf Burns To Death
As Blaze Destroys Ernie Gay's Barn
Ernie Gay's registered Guernsey ®
bull calf, bought at the Library
Auction in July, burned to death
Tuesday shortly after noon in the
flaming wreckage of the five story
barn on his property on Sutton
Creek Road, Franklin Township.
So terrific was the blaze that no-
body could get close enough to even
attempt a rescue.
Mrs. Gay said, “And it was just
yesterday that we received the
registration papers. It was the fam-
ily pet.” The little calf contributed
by Raymond Goeringer to the
Auction from Lake Louise Farm, was
riot even six months old.
The huge barn was empty except
for the calf and a few bales of hay.
Foundation walls crumbled under
the fierce heat.
Fire leaped the road, attacked
trees and brush along the creek,
burned out the - underpinning of
stout posts supporting the guard rail.
Heat melted the tar, reducing the
pave to a viscid and sluggishly
moving river of black.
Fire crept up the hillside, breaking
out sporadically in vegetation. al-
ready tinder-dry: from the’ late
drought. :
State Police, alerted by a mystery
explosion ‘which was synchronous
with the report of fire in the Ernie
Gay barn, converged upon the scene,
in expectation of a major disaster.
State: foresters guarded the hill-
side, quenching incipient brush fires.
{Ernie and his wife stood help-
lessly by, surrounded by neighbors.
from as far away as Orange anil
Center Moreland. ; :
Five pieces of fire apparatus an-
swered the alarm, Harding and
Franklin Township remaining -after:| .
Dallas and West Pittston companies
had left.
No ‘cause of the blaze has been
determined. Loss is about $12,000.
Ernie and his wife were both away
from home at the time, Mrs. Arthur
Gay, across Sutton Creek Road, was
alone. Ernie called her. “Did ‘you
hear an explosion? Somebody said
it was out our way.”
“Yes, I heard it, but it wasn’t here.
Your barn’s on fire.”
Wyoming ing Keeps
Record Intact
Redskins Take Advantage
Of Lake-Lehman Miscues
Lehman miscues,
its third straight ‘conference win
Saturday downing the Knights 25-
0 before a large crowd at Wyoming. !
Tt was also the fifth straight
win for Coach Podwika’s gridders
who have yet to yield a score to five |
opponents.
Wyoming held an 18-0 bulge at
half-time scoring on drives of 55,
30 ‘and 25 yards.
Another Lake-Lehman fumble in
the third period’ set up the final
Redskin touchdown.
55-Yard Drive !
Lake-Lehman failed ‘to gain after
taking the kick-off and were' forced
to {punt with Wyoming putting the
ball in play on its own 45,
From here the Redskins marched
for" ‘their initial score with Gene
Turchetti scoring from 14-yards be-
hind a key block thrown by “Al
Danowski. Turchetti lugged the ball
( five times picking up 48-yards in
» the drive.
¥ half-time 1
Up Lead
‘Wyoming upped its lead to 12-0
early in the second period as the
forward wall opened big holes . for
the backs again and Dave Crisman
traveled 20-yards for the second
score.
Later in the period Wyoming used |
four plays to Xo 25-yards with All
Danowski plunging over from the
2-yard stripe. The score was setup
as the Lehman safetyman let the
ball roll after. touching it and Barry
Kennedy pounced on tle loose ball
at the 25. \ koh
Use Reserves
After building up a dbsntal
contented to use his second and
third stringers on offense with ‘the
first stringers playing mostly on
defense in order to keep its defen-
sive record in tact.
Midway in the third period an-
other Wyoming punt got away from
the safetyman. Redskin end Jan
Saunders got a clear shot at the
ball, scooped it up at the 25 and
went in for the final score un-
touched. Al Danowski plunged’ for
Taking early advantage of Lake- |
Wyoming posted |
ead Coach Podwika was
the only extra point of the after-
noon.
Stan Palmer and Don Anesi did
most of the gaining for, the Knights
which’ was not too much since the
Wyoming line spent a good portion
of the afternoon in the Lake-Leh-
man backfield.
Home Saturday
Lake-Lehman returns to its home
grounds Saturday to host Edwards-
ville at 2 p.m. The Bpignts get ‘the |
nod in this tik.
Mystery Blast
A mystery ‘blast’ rocked the Back
Mountain Tuesday at 12:33 pa.
High School To
Lay Cornerstone
Sunday At 3 P.M.
