diction will be given by local | of three cents per k.w.h. definitely committed: Louise Marks, | according to Orange and East Dallas | nounces that Philip Lovejoy will
Aeraymen Man pi y the | id bank of wheels on the twelve ton | merling drove the load to the | advance. John Konsavage, Harry Lefko, and | farmers. the, commencement spezleer igh ex
| dar oll be Tedgs Mernard Bee loaded truck was sucked into the prison, despite minor axle damage. | School runs this year until noon | Jerome Gardner. Buds on apple and fruit trees were | ercises scheduled for Tuesday, Jun
! a whe toe rit the ame Ixteen 0 culvert. | Cecil Sutton, Franklin Street, |of June 17th, extra days mandatory At a meeting of the Library | paralyzed and withered by the freak | 11, 8 p. m. in the high school gym-
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games. At the teenage ficld at Ss al the right, | eration. before September 24, to insure] successful result July 11, 12 and 13. | years. Native of Portland, with degrees
i the Dallas. Junior High field, there| At an assembly in Lake-Lehman | until, as above, the ole rear bank | opening pn that date. The State| Several large items, including a Dymond Brothers is reported to |from University of Michigan and
Ld will be three two-inning games. High School auditorium Friday, May requires 180 teaching days, if a|colored TV set, will be auctioned | have lost 75,000 tomato plants, while | Midwestern University, he was gen-
{ Public is invited to come to the | 24: sixteen senior honor students Boys Complete Detector Test: school is to maintain its standing | off, and again the Auction will offer | smaller farmers along Route 292 to | eral secretary of Rotary Interna-
field ‘and see the start of this fine | Were initiated into Lake-Lehman and earn its reimbursement. a car. The Antique Committee re- | the “flats” along the Susquehanna | tional for ten years, and mem!
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Little League To
Open Saturday
Thirteenth Season
Ceremcenmies Planned
Back Mountain Baseball for Boys
will open its season 1:30 Saturday
afternoon at the Little League field
in Dallas Township.
This marks the 13th season for
Little League in the Back Moun-
tain area. Over 330 boys will be
in uniform on the field on opening
day. These 330 boys make up
twenty teams, eight in major league,
six in minor league and six in teen-
age. At a latter date over 120
boys will participate in the new
farm teams. :
Opening day will be colorful,
starting with band selections by the
Dallas Junior High ‘School Band,
under the direction of * Alfred M.
Camp, raising of flag by the color
guard of Key Club, and also raising
of the 1962 State Championship
flag by the All Star team.
Harry Lefko, coach of the Dallas!
Major League team, will be master
of ceremonies. Invocation and ben-
first ball. Following Judge Bro-
minski on the Little League field
there will be four two-inning ball
program.
Power Company Cuts
Cost For Customers
Harveys Lake Light Company an-
nounces savings of $30,653 annually
affecting 3774 customers in Idetown,
Oak Hill, Harveys Lake, Noxen Or-
ange and Kunkle.
New rate schedule will concern
residence service, water and spare
heating, general commercial lighting.
Residence service remains at $6.40
per first 100 kilowat hours of cur-
rent, followed by a decrease from 3
cents to 2.72 cents for that over 101
k.w.h. to 300 k.w.h., to 2 cents from
301 to 600 k.w.h.; to 1.7 cents for all
over 600 k.w.h.
Residence water heating will be
$6.40 for first 101 k.w.h.; from 2.72
cents to one cent for 260 to 600 k.w.
h.; and 1.7 cents for all over 600
k.w.h.
Residence space heating will start
at $13.26 monthly minimum with the
firet 7200 k.w.h. at a 2.2 cent rate,
all over 7200 k.w.h. at 1.65 cents.
For general category, the first 101
k.w.h. will be $7.30 from 101 to 199
k.w.h.; a decrease from four cents to
3.9 cents per k.w.h.; from 200 to 600
k.w.h. a decrease from four cents
to 3.7 cents; over 600 k.w.h. a rate
Honor Society
chapter of the National Honor, So-
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Now What?
Trick of the week was when two |
big wreckers from the Valley pulled |
this monster out of the deep mud
ditch beside Huntsville Road below |
the Space farm Monday evening.
