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Area Mail Processing
Begins in Area June 26
Thirty-two associate post
offices with zip code prefix will:
send their mail to Wilkes-Barre:
for more efficient processing, it.
was announced by Jack B.
Pentz, Philadelphia regional
director of the United States
Postal Service.
The move—which will be
launched in phases over a
period of time—will begin June
26. It is an expansion of the
‘‘area mail processing’
program.
Transfer of mail handling
functions will accelerate
movement of the mail out of the
area by making full use of high-
speed equipment at the modern
and spacious Wilkes-Barre
Office.
The six first class post offices
Candidates for state civil
service tests given on a ‘‘daily”’
basis smust apply to the State
Civil @grvice Commission office
at which they wish to be
scheduled for examination.
Commission offices are located
at Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
and Pittsburgh. :
which will become involved in
the program —and the zip codes
which they will retain un-
changed—are Berwick, 18603,
Dallas, 18612, Nanticoke, 18634,
Pittston 18640-44, Plymouth
18651 and Tunkhannock 18657.
Outgoing mails from these
offices will be fully processed at
Wilkes-Barre and postmarked
“U.S. Postal Service PA 186.”
Among the second and third
class offices involved are Falls
18615, Harveys Lake 18618,
Hunlock Creed 18621, Hunting-
ton Mills, 18622, Laceyville
18623, Lehman 18627,
Mehoopany 18629, Meshoppen
18630, Noxen 18636 and Sweet
Valley 18656.
Outgoing mails from these
offices will be postmarked with
the postmark of the local office
and then transferred to Wilkes-
Barre for processing and
dispatch to the delivery destina-
tion.
Every effort will be made to
minimize disruption of em-
ployee work stations and the
proposals are being discussed
with regional and local labor or-
ganizations. No career em-
ployee will lose his job as a
result of mail consolidation.
Originating mail for local
delivery, will continue to be
processed at the local office.
Meanwhile, the associate post
offices involved will retain their
independent status.
Customers in communities
served by the six first class post
offices who desire the postmark
of their local community will be
accommodated. This mail must
be deposited in a specially
marked receptacle at the local
post office.
Customers are cautioned,
however, not to use words such
as city, town, local etc. as part
of the mailing address. The
name of the town or city should
be spelled out.
Customers are encouraged to
include the appropriate zip code
in both the address and the
return address. There will be no
change in the meter indicia for
business mail.
The program, when com-
pleted, will involve the swit-
ching of 62,000 additional pieces
of mail daily into Wilkes-Barre
for processing.
Paulette Stasko to Begin
New Program at Mansfield
Piljlette Stasko, daughter of
Mr. 4nd Mrs. Paul Stasko, 198
Butternut Road, Shavertown, is
one of the first three students at
Mans®eld State College to begin
a new baccalaureate degree
Lake Man Moved
From VA Hospital
Charles Casterline, Harveys
Lake, who has been a patient at
VA Hopsital in Wilkes-Barre for
the past one and a half months,
has been moved to the VA
Hospital in East Orange, N.J.
Mr. Casterline, a World War II
veteran, was transferred when
it became necessary to vacate
the flogr he was on to make
rooin or “feturning Vietnam
servicemen.
Mrs. Casterline and their
childrgn reside at Harveys
Lake'®
Mr. Casterline finds it is quite
lonely being hospitalized where
his family can’t visit often. He is
anxious to hear from friends at:
VA Hopsital, 8th Floor, Ward A,
Room 16, Tremont Avenue,
East Orange, N.J. 07052.
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program to be offered in the
fall, it was announced by Dr.
John H. Baynes, chairman of
the MSC department of music.
Mansfield has received the
approval of the Pennsylvania
Department of Education to
offer a new Bachelor of Music
degree, it has been announced
by Dr. Lawrence Park, MSC
president.
‘‘Major emphasis of the new
baccalaureate degree
program,” Dr. Park said, ‘will
be on performance and will
therefore be limited to ap-
plicants with superior perform-
- ing abilities.”
Miss Stasko, Patricia Hartzell
of Bethlehem, and Linda Smith
of Sayre, were chosen by audi-
tion. All will enter - their
sophomore year in September,
and all are pianists. Miss Stasko
is a graduate of Dallas Senior
High School.
The program will be in ad-
dition to existing programs
leading to the degrees of
Bachelor of Science in music
education and Bachelor of Arts
in music. Certification may be
obtained by taking a fifth year
of work.
Elaborating on the new
Bachelor of Music degree
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program Dr. Baynes, pointed
out:
‘During his first two years in
the progam, each student will
be concentrating in one area of
performance. That area could
be either instrumental or vocal.
During his last two years the
student will have the option
of continuing in the per-
formance area as a major, or of
majoring in either music his-
tory and literature, or in
theory.”
The MSC music department
has a complement of 26 full-
time resident faculty and a
student body of 230 music
majors.
“With the addition of this new
degree program,” Dr. Baynes
said, “Mansfield State College
will be able to provide a
program comprehensive
enough to meet the needs for
higher education in music
throughout a wide area of
Pennsylvania.”
THE DALLAS POST, JUNE 17, 1971
Ens. Scott Fry
Scott A. Fry
Commissioned
At Annapolis
Navy Ensign Scott A. Fry, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fry,
Elmcrest Drive, Dallas, was
commissioned to his present
rank and received a B.S. degree
during graduation ceremonies
at the U.S. Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Md., June 10.
Ens. Fry, a 1967 graduate of
Dallas Senior High School, was
selected to the superintendent’s
list for academic and pro-
fessional excellence at the
Academy.
