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VOL. 74, NO. 43 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1962
Halloween March
To Form In Back
Of Lumber Co.
Parade Slated For
Monday Night, Or In
Case Of Rain, Tuesday
Back Mountain Hallowe'en Parade
is scheduled for Monday night,
starting at 6:30 in Shavertown.
Ranks will form behind Back Moun-
tain Lumber Company, organized
into categories: Humorous, histori-
cal, original, ugliest, prettiest, etc.
The parade will move up Main
Street to Franklin; across Franklin
to the highway; down the highway
to the Back Mountain Shopping
Center,
Here it will enter the upper drive,
going directly toward McCrory's,
by the reviewing stand in the cen-
ter.
It will make a complete circuit of
the parking lot, passing the review-
ing stand for the second time before
the break-up and the awarding of
prizes.
In case of rain, the parade will be
held Tuesday night at the same
time. |
All children in the Back Moun-
tain area are welcome to enter.
Bob Parry, manager of Shaver-
town Acme, is parade chairman. He
names his committees:
Entertainment: Granville Sowden,
Back Mountain Lumber Co.
Public Address System, Bill Gu-
yette; records, Russell Eyet.
Solicitation: Dallas area, William
Baker; Miners National B a n k ;
Shavertown area, Edward Hum-
phreys Shoe-Store; Trucksville area,
Vern Pritchard, Kingston Township
tax collector.
Judges: Robert Dolbear, Dallas
area Schools.
Police: Chief Herbert Updyke,
Kingston Township,
Prizes: Henry the Jeweller,
Shavertown. :
Candy: Robert Boyer, manager of
McCrory'’s. ? 2
Insurance, Wayne Gordon.
Formation, Russell DeRemer and
Shavertown Businessmen.
Prizes will be awarded to win-
ners, and all children entering the
parade will receive candy. :
State Police
Seek Fire Clue
Valuable Equipment
Lost In Saw-Mill
State Police have been investigat-
ing the cause of the three-alarm fire
which burned a Dallas sawmill, own-
ed by McKinley Long, to the ground
Saturday night.
“Companies from Dallas, Shaver-
town, and Jackson Township battled
the Parrish Street blaze for two
hours in an attempt to confine it.
The area is surrounded by woods.
Five trucks spent about 15,000
gallons on the fire, the worst in the
Dallas area in many months.
Heading ‘approximately 75 men
were assistant chiefs William Berti
and Donald Bulford, Dallas, Chief
Arnold Yeust, Shavertown, and As-
sistant Chief Bob Cooper, Jackson.
Mr. Long said that the mill, erect-
ed about twelve years ago, has pot)
been used for a year. Among ‘the val- |
uable equipment lost in the blaze !
were three heavy-duty power saws.
Nothing inflamable had been left
in the plant, according to the owner.
The chiefs conferred about the met-
hod of. operation in fighting the fire,
which had become uncontrollable
even before the companies arrived.
They agreed that they would fight
to contain the flames within the area
then burning, and would try to keep
the seven streams of water from
three large power lines leading into
the plant.
Around 7:30 Wilbur Davis saw
flames in the building, which is locat-
ed just up the street from his home.
He called Dr. Henry Laing Company,
which in turn called Shavertown and
Jackson Township. They arrived in
that order. and extinguished the fire
in about two hours.
Cars jammed up Parrish Street
and Huntsville Road to watch the
activity.
. No clues to the source of the fire
have been released yet from fire or
State Police.
Company Called
To Leaf Fire
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
responded to a call Friday afternoon
at 5 ‘that a leaf-fire on Overbrook
Road, Fernbrook, had spread.
By the time the truck arrived, the
flames, on property belonging to
J. R. Simpson, had been extin-
guished with a garden hose. Firemen
helped to wet down the remains.
Daylight Saving
- Ends Sunday A.M.
Daylight Saving ends Sunday
morning at 2. Set your clock
back one’ hour before retiring
Saturday night, to avoid getting
to church one hour early.
For the ‘tenth season out of the}
past twelve, Lehman-Jackson, spon-
sored ‘by Harter’'s Dairy, won. the
Back Mountain Little League Champ-
ionship.
