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Menemy by the expansion of Re-
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‘its own direct current as a by-pro- |
| Ruckno Heads p
‘Savings ahd Loan Association; and
Glen Alden May
Be Interested
In Noxen Plant
Engineers Discuss
‘Power Requirements
With Light Company
It has-been learned from reliable
sources that Glen Alden Corpor
ation has shown some interest,
along with other prospects, in the |
closed ' Armour Leather Company
Tannery at Noxen.
Glen® Alden is engaged in many
other activities beside coal mining.
Recently engineers from Glen
Alden discussed power facilities for
industry, with L. E. Kingsley, gen-
eral manager of Harveys Lake |
Light Company, which supplies
electricity in the Noxen area.
For a number of years the
Armour Tanning Company supplied |
duct of its big steam and heating
plant which furnished the large
amount of steam required for tan.
ning purposes. The power plant
consumed forty tons of anthracite |
coal per week.
More recently Harveys Lake Light
Company has furnished alternating |
current for some installations at
the Noxen plant. !
“It is possible” Mr. Kingsley |
said, ‘that any new tenant at]
Noxen might not produce its own |
electricity in the present steam
plant with its costly coal consump-
tion”. At any rdte engineers are |
studying all angles.
How far negotiations may have
progressed between Glen Alden and
Armour Leather Company is not
known locally, .
It is known that Glen Alden en-
gages in some tanning among many
subsidaries and that one of them
is ‘located in a 5-story inefficient
e heart of an. easte.
io) 1 for expasssion.
‘Special Gifts
“Ask For Support |
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Of Heart Campaian _. |
George L. Ruckno, Shrine Acres,
hds been appointed 1962 Heart
Fund Drive Special Gift Chairman
for
was named by Mrs. Lyle Slaff and
Mrs. Fred Dingle, Co-Chairman of
the Back Mountain Area.
‘As business people we cannot
afford to look upon the Heart Fund
as a charity or just another drive”,
Mr. Ruckno said. ‘Instead, we must
recognize the Heart Fund as our
foremost defense against one of the
ost serious economic threats to
our business community. It makes
possible the American Heart As-
sociation’s fight against this health
search, Education, and Community
Services, Since 1948, when the Heart
organization was organized, many
thousands of hearts and lives have
been saved’, the Special Gifts
Chairman stated.
Mr. Ruckno attended Forty Fort
Schools and graduated: from the
University of Pennsylvania Whar-
ton School, He is president of George
L. Ruckno, Inc., Forty Fort Lumber
Co., Shrine View Acres, Inc., Kings
Garden Apartments, Inc. and Hark-
ings & Ruckno Inc. He is Secretary-
Treasurer of Tunkhannock Lumber
Co., and H.L.R. Realty Co. The Back
Mountain Civic Leader is on the
Board of Directors of the Wyom-
ing National Bank and West Side
on the Executive Board of Wyom-
ing Valley Council Boy Scouts;
Mercy Hospital, College Misericord-
ia Advisory Board, West Side Com-
munity Center and Area Industrial
Development, Inc.
Mr. Ruckno is also Past President
of ‘the Home Builders Association
of Luzerne County. He is a member
of the Westmoreland Club, Frank-
lin Club, North Mountain Club, West
Side Lions Club, Knights of Colum-
bus, Kings College Century Club
‘and Harveys Lake Rod and Gun |
Club. He is a member of the Gate
of Heaven Church.
Surgeon Recuperating
‘Dr. M. C. Rumbaugh is recup-
.erating at his home in Kingston
FRED Will Be
_complications,
| New York Giants’ Allie Sherman,
either day of the Conference |
| through the office of Dr. Willard |
| Love at the Center. The same eight |
‘professionally connected with ath-
{ their beloved Muggs, a Boxer that
{had been with them since he was
‘a puppy when they moved into
(eon, Sterling Avenue,
a mongrel. purchased four years ago
is also believed to h br is-
the Back Mountain Area. He [hw ne os
17 On Monday
Because the patient has developed
surgery which was
to have been performed on Fred
Hennebaul last week 'at Geisinger
Medical Center has been indefinitely
postponed.
