72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain THE DALLAS POST TWO EASY TO REMEMBER ORchard 4-5656 Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY—EIGHTEEN PAGES Board Reelects Mellman, Gives 4-Year Contract Schools Report Number Of Minor Breaks In Buildings, Call Police Dr. Robert A. Mellman, super- intendent of Dallas Schools, was unanimously reelected Tuesday even- ing by the school board, with an increase in salary from $13,500 to $14,000, under a four-year con- tract. Dr. Mellman has been super- intendent for two years, start- ing at the $13,000 level, with a raise last year. Dr. Robert Bodycomb, chairman of Teachers Committee, presided over the election, receiving the gavel from Charles Mannear, school- board president. An executive session preceded the monthly meeting held in Dallas Senior High School Library. Walter Prokopchak, speaking for the Teachers Organization, called attention to the spring dinner, scheduled for Saturday, May 12, at Irem Temple Country Club, asking for reservation by May 1. A number of minor breaks were reported: John Rosser, principal of Dallas Junior High School reported a break into the gymnasium. Of- fenders were arrested by police. The second break, occurring also on Monday, April 2, was the lock on the annex door at Dallas Bor- ough, reported by Louise’ Colwell. Nothing was thing occurred the following Mon- day. Westmoreland Elementary School was entered on Friday, April 6. Principal John Mulhern reported the window in the boiler-room door was broken, and the door standing open. Daylight saving was adopted, to begin the last Sunday in April, continue until the last Sunday in October. Easter vacation was voted ex- tended, to run from April 16 to April 23, a full week of spring holiday. “Snow days,” allowed for in the calendar, have been scarce this winter, resulting in surplus time. Cafeteria A chart of cafeteria management was submitted to directors, together with menus, and listing of surplus foods received, with their utiliza- tion in lunches served students. For the year to date, cafeteria op- eration shows a loss. Month of March was in the black. During® the month, surplus food included 40 cases of cheese. Personnel George McCutcheon’s resignation as assistant varsity basketball coach was accepted. ‘Sheldon Mosier’s re- quest to be assignment was granted, and a ten- month contract substituted at a de- crease in salary. John L. Paul, Wilkes-Barre gwas approved as Supervisor of TB “nte- nance, to exert control over Jsus- todians, and lending his own ef- forts toward repairs and recondit- ioning. He is an expert carpenter. He expects to move to this area. Added to the list of substitutes were David M. Fischi, Wilkes-Bar- re, English and social studies; Mrs. Frederick Eck, Shavertown, school nurse. Temporary professional employ- ees: Nancy Jones, Patricia Whitta- ». ker, elementary; Lydia Jones, Don- 21d Hoover, John Sulkoski, second- ary. Permission was granted to John Mulhern to attend summer camp with U.S. Army Reserve, May 13 to May 27; to William A, Austin to attend meeting of Elementary Supervisors in Milton April 12, and Annual Science and Conservation ‘Workshop at Wryalusing in May; to secondary school principals to attend Secondary School Principals Association annual meeting at ° Wilkes, April 26; to Thomas Jenk- | ins to accompany cafeteria mana- | ger Frank Hemingway to Boiling Springs May 3 and 4. Health Exclusion for chicken-pox during Mazch, 8; measles, 1; poison ivy, 5: scarlet fever, 1; flue or virus, 32. Absentee list for March, 3,228; number of ptpils weighed and meas- ured, 68. Miscellaneous Kingston Township supervisors are considering removing a portion of the Westmoreland school site re- missing. The: same | relieved of summer | ‘| cates for residents of Caddie Is Used To Being Robbed Of Knives, Guns Says Next Time Thieves Will Find A Large Rough Dog Caddie LaBar says he’s getting used to being burgled several times a year, but that this year they put tassels on the job...took a walkie-talkie from his stock, so lookout, ready to warn the rest of the gang. Same old thing, says Caddie. In the early hours of Sunday morn- $1,500 worth of pistols, [fishing reels and rods, hunting knives. “You | says Caddie, “but you keep finding vacant spots where some- | thing that should be on the shelf, I's | isn’t.” | when he opened Sunday morning {at 9. This time, when he opened {the store to a customer, | minus $103. Caddie didn’t lock up until half past twelve, { Betty Cease’'s Treasure and Gift | Shop, employing the same method on the same night, were identical. Thieves sawed through an iron bar, broke a window, battered down | the door at the head of the stairs leading into the store. Honeywell, working with (State Pol- ice, still have no lead. Last year Caddie got everything back after a