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VOL. 74, NO. 20, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1962
Carol Drapiewski
First At Lehman
Marie Hardisky ¥n
Second Place
Valedictorian
CAROL DRAPIEWSKI
Salutatorian
§
MARIE HARDISKY
Anthony Marchakitus, principal of
Lake-Lehman High School, an-
nounces Lehman honor studeits,
Valedirtorian for the Lehman bi#14-
ing ‘1s Carol Drapiewski; Saluta-
torian is Marie Hardisky.
Carol Drapiewski, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Drapiewski of Sweet
Valley, in the academic course,
plans to attend Catholic University
of America in Washington D.C.
She participated in the band,
EA varsity and intramural bask-
etball, F.T.A., and various clubs.
She is Vice-President of the senior
2class, and President of the National
Honor Society. She was in the
judior play and was chairman of
senior play. Early in the school
year she was selected as Senior
Citizen.
She is a member of Our Lady
of Mount Carmel Church at Lake
Silkeworth. ;
Marie Hardisky, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Hardisky of Leh-
man, also in the academic course,
plans to enter Bloomsburg State
College.
Her extra-curricular activities in-
clude: F.T.A., National Honor Soc-
jety, head majorette of the band,
chorus, intramural basketball, the
junior play, class officer, and memhb-
ership in various school clubs. Mar-
je served as student director of
the Senior play. She was the Girl-
of-the-Month selected by Dallas Rot-
ary Club. She is a member of St.
Anthony's Church in Larksville,
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Muction Chairmen To
Meet With Dick Demmy
Chairman of these Library Auc-
tion ccommittees will meet with
general chairman Dick Demmy to-
morrow night at 8:15 at his home
on Lake Street: Antiques, Arts and
Crafts, Auto hance, Barbecus,
Barn, Books, Candy, General Solici-
tation, Live Stock, Odds and Ends,
Plants, Publicity, and Traffic.
Lake - Lehman Hig
The new
Rescind Raise
In Per Capita
Board To Rely On
Greater Collection
The additional per capita tax
of $2, passed May 8 by Dallas School
directors, was rescinded at a special
meeting called Tuesday night at 9.
Improved collection of taxes is ex-
pected to provide enough revenue
to implement the tentative budget
passed at the May 8 meeting.
Per capita tax will remain at $10
instead of the suggested $12, and
millage will remain at 78 on real
estate. The budget of $1,139,750
is based upon a \97% collection of
taxes.
Cancelling out of the per capita
tax for residents of 70 or older,
will necessarily cut down revenue,
says Arthur Dungey, tax collector
for Dallas Borough. As was done
last year, Borough taxes will be
billed separately from school taxes,
increasing cost of mailing and print-
ing.
No funds in the 1962-1963 budget
were allocated for summer recre-
ational program,
Eleanor Rodda
Heads Council
Succeeds Atty. Thomas
In Back Mountain PTA
Mrs. Paul Rodda succeeds ‘Atty.
Enoch Thomas as head of Back
Mountain PTA Council, which in-
cludes representation from Dallas
Schools and Lake-Lehman. Joan
Mulhern was elected vice president;
Eleanor Fleming, secretary; Virginia
Swanson, treasurer. (
A meeting of the new Cor
set tentatively for May 31 in
Senior High School library.
Mrs. Elwood Swingle = will
LA
be
PT as a unit, serving the organ-
izaticn as successor to individual
chairmen heretofore making ar-
| rangements.
PTA quota for the last donation
was set at 55 pints.
Laurel Festival
=: GLENDA WILLIAMS
Glenda Williams, Dallas High
School senior, will represent her
classmates at the 21st Laurel Fest-
ival at Wellsboro, June 22, 23, 24.
She was selected as outstanding
in charm, poise, beauty and person-
ality to compete with 70 other
high school girls for the title of
Laurel Queen,
One of the awards offered is a
partial scholarship at one of the
State Universities, a scholarship
which would interest Glenda not at
all, as she has already been accept-
ed for training at Geisinger Medical
Center in September.
Daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd
Williams, 81 Sterling Avenue, she
has attended Trucksville and Dal-
[las elementary schools, Westmore-
|land, and Dallas Senior High. She hag
since seventh
|been a cheerleader
| crate; as president of Keyettes as
{a Junior, captain of Keyette Drill
Team, belongs to the Girls Chorus,
has, sung for six years in Dallas
| Methodist choir and is active in
| Rainbow Girls, holding office since
the Charles James Memorial Chapter
was founded.
