Oldest Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
75 YEARS A NEWSPAPER
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Past Presidents of the Dallas Ki-
wanis Club were saluted at last
week’s meeting at the Irem Temple
Country Club. In attendance were
Past Presidents ranging from At-
torney Mitchell Jenkins who served
in that role in 1933 to the immedi-
ate Past President, Bob 'Dolbear.
The Club was founded in 1927.
® Vice President Harry Lefko intro-
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duced the Past Presidents who are.
shown above. First row, left to |
right, Jerry Gardner, 1962; Mit- |
chell Jenkins, 1933; Fred ‘Anderson,
1947; Bob Dolbear, 1965; Sherm
Harter, 1950. Second row, left to |
right, Ed Hartman, 1935; Bill Guy- |
ette, 1964; Bill Wright, 1953; Frank |
Gager, 1960; Bob Maturi, 1961; Jim |
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Past Presidents Honored By Kiwanis
Graham, 1956.
Each of the Past Presidents de-
scribed the outstanding events |
| which occurred during his term in
office. All of them emphasized the
wonderful opportunity Kiwanis has
provided them to perform a ‘service
to their community as well as a
service to themselves.
— photo by Kozemchak |
Noxen Launches
New Ambulance
' Back Mountain Brea
Ambulance Logbook
Dallas Community
Noxen Community Ambulance
Association announces that its new
ambulance, a 1961 Cadillac Superior
purchased from Wolfington Body |
Company, Philadelphia, is now in
service.
The unit was formerly in use at
Dallas, which took delivery on a
1965 model early this month.
All members of the committee
are in agreement that the new am-
bulance is very satisfactory. In
basically good condition at the time
of trade-in, the new Noxen am-
bulance was spruced up with some
minor paint retouching, electrical
adjustments, new rear tires, and
tune-up. It will be equipped with
a stationary inhalator with pressure
gauge and liter flow meter.
The old 1948 Superior Cadillac
| bitt Hospital to Carpenter Conva-
| Berti as crew.
Dallas Community ambulance |
| took Ralph Frantz, Machell Avenue,
to General Hospital on Thursday,
[Ed Roth, Leighton Scott, and Bob |
Cartier attending. [
On Friday, Agnes Gannon, 135 |
| Chur ch Street, was taken from Nes- |
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lescent Home, Scott and Jim Davies |
attending.
Dale Jones, 179 Main Street, was |
‘taken to Nesbitt Hospital on Sun- |
day, Bob Besecker, Davies, and Jack |
Roy Bloom, Old Main Road, Fern-
brook, was taken to Mercy Hos-
pital on Monday, Scott and Wayne |
Harvey attending.
Dorothy Haddle,
Road, Kunkle, was taken to Gei-|
singer Medical Center, Danville, on |
Tuesday, Clem Kuras and Lynn
i
old Beaumont |
will be up for bids, ‘as per 'adver-
tisement in this ‘paper, until April
14. President David Fritz says that
the engine problem encountered last
week may be repairable, and that
other appointments on it could be
desirable to some purchasers.
Season Ban On
Hound Training
Watch where your hunting dog |
runs, from here on until May 30.
He might be tracking an animal:
in Noxen' Township, but if he
crosses the county line into Lake |
Township or adjoining Luzerne!
County townships after midnight,
tonight, he will be illegal.
Dog training season
in Luzerne i
/May 30, the Pennsylvania Game
Commission reminds, but in Wyo-
ming County, one of few, the season
is closed from May 2 to June 30. |
Actually, the prohibited period is |
four months, from midnight March |
31 to August 1, but because of per-
aission granted petitioners for fox-
‘hunting, many counties remain
open except for a one-month in-
terval, including Luzerne and
@pyomine.
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—photo by Kozemchak
Dallas Junior High School will
present the annual spring band |
concert tomorrow night at 8 in the |
Dallas Senior High School
torium, under direction of Alfred M.
Camp. Organ selections by Shari
Turner will precede the band pro-
gram, ‘and be heard during the in-
termission.
A varied program has been plan-
| Sheehan as crew.
Ceunty is closed from April 1 to |
audi- |
+ On return trip that day, am-
. bulance picked up Clarence Myers; |
Overbrook Avenue, at General Hos- |
pital and returned him home.
| Lake Township
| Lake ambulance returned Orri ison |
Kocher to home in Ruggles from,
Nesbitt Hospital on Friday, John |
Stenger and Lee | Zimmerman as
crew.
| Lehman Township
{ Lehman ambulance took
| Terrasavage, Oak Hill, to Nesbitt |
| Hospital on Tuesday, Lee Wentzel, |
Pete Hospodar, and Joe Hardisky |
| Jr. attending.
