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Auction Dinner Set
For Thursday May 16
Yanchick Recovers
Daniel Yanchick, Bunker Hill, re-.
cent ‘assault victim, was discharged
from Nesbitt Hospital on Monday
afternoon.
Option Is
Continued
By Board
Kingstcin Township will renew its
option on the Holcomb property,
Pioneer Avenue for an indefinite
period at no additional cost, accord-
ing to announcement by Board of
Supervisors.
Purchase of a roadswesper which
would eliminate much manual labor
has also been authorized.
LaRoy Ziegler, chairman, revealed
a savings in the road department
amdéunting to approximately $5,000
for 1962. This was accomplished by
the elimination of one worker, road
supervisor Lawton Culver being a
working superintendent and ‘the pur.
chase of road materials at far less
cost than previously paid out.
The ditch problem at Spring and
Brook Streets plaguing residents
with obnoxious fumes and sinking
roadside ditches and allegedly dam-
aged by gas company installations
will be repaired shortly by the town-
ship crew. Pipes will be laid from the
source of the trouble along Brook
Street to the drain at W. Center
thoroughfare.
The secretary, Edward Richards,
disclosed no reply had yet been re-
ceived from the Meadowerest Hous
ing ‘Authority concerning the request
of supervisors for some remuneration
in lieu of taxes. The unit likewise
never takes cut building permits as
is required of all other taxpayers.
Concern was expressed over the
forthcoming new highway construct-
ion and its attending heavy use of
township roads as detours. The
Board approved action requesting
state for aid in maintaining these
roads during the time of extra load
travel. |
Repairs will also be made to Mt.
Airy Road likewise allegedly dam-
aged by installation of gas pipe lines.
Lehigh Railroad Company notified
the Board that mater ials were avai
able vo repair the ‘bridge o; on Pramklin®
Street but were unable to furnish the
labor. Board will take problem under
consideration.
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Monday Night
Post And Goss Among
Those On Party Team
Sixth Legislative District Repub-
licans will rally at the Irem Temple
Country Club Monday night at 8.
Spearheaded by the candidates
of James B. Post, Dallas Borough
resident and William G. Goss, for-
mer Dallas Township resident, the
rally is expected to be one of the
largest gatherings in the county in
behalf of the United Republican
Team. Jim Post is a brother of
Borough Councilman Bob Post, and
Bill Goss is a son of Shad Goss,
Republican Committeeman in the
Middle District of Dallas Township
for over thirty consecutive years.
District chairman Emerson SS.
“PeeWee” Harris will welcome the
guests and introduce Stephen Yano-
shak; Republican County Chairman,
who will. present the candidates.
Local delegations will be identi-
fied by townships and borough, and
all Republican committeemen are
vying to have their representation
the most impressive.
The United Republican Team are
the candidates supported by the
Luzerne County Republican Com-
mittee for nomination in this year’s
primary. In some respects this is
the most important election of all
for Luzerne County Republicans, for
the November election goes control
of - most major courthouse offices
for the next four years. United
Republican Team Candidates are:
Thomas E. Mack for District At-
torney, James B. Post and William
G. Goss, for County Commissioners,
Joseph Mock for Sheriff, “Matt”
Leib for Treasurer, Dr. Walter E.
Kozik for Recorder of Deeds, Dr.
Jogeph Fasciana for Coroner and
Charles Walter for Surveyor.
State Police Get
Lake Vandal Case
Investigation of vandalism on the
Sordoni property Monday afternoon
has been turmed over to State Police,
according ‘to Chief of Police Edgar:
Hughes.
Three juveniles, spotted at the |
scene by Joseph Hollick, Noxen, as-
saulted the man when he attempted
to stop them.
“Damage consisted of broken arti-
cles in a shed, broken windows and
. an antique carriage stored in the
"ity Presbyterian Church, will pro-
Off Dianer!
It will be a short session at the
Library Auction Kick-Off dinner,
promises John N, Coyngham III, with
set long speeches next Thursday
night at the Country Club, no formal
entertainment, and no auctioneering.
Just a good smorgasbord, says Jack.
and the briefest of possible meetings
after the dinner. An alarm clock
facing the audience from the head
table, he says, will keep the assem-
blage informed of the flight of time.
