a
Fre
Play a game of recognizing your-
self in the first picture, where pa-
trons of the Library Auction Kick-
Off Dinner are settling back in their
chairs, replete with twenty differ-
ent varieties of food at the smorgas-
bord, and easy in their minds be-
cause of the announcement of the | and Mrs. Ralph Hazeltine, Jean and
safe landing of Astronaut Cooper
after twenty-two orbits of the globe. | Huston, Sr.; Bob and Grace Bach-
To drop just a name or two,
there's Bill Moss, Library Auction | aisle, ready to trip anybody trying
stalwart; Alice and Fred Howell, | to get back to the smorgasbord | just helped himself to Swedish
Janet Smith, the Story Lady; Mr.
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Richardson And
Kozemchak Win
Director Posts
Vivian End Shaver
Nominated In
Lehman Township
Voters of the Dallas Area School
District showed preference for
economy minded directors when L.
L. Richardson, Dallas Borough, and
Andrew Kozemchak, Dallas Town-
ship, won the Republican nomina-
tions for school directors at large.
Mrs. Barbara Vivian, Huntsville,
and Dean Shaver, Idetown, cap-
tured Republican school director
posts in Lehman Township defeat-
ing Walter Chamberlain, incumbent.
Robert Rogers and Anthony
Macri, Lake Township, won nomina-
tions for school board’ posts, while
Michael Slimak and Vernon Cease
were unopposed in Jackson Town-
shite 2 vy
In the Dallas Township supervisor |
race, Basil Frantz scored a surprise
victory over George Bowen, and Ted
Poad, former Kingston Township
tax collector, was returned to office
as township auditor.
Tabulations by district follows:
Dallas Borecugh
School Directors (2 to be elected)
Republican: Kozemchak, 77; Davis
62; Reid, 42; Peterson, 23; Man-
‘near, 62; Wright, 67; Richardson,
157.
Democrat, Dixon, 24. ’
Council: Brobst, 189; Thomas,
180; Post, 180; Parry, 185.
Dallas Borough gave County Com-
missioner candidate Post, 15; Goss,
98; Jennings, 97.
Kingston Township
School © Directors Republican—
Shavertown: Kozemchak, 108; Dav-
is, 178, Reid, 73; Peterson, 40; Man-
near, 147; Wright, 99; Richardson,
176.
Auditor: Novicki, 107; Poad, 316.
Trucksville: Kozemchak, 121;
Davis, 297; Reid, 133; Peterson, 48;
Mannear, 129; Wright, 73; Richard-
son, 146.
Novicki, 289; Poad, 202.
Carverton: Kozemchak, 18; Davis,
34; Reid, 49; Peterson, 3; Mannear,
8; Wright, 7; Richardson, 34.
Novicki, 54, Poad, 26.
LaRoy Ziegler was unopposed for
supervisor.
Franklin Township
School Directors: Kozemchak, 53;
Davis, 2; Reid, 123; Peterson, 5;
Mannear, 18; Wright, 5; Richardson,
107.
Philip Williams was unopposed
for supervisor and Malcolm Baird
for auditor, receiving 118 and 146
votes respectively. .
Dallas Township
School Director: Kozemchak, 489;
Davis, 182; Reid, 142; Peterson, 139
Mannear, 211; Wright, 253; Richard
son, 467.
Democrat Dixon received 67
votes.
Supervisor: Frantz, 444; Bowen,
oldest resident,
aed Ty
382; Whittaker, 116. ;
George Prater, running for justice |
of the peace,” was unopposed and ,
received 691 votes. Donald King |
seeking auditor post garnered 611 !
votes.
Lehman Township
School Director: Republican—Viv-
ian, 276; Chamberlain, 231; Shaver,
293.
Supervisor: A. Major, 223; Winter,
111.
Auditor:
149.
Harold Major was unopposed for
justice of the peace with 261 votes.
Harveys Lake
‘School Director: Republican—Rob_
ert Rogers, 306; Anthony Macri, 229; |
Swanson, 171.
Democratic: Shaver, 25 write in |
votes.’ |
Supervisor: Walter Hoover, 255; |
Gensel, 162; Delaney, 78.
Justice of the Peace: Jones, 312;
Pall, 92.
