Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain 75 YEARS A NEWSPAPER LR RE TEER TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES Garbage Emergency Sticky Problem For Haulers And Municipal Chiefs Where To Get Money , For New Area Dump? ¢ by LEIGHTON SCOTT Back Mountain garbage and trash | haulers, along with the town fathers | of a number of municipalities, found an unexpected emergency in their laps this week—a lot of refuse and no place to put it. The garbage-men stand frustrat- ed. They live surrounded by wilder- ness and yet for years, they have hauled away the refuse of a county so obtuse to planning that the only place offered them as a dumping ground was the Susquehanna River basin. : Now, effectively evicted by Health Department condemnation of Sgar- lat’s dump in Forty Fort, they stand described in the daily press as threatening to stop hauling garb- age and trash unless the Back Mountain borough and townships can find a new dumping ground and administer it. “Whatever you do, don’t get the idea that we are refusing to haul for people. We just don’t have any place to dump the stuff after we pick it up, as of Wednesday night.” This was the haulers’ re- quest to the Dallas Post Tuesday aight, at a special meeting prior A meeting with municipal officials. It seems some people got the idea that they were on strike. a At the same time, municipal of- (@ials rallied on short notice to the call on Tuesday night, recogniz- ing the danger of no garbage pick- up, even though they were ob- viously unable to make a dump overnight. Both the officials ‘and Landfill Association president An- drew Gallagher agreed that all con- cerned were working on short notice. tf Temporarily Safe Wheels turned. The officials met after haulers had left the meeting and considered costs of a possible intertownship and borough dump, and what it might cost the tax- payers. p i For the duration of the ‘“‘emer- gency,” the West Side Landfill plot, a Valley co-operative, had been offered open to the displaced Back @jountain haulers until they could “find a place to go. _awoblems and created them. * As long as the West Side Léndfill¥allowced Bek Mountain © dumping, there would be no garbage pile-up out here. Busi- ness would be as usual. On the other hand, unlike Sgarlat’s, the co-operative requires that garbage be hauled separate from trash, and the haulers could foresee having to make twice as many {rips to the dump, with costs to them doubled. ’ One of the largest haulers told { 1 { | | | { | This solved | | { ~ In A Nutshell The refuse-disposal problem and forecast in a nutshell: Unable to use Sgarlat’s dump in Forty-Fort any longer, Back Mountain haulers were given permission to use West Side Landfill, a Valley co-operative, for duration of ‘the emer- gency,,. Haulers, who saw the West Side Landfill as substantially increased, costs, got municipal officials to agree to help them solicit use of Lake Township's dump, as soon as possible until a Back Mountain dump could be formed. ‘West Side Landfill would be used in the meantime, and gar- bage would not go uncollected. Unofficial word from the state has it that the haulers will be able to use the West Side dump as long as they like, regardless of “emergency”. Back Mountain ‘truckers say privately, however, they can expect to wait two to three hours just to dump there. % #* * Officials were studying means of assessment and money-mak- ing generally, to see how a dump. could be formed, in fair- ness to the tax-payer. (A bull- dozer, required by law, would “cost somebody between $20,000 and $30,000. = Then there's labor. cost.) Any municipality selected as . site of future dump would be expected to object. Mystery Car Hung At Duke's, Trucksville A late-model black Rambler sta- tion wagon fell partially over the embankment by Duke Isaacs’ sign in Trucksville, Tuesday night, after apparently going out of control. Accident happened sometime be- tween 8 and 9:15 p.m. Car was facing off Memorial Highway toward Pioneer Avenue, front wheels hook- ed over the embankment, and hang- | ing by rear wheels. Witnesses saw the car at. 9:15, but it had been removed by 9:45, land, the police were. not. notified. Contacted by this = paper, Police Chief Herbert Updyke said he did not have report of the accident. A check by the Dallas Post at 19:45 revealed the car gone. A 1963 | Chevrolet convertible was parked at the side at that time, but pulled Dallas Junior And Senior Highs List Marking Period Honor Rolls the Post he would have to build | his truck sides up to the maximum legal height to accommodate his | route, which would require double | coverage, for ashes and garbage. + Meanwhile, hauler Harold Kocher said he would ask Lake Township, which has its own dump, to per- it him to dispose of the refuse m Dallas schools, to whom he {is contracted. Lake, which will Wonsider this request at its meeting Saturday morning, will also be ask- ed if the other haulers cannot also use this dump until the other muni- cipalities, Dallas, Dallas Township, Jackson Township, Kingston Town- ship, and perhaps Franklin and Lehman, can get a new dump. Of- ficials from these municipalities agreed and promised to be repre- sented at Laje’s meeting. The meeting Tuesday night of trash-haulers and municipal offi- Seniors: Judy Bergstrasser, Kath- ryn, Bomberger, Wayne Casterlin, Carol Coburn, Linda Davies, Carolyn Patricia Dimmick, Susan | Robert Dol- | Dendler, Dingle, bear, Elaine Dixon, Jane Dover, Ellen Evans, Stephen Farrar, Reese Finn, Jean Walter | Carol | Fleming, Marjorie Glahn, Gosart, Jacqueline Gruver, Ann Guilford, Linda Guilford, Mon- ica Haradem, Kenneth Higgins, Betsy Hopkins, Bruce Hopkins, Cath- erine Hudak, Gail Lamoreux, Rob- | ert’ Lawrence, Charles Miller, Mar- lilyn Moyer, Jo Ann Norrie, Judy | Shirley Novitsky, David Palmer. Linda Par- sons, Walter Prokopchak, William Roberts, Robert Schooley, Jean Shales, Susan Smith, Nicholas Sosik, Stage, Marypaula Stoner Joseph Stredney, Judith Taylor, Jo Ann Tucker, David Wadas, Thomas | Wardell, Judith Welch, Gary West, cials suffered because of its rather | spontaneous nature, but it was | established that a dump is no simple | thing to toss together. | Banks, State law requires covering the | refuse with dirt by a tracked trac- | tor or bulldozer. Bulldozers and men cost money. Money comes from taxes, and taxes cannot be levied unless the beneficiaries, i. e. the haul- ers, service one hundred per cent of the taxpayers. a None of the municipalities, if ® out, would like to have the dump. be someplace else. One of the haulers had offered Ann Woolbert, Helen Shirley Zarychta. Juniors: Scott Alexander, Susan Ann Barnes, Patricia Bau- man, Barbara Brown, Jane Burnett, Linda Carle, Carol Cloak, Donna Demmy, Stanley Dorrance, Kathy Durbino, Thomas Harris, David Hess, Gail’ Hughes, Joyce Hughes, Cheryl Yagloski, | Kester, Betty Lamoreaux, Raymond | McClary, June Merz, Frederick | Mintzer, Sally Otto, Deborah Pen- | man, Antionette Petchkis, Margaret Each would like it to | some of his own land for tem- | porary use, before it was discovered that the West Side Landfill would definitely permit Back Mountain dumping, but attorney for the Back Mountain Landfill Association had advised ‘against disclosing this lo- cation right away, because of the above reason. Dallas Borough Council president Harold Brobst suggested the need for a municipal dump authority, but added that money for admini- stration would have to come by fee from the truckers themselves. Dal- las Township solicitor Frank Town- end noted that county zoning, which still prevails in some of the town- ships, allows dumps in areas term- | (Lake and | ed A-1, agricultural. Jackson Townships are still govern- ed by county zoning.) Kingston | Rennard Carkhuff, Reese, Todd Richards, Margaret Rood, Judy Schaefer, Patti Sickler, Maricn Stredney, Linda Wimmer, Dorothy Whalen, Karl Wormeck. Sophomores: Donald Alexander, Danie] Alters, Pamela Baker, Janet Balshaw, Robert Bayer, Myra Berti, Roger Cheney. Nancy Covert, Thomas Cully, Gail Doughton, Russell Eyet, Linda Farrar, Scott Fry, Susan Fuller, Christine. Grose, Greg Hicks, Ruth Higgins, Patrick Holdredge, Kath- LaRoy Ziegler asked the Landfill Association if, as was reported in the daily press, Forty Fort borough dumpers had been invited to use the future Back Mountain dump as well? Gallagher said Forty Fort had not been invited as yet. At Sgarlat’s dump, truckers paid $1.50 a load. However, costs figur- ed by some haulers came close to $10 a trip when they figured de- preciation and truck use, fuel, and cost of labor, and this could be seen to rise with the doubling of trips necessitated by use of the West Township SupervisorSide Landfill, | THE DALLAS POST MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION One Demolished, One Damaged, In Head-On In a head-on collision at the traffic light in Dallas Borough Fri- day evening, one car was demolish- ed and another severely damaged, but no one was hurt. Arthur J. Spencer, 33 Elizabeth Street, was stopped and preparing to make a left turn from the high- way on to Main Street, when his car was struck by one driven by Mrs. Celia M. Nichols, R. D. 1, Hun- lock Creek, who was coming south on the highway, around 7:30. Passengers in the Nichols car were Gaylord Martin, R. D. 1, Hun- lock Creek, and two Nichols chil- dren, Gail Fay and Daniel. {| Mrs. Nichols’ demolished Ford | convertible was towed away by | Wesley's. Spencer's 1961 Chevro- | let, insured, was damaged on the | right front and side. Assistant Police Chief Alexander | McCulloch investigated, helped by firemen James Besecker and James Davies. Noxen's Phones Get New Prefix This week, Noxen telephones assume a brand-new 29” prefix, Lake's recent all-number conver- sion to 63.” In the early morning hours this Sunday, men of Commonwealth Telephone Company will quietly usher in another progressive step in the Company's growth with the district manager, reported today. switching equipment and improved has been proceeding these past six months, will be placed in service. With it, Direct Distance Dialing, All Number Calling and a broaden- ed base rate area, eliminating $340 annually in mileage charges for 35 customers, will be effective. Two hundred and fifty Noxen cus- | tomers will benefit by the new | Commonwealth service which cost an estimated $79,500 for the land, | new central office, equipment in- | stallation and outside plant. Sub- | seribers will now: be able to per- | sonally dial their own long distance | station-to-station calls. « | seven digits starting with 298 fol- | lowed by four more numbers. All Dallas, Sweet Valley and Harveys Lake customers have been issued supplemental directories listing the Noxen numbers, Landis said. Howell, Jordon, Abby James | leen Hons, Linda | Jones, M. Cora Rosellen Klaboe, James Knecht, Carol Kuchemba, Patti Larson, Ron- ald Madajeski, Catherine Martin, Carol McGee, Margaret Kenneth Miller, Candace Mohr, Carol Mohr, Gale Morgan, Jeffrey Morris, Ralph Murdock, Barry Noon, ald H. Pietracini, Richard Reithoffer, Beverly Roberts, Kimberly Roddy, Janice Rother, Margaret Ryan, Deborah Savickas, Sandra Sher- wood, Donna Smith, Carl Stage, Scott Strohl, Roy Supulski, Steven Townsend, Bradford Van Patricia Wagner, Samuel Zachary, Christine Zarychta. 9th Grade: John Anderson, Ruth Besecker, Gary Binder, Scott Blase, Allan Brown, Cathy Connolly, Nancy Crispell, Jacquelyn Davis, Erik Dingle, Daniel Dorrance, Dale El- ston, Richard Fedock, Charles Gar- ris, Cynthia Garman, Charlotte Gelb, James Harris, Robert Huttman, Sally Holvey, Daniel Kaleta, David Kapson, Helene Kuchinskas, Barbara Kyle, Eric Mayer, Carol McCoy, James Miller, Jane Mitchell, Perella, Kathy Reese, Judith Stasko, Cindy Supulski, Andreas Thompson, Paul Turner, Thomas Vernon, Susan Weiner, Rob- ert Welsh, Peter Wettstein, Albert Williams, Gary Williams, Dennis Wright, Sharon Yalick, Claudia Zaboski. 8th Grade: Charles Baker, Vera Bauman, Timothy Bauman, Alisa Berger, Patricia Corbett, Carol Crawford, Joan Domnick, Sally Els- ton, Jeffrey Eyet, Linda Finn, Karen Fry, Cheryl Futch, Clifford Garris, Carl Goeringer, Connie Havir, Diane Hoover, Sheldon Hoover, Suzanne Jozwiak, Charlotte Kaleta, William Lawler, Richard Letts, Nancy Love, Robert Miller, David Newhart Mirtam Orf, Sara Peters, Rosemary Petty, Marlene Petracinni, Priscilla Reese, Paula Richards, Edward Roman, Vincent Roman, Sharyn Schutz, S. Kerr Smith, Sally Strohl, Diane Thier, Gloria Thomas, Marcia Wazeter, Thomas Wisnieski. 7th Grade: Judy Allen, Kathie Beisel, Curtis Britt, Susan Ducan, Barbara Campell, Barbara Connolly, Lorene Daring, Grant Davis, Carolyn Day, Ruth DeWitt, Ronald Dukinas, William Ellis, John Fedock, John martin, Ann Graham, Robert Grif- leave NEptune's court forever and | ‘Mail Carrier For Over 50 Years, Milt Delivered With Horse Buggy | seperate and distinet from Harveys | cut-over of the Noxen exchange’s all-new dial services, J. N. Landis, | At 2:01 Sunday morning, Noxen’s | new. exchange building, all-new dial | outside plant, construction of which | Noxen telephone numbers contain | Kaleta, Mary Keener, Robert Kelley, | McHale, | Beverly Peirce, Dorothy Philo, Ron- | : | he was paid $75 a month, supplying | Etten, | Nick | Gary Ryan, | Perrego Retires mail out of Dallas postoffice. master Ed Buckley. Lewis Reese, Robert Phillips, and E Carrying mail --even ag a substi- office for 54 years is not a job that's likely to get easier as the years roll by. Thus Milt Perrego, Dallas’s oldest | mailman, has few misgivings about turning in his postal department operator's license at age 77. “I guess I'm entitled to a rest”, he ad- mitted last week, when interviewed | after a presentation by all the post- office employees in honor of his re- tirement. This is not to say that Mr. Perrego | is especially interested in inactivity. Blessed with good eyesight, which improved wafter he got rid of his glasses, he reads plenty of detective novels, watches television and plans to put the radio which postoffice friends gave him into operation at | the point on the dial where he can get “hillbilly” music twenty-four hours a day. Mz. ‘Perrego lived 52 5ears on #. farm ‘in Huntsville where he ‘was born, and was used to the rugged way of life that was essential in the old days of the Back Mountain. He can remember putting in many a full day just hiring out his team and plow, from sun-up to sun-down, at forty cents an hour. This in ad- dition to doing his own farm work. “I didn’t go out nights afterward, either”, he says. There was just time to get some sleep before wak- ing up to more of the same. He has carried every mail route in existence out of Dallas postoffice, | and on several occasions he did two | at once. The Dallas Post in its 75th | anniversary tabloid ran a picture of the venerable mail carrier in a | horse-buggy with Dallas RFD 3 written on it, his first mail route, in 1911 under postmaster Frank Morris. The postoffice was then in the present barbershop building on Main Street. | his own horse and buggy and being First Boy Arrives At A. J. Hudak Home There was jubilation in the An- | thony Hudak home on Tuesday | when a bouncing baby boy was born to Mrs. Hudak at Mercy Hospital. The newcomer, who weighed in at eight pounds, six and a half ounces will be named Anthony John, III, and is sure to become the pet | of the household. The Hudaks who reside on Over- brook Road are the parents of four daughters, Catherine and Carol Ann, | 117 year old twins, Theresa, 15 and | Jeralyn, aged 5. Mrs. Hudak is the former Cather- Prize Winners Named Bt Gavy's New Market Dallas, Mrs. Frances Barry, was top prize winner at Gavy's new | week. | Mrs. Barry received 5,000 Top Value | fies Shavertown, last | stamps. Edgar Hughes, Jr., Over | brook Avenue, won the Pop-up | Toaster and Melba Webber, | Corning Percolator. {ing Top Value Stamps, | fiths, Diane Guiliani, Carol Hicks, | Ann Hiller, Deborah Hoyt, Donna i Hoyt, Debbie Kapral, Richard Kap- | son, Mary Jo Karweta, Debbie | Kleiner, Gary Kleppinger, Gwen | Kloeber, John Krivak, Elaine Kuehn, | Charles LaBerge, Scott Lefko, Ruth | Lewis, Patricia McDonough, Penny | Metz, James Miller, Diane Reese, | John Rosser, Christine Rubino, Scott | Saffian, Carol Shaskan, Richard | Sheldon, Doris Sims, David Spencer, | Alan Etewart, Cathy Stolarick, | George Stolarick, Clark Switzer, Gail Fleming, Elaine Friedman, Jane Gil- | Telford, Joseph Wysocki, Joy Yeust, | Schools, Robert Belles, Asst. Super- er, Department of Public Instruc- Bruce Young, Edward Zaboski. friends at the postoffice, some of whom are seen here. Front, left to right: Mrs. Dorothy Moore, Mr. Perrego, and Post- Back: ‘Allen Montross, John Juris, Albert Bellas, Joe Zabinski, | tute carrier --out of the same post- | A For this job, Mr. Perrego notes, | ine Elenchik of Jackson Township. | the | Gavy will continue the drawing | | of valuable prizes this week includ- | VOL. 76, NO. 13. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965 As R.D. Carrier PROCLA Mr. John T. Jeter, on March 28th, citizens. Street Department. Federal governments. Guard, he never lost interest in Back Mountain Area Ambulance Logbook { DALLAS COMMUNITY Dallas Community ambulance | | took Mrs. Marie O'Donnell, Jack- | son Street, and children and pass- | | enger, from scene of accident, Main | Street and Huntsville Road, to Dr. | | H. Gallagher's office, Monday, Rob- | | ert Besecker and Leighton Scott | | attending. On Monday also, George McGee, | Grandview Avenue, New Goss | Manor, was taken to General Hos- | | pital, Scott and Hayden Richards | on call at any minute to substitute. | a Basin Fv ile } The buggies were not heated, and | 18. mals Caryonia, Sonn lav the carrier wits oul on the {ob from | 0% Was taken to Nesbitt Hospital | Sr e | on Tuesday, Scott and Ron Hrubow- 8 to 4 or 5 in the afternoon. hal th ai A lot has taken place in the last |S aS ~~ attending, 50 years, Mr. Perrego says, wonder- | FRANKLIN-NORTHMORELaND ing just what the next 50 will bring. | Franklin-Northmoreland ambu- | He recalls the “heavy” end of lance took Mrs. Ellen Roberts, Sutt- Route 3 with some amusement com- | ©? Creek Road, to Nesbitt Hospital pared to today. Now a part of RD 1, | °™ 1 retires after 54 years carrying He was presented a radio by his | | | d Labatch. Tuesday, Carl and Helen Bested- | it started above Uncle Billy Goss’s | © farm, with these homes along the | 25 €TeW. ; | line: Honeywell, Prothero, Mosier, Kingston Township Elston, Martin, Hoyt, Fisher and ~~ On Sunday an emergency call Hess. By then you had arrived at| Wa$ answered and aid given to Mrs. Kunkle. The light end was down | Margaret Propos, Bunker Hill. - An- along the Overbrook Read stretch. | drew Roan and Harry Smith as | The mailman looked forward to Crew. : the kids running out of each mae | to get the mail. Those kids would grow up and have kids, and they would run out to get the mail, and cn through three ‘generations withs, | { in Milton Perrego’s span of carry- [i ing \ 8 YN On*thig, twenty-five to, thirty mile srouté¢s, Mr. “Perrego used every: kind of car, including nine Model T’s. One of the latter he recalls up- setting . in. the snow on Church Street hill one night on his way | home to the postoffice. All the neighbors ran to his aid, and he came out of it with a dented knee. He smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, used to roll his own; and will take a cigar. “I wonder why the government waited all this time ‘to find out they were dangerous’, he says. He has never been very sick, | although once they told him he had Be x {an ulcer, even though nothing was | ever done about it. He remembers consulting Dr. Henry Laing for an ailment, and when the doctor was finished, he asked what he owed. “Fifty cents. Pay me next time you As this car sped down Huntsville jon hill into Dallas, out of con- | come in”, said the famous a about, 9:10 a.m., Monday, past | fhvsician, | the crowded yard of the elementary : : . I school, Police Chief Russell Honey- At age 32 Milton Perrego married | 2 ; ¥ well pushed a child back out of its Dorothy Jacobs cf Wilkes-Barre, | i 3 ho Ti Ber i pat , noting the license number as and they have i Ey |it disappeared down over the next 3 ' | rise. ? and Emerson, Mid- | The elder Perregos Not apparent was that the driver, Fernbroock at their | Mrs. Marie O'Donnell, of 11 Jack- | present home for the last fouryson Street, was waving that she | | years, and it was there that they | had no brakes. They failed her at ! | celebrated their anniversary with | the top of the hill, and she had their children and grandchildren a | three children aboard. week ago Sunday. At Main Street crossing, also |. today, Howard, | of Trucksville, | dletown, N. Y. | have lived in If | {3 4 | Top educators of Luzerne County Schools and William A. Auston, | Schools, west of the Susquehanna | Elementary Supervisor of Dallas | River met Tuesday at Irem Temple ‘Area Schools will co-chairmen the | | Country Club to prepare for the elementary division. | West Side In-Service Training Con- | = Attending the affair from West | ference to be held April 30. | Pittston to the Northwest District Burton W. Hankey, Superintend- |lines were: Seated, left to right, | | ent of Kingston School District was { Anthony Marchakitus, High School | | chosen chairman and Dr. Robert Principal, Lake-Lehman; Edward | | Mellman, Dallas School Superin- | Miles, Elementary Principal, Exeter | | tendent, co-chairman. Abram Mor- | Township; Gale B. Young, Super- | | gan, High School Principal of Plym- | vising Principal, Wyoming Borough; | outh Borough Schools will serve as | Abram Morgan, High School Prin- | | secretary. | cipal, Plymouth Schools; Burton W. Dr. John Kenney, elementary su- Hankey, Superintendent of Kingston | | pervisor of Kingston Borough | Borough Schools; Miss Jeane Brook- | { vising Principal of Lake-Lehman | tion; Dr, Martin Chworski, Univer- | It is with sincere and deep regret that we note the death of Barre, and the passing of one of the Borough's A registered professional engineer, Mr. Jeter donated his serv- ices to the Borough without compensation for many years, and after retiring from the Lehigh Valley Railroad, he devoted full time to his Borough duties, and could be found in his office at the Town Hall any day he was not out giving grades and lines for the Borough Of his many duties he had charge of all building permits issued, and also completed the records of these permits for the State and A former line and staff officer in the Pennsylvania National On behalf of the Official Borough Family, and Mr. Jeter's many friends, may I extend deepest sympathy to the family for the great loss they, as well as the entire Back Mountain community, have suffered in the passing of this good citizen and public servant. THOMAS H. MORGAN Mayor of Dallas + and Malcolm and Eudora Baird | ; Brakeless Car Skirts Packed Schoclyard ‘School Heads Meet ™ MATION at the Mercy Hospital in Wilkes- most public spirited their activities. Dave Continues “Poor” Listing But Ate A Full Meal At Hospital Tuesday David Kozemchak, 16, of Hunts- ville, lone survivor of a wreck on Sunday, March = 21, near Irem Temple Country Club, in which two other 16-year-olds perished, re- mained in “poor” condition at Gen- eral Hospital yesterday afternoon. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Kozemchak, and brother James, are permitted in to see him singly fo a few minutes twice a day. Mr. Kozemchak told the Post that David ate his first full meal on Tuesday, several glasses of fruit juice, eggs, and toast. He is con- | scious and talks occasionally, but lapses back into periods of drousi- ess. the family and at the Post. Emily Berger, Pioneer Avenue, | was taken to General Hospital on (Continued on page A-8) | crowded with children en route up the hill to school, the car veered right, crashing against the wall to the right of Grace Cave's store window.- - Both wall and window were smashed. : Injuries were surprisingly light: Mrs. O'Donnell’s son Raymond hit | his*head on the windshield, break- ing the glass, and Linda Chasko, | passenger, also struck her head and broke her glasses. Daughter Kath- ryn ‘O'Donnell was not hurt. Mrs. O’ Donnell bumped her nose hard. | All. were taken to office of Dr. H. G. Gallagher by ambulance and ex- Pre-Conference Session sity of Pennsylvania, Director of Human Relations; Dr. Robert A. Mellman, Superintendent of Dallas Area Schools; Joseph Martin, Super- | vising Principal, Luzerne Borough | Schools; Gilbert V. Perry, Super- vising Principal, West Wyoming Schools; George M. Chintala, Su- pervising Principal, Exeter Borough Schools. Standing left to right, L. C. Bu- beck, ‘Supervising Principal, Forty Fort Borough Schools; Blythe H. Evans, Superintendent of Plymouth | School District; John Bennett, Ass’t. to Superintendent in charge of Pupil Personnel at Kingston Borough; James Jones, High School Principal, TWO EASY TO REMEMBER 674-5656 Countless friends and neighbors | from all over the Back Mountain | | inquire about him daily, both from | | road as civil engineer in 1956. —| Up until a week before his ill Telephone Numbers : 674-7676 : John I. Jeter Is Great Loss To Community Brea Leaders Do Honor To Dallas Borough Engineer { For many years, John T. Jeter | gave his services gratis to Dallas | Borough, serving as both engineer | and inspector. | Sunday night, aged 81, he died at Mercy Hospital, where he had | | been admitted March 7. follow- |ing a cerebral hemorrhage. | It was his desire that viewing {should be confined to his family. Members of George M. Dallas F&AM conducted services Tuesday eve-. ning from the Disque Funeral Home. Rev. John Prater officiated Wednes- | day morning from Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, Mr. Jeter’s grand- son, Frank E. Parkhurst IV, serving | as acolyte. 3 Leaders in the community gather- ed soberly to do honor to his memory. Listed as honorary pall- bearers were: Justice Benjamin K. Jones, Joseph MacVeigh, former President of Borough Council; Ray- mon Hedden, L. L. Richardson, Dr. Harry Gallagher, Ralph Smith, Jud Holt, Prentice Lacy, Jerome Gard- ner, Edward Ratcliffe, Carl Goer- inger, Floyd Sanders, Robert Maturi, Arthur Ross, Edwin Roth, Atty. B. B. Lewis, Oswald Griffiths, Lloyd Kear, Andrew .Paranto, Benjamin Evans, Alfonso D'Amario, ‘Donald Davis, George Thomas, Wilbur Dav- is, Robert: Post; William Wright, | Walter Kozemchak, Peter Arnaud, {and Russell Honeywell. Ji Active ' pallbearers: were John Grimes, Melvin Vivian, Jr. Robert | Moore, Harold - Brobst, + Francis | Barry, and Robert Brown. Burial was at Mt. Greenwood. | Here was a man who was almost | excessively modest, going quietly | about his work in the Borough | office after retiring from employ | ment with the Lehigh Valley Rail | ness, he was gathering data on { Borough surveys. 23 | Two years ago he received an | award for outstanding service from the Institute of Municipal Govern- ment based at Wilkes-College. A this tine a fegture story appeare tals Lpaperd . Born in Bethlehem, son of th late John T. and Mary Burge Jeter, he lived in Wilkes-Barre for a time before moving to the Back Moun tain in +1905. 5k ek Dallas will remember Mr. Jeter for his road and drainage projects, his many maps of the area, and his unflagging zeal for what was best for the community. & He was one of the earliest mem- bers of Prince of Peace Church serving as vestryman. He was past- master of Dallas Lodge, F&AM; a | member of Irem and Wilkes-Barre Commandery, and other Masonic bodies. mere During World War I; he was a | | captain with the 109th "Artillery. | He leaves his widow, the former | Edith Lauderbach; these children: | Deborah, Forest Hills, L. 1; Mrs. | Elizabeth Wilto, Green Pond, N. J.; | | Mrs. Gordon S. Dieterick, Jr., Dal- | las; Hobart C., Newtown Square; Mrs. L. Wallace Potter, West Chest- | er; brothers: William -B. Jeter, | Dallas, and Dr. Everette V., Madi- ison, N. J.; nine grandchildren, and { | one greatgrandchild. A | amined. A 4 | Assistant Police Chief Alexander McCulloch investigated. i Kingston Borough; Dr. John Kenney, | Elementary Supervisor, Kingston Borough; Dr. John Kenney, Ele- mentary Supervisor, Kingston | Borough; John M. Zaleskas, Chair- | man Social Studies Department, | | Lake Tohman Schools; Robert Z. | Bellas, Assistant Supervising Prin- | cipal, Lake-Lehman; William A. | Austin Elementary Supervisor, Dal- | las Area Schools; John F. Rosser, | Principal Dallas Junior High School; | W. Frank Trimble, Principal Dallas | Area Senior High School; James | Ayres, Superintendent, West Pitts- | ton Borough Schools; Thomas H. | Jenkins, Assistant High School Principal, Dallas Area ‘Schools,
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