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Lake-Lehman In
Special Session
Monday Night
Anthony Marchakitus
On Evaluation Team
At Kingston School
Twenty-three members of a twen-
ty-five man joint school board |
turned out Monday night for a spe-
cial session of Lake-Lehman direc-
tors, to discuss matters relative to
the budget and general business.
A delegation of parents and church
members was asked to appear at
a later date, when the policy com-
mittee had had time to study its
problems and confer with other ad-
ministrative = officials in Luzerne
County.
Authorized to attend Pennsylvania
School Study ‘ Council at Pennsyl-
vania State University on Wednes-
day were Lester H. Squier, super-
vising principal, and his. next in
command, Robert Z. Belles. School
Board members named to accom-
pany ‘the principals were Michael
Adams, Paul Crockett, John Fisld~
ing, and the school board’s newest
member, Richard Hogoboom, elect-
ed to office upon resignation of Ed-
gar Lashford. Many directors from
Lake-Lehman annually make this
rip to State’ University.
Anthony Marchakitis, high school
serve on the evaluating commit-
tee for Kingston Borough High
School. This week he is in Kings-
ton Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-
day, studying Kingston High School
for Secondary Schols and Colleges
Commission.
fifty boys, accompanied
by Mr. “ier and Mr. Belles, at-
tended ie State wrestling cham-
pionship matches at Penn State last
Saturday, going down by school bus
driven by veteran driver Edwin
Wright, early in the morning, re-
turning late at night. The only
regional boy ‘to make the P.LIL.A.
finals. was a wrestler from Kings-
ton; eliminated during the after-
noon.
0
Nearly
Lettermen were given permission
to attend the State basketball cham-
pionship meet March 23, going in
three cars.
Sccretaries Eleanor Humphrey |
and ‘Mrs. Elva Elston were given |
permission to attend a secretary's
conference April 25, 26 and 27 at |
Penn State.
Bids for genaral
ordered advertised.
Committees on formation of the
budget will meet within two weeks
supplies were
Date for official open-house for |
the new auditorium has not yet been
Break-Emd-Entering
On Terrace Street
A break-and-entéring of the home
of Mrs. C. Roscoe Lee, Terrace Street,
some time over the weekend is now
under investigation by police.
Owner has been in Florida since
fall, but has been contacted. Noth-
ing in the home appears to have
been touched according to Chief
Russell Honeywell, who, with offi-
cers Raymond Titus and Cliff Foss,
initiated investigation.
Disturbance was discovered Sun-
day morning by postman Ed Me-
Dade, who has been watching the
Lee,
Several doors were broken on
the west side of the home, toward
the woods.
Farm Receives
Foremost Honor
Hillside Is Among
Few "mn Pennsylvania
For the fifth time Hillside Farms,
Inc., Trucksville, has numbered
among twelve Pennsylvania breed-
ers of registered Holstein cattle
qualifying for the Progressive
Breeders’ Award, highest recogni-
tion awarded to breeders by Hol-
stein-Friesian Association of
America. I
To qualify for the award, Hillside
had to meet strict requirements in
all phases of dairy cattle breeding
and management, including produc-
tion, type improvement, herd health
and development of home-bred
animals.
Over the years the Association
has accorded this honor to only 536
Holstein breeding establishments,
including 59 in Pennsylvania.
A certificate of this award has
been sent to these breeders by the
Holstein-Friesian = Association, na-
tional organization representing
nearly 41,000 members.
At meetings of breeders from
their areas, bronze plaques signify-
ing the awdrd will be presented to
those qualifying for the. first time
and bronze year plates will be pre-
sented to those breeders whose
herds have qualified previously to
be added to the bronze plaques
awarded when their herds first
achieved the honor,
| Director,
the chorus members on their success
in the Eisteddfod, held last Satur-
Memorial
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Young Cagemen In Contest For School Championships
These unsmiling faces reflect how
seriously the elementary school |
cagemen are taking tomorrow
night's contests.
Fourth, fifth, and sixth grades
fron every elementary school in
Dzilas' area will have representa-
tives at the senior high school gym-
nasium, and ‘the first game will
start at 7 when two fourth grade
teams clash.
The boys have been practicing |
for the past twelve Saturdays, un-
der direction of Robert Dolbear and
Clint Brobst.