The team was managed by Robert |
Disque and coached by William Spon-
seller. It featured the pitching of
Charles Kern who did not lose a game
game with Pittman, N.J., played at
Medford, Mass. |
Post Auxiliary
Lays Plans For
AB Junior Unit
Americanism Basis
For Instruction In
Building For Future
Mrs. Walter Boehme,
stalled president of Daddow Isaacs
newly in-
American Legion Post Auxiliary, is
anxious to establish a Junior divis-
ion, with the idea of instilling Amer-
icanism into young girls before they
reach the age of becoming members
of the auxihary. G.uxls from 13 to 18,
daughters of Legionaires, are'eligible
to belong to the Junior Rockettes.
Mrs. Boehme says, “Our most’ di-
rect approach to young America ‘is
through our Juniors, girls who are
training for ‘the future, carrying out
ideals and activities of the American
Legion Auxiliary in patriotic service.”
Juniors, she continues, can co-
operate in coupon collections, scrap-
books, mcting as pages, helping with
Poppy Day.
A junior of sixteen or over, is
eligible to join the Volunteers at the
Veterans Hospital.
Many leaders in the senior groups
throughout * the country got their
basic training in a junior group.
“In these times when selfishnes,
greed, corruption, complete disre-
gard for the rights of the individual
are on the increase, there is a press-
ing*need for instilling in the child-
ren of the nation a love of their
country, its history, and its funda-
mental ideals.”
Auxiliary members are urged to
get in touch with at least one girl
who would be interested in the pro-
gram.
Kathleen Barlow
chairman.
Unit
is Junior
Northeastern Pennsylvania Coon- |
hunters’ Association held Coon-hound |
water-races at Elston’s Pond, Kunkle, |
Sunday with some thirty dogs com-
peting, several owned by local men. |
In coon-hound water racing, the |
dogs swim across a lake after a rac- |
coon riding in a boat-cage, towed by |
a rope, stretched to the opposite side
of the lake on top of a pole.
~
The dogs, held by their owners are
had Edward Dubil whose pitching
was very good and whose bat led the
team to many victories.
players, the team had thirteen boys
who had the desire to play and did
play exceptionally good ball.
in local play and lost only one game | Pennsylvania State Champions, four |
in his entire Little League career.|on the first team and two on ‘the!
That wias the Eastern Championship reserve. These boys were: Kenneth
Cook, Edward Dubil, Charles Kern,
Allen Fox, and Gary Sponseller.
and committeemen are making plans
lican ticket.
on the night of Thursday, November
Mountain Republican Committeemsn,
Back Mountain Little League Champions
The Lehman-Jackson team ‘also
Beside these ‘two outstanding ball
From this team came six of the
One, Two, Three Pheasants, Take To ‘The Bir
Game Protector Ed Gdosky and
deputy Walter Malinowski release |
the first three pheasants of a load
Republicans Planning Two Big
Rallies Here During Next Week
Back Mountain Republican women
for two big rallies to be held the
latter part of next week to further
the candidacies of a native son, Rob-
ert Fleming, and the entire Repub-
The first, sponsored by Republican
women, will be held at Trucksville
1. All county candidates will be pre-
sent and refreshments will be ser-
The second, sponsored by all Back
will be held at Daddow-Isaacs Post
American Legion Home on Saturday
night, November 3. Here, too, county
permitted to sniff the coon as he
waits to be towed to the pole. They
growl and get .excited about the
chase. Their quarry, however, is at
all times protected by the cage.
On a signal from the judges, who
wait by the pole, the coon is pulled
about thirty feet into the water then |
the dogs are released.
mott.
| | for Governor.
| ved.
The .runner-up team for Back
Mountain Little League honors was
Fernbrook sponsored by Gosart's
Market, Dallas.
Shown above are members of the
Lehman-Jackson team, left to right,
first row: K. Cook, A. Fox, D. Kittle,
J. Yascur, T. Lozo, G. Sponseller;
second row: B. Disque, manager, G.
Bertram, D. Spencer, E. Dubil, C.
Kern, B. Sponseller, coach. Absent
when the picture was taken were:
T. Ehret, R. Bombick, and B. McDer-
College Campus
Hums With New
Construction
Raymen R. Hedden
Awarded Contract
For Two Buildings
A one and one-quarter million dol-
lar general contract for the con-
struction of a single story student un-
ion building and a three story dor-
mitory on the College Misericordia
campus has been awarded to Ray-
mon R. Hedden Company.
Excavations for the buildings on
the easterly side of the campus have
already been completed and about
three quarters of the foundations are
completed.
Merrick Hall, the student union
building, will house a dining room
for 500 students, a campus book
store, Lounge and TV rooms.
The dormitory to be known as Al-
umnae Hall will house 150 students.
Designed. by Lacy, Atherton &
Davis, architects, the buildings are
considered by many to be the most
beautiful in the Northeastern Penn-
sylvania area.
They are expected to be ready for
occupancy at the opening of the Fall
Semester in 1963.
The campus now presents a bee
hive of construction activity with
work also moving apace on the new
$2 million convent of the Sisters of
Mercy which is being built by Ber-
reta Construction Company.
Birds Released
In Local Lands
Brea Well Stocked
For Season Opening
Two hundred fifty pheasant cock-
birds have been released in town-
ships west of the Susquehanna, in-
cluding . all Back Mountain town-
ships, according to Ed Gdosky,
Game Warden.
The recent stock, in time for the
onening of Small Game Season,
Jdlirday, is part of a major pro:
gram aimed at building up pheasant,
wild turkey, bobwhite quail and
waterfowl populations throughout
the state.
The birds, among total of 304,196
ringnecks, are stocked on lands
open to public hunting. In addition,
the wildlife agency is holding 21,390
pheasants on .its farms for release
look on, and assay the project in
terms of fall shooting during the
small game season. Photos by Steve
of 440, as three happy sportsmen ! Kish, State Game Commision.
candidates will speak and refresh-
ments will be served.
The public is cordially invited
to attend either or both of the rallies
Republican leaders feel that this
is one of the finest tickets placed
before the electorate in years by the
Republican party. They are especially
pleased with the growing support be-
ing given Robert Fleming for the
Legislature and William Scranton
According to one leader, “The
Back Mountain holds the key to this
election. in Luzerne County. With
such men as Harold Flack and Bob
all over the state during next
month's season.
Game bird releases since the first
of the year also inclnde 10,276 bob-
white quail, 5,841 wild turkeys,
9,891 mallard ducks and 314 Canada
geese. Last winter Game Commis-
sion field officers and cooperating
sportsmen also live-trapped 48,626
rabbits from suburban areas and
transferred them to open hunting
land.
The 304,196 ringneck pheasants
released include 80,196 birds raised
on (Commission game farms, 38,400
ringnecks purchased from Pennsyl-
vania licensed game breeders, and
185,098 birds raised by cooperating
farmers and sportsmen’s clubs from
day-old pheasant chicks furnished
by the Commision. All of the wild
turkeys, bobwhite quail, mallard
ducks and Canada geese were raised
on Commission game farms.
big majorities.”
Fleming has won wide-spread ac-
claim for his attack on centralized
government and the school reorgani-
Fleming on the ticket, we should be
able to carry the entire ticket with
zation plan which weakens local con-
trol schools.
Mary Scranton, wife of William
Scranton, Republican candidate for
governor, shows College Misericor-
Mary Scranton Visits Misericordia
dia students the immense itinerary
and schedule which she and her hus-
band follow during the campaign.
Chairman of Ball
ERNEST A. GAY
Ernest A. Gay is general chairman
of Dallas Kiwanis Club Harvest Moon
Ball, to be held at Irem Country Club
Saturday evening November 3, 9 to
1, with Bobby Baird’s
playing.
Decorations," Mr. Gay promises, will
orchestra
be something special, arranged by
George McCutcheon with a Harvest
motif, and kept a dense secret until
the night of ‘the Ball.
The public is invited. Tickets may
be purchased from any Dallas Kiw-
anis Club members. Jerome Gardner
is chairman,
John Richardson Gardner
A seventh grandchild for the Jerry
Gardners, and an extension of the
family pattern of names, including
“Richardson” in the middle.
John Richardson Gardner was
born on Sunday, October 14, to Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome Richardson Gard-
ner, Jr., at the Hahnemann Hospital
in Scranton. At ‘birth he weighed
six pounds, four ounces. He has
two brothers, Jerome R. Gardner III
and James R. Gardner.
Attend Lumber Dealers
Cenvention In Chicago
Howard Whitesell, Elwood White-
sell, Jack Callahan and Thomas
Cadwalader, all of Whitesell Bros.,
Inc., Dallas, attended ‘the National
Retail Lumber Dealers Association
Convention and Building Materials
Exposition in Chicago last weekend.
| They flew out last Friday morning
j and returned on Monday.
Mary Scranton
At Misericordia
Stresses Husband
As Great Leader
IA rasping voice issued from the
contractor’s shed across from Regina
Hall, College Misericordia, Friday,
directed to a group entering the
building:
“Dilworth for governor’!
An older lady stepped out of the
crowd of college girls and walked
toward the invisible source of that
voice.
_ “Just a minute,” said Mary Scran-
ton, “I'm Mary Scranton. Bill Scran-
ton is my husband, and I'd like to
talk to you, if I may.”
Mrs. Scranton then talked ‘the
man into voting for her husband, or
at least gave it the old college try,
and joined an assemblage of about
thirty girls in the hall for some cam-
paigning. .
“One thing bothers me about this
campaign,” she observed. “It’s not
the long hours or the fast schedule
that bother me. It’s being referred
to as the next wife of the governor.”
In general the crowd listening to
Mary Scranton was enthusiastic
about her "hiisbdnd, wh’ was thei
¢ a m paigning between Stroudsburg
and Carbon County. She avoided
politics more than necessary and
stressed Bill's qualities of leadership
and her devotion to Bill.
The latter seemed to be the best
testimonial a woman could give.
After the meeting and the pictures,
a college reporter asked Mrs. Scran-
ton formally what she thought her
husband’s qualifications were for
governor.
She replied: Leadership, devotion
to the people and their needs, and
| freedom from the influence of
“bosses.”
“Bill and I like to campaign per-
sonally to individuals, not just ‘to
banquets and audiences,” she said.
Then she told how she and her
husband had lost their luggage in
Montgomery County, inducing the
girls’ hilarity at the picture of Bill
running around the hotel-room in
his underwear, and her in a bath
towel pinned with a Scranton-Van
Zandt button.
The campaign wus rough, she told
the girls, but worth it. Her husband
was in ‘this fight only because the
people needed him, but both Scran-
tons intended to see that the people
were not disappointed.
Mrs. Scranton’s visit was spon-
sored by the Young Republicans’
Club of the college. It was her first
visit to ‘the school, but not to the
Back Mountain area. She said she
was delighted to be asked to come
and speak.
Coons are not killed, but are used
from season to season for racing.
They get to be a breed in them-
selves, becoming impervious to the
dogs’ threats.
Many dogs will bark all the way
across the water. One or two get so
excited that they stand up-almost |
on top of ‘the water-by swimming
The coon in his boat is towed out | fast.
of the water and up a pole.
First dog past a line near the shore
Coon-Hound Water-Races Held At Elston’s Pond
wins “first line”. First dog to bay in
the vicinity of the treed coon wins
“first pole.”
Trophies were awarded by the
Association for the finalists, rosettes
and ribbons to the semi-finalists and
heat-winners.
Coon-hounds are among the
| world’s most highly prized mongrels.
| Their formulas vary from breeder to
| breeder, A favorite strain is the
greyhound, and coon-hounds are
almost always short-haired and
large.
Some owners, such, as Ralph Ben-
der, Greenville, near Allentown,
bring as many as ten dogs to a
competition in a special bodied
truck. Bender, who took a majority
of the awards ,Sunday, does not
hunt with his dogs, but races them
only.
bli
Attendance at the races was about
{half what it would have been had
the sun been shining, because many
hunters will not water race their
dogs on a very cold day.
