« ‘ Oldest Business 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Institution Back of the Mountain THE DALLAS POST ORchard 4-5656 TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY-—TWELVE PAGES Back Mountain MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Judge Ben Jones Says Award Is Well Deserved States Community, In Honoring Editor, Is Honoring Itself Community response to the annual " dinner of Back Mountain Protective Association Monday night at Irem Country Club, said more plainly than the spoken word, its gratification that Howard Risley, editor and owner of the Dallas Post, had been chosen to receive the award of the year for outstanding service to the area. “We may not always agree with him,” said Todstmaster Atty. James Lenahan Brown, “but we always know exactly where he stands on any given question. His pronouncec- ments are not always popular, but they are sincere.” Speaker the Honorable Benjamin | R. Jones reminisced about his for- mer classmate at Seminary, where he and Howard had been thrown much together. “Unfortunately,” said the Judge, “our paths for a time diverged. He went to Dart- mouth. But as the years passed, this was forgiven him, and during the past several years, we have been drawn more closely together,” Atty. Brown, in introducing Judge 4 Jones, reminisced that it was be- | ore his father, another Judge Jones, that he had himself first ap- peared before'the bar. And it was a strict lawgiver who presided over the court. fe Judge Ben said that there was only one subject which would. di~ /@p vert Mr. Risley for more than moment from working for his chosen community, and that was the Civil War. Drop the name of Shilo, or Antietam, or Gettysburg into a cas- ual conversation, and the horses were off to the races, with the newspaper business momentarily forgotten. The Judge then left Mr. Risley for Rotary Mower Lacerates Toes Donald Weidner Hurt At Library Donald Weidner seriously injured the toes of his right foot Saturday afernoon when he slipped on some daffadil leaves while cutting the ter- races at Back Mountain Library with a rotary power mower. He was given first aid treatment | by Dr. Harry G. Gallagher and re- |'ceived further treatment at Nesbitt | Hospital where it was iound that | one toe was fractured and eight | stitches were required to close | lacerations of two others. The injuries might have been | more serious had Mr. Weidner not | been wearing heavy composition- | soled hightops, The swiftly re- volving blade of the mower com- pletely sheared them in two. Fortunately, Mr. Weidner, who { suffered polio a number of years ago, was wearing a larger shoe than usual on his smaller foot. Had it | he would have lost half of it. Atty. Chamberlin Court Reporter { The Luzerne County Courts last | week appointed Attorney Earl T. Chamberlin to the court reporting saff. - He was sworn in last Friday, | and assigned to the official re- | porting services in the Luzerne | County - Domestic Relations court | only. This will require only three {or four days each month, leaving | { } { { Mountain: law practice and perform | the other duties devolving upon Atty. Chamberlin said he .was | gratified that the Court named him { to its official reporting staff, and | a few moments, to speak seriously { still - more pleased that his duties about the question of zoning. Zoning | will demand g minimum of time. He | he said, was vital to the progress of ! has a’ private practice to maintain. the community. “And if we ever DO | The Dallas Post carried a story get the new liighway,” he continued,’ about Atty. Chamberlin .when he “zoning will be constantly more vi-| was first admitted three years ago tal. It used to be a dirty word, to the Luzerne County Bar, at an labelled = unconstitutional, and in-| age when most men feel that they fringing upon the rights of property | have earned retirement. Atty. Cham~ owers, but this is no longer the | berlin’s keen mind sparks his efforts, case. If this area is ever to realize | 34 retirement he says, is not for | its potential, it must have a planned | hin He and his wife live in Lehman Ags lopment” He suggested that the Back Moun- | tain Protective Association take planned development as a project, acting as the conscience of the Back Mountain; tthat such planning should not consider the challenge on a piecemeal basis, but as a whole. He concluded his remarks by say- ing that in