Dallas area’s four marching units,
Keyettes, Colorettes, and Junior Hig
turned from Governor William Scranton’s in-
auguration parade, Harrisburg, Tuesday night,
} flushed by the experience of being °
pleasers.”
For many, it was their first big trip, accord-
ing to Key Club Director George McCutcheon,
who wags elated at the units’ reception in the
Some of the youngsters even managed
capital.
—Photo by David Kozemchak
Key Club, | along.
h team, re-
‘real crowd
73 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
Oldest
Back
Business
of the
Institution
Mountain
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Ready To Load Into Buses In The Sub-Zero Dark Before Dawn
to get some work out of the books they took
One hundred thirty five boys and girls and
five advisors jammed three buses a little after
7 at Orchard Farms Restaurant (above left).
Each marcher took a box lunch, eating just
outside Harrisburg at a wayside stand which
got what was probably the biggest milk-shake
and soda order in its history.
All units changed to newly prepared warm
uniforms at Harrisburg American Legion, and
.
formed for parade at 12:30 (above right). ' In
the following interval until the parade started | over the state wrapped themselves in flags and
to move at 3:20, the teams learned why it pays | banners to keep warm. Many were in weak
to be prepared for the weather.
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Lightly dressed marchers from elsewhere all
Mrs.
(center).
ground.
Dallas a good name.”
condition by the beginning of the procession.
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The marchers passed before Governor and
Scranton, who reviewed the procession
from the inaugural stand in front of the capitol
Senator Harold Flack is standing to
the immediate left of the stand in the fore-
Director McCutcheon gave thanks to parents
for keeping children warmly dressed. He said,
“All units were real crowd pleasers, and gave
Falling Into Line Of March In The Inaugural Parade On Tuesday
capital.
On the way home, the youngsters enjoyed a
good meal at the Dutch Pantry, Selinsgrove.
Only mishap was a flat tire on one of the buses,
one half hour from Dallas en route to the
In charge of the trip were: Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Wright, Mrs. Betty Hanna, and Mrs. Eliza-
beth Titus, and McCutcheon.
Mrs. Hazel Berti and Mrs. Doris Sutton.
Chaperones were
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Passes Away
On Mend Following
Surgery, Has Stroke
Fred oennings’ death early Tues-
day morning was a shock to area
residents who had heard that he
was pecovering nicely from surgery
Wa Nesbitt Hospital, where he had
* been taken
aden turn for
by Dallas ambulance
Thursday evening. He had a sud-
the worse Sunday
“night, and within a few: hours suf-
fered a stroke, dying without re-
gaining consciousness.
Mr. Jennings, 65, for many years
electrical engineer for Glen Alden
Coal Company, more recently as-
sociated with Harry Goeringer and
Son in real estate, has been a resi-
dent of Norton Avenue, Dallas, for
eleven years.
Enthusiastically plunging into the
life of the community, he was a
member of the Planning and Zon-
ing Commission; a justice of the
peace; secretary of Dallas Rotary
Club; served as trustee.and on the
official board of Dallas Methodist
Church; was a member of the
Shrine. Other Masonic affiliations
#® were in Schenectady.
He was a member of American
Institute of Electrical Engineers,
and of Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity ‘Alumni. He graduated from
Penn State in 1921 with a degree
in electrical engineering.
At the Annual Library Auction
Mr. Jennings was a member of the
New Goods Committee.
He was son of the late Sam and
Mary Davies Jennings of Scranton.
He leaves his widow, the former
Mary Harris; these children: Mrs.
Dean Pierson, Huntingdon Valley;
Mrs. William Thomas, Shavertown;
and Mrs. Bruce Moen, Dallas; seven
grandchildren; a brother, Dr,
Paul Jennings, Reading.
Services are scheduled for Fri-
day moring at 11, Rev. Russell
Lawry officiating from the Disque
Funeral Home, with burial in Ab-
ington Hill Cemetery. Friends may
call this afternoon and evening, 2
told, T to 10.
