' 8 Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain 75 YEARS A NEWSPAPER TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES Eagle Scouting Awards Presented Two Dallas Boys At Local Service ARTHUR MILLER, JR. Eagle stowed on Arthur R. Miller and | Robert G. Schooley at the Eagle Court of Honor held Monday eve- Scout Awards. were be- ning" by “Boy ‘Scout Troop 281 at | Dallas’ Methodist ‘Church. Arthur R. Miller, Jr., 17, is the son .of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller, 162, Huntsville :Road, Dallas. ! Arthur "has. been active in, the Scouting organization: since Troop’ 281 :for six years. He ‘has attended Camp Acahelg each sum- mer with “his scout ‘troop, missing | only. one - season. when: he served as a -Consulor at Camp Kresge for | the YMCA, Artie has earned 22 Merit Badges and received his God and Country Award in 1963, and is. avmember: of the Order of the Arrow. He has been Patrol Leader, Senior Patrol Leader and is now Junior Assistant .Scoutmaster. Artie is a senior at Dallas Senior High ‘School. He is an active mem- bet of the Key Club and its, Drill | Team. [A member" of . Dallas Methodist | Church, he serves -as an usher and | is past MYE. ; Artie had been a little Merchant president of ‘the Senior for “the Times Leader and Wilkes- ! Barre Record for eight years and is now kept busy at the Back Moun- tain Memorial Library after hours and weekends. His brother Jim is, also, a mem- ber’ of Troop 281. Robert G. Schooley, 17, is the son “of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Schooley, 112 Davenport Street, Dallas. Robert has been a member of Troop 281 since 1959 transferring from Troop 141, Luzerne. He has been in Scouting since 1958, attends Camp. Acahela each summer and is a .member of the Order of the Ar- row: He received his God and Country Award in Scouting, and has’21 Merit Badges. Member of the Luzerne Bennett Presbyterian Church, he is presi- dent’ of its Youth Fellowship. Robert is a senior at Dallas Sen- ior High School, is president of the Student Council, and 4 member of the Key Club and Newspaper Club. He is Lodge: Chief of Acahela Lodge 223 Order of the Arrow and is Wyo- ming’ Valley Candidate for Report to Nation. Charges for DALLAS PILFERING ATTEMPTS the ceremony were Two Dallas businesses were ob- | pilfering on laundro- unsuccessful the Kleen ject of Thanksgiving, mat on Tunkhannock Highway, re- | cently purchased by George Bitten- bender and Ernest Evans, and Els- ton’s dairy office building, behind Forty Fort Ice Cream Store, Fern- brook. At the laundromat, thief tried to. open a coin-changing machine, containing about $100, but failed. | He wore a greasy glove to destroy | fingerprints. Cub | Days‘ ‘and has been a member of | school ROBERT SCHOOLEY | | Arthur Miller and by Rev. A. J. Cara to Robert Schooley for the Church. Atty. ' Robert: Fleming | gave the charge for the community, | { George McCutch ch for the | : ; ! & he oon args. Ton ne rushed to Nesbitt Hospital the same school and “Charles Maxwell the charge for scouting. William Baker Jr:, ‘was "in charge ‘of the Eagle Parents ceremony. Mrs. Rana Strazdus | Dies Wed. Afternoon [ Word was received at presstime [that Mrs. Anna Strazdus, Martz Road; had died at Nesbitt Hospital, where she was admitted Monday night ‘by = Franklin-Northmoreland asthmatic condition. Funeral ‘arrangements’ await the decision of the family. Mrs. Strazdus had been hospital- | ized several times during the past year. She leaves her and four children: Richard, Ray- mond, Sandra, and Karen. Sandra | is bookkeeper at the Dallas Post. wus S. Shuleski, Dallas, was recently installed as | Commander of the Daddow Isaacs American Legion Post, succeeding Past Commander George Cave. Church affiliations are with Gate of Heaven, where he is past secre- tary of the Holy Name Society, active member of the PTG, and an usher. He is a Third Degree mem- ber of Knights of Columbus. He is | . . . American Legion, and a life mem- THE DALLAS POST MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION ‘Back Mountain Area | Ambulance Logbook Dallas Community Dallas Community Ambulance took Mr. and Mrs. Russell Achuff, Shavertown, to Nesbitt Hospital, following ‘their fatality in Dallas Sunday afternoon, William John Berti as crew. Dallas took Mrs. Howard Joiner, Pioneer Avenue, Shavertown, to | General Hospital Tuesday, L. R. Scott, Ralph Fitch Jr., and Willard Bullock (K. Twp.) Victor Piccone, New Goss Manor, was transferred from Nesbitt Hos- pital ‘to Jefferson Hospital, Phila- delphia, yesterday, Roy Laughead | and Les Tinsley attending. attending. Lake Township Lake Township took Howard | Bronson, Sweet Valley, from scene day to Nesbitt Stenger crew. They were called for other accident earlier that morning there, but were not needed. Hospital, Kingston Township Bia ties dom] I given by Rev. Robert Shechan to ambulance, suffering from an: acute | husband August, | Center Hill Road, an | a past historian of the | {ber of Post 283, VFW, in Kingston. : On November 25, Harry Owens, | Maple Street, was brought home from Nesbitt Hospital, Harry Smith, Vought Long, Jack Lasher attend- ing. Chester Layou, Kingston, was day following a truck accident. Crew was Al Hawke and Richard | Huey. On Thursday evening Helene Mc- | Cormack, ' Fernbroock, and Robert | Rish, Kingston, were admitted to ! General Hospital, following a car accident. Roan, Anthony Plata and Lasher. |. Friday evening, Mrs. Martin Stook, | Pioneer Avenue, was rushed to Mercy Hospital, attended by Walter Davis, Robert Carey and RHA: wel Chas, George Russ, i to Nesbitt Hospital on’ Sui ts] tended .by William Frede: Plata. That same evening, Mr. ! August Jacobson, Wilkes-Barre, and | Mrs. Lila Felt, Dallas, were rushed to Nesbitt Hospital following the | fatal crash near Birth's | Station, Walter Davis, and Lasher as crew. ind Frederick Born in Hudson, son of Mrs. Peter Shuleski and the last Peter Shu- leski, he was educated at Plains High School and the Wilkes-Barre Business College. He is presently employed as Assistant Superintendent at the General Cigar Company, Division | Street, Kingston. The new Commander served five years with the U. S. Army, includ- ing 27 months in the Middle East | non, in Cairo, | Theatre of War, Egypt. based and | of accident at Pikes Creek Wednes- | John | and Lee Zimmerman as | an- | Attendants were Andrew | and Mrs. | Service | TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 674-5656 674-7676 VOL. 75, NO. 48. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1964 ‘Worst Back Mountain Car Crash In The worst highway accident in the Back Mountain in several years | remained somewhat of a mystery this week, although police were | substantially certain that the death | car was coming north and crossed the medial strip, hitting the other | head-on. | - The Dallas Post checked out other | possibilities, as rumors floated | around the Back Mountain, and | found them nil. | Most prominent rumor was that | the Russell Achuff car, in which [2 Tl-year-old man and his wife, 69, were killed, was coming out of | scmeplace from road, specifically either Clyde | Birth’'s Esso station or Hawk ‘Trail- | er Sales, in front of which the acci- dent occurred, Sunday afternoon. Mr. Birth cleared this up for the Post, saying the Achuff car was | not in the station that night. Mr. | Achuff’s son, Richard, who is em- | ployed at Birth’s was not there | that night, either. It was speculdted that Mr. Achuff | might have had a heart attack, thus causing him to go out of control. However, no autopsy was perform- cerebral damage. John Jones, manager of the trail- | er company, said the car was not in his lot. He said that he and em- ployees ' were : working around time of the crash, about 5 | p.m. He heard brakes of the Aug- | the crash. It ‘was not possible, he said, for the Achuff car to have been com- ing up the southbound lane. in the | wrong direction. He noted there were no brake-marks from the ! Achuff car, while the Jacobson car had braked very hard, probably to a halt. Jones and help went out to aid the sorge freed one woman from the | injured. Helper Don Klein- wreckage. Most seriously. injured, after the ' Achuffs, Mrs. Lila Felt, 69, R.:D. 1} Legion Installs New Post. Commander In the picture, reading from left to right. seated, are: Francis Weiss, | ed, and cause of death is listed on | ,. : lice iG he : : ., | Kingston Township, his