Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain 79 YEARS A NEWSPAPER THE DALLAS POST TWO 674-7676 EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 674-5656 TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES f MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION VOL. 79, NO. 20. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1968 Firemen State Bridee Not Safe Refuse To Cross Kingston Twp. Gets Third Full-Time Police Officer Kingston Township Supervisors Wednesday evening approved ap- | pointment of a full time third police | office ;, provided better lighting for Memorial Highway and a part of, Carvert~n Road. and heard Shaver- town Fire Company's ultimatum | that they would not answer calls via the old Franklin Street Bridge. Cuitord Culver was named a new member of the force. Police hours will be rotated. Chairman Hall said he favored four officers for best efficiency. Replacement of present lights on two. highly traveled thoroughfares by 34-700 lumen vapor lights and six 11 lumeén vapor lights and the replacement of one existing mercury light, suggested by Mr. Schappert of UGI at a slightly higher cost of $88.30 per month met with approval of the board. The improvement had | been prop@ged by former Supervisor John Funké some time ago. Louis Ranier said all areas should receive equal lighting. Mr. Mathers said this would be accomplished as.soon as possible. Mr. Funke said that he had listened to Mr. Ranier’s complaints for many months and | he was most happy to see better | lighting installed, that if one life | was saved it would be well worth | the added expense. The lights will | be replaced from Birch Grove to | Fernbrook Corners and out Carver- ton Road to Dug Road. No Longer Safe Andrew Roan, president of Shav- | ertown Fire Company, stated that | men and equipment would no longer | use the Franklin Street bridge tak- ing a longer route to reach homes | within a stone’s throw of the fire hall. John Riordan, a visitor, informed the group that all bridges were county property. Myr. Hall replied that he felt the board es responsible although there was no deed to take it over | and Solicitor Mitchell Jenkins had checked the matter. Roan 're- sponded that the fire company would give every support to putting | pressure on those involved. Roan reminded the board that when the emergency traffic signals were put up there were to be signs posted warning motorists to stop on the flashing red lights. Mr. Zieg- ler said they would be provided. Aid Asked Mr. Riordan reported on a danger- ous area on Carvertcn Road where children cross from Maple Street to Laurel Lane and said he counted 150 ‘cars passing there in a half | hour. He urged that with the Fran- | ces . Slocum Park opening some | thought be given or a school guard | provided here. William Moss agreed | and asked that a solid line a painted on the thoroughfare. Super- | visor Mathers said it was no job for a 6th grade boy and Chief Her- | bert Updyke was asked if he could obtain a guard. Rev. Charles Gom- | mer “8 the issue was “Hoi much | value Y you place cn a child's | life?” Mr. Hall and Mr. Mathers | said ‘an extra crossing guard would be. ‘provided. Lag Ziegler was named to the Luzerne’ Ccunty Planning Commis- sion. The chairman praised Road Su- perintendont Lawton Culver and members of the crew for the fine clean up job done last week. Mr. Culver reported 18 loads hauled away and an extra day required. Haulers Petition A petition of 187 sighatures most- ly from out of town residents urged the continuing use cof Church Read ° by trucks. The board placed a 5 ton limit on it and said there had been an agreement by American Asphalt to keep the road in shape. Use of Huntsville Road via Over- brook Avenue could add additional miles, the petition stated. Until the bridge at Hillside is rebuilt there is ho easier access to the asphalt plant or another gravel pit in Jack- son Township. Paul Sabc! obtained use of town- ship snow fence and posts and po- lice protection during the Trucks- ville Firemen’s 50th Anniversary celebration. Leslie Eckert obtained permission to tryout a local musical group for a dance on May 29 at the mu- nicipal building, all proceeds to go to Trucksville Fire Company. Diane ‘Long was named to pre- pare the ‘tax: duplicate. Mr. Ziegler proposed a meeting with Lackawanna and Luzerne Gar- bage Collection Company, and Mr. Ransom of the West Side Landfill. Questions on the widening of Carverton Road, Mr. Ziegler said it was his understanding that the road awould be widened to 24 ft. with a ten foot berm but not in resi- dential ‘areas. | has been impossible to obtain ' recent A "meeting of the committeemen | for the Kickoff Dinner of the Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction | was recently held at the home of | Mr. Country Club on Wednesday, May 22 ‘at! 7 p.m. and Mrs. George McCutcheon. | The dinner is scheduled for Irem | | Mountain | Pharmacy, and Fino’s Pharmacy. Door prizes will be awarded and | entertainment will be furnished by the Brass Quartet; Keith Barber Dallas Legion Memorial Day Paul Shaver will marshall the Memorial Day Parade in Dallas on May 30. Line of march will form at the American Legion Home at 9:30, proceeding down Memorial | Highway to. central Dallas, where: it will pause at the Honor Roll. Rev. Francis A. Kane will offer! the prayer.: Dallas Senior School Band, directed . by Lester Lewis, will play. Cindy and Edward Oncay will | place the wreath. Maureen and Kim | McAllister are poppy’ girls. march up! | Lake Street to Wardan Cemetery, The procession will where the address will be given: by Charles D. Lemmond Jr. The band will play, and remarks | will be made by Curtis Bynon, com- | mander of the Daddow Isaacs Post, and Marian Harvey, president of the Auxiliary. Leonard Harvey will direct the firing squad. The memorial prayer and bene- ! diction will be offered by Rev. Ed- ward Walters. Mr. Ziegler also reported that it in- voices from Rowlands Electric for the installation of traffic signals. Fifty percent of the cost would be Week, Dallas Postmaster Ed Buck- | ley rerginds patrons of both rural reimbursable if invoices are in by! May 13 deadline. | name, must appear on the door. * | Memorial. Crew, Howard Keller. | this paper after thirty days. Rll Set For The Kick-Off Dinner, Opening Gun In The 22nd Library Ructicn | and Jerry McDonald, trumpet; Lind- | sey Sherwood, French horn; Brock | Phillips, trombone. Master of Ceremonies dinner is Myron Baker. : Tickets may be obtained at Back | Memorial Library, Evans | for the | Chairman of the affair is Warren | Dadurka and chairman of the auc- tion is Donald Anthony. Absent | Ambulance Logbook | Noxen May 11: Ellis Meeker to Tyler May 12: Elmer Crispell to Gen- | eral. Crew, son and grandson, Rob- | bert and Earl Crispell. NOTE ON ENGRAVINGS We will keep engravings, large size, thirty days. We will file one-column cuts for future possible use. We will save pictures of brides | or engaged girls for a reasonable time. | Organizations which wish to keep their engravings for the archives, are advised that no responsibility | for such cuts will be assumed by Unless there is a specific request | for preserving them, they will be destroyed. | equipment . was voted. MAILBOX IMPROVEMENT | This is Mailbox = Improvement and city routes. : Name, and number of the patron on a rural route must be clearly | visible to the carrier as he ap- proaches on the right hand side | of the road. If boxes are grouped, Dallas Students Score High In Math Centest | | where a room is available. Invelved | are nineteen to twenty-one children ! who would otherwise .be deprived! when the photo was taken were Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Thomas. Reservations may be made with | Warren Dadurka, phone 675-5875. | Seated in the. picture, left to | right, are Estella Thomas, Dorothea | McCutcheon, Selly Dadurka, and Marian Anthony. Standing, George Thomas, George McCutcheon. War- | ren Dadurka, and Donald Anthony. Noxen To Have A Kindergarten L-L Board Adopts Tentative Budget When directors of Lake-Lehman | Schools met Tuesday night in the | administration office, | dents got their wish for a kinder- | garten, a tentative budget was pre-! | sented, and the | tion of a utility building at the high | Noxen resi- idea of construe- school athletic field was sidetracked | for the present. Visitors from Noxen went home | jubilant with the promise that a | kindergarten would be established in the Noxen elementary building, of the pre-school education. Purchase of chairs and necessary Directors discussed the possibility of providing transportation of area | kindergarten children for at least | one way. Supervising Principal Rob- | ert Belles and Board President Ed- | | gar Lashford agreed that as the] | kindergarten was now an accepted | i part. of the school system, trans- | portation: eventually would beccme | | inevitable. (Dallas District was up against the I'same thing in the early days of the | kindergarten program, parents mak- ing their own arrangements for transportation the first year.) The 1968-69 Budget A tentative budget of $1,366,-| {213.00 was proposed, with no in-! Richard Fedock, left above, and! Wilkes College. The contest was | James Dallas = Senior shown with their Mathematics in- | structor, Edward S. Augustine. The two boys achieved the sec- ond and third highest scores in a mathematics contest at Gosart, at right, seniors at | sponsored by the Luzerne County | High School, are! Council of Mathematics Teachers. Bighty-five seniors from public and | private schools in Luzerne County | participated. i Gosart had ‘second highest and fedock, third. | contract for crease in millage. Mi. Lashford expressed himself as pleased that the high cost of the proposed field house could be elimi- nated. The estimate of $72,884.40 was far in excess of a figure of not much more than half which had been contemplated originally. Fees for the architect, which must be paid whether the building is con- structed or not. at this time, sore | reported as reduced frem $4,700 | to $3 000. | Sclicitor Charles Lemmend was | instructed to write a letter to Lake | Borough in regard to property trans- | fer taxes. Up until the end of 1967, | the school bnard was getting the | entire bit; since January 1, nothing. | A heating system maintenance the Powers Controls was approved at a cost of $810 for a yea:. : A senior class of 132 students was. recommended for graduation, contingent upon completion of re- quirements. Several students may be handed blank d’plemas on Com-= mencement Day if work and at- tendance are not up to standard by June 6. Miners National Bank, Dallas Branch. again was designated de- | pesitory and board treasurer. George Stolarick, elected mem- bership chairman for Northeastern Pennsylvania - Association of Edu- cational Secretaries, was given board permission’ to attend the National Meeting in Denver July 18 to 26, with his expenses paid. Three school buses and the school bookmobile were authorized for use to transport band members and | instruments to the annual parade in Sherburne, N. Y. June 8. A request that the band play at the Lehman Horse Show July 4 | | lows: { Mr. | President of Council ! welfare of the Borough are openly | eral business of the government of | matters which are acted upon be- | orderly transfer of pending work | pointment. | 12:45 to 6:45 p.m. | Sponsorship is by the PTA. Jones, Stenger, Resign Posts The resignations of Solicitor Ben- | jamin R. Jones, III, and secretary | of the bcard, John Stenger were | submitted to members of Harveys Lake Borough at a special meeting of the Council Wednesday evening. Atty. Jones stated that his resig- nation was effective immediately but that he would assist his successor in making an orderly transfer at) no cost to the borough. M . Stenger’s resignation will be- | come effective June 1. A copy of the solicitor letter fol- May 15, 1968 Francis D. Fisher Borough of Harveys Lake Dear Mr. Fisher: of my resignation as Solicitor of Harveys Lake Borough to become effective this date. I can no longer satisfactorily rep- resent a Borough Council which is | so hopelessly divided on so many! fundamental and important matters. | Until some unity of purpose and | direction is achieved and until the | important decisions affecting the | and individually arrived at, the gen- the Borough will continue to be adversely affected. You will ap- preciate that it is extremely difficult | for counsel to advise the Council on fore first being submitted to him for his legal opinion thereon. I shall, of course, cooperate with my successor in order to effect the and documents in my possession. It has been my pleasure to have served as the first Solicitor of the this resignation with genuine disap- Please convey to Mayor and to all of the members | of the Council my very best wishes. | { For the good of each of you individ- | ually, and for the good of all of] the citizens of the Borough, I hope | that there will be an early resolu- tion of the imposing problems which | currently face you. Very truly yours, Ben R. Jones, Bloodmobile At L-L High School III | Please accept this letter as notice | | | | } i Borough of Harveys Lake. I submit | the | Valedictorian HARRY C. GREGORY Top students of Lake-Lehman | graduating class, as anncunced by | High School Principal Anthony Mar- chakitus, are Harry C. Gregory, and ‘Dianne L. Ide. Mr. Gregory takes the Valedictorian's post, Miss Ide the Salutatorian’s. Mr, Gregory is son of Mr. and | { Mrs. Robert S. Gregory, Dallas RD | 2. He will enter King's College in | September. A member of the Honor | Society for four years, he has also | participated in school dramatics. Much of his time is spent in work- Salutatorian | | DIANNE L. IDE { | { { | for Retarded Pupils Need Assistance ‘By Dallas Board Tentative Budget Adopted By Board; Open For Inspection A tentative budget of $2,171,000; a plea by Dr. Herman Aqua, pres- ident of Luzerne County Association for Retarded Children; resignations : | of Henry C. Moyer and Merle A. | Gerdes, | come school directors; wage in- tax collections; and com- plaints from New Goss Manor Home Owners were major topics under discussion at Monday night's meet= ing of the Dallas School Board. Dr. Aqua appealed to the board to set aside funds in the budget the care of two children from | the Dallas School District. Payents ing on his father’s farm. Miss Ide, daughter of Mrs will matriculate at Bloomsburg State College, to major in elementary ed- ucation. Among her extra-curricular Mr. and | activities she is cheerleader captain, | is a member of G.A.A., the Pep Club, and is on the Round Table Yearbook Staff. She has been honored by Har- | veys Lake Women’s Club as “Girl of the Month.” Lake Borough Council Remains Split Due to numerous calls received from residents of the new Lake Borough and with no agreement from council to haul away refuse, | William Casterline gave notice Mon- day evening that he would be tak- ing care of only his regular cus- tomers. Mi. Casterline said he has to pay to dump and that residents { had expected him to take care of all hauling at a loss. Receipt of a check from Michael | Godek, secretary of Lehman Town- t ship Supervisors in the amount of | | $1,345.15, balance of the original 2,500 turned over to the above | board by the Sunset Beach Associa- | | tion drew discussion. Walter Osko moved that the funds be placed in ta special account for Project 70. | Fred Merrill said he did not under- { stand the motion. Solicitor Ben B. Lake-Lehman Blood donation will Jones III asked who would have the take place at the High School on | power to draw on this account. It Tuesday, May 21, Hours are from | was noted that Arthur Gosart and The goal is 110 pints. Anybody between the ages of 18 | | Walter Osko served as president and secretary of the association. Jones advised that the check be and 60 may donate, unless there is | returned to Mr. Godek with in- medical disability. People who have | structions to send it to the Project had hepatitis are not eligible. Also | 70 Committee. ineligible is anybody weighing less! than 100 pounds. Co-chairmen = are Dawe and Mrs. Mrs. John Gordon Zaleskas. | Nurses are Mrs. Lamar Dinger, | Mrs. Edwin McGrath, Mrs. Leonard | | Ide, Jr., Mrs, Jean Moledor, Mrs. | Thomas Williams, Mrs. Kenneth | Cosgrove, Mrs. Katherine Corbett, Mrs. Gordon Dawe, Mrs. John Za- leskas. In charge of bags, Mrs. Sidney! Fielding. Canteen, Mesdames Randolph | Wright, oJseph Ellsworth, Edward Niezgoda, Charles Nuss, Michael | Gutch, Taft Truska, Peter Dragon, and cJhn Brown. Canteen nurse, Mrs. Winfield Kelley. Temperature nurses: Mrs. Ruth | S'mms, Mrs. David Eddy, Mrs. | James Barrall Jr., Mrs. Betty Holds- worth. Typist, Mrs. James Mr Caffrey. Regictrars, Mesdames Leonard Se- | t that Council had vected to lingo, Ernest Xing, Betty Long. Katherine Crockett, and Richard Culver. Students assisting: Debra Gra- ham, James Pall, Bradley Iverson, Jeanne Zaleskas, Donna Loomis, and Irene Rodriguez. Lake Fireman's Fair Plans for the Annual Fireman's Fair which will be held on July 30 and 31 were discussed at the meeting of Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company Auxiliary on May 8. Everyone served by the Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company or Am- bulance is asked to help to make this a success. A ‘hot ham’ supper will be served on the first night - headed by Pauline Davis and Mrs. Carl Swanson. Mrs. Charles Wil- liams is chairman of the Bazaar Booth, Mrs. Elwocd Davis, chair- man of the Bake Sale, and Mrs. Mal Nelson, chairman of the White Elephant Booth. | EB tt | was approved. Committees on transportation, athletics, education, supplies, and | finance, reported. Bids for science, janitorial, furni- | | ture and equipment supplies were ! opened and referred to the supply | a | committee for tabulation and pre-, David Eddy was the driver of the | bulance. sentation at the Junc meeting. | wrecked car. Passengers were Doug- | Frank Fisher, announced that at a special meeting held May 8, coun- cil appointed Truman Naugle a third member of the police force and special, ‘officers, Al Wendell and Wayne Thomas. Minutes Changed Fisher requested that minutes be corrected to read that he had re- | signed as an officer in the Sunset | Beach Association as of December 7. David Price also moved to change | the minutes of January 2 to read accept Project 70 frcm Lehman Township Four Sixteen-Year Olds Escape Sudden Death Four