Sess SHES SL ee Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain 77 YEARS A NEWSPAPER TEN CENTS PER COPY — TWELVE PAGES vv vw Back Mountain Boys nService In Vietnam Mitchell R. Allen Thomas G. Appel Daniel B. Avery Sterling A. Barnes Larry G. Belles Dale J. Belles William Biggs Lawrence L. Campbell Charles W. Chappell Kyle Gene Cundiff *Richard Michael Cummings Ernest Davis and Supply Company, out of sale, is jubilant. and the Ham’n Yegg Club is | NEW GOODS TO DATE: Admiral Colored T-V from Motors. , Red-wood lawn furniture, 2 Store. Prizes for Kick-off dinner, Russell E. Denmon David A. Dershimer | Wm. H. Dierolf, Jr. | Thomas Detsick drugstore. Library Auction Goes Into High Gear With Gift Of Admiral Colored T-V The Library Auction got a shot in the arm early Wednesday morning when Whitesell Brothers Building the firm would contribute a colored Television set, a 23 inch Admiral to the new goods committee. This is the largest single gift to date, and Harry Lefko, general chairman of the July 6, 7 and 8 auction New goods and certificates are starting to come in, Yamaha motorcycle, O’Malia Laundry, courtsey Kunkle Silver Tea Service with tray, Frank Clark. Two Mystaire spot removers, 1 musical night-light, Halls a clear sky, announced that gathering momentum. ined Ba cl Whitesells. sets benches and table, Boston Boston Store. Carl Edwards John J. Ferry Charles L. Finn Jonathan Ginochetti John Horniak Orville Ide illiam Jones Albert Kern James D. Kyttle s Lettie eobert Martin Bernard Mazer Ralph McCormack Paul Meeker 4 men’s shirts, 3 boys shirts, Joe Hand. | United States Flag, Dan Flood. Two Black and Decker drills, Kanaar Corp. Electric alarm clock, Eyet Jewelry Store. Knit-suede suit, size 12; five shorts, sizes 10, Ann’s Apparel. Mohawk 4-ply tubeless tire 775x14, Jack Winters Tires, Kingston. 3 packages dress-trim, robe and quilting material, Her- man Funke, of Ashley. Set-of front and rear rubber floor mats; two front-seat belts; 2 retractors; 2 highway emergency kits; 1 fire exting- uisher, from City Chevrolet Co. Oval rug, Harry Bolan. Four 12-piece sets Bake and Serve Oven wear, Franklin Federal Savings & Loan. I oo Lamp and shade, Greenwald’s Luzerne. obert Misson Front Chevie floor mat, fire extinguisher, Bonner Chev- Leo Mohen 'rolet. David Nevel Hair dressing, and Kremel cream hair dressing, Pritch- | Jon Newberry (ard’s Drugs, Luzerne. Ronnath F. Novis | Five-pound canned ham, Wally Gosart. | Wo. L Oreay | Blanket, ice chest, gallon thermos, freezer-pac, McCrory’s. | Two shirts, Adam’s Men’s Shop. | Arthur Owen Th : ree Aqua-Queen lawn sprinklers, McCarthy Tire Serv. Arthur W. Parks ' - : y / Albert Phillips Te high uli knives, Bob Maturi. : ostoria candy dish, silver cake plate, sterli t Robert Price | Henry the Jeweller. 2 Se ve Tom Purvis Black patent leather hand-bag, white leatherette hand- Keaith Reeves bag, crochet bedspread, Globe Store, Luzerne. Electric tooth-brush, Dr. Anthony Kitzer. White vinyl handbag, gross-point handbag, Grace Cave. Five pounds. grass seed, Agway Feed Co. Ls Tiare $10 packs of Kenndey half-dollars, Hanover Natl. Bank. a Five book-cases, Metropolitan Wire Co. Westclox watch, Trucksville Pharmacy. 24 quarts Quaker State Oil, Don’s Citgo Station. Martin House, 12-family aluminum job with adjustable pole, Forty-Fort Lumber. Schwinn boy’s bike, ditto girl’s bike, Sordoni Construc- | | | Lawrence L. Richards John Rogers Edward Schrama. Francis Sebolka James Shields Rudolph Siffrar goon Spencer Calvin Tinsley | Robert Traver ohn B. VanHorn tion Co. Gerald Wagner Assortment Wearever aluminum, Susquehanna Savings & | Ralph K. Wall Loan. George W. Wesley Donald Williams LeRoy Williams William B. Williams Larry Wolfe Arnold D. Wright #Killed in action ATTENTION Beacuse of the July 4 holiday the Dallas Post asks all correspondents, | ministers, reunion secretaries and amgene else reporting news, to get | Be as early as possible. ] | Murder, Suicide | Mills. Two recap tires, 