The operation was designed to |
strengthen Fred's neck which is |
very weak but would not have con-
tributed to his eventual cure.
In spite of this, Fred is confi- |
dent that he will some day move
and is looking to the observance
of his seventeenth birthday anni-
versary on Monday. Cards will
mean a great deal to him.
He is also eager to meet
the
who ' will: head the line up of
coaches, trainers and athletic dir-
ectors participating March 9 and
10 at the 1962 Conference on Ath-
letic Injuries at Geisinger.
Sherman, who has been named
the “keenest mind in football” was
recently named Coach of the Year. !
Another who may stop by to talk !
with Fred is Coach “Rip” Engle of
Penn State, one of the group of
famous coaches who will take part |
in the conference.
Registrations can be made for
panel sessions will be given on |
both days at the meeting, pre- |
sented by the Medical Center ‘and |
| the Pennsylvania Medical Society |
| to coaches,
trainers, team physi- |
cians and general practitioners |
| wishing to hear the subject of con- |
{trol and treatment of athletic inj-
| uries discussed by specialists of Geis- |
3 (was with the SeeBees on Grand
| Turks Island
Bob, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold |
inger Center Madical Staff and those
Valuable Dogs
Pick Up Poison
The dog poisoners are at it again.
This week they got four.
Dr. and Mrs. Carleton Davies lost
their new home on Machell Ave-
nue elevén years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. George McCutch- |
lost Nicky,
at the Library Auction.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ide, Weod-
lawn Avenue, lost Brandy, a 5-
year old registered Beagle.
Muggs and Nicky both came home
to die, but Brandy died in a back-
yard in New Goss Manor where
Chief of Police Pete Lange found
him not far from where another
unidentified shepherd type dog was |
found dead. |
Both Muggs and Nicky were
treated by Dr. Richard Post, but
nothing could be done to save
them. Dr. Post is confident Muggs
picked up strychnine; Nicky may
have gotten a poison with phos-
phorous base.
The children who were devoted
to their pets were inconsolable as
they waited for their pets to die.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Ide’s Prince
oned since he has not returned
after last being seen with Brandy’
a week ago Sunday night.
| remote spot
| Grand = Turks,
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"HE DALLAS POST
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
On Grand Turks Island
Grand Turks Island Where Astronaut
‘Was De-briefed, Familiar To Bob Ash
Turks Island, a in the news
{last week because of the success- |
[ful flight of globe-girdling orbital |
| astronaut John Glenn, and his sub- |
sequent debriefing session at that
in the British West
Indies, is old stuff to Bob Ash, who
in 1958.
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quely bent by the prevailing wind.
“When you look back at it,” re-
| flects Bob, “It reminds you of some
| good times you've had. But as for |
ime, you can have Grand Turks Is-
{ land. The hills out here in the Back
| Mountain looked good to me when |
|I came home after being in the
| tropics. It cooled off at night, but
{it was awfully hot during the day.”
Bob took some color photographs
Ash, Shavertown, and with his fath- | with a Brownie, showing strong con-
er in the plumbing business spent |
a year at the Naval Facility
island completely surrounded by
coral reefs, sharks and barracuda.
Fresh water, except when a tor-
rential rainstorm replenishes
trast of deep blue sky, white sand,
on |and sharp-cut shadows. One of the
that -sunbaked six |
| mile long and mile and a half wide |
pictures, whose value wou'd be lost
in black and white, shows the
windblown trees around the white
| shaft of the lighthouse, with the
keeper's cottage in the foreground,
the jond a waste of sand. It looks like
storage basin, is completely lacking |a magazine cover.
on Grand Turks. In periods between |
| heavy rainfalls which supply fresh |by side, that of Great Britain and |
water,
Another shows the two flags side |
distillation of salt water |of the United States, both at half
goes steadily on. Hence, the need|!/ mast.
Bobby snapped it the day
for plumbers and personnel skil'ed | the Pope died. The flags look ut-
in coping with the many prob- | terly lonely against an empty sky,
lems.