boys, all sixteen years old, | escaped serious injury Monday afternoon when a two-car collision at 3:50 at Chase sent a car spinning into -a field. The boys were on their way to | Lake-Lehman-Nanticoke game. | and not funds from Project 70. Gosart seconded. Mi. Merrill asked for clarification, and a chance to review his vote, and asked that Alger Shafer, who is hospitalized, be allowed to do the same. Solicitor Jones replied that an absent councilman cannot give | his proxy. Merrill then withdrew his request and asked if he could change his | | vote. The attorney replied, “As you choose.” Fisher, Gosart, Price and! Osko voted “yes” Merrill and! Kocher, “no.” Councilman Merrill then offered | the following resolution — 1. The | appointment of an assistant borough | solicitor effective April 8 be re- | scinded. ' 2. The Committee to ex- pedite Project 70 be specifically em- | powered to retain special counsel | of its choice. 3. That such special | counsel be vested with all powers and duties of borough solicitor as approved by Sections 1116 and 1117 | inter alia of the borough code only! and specifically in relation to Proj- ect 70 in all matters which relafy thereto, including any action or ac- | tions in law or in equity to which | borough council and its officers may | be a party involving any phase or aspect of Project 70 understanding. 4. No legal fees or costs incurred by employment of such special counsel shall be borne or assumed | in whole or in part directly or in| directly by the Borough of Harveys | Lake. The vote was unanimous. Mayor Herman Kern announced he had designated Walbridge Lien- thal in charge of police, Richard | Williams in charge of firemen, and the Daniel C. Roberts Fire Hall as Civil Defense Headquarters. las Kittle, Jefferson Dickinson, andj Lawrence Barnes. Eddy, Dallas RD, 2, and Kittle, Shavertown: RD 5/| were admitted to Nesbitt Hospital. ! Barnes and Dickinson were treated | and released. Frederick and Davis | manned the Kingston Township an- | Driver of the sccond car was, Richard Ide of Dallas RD 4, | Hauler Serves Notice On Garbage, © { have children attending the school | observe the program any | day between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. : be conducted at the senior | tion, | of the retarded children were pres- ent at the meeting. The children are attending the school on Custer | Street in Wilkes-Barre where they receive constant pre-school day care. The function of the school is to properly train these children to be | socially acceptable and to be able to attend special education classes, in the public schools, which are operated by the county. At present, the parents of the two local children are receiving no funds from the Dallas District, and they are unable to continue to fi- the training themselves. Wilkes-Barre, Shickshinny, Hanover Township, Nanticoke and Pittston and those districts are subsidizing their students. Dallas is the only district, at present, not doing so. Board members are encouraged to school Only two out of sixty children enrolled in the program since its establishment have been considered impossible to train. The board is | supposed to take the matter under advisement. Henry C. Moyer and Merle A. Gerdes are moving from the area and therefore turned in their resig- nations: Beard feavichioof Kides ston Township and Garvin Smith of Kunkle were elected by the board to finish the unexpired terms until December of 1973. The vocational-technical school board will meet Thursday to vote on the budget. Mr. LaBerge said that there are openings for teachers in the school. The school is expected to be open by the first day of school in September. The summer recreation program for boys in grades 4 through 12 will and junior high schools and Westmore- land and Dallas Elementary schools. A place in Franklin Township is also needed for the program. Residents of New Goss Manor were present and asked for copies of the minutes of the meetings. Mrs. Stahl informed them that they must put the request in writing. Mr. Leon Odessa, as a spokesman for the New Goss Manor Home Owners’ Associa- asked -if the board could do something about construction crews carrying heavy equipment over their roads. Board members inform- ed him that this was a problem of the Dallas Township Supervisors. Only they can put a lcad limit sign on the roads. photo by Casko Carl Daubert, Dallas, who saw his own doctor. Complications set in when a pick-up truck, attempting to stop before hitting the wrecked cars, overturned. It was set on its wheels and left under its own steam.
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