Carverton Road will
Be Closed to Traffic
Announcement was made this
week by Buck Glime, con-
struction superintendent for
Marona Construction Company,
that Carverton Road,
Trucksville, will be closed
Monday, June 21, through
Friday, June 25, due to sewer
construction. Mr. Glime said
that sewer lines on Carverton
Road below Maple Street, must
still be laid.
Last week Marona began
putting a base coat of ID-2
binder on Carverton Road as far
down as Maple. The base coat,
which is comprised of coarse
materials, is used for strength.
The next paving coat will have
fine material, which provides a
riding (smooth) surface, ac-
cording to the superintendent.
Marona, which does its own
paving, also paved the first two
blocks of Hillside Drive and a
section of Spring Valley Street.
The construction company,
which is based in Colmar, is one
of the contractors for Dallas
Area Municipal Authority’s
sewer project.
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PAGE THREE
Park Was Farm at Turn-of-Century
by Jane Wildoner
(Editor’s note: The following is
the second in a three-part series
depicting life as it was once
lived in the areas surrounding
what is now Moon Lake Park.)
As you travel to Moon Lake
Park, do you wonder what quirk
of fate made the north end of
Hartman Road the spoke in the
wheel (whose hub was Five
Forks) that was destined to
become the main route to Toll
Gate Hill (at Hunlock Creek) to
Ceasetown, or Lake Silkworth,
rather than the spoke that is
now the access road to Moon
Lake Park? Perhaps it was the
United States Post Office
located at Lamoreaux Corners,
alias Dogtown.
Do you wonder, too, what the
jury’s verdict would be today in
the trial of “Cap” Williams? A
Civil War veteran—a little man
who lived and died alone near
Moon Lake—the Captain had
lost a leg in battle and was very
much bullied and harassed by
big, brawny Bill Chapman upon
their every encounter. The
Captain is alleged to have taken
it so long before he told Big Bill
to cease and desist: “Stay off
my property or I'll shoot you,”
warned the Captain.
Big Bill didn’t heed the
Moon Lake Park
Is Officially Open
Moon Lake Park opened
officially June 12, according to
Director Robert Neff. Mr. Neff
announced that all facilities
were in use, with the exception
of the swimming pool, which
will be opened to the public by
June 19.
Campers began signing in as
early as 8 a.m. Saturday
morning. There are ap-
proximately 70 camping sites
available in the 600-acre park,
with an additional 80 sites
planned for the future. A. well-
planned laundry building
houses washing and drying
facilities for campers.
Visitors to the county-owned
park will find a boat marina,
several picnic areas with tables
and grills, fishing facilities, and
other recreational facilities.
‘Director Neff said formal
dedication ceremonies will be
held later in the summer.
warning. He went to Cap’s place
and began his heckling, where-
upon Cap is said to have shot
him in the thigh with a cap and
ball pistol. The bullet never
even touched bone and Big Bill
walked away. He was later
found sitting against a fence
post, deader than a door nail.
He’d bled to death.
The Captain was acquitted of
a murder charge and the judge
is said to have pinned a rose to
Cap’s lapel when he heard the
jury’s verdict.
Cap Williams and Bill
Chapman both lie buried in the
little cemetery located on the
main access road to Moon
Lake. The cemetery is now
sequestered by towering
maples which were mere
saplings when planted by a
lithesome lass, Elsie
Lamoreaux Cease, and a
stripling lad, Gershom B.
The Dallas Post (FAYE BROODY)
Lamoreaux, cousins and native-
born inhabitants of the area.
Little John Van Loon was the
first area native placed at rest
in that cemetery. He was just
six years old when he was
“whipped till he died” by a
teacher in school. It’s no
wonder, really, that a teacher
could become exasperated
enough by the antics of his ob-
streperous students to whip
them—but to death? The
students in those days had the
mischievous habit of really
taking their school apart and
putting it back together again,
log by log, but not necessarily in
the positions for which they
were intended!
Third generation school kids
had their choice of attending
four schools in the area: The
Plymouth Township schools—
either Five Forks (the present
Charles Atherton home) or
White Oak, which was located
on the back road of Moon Lake
Park near the camping area;
the Leonard School in Lehman
Township (the present Charles
Lizdas home), or the Jackson
Township School at Ceasetown
(the present Veitz home). It is
said that inter-school rivalry
did not take place only at
spelling bees, elocution nights
or festivals. If a courier from
one school arrived with a
message from his teacher at a
neighboring school at recess
time, he had to be prepared to
do battle or to run pretty fast—
rocks were the weapons of the
day!
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Of Wedding Stationery
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A Dallas family was the first to register for a camping site at
Moon Lake Park. Thomas B. Howard Jr. and his daughter were
at the park’s registration office when it opened for the first time.
June 12. Mr. and Mrs. Howard, 66 Hilldonia Ave., and three
family members camped in their trailer, enjoying the park’s
many ‘recreational “facilities.
Park Director Robert Neff
reported a number of campers registered on opening day. An
even larger number is anticipated for the coming weekend.
Recently, a waitress interrupted an important business lunch
to question one of our key executives about her bill. He
could have very easily referred her to our business office.
Instead, he took a few minutes to take a few notes concerning
her problem. Later, back at the office, he saw that the
problem was corrected. Unusual? Not at Commonwealth.
All of our employees always keep one thought in mind:
“Pardon me, sir,
I have a problem
with my
telephone bill.”
“Our business is service.”
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