Driver Lawson Kemmerling of
Armour Company, Reading, moved
over to allow a car coming in the
other direction room, and the right | |
With one wrecker attached to the |
truck, the load of meat, bound Yor |
Chase Institution, kept shifting the |
of four wheels was clear of the
ground. .
Finally, another wrecker was
brought up and hitched to pull
from the side while the original one
pulled from the front, and they got
it free.
Truck was mired for three and a
half hours, from 4 until 7:30. Kem-
helped Kemmerling and the wrecker
crew, free the truck, and a large
crowd gathered to watch the op-
Adverse Publicity
Not Helpful
Lake-Lehman Students To Attend
Memorial Day Services In School
Lake-Lehman Schools will hold |
classes on Memorial Day, with time
allowed during the sessions at all
schools for suitable exercises, and
a special program scheduled for
high school students at 2:30, to
with examinations for May 30. Most
| business houses consider Memorial
Day an opportunity for larger sales.
Amusement parks are running full
tilt.
“Banks, post-offices, will be closed.
which Veterans groups have been?
invited, and at which members of |
the faculty who have been with
the armed services will speak.
Members of the American Legion
Posts in Dallas and Harveys Lake
protested the action of Lake-Leh-
man school board in having voted
to hold classes on Memorial Day
when the emergency school calendar
was adopted in September.
Decision to hold school on Me-
morial Day was made by the School
Board, at the same time that it!
regretfully faced the necessity of|
cancelling out Christmas and Easter
vacations and the traditional first
day of deer season holiday.
Bloomsburg Fair day off, explains!
Lester Squier, supervising principal, |
was a matter of commitment from '
last year, with the prize-winning!
band’s appearance arranged far in |
| because of a late start in the fall.
Staff,
faculty and many students
worked the Saturday and Sunday
State University is in operation,
New Goods Set
For Big Drive
“Ruction Plans
Maturing Well
Merrill Faegenburg, chairman of
the New Goods Committee for the
17th Annual Back Mountain Me-
morial Auction,, announces the first
committee meeting for Tuesday,
when members will gather at Her-
man Kern's for a buffet at 8 p.m.
to lay plans and apportion terri-
tories.
A few captains remain to be ap-
pointed, but four co-chairmen are
Board on Tuesday, general chair-
man Robert Fleming outlined plans
to date, with expectation of a highly
ports a good assortment of treasures.
VOL. 75, NO. 22 WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1963 |
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Lovejoy Speaker
At Graduation
Dallas Memorial Day
Parade Set For 9:30
Memorial Day Parade starts
Thursday morning promptly at 9:30
from the American Legion Home,
marshalled by Paul Shaver, stop-
ping first at the Honor Roll where
Rev. Francis A. Kane will offer
prayer, and a Boy and Girl Scout
will lay wreaths, Led by the Dal-
las Junior High School Band, the.
parade «will move through Main
Street, cross the highway, proceed
to Woodlawn Drive and break ranks
at Woodlawn Cemetery.
Fire apparatus from Trucksville,
Shavertown, Dallas and Idetown will
be in the line-up along with Legion-
naires and Auxiliary members, Boy
and Girl Scouts and leaders.
Bill Guyette will furnish the pub-
lic address system as in the past.
Rev. John S. Prater will give the
benediction, following Taps and the
Echo.
Heavy Frost Damage
Wipes Out Tomatoes
Heavy frost last weekend account-
ed for thousands of dollars damage
to ‘tomato and ‘‘stone-fruit”’ crops,
weather, and tomato plants collaps-
ed by the acre. No farmer expected
frost after May 15, considering past
suffered loss of many thousand each.
of
Dallas
nasium.
“Make Way For Tomorrow.”