He does not promise unequivocally
that guests will be able to see the
whole of Dr. Kildare on television,
but he is shooting for that goal.
Could be a hold-up getting out of the
parking lot, but auction fans will be
at home early in the evening. Serv-
ing will start promptly at 6:30.
The only speeches will be from
key men David Schooley, president
of the Back Mountain Memorial
Library Association, and Attorney
Robert Fleming, chairman of the
Auction. Mr. Conyngham will intro-
duce guests at the head table, who |
will take a bow and reseat them-
selves without further comment.
Mr. Fleming will announce com-
mittee chairmen for the Seventeenth
Annual Library Auction, which as |
in the previous sixteen years will be
staged at the Risley Barn. Dates set
are July 11, 12, and 13, a little later !
than usual, as July 4, date traditon-= |
ally assigned to Lehman Horse- ba
Show, falls on Thursday this year, |
cancelling out the customary week- |
end of the Fourth for Auction. pur-:
poses.
Rev. Francis A. Kane, pastor of |
Gate of Heaven Church, will give the
invocation. Rev. Andrew Pillarella,
pastor of the newly orgamized Trin-
nounces the benediction.
Lee Vincent's Combo will play
during the dinner.
Members of Rotary, Kiwanis, and | 4
Lions Clubs have been ‘given tickets |
for distribution by John Landis,
ticket chairman.
Board members of the Library As-
sociation have tickets for sale, and
there are tickets available at the
Dallas Post.
ROTARY SCHEDULE
Dr. Lester Jordan will speak to-
night at Dallas Rotary. Next Thurs-
day, the Club joins other service
clubs at the Library Auction Kick-
“nd on Dey 23, Professor
Cromwell Thomas, of Wilkes College,
: ment of Forests and Waters, Harris- |
| burg. I?
‘Board,
li but were willing to try it.
will speak on Atomic Power.
LINDA GOSART
ALANA MATTER
“All Aboard-America’ for the an-
nual May Day festival at Lake-Leh-
man High School on May 14.
Friends and neighbors are invited to
join the students as they tour in
song and dance various ethnic and
geographical regions of North Amer-
ica.
Winner of the coveted. position of
Queen of the May, Linda Gosart,
will be crowned before she and her
guests begin the tour. Featured in
the court are Sharron Farver,
Princess, and Jame DelKanic, Alana
Matter, Joyce Spencer and Marily
| Woodling. why
| Queen Linda, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Gosart, of R. D. 2, Dal-
las, is the second of her family to
hold a starring role im May Day
celebrations. « Now a secretary at
Commonwealth, Jane, her sister,
was a member of the “ton six” her
building.
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senior year. An active student, Lin-
Lake Patrol Boat
Asked By Assoc’n
A patrol boat operated by the
Pennsylvania Fish Conmission is
needed to keep power boats from
coming too close to Harveys Lake
docks, according to the Warden
Place Improvement Ass¢ciation.
Request was made to Lake Town-
ship Board of Supervisors at their
May meeting Saturday ‘to send a ik
letter to that effect to the Depart-
In further business conducted at
the meeting, announcement was
made that township would widen
and improve seven tenths of a mile
Pancakes
of Route 748, install pipe, at a cost |
of $4000.
Contract was awarded to Mathers |
Construction Company for El and
C2 oil at 13.99 cents a gallon.
David George, Warden Place,
commended police on quick appre-
hension of several juveniles who
looted ' flashlights, tools, and other
articles from parked cars recently. |
A draft of a police pension fund !
was examined, and Ed Crake was
appointed vice chairman of the
a post required by recent |
law.
Law on motor boats invoked by |
the Improvement Association de- |
mands that boats come no closer
to docks than one hundred feet.
Supervisors did not think a letter
the department would help
Township route 748 leads south
route 680 in the Loyalville section.
Section to be improved stretches
from the intersection in front of
Shel Evans’ farm to the old quarry
area,
A number of communications were
read toi the Board by secretary Otto
Biery.
All motions were approved, and |
all ‘bills ordered paid.