Miss Ida Humphries,
James
Lehman, |
| was taken to General Hospital and |
return, on Friday, March 25, Went-
zel, Hospodar, and Hardisky at-
tending.
Kingston Township
Kingston Township ambulance
took Mrs. Lilith Miller home to the |
Lipfert residence, Carverton Road, |
Trucksville, from Nesbitt Hospital
on March 23, Paul Daley and Bib
Shoemaker as crew.
Arthur Sinicrope, Trucksville, was
brought from Palmerton Hospital to |
General Hospital on Saturday, Arn- |
old Yeust and Jack Lesher attend- |
ing.
John Turnbaugh, Bunker Hill,
Dallas Junior High School Band Concert Friday Night
ranging from classical to mod-
| ned,
ern, and- including march music,
novelties, and folk songs. The fi-|
nale will be the National Anthem.
Majorettes from seventh, eighth,
and ninth grades will take part.
Impossible to identify by rows,’
players will be: flute section, Kathie
Beisel, Virginia Jenkins, Ruth Lew-
| is, Doris Sims, Linda Doughton, and |
Glenda Larson; piccolo, Ruth Lewis;
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These men would normally be
I ular
| out of every
| secker,
| Linda Croom, Connie Havir,
| Chadwick,
| Juarbe, Drew Taylor,
Ambulance Asks
New Volunteers
Particularly Seek
Men For Day Shift
Dallas Community Ambulance
Asscciation begins its annual Spring
Membership Campaign this week.
All members| are asked to recruit |
one person who is ‘interested in
| joining. Particularly, in demand,
| says Leighton Scott, president, are
men to serve on the day crgw.
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would have one or
ployed on night shift at their
jobs, or
| two days off when they would be
| able to serve as attendants.
Dallas Community Ambulance,
| serving Dallas Borough and Dallas
Township, with a record ¢f 205 calls
completed last year, a record num-
ber of calls of any association in
the region; uses a crew System, so
that night calls are distributed to
make the lightest work load pos-
sible. Men are on call only one
three sweeks unless
| they indicate they would like to |
work more.
Men are taught to drive the am-
bulance immediately and are chan-
neled to first aid courses as soon
| as possible.
Areas often served in which more
| crew recruits are especially solicited |
include Kunkle and Fernbrook-|
Overbrook vicinity.
Scott said, and more attend-
ant recruits would be welcomed.
If you are not contacted by a
member of the Association,
| would be interested in serving, get |
in tc.ch with Scott or
| dent Jim Davies,
both of the Bor-
ough, or vice presidents Robert Be-
Church Street, or David
| Carey, Fernbroock, both of Dallas
Township.
was taken to Veterans Hospital on |
Sunday, Jack Sperl, Harold Smith,
and Andy Roan as crew.
Clarence Myers, Overbrook Road, |
was taken to General Hospital Tues- |
| day, Harry Smith and Marvin Yeust
| attending.
ey Eyet,
James
Miller, Candy Wismer, Grant Davis,
Jean Beagle, Diane Morgan, Diane
elavivet: John hops , Jeffr
Harry Sweps-
ton, Catherine Wilson, Pamela Rood,
Elwecod LaBar,
Ann Ruth Crompton, Harry Owens,
and Neal Stetson; bass clarinet,
Drew Taylor; oboe, Ruth DeWitt.
/ | elderly citizens stood
Many patients |
| from these areas are taken each
| year,
and |
vice-presi- |
Jocelyn Strunk, Robert |
Edward Bessmer, |
Medicare Brings
Out Large Crowd
For Information
Most Oldsters Are
Already Signed Up
In Back Mountain
Seventy-five residents of the Back |
Mountain, many from as far as|
Center Moreland and Franklin
Township, attended a meeting on
Medicare, sponsored by Social Se-
curity, Friday afternoon at the
YMCA in Shavertown.
Blue Cross was also represented,
stating its arrangements for switch-
ing an enormous number of people
of 65 or older, to a different pro-
gram. People who hold Blue Cross
and Blue Shield cards have already |
been informed of the coming plan
for oldsters, one designed to fill the
gaps left by Medicare.
Mr. Perrine, Social Security head,
was introduced by Mrs. Frank An-
derson, chairman of the meeting.
A number of questions were
posed, in a search of positive infor-
mation.
One woman from Orange, speak-
(ing for a number of her acquaint-
| ances in the sixty-plus bracket,
said that it sounded to her as if
| the Medicare program, combined
with restrictions on the Blue Cross
coverage, could work hardship on
elderly people on a fixed income.