Dallas Exercises
Set For June 11
W. Frank Trimble, principal © -
Senior High School, an-
Dr. Lovejoy will take as his topi
the International Secretariat for
Officers of Baseball for Boys in| ciety. New members are: Mary twenty-three, he has spoken to rep
| the Back Work area are: LEE Ann Bebey, Eileen Crane, Marie Horse Show Stalwarts Take Rare Coffee Break resentative audiences all over the
dent, Bob Parry; vice president, Al | Roginski, Judy Slimak, Joan Darby, Polygraph “lie detector” tests termined by the lie detector was | world, and is the recipient of many
| Williams; secretary, Paul Stein- Jane DelKanic, Pat Zbick, Alana were administered yesterday at the | whether, in fact, the lavatory was honors, including decorations fron
hauer, and treasurer, Elmer Even-| Matter, Eunice Oney, Marie Rasi- | court House to four local boys, who, | too dark for the boy to see his the President of Chile and the Kis
! son. || movicz, Barbara Ross, Marilyn | with their parents, agreed to be so | assailants. of Denmark.
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v but is now resting, at home.
~ complained of injuries to ribs and
Mrs. Hislop, 92,
“Hislop to Nesbitt Hospital for X-rays
Hurt In Crash
Two Cars Collide On
Route To Cemetery
Three persons, one a Dallas 92
year old lady, sustained injury or
possible injury when two cars col-
lided at the intersection of Center
Hill. Road and Tunkhannock High
way yesterday: “morning.
Both! cars were en route to area
cemeteries at the time.
Mrs. Mary Hislop, 92, passenger
in the car driven by her daughter-
in-law Mrs, Thomas Moore, De-
munds Road, cracked several ribs,
Woodling, Anthony Foster, Charles
Masters, Tom. Evans, and Edward
Hollos.
The program was opened by Ed-
ward Hollos, who led devotions.
Then four basic qualifications of the
National Honor Society, which are
scholarship,” leadership, character,
and service, were explained by
Alana Matter, Marie Rasimovicz, Pa-
tricia Zbick, and Eunice Oney. Bar-
bara Ross explained the signifi-
cance of the official emblem of the
society.
After the pledge of membership
was administered to the group by
Jane DelKanic, ‘each new member”
was presented with a pin by his or
her mother. The pins were made
in the shape of the emblem of the
society.
Following the presentation of the
pins’ to the newly elected members
tested concerning their versions of
what they know or do not know
about the beating of Daniel Yan-
chick.
Declared delinquent in Juvenile
Court by Judge Richard Bigelow on
grounds of earlier acts which they
admitted were two ‘Dallas Town-
ship” boys, age 14 and 15, a Shaver-
town boy, 15, and Yanchick him-
self, Bunker Hill, age 14.
Results of the lie detector test
are not made public before the
judge analyzes them in the light
of the case, and generally not before
court - session itself, ~according: “$0
Charles Adeonizio, Chief Juvenile
Court Probation Officer.
Judge Bigelow said he planned |
to take two weeks or so to delib-
erate on the case, according to
Dallas Township Police Chief Frank
{underlay the
| boys! actions.
Among the admissions of earlier
acts made by the boys in court Fri-
day was one fight, in which one of
the boys reportedly invited “a punch
in the mouth” at the bowling alley.
The other incident was supposed
to be one where one of the boys
borrowed a car belonging to the
family of another and drove around,
all, according to court sources, on
private property. Yanchick and
another were charged
tampering.
A certain fraternity apparently
whole sequence of the
Chief Lange said that one boy
had lent the other the keys to the
car to go sit in it, but not to drive
it, and when he did drive it, a
fight ensued.
The chief also said that he and
with ‘car |
USA delegation at the founding of
the United Nations in San Fran
cisco.
Artillery during World War I, and
since that time has held many ed-
ucational positions as teacher, i
cipal and 4 Superintendent, | Wn
1] ournalism Club
Awards Plaques
nalism Club banquet
night at the Europa Lounge, wasi|
presentation
He served as oonsaltant to ‘the
He served overseas with the Field
Members Catster For
Banquet At Exropa
Highlight of Lake-Lehman Jour-
Saturday
of four plaques by]
Mrs. Robert Derr and Charlotte | Mr. Marchakitus, high school prin- | Lange. a lot of other people were pretty Toastmaster Alan Landis. Winners
Lavelle, both passengers in a car | ¢iPal, gave each new member a cer-| Yanchick was allegedly grabbed | Sick of the way certain newspapers g the coveted awards were: Janice
| Niezgoda, editor of Troubador, the
driven by Robert Derr, Meshoppen,
knee respectively. The Derr car
was coming south on route 309
when it collided with Mrs. Moore's
car, coming across from East Dallas.
