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stand a chance.
Paul Wilson, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson, 72 Franklin
Street, knocked into the back seat of this mangled wreck, sustained
multiple abrasions of body and face early Sunday evening, but was
condition” at Nesbitt Hospital.
listed as in ‘‘satisfactory”
He told investigating officer Raymond Titus that he was driving
the Falcon station wagon down old Main Road toward the highway,
when an animal of some sort ran in front of him. He swerved, and
when he came back on the pavement, put his foot on the gas in-
That's when he spun into the tree, seen in
stead of the: brake.
top picture.
Strangely enough, the tree
Judging from the position of the
pushed right through into the
would have been deadly. ;
Dallas Ambulance took Wilson
Cancer Crusade
Now On In Area
Mrs. Edgar
Richard Crompton,
co-chairman of the 13964 Cancer
Crusade which will begin this week
in the Back Mountain, have an-
nounced the chairman of various
districts.
Mrs. John Blase will head Dallas
Township volunteers, Mrs.
Sickler, Franklin Tewnship,
Mrs. Harry Lefko, Dallas Borough,
Mrs. William Simms, Lehrhan, Mrs.
Allan Nichols and Mrs. Frank Be-
secker, Truvcksville, Mrs. Frank
Wadas and Mrs. Robert Bayer,
Shavertown, Mrs. [Stephen Sterns,
Carverton, and Mrs. John and Sid-
ney Fielding, Jackson Township.
No chairman has yet been an-
nounced for the Lake area.
Chairman ' will “meet at Back
Mountain Library Annex this eve-
ning at 8 with Mrs. Nathaniel El-
liott, executive secretary of Luzerne
County Unit American Cancer
Society.
Vclunteer lists will be printed as
soon as received.
Brushfires Persist
In Many Communities
Franklin Township: put out a large!
grassfire on the Joseph Hudick
property, Heitsman Road, on Thurs-
day. afternoon, Edward Dorrance in
charge, helped by a volunteer con-
tingent from Centermoreland.
Dallas: Dr. Henry M. Laing Ccm- |
| appeared to have been torn down is the old concrete retaining wall. |
pany responded to a grassfire near
Applewood Manor, upper Demunds
Rcad, Sunday afternoon, but was
not needed.
Lekman: put ont a brushfire near
John Major's, Huntsville-Ceasetown
road. Thursday, Lee Wentzel "and
Russell Coolbaugh in charge.
Trucksville: answered a call Thurs- |
day morning, Orchard and Doran
Streets; but brushfire was already
extinguished.
Kunkle: grassfire Friday on the
Sapre property, Lake road, Fred
Dodson in charge.
Collide Head-On On
Highway, Shavertown
Two cars collided head-on on Me-
morial Highway in Shavertown
around 8:15 yesterday morning,
with no injuries.
John (Czarnecki, 'R D 2 Dallas;
headed south, was: turning into his
barber shop, and collided in the
northbound lane with a car driven |
by William Cushner, 33 Mt. Airy
Road, Shavertown. . Cushner
driving north.
Cushner’s car suffered motor
damage, and Czarnecki’s was dam-
aged on right fender and radiator, |
and had to be towed.
Assistant police chief Jesse Cos-
lett and officer Asher Weiss
vestigated.
in-
When a tree cuts a car almost in half, the driver doesn’t usually
Lashford and Mrs. |
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chairman and |
‘Harry |.
Mrs.”
was |
Back Mountain Area
Ambulance Logbook
Dallas Community ambulance took
Paul Wilson, Franklin Street, to
Nesbitt Hospital early Sunday eve-
ning, Gilbert Morris, Bill Wright,
and Bob Besecker attending. Wil-
son’s car hit a tree on Main Street.
Lake Township
Lake Township ambulance took
Mrs. Lila Kocher, Harveys Lake, to
General Hospital Saturday morn-
I ing, Fred Javers and James McCaf-
' frey attending. .
Kingston Township
On Friday afternoon, Miss Bess
Cronk, Orchard Street, Trucksville,
. ward Johnson, Anthony Plata and
| Jack Lasher as crew.
