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Church To Go
Forward With
New Edifice
Trucksville Free
Methodist Ready
To Unveil Plans
Trucksville Free Methodist
Church, in announcing its plans to
go ahead with a new structure and
an ambitious program, looking to-
ward the future, exhibits the faith
that moves mountains. Its small
congregation, led by a pastor with
an enduring faith in the’ growth of
the Back Mountain and the neces-
sity for a strong and living religious
program as an integral part of its
development, is undertaking a task
that will challenge every member
to the utmost of his capability.
The church is acquiring a three-
acre plot, location to be announced.
Saturday evening the Structure
Committee will unveil the artist’s
rendering of the new church to the
congregation and interested friends
following a fellowship supper in
| Trucksville Fire Hall at 5:30.
The purpose of this ceremony is
not ‘only to unveil the picture but
also to raise from the local con-
gregation the balance of its goal of
arr in cash and pledges neces-
sary before beginning construction
in mid-April. The building fund
aol is now over $18,000 so the
goal for the Saturday night rally
is $7,000.
The total building program in-
cluding ‘the first unit of the church
and parsonage will be in the neigh-
borhood of $75,000.
Pastor Grove Armstrong realizes
that it will take ®t on
the pa 28 39
membe believes that the con-
gregation will reach $25,000 in time
to begin construction.
Included in the. present building
fund total of $18,000 is an $11,000
gift from the old Wilkes-Barre So-
ciety which is in the process of unit-
ing with the Trucksville Society.
Structure Committee
are Rev. Armstrong,
Frank Mathers Sr., Wesley Cooper
Jr., William Zeek, Doris Hathaway,
Bade Cooper, and Marian Chappell.
Edmund Hildebrand, Trucksville is
the architect. His associate Judson
Lewis of, Phiiadelpliia, prepared the
rendering,
Participating in the program will
"be Rev. H. D. Olver, New York Con-
ference Superintendent, and a rep-
resentative of the New York Con-
ference Board of Evangelism, pos-
pad Ralph Baker of Factoryville.
¥, Free Methodist Youth will dec-
orate the Fire Hall, and special
music will be furnished by Betty
ones and Florence Russell. Mrs.
members
ex officio;
charge of refreshments and Mrs.
Myrtle Mathers will be hostess. The
community is invited to attend the
unveiling ceremony.
Local Dairymen
Take Top Posts
Five Area Herds
‘Cited Statewide
Election of several Back Mountain
men to top posts and announcement
f impressive dairy production
“records for local Luzerne County
farms highlighted the recent dinner
meeting of Luzerne County Dairy
Herd Improvement Association.
Four of the top 46 highest pro-
ducing herds in Pennsylvaria are in
this county, and five local dairy
farmers could boast herds which
finished tests within the 500 pound
category.
Officers and directors for the
1963 year were elected ar follows:
A. Jay Mott, Shickshinny, R.D. 2,
President; Robert Gray, Hunlock
Creek, R.D. 1, Vice-President; Wil-
liam Conyngham, Trucksville, Secre-
tary-Treasurer; Al Wright, Kingston,
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; Fred
Shultz, Berwick, R.D. 1; Charles
Hemenway, Trucksville; Norman
Shultz, Berwick, . R.D. 1, directors.
Clyde Bower and Prosper Confair,
Berwick, -R.D. 1 and P. P. Pecara,
Drums, alternate directors.
Prize Back Mountain herds with
superlative records are owned by:
Lake Louise Farm, East Dallas;
Sterling Farm, Harveys Lake; John
S. Fine, Loyalvilie; Charles Grauzlis,
Carverton; and Hillside Farms,
Trucksville. ’
All finished well over 500 pounds
butterfat, and had excellent milk
poundage records as well,
Top herds in the county are
ownéd by Harold Yaple, Stillwater
R.D. 1, 33 Registered Holsteins; Ber-
Cre Farm, Nescopeck R.D. 1, 60
Registered Holsteins; William Magill,
Sugarloaf R.D. 1, 20 Registered Hol-
steins; and Pecora Brothers Dairy
Farm, Drums R.D. 1 111 Registered
Holsteins.
These herds all averaged about
16,000 pounds of milk and over 600
pounds of butterfat per cow.
