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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
districting Problem Postponed;
Flack, Shupnik, Try To Save Area
Dallas Schemed Out
* 0f Back Mountain
The current Republican-proposed
legislative reapportionment plan, of
local interest because of its direct
effect on the Back Mountain, has
been put off, following the assassi-
nation of President John F. Ken-
nedy, until the legislature recon-
venes Monday.
Consideration * of the question,
now threatened by amendments, a
Federal Court constitutionality in-
vestigation, delay of Thanksgiving
holidays, and the opposition of Har-
old Flack of Dallas and Thomas
Ehrgocod, Lebanon, whose votes
would be needed for a Republican
majority in the Senate, drew to a
halt after the nation entered a
period of mourning.
The delay allows the people of
the Back Mountain to study the re-
apportionment program, to decide
whether they wish to lose a !Sena-
tor and a seat in the Assembly.
In the event they do not, with
due respect to the law which man-
dates periodic reapportionment ac-
cording to population, the citizenry
can make itself heard to Senator
Flack, who, with Senator Ehrgood,
is trying to see every legal means
to save this representation for the
county.
In talking to the Dallas Post this
weekend, Senator Flack said: If we
reapportion by population (deter-
mined four years ago by census);
there would be a greater concen-
tration of Senators
areas. He described the present re-
districting bill as “a highly political
thing”, said it is true that the
county has lost 46,000 people ‘in
ten years, but that there is a
“popular demand” for two Sena-
tors.
Flack said he would stand firm
against the bill, which would re-
move the senatorial seat of Mar-
tin Murray, Ashley, and that with-
out the help of himself or Ehrgood
(who does not want his district
merged with Schuylkill County),
the GOP doesn’t have the majority
needed.
In response to the question, when
would a final vote on the question
come?: “Your guess is as good as
mine. It might never come.”
SHUPNIK SAYS “GERRYMANDER”
Representagive Feed Shynpik. Lu-
zerne, a’ Democrat, whose party is
fighting a losing battle against a
reapportionment bill in the House, !
which would see our own Sixth
pieces onto others, told the Post
the bill was strictly “gerrymander-
ing”.
not based on reason, but was all
political to assure a Republican
voting bloc, and did not consider
the people in- regard to their own
areas.
On grounds of a loss in popula-
tion, the reapportionment bill in
the House proposes to eliminate
the present Sixth District, call
most of it the “Fifth”, and call
Wilkes-Barre (now the Sevetith)
from - urban |
the “Sixth”.
Senate, reapportionment is man-
dated by the Pennsylvania Con-
stitution.
Among other things, Zhupnik ob-
served, the new district would be
a horse-shoe shaped “gerrymander”
with Dallas - Borough and Dallas
lifted right out of the
Back Mountain.
Note: The new “Fourth Dis-
trict” would have Dallas
Borough and Township separ-
ated from the rest of the dis-
trict by Kingston and Jackson
Township of the mew “Fifth”.
Postoffice Says
To Mail Properly
Postmaster Edward M. Buckley
said today, “Early mailing of all
Christmas cards and gifts’ is the
biggest single factor in getting all
of the mail delivered before Christ-
mas. Post Office facilities have been
expanded, ample help will be avail-
able, and everything is being gear-
ed up to handle a record Christmas
mail this year.”
The entire Christmas mailing per-
iod is a big battle against time.
Even though Christmas is a month
away by the calendar, it’s Christ-
mas every day at Dallas Post Office
from now on.
Buckley. advises, ‘Don’t take
chances on mailing poorly wrap-
ped packages. Use sturdy corruga-
ted mailing cartons, plenty of heavy
wrapping paper and strong cord.
Cartons containing several gifts
with tissue or old mewspapers to
cyshion the contents.”
He said further, “If you have ar-
ticles of unusual size or bulk, better
check with the Post Office before
attempting to mail them. The li-
mits of size and weight of packages
often vary.”
Send all Christmas mail going
long distances before December 10.
