fy River at Sayre early Friday morn-
oot embankment into the river,
mont;
‘vised about starting of the train-
twenty trained perscnnel).
mative meeting March 15th, |
N Three Practice Teachers
72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
Oldest Business Institut
Back of the Mountain
TEN CENTS PER COPY—FQURTEEN PAGES
Presumed Lost |
As Car Plunges
Into Icy River
Dragging Of Stream
Reveals Only Purse
Of Beaumont Native
Up to press time, no trace had
been found of a former Beaumont
woman who vanished into the
flooding waters of the Susquehanna
ing.
Mrs, Lillian Merdick, 42, of RD
2 Sayre, was at the wheel of her
1961 car when at 1 a.m. it plunged
through the ice floes of the swol-
len river. The passenger, Mrs. Laura
DiPio, 36, of Sayre, escaped through
her window, and was rescued by
a passing motorist who saw her
clinging desperately to an over-
hanging tree branch.
Mrs, Merdick’s car door was open
when tke car was hauled from the
river, leading to the belief that the
victim had been swept downstream.
Dragging tke river has to date
produced no result except recovery
of handbags belonging to the two
women. They were brought to the
surface last Sunday morning, from
under tke bridge at Athens, where
State Police and Salvation Army
were keeping vigil.
Reconstruction of the accident in-
dicates that the car skidded on
the Sayre-Nichols Road about a mile
north of Sayre, travelled 100 feet
on the shoulder, struck a utility
pole, then plunged down a twenty-
where a swift current was carry-
ing ice downstream,
Mrs, Merdick, presumably drown-
ed, kas many relatives in the Back
Nountein her father and mother,
Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Hoyt of Beau-
brothers and sisters: S.
Russell Newell and Marie Hoyt, both
of Noxen; John Hoyt, Harveys Lake;
Mrs. Clifford Chapin, Dallas; War-
ren Hoyt Harding, Iso, out of the
area, Clayton Hoyt, Clark's Sum-
mit; Mrs. Merle Ransom, Nichol-
son; Allen Hoyt, New Britain, Conn;
Mrs, Iris Krell, Bristol; Mrs. Marj-
orie Clark, Waverly, N.Y.
Civil Defense
Class Tonight
Ail Sectors Need
Representatives
Civil Defense Headquarters
Luzerne County is organizing 287
radiqiogionl stations in the county.
Each station will be supplied with
tet detection instrcments,
Each town or borough to qualify
to receive the instruments must
have trained personnel Civil Def-
ense volunteers.
Sector 4 of Civil Defense in Luz-
erne County is undertaking the
training for Civil Defense volun-
teers every Thursday from 7:30 to
9:30 for five weeks (10-hours
training) in the new Dallas High
School building.
Under Sector 4 are the following
Civil Defense units: Dallas Borough,
Dallas Township, Kingston Town-
ship, Ross Township, Franklin Town-
ship, Lehman Township and Lake
Township. ; !
All Civil Defense Directors of the |
above mentioned units were ad-
ing (Kingston Township already has |
At the |
the following units had their rep-
resentative present: Dallas Borough, |
Niles White, Clifford Foss, Jack |
Berti and Charles Youngblood; Dal-
/ldas Township, Al Montross; Ross
Township, Harry Wesley, William |
Price, Joseph Kripp, George Wesley |
and Ned Walsh.
~ Lake, Lehman, Franklin, and |
Jackson Townships have not yet |
sent representatives.
As the first meeting was rather
informative, Col. Leon Beisel agreed
to give the whole credit for the
volunteers who would be willing to
come for the instructions Thurs-
day, March 22 at 7:30 in the high
school building.
All Civil Defense Directors are
urged to kave as many of their
representatives as present—men or
women.
From Wilkes At Dallas
In addition to practice teachers |
from College Misericordia, listed in
last week’s Dallas Post, three prac- |
tice teachers from Wilkes College
and one from Marywood are teach-
ing in Dallas Schools.
