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iors, painting, musical
teenth Annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction.
At left are Herman Thomas, former owner of Highland Acres farm,
and the new owners, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pearsall, West Dallas, and | Auction, Saturday morning.
Oldest Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
75 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
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Here are some random photos by James Kozemchak of the Nine- j daughter Yvonne, with others, and the Auction lamb, a tradition. The
Pearsalls donated the lamb this year, as the Thomases did in years past.
Mr. Kozemchak always takes an appealing picture of the Children’s
Little hands bid on anything at any price.
Not just kids bid on anything at any price—we take that back. Here principal purpose being to draw out the infinite possibilities of
| the Auctioneers, John Vivian on the microphone, sell the lingerie, set of | Vivian's famous Auction Block wit.
| which (and it wasn’t even a set) went for $26.
Richard Post, the vet, and Richard Maslow, rather inflated the wvalue, |
Spirited bidding by Dr
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Thousands at- |
tended over three day period—an estimated 15,000 in all.
: Photo at right shows crowd at the Auction block.
TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
674-5656 674-7676
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Latin Teacher
*Appointed Here
. Public Speaking Added
~ To School Schedule
The opening for ‘a language
teacher has been filled at Dallas
Senior High School with the ap-
pointment Tuesday evening of Miss
Nancy Roberta Benn, Hollidaysburg,
as a temporary professional em-
ployee.
Miss Benn who is certificated in
Latin and German is a graduate of
Pennsylvania State University.
In other action the School Board
approved the following course to
be added to the Senior High curri-
culum, Bookkeeping II and Public
Speaking for all regular English
classes to be given as it can be
fitted into their schedule.
Numerous bids on furniture, type-
instru-
ments, paving, window shades, win-
low tinting, and rotary lawn |
( | Valley-Hunlock Creek
“mower, electric typewriter and cal-
culator were réad, consulting much
time.
Award for cleaning septic tanks |
| men.
| Hospital.
at all buildings was’ given to J. A.
Singer at only bid of $250. Arthur
Hayston, Shavertown, received con-
tract for painting exterior of Dallas |
Elementary School at low bid of
$743. Window shades for Dallas
Borough, Westmoreland, Trucks-
ville and Dallas Junior High build-
ings went to Roberts and Meck at
iow bid of $180.52.
Maintenance of typewriters was
awarded to Roland F. Smith at low
bid of $4.50. Window tinting of
28 windows in the gymnasium went
tc Sunex Glass at low bid of $369.
Paving contract for Trucksville
School, Junior High, Dallas Elemen-
tary, the Senior High School and
AP0X108 feet at Shavertown Ele-
‘¥mentary went to Dale Parry at
plovest bid.
Other bids were sub-
‘mitted to Property Committee for
tabulation and study.
Andrew Gallagher asked Board if
any per capita tax exonerations
were granted residents over 62.
Chairman Jack Stanley said the
Board usually recognized applica-
tions for hardship cases and that
applications must be refiled each
year. Mrs. Vernon said the folks
she was concerned about were those
now on a fixed income since re-
tirement.
The former contract
Supply Company for installation of
a water storage tank was cancelled
since the price set did not include
a saddle and the order was then
placed with Roat Supply Company.
The board also approved the pur-
chase of needed textbooks.
with Mack
gg
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Letters of appreciation were read |
from Alice Howell, secretary of the
Library Board for $1,000 check re-
cently received for services, from
Earl Phillips and Mrs. Phillips and |
pelen M. Sliker,
Zranted Sabbatical leave to study
in France.
Rev.. Robert Germond, Trucks-
ville Methodist Church offered in-
vocation. Present were directors
Stanley, Richardson, Kozemchak,
Vernon and E. Phillips.
Family Of 4 Injured
In Crash Near Chase
Two cars collided on Mountain
Road, Jackson Township, at 3:30 |
p.m. Saturday, and four members |
of a family injured.
Driver Paul Wickham, 17, RD 2
Benton, was unable to negotiate a
curve, struck the machine carrying
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Thomas,
Hillside Avenue, Plymouth, and two
children.
Kingston Township ambulance to
Nesbitt Hospital.
had broken seat belts of the chil-
dren. Jackson Township police in-
vestigated.
