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Local Boys Win
In Midget Race
Driver Breaks Arms
. Falling Off Stands
.Large crowds gathered both days
for the Lollipop Open Invitational
quarter-midget racing program Sat-
urday and Sunday at the track on
Memorial Highway. Attendance and
entries were from many states all
over the east.
Two Back . Mountain boys won
places in events, and one Larksville
boy also won. Drew Bittenbender,
Dallas, took first place in the AA
open fuel class and in the semi race
of that class. Sandy Wazeter, Trucks-
ville, won a second place in the mod-
ified stock main event, and Tony
Kopko, Larksville, placed third in
the same race.
Alexander Wazeter, chairman of
Dallas Quarter-Midget Racing As-
sociation, said the only disappoint-
ment was the rain Saturday, which
postponed the afternoon time trials
until evening, thus backing up the
evening events until late, Weather
Sunday was good.
Freak Accident
Driver’s injuries are rarities with
quarter-midget racing, but fate
sneaked in the back door for one
youngster from Abington, near Phil-
adelphia. Bill Beasley, known as a
top driver, slipped on the rain-wet
grandstand Saturday, and broke
both arms trying to catch himself.
He had to watch the races with his
arms in big casts. Billy was awarded
a sportsmanship trophy.
Also introduced and shown to be
in excellent condition was E. Thom-
as, Easterville, a cornerman who
tried to jump out of the way of the
cars two weeks ago and landed on
his face in the safe zone.
A family from Manchester, N.H.,
accompanying girl driver Cathy Mec-
Guire was awarded the prize for
coming the furthest.
Dean Ide, Dallas, and Gordon
Shook, Forty Fort, were announcers,
and Fred Stevens, East Dallas, and
Bob Williams, Wilkes-Barre, were
flagmen.
Cider Mill Gets
Huge New Press
Of 6 Generations,
Each Wore One Out
The Alva Eggleston Fruit Farm: at
Vernon now boasts the largest cider
press manufactured, capable of pro-
ducing 15,000 gallons daily.
Purchased in Trenton, New Jer-
sey, the new equipment was install-
ed recently by special assemblers, an
engineer and a rigger, who spent
four days putting tegether the unit.
Set in the hundred year old cider
mill on the Eggleston land, the press,
with a crushing weight of 318 tons
and weighing twelve ton, will
squeeze 450 bushels of apples per
hour. The cider business which has
become a nine month operation for
the Back Mountain family is mark-
eted to New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
New York and Florida with new
outlets plamned in the near future.
New sanitary facilities have also
been added to the vinegar plant op-
erated in conjunction with the apple
business. A modern filtering system
has been installed and stainless
steel containers replaces the older
type tanks.
The old tradition that each gen-
eration wears out a press has been
the case with the Eggleston family,
beginning its sixth gemeration as
apple growers with the entrance of
Robert Eggleston into the firm.
Young Eggleston received his ed-
ucation in business administration
at Bob Jones University, S.C., and
Broward College, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, and recently decided to be-
come an active participant in the
long established emterprise.
First ancestor in these parts was
Amos Eggleston, Connecticut, look-
ing for fruit productive ground and
found the soil at Vernon to be good.
Amos lived on adjoining land to
that now occupied by the Eggles-
toms. Rastus built the old double-
plank house of eleven rooms on the
present site, over a hundred years
ago. In approximately three weeks
the Alva Egglestons will move into
the newly renovated homestead, re-
taining much of its original sturdi-
ness and beauty.
Rastus was followed by Clyde and
then by Sam Eggleston, father of
Alva and grandfather of Robert.
Sam was responsible for the start
of the vinegar business, studying
methods for satisfactory manufac-
ture of the seasoning and preserva-
tive product at Syracuse.
During his time, a large board-
ing house was erected on the prop-
erty to house many workers,
gathered from surrounding towns
to harvest the bumper crop of
apples.
New trees are planted every year
on the 70 acres of orchard. Each
new generation replenishes the
stock. Trees are sprayed fourteen
times a year and Penn State Uni-
versity growing schedules followed
religiously. r
It is unusual that so many genera-
tions have followed the path of the
founder, but each new Eggleston
seems to find the same satisfaction
as his predecessor.
Dallas Community
Ambulance (Calls
Dallas ambulance answered three
calls this week, one a serious two-
car collision at the intersection of
Route 118 and Huntsville-Idetown
road, when a passenger had to be
taken to Geisinger Medical Center,
Danville, with head injuries.
