. Qldest Business Back of 73 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Institution the © Mountain TEN CENTS PER COPY—TEN PAGES Lake-Lehman To Dedicate School September 14 Superintendent Of State Education To Give Address Lake-Lehman will dedicate its new high school September 14, at impressive evening exercises in the recently accepted building. On the platform will be members of the. Luzerne County Office, engineers and architects, members of the Building Authority Board, the four main contractors, solicitors, Road Supervisors, PTA president, Band Sponsors president, school directors, administrative staff. Presiding will be Lester B. Squier, supervising principal. The prize-winning Lake-Lehman Band will play a selection as guests assemble, followed by the National Anthem in which the audience will participate. | Greetings will be by Eugene S. Teter, following pledge of allegiance led by John Sidler, president of Educators Association; invocation by Rev. Norman Tiffany; and presenta- tion of platform guests by Robert Z. Belles, assisting supervising principal. Raymon R. Hedden, general con- tractor, will present the key, and Donald D. Smith, representing Roushey, Smith and Walker, the building. Accepting for the Building Au- thority will be John M. Hewitt, chairman of Lehman Township Authority. For the School Board and citizens, Willard F. Sutton, president of the joint school board. For the school, Anthony Marcha- kitus, high school principal. For the students, Kenneth Ells- worth, president of Students Coun- cil: Mr. Squier will introduce Dr. Charles H. Boehm, superintendent of Pennsylvania Department of Pub- lic Instruction, who will give the main address. The prayer of dedication will be by Rev. S. F. Banas, Lake Silkworth, and. the benediction by Rev. B. Kirby Jones. An Open House will follow the exercises, with visitors guided through the new building: which has been in operation singe September 24, 1962, but never officially ac- cepted until the present. . Complications Halt " Boy's Recovery A high temperature developing » Sunday when progress was being made had parents and attending physician concerned over Charles Harris, 6, Dallas, patient at Nesbitt Hospital. Possible cause may be abscess formation. Two nurses are still re- quired and his parents take turns filling in the third shift. The youngster was injured two weeks ago when struck by a car driven by a Shavertown woman. Breaks Same Leg Fractured Before Thomas Parker, 14, James Street, Shavertown, fractured his right leg Monday - afternoon playing football near his home. . Seven years ago on the same date, the boy broke the same leg, which required a plate insertion at that time. : He was taken to Nesbitt Hospital in the Kingston Township Ambu- lance by William Pugh and Arnold Yeust. ‘Order of Police. Otto A. Biery, 39, Native Of Stull Otto A. Biery, 59, died early | Wednesday morning at his home at Harveys Lake, after a year of increasing ill health. Services await decision of, the family. They will be held from the Bronson Funeral Home. Umntil ill health cancelled his ac- | tivities, he had been a force in the community, secretary of [Lake Township Board of Supervisors, charter member of the Lutheran Church, member of Daniel Roberts | ! Elwood J. Thompson, i Birch Trailer and of Fraternal For twenty years he had been affiliated with Nichol- son Machine Shop in Wilkes-Barre. A native of Stull, his parents were Allan and Mary Dienstel Biery. He leaves his widow, the former Fire Company Mary Hearity, Wilkes-Barre; two daughters: Mrs. Barbara Lodge, Meadville, and Mrs. ‘Angela Kom- nath, Wilkes-Barre; five grandchil- dren, a sister Mrs. Mabel B. Sym- on, Princeton, N. J. Firemen May Share Building Four Roads To Be Resurfaced Shortly A combined township building and fire company quarters on site of the present fire hall on Carver- ton Road is now a strong possibility, following the visit to Philadelphia ‘recently of Board Chairman LaRoy Ziegler and representatives of Trucksville Fire Company. The group checked specifications of the Public Accelerated Works Project grant, recently approved for the community. Fire company would deed over its present property to the township, were adjoining