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Oldest Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
75 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
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"THE DALLAS POST
This Week: Scrapbook Tabloid Of Photos From Nineteenth Annual Library Auction
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Telephone Numbers
674-5656
EASY TO REMEMBER
674-7676
TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES
Lake Continues
To Read “Clean”
n Latest Tests
Contrary To Rumor,
State Health Office
Plans No 2nd Close
Most recent tests taken of water
at public beaches of Harveys Lake
were made last Friday, a Health
Department official told the Dallas
Post yesterday, and the Lake is
clean.
Ralph Heister, District Sanitary
Engineer, said ‘‘All public beaches
have good water quality.” Answer
was in response to a rumor placed
at the Dallas Post to the effect that
Harveys Lake was again about to
be put under Health Department
quarantine. because of sewage dis-
charge, as it was last year, effec-
tively killing business,
The Post asked Mr. Heister if
these rumors had any foundation,
and he said “Not to my knowledge,”
adding that almost all direct sew-
age discharges had been eliminated
by Health Department inspection
and action, and that this was re-
ected in 1965 by good water
‘®quality.
Mr. Heister also said that the
Health Department would continue
make tests and would report
¥ény problems to the public.
He also warned that in time,
even though the direct discharges
had been eliminated, he anticipates
that residual sewage discharge will
pose a problem for Harveys Lake
unless there is more effective sew-
age disposal.
100 Kids Jam Scene
After Crash Hurts 2
Two teenagers were injured
around 11:30 p.m. Saturday when
their Corvair went out of control
north of Country Club ‘Road on
Route 309, Tunkhannock Highway.
Left rear wheel and fender were
ripped out of the car when it spun
against a guard-rail, after crossing
/@/the road. Driver had been attempt-
ing to pass.
. Admitted to Nesbitt Hospital by
@ Dallas ambulance was: Barry Teal,
“+16, of Kingston, the driver. - Am-
bulance attendant said Teal was
found out of the car, on his back,
feet wedged into corner of the door.
His condition was improving. Pas-
senger Ronald Duffin, Mott Street,
Wilkes-Barre, was treated and re-
leased, after being taken by Kings-
ton Township ambulance.
Kunkle fire truck was at the
scene, as were about 100 spectators,
mostly teenagers from dances at
Harveys Lake and Kunkle, en route
home.
Hedden Firm To Build
Raymon R. Hedden and Company
was awarded the contract for con-
struction of the new Post Office-
Federal office building in Montrose.
PLUS FOUR
PAGE TABLOID
Contractor's men are seen here putting the finishing touches on the
dam at proposed Frances Slocum
State Park.
Gravel is being laid for maintenance access on top of the new 50-
foot high earthen dam, being constructed for the State by Irvin T. Miller
Company.
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Finishing Touches On Carverton’s
in a line from the house at top to behind the old. stone bridge on what
used to be “Sawmill Road” and the
ancient Hefft Mill, since torn down.
White gutter in foreground is to prevent erosion of the earthen dam.
Officials at the scene say they
the Park will begin.
have no idea when the flooding for
Officials say that with the completion of this path and final inspec- | It is said that four inches of rain would be enough to fill the great arti-
cial lake, 10 miles around, 165 acres in size, JF THERE WERE NO RUN-
the site from Carverton Road, shows the big spillway in the background, OFF, which of course there is. In any case, given the right season and
tion, the dam will be complete.
Center picture, also looking down on
Lake-Noxen Folk
Vote On Charges
At the end of three weeks, 894
customers have voted in the Com-
monwealth Telephone Company poll
to determine whether Harveys Lake- |
Noxen customers would prefer to
pay an increased monthly" rate in|
order to eliminate the 15c¢ toll
charge to Kingston-Wilkes-Barre.
J. N. Landis, District Manager
announced today that 589 yes votes
have been returned of the 682 re-
quired for an affirmative majority.
305 customers have voted against |
the monthly rate increase, prefer-
ring to retain the present toll
charge.
There are still 569 ballots to be
returned, Landis stated. The poll
will be concluded on July 31 and
any votes not returned by that date
will be treated as negative votes.
1,343 ballots were mailed at the
start of the poll on July 1. Since
then, there has been ‘a met increase
of 20 customers. Therefore, 682
yes votes are now required for
majority approval of the toll elimi-
nation.
Car Flips Onto Side
On Idetown Sideroad
Frank Lyons, of Shawanese, Har-
veys Lake, was uninjured when his
car drifted up an embankment and
landed on its side around 2 p.m.
yesterday on the dirt road between
Route 415, the highway, and Old
Lake Road, near Rinken's, Idetown.
