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Grand Openings At Shavertown T
Heart Campaign
Tops Previous
Solicitations
$2,625 Raised This
Year Compares With
$1,820 Raised In 61’
“A total of $2625.51 has been
raised in the 1962" Back Mountain
Heart Drive,” announced general co-
chairmen Mrs. Fred Dingle and Mrs.
Lyle Slaff this week. “This is an
overwhelming increase over last
year’s record high of $1820.40, and
Collapses After
Five Hour Battle
With Brush Fire
John Engler, Sr. 52,
Was Entering Field
With Indian Tank
Five minutes after strapping on
an Indian tank to continue a five-
hour battle against a brush fire on
Harris Hill,” John Engler Sr., of
Carverton Road was dead of over-
exertion last Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Engler, 52, a man who had
can be attributed to the diligent and | | fought many stubborn fires, had
responsible captains and the excel- | been raking and back- firing to help
lent cooperation of the Dallas Post | contain a fire at Willow Grange
» the Quachita Parish
in bringing the Heart Story to our
Back Mountain people,” said the
chairmen.
George Ruckno, special gifts chair-
man, received. $768.00 in answer to
letters mailed to area residents who |
had contributed $5.00 or more in
previous years.
Each area chairman reported the |
following amounts = collected by |
neighborhood solicitors: Mrs. . Paul
Selingo, for Dallas Borough and |
Township, $650.82; Mrs. Ralph Pos-
torive, West Shavertown, $65.12;
Mrs. Bernard Rogers, East Shaver-
town, $159.10; Miss Esther Boston,
West Trucksville, $128:25; Mrs.
‘Walter Phillips, Mrs. Jonathan Louis |
Weir and Mrs. Fred Dingle, East |
Trucksville, $342.26; Gilbert Tough, |
Lehman area, $183.35; Mrs. Stephen
Stearn, 'Carverton, $66.80; Mrs.
Darrel Crispell, Huntsville Dam,
$8.60; Mrs, William Hughes, Chase,
$109.96; Mrs.
and Center Moreland, $47.35; and
Mrs. Sherman Kunkle working with |
Mesdames Edward Speary, Chester
Culver, Delbert Meade, Charles Fisk, |
and. Leroy Hess, of Ross Township, |
$67.70. :
The remaining $28.20 of the total
was collected through Plastic Hearts
and contributions made directly to
the Heart Office.
There was no neighborhood solici-
tation of Harveys Lake this year
as it was felt by the chairmen that
the needs of the Hennebaul Fund |
should be of first importance in hat |
area.
Kindergarten Pupil
Killed By Automomile
Deborah Hopple, 5, daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. James Hopple, and
granddaughter of Mrs. John Hopple,
Davenport Street, Dallas, was in- |
stantlly killed last Monday mniorn-
ing when she was struck by a sta-
tion wagon while running to catch
a school bus stopped across the
street from her home in Hightstown, |
N. J.
A kindergarten pupil, the
girl was accompanied by her mother
but slipped from her mother’s hand |
and darted into the path of the |
station wagon which almost hit Mrs.
Hopple.
Signs ‘Transfer Of
School Property
‘James Martin, property officer for
U. S. Health, Education and Wel-
fare Services, represented the gov- |
ernment in transfer of property to !
School Board
of ‘Monroe, Louisiana in March. A
tract of land of an acre and a third |
was purchased for $1470. Formerly
property ‘of the health service, Jim
says it will
Jim, son of
principal of Dallas Schools and Mrs.
James A. Martin, Shavertown, is
taking evening classes at Southern
Methodist University School of Law.
A picture of the transfer appeared |
in Monroe News-Star, March 22.
[ames Williams Is
Top Student Typi
James Williams, Dallas Senior
High School, has been invited to
represent his school at the third
annual Facit Accuracy Contest in
Typing “Regional Tournament”.
Having already received a hand-
some medal as a class champion, he
was selected to compete in the Al- |
bany, N.Y. Regional as one of the |
500 top typists in the nation.
This select group of Regional con-
testants achieved the highest scores
with perfect typing from among
10,500 class winners who also typed
errorless test papers.
Sponsored by Facit Inc.,
butors of Facit typewriters,
lators, and Odhner adding and
‘bookkeeping machines, this motiva- |
tional typing contest is dedicated
to furthering business education.
Over 310,000 high school stu-
dents have participated, this year,
in Facit’s unique contest program
that features ‘perfect copy’—only
errorless papers were accepted.
