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charges were eliminated to Kings
the Kingston and Wilkes-Barre ex-
Do You Favor Higher Base Rate To Phone Kingston, Wilkes-Barre Free?
The Post this week asked a
sampling of telephone subscribers
from the Dallas and Dallas South
Telephone exchanges of the Com-
monwealth Telephone Company:
“Would you favor a small monthly
increase in your base telephone
rate (not over $2 for residential
phones and not over $3 for business
and industrial phones) if toll
ton and Wilkes-Barre ?”
The elimination of tolls would
mean that 55,000 subscribers in
changes could be called free of
charge and they in turn could call
Dallas without charge.
Calls to Wyoming, Pittston, Nanti-
coke and Plymouth would still re-
quire tolls.
Their replies to our query follow:
Mrs. Karl Kast, Shavertown: It
would be simply marvelous. I'd
make a lot more phone calls to the
Valley if I didn’t have to pay a toll.
And of course the phone company
would have to charge a little extra.
It would be quite an expense,
probably.
Mrs. Robert Kappler, Overbrook
Road: I ‘make a lot of calls, and
they all seem to run over four
minutes. It's a blow when you get
your bill to find out how long-
winded you've been, without realiz-
ing it. If we got our toll charges
cancelled off on the short runs, and
were charged a basic rate, we'd
know about what our bill would be.
It would help. Sure, I'm in favor.
Mrs. W. C. Lamb, Country Club
Road, thinks it would just about
balance itself off, the cancellation of
toll charges and the increase in
basic rates.
Mrs. Floyd Slocum, Country Club
Road: It would be fine, Count me in.
Mrs. Dale Parry, Pioneer Avenue:
Five yesses here, one for each of
our ‘telephones. Want to know how
much our toll charges to Kingston
and Wilkes-Barre amount to a
month? It’s colossal.
Mrs. George Ondish, Fernbrook:
I'd have to think about it a little.
Couldn’t say right off whether it
would be a good idea or not. Some
months we wouldn't make any calls
to the Valley at all, some months
we would make a number.
‘Rev. Russell Lawry, said it would
be fine for him, and for many pro-
fessional ‘people who customarily
made many phone calls, but that it
might be a hardship to many people
on limited budgets who did not call
Wilkes-Barre at all, or did so very
seldom. It would be a help to him
in his ministry, he went on, if he
could feel free to check with hos-
pitals each day without needing to
consider the toll charge.
Rev. Robert D. Yost, Shavertown
Methodist Church, concurred. Tt
would be a big burden lifted from
the church as well as his own indi-
vidual telephone account if the
plan went into effect.
Mrs. Albert L. Jones, acting li-
brarian at Back Mountain Memorial
Library, said neither she nor her
husband placed very many town
calls, but that the ones ‘they did
make, were apt to run over time.
After all, she said, who talks for
four minutes over the phone? Seven
is about the very least, unless it is
a purely business.call. She ibs
it would be a good ‘thing.
Mrs. Fred Howell thinks it would
be fine, but would the arrangement
be reciprocal, with people in Wilkes-
Barre rand Kingston able to place
calls here without a toll charge?
(It would be reciprocal — Editor)
Helen Lutsey: Shavertown, Sure,
it would be fine. Bet the wires
would be busy, though, with folks
who always held down on town
calls burning up the wires all of a
sudden. It's the tax for the long
distance calls that annoys most
people, not the call itself. No toll,
no tax. !
Mrs. George Jacobs: We make
fifteen or twenty phone calls to the
Valley each month. An extra charge
added to the basic rate would save
a good bit of money and we would
feel free to place calls oftener.
Mrs. Fred Anderson: We average
thirty calls a month, and that is a
minimum, actually. It would cer-
tainly be money in our pocket if
the arrangement could be made. If
you have somebody in the hospital,
it would be pretty nice to call up to
inquire without always considering
the toll charge.
Mrs. R. H. Weaver: Hope it will
be put to a vote. How could any-
body NOT be in favor of it? Our
basic rate is so high anyhow, living
down on Sutton Road miles from
the exchange, that a little extra
would be a drop in the bucket.
