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Brown, Clyde
Only yesterday
Ed Fielding,
Flower Finney. It
flower girl Doug
1949 in a vehicle called
10 years ago, November 22, 1935
Main traffic arteries were cleared
by Menday. but secondary highways
suc the Idetown-Kunkle Road
remained impassable today following
a blizzard Sunday night.
Fullfilling the highly idealistic
principals which are the keystones of
Rotarianism, members of the Greater
Dallas Rotary Club have agreed to
devote certain meetings during the
next two months to general
discussions of pertinant problems that
face the world today.
The climax of this sections inter-
scholastic football season will be
reached Thanksgiving morning when
Lehman Township football team tries
to end Kingston Township's long
string of victories. Coach Walter
Hicks’ - Kingston Township team is
favored. however.
Alterations and improvements
which have been underway at the
Dallas ME Church on Church Street
for the last three months are com-
pleted and will be open for inspection
after special services on Sunday.
To the traditions that insist ‘‘the
mail must go through'’ and ‘the show
mustgo on’ add “‘the pumps must be
insp2d”. Dallas Water Company
Phil "Anderson and Walt Covert
oll their inspection tour last
ween skis.
Deaths--Almira Kocher, Dallas: John
Kessler, Hunlock Creek:
Conden. Alderson:
Hunlock Creek.
You could get--Lard, two pounds, 29
Jacob
can: rolled oats, two packages, 21
cents: chocolate cream drops, 10
cents a pound and fresh cruellers, 10
cents a half dozen.
30 years ago, November 23, 1945
As a memorial to the men and
women of Kunkle Methodist Church
who have given their lives in the
service of their country. Silver Leaf
Club of Kunkle this week gave the
Back Mountain Memorial Library a
complete set of the latest edition of the
Encyclopedia Americana.
William Burnafor. Shavertown, will
diregs the Dallas Junior Woman's
Club in their production of ‘‘The Dixie
Jamboree’, Nov. 28 at the Knigston
Township High School.
Continuing = on their regular
Thursday night schedule, robbers
returned to the Back Mountain region
for the third consecutive time and this
time entered Lehman Township High
School.
Discharged from the Navy today
under the point system: Lt. Jg. Jean
I.. Williams, Dallas.
D. H. Hontz has made application
for a charter to establish a bus line
between Tunkhannock and Wilkes-
Barre through Noxen.
Engaged--Natalie Louise Kresge to
I.t. Lawerence M. Isaacs.
Deaths--1.t. John Reese, Shavertown;
Cora Nulton. Beaumont.
Playing at local theatres--*‘Crime,
Inc.” with Leo Carrilo and Tom Neal.
You could get--Square circulating
heaters. $54 and up: slab stove wood,
$1 per cord: complete lunch 25 cents.
20 vears ago, November 22, 1955
An order for a LaFrance Crusader
pumper was placed last Monday for
delivery to Daniel C. Roberts Fire
Company. April 15.
Sixty-nine taxpayers have
petitioned the Take Township
supervisors. to close all dumping
grounds not maintained as public
dumps operated under the super-
vision of the municipality.
The possibility that a Giant or and
A&P supermarket will locate along
the Luzerne-Dallas Highway in
Luzerne was revealed this week by
John Connolly, Luzerne Building
contractor.
A 500 pound safe stolen from the
Turrell Motor Company 16 months
ago was found by a rabbit hunter near
Harveys Lake this week.
Atty. James I. Brown will be
honored at a testimonial dinner
tendered him hy the Back Mountain
Protective Association. Dec. 15.
Engaged--Nancy Dymond to Richard
V. Bartlebaugh.
Playing at local theatres--“Rebel
Without a Cause’ with James Dean.
You could get--Cocktail napkins, 120
for 19 cents; 50 asprins, 69 cents: Stell
836-3163
N 7 DAYS
wagons, $1.98 to $14.98: olive oil, eight
ounces, 33 cents and baby food, six
jars, 59 cents.
10 vears ago, November 23, 1965
Don Peterson, representing Dallas
Rotary this week presented Dallas
coach Edward Brominski with the
traditional ‘‘old shoe’’ award for
winning the Lake-Lehman-Dallas
game.
Open house for residents of the
Back Mountain is scheduled Saturday
at Hayfield Farm, the newest Com-
monwealth Campus of The Penn-
sylvania State University.
On Friday night, a citizen's com-
mittee headed by William Purcell will
present the Lake Township super-
visors with a petition signed by those
‘exceptions’ to the proposed borough
establishment.
As estimated 1000 new Christmas
lights have replaced old enes;in Dallas
Borough. contributions are being
accepted from Dallas businessmen.
The wires for the lights were donated
by Kingston Borough.
If things go as scheduled. the Dallas
Post Office will not be ready by
Christmas for the rush.
Engaged--Cindy Dymond to Norman
Weaver: Carol Pope to James R.
Martin; Susan Elaine Spencer to Glen
Lee Johnson, Barbara Hurtt to Joseph
Walton. Jr.
Deaths--Gertrude Lindsley, Dallas:
L.erov Gowen Hess, Noxen.
By Michael A. Guido
An atheist wrote this on
a blackboard, “God is no
where!” But his little niece
said, “Uncle, you’ve made a
mistake.” She moved the let-
ter “w”, and made the sen-
tence to read “God is now
here!”
Wherever we are, God is
here. There is no place, there
can be no place, where He is
not.
| Seven billion people stand-
| ine at seven billion different
places can say with equal
certainty, God is now here.
No one is in distance any
se to or any further from
God than any other person.
God sent Jonah east to Ni-
|neven. But Jonah went west
by Terry Bonifanti
(Editor’s note: This historical series
on the Back Mountain is written from
the memories of those now living who
made or remember the interesting
incidents of the area. Anyone wishing
Back Mountain life in the past is
asked to call the Post at 675-5211.
It was a lovely night in November
1949. the 18th to be exact, when six
foot “‘bride’’ Don Finney first married
his five foot ‘‘groom’-Walt Phillips.
The couple was to repeat their
‘‘uproariously funny wedding’ some
30 times over the next few months in a
vehicle called ‘“‘Womanless Wed-
ding”, “a mock wedding with a lot of
side effects’ sponsored by the men’s
club of the Trucksville Methodist
Church, Kingston Township High
School. Nov. 18 and 19, 1949.
The production, described by Vern
Pritchard as ‘‘one big laugh from
beginning to end,” was open to all
males in the community and em-
ployed about 50 all together. There
was the bride and groom. the
bridesmaids, cigar-smoking Clyde
Birth and ‘‘hairy’” Luther Brown,
visiting dignitaries-bermuda-shorted
“Daniel Flood and Mrs. Flood”, Bill
Clewell and Shermy Harter: “Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Truman”, Clifford and
Bobby Johnson and Byron Schwartz
s “Digger” O'Dell. Entertainment
was provided by Rockettes Vern
Pritchard, Clifford Zimmerman and
Willard Bullock: and Burt “Carmen
Miranda” Fennell and his helper,
ladder-sitting Vought Long.
The production was written by
whoever happened to be on stage at
the time you were watching. “The
performances were crazy. We had no
practice. All we followed was the set
procedure for the wedding.” Prit-
chard remembered.
He explained. “We wanted to make
money. Minstrel shows had 12 weeks
of practice for one or two nights. We
decided on the wedding and after we
sat down and decided what costumes,
procedure and whatever, that was it.”
In total, the production grossed over
$2,500, “‘a lot of money for 1949’, and
played in over 30 different houses
from ‘“‘every church in the Valley to
Hunting Mills and Plymouth High
Schools to the old Noxen Theatre.
Yi The group was invited all over on a
50-50 -basis. The sponsoring group
furnished * the audience, the men
furnished the fun and the ladies came
along to apply makeup. And apply
make-up they did. ‘We lodked like the
‘Happy Hooker’,” Prifchard
remembers. And the Nov. 4, 1949 issue
of the Dallas Post bills the upcoming
production as ‘‘The Womanless
Wedding’ or, ‘“The Ideal Fashion
Show.”
PAGE ELEVEN
Miranda’
The production itself, though
changing with each performange,
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reception, ‘‘we had the whole gim-
mick’ with side ventures into skits
with ‘‘Carmen Miranda’, a big baby
being ‘powdered’ by a flour sifter
and constant jeering by the ‘three
bad boys,” Louis Wilcox, Harold
Croomb and Dick Mathers. If Luther
Brown coming up the aisle in an
evening gown followed by cigar
smoking Clyde Birth didn’t make you
laugh, :<the bad boys would.”
It’s no wonder that the play was
“held over for its original production
and then went on to Valley-wide fame.
“Womanless Wedding" is credited
with picking up a fast $100 for several
churches and organizations in the
area thanks to the wit and talent of its
cast.
The original production, strongly
encouraged by Trucksville
Methodist’s pastor at the time, the
Rev. R. Webster, included in its cast
along with Pritchard, Clewell and the
others, Morris Loyd, William Hewitt,
William Lohman, Sam Davis, Elmer
Davis, James Trebilcox. Tom
Cleasby. Sam Dilcer, Eugene Piatt.
Asher Weiss, Clifford Johnson, Simms
Hemmingway. Don Finney. Jake
Harrison, Fred Case. David Davis,
Ted Bennett and Norm Stoiky and
everyone of them loved every minute
of their long-running production.
Pennsylvania Gas and
Water Company will have
more natural gas for its
firm industrial customers
this winter than it did last
year- when the utility
suffered a cutback of 51 per
cent.
customers than it received
last winter.
While the additional gas
will be made available bo
PG&W’s firm industrial
customers, the easing of
the regulations, however,
do not as yet make it
According to David F. possible to serve
Hansen, Pennsylvania Gas interruptible industrial
and Water Company cstomers. These
president, its pipeline customers, it was
suppliers will be in a
position this year to make
available additional
supplies of natural gas to
explained, have standby
fuel available which they
will continue to use.
Hansen emphasized that
the utility that were not residential and
available last year. commercial customers
Hansen said that last have not been affected by
year the 34 firm industrial the natural gas
customers suffered. a 51..: ecurtailments, nor is it
percent cutback; this year,
he has revealed, the
cutback has been reduced
to 40 percent. This gives
Pennsylvania Gas and
Water Company
approximately 11 percent
more of natural gas
supplies for these
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however, that it is essential
that residential ‘and
commercial customers
continue the practice of
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way possible so as to make
as much natural gas
available to industrial
customers as it is possible
to do so.
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industrial customers could
change slightly, dependent
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