‘Pepsi’ —
our mascot
By DOTTY MARTIN |
Associated Editor L
Rain, shine, sleet or snow, and
sometimes not even a weekend
will keep this guy from going to
the office.
He very rarely gets to the
plant later than 8:30 in the morn-
ing. He doesn’t take much vaca-
tion time - and rarely a personal
day. He's always willing to stay
a few minutes overtime, if neces-
sary. Aside from the fact that he
isn’t very productive, he is the
type of employee of which every
employer dreams.
‘You see, he ‘is ‘‘Pepsi”’, the
newly-adopted mascot of The
Dallas Post. :
Pepsi is a 14-year-old Cocker
Spaniel/English Setter who
belongs to the Kostrobala family
of Powderhorn Drive in Dallas.
Having recently returned to
The Dallas Post after a leave of
absence, Pepsi finds himself
right at home. When the offices
of The Post were located at
Lehman Avenue, Pepsi was
usually a daily visitor, but when
the newspaper moved to Main
Street, for some reason, the
canine had difficulty finding his
way to the office. Now with our
plant located in the Jean Shop
Building, however, Pepsi can
walk to work within a matter of
20 minutes or so.
He won’t let the weather stop
him from making his way,
either, as he has shown up for
work sometimes, looking almost
as if he had to swim across
Harveys Lake to get there. Soak-
ing wet, he sits quietly in the
corner reserved for him and
licks his paws.
Olga Kostrobala, Pepsi’s
“mother” and the typesetter at
The Dallas Post, has found her-
self more than once in a situation
where she had to go back to the
office to get Pepsi. Although
Pepsi is somewhat regular in
making appearances at the
office, his timing is somewhat
precarious. At times, he finds
himself working hours other than
Olga’s and needing a ride home.
Many times, Olga, who works
a half shift on Tuesdays, has had
to return to the office later in the
afternoon to pick up her canine
friend who had trouble getting up
that morning and chose to work
the second shift instead of the —
first.
DR. JAMES AIKMAN
Dr. James Howard Aikman, 53 of
Dallas, a retired colonel of the U.S.
Air Force, died Dec..11 at Nesbitt
Memorial * Hospital,” Kingston. He
was employed as director of admin-
istrative systems operations at
Wilkes College.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Rita Balayszis; daughter, Anita, a
student at Wilkes College; son,
James H., Jr., student at Dallas
High School; sister, Mrs. Charles
Johnson, Nampa, Idaho.
PETER KERPOVICH
Peter J. Kerpovich, 78, of 73
Manor Drive, Shavertown, died
Dec. 12 at Nesbitt Memorial Hospi-
tal following an illness.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Pauline Denman; sons, Theodore
and Arthur, Shavertown; Thomas,
Wilkes-Barre; Richard, Edwards-
ville; daughters, Mrs. Betty Metz-
gar, Shavertown; Miss Emily Ker-
povich, Courtdale, Mrs. Shirley
Bruzauskas, Kingston; brother,
Joseph _ Karparitz, Lareysville;
sister, Mrs. Della Price, Baltimore,
Md.; 20 grandchildren; seven great-
grandchildren.
PETER ZUMCHAK
Peter Zumchak, 65, of 37 Longdale
Ave., Shavertown, died unexpect-
edly Dec. 13 at Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital, Kingston.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Mary Zablotney, formerly of Swoy-
both of Shavertown; brother,
Joseph, Glen Rock, N.J. He was
Nicholas, Stephen and Jack.
Funeral was conducted Dec. 16
from Edwards and Russin Funeral
Home, Edwardsville, with Divine
Liturgy at St. Vladimir’s Church.
Interrnent,
Carverton.
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Trying to make Pepsi under-
stand that every time Olga
leaves the house she is not going
to work is another problem the
Kostrobalas have been faced
with. One time, Olga left the
house shortly after the family
had eaten dinner and went to do
some grocery shopping. Pepsi,
who saw her back the car out of
the driveway, simply assumed
she was on her way to the office
so he started down the street.
Fortunately, one of our employ-
ees was working that evening
and was kind enough to take
Pepsi back home.
Most of the time, though, Pepsi
lays quietly under Olga’s desk
and passes the time away by
snoring peacefully and just plain,
old taking it easy.
Once in a while, he takes a
walk down to Daring’s Market
and scratches on the back door
Obituaries
FLORENCE ROBERTS
Florence O. Roberts, 85, formerly
of 49 Davenport St., Dallas, died
Dec. 14 at Valley Crest Nursing
Center, Plains Township, where she
had been a guest for five years.
Surviving are sons, Harold, Hay-
ward, Wis.; Robert, Bell Aire, Md.:
' Glen, Manassas, Va.; Bruce, Bear
Creek; Lowell, Kunkle; sister, Mrs.
Marie Garinger, Dallas; 15 grand-
children; 11 great-grandchildren;
and two great-great-grandchildren.
LOUIS ALAR
Louis Alar, 49, of 158 N. Lehigh
St., Shavertown, died Dec. 14 at his
home of an apparent heart attack.
Surviving are his wife, the former
- Dolores L: Pollick, daughter, Mrs.
Doreen Edwards, Trucksville; son,
Louis P. Alar, at home; grandson
Palmer Brad Edwards; sisters,
Mrs. Helen Rushnock and Mrs.
