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Day Of Memory
Rites In Dallas
Dallas Post, American Legion,
escorted by Dallas Junior High
School Band, halted traffic briefly
on Memorial Day as Paul Shaver,
traditional marshall, led his forces
down the Memorial Highway from
the Legion Home, and held serv-
“P at the Honor Roll.
V.FHere, Rev. Francis A. Kane,
pastor of Gate of Heaven Church,
offered prayer. The laying of the
wreath was performed by a Cub
Scout and a Brownie, Davis Laid-
law and Gail Richard, shown in
the center picture.
The parade formed again, mak-
ing the circuit of Main Street and
Mill Street, back to the highway
and thence up Lake Street to Center |,
Hill Road and Wardan Cemetery.
Here, the fire apparatus left are
procession to hot-wheel it to Sweet
Valley, where it was due to take
its place in the parade of pumpers
at 1 p.m.
The rest of the marchers gather-
ed in the quiet of the cemetery
for the traditional observance.
Dallas Junior High School Band,
directed by Alfred Camp, played,
accompanied by twirlers.
Pili speakers stood beneath a
Preading tree, hoary with age,
i shades the Kunkle plot.
Rev. James Randle, pastor of
Dallas Free Methodist Church, gave
both invocation and benediction.
Rev. Andrew Pillarella, pastor of
x United Presbyterian Church,
k as the theme for
address, “Lest We Forget.”
He envisaged those who had died
in former wars for the sake of
gaining and preserving freedom in
this country; those ‘who were now
fighting for the cause of freedom
in Vietnam; and those to come,
who would continue to fight, that
liberty shall not perish from the
earth.
He spoke feelingly of the colored
boy, the man in the Green Beret,
who had been denied burial in his
own home town in Alabama be-
cause there
Inn.” He would have lain anony-
mously in a plot reserved for former
slaves, had not a sister
military honors, and burial in a
National Cemetery.
This is one of the things, he said,
for which we are fighting, a realiza-
tion that each man is entitled to
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- |
piness, under the Constitution of
* the United States of America.
Peace, he said, exacts a great
price.
YMCA Cavaliers, directed by Rob-
Crosson, offered two numbers, |
the Battle Hymn of the Republic
and God Bless America, their small
siping voices almost lost. Color
the main |
“was no room at the |
Southern |
State of Georgia offered him full |
Back Mountain On Parade
Memorial Day was chilly, with
a constant threat of rain after the
morning sunshine, but the’ Back
Mountain turned out for its parades
in Dallas, and Noxen and Sweet
Valley.
Cemeteries Lveryihiors were: oli
ped and green, graves of . soldiers
marked with flags.
In the picture above, The Ameri-
can Legion stages its annual sober
observance, the parade coming
down Memorial Highway, pausing
at the Memorial tablet for a prayer,
starting toward the ritual services
at Wardan Cemetery. |
In lighter vein, Sweet Valley puts
on its first Memorial Day celebra-
tion for ten years. In the center is
the high- wheeled bicycle which has
photo by Kozemchak
graced parades for the last half
century, ever since it was resur-
rected from somebody's barn.
Pioneer ladies with their panta-
letted children trudge along, and
two versions of Daniel Boone, flank-
ed by a microscopic aide in a coon-
skin cap, carry a large black bear
on a pole.
Biggest Day Ever For Sweet Valley Dallas Break-In
30,000 View Parade, Remain For Fun Follows Pattern
It was the biggest day ever in | honor rolled around in the dirt to |
Sweet Valley, bigger even than it
was eleven years ago when the
annual Memorial Day Parade was
abandoned.
Eight weeks ago a. committee
headed by Russell Major got crack-
| ing,
| the entire community: got behind
‘the project.
businessmen contributed, and
Response | was terrific, 30,000
spectators = lining = the roads and
swarming over the grounds’ behind
the Ross School where the 151 en-
| tries in the parade disbanded and
‘made for the food stands and the
fun and games.
There had been a Western Horse-
Show at 10 a.m. a‘ limbering up
exercise for the Big Parade.
From Horse-Show to Fireworks
guards were Ed Dymond and Jay at night, there wasn’t a“ dull mo-
A motorcycle unit from: Pagoda
C. Hill. In the chorus were Karen | ment.
and Wayne Long, Carl Dymond,
Mark Kloeber,
Clifford Parker:
There was the sharp crack of
‘rifles as the firing squad gave the
salute for the dead, directed by
Leonard Harvey.
