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N.J. (Nelson) Dymond submitted
his resignation May 5 to Franklin
Twp. Supervisors as (1) a member of
the Franklin Township Zoning
Commission; (2) police officer of the
township, and (3) sewage enforce-
ment officer of the township. All
resignations were effective as of the
May 5 meeting of the supervisors.
Dymond has been serving as a
member of the zoning commission
since its creation several years ago,
and only last month was named
sewage enforcement officer of
Franklin Twp. following receipt of his
certification for the post by the
Department of Environmental
Resources.
Resignation followed differences
over salary for the recently created
post at a special meeting between
Franklin Township Supervisors and
Dymond on Wednesday night, April
30. (See related story on May 10
Franklin Township supervisors
special meeting in the Post.)
Atty. James Reinert, former soli-
citor of Franklin Township, submitted
a bill for $1,500 for services rendered
for work performed in connection with
drafting of the township’s zoning ordi-
nance. The sum requested, according
to correspondence submitted by Atty.
Reinert, is for review of township
maps, meetings and numerous
reviews in drafting the township’s
zoning ordinance. The ordinance was
adopted in April following revisions
and recommendations by the town-
ship’s zoning commission and present
Supervisors expressed surprise at
receipt of the bill for $1,500, as did
A rapidly growing
community forced upon the
citizens of Shavertown in
1925, the necessity of fire
protection other than the
volunteer bucket brigade
which was the only means
of combatting a fire at that
time. It was in May of that
year that the Shavertown
Improvement Association
called a meeting of citizens
for the purpose of forming
a fire fighting organization.
As a result of this
~ meeting, the Shavertown
Chemical Company was
~ formed with Jacob Rau as
* president; Daniel Shaver
as vice-president; Samuel
. Roberts as treasurer; "Al
. Ray as financial secretary;
and Benjamin Hicks,
Luther Majors, Leo Sh-
wartz, Hale Garey, and W.
Hoffman as trustees,
- Among the charter
members were: Albert and
Bernard Bush, Howard
Leek, Howard Ide; Her-
man VanCampen, George
and Henry Shaver, Herbert
Hill, William Brown,
‘William Perrego, Howard
Appleton, and Ross
Williams. Albert Bush was
the first fire chief and
Bernard Bush was the
- first captain.
1) years ago, May 17, 1935
Elmer Kerr, Harveys Lake district
health officer, estimates there are 125
cases of measles in the Back Mount-
ain, in the epidemic sweeping the
state.
Rev. C.H. Frick, prayed last week,
as Huntsville Christian Church
burned their mortgage.
Madge Anderson's Kingston
Township High School girl’s glee club
won second prize last Friday night in
the Luzerne County inter-school con-
test.
The Luzerne Merchants Associa-
tion, at a special meeting this week
decided to abandon daylight saving
time and return to standard time.
Resolutions asking for the retention
of Calvin McHose as principal of
Dallas Borough schools were for-
warded this week to the members of
the board.
The recently organized Post 674,
members of the township’s zoning
commission in attendance, and it was
decided to seek further information as
to enumeration of meetings attended;
dates and other information.
In other action, board named Ed-
ward A. Dorrance, Sr. to the town-
ship’s zoning commission to fill the
vacancy created by the recent
resignation of Ernest A. Gay, Sr.
Board also named Jack Roberts as
civil defense director of the township,
a second post given up in April by Mr.
Gay.
Supervisors made the semi-annual
check of township roads as required
by the township code. Two macadam
roads need repairs and the work will
be authorized. Minutes of the April 10
meeting of the Luzerne County Plann-
ing Commission were received. Resi-
dents of the township are now eligible
for flood insurance, it was announced.
A total of $7,384.18 in funds was re-
ceived from various sources including
$3,502.25 in property tax collections by
Mrs. Glenna Rozelle, township tax
collector; $664.40 in per capita tax
collections; $2,388.71 from the Wilkin-
son Agency as collections of one-half
of one per cent on wage taxes.
Board approved payment of various
bills totaling $5,086.31 from general
township funds salaries of township
road and police department em-
ployees; commissions on tax collect-
ions to the township tax collector and
to the Wilkinson Agency for wage tax
collections. Payment of $800 in legal
fees also was authorized.