Marie" Duffy, Orange !
little |
be used for storage. |
former supervising | ¢
distri--|
calcu- |
| Farm, When it ran from an open
| field toward the woods, threatening
[a number of properties, Mr, Eng-
{ ler, with Robert Gordon, John
Spearle, R. Williams, and Jack Noth-
off Jr. adjusted the heavy Indian
| tanks, and hurried toward the
| woods.
| The victim sat down to rest on
|a log when he became ill, and his
| companions divested him of his
| tank. Looking back as they rushed
[foward the fire, they saw that he
had fallen, and returned immedi-
| ately to help him, as he breathed
{his last.
| Dr. Richard Crompton and deputy
coroner Richard Disque were sum-
moned by Kingston Township police
| chief Herbert Updyke. The body
{was taken from the field in Phil
| Walter's jeep. Shavertown ambul-
ance had been alerted, but the
| field and road were both too rough
for a vehicle.
Mr. Engler always volunteered for
| fire duty, having a horror of brush
| fires during the danger season of
|dry grass and high winds.
|. The first alarm was sent out at
11:30, says Vought Long, Trucks-
ville fire chief. The blaze started
when a burning paper escaped from
{a trash container,
i brought under control until 6:30.
Shavertown firemen assisted Trucks-
ville, and forest rangers were noti-
| fied. Rangers could not come at
| once, as five other brush fires were
apy :
| Mr, Engler, a seasonal employee
| of the Ralph Delaney Trucking Co.
| of Wilkes-Barre, temporarily out of
| employment since December, was
| to have gone back to work yester-
day. During the winter. months he
turned his hand to a number
fo occupations.
fire-fighting last Thursday. he had
‘cut some wood. part of which was
in the back of his car.
Services were conducted from the
| Disque Funeral Home Monday after-
| noon, Rev. Robert Germond officiat-
| ing. Burial was at Memorial Shrine.
Pallbearers were John, Ralph and
Howard Engler; Lester, Leo and
Lawrence Spaide.
Mr. Engler was born at. Stairs-
| ville, son of the late Mathias and
| Mary Ann Dietrick Engler. Moving
to Trucksville in 1946, he joined
Trucksville Methodist Church.
|" He leaves his widow, the former
| Leona Johnson; these children: John
| Jr. Kingston; Emma, a teacher in
| Trucksville schools, at home; sis-
| ters, Mrs, Hannah 'Spaide, Nesco-
| peck; Mrs. Elizabeth Fink and Fran-
| ces, Wilkes-Barre; brothers, Cyrus,
| Cortland, Ohio, and Mathias, Espy;
| six grandchildren.
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Tapped For West Point
Thomas M. B. Hicks IV, has the
ongressional appointment for West
| Point, which he will enter in July.
He is presently a cadet, completing
his freshman year at The Citadel,
| Charleston, S. C. His father recently
retired from the US Army after
{twenty years.
One Of 500
sts In Nation
Mr. Kenneth Kirk, Jim's teacher,
who was awarded a contest achieve-
ment certificate, asserts that “the
stress on accuracy with speed, upon
which this typing program is based,
| constitutes a very realistic approach
| to typing proficiency.”
“Employers”, he states, are
much more interested in a typist
| who can produce errorless work,
| than one who is fast but inac-
curate.”
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be held throughout the United |
| States and the winner of each |
Regional will receive a deluxe |
Facit portable typewriter.
Of the 25 Regional winners across
the country ten will be awarded |
an all expense-paid trip to
York City in June to compete in
the Finals.
The fabulous grand prize is an | Club. |
| the profits from the light bulb sale
all expense-paid vacation trip to |
Sweden for the winning Finalist
{ and his or her teacher.
and was not |
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Before starting | by
: THE WwW CMING
NATIONAL BANK
QE WALK S-eanne
Governor Nelson Rockefeller and |
the famous personalities this sum-
mer enjoying a product manufact--
ured in the Back Mountain Region
—the new streamlined Water Skeet-
er manufactured by “Dallas Engin-
eers.
The Water Skeeter is catching
on all across the country according
to Hanford Eckman Jr., chief eng-
ineer for Dallas Engineers, who
designed the novel water craft, and
who “has just returned with Mrs.
Eckman from Miami Beach, where
the Skeeter was used by several
advertising agencies in\ their nat-
ional promotions.
The Water Skeeter
and Chicago, which helps to ac-
count for the large number of ord-
ers being filled by the Trucksville
plant. Production there, according
to Mr. Eckman, is the greatest in
history.
