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Purcell Heads Group
In Court, Along With
2 by Leighton Scott
It was less like a protest,
gathering — of around 70 people who knew each other and
‘flatly deplored the idea of a Harveys Lake Borough.
It was quiet and brief (about an hour and a quarter), |
a shared last-ditch stand of w
timers and businessmen who
would mean doubling of taxes
res
Surprised at the deep-seated and |
possibly irrevocable progress of the |
borough proponents, it called for |
a leader almost before the meeting |
began, Tuesday night. It found |
that leader in William Purcell, a de- |
termined and clear-thinking young |
businessman and resident of Har- |
veys Lake, who recently added the |
former Harron’s Laketon Economy |
Market to his gasoline sales enter- |
prises. |
Directing the meeting were Lake |
Township Board of Supervisors, |
Sharon Whitesell and Atty. Louis |
Crisman the speakers, attended by |
Lehman Township Board of Super-
visors.
Good-humored Desperation
an It was an odd amalgam of good
no and desperation, like people
trapped together in a subway car
during a power failure — gentle
a Wise-cracking; a sober realization
hat the other side may have al-
ready won the ballgame; an ulti-
mate belief that, in a showdown,
the status quo would somehow pre-
vail.
Said a woman's voice in the
crowd: “Can't the supervisors’ wives
say something that will make a
difference ?” Answer: “They do at
home.”
Said a voice that would be heard
more than once before the battle |
was over, revealingly: The borough |
men have already pegged down a|
majority of year-rounders’ signa- |
tures in the Lake Township section
| not have a copy of it, but that af-
To File Exceptions
Township Lawyers
meeting than a neighborhood
hat were principally Lake old-
were certain that a borough
with little increase in service.
explained that a freeholder was 2
property-owner for life, but that
only “resident” freeholders had a
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Anti-Borough Forces Open Campaign At Harveys Lake
Planning Joint Opposition Meeting, Friday, Nov. 26
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Will Boro Be Toiled
By Lehman Township?
Will formation of a borough
at Harveys Lake from sections
of Lake and Lehman Town-
ships be foiled by failure to get
a requisite majority of resi-
dent freeholders’ signatures in
Lehman Township?
Officials in a position to
know have told the Dallas Post
that they are certain that there
is not a majority of borough
right to petition. {
There was question posed from !
the floor to the effect that some |
signatures on the borough petition |
were not by property-owners. Cris- |
man said that the supervisors did |
fadavits had been taken of each
canvasser.
Purcell, speaking for the first
time and well prior to his nomina-
tion as opposition committee head,
asked: What would be the best way
to fight the petition? Crisman then
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proponents in the small mile-
long segment of Lehman Town-
ship involved.
They say that a failure to
get a majority here would foil
the whole effort, and that there
would be no recourse for the
borough proponents but to
start the whole petition over
again for the Lake Township
sector alone.
Idea is that, though the year-
rounder majority in Lake
Township might favor borough
formation, their petition is for
suggested that the citizens and formation of a municipality
township supervisors ‘file excep- comprised of sectors of BOTH
tions.” ! townships.
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Purcell asked if a property-owner
who was only a summer resident
would be considered a legal ‘‘resi-
dent” for petition? Crisman opin-
ed that you can’t have a residence
in two places, thus excluding sum-
mer residents. Purcell suggested
the opposition committee be formed
immediately.
Kocher asked if the partition of
the township would effect a rise in
taxes in the rest of the township?
The consensus was that it would.
George Halowich asked if it would |
be possible for a person ‘who had |
already signed the borough petition |
to take his name off? Answer: |
File exceptions. The meeting push- |
ed on the subject of retracting sig- |
Playground Sewage May Hasten
Move By Three Municipalities
Guard Rails Promised
For Carverton Road
The seriousness of the sewage
overflow at Shavertown Grade
School, necessitating closing of a
portion of the playground, will
probably bring the sewage disposal
problem to the point of action.
A letter from Raymond Schiwall,
Sanitary Engineer of Luzerne Coun-
a police investigated.
of the total watershed.
