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. taken to minimize the early morn-
‘bution of samples to drugstores.
. the compounds of Thalidomide are
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Now In Its
A nowpartisan, liberal
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Editorially Speaking:..
REGULATIONS RUN RIOT
There are influential groups in this country, number- .
ing among their ranks men in high office, whose major
goal is to interject the regulatory power of the government
more and more into the affairs of citizens. The philosophy
of this would seem to be that many, perhaps most, of the
producers and sellers of commodities ‘are sharpers, and
that many, perhaps most, consumers are incompetents
who don’t know what they want or whether they're being
stung or not.
Take, as an example, the proposal to establish a De-
partment of Consumers.
would investigate production,
This new cabinet-level authority
distribution, prices for goods
and services, the quality and suitability of goods, and
“the degree to which the trade and commerce of the Unit-
ed States succeeds in satisfying consumer needs for goods
and services.”
In other words, practically the whole economy of the
country would be under investigation—and, unless past
precedent is meaningless, this would be followed by de-
mands for regulations of every conceivable kind. The
end result would be that producers and sellers would no ~
longer be free to make and distribute what they felt con-
sumers wanted, and consumers would no longer be free
to buy what they wanted, unless a government bureau
agreed with their judgment.
Freedom of choice is a
fundamental freedom.. Ex-
cessive, needless regulation is its eternal enemy.
No Thalidomide In Circulation Here
The Back Mountain® area
rest easy.
There is no Thalidomide in cir-
culation in the regioni
_ Babies will not be born deformed
because of a crippling tranquilizer
may
ing nausea normal to the state of
pregnancy.
Doctors and pharmacists concur:
there is no Thalidomide here.
There has never been any distri-
Shel Evans, Frank Kuehn, Leon
Chase, state that no literature has
been received, and that any free
samples would go direct to physi-
cians, not to pharmacies.
Speaking for the Lake-Noxen
Clinic, Dr. Michael Mokychic says no
samples or literature have been
received. He added that apparently
some G. I's who have been stationed
in England had obtained the drug,
and suggested that married men
recently returned from service over-
seas have a look at their medicine
cabinets to be sure that mone of
on their shelves,
These are the drugs - containing
the child-crippling drug, as printed
in the August 10 issue of Life maga-
zine:
Algosodiv, Asmadion, Asmaval,
Bonbrrin, Calmore, Contergan, Coro-
narobetin, Distayal, Ectiluran, En-
terosediv, Gatrinide, Glutanon,
Grippex, Imidan, Imidene, Ipnotico,
Isomin, Kevadon, in, Neo
Nibrol, Neosedyn, Neurosedyn, Nev-
rodyn, Noctosediv, Noxodyn, Pera-
con, Peracon-Expectorans, Poly-
giron, Polygripan, Predni-sediv, Pro-
farmil, Psycholiquid, Psychotablets,
Quetimid, Quietoplex, Sanodormin,
Sedalis, Sedimede, Sedin, Sediserpil,
Sedoval K 17, Softenil, Softenon,
Talimol, Tensival, Thalin, Thal-
inette, Theophilcholine, Ulcerfin,
Valgis, Valgraine. i
Thalidomide was oblansble in
In Brea, Doctors, Druggists Agree
The Canadian border is within easy
driving distance of the Back Moun-
tain.
It was available in England up
until December of 1961. [It was
marketed in Germany, and in Italy.
It has never been marketed in
the United States, though physi-
cians have been given samples.
Unborn generations will be grate-
ful to Dr. Frances Kelsey of the
Federal Food and Drug Bureau, who
nipped the marketing of Kevadon,
trade name for Thalidomide, at its
source, the drug company which
genuinely believed that the prepa-
ration was harmless and an answer
to doctor's prayer for a safe sleep-
ing pill,
People watching Television news
reports last week saw Dr. Kelsey re-
ceive an award from the President
of the United States, a tribute to
her dogged persistence in refusing
to clear a questionable drug for the
market until all the facts were in.
For a complete rundown on the
thalidomide story, see Life maga-
zine, which gives the whole story,
with pictures of babies, their limbs
dwarfed or missing, but their shin-
ing little faces demanding love and
affection Thalidomide apparently has
no effect upon the brain.