Thursday there were two calls:
At 11:20 Mrs. Stewart Ferguson,
New Goss Manor, was taken to Gen-
eral Hospital, Bob Besecker and
Ralph Fitch attending.
At 5 p.m. it was called to the ac-
cident, transported Molly Sheridan
and Barbara Motto to Nesbitt, then
took Miss Sheridan to Geisinger,
Fitch, Besecker, and Les Tinsley
attending.
At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mrs. Anna
Sedler, upper Demunds road, was
taken to Nesbitt Hospital, Besecker
and Charles Youngblood attending.
Kingston Township
Ambulance (Calls
Kingston Township Ambulance
took little Jeff Miller, Perrin Ave-
nue to the office of Dr. Bucan on
Monday, when he fell on his bicycle
on East Center Street. Sutures
were needed.
Wednesday morning, Mrs. Irvin
Coolbaugh was taken to Nesbitt
Hospital when she became ill while
at work at McCrory’s Store,
Shavertown.
The ambulance was called Wed-
nesday afternoon to take Mrs. Wil-
ford Parsons, Memorial Highway,
Trucksville to Mercy Hospital.
How To Relocate A Railroad
Relocation of the railroad, as seen above, is the second phase
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
What to do after an auto ac-
cident spills unconscious passengers,
streaming blood, into the road, and
more important still, what NOT to
do, was the subject of the first
session of applied medical self-help
program taught by Anthony Broody
in his yard Tuesday evenings. One
more session is still to come, next
Tuesday evening, same time, same
of construction of the new Dallas-Luzerne highway, and certainly
the mast controversial.
This shot was taken from above the work, thirty. feet below which
are the tracks, not visible, located just east of the road, up on the
hill. From the big bend to Hillside the digging will be in levels such
The operation, excavation for
twenty feet, extending 3200 feet
as this until the roadway is dropped to the present track level. Then
the railroad is slated to move its tracks over.
which involves four Euclid trucks,
a shovel, and a Gradall for shaping the mountainside, costs about
$1.72 a yard, and may be for nothing if the Lehigh Valley's recent
petition to Washington to abandon the line is approved.
As shown, the digging is done at depths of about fifteen to
in length in Kingston Township.
Excavation, drainage, and roadway sub-base will cost about
$100,000. Dirt is being dumped in hollows nearby on the ridge.
Russell A. Ide's Father Fought
[n Famed Battle Of Gettysburg
Response to inquiries about local
residents whose ancestors fought in
the Battle of Gettysburg, include one
from Meeker.
Russell A. Ide’s father, Edward O.
Ide, was in the historic Battle that
turned the tide against the Con-
federate Army, serving with Con-
pany F, 149th Pennsylvania Volun-
teers.
Later, he was wounded in the
Virginia, was hospitalized for a long
period, and then served in the med-
ical corps for the remainder of the
war. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ide at-
tended the 75th anniversary at
Gettysburg twenty-five years ago,
but passed up the centennial July 3.
At the seventy-fifth anniversary,
they witnessed the first illumination
of the Eternal Light Memorial.
Russell was next to the youngest
of nine childrem, born in 1887. His
favorite pastime as a child was to
pump his father about his exper-
iences in ‘the Civil War. When Ed-
ward died in 1907, Russell had a
good back-log of information.
Tent-mates of his father were Bos-
well Major, Philip Himes and Clark
Skadden, of this area.
Ides first moved to Meeker in or
around - 1800. John Ide,
grandfather, moved to what is now
Meeker and built a log cabin in 1835.
Later, he erected a frame house,
timbered after the fashion of a barn,
with wooden pegs in the hamdhewn
beams. Later, Edward reconstructed
the house, retaining some of his
father’s original work in the house
now standing in Meeker, a mocnu-
ment to honest construction and
good materials.
Poultry Field Day
Northeastern Poultry Producers
will stage their anmual Field Day
on the NEPA grounds at Tunk-
hannock Saturday. Chicken barbecue
starts at 4, evening program with
Poultry Queen contest, at 7,
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, |
{ of the road near their hunting lodge.
Russells |
Shavertown Man Kills
Large Rattlesnake
A large four foot rattlesnake was
shot and killed by John Clause,
Shavertown on Saturday afternoon
near Bellasylva cabin on Dutch
Mountain.
The reptile, six inches in diameter
and having 13 rattles, was seen as
the Clause party approached the end
TAX NOTICES AUGUST 1
Dallas Township, K'ngston Town-
ship, and Dallas Borough Tax notices
will be mailed August 1, according
to announcement of tax collectors.
Saturday.