stalls for equipment to be added to the proposed struc- ture. Immediate paving of several roads was approved at the adjourned meeting of Kingston Township su- pervisors Wednesday evening, the east “end of Terrace Street, the north ‘end .of James, Lehigh Street and Church Road scheduled for prime _ attention. Perrin Avenue, first on the list as being in deplorable condition, was dropped from repair list this (year duz tbr constructiom--ofsgas company installations, as was Loh- man Avenue. Power steering will be installed on the road truck. Hydraulic lifts for the snow plows was also discus- sed and price lists requested. The digging up of newly paved roads in Midway Manor by Penn- sylvania Gas Company without per- mits aggravated officials who order- ed a letter written to Whitesell Brothers informing them that if such procedure was continued, township would refuse to take over roads in the new housing project. Ziegler attendance. and Smith were in Dallas Boys Receive Camping Awards James and Daniel Marascio, sons of Mr. amd Mrs. Bruno Marascig, Dallas recently returned home from Camp St. Andrew after a stay, of three weeks. The boys received the Best Camper Award for their, respective cabins, This is the second year the brothers have captured the award. Daniel attends Gate of Heaven School and James, West Side Cen- "tral. Sister Karen Marie abtended Camp Little Flower in the Poconos. MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Baby Strangles In Upper Bunk Catches Head In Safety-Rail Stark tragedy struck at a Dallas family Tuesday afternoon when a fifteen months old child died of | strangulation. Danny was taking his nap in an upper bunk of the house trailer owned by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. at White Park. His mother checked on him at 2 p.m., found him still asleep, slipped mext door for a moment. Returning a few minutes later, she found Danny hanging from the unk, his head wedged between safety-rail and mattress. Bearing the limp body in her arms, she ran for the home of Mrs. Mary Loughead. Mrs. Loughead | attempted mouth-to mouth resusci- tation while her husband ‘Roy called the ambulance and Dr. A. A. Mascali. Dallas ambulance, staffed by Ray Titus and Jim Perkins, arrived within minutes, . and resuscitation was again attempted. Deputy coroner Richard Disque investigated. The Thompson family has lived in Dallas for about a year, coming here from Fort Polk, Louisiana, where Mr. Thompson, now a gas lineman, was in the service, and where Danny was born. There is another little boy, El- wood, two and a half. : Surviving also are maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray- mond Robinson, Tunkhannock; ma- ternal greatgrandmother, Mrs. Vera Dymond, Tunkhannock; paternal grandmother Mrs. Verna Thomp- son, Harveys Lake; paternal great- grandmother Mrs. Minnie Sites, Harveys Lake. Services are scheduled for Fri- day aftermoon at 2 from the Dis- que Funeral Home, with burial in Lehman Cemetery. Rev. Russell Lawry will officiate; Friends may call this afternoon or evening, 2 to /4, and 7 to 10. This is Fernbrook’s powerful Lit- tle League team, champions of the 1963 season, recently ended. Undefeated in the first half of the season, they let only one go by for the year, ending with a total of thirteen wins, Behind their strength lay strong fielding by Rome, Meyer, Williams and Morgan, good pitching by Mar- tin and Fehlinger, a fratennal brace of catchers, the Belles brothers, and a top outfield in Morris, Bau- man,’ Grundowski, and iStolarick. Left to right: first row, G. Belles, THE DALLAS PO _Fernbrook Champions Ot Back Mountain League K. Morris, D. Burkhart, Morgan, R. Belles, E. Meyer, H. Fehlinger, and G. Stolarick. Second row: Mr. Belles, Grundowski, T. Bauman, B. Mar- tin, E. Rome, Williams, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Kunkle, coaches. Library Hours Winter Library hours, beginning September 10, will be the same as last year, except that children’s wing will not be open Tuesday eve- nings, and will close at 8 instead of 8:30 on Thursdays. Regular library hours will be: Main Building, Wednesday and Fri- day, 1:30 to 5:30; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30 to 