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“Complete Back Mountain News”
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VOL. 82 NO. 28
"Took Privileges"
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1971
Con Artist Stayed at
Two Local Trailer Camps
A man believed to be a flim-flam artist
working in the Back Mountain area was
reportedly staying at two local trailer
camps during the last several weeks.
Descriptions, given by operators of the
trailer camps, seem to be of the same
man, using the same vehicles.
Mrs..aT.M.B. Hicks, Pioneer Avenue,
Dallas, brought an alleged case of fraud
to light last week when she gave a
detailed account of how she paid $370 for
work to be done on the roof of her home.
The roofing job took less than one hour to
complete, and seemed to consist only of
spraying with an aluminum-colored
paint. A receipt she got from the worker
was signed J. Ross.
The alleged fraud was revealed by Mrs.
Hicks as a means of warning other
property owners.
The@wner of a trailer camp on Noxen ,
Road said that a man with a “big pick-up
truck” stayed at his camp for one week
beforeyghe owner told him to “move on’.
“I gave him some privileges, but he
took more,” declared the elderly camp
operator, who prefers to remain
anonymous. ‘He wanted to do some work
for me but I wouldn’t let him.”
The register signed at the trailer camp
indicated the man was from Indianapolis,
Ind. He told the operator he would not be
there long, as he was ‘‘just Staying long |
enough for mail to catch up”
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From this camp, it was believed the
same man went immediately to a camp
on Route 309, near Kunkle. At the second
camp, - told the operator he was a soray
painter with sherwin-Williams and was
working currently for that firm on a job
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J. KOZEMCHAK SR.
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in Kingston. There was a Sherwin-
Williams sign on the side of the green-
colored pick-up truck, according to Mrs.
Gallagher. :
Mrs. Hicks had reported the worker at
"her residence was driving a pick-up truck
with a Sherwin-Williams sign on the side.
A Mr. Pappas at Sherwin-Williams,
Wilkes-Barre, was contacted for the
second time by the Dallas Post. When
told that a B. Gorman or B. Gordan
claimed to be working for the paint firm,
Mr. Pappas categorically denied any
person by either name was employed by
the firm.
At the Route 309 trailer camp, the same
name was signed, but this time the man
used Wisconsin as his place of residence.
However, since he had an Alabama
license tag on his truck, he was asked by
the camp operator about the
discrepancy. He told the operator he had
purchased the truck recently in
Alabama.
There were others with him at this
second camp. He was reported to have a
green pick-up truck, a green panel truck,
a ‘‘brand-new” camper trailer, and a
small black trailer of the type used to
haul motorcycles. He stayed at this camp
one week and said when he left that he
was going to Harveys Lake.
Officials of Consumer Protection
Bureau, Harrisburg, said they do not
have the authority to apprehend and
prosecute ‘“‘fly-by-night’’ operators, even
if there is an outright case of fraud. They
advised that the correct procedure is for
the victim to report the fraud to their
local law enforcement department or to
the district attorney.
This small two-seater plane was forced to land on
. Huntsville Reservoir last Friday afternoon when it
developed carburetor trouble. The craft, a land and
sea plane piloted by Rick Luytjes of Fleetville, took
on water and had to be towed from the reservoir.
Shavertown Latest Area
To Have Water Shortage
Residents of the Ridge: Street area,
Shavertown, are the latest to experience
water shortages in the Back Mountain.
Almost every section of various Back
Mountain communities has been ham-
pered at one time or another this summer
by lack of water or low water pressures.
Albert Prisk, general manager of
Dallas and Shavertown Water Compan-
ies, reported Still Water Co., a pro-
prietorship of Shavertown Water Co.is
responsible for the water system in the
affected area. A well near Ridge Street
has gone dry, according to Mr. Prisk. He
said some 62 consumers of Still Water
were without water, but the situation was
remedied when valves connecting the
affected company and Shavertown Water
Co. were opened.
One consumer was still without water
Tuesday, said Mr. Prisk, but was getting
water by truck, provided by the water
company.
The general manager said the com-
pany is reactivating an old well in the
Fernbrook area, and letting the dry well
stand for the present.
