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Valley To Lake,
And Then Some,
In Big Hike
Local Boys In Group
Of West Side Youth
Who Hiked Highway
A cheerful parade of ninth grade
marchers, many girls, paced Me-
morial Highway from Kingston to
Harveys Lake Saturday, and de-
cided ‘they liked it so much they'd
walk around the lake too. They
were stopped from continuing back
to Kingston only by darkness, at
Forty-Second Street.
Despite sore feet, eleven made
it to a party in Forty Fort Satur-
day night, ;
The West Side Catholic High
School freshmen, several of whom
were local, started from Stull
"Brothers, Wyoming Avenue, at 9:20
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™ Street,
in the morning,
Dallas at 11:30.
Number ranged anywhere from
the fourteen who began the 23-mile
hike, in token of President Ken-
nedy’s new fad, to nineteen. They
took on friends, curiosity-seekers,
and a Post reporter on the way.
Five left the procession near the
picnic-grounds. .
passing through
By unspoken agreement, feet
called it quits as the remaining
class-mates, sipping hot chocolate
at Tim Houlihan's home, Forty-
watched sun and
temperature sink slowly in. the
west. No sense going crazy about
this: thing.
Reportedly, everyone there was
in favor of continuing to Kingston.
Whoever was against it was not
available for comment at this time.
Local boys in the march were:
Houlihan, Pat Malloy, Bill Nothoff,
and John Ruckno. Chuck Dunn,
Mike Young, and Leighton Scott,
Post representative, joined at Sun-
set, Harveys Lake.
Group telephoned football coach
and history teacher Bernard Popson
from the residence of Neil Mac-
Intyre, Laketon, to remind him of
his alleged statement that they'd
never make it past the railroad
tracks.
School authorities discovered the
plan for the hike one week earlier,
and quickly announced ithat they
did not support. or sponsor it. How-
ever, they voiced no objections to
wn “independent try.
Ih an apparently unrelated exer-
‘cise, two Central Catholic girls, Mary
Chase and Christine Steele walked
‘to school Thursday from Dallas.
Also taking part in Saturday's
epic walk were: Karen Krogulski,
Rosemarie Kosek, Ann Marie Blaso,
Peggy Hogan, Mary Carol Hornyak,
Carol Piledggi, Judy Healey, Elaine
Schlosser, George Dailey, Velda Ja-
nicki, Judy Tobin, John Kosek, and
Benjamin Rydjewski.
“ There were routine cries of “oh,
my aching feet,” especially from the
girls, as the group proceeded in the
unplanned circumambulation of
Harveys Lake, but each wag game
to go as far as the rest were. Sun-
day motorists scratched their heads,
and passed with a shrug.
The boys and girls stopped for
soda at McCrory’s, Shavertown,
lunch at Houlihan's home, soda at
Maclntyre's, refreshments at Puter-
baugh’s Store, Sunset, and rest
‘again at Houlihan's.
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“A number of friends came along
‘in cars, many especially to see how
the group was doing. One, Frank
Smith, came along just in the nick |
of time, and helped to join dissident
elements of the procession.
Forgetting for a moment that
they were trying to walk distance,
and not to cut corners, six paraders
seceded when they viewed the
Alderson side so temptingly close
from Pole 70.
After squabbling among factions,
the rebels took ito the ice. Re-
mainder continued to walk until
picked up by Smith, whereupon
they set some kind of record for
space-filling in the car, and met
the others across the ice.
Whole group made another short-
cut over the ice at Outlet, to the
amazement of fishermen.
Three girls left the hike at Ide-
town Corners, when a worried
father drove out to find them..
Kiwanis Club
Hears Germond
Pastor Speaks
On Brotherhood:
Rev. Robert E. Germond, pastor
of Trucksville Methodist Church,
spoke to twenty-five members of
Dallas Kiwanis Club last Wednesday
night at Irem Country Club. Rev.
Germond,
chairman Thomas Kreidler, talked
on Brotherhood Week, calling atten-
tion to the other fifty-one weeks in
the year when Brotherhood could
also be practiced.
Bradford Alden, vice - president
and cashier of Kingston National
Bank, who recently moved to Yeager
Avenue, Dallas, was introduced.as a
new: member, Merrill Faegenburg
presided. i a
|Grand Champion
In Science Fair
Will Exhibit At
King’s March 17
CHARLENE MAKAR :
[Charlene Makar has done it again,
continuing what promises to be an
annual winning of high awards at
Science Fairs. A junior at West Side
Central Catholic, showing her Per-
petual Motion Pump for a grand
champion: rating at her own Science
Fair of 330 projects, she will exhibit
her project at King’s College March
17, and later at Scranton University
if she again wins.