Attorney James Lenahan Brown,
{ Westmoreland Hills, was taken to
' Nesbitt on Friday evening, Sheldon
MacAvoy, Plata and Lasher attend-
ing.
Evan Walters, Carverton Road,
was taken to General Hospital,
Saturday afternoon for treatment
and returned home. Crew was
Harry Smith, Plata and Lasher.
Monday morning, Miss Bess Cronk
waz returned to her home in
Trucksville, with Smith and Al
Hawke as crew.
on Monday afternoon. :
| Mrs. Earl Hess was admitted to
| Nesbitt on Tuesday evening, ‘at-
tended by Robert Shoemaker, Jos-
eph Youngblood, E. Johnson and
Plata.
Lehman Tewnship
Lehman ambulance took Mrs.
Ruth Clarke, Sweet Valley, to Dan-
ville ‘Hospital Tuesday, Pete Hos-
podar and Lewis Ide attending.
Franklin-N orthmoreland
Franklin - Northmoreland ambul-
ance brought Mrs. John Smith,
Centermoreland, home from Nes-
bitt Hospital, Rev. W. Watson and
Ralph Weaver as crew.
Noxen Community
was hardly the worse for wear. Noxen Community
entire driver's section, which was
passenger’s ‘side; seat belts here
took Miss J. Gulitis from the clinic
to General Hospital Wednesday,
April 1, Albert Goble and Bill
Crossman attending.
to the hospital.
to peal off an estimated 2500 yards
of ground every day.
Two of the fleet of H. J. Williams
Euclid earth-movers are seen at
While work on the new highway
began anew the week of Mdrch 23,
the most evident progress of this
mammecth two-and-a-half yard shov-
el and its slightly smaller counter- | rear of picture, which looks down
part happened last week. | from the railroad tracks. Just be-
All of a sudden, the mountain | hind and to the right of the shovel
| and sent away, as the shovel began '
Kept Sate By New School Officer
|
| For fifteen or twenty minutes ev-
| ery morning, the school-corner of
| Huntsville Road and Lehman Av-{at the corner was worth it.
| enue-Franklin Street is mayhem. |PTA had been pretty adamant.
| School and greunds were designed | Police committee head Bob Moore
(for a day when pschool-buses were | found a good man for the job: Basil
| few, whizzing commuters were nil, | Lord, 89 Parrish Street, whose six-
(and not many mothers had cars to | foot plus stature has helped make
| pick up the kids. up for the fact that he has had to
| Borough Council tried to meet {work in plain clothes until the de-
| the problem in a variety of ways, | partment could get him a cap and
l including rationalizing that other | badge. °
| corners were just as needful of a| The job requires, in addition to ir-
| police guard. lon nerves, that the holder be free
| But the fact was, few intersec- |t0 come out at the beginning and
|.tions in town have as many hidden end of day only.
elements of danger built into them:
Buses and mothers’ in cars parked
| anywhere; kids tumbled off banks
onto Huntsville Road, whose roller-
| coaster slope is ideal for the tardy
commuter to pick up a little time;
lin any kind of bad weather, cars
coming off Lehman Avenue onto
Huntsville. Road need either a mule
or a head-start to get over the
hump; Franklin Street was virtually
| impassable, blocked with wehicles
land people.
their heads together, and decided
that cost of a @pecial traffic officer
| penter Pontiac, Wyoming, has a
| schedule idea] for the job. He goes
| to work after he finishes at the
| school, comes home for lunch at
| 3:30 and sees the kids off, and then
goes back to work in Wyoming un-
til about 9 p.m.
| The new guard has mastered
| some of the worst problems at his
corner. He has got all but one
| school bus driver top unload in the | : 3
parking lot; this was accomplished | it to clear up confusion at the in-
Council and Borough’ PTA put iby having teachers park their cars 'tersection,
was taken to Nesbitt Hospital, Ed- | :
| since new septic tanks were placed
Evan Walters was again taken to | 3 ind
General, Smith and Hawke as crew, [A heavy rock Jedge'in this Vicinity
| also deters’ proper drainage. |
bul I
Roba ange Creek but no better
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A
Mammoth Shovel Cuts Away Side Of Mountain
Chummy Dogs, Capering Children,
The |
Mr. Lord,, sales manager at Car- |
| baseball field adjoining the build-
| ing.
