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George R. Lewis
Gets Important
New Assignment
Taught His First
Term Of Mathematics
In Dallas Schools
Dr. George R. Lewis, head of the
Department of Mathematics at
Clarion State College, has been ap-
pointed to the Teacher Education
and Certification Advisory Commit-
tee of the Department of Public In-
struction, according to a recent an-
nouncement by Clarion President
Dr. James Gemmell. The appoint-
ment was made by Dr. Charles H.
Boehm, Superintendent of the De-
partment of Public Instruction on
the basis of Dr. Lewis's outstanding
contribution to education.
Dr. Lewis is the son of Atty. and
Mrs. Burt B. Lewis, Dallas. A gradu-
ate of Lake Township Schools
when the Lewis family was living
in Lake Township for a brief
period, he later graduated from
East Stroudsburg State College, and |
taught his first year of mathematics
in Dallas Borough Schools.
He is married to the former
Kathlyn Parkinson of Kingston.
They have no children.
The purposes of the Advisory
Committee to which Dr. Lewis was
appointed by Dr. Boehm are to re-
view proceedures and standards for
evaluating teacher education pro-
grams and the findings of scheduled
college evaluation visitations; to
plan teacher education conferences
in the Department of Public Instruc-
tion; to make teacher education and
certification recommendations
the Department; and to keep
abreast of national trends in teach-
er education and certification.
Dr. . Lewis joined the
State College staff as head of the
Mathematics | Department in 1947.
He is a graduate of East Strouds-
burg State College and earned his |
masters degree at the University of
Pittsburgh and his ' doctorate at
Pennsylvania State University.
In addition to his work at Clarion,
Dr. Lewis has taught mathematics
in. National Science Foundation
Institute in both Pennsylvania State
University and Kent State Univer-
sity, Kent, Ohio. During the past
three years he has made extensive
contributions to the in - service
training program of public school
teachers carried out under provi-
sions of the National Defense Edu-
cation Act. His in-service instruc-
tion’ includes work in mathematics
. for teachers at Franklin, Oil City,
Somerset, Pennsylvania, and War-
ren and Steubenville, Ohio.
Giants Despair Entry
Mike Wood's Formula III .Cooper
is the only Back Mountain entry in
the Giants’ Despair Hillclimb this
weekend. Mike's father, The Hon.
Newell Wood, sponsored Brynfan
Tyddyn race course, former sister:
event to Giants’ Despair.
Two Car Crash
As She Misses Brakes
A 1955 Chevrolet driven by Mrs. |
Lavina Erwine, Luzerne, collided
with a 1959 Ford driven by Mrs.
Edward Kearney, Dallas, crumpling
the Ford's left rear fender and door
at 7:35 Friday morning on Memorial
Highway near the entrance to
Sacred Heart Swimming Pool. Mrs.
Brwine, en route to Irem Temple
Country Club with four children,
attempted to slow her car, but hit
the accelerator instead. No one
was injured.
Officer Ray Titus investigated,
assisted by Dallas Township Police
ley Gardiner.
Lake-Lehman Band Picnic |
Monday At Wolfe's Grove
Lake-Lehman Junior and Senior |
Band picnic for members and
families is scheduled for Monday,
2 pm. at Wolfe's Grove, Sylvan
Lake. Activities will start at 2,
and supper will be served at 6 p.m.
Each family is asked to bring a
covered dish, in addition to sand-
“wiches enough for its own mem-
bers. Bring what you wish for a
covered dish. Band Sponsors will
furnish the beverages. Mrs. Floyd
Hoover of Outlet is in charge.
Water Company Asks For
Caution In Consumption
Dallas Water Company and
,, Shavertown Water
asking cooperation of their cus-
tomers, during the’ present long-
continued drought, in‘ conserving
water. Both companies stress that
there is mo present emergency, but
caution on the part of each house-
holder will benefit the entire com-
munity.
