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VOL. 74, NO. 44 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1962
Hennebaul Goes
From Geisinger
To Johnstown
Taken By Ambulance
To Rehabilitation
Center For Therapy
Freddie Hennebaul was trans-
ferred. from Geisinger Medical Cen-
ter to Johnstown Rehabilitation
Center Monday morning, arriving in
® Johnstown shortly after noon in the
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Lake Township ambulance staffed
by Lee Zimmerman, John Stenger,
and Richard Williams Jr., accom-
panied by Walter Hennebaul.
Freddie, still paralyzed from a
wrestling injury incurred during a
bout with a Tunkhannock lad
January 4, 1962, shows enough im-
provement now to warrant therapy
and high school instruction at
Johnstown, with a possibility of
being given higher education after
obtaining his high school diploma.
He belongs to the 1963 graduating
class at Lake-Lehman.
As a parting gift from Geisinger,
his nurses gave him a copy of their
1962 year-book, The Lamp-Lighter,
inscribed with these words:
“To Freddie: He came, he saw, he
conquered our hearts. Your perse-
verence and determination have
taught us what you long ago have
learned, that faith in God and your
never-give-up attitude are of far
greater importance than all the
medicine in the Geisinger Medical
Center pharmacy.
“Keep up the good work, you'll
win this fight as well as the other.
We're proud to be your friends, and
will never forget you.
Sincerely
Your Nurses, class of 1962”
Freddie . graduated to a wheel-
chair at Geisinger. He will be in-
creasingly in a wheelchair at Johns-
town, studying with other boys who
are battling physical handicaps. He
can now turn his head from side to
side.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Hennebaul, his sister Barbara, and
his aunt, Mrs. Fred Hennebaul, who
followed the ambulance to Johns-
town, report that his room is lovely
and his three room-mates delighted
with their new companion,
Barbara, on vacation from Linear,
will remain in Johnstown for a
week, and members of the, family
will take turns visiting Freddie on
weekends.
School insurance of $3,500 was
available through the Robert Laux
agency, but with’/ten months of hos-
pitalization it was not nearly
enough to cover expenses. The
Freddy Hennebaul Fund, raised
through a variety of projects spon-
sored by PTA and private indi-
viduals, amounted to over $9,000.
Fund trustees are Robert Belles,
Dick Williams, Thomas Longmore,
Anthony Marchakitus and James
Worth. A
JOHNSTOWN CENTER
OF REHABILITATION
IS MARVELOUS PLACE
Carol Williams, Dallas, her-
self a graduate of Johnstown
Rehabilitation Center, where
she recently spent five months,
adds a footnote ‘to Freddie
Hennebaul’s transfer:
The Rehabilitation Center in
Johnstown, four years old, has
recreation which includes wheel
chair basket ‘ball games for
sports-minded young men, and
cheerleading for girls to keep
up the spirits of their guys in
a long grueling game.
The “Johnstown Wheelers”
rank third in the. nation, in-
cluding men from all over the
state of Pennsylvania. The most
gifted is a young 22-year old
amputee, who comes from
Plains and is a champion in
several categories. John James
Panatieri lost his leg below the
knee in a hunting accident.
Players : tour surrounding
states in station wagons. Wheel-
chairs fold completely.
This center is staffed with
the finest in nurses, teachers,
therapists and dietitians.
Freddie = would ' appreciate
cards from home. Fis address
is 727 Goucher St. Johnstown.
Family Outing Turned
Into Ghastly Accident
What was to have been a pleas-
ant family excursion to attend the
Princeton-Cornell football game
Saturday afternoon turned into a
ghastly experience for Atty Frank
Townend when a tractor erupted
suddenly from a blind road directly
in the path of his car a few miles
north of Tunkhannock.
The crash threw the driver of the
tractor from his high seat to the
pave. Dairy farmer Floyd Darling,
60, Meshoppen RD 3, died of a
fractured skull less than an hour
after admission to Tyler Memorial
Hospital.
Col. Townend, solicitor for Dallas
Township board of supervisors, had
with him a camera which he used
in taking pictures of the scene of
the accident, to help establish the
facts for the inquest.
all ages, and half again as many
parents and spectators jammed the
Back Mountain [Shopping Center
area to watch the annual Halloween
Parade sponsored by Back Moun-
tain Businessmen’s Association Mon-
day night.
