Back of the 73 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Mountain THE D POST TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 674-5656 674-7676 TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES Federal Agents Look At Dallas For P. 0. Sites Railroad Station Is Engaging Prospect, With Devens Accord Four specialists from the General Services, Administration, an agency of the government, and a Postoffice Department representative, were in Dallas Thursday and Friday to look over possible site locations for the proposed new postoffice. Thomas Maglione, for the group, said it was impossible to tell just when a final decision on a building site would be made. “We can’t even make our recommendations until the alloted money is in hand,” he noted. Another member, William Carew, allowed as how it would probably be months. Among those locations examined were: the railroad station and sur- rounding land owned by others; Richardson's used car lot and the food stand below it; the Borough Building and adjacent home owned by Mrs. Harold Titman; Dallas Shopping Center land; and a number of others. Specifications advertised are that the plot, about 34,500 square feet, should not be more than a quarter of a mile from the existing post- office. ; Members of the group said, when asked if they had looked at the land above Center Hill Road across from the Little League field, that they were primarily interested in the Borough. Interested In Station Group's. legal expert Herman Rapport said: “We're just looking around, and no construction should be placed on what we do.” (Con- struction means ‘‘interpretation’) Nonetheless, the team showed evident interest in the railroad sta- tion and adjoining land owned by Back Mountain Lumber Company and Mrs. Millie Devens LaBar, since the area is the center of town. Railroad has offered its station and land for sale, hinging on ICC approval of a petition to: abandon its line between Luzerne and Dallas. Mrs. LaBar said yesterday that she would be interested in selling, her®land behind the station if and when the railroad was abandoned. She has filed the lone objection to the abandonment with the ICC in Washington, since her mill receives regular railroad service. Her land #p includes a barn and a home. The government men contacted ¢ Granville Sowden in regards to the Ben Franklin Store building, which also lies adjacent the station. They asked a number of local _ people generally about Dallas, in- cluding Mayor Thomas Morgan, Borough engineer John Jeter, Police Chief Russell Honeywell, and Leigh- ton Scott of the Post. Questions concerned industry, history, popu- lation, geography, and other aspects of a community. 3 Others of the group were William O'Connell and Charles Reis. College Lists Night Course Program To Start On September 28th The registrar's office of College Misericordia has amnoumced September 28 as opening date. for the extension program which the college conducts in conjunction with King’s College. Registration for extension classes began on Monday, September 16, at 161 South Washington St., Wilkes- Barre from 4 to 8 -p.m., and will continue Thursday: and Friday, September 26 and 27. Women pur- suing courses at King’s College will register at 161 S. Washington St. on Monday, September 16, from 4 to 8 pm. King’s College evening classes will begin | Thursday, September 19. Courses which will be offered by Misericordia at the South Washing- ton St. Extension Center om Satur- day are: Shakespeare; Community Health Nursing; History of U.S. and Pa.; Psychology of the ‘Exceptional Child; Teaching Art in the Grades; Journalism; Social Foundations of Education; Tests and Measure- ments in Nursing Education; Com- parative Study of Nursing Tech- niques; History of Western Civili- zation; Guidance; Child Growth amd Development; English Composition and Reading; Principles of Elemen- tary Education. i On Saturday, Principles of Soci- ology and Art will be presented at Misercordia’s Educational Clinic, 29 W. Northampton Street, Wilkes Barre, On Monday evening, Organic Chemistry will be offered from 5 to 9 p.m. and Nutrition from 6 to 9 p.m. at Mercy