a reading conference at Misericordia April 18 Tenth: annual reading .con- feence sponsored by the Edu- cation Department of College Misericordia “will be held on campus Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19. Sister: Mary : Noreen RSM. program director, announces the deadline for pre- registra- tion if friday, April 11. General, session on Friday, April 18; at 7:45 p.m. will be entitled *“Childrenese: A Lan- guage for Teachers and Par- ents.” Featured will be Eliza- beth Taylor, MS, MA, doctoral candidate at Yeshiva Univer- . sity. She is an associate of the internationally known Dr. Haim Ginott, " who wrote the best seller, ‘‘Between Parent and Child: Opening session: the next morning = will feature ‘‘The Neurology - of Dyselexia,’”’ starting at 9:15. Speakers will be Dr. Arthur H. Kenney. opthalmologist-in-chief at the Wills Eve Hospital and Research og Dr. Milford E. Barnes, dirid®or of the Children’s Service Center, Wilkes-Barre: and Dr. George J. O’Donnell, Wilkes-Barre pediatrician. A panel discussion = on Dyslexia and Reading Orders will .include Dr. Keeney, Dr. Bes; Dr. O'Donnell; Edith Mantz of the Wilkes-Barre City Schools: and Sister M. Alice Louise, RSM, chairman of the: College Misericordia Department of Education. Discussion chairman will be Dr. Virginia T. Keeney, project coordinator’ for the National Conference on Dyslexia, Phil- adelphia. A demonstration of “Creative Dramatics for the Elementary Schools” will feature Dr. Lillian Broome, Millersville State College. “Role of Creative Literature in Teacher Reading’ will be by Mrs. Marjorie Hernandez, Weston Woods Studios, Weston, Conn. | “Values: Are They Your Thing?’ will feature a dem- onstration in guidance for teachers of junior high school students by Margaret Paye, Ed. M., doctoral candidate at the University of Rochester. A kindergarten workshop, ‘How to Motivate Kindergarten | Children Through Play,” will have Richard K. McGhee of Creative Playthings, Research Center, Princeton, N.J. “Developing Study Skills in the Secondary Schools’’ will be . discussed by Sister Mary Veronice, OSF, Maria Regina College, Syracuse, N.Y.; “The Neurologically Impaired Child, — Characteristics and Educa- tion,”” will be demonstration in special education by Sister Monica Marie Reichmuth, RSM, and Sister Maureen Gaffney, RSM, of the St. Maurice Day School, Potomac, Md. “Starting Tomorrow: Dem- onstrations of Reading Tech- niques’ will be by Edward R. Cassidy of The Ealing Corpora- tion, Cambridge, Mass. “The Small-Group Encounter in Education — Sensitivity Techniques and Evaluation” will feature the Rev: Clifford Laube, SMM, director of the Montford House in Litchfield, Conn. =n We at UGI care about Wyoming Valley! We've been a significant force in its growth and progress for more than half a century. Down through the years, UGI has invested more than $32 million in plant and. facilities to keep pace with, and to encourage, the valley's dynamic growth. This year alone, we will invest $3.6 million to expand and modernize our facilities. This is an investment not only for today, but also for the HOME IMPROVEMENT pi, QEIONUTIENT 9k A LET us HELP You! If you're adding on a room, putting in a new heat- ing system, installing new plumbing or wiring, or making any other major home improvement, let us help you with a home-improvement loan. Member E.D.1.C, The Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre The Landmark Bank Since 1829 Offices: Gateway Shopping Center = Plymouth — Exeter Shavertown — Tunkhannock — Shickshinny salfidh “YankowskKi, | ake-Lehman Pictured above are members of the Lake-LLehman Band Spon- sors who have worked to make it possible to send the band to Washington, D.C. on April 11 and 12 to participate in the Cherry Blossom Festival, to Serburne, N.Y., June 7 and to supply band members with new hats for these occasions and to fulfill other needs of the Band. Shown from left to right, 1st row: John Zaleskas, assistant supervising principal; Henry vice-president of Band Sponsors; Clinton Myers, representative of Frank Martz Coach Company, in whose buses the band will travel to Washington; Anthony Marcha- kitus, principal ; Albert Ashton, Band Sponsors president; Mrs. Stephen L. DeBarry, publicity chairman; Mrs. Carl Swanson, treasurer ; Mrs. Gilbert Tough, secretary, and Mrs. Cletus Hol- comb, corresponding secretary. Second row: Mrs. Floyd PACKED SPECIAL SAT. future of this valley. Who cares about Wyoming Valley? UGI cares. WED.