700x14, Proctor two-slice toaster, | Drill kit, 4 gals. Latex paint, | CERTIFICATES: ° Two smorgasbord dinners, $5 shoerepair, Rossi. Permanent, Beatrice Flaher Furnace cleaning job, Cha Near Mossville Murder and suicide touched the | area Tuesday night, as a West | Nanticoke man shot his wife in the | presence of his two. sons, disposed | of the bcdy in a pond, and then blew out his -brains. Felix Piszeyek, 41, shot his wife | Alice in the family car, dropped her in the pond at Strawbery Hill, Loyalville, and drove to the home of a close friend at Fairmount | — Springs with the children. Leaving 14-year old Carl and five | year old Jeffrey with Mr. and Mrs. | William Skovronnsky, he asked the | childless couple to look after the 7 He emptied his pockets of | available cash, thirteen dollars, | wrote a note, and started off again. | | Shampoo and set, Joseph Cleaning certificate, $5, U Two certificates good for | ber Shop. Elston & Gould, Vern Pritchar It’s been too much like So, he needed censuring And so do a lot of the people, in both chambers of -What is the percentage Near a bridge in the Mossville We can think of a lot area, he ended his own life. Deputy Sheriff Alfred Bronson was called at 9:45. Assisting were police from the Shickshinny Bar- racks, Troopers Donald Tressler and Rcbert Wilson; Sgt. Gures and Corp. Brennan. Commemorative Stamps Coming Attention - focussed at first on | Bryant's Pond, -where the couple Postmaster Ed Buckley announces vg X “~ the issuance ‘of -commemo rative es owned 2 frafler for two years. ! stamps during the month of July. -State Police gave it as their! 4 i Ld | Erie Canal -Cemmemorative Stamp opinion that there was too much | ; 5 ? traffic at Bryant's Pond to make | y2 for PB : it practical ‘to conceal a body in it, | Search for Peaseuuiy 6. So. other 4 Hg : | Henry D. Thoreau Stamp July 13. ponds were investigated. | > Nebraska Statehood July 30. Mrs. Piszeyek’s body was found | 3 | Some of the Canada Centennial early Wednesday afternoon at : i : Commemorative Stamps issued the Strawberry Hill. Fi + : s 3 . | beginning of June are still on hand There are two other children, | fo, collectors. an eighteen year old girl, and a| Search for Peace wil lbe issued in boy not yet two years old. | conjunction ‘with the Lions Inter- Mr. Piszeyek was employed at! national Convention in Chicago, IIL, Foster-Wheeler, ia as part of its 50th Aniversary ac- ¥ | Dozen Black-Dot golf balls, Lehman Golf Course. Two Goodyear tires 775x14, Howard Isaacs. Two 205 pound bags Purina dog food, two 50 lb. bags Purina horse feed, Huston’s Feed Store. Small. Youngstown cabinet, white toilet seat, 114” Skil- | closure Eastern Pennsylvania Supply. Merchandise $5, Valley Fabric Shop. Cash donation $25 from Royer Foundry. Three $25 savings accounts, Kingston National Bank, One $25 savings bond, First National Bank. One $25 savings bond, Wyoming National Bank. Shampoo and set, John Maniskas. Five haircuts, Sterovacks Barber Shop, 24 Carverton Rd. Merchandise, $25, Humnvhrey's Bootery. Ham’'n Yeggs to.date: Bill Moss, Hix, William Shuster, done by Congress in these uneasy times. Transistor radios, one Webcor portable stereo, Natona | Jack Winters. White Furniture Co. five-foot Tubmaster bath en- Continental Inn. ty. rles Dana, Maniskas. ter Cleaning, Luzerne. 5 haircuts each, Johnny's Bar- THE DALLAS POS MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Over The Jumps At The Lehman Horse Show Action, thrills, expert horsemanship, good spor tsmanship . . things you can expect to find at the 23rd annual Lehman Horse Show, planned for Sunday and Tuesday, July 2 and 4, with an outdoor square dance the evening of July 3. Shown here taking the jumps at the Lehman show grounds is Andy Hudini of Waverly. The Lehman show, sponsored by the Lehman Volunteer Fire Company, is one of the largest 2-day shows in the East, . drawing exhibitors and spectators from a great area. Dallas Post Office will be closed | on July 4th but a