Dedication To Take
Place Friday Evening
+ Of Following Week
Dallas Schools schedule two im-
portant events in less than a per-
iod of a week: Laying of the Corner-
stone for the new high school Sun-
day at 3 p.m., and formal dedica-
tion next Friday night, October 20,
at 8 o'clock:
At Cornerstone ceremonies on
Sunday, Charles H. Mannear will
represent the School Board; James
0. Lacy, the architects; Frederick |
W. Eck, the Dallas School District
Authority Board; Baud’ H. Kline, |
contractors. !
senior high school ' band.
Invocation will.be by Rev. Rus-|
sell C. Lawry, ‘benediction by: Rev:
Francis ‘A. Kane. i
“Flag-raising will be in the Yards
of Key Club and Keyettes.
An - open house will follow ' the
program, giving an opportunity for
the public to tour the new building.
. "Formal ‘dedication, Dr. Robert A.
Mellman presiding, will ‘take place
| the following Friday night, the cere-
monies also followed by an Open
House, with’ the building. remain-
ing open until 10:30.
Alfred M. Camp, musical director:
of ‘Dallas Junior High School, will
give an. organ. recital in advance
of the program, Invocation will be
by Rev. William W. Reid Jr., bene-
diction by Rev. William McClelland.
Eugene S. Teter, superintendent
of ‘Luzerne County Schools, will ex-
tend greetings.
Presentation of the building will
be'by James O. Lacy.
Acceptance for the School Auth-
ority; by Frederick Eck, chairman;
for the School Board, Charles H.
Mannear, president; for the school,
W. Frank Trimble, high school prin-
cipal’, for the. udents, Dale Mosier,
president of Student Council.
Dr. Charles H. Boehm, superin-
| tendent of Pennsylvanio Depart-
| ment of Public Instruction, will make
| the dedicatory address.
Rev. Robert D. Yost will : offer
| the prayer. of dedication.
The senior high school band dir-
| ected - by Lester Lewis will play
the National Anthem.
To Talk On Survival
LT. COL. LEON BEISEL
| Lt. Col Leon Beisel will speak
to Shavertown PTA Monday evening
at 8:15, taking as his topic “Survival
and Fall-Out,” stressing the effect
on children, and pinpointing specific
plans formulated by Civil Defense
of Luzerne County in relation to the
Back Mountain.
Teachers will meet with parents
in home-rooms at 8 p.m. Mrs. Rich-
ard Sheldon will speak on plans for
the Children’s Clothing and Furniture
Sale ‘at the business meeting. Mrs.
John Eagers will preside.
. Mrs. Goodwin's sixth grade home-
room mothers, headed by Mrs. Rob-
art Walk and Ms. John Cook, will
serve refreshments,
Study Committee To
Complete Panel Plans
The study committee for Citizens
Jonmimittee -for Better. Schools will
neet. with chairman Dr. Irvin Jac-
»bs; Monday evening to complete
lans for Staging the panel discus-
sion on Wednesday. On the study
~ommittee are: Mrs. Fred Eck, Mrs.
Hale Coughlin Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
' James Besecker Jr., and Mrs. E. E.
Phillips.
Dr. Eugeiie S Farley, Dr. Robert
3. Bernreuter, and John Hoch will
Jiscuss “What it Takes to Be a.Suc-
| .essful - Applicant for. College,” and
answer q1estions from the audience.
Place, Dallas - High School auditor-
jum; time, 8 pam.
7
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Shavertown's Attractive New Fire House
This is the architect's sketch of |
| Building, designed (by Allen,. Rodda |
and’ Hauck,
| mediately to make way for the new |
Back Mountain
Building.
It will be constructed at a cost | will also be a combination Heoting Back Mountain Lumber & Coal
the new Shavertown Fire Company | of $30,000 immediately in’ the rear room and kitchen.
of the new Back Mountain Branch
Plans call for a three-stall garage A heat,
Lumber & Coal | to house fire apparatus and’ King- { change the fire company will deed: |'days:
! There | a Jriangulos piece of its property to I
ston Township Ambulance!
It will be built, and maintained
| Company which will also furnish |
light “and. insurance. In ex- |
Company in order to facilitate con-
struction” of its fine new store in
to replace the ‘present | | of Wyoming National Bank and will | ‘by Back Mouhtain. Lumber: & Coal | Shavertown. .
Music" will be furnished i the ' structure which will be razed im- face Main Street, Shavertown.
Plans now call for completion of
the new, Fire Hall before the holi-
Dificials Gather J At Lake- Lehman For Traditional Ground- Breaking, ;
Ground-breaking ceremonies Sat-
urday morning set officially
motion construction of the new
Lake-Lehman High School. The prize |
winning high school band lent color
and action to the traditional break-
Woodcock Season
Opens Saturday |
|
Woodcock season starts Saturday, |
runs through November 22. Daily |
limit is. four, maximum possession |
limit is eight after the first day.