Hospital. Ethics will be ‘given at Miser- cordia’s Educational Clinic on Wednesday evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Audio-Visual Aids will be offered at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the college in Dallas, Daddow Isaacs Post To Honor Champions Daddow Isaacs Post will entertain | the champions of Back Mountain Baseball For Boys Monday, Septem- | ber 23 at 6:30 at the Post Home, Dallas. Lehman-Jackson Teener’s League, Fernbrook Major League and Shav- ertown Minor League were champ- ions. Daddow Isaacs Post sponsored team will also attend. David Blight will entertain follow- ing the dinner. Dick Fuller is chair- man assisted by officers and the Auxiliary, headed by Florence Davenport. Crossing Guard Needed Kingston Township has need of a retired gentleman to take over at the grade school crossing at Har- ris Hill Road. Hours required are 9 to 9:30 in the morning and 4 to 4:30 in the afternoon, five days a week. Applicants may contact Chief of Police Herbert Updyke. Voters For Farrar Name Committee Area chairmen have been named by the “Voters for Farrar” Commit- tee. Mrs. James Huston Jr. and Mrs. J. Warren Yarnal are co-chair- men for Dallas Borough. Mrs. Al- bert Torr is chairman for Dallas Township. Mrs. William Lawson will serve in Shavertown. Mrs. Wil- MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER. A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Three Hurt In Huntsville Crash Dallas crewmen prepare to lift topping of Huntsville-Idetown road, liam Shuster and Mrs. Evelyn | Helen Ayers, 19, Plymouth, into the | in many places still loose. Driver Wiener will be co-chairmen in | ambulance, after the car in which | Clarence Hoover, 25, Luzerne, told Trucksville. she and two others were hurt (back- | hospital authorities his car le” ‘he These are Republicans with the best interests of the schools at heart, working ‘to support Mr. Farrar. Underfoot is the brand-new stome | ground), left the road mear Hunts- | road, and hit the tree seen above. He ville Tuesday night around 8:30 and hit a tree. is in fair condition at Nesbitt Hos- pital, with cut scalp and injured right shoulder. Miss Ayers suffered a cut right knee and multiple cuts on the fore- head, with possible chest injuries. Another passenger, Harry Fitzer, 20, Luzerne, was treated for a cut lip. He and Hoover were taken to the hospital by Bill Berti. photo by Kozemchak Traffic Heavy For Local Polio “Shot” In one door and out the other at Dallas Junior High School gym- nasium, applicants for polio vaccine flowed in a steady stream, Sunday afternoon, helping roll up a fan- And here is a family unit, the child obediently permitting her mother to help her with the life- saving sugar cube while others look At King’s (College Evening Ses- sion, classes will be offered in Eco- onmics, = Business | Administration, | Rhetoric and Composition, Soci- | ology, Theology, Philosophy, Span- ish, Speech, American Lit., History | of U.S. and Pa. | Produces High Record Sterling Lindsey a junior two year- old, Registered Guernsey cow, own- | ed by Ruth A. Sordoni, Harveys Lake | | | has completed an official DHIR act- ual production record of 9,460 pounds of milk and 527 pounds of butterfat, in 305 days two times a day milking, | | according to The American Guern- | sey Cattle Club. _ | d tastic percentage of response to the | black, moving quietly through the immunization program. Here, Col- a hall and out again into the sunshine, lege Misericordia is represented by | along with students and babies and novices in white veils, nuns in sober | anxious parents. on after being given their own pro- tective Sabin oral vaccine. It was a day when the community turned out en masse to help stamp out | Photo by Kozemchak 5% ; ERR Polio once and forever, congregating at three focal points: Dallas Junior High, Westmoreland elementary, and Lake-Lehman. Back Mountain Organ Society Seeks Members | | :Back Mountain Hammond Organ Society is conducting a membership rive. The club does not confine its | membership to proficient organists | only, many of its personnel being only beginners, who seek to over- come shyness at appearing