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VOL. 74, NO. 28, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1962
Everybody Has A Good Time At Happiest Auction
4 Ee TARA
This is the festive view that
greeted visitors as they walked
down Lehman Avenue toward the
Auction Grounds. . One of those
visitors was a Philadelphig contrac-
tor attending his tenth Auction.
Thomas Hillyer
Collapses As
He Drives Car
Turns Off Ignition
fis Car Drifts Down
Hill Into Woodland
Victim of a heart attack, Thomas
E. Hillyer, Machell. Avenue,. was
discovered in his car Tuesday morn-
ing at 8:45. The 1960 Buick, its
rear window smashed, was wedged
so tightly between trees in the
woods bordering Schooley’s Hill on
East Center Street, Shavertown,
that it had to be towed into the
open before the body; lying on the
front seat, could be reached.
Mer. Hillyer, driving up the steep
grade “toward [Zhavertown, had ap-
parently been able to turn off the
ignition before collapsing. The car,
its windows slightly lowered against
the chill of early Torning ¥drifted
down the hill and into the woods.
Deputy coroner Richard Disque,
- summoned by Kingston Township
police chief Herbert Updyke, esti-
mated the time of death at ap-
proximately 7:30 a.m. The car
was first observed by special officer
Joseph Layaou. It was not until
Clyde Birth’s wrecker released the
car that doors could be opened and
death of the driver established.
Cards in the wallet showed that
the victim was a Dallas resident.
Updyke called Dallas Borough Chief
of police Russell Honeywell. State
Police and Charles Connolly, chief
of Luzerne County Detectives, as-
sisted = Kingston Township and
- Borough police.
Bearing in mind that his partner,
the late Fred Palme of Kingston,
had died six months ago from a
heart attack, Mr. Hillyer, 57, had
recently taken a physical examina-
tion, passing without trouble.
He was owner of the Mahaffey Oil
Company in Luzerne, after five
years as general manager. before
Mr. Palme’s death. Before that, he
had been manager of the Wilkes-
Barre territory for the Atlantic Re-
fining Company, having been trans-
Arnaud,
ferred from Philadelphia. A brother
Robert is distributor for Atlantic in
Troy, N. Y. and a son-in-law, Peter
is wholesale salesman for
* Atlantic in Wilmington, Del.
A native of Moorehead, Minn.,
before going into the oil business |
he was on the faculty of Wyalusing |
High School, after having served as |
supervising principal of (Canton
schools.
During the recent Library Auc-
tion, he had lent trucks and person-
nel to assist.
Mr. Hillyer was a member of
Wiyalusing Masonic Lodge, Caldwell
Consistory, Bloomsburg; Irem Tem-
ple, Wilkes-Barre;> Dallas Rotary
Club, Franklin Club, Wilkes-Barre;
Prince of Peace Church, Dallas; Oil-
man’s Club and Kingston Business
and Professional Men's Association.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Virginia Farquhar of
Wyalusing; a daughter, Mrs. Peter
Arnaud, Wilmington, Del.; two
sons: Thomas Martin: of Idetown on
cruise
ther Robert, Troy; two sisters: Mrs.
Harriet Austin, Ohio, and Mrs. Joe
Austin, Kentucky.
are scheduled
with the Coast Guard Re- |
serve; Robert, of California; a bro- |
ing
He told Fred Howell one of the | cided to turn off and visit Dallas
Auction pioneers, that he
learned of the Auction ten years
| ago when he and his wife ‘saw ‘an
Auction poster while - they were
driving along. Route 6.
‘They de-
first | and its famous vendue.
They have
returned every year since during
the week end after the Fourth of
July.
Beautiful weather, warm pl
Joseph Polacky
Suffers Fatal
Heart Attack
Was Postmaster
Of Dallas For
Nearly 25 Years
Joseph J. Polacky, Postmaster of
Dallas for nearly twenty-five years,
died last Thursday ‘ afternoon at
Mercy Hospital, where he had been
admitted by ambulance that same
morning, suffering from ‘a fatal
heart attack.
He was buried in (St. ‘Stephens
Cemetery Monday morning, follow-
ing a Solemn High Mass of Requiem
celebrated by Rev. Francis A. Kane
at Gate of Heaven Church. “Assist-
were Rev. Richard Frank as
deacon, Rev. Michael Rafferty as
subdeacon.
Mr. Polacky, 55, resident of Dal-
bas fox thei past forty years, . was
much more than a faithful civil
servant. He was a master crafts-
man, who could turn out a base-
ball bat from stout ash wood, ‘or
beautiful cherry woodwork for his
own home. He and his family built
their home on Huntsville Road, de-
lighting in the construction. Mr.