Anonymous: What’s in it for the
phone company? There'd be the
extra charge for basic service, but
wouldn’t the wires be loaded with
extra calls? Still, with no operator
service, they might save money at
that. There'd have to be a system
of breaking the connection after a
reasonable time. Used to be a con-
nection-breaker out here, but folks
can bend your ear for twenty
minutes at a time nowadays, and |
unless your arm drops off from |
holding ‘the receiver, you're still
listening at the end of half an hour.
Howard Isaacs, Chrysler Dealer,
“Td be very much in favor of it. It
would be a great conyenience to
our Wyoming Valley customers to
call us toll free. Presently we are
leasing a line to provide this con-
venience for them. This cost would
be eliminated.”
Howard Whitesell, Whitesell Bro-
thers Builders, “We'd be all for it.
Even more than the personal
savings through the elimination of
toll charges to Wilkes-Barre and
Kingston, it would stimulate people
to move out here, especially people
who have to make many social and
business phone calls.” .
Caroline Caperoon, housewife,
Dallas, “I'm very much in favor of
it and would be glad to pay the
additional base rate fee in order to
talk as long as I want to with my
friends in the Valley. As it is now
I'd like to 'talk longer but am cut
short by the overtime toll.”
Mrs. Clara Shook, Main Street:
Doesn’t make any calls to the Val-
ley to speak of. Service would be
no particular use to her.
Mrs. Thomas Morgan; wife of
Burgess Morgan: The good features
seem ‘to outweigh the drawbacks.
We make a lot of long distance
calls, but not too many to the Val-
ley. We'd probably make more to
the Valley if it were on a no-toll
basis. You always have to think
about the charge. It mounts up.
Seems to me that Mountain Top
and Bear Creek have toll-free serv-
ice. Wonder if their basic rate
went up?
Mrs. Charles Allabaugh, Daven-
port Street I'm from Wilkes-Barre,
and I make a lot of calls. It would
be fine.
Mrs. Wilbur Davis, Parrish Street:
It wouldn't mean much to us. We
might make five calls to Wilkes-
Barre one month, none the next.
Mrs. William Baker Sr., Lehman
Avenue: So many of the big stores
in town have Enterprise numbers, | taxes.
anyway. Mostly it's
numbers we call,
to have the phone charge increased.
Mrs. O. L. Harvey, Franklin
Street: We used to have a lot of
calls to Wyoming Valley, but have
very few now. I would be opposed
to any increase in rates.
Enterprise i
I wouldn't like
Mrs. Judd Holt, Overbrook Road:
We'd probably be in favor. I'd have
to ask my husband. We do make
quite a number of Valley calls,
probably would make more if the
toll charge were removed. We're
not any farther from Wilkes-Barre
than Mountain Top, and if residents
up there have no toll charge,
neither should we.
Mrs. Obed Hontz, Shavertown:
One hundred percent in favor.
would be marvelous ‘to have the
service.
Mrs. Frank Ferry, Huntsville
Road: How could you go wrong?
I'd vote yes. Be a big convenience,
and that tax . .. we've got enough
Wonder somebody ‘doesn’t
you don’t have to pay a toll charge |to put up an air-meter.
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Supervisors
Appoint Three
Bgree To Advertise
Zening Law Changes
Kingston Township Board of Su-
pervisors appointed a three-man
Board of Adjustment for appeals on
zoning, at the November meeting
Wednesday night. They also voted
to advertise certain changes in the
present zoning ordinance, to be
adopted next meeting.
Appointed were Milton ‘Evans,
Shavertown, for two years, Ray-
pencer Ifa in, Trucksville,
. and one member of the
Planing Commission, Richard
Mathers, three years.
Board approved provisions for a
policeman on duty Sunday’ at the
corner of Franklin Street and Me-
morial Highway, Shavertown, dur-
ing services of St. Paul's Lutheran
Police Chief Herbert Updyke re-
signed formally as township truant
officer. Andrew Roan received a
temporary permit . to conduct his
beverage distributing at 2} S. Maik
Street, Trucksville.
Board heard and referred com-
* plaints about road-conditions, fore-
most among which were petitions
from Marcytown and Cliffside Ave-
nue residents.
Six or seven Marcytown families,
living within the township, asked
the municipality to pave their only
road, which leads to Bennett Street,
Luzerne. Board investigated, and
found the road to be private.
