| ps he ® - * Landis explained that the truth | nr" the alphabet. to . Manager Landis went on to ex- ‘phones have been added “and use Jacobs Tells George Jacobs is home in Shavertown after spending a year as a Rotary Exchange Student in the Philippines. From time to time his correspond- ence printed in the Post life in the islands. related his travels and As the months passed George met some of the dynamic leaders of reform movements, saw the problems of dirt and ignorance out of which the’ country was trying to lift itself before the world left it behind. The fight of underdeveloped rural areas to better their own lot became a preoccu- pation with him, one of his chief interests through- out the time he spent in the Philippines. George's last letter to the Post was at Christ- mas time, revealed the following conclusions: “Securing peace and freedom is not the job of a government, but of individuals who are willing to share their time and money with their less for- tunate neighbors.” In the months that followed, he became more involved with the ideals of the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, of which the Reader’s Digest said: clusively tried and proven. people’s own aspirations “No other formula has been so con- Because it enlists and mobilizes their own 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES ow Democracy Helps Filipinos To Help Selves private initiative for their own reform, it is a dy- namic force that utilizes resources scarcely tapped 2” elsewhere. This approach to farm-problems is not irrelevant to the American rural scene. At the Post’s request, his own feelings, throughout the year: George has summarized drawing on his reflections “Spending a year in the Philippines is bound to awaken you to the tremendous inequalities and social injustices among the peoples of the world. You are shocked at the fact that 2/3 of mankind is illiterate, den. ill-clad, underfed, and disease-rid- One fourth of the world’s people consume seventy per cent of all material goods, while the thirty per cent is left for the hungry three-fourths. You discover warehouses filled with surplus food- stuffs all over our rich country, and then you are exposed to undernourished babies on the other side of the world. You wonder how we can pos- sibly expect peace while the world suffers from such inequality and insecurity, and you then be- gin to understand why millions turn in desper- ation to communism. “Does this force the conclusion that our coun- try must become a material support of the under- privileged? No! world of parasites. solve the problem ? Can No! For to do this is to create a we expect foreign aid to For just as a farmer tries to reach the roots of plants with nourish- ment, so we must reach to the people of a nation, for they are the roots of democracy. “During my stay in the Philippines, I came to know and love a revolutionary new organization which is proving to have a workable solution to this perplexing problem. Why not teach the peo- ple to help themselves? Instead of handing them relief, let us release their potential energies. us get down to their level, know, and build on what they have. the - philosophy of Dr. Y. Let start with what they This became C. James Yen, founder of the International Mass Education Movement and the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Move- (PRRM), He challenged ment workers. along with his many devoted the Filipino youths and their learned superiors to live among the poor villagers and to work with them to help them better their own situation. college graduates responded, Doctors, lawyers, chosen. Hundreds of young and many were agriculturists, and other professionals left comfortable positions to THE DALLAS POST work among the poor. and church organizations Today government, civic, are praising the work of PRRM and patterning their own work after it. “My own experience convinced me of the os value in such a program. Mrs. Hans Rothkirch, a dear friends of mine in the Philippines, was ap- palled by the conditions in nearby villages and or- ganized a small group dedicated to helping the villagers. “A young agriculturist and I attended their first meeting, and listened to their plans to collect foodstuffs, clothes, and medicines to give to the poor villagers. This was a very noble venture in- deed, but we knew that such an approach would only create parasites and that the medicine would = surely be wasted unless they used some sanitary facilities. Without