certificate as fractured skull and | | | Dallas. took . Mr. the. side. of the | been first Some Years; Firemen Pallbearers Dallas, passenger in their car, was | still in critical condition yesterday | almost three full days afternoon, after the crash. Her most serious injuries included fractured legs, jaw, right arm, and ribs, concussion, and multiple contusions. Her doctor's prognosis is ‘‘guarded.” Both Mr. and Mrs. August Jacob- son, - Wilkes-Barre residents, were on the mend at the hospital, he with fractures of ribs and cuts, she with compound fracture of right leg and abrasion of forehead. He was driving the 1960 Chevrolet sed- an, which skidded violently to a halt just before ‘the crash. Police Called State police eating at Orchard Farm Restaurant are said to have officers on the scene. | When they arrived the trailer work- ers were helping the injured as best they could. An unidentified young | man was said to have been giving first aid, and went to the near-by Quaker Court Motel for blankets for the victims, Helping direct traffic was one of the first motor- ists along the way, George Stof- flett, a’ college student. Ambulances called: were Dallas, and Mrs. Achuff. i Kingston Township took Mr. Jacob- son” and Lila Felt, 69, Dallas R.D. 1, next ‘most seriously hurt. Mrs. | ° "Jacobson was. taken to the side of in the lot ! | ust Jacobson car, southbound, and { | | at hand when they got in, so they | State Service Office; State Repre- | sentative Fred Shupnik, | officer; Gus S. Shuleski, mander; Peter Toloczko, National Rehabilitation Officer; George Cave, immediate Past President. Standing: Richard Staub, lain; Leonard Dougherty, installitg | new Con} chap- historian; the road and covered with blankets. A call. was put out for Lehman ambulance. Pete Hospodar took the Lehman call, but, knowing he would be first- aid man, was still without a driver. He finally got Bill Hardisky. A de- i lay of some twenty minutes followed the call for Lehman. Lehman got there about a minute before Kings- ton: Township ambulance, whic | rushed back to the scene, but there was confusion as to which stretcher | was to be used, ,and Kingston | Township had their. portable right | i took the last victim. Dallas Fire Company washed the roadway of glass, gasoline, and anti- | freeze. Photographer James XKozemchak of skid and position. A Witness Police Chief Russell Honeywell Svs he doesn’t want to reveal his | Jratness’s. name and address, which the Dallas Post learned with cha- grin, as we were | right next to him | when he learned the man’s name, | but did not bother to copy it down because it was assumed it would be | available - from = Honeywell, Any- way, the witness, he says; saw the car cross the medial strip, while travelling north, striking the Jacob- son vehicle. There was another possible wit- | ness, he said, in a car following the Jacobson’s. company, Mr. Jones said he did not see that car. It is.now known that the Achuffs and Mrs. Felt, a relative, were out ; accident. Joint funeral = services for the! and Lehman. | At the trailer sales! Albino buck, was about 9 a.m. Richard ‘Huey, 16 256 Post Road, | Trucksville; was - among- successful | | early hunters. Monday - morning | Student at "Dallas = Senior | Sehool he was hunting with his dad (at Red Rock ‘when he got’ his iv | point buck at’ 8:30 ‘am. The animal | 1n Area High School will play | | weighed * 147 pounds, dressed. [ Mrs. Sophie "Salanski Mickno, { hunting Wednesday near her home | | in ‘Ceasetown, got a five pointer | weighing 140 “pounds. She gutted | it, dragged it to the the road, and [flagged two passersby to help ‘her | put it in the car. shot yesterday morning by Ferris Fuller, Jackson Street, on Peter Skopic’'s Christmas-tree land, Route 29, is seen here. Buck has unusually flat antlers, about 9 points, and may be one * of two whet escaped last month from Red Rock Game Tarn. Mi. Fuller (left), who wads hunting with son Richard, seen here with him, says he could discern that the deer was very light ir color, ) but did not know it was pure white until after he dropped it. She's been hunt- | | ing since high school days, got a | deer two years ago, missed out last year. . Bobby. Ide,. 