Simms, 274; Niezgoda,
Aunt Callie Is
101 On Tuesday
Few folk have been privileged
to live out the span of a century,
but Mrs. Calla Parrish, Beaumont
native, has taken vast changes of
a hundred years in stride as she
faces with tranquility her eleventh
decade.
Mrs. Back Mountain's
will observe her
101st birthday Tuesday at Carpen-
ter Convalescent Home, Idetown,
where she became a resident sev-
eral months ago.
Parrish,
Born in Monroe Township, daugh-
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
Frear, she is the only surviving
alumna of Monroe Academy where
she attended classes as a child.
Her father died when she was
eight months of age, following his
capture during the Civil War con-
flict in which +he had enlisted. Her
mother died when Calla was eight
and the child became the ward of
her oldest brother, Henry, who
tiirough “adolescence
She married Warren Parrish,
Spokane, Washington, moving to
Sandpoint, Idaho, where the couple
made their home for sixteen years,
later returning to Beaumont, where
Mr. Parrish passed away in 1917.
Since that time, Mrs. Parrish has
maintained her home, gardening,
reading and keeping up on current
events.
Relatives were perturbed during
the past year when occasional weak
spells occurred and a decision was
made to place her ‘in a nursing
home.
Mrs. Parrish can be found each
day seated in her favorite chair in
a pleasant room, listening to her
transistor radio and chatting with
her fellow patients.
Her only survivors are a niece,
Mrs. Alice Taylor, Kingston; a great
niece, Mrs. Donald Meeker, Noxen,
and two great-great nieces, Lor-
raine Meeker, and Mrs. Donna Cald-
well, also of Noxen.
table.
HE DALLAS POST
In the center picture Father Raf-
ferty watches Auction Chairman
Bob Fleming
pickle and sampling the salad, while | Stanley Rinehimer,
Frank Huttman, co-chairman,
Arch Hutchison; Mr. and Mrs. James
man; and Hix, with her feet in the Mrs.
|
| meatballs, and is wondering whether | of plates.
it’s tuna fish or chicken salad. Mrs.
Dana: Crump hasn’t made much
spearing himself a | headway down’ the line, and Mrs.
Howell,
has | and Jean Hutchison are biding their
time, waiting to reach that stack
Mrs. Jack Landis is com-
| pletely oblivious to photographer
James Kozemchak. Assorted mem-
bers of Dallas Rotary, Dallas Ki-
wanis, and Dallas Lions hope that
chow isn’t too far off. It’s been a
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Familiar Shavertown, Trucksville, Buildings Axed
~
been storing | the ground.
Back Mountain saw a slight | Highway. He has
change of face this week, as famil- | fixtures from the buildings in Andy | Right,
iar buildings. along Memorial High- | Roan’s old building in Shavertown.| appears
way fell to the contractor's axe.
John - Parrish,
Davis
to ‘have been
which are being razed to make |light, is seen stripped half-way to [ris Hill Road, Trucksville.
way for the mew Dallas-Luzerne | |
Cleaners’ building
bombed.
| Two of the most familiar sights Formerly it was a landmark at the
Trucksville, was are shown gaing here. Left, former | three-point intersection of Memorial
awarded the condemned structures, | Techler's Variety Store, Shavertown. Highway, Pioneer Avenue, and Har-
|
long, tough day, and the sight of | so
those loaded plates is almost too | chairmen named, so many prizes
much.
And in the last picture, folks are
leaving the dining room for the |all agreed it was a good dinner,
lobby, amazed that so much busi-
ness could have been transacted
speedily, so many committee
awarded, and so much food de-
molished in so short a time. They
and that the Library Auction of
1963 is off to a good start.
Photo by Kozemchak
VOL. 75, NO. 21 THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963 |
Buction Kick-Off Dinner Draws Enthusiastic Crowd,
Safe Landing Of Astronaut An Added Attraction
Local Groups
To Head Parade
Paul Shaver Named
‘63 Parade Marshal
Legion, Auxiliary, police, firemen,
girl scouts, boy scouts, and school
marching units will participate in
the annual Memorial Day parade
through Dallas May 30.
Sponsored by Dadow-Isaacs Post
672, the procession will begin from
the post home promptly at 9:30.
Paul Shaver will be parade marshal. |
Speaker will be Jim Post, and
Father Francis A. Kane and Rev.