complete collect- | ion of mail from all collection boxes will be made at 5 P.M. for dispatch- ing at 6 P.M. Normal holiday lock box service | will be availablefrom 10 A.M. tc 5 P. M. No deliveries will be made by city or rural carriers. Edward Ungvarsky, Lehman,| Shavertown postal employee, stop- ped to chat a minute with William Ostrum on Memorial Highway, Shavertown, as mail Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. Had he not done so, he would have been in his mail truck which at that very moment was thrown over on its side, alongside the Joseph McCaffrey, Harveys Lake, was proceeding south when he struck the mail truck ripping a huge piece of metal from its side. The accident occurred just past the overpass where there is a rise in d, Dr. David Kunkle, Graham- Rinehimer Insurance, Gordon Diettrick Ins. Bn Inch At A Time .cutting off a man’s leg one inch at a time, this Senatorial censuring of Senator Dodd. other representatives of the Congress. in.making a career of it? more important work to be | tivities. Lions Club is sponsoring a | “Search for Peace” essay contest |" {and the commemorative stamp re- | flects the theme. of its program. | Young people 1 to 22, from the more | than 130. countries and geographical . areas served by Lions. were invited to submit workable plans for world peace. | For. First day cancellations, col- | lectors may requests to Postmaster, | Chicago, Ill. 06067 { | IF YOU NEED KITTENS | Every time you have a litter of | kittens, they're a drug on the mar- | ket, and every time you need a kit- | ten for a little girl to play with, there are no kittens to be had. Take your pick in this week's Trading Post. = PRET : z La z SRA as Left to right in picture: Angelo man, Deborah Ann Savickas, James Alexander. Miss Savickas, Dallas Area School and Mr. Ehret, Lake-Lehman School, are pictured receiving Dailas Rotary Mail Truck Is Struck, Overturns he delivered the | highway where he had locked the | Guida, Sheldon Ehret, Daniel Chap- | The Antiques Committee and the | Odds and Ends Committee, plus the Used Goods Committee, fell heir to three truckloads of things from the Marshall home. Among them is a crotch mahog- any chest of drawers which Stefan Hellersperk will patch where a piece of veneer is missing; . fun and food! o Mail Delivery _4yction Notes . . . skillfully | | | These are some of the | do, a very old Boston rocker, and two Victorian side chairs with petit point seats. The Used Goods department in- herits a very good refrigerator, and ! | an almost new kitchen stove. The | Odds and Ends: has kitchen gear | to burn, all in good shape. | Two small heating stoves were hoisted onto the truck by the Key | Club under supervision of Bob Dol- | bear. For the Children’s Auction, there | is a plump grey plush elephant, a | { fire truck, and a large cow that goes | | five yéars ago by Gregory Beisel, | are still in good supply, a set in each | to sort them into sets. Patty Brobst, Meredith and Holly Mansley, | ink drawings contained. the road. McCaffrey’'s car proceeded | torn down. 200 yards before it came to a stop | near the Warren home. The driver of the 1966 Cadillac suffered lacerations and was taken to Nesbitt Hospital for treatment. The mail truck was a complete loss and was towed from the scene. Mc- | Caffrey had recently returned home | after being a hospital patient. Chief Frank Lange invesitgated and was assisted by Chief Herbert Updyke, Kingston Township. Fred Lamoreaux, chairman of Dallas Township Supervisors and Phil Wal- ter, a member of the board directed traffic. Book Scholarship checks of | while President Daniel | looks on. Dallas Rotary Club Presents Scholarships To Students | Chapman | | enough for a small child. MOO. A strictly riding cow, large! Those pen and ink drawings done folder. Bill Mess dug them out of the Barn, and induced Girl Scouts ard Kathy Burke, did the sorting. The folders contain an explan- atory page, giving the history: of the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary, and a list of the pen and TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephene Numbers 674-5656 AEE IE EE... VOL. 79, NO. 26. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1967 Lehman Horse Show Lists Judges For Gala Fourth Of July Weekend Lehman Horse-Show, the oldest community cele- bration in the Back Mountain starts its 23rd annual ap- Nik pearance on Sunday at 2 p.m. with an All-Western show at the Horse-Show grounds on Route 118, at the saw-mill turnoff. at 9. The accent is on horses and expert riding, but there are other activities to please everybody, and a refreshment | stand always in operation. On the Fourth of July, dinner will be served. J Plenty of parking on the grounds. a Co-Chairmen are Edward Hartman and Dick Sutton; | show co-chairmen, Gilbert Tough and Myron Baker. Show judge for the Lehman Horse | Show on July 4th will be Joseph | A. Vanorio of Pound Ridge, New | | York. Vanorio, a recognized and | highly qualified judge, has traveled 142,000 miles, judging 158 shows, compriser of 5,890 classes during the past five years. He has just returned from judging a show is Anchorage, Alaska, and has judged the following other shows this 1967 season; Gainesville, Florida; Orlan- | Florida; Potomac, Maryland; Santa Barbara, Californig Syracuse, New York; Billings, Montana. After | judging the Lehman show he will | judge the Washington Al! Arabian Show in ‘Spokane, Washington. consultant training and and is a in horse Vanorio specialist and equitation and is busy teach- | ing, training and giving clinics bes tween judging assingments. Mrs. Rita Marzanni Smith, Clarks Summit, wil ljudge the 4-H classes of the show, scheduled for Sunday, July 2. She is an outstanding equestrienne and judge and has ! | The first folders of drawings, all | suitable for framing, were sold for five dollars. They're bargain priced this vear. Don’t fail to get a folder. You'll never again have a chance to The Square Dance is cheduled for Monday, July 3; at 8 p.m., the Fourth of July Parade on Tuesday, starting from Lehman Center at 9 a.m. The Horse-Show Queen will be selected Sunday night Car Lands In Flooded Toby's Creek 674-7676 ridden many tinmies in the Lehman show. Jack Carey, Jr., Kingston, wil lact as ringmaster. Show schedule is as follows: Sun- day, July 2, starting at 2 pm. - mustang races, western time-events, 4-H classes, costume class. At 9 p.m. on Sunday evening the Horse Show Queen will be selected by a panel of judges from contestants representing area high schogls. Monday, July 3 - 8 p.m. - out- door square dance on the show grounds. uesday, July 4 - parade at 9 am. - all-day horse show starts promptly at 10 a.m., featuring hunters, ponies, quarter horses, walking ‘horses, parade horses, western classes, horsemanship classes, three-gaited. Dinner will be served on the show grounds, starting at 11 a.m. - July 4. Free parking ,free bleacher seat- ing, children 12 years of age and under, admitted free of charge. Show sponsored by the Lehman Volunteer Fire Company - 23rd An- nual. : John F. Butler, Jr., Ridge Street, ee see the Lehigh Valley Depot. It was Scenes include Space’s barn, the Risley Barn where the Auction is held each year, the scene at Hill- side, the Library itself, and the now vanished Lehigh Valley Station. Graphic ‘Arts is making its an- nual large contribution to the Li- brary Auction by making the cuts for free for the Dallas Post. The crotch mahogany drawers fro mthe Marshall home has been carefully mended by Stefan Hellersperk, and will be on display one | National Areonautics Space Admin- of the Rotary Awards. committee istration after graduation. Sheldon, member of District and - bitt. A. Yeust, Roan, C. Miers. | State . Band Festivals and winner Deborah Ann, a National ‘Honor | of the John Philip Sousa Band | Society = Student will further her | Award, will study at Penn State | education at the University of Texas | University with interest in a music ' hundred dollars from Co-Chairmen ‘and is interested in working in the career. i Two Shavertown young men were | chest of spared serious injury miraculously Shavertown, and Paul Campbell when their car skidded off the Lu-| East Center Street, Shavertown, : zerne Dallas Highway Friday mor- | were on their way to summer ning at 7:30, turned over several | times and toppled into Creek. at Boyd White's: Furniture Store un- til the beginning of the Library Auction. Stefan says it is one of the nicest pieces he has ever seen. Mrs. Barakat, head of solicitation, is affectionalely known around Auc- | | tion headquarters as the Bear-Cat. | She never comes in without her kill, | and nobody yet has heard her com- plain. Tell her something is unob- tainable, and she goes and obtains it. We could use more like her. Hats off to the Key Club. Mem- bers have already blistered their hands on the used furniture detail. Back Mountain Brea Ambulance Logbook Dallas June 26: Morrie Fields, from Dal- las Motel to Nesbitt. Crew, Harry Wesley, Wayne Marvey. nue, to General. Crew, Wright, and Wes Cave. Noxen Crispell, John Lyons. Elmer Race, Nalbone. Kingston Township. June 21: T. F. Jacobs, Tunkhan- nock, to- Tyler Memorial; Stevenson 0. Miers. June 23: John Butler Jr. and Paul Campbell, accident, to Nes- bitt; Shonis, and Fredrick, crew. Peter Vasello, Carverton, to Nes- ! bitt, X-ray. (Crane, Shonis. Jcseph McCaffrey, accident, to Nesbitt. Crane, Shonis. June 25: PFC Patricia Peterson, PFC Sandra J. Hamilton, Sp 4 Rita Landreville, to Veterans Hospital. Newcomb, Davis. 4 Trucksville. Yeust, Davis. June 26: Verna Miers, Shaver- Toby's | | thrown | ’ | Ralph Heister, State Regional Sani- Charles Arnaud, Overbrook: Ave- | Besecker, | | 4 | June 27: Lawrence Race to Gen- | problems of the area, has been post- eral. Crew, Howard Keller, Bob | poned, according to announcement Alma Miner to General Crew. | in Dave Fritz, Joseph | ation. Complications Mrs: Bailey, from Nesbitt home to town to Nesbitt. C. Miers, W. Miers. , Mrs. Hughey, accident, to Nes- June 29: Iris LeBar, Shaver Ave., to Nesbitt. C. Miers, A. Williams. John Reggie, Bunker Hill, to Vet- \ erans. Newcomb, C. Miers. i killed it, it showed the characteris- classes when the mishap occurred. Butler, who was driving was into the creek and was | saved from drowning by his pas- senger companion when Campbell | pulled him from the water and onto joy the bank. 7 Several employees of Chase In- stitution gave first aid to the vies = tims until Kingston Ambulance ar- | rived and took the boys to Nes- bitt Hospital where they were treat- ed and discharged. Shortly after the first accident another occurred on the same spot which is proving a hazard to many motorists. The car of Henry Peter- son, Dallas, was struck in the rear by Jonathan Slaff, Trucksville with the latter car damaged badly enough to be towed. SN Within a period of six months sixteen accidents have taken place at this sector at Birch Grove. Em Town Meeting Is Postponed J The Town Meeting scheduled for June 29 in the Dallas Senior High School for discussion of sewage by E. V. Chadwick. president of the E; Back Mountain Protective Associ- in scheduling | are given as the reason. ; Se The meeting, of vital importance to tax-payers, will be held at a date to be announced later. § The panel remains the same: tary Engineer; Therald Krammes, Régional Sanitation executive di- rector; Edward Heiselberg executive director Luzerne County Planning Commission; Roy Weston Associates, -urvey engineers; Dr. Hugo Mailey, Wilkes College. : COPPERHEAD KILLED Michael Snell, Lehman twelve- year old, bashed a 40-inch copper head with a baseball bat Monday morning. It was crawling out of the stones along-side the John Curtis barn across from the school yard. Michael's mother said that the boy thought it was just a run-of-the -mill snake at first, but after he had tic: markings of a copperhead.
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