in public. Part of the program is group | singing and a discussion of simple | playing techniques offered to assist | those who never expected to play | an organ. { Anyone interested in good Se) is encouraged to join the group, Graduate Courses Listed At College Sister Marianna, R.S.M., dean of | September 18-20 as dates of regis- tration for graduate courses offered at Dallas during the Fall semester, beginning September 28. Given on Saturdays: Introduction to Guidance, 11:00-1:00; Workshop in ‘the Elementary School--Language and Composition, 9:00-11:00. In English, Milton will be given at 9:00-11:00, Saturday; American Foreign Relations III, 1890-1920, at 9:00-11:00, Saturday. Lehman Charge Protests Ruling Against Prayer Official Boards of Lehman, Ide- town and Jackson Methodist Churches adopted on Sunday a resolution of protest against the ruling of the Supreme Court which forbids Bible reading and prayer in public schools. In its formal declaration, the com- mittee deplored the action, and stressed the importance, of explana- tion to students that the Court had not attempted to rule God or the Bible out of national life, Copies of the resolution were sent to Supervising Principal Lester Squier, Lake-Lehman « Jointure. Serving on the committee’ were Earl Chamberlain, Gilbert Tough, and Norman Tiffany. The resolu- tion was’ signed by Pastor Tiffany, representing Lehman; John Sidler, acting secretary; Mattie Hadsel, sec- retary, for Idetown; Loretta Reakes, secretary, for Jackson. ‘Marchers Cover ‘Heavy Mileage Summer Record Sees Many Big Victories By Doris Mallin Marching units of Dallas: School ' District had a very busy summer. Have to hand it to these kids— give up much time during vacation, practice two and three times a week, giving up many Saturdays and Sundays to take long trips on bus to and from parade .destina- tions. And to their parents who keep uniforms clean and pressed. It would be good for a lot of their parents and others to attend a few | of these parades and watch these kids in action, see their spirit and co-operation, hear them complain jokingly about aching feet after blocks of brisk marching. From the time school closed until the week school opened the kids were on the road. First parade, all units Wilkes-Barre Dairy Coun- cil at Wilkes-Barre, June 13. All units at Endicott, N. Y., June 14, marching in heavy rains, soaked through. Catholic War Veterans State Con- { vention [Parade at Wilkes-Barre - prize.) Wellsboro June 22 (Competition | —took first prize.) Lehman Horse Show Parade July 4. All units except colorettes. Pleasant Gap July 25. Key (Club Drill Team only (competition. Top. prize. (Boys toured Penn State Campus) Duryea Firemen'’s Parade, July 29. Moosic, July 30. Taylor Firemen Parade, August 5. Tioga — Key Club Drill Team only, competition, received no word yet, August 17. Ashland Parade top prize. Mahanoy City — September 7— Centennial parade competition, top prize. I — August 31, Scranton — Sept. 8 — Donny White Day, for benefit of a small | boy who lost his leg in a freak | accident. All the kids paid their | own way. (Note of special interest: It was Donny White's parents who staffed the ambulance from Nicholson to Nesbitt at the time of Editor Howard Risley’s fatal heart seizure.) June 15. (Competition — took first | New Zoning Law To Affect Local Municipalities County Proposes It For Areas Without Ordinances Planned - Five Back Mountain townships will be zoned by Luzerne County according to ‘a plan, still in the “proposed” stage, drawn by the County Planning Commission, if the local municipalities do not organize zoning ordinances of their own. A public hearing was held last night in the Court House for public review of the regulations, which at present affect a large number of townships and boroughs all over the county. As yet without their own zoning plans or commission are: Lake, Dal- las, Franklin, Jackson, and Ross Townships. The ordinance is drawn up for public notice in a 75 page booklet, which includes, in addition to defini- tion of zone districts, general rules of zoning, methods of appeal, and definitions. Interested citizens may obtain