14, son of | Mrs. William Ide, Idetown, Mr. and | shot a | | four-point buck Monday morning on | | Dutch Mountain. .This is the sec- | a Time <: Faculty To Play Fa New York Team The men’s. faculty of Lake-Leh- the New York Harlem Satellites on i December 4, at 8 p.m. in the High | School gymnasium. The Satellites | should prove to be ‘quite a chal- lenge to the faculty. As of date the Harlem ball club has won a total of 1045 games compared with the loss of nine games. Tickets may be obtained from any member of Letterman’s Club, Girls’ Athletic: Association, Cheerleaders, or Associate Letterman's: Club.: Everyone is invited. The - Lake-Lehman High School | male faculty team will oppose the { p is! assisted police with measurements | ond, year Bob has hunted, and his | second. year. of success. He is a Lake-Lehman eighth grader. |. Edwin. S. Powell, Oak Hill, got an 8. point buck at: 8:45 Monday morning, hunting by himself at Leh- man. “Hig Hirst deer, although ke has ‘been hunting since age 12, it weighed 180 pounds and took him | |-an-hour and a-half to drag it ‘out: of the woods. | ‘Kenn “Higgins, 17, Martz Farm | road, got his first deer at 7:15 am. Monday, hunting with his father, Samuel Higgins at Huntsville. It took ‘the: men an hour and a half to drag the 170 pound four-point Satellites in this contest. Faculty team will consist of the following | teachers: Stanley Gulbish, Kenneth Maciak, Leonard = Threston, Paul Turkson, Edward Edwards, John w kins, | buck uphill from the creek to the | road. Kenn is a senior at Dallas | High School. | Bud Mahler, a junior ‘at Dallas | High, who lives at 66 Mt. Airy | Road, ‘Shavertown, shot a 6-point, | 1 opening day, on the mountain hove | Mooyretown. Miliauskas, Clark Vassia, John Jen- Ed Narkiewicz] Ritharg Hy- nick, John Zlotek, Carl. Roszkowski, and John Zaleskas. first: day of deer season. In the Junior High round-up were seven boys: Donald Spencer with a spike buck weight 125 pounds, and Henry Post with a three-pointer, weight 135, from the seventh grade. Larry Oney, six points, weight 150, and Robert Ide, four points 120 pounds, eighth grade. Stephen | Yurko, his first deer. He and his father Al Conrad = Winter, William Murphy, four points, 145 ' | | for a Sunday drive at time of the {150 pound buck at about 9 am. | pounds, ninth grade. | pounds; Tim Nevel, spike, 100 Senior High School students: six points, 125, | crash victims, Mr. and Mrs. Russell also had an hour and a half work | tenth grade. | Achuff, Shavertown, = were held | Wednesday afternoon at 2 from | Kniffen Funeral Home; with Rev. | Alfred = Caletti officiating.. Inter- ment was in Fern Knoll Burial | Park, Dallas. unteer Firemen, Andrew Roan, Wal- | ter Davis, Anthony Plata, Malcolm | Kitchen, Leo “Red” Schwartz and Loren Dymond. Police Car Nick Car | Officer Alexander McCulloch collided | slightly on Main Street with one | Thomas Reese, adjutant; Curtis By- | senior vice commander; ward Buckley; treasurer; Roland ! Spencer, sergeant- -at-arms. Ed- | driven. by Cleo Sheckler, oneer Avenue, car owned by Ken- neth Chamberlain, late Friday after- noon’ in front of the bank; no in- ' juries. Bearers were all Shavertown Vol- | driven by Borough Police | 129 Pi-| | pulling the carcass out of the | woods. | .Don McDaniel, visitor In the eleventh ‘grade, four stu- | | dents: Kenneth Livezey, four point, at. the 120 pounds; Ralph Peiffer, | Strazdus home, East Dallas, shot a 115; Elton Wandel, spike, 150; Don Miss Helen McCormack, 21, daugh- ter of Mr. | Hospital yesterday after being ing ap Huntsvilles 6-pointer at -Gamelands 57. Tuesday; | | | Gregory, six point, 105. Dick Strazdus shot a 4-pointer, | In the twelfth, two students: Rob- same day. ert Hunter, three point, 140; Bob | Fourteen . Lake-Lehman High | Rood, four point, 120. School students and one home-| John Jenkins, home-room teacher, room . teacher “were successful the got a four-pointer, weight 130. Released Yesterday From Oxygen Miss McCormack was thrown! The automobile would hove | progress. spike, | Shoots Pure White Buck Area Cancer Net A Welcome Boost County Drive Total Almost Fully Spent Back Mountain area residents con- | tributed $4,586.57 to the Luzerne County Unit of the