Still Some Vacancies
Among The Colorettes
(Any girls from Dallas Junior High
School who would like to become
members of the Colorettes (the
Uncle Sam girls who carry the
mammoth American flag) are asked
to contagt Mrs, Ray Titus.
to,
Clarion
Chief Frank Lange and Chief Stan-
Company are |
wh
HOT WIRE STALLS
HEIGHTS TRAFFIC
AFTER HAIL STORM
Residents of the lower end
of Parrish Street were without
electric service Monday night
following the hail storm. Wil-
bur Davis, returning home
with his family about mid-
night, noticed a hot wire splut-
tering on the sidewalk of the
Joseph Jewell property.
Sensing the danger, and not
wanting to get out of his car,
Davis aroused the neighbors by
blowing his car horn. Mrs.
Richard Owens notified the
Fire Company, which did not
respond but stood ready, and
Walter Covert called the Light
+ Company,
Covert and Jewell said there
was a terrific moise and a
flash just a short time before,
and agreed it must have been
when the wire snapped.
Chief of Police Russell
Honeywell and Assistant Chief
Ray Titus patrolled the area
until all danger was eliminated.
The Light Company Crew was
dispatched from Sugar Notch,
and were commended for their
quick work.
Colonial Inn
Changes Hands
Marty Walsh, who recently re-
turned after three months at the
| Veterans Hospital in Wilkes-Barre,
has sold his Colonial Inn on East
| Overbrook Avenue to Mr. and Mrs.
| John Fowler, Jr., of Goss Manor.
Mr. Fowler, son of Justice John
Fowler of Orange, and presently
with Planters Peanut Company, will
take possession on or about August
15.
Mr. and Mrs. Walsh who have
operated Colonial Inn for the past
twenty-five years, will return to
their former home at 74 East Hoyt
Street, Kingston.
Mr. Walsh,” a veteran of World
War II in which he was seriously
wounded, is considerably improved
since his hospital stay, but still not
in rugged health,
frvin A. Rood Is
Confined To Home
| when his store was for many years
| the center of bustling ‘activity in
{the Laketon section of Harveys
| Lake, is making slow improvement
at his home following some time at
Nanticoke State Hospital. = He
always enjoys a chat with old
friends who stop in to see him.
Mrs. Calla Parrish
Gets Scores Of Letters
After her 100th birthday pictures
| appeared in all local newspapers
and nationally circulated GRIT, Mrs.
Calla Parrish, Beaumont’s oldest
citizen has received scores of con-
gratulatory letters from readers in
eastern States and one from as far
west as California.
Although at. first reticent when
| The Post's writer approached her
| for- an anniversary story, she now
knows that hundreds of people DO
CARE when a good woman reaches
100.
McDermott Leases
Former Lundy Club
John A. McDermott has leased
the Village Inn, formerly ' Club
Francois + and Lundys, on Main
Street Dallas, and has opened a
modern restaurant and tavern there
Mr. and Mrs. DcDermott, former-
|ly of Wilkes-Barre, have been
| occupying the apartment above the
tavern since May, but received the
transfer of license only this month.
They have a son, Mark.
Coach Anticipates
Strong Grid Squad
Coach Eddie Brominski is looking
forward to greeting one of the
| largest’ and strongest Dallas High
School Football squads in years
| when candidates for the team make
their appearance for early season
drill about August 20.
‘Recently Coach Brominski and his
| son, John, attended the two-day
football clinic at Monticello, N. Y.
Retarded Children
‘To Picnic Sunday
\
Luzerne County Association
Retarded Children will stage
| annual picnic Sunday ‘at Camp
St. George, across the road from
| St. Jude’s on the Hazleton High-
way. Elma Major, president, out-
lined plans, which included corn on
the cob for the handicapped, games,
supervised swimming, and a twist
contest. {
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Repeat Performance
Wayne Goode, age 4, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Goode, Jackson
3t., fractured his collarbone, Fri-
day, while on an outing, at Lake
Silkworth. Wayne's brothey, Steph-
en, fell out of bed, when he was 4,
| IA Bod known to In :
[aretts throughout rennssioans {f @yand Retires
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Blue Rdge FFA
Has Annual Trip
Visits Western Part
Of Pennsylvania
Last week, Blue Ridge Chapter of
Future Farmers of America took
its fourth annual summer trip, leav-
ing the Lehman building for Jersey
Shore Tuesday morning at 6:30.
Thirty-five students toured the Rice
Farm at Jersey Shore, and after
lunch, visited the Potato Variety
Research Farm on Route 44.
Dinner was at Hyde's River View
Diner on Route 6 at Roulette, Early
in the evening the party registered
at Hotel Holley in Bradford, and
that same night toured the Corn-
planter Indian reservation and vis-
ited the Allegheny National Forest.
The Indian Reservation is on land
which. will be inundated when pre-
sent plans for impounding the head-
waters of the Alleghany River are
carried out, in spite of a long stand-
ing treaty between Indians and the
Quakers, in which the Cornplanters
were promised the land in perpet-
uity by the government of the
United ‘States.
On Wednesday students toured
Quaker State Refinery in Farmer’s
Valley, lunched at DuBois, visited
Kurtz Brothers School Supplies
plant at Clearfield, and spent the
night at . Alleghany Court, Bald
Eagle.
On Thursday they visited the
paper mill of West Virginia Pulp
and Paper Co. at Tyrone, saw Penn-
sylvania Glass and Sand Co. at Mt.
Union, rode behind a steam engine
at East Broad Top Railroad, and
started back for Lehman in mid-
afternoon.
Accompanying the students were
John Sidler, FFA advisor, and
Glenn Gross.
Hobby Club
The Hobby Club held its fourth
annual picnic at the home of Mrs.
William Rozelle in Orarige. Present
were Kristy and Sharon Bedford,
Mildred and Shirley Gordon, Jane |
Mitchell, Kathie Dymond, Connie
(and Becky Rozelle. The girls,
| meeting with Mrs. Rozelle as leader,
are interested in small handicraft
projects.
As Firm Head
| Otto C. Weyand, branch manager
of Monroe Calculating Machine Co.
{ |
| Inc. will retire August 1 after thirty-
| six years of employment with that
company.
Mr. Weyand, resident of Knob
Hill, Trucksville, starting with the
firm in Brooklyn, N. Y., worked
as district manager. In 1933, after
serving as assistant branch manager
in Philadelphia, he was named
branch manager of the Wilkes-
Barre office with substations in
Scranton, Williamsport, and Allen-
town.
He is an official board member
of Shavertown Methodist ‘Church,
and belongs to Masonic organiza-
tions including Trem Temple. In
1946 he was elected president of
‘Wilkes-Barre Rotary, and in 1948
district governor. He served as vice.
president of Wilkes-Barre Chamber
of Commerce, and director of Crip-
pled Children’s Association. He is
a director of Franklin Federal Sav-
ings and Loan, and has been for
over twenty years a director of
Wyoming Valley Motor Club.
Women Of Kiwanis
. lige :
Children's Picnic
‘Women of Dallas Kiwanis will
‘hold their annual Children’s Picnic
i in the grove at Ledgeways, Al Ack-
| erson’s home in Jackson Township.
The group will meet at Orchard
Farm ‘Restaurant at 10:30. There
will be basket lunches with facilities
available for cooking hot dogs and
| hamburgers.
Any one needing transportation
may call Mrs. Merrill Fagenburg.
THE DALLAS POST
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TWO EASY TO REMEMBEK
Telephone Numbers
OR 4-7676
Keeping Posted
CONGRESSMAN DANIEL FLOOD returned to the Floor of the
House of Representatives in Washington Monday after being away
three months because of illness including an operation on April 30.
He was welcomed with speeches
by Speaker John Me Cormick;
Democratic Leader Carl Albert; Representatives Francis Walter, Al-
bert Thomas and Ben F. Jensen.
WALTER L. MORGAN, who left his native Wilkes-Barre in 1916
to enter business in Philadelphia,
was Monday named chairman of
‘Wellington Management Company operator of two of the largest
mutual funds in the world, the famed Wellington Fund and Welling-
ton Equity Fund with combined assets of one billion three hundred
million. Morgan, 64, son of Benjamin Franklin Morgan who operated
a hardware store on West Market
graduated from Princeton and was
street, was born in Wilkes-Barre,
one of thé youngest men ever to
pass Certified Public Accountant Examination in Pennsylvania,
named his fund after the Duke of
Wellington when he was denied
the use of a famous American name like Washington, Jefferson or
Lincoln.
HARLAN
ments for the purchase in ‘Florida
BAUMONK, CHAIRMAN, has announced arrange-
“of six to eight of the roughest,
toughest, meanest and wildest boars with the longest tusks” for the
Pennsylvania Bowhunters’ Festival at Forksville, Sullivan County,
September 21, 22, and 23.
STATELY OLD LAKESIDE HOTEL at Eagles Mere, one of the ;
most famous resort hotels in the East, will be sold, torn down and
the nine lots on which it stands sold for cottage sites. Founded in
1880 by John S. Kirk of Pennsdale who was seeking mountain air
to relieve his hay fever and asthma, the 130 room hotel,
is now
owned by his grandson, Henry EB. Kirk, Jr. who with nine other in-
vestors will retire.
Forest Inn at the north end of the
He will still maintain controlling interest in the
lake. !
EXPENDITURE OF UP TO $10 MILLION to build and operate
Shriners Institutes for Children’s Burns was approved at the Toronto
Imperial Council Session of the
830,000 member Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The new Burn Hospitals
will be an extension of the Shrine’
rience with crippled children into
1922 Shriners’
s 40 years of philanthropic expe-
the field of burn therapy. Since
Seventeen Hospitals have provided free care for
124,846 children of every race creed and color. A committee from
the Board of Trustees has been appointed to select the locations of
the Burn Institutes to establish the burn program, the first of its
kind in North America. Presently
of half their body surface die.
half the children who have burns
Treatment of one child with 40 per-
cent burns frequently costs as much as $10,000. The Shriners hope *
to change all that.
Alabama Boy, A U. 5. Senate Page,
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Is International Key Club Head
H. Pettus Randall III, a member |
of the Key Club of Tuscaloosa High |
School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was |
elected president of Key Club In- |
ternational as a climax to the 19th
annual convention of the organiza-
tion held in ‘Long Beach, California
July 1-4. This information was re-
ceived yesterday by Jerry Gardner,
President of Dallas Kiwanis Club
which sponsors the local Key Club.
Randall will head, for a year, a
56,000 member organization with
2400 clubs including Dallas, in U.S,
Canadian, and Mexican high
schools. Key Club, which is spon-
sored by Kiwanis International, ac-
complishes the same service work
in’ the high school that Kiwanis
clubs do in the adult community.
Randall is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. Pettus Randall II, 10 Central
Highlands, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Last year he served as a trustee of |
Key Club International. He has]
been vice-president of his Key Club |
and of his school’s student council.
He has served as a page in the U.S.
Senate and is a member of the
forensic league at Tuscaloosa High
School.
The convention was one of the
largest in Key Club history, with
more than 1900 Key Clubbers at-
tending. Speakers included Barry
Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Ari-
zona; I . R. ‘Witthuhn, President of
Kiwanis International, and former
Olympic Pole Vaulter Bob Richards.
Selection was made at the con-
vention of the Key Club with the
“best single service activity” dur-
ing 1961-62. The winner was the
Key Club of Narbonne High Schocl |
of Harbor City, California. The
award came for the Key Club’s pro-
ject to aid needy families in the
Lomita-Harbor City, California area
at Christmastime.
[Second place : went to the Key
Club of Shawnee East High School,
Shawnee, Kansas, for the design,
manufacture, and distribution of
100 peg type checker boards to
blind persons in Shawnee. |
Third place went to the Key Club
of William ‘Allen High School, Allen-
town, Penn., for a project to help
finance and assist in the operation
of a school for retarded youngsters.
Best all ‘round clubs in both serv-
| School
ice work and administration with
more than 25 members were: Read-
ing High School KeyClub, Reading,
Penn., first place; and Leon High
Key - Club, Tallahassee,
Florida, second place. In clubs with
25 members or less, the winners
were: Woodlawn High School Key
Club, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, first
place;
School, Mingo Junction; Ohio, sec-
ond place. . Honorable ; mention
awards went to Weirton High
School Key Club, Weirton, West
Virginia; ahd Northeast High School
Key Club, St. Petersburg, Florida.
_ The 1963 Key Club International
convention | will be held: in Pitts-
burgh, in mid-July. !
Mrs. Jane Willams
Was Former Resident
Mrs. Jane Anne Smyth Williams,
86, former resident of Norton Ave-
nue, Dallas, ‘died "Friday in. the
Lynchburg, Virginia, General Hos-
pital after a brief illness. She was
buried Monday in Hollenback Ceme-
tery, following services conducted
by Rev. Herbert Pickett, Kingston
Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Vic-
tor Bear of Ossining, Y. Y. from the
Williams Funeral Home.
and Minge. Junction. High
| After the death of her husband |
William Morgan Williams; Mrs. Wil-
liams had left Dallas to. make her
home with “her daughter Jean
Louise Williams, of .the faculty of
Sweet Briar College, Virginia. In
addition to her daughter, she leaves
a sister, Mrs. Chapin Carpenter, of
Wayne.
She was a native of Plymouth,
daughter of the late William T. and
Jane Hughes Smyth. For many,
years she belonged to Kingston Pres-
byterian Church.
Council Takes Action
Taking immediate action to fore-
stall any change in the status of
Dallas Post Office, Dallas Borough
Council this week appealed to Hon.
J. Edward Day, Postmaster General,
and Congressman Daniel Flood, to |
prevent the office from becoming
a branch of Wilkes-Barre.
As promised last week we
are publishing the reply of Ki-
wanis Club to the challenge of
the Lions Club to oppose them
on August 11 in a Donkey
Baseball Game: — Editor
| Undoubtedly this will come as a
| great surprise to the Lions Club of
| Dallas. The Kiwanis Club of Dal-
|las hereby officially accepts the
| very kind and considerate invitation |
of the “King of Beasts” — or is it
“Boasts”, and will be at the Dallas
| High School Stadium on the after-
noon of August 11th to meet the
new members of the Lions Club —
yes, each and every Donkey they
| have recently taken into member-
{ship !! ! It will be a most pleasing
| experience for the men of Kiwanis
‘to assist in the initiation of these
| unusual additions to the roster of
| the Lions Club. We pledge our full
| support to perform our duties to
the delight of the vast multitude of
[
which will fill the arena. All
or “methods are we to determing]
which is the Donkey and who is |
the’ Lion? ” ! |
Don't pay any attention to that!
.005 batting average! ! Your in-|
formant was just baiting our Lion |
trap’ ! ! * Kiwanis will get first
“Lick”. = We doubt that you will |
get enough of us out in that first!
inning to get a chance to bat your- |
selves . .-. So, the best advice we,
can’ give you Donkeys and Lions is |
to practice up on your fielding . . .|
And we are sorry that you only |
thought you saw a yellow streak...
what you really saw was a caution
light . . a warning not to Donkey
with Kiwanis ! ! But, how could a|
Donkey be expected to understand
these things? \
Seriously, we ‘of Kiwanis wish
you and the Lions Club the best of
good luck with this novel idea. We
sincerely hope that it will meet with
and suffered an identical fracture, [hungry and bloodthirsty spectators |widespread community support.
we |
| want to know is — by what means | The Dallas High School Stadium on |
Kiwanis Accepts Lions Donkey Challenge
We know everyone who goes to
the afternoon of August 11th will
get their share of thrills and laughs.
We are greatly pleased to be asked
to ‘participate and are glad to co-
operate with you in making the
‘evening a successful one for all.
We'll be seeing you on the 11th.
Just one further comment: let's re-
mind all the Drug Stores in town to
lay in an extra supply of liniment
and rubbing compounds ! !
Respectfully submitted,
Alfred H, Ackerson
® So there you are, The Fat
is in the fire and the partici-
pants are “off.” If you want
to see a bunch of monkeys act
like donkeys come to Dallas
High School Stadium on August
11.
We'll be there, but we'll
wear our press card so you
don’t confuse us with the par-
ticipants, — Editor.
wi ;
RONNIE RICHARDS,
BURNED BOY SCOUT,
STILL IN HOSPITAL
Ronnie Richards, 11, Car-
verton Road, Trucksville, who
was severely burned July 1st. .
while camping out with a
friend, is still in isolation, at
the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital.
His parents Mr. and Mrs.
John Richards are his only
visitors.
Ronnie was scheduled for a
skin graft last Thursday, but his
doctors decided, after the first
-phase of the operation, that
the grafting would have to
wait until today.
Cards received have brought
Ronnie much pleasure, and
he'd like to receive many more.
He also enjoys the television,
which has been placed in his
room.
Ronnie ' doesn’t use his left
arm very much, so his activities
are limited, and mail is deeply
appreciated.
Foams Acquires
Valuable Land
One of the biggest realty trans-
actions in the Back Mountain Area
in some weeks was culminated
this week with the announcement
that Sheldon T. Evans, owner of
Evans Drug Store, has purchased
a parcel of land along Memorial
Highway in Shavertown from Daisy
Still of Bridgeport Connecticut.
The land has a frontage of 170 feet
along the east side of the highway
and extends to a depth of 200 feet
along Toby’s Creck with a part of it
at the north extending to Main
Street.
A part of the land is now leased
by Back Mountain Lumber & Coal
Company for lumber storage sheds.
The parcel is bounded on the south
by land of Davis Cleaners and on the
north by property of Kenmore Realty
Company, a subsidery of Wyoming
National Bank.
Mr. Evans said he has no immedi-
ate plans but that the land will
eventually be filled to new highway
level.
Mr.
Mountain merchant to see the pos-
sibilities of a business location along
Route 309, locating his store there
twenty-one years ago and purchas-
ing the land that” has now become
BS
Fire-Ball Leapirogs
‘A blue ball of fire leapfrogged
a chair in the George Minchin
living room at Oak Hill at the height
of Monday evening's storm, knocked
out the radio and several lights,
ignored the TV set completely, and
set the rug on fire. Mrs. Minchin,
sitting out the storm on the daven-
port; tramped out the two small
blazes. Investigation showed two-
by-fours in the attic splintered, in-
clapboards of the one-story ranch-
style home shredded. = Mr. Minchin’s
awed comment was, “Suppose you
had been sitting in that chair!”
GUARD YOUR POND
If you have a pond or even a
small + wading pool, watch your
children. Too many children are
falling into pools and drowning.
Evans was the first Back!
Back Mountain SHoppthg Center. +
sulation drilled through and several |
VOL. 74, NO. 30,
Commonwealth
‘Advances Baker
MYRON D. BAKER
Promotion of Myron Baker to
Vice-President in charge of Opera-
tions of Commonwealth Telephone
Company; effective July 18, is an-
nounced by Andrew J. Sordoni, Jr.,
president.
In this post, Mr. Baker will over-
see operations of the Company's
plant, traffic and commercial de-
partments.
Since July 1953 he has served as
assistant vice-president and assist-
ant general manager of the ‘Com-
pany. In 1956 he was named a
director of its Board.
Baker «is a veteran Common-
wealth employee having entered the
organization in 1936 as a clerk in
its Tunkhannock office. In 1942 he
was made a switchboard mainten-
ance man and, shortly thereafter,
entered Army Air Force service for
a three-year period. With an Air
Material Squadron he participated
in the Iwo Jima operations and was
later attached to the Tth Fighter
Command. ,
Upon his return from service he
was assigned, in January 1946, as
manager of the Tunkhannock Office
and, in March 1947, of ‘the Towanda
District. He was made commercial
manager of the Company in 1950
which post he filled until being
named assistant vice-president in
1953. : pe Sete Lh a
Baker, his wife, Darothy, and son,
Gary, make their home in Lehman.
SUSAN SGARLAT IS
BACK HOME AT LAKE
Susan Sgarlat, 16, returned
to the Sgarlats’ summer home
at’ Harvey's Lake yesterday
from Geisinger Medical Center
where she was an emergency
patient for one week. She was
treated for severe lacerations
of the face incurred in a water-
skiing accident at the Lake
Tuesday, July 17.
Her father, Dr. Joseph Sgar-
lat, 109 James Street, Kings-
ton, reports that Susan is
making good progress, although
the healing process will be
slow.
She is looking forward to
: seeing her friends at the Lake
residence.
Andrew Lavix, Marshal Har-
rison and John Kanninski
(from left to right) are pleased
with community wide response
to Jonathan R. Davis Fire Com-
pany Festival to be held August :
31 through September 3 across
the street from the Fire Hall in
Idetown.
These men, who are in
charge of entertainment, re-
port many new features will be
added along with more rides
Pleased With Progress On Festival Plans
and more booths.
The Festival will provide a
fitting climax for the summer
“ season in the Back Mountain
area and will feature a mile
long parade around Harveys
Lake, September 1 at 3 p.m.
Back Mountain Fire Com-
panies, business men, civic or-
ganizations, antique car owners,
clowns and marching groups
are invited to take part.
watt
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1962
Several Hundred
Expected In Area
Around August 1
August starts the tomato harvest
in this area, and with it come hun=~
dreds of migrant workers to become
temporary residents of the Back
Mountain. When the first frosts of
October fall over the empty patches,
the families will load themselves
wearily into their buses, and return
to South Carolina and Florida.
In the meantime they have con-
siderable impact on our farm com-
munity as a whole.
According to Mrs. George Lon-
don, whose family employs some
sixty of them on its pioneer green-
tomato farm, in Centermoreland,
the tomatoes would mever get off
the ground, were it not for migrant
help. They are loyal workers and
expert tomato-pickers.
help is virtually impossible to get.
In general
workers are either Texas-Mexican
or southern negro. They are well
paid, contrary to popular belief,
some of them receiving as much as
$25 a day piecework. (Spokesmen
for London Farms and Dymond Pro-
duce Company, another Centermore-
land tomato-grower, observed that
the workers often spend their wages
too fast.
that it is hard to save money in a
strange area.
free to the families and individu
workers. The facilities, must stand
up to rigid State inspection
specification. The require:
propounded by the “Fire and ! ic
Law’, have followed on the he
of considerable state and ‘eivic
group interest in the condition of
migrant worker farming, especially
in recent years. Tuesday the State
will award blue ribbons for the
most improved migrant worker
camps.
Mrs. London feels that State
regulation is overly stringent, re-
quiring water tests, per capita air-
space tests, and two doors (which
must swing out) on every room. If
this at first seems quite reasonable
and. in the interests df welfare, note
Frome modesh Jmotels
other. The Londons tried at one
time to rent a motel in Mill City,
Wyoming County (which is still
in operation) for use by migrant
did not meet specifications.
One @ew leader acts as a sort of ;
governor for the workers, accepting
their problems. He also does their
recruited them himself down south.
Crew leaders’ and workers submit
to ‘tight security measures in order
to have }
workers’ mames and addresses are
criminal records. :
All told, the security measures,
munity and reassurance to its
citizens, must operate as a sign of
‘hostility to the workers. Some.
children to local schools. The Lon-
dons’ charges are reported “well ac-
cepted” in the Tunkhannock schools,
where they are entered in the fall
until it is time to return south.
Key Club Gets
Several Bids
Will Drill At
Dupont On Monday
Team which will play an important
part in the Firemen's Parade at Du-
Pont on Monday has recently been
queried if it would be interested in
an invitation to take part in Rotary
International's Convention at Lake
Placid next summer.
to take part in its second Kiwanis |
International Convention next sum-
mer in Atlantic City and awaits only
before accepting.
There have also been feelers to
take part in the Inauguration of
Pennsylvania's next Governor. 2
Jay Laury, chairman of arrange-
ments for the recent Kiwanis Inter-
national Convention in Denver has
also asked the Team if it would be
Sullivan Show.
(George McCutcheon, director of
the Drill Team, said none of the in-
vitations has been accepted but
that the Lake Placid and Atlantic
City events are being considered.
School Bus Inspection
place August 6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
tinguishers loaded with carbon tetra-
{chloride are no longer permissible.
& Lr y
School bus inspection will ‘eke 3
the migrant farm-
although protection to the -com-
the approval of Dallas Kiwanis Club
3
Migrant Workers
To Start Tomato
Harvest Shortly
And local |
But Mrs. London allowed
Housing is provided by the farms
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Iayald =
probabyy fail on one count or an-
4
workers, and were informed that it |
responsibility for them and settling *
bookkeeping. Chances are that he
work. When possible,
given to the police, and the leaders
lare finger-printed to check for
tomato-growers counteract the ef-
fect of this by sending the workers’
Dallas Kiwanis Key Club Drill J
The Team has also been invited p
interested in appearing on the Ed
A
Dallas Junior High School. Fire ex-