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40 years ago, October 25, 1935
Peter D. Clark, Dallas Councilman,
was named this week as a member of
the committee which will demand
discontinuation of alleged favoritism
in the placing of men on relief projects
for unemployed.
An attempt to remove one of the
minority members of the Dallas
Borough School Board was begun this
week, through petitions.
Frank Bulford, the last remaining
member of the 52 charter signers for
Dallas Borough, celebrated his 80th
birthday by playing host to scores of
friends and relatives, Sunday.
Dallas Borough Chief of Police
Leonard O'Kane is checking into an
extortion note demanding ‘‘The
payment of $5’ and threatening in-
jury to members of a local family this
week and expects to make an arrest
shortly.
Lee Tracy, whose new vehicle,
“Bright Star”, closed recently after a
short run on Broadway, already has a
number of offers for new
engagements, according to his
mother, Mrs. W. L. Tracy of-
Shavertown.
Engaged--Ruth. Hoffman to Robert
Shotwell.
Married--Dorothy Beisel and Wesley
S. Moore; Marcella A. Krieger and
James L. Casterline and Freda
Daubert and Floyd Neeley.
Deaths--Mrs. Russell Achuff,
Shavertown: Ziba E. Casterline,
Wyoming; Donald Rood; Harveytown
and Amandda Hartman, Hunlock
Creek.
You could get-Pumpkin, three big
cans, 25 cents; sliced minced ham, 19
cents a pound; sliced bacon, 39 cents a
pound; Scot towels three rolls, 25
cents; baking powder, eight cents a
half pound and dromedary dates, two
packages 25 cents.
30 years ago, October 26, 1945
T-5 Clifford ‘‘Bud’’ Davis of
Idetown, stationed on Saipan has
named his huge B-52 Bomber for his
four year old niece, Janet E. Rinken,
daughter of Seaman and Mrs. Al
Rinken of Idetown.
Howard Hendricks, supervising
has
Mountain Athletic Association,
comprised of representatives of all
schools in the area.
Atlantic Richfield Refining Com-
recognition of the tenth anniversary
of the United Nations, the tree, a
Norwegian spruce was donated by the
PTA.
presently a ‘“‘milk man” for the Dallas
pany will soon make considerable,
changes to its property on Main
Street, according to James Besecker,
area manager.
The inconspicuous box near the
checkers’ station in the Acme Market,
Dallas, was placed there to receive
gifts of baby food for the starving
children of Latvia, Lithuania, White
Russia and Bessarabia.
Parrish Heights siren, one of two
operated by the Henry M. Laing Fire
Company as a fire alarm and nine
o'clock curfew, has been put out of
commission by persons who climbed
the tower on which it was erected and
placed foreign objects into the
mechanism.
Engaged--Marguerite Sawyer to
William Dierolf.
Deaths--Mrs. I.A. Rood, Laketon and
Mrs. Charles Fisher, Trucksville.
Playing at local theatres--‘‘Rogues’
Gallery” with Frank Jenks.
You could get-Danish cabbage, three
cents a pound; oleo, 24 cents a pound;
sweet potatoes four pounds, 23 cents;
bakers cocoa, eight cents a pound and
dressed whiting, 17 cents a pound.
20 years ago, October 28, 1955
: So
Dallas Borough Elementary School
planted a tree on Monday in
Dairy.
Contractors Donald Hughes and
Paul Somerville broke ground
Tuesday for a new 20 room addition
which will double the capacity of the
Dallas Motel.
Polio shots will be given to students
in the Back Mountain Schools next
week, the salk vaccine will be used in
this second shot of the series.
The Dallas Rotary, Kiwanis and
co-sponsor a dinner Thursday evening
for the benefit of the Back Mountain
YMCA. :
An overflow congregation attended
the groundbreaking ceremonies for
the addition to St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church last Sunday. The service was
conducted by the Rev. Frederick H.
Eidam, pastor, who first broke une
ground.
Married--Hilda M. Nickerson and
Warren C. Elston; Joyce Elaine
Oncay and Walter Chamberlain; Jean
Marie Bynon and Daniel Blaine;
Agnes Tompkins and William
Valentine and Harriet Prater and
Theodore Dymond.
Deaths--Hazel Transue, Dallas; and
John Levi, Jackson Township.
Playing at local theatres--‘‘Female on
the Beach’ with Jeff Chandler, Jan
Sterling ‘and Joan Crawford. -
You could get--Steaks, 79 cents a
pound; hunting boots, $2.98 a pair;
Not much to report this week, things
around the country seem to be
remaining pretty much the same. One
thing we’ve noticed that comes about
every year around this time is the fall
hues taking to the trees...and the
telephone poles and the sides of
homes. ..The traditional soft oranges,
yellows. reds, of the fall are again
polluted this year with the red, white,
and blue we see adorning every tree
or anything within eyesight as we
drive about the valley and up the
mountains. We don’t like it!