They are Miss Audrey Rupinski,
Marywood College, Art; Stephen Pe- |
tris, Wilkes College, Typing, - Busi-
ness Math, and Office practice.
Miss Elaine Whiteman, Wilkes
College, Social Studies; Leslie An-
drew, Wilkes College, Art.
| from Druid Hills Shavertown almost
] velopes,
| uate electrical engineer.
ion
; Father and Son Give Their Time [For Crippled Children
(right)
turn that envelope of Easter Seals I not only minutes, but hours, days
or toss them in the waste basket, and weeks of volunteer service to
just remember that these two men, | mail them to you. It takes only a
John Henninger Sr., (left) and his | | minute of your time to slip a check
Wait A Minute! Before you re-|scn John Jr. have given
This Father And Son Probably
Sent You Your Easter Seals
The old adage, ‘like father like |
son’ is reversed in the case of John |
G. Henninger, Sr., and his son John |
G. Henninger, Jr., as far as Wyoming |
Valley Crippled Children's Associa- |
tion is concerned it is “like son like |
father”.
It was John Jr., who first visited |
Wyoming Valley Crippled Children’s
Association in 1960 and offered his
services at the time of the Easter
Seal Campaign and he has -con-
tinued to report-annually ever since.
This year, father and son, in all
kinds ‘of weather have traveled in
in 1952. Since that time, he has
actively engaged in Church and
community work as lay delegate |
from Shavertown Methodist Church
to Wyoming Conference, He is a
member of the Masonic Fraternity,
He is actively connected with
Wyoming Valley Electric League;
of which he is a charter member. |
member of Dallas Kiwanis Club, and
is interested in photography. His
chief hobby is a 9-year old grand- |
son.
SON
Upon leaving the Army after the
i daily over a period of many weeks (last war, Jokn, Jr. went to New-
| to fold seals, type and stuff -en- ark, N. J. with the Office of De-
and assist = with many pendency Benefits, When that of-
| duties that are involved in running
a campaign. preferred to remain in the East,
The Henninger’s record of volun- and was with Newark for quite a
teer service is long and varied. number of years.
According to William = Shuster, | Since returning to the Valley, has
Chairman of the 1962 campaign, | devoted his spare time to Church
“the services. of these men has been and community, being especially
invaluable. The = money saved | interested in Back Mountain “Y”,
through their voluntary help will {and with the Boy Scouts.
permit greater service to our| He has taken a keen interest
patients.” : lin the Crippled = Children’s Associ-
FATHER jation, helping them get out their
John G. Henninger, Sr. is a grad- | Easter Seals.
He was a He has two hobbies, music
sales engineer with General Electric ‘photography.
Company, for many years, retiring | Funds derived from the sale of
and
Joppa Ladge 35, Washington, D. C. |
| fice transferred to St. Louis, John |
|For Noon Property
lin the return envelope and mail it
now. Won't you make that min-
ute a golden minute from ' your
[°F day ?
Easter ‘Seals are very essential to
| the Association for they are used
| in underwriting the cost of main-
| taining a rehabilitation program
| for Cerebral Palsied patients. The
| program includes medical evalu-
ation, nursing care, physical ther-
| apy, kindergarten and nursery school
apy, kinderiarten and nursery school
programs.
| During the year 1961, 6796 ser-
| vices were rendered 114 Cerebral
Palsy patients at a cost of over
$18,000.00.
| The 1962 Easter Seal Campaign
goal is $20,000.00. Seventy-five
percent of the money raised in the
| Valley is retained by the local
agency; twenty-five percent (25%)
going to State and National Agen-
cies for research and general pro-
gram planning which in turn is
|
|
|
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|
Assessors Appointed °
Atty. G. Reuling Davis, Beau~
mont, Gilbert Jacobsky and G.
Murray Leighton were named: view-
{ers by Judge Schiffman yesterday
to assess and fix damages for prop-
erty of Thomas P. Noon and his
wife, Myrtle M., Fernbrook, and
taken by the Commonwealth for
reconstruction of the Luzerne-Harv-
eys Lake Road.