Taps was sounded by Vince Ro-
man, the muted echo by Ed Ro-
bosky.
Waves Goodbye To
The Dallas Post
LEIGHTON SCOTT
Leighton Scott, whose name has
appeared on the masthead as man-
aging editor of the Dallas Post for
the past several months, after an
apprenticeship as an Associate Ed-
itor, is waving goodbye to both the
As he has steadfastly refused to
have a picture taken, except in
groups where he was pushing a
stretcher into the Dallas Commu-!
nity Ambulance, rehearsing a play
at College Misericordia, or looking |
at the mangled remains after
highway accident,
was faced with a quandary:
Cut off his ears on the one hand,’
or cut off the hand on the other.:
A toss of the coin said, cacrificel
his ear and retain his hand.
The last issue, that of May 26,
was the final issue which he put |
together.
| His swan song appears in a Jast jo get his Masters Degree and em-|class of 1966, have been erected:
i Better Leighton Never on the edi- b
| torial page, and his reasons for -
‘west Band were
the Dallas Post |
Steve Roan, and Motorcycle ‘Club, . their appearance
| financed by businesmen, wove. in-
tricate patterns in ‘precision riding
Churches from as far away as
Shickshinny entered colorful floats.
Last remaining members of the
old Rifle Club of Broadway,- men
who are the proud owners of flint-
{| lock muskets from Revolutionary
days, carried a black bear swung
| from a pole.
The high’ bicycle which has ap-
~ | peared in parades for half a cen-
| tury,” was ridden by Hank Bonham,
fire chief of Kingston, wearing a
fireman’s cap in honor of Sweet
Valley - Volunteers.
Toni Macri was parade marshall
on his horse.
Drill-team from = Dallas High
School, Colorettes, and Xeyettes,
went down by special bus.
~ Lake-Lehman Band and North-
in the line of
march.
Fire trucks from
brought up the rear,
their sirens and adding a note of
raw power. id
The crowd ate: half a ton of
french-fries, 5,000 hot dogs, 400
pounds of hamburg, several acres |
of hot pizza.
By 3:30 the bind was bare. |
Hazleton had been contacted- for
thousands more rolls, and hamburg |
and hot dogs had been sought for |
and found, but not elough to sat-
| isfy the demand. |
The greased: pig, carefully nur-'
tured by the Fire Company since
it was a piglet, encouraged to root
in the woods in order to toughen
1€ it and render it fleet of foot, looked
Dallas Post and the Back Mountain. |
about it at the circle of catchers,
| and gave up, after a few -half-heart-
ed attempts to get away.
The boys all fell on it at once.
On the bottom was the winner, Tom
Francis, embracing the pig, both
out of breath and willing to’ call
it a draw.
The greased pole, 21 feet tall,
survived a series of assaults before
Joe Kovaleski reached the ‘top. In
between times, candidates for the
ing have beens immortalized in a
Pillar to Post.
The staff and ‘the commuriity
both wish him well in his decision
on .a
career. of; teaching
it on food.
everywhere |
leaning on |
provide friction for
Lake Silkworth downed Sweet
Valley Firemen in the final tug-of- |
war, winning the outsize trophy.
There were games, and pony
rides, a white elephant table which
was cleaned out promptly, and a.
bake booth that: did $500 = Toren
of business before 4 p.m. |
Back Mountain Police were on |
hand to unsnarl traffic, finding two-
way radios of enormous value.
When a car parked in a damp |
spot on one of the many pastures |
offered for free, a truck was on |
hand, also for free, to pull it out. |
It had been a wet weekend.
The gross take was over $5,000.
Deducting about $2,000 for neces-
sary expenses, happy firemen ex-
pect at least $3,000, almost all of
People contributed from as far
away as Berwick, where James La-
Bar, a former resident, financed
the fireworks in cooperation with |
the Apex Auto Parts and Willard |
Satliff.
The Fleas and the Hill-Billies en- |
tertained. |
By Tuesday night, Mr. Major re- |
| ports, everything had. been cleaned
up, a one-day job.
Many folks who wanted to come,
were discouraged when they saw
cars parked two miles down the
road, and turned back. Traffic was
bumper to bumper.
