: Qisette Liebold, By Cuaries GILBERT Four million dollars is a lot of money! But when one walks about and through the new Valley Crest Home out on East End Boulevard one feels that here is money well invested in the care and rehabilitation of people who need it. On this 80 acre tract is now constructed what Dr. Maurice E. Linden M.D. of the Department of Public Health and Community Services of Philadelphia called Sunday “The leading institution of its kind in the nation’. Thousands of visitors thronged the grounds and build- ing to attend the dedication ceremonies of Valley Crest Home. It was a perfect day with blue skies all around making it possible to hold the entire program out of doors. This reporter found himself in the midst of a jam of people waiting for the ribbon cutting in order to go on a guided tour through the corridors and facilities of this ultra » modern work of architectural art and convenience. 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain / Magnificent New Home For Aged Means Little If Residents Are Forgotten There may have been many more from the Back Mountain communities but I saw Rev. Robert Yost of ° Shavertown Methodist Church in the crowd. And close by were Rev. and Mrs. Russell Lawry of Dallas. In my opin- ion these two brethren never saw such a crowd even on Easter Sunday. Russ Lawry remarked, “I'm going to pick me out a room here!” The rooms as we saw them would be luxury accommodations for anyone. It is easy for me to pass over the magnificent ap- pointments in every department. It looked as if every- thing conceivable has been thought of to care medically and physically for the 300 patients which the building will accommodate. It is all important and to the great credit of the county commissioners who with vision planned and brought to fruition the whole plant. All of this, however, is just a waste of money apart from the dedicated plans for the type of personnel who will be selected to implement the high ideals of the institutional district and the Director Dr. Alfred C. Craft. The brochures and the valley newspapers have described the equipment and building in detail. It is well to quote here from the brochure the ideals of Dr. Kraft, for they constitute what to this writer are outstanding and so full of dreams that one can devoutly hope and pray that they may be carried out on behalf of those who will be the residents of this home. He says: “Valley Crest is a medically oriented build- ing, operated as an important part of the medical and social services of Luzerne County. Its role will be to pro- vide a comprehensive array of services in the attack against long term illness. This requires care for the seriously ill, a dynamic convalescent and rehabilitation program for those who have a potential for recovery, ang a variety of supporting services for those who are destine ' to remain for long periods.” Another paragraph in the brochure needs repeating: THE DALLAS POST “The prime challenge facing a building of this kind is to instill new life in the hearts of aging bodies, and to change the despair and apathy of old people who are sick and poor into a new desire to live healthy lives again, and to return to their homes. To deal of attention has been meet this challenge a great given to those things that nourish people’s souls as well as their bodies.” A comment from this reporter who for six years has - had contact with aged and ai ling people may not be amiss. I would urge people of Luzerne County not to let the resi- ) dents of institutions become forgotten people. There is for- . lorn loneliness so tragic that one comes away from an institution with a feeling of mental depression unless he definitely goes for the purpose of bringing to the patients a sense of being remembered and a feeling of friendship for them. This calls for a beautiful well-equipped building but it calls for far more, for the concern of people as friends of the friendless. TWO ORchard 4-5656 EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWENTY-TWO PAGES MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION VOL. 78, NO., 44, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1961 Great American Industries Buys Linear Incorporated Riot Of Color And Costumes For | Big Halloween Parade In Dallas . Stamping and prancing, Dallas High School Majorettes ‘went into their act before the reviewing stand Tuesday night, | as officers halted traffic in