Last year she took a first in the
engineering division at King’s, with
a problem of insulation, and a third
against heavy competition at the
Northeast Regional Show at Univer-
sity of Scranton.
stration of the action of a frog's
heart under direct stimulation, she
studied with Dr. M. Kantor, Chief
of Medical Service at Veterans’ Hos-
‘pital, and with Dr. C. A. Laubach,
head of cardiac research at Geis-
inger. Her instructor is Sister
Mary Letitia, S.C.C., Central Catholic
High School. During the summer
she worked with Sister Mary Jean-
| ette, RSM, College Misericordia, and
| did her kymographing with Ann
Marie Kuharcik, College Misericordia
instructor, devising a’ machine called
the cardiac nerve reactor which re-
cords : the heartbeat by: sight and
sound.” a
Charlene ‘is daughter of Mr. ‘and
Mrs. Vincent Makar, New Goss Manor
and a former pupil of Gate of Heaven
school.
In working up her present demon- |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Noxen trappers and hunters were
no more thrilled than Mike himself
last week when their old friend, in
whose Evans Falls store they had
spun many a hunting yarn over
years past, trapped a forty-one
pound beaver,
The sixty-year-old storekeeper,
who does his own cooking, scrub-
bing, and even runs his own coon-
dogs, is totally blind.
Deputy game warden William Ev-
ans, Noxen, one of Mike Salansky’s
closest friends, says Mike can do
almost everything a man with eyes
can, and this time did more.
Robert Teetsel and Evans helped
North Eaton to cut ice, but Mike
set his own traps, including the one
which yielded the seventy four inch
pelt.
Teetsal was with Mike on Mon-
Blind Trapper Traps Big One,
Biggest Beaver In Whole Life
day the 18th, and saw a big smile
grow slowly across his friend’s face
as his hands found the beaver in
one of the traps and measured its
size even while under water.
It was the biggest beaver he had
ever caught.
Teetse]l and Evans themselves had
cleaned seven beavers out of Game-
lands 57 area, covering twelve to
fourteen miles at a time on snow-
shoes, but had not gotten one this
size.
All the men who gathered at
Mike's place at Viola Park to talk
hunting could wish no greater re-
the blind hunter choose the sites at |
ward for him than this.
The next day William Evans wrote
down the story of Mike's big beaver,
tipping his hat.to the trapper ‘who
has lived most of his life in dark-
ness”, but “who travels the woods
| with the boys as if he could see.”
Accused by Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania of “involuntary man-
slaughter” in the death of Rose
Marie Spencer, 17, 100 Claude Street,
Dallas, in g car wreck July 8, 1962,
in which she was driver, Nancy
‘Bialogowicz, 16, Harveys Lake RD 2,
was acquitted yesterday at trial be-
fore Judge Richard Bigelow.
The trial] took the better part of a
day, from 9:30 to 3:45.
Prosecution failed, the judge said,
to prove that ‘the alleged unlawful
act was proximate cause of Rose
Marie’s death.
Unlawful act alleged was criminal
negligence of Miss Bialogowicz, found
to exist by coroner’s inquest Aug-
ust 2, 1962, as driver of the car
which overturned on Lake Catalpa
Road.
In civil suit last week on the same
set of facts, Judge Frank Pinola ap-
proved a settlement of $7,500 in
favor of the family of the dead girl,
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Spencer.
Testifying at the trial yesterday
were state police Paul Kleckner, and
Joseph F. Skuntz, Chief of Police
Frank Lange, Earlene L a y a o u,
16, Dallas RD 2, who with Marjorie
Bynon, 19, Main Street, was also
passenger in the fatal automobile.
Facts studied during the trial in-
“cluded the speed of the car, the
origin of the group, Joe's Tavern,
Demunds, the amount of beer drunk
by defendant, and the fact that Miss
Bialogowicz was driving under a
‘Junior permit’, which permitted
her to drive only until midnight.
Accident happened shortly after mid-
Young Lake Driver Acquitted
Of Involuntary Manslaughter
night.
Failure to prove proximate cause
means that deceased may have in-
terposed some: action which con-
tributed to her death. Rose Marie
was killed when the car swerved
in a ditch and overturned on top
of her. Her head and upper body
were out . the window after car
tipped over.
