72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest {Business Institution Back of the Mountain A TEN CENTS PER COPY_TWENTY PAGES PopulationBulge R oherts Home First To Move To Make Room Will Hit Sel ior H.S. In The Fall Enrollment nt 22 Will Far Exceed Original Estimiate Enrollment in Dallas kerio High | School ten years from, now may | reach 649, according a estimates | i | | | | {| | { | offered by W. Frank Trimble, prin- | cipal, at Tuesday nights ‘meeting | fof the school board iry the high | school library Enrolimertt for this | year, projected as 384, vihen plans | is actually 478, and 4 i ED is now located a block up bulge passing up through tthe grades | Main Street, on a corner lot at and Junior High School, ‘Will reach | the intersection of Main and Orch- high school next Septem vr, when ard. The Henry Evans house ac- approximately 90 extra students will | quired its next door neighbor on enter, Thursday when the two-story house, The passing of the! bulge fr om | Minus its front steps, its bacic Junior High School will result in porch, and its chimney, was de- slightly lessened enrollmen$ there, livered to the front of the new reported John Rosser, principfal. This | 10: easing of the situation will mean | Sidewalk superintendents gath- that no extra teachers Willol nocd. | ered, shivering, as the heavy chain ed on the Junior High Sched} level. | tightened and the fourth generation Private school transfers: ea feteney forecast. i {| William H. Shiber eased the tow- ing truck into slow motion. Third | generation Charles H. Shiber, ex- plaining that he was on a busman’s holiday, but was unable to .stay away from a moving job, directed operations from the ground. The truck took up the slack of the chain like a heavy yoke of oxen in operation, one inch at a time, The house quivered and start- | ed to move, swiging ponderously to bypass the utility pole. Robert Mellman, in his Super ae report, asked for {three extra teachers for the Semior| High | School: one for mathematicst - one for English and social studiesy one for Science. The board approved, | also approving hiring of three tcach- ers for elementary schools, but ivot- | ted down employment Of ‘a {fall time relief teacher for elemengary school principals. One of the three teachers is already a fulltig® substi- [ries caught on the shingles, and gare. : : a man from U.G.I. erected a ladder » William A. Austin, Flomentry | | to free them. Supervisor, pointed out another hue moving up trove: eget Tro Pounds 7 Ounces At Birth ment of 220, sections at Westmores | ind we evemevied wir Haar Collett Spare Is Six Months Old @ ers handle the load. Seven teacheks are assigned to the third ‘grade: enrollment 219. In the fifth grade, with only six teachers and enreli- ment of 211, classes are out of line with State directives, reaching 34, 36, 38 pupils, far too many for gi teacher to handle effectively. Shifts of the student population said Mr. Austin, plus employment of extra teachers, will help. Tt" i planned tentatively that only sha 1 ertowin child: "en will attend thd | Slavertown school. At Westmoie land, an additional fifth and sixtht grade will be added. Kindergarten enrollment is 24%, separated into eight sections, two morning sections having 38 children each. Total elementary enrollment fis} & 1525 Special education classes at West- moreland have 19 children. At | Junior High School, 24. Ten ninth [i .. grade special education children |# : " will be ready to pass on to the} Born three months prematurely senior high school building next | (at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital on year. | August 14, Colleen Spare, daughter | CAFETERIA {$f Mr. and Mrs. Gail Spare, Dallas For December, the cafeteria |} D. 3 will be five months old on showed, figures in the black for the : unday—and she’s doing very nice- first time this year. The cafeteria, Ng embarking on the new satellite sys=4#l When Colleen arrived that sum- tem in September, working with without standardized operational Weighing only two pounds seven methods, lost during September, of mces, but that was really buxom | October and November. Profit for fo » her weight was soon to drop to December was $265.91. fle pound eight ounces after she During December, surplus food s.placed in an isolette. During of ground beef; 55 of chicken; 154, pper, one