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By Hix
Hats Off to the four Acme truck drivers who rendered assistance
to a half i driver in a small Fiat last Tuesday night in ithe midst
of a howl blizzard.
Tuesday night? No, ‘statistically speaking it was Wednesday
morning shortly before 2 a.m.
The. four trucks, starting from Forty Fort warehouse, headed
down highway 11 toward Bloomsburg, stopped at the frantic signal-
ling of ® “woman and her twelve-year-old son, marooned just south ;
of Berwick.
The first truck driver flagged down three other truck drivers
travelling i in close formation.
The four drivers gathered about the stalled Fiat, extended ‘a ;
finger apiece, and hoisted it off the road into a parking lot. Then
gave advice on where to spend the night instead of freezing to death
in the car. The Fiat had dearly HAD it, until a mechanic could re-
place the generator.
It was a nightmare from the start. Barbamm, headed toward
Dallas, and bringing with her Bill for moral support, also physical
support in case of necessity, started in ‘a snowstorm which grew
steadily worse as she plowed her way up through Virginia, into Mary=
land, and: ‘crossed the border into Pennsylvania.
Stariing at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, she had made it as far as a few
miles sotith of Gettysburg by 6:30, leaving behind her a trail of
broken tire chain links, and already suffering from extreme anemia
- of the gdtierator.
By ab: :30 she had left Amity Hall behind, still forging steadily
through the deepening snow, and now trailing a mammoth snow-
plow. : : :
Foot by foot, the Fiat progressed, inching its way toward North-
umberland, Danville, Bloomsburg, Berwick. i
The Fiat gave up before it reached Berwick.
The telephone call came at 2:30 am. “We're qporidinig the night
at a hotel in Ploomsburg, we'll see you some itime tomorrow.”
It was heavenly to be able to turn off the lights and get ready
for bed, knowing that ithe travellers were warm and comfortable in
spite of a thermometer dipping steadily toward the zero-mark.
Heavenly to lock the door, put a banking log on ithe Franklin
stove, shoo the kittens into the basement, and hit the ‘sack.
So many things could have happened, and there had been no
word for hours.
The ‘saga of the trip, recited on Wednesday over a steaming
cup of coffee, when the wanderers had arrived by a series of buses,
leaving the Fiat to be fitted to a new generator, included running
into a large fuel truck as an alternative to going over the bank,
three tow jobs, generator trouble, generator trouble, generator
trouble, monkey links to piece out the chains, snow, snow, and more
snow.
The Fiat, retrieved at Bloomsburg on Friday, purred compla-
cently. The trip home to Herndon was without incident.
og I purely LOVE a trip that is so monotonous you nearly
die of bor&lom,”” was the thankful sigh of relief of a daughter who had
clearly HAD it, when she telephoned from her home in Herndon,
Virginia, late Saturday afternoon.
Announces Concert William A. Hersh, Jr,
day evening, March 26, at 8:30.
8 South-
side Drive, Dallas, President of Or-
pheus Choral Society, has announc-
ed its annual concert, to be held
at Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre, Tues-
Mr. Hersh, a sales representative
of the Sun-shine Biscuit Company,
and special township police officer,
has served in various official capaci-
ties in the society. He is presently
baritone soloist at St. Paul's Luth-
eran Church, Shavertown.
‘Also participating in the concert
program with Orpheus this year
will be guest artists, Earl Wrightson,
baritone, and Lois Hunt, soprano,
from New York.
This eleventh annual concert will
offer a varied musical program,
which should appeal to all.
Tickets are available by contact-
ing Mr. Hersh, Mrs. T. Ray Williams,
Orpheus Director, or other Boty
members. a
1
A. HERSH, JR,
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago
Remember when Methodist chur-
ches were referred to as M.E. chur-
ches? Thirty years ago Dallas M.E.
church was being improved by vol-
unteer labor, with excavation of a
basement going forward, to make
room for kitchen, dining and social
rooms under the edifice. Excavated
soil was used as fill on Borough
streets.
Two Democrats from this rock-
ribbed Republican community, John
Sullivan and Squire Harry Ander-
son, went to Washington to see
| Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated.
Lt. John P. Kirkendall was pre-
vented by a broken valve on his
plane from visiting this father George
Kirkendall in Dallas.
Z. F. Schooley, Harris Hill, former
president of Luzerne Bank, died.
| Officiating at his funeral was Rev.
Rolland Crompton, Trucksville Meth-
odist church.