sanitary toilet facilities, their proposed medical campaign against intestinal parasites would be futile. : “As diplomatically as possible we presented the self-help philosophy of PRRM. They agreed to give it a try. Since ninety-five per cent of the children in the rural areas had intestinal worms (Continued on Page 2 A) TWO EASY ORchard 4-5656 TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION VOL. 74, NO. 29 THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1962 Commonwealth Will Switch To All Number Dialing October 2 ‘On 10, November Dallas Exchange Will Become Part Of Distance Dialing Network Dallas ORchard exchange of | Commonwealth Telephone Company | will be converted to All Number | Calling on October 2 with each tele- phone number being composed of seven digits, J. N.' Landis, district | manager, announced yesterday. The | change will coincide with issuance | of the new directories. Mr. Landis’ announcement was | made to caution all business con- cerns to keep the projected All| Number Calling 'in mind before | ordering new stationery, ealendars, | and the like. These items usually bear the | firms telephone number and they | will definitely be changed on t Oo | ber 2. ‘Actually, as far phone system is concerned, =a re really dialing numbers when you | dial liters and Dalles numbers re- main unchanged with 67 merely re- | placing the OR prefix. LONG DISTANCE DIALING A little. over a month later, on November 18, Dallas exchange will become part of the Direct Distance Dialing network falling under Area Code 717. At this time long dis- tance calls coming into the Dallas | area will employ the Area Code number 717 plus the 7 digits of the called party’s number. Until now, 2-5 humbering was employed to allow an exchange’s participation in the nationwide toll dialing network. Under this plan, exchanges were given exchange name designations such as ORchard plus a five digit number. The num- ber, when dialed, would call for dialing OR and the five digits. With the change in October, Dal- las numbers will have seven digits. The first three numbers [Landis said, will be 674 or 675. For exam- ple, a typical Dallas number will be listed 675-1816. The new numbers | will make the company’s Dallas ex- | change a part of the nationwide | network which is rapidly gavereng to ANC. RUNNING OUT OF NUMBERS of the matter is that the mation’s | telephone system is doing away! Peculiar as it | may seem, the reason is that the | telephone people are running out of | — of all things, phone numbers, Since 1950 nearly 25 million | in this | country. Each one needed a num- | ber with a word prefix that people | could understand, like ORchard, | NEptune or EVergreen. The prob- lem of finding such prefixes was getting tougher all the time. After | a lot of study, the experts concluded that there was only one thing to do to still give the folks the service they want: Change the system. So, eventually phone numbers | won't be partly letters and partly numbers, like 'ORchard 51816 but all digits: 675-1816. ‘‘All numbers can be remembered for a short-time | letter-numeral just. as easily as combinations,” Landis observed. “That's how most numbers are used: You look it up in the book and remember it just long enough dial. 2 plain ‘about * the alphabet. “There are only about 540 combinations of two letters which will form words easily understood and distinguished and which will also work out in telephone switching equipment. (Try the 9-5 combination, for instance, Xkalibur? Yling?) The experts went goofy trying to find more words and gave up’ To add more digits fo present numbers would make them even harder to remember. (UTopia 8- 973621). So it was decided to do away with the pesky letter prefixes simply number combina- This - means telephone cus- { will number of digits to remember — there simply will be no name as a prefix. In a given area, the plan give the phone company a | much greater number of dial com- binations, 4 In concluding, Landis again re- | minded residents and business men in Dallas’ ORchard exchange to All Numbers cn October 2. For those contemplating new stationery, call- ing cards or calendars now is the time to plan the change, keeping in mind as well the Area Code number. Frame Building Being Razed mn Tos School i new Lake-Lehman' school has enough water to supply the community 120 to 140 ' gallons a minute, pumped steadily from 8:45 a.m. until midnight, and again the | next day for seven hours, starting +t 8:30. The