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DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Nice Guys - Can
This is what happens when a nineteen-year-old Marine, home,
on leave, decides to visit the Harveys Lake night spots alone on 4
Friday night.
Gerald E. Koloski, 40 N. Welles Street, Kingston, became so
drunk on a few drinks that he could control neither “himself nor
his Chrysler sedan. - \
First he knocked out twe guard posts in front of Daddow-
Isaacs Post American Home, then after another 100 feet he knocked
out three others. :
After that the car veered to the other side of the road. Finally
in one last valiant effort to get off the highway, Koloski made a
dizzy turn into Machell Avenue, the Chrysler coming to rest in Mrs.
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Make Mistakes
Elizabeth Keefer’s front yard.
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962
Koloski, little the worse for the experience, was pronounced in-
texicated by Dr. A. A. Mascali and lodged by Dallas police in Luzerne
County Prison to scher up. -
Sunday morning,
pleaded guilty.
Later Judge Richard Bigelow fined him $100 and costs.
lose his license. 3
Nice guys make mistakes .
and others lives,
ashamed and humiliated, he confessed and
He will
. - mistakes that may cost their own
This week Dallas Township Chief of Police Pete
Lange said: “Ninety percent of the automobile accidents I investi-
gate are caused by drinking drivers”,
Edwin Norcross
Dies At General
Was Top-Flight
In Banking Field
Edwin C, Norcross, Birch Hill
Lane, died Wednesday morning at
General Hospital, where he had
been admittéd July 25. §
He will be buried at Fern Knoll
Saturday, following services con-
ducted from the Homer Graham
Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Friends may
call Thursday and Friday evening.
Mr. Norcross, 71, was executive
vice president of Miners National
Bank from May 1, 1956, until re-
tirement September 1, 1960. Prior
to that, he was made vice president
in 1951, and appointed to the Board
of Directors in 1955. Starting with
Miners National Bank as Comptrol-
ler in 1934, he had obtained his
previous banking experience at the
Broadway Merchant Trust Co. in
Camden N. J., which he joined in
1908, and where he rose to vice
president,
Harry Vivian, vice president with
the Dallas Branch, Miners National
Bank, characterized him. as
flight banker, a most able man, one
who, if twenty years younger, could
have, dominated a New York City
bank. Mr. Norcross was named to
the advisory board in‘ Dallas upon
retirement.
Affiliations were with Irem Tem-
ple, Westmoreland Club, and Wilkes-
Barre Kiwanis.
Born in New Jersey, he was edu-
cated in Camden schools, and grad-
uated from Wharton School of Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.
Coming to Wyoming Valley in
1934, he resided in Kingston until
moving to Dallas some years ago.
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He was in excellent health until
about a year ago, when he sub
mitted to lung surgery in Philadel-
phia. He seemed to be making
| satisfactory recovery until a few
weeks before his death. :
He leaves his widow, the former
Helen L. George; children, Edwin C.
Norcross Jr., and Mrs. J. Gerald
Sholtes of Levittown.
Buddies Graduate
And Receives Wings
Two Back Mountain boys who
enlisted together, were graduated
from Fort Benning, Ga., as para-
troopers and received their wings
recently.
They are Pvt. Walter Kuniskas,
son of Mrs. Mary Kuniskas, Dallas
D. 3, graduate of Dallas Town-=
ship High School, class of 1958, now
spending a furlough with his family,
and Pvt. Richard Malick, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Malick, Jackson
School graduate.
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Tonight at 7, or tomorrow night
at the same time if it should rain!
today, the Summer Band Concert |
| will be given at Dallas Junior High |
School athletic field. Everybody is
invited There is no charge for ad-
mission. A varied program has been
arranged, including twirling with
fire-batons by senior high school
students Susan Larish, Sandra Hoo-
ver, Carol Rosnick, and Jane Harter.
Band members range in age from
fifth to twelfth grade, and twirlers
from first to twelfth. Instrumental
players number 115, twirlers 180,
separated into suitable age groups;
295 in all
A combined rehearsal took place
on Tuesday, and this morning a final
rehearsal will be held on the Junior
Township. Richard is a Lehman High , High School grounds.
The advanced band will offer the
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‘Tonight Dallas Summer Band Will
Present Annual Concert At 7 P.M.
| Alhambra Overture, Latin-American
| numbers, and several marches. A
| grade school band will play Father
| of Victory March and an arrange-
{ ment of the Caisson Song.
{ Instructors in twirling are Mrs.
Florence Sherwood, instructor in
| music in the adult evening school;
Elaine Kozemchak, senior at Wilkes
College. Lester Lewis, Senior High
School band director, is in charge
of the summer band program, which
is open to any student in the area,
no matter where he attends school.
The summer program started July
9, and has continued daily at three
school centers: Dallas Junior High,
Dallas elementary, and Westmore-
land. Instrument lists worked out
Monday, ‘Wednesday and Frida
twirlers Tuesday and Thursday.
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