John S. Prater will present the pray-
er and benediction.
The Post will decorate area cem-
eteries over the weekend. If any
Congratulations, Fifteen Dallas High School Students
Feted Officials Named To National Honor Society
Community extends congratula- |
tions to nineteen local government | accepted fifteen members of the | discussing each feature bearing on
officials from Luzerne County, who | Junior Class of Dallas High School | acceptance into the organization:
| Character, Susan Fleming; scholar-
John Wardell presided at the | ship, Marlene Futch; service, John
received the Wilkes College Insti- | ito its ranks.
tute of Municipal Government | »
dvs olsianding. serviesl tb | ceremony held recently at the ! Molski; leaders, Paul Haradem.
or PY anding or 1c { | school. | Charlotte Roberts led the Honor
ght Tospective communities, last | Elected to membership through | Society Pledge.
night at a dinner at the college. | attainment of high scholastic av- |
[i The National Honor Society has | standards of the Honor Society by |
graves are missed, please contact
the American Legion.
Route of the procession will take
marchers down Memorial Highway
to the Honor Roll in the center of
Dallas, where the marchers will
halt to place a wreath, From there
Mill Street and Woodland Avenue
to Woodlawn Cemetery, where mem-
orial services will be held. ;
Commander Richard Staub will
lead the Legion, and Leonard Harvey
will be in charge of the firing squad.
Members of the firing squad are:
Among these officials were: Dr. jierages, fine character, leadership | E ] I Harold Brobst, Ed Buckley, Tom
Robert M. Bodycomb, Dallas School | iy oad oh Le { al Y Ssue Reese, Leonard Dougherty, and Joe
Board eighteen years; Vernon A. | CH ig a o Gl a ; : Drust, /
Conte. Jackson Townehiy Schoul dis Sonn ee Rd , Toe | Dips Post a : oy nL he ore BY
? : | y = rien, u , =
rector twenty-four years and justice | Hackling, Michael Jones, Susan | ary pest wee rane 2 e lin, and Bernard McDermott. b
of the peace fourteen years; and | Karl, Georgia McCutcheon, Sylvia | Morial
John. T. -Jeter, Dallas Borough | Phillips, * Gail Rumbaugh, Thomas | Correspondents,
engineer forty-eight years.
ministers,
Senior members illustrated high to the office by noon Saturday.
Day falling on Thursday. |
please
i (Legion Auxiliary will be led by
| Mrs. Florence Davenport. Wreath
Pierce, David Ryan, Joseph Ulinski. | cooperate by getting your material | will be placed at the honor roll by
a Boy Scout and a Girl Scout.
The above members of Dallas June
ior High School Combined Choruses
| are presenting a concert at Dallas Baurely,
| Senior High School tomorrow night,
Friday, May 24, at 8 p.m.
Director is. Alfred M. Camp, and
principal is John F. Rosser.
Row 1:
Messick, Kathy Reese, Jane Mitchell,
| Carol McCoy, Cathy Colovos, Suz-
anne Wroblewski, Karen Long,
Peggy Mathers, Cynthia Powell.
Sandy Pritchard, Joan Lawson,
Carol Smith, Sharon Yalick, Gret-
chen Hefft, Shirley Brown, Linda
Lamoreaux, Peggy Darrow, Helene
~Kuchinskas, Betsy London.
Carol Reimiller, Suzanne | Judy Reese, Nancy Crispell, David ,theway, Cindy Supulski, Pam Baker,
Junior High Choruses To Give Concert Friday
wood. :
Beverly Whiting, Sue Nancy Covert, Helen Frania, An-
Dianne Seymour, Sally drew Frania, Frank Geskey, Russell
Holvey, Gay Williams, Susan Walk, 'Race, Donald Alexander, Tom Hill,
Cynthia Garman, Allison Galletly, | Thomas Ziegler, Allen Brag, Dennis
Sally Lancio, Peggy Bayliss. Wright.
Sandra Elston, Jane Birnstock, Row 4:
Row 2:
Zekas, Roberta Mahler.
Linda
Savickas, Howell,
Gail Zekas, Melanie By- | der, John Swingle.
Myra. Berti, Mildred Gordon, Karen
Tag, Susan Fuller.