Open Sewage
Poses Threat
Higher Sumps Empty
Into School Yard
Underground sewage, washed up
by clogged drains and recent raing,
are depriving Shavertown Grade
School youngsters of use of the |
Not only has sewage appeared
among the mud, but a stench is also
noticeable.
School authorities are not to
blame for the unpleasant situation,
below school grounds several years
ago to take care of waste.
Source of the trouble appears to
be homes above the school, where
drains and septic tanks are not
sufficient to carry off the overflow.
State Highway officials have been
contacted by the superintendent
previously, in an effort to lay a
pipe along Center Street directly
to Toby's Creek, which is the
eventual resting place of sewage
in this area. However, the State
laid drains into the school yard
which clogs with heavy rains wash«
ing sludge and pebbles underground.
Township officials several years
ago prosecuted a case of surface
sewage, recently settled by the
courts. in an. effort to have home-
owners cope with the problem.
Same: procedure will follow if the
serious | threat to the health of
school children continues, for the
situation is one which must be
solved by the supervisors.
Dr. Robert A. Mellman has set
up a meeting with ‘Carl Sacks of the
Highway Department on Friday
morning to do something about the
continued - nuisance since Center
Street is state owned and main-
tained.
Health Department has objected
sewage. draining into Toby's
solution has
to
been forthcoming.
In ‘the meantime,’ the youngsters
play in the muddy school yard, damp
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Dirt is trucked to fill over and
between the two metal tubes which
carry Toby Creek on its course
under the new canyon highway
route at the “big bend.”
Excavation will be complete,
weather permitting, within another
month.
out of the way. He has issued warn-
ings to speed-demon commuters,
| who are really supposed to go no
more than 15 miles an hour. He tries
to keep priority on Lehman Avenue
during bad weather, so cars can
make it over the hump onto Hunts-
i ville ‘Road.
He has a wad of tickets in his
pocket, and he can write one out
for parking violations, reckless
driving, and’ driving ‘too fast for
conditions.
Curiously, some of the worst prob-
lems at this time of year are not |
with children, but with dogs, who |
love children. The dogs get to play-
ing, forget themselves, and charge
out in front of traffic. Mr. Lord re-
| service clubs of the area are sol-
.ed a fractured collarbone when she
commends the owners of Big Red
(a famous Heights Irish Setter),
| Wolf (some collie apparent), a lit-
tle beagle, and a little hound, names
| unknown, keep them home during |
| the rush hours. |
| "Mr. Lord, a resident of Dallas |
for twenty-nine years, formerly em-
| ployed by Lester Pontiac, is married i
[to the former Dorothy Conden, Har-
| veys Lake, and they have one son. |
| He pays he likes the job very much,
land felt a concern when he took
COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Back Mountain Memorial Library [étte, president of : Dallas Kiwanis;
Auction Kick-Off Dintver is set for
May 7 at Irem Country Club. All
Rotary; = Merrill. Faegenberg, = co-
chairman of the Auction; Russell
DeRemer, president of Dallas Lions
Club. { >
Mr. Schooley credits service clubs
of Dallas with * providing the kind
idly ‘back of the annual venture.
Left to right, standing in front
of the Library, are: David Schooley,
immediate past president of the Li-
brary Association, and chairman of
Area Service Clubs Support Library Buction Kick-Off Dinner
Frank Huttman, Auction chairman; tinued success, year after year. The
Myron Baker, president of Dallas eighteenth Annual Auction, sched-
| uled for this year for July 9, 10 and
the Kick-Off Dinner; William Guy- of support for the Annual Library |
Blast Investigation
Entering Sth Week
State . police investigation this
week of the Carverton dynamiting
is ‘at about the same position it
was when the office was consulted
by the Dallas Post last Wednesday.
Captain, John Yaglenski, com-
manding officer, Troop B, Wyoming
Barracks, said the investigation has
come up with “nothing startling,” |.
but is proceeding on the basis of
certain clues. From these clues,
the captain said, the case could go
either way.