drop every hour. of flour, 25 of butter; 18 of dry! She remained in the isolette un- | beans; 23 of cheese; 35 of saurkraut. LL her weight reached three and Business manager Thomas Jenks ia halt pounds when she was trans- | d h Futch W- fo Sr oh bb all ‘Elects Officers ins reported a daily average of stu-4 | fefired to another part of the ma- ® dent lunches served as 1637. : ity hospital. At the cafeteria in Dallas Junior iAffer 107 days in the hospital High School, where three thirty shi. was permitted to come home on minute lunch periods handle the|Newvember 29 weighing five pounds » enrollment, teachers, said Mr. Ros-{ififtieen ounces, far less than the students, but have a teachers’ tabléfdagy when they are born. reserved for them. INSURANCE Two major switches in places | ment of insurance were made nec 3 essary by results of November elec: § tions. Paul Steinhauer of Franklin Township, whose wife now is a member of the schoolboard, was same ruling applied to Verne Prit- of chard, recently elected tax collector for Kingston Township. Voted tof be placed with Edward W. Hartman cor) hmerical banks which held their was the $37,000 formerly handled ai anal meetings this week, are by Steinhauer; with Arthur Gay train this area $30,000 formerly by Mr. Pritchard Three master policies for insur ance on the senior high school were voted to Fred Malkemes, Har- old E. Flack Agency, and J. S. Rinehimer, $450,000 each. Allotted to brokers Malkemes, Flack and # from the Back Mountain. They A. Harden Coon, Huntsville; suring agents, $205,000, $205,000, Pool, Huntsville; Harrison Dr. Mellman asked for employs: ment of a competent maintenance of all buildings, pointing to good | and H. Melvin Vivian. results obtained from employment 3 : ingway. The new high school, he said, is more expensive to operate with constant supetvision. College Misericordia will use room at Dallas Borough School ReAcres. Newell (Continued on Page 6 A) en: T. for the new high school fwere laid, The Leroy Roberts home in Fern- | beams supported the house on one! know. end, a steel-tired dolly with broad | “Oh. tread, spanned by heavy railroad | Shiber iron, in front, house movers run nimbly under | the house, grasp the steering levers | of individual dollies, and crouching. J © to the task, move up the street as g a unit. ot be | of house-movers in the person of | swung clear of its former location and straightened out for climb up Main Street. house-movers,” he explained. Tabor Wednesday at Nesbitt Hos- | the minimum of surplus food and! Pital, she barely tipped the scales, | ser, eat at the same time as their Fusyial' weight for infants on the |i "Whe Back Mountain region is ineligible to continue as agent. The well represented on the directorates | Wyoming Valey financial insti- “tu ions. In some instances the ma- | oifity of board members of the | Hillside Road, Trucksville; Raymon sbeven of fhe twenty members of "théd Board of First National Bank A William L. Conyngham, Trucks- 5ll W. Frantz, East Dallas; - lin J. Gager, Goss Manor; h Rinehimer, for reallotment to reins Nesbitt, Lake Catalpa; J. and $204,000 respectively. BWith, Shrineview; and Atty. MISCELLANEOUS Townend, Yeager Avenue. 0 of the nine-member Hanover | a 1 ! ha! Board are neighbors on man to oversee repairs and upkeep i 11ill Road, Dallas; Robert E. Frank H Fthe ecighteen-member board of om : . of a cafeteria manager, Spank Hem 1 National Bank are: Z. SBennett, Huntsville; Rulison |" Huntsville; Judge Thomas 7 § g as than all the other Brite —_ Wis, Elmcrest; Frank Martz, i i tept up bined,: and, it must. be kept ul 1D-1105 and George Ruckno, on National's eleven mem- Pard includes six Back Moun- Wood, Harv- MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION The truck took up the slack again, | to be lowered to permit passage | road, and the house swung its nose into of the house. | place, the street. | “How much does that house | Rubber-tired dollies bearing twin | weigh?” one spectator wanted to| about sixty tons,” Mr. estimated, “but that's pea- | | nuts compared with some build- | | ings we've moved, some of them | brick. We just got through moving | three houses from one side of the’ Spectators gasped when they saw was a double block and plenty ” [Tons and one of those houses Mr. Shiber beamed as the house heavy. The truck cautiously went into then shuddered to a stop. ‘Lets have some sand here,” was the i call. “My father and grandfather were “My father Charles was in busi- ness with his father James, and Only by watching the skyline then when I was big enough, 1} could the forward motion be noted. helped. And mow it's my son that’s helping me. He's general manager, but I come along for the ride. Couldn’t keep me away, especially | patch of soft snow along the ditch, |if the job's in Dallas. I know so |dug in several inches. The steering convoy under the house inched steadily forward. or New High?