Lake-Lehman and Dallas Area
High School bands entertained, as
Over 300 costumed children of |
swarms of tiny ghosts, bums, clowns
and space monsters staggered by
the judging stands.
Members of Dallas Area School
District faculty and Parent-Teachers
Associations judged the costumes
on the basis of originality, ugliness,
beauty, “historical quality, humor,
and best group, awarding a total of
120 silver dollars in prizes.
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Winners (first five) of the Origin-
ality class: Drew and Chris Bitten-
| bender, Anita Cross, Rubino chil
| dren, Demmy children, Joan Reese.
Historical: Bruce Davies, Ruth
and Barbara Lawry, Ann Gresham,
Jay, Marlene, Chris and Kevin Bor-
ton; Debbie Hess; Karen and Cindy
Purvin.
| Best
Group: Schooley . family;
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< These Girl Scouts and leaders of
Troop 27, have just returned from
a two-day trip to Harrisburg and
Hershey.
Shown with them is Senator Har-
old Flack whom they presented
Girl Scout 50th Anniversary paper-
weight in appreciation for his
having made arrangements for
them to spend a wonderful day at
the Capitol in Harrisburg.
Senator Flack telephoned Irv Hol-
lam, chief guard at the Capitol, and
the girls were given ‘the red carpet
treatment.” They had lunch in the
Capitol cafeteria, and were con-
ducted on a tour of the Superior
Court offices, the Senate, the
House, the Lt. Governor and the
Governor’s offices, the = capitol
museum, the educational building,
and the underground vault of the
‘State Treasury.
Tke group had its evening meal
and spent the night at the Capitol
Motel. J
Friday morning they visited the
State Police Academy in Hershey
where they saw the training facili-
ties for ‘the cadets, and viewed vari-
ous types of firearms, murder weap-
ons, drugs. They also saw the dogs
and horses that are trained there.
After lunch at Cocoa Inn, they
made a tour of Hershey Chocolate
factory, and Hershey Museum. In
the museum ‘they saw -the Apostolic
Clock, a leaf from the 1450 Guten-
Girl Scouts Get Red Carpet Treatment
erg Bible, Eskimo lore, to poles,
Conestoga wagons, music boxes, and
a collection of Indian relics. During
the return trip, they stopped at Ho-
ward Johnsons for supper.
Accompanying the girls were
their leader, Mrs. Donald D. Smith,
Donald D. Smith, Mrs. Alan Covert
and Mrs. John Savickas.
Front row left to right: Mrs. Har-
vey Kitchen, Ass't. Leader, Miriam
Mohr, Karen Fish, Donna Priebe,
Donna Smith, Mrs. Donald D. Smith,
Leader;
Back row, left to right: Debbie
Savickas, Ruth Higgins, Linda, No-
well, Senator Flack, Janet Balshaw,
{Patti Larson, Sandy Tait.
Lois Frantz was absent when the
| tiers was taken.
Fire broke out in a truckload of
new furniture Monday afternoon as
the vehicle was turning off Me-
morial Highway toward Church
Street.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany extinguished the burning sofa
and chair set, originally destined
for College Misericordia from XKap-
lan’s furniture store Wilkes-Barre,
but a-spark evidently remained.
The driver and helper took the
charred remains back to the ware-
house ' in Wilkes-Barre, and left
Dr. Jay Young Is
Visiting Lecturer
Dr. Jay Young, 84 Norton Ave-
nue, is visiting lecturer at a series
sota today before the faculties of
chemistry and agriculture.
sota yesterday, and returns by
plane today.
Traveling Fire Returns To City
them on the truck with some other |
delivered at University of Minne- |, » crsiee’ wis Durning Sin
Professor of Chemistry at King’s |
College, Dr. Young flew to Minne- the companies arrived, although |overly obstreporous, especially with
furniture.
That night Wilkes-Barre firemen
uged 1000 gallons to put out the
same fire as Dallas.
The driver’s helper had seen the
fire break out just as the truck
started to turn up Church Street.
The truck stopped on the plaza of
Malkemes’ service station, a pre-
carious place for a flaming truck
and dumped ‘the cargo into the
street, where four firemen and a
pumper put it out.
Neither of the men in the. truck
could advance an opinion as to the
cause of the fire.
Check Burning Stove
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany, Dallas, and Harry S. Smith
| Company, Kunkle, responded to a
| call yesterday morning around 10
the home. of Naomi Kech, Washing-
| ton Street, Dallas RD 3.
