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VOL. 74, NO. 42 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1962
Lake-Lehman To
Oppose County
School Plan
Solicitor Directed
To Draw Up And File
School Board Stand
Lake-Lehman jointure directors
-voted at the October meeting to in-
‘struct solicitor Atty. Lewis Crisman
to prepare and file opposition to the
proposed plan of Luzerne County re-
organization as affecting Lake-Leh-
man,
Supervising principal Lester Squier
met with the policy committee to
further discuss the proposals, and
attended, as a visitor, a meeting con-
ducted at Northwest Jointure high
school building in Shickshinny.
Northwest Jointure directors were
dubious about the proposition. Lake-
Lehman has nine out of the ten re-
quirements for a district. . .The only |.
deficiency is in the number of stu-
dents, less than the suggested 4,000.
A special school board meeting
will be called if occasion warrants.
Lake-Lehman has gone through a
bloody: battle to get its new school,
now in operation classroom-wise,
with other facilities rapidly nearing
completion. The cafeteria has been
in operation since opening day, Sep-
tember 24.
Directors are understandably loath
to whip their constituents into fur-
ther effort and further reorganization
at ‘this time, when scars of battle
have not yet healed and neighbor is
still pitted against neighbor in some
of the areas where the contest was
hottest and the recrimination’s most
bitter. !
The problem was pinpointed with
‘accuracy at a recent PTA meeting,
“eld in the new high school cafeteria.
Mary Glowacky, experienced teach-
er from Kingston demonstrated with
a number of elementary age children,
showing the accepted approach in
teaching of languages.
“Could we have this sort of a pro-
gram?” was the inquiry.
“Of course we could,” agreed Mr.
j Squier.
“It would cost something?”
“Of course it would cost something.
Around $5,000 for a teacher.”
That is the rub in all schinls that
are trying to present a quality pro-
gram. It cannot be done without fin:
ancial outlay, and financial owdsy,
spelled out, means taxes. Education
will never cost any less. It will in-
evitably cost more, as teachers’ salar-
ies increase. Everything that goes in-
to education is on the way up.
Charles A. Perkins
Passes Away At 77
Charles A. Perkins, 77, father of
Dr. Charles G. Perkins, died Satur-
day afternoon at his home on Carv-
erton Road after an illness of two
years. He was buried on Wednesday
in Hanover Green Cemetery, follow-
ing services conducted by Rev. Robert
Germond from the Bronson Funeral
Home. ;
Until retirement two years ago, Mr.
Perkins had been for twenty years
employed by the State Treasurer’s
Office in Scranton.
Born' in Askam, son of the late
Henry and Sarah Perkins, he had
lived in Trucksville for 46 years. He
was a member of the White Church
on the Hill and Trucksville Fire
Company.
He attended public schools in Ask-
am, and graduated from Wyoming
Seminary.
On New Years Day, Mr. and Mrs.
Perkins observed their 54th wedding
anniversary.
Survivors are: his widow, the for-
mer Ruth A. Lewis of Sugar Notch;
four children: Dr. Charles G. Perkins,
Mrs. Harry D. Owens, Mrs. Verne
Pritchard, all of Trucksville; Samuel
Rahway, N.J.; ten grandchildren, one
greatgrandchild; a sister, Mrs. John
Bonawicz, Reading.
Services were conducted yester-
day morning by Rev. Robert Ger-
mond from the Bronson Funeral
Home, followed by burial in Hanover
Green Cemetery.
Pallbearers were grandsons: Char-
les and John Perkins; Jack and Rob-
ert Pritchard; Dr. Bruce ‘Schmucker;
and a nephew Glenn Bonawicz.
Fire At Mt. Zion
Displaces Family
Fire drove a Mt. Zion family of
five from their home Sunday after-
noon around 5, and burned the
building to the ground.
Of undetermined origin, the flames
reportedly started near the baby’s
room on the second floor of ‘the
home of Frank Klein, Jr., Sutton
Creek Road. .
Flames enveloped the old unpaint-
ed house almost immediately, and
it was a total loss within 45 minutes.
Six men from Harding Fire Com-
pany under the leadership of Joseph
Clifford, Assistant Fire Chief, were
called, but there was little to save.
The ' Kleins were given shelter in
the old Burt Beam home. Beam was
Klein's grandfather, and Mrs. Beam
is now living with Frank Klein, Sr.
and family. :
Those who escaped the blaze were
Mr. and Mrs. Klein and three child-
ren, -
Freshman investiture at College
Misericordia on Sunday afternoon;
borough crowds of parents and guests
to the campus. The ceremony was an
impressive ending of Parents’ Week-
end, which began Saturday after-
noon.