¥ | Iron plates and stout planks guid- | street before we started the actual | years, that § | ed the house across the ditch that fronted the new The Stop sign at the foot of Moin) | Street appeared again, | the entire intersection with the high- , as the house was eased back | and a small truck took its | “Can it do the job?” “It doesn’t have to. in, we'll use a block and tackle.” operations = started at { that baffled #i 9:40. Less than three hours later,| Held for dh the house was snugged into its new | ile Court, are Shiber buttoned up | Lehmang and John Kubasti, | Avenug | guarding the intersection with Pion- | IT, hauled his red flag las. through the window of his car, and tackle was at-| close to the tached to a ground. The small to take up the slack by means of a drum. The heavy line tautened, | and the house inched forward again, | the convoy beneath the house work- mad to steer the sunken | dolly out of the ditch. The shovel | brigade worked desperately. | his overcoat, And it was only then that visit- ing firemen discovered what was | | still to come. Casualties: Half a dozen mailb/ by passage o | projecting beam; and a broken w | dow in the Roberts home, spli ered when a utility truck ladd gave it a glancing blow. The Michaels, and the Kings, and, the Phippses inspected the damage | to the mailboxes. Henry Evans put | away his camera. Charles Young- waiting with the school bus, in case the truck needs a robbery few more ounces of power, Z + and left the scene. in turn The house was not going to re- | main on that level lot. It was going to be eased back so that it would be on a line with ! the Evans house next door, | it would need a high basement un- | ay to the other up at Key- | i strain. The dolly worked its way up the grade and was i ground again. gear again, and the house moved, | Sidewalk superintendents relaxed, | and small children were taken home | to get warm. A lineman speared his way up | loosen another | set of wires. The house moved pon- | derously past with a scream wood meeting wood. “Oh yes,” Mr. Shiber said, “We've had those footings in there for sev- . We'll have to build up a basement wall to meet the house, | and there'll double garage underneath with a | | nice overhead door.” It looked pretty deep. | meantime, what will One of the rear dollies struck a | And the reporter from the Dallas completely solidified in the] wind, drove home to thaw you be using | many people out this way.” Very close to the intersection now. Folks were without power for a {A conference. time, as wires along the way had | The truck went bumbling up the Entire Back Mountain Community Will Rolly To Help Lehman Wrestler With Broken Neck . Tony Groblewski eam | | at once from his leaving a waiting room filled with | patients to examine him and pre- In serious condition at Geisinger | Medical Center in Danville is Fred cervical vertebra in a wrestling nasium. Nerves were not severed. elbow. Taken immediately Thursday night | | class with Gail Bedford, Tunkhan- | nock High Scheol Junior, Fred und- ginning at 4 p.m. Friday. A trach- | On December 15 when she was | €otomy was done earlier Thursday four fonths old, Colleen weighed night as a preventitive of possible | seven and a half pounds. Now al- | cessation of breathing, and x-rays | most a month ‘later she weighs | were also taken. eight pounds six ounces, is 18 | [He has a chance of recovery but inches long, and is gaining stead- | rehabilitation will be long and ex- | ily. | pensive. | Blue-eyed Colleen is the first| Discussing the accident, Assistant | child of Mr. and Mrs. Spare. Her | Wrestling Coach John Zalaskas of mother was the former Renee Poep- | Lehman-Lake, said it was a per- | perling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | fectly