The Noons own two properties
along the highway, beginning from
a point at the intersection of the
oy Road.
Blue And White To Present Concert
Two treats are in store tomorrow Ann Birn-
night for those who have not rec-
ently heard Dallas High School
| Band nor yet attended a concert
|at Dallas Senior High School.
Director Lester Lewis has prep-
|ared a varied and excellent prog-
Jacqueline Churry, Jo
stock, Janice Priebe, Bonnie James,
Gail Graves, Kathleen Maury, Barb-
ara Prokopchak.
Row 2— William Sarlek, Joan
Zarno, Margaret Hall, Donald Smith,
Andrea Krimme], Beverly Race,
| ram. His musicians are in top form Ruth Miller, Sandra Ash.
|and the auditorium is a place to Row 3— Robert Shannon, Gary
| hear a concert, This is a combin- Whitesell, William Peirce, Robert
| Brown, Richard Love, Theresa Cush-
ner, Marsha Sowden, Carol Sutton.
Row 4— Susan Cheney, Beverly
Eck, Dorothy Eck, Mary Bennett, |
| ation that is hard to beat.
| Pictured here are the members
|of the band:
| Left to right: Row 1— Lester R.
| Lewis (Director), ge Rowett,
| Martha Messick, Patricia Evans, ‘Ide, Robert Allen,
| Row 5— Paul Jenkins, John War-
| dell,
as, Lee Philo, Paul Haradem, Linda |
Tag.
Row 6— John Ferguson, Ronald |
| Sinicrope, John Dana, Thomas Lan-
don, Donald Anderson, Wesléy Cave,
| William Cooper, Thomas Houlette.
Row 7— Robert Gardner; Richard
Ratcliffe, William Welch, James |
Wertman, Howard Dymond, David |
| Eston, William Glahn.
Missing— Dale Mosier, Douglas
|
made available to the local agency. | /
Salil !'Stephen Hartman, Charles Glawe, |
Francis Dixon, Bernard McDermott, |
THE DALLAS POST
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Cancer Crusade
Workers Named
For April 3-13
Annual Area Drive
Is Well Organized
And Ready To Roll
cer Crusade is ready to go into
gear, chairmen and workers lined
up and anxious to start a drive
which is vital to the health and
welfare of the community. Cancer
strike anywhere, The more money
available for research, the sooner
the deadly enemy can be van-
quished.
Mrs. Richard C. Post, chairman,
North Back Mountain Division, 1962
Cancer Crusade, announces names
of women participating in the forth-
coming crusade April 3 to April 13.
Mrs. Thomas Decker, area chair-
man for Dallas Township has these
workers: Mesdames Lenore Shask-
an, Fred McCormick, J. F. Sallada,
Ralph Dixon, Howard Whitesell,
Ann Gardner, Fred Maier, Raymond
Wilson, Clyde Davis, J. D. Houl-
ette, James Tonery, Robert Young,
Nick Perella, Robert Block, Jay
Llewelyn Lawrence Kolankiewicz,
Henry Cavan, Henry Wood, J. P.
DeWitt, Jr., and Jack ‘Stanley.
Mrs. Peter Wolfe, Jr., Area Chair-
man for Sweet Valley, has these
workers: Mesdames Lohman Bog-
don, Gertrude Taylor, Lloyd Rogers,
and Miss Bobby Ann Morgan.
Mrs, James L, Ward, Lake Town-
ship; Mesdames Howard Cohen, Ir-
vin Marvel, B. CC. Banks, Bruce
Mathers, Helen Wodaski.
