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Switch To All
Number Dialing
Starts Tuesday
674 and 675 will
Be The Prefix In
Place Of ORchard
Commonwealth Telephone Com-
pany’s preparation for change in the
numbering system for Dallas Orch-
ard subscribers is near completion
and the change to seven figures, or
All Number Calling, is scheduled for
3:01 A.M. this Tuesday.
J. N. Landis, district manager,
said the numbers will change very
little — the main difference being a
substitution of numbers for letters.
When the new numbers go into
operation here Tuesday, OR 5-1816
will change to 675-1816 and OR 4-
2631 will become 674-2631.
All Number Calling, Landis ex-
plained, has several advantages over
the two-letter, five-figure system.
Scientific ‘tests have proved that
seven-figure numbers can be dialed
faster and more accurately than let-
ters and numerals, since there is no
“switching of attention” between
the letters and the numbers on the
dial.
“With the new system, you just
forget the letters on the dial,” said
Landis. ‘“There’s no confusion be-
tween the number “O” and the let-
ter “0” — or between the letter
“I” and the number “1”. Dialing is
made simpler and easier all
around.”
“But there’s more to the new sys-
tem,” he continued. ‘Compared
with the letter-plus-number system,
seven-figure numbers increase by
almost 50 per cent the quantity of
telephone numbers possible with
seven turns of the dial. This is be-
cause some of the available letter
combinations just won't fit any cen-
tral office name telephone people
can think of.”
“Take ‘5-5 for example,” Landis
said. “The dial letters associated
with that combination are J,K and
L. Try and come up with a good
name beginning with two of those
letters!”
The
these limitations and makes all dial
combinations usable as “telephone
numbers.
Eventually, according to Landis,
when all telephones have the seven- |
figure sy$vem, ‘it will be possibléito’
remove the letters from the dial | i
completely. This will improve legi-
bility of the numbers on the instru-
ment and lead to the design of
miniaturized telephones and other
equipment for the phone system of
the future.
“All Number Calling will also
pave the way for other improve-
ments,” Landis said. “It will bring
national and international direct
dialing of long distance calls, direct
radio dialing, expanded and im-
proved services for businessmen,
and other advancements that tele-
phone scientists and engineers are
working on right now.”
Fire Destroys
Barn At Noxen
Smoke still rosé Monday evening
from the remains of a barn con-
sumed by fire Friday afternoon on
Schenck Street, Noxen.
The fire started when boys were
playing in the building, owned by d.
Franklin Patton, dropping a spark
or flame into hay. It was the first
consequential fire in Noxen this
summer.
Several tons of the hay and dried
B flooring caught immediately, and
the two-story structure was en-
veloped in flames before Noxen
Volunteer Fire Company arrived.
According ‘to Chief Fred Schenck,
one person on a party line refused to
yield so that he could call the
. engine-house. This added to the
delay.
Destroyed were some hand-ma-
chinery, several chickens, and the
hay.
Nearby houses were threatened,
To Stage Panel
On School Cost
Citizens Committee For Better
Schools will stage a program on “A
Quality Progr am of Education, What
It Costs,” in the Dallas Senior High
School auditorium October 10, at 8
p. m., which the tax-paying public
is urged to attend.
A panel of four will answer ques-
tions The questions must be writ-
ten, prepared either in advance or
written and given to the ushers
as the meeting progresses.
Dr. Irvin Jacobs is chairman of
the program committee. Morris
Slater is chairman of the organiza-
tion.
Panel members are: Ray Caron,
district director of Central Division
of Pennsylvania Economic League,
Inc.; Welton Farrar, on the faculty
at Wilkes College; William Clewell,
former member of Dallas School
Board and financial chairman; and
Dr. Robert A. Mellman, supérintend-
ent of Dallas Schools.
seven digit system avoids |
Four men from Back Mountain
Area are presently performing their
15-day short tour of duty with the
92ND Air Terminal Squadron at
Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
Major Carl J. Schreiner, Com-
mander of the 92ND Air Terminal
Squadron, Captain Robert A.