‘Biological tests of the old well were
taken and reported good. A chemical
analysis is expected by today, and as
soon as it is received, we can start pump-
ing,”’ said Mr. Prisk.
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DALLAS, PA.
J. KOZEMCHAK SR.
PHONE 675-5211
Net May Reach $25 Thousand .
Auction Calle
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FIFTEEN CENTS
Light showers and cool weather did not daunt these
hardy bidders at the Library Auction Sunday af-
ternoon. The three-day auction grossed over $28,000
and profits may:total as much as $25,000.
a Success:
Receipts at $28 Thousand
The party’s over—and what a party it
was! The 25th Annual Back Mountain
Memorial Library Auction concluded
Sunday night, and when the chits had all
been accounted for, the cash collected
and the receipts totalled, Auction
Chairman John Casner could scarcely
refrain from kicking up his heels and
letting out a whoop of glee: The auction
had grossed over $28,000!
There are still bills to be paid, of course,
but Chairman Casner says he’s deter-
mined to give the $25,000 goal he’d set
earlier “a real run for the money.” If
auction profits hit the magic $25,000
mark, the silver auction will have been
the most successful in its 25-year history.
With the exception of intermittent
showers Sunday afternoon, the weather
couldn’t have been finer. Friday af-
ternoon it poured in Wilkes-Barre,
Kingston and Nanticoke—but nary a drop
of rain fell in Dallas! Saturday was warm
and sunny, with fluffy white clouds
scudding across bright blue skies. The
sun broke through again late Sunday
afternoon, and if the temperatures
Sunday night were more reminiscent of
October than July, at least it didn’t rain.
It was a successful endeavor in vir-
tually every way. Rarely had the auc-
tioneers been in finer fettle, coaxing bids
higher and higher with a masterful
combination of banter and determination
(Auctioneer John Vivian, voice rasping,
sold a stuffed deer’s head to Veterinarian
R.C. Post for $11 and then quipped: “The
Doc’s gonna make him better!”’).
Bids on many items sailed higher than
the helium-filled balloons set free by
children. Antiques especially brought
handsome prices: a bee hive paperweight
sold for $105, a pair of colbolt cut-to-clear
vases commanded $95, the tulip wood
jelly cupboard brought $205.
Items laced with sentimental value
added nostalgic warmth to the auction.
The Ithaca Calendar Clock which sold for
$4 at the first auction in 1946 and was
returned for re-sale at the 20th (for $104),
found still another home with Ronald
Porter of Gaithersburg, Md., a young
man who had attended college in Ithaca.
He paid $305 for the clock this time
around.
Several pieces of glassware from the
estate of Howard and Myra Risley,
supporters of the very first and sub-
sequent library auctions, were sold for
top prices. Two exquisite Chinese soap
stone book ends given by Mrs. T. M. B.
Hicks to Mrs. Risley and donated to the
Rescue Crews
Because of a gift from the late Howard
and Myra Risley, the Dr. Henry M. Laing
Fire Co. and Dallas Community Am-
bulance may have new quarters within
the foreseeable future.
Property at the corner of Machell
Avenue and Route 415 was donated
outright to the two local organizations by
Mr. and Mrs. Risley, former publishers
of the Dallas Post. Deed to the property
was recorded July 12.
auction following Mrs. Risley’s death
earlier this year were sentimental
favorites of old-time auction-goers.
There were still good ‘‘deals’’ to be had,
especially if the buyer happened to need a
bathinette (two bits), roly-poly puppy ($1
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Receiveland
A house, which stands on the property,
has been rented to a tenant for one year.
Members of the volunteer groups plan
someday soon to raze the structure,
grade the land, and build new quarters.
This to be done within the next couple of
years, if possible.
Both organizations would have to agree
on the structure’s plans, but one matter
they have already agreed to is that a
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If it. had been a whale, Arthur M. wouldn’t have
been more pleased. The two-pound rainbow trout
was caught while Arthur, a Fresh Air Fund guest at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bomboy, was
fishing at Sugar Hollow (the youngster is presently
trying to devise a way to take the fish back to New
York City with him—any ideas, anyone?)