Lake Supervisor Ups Paychecks, Bucks Majority Fred Merrill Quits Ruditorship; Extra Fulltime Cop Asked New Supervisor from North (Lake) District of Lake Township opposed a number of steady township policies at the Re- organization meeting on Monday, but was defeated in his opposition motions. At the same time a group of women attending the meeting cal- led for an improvement in the Oldest Business Institutiol Back of the Mountain 75 YEARS A NEWSPAPEK the | TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES Back Mountain Area | Ambulance Logbook Dallas Community Dallas ambulance took Jack Fowler, Huntsville Road, to General Hospital on December 29, Ron (the { barber) Hrubowchak, Lynn Shee- han, and Bob Cartier attending. Andrew Gula, 6 Warren Drive, i was taken to General Hospital on | Thursday, Wayne Harvey and Jim | Faerber as crew. Blanche Thompson, New Goss | Manor, was taken to Mercy Hospital and return, Friday, Harvey and | Faerber attending. John Nekrasz, 52 Monroe Street, was taken to Nesbitt Hospital fol- | lowing accident, Huntsville Road, | Sheehan, Robert Besecker, and Bill | Wright as crew. | Mrs. Loretta Zahler, Shrineview, ! police situation as it stands now, | was taken THE DALLAS POST MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Cop Quits Force Sa/nuel Lehman Head, Millage Emt. Tabled Lehman Township Board Supervisors reorganized Monday night, with the following appoint- ments: William Samuel, chairman; Clin- ton Smith, vice chairman; Alan Ma | jor, roadmaster; Michael Godek | non-member, secretary-treasurer at $1800; William Valentine, solicitor | | ($340): | ($3840). Joseph Ide, Police All Special Police were reappoint- | | ed on “voluntary” basis, $200 a of Chief | year expenses, except John Major, to General Hospital on | who resigned | | | 8 674-5656 ASE CR FS OR. TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 674-7676 VOL. 77, NO. 1. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1066 Board Re-forms, Leather Company Leases Part Of Tannery Dallas Puts Off Taxing Utilities eis of what 1s noved 0 bo ov. PENAING Scheduled Court Argument eral new industrial occupants of ths | old tannery building, this one with a | possible employment of 35 to 50 | men, signed a lease this week at Idea Of Compromise Dropped To Borough with one fulltime officer augmented | Tuesday, by three special part-time men. Besecker, Harvey, and | Supervisors’ pay, time and place | The police situation, which in fact has departed from a two-man operation only since the retire- summer, took up much of the dis- cussion. ‘It has resulted in the new chief, Walbridge Leinthall, getting no vacation in 1965. Supervisor Sharon Whitesell agreed that the situation was not | ideal, but said that the only prac- tical thing to do is to wait until | “if and when” the court rules on the proposed Harveys Lake Bor- @< (which may absorb a great smajority of valuable properties and a large sector of the population). With only the rural Middle and South Districts remaining, there would be no need to employ two fulltime officers. $ The new Supervisor, Alger Shafer, agreed with the women at the ment of Chief Edgar Hughes last | | Leighton Scott as crew. | Harry Cole, | terday, Besecker and Scott. | Lake Township {i Lake ambulance took Ernest Bradd, Shawanese, to General Hos- | pital on Friday, Jim McCaffrey and | Lee Zimmerman, attending. Peter Eckert, Loyalville, McCaffrey, John Stenger, and Fred Merrill attending. | Yesterday, ambulance took Mil- | dred Grey, Loyalville, to Wilming- | return, | | ton, Del., hospital and | Stenger, McCaffrey, and Zimmer- man attending. Kingston Township | On December 29, Mrs. Mary | Anderson was taken to Carpenter | Nursing Home from Nesbitt Hos- | pital, William Frederick and An- thony Plata in attendance. 20 Jackson Street, | | was taken to General Hospital yes- | was | taken to General Hospital on Sun- | of meetings, treasurer and tax col Amusement (5%), Realty Taxes reenacted: (10%), Per Capita Transfer (1%). { Pay scales for township | ployees remain the same. Rate of township millage was tabled. | Appointments to Zoning Board and School Authority were tabled. | Regular Meeting em- At the regular meeting it was re- vealed that income for upkeep up of streetlights at both Harveys Lake | hind, some people apparently not | contributing their assessment. Sec- retary Godek said that a determin- ation of who owes and how much will not be possible until May and j the tax