Central Dallas, and the Big Hal- | loween Parade got under way. Junior high school drill team, in flaring scarlet skirts and | _ white blouses, red pompoms bouncing at white drill boots, | leaders plowed steadily ahead in the wake of the senior band | and majorettes. A tidal wave of 600 would-be marchers in wild costumes | awaited the signal on the far side of the highway until the High | School Band had finished playing the National Anthem. The parade, postponed from Mon- day night because of rain, had fair and warmer weather for the march a break for lightly clad ballet dan- cers and children in cotton cos- tumes. Mothers and fathers escorted the small fry. One of the hits of the evening was a set of uppers. and lowers, chomping busily as it marched down Main Street displaying the sign, Look Ma, No Cavities. A large bunch of carrots was an- other eye-catcher, also a line of five little devils in stairstep sizes. The space age was represented by nose cones and costumes obviously from Mars, and the Old Grey Mar: pranced ss.usual, head and tail as- lies connected with something bearing a strange resemblance to athe spare-room bedspread. 7% A pair of pygmies got a big hand. A lanky youth, apparently walking on his hands with his feet in the air, got a laugh. The parade was more varied than usual. Mill Street, came back up the high- way to the traffic light and the reviewing stand, where winners were siphoned off by judges and escort- ed to the Fire House, In advance of the march of con- testants, Dallas High School Band played the National Anthem, while the audience sang, led by Herman Kern. Chairmen were John Williams and Robert Brown. Winners were: In the Specialty Class: Alberta and Renita Cross, Larry Spaciano, Barbara and Ruth Lawry, Debbie Ken Gale and Linda Doughton, YCheryl Welsh; extra prizes: Patty Kush, Dale, Bobby and Paul Elston. Sharon Frederick, Earl and Donny “A%ans, Billy Templin Ronny Rob- rts, Doug Bulford, David and Bill Rowett. y Most original: Peggy Bayliss, Kar- en Lee Purvin, Raymond Cross, Richard Cross; extra prizes: Drew and Jan Bittenbender, Dean John- son, Lois Rondinella, Charles Lie- bold, Susan Sipple, Ruth Lewis, Patricia Lewis, Christine Rubine, Jeffery Brown, Douglas Schooley. Funniest: Ernest Ashbridge, Val- erie Jones, Jean Beagle, Robert and Robin Sterling; extras: Patty Car- ey, Don Kitchen, Gail Morgan, Jack Bestwick, Sam Zachary, John McClelland, Debbie Dymond, Jennie Lee Bainbridge, Marie Groblewski, Jimmy Roth, Paul Casterline. Best Dressed: Charlene Albosta, Lisette Liebold, BRichard Bennie, Valerie Edwards; extras: Clara Hines, Cindy Budd, Paula Maxwell, Sandy Hill, Megan Delaney, Janice Huston, Mimi Maury, Marylee Mohr, Katherine Makravitz, Jocelyn Strunk, Tom Rowett. * Best Group: Matt, Jeff, Karen, Laurel,” Ricky Gillis family; Mrs. Cliff Foss and daughter; Mae Koch- er and Leona Oberst; John, Chris- ty, and Eric Steinhardt; special prizes: Boyes Brothers, Debbie Bul- ford, Roger Brown, (Chick Spencer, George Mahler, Allan and Joyce Kocher, Janice and Phyllis Hanna, Elaine Kuehn, Gloria and Megan Thomas, Bruce Davies, Susan Moore, Kathy and Lisa Schleich. Paulette Albosta, Gale Ann Boyer, Thomas ard Ann McLaughlin. Sponsors were: Dallas Finance, Orchard Farm Dairy, Bk. Mt. Lum- ber & (Coal Co. Commonwealth Tele. Co., Ray’s Dallas Service Sta- tion, Dallas Water Co., Dallas Dairy, Miners Nat'l. Bank, Ben Franklin Store, Daniel Brown, Troster Ins. Agency, (Bruce Slocum, Owner), Jones #& Richards Beauty Shop, ‘Whitesell Brothers, IL. L. Richard- It rounded the corner to° ‘C. S. Hildebrant, | } | Pritchard’s victory against strong Contest. ; : layed leaves the leader, as they reversed their march while | | son, Henry's Jewelry, Town House | Restaurant, Kuehn’s Drug Store, | Dr. Lisses, Tony's Barber Shop, | Joe Hand, David Schooley, Caddy LaBar, Gosart’s Market, Boyd White, Besecker Real Estate, Grace | T. Cave, Parry's Gulf Service Sta- tion, Jim's Barber Shop, Bert's Drug Store, Forty Fort Dairy, Har- old Flack Agency, Elmer T. Wil- liams, Paul Shaver. Daring & Hislop, Crown Imper- | ial Bowling, Phillips Tavern, Berti & Sons, Halls Drug’ Store, Phil Walters Service Station, Brace Cof- fee Shop, Russell Eyet, A. F. Roan, Adams Men Shop, Laundermat, Rose Mary's Womens Shen, Humph- | reys, Dalles Twp. P. T. A, Dallas Borough P. T. A., Shavertown P. T. | A., Trucksville P. T. A., Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Dallas