py 0% island, Wuliam ~~ Dorsnefski, ¥ 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Moun tain THE DALLAS POST ORchard TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 4-5656 OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY-—FOURTEEN PAGES Footprints On The Sands Of Time | MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Christmas Cheer For Many Area Families a Record Of 1961 In Brief Extremely cold weather, 18 be- low zeio reporved at Pikes Ureek. SKing condiuons In State are finest 11 years. narveys Lake froze over Decem- er 20. : ¥ Boy Scouts, Shavertown Troop 204, enjoy survival test In Kout Houow in oitter below-zero weatner, rooert Jduitler, 1U, iractures skull in sicaqung accidedt at hunkle. baea: Cars aviuorodt, 64, Lauet. urs, mma Cragie, 41, Huniock reek Rp. Haroid Pauw Moore, 3, former orf rernvrook. Stepanen De- ‘Barry, ((, rox Hull, . YANUARNX 9, LUDL rrigid weataer continues after coluesy December on record. _ Jacqueune Hoyt, 13, Koss Town- “ship, 1ractures skull wnue coasung. iiervert Upuyke replaces Jesse Cosietc as Kingswon Township cniet or police, on a rotation or duty plan. : ) weu: Thomas R. €lemow, 51, Shav- ectown, Jomunick rajaujis, ol, Lake Sukworta, Roland €. Nolt, bb, Krankun, N.Y, James Payne, 40, 70, Lake wnukworon. Umparced, 82, Mt. Zion. Wwropleskl, bob, Dallas. JANUARY 1%, 1961 Lx-Governor Kine income tax evasion. §. Fue at Carverton destroys brood- “er house, 300 chicks, Rustlers steal 900 pound bull at Vernon, property of (erald Brown. Petty thievery rampant in area. Died: Minnie Coolbaugh, 77, Shav- ectown. Mrs, Alice Rogers, 179, Trucksville. Mrs. Beulah Freeman, Mrs. Bessie Stanley indicted for Plattsburg home of Charles Ever- etts damaged by fire. Prutzman barn collapses snow. Died: Albert M. Clifford, 63, Trucks- ville, Harry Owens, 75, Trucksville. Dixie Dornsife, 9, Goss Manor. Wal- ter Puterbaugh, 65, Shawanese. James Sutton, 69, Harveys Lake. under Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. John Newell, 53rd. Married: Carol Inman to Harold McDermott. MARCH 2, 1961 Westmoreland cagers destined for PIAA playoffs in Scranton, March 8 bowling. Death releases Mrs. Charlotte Mac- Veigh after long illness, aged 74. George Jacobs, Pennsylvania win- ner of Voice ofl Democracy, lays wreath on George tomb. jures two top brass of Linear, Lewis and Sadler. Died: Harry May, 82, Beaumont. Mrs Elizabeth Engelman, 97, Noxen. Mrs. John Southwell, Chase. Mrs. Emaret Kocher Shoemaker, Noxen native. Married: Alice Jean Piatt to Joseph C. Martin. Westmoreland girls basketball closes a perfect season, along with the varsity team. MARCH 9, 1961 Westmoreland loses to West Haz- leton in PIAA playoffs, 69-53. Died: Mrs. Frank Jackson, Harveys Lake: Gerald E. Stout, 53, Shaver- 70, Meshoppen. John Arndt, 56, Lake Silkworth. . g > Married: Linda Alan R. Root. § &#& Smelts disappear from Lake after 3 years of heavy harvest. JANUARY 19, 1961 Carrie Caperoon is stabbed in arm as pickpocket makes try for her purse in Philadelphia. Westmoreland takes Ashley 78 to a 54 erton, celebrate Golden Wedding. Died: Mrs. Maude Sutliff, 81, Trucksville. Willis Turner, 56, Sweet Valley. Margaret Knorr, Carverton. John Ide, 68, Idetown. JANUARY 26, 1961 a Two homies destroyed PA fire at Harveys Lake, Charles Casterline at Sunset, George Kanarr near Picnic Y More blizzards, more sub-zero | temperatures. : Presbyterian church for this area is planned. Martin-Fladd Engineering = firm established. . Sil, Died: Wayne Wandell, 68, Bloom- ingdale. Mrs. Mary C. Goss, 91, Red Rock. Lee Bradef, 77, Roaring Brook. Mrs. Blanche Vesler, 73, Hunlock Creek. Mrs-. Bridget Mich- alowski, Lake Silkworth. FEBRUARY 2, 1961 Proposed recreation program dis- cussed by Dr. Robert Mellman and | John Zerbe. Died: Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, 69, Balwin Street. Arthur Ehret, 68, Meeker. Mrs. Rebecca