similar robbery. Caddie says next time robbers break in, a surprise will be await- example of several Dallas store- owners who have already installed large dogs on their premises. Noth- ing like a German shepherd to dis- courage thieves, he says. Red Cross Asks Blood Donation Bloodmobile To Be At YMCA On Bpril 27 mobile will be at Back Mountain Branch YMCA building, Shavertown, | April 27 from noon to 6. This col- | !lection will be for the Back Moun- | tain PTA Council, | Dallas Junior and Senior High ' Schools, Commonwealth Telephone | Company, Natona Mills, and Gate {of Heaven PTA. <7 » ’ | All blood chairmen. are urged to contact donois so that each of these | groups @nay meet their quota and | insure an ample supply of certifi- Mountain. that one man could keep on the | ing, thieves made off with up to | {don’t know just what you've lost,” | on | Caddie always kept enough money | {on hand to make change with, | he was It is presumed that | {the same thieves who broke into | Local police headed by Russell ing them. He plans to follow the | Don't forget - the Red Cross Blood- |. which includes |. { Shavertown, Trucksville, Dallas, and | i Westmoreland Elementary PTAs and | the Back | taining wall. Report from Jack | Stanley, chairman of building and | grounds, was that his committee | felt it twas a good idea to straighten } the road at this point, eliminating a | dangerous curve. Supervisors plan | to. do the necessary grading on the school site. Tax collections for March from | Arthur Dungey were $656.05; from | Wilson Ryman, $3,354.03; N. Eat- | Interior view of the beautiful on, $1,133.45; Ted Poad, $2,260.45. new Back Mountain Lumber Comp- fof the - extent of Back Mountain Treasurer's report showed a bal- | any Hardware and Gift Store which | Lumber & Coal Company’s exten- than 7,000 | sive operations. for March included State Subsidy @ persons during its opening days last | this building, .as large. as the storm- | ance April 1 of $212,804.24. Receipts was visited by more of $212,723.85. "Thursday, Friday and Saturday, MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, Great Day In Sh | Top: Commander: Edward Buck- ley and men of Daddow-Isaacs Post | American Legion. raise the flag | over the mew Shavertown Postof- fice while Bobby Baird and his orch- lestra play the Star Spangled Ban- ner and the crowd joins in. ’ opening ceremonies. | | tine, chairman | Wyoming National. Bank, briefly during the ceremonies just | before the ribbon cutting. | Middle: Early arrivals await the Advisory Committee and Directors land summer merchandise stocked | neatly on great rows of modern | steel shelving reaching almost from | floor to ceiling. { | During the opening the store was | room itself, is filled with spring filled with hundreds of floral trib-! | This view gives only a small idea The basement of - Bottom; Judge W. Alfred Valen- | Bossard, president, left Judge Thom- | Friday and Saturday, July 5, of the Board of [as M. Lewis, right, and others. speaks | In the group are members of the for everybody. Seven Thousand Attended Back Mountain Lumber Company's Opening A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Kickoff Dinner Offers Unusual Door Attraction Somebody Will Win Handsome Hot-Point Steel-Topped Range avertown May 3 at Irem Country Club will have, as a drawing card, a door prize that is guaranteed to bring out a banner attendance. Courtesy of United Gas Improve- ment Company, and to go on dis- play at Back Mountain Lumber HARRY LEFKO | Company. very shortly, is the bait {—a forty-inch Hot-Point electric range topped in gleaming stainless steel, the most modern piece of cooking - apparatus on the market. Everybody who buys a ticket to the smorgasbord dinner, buys auto- | matically a chance to facelift the lhome kitchen. An added attraction, just an- nounced by Auction Chairman Dick | Demmy, is appearance of Aunt Jem- ima in person, to sing for the as- sembly. | ‘Lee Vincent's combo will enter- tain, Harry Lefko, dinner chairman, has as advisor last year's dinner chairman Charles Mannear. + Dick Demmy will Emcee the pro- gram, Myron Baker will give the auth- entic auction tough “by offering a few choice items for sale. Next year’s | Auction = chairman will be introduced by this year’s chairman, Speeches will be held to the absolute minimum. This get- together is -strictly ‘for fun, and proceedings ‘will not be allowed to drag. Harry Lefko has some surprises up his sleeve. (Harry, you have been warned.) The Sixteenth Annual Library Auction is scheduled for Thursday, 6, |and 7, in Risley’s Barnyard. Commit- The weatherman cooperated pro- |tees are already hard at work. The viding a beautiful spring day. | Kick-Off Dinner launches the effort It was a great day in Shavertown | officially. Bells Will Ring On Patriot's Day Legion Taking Part In