Impact spun the Moore car
around and against the stop sign
on the Dallas side of the highway.
Derr car skidded for sixty feet.
Derr said he was doing about 45
miles per hour, and that Mrs. Moore
came through the stop sign. Mrs.
Moore said she stopped, started
across, and was hit.
Dr. Malcolm Borthwick took Mrs.
in his own car.
tificate of merit.
Concluding the program was the
installation of student council offi-
cers for the 1963-64 school term.
President is Ken Ellsworth, vice-
president is Howard Ellsworth, sec-
retary is Pat Kanasky, and treas-
urer is Linda Piatt.
Recognition Accorded
Dallas Post Editor
An: editorial “Hands Off, Jimmie”,
written recently by Mrs. T. M. B.
Hicks, editor of the Dallas Post, was
reprinted in last week's issue of the
Abington Journal.
from behind in a dark lavatory at
Dallas Junior High School the morn-
ing of April 29. He said several
boys beat him, but said it was too
dark to identify them,
Case was, after publication in the
Post,
of it unfounded, for the Back Moun;
tain.
Yanchick remained in the hos-
pital under observation for a week
after the incident.
Lange brought charges of as-
sault and aggravated assault against
the boys for the April 18 and April
29 ‘incidents respectively.
the nucleus of an amazing |
amount of adverse publicity, much !
were inflating the incident just to
build their circulation.
Asked where the term ‘‘tough,”
used to describe the boys in an-
other paper's account of the ‘pro-
ceedings, came from, Mr. Adonizio
said he did not know, but suspected
it derived from ‘‘police questions’
in the vein of ‘which one of you
guys is the toughest?”
POWER INTERRUPTED
Electric power was interrupted for
three hours from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. Saturday in parts of Dallas ser-
viced by UGI Company, when tree
limbs on Lake Street fell on some
Who took the last doughnut?
Ed Powell, president, and Bill Cal-
kins, vice president of the Lehman
Volunteer Fire Company, look with
concern at tire empty doughnut box,
while Gilbert Tough pours.
All is not work for members of
the Lehmdn Fire Company as they
prepare for their 19th annual Horse
| joy a social and discussion session.
| This year’s show will be held again
on the James and Joseph Park farm,
| opposite Lehman sawmill on Route |
118. . A permanent ring is being
erected using some 75 new posts.
The ring has been leveled and new-
13 seeded. General chairmen of the
show, Bud Mekeel and Lanceford
with the Park brothers enabling
them to use this beautiful site for
at least that period of time.
Show chairmen, Gilbert D. Tough
|and Myron S. Baker state that the
July 3 show will include new classes
this year, as will the all-day July 4
show. Prize lists will be in the
hands of exhibitors within two
school magazine; Linda Gosart, ed-
itor-in-chief of The Crusader, school
newspaper; Alana Matter, editor o
the
handbook; and Marian Huttenstein, |
faculty advisor.
Council president-elect Kenneth Ells-
worth,
Tony, when advised by Supervising |
Principal Lester Squier that Princi-|
pal Anthony Marchakitus was cons.
cealing his birthday.
paper
Landis, editor in chief; Susan Field:
ing, feature editor; Mary Ann Ku-
Knight's Code, the student
The assemblage, led by Siudent
sang Happy Birthday to
|
Miss Gosart named the news- |
staff for next year: Alan]
Thomas Moore came ts the scene Among those questions to be de Vwives and burned out ‘conductors, Show July 3 and 4. Work schedule | | Sutton, state that other permanent weeks. The usual square dance will chomba news; Oia Bm ex
d thei calls for the men to turn out every | | and semi-permanent facilities will be held the evening of Julyl 3, and | change; Jay Ruckell and Bonny}
: A way, ad Dallas Post Photo Takes Statewide First Prize , Monday and ' Thursday evening, be constructed this year. The fire-|the opening event on July 4 will Gennetts, sports; James Olenik ||
® bent wheel. Front end of the Derr ; plus Saturday, to get the grounds | men have signed a fivesran lease | be a colorful parade. copy; Karl Squier,’ photography; |
car. was demolished,
in readiness. After work they en-
‘Dallas Police Still
Carolyn Keris, )
Worth, business; Howard Ellsworth,
art;
distribution; James
Ed Genesel, advertising.