American Can- cer Society 1964 Cancer Crusade, and it was put to good use, by the looks of the 1964 report released today. Mrs. Edgar Lashford and Mrs. Richard Crompton were co-chair- men. Funds of $56,488.21 received over the whole county just barely ex- ceeded 12-month expenditures of $56,441.33. Period ended August, 1964, Dr. William Dyson, president of, the Luzerne County Unit, explained that the bulk of the receipts were used in public health and profes- sional education; ‘service-patient, and research and fellowships. Funds from the local Cancer Crusade are also allotted to the national and divisional programs of the Ameri- can Cancer Society, which also furthers research in cancer. Attack Follows Loading A Buck - | Dead Man Is Found Off Ceasetown Road It was about 10:30 a.m., first day | of deer season, that Donald Whit- ford, of Kingston, emerged from the woods, and started to cross the | Meeker-Ceasetown road about a mile south of Route 118. He had got off a couple shots, drove one deer to another hunter, but had none of his own. Then he saw the body of John Yurgel, Hanover Township teacher, in the leaves on a little slope be- | low the road, his rifle lying beside him. | Whitford = shouted to the still | figure several times, then crossed to Yurgel’s body and checked for . pulse. There was blood on the dead man’s hands. Then Whitford was joined by his hunting companion Stephen Rish, and together they went around a half - mile down the road to the home of Mary Fedor and called the police. Lehman officer Lee Wentzel came with the ambulante, and. state po lice, Deputy Coroner Alfred Bron- son, and District Attorney Thomas | Mack also came to the scene. Dallas Post was also there. Preliminary examination showed what was apparently deer hair on the dead hunter’s clothing, and | with the blood, indicated that Mr. | Yurgel had got a deer, left it in the woods somewhere, possibly when he felt trouble with his heart, and was returning to the road to ' | get help. Game Warden Ed Gdosky arrived | somewhat later, found where Mr. Yurgel had dressed his deer, and decided to look in the trunk of the dead man’s car, parked across the road. A check of the area where the body was found revealed Mr. | Yurgel s car keys in the leaves next | to a big flat rock where he had sat "down to rest. Police took the keys, opened the car trunk and found a 90-pound | buck. A large gathering of hunters was present at the scene. Other hunt- | ers, with deer carcasses hung on their fenders, a routine hunting day | over, drove past, looked briefly at the slight commotion, without really seeing anthing, and drove on with- out worrying about it. The 53-year-old man, survived by his widow, three sons, and one ‘and Mrs. Ralph McCor- | through the windshield, when the | grandson, had suffered a heart at- mack, Fernbrook, was taken out | car driven by Robert Rish, 26, E.|tack several years previous. He of the special care unit at General | Vaughn Street, struck a stone abut- | was extremely active in his church, in | ment. critical condition since an automo- | dropped into the nearby creek bile accident early Friday ors 10 large tree had not stopped its | and, locally, was a member of Irem it | Templo Country Club. Funeral was scheduled for this morning from the funeral home in Hanover. This was the scene at-the terrible crash on the highway at Route 309 . on Sunday, intersection, critically, and two-injured seriously. ‘ From the left: The August Jacobson car, southbound, which eol | lided with another, which crossed into its lane. Bath occupants, man in which two were killed, one injured and wife, are recovering at the hospital. Second from left: Inside of the Russell Achuff car, both occupants pronounced dead in arrival at Nesbitt Hospital. Mrs. Achuff’s head Dark 1950 car was the fatal one. | struck the windshield and put the hole in it. | Far right: Kingston Township ambulance men prepare to secure Both cars are seen in the exact position they came to rest, across | Mrs. August Jacobson, on stretcher, in the ambulance. Spectators look on, from the A&P parking lot, and in front of Hawk Trailer Sales Company. | ~Photo by Kozemchak
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