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School Employees
Convene June 30
300 Are Expected From
All Over Pennsylvania
Public . School employees will
hold their nineteenth annual con-
vention Saturday, Jume 30th at
Dallas Senior High School. Expected
to attend are 300 employees from
all over Pennsylvania. Last year
the convention was held at Cough-
lin High School.
bf Rev. Robert D. Yost will give the
“invocation. - Pledge to the flag will
~ be led by Charles Mannear, presi
dent of Dallas School Board. Dr.
Robert M. Bodycomb will give the
address of welcome, and Dr. R. A.
~ Mellman will give remarks.
Responding to Dr. Mellman's
words will * be Charles Sennick,
president, with the Wilkes-Barre
School District.
Luncheon will be served by the |
cafeteria staff, /
The executive board will meet in |
advance of the regular session.
Grassland Field
Day July 17
Forage Harvesters, Etc.
- Will Be Demonstrated
E. V. Chadwick Luzerne County
agricultural agent, “reminds local
farmers of the Grasslands Field: Day
to be held July 17 on the A. Jay
Mott demonstration farm near Har-
veyville, one mile north of Hunting-
n Mills. 4
J) Farm machinery, including self-
" propelled forage harvesters, will be
featured, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Wagon tours will be available dur-
ing the day to various points of
demonstratio and refreshments
will be solu.
@ site for a Grasslands Festival
that drew throngs from Northeagt-
ern Pennsylvania.
Distribute Coin
Cards In Kunkle
Ambulance Quota Is
Good Insurance
Kunkle is already starting its am-
bulance drive, with coin cards in
process of distribution, and the first
quarter due July 7. Kunkle, which
has its own individual fire company,
supports Dallas Community Am-
‘tulance in order to have ambulance
ice when needed. The quota
for Kunkle is $2.50 per household
Mrs. Clyde Hoyt, chairman, is
assisted by Mrs. Virgie Elston, Mr.
and Mrs. Merle Conden, Mrs. Edith
Haas, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kunkle,
Mrs. Jack Hiller, Mr. and Mrs. El-
wood Conden, Donald King, Clyde
Hoytt
The mew Dallas Ambulance at-
tracted much ° favorable attention
when it appeared at the opening
of the new Kunkle Fire Hal] three
weeks ago- Residents expressed
themselves as delighted with its
complete equipment, its comfort,
its appliance for administering oxy-
gen, and its other up to date fea-
tures.
Police Have Clue On
Hit-And-Bun Car
Kingston Township and State
olice are continuing their search
for a hit-and-run driver who side-
swiped a 1960 Rambler on Carver-
1on Road Monday night at 10:15.
AN The Rambler,” owned and driven
by Thomas Williams, Avoca, was
traveling east, when the phantom’
automobile swerved from the west-
bound lane, and caved in the side
of Williams’ car. Police searched
all near-by parking lots and diners
that evening.
Williams was unable to identify’
make, model, or color of the hit-
and-run car, but police have found
blue paint deposits in the area of
impact., Chief Herbert Updyke in-
vestigated.
Get 56-Inch Rattler
Et Mountain Springs
What is believed to be one of the ©
biggest rattle snakes killed in some
time was dispatched Sunday after-
noon at Mountain Springs by Char- |
les Bytheway while with a fishing |
party from Kunkle.
The
wend was coiled ready to strike but |
did not rattle when Mr. Bytheway
discovered it.
With him at the time were
Chuck Conden, Richard Stein, Dale
Ide, and Audie Wertman.
Two Collide On 309
A car driven hy Mrs. Helen G.
Cavanaugh, Plymouth, -was struck
in the rear 3:15 P.M., Tuesday, by
a laundry truck which attempted to
pass her, while or oceeding north on
Route 309 below Carverton Road.
Trucksville. Edward W. Hollen,
Harrisburg, was the driver of the
Pennsylvania Laundry Co. truck.
He assumed all liability,
Ten years ago, Sterling Farm was |
~
Gate of Heaven parochial school
graduates, attired in traditional
academic ‘cap and gown, range
themselves for their commence-
ment picture on the stage in Gate
of Heaven auditorium, gathered
about pastor and school ‘adminis-
trator Rev. Francis A. Kane. The
seventy-five boys and girls who
graduated June 10 from Gate of
Heaven are,
First row, Thomas DAmario,
Thomas Orf, William Halpin, Eva
Zambeto, Linda Sorber, Sally
Payne, Lois Rondinella, Geraldine
She Helps Build
One of the chief engineers of
Rev. Ralph Smith’s project to turn
a demolished building in Trucks-
ville into a Free Methodist Church
in Dallas is Ethel Smith, the pas-
tor’s wife. Who says thé pioneer
spirit has, vanished from the face
of America ?
The Smiths came to this area to
minister to the Dallas circuit of the
Church last September. Since March
they have been demolishing one of
the condemned buildings on the
highway in Trucksville, salvaging
wood, pipe, furnaces, and most
anything else that can be used in
the construction of the new Church
building. Mrs. Smith says her jobs
around the place have been to help
remove soil-pipe, to take nails out
of boards, to stack the boards, and
“easy stuff like that’,
reading left to right,
Gate Of Heaven School Has Seventy Five Graduates
Gabel, Alice Reasoner, Charles
Glawe, John Phillips, James Mar-
ascio;
Second row: Thomas Cadwalader,
Andrew Fedak, Herbert Mill, Rich-
ard Konnick, Daniel Kliamovich,
Neil Macintyre,” Michael McCoog;
Third row: Donald Metzger, Ron-
ald Szela, David Jones, Joseph
Stager, = Judith O'Hara, Carmela
Cavan, Rose Marie Gabel, Sharon
Wagner, Mildred Cooney, Rosalie
Pace, Alfred Pace, Patrick Malloy,
David Mascali;
Church — — Literally
She and Rev. Smith have been
married for twenty five years, and
have three children. The oldest,
Patricia, is married and lives near
Rochester. Robert, 19, has just
graduated from high school in Ohio,
and is assisting in the demolition
until he can find a summer job.
Ruth Elaine, 14, cooks the meals
and looks after the parsonage.
As an officer of both the Wilkes-
Barre District Women’s Missionary
Society and the Local Women’s
Missionary Society Mrs. Smith helps
build the Church with her mind as
well as with her hands. She is
president of the Local Society. ’
As for hobbies and other activi-
ties, she says: “Just being a good
pastor’s. wife is enough.” When
you think about it, it sure is.
Looks Forward To Seeing Europe
Through Eager Eyes Of The Young
Rev. Robert D. Yost, pastor
Shavertown Methodist Church,
aspects of ground which he covered
two years ago, ‘as Nancy Welker,
their first view of the Continent
This trip has been in the making
since |
‘or some time, in fact ever
Rev. Yost had such a marvelous
time on a whirwind tour of Europe
in 1960. Jane and Thomas are
| daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. |
Thomas J. Graham, Shavertown.
snake measured 57 whos |
Nancy is daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
| Carl Welker of Luzerne.
SPECIAL NOTICE
After the fourth of July, the Dal- |
be closed Saturday |
Open again after Labor |
las Post will
mornings.
Day.
Duck Parade Stops
Traffic On Highway
A parade of ducks stopped traf-
fic on Highway 309 Thursday eve-
ning at dusk, when a mother duck
escorting seven babies
brook Avenue overpass. Mrs. Es-
ther Scott reports that cars were
ested.
of |
is |
looking forward to seeing Europe |
this summer through the eager eyes |
of three young folks, finding new |
| many,
| remburg, Munich, Garmisch, going
Jane and (Thomas J. Graham, get |
waddled |
across the highway near the Over- |
Leaving directly after church on
Sunday, they will board a jet at
Idlewild at 7:30, and arrive in Ber-
lin at 10:30 Monday morning. By
plane and train they will tour Ger-
taking in Weisbaden, Nu-
on to Vienna and the mountain
eyrie of the late unlamented Adolph
Hitler.
In Italy they will visit Venice,
Rome, Milan, before going on to
Switzerland. There they will re-
new acquaintance with Elspeth Ger-
rits, foreign exchange student in
Dallas, who is spending the sum-
mer with her grandparents in the
Alps.
Paris next,
Holland, Scotland,
London. They hope to see the new
Cathedral at Coventry as one of
the high points of the trip On Au-
gust 25, they will return to this
country, again by jet.
Dog Owners Warned
A drive against unlicensed dogs
in Kingston Township is going to be
{ made by police and the State Mar-
| shal in the near
future. Owners
will be prosecuted and fined by out
| of town courts, and the dogs will be
disposed of.
Owners of licensed dogs which
are running loose will also be prose-
| cuted. A wave of dog-bites has hit
| the
lined up, with drivers much inter- | months, and the police
the two
the
last
feel
township in’
situation is serious,
Fourth row: William Cave, Ed-
win Raub, John Ruckno, Mary Mar-
garet Burns, Dorothy Whalen,
Susan Wazeter, [Susan Allabaugh,
David Caffrey, Patrick Carroll,
Robert Costigan, John Groblewski;
Fifth row: Thomas Harris, Paul
Shiner, James MacDonough, James
Harris, Edward Kupstas, Cynthia
Konsavage, Betty Lamoreaux, Di-
ane Taglia, Nancy Maier, John
Gallagher, Water Ragukonis, Ber-
nard McDermott, Nicholas Stredny;
Sixth row: Leon Chase, Marvin
Serhan, Molly Messersmith, Bar-
bara Dorrance, Barbara Jane Wil-
liams, Sandra Perkoski, Douglas
Steele, James Balavage, Joseph Hu-
dak;
Seventh row: Timothy Houlihan,
Richard Pryor, Anne Marie Ru-
sinko, Linda Rogowski, Margaret
Woychick, Sharon Smith, Charles
Dunn, Thomas Miller. Winners of
the American Legion Medals were
Andrew Fedak and Molly Messer-
smith, Highest Average
went to Daniel Kliamovich.
"DOCTOR KILLS RATTLER;
DRY WEATHER BRINGS
SNAKES OUT OF HILLS
Prolonged dry weather is
drawing poisonous snakes down
off the hillsides in search of
water. |
Dr. F. Budd Schgoley killed
a 45-inch rattler and saw an-
other when he drove into his
driveway at his summer place
at Noxen Sunday morning at
31.00
He killed the first one quick-
ly with a stick but the second
one escaped in an old well on
the Elmer Kocher place next
door.
Not long ago, Jim Perkins,
Dallas barber, who lives in Ed-
wardsville, lost his miniature
dachshund which was bitten ‘in
the throat by a copperhead.
Dr. Richard Post did all he
could to save it, but to no
avail.
Pennsylvania Game Commis-
sion reports that its Food and
Cover men working on State
Game Lands 57 between Ricketts
and Noxen have killed a num-
ber of rattlers, but no‘ more
than in previous years.
Chief Hughes Better
Lake Township Police Chief
Edgar Hughes reports that he is
feeling much better after suffering
a slight heart attack several weeks
ago, and is anxious to get back to
work. He will have one more
cardiogram, after which he expects
to return to duty.
A Police Chief of another town-
ship, who knows Hughes well, re-
ported that doctors had to be ada-
mant about rest for the Lake Chief
who wanted to go right back out
on the job.
Mahle Goes Airborne
Richard C. Mahle, Meeker,
graduate of Lake-Lehman
School, enlisted in the Regular Army
{or three years, and is now undergo-
ing initial processing at Ft. Jackson,
S.C.
After
basic training,
borne Training at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
NEWS DEADLINES
ADVANCED BECAUSE
OF FOURTH OF JULY
Next week will be a busy
week for everybody in the Back
Mountain area.
Because The Post's usual
printing day, Wednesday, falls
on the Fourth of July, the staff
would appreciate all the early
news and advertising copy
possible.
We hope to go to press on
Tuesday ' afternoon, with the
Post . delivered as usual on
Thursday morning. This will
make it possible for the entire
staff to be off on July Fourth
to attend Lehman Horse Show,
work for. the (Auction which
opens on the 5th, or go fish-
ing.
The cooperation of advertis-'
ers, . correspondents and all
others will be appreciated. In
order to meet these early dead-
lines we will be working Satur-
day and Sunday. All corres-
pondence and adver tising
should be in our hands a day
earlier than usual,
recent |
High |
Mooretown Speaker
REVEREND HEMMINGER
Reverend Hemminger, a mission-
ary for 32 years at Sierra Leone,
Africa will speak July 3rd at Moore-
town (Assemblies of God Church
using slides, curios and national
missionary work with African
tribes.
Before working with the Limba
tribe in Freetown, the Hemmingers
were with the Themne tribe in the
interior. Pioneer missionaries . built
mission stations, and conducted
evangelstic services in the African
villages. They assisted in compiling
a hymn book in Themne and in
translating the New Testament in-
to African language.
Reverend and Mrs. Hemninger
have one daughter, Leverne Esther,
15.
Reverend Trotta, pastor 57 Moore-
town Assemblies of God extends
a cordial invitation to the public
Old Sandy Botom
Ideal Picnic Area
The addition of 7% acres to Old
Sandy Bottom at Harveys Lake
makes it one of the outstanding
picnic areas in the east.
This plus a new stoned boat
completion of eight weeks |
he will undergo Air- | foot boat dock, makes it a popular
| spot for
| own boat along.
| owners,
| vide safety, convenience and ideal
ramp accommodating fifty to seven-
ty-five boats, along with a new 100-
families who bring their
and Mrs. Joseph McCaffery,
have gone all out to pro-
Mr,
surroundings for family groups.
Life ‘Guards are on duty ten
hours each day. The whole area is
approved by the State Department
of Health.
New rest rooms have been pro-
vided.
There are two picnic shelters and
another is planned.
The 7 acres adjoining, pur-
chased from the Charles Mayer
estate, give ample room for further
expansion in a beautifully shaded
area.
This is the ninth season that the
McCafferys have operated Old
Sandy Bottom.
SPEGIAL NOTICE
Any one having out of town
guests for the Lehman Horse
Show or The Back Mountain
Library Auction, kindly call
the Post NOW so that added
publicity can be given to these
two events. Dallas, OR 4-5656
or OR 4-7676.
Award
jis.
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
FAWN, SHEEP AND
CHICKENS KILLED
BY ROAMING DOGS
Dogs, running in packs, some
of them valuable ‘Collies and
Police dogs, are creating consid-
erable damage in the Back
Mountain area to wild life that
is now with its young.
A fawn was recently killed
by dogs near Fielding’s on Sut-
ton Road. More recently Her-
man Thomas had one of his
Highland Acres ewes killed and
a lamb badly chewed up.
Dogs have also bothered cat-
tle and chickens. Mrs. H. H.
Zeiser, Huntsville Road, recent-
ly had two of her pet leghorns
killed by wandering dogs.
Stray beagles, according to
the local office of the Game
Commission, are also running
young rabbits as well as some
deer during the early mornings.
Clubs Will Pick
Citizen Of Year
Tri-Club Dinner
On September 13
Alfred H. Ackerson, chairman of
Dallas Service Club Council, has
announced that the second annual
dinner of Service Clubs of Dallas
will be held on Thursday, Septem-
ber 13 at Irem Temple Country.
Club.
Arrangements this year will be in
the hands of the Rotary which will
provide the speaker and take care
of details.
The Attendance Cup, won last
year by the Lions, will again be up
for grabs,
An additional feature will be
selection of a local “Citizen of the
Year,” whose identity will not be
known until after the dinner gets
underway.
Representatives to Dallas Service
Club Council are: Rotary, James
Alexander, president, and Merton
Jones; Lions, James Thomas, presi-
dent, and Richard Myers, secretary;
Kiwanis, Jerome R. Gardner, presi-
dent, and Robert S. Maturi.
Two Injured In
'Head-On Crash
Two persons were rushed to Nes-
bitt Memorial. Hospital yesterday
morning with minor injuries after
their cars collided head-on on Route
Mrs. Mary Lamoreaux, R. .D. 2,
Hunlocks Creek, making a left turn
in her Chevrolet, collided with a
Cadillac sedan driven by Albert
Peters, Dunmore, at 7:50 in front of
Maple Hill Rest Home, whose drive-
way Mrs. Lamoreaux was trying to
enter. She is employed there as a
cook.
Mrs. Lamoreaux’s car was turned
completely around by the impact,
and Peters’ car was thrown into the
guard-fence. Neither passenger was
seriously injured, but the front
ends of both cars were damaged be-
yond repair. Both parties were
treated for cuts and bruises at Nes-
bitt Hospital. Fire Chief Lee Went-
zel took them in the Lehman am-
bulance.
Peters, an engineer on a construc-
tion project at Nesbitt Hospital was
on his way to Williamsport.
Chief Wentzel, Lehman Township
Police Chief Joseph Ide, and Officer
Chet Lamoreaux investigated. Mrs.
Chet Lamoreaux called Ide and
Wentzel to the scene, which was
close to the Chet Lamoreauxs’
home.
Mary Frantz, on the lawn at her | the background, dragging his tail
home at Chase, busily washes up | feathers across the grass behind the
some of the treasures which the |tiptop table holding the large china
Henry Jones barn disgorged for the | pitcher. “Is he stuffed ?”’ somebody
Library Auctiop. That's George in | wanted to know. Anybody who has
{ High School,
| Jordan and Scott Alexander.
Wanda
VOL. 74, NO. 26,
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1962
Receives American Legion Awards
American Legion School Award
presented by Daddow Issacs Post
667, for the outstanding boy and girl |
in the 8th grade of Dallas Junior |
was awarded to Jeris |
The |
American Legion School Award is |
designed to give recognition through |
the award of American Legion Med- |
als to the boy and to the girl most
worthy in high qualities of leader-
ship, scholarship, honor, courage and
service.
Jeris is daughter of Dr. and Mrs. |
Lester E. Jordan, Trucksville, her
activities include Girls’ Drill Team, |
Mixed Chorus, Girl Scouts, Sodality |
of St. Therese’s Church, takes piano
lessons and is a member of the Nat-
ional Pi Mu Music Society. A career
of nursing is planned.
Scott Alexander is son of Mr. and
| Mrs. James Alexander, Shavertown.
Activities for [Scott include being a
Star Scout, Band, Wrestling, piano
lessons, a member of the Back
| Mountain Youth Group of the Pres-
| byterian ‘Church, and swimming. He
| was ‘elected president of Student
| Council for the school term of 1962-
63.
Scott is planning on going to col-
lege, Majoring in Science and Mathe-
maitics.
Kenneth Rice To Open 228 Home
Development On His Orchard Farm
A new residential development |
having more than 225 lots on the |
Kenneth Rice Farm will give free
access to school buses and shorten
considerably the distance Dallas |
High School busses have to travel.
This was brought out at the |
meeting of Dallas’ School Board |
Tuesday night when Mr. Rice ap- |
peared before the Board and offered Lt
free access to the high school |
grounds over all roads to be con- |
structed in the new development.
He asked only in exchange a small |
triangle of land located at a right |
angle presently owned by the]
School District. The parcel of land
is 100 x 100 x 75.
The offer by Mr. Rice was: in |
sharp contrast to the attitude taken |
sont yrs ‘agotby New Goss Mrion!
residents who refused to permit the |
School Board to have access to the |
new high school grounds over a |
highway from New Goss Manor. |
Since then high school students |
from New Goss Manor have had to
cut across lots to school, or walk the
long way around via Route 309 and |
the East Dallas Road.
Mr. Rice said the small pie-
shaped piece of land is needed in
order to carry out the wide sweep
of streets and contouring of the |
new development, otherwise the |
whole road plan and contour of
the development might have to be
changed and several lots spoiled.
Mr. Rice said he expects to de-
{velop 225 lots, located on curving
| driveways
reaching toward the
1300 foot summit where his own
new home is situated. Roads, drain-
age, and disposal system will be the
| first steps.
Entrance to the development at
the lower side will be at a point
where the Commonwealth Tele-
| phone Company right-of- -way climbs
steeply up the hill from Fernbrook,
and from Highway 309.
It was Mr. Rice's own idea to en-
courage use of roads for school
| buses and future citizens walking to
school!
A fine high school within walking
distance, with proba ity of con-
Struct] of a méw elemen. ry
scheo! in the future, would, Te said,
attract the right kind of people to
the area.
Dr. Robert Mellman, commenting
upon the. proposal, stated that
shortened bus routes would mnte-
{ rially lessen cost of transportation.
| It is unrealistic, he said, for buses
to travel miles out of their way if
easier access can be arranged.
Access through the Rice farm will
clip miles from the route.
The Board voted acceptance of
Mr. Rice’s plan and referred the
matter of the sale of land to Solici-
tor Jonathan Valentine for study.
MAGAZINE
Dallas Township and Lehman
Township Police had a busy week-
end expelling a pair of 19-year old
girls selling magazine subscriptions
from house to house. The girls had
credentials from “Globe Reader’s
Service”, Wisconsin, but no permit
to! sell in either township.
Friday, Chief Joseph Ide, Leh-
man Township, received complaints
about the girls from the Harvey's
Lake area of the township, picked
them up at 1:30 P.M., and threat-
ened them with arrest if they did
not leave. He gave their names as
Wallace, Pittsburgh, and
Mary Frantz Looks Over The Loot
SALESW
OMEN FINED $18.
Maureen Reynolds, England. Their
local address was 28 N. Washing-
ton St., Wilkes Barre. He described
Wanda as a “shrewd talker”.
Two young men drove the car, a
1957 Chevrolet, for the girls, Doug-
las R. La Follette, Virginia, and
Louis Arthus Hernandez Deldalle,
Texas.
‘Assistant Chief of Police, Dallas
Township, Stanley Gardiner ar-
rested the girls Saturday in the act
of selling subscriptions. They were
fined 19 dollars each by Squire
George Preter, and expelled from
the township.
ever heard George sound off, knows
that he is not stuffed.
molting in time, there will be pea-
cock feathers for the Auction.
If he starts
Photo by Kozemchak
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