Bob. reports that salt water is
hard on plumbing, and that con-
stant work is necessary to keep
equipment in operation. During his
stay at Grand Turks, there were
times when water was strictly rat-
ioned, and could be used for bath-
ing only at specified hours. Distil-
lation is an expensive process.
The Naval installation is at one
end of the island, and Pan Amer-
ican is located at the other end.
Along the backbone of the island,
as seen from an airplane, is a high-
way and a power line, and along-
side the backbone a salt water lake,
long and thin, which fills with the
tide. The native village at the Pan
American’ location supports it-
self on fish and the processing of
salt. Since a monstrous tidal wave
swept the island many years ago,
there is no real soil for production
of fresh produce. Very few trees
survived, though a few gnarled
specimens surround the white
lighthouse, permanently and grotes-
as lonely as the blazing sand be-
| low,
Bob used to talk to his parents
and his girl, Jane Polk, over a
ham radio set from Grand Turks.
He no longer: has need of a ham
radio. He and Jane were married
a year and a half ago, and live
on Harris Hill Road.
Bob is a Westmoreland graduate,
class of 1957.
Has Heart Attack
On Kingston Street
Stricken with a heart attack in
front of the Rumbaugh Clinic in
Kingston on Saturday morning,
Morton Hewitt, was taken immed-
iately in Kingston Ambulance to
Nesbitt Hospital where he is now
considerably improved.
Mr. Hewitt, a brother of Mrs.
George Jacobs, is employed at the
| Carteret New Jersey plant of Foster
Wheeler spending his weekends in
Shavertown.
Dallas Junior High School Fale- |
ons have just completed a highly |
successful wrestling under the dir- |
successful wrestling season under dir- |
The Squad, now in
| year, won four of its seven matches,
three boys had an opportunity to
wrestle.
The record: Jan. 17, Kingston
48, Dallas 47; Jan. 23, Forty Fort
15, Dallas 52; Feb. 2, Lake-Lehman
following sur gery.
30, Dallas 14; Feb. 8, Kingston 47,
but best of all, all of the thirty- |
Junior ‘High School Falcons Close Season
Dallas 39; Feb. 13, Tunkhannock |ard Kerpovich, Carl Zimmerman,
38, Dallas 78; Feb. 19, Plymouth Reese Finn, Richard Cross, Donald
| 48, Dallas 56; Feb. 23, Tunkhan- | Kelly,
| nock 47, Dallas 55.
The squad: Front row left to right:
Charles Higgs, Scott = Alexander,
its second
Weaver, Jack Mallin;
| Second row: Tom Finn, Donald |
|Bulford, Lee Isaacs, Phil Mathers,
{Jerry Sutton, Paul Wilson;
| Third row: Stanley Dorrance, Rich-
Robert Kelly;
Fourth row: Carl Wormek, Tom
Wardell, Ken Dymond, John Mart-
in, Water Prokopchak, Charles Flem-
Donald Darrow, Paul Horwatt, John |ing, Lewis Dixon;
Fifth row: Barry Weiss, James
| Haines, Donald Smith, Bob School-
ey;
Absent: Steve
Steve Farrar,
Kashenbaugh,
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land later in’ Dallas, until it ranked
A. C. Devens Saw|
Opportunity In
Small Village
Developed Enviable
Business In Life
Devoted To Milling
A. [C. (Aut) Devens, ill for many
months, died late Saturday night
at the age of 80 at his home on
Lake Street.
He was buried at Fern Knoll
yesterday afternoon, following serv-
ices from the family home conduct-
ed by Rev. David Morgan, former
pastor of Alderson Methodist
Charge.
Honorary pallbearers headed by
Frank Anderson, president of Min-
er’s’ National Bank and vice presi-
dent J. Harry Vivian, included fel-
low board members of Dallas
Branch, Sheldon T. Evans, Thomas
P. Garrity, E. W. Hall, Howard
Isaacs, W. B. Jeter, Charles H.