Youngest Kozemchak
Covers Inaugural
David Kozemchak, 13, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Kozemchak; Hunts-
ville, was official Key Club photo-
grapher at the inauguration of Gover-
nor William Scranton Tuesday in
Harrisburg. Professional photograp-
hers accorded him cordial welcome
to the press box.
Dave's father, brother Jim, and sis-
ter Elaine are all part-time pro-
fessional photographers.
Kozemchak is synonymous with
photography in the Back Mountain.
At Geisinger
Mrs. Rosanna D. Haines, Sweet
Valley, and Andrew Friedman,
Shavertown, were admitted January
14 to Geisinger Medical Center, Dan-
ville,
w. |
PAGES
| Father's Car Runs
Over Three-Year Old
A three-year old Trucksville child,
hospitalized on Christmas Day after
being run over by her father's car,
and observation.
Patricia was heading for the home
of her grandfather Willard Parsons |
at Harveys Lake when she slipped |
on the ice and fell under the front
wheel of her father’s car.
Freddie Hennebaul, injured Lake-:
Lehman wrestler, is Pat’s uncle.
Huge Stretcher
To Be Returned
Ambulance Men Will
- Press For Phones
Dallas ambulance’s’ new stretcher
is too big for anybody short of 300 |
pounds weight, the Ambulance As-
sociation decided at its January
meeting Tuesday night. It will be
returned, if possible, for a smaller
one.
Association president Raymond
Titus observed in other discussion
that there was a mysterious bottle-
neck in the installation of the new
fire-phone system. He said that a.
member should attend the Firemen'’s
Association meeting at the end of
January to organize pressure on the
telephone company to start work.
Balance in the fund for 1963 is
$703.12, less small bills for snow-
tires, safe deposit box rent, radio
repair, and gasoline.
John Sheehan proposed purchase
of a new hydraulically lifted stretcher
table, such as is now in use in
Tunkhannock.
All other new equipment purchas-
ed last month is in excellent order,
said president Titus. He directed
that a committee look into the cost
of the table. The stretcher was con-
sidered too big, because it had three
more slats than the old one. In dem-
onstration, a 200 pound man lay in
it, and the retaining straps were not
filled far enough to reach the belt-
holes.
(Continued on Page 8 A)
Clothing Drive held in December,
Cheerleaders from Dallas Senior
High School. In early December,
students from the Dallas area made
ments,
Key Club boys worked three days
boxing the clothing. Twenty-eight
boxes, including food, were deliver-
a concerted drive for warm gar-|
are members of the Key Club and |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Rotary Foreign Exchange Program
Announces Selections For 1963
Dr. Lester E. Jordan, sparkplug
is home again and perfectly well. |for Rotary Student Exchange pro-
Patricia Hennebaul, daughter of Mr. | gram,
and Mrs. Walter Hennebaul, Holly | area students have been selected for lege to train as a history teacher.
Street, was rushed to Nesbitt by her | placement, to spend one year in a|
uncle Michael Parsons for X-Rays foreign country, living in Rotary interviewed students from eighteen
announces that two Dallas
homes, attending local schools.
Notified of, their selection after
being interviewed with seventy ap-
plicants from’ aortheastern Pennsyl-
vania, were Charlotte Roberts and
Pauline Farrar,
Charlotte Roberts attends Dallas
Senior High School. She is
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Roberts of Yeager Avenue, Shaver-
town. Charlotte is a senior and has
been consistently on ‘the honor roll.
She is a member of the National |
Honor Soclety and participated in
chorus, Colorettes and basketball.
She is a member of the senior play
cast and holds the honor of the
Curved Bar of Scouting. After her
year as an exchange studeat, Char-
lotte plans to attend college and
major in child psychology.
Pauline Farrar, better known as
Penny, is the daughter of Mr. and |
| Mrs.
Welton Farrar of Maplewood
Avenue, Dallas. Penny is a junior
at Dallas Senior High School and an
honor studeat. Her interests are
varied, Keyettes Drill Team, Color
Guard, reading and typing clubs.
She is a senior scout, a member
of M. Y. F. and the Rainbow Girls.
Penny’s hobbies are mainly sports,
the |
}
| including bowling, tennis and swim-
ming. After her year as an exchange
“student, Peany plans to attend col-
The Student Exchange Committee
| club areas in the seven counties of
! northeastera Pennsylvania, repre-
| senting twenty-seven school systems.
1 Of this competitive group of over
seventy students, thirty were selec-
ted for placement. As all applicants
are in the upper third of their class
scholastically, emphasis was placed
by the committee on other qualities,
personality, general knowledge, abil-
ity to meet and be happy with other
peoples of all ages, ability to rep-
land bring home those impressions
of another country to share with us
without prejudice.
Dallas area has been fortunate in
having nine of their students: sejge-
ted in previous years . as. ©XGuS she
students: Marilyn Eck, Maryalice
Knecht, Annabelle Ambrose, George
Jacobs, Nancy Sicber, Sandra Am-
brose, Dale Mosier, John Parry, and
Lyane Jordan. These and other Ro-
tary exchange students have visited
on every continent—in India, Aus:
trailia, New Zealand, Philippines,
Mexico, Argentina, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Finland, W. Germany,
Netherlands, France, Austria and
Southern Rhodesia.
Has Heart Attack
Joseph Layaou, Trucksville, spec-
ial Kingston Township police officer,
was recently taken to Veterans’
Hospital in Kingston Township am-
bulance when he suffered a heart
attack.
Residents Want Change
In Pikes Creek Route
A number of residents on the
Hunlock Creek RD 1 route serving
Pikes Creek are asking why their
mail route cannot be Sweet Valley
RD 1 instead of Hunlock Creek. They
point out that mail which is routed
through Hunlock Creek reaches
them a day later than it would if
it stemmed from Sweet Valley. A
petition was circulated some time
ago.
Key Club Bnd Cheerleaders Pack Clothing
Packing clothing for the World ed to needy familiessin the area the | Woolbert;
day before Christmas,
The remaining clothing was ship-
[Sudrow Roan Heads
Shavertown Firemen
Newly elected officers of Shaver-
town Fire Company took over at
the meeting of the association Tues-
day evening.
Andrew Roan is president, Fred
Malkemes, secretary, and Anthony
Plata, treasurer.
A committee comprised of Martin
Porter, Edward Garey, Tom Dor-
{osky, Fred Malkemes, Andrew Roan
|and Harold Hadsel, was appointed
|'to revise the constitution and by-
laws of the Relief Association of
the company.
| Milo Bauerly reported on the Coin
Card Drive.
Patricia ‘Cully; Susan
{ Cheney; Charlyn Ell; Linda Dy-
mond; Margaret Jordan; Linda |
| ped to World Clothing Fund, Inc, { Rowett; John Brominski; Pete Laud-
| for use of needy families in this |erbaugh; John Molski.
|
| companying picture are: left to right, | Engler,
country and overseas.
Sorting and packing in the ac-
George McCutcheon, Key Club Ad-
visor; Sheryl Stanley; Georgia Mc-
Cutcheon; Judith Wright; Linda
Second Row: James Haines; Alfred
| Camp, Public Relations; Miss Emma
cheer-leading Coach;
| Robert Mellman, Superintendent of
| Schools; and Miss Esther Saxe,
| Clothing Drive Chairman,
resent the typical American student.
Dr. |
Pleas, Petition,
Praise, Plaints,
Beset Board
Representatives Act
To Restore Licenses
In BEngry Township
Pleas for
praise for the road crew, puddle
problems at Trucksville School and
request for a curfew highlighted the
Kingston Township Supervisors
meeting Friday evening.
Special police officers, Jack Berti
and Paul Sabol, were sworn in prior
to the regular session by Chair-
man LaRoy Ziegler, who presided.
Supervisor Lester Hauck, Secre-
tary Edward Richards and Solicitor
Mitchell Jenkins were in attend-
ance. Arthur Smith, the third mem-
ber, still ill at his'home, was report-
ed on the mend. :
"Mesdames Kenneth Joties, "Verna
Valakanis and Margaret Vollrath,
| representing taxpayers on Cliffside
| Avenue, Trucksville urged that the
lower end of their street be im-
proved.
Richard Prynn, mail carrier for
Bunker Hill and Carverton, reported
that all roads in his area had been
well maintained throughout recent
inclement weather.
(Continued on Page 2 A)
Area Police
Elect Officers
Give Radio List,
By-Laws, And Pins
An election meeting of Back
Mountain Police Association Thurs-
day saw Chiefs Russell Honeywell,
Frank Lange, Herbert Updyke, Rob-
ert Cooper, and Assistant Chief Wal-
bridge Leinthall take top positions.
New for 1963 were further steps
toward the long-projected dream of
a unified radio control in the form
of an Association-approved list of
names, addresses, phone numbers,
and radio frequencies of all Back
Mountain police chiefs.
By-laws of the organization were
passed out to all 48 members attend-
ing the meeting at American Legion
home. A ham dinner highlighted the
evening,
Honeywell, Dallas Borough, was
elected president; Lange, Dallas
Township, vice president; Updyke,
Kingston Township, secretary; Coop-
er, Jackson Township, treasurer; and
Leinthall, Lake Township, chaplain.
On the 1963 Executive Committee
are Joe Kipp, Ross Township, and
Ray Titus and Cliff Foss, Dallas
Borough.
Wally Leinthall received a past-
president badge, and Herb Updyke
and Bob Cooper were presented five-
year service pins for their contin-
uing good work as officers in the
Association.
William Weaver, Lehman Town-
ship, and Paul Sobol, Kingston
Township were welcomed as new
members.
Committees named were: Finance
—Cooper, chairman; Joe Ide, Leh-
man; and J. Lucavitch, Ross.
Crime Prevention: Byron Kester,
chairman, Franklin; Stanley Gardin-
er, Dallas Township, and Richard
Morgan, Lehman,
Publicity: Ray Titus, chairman; E.
Banta, Plymouth Township; and
Charles Lamoreaux, borough.
Program: Herb Updyke, chairman;
| John Major, Lehman; and Russell
Walters, Lehman. ¥
Legislative: Joe Kernag, chairman,
Ross; Roland Gensel, Jackson; and
Arnold Yeust, Kingston Twp..
Solicitor for the Association is
Attorney Edward Morgan, Forty-
Fort,
a decent pavement,
“Sabin Sunday”
Gains In Area
Center Moreland,
Noxen, Also Help
“Sabin Sunday” polio vaccine dis-
tribution gained more popular sup-
ort in Noxen, Center Moreland, and
Beaumont areas, with the former
two centers open for the first time
last week.
The ‘three centers, which serviced
all of southern Wyoming County,
distributed the Type II Vaccine to
247 more people than the first effort
November 11. Only the Beaumoat
clinic was operating at that time.
In November the Beaumont center
distributed 508 doses. This month
only 316 were inoculated there,
while Noxen handled 242 and Center
Moreland 197. The latter reportedly
picked up some people from the
Tunkhannock registers.
Noxen clinic’ docters directed the
Noxen distribution, and Pharmacists
Robert Noone and Robert L. Stevens
handled Center Moreland and Beau-
mont,
Wyoming County as a whole gain-
ed more than 200 registrants.
Many people from Dallas-Kunkle-
Harveys Lake area took advantage
of the oral vaccine treatment, which
was administered free, with a
twenty-five cent optional donation.
Dallas False Alarm
A nagging 6 a. m. siren Saturday
drew large numbers of firemen to
the Borough Building, but the truck
never left the garage. False alarm,
reported Firemen Cliff Foss and Don
Bulford.
Dallas Ambulance
Makes Two Calls
Dallas ambulance made two calls
last week, both to General Hospital.
| Emergency cases were Herbert C.
Griesing, Franklin Street, and Fred
| Jennings, 41 Norton Avenue, Wed-
nesday and Thursday.
,Doctor for Mr. Griesing was Dr.
Michael Bucan, with Lane Jarrett
driving and Don Bulford, attendant.
Dr. Charles Myers atteded Mr. Jen-
nings. Laning Harvey was driver,
and Don Bulford, Don Shaffer and
Cliff Foss, attendants.
Crew for this week of January
20 are: Ed Roth, captain; Charles
Flack, Robert Block, Tony Zachary,
and Lane Jarrett.
Building Loan
Elects Officers
Begins 34th Year
Under Richardson
Rural Building and Loan Associa-
tion elected L. L. Richardson presi-
dent at a meeting held at its new
office on Main Street Monday night.
E. W. Hall was elected vice pres- |
ident.
Re-elected were: G. Wilbur Nich-
ols, secretary; Frederick J. Eck,
treasurer; B. B. Lewis, solicitor.
‘Added to the board of directors |
was James F. Besecker. Reelected
to the board were Edward W. Hall,
Howard Isaacs, Thomas P. Garrity,
L. L. Richardson, F. Allen Nichols,
Thomas G. Reese, G. Wilbur Nich-
ols, Granville W. Sowden, W. B.
Jeter, Dr. F. B. Schooley, Frederick
J. Eck, Burt B. Lewis, Sheldon T.
Evans, Herbert H. Hill. :
Current dividend rates were re-
ported as 3, per cent. The Asso-
ciation is beginning its 34th year
of successful business in the Back
Mountain.
| Corners, wish to thank the kind
neighbors who assisted them in a
recent misfortune.
VOL. 75, NO. 3 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963
Second Theatre Three
ROBERT SHAW
Robert Shaw’s 60-member Chor-
ale and Orchestra will be College
Misericordia’s second Theatre 3
presentation. at Wilkes-Barre’s Irem
Temple Friday evening. The world-
famous conductor will bring his
group to Wyoming Valley on its
fifteenth = annual North American
tour.
Founded in 1948, the Shaw
Chorale, now augmenced by its pwn
chamber orchestra, has become one
of the brightest attractions in the
American musical world. Last Oc-
tober and November the group won
the greatest ovations in the U.S.S.R.
since Van Cliburn captured Moscow
in 1958.
Sent there for a six-week, 30-
concert tour as part of the govern-
ment’s cultural exchange program,
they had to compete with the multi-
tude of cultural activities constant-
ly going on in a country whose
government is famous for the
nurturing of performing artists.
They also faced competition from
an unprecedented number of other
American headline artists who
either had just completed tours
there or were in the midst of them,
including Igor Stravinsky. .and
George Balanchine, both visiting
their native land. for the first time
in decades.
The arrival of the Shaw group
was almost unheralded. But over-
night they had become the hottest
thing ‘to hit the Soviet Union since
that other famous ‘sleeper” four
years ago—a young Texas pianist
named Van Cliburn.
The news made front pages and
called forth delighted editorials
from major U.S. newspapers, and
in Rugsia, during the next six
weeks, the price of tickets for Shaw
Chorale and Orchestra - Concerts
went from an official 3% rubles to
as high as 60 rubles ($66).
Shaw was repeatedly invited to
come back to the Soviet Union, to
train and direct choruses and or-
chestras there, In Kiev, Premier
Kruschchev’s son-in-law, head of
the opera, observed to Shaw: ‘You
know what I think would be the
ideal cultural exchange between our
two countries? It would be for
you to leave your chorus and or-
chestra here and for you to take
my chorus and orchestra. back to
the United States with you!”
Adjourned Meeting
Dallas Borough Council will meet
Tuesday, 8 p. m., Borough Building,
to adopt temporary budget pro-
posals made at the adjourned meet-
ing Tuesday, January 15.
Bryant Grandson will
Be On College Bowl
A grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Burt
Bryant, Bryant's Pond, will appear
on the General Electric College Bowl
program Sunday at 5:30, over Chan-
nel 22. T. Bryant Mesick, sopho-
more at Drexel Institute of Tech-
nology, spent most of his boyhood
with hig grandparents. He attended
Lehman schools for a time, is a
graduate of the Hill School. He be-
longs to George M. Dallas Lodge
F&AM, and Caldwell Consistory.
For a year and a half he was with
RCA at Mountaintop before return-
ing to college.
| Drowns In Well,
Not Discovered
Until Morning
Mrs. Dykman Had
Battled Valiantly
To Save Her Life
The tragic death of Margaret
Dykman late Sunday afternoon
while golden light from a spectac-
ular sunset flooded the snowbound
hills, put a period to a life which
had been lived abundantly for
others, taking from the community
one of its best loved women. . . .
one whose faith and warm-hearted
outreach had transmuted what
might, in a lesser woman, have
been a bleak existence instead of a
until she could battle no longer.
Mute signs indicated the struggle
for life. Nobody who knew Mar-
garet could doubt that
"battle ageiast overwhelming edd.
untileshe could battle no longtr.
When her lifeless body was found
on Monday half-submerged in the
narrow well in her pump house, it
had been all over for hours.
Apparently the 69 year old Harris
Hill Road woman overbalanced her=
self when reaching down into the
herself back over the well curb,
and failed. Autopsy revealed no
cardiac condition.
Mrs. Dykman had helped keep
Atty. Jonathan Valentine's home
running several years ago, seeing
that the children had the security
of a home-maker’s presence. Falling
capably and happily into the routine
of the household, she had continued
to help out at the Valentine home
on Sutton Road. i
On Monday .morning, when she
failed to appear at her usual hour,
disquiet was felt, but no real alarm.
Mrs. Dykman could be counted on.
Perhaps her car was frozen. It
had turned bitterly cold during the
night after a mild Sunday. Mrs.
Valentine phoned Harvey Sink, a
near neighbor. Mr. Sink reported
that Mrs. Dykman was not to be
found.
Mrs. Valentine drove over to
check. The stage was set for a
gruesome discovery.
Mrs. Joseph Schooley, a close
friend and near neighbor of Mrs.
Dykman, went through the house
with Mrs, Valentine. They fourtd
that both furnace and kitchen stove
fires were out, the house deathly
cold. No lights were on. The car
was in the garage.
A cursory inspection of the pump
house revealed nothing amiss. But
Mrs. Dykman was nowhere to be
found.
They called Kingston Township
police, and the search started.
Closer inspection of the pump
house revealed the body. Chief
Herbert Updyke made the discovery
at 10:45 a.m. It was not until after
2 p.m. that efforts to free the tight-
ly wedged body from the narrow
opening were successful, and only
then by breaking down the con-
crete well-curb.
Deputy Coroner Richard Disque
was summoned.
Wyoming Valley Red Cross made
arrangements © for Mrs. Dykman's
only son, Major Carl Dykman, to
be flown by jet from Korea. He
was due to arrive at Avoca Airport
last night at 6. Funeral arrange-
ments awaited his decision, but it
was undenstood, in a cable read over
the phone to Mrs. Schooley, that
services were to be private, and
cremation performed.
(Continued on Page 2 A)
Fair Profits Down
Bloomsburg Fair reports a profit
of $13,864.33 for 1962, despite in-
clement weather, according to the
Benton Argus. Admissions and
grandstand receipts were off approx-
imately $40,000 from 1961.
the would
well, made heroic efforts to draw .