Jane Moss, nearing 84, Trucksville. Byron J. Traver. Gerard Carey, infant, Mead- owecrest. tarrics: Carol Jane Fitzgerald, to Joseph Burezyk. Josephine Radan- ovitch, to Thomas Bunney Jr. Coldest weather of the winter 5 with no let-up. Coldest anuary on record. FEBRUARY 9, 1961 Robert Bachman reelected at’ An- nual Library Meeting, Mannear, Mc- Cutcheon named auction dinner chairmen. Miss Lathrop gives final report. Blizzard over weekend, area still digging out. Died: Floyd Scouten, 59, formerly of Noxen, at Penndel. Mrs. Helen P. Warden, 69, Shavertown. John H. Clemow, Ohio. William Wright, 77, fatally injured in a car accident at Noxen. Married: Betty Fink Henning, form- erly of Shavertown, to William . Heilig, Orchard Park, N. Y. Westmoreland cagers licks Lake- \i@.chman, for eighth straight win. Edward Morgan buys Overbrook Water Company. FEBRUARY 16, 1961 Borough Council adopts $3 per capita tax, refuses usual payment of $300 to Library set collection commission at 5%, year. r Leslie Warhola stricken with part- ial stroke while driving home alone from Pittston. Dallas school board equalize per- centage of tax collection for all districts to take effect in 1962: 2% for prepayment, 3 for net, 4 for pen- | alty. 3 Civil War roundtable names J. F. Sallada president. Died: Anna Laincz, former resident of Harveys Lake. Mrs. Lucy Kline, 54, Noxen, Willard Gregory, Muhl- enberg. Charles Wilkie, 62, Noxen. Westmoreland still tops league. All | wins to date. FEBRUARY 23, 1961 Westmoreland takes 12 straight | games, At school: Harry Haas, Kunlle, | gets concussion falling from audi- | Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parsons, Carv- | same as last | 0 e. Jr. 42, Meadow- : ' Hunter, 65. Sweet 34, Sweet Val- SP rs. Mrs. Lizzie Bilby, '87, Huntington Mills, Seymofir Eveland, 73, Lake las. Mrs. Jennie Boice, Sugar Hollow is 89. Married: Grace Thomas, Kingston, to David Ide, Dallas RD 4. Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stroud, Sweet Valley RD, Golden Wedding. Ocelot panics Shavertown . . . in imagination. Was in cellar all the time. MARCH 16, 1961 Daniel Zimmerrrym 28 Qnorhrook Road, is killed in the Luzerne toy | factory explosion that rocked the | Back Mountain. Both parties announce complete tickets for Primaries. Married: Ruth Phillips Jones, Daniel Federici. Died: William H. Post, 79, Sweet Valley native. Arthur E. Marth, 48, Trucksville, Amos Hoover, 75, Rug- gles. Mrs. Amanda Brink, 61, Sweet to ton Mills. A & P building nears completion, MARCH 23, 1961 William T. Morris Foundation. March 30, 1961 Library Board honors memory of Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, seeks new librarian to replace Miriam Lathrop, Mrs Lottie Hess, 48, Sweet Valley. | Cliff Garris gets perfect score in Washington's | Three car crash on highway in- | ella White, 80, Noxen. | Silkworth. Mrs. Daniel Cowen, Dal-| Postoffice and Wyoming National Valley. Edna Harrison, 54, Hunting- | shopping center due to open in June. Library recipeint of $500 from | | who is retiring in the fall. | Died: Elmore Turrell, 78, summer | | resident of Noxen, in Florida. Mrs. ! Catherine Phipps, 66, Dallas. Harold L. Holmes, 55, Mt. Zion, Mrs. Lillie | E., Belles, 75, Trucksville. | Married: Carolyn Dickson, to Rob- | MARCH 30, 1961 Teen-age toughs from Wilkes Barre steal guns at Lake, threaten | | woman in Dallas. Honeywell makes | § arrest. | | Died. Mrs. Sterling Williams, 71, | | Dallas. Mrs Sarah DeWitt, 66, | Trucksville. Miss Anna Holcomb, 81, | Shavertown invalid. Mrs. Gwen Roushey, 82, Dallas. Stanley A. Gery, | Harveys Lake. } Shavertown is League champion, | defeating Huntsville 60 to 47. Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur | J. Webb, 59th. Edward Master, | Sweet Valley, 90th birthday. Dallas Acme opens remodelled up- | to-date store. APRIL 6, 1961 Mrs. John Girvan gets PTA life | | membership, for founding Dallas | { Township PTA in 1930. 