* Showboat Skit
Miss Niezgoda named the gtaff
for the school magazine: Miss Field-|
ing, editor-in-chief; Miss Kuchemba, |
een John Jeter, Receiving Award.
Et Class Night
Lake-Lehman Plans
Senior Show Friday
Senior Class of © Lake-Lehman
High School will present a Class
Night program in the auditorium
Friday. Written and directed by Mr.
| « Dallas police are still investigat-
ling burglary of the offices of Ray-
mon Hedden, general contractor,
Memorial Highway, some time
Thursday night.
vision set was stolen.
Dallas Seniors
A portable tele-
Shrugs Acclaim For Long Service
John T. Jeter is a man who
{ would rather not have a, fuss made |
| abou him.
He has been doing a quiet effi-
| lent job serving a community for |
| half a century, and has apparently
i foun it rewarding enough. He gave |
[un charging Dallas for his serv-
{ices "as bor ough engineer, after he
j1205, after living in Wilkes-Barre
for a while. John T. Jeter, Sr. was
la mining engineer. :
| The Jeters built the home on
Terrace Avenue now owned by Asa
Day. At the time, Raub’s Hotel
graced the center of town, Corey
and Mr.
| Frantz’s grocery store was where |
| Boyd White's is now, and the old-
Steele was named editor, Pat Ka-
nasky coordinator for publications. |
ceived.
short
themes;
Ed Gensel, art; Richard May, busi-
ness.
stories; Sara Strelezyk,
Mary Ann Jeffery, poetry;
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For the Knight's Code, Sandy |
Brief comments from Mr. Squier
Marchakitus were well re
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John Zaleskas, class advisor, the a | Rd . Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, Dallas Post,
} ons ’ : retired on pension from the rail- | timers played dominoes at the post |
: Tam wilt be 2 four act skit, Set Class Night I'road in 1956. | office (now .Jim’s barber shop). was the main speaker, taking as her
howbcat’’, with a minstrel theme. | topic some common-sense aspects,
'- Jane DelKanic.
A total of eight Seniors will par-
ticipate including soloists Barry Ka-
gan, John Bunny, Carl Schreiner,
Bruce Spencer, Marsha Thomas, and
“Sail Along Silvery
Moon” will be sung by Miss Del-
Kanic, Alana Matter, Connie Pall,
Pat Zbick, and Barbara Ross. Marsha
First Event Leading
To Graduation Day
Dallas High School commence-
ment program will start this Fri-
day with Senior Class Day in the!
auditorium at 1 p.m. Parents and
| He asked that the Post not be |
| excessive in writing him up, when
| we went to see him before he re- |
ceived his Wilkes College Award |
along with eighteen other munici-
"pal officials, at a dinner last week.
Award was presented by the In- |
stitute of Municipal Government |
for long and faithful service to their |
The borough building, where Mr.
| Jeter has
{of Dr. Henry M. Laing.
| In 1912 he married Edith Lauder-
| bach, whose father farmed the Ry-
man farm, later Space’s.
and two boys. Hobart Jeter is now
authored ‘many of his
thousand maps, was then the home |
They had six children; four girls |
of writing for a newspaper.
Ambulance Crews
Dallas ambulance announces
the following crews will be on
call over Memorial Day holi-
days and
Thomas, Marily Woodling, and Pat
y Kutz will sing “Old Man River” and
: Karla Ray, Karen Young, Irene
Baird, and Eunice Oney will sing
“Memories are Made of This”. Ac-
for the following
president of Parker Laboratories,
Newton Square; Mrs. Mary Park-
{ hurgt lives in Dallas; Mrs. Helen
; Wiltow, Caldwell, N. J.; Mrs. Wally
experiences | Potter, West Chester; Miss Deborah |
friends are invited. week:
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From now until midnight
June 3 crew is: John Sheehan,
captain; Ralph Downend, Bill
respective communities.
