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DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
YOUR HEALTH
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The property damage last vers
was a staggering $1.590,600.000, |
the highest on record.
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lege fires increased over previous
years with 5,200 listed.
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| Church fires numbered 2,900, a
decline of 100 from the year be-
There were 48,500 fires in indus- | | fore.
trial plants and 44,300 fires in 2 Sra i
Stores. Nursing homes suffered a. half
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The number of schools and col- | year in the 600 fires reported.
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million dollar loss from fires Jost and misused heating and cooking
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Carelessness is one of the chief
causes of these costly fires.
There is carelessness in the use
of smoking materials and much
mishandling of flammable liquids,
and rubbish.
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Electric defects and defective
! eguipment acooant for many fires.
Shavertown Birthdays
Greetings this week to Merten
J. Coolbaugh, Mark Klocber, Jean
M. Herr, Jerry Price, Bert Elton
Brace, Thomas J. Jenkins, June Lee
Tippett, Pamela Sue Porter, Mrs.
Arthur Hontz, Alice Austin, Lewis
Evans, Larry Klaboe, Harry Ritts,
Sr:;, Walter Cook, Samdy Beech,
Willard Puterbaugh, Ruth Turner,
Elizabeth Banks, Florence Pugh,
Ann Troop, Robert, Williamson.
Leo T. Schwartz, Ruby Root, Fred
Templin, Florence Woolbert, Bar-
bara Kangas, Leon Weisp, Peg Maza,
Debra Jean Ell, Mrs. Rick Rudy,
George Gosart, Elizabeth Schweiss,
Mary Zimmerman.
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964
Replace Old Wa
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This old retaining wall on Hunts- |
ville Road by the reservoir at junc- |
tion with Overbrook Road is being
replaced by the County.
Base of the new wall is shown
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struction men, featuring heavy steel |
support. The old wall, which ran
spot, crumbled with age and wear
and tear from weather and flood.
One-lane traffic will prevail for
the next two weeks until the job
is done. Some skeptics will say
the road has been so narrow there |
as to have always been one-lane. |
Above the' wall is the Corer)
property, two houses, of J. Milton
Culp. A neighbor says the wall |
dates from around the turn of the |
century, and owners ‘of the prop-
erty agree it was very old.
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DALLAS, PA. Js
Herschel E. Booth
| Widely Connected
The sudden death of Herschel E.
Booth at his home in Johnstown
early Saturday morning, affects a
number of people in this commu-
nity,
Mrs. Booth, in Mercy Hospital at |
Johnstown, facing surgery, was not |
able to attend the funeral on Wed-
nesday. Her serious condition is
| thought to have been a possible
contributing factor to the heart at-
tack which took Mr. Booth at the
age of 59.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, he was |
employed by Sordoni Construction
Co. as district superintendent of
the Johnstown division.
| His mother is Mrs. Blnche Booth, |
West Wyoming. His father was the |
| late Arthur Booth.
The London family related.
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fevound twenty. feet: highs gt one | George London of Center Moreland |
|#s his uncle. Jean Marie Pall, Mrs.
| Ziza Smith, nd Mrs. Dale Oney are
| nieces. Almon Booth, West Wyom-
ing, a former manager of the Dallas |
Acme, is his brother.
There are three children: Mrs.
Blanche Cramer, Johngtown; Her-
schel E. Jr., Johnstown; Mrs. Aud-
rey Virgin, Fort Wainright, Alaska;
fourteen grandchildren.
Mr. Booth was a member of Un-
ited Brethern Church, and Johns-
town Lodge F&AM; Coudersport
Cons'story; Jaffa Temple; Johns-
town Shrine Club; American In-
stitute of Electrical Engineers and
United €ommercial Travellers.
and Industy Show climaxed Sun-
day night,
the Russian home.
D. T. Scott, Jr.,- Dallas; was re-
Florida or the New York World's
Fair.
Shown. with his son Philip in
photo above, Mr. Scott receives
congratulations from Howard White-
cipient of the grand prize, an all=1
expense-paid trip for two to either | bidder was John M. Kester of 621
SECTION A — PAGE 3
Wins Grand Prize At Home And Industry Show
Northeastern Pennsylvania Home | sell, chairman of the show, at left,
and John J. Dougherty, Jr., of the
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ith the awarding of | | Greater Wilkes-Barre Junior Cham-
the grand Fy and auctioning of | ber of Commerce.