Hughes, Freight Officer, and Staff
Sergeant Willard Newberry are as-
sisting the 1607TH Air Terminal
Squadron of Dover Air Force Base
to prepare for a combined Army —
Air Force Operation scheduled for
the latter part of October. Dover
Air Force Base has unique status of
being the largest Air Freight Termi-
nal in the world.
The 15-day annual tour is part of
the unit’s training to achieve its op-
erational readiness. The mission of
Four Back Mountain Men On Short
Term Duty At Delaware Air Base
the'Reserve Air Terminal Squadron
is to control, document, load and
offload passengers, cargo, mail to
overseas destinations.
During the year the unit holds it’s
monthly meetings at the Wyoming
Air Reserve Center, Wyoming.
Major Thomas Garrity is present-
ly serving as Squadron Censorship
Officer with the 1607TH Air Termi-
nal Squadron.
Both Major Schreiner and Major
Garrity reside at Harvey's Lake,
Major Garrity operates the Thomas
P. Garrity Insurance and Realty
Company. Captain Hughes and
Staff Sergeant Newberry reside in
Dallas. Captain Hughes is connected
with the Wyoming Valley Equip-
ment Company of Kingston while
Sergeant Newberry is self employed
as a contractor in Dallas.
Body Recovered
From Icy Lake
In Ontario
Clarence Schoonover
Lies In State At
Center Moreland
Drowning Victim
SH Cop 'SCHO®NOVER. ¥
The body of Clarence Schoonbver,
62, was recovered on Saturday from
the icy depths of Bar Lake in Ontario,
where he and two friends had been
fishing Tuesday morning. 13kin-divers
using special lights, and almost freez-
ing in the 33 degree temperature at
the bottom of the lake, hampered by
clouds of silt, were unable to locate
the victim.
When diving attempts failed,
though sixteen other divers were a-
lerted to take the search in shifts,
a drag-line was employed. Working
with the line were Carl Besteder,
Draper, Loren and Bill Schoonover;
who had joined Stacy Schoonover, in
Canada when eariier attempts to re-
cover the body were fruitless.
Apparently what happened on
Tuesday was this: the small boat with
outboard motor started to swamp
under the weight of three fishermen
and their equipment, the motor drag-
ging the stern dangerously near the
water level. Mr. Schoonover called,
“Shut off the motor.” This was done,
but the boat continued to sink.
The three men floundered in the
icy water, hampered by heavy fish-
ing garments.
Mr. Schoonover was the oldest of
the trio, least able to stand the shock.
Lloyd Story, 46, and Mr. Schoon-
over clung to the swamped boat
while William Story, 51, swam for
shore.
William ran around the shoreline,
found another boat, and rowed to-
ward the two men in the water.
Mr. Schoonover is reported to have
said, “I'll try to swim to shore.” He
struck out, swam about a boat
length, gasped “I can’t do it,” and
sank. Lloyd made a futile attempt
to hold him up, though suffering from
shock himself and at the end of his
strength.
Mr. Schoonover disappeared.
William towed his brother to shore,
wrapped him in blankets, turned the
truck heater on and got him to
the hotel, where he was given first-
aid for shock and exposure.
Police stated that the body might
not come up from the icy water for
some time, if skin-divers were not
successful. Special lights had to be
employed, as the naked eye is unable
to penetrate the murk at forty feet.
The three Center Moreland men
had fished many times at Bar Lake.
They had driven to Canada on Satur-
day, and had expected to drive back
on Thursday.
When William called his wife on
Tuesday, she , informed Clarence’s
wife, then left for Canada with Stacy
Schoonover.
Mr. Schoonover, a lifelong resident
of Center Moreland, was son of the
late Stacy and Jessie Schoonover,
He was self employed as a painting
contractor. He belonged to Center
Moreland Methodist Church.