October’s most vivid colors and
clearest sky formed a perfect setting
for thig traditional ceremony. Its
stage was the circle in front of Miseri-
cordia’s Administration Building.
Upperclassmen walked to the cirile
| by roadway from Walsh Auditorium.
Freshmen came from the entrance
lof the. Administration Building where
Sister M. Celestine, R.:S.M., president
of ‘the college capped them to sym-
bolize their admission to the college
of liberal arts.
| She was assisted in the capping
by Sister M. Karen, R.S.M., Dean of
Freshman Investiture At Misericordia
Residents.
On this occasion the freshmen
wore their ‘academic dress for the
first time.
After the"'capping ceremony, the
whole student body stood together in
the Administration Circle surrounded
by tall evergreens and color-massed
maple trees to sing the college song.
. They followed with the pledge of | the national anthem.
allegiance and the National Anthem.
Then an act of consecration was
read by the Right Reverend Jame
T. Ciarke, S.T.L., who is chaplain
{and professor of philosophy at the
college. Misericordia’s students end-
ed their Investiture Ceremony with
{the hymn Salve Mater.
Picture Identification: Whole stu-
dent body after cappig as they sang
Are You One Of 2,506 Persons
Eligible To Serve
On The Jury?
Complete List Of Those Citizens Who
Are Eligible For 1963 Is In This Issue
Local Men Buy
Michigan Ice
Machine Firm
Jim and Bob Post
Will Manufacture
Lipman Ice Boy
J. B..Post, Center Hill Road,part-
ner, J. B. Post Company, has dis-
closed the 42-year-old company has
purchased the Lipman Ice Boy Div-
ision of Yates-American Corporation,
Beloit.
Immediate plans include construct-
ion of a new plant, or acquisition of
facilities to manufacture ice mach-
ines, requiring a plant personnel of
approximately 40 male employees.
. Due to Lipman Ice Boy inventory, it
will not be necessary to start man-
ufacturing until the first quarter of
1963.
Purchase includes patents, invent-
ions, inventories, manufacturing
rights, ‘trademarks and machinery.
Robert Christianson, former pro-
duction coordinator and field service
director of Lipman has been engag-
ed by J.B. in a similar capacity in
supervising preliminary planning for
the new division of the Post Comp-
any.
Ice Boy is an ice maker that auto:
matically makes, stores, and vends
ice. Plans call for installations of the
machines in shopping centers, super
markets, gas stations, package stores,
neighborhood stores, drug stores,
tourist stops, motels and apartment
houses.
The compact machine is connected
to the regular water supply and the
level of the freezing tank is auto-
matically maintained. Ice ‘tips are
frozen under water and are even
purer than the water supply, because
the automatic agitating system settles
out and removes impurities. An ap-
proximate equal amount of water
that is required for making the ice
is used to float out and dilute im-
purities from the water supply. The
freezing unit and refrigerating system
is operated by an air-cooled condens-
Coin operated, the device ener-
gizes the ice tip vending unit and
actuates the release of a disposable
paper bag for holding the delivered
ice.
Ice Boy manufacturing unit will
be a division of the J.B. Post Comp-
any which currently employs 80 peo-
ple, most of them men. Founded by
the late J. B. Post in 1920, the com-
pany sells and distributes anthracite
and is one of the area’s largest heat-
ing contractors, Company owns and
For the second time in its 73-year
old history as a community news-
paper, The Dallas ‘Post this week
publishes the Luzerne County Jury
| list in convenient eagy readable tab-
loid form that can be saved for future
reference by Court Officials, lawyers
and other interested citizens.
The list contains the names of 2,506
citizens eligible for jury service dur-
ing 1963 starting in January.
These persons may be drawn as
traverse, petit or grand jurors accord-
ing to the manner in which they are
selected or are needed to serve the
court for civil and criminal hearings.
The Couty Jury Board is composed
of the five Judges of Luzerne County,
Judge Frank Pinola, President Judge
Judge Thomas Lewis, Judge Bernard
Brominski, Judge Jacob Schiffman,
Judge Richard Bigelow; the two Jury
Commissioners Leonard Cawley, and
David Jones. Clerk for the Board is
Robert Cohen.