Follow up promptly with cards and
gifts for local delivery. Mail “EARLY
and OFTEN” for a merrier Christ-
mas. By mailing early, we expect
to get the Dallas Postmark on all
As in the case of the i
There would be mo connection
between them except by name.
The rest of the proposed dis-
trict, to which Dallas area
would have the dubious distinc-
tion of belonging would be: Ed-
wardsville, Larksville, Ply-
mouth Borough and Township,
and Courtdale.
This does, in fact, smell of
a gerrymander,
In return for the Dallas area,
the rest of the Back Mountain
would be joined by Kingston,
joined to us only by Luzerne.
Shupnick asked: “Why do they
pick on us? Sure, the County has
lost population, but we haven't.
The northern and western sections
of the county are growing and
prosperous.”
The Luzerne legislator described
the situation as “a mess’, and said
that when the legislature recon-
venes, the would introduce as
amendments either ' 1/ reinstate-
ment of the Sixth District, or 2/ at
least make the new Fourth and
Fifth Districts complete, sensible,
and contiguous in their content of |
communities.
LINCOLN SET DAY
FOR THANKSGIVING
100 YEARS AGO
Thanksgiving Day this year
is its centennial as a National
holiday. The first proclamation
by ‘a President of the United
States, establishing the last
Thursday in November as a
holiday, was made in 1863 by
Abraham Lincoln.
The proclamation was the re-
sult of seventeen years of in-
tensive promotion on the part
of Sarah Hale, editor of “God-
ey’s Lady's Book’, who start-
ed the movement in 1846,
wrote editorials on the subject,
and pled with three presidents,
Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchan-
an for National observance,
before finding success with
President Lincoln.
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Vandalism, Robbery
Being Investigated
Vandalism of ‘a home on lower
Demunds Road Sunday night, and
burglary of another ‘on Overbrook
I~
Avenue Thursday are under investi-
gation “of Dallas Township police.
A large front window in the home
of Ralph Kauffman was smashed,
along with ‘a jardiniere inside,
when someone threw a rock through
it around 11 p.m. Sunday.
During the day Thursday, while
the occupants were out, a thief
broke into the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Wickkeiser, Dallas RD
2 and ransacked the home for cash
successfully. Entry was gained by
forcing ‘the rear porch door and
smashing a window over the kitchen
sink.
Chief Frank Lange is investigat-
ing both cases, aided in the burglary
by State Police.
Ambulance Crew
Dallas Ambulance crew for ‘this
week: Ray Titus, captain; Les Tins-
ley, James Wertman, Leonard Har-
vey, and John Carey.
Starting Sunday midnight:
Robert Besecker, captain; Ralph
Fitch, Donald Bulford, Gilbert
Morris, and William Berti.
Back Mountain Area
Ambulance Logbook
Dallas
Walter Shutt, East Dallas, was
taken to Nesbitt Hospital Thurs-
day at 12:15 p.m., Jim Perkins,
John Carey, and Bob Besecker at-
tending.
Mrs. Albert Bolton, Memorial
Highway, West Dallas, to Mercy
Hospital Thursday at 4:15 p.m., Be-
secker and L. R. Scott attending.
Franklin-Northmoreland
Mrs. Harold Eustice, Orange,
Saturday afternoon to Nesbitt, Clar-
ence Schoonover, William Boyes,
and Glenn Major attending.
Lehman Township
Mrs. Lisa Gilman, Lehman,
brought home from University Hos-
pital, Philadelphia, Saturday, Rus-
sell Coolbaugh and Stuart Marks
attending.
Noxen
Ronald Butler, Endicott, N. Y.,
was taken to General Hospital after
his car turned over on Route 29
just below Crispell’s Farm Service
Saturday night. Dave Fritz, Walter
Galka, Carl Crispell, and Robert
Clark attended.
Map Enclosed In
Post This Week
Planning Commission
Shows Acreage Need
In this weeks issue, the Post in-
cludes a map of Back Mountain land
use by the year 1980, prepared by
the Luzerne County Planning Com-
mission.
