— ! a in w Oldest Business Back of the Mountai \ 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Institution n E DALLAS POST A pre TWO EASY TO REMEMBEk ORchard 4-5656 Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY SIXTEEN PAGES Beautiful May Day Ceremony Ushers In Commencement Week College Misericordia Seniors Will Close Academic Year At Commencement Sunday May Day opened College Miseri- cordia’s Commencement Week Cere- monies. Flooded by the sun’s heat, the Spring green of Misericordia’s | campus furnished a beautiful back- | drop for the May Crowning and Procession of underclassmen in black academic dress and seniors formal gowns of every pastel shade. : The breezes that seem residents of Misericordia’s campus moved constantly across the scene to bring an extra dimension of movement to the action, especially that of the seniors as they walked toward the administratica circle in gowns of sun-lit color swinging toward tall evergreens that flank the road. Scene of the ceremony’s first act was the lawn in front of Walsh Auditorium where the students ags- sembled with May Queen Janet Fritz and her court: attendants, Rosemary Romanowski and Barbara Maziarz; crowabearer, ilsa Steinhauer; train- bearers, Paula Ribando and Helen Salvetti- After the group sang Salve Mater, Janet Fritz was crowned May Queen by Patricia Policari, president of. the , Senior Class. The students sang Alma Mater Misericordia and then walked’ in procession to the circle in front of the admin straticn building. In the second scene, after the students had assembled in the circle, a crown for the Blessed Mother's statue was blessed by the Right Rev. Monsignor James T. Clarke. Then, as the chorus sang the Coronation Hymn, May Queen Janet Fritz placed the crown ‘on the statue that stands facing the administration building. - The Rev. Richard Frank read an act of con- secration and the Rev. William J. McCawley gave a short sermon. May a Day Ceremony ended with the as- » Tiny sembly’s singing. the hymn Holy God. The next major event for Miseri- cordia’s seniors was Honors Convor cation at Walsh Auditorium, fol- lowed yesterday at 9 by the senior class communion breakfast. On Saturday | evening seniors will re- ceive “their academic hoods at a ceremony in Walsh "Auditorium. Baccalaureate Sunday Baccalaureate Mass will be cele- brated at 5 ‘Mary's Cliurch of *they Immaculate’ Conception, Wilkes- Barre, Sunday at 11 a. m. Cele- brant will be the Rev. Thomas G. Ryan, assistant pastor, St. Anas- tasia Church, Douglaston, L. I, N. Y.; deacons: the Rew: Frank A. Barlik, V.E. St. Stanislaus Church, Nanticoke; the Rev: Donald A. Mec- Andrews, MSW, Chaplain, College Misericordia. The Rev. Thomas A. Flynn, assistant pastor, Sacred . Heart Church, Plains, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Commencement Sunday Night The week’s activities will end at Irem Temple on Sunday evening at the Commencement Convocation. The Very Rev. Edward F. Clark, iS.J., president of St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, will give the com- mencement address. The Most Rev. Jerome D. Hannan, D.D., Bishop of Scranton, will confer degrees, and the Rev. Donald A. Andrews will present candidates for degrees. Gould Is ¥mproved Milford “Tiny” Gold is making a good recovery at Nesbitt Hos- pital where he is a patient follow- ing a heart attack suffered a week ago Monday at his home at Outlet. is an antique car and gun enthusiast and member of the firm of Elston & Gould. . ALL ADVERTISING AND NEWS COPY MUST BE IN A DAY EARLY NEXT WEEK The Dallas Post will be out as usual next Thursday morn- ing. Because Wednesday (our usual day for printing, is Me- morial Day, we have advanced our deadlines by one day. All correspondence, church notices, publicity stories and pictures must be in our hands no later than Saturday morn- ing. Display advertising will close Monday morning and classified advertising will close Tuesday at moon. Your cooperation will be ap- preciated and make it possible for us to print all of your news. Editors String Ensemble To Entertain At Award Dinner Reservations Close Today For Protective Association