8:30; Saturdays 10:00 to 5:30. Children’s wing the same, except for closing on Tuesday evening at 5:30. Ambulance Crew Ray Titus’s crew remains on duty until midnight Sunday. Next week: Bob Besecker, cap- tain; Ralph Fitch, Donald Bulford, Gilbert Morris, and William Berti. Waverly Antiques Show Annually Draws Many Back Mountain Fans Annually, the Waverly Antiques Show draws many Back Mountain residents. It is one of the outstand- ing events of the fall season, where lovers of antiques find delightfully different | bits of glass and china, and members of the Memorial Li- brary Auction Antiques Committee replenish their stocks, guarantee- ing somthing special to give for the next July auction. Deglers from four states will at- tend) the Twentieth Annual Waverly Antiques Show and Sale, September 9 and 10 at the Waverly Commu- nify House, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. both g ys. " On both afternoons trom 2 to 8.30 Mrs. Frederick A. Waechter, {Clarks Summit, will demonstrate jand display = Crewel needlecraft. 1 Mrs. || authorities in the country on this Waechter, one of the five increasingly popular needle skill, is a member of the American Branch To Be Hospitalized For Greater Time X-rays have revealed that Shel- don Drake has a fractured hip along with the leg fracture. Mrs. Drake has two fractures in her shoulder and will be hospitalized longer than first reported. The couple were injured in a recent accident and are at Nesbitt Hospital. Trucksville Free Meth odist Gets Green Light “Ground breaking ceremonies showing part of the congregation of Trucksville Free Methodist Church, performed several weeks ago, are brought up to date by award of the construction contract last Wednes- day night. " Rev. Grove Armstrong announces awarding of the contract for build- ig its new church and Sunday school to Angelo A. Ferrara, Pitts- ton. The contract, signed "August 28, by Mr. Ferram zd Wesley, Ww. | Cooper Jr., Mathers Sr., Board of Trustees, Vice-chairman of the calls for the Chairman and Frank G.|another 60 to 80 persons. The | church will also have a large nur- sery, a church office, a pastor's completion of the church and Sun-|study, a prayer chapel, twelve in- day school building. in 120 working | dividual classrooms, three as- days for the’ sum of $51, 096. This | sembly rooms, and a kitchen. contract does tracts for electrical wi The new | persons ir an ove 0 5 = — i pil Rl Com ‘not include the con- | L bing, ‘heating, and Society are that this new sanctuary The long range plans of the will in the future become an -edu- ill seat 220 cational building and that a larger vy. There is sanctuary will be built on the other ich will Sout ond of the Smdny school Wing: A % 5 g fi om of the Embroidery Guild of Eng+| land, and has displayed work at its exhibitions in New York and Phila- delphia. A rare Regency Architect's desk and many other fine English anti- ques will be displayed in an 18th Century Morning room, this year’s Loan Exhibit feature. No similar desk has ever been seen or listed. Dimner will be served both eve- nings ‘by members of two local church groups, who will also operate a snack bar. * Waverly is 10 miles north of Scranton on Pennsylvania Route 407. Take Route 6 from Tunk- hannock. From the Back Mountain, these well-known dealers will exhibit: The Lamp Shop, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Lamb, Dallas; Silver Sleigh, Gene Hanley and Bob Davis, Lutes Corners; Dale Myers, Evans Falls. Award Scheduled For Americanism Night Americanism Night will be pre- sented Friday, September 13, by Daddow-Isaacs Post 672, 8 p.m. at the home. Ed Buckley has been appointed chairman by Commander Dick Staub. Buckley will be assisted by Curt Bynom, Dick Fuller, Joe Ora- vic, Leonard Dougherty, and George Cave, Commander-elect. An award will be presented to the person in the Back Mountain whom the members feel has contri- buted the most to the advancement of the area. Books on Americanism = will presented to the be | Back Mountain cordia, Gate of Heaven, and Dallas schools. \ Auxiliary, Elsie Boehme presi- dent, will assist with the program. Anyone interested is invited. New Milford Festival Is Well Received New Milford Folk Festival, open- ing