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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
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’
| 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.