Have noticed a few more
campaigners hitting the trails this
Recommendations intended “to
establish better understanding bet-
ween the home and school and to
better equip students to take their
place in society’ were introduced at
the regular Lake-Lehman School
Board meeting Oct. 14 by School
Director Arnold Garinger on behalf of
the Lake-Lehman Citizens’ Advisory
- Committee.
Terming the recommendations
“excellent,” Garinger commended
the committee for its efforts. The
recommendations were compiled at a
meeting of the Citizens’ Advisory
Committee held the previous night
and attended by members of the
school board’s education committee
as well as five school administrators.
The committee’s proposals included
the establishment of career nights for
the purpose of introducing students
and their parents to vocational op-
tions; the planning of regularly
scheduled parent-teacher con-
ferences, and the establishment of an
orientation program to ease the
transition of elementary students to
junior high school and junior high
students to senior high school.
Garinger indicated that the
recommendations would be given
‘‘serious study’’ by the board.
In other business, a motion to pay
the Hughes Corporation $1,386 for an
unauthorized project at the junior
high school was made and then with-
drawn by Director Gilbert Tough.
Earlier this year, Superintendent
Robert Z. Belles reminded the
directors, the Hughes Corporation
had removed rock and replaced it
with stone to improve drainage at the
school before learning from the ar-
chitect that the work was not to be
done. The corporation had sub-
sequently sought $1,386 to cover ex-
» benses for the undertaking.
4 é £ 4
week.
In the Back Mountain some good
old-fashioned get out and meet the
people is going on. Millie Hogoboom of
Jackson Township and Ed Mark and
Angele DeCesaris of Lake-Lehman
School Board Candidates are getting
to know the people and getting known
by the people. Sending out letters,
telephoning and good old reliable door
knocking and hand shaking
techniques..
And Ron Swank the magisterial
contender in Mountaintop. He's really
getting around. We understand for
Ron Sunday at the Crestwood Lounge
Following Tough’s motion, Director
Ken Williams indicated that he would
“not go along with any figure that will
give them (the Hughes Corporation) a
profit.”” Director Ellis Hoover agreed,
stating that the cost listed by the
company was actually an estimate
rather than an actual record of the
cost.
Stating that he shared Williams’
Tough then withdrew his motion and
requested that Belles get a statement
from the architect ‘‘to the effect that
this $1,386 represents cost and no
overhead.”
The bill, if eventually paid, will be
taken trom the project’s contingency
fund.
A developmental reading program
outlined by Assistant Superintendent
Anthony Marchakitus which is to be
funded by Federal monies drew fire
from Garinger for the way in which it
was presented.
“I am non-plussed,’”’ Garinger
stated, ‘‘to think that we spend hours
talking about busing problems, tire
chains and other less-than-critical
issues but that we never hear a word
about this rather major item until we
are asked to vote on it.”
Garinger, chairperson of the
board’s education committee, ob-
served that he is always ‘‘delighted”’
with programs similar to the one
outlined by Marchakitus but that he is
‘less than delighted” with not being
informed of it prior to the board
meeting.
The assistant superintendent
replied that money for the develop-
mental reading program ‘‘came in
only within the last month.”
The program, which was ultimately
supervised by the Reading Im-
provement Center at Wilkes College.
The center’s reading specialists will
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brought about 125 of his supporters out
and found opposing candidates united
in their support of him.
Two passing thoughts about the
changing times. Russ Dubinski, Clerk
of Courts candidate (who had a nice
testimonial given him at the
Idependent Hose Company Kingston
over the weekend) has a father who's
the Democratic Mayor of Larksville.
And GOP Rep. George Hasay has a
dad who serves as a democratic
committeeman. Just a point of
interest. {
Keep your ears open and pick your
candidates the election is closing in.:
provide in-service training for Lake-
Lehman’s reading = staff and
classroom teachers and will include
the screening, testing, assessing and
diagnosis of all children from kin-
dergarten through grade 12. Cost to
the district for the center’s services
will be $1,300.
On a motion by Director Williams,
the board agreed to a schedule change
which will see the Lake-Lehman
football team playing Northwest Area
High School instead of Wyalusing
High School next year. The board also
opted to remain in the Wyoming
Valley Conference in view of team
prospects which are, Williams
asserted, ‘looking up.”