Said a voice in the crowd, of the
second protestors’ meeting, slated
for 8 p.m. Friday, November 26, at
Lake Township school: “Ask the
ones who voted for the borough to
be there to learn the truth.”
The next meeting: was the result
of suggestion by Crisman that there
was a two-fold approach to fighting
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the 1100-signature petition for for- |
mation of a borough by those who
claimed to be the requisite “free-
natures from the borough petition.
Someone shouted: ‘“Everybody’s
afraid to say why they signed it!” |
Further questions brought out
that the early opposition petition | the Adar Title.
‘circulated by Supervisor ' Walter |
Hoover showed a counter-opinion |
but did not have legal weight. Also
a witness, Richard Rank, was called |
forward by Lake Supervisor-elect
Alger Shafer, and Rank attested |
that his signature on the borough
petition was founded without prop- |
holders residing,” circulated by vol- |
unteers and members of the Har- |
veys Lake Executive Association,
er information, that he was requir-
ed to advise his wife by mail from |
Alaska whether or not to sign. He
and now filed with the court for! also said that his canvasser had
ty, to the Kingston Township Board
of Supervisors led the board to
| take action on Wednesday evening.
| The group will meet with repre-
| sentatives of the sanitation unit in
It. was suggested by Mr. Schi-
wall that State and Federal funds
are available for the next two years
I for sewage treatment for commu-
nities needing financial assistance.
He stated that without a proper
sewage collection system the
situation is more or less hopeless
and must be directed to home own-
| ers and business enterprises.
A Feasibility Report prepared
Dr. Mellman To Speak |
On New Building Plan
Dr. Robert’ Mellman, superinten-
dent of Dallas School District, will
speak on “Our Proposed Building
Program” at a meeting of Dallas
Jr. High School PTA on Monday
| evening.
| This particular subject concerns |
every PTA member and tax payer in |
this area and an invitation is ex-
tended to the public to attend.
Dr. Mellman will be introduced
by William Price, vice president and
program chairman of the organiza-
tion. Mrs. John Rogers will pre-
side.
Mrs. Joseph Balavage is chair-
man of the Tea honoring the
teachers and held at this time in
commemoration of Education Week.
9th grade mothers will assist.
Coin-boxes Robbed
Thieves broke into three vending
machines and a kiddie ride coin-
box at Dallas Shopping Center's
Speed Wash sometime between
5:30 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 a.m.
yesterday, taking 50 to 75 cents
from the machines inside and an |
undetermined amount outside.
Ruth Disque, manager of the 24-!
hour laundromat which has seen a
number of such robberies in its
history, discovered it at 7:30 a.m.
i yesterday, and Borough and State
Rent Reduced
In an effort to aid Trucksville |
Firemen in their current drive to
raise funds for a new tanker, the |
board voted to lower their monthly |
rental from $50 per month to $25 |
for the coming year. President |
Jacob Harrison = replied, “Every |
little bit helps.”
A rumor that rental was charged
the WSCS for their Election Day |
use of the new municipal building |
oe
Signs of Christmas already!
Bearing glad tidings of great joy
are the “three wise men’ again:
Andrew Perranto, Street Superin-
tendent, and Jim Davies and Kyle
Pearing Glad Tidings Already
Cundiff, men of the department.
They are stringing ‘the traditional
| Christmas lights. on Main Street,
| and: Andy seems to be smiling a
holiday ho-ho-ho to the Dallas Post
' Back Mountain Area
Bmbulance Logbook
Dallas Community
Dallas Community ambulance took
Fred Maiers, Haddonfield Hills, to
Mercy [Hospital on Sunday, Don
Shaffer, Robert Besecker, Jim Dav-
jes, and Jim Faerber attending.
Lake + Township
Lake ambulance took Lawrence
Wilson from Ruggles to Mercy Hos-
| pital on Friday, John Stenger and
Jim McCaffrey attending.
Michael Walsh was taken from
Morgus Convalescent Home to Vets
--Season’s Greetings
camera.
| Borough Council has announced
| that ‘the lights will be turned on
the night before Thanksgiving,
November 24.