53 Dallas Cub ‘Scouts ‘sworn in as junior deputy sheriffs. Dog-catchers are busy. | Nancy Wolfe, Betty Jean Davis, | in State Chorus. ! { Married Ira Frantz, Mrs. Minnie | { Redline. Thomas E. Williams, Lois | | Vanderhoff, : | Died: Dennis Bonning, 61, Jackson | | Township chief of police. Mrs. Luc- | | inda Brong, 83, Evans Falls, Doug- | | las Evans, Sutton Creek Road. Mrs. | Anna Noll Parry, 63, Luzerne. Mrs. | Harriet Richards, 43, Luzerne. APRIL 13, Dallas Schools accept budget of | $1,087,250. | Lease for Postoffice town signed, $7,000 annually. Old Acme store, to be divided between in Shaver- | | Bank. Died: Frances Pike Schooley, 83, | | Noxen. Mrs. Josephine Felter, 54, formerly of Noxen. Mrs. Tressa Race, 70, Center Moreland. Clyde Stev- ens, 54, Loyalville. William H. | Condon, 89, Beaumont. Mrs. Rena | Rood, 88, Broadway. Floyd Boyer, 84, Endicott, N. Y. Lindsey Wash- | burn, 57, son of the late Mr. and | | Mrs, William O. Washburn at Bryn | | Wawr. Adam Skovich, 85, Sylvan | Lake, Homer Whitesell, 63, Hunlock | ' Creek, Mae Lamoreaux Ross, 82, Sweet Valley. Anniversary. fiftieth, Mr. and Mrs. | William Davis, Dallas. Twenty-fifth, | Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Ide. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Cooke, fiftieth, Mr. i and Mrs. Ray 'Shiber, fifty-fifth. Married: Lois Vanderhoff to Thomas | E. Williams, [ | (more next week) | { NOTICE Because of the New Year Holiday, will ministers, school writers, correspondents please mail all or part ef their news to the Post early enough to be set in type on Saturday? The remainder must be in the office Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. ¢ Please cooperate. | | | ert Spudis. | § 1961 bo Packing Christmas baskets Wom. - day night in the basement of the | George Searfoss home, members of | the Basket Committee of Harveys Lake Woman's Service Club ar- ranged for cheer and food baskets for their area, some baskets con- taining complete Christmas dinners, Seek Hit-Run Driver State Police are seeking a hit- { and-run driver who sideswiped the automobile of Richard Grieshaber, | owner of Continental Inn, Tuesday night at 10 near Dallas Shopping | Center. {an annual project of the Harveys | baskets are packed and sent an- Mr. and Mrs. ' Grieshaber were Lake Woman's Service Club. This nually, driving toward Dallas to see the project has grown over the fifteen | The baskets pictured represent the Christmas lights. Mrs. Harvey Kitchen, Mrs. George | some of them gay reminders of the | Searfoss, and Mrs. Ivan Steinruck, season. for shut-ins. Deliveries rere made on Tuesday Reading from left to right, and by Mesdames Malcolm Nelson, Del- up to their elbows in oranges, ap- | mar Wintersteen, Charles Williams, ples, groceries and Christmas green- | Carrie Rood, Earl Crispell Ralph ery, are Mrs. Albert Armitage, Mrs. | Lutes, Mildred Darnell, and [Fred Clarence Swire, Mrs, Wilfred Ide, | Dodson. photo by Kozemchak ‘Harveys Lake Women's Service Club Packs Christmas Baskets Packing of Christmas Baskets is organized until an average of 150 ‘years that the Club has been | many hours of work as each is Keeping Posted ST. JOHN’S LODGE No. 233 F. and AM. Pittston will hold its 114 annual banquet at Irem Temple Country Club January 10 at 7. Reservations may be made by calling Stanley Salavantis, chairman. PENNSYLVANIA INDUSTRIAL Development Authority has given final approval to two loan requestssfrom the Committee of 100 Ing., of Wilkes-Barre; one for $15,000 representing 30 percent of the cost of improvements for. plant occupied by Leslie-Henry Company, | the other: for $48,000 representing 40 percent of the cost of an‘ad- ditional to: the plant of Metropolitan Wire Goods Company EIGHTEEN B. G. COON Construction Co. employees were cited for safe-driving achievements at the firm’s