Superintendent Belles was troughly
grilled by Director Donald Jones
about administrative salary increases
for 1975-76. When Belles could not
locate the information in his papers,
was directed by Jones to look for the
record in his office. The meeting was
interrupted for approximately 15
minutes while the superintendent
tracked down the information. A
prickly exchange between the
superintendent and Jones about the
procedure for approving
mushrooms, 39 cents a pound;
three five ounce cans, $1.
10 years ago, October 28, 1965
Ted Hinkle, Civil Defense leader in
Kingston Township, for years ten-
dered his resignation to the board of
supervisors Tuesday evening.
Arrangements by Aldo Franconi,
Malone to speak at driver safety
programs at both Dallas and Lake-
Lehman schools this week.
A hunter planted a load of buckshot
in a house owned by Samuel Tonkin,
Country Club Road, at dusk last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weiss became
the first couple wed in Trinity
Presbyterian Church this week.
Harry Smith, 235 Ferguson Ave.,
Shavertown recovered a Flaming
by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
Amusement as s*ch has not been a
regular part of my program of life.
Probably this is because I have de-
pended so much on my own sense of
humor to find amusement in the regu-
lar run of events. But just now my
sense of humor and tender-hearted-
ness come to the front in our situation
which has called for two additions to
our family.
We lost our Pretty Kitty a few
weeks ago when that lovely pussy
with long black and white fur didn’t
have too many brains in his head and
got mussed up by being on the high-
way when he should have come home
at night.
Catherine decided to get a replace-
ment right away on account of Kynar-
ion’s (our dog's) needs for and readi-
ness to receive and adjust to more
cat! And for some reason she wanted
a kitten with seven toes (or however
many it takes to give a cat big hand-
some feet). But I'll tell right off the
result of her search.
First she found a yellow kitty, baby-
like at a few weeks old. Then she hap-
pened on to a neighbor who had a
cunning white and sort-of-tiger-but-
different kitty a week or two older
that the goldenrod baby. She named
the second one Twinkletoes because of
his multi-digitaled feet; the proper
medical term (Greek, of course!) is
polydactyl.
These two ‘were strangers to each
other and to the huge, gangling and
lively dog. so there was a lot of getting
acquainted business on the part of all,
and a great deal of adjusting to do
each with the others and with our own
ways. There was no such thing as the
usual dog-and-cat feuding: they all
agreed to a program of getting along
with all the others.
Kynarion, who obviously missed
her purry furry playmate, was ready
to greet the newcomers with a joyful
(if a bit scary) bounce and poke of her
friendly nose. The two cats, miniature
as they were, discovered they were
fully endowed with protective defense
if needed. Kynarion found that those
soft little paws were like velvet pin-
cushions, ‘‘sticky’’ at times, and
called for respect even in the midst of
hilarity and forgetfullness in play.
race and run until they were ready
suddenly to stop as if they saw a red
traffic light, and then fade away for a
definitive answers.
Raises for the district’s ad-
ministrators this year included
High School Principal James
Nicholas, $1,200; Elementary Prin-
cipal Charles James, $850; Assistant
$1,000.
included inquiries about the lack of
running water in junior high school
science rooms; a home economics
junior high on a scant $20 per month,
and the absence of chocolate milk for
kindergarten students.
resident and write-in school board
candidate Keith E. Bonham for use of
debate with incumbent Paul Crockett
was approved by the board.
Bonham acknowledged that
Crockett had not yet been contacted
about the proposed debate. The
director was not present at the
meeting. Crockett is reported to be
out-of-town at the present time and
not available for comment.
Dear Sir:
A potential problem exists for those
residents of Dallas area who use
Street.
Patrons of the ACME Market
located there fail to realize that
Foster Street is a street and not one
big parking lot. Many times a
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motorist will pull right out in front of
me at the stop sign.
There are no lines, let alone a yield
sign perhaps to indicate where the
parking area stops and the street
.begins.
I believe something should be done.
Joseph Kane
Cat days
bit of curled up napping. After which
more rumpus!
These brainless kittens seemed to
find as if by instinct all the possible
hiding places in this house crammed
with furnishings and piles of goods al-
ways a challenge to be looked over
and scattered about, and then lie real
still as if there weren't any cats any-
where. They like to get on top of as
many places as they can reach and
get claws hooked into. Kittens have
long been part of yarn advertiser’s
stock, and I guess the home of a
knitter is a good place to happen into.
They can make you drop stitches and
look innocently as if tosay, “We didn’t
see any lost stitches!”
We want them to be strictly indoors
cats. The last cat’s box of kitty-litter,
all renewed and refreshed and ready
for use, one might think a ten week old
kitty had dreamed of such a thing:
never needs to hunt a corner. They
both discovered it under the sink in
the downstairs bathroom; no problem
of house-breaking.