School Directors Seek Pointers
Decision Must Come
Soon On Architect
Dallas District School Directors,
who rhust choose an architect for
| the proposed building program in
{the near future, are covering
| ground in determining important
factors in both renovation and erec-
tion of schools.
On Renovations, New Buildings
| Phillips, Mrs. Louise Steinhauer,
Mrs. Ann Vernon, newly elected
| directors Earl Fritzges, Harry Lef-
ko and John LaBerge visited Tunk-
! hannock High School where ex-
| tensive renovations have been
| made. The problems of remodeling
| old buildings was well presented
Lin this case as the local directors
| took a guided tour throughout.
| A little earlier, Andrew Kozem-
scrutiny and decision by the middle
of December:
1/ File exceptions to show that
there is NOT a majority of resi-
dent property-owners in, favor of
the borough (still in question
around the Lehman Township lake-
front.—Ed.)
2/ File exceptions to show that,
majority of freeholders or not, a
borough would not be in the best
interests of tax-payers (many of
whom do not own their own resi-
dences and thus could not petition
or refuse to).
Too Late?
It seemed almost too late for
effective opposition. .
The borough men had been at
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| five years ago by Roy F. Weston,
was denied by the board and future | Hospital, McCaffrey and Lee Zim-
use of it specified for girl scouts, | merman as crew.
fire company, churches and auxil-| Lehman Township
iaries only. Supervisors asked that |
the rooms be cleaned upon complet-
ing use of the same.
Everell Chadwick reported for
the Beautification Commit ee that
the current project would be the
cleaning out of brush from the pine
oak plantings along the highway
in the Harris Hill Road sector,
work to be done by the Boy Scouts.
Faulty Plumbing
Lehman ambulance took Andrew
Kleban, Route 118, to Nesbitt Hos-
| Lanceford Sutton attending.
Franklin-Northmoreland
Franklin - Northmoreland ambu-
lance took two Swoyerville boys,
David Mihulka and Joseph Mihulka,
from accident scene in Vernon, 2:15
a.m. Sunday, after their car flipped,
knocked out guard rails and landed
against a utility pole, to Nesbitt
Hospital, Stanley Weaver and Karl
Besteder attending.
Faulty plumbing work on the
new municipal building and the
seepage of water into the civil de-
pital on Saturday, Lee Wentzel and |
With an elementary - school to |chak joined the group in a close
| be the first consideration and addi- | look at Lehman's new High School,
tions to both junior and senior which was constructed several years
high buildings planned within the | ago.
next three years, most board mem- | Only by studying other structures
bers feel that the best construction in other districts does the board
for the least money seems to be hope to. have a clear picture of
the order of the day. | what must be done to berfefit both
A rapidly spiraling enrollment has | students and the taxpayer.
precipitated the move to hasten It is expected that a decision
the provision of more space. | may be forthcoming at the Decem-
On Sunday, directors Walter ber meeting of the board.
Rtom Lab On Misericordia Campus
| indicated that the borough would
| get Lakeside Drive widened (It is
| a: state highway).
| Mrs. Edward Crake, vehement
| spokesman for the women in at-
. tendance, asked if the issue would
| be settled by one judge or the
court en banc? Atty. Crisman was
of the opinion that' it would be
by the court en banc.
A list was circulated to form a
Lake Township citizen's comrx **ne,
‘and signers were Mr. and Mrs.
| William Purcell, Richard Rank, John
| Van Campen, Mrs. Joseph Desiderio,
| Mrs. Louella Gosart, Mrs. Edward
Crake, and Mrs. Bernice Kocher. A
| committee from Lehman is to be |
named.
work for the better part of a year,
with steady legal advice, lots of
adamant and steadfast volunteer
help (some of whom have been
accused of ‘promising the moon” to
prospective petitioners and virtually
camping on doorsteps until petition
was signed).
They had the blessing of the
- Pennsylvania Economy League, in-
dependent consulting agency dedi-
cated to improvement in municipal
government. They also had a good
deal of support emanating from
various sources in Wilkes-Barre.
