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Rotary Students
Have Arrived
From Australia
Landis Family Meets
Boy And Girl At
New York Airport
Dallas Schedules
Teacher Session
Next Tuesday
Panel Discussion By
Exchange Students
Will Add Interest
Dallas Schools, Dr. Robert Mell-
man superintendent, will hold a gen-
eral teachers meeting Tuesday in Dal-
las Senior High School auditorium.
At 9:30, new ‘teachers will be in-
troduced in the principal's office to
their hosts and hostesses.
At 10, Robert L. Dolbear, president
of Dallas Education Association, will
call the meeting to order. Invocation
will be by Fred Case.
Following the salute to the flag,
Charles Mannear, president of Dallas
School District board of education,
will make a few remarks.
Dr. Mellman will speak after new
teachers have been presented to the
assemblage.
Several teachers attended gradu-
ate schools during the summer. John
B. Cathrall, Thomas F. Carr, Fred-
erick Case, Mrs. Ruth Fossedal, and
NANCY McNAUGHTON
Back Mountain gained a resident
from the other side of the world
Sunday, when seventeen year old.
Nancy McNaughton, Australian
Rotary Exchange Student, came to
live at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
James Lacy, Dallas.
Nancy is one of two Australian
high school students who will be
living in this area this year. Begin-
ning November and throughout the
year she will move to two-month
stays with Wilkes-Barre and Kings-
ton families, since her visit is spon-
sored by Wilkes-Barre Rotary. She
will be a senior at Kingston High
School.
Ross Walker, another Australian
student, who is staying with Mr.
and Mrs. John Landis, accompanied
Nancy on the plane ‘to America.
The petite © Australian left Mel-
bourne, her home, Saturday, -arriv-
ing by Quantas jet in New York
Sunday morning. She had been on
the plane two nights, but only one
day passed by the calendar because
of the International Date-line which
she crossed. It: was winter when
she left Australia.
Nancy is the daughter of Dr. A.
H. McNaughton, a “medical prac-
tioner”’ (same as M.D. here) in
Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne.
She is 5 feet, 2% inches tall, weighs
TY, stone (about 104 pounds), and
has a smile like the South Pacific
sunrise.
Like many Australian girls, she
is an enthusiastic sportswoman.
Monday the Lacy children took her
to Irem Temple Country Club to
play ‘tennis. But she didn't have
time, because she was too ‘busy
meeting people.
Australian schooling has already
afforded her six years of French,
and intensive courses in other sub-
jects. The British system of schools
pretty much finishes off liberal arts
education in the secondary school,
allowing university training mostly
for specialized and professional
study. 5
In order for Nancy to be able to
come to America as an exchange
student, she had to be in. the top
third of her class. In spite of her
excellent academic record, how-
ever, she has found time to take
extensive ballet-courses. Ballet is,
perhaps, her chief love. She made
her . trip by plane rather than by
boat because she was taking exami-
nations at ballet-school until Satur-
day.
The long trip from “Down Under”
ended for Nancy at Idlewild Inter-
national Airport, New York. She
was tired from so many hours in
the air, but picked right up when
she was greeted and welcomed to
America by John Landis, president
of Dallas Rotary.
New York she found fascinating.
In the hour-long ride from Idlewild
to Manhattan, she was amazed by
the the sky-scraping approach to
the big town. Big cities in her
home, however, are no piddling
concern. Both Sydney and Mel-
bourne, aproned by South Pacific
harbors, have populations of over
one million. Sydney is closer to
two million.
The Landis family took the young
Australian to the top of the Empire
State Building where she could scan
the teeming stretches of the New
York complex. Unfortunately the
day was hazy, but she could see
Manhattan well enough.
The ' drive to , Dallas included
Route 22 and the Turnpike. Nancy
was horrified by the fact that
“everybody in ‘America drives on
the wrong side of the road.” In
Commonwealth countries one drives
on the left. But Rotary regulations
forbid ‘the student. to drive in
America anyway, and Nancy does
not have a license. Permits are
given in Australia at age 18.
In her lovely clipped Australian
patter, Nancy explained that after-
school life in her country was much
the same as it is here. Homework
takes about two to three hours.
After school, it is common to play
tennis, or some sport. Girls’ con-
versations on the phone last,
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their experiences.