Local entries who braved the cold
were Ernest Martin, Kunkle, Mark
Brown, Beaumont, Dana Campbell,
Shavertown, and Carl Hackling, Nox-
en.
Information For
Parents In Case
Of Air Attack
Dallas Schools Issue
Plan For Safeguard
Of School Children
Following the address broadcacst
Monday night by the President of
the United States over a nation-wide
hook-up, many parents called the
administration office of Dallas
schools Tuesday morning.
Dr. Robert Mellman, superintend-
ent, gave reassurance that plans
to insure safety of school children
| had been worked out long ago, and
that in addition, stocks were now
being stored in ‘the school build-
ings, to provide food in case of a
possible disaster, when children
might not be able to go home.
This is the report, a duplicate of
information sent home with each
child last year, and repeated Oc-
tober 23 of this current year:
Please be advised that the fol-
lowing plans have been studied and
are definite programs of action:
Plan I—Two or more hours warn-
ing time:
A. All children will be excused
and instructed to go to their homes.
Children living beyond one and one-
hialf miles will be returned by school
buses.
Note: Parents and guardians will
have to make necessary arrange-
ments to receive their children at
home at any time during the school
day.
B. School personnel will cooper-
ate with Civil Defense authorities in
preparing the buildings for immed-
iate use as hospitals and/or care
centers.
Plan II—Less than two hours and
more than thirty minutes warning
time:
A. Children living within one
and oné-half miles will be excused
and instructed to go to their homes.
B. All children remaining in
school will be assigned to shelter
areas in the school.
Note: Provision will be made for
a 48-hour period of survival
Plan III—Less than thirty min-
A. All children will be assigned
to shelter areas in the school.
Lake-Lehman To
Stage Parties
Children To Parade
Wednesday Afternoon
Hallowe'en parties in Lake-Loh-
man elementary schools will be
staged Wednesday afternoon. At
Noxen, if weather permits, children
in costume will parade through the
town. At Ross Township, Lehman
elementary, and Lake, auditoriums
will be used, with children also par-
ading over the blacktop parking
areas if weather is favorable.
At Lehman, 416 children includ-
ing kindergartners, will march. Rob-
ert Z. Belles, elementary supervisor,
announces an innovation this year:
Prizes will not be offered.
Heretofore, prizes have béen given
in many categories. For the few who
won prizes because of expert costum-
ing arranged by parents, there were
many children who were disappoint-
ed.
Mr. Belles and Lester Squier, sup-
ervising principal, concur that there
should be enough pleasure out of
dressing up and marching, for any
group of youngsters, without the
added bait of prizes.
Doughnuts and chocolate milk will
be served.
Glenn Bulford Has Leg
Bmputated Above Knee
Glen Bulford, brother of Mrs.
Ernest Norrie and nephew of George
Bulford, had his left leg amputated
above the knee at a hospital in
Geneva.
Glenn, 60, and suffering from
hardening of the arteries, had a
heart attack September 27, and was
admitted to the hospital. Getting
along nicely after the heart attack,
he developed a clot in his left leg,
requiring removal. Gangrene set in,
and the leg was removed October 4.
He lived for years in this area,
part of the time with his sister in
Trucksville. Some years ago he went
to Geneva to work with the Newark
Nurseries, and was employed there
and in the resort business in north-
ern New York State and Canada.
He is a plasterer by trade.
Mrs. Norrie has a long rsport
from the surgeon who removed the
leg, in which he states that the
operatid® was a shock to Mr. Bul-
ford, but absolutely necessary to
save his life.
DR. BODYCOMB BACK
HOME AFTER SURGERY
Dr. Robert Bodycomb, ‘Dallas den- z
tist, who submitted to surgery Mon-
day morning at Nesbitt Hospital for
removal of a kidney stone, is back
home again, discharged on Wednes-
day. He was admitted by Dallas Com-
munity ambulance last Wednesday
evening, the attack coming on with
extreme suddeness while he was
working in his office. He has a his-
tory of previous attacks. Surgery
was postponed to give mature a
chance to correct the condition.