First row ~— John Brominski, Charles Lockard, Delbert Voight, Paul Siket, Lawrence Piatt, Willard Bullock, Robert Ashman, Robert Letts, Gary Smith, Arch Paltrineri, Sterling McMichael, Donald An- drews, Joseph Noon, Thomas Kerpovich. 73 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Back Business of the Institution Mountain - Dallas 1962 West Side Conference Champions Second row—George Dombek, Assistant Coach; Sumner Bachman, Edward Baker, Howard Dymond, Robert Voelker, Michael Jones, William Swartwood, Carl Kaschenbach; Allan Harris, Walter Prokopchak, Jokn Farley, William Kelley, Donald Smith, Robert DALLAS POST Decker, Fred Gosart, Donald Martin, Edward Bro- minski, Coach. Third row — Charles McCuen, Reese Finn, Randell Jones, Charles Higgs, John Martin, Robert Redmond, James Haines, Charles Morgan, Edward Dorrance, Merle Bigelow, William Ziegenfus, Gary West, Joseph Miller, Donald Holdredge, Thomas Ash, Manager; Louis Palermo, Assistant Coach, absent. TWO S67 EASY TO REMEMBER Numbers 674-7676 Telephone 4-5656 & TEN CENTS PER COPY—SIXTEEN PAGES MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION EE LIT Confidence Of Shoppers Rises With Fading Of Recession and Cuba Crisis Christmas shoppers, their Ayallets bulging and their spirits ® lifted by the easing of the (uba crisis, are preparing to top their record Yule spending of 1961 — largely by concentrating gift selections on higher-priced merchandise, said the Wall Street Journal on Monday morning. YO Es cdi GE Sd BC URE Back haunts are dwicliy ied ‘ae agvees with the Journal and are looking forward to the best Christmas season in a number of years. Action’ Comes Earlier “There is more action, earlier this year than in previous seasons™ according to Charlie Gosart, auas’ appliance dealer. “I think the World: Series sparked it’ with color broadcasts. There is a big demand for stereo and color television for Christmas giving. Many husbands and wives are giving to each other by combining on a color TV or stereo. “This is one of the best months we have had with many advance orders placed for Christmas. “I think that by Christmas there will be-a terrific demand for these items and there will be shortages. Color TV sells for about twice the price of black and white. We are selling more stereo and more color than we are black and white. It looks to me like a wonderful Christ- mas.” Mr. Gosart, who also operates a food market, added that business generally is better this season in the Back Mountain area. “We usually expect a considerable drop after the resorts close and transient business diminishes. This year that drop has been less pronounced, the business must be coming from year- around residents who have more money to spend.” ’ More Buoyancy “There’s more buoyancy in buy- ing now” says Henry Mastalski of Henry's Jewelry, Shavertown. “November started off slowly, but the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving were excellent.” ! Mr. Mastalski says he has noticed an increasing demand for better grades of merchandise. Lenox ' China and Fostoria crystal as well as Keepsake diamonds are in brisk demand. , Mr. Mastalski started in business in Dallas in 1946 and moved to Shavertown some years ago. He believes many more ‘persons are now doing all of their shopping in the Back Mountain area because of the greater variety of stores available to them. “These people want the best,” Mastalski concluded, ‘we have re- cently added such lines as Uni- versal-Geneve watches, made fam- ous in Tiffany advertising. A few " years ago we could not have sold such luxury items here.” Customers Want Quality Granville Sowden, whose big, modern Back Mountain Lumber & Coal Company store was not yet completed for last year’s Christmas business, looks forward to an ex- ceptionally good holiday season, “Customers are not interested in cheap stuff and we don’t handle it in our gift department nor in our heavier lines.” Mr. Sowden said, “Back Moun- tain buyers don’t usually get into the Christmas spirit until several (Continued on Page 2 A) o> bo 7 Debbie Gosart's C mgm : » Condition Fair . Debbie Gosart, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gosart, Overbrook Avenue, remains in’ fair condition at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where she was admitted Tuesday evening at 6:30 following an accident in ffont of the Ray Stroud home on est Center Street earlier in the ‘| afternoon. : ‘ Debbie, a first grade student at Shavertown Building had - just been dismissed from classes for the day. She was walking along the left side of the road in direction of her home when she suddenly decided to cross to the other: side. William Coolbaugh, Dallas R. D. school bus driver, was slowly ap- proaching ‘to . stop for passengers. He saw the child dart out and im- mediately slammed on his brakes. Three-foot skid marks were found at the scene. : The child was knocked down but due to prompt action by Mr. Cool- baugh, not run over. He quickly reached the child who lay crying in the road. Anthony Plata, Shavertown fireman, took the. coat from his son and covered the child. Mr. Goodwin, principal of Shaver- town Grade School, summoned by the school patrol, was on hand a few seconds after the accident and had a call placed for Dr, Michael Buccan. Mrs. Durelle Scott, teacher and registered nurse, advised that the child not be moved until the doctor arrived. Andrew Roan. who was present dashed for the Kings- ton Township ambulance which was not needed. ; Dr. Bucan came quickly, decided no bones had been broken and had the child carried into the empty school bus for further examination Finding no evidence of serious in- jury he advised that the child be taken to her home. Mrs. Andrew Roan who had stopped by to pick up her son, drove Debbie home accompanied by Mrs. Scott The child appeared drousy after her fright. Mrs. Gosart, the child's mother became alarmed when Debbie com- plained of headache and nausea. Her drowsiness increased and she took the child to her family physi- cian, Dr. A. A. Mascali, who ordered her to ‘the hospital for X-rays of the skull. In Hospital Mrs. Fred Watkins, ' Harveys Lake, is a patient at Nesbitt Hos- pital. The Watkins were vacation- ing in Florida, but due to Mrs. Watkins’ ill health had to return home. Home For Christmas FRED L. HENNEBAUL Freddie Hennebaul will be home for Christmas, the first time he has been across the threshold since he was injured in wrestling early in January. Feddie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Hennebaul, Harveys Lake, ex- pects to come home December 21, and not by ambulance, but sitting up in a car. He will remain here until January 4, when he will re- turn to the Rehabilitation Center in Johnstown for further therapy. Before he left Geisinger Medical Center in October, he was able to move his left arm, and now is getting use of his‘right arm, but to a lesser degree. Since the ‘opera- tion by which a bone - graft strengthened his neck, he has had free motion of his head. Sensation is slowly returning. The spinal cord was not severed, but it was badly frayed. His wheelchair him. For four hours every day he has muscular therapy, attendants work- ing with his arms. In the after- noons he gets occupational therapy. Each weekend, members of his family go down to see him, and each weekend they note progress. It will be a long haul, says his will come with aged and feels that Freddie will re- | cover use of his limbs’ as cord tissue regenerates itself. an extremely slow process. Lake - Lehman High School phoned the Dallas Post last Tues- day for Freddie's picture to use in the Year-Book. He is a member of the graduating class of 1962. Key Club Active Key Club boys are keeping up spinal It is | | | | | | mother, but she is greatly encour- [else BE CONTRIBUTIONS TO SHAVER FAMILY FUND THROUGH DALLAS POST Contributions for the Shaver Fund may be sent in care of the Dallas Post, which will act as a clearing house for the general public. Everyone will want to Expenses be contribute. will high. The: family is widely coa- | | nected in the area, where the name of Shaver is synonymous with substantial - pioneer -am- cestry, Make - your donation soon, and as generous as possi- ble. ; The tragedy has affected the entire community, and stirred it to the depths: Tragic Note Clarence ‘Shorty’ ~ Shaver, 56, father of the three girls who were burned to death, is a ‘patient at Nes- bitt Hospital where he shows no im- provement after being admitted Fri- day night following a stroke suffer- ed at his home in Loyalville. He was treated at his home by Dr. Benjamin * Groblewski , before being removed by Lake Ambulance. His son Clarence Jr., a U.S. Marine stationed at Memphis, Tenn., who arrived here Monday night after be- ing notified of his father’s serious illness was staying with his aunt and uncle Mr, and Mrs. Glenn Wil- liams in Kingston when tragedy struck at the family home in Lake Township. The elder Mr. Shaver, a cousin of |* Dean, was for many years associated | with his late father Clarence in the well drilling business. More recently he was employed with McTeren and | Terry, a New Jersey electrical man- ufacturer, until he was laid off. A native of Lake Township Mr. Shaver has one sister, Mildred, a graduate of Lake Schools and Drex- el Institute, now a teacher in Korea. Mrs. John Parsons, Mrs. Shaver’'s sister-in-law, Mrs. Dale Oney Wednesday morn- ing around 8:30 to inquire about Clarence, and got- the news of the tragedy. Mrs. Mildred Shaver, the teacher in Korea, in her handbag Tuesday night, and the handbag of course was burned along with everything | who teaches | | children of service men in Korea, | has to be reached through the Red Miss = Shaver, Cross, but there was an address in New York which might have short- | ened the process. This was finally located through a Lake neighbor. | Miss Shaver has been sent a cablegram. |Arrangements are be- ing held up until the family hears from her. "Mrs. Clarence Shaver is under heavy sedation. Richard, on the serious list, is their pace of activities. Last week | getting transfusions. they delivered furniture to a needy | family and From Mrs. Parsons’ account, the sixteen food baskets, | two smaller children, a little boy packed by Women of Kiwanis at and Susie, slept in cribs in Mrs. Mrs. Helen Rice’s: home, They attended the Key Club Di-| door. The two girls, Mildred Vir- vision meeting Monday in Pittston, ginia and Cynthia, slept in another where the main speaker was Al room. Mildred Virginia could not Ackerson, Lieutenant Governor of be roused, probably already suffo- Dallas Kiwanis. cated when fire was discovered. of Kunkle, called | Parsons says that | Mrs. Shaver had the address of | § VOL. 74, NO. 48 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1962 Search Yields Three Killed In Fire Members of Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company raked charred debris in the cellar of the Harveys Lake home of Clarence Shaver to find the bodies of three daughters trapped when the two-story frame house burned to the ground yesterday morning. Six other people escaped the blaze with bad burns, as three com- panies of fire-fighters attempted to arrest the flames. Coroner Stephen M. Glova and Police Chief Edgar Hughes di- rected the search well into the morning, as the ruins finally yielded the dead children and the body of a pet kitten. | Shaver’s room, Susie right near the | | The older girl, Marguerite, rushed | will ever actually know what hap- | outdoors to call for help, and when pened. But it seems definite that | she came back to the house it was | the children suffocated before they | already a mass of flames. | were burned,” Mrs. Parsons added. “I do not think that anybody | Fie. “Shorty’’ Shaver, were burned sumed their rural two-story Corner of Harveys Lake. Six other members of the family T ragedy willows Shortly T heir Father Is Sent To Hospital With Stroke © Three little sisters, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence to death in a holocaust that con- frame home early Wednesday ' morning on Schoolhouse road between Loyalville and the West barely escaped with their SHAVER FAMILY : ACCEPTS OFFER OF BURIAL PLOT Chapel Lawn’s’ offer of a burial plot for the three vic- tims of yesterday’s early morn- ing tragedy has been ‘accepted " by the Clarence Shaver family. The three children, Mildred Virginia, Cynthia, and baby Susie, who, lost their lives when flames swept through the two- story frame dwelling.at Harveys Lake, will be buried at Chapel Lawn. : Definite arrangements await decision of Mrs. Shaver and Stephen. Glova, funeral director. Mrs. Shaver: is' at Nesbitt Hospital in a state of shock. Mr. Shaver, alsq at Nesbitt, has been in a deep coma since suf- fering a ‘stroke late Friday -. night. : VIRGINIA and CYNTHIA SHAVER These pictures of Virginia Shaver and her younger sister, Cynthia, were received only, Tuesday afternoon when the school pictures arrived at Lake and Lehman Buildings. Mrs. Martin at Lake Building said “I can see Cynthia now standing in the hall as we told her what a lovely picture she had. She grasped it in where it was consumed in the fire.” The picture here was taken from a small booklet prepared for the First Grade at Lake. her hand and took it home with heg | lives. Dead are: Mildred Virginia, 14, a Ninth Grade student at Lake-Leh- man’ Junior High School; Cynthia, 6, First Grade pupil at Lake Ele- mentary School and Susie, 2. Their bodies were recovered late Wednesday morning. At Nesbitt Hospital where they .are ' recovering from burns and shock are Mrs. Marguerite Shaver, mother of the children; Richard, 17; Robert 13 and David, 14. A daugh- ter, Marguerite, 16, was the only member of the family who escaped injury. The mother and all the children, ‘| except Richard, were sleeping in bedrooms on the second floor when the fire: was: discovered around 1:30 -| by.. Jackie Thomas, -19, who with Richard was sleeping. in. the living | room. AE Jack Thomas Gives Alarm Awakened by the acrid’ smell of smoke, Jackie saw flames creeping up the kitchen wall. He ran to a stairway but was blocked from mounting the stairs by smoke and flames that singed his hair and burned his hands. «He shouted to the other members of the family to get out as best they could, then with Richard raised a ladder to the front porch roof. The entire upper story was en- veloped in flames as Mrs. Shaver and three of the children escaped through a window and down over the ‘roof. The night clothing of all of them was scorched and in flames. Richard was severely burn- ed about the back, arms and leg as he agsisted them. Jackie guided them to the home of Dale Oney just across the high- } way and Mr. Oney called Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company. He also notifed Dr. Benjamin Groblewski, Harveys Lake physician, who came at once with his driver Thomas Tilghman. Dr. Groblewski Gave First Aid Dr. Groblewski rendered first aid, then gave attention to Mrs. Shaver who fell unconscious. from shock to the floor of the Oney living room. Richard also suffered from deep burns on the back, arms and leg. ~All were in an extreme state of shock when Dr. Groblewski had them. placed ‘in. his station wagon {and driven to Nesbitt Hospital by Mr. Tilghman. He then turned his attention to George Searfoss, a neighbor who had become extreme- “I'ly ill during the excitement. First: to arrive on thé scene following Mr. Oney’s urgent call was Chief of Police Edgar Hughes in the Harveys Lake Police cruiser, shortly followed by Myron Williams, who had been notified by his wife who calls all firemen, and by Dr. Groblewski. Mr. Williams said flames from the raging inferno lighted the whole lake area as though a lake front property were aflame. There was nothing firemen could (Continued on Page 2 A)
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