nt 2 a CoM J ft smn 0 73 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Back of the Institution Mountain ; THE DALLAS PO TWO EASY TO . REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 674-5656 674-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION 1 A Togetherness Is Important Four Carverton Families Agree Two brothers, two sisters and their mother who continue ‘to live side by side, are building new homes in Franklin Township. Mrs. William Poepperling, Mrs. Warren Bidwell, James Futch and William Futch have resided in four adjoining residences on Carverton Road, Carverton since 1942. Their mother, has a lovely apart- ment attached to the Poepperling home. This gracious lady is af- fectionately known as ‘Mammy’ to her children and grandchildren. She believes firmly in the main- tainance of separate quarters for parents when their children reach marriageable age, but is always nearby when any assistance or ad- vice is needed. ; She is the favored baby sitter, welcome shopping companion and favored hostess at family get to- gethers, birthdays, holidays or an- niversaries. Z The family are members of St. Francis Cabrini Church. Nine grandchildren, two sons-in- law and two daughters-in-law dwell together in love and harmony, which is really remarkable in pres- ent day existence. The two oldest grandchildren are married. William Poepperling, Jr. lives in Wilkes-Barre and claims the oldest member of the fourth generation, John, II. Irene Poep- perling Spare has a home in Carver- ton, not too far from her parents. The other two .great grand- children are hers, Colleen, 11%. and Bobby, two months. Ellen and Patrick Bidwell, Marlene, Peggy and Cheryl, twins, Jay and Robin Futch, Kathy Sue and Bonny Sue Futch comprise the younger gen- eration. ‘Several months ago, the General State Authority purchased the tamily plots to incorporate same into the State Park and Lake to | be constructed in this area. The group, which inténd to stay together, bought land from Arch | Schweitzer on Reynolds Hill near Memorial Shrine. Four new homes are being erected close by there. In. March, the Futch's, Bidwell's and Poepperlings hope to move into their new quarters and continue their most satisfactory way of life. Have You Seen A Lost Christmas Gift? Proud of the gift he had gotten for his wife, a beautiful little, three- month-old kitten, Willard Hoover, Main: Street, Shavertown, with his wife, Winifred, were carrying it in |: the house on Christmas Eve when the kitten sprang from “Winnie's” arms. a 3 " They «chased it through the swamp in their good clothes until they lost sight - of the kitten near the grade school in Shavertown. Feeling badly about the loss of the kitten, the Hoovers are offer- ing a reward for its return. It is a black kitten with orange spots, four white feet and white whiskers. Local Man Is Re-elected To Board SMITHFIELD, VA. - - The Smith- field Packing Company announces the re-election of Robert J. Parks as Secretary-Treasurer following a meeting of the board of directors. Parks, a native of Dallas, joined | the company in 1954 as Office Mana- ger. He later was made Assistant Secretary-Treasurer and in April, 1962, was elected Secretary-Treasur- er. The Smithfield Packing Company is the world’s largest producer of genuine Smithfield hams and the largest pork packing concern in the Local vote-getters smile their ap- preciation for prizes won in the Rexall Drug Company's six week contest at Shel Evans’ Store, Shavertown. Twelve youngsters toted home elegant souvenirs, including those above, who were first to claim their spoils the day before Christmas: (left to right) Barbara Lamoreux, Susan Grant, Ricky Weir, Jean Ann Beagle, Larry Spaciano, and Alice Reese, Branch of the Miners Bank. In College Who's Who Ann Black Ann Black, senior at College Mis- ericordia, has been named to the 1963 WHO'S WHO AMONG STU- DENTS OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Miss Black is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walt- er S. Black, Shavertown. A major in | chemistry, Ann Black is a Dean's List student. The WHO'S WHO LIST is a ma- tionwide selection which serves as a bulletin for employers who seek ' personnel with qualities of leader- . ship. The program requires the nom- | inees to be leaders in academic, ' social, political, civic and religious | activities, as well as in sports. southeast. First string of Dallas Junior High | School, Falcons ’62, ling up across | guar: the practice field. " Ricky won! the boys’ first prize, a pool table, ‘and Ann Theresa Gra- ham took girls’ first, a .consele organ. : : Other winhers in the boys’ divi- sion were: Billy Wagner, walkie talkie, Robert Schilling, Road Race Set, . John -Layaou, Intercom set. Larry Spaciano won a Junior Go- {Cart and Andy Roan a Telephone | Building Set. | was also the winner two years ago. Among the girls, Ann Goeringer won the portable radio, Susan Mrs. Margaret Roberts, recently widowed, of Hemlock ‘Street in Fernbrook had enclosed her pay- check from the Valley Crest Home: For The Aged, along with the money and receipt book and was shattered when the bank called to tell her that some woman had found her: receipt ‘book in the parking lot at the Shavertown Shopping Center. | Local authorities are working on the case and federal ' authorities will also be concerned since it in- volves tampering with the United States mails, : on] Since Mrs. Roberts works the night shift she has asked that if anyone cashed this check will they please notify The Dallas Post. ! Charlie Williams Has Big 708 Series Charlie Williams, recent winner of Wyoming Valley All-Star Cham=~ pionship, again took honors when he rolled a beautiful 708 series in league competition Friday night at Crown Imperial Lanes.’ Charlie bowls on West Side Novelty team with Crown Imperial Major League and has chalked up many solid 600 plus series jn his many years of bowling and a few 700’s. His 708 Friday was the first in league com- petition at the local establishment and included a big 279 game plus 225 and 204. Williams won the All-Star cham- pionship this fall and' entered the State Championship held at York. He Dallas Junior High School Falcons Get A Workout Left end is Mark Dymond; left right tackle Donald Lawson; right d Calvin Tinsley; center Bob | guard Walter Volack; right end Jim | Tony Bonomo; right halfback, Scott Never Got To Miners Bank + Receipt Book ‘Found Later In. : Shavertown Shopping Center Lot ga, An enyelope mailed at the outside box at the Shavertown Post Office on Sunday morning, December 9th, containing an endorsed check for $69.43 and $20.00 in cash plug the receipt book, never reached the Dallas Grant, a movie camera, Alice Reese, portable’ phonograph, Jean Beagle, a: Cotton :Candy Machine, and Bar- bara Lamoreux, the ‘Fashion-De- signer’ Set. ; In College Who's Who CLARK MOSIER Basketbhll star Clark Mosier is one’ of, sixteen Susquehanna Uni- versity ‘seniors in the 1962-63 'edi- tion of “Who's Who Among Stu- dents in American Universities and Colleges.” | : ‘Names and biographies will “ap- pear in. the annual publication, + which -containg information on. col- lege seniors who have distinguished themselves through scholarship and service to their schools. ba ost Mosier is. the highest scoring player in Susquehanna’s basketball history. He averaged 28.3 points’ per game last season to rank ninth in the nation among small college scoring , .leaders. Hampered by pulled muscles, in his leg and abdo- men earlier this season, he still has scored 91 points in six games this year for an average of better than 15 per game. In addition, Mosier is president of the Men's Judiciary Board and vice president of Student Council. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Mosier, and a 1958 graduate of Westmoreland High School, he is majoring in merchandising. end; left halfback T. Finn; fullback, Misson; left tackle Jeff Downend; ' Yarnels quarter-back, Steve Towns- | Alexander, REV. CHARLES GILBERT PAYS HEARTFELT TRIBUTE TO HOWARD W. RISLEY Howard Risley did such a lot for me. Yes, he encouraged me to write, making me think I could write, even when I couldn't. He made me do the best 1 could. In doing that, and in the other things he did, he mani- fested just plain friendship in so many ways. I liked him through his paper before I ever met him. And still more, after I met him. He helped me make my church paper more readable. I wish I knew how to hand out personal sympathy, first of all to Myra . . . herself a won- derful person. And to all who work at The Dallas Post, 1 know you'll all have to keep on doing what you do. But I want you all to know that you have my sympathy. What can words do! But they have to be ‘said, for better, for worse. And I haven't said anything about God or the Christian faith. But on Him and it I rely, and 1 hope you do too. Community Besieges Newspaper Office The community, rocked to its foundations on: Wednesday by the grim news of the death of Howard Risley, offered assistance in any way possible, rallying to the community emergency with a heartening out- pouring of grief and concern. The office was besieged with! telephone calls, and by people who could not believe the news, who came in per- son, + hopeful that there "had ‘been a mistake. : Would there be a. paper? Yes, the paper would be published on schedule. Mr. Risley-was a‘news- paper man; -and' newspapers must go on. Bob Bachman, until very re- | J cently an intergral cog in ‘the Post ‘machinery, walked in, shedding his coat, and remained to help get out the paper. ’ Charlie Gilbert, completely shat- ‘tered, came; Harry Vivian and Wil- liam Baker, from Miners National Bank; Bill Moss, library ‘auction stalwart; Louise Marks; Dave [School- ey; Raymon Hedden. The news spread and the phone’ buzzed. The longest day in Dallas Post history dragged somehow to an end. Toll-Free Vote In Slim Lead The number : of - Back - Mountain phone-owners in favor of toll-free calls to the Wyoming Valley con- tinues to mount, with 76.8 per cent of all possible votes now registered. But the remaining 24 per cent of Commonwealth customers should not consequently become lax about voting, in the belief that the affirm- ative will win, warns Jhon N. Landis, Dallas area District Manager: of the company. He notes that, ‘although 68 per cent of those voting have accepted the proposed system of toll-free call in exchange for slightly advanced base rates, this figure represents only 52.4 per cent of all owners. The remaining voters, if they re- mained silent, could thereby register an automatic ‘no’ against the move. Mr. Landis strongly urges all re- maining voters to send in their de- cisions before the deadline, Decem- ber 31. It is reported that it may take as long as two years before the new system might be inaugurated, since it could take nearly that much time for Commonwealth to obtain equip- ment to link with the Valley's Bell Company system, and to get state approval. Completes Officers Orientation School —Army 2d Lt. Fred C. Ruggles, son of Mr, and Mrs. John G. Rug- gles, West Dallas, completed the eight-week officer orientation course at The Infantry School, Fort Ben- ning, Ga., November 30. Lieutenant Ruggles received in- struction in the duties and responsi- bilities of an infantry platoon leader. The 21-year-old officer is a 1962 graduate of Lafayette College. Manger Scene Manger scene at Dallas Methodist Church. was erected by the Young People, from lumber donated by Raymon R. Hedden. All Catholic churches of the area had midnight Masses in observance of Christmas, and all churches were crowded. HOWARD W. RISLEY VOL. 74, NO. 52 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1962 9 POST DIES SUDDENLY ‘Howard Risley Dies Of Heart Attack After Holiday: Stricken At Nicholson During Family Christmas More Than An Editor, He Was .The Heart Of His Chosen Community, Suffering With It, Rejoicing With It, Identified With It As A Leader For: over thirty years, his chosen community. “Howard, his own back” many times to meet his own Everybody knew him as ' to centenarians. the port in a storm. parents. : tively in time of trouble. loved. Here was a man. By DOROTHY ANDERSON in the coming year. ageous mother of the group, her utmost to get the youngsters together again as soon as possible. They hope to find a house at Har- veys Lake by the first of the year. Young Marguerite, staying thé Dale Oney’s at the Lake has been back to school for some time. Richard and Robert, their burns healing nicely, “are anxious to re- turn to classes. Richard’s second and ‘third degree burns, which had been so serious that skin grafting was thought necessary, has exper- ienced such a miraculous recovery that no transplant operations will be required. Little David, aged three, is en- joying his stay. with his young cousins at the home of Mrs. Shaver’s brother, Witlard Parsons and family, Kingston. His mother is there with him, while’ Dick ‘and Bob are the guests of their aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Williams, also of . Kingston. Clarence, Jr., on extended leave from the U. S. Marine Corps and his wife of one month, are help- ing Mrs. Shaver straighten out her affairs. The young couple will re- turn to base in North Carolina next Wednesday. 1 Clarence Shaver, Sr., father of the children, remains in a coma at | Nesbitt Hospital. Nurses are re- quired round the clock. Veins col- | lapsing from many intravenous feed- [ings necessitated surgery last week so that a tube might be placed | directly into the stomach for more alii LBS ah i NAR ld, Tuo THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY The ‘death of Howard Risley early Wednesday morn- ing struck the Back Mountain a crushing blow. He was the one man in the community who could not be spared, the focus of life in the Back Mountain. - Dallas Post in 1930, his every thought had centered about the hard times caused by the depression, at his wit’s end editorial in those difficult times, urging the businessmen ‘of the area to make work for the unemployed. To everybody, Howard was the anchor to windward, It was Howard who saw to during World War II and the their home-town paper as a gift. It was Howard who made the news of the dedth of a young soldier to the sorrowing It was Howard to whom his people turned instinc- The Dallas Post bears this inscription: “More than a newspaper, a community institution.” Howard was more than an editor. He was a community institution. To few men is it given to be loved as Howard was Shaver Family Out Of The Hospital For Christmas After Terrible Fate The Clarence Shaver family, out ‘of the hospital for Christmas, with the exception of their father, is look- ing forward to building a new life Mrs. Marguerite Shaver, ‘the cour- | is doing | Mrs. Shaver plans to build a new with ! ever since he acquired the against the wall becaise of - payroll, wrote editorial after Howard, from school children it that men in the service Korean conflict, received the grim rounds; bearing substantial nourishment. His sister, | Mildred Shaver, called home from [Foren following the tragedy, is on | her way back to her post, to resume her duties as teacher for armed forces children. Some time in the near future, | home on the family site at Harveys Lake. This is the children’s unani- mous decision. The different styling of the new structure will help to erase memories of the old home de- | stroyed in the tragic fire which took | the lives of three little sisters, Vir- { ginia, Cindy and baby Susan, in the | early morning hours of November | 28. Says Mrs. Shaver: “I must think {and plan for those that are spared | to me and not dwell on that which | was taken away.” She is deeply ! grateful to the many wonderful folks who contributed so much to help the stricken family rebuild again the future. Schools Will Reopen Wednesday Morning Schools of the area will re-open | Wednesday morning at the usual time. In case of Lake-Lehman schools, Christmas vacation was ab- breviated. Classes were held Thurs- day ‘and Friday, to compensate in part for late starting in September. Easter vacation will also be cur- tailed. Library Closed Back Mountain Memorial Library will again be closed ‘this Saturday; to afford a long weekend for librar- Unbelievably, Howard Risley is dead. He died very early Wednesday morning at Nesbitt Hospital, where he had been rushed shortly before midnight in the Factoryville am- bulance. He had been enjoying Christmas dinner with his family at the home of his sister, Mrs. Clarence Boston, in Nicholson, when he had a sudden heart attack, similar to the attack which he had suffered a year and a half ago at the Library Auction Kick-Off dinner. Services are scheduled from the home on Huntsville Road Saturday, with Rev. Russell Lawry officiating. Burial will be at Sunnyside Ceme- tery, Tunkhannock, in the family plot. Honors slipped lightly from Howard's shoulders. He shrugge them off. He would have wanted only the bare bones of an obituary. Howard, who bled with so many of his friends in the Back Mountain when death and disaster overtook them, is now defenseless. He was born in Springville, Oc- tober 11, 1901, son of. the late Walter and Margaret West Risley. As a boy he moved to Noxen, where his father owned and op- erated a general store. Later, the family moved to Dallas, and thd senior Risley opened a hardwar store where the Ben Franklin stor is now located. E Upon graduation from Wyoming Seminary, he enrolled at Dart mouth, and graduated with th{ class of 1927. 3 For twp years after graduatign he was on the staff of the Wilke} Barre Record, where he becam incurably ~a newspaper mar. | 1930, he acquired the Dallas. 29s! building it up from a four pag weekly to its present size, becomin ever more closely identified wit the life of the community. Howard was the community, I problems were, his problems, it growing pains his own. Many fin{ young men of the.area have passe through his moulding fingers. During World War II he suffered with them. Casting about for somd one thing which would make lif more endurable for them, he conf ceived the idea of sending thy home town newspaper to them of their far-flung battlefields. Home sick boys read of the homely hap penings, and knew that they wer not forgotten. A library was one of the goal of the Dallas: Post. When the Lig brary was founded, he promoted if in every possible way. When a Auction wag proposed, to supple ment the meagre income, the weigh of the Dallas Post was thrown b hind it. Annually, Howard gay the use of his barn and his ground to make the auction a success. was president of the Library As ciation for years, and remained permanent member of the Board Daddow Issacs Post, American Le gion, honored him as Man of th Year in 1959. In May of 1962 Back Mountain Protective Associa tion tapped him for Man of th Year. He served on the directorat of Wyoming Valley Motor Club and on the advisory board of Dalla Branch, Miners National Bank. He was a member of George M Dallas Lodge F&AM, Caldwell Con sistory, and Irem Temple, and member of the Torch Club. It wr through his efforts that Back Mou tain Civil War Round’ Table 'w? formed. History of the War Bg tween the States was his mai hobby. Church affiliations were the Dal las Methodist. He leaves his widow, the forme Myra Zeiser, Wilkes-Barre; a sister Mrs. Clarence Boston, Nicholson; nephew, Leighton Scott Jr., Eastor a niece, Mrs. Dana Swan, Swarth more, His motherqin-law, Mr} Zeiser, who makes her home wit him, is on her way up from Florid where she had planned to spenj the winter months. Friends are asked please to onf flowers, giving instead, if ‘thy wish, a contribution to the Libra or to the SPCA, two of Howa Risley’s pet projects. Arrangements by Bronson. Greetings Scrambled Dr. Aaron Lisses’ holiday gred ings were scrambled. The pap apologizes. Dr. Lisses conveys gg wishes to his many friends if J ians. community and hopes everyone a Merry Christmas.
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