Supervisors of the program in-
clude William Baucher, Berwick;
Lewis Evans, Hunlock Creek, and
Fred Risch, Dallas, R.D, 3.
i ing specifications,
ladys Stull, Mrs. Doris Hathaway, |
and Mrs. Margaret Hendler are in |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Weather Warms Clear Up To Zero,
Region Experiences Heat Wave
Snows Immobilize
Highway Commuters
Lines of cars were immobilized on
Dallas-Luzerne Highway Wednesday
night from big bend to Center Street,
, Shavertown, and many motorists
| were more ‘than three hours nego-
| tiating the five miles between the
Valley and Back Mountain.
Angry drivers waxed angrier as
one state highway cindering crew
after another passed their stranded
cars en route to cindering assign-
ments elsewhere.
Finally, at 6:30, out of the sub-
zero night, came a state crew as-
signed to the highway, and traffic
resumed its flow.
Danny Richards
Is New Chief
Peterson And Baker
Re-elected In 1963
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
received its first new chief in five!
years Tuesday might, as Al Shaffer
and one of the largest assemblages
of firemen this year elected Danny
Richards unanimously.
All officers were reelected unan-
imously including old-timers Henry
Peterson, president, and Bill Baker,
secretary, neither of whom can
remember when they first took
office with the association.
Howard Jokins is vice president,
Jie. We» nan; «reasurer, gnd Leon-
ard” Harvey, trustee. Don Bulford
was elected assistant chief, ‘and
others are to be appointed. Same
officers were reelected for the Relief
Association, whose meeting was call- |
ed together immediately after the
association. ~
Among announcements made was
that of installation of new fire-phon-
es in seven homes, with button at-
only on certain phones, Now possess-
man, Richards and Jim Besecker.
The button-pusher must keep his
line open until another fire-phone
answers the same call. Lifting the
receiver will not stop ringing on
other phones, but replacing it pre- |
maturely will, explained president |
Peterson.
All firemen agreed on the need |
is no way of turning it off by re-
mote control.
Possibility of replacing the central
siren with a new civil defense two-
tone siren was discussed. By follow-
it is possible to
have the national civil defense or-
ganization pay forty-five per cent
of the cost.
Chie! Shaffer expressed his heart-
fell thanks to the assembled firemen
for the five years of his office, and
wished luck to Danny Richards.
Board To Meet
Lake Township Bourd of Super-
visors will meet Saturday morning
at 9, Daniel C. Roberts Fire Com-
pany building, Walter J. Hoover
presiding.
handed in hi title for lack of time, !
tachments for activating the siren!
ing buttons are Bill Berti; Jim Wiert-
for a timer for the siren, since there |
® By 1 pm. on Thursday it had
warmed clear up to zero, a positive
heat wave. after a night of sub-zero
temperatures.
It was well above freezing on
Wednesday until snow started fall-
ing, when temperature crept down
until roads were sheathed with ice.
By the time home-bound business-
men started from Wilkes-Barre for
the Back Mountain, roads were ex-
tremely hazardous, and with snow
still falling heavily, conditions
worsened steadily, cars unable to
make Huntsville Road and Machell
Avenue hills. Motorists crawled from
Luzerne to Dollas, taking an hour
to two hours for the trip.
Motorists were warned to stay
off the roads if possible.
By midnight the seven-inch snow-
fall was tapering off and the tem-
peratures plummeting.
By daybreak, startled residents
read fantastic temperatures, ten be-
low, eighteen below, twenty below
depend’ng on altitude and exposure.
A few admitted to zero on ‘the
nose, in spots where the thermo-
meter hung on a screened porch. |
Two thermometers at the Harveys |
|X Lake fire house registered just zero,
but residents on the windswept
heights insisted on fifteen below.
Skating, which had been superb,
was ruined by the snowfall.
ness.
| At Kenneth Williams grocery in
{ Pikes Creek, the temperature didn’t
| work itself quite up to zero during
the day. It had been anywhere from
| ten below to fifteen below during
the night. Hopeful signs were read |
in a shift in the wind toward the
| suach.
In Dallas, it was anywhere from
five below to fifteen below. Wilbur
Davis on Parrish Street reported
tifteen below to his wifz when he
started for work. Her response was
that he was dreaming, but curiosity
, overcame her and she stepped out-
side to check.
Fifteen below.
Dallas Schools
lation of sessions.
Lake-Lehman schools, faced with
rigid requirements for days of at-
tendance and already behind tha
| eight- -ball because of late Septem-
ber opening, held sessions.
Gate of Heaven parochial school
had no classes, but not primarily be-
{ eause of ‘the weather. Students had
| just finished midterm-examinations,
| and were enjoying two days of free-
dom. It was a providential timing.
Thursday evening residents of
| New Goss Manor reported ten be-
low zero at 6 p.m.. Rotary members
coming back from the Country Club
on the near side of midnight, found
it was twelve below.
Zel Garinger, on Lake Street,
looked at the thermometer and
shuddered. At just a shade past
dawn, it was twenty below.
~ Somebody in Trucksville phoned
to the radio station that it was
twenty-one below. Somebody right
across the road phoned that it was
fifteen.
{Service stations
rushing business.
Along about 10 a.m. it started to
warm up clear to zero, then ten
above, then fifteen above, and the
weather forecast was for warming
up on Saturday, after another zero
night.
Where is that groundhog ?
broadcast ‘cancel-
were doing a
Harold Flack,
terested: in the work of Wyoming
Valley Crippled Children’s Associa-
Senator
tion, stopped at the office of its
executive secretary in the Kirby
Health Center at a time when Mrs.
W. Hamer Mainwaring, newly-
elected president of the Board of
Directors was discussing the 1963
Easter Seal Drive with David M.
Ogden, chairman, and first vice-
president.
Mr. Ogdon, told Sen. Flack that
the local goal for the 1963 Easter
Seal drive is $22,500, an amount
necessary to underwrite the cere-
bral palsy program. The full scope
cof ‘the Association's program last
year provided more than 11,000
services to 366 children at a total
cost of more than $54,000.
Mrs. Mainwaring is showing Sen-
ator Flack the poster work and
4 other material which will be used
Senator Learns About Crippled Children
long in-
for Coffee Day and the Easter Seal
Drive.
Senator Flack was later taken
on a tour of the Association's far
cilities in the health center. In-
cluded in these are large rooms ‘and
offices on the lower level for physi-
cal, speech and occupational ther-
apy; the Hubbard tank, purchased
with the $5,000 memorial gift of
Mrs. Franck Darte in 1952, and
the whirlpool tank.
In the solarium on the third floor
Senator Flack was entertained by
the children whg- come there daily
for kindergarten, taught by Mrs.
Lynn Austin; a Harveys Lake resi-
dent.
Visitors, invariably leave express-
ing the wish that everyone would
come to the Kirby Health Center
to view the work of the Crippled
Children’s Association. And Sen-
ator Flack was no exception,
Ice |
measured fourteen’ inches in thick- |
Boys Paroled
In Franklin
“Delinquency”
Eighteen-Year-Old
Caught In Larceny
By Township Chief,
Teenage members of a local group
involved in several Franklin Town-
ship farm thefts, early autumn,
were sentenced Thursday in Juvenile
Court, and a Carverton boy, 18, was
convicted 'of larceny before Justice
of the Peace George Prater for
stripping a truck.
A Demunds boy, 17, and an Or-
| ange sixteen-year-old, adjudged ‘“‘de-
linquent” by Judge Richard Bige-
low, were paroled in the custody
of their parents after admitting to
the theft of thirty gallons of gaso-
line from a tractor belonging to
Raymond Goeringer, Lake Louise,
and twenty-five ,bales of hay from
the Edward Grondowski farm, Or-
ange.
‘ Joseph Yuglowski, Carverton, ad-
| mitted to stripping a pick-up truck,
lalso in Grondowski’s field, of a bat-
i tery, directional signals, horn, rad-
iator, manifold, and heater. The
i Demunds boy admitted to helping
him take the signals.
| Yuglowski apparently had noth-
ing to do with the gas and hay
| episodes, and ‘the actions brought
lin each case were separate and dis-
tinct.
Instrumental in the apprehension
of the three, and of one Fernbrook
i boy, sixteen years old, who was not
prosecuted, was Chief of Police By-
ron Kester, who, in the process of
two weeks intensive investigation,
| waited two nights in a barn on the
Grondowski farm in hopes of catch-
ing the boys in the act, and spent
a day at iState Police barreelty ask-
ing them questions.
Still unsolved is the loss of some
70 more gallons of gasoline, and
71 more bales of hay, alleged miss-
ing by Goeringer and Grondowski.
Also alleged missing was a drive-
shaft and transmission from. Gron-
dowski’s truck.
The two boys admitted to remov-
ing the hay and gasoline in their
own truck, and storing the bales
in a field near the sixteen-year
old’s home in Orange, and later
carrying it to the other’s home near |
Moore’s ‘Store to feed to his horse:
| According’ to the ‘boys, seven
baies were taken from a ‘field where
the hay was stored under a piasiic
cover, and eighteen from Goer-
inger’s barn.
Chief Kester questioned the two
juveniles at Dallas High School
earlier this month, and « arrested
Yuglowski at his home Tuesday,
January 22, and took him to Squire
Frater for preliminary hearing after
the boy admitted the theft at Wyo-
ming Barracks. Aiding Kester in
investigation was Trooper Donald
Dorris.
Parents of all the boys agreed to
make restitution to the Frankiin
Township farmers, but, in Juvenilc
Court, this was not entered on the
record and thus not mandatory.
Post Ads Picked
Up By Metro
Cited As Unusual
Out Of Ordinary
It was recently discovered in a
past issue of Metro’s Monthly Jour-
nal of Advertising News and Lineage
Building Ideas, that two ads that
opreared in The Dallas Post had
been picked up and sent out to
Metro’s Plus Business readers across
the country.
The ads were dreamed up by Post
advertising manager, Louise Marks,
and were cited because they exhib-
ited a broad gauged selling approach
beyond ‘traditional apparel and
school supply category usually pro-
moted in Back To School editions.
One ad was for Shorten Motor |
Co. and the other ad was for Har- |
veys Lake Light Company.
This is the third time Post ads
have been reproduced for advertis-
| which necessitates plant and equip-
ing personnel from gogst to coast.
Children’s Theatre is the new ven-
ture of College Misericordia’s Lyric !
Theatre. Director Gerald Godwin,
head of Misericordia’s speech and
drama department, announces mat-
inee performances of the MacAlvay-
Chorpenning play, THE ELVES AND
THE SHOEMAKER, at College Mis-
ericordia February 15-17,
With this first children’s produc-
tion presented by the Misericordia
Players, Misericordia’s department
of drama becomes associated in a
development described by theatre
historian Nellie McCaslin as “one
of the youngest and most vigorous
movements in our cultural history.”
Its progress was stressed by the
Chrildren’s Theatre Conference sur-
vey of 1957 which revealed that 200
colleges and universities in the
country were then engaged in some
ho
Children's Theatre At College
To Present Elves And Shoemaker
‘students:
Civil Defense First-Aid
Course Starts At Lake
A Civil Defense medical and first-
aid class will be given Tuesday eve-
nings, 7 to 9, starting February 5,
at Harveys Lake Road and Gun
Club, Kunkle Road, Harveys Lake,
under the direction of Anthony
Broody.
The course is open to anybody in
the area who wants to know how
to cope with emergency treatment
in case of nuclear attack or a dis-
aster which would deprive the area
of normal medical attention.
More information may be obtain-
ed from Daniel C. Roberts Fire Com-
pany, NEptune 9-2921. The course
is given free of charge.
Toll-Free Calls
To Valley To
Start May, 1964
Project Requires
Large-Scale Plans
Bnd Construction
Toll-free calling between Dallas
and Wilkes-Barre-Kingston will be-
come effective May 1, 1964, J. N.
Landis, manager of Commonwealth
Telephone Company's Dallas Dis-
trict, announced today.
The date was jointly reached by
Commonwealth and The Bell Tele-
phone Company which serves the
Wilkes-Barre-Kingston area. Con-
struction of outside plant and office
equipment additions’ must be made
by both companies to effect the
change.
Based on the experience of other
areas where free calling has been
established, usage increases three to
four times the former rate, calls
are of longer duration and it is this
Cl
ment additions.
Question of establishing toll-free
service between these communities
was affirmatively decided by the
majorits of Dallas’ 3885 subscribers
in a poll conducted under super-
vision of the Public Utility Com-
mission last December. The present
10c toll will. be eliminated and lo-
cal service rates adjusted on the
May 1st date when Dallas’ calling
area is increased by some 70,000
telephones.
Misfortune Black Against Snowy Lake
Reduced to a char against the snowy surface of Sgarlat Lake
is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Lozier, Idetown, which burned
Monday night.
Two fire companies fought to contain the' blaze, which drive
Lozier, just home from the hospital, and his wife out into a night so
cold it froze water in the hoses.
VOL. 75, NO. 5 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963
Man And Beast To Compete
In Opening Lake-Lehman Gym
Library Will
Elect Officers
Bnnual Meeting
Tonight At 8
Tonight at 8, Back Mountain
Memoria] Library Association will
meet in the Library Annex, to elect
officers and directors, and to receive
annual reports.
David Schooley will preside. ‘All
mernbers of the Library Association
are invited. The Book Club is in
charge of refreshments, retiring
president Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins, as-
sisting” Mrs. Paul Gross, president,
as co-chairman of the hostess com-’
mittee.
Fr-d Eck, chairman of a nominat-
ing committee composed of Mrs.
Hanford Eckman and Atty. Mitchell
Jenkins, will present the slate of
officers. Elected in addition to offi-
cers will be six directors.
Elderly Recluse Is |
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Victim Of
Coldest Winter Of The Century
A seventy-six year old Dallas
Township man whose frozen feet
and hands would have required
amputation if he had lived, died
of exposure at General Hospital
Monday morning, a victim of the
coldest winter of the century.
Harry Miller lived in a former
milk shed attached to the lower
level of a barn on the Warden farm
near Kunkle. When Mr. Miller's
plight was discovered by Andrew
Race Saturday afternoon, there was
no fire in the ramshackle stove,
and Mr. Miller was bundled to the
nine
eyes in blankets and rugs,
dogs huddled around him for
warmth.
There was food of a sort, but
the victim had not been able to
get out of bed because of his rag-
ing fever. His body was reduced
to a skeleton from starvation, his
toes missing.
Ordinarly, he walked to the store,
sometimes hitching a ride to Wilkes-
Barre to get meat butchered in the
orthodox manner by a rabbi. Neigh-
bors had not seen him on the road
since the severe cold spell started.
Mr. Race called Township Police
Chief Frank Lange and Dallas am-
bulance, staffed by Lane Jarrett
and Tony Zachary.
Leon Race took the farm animals
home with him, adding to his own
livestock the two goats, two sheep,
two small calves, and three cows,
for eventual sale.
Mr. Miller's brother Morris came
from Long Island. He had urged
Harry to make his home with him,
but Harry, a virtual recluse and
determined to remain with his
animals, refused. He would admit
nobody to his quarters, where he
lived alone and stored feed for his
stock.
He was buried Tuesday morning
in the Jewish cemetery at Dalton.
Investigation Into
Poisoning Continues
Last week’s crop of five dogs dead
and two missing, in the wake of the
Noxen dog-poisoner, .has been re-
vised.
Two more dogs turned up dead,
one missing dog returned, bright-
eyed and bushy-tailed after a satis-
factory weekend, and the Fritz dog
is still missing.
Tippy, Edward Engelman’s 80
{ pound police dog, shook off his con-
vulsions last Wednesday, sniffed the
air, and took off, returning on Sat-
urday. \
Investigation ' continues into the
source of the poison and the identity
of the poisoner,
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form of children’s drama activity,
and about 50 offered formal courses.
President Sister M. Celestine ex-
plained that the policy of Miseri-
cordia in its Children’s Theatre will
be to present plays that are cocur-
ricular on all levels. A community
effort to meet the new demands
in youth education of the area.
The Cast for The Elves and the
Shoemaker includes Misericordia
Maureen * Ims, playing
Widget; Virginia Radicchi, Gremlo;
Maria Manganello, Finella; Carmen
Crespo, The Shoemaker; Mary Susan
Morrison, his wife;. Mary Brophy,
Karen, his daughter: Theresa Pace-
wicz, Heckla; Virginia, Dame Mar-
gery; Nancy 'Shupnik, Ursula; Maur-
een Voight, Joan; Madlyn Galasso,
Rhoda; Gelsie Ferdinand, Meg; Pris-
cilla Smith, Tabitha, ~
‘Elect Officers In
Kingston Township
Kingston Township Ambulance
Association reelected all officers at
the annual meeting Sunday, Shaver-
town Fire Hall.
Executive chair was again filled
by Martin Porter, secretary's post !
by Mrs. Francis Murray. Voight
Long and Willard Piatt received |
first and second vice presidencies,
respectively.
Forming Auxiliary
Back Mountain Police Association
wives will meet Thursday, 7:30, at
Lehman Fire Hall to organize an
auxiliary.
The group will be fashioned after |
existing firemen’s auxiliaries.
ul team members
Faculty, Lettermen,
To Meet On Donkeys
Lake-Lehman High School gym-
nasium was rushed over the last
hurdles to completion this week,
and features its inauguration to-
morrow night by man and beast.
Faculty is pitted against the
school Lettermen’s Club in what
portends to be a thrilling exhibition
of Donkey. Basketball, featuring
some of Lake-Lehman alltime greats.
According to reliable sources, the
game, which starts at 8, with a
droll preliminary game between
Girls’ Varsity and Senior Letter-
men at 6:30, “has been sweeping
the nation with its rock’m sock’m
action, and will amuse the young
and young at heart.”
Faculty has defeated the Letter-
men for the past two years, sn con-
fidence is running high.
Lake-Lehman lettermen have |
been selling ‘tickets all this week,
and will continue to do so till game-
time.
Few restraints are imposed upon
in. Donkews Basket-
ball. During the game, anyone can
push and struggle for the ball in
any way ‘possible, (slugging pro-
hibited) and “anything can
happen.”
The trained quadripeds of the
Buckeye Donkey.Ball Company in-
clude critters of all temperaments ,
and description, which will jump
around as if they are filled with
Mexican jumping beans, while all
team members try to stay on.
The faculty will battle a select
team from the Lettermen’s Club.
Riding for the faculty will be the
following equestrians: “Sugarfoot”
Zaleskas, “Gunnin’” Gulbish,
“Ramblin’ ” Rash, ‘Flash” Maciak,
“Slim,” Edwards, ‘‘Shotgun” XKan-
yuck, “Tex” Longmore, ‘‘Hopalong”
Vassia, “Wee Willie” Wilczewski,
“Pistol Packin’” Czoch. - Manager,
George ‘Klondike” | Stolarick; and
as coach “Sheriff” Marchakitus.
The following Lettermen will ap-
pear in the game: Stan Palmer, Stan
Rusiloski, Lee Lord, Bob Rinken,
Bob Rogers, Tom Evans, Bruce
Spencer, Rich Mekeel, Bob Grey,
Ed Hollos, Ed Baer, Joe Smith, Don
Malak, Bern Snyder, Ken Ellsworth,
Fred Brown, Jay Ruckel, Jim Worth,
Jack Sorber, Larry Lettie, Chip
[ house, Dick Lopasky, John Keris,
[he Lettermen buy club sweaters,
Landis, Karl Squier, Don Ritten-
Clay Keiper, Terry Smith, Ron Vis-
'neski, Harry Cutting, Dave Cook,
: Bob Margellina, Bob Kunkle, Bill
| Sponsellor, Mark McDermott, L ee
{ Johnson, ‘Alan Covert.
When the girls’ varsity play the
t Lettermen, the latter will be wear-
ing boxing gloves and girls’ rules
will be employed.
Main event will consist of four
ten minute quarters and a twelve
minute break at halftime. Refresh- |
ments will be on sale.
A limited number of tickets are
still “available.
All returns will be used to help
{ promote fellowship in athletics, and
serve as a civic-minded club in all
school activities.
Christmas Bird Count Yields
41 Species In Areas Visited
(Christmas bird count taken Dec-
ember 26 by members of the Back
Mountain Bird Club disclosed forty
one species in this area.
William Evans presiding at the
January meeting of the Association
at Back Mountain Library Annex
made the announcement.
The group, made up of bird lovers
from the entire Wyoming Valley,
hopes to erect and maintain a large
bird feeder in Kirby Park.
The club works in association with
the National Aububon Society.
Colored films of Nova Scotia, pre-
sented by Terry Baltimore, depicted
the glorious scenery and the bird
families inhabiting the area.
Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 7
liam Pethick, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin D.
Kistler, Mr.- and Mrs. William H.
Pierce, Jr., Mrs. Arnott Jones, Mrs.
Chester Nesbitt, George L. Ruckno,
Lewis Ruckno, William Evans, Basil
Nichols, Wiliam Reid, Charles Ruck-
no, John D. Harkins, James Harkins,
Edwin Johnson, and Terry Baltimore.
Dog Mam Coming
Dallas Borough = and Township
and Kingston Township police re-
port large numbers of dogs roaming
their jurisdictions, many in packs. |
They warn owners that the state
dog-catcher is. coming very soon.
Fire Displaces
Idetown Couple
In Icy Night
Mrs. Emory Lozier
Returns To Blaze
For Husband's Coat
Turned homeless and without
possessions into a night which froze
water in the fire-hoses Monday,
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Lozier are
resting at their son Earl's, Park
Street, after watching their Sgar-
lat Lake home burn to the ground.
Spreading quickly from a porch
light-switch, the flames drove Mr.
Lozier, discharged last week from
the hospital, and his wife into the
sub-zero air in only their night-
clothes.
With barely enough tiie to call
the fire company, and then only
with difficulty, Mrs. Lozier return-
ed inside the blazing one and one
half story house to find a gos for
her husband.
She was taken by a passing mo-
torist to her son's home, and Earl
Lozier came back in a car for his
father, as Jonathan R. Davis and
Daniel C. Roberts Fire Companies,
Idetown and Harveys Lake, strug-
gled with lines in the frozen night,
and watched the remains until early
Tuesday morning.
Firemen cut through an estimated
fourteen inches of ice on the lake
for water to supplement that drawn
from two pumpers and Idetown's
tank truck.
Twenty-five men from Idetown
and fifteen from Harveys Lake con-
tained the fire to the house, but
could not save it.
No other large buildings were
threatened, although one or "two
small sheds are nearby.
Mr. Lozier = said his wife was
stringing beads at the kitchen table,
when he, coming from the living
room, noticed the back porch light :
going on and off.
He flicked the switch, and in an
instant flames enveloped the ceiling.
While her husband turned off
power in the fuse box, Mrs. Lozier .
called Idetown Fire Company by
operator, and was told there was
none listed. Desperately she called
the Harveys Lake Company,
got through despite the misnomer.
ler energy and will eriess by area
employers whom she has helped
out in their homes, pulled a coat
from the smoke and was wrapping
her husband in it when the Idetown
fire engine arrived.
Firemen put Mr. Lozier, who is
still weak from his illness, in the
heated cab. When Earl Lozier ar-
rived, fireman Bill Casterline car-
ried the older man to the waiting #
car.
Lost in the five-room wooden
structure in addition to all clothes
and possessions was a wallet con-
taining $100, for which Earl and
Mrs. Lozier returned to search. the
next day.
Mr. Lozier was formerly employed
by the Devens Milling Company
until major surgery was performed
four years ago, necessitating the
removal of one lung. Since that
time he has been unable to work
and has returned frequently to the
hospital for treatment.
The Loziers formerly lived at
Kunkle, moving to the Idetown
area eighteen months ago.’
The American Red Cross im-
mediately offered assistance.
Ice-Plows Foiled
By Snow At Lake
Harveys Lake business-owners’
attempts to clear areas of ice for
skating met with varying success
this weekend.
In two days,
Saturday, Back Mountain accumu-
. + 0%
J lated nine or ten inches of snow,
and those who sought an early so-
lution by plowing Friday or Satur-
day were almost immediately con-
founded by more of the same.
Jack Link, Link’s Bar and Grille,
Warden Place, was the first to have
an area clean this year, and plowed
away again ' after Wednesday's
blizzard. :
In a real heart-breaker, Bob
Hanson, Hanson's Amusement Park,
leveled an enormous area Friday
and Saturday from the park to
Alderson, which could be seen Sun-
day only by digging.
Joe McCaffrey, Old Sandy Bottom :
Beach, had many visitors Sunday
for his area. He was fortunate in
having waited till then to plow.
Over much of the Lake, excepting
the coves,
ers and plowers alike.
Link plowed again Tuesday.
Home From Center
Joseph Chisko, 247 Huntsville
Road, returned Saturday from Gei-
singer Medical Center, Danville,
where he underwent a check-up.
Jackson Board Plan
Jackson Township Board of Su-
pervisors will meet Tuesday night,
7:30, Jackson Fire Hall, Elmer Las-
kowski presiding,
and +
The valiant woman, known . dor
Wednesday and
wind-whipped powder
snow made life miserable for skat-
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