Board informed Cliffside resi-
dents that new drainpipes would
be purchased to improve the Ave-
nue’s condition. Chief Updyke was
instructed to remove two cars which
are blocking traffic on this road.
Certain errors in the zoning or-
dinance were to be advertised to
be corrected: Where set-backs from
rear and side property lines for
garages and similar ‘‘accessory
properties” were to be a minimum
of one and one half feet, they must
now be at least ten feet back.
Rear-lines for commercial and in-
dustrial properties must now be at
a distance of only ten feet, instead
of the former thirty feet. This ap-
plies to B-1, B-2, and I-1 properties.
Multifamily, R-2 areas are now
specified to a maximum height of
two and one half stories, or thirty-
five feet.
Also to be advertised was the
penalty clause for: ignoring notice
of zoning violation. This provides
for summary proceedings if no ac-
tion is taken by owner, agent, or
tenant within ten days from time
of appeal. Penalty may be a fine
of $50 or thirty days imprisonment.
An amendment to the zoning map
will also be’ advertised, rezoning
some land owned by Rave’s Nursery
All reports were approved, and
all bills ordered paid. LaRoy
Ziegler presided.
Ralph Hazeltine Speaks
On History Of Valley
Dallas .
Ralph Hazeltine on “The History of
Wyoming * Valley” at their annual
dinner meeting held’
Lehman Fire Hall.
Mrs. Nellie Cantor
Guida were guests.
Women of Rotary heard
recently at
and Mrs. Jeff
One new mem-
ber, Mrs. Daniel August, was wel-
comed. Others attending were Mes-
dames Warren Stanton, Merton
Jones, Frank Bell, John Manley,
Richard Demmy, Robert Graham,
Lester Hauck, R. Spencer Martin,
Jr., Anthony Marchakitus, Roger
McShea, Jr., Harvey Johnson, Her-
man Otto, Earl W. Phillips, Walter |
L. F. Kingsley, Stanley Ho- |
Mohr,
zempa, John Konsavage, B. Gruppo,
Philip Moore, James Alexander,
Myron Baker, Paul Gross; Arthur
Ross, Jack Stanley, Lemuel Troster,
Francis Ambrose, Ralph Postorive,
Car-man Fights
To Clear Permit
Reasserts Intention
To Deal In “Cars”
Used car dealer Anthony Jackow-
ski, Wellington Avenue, is taking
sharp issue with the term “con:
ditional permit,” used by the Bor-
ough Council to describe the build-
ing permit issued to him for his
prospective garage and used car-
lot.
Council replies that the car-
dealer's permit is conditional upon
no zoning regulation, but is con-
ditional as all permits are, namely
upon observance of all ordinances.
The ordinance in question is that
prohibiting junkyards in' Dallas
Borough.
Jackowski says he does not plan
to operate a junkyard, and never
has., He is a used car dealer, and
repairman only.
In voting approval of the build
ing inspector’s, issuance of the per-
mit,
meeting last week, met with op=
position from two neighbors who
contirted pressure against Jackow-
ski's enterprise. The neighbors
feared that the lot would become a
junkyard.
Jackowski maintains, however,
that his permit is not conditional
on anything. He notes that he
would not have started building on
any. such condition.
The permit, issued September 25,
has, in fact, no condition,
Secretary of the Council Robert
Brown explains that all permits
bear the implied condition that the
builder conform to Borough ordi-
nances. ; ;
The borough ordinance deemed
applicable by Council is the ordi-
nance prohibiting junkyards” within
the borough.
Jackowski says he has no inten-
tion whatever of building or con-
ducting a junkyard, and cites his
record in Wyoming Valley and
Trucksville as a used car dealer.
John Jeter, Borough engineer, sup-
ports him whole-heartedly, and says
there is no reason to jump to con-
clusions about junkyards.
The car-dealer has had' two
lawyers investigate the zoning for
Wellington Avenue, and they have
found no restrictions on the
property.
Adverse publicity, says Jackow-
“conditional permit,” and fears
that it might hurt his business.
Lehman Collision
Yields Bad Injury
After a two-car crash with two
Sweet Valley sisterd in Lehman
Saturday afternoon, a Kingston man
is still only “fairly good” at Nesbitt
Hospital, with lacerations of the
head.
