72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
Oldest {Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
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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 |
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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
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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
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[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
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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 |
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» went | ately cal
Russell
volved 1}
They d
| the Riche
Britton wy
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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