Injured were taken by |
Force of impact |
who has been |
ANTIQUES SALES
TOTAL $3,565,
FREE AND CLEAR
The Committee on Antiques
for the Library Auction made
$3,565, free and clear, with
no expense to detract from the
total take.
A number of pieces which
weuld have totalled at least an-
other $500 were not sold, due”
to lack of time over the block.
Rain sent the crowd scurry-
ing Saturday afternoon, and
three hours were wasted, as
serious bidders were slow to
congregate again.
The chairman is asking wo-
men whose antiques were not
sold, to take them home again
for safe keeping. A telephone
squad is in operation.
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Hurt In Sideswipe
Bonnie Dodson, 21, and Gary Mil-
ler, 20, both of Hunlock Creek
R. D. 1, were injured when
cars they were driving sideswiped
around 6 p.m. Tuesday on Sweet
Road, near
Roaring Brook. Miss Dodson was
taken’ to Nesbitt Hospital for X-
rays, complaining of pain’ in abdo-
Miller was taken to General
State police investigated.
Lake-Noxen Toll
Vote Still Open
A total of 467 Harveys Lake-
Noxen customers have voted in
favor of eliminating the 15¢ toll
charge to Kingston-Wilkes-Barre in
the customer poll being conducted
by the Commonwealth Telephone
Company, J. N. Landis, District
Manager, announced today.
Landis noted that 213 ‘yes’ votes
are still required if present toll
charge is to be eliminated. He
urged that all customers who have
not yet returned their votes do so
immediately.
| at last report, and may be hospital- |
Poll is being taken to determine |
if the majority of the
Lake-Noxen customers would prefer
to have toll free service between |
Harveys |
Harveys Lake-Noxen and Kingston- |
Wilkes-Barre, with increase in
monthly local service charge.
To date 730 ballots have been re-
| senger side of the Stewart car.
turned, of which 467 have voted in |
favor.
Landis stated that the change
could not be introduced unless a
majority of all Lake-Noxen cus-
tomers expressed desire for it. Those |
customers who fail to return their
ballot will be counted as negative
votes. Therefore, an absolute ma-
jority of 680 votes is needed for |
Commonwealth to: proceed.
Probably Saved
Boy From Death
Doctors Believe She
Kept Two-car Wreck
From Being A Fatal
At presstime, the chairman of the
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saved the life of the 12-year-old son |
of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee Stewart,
Jr., of Lower Demunds Road, follow-
ing a bad head-on. crash in East
Dallas on Saturday.
Mr. Stewart is grateful to the
nurse, who happened along, ordered
by-standers to turn Alan Stewart on
his'stomach, head depressed, to stop
the bleeding from his neck. It
would be much appreciated if the
nurse’s identity could be established. !
Mr. Stewart happened on the
scene of the accident himself, purely
coincidentally. He had been taking
a friend fishing, was returning’ from |
buying : bait alesis lag
Road; s thw flashing lights, dnd
stopped. © Ambulance men had al-
ready loaded in his son and were
preparing to remove his wife as
well, as he arrived.
He told the Dallas Post this week
that both the boy and Mrs. Ann
Stewart are coming‘along very well
at Nesbitt Hospital, and both will
probably be discharged in the near
future. Alan had about 80 sutures
taken in his neck for a gash that
just missed windpipe and juglar
vein, after the family’s Opel sta-
tion wagon was struck head-on by
a sedan driven by Bernard ‘Bucky’
Buchman, Dallas RD 3, who has
been charged by police with
drunken driving, hearing last night.
“Remun
The hoy’s father said Alan’s re-
covery has even the doctors stymied,
and h~ was permitted to get up out
of bed recently. - He also was su-
tured for a gashed shoulder. Mrs.
Stewart was still suffering dizziness
ized a few days longer.
Police reported the cars were ap-
at East Dallas Church,
Buchman car swerved to the pas-
It
was broad daylight, accident occur-
ing about 4:10 p.m.
Since both Dallas and Kingston
Township ambulances were on call
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Unnamed Nurse | Rain Briefly
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When the rains came, some ran
| and some shelved. .