Each of the seven members of the
Board contributes names which are
then placed in the framed Jury
wheel and drawn as needed.
obligation to serve his country as a
The Jury Commissioners under the
ings at regular intervals.
supervision of the Court make draw-
jurior may ask ho have his name in-
cluded on the list.
Copies of the Jury list published
in this issue of The Post wil be avail-
able throughout this year as long as
the supply last to interested citizens
who would like to have one.
Perhaps your name is now on that
list if so you can be proud that you
are eligible for this sacred duty.
operates Consumers Ice Manufactur-
ing Company. Sole owner and part-
ners are James B. Post and Robert
E. Post.The latter is presently on the
distributorships for Ice Boy machines.
He will direct the national and in-
ternational division of the new com-
pany.
Both Post brothers for some years
have been active on ‘the community
scene. James B. Post is treasurer,
Area Industrial Development Corp-
oration, one of the subsidiaries of
Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of
Commerce. i
ship High School and Wharton School
of Finance. He is a former member
of Pennsylvania House of Represent-
atives, a past president, Greater
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce;
Wyoming Valley's Outstanding
Young Men of Pennsylvania in 1954;
holder of the Eyerman Award for
Outstanding Junior Chamber of Com-
merce Presidents in Pennsylvania,
and is currently president, Wyoming
| Valley Credit Bureau.
Any citizen who feels a sincere |
Grandma Gordon
Anniversary Surrounded By Family
Mrs. F. M. Gordon, oldest citizen
of Dallas Borough, celebrated her
ninety-first birthday anniversary
Sunday surrounded by members of
her family at a dinner party at Irem
Temple Country Club.
Among the guests were her grand-
son George Phillips, Buffalo, with his
wife and children, John, Jim and
Janice; granddaughter, Mrs. Barbara
Simonton, Harrisburg, husband and
children, Bobby and Ricky, and Mrs.
Gordon's daughter, Mrs. Florence
Phillips.
It was a full week for Mrs. Gordon
who can easily handle some of the
best players in the area--and does
consistently. A week earlier her
grandson, Richard Phillips, Wilming-
ton, Del., his wife and three children
Carol, Chuckie and Nancy, helped
celebrate the approach of the ninety-
first birthday along with Mrs. Gor-
don’s other daughter, Mrs. Lou Tay-
lor and her husband before their re-
turn to their home in Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Gordon’s husband the late
| F.M. Gordon was a building contrac-
‘tor who built many of the fine old
West Coast where he is arranging |
He is a graduate of Hanover Town- |
Dallas Junior High School held
an assembly program October 8
with Dr. Robert Mellman, Superin-
tendent, speaking on “What a Good
Student Council] Should Be.”
Scott Alexander, President of the
Student Council, led devotions and
te Salute to the Flag. James Stein-
hauer, ‘treasurer, presented the
school with a new United States flag,
a Pennsylvania flag and a television
set, all purchased with money earn-
Has Ninety-First
homes in Dallas Borough. He was for |
a number of yedrs prior to his death,
Borough Tax Collector.
Grandma Gordon is never hap-
perier than when surrounded by her
better.
Canadian Woman Dies
At Quaker Court Motel
A 69 year old woman, visiting in
this area before returning to her
home in Canada, died early Wednes-
day morning at the Quaker Court
Motel where she and her husband
registered last Thursday.
Dr. A.A. Mascali was summoned
when Mrs. Margaret McKenzie Sand-
ers suffered a heart attack, and
Dallas Community Ambulance stood
by.
He husband Rev. Sanders started
for Cmtario on Wednesday. Richard
Disqu= arranged for shipment of the
| body on the 11:10 p.m. train from
Scran-on.
School Receives National And State Flags
ied in the magazine campaign.
JStudent council representatives
were called to the stage and intro-
duced by Scott Alexander.
First row - Dr. Mellman, Super-
| intendent of Schools, Dave Green,
| Fett Townsend, Linda Taylor, Caleen .
| Conagham, Scott Alexander (Presi-
dent) Kerry Roberts (Secretary) Jim
| Steinhauer (Treasurer) Amy Hetrick,
Janet Keley, Todd Richards, and Mr.
grandchildren--and the noiser the
Smash Windows
In Lake, Boro.
New “Delinquency”
Added To Twp. Crime
Heralding the Hallowe'en season
this year was a wave of vandalism
in Dallas Township comprising
smashed and stolen equipment and
paint-throwing, topped off by smash-
ed windows in Dallas Borough and
Outlet, Harveys Lake.