Lions | Club, Dallas Jr. Women’s Club, Dal- las Sr. Women’s Club, Dallas Amer- ican Legion, Dallas American Leg- ion Auxiliary, Polly’s Shoe Store, | Barney Rehil, | Harold Brobst, Guyette’s T.V. Interest High In Contest For Tax Collector There is a battle royal on for Tax Collector in Kingston Township and the outcome is anybody's guess. Two good men are running for the position—Henry Kann, Democrat, and Vern Pritchard, Republican. In the Primaries Pritchard beat out the veteran ‘and well-liked Tax Collector Ted Poad in a three- | cornered fight that saw many votes | going to popular Ted Woolbert. competition in the Primaries may have been an omen of his personal strength, but Kann is out to make him prove it. No Democrat would ordinarily have much of a chance in rock- ribbed Republican Kingston Town- ship, but Kann is extremely popular and as an auditor has all of the qualifications for Tax Collector. He has a hard row to hoe. No Demo- crat has carried the Township with- in the memory of most voters. This about sums up the local situation except for th County , Arthur Smith, incumbent Super- visor won both the Republican and Democratic nominations in the Primarigs. Mrs. Beatrice Williams and Frederick Anderson won the Republican nominations for Justice of the Peace and only two are to be elected. All in all the excitement in Kings- ton Township hinges on the out- come of the contest between Prit- chard and Kann. No Trace Of Thieves State and local police are still without leads in their search for the robbers who entered Gorda’s Sunoco Station on Memorial High- way sometime between Sunday, night and Monday morning and took a quantity of money: as well as accessories. The thieves made their entry through side ;window which they smashed, but were deliberate about it taking their time to unbolt a heavy bar that locked the window from the rear. ; Bill James, attendant, who locked the station Sunday night, also dis- covered the theft when he came to work Monday morning. 7 § A Las a Elementary Children Receive Patch Test Ten Directors Seek Election To Joint Board Contests Lack Fire In Spite Of Furor Over New Building One Democratic and eight Repub- lican School Directors are up for re- election to Lake-Lehman Joint School Board and all will have op- position. ' Two each are seeking reelection in each of the five districts served by the big jointure except in Ross Township where long time Director Alfred Bronson will not seek re- election. But there is almost complete apathy among the electorate and the contests lack sparkle and fire in spite of the recent furor over the construction of a new high school. As one voter, who opposed the new school, put it this week: “I've changed my mind. I'd like to have them all reelected. After seeing what the State spent for the new Correctional Institution in Jackson | Township for criminals, - I think we ought to spend just as much for our kids for a good school! . 4 $ Maybe that sums up the change | | | comprising the Lake-Lehman Joint- | ure. “If the State is going to force us to spend money for education, let’s go for the best.” Robert Huttman, sixth grade, and | Megan Moore, second grade, pupils November 20. Children reacting positively to the | patch test will be sent to Kirby | Health Center for X-Ray. Family | JACKSON TOWNSHIP history will be studied, and Sects | Here are the contests as they are ‘may be made of the entire family, | shaping up. and of the ‘school bus driver, ac- | In Jackson Township the terms of cording to authorities at the Kirby | Directors John Fielding and George Health Center. If there is wide- |Bulford are expiring. They are op- spread prevalence of positive react- ; Posed on the Democratic Ticket by ors, entire elementary school en- Joseph Gibbons, a retired railroad- rollment may be given the patch | er, who has no children in school test. jand Edward . Schrama, Cease- committee on patch testing. Char- les Mannear and Dr. Irvin Jacobs, in the Dallas School District, are the other Back Mountain committee being prepared to receive the tuber- members, were out of town when culosis patch test from Mrs. Eud- | the picture was taken. ora Baird and Miss A. Jennie Hill, | Wyoming Valley Tuberculosis and school nurses. Others in the pic- Health Society's annual Christmas ture, from left to right, are 'W. | Seal sale finances the program of Frank Trimble, high school princ- | patch-testing of all second and sixth ipal; Dr. Robert A. Mellman, super- | grade pupils. All second and sixth intendent; Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost, | grade pupils of the Dallas School pastor of Shavertown Methodist District will receive the patch test Church, and William A. Austin, sup- | during the week of December 11 ervisor of elementary education. Dr.