Double Woes Rifect
Endy Roan’s Place
f Tliness touched Andy Roan’s dis-
thibuting plant twice last week.
dmployee Dick Jones was taken ill
Thursday evening and admitted to
Nesbitt Hospital where he is im-
proving.
Andy likewise became ill Satur-
day but is up and around and tak-
ing things a bit easier. He drops in
at the fire company in the evening
to ‘check on his favorite community
service.
SHARRON FARVER
JOYCE SPENCER
da is editor of the school newspaper,
business manager of the yearbook,
president of the cheering club, and
class secretary—a position she hag
held for six years. ‘She participated
in both class plays, and is a member
of the Journalism Club, Quill and
Scroll and Girls’ Athletic Associa-
tion. Linda, selected earlier this
year as Miss Senior, will enter Wil-
liamsport Hospital School of Nurs-
ing in September.
Sharing the spotlight is Maid of
Honor—Sharron Farver. Daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Farver of
Sweet Valley, Sharron is following
in the tradition established by her
sister, Jean, who was a member of
the ‘top six’ her senior year. Shar-
rein has been active in school activi-
ties and is currently co-president of
the Senior Class and co-secretary ‘of
the Student Council. Her other ac-
tivities include: G.A.A., class plays,
-
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Best place to find your neighbors,
relatives, your [Uncle Max, or any-
bodybody else from around here
you may have lost Saturday was
up at the Dallas High School.
Chances are you can find them
right now in these pictures of Ki-
wanis’ Aunt Jemima Pancake Festi-
val, either serving or eating.
Kiwanians manned the steam
counter full of pancakes, sausage,
and all the accoutrements, while
Women of Kiwanis did brisk busi-
ness at their annual bake sale.
A supplemental one-man griddle
was strategically positioned on the
Sell Like Hotcakes
other side of the cafeteria too, for
those who couldn't make it across
the room. Here it is manned by
Clyde Birth, who paced the floor
from time to time with a stack of
flap-jacks, looking for - somebody
with an empty plate. | plate.
Bloodmobile
Tomorrow
Bloodmobile tomorrow at Back
Mountain YMCA. Don't forget to
contribute your quota. You might
need a transfusion some day. Keep
on the right side of the ledger, safe-
ly in black, not in red.
11:45 to 5:45.
Hours: |
Forest Rangers Fight
Trucksville Brushfire
Forest Rangers. were called in by
Trucksville Fire Chief Vought Long
to battle a-brush-fire in the rear off,
Meadowerest Housing Development |
Sunday evening.
Linda Gosart Is May Queen
JANE DELKANIC
MARILY WOODLING
basketball team scorekeeper,
and member of the girl's basketball
boys’
team. Having taken the academic
course in high school, Sharron will
enter Mercy Hospitdl (School of
Nursing in August.
Jane DelKanic, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael DelKanic, Sr. of
R. D. 1, Harveys Lake, has been se-
lected as an attendant in the honor
court. Jane is a branch editor of
the school newspaper and magazine
staffs, band publicity agent, and a
business manager of the yearbook.
Also active in musical groups, Jane
is a member of the chorus, girls’ en-
semble, band, and reed choir. This
interest has prompted her to direct
the choir at the Loyalville Methodist
Church. Her other activities include
library club, Journalism Club, Stu-
dent Council, National Honor Socie-
ty, and Harveys Lake Women's Club
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Board Of Appeals
Okays Tank Permit
Bill Purcell, proprietor of Purcell’s
Oil Company, Memorial Highway,
Shavertown, has received a letter
from the Kingston Township Board
of Appeals approving his request to
construct a 20,000 gallon storage
tank for petroleum products on his
land where he conducts a filling
station.
Building permits were received
from Officer Herbert Updyke this
week. As soon as final plans are
submitted to the state fire marshals,
construction will begin.
Purcell expects to have the tank
completed by July 4.
By Utilitie
Utilities’ responses to Lehman
Township supervisors’ plans to tax
poles and wire mileage were reported
of mixed enthusiasm last week at
the meeting of the Board.
Of three utilities, one. complied
with a request for information as
to number of poles and length of
wire within the towamship, and two
requested to see the ordinance in
authority.
Chief of police Joseph Ide reported
a hand-counted total of 1905 poles
in the township.