Shooting hours are sunrise to sun- |
set; week days only. Exception is |
that on October 21, opening of the |
waterfowl season, no hunting is per-
missible until noon; and on October
28, opening of small game season, no |
shooting until 8 a.m. EST. |
ning School sessions saw some of
the classes already in action, with
to register.
in |
lines of prospective students waiting |
Already the enrollment is reach- |
Jing toward 400, with classes sched-
ling of the sod.
| appear on the improvised rostrum,
| flanked by honor guard of the band.
i and Vi c hij i Gennetts.
Ed Buckley, local dike] employee, |
Posed for a photograph, officials | liams,
{ will be installed as Commander of |
{ Daddow-Isaacs ~Post, American Lé-
gion, tomorrow night at. 8 in the
Post Home’ on Memorial Highway,
Dallas.
Mr. Buckley has beers a merbie
of Dallas Legion for’ sixteen ‘years,
has held every office and served as
| president of the Home Association
for a number of years.
Fellow officers to be installed -are
new high school.
Upper left is a public speaking
| class taught by Judy Richards:
Below it, is the popular wood-
working class taught by Joseph Po-
i
First Monday night of Adult Eve- | uled for Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- drazik.
,day and Thursday nights at the |
'| tuning" up, under direetion of Flor-
[ left to “right are Richard WAL |
Robert Traver, William |
| Phillips, Lewis: Hopfer, Donald
| Smith, Dean Shaver, Edgar Darby, |
Holding the banner are Karla Ray | Edgar Lashford, Ray Roushey, Ra- |
Standing | mon Hedden, Gary ‘Hopfer, Thomas
Intice Davenport, senior vice-com- !
mander; Leonard Dougherty, Junior
vice-commander; - Tom Reese, ad-
‘jutant; Richard Staub, treasurer;
Bernard Mc Dermo.tt historian;
George Cave chaplain; = William
O'Brien, service officer; Dick Fuller |.
and Thomas Kane, sergeant-at arms.
Installation . officer: will ‘be Nello
Carrozzoni, 12th’ District Comman-
der, assisted by Luzerne Post 525
Drill Team.
'
Sécond. picture, upper, is typing
class taught by Emma Engler. ;
Directly below is the adult chorus,
ence Sherwood.
Mr. and ‘Mrs. Alfred M. Camp reg-
bell, students will change
Shalata, and Thomas Fields.
Standing at the rear are Robert
| Belles, Anthony Marchakitus, Eu-
gene S. Teter, Willard Sutton, and
Lester Squier,
‘Photo By Kozemchak
DALLAS LEGION TO INSTALL EDWARD BUCKLEY
Speaker of the evening will be |
Peter Toloczko, National Field
Representative of* American’ Legion.
Mrs.. Martha Reese, newly in-
stalled president and friends are in-
vited ‘to’ attend the colorful cere-
Falling Leaves Slippery
Falling leaves are making streets
slippery. Drive Carefully.
SE
ister another group of students in
the office, and directly beneath is
a class in short hand being taught
by Marcia Burke. At the tap of the
places
with the pupils in the typing class.
* An art class taught by Mus. '
VOL. 78, NO, 40, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1961
Ground Broken
For High School
At Lake-Lehman
Lashford And Darby
Wield Shovels In
Traditional Rites
Bulldozers a quarter mile away
provided a fitting background for
ground-breaking ceremonies at Leh-
man Saturday morning, as construc-
tion crews went methodically about
their work while officials performed
the traditional ceremony of turning
the sod.
Gathered on the high ground
above Lehman Cemetary, and look-
ing down upon the site of actual
clearing operations, administrators,
members of the Building Authority
and Lake-Lehman school board;
representatives of the Educators As-
sociation, the Student Council, PTA
groups, Band Parents, engineers and
architects, took their places as the
band marched briskly up the road. |
The band formed behind the im-
provised rostrum, and under direc-
tion of John Miliauskas, played the
National Anthem.
Stepping out into bright morning
sunshine after dark days when the
new high school building for Lake-
Lehman hung in the balance, those
who had labored mightily to make
the new school a reality, took the |
first formal step toward realization |
of the goal.
Breaking the sod were [Edgar
Lashford, president of the five-way
jointure school board, and Edgar
Darby, member of Lehman Authori-
ty Board. Raymon Hedden, general |
contractor, received the sod.