No fire was in evidence when
| Bere were smoke stains on the
control panel,
Sixty Brawl
At Game's End
Five Police Quell
Fan Riot Saturday
Short tempers and fast fists broke
out in a three-way fracas between
teams, fans, and police Saturday at
‘the Lake-Lehman vs. St. Johns foot-
ball game.
The local boys were badly beaten
by.the team from Pittston, and might
have been expected to anger quickly.
| But it was the visitors who really
started the extra-curricular work,
after one of their players was in-
sulted.
Five Dallas Township police put an
end to tht brawl, which at its peak
involved some sixty people.
“More than one of them came
away from there with a couple of
black eyes”, noted burly Chief Pete
Lange, who disciplined several
rowdies after one or two of his men
| was hit during the riot.
| Chief Lange reported that an in-
| itial fight broke out in the third pir-
iod of the game, when a St. John's
player was hit in the eye by some
| dirt allegedly thrown by an irate
| Knight. The resulting exchange of
i blows was restricted to the ‘team,
| and ‘was quieted by coaches and re-
| ferees.
“It must have been planned that
way’, said the Chief commenting on
the way the stands emptied out at
| each other after the referee threw
| up the ball to signal the game’s end.
| “All of a sudden, everybody was in
| there swinging”,
| The Chief credited the two head
coaches with helping to bring the
| riot to a conclusion. They kept pull-
| ing their teams out of the fray.
| Assistant coach for St. John’s was
| police, and was drawn aside by Chief
| Lange. and ‘‘talked to”.
Hundreds Jam Shopping Center For Halloween Parade
Lewis and Evans families;
family; Ann and Larry Parsons, Kim
and Sherry Ross; Helen and Gloria
Gensel and Helen Karl,
Funniest: Jean Beagle; Paul Els-
ton; Jane Layaou and Lois Hogan;
Ernest Whipp
Walter Wesley.
Prettiest: Kristen Morris; Paulette
Albosta; Charlene Albosta; Susan
W. H. Krimmel
Dies Suddenly
Township Supervisor
Had Been Hunting
Death came instantaneously to
William Krimmel, Overbrook Road,
Saturday night, one hour after he
returned from hunting on the flrst
day of Small Game Season, enthusi-
astic about the work of “Old Liz”
in flushing rabbits.
His death is a blow to the com-
munity. Bill, only 55, was one of
the newcomers to the community
who had proved himself as carrying
out the traditions of the Back
Mountain, a tower of strength on
Dallas Township Board of Super-
visors, which he served as secretary.
When he moved here from
Kingston seven years ago, he im-
mediately threw himself into the
work of the area. When he ran
for supervisor in the May primaries
of 1957 he described himself as
ot Sglitician, but.a private citizen
who desired only the good of the
community. Aa ardent sportsman,
the clean stream and conservation
programs were dear to his heart.
He asked election on the grounds
that he wanted to work for his
township without expectation of
political favors. 1
That was the kind of a man
that Bill was. Where a man was
needed, there was Bill.
The opening of the hunting sea-
son also heralded for Bill the be-
ginning of a two-weeks vacation,
the first in years. He was looking
forward to Monday, when the vaca-
tion started officially. For the past
six months he had been with First
National Bank in the Loan Depart-
ment, having left a ten year em-
ployment in the credit department
of Luzerne Motors for broader fields.
He was a member of Shavertown
Methodist Church and its choir;
vice president of the Couples Club;
member of Binghamton Lodge
F &AM; belonged to Harveys Lake
Rod and Gun Club and Dallas
Rotary Club. At Library Auction
time, Bill was right there.
Mr. Krimmel was born in Phila-
delphia, moving with his family to
Kingston. He graduated from
Kingston High School, and worked
several years for Universal CIT
Credit Corporation.
Surviving are: his widow, the
former Marjorie Rouse; a son Wil-
liam H., Kingston; a daughter An-
drea, senior at Dallas High School;
a brother Andrew, Washington,
D. C.; a sister, Mrs. Lawrence Eddy,
Miami; and four grandchildren.