Against this were people who re-
coiled” at the idea of (e.g., Lake
Twp.) a rise in millage from 4.1
to 9 or 10, and who further recoiled
at the idea of what they felt were
a lot of summer residents who
came out once in a while to tell
the establishment how to run Har-
veys Lake, which is a bit of an
overstated case. :
With a characteristic combina-
tion of impressive Harveys Lake
background (five generations) and
lack of understanding of the legal
boundaries of forming a borough,
one woman told of her daughter
who owns property here but lives
out of state and who is ‘against
the borough.”
Hitch is that the daughter, not
residing at the Lake, does not have
the status of “freeholder residing”
in the affected area of Lake and
Lehman townships.
From comments at the meeting
it was evident that many people
were unsure of the area affected,
the status of citizen involved, and
how the whole thing would be re-
solved, despite all the newspaper
coverage.
People And Questions
“Mr. Chairman, what is a free-
holder 2’, asked constable Jasper
Kocher, getting the ball rolling at
the outset of the meeting. Tt was
Two Collide
| Two cars collided on the highway
in Dallas in front of Davis’ Market
at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, no injuries
to occupants. Alan Covert, Star
Route, Shickshinny, struck rear of
car driven by Eula Meyers, Sun-
set Street, RD 4 Dallas, latter being
towed from scene. Borough police
investigated.
| Inc.,, for Kingston Township, and
{ Dallas Borough, and instigated at
that time by the late Austin Line
and William XKrimmel, supervisors
of their respective communities,
cites faulty on lot sewage facilities
| throughout the Toby Creek water-
shed, and will be studied.
Roy Ziegler, chairman of the
Kingston Township Board suggested
that officials of the other two in-
terested townships be called in for
a joint consultation. Supervisors
Shaver and Funke agreed.
The unguarded drop-off area on
| Carverton Road near the Frances
| Slocum Dam site will be corrected
i shortly advised Richard Staub,
| Trucksville, who said he had con-
tacted Rep. Fred Shupnik on the
matter. There have been a num-
ber of complaints on this built up
sector left without protective bar-
ricades for months.
Dan Shaver announced that
Shaver Avenue would be paved be-
fore the weekend and Vine Street,
with the township building lot also
| expected to be completed before
! winter.
fense room will be turned over to
the solicitor. Contractor for the |
former job will not receive full
payment unless errors are rectified.
Jacob Harrison reported a leak in
the kitchen sink. A rise in grading
will be undertaken by the super-
visors and a run off area provided |
to correct the basement problem.
Bids for the new police cruiser
from Luzerne Motors and Motor
Twins were rejected and will be re-
advertised.
Frank Roginski reported the Civil
Defense Unit had used the “Weasel”
to bring out the lost West Wyoming
tot found in.a coal pit. New police
regulations will be studied before
being accepted.
Lehman Fire Co. To
Tour Hayfield House
Parking Lot Crash
At 3:30 p.m. Monday, car driven
by Evan A. London, Centermore-
land, struck that of Warren Stanton,
RD 3 Dallas, in the Acme parking
lot, Borough police investigating.
Post Office Closed
The Dallas Post Office will be
closed, on Thursday, November 25,
(Thanksgiving Day) it was an-
nounced by Postmaster Ed Buckley.
There will be no City or Rural De-
livery. Mail will be collected from
the City Delivery boxes for dispatch
to Wilkes-Barre Post Office at
5:30 p.m.
Prepares For Vietnam
AF 1/c Clyde Major, with the
Members and guests of Lehman
hall November 22 at 7 p.m. to tour
Hayfield House, Lehman. Business
meeting will be at 8:45 at the hall,
following tour.
Vhitesell Speaks
Howard Whitesell, president of
the Home Builders Association of
Northeastern Pennsylvania, out-
| lines the organization's Fall and
Winter program at a meeting hosted
by the Luzerne Electric Division of
U. G. I. of which Richard Demmy,
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At UGI Meet ing On HBA Program
president in charge of the local
operation. J. Russell Samuel, sales| Demmy. Demmy told the
manager of the Luzerne Electric Di-
vision, is seated between Mr. Dem-
my and Mr. Whitesell.
Members and guests were inform-
: ed of the Luzerne Electric Division's
extreme right, is executive vice- | new policy of free installation of
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modern three-wire service by Mr.
home
| builders that the program will mean
| savings of more than $100 for each
customer requiring increased elec-
tric capacity to operate
appliances. Presently, some 16,000 |
Fire Company will meet at the fire- |
modern |
Air Force for five and one-half
years, will take survival training
in Nevada, with further combat
training in Florida, before heading
for Vietnam in March. His wife and
two small children, coming in from
Offutt AFB, Nebraska recently, are
i Major's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
lard Newberry on Main Street,
Dallas.
Dependants are not permitted to
accompany young men in survival
training.
Now Rock 'n Roll
Dances at Kunkle Community
ing Day, continuing the following
Saturday and every Saturday there-
after; 8:30 p.m.
One big change: For ‘the first
Twenties, the dances will not be
of “square dance” format. They will
be rock’n roll, featuring the five
Toronadoes.
Sponsoring the dances, as usual,
are the Harry Smith Fire Company
and the Kunkle Community Associ-
ation, alternately. Closing hour is
11:30 p.m.
Reflecting on the change, old-
time firemen told the Dallas Post,
| a little wistfully but with optimism:
| “Kids don’t want to farmer dance
| anymore. They want to rock 'n roll.”
It was the beginning of an era
in the Back Mountain, as closing
| the doors several weeks ago was
staying for the present with Mrs. |
Dance At Kunkle
Center will resume on Thanksgiv-'
time since the days of the Roaring |
the end of one. The Farmer Dance |
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From U.S. Oak Ridge Installaticn
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| The Oak Ridge Mobile Radioiso-
| tope Laboratory visited College
Eiligins campus November 8-
12 and 15-19, to present a two-
week program for faculty members
| and for advanced science students.
The mobile raidoisotope unit was
| sent by the Oak Ridge Institute of |
Nuclear Studies of Oak Ridge, Tenn-
! essee, to provide a specialized train- |
{
ing in the techniques and applica-
' tions: of radioisotopes.
| The mobile unit, operated for the
| United States Atomic Energy Com-
| mission by the Oak Ridge Institute
| of Nuclear Studies, was built at a
{cost of $75,000. It has a count-
ing room and chemistry laboratory,
| office space, two air conditioning
and heating systems, its own water
| supply and waste retention tanks,
{and a storage locker for radioiso-
‘ topes.
During the two weeks at Miseri-
cordia, a series of laboratory ex-
| periments and lectures was present-
ed by Institute personnel.
Lectures covered subjects as ra-
—-
and principles and practice of a
wide variety of radioistope applica-
| tions to chemistry, physics and bi-
ology. Laboratory work and dem-
onstrations deal with Geiger count-
‘ers, scintillation counters and spec-
' trometers, isotope dilution, radio-
chemical separation techniques and
biological studies.
The mobile radioisotope labora-
tory program began in 1958 when a
mobile laboratory was designed by
the Institute's Special Training Di-
vision for the Atomic Energy Com-
mission. + Two such vehicles were
constructed and presented to the
International Atomic Energy Agency
by the Atomic Energy Commission.
| The units have been used to pre-
sent radioisotope techniques
grams in Europe, Asia, and Central
| and South “America. Three other |
laboratories are now used in the |
| United States College program. |
' Since 1959, when the program be- |
‘gan in the United States, approxi- |
| mately 1,300 faculty members and |
| students from 93 colleges in 31
of ‘the utility’s customers have the | had been famous over three coun- diation detection, instrumentation, | states have participated.
| older two-wire service, I
tics since 1927.
nuclear theory, radiological safety,
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TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
674-5656
| Land is owned by Police Chief Jo-
{ have a direct bearing on the matter.
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| worked on “junkyard” legislation
| that day. Supervisor William Sam-
| any recommendations of the Zon-
‘Zoning Board were a creation of |
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at Lake Silkworth last month, no |
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674-7676
97 At Oak Hill
Plead Against
Land-use Change
Fear Trailer Court |
Along [Idetown Road
If More Permitted |
A delegation of Oak Hill people, |
fearing property devaluation, pre-
sented a petition of 97 signatures
to the November township meeting,
in effect protesting an outcropping
of trailers on neighboring land.
seph Ide. 2
They were told by the Board of
Supervisors on Saturday that a new
zoning ordinance now in form-
ulation by the Zoning Board would
A township official told the Dallas
Post this week that the new zoning
plan would prohibit “trailer parks’
in what are zoned as “residential”
areas.
Wording of the petition did not
refer to the trailer matter itself,
but merely requested the super-
visors to allow no change in the |
“use of the land’, specifically from |
residential to commercial.
Supervisors also emphasized that
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ing Board must be discussed in a
public meeting upon proper adver-
tisement, and the Supervisors will
have a final vote.
Group of wisitors said they
wanted to attend the meeting of
the Zoning Board the following day,
but did not know when or where
it would be. Secretary Michael
Godek then called several members
of the Zoning Board, one of whom
was reached and who told him
that the meeting was at a member's
home, but that he did not think
the public needed to be in attend-
ance. Middle ground was reached
when it was decided to send one
of the petitioners, John Roehn, to
the meeting. Soo
The specific reference to trailers
on the Ide property, object of every-
one’s concern, was not made until
the Dallas ‘Post suggested that
threat of commercialization be made |
a little more concrete. ;
Later, an official cleared the mat-
ter up completely. Three trailers
were put on the T-acre Ide tract
(which is ¢lassifizd as one lot). The
third trailer is slated “to -be-inoved
to a different location, still in the
neighborhood. One of the trailers
is rented; two are homes of mem-
bers of the owner's family. Question
arises as to whether, technically, |
more than one trailer is allowed on |
this one lot. !
Also complicating the matter is.
that, legal or not under old zoning
Jaw under the tenuous presumption
that trailers are ‘commercial’ en-
tities in a ‘residential’ area, the
landowners have nevertheless not.
procured proper septic tank per- |
mits on the second and third
trailers.
, Mr. Roehn attended the Zoning
Board meeting on Sunday, but it
is reported that nothing was re-
solved on the trailer matter. Board
uel, of Lake Silkworth, recommend-
ed that Mr. Roehn go to the
meeting.
The new supervisor,
Clinton
Smith, of Oak Hill, asked if ay
the Board of Supervisors? Answer
was “yes”. Smith then moved that |
the Board order them to hold zon-
ing board meetings in the firehall,
with the idea of facilitating public |
attendance. [
Mr. Samuels reiterated that Mr. |
Roehn’s attendance at the meeting
would be sufficient, and that it was |
too short a notice to have the
zoners change their meeting place,
at least this time. ; A
All supervisors were in agreement
that a public meeting should be |
held on the matter some time.
Anti-Poverty Jobs :
It was reported that the Board |
of Supervisors has not yet heard |
from the government in response
to application for an allotment to |
hire underprivileged local youth to |
do up to 30 hours of work apiece
to be financed 90 per cent federally |
cent local under the
Poverty). Wage is $1.25 an hour.
Lehman has asked for 10 jobs; also
participating are Jackson, Hunlock,
Ross, Fairmount, and other town-
ships. 3
Police report listed five burglaries
arrests, and one ambulance call.
Other Lehman police work listed
one accident, one. arrest, and 42 |
calls. |
Roadmaster presented an exten-
sive report.
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NOTICE
Because of the Thanksgiving
holiday the DALLAS POST will
be published Monday, November
22 and be in the mail, Tuesday |
morning, November 23. : et
All correspomdents, ministers,
publicity chairmen and organ-
izations are asked to have their
news in the office no later than |
Saturday er Sunday morning. The
full Post staff will be here Satur-
day and Sunday to help you!
i EAMES ERORMEET