for the first time this year, drew large numbers of spectators over the Labor Day weekend. Booths displaying crafts, includ- ing spinning, pottery, leather stitch- ing, violin making, wood carving and furniture decorating were featured. JHoney-making with an enthusi- | astic merchant in charge drew pro- spective bee keepers, while an old treadmill, operated by a patient dog and his sidekick, a quacking duck, furnished one of the lighter touches. The old candy store with varie- ties long forgotten did a good busi- ness and the shingle cutter kept busy demonstrating his ability to onlookers. ‘The latest endeavor of.the Endless Mountains Association was far su- perior to that of the Indian Council Lad Bad weather, the tracks Festival for several years, knocked loss this year, according to co- chairman Paul Doris. Enthusiasm and community sup- port, however, stayed with the an- nual event, with six fire companies, two American Legion posts, clubs with floats and cars, and any num- ber of pretty girls, all taking part in the festivities. hopefully to be replaced in the next, was the ferris wheel, ap- parently no longer available from Hobbie Fire Company. Festival Queen was Donna Gos- runners-up were Judy Ann Moore, Qak Hill, and Diana Ide, Idetowm. Color television set was won by Memorial Library, College Miseri- | effort, although far Joss people ak tended. : Breeze Inn, Sunset, Harveys Lake. Game and refreshment counters did the usual good busimess. Penns sylvania Game Commission tent, & popular attraction last year, was | not included this year. One feature missing this vente art, Shawamnese, Harveys Lake, and | profits for a ‘twenty-five per cent |companies | Rain interrupted the concert of | Case, Lake-Lehman band Friday night, driving everyone under cover or to ' Margaret® Yankoski, Weather Hurts Festival Profits: Donna Gosart Is Queen For 1963 which has: dogged : their cars, and Sunday night was of Idetown Firemen’s | very cold. Friday’s parade included fire from: Dallas, Idetown, Shavertown, Luzerne, Hunlock! Creek, Lehman, and Harveys Lake, and Kingston Township sent their ambulance. There were antique cars; Har- veys Lake Legion had a float, and Dallas Legion sent officials and cars. Harveys Lake Lions were represented - by the Lady of the Lake, Marianne Grohowski. Caddie LaBar sent a motorboat on trailer. Congressman Dan Flood also at- tended. Drawn For Jury Duty Among 240 jurors selected for Common Pleas court are six resi- dents of the Back Mountain: Slated for service the week of September 30 is‘<Mrs. Clarence Laidler, Pioneer Avenue. Week of October 7, Laura Banks, Huntsville Road; Jean Updyke, Kingston Township, and Mrs. Della Briar Creek Road, Idetown. October 14, Burt Bryant, and Mrs. Dallas, coach; | | day. TWO EASY TO Telephone Numbers 674-5656 VOL. 75, NO. 36 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 School Enrollment Dallas ‘School District reported a total of 2822 pupils registered yester- day, 605 in Junior High, 626 Senior High and 1591 Elementary. Lake-Lehman had a total of 1760 students, 918 in~ the grades and kindergarten, 824 in the Junior and Senior High School, with ten more expected to register to- ph Gate of Heaven reported 840 pupils. Postoffice Site Query Thursday Railroad Property Too Small By Half Representatives of the General Services Administration, an agency of the United States Government, will be in the postoffice Thursday, September 12, to conduct site in- vestigations for the proposed new Dallas postoffice and office build- ing. A government real estate expert was in town recently, looking over prospective sight locations, with the assistance of a local realtor. ? Among those plots he looked at and photographed, reportedly, were L. L. Richardson’s used car lot be- low Caddie LaBar’s, the railroad station, the Borough Building, Joe's Men’s Shop, a lot on Lake Street, and the Lundy Building. RR Property Too Small Lehigh Valley Railroad, presently petitioning the Interstate Com- merce Commission, for permission to abandon its line to Luzerne from here, offered its Dallas pro- perty for sale, pending government approval, for use for the postoffice. Railroad owns only about 17,500 square feet of land in