What To Do And What Not To Do
place, - an. addition to the five-
weeks course of instruction recently
completed.
Ketchup liberally applied gave a
realistic color to the scene, as un-
conscious victims were splinted. and
prepared for safe transportation to
the hospital. A seat removed from
the car supports one victim, while
Piggy Back Urged
For Local Use
Petition May Aid
Rail Abandonment
The deteriorating condition of Le-
high Valley railway tracks running
through Trucksville and Shaver-
town left a local resident amazed
last week.
James ‘A. Martin, Shavertown,
former superintendent of Dallas
Area Schools, accustomed to fre-
quent strolls along the countryside,
traveled . the roadbed last week
prior to contemplated relocation of
the line.
He found railroad ties badly
rotted out, and was astonished that
no serious accident had occurr 1.
“Reading “~of ‘the Lehigh - Valley's
petition to the ICC to abandon the
tracks from Luzerne to Dallas, he
suggested the use of ~piggy-back
carriers out of Luzerne: to furnish
firms in the area with faster and
more economical transportation,
eliminate extra handling. and de-
liver goods right to Batk Mountain
firms.
Trucksville residents disturbed by
the clamor of trains passing over
the old trestle at ‘Carverton Road
have often called railway officials
to tighten bolts on the line.
Ted Poad, former Kingston Town-
ship tax collector, reports he will
gladly circulate a petition to assist
Lehigh Valley Railroad in its efforts
to abandon the tracks.
In 4-H Contest
At Penn State
‘Debbie Rogers, Harris Hill Road,
will compete at Penn State August
13, when district winners of 4-H
Club demonstrations will show their
exhibits. Sixty-four teams competed
from thirteen counties in the dis-
trict eliminations,
Debbie, 16, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis L. Rogers III, and a
member of Clover Leaf 4-H, took top
rating at the contest held at North-
west Jointure high school.
Her demonstration was a home
gardem project showing the efficacy
of a plastic mulch. With-and-with-
out flats of plants showed the con-
dition of a garden after a two-week
vacation, plants thrifty with mulch,
drooping without it.
Dallas Post's candid telephoto reached and picked some faces
out of the crowd at Giants Despair hillclimb time-races Friday and
From the left: Trucksville’s Dave Adams peers over his wind-
screen as he prepares to go back down the Giant.
record ‘in Class F production automobiles with his Triumph TR-3
scaling the twisting mountain road in 68.0935 seconds.
Bonnie Gross, Miss Race Week 1963, who lives on Franklin
Street, Dallas, and Congressman Dan Flood, honorary chairman of
the activities rode in the position of honor, took a ceremonial ride
Dave set a! new
the other, half spilled to the grass,
waits her turn. Sidewalk superin-
tendents kibitz from the sidelines.
On the highway, the car would
have been wrapped around a pole
or upended in a ditch, and the
scene would have been far more
gory.
photo by Kozemchak
Departing
Two local Rotary Exchange 'Stu-
dents were honored at a meeting
Friday might at Irem Temple Coun-
try Club by Rotary club chairmen,
officers, and returned students, prior
to embarking for their new homes
abroad.
Seated (left to right): Benton
Shavertown Girl Hurt
In New Jersey Crash
Marjorie Walp, 19, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Walp, Lehigh Street,
Shavertown, was admitted to Gen-
eral Hospital Monday morning after
suffering injuries in an auto crash
at Surf City, N.J., early Saturday
morning.
Miss Walp was riding with Richard
Wharton, Philadelphia, a life guard
working at Surf City when their car
struck a telephone pole.
Thrown against the dashboard and
windshield, the local College Miser-
cordia student, working for the sum-
mer in Beach Heaven, N.J., received
a badly torn lip and mutilated fin-
ger on her right hand. Unconscious
for several hours following the acci-
dent, Miss Walp was rushed sixty
miles to Lakewood Hospital.
Her parents brought her home on
Sunday for further care by the
family physician.
THE DALLAS POST
Reduced Phone
Rates For Lake
330 Subscribers
To Save $4,601
Savings of $4,601 annually will
be realized by 330 Harvey's Lake
subscribers of the Commonwealth
Telephone Company upon Pennsy-
lvania Public Utility Commission
approval of proposed tariff changes
filed July 31, says J. N. Landis, Dis-
trict Manager.
Changes effective October 1, pend-
ing PUC approval, provided for Base
Rate Area extensions at Harvey's
Lake, Idetown, Oak Hill and Briar-
crest. A Locality Rate Area at Beau-
mont will offer one, two or four-
party service at reduced charges.