Severely injured was Carl Spen-
cer, 25, whose car was thrown
over an eight foot embankment,
traveling an estimated forty feet
through the air before touching the
ground.
| by Lorraine Maciejezak, 18, which
was turning left into Ross Williams’
service station, as both cars were
traveling west, around 5:45.
Miss Maciejczak’s car was in
| front of Spencer’s when she signaled
| for the turn. ;
A sister in the car, Jean, 12, was
unhurt, but Lorraine was treated
for contusions of the head.
Lee Wentzel
jured parties
Lehman ambulance.
Both cars were towed away, and
vestigating officers, Chief
Ide and Patrolman John Major.
Sweet Valley Scouts
Pack 444, Sweet Valley Scouts,
are selling a variety of napkins with
different prayers of grace
Christmas carols on them,
Willard Seaman, W. B. Jeter, P. S.
Van Blarcom, William Krimmel, and
Lester Jordan.
.
eight to eleven are welcome to join
[de pack. Burl Updyke is cub-
master,
Leh
the Council at its November |
ski, is as unwarranted as the term |
Spencer side- -swiped a car driven |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY
The ~ “Mississippi Riviera” Min-
strel, will be presented by the Gate
of Heaven Parent Teacher Guild,
in the Gate of Heaven School Audi-
torium, Sunday, November 25 and
‘Monday, November 26. On Sun+
day, there will be 2 performances,
2:30 and 8 On Monday, 1 per:
formance at 8 oclock.
by the minstrel cast will be pre:
A number of specialties and songs:
sented .in addition to minstrel,
songs and jokes, characters
custuming. The “Mississippi
viera” will set ‘its second act along |
a Parisian Theme. The minstrel is
‘being ' directed ; by © Mr. . William
Dworske.
John Owen Strons: Elmira, N.Y.,
spent Monday visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Roese,. Sweet
Valley.
|
‘Theresa Decker,
INSTITUTION
Preparing For Gate Of Heaven Minstrel
From left to right: Arabella,
and ' James’ Regan, Marie Elena Mohen,
Ri | Ann Balavage, Rose Marascio, Paul
Williams, ‘Mary Lauer, George Ar-
zente, Irine Katyl, Dr. Louis Vitale.
Nettie Daley, Wilma Carroll, Mrs.
Leo Mohen, general chairman,
William Dworske,
director. Seated at Piano Frank
Walsh.
Seated left to right are officers
of Lake-Lehman PTA: Mrs. Franklin
Patton, Noxen; Mrs. John Zaleskas,
| Lake; Mrs. Preston Mingus, secre-
tary; Mrs. Margaret Bogdan, Re Ross;
At a combined Education Week
tea and business meeting last Mon-
day night at Lake-Lehman High
School, chairmen of committees for
the various original P.T.A. ‘groups
were named.
Appointed to serve with the
newly formed Lake-Lehman P.T.A.
for the ensuing year are:
Program — Mrs. Jonathan Valen-
tine, chairman; ROSS: Marian
Stroud; LAKE: Jean Marie Pall;
| LEHMAN: Mrs. Lewis Laning, Jr.
NOXEN: Mrs. Charles Winter.
Membership — Mrs. Leona Oberst,
chairman; ROSS: Betty Gordon;
LAKE: Virginia Gennetts; LEHMAN:
Mildred Weidner; NOXEN: Mrs. Er-
nest Teetsel.
took the two in- |
to the hospital in’
were estimated total wrecks by in- |
Joseph |
‘and
Boys |
National P.T.A. Magazine — Mrs.
| Myron Moss, chairman; ROSS: Pris-
cilla Yoder; LAKE: Mrs. Yankoski;
LEHMAN: Mrs. Lois Ide; NOXEN:
Mrs. George Macialek.
Ways and Means — Harry Swep-
ston, chairman; ROSS: Robert
Walsh; LAKE: David Price; LEH-
MAN: Mrs. William Frey; NOXEN:
Warren Montross.
Publicity—MTrs. Stephen De Barry,
chairman; ROSS: Kaye Ray; LAKE:
Mrs. Mary Lamoreaux; LEHMAN:
! Mrs. Roland Gensel; NOXEN: Mrs.
Joseph Nalbone,
Hospitality — Mrs. William Cole
and Mrs. Ruth Newberry, chairmen;
ROSS: Phyllis Wolfe; LAKE: Ethel
Michael
Allen; LEHMAN: Mus.
1
Mr. Gordon Dawe, Lehman. Stand-
ing: Earl Crispell, treasurer; Royal
Bi executive vice president; and
Dick Williams, president.
Lake-Lehman PTA Selects Group
Officers At High School Tea
Godek; NOXEN: Mrs. Carl Siglin.
Budget and Finance — William
Frey, chairman; ROSS: Jean Hol-
comb; LAKE: Mrs. Dolores Piatt;
LEHMAN: Mrs. Carl Schreiner;
NOXEN: Ronald Fielding.
Safety and Transportation — Gil-
bert Tough, chairman; ROSS: George
Haines; LAKE: Mrs. Richard Wil-
liams; LEHMAN: Marshall Harrison;
NOZXEN: Charles Womer.
By-laws—Mrs. Carrie Rood, chair-
man; ROSS: Charles H. Long; LAKE:
Mrs. Grover Anderson; LEHMAN:
Edith Bonning; NOXEN: Russell
Traver.
P.T.A. Council Rep resentative—
Mrs. Irene Kanasky.
Parliamentarian — Jonathan Val-
entine.
Historian — Murs. Marjorie Timko,
chairman; ROSS: June Fiske; LAKE:
Alice ‘Shaffer; LEHMAN: Fran
Brown; NOXEN: Mrs. Ronald Hop-
fer.
Recreation — Ed ward Kalinay,
chairman; ROSS: Joseph Bogdon;
LAKE: Charles Murphy; LEHMAN:
Thomas Smith; NOXEN: Arthur
Blizzard.
Rural Service — Mrs. Jean Mol-
edor,
Curriculum (School Education and
Reading and Library Service)—
James Darling, chairman; ROSS:
Charles Paraschos; LAKE: June
Swanson; LEHMAN: Jean Evans;
NOXEN: William Bates,
police.
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Teacher Boosts
New Math Plan
Two Hundred Attend
~ Dallas PTA Meeting
Mr. Fred Case, Dallas Junior High
School mathematics ‘teacher spoke
on SMSG, School Math Study
Group, and new concepts in mathe-
matics = education in secondary
schools, at a meeting of the school
PTA Thursday.
A panel, with Mr. Case, William
Morgan, and Esther Saxe, teachers,
discussed the need for a mathe-
matical curriculum to meet the
changing standards of civilization
and new discoveries. Mary Fox
moderated.
Mrs. Weldon Farrar, president,
announced a Health Training Pro-
gram in the Back Mountain, “Medi-
cal Self-help”, consisting of twelve
lessons. Miss Hill would like all
registered nurses to turn names in
to her.
Mrs. Farrar also announced a
Citizens Meeting For Better Educa-
tion in March.
Mrs. Jack Barnes asked about the
Committee for Decent Literature,
and it was decided that Mrs. Fos-
sedal, secretary, would write a let-
ter supporting this movement and
asking instructions for further help.
Some 200 members attended, and
tea and cookies were served. to
them by ninth grade home-room
mothers. This was a special tea for |
teachers to celebrate Education
Week. Mrs. George Bauman and
Mrs, Oliver Rome were co-chair-
men.
Decorations consisted of a lace
tablecloth with a red, white and
blue motif; centerpiece of red, white
and blue flowers with American
flags, encasing a little red school-
house with Dallas Junior High
written on it.
Lights To Be Out
Till Next Week
Dallas Borough traffic light sys-
tem will not be functioning until
some time mext week, according to
The * parts, replacing those
burnt out by a falling wire last week
during a .snow-storm, will not be
shipped from New York until Friday.
Sunday was a damp, dismal,
snowy day in the Back Mountain.
Mrs. Henry Metzger, Pioneer Aven-
ue, Shavertown was surprised to see
a kitten scampering about her
neighbor’s roof but thought it would
descend when it was ready, by way
of the porch outset,
On Monday morning she was sur-
prised and disturbed that the cat
was still atop the Leo Woidzik
home. She tried to coax it near
the edge but the frightened animal
clung to the sloping shingles.
She called another neighbor, Mrs.