Hear Dallas Gunshots
Gunshots' in the Borough were
heard for the third time around
i R20 Monday afternoon’ in the viein-
lity of upper Machell Avenue toward
Huntsville Dam.
New Siren Sounds
Like Wolf Call
Wierd wailings wafting in the
night Tuesday ' had residents of
Kingston. Township both alarmed
and curious.
Investigation disclosed that Kings. |
ton Township ambulance was using |
its new electronic siren for the
first time.
Marvin Yeust and William Pugh
manned .the vehicle to take Evan
Walters, Maple Crest, ‘Trucksville
Gardens, to Nesbitt Hospital at 11.
Mr. Walters is the father of Mrs.
Roy Peters, with whom he resides.
The new type siren, installed last
week by William Pugh and William
Frederick, also has a public address
system and can be switched over to
two radio sets in the ambulance,
facilitating better contact between
crew and base phones.
The stronger tones will command
immediate attention, making prompt
passage through congested areas
easier,
| Playing ‘for fourth grade Blue
Team will be—Porter, Captain;
Adams, Dunn, Labatch, Burns, Gor-
ton, Corbett, Johnston, Longmore,
Tayor, Fannict, LaBarr, Hartman,
Davis, Phillips, Juris, Marquart,
Reagen; for the White Team—Mor-
ris, Captain; Kyle, Coughlin, Jor:
dan, Jonstone, Jones, = McCabe,
Jones, MacFry, Sabol, Martin, La-
| Barr, Nygren, : Owens, Bessmer,
| Jonstone, Larry.
The second game will start at
7:45 between two teams from fifth
grades. Playing for the Blue Team
Names of thirteen Dallas Senior
High School students who received
advanced placement in
courses at their respective institu-
tions have been released by the]
school guidance counselor, George
McCutcheon.
Lake-Lehman High School, which:
does not have a program in ad-|
vanced placement, has received only
{one report of a student attaining
advanced placement, although there
may be a number who have achieved
the honor unreported, according to
guidance counselor Edwin Johnson.
The ‘thirteen Dallas students are:
Robert Wileman, Maryalice Knecht,
Barbara Tag,
Eck, Mary Jane Bennett, Annabelle
Ambrose, Dale Maza, Bonnie West,
Donna Bolen, all freshmen. Sopho-
Library Buction
Dates for the annual Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library Auction have
ing to announcement by David
Schooley, president of the Library
Association.
Dallas Junior High School Wins At Eisteddfod
Alfred M. Camp,
High School Special Girls’
congratulating a few
day in Dr. Edward's
Church, Edwardsville.
Left to right are Dottie Philo,
Joyce
Mimi Mohr, Mr. Camp,
Hughes, and Linda Nicol.
Mimi Mohr won first prize in the
Dallas Junior
Chorus
of
recitation and third prize in a vocal
solo, Dottie Philo was her accom-
panist. Joyce Hughes represented
the chorus in receiving the award.
Linda Nicol
the ehorus.
teddfod were:
college |
| mailed by Dallas guidance office to
Diane Payne, Marilyn |
been set for July 11, 12, 13, accord- |
was accompanist for
Other members of the
chorus who took part in the Eis- | Wagner,
Colleen Conaghan,
Elva Costello, Barbara Hauck, Joyce |
Hughes, Linda Wimmer, ins oe. and Eleanor Jones,
will be — Lefko, Captain; Rosser,
Kaschak, Chase, Voelker, Miller,
Jones, Merithew, Curtis, Witlock,
Nagle, DeMarco, Kleppinger, Flem-
ing, Metzger, Long, Stuart, Hewitt,
Hopkins, Andes, Cutten; for the
White Team — Siket, Captain;
Belles, Gruver, Gosart, Martin, La-
Barr, Vojtko, Hoffman, XKlemow,
Arnaud, Culp, LaBerge Duffy, Peif-
fer, Frederick, Martin, Klaboe,
Kearney.
Final game will start at 8:30 be- |
for the Blue Team will be — Letts,
Captain; Morris, Hale, Baker, Mead,
Wilson, Rutkin, Moyer, Newhart,
Merithew, Dougherty, Beck, An-
thony, Nicol, Fehlinger, Eyet; for
the White Team—Pickett, Captain;
Belles, Kyle, Meyer, Bauman, Bot-
toms, Gabel, Morgan, Parkhurst,
Szela, Jenkins, Duffy, Juris, Roth,
Dover, Hoover, Gorda, Burkhardt,
Ratcliffe. I
Admission to the game is fifty
cents for adults and twenty five
cents for students.
tween two 6th grade teams. Playing
t= Colleges Name Dallas Students
Doing Advanced Placement Study:
mores with advanced standing 1
i Charles Malkemes, Sandra Chere,
and William Whittaker.
| Lone Lake-Lehman student re-
ported in advanced study group is
| William Schlosser. |
! Sixty-seven survey forms were |
| graduates of 1961 and 1962 classes,
of which forty-five’ were returned.