legal hold. “It was a reverse William Poepperling of Carverton. | Nelson followed by a roll. I have Colleen is the Popperling’s first | seen it used hundreds of times. | grandchild | The boys were well on the mat at Mr, Spare is the son of Mr, and! all times. It was just one of those was received in quantity: 41 cases | Ts days she was fed with a| Mrs. Harry Spare of Wyoming | things.” He bad the highest praise | | R.D.3 and is with Suburban Gas | Company of Pittston. R al B ildi as great grandparents are | ura ul Ing Mrs. Agnes Futch, Carverton Road, | parents | those who prayed for her, and | helped her daddy and mommy dur- | Dr. F. Budd Schooley was elect- | ing the trying period when she | ed president of Rural Building and | was about the littlest to set foot | Loan Association at Hs. annudl jn the Atomic Age. | meeting Monday night in the Direc- | National Bank. lack Mountain Well Represented “or Sie acct sre 20. Richardson, vice-president, and G. in Wyoming Valley Bank Boards | iio. soma | The Association has received ap- | eys Lake; Joseph H. MacVeigh, | proval of its stock holders and the Center Hill Road; Robert R. Evans, | State Department of Banking to | establish its headquarters in the 2 ralville: 5 R. Hedden, Loyalville; James L. | rom ihe hank ~ownle ucksvil arias | Brownlee, Trucksville, and Charles | ; Edward W. Hall | Directors are: Frantz, Chase. Howard Isaacs, Thomas P. Garrity, | On the twenty-five member Min- | I,. I. Richardson, William H. Bak- ers Bank Board are: Frank Burn-| er, Jr., F. Allan Nichols, Thomas | side, Harveys Lake; J. B. Carr, |G. Reese, G. Wilbur Nichols, Gran- Trucksville; Harry F. Goeringer, | ville H. Sowden, W. B. Jeter, Dr. | East Dallas; Homer B. Moyer, Leh- F. B. Scchooley, Frederick J. Eck, man Avenue, and J. Harry Vivian, ' Burt B. Lewis, Sheldon T. Evans, vice president in charge of the | Herbert H. Hill. Dallas office. | On the board of first National | lin Farm Cows Bank of Wyoming is J. P. DeWitt, | Ste 9 vice president, Elmcrest. Set High Records a ¥ | Nine Sterling Farm guernsey Enybody See This Dog? | cows recently completed official A large, frolicsome, collie-type | : : puppy six months old took off last | Pennsylvania State University. Tuesday from. Forty-Second Street, Sterling Florella, senior three- just before dark, and has not been | year old, produced 644 pounds of seen since. A family pet, and the |fat in 305 days, Sterling Lynn, | little girl who owns him is deso- | senior four-year old, 641 pounds late. See the Trading Post. His of fat in 285 days. Other records Christmas collar turned out to be! show amounts varying from 598 too small, so he wears no identifica- | pounds down to 444. tion. It's cold for dogs, even well| Senator Andrew J. Sordoni is a coats, i tle Club, “We'll swing he onl: of | to hold up the house? ig in, “Lots of timbers that ditch vig the iron plates.” | arrangement was elected chairman of the Fund. | Elected to the Control Board were principal of Lake : ih | Building; Anthony Marchakitus, high id Thomas Longmore, wrestling coach; Richard Williams, yand James Worth. Many ways or raising money were |d discussed including door-to-door so- | L. Hennebaul, 17, member of Lake- | | Lehman High School Wrestling Team | : | who suffered a crushed fourth | : | school principal; Nesbitt Memorial Hospital and then | at once to Danville. Head Coach Thomas | and assistant | match with Tunkhannock Thursday | | night at Lehman High School gym- | John Zelaskas who | have visited Freddy at the Clinic | is full of pluck, his | 1A concern being -his-family and | \[ that everything is going well at | home. He is a brave boy. | | He is completely paralyzed from | the neck down, but is now ‘able | | to speak Andie take some normal nourishment, Yesterday he was re- | i ported to have had some muscular | movement between his shoulder and | school and This ators ay night “all proceeds. f Back Mountain Church |} 00 | League Basketball games will go to | 4 the fund with all officials and oth- | ers contributing their services. Ayr During the week funds have also poured in from Fred's school friends: | $50 from Letterman’s Club; $148.20 at Lake Building; | $209.80 from Lehman Building; $50 | from the wrestling team with othey collections being made from meph bors of the football and basketBhll Freddy is a member of the Junior | Class and is one of five . and Mrs. Walter Hennebaul | of High School Road, Harveys Lake. is the operator-prop- + of the Texaco Gasoline Sta- at Trucksville. Although medical expenses up to | $3,500 will be covered by the school insurance policy which Freddy car- ried at an expense of $4 per school is believed that | habilitation will far | to Geisinger after a neck injury | while wrestling in the 165-pound | from students erwent a five-hour operation per- | formed by Neuro-surgeon Foote be- FRED L. HENNEBAUL » brother, Walter dr., now employed at Service, was on the Lehman Wrest- | ling team four years ago; his sis- | graduated as a top | last year from Lehmang schools where she was voted Gir at Lake Building; Peggy, is in thin grade at Lake School. He has four-month old baby sister whg | for the sportsmanship and feeling of young Bedford who cried as hel limp opponent lifted | on a sheet of plywood, to stretcher, head Jmmobilized by bags filled with | and salt and carried fr om | L the gymnasium to Se Waldny Leh- | man Ambulance satched ‘his night more than wrestling fans and neighbors met. at Lehman High School to set up the | Fred Hennebaul | Pan, Among them were Mr. and Bedford who had come over | from Tunkhannock to lend their as- taken | | sistance with a substantial contri- | incapacitated by a heart condi | necessitating Barbara’s staying b to assist her mot younger sister, Every precaution had been the gymnasium. to prevent: any before - Fred Elected er Harveys Lake | this year ‘Tracy On TV ‘This Sunday cy, Broadway and Holly r, who has many friend i Mountain Area, will g | pear on selovision this Sunday ey Marguerite was one of four home- | ning at 7:30 on the “Follow making students from Lake-Noxen | gyn” building to have exhibits at Richard Williams, Lake Student's Dress Wins At Farm Show Marguerite Hackling, Noxen, stu- | homemaking depart- ment of Lake-Noxen schools first place with her evening gown State Farm Show i risburg this week. program over Channel 16, HCY Robert M. Scott of | a telephoned con-! California Monday | tors Room of Dallas Branch, Miners | | the told his uncle; Caroline | Trycksville, Bonnie Gennetts, | versation from 5, and Eileen Crane cot- Mr. Tracy said that he will be on | | the program for a ss. He also said that he , Helen, will appear on Here's Hollywood program some-| “Here's Hollywood” api] | pears on Channel 28 every aftery noon at 4:30 except Saturday has already beg he and H sit designed and own entries. | not attend the Show. Dairymen's League To Have Dimner Centermoreland Dairymens League ! | Besecker Building across the street meeting Saturday, January 13 in the old Schoolhouse. There will be special music, door and a free dinner | members and Lee will also be on HOMER B. MOYER | added that he hi | in California afl | president and Ln since Jan- | uary of 1960, elected director Parish Meeting Jan. 17 Annual Parish meeting of br ince | Peace Episcopal starting wih. at 6:30. Meet. | Churchwomen, | : will not be -. Moyer was employed by Citi- Wilkes Barre cov vered dish supper 3 : | slated for January 16, production records supervised by Miners National, where he had from 1925 until is a graduate of Pennsylvania State and LaSalle Extension | r is a member | ‘Police Warning investigating Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce and treasurer of Back Mountain Lib~ » is married to the former Josephine Brotherton of upholstered ones wearing golden tan | member of American Guernsey Cat- | Forty | windows were broken out by air|Sa Dallas Township police have |g again warned parents that they will | be held responsible for t i er handling of bee b 9 Held At Ri Dall Lead Thu Shortly out last Police w(p¥ . mation “hat sion of three who a mitted the’ L. I.. Ric] previous Sun) It was the { Past have hg end | vie » went | ately cal Russell volved 1} They d | the Riche Britton wy —— | ing frequ€ ther: 7. they ransackeu room by the li matches. They took lazs from Robert Ric ser, the Dickinson ring, a pair of cu cigarette lighters, ¢ and a fifth of win part of home The silver do 1889, were traded | Atlantic Gasoline las for five dollar loot was divided a five-district’ im- Part of the bottle athletic | consumed behind 4 Ane in Dal ra Huston’s Feed little more than | at the into
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