Proposed changes are in recog-
nition of this area’s growing require.
ments, eliminating milage charges
for 273 subscribers at Harvey's Lake
Idetown, Oak Hill and Briarcrest,
and upgrading 84 multi-party sub-
scribers to four-party service at no
increase in rates.
In the Beaumont area, fifteen
subscribers will receive reductions
in milage charges, and other sub-
scribers in the outlying area of the
Harvey's Lake exchange will bene-
fit through milage reductions.
Company representatives have al-
ready contacted residents to deter-
mine the type of service desired.
New telephone numbers for these
subscribers will be listed in the di-
rectory to be published in late Sep-
tember.
Local ‘Exchange Students Given Send-Off
gi
Casterline, Montrose; Dr. Carlton
Davies, Pauline Farrar, Linda Davies,
Judy Casterline, exchange student,
returned from Norway; Gale Rum-
baugh.
Standing: Dr. Marshall Rumbaugh,
James Alexander, Exchange Club
Rotary Exchange
TWO
EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
674-5656
674-7676
VOL. 75, NO. 31 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963
Fox, Supposedly Rabid,
Shot Near Picnic Grounds
What appears to have been a
rabid fox was shot near the picnic
grounds at Harvey's Lake yester-
day afternoon at around 1:30.
George Holowich saw the creature
cowering at the edge of the road,
ran home for his .22 rifle, and dis-
patched it. It was foaming at the
mouth, and clearly in very bad
shape.
Ten years ago the Back Moun-
tain had a rabies epidemic, in which
one woman who had been bitten,
lost her life.
Ambulance Crew
Ed Roth's crew remain on duty
until midnight Sunday.
Next week: Ray Titus, captain;
James Wertman, Leonard Harvey,
John Carey, and Jim Davies.
Lettermen Boosters
To Meet Tuesday At 8
[Second general meeting of Dallas
Area Lettermen-Booster Club will be
held Tuesday evening at 8, August
6, in the basement of Dallas Ameri-
can Legion Home.
The first meeting, when plans for
sponsorship of football game were
announced, was held July 25 at
the High School. Lake-Lehman was
the game selected.
The Booster game comes early in
the fall schedule. Football practice
will soon begin, and much work is
to be done if the football teams are
to know that Boosters are solidly be-
hind their efforts.
So
Chairman; Daniel Chapman, Direc-
tor-International Service; Francis
Ambrose, International Service; Don-
ald Carruthers, Dr. Robert Mellman,
Anthony Marchikitus, Committee-
man; Dr. Les Jordan, District Ex-
change Committeeman.
Students Feted
Dies At Tabernacle
,Overcome by heat Sunday after-
noon at Bible Tabernacle, located
at foot of Red Rock Mountain, Mrs.
Lily Mass, 74, visiting from Towan-
da, scaled a bank to reach her car,
where she collapsed and died. She
had complained of a headache the
| previous day, and her physician had
warned her of high. blood pressure.
| Alfred Bronson, deputy corner, in-
| vestigated.
| Tyler Hospital Fund
Tyler Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
is planning a sale of antiques and a
| big antiques show for benefit of the
"hospital building fund, October 8 and
| 9 at Tunkhannock Methodist Church
Local Faces At Giant's Despair Hillclimb
up the hill on Saturday afternoon,
and later Congressman presented
trophies to the winning drivers at the Wheel Club tent.
Tom Heffernan, Jr., Shavertown, is interviewed by a radio com-
mentator in the press area.
An expert on all things automotive, Tom
combined business with pleasure, indulging his hobby while report-
ing for newspaper and column.
Last in line here, but first up the hill every time, is Tom Hillyer,
Course Marshal, supervising all aspects of the road, which includes
seeing that there are no dangerous obstacles or people in the way.
With Program At Country Club
Last Friday ‘on the Nieuw Am-
sterdam, Flagship of the Holland
American Lines, Pauline Farrar and
Gale Rumbaugh left for Europe with
fourteen other exchange students
from northeastern Pennsylvania, to
be hosted in various countries of
Europe. In August, Linda Davies will
leave with a group of exchange stu-
dents by jet for Australia where she
will be hosted in the Melbourne area.
Dallas Rotary honored these young
ladies at a recent meeting at Irem
Temple Country Club. With their
fathers in attendance, each was pre-
sented with a gift of 6 rolls of Kod-
achrome film - a costly item in other
countries. Similar presents will be
mailed to Charlotte Roberts and
Donna Anthony, local exchange stu-
dents who have departed for Aus-
tralia and the Philippines, were un-
able to attend this meeting.