Among them were the thirteen men-
tioned students, who had been
placed in advanced courses in the
{same subject area in ‘which they
scored high placement.
More placement tests are to be
administered in May, through the
College Board Placement Testing
Service, to juniors and seniors who
' have satisfactorily completed work
above classroom level.
Acting Commander
Captain James A. Breckenridge
has been appointed acting com-
mander of the Air Force Radar
Depot at Benton, following the
death of Lt. Col. Ross P. Hanna,
early Saturday morning in a crash
on Memorial Highway.
Ready and able to help in event
of a disaster, be it flood, fire, or
atomic, are — these Harveys Lake
residents, here congratulated by
Disaster Chairman and instructor
Anthony Broody upon their gradua-
tion Sunday from the U. S. Public
2 |
Nicol, Bonnie Brobst, Joan Ziegler,
| Peggy Reese, Reba Heidel, Elva Ko-
zemchak, Connie Blazes, Linda Tay-
lor, "Alice Reese, Barbara Brown,
Janet Balshaw, Debbie Slater, Ruth
Higgins, Miriam Mohr, Patricia
Dottie Philo, Kathy Hons,
| Batricle Pieffer, Candy Mohr, Carol
Mohr, Christine Grose, Emily Bots-
Health Service and Luzerne County
Medical Society sponsored Medical
Self-Help program.
. First row (left to right): Broody,
Eugene Lavelle (chairman), Mildred
Noxen Crew To
Study First-aid
Regular Advanced
Course Is Offered
Noxen ambulance association and
volunteer firemen will study first
aid in Tunkhannock, beginning next
Tuesday evening.
The course, offered free except
for purchase of a first-aid booklet,
consists of two hours of indoctrina-
tion; ten hours of standard first-aid;
sixteen hours of advanced first-aid;
fifteen hours of instruction by Wyo-
ming County physicians; three hours
of familiarization with oxygen equip-
{ ment; three hours of instruction in
| emergency vehicle operation; one
hour of final examination.
Some of these people in the am-
bulance association will take ithe
course. Names are for the most
part duplicated for firemen: James
i Barbecki, Mike Brody, Earl Cris-
pell,. William Crossman, Dave Fritz,
Allen Goble, Lewis Hackling, Jr.,
Arlie Harvey, Julius Kopcha, How-
ard Keller, John Kovalick, Leo Lord,
William Lyons, Joseph Nalbone,
Warren’ Montross, Earl Richards,
Fred Schenck, Calvin Strohl, Ernest
Teetsel.” John Ruff is president of
Noxen firemen, William Lyons of
the Ambulance Association,
| Ambulance Gets
Hydraulic Cot
Day Crew Members
Bre Sorely Needed
Dallas ambulance tried on a new
Bomgardner hydraulic stretcher for
size at the March meeting of the
Ambulance Association Tuesday
night, and found that it would fit
perfectly with a little work.
A small brace will be forged to
insure a snug clamp-in in the
vehicle.
The stretcher, similar to that in
Tunkhannock ambulance, is the
latest device of its kind, insuring
passenger a smooth transit from
stretcher to hospital bed or table.
One man can raise and lower the
occupied stretcher.
Also shown at the meeting was
the new Reeves hand stretcher,
which replaces the extra-large model
sent by the company in January.
Further business Tuesday night
included subjects of added day-
time men, installation of three more
ambulance phones, and the coming
coin-card drive.
A committee will meet tomorrow
night to decide on the disposition
of the phones. Problems arise if
parties are not responsible for dili-
gent use of phones in answering
calls and finding crews, so holders
must be hand-picked. Special prob-
lems arise if holder has children
who like to answer phones.
Tt was pointed out that day-crews
are still woefully undermanned.
Dallas ambulance is a volunteer
organization, and at present only
a handful of men are helping.
Preliminary plans are now being
laid for the ambulance’s annual
coin-card drive.