Polacky had a well equipped work-
shop, in which he fashioned on his
lathe many of the bats used by | Bialogowicz,
Dallas baseball players.
was talented in painting in oils, and | | friends,
in designing and architectural draw- |
ing.
Sixteen years to the day before
Mr. Polacky died, his mother, the
late Mary Gibba Polacky, passed
away.
Mr. Polacky, a native of Pittston,
belonged to Gate of Heaven Church
and its Holy Name Society. He ‘was
a member of the Postmasters. As-
sociation. ;
His wife,
Skvaria, is a lay teacher at Gate: of
Heaven School. His. eldest daugh-
ter Lt. Mary Polacky, trained at
Mercy Hospital, and is stationed at
the Naval Hospital at St. Albans.
His son Joseph Jr., recently gradu-
ated from Bucknell, started ‘work
with IBM less than a month ago.
Also surviving are daughters
Carol Ann, Patricia and Jeanne, at
home; sisters: Mrs. Mary Breeza and
Mrs. Joseph Wallo, Dallas; Mrs.
Joseph IC. = Simalchik, Pittston;
| several nieces and nephews.
Judy Searfoss Named
AB Women’ S Chajyman
Funeral services
for tomorrow afternoon at 2, Rev.
Ralph A. Weatherly officiating
from the Hughes Funeral Home,
Forty Fort. Burial will be, at |
Chapel Lawn. Friends may call |
tonight.
When Calling Police
While Kingston Township Chief
of Police Herbert Updyke is on va-
cation this week, residents are ad- |
vised to call police by contacting |
Assistant Chief
6£96-22217,
|
Jesse Coslett at | Her
JUDY SEARFOSS
Judy Searfoss, loan teller at Dallas
| Branch of Miners National Bank, has
been named Women’s Committee
| Chairman of Wyoming Valley Chap-
| ter, American Institute of Banking
for 1962-63 ) {
As chairman she will do con-
| siderable travelling, visiting other
| chapters and attending conventions.
fellow-workers are especially
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the iormer Catherine |
| driver's
The dark narrow road that leads |
from Kunkle past Lake Catalpa to |valeski’s, starting home shortly be- | rushed the three shocked sur vivors | the Directors Tuesday night follow-
| to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital.
Demunds is hard to follow with the |
eye. By -car. it sounds |
mostly like crickets,
only by occasional traffic.
you hear screams coming from the |
road, it means that somebody in |
one of those cars has made a mis-
take.
It was like that a little after mid- |
night; - Sunday, - when Tex Wilson |
and Mrs. Wilson came home from |
the auction. Tex runs the lumber
mill out there. He heard girls
that
and cool nights, contributed to the | they were more comfortable and | | the
Auction’s success. At no time was
there a cloud in the sky during the ; Record for attendance was Saturday | Frantz,
three nights and two days.
the auction moved more smoothly. |
silver punch bowl were sold |
| under the Chairmanship of Charles
by Robert Bachman who
Al- | | night during 1958 when the First | had come back from Georgia to auc-
though crowds were big, they were | Esther Williams Swimming Pool Gk | tioneer.
no Nar ger than previous years, but |
LEIGHTON SCOTT
they
By
At. 11 returned to Ko- |
fore the accident.
‘Cookie’
Nancy, known as
by her friends, was driv-
after midnight. (Suggestion was |
{made that Marjorie, the oldest, |
drive. Cookie said: “The car’s only |
insured for me.” Rose laughed and
said: “Maybe 1 better walk.” But |
she didn’t.
Just past the Wilson saw-mill to-
{ward Kunkle, Rose remembered
she had forgotten her coat. |
Tragedy Stalks Lake Catalpa Road As
Robert Block and Lane Jarrett,
Dal-
las: Borough Police officers Jack
interrupted | | ing with a Junior-permit, which re- | Berti and Ray Titus assisted Chief
When | quires the |driver to stop driving | Frank Lange, Assistant Chief Stan-
ley Gardiner, Officers Albert Hoov-
| er, Frank Wagner, Sr. and Frank
{ Wagner, . Jr. at the . scene. State
Police also investigated.
Rose. was popular, and had a
Ipleasant personality. Earlene
| Layaou and Marjorie Bynon des-
|cribed her as “a lot of fun, and
well-liked”. She was athletic, and |
screaming, told his kids to stay in { Nancy turned the car about in a log {loved to dance and swim. A com-
the ‘truck, and ran up to the road, | road, and, started back toward De- | mercial
where he found a Plymouth Station |
munds. ‘According to police, the |
student at Dallas
{ School, she had given up school
Wagon overturned. Next to it lay | car began to stagger back and forth | { this May" after her Junior year, and
| Rose Spencer, dead, her feet still in |
Earlene | said: “Let go of the wheel, and the | eral Cigar Company. But her sister,
| the left rear window.