Al Bisaglio, who resides in the resi-
dence formerly occupied py Justice of
the Peace John Fowler in Orange,
Plans were immediately
made to buy some kind of
mobile chemical apparatus
to combat fires. Bernard
Bush gave the fire com-
pany a Winton chassis
which was equipped with
chemical fire fighting
equipping supplied by
American La France
Company at a cost of
$1,058.40, which money was
raised by pledges from
people residing in the
community. Howard Ide
painted the new truck and
on Oct. 10 the new equip-
ment was tested and
paraded through the
community. In 1927, the
Winton | chassis was =
replaced by a Fisher
chassis.
The organization is
maintained through
membership dues, annual
fund drive and bazaar.
At the present time the
company has three trucks
which include; a 1954
Pirsch Pumper, a 1962
Chevrolet Tanker, and a
1972 Ford Pumper.
The fire house which
serves as a meeting place
and houses the fire fighting
equipment, was the first all
electric fire house in this
area. It was built to replace
American Legion, which has as its
members World War I veterans from
this area, will award a prize to the
school student who suggests the best
name for the post.
Deaths - J.B. Hildebrant, Dallas
and Greenfield Long, Shavertown.
You could get--Green cabbage or
leaf spinach, two pounds, 19 cents;
lettuce, two heads, 15 cents; a bitter
sweet chocolate layer cake, 43 cents;
mushrooms, 12 cents a can; half a
pound of tea and six glasses, 39 cents
and six portions of Gruyere cheese, 29
cents.
30 years ago - May 18, 1945
Franklin Township Honor Roll, with
more than 70 names, will be dedicated
on the Orange School ground, Sunday
afternoon.
Pvt. James Oliver, Jr. has returned
to Camp Pickett, Va. where he will
undergo further hospitalization after
spending the past 30 days with his
complained of the manner in which
school buses owned by the Emmanuel
interests were parked in the area,
stating the parked buses obstructed
traffic. Bisaglio also questioned board
members on the duties of Police Chief
Richard Bartholomew. Bisaglio told
the board he has missed Police Chief
Bartolomew’s presence on police
patrol at various hours of the night
and day.
(continued from PAGE ONE)
similar resolution to go ahead with the
filing of necessary forms to proceed
with alterations to Westmoreland
Elementary School with new heating
and electrical installation given first
priority.
Five persons were approved as
substitute library aide emplyees; four
as substitute cafeteria employees,
and three as substitute teacher-
playground aides.
The following professional em-
ployees were approved as chaperones
for the senior class trip to William-
sburg, Va., from May 20 to 22: Mrs.
Margaret Johnson, Mrs. Helen
Hughes, Mrs. Dorothy Moran, John
Turner, Jay Pope, and Edward
Potera.
The board is taking under ad-
visement the recommendation to
dispense with final exams and will
give a definite decision on May 28. In
the meantime, faculty members were
advised to prepare final exams, and
students attending the meeting were
advised to study for exams.
the old building on Main
Street, which was razed to
make way for the new Back
Mountain Lumber and Coal
Company building which
was destroyed by fire on
Sept. 7, 1961. The fire house
was built by Back Moun-
tain Lumber and Coal
Company in an unusual
gesture of community good
will in return for the land
now used as a drive way
between the two buildings.
The fire house was
constructed at a cost of
Taking
by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
One of the many mysteries I have
found increasingly fascinating is the
method of the flow of words from one
to another. A young man whom I knew
was often given to expressing some
fruitful idea and I could almost see the
wheels turning in his think-factory
above his ears. I used to like to help
him get started so he could find what
an inspiration a give-and-take sort of
conversation could become. I liked to
watch a line of thought hatch! I gave
him a suggestion which he took to
readily: he would take a little note-
book to the barn with him and when an
of it, or part of it, and jot it down in his
little idea-book. Later on, when we
would have a kind of ‘‘open evening’,
he would pull that little notebook from
his pocket and the rest of us learned to
watch patiently for what would come
out.
Sometimes one is startled at how
far a little question can lead one. The
other evening we had some company
come in. One was a minister, and he
had hardly got seated when he asked
me a leading question: ‘‘How did you
get along in your reading of that big
book you got at the Council of Chur-
ches annual meeting a year ago?’
Well, that got me started. Before tell-
ing him much I produced the big thick
book in the blue binding and opened to
the title page and handed it to him.
TALKS
That in itself would call for an excla-
mation for the bookplate is a work of
art. It is hand-lettered by a friend of
our Council Administrator, beauti-
fully done in two colors. Before I knew
what was happening, he was showing
not only the lettering but some of the
Greek words inside to his father-in-
law, explaining some of the peculiar-
ities of the Greek letters. Well, that
just got us going, for here was a man
who knew the Greek, and before long
he was reading aloud to me passage
after passage as I would call out
references to him. I got out my cane
and directed him to the place in the
23rd Psalm where it says (in Greek)
“Thy rod and thy staff’ and 1
thumped the floor with my cane! And
continuing I said “They comfort me’’,
then directed him ! to the fortieth
chapter of Isaiah (only in this book it
is spelled Esaias), and right away he
was quoting where it says ‘“‘Comfort
ye, comfort ye, my people’. For I
related the comfort of the ‘‘rod and
staff’’ to a word we are familiar with
as ‘‘paraclete’’ in its phonetic pronun-
ciation, as the one Christ refers to as
‘another Comforter’, the Holy Spirit
who came to take Jesus’ place as the
supreme Comforter of his followers
after his own departure.
And here we were reading Greek in
the Old Testament! And that led
further; I went to my study and
brought out another large book and
laid it across his lap. It was my New
Testament in Greek and English in
the form of a looseleaf notebook -- long
ago I gave a speech somewhere on
“Looseleaf Notebooks are My Hob-
by'’. He opened that up and saw how
the Greek and English are in parallel
columns; it is the Todays English
Version which many people enjoy,
published by the American Bible
Society. Well, my friend was having
the time of his life looking through
some of those 31 pamphlets of the New
Testament bound in a large. 3-ring
notebook. 4
I was pleased the way he read the -
Biblical Greek in the pronunciation to
which 1 have been accustomed for
sixty years. He read it well. It almost
made me feel that Biblical Greek was
a more popular theme than I thought
possible, for seldom do I run across
anyone who ‘‘bothers’ with it.
I began this column by pointing out
how the very following of one idea
leads one into many kindred words
and studies. And here it lead us into
many fields of New Testament and
religious experiences. If you, for in-
stance, look up in the dictionary one
definition and then look up all the
words contained in that definition,
well, you'll be gone on a long trip into
the land where ideas are born or
manufactured.
more than $30,000 and
contains a three stall
garage to house the fire
aparatus and the Kingston
Twp. Ambulance.
A charter was granted to
the fire co. in 1926 and in
July of 1930 Shavertown
Fireman’s Relief Ass. was
granted a charter.
The present officers
include President, Ken
Beisel, Vice-President, Joe
Balavage, Secretary, Mike
Youngblood, Treasurer,
Joe Brenan, Chief, Ted
family here in Dallas.
Two Noxen brothers, who enlisted
in the service in 1943 are now serving
at separate parts of the globe, M1-C
James Wyant is in the Marshall
Islands and Sgt. Elmer Wyant is in
Europe.
An out of town salesman visiting
Dallas for the first time this week,
commented on the cleanliness of the
borough streets.
..Deaths--William Phillips (in ac-
tion): Robert Girvan, Dallas, (in
action): Dominick Detter, Dallas.
Engaged - Mary Sink to Harold W.
Belles.
Married - Jayne Sickler and John
Switzer.
Playing at local theatres-‘‘The
Dough Girls,” with Ann Sheridan,
Jane Wyman, Jack Carson and Alexis
Smith; and ‘Comin Around the
Mountain,’ with Gene Autry.
You could get - Cleanser, two cans
for 15 cents; saltines, a pound
package, 17 cents; a pint of floor wax,
25 cents; eight ounces of orange pekoe
tea, 35 cents and fresh shad, 25 cents a
pound.
20 years ago, May 20, 1955
——
HAST A
Independent Republican candidates
for county office made a clean sweep
of it in Tuesday’s Primary Election in
the Back Mountain area.
Lehman- Jackson-Ross baseball
team remains undefeated at the half-
way mark of the spring season having
won five straight games. Pitcher Paul
Malak has won three.
Jerry R. Miers, Dallas, has just re-
turned from a two week naval cruise
aboard the destroyer escort U.S.S.
Allen from Kingston, Jamaica.
Dallas-Franklin seniors left
Monday for their annual trip to New
York. Edgar Hughes and Robert Dol-
bear, class advisors, accompanied the
group.
Chief Edgar Hughes has warned
will intensify the current drive
against fast and heedless driving.
Folks who own cemetery lots in the
Beaumont cemetery and their neigh-
bors and friends are asked to report at
the cemetery tomorrow to help with
the annual Memorial Day clean-up.