collector's report. lector bond, delinquent tax collector | {and Lake Silkworth was falling be- | meeting that another permanent : officer was needed. In response to | Mrs. Lillith Miller, Carverton | Supervisors empowered the town- the majority's contention ‘that it | Road, was admitted to Nesbitt Hos- | Ship officers to borrow funds in an- would be “unfair” to a new perma- nent officer to put him in the job which might last only a year, Shaf- er said that the man, and in fact everyone in the township, would know what the new officer was getting into. Whitesell, in the alternative, sug- gested putting out applications for more. special police (only two have been hired for 1966 to date). Ma- jority approved this. The women, spokesman being Mrs. William Hopkins, summer resi- dence at Walnut" Ridge (Barnum Street area), cited alleged trouble and fights at dances for youth at the Picnic Grounds ae indicative of the need for more police. How- ever, Chief Leinthall himself said he knew of no such trouble he had two extra men patrolling prietor. taught at police school that this should not be done. He said that hen Hughes was still employed fulltime officers living to each other, ready to go out on calls together, “a good set-up.” Mrs. Hopkins said that, whether | the borough was imminent or not, two fulltime officers would paint a better picture for the township's case. ‘Whitesell, however, noted that the hearing was finished and the points had been heard. REORGANIZATION Board reorganized to name Wal- ter Hoover chairman, Shafer vice chairman, John Stenger secretary- 3 Leinthall ' Police’ Chief, nd Calvin McHose tax collector. Whitesell moved that Stenger be reappointed to his office, and Shafer peconded it adding ‘providing Mr. | | Yotenger is available.” On subject of a roadmaster, Shafer moved the Board depart from custom of each supervisor caring for his own district and ap- point a roadmaster over the whole township. Whitesell refused to sec- ond it, and Walter Hoover ’ master to cover all the ground in a snowstorm.” Shafer agreed to be | roadmaster in his district. Shafer moved that Lake Town- | ship employ a solicitor other than | Atty. Lewis Crisman. Hoover and Whitesell voted to retain him. Henry Stefanowicz was unanimous- ly approved as Sanitary Inspector for 1966. Fred Merrill Jr., recently elected Township Auditor, resigned that post because it conflicted by law / with his position of special town- | ip police officer, and so the board reappointed him to the police. | Stefanowicz was also reappointed police officer, but the third ap- pointee, Smith, was not hired again. A motion was put on the floor to hire the two special police mention- ed above, which Shafer agreed to go along with providing applica- tions were put out for more police. Regular meeting date is moved from Saturday at 10 a.m. to Friday at 8 p.m. Shafer moved that raise of 25c an |hour, be paid $1.50 a the chief get $34 that police hour, ed in the Back sell proposed a Mowntain. Wliite- that | the dances with him, as well as two private police hired by the pro- The chief did admit though that | phere were times when he had to | answer calls alone and that it was | by the township there were two | next door | and that this was | | said | that would be hard for one road- | tered of the Peace, | wealth of laborers, | equipment operators, be given a | was and that | p80, he being the | as to permissible districts and per- lowest paid chief presently employ- | $3300 salary, ang | | pital, Robert Shoemaker and Harry Smith attending, on Thursday. W. Mt. Airy Road, was taken to Nesbitt Hospital. John Judge as crew. Wesley Mitchell, E. Center Street, returned home on January 2 from Nesbitt Hospital, Frederick and W. Davis attending. On Monday evening, Mrs. Mary Anderson was readmitted to Nes- bitt Hospital, Henry Hill and J. Judge in attendance. Jack Lasher and | | ticipation of 1966 taxes, loan ex- pected to run in the neighborhood On December 31, Charles Tyrrell, of $7500, but empowering of officers | iis ‘““as needed’. Justice of the Peace Joseph Park turned in $10 in fines. He also com- mented on difficulty of getting in- dustry interested in settling in a territory. fis was taken to Nesbitt Hospital, Lasher, Walter Karl and Wayne | Harvey as crew, Shavertown Druggist Ta | | | 5 | | | Edward W. Hall, newly elected supervisor of Kingston Township is | pictured above as he was adminis- the Loyalty oath by Justice Fredric W. Ander- son, Shavertown, Thursday