Martha McMartry, both of Pompton
Plains, N.J.; brother, Robert,
Jersey City, N.J.
WILLIAM J. OWENS
William J. (Herk) Owens, 61, of
Shawanese, Harveys Lake, died
Dec. 17 while driving his car in
Lake Township.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Florence Gallup; son, William, at
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“of the store in hopes of having a
bone tossed his way while other
times, he sits quietly outside our
front door and greets our cus-
tomers.
Regardless of the fact that the
other employees work a lot
harder than he does in an eight-
hour shift, we have adopted him
as one of us. We ridicule him, we
tease him and we sometimes
even blame our mistakes on him.
But, we love him just the same.
Our readers will find that out for
themselves when they see
Pepsi’s name included in our
employee greeting advertisement
in this week’s Christmas edition.
Pepsi has been with us long
enough for most of us to become
rather accustomed to seeing him
around. When he isn’t at the
office, we miss him. And things
just wouldn’t be the same with-
out him.
home; brothers, Lancet, Wilkes-
Barre; Owen, Liberty, N.Y.; sister,
Mrs. Margaret Mitchum, Utica,
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IDA THORNTON
Mrs. Ida H. Thornton, 58, of RD 1,
Dallas, Kunkle, died Dec. 14 at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, fol-
lowing a lengthy illness.
Surviving are her husband, Oscar
H. “Alabama”; sons, Daniel J. and
Jay R., at home; daughter, Mrs.
Sue E. Rosser, Trucksville; two
grandchildren; sisters, Miss Geral-
dine Smith, and Mrs. Helen Boston,
both of Kunkle. A son, William, died
in 1978.
Funeral was held Dec. 17 at the
Kunkle United Methodist Church,
Kunkle, with the Rev. Pegg Ainslie
Richards, pastor, officiating. Inter-
ment, Chapel Lawn Memorial Park,
Dallas.
DOROTHY BROWN
Dorothy - L. Brown, 61, of 200
Ferguson Ave., Shavertown, died
Dec. 17 in Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital after a prolonged illness.
Surviving are her husband, Arja
E.; son, Robert, Anchorage,
Alaska; daughter, Mrs. Nancy
Campbell, Sweet Valley; two grand-
children.
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Prisoners charged
Two prisoners at the State Correc-
tional Institute, Chase have been
charged with an attempted prison
break. William Geiger and Randall
H. Chumley were both charged with
Criminal Conspiracy and Criminal
Attempt to Escape.
Chumley was also charged with
Possessing Weapons or Implements
for Escape, specifically a pair of
bolt cutters. The pair were
arraigned before District Magis-
trate Leonard Harvey with bail set
at $25,000, they were remanded to
the State Correctional Institute
pending a hearing.
Youth found guilty
A 14-year-old boy was found guilty
in Magistrate Court last week of
harassing a hunter with a loaded
shot gun. The juvenile was driving a
all-terrain vehicle at
the time of the incident which took
place in the vicinity’ of Cornell
Farms in Lehman.
The hunter, Charles Barby of Box
1969, Overbrook Avenue, Dallas,
made a citizens complaint against
the youngster. The case was heard
before District Magistrate Leonard
$50 plus costs.
Hearings waived
Alan Lord has waived hearings on
charges filed against him to Luz-
erne County Criminal Court rather
than have them heard by District
Magistrates Leonard Harvey and
Andrew Barilla.
Lord, of 89 Parrish Street, Dallas,
is accused of hiring a state police-
man to blow up his former girl-
friend’s trailer and of shooting at
the trailer himself. He is being
represented by Atty. Ettore S. Ago-
lino.
'VanKeuren charged
A Prima Facie case has been
found against Douglas VanKeuren
of Hilltop Apartments, Edwardsville
and 83 Rice Street, Trucksyille.
Charges against him are Possession
of a Controlled Substance, Conspir-
acy and Intent to Deliver.
VanKeuren was arrested by Cor-
poral Thomas Baggett, Pa. State
Police on charges that he supplied
10 grams of hashish that was deliv-
ered by a contact to an undercover
agent in the vicinity of the West-
moreland School. He was repre-
sented by Afty. Joseph Yeager at
the hearing before District Magis-
trate Earl Gregory and was
remanded to Luzerne County prison
to await a court trial.
Following an incident at the Pizza
Bar, Route 309, Trucksville a gun
wielding Dallas man, John Arnold
of 120 Jackson St., was arrested
Dec. 13 and confined to Luzerne
County Prison pending a hearing.
Kingston Township Patrolman
Walter Dawis charged Arnold, 26,
with two counts each of Recklessly
endangering Another Person,
Aggravated Assault, Terroristic
Threats and Carrying Guns Without
a License.
Police allege that Arnold, while a
customer at the Pizza Bar, threat-
ened both owner Ted Toma and
barmaid Elaine Zukosky. Patrol-
man Davis assisted by Dallas Bor-
ough Patrolman John Fowler,
responded to. the call and subse-
quently disarmed and arrested
Arnold who was seated at the bar.
Two fully loaded weapons were
discovered concealed on Arnold’s
person according to police they
were a six-inch barrel Don Wesson
clipped to a holster on his belt and a
38 caliber Smith and Wesson worn
on a shoulder holster under his left
arm. Both weapons contained six
full rounds of ammunition.
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