Layaou, 16, Marjorie Bynon, 18, |
and’ Nancy Bialogowicz, 16; were |
|
| ing:
running ‘around. in the woods cry-
“She's dead, she’s dead.” |
Tex held up traffic, and covered |
the body as quickly as he could. It
was some time till he could find | The windshield was splintered, and | a
anyone to go down to get Mrs. Wil-
son to call police and to bring a |
| sheet. |
Early. Saturday evening, Nancy |
Harvey’s Lake, drove |
in Beaumont. Her |
He also | to Ma's Diner
all Dallas residnts,
| there. They decided to go to Ko-
{ valeski’s bar at Demunds drnes |
and then to visit friends in Luzerne. |
{across the road. One of the girls |
sarwillustraighten out’.
It didn’t. It drifted across a small
{ditch to- the right, and up on a
mound of rocks which silently |
flipped the car upside down. None
of the other girls were thrown out.
{the roof somewhat caved in, but |
the car was still: driveable.
Jean Alice Spencer, an olin
sister, was also at Kovaleski’s that |
night. She had a car, and offered |
to take Rose home a little earlier.
| she had come with the kids, might |
as well go home with them.
Dallas ambulance, manned by |
Valley,
were | Rose shrugged off the idea — said | 19:30 in Gate of Heaven Church, of
‘had taken a summer job with Gen-
[ Jean, said ‘she was thinking of re-
{ turning to ‘school this fall.
She is survived by her parents,
Mr. “and Mrs. Daniel Spencer, 100
Claude ‘Street, Dallas, another sister,
Mrs. Robert Jones, Tullytown; Jean;
brother, Daniel, Jr.; paternal
| grandmother, Mrs. David Spencer,
| Dallas, and maternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Tylutki, Dallas.
Funeral was held yesterday at 9
from Bronson Funeral Home, Sweet
with a Requiem Mass at
which Rose was a member. She
| was buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery,
Carverton.
Harveys Lake Lions Install Officers
New officers of Harveys Lake
Lions Club were installed by Ben
Banks, club sponsor at a dinner
dance held at Twin Lakes.
Joseph (G. Schappert was Master
of Cermonies and Rev. John [Stahl
gave the invocation and benedic- |
tion.
Jones, past President and by Ben |
Banks.
. {
New officers are: Leonard Bruce, |
| president; Steve Glova, first vice
president; Joseph G. Schappert, |
second vice president; third vice |
president; Robert Pilger, secretary; |
Francis ‘Smith, treasurer; Roland !
Ritts, Lion tamer; Edward Kanasky,
{ right,
Ra
tail twister; Francis Schuler and
Andrew Lavix, directors.
In the picture are, seated left to
Frank Bialogowicz, Steve
Glova, Leonard Bruce, Joseph G.
| Schappert, Robert Pilger.
Standing, — left to right, Edward
Kanasky, Francis Schuler,
: Brief talks were given by Harry!
Library Auction Highlights
By closing time Saturday night, it
looked like over $22,000 gross, and
something over $16,000 net.
At the chicken barbecue Thurs-
day night, 999 customers were fed.
Keyettes made a big hit, with
their trays of corsages donated by
Hill the Florist. From the block,
Dick reminded men who had not
yet bought gardenias, that their
position in society demanded it,
their wives expected it, and it was
all for the support of the Library.
The ticket booth looked like it-
self again with: Mary Weir and Pat
Reynolds sitting under the gaily
decorated canopy, handing out
tickets for the refreshment stand.
General chairman Dick Demmy,
perspiring in shorts, revised esti-
; mated figures on gross and net
It was the hot Library Auction,
with temperatures zooming into the
nineties Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday, when workers
started cleaning up the grounds
which looked as if a herd of ele-
phants had passed, the temperature
skyrocketed, and a torrid breeze
stirred the dust.
receipts as the auction proceeded.
Richard Garman, Brown Manor,
a member of Back Mountain Civil
War Round Table and probably its
next president won the Ford Fu-
tura awarded Saturday night at the
Auction, :
One of the special offerings, held
for Saturday night for optimum
response, was the wall-to-wall car-
peting, bought by Fred Jennings at
a time when the crowd was at its
height, and no parking nearer than
central Dallas could be found.
{A popular award was that of the
Pennsylvania Dutch bench to "Mrs.
Arthur Dungey. Chances on the]
bench brought’ approximately $700.