Charles Gosart says, “What's our
loss is Jackson Township's gain. |
A lot of people who couldn't get |
near Sweet Valley, went to the
Jackson doings and had |
peck of fun.”
|
instead,
themselves a
the next try. |
| entered
| sometime
| change.
| machines for
| found.
| ship,
‘High School Entered
Thru Broken Window
High School was
early Tuesday morning,
between midnight and
'5 am, according to custodians
Risch abd Ma key es Lia
When Mr. Monka reported for
work he discovered the break-in.
Entry was made through a window
lin the shop planning room by.
| breaking the glass.
Dallas Senior
In the shop room itself, a on]
tilator grill was pried off the bot-
tom of the door and cabinet locks
broken. A screw driver and bar
{ were taken to help in other room
| entries.
In the cafeteria the burglars took
$22, cash on hand to start the
next school day purchases
Desks were rifled. Vending
coke, crackers and
candy bars also were broken into
but had been emptied a day earlier.
In the main office a door-window
was smashed to permit entry. Here,
| desks were searched but nothing
An unsuccessful attempt
| was made to jimmy the principal's
office door and that of the assistant
principal.
In classrooms, 1, 2, and 3, the
burglars broke a door-window and
searched fruitlessly through desks
and cabinets.
Chief Frank Lange, Dallas Town-
investigated, assisted by
| Trooper Klechner of the Wyoming
Barracks, who took fingerprints.
The latest break-in at Dallas
High School follows the pattern of
another attempted = robbery = in
January.
or |
| and four
Ruction Notes .
The [Library Auction will now
fall heir to Scott's forge, tongs, and
sack of soft coal, plus Hix's 250
pound anvil. The wills drawn up
in each other's favor on these
items have been abrogated. Look
to the appearance on the auction
block of the anvil, hoisted by three
perspiring men.
One of the two heavy sieboards
in the barn, the one with the carv-
ed corner posts, comes from Natha-
lie Crary, now 91 years old, and
willing to relieve herself of some
of her very heavy furniture as she
moves to smaller quarters.
General
announces its chairmen:
chairman, Mrs.
pick-up, ‘Mrs. John Rogers.
In charge of pick-up in Shaver- |
Robert
Mrs.
town, Mrs.
Shavertown,
Bayer: East |
Louis Orloski;
It was
[ procured through the offices of Mrs.
Mae Townend, member of the Auc-
| tion Antiques Committee.
Solicitation Committee |
General |
Edward Ratcliffe;
THE DALLAS POST
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
In Dallas Borough: Mrs. A. Dun-
can Whitehead..
Dallas Township,
Pillarella.
Trucksville, Mrs. James Nixon.
Solicitation at homes will begin
after solicitors have been briefed
Mrs. Andrew
at a meeting June 10 at 8 p.m. in
Prince of Peace parish house.
Anybody who would like to help
in house to house coverage, may
call the area chairman listed above.
Antiques Committee will make
final plans for the Auction June 16,
when members are asked to bring
one of the two articles for which
they are responsible to the tea.
Mrs. Robert Weaver "and Mrs.
Ray Turner, Sutton Road, are col-
laborating on the tea, which will be
held at the home of Mrs. Turner.
The offer to stage the annual tea
was generously made to general
chairman Jerome Gardner before
the Antiques chairmen were named.
Preliminary arrangements have
already been made.
West Shavertown, Mrs. Joseph Al-| will be Announced dune 1s.
len.
*
| Saidman, Dr.
Dr.
| victim has aroused the admiration
Sub-chairmen |
TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
674-5656
674-7676
VOL. 77, NO. 22. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1966
Girl Remains In
Critical Condition
Biter School Bus Brakes Fail On Hill
A far greater tragedy could have been the result of the
Dallas school bus accident which occurred Friday afternoon
on Church Street, Dallas.
With a large trailer truck
passing through the intersec-
tion and other traffic moving through the green light, the
little convertible carrying five Dallas High School students
bore the brunt of collision stopping the brakeless bus in its
descent down the hill.
With Edward Van Horn, a long time driver at the wheel,
the man made every attempt to miss the car in front as he
felt the veicle go out of control.
Stasia Newberry, 17,
Dallas, remains
One girl,
Roushey Plot,
Hospital with critical injuries. At-
tended by three doctors, Dr. Lester |
Emil Howanitz, the accident
of all hospital personnel as she |
courageously fights for complete re-
covery.
Miss Newberry, who was seated
in the left rear seat of the car
driven by Gary L. Harris, Claude
Street, Dallas, underwent surgery
After School Bus Strikes, A Twisted Junk, ‘None Die
New Dallas Post | Back Mountain Brea
Office To Open
Postmaster Edward Buckley, Dal-
llas, has announced a moving date
for the new postal quarters under!
construction for the past year and
a half.
Located at Church Street and]
Memorial Highway intersection,
the new office will be open for busi-
ness on Monday June 13.
Mr. Buckley said moving will take
place on Saturday June 11 but pa-
trons may pick up mail from their
boxes all day.
Ground was dedicated in Decem-
ber 1964 and construction started
in January 1965.
were made in plans and the work
has been dormant for a period. The
new post office will boast a square
footage of 7500 feet,
size of the quarters new being occu-
! pied on Lake Street.
Between the lobby and counter
| the boxes for patrons will be placed
similar to the design used at
Shavertown.
Owned by the Federal Govern-
ment,
ceived from the department as to
| a grand opening ceremony.
Fourteen employees and four
sub carriers work out of the Dallas!
Post Office covering two city routes
rural areas.
Many changes
double the!
no word has yet been re-'
| w. Kreischer,
Ambulance Logbook
Dallas Borough
On Thursday,
Chase Road, was taken from the
Junior High School Baseball Field |
to Nesbitt Hospital. Jack Berti, Jim |
Davies and William Wright attend- |
ling.
Friday afternoon,
Claude: Street, and Stasia Newberry, |
Fernbrook, were rushed to Neshiss!
following \ an accident. |
Berti and L. Sheehan at-
Hospital,
Davies,
tending.
to Nesbitt Hospital on Friday. Crew |
was Berti, Davies and Wright.
Rhone was visiting on Parrish
Street.
Sunday, William Eipper, Demunds
Road, was taken to General Hos-
pital, Davies,
Arlene Bessmer was brought to
| her home on Huntsville Road on
Monday from Nesbitt Hospital. At-
tendants were Sheehan and Davies.
' Robert Gill, Edwardsville, was
rushed to Nesbitt Hospital from Na-
tona Mills on Tuesday, when he
was stricken. Sheehan and W. Har- |
vey in attendance.
Kingston Towmship
On Monday, Otto Weigand, Knob
Hill, was taken to General Hospital.
Harry Smith and
Lake- Lehman Class Of 1966 Presents High School With Sign
The first school to erect a sign tion of the
for guidance of motorists in reach- | School.
ing the building, is Lake-Lehman.
Two signs, gift of the graduating | nearest the school, with graduating
class and officials grouped about.
roads. near the High
one in Lehman Center,
pointing | To the left of the sign stands Wil- |
board. =~ To the right, Anthony
| Marchakitus, High School Principal,
Shown in the picture is the sign ! and assistant to Robert Z. Belles,
| Supervising Principal of the Lake-
Lehman Jointure.
Joseph Stager, chairman of the
the way, and one at the intersec- f dd Sutton, president of the school | gift committee, Presepted the sign
to Walter Sorber,
class president,
who in turn presented it to Mr.
Marchakitus.
Mr. Marchakitus, in accepting the
gift on behalf of the student body
Edward Dubil,
| Mass,
{ administrator and pastor Rev. Fran-
Gary Harris, | cis A. Kane.
Wayne and Leonard |
| Harvey as crew. |
Schools Close June 10
Local schools close Friday, June |
| Dallas School bus
{ 10; both ‘public and parochial.
Commencement exercises for Dal-
las and for Lake-Lehman have al-
| ready been announced.
At Gate of Heaven, graduation is |
| scheduled for June 12 at the 9 a.m.
with diplomas awarded by
Torrential Downpour
A torrential thunderstorm late
|
Harold Rhone, Luzerne, was taken | Say afternoon put. a period
o the warmest spell of the spring |
season, ‘and sent the mercury plum-
meting for the Memorial Day week-
end. Hail, which fell in the Shick- |
shinny area and did grave damage |
to crops, skipped the Back Moun-
tain.
By Tuesday morning, tempera-
tures approached the freezing mark,
and the first day of June saw area
residents stoking their furnaces,
after one of the wettest Mays on
record.
Jack Loshor as crew.