eight-inch bore ex- tends 210 feet into solid rock. The sewage disposal system is all ready to be hooked up, large dis- persal field ready for operation, awaiting only the large pumps. It was delay in getting the sewage system in operation that’ postponed summer occupancy last year at Dal- | las senior high school. A good flow of water has ex- pedited mixing of cement at Leh- man. The at Lehman Center is being razed. Plumbers and electricians started removal the week after school { closed. The roof and the floors are now demolished. At Lake, reconstruction and re- modelling are up to schedule, with oil tanks going in this week. Auditorium and gymnasium will not be available at the new build- ing until some time in November, | but work is being pushed on class- | room wings. If the weather holds, | expectation is that classrooms can be epened for occupancy the Wednesday after Labor Day, and other construction can go forward | after students move in. Crash Victims Still At Nesbitt Ellis Hoover, Lehman, his wife and | daughter are still in Nesbitt Hospital after their sedan was knocked from the rear into the Lake-bound lane of Memorial kighway by Michael J. Matusick’s car, and demolished by head-on collision with another. Hoover, 38, has many cuts and bruises, and a left shoulder rendered useless, His wife Edith has head. Sandy, 13, cannot use one leg, visits her father by means of a wheel- chair. Samuel Darling, 75, into whose car the Hoover Plymouth was push- ed. is at Nesbitt, too. He suffered shock and an injured chest. Michael Matusick, 29, Wilkes- Barre. who rammed the Hoovers Fri- day night at 9:30 with a car that carried neither the right tags, mor operator’s license, was fined $30 for one offense, and $15 for the other at a hearing before Justice George Prater. He was not insured. All three cars were total losses. The Hoovers were on: their way from shopping in Dallas, when they decided to get some ice cream at the Tasty-Freeze a little west of Over- brook Road :over-pass. Sitting with the turn signals winking a left turn and the lines of traffic moving past; tions, tomers will have the same: total Hoover asked: “Wouldn't it be awful frame elementary building | three. | broken ribs, and bad gashes on her | 3 A Noxen Champions Of Bob Horlacher League Noxen team of the Bob Horlacher | keeps alive the name of one of |a record that will be hard for suc- Little League has won the pennant | for the third successive year. In the past three years it won forty-two and lost eleven of ‘its | fifty -three games. Always a good baseball Noxen has produced some stellar players over the years, and a num- ber of the members of this year’s championship Little League team bear the names of outstanding play- ers of former years. Bob Horlacher Little League, com- posed of teams from Harveys Lake, Beaumont, Mehoopany and Noxen, town, | | Robert Horlacher, has | and hitting prowess made history | Scott, and | Spencer, ‘Ricky Case, Terry Smith, | Billy Spencer, Noxen's baseball greats, whose pitching throughout Wyoming Valley. | the rural areas a generation ago. The Noxen Little League team is | sisted by Tom Shalata. Fair-sized |. | managed. by Harold Bennett, as- | Shook, Ronnie Sorber, crowds of enthusiastic fans watch | the games and collections average | more than $15 per game. Out of only twenty-one boys who | team try-outs, fif-'| turned out for | the late | | ceeding teams to match. ‘left tg right: Leroy Donald Front row, Richard Sevenski, Barry Smith, Charles Smith; : Second row, left to right; Carl Terry Shook, Earl Boston, Marshall Schenck, Robert Timko, Loren Case, Dave Weaver; Last row, left to right: Tom Sha- lata, assistant manager, Harold Ben- teen were selected for, the squad. | nett, manager. But those fifteen have established | Promoted To Managership James F. Besecker, Jr. Heads Scranton Office Open House yesterday and today, 1 to 7 p.m. heralds the promotion of James Besecker Jr. to the post of manager of the Scranton. office of Monroe Calculating Machine Com- pany at its newly enlarged quarters at 505 Cedar Avenue. Top brass of the company and city | officials headed by the Mayor, were present. Mr. Besecker, East Dallas, has been with the company for eleven years, | starting with the Wilkes-Barre office | under Otto C. Weyand. For six years he has been with the Scranton office, | which ‘was first an affiliate of the | Wilkes-Barre office. Promotion from | assistant manager to manager be- | came effective July 1 | For the past six years, he has been | shuttling back and forth between | East Dallas and Scranton, combining | business with ‘acreage and country | life. His wife is the former Georgia | Johnson. There are three gdren Jim, John and Laura. Mr. Besecker’'s parents live on | Lake Street, Dallas. James F. Be- | secker Sr. is a well known reales- | tate man of the area, prominent in | civic affairs. . Jim Jr. a Dallas boy, graduated | from Dallas High Schopl and Un- | iversity of Pennsylvania. On Monday, | he celebrated his 35th birthday. At the University, he wag a mem- | ber of Lamda Chi Alpha. i 3 someone came along and sanuned us from the back.” Afterward, it took the Dallas and the. Kingston Township Ambulances to-get all’ the injured including two of Matusick’s passengers to the hos- pital. Hoover was unconscious until treated at Nesbitt. His first concern on waking up was his wife and | daughter. He got acquainted with | Darling at the hospital. “I felt sorry for him”, he reflected. “He's a heck of a ine fellow”. But he didn't say much about the people in the Matu- sick car. They're gone: anyway. { neth Herwig, Decision To Rush Girl To Noxen Clinic May Have Saved Her Life The daughter of a prominent Wyoming Valley orthopedic surgeon is in serious condition at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, with multi- ple skull fractures and scalp lacerat- ions after crashing into a heavy div- ing board Tuesday afternoon at Harvey's Lake while water skiing. Susan Sgarlat, 16, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sgarlat, 109 James Street, Kingston, of Robert Kruse, Jr., 270 Reynolds Street, Kingston, who was swimming at Senator Andrew J. Sordoni’s dock { where the accident happened. Susan and a friend, Scott Burn- | side, 17, were headed toward Sunset | behind a fast moving high-powered i Carver motor boat piloted by Ken- Jr., Westmoreland Hills, about 3:30 p.m. Police report that [Susan attempted | to kick off her skis approaching the | dock, and had ducked one board, | when her head struck a second. Her scalp and cheek badly lacerated, and bleeding profusely, she sank at once to the bottom. Kruse, son of Robert Kruse, Pub- | licity Director for Sordoni Enter- | prises, | 18, plunging deep, said the water | appeared green from blood. Bringing Susan up they laid the desperately/ wounded girl on a rubber raft on the was saved from | death by the double quick-thinking | and a friend, Harry Clark, | | Medical dock, and bound her head with a towel. In the numbered minutes the boys tried to decide the best place to take { Susan before she bled to death. Nes- bitt Hospital or Noxen Clinic ? Kruse remembered seeing the’ Clinic on a hunting trip last year. He command- deered Peter Lauderbaugh, Harvey's Lake, and his car, and put the girl into the back seat. The car made the eight miles to Noxen in minutes, and Drs. Lester Saidman and Irvin Jacobs abridged the danger with sutures and first aid. The doctors commended the boys for quick thinking, noting that Susan would have surely bled to death if the dash to Nesbitt Hospital had been attempted. Senator Sordoni, who witnessed the rescue from his porch paid high compliment to Kruse and Clarke for fast action in retriev- ing Susan from the lake, and speed- ing her to the Clinic. Noxen ambulance, manned by Keénneth Cuddy and William Gross- man, rushed the girl, and her mother who joined her at the Clinic, to Nes- bitt Hospital where she was X-rayed and treated by her father and others. Susan was transferred to Geisinger Center where the seriousness of her injuries is being investigated further. reported doing well. at about 7 p.m. She is | Charged with reckless driving as | well as speeding after he had been clocked by State Police at 75 miles per hour Gerald Dalesanndra, ‘Saddle River, | ter of Dallas Township. Dalesannedra will also lose his | a reciprocal New Jersey and Pennsylvania traf- | fic authorities. Police also charged Dalesanndra | with cutting in and out of heavy | its turn signals flashing. Jersey Mer Hits 75 MPH. On Memorial Highway | New Jersey driver's license through | agreement between | | pranksters, | siderable damage to a car. Dallas Post Office May Lose Identity If It Becomes Branch of Wilkes-Barre Death Of Postmaster Joseph Polacky And Lease Expiration Cause Concern | Pravkstors Place Gas | Lines Across Streets on Memorial Highway, | | Two Dallas Borough Police Offi- | N. J., was fined $30 when given a | i cers had to move a couple of huge