He leaves his widow, the former
Ruth Weaver; sons: Stacy, Center
Moreland; Clarence Jr. at home;
Gene, Selinsgrove; a daughetr, Mrs.
Nicholson Safe
As Flying Tiger
Ditches In Sea
News Of Disaster
On TV Precipitates
Rgenizing Vigil
The stark announcement that a
Flying Tiger Superconstellation had
ditched in the North Atlantic with
76 people aboard, broke briefly in-
to Sunday night Television and
radio programs.
For the Foster Hall Rogers fam-
ily in Huntsville, it was the begin-
ning of an agonizing vigil. = Five
hundred miles west of Ireland, and
Mrs. Rogers’ brother was one of the
officers on the plane.
Not until Monday afternoon was
the news confirmed that Samuel
T. Nicholson, navigator, was among
the forty-eight who had tossed for
six hours on a life raft before
being rescued from mountainous
waves by the Swiss freighter Celer-
ina., bound for Antwerp.
Would anybody else be found
alive? Two rafts were known to
have disappeared. Twelve bodies
were found. Another body had been
sighted, but had been lost. Sixteen
were reported missing,
One engine had failed shortly
after; the. mammoth. chartered plane,
7 carrying American servicemen and
ying
their families on a flight to Ger-
many, had left Gander, Newfound-
land.” A second engine failed. A
third.
Navigator Nicholson on the in-
tercom, alerted the passengers, in-
structing them to put on their life
belts. He charted the position of
the plane, warned shipping that
ditching was inevitable, gave the
exact position to ships within reach.
For five years he had been with
the Flying Tigers, coming within a
hair of being lost at sea on a similar
ditching. Flying on a Supercon-
tallation in the Pacific, he had
been relieved at Guam. The plane
took off, and was never found, lost
with everyone aboard.
More news on Tuesday. No hope
left of the other passengers having
survived. Several children were
among the missing.
There had been a fire aboard,
and two passengers were badly
burned.
Wednesday, Helicopters h a d
taken fourteen people from the
freighter, “seven of them bound for
Cork, Ireland. Seven .for Burn Rock
General Hospital.
The Rogers family still waited.’ A
: cablegram was on the way from
Samuel. They still waited.
Late afternoon: a transatlantic
phone call, Samuel at the hospital in
i Cork, Judy in Huntsville. They kept
'it light.
“Be home next week. The Flying
Tigers are still on the job.”
The young navigator, a graduate
of Wyoming Seminary and Lafayette
College, served’ in the Air Force
in Texas and Alaska. He is son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Nichol-
son of Huntsville.
Bonnie Ruth Jenkins
Wins Honor At Wilkes
Bonnie Ruth Jenkins, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Jenkins of
91 Terrace Drive, Shavertown, a
Wilkes College senior, was one of
two students to receive coveted
awards at Wilkes College Student
Assembly on Thursday, September
20. Miss Jenkins received the Linda
Morris Award. '
Linda Morris Award, presented to
Miss Jenkins by Mrs. Hervey Ahl-
born, dean of women is awarded
each year by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Morris in memory of their ‘daughter,
Linda, to the Wilkes Co-ed who has
maintained the highest academic
record during her three years at the
college
Curtis Edwards, East Dallas; six
grandchildren; brothers and sisters:
Draper and James, Mrs. Walter Lam-
oreaux and Mrs. Ruby Besteder, all
of Center Moreland.
Services were conducted from Cen-
terMoreland Methodist Church Tues-
day afternoon, with burial in March
Cemetery. Officiating was Rev. Wil-
{liam Watson,
Lake-Lehman School opened Mon-
day with a total enrollment of 856 |
students, who managed to. find their |
assigned rooms in the confusingly
new halls with a minumum of diffi-
culty.
| Meanwhile, back of ‘the scene,
workmen quietly went about their
duties, doing, major construction on
the east wing, and putting finishing
[touches on the main hall ceiling.