Lehman
Mrs. Martha Heidel was taken
from Geri-Kay Nursing Home to
General Hospital on Friday. Lee
Wentzel and Pete Hospodor attend-
on its fine citizenship.
In addition,
be used for recreation and will be- |
and the community thanked the | physical education department.
class, and commended the group
i photo by Kozemchak
in | ruptured spleen.
the Intensive Care Unit ‘at Nesbitt | a fractured hip,
Joseph Sgarlat and |
| Junior High School,
{ Cutcheon and Thomas Carr,
| ance
, trailer truck
! and
' Harris vehicle.
| Collie Is Shot
on Friday evening to remove a
She also suffered
fractured pelvis,
| deep laceration of the back which
will require plastic surgery and a
bruised pancreas. Miss Newberry
| was wedged in the wreckage.
| Mr. Harris, who was pinned be-
hind the steering wheel managed
| to extricate himself and rushed to
| pull Miss Newberry from her prison.
| He held the girl in his arms until
| an ambulance came. Harris suf-
| fered crushed ribs in the mishap
which could have claimed the lives
of all five occupants.
Richard Kitchen, E. Franklin
Street, Shavertown, crawled out of
the right side of the demolished
car, assisting Joy Harris, sister of
the driver and Patricia ‘Carey,
Claude Street, to safety, as the
engine smoldered and then burst
into flames. Kitchen and the two
girls were taken to the office of
Dr. Henry Gallagher, who examined
and discharged them. The young
people underwent X-rays this week
for minor injuries.
Puts Out Fire
The quick action of Frank Ro-
ginsky, Harveys Lake Light Com-
pany employee and Kingston Town-
ship Special Police Officer, prevent-
ed a fire which might have turned
into a holocaust. On the scene
immediately after the crash, Rogin-
sky grabbed a fire extinguisher and
quickly put out the flames.
Part way down the steep Church
Street Hill, Driver Van Horn felt
his brakes fail. Shouting a warning
to the children in his bus to hang
on, Van Horn bent every effort to
avoid a final crash, but there was
no place to go. He sideswiped the =
new automobile of Donald Dennis,
| Huntsville Road and a foreign one
Towned by James Knecht, Harveys
| Lake, before plowing into the Harris
convertible and shoving it into the
in front which
| was waiting at the red light.
Bystanders said the bus went
| up over the rear and top of the
| Harris car and all were of the
| opinion that it was a miracle the
occupants escaped with their lives.
Velma Davis, Dallas Post em-
ployee, who was seated in the Acme
| Parking Lot saw the bus coming
| down the hill at a fast rate of
| speed and steeled herself as she
| saw the inevitable crash eoming.
| She reported the flames broke out
upon impact and then the young
(folks crawling out after impact.
A broken prong attached to the
| brakes is held responsible for the
{ mechanical failure. Leon Emmanuel,
bus owner, has said the bus will
{never be used again to transport
| pupils.
| Students aboard the bus involved
| which was No. 14 have reported
that in two other instances the
brakes had given the driver trouble.
! Although there is: seating for 56
| students who are assigned to the
| carrier, there have been reports
| of students forced to stand. Andrew
i Kozemchak, is chairman of trans-
| portation committee.
| Richard Disque was among those
rushed to the accident scene and
rendered assistance as Miss New-
‘berry was rushed to Nesbitt Hos-
pital in the Dallas. Ambulance, man-
| ned by Lynn Sheehan, Jim Davies
{and
| was also taken to the hospital in
| the same ambulance.
|
|
|
|
Bill Berti. Gary Harris
principal of Dallas
George Mec-
guid-
instructors at Dallas High
| School were also among the first on
| the scene. Brad Kitchen, father of
‘one of the victims, was driving the
at the intersection
recognized the
John Rosser,
immediately
The battered car, almost un-
recognizable, was hauled away to
Wesley's Service Station. There
were none injured aboard the school
bus.
Near His Home
A beautiful collie dog was shot
in Sweet Valley on Saturday eve-
ning a few short steps from is.
home.
The friendly pet of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Sayre. and children was
killed as he ran to hide from the
thunderstorm.
Neighbors saw a car slow down
{ near the area and heard shots but
| did not see the animal.
the class will pre- |
sent a ping-pong table which will | return, the family found his body.
Next morning when he did not
Another dog was reported shot
come a part of the individualized in the Lake Silkworth area last
| week.
| progress.
An investigation is in
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