Mrs, Gordon Dawe, Lehman
Township: Mesdames Jane Brad-
ovchak, Donald Easton, William
Richardson, Walter McGuire, Will-
iam Cole, Roger Phillips, Carl
Graham, Jean Agnew, Harold Gray,
Anthony Toluba, Allen Fox, William
Weaver, Joseph Lopez, Ray Good-
win, Lawrence Steltz; Russell Cool-
baugh, Jokn Sidler, William Sutton,
William ‘Simms, Stuart Marks, Jos-
eph Ellsworth, Charles Ely, Thomas
Brown, Walter Chamberlain, Laning
4 Harvey, Frank Lengyel, Lewis An-
esi, Willard Smith, Margaret Sabo.
‘Mrs. J. Warren Yarnal, Dallas
Borough: Mesdames Hazel Berti,
Alice - Lamoreaux, Robert Pritchard,
Claire Kuehn, Carlton Davies, El-
mer Williams, Lewis Reese, A. Kab-
eschat, Cliff Garris, C. Mahler, Ray-
mond Carmon, Thomas Longmore,
Robert Huey, Kenneth = Cosgrove,
P. W. Hanna, W. Cutter,
Lefko, Donald Bulford, Farrar, Buck-
ingham, Robert Brown,
tale, Harold Casterline, Thomas
Reese, Phillip Heycock; Misses Pen-
ny Farrar, Theresa McCue. Jean
Buckley, June Johnson, Jane Mec-
Andrew, Lois LaBar, Gloria Grant,
Thelma Bennie, Elizabeth Mulhern.
Brea Residents
In Eisteddfod
Junior High School
Chorus Takes Second
Dallas Junior High School Girls
Chorus took second place Saturday
afternoon in the 73rd Cynonfardd
Eisteddfod held at Dr. Edwards
Congregational Church in Edwards-
ville. Alfred M. Camp directed the
chorus.
A four-year old Trucksville child
took a first and a second place.
Mary Jenkins, coached by her
mother, Mrs. Ben Jenkins, placed
first with her recitation, “The Lion”,
competing in the under-five cate-
gory; and second for her rendition
of ‘Hickory Dickory Dock,” in which
she was instructed by Harriet
| Howell, choir director of First Welsh
| Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-
| Barre.
| [Stephen Roan, son of Mr. and
| Mrs. Andy Roan, Shavertown, placed
Harry
{ third in recitation for children
| under five.
{© The Back Mountain had two
| winners in the evening session for
{ adult competition. - Diane Meyers,
| Dallas, took first place in the sop-
{a Merchant,” = and Will Phillips, |
{Harveys Lake, placed first with a
| recitation, “Sometimes.”
Tune Will See Invasion
Of 17-Year Locusts
Delbert Voight, Frank Wad- |
| This is the year for the Seven-
| teen-Year Locusts in Luzerne Coun-
| ty, one of the sixteen eastern |
| counties affected by brood 2, last |
seen in this area in 1945. The
cicadas will be along right around
| the first of June. They stay under- |
ground for seventeen years
|larvae, living on sap from tree
roots; emerge, shed their swaddling
clothes leaving the thin skins on
| trees and shrubs, take to wing, and |
|lay their eggs so that the seven-
[Judith Williams, Nancy Seiber, Jean | Nicol, Thomas Groff; Richard Gum |een year cycle can start all over
bravich,
| again.
The annual Back Mountain Can-
is no respector of persons. It can
» | groups. Visiting, says Dr. Claude |ing socially since 1957 to have | were unable to say whether they
|H, Butler, Superintendent, is of charge of this meeting. | voted in North, South or Middle
| great importance to the patient, The committee for Master Masons | Districts.
Louis Vi- |
| rano solo competition, with Tove,
as!
TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
ORchard 4-5656 OR 4-7676
VOL. 74, NO. 12, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1962
Reelect Bronson
Sweet Valley |
Assoc. President
Annual Meeting Hears y
Report On Successful i
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Dress Factory Year
All officers and trustees of Sweet
Valley Improvement Company Inc.
were reelected Monday evening at
the annual meeting held at the J
Fire Hall. Retained as president was
Alfred Bronson; vice president,
Herbie Pifer; secretary-treasurer,
Sherman Kunkle.
