Oldest Business 72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Institution Back of the Mountain - THE DALLAS POST TWO EASY TO REMEMBER ORchard 4-5656 Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 TEN CENTS PER More Interest Shown In Idle Noxen Tannery Only Half Dozen ‘Former Employees Bre Without Jobs More interest is being shown in the abandoned tannery at Noxen by outside entrepreneurs than at any time since the big plant of Armour Leather Company closed there earlier this year. During the spring and summer months at least twenty-five leather manufacturing and other firms have visited Noxen and been taken on tours of the plant by officers of NEED, the organization formed by Noxen citizens to find a new tenant or new owners for the buildings. Within recent weeks, two manu- / facturing firms and one entre- preneur, have shown more than passing interest and officers of NEED are encouraged that some- thing definite may be forthcoming shortly. 4 Most encouraging is the interest of a local man, who is acting as a liason for an outside concern which wants to purchase the buildings, re- model them and lease them out to a number of manufacturing com- panies. While ‘the vacant buildings stand as mute evidence of an industry that is gone, most people in Noxen are not downhearted. And there are no empty houses to be found in town. ] Of all the men who were once employed at the busy tannery, all but a half dozen have found em- ployment elsewhere. _ Leading citizens of the communi- ty feel that they have a good town, that is sometimes not appreciated by their neighbors in the : Mountain area. They say: “We have ample level land for industrial development. We have good highways connecting with fast interstate highways. We have a medical center, second to none for a town our size. We have wonderful mountain air, good water, a ‘beautiful trout stream, and un- limited opportunities for recreation, hunting and fishing.” ; ‘The recent reconstruction by the State of the highway leading from Noxen to Stull, a distance of three miles, ovens that area for further recreational and residential de- velopment. * Dunmore Crowd 5 Hails Key Club The Dallas School District march- ing units had a busy time over the Bail COPY—TWELVE PAGES : MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Dallas Township has its own publicly-owned forest for game- refuge, conservation, and. recreation. . Located near Kunkle on the old Kunkle-Beaumont road, it is open to anyone. But the old road needs grading (top left). Friday, the donor, Dr. F. Budd Schooley took the Post pho- the land. tographer for a 56-acre tramp in order to | boost public interest in On the heights the visitor can see much of the surrounding Back Mountain territory. Here you can catch a view of Harvey's Lake from one of the forest peaks. Dallas Township Forest Needs Road And Highway Marker VOL. Through the wandering Dr. Schooley demonstrates the sitting comfort of an old split-rail fence, and shows thd qualities of birch- bark for Indian canoes. Closer to the road are many wide fialds, ideal for sports. "ow in its seventeenth year as the Dallas’ Township Forest, the 56 acre tract of rugged mountain- land and meadow near Kunkle re- mains virtually unimproved.. The only work done on it has been some yearly forestry. Friday, the 24th, Dr. F. Budd Schooley and Post reporter-photog- rapher Leighton Scott looked around the property, once farm-land. Dr. Schooley bought the land, and gave it to the Township in 1945. There will come ‘a time, noted the doctor, not too far in the fut- ure when beautiful forest-land in this area will be very scarce. And here is something for our grand- children to enjoy, for recreation and wildlife refuge. In 1945 Dr. Schooley ‘gave 76 acres of such land to Noxen Town- ship for use as a natural beauty and recreation spot. Like Dallas Township Forest, the land has all variety of trees, plants and animals, and it also has a creek. As a result of investigations made for the Rural Building and Loan Association, Dr. Schooley noted the quality of a 56 acre tract to the West of the Kunkle-Beaumont highway, the old Samuel Hess farm. Through the courtesy and under- standing of the John Parsons fam- ily, owner, Dr. Schooley bought the land ,to be deeded to the Dallas Township Board of Supervisors. Trees were purchased from the State Department of Forestry for cost and transportation, and planted with their help, and that of the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Com- merce, and [Dallas Township High School students. ' Walter. Elston, (board-member, proposed at a meeting of the Dallas Township Board of Supervisors two years