Lake-Lehman’s New High School Building Takes Form
| within recent years,
project in the Back Moutain area | where.
chairman of Blood Donation tor the |
By NANCY CRISPELL
This is the Dallas School Patrol
| consisting of some members of the
| fifth and sixth grade classes taught
| by Mrs. Margaret ughes,
Joseph. Park, Mrs. Ace Beryl Aus-
tin, and Mrs. Sara Welker.
In the center are Eric Mayer,
patrol captain, and John Mannear,
co-captain. Last Saturday, Captain
Eric Mayer represented the Dallas
School District Patrols as a parti-
cipant in the twenty-second An-
nual National School Patrol Parade
| in Washington, D.C.
| The trip was sponsored by Wyom-
Suspicious Blaze
In Empty House
| Two Companies Answer
Trucksville . Alarm
Fire of suspicious origin struck
again in the Back Mountain Wedn-
{esday morning at 1:30 when an
empty building in Trucksville burst
{into flames. The ‘former Besteder
| property south of Carverton Road
| intersection, one of several proper-
; | ties taken by the highway depart-
| me.it’ to make room for the new
"toad, had been boarded up for
gpme months.
A neighbor across the highway
reports hearing a squealing of tires
and a quick get-away immediately
before the Trucksville fire siren
blew.
Shavertown firemen were called
to assist. Fire, supposedly exting-
uished, flared up again, and Shav-
ertown got a second call at 3 a.m.
Grass fires starting in the middle
of the night, and empty buildings
bursting into flames, point to arson,
in the opinion of Back Mountain
firemen and police-
Arson Suspected
it will give
At Fruit Market
Spectacular Blaze
Alerts Neighborhood
A spectacular blaze badly dam-
aged the California Fruit Market
Thursday might, lighting up the
area and alerting residents who
feared flames, fanned by wind, might
spread to neighboring properties,
The blaze was at its height at 10
pm. but the all-out was not sound-
ed until an hour later.
Philip Ansilio, Dallas owner of the
in the season, but had expected to
sell flowers for Mother's Day.
Dallas firemen, present with both
pieces of equipment were joined
| by firefighters from Shavertown and
Kunkle,
Arson was considered a 'possi-
biility, the blaze coming after three
other alarms in the same general
area earlier that same evening. The
first was a grass fire on Poplar St.,
the second and third, fire in Sacred
Heart Cemetery across from Calif-
ornia Fruit Market,
3%
The
| Contractor is Raymon R, Hedden.
market stated that he had mot open-
ed officially for business this early |
building was designed by
School takes form at Lehman. The [this area secondary school facilities | Roushey, Smith and Miller. General |
second major educational building | second to none to be found any-
se 2
I'ing Valley Motor Club which made
| arrangements to have the Patrols
| leave Hotel Sterling on Friday
| morning, then visit Gettysburg en-
| enroute home Sunday.
James Roth, patrol lieutenant,
was absent when this picture was
taken.
Members of Dallas School Patrol
are Sixth Grades: Mrs. Austin —
Paul Bacon, George Block, & Allan
Brown, Donald Davis, Dale Elston,
Charles Garris, Robert Huttman,
David Kapson, William Kingsbury,
John Layaou, John Mannear - Co-
Alumni Chairman
|
|
|
MRS. ALVA EGGLESTON
Mrs, Alva Eggleston of Vernon
is general chairman of Wyoming
Seminary Alumni Day, scheduled for
June 9.
The former Helen Himmler of
Dallas was “Miss Wyoming Sem-
inary’ of her 1935 graduating class.
She has not missed an Alumni Day
in 27 years. Several years ago,
President Dr. Ralph Decker named
her “Mrs. Alumna.”
She majored in music at College
Misericordia, and upon graduation,
gave private piano and vocal les-
sons, Later she became art and
music supervisor at Lake-Noxen
schools and Exeter Township.
Seven years ago she gave up
teaching to become regional mana-
ger for Field Enterprise Education-
al Corporation, publishers of Child-
craft and World Book Encyclopedia.
She visits schools and libraries in
five counties and now directs five
district and area managers, and 200
| representatives.
A few years ago she was runner:
{up for Mrs. Wyoming Valley, based
| upon her interest in home, church
{and community.