| Chest X-rays are made each year Mellman and Rev. Yost are mem- | of tenth grade pupils. The x-ray bers of the Wyoming Valley Tuber- | mobile unit of the Wyoming Valley culosis and Health Society’s board | Tuberculosis and Health Society will of directors and members of the! be at Dallas Senior Hight School, |in school. | Fielding, a building contractor with children in school, has been a mem- ber of the Board for six years. He serves on the Buildings and { Grounds, and Transportation Com- | mittees and is an alternate on the School Projects Committee. He has lived in the township for twenty Girl Runs Into Bronson's Car Nesbitt Hospital % . years. X Rays Negative His running mate is George Bul- A seventeen year old girl ran into | ford, a member of Jackson Board the front fender of Mrs. Alfred for the past twenty-four years and Bronson’ car Monday afternoon at | 1tS present president. He serves on 4:45, on Union Street in Luzerne. | the Education and School Policies Mrs. Bronson took her with the Committee and has lived in the aid of the girl's brother, to Nesbitt | area most of his life. Hospital, where X-Rays proved nega- | Lake Township tive, She was kept over night for | In Lake Township incumbents observation. Willard Sutton and Howard Piatt | are opposed by Joseph Schappert {and John Honeywell on the Demo- | cratic ticket. | Sutton is district manager of , Rambler automobile sales and has been a member of the Board for four years. He is president of the , Lake Board. He is a member of the 1 School Policies, Transportation and School Projects Committees of the | Jointure. He has lived in the area | practically all of his life and has | children in school. Piatt, a farmer with a number of { children in school, is a membér of | the Building and Grounds Commit- Keeping Posted DR. EUGENE FARLEY, president of Wilkes College, a man whose contributions to the cultural and civic life of Wyoming Valley during the past twenty-five years are exceeded by none of his generation, will be honored Saturday night when more than 1,000 persons attend a dinner in his honor at Wilkes College Gymnasium. HENRY MASTALSKI, Henry-the-Jeweler of Dallas, who staked his future in the Back Mountain country when he opened a jewelry and watch repair department behind a counter in Add Woolbert's Gas Station, has purchased the former Frantz Card & Gift Shop Building in Shavertown from Edwardsville National Bank and will open there a jewelry store second to none. \ AUNT MARGE LEE, Terrace Street, widow of C. Roscoe Lee, Hay and Feed Broker, is improving at Nesbitt Hospital where she was taken in Dallag Ambulance following a cerebral accident. ARTHUR L. STRAYER, Briar Crest, owner of City Chevrolet Company, whose sense of fun has added to the pleasure of Library Auction fans, is improving at Nesbitt Hospital following an embolism shortly after he and Mrs. Strayer returned from Europe. DAVID P. HAXTON, Chief of the Liason Office UNICEF, which assists” 97 governments in maintaining child and maternal care cen-. ters was the speaker during United Nations Week before the student body of Wilkes College and Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club. His visit /was sponsored by Wyoming Valley United Nations Association. 3000 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS from eastern Pennsylvania will flock to Muhlenberg College Saturday for their seventh annual Mopsy Day on the Allentown campus. The young people, members of Lu- ther Leagues, will see a science demonstration by the physics depart- ment; Kings Point Muhlenberg football game; hear an organ recital, a German Band and the Tony Feyuk jazz combo, and end ‘the day with a buffet supper in the field house, a song fest led by the Glee Club and conclude with a record hop in Memorial Hall. For the last three years reservations have been closed at 3,000 visitors. MR. AND MRS. JOHN STERNER, Allentown parents of Mrs. Frederick Eidam, whose husband is pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Four teen-agers employed at the | popcorn factory on Union Street | dashed across