Six were recenty shipped to
Nassau in the Bahamas, several to
the Town House Club in Chicago
and hundreds to beach, and lake
resorts across the country. Nelson
Rockefeller will use his in North
Carolina while = Winthrop’s was
.| shipped to Arkansas.
Completely redesigned and stream-
lined in Thunderbird style, the new
Water Skeeter now has bucket
seats, shifting levers and is low
slung in sharp contrast to the one
sold a few years ago at the Library
Auction.
The Water
be seen by millions of people this
summer who watch television or
read national magazines, Mr. Eck-
man said.
It will be featured in Coca Cola
T-V commercials, McCann Erickison
Agency used it at Miami Beach film-
ing beautiful girls riding it over the |
waves. :
Mark Shaw, Time and Life pho-
tographer, recently appointed of-
ficial White House photographer,
used the Water Skeeter for color
stills to be used in Chase National
Band advertising.
Mr.
shore with a big golden key under
WHERE FLAG RAISING WILL TAKE PLACE AT 08 AM. TODAY
will carry the catch line: “Chase |
National holds the hey to financing |
{for the Miami area” and, of course,
the Water Skeeter held vice presi- Mwith them their credentials of el- forward as the Wyoming Niitiorial | and son b.iwve Cp residents of Shay.
or the past eleven years. f
dent Parl « ii
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Mrs.
president this week of Percy A.
Former Philadelphia
Dilworth, will be Dallas visitors
is marketed |
famed Abercrombie & Fitch, |
sporting goods stores in New York |
Skeeter is bound to |
and Mrs. Eckman got a great |
kick out of watching the execu- |
tive vice president of Chase Nation- |
al riding the Water Skeeter toward |
a short call at The Dallas Post.
the Boston Store.
+ Program permitting
| quarterly.
a $400,000 Research Center;
on the roof of the McCrory Store
Magazine | Each Month
A similar magazine ‘section to
that appearing in ths issue of
The Post will be included with
the first Post of each month
or more frequently as the de-
mand arises.
If you have good stories or
pictures will you kindly call The
Editor OR 4-5656.
Dallas Lions Are Coming With
Sight-Savina Bulbs On Sunday
The Lions are coming Sunday—
Dallas Lions that is—with loads of
Twenty-five regional contests will |
New |
| will be making the calls will be
| light bulbs for those public spirited
citizens who want to share in the
Club’s sight saving program.
The Lions will visit every home
lin the Back Mountain area selling
| light bulbs at discount prices, and
l every cent of profit will go toward
| a worth-while community project.
Assisting the thirty Lions who
[members of Dallas Kiwanis Key
They will share in some of
"to aid their ‘Keys To Denver project.
President James Thomas of Dallas !
! Lions says ‘‘the Lions want to co-
operate
in helping to send the Key Club |
Drill Team to Denver in June. We!
think this is a wonderful community
project that everybody should sup-
{ port.”
Mr. Thomas emphasized. that the |
bulk of the profit from the- light
bulb sale will go toward sight-sav-
ing, but with the Key Club boys
helping out in the sale a sizable
amount will go toward building up
the Keys to Denver Fund.
William E. Koneman,
Maple
Street, Trucksville, is in charge of |
| publicity.
famed Wilkes-Barre cafeteria and food, store,
tather who died March 4 following a stroke,
Mayor Richardson \Dilworth
Dr. Eugene Farley, Beaumont,
nounced an anonymous $500,000 gift to the
struction of a Fine Arts Building, one of seven projects proposed
for the next five years, among them a $500,000 Graduate Center,
$1,100,000 dormitory; $280,000 Dining
Hall and $1,100,000 Library. The Fine Arts Building will be con-
structed on a lot next to Temple Israel.
Louis Fabrizio, former president of Knox Coal Company, pleaded
guilty this week in U.S. District Court at Lewisburg to evasion of
$88,445 in corporate income taxes in 1957.
Susquehanna River created Monday morning at 8:30 at Wilkes-
Barre at 22.84 feet, activating five of the six flood control pumping
stations in the Wilkes-Barre area.
Judge Thomas M. Lewis denied at his home at Elmcrest that
he plans to retire January 1, 1963.
was admitted to the bar September 11, 1916.
Fire destroyed an air conditioning unit Tuesday morning at 2
with Dallas Kiwanis Club |
Governor Rockefeller And Brother SRE FooD
To Ride Dallas Made Water Skeeters
! his arm. The key is the Chase Nat- |
his brother, Winthrop, will be among lional trade mark. The advertising | food are.asked to bring containers, |
Surplus food date for Book Moun- | |
tain is next Thursday,
(10 a.m. at 2 pm,
| Fire Hall. ; *
People eligible to receive Sardines
April 12 |
at Trucksville |
bags, Sr cartons. Some of the food |
is Bary.
Recipients are reminded to bring |
Vigibility.
Keeping Posted
Orceil Brown Davis, Wimivesh was unanimously elected
Brow: and Company, nationally
founded by her
and Mrs.
on Tuesday aif ternoon when they
will visit College Misericordia, Dallas Senior High’ School and make
Mr.
Dilworth is the Democratic can-
didate for Governor of Pennsylvania.
Niles White, Baldwin Street, Dallas, who has ad thirty |from all Back Mountain townships
| years of continuous service as engineer
was honored Wednesday at a dinner in the Pennsylvania Room of
at Wilkes-Barre" Y.M.C.A.
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Blue Cross - Blue Shield announced this week a new Student
enrollment
students in accredited colleges at a cost of $2.06 per month payable
of northeastern Pennsylvania
president of Wilkes College an-
college for the con-
The former Plymouth jurist
in Back Mountain Shopping Center.
Forty Firemen from Shavertown, Trucksville and Dallas by alert
work prevented what might have been a disasterous confregration.
Commonwealth Telephone Company’s Annual Stockholders meet-
ing will be held Wednesday, April 11 at the company’s general of-
fices in Dallas. Stockholders are invited to attend.
| company is now quoted over the vounige at 31% asked; 29 bid.
Stock of the
Cruelly Beaten
‘When She Halts
Car At Light
A quiet young Center Moreland
{ girl, halted at a traffic light in
i Trucksville, found herself with a
| criminal passenger late Friday
| night, when a man leaped into her
{ car, wrestled the steering wheel
| from her hands, drove the car to
|a closed Amoco filling station, and
i gave her a serious beating when she
i successfully resisted his advances.
Zona Jean Franklin, 24 is in
{fair condition at Nesbitt Hospital,
where she was admitted by Kingston
| Township ambulance Saturday at
{1:50 a.m.
| Incoherent from fright, and bad-
ly beaten, Miss Franklin, an em-
| ployee at Franklin Federal Savings
{and Loan, is not yet able to piece
together the story. Frightened off
{by passing cars, the man left her
|in front of Lawson's filling station.
{She stumbled to the highway and
attracted the attention of Glenn
Stroh and Alfred Williams,
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~ |Flag Raising Marks Formal Opening
0f Wyoming National Branch Today
The Public Is Cordially Invited To Attend
Open House Which Continues Through Saturday
She and her husband
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Back Mountain continues to move | Shaver town,
A Bal of Wilkes-Barrzjnd thé Shay. | ertowi
| ertown Post Office move into this | Mr. Beedi is gles represer i for |
imposing structure on Main High- | Wilson Sporting Goods Cemipany,
| way, Shavertown, directly across | | Shieagy, their son is a ninth grade
| from the shopping center, (Continued on Page 7 A)
VOL. 74 ,NO. 14, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1962
oday Start At 9
Back Mountain
Hardware One Of
Finest In State
Visitors Sure To
Be Thrilled With
Varied Merchandise
Today marks a mammoth step
in the business and commercial de-
velopment of the Back Mountain
i area.
The opening of four modern struc-
tures, providing commercial, bank-
ing, public welfare and communi-
cation services all in a central loca-
tion is a step that will have a far
reaching affect on the habit pat-
terns and lives of all Back Moun-
tain residents.
The new buildings of Back Moun-
tain Lumber & Coal Company, Back
Mountain Branch of Wyoming Nat-
ional Bank, Shavertown Postoffice
and Shavertown Fire Company, im-
| portant as they are, are only the
| beginning of the development of the
Shavertown area as the business
center of the Back Mountain region.
Other modern business places and
services will follow their lead.
The construction of the new high-
way this summer with its attendant
{ removal of unsightly bordering
| business structures will add to the
| cleanliness of the approaches to the
Back Mountain and swell the num-
bers of businessmen seeking bet-
ter and more desirable locations.
| Shavertown is the natural location
for their enterprises.
as a business center is largely due
to the foresight, vision, initative and
courage of one man, Granville Sow-
den, a big, bluff, goodnatured fellow
who would be the last man in the
world to admit that he had a trace
of sentimentality in his make-up
business insi ht.