Contributions were gratefully re-
ceived from Ralph Williams and
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks.
# %* 3%
Ambulance calls this week were:
Mrs. Ernest Watkins, Machell Ave-
nue, Thursday to General Hospital,
Robert Besecker and Cliff Foss at-
tending; and T. M. B. Hicks, Pioneer
Avenue, Friday, Nesbitt to Gei-
singer, Danville, William Kelley,
Cliff Foss, and Mrs. Dorothy Ander-
son,
Lake Residents Ready For Any Disaster
R. N., attending.
Lavelle,
Kocher,
Womer, Grace Searfoss, Fern Smith.
Second row: David George, Dee
VOL. 75, NO. 12 THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963
I
REPUBLICANS TAKE ON
THIRTY-EIGHT VOTERS
TO DEMOCRATS’ FOUR
The Republican party gained
thirty-eight new voters, twenty-
four of whom changed from
Democrat to Republican, and
the Democratic party picked up
four new registrations, during
Registration Day last Thursday
at Back Mountain YMCA,
Shavertown.
Total count gives Republicans
sixty new members to four for
the Democratic party.
= a
Supervisors
To Move Soon
Kingston Township
Bwaits Federal Aid
Kingston Township supervisors
will soon arrange for new quarters,
as time draws near to vacate the
township building.
About $17,000 will be realized
from sale of the present property
to State Department of Highways.
Supervisors must erect a new
building if they are to receive funds
from the Emergency Public Works
Fund. Amount sought is approxi-
mately $21,000.
Rep. Daniel J. Flood has been
contacted to assist in expediting the
approval of Community Facility
Committee of Federal Works on the
project.
A Site Committee, made up of
citizens and headed by Robert Tip-
pett, examined a number of proper-
ties available in the township and
considering all angles involved rec-
ommended the Holcomb land on N.
Pioneer Avenue as most suitable.
Proximity to the highway was a
determining factor. !
The Shaver building on Main
Street was intensely studied by
both supervisors and committee,
but no federal funds could be re-
ceived were a different building
to be purchased. Extensive repairs
| to said property would likewise in-
crease costs of taking over the old
theatre structure.
Carlene McCaffrey, Tanya | Oney, Gloria Rought, Aretta Nelson,
Judy Searfoss, Beulah |W. W. Boyes, and Irene Kocher.
Course met for eight two-hour
sessions at Lake-Lehman elemen-
Zimmerman, Jane Kocher, Margaret | tary school, with subjects ranging
Truska, Lois Cadwalader, Jasper
Kocher.
Third row: Myron Williams, Don
} Rocher. Wayne Smith, Carlton
Kocher, James McCaffrey,
Niezgoda, Donald Rought.
Missing from the picture: Nancy
Shaw Exonerated
{ Vaughn Francis Shaw, driver of
the tractor trailer which collided
with the car of Lt. Colonel Ross P.
| Hanna in Trucksville Saturday
morning resulting in the death of
Hanna, was exonerated from all
blame in an inquiry of Kingston
Township Police Monday evening.
Chief of Police Herbert Updyke
presided.
Students Taking Test
To Go Friday By Bus
Students from Dallas Junior High
| School who plan to.take Engineer-
ing Aptitude tests at Penn State
Extension School on Friday, will
leave by bus from the Junior High
School at 12:35. Students from
both Dallas Junior and Dallas Senior
High Schools taking the test, must
hold an excuse written by a parent.
Five File Petitions
Rev. William: Reid, Carverton and
William Davis, ‘Shavertown, incum-
bent, filed petitions for one of
school director posts to be filled in
the coming primary election.
LaRoy Ziegler, Carverton, has no
visor.
Hill, and Theodore Poad, Shaver-'
township auditor,
Joseph |
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from first-aid to child-birth and
radioactivity.
Himself a Dallas man, Broody
urges Dallas concern for such a
program in the immediate area, as
we have never had one.
Thirty Douse
Noxen Fire
Wire Starts Blaze
In A Chimney Wall
Damage estimated at around $800
was done to the home of Henry
Altemus, Tunkhannock Road, Nox-
en, Saturday morning, by a fire
subsequently subdued by some
thirty Noxen volunteer firemen.
Chief Calvin Strohl, who with
Mike Traver and Dave Fritz,
brought out the truck when the
call was received around 10:30, at-
tributed cause to faulty wiring in a
wall next to the chimney of the
home.