Tuesday night a large rock was
thrown through the picture window
of the home of Robert Costigan, Out-
let Road around 7:30. Around 10:30
Mrs. Costigan told neighbors Herman
Kern that the rock had landed right
in her favorite chair.
The Costigans were not home at
the time. Later that evening, a 12x15
inch pane of double glass was knock-
ed outof the 75-foot bow-window of
Richard Demmy’s home, Lake Street.
Mrs. Demmy noted that the rock
must have been thrown with a lot of
force to go through two panes of glass
and across a twenty seven foot liv-
ing room,
Five Dallas Township youths, ages
11 ‘to 14, have been scheduled for
hearings Friday, October 26 for ‘‘de-
linquency”’ in the area between Had-
denfield and Irem Temple Country
Club.
For one group of three, the “delin-
quency‘‘ amounted to breaking into
sheds belonging to Anthony Hudak,
Haddenfield well contractor, from
stealing paint, tar-products, and
pruning shears, from Irem Temple
Country Club. They threw the paint
and tar on the pavement anda pic-
ture-window at the home belonging
to Clifford Troup, Haddenfield.
Windows were smashed in the
Country Club’s gun club and the
eleventh hole snack bar, probably by
a BB gun, according to James F.
Smith, manager.
That same night at the fire-tower
adjacent to ‘the Club, windows were
shot out with a .22 calibre rifle, ac-
cording to State Police.
Ben F. Merrell To Be
Ninety-Four, Sunday
Ben F. Merrell, Doran Drive,
Trucksville, will celebrate his ninety
fourth birthday anniversary on Sun-
day, October 21, quietly with his
daughter, Ruth, science teacher at
Meyers High School. Mrs. Merrell
died four years ago.
Mr. Merrell, hale and hearty, still
thoroughly enjoys life. His only re-
gret is that most of his old chess
cronies have passed on He longs for
and challenges any young blade who
thinks he’s a good chess player. Just
give him a ring, 696-2388.
Borough PTA Stages
Education Workshop
Dallas Borough PTA enjoyed a
workshop on ‘Your ‘Child’s Curricu-
lum” Monday evening. A question
and answer period followed.
Mrs. George Thomas presented the
budget. Mrs. Benjamin Davis, re-
placing ‘third grade teacher Mrs.
Wesley Davies, was introduced. Rob-
ert Tupper, safety chairman, in-
structed parents to drive to the rear
of the school in discharging children,
‘to eliminate hazardous stopping on
the streets.
Blood Bank chairman Mrs. Step-
hen Hartman, reporting the PTA
five pints short of its quota, asked
for volunteers.
In recognition of National Educat-
ion Week, a tea is planned Novem-
ber 12. First grade mothers will be
hostesses.
The Dallas Township youths, aged
11, will be heard before the court
for ripping down ga fire-place in a
partially-built Shrineview home, be-
longing to contractor George Ruckno,
the same night as the Haddenfield
and Country Club vandalism. They
also smashed windows, electrical out-
lets, and equipment on a well-drilling
truck.
That same weekend, radio anten-
nas were torn from five cars parked
in front of Crown Imperial Bowling
Alley, Dallas.
Discuss Frances Slocum Park
Back Mountain residents who are
serving on Wilkes-Barre Chamber
of Commerce and Luzerne County
Tourist Committees discuss plans for
the development of Frances Slocum
State Park in the Carverton area
with Sixth Legislative Representat-
ive Fred Shupnik, standing.
Left to right, are A. DeWitt Smith,
Elmcrest; William Robbins, Trucks-
ville, an authority on Indian lore who
proposed the name of the state park;
Rep. Shupnik, who played'a leading
role in combining the Abraham Creek
Flood Control project and the estab-
lishment of the Frances Slocum State
Park, covering more than 1,000 acres;
John Conyngham, Huntsville; Robert
Rinehimer, Idetown, and Charles W.
Frantz, Chase, who heads the Cham:
ber of Commerce Tourist Committee.
The Frances Slocum State Park
will be the first in the State which
will be closest to a large-populated
area, according to Rep. Shupnik, who
plans to get additional State aid for
the restoration of a number of In-
dian markers in the site.
Balan (Advisor) Dave Kozemchak, | tin, Karen Tag, Sheryl Evans, Ver-
vice president of the student coun-
¢il took this photo and is our coun-
cl’ photographer.