Alsg testifying was defendant's
mother, Mrs. Frank Bialogowicz.
Representing Miss Bialogowicz was
state, Assistant District Attorney Sol
Lubin. . Former ' Governor Arthur
ceased.
Legal grounds for a conviction of
involuntary manslaughter requires
prosecution ‘to prove: no malice; un-
unlawful act must be proximate
cause of death; negligence must be |
in disregard for safety of others.
Prosecution failed to prove all legal |
points to make a case.
‘Backo Free On Bail
John Backo, Meadowcrest, Trucks-
ville, was released from prison last
week under bond furnished by his
parents,
Held under charges of indeccal
assault, assault and ‘battery an
surety of the’ peace, the local man
was allowed to go free under $2500
bail by Judge Jacob Shiffman.
Original amount of bail had been
set at $3500 by Justice of the Peace |
Freder ick Anderson.
Attorney Thomas Mack, and for the.
| Letterman Tops
In Engineering
Noxen Boy Is First
Lake-Lehman Winner
EDWARD HOLLOS
Take one seventeen-year-old com-
bination varsity basketball player,
Student = Council - president, and
straight-A man in high school sci-
ence and mathematics, and chances
are he'll win not only ballgames,
but public recognition as well.
Edward Hollos, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Hollos, Noxen, received
his recognition Thursday at Kings
College.
He is Lake-Lehman High School's
first winner of the Pennsylvania So-
ciety of Professional Engineers an-
James represented family of de-
lawful act must be less than a felony; | |
nual award for best all-around stu-
dent planning to study engineering.
“A tireless worker”, as described
by one of his teachers, Ed has piled
up an impressive number of extra-
| curricular credits as well. |
In addition to holding Student
"Council and athletic honors, he is
vice president of the senior class,
vice president and two-year member
of the National Honor Society, pres-
ident of the Advanced Math Club,
| member of the “Round Table” staff,
and last summer he attended ‘the
Junior Engineers and Scientists
Summer Institute at Lehigh Univer-
sity.
He has received straight A’s in
| science and mathematics all the way
through ‘school.
+ Northeastern University, Boston,
he accepted him for admission ‘this
ear. '
Hollos family has lived in Noxen
for fourteen years, where they mov-
ed from Larksville. Ed has a brother,
| John, in the seventh grade at Lake-
Lehman.
School District
To Join Board
In Taxing Units
Meadowcrest People
Offended At Reports
0f Tax Non-Payment
Dallas Area School District will
join Kingston Township Supervisors
in an effort to collect real estate
payments from Luzerne County
Housing Authority, operating a hun-
dred family unit at Meadowcrest it
was disclosed by Dr. Robert Body-
comb, president of the board.
No remuneration is being sought
from occupants of the homes, who
are paying a per capita tax of $13
per adult, with the exception of
those inhabiting the dwellings for
short periods.
children to parochial schools were
disturbed over reports that Meadow-
crest was to be assessed.
Many others were disturbed at
reports in several papers which in-
dicated, erroneously, that they per-
sonally did not pay school taxes.
‘Actually, only the Authority, as
landlord, has been tax-exempt on
real estate.
When the Housing Authority
planned to erect the structures in
1950, representatives met with local
officials and ‘school board, propos-
ing that both sign an agreement
allowing the agency to be tax free,
until the bond issue set up for a
forty-year period was liquidated or
profits realized,
Kingston Township School Board,
comprised of Robert Currie, Stanley |1
Davis, Stanley Henning, Frederic
Anderson and J. D. Hutchison re-
fused to sign. Board of Supervisors
Arthut Smith, Philip Pascoe and
William ‘Myers accepted the pro-
posal. ;
Land needed for the project was
sold to Ben Banks, contractor, by
Arthur Smith, taking a large por-
tion of his farm. The state then
purchased the acreage from Banks.
(County Commissioners appointed
board members to look after its up-
keep and rental.- Until Dr. Hugo
Mailey became chairman of the
Board of the Housing Authority,
many units went unrented and the
enterprise reportedly showed a de-
ficit.
bedroom units: are being converted
into three-bedroom homes with all
units being: occupied. Several one-
bedroom structures are bringing a
monthly rental of $40, two-bedroom
units, $54: three bedrooms, $57.50.
(Continued on Page 6 AY:
Under his direction, many one--
Many residents who send their (8&3
VOL. 75, NO. 9 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 i963
SENATOR SORDONI
CARVED HAUNCHES
FOR THE OX-ROAST
People who attended the ox-
roast sponsored by Common-
wealth Telephone Company in
support of the Back Mountain
Memorial Library Auction,
three years ago, come July,
will remember that Senator
Sordoni, arrayed in tall chef's
hat and white apron, carved
with his own hands some of ithe
smoking haunches of beef at
the outdoor supper staged on
Gate of Heaven parking lot.
Senator Sordoni was vitally in-
terested in everything that per-
tained to the Library, and a
close personal friend of the late
editor of the Dallas Post,
Howard Risley.
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Freddie Hennebaul
Will Be Eighteen
Freddie Hennebaul will be eighteen
years old next Wednesday. Every-
body in the Back Mountain who has
followed his progress since he was
almost fatally injured over a year
ago, will want to send him a birth-
day card.
His address is:
Johnstown Rehabilitation Center
727 Goucher Street
Johnstown, Penna.
Freddie, whose life was despaired
of for months after his neck was
broken in a wrestling meet at Lake-
Lehman high school last January,
is regaining use of his arms.
As soon as arrangements can be
completed, he will be taken to Un-
iversity of Pennsylvania Hospital in
Philadelphia for removal of calcium
deposits in his shoulders, which make
motion painful at present. Therapy
can then be stepped up, and weaken-
ed muscles strengthened.
Under a program of eight hours
of therapy a day at Johnstown,
Freddie is sitting up in a wheelchair,
eating by himself, and able to type
short letters. His parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Hennebaul, have re-
cently received a note from Freddie.
Send Freddie a card for his birth-
day.
Two Big Bulldozers
To Clear Gameland's
Gamelands 57, west- of Noxen,
favorite ground of many Back Moun-
tain sportsmen and conservationists,
are scheduled for extensive bull-
dozer clearing to improve wildlife
habitats, according to Pennsylvania
Game Commission, Dallas.
introduced by program |:
Still full of steam at Warden
Place, Harveys Lake, a co-educa-
tional crowd of West Side Catholic
“leg” of their 23-mile walkathon
from Wyoming Avenue, Kingston,
to and around Harveys Lake, Satur-
Love of walking itself, however,
took a crowded back seat (far
right) to convenience, when a
rable couple, bolted ranks (center)
and cut across the frustratingly
round-about Alderson end at Pole 70.
| gether, the remaining fourteen
caught a mile-long ride in an al-
| ready crowded car, driven by a
Freshmen tooy Higley, Kingston Around Lake To ldetown
Chuck Dunn, and Tim
Bill 'Nothoff,
Houlihan urge photographer Leigh-
ton Scott to jump on board. The
Church Street, was awarded the
PMA Bronze Award for one-year
record of safe driving for Kutz
Bakery, Inc, Wilkes-Barre, last
night.
Well-known bakery products sales-
man for the Back Mountain, where
he has covered the same route for
many years, Bernie is among fifteen
Kutz drivers honored by Pennsyl-
vania Manufacturers’ Association
Casualty Insurance Company.
Four From Dallas In
Northeast Band
Four members of Dallas Senior
High School Band will attend North- |-
east District Band at East Strouds-
dell, Richard Ratcliffe, Lee Philco
and William Cooper will be accom-
Director Lester Lewis.
15 at Wilkes College at an audition.
out for the State Band which meets
later in the spring.
Admitted To Hospital
to ‘Nesbitt Hospital Tuesday in
| Kingston Township ambulance,
burg March 7, 8, and 9. John War-
panied to East Stroudsburg by Band :
The four boys tried out October |
While at Stroudsburg, they will try.
Of Heights Home
A burglar surprised in the act
slipped out the back door of Clifford
day night before he could be identi- |
fied.
ris was entering the front door
around 9:30 when she heard the
back door shut. She knew her hus-
band and children were still at
church. The house was dark.
{She found the bedroom ransacked,
the -bed torn apart, and clothes
pulled out of drawers and thrown
around in the upstairs boy's bed-!
room.
Officers 'Cliff Foss and Ray Titus’
investigated. Nothing was taken
from the house.