Happy spectators always hope |
that a pig will get loose. This year, |
they were. not disappointed. The
small pig, squealing and kicking, |
was cornered in the Risley yard.
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High |
Andrew |
| Lavix, Francis Smith, Roland Ritts. |
Raymon Hedden displays the |
|. painting * ‘Winter Scene” by Gray-
Hin Mayer which he successfully |
bid in at slightly less than $100.
|The Art Exhibit, a relatively new
Sutton Made President; Hogoboom
Youth ful Driver Loosens Grip On Wheel Appointed To Lake-Lehman Board
Willard Sutton, vice president of®
Lake-Lehman School Board was |
| elected president at a meeting of
| ing the resignation of Edgar Lash-
ford who is leaving this area.
Charles Frantz was elected vice
president to succeed Mr. Sutten.
Mr. Lashford earlier resigned from
Jackson Township School Board and
Richard Hogoboom, [Sutton Road,
has been appointed to complete his
unexpired term.
Mr: Hogoboom is. manager of
Kidder, Peabody & Company, in-
vestments, ‘with offices in Miners
| Bank Building, Wilkes-Barre. He
| has taken an active part in com-
munity life, and civic organizations
and was elected a member of the
Board of Directors of Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library on the same
night that he first served on the
Lake-Lehman Board. '
At their meeting Lake-Lehman
Directors adopted a record. $744,-
721.80 Budget. Included this year,
however, is the purchase of a new
66-passenger school bus from Lu-
zerne Motors, all costs of transpor-
tation, all rentals and some money
toward the creation of a new Lan-
guage Laboratory in the new high
school.
Because Ross Township furnishes
about one fifth of the students and
has an unusually low assessment, it
is likely that school millage will
have to be increased there.
Contracts for supplying pea coal
to’ Noxen building were awarded to
Ralph Cornell at his low bid of $11
per ton, and to Vito Pilosi for
furnishing buckwheat coal to Leh-
man and Ross Building at his low
bid of $10.20 per ton delivered.
J. B. Post received the contract
[for supplying oil to the high school
and Lake Building at its low bid of
110.35 cents per gallon. Bidding
was very close R. A. Davis having
| submitted a bid of 10.46 cents per
| gallon,
| Cutten Gas Company was
| awarded the contract for gas at its
low bid. of 16c per gallon at the
high school bulk tank and $4.75 per
| tank at the other schools. Next
[lowest bidder was $6.25 per tank
| | and 25¢ per gallon.
Bids for "general supplies were
submitted to the Supply Committee
for tabulation and evaluation be-
fore awarding to the lowest bidder.
Motorcycle Cut Off
James Fry, 18, Dallas, received
severe injuries when his motorcycle
| bit the side of a car on Route 115!
above Trucksville Saturday after-
noon, He said, the car, driven by
Robert Perina, Long Island, N. Y.,
did not signal for a turn before re- |
turning to the right lane.
Narrow Escape From Fire
Et Arthur Steinhauer's
{Awakened Tuesday at midnight |
[ by the smell of smoke drifting into
their bedroom window, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur F. Steinhauer went
outside, and found a ring of fire
surrounding the base of a big pine
tree at the corner of their home in
West Dallas.
garden hose and
With a 3 d a
sprinkling can, they extinguished
the blaze. The thick covering of
Paul Eckert’s peat moss surround-
ing the base, had held the flames
from reaching the tree.
IA visitor whose own factory had
been gutted two weeks earlier, and
| who was arranging with Mr. Stein-
| hauer for lumber in order to get it
| back into production, had tossed a |
| cigarette butt aside when he: left
| earlier in the evening.
| Last year, the Steinhauer home
twas struck by lightning, which
| knocked out electric appliances as
lit hit the T-V antenna.
Lashford Resigns
As President
Of Lake-Lehman
Has Headed Board
9 Years In Original
And New Jointure
Edgar Lashford, mainstay of us}
Lake-Lehman joint school board,
and president for nine years during
the original Lehman-Jackson-Ross
jointure and the newer Lake-Leh-
man jointure, tendered his resigna-
ction Tuesday evening 4% a meeting
of the board of directors.
Monday evening, he resigned from
the Jackson Township Board.
Mr. Lashford, treasurer and gen-
eral manager of the Hardie Manu-
facturing. Company on South Main
Street, Wilkes-Barre, a concern
which manufactures ‘orchard and
citrus spray equipment, will go to
Philadelphia: early in August.’ The
plant, owned by a New York Group,
has facilities in Philadelphia which |
can accommodate the operation.
The move is already under way.