Classes met in a mixed atmosphere |
of the primitive and the ultramodern, '
because of certain unfinished facilit-
ies. A boy might attend an Industrial
Arts class on the porch, when the!
shops are incomplete, oad next per od
learn a language (bottom right),
dictated to him individually by means
of a brand new master-console and
personal booth system.
For Fourth, Fifth
A Back Mountain Children’s Chor-
us is being planned for this area,
sponsored by O’Connell’s Twin Lakes |
and directed by Mrs. John O'Connell. |
Mrs. O'Connell has asked each
school in the area to announce that
the first rehearsal will take place
Lakes; from 7 to 8:30. -
There is na charge. Mrs. O’Connell,
who directed the Girls Chorus while
was a music major, is giving her
services. She enjoys directing a chor-
Tuesday evening, October 9, at Twin |
~A-Chorus=Mrs:~0Q’Connell hopes. to-have
attending Wilkes. College, where she |
Children's Chorus Being Organized
Sixth Graders
us. When she was teaching in Wald-
wich, New Jersey, she organized a
chorus for elementary school, child-
| ren.
{ Children from fourth, fifth and
| sixth grades, from Dallas, Lake-Leh-
| man and Gate of Heaven, are invited
to join the Back Mountain Children’s
Christmas and holiday music whipped
| into shape by December, ready for
presentation on club: or organization
‘programs
Charcoal Dealer
Hit By 4th Fire
Fred Drake's Garage
Burns At High Cost
For the fourth time this season,
Fred Drake, Dallas charcoal-products
dealer suffered costly damage from
fire, when his garage on Woodlawn
Drive burned down Sunday might.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company,
with some 15 men, tried to save
it.
Like Drake’s Fernbrook warehouse
which was the ‘scene of another
fire early in June, the contents of
the garage was charcoal materials.
The Fire Company used two
truckloads of water to extinguish
the blaze, which did $800 damage,
destroying the garage completely.
No other structures were threat-
oned, according to Chief Alvin Shaf-
fer, although some houses are not
too far away.
Drake's garage burned twice be-
fore, this season, early in the sum-
mer, but the Fire Company was
able to extinguish the fires before
they got going. At one of those
fires, it was reported that there
was gasoline saturation in part of the
building.
Saturday morning, June 17, some
bags of charcoal in Drake’s ware-
house, Fernbrook, caught fire, en-
smoke. Fire was discovered by |
Fred Drake, Jr.. who had just come
to open the place up.
the cause of the fire lay in some
new bags just received, which pro-
bably contained a spark.
Smarter Than Thief
John R. Richards, 79, service-sta-
tion attendant from Trucksville,
proved smarter than the bandit
who" held him up at Purcell’s Ser-
vice Station, Tunkhannock.
The thief evidently waited in Lo-
gan’'s Diner next door, Sunday
night, until Richards closed the sta-
tion, and then went to rob him.
But the young man kept imper-
fect vigil, because he believed Rich-
ards when he was told, while point-
ing a gun at the elderly attendant,
that the owner had just left with
the day’s receipts.
After the gunman relieved Rich-
ards of his wallet, containing $18,
he jumped in the Trucksville man’s
car, and drove it for one half a
mile while sitting inches from $200
receipts. The money was on the
seat of the car, under Richards’ coat,
veloping the building in thick black
At that time Drake surmised that | |
Reithoffer Has
Rides In South
Local Showman
Also Plays Canada
Pat Reithoffer, Jr., well-known
eastern showman and owner of Reit-
hoffer’s Shows, with headquarters
on Route 118 at Lehman, is expand-
south.
A pioneer in revitalizing popular-
ity of carnivals in the east, Pat has
experimented this summer with Can-
adian fairs by sending eleven. rides
north under a lease to another show.
If he is successful with these fairs
this year, he may send Reithoffer’s
Shows under their own banner into
the north country next season.
Expanding ‘the summer season well
into the fall this year, the Dallas
showman has scheduled a number
of North Carolina .fairs for October
and November. He also has feelers
out for areas in Florida, for future
development.
When asked if he thought this
i might make a year-round season for
him, he said: “I hope not. Our sea-
son is long enough as it is right now.”
But he’s still trying.
Pat feels that 1962 has been a good
season for his show, one of the old-
est in the business, compensating
somewhat for all the rainy weather
last summer.
Firemen Urged
To Give Blood
Jonathan R. Davis Volunteer Fire
Company announces that it will co-
sponsor The Red Cross Bloodmobile
unit which will visit ‘the Back Moun-
tain Y.M.C.A. in Shavertown on
October 5, 11:45 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
It is requested that all Back Moun-
tain Firemen participate in this drive
{ which will replenish the blood supply
used by John Chesnovitch Jr. who
| passed away this summer, and who
was ‘the son of a J. R. Davis fireman.
Mrs. Ruth Ide “Fair”
After Heart Attack
| + Mrs. Ruth Ide, RD 4, Dallas, is in
“fair” condition at Nesbitt Hospital
where she was taken Monday morn-
ing in Lehman ambulance after suf-
fering a heart attack in her home.
Fire Chief Lee Wentzel, driver of
the ambulance, reported that Mrs.
Ide had to be administered oxygen
the whole distance to the hospital,
ing his itinerary both north and |
Men from Pennsylvania Cas and |
‘Water Company have been calking |
Huntsville Dam, against the ravages |
of frost and bad weather. The pro- |
cess is carried on every ten or twelve
years.
This year work has been made
easier by the drought, which lowered
Huntsville Dam Calking In Progress
the water level.
According to one of the workmen,
| the upper blocks are more susceptible
to frost-damage than the lower.
Work on the dam began over a
week ago, and will continue for a-
bout one more week.
Trucksville Fires |
Chief Vought Long, eh
Fire Company, extinguished three |
fires in three days this week, one |
of which burned a bunk-house to |
the ground, and threatened surround-
ing woods and the old convales-
cent home, Cliffside Avenue.
Monday twenty men with a pump-
er put out the boys’ bunkhouse fire,
which took the contents of the
cabin with it—matresses and sleep-
ing bags.
The day before, Chief Long and
Paul Sabol put out a cinder-truck
fire on Carverton Road, after a
punctured crankcase resulted in an
oil leak.
Owner of the truck was unidenti-
fied.
At 8:30: Tuesday night, during a
heavy rain, fire broke out myster-
jously in a pile of brush on Post
Road. The Chief and fifteen men em-
ptied the pumper on it. An arsonist
or vandal may have been the cause.
Jewish New Year Begins |
On Friday at sun-down, the shofar
or ram’s horn will be sounded in
synagogues all over the world, to
usher in Rosh Hashana, the Jewish
New Year, and the beginning of the
ten-day penitential period leading up
to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atone-
ment, the most solemn day in the
Hebrew calendar,
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Local Breeders
‘Take 12 Ribbons
Sands And Hillside
Win At Harrisburg
Back Mountain cattlemen took a
total of twelve honors at the recent
Ninth Annual Pennsylvania State
Black and White Show, Harrisburg.
Local champions were Holstein
cows owned by Ralph M. Sands, Car-
verton, and Hillside Farms, Trucks-
ville.
Sands received First Prize in the
Senior Bull Calf Division for Sands-
dale Sovereign King B, now owned
by Donald L. Williams, Tunkhannock.
Other Sands honors were: Fourth
Prize in Junior Bull Calf, Junior Year-
ling Bull, and Three-Year Old Bull
Divisions; Fifth Prize in Junior Bull
Calf, and Four-Year old Cow Divis-
ions; and Sixth Prize in Three-Year
Old Cow Division. :
Hillside Farms ‘took Second Prize
in the 100,000 lb. Class with Pen-
state Armac Star Lass. The famous
old farm also took Third Prize in Pro-
duce of Dam and Daughter-Dam
Classes, and Tenth Prize in the Four-
Year Old Cow Division.