Christmas Party held Presentations were made by G. F. Fritzen, PMA safety engineer and A, Harden Coon, Jr., vice president of the firm. ST. JOHN’S DAY Banquet of George M. Dallas Lodge 531 F. and A.M. will be held at Irem Temple Country Club January 23 at 6:30. FAMILY OF THE LATE COL. DORRANCE REYNOLDS has made available to Wyoming Historical and Geological Society the remain- ing unpublished volumes of the famed Susquehannah Company Papers which will possibly be published. Dr. Julian Boyd, librarian of Princton University, assembled the material. Four volumes have at Continental Inn. previously *been published. TWO BOOKS of unusual interest to historically-minded resi- dents of Luzerne County are: “A General of the Rvolution: John | Sullivan of New Hampshire” by Charles P, Whittmore and “Indians | by P. A. W. Wallace may be purchased from | Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. Both are excellent should | In Pennsylvania” be in every local home library. packed to meet the requirements | of the individual who will receive | it. The Cheer Baskets contain that { which will cheer the hearts of our | | aged and shut-ins. A Food Basket | supplies the Christmas dinner for | a needy family of our area. Homemade cookies, toys, canned goods and treats are donated by the members, Merchants donate toys whenever possible, and other treats such as fruit, candies, tobacco ana small gifts are purchased in whole- I sale lots. oq The Harveys Lake Lions contri- | bute $100. toward the project and | several smaller amounts of money | have been gratefully received from | friends of the Club. The money will | be used to defray expenses, Headquarters for the project for | the last two years has been the | basement workshop. of the Service | Chairman, Mrs. George Searfoss. i SURPLUS FOOD | Surplus Food for the Back Moun- tain will be distributed Thursday, January 11, at Trucksville Fire Hall, 9 am, to 2 pm. Bring Containers. | | | | | | { torium stage at Jr. High School. Following their long established | community at a Christmas Party at ing Santa Claus. John ‘Stahl’s thumb mangled when caught in car door. custom, members of Dallas Rotary [Prince of Peace Parish Hall, Every- | : | Club entertained youngsters of the | body had a wonderful time includ- | leadership and interest in youth, see | Graduate of Dallas Schools, George | Student Exchange program. For more about the local club's from the Philippines on page 2. A !in foreign countries under Rotary's | Foreign competition, Rotary Works With Youth At Home And Abroad | | { { | George Jacobs’ Christmas Greetings | is one of 5 Dallas students studying | od, i — fom pe a { Indicatop. during 3962, { coming slowly, VOL. 73, NO. 52, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961 Roger Babson Looks Forward To 1962 As Being A Better Year Than 1961 Forsees Neither Nuclear War Nor Total Disarmament—Fall Out Shelters Silly 1. I am hopeful for 1962; it should be a better year for my readers than 1961. Industrial pro- duction will exceed that of 1961, 2. There will be neither a nu- clear war nor total disarmament in 1962. Considerable progress may be made toward a ban on atomic weapons. 3. Some thirty stocks may reach an average of 1000 during 1962, al- though these will not necessarily be the thirty Dow-Jones stocks, 4. Retail trade will make new records during 1962. Increased newspaper advertising, especially in colors, will be a great boon to mer- chandising. 5. Commodity prices will act erratic during 1962. Agricultural prices will be held up by legislation, but many metals will sell for less. 6. The official cost-of-living fig- ure will rise slightly in 1962, but there may be scandal in Washing- ton over how this figure is calcu- laked or adjusted. The real increase in the cost-of-living will be due to increased wages demanded. 