The map serves a double func-
tion, in, that it satisfies the need
for a good map of the Back Moun-
tain, even though Ross, Noxen, Mon-
roe, and Northmoreland Townships
are not in it.
All principal roads are shown, and
it should be an easy matter to draw
in any township roads not included.
The map is self-explanatory with
the use of its key at the lower
right, showing the Planning Com-
mission's estimate of how land will
be put to use in the next twenty
years or so. It is interesting to note
that the land uses do not differ
much from present except in degree
of development.
A resume of the Commission's
conclusions as to the number of
additional acres under develop-
ment by 1980 in the Back Mountain
was published in-the Post several
weeks ago. Briefly, it noted ‘that
this area will be the fastest grow-
ing in the county in total popula-
tion, and that 3300 additional acres
will be developed to meet the needs
of these extra people, 1000 of which
will be residential, 400 institutional,
30 commercial, and 56 industrial.
Developed acreage will mostly
offshoot from existing land use.
Thus, Oak Hill will get bigger, Car-
verton Heights will get bigger, and
so forth.
In the same line, industrial de-
velopment is seen in Fernbrook ‘in
the vicinity of Linear plant, al-
though who would be doing the
manufacturing is not specified.
Odd points of interest on the
map: Note the size of the Jackson
institution; the reserve set ' aside
above Kunkle for the Dallas Town-
ship Forest; the industrial reserve
on the Kunkle-Warden Place Road;
the extensive development foreseen
along several roads in the Orange
area; and Frances Slocum State
Park in Carverton.
A Dallas Senior High School stu- |
dent received a trophy in a national
weightlifting contest recently at
Forty [Fort High School. Dave R ran,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ryan,
212 North Pioneer Avenue, Shaver-
town, entered the 123 pound divi-
sion.
The contest was sponsored by tie
Forty Fort Booster Club and off-
ciated by the American Athleti
Union. It was a national eve .
with entries from all over the cou -
try. i
Dave and Peter Castillino, natior,
mail before leaving this office.
al champion and record holder, tie}
Wins National Lifting Award
for top honors with a 780 pounds
total, but because the loeal boy was
one half pound heavier, he took
second place honors. This was
Dave's first contest and he hopes
to win many more.
He is also the student leader of
the Physical Fitness Club at the
school. This Club was organized
and supervised by Clint Brobst to
interest students in weightlifting,
gymnastics, and isometrics. It has
been successful in past years, and
this year looks even better. The
boys practice twice a week during
activity period,
Editorially
Speaking:
In Dallas, Texas, a smiling boy holding a hand-
lettered sign YANKEE GO HOME, waved enthusiastically
at President Kennedy Friday afternoon, and President
Kennedy waved back with an answering smile.
Momets later, three shots rang out, and the holiday
crowd scattered as the official
dent broke from the cavalcad
hospital.
car bearing the dying Presi-
e and raced for the mearest
The incredible news was on the air.
The message flashed around the world that the Presi-
dent of the United States had been assassinated.
Everything that made John Fitzgerald Kennedy his
own warm, dynamic, exuberant self, perished in the crash
of a madman’s bullet through that familiar head with its
dark unruly hair, bared to the breeze of Texas as it had
been bared to the bitter January wind of Washington on
the day of his inauguration.
The body of the President lived for half an hour be-
fore the courageous heart was
The body . .
stilled.
. a man no longer , .. IT.
A body, to be carried tenderly. A body, to be encased
in a bromze casket and flown to Andrews Field.
A body, to be slipped quietly into a sleek grey am-
bulance en route to Bethesda Naval Hospital, while an-
other President of the United States, already sworn into
office, faced a battery of television cameras against the
clamor of jet planes, paces away on that same landing
field.