It has now been nearly a month
since unknown persons blew up
seven pieces of construction equip-
ment, owned by contractor ‘Irvin
Miller, Burgettstown, at the. sight
“of proposed Frances .Slocum Park.
From: Commander Naval Base,
Subj: Letter of Commendation
Ref:
2.
work for the Naval Service.
3.
their final destination.
Shavertown Girl Hurt
When Thrown By Horse
Miss: Barbara Lohmann, 15, Pi-
oneer Avenue, Shavertown, suffer- opportunity presents itself.
Well Done.
was thrown from a bucking horse |
at Mohawk Academy, Harveys Lake,
on Saturday afternoon.
The injured girl was rushed to
a dector’s office by Richard Ruggles
who was riding nearby. Not finding
the physician home, he proceeded
immediately to Nesbitt Hospital,
where Barbara was admitted.
Daniel Kozemchak Commended By
Admiral Bulkeley At Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
To: KOZEMCHAK (KOZE), Daniel (n), JOC, 248 88 70, USN
(a) CINCLANTLT MSG 182000Z of February 1964
1. Reference (a) received by this command from the Commander
in Chief, U. S. Atlantic Fleet is quoted:
“Your story is the most comprehensive report on water line
cutoff received, especially considering professional media representa-
tives present at time of cutting. Well Done.”
To the above add my hearty well done for an able piece of
Additionally, I have noted the superb handling of a press party
of fourteen which required responding to their individual needs,
releases of their copy and following through on the releases to
Above all, I have noted the instinctive sensing ‘of a “scoop”
for the Naval Service and real professional handling of the
situation that fully exploited the scoop. This has been an out-
standing example of Navy men assigned to journalistic duties
making a major contribution to the Naval Service when the
The Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba will make this letter and an appropriate service record
entry a part of your official service record.
JOHN D. BULKELEY
Rear Admiral,
U.S. NAVAL BASE, - GUANTA- | as charged by Fidel Castro.
NAMO BAY, CUBA—Chief Journal- |
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She was released Tuesday after- | ist Daniel Koze, as he is known
noon but is confined with a cast | at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was
which leaves her unable to use | commended by the Commander
| Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Rear
her arms from six to eight weeks.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David | Admiral John D. Bulkeley and the |
Lohmann, Barbara is a hinth grade | Commander in Chief, U. S. Atlantic’
Fleet Admiral H. P. Smith for his
journalistic duties during the re-
cent water crisis.
Chief Koze
student Dallas Junior
School.
Seek Offending Car
Richard Disque, funeral director,
and Dallas Police Chief Russell
Honeywell are seeking the owner
and whereabouts of a 1958 or 1959
Oldsmobile, which apparently back-
ed into Dick’s Cadillac on Monday | rapher as well. He is currently
night. | serving on the staff of Rear Admiral
Several small, but irksome dents | John D. Bulkeley, who proved to
were left in the front of the car, | the world that Guantanamo Naval
which’ was parked in front of the | Base was not receiving Cuban water
Borough Building = during lodge | - T = Er
meeting.
at High
is the son of Mrs.
[ nue. He
Township High School in 1945.
During «© the
monies aboard the Naval
The license number known, be-
cause the car-owner left his lights
on, prior to the accident, and was
paged at the meeting, but not
found.
Pipeline Okayed At
Lake Board Meeting
At a meeting of Lake Township
Supervisors Saturday morning, a
letter from Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania was read, stating that
permit had been granted to. Penn-
sylvania Gas and Water Company
to excavate and install a gas line
through the Sunset area.
Construction for the line was
going on this week at Idetown.
Tax collector's and police 'reports
were read and approved.
Two representatives of g Berwick
emulsified asphalt company were
present, requesting that solicitation
of bids for road materials include
recent changes of terminology, gov-
ernment approved, to enable them
to submit a bid this spring.