Mrs. Eggleston has served as
| president of nine organizations, rec-
[ently completing a two-year term
{as head of Dallas Senior Woman's
| Club.
Killing Frost
‘Threatens Fruit
Killing frost threatened to ruin
i | the entire fruit crop in the Back
©. | Mountain, striking early Thursday |
| morning, and going as low as 24 |
[and 26 degrees:
Arthur Newman, East Dallas, re-
ports that his apple crop will be
{a total loss.
| thing will be saved. Orchards were
in full bloom when the tempera-
| ture dropped. Alvah Eggleston,
{Verncn, used smudge pots, /but
| wind from the wrong direction blew
| the heat away and half the apples
| were lost.
| Mrs. Mayer, on Lake Street, says
| her fruit trees were frost-struck:
Out. . on the Demunds-Center
| Moreland Road, only about a mile
| from George Berlew’s, Ira Frantz
{reports that his fruit trees are in
good shape, no sign of frost dam-
lage. He refrained from spraying the
| week before frost was threatened:
At Clifford Stroud’s in Moore-
| town, apples did not seem too badly’
| damaged.
School Patrol Member Goes To Washington
|
{
|
Geoyge Berlew, - ‘Orange, with |
| apples, peaches, prunes, and cher- |
rigs, says ‘it is doubtful if any-|
| captain, Frank Matenus, Eric Mayer
- Captain, Shirley Brown, Cathy
| Connoly, Nancy Crispell, Diane
| Davies, Jeanette Evans, Denise Gar-
Mr. | route to Washington and Harrisburg | inger, Sally Holvey, Barbara Hughes,
| Betsy Mulhern, Sally Ann Myers
Mrs. Welker — Dianne Seymour,
Earl Evans, Rita Mae Nafus, Ronald
| Sutton, Ted Wright, Susan Carey,
| Judy Stasko, Sally Lancio, Edward
| Rome, Robert Perry, Sally Ziegenfus,
| David Prichard, Damon Young
Cathy Reese Diane Schweiss.
| Fifth Grades: Mrs, Hughes
| Bucky Hale, Diane Hozempa, Ray-
| mond Matenus Suzanne Moen, John | Richards. RIA
| Linear Inc. Advances Three
{
Philip H. Moore, Vice-President
and General Manager of Linear, Inc.
announces three appointments
Daniel A. August, to Sales Man-
| ager; Francis E. Lenahan, Jr. to
Sales Representative, and Donald
E. Carter, to Sales-Service and Pro-
duction Planning Manager.
Mr, August, 41 Evergreen Street,
i Shavertown, joined Linear’s Plan-
ning Department in 1956. He has
held’ various supervisory positions
ineluding : Superintendent, and that
of Sales-Service and - Production
Manage¥. He will now be respon-
sible for administration of Linear’s
nationwide sales organization, ad-
vertising programs and. policies. Mr.
August and his wife, the former
Helen Rosengrant of Plains, are
the parents of three daughters,
Ruth Ann, Mary Beth and Susan.
| He is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Alex
| August, Wilkes-Barre. His father is
with the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Mr. Carter joined Linear’s’ Plan-
ning Department in 1956. He served |
| in several responsible positions and |
in December 1961 was made Pro- |
Mr,
| duction Planning Manager.
| Carter will assume the duties being
vacated by Mr. August. Mr. Carter
| resides at 47 Saginaw Street, Old
| Goss Manor. He and his wife, the
| former Lois Davies, are the parents
| of three sons, Don, Jr., Jeffery and
| Scott.
Mr, Lenahan joined Linear in
{1958 as a member of the Plan-
{ning Department. In May 1961, he
| was assigned to the Sales-Service
| Department « with the position of
{ correspondent and editor. In his new
{ position he will assist Mr. August
| and serve as Linear’s representative
to distributors, salesmen and cust-
omers throughout the United States.
Mr. Lenahan is the son of Francis
Officers for the coming year were
elected and installed at the final
meeting of Trucksville Elementary
PTA by William Davis, member of |
the Dallas Area School Board.