Third Prize in the Club Herd Class
was awarded to Columbia-Luzerne-
Montour Counties,
No Confusion
As Lake-Lehman
School Opens
Gymnasium And
Auditorium Are °
Still Uncompleted
Lake-Lehman High School opened
Monday, a mixture of frustration
and achievement. The opening was
frustration for school officials in
that the brand new high shcool did
not receive its students September
5 when others did. And in the fact
that the east wing, including gym-
nasium, theater, auditorium, shops,
lockers, and music rooms was still
incomplete.
The opening was an achievement
because of the valiant effort put
forth by teachers and PTA mem-
bers over the weekend, carrying
furniture and supplies in all kinds
of vehicles, to open, no matter what.
The fact that the east wing was
not complete Monday was a surprise
to no one. Principal Anthony Mar-
chakitus said there is a strong pos-
sibility that the gymnasium will be
open in time for basketball practice.
Enrollment the first day was 856,
with negligible confusion among the
student body in searching for rooms
along the new corridors. The first
lunch served in Lehman's new
cafeteria was pizza.
Almost all facilities in the main
wing were functioning normally, in-
cluding the water-fountains and the
two-way radio between principal's
office and classrooms. Soft-radioed
bells announced each hour exactly.
Electricians still roamed up and
down the ha.ls, putting in finishing
touches, but there was no noise.
. Since the east wing is still in
embryonic stages, some classes have
to catch as catch can.. Music classes
met Monday in ‘the ‘Library. Li-
brary books were not yet shelved.
Industrial Arts classes convened
the first day on the porch. Until
their shops are roofed, they will be
working on practical projects around
the school. The shop roof cannot
be put on until the auditorium roof
is installed, probably two months
from now.
A home field for football games
is a reality for the future only. This
year home game: will be played on
Dallas Junie» Figh School Field.
“Gym classes will “micet outsid
There are no facilities to change
clothing. There will be no locker
‘rooms until late November.
The home-economics department
was still house-cleaning Monday, but
expected to be in operation within
the week. It is beautifully equipped,
and includes a modern built-in-the-
wall oven. This suite and those for
the doctor and dentist remained the
only facilities incomplete
main wings of the school.
Among the most modern teaching
equipment in operation the first day .
was the 32-man language labora-
tory, capable of running several
programs at once from one master
console.
Local Bands At
Fair On Friday
Reithoffer Shows
Sparkle On Midway
Reithoffer’s Shows, Lehman, opens
ed at Bloomsburg Fair, Monday, with
all rides, concessions, and shows in
good order. A free gate greeted the
opening-night crowd, which, as usual,
was more interested in looking a-
round than spending money. Admis-
sion will be charged other days.
Dallas and Lake-Lehman High
School Bands will ‘travel to Blooms-
burg Friday to feature in the school-
band exhibition that afternoon, un-
der the direction of John Miliauskas
and Lester Lewis.
Jimmy Dean, popular country and
western music star, led off as head-
liner, to be followed during the week
by Ginny Tiu and Anita Bryant. Many
other nationally-known stars are al-
so featured.
Side-shows featured on the Reit-
hoffer midway include a snake-eater,
motorcycle-drome, animal shows by
Von Brothers of Red Rock Game
Farm, exotic dancers, and Club 21,
a rock 'n roll show.
Several new rides are among des
scores of thrill-machines which Pat
Reithoffer has spanning the long mid-
way. New this year is the “Meteor”,
which is a sort of flying side-walk
cafe, without food, on three Plat:
forms.
For food there are countless stands
and restaurants stretching along the
mile-long midway, which serve every-
thing from french-fries to waffles,
chicken-dinners to pizza. ]
Featured in four brick oxhiblidon
buildings are flower shows, and ex-
hibits of industrial arts and famous
collections.
Ninety On Saturday
Mrs. Emma Gensel, Hellers Grove,
will celebrate her ninetieth birthday
anniversary quietly at her home on
Sunday. She and her daughter, Kath-
erine live together. Her husband,
Arthur died several years ago.
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