ago that a road be cut up into the land.. It has not been done. Actually there is an old log road | Each of them is surrounded by there now which needs only a little clearing, and some fil]' for about fifty yards where it has been eroded close to the highway. According to Dr. Schooley, the reason for the Board's hesitancy in working on this road is that it would increase taxes. , On the other hand, the state of Pennsylvania has published a pamphlet on the de- sirability of loca] forests, showing that they are not only a beautiful heritage to pass on to future gen- erations to enjoy, but that they are economically “money in he ‘bank’ for township treasuries. A community forest in Switzer- land, for example, has been yielding $20 per acre profit in recent years, in lumber and game. 3 tarting from the highway, there are five or more level fields that could be made into ball-parks with a couple of mowers and some chalk. fine trees and old stone and split- rail fences. On up the old log road there are countless groves of evergreen trees in different stages of growth. beautiful for picnics, The woods surrounding are filled with all man- ner. of songbirds, deer, and wild flowers. Deer-runs cut through fern, moss ‘and ground-pine. Little stone fire- places, in various states of -disre- pair, show where scout troops have camped under the stars. From the high points, there are breath-taking views of all the surrounding valleys. The Dallas Township Forest is the first such forest in Luzerne County. Planting of trees is supervised "by Sheldon Mosier, township high school teacher, and is done by high school students. Selection of trees | is done by the Township Super- visors, with the help of Senator DRIVER REVERSES A TREND Driver Goes Over A Back Mountain resident changed the trend of frequent accidents at the intersection of Route 118 and Harveys Lake Highway early Sun- day Morning. Most wrecks happen there because Embankment From A Different Direction drivers coming from Lehman ignore the warning "signs and stop-sign and cross the Lake Highway, plung- ing through the opposite guard rail. Robert Bolton,” Kunkle, on the other hand, made what seems to have been the first left turn made T. R. Jones. Total number of trees planted so far is 28,000, with 5,000 on order for next year. A total planting. of 75,000 is planned. Included in the purchase of the land was sufficient land extending down to Route 309 as to guarantee Harold E. Flack and State Forester | a place for .a marker for the Forest. | at that junction while proceeding { from Harve’: Lake Yo Dillas, 4nd crashed through the same rail." His car tumbled down the embankment, Inading right side up in a wheat- field, and burst into flames. Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company extinguished the blazing car with 400 gallons of water. Bolton was taken by private car Fall Festival to [Nesbitt Memorial Hospital dis- pensary for treatment of a lacerated lip and a possible fractured nose, 74, NO. 36, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 | Rotary Students |a bad idea. Criticize Ease | Of High School Area Teachers Learn | Dutch Ditchdiggers Speak 3 Languages At a general teachers meeting in Dallas Senior High School audi- torium Tuesday, the assemblage learned more from first-hand expe- riences of Rotary Exchange Stu- dents than from reports of teachers’ summer schools about improve- ment of techniques in teaching. Lynn Jordan, newly returned from the Netherlands, stopped the show when asked to compare American high school with school- ing abroad. “Those kids”, she noted, “were worried about passing exams so they could get someplace. | We went through high school here without even thinking we'd flunk out. But there they never know whether they're going to or not.” This candid revelation evoked a ten-second silence from the audi- torium full of teachers, who rubbed their faces and looked at each other fleetingly, until moderator Edgar Hughes nervously laughed: “Do you think we teachers ought to make students worry more, Lynn?” It was fairly obvious from their own remarks on how seriously sti- dents in other lands took their work that the five Rotary students on the panel thought it might not be Almost ‘to (a man. these young ambassadors of American good-will had run into the same response in their European and Asian foster homes: Americans are right in dis- liking communism, but they are irresponsible leaders. They have had life so easy that they think all peoples in the world exist for the welfare of Americans. = This is wrong. 3 The Exchange Students’ observa- tions on foreign life and education provided marked contrast to the other part of the program, re- ports by teachers who this summer had attended graduate schools on new educational techniques.. Such techniques included more do-it- yourself learning in the form of audio-lingual laboratories and geo- logy field-trips. A The science of teaching, in a science of awakening students to education and world affairs was still hanging on the first turn. HAs George Jacobs, student last year in the Philippines, noted: “Student interest in political systems in the Philippines, as in some of the other countries we have talked about to- day, is negligible. Even in the United States we do not care any- thing about government. But some Married Fifty Years ; Downend Makes Long Trip To Class Reunion There was no doubt who came [the greatest distanée to attend the fifth reunion Saturday night of Westmoreland High School Class of 1957: at O'Connell's Kingston House. It was Navyman Nelson Downend, & Labor Day weekend. On Saturday 7 the Colorettes, Junior High drill |: team, the Keyettes, and the Key | Club rifle drill team marched in the | Dunmore centennial parade. The | units were cheered along the parade route as they performed their precision movements before 75 thousand viewers. The youngsters were congratulated by Mr. Kay, parade chairman, after they com- pleted their march. ; and released. ’ Although Dallas Township Police and State Police were there, neither ' officially ‘‘investigated”. Clyde Birth's wrecker towed the mangled car out at dawn, and took it to Bolton's Diner, owned by Don- ald Bolton, Robert's father. Lehigh Valley day one of us is going to be Presi- dent.” a The other students, in addition to George and Lynn, Annabelle Am- brose, Netherlands, Marilyn Eck, Rhodesia, ‘and Maryalice Knecht, Sweden, discussed the education of- fered in foreign schools. Generally, in the other countries, there was al- most . no extra-curricular concern. Marilyn Eck found that education offered Rhodesians was hopelessly Attracts Good Sized Crowds Despite inclement weather, the Jonathan R. Davis Firemen’s Festi- val, Idetown, was a smashing success last "weekend. Occasional e uni rain and cold = weather several : ; § — i nights failed to stop the crowd from tl ind Don os w narrow, that well-trained student Show at Kingston Armory. The growing well over the size of last | COM tah Alask Tor ‘the: Past Hauls Little technicians, did not know ‘the struc- 5 four units were commended for | year’s attendance. Nel . th hi i a ture of a sentence, and were often yen Remon 154 ye, an terrified by the prospect of public their performance by Mayor Frank Slattery and also were given special i honors for volunteering to make leukemia door to door collection in the Back Mountain area next wp Sunday afternoon. The youngsters in the four units will meet at the High School at 1:30 Sunday, Sep. tember 9, and then proceed to their ' designated streets and canvass door to door in the drive. George McCutcheon, advisor for | . the group wishes to thank the fol- lowing parents, friends, and as- sistant advisors for their help over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. William Wright, Mrs. Betty Hanna, Mrs. Elizabeth Titus, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- bur Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Justus Letts, Mrs. Wilda Elston, Mrs. Bet- | ty Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Antain, | and Mrs. Philip Heycock. The four units will march next Monday in the Forty-Fort centen- nial parade. Distribution Of Food Will Cease Stamp Plan To Go Into Effect October The last distribution of surplus food in the Back Mountain will be made September 13 at Trucksville Fire Hall, serving the entire area, 10 a.m. to 2 p. m. In October, the Stamp plan will go into effect in: Luzerne County. Eligible recipients will be given instructions. Actual distribution of food will be discontinued. Food stamps will “ permit customers to make their own selection at the grocery of their choice. Food stamps are designated to boost the food buying power of low income groups, making possible a much wider variety of food at a fraction of the actual cost. N Mr. and Mrs. William Garnett, who obserbed their 50th Wedding Anniversary September 3, were honored at a family dinner at O’Connell’s Kingston House on Sun- day. They were chauffeured to the Kingston House by Karl Bach- man driving a 1913 Ford owned by Russell Frantz. Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. William Garnett, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mroczkowski, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Hislop, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Livezey, Ken and Marilyn; Mr. and] Mrs. Richard J. Rogers, Mrs. Carl Harrison, Robert and Cheryl Ann; Doug Trumbower, Karl Bachman, Federal Food |r. “and Mrs. Herman Lutz, Ben Cobleigh, Mrs. Anna Kocher, Mrs. Eva Thompson, Lois; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Callahan. Open House was held on Monday at 2 p.m. at their home. The three- | tiered anniversary cake was made | by | sister, Mrs. Eva Thompson. Garnett’s seventy-year-old Mr. Those who called to extend best wishes for another 50 years were: Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wilson, Mrs. | Anna Kocher, Mr. and Mrs, Stan- : | | 7 {and Mrs. Conrad ‘Hislop, Ben Cob- leigh, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kocher, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cobleigh, | Jackie, Cynthia, Jerry and Donna, | Mrs. Daniel Gabel and Sandra, Mr. land Mrs. William Cragle, Mrs. Jes- ley Livezey, Ken and Marilyn, Mr. |Jr., Pikes Creek; Mrs. Garnett is the former Lydia Cobleigh, daughter of the late George and Eliza Whitesell Cob- leigh, Loyalville. Mr. Garnett is the son of the late George and Hes- ter Rogers Garnett of Outlet. The | sie Shupp, Karl Bachman, Robert | couple was married September 3, IN. Rogers, Harold Kocher, Jr., Dal- [ 1912, in Luzerne by the late Rev. las;-Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Rogers, | Spring Lake, 'N. C., Mr. and Mrs. | Herman Lutes, Cambra; Mr. and | Mrs. Charles Callahan, Davisville, | Pa Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mrocz- | kowski, Temple, Pa.: Mrs. Mary | | Craig, Courtdale; Doug Trumbower, Robert Kunkle, Sweet Valley; Daisy Crispell, Harveys Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cobleigh and Delbert, Binghamton, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Orville 'Cobleigh, Endicott, N. Y.; Mrs. Bernadine Turner, Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. Eva Thompson and Lois; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson, Forty Fort; Mr. and Mrs. William Warman, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Thompson, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs. Burton E. Steltz, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Naugle, Bradley and Lloyd, {ing at Outlet where Mr. | followed the carpenter trade. They | later purchased the Cobleigh home- William Day and went to hosekeep- Garnett | stead and farm where they now re- side. Mr. Garnett is now retired. There are three living daughters, Mrs. Stanley Mroczkowski, Temple, Pa, R. D. 1; Mrs. Conard Hislop, White Birch Trailer, Dallas R. D. 1; Mrs. Stanley Livezey, Dallas R.D. 2; also six grandchildren, William Har- rison, Brunswick, Ohio, Robert and Carl Harrison, Sweet Valley, Mrs. Richard Rogers, Spring Lake, N. C,, Marilyn and Kenneth Livezey, Dal- las R. D. 2; also five great grand- children. The Garnetts attend Maple Grove Methodist Church. Although actual results will not be known until this weekend, it has ; been estimated that twice as much | money was raised this year as last. | Mrs. Louise Boyce, Tunkhannock, | won the color TV set on one chance. The biggest crowd gathered Fri- | day night to hear the famous Lake- | Lehman High School band, “but the | most money was spent Saturday. { Some of the crowd was drummed up | | by a large parade Friday afternoon { opening the event. Fire Companies | from Idetown, Lehman, Lake Silk- worth, Luzerne, Swoyerville, and Kunkle heralded the procession through Idetown and around Har- vey’s Lake. State Senator Harold Flack and | Representative Daniel Flood accom- panied the parade in convertibles. Each of five lovely young ladies who sold tickets for the festival were | also in convertibles, and several had | adorned themselves with umbrellas { by the end of the parade. | drizzle began about half way around | the Lake. A light Dan Meeker’s ancient Packard truck, complete with puncture proof solid tires and colorful frills and { frippery, made a valiant effort to stay with the parade, but had to stop and rest. Two other antique cars stayed to the end. The champion Back Mountain Little League All-Stars had their own trailer, and were warmly re- ceived. Manager Bill [Sponseller was with them. On Saturday night, the crowd was put into a gay money-spending mood by a wandering German band. There were games of chance and skill to tempt the dauntless, and for the kids there were several rides and a Ferris Wheel supplied and manned by the Hobby, Pa. Fire Company. Rs The Pennsylvania Game Commis- sion had a tent {ull of wildlife exhibits, and ‘supplied several of- family has been’ stationed on Ko- diak, an island of 5,000 population, 2,500 of them ‘Naval personnel. Nelson left Kodiak on Monday, August 27 by Naval plane. Two hours later he was in Anchorage, and eight hours later, still flying but in another Naval plane, he was in Seattle. From Seattle the going became rougher for Nelson had determined to hitchhike across the continent. “T must have had a hundred rides | from Seattle to Chicago” he told the Post this week. “I was picked up | by bread trucks and all sorts of | conveyances.” But he made the journey from | Chicago to Philadelphia in four ‘hops, arriving in Dallas Saturday | morning at 10, just eight and a half | hours before the Class dinner. After a brief visit with his par- | ents Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Downend | Sr., Nelson will return to Kodiak to | his wife the former, Kathleen Smith | of Kingston, and their two children, | Susan 1, and Patricia Louise 2% {months. In the meantime he has |talked with them by short wave | radio and told them that he made the dinner and expects to start the return journey sometime today. Fire Enthusiasts Stay For Free Show As a result of a stump-fire on land owned by Dallas Outdoor Drive-in Theater Tuesday night, about three- quarters of the audience attended the early show for nothing. Scores of cars followed Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company into the theater about 8:15 to watch them extinguish a flaming tree-stump. According to one of the firemen, only eight or nine of them came (Continued on Page 2 A) back out with the engine. Beyond Dallas What is the future of Bowman's Creek Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad ? That is the question that is on many lips, since it is known that the right of way of the rail- road will have to be relocated be- tween Luzerne and Trucksville to make way for the new highway. For the past year there has been little railway traffic beyond Dallas. {Only an occasional freight runs as far as Alderson since the closing of the Armour Leather Company plant at Noxen. Bulk of the freight handled is comprised of carload lots of feed to Devens Milling Company -in Dallas and Huston’s Feed Store at Fern- brook. Other miscellaneous freight includes cable, wire and poles for Commonwealth = Telephone (Com- pany, lumber for Whitesell Brothers, Back Mountain Lumber Company and Shavertown Lumber Cempany. Most of these shipments could be handled by ‘trailer trucks, but per- haps not as cheaply: There are Back Mountain farms or industries. Within recent weeks there has been indication that the railroad might abandon its lines from Dallas to Noxen, or at least from Alderson to Noxen. The right of way from Noxen to Towanda was abandoned years ago, and the railway station at Noxen ds: now a deserted shambles. Thomas Jordan Grows Mammoth Cucumbers Six pounds of Burpee hybrid cucumbers, contained in two enor- mous specimens, were brought into the Dallas Post Wednesday after- noon by Thomas Jordan. One measured fifteen inches, one four- { teen, very few outgoing shipments from |. speaking. Maryalice Knecht, on the other hand, found Swedish education too broad. Students got a smattering of almost every subject. But, at the same time, there were no quizzes or term-papers demanded of the Swedish student, and exami- nations, while long in time, were not large in substance. Maryalice felt the most valuable thing she learned was Swedish. A Annabelle Ambrose was im- pressed with the number of lan- guages the average Hollander will learn. “Even if you are going to dig ditchs”, she observed, ‘you have to take three languages at a Dutch high school”. The Nether- lands has the lowest illiteracy rate in the world. Lynn Jordan was impressed by the antiquity of the Netherlands. She was also surprised by first- hand accounts of bombings in the Second World War. “I couldn’ imagine what it would be like to look out my window and see bombs falling on my neighbors’ houses”, she commented. : George Jacobs felt the Filipinos were definitely in a rut by the ma- ture of ‘their fatalistic attitude to- ward poverty. Thirty million people are living in an area not .as big as California. George was the only one of the students to attend a univer- sity while abroad. “I understood”, he told the audience of teachers, “that I was to attend a Filipino high school. But, it seems they only have four years of high school, so I was ahead of them. And besides”, the over-six-footer chuckled, “thas didn’t think I could make it thry the high, school door.” George spent much of | working in small villagg travelling around the man; He was outspoken about apathy toward the plight { All the students were as (Continued on Page 2
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