He was buried Tuesday morning
in Denison Cemetery, Rev. Robert
D. Yost officiating. Dallas Lodge,
F&AM conducted Masonic services
Monday night from the Snowdon
Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were: Arthur Harding,
Ferdinand Fowler, Kenneth Beisher,
George T. Smith, William Poad,
Paul Mulcey, Walter Kozemchak,
Atty. Frank Townend,
Ruth Arendt, 14,
Killed In Crash
Ruth Arendt, 14, was killed yester-
day afternoon on::the highway in
front of Sterling Farms, Harveys
Lake, when the car in which she
and her brother were driving left
the road and crashed through a
solid fence.
The two ‘young people were on
their way home to Noxen from Lake-
Lehman High School.
She died instantly of a fractured
skull caused by a heavy two by six
board, which drove through the roof
of the car.
Ruth was pronounced dead at 4:30
by Dr. Lester Saidman, who came
immediately with two nurses.
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Dierolf
and Lynn Lewis;
| Sipple; Susan Misson.
Ugliest: Mrs. Victor Cross and
| Raymond; Susan Honeywell; Harold
Casterline; Diane Alston; Joan Al-
bosta.
Crowds of spectators closed in
on the judging stand in the middle
of Shopping Center Plaza close to
the stores; partly to get a better
view and partly to keep warm.
Elves and ghosts jumped up and
Mrs. Fred Enderson
Mrs. Fred Anderson, Chairman of
Back Mountain Center, Luzerne
County unit of The American Can-
cer Society’s Pennsylvania Division,
was awarded’ the Silver Sword pin,
the highest award for volunteer ser-
vice at the unit level.
Mrs. Anderson, wife of Justice of
the Peace Fred Anderson, Shaver-
town, chaired a public education
training meeting of the unit, at which
she was given the award by Mrs.
Elizabeth H. Elliott, Executive Di-
rector, Luzerne County Unit, at St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church, Shaver-
town, Tuesday.
Seventy five members attended,
and heard several addresses by Clyde
Gourley, Assistant Executive Direc-
tor, Pennsylvania Division.
Above with Mrs. Anderson are
Two Richards boys, both twelve
years old, both students at Dallas
Schools, but no relation, are recov-
ering from burns.
J. William Richards, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gerald Richards, Jackson
Street, was painfully burned on the
instep more than two weeks ago,
when his nylon stretch sock caught
fire as he explored the smouldering
debris of the McKinley Long sawmill
on Parrish Street two days after it
burned to the ground. Wearing a
soft slipper, he is back in school in
Dallas Borough, where he is a stu-
dent in Mrs. Sarah Welker’s sixth
grade.
Able to peel off his own sock and
shoe, he was taken to Nesbitt Hos-
| pital, treated, and permitted to come
Dallas Area High School students
who received commendation from
the National Board recently for their
high scores on National Scholarship |
down beating their hands together
against the bitter cold, and fam-
ilies sprinted ‘to their cars after the
close of each class.
Kingston Township fire engines
| accompanied the parade. Police
from Kingston and Jackson Towmn-
ships directed ' traffic, which filled
the permitted area in the Shopping
Center, in front of stores across
| the highway, and along the road.
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members of the committee for her
workshop, / cancer-dressing chair-
men, and Mr. Gourley. : ;
Left to right, seated: Mesdames
Florence Kast, Elizabeth Eliiott,
Dorothy Anderson, and Mrs. George
Peirce.
Second row: Mesdames Ruth L.
Houser, Eileen = Marth, Elmira
Michel, Mrs. William Pethick, Mrs.
John Ferguson, and Mrs. Sheldon
Bennett.
Third row: Mrs. Walter Gerlach,
Mrs. Harold Ash, Mrs. Roy Trexler,
Mrs. Charles Gosart, Mrs. David
Parry, Mrs. Albert Piccoli, and Mr.
Gourley.
Missing from the picture are: Mrs.
Harvey Kitchen, Mrs. Gordon Dawe,
and Mrs. A. A. Mascali.
Two 12-Year Old Richards Boys, No
Relation, Recovering From Burns
home, housebound for a week, and
ordered to come back for frequent
check-up, to determine advisability
of skin-grafting.
Ronald Richards, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Richards, Harris + Hill
Road, was a patient at Nesbitt for
two months, admitted July 1, suf-
fering from extensive burns of the
chest, left arm and back when an
ember from a camp fire, supposedly
extinguished, but fanned by night
winds, flew into his sleeping bag.
Ronald, just rounding out two
months at home, had successful skin
grafting. Getting home-bound in-
struction from Mrs. Rachel Van-
Horn, he expects to return to Dallas
Junior High School after Christmas.