7. The only certain shortages during 1962 will be in land suitable for parking places and waterfront property readily accessible to build- ing lots; also for automobile “grave- yards” near cities which have been zoned. 8. The building of shelters will look silly before the end of 1962. Certainly the [Federal Government will not underwrite the building of private shelters of individual fami- lies. 9. Good real estate must rise in price as the population increases. Elementary mathematics determ- ines the price of suburban real estate. This is notwithstanding the claim of the “space companies” which are said %o be interested in selling rights on the moon. There probably are crazier speculations. 10. While the land on which | your house now stands should in- crease in value during 1962, the building itself depreciates from the | moment when it is first occupied. A possible exception would be cer- | tain very attractive ranch houses painted in color. 11. Automobile production will be the most important statistical This applies to both the number of automobiles and their sales value, We now have no reliable figures for the latter. 12. We will gradually approach an average of two cars for every family. The life of automobiles should gradually increase. The per- centage of destroyed will decrease in 1962, 13, Automobiles and gasoline will be, increasingly, sources for raising money by taxation. These means will be extended to include an additional assessment on the manufacturers of automobiles. 14. Taxes, as a whole, will con- tinue to increase in 1962 for every | i family, Business net taxes, how- ever, will decrease in 1962, through the granting of deprecia- tion refunds which can be done by | Executive order. The manufacturer may greatly increase his deductions for past investments and new ma- chinery, plant, and equipment. Douglas Dillon feels that such tax reductions will increase the pur- chase of new equipment, develop greater efficiency, and result in a net improvement in the employ- ment situation. This ¥ good news for 1962. 15. Speculation in real estate and securities will be active during 1962; Hit good children will gradu- ally be recognized as the best in- vestment. Young people will be married earlier and will want to have large families. 16. Public education will gradu- ally be reorganized during the years ahead. Schoolhouses will be built as places to ‘park the kids” while the parents are at work. New schoolhouses will be built so as not to be over one story high, with lots of sunshine. 17. Owing to the ldck of airport facilities and to inadequate equip- ment, there will be increasing air- plane accidents during 1962. 18. With all the above changes, plus increased public improvements and longer vacation periods, fami- lies must save somehow and cut somewhere, I think it will begin in 1962 with clothing. This will gradu- ally become cheaper and more at- tention will be paid to color. 19. The time is approaching when the weaving of cloth will be greatly curtailed.: Clothes will be made like paper. Plastic coats are already on the market. These are produced by feeding ‘the cellophane into a machine which cuts to de- sired sizes and bonds (not sews) the material into beautifully fin- ished goods of different colors. 20. We will hear more . about automation during 1962. cost of building automatic factories is so great that the change is has been overemphasized. 21. There need be no unemploy- | ment among steel workers during 1962. ment But Government unemploy- figures will remain high. due to low wages abroad, will be an important Ta == : . a aia: automobiles annually | But the Even electronics | o> Carl Updyke, 32, {illed As Car Crashes Store Korean War Veteran Has Broken Neck End Fractured Skull On his way to Warminster after visiting his parents in Kunkle, Carl (Kiler) Updyke, 32, was instantly killed Tuesday night shortly after 10, when his car left the curve in Luzerne just before reaching the traffic light, crashed into a tree, and tore into the porch of a small vacant store housed in a dwelling. Attempts to rescue the victim from the badly crushed car by use of jacks, took fifteen minutes. Up- dyke’s neck wash roken and his skull fractured. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Nesbitt Hospital. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Updyke, were informed of the trag- edy shortly before 11, after author- ities had checked with Herbert Updyke, Kingston Township chief of police, a second cousin of the de- ceased. Mr. Updyke, an experienced truck driver and mechanic for Buckman Truck Co., Doylestown, had driven up from the Philadelphia area in the morning to get a tractor-trailer back on the road in Benton. Fin- ishing the job, he drove to Kunkle to see his parents before taking the Turnpike back to Warminster. Kiler, a native of Dallas, was wounded in Korea September 9, 1950. His outfit, the 24th Division, | was almost wiped out in the front line. Kiler was in the hospital in | Tokyo for months, then was brought | to the United States and spent more time at Valley Forge Military Hos- pital, well over a year in all. He - entered the service shortly after graduating from Dallas Township High School. The young man was the only He was born September 8, 1929. Two years ago he moved to War- minster with his wife, the former | Catherine Steffney of Philadelphia, and two children, Arlene and Pal- mer. | Also surviving are three sisters: | Mrs. George Hackling, Kunkle; Mrs. | Victor Payne, Philadelphia; Mrs. | Jerry Scott, who is flying in from | Boston, Massachusetts. Services will be held Saturday | afternoon at 2, Rev. Roland Updyke | officiating at the Nulton Funeral |Home. Burial will be at Warden Cemetery. Friends may call Friday afternoon and evening. factor, Women will prefer to work in air-conditioned factories and have their home pantries filled with precooked foods. 22, Labor unrest will grow in extent and power. The Kennedy Administration is friendly to union leaders and their demands. There will be demands for more “fringes” in 1962. IA steel strike is possible. 93. This means that with in- creased taxes, prices of retail pro- ducts will be higher. This will be blamed on “inflation” of money; but it will be due to inflation of living standards. ; 24. The real value of the dollar will decline slightly during 1962, due to the decrease in the produc- tivity of.labor, The electronics in- dustry will temporarily suffer in 1962 if atomic warfare is outlawed. But otherwise the electronics in- dustry will increase for some years to come and hold up the dollar value. Watch polymer chemicals and “epoxy” cements. 25. There will be enough money for mortages insured by the Federal Housing Administration in 1962. Plenty of money will be available for mortgages guaranteed by the Veterans Administration, although this supply varies with different sec- tions of the country. Interest rates on conventional loans not having any government guarantees will be a little higher. Real estate people will worry about the public's desire to build, rather than about their obtaining mortgage money. 26. The kilowatt hours of elec- tricity produced in 1962 will exceed the total, of any previous year. This is favorable to utility preferreds. 27. Steel production in 1962 will exceed this year’s 100 million tons, but the increase will come from producing steel in colors. 28. Cement production will be about the same in 1962 as in 1961, but the industry's capacity to pro- ‘duce is increasing too rapidly in view of the. demand. The cement manufacturers must give more at- tention to colors. 29. Expenditures for plant and increase, equipment in 1962 will supplemented by large appropria- tions for repainting factories and of- | fices in many colors, EV eae Cs “4 soir Of Pabmer and dArlema Updyize: