wr Police Chief Frank Lange to "nr ‘bomb’ written on it, a string Ponds,” 75 YEARS A NEWS Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain PAPER TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES Bomb Model After Scare: Time To Think For Offender And Official _ Facsimile In Locker © Leads To Detention The locker is the high school student’s home away from home. Essays have been written about the miscellany stuffed in the av- erage locker. Depending on whether one is a boy or a girl, the student’s locker can contain books, note- books, athletic equipment, cos- metics, mirrors, love letters, sweat- ers, pictures of loved ones, pictures of movie stars and rock and roll singers, and many other items too numerous. Lockers at Dallas High School late last week were the scene of prank, which in any other time might have been dismissed with a reprimand, but because of a wave of bomb scaring in local schools, cost the boys some time in juvenile deten- tion and almost effected a malicious mischief rap. Placed by three 15-year-old sophomores, two from the middle area of Dallas Township and one from Trucksville, and one of whom | had unfortunate judgment during later questioning to refer to himself as a “bomb expert,” the thing was _hooked to a watch, wired to acti- vate at “quarter after”, if there ‘had been, as there was not, real dynamite or explosive. “Quarter after what?” said Town- he inventor. “Quarter after anything.” There was “a trip wire at 3 on the dial. Juvenile Court authority, notified Friday evening, after the prank, ordered the police chief to bring the youths in immediately for. de- tention... The chief said he had questioned them at school, decided to let them go home to their par- ents for the night, to be taken in on Saturday. He and Kingston Township Police Chief Herbert Up- dyke, Kingston Township, went the rounds /to pick each boy up. Before he left, one boy told one of his !parents of the other fake bomb in a locker at school. The police were told later, and picked it up on Saturday. It was a box anging out one end, with “Now You've Had it, You Have 35 Sec- or some such, inscribed on it. Each “bomb” had a different inventor. * * * Malicious Mischief Charges Are Dropped Some of the charges against the three youths who constructed two phony bombs and took them to Dallas High School last week have been dropped, the boys released to return to school, and the general gravity of the situation is now re- garded as considerably less by county juvenile authorities, the Dallas Post learned yesterday. Probation officer William Beck said, in fact, that not only had there been no intention of the boys to maliciously disrupt school proceed- ings with the devices, but that at least one member of the Dallas | High School faculty had known | about the “bomb” earlier. | One. of the boys had shown a | teacher the invention, Beck said, and was told to put it in his locker, and to take it out of the school and home at the end of the day. Be-| fore this could be done, however, the “bomb” got loose in the hall in other hands. | Beck said a hearing would, in any case, be held at some later date, but that the juvenile court office now felt it to be more of a school | matter. | The « charge of “malicious mis- | chief” ‘he termed a misnomer and | agreed with school and police au- | thorities that under other circum- | stances (when there were no bomb scare phone calls), the phony bomb | would have been “a joke.” The boys said the first ‘bomb’, three copper tubes, painted dull red and wrapped in black tape, with terminals, batteries, and a watch, | was brought in a paper lunch-type bag on Thursday, was deposited in the locker of “a friend” on Friday, and, they told school authorities, the friend got “a big kick out of it.” It looked very realistic. It was the end of sophomore ! lunch period, the last of the day, | and Thomas Jenkins, assistant prin- cipal, was coming up the hallway. Next to the glass-walled admini- | strative office, occupied by two secretaries, was a group of: boys looking at the “bomb” which one was holding. The boy told Mr. Jenkins he was just coming in to! ‘how it to him. It had, he said, | been found in a gym bag in the | ain locker room near the office. % (Nobody was running through | the halls with the bomb in his | hands, © only to encounter Mr. Jenkins en route. The assistant | principal was quoted in early re- | ports of the incident, although actually the Dallas Post was the only newspaper which spoke to him | about it.) It was no secret among the stu- | dents and these things never | are — who the “bomb” makers | were, and further questioning by the administration later revealed the names of the three boys. More was the pity, because, as Chief Lange noted, they were - good students. They were held at the detention home, and released Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m. | Guard. | township. | said the municipality could not pro- Heaven and Our Lady of Victory Churches’ Holy Name Society on Sunday, March 14th, attracted | more than 200 fathers and sons and ! | Asumpta Council 3987 Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree Honor | William T. Orr, Professor at College Misericordia and former member of the C.LA. Dr. Orr spoke on Com- | Speaker; Robert Laux, Toastmaster | Dallas Senior High School Band | will present its annual Spring Con-| will be played by Lawrence Hey-! cert Friday evening, March 19 at Dallas Senior High Auditorium at 8 p. m. The group under direction of Les- ter Lewis, music supervisor, will in- clude on its program a variety of | marches, show tunes and novelties. Among these will be highlights from ‘The Music Man’, the Nut- cracker Suite and Thundercrest Concert March. Comprising the special will be a trumpet trio, Warren De- Witt, Robert Wiley and Thomas Rowett, playing “T Overwhelming Response To Father-Son Breakfast The 15th Annual Father and Son | munism and its avowed ' threats | and Past President; Communion * Breakfast of Gate of and menace to the liberties of the | nowski, Deputy Grand Knight. free world. Seated, left to" right: Rev: P. Lawrence Homer, Principal, Central Catholic High School; John Nothoff, Grand Knight, Assumpta . Council 3987 K. of C.; : Louis: Goeringer, They were privileged to | President, Holy Name Society; Rev. | President; Paul Williams, Secretary; hear an informative address by Dr. | Francis A. Kane, Pastor and Mod- | Leo Mohen, Treasurer; Gilbert Mor- | erator; Dr. Wm. T. Orr, Professor College Misericordia and Principal State Engineer Corrects Timing: K.T. Sets Clean Up Week For May 1 Shavertown traffic lights are now officially timed. A state engineer set the signals last week according to a report by Daniel Shaver, at the Kingston Township Supervisors meeting Wednesday evening. He commended Mr. Rowlands, installa- tion contractor for a fine job. The Board also approved the County plan of Clean Up Week | and set the week of May 1 to 8 for this purpose throughout the The supervisors also de- cided not to give Back Mountain Telecable Company a letter of no objection on TV Cable installation, although Solicitor Mitchell Jenkins hibit the company from placing the | cable. Atty. Krohn and Matthew | Gillis represented the. firm. Zoning officer H. Updyke said if | the company leased property to in- | stall their equipment this would | come under the zoning ordinance. Bitter Outcry Against Prejudice Jomes To Life In Theatre-goers who ‘expected to! find a conventional setting for “The Crucible’ last night at Wilkes-Barre | Little Theatre's presentation of Arthur Miller's drama, were greeted by an eerie blue light and an open stage. Silent figures shifted the meagre furnishings between the acts. There is no curtain. As in a Shakespearian production of 400 years ago, the action is everything, | stage settings incidental. Witcheraft is suggested from the | moment a small girl is found lying | motionless. Mass hysteria and mob psychology gain momentum, and culminate in a tragedy which is the author’s bitter denunciation of present-day prejudice, expressed in terms of the Salem of 1692. The audience on opening night | was carried away by the mounting tension, as a “harmless prank” of | young girls becomes a nightmare, and members of the church are one after another accused of witchery. Those who expected a happy end- Led, | plumage as clerk of the court, re- | | velling in his new-found importance | "The Crucible” ing were denied any let-up in the horrifying sequence of events. The action moves inexorably to- ward execution, while: the young girls responsible for the accusa- tions find themselves unable to tell the truth and save their friends and neighbors. Mrs. Lyle Slaff, as Goody Proctor, moves with dignity and rare re- straint through her scenes, a perfect foil for her hot-headed and blunt- | | spoken. husband, Vince Carroll, Ted Raub as Rev. Hale is hag- ridden by conscience, knowing that the victims are innocent, driven at | last to plead with them to lie SO | that their lives may be saved. “Do | you not see the blood upon my | head ?” is his cry to heaven in the final scene, when the mills of cruel justice of a by-gone day are mesh- and cannot cease to turn. DeMarco Adrian struts in his and the status symbol of an os-! (Continued on Page 2-A) | among land Longdale Avenue. A report from the auditing com- mittee was read and the hiring of Arthur Smith as cus- todian of the new municipal build- ing at the wage of $50 per month. Auditors action was necessary on the matter since the supervisors could not vote on a board member being appointed for the position. The $78,940 adopted. budget = of Lewis Ranier suggested that some lights along Memorial Highway be removed since the township was receiving no assessment from them. Vought Long and Bill Robbins were those who recommended that all and additional lights were needed in this vicinity where a Dallas Senior, High School Ba numbers | he Bugler's Holi- | it approved THE DALLAS POST MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION day”. A Saxophone solo, Czardas, | (Kneeling Left to Right) Sharon | Piekanski, Reba Heidel, Nancy ander and a Drum Novelty will be | Brown, Donna Smith, Barbara presented by Bruce Hopkins, Robert Van Orden, John Mallin, Bonnie | Rood, Robin Bayer, Scott Alexander | Shales. Second Row: (Standing Left | and Richard Mendelsohn. {to Right) Sharon Bedford, Ellen Also appearing will be an 86 Evans, Donna Gordon, Patricia Nix- | piece grade school band from the | on, Miriam Mohr, Mildred Gordon, | 5th and 6th grades. Included in | Linda Guilford, Deborah Savickas. | this will be a Trombone solo played | Third Row: Richard Mendelsohn, | by Brock Phillips and accompanied | Mark: Davies, William Rowett, Rob- | by Rosellen Klaboe. ert Wiley, David Palmer, Carol Ros- The Majorettes will twirl in two | nick (head majorette), Amy Het- different routines to the marches, | rick, Donna Priebe, Linda Parry, Colonel Bogey and March % = | John Lewis, Nancy Covert, Mr. Les- Pictured above are: Fass | ter R. Lewis, Director. Fourth Row: E ; JoAnn Norrie, Judy Bergstrasser, Y Marjorie Glahmn, Ann Woolbert, Brown, Carol Jeffery, Jane Rozelle, Rosellen Klaboe, Jane Harter, Jean Sir Set Evaluation At Lake-Lehman For March 23-26 { | Sixteen Educators To Weigh Progress by Hix Lake-Lehman School Jointure is | preparing for evaluation. Sixteen educators Evaluation Committee will visit Gi . | schools of the jointure March 23 Joseph Kali- | to March 26, to weigh its qualifica- | tions for certification by the Middle from the Standing, left to right: Paul Mon- ahan, President, West Luzerne | Sccondary: Schools Deanery, National Council of Cath- The. committee will Heh: Raton olic Men, and Past President, Holy mally with members of the faculty, Name Society; Victor Borzone, Past | : ; | officers of the PTA, and outstzad- President; Ray McDonald, Past ling residents of the community. William TL. Apetz, Superintendent of Schools, Burlington ris, Vice-President; Charles Glawe, | Sch Past President. and Dr. Lee E i : I. i _ | burg State hood Church entrance will be turn- | ¢valuators. ed to afford better light for its en- | A social hour will precede the [iirance way. The pastor had asked | 6 c'clock dinner Tuesday - night, | for a light near the church. Bill | March 23, which inaugurates the | Robbins also relayed a request from proceedings. Dinner will be served | Robert Gordon for a light on Staub. in the high school cafeteria. | Road. Evaluators, during their three day visit, will feel free to button- Street in Brown Manor as a town- | hole any student they may wish to | ship road and approved a request |interview in the halls, as well as | from the state to vacate a section | leaders among the student com- | between Carverton Road and Saw | munity. They will talk to cus- | Mill Road. The supervisors were | todians, teachers, office staff, as | unaware that this was' township | well as administrators. | property. Aumiller, Blooms- College, head the The Board voted to accept Ellen | After the opening dinner, Miss | was | The supervisors voted to borrow | Jessica Thomas will present a paper | $14,229 to pay for the new traffic on the “Philosophy of Education,” | | lights on a short term note at 4%. | and Edwin Johnson “The School in | All members of the Board were | Relation to the Community.” Lpresent, LaRoy Zeigler presided. Mr. Squier states: “If this school | re a : 1 system ‘is to. keep pace with the | Demolishes Car growing Back Mountain community, I. William Biggs, 19, of 14 North ; Lehigh Street, Shavertown, over-|teaching talent, it | turned the car he was driving on | steadily ahead. . It must forge cannot afford nd To Present Amnual Spring Concert Dorothy Philo, Rosemary Zekas, | States Association of Colleges and | County | ools based at Mt. Holly, N. J.,! if it is to attract the most desirable | Janice Shaffer, Sandra Sherwood, | cock, accompanied by Scott Alex- | Bonnie Rood, John Mallin. Fifth | Row: Scott Alexander, Ann Barnes, 1 Susan Dingle, Robert. Graham, | Thomas Myers, - Linda | Reese, ‘Monica Haradem.Sixth Row: | Ronald Prutzman, Robert Bayer, { Thomas Rowett, Bruce Hopkins, | James Nixon; Larry Heycock, Thom- tas Wardell,. Robert Van Orden, | Stephen Farrar. Seventh Row: Da- | vid Kopetchney, Todd Richards, Er- | nest Gay, Phillip Heycock, Kenneth | Higgins. Absent from Picture: War- i ren DeWitt, David Wadas, Beverly | Dickson, Carol McGee, Patricia | Peiffer, Daniel = Sinicrope, ' Sandra Schweiss, Cheryl Parsons. 1964 Coincard Total { Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com- | pany, Dallas, and Dallas Community | Association announce the total receipts of the coincard drive for 1964, and thank all who solicited and contributed. | Amount derived from Dallas Bor- | ough and Township was $6,210.67. and the ambulance portion from | Kunkle amounted to $333.62. | ~The companies again advise. that | they are ready and willing to rte- | spond to all calls for service in all | areas served. in the, past, Professor Will Talk ‘Before Dallas Lions | Ambulance 4 Speaker at the Dallas Lions Club | meeting Tuesday, March 3, will “be | Dr. William Orr, former member {of the CIA, graduate of North | Heidelburg College and the Uni- | versity. of Scranton, and presently | professor at College Misericordia. Meeting beging at 7 p.m., George | Payne presiding, and Ed Buckley | will present the speaker, with dis- | cussion of Eye Bank Month after | the program, | Fernbrook Vandalism | Vandals smashed windows and let (air out of tires of several trucks {owned by Dale Parry, asphalt con- | | tractor in Fernbrook, some time | over the weekend, and Dallas | Township - police are investigating. Fire Chiefs Request | Back Mountain Fire Chiefs urge all persons reporting fires give the | exact location of the blaze. Much valuable time can be saved | scene rather - than first trying to | ind the trouble. The new Portable or Folda Tank of Shavertown Fire Company can store 1500 gallons of water. The woman was killed a short time ago. ' South Lehigh Street, Sunday morn- | to look back to a simpler way of | new piece of equipment is ten foot Ted Hinkle reported that Wyo- ming National Bank had been desig- nated a (Civil Defense shelter and that it would be stocked as soon as equipment arrived for it and the basement at the township building. He also promised the supervisors that office equipment, four desks, | four chairs, four filing cabinets, desk and typewriter would be avail- | able soon from the Civil Defense stocks. As soon as this arrived, | dedication of the new building will follow. Atty. Jenkins announced that no deed had yet been received for the piece of ground adjacent to the new building which the Board pro- poses to buy from the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Dangerous Drop Elwood Dungey submitted a peti- tion for lights along Lawn Street and the paving of this thoroughfare He again reminded supervisors of the danger- ous condition resulting at the edge of Lawn Street, Shavertown, since the protective bank had been moved. He said this resulted in a 20 foot drop. Clamp bolts, he, also said, were sticking up in the street and causing flat tires for residents. The survey of all lights in the will follow as to use of new mercury type lights. The crossarm on the re~-| | ing around 2:30, suffering only a life. This is the Space Age, like it . skinned shin, after the car ran off | or not. It has its peculiar problems the road. Car, owned by Crystal |and its peculiar challenges. No Creek, was school system. can afford to lag, gs {for lack of sufficient wision.” Sult, R'D 2 Hunlock | demolished. x | | | % Here are two old bridges, now | bodies of water so that the bridges | {out of use, which cut across Back | are now exposed | Mountain reservoirs in the old days, | At left: Chenery Reservoir, ‘also | were raised. | viaduct for the road to Lake Silk- | The protracted drought this year | worth. Oldtimers remember using Drought Uncovers Old Bri | square and 30 inches deep. | purchased by a donation from A. | Harden Coon and was used for | the first time during the Bolton fire. | The water this year has been lower | than is seen here, according to one | | source, although another does not | township has not been completed | and which ‘were inundated some known as Ceasetown Dam, and the | recall ever having seen it this low. | but a recommendation from UGI| time ago. when the water levels | remains of the bridge which was | Right: Rulison Evans Reservoir | or Huntsville Dam, ‘as it is more | commonly called. Bridge through light across from Park Neighbor-| has dropped the water level in both | the bridge, en route to the lake. the water, say old Huntsville timers, Williams, | | Ruth Higgins, Eleanor Jones, Peggy | if the crews can go directly to the | It was | dges On Reservoirs 674-5656 ee RS. TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 674-7676 VOL. 76, NO. 11. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1965 No Apprisal As Yet On Lake's Boro Move Lehman Township Supervisors have organized the Zoning Com- mittee, with the following members representing all areas of the Town- ship: B. C. Banks, Sheldon Cave, William Cole, Hugh Keating, and Gilbert D. Tough, according to an- nouncement at the Supervisors meeting last Saturday. At the meeting February 25, Banks was elected president, Cole, vice president, and Tough secretary. Tough said the committee is most Robbins Gift Pleases Visiting Chet Huntley Bill Robbins, local sportman from Trucksville, presented 14 of his choice trout fishing flies to Chet Huntley, when the well known commentator appeared at the Jew- ish Community Center Dinner last week in Wilkes-Barre. Huntley, an avid fisherman, was iso pleased that he extended the | hospitality of his home to Rob- | bins, whose fly-tying is famous. Fire At Loyalville Home Scorches Room Fire gutted a filled clothes closet, burning up the contents and scorch- ing the room, in a one story home in Toyalville Saturday evening around 6, but was contained by the family and firemen from Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company. Property is owned by Floyd Tay- lor. Family apparently threw water on the clothing itself, and then pulled it out of the closet. Several firemen arrived ahead of the truck and helped to throw water on the blaze until the main unit got there. Fire Chief Richard Wil- liams was in charge. March Brushfire Hits Many Areas Back Mountain fire companies ex- perienced a wave . of brushfires, which always accompany high March winds sand early spring burn- ing’ of leaves and brush, over the weekend. Dallas’s Dr. Henry M. Laing Com- pany put out a fire on West Res- ervoir Drive, the Bishop property, on Friday, and with Shavertown’s company, stifled on huge brush- fine on Rice property, high on Or- chard Farm Hill, which saw acres swept. Kunkle also responded, but was not needed. Dallas also put out a brushfire on Fern Street, Fernbrook on Fri- day. Saturday; it was called to Mel- ody Park, Demunds, but there was no fire, only some controlled burn- ing of timber. Sunday, the company responded to a call at the Lee Stewart proper- | ty, East Dallas, when fire got out {of hand. Shavertown, Trucksville Friday, Shavertown assisted | Trucksville company with a very | large grassfine at Midway Manor. | Flames swept from edge of homes to edge of both roads. (Orchard Farm fire above) {Sunday might. Shavertown re- | sponded to a call behind Mt. Airy i Road, where some children had ap- parently set a tree afire with char- coal. Monday night, there was a | brushfire at the soldier's plot, Ever- | green Cemetery, also apparently set. | . Harveys Lake | Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company | Harveys Lake, answered calls on brushfires at the Joseph Volley | property, Alderson, on Saturday, rand at the Farr property, Loyalville, on Sunday. Sweet Valley | Sweet Valley firemen extinguish- {ed a brushfire on the Delbert Hart- | man property, Muhlenburg, Satur- "day. afternoon. nt Hectares on | i » has never in their memory been visible before this year. It runs across from Machell Avenue, Dallas, | through the Courtright section to- ward Lehman. | Photos are both by James Ko- | zemchak. Lehman Board Announces Official Organization Of Zoning Committee anxious to make zoning regulations workable and fair to all taxpayers, and will meet the second Thurs- day of each month to act on busi- ness. All members will receive re- quests for permits, as will Police Chief Joseph Ide. Ide told the Board of Supervisors at Saturday’s meeting that he would like a more detailed explanation of his job with respect to buildings going up, as affected by the ordi- nance. He indicated that a more expanded role as building inspector for the police chief should carry more reimbursement with it. William Samuel, chairman of supervisors, said a complete book of ordinances is contemplated, so that their provisions will be open for anyone to see. Tough said that the committee plans about five major alterations on the zoning ordinance itself. Board was asked if it had any observations concerning the move- ment to form a borough at Harveys Lake, one mile of shoreline there being in Lehman Township. Michael Godek, supervisor from Oak Hill, said he had not yet been approach= ed by the Harveys Lake Executive Association on the matter, so he did not know much about the ef- fort. He said the Lehman Board will just have to wait and see what | happens. Many Lehman Township {serie who live in . the affected area at the Lake are not in favor of the borough move, he said. Police Report Police department reported 30 calls, one highway arrest, two breaking and entering, four acci- dents, and checking township road for bad spots. Lake Silkworth had a quiet month, with officer on duty and patrol every night with one man, and also school crossing patrol. Robert Disque, tax collector, was released from the 1963 duplicate. Dead Bird Mystery, Harveys Lake Area The Dallas Post has received re= port of starlings dropping dead in large numbers at Warden Place, Harveys Lake, during the winter, with a request. to find out why. Neither the Pennsylvania Game Commission nor the Back Mountain | Mountain Bird Club had information about the matter, but it was sug- gested that they might have been poisoned. President of the bird club, Edwin Johnson, said there would be no reason for the birds freezing to ! death unless there were no food | supply. But this has not been a particularly hard winter. Reports were that the birds lit- tered the ground in spots, with wings outstretched as if frozen, and they apparently dropped out of the trees. oe ermieet Back Mountain Area Ambulance Logbook Dallas Community Dallas Community ambulance took the Karasavage infant, Sunset Drive Oak Hill, to Dr. McGrath's office on Friday, Robert Besecker, Gilbert Morris, and David Carey attending. : Mrs. Daniel Levitsky, Overbrook Avenue, was taken to Genera] Hos- pital on Saturday night, William {| Wright, L. R. ‘Scott, and Robert | Besecker attending. | Stephen Lawrence, of Lehman, was taken from church at Gate of { Heaven Sunday, after suffering a | heart attack, to Nesbitt Hospital, | Don Schaffer, Wright, and James Davies as crew. Street, | Eric Mayer, Lake was taken from Dallas Junior High School to Nesbitt Hospital, Scott | and Besecker attending. Louis Brown, Overbrook Avenue, was taken to General Hospital on | Monday, Scott and Hayden Richards | attending. Kingston Tewnship | Kingston Township “Ambulance i took Mrs. Mary Bevens, Harris Hill Road to Nesbitt Hospital on Thurs- day. Joeph Youngblcod and Thomas Dorosky attending. On Monday, Joseph Layaou, Har- | ris Hill Road, to Wilkes-Barre Vet- | erans Hospital. Andrew Roan, Harry [Smith and Youngblood as crew. ‘Highway Toll Calls ‘For First Aid Class Back Mountain emergency groups and individuals interested in at- tending a proposed Civil Defense advanced first aid course designed | for active members of groups . and persons who carry outdated first aid cards, should contact Gilbert Morris or Robert Besecker, Dallas. | Course, taught by Anthony / Broody, Red Cross disaster chair- | man, will lead to award of ad- vanced first aid card, approved » | police, AMA, Health Departm’ af, | and Red ‘Cross, which will soon be required of all emmergency groups. It is deemed especially important here, because of the danger inher- ent in the new highway, and the death rate to date.
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