copies from the Commission in Wilkes-Barre, and should do so, as this report is by no means exhaus- tive in detail. Not only would the proposed reg- ulations not affect any locally zoned municipality, but, according to re- cent note from the Commission, local rules adopted after the County plan would take precedence over those of the County. Zone categories are explained in this report under the Lake Town- ship heading. Lake Township Like most of the Back Mountain not yet locally zoned, a large amount of Lake Township is “Al”, Agri- cultural, which allows, without board approval: agriculture, green- houses and nurseries, single and two-family homes, public uses, semi- public uses (not contagious) venti- lating shafts, utilities (except yards or buildings) home occupations, and accessory uses to these. The northwest corner of the town- ship, area around Beth Run is “C1”, Conservation, which allows the same as above, excepting family homes and home occupations, and adding parks, state gamelands, and private recreational facilities, and accessory uses. ; Above terminology is defined in the glossary, and any number of additional uses is permitted by mandatory board approval. = This applies to all zones. Perimeter of the Lake itself is’ basically “R1”, permitting one-fam- ily detached dwellings, public uses, semi-public uses (except hospitals, sanitaria and nursing homes), util- ities (except buildings and yards) and accessory uses. This extends to an approximate 400-500 depth, | but further on the stretch from Sun- set to Outlet, and about 1300 feet up Outlet road and old Lake High- way, about 2400 feet up Warden Place, and 4300 feet up Kocher Cemetery road. Zoned business districts are Sandy Beach and Casino areas, and Han- son’s, called “B3”, Highway Busi- ness Districts, a very permissive zone, excepting light industry, body shops, welders, certain plants and services allowed by “B4”, General Business District, which category is not found in the County Back Moun- tain plans. In the vicinity of Alderson post- office the zone is Bl, as is Link's and Noxen road corners. B1, Neighborhood Business Districts al- lows: Neighborhood . retail stores, personal services, service stations (with only minor repairs), profes- sional offices including clinics, banks, mortuaries, soda fountains, cafes or restaurants (without enter- tainment), taverns, public: uses, semi-public uses, utilities (except yards) and accessory uses. About 1200 feet of lake front east of Hanson’s.is ‘“R2”, Two-Family Residence District, allowing: one family = detached dwellings, two- family dwellings, public and semi- public uses, utilities (except build- ings and yards) and accessory: “S1,” Suburban Residence Dis- trict, is found 800-1200 feet up Noxen Road, and in the Alderson area around to the boat club. This allows one family detached dwell- ings, agriculture (except kennels, hatcheries, and commercial chicken { farms), public uses, semi-public uses. (except hospitals, sanitaria and nursing = homes) utilities (except buildings and yards), and acces- sory. Outlet village, a strip about 3000 feet near Pilosi’s on Loyalville road, and several other small settlements are also termed S1. Loyalville cor- ners is. Bl. Pikes Creek is Rl, except Shel- don’s and the store, and Boston’s which are B3 and B 1 respectively. Jackson Township Jackson Township is Al, except- ing R1 the length of Chase down to Hillside Road, and including 1800 feet or so up that road. Smith’s Pond and a section of Huntsville Road above Becker's Pond are RI. Chase corners and the section around Bombick’s are B3, while (Continued on Page 2 A) VOL. 75, NO. 38 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1965 Fight Frost With Fire And Motion Of Plane Blazing fires of damp hay, plus action of a zooming crop-duster plane, controlled temperatures Sat- urday morning at four, and saved thirty acres of tomatoes for Joe Rodriquez on Goodleigh Farms. The planewhipped up the air, breaking the deadly frost layer and turning it to mist as it met the warmer air. Joe had his men ready when the thermometer started to plummet, and swung into action as the ther- mometer registered 