Jack Graham, a stockholder, was
appointed chairman of a committee
to arrange for needed repairs to
the building occupied by Jay Fash-
ions on the Main Road. by
The dress factory, which handles
ladies garments from cutting to
This is the group of women who | Robert Timko;
will handle the Red Cross Roll Seated are: Mrs.
Call for Noxen and vicinity which | po 1. Meeker, Mrs.
started Monday and ends April 1. J .
Standing left to right are, Mrs, Ira [= Bichand Smith
Earl Crispell,
George Brody,
and Mrs. Fred
|
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Beahm, Mrs. Wheeler Hess, Mrs. |" ; finishing, a business owned and op-
Bernard Dendler Sr., Mrs. Elvin | Chairman of the group is Mrs. erated by Harry Lieberman and
Bean, Mrs. 4 George Macialek, Mrs. ' Crispell. Joseph Snarski, has a present em-
Sports Car Club Alpine Rally Will
Start From Back Mt. Shopping Center
Northeastern Pennsylvania Reg- | attending a pleasant and challeng-
ion, Sports Car Club of America, |ing tour.
will stage the “Little Alpine Rally”
from the Back Mountain Shopping
Center in Shavertown Sunday after-
noon: beginning at 1.
ployment roster of sixty, with out- A
look for greater employment, and
an annual payroll of between |
$150,000 and $170,000. 14
The plant operated steadily dur-
ing the recent work stoppage which
recently affected the major part of
the garment industry in Wyoming
Valley. Two years ago, there was
a complete work stoppage in Sweet
Valley, lasting for six months.
The establishment draws for its
help on Sweet Valley and adjacent
areas. It is considered a highly des-
irable place to work, cooled by
breezes from North Mountain dur- |
oy the summer months.
Activities Director, Dave Will-
jams, Scranton, designated this
event the second major annual point
; rally of the year and members
Rally-masters Mr, and Mrs. Tom | not attending and running for
Hillyer of Briarcrest Road, Dallas, | points, will be penalized 5 points
have clues to over 100 miles of | plus the number of cars entering.
scenic’ Pennsylvania secondary good | Finish Party to be at the Mayfair
roads, which will assure everyone !Club, Dupont.
High School Students To Make
Posters Forl Retreat Open House
Students are invited to cooper-
‘Republicans Make Gans
‘In Registration Here
| There were ninety-one new Re-
| publican and thirty new Democrat.
lic registrations at the registration
| place in Dallas Borough Building |
ate -in preparations for: the An. I Today Is Deadline For Mondor ainrnaeh end oveaiog)
Forty-two Democrats switched
nual Open House at Retreat, May | Mascnic Reservations
|
| their registration to the Republican |
6,. by making posters. Principals |
Rie sehosls have: reson leita | Today is the deadline for reser- | party while nine Republicans
asking them to enlist their stud- | vations for Saturday night's dinner | switched to the Democratic Party. |
ents in the effort to bring be- (for Master Masons at Irem Temple | Total final registration was: 133
fore the public the message that |Country Club, when entertainment | Republicans, 39 . Democratic, one
“Mental Illness Can Be Prevented and dancing to the strains of the | Profifbision and one Independent.
Z Act ‘now for. ‘Prevention and: {Robert Baird Orchestra will be | There were many registrants from
Cure.” : offered. | Lake and Lekman Townships as _
Instructors are asked. to get in| 3 Master Masons from AY ou} (well as from Dallas Borough, and §
touch with Mrs. Catherine Sher- [ties of Negfthengtorn, % eansylvaph | (Township. There yas a scatlering
man, ‘Retreat State Hospital, for and their ladies are invited. Dress [also from Kingston and Jackson |
further details. is optional. Accommodations are | Townships. 2
The annual tour of the hospital | Bafited, The registrar had some difficulty |
| Sunday afternoon, May 6, will be | Thomas Reese appointed a group | | pinpointing the voting districts of
| 4 of Past Masters from the 12th and |a number who came from Lake
59th districts, who have been meet- | and Lehman Townships and who
|on a continuous basis, with trained
of visiting
| personnel in charge
Night consist of: Chairman, Philip | Republican ah said that many
D. Snyder; dinner, Frank Darragh |of those who switched to the Repub-
and Allan Lucas; program, Charles | publican party did so because of |
| All members of the communit- |Hender, Leon Steiner and Griffith | their friendship for Peter Clark whom |
(ies served by Retreat State Hos. Reese; publicity, Paul Williams, | they hope to vote for in the prim-
I pital are urged to assist in vol- | Richard Coutts and Carl Rosencrans. |ary. There was no indication that
unteer programs and service, and |Toastmaster is William Richards, | they were swayed to the Party
by being present at the annual Edwardsville, noted for his dry|because of interest in William
Open: House. humor. Scranton, candidate for Governor.