National Event Residents of Dallas today were urged to participate on April 19, in a nationwide demonstration of patriotism and Natural Unity to be proclaimed ‘by the ringing of bells, by Commander Ed Buckley, of Post 672, The American Legion here. With the cooperation of Gate of of Wyoming National Bank, Albert photo” by Kozemchak American Legion will observe Pat- riots Day, April 19, with the ring- ginning at 1 p.m. to 1:04 p.m. He pointed = out Commander Charles L. Bacon of Adm. Anleigh A. Burke (USN) (Ret) to head up a “Bells-Across-The Nation Committee to which Com- mander Buckley has been appoint- ed as a personal representative of the Legion National Commander. This National Committee seeks the organization of Community Com- stration of National Unity. The observance in Dallas will coincide with those of thousands of other cities, towns, throughout the nation where church ica’s’ declaration of National unity. “The close cooperation and as- sistance given by all’ who have consented patriotic endeavor. gives further | significance to the great spirit of unity which is. America.” Back Mountain Police | Association Tonight utes from well wishers and repres- | entatives of national - hardware | Back Mountain Police Association magazines were here to cover the | will meet tonight at Dallas “Amer- |story and obtain photographs for ican Legion Home at 7:30, to hear their publications, | Judge Bernard Brominski speak on the Domestic Relations Court. Library Auction Kick-Off Dinner Heaven Church, College Misericord- | ia and Dallas Methodist Church, the ! ing of bells for four minutes be- | that National | The American Legion had appointed | mittee throughout the United States to join in this Nation-wide demon- | and villages | bells, school bells, carillons, chimes, | etc., will ring out in ‘unison, giv- | ing a dramatic emphasis to Amer- | to participate in this | VOL. 74 ,NO. 15, LOUISE MARKS RATES CONGRATULATIONS IN METRO PUBLICATIONS In the current issue of Plus- Business, published monthly in New York City, Louise Marks ‘hag a citation from Editor Jo- seph A. Berstein. plus a memo congratulating her on her clever utilization of a Metro service ad. A pair of eyes peering over a “No Odor” plug for Perclene, indicates that the customer doesn’t need a nose to wrinkle when garments are sent to Davis Cleaners. Nice bit of advertising for Davis, and a sheaf of posies for Louise, the advertising “man” for Dallas Post. “Metro” goes all over the country. Here’s the editorial comment, as printed in Plus Business: “Creative woman ad manager of the Dallas Post, Mrs. Louise Marks, puts a lively and effec- tive imagination to work for a local dry cleaner. Choice of ‘eyes’ attention compellor from Metro to dramatize the ‘no odor’ theme, was indeed an in- spiration.” Key Club Escapes Tunnel Tragedy By Slim Seconds Boys On Way Back From Pittsburgh Rocked By Blast | Key Club boys fram Dallas Sen- oy: fom |ior High School, 2 | Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon a.er | attending the Key Club Conven- | tion at Hotel Hilton, heard a viol- | ent explosion one minute after they ‘had safely passed through the tun- [nel under Tuscarora Mountain and | were parking at the Howard John- | son Restaurant on the Pennsylvan- | ia Turnpike. | Looking back, they saw smoke { pouring from the tunnel, | mad tangle of traffic as all cars { were halted. | A few moments later, word came that four people had burned to death not far from the east entrance, lin the blazing wreckage of a col- | lision between a heavily loaded | trailer truck and a passenger car {from Delavgara a | Only three members of thes Key { Club Drill Team went with the other Key Club boys to Pittsburgh, an ar- | | rangement deemed advisable in view i {of the Drill Team's coming participa- | International | i { tion in Kiwanis | Convention in Denver in June. Bar- {ry Slocum headed the workshop | on service to the community; Rob- lert Letts, Lt. Governor of District | { 15, of which Dallas is a part, had | charge of the essay contest; Gary | {Cobb was the third Drill Team | member. | Key Club members included John | Brominski, Charles Kishbaugh, John | Molski, Robert Wallace, Stuart | Stahl, Robert Keay, Robert Shan- ; { non, Robert Peterson, Paul, Joseph | Hand, Sicket, Tim Groff. i By 7:30 Sunday evening, Emman- | uel's bus discharged Key Clubbers, | with George McCutcheon and Rob- | | ert Dolbear, ‘after the three day | trip and a full schedule. : Friday was the essay contest. On | Saturday evening. after the state | dinner, awards were presented, fol- | lowed by a dance. Dallas Key Club received com- | mendation for its scrapbook and | Single Service entry. Single Serv- lice is a community activity per- | formed by members during the year. | Dallas Key Club assists needy fam- lilies as its community