evening, in a quiet ceremony. Mr. Hall took his seat on the Supervisor's Board Monday evening, at the new municipal building after receiving the coldest reception from board members ever witnessed by | some members of the community. The new supervisor comes to ad- minister township affairs with a experience in the field of business, community service and organizational endeavors. He for- | merly established and operated all above mentioned wages were agreed upon. At the regular meeting a letter received from the Luzerne County Planning Commission point- ing out a change in the trailer law, mits. ject Lake Township is now sub- to county planning. (Continued on Page 6 A) kes af Office As Supervisor | (Photo by James Kozemchak) ( Hall's Pharmacy until retirement several years ago and served on the Forty Fort Borough Council until he moved tec this area in 1933. My. Hall promised during his cam- paign that he was opposed to one man rule in the township and that he would act in the best interest of every citizen. LaRoy Zeigler, board chairman, opened the meeting, with intense emotion evident in his voice, as he expressed his admiration for Daniel M. Shaver, retiring super- visor, and his appreciation for past cooperation. Supervisor John Funke | said he had met Mr. Shaver only | several months ago and had en- | joyed working with him. Shaver | in turn, expressed his hope that a { police raise would go through and | that a better lighting system be pro- cured for the township even if it | meant higher assessment. He re- | ported township finances in the | black. As he stepped down from | his seat he extended a handshake ! to Mr. Hall. Bill Moss, speaking for Trucks- | Wednesday mn orning, William | | Jenkins, Elizabeth = Street, Dallas, | | named Zoning Offic land commission of two per cent i . | remain the same. Edward L. Jones, president of Noxen Industrial Park, property, looks on as the first tenan Noxen, inaugurating what may well lower Wyoming County region. and indeed that it was the avail- able manpower and the water sup- to the area. Lessor is Jones Enterprises 1Inc., working operation with the NEED committee of Noxen. Tannery will produce leather be a new era of prosperity in the | Associated Reptile Tannery Inc. | president Peter V. Baran, of New- | ark, N.J., told the Dallas Post that | employment will be chiefly local | ply which attracted his company | | words, less than two months hence. | Safety Service | in co- | from all kinds of hides and skins, | nance imposing pole inspection fee on utility lines until a hearing is held on the matter. Borough solicitor Robert Fleming | told the Dallas’ Post the dispute would be argued when the next equity court convenes, or in other Stipulation was made at a hear- ing Monday morning in which United Gas Improvement Company, | 1401 Arch Street, Philadelphia, and | Commonwealth Telephcne Company, | 100 Lake Street, Dallas, sought a Dallas ‘Borough has stipulated it | would not try to enforce its ordi- | the old tannery t of the new industrial center, Peter V. Baran, president of Associated Reptile Tannery Inc., Newark, N.d., | signs the lease. — Dallas Post Staff Photo Resists All Efforts Still unopened, the Lake-Lehman High School vault resists efforts of the best locksmith in the Valley, the Acme Locksmith Company. Skilled workmen worked for three | hours Wednesday morning before abandoning the attempt. The vault-size safe contains keys and records of the school in addi- tion to a small amount of money. ! Local efforts resulted in no sale Monday and Tuesday, when the vault remained impregnable, after robbers had forced the dial with a chisel from the metal shop on New Year's Eve. | On Wednesday, outside assistance | was called. Nothing was taken except one stopwatch from the desk belong- {ing to secretary Mrs. Elston, but | damage was considerable. | Window frames, made to rigid | and unusual specifications were | wrenched when thieves entered, breaking the glad. i time in. a month, glass in the door | leading to the office was smashed. Foiled in entering the room-size vault, the robbers wrecked two vending machines. Outside lights were on at the time. Over the Christmas vacation, very little money is kept in the vault, explained Anthony Marcha- | kitus, High School Principal, simply | enough to start the day off for the | | cafeteria upon return of the stu- | dents. Once the dial is damaged, he con- tinued, a safety pin drops and no { amount of tinkering will get the | mechanism to working again. On the other hand, should a per- son become locked in the vault, he i can open it from the inside. A screwdriver with a flashlight | attachment was used in this entry. Injured In Crash Amy Miner, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Miner, Country Club Road, was injured in an auto accident on Wyoming Avenue early Sunday morning, passenger in car driven by John Dimond, 2 Sunset Street, Forty Fort, and was admit- ted to Nesbitt Hospital by Wyo- ming Ambulance. Dimond’s car hit another which was parked. ville Fire Company, extended ap- preciation to Shaver for past favors. Ziegler asked Hall if he would | like to be board chairman and he | replied that he would not. Funke then nominated Ziegler and Ziegler |in turn nominated Funke as vice | chairman. Atty. Mitchell Jenkins | served as tempoarry chairman. Following a short session on old | business Ziegler asked for a five, | minute Executive session whic | lengthened into a nearly 30 minuf: | absence. A change of attitude was | | evidenced upon their return to t meeting room. ! Mr. Hall entered the name fof | Atty. Merton Jones for the pfbst | | of solicitor. There was no secgnd | “8! Ro v , and Mr.. Funke projosed the fre- | with | | appointment of Atty. Jenkins | Ziegler seconding the motion. | the appointment of a secretax on the agenda, Mr. Hall nox Michael Stanley. Again t | no second and Funke er | nomination of incumben | Dilfield with approval (Mr. Hall when cont; | writer said he had pn ! Jones since he was 4 | the township and Sta had 30 years experien ling and office mana | In other action, | was reappointed Roa] {and Herbert Updyke, [lice. James Sisco | pointed Assistant Ch | The officess received | $325. pey month. Up With next rinated ere was cered the Mrs. Carol y Ziegler. ted by this Losed Atty. hin account- ent). Chief of Po- ras also ap- tof lof Police. a salary of at $50 per 4 A) v (Continued td Battered Strong-Room Door Still Of Locksmith {In gaining access to Mr. Marcha- | kitus’ office, one of the thieves | disconnected the air conditioner and crawled through the aperture. During the first break-in early in December, thieves found four four thin dimes in the lost and found box, but made a larger haul from zebra to turtle to buffalo. Customers will be chiefly U. S. man- ufacturers of shoes, handbags, belts, and other small leather goods. New industry will occupy about 30 per cent of available space in the huge tannery building, portion known to Noxen people as the scrubhouse, rolling room, setting | out room, and offices of the former | Armour Tannery, which shut down | in 1961 as unprofitable, and which {was the principal local source of | employment in Noxen for decades. | | New tannery is expanding its] New Jersey operation to Noxen, | | with target date of beginning pro- | {duction set for the end of Feb- | |ruary. Several truckloads of new | Wreck Is Replaced | equipment are going to be installed, | {although some of the old equip-| Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company, | ment will be used also. Leather | Harveys Lake, is still operating an | will: be made from reptile, ostrich, | ambulance, following collision of ordinance on January 1. Commonwealth did not formally seek its injunction at ing because Judge Frank Pinola re- fused to hear it, being a stock- holder in that company. UGI withdrew its request for an Ambulance Lent To Harveys Lake Badly Needed Until preliminary injunction against Dal- | las to stop the borough from en-| forcing the provisions of the fee | this hear- | | polar bear, and seal skins, as well. from the coin’ machines. Mr. Baran is the third genera- | the old one in Luzerne last week. | | Practically identical to the one | injunction upon presentation cf | borough stipulation. Borough coun- sel will offer Commonwealth a sim- ilar stipulation, and it is expected to withdraw its request for. a pre- | liminary injunction as well. | Law fixes a 50 cent annual license | on each pole owned by a utility in | the borough, and fixes a penalty of | $100 for failure to file statement of number of poles in the munici- pality, plus 6 per cent interest, as of January 31. Utilities claim that Pennsylvania law says jurisdiction of activities | and facilities lie solely in the Penn- | sylvania Utilities Commission. Unofficially it is reported to the Dallas Post, it.has reached Borough Council ears that one of the utili- ties, UGI, has indicated that it might countenance a 30-cent pole tax. Action on this by borough | remains to be seen. | day night, Harold Brobst was again named chairman of the Borough Council, and Robert Moore, vice chairman. Thomas H. Morgan, mayor, and councilmen Wilbur H. Davis, Robert | F. Moore, and Paul J. LaBar were | sworn in by Justice of the ‘Peace Leonard Harvey, as were auditors Harry Smith and Francis J. Dixon. Other appointments: Walter Ro- wett, secretary ($720); W. B. Jeter, treasurer ($50); Robert Fleming, | solicitor ($300); Russell Honeywell, | police chief ($3600), Alexander | McCulloch, assistant chief ($3600); | special officers ($1.60) are Raymond | Titus, Charles Lamoreaux, William Berti, John Berti, Stephen Hart- man, Clifford Garris, Donald Smith, Glass alone in the windows de- |tion of his family in the business. crashed, the ambulance has been Fo: the se, md | plus $200 special fee). | resident of | By since he Hyke was also | stroyed costs $45 per pane. Frames must be made to order. A telephone bomb scare placed from a pay station Sunday night had every school in the Back Moun- tain alerted, but the hoax fizzled ‘out with investigation. Dallas Township Forms For 1366 of leather production. In addition to his experience in buying hides, tanning, and selling finished leather, {he has advised tanners in Japan and advised on construction of a | tannery in Colombia. He told the that he had looked over many other | locations possible for his tannery | extension and found this to be the | best overall. Edward L. Jones, the lessor’s | president, consulted with repre- | sentatives of the Department ' of { Forests and Waters and with Penn- Lamoreaux Again Is SN I sylvania Department of Health in Chairman Of Board order to assure proper waste dis- osal methods and insure against Dallas Township reorganized Mon- p 2 : : : | pollution. — day night with substantially the P 5 Industrial “NEED” same set-up as in 1965. Following | Noxen hy ustria 5 i were appointed: | Committee, in cooperation with { the Noxen Industrial Park Ad- visory Committee, is compiling a list of available manpower in the Back Mountain to pro- vide employment for a leather L X , a i | tanning and shoe manufactur- oreaux is again m IB, dir : 3 i US Jn fue Tosdmasier, ing operation in Noxen. Frank Lange, Police Chief, and John | Gordon regular patrolman. Officers ! Fred Lamoreaux, president; Basil Frantz, vice chairman; Glenn Ho- | well, non-member, secretary-treas-| urer ($115); Frank Townend ($600 | Persons interested should mail ($1.15) are: Fred Nicely Jr. Al, the following information to Noxen | Hoover, Frank Wagner Jr., Bill | Industrial Park, PO Box 172, Noxen: Hersh, Frank 'Gelsleichter, Ernest address, city, and state. State your Reese, Patrick McGough, John | work experience, length, and title Gosart, Les Tinsley, and William | of ‘job. Tregaskis. ! Meeting time and place and bank , Blue Spruce Thefts repository are the same. Rcad crew rules remain the sarie, but ftruck| A rash of Blue Spruce drivers will ‘get $2 an’ hour, and | over the holidays has Dallas Town- labor is upped to $1.75. | ship’ police guessing. A $3 per capita tax, $2 a month | One has been cut at the Harry trailer tax, and one per cent realty | A. Lebowitz property, Shrine Acres, transfer / tax were reenacted. | three from property of Dr. Mar- Philip Walter, new supervisor, shall U. Rumbaugh, upper De- was sworn in by Justice of the Peace | munds Road, Thomas Robinson. property of Mrs. Andrew M. Sholtis, | upper Demunds Road. "Valley" Champs Police are investigating. The Dallas High School won the Fifth Annyal Wyoming Valley Invita- tional Tournament Wednesday, De- cember 29, and star player Mike Wilkes was voted Most Valuable Player of the basketball season. { Street, Goss Manor, by a motorist Dallas’s winning game was against, Friday afternoon, but no one was St. Mary's of Wilkes-Barre, 88-69, | hurt. Driver of the car was John with Wilkes making 44 points and | B. Carpenter, 18, of Livingston, N.J. Roy Supulski 18. i Dungey was thrown from the | Motorcycle Crash Robert C. Dungey, 18, of 138 Lake | Street, riding a 1965 motorcycle, Without License, Dallas 2 | | | | i | | wion Culver | A place of wooden. fence from chief Russell Honeywell he would | Struck car was owned by Supervisor | Terrace Street crash remains stuck | not take a test to determine pres- | Evans, Church Street. | | through the front of an erratically | ence of alcohol in