Fred Anderson for assistance. Find-
ing no men or boys at home during
the noon hour, Mrs. Anderson con-
VOL. 74, NO. 47 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1962
Cat On A Cold Wet Root Brought
To dafety By Shavertown Fireman
tacted Henry Hill, member of the
Shavertown Fire Company.
In a matter of minutes, Mr. Hill
had climbed to the stranded refugee
and had the grateful, purring crea-
ture in his arms. His son, Jay C.
who was with his dad was thrilled
to be on hand for the rescue.
The kitten soon satisfied his
thirst and hunger at the Anderson
home and nestled dowm for a
snooze in a freshly made bed
basket.
Any one who has lost a lovable,
male, black and white kitten, about
three months old, may claim him at
the Anderson residence.
Mrs. Frank Ruggles
Listed “Serious”
Mrs. Frank Ruggles, 87, Meeker,
is in ‘“‘serious” condition at Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital, after suffering a
fall down a flight of stairs at her
home, Saturday afternoon around 6.
She was taken to the hospital, in
Lehman ambulance by Russell Cool-
baugh; and attended by Dr. E. Mc-
Grath.
Twist-Session
Is Displaced
Rowdyism Alleged At
Friday Kunkle Dance
Friday night rock 'n roll sessions
at Kunkle Community Center ended
this week, after five weeks’ run.
According to Dallas Township po-
lice, the Twist-sessions, unlike the
Saturday night square dances, were
becoming rowdy and the plumbing
in the building “was being pulled
down.”
Leader and saxophonist, Robert
Gardner for the “Star Fires,” spon-
soring band, said the closeness of
quarters at the hall might have
been responsible for. some of the
tension. Similar dances at Harveys
Lake this summer never suffered
any trouble.
A teenage crowd was attracted
to Kunkle from as far away as
Tunkhannock and Mehoopany for
the twist-sessions.
Gardner notes that past disturb-
ances are only part of the reason
for the band’s leaving. The other
part is the new location, the “Sugar
Bowl,” Hanover Townsehip, a sort
of teenage night club. The “Star
Fires” have wanted to get located
in such a club for some time,
Since playing at Hanson’s pa-
vilion, . Harveys Lake, the young
band has acquired a new singer,
Charles McKuehen, and has played
at three colleges, Bucknell, Lafay-
ette, and Cornell. They have an-
other engagement at Bucknell
December 15.
In addition to Gardner and Mec-
Kuehen, the band is’ made up of
Howard Dymond, organist, Fred
Kirkendall, guitar, Roger Griffith,
bass, and Richard Gumbravich,
drums.
Rev. Frank Speaks
Rev. Richard Frank spoke to Ro-
tary Thursday evening on the Ecu-
menical Council in Rome.
Hauck Announces
Building's Cos*
Bid To Government
Received Favorably
Total cost for the new Kingston
Township Building will be $40,388,
with the federal government footing
58 per gent, according to Supervisor
Lester Hauck, agent for the town-
ship.
From the sale. of the present
property, Kingston Township will
receive a total of $16,963, most of
which has been paid by the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania and put
in a savings account, where it is
drawing interest.
Mr. Hauck said that Kingston
Township’s application for federal
funds under the new Accelerated
Public Works Act was “received fa-
vorably’’ by the Community Facili-
ties Agency, although no final word
has been given yet.
The Supervisor and a’ representa-
tive from Lacy, Atherton, Davis,
architects for the proposed new
building, took the plans personally
to the agency in Philadelphia, Fri-
day, November 2, after preliminary
meetings with Congressman Daniel
J. Flood.
Construction of the building, to
be located at the corner of Pioneer
Avenue and Holcomb Road, across
from Yenches' Pioneer Market, will
begin within two months of receipt
of the government's authorization.
The Board has an option on prop-
erty owned by Nellie Holcomb.
Final purchase hinges only on fed-
eral acceptance of the project.
The government announced early
in November ‘that communities in
Luzerne County applying for a grant
under ‘the act could estimate 58
per cent of costs from the govern-
ment instead of the 50 per cent
previously suggested.
To Fly To Puerto Rico
Alvin Meeker, Hayfield Farm,
Lehman, and his daughter, Mrs. Ar-
line Powell, plan to leave December
7, via Eastern Airlines, from Avoca,
to visit Mr. Meeker's son and
daughter-in-law, A/C2 and Mrs.
