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40 years ago today-March 13, 1936
A paper plate stuffed into the
suction pipe of the Trucksville fire
engine caused firement to stand by
while Arch Woolbert’s general store
was destroyed. Firemen decided to
keep their fire house locked in the
future until a definite policy with
regard to public functions in the
building can be adopted.
Fred Eck and Willard Garey of
Shavertown returned on - Tuesday
from a 4,500 automobile trip which
took them as far as New Orleans,
winter in Florida.
Concluding 39 years in the ministry,
the Rev. Judson N. Bailey, pastor of
the Carverton-Orange-Mt. Zion
Methodist Episcopal Churches,
announced his retirement at the end of
April.
F. A. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Lewis, Shavertown, has been
named associate editor of ‘‘electrical
Engineer’, a trade publication.
Kingston Township's Lettermen’s
basketball team defeated Dallas
Tuesday night to cinch the Back
Mountain title. They will enter the
county finals later this month.
Dallas Borough High School cagers
win league cup for third consecutive
year.
Lehman High School girls five
championship.
Lehman High School wrestlers will
meet a Nicholson team brought to the
former
principal of Lehman High School.
Wrestling is a fairly new sport to the
Back Mountain but Lehman has built
a formidable squad with weights
ranging from 8510 135 pounds.
Peter Bertram, West Dallas,
celebrated -his 81 birthday with a
family dinner at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Robert Sutherland of
Avoca.
Engaged-Edith Myers and Roswekk
Murray.
Deaths-Christian E. Faber, Mt.
Greenwood; James Stem, Dallas;
John Ezra Lyons, brother of William
Lyons, Trucksville, and Agnes
Walton, Chase.
You could get-standing rib roast for
921 cents a pound; Nucoa
oleomargarine, two pound package
for 43 cents; four rolls Scott Tissue for
25 cents; four pounds yellow onions
for 10 cents; tall can red salmon for 21
cents; two heads iceberg lettuce for 15
30 years ago today-March 15- 1946
Three weeks of convassing has
netted the Kingston Township
Veterans Association more than $1,800
for the purchase of its building, the
nter.
Philadelphia, Hershey, Lancaster and
Harrisburg.
An Interlaken, N.Y., truck driver
week's heavy rains.
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Sterling, recently purchased by
Mountain Evergreen Stable arrived
here from Kentucky last week.
Charles Cooke, Dallas Township
High School senior, enlisted in the
Navy last month passed the difficult
Eddy test which has earned him the
right to a $5,000 education in higher
mathematics, electronics, physics
and radio.
Mrs. Jestie Schoonover,
Centermoreland, celebrated her 82
birthday March 12 at her home.
Grandmon and grandpop Stanley
Rinehimer are celebrating the birth of
a. brand new, granddaughter this
week; their first after four grandsons.
Patricia Courtney is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. John S. Rinehimer, Jr.,
Trucksville.
Charles © H. Long, “one of the
outstanding young farm™equipment
dealers in the area, is building a new
equipment building at Sweet Valley.
Dallas Borough Council at its
meeting Tuesday night authorized the
purchase of traffic lights suitable to
handle the traffic situation at the five-
way intersection on Main Street.
Now playing at local theatre--‘‘The
Stork Club’’, Betty Hutton, Barry
Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell.
Discharged from the service--T-5
James R. Bertram, Trucksville; Cpl.
Warren Montroos, Noxen; Sgt.
Thelma Gregory, Dallas; S 1-¢ Irvin
Miller, Shavertown; Sgt. Charles
Barnes, Huntsville.
Homer Middleton won first prize in
the amateur show sponsored by
Lehman High School Seniors, Friday
night. Second prize went to Charles
Nuss, and Ellis Hoover took third.
Married--Jane Pierce Raker to
Elmer Deater.
Deaths--Lt. Burton Bunnell,
Fernbrook, killed in action in China-
based fighter plane.
You could get--Grade AA loin lamb
chops for 55 cents per pound; one
pound package of Carr’s saltine
crackers for 19 cents; 16-ounce jar
Chef Boyardee ravioli for 14 cents;
grape nuts flakes, nine cents
package; California lemons, dozen 29
cents.