“Don’t Lo all that stuff in the |
paper,” . Jeter asked as he leaf-
ed ek er his
The theme of a script written by
Charlotte Roberts is “Memories of
the Past.” /
companist will be Robert Andrews Senior Class President John | which number about twenty times | Jeter, Forest: Hills ‘A sons John TF Wright, Don Shaffer, and L. R.
who will also play ‘Rock-A-Bye Dana will present the Key to the | the number of maps he has drawn | Jeter. died. at 19, ‘a pilot for the Scott. ;
Baby”. i Junior Class President Thomas |in his life. [Jove : ? Dong a > 2 Do 3
John Bunny, Carl Schreiner, Rich- Pierce. Fortvscieh : | captain; Charles Flack, Robert |
; t y-eight years borough engi- Mr. ‘Jeter h ; red! virtual
ard Williams, and Ernie Snyder will Leh 5 tor Dall th ih Ir. Jeter has engineered virtual- Block, Tony Zachary, and Lane
be the end-men on the showboat, FAS whee | Faculty advisors = are ‘Edward neer for Dallas, Justice e Pence ly all road and drain projects in Jarrett.
This picture of coonhounds tree- elation and open to all newspaper | popular locally, and there were A Hughes, Donald Evans, Robert Dol- | for eighteen years, school board | | Dallas in this century,” and it is
and Tom Evans will be magician and
bear, William Moran, and Thomas | member eleven years, Postmaster | ibl ; hi oR
lass Drophet. ing their quarry in ‘‘water-races” members, ended with an ‘award number of area dogs entered in this | : a oh impossi e to numerate is accom: 1 . wo
e pL in the program is the |near Kunkle last October, gnd pub- dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn, State | particular race. Jour, oa Lewis is assisting for me months eal | plishments. One of his most useful Kingston Township Coin
class song, written by Alana Matter | lished in the Post with other pic- College. » | CoonHounds are greyhound type | Wath music Mireuiion. Higuaresman and OICer EWelve Years, jobs, -he feels, ‘was the widening Cards Due Next Week
tures and a write-up of the sport, Dinner was part of the two-day | mongrels; bred for persistence, and | A brief run-down of Senior Class
won first prize in its division in a | Pennsylvania Press Conference, and in water races they swim after a | activities for the remainder of the
| statewide contest recently. | commentator -columnist Drew Pear-| raccoon in cage-raft, which is towed | school year shows the Senior Ban-
It was taken by' Leighton Scott son was main speaker. | from one bank to the other and up | quet scheduled for June 3 at the
with a 4x5 Speed Graphic, equipped | Classification of the contest for Lhe pole. ; | Kingston House; Senior trip to MO-
with. a 1 millimeter bs gu is oe was Li Feature on Jo The Jaden 3 not First Non-O Nock 1 the Poponos June 6:
lens. The day was very cold and ture”, and competition was in divi- | hound to pass a line near the shore | : : vy
very overcast. sions. for lar ge, medium, and small wins “first line’; first to bay near Bacealanrests exercises in the audi
Contest, sponsored by Pennsyl- dailies, and weeklies, [the treed coon Saas “first pole”. torium June 9;
vania Newspaper Publishers’ Asso-| Coonhound water racing is very 3 June 11.
all while putting in forty years | of Main Street.
professional engineering for the Le- |
high Valley and a decade before |
that with a firm, John Jeter would dtronclogy oul ko bes done, 1 be
still rather work than make a fuss doing many things ot ph 2h 3
shout bimslt, wo 3 he modestly attributes no greater
- He was born in’ 1884 in Bethle- ‘importance to one job than an-
hem, where his father received an other, as all who are familiar wth be inconvenienced, district. captains
engineering degree at Lehigh Uni- SN ; 2 { will pick up the cards on June 3
versity. Family came to’ Dallas in (Continued on Page 8 A) | |and 4.
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and Renald Davenport to the tune
of ‘Moon River’, the class poem,
written by Jane DelKanic and the
class history. Gifts will be presented |
to the Seniors and the last will and |
. testament of the Class of “63” will
be read.
Concluding the program will be
wards to outstanding Seniors by Mr.
~ Marchakitus, principal,
The last quarter slot to be filled
on the coin cards distributed twenty
weeks ago by Kingston Township
Fire and Ambulance Company is
due Saturday, June 1. ye
In order that donors may not
It is sometimes difficult to. set a
and Graduation |
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