—THURS.—FRI.—SAT. APRIL 9, 10, 11, 12 AT 2:15 P. M. AND 8:15 P. M. MATINEE 10:15 A. M. Group reservations & reserved seats only THE DALLAS POST, Wolfe, Mrs. Ronald Spencer, Mrs. Sidney Fielding, Mrs. Riving Ashton, Mrs. Robert Williams, Mrs. Edward Niez- goda, Mrs. David Eddy, Mrs. Joseph G. Kernag and Mrs. Sheldon Ehret. Third row: Mrs. Charles Gensel, Mrs. Allen M. Kitchen, “Mrs. Michael Gutch, Mrs. Floyd Hoover, Mrs. Burton Gordon, Mrs. Albert Ashton, Mrs. Thomas Jones and Mrs. Avis Kocher. Fourth row: Mrs. Ambrose Salansky, Mrs. William J. Hill, Mrs. Frank M. Kravabloski, Mrs. Richard Culver, Mrs. Theodore Reed and Mrs. Wil- liam Calkins. Fifth row: » Irving Ashton, Floyd Wolfe, Richard Culver and Sheldon Ehret. John Miliauskas is Band Director. Chaperones for the trip are Mrs. Holcomb, Mrs. Reed; Mrs. Gutch, Albert Ashton and Ed- ward Niezgoda, representatives of the Band Sponsors, and Miss Hore formes The Brand New 1969 Hamid- Morton REM SHRINE iw: KINGSTON ARMORY “z action QLIOW DAYS | 2 Hr. Show — 25 Thrilling Acts Tickets Now The Boston Store, Aon Saturday Sponsors. will Reserved Seats $2.60 and $2.00 on Sale at Irem Temple Box Office, Gateway Shopping Center, Kingston, Sponsored by Uniformed Units of Irem Temple 1969 MARCH 27, Jane Morris, John Zaleskas and John Miliauskas from the high school staff. ; Sizeable donations sufficient to pay for the four buses on which the Band members will travel to Washington were re- ceived from the U.G.I. Corpora- “tion, Commonwelath Telephone Co., Dallas Rotary, J. Henry Pool and Whitesell Brothers. Buses will leave the high school Friday at 7 a.m. with boarding to take place at 6:30. ~Box lunches will be taken by those leaving Friday. One bus will depart from the high school at 4 a.m. Band provide fruit drinks to be distributed to Band members at the conclusion of the parade on Saturday. There will be a concert Friday at 5 p.m. and a parade Saturday at 11 a.m. It was announced that plastic raincoats and hat covers have been purchased by the Band Sponsors and will be distributed Wilkes-Barre, and Singer Company, CORPORATION Band ready for trip to Band members. New hats will be received by March 31. An allotment was approved with which new gold jackets will be. purchased for dance band members. The record which the Band recently made will be on sale in two weeks. They may be purchased from any member of the Band or Band Sponsors or at the door during the con- cert performances on Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3. Chances on a 23” colored television set, a tape recorder, a portable stereo phonograph and a transistor radio are now being sold by band members and sponsors and junior in- strumental students. These items will be awarded at the Concert performance on May 2. Mrs. Ambrose Salansky re- ported that 790 hoagies had been made and sold on March 18. The next hoagie sale will take place Tuesday, April 15. Director Miliauskas reported that the Band will participate in the Loyalth Day Parade to be held in’ Nanticoke Saturday, {1 Apr il 26. i The $Ee6nd" ‘paper “drive is” Wow in Progress, “With collection * to be ‘made’ the' weekend of May 10. All paper products will be acceptable. It is asked that all papers, magazines, etc. be tied into bundles for ease in handling. For further informa- tion, contact Mrs. Albert Ash- ton. The next regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 15 at the high school at 7:30 p.m. wet soil - Don’t let: a few ‘warm days rush vou into the garden while the soil is still too wet to work, caution extension ‘horticultur- ists.at The Pennsylvania State University. Working wet soil puddles it" and when dried out, it may stay hard all summer By D. A. WATERS The Yankee possession did not last. Only a month later on Jan. 18, 1771, Amos Ogden re- turned to the Valley with about 100 men and erected a fort on the River bank in plain