Mr .Lashford has always been in |
the forefront of any move for pro-
gress in his school district. He |
says, “The thing that really bothers |
me the most about this move, is
that I will not be instrumenta] in |
opening the new high school. But
I will be here in person, no matter |
It is a good |
and we are all very proud |
where T am located,
school,
of it.
fication to be able to work for its
construction.”
supervising prin-
Lester Squier,
| cipal, had been informed two months |
earlier that Mr. Lashford might be |
transferred.
Mr. Lashford succeeded Laing
Coolbaugh as president of Lehman-
Jackson Ross soon after the new
elementary school
opened in Sweet Valley. When the |
new Lake-Lehman jointure was |
formed four - years ago, he was |
elected president,
During his years on the school
boards, he has spent countless hours
in furthering the cause of good edu-
cation.
“It is important to remember,”
he says, “that education is costly.
It cannot be had on the bargain
counter. Anything that is worth |
having is worth paying for.
Incorrect Headline
A story pertaining to the installa-
tion of officers by Noxen Lions Club
| In last week's issue was incorrectly
headlined as Harvey's Lake Lions
Club. An account of the Harveys
Lake Club's installation appears in
this issue.
More Contributors
There are many more names to
be added to the list of new goods
contributors to the Library Auction
which came in after last week's
Post was published. These will be
published just as soon as time and
space permits,
No Stamps At Jordan's
A missplaced line in Jordan's ad
in last week's Post stated that Jor-
dan’s Gives Green Stamps. This
was incorrect. The popular men’s
store in Narrows Shopping Center
sells quality merchandise but does
not give stamps,
It has been a source of grati- |
building was |
feature of the Auction. was one of
| this years most attractive features
under the chairmanship of Mrs. De-
| ‘Witt Smith.
PHOTO BY KOZEMCHAK
School Districts
In State To Get
Additional Fund
Pro-Rata Share Of
Over 3 Million To
| Be Distribuied
Dallas School directors had
| trouble obtaining a quorum Tues-
| day evening, members being reluc-
| tant to tear themselves away from
| the pioneer Telstar program which
| will revolutionize world comminica-
| tion.
The meeting started half an hour
late. Routine matters were handled,
and the final cafeteria report of the
year studied.
A consistent loss in the cafet: “ia
is expected to be reversed in the
fall, when an additional five cents
wil “be charged for each meal
served ‘to the secondary students
and adults, the price for elementary
children remaining the same as it
was this year.
Dr. Robert Mellman states that
| reimbursement from the State’ for
school lunches is far less than it
once was, and that operating ex-
penses are higher. The only solu-
tion is to raise the price of school
| lunches.
Based on an average daily par-
ticipation of 805 secondary students
| and 49 adults, a total of 854 lunches
{ daily on which the increase of five
| cents per lunch will be charged, the
| increase in income for a period of
| 180 days would equal $7,686.
{~ Ini the red for the past year,
| figures show a loss of $5,269.75.
{ REIMBURSEMENT BONUS
Directors were handed’ a gift
| from the State, an amount yet to
| be determined. Mrs. John Stahl
| read a communication from the De-
| partment of Public Instruction in
{ Harrisburg:
Each school district in Pennsyl-
| vania is eligible to receive addition-
| al reimbursement during the school
| year 1962-1963. ;
| Payment of this additional reim-
| bursement is in accord with the Mec-
| Cann amendment to the 1962-1963
| General Appropriation Bill.
The amendment provides that
92% of all general fund revenues
| actually received during the fiscal
| period 1961-1962 in excess of the
{ official estimates be specifically ap-
| propriated to the Department of
| Public Instruction for the purpose
| of - making additional payments to
| all of the school districts of the
! Commonwealth. Each school dis-
| trict will receive a prorata share of
| the entire appropriation based up-
on its 1960-1961 district teaching
‘units and its 1961-1962 reimburse-
| ment fraction. There will be avail-
| able $3,413,103.84 for such distri-
| bution.
The Department of Public Instruc-
tion: will begin computing the pay-
ments immediately so that each
district will receive its additional
reimbursement at the earliest pos-
sible date.
Lacerates Head In
‘Plunge Down Stairs
T. M. B. Hicks, on a business as-
signment in Baltimore, plunged
down a flikht of steps at the Staf-
ford Hotel Friday afternoon, and
was rushed to Maryland General
Hospital by ambulance, bleeding
profusely from a jagged laceration
in his forehead. Sixteen sutures
and sixteen hours later, after
spending the night in the emergency
room, he started back for Dallas,
driven by his wife, who for the first
time in sixteen years passed up the
Library Auction.
(Tom, will you PLEASE
making headlines?)
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