| . v 1 * Oldest Business 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Institution Back of the Mountain THE DALLAS POST ORchard 4-5656 TWO EASY TO REMEMBER li Telephone Numbers. 2 OR 4-7676 : : TEN CENTS PER COPY—FOURTEEN PAGES Back Mountain All-Stars Win Regional Title, 10- MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Back Mountain Defeats Kingston To Take District Championship Ed Dubil’s gargantuan home run;® Kern's one-hit balk and the base running of Ken Jones were big factors in the |All Stars copping their first District Championship. Kern was the master once again. He had very little trouble with the Kingston hitters rolling along for his third All Star win. = The only hit seemed to be the result of a ruse pulled by Winters, the catcher. With a count of one ball and no strikes Winters crouched as if to bunt while Kern was winding up. Kern seemed to think that was a fake and eased up on his throw figuring Winters was going to take the pitch, Instead Winters reset himself and hit a lofty fly that barely made it over the right field fence for a home run. Kingston team threatened in the top of the fifth when Stinson reached first on an error and \Stan- ley walked. Paul Sanders tried a bunt on the first pitch but fouled down the first base line. Ken then struck him out on a 2-2 pitch. The first hitter for - Kingston seemed to give fans the strategy of the Kingston coaching staff. Kings- ton’s hitters attempted one bunt after another with Kern handling all of them without any difficulty: Score Tied After Winter's homer in the sec- ond, Back Mountain tied it up in the bottom of the third. Ken Jones led off with a single to left. Cook sacrificed him to second with a beautiful bunt down the first base line. Jenkins then walked placing runners on first and second. Harris then threw a wild pitch while Martin was: batting and Choo-Choo Jones streaked for third, got the full : throttle ahead signal from his brake- man, Sponseller, coaching at third, and streaked for home while Wint- ers the catcher, finally spotted the wild pitch. Harris, the pitcher, ran in to home to take the throw from Winters but Choo-Choo slid under the throw to tie the ball game at pi keq on Shonk Motors Used: Car one run each. Nip And Tuck For Awhile Goose eggs then became the pat-! tern inning after inning as Kern and Harris matched pitch for pitch. Kern's fast ball was too much for the boys from down Valley way, while Harris, with a strange mo- tion on the mound and a peculiar side arm delivery, had the local lads hitting most of his pitches on the handle. Kiefer led off the top of the sixth for Kingston and was thrown out on an attempted bunt, Kern to Town- send. Michaels then attempted a bunt but fouled off the first pitch. Kern bore down and fanned him. Harris then rifled a hard shot to the right of Parry. Parry went to his right, slipped to one knee while stopping the grounder, and threw to first from a kneeling po- sition.” Townsend stretched half way to second and gloved the ball one-handed to beat Harris by a split second. The top of the order came to bat for the Back Mountain in the last half of the sixth. Jenkins went out via the strikeout route while Martin flied to the third baseman. A Sweet Home Run Ed Dubil then strode to the’ plate and old-time fans remembered a game four years ago against this same Kingston group. In that game Tom Kerpovich came to the plate with the bags jammed with Back Mountain runners and hit a grand slammer. The fans were hoping for the same. Harris ran the count to three and two on Dubil. Dubil jn his previous trips to the plate Tad broken two bats with grounders to short. The next pitch from Harris was a pitch right down the middle. Dubil hit it far over the left field fence for a home run. The bal' was hit straight at a huge window in the home of Mr. - Masteller, who . leaped from his chair and got the’ ball before it crashed into his property. Mr. Mas- teller is the gentleman who donated a huge sum of money to help build the fence around the Kingston field. After the game Dubil was surprised to receive a three dollar donation from Mr. Mosteller. Ac- ‘cording to reports from Kingston fans, this sum is given to any Little Leaguer who hits a homerun in that ball park. In all due respect to Mr. Masteller, Dubil should have been given interest on his three dollars for that mighty blast. Mr. Price, district head of Little League baseball, presented trophies to the teams after the game. Young Chris - Harris received the runner- up trophy as his team’s represen- tative while the big two, Kern and Dubil, received the winner's trophy. One of the key plays, easily for- gotten when the fans remember Dubil’s big hit, was the base run- ning of Jones. His heads-up base running on a wild pitch in the third made the home run the deciding factor in the game. Fans will do well to keep their eye on the coaching of young Spon- | These boys know | seller and Fox. how to coach base runners. They (Continued on Page 7 A) COOLBAUGH BREAKS LEG DURING EARLY SEASON PRACTICE Bob Coolbaugh, veteran end for the Oakland Raiders Pro- fessional Football Team, broke his leg Thursday during early season practice with the team in California. He was taken to Santa Cruz Hospital where a pin was put in the injured leg on Saturday. His wife, Billie, and nine- months old son, Robert had planned to join him in