Fred Receives Plaque
Fred Hennebaul, Parrish Street,
Dallas, attended the Hooper Wrest-
ling Banquet, Saturday night at
of the organization for the year
1930, was honored last Thursday
the Hingston Américan Legion. He evening at its 37th Annual Charter
Jay 4 i Night held at Irem Temple Coun-
received a plaque denoting courage ¢
and perservance, which is well de- | try Club. :
served. Mr. Kingsley,
Orchard
Naval Base Chapel program, and
| was recently elected as Vice Chair- |
| Rose Kozemchak, Overbrook Ave- |
graduated from Dallas |
pipe cutting cere- |
Base, |
Chief Koze acted as official photog- |
| the PTA.
| Bay until July, 1965.
fo Dallas Rotary Honors L. F. Kingsley Et Charter Night Celebration
L. F. Kingsley, charter member | Trucksville, and manager of Har-
of Dallas Rotary Club and president |
Street, | with the Rotary Wheel: insignia in|
{ Chief is Secretary of the Naval]
VOL. 75, NO. 14 THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964
Protective Group
Favors Merger
Will Prime Voters
On Its Advantages
Back Mountain Protective Asso-
ciation, according to Dr. F. Budd
Schooley, is solidly behind the move
to form a merged school district
of the five component parts of the
present Lake-Lehman Jointure.
The question will be placed before
the voters of Lake, Lehman, Jack-
son, Ross and Noxen Townships in
the April 28th Primaries.
Information is being distributed
through the schools, to acquaint
voters with the benefits to be ob-
tained through merging the school
districts into a unit acceptable to
the Pennsylvania State Schoo!
Board in Harrisburg.
On the committee named by the
Protective Association are E. V.
Chadwick, Herman Otto and Dr.
Schooley.
At the last meeting of the Asso-
ciation, ten applicants for scholar-
ships offered through the Sordoni
Foundation were considered, and
since that date two more applica-
tions received. All applicants show-
ed scholastic ratings in the upper
tenth of their respective classes.
Members of the. Association will
push reassessment for Luzerne
County, an operation which was
completed five years ago in adjoin-
ing Wyoming County, with an ac-
credited organization from the West
in charge. Millage drops as real
estate values are adjusted.
A proper reassessment is designed
to wipe out inequities to tax-
payers.
Auction, which guarantees its con-
11 at the Risley Barnyard, is the
main support of a library which is
unique, a genuine home-grown af-
fair with its roots firmly planted
in the community.
photo by Kozemchak
Disperses Cylists
Borough patrolman Raymond
Titus dispersed six motorcyclists
who were loitering in front of ‘the
Town House Restaurant early Sun-
day afternoon, after receiving
complaint.
a
The leather-jacketed group was
from out of the area, and roared
away quietly when ordered to do
so.
0dd Fellows To
Hold Dinner
U.S. Navy
The Koze family is active in com-
munity affairs at Guantanamo. The |
Base Civic Council, a group of en-
listed men representing over 2,000 |
enlisted families, associated with |
Cub Scout, Junior Baseball League, |
|
man to the Guantanamo Bay Board Frederick W. Anderson
of Regents a group that awards Toby Creek Lodge 1078, Trucks-
scholarships to worthy students at |ville, and Osage Lodge 712, Leh-
the High School here. man, will observe the cansolida-
Mrs. Koze, the former Josephine 'tion of the two lodges at a dinner
LaCarte of Ashley, is a Den Mother, | to be held Friday evening, April
member of the base choir, Eastern | 17» at 6:30 at Lehman Fire Hall.
Star and Publicity Chairman for | Ladies Auxiliary of Lehman Fire
The Koze's have three { Company will serve a family style
children Ronna, 11, Mark 9, and | Turkey Dinner. ;
John, 7. They will remain in Gitmo | Comprising the committee for the
| affair are Frederick W. Anderson,
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So
a
| appreciation of his fine record.
veys Lake Light Company was | Pictured above are left to right:
recognized for his outstanding serv- | Dr. Robert A. Mellman, L. F. Kings-
ice to the local club since its in-|ley, Mrs. L. F. Kingsley, Myron
ception in 1927, over and beyond | Baker, president of Dallas Rotary
the ¢all of duty. Club.
I
He tas given ‘a pipe engraved | Dr. Robert A. Mellman was toast-
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