Program was presented by Judy
Casterline, Montrose, who has re-
cently returned from her exchange
visit to Svolvaer, Norway. Beautiful
slides with an interesting commen-
tary made an unusual and enjoyable
program. Pauline Farrar will arrive
in Svolvaer about August 6th, saw
pictures of surroundings that soon
will be familiar to her. Gale Rum-
baugh will be mear Oslo, se scenes
similar to the ones shown will thrill
| Gale when she sees her new home
in Norway.
A taped message from the Presi-
dent of Rotary International, Carl
E. Miller, was played. Each Rotary
district will be linked this year with
another in a different country with
the hope that international under-
standing, exchange of programs and
possibly, personal visitation of Ro-
tariams between the districts, will
further international understanding.
District 741, including Dallas, will
have a district in Netherlands as
their intermational partner. Ex-
changes from this district have been
made during the past three years,
so some friendships have been est-
ablished.
Myron Baker presided.
Old Landmark
Up For Auction
Lundy Building Was
Once A Frame Home
Once a wooden frame home on
which has withstood the ups and
downs of being the most passed-
around fine tavern locale in the
Back Mountain, will be up for pub-
lic auction Tuesday aft€rnoon.
How the bidding will go is any-
one’s guess, although the
knows for sure of several bidders
who intend to try for it.
Property is owned by Mrs. Her-
bert Lundy, Pompano Beach, Fla.,
formerly of Dallas, who is now in
poor health. iSale includes, in addi-
large storerooms, the liquor license
of McDermotts’, with the bar fully
equipped.
Building itself has a colorful old
history. Starting as a house, some=
where around the middle of last
century, it was sold in the early
twenties to John Sullivan, once
postmaster of Dallas, who built and
added to it, and converted part of
it- to an inn.
Old-timers may remember,
Chief Russ Honeywell does,
well-attended prizefights w er e
as
Jeter, the property was a small
well.
(among them himself) used to
sleigh-ride down the hill, and bump
into Mrs. Honeywell's picket fence.
The ‘Lundy family, who owned a
business in Wilkes-Barre, bought
the property as expanded by Sulli-
van, and had an architectural firm
renovate it. After the Lundys,
several people tried to establish the
restaurant and cocktail lounge.
Auctioneer Bernard Bartikowsky
will help make the property, as all
businesses in this area, a very sound
investment.
Road Program
To Start Soon
Supervisors Will Fight
Traffic Light/Removal
will begin their
shortly.
road program
tion first met approval of other
board members. Mr. Hauck submit-
ted two lists, one of roads needing
paving and another of those re-
quiring resurfacing, compiled during
an extensive study made by the
Shavertown representative during
the early spring months.
Pressure by Hauck forced deci-
sion on immediate action for the
road repairs. Streets listed among
those needing prompt attention
were Perrin, Lehigh, Harris Hill,
Davis, Division, Lohman, Clearview,
Cedar, Wardan and James. :
promised a new road for Bunker
Smith had committed themselves on
this specific item. “The folks up
there have been thirty-five years
without a new road until last year,”
he said. Smith then interposed
that, ‘we should take care of what
we already have.”
The problem resolved itself with
a motion by Hauck that the road
program proceed immediately based
on List 1, resurfacing with suggested
priority and List 2 to be amended
so that Bunker Hill Road from
State Road to Atherholt Drive be
given number 1 priority for paving
and the remainder of the list to
follow in the priority suggested. All
rated in the affirmative.
The removal of traffic lights now
placed on Carverton Road, Harris
Hill and E. Center Street intersec-
tions also aroused much discussion
among board members. Mr. Ziegler
reported he was unable to reach
the state traffic engineer, badly
needed to help solve the safety
problem.
The Board voted to stand unani-
mously against any violent removal
action on the part of anyone to
move said lights, to relocate same
or alter their location. The chief
of police was instructed to advise
board members of any proposed
move in this matter.
Spring Street was reported as
left in sloppy condition with condi-
tion to be corrected in a satisfae-
tory manner shortly.
The state map was found to have;
a number of errors according to’
Mr. Hauck’s findings.
in the offing for construction of a
road from Franklin Street through
to: Midway Manor.
Matter of assessing bill boards
passed Was
Mitchell Jenkins as was a restudy
of the sub division ordinance and
ordinance relating to Midway
Manor.
Poor condition of the police crui-~
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Kingston Township Supervisors
Agreement on Mr. Hauck’s plan
of paving streets in poorest condi- |
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Hill and that both he and Supervisors
of the signal lights and to resist any |
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