That supreme self-confidence; that somehow endear-
ing arrogance: that vital youthfulness; that stiff-necked
pride which kept his head un
that almost offhand reaction
bowed through family grief;
to danger; that determina-
tion to win which had drawn to an inside straight, forcing
the Premier of the Soviet Union to throw in his hand in
the Cuban crisis.of a year ago;all that tremendous cap-
ability and potential power .
. . gone forever.
Dallas, Pennsylvania, heard the news from Dallas,
Texas, Friday afternoon = ‘th
the same incredulous horror
which gripped the rest of the country and the world.
In Dallas, Texas, the holiday crowd had dispersed,
leaving behind it a crumpled placard, “YANKEE, GO
HOME.”
The Yankee had gone home, and Dallas, Texas, bowed
its head in shame.
BY Hix
Cadet Of The Year
pee
FAS ok :
LT. DAVID P. ESLER
Cadet Second Lieutenant David P.
Esler, Dallas, was recently named
“Civil Air Patrol Cadet of the Year
in Pennsylvania Wing,” in compe-
tition with other cadets of Penn-
sylvania Wing, Civil Air Patrol.
Receiving a plaque from Penn-
sylvania = Wing Commander Col.
Philip F. Neuweiler at a general
meeting November 13 at Allentown-
Bethlehem-Easton Airport, he found
his name the first to be engraved
on the General Alfred Kalberer Tro-
phy which will remain on perman-
ent display.
The twenty year old information
officer for Group 20 Headquarters
in Dallas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Esler, Elmcrest, has information in
his ‘blood. During the summers he
is a reporter on the Valley Daily
News in Tarentum; during the
school year, while majoring in Eng-
lish as a sophomore at Wilkes Col-
lege, he whips into shape the week-
end newscast for WBRE.
Esler, a graduate of Wyoming
Seminary, entered the Civil Air Pa-
trol in March, 1961 as a member of
Wilkes-Barre Composite Squadron
205; became cadet executive offi-
cer ‘in May, 1962; transferred to
Group Headquarters as information
officer in October 1962.
In 1962 he composed the ‘Civil
Air Patrol Cadet Code of Conduct”
for which he was commended by
Colonel Paul C. Ashworth, USAF,
CAP National Commander, and Col.
Philip F. Neuweiler. The. code has
been considered for adoption on a
National basis by the CAP.
Since entering the CAP cadet
program he has graduated from 1961
Ranger and Survival School at
Hawk Mountain; 1961 summer en-
campment at Ohmgstead AFB; 1962
and 1963 Cadet Officer Candidate
School at Shippensburg.
Store Sold After
Three Generations
A Pittston pharmacist has pur-
chased ‘Kuehn’s Drug Store, Main
Street; ending a three-generation
control of the store. Mrs. Lillian
Kuehn says that the ill health of
her son Frank is the reason for the
sale, but that she will stay on to
help Robert Fino operate. Mr. Fino
said there will be no substantial
changes under the new manage-
ment,
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DALLAS-TO-DALLAS FUND
FOR OFFICER’S BEREAVED,
LEFT WITHOUT ANY MONEY
Anyone interested in helping
with a Dallas-to-Dallas fund
for the family of officer J. D.
ITippit, murdered while seeking
the killer of cur President, can
send them via the Dallas Post,
whose employees will start the
purse.
It would he .only a token
thing, but Mrs. Tippit and her
tiswee children have no life in-
surance benefits or pension,
and, since her husband was
killed in the service of the na-
tion as well ‘as his city, it
would. be nice if we couid show
them we are grateful.
Write: J. D. Tippit Memorial,
L:allas, Penna; c/o Dailas Post.
Post Holiday
Dallas Post will be closed Wednes-
day at 4:30, will reopen Monday at
8, to give the staff opportunity to
enjoy a long Thanksgiving holiday.