Debbie Jerista, Veronica Jerista,
Paula Faltyn, Donna Neikam, Sam-
Haines, Paul Turner, Barbara
Hughes, Debra Billings, Cathy Clif-
Ford, Mr. Alfred Camp.
Row 3: Judy Dana, Karen Kash-
mer,
Pat Wagner, Meme Mohr,
enbach, Judy Stasko, Anne Davies, | my Zachary, Jim Nixon, Billy Row- | Pierce, Patti Larson, Colleen: Con-
Susan Moore, Donna Priebe, Donna | ett. : aghan, Kerry Roberts, Eleanor Jones,
Smith, Sandy Tait, Sanbie Sher- Row 5: Linda Farrar, Beverly | Alice Reese, Pat Peiffer.
Roberts, Margy Ryan, Cory Jordan,
Mary Smith, Gladys Jones, Donna
Pat Nixon, Jane Rozelle, Debbie
Ronnie
Prutzman, John Evenson, Jim Sny-
Row 6: Elva Costello, Linda Wim.
Pat Bauman, Janet Balshan,
Carol
Mohr, Barb Honeywell, Barb Brown:
Joan Ziegler, Connie Blazes, Bev
I
it will transit Main Street, and over |
=
ERNIE GAY ALREADY
MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
FOR AUCTION CHANCES
Library Auction has in Ernest
Gay a top-notch Auto-Chance
manager. The minute Ernie
was appointed by Atty. Bob
Fleming, Auction Chairman, to
handle the auto-chance project,
he got busy and laid plans. By
the night of the Auction Kick-
Off Dinner he was ready to
buttonhole patrons and . pres-
sure them into making advance
purchase of chances. Make of
car will be announced.
YWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone
674-5656
NTT,
Child Is Unhurt
As Car Topples
Plunging backward down a rocky
bank, slipping betwen two trees,
and crossing Davenport Street, a
car with a two-year old child
aboard stopped Tuesday afternoon
in the exact spot where a neighbor
child customarily built his sand
castles. Carol Cooper, prattling
happily about the ‘big bump,”
emerged completely unhurt.
Mrs. Gary Cooper had put the
Ford in “Park” after
from market at 4:20. Telling Carol
and three-year old Gary Jr. to come
along, she carried baby Candy into
the house.
She heard a | thump, thought
Candy had fallen, turned to see
Gary flying through the kitchen
door, gasping: Mommie, come
quick, ZOOM.”
There was Carol, far below, stand-
ing alongside the car in the Peter
Duda yard, and inspecting with in-
terest the damaged luggage com-
partment. -
Ambulance Calls
Dallas ambulance made two calls
this week:
Saturday at noon, Mrs. Margaret
Jones was transported to General
Hospital, Tony Zachary, John Shee-
han, and John Carey attending.
Tuesday at 2 am. Mrs. Emily
Besecker, 45 Lake Street, was taken
to Nesbitt following a heart attack.
Bill Berti, Don Bulford, Ralph Fitch,
and Bob Besecker attended.
Lehman Board
Sees. Cost Rise
Lake-Lehman school directors,
meeting at Ross Township Friday
evening, considered a budget which
promises to raise the ante from the
present $752,000 figuring in the
mandated. salary increases amount-
ing to $11,250 and the extra rental
of $17,750 which must be picked
up this coming year.
Lekman Township market valu-
Row 7: Peggy Reese, Bonnie
Brobst, Linda Taylor, Barbara Hauck,
Emily Botsford, Cris Grose, Candy
Mohr, Susan Davis, Joyce Hughes.
Reba Heidel, Ida Gillespie, Linda
Nicol, Linda Parry, Debbie Slater,
Bonnie Rood, Eva Kozemchak, Peggy
Rood, Dorothy Philo, Robert Gra-
ham.
Not in Picture when taken: Robert
Graham, Joe Wilson, Russell Gula,
Don Fagenburg, Les Eckart, James
Taylor, Bob Antinitas, Sheryl Evans,
Dave Hess, Lee Issac, Dave Green,
James Yarnal.
| for
ation shows an increase.
Wilfred Tde submitted his resig-
nation, to take effect July 1. Super-
vising Principal Lester Squier an-
nounced that Eleanor Humphrey,
his own office secretary, wauld take |
Mr. Ide’s place as secretary of the
board.