Deaths included: Mrs. Mary Eliz-
abeth Hodgens, 68, Trucksville;
Russell G. Roberts, 83, Lake Town-
ship; Milton Zacharias, 65, Beau-
mont; Mrs. C. M. Honeywell, 72,
Dallas Township; Mrs. Myrtle Shales
Garris, Bunker Hill.
Fire of undetermined origin swept
the monastery of Sacred Heart of
Jesus at Harveys Lake. A few
months earlier, fire had broken out,
and the damaged portion had not
been repaired. Rev. L. S. Brigmanus,
Superior, ill with a heart attack at
Mercy Hospital, was not informed
of the second blaze which destroyed
the structure.
An editorial urged residents to co-
operate in every way in their pow-
er with the new administration
when the eleventh depression presi-
dent. should be sworn into office.
The editorial listed the other presi-
dents who had faced national crisis.
Scarlet fever was a menace. Par-
ents were urged to keep children
home if they were even slightly ill,
to prevent spread of the disease.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Kingston Township Honor Roll,
bearing names of 192 men and wo-
men in the armed Services, was
dedicated.
Flaxen Lady, Newell Wood’ s valu-
able mare, was lost when it bolted
out onto the ice at Harveys Lake,
and was drowned in shallow water
at Outlet. Wood and his son Michael
were thrown from the buggy.
Lt. Col. Norman Smith returned.
from North Africa to his home in
Huntsville for a short leave before
going south to train combat troops.
The Back Mountain was protected
by 18 air-raid sirens, and a control
center was being set up in Kingston
Township.
Servicemen heard from: Prank
Morgan, Fort Bragg; Fred Wilcox,
Fort Sheridan; William Rhoades Jr.,
Fleet; Harry Metzger, Keesler Field;
Foster D. ‘Sutton, Ca mp Shelby;
Charles Mitchell, Fort Bragg; Donald
Misson, Camp Bowie; Robert Hans-
on, Camp McCoy; Elwood Davis,
South Pacific; Lawrence XK.
North Africa; also H, E. Jackson;
Bill Schoonover, out of hospital after
seven months;
Georgia.
Died: John Williams, 46, Dallas
merchant. Luther T. Hand, 20, Ald-
erson. Amandus Searfoss, 63, Beau-
mont. William F. Besteder, 70, Cen-
ter Moreland.
Married: Margaret Glahn to Ste-
phen Sanders Jr.; Virginia Bartle ‘to
Nathan Casterline, Goldie Bellas to
Carlton B. Hadsall.
Books were being collected for
servicemen. Rationing was tighten-
ing up, many foods were off the
market.
Noxen Tannery men returned to
work after a brief strike.
Ellis Swingle was made manager
of Sterling Farms.
It Happened
[0 Years Ago
-Balmy and unseasonable weather
for the last of February, daffodils
reported, robins in droves, spring
well established, but with an eye
toward that customary March bliz-
zard.
Judge Benjamin Jones lost his
wife.
Suspicion of rabies again in the
area, dog’s head sent to State Lab,
after biting fingers of a Carverton
Road child.
Shavertown Post Office got 382
locked boxes for its 1,600 patrons.
Irvin Davis was postmaster, assisted
by Mrs. Jean Glahn,
Married: Leona May Lord to Philip.
L. Walter.
Died: W. W, Dennis, buried with’
military rites. Mrs. Mary Rohrbach,
86 formerly of Dallas. Mrs. Mary
Stolarick, 84, Lehman.
Joint PTA Meeting
Postponed By Snow
A joint PTA meeting of all PTA
groups, scheduled for Monday night
at Dallas Senior High School, was
postponed because of extreme cold:
and inability of the speaker, Sena-
tor Carl P. Curtis to leave Washing-
ton in time to reach Avoca Airport
on schedule. Mrs. Paul Rodda, pres-
ident of PTA Council, says another
meeting will be programmed, date
to be announced,
Ide, |’
Earl Williams, |
| and Mrs. A. J. Sordoni Jr.;
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1963
A A EE EA NE A HNN NNR NNSS
PR RN NE A ARERR
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer
~— D. A. Waters
MR. WILSON’'S WAR From The!
Assassination of McKinley to The |
Defeat of the League of Nations. By
John Dos Passos. 517 p. Garden
City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company.
$6.95.
This newest addition to The
Mainstream of America Series cov-
ers our own lifetime but brings out
a lot of material we never heard of.