sight of Fort Durkee, only about 2000 feet distant. He named it Fort Wyoming. A marker now stands on the River Common at North- ampton Street and a model is exhibited by the Historical So- ciety. About Jan. 20 there was an armed encounter between Og- den’s men and Stewart’s Yan- kees. Later Ogden claimed there had been a parley called. Stewart said that Ogden had at- tacked Fort Durkee. The result was that Nathan Ogden, brother of Amos, was killed and three Pennamites were wounded. Seeing no chance of holding the fort against the superior force of Ogden, that night Ste- wart and his men slipped out to the woods. Next day Ogden captured the fort and the few Yankees left and sent them to Easton. The governor of Pennsyl- vania charged Stewart with the death of Nathan Ogden, on top of all the other crimes he was charged with, and offered a re- ward of 300 pounds for hiscap- ture. About July 6, Zebulon Butler and Stewart with about 150 Yankees surrounded Fort Wyo- ming and besieged it with full military preparation. Entrench- ments were thrown up around the fort on three sides and a force, posted across_the river “to prevent escape by water. ‘The bésieged became desperate bfor food! On the night of July 12, Ogden tied his clothes with hat on top to a log, to which he attached a long line tied to his wrist. He floated on his back with only his nose above water to breathe, towing the log far in the rear. The sentries fired on the bundle and put several bullet holes through the hat, but did not see Ogden. He escaped overland to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania appropriated 300 pounds for expenses of 100 men under Capt. John Dick to relieve the fort, but only 36 started out with supplies for the full hundred. Arriving in the Valley July 30, they were ambushed, and all the horses and supplies and nearly half the men captured. Twenty- ‘two, including Ogden and Dick, entered the fort without sup- PAGE Thee Wyoming Valley's first 200 years plies, making the food situation worse. For two weeks the Yankees fired on the fort with the old “four - pounder’’ and small arms. It was surrendered Aug. 15, 1771. William Ridyard, a Pennamite, was killed and several wounded. Another re- lief force of 100 men was only about ten miles off, but Ogden did not know it. When Ledlie arrived with the relief - force, he reported the Yankees in control and was ordered back. The Yankees had undisturbed possession for four years. The First Penna- mite-Yankee war was over. During the recent fighting, Major Durkee languished in prison in Philadelphia, later came out broken in health. At a meeting of the Company at Hartford, June 2, 1773 he was appointed as one of three ‘‘Di- rectors for the Town of Wilkes- Barre.’ Excepting public claims un- der its ©1662 charter, Con- necticut officially had done nothing to help the Yankees, but officials and prominent men held shares and promoted both the Delaware and Sus- quehanna Companies. The Con- necticut Governor had replied to proclamations ‘and letters issued by the governor of Penn- sylvania. Lawyers had gone to London for a decision and had no re- sults but at least once the En- glish government ordered no more Connecticut settlements during the dispute, which the Yankees ignored. Some prominent Yankees made “several “efforts ‘to ar- ‘range’ a: compromise’ with ‘thei: authorities of "Pennsylvania, * but were unable even to open negotiations. in Thailand Sgt. Keith D. Swisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ames G. Swisher of 240. Church St., Dallas is on duty at Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Sgt. Swisher, an air arma- ment mechanic, is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Force. Before his arrival in Southeast Asia, he served at Eglin AFB, Fla. The sergeant is a 1965 grad- uate of Dallas Senior High School. Harold C. Snowdon ™ WILKES-BARRE 64 North Franklin Street Personal Service _ z 8: mn :, A FAMILY TRADITION FOR OVER 60 YEARS. Shavertown SHAVERTOWN 140 North Main Street Harold C. Snowdon, Jr. 420 Wyoming Avenue Kingston KINGSTON Harold C. Snowdon, Inc. Joseph Nelms, Supervisor S —_—
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers