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‘Editorially Speaking:
i SEND IN YOUR BALLOT NOW!
» In response to the appeal of Back
sMountain Protective Association for
the elimination of telephone toll
fates between Dallas and Wilkes-
Barre-Kingston and the subsequent
sampling of opinion in last week's
«Dallas Post, eight thousand letters
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.;monwealth Telephone Company sub-
uscribers served by the Dallas and
South Dallas exchanges of the comp-
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telephone patrons can record their
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REVISED DRAFT
COMMONWEALTH TELEPHONE COMPANY
. Dallas, Pennsylvania
t i Zr Area Code 717
674-1211
December 1, 1962
: Continued interest has been evidenced by some of our customers
il Wilkes-Barre, Kingston local calling privileges.
#*the elimination of the 10c message charge between Dallas and Wilkes-
« Barre-Kingston customers and an increase in local service monthly
# charges for our Dallas customers in accordance ‘with the following:
This would mean
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. Present Monthly Alternative
: Class of Service Rates Monthly Rates Increase
§ Multi-Pty Res... ....... $3.75 $ 4.75 $ 1.00
# 4 Pty. Res. .... 3.75 4.75 1.00
ER 2 Py Res. o.oo... 5.00 6.00 1.00
i Ind, Res, i. or ie tli ll 5.75 7.00 1.25
§ Multi-Pty. Bus. locum 5.50 7.00 1.50
EB 4Pty. Bus... 00 5.50 7.00 1.50
: 7.00 8.50 1.50
: 8.00 11.00 3.00
x As a result of the interest in the extension of your local service
area, we are taking a poll of our customers to determine how many
{customers would be willing to accept increased local service charges in
jorder to eliminate the 10c message charge on all calls to. Wilkes-Barre-
Kingston telephones to you. The above table permits you to determine
‘of service and the relative value to you of unlimited local calling! to
a ilkes-Barre-Kingston.
acceptable to our customers.
or amount of the monthly local service charge increase for your class
Commonwealth Telephone Company desires to provide service which
Because of the effect of such a change
©n the net cost of your telephone service, we urge you to indicate on
ithe enclosed card whether or not you would be willing to pay the in-
wreased local service rates in order to be able to talk to Wilkes-Barre-
Kingston customers without a 10c message charge.
; Since it would be undesirable to make this change unless the ma-
Jority of all our customers record their desire for it, it will be appreciated
it you will return the card on or before December 31, 1962 so that we can
determine if there is sufficient demand for the extension of the local
balling area at the alternative rates.
It will be assumed that those
who do not return the card want no change in the present service ar-
angement.
If you should desire information on the effect of the proposed change
jon your telephone cost, please call the Business Office.
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Individual Business
4-Pty. Business
Multi-Pty. Business
Individual Residence
2-Pty. Residence
4-Pty. Residence
Multi-Pty. Residence
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Main Stations —
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2-Pty. Business ....... fide rents:
Dallas Local Calling Area -— Total 8,310 plus 69,920
Sincerely yours,
J. N. LANDIS,
District Manager
Main Stations — Dallas Local Calling Area
October 31, 1962
/ Harveys Sweet Center-
Dallas Lake
Valley Moreland
Sak 251 44 18 16
Dies 38 3 5 i
ines 6 11 3 Ri
Satna 28 10 16 2
../1,006 212 27 29
- 454 141 46 12
. 1,368 400 95 93
... 703 339 301 186
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3,885 1,170 515 339
Wilkes-Barre-
Kingston Total
Dallas Local Calling Area — Total 5,909 plus 45,401 51,310
78,230
AL sana ans
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago:
Diphtheria, in spite of universal
knowledge of antitoxin and avail-
ability through schools and public
agencies, was still exacting a hor-
rifying toll in the United States and
Canada.
Noxen Tannery was studying
methods of treating waste before
discharge into Bowman’s Creek.
ton Bicentennial was drawing to a
close.
Dallas Township took Dallas Bor-
ough with a score of 10 to 0, in the
first game played between the two
teams for several years.
There was the usual dither about
the implications of the name “Back
Mountain” “which many newcomers
considered equivalent to “Back
Woods.”
To permit dances, or not to per-
mit dances, in the new Kingston
Township auditorium was a burning
question.
Eskimos completed a seventy-foot
shaft in memory of Commander
Peary, discoverer of the North Pole.
D. H. Hons and E. S. Stevens
rented the former Ritter garage and
set up an automobile repair business.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Alva Eggleston shot a 400 pound
bear in Root Hollow, Frank Hardisky
got one weighing 200.
That gorilla man out in the Back
Mountain turned out to be the fig-
ment of a town reporter’s imagina-
tion, but it helped enforce curfew
laws for a time.
Due to so many men being in the
service and working in defense
plants, the deer-kill was expected
to be lighter than usual.
A scale model of an airplane won
a top award for Ray Jones in the
current model contest sponsored by
Piper Aircraft and New York Daily
Mirror. Ray was a student at Dal-
las Township. His award netted him
the equivalent of $2,500, including
a year of instruction at the Piper
plant and 100 hours of pilot train-
ing.
American Legion was preparing to
dedicate the Honor Roll in Dallas.
Henry J. Williams, handyman of
Nothoff’'s Grotto, dropped dead of a
heart attack.
‘Gerald. Frantz planned: to close
his store’ at Christmas time and
leave for Baltimore, to work in the
Martin. Bomber plant.
Service men heard from: Paul
Montross, Columbia; Robert J. Prit-
chard, Fort Sheridan; Herb Updyke,
Manchester, Conn.; Don Roberts,
Oklahoma; Alan Kistler, Chicago;
Harry Decker, Fort Meyers; Donald
Metzger, Camp Atterbury; Franklin
Lienthal, Camp Lee; Tommy Evans,
Middle East; Glen Kessler, England;
Willard Garey, Guadalcanal. «
Married: Irene Breza to Floyd E.
Olson. Thelma Kelley to Walter
DeRemer. Ruth Bertram to Allen
Kittle. Evelyn Keith to Floyd Jack-
son.
Two pages of names and addresses
"| of boys from the Back Mountain in
the service, with a notation for
everybody to send Christmas cards.
The Government was asking for
heavy farm scrap. Housewives were
urged to flatten all tin cans for the
scrap drive.
It Happened
I10 Years Ago
It is incredible . . . but it was ten
years ago that twelve Luzerne high
school students, on a stolen jaunt in
a truck during school hours, happily
planning on collecting furniture for
the senior play, struck a bridge abut-
ment at ‘the foot of Lehman hill
where Route 115 spanned Harveys
Creek, and were thrown out. It
developed later that the students in
the cab were playing “chicken.”
One girl broke her back. Lehman
students, summoned to help, were
sickened at the sight. A photograph-
er from Life Magazine, chancing to
pass at the timeygot pictures. Ten
of; the injured were hospitalized.
"Mustangs and Redskins were
ready to battle it out at the Thanks-
giving classic between Westmoreland
and Dallas Township.
Rain relieved a long drought, re-
lieving domestic water shortage and
eliminating danger of forest fires.
Al Bowman got himself a Javelin-
Jupiter, one of the first sports cars
in the area.
Married: Dorothy Niezgoda to Wil-
liam W. Cooper. Mary Ann Polachek
to Ray Balweirczak.
Oliver Hoyt, 63, lost his life at
the same spot where his nephew,
Albert Martin, was killed the year
before. Crossing the road at the
height of the storm, he was struck
by a car on Route 309 at Kunkle.
President-e l ect Eisenhower and
vice-president-elect Richard Nixon
shook hands on page seven.
Republican Dinner
The following from Noxen at-
tended the Republican Victory din-
ner at ‘Lackawanna Trail High
School, Saturday evening: Howard
Engelman, Mrs. Clark Oliver, Elida
Beahm, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Ben-
der, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Hess.
Dinner was served at 7 p.m. after
which many enjoyed dancing to Bob
Bachak’s orchestra. A huge Victory
cake was cut and served to the
many guests after which there was
The world-wide George Washing-#
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1962
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Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
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Dallas loses the last members of |
two well established families in the
removal of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Van-
Nortwick to Ohio.
While Main Street was still a dirt
road, Archie and Nellie VanNortwick
and their small son, Ralph, moved
into the Chet. White farmhouse on
the lower side of Main Street oppo-
site the Franklin Street intersection.
A few years later they purchased
from Eli Parrish the house on the
curve a short distance west, with
property extending up to Franklin
Street, where the family lived over
forty years.
The home and grounds became
one of Mr. VanNortwick's main in-
terests in life. The house was ex-
tensively remodeled, new walks,
fences, trees and shrubs put in, and
poultry houses and other outbuild-
ings built. For many years he kept
chickens, always had a large vege-
table and flower garden, and har-
vested a lot of small fruits. He read
extensively on agricultural subjects,
once told me he had an unbelievable
number of bulletins issued by federal
and state departments and research
institutions, it seems to me it was
about a thousand. For a long time,
probably years, I rode back and forth
on ‘the street cars with Mr. Van-
Nortwick.
He was not a politician, but I re-
call he was a member of the town
council, while I served 1925-27, and
probably before and after. He may
have held other offices. He was
active in many worthwhile public
affairs. In his regular job, he was
an office employe of Hazard Manu-
facturing Company.
Although they had not previously
been Methodists, Archie and Nellie
VanNortwick joined the Methodist
Church and became active therein.
Both were teachers in Sunday
School, he served as a department
superintendent and later as super-
intendent. Mr. VanNortwick was a
member of the Official Board for
many years and part of the time
was a ‘trustee. Their son, Ralph,
became a member of the church in
1922.
Ralph was graduated from the
University of Cincinnati as a geolog-
ical engineer and went to Texas to
work. While there he entered Fort
Worth Bible School and became an
ordained minister. After residing
several years in Texas and vicinity
he returned to Ohio where he or-
ganized an independent Baptist
Church at Hamilton known as The
Lindenwald Baptist Church. He has
been preaching over twenty ¥ears.
Mrs. Nellie VanNortwick died many
years ago.
The present Mrs. VanNortwick,
the former Grace Stroud, comes
from a family residing here over
twice as long. Her father, Barney
Stroud, had a farm along Reservoir
Avenue bordering Lehman Town-
ship, since largely flooded by Hunts-
ville Reservoir. He headed up the
petition to form the Borough, being
the first signer, and young Charles
H. Cooke started at Stroud’s corner
to survey the Borough, The Stroud
house stood on the knoll presently
between two inlets of the Reservoir,
a little south of the intersection. of
Machell Avenue. Barney Stroud was
married twice.' By his first wife,
dren, one of whom, Frank, later
lived here and was the father of the
late Clifford Stroud, who had a farm
and maintained a stand on Route
118.
Mr. Stroud’s second wife, Jane
Steele, had sons Walter and Her-
bert, and one daughter, Grace. Mrs.
Stroud came to Franklin Street as
a widow and built the first house on
the north side, on a lot cut from the
corner of what was then the Rice
pasture field. Her unmarried son
Walter, nicknamed Barney after his
father, lived with his mother and
was a familiar figure about town
until his death. Grace, unmarried
at the time, lived for many years in
the middle west, returning to care
for her mother, well known here for
decades as Jane Stroud.
The VanNortwick and Stroud
properties ad join. [Subsequently
Grace Stroud married widower Van-
Nortwick. Good substantial citizens;
these, and the town loses by their
removal.
In over forty-three years on the
Lehigh Valley T have seen a lot of
railroading, and heard about a lot
more from those older than I am.
Some of the best stories by outsiders
are those which apparently cover
events that never happened. Among
these I would put the recent story
about the 20th Century running via
the Pumpkin Line.
Now it is true that railroad tracks
are of uniform gauge and engines
and cars are interchangeable. It is
also true that in emergencies some
highly unusual routes are used. But
always detours must be in accord-
ance with operating conditions and
practices on the home road being
used. When you handle passenger
trains, or even freights with long,
heavy, high, or wide shipments, all
questions such as safety, track sup-
port, bridge capacity, side and over-
head clearances, curvature, etc.
must be considered.