hearing before Justice George Pra- | 82S | Sterling Avenues and night blocking Machell Monday pipes { about 11:30. The paper-wrapped pipes, evi- dently rolled into position by strong could have done con- Jack Berti almost hit one himself on the way home from work. He traffic and passing a car that had | went back to town, got Officer Ray | Titus, and together they budged the | obstructions out of the way. A valiant hour and a half battle during which a Harveys Lake physi- cian, two | nurses, ambulance . at- tendants and police attempted to restore breathing to a five-weeks- old child ended tragically at 8:15 Thursday night. William. Thomas, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Houssock, 58 Coary [Street, Fords, N. J. died while being placed in an awaiting ambulance that would have trans- ferred” him to a Wyoming Valley Hospital after being treated with a heart massage in Dr. Benjamin Groblewski’s office. Mr. and Mrs. Houssock, who had been spending a brief vacation in a rented cottage on School House Road, had gone to the Laundricen- ter. on Thursday afternoon leaving their infant in charge of a Baby Sitter. On- their return they asked how Valiant Struggle Fails To Restore Infant's Breathing the child had been and were in- formed that he was very good, not having. uttered ga sound. Investiga- tion’ showed that the child was not breathing. The distraught parents immedi- ately took the child to Dr. Groblew- ski's office, Mr. Houssock applying mouth to mouth respiration to the infant in his arms. While Dr. Groblewski checked for the heartbeat which he could not find, Harveys Lake Ambulance supplied oxygen and nurses Gerry Petroskas and assistant Jessie Hughes assisted Dr. Groblewski with a cardiac massage. After the chest was opened the child began to breathe so that. the chest. was closed within a matter of minutes and preparations’ made for the trip to the hospital, but shortly after the child was placed in the ambu- lance it died. Jerry Gardner came into the office. Tuesday morning, holding a decorated carton, and beaming as broadly as it is possible for any- body to beam. “Just look at this,” he said, as he arranged ‘Christmas-wrapped packages on the desk. There was a mashed popcorn ball, a small jar of ‘peanut butter, a container of bird seed, a package of suet, and several long sprays of commercial bird seed glued to a central stem. He had a letter, too, carefully printed in capitals to make it easier on the eyes. ‘Dear Mr. so much - for kitten Vigoro. “You must have sensed that Vig- oro was someone special . . . she was promised to me when I was very sick, and in the hospital in May, land was on hand to greet me when Gardner: Thank you taking care of my Happy Ending For Suzanne Culver As Vigoro Comes Home To Roost I arrived home. We have been com- panions ever since. “Thank you again, and also Mrs. Hicks, for being kind to her. “This package isn't really a CARE package, but a few goodies for the Gardner Bird Family. “Meow and goodbye, “Sincerely Suzanne and Vigoro. “P.S. We are very happy.” So, after ten days -away . from home, but in loving hands, a black and white kitten with odd markings around its neck is Suzanne Culver, on Country Club Road, and the jenny-wren which was resenting so bitterly the pres- ence of the kitten at the Gardner's, has smoothed down its feathers. As for Vigoro, she states that never again will she permit herself to be chased up a tree. The next rescuer might not be so considerate. Roaring Lions Challenge Meek Kiwanis Club To Baseball Game By - WILL. WIMBLE It is seldom that persons acquaint- ed in these parts who are in their right minds entrust us with any im- portant assignment. Most people who know us wouldn't expect mich from us, and consequently wouldn't put us in charge of anything they wanted done properly. So it was with some surprise that we were asked by the Lion’s Club to deliver a challenge to the Kiwanis Club. It seems that the Lions are spon- soring a Donkey Ball Game at Dallas High School Stadium on the after- noon of August 11 and are looking for a local organization to furnish the opposition. How they came to prefer the Kiwa- nis Club is beyond us bécause we wouldn’t dare to suggest that they resemble ‘donkeys. On occasion they have been known to act like donkeys, but we would rather not mention that and just assume that this challenge is a mere coincidence. Anyhow, James C. Thomas and Richard Myers, who are in charge of this Donkey Baseball Fracas, seem to feel that the Kiwanis boys would fit the bill. perfectly. “Every one of them has long ears,” stated Mr. Thomas. We were curious about what a J Donkey Baseball game is and in- interested. “Mr. "Thomas explained that the game is played in the usual manner except that the players are all mounted on donkey-back and must perform their chores in a mounted position. “No wonder you are challenging the Kiwanians,” we ejected. “They can’t bat 005 with both feet on the ground.” “Yeah,” agreed Mr. Thomad, * ‘we think they'll be a real pushover.” “Maybe they won't accept,” mused we, “It's rumored that they're all well up in years in that club, and quired politely without seeming too | ages,” the exercise may finish them.” “I'm not bothered about their sighed Mr. I'm afraid they all have a foot-wide yel- low streak down their backs.” Thomas. “How about that,” we conjured as we wended our way homeward. But back in business: The Lions Club of Dallas hereby officially chal- lenges the Kiwanis Club of Dallas to oppose them in a Donkey Baseball Game on Saturday afternoon, August 11 at Dallas High School Stadium. We shall officially publish the re- ply in this column next week . . if there is one. back with. © The death of Postmaster Joseph Polacky and conjecture as to who will be appointed to succeed him has raised the question whether | Dallas Post Office will continue to operate as a separate entity or be incorporated into the Wilkes-Barre Post Office and lose its identity, operating as a branch similar fo. Shavertown. Under normal operating pro- cedure, Mrs. Wesley Moore, Asst. Postmaster and senior employee “at the gated with the operating the office until an asting postmaster is appointed. iy After the ‘appointment of an acts ing postmaster, the office of ‘Post- master would be filled, under nor mal proegdure; from among candi: dates who pass a Civil Service examination with the marks. hy : Normal procedure in the case of Dallas, however, is tinged with un- certainty. It is known that the Post Office § Department is dissatisfied with its present Dallas location because of space limitations, inadequate park- ing facilities for patrons, and cramped platform space. On top of this, the lease on the present quar- ters expires July 31. ‘While the present building was adequate when it was leased ten years ago from Dallas Dairy and was considered a vast improvement, Dallas Office, would be dele- responsibility of highest 1 growth of the community has far outdistanced = postal Dallas office has grown by leaps 4 and bounds along with the growth of Commonwealth Telephone Com- pany, College Misericordia, Natona Mills, Linear Inc. and other busi- ness and residential mailings. ceipts now exceed $100,000. Although carrier delivery of mail has curtailed to some extent what might have been normal box, stamp and parcel traffic to the local of- fice, the growth of business in the area has offset any advantages gained in lessened post office traffic by the advent of carrier delivery. Shortly before his death, Post- master Polacky advocated a new lo- cation where there might be park- ing space for at least fifty cars. There is now no provision for em- ployees’ cars and little or no plat- form space or turning room for ar- riving and departing Post Office | Department trucks. More than a year ago, representa- tives of the Post Office Depart- ment's Real Estate Section. were here with completed plans for a new Dallas Post Office Building. At i that time a number of sites were viewed but no publicity was given either to their visit or the sites favored. Since that time there have been no further developments al- though such visits, according to veteran postal administrators, are frequently followed by the con- struction of a new building. Just what the Post Office Department will be - under these circumstances remains to be seen. Will Superintendent of Mails under the jurisdiction of Wilkes-Barre Post- office; will it appoint a Dallas Post- master; will it consider a new loca- tion or will it renew its lease on its present quarters? Many Dallas patrons are con- cerned including College Miseri- cordia, Commonwealth Telephone Company and the State Correctional Institution ‘at Chase. None wants to lose its identity with Dallas. i This would be the case if Dallas becomés a branch of the Wilkes- Barre Post Office and all outgoing mail carries the Wilkes-Barre can- cellation as it now does in Shaver- town! ¥ it appoint a 5 ‘accommoda- Re- ¥ mt decision of the L's