Altemus, who has lived alone
there since the death of his wife
early this year, was not injured.
No animals were in the house.
A certain amount of water dam-
age was done in the kitchen, ac-
cording to the chief. About half
a tankload of water, 250 gallons,
was used to contain the fire to the
wall.
Firemen worked on the scene for
opposition for the office of super-
Bernard Novicki, Bunker |
town, former tax collector will op- |
about one hour. The Altemus home
is located well back from the road.
Chief Strohl says it is most likely
that a fuse was overloaded, and
made a wire hot, since the chimney
pose each other for the office of was not in use at the time of the
fire,
Colonel Was
"Grand Guy,”
Say His Men
Uncertain If Ice
Was Wreck Cause
In Highway Death
LT. COL. ROSS P. HANNA
“He was the best commander I
ever had. He was a man one en-
joyed working with—a grand guy,”
was pretty much the way his men
at Red Rock felt about their com-
mander, who was killed early Sat-
urday morning in a collision with
a tractor-trailer in Trucksville,
Fifteen months after assuming
command of the Benton RD U. S.
Air Force Depot, 648th A C & W
Squadron, Lt. Colonel Ross P. Han-
na, 45, would receive a hero's tri-
bute when laid to rest in Arlington
National Cemetery Friday afternoon,
March 22.
Simultaneous services
held at the local base.
Circumstances and cause of the
accident are still undetermined.
Only witness, tractor-trailor driver
Vaughn Francis Shaw, Nescopeck,
said he was traveling in the south-
bound lane, just north of Gavy's
Market, when Hanna, driving in the
opposite direction, crossed the road
and collided with him in front of
the old ‘Attic Shop.”
Taken by Kingston Township am-
would be
i bulanee to: Nesbitt Hospi tal, the eol-
onel was pronou. sed i'ead on arri
by Dr. Joseph Campanella.
Police report, prepared by Assist-
ant Chief Jesse ‘Coslett, says road
conditions were ‘clear, icy in spots,”
and photographs taken at 8 that
morning show extremely icy eon-
ditions in the trucker’s lane, but
only small patches in the north-
bound lane. y
Ambulance personnel and others
scon on the scene, however, say the
entire road was a sheet of ice.
Tire marks leading to the repose
of the car led across from Lt. Col.
Hanna's lane. Coslett said that to
| his knowledge he could not remem-
ber having seen skid-type tire marks
{on ice ‘ever before.
Seen In Fernbrook
Two hours before his tragic end
Lt. Col. Hanna had stopped at Forty
Fort Ice Cream Store, Fernbrook,
where he ate a sandwich, and asked
Manager Bill DiBuo ‘and Assistant
Chief of Police Stanley Gardiner
directions to Wilkes-Barre.
At 3:30, proceeding in the oppo-
site direction, he crossed ‘the road
into the path of Shaw's truck, as
it was traveling south to Spaulding
Bakery in Hazleton after making a
delivery in Oneonta, N. Y.
Driver of the tractor trailer stat-
ed he was traveling in the extreme
right lane hugging the roadside and
could not swing his vehicle out of
the path of the oncoming vehicle.
Collision occurred in front of the
old “Attic Shop” building. Shaw
reported the Air Force officer had
attempted to turn his automobile
back into his own lane seconds be-
fore the crash.
Hanna's car was spun completely
around by the force of impact. His
body was hurled across the highway
coming to rest on ‘the left berm of
the road.
Moments later, Guthrie Conyng-
ham, Trucksville, came upon the
scene and Shaw sought his assist-
Mr. Conyngham gave the
badly injured victim first aid, then
called the ambulance and police.
Assistant Chief Jesse Coslett ar-
rived promptly as did Kingston
Township ambulance, manned by
Captain Frederick and Robert Car ey.
Col. Hanna was rushed to Nesbitt
Hospital where he was pronounced
dead on arrival by Dr. Joseph A.
Campanella.
Seat Belts
The station wagon demolished on
the left side, was towed away by
Clyde Birth. Damage to the trailer
was slight. The car was equipped
with seat belts.
Colonel Hanna had a brilliant
record in the Air Corps, having
served his country for 21 years,
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Out In The Cold
able to see Swoyerville-Darby game
Tuesday night because tickets were
not available at the door.
Dallas coaches Clint Brobst and &
Len Kozick were among those un- 1