32. The crop- duster plane is the one which flipped out near Highway 118 as it dusted the Yalick acreage a few weeks ago. The plane, from Honesdale, had stood by at Springville, fifteen min- utes away as the crop-duster flies. It made no landing at Goodleigh Farm, flitting back and forth in the darkness before dawn, guided by the burning bales of hay surrounding the 100,000 tomato plants. Dedicate New High School At Lake-Lehman Symbolic Keys Pass From Hand To Hand, Rest With Students A dedication, not of bricks and mortar, but of an ideal and a far- seeing program of education, formal- ly launched the new Lake-Lehman high school Saturday night, at im- | | | who cannot climb the front steps pressive ceremonies in the spacious gymnasium. The symbolic golden keys passed from Lester Squier, Supervising Principal, to Carl Hedden, represent- tractor, who passed them to archi- tect Donald D. Smith. Mr .Smith, accepting, acknowledg- ed the honor briefly, and passed the keys to John Hewitt, president of Lehman Building Authority. spite of recent ill health, character- ized the school as the finest in North- eastern Pennsylvania, and compli- mented the contractors who had worked around the students in the early days of the fall opening of school last year, carring on their assignments under great difficulty. The keys passed to Willard Sut- ton, president of the Joint #fichool Board, who reminded the audience that ‘the project had started- five years: earlier in- the minds of the school board and administrators, and paid tribute to former president Edgar Lashford. Politics, he said, had mot entered into the. project. And -he ended with that familiar quotation, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead”. Anthony Marchakitus, high school principal, receiving the keys, called upon the Lake-Lehman faculty to share in the honor, and handed the the keys to Kenneth Ellsworth, presi- dent of the Student Council, who received them on behalf of the stu- dent body. Dr. Charles Boehme, chief of State of Pennsylvania Department of Pub- lic Instruction since 1956, said that ideas about instruction were chang- ing so rapidly that they were out- moded almost before they were formulated. Dr. Boehme said the capacity for thought was practically unlimited, that it was astonishing how children at an early age can absorb abstruse principles and put them into pract- ice. New approaches to mathemat- ics and reading are a revelation of the actual thirst for knowledge, spotlighting the advisability of giving children a real chance to obtain in- formation as early as possible, and correlate it with daily life. The program started with a band concert under direction of John Mil- iayskas. Invocation was by Rev. Nor- mean Tiffany. Master of Ceremonies Mr. Squier. John Sidler led the Pledge of Allegiance, and Assistant Supervisor Robert Z. Belles intro- duced the platform guests. E. S. Teter, Luzerne County school superintendent, spoke briefly. Rev. S. F. Banas delivered the prayer of dedication. Rev. B. Kirby Jones gave the ben- ediction. An attractively illustrated bro- chure was distributed, a guide to facilities of the new building for guidance of sightseers, and attention was drawn to the impressive tablet in ‘the entrance lobby, where names and dates are preserved for poster- ity. Orientation Course For Hopeful Nurses An orientation course for pros- pective studemt nurses will be held at the Presbyterian Hospital, Phila- delphia, according. to Dallas High School office. Any present high school senior or graduate is eligible to register. Enrollmemt fee is $2 per person, to be mailed to the Reg- istrar of the hospital after the res- ervation has been confirmed. The date for these visitations are: September 26, 27; October 10, 11; October 24, 25: November 7, 8; November 21, 22; December 5, 6; December 19, 20; January 9, 10. Anyone interested in this program should ask further instruction at the administration office. bill into the container for quarters. {| murmurs apologetically. | | teers is oversubscribed. Everybody Mr. Hewitt, gallantly appearing in | wants to help to stamp out Polio. | in Luzerne County, and