The author has made an effort to
wade through the numerous biog-
raphies, Memoirs, histories, and re-
collections that have been published,
and leans heavily on material gath-
ered from unpublished diaries, par-
ticularly those of Col. E. M. House,
Secretary of State Robert Lansing,
and various others who were active
during the war and the peace nego-
tiations which followed.
Before starting with Woodrow
Wilson, the author gives a short
discussion of the principal characters
in public life at the time: Theodore
Roosevelt, [Andrew Carnegie, William
Jennings Bryan, Bob La Follette,
Charles Evans Hughes, = William
Howard Taft, and through the book
includes interesting observations of
the influence of various senators and
other prominent characters such as
Henry Ford, and the host of ‘“Dollar-
a-year men’ who flocked to Wash-
ington during the emergency period.
Wilson's background and family,
and his twenty years as a teacher,
college president, and governor of
New Jersey, reveal two outstanding
facts: he was exceedingly fond of
his own plans and opinions and very
stubborn in maintaining them; and
he did not reach the Democrat nom-
ination for president by any sudden
draft in the deadlocked convention.
Like the present president, he work-
ed for years toward that objective,
and consented to run for governor
for the sole reason it promised to
advance him toward the presidency.
Edward M. House, a Texas Col-
onel, not a military one, had poor
health, as a result of which he spent
most of his summers in the North
or abroad. He met Wilson in New
York and for years thereafter they
were close friends and House became
his most confidential advisor. How-
ever, unlike Franklin Roosevelt's ad-
visor, Harry Hopkins, he did not
live in Washington and did not fre-
quent the White House. The author
quotes frequently from House's di-
aries throughout the book.
The long period during which
America tried to be neutral while
Europe was at war is fully described
as well as Wilson’s reelection cam-
paign, “He Kept us out of War”.
And when we went in, notwithstand-
ing ‘the long waiting period, our lack
of/ preparation was appalling. In the
meantime, Canadians, Australians,
and New Zealenders, Algerians, etc.
had been absorbed as replacements
in the English and French Armies.
It was one of General Pershing’s
biggest jobs to prevent the same
thing happening to the Americans.
Forty-five years of hindsight has
enabled the present author ‘to re-
veal what we did not know at the
time. Enemy records, and our own
information withheld by the censors
headed by, George Creel, give a much
different picture than revealed by
the published propaganda at the
time. Something like 2000 were ar-
rested for one thing or another.
Three days after the armistice Wil-
son seized the Atlantic cables. The
favorable press did not dare be
critical.
This short column gives no space
for the military action fully describ-
ed in the book. Most striking to me
was the statement that the Germans
had captured full details of Gen.
Nivelle’s plan for offense, including |
actual battle orders, and their in-
telligence was superior all through
the war, The late struggle in Russia
where twenty-four governments had
independent expeditions going is ‘the
most surprising part of the book.
Wilson's personal participation in
the peace negotiations pleased no
one, foreign or domestic, and infur-
were in the least consulted. His
famous ‘Fourteen Points”, while
high sounding, were impractical and
impossible of definition and attain-
ment. Likewise the English and
French formulated equally imposs-
ible objectives, especially as to rep-
arations, and the peace conference
was one long drawn out wrangle.
‘Once, during Wilson’s absence in
Washington, House made some con-
cessions at Paris. Upon his return
Wilson was so angry that he had an
attack of some kind from which his |
long and fatal illness probably start-
ed. Finally he had to make about
the same concessions anyway.
He held out to the last to have
his pet project, “The League of Na-
tions” included in the peace treaty
{and it was. But it was not freely
"accepted abroad and, because of it,
the treaty was rejected by the U.S.
Senate. Wilson was paralyzed at
the time. His second wife, and his
secretary, Joseph Tumulty, with his
physician Dr. Cary Grayson, locked
his rooms and for months admitted
practically no one. For over a year
the actual president of the U.S. was
Edith Bolling Wilson. There is doc-
umentary proof that she withheld
from him many papers, at least one
of which might have saved the
treaty.
Forty years of debate have not
solved the question whether the
League of Nations was in itself in-
capable of accomplishment or
whether the action of the senate
in insisting on reservations crippled
it,
This is a good book.
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
CONGRATULATIONS
In this issue we have noted a
very commendable - win by local
motorcycle dealer and policeman
Cliff Foss in national competition.
He won his trophy despite, or
maybe because of, the relative un-
impressiveness of the 175 c.c. H-D
“corn-popper.” The little two-
stroke pretends nothing more than
simplicity and reliability, and
wouldn't beat a coward to the
dentist's chair on flat-track.
But an enduro is all rocks and
low-gear stuff, and that's where
skill really counts.