Ambulance Will Buy
Radio And Coveralls
New coveralls and a new radio
will be ‘bought for Dallas Commun-
ity Ambulance, according to a vote
taken at the November meeting
Mrs. Nelson Thompson, Billj
Wright, and Les Tinsley were
named to the nominating commit-
tee for annual elections,
Farewell Tq
Loman Kathorily Names Edwatds,
And Elects J. Vivian President
Harry “Buckey” Edwards, Hunts-
ville, was named to the Lehman
Township Authority at a meeting
Thursday, and John Vivian was
elected president to take the place
of the late John Hewitt.
Edwards, owner of Huntsville
Nursery, replaces Edward Darby on
the Authority, which finances Leh-
man school building.
Other officers elected were: Har-
old Major, vice president; and Dr. |
Lewis B.: Thomas, secretary-treas-
urer.
Mr. Vivian said the Authority felt
Edwards was eminently qualified for
the job because of his business back- |
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ground, which is essential for an
understanding of the work. He also
noted that, although the new Lake-
Lehman High School Building was
dedicated in September, the group
expects to implement further ex-
tensive improvements in the not too
distant future.
The School Authority expressed
regret at the passing of the late
Mr. Hewitt, whom John Vivian
termed “the guiding light of the
Authority.”
Appointment of Mr. Edwards was
approved by Lehman Township
Supervisors.
Founded In 1960, Surface Processes
Laboratory Has Phenomenal Growth
It may not be. the biggest out-
fit in the Back Mountain, but it is
the fastest growing, and its output
adds prestige to the local scene.
Surface Processes Research and
Development Corporation started
out as very small potatoes two years
ago. People heard that a laboratory
was being established on Country
Club Road, but for the most part |
uted her knowledge of the growth
they did not take the trouble to
hunt it up, concealed among its
sheltering saplings, and situated far
back off the road.
Not so Howard Risley. Mr. Risley,
former editor of the Dallas Post,
was enthusiastic about the venture
from the start, visiting the infant
plant on frequent occasions, and
solidly behind its founders, Dr.
George J. Young and Joseph P.
Hall, Jr. “This is the type of thing
we need in this area,” he stated,
“a real asset to the community.”
It is fitting that a former Dallas
employee, Robert Bachman, should
be instrumental, through his ad-
vertising connection with Harring-
ton, Walker and Strickland, Inc. in
bringing before the public in an
imposing brochure, the facts of this
new laboratory; and that. Vincent
Civiletti, whose art work ‘has ap-
peared in the Dallas Post on many
occasions, . should have made the
sketch of consulting research
engineers which highlights the first
page.
Fitting also, that the wife of the
vice president of the corporation,
Margaret Hall, should have contrib-
and worth of the plant, to furnish
material for the artistic brochure
and for the attendant publicity.
Mrs. Hall, over a mug of coffee
in the directors’ room, said that
two more professional employees
would be added to the staff in De-
cember, and laboratory space was
being expanded.
It was moving day at the plant.
“Things are in sort of a mess,”
explained Mrs. Hall as she guided
a representative of the Dallas Post
through spaces that would eventual-
ly be equipped for the growing vol-
ume of research being done for the
Government and for private firms.
Up on top of a tall stepladder
in one building, David Ell of Shaver-
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Lehman Odd Fellows
Odd
712,
Lekman Fellows,
Lodge No.
Osage
Seated left to
712 Will Hold Third Annual Buction Saturday
right around the | Wesley Moore and Herbert Pritt.
will hold their | table are: Mrs. W. J. Yeisley, Bill |
Noble Grand, Alan iS. Major, said
third annual auction at the Lehman | Rineman, Myrtle Rineman, Si Ev- | that a variety of goods is being
Lodge Hall on Saturday, November | ans, Jean Evans, Emma Ide, Lewis | donated to go over the auction
30th. Items . will
start over the |V. Ide, Myron Baker, L. C. Sutton, | block. Included is much. farm pro-
block at noon and continue through | Alan S. Major, Noble Grand; Doro- | duce, furniture, appliances, clothing,
the evening. Myron S. Baker will thy W. Major, Beulah Sutton, Ruth |grocery items and antiques. Refresh-
act as auctioneer.