Mosier In Playoffs
With 6-2 guard Clark Mosier, Dal-
i las, leading his team
Susquehanna University basketball
“| team meets the champion of the
Middle Atlantic Conference's South-
|ern College Division, Drexel Insti-
| beginning MAC playoffs, at Muhl-
enberg College, Allentown,
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Garris’ home, Jackson Street, Fri- | Recruiting Office,
Returning from church, Mrs. Gar-
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in scoring,
With officers of the U.S. Naval
. guests, Back Mountain Civil War i
Roundtable viewed films of Naval |
Conflicts Thursday evening at the
Back Mountain Library Annex.
The importance of naval participa-
tion in the War between the States
was revealed in the documentary
portrayal loaned by the 4th Naval
Division. And shown by James Malk-
| emes.
The Civil War began with the
North heavily endowed with /assets,
including a large navy. The South
had no navy, and of its able bodied
men one quarter were slaves.
The plan of the North to blockade
the southern ports and split the Con-
federacy was met with resourceful-
ness. Privateers slipped through the
blockade, obtaining needed goods
From the European continent and
: strong sympathy for the southern
, cause.
The War also found wooden ships
becoming obsolete with the intro-
duction of the ironclads, Monitor
and Merrimac. The forerunners of |
our present submarines were also
Sam Diloer, Trucksville, was taken | tute of Technology, tomorrow night developed during this period.
One interesting point brought out
by Tom Gully, program chairman,
Wilkes-Barre as
[Participation Ot Ironclad Ships
was the gentlemanly conduct appar-
ent among fighting units during the
Civil War as compared to our pres-
ent day disengagement from personal
association with the enemy.
A paper on the “Trent Affair” was
| read by Mrs. Thomas Heffernan, Sr.,
who stated that the sympathy of the
English people was with, the South
due to their similar social behavior
and agricultural pursuits.
The capture of James Mason and
John Siddell, ex-congressmen from
the South, could well have triggered
the entry of Great Britain into the
battle on the side of the Confederacy,
had it not been for the intervention
of Abraham Lincoln and Prince
Albert.
Carl Goeringer, Jr., read a report
on the Monitor and the Merrimac.
Richard Garman presided. The group
will have a dinner meeting April 18th
at Irem Country (Club, with Col
Fletcher Booker speaking on “Civil
War Artillery.”
Present were Harry R. Fletcher,
[ SKI, USN; Arthur C. Bauman, Lt.
JG, USN; Clyde A. Teems, YNC, USN;
William C. Conner, QMC, USN; John
Grencavage, GMGC, ‘USN; M /Sgt.
| Thomas Beky,
Gaeringer,
Bruce Goeringer, Carl F,
US Army; Carl F.!
New Librarian
Back Mountain Library Associa-
tion executive board announces
that a new librarian has been pro-
cured.
Miss Elizabeth Ryder, Lancaster,
will stant her work April 1.
Miss Ryder, with thirty-three
years of library experience, took
library science at Drexel and at
University of Wyoming after grad-
uating from Millersburg = State
College. :
December 27, Miss Ryder met
with the selection committee, Hom-
er Moyer, Mrs. Fred Howell, Mrs.
H. W. Smith, Mrs, Thomas Heffer-
nan, and D. T. Scott; studied the
library, and was pleased with
tentative arrangements.
In Geisinger
Recent admissions to Geisinger
Medical Center, Danville, were Wil-
liam T. Levi, Shavertown, February
20, and Cynthia J. Cobosco, RD 1,
Hunlock Creek, February 25.
Goeringer, Jr., Mrs. Thomas Heffer-
nan, Sr., James Joseph, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Garman, Mrs. Dana Grump,
Thomas Cully, Robert Scrimeour,
Mrs. F. W. Anderson.
High !Schol freshmen continues a | day. group of six, including one insepa- In order to keep the gang to- | friend who happened along. Here | four Back Mountain men rode in
A 1 the trunk. —Story Column 1—
Safe Driver : : ic Ww
fe Daver | Burglar Slips Out vil ar Round-Table Discusses | Board Announces | Ambulance Calls
ernar ‘Bernie” Williamson,
Dallas ambulance made the follow-
ing calls this week: Mrs. M. Bush,
Maplewood Avenue, transported
February 18 to Nesbitt Hospital,
Bill Berti and Robert Besecker at-
tending.
Friday, February 23, Anna Brown,
63 Joseph Street, to Nesbitt, Lane
Jarrett, Charles Flack and Les
Tinsley attending.
Mrs. Anna Polachek, East Dallas,
transported Monday, February 25,
to General Hospital, Bill Berti and
Jack Berti attending.