They haven't heard of the fun of
hunting for mice, or Killing song-
birds.
Makers of cat food have let them
know they can supply vitamins with
no fuss nor feathers; there is the dish,
and it must be good because the big
GROSSMAN
Renova festival at his home this week.
Deaths--Nathan Connor, Shrine
Acres; Pauline Ferguson, Shaver-
town; Mabele L. Conious, Fernbrook.
Playing at local theatres--‘‘Pardners’”’
with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
You could get--Electric blanket, $9.88;
$5.20; medium
shrimp, 99 cents a pound; fruit cake,
$2.99, three pounds and turkeys, 39
cents a pound.
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doggy friend eats it too. She likes to
clean up the cat’s dish, no stale food
lying around!
They soon found out about the fun of
middle of the dining room table which
is the necessary gathering center of
sewing materials. Few of my friends
have ever heard me laugh aloud for I
can’t do that without a coughing spell
following, which I can't afford to
have. But these cats! I can roll back in
my chair and haw, haw! without
disturbing the calmness of my
bronchial serenity.
Cathy just called *‘It’s out!” A few
years ago The Dallas Post printed the
story with pictures of our first exper-
ience watching the ‘‘coming out
party” as the hungry worm whigh had
become a quiet pupa in a Batic
emerged, pumped up its wings, and
‘became a Monarch butterfly.
That's what has just happened on
our back porch. When ready we can
set it free for that great journey which
he seems to know all about even be-
fore he gets there.”
That is not really what we would
call amusing, but it does add so much
to our appreciation of life, living, gett-
«ing used to changes, and even antici-
pating the wonder of wonders, the
time when the soul is free to fly. It has
a lot of meaning to us.
By Howard J. Grossman
Every municipaity in Northeastern
Pennsylvania confronted with how
they must meet their financial
resources to provide and deliver
services to their residents should
establish a grant review board
through which all grants requested
from federal, state, or county sources
can be processed prior to submission.
This review board would bring
together in one place at least in
theory, if not practice, the ability to
measure the impact of the particular
grant on the municipality and the
justification as to why such a request
is being made.
Such a review board would also be
helpful at the county level in the
Northeastern Pennsylvania counties’
of Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne,
Monroe, Pike, Schuylkill and Wayne.
In at least one of the counties,
Schuylkill, there exists a technical
assistance team, which approaches
this type of program, but all units of
board. ;
In Los Angeles, such a review board
. exists and has functioned to provide a
resource for improving the basic
system by which grant requests are
made. The review board has a func-
tion of systematizing and avoiding
adverse impacts which one grant
request might have on other projects
and programs in that same unit of
government,
In Los Angeles, they have found
that, historically, some departments
other departments were doing and
were acting, at times, at cross pur-
The Economic
Ray Carlsen, Editor & Publisher
Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, Editor Emeritus
Ed Rees, Advertising
Joseph ‘“‘Red”’ Jones, Advertising
Charlot Denmon, News & Advertising
Virginia Hoover, Circulation
Terry Bonifanti, Asst. to Publisher
Blaze Carlsen, Asst. to Publisher
Susan Heller, Office
,Olga Kostrobala, Office
{Eleanor Rende, Office
, Karen Golden, Office
Development Council of Northeastern
Pennsylvania is another.
Through such groups, technical
assistance can be provided to en-
courage local governments such
efforts could occur in some of the
larger cities of the region such as
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Car hae.
Hazelton, and Nanticoke.
~ The review boards would be useful
to make sure that not only on
flicts minimized but that thé” com-
munity has taken advantage of all
possible federal, state, and county
aids. This effort in some area. a
grouping of municipalities to employ
staff assistance to which the
municipalities who belong to the area
organization can turn for assistance
to maximize resources. -
Review boards could be useful
toward achieving a semblance of
unity in a community and probably
avoid omissions in the types: of aid
forgotton by local
governments. The review board could
meet ‘monthly or more often in the
larger communities, ‘and in each
county the local governments could
regularly meet . by = sending
representatives to monthly meetings
with representatives: of nty
planning ‘agencies, ‘the Economic
Development council “and state
agencies such as the Department of
Community Affairs. Regular reports
on what aids are available; what new
problems have arisen, etc., would be
provided.
While the boroughs, association,
townships association and League of
Cities provide some of this in-
formation, no systematic basis exists
within Northeastern Pennsylvania or
for that | \matter, elsewhere, to ac-
complish/ this at a level and scale
envisioned in this proposal. Much
could be gained by all parties i£ this
type of cooperative effort w in-
stituted.
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