Crash At Boro Light
Two cars collided at the traffic
light in front of the Dallas freight
station around 10:30 yesterday morn-
ing, when one stopped quickly on
the red.
Both were travelling north when
a 1961 Rambler, driven by Bert Mil-
ler, Kingston, ran into ‘the rear of
a 1957 Oldsmobile driven by An-
thony Menkivitch, Kingston,
Police Chief Russell Honeywell in-
vestigated,
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
Danger Strip
Dallas Township Police Chief Frank
Lange says unqualifiedly that the
most dangerous section of road in
the Back Mountain is Memorial
Highway between Forty Fort Dairy
Bar and Shavertown light.
Cars get backed up by the light
all the way to Overbrook Overpass
in a single lane. Others come bust-
ing along the fourlane stretch up the
grade north of the overpass, and
whammy! On the other side is a lot
of essentially stopped cars, and no
passing lane.
Sitishid Chief Lange also estimates
that 90% of the accidents he in-
vestigates have alcohol as di-
rect cause. Franklin Township
Police Chief Byron Kester, on
tthe other hand, figures alcohol
as causing about a third.
But you know those roads over in
Franklin Township. Cars really do
just sort of leave the road, like you
read in the papers.
Back Mountain Pitchman
I dropped in on the Centermore-
land Methodist Church Auction
Saturday night after cooling down
from ‘the game and ‘the parade. A
nice crowd was still bundled up, ig-
noring the cold. Power failure and
informal atmosphere remined me of
the old-time Library auction. Every-
body was having a swell time.
I got engrossed in watching a
young auctioneer with splendid de-
livery, who captured the audience
every ‘time he opened his spiel. I
asked some people who he was,
Everybody out that way seems to
know young Wayne Weaver, the
talkinest man in the Back Mountain.
Some thought he had gone to auc-
tioneer school.
T remembered I had seen him call-
ing farmer-dances at Fanti’'s Grove,
Demunds, on Friday night. It occur-
ed to me: Wasn’t it terrific that a
young fellow (23, my age) would
take a hobby like voice-patter and
make a profitable and entertaining
sideline of it? Kids don’t develop
their genius like that anymore. They
just watch TV.
At any rate, the story on Wayne
is: He didn’t go to school for it. He
just roamed around as a kid ,and
picked it.up from old-time auction-
eers. His dad, Wayne, Sr., used to
call square dances, and young Wea-
ver learned that from him. The
Weavers run a dairy farm in Cen-
termoreland.
I asked him if he’d be interested
in selling for the Library next year,
and he said decidedly “yes”. No one
has ever asked him to, but I think
he'd be a swell addition to a great
event,
GAME IMPRESSIONS
BY DONALD WEIDNER
Tt all started when someone said,
“Let's go to the Little League game
at Old Forge. I went, I saw, and the
Back Mountain Little League con-
quered. since then I have been proud
to be a booster for these All-Stars
traveling to their games ama watch-
ing them win over the best of teams.
They won the Pennsylvania Champ-
ionship, a state to be proud of, for
as I watched the view from Dallas
to Williamsport I thought of the hard
work our forefathers did to make this
a beautiful state. And then my
thoughts turned to how our generat-
ion can make it even more fruitful,
and from that to these Little Lea-
guers and the part they are doing in
making Pennsylvania great.
The games at Williamsport were
exciting. Although my ticker is young
I was sure it stopped a couple of
times. Peanuts were no help to my
nervous fingers., After eating ‘two
bags I found myself eating someone
else’s who was just as nervous. The
light sprinkle of rain at the first
game seemed ‘to take the heat off a
little. Kern’s home run didn’t come
any too soon as I was just about at
wits end.
The second game seemed to take
as much starch out of me as the first.
Between my three year old son and
my wife, both of whom know nothing
about baseball, I was busy answer-
ing questions. The better half kept
Wondering why the players could go
around the bases without hitting the
ball, while my son was sure the pro-
tective hat the batter wore was a
football helmet. He seemed ‘to take
right after the fans and clapped when
they clapped, but he kept wonder-
ing why I screamed so loud. Of course
he didn’t understand that this was
my way of shaking the jitters. It was
the Ice Cream Sundae after the
game that finally cooled me off and
a tired ride back home.
Four Marching Units
Parade At Mt. Carmel
Tour marching units from Dallas
Schools paraded at Mount Carmel
Centennial Saturday night.
This was the first time for the units
to march in that area since their
formation three years ago.
The units were in the first division
and thousands of viewers were enter-
tained by their precision marching
and rifle movements.
Most of the marchers left early
Saturday morning and took in the
Little League game at Williamsport.
Afterwards the young troopers board-
ed their blue and white bus, and ac-
companied by friends and parents,
journeyed to Mt. Carmel.
After the parade, the chairman of
' Ashland Mummers parade, invited
tember, but they couldn't accept
since they may march at the Towan-
da Centennial on the same date.
This Saturday the Key Club Rifle
| Team will travel to Tioga to compete
Ate the compition the unit will
el ig fern
the group to perform there in Sep- |.
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962
3303203000 C3 20 TCT
Continuing items regarding Dal-
las and vicinity as printed in the
DALLAS POST about the turn of
the century: —
A big windmill is being set up
on the Ryman farm to pump water
for their houses and stock.
John T. Phillips left for Ken-
tucky where he and others have
lately made a purchase of several
thousand acres of timber lands.
Additional marriages: Stella M.
Frantz and David J. Thomas; Edith
M. Ide and Luther B. Roushey;
Olive Rice and Archie Jones; Al-
verna M. Johnson and George A.
Learn; Rachel Murphy and John W.
‘Williamson; = Stella Bulford and
William B. Reynolds; Bertha Henry
and David N. Bocksage at Alder-
son; Mrs. Emily Guy and Frank E.
Roat; Etta Hoover and John Mor-
gan.
Additional deaths: a six year old
son of Isaac G. Leek; Mrs. Peter
E. Williams, Jesse Hallock, Harriet
M. Culver, William T. Austin, Wil-
liam Penn Ryman, Mrs. E. J. Saur-
devant, Marie Coolbaugh, wife of
M. B. Coolbaugh, Elijah Richards,
Daniel Perry, Rev. Philip Holbrook,
Mrs. Almira B. Kirkendall, Mrs.
Ida Campbell Spencer, wife of Dr.
C. A. Spencer, Theodore Meyers,
Mrs. John Hildebrant, Jabez G. Cap-
well, father of the editor.
The happiest kid in town is Her-
man White who is the proprietor of
a half grown goat. The next hap-
piest is Claude Isaacs, who begame
the owner of a fine pony and car-
riage one day last week.
William Bulford was out on a
horse trading expedition this week.
He started with four horses, traded
about thirty times, brought back
three, and says he had money
enough to pay his expenses and had
fifty dollars worth of fun. He vis-
ited New Columbus, Shickshinny,
Glen Lyon, Nanticoke, and Ply-
mouth :
Dr. C. A. Spencer wants to get
rid of some of his horses and colts
and will have an auction on his
farm at Factoryville.
Ryman’s Store contains about
half a “carload of agateware with
another large part taken up by a
few wagon loads of shoes. Will
Meyers has been marking goods all
week. Mr. Oldershaw, Mr. Barker,
Will, and John himself are just
jumping all the time.
Subscribers presented the editor
with fine gifts of walnuts and honey
when dropping in to renew sub-
scriptions.
(William Strickland, who retired,
from the: 3rd.«U. Si Cavalry after’
three years service, due to severe!
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
BEE CECE
CITE
wounds received in fighting with
the Indians, came back east to see
local relatives. He will reside in
Indiana.
The first school house in Dallas
Township, now in Dallas Borough,
was erected in 1816, built of hewn
logs by William Honeywell, Philip
Shaver, Wiliam Hunt, and John
Honeywell.
Miss Edith Ryman, who has been
studying music at Ithaca, N. Y.,
returned home last week. Her sister
Edna, was with her the last week
and accompanied her home.
Esquire Cooke became grand-pa
a little boy which arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Parker Win-
ters.
Miss Carrie Still left: Wednes-
day for Poughkeepsie, N. Y. where
she will enter Vassar Hospital for
training as a nurse.
The new double deck steamer,
constructed by Harveys Lake Tran-
sit Co., was launched last Saturday
with usual ceremonies.
Mrs. Susanna Wardan celebrated
her ninety-first birthday, with a
large attendance of relatives and
well wishers.
Miss Belle Riley entertained a
number of her friends at her home
Tuesday evening. Present: Misses
Bertha Gordon, Lenore Harvey, Rose
y Goldsmith, = Lizzie Isaacs, Mary
) Still, Laura Seward, Nellie Norton,
Pearl Lauderbach, Nellie Nuton,
Grace Snyder, Chlor Wagner, Grace
Stroud, Bertha Riley. (1899—To
the best of the writer's knowledge
about half of these are still living).
Dr. Louise Stoeckel visited the
Trans-Mississippi Exposition at O-
maha.
Officers and directors of the Dal-
las Fair Association were arrested,
charged with permitting gambling.
they professed no knowledge of such
activity.
Several attempts have been made
to burglarize the Ryman Store. The
latest attempt sounded the alarm
in Mr. Ryman’s house. A hired
man, W. J. Honeywell, and Harry
Mot hastened to the store but the
burglar fled.
New York.
Miss Pearl Lauderbach, who will
be sadly missed in the Church
choir, has passed the examination
and will enter Ithaca Conservatory
of Music on a scholarship.
Misses Carrie and Mary Still en-
tertained at a taffy pull: Misses
Ina Still, Gertrude Capwell, Laura
Seward, Grace Stroud, Chloe Wag-
ner, Nellie Nulton, Belle Riley, and
Grace ‘Snyder. (At least four of
hese ate still living).
Safety
ANTIETAM ANNIVERSARY
August 12, 1962
Box 161
Chase, Maryland
Dear Mr. Risley:
I read the Barnyard Notes in the
August 9 issue with interest,
especially the advice on the drive
to Sharpsburg. I had written you
a letter about two months ago with
an announcement of the centennial
celebration and reenactment of the
battle of Antietam, and put it with
other letters to be mailed. Last
week it turned up in some old let-
ters, bills, etc, so I threw it out
with the rest as I thought it would
be too late to be of any interest to
yOu.
One thing I will mention that you
did not, is that if anyone goes to
the centennial they may have dif-
ficulty in finding accommodations,
as all hotels, rooming houses, and
motels have been booked in advance.
Our group was advised that all mem-
bers and their families would have
tenting spaces and trailer space re-
served in a set area, but our friends
might have to go twenty or thirty
miles away to find accommodations.
As nearly as I can estimate, the dis-
tance from Dallas and vicinity to
Sharpsburg will be about 2 50 miles
and the roads are more than reason-
ably fair.
The reenactment had to be cut
down somewhat, as the road over the
Dunkard church, the cornfield and
East and West Woods have not, to
this date, been changed. We have at
least six units from Baltimore to
take part, and I guess as usual, our
outfit, the Baltimore Rifles, will go
with the Second Maryland Artillery.
They will have their 12 pounder Na-
poleon, and we will be their infantry
cover. This should be a big show, as
we have units from Pennsylvania,
Virginia and West Virginia as well
as Maryland to take part and hope
to have some of the New York, Ohio
and North Carolina companies that
were at the Fort Meade Skirmish,
to be present.
To all Civil war fans, the trip would
be worth it just to see the Sharps-
burg Rifles on parade. All the mem-
bers wear real beards in all the styles
that were popular in those days.
Their uniforms are perfect in every
detail, and how they can march in
a parade! There is also a Virginia
company. from one of the schools that
is dressed up like the vete rans of
the Army of Northern Virginia. They
look like a bunch of hoboes, but their
history professor checked them out
and his notes show their equipment
Since this parade is strictly one of
competition for reimbursement ‘the
remaining three units will not make
the trip.
Key Club and Keyettes had a picnic
Monday afternoon at Wilsons Grove
Demunds.
Ar
Valve . . .
to be as noted in General Lee’s com-
mand at that time.
Eight of our group were at Harp-
ers Ferry last fall looking over the
battery emplacement on Maryland
Heights. We took the route up Elk
Mountain that the Confederates un-
der McLaws followed into the attack.
It is said they had to hold on a tree
with one hand and loaded with the
other and I well believe it as I had
all I could do to stay upright with
both free. From there we went to
Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain,
but were too late to do any hunting
we had hoped to do in the area,
where our adjutant had found a 32
pound Parrott shell in a creek bed
while on a Scout, Boy Scouts that is,
expedition two weeks before that.
‘We are hoping to have a good
turnout for this as we do not know
how many other reinactments can
be put on now that the National
Park Service says there will be no
others on Federal property. We were
hoping to put on a good show at
Gettysburg next year, but we just
don’t know how this will affect our
plans.
Yours,
John W. King
COULD BE IT'S PROGRESS
Dear Editor:
Is it a blight which has struck
country roads in this area, or have
we got moths? :
Winding country roads which
used to be green, with ferns drip-
ping from mossy rocks, are seared
and brown. It used to be such a
pleasure to take a drive at dusk,
with the sun going down and the
greenery along the road sides
breathing out the evening coolness.
What on earth has happened to
| the greenery?
And where are the birdnests?
Parched and withered, dead leaves
rattle where once green leaves
whispered.
In the interest of speed, lords of
the forest have died as roads are
straightened. Cars Rocket from here
to there, with mo thought of the
scenery. A high hill? Tunnel
through it or gash it to its heart.
This is a necessary tribute to the
space age.
But couldh’t we have just a few
little winding roads, where elderly
couples could jog along at their
own pace, breathing the clear air
of early evening, exulting in the
scent of the gentle rain on the grass
and the leaves, and spared the
hideous blight of the murdered
hedgegrows? i
This Back Mountain has some of
the most beautiful scenery in the
State.
While we are complaining about
the rubbish dumps and the rusting
cars in the junk yards, not to men-
tion the billboards along the lower
reaches of Toby's
MRC LL ke Eb
Mr. Ryman was in|
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas POst
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
Arthur E, Uber, from western
Pennsylvania, was elected supervis-
ing principal of Dallas Borough
Schools, at a salary of $1,800, which
was to be increased to $2,000 if he
handled the athletic department in
addition to administrative duties.
Lee Tracy was featured on the
front page as the lead in Doctor X,
a Warner Brothers production.
Mrs. Sarah Fox died aged 80 at
her home in Outlet.
Evergreen Cemetery was given a
75 foot flagpole for the soldiers’
plot. Plans were made to dedicate
it by Luzerne County committee of
the American Legion.
The Junior OUAM was preparing
for its annual picnic at Harveys
Lake, anticipating a crowd of 6,000.
| Plans were laid to revive the
camp meeting at Orcutt’s Grove, a
one-day session. - Camp meetings in
that location attracted big religious
meetings from 1888 to 1910.
Perkiomen School was on the
lookout for twelve boys with an IQ
of more than 120, with the idea of
giving them scholarships.
An editorial called attention to
the need for sidewalks, said con-
struction of sidewalks would relieve
the unemployment situation.
You could get cornflakes for 17
cents, three big packages. Hams
were 15 cents a pound; lard two
pounds for 13 centp.
One fifth of all car drivers were
said to be women.
Another four-page issue,
skinny
rr HAPPENED 2() YEARS Aco:
Casualty stations were asking res-
idents to lend blankets, and army
cots. Mrs. Eugene Lazarus, chairman
for the Dallas area, asked for eight
cots, twelve blankets, to be tagged
and returned at the end of the war.
Four local marines were in the
Solomon Islands. They were Willard
Shaver and Willard Kocher of Dallas,
Elwood and Howard Whitesell of
Pikes Creek. |
Mrs. Daniel Evans had her 93rd
birthday anniversary.
Staff Sgt. Alan Kistler was mar-
ried in Texas. His bride was Lt. Ruth
Lewis of Louisiana.
Local Draft board tapped nine men
for the service: Alvan E. Jones, Har-
old J. Glahn, George Straw, Howard
H. Carey, Donald Metzgar, William
A. Daniels, Robert J. Pritchard, Law-
rence Newhart, Glen M. Schmoll.
Salvage units were formed for col-
lection of scrap.
George Lewis, third member of
Dallas Borough faculty to resign,
joined a ship-building firm in Phil-
adelphia.
Heard from in the Outpost: Wm.
Rhoades Jr. Fleet Postoffice; Peter
Skopic Fort Meade; George Frank,
Fort Monmouth; Albert W. Klump,
Tripler Hospital Honolulu.
Naomi Randall, formerly of the
area, was in an iron lung in New
York, victim of a polio epidemic.
Basil B. Coleman, Trucksville, died
at ‘Saranac; George Montross, Beau-
nfont native, at Sloan, Iowa. ‘
Mrs. Rachel Wyckoff was 94.
Married: Tessie Organek to John
Polachek.
Billy Whipp 11, found that honesty
is its own reward. After finding a
wallet containing $24, he returned
it to its owner, and was given a
nickel for his integrity.
Frank Gosart of Idetown was mak-
ing docks for the United States in
Puerto Rico.
very
ir HAPPENED |() YEARS Aco:
Francis McCarty, Kingston Town-
ship chief of Police, died at Mercy
Hospital, suffering from a ruptured
aneurism.
James Borton, Lehigh Valley
Freight agent, reported a falling off
in carload lots of lumber received
here, due to slackening of building.
Local playgrounds were plainning
to close with a big Field Day.
Natona Mills baseball team was
reaching for the championship.
Wet weather slowed down the
green tomato season.
A night-blooming cereus owned by
Mrs: Arthur Hoppes at Harveys Lake
outened with eleven blooms one
night, eleven the next, a phenomenal
crop for a tropical plant in these
latitudes. Jimmie Kozemchak, train-
ing his camera on a slowly opening
bud, coaxed it into swifter bloom by
hanging an electric light over it to
warm it up.
Daniel Kozemchak followed in his
brother Andy's footsteps by reenlist-
ing in the Navy, and being promoted
to Yoeman First Class.
Harry Trebilcox, student at East-
man School of Music, was slated to
appear in the ‘annual Back Mountain
Community Concert.
Married: Ethel May Smith to [Shel-
don MacAvoy. Barbara Marie Ide to
Max Dreher. Ellen Alberta Cragle
to Fred M. Ide.
Creek and the prematurely aban-
doned houses and shops along the
site of what we hope will some day
be a new highway, why don’t we
give a thought to the destruction
of the living green of our road-
sides ? ; ~
Respectfully,
H. O. E. C,
e Editorial note—Could ‘those initials
indicate Half Of an Elderly Couple?
And if it's the half we suspect, it
drives ke a fiend,
vompany of Pittston.
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Construction Started On Novitiate
Juniorate Buildings Near College
Construction has begun at Dallas on the new Novitiate-
Juniorate buildings which will provide housing facilites for
325 Sisters of Mercy in training for the sisterhood. The build-
ings were designed by Carl J. Schmitt and Son, of Wilkes-Barre
and the general contractor is Tabone and Barbera Construction
in the United States from Dublin,
Ireland, in 1843, at the request of
the Bishop of Pittsburgh ‘to teach in
parochial schools and staff hospitals.
From the original group of seven Sis-
ters in Pittsburgh the Sisters of
Mercy have branched out into almost
every state in the United States
where they now number more than
15,000 - Sisters.
In 1875 the Sisters of Mord came
to Wyoming Valley from Pittsburgh.
Their first motherhouse and novitiate
was located at St. Mary’s Convent
in Wilkes-Barre. This continued to
be the motherhouse for some years.
In 1914 the Sisters bought 99 2/5
acres of land at Dallas and in 1921
they broke ground there for the pre-
sent motherhouse. On September 24,
1924, College Misericordia accepted
its first students, and since then the
motherhouse and novitiate have oc-
cupied one wing of the college build-
ings.
In 1922 forty-three independent
motherhouses throughout the United
Sisters of Mercy with the General
Motherhouse located at Bethesda,
Washington, D. C. The 10,000 Sisters
forming the new group were divided
into nine different provinces with
their respective motherhouses located
at: Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago,
Hlinois; Cincinnati, ' Ohio; Detroit,
Michigan; Tarrytown, New York;
Omah, Nebraska; Providence, Rhode
Island; St. Louis, Missouri; and
Scranton, Pennsylvania, with its
motherhouse and novitiate at Dallas,
Pennsylvania.
In this present novitiate building
project at Dallas, three large wings
will provide complete facilities for
the training of the young Sisters. A
separate smaller building will house
the Mother Provincial and her Coun-
cil who administer the affairs of the
900 Sisters in ‘the Scranton Province.
“Eight Years Training
The Sisters training period or
Sister Formation Program consists
of one year as a postulant and two
years as a white novice after which
Pennsylvania State Day Care Pro-
gram for migrant workers’ children
opens Monday at Centermoreland
Methodist Church, the first such
care ever provided for Luzerne
County.. It's purpose is to provide
care and supervised learning exper-
iences for the children, aged 3 to
14. :
Run by Penn State University in
cooperation with the Pennsylvania
Department of Public Welfare, the
service is operated on invitation of
local people, especially the Tri-
County Migrant Committee:
Similar centers opened August 6
in Tunkhannock, and last Monday
at Newton Center.
The school at Centermoreland is
open from 8 to 5, five days a week
to provide care while the parents
and older children are working.
Breakfast, lunch, and morning and
afternoon snacks will be served.
Either the workers themgelves, or
a State bus, will transport the
children to the center from their
farm-homes in Luzerne and Wyom-
ing Counties.
Preliminary duties of the staff
The first Sisters of Mercy arrived®
States formed the Union of the
the young Sister takes the vows of
poverty, chastity and obedience for
a period of three years. At the end
of this time, she renews her vows for
two more years. After this time of
probation in the Sister Formation
Program the Sister takes her vows
for life.
A young girl is accepted in the
Sister Formation training program
after she has been graduated from
high school. She is then given thor-
ough training in the spiritual life as
well as a college education. This fits
her for her work as a teacher or for
social work, such as nursing, caring
for the aged and infirm, etc.
They Become Specialist
In order to broaden their educat-
ion, young (Sisters not only matricu-
late at College Misericordia but are
sent to other colleges and universities
throughout the United States to pre-
pare them to be administrators, tech-
nicians®professors or ‘teachers of the
elementary or high school level.
The four-year nursing program of
College Misericordia also provides an
excellent background for Sisters in
the nursing profession. When the
young Sister leaves the Sister For-
mation program in addition ‘to her
intensive spiritual training, she also
will have received her college degre
and state certification in teaching or
nursing. It is for such purposes as
these that the present set of build-
| ings is being erected so that the
young Sisters will be well qualified
and efficient to meet the many needs
of the present day.
Because of the continued increase
in the enrollment of College Miseri-
cordia and also because of the great
number of applicants for the religious
life, present facilities are inadequate
in the college building.
Young women from the dioceses
of Scranton, Harrisburg, Allentown,
Pittsburgh, Altoona-Johnstown, and
Rockville Centre and Brooklyn mn
New York as well as from the mis-
sions in British Cuiana, South Amer-
ica, will receive their training in the
new motherhouse being built at
Dallas.
Day Care Program For Migrant
Workers’ Children Starts Monday
were already underway last week,
despite their base of operations be-
ing used for the Church Auction.
Monday Marjorie Willis, attractive
young social worker from New Jer-
sev took those in meed of it down
Bo the dentist-and doctor, thereby
endangering her growing popularity
with the children. Smiles as big
as the moon disappeared with the
unveiling of hypodermic needles.
Miss Willis iS a graduate of Wilson
College, majoring in sociology.
Director of the center is Mrs.
George Houck, Waverly, Pa. a
gpecialist in ‘Child Development and
Family Relations, who holds ‘a
bachelor’s degree from Penn State,
and two years teaching experience.
Miss Sally Aikins, also from New
Jersey, will teach at the school. An
elementary education major at Mus-
kingum College in Ohio, she has
had experience in working at a
day-care center for pre-schoolers
in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Mrs. Clarence Schoonover, Cen-
termoreland, is cook, and Mrs. Millie
Schray, Centermoreland, is Jani-
tress. |
Transfers among elementary
school pupils in the Dallas District
are for the most part, states ele-
mentary supervisor William A.
Austin, for the purpose of balancing
the size of classes in the various
buildings.
Twenty-seven third grade pupils
have been transferred from Shaver-
town to Westmoreland. Names and
bus assignments are:
Lori Bond, 5; Robert Carle;
Roger Conner, 5; Robin DeYoung,5;
Diane Eckart, 5; John Frania, 1;
Martin Fuller, 1; Lairy Gordon, 1;
Robert Kleiner, 5; Virginia Meyer, 1;
Michael Nauroth, 1; Linda Mozer, 5;
Jack Periales, 5; Norman Schoell, 5;
Diane Cooper, 5; Frank Davis, 1;
Kevin Duffy, 1; Bruce Frey, 5;
Lauretta Hebda, 5; Nancy Howell, 1;
Constance Miller, 1; Jill Perialas, 5;
Barry Reese, 1; Debra Rother, 5;
Gayle Stephenson, 1; Peter Swain, 5;
Donna Tillotson, 5.
Six transferred from the sixth
grade in Shavertown to Westmore-
lands) David Ash; Susan Baker, 6;
Diane Kelly; Clark Mead; Chris
topher Meyer; David Ratcliffe, 10.
And three students from the fifth:
Ann Graham, 6; Barbara Tyrell, 6;
Paul Wade.
' Transferred from Westmoreland
to Dallas will be sixteen fourth
grade students, of whom only two
will need transportation, Jill Daron
and Carol Strohm, assigned to bus
11. The other pupils are: Nancy
Boltz, Patricia Carey, Joseph Davis,
Valerie Edwards, Jerome dJurish,
Dale Nygren, Lloyd Parry, Leslie
Jarrets, Joann Jurish, Nancy Corke,
Debbie Wood, Ann Parsons, Sherry
Ross, and Joseph VanOrden.
Two in the sixth grade, both as-
signed to bus 11: Patricia Hughey
Catherine Gydosh,
Pupils Transferred To Balance
Class Load In Dallas Schools
and Craig Daron.
Transferred from Westmoreland
to Trucksville are six fourth grade
students: Sammy Naples, Paul
Peters, Frantz Richell, Roger Sam-
uels, and Gary Stearn take bus 4;
Joe Reilly takes bus 3.
From the sixth grade, twelve
students, all of whom except Gerald
Colovas require transportation.
Taking bus 4 will be Brian Beard,
Joan Connely, and Raymond Yag-
logki; bus 3, Alan Hanson; bus 5,
Glen Eckhart, iAnslie DeYoung,
Richard Miller, Judy Reggie, Sandy
Vann, Kathy Williams, and Alex
Yanchick.
From the fifth grade twenty-two
children: Patti McGuinnis, 4; Penny
Metz, 4; Dale Metzgar, 4; Frank
Oatridge, 4; Harold Rosencrams, 4;
Clark Switzer, 3; Patricia Connor, 5;
Roberta Gay, 3; Harry Goeringer, 3;
4; John Hopkins;
Geraldine Scoble, 4; Sheryl Beard, 4;
Curtis Britt, 5; Linda Colovos;
David Cutten, 5; Sally Chyphers, 4;
Fred Dennis, 4; Pamela Dymond, 5;
William Ellis, 3; Betty Emil, 5;
Elaine Freidman, 5
Transferred from Dallas to Trucks-
ville are twelve students, all as
signed to bus 1: Vera Balshaw,
Timothy Bauman, Virginia Block,
Carol Crawford, Anne Gardner,
James Juris, Diane Hozempa, Linda
Meixell, Joan Nelson, Fred Parry,
Jacalyn Roberts, and James Roth.
| One fifth grader, Carol Hozempa,
bus 1.
Transferred from Shavertown to
Trucksville are five fifth graders.
Of five, Susan Owens will not need
transportation. Assigned to bus 10
are David Jones, Malcolm Kitchen,
Ruth Lewis, Deborah Berlew.
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