Tuesday, February 26, Mrs. C.
Hartley, Elmecrest, brought from
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville,
to General, Cliff Foss, William
Kelly, and Mrs. Delmar Wintersteen,
R.N. attending.
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Ambulance News:
New hydraulic stretcher is ex-
pected in ten days, having been on
order since the meeting last week.
New Reeves hand stretcher was
received Tuesday, and placed into
service that evening.
Shortest, Coldest Month
Today the last day of the
shortest month, and the coldest, in
is
the year, with subzero temperatures i
predominating, !
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Senator Andrew J. Sordoni, 73,
Passes Away Quietly In Sleep
Dynamic Founder Saw
Phenomenal Growth
SENATOR SORDONI
With the death of Senator An-
drew J. Sordoni early Wednesday
morning at his ‘home in Miami
Beach, Florida, the Back Mountain
has lost a ‘loyal supporter and the |
Dallas Post a close friend.
Death came quietly to this dy-
namic man of affairs. He simply
did not wake up at 7 a. m.. Each
morning at 9 he was peshtomed
to call his son, Jack, tal , key.
men in his industrial ro Se
ing his hand on affairs. He had
‘made his usual call on Tuesday.
His daughter, Mary, Mrs. Joseph
Sekera, was at Miami Beach at the
time of his death. At last reports,
the family planned to fly from Flor-
ida to Philadelphia this morning.
Arrangements for the funeral had
not yet been completed at press
time,
Dr. and Mrs.
guests of the Sordonis for a ten day
vacation in January, found the Sen-
ator in good spirits, and enjoying
the Florida sunshine. :
A resident of Harveys Lake dur- i
ing the summer months, Miami
Beach during the winter, and Sterl-
ing Hotel in between seasons, Sen-
ator Sordoni was peculiarly a part
of .the Back Mountain, where he
had built up the Commonwealth
Telpphone Lom nny. from’ “small be~
ginnings to its present 4500 _squar
mile service area, with a plant in-
vestment'of ten and a half millions,
and four and a half million construc-
tion program slated for 1963.
Sterling Farms, with the famous
glass barn and pedigreed cattle, at
Alderson, is one of the show farms
of ‘the State. Grasslands Festivals
were often held there, featuring
demonstrations of new forage cut-
ting, crop rotation, contour plow-
ing under aegis of former Agricul-
tural Extension agent Jim Hutchi-
son.
Mr. Sordoni was proud of his
small beginnings fifty-three years
ago, when as a newly married man
of twenty-two with a wife to sup-
port, he borrowed a team of horses
from his father, Nicholas, and went
Eugene Farley, 7
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into the hauling business for him- 5
self.
‘His father, who came to this
country from. Venice shortly after
the close of the Civil War, was of
an old and wealthy family, instilling
into his twelve children, of whom 3
Andrew was the youngest, a love
of art and beauty as well as a de-
termination to make a success in
life. Senator Sordoni’s
Mary, was his idol. For
forty years she was interpreter at
Luzerne County Court House.
In 1959, Senator Sordoni was
tapped ‘for Man-Of-The-Year by
Back Mountain Protective Associa- = {
tion in recognition of his service
to the community in building an
organization which furnished em-
ployment for increasing numbers of
Back Mountain residents as well as
for people in many other communi-
mother,
almost
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ties welcoming Sordoni Enterprises.
In October of 1960, Senator and
Mrs. Sordoni, the former Ruth
Speece, observed their Golden
Wedding. The Dallas Post ran a
picture of the couple. A loyal sub-
scriber to the Dallas Post, Senator
Sordoni had it forwarded to him
in Florida and to his home at Har-
veys Lake.
His organization includes a chain
of hotels headed by Hotel Sterling;
Commonwealth and Harveys Lake
Light Companies; construction units.
He was vice president of Wilkes
College Board of Trustees. The sci-
ence hall, the Admiral Stark build-
ing, was one of his sonstivction i
projects.
His son Jack was his rigs hand
man, his son-in-law Joe Sekera a
key man.
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It is next to impossible to write
“was” about Senator Sordoni. For
generations he has been a living
force in the community, leaving his
imprint upon its face.
Lehman Emergency
Mrs. Hannah Jones, Carpenter
Convalescent Home, Idetown, was
taken Friday night at 8 to Nesbitt
Hospital in Lehman ambulance, Lee
Wentzel and William Hardisky at-
tending. ;
d