Intruding on Saturday's Library
j Auction,
wa evimated darse hours worih,
| was a hard summer cloudburst. It
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| At prestime, the chairman of the
| nineteenth annual Back Mountain
| Memorial Library Auction, Merrill
| Faegenburg, was: unable to give a
figure on gross receipts of the three-
day affair, and thus an estimate of
| net was impossible.
This is the first time since the
Auction was started 19 years ago
| that this figure wag not released to
| the Dallas Post. Reason, Mr. Faegen-
| more accurate picture of the library
income, and’ all bills had not been
| accounted for as yet.
| (However, it has ‘always been
| possible to guess the probable net,
given the gross income figure, which
| the Dallas Post has traditionally
done until this year.)
' Dungey And Balavage
| were thrown from their car in a | Phillipsburg,
| crash at Pole 71, Harveys Lake, |
at the time, Lehman and Franklin- |
Northmoreland ambulances
dispatched to the scene.
got there first and took the patients
in, accompanied by Mr. Stewart and
were
| neighbor, Mrs. John Costello.
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mean that Kingston-Wilkes-Barre
would be able to call Harveys Lake-
Provision of this service would | Noxen without a toll charge.
Auction Crowds; Checking Fallen Angel
An | afternoon. crowd enjoys the
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Thrown Out By Crash
| proaching each other on the curve |
and the |
Robert Clark Dungey, 138 Lake
Street, and passenger James Balav-
age, Grace Avenue,
struck by one attempting to turn
into a driveway Tuesday afternoon.
Boys were taken by Lake ambu-
to General. Other driver, Mrs. Edith
Muphy, 'Hilldale, who had been
| burg said, was that the net gives a |
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| Knapich is willing to accept a smal-
Shavertown, | ler salary than she was receiving in
| as cafeteria manager.
| lance to Nesbitt Hospital, and Ba- has had long experience in staging
Lehman | | church suppers, Lehman Fire Com-
| lavage later transferred on request | ppers,
Shelves Auction Business
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| scattered the crowd.
| ‘Many people ran for their cars.
| Others, like the young fellows in
My about the most original idea.
Those small enough lay ‘on the new
Ruth Stolarick's
Lake-Lehman School Board held
its. first full-fledged meeting Tues-
| day night, without benefit of Merged
| Board or Joint Board meetings in
advance... The nine directors, the
administrator, the principal of the
High School, the assistant admini-
strator, and the secretary, met in
the administration office downstairs,
instead of in the library on the
second floor.
A body blow was resignation of
Ruth Stolarick, Home Ec teacher,
who has been with the faculty since
1948, first as Ruth Shellhamer, then
as Mrs. Stolarick. For a few years
during her early marriage she was
out of the picture, but eight years
| ago returned.
Mrs. Beverly Williams Knapich,
an experienced Home Ec Teacher,
was hired by the board. Mrs.
because of having
married a man from Forty Fort and
wishing to live in this region.
Mrs. Dorrance Mekeel was hired
Mrs. Mekeel
pany dinners, and knows her menus.
| Keeping within the budget for
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| turning into the Cappelini property, | School lunches and still serving a
and her two sens
escaped injury.
‘spun the Dungey car around.
In photo at right:
proceedings at ‘the Library Auction, | tower fell on Saturday afternoon,
in left picture.
sion because the crowds are |angle. Fortunately, no crowd was checked over by Assistant
smeziler and more leisurely,
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underneath. One
spotter,
A spotter’s | Gruver,
Jeff | master and spotter chief Jim Mc-
was able to walk away
| from the accident, apparently total- | Calvin Strohl.
Bargains are al-| when the weight of two boys proved |ly unfazed. The other, John Kitchen, |
way} available in afternoon ses-|too much for it at an outward | Fernbrook
being |
Scout-
is shown here
and mother, |
Impact completely challenge.
able to all school cafeterias.
good meal, will be another type of
Surplus food is avail-
Resignation As
Home-Ec Teacher Is Blow To L-L
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| goods shelves.
Others got under the huge Auc-
{ tion Tree, under the Auction Block,
cutting “ato business for' ihe picture, sought shelter, this be- | in the barn, in the concession tents,
in the ticket. booth.
—Dallas Post Staff Foto
and even
i Mrs. Mekeel will work
with Mrs. Knapich. She will be in
(direct charge of the Lake-Lehman
kitchens.
Edgar Lashford moved that tax-
of the district, including Noxen in
Wyoming County, be instructed to
collect for the school board the
tax for transfer of property, 1%
of thesales price.
It was voted to place school in-
Money was at hand for payment
of the $62,000 rental on the new
building, and for July salaries. It
sary funds would have to be bor-
rowed.
In his report, Supervising Prin-
cipal Lester Squier said that all
to be re-drawn, because
changed status of the school district.
Permanent contracts went to
John J. ‘Andrusis, Florence L. Bill-
ings, Margaret Bittner,
Greskiewicz, Mary Alice Lukasavage,
John C. Jenkins, Leonard J. Thres-
Narkiewicz, all of whom had com-
pleted their second successful year
of teaching.
Ken Kocher
has recently pur-
buses.
the amount of $2,145.22.
~ Dallas Post Reporter, 1st Person ict
At Scene, Takes Injured For Aid fo
Passed by a speeding car on Car-
verton-East Dallas Road Saturday
night, a Dallas Post reporter
thought to herself: “An accident
about to happen.”
Shortly after, she was transport-
ing two injured passengers from the
accident back to Dallas, where the
Auction was in progress, to find a |
doctor or an ambulance.
Catherine Gilbert, Mount Zion, the
| ! of letting building inspector keep |
closely
collectors of the constituent parts
surance business with Robert Laux. |
was foreseen that in August, neces- |
contracts for employees would have |
of the |
Regina J. |
ton, John P. Zlotek, and Edmund |
chased two new 66 passenger school
Bills were ordered paid in |
VOL. 76, NO. 28. THURSDAY, JULY 15; 1965
‘Boro Council Talk On Everything
From Creek Smell To Barbed Wire
Borough Council covered every-
thing from A to Z in a meeting
Tuesday night, touching on such
topics as need for a Back Mountain
sewer, legality of barbed wire fences
around homes in Dallas, legality of
shooting guns in Dallas, possibility
of imposing a tax on utilities, need
for new paving, need for’ zoned
heating in the Borough Building.
tually a road through Foster Street
behind the new postoffice, trees
growing around the honor roll.
Relocation of traffic light now on
government property, three sump
problems and what Borough can
do about them, Gas Company’s right
to. continue putting in lines until it
pays $450 inspection fee, status of
Gate of Heaven's barricades on
Spring Street when children are not
at recess, and other items.
Dr. F. Budd Schooley, for Back
Mountain Protective , Association,
submitted a brochure on how to get
federal Appalachia funds and sug-
gested that Borough get together
with other local municipalities and
use the old feasibility report, to
plan a sewer line for at least the
two Dallases and Kingston Town-
ship. Council said it favored it
back in the days when the report
was made, and still does, and would
be glad to cooperate, providing fed-
eral money was available.
Smell of Toby's Creek, possibility
| permit fees for his trouble, park-
ing on Machell Avenue on Sundays,
Water Company's responsibility
with ditches, air conditioning the
State Store, whether there is ac-
Bobcat Shot On
Parrish Heights
A bobcat was shot by Borough
Assistant Police’ Chief Alexander |
McCulloch near Davenport Street | iE residlonts bt corti of Street
about 9 on Saturday night, and it | Jd Elizabeth Streot ho I
was probably killed. | an 1Zape reels, *wido has a
TET : , barbed wire fence on the corner
McCulloch said he hit the cat | of his property to keep people from
from about 50 yards, terming it al iting across it, wanted to know
“lucky” “shot, on. the ‘Newberry | whether it were legal and why he
property - close to Davenport and | 4 not been contacted personally"
the Schooley property where it was | about the matter instead of “by
first sighted. rumor” from somebody in another
The area where the cat was hit| town. Council said it. was not legal,
was combed on Sunday morning, | that it was not just rumor but had
but there was no sign of him.. Mec- | been reported in the Dallas Post,
Culloch is fairly certain thatl the | and that he had not been contacted
cat withdrew somewhere to die. | because borough had merely in-
The police officer said the shot | spected it to date. i
could be heard hit the bobcat and | Council extended discount period
| it jumped high on impact and ran
| on municipal and county taxes to
{off into the thick underbrush at | july 31. It also said Dick Disque,
Newberry’s. It had come under | hyilding inspector since death of
the wire mesh fence onto the | john Jeter, could keep fees: until
next organization meeting, January,
| since. he has “taken quite a bit of
— ' on the job in past month.
x | Inspector always got fees until Mr.
Bus Inspection | Jeter, for special reasons, elected
! | to turn them over to Borough.
School buses will be inspected at | Cruiser Is Coming
Dallas Senior High School August | Borough cruiser, first’ in Dallas
12, 8-am. to 4 pm. | history, is expected to be delivered
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Schooley property, 112 Davenport, |
| and then gone back.
Contractors from all public school [Foon
| districts of the area are instructed | Council will contact Gate of
| to cover the school bus signs while | Heaven to discuss parking for
en route to inspection. Church on Machell Avenue and Ter-
Other dates for school bus inspec- | Yace Drive and to discuss status of
tion, open to any contractor for | barricades on traffic between school
school-pupil transportation, are: | oe ereine lo when recess. is not
Shickshinny, at the DL&W station, | #Ctually 1n session.
August i Fort, Town Hall, | While discussion was heavy, like
: 3 Fimo: ... | the humidity, actual motions were
en Mae x fico One Se motion was to
J nt Dallas : | pave Lincoln Street, off Orchard
: Hens tundacd | (between highway and Pioneer),
Revised IRM SangaTgs qmmy | cost $4200. No other new construc-
be obtained from administrators of | tion could! be budgeted this: year
| but there will be resurfacing on
| Park, Parrish, Pincrest, and part of
Despite pressure from
| Councilman Thomas, Luzerne Ave-
‘school districts.
| nue extension will not be built this
State Liquor Store, big attraction
find a doctor was to return to che | on Main Street, and felt by many
Auction, they headed back to Dallas. | to be a real stimulus to Main Street
Miss Banks, a practical nurse who | trade, is pushing for air conditioning
[had been in an accident herself | next year, agreeing to pay $25 more
| recently, kept watch of the pas-|rent to the borough each month
| sengers and maintained a steady | until the system is paid for, then re-
| iow of calming conversation with | verting to $105 a month. Bob
| them. | Moore asked, why allow them to
Back at the auction-school cross- | revert to the cheap rent after that
|ing, the situation was explained | time, since they would still bene-
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reporter and ‘first person on the
scene on the old country road, and
her friend, Christine Banks,
Pittston, had left the Auction
around 11 p.m. and were going to-
ward Carverton from East Dallas
on Sawmill Road near the junk-
yard. On the curve below Culver’s,
they came upon the car which had
passed them, now battered and ly-
ing across the road, two of three
occupants wandering dazedly around.
A reflecting flare was attached to
the wreck until the driver and an-
other motorist could move it off
the road.
Deciding that the quickest way to
Coog and Noxen Assistant Fire Chief
The boy was dazed and had a!
bump on his head, and was finally
taken to a doctor’s office by Lynn |
Sheehan, Huntsville.
West |
| Telephone Company on Thursday,
| briefly to the policeman on duty, | fit from the air conditioning ? Grace
| who called Dallas ambulance which | Cave said it was because they could
| took the boys to Nesbitt Hospital. | easily find other quarters if they
The accident victims, Keith Wills | Wanted to.
| and Louis Discatto, West Pittston; | It was decided that trap shoot-
| were treated for injuries to the [ing on the Maslow property, 40
| head and arm respectively. Driver | acres, was legal because of ample
| was Sanford Warshall, Pittston. The | ground.
! car, which traveled 117 feet on the
{| berm before glancing off a tree and I y
[ rolling completely over, is not ex- | ties brought a 4-3 vote, Wilbur
footed tO recover. Davis making original motion, and
| i Bob Post moved to form a commit-
tee to study the legal problems, and
| draw up an ordinance.
Street Department was told to
put more septic agent in Toby's
Creek to beat the smell temporarily,
Utility Tax
An unstudied motion to tax utili-
William R. Henschke, Hillcrest
| Drive, New Goss Manor, observed
25 years of service with the Bell