Another thing that gave Cliff a
kick was that, although they had
him on horsepower, he had his com-
petitors beat in age.
* * *
He and I talked briefly on the
iated the senators, none of whom!
possibility of my . entering my
| Yamaha super-kamikaze, now laid-
up with flu and arthritis of the
| ‘battery in Easton, in competition,
come spring.
To all you scoffers, Yamaha is
now winning over even Hondas in
international events.
The idea of racing is tempting.
But it’s a simple matter of offer-
ing up one’s insurance to the moon-
god.
And it hurts if you fall down.
GOODBYE, FEBRUARY
Goodbye, February, you nothing
month, you. Even your temperatures
have been zero.
If it hadn’t been for Washington
and Lincoln, who, through no fault
of their own, were born during you,
you would pass—as you deserve to—
unnoticed.
The one thing you can claim as
j accomplishment is that you made a
lot of people happy by sending them
to Florida for a month. And what
do we get in return? A state police
| commissioner.
Don’t pull that Valentine's Day
stuff on me, either. I don't see that
anybody’s too darned amorous this
month. In fact, I think Valentine's
Day may have been put in February
as a reminder, more than anything
else.
At least you have less days than
any other month.
Tomorrow begins March, which is
spring in my book even if it snows
through April.
Fishing License Out
Pennsylvania fishing licenses ex-
pire at midnight today, according
to Pennsylvania Fish Commission.
All ice fishermen must have new
licenses displayed on an outer gar-
ment beginning March 1.
Police Auxiliary
Back Mountain Police Auxiliary
will meet tonight at Lake Silkworth
Fire Hall.
Fifteen Form Vanguard Of Commonwealth's Safe Drivers
Fifteen Commonwealth Telephone
Company men were feted at a din-
ner in Hotel Sterling last week as
the vanguard of one hundred and
| eighty six men and women of that
Company to receive accident-free
driving awards for 1962.
Pictured at the dinner were,
seated, left to right: M. S. Baker,
vice president; G. F. Fritzen, Penn-
sylvania Manufacturers Association
safety engineer; Joseph Balavage, J.
N. Landis, Bruce Spencer and G. A.
Doyle. Standing: Frank Summa,
David Bennett, Howard Johns,
Robert Domnick, Harvey Meade,
Kubik, Wilford Howell and Edward
represented well over two million
miles: of accident-free driving last
year, a record affirming the role of
Commonwealth’s Safety Program.
Of the above group, eleven re-
ceived ‘PMA Silver Awards” for
driving seven years without and ac-
cident. The were J. N. Landis,
Howard Johns, Harvey Meade,
Joseph Kubik, Ronald Rittenhouse,
Walter Brunges, John Bebey, Joseph:
Quinnan,
The utility’s one hundred and
eighty six who received awards
David Bennett, Bruce Spencer,
Joseph Balavage, Frank Summa,
Robert Sherwood and Robert Dom-
nick. Edward Quinnan received a
six year award and Walter Brunges
and Bob Bolton awards for five
year records.
Wilford Howell and John Bebey
received four-year awards for driv-
ing without a mishap and Bob
Smalser recognition for three years.
four consecutive years without a
chargeable highway accident.
Many Attend To Fete Father Kane
At 1963 Man Of The Year Award
Many local folks attended the
dinner given last week for Rev.
Francis A. Kane, who received the
Back Mountain Protective Associa-
tion's Service Award for 1963.
The affair held at Irem Temple
Country Club was attended, in addi-
tion to guests and committee mem-
bers, by the following:
Myron Baker, Mrs. Harry McCabe,
Mrs, John McNally, Dr. John Lavin,
Mrs. Peter Fornadel, Frank J. Mi-
chael, Patricia A. Michael, Mr. and
Mrs. Roger McShea, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Wentzel, Mrs. Walter
J. Weir, Jr., Miss Mary Weir, Mr.
Mr. and
|| Mrs. Frederic W. Anderson, Mr.
and Mrs. George Arzente, Jr., Mr
il and Mrs. George Ruckno, E. A.
Turnberger, Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Young, Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius
Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
J. McGuire.
Mr. and Mrs. James Dick, Mr. and
Mrs. James Clinton, Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Coyle, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Goeringer, Mr. and Mrs. John
Landis, - Mr." and Mrs. Sheldon
Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferry,
Margaret O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Buckley, Miss Anna Pola-
chek, Mrs. Elwood Swingle, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Reese,» Michael Crisci
Jr.,
Lipinski. :
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Garey, Mrs.
Richard Stout, Elizabeth, Horan,
Mary Gilden, Mrs. J. W. Fenster-
macher, Mrs. Francis Girvan, Mrs.
John Girvan, Mr. and Mrs. John
P. Farrell, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Corcan,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Enrue, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward McDade, Mr. and Mrs.
William Wallo, Mr. and Mrs. Gus
Kabeschat, Theodore Poad, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Disque, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Noon, Sr.
Frank J. Reiley, Mr. and Mrs.
L. F. Kingsley, James McCoog, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Weiss, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Black, Mr. and
Mrs. John Kupstas, Dr. and Mrs.
Stanley Hozempa, Carl Siracuse,
Francis Barry, Samuel , Stiles,
Thomas Garrity, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glawe,
Mr. and Mrs. Beuno Marascio.
Mr. and Mrs. James Regan, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph O'Donnell, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Andes, Mr. and Mrs. Vin-
cent Makar, John S. Spencer, A. C.
Macri, Sr., Raymond Daring, Joseph
J. Hudak, Mr. and Mrs, Anthony
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Stephen M. Glova, Helen Ann_
Zachary, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mai-
chetti, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Daron,
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Schilling, Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Moore, Mr, and Mrs.
Philip Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton
Collier, Mr. and Mrs. Bruno Gruppo,
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. August, Mrs.
Joseph Polacky, Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
McManaman..
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brennan,
Carol Polacky, Therese Kennedy,
Mrs. William Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Schappert, Mr. and Mrs.
James Blaum, Mr. .and Mrs. Robert
Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wazeter,
Mr. and Mrs. Burt Olsen, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Gates, Mrs. James Halpin,
Mr. and Mrs. Gurka, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Melton, Mr. and Mrs. William
Guyette.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Corbett, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Govin, Mr. and Mrs.
Don Warner, Jean Spears, Mrs.
Robert Siegfried, John Riordan,
Mrs. Helen Sgarlet, Vincent Guten-
dorf, Leo Mohen, Geraldine Moore,
Jacqueline Moore, Ann Marie Mo-
hen, Jane Chase, Mrs. Emerson
Steele, Mrs. Leon Chase, Christine
Steele, Mary Chase, James Moore,
Mr, and Mrs. Andrew Lavix, Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Fannon.
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Safety
February 16, 1963
Dallas
WE DO NEED SIDEWALKS
To the Editor: .
When will the people of this
community wake up to the fact
that their children are in great
danger? On Thursday afternoon,
I was witness to a near accident.
But for the grace of God’ it could
have been very serious.
A young boy was walking home
from school, up Church Street. The
driver in the car ahead of me,
pulled over to avoid an oncoming
automobile. She skidded very
slightly and knocked the boy off
balance. He had been walking on
the deep snow bank. She stopped
ahd made sure he was alright and
then she went on very shaken.
There is no reason for this sort of
thing to happen.
Have you ever tried to go ‘up
Church Street at 3 pm, It is a
nerve tingling experience. On either
side of the road are snow banks.
In the center of the road are young-
sters, three, four and five abreast,
on their way home from school.
They are determined to show the
drivers that they are untouchable,
by automobiles. Either the ap-
proaching car pulls over to the left
side of the street or risks injuring
someone.
“© 1”
Behind these children are young
drivers who are trying to see who
can get to central Dallas first. Then
there are the school buses. They
could very easily use the whole
road. The object of a driver com-
ing up Church Street is to avoid
the pedestrians, watch out for ap-
proaching cars, make room for .the
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Valve . . .
buses and stay out of the snow
banks.
Who will shed the most tears
when some child is maimed or
killed? Who will say “Why aren't
there sidewalks for those who have
to walk ito school?” Who will take
the blame when there is an awful
accident? Why aren't there side-
walks for those children who have
to walk to and from school? Why
isn’t the street cleared to take care
of the school traffic? Why can’t
the traffic be one-way during this
busy time?
My children walk this street and
there are many familiar faces
among other children.
which one of these faces will be
the first accident victim to move
the community to action? Will it
be your child or mine? Will some-
body please tell me how something
can be done before we have to
mourn a useless tragedy?
The word “IF” seems a high
price to pay for an empty chair at
the family table!
MRS. MATTHEW EVANS
111 Church Street
Dallas, Pa.
Ed. Note: Two suggestions: write
your Township Supervisors about
the need for sidewalks on upper
Church Street.
Bypass the Church Street Hill
when children are coming home
from school, routing yourself up
Center Hill Road which is not quite
so steep, and far less crowded. Kids
take the most hair-raising chances.