The Russian home, auctioned off
as an ideal summer cabin, brought
spirited bidding. The successful
Miller Street in Luzerne. Handling
the bidding were Robert Bachman
and John Vivian, Library Auction
stalwarts.
Footprints On The Sands
of Time
(Continued from previous month)
| JULY 25, 1963
Lt. Colonel William O. Funder-
burke, native of Texas, takes over
{ command of Benton Air Force Base.
Jeffrey B, Carr, 25, Trucksville,
meets instant death at Mt. Pocono
in auto accident.
Memorial Plot erected by Trucks-
ville Service Wives and Mothers
‘smantled by new highway con-
struction crew.
Four Pringle girls escape serious
injury when their Corvair dives in-
to Harveys Lake.
Lehigh Valley Railroad petitions
for abandonment of 6.2 miles of
Bowman's Crees branch running
through Dallas from Luzerne.
Dr. David Kunkle opens office
in Trucksville.
John Sulco:ki, former
teacher, writas new books,
tled “Semimicro Experiments
Chemistry.”
Married: Judith Ann Fenstermacher,
Dallas, to Martin Stefanik, Freeland;
Nancy Ann Handshaw, New Cum-
Dailas
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8 am.-5 p.m.
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8 a.m.-1 p.m.
| berland, to Lt. Wayne Moss, Shick-
shinny.
Anniversaries: Mr. and Mrs. George
Ellsworth, Harveys Lake, 55th; Mr.
and Mrs. Cary Graham, Dallas, 25th.
Birthdays: George Dendler, Noxen,
81.
Deaths: Mrs. Elsa Schneider, 94,
Valley Crest, formerly of Shaver-
town; Frank Heslop, 80, Demunds
Road; Mrs. Bessie Schultz, Dallas;
Paul Eckert, 60, Dallas.
AUGUST 1, 1963
Foreign exchange students Gail
Rumbaugh, Penny Farrar, Linda Da-
vies, and Judy Casteriine, honored
by Dallas ‘Rotary.
Drew Bittenbender, Sandy Waz-
eter win in midget races.
Supposedly ' rabid fox shot
Lake.
Petition of Lehigh Valley to aban-
Aon rail service to Dallas raises
storm. Road constructicn crews al-
ready grading for relocation of
tracks at great expense to taxpay-
ers.
Commonwealth announces
duced rates for Lake area.
Married: Margaret Malkemes to
Walter T. Mahonev.
Died: Chester A. Keiner, 60, Noxen;
Ralnh Kocker. 21, Pleasant Valley.
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Anniversarv: Mr. and Mrs. George
Dendler. 50th; Mr. and Mrs. Paul
T.aBar, 25th.
AUGUST 8, 1963
Linda Davies. hound for Austral-
in. - Rotary Exchange: Frederick
Malkemes bound for Africa to
teach in Kenya.
Final Awebinn gossion, locks lke
around $17.000
Tm=Ady building fails to move at
anction.
T.ibhrarian Blizahath Ruder recions,
net.
Ned: Farman VanCamrpen. Shaver-
torm: Mre Saroh Moz. 21. Fern-
bro~k: M»g. Ramnlah Witnhon £3.
motive of Stoll: Charles J. Waester-
velt. 69. Hunlock Creek; Mrs. Molly
80. Lovalville,
Marvied: Patricia Sholt's to Albert
H. Sutterlin .Jr.; Lorraine Batory to
Philip Novicki.
AUGUST 15, 1963
Center Moreland
good crowd.
Dallas School Board fich‘s high-
way dangers for school children.
Welton Farrar candidate for
school director as George Parrish
withdraws.
Married: Patricia Lee Meyer to Wil-
iam E. Donoghne; ‘Sharon Lee My-
ars to Walter Lawrence MacPeek;
Trene Shultz to Norman Hove; Car-
nl Story to Theodore Mnontross.
Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Ruggles, 70th.
Clarence Laidler retires after 42
years of banking.
(To be continued)
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