Two burglars were confront- ed by the owner in the living room of a Pallas Borough home last wee did fled without tak- ing anything. Joseph Losh. 191 Huntsville Road, Dallas, heard noises in his living room, Oct. 3, and entered it to find two men attempting to remove his air ‘conditioner. One fled through the front door; the other pushed Mr. Losh aside and fled through the side door. Mr. Losh was able to place the men as being in their twenties, wearing ‘‘greasy clothes” and clodhoppers. Investigation by Dallas Borough police chief Ray Titus revealed that the men had first attempted to enter the house they broke a pane of glass. Un- able to get in the front, they went to the back door, where wood away’ trying to get in, ac- cording to Chief Titus. Failing window and entered the coal bin of the house. They broke down the coal bin door and entered the. living room by way of the cellar steps. It was their activity in that room that woke Mr. Losh. The borough chief called in the Pennsylvania State Police. Their fingerprinting division could find only greasy, smudged fingerprints. The investigation is contin- uing. Wyoming Seminary will hold its annual Homecoming-Pa- rents! Day Oct. 27 on the Kings- ton Campus. Highlighting - the day-long event. which features activities for students, alumni, taculty and parents. will be the crowning of the homecoming queen during half-time activi- ties at the football game; Students, will kick off the event ve evening with the tradition®* bon fire and pep rally at Nesbitt Field. The four campus societies which are rep- resented by a candidate tor the title of homecoming queen. will begin setting up their displays that evening, An-award for the best display will also be pre- sented during half-time at the foothall game. Stephen. B. Killian is this year's chairman. Assisting him are Joseph PP. Sindaco. Richard Wo Snowdon. Mrs. Jule Ayers. Mrs. Carl Arbogast Jr., Mrs. Michael Greenwald and Mich- acl Greenwald. Saturday morning will fea- wre individual parent-teacher conlerences, 8:45-9:30, and a miniclass schedule Y:45-11:45. which provides an opportunity lor parents of students current- Iy enrolled at the West Side prep school to. attend abbreviated following their child's normal day. The homecoming committee. accompanied by the sociely's candidates, will judge the dis- plays at 11:30 a.m. A special meeting for all pa- vents will follow. ¢overing a Pa- rents’ Association briefing with Charles B. Kanarr, president of the association: a college plan- ning discussion: and a review of the newly instituted trimester system. Luncheon for all visi- tors will he served in the Fleck dining roony at 12:45 p.m. The homecoming football game against The Williamson School will begin: at 2:30 p.m. Ifollowing the game an informal reception will be held in the Swetland Hall lounges. ' Rounding off the day's events will be the student sponsored United Way Dinner at 6:30 p.m. The homecoming dance will be held 8:30-11:30 p.m. classes. * president. The Rev. William J. Kearney, director of the Wyoming Valley Catholic = Youth Center, has announced the annual member- ship campaign's closing date has been’ extended to Oct: 26 at noon ‘for parish reports. The concluding report meeting will be Oct. 28 at 7. according to Kevin O'Connor, drive chair- man. Registrations for all youngsters in ‘the CYC junior” programs will be held Oct. 20 and Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Basketball teams in the biddy. junior, and new teenage division should register players now. for membership so the parishes will receive credit towards their quota in the drive. The leagues get under way late in November and “all~‘team players and cheerleaders are to be mrembers-of the center. += First report’ meeting of the drive was held last Wednesday at the center and majority of the parishes have not put on the big push for membership which enables them to attain their quotas in all sections of Rev. Kearney ' told workers in attendance it is their duty to tell the story of the CYC to the participating parishes. He said they have the en- thusiasm to sell the product and indicated by their presence they are vitally interested in the future of the youth of the region. Joseph Pringle, endowment chairman, said over 400 letters had been sent to firms and in- dividuals asking them to aid the endowments which make memberships possible to needy youngsters without the means to purchase them. Some $1,200 was reported in the endowment phase at the initial session. Family memberships may children. The high school quotas have been dropped, and all teen memberships will be credited to the parishes. Membership quota should be attained through individual and family memberships. Parish toward parish quota only if the endowment is given within the same parish. Miscellaneous endowments and Century Club memberships will not be distributed to parishes, and the parishes are urged to work for individual parish success. Anthony J. English Jr. associate director of the center, is working with the director in telling the CYC story to children of the elementary and high school grades of Wyoming Valley. CYC is an agency of the United Way. Page 3 Michael Klug, a student of the fifth grade in the Dallas Inter- mediate School, and Eddie Chesnovitch, a sixth grade student in the Lehman Elementary School, are the grand prize winners of the Back Mountain Firemen’s Associa- held in conjunction with National Fire Prevention Week, ‘Oct. 7-Oct. 13. The two youngsters will receive $25 The association also chose a Candidates Night Set for Jr. High The residents of the Dallas School District are invited to a “Meet Your School Board Can- didates Night” in the Dallas Junior High School auditorium, Oct. 18. at 8 p.m. Alter each candidate has pre- sented his views on education and the reasons for his can- didacy. time will be provided for the audience to ask ques- tions. Refreshments will be served al the end of the program. Walter Glogowski® and Ruth P. Ambrose are co-chairmen of the program’s planning com- mittee. The committee repre- sents the Dallas Education Association. winning poster from each of the homerooms in grades one through six in ‘the Dallas and Lake-Lehman schools. Each winner received certificates. Members of the firemen’s association were judges. Winners were announced at their Oct. 10 meeting. Dallas area. homeroom winners were: first, John Kutz; second, Susan Taylor, Kay St. Clair, Laurice Casaday, Mike Lundy and Molly Brown; third, Chris Dombeck, Teddy Price, Kevin Feeny and Tammie Ann Hons; fourth, Kathy Cominsky, Patricia Topolewski, Kenny Jeanette Rife, and Jacqueline Lancio: Fifth, Betty Jane Smith, Peggy Elston, Peggy Jean Cobleigh, Jody Lowery, Scott Enslen, Michael Klug, Susan Lauth, Linda Shaw, Terry Griffith, Christine Kravits. Rich Whiting, James Blair, Lisa Didyk, Sandra .Moore and Laura Reese; Sixth, John Feher, Mark Whittle, Tina Perugini, Pier Didyk, Michael Kubasti, Willard ~~ Rinehimer, Amy Cornell, Karen Brace, Suzie Allen, David Niedjaca, Alice Baloga, Rita Bagnick, Pete Kwastavich, Jean Mihal, Diane Wendling, Bonnielyn Vail and Janice Hislop. Gate of Heaven homeroom winners, whose posters were included in the Dallas area competition, were: first, Pamela Solinski; second, Julie Napieralski; third, Connie John and Heather Gless; fourth, William Scrutski and Patricia Michael: fifth, Ann Devlin and Lisa Gryskewicz; sixth, Robert Zukosky and David Schimmel- busch. Lake-Lehman winners of certificates were: first, Eric Toluba, Dale Belles, Crystal Barber and Brian Daum; second, Brad Hontz, Brenda Major. Lynn Rynkiewicz and Ray Wandel; third, Lenny Robey, Richard Goodwin, Susan Nicols, Timmy Harvey, Janice Brome and Eric Masters; ! Fourth, Tracy Anne Turner, Kelly Strait, Chip Austin, Susan Wilson, Janet Desorno, John Solomon and Pamela Janiczek; fifth, Donald Kocker, Debbie Romanski, Penning Bonning and Susan Jones, sixth, Toni Pall, Boyd: Fenner, Sheila Husted, Kippie Steele, Mitchell Sarkowski and Eddie Chesnovi- tch. The president of the Back Mountain Firemen’s Associa- tion, Harold Darrow, an- nounced the winners at the Oct. 10 meeting of the association. people. November 6th. 7
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