/ Second row - Ann Barnes, Tommye
Morris, Linda Wimmer, Christine
onica Jerista, Patty Larson, Pat
Aleknovick, Donna Priebe, Tom
Jenkins, Danny Darrance, Paul
Turner.
Fourth row - John Evenson, Roy
Rishell, Margie Mattes, David Hess, | Supolski, Dave Kozic, Donna Imatt,
Third row - Gay Williams, Robert
Berlew, Larry Heycock, Donald Mar-
Rusty Williams, Harry Cooper, Sher- | Diane Schweiss, Ruth Besecker, Nan-
iman Meade, Russell Montidomico. {cy Crispell, Sally Lanceo, Lucy Flem-
ing, Caddy LaBarr, Scott Blaze Rob-
ert Berkey.
Third Fatality
At Point Above
Shady-Side Lake
Elderly Caretaker
Instantly Killed
Walking Highway
The third man to be killed on the
Tunkhannock Highway over-looking
Shady-Side Lake was an elderly Aus-
trian who tramped the road winter
and summer, on his way back and
forth to his job as caretaker of Wood-
lawn Cemetery. Edward Martin and
Sherman Hoyt were the other vic-
tims, some years ago.
On the edge of dark Tuesday eve-
ning, Martin Paulick, 73, bound for
the cottage where he lived alone on
the Raymond Elston place, was struck
and instantly killed by a car driven
by another elderly man from New
Jersey, Benjamin F. Sloat, 68.
His skull was fractured, his neck
broken, his chest crushed, and one
foot completely severed.
For over an hour cars were de-
toured around the spot where the
mangled body still lay, while State
Police took pictures, filled out charts,
gathered testimony. Dr. Lester Said-
man and deputy corner Stephen
Glova were summoned. ;
By 8:30, flares were taken up, and
the body on its way to Glova Funeral
Home,
The man had no survivors, no close
friends. His executor, Joseph Camlch
or Luzerne, acquainted with him for
thirty-five years, said he had never
been able to delve into the man’s
beginnings. The names of his parents
are unknown, buried with the past
in Austria.
For over twenty years he lived in
this area, coming here from Luzerne.
He had worked variously for Stephen
Lord as a lumberman, for C.H. Dress
as a handyman, for Race’s Meat Mar-
ket, and more recently as caretaker,
always keeping his own counsel
friendly, but withdrawn.
He was a member of an American-
Austrian Lodge in Luzerne, SNTL
159.
A habitual pedestrian on the road
elicits comment. He was a familiar
figure along the highway. It seemed
to residents that his step had become
a little slower recently, his frame a
little thinner. It was a long walk
back and forth to Woodlawn for a
seventy-three year old man.
Folks wondered if he had enough
to eat. When he died, they wondered
if he had enough means to bury him,
without assistance from the County.
A number of people offered to help.
The executor said funds were
available, Mr. Paulick had worked
hard all his life, and put aside a little
each payday. There was a sufficient
bank balance,
This morning he will buried at Mt.
Olivet, following a mass of requiem
at Gate of Heaven church at 9.
Board May Build
With Federal Aid
Township Building
Insurance Dropped
Kingston Township Board of Sup-
ervisors dropped insurance on the
Memorial Highway township build-
ing, at its October meeting, and a-
greed to investigate the possibility
of obtaining federal funds to build
a new township building.
After hearing a report by Super-=
visor Lester Hauck concerning the
act, at an adjourned meeting Mon-
day, the Board ‘authorized applicat-
ion to Washington under its pro-
visions.
The insurance move was made
on recommendation of Atty. Mitchell
Jenkins, solicitor, as the Supervisors
have not had an insurable interest
in the building since September 20,
1961.
Title to the property passed to the
Commonwealth, when land was con-
demned for the new Dallas-Luzerne
Highway.
Insurance is to be maintained,
however, on the contents of the
building, and also on the Carverton
Road building.
Federal funds are available through
the new Public Works Act, which al-
lows a grant of fifty per cent of cost
of township or borough projects em-
barked on within 150 days of pass-
ing on the act.
The township would pay half the
cost.
ment funds.
Dallas Borough is also considering
making use of allowances provided
by the new law.
State To Pave
Main Street
Main Street, Dallas, is slated for
repaving next year, among Luzerne
County projects totalling a budgeted
$16,000,000 to $28,000,000, it has
been announced by the Pennsylvania
Highway Department. :
Already improved this year was a
length of .05 miles of Main Street, or
Legislative Route 936, as it is known
in Harrisburg, which was graded,
drained, and widened at cost of
$3378.
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