In my time and long before, the
Lehigh Valley never detoured its
own main line trains over the
Pumpkin Line (Bowmans Creek
Branch). In emergencies such as
flooding, they were always put on
the Lackawanna from Waverly to
Pittston Jct. and vice versa. If the
20th Century ever got over Trucks-
ville Trestle, for example, assuredly
the’ man who ordered it would never
have worked again. Bridges, grades,
curvature, weight of rail, and a lot
of other conditions would not have
allowed it.
Dan Webster, whom I knew very
well, was a trainmaster, not the
{rain dispatcher. And I was working
at Coxton at the time and personally
saw Pennsylvania, New York Cen-
tral, B & O, and other foreign trains
running up and down the river on
more than one occasion, including
the heavy flood times when we were
about the only road running. in the
east.
The track was lifted between
Mountain Springs and Lopez about
1938-39 which, even the smartest
writers would admit, would not per-
mit a train to run in 1940. And the
Vosburg floods were caused by
cloudbursts along the creek running
down from Russell Hill and not by
the raising of the Susquehanna.
It was a good story, but just not
Rebecca Louder, he had seven c¢hil-
SO.
. « . Safety
TO HER MANY FRIENDS
Dear Howard Risley:
This letter is written to thank
you people, and to ask a favor.
My thanks are occasioned by the
Dallas Post handling of Mrs. Wirt’s
obituary. I do not recollect ever
having seen so beautifully sympa-
thetic a newspaper nod of farewell.
Among other things, the very ex-
istence of this unusual news account
betokens the unusual character of
the deceased and the unusual char-
acter of your community; because
only a superior individual could so
impress a community in a few
months’ time as to warrant that
news account, and conversely, only
a community of the character of
yours could have elicited such zeal-
ous devotion and love from a per-
son such as Mrs. Wirt,
The favor I am impelled to ask
you, is that you find a way to in-
from Mrs, Wirt’s friends, perhaps
by publishing this letter, that if
they did not receive direct personal
notice of her death from our son,
John, it is because he lacks their
names and addresses even though
scores of them had written to his
mother. John notified only the few
my befogged mind was able to re-
call on the spur of the moment.
For private reasons, I, myself, noti-
fied Mrs. Thomas E. Heffernan.
Though so many Back Mountain
folks had written Mrs. Wirt, no
trace of their identity and address
remained at her death. Perhaps the
reason for this will interest them
and you.
Since shortly after Mrs. Wirt’s
return to New Jersey, I have spent
twenty-four hours a day where she
was, first at our home in the coun-
try and then at her apartment in
town, but only since“her death
have I learned what happened dur-
ing those regular daily periods of
the last month of her life when she
sent me out on contrived errands.
During ‘these periods, she had her
companion go over her personal
effects with her—clothing, jewelry,
trinkets, bricc-a-brae, ete.—to desig-
nate a suggested. disposition «of - vir-
tually every item. Similarly, she
had her companion go through.
Valve . . .
eral baskets and cartons of letters
and cards, read them to her once
more, then destroy them. Her desk
is clear, its drawers empty.
All this was effected without my
participation or knowledge, of
course. So great was Mrs. Wirt’s
strength of mind that neither her
suffering nor her intense drugging
diminished the quality and use of
her faculties. But that discarding of
correspondence accounts © in good,
part for the absence of names and
addresses to which son John could
refer.
Please renew my currently expir-
ing © subscription to your paper.
Shortly after Mrs. Wirt left Dallas,
she directed that she should no
longer be shown the Dallas Post, or
even appraised of its arrival, so
much did it break her heart all ever
again each week. It breaks mine,
too, so deeply is my soul in the Back
Mountain—the place she had so
aptly agreeably chosen for our resi-
dence for the rest of our lives—but
it also breaks my heart not to see
a weekly reminder of a location
where her soul found itself sympa-
thetically at home, and reveling in
accomplishment.
Perhaps through your kindness,
my gratitude and good wishes can
be extended to all up there who in
various degrees and ways were as-
sociated with my lamented wife.
Respectfully,
Prosper D. Wirt.
Three Die In Fire
(Continued from Page 1 A)
do to save the other children or
the structure except control the
spread of flames to other properties.
About thirty firemen headed by
Chief Thomas Garrity manned lines
and pumpers of Harveys Lake,
Kunkle and Jonathan Davis Fire
Companies. The Idetown tanker
supplied additional water.
State Fire Marshall Michael Ry-
an and Chief Hughes said the fire
is believed to have started in a
wood burning kitchen range which
shared a round insulated chimney.
with a cabinet oil heater in the
first floor living room, % 2 !
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
HOLIDAY RATS
Season opened on rats in our
back yard with somewhat less than
a bang over the holidays, since it
ic illegal to discharge a gun in the
Borough.
But, season’s entrance was not
exactly a whimper either, as yours
truly called on twenty-four years
of varmint-hunting experience and
came up with a natural.
The slingshot, whose use has been
known to mankind as far back as
King David's youth, reached peak
of development in design and use
during the pre-adolescent Leighton-
ithic era.
As kids we had many a near
miss on flights of starlings with the
redoubtable “Whamo.” As far as
I could recall, we may even have
hit a few.
I can’t say the same for the rats,
who seem to be able to smell me
coming for miles. I've even tried
taking a bath every half-hour.
I get a few good shots off with
my sling-shot, but ammunition is
so inferior that the rat hag time
to make himself a sandwich before
he gets out of its way.
Quarter and half «inch steel ball-
bearings were what we used to
use, although these are now ap-
parestly unavailable.
Tm now reduced to using
marbles, which are so light they
sail after going a few yards. Not
only are the rats not running when
they hear the feeble whirr of one
of my marbles, but they're begin-
ning to look like they might come
up and slap me around a little for
being so presumptuous.
I really don’t know what to do.
There's another problem involved
in that the parakeet who lives right
behind my rat-blind is now given
to’ shouting about my approach
every time I open the door.
It's only a matter of time before
the bird and rat team stops using
“Pretty boy” and “Good morning,
momma’ code, and my little feath-
ered Quisling starts yelling “Hit the
dirt, boys’ right out.
You probably think I'm dis-
traught about this turn of events,
but I'm not. As soon as the rats
and I see eye to eye, we're going
to go into business.
We can just make the Christmas
season, if I can teach them some
songs, like Alvin and the chip-
munks. The parakeet already has
a head-start.
Local Merchants Say
Yule Business Is Good
(Cont. from Page 1)
days after Thanksgiving, but gift
sales the Friday and Saturday after
Thanksgiving were exceptionally
heavy this year. I wish we could
have eight days a week like them,”
he added wistfully.
Upgrading Lines
Robert Boyer, manager of Mec-
Crory’s bright Junior Department
Store in Back Mountain Shopping
Center across the street from Mr.
Sowden, agreed that better lines of
merchandise are in demand. “We
are upgrading most of our lines in-
cluding furniture, TV and Stereo,
and wearing apparel for the entire
family. We look for a decided in-
crease in sales of these better qual-
ity items.” Mr. Boyer stated “that
McCrory’s now offers credit for the
convenience of its customers. This
too, will stimulate Christmas
buying.”
Sperting Goods Sales
“We're selling far more boats
and motors for Christmas than ever
before,” said Caddie Labar, Dallas
owner of one of the county’s largest
sporting goods stores. “Of course
this is our peak season, but I'd say,
we're way ahead of last year.”
“Women do a lot of early season
buying of expensive sporting goods
as gifts for their hubands especially
in our better grades of fishing
tackle, reels and rods. We have al-
ready sold two powerful motors to
wives who will put them under the
Christmas tree for their husbands.”
Labar’s store carries a big in-
ventory of toys and bikes. Because
of stiff competition of discount
houses, many of these items must
be sold at prices far below those
listed by the manufacturers.
“People know what they should
pay and we meet all competition
even though the profit is short.
Christmas 1962 should see business
up five to ten percent.”
Recession Fears Wave
“With the economy holding at
a high level and fears of a 1963
recession fading,” Edward Humph-
reys of Humphreys’ Children Boot-
ery in Back Mountain Shopping
Center, feels that sales records
should be topped this December.
“October was good, November will
top 1961. It may be a bit early
to get the big feel of pent up holi-
day spending, many of our items
go during the last month, but we
already feel this urge. T'd say
Christmas business will be 10 to
15 percent ahead of last season,
with emphasis on higher priced
merchandise. Take one item: Wo-
men’s Snow Boots, fairly high
priced at $11.95 to 12.95. They
are moving rapidly as advance pur-
chase Christmas gifts.”
Humphreys feels that Back Moun-
right merchandise have an advan-
tage in attracting holiday business,
‘because of the ease of finding ad-
equate parking.
Did You Read ’
From—
By
at the time,
the Franklin stove. It would add
in slow motion, while the mashed
harden in the oven.
It did look like a good idea.
taken aboard on Wednesday.
had set in.
before we attacked it.
turn the turkey on its side, and
would be enough retained heat in
growing actually cold.
turned on.
clearly was no centerpiece for a
doubtless yield itself to slicing of a
pies and such.)
It worked out pretty well.
together after a fashion.
The hot turkey, brown and
dipped in salad dressing.
and added to the gravy.
It didn’t really save too much
about two dollars apiece . . .
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Pillar To Post...
Hix
Getting two turkeys for Thanksgiving looked like a sound idea
One turkey, fattened in luxury at Beaumont, would be the main-
stay of the family gathering. The second, thriftily purchased in a
frozen state and roasted the night before, would make a focus for
hungry eyes while the real McCoy was being rent limb from limb
in the kitchen and brought in, hot and savory, on plates warmed on
up to an exteremely quick carving
session, and would keep everybody from dying of hunger. Methodical
slices of white and dark are customarily detached from the turkey
potatoes grow cold and the biscuits
But that was before the meagre pre-Thanksgiving meal had been
By the time the pumpkin pies were out of the oven and the first
turkey, the stage property, was sufficiently browned, hunger pangs
Would anybody know if we took just one small slice apiece off
that beautifully browned white meat ? X :
: Tom and I argued the thing back and forth, hither and yon.
It was ridiculous, we agreed, not to sample the bird.
put parsley on the gash and it would look just as noble as it did
Or if we carved off too much, we could just
We could
again use plenty of parsley.
We settled down to a turkey sandwich apiece and a mug. of
coffee. We had a second sandwich apiece, and ariother mug of coffee.
We covered the roaster and slipped it back in the oven.
There
the oven ‘to keep the turkey from
It probably would have been fine, except that the oven was still ;
That's what you get for trying tq cook late at night.
The next morning the turkey had melted. It lay there on its
back its legs spread in an abandoned pose, the oven, at low heat, still
gallantly doing its best, but against overwhelming odds.
Shovelled out and reassembled on a large platter, the turkey
table. But the die was cast, and
there was plenty of parsley. Allowed to get cold, the turkey would
sort. 3
Into the oven went the large economy sized turkey, while th
stage property cooled off in the coop.
netting box with shelves, located in a cold place for reception of
(The coop is a large wire-
The first turkey cemented itself
crackling from the oven, sending
out the aroma associated with Thanksgiving, got itself sliced in no
time, and the guests, hypnotized by the sight of the stage property
on the table, obediently nibbled celery stalks and cauliflower florets
Tl i
The stage property was unobtrusively hacked up afterwards
time after all, maybe ten minutes.
We figure that the Thanksgiving Eve sandwiches set us back
and that isn’t counting in the gas con-
sumed by the oven atlowtemperature from midnight until 7 am.
-
One morning last week my
morning mail.
Harvard over the weekend, and
his company, neighbours and the
is over.
Peterson. He conscientiously looks
morning, and why my friend Pete
of thirty-five years with the old
flakes.
wouldn’t work.
might work. easier.”
mornings ?
The 1962-1963 exhibition basket-
ball season opens Tuesday evening,
December 4, for Dallas High School
Mountaineers when they host the
Redskins of Wyoming High School
at Dallas gymnasicm.
This will be one of seven exhibition
games which precede the regular
North League schedule.
The Dallas cagers will. be out to
avenge the three-point loss to Wyom-
ing last year, the only defeat in ex-
hibition play suffered by the local
quintet.
Loyal fans are advised to stock up
on tranquilizers, as this year’s ver-
sion of the Mountaineers promises
to give out with an exceptionally ex-
citing brand of ball.
The team will be led by returning
captain, Thomas Gauntlett and big
Bob Letts, who will combine with
Ronnie Sinicrope, Jack Mokychie,
Joe Noon, John Farley, Mike Jones,
Ralph Boston, Tom Siket, and Brad-
|ley Earl to provide a good account
from the upper two classes.
Pete painstakingly, scraped the frost from the windshield, dusted
the soft snow from the rear window, reached deep in his overcoat
for the key, tried vainly to unlock the car door. The darn thing
Gary Cobb, John Zarno, Paul Siket, |.
Tho sophomore cls has chipped
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Notes:
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good friend and neighbour Henry
Peterson, preoccupied and weighed down with his duties for the
Springfield Monarch Insurance Company, shuttled down to the Post-
office in his Chevrolet, parked. it with the motor running, and
scampered up the flight of steps into the office to gather up his
Several of his old cronies greeted him with a cheerful Monday
“morning” as they squeezed by the sorting table in the. corner; con-
gratulated him on the good showing Brown University made against
otherwise interrupted his train of
thought. A train, incidentally, which of a Monday morning is usually
whistling down the track loaded with a shipment of good deeds, de-
tails and miscellaneous freight which Pete will have to expedite for
fire company before the day’s run
is finished. Not to mention a few groceries, he will have to pick up
for Helen, and a spool of thread for Florence Phillips before the day
No man could be more loyal to the Springfield Fire and Marine,
more punctual in his appointments, or more concerned with the wel-
fare of the sick, the halt and the faltering than my good friend Hank
in on the widows as Louise Brown
and Clara Ohlman will tell you. He stops by the undertaking estab-
lishments to offer his condolances.
lishments to offer his condolences.
With so much good in the world to do and so little time in
which to do it, it is easy to understand what happened last Monday
He is the first to welcome a new
He is the first to welcome a new
is to be humiliated before the sun
has melted many more snowflakes. ; eA
His arms loaded with mail, some of it letters with directives from
the newest 14th vice president hired by the company, the veteran
Springfield Fire and Marine, went
out to his waiting car now covered with frost and sparkling snow-
’
Lloyd Williams, standing helpfully by, tapped him gently on the
shoulder, pointed up Lake Street to another Chevrolet parked
against the curb. “Why don’t you try the key in your own car, it
You'd have thought the whole Harvard line had crashed through
the right tackle of the 1922 Brown team if you had been there. ;
Why don’t you widows pick up your own thread on Monday
Dallas Senior High School Opens
Basketball Season This Tuesday
in with a dozen hustling cagers, head-
ed by Don Martin and Nicholas Sosik.
Plenty of action will be offered in
the preliminary games by sopho-
mores Fred Gosart, Kit Karuza, Char-
les Stevens, Gene Shelley, Ed Mc-
Dade, Keith Swisher, Bill Baker, Tom
Szela, Sumner Bachman, and Orazio
Kyle. Head Manager Jack Kaleta
and his staff, Richard Ratcliffe, John
Ferguson, and Dave Kopetchney are
hard at work seeing that the team’s
needs are provided.
Coach Clint Brobst has been fortu-
nate to secure the services of Len
Kozick as assistant coach, a post left
vacant by the resignation of the very
capable and successful George Mc-
Cutcheon. Increased duties in the
guidance program have made it im-
possible for Mr. McCutcheon to con=
tinue in the coaching field.
The Mountaineers hope to make a
bid for the North League Champion
established as an early favorite. Once
again, the North League expects
keen competition from all teams in
ship, where Swoyerville has been