They KNOW you can stop on ice
and snow, even if YOU know you
CAN'T. Why any of them live to
grow up is anybody's guess.
Instructor Of Year
FREDERICK K. MARTIN
Frederick K. Martin, Chief Petty
Officer, U.S. Navy, of Oak Hill,
Dallas, has recently been selected
as Instructor of the year at the
Naval Air Technical Training Unit,
U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, ;
N.J..
Chief Martin, who teaches advan-
ced meteorology in the Aerograph-
er’'s Mate School was selected from
among one hundred other instruc-
tors. He will now go to Memphis,
Tenn., headquarters of the Naval
Air Technical Training Command,
to compete with six other Navy in-
structors for the title of School
Master of the Year.
‘Chief Martin is the son of Mrs.
Grace L. Martin, Maple Drive, Oak
‘Hill, Dallas. He was graduated from
Lake Township High School, class
of 1951. In his eleven years of naval
service, he has seen duty in North
Africa, Newfoundland, Japan, battle-
ships of the Pacific 7th Fleet, and
aircraft carriers of the Atlantic
Fleet, prior to his present ‘tour of
duty as a Navy Instructor.
He presently resides in Lakehurst,
N.J., with his wife, the former Rose
Marie La Guardia of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and two sons, Stephen and John.
Kunkle Silver-Leaf
Mrs. ‘Stanley Harrison was hostess
Wednesday evening to Kunkle Sil-
ver-Leaf Club. Guests were Mrs.
William Weaver, president; Mes-
dames Fred Dodson, Elizabeth Hess,
William Brace, Florence Klimeck,
Russell Miers, James Traver, Owen
Ide, and Ralph Ashburner.
| him dead.
| Suffers Heart Attack
Jacob Novicki, 46 year old resi-
dent of Bunker Hill, where he had
lived for the past 31 years, was
snow shovelling at his home Tues-
day morning when stricken with a
fatal heart attack. His family phys-
ician, Dr. C. D. Perkins pronounced
Richard Prynn, rural
carrier for Wyoming R. D. 3 was
delivering mail to the box when he
caw Mr. Novicki collapse.
A Mass of Requiem is scheduled
tomorrow morning at 9:30 from St.
Therese’s Church, with burial at Mt.
Olivet. Friends may call tonight at
the funeral home in Luzerne, 269
Bennett Street.
A coal miner for 25 years, em-
ployed at the Harry E. Colliery. Mr.
Novicki was employed more recently
in the Pocono Resort area for eight
years, -serving the Unity House.
He was a member of Polish Union
Lodge, Wilkes-Barre, and St. There-
sa’s Church.
mer Lottie Kaleta of Bunker Hill;
children, Mrs. Joseph Yuhas and
| Mrs. Dorothy Zimmerman, both of
' Bunker Hill; Harry, Wilkes-Barre;
Philip, at home; a sister, Mrs. Ver-
onica Goobic of
Wilkes-Barre R. D.; seven grand-
children. ’
Heart Attack Fatal
To Arthur Davis, 52
Arthur Davis, 52, died at his home
on East Center Street, Shavertown,
Thursday night, succumbing to a
‘fatal heart attack. He was buried
‘Monday morning in Evergreen Cem-
| etery, Rev. Louis G. Falk officiating
from the Snowdon Funeral Home.
A native of Larksville, son of the
late Lewis and Elizabeth Sheridan
Davis, he lived in Shavertown for
the past twenty-seven years.
He had been on the job as fore-
man at Liberty Throwing Company
in Kingstonon the day of his death.
He was
Church, Kingston.
Surviving are his widow, former
Lillian Belford; children, Margo
Davis, employed by Commonwealth
Telephone Company, and Arthur E.
Davis, both at home; sisters, Mrs.
Garfield Patton, Mrs. Martha Koch-
er, Mary Davis, all of Plymouth;
brothers, James, Forty Fort; John,
Kingston; Lewis, Plymouth.
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a + member of Baptistgy
Victor C. Diehm, Hazleton radio and TV executive and northeast
area Cancer Crusade chairman for 1963, discusses a radio platter and
press kit with Ray Calabrese, Bloomsburg, northeast central chair-
man.
Both men are working to recruit over 12,300 volunteer Crusaders
in 15 county Units of the American Cancer Society in their areas,
and to help Units plan the April Crusade. Louis H. Roddis, Jr.
president of Pennsylvania Electric Compey with Bape in
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