contribu- | tion. TO PRESENT PROGRAM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY . The prize-winning Lake-Leh- man Band presents its annual spring concert Friday and Sat- urday nights at 8 in the Lehman gymnasium under di- rection of John Miliauskas. Give this group of enthusi- astic instrumentalists @ rousing welcome when they march to the rostrum, the same kind of welcome they have received from enthusiastic spectators everywhere when they have ap- peared in competition. Junior Band leads off with | simpler arrangements, folk songs, favorite hymns, a Germ- | an waltz, a stirring march. | Senior Band presentations | are enlivened with twirlers and color guard, using as an opener the Lake-Lehman Alma Mater, | composed by Swanson and Mil- | auskas, taking in some intrigu- ing movelties along with more | substantial offerings, and end- | ing with the National Anthem. | Mii For Third Place | College Misericordia varsity de- | baters tied for third place in the | tournament held at City College of | New York over the weekend: Jun- iors, Ann Wills ad Rita Ryan argued ‘for the affirmative, senior, Marie | PAéhénce and Junior, Phyllis Koval- Icik, for the negative, and a THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1962 Robbers Cut Bar, Break Window Jimmy Door Leave Penny Trail Behind As They Abandon Gift Shop Sometime between midnight Sat- urday, and Sunday morning at 10,6 thieves broke into Betty Cease’s gift shop on Memorial Highway, cleaned out the spare change, open- ed all the boxes, stole several nice gifts including good costume jewel- ry, and left a trail of pennies on their way out. Mrs. Cease locked up at 9:30 Saturday night, leaving a light turned on. al At midnight, Ray Titus, ma] police rounds, pushed a ca the door giving the spection. Sunday morng unlocked the “It looked of a hurricane,” repo oddly enough ‘there s™ no malicious vandalisry the hurried exit, we®" la sack of 500 kept lian purposes. Thieves made two attemprs em entry, the second successful. They smashed a rear window leading to a storage room; cut an iron bar; battered down a stout door divid- ing room from the shop. Deep-cut tire tracks at the rear of the shop indicate a hurried abandonment of the robbery. Mrs. Cease called Dallas Borough Police Chief Russell Honeywell. Honeywell informed State Police. A State Police detective dusted for fingerprints Sunday afternoon at | 2:30. : It took strength to jimmy that { door, they all agreed. By late afternoon, Mrs. Cease was | permitted to start the sorry task tof cleaning house. } New Post Office Opén Monday To Shavertown Equipment To Be Delivered Today | | IShavertown Post Office will move to its new quarters on the main | highway over the weekend, opening its doors to the public Monday morning at 8:30. | This, says Postmaster Richard | Griffith, is not the formal opening, which will take place later when notables can be present. Date for the ceremony has not yet been set. Facilities in the new building are | ample, parking space abundant. i Equipment is expected from Wilkes- i Barre today. As de Since Shavertown Post-Office was | taken over by Wilkes-Barre over la year ago, one rural route has been replaced by house to house ‘service affecting over 400 families, and several ‘hundred patrons who ‘formerly came to: the Post Office {for- their mail are now served. | Three regular mail carriers, Ger- {ald ‘Shonk, John Brown, and Ed- ward Ungvarsky operate the small blue fleetvans in door to door deli- very. One carrier, Bernard Kulak- owski still carries a sack, walking {over a shortened route. Willard Doran substitutes ‘for carriers on their day off: Harry Evans handles the remain- ing rural route, Shavertown RD 3, 47 miles of travel per day. Mail clerk is Jean Glahn, substi- | tute Arline Bessmer. To date, no | plans have been made for enlarge- I ment of the staff. Junior High School Boy ‘Injured fin Tumbling An eighth-grade boy from Dallas Junior High School was taken by ambulance to Nesbitt Hospital Tues- day at 11:30, and remains for ob- servation after being injured in a tumbling class in gymnasium per- iod. Dale Prynn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Prynn, apparently struck the back of his head and neck. Staff- ing the ambulance were Ray Titus and Don Bulford. Mrs. Prynn is on the part-time cafeteria staff, Mr. Prynn is one of the custodians at Dallas Senior High iSchool. | Local Dog Lovers On Training Club Board Local dog lovers are members of the Board of Anthracite Dog Train-_ ing Club: William Moss, Trucksville, Harry McCartney, Dallas, Mrs. Jack Weber, Sweet Valley, and Bart Col- lett, Shavertown. The spring class in Obedience Dog Training sponsored by the club will start Saturday at the Kirby Park training area under the Mark- et Street Bridge.
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