Left to Right, are incoming offic-
ers, Mrs. Paul Hiller, secretary,
Mrs. Richard Garman, vice presi-
dent, George Nichols, president; out-
going officers, Mrs, Raymond Mar-
tin, president, Mrs. Alvin Bolen, vice
president, Mrs, Edward Bessmer,
{ within the company’s sales organ- |
| ization,
Ingoing And
Honor Students
At Lake Building
Carolyn Ide Ranks
First, Goal College
Top Honors
| Oliver, Frank Parkhurst, Fred Parry,
| Chris Prichard, Priscilla Reese,
David Swanson, Daniel Thomas,
| David Traver, James Tupper, Ab-
sent: Roger Lacy, Lt. James Roth,
Mr. Park — Charles Baker, Vera
Balshaw, Alisa Berger, Drew Bitten-
| bender, Virginia Block, Thomas
| Bottoms, Douglas Bulford, Harold
| Casterline, Vera B. Cave, Christine
| Demmy, Craig S. Churry, Jane
| Daley, David Dobson Libby Edwards,
| David Fitch, Anne Gardner Clifford
| Garris, David Germick, Linda Gula,
| Alan Heycock, Douglas Hoover, Jay
CAROLYN IDE
Validictorian
Second Place
|E. and Anna C. Lenahan and res-
| ides with his parents at 80 Chapel
| Street, Wilkes-Barre.
He is a member of Holy Saviour
| Parrish and "active in civic affairs.
His affiliations include Knights of
| Columbus, A.L.S.A.C., National As-
| sociation of Accountants and East
| End Civic. League.
| Judge Ben R. Jones
' To Be Dinner Speaker
Justice Benjamin R. Jones will be
{ speaker at Back Mountain, Protect:
{ive Association Dinner Monday, May
| 28, at 6:30 at Irem Temple Country
| Club when Back Mountain Com- o 4
| minity Service Award will be building of TLake-Lehman Area
| presented to Howard W. Risley, Edi- Schools are Carolyn Ide and Sandra
|tor and Publisher of the Dallas | Yelitz. . : 7
| Post. Carolyn Ide, daughter of Mr. and
The Community Service Award is { Mrs. Wilfred Ide, Loyalville, has
presented ‘to an individual or an received a letter of commendation
| organization in recognition of out- | from the National Merit Scholar-
| standing achievements in and for | ship Society, and has made exeel-
the benefit of the Back Mountain |lent ratings in college board exami-
Aen: | nations. She took part in both junior
SANDRA YELLITZ
Salutatorian
Top ranking students at the Lake
eral ‘Chairman. | us, was circulation manager of the
Tickets can still be secured from |School hewspaper, and was photog-
| Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost, Dr. F.|raphy co-chairman of the Year-
| Budd Schooley, Attorney James L. | book. She was Girl of the Month,
| Brown, Robert Laux, Paul Gates, | and is a’ member of the National
| Charles H. Glawe or at Evans Drug | Honor Society. At college, she will
| Store. [take a course in the humanities.
| TTT ETE | Sandra Yellitz, ranking second,
Band Records Rvailable |is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Yellitz, now living in Williamsport
records, | since closing of Noxen Tannery, of
which Mr. Yellitz was superinten-
Lake-Lehman Band
i long-playing with 22 minutes om
each side, plus a picture of the dent, She is president of the Tri-
| prize winning Lake-Lehman Band, |Hi-Y, class treasurer, Girl of the
|are again available, says Mrs. Otis Month, editor of the Yearbook and
[ Allen Jr. Residents who were not |school newspaper, member of Nat-
| able to have their orders filled the |ional Honor Society. She has been
| last time Band Sponsors ordered |active in the Band, chorus, class
| records, may now be supplied. Call | plays and Rainbow Girls. AND, she
i Mrs. Allen, NEptune 9-9781. lis this year's May Queen.
Outgoing Officers Of Trucksville PTA
| treasurer, Mrs. George Nichols, sec-|Other guests were iis. .adora
| retary. Absent: Mrs. Donald Thomp- | Baird, school nurse and John XK.
ison, incoming treasurer. Thomas, guidance director of Dal-
During the social’ hour, memb- (las Schools, ‘
lers of the faculty were guests of Arrangements for the tea were
| honor at the annual Teachers’ Re- | made by Mrs. Robert Ziegler, hos-
| cognition Tea. Honored were Mrs. | pitality chairman, assisted by Mrs.
| Adaline Burgess, Mrs. Vincent Mec- | Robert Shoemaker, Mrs. Jonathan
Guire, Mary Fleming, Marion Young, | Weir, and Mrs. Richard Griffith.
| Georgiana Weidner, Walter Prok- |Miss Burgess and Mrs. Martin /pour-
opchak, and Mrs. Ralph Garris. ij
{
Harold Flack;
‘Robert Fleming
Are Nominated
Both Ran Without
GOP Organization
Endorsement
The Back Mountain Region held
the center of the stage in Tuesday's
Republican Primary Election with
four of the top contenders coming
from this area, three of them from
Dallas Borough and Township and
a fourth from Kingston Township-
Senator Harold E. Flack, 62, Goss
Manor, running as an independent,
defeated his neighbor, Peter D.
Clark, 62, Dallas Borough, who had
organization support for [Senator
from the Twentieth District.
Atty. Robert Fleming, Dallas
Borough, running without organi-
zation support, and one of four
contenders for Representative from
the Sixth Legislative District, de-
feated Robert Edgerton, Forty-Fort,
organization candidate, and two in-
dependent candidates Dayid Blight,
Luzerne, and John Cicero, Swoyers-
ville.
C. “Bud” ‘Bennett Williams,
Trucksville, seeking election as Re-
publican State Committeeman was
opposed by George Turner, Forty-
Fort. Outcome of this contest was
not known at presstime, although
Williams carried the Back Mountain
and Hazleton areas by large plur-
alities: !
In statements issued yesterday,
both Flack and Fleming appealed
for greater harmony in the Luzerne
County Republican organization and
for a united effort to weld a pow-
erful Republican Party.
Atty. Fleming said in part:
“I would like to express my deep
gratitude and appreciation to the
many people of the Back Mountain
Area, who, by their efforts on my
behalf, succeeded in. making me the
nominee of the Republican Party
for the office of State Representa-
tive. I would also like to express
Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost -is Gen- |and senior play, sang in the chor- |
my appreciation to Bob Edgerton,
: | Dave Blight, and John Cicero, and
| to all of their supporters, for the
| clean, hard-fought campaign which
| they conducted.
I'have the label of an “indepen-
dent”, but any such label, whenever
| applied to any candidate, is grossly
| misleading, All of us are dependent
| upon others, and; in my particular
| case, 1 am dependent upon the
| loyalty of my friends in all aspects
{ of life, and, in my present position
| as ‘a candidate for public office, I
| must depend upon the loyal support
{of all those persons in my legis-
| lative district, both within and
| without the formal party orgeniza-
| tion, who believe in the principles
{ of the Republican Party.
The Republican county organi-
| zation has been roundly criticized
{in the press during this primary
| campaign. Clearly some of this
| criticism is justified, for there is a
{great need for a closer working re-
| lationship between the party leaders
and the party workers, male and
| female alike,upon whose hard work
| the party depends. But:if the Re-
publican county organization is de-
| ficlent in many ways, which it
surely fis, some such deficiencies are
| inevitable, for we are all human and
| we all. commit many errors of
| judgement. It is. an impossibility
| for any public official to be beyond
| reproach, and I myself would a
| thousand times prefer the present
| and past leadership of the Republi-
| can county organization to the
| tyrannical dictatorship of Dr. John
Dorris, the boss of the Democratic
Party of this county, whose political
philosophy is better suited to Jersey
City in the 1930's than to Luzerne
County in the 1960's. I therefore
trust that all loyal members of the
Republican party will .now unite
and work together to carry the state
this fall.”
Key Club Sets
Car-Wash All
Day Saturday
Key-Club to-Denver car wash is
scheduled for all day Saturday at
Clyde Birth’s. Key Club boys will
man . the station, and profits are
earmarked for the Drill’s Team's
June trip to Kiwanis Convention.
Andy Roan is giving the ‘boys the
soda concession for the day.
Community support, solidly | be-
{hind the Key Club at the Pan-
cake Festival, will rally to the
car-wash, a money-raising scheme
which benefits everybody, providing
funds for the Denver trip, result-
ing in clean cars for Sunday, and
reflecting credit upon the merchants
who are building goodwill in the
community by going along with the
boys in .a worthwhile project.
Jerome Gardner, Kiwanis Club
president, and George McCutcheon,
Key Club advisor, ask your sup-
port.
Country Club Manager
James F. Smith, a former Poten-
tate of Irem Temple, assumed his
duties as manager of Irem Temple
Country Club Tuesday morning, re-
lieving Mrs. Gwen Brace,