Every person receiving Social
Security has had, in September, a
lump payment of an extra dividend
per month, retroactive to January
1, and will continue to receive en-
ough more in the monthly paycheck
to finance the cost of Plan B, which
goes a long way toward covering
medical bills.
Medicare is not socialized medi-
cine. In the case of prolonged ill-
ness, families will. have to finance
part of the expense. Medicare, ex-
plained Mr. Perrine, is not a cure-
all.
A show of hands proved that
most people in the age bracket had
given considered thought to the
! program, and had read carefully the
questionnaire published in last
week’s Dallas Post as a service to
the community.
still “thinking about it.
These people were reminded that
| March 31 is the deadline. (The
[date may possibly be extended for
| registration, as in many large cities
Many had already signed up for.
Medicare through Social Security. | .
A number said: that they were |
Sawmill Fire Damages in
Threatening an entire sawmill,
fire engulfed a gasoline motor at
Wilson's Sawmill, Lake Catalpa
Road, Demunds, on Thursday night
and destroyed it, before being quel- |
led.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany, assisted by Harry S. Smith
Fire Company, Kunkle, contained
‘the blaze.
Owners and operators, Ted and
Tex Wilson battled the fire with
everything from an extinguisher to
wet dirt and wet sawdust until the
fire engines arrived. Tex said the
motor was not running at the time
fire broke out, but that flame must
have erupted in a canvas cover |
touching a hot manifold.
He estimated damage at $6000.
Alarm was turned in to the Dallas
company around 6:30 p.m. by Betsy
London, who lives in the near-by
Florence Wilson residence, while
Tex raced from his home to the
mill to try to contain the fire, and |
was joined in ‘the effort by his
father, Ted, who lives farther down
the road. Dallas responded with |
two pumper trucks, coming over |
five miles through a driving snow- |
storm. Kunkle company, actually | damage.
closer, was called afterward and
came immediately. I~
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Flames. = scorched the wooden | C
structure around the big 125 horse- | FOR Se
power engine, but the building did
not catch fire. Firemen hit the |
motor with extinguisher and boost- |
er line. Heat was so intense that |
it melted the gas tank cap.
Mrs. Howard Risley, owner-
editor of the Dallas Post, an-
nounces that the home-town
paper will be sent free of
charge to any soldier of the
Back Mountain serving in Viet-
nam. This is in line with the
late Howard Risley’s similar
policy during World War II
Because of the demands of
the military, no more members
will be enrolled in the Eighty:
Plus Club.
To Interview Job
Seekers Tuesday |
|
The State Employment Service |
of Wilkes-Barre will have a repre- |
sentative at Dallas Borough Build- |
ing, on Tuesday from 9 to 12 and |
1 to 4 to take job applications and |
furnish job Information.
© | the landscape.
| in fulfilling requirements for a serv-
| ice project leading toward credits |
| for Sign of The Star and Sign of
| the Arrow badges and broaden their
| aspect in scouting.
in line for
| hours, waiting to sign up.)
In this area, people have had
plenty of advance notice, largely
| through the efforts of dedicated
| volunteers, working in conjunction
| with Medicare and Blue Cross.
The phenomenal increase in cost
of hospital service was noted. Peo-
ple who had felt themselves ade-
quately protected by insurance of
| one sort or another, had found
themselves paying astronomical bills |
in addition.
It was reiterated, that signing
now for Medicare Plan B is a hold-
ing action. If a person finds he |
| does not wish to go along with the
| plan, he can withdraw from it be- |
fore July 1.
I} BUT, the next opportunity to |
I sign up for ‘the plan will be in
11967, for those who are already |
65. As birthdays of residents not !
| yet 65, approach, they may sign.
The question of prescription drugs
was raised. Drugs bought over the
| counter will be paid for by Medi-
| care. ‘But NOT prescription drugs.
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| Alto saxophone, David Carey,
| James Culver, Joseph Davis, Rich- |
ard Dodson, Patricia Koeb, Timothy |
| LaBar, Thomas Earl; bassoon, Tim-
othy LaBar; tenor sax, David Katyl,
| Thomas Burkhart; baritone sax, |
Richard Reese.