Long, Edwin C. Norcross, Howard
Risley, L. L. Richardson, David
N. Schooley, Clifford W. Space,
Harold L. Titman.
Active pallbearers were grand-
sons Jerry and Calvin Miers, Aust-
in and Herbett Wertman; nephews,
John and Drew Devens.
A Back Mountain boy, son of the
late John and Mary Surplus Dev-
ens of Ross Township, he lived in
this area his entire life becom-
ing one of the outstanding busi-
ness men of the region. Where
many another young man left to
seek wider opportunity, Aut found
it here, and made the most of
it. He knew everything there was
to know about the feed business,
it up, first in Kunkle
as one of the best in Luzerne
County.
Eight years ago he purchased
the Himmler Theatre. When he
was first taken ill two years ago,
the Himmler was put on the mark-
et.
When he was a boy, he worked
|in" a general store in Sweet Val-
ley, operated by W. J. Allen. When
(the Allens moved to Alderson, it
was natural for him to accompany
“Mother and Dad” ‘as handyman
for their new venture, a feed
mill. Feed, the boy realized, was
a staple, always in demand: As |
he grew up, he made feed his
life ‘work, remaining with the Al-
lens for twenty .years, when he
went into business for himself in
Kunkle.
Ten years later, in 1930, he
purchased the present building with
a Lehigh Valley spur, to facilitate
handling of larger quantities of
grain without excess haulage
charges.
His wife, the former Arena Mon-
tanye, died in 1959.
Membership was retained in
Kunkle Methodist Church. Mr. Dev-
ens was a member of George M.
11 L & AM, hich -t
Dilly’ Lodge 2 . Ww ny | Church in Shavertown, and is now
| editor of the Lutheran ULCA maga-
ducted Masonic services
night.
He leaves three ‘daughters; Mrs.
Vera Wertman and Mrs. Jennie
Miers, Kunkle; Mildred, Dallas; five
grandchildren and nine greatgrand-
children.
Arrangements’ were by Disque.
Donald Cutting
Gets Promotion
Twenty-Six Years
With State Police
Donald Cutting, Lehman,” memb-
er of the Pennsylvania State pol-
ice for the past twenty-six years,
has been promoted from Sergeant
to First Sergeant at Wyoming Bar-
racks.
‘A competent and intelligent pol
ice officer, Sgt. Cutting’s new dut-
ies entail increased responsibilities
and make him a key figure in
police work.
He is also an instructor in three
Municipal Police Schools now being
conducted by the State Police in |
Kingston and Scranton.
Since moving to Lehman eleven |
years ago, Sgt. Cutting has been
active in community life. He is
chairman of the Finance Commis-
sion and a member of the Official
Board at Lehman Methodist Church.
Born in Rochester, N. Y. Sgt.
Cutting was educated at Abington
High School when his family moved
to' Glenside, Montgomery County.
He joined the State Highway Pa-
trol in May 1936. A brother is
Lieutenant on the Abington Pol-
ice Force.
The Cuttings have two children, |
Carol, a student at Lycoming Col-
lege and Harry, at Lake-Lehman
High School.
Don’s greatest recreation is golf.
He is president of the State Police
Golf Association.
Correction
Maryann Wilson, listed as daught-
er of Mr. and Mrs. William Wil-
son in last week’s issue of the
Dallas Post, is in fact daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Wil-
son. Both Wilson families live on
Franklin Street.
Two Back Mountain girls were
among the ten contestants selected
to represent Glamour Magazine's
Best Dressed Coeds on the Wilkes
College campus’ last Sunday even-
ing.
They were Nancy Tinklepaugh,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Tinklepaugh; Church street, Dallas,
and ' Elaine Kozemchak, right,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James |
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VOL. 74, NO. 9, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962
Local Girls In Glamour Best-Dressed Contest
Kozemchak, Huntsville.
Nancy is a senior .and Elaine is |
l Both girls modeled frocks |
a junior.
| which they designed and made
themselves.
which they pose
nade by them.
