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vice-president;
treasurer; “Ann Norton,
IRENE G. TRANSUE |
Oldest grad
Irene G. Transue, of Dallas, will
receive a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Business. Administration
from College Misericordia during
commencement exercises set for
this Saturday.
Ms. Transue, who was born in
March, 1921, holds the honor of
being the oldest graduate of this
year’s class.
A former member of the staff at
College Misericordia, Ms. Transue
served as library secretary from
1968 to 1983.
Parents will
visit school
The Dallas Junior High * School
will host parents of current sixth
grade students at the junior high
school on Wednesday, May 23, at
7:30 p.m. The orientation will begin
with a program in the auditorium.
Dan ® Poorman, Leon Trager,
Thomas Carr, and Gordon Schlier,
Principal, Assistant principal and
guidance counselors, respectively,
will present a general overview of
the school program, and answer
questions offered by the parents.
The general program will be fol-
lowed by a tour of the school
facilities. Refreshments will be
served.
The Dallas Senior High School
will host the current ninth grade
students for an orientation program
during the morning of May 24. The
students will participate in a pro-
gram in the senior high auditorium.
Next year’s tenth grade program
will be explained. General informa-
tion about school activities will be
presented. The program will con-
clude with a question and answer
period, and a tour of the building.
Parents are invited to phone the
school guidance departments for
further information.
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coach, Ronald Rybak.
The decision not only was surpris-
ing, it was shocking to many of the
residents. So much so that many
players, as well as parents of play-
ers, vowed that next season’s team
would be seriously undermanned if
Rybak was not rehired.
The school board heard the
threats. Rybak was recently
rehired.
The cheerleaders who root for the
renown.
The Dallas High School Cheer-
leaders squad - or, more accurately,
a video of it - was chosen from
hundreds of competitors to appear
on ABC’s Good Morning America
program.
The girls also were chosen last
July as one of the top five squads of
the 60 or so that competed at Penn
State University.
The squad - which has been
coached for the past six years by
teacher Mary Ann Storz - operates
on a much smaller budget than do
the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
In fact, to finance their activities,
the girls have spent the past two
Don Lasoski, Camp Acahela
Alumni Chairman, announced the
annual Acahela Alumni Reunion
will be held on Saturday, June 9.
Rocky Glen Park will be the loca-
tion for this 65th Anniversary cele-
bration of Camp Acahela.
A large Sign-In Board will record
when each individual first visited
Acahela, and help in locating old
friends. The reunion will take place
in a family picnic setting, with
activities for the entire family.
Camp Acahela, located 15 miles
southeast of Wilkes-Barre, is one of
the oldest Scout Camps in continu-
ous operation in the country. Over
20,000 individuals have camped
there.
For more information contact the
Scout Servicenter 823-6158.
The Penn Mountains Council is an
active agency of the Wyoming
Valley United Way and the Wyo-
ming County United Fund.
If you're changing your address
and have a driver’s license, Repre-
sentative Frank Coslett of the 120th
Legislative District says that you
should immediately notify the State
Department of Transportation,
Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
The Luzerne County lawmaker
said drivers who don’t notify the
bureau of address changes risk a
fine and loss of their renewal appli-
cation in the mail.
Representative Coslett said he has
the necessary form (MV63), which
drivers must complete and send to
the bureau. Drivers can obtain the
change of address form by contact-
ing Representative Coslett at P.O.
Box 17, House of Representatives,
Harrisburg, Pa. 17120, or his district
office, 1265 Wyoming Ave., Forty
Fort, Pa. 18704.
summers picking potatoes at the
farm of John Handley, a local den-
tist.
Dallas-area residents - called
Back Mountaineers rather than Dal-
lasites - like to think that their area
is thriving economically, just like
the Dallas in Texas.
For example, the housing market
is healthy - just on a slightly differ-
ent scale. “Oh you could buy a
three-bedroom, 1% bath, two story
house on a half-acre here for about
$70,000,” says Pat Jones, an agent
with Century 21-Rachel’s Real
Estate on Memorial Highway.
Such a home would cost up to
$250,000 in Texas’ Big D, where the
average sale price of a home last
year was $117,000.
Housing prices come as a pleas-
ant surprise to many new Dallas,
Pa., residents, Jones said, because
many new buyers come from more
expensive areas. in New York, New
Jersey and even California. Such
residents usually have been trans-
ferred to Dallas and work in nearby
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Jones
said.
Last year, too, the Dallas Post
told its residents that a local busi-
There is no charge for changing
an address on a driver’s license and
the law requires drivers to make
the change within 15 days.
Representative Coslett reported
that many individuals have com-
plained to the Bureau of Motor
Vehicles that they haven’t received
their license renewal forms.
Many of those people, the bureau
has found, changed their address
but never notified PennDOT of the
change. The renewal form is sent
through the mails approximately
seven weeks before the last day of
the month of the driver’s birthday,
which is the expiration of the old
license.
If the address has been changed,
the Post Office won't forward the
mail from the old address to the
ness boom was under way. One sign
of the boom: a new Chicken Plus
had opened up in a store that
formerly had housed Country Best,
and had originally been Bill Davis’
Market.
Like the Texas Dallas, the Penn-
'sylvania Dallas has its share of
innovative businessmen. There’s
Elwood Sheldon, who clearly is a
diversified businessman.
Sheldon’s two businesses, it
seems, are electric toy trains and
tennis. One of his special offers is
providing free tennis lessons on his
private clay court in exchange for
additions to his electric train collec-
tion.
Finally, there are the sights that
any visitor would expect to find in a
municipality named Dallas. Over on
Main Road, there’s the ‘‘Hoof ‘n’
Paw,” where Dallas residents with
a western bent can buy cowboy
hats, shirts, jeans and vests. On
main Highway, there’s The Ranch
Wagon restaurant.
Then there’s the Dallas Baptist
Church, whose minister has a name
well-known in both Dallases: Danny
White.
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recently, and we grabbed it!
Miss Verna Lamoreaux cele-
brated her 93rd birthday this past
February 14, and in those 93 years
she has seen a society that has gone
through some remarkable changes.
The first of many jobs Miss
Lamoreaux had was teaching
school. This is, one area tht has
changed a great deal during her
life. She began her teaching career
in 1909, at the age of 18 in a one-
room school house in Outlet. Teach-
ing six different grades at the same
time wasn’ any picnic, and Miss
Lamoreaux will be the first to admit
that.
“There was so much confusion,”
she said. “It seemed all of the kids
would need something at the same
time. The teachers today don’t have
those kind of problems.”
Miss Lamoreaux didn’t stay with
teaching too long, however, and
after leaving that job, traveled to
Illinois where she worked as a store
clerk and at a sanitarium.
She then left Illinois, and went to
Kentucky to work at a post office.
While in Kentucky, Miss Lamo-
reaux came across some ‘‘hill”
children. These were children who
lived with their families in the
remote mountains