The Educational Committee asked
three additional high school
teachers, two of the three for guid-
ance positions.
A music teacher for elementary
grades, Regina Joan Greskiewicz,
was empoyed, and resignations of
two teachers were accepted. Frank
Rash will go to Wilkes-Barre
Schools, Walter Seroka is leaving.’
A recommendation from the
Teachers Committee was discussed,
a request for salary adjustments,
The June meeting was set for
the. Friday: following graduation,
The budget will come up for further
discussion at this time,
| Miss Frances Dorrance’s brief words
returning |
| the Auction for the past sixteeen
| years.
| eers, Bob Bachman; Auto Chances,
| Miss Elizabeth Ryder; Candy, Dal-
| Produce, Cy Chadwick; Publicity,
| coordinator Mr. Huttman, with Mrs.
| T.M.B. Hicks, Georgia Besecker, and
| Ellie Rodda;
man’s Club, Mrs. Howard Wiley.
Butler's Troop; transportation, My- }
ron Baker for Commonwealth Tele-
phone Company.
Corsagettes,
| Wright;
zemchak.
Ito be appointed,
radio prizes, one to George Thomas,
as Tuesday, June 11, shows a con- the second to Phil Moore; Jim Alex-
flict with commencement exercises. ander won an electric can-opener,
Numbers
674-7676
Bob Fleming Names
Committee Chairmen
News of the safe landing of As-
tronaut Cooper eased the minds of
those at the Library Auction Kick-
Off Dinner Thursday night, when
Bob. Bachman’s transistor radio,
buzzing quietly close by his ear,
announced the tidings that Cooper
had landed within sling-shot distace
of the aircraft carrier Kearsarge
after twenty-two orbits around the
earth.
From the head table, the news-
flash was broadcast over the public
address system, and diners who had
fixed their minds on getting: home
to the television, settled back for
the program.
A clock, ticking away the min-
utes in fromt of thé microphone,
kept speakers reminded that a short |
meeting had been promised. |
From the first, the singing of one]
stanza of America, and invocation]
by Rev. Michael Rafferty, the meet-
ing kept on a strict time schedule,
and the benediction by Rev. Andrew
Pillarella was pronounced shortly
after 8:30.
David Schooley’s welcome as
president of the Library Association,
as ranking member, 'and Atty. Rob-
ert Fleming's remarks as chairman
of the Seventeenth Library Auction,
all stressed the blow suffered by
the Library in the death of Howard
Risley, the mainspring of the Auc-
tion, whose generosity in permit-
ting use of his grounds has sparked
Bob Fleming recollected that
when the Library was first projeet-
ed during the last year of the Seec-
ond World War, he was still over
seas. His father wrote him that
the Back ‘Mountain would have- a
library, and Bob remembered all
the little New England ‘towns where
the library was the focus for com-
munity activity, and was delighted,
never dreaming that he would one
day be Auction Chairman for an |
annual event that would prove ‘the
mainstay of a library that served
the entire Back Monutain.
Atty. Fleming announced chair-
men of committees: Co-chairman,
Frank Huttman; advisory commit-|
tee, D. T. Scott, Jr.; Kick-Off Din-
ner, Jack Conyngham; dinner tick-
ets, Jack Landis.
Antiques, Mrs.
Arts and Crafts,
Finance, Homer
Mitchell Jenkins:
Bobbie Smith;
Moyer; Auction-
Ernest Gay; Baked Goods,
Anns; Barbecue,
George McCutcheon;
Rotary
Jim Post; Barn,
Book Booth,
las Junior Woman’s Club.
(Chefs, Howard Wiley; Dolls, Mrs.
Arthur Newman; Fun Booth, Girl
Scout Troop 77, Ellen Crispell. ;
General Solicitation, Claire Owens;
Grounds, Ziba Smith; Electrician,
Paul Shaver; Live Stock, Shel Evans.
New Goods, Merrill Faegenburg;
New Goods Display, Herman Otto;
Odds and Ends, Women of Ki-
wanis, Edna Ackerson; Parking,
Dallas Borough PTA; Plants and
Refreshments, Dallas Senior Wo-
Runners, Explorer Scouts, John
Waitresses and
the Keyettes, Kay
Photographer, James Ko-
One or two chairmen remained
Drawings awarded two transistor
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