Rev. Norman Tiffany, pastor of
Lehman Methodist Charge, gave the
invocation.
Brief remarks were made by Mr.
Lashford, Mr. Darby, and Eugene |
S. Teter, superintendent of Luzerne |
County Schools. All three speakers |
stressed ‘the importance of vision, of
looking: toward the future, .of de- |
termination to give the best possible
facilities, with full realization that a
school must be paid for over many |
gears, and that it must not be out-
moded before the final payment is
made.
Willard Sutton, president of Lake
Township board, was Emcee. |
dntroduced from the rostrum were |
1
4 Lester B. Squier, Anthony Marcha- |
kitus, and Robes: Z: Belles, for the |
“administrati’y John! Zaléskas, YE.
cators; Stanioy Palmer and Stella
Rodriguez, student councils of Lake
and Lehman buildings; Mrs. Clar- |
ence Oberst, Lake-Noxen; and Wil- |
Llis: Gentile, Lehman-Jackson-Ross |
PTA; Carl Swanson, Band Parents;
Don Smith, architects; James Mar- |
tin former supervising principal of
{ Dallas Schools; Dean Shaver, chair-
{man of the building committee; |
John Miliauskas, director of the
prize-winning band.
Guests adjourned to the Lehman |
School cafeteria, where hot coffee |
was on tap, with hundreds of
doughnuts. i
Committee on arrangements for
the ground-breaking was composed
| of William Bates, Walter Chamber- |
lain, and Paul Crockett.
Queen Anne's Lace |
“It ‘was a beautiful picture of |
Queen Anne’s Lace in the Dallas
Post last week. It WAS Queen
Anne's . Lace, wasn’t it?” inquired
Mrs. Theodore Grey of Harveys Lake,
the first to identify the most recent
Whatsit.
[Thomas Longmore is at the upper
right, and beneath it a class in
dressmaking taught by Mrs. Shirley
Beard.
Evening School Principal Alfred |
Camp says there are still vacancies |
in German on Monday; dressmaking
| sixteen years,
| Ackerson
| Northeastern Pennsylvanial National
| Bank and Trust Comjany as a sales
Key Club Wins
"Bren i
Lt. Governor, Kiwanis
ALFRED H. ACKERSON
At Pennsylvania District Conven-
tion, Kiwanis International, October
111 in Wilkes-Barre, Alfred H. Ack-
erson was elected Lieutenant Gov-
ernor of Division 15, Pennsylvania,
succeeding Marc L. Ruch of Plym-
outh, January 11.
Division 15 is composed of clubs
from Carbondale, Scranton, Jessup,
Peckville, Tunkhannock, Dallas, Pitt-
| ston, Swoyersville, Nanticoke, Plym-
| outh,
Forty Fort-Kingston, and
Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. Ackerson is secretary of Dal-
las Kiwanis, and a past president
| of Kiwanis Club of Mooretown, N.J.
He served as New Jersey District
Chairman of Boys and Girls Work
Committee, 1954, 1955.
Mr. Ackerson and his wife Edna
were residents of Forty Fort for
were transferred to
| Moretown, N. J. and returned to
| Wyoming Valley in 1960. They live
Dallas RD 2. Mr.
is associated with the
at Ledgeways,
representative.
Dallas delegates to the conven-
tion were Robert S. Maturi, Jerome
R. Gardner, and Mr. Ackerson.
Group Award
Parents Magazine
Sends Certificate
The Key Club, through a letter
written to George McCutcheon, has
fortied hv Parents Magazine
that it will receive a plaque as one
of the winners of the 1960-1961
Youth Group Achievement contest.
‘Winners will be announced in the
November issue of Parents Maga-
zine.
The letter continues: “The pur-
pose of the. Youth Group Achieve-
| ment Awards is to give young peop-
le recognition for. constructive serv-
ice in their communities. We hope,
| therefore, that you will be able to
honor the group you have nominated
| by arranging a special ceremony
for presentation of the plaque, which
will’ be forwarded to you shortly.
“We send our best wishes for
continued achievement.”
Marie E. Hermann
Material printed in the main in
the Dallas Post was used as a basis.
for specifications’ sent te Parents
Magazine.
Surplus Food Today
Surplus food will be distributed
today, 9 to 2, in the Trucksville
Fire Hall. Those eligible for re-
ceipt of surplus foods are asked
to bring cartons.
and woodworking on Wednesday;
Spanish and English on Thursdays.
Driver education is filled to the
brim. Robert Dolbear is still work-
ng on the backlog left over from
| last year, still in need of road prac-
tice.