The winner was Ruth Ann Boo-
rom, Wilkes-Barre, senior art major
at Wilkes.
above was also
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Astronaut’s Psychiatrist George Rutt
Son Of First Pastor Of St. Paul's
administered the psychiatric testing
by which the seven astronauts were
trained, and who officiated as
psychiatrist at the debriefing of
global astronaut John Glenn at
Grand Turks Island in the Baham-
as after his orbital flight three
times around the earth last Tues-
day, was born in ‘Shavertown and
spent the first ten years of his
life there.
He is Dr. George E. Ruff, son
of Dr. G. Elson Ruff, who was
first pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran
zine, and editor-in-chief of the
United Lutheran Publication House.
Dr. George is a graduate of the
School of Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania, and an assistant
professor ‘of Psychiatry there.
He has been with the astronauts
ever since the program was con-
ceived in 1959. His special field
is stress and fatigue:
. He is consultant to the Air Force
Scientific Board and a member of
the Medical Advisory Board of Proj-
ect Mercury.
He and his father will present
a dialogue on ‘Psychiatry and Rel-
igion” at the Annual Pastors’ Con-
vention, April 25, 26, on the camp-
us - of the Lutheran Theological
Seniinary in Philadelphia.
Georgie.)
Mrs. Ralph Rood
Fractures Hip
Mrs. Ralph Rood, Lehman Ave,
is making a good recovery at Nes-
bitt Hospital where she was taken
Friday evening in Dallas Commun-
ity ambulance after fracturing her |
hip in a fall at her home.
Mrs. Rood lost her balance while
kitchen of her home early Friday |
evening. Fortunately her daughter- |
in-law, Mrs. Arline ‘Rood, Dallas
grade school teacher, was home at |
the time or she might have lain |
{on the floor for hours unable to
move.
She was first taken to the Noxen
Clinic by Dallas Ambulance for x-
rays -on orders of Dr.. Irvin Jac-
obs and later admitted, to Nesbitt |
Hospital.
Library Closed Saturday
Back Mountain Memorial Library |
will be closed all. day Saturday |
while many books are transferred to |
newly remodelled rooms on the |
second floor, Whodunit fans will
find themselves in -far warmer |
quarters than those formerly dedi-
cated to them in an offshoot of the
back porch, frequently flavored with |
skunk,
(Mrs. Harold Ash, before she was |
| Mrs. Ash ,used to babysit for little
opening a refrigerator - door in the |
That psychiatrist whe design. Andee
Makes Finals In
Merit Contest
Marilyn Took S.A.T.
Exam In Copenhagen
MARYALICE KNECHT
February 9 is Maryalice Knects’s
| lucky day. Last year, on February
9, she had word that she was to
go to Sweden as a Rotary Club
foreign exchange student.
This year, February 9, she had
|word that she is a finalist in the
| Merit Scholarship Award Contest,
| ranking among the one half of one
| percent of top senior high school
| students th the United States.
| She took the College Board S.A.T.
| examination early in December at
| the United States Embassy in Cop-
|enhagen, a test open to semi-final
ists. Results of this examination ad-
| mitted her to the ranks of finalists.
Maryalice, daughter ‘of Mr. and
Mrs. James Knecht of Harveys Lake,
| celebrated her seventeenth birthday
|in ‘September, with her foster fam-
lily in Sweden. Outcome of further
| competition awaits announcement
| ter in the spring. Maryalice took
{the preliminary Merit Scholarship
| examination last spring in Dallas. :
Mrs. Knecht says that she feels
|the education Maryalice obtained
lin her eleven years in Dallas
| Schools, ‘together «with advice and
help from her teachers, has been
{ invaluable, and that much credit
goes to the Dallas Schools. “The
{education is there if a student
| wants it,” she concluded.
SURPLUS FOOD
[Surplus food will be distributed
| next Thursday, March 8, at Trucks-
ville Fire House 10 a.m. at 2 pm.
| or residents of the Back Mountain,
TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
§ lan all night flight that his plane
4-5656 OR 4-7676
ati
Atty. Fleming
In Contest For
Representative
Native Son Had
Brilliant School 4
And War Record
A lifelong Back Mountain man
has tossed his hat in the ring for
the Republican nomination for Rep-
resentative in the General Assem-
bly from the Sixth Legislative Dis-
trict.