his blood. {driven cy which finally rammed | ville Road on Monday night. | Driver Jan Nekrasz Jr. 22, of 52 Monroe ‘venue, was hospitalized ' by Dallas anhulance. He told police ! Street, proceeded down Avenue and hit a car parked in| front of Dr. Roger M. Owens’ office. | i thefts | and one from the | | crook knows his trees, in any case. | was struck on Route 309 at Saginaw | [lent by Wolfington Body Company, | Philadelphia, from a new (1961) | ambulance for Lake Township has been ordered. | A member of the : emergency in temporary use at the Lake hap- | pened to be received at the Phila- | delphia company on the day follow- {ing the crash in Luzerne, and Wolf- | | ington offered it for use until the 1961 Pontiac ordered by Lake is | received. Now in service at Edwardsville, | the Pontiac is expected sometime in | February when Edwardsville’s. new | ambulance is received from Wolf- ington. \ Coincidentally the 1954 Cadillac [is almost a duplicate of the one which crashed’ except that it is white and does not have power steering. Lake Pay-phone "“"Bomb's" Source | A bomb hoax perpetrated by phone from Harveys Lake had law enforcement officers combing through schools in Dallas and Lake- Lehman School Districts Sunday, { but the coast was claer when school convened on the following day. No bomb was found although police and helpers, both civilian and firemen, checked every school in the district and some pay phones. Following facts were ascertained 'by the Wilkes-Barre operator who received the call: 1/ it was a youthful male voice 2/ school threatened was ‘at the Lake” 3/ it was an elementary school, but police thought that might mean any elementary school in that district 4/ call was definitely made from | a Lake pay phone (of which there are eight) Call was received by the Bell telephone operator at 5 p.m. Sun- day, and information was turned over to Howard Johns of Common- wealth Telephone Company, who immediately called Lake Township police, followed by others. Driver Makes 4-point Landing Matt ; Nekrasz car entered the back lot | ming into the cin Honeywell sald det pile. Fie will charge ) | squad says the 1954 Cadillac now | | Dallas Post at Noxen this week and Clifford Foss. | Also: Andrew Peranto, road fore- | man ($1.85), Kyle Cundiff, Frank | Morgan, James Davies, and Lynn ! Sheehan, crew ($1.60). Planning | Commission and Building Inspector | are reappointed. Tree Lights Stolen bulbs were stolen tree the Twa Thirty light | from . Shel Evans Christmas | during the holidays. This is | second theft for the Evanses. | years ago, the lovely display roibad of 67 lights Won Ful Missing Girl Spent ' Night In Woadland | A case, of young love and | parental objection is believed re | sponsible for the disappearance of | a Shavertown girl from her home on Monday. Nancy Brown, 17, Ferguson Ave- | nue, was driven to school by her | father on Monday morning. She did not attend classes and was re- ported missing that evening by her tather, Arja Brown. | The girl's whereabouts were not | known until Tuesday evening when | Thomas Campbell, 18, Wiilian: Street, Shavertown, notified police that he had found her. i Campbell stated that he had com upcen the missing girl on Tuesda; morning, wet, cold, and crying i the woods behind Evergreen Ceme- tery. He took her to his home. The two young folks had been keep- ! ing company for J some..time | Campbell had given her Ban, en- gagement ring for Christmas. It was reported that when her mother discovered the ring she be- | came angry. | Campbell (had driven with his | mother to a Wilkes-Barre Bus Sta- tion to leav: for New Jersey where he is employed when he was in- | formed by his brother that Nancy | was missing. He returned | searched the area. Nancy, a senior at Dallas High School and an honor student, | being held by juvenile authorities. | No’ charges were preferred against | Campbell. and is the driver with hit and run. well as operating without a licen (his permit had expired). It as Around 7 p.m. Nekrasz car struck | of Gate of Heaven School and broke understood that Nekrasz had taken | this counly cinder pile on Hunts-| and broke a white fence on Terrace | the wall shown in photo. Then he | a driver's test in Tunkhannock Machell | drove down Huntsville Road, ram- { that day and he had not passed it. Officer William Berti helpec in- vestigate. photo by Kozemchak 7 f and At reorganization meeting Mons" A >
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