Edgar Hughes will moderate a pan-
el discussion, introducing returned
Rotary Exchange Students Annabelle
Ambrose, from Holland; Marilyn Eck,
Rhodesia; George Jacobs, the Philip-
pines; Lynn Jordan, Holland; and
Maryalice Knecht, Sweden.
Before the noon luncheon, these
teachers will be tendered a reception
Mrs. Janet . Smith, kindergarten;
Nancy Sloan, Mrs. Sarah Welker,
Patricia Whittaker, elementary; Flor-
ence ‘Guido, nurse; Mary Fox and
Robert Marr, mathematics; Mrs. Nan-
cy Hontz, art.
Miriam Vas Korlis, Mrs. Mary Sig-
worth, and Robert Hukill, English;
Mrs. Virginia Rubino, developmental
reading; Mrs. Elizabeth Dominick,
special education; John Sulcoski,
chemistry.
Hosts and hostesses: Mrs. Hannah
James, Cornelia Davis, Mrs. Oce
‘Austin, Mrs. Mary Mohr, Jennie
Hill, Esther Saxe, Mrs. Fern Whitby,
Mrs. Guida Taylor, Judith Richards,
Mis. Sarah Mitten, Dorothy Guerra,
Emma Engler, Mrs. Louise Prothero,
Mrs. Teresa Rutkowski and Thomas
Carr.
Immediately following lunch,
teachers will adjourn to their own
buildings, where they will be dis-
missed at 3 p.m.
Fractures Skull In
Fall From Hay Loft
Suffering from a fractured skull,
David Nash, six year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nash, Demunds
Road, is making good recovery at
Geisinger Medical Center; where he
is in the children’s ward. >
David, playing in a nearby barn,
fell from the hayloft, struck his
head against a stone wall, and was
unconscious when rushed to the
Lake-Noxen Clinic. Admitted brief-
ly to General Hospital, he was sent
on to Geisinger when X-Rays re-
vealed a fracture of the skull.
Ambulance Recruits
Three men have “volunteered for
the Dallas Ambulance day-crew so
far: Hayden Richards, Leighton Scott,
and Robert Jones.
There is
volunteers.
room for lots more
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At school at the Centermore-
land Methodist Church, Migrant
workers’ kids play at recess
after their classes. That’s Alice
Gonzales headed down a death-
defying slope, into the arms
of Ann Hege, teacher. - Sally
Aikens, another teacher, and
the school-agers, sit down to
lunch, prepared in the Church
kitchen behind.
Washing up is made easier
, by Orange Dairies, who pro-
vided water in milk-cans, when
the Church pump gave out dur-
ing their auction.
The workers’ children work
and play at Centermoreland.
Near sundown on the Dymond
farm, the youngest of the Gon-
zales family pose and cavort
in front of the Post Camera.
Watching over them like
hens are an older sister and
Marjorie Willis, worker for the
Pennsylvania Department of
Welfare.
Helen Sliker, will speak briefly on |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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This happy group composed of |
members of Jonathan R. Davis Fire
Company Auxiliary and members of
the Festival Committee are right in
the middle of preparations for - the |
company’s third annual Festival |
which opens tomorrow night with a
concert by Lake-Lehman High School
Band and continues through Mon-
day night with the awarding of grand |
prizes.
Firemen’s Festival Opens Tomorrow Night At Idetown
First row, left to right are: Michael
Godek, William Casterline, Harold |
Donnelley, Edward Gilmer, Marshall
Harrision, Paul = Doris, William
Motyka, Thomas Lynch, Bernard
Rollman, Leon Bartz, Lester Hoover.
Second row, left to right are:
Dorothy Boice, Renee Kanasky, Shel-
don Cave, Marjorie Carpenter, Bar-
bara Laning, Naomi Davis, Jennie
Sweitzer, Becky Casterline, and
George Adams.
Recently the Auxiliary presented
| the firemen with six fire bombs and
“six raincoats at the Kick-Off Dinner
| heralding the Festival.
The Auxiliary will be in charge of
| the Refreshment Stand and Baked
| Goods Booth. Any one wishing to
contribute baked goods can take
them to the stand Friday or Satur-
day evenings.
Box-Fire Rages
BY MARY SHAVER |
How did “Tippy,” a little wiied |
breed black dog belonging to the |
Walter Davis family get to Beach |
Haven from Center Street Shaver-
town? That is the mystery sur-
rounding = this intelligent mongrel
pet.
On Thursday “Skipper” Davis, 18,
left by bus for Lackland Air Base in |
Texas. |
The next day during a violent
storm, ‘Tippy’ begged to go out,
but he had always been afraid of
storms. He never came back!
Mr. Davis looked everywhere
thinking he might find “Tippy”
dead of a heart spasm which he
sometimes has. ;
The Davis family has had him for
nine years since getting him from
the Animal Shelter at Chase when
their son “Skipper” was in third |
grade. Skipper and “Tippy practi- |
cally grew up together and became
great buddies.
Last Saturday, more than a week
after “Tippy” disappeared, the
Davis family received a letter from
| morning driving
At Trucksville
a Mrs. Holmes of Beach Haven.
She had found “Tippy”, a well-
trained and well-mannered pet, but
already having a dog and with her
husband out of work, she had
called the Luzerne County Court
House and given Tippy's license
number to the County Treasurer’s
Office in order to find the identity
of his owner.
The Davises lost no time Sunday
the ‘twenty-six
miles to Beach Haven to reclaim
their pet. ‘Tippy’ showed no signs
of wear or tear. His nails were
manicured and the pads of his feet
were free of soreness. His coat was
neat and clean.
Had someone picked him up or
did he follow the bus to be near his
“Skipper” ?
All any one knows is that “Tippy”
still misses Skipper, searching the
house for him. Just the same he is
glad to be home, investigating all
the old haunts, making sure no
other dog has claimed them during
his absence.
‘Box-Man Beset
By Second Fire
Yard Burns Again
Almost To The Day
Fire consumed the contents @ of
Peter Kerpovich’s box-storage yard,
Trucksville, Monday at 10 a.m. with-
in one day of the time it burned four
years ago. Trucksville and Shaver-
town Fire Companies fought the
blaze for three and a half hours, us-
ing 15,000 gallons of hauled water.
Kerpovich hauls cardboard boxes
from various industries in the Back
Mountain, and stores them in his lot
on Harris Hill Road near the old
Stegmaier Farm.
Four years ago Monday, Kerpovich
{ had ‘returned from Atlantic City
| where he had been vacationing with
TS "| his family. The next day ‘the yard
“Tippy” Is Back Home Again After
A 26-Mile Jaunt To Beach Haven
| burned.
| This year he decided to stay home,
'but sent his family. The next day,
. Manday, a storage barn burst into
ames from spontaneous combust-
ion, igniting ‘the entire yard.
Not only that: The insurance hear:
ing on the old fire is to be held in
just a few days.
An old van, used for storage, was
also badly scorched. Trucksville en-
gines were the first to arrive on the
scene, but ‘they had to wait for
Shavertown to bring water. The
barn burned to the ground.
Kerpovich, 62, who has conducted
his business at this same spot for
over 22 years, was a little bewildered
by this strange, spritely order of
events. He stood watching the smold-
ering remains. “Let’s pick up some
of this cardboard, and try to make
the place look ‘a little better”, he
muttered, after all but one of ‘the
trucks had left.
As they gathered up the loose
cardboard from the smoky ground,
he talked of retiring and moving to
Florida.
Admitted To Geisinger
David M. Nash, Dallas, was ad-
mitted to Geisinger Medical Center
on Friday.
Administration
Offices Moved
Lake-Lehman Players
Use Practice Field
Lake-Lehman administration of-
fices were moved on Tuesday from
the original location to more com-
modious quarters in the same build-
ing, now Lehman elementary school.
The new offices are across the hall
and far down, in space once occup-
ied by the cafeteria kitchen.
The new school number will be
ORchard 4-8131 instead of ORchard
4-3236,
Furniture and equipment has been
reconditioned, and somewhat aug-
mented.
Football practice is being held in
a field close by the permanent ath-
letic field, in space which will event-
ually be laid out as a baseball dia-
mond. Custodians rolled the field
the first part of August. Players
shower and dress at what is now Leh-
man elementary school, an easy walk
from the football practice field.