Shown here is a group of Odd |Gary Baker, Dorothy Baker, W. J.|
Fellows and their wives who met | Robbins, Mildred Baker, Mrs. F. R. | please leave at the home of Lance-
recently at the Lehman Lodge Halil
| Searfoss,
Mrs. Torrence
| Disque, Ruth Shupp, Robert Disque, |'ments will be served.s
Persons having items to donate,
Naugle, | ford Sutton, Wesley Moore or Alan
to make auction plans; members of | Torrence Naugle. Attending the din- |S. Major — or call any member of
the Toby Creek Lodge were guests. | ner after the photo was taken were |the Odd Fellows for pick-up,
hol®, pay day, haircut day, shopping
day.
Suddenly someone stood in the
doorway of a shop, quietly waved
someone from across the street in,
and they stood in front of the radio.
A car drew to a stop in the middle
of Main Street, blocking traffic, the
driver and a pedestrian listening
to its radio: “Full details are not
yet available” (the same voice
blared from the restaurant, the bar-
ber shop, the car), “but it has been
confirmed that the President, Gov-
ernor Connally of Texas, and possi-
bly a Secret Service man, have
been shot!”
From a locker in the High ‘School,
a transistor radio: “ . . . have been
shot!”
A small group gathered in the
barber shop. “That's really some-
thing,” the barber and the repair-
man shook their heads. “A guy
would have to be nuts!” growled a
passerby. ‘I just came from .the
restaurant,” said the police chief,
“and all the women there were
crying.”
Someone noted that the President
wasn't dead yet, and eyes met each
other now and again, but grostly
people stared at the floor. *
First punch: “A Secret. Service
man was heard to have said ‘He's
dead!” at the scene of the shot.”
Second punch: “Two priests who
were with the President in the hos-
pital say he is dead! I repeat ...”
That was it.
A radio station which plays rock
'n roll tunes twenty-four hours a
day switched immediately to hymns
and solemn music.
At Shavertown Postoffice patrons
clushered around a small radio, at
first unbelieving, later with heads
bowed as it was announced that
the two priests had seen him dead.
At Noxen, postoffice customers
gathered around the postmaster’s
television. Business in town drew
to a halt.
Postmasters all over the Back
Mountain scrambled to lower their
flags to half mast. Civic leaders
were on the phone cancelling events
scheduled.
Dallas High School senior play—
cancelled; Gate of Heaven PTA
Guild dance — cancelled; Lehman
Church group meeting and Dallas
varsity football team trip to Buck-
nell—all called off. A few events,
such as the Lake-Lehman dance,
continued, with scant atténdance,
because the organizers were too be-
numbed by the news to cancel.
Schools did not let out early. In
most cases, a student or janitor
picked up the news, spread it to
the teachers. Elementary schools
in the Dallas district let it up to
the teachers to announce.it in their
own way.
A junior high school teacher said:
“I've never seen anything like it.
Everybody and everything immedi-
ately became quiet. When the kids
left, there was none of the usual
fooling around. They just walked
away.”
College football games for Satur-
day, of course, were cancelled. The
American Legion turkey party was
postponed until December. The
Lake-Lehman football banquet was
forced to go on because the turkeys
had already been roasted before the
President was killed.
The redoubtable Kunkle farmer
dance went on Saturday, but at-
tendance was noticeably off.
After President Lyndon Johnson
and Governor William Scranton de-
clared a day of mourning, both
Lake-Lehman and Dallas Schools
were closed for Monday. So.were
College Misericordia and Gate of
Heaven.
Many churches scheduled special
services for yesterday, and busi-
nesses which did not close, let em-
ployees out to see the funeral serv-
ices.
Some Went Hunting
A few people questioned were un-
impressed by the impact of the
President’s death. One said Fri-
day: “I'll still go hunting tomor-
row.” The next day it poured rain.
A young man slammed his fist
down: “It would’ be more under-
standable if he'd been killed by a.
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