time is | ‘| is, Evalie’ King, Mrs. William Vin- | the oral vaccine in its white paper | cup as she sits in h . ing his father Raymon Hedden, con- | Cup go sha SY Inher oan Residents Flock To Obtain Polio Inoculations Back Mt. Equals Percentage Set By Luzerne Co. They descended upon the Polio stations like locusts on a field, be- ginning Sunday at noon and con- tinuing until 6 p.m., probably the most smoothly organized effort against disease that the Back Moun- tain has ever witnessed. Babes in arms, children in con- voy, nuns in their black robes, brawny laborers, housewives, high school boys and girls, ushered through the front door and out through the back at three area schools, moving steadily, pausing for a moment to register at a table manned by a battery of clerks, on to the table with the sugar cubes, on, again to pick up a certificate, on to another table to deposit a quarter, and out into the free air, the sugar cube still dissolving on the ' tongue, and protection from Polio assured. Here is a man kneeling before his reluctant small boy, coaxing him to open his mouth for the sugar. A mother watching as nurses drop the vaccine. on a small baby’s tongue. A father of five, herding his wife and children past the tables, balking at receiving the cube himself, giving no reason, but adamant. (“Swallow it, Johnnie, it’s good for you.”) A ninety-one year old woman at Westmoreland, but who receives A woman who tucks a five-dollar “It will help with the expense,” she Everywhere, the list of volun- Already, two cases of definite Polio running out. : Some people missed the vaccine because of necessary absence, but a make-up date is already arranged for next Sunday, at a time and place to be announced. Two more dates, in October and December, for protection against J ‘the pther types. i | “The total for the Back Mettain (not including Monroe Township and Noxen, which are in Wyoming County) is a staggering 14,785, in line with Luzerne County’s over-all record of 75 percent vaccination, Wyoming County had its vaccina- tion days months ago. Dallas Junior. High School leads with 5,850; Lehman is next with 4,707; Westmoreland elementary third with 4,228. AT DALLAS Dr. Henry Gallagher and Dr. A. A. Mascali officiated at Dallas. Mary Weir was relief clinical director. Nurses were Theresa Yarnall, Susan Zimmerman, Mrs. Mascali, Mrs. Carlton Davies, Marian Ma- scali, Mrs. L. O. Bedford, Barbara D. Gabel, Pearl Hill, Tally Thomas, Mrs. Malcolm Baird. Pharmacists, John Marcin, Sam Zimmerman, Edward Hall. : Registration clerks, Mrs. J. D. Houlette, Edwin Raub, C. D. Suther- land, Dot Ross, Arthur Ross, Betty Ziegenfuss, Betty Gensel, Mrs. Stef- an [Hellersperk, Mrs. Marie Duffy, © Mrs. Dana Dungey. WL Tickoff clerks: Mrs. Harry L. Smith, Betty Gregson, Mrs. Charles Ray, Florence Juris, Mrs. William Krimmel, Mrs. Alfred Root, Mrs. Donald Bulford, Nora B. Dymond, Mrs. Ruth Evans, Mrs. Bettie W. Hanna, Mrs. Marian IL. Freeman. Vaccine cards: Mrs. Elouise Meix- ell, Esther Farrar, Mrs. Lewis ‘| Reese. Money clerks: Mrs. Clyde Davis. Preparation clerks: James Atkins, | James Clinton, Mrs. Andrew Sokol, & Mrs. James Thomas. Registrars: Harry L. Smith, Mrs. § Ira B. Smith, Mrs. John Yalick. Telephone, Mrs. Fred Templin, Mrs. Ruth Waskas, Mrs. Stephen Yalick. Relief clerks: Raymond Parsons, Ellen Northrup, Mrs. Gallagher, Mrs. H. Clinton Myers, Mrs. Fred Welsh, Mrs. George Seelandt, Mrs. Howard Wiley, Kay Wright. Officers directing traffic: Charlie Lamoreaux, Bill Berti, Phil Walters, Ernest Reese, Les Tinsley, and Stan- ley Gardiner. AT LAKE-LEHMAN Doctors in charge, Irvin Jacobs and E. ‘'W. McGrath. Nurses: Judith Dawe, Ruth Simms, Mrs. Alton Whittaker, Mrs. Malcolm Borthwick, Margaret Guli- tis, Catherine Corbett, Hilda Lein- thal, Geraldine H. Petroskas, Irene Zaleskas, Bonnie Kaminski. Pharmacists: Emerson Clewell, Fred Craig. Registration clerks: Mary H. Mon- tross, Pauline Davis, Hazel A. Dav- Martha Atkins, cent, Sharon Strezelczyk, Helen Crispell. Tick-off, Becky Baker, Mrs. Don- : ald Cutting, James Worth Jr., Mrs. John Doane, Mrs. H. A. Brown, Mrs. Thomas Brown, Marguerite Wil= liams. {Continued on Page 2 A)