Back Mountain Area
Ambulance Logbook
Dallas Community
Dallas = ambulance took : Louis
Brown, Overbrook Avenue, to Gen-
eral Hospital on Thursday, John
| Berti, Lynn Sheehan, and Jim
Haines attending.
Jean Kuehn, Machell Avenue,
was taken to General Hospital on
Thursday, Robert Besecker, Jim
Faerber, and Les Tinsley as crew.
On Saturday, Charles Lipp, Hilde-
brant Road, was brought, home
{from General Hospital, Roy Laug-
| head, Hayden Richards, and Haines
attending.
Same day, Sister Mary Josephine,
College Misericordia, was taken to
| Mercy Hospital, Ed Roth, Jim
| Davies, and Tinsley attending.
Same day, Barry Teal, Kingston,
| was taken’ from accident, Route
1 309, to Nesbitt Hospital, Roth and
| Besecker. as crew. a Bl
Monga‘ reds sRewher, \L Ridp $i
a x To OAV
| Street, F¥rbrook Tgare of Daley,”
was taken to Mercy Hospital, Shee-
"han, Richards, and Leighton Scott
| as crew.
| On return, ambulance brought
| Mrs. Frank Schriber, 45 East Over-
brook Road, home from Nesbitt
{ Hospital, same Crew.
Same day, Mrs. Gertrude Mec-
| Glynn, c/o Ankner, New Goss Man-
| or, was brought home from Wyo-
| ming Valley Hospital, Sheehan and
| Jack Lasher attending."
| Same day, Nancy Waskiewicz,
| Joan Sckola, and Jane Ellman: were
| taken from accident, Lake Highway,
to Nesbitt Hospital, Sheehan, Faer-
The car, a 1957 Plymouth, WaS | her, and Don Shaffer attending.
Jamaged extensively and was tow-
>d by Meade’s garage.
Township police investigated.
~ oLake Getting Tough On Junk, Plan
# New Cruiser; Board-to-be Gets 3
Lake Township Board of Super-; who attends all supervisors’ meet-
visors had a quiet July meeting re- | ings for the Executive Committee,
cently, cleaning up odds and ends
authorizing police to
get tough on unlicensed junk ac- |
cumulation, and hearing an opinion
on the sewage problem at the Lake.
A resident of Warden Place, Jim
Baloga, said that as a summer res- |
ident, and then only on weekends, |
he thought that a sewer system was
beyond the financial capability of
of business,
the Lake community.
The resident cited a recent issue
of the Dallas Post which told of
Township Board’s interest in devel-
system, providing
there were substantial federal funds
available. He also brought a copy of
a plan for sewer in Clinton, N. J,
involving 650 dwellings, at $70 a
year rental fee and $6 a foot front-
footage. He said summer residents
need only maintain adequate septic
oping a sewer
tank systems, adding that at Ward
n Place there were still instances
®t inadequate sewage disposal.
Pollution would increase, he said,
would accelerate the
termed the sometimes common be-
lief that rain would help the con-
tamination problem ‘absurd’.
Board directed Lake Health Of- | overflowing sump on Sorber Moun-
ficer Henry Stefanowicz to check on | tain said to be overflowing onto | }
the systems cited by Baloga as in-
adequate.
In reference to federal aid, Baloga |
said that it has been calculated that suggested to the board that Albert
federal aid, permitting government | Gulitis
to subsidize up to thirty per cent | names to consider for the zoning
of cost of plant, will reduce cost to board, which has lingered in the |
each resident of Clinton, N. J., by | proposed stage for some time now.
| Supervisor Ed Crake said to con-
only $4.
| Executives
| system
| comment’ at this time.
run-off. He | Lo;
| which aims to form a borough a-
round Harveys Lake.
‘Whitesell asked Hoblak what the
thought about sewage
“No
costs? Hoblak said
Bids For New Cruiser
Lehman |
Lake Township
Lake ambulance took Mrs. A.
| Husband, Alderson, to General Hos-
| pital, July 14, Jim McCaffrey and
| Myron Williams attending.
Tuesday, Dr. Ben Groblewski was
[taken from General Hospital to
| Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia,
| Lee Zimmerman, John Stenger, and
| Mrs. Ann Kotch, R.N., attending.
Now Raising Crops
In Pocono Acreage
{
| The Rodriquez Brothers, Joseph
| and Rafael, Chase, have selected a
| new area for their cultivation of
Bids will be advertised for a new | cabbage and cauliflower.
| police cruiser, the 1960 Plymouth |
| now having over
Hi
Complaints ‘were registered with to
‘the board about speeding at Outlet | Blakeslee,
| and on the road from Payne's Store | vegetables in a higher altitude re-
to Kupstas Store. It was also sug- | quired for top quality produce.
| gested that an officer be stationed | z
lat the Noxen Road intersection to |
{loosen up congested traffic. Police |
| Chief Walbridge Leinthall said a |
| policeman there never did any good |
| because people tended to ignore |
the officer's wave-through and stop |
‘for the stopsign anyway.
Police were told to stimulate ef
| forts to clean up unruly junk in the
| township, and were specificaly told
when it rained because the rain | to arrest one alleged offender in
yalville if he has not complied |
| with board's demands within 15 |
| days.
| Sanitary officer is to check one
the roadway.
What Zoning Board..
and Carlton Kocher
. { . .
Board and solicitor Lewis Crisman | sider Tom Garrity’s name too.
discussed the relative cost of sewer | i
systems and plans with particular | fact a board? Consensus of opinion |
reference to the borough of Forty was that there was not yet a board,
Fort, which, Crisman said, devel- | but that these names should be con
oped a sewer plan at enormous cost | sidered if there ever became one. !
and then never put it into effect.
Supervisor Sharon Whitesell then | to be dumping septic tank contents
upon fields in Lake Towship, will be
Executive
William “Bud”
addressed
member
Committee
Hoblak,
Supervisor Walter “Red” Hoover
be |
Solicitor asked if there were in|
With land in the Back Mountain
100,000 miles on | area becoming scarce for big time
| planting, the two young men moved
Long Pond, a little beyond
to grow their choice
i paper, than. _haye to reiutate it onl
not take very long.
trickle.
Carverton Road, new section seen at right, is again negotiable
by car, with guard rails still to be installed. Residents used to
‘traveling it are in for a surprise now, as the old country road seems
| . like a great causeway over an empty sea.
Several municipalities in
Mountain number among those gov-
erned by County Zoning, and resi.
dents should be sure their building
activities are acceptable by law, ac-
cording to Clarence Laidler, Dallas,
recently appointed Zoning Officer.
All of Luzerne County has been
covered by zoning ordinarices, since
January 1. Any new construction,
including additions to existing struc-
tures, major remodeling or changes
in the use of land, require a zoning
permit before starting.
It is to the advantage of every-
one involved if a permit is taken
out first, to insure that the use is
| permitted, and that the setbacks
{are observed, and other require-
| ments complied with. It is much:
| easier to change a structure on
the givdnd afted it hasbeen started, i
as well as the cost involved.
Some uses might not be permit-
ted at all, such as the location of
a business in an agricultural or resi-
dential zone, or a residence in a
! business or industrial zone, or a
bewo family residence or conversion
|in a single family zone.
Zoning inspectors from the Coun-
ty Planning Commission are now
checking the field to determine
whether or not zoning permits have
been obtained.
Violations of the County Zon-
ing Ordinance are subject to
fine, jail sentence, or injunc-
tion.
If you have started a structure,
or addition, or changed the use of
land after January 1, 1965, and
| have not obtained a zoning permit,
apply for it at your earliest oppor-
tunity. If your municipality has its
own zoning ordinance, apply to the
local zoning officer. If it does not
have one, apply to Clarence M.
Nurse Identified
Several calls have been received
at. the Dallas Post identifying the
nurse passer-by who directed first-
aid efforts which are thought by
doctors to have saved the life of
Alan Stewart, 12, Lower Demunds
Road, who received severe neck
laceration in a two-car accident on
that road last week.
She is Mrs. Marian McHenry, of
Orange, who helped attend to the
boy. Mrs. Rose Llewellyn, a nurse,
also of Orange, attended to the
boy’s mother, :
|
A septic tank cleaning firm, said | Tuesday afternoon around 4.
told that this is illegal.
i
| Street, Luzerne, told Fire Chief
Firemen Douse Mystery
Dallas firemen are seen putting | Dallas Post Staff Photo
| out the blaze which mysteriously | know what could have caused the
broke out in the front seat of a | fire, but that she had left the win- |
parked car ‘at Linear Corporation {dow open
Owner Mrs. Alice Suponcic, Miller
Car Blaze
County Zoning Official Warns Of
Penalty In Fot Following New Law
Caidler, Zoning Officer, Room 822,
IBE Building, 67-69 Public Square.
Local municipalities covered by
the County Zoning Ordinance are
as follows: Townships of Dallas,
Exeter, Fairmount, Franklin; Hun-
lock, Huntington, Jackson, Lake,
Ross, and Union.
Sewerline Pends
Appalachia Aid
Push Area Project
Along Creek Basin
At last census, in 1960, the
‘metropolitan’ ‘Back Mountain, Dal-
las Borough, Dallas, Township, and
fn gston Township, numbere d
i 12/089 people.
In 1980 the combined population
will be something like 19,400, ac-
cording to sewarage feasibility re-
port as reviewed by the Luzerne
County Planning Comission.
Along the lines of this previous
study, the Back Mountain Protec-
tive Association is urging local
municipalities to build a sewer
system, financing it with federal
help, hopefully under the new
Appalachia program.
One borough official, who also
pointed out that his municipality
was one of the first to promote the
original study, recently asserted
that he would be ready to imple-
ment a sewer for the Back Moun-
tain ‘tomorrow’ if he thought he
could “ get it for twenty per cent’
--that is, in effect, if the federal
government would pay 80 per cent
of the estimated $4,400,000 cost of
the tri-municipal plan.
The Protective Association is go-
ing even farther than that. It thinks
that Harveys Lake might tie in, as
well. In the Planning Commission
report, a separate recommendation
is made for Harveys Lake area, with
treatment plant to be located at
Oak Hill to be force-lifted over the
ridge above Sunset. (This latter
plan has drawn scorn from some
local officials who have said “We
have sewage problems as it is at the
Lake, ‘without pumping Oak Hill's
stuff over here”.) The Association
would like, instead, to hitch the
Lake’s sewage to the Toby's Creek
drainage area which would be serv-
iced by a Back Mountain sewer line.
At the junction of what is called
Trout Brook (the route of Lower
Demunds Road) and Toby's Creek
in Fernbrook would be the treat-
ment plant, fed by gravity from
areas above it, and having the sew-
age from below, in Kingston Town-
ship, pumped back uphill to it after
it flowed by gravity to the pumping
station near Carverton Road.
One hitch is in the rental fee,
which would be $68 in the case of
a tri-municipal system, plus an
estimated $100 tie-in cost and front
foot cost of $6.50. Some people in
the affected area have considerable
useless land with assessable front
| footage, and it is these people who
| objected to plans for a sewer when
the original report was made.
They might be expected to object
slightly and someone
| might have thrown something in it.
Damage was. estimated at up-
wards of $150. Mrs. Suponcic is
Donald Bulford that she did not | employed at the plant,
again. Nonetheless, if they do ob-
ject, if and when the municipalities
| sit down to ‘talk turkey’, their
| positions will be clearer because
| there would no longer be the
| question ‘of “Who's going to pay
| for it ?”’, except for the twenty per
cent to be raised locally.
It is safe to say, of course, that
| the municipalities themselves are
| not going to get into an elaborate
sewage project without the federal
|help --i.e., Appalachia money. The
| question is then: Can they get it?
Harveys Creek outlet, sewage from.
Big Dam; Road Nearly Restored
normal precipitation, it is thought that flooding for the State Park .will
Presently, Abraham Creek has dwindled to a mere
VOL. 76, NO. 29. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1965
Dallas Post Staff Photo
Again Distinguished
Mrs. -‘T. M. B. Hicks, Associate
Editor of the Dallas Post, has again
numbered among the distinguished
editorial ‘writers ‘on weekly papers
who made their mark in competi-
tion for the coveted Golden Quill
Award. : !
Winner of the national award
last year, selected from 1,189 fin-
| alists for her editorial THE LIVING
"FLAME, written at the time of the
state funeral of the late President,
John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Hicks was
ccunted a runner-up for 1965.
Her editorial, “You Cannot Start
Too Young’, concerned the cheat-
ring offenses at the U. S. Air Force
Academy, and appeared in the Post,
issue of February 18, 1965.
It advised parents to correct dis-
honest habits in children at an
early age. Quoting from the middle
of the editorial: |
“A dog is entitled to one bite...
but only one.
“If your boy is cheating, do not
pass over it lightly. ;
“See that he clears his record,
and at once.”
This year’s winner of the Golden
Quill" was Robert E. Fisher of the
Crossett (Ark.) News Observer.
by Leighton Scott
You stumble through the myrtle
and wild blueberry, thread around
scrub pines and vagrant elms. You
stub your toe on a piece of broken
marble and suspect ‘that you may,
at last,
pa’s grave.
The outbuildings of ancient jungle
civilizations never discovered by
white man remain in at least as
good repair as the tiny cemetery
jon Parrish Heights, wherein are
buried the remains of the founding
fathers of Dallas.
Perhaps you have never visited
there, but only voted in the shack
out front, which you can tell is
part of a cemetery by the old iron
picket fence at its entrance. But
polling place is a cemetery,
sporadically kept up by friends and
family of the deceased, and later by
duty-minded civic groups.
It is kept up no longer. At least
their ‘backs, whole or in pieces, cov-
ered by
smashed or worn smooth and illegi-
ble. It would not be possible for
pranksters of the grave-desecrating
variety we see from time to time to
time to cut loose in this cemetery
fon very long without running out
of material.
Where gravestones lie, buried in
they were supposed to mark.
‘
have arrived at grand- |
half the stone markers lie flat on |
Ira Frantz, 86,
Taken By Death
Was Known In Brea
For Fruit Orchards
A long-familiar figure passed from
the local scene with the death of
Ira S. Frantz, who died early
Wednesday morning at his home
Ruction Workers :
Raise $14,000
For Library Fund
Antiques And Bnimals :
Favored Items Offered |
By Lively Auctioneers
The 19th Back Mountain Library
Auction “chairman, Merrill Faeg
burg, stated yesterday that an ap-
proximate $14,000 would be realized
from the big event this year.
The weather which was favorable
except for a damp 45 minutes on
Saturday afternoon found large
large crowds patronizing their fav-{
orite booths and bidding on items’
appealing to their fancy. Although"
a gross $11,000 was realized from
the booths and three special ticket
offerings and $9,000 from sales
across the auctioneers block, ex-
penditures will cut the take to the
$14,000 figure mentioned above. a
The budget for Library expenses
| for 1965 is set at $21,000. The cost
of running a library is no small
operation and since no state aid is /
forthcoming here, dependence on
Auction receipts is not fully realized
by many folks hereabout. Gross
| figures quoted in the past have been
misinterpreted causing the public
to believe that there is no great
need to raise as much as possible
to continue this fine service to the
public and the school children.
Thursday evening was a good
opening night and Saturday wound
up the affair with most satisfactory
sales. Faegenburg stated that one
cf the largest crowds in years turn-
ed out to watch and bid. Jerry
Gardner served as co-chairman. +
near Centermoreland on R. D. 1
Dallas, at the age of 86. Although
injured in an automobile accident
some years ago, he had been quite
active until recent months.
The son of Andrew and Phelena
Smith = Frantz, he was born and
lived his entire life in the same
area. For many years-he operated
a large orchard, specializing in Ger-
man prunes and apples. Following
his retirement several years ago, he
was engaged in the real estate busi-
ness.
Mr. Frantz was recently honored
by the Orange Methodist Church
as one who had been a member
more than 50 years. He was an
honorary trustee, having served ac-
tively on the board for many years.
During his fruit-growing days he
refrained from Sunday sales of pro-
duce, saying he remembered Who
put the apples on the tree.
A tall man who stood out in any
crowd, he could usually be seen at
the Library Auction although fail-
ing health kept him away this year.
His first wife, Silvania Ace Frantz,
died in 1959.
Surviving are his widow, the for-
mer Minnie Redline; step-son, Frank
Redline, Wilkes-Barre; step-daugh-
ter, Mrs. Glen Keller, Lockport,
N. Y.; niece, Mrs. Victor Eiben,
Cleveland, Ohio; nephew, Loren
Morton, Florida.
Friends may call Friday from 2
to 4 and 7 to 9 at Nulton Funeral
Home, Beaumont. Funeral service
Saturday at. 2 p.m. will be con-
ducted by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert,
with burial in Marsh Cemetery.
Cemetery Of Dallas's Forefathers
On Heights Lies In Woeful Shape
| ted to know some of the names,
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perhaps to take some action to
help clean up. A number of the
names, you will find, coincide with
early Dallas officials, school direct-
ors, and founding fathers.
Largest monument is that of Ben- |
jamin Nulton died 1881, and there
' are several Nulton graves around it.
| Others nearby: Mrs. Simon Ander-
son, Manning Snyder, 1868, Sylvia
Jane Lewis, 1851, John S. Kunkle,
1830, William Honeywell, 1854 or
11874 (7), Richard Honeywell, 1880,
Charles Ferguson, 1815 (?), Jane
Kunkle, 1851, and there are other
| Ferguson stones knocked over and
| hidden in the undergrowth.
| two colonies of ants.
directly behind the south district!
once |
underbrush. Many are |
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dirt, pine needles, and weeds, one is | Hannah Venstenburgh, 1847, Mar-
by no means certain that they are | garet King, 1874, Elizabeth Ryman
still in the vicinity of the grave |Baldwin, 1880.
And still some are standing and end of the cemetery. Behind. it there
many are, in part at least, legible. is a small trash dump. This side of
Survivors or friends may be interes- | the wall there are signs that chil-
Turn cover a stone and disturb !
Kick at the |
myrtle and send a cottontail scitter-
ing into the bushes. Life goes on.
Other names: Esther A. Williams,
1862, Amy Steward, 1845, Julia
Snyder, 1852, Freeman Brace, 1888, |
stone reading ‘Erected by his
friends”, all of whom are. surely
gone.
. Stephen Brace, 1848, Caleti Brace,
1880, Roxanne Fisher, 1862, Wesley
Moss, age 24, 1861, John Hughey,
Private, Company D, 143rd Regt.,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, no date,
Sarah Fish, 1891. Back in the old
pine grove, where weeds have not
flourished so much, there are Mary
Ryman, 1851, Peter Ryman, 1848,
One comes to a stone wall, the
Most popular among the mer-
| chandise offered by witty and
cheerful auctioneers were the an-
tiques and livestock. Choice pieces
of glass, antique furniture, china
and brass brought top figures and
a lamb, pig, turkeys, chickens, duck-
| lings, rabbits, canary and thirteen
| puppies of a fairly fine breed de-
| lighted the throng and found eager
| buyers. Bargains were also plenti-
ful with two automatic mowers
| going for 20% below cost and a
400 plus electric range selling for
| only $176, to mention a few.
The Book Booth, always popular,
with discarded library copies and
many = donations from household
shelves brought a fine figure of |
| $800, the Art Booth ran up a total
of $200, Odds. and Ends Booth,
$400 and $300 was realized from
chances sold on the Arrowback
Settle, decorated by Mrs. Helen
Gross, and won by Mrs. William
Lamb, Dallas. The Gradon Mayer
painting, also a best seller went to
Nancy Ziegenfus. No full returns
have as yet been received from the
car sales division since ticket sales-
men have not turned in all receipts.
Mrs. Thomas Heffernan, Shaver-
town, was winner of the 1965 Val-
iant two door sedan purchased by
the committee. f
Turns Onto Highway,
Is Struck; 4 Hurt
Two cars collided at the inter-
section of Route 415, the Lake High-
way, and Country Club Road, at 8
Tuesday night, with serious scalp
injury to a passenger in one—Joan
Sokola, 17, of Wilkes-Barre. She
was improving at Nesbitt Hospital. |
Others in the car, driven by
Nancy Waskiewicz, 18, White
Haven, were treated and released. |
All were from out of this area. |
Waskiewicz car was turning out on- /
to the highway from Country Club |
Road, when it was struck by one A
driven by Mrs. Dolores Walsh, Shoe-
maker Avenue, Forty Fort. |
Neither Mrs. Walsh nor three |
children were hurt, but both cars
were towed away. Dallas Township
police investigated. Dallas ambu-
lance took two injured to hospital,
and Dallas fire company hosed
down the pavement of glass and
gasoline. !
dren use the area as a playground.
| some kindred soul dragged it one
Next to the wall, doubtless where
time, lies the stone of Joseph An-
derson, 1850. Who will remember |
where Mr. Anderson is buried?
Toward the left front are the
Spencer stones, in better shape than
most. They are Hannah, 1900, an
Private Peter Spencer, Co. C, 4th |
Regt., U S Artilery. Also Chester
Oakley, who died in 1857 at age 10. |
Like so many others on this ground,
his grave is surrounded by weed
and wild blackberry. “
Turn again to look, before you
go. There where the ancient grape-
vines curl along the fence is the
rusty base frame for a windmill and
a fireplace littered with broken
glass. Here is a tombstone marked
Irving Weager, 1916, dragged out in |
front of the fence, and on the steps, |
which are kept nice for elections, a |
name is scrawled in white paint, -
the name of somebody alive, a name
that may be remembered for a few
years while those on half-buried |
stone, somewhere in the back,
crumble and wash away,
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