United Gas Improvement stated
it had 656 poles. and 42.9 circuit
miles of wire in Lehman Township.
Neither Harveys Lake Light Com-
pany nor Commonwealth Telephone
Company included a count with their
letters requesting copies of the or-
dinance.
In force behind the tax of twenty-
five cents per pole and one dollar
per mile of wire is a resolution pass-
ed in April, 1957 to tax the poles,
plus a recent amendment to tax the
wire.
Tax is based on an annual inspect-
ion of poles and wires by ‘the towm-
ship, dated from the beginning of
enforcement of the tax.
In other business at the meeting,
Mr .and Mrs. Fremk Young, Sando
Terrace, Lake Silkworth, requested
the board to warn. a neighbor who
is now raising a large number of
chickens and selling some eggs that
the area is zoned residential.
Chief complaint was the tendency
of chickens to draw skunks and
rodents, Police chief will investigate.
Board announced its count of
number of road miles in the town-
ship was equal ‘to this year’s count
by the state engineer.
A motion was made and accepted
to forward the budget as drawn to
Harrisburg.
Police reported fifteen calls, sev-
eral arrests, and no highway acci-
dents. Chief Ide signed the infor-
mation against several men, recently
charged with burglary by state po-
lice, who allegedly broke into Ross
Williams’ gas station. |
Lost Collie Taken
To Kennels Friday
A lovely collie dog, apparently
lost, wandered to the home of J. W.
Roddy, Shrineview last weck.
Mrs. Roddy called the Dallas Post
to see if any one had reported their
pet missing. No one had inquired.
The dog was taken to the SPCA
kennels on Friday.
Sell 1100
Flap-Jack
Tickets
Aunt Jemima Pancake Festival,
sponsored by ‘Kiwanis in Dallas
High School cafeteria was social
event of the week, and received ex-
cellent community support, despite
from last year.
Around 1100 tickets, adult and
children, were sold, with an unof-
ficially estimated $700 to $800 pro-
fit, benefit of the Key Club, Back
Mountain's outstanding youth civic
organization.
Carley Davis,- 365 Bennett Street,
Luzerne, won the deluxe electric
range donated by United Gas Im-
provement, Luzerne Division,
Admiral Sales Corporation.
Bill Baker, Jr. and George. Mc-
Cutcheon, ticket chairmen, expected
returns last night.
Attendance for the amnual event
without Aunt Jemima’s appearance.
the festival, visiting schools
civic events during several days so-
journ. Unfortumately, her schedule
is so tight that she can make it only
every other year.
Last year the festival raised about
$2000, which was needed to send
Key Club to Denver for the convent-
ion.
Enthusiasm: for this year’s jam-
boree, however, did not fall off on
either side of the serving table. Ki-
wanians did a splendid job serving
all day from 10 in the morning until
7 at night. Last servings were around
7, according to Bob Parry, chairman
of promotion and advertising.
Key Club boys and Keyettes and
advisors also ‘helped around the
tables, and. Women of Kiwanis did
land-office business with their bake-
sale, despite its position at the
filled-up end of the jamboree rather
than at the hungry end.
Only expense to, Kiwahis was the
sausage served, amd the advertising.
The staple of pancakes, of course,
was provided by Quaker Oats Com-
pany, maker of Aunt Jemima flour
Other donors were: HartersDairy,
Back Mountain Shopping Center,
Emanuel Bus Lines, Miners National
Bank, Forty Fort Ice Cream Com-
pany, Hall’s Drug Store, Gosart’s,
R. J. Daring Market, Duke Isaacs,
taurant, and the Dallas Post.
the expected fall-off of attendance
and
to have a complete official tally of
was expected to be off this year
Aunt Jemima makes a real play for
and
Payne Printery, Orchard Farms Res. ,
| ville on Sutton road.
Weasel Mows Down
Path To Brushfires
An army gadget, resembling a
small barge or tank without turrets
and appropriately named the “‘Wea-
sel”, is attracting attention and
favorable reaction among Back
Mountain firemen, who have seen
it perform during recent brush
fires. *
Purchased by ‘Colonel Leon Beisel
for local Civil Defense program it
was loaned to Trucksville Fire Com-
pany during several incendiary
blazes flaring up in Kingston Town-
ship woodlands.