EREA STUDENTS HONORED NATIONALLY
Tests show their certificates.
L. to R.: Richard Ratcliffe, Paul
Ray Kuhnert
Loses Fore-Arm
In Corn-Picker
Determined Farmer
Fights Pain, Time
To Keep Farm Going
Raymond Kuhnert, Jr., 32-year-
old dairy farmer, lost hig right arm
almost to the elbow in a corn-pick-
ing machine Saturday afternoon
while working alone in a field one-
quarter mile from home. He
underwent amputation later at Nes-
bitt Hospital.
Ray returned home Monday, and
is now being examined for an arti-
ficial limb.
Determined to keep on farming,
the young father of three, fought,
even during the accident ‘to keep
going. He could have passed out
during the forty-five minutes he
was stuck in the searing grip of the
feed rollers. Instead, he threw
rocks in the conveyor to jam it, and
cut a drive belt with his pocket
knife, all with his free left hand.
Finally the rollers burned the
forearm off. Kuhnert looked at
the rest of it. With his left hand,
he unhooked the corn-picker, then
drove the tractor to his home on
E. Forty-second Street, one quarter
of a mile from the accident.
He had a kerchief ready for tour-
niquet, but strangely the arm did
not bleed very much. The rubber
rollers had essentially seared the
wound closed.
Realizing what his three children,
two girls and a boy, would have
to see, Kuhnert stopped at the
barn, and phoned his wife to get
them into another room.
. While he and Mrs. Kuhnert wait-
ed for Dr. Crompton and the am-
bulance, the young farmer ignored
the arm and thought about the
next few days. He dictated direc-
tions for running the 130-acre farm
to her, as he could not write with
his left hand.
William Berti and John Sheehan
took him to the hospital in Dallas
ambulance, and Dr. Joseph Sgarlat
performed the amputation.
If infection stays out of the area
remaining below the elbow, the doc-
tors and ‘the: Kuhnerts hope that
Ray will soon be aple to wear an
artificial limb.
The son of Mrs. Raymond Kuhn-
ert and the latz Raymond Kuhnert,
former Supervising ' Principal of
Dallas Township Schools, Ray has
been farming in Idetown since 1953.
Republican Rally
Tonight And Sat.
In Final Push
Committeemen Invite
Everybody To Meet
Candidates In Race
Two big rallies for Republican
candidates are scheduled for this
week, the first tonight at 8 at
Trucksville Fire Hall, the final rally
Saturday night at 8 at Daddow
Isaacs Post American Legion Home.
‘Guthrie Conyngham will carry
the torch for Congressman William
W. Scranton and James Van Zandt.
Senator Harold Flack, Atty. Robert
Fleming, and Dr. Donald Ayers will
speak for themselves.
Nine Back Mountain district
committeemen invite everybody to
| attend, regardless of political af-
| filiation. On both nights there will
be ‘a program and refreshments.
Local favorites are on the Repub-
lican slate.
People who cannot attend, but
who want to support the candidates
on Tuesday by assisting with the
voting, aré asked to get in touch
with their committeemen: = Vern
Pritchard, Mrs. Ted Woolbert and
Ralph Sands, Kingston Township;
Ray Titus and Donald Shaffer, Dal-
las Borough; Shad Goss, Clarence
Laidler, or Clarence Shupp, Dallas
Township; Morgan Wilcox, Jack-
son Township; and Eugene Miller,
* Franklin Township.
Senator Harold Flack and Atty.
Robert Fleming are local men:
Senator Flack is running for his
third term in the State Senate;
Atty. Fleming, a novice in politics,
but with outstanding qualities of a
public servant, is trying for a first
term as representative from the
Sixth District.
Committeemen state: “We are
proud to endorse a slate headéd
by a neighbor from Lackawanna
County, William W. Scranton for
Governor, supported by two out=
standing area candidates, Senator
Flack and a rising young lawyer,
Atty. Fleming.”
Injured In Fall
Hayden Richards, Lehman Ave-
nue, painfully injured his right arm
and shoulder last Thursday when
he plunged four feet from a porch
in Muhlenburg, as he was answer-
ing a classified ad in the Dallas
Post. X-Rays taken at Nesbitt
Hospital revealed ng fracture, but
Haradem, Charlotte Roberts, Ass't.!
Principal Thomas Jenkins. Story: A 3| was able to drive home,
extensive bruising. Mr. Richards
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