One Of Misericordia’s Strongest Basketball Teams
| who should not be cut off from
| normal social contacts just because
| he is under psychiatric care. -
| College Varsity
| Basketball team has enjoyed one
| of its. most successful seasons, scor-
| ing eight victories against two loss-
Misericordia’s
lin, freshman, forward, Yonkers,
N. Y., Nursing; Marilyn White,
| freshman, guard, W. Orange, N.J.,
| Biology; Barbara Sidie, sophomore,
es. Tt is also one of the most at-| | forward, Westfield, N. J., Chemistry,
‘tractive squads to represent the just | | Carol Pippin, sophomore, guard,
| college. closed one of its most successful | Elkton, Md., History; Joyce Spiak,
basketball seasons with a record of | freshman, guard, Yonkers, N. Y.,
eight wins and two losses as fol. | Home Ec., Patience Whitecar, sopho-
more, guard, (Philadelphia, Home
Ec.;; Barbara Shubert, freshman,
forward, Hudson, Secretarial;
Standing: Elaine Chernesky, soph-
| omore, guard, Kingston, Chemistry;
| Leanore Swan, senior, forward, Leh-
HERE'S HOW THE TEAM
STACKED UP AGAINST
STIFF COMPETITION
College Misericordia has
Of the sixteen members of the
squad only four will be lost by
graduation, and only two are jun-
| iors, giving rise to the belief that
| Misericordia will have a strong team
{in the immediate years ahead.
Three of the graduating seniors
{and one of the juniors are from
lows:
N Victories;
Cheyney State College, Cheyney,
Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre,
Caldwell College, Caldwell,
| the Back Mountain area. They are: Eastern Baptist College, Saint |man, Social Work; Jean Drapiew- |
sertiors, Jean Drapiewski, Sweet Davids, ski, (co-captain), senior, forward, °
| Valley; Jean’ Spears, Trucksville, : : : Sweet Valley, English; Catherine
|and Leonore Swan, Lehman. The Susquohanng,, University, Seline- Naton, (co-captain), senior, guard,
| junior is Sara Gregory, Sweet Val- Erove, : | Flushing, N. Y., Elem. Ed.; Jean
ley. Coaches are: Marie E. Morris, King’s College, Briar Cliff Manor, | Spears, senior, guard, Trucksville, 4
| Plains, and Elizabeth Titus, Dallas, | Lock Haven State College, Lock |Elem. Ed.; Sara Gregory, junior,
giving further Back Mountain flav- Haven, forward, Sweet Valley, Elem. Ed;
jor to this year’s accomplishment. Losiass Absent from Picture: Margaret
Here is, the squad as pictured, |
with the class, position, home town
and major of each girl:
Reilly, junior, guard, Lebanon,
Chemistry; Dorothy Lynch, fresh-
man, guard, Flushing, N. Y., Elem.
East Stroudsburg State College,
East Stroudsburg,
Left to Right: Seated: Sabena Douglass College, New Bruns- |Ed; :
Lukasavage, freshman, guard, wick, N. J. Coaches: Marie E. Morris, Plains,
| Wyoming, Chemistry; Ann Lough- 8 Pa. and Elizabeth Titus, Dallas.