Trumpet section: Sheldon Hoover,
Vincent Roman, Curtis Britt, Ed- |
| ward Zaboski, George Marstell, Ron- |
l'ald Gaylord, Roy Walter, James |
| life in many instances will be dem- |
| Elmer Evenson, former
| of Commenwealth Telephone Com-
pany,
| eTlephone and Telegraph Company
| of Ft. Myers, Florida.
vy Ir ry McDonald, Bue
Goeringer, David Johnston’ Frank
| Summa, Donald Wallace, Vincent
| Dennis
Donald = LaBar,
horn, Pamela Dymond, Linda Sher- |
| John McClarey,
| Terry McGee,
Tomorrow will mark the official
opening of curb service of the Su-
burban Restaurant, at the “Y” on
Memorial Highway in Dallas.
Radio broadcasting will highlight
the celebration, Friday only, and
free Coke will accompany hot dog
and fish cake orders on that day.
Formerly Orchard Farm Restau-
owned
Robert Schalm,
rant, the Suburban is now
by Dineway,
proprietor.
Inc.,
for curb service, weather permit-
ting, and car hops will take orders.
WILK radio will broadcast from
the restaurant for three hours, Dan
Stenger and Al Wolfe entertaining.
Snowden To Demonstrate Newest
Life Saving Techniques Friday
Mouth To Mouth Resuscitation
| and External Cardiac Compression |
which can mean the last chance of
come a part of the movement to
expedite life saving measures in
| this country.
onstrated ‘by Harold Snowdon Jr.
| at Trucksville Fire Hall,
evening at 9 p. m.
A Norwegian doctor,
Laerdal, who lost his 14 year old
daughter by asphyxiation is re-
sponsible for the widespread inter-
est in the demonstration. All equip- |
ment used is manufactured in Nor- |
way and the life size mannikin
which will be used in the demon-
stration by Mr. Snowdon is an ex- |
act replica of the lost child, whom | °
her father thought could have Leen
saved had someone present known
at emergency measures to take. |
. Snowden as a member of the |
Pos Directors Institute has be- |
_9T- | nated by Raymond Massey.
on Friday | The Trucksville Fire Company
[invites the public to attend. Mr.
Snowden will also demonstrate the
techniques to all interested gr oups.
Dr. Asmund
Elmer Evenson Is
Elected Official
Word has that
comptroller
been received
has been elected Cecretary
and Treasurer of the Inter-County
The Evensons moved south from
| Shavertown two years ago.
| Vaskas, John Porter, Joanne Gensel,
McCartney, Mark Steele, |
Janet Buchman; |
wood, John Krivak.
Trombone: Diane Reese, Robert
Shoemaker, William Flock: bari-
tone: Keith Devincentis, John Ros-
ser, David Payne, David Cutten;
Teachers and pupils of schools
in the Dallas area participated in
College Misericordia’s. Seventh An-
nual Reading Conference, March 25-
= Gil Scouts To _
Outside tables will be provided |
| and said he might donate a prize
|;
sousaphone: Richard Morgan, Keith | 9g. The picture shows members |
Barber, Lenchen Hefft; drums:| of the PANEL ON AUDIO VISUAL
Charles Baker, Thomas Bottoms, be-
AIDS TO READING conferring
fore ‘ the demonstration given by
Mrs. Arline Rood with her
Leslie Friedman,
William Gorton,
| Charles Wasserott; bell lyre, Paula
| Richards, Sally Cyphers, and Carol
Hicks,
typewriters in reading programs.
Seated in the foreground,
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| plantings will be appreciated.
i attend the Council sessions.
| Rowlands Electric Company said re-
| pairs would be approximately $445.
A film will also be shown nar-
| cil was read asking that a chairman
| be appointed for
VOL. '77,’NO. 13.'T
Thousands
Firemen and owners put the finishing touches to the sawmill
engine fire at Demunds on Thursday night.
A threat to the entire mill,
the fire did thousands of dollars
Beautity Area
Vandalism Suspected
At Signal Light Box
The east side bank
Kingston Township's Municipal
| Building will be beautified this
| spring by Trucksville’'s Junior Girl
Scout Troop.
Kingston Township Supervisors last
Wednesday evening.
The girls will plant clumps of
cover, including pachysandra, myr-
tle and mountain pinks to beautify |
This will aid them |
Mrs, Baird, Mrs. Donald Britt,
Mrs, Harmon Bond and Mrs. Mi- |
chael Rudick head Troop 705. Mrs.
Baird said- other . troops may join.
in the work which will require sev-
eral years and donations of any
Supervisor John Funke, said the
would be glad to donate to the
project.
A letter from the Wyoming Val-
ley Community Improvement Coun-
this district. Mr.