the center of Dallas, however, which does not meet the 34,500 square foot re- | quirement of government specifi- cations. : To bring the amount of land up to size would require added pur- chase of surrounding land owned by Millie Devens LaBar, now fer- vently opposing abandonment of the line, which services her mill. Back Mountain Lumber Company, owner of the Ben Franklin Store property, is the only other possible adacent property. Granville Sow- den told the Dallas Post: that it would require a most attractive offer from the buyer to induce him to sell the building. a 3s In any case, the Ben Franklin Store lot is only about 10,000 square feet, he noted, which would BD. 2." still not add up to government specifications, Lake-Lehmain High School Band, a featured attraction of Jonathan R. Davis Fire Company Festival , Friday sight, entertains under di- | recticn of John Miliauskas. An unfortunate interlude, | aplenty, drove many spectators in- side the big temt and to their cars. Other events of the Festival, held rain Friday, Elementary | - | assignment for George iS. May time he taught at Bos| | | Saturday, and Sunday, in- cluded a parade, selection of Queen, | drawing for prizes, and kiddy rides. | Jackson Presses | Road Care Issue | Issue Must End In | Meeting Or Court of Steele’s Farm road, Route 599, | were shown, Tuesday night, a regis- tered letter receipt for a request! by Jackson Supervisors to meet | future ownership and maintenance of the road. The meeting, to which Larksville has yet to agree, will be an at- tempt by Jackson to get Larksville money for one mile of road running into the township, on which Larks- ville refuses further maintenance. For twenty years the two munici- palities have jointly maintained, or at least had responsibility to joint- ly maintain the road. If Larksville does not agree to give over. their state aid for their mile, then Jackson Township is au- thorized by the Township Code to petition the Court of Quarter Ses- sions to enforce the law which re- ‘quires continued sharing of costs. Principal discussion at the to turn over their state allotment | Four Jackson township residents | Shavertown Acme i with Larksville Council to discuss is Beptensher speeting Lontered around Horseshoe 4-H Club | To See U.S.A. Team Back Mountain Horseshoe 4-H Club held its meeting last Satur- day, and plans were completed for la trip to Gladstone, New Jersey, to see the United States Equestrian Team. = A bus will leave the Store at 6:30 ‘a.m. on Saturday, September 7th. ‘The bus will make a stop for | breakfast. Next meeting will be held September 28th. this problem, which first arose in April after a resolution by Larks- ville Council to drop maintenance of their segment of the thorough- fare. Since a court decision in 1939, each municipality has had control of ome mile of the road, inhabited principally ‘by Jackson residents. Access to the Jackson part of the road, however, is possible only by passing through Larksville’s mile, which Supervisors maintain has mever been kept up, and which they, consequently, plow in the winter to get to their own part. Attending the meeting om behalf of residents of Steele's Farm road were: Mr. and Mrs. George Devens, Bert Balliet, and Arthur Hunter, | Blaze Draws 75 Firemen Barn-Garage Struck By Lightning Bolt A reported rumor that dynamite was stored in a garage and barn | structure on Bunker Hill, set afire by Tuesday evening's electrical storm brought Kingston Township Ambulance hurriedly to the scene. Seventy five men from Shaver- town and Trucksville Fire Com- panies responded to the blaze which was brought under control within a half an hour, The building owned by Ernest Shara, Bunker Hill, was located about 50 yards from the home. Sirens screaming in ‘the night aroused alarmed residemts just settling down after a vicious thunderstorm buffeted the area. The alarm sounded at 12:45 p.m. Lake-Lehman Football Mothers Please Note Lake-Lehman Football Mothers ‘are asked to turn in their candy RA money to Mrs. James Worth, and their dues to Mrs. Howard Jones. | Md. | Hicks, Williamsport, both of whom | were pillars of Pine Street Metho- | the building fund for a new church Owen Hicks, a Civil War veteran, : nickels | twenty-dollar gold piece which is | with his 1“W. Hicks, | Methodist Missionary | feeling ran high in the South, and B. IV, Cadet at The Citadel, | Charleston, S.. C.; a brother Wil- liam, Villa Nova. : Private funeral services ar REMEMBER 674-7676 T. M. B. Hicks Jr. Released After Long Illness Prominent For Decade In Valley Business Field Thomas Mason Bacon Hicks Jr., 69, died without regaining con- sciousness early Wednesday morn- ing at Maple Hill Nursing Home, where he had been a patient since leaving Geisinger Medical Center July 3, after four months of illness. He had submitted to brain surgery March 20. Cause of death was a malignant brain tumor. af He had plunged headlong down a flight of steps’ in a Baltimore hotel early in July of last year, while on m= internationally known busi~ pany, ness analysts, with whom he had been associated for ten years. Re- tirement was mandated because of increasing incapacity, the direct Ter sult of his head injury. Coming to the Wyoming Valley im 1935, he managed Pomeroys for two years; belonged to Rotary and Westmoreland Clubs; headed the disaster committee during the flood of 1936; was first executive secre- tary of the new Industrial Fund; served* on the committee which settled ‘the mewspaper strike in 1939, was active in handling labor negotiations for various industries; was president of Little Theatre. = Prior to settling in Kingston, he | had been head of Sears Roebuck Northwest Division of retail stores, based in Seattle. His retail expe- rience = started with a post at Filene’s in Boston, extended to Mile ler and Paine in Lincoln, Nebraska and McMorran and Washburn, Eu gene, Oregon. Tea As a young man he was president of the Retail Trade Board associa- tion of Northeastern States while serving as executive secretary im Boston after a similar assignment in Cambridge. A free-lance writer for Christian Science Monitor, Bos- ton and Chicago dailies, he edited the Cambridge Daily Standard while at Harvard. Educated at Dickinson Seminary, Dickinson College, ; Harvard University, he grad with the class of 1917. Active politically, he = the campaign for Mayor bridge of Godfrey Cabot. sity, and was’ offered the Economics at the newly nt XN Duke University. During his year: in Boston, he was much in demand’ as a speaker. In 1945 he left the Wyoming Val- : ley area for New York, maintain- ing a home in Dallas. i Mr. Hicks and his wife, the for- mer Mildred Todd of Galloways, | observed ‘their forty-eighth wedding anniversary September 2. His parents were the late Atty. Thomas M. B. and Alice Cheston dist Church. As a twelve-year old 3 boy he was: the first contributor to edifice, persuading his Great-Uncle to put on a benefit program of Civil War songs and slides. Dimes and k were converted into a buried in the cornerstone, together letter to the board of; trustees. His grandfather, the late William founder of the “Hirst y circuit in India, was an orator who could sway thousands at open-air politi- 9 cal rallies, during the days immedi- | ately follow; ng the Civil War when any speaker for an unpopular cause took his life in his hands when he mounted a platform. He leaves his widow, ‘asocial editor of the Dallas Post; four chil- | dren: Thomas M. B. Hicks TI, re- | tired Colonel of the U.S. Army; Chicago, Ill; Warren F. Hicks, pilot | flying over Burma in World War II; Mrs. R. M. Harding, Herndon, Virginia; Mrs. Charles R. Scoggins, | Chelmsford, Mass.; ‘twenty-one grandchildren ‘including Thomas M. scheduled for Saturday at 11 a. from the Bronson Funeral Home, with burial at Chapel Lawn. There | will be no viewing, 2 Booster Club To Meet h Dallas area Lettermen-Booster | club will hold a general meeting Tuesday, September 10 at 8 pm. at Dallas American Legion. a An excellent program is planned | and all interested are cordially n= vited to attend. Plans will be made to launch the 1963 football season. Loses Tip Of Finger In Work Accident Harry Owens, Carverton Road, Trucksville, had the tip of his righ: middle finger badly mangled las week while at work at Leslie Fay Inc., Plains. Caught in a machine, the tip fod to be amputated a at General Hospital, | WW 2
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