honoring Mr. Risley, the community was honoring itself; that every worthwhile project in the Back Mountain that had been initiated s'nce Mr. Risley took over the Dallas Post more than thirty years ago, had been supported enthustiastically by the local paper, and that most of the ideas for betterment had been originated in its pages and accord- ing to its editorial policy. He cited as prime examples the establishment of the Library and its continued support through the annual Library Auction. Mr. Brown, thanking Judge Jones, said “The highway IS com- ng. All that is holding it up at, "this point is a matter of a couple more condemnations. It won't be long now.” He added that the Pro- Bctive Association was already send- ing representatives to zoning and planning meetings, and called atten- tion to the land-use meeting sched- uled for Tuesday night at Dallas Senior High School. Atty. Brown presented the award to Mr. Risley: In response, Mr. Risley said that he could not accept it for himself, but in the name of the Dallas Post, “a community institution that was here before I was born, and that will be here after I am gone, I accept it in behalf on all those who have had faith in this wonderful community.” No human being, he said, could help but be deeply moved . . and very humble. “I am deeply touched because this award comes from a community which I have loved so long . - whose problems have been my problems, and whose struggles, my struggles.” Mr. Risley ovation. Introduced from the head table were Sisters Celestine and Marianna, who as President and Dean had re- ceived the award for College Miseri- cordia the preceeding year. Rev. Francis A. Kane, pastor of Gate of Heaven, gave the invocation; Rev. Russell Lawry, pastor of Dallas Methodist Church, the benediction. Entertaining were members of the Misericordia String Players, [Lor- raine Rowe, Kathleen Murphy, Bar- bara Turnbach, Joan Voveris, and Carol Walcavage. Patricia Ungemach, soprano, accompanied by Enid Housty, sang two selections, and Lorraine Rowe gave a violin solo. These music students had remained (Continued on Page 4 A) was given a rising | Township. ‘Susquehanna River Gives Up Its Dead | The body of a former Beaumont { woman, lost in the swollen Sus- | quehanna under tumbling blocks of ice March 16, was discovered near | Towanda Sunday night, in an area { after the tragedy- Mrs, Lillian Merdick, 42, resi- | dent of Sayre, was buried on Tues- {day from Athens. { When her car skidded a mile { north of Sayre into the river, her companion, a' 36 year old Sayre resident, was able to get out of an overhanging tree. The search for Mrs, Merdick’s body was abandoned when it was concluded that she had been swept far down- stream to the Chesapeake Bay dur {ing the spring flood. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoyt of Beaumont. Other local survivors are these sis- ters: The head table at the Back Moun- tain Protective Association annual award dinner Monday night is barely seen at the far end of the main: dining room at Irem Country Club, as photographer James Kozem- chak snaps a picture of the crowd, for a. newscast on Franklin Cos- | which had been dragged repeatedly | the sinking car, and was rescued | as she clung to the branches of | long | | the "community over a period of] Enthusiastic Crowd At Protective Association Award Dinner and moving picture cameras whirr | Ten residents of the Dallas area [Lawience, Shavertown, B'S, biology; | received degrees from College Miseri- | 1 |'cordia Sunday evening, May 27. They | ciology;: Carole Thomas, Dallas, B:S. | are: Marcia Canzoneri, Dallas, A.B. !in elementary education; ‘Maryann { with major in history; Jean Dra- | Kupstas, Trucksville, B.S. in nursing | piewski, Sweet Valley, A:B., English; | education; ' Marilyn Smith, Harvey's | Judith Fenstemacher, Dallas, A.B. | Lake, B.S. in nursing education; English; Therese Kennedy, Dallas, | Jean Spears, Trucksville, B.S. in | B.S. in elementary education; Eileen | elementary education. Mrs. Parrish Attributes Her Long Years To Never Having Overeaten | Mr. Chamberlin free the balance of | the time to take care of his Back | Scores of well-wishers came from! When the “Open House” was over, | near and far to wish Aunt Callie Par- { Aunt Callie said she was feeling fine, rish a happy birthday, Sunday May | had enjoyed her many received kind- | 27, one day prior to her hundredth | nesses and interesting conversations, | birthday. { and was looking forward to Monday Graciously accepting all plaudits ! May 28, when she wanted to visit her and well-deserved honors Aunt Callie | niece, Miss Florence Frear, at Car- many times as she had not realized | planned to take one of her birthday | she had so many friends. [ cakes and some candy to share with - Lovely looking: with her first |all the guests! | “perm” and new ‘dress gaily decor-| Her personad advice for longevity {ated with ‘an = orchid (gifts of was, ‘I have never overeaten!’ friends). Aunt Callie posed for pic- | tures and movies near her colorful | i tea table of pink roses, tapers, and | Kiwanis Club Observes | birthday - cake. | 35th Anniversary Tonight Realizing her need for a new | | radio, neighbors garnered that fund | Dallas Xiwanis Club will observe |as her personal doctor, her florist, | its thirty-fifth anniversary tonight | and several friends remembered her with Atty. Mitchell Jenkins, Legion | with flowers, money, and personal | of Honor member, and Al Ackerson, | gifts. | District Governor, as speakers. Highlight Of Annual Award Dinner Editor and publisher Howard W.| more than thirty years. Dinner | Risley accepts an award from Atty. ! chairman Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost Mis. Russell Newell and Miss , James L. Brown, president of Back ' takes notes at the left, and Judge | Hoyt, Noxen; Mrs. Clifford Chapin, | Mountain Protective Association, in |Ben Jones, at the right, has just Dallas; a brother John Hoyt, Har- veys Lake. | recognition of outstanding service to l concluded his address. Photo by Kozemchak RSM, Mrs. Howard W. Risley, Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost, Howard W. Risley, James Lenahan Brown, Ben 'R. Jones, Mrs. James L. Brown, C. ' glare. | H. Glawe, Dr, and Mrs. F. B.'School- At the head table, reading from |ey, and Rev. Russell Lawry. left to right, are: Rev. Francis A. | Kane, Mrs. Charles Glawe, Sister | Marianna RSM, Sister Celestine, | lett’s T-V news program, Dick Demmy, Sixteenth annual Library Auction chairman, has his eyes closed against the sudden Receive Degrees At Misericodria | Graduates are shown here before | night at the college. Reading from ‘left to right are: Therese Kennedy, Marcia, Canzoneri, Carole Thomas, !Jean Drapiewski, Judith TFenste- “macher, Maryann Kupstas, Eileen Lawrence, Leonora Swan, Marilyn {| Smith, Jean Spears, Hedden School Bid Lowest "Laporte Building To ~~ Cost $1,639,39 An unofficial low bid of $806,- 800 for construction of a new high school for Sullivan County Joint Key Club Boys Are Briefed On Denver Trip Send Off Is Being Planned For Next Friday Afternoon While all arrangements are not ‘yet complete, it is expected that the Back Mountain com- munity will give the Dallas Kiwanis Key Club Drill Team a big send-off when it gathers sometime about noon on Friday June 8 at Orchard Farm Res- taurant, just before leaving for Scranton and Denver. Final arrangements for the send-off will be announced in next week’s Post, but it is not too éarly for us to mark Friday June 8 at noon on our calen- dars. Everybody who can ar- range it should be there—Editor When Dallas Kiwanis Key Club Drill Team, composed of thirty- three boys, leaves Lackawanna Sta- tion in Scranton on Friday, June 8, aboard a special car for the Kiwanis International Convention in Denver, Leonora Swan, Lehman, A.B. so- | their hooding ceremony on Saturady | Colorado, Mr. and Mrs. William | Wright and family and Mr. and | Mrs. George McCutcheon will accom- | pany them as tour directors. | The round trip fare for each boy {is $82. They will have six meals | aboard the train and will start the | return trip on June 14. | While in Denver they will be | guests in the homes of members of Denver Key Clubs. | The cost for each boy on the trip { will be about $150 or a grand total {of $4,950. Each of the boys has | worked at extra jobs to raise some {of “his own expenses. | The boys have been instructed | by Denver friends, to be sure to dis- {play PENNSYLVANIA prominently {on all of their banners or ‘those { Dallas, Texas, cowboys will claim you came from Texas. | claimed she was near tears many, | pentet’s Nursing Home, where she | School Board has been submitted | Jay Laury, manager of entertain- by Ramon R. Hedden: and: Com- ment for Kiwanis International Con- pany, Dallas, it was announced yes- | Vontion. mot: wih terday by the State Public School | Tatts Willem Ry I Building Authority ‘The bids totals MeCutchton Sunday. | $1,639,391. 3 Mr. Laury was on his way to Pitts- | Joseph A, Wright Company, | burgh from Chicago and wired asking { Wilkes-Barre, submitted an unof- | that they meet him in Scranton and | ficial low bid of $93,714 for plumb- | review the setup for the show which | ing, while Joseph A. Rado, Berwick, | will be presented - on- Wednesday submitted a bid of $169,305 for | pight, June 13 in Denver. | heating and ventilating. { Mr. Laury explained the entire | grandmother, Mrs. Laura | Hedden said the new structure will | replace older buildings of Sullivan | County and will be in Laporte. He said it will be about the same size ph Lehman High School with ap- proximately 82,000 square feet. The new high school will con- tain an auditorium, gymnasium, class rooms, lavatories and offices Hedden said. He said they expect to begin work on the new .school weeks, Killed, Driving ‘Without License Glenn Major Funeral Friday Afternoon | Driving a car at high speed after { his license had been suspended for |a previous traffic violation, Glenn ‘Major 23, of Center Moreland, lost | hig life Monday night at 9:30, when | he failed to negotiate a sharp turn on the highway at intersection of | Beaumont and Vernon roads. The car smashed into a steel guardrail, flew into the air, and | rolled down a twenty-foot em- | bankment. The victim was tossed | from the car, breaking his neck. Found lying behind the ‘car, he had apparently died instantly. Dr. Lester Saidman, Lake-Noxen Clinic, was summoned, also Wyoming Coun- ty coroner Sheldon: No other car was involved. The young man formerly operated a restaurant at Lutes Cormers, but had recently worked at a steel mill in Morrisville. His wife, the former Melicent Traver, has been manag- ing the restaurant recently. He will be buried in Orcutt Cemetery on Friday, Rev. James Payne and Rev. Emery Stokes; for- Imer and present pastors of Outlet | Free Methodist ‘Church, officiating from ‘Sweet Valley at 2 pm. He leaves his widow; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Major, Lehman | Township; brothers, Warren, Leh- | man, and Darrell, Slippery Rock; a sister Janet Lehman; a maternal Kocher, | Outlet. i lm Community Band John Miliauskas, director of Lake- | Lehman High School Band, will | direct a Back Mountain Community |Band to be sponsored by Back | Mountain Memorial Library. Although he has a busy year- |around-schedule, Mr. Miliauskas is Photo by Kozemchak | enthusiastic about the prospects of developing an unusually good com- in about two | | show revealed the title of the ex- | travaganza as “Music Man from the | Rockies.” | He said the audience will number {18,000 people from the United {States and Canada. | The Key Club will be part of an | attraction that will feature stars | from the Ed Sullivan show, big | name choral groups, and a band | from Towa, The Key Club will open the main | part of the show and then be called { upon to perform during the num- | ber“Seventy-six Trombones,” played by the Towa band. The finale will feature all units | | carrying huge sparklers and march- | ing in unison. Mr. Laury said the boys will get a taste of show business. On the day of the performance, the wumit will report to the field at 3:30 p.m. and rehearse until perfection is achieved. the show move along without any lull in the action. The boys will the stadium for the show. all of his attractions to be new to the audience for effect. He did consent to the rifle team appearing at local high schools in in correspondence between Mr. Wright and Pi Warren, Kiwanis Key Club chairman, from Denver- boys will be living with these Key club members while staying in Den- their time of arrival in Denver as 8:30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. In the next two weeks twenty new direction of Mrs. Watchulonis. One of the flags will feature the hard coal regions. This is a white flag with nuggets of coal sewed to it. A letter of information to parents was sent home with each boy this week. The letter advises parents con- cerning time of arrival and depar- ture; what to pack for the boys and some of the tours being planned for them. munity band here, “l want to encourage those who love music and want to continue with it after they have left school” | Mr. Miliauskas said. He: said this should be about 7:30. Timing must be perfected to make | then refresh themselves and dress at | During his discussion Mr. Laury | was emphatic that the rifle team not | appear for any other Kiwanis fumc- | tion prior to the show. He wants | Denver, This request has been made | Most of the local boys have re-! ceived letters from Key Club mem- | bers in the Denver area. The local | ver. The local boys have started cor- respondence with them giving them | rifles will be reminforced under the | direction of Mr. Philo; new gloves and leggins will be added to the uniforms and three new flags will | be finished by the girls in the Home | Economics Department, under the] VOL. 74, NO. 22, Junior High PTA Installs Officers Installed by Atty. Robert Fleming at the final meeting of Dallas Junior | High School PTA were these officers: president, Mrs. Welton Farrar; vice president, Ernest Gay; second vice president, John Rosser; secretary, Ruth Fossedal; treasurer, Carl Kaschenback Dr. Robert A: Mellman, introduced by Robert Bachman, spoke on “What we can do for our children,” stress- ing changes in teaching methods, employing TV, tape recorders, re- cords films, etc. in a program de- signed to broaden their outlook, and provide more solid meat in their mental diet. He said that schools would have to be equipped with up to date re- search facilities to keep pace with advancing technological require- ments. Classes, he suggested, might be- come on the one hand larger, as vis- ual aides were employed, and small- er, for conference purposes. Litera- ture would have to be more adult, libraries improved, supplementary texts and films increased. School dis- | tricts, he said, would inevitably be | larger. | Mrs. Carleton Davies, who pre-| {sided during the first part of the | meeting, received a past president's pin. Mrs. Guida Taylor led devotions. The meeting was closed by Mrs. Farrar, who invited teachers and | parents to remain for refreshments. | ‘New Goods Committees Meet At Herman Kerns Plan of action for ‘full steam ahead” was outlined Friday night when the New Goods Committee for Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction met at Herman Kern's. Jim Alexander, chairman of New Goods, anouiiceasthe days that'The Risley Barn will be open to receive items from committee members, Sec- retaries have been assigned to each chairman, who will endeavor to keep donor’s cards in good order. Each item will be tagged as it is received. An account of the value, donor and item will be recorded from the at- tached card. Each Saturday, starting June 9, the barn will be open. Friday June 22, Thursday, and Friday June 29 will be additional days, so that all goods will be in and recorded before the big opening day. A schedule of Barn Days is published in this paper and Door. the close of the meeting. Sylvia (Mrs. Robert) Hughes is Secretary of the New Goods Com- mittiee and she will be assisted by the other secretaries to the co-chair- man, who include: Mesdames Claire Perella, John Corke, Edward Scan- lon, Willard Seaman, and Arthur H. Ross. Dick Demmy, chairman of the 1962 Auction assisting Jim Alexander, ex- plained that all solicitors were to be given their usual donor cards, that iis, the donors with which each is most familiar, instead of unfamiliar business contacts. Co-chairman present, Ralph Pos- | terive, Tom Hillyer, Mrs. Stuart | Marks and Bill Mass. Committee | members’ attending were: Dave { Schooley, Ernest Gay, Stefan Hellers- perk, Myron Baker, Bill Koneman, John Conyngham, Robert Fleming, Walter Black, and Jim Post. At Sandy Beach “Oaky Miller, star of TV Band- | stand and top recording star, will | | be at Sandy Beach Dance Hall in | | person Sunday afternoon from 2 to will also be posted on the Barn | | parents’ panel, Mrs. Fred Eck, Mrs. A delicious buffet was served at | 5 with Wander's Band. Old Drum Recalls The six Conner brothers of Ply- mouth who served in the Mexican | War’ in 1846, three of them as drummer boys, are commemorated in an appropriate Memorial Day | window in James Besecker's Real | Estate office on Main Street, Dal- | las. i [Five of the brothers, one of whom {was Mrs Besecker’s grandfather, | Wilson Conner, also served in the { Civil War. In the window display | are the gun and bayonet he car- | ried as well as his ‘knapsack, pow- {der and cap holder. His sergeant's lcap and a drum carried by some lof the brothers during the Mexican | War. For many years the drum | was displayed every Memorial Day i at Plymouth National Bank. | As a background to the exhibit lis a well-worn woolen American | flag with thirty-four stars in its | ‘field of blue, It was made by hand | THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1962 asehall For Boys Opens Season Saturday Three Hundred Boys Have Part In Program That Opens Saturday At 2 Junior High School Band Will Play; Head Coach Clint Brobst Will Speak Opening ceremonies for Back Mountain Baseball for Boys will start Saturday at 2 at Little League Field in Dallas Township, Clinton Brobst, head basketball coach at Dallas Senior High School, will be the speaker. Mr. Brobst has spoken to the boys on other oc- casions and charged them’ with the Sods and ideals they should strive or. Dallas Junior High School Band, under the direction of Alfred M. Camp, will provide the music and the Junior High School majorettes will take part, Keith Yeisley will be master of ceremonies. y There will be three-2-inning games when all of the teams in the Major League will have an opportunity to perform. The program of Back Mountain Baseball for Boys takes in more than 300 boys from eight through eighteen years of age. There are nineteen teams, six in the Minor League, six in the Major League and six in the Teeners League and one Senior. Farm teams are now in the pro- cess of organization for the smaller youngsters. There is one at Lehman and one at Jackson. Other farm teams will he formed as soon as personnel is available, Baseball for Boys is sponsored by Miners National Bank, D allas Branch; Shavertown Lumber Com- pany, Duke Isaac, Chrysler-Plymouth Sales; Strausgser’s Linoleum and Tile Shop, ‘Gosart’s Market, Dallas; Har- ter's Dairy, Lazarus Department Store and Daddow-Isaacs Post American Legion. Also by fifty ad- vertisers' who use the signs at the Little League Park. At present six sign spaces are available, Any one interested in advertising should get in touch with Robert Parry OR 4- 7206 or any member of the League. All Major League games are play- ed at the Little League Park starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; Minor League games Saturday start- ng at 10 am.; 12 noort and 2 p.m. Teeners ZFiines are played every night but Thursday at 6:30 at Dallas Junior High School Field. Senior Teeners games played Saturdays at 6:30 p.m at the Junior High Field. Parents Advised To Be Their Age A panel of students at Dallas Senior High School, composed of Barbara ‘Tag, Marlene Futch, John Dana, Dale Mosier, answered ques- tions posed Tuesday night by a Earl Phillips, George Jacobs, and William Wright, Warren Yarnal, moderator. Findings, says Mrs. Paul Rodda, were revealing. Students feel more secure if they are restricted. . One of their complaints was that parents expect too much buddy- buddy relationship from their chil- dren, It isn’t normal. Let the par- ents stop trying so hard; set a good example themselves, and cut out in- cluding children in cocktail parties and adult entertainment. And far from shrinking from the world which the adults are handing to them, students consider it a challenge and are eager to meet it. Who says it's chaos? ; Drinking, smoking, are symptoms. Kids smoke because it seems a sym- bol of maturity. William Wright said; ‘Sure, we know where the bars are that are selling liquor to boys and girls. But somebody tips off the proprietors. ‘When the raiders walk in, it's like a Sunday School.” The consensus was that parents stop griping about juveniles delin- quency, and study their . own standards. s Five Brothers ‘Who Served During Mexican War by Mrs. Besecker's: grandmother, Mrs. Harrison Nesbitt, at the begin- ning of the Civil War and was flown every Memorial Day from the Nes- bitt Home in Larksville, until her grandfather, who was also a Civil War Veteran, died, His knapsack, brass belt buckle, two canteens and small pail in which he made coffee during the conflict are also on display. Mr, Nesbitt had two young children when he enlisted in the 203rd In- fantry at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion. He saw action at” Fort Fisher near Wilmington, N. C. and in many of the engage- ments around Richmond where he was on duty when Lincoln was shot. Other relics in the exhibit are a sabre carried by an officer in W. B. Jeter’s family and a pair of epaulets lent by Dale Meyers.
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