Funk expressed his interest in any
effort to beautify the community
if such a clean up and’ beautifica-
tion drive was to be endorsed. No
chairman was named at this time,
but a member of the board will |
Lights Damaged
LaRoy Ziegler, board chairman,
reported that the traffic lights at
Carverton Road had been placed |
on manual control until damage in- |
flicted on box and dectector were
repaired. Vandalism was suspected.
| Union of South Africa,
bordering |
Mrs. Robert Baird asked permis- |
sion for the project at a meeting of |
To Mountain Springs
HURSDAY, MARCH a1, 1966
Dallas Cited At
Kiwanis Rally
For U.N. Envoy
Ninety-two Per Cent
Monthly Attendance
Roundly Applauded
Dallas and the surrounding Back
Mountain area struck a noteworthy
mark at an internationally signifi-
| cant rally of Kiwanis clubs Tuesday
night.
At this meeting it was an-
nounced to Kiwanians from all over
the region, and to the honored
guest, a UN Ambassador from the
that the
| Dallas Kiwanis Club had had 92
‘per cent attendance at meetings
| for the month of February. Dallas
Cy ! Kiwanis has received honor for at-
| tendance and other accomplish-
ments quite often.
Announcement of the excellent
record of participation drew re-
sounding applause from all attend-
{ing the rally, which took place at
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the Towne House, Kingston.
Kiwanians from Dallas attending,
to hear the address by His Excel-
| lency Matthys Izak Botha, South
| Africa's permanent representative,
| included William Guyette, Leo Cor-
! bett,
| John Henninger Sr., and John Hen-
| ninger Jr.,
| in attendance was a representative
| of ‘the Dallas Post, introduced ‘to
| the South African ambassadc
Hon. Mr. Botha was guest of a
Back Mountain resident, Rev. Irvin
C. Wise, of Loyalville, pastor of
Dr. Edwards Memorial Congrega-
| tional Church, Edwardsville. ¥
| Rev. Mr. Wise is a member of
| the Committee on International Re-
| lations, Kiwanis International. 3
The ambassador has been in gov-
| ernment service since 1931, and :
posts abroad have included Minister
to Switzerland and to England, as-
| suming duty as Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the
United Nations on July 10, 1962.
5, 00C ‘Brookies Sent
Mountain Spring Lake, ;
Kyttle, Route 118, was slated tc be
stocked with 5000 Brook Trout yes-
terdax, according to « Marden
“Jaraes Yoder, of Sweet Valley..
“On April 1, 1300 Brookies are to
go into Wapwallopen Creek, and
825 each of Brown and Rainbow
Trout into Little Wapwallopen
Creek.
On Monday scheduled stocking in-
cluded 600 Brook Trout each into
Hunlock Creek) and West Branch,
Hunlock, and 500 Brown Trout each
into Harveys Creek and Suttons
Creek.
March 27 to April 2 was Fish
Commission Centennial Week.
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LIBRARY LOOKS FOR
GIRL BORN JULY 7-9
TWENTY YEARS AGO
|
Back Mountain Memorial Li-
brary Auction is looking for a
local girl born twenty years
ago, July 7, 8, or 9th.
If she was born in the Back
Mountain, so much the better.
A purely local product will take
precedence over a newcomer to
The matter was turned over to ‘the |
Hartman Insurance Company. Mr.
Funke moved that all tubes be re- |
placed at the same time. (With old |
|
| tubes there is a tendency to inter- |
left, are Abby Rodda,
{ R.S.M., Director
first |
grade pupils on the use of primer | Mr. Willard ‘Weissman,
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the area, but the important
thing is the date.
Jerry Gardner is chairman of
the Twentieth Library Auction.
Get in touch with him if you
qualify.
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Reading Conference At Misericordia
Dallas; and
Betty De Cosmo, Trucksville. Debby
Prater is represented by the top
of her head in left foreground.
Standing are: Mrs. Arline B.|
Rood, first grade teacher in Dallas |
Elementary; Sister M. Eloise, |
of Audio Visual |
College Misericordia; | |
representa-
Education,
| tive of 3M Corporation; Mrs. Eliza- faculty member of College Miser
from | beth Jones,
teacher and reading
specialist in the Tunkhannock
Schools; Sister M. Blaise, R.S.M.,
member of College Misericordia’s
Special Education Faculty and
speech therapist ‘at St. Maurice
School of Special Education, Beth-
esda, Maryland;, Miss Edith 2
Mantz, Chairman of the panel and
teacher of Wilkes - Barre City
| Schools; Sister M. Noreen, R.S.M.,
cordia’s Department of Education
Andy Roan, Carl Goeringer,
and John Charles. Also
above