Fire Chief Vought Long is enthus-
iastic over its performance. He says
its mechanism consists of two hand-
les for the driver to operate indivi-
dual tracks on its caterpillar treads.
It can fumish six speeds, adapting
to the terrain to be traversed, and
is just as effective on water as on
land.
Maneuverability of the “Weasel”
makes it ideal for forest fire control
as it climbs the steepest incline with
and travels through dense
brush with few obstacles capable of
withstanding its force. Five men and
a like number of Indian tanks can
ease,
be carried to the source of the fire.
Cost of the “Weasel” is reported
small, and it would prove a tre-
mendous asset to companies during
brush fire season, concludes Chief
Long.
Postmaster
Permanent
For Dallas
Edward M. Buckley, Acting Post-
master at Dallas since September
7, 1962, has received word from
Senator Joseph S. Clark that the |
Senate has confirmed his nomina-
tion by President Kennedy as Post"
master.
Telegram from Senator: Clark’
says: “Pleased to inform you Sen-
ate yesterday confirmed your nom-
ination for postmaster . .. Best
wishes for a long and successful
career.” ;
Mr. Buckley's appointment, gov=
erned by Civil Service code, is not
subject to any defined time limit.
Very active in American Legion
affairs on local, county and state
levels, and a past commander of
Daddow-Isaacs Post, Ed joined the
Dallas Post Office in 1948. The late |
Joseph Polacky was then Post-
master.
He is married to the former Jean
Ritchie, Dallas, and has a son
Jimmy attending Dallas area
schools. Ed was sworn in as Act-
ing Postmaster on his sixteenth
wedding anniversary.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William I:
Buckley, Main Street, Plymouth, he
was educated at St. Vincent's High
School, and took courses at Whar-
ton School of Finance and Wilkes |
College after the war. He served |
abroad, 1941-1945, in the combat
engineers.
Parked at the entrance to Prince
of Peace parish house in bright sun-
shrine Tuesday morning was a come-
on for the Flea Market, the latest
feature of ‘the annual Antiques
Show and Sale, setting the stage
for what could be expected on the
lower level. A white wicker baby-
carriage circa 1900 was overflowing
with red azaleas, and across the
‘pathway was (Georgia Besecker,
green-thumbing scarlet geraniums
into a painted white wooden tub on
stilts.
Patrons, snared by the thought
of bargains in furniture that needed
refinishing, made for the basement
stairway to see what Flea Market
and Flower Mart had to offer. They
found a Jenny Lind cradle, ox-bow
chairs, decrepit rockers in need of
a caning job, arrow-splat chairs
screaming to be refinished, and a
melee of small items in need of paint.
And over beyond the amtiques were
old fashioned flowers, the accent on
geraniums, the standby of Grandma's
windowsill on the farm, arranged in
antique containers.
Upstairs, dealers had made ‘the
most of their small allotted cubicles,
utilizing the space under the tables
for braided rugs highlighted by pol-
ished copper and brass.
Lilacs and bleeding hearts, tulips
and late daffodils, decorated the
Bright Sunshine Contributes
To Success Of Antiques Show
tables, contrasting with Canton
china platters and patchwork quilts.
The popular wagon seat wore a
new dress at one booth, decked out
with foam rubber cushions, a sac-
rilege to the eye of the antique fan,
but promising solid comfort.
One dealer had a collection of cut
glass bottle stoppers suitable for con-
verting into paper-weights, and al-
so a pair of glass marbles with small
animals imbedded in them, once a
commonplace, now a rarity.
Every inch of space was at a
premium. . Flower prints hobmobbed
with demure wasp-waisted ladies
from Godey’s Lady Book, cut-gla
elbowed fragile china, rush- bottom-
ed chairs crowded the aisles, ]
‘Even the lobby was utilized, with
a French sitz bath arranged as a
fountain at the entrance, trimmed
with flowers and statuary. a
There was a mob scene at. lunch
time, and another in the evening,
when patrons fortunate enough to
have reserved ahead of time, were
seated for dinner in crowded quarts
ers.
On Wednesday, with more bright
sunshine bringing out the crowd, the
Antiques Show again did a land- |
office business, with committee and
dealers equally pleased with results
of what has become a Back Mor:
tain institution.
Board To Ask
Court Mandate
Jackson Township Board of Super-
visors will petition the Court of
Quarter Sessions to enforce that part
of the township code which would
require. Larksville Borough to share
maintenance costs of Steele’s Farm
Road with the township.
Decision to do so was made at the
meeting held Tuesday night, at which
time interested Jackson people re-
quested that something be done. Old
agreement between: the two munici-
palities, by which they divided main-
tenance of the border-line road, ex-
pired in 1960, and Larksville told
the township last month that they
were no longer interested in it.
In other business at the meet-
ing, it was resolved to place ten-ton
weight limit signs on Smith’s Pond
road, Beline’s road, and Sutton road.
Chief of police Robert Cooper
quested a stop-sign be put at Hunts-
re-
In “Popular
It’s the guy who has to make life
a little easier for himself who often
makes things easier for others too.
With this in mind, trade, science,
and mechanical magazines solicit
ideas from do-it-yourselfers, and for
this reason a unique tool holder de-
signed by Arthur Garinger, lower
Demunds ‘Road, is featured om page
106 of this month’s Popular Science.
Mr. Garinger is proprietor of one
of the Back Mountain’s most unusual
successful businesses —Dallas Rental
Service, where you cam rent any-
thing from trailers to snow-blowers
(in season).
One of the pictures in the nation-
sitting om his invention, ‘making an
adjustment to a power lawnmower.
Although many servicemen have sat
on their tool-cases, this one happens
to be designed for it.
The article, pictures and text of
which were sent in by Mr. Garinger,
is entitled: “A Tool Holder That
Takes You Off Your Feet’.
ally circulated magazine shows him
Essent-
Garinger's Gimmick
Science’
ially, the invention serves a dual
purpose in holding about fifty com-
monly used tools and serving as a
seat for low jobs which cramp the
legs.
A mumber of hooks and holes are
designed for specific tools, and each
person who uses the idea would
have to custom-fit those appurten-
ances.
Mr. Garinger attributes his idea
to eight years working iri a factory,
in which he maintained machines.
Called on to go to one section of the
plant or another, he later would
find he had neither the exact tools
for the job nor a place to sit down
and work.
He built the “tool stool” at the
end of last summer, and turned in
his article on it in October. He is an
avid reader of science amd mechani-
cal magazines, and, following the
lead of a friend in New York who
wrote articles free-lance, successfully
capitalized on his invention.
Instructor
Nationally
Acclaimed
Selection of Miss Merrel, welayh
instructor at E.L. Myers High School
and daughter of Benjamin F. Merrel
and the late Mrs. Merrel of Trucks-
ville, as second place winner for the
“Outstanding Biology Teacher of the
Year” was pleasant news to her
many friends in the Back Mountain
area.
The award is sponsored amnually
by the National Association of Biol-
ogy Teachers embracing 50 states
plus Puerto Rico and the District
of Columbia. Winners were chosen
by a committee of college, high
school and industrial biologists. Ad-
ditional recommendations were also
required. 7
William J. Murray,’ chairman of
the Selection Committee for the Out-
standing Awards Program, informed
Miss Merrel that she was the un-
animous choice of his committe:
stating that both teacher and scho
would receive citations during th
month of May. hy
Miss Merrel has taught at Myers,
High School for 33 years, serving’
‘prior to that time at West Pittston,
instructing the “able” in tenth grade
for the past several years.
She has promoted the Bausch and
Lomb Science Award, sponsored the
Biology Club, the Cleam Speech Club
and served as counselor and career
counselor, acting as a member of
the principal’s council.
Miss Merrel is a graduate of Wil-
son College and has taken additional
work at Syracuse University, Penn |
State University, Cornell University,
College Misericordia and Colorado '
University. {
WILD TURKEY TO BE
FREED THIS MORNING
Ed Gdosky, Game Protector, an-
nounces that wild turkeys will b
released this morning in Rickett:
game lands. Trucks from the game
farm will arrive at Pennsylvania
State Game headquarters on Harveys
Lake Highway at 8 a.m., and turkeys
will be transferred to four trucks
for distribution,