It waschd more than any othir
hisinessman who saw the natu al
| ppssibilities of Shavertown: as tha
logical trading cent¢ of an areca
| (Continued on Page 3 A)
| [Festivities for the opening of the | a
|n new bank office got underway
| Wednesday evening when the Back |
| Mountain branch of Wyoming Val. |
Hey's oldest bank was host to 150 |
larea people at dinner at the Castle, | |
Dallas-Harveys Lake Highway. |
Persons attending the kick-off |
| dinner were a representative group
| and the Borough of Dallas, includ- |
|ing supervisors, fire company rep-
| resentatives, police, school board
members, supervising principals, tax
jeofientos, the Advisory Committee
‘of the bank, bank personnel, bank
| officials, and other outstanding
| area men.
| Tdastmaster, Rulison Evans, a |
| director of Wyoming National Bank, |
| introduced bank president, Albert
|M. Bossard, who welcomed the
| group. Bank personnel and the Ad- |
| visory Committee were introduced. |
| The group was entertained by Bobby |
Baird's orchestra.
Dedication ceremony will take!
| place this moring at 9 when |
| the ribbon will be cut, officially
| opening ‘the branch bank for busi- |
| ness in its new quarters. Bank and
community officials will be on hand |
and the public is invited to be a
| part of this opening ceremony.
Following the flag raising and ,
ribbon cutting ceremony, Bobby |
Baird’s orchestra will play for the
pleasure of those attending open
house.
| Winfield Parsons, bank manager,
jextends a cordial invitation to all
residents to visit the bank on Thurs- | |
day, Friday or Saturday; the bank |
will be open each day, 8 a. m. to
9p. m. without interruption. Re- |
freshments will be served all three |
days in the bank lobby and flowers |
and gifts will be given to all at- |
tending.
Mr. Parsons points out that during |
April, persons opening new savings |
accounts or adding to their pres. |
et accounts in the amount of $25, |
$100, $300 or $500 will receive val-
uable premiums. Premiums are on bh
e
display in the bank lobby.
Bank personnel, well known to |
most area residents, live in the |
Back Mountain with the exception |
of one.
“Win” Parsons, assistant vice
president and manager, resides with |
his wife, Hilda, at 175 Oak Street, |
Trucksville.” Th 3
sons, 3 a SOE | Yoyce. from Carjondale, said, “Come
Joseph, who is employed at the [°™ find your ticket, maybe i's
Bruce Tool and Die Works in Shav- your night to win.’
ertown. Mr. Parsons is a graduate; ‘Not a chance,” Mrs. Meade re-
of the University of Pennsylvania | plied, obediently rummaging in her
Wharton School, the American In- | handbag. Just as the disc jockey
stitute of Banking and attended |tuned up for the big announce-
Wyoming Seminary. He has been | ment, Mrs. Meade emptied her hand-
employed by Wyoming Naational bag upside down, found her ticket,
Bank of Wilkes-Barre for more than {and read it incredulously as the
thirty years. i numbers were given.
Mrs. Charles K. Beech, savings| She sat there in a daze for a
| teller, lives on Ferguson Avenue, ' minute, ‘‘Hurry,” her mother
Mrs. Donald Meade, 58 Vonder-
it Street, Trucksville, was Giant
| Market's lucky winner Thursday
{ night, taking home $300. Mrs. Meade
| was sitting outside the store in her
| car at 7:30, With hundreds of oth-
| ers, the Meade car was a little
{early for the drawing, which takes
i place Thursday nights at 7:45.
Mrs. Meade’s mother, Mrs. Mary
Lucky Winner At Giant Market
prodded, “You've only got five min-
utes to get into the store and
through the crowd. Step on it.”
Mrs. Meade, breathless with haste,
just got under the wire. The store
was crowded, and five minutes
ticks off pretty fast when you're
| getting out of a car, racing for the
doorway, pushing through the
| throng, and presenting your ticket
in proof of a win.
“What are you going to do with
it?” was the sixty-four dollar ques-
tion.
Mrs. Meade’s mother always makes
for the baked goods departments
first thing. “They’ve got the best
cheese-cake I ever ate,” she re-
forts, and “everything always looks
so nice.”
Store manager Zygmund Topiel-
arski made the presentation.
The development of Shavertown s
but who combines a deep love for |
| the Back Mountain community with
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