20 years ago today-March 16, 1956
Dallas Senior Woman's Club
welcomed 23 new members from the
Junior Woman's Club, at a tea
Wednesday evening, in the large
downstairs meeting room of the
Dallas American Legion.
Stanley Weaver; Echo Valley,
Trucksville, was elected president of
Luzerne County Dairy Herd
Association at its annual meeting at
Trucksville Fire Hall last Thursday.
Girls basketball team of Lake-
Noxen High School has an undefeated
season for the fourth consecutive year
under the fine supervision of coach,
Mrs. Florence Worth.
Lehman-Jackson-Ross school
directors voted down the large 10-way
jointure seeing nothing to be gained
by erasure of the dividing linedrawn
by Luzerne County school office,
which separates the Back Mountain
into two sections.
Reithoffer shows prepare for their
58 season tour. The resplendent
orange show trucks on the Reithoffer
property along the highway on Route
115 have been over-hauled and are
ready to take to the road as soon as the
grass is green.
Sherman Harter, Trucksville,
named trustee of The White Church on
term of the late Thomas Carle.
Rev. C. H. Frick, Huntsville
Christian Church, will be guest
speaker at the WCTU Institute at
Di
J. Traver Nobel, Overbrook Road,
Shavertown, has been elected vice
president of the Wilkes-Barre YMCA.
Howard, Elwood and George
Whitesell open large new showroom
and will officially open their new
retail store on Saturday on Route 115,
just off Harveys-Lake Highway.
St. Therese’s quintet defeated
Prince of Peace, 63-59, to win the
playoffs in the Back Mountain Church
league.
Robert Monk, focal Anthra-Flo
dealer, displayed a new low cost
automatic geal home heating unit at
an annual Coal-O-Matic convention;
1st Lt. Clayton Cairl, assigned to
Yokoto' Air Base, Japan, is slated for
promotion to captain.
Engaged-Ethel Margaret Marchant
to Arthur L. Nuss.
Married-Margaret Horrors and
Earl Cunningham; Nancy Hoblitzell
and Lt. J.R. Strickland!
Now playing at local theatres-‘‘The
Naked Dawn’'’, Arthur Kennedy,
Forty-Fort Theatre; ‘‘Ransom’’
Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Luzerne
Theatre; ‘“‘A Man Alone’’, Ray
Milland, Mary Murphy, Himmler
Theatre; ‘‘The Benny Goodman
Story’’, Steve Allen, Donna Reed,
Forty Fort Theatre.
Deaths--Mrs. Frances Hayden
Rhoads, Huntsville; Wesley
Whitesell, Roaring Brook;
You could get--lean pork butts or
lean sliced back for 35 cents per
pound; 16 ounce package Birds-Eye
frozen strawberries for 39 cents; one
pound package of P&R spaghetti for
22 cents; Red Heart dog food, six cans
for 79 cents.
10 years ago today-March 17, 1966
Mrs. Aida Brandt, Applewood
Manor, appears before Kingston
Township supervisors and asks for
guard rail installation along Lehigh
Street near Westmoreland School.
A movement to revive the famous
Memorial Day parade in Sweet Valley
is afoot in Ross Township. Fire Chief
Loren Cragle Jr. is the head of a
committee which has taken steps to
restore the event.
Noxen Community Ambulance
Association announces the purchase
of the 1961 Superior-body Cadillac
ambulance, formerly owned by the
Dallas Community Ambulance
Association who took delivery: of a
1965 model on Thursday.
Responding to a letter from realtor
Thomas P. Garrity which elicited a
unified affirmation of the proposed
Cross Valley Expressway from the
Back Mountain, Dallas Borough
joined voice with other in approving
the project.
Mysterious dog death investigated
It pays to advertise
after weird ‘‘animal’ bite attack on
Mrs. Irene Timko, Dallas.
John F. Lancio, Shavertown
resident, was appointed as Sales
Promotion Manager of all three
Pomeroy’s stores, Wilkes-Barre,
Pottsville, and Midway Shopping
Center.
Steve Kawchenbach, district
champion from Dallas Senior High
School, placed third in the ballot taken
for the 12th annual George Hooper
Memorial Wrestling Award.
Plymouth cagers snapped the
Mountaineers 18 game winning streak
by defeating them 54-53, -at the
A finals.
“Never Too Late’’, Paul Ford, Connie
Stevens, Luzerne Theatre; ‘‘The
Money Trap!’,: Glenn Ford, Elke
Sommer, Forty Fort Theatre.
Anniversaries-Mr. and. Mrs. Ellis
Swingle, Harveys Lake, 62 years; Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon James, Meeker, 35
years, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Crispell,
Dallas, 25 years.
Birthdays-Herman Bamert,
Carverton, 83; Mrs. George Dendler,
Ruggles, 81; Wesley Belles,
Trucksville, 80.
'Engaged-Mary Lou Rogers and
Odie Heath; Margurite Jean Hackling
and Ronald Lee Jeschke; Barbara
Ann Spencer to Glenn Hilbert;
Rochelle Mendelsohn to Ronald
Dabrowolski.
Married--Karen S. Clark to Reed E.
Balewski; Ruth Ann Scott to Thomas
Challenger.
Deaths--Lewis J. Rozelle. Mt. Zion;
David A. Perry, Mt. Zion; Mrs. Clara
E. Mekeel, Dallas; Mrs. Margaret T.
Brinola, Shavertown; Owen M. Jones,
Kunkle; Amos E. Oney, Outlet.
You could get--round steak for 99
cents per pound; smoked hams for 79
cents per pound; 4-lb. bag Navel
oranges for 59 cents; 5-lb. bag
grapefruit for 49 cents; one pound
package potato chips for 49 cents;
quart jar salad dressing for 49 cents;
three rolls Scot tissues for 34 cents;
quart bottle of Joy liquid for 82 cents.
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year increases would pertain only to
top-rated employees in all job
classifications. | A company report
said about 85 per cent of unionized
employees fall within this group.
Fringe benefits included in the new
agreement featured improvements in
pension, night differential pay, on-the-
job injury compensation, an
additional half-day paid holiday and a
100 per cent basic coverage dental
plan for each employee.
A total of 427 employees were idled
by the strike. Telephone operations
continued without significant
interruption at Commonwealth,
where management and non-union
employees kept things going.
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Susan Heller, Office & Production
Olga Kostrobala, Office 8’ Production
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by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
In looking over some bits and scraps
of paper the other day I found that I
had looked into the future and had
seen what my condition might become
for reading my beloved Greek books
as time went on. Time went on and I
can no longer read the books, but I
found enough Greek in large letters on
those pieces of paper to keep me quiet
for a while. To study Greek, you have
to have some Greek on hand to read!
The first Bible verse I memorized
was taught me by a jail-bird my
mother had hired to do some work on
our farm. There was nobody but
Mother to work the farm then, and she
wasn’t able to do everything. This
man later was sent to jail for stealing
things and hiding them in our barn.
But he thought John 3:16 was a
religious sounding verse to teach to a
lad of 6, and he thought my mother
would like a hired man who was
“religious’’ and in the bargain taught
the ‘baby’ some verses. Besides, he
got a lot of fun hearing this ‘‘dutchy”
little boy say Bible verses. I
remember he called me ‘Dutch’.
Well, later on when I grew up and
began to study Greek so I could be a
minister some day, one of the first
verses I learned in Greek was ‘For
God so loved the world.” Only I
translated it from the Greek as “God
so much loved the world!” which I
liked the sound of better (not
“dutchy’’ but Greek.
Then I found that I had not kept up
my review and had lost John 3:16
from my memory and that would not
do. So I wrote it in big Greek letters
on a big paper and put'that away for
future use, along with the Lord's
Prayer and the Shepherd Psalm and
St. Paul’s benediction from one of his
letters to the Corinthians.
That Big Letter Greek, even in my
hand pen scrawl, is easier to read then
the usual size of type. Sometime I
want to memorize the Luke version of
the Lord’s Prayer. I have read some
authorities who think the Luke edition
Letter
original wording. I find a great deal of
refreshingment (that’s the way I
intended to -spell it!) in recalling
familiar verses in the Greek.
The. snowstorm Tuesday made
some changes in our usual schedule of
doing things. When Cathy saw a car
sliding slowly sideways up the road in
front of our house in the middle of the
Wilkes-Barre for oratorio rehears
That's quite an unusual occurrance,
but the four other ladies in her ‘“‘car
pool” understood the situation very
readily. So she practiced at home.
Since I didn’t have to watch out the
back window for her car lights to
come along the Mt. Zion Road (my
signal to put the teakettle on most
rehearsal nights), I kept track of a
road truck with a flashing yellow light
standing up at the corner. It evidently
had some kind of problem, because
eventually another came and they
both went down the hill very slowly,
one pushing (or pulling) the other.
Cathy has done a little brushing up
on her Latin by trying to make her
own translation of ‘Hora Novissima’’
just for the fun of it. The other day she
said, ‘Hey, do you know what this guy
says at the beginning of the poem?
‘These are the last days, the times are
evil; watch out, Judgement Day is
almost here.’ And that was in the 12th
century!”
Then the poet continues with some
beautifully simple descriptions of
Heaven which, as with i
translations of poetry, aren’t quite“
beautiful or simple when turned into
English. (Try translating one of your
favorite or simple when turned into
English. (Try translating one of your
favorite English poems into another
language sometime!)
But the final idea seems to be that
Heaven is so wonderful because God
is there, and it’s worth the effort to get
there even though it’s not the effort
which gets us there, but God’s mercy.
And that is certainly a thought to
inspire some beautiful music!
Gentlemen:
The persecution of Jehovah's
Witnesses ‘in the East African
Republic of Malawi is undoubtedly the
worst case of religious oppression by a
national government since Hitler's
Germany. As reports of continuing
publishers of Awake! felt that you
should be informed of recent
developments in the story.
representatives to deliver to you
personally, with this letter, an
advance copy of the March 22 issue of
Awake! . It contains a summary of the
latest documented atrocities
committed against Jehovah's
Witnesses in Malawi.
We invite you to read this material.
You will see that three years ago,
Letter to the Editor
Jehovah’s Witnesses requested an
opportunity to explain their stand)
the Malawi Government. No reply has
ever been made and no delegation il
been allowed to represent Jehovalzs
Witnesses to the officials of Malawi.
Instead, Malawian officials, as you
will ‘see, have made contradictory
public statements. None of this has
yet been reported in the news media.
You may use the information as you
wish. We are certain that you will
agree, whatever a person’s religious
persuasions, no ‘one merits the
treatment being dealt Jehovah’s
Witnesses in Malawi. Such conduct
should not go unreported.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Morrow
Watchtower B&T Society
Mr. Editor;
I am writing to you because of your
last report on the meeting of Dallas
Twp. supervisors. In their report they
(the supervisors) stated that at this
present time their planning
commission didn’t need a professional
planner.
I would like to call to their attention
to the new business place on Memorial
Highway across from Natona Mills. I
think somebody had better check this
permit. The planning commission
should get an award for this building-
the bicentennial early shanty award.
Name withheld
by request
Dallas Area Municipal Authority
has been informed by the Department
of Environmental Resources that in
conjunction with their federal EPA
permit, it will be necessary to
upgrade the level of treatment at the
waste water treatment plant, a
change which may require an
upgrading and-or modification of the
present DAMA treatment facilities.
DAMA resisted the notification
contending that the creek is polluted
from upstream sources and not from
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the treatment plant release. Solicitor
Merton Jones noted that it would cost
in excess of $700,000 and an additional
$40,000 annual operating expense.
DAMA has appealed the mandate of
DER and the appeal will be discussed
at a meeting at the treatment plant,
March 23, 10 a.m. Present will be
members of the authority, their
solicitor, representatives from DER,
the Attorney General and plant
manager, Tom Bagley.
in their park, all homeowners were
required to have fire extinguishers.
He also stated that when homes are
‘hooked up, all wires to meter bases
and the meter bases must be
inspected. This park does not allow
overcrowded mobile homes. The
number of people living in the home is
limited to two ‘persons per bedroom.
‘He acknowledged that heat tapes
can cause fires. The tapes are usually
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one or two amps causing fuses to blow
quicker, thus averting disaster.
The cause of the fatal Franklin Twp.
fire has not yet been determined,
center of the trailer near the
furnace.
installed in the home did not prevent
the fragedy What could? :