Earl Meeker, «Puerto Rico. After
Christmas, Mrs. Powell will return
home but her father will remain
until Spring. Earl just recently com-
pleted a trip of 14,000 miles in 26
hours, a record of which Dad is very
proud.
Mrs. Williams Delights Book Club
Audience Wth Tips About Writing
Mrs. John Howell Williams,
author of a number of books, de-
lighted her Book Club audience
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Williams, as teacher of writ-
ing some years ago at Wilkes, al-
ways tried to sell her students a
bill of goods on the value of writ-
ing an outline. Frequently, she
suspected, the outline was an after-
thought, written after the assign-
ment was finished, but at least it
was a good idea, and she recom-
mended. it to everybody planning
to write a hook.
She went through the procedure
from preliminary planning of the
book, to delivery of the manuscript
to the publisher, the inevitable
proof-reading and the fun of decid-
ing a cover-paper and a dust jacket.
“Don’t select anybody too per-
fect to be real, if you are planning
a biography,” she advised, “and re-
member that competence, through a
good trait of character, is not neces-
sarily endearing. Pick out somebody
who is not too proper. After all,
you: have to have readers for your
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‘Board Appoints
Glenn Howell
East Dallas Native
Is New Supervisor
Glenn M. Howell, 32, Ryman
Road, East Dallas, veteran secre-
tary-treasurer for Dallas Township,
was appointed Supervisor Thurs-
day night at a Board meeting in
Dallas Junior High School. :
Appointed secretary-treasurer
early this month to fill that vacancy
caused by the death of William
Krimmel, he now assumes Mr.
Krimmel’s responsibilities as Su-
pervisor as well.
A life-time resident of East Dal-
las, son of Mrs, Fred Howell, De-
munds Road, and the late Fred
Howell, Glenn ‘is married and has
erville.
He is employed at Northeastern
teller.
Glenn is veteran of two years
service in the army in Japan. Hi
is a member of George M. Dallas
Lodge, and active in East Dallas
Methodist Church, where he teaches
Sunday School, and is Financial
Secretary and Treasurer of the
Building Fund.
The agreed choice of Supervisors
as the man for the job, Glenn serv-
(ed as secretary-treasurer for four
years through 1956-60.
He says he had high respect for
the work of Bill Krimmel, whose
life as a leader and concerned citi-
zen was interrupted by a fatal heart
attack October 27.
Howell carries with him into his
new job concurrence with Mr. Krim-
mel’s unflinching sentiments that
municipal government should try to
as possible in a rural area.
As for long-range aims, Glenn
hopes to administrate Township
affairs to the best of his ability,
and “to see things run as the people
want them run.”
Town's Road
Stays Unpaved
Dallas School-Bus
Loads In Luzerne
Residents of Marcytown, Kings-
ton, are living with their backs to
a wall, and no way to go forward,
according to a petition received by
the Township Board of Supervisors
at the November meeting Wednes-
day night.
Six or seven households lve on
an extension of Bennett Street, un-
paved.
Luzerne Borough paved Bennett
Street only to the Township line.
Children from the little town. must
meet the school bus, bound for
Dallas schools, in Luzerne,
Also, it is an inconvenience. for
the bus to have to go all the way
to Luzerne for the children.
bus might be able to come up Ben-
nett Street if the rest of the road
were paved by the Township. g
Supervisors studied the problem,
township road, but private.
The problem remains. Pavement
or not, however, still unposed is an
answer as to how to save the bus
the trip around the mountain.
Residents Respond
Mrs. George Fetchko reports that
an appeal for help. All day Friday,
she says, her phone rang and rang
bedding, and clothing for the couple
who lost everything in a fire on
Deats Mountain two weeks ago. Her
husband and Carlton Kocher have
been trucking in the furniture.
generous with warm clothing.
National Bank, Wilkes- Barre, ‘as a
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one son, Roger, 8. Mrs. Howell is
the former Virginia Piazza, Swoy-
Fred Lamoreaux and William Brace
restrict youth’s movements as little
the fringe of Luzerne, with no
thoroughfare to other township
communities, and their only road,
Marcytown people thought the
and reported that the road is not a
never has she seen such response to
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