He is Atty. Robert Fleming, Dal-
las Borough Solicitor and son of
the late Dr. J. C. Fleming, Dallas
ear, eye, nose and throat special-
ist. =
Born in Dallas, Atty. Fleming is
a product of the Dallas Borough
School System, having entered |
Harvard University directly from
Dallas Schools after graduating as
valedictorian of his class.
During 1941 and 42, Atty. Flem-
ing took flight training at the Naval
Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida,
and was assigned to Patrol Squad-
ron 81 doing amphibious night anti-
submarine patrols in the Caribbean
area.
When the Squadron was ordered
to the ‘Solomen Islands during the
latter part of 1943, Lieut. Fleming
engaged in further night bombing.
| It was while returning from such
intercepted an SOS from a crip-
pled plane shot.down by the enemy.
The crew immediately went to its
aid and, under heavy fire from
shore, rescued some of the crew-
men of the disabled craft. It was
for his part' in this mission that
Lieut. Fleming received the Navy's
Silver Star Medal for bravery and
The backdrop before |
the Distinguished Flying Cross. The
exploit was later the subject of a
| feature article in the Saturday
| Evening Post. :
| During the latter days of the
war, Lieut, Fleming was assigned
to the Naval Air Station at Hutch-
inson, Kansas, as a flight instruct- 4]
or for B-24s. ;
At the conclusion of the War,
he pursued work for his M.A. De-
gree in American History and Gov-
ernment at Cornell University, but
left Cornell after the second sem-
ester to take up law at Hovard
Law School.
Atty. Fleming and his will the
former Eleanor Buncklee of Con-
Asctiant, haw five daughtgss’ ‘and
wo' sons. Lest year they were sel
ected. Las Christian Family of 4:
year at Dallas Methodist Church
| where all have been active for many 2
| years. 2
He is teacher of the’ “Brace Bible
Class and has served as president J
of the Official Board.
Both Atty. and Mrs. Fleming are
leaders in Parent-Teacher work in
both Dallas Township and Dallas
Borough schools. 7
And Bob has been a fixture at |
the Library Auction and annual
| Memorial Day speaker at Dallas
{ Honor Roll and local cemeteries
| for longer than he cares to re:
| member. He is co-chairman of this |
year's auction, i
: He is a Republican with definite
l ideas for good government and has
no interest’ in party conflicts and
politics as such.
With his strong following in the |
Back Mountain Area, he should be
a hard man to beat.
Medals For Four
Science Students
Mastalski, Miller
Curtis, Makar, Win
Back Mountain students of West
Side Central Catholic High School
took - four places. in the Annual |
Science [Fair, held Monday after-
noon and evening. #
Winners of
first were Pat-
ricia Mastalski, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Mastalski, Da las;
‘and Gerald Miller, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Miller, Overbrook Road;
a silver medal went to Charlene
Makar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Vincent Makar, New Goss Manor;
and a bronze medal to John Curtis,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joha J. Carls, hi
Pioneer Avenue.
Patricia, a senior took her ald’
medal with an exhibit demonstra-
ting conductivity and ionization,
in the chemstry category. ;
Gerald, a sophomore, gold medal
for an exhibit in biology, Effect of |
heat and chemical stimuli on heart-
beat of the daphnia.
Charlene, sophomore, silver medal
for a demonstration of research into
the insulating ability of building
materials. Charlene, as a freshman
last year, took her general science
exhibit to King’s College and took
top honors in the junior division,
rating also the Grolier award.
John, in the senior class, took a
bronze medal for his physics ex- |
hibit of Capacity and Sound. John
is an expert in the ham radio field.
Patient At Mercy
Kenneth King, Loyalville, is iin-
proving at Mercy Hospital where
he was taken in Dallas Ambulance
last Monday night following a heart
attack.