the highway in the face of oncoming traffic, three of them stopping on the yellow center line. The fourth continued into the north-bound traffic lane and hit Mrs. Bronson’s fender, knocking her- self flat on the yellow line. By the time she reached the hospital she was sitting up in the back seat. | Mrs. Bronson’s car had braked al- most to a standstill when the ac- cident occurred. The girl is reported to have been in a number of similar accidents. The brother said, “She ran right | into your car. I tried to hold her { back.” Investigating officer “What were you crossing | middle of the street for?” Brother's reply: “She was thir- | sty and we were going to get her ra little over a year ago to serve the unexpired term of David Jones. | He has lived in the District more | than twenty years. Lehman Township Incumbents William Naugle and | Bruce Williams have a stiff battle lon their hands in Lehman Town- inquired, in the la Coke.” | shi ; 5 Church, celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary on Sunday. mre | Boh ue mune) SALLEY IDE PATERSON, a graduate of Northampton School for | io them vulnerable. Girls and Elmira College, has joined the staff of Tom Hart Realtor. "They will be opposed by Joseph A HORSE TRAINING TRACK, unequalled in this area, is being Wednesday, November 15, 7:30 | Niezgoda, long-time resident of the| constructed along the Alderson-Beaumont Road on the Old Kern A lpm. at Lehman High School, - a Farm by Joseph Rosentel, Forty Fort. 1! Civil Defense forum for residents of COMMONWEALTH TELEPHONE COMPANY will be the subject || Lake and Lehman Township will be of a full page advertisement of the United States Independent Tele- held. Allen Major, chairman of Leh- { Center. His running mate is John Chesnovitch who has opposed the new school from the beginning and whose children do not attend public schools. / ' Naugle, a retired farmer, has been a member of the Board for more than twenty years, and has played | an important part in bringing Leh- man Schools to !their present high standing. Williams, whose occupa- tion ag representative of the Black- RE | phone Association in the December 23 issue of The Saturday Evening || man Civil Defense, will moderate the Post. . | meeting. COMMANDER EDWARD BUCKLEY has announc 'd that Daddow- Speakers will be Col. Isaacs Post American Legion has taken an option o. | two adjacent | lots on Memorial Highway, increasing frontage to mor® than 200 feet and providing additional space for parking. H < JOHN C. KEHOE, 83, Harding, whose stormy political career | Some time during November a did little to advance the welfare of Luzerne. J died a self- J training course in Mass Care will declared pauper Monday nigh P : - %! be given by Mrs. Gordon Bell. { Leon M. Beisel, Dr. Jay Young, Nick Souchek, and Sgt. McGroarty of the State | | Police. pital. A : \ sad AR | of thought in all of the districts | { tee. He was appointed to the Board | larea and superintendent of Holiday | House of the Jewish Community | | photo by Kozemchak | town merchant, who has children | Flames Badly Damage y Unoccupied Bungalow Fire of undetermined origin start- ed in the bathroom and spread to other rooms of an unoccupied six room bungalow at Perrins Marsh Friday afternoon at 1:40. A passing truck driver spotted flames and smoke rising from the Joseph Gronski home. Franklin, Dal- las and Kunkle fire companies had the fire under control by 4 p.m. Damage amounts to several thous- ands according to Edward Dorrance, Franklin Fire Chief. He states that | the house had been vacant for sev- eral months, and that electricity had been shut off. Dedication Set At Institution Today At 2 P.M. Governor Lawrence Will Officiate At Traditional Rite Dedication of the State Correc- tional Institution at Jackson Town- ship is scheduled for today at 2PM, with Governor David Lawrence of- ficiating at laying of the corner- stone in thi administre in buill- ing. t ; ; "Two years ago in December, the New York Firm Buys Big Dallas Plant For Cash Firm Operates Other Plants In Virginia And New Jersey rubber operations for Great Amer- ican Industries of New York, an- nounced yesterday that the corp- oration has acquired Linear, In- orporated, with manufacturing fa- cilities in Dallas, and research and development laboratories in Phila- delphia. Linear Incorporated will be a { wholly owned subsidiary of Great | American Industries with sales of approximately $5,000,000 to $6,000,- 000 in specialized moulded shapes and packings catering particularly to the automotive, farm equipment, aircraft, electronic, missile, rocket {and space industries as well as to | other original equipment manufact- | urers, Mr. Groendyk stated Linear was tries for cash. r operated by Great American. Thess are: Rubatex, “% its main plant at Bedford, Vind ‘ponents for the automobile industry, prison received its first consign- ment of inmates, a token mumber, | increased gradually over the months | until it now houses its capacity | load of 972, with a staff of 274. Superintendent Frank C. John- ston states that notables have been invited. They include Attorney-Gen- eral David Stahl, former Attorney General Ann Alpern, Commissioner of Correction Arthur Prasse, mem- and officials of Luzerne County, | head of other State Institutions. The general public is invited to, exercises in the auditorium. It is asked that no children under six- teen be present. Ground was broken in January of 1955, Governor John M. Fine turning the sod for the sewage disposal system. Jobs In Health Field Plentiful There are over 150 different jobs available in the health field, Dr. C. Hayden Phillips, State Health Department medical director for this region, said this week as Health Careers Month officially: began. Dr. Phillips said there are more jobs than there are applicants in the health field in Pennsylvania as in the rest of the nation. He said the jobs range from anes- thetists to x-ray technicians. The biggest demand is for nurses, dieti- x-ray technicians. alone there are job openings for 22 specialities,” Dr. Phillips said. These job openings are: audiolo- {hearing- teacher, social work tides. | statisticians, and water pollution in- gist, accident prevention specialist, chemist, clinical psychologist, air pollution control specialist, dental hygienist, health educator, indus- trial hygienist, industrial hygiene physician, laboratory technician. Medical social worker, mine drainage engineer, nurses, nutrition- ists, physical therapists, personnel technician, sanitarians, speech and vestigators. Pamphlets giving detailed inform- ation on careers . in health are available at the Regional Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 919 Miners Bank Building, Wilkes-Barre, Dr. Phillips said. Building Picks Up Building is perking up in the Back Mountain Region. Whitesell Broth- ers have four new homes under construction and have just com- pleted four others along with addition to accommedate 12 more | shoe soling bers of the Supreme Court, elected | tians, social workers, medical tech- | nologists, physicians, dentists and | i “In the state Health Department | industry and other large industrial manufacturers; the Lorraine Rubber Company with its plant in Maywood, N. specializes J. which in processing moulded Great ‘Amerian Electronics Comp- any, a recent development, located in a new plant at Bedford, Virginia, { specializing in the manufacture of | rubber for all types of shock ab- sorbing equipment. Linear operates in a modern build- ing situated on 17 acres of land allowing room for future expansion. Mr. Groendyk said he will head the new management team. Assisted by F. A. Lewis, A. W. Swartz, Jr., P. H. Moore, and B. Gruppo. i GOOD CAMPAIGNER MRS. THOMAS VERNON No candidate for public office could have worked harder and made more friends than Mrs. Thomas Vernon of Trucksville, Republican candidate for School Director-At- Large. Well educated, a devoted mother with large community interests, Mrs, Vernon has the distinction with Welton Farrar, Wilkes College Pro- fessor, of being the first candidate to seek election in the five town- ships of the Dallas Union District. Could Be Swans Or Canadian Geese It could have been whistling swans, or it could have been Canad- ian geese swimming on Huntsville Reservoir Tuesday morning. James were. very large, swimming in the middle of the reservoir, paired off in six couples. Drivers stopped their cars to get a better look. Immature swans, agree Mrs. Arnott Jones and Edwin Johnson, have the greyish patients at Carpenter Convalescent Home. Rr plumage which Jimmie described, James G. Groendyk, head of the acquired by Great American Indus- Its operations will supplement the other rubber companies owned snd / f specializing in {closed cell rubber aid other com- rubber for use in all industries; and Kozemchak reported that the birds Y 1