The team expects to stage a prac-
tice game with Tunkhannock tonight
at 7:30, on the Tunkhannock Field.
The bare ground surrounding the
construction job on the new Lake-
Lehman high school was reduced to
a sea of mud by Monday night's
heavy downpour, but work is pro-
gressing steadily.
Think All-Stars
Were Best Team
Overbrook Women
Saw All Of Games
Mrs. Lewis Isaac and her neigh-
bor, Mrs. Nancy Groblewski, Over-
brook Avenue, saw all of the Little
League games from the time Back
Mountain All Stars started their
race for the State Pennant through
‘their defeat in the District Champ-
ionships at Medford, Mass., to the
final game of the World Series at
‘Williamsport.
“What was your greatest thrill
during all of those games’ a Post re-
porter asked them. Their ready re-
sponse in unison was: “The kids!"
Both of the women think the All
Stars were as good as any team
they sawsin the World Series.
“The trouble was we lacked the
support from home”. They attribute
the loss at Medford to homesickness
and not enough rooters in the cheer-
ing section. ‘““Why, Medford was
futher away from Pitman than the
Back Mountain was, but jus tlook at
the number of Pitman people who
were convinced their team was a
winner and were up there to cheer
them”.
Many others who were at the game
agreed with the women. “You could
sense it on Thursday during the
Newton game. Pitman rooters were
everywhere and the parking lot was
filled with New Jersey licensed cars.
It had a psychological effect on all
of us from the Back Mountain coun-
try--rooters as well as team’.
‘Plenty of Little League teams
didn’t have a following, especially in
the World Series, but if the All-
Stars had had the same support at
Medford that they had in ‘the ‘“‘vic-
tory parade” they would have come
home the winners and no telling
how far they would have gone.
MBER RY Rip en Bak
T omato Pickers’ Children Work And Play At Centermoreland
VOL. 74, NO. 35, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962
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FREDDIE HENNEBAUL
SITS UP FOR TWO OR
THREE HOURS A DAY
Word is recceived from Fred-~
die Hennebaul, injured Lake-
Lehman wrestler, that although
he is now able to sit up in his
wheelchair from two and a half
to three hours a day, there is
little change in his general con-
dition. .
Fred has many friends at
Geisinger Medical Center and
the presence of neighbours who
now live in the vicinity, the
receipt of cards and the visits
of classmates make the hours
go by more cheerfully.
He still maintains his mag-
nificent spirit.
One or the other of his par-
ents has visited him every day
but one for the past eight
months.
German Roads
Jammed By Cars
Mrs. Crawford Sees
Changes In Homeland
Describing the many drastic
changes that have taken place since
her visit twelve years ago, Mrs.
Sterling Crawford, Centermoreland,
returned Wednesday by Swiss Air
Jet from Cologne, Germany, after
spending six weeks touring her na-
tive Germany and Holland.
In earlier letters Mrs. Crawford
told her husband that the traditional
German conservatism is fast fading
away.
A new desire, she says, has taken
possession of the country. There is
a determination to obtain all of the
better things of life since they are
available and earning opportunties
were never greater. The average
German is taking full advantage of
the new accelerated economy.
Mrs. Crawford also observed that
like America most families own a
car, but the drivers are more reck-
less and speed is practiced beyond
all safety. The highways are jammed
with vehicles.
[Commenting on the business life |
in the cities she visited, she related
that retail stores offer very poor
service and are greatly understaffed.
Many commodities are priced on
a level with those in America. She
noted that King size filtered ciga- |
rettes are only one cent higher than |
here.
At one railroad station the train
was fifty-five minutes late. She learn-
ed that it came from East Germany
and was held up by the Russians.
This sort of thing goes on all of the
time.
How do the West Germans feel
about the Wall? Mrs. Crawford ‘talk-
ed with people who live only a short
distance from it, but have not seen
the “Ugly Thing” as they describe
it. “Why should we want to see such
a shame and disgrace” they ask.
Mrs.. Crawford took a boat ride
through the city of Amsterdam and
was surprised that there are 800
bridges in the city.
Motorboats Crash
Two boys were injured when
their father’s motorboat struck a
large Chriscraft near Pt. Breeze,
Harvey's Lake, Saturday, and the
motorboat demolished. Craig Seidel,
13, and brother Timothy, 9, - of
Birdsboro, were treated by Dr. Ben-
jamin Groblewski for lacerations
and. fractures.
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Country Club.
= New Directory
Will List All
[vames Together
Individual Phenes
Will No Longer
Be By Exchange
Commonwealth Telephone Com-
pany’s all new Dallas-Shickshinny
Directory will be in the mail
September 20.
The new directory, J. N. Landis,
District Manager, said, will reflect
a complete departure from those of
other years. Formerly subscribers
were listed alphabetically under ten
separate exchange headings. In the
new directory, all ten exchanges
will be grouped together with sub-
scribers in alphabetical sequence.
This directory feature adds great-
ly to subscriber convenience in
looking up a party’s number for it
eliminates the necessity of first
referring to the exchange under
which he may be listed. It also eli-
minates the obvious possability of
errors in associating a party within
an incorrect exchange area.
So that one will know what ex-
change a subscriber is in, each page
of the directory has an information
block keying the first two numbers
or letters to the exchange area.
The ten exchanges consolidated
in the new directory are Center-
moreland, Harding, Harveys Lake,
Huntington Mills, Muhlenburg, Nu-
angola, Sweet Valley, Wapwallopen,
Dallas and Shickshinny.
The Orchard numbers of Dallas
will be listed as seven digit num-
bers in the new directory. How-
ever, they are not to be used until
Dallas ORchard numbers are con-
{verted to All Number Callir'* on
{ October 2nd. Until that date _an-
| dis emphasized, ORchard sub-
| scribers will continue to use the
same numbers with the OR prefix.
The Nuangola numbers, as shown
in the new directory, should not be
used until October 21st; the Muh-
| lenburg numbers until November
| 18th. On those dates respectively,
the last four numbers of Nuangola
and Muhlenburg subscribers will be
changed to those shown in the
| September 1962 directory. Until
October 21 Nuangola numbers and
Muhlenburg numbers on November
18th will be the same as shown in
last year’s directory.
Landis further noted that othe:
changes included in the September
1962 directory include a complete
revamping of the information pages;
the inside front cover will include
rates for typical overseas calls as
well as those to distant points in
this country; a listing of payment
offices on page 2 in addition to the
Dallas and Shickshinny business of-
fices; and an attractive front cover
on which are emergency number
blocks for writing in emergency
numbers such as the fire depart-
ment, police, state police, ambu-
lance and doctor.
A section of the directory em-
bracing three pages gives complete
information on Direct Distance
Dialing. = This is for the benefit of
Dallas, Muhlenburg and Nuangola
subscribers for, on November 18th,
these exchanges will become part of
the nationwide direct distance dial-
ing network falling under Area
‘Code 717. At this time, long dis-
tance calls coming into Dallas,
Muhlenburg or Nuangola will em-
ploy the Area Code number 717
plus the 7 digits of the called party's
number.
Another section of the new direc-
tory, Landis concluded, contains
two pages of telephone product in-
formation showing in detail such
items as the farm interphone, the
home interphone, call director and
other products offered by the com-
pany for the comfort, economy and
convenience of its subscribers.
' Season Extended
Cn Lake Fishing
Trout fishermen may continue
to enjoy their sport through October
31 on inland lakes and ponds of ten
acres or more in size.
The extended season on all
species of trout in such waters was
established at the July 9 meeting
of the Penngylvania Fish Commis-
sion. ¥
“The decision to extend the sea-
son for taking all species of trout
on the qualified lakes and ponds
was reached after careful study of
conditions existing in such waters,”
said Albert M. Day, executive dir-
ector of the Commission.
“Rainbow trout normally are in
top condition during September and
October, and it is, of course, ex-
tremely difficult to catch only rain-
bow trout if brook and brown trout
also are present in the same waters.
“Since most of the trout found in
these lakes and ponds are stocked,
the lengthened season should extend
the harvest of these fish,” said Day.
The trout fishing season on all
other waters in the Commonwealth
ends at midnight, September 3.
Rotary To Honor All-Stars
Little League All Stars will be the
guests of Dallas Rotary Club at its
dinner September 20 at Irem Temple
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