Lt. Cmdr. John C. Bush, Dallas and
Chief Richard M. Castanos, Shaver-
town, are among the hosts for the
open house of the U.S. Naval Reserve
Training Center in Kingston set for
Saturday.
Mrs. Norma F. Patton has been
elected vice-president of the Pennsyl-
vania League of Women voters.
Engaged - Elizabeth Ann Griffiths
to Theodore Hinkle, Mary Crook to
James B. Huston, Barbara Ann Davis
to Francis George Schreiner.
Married - Marion Miller and
Richard Searfoss.
Deaths -
Dallas; John Maynard, Hunlock
Creek: Alverda Dodson, Hunlock
Creek; Henry Fronzoni, Trucksville
and Marvin E. King, Loyalville.
Playing at local theatres--“The
Barefoot Contessa’’, with Humphrey
Bogart and Ava Gardner and ‘‘A Man
Called Peter’’, with Richard Todd and
Jean Peters.
You could get - Sweet corn, six large
ears, 29 cents; raisin, lemon or peach
pie, 39 cents; cracker jacks, six pack-
ages, 27 cents; marshmallows, 33
cents a pound and ice cream, 79 cents
a half gallon.
10 years ago, May 20, 1965
Sgt. Michael L. Houston, Fern-
brook, is with the United States
Special Forces in Viet Nam.
Newcomb, assistant chiefs,
Tom Dorosky, Bill
Youngblood, and Larry
Hourigan, Captain Ed
Carey, and Lieutenant,
Arnold Yeust, Sergeant-at-
arms, Bill Rinehiner.
A ladies auxiliary to the
fire company was formed
in February of 1934. The
ladies auxiliary’s first
officers were Mrs. George
Prater, president, Mrs.
H.A.
vice-
Mrs.
second
Candidates John LaBerge, Harry
Lefko and Earl Eritzges all won slots
on the November ballots for school
board.
A tea was held in honor of Mrs.
Freda Hughey, by the PTA of the
Westmoreland School, on her retire-
ment at the end of the school term.
Kim Roddy won four first prizes in
the Dallas High field day events this
week.
Lake-Lehman lunches will be raised
to 35 cents for high schoolers and 40
according to Lester B. Squire, super-
vising principal.
Mrs. Gertrude McGlynn Anker and
Mrs. Ecker Tremayne will entertain
at the annual Gate of Heaven Birth-
MERCY HOSPITAL
May 2 - Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Bailey, Box 142,
Harveys Lake, a son.
May 4 - Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Martin, RD 1,
Dallas, a daughter.
WILKES-BARRE
GENERAL HOSPITAL
May 3 - Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Kern, RD 2,
Dallas, a son.
May 2 - Mr. and Mrs.
John Barney, RD 5, Sutton
Road, a son.
NESBITT MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL
May 2 - Mr. and Mrs.
John Gilgallon, RD 5,
Shavertown, a daughter.
president, Mrs. Daniel
Shaver, secretary, Mrs.
George Shaver, treasurer
Mrs. L.T. " Schwart
corresponding secretary.
The fireman have
responded to many caj
through the Back Mourn-
tain. Their record
throughout the years is one
of which any community
would be proud.
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day Tea with selections entitled *‘A
Touch of Broadway, 1965."
Harveys Lake, this week, had the
Department of Health end their em-
bargo on recreational use of thg lake
due to its raw sewage conten
Groundbreaking ceremonies were
held Tuesday for the new Snowdon
Funeral Home in Shavertown.
Engaged - Barbara Ann Bohan to
James Parry.
Married - Elizabeth Ann Johnson
and Ronald F. Balonis.
You could get - Shrimp, 89 cents a
pound; beef liver, 39 cents a pound;
donuts, 25 cents a dozen, potato chips,
49 cents a pound; fruit drink, a 12
ounce can, 9 cents and kosher dill
pickles, 29 cents a quart jar.
May 3 - Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Manzoni, RD 2,
Dallas, a daughter.
May 6 - Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Huey Jr., 129 N.
Pioneer Ave., Shavertown,
a daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
Anthony Ulichney, 164
Hillcrest Ave., Shaver-
town, a son.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Kostrobala, Wyoming
Avenue, Kingston, are the
parents of a daughter,
Kelly, 8 lb. 2 oz., born May
8, at Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital. Mrs. Kostrobala
is the former Marie
Michaels, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Michaels,
‘Edwardsville.