Septem- ber, but now will remain with her family in Old Forge since he probably will not be able to play this season for he will be in a cast for the next seven weeks. Bob was discharged from the hospital on Monday and can be reached in care of the Oakland Raiders at 143 Franklin Street, Oakland Cal. g : Vandals Break Store Windows Hurl Beer Bottles At Junior High School Windows in Forty Fort Dairy Bar, Orchard Farm Restaurant and Dallas Junior High School were broken out in a new wave of vandalisim sweep- ing the Back Mountain Region on Monday and Tuesday nights of this week. On Monday night a rock the size of 4 base ball was hurled through a $150 plate glass window at Forty Fort Dairy shortly after closing hours. The same night a rock was hurled through the side window of a car Lot. Sometime after one Tuesday morn- ing a fist-sized rock was hurled through one of the plate glass win- dows, at Orchard Farm Restaurant. Wkile Dallas «Borough and Town- | ship Police were investigating, they | received a call from John Rosser, | principal of the Junior High School, informing them that beer bottles bad been hurled through four win- dows . in second story. classrooms, probably early Tuesday morning. Principal Rosser said other windows have previously been broken by vandals. While police believe the damage was done by local vandals, they are not unaware that 68 windows val- ued at more than $400 were broken at Larksville State Street School over the weekend. Chief Shaffer Stung By Bees Attempt To Burn Nest Causes Fire Dallas Fire Company responded to a call from the home of Harry Nolf, East Dallas, Monday around 1 p.m. after an attempt by a handy- man to burn out a hornet’s nest ignited the main feed of the electric- al system. Dallas Fire Chief Alvin Shaffer at- tempted to kick in the cellar door underneath the nest in order to gain access to the house. Seven or eight hornets, angered by this series of events, stung the chief on the arm and neck. Firemen extinguished the flames in the wiring, and held off the hor- nets with water. After some five minutes the chief became dizzy from the poison of the stings, so Fireman Cliff Foss took him to Dr. A. A. Mascali for treatment. Natona Outing This Saturday Fifteenth annual Outing of Branch A-23, Amalgamated Lace Operatives of America Union of Natona Mills will be held Saturday from noon un- til 9 at Wat-A-Hunee Park, Harveys Lake. Arthur Roberts, Branch A-23, mittee making the arrangements. | Other members of the committee | are Eleanor Turos, Fay Smith, Char- les Glasser and John Hardiman. Catering will be by Columbia Ca- | tering Service and an orchestra will | be available for dancing from 5 to 9. Special guests from the New York | office will be: Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Noe, Mr. and Mrs. William Freedman, Mr, and Mrs. John Simon, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Targoff and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Keller. There will be entertainment and | athletic events during the day. Door | President of | prizes will be awarded. BUZZ SZELA ED DUBIL : STEVE TOWNSEND TOM JENKINS BILL - SPONSELLER KEN COOK ALLEN FOX BOB PARRY MEL MORRIS KEN JONES GARY SPONSELLER JOHN BESTWICK v ‘Little League All Stars Have Eyes On State Championship BOB LONG CHARLES = KERN BOB PARRY BILLY MARTIN weekend of August 16, Play Lewistown Friday The final Interdistrict game will be played Friday night at 6 at Newport Field against Lewistown which won last night Enola All-Stars of Cumberland County. 2 in Interdistrict play! ‘The winner of the game at Newport will be pitted against one of .Interdistrict. Championship teams in an slimination series at Williamsport, Home of the Little League, for the State Championship. i Should Back Mountain All Stars win the State Championship,—and every-’ body is praying—they would then play at Tufts College, Mediprd, Mass. the 17, 18 for the Eastern Regional Championship, and auto- . matically be entered in the World Series at Williamsport the week of August 20 to 25, against three RICKY BURKHARDT ‘Mike Wood Sets Unofficial Mark Top drivers in Giants’ Despair Hillclimb set new marks Saturday, a 55.858 for the three-year record breaker John Van Meyer, Locust Valley, N.Y. and a 56. 320 for Bud Faust, Wilkes-Barre. But their brows must be furled in the thought that their mighty Pontiac Special and Lotus- Buick V-8 cars have to chase a little phan- tom up the hill next year to crack the Friday time of Harvey's Lake's (about 30 ci.) Petty-Norton-en- gined Cooper. His time: 55.1 sec- onds, the fastest any car has ever made Giants’ Despair. In 1957, just before Mike entered | the army, he tried the little Cooper on the hill, turned in a negligible time of 70-plus. The Cooper is basically a track and road car, lack- ing big-car torque: It gets its speed from lightness and high revolutions, often embarassing Ferraris and Cor- vettes with its agility. Friday afternoon, Mike was de- termined to stay loose. The Cooper has a low ‘center of gravity and superb stability, and its driver knew that if he could maintain a uniform rate of speed between the straightaway ‘and the recovery on turns, he could substantially reduce his time. : is heading the com- | Everyone was convinced that he | had missed a shift when Mike sent | the revs screaming toward peak at {the starting line. Actually the | Petty-Norton motorcycle engine has to be revved that high in order to | get some torque for the standing | start. He was off, leaving people at the line picking pieces of noise out | their ears for the next five minutes. jar the infamous Devil's Elbow, | whose sudden rise after the hair- | pin leaves experienced drivers stab- { bing blindly at some elusive lower | gear, Mike breezed through without | hesitation. He was ready for all the | remaining turns too, and therein, |e answer to the Giants’ Despair. | When the announcer’s voice ler acked the air with the report that | Mike Wood had broken all records | with his time, the favorites waiting (Continued on Page 7 A) Mike Wood. His car is a 500 c.c.: figured afterward; lay the real | Back Mountain Men Make Best Times In Weekend Speed Trial Competition Bad Track Spells Whire's Record Ariomnt Harry White’s D&H Automotive Special, pride of the Back Moun- tain, with owner-driver and crew, stands ready to go at Forty-Fort Drag Races Sunday where it was top eliminator for the past three years, and took highest speed of the day Sunday. Left to right: David Evans (sitting on car), formerly of Claude Street, Dallas; Harry White; George Isaacs; Randy Miller, Trucksville; Bill Hess, | Trucksville. Back Mountain Driver Makes Unofficial Record Mike Wood, Harvey's Lake, warms up his Cooper at Giants’ Despair, where he set an all-time unofficial record of 55.1 seconds at the Friday trials, and captured his class on Saturday. Harry White Held By Track Harry White, Dallas, top eliminat- or in Forty Fort Airport drag- races for the last three years, regis- tered the fastest time of the day Special ‘with 115.61 miles per hour. But this year he was not top elimi- nator. The airport has gained a reputa- tion of being a hot-rodder’s horror show. The right lane of the strip has developed washboard contours and some dangerous pits. As it happened, Dame Fortune continu- ally fed White's big 400-and-some horse - power Chrysler - engined roadster into the right lane. In the elimination race, Robert Steiner, Exeter, lane for his Corvette-powered Stei- ner Special, and smoothed it to a top-eliminator victory over White. No time was given on that run, but it was safe to say that neither car {achieved White's top-speed run of | 115.61 which was accomplished in the left lane, running alone. White, 24, son of Niles White, Baldwin Street, is married, and is an apprentice toolmaker for IBM in Endicott, George Isaacs, 20, is the son of Ho- ward Isaacs, automobile dealer in Trucksville. The D & H Automotive Special is a 1941 Bantam body on a home- made frame. The Chrysler engine with a displacement of 413 cubic inches, is equipped with a Vertex magneto and six Stromberg car- buretors. In the two years in which White has dragged this car, {he has won 12 trophies. rod, which was started as a school project at Dallas Township High School, where he graduated in 1956. Band Concert At Irem The 55-member Irem Temple Band under the direction of Peter J. Klein- kauf, will present a program Sun- day night at 8:30 at the pavilion at Irem Temple Country Club. Preceding the consert there will be a short vesper service at 8 con- ducted by Rev. Herbert J. Nahas of St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church. Sunday in his D & H Automotive | N.Y. His chief mechanic | He also drives a 1935 Ford hot | VOL. 74, NO. 31, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962 Kern, And Morris championship in All-Star play touted Old Forge team 10-1. Led by the Blistering bats ceeded to put the game on ice for manager Bill Sponseller’s third-sacker Melvy Morris Back Mountain gave pitcher Ed Dubil a comfortable 5-0 lead after two innings and then pro- final inning with Kern's three-run homer the pay-off blow. Kern with two gigantic homers and a single and Morris with a homer and a double provided the big offensive punch Dubil turned in another great pit¢hing chore allowing one || run, two hits and fanning twelve to go along with his no-hitter against Dupont and a three-hitter against Forty-Fort. : Blast Homers | 3 In Lopsided Win Over Old Forge Back Mountain All-Stars captured their first regional last night by blasting a highly ; The game was played before a oo, estimated at around 2000 on the Taylor Little League. | fie of shortstop Charlie Kern and with five more markers in the boys. Demolition Of School Building Almost Complete Many Alterations At Lake And Lehman As Pupil Load Eases Steel beams erected around 1927 to support the ceiling of the gymn- asium at Lehman, in the old trame building now under process of dem- olition are slated to start today. The original Lehman school build- ing was erected in a series of pro- jects, starting with a modest frame structure and growing as demand for extra space was satistied. When the new gymnasium and modern high school addition were built in 1951, schoolrooms were cre- ated in the former gymnasium, both on the ground floor, and above. Demolition is being done by the Roccogrande Wrecking Co. of Wilkes- Barre, subcontractors for the Sordoni Construction Co., which is disposing of the materials on the spot. Much good structural material has already been purchased and hauled away. The school yard, at present a mass of rubble, will be cleared before school sessions start, and the ground levelled. Work ig going according to i schedule, fair weather