Program College \Misericordia String Play- ers will entertain Monday evening at the testimonial dinner tendered to Howard Risley. In the ensemble are Lorraine Rowe, Kathleen Mur- phy, Barbara Turnbach, Joan Vo- veris, and Carol Walcavage. Patricia Ungemach, soprano, will sing two selections, accompanied by Enid Housty, and Lorraine Rowe will present three violin numbers. The Honorable Bernard C. Bro- minski will emcee the program, and the Honorable Benjamin R. Jones deliever the address. Mr. Risley, editor and publisher of the Dallas Post, will respond to | presentation of the Community Ser- vice Award by Atty. James L. Brown, president of Back Moun- tain Protective Association. “Chairman Rev. *Robset D.. Yost will introduce Rev. Francis A. Kane who will give the invocation. | Rev. Russell C. Lawry will give the | benediction. Serving with Rev. Yost on the program committee are Mrs. Joseph Walloo, co-chairman; Charles H. Glawe, and Robert W, Laux. Reservations deadline is today, with ticket chairman | Charles Glawe. DOG CATCHERS ON LOOK-OUT FOR STRAYS IN BACK MOUNTAIN Dog-catchers are in the neigh- borhood this week, warns Dallas Borough police chief Russell Honeywell,” and they will be here to enforce laws against unlicensed dogs for some weeks to come. It is as- tonishing, says Russ, how the . mews gets around. Dogs that were roaming the neighborhood on Monday, were securely tied up on Tuesday, and not an un- collared pet in sight. Dog Owners Fined A number of owners of unlicensed dogs were fined $5 plus $9 costs this week in a checkup by State Dog Law enforcement officers. “Two Hundred Thirty Civil War Graves In 9 Local Cemeteries More than 230 known graves of Civil War veterans in nine local cemeteries are marked annually by Major Edgar Post of the Sons of Veterans of the CivilWar with small flags held in bronze markers. Major Post, whose home is at 124 S. Washington Street, Wilkes- Barre, has carried out this work since 1914: but says that it is be- coming increasingly difficult to find some of the graves, especially where curio seekers and others have re- moved the older bronze or iron markers, Some of the oldest metal markers are now almost 100 years old, having been placed on the graves by G.AR. Posts whose members de- corated the graves as long as they ' * were physically able. Major Post explained that the County Commissioners provide the flay's and the replacement markers and that each year he inspects all of the markers to see if they are in good shape. If not, they are re- placed. : : He urges all families or relatives who know where Civil War vet- erans are . buried. in unmarked graves to get in touch with him, if possible before Memorial Day so that the graves be appropriately marked. ; When he visited The Dallas Post on Saturday morning he brought with him an old rusted marker— now considered an antique. It was embossed Post 399 G.A.R. This was the number of the Dallas G-AR. Post which went out of existence almost fifty years ago. “This is the type marker,” he said, “which is removed from cemeteries, even while it is in good condition and might last a number of more years. Major Post not only looks after also supervises the placing of flags in Wyoming Valley cemeteries. Those he attends in the Back Civil War veterans’ graves in each are: Mt. Greenwood 41; Evergreen 9: Warden 40; Woodlawn 31; Hunts- ville 22; Ceder Crest, Trucks- ville, 68; Idetown 18; St. Nicholas 2; Shaver 5- Major Post's telephone number is VA 3-5370. Gould's Pierce-Arrow In Auto Show Sunday Tiny Gould will have his 1933 Pierce Arrow, one of last of the famous line to be manufactured, in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Reg- ional Automobile Show Sunday at Scanlon Field, Kingston. One of the finest collections of antique, classic and custom auto- mobiles from Pennsylvania and other states will go display from 1 to 7 p.m. the Civil War veterans’ graves in | ] 5 | most Back Mountain cemeteries, he Mountain area and the number of | MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION | { | WILLIAM J. UMPHRED Assignment of Commonwealth Telephone Company executive per- sonell, Daniel G. Chapman to the newly created post of General Training and Results Supervisor and William J, Umphred as Gen- eral Commercial Superintendent was announced today by A. J. Sor- doni, Jr., president. Both changes are effective immediately. Mr. Chapman will be directly re- sponsible to M. S. Baker, assistant vice-president and assistant general manager, in his new position. His '| duties will embrace the training of executive personnel, district mana- gers and those in supervisory posts, phases of commercial, traffic and plant operation. | William Umphred’s promotion to | General Commercial Superintendent | | makes him responsible for the] | liaison work between Common- | wealth’s General Offices, Dallas, and its ten district offices of com- mercial problems, sales promotion, directories and policy coordination. Both are Wyoming Valley na- tives, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and daughter, Cornilia, live at 76 Vir- ginia Terrace St., Forty Fort; Wil- liam Umphred at 200 Scott St, Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Chapman has been associated with Sordoni Enterprises since Oc- tober 1940 when he entered the | Construction Company's employ serving in its purchasing depart- ment. Six months later he was transferred to Commonwealth Tele- phone Company's Accounting Di- { vision. In January 1943 he entered {the Army seeing 38 months of ac- | tive duty, ten of which were in the will be that town’s newest and only centenarian on Monday, May 28 when she celebrates her 100th birthday. Mrs. Parrish will be at her {| Beaumont home all day Sunday, | May 27th where she hopes friends, {relatives and neighbors will stop | by to help commemorate this most | significant birthday anniversary. | Several friends will assist in wel- | coming guests at the informal open | house ‘Sunday. | The home in which Mrs, Parrish ‘now lives was converted from the old Rock Corner frame school houge, Commonwealth Announces and of executive: direction in all | Mav Dav Procession On Colleae Misericordia Campus Changes In Executive Personnel TT DANIEL G. CHAPMAN | southwest Pacific as a T/Sgt. turned to Commonwealth's Ac- | counting Division and, a year later, | was made manager of its Tun- i khannock district. From Novem- [ber 1950 until December 1953 he | managed the Company’s Towanda | district at which time he was ad- | vanced to General Commercial | Superintendent. Mr. Umphred, a 1946 graduate of {Coughlin High School, worked two | years on the news staff of the Sun- | day Independent and, in February 11948, enrolled at Wilkes College. | Four years later he was graduated | with a Liberal Arts degree having majored in the social sciences. Dur- Iserved as Sports Publicity Director. | In the succeeding three and one half years he served with the Navy | assigned to an aircraft carrier with the Atlantic and Mediterranean | Fleet, ‘later as a Communications | Officer (Lt.j.g.) at the Pentagon. | He. was released from service in July 1955. Upon entering Commonwealth's employ in September 1955, Mr. Umpherd was assigned to commer- cial surveys until, in July 1956, he was made assistant district mana- | ger at Towanda. In succeeding years lhe served as acting district mana- ger of the Company's Quarryville office and as assistant manager, Bangor. In June 1959 he was as- | signed as commercial training sup- | ervisor at Dallas and, two years | supervisor in charge of training commercial personnel and respon- sible for sales promotion. over the hill. That ' log = cabin housed the children of the replaced by the frame which later became Mrs. Parrish’s home. Mrs. Parrish is the only surviv- ing pupil who attended the Monroe Academy, taught during his early | years by J. P. Breidinger who later | became the beloved principal | Coughlin High School, i i meus | Round, In March 1946 Mr. Chapman re- | {ing his four years at Wilkes he | Sportive Youth Put Busses Out Of Commission Flatten Tires, Hurl Ignition Keys Away, And Uproot Wiring Sportive youth of the area put, sometime Tuesday night, including | the cafeteria bus which services Dallas elementary and Junior high schools: Four school busses parked at Or- chard Farms Restaurant had. all tires, "flattened and ignition keys thrown away. Foiled in their attempt to throw away ignition keys of the cafeteria bus parked at Orchard Farms, the | vandals uprooted the entire wiring, throwing it into the parking lot. One Dallas school. bus parked at C. L. Myers’ place on Overbrook Huntsville, had its tires flattened. | One Myers bus, parked in the | same lot, and servicing Lehman schools, had its tires flattened. out of commission six school buses | | types Commencement Speaker John M. Bickel, brother of Fred- eric March, noted star of stage and screen and who shares with him the ability to entertain and please all of audiences, will\ be the speaker at Dallas Senior High School Commencement on Tuesday evening, June 14. A pioneer in the Air Conditioning Industry, Mr. Bickel recently retired Leon Emmanuel, owner of busses tion. Dean Ide, driver of the cafeteria bus, reports that damage was dis- covered Wednesday moming at 7:10 when bus drivers Robert W. Eipper and his son Robert E. Eipper, Mr. Emmanuel, and Mr. Ide, appeared to start the day. Ignition "keys of two busses at Orchard Farms Restaurant were found on the ground. The other keys had been hidden more skillfully. Rewiring was finished on the | cafeteria bus by 10 am. Mr. Ide | carries they keys to this bus in | his own pocket. Other keys are cus- | tomarily concealed in a hidden spot | on the busses. | School transportation was mané aged by doubling up on bus runs, land was mot too long delayed. | Police Chiefs Pete Lange and Rus- | sell Honeywell, were assisted by [State Police in the investigation. ! Orchard Farms Restaurant per- ! sonnel did not leave until 1 am. {| Upon opening Wednesday morning, | they discovered two broken win- { dows, pinpointing damage to bus- | ses as occurring after 1 a.m. ac- | cording to Honeywell. which transport Dallas School stu- | dents, offers a reward of informa- | | ation, Syracuse, N.Y. and Sales | Manager of its largest Division. | He is a graduate of the Univer- : sity of Wisconsin. Car Plunges Through Fence, Hits Dwelling Admitted for treatment to Nes- bitt Hospital, and discharged after signing a release, Albert Jones, 55, of Noxen, said that he had not been driving his car when through a tight steel fence sur- rounding a power transformer near it plunged a man as driver. The man, ques- tioned by Dallas Township Police Chief Frank Lange, denied the charge, stating that he had been { with Jones, but left him asleep in his car at 11 p.m. Thursday. After hitting a boulder, a utility | pole, and going through the fence, the car damaged a front corner of the Joseph Dietz home. Gets Masters At Penn Jerome R. Gardner Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome R. Gardner Sr. Shrine Acres, received his Master's Degree in Group Social Work, Mon- day morning at the 206th Com- ‘Beauty Shop Moves | Edward Fielding will move | Beauty Shop this week end | Trucksville To Shavertown lit will reopen June 1. his | from | where | mencement of University of Penn- sylvania in the Municipal Auditor- | ium in Philadelphia. Mr. Gardner | will start at Belleview Settlement House, Scranton on July 1. | {as a Civil War veteran while being { early | held in - Salsbury prison. Due to|aunt of Mrs. Donald Meeker, Connecticut settler. In time it was | Mrs. Frear passing away when she | former Marjorie Frear, structure | was nine Calla ‘was especially de- | voted to her. | voted to the older of her two { brothers who provided much of her | {early training and guidance. The | tonly living relatives are two nieces: | | Mrs. Alice Taylor, Kingston and | | Miss Florence Frear in | {rence made her home with Mrs. the second in the township, and the | Mrs, Parrish was horn at the time | Parrish until poor health recently | Beaumont Native 100 Years Old Monday Mrs. Calla Parrish of Beaumont |one which she attended as a girl. [of the Civil War, May 28, 1862, the | made it necessary for her [to move committee of Local 204 comprised | The first school in Monroe town- | youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. | to the Carpenter Home. Mrs. Par- | Mr. Marsden, President, Norman ship was a log cabin built at the |Rufus Frear, only a half-mile from |rish eagerly anticipates a birthday | Schoell Vice-President, George present junction of Route 309 and | her present home. When she was | Visit with her niece in Idetown on | Stevenson, the Harvey's Lake Road that rims | eight months old her fathef died | Monday \ Mrs. Parrish is also the great who is de- Calla married Warren M. Par- rish of Spokane, Wash. and they lived in Beaumont, until moving to Sandpoit, Idaho, where they made their home for sixteen years before | Carpenter | ot; rning to Beaumont. Widowed | of | Convalescent Home, Idetown. Flo | since 1917, Mys, Parrish has had (Continued on Page 4 A) { as Vice President’ of Carrier Corpor- | Kunkle Community Hall, and named | the | VOL. 74, NO. 21, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1962 Library Auction Chairmen Report On July Plans Second Group Meets June 1, General Session June 15 Mr, and Mrs. Richard Demmy, Lake Street, entertained Library Auction chairmen Friday night ac- cording to a pre-arranged schedule which seperated committees into more easily handled groups than in former years. , Representatives of these com- mittees were asked to be present: Antiques, Arts and Crafts, Auto Chance, Barbecue, Barn, Books, Candy, ‘General Solicitation, Live Stock, Odds and Ends, Plants, Publicity and Traffic. The next group, general chair- man Demmy announced, will meet June 1 at his home. Following that meeting, there will be only one more larger conference, when all chairmen of committee have been invited to Irem Country Club Friday June 15, as guests of David Schooley, president of Back Mountain Memorial Library Association. Mr. Demmy, in the interests of widespread . publicity, asked that each committee chairman appoint a liaison officer to keep publicity chairmen informed of meetings and progress. Police protection, he said, would to eliminate pilferage and damage. He asked each chairman to state what the requirements were for the individual booths, and said that Ziba Smith grounds chairman, would provide as much expanded { facilities as possible. { He announced that the chicken | | barbecue at Gate of Heav: ing | | ven parking | speak at the cemetery. (lot would start Thursday, July 5 | by 5 pm. Auction booths will open [at 6, and auctioning will start at [ 7:30, continue until midnight. A Children’s Auction will again | be a feature, set for Saturday, July 7, at 10 am. Auctioning the last day, Saturday, will end at midnight | Eastern Standard Time, ! Mrs. Charles Frantz, speaking for the Antiques Committee, reported | that a Pennsylvania Dutch bench lis perfect condition has been pro- jcured, courtesy of Motor Twins, l'and- that Mrs. Paul Gross will de- corate it in Early American design for the chance offering. Spencer Martin, chairman of auto | chances, announced a Ford Falcon {as this year’s car. Mrs. Carlton Davies, chairman of | General Solicitation, announced a | meeting of her committee at her {home for June 7. | < in charge of | candy, said Girl Scouts would make | | Mrs. Kozemchak, {an increased number of lollipops | for sale. Red Ambrose will again | donate use of the popcorn machine {and the necessary popcorn. | Carl Henderson said plans for the | barbecue were going smoothly. | Mr. Demmy expressed his feeling | that the necessary general meet- {ings would not need to take more | than an hour and a half, or at most | two hours. ‘New Contract Signed Early Linear And Union Pledge Cooperation Phillip H. Moore, Vice-President | and General Manager of Linear In- | corporated, Dallas, and George | Marsden, President of Local 204, | United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and | Plastic Workers Union, AFL-CIO {have announced in a joint state- {ment the successful completion of | negotiations of a new, contract | covering the members of the bar- | gaining unit. ' The new two-year contract pro- | vides for the following benefits: one | additional holiday, increased vaca- | tion benefits, increased life insur- | ance for employees and pensioners, | hospitalization coverage for pen- |sioners and increased health and | | accident benefits. An increase of | | five cents per hour for non-incentive | | workers is also provided for in the contract which carries a provision {for a wage re-opener after one | year. ; { Members of the negottiating team | {for Linear, Inc. were Mr. Moore, | Vice-President & General Manager, | Bruno Gruppo, Controller and As- | sistant Secretary and Donald G. | Fannon, Chief Engineer. The union Secretary and Alex | Trosko. John Horn represented the {International offfice of the Union. The new contract was ratified | Sunday evening, May 20th at a | meeting ‘of - the local held in the | VFW, Post 283 Home, Kingston, Penna. | Mr. Marsden, in commenting on {the new contract stated that the | spirit of co-operation that exists be- tween management and Local 204 |is best demonstrated by the fact that we were, for the first time, able be on an around-the-clock basis | Memorial Day Parade Plans Are Announced | Paul Shaver Is General Chairman Fleming Is Speaker Commander Edward Buckley, Daddow-Isaacs Post, American Le- gion, has appointed Paul Shaver as chairman of ‘the Memorial Day Parade in Dallas. 3 Chairman Shaver has announced the Parade will form at the Post Home on Memorial Highway at 9:30 sharp. The Parade will move first to the War Memorial and flag pole in cen- tral Dallas where a wreath pre- sented by the Legion Auxiliary will | be placed by Girl and Boy Scouts followed by a prayer. : The Parade will then proceed to Wardan Cemetery at the intersec- tion of Lake Street and Center Hill Road where services will be held in memory of the dead. ol Chairman Shaver has sent invita- tions to Trucksville, Shavertown, Dallas and Kunkle fire companies and Ambulance Associations, All Girl and Boy Scout troops of the area, Back Mountain Police As- sociation and marching units of Dal- las Area schools have been asked to participate. ¥ The Dallas Junior High School Band, under the direction of Alfred M. Camp, will furnish the music. i The Legion Firing Squad and Color Guard under the direction of Leonard Harvey will fire a volley at the grave site. ; Father Francis Kane of Gate of Heaven will give the prayer at the memorial, Rev. Norman Tiffany at the cemetery. 2 Atty. Robert Fleming, member of Daddow-Isaacs Post, will again William Guyette has provided a loud speaking system. Cars will be provided for World War 1 veterans. ; Local Legionaires have begun to decorate the graves of veterans at the following cemeteries: Idetown, Thomas Reese, chairman; Rice and Shaver, Charles Stookey, chairman; Warden, Clare Winters chairman; Woodlawn, Leonard Harvey, chair- man; Evergreen and Mt, Greenwood, Richard Staub, chairman; i The Legion has distributed 800 flags’ to date and expects to use 600 more by Memorial Day. os If any graves are missed at the above cemeteries, relatives or friends are asked to telephone the Post; Home so that they can be taken care of. olf] 5 Finishes Hargrave a5 James Bevan Davies Cadet Major James Bevan Davies, Dallas, is among 99 seniors who will | {receive diplomas from Hargrave Military Academy June 1. Cadet Davies is son of Mary J. Parkhurst and the late Lt. James B. Davies, who was shot down over Germany during World War II. He is grandson of Mrs. Stanley B. Davies of Dallas. RE He holds these offices at Hargrave: vice president of the Sabre Club; chairman of the Honor Council; bat- | talion executive officer. He is a member of the Beta Club and Var- sity Club. Tio Assigned to the Battalion Staff, he holds the rank of Major Batta- lion Executive Officer in the Cadet Corps. : Chest X-Ray Unit Here On Monday Wyoming Valley Tuberculosis and Health Society mobile X-Ray unit will be at the Town House parking lot in central Dallas Mon- day from 10 am. to 4 p.m. for taking of chest X-Rays at a nominal figure. $10 Occupation Tax Shickshinny has adopted a new wage tax in the form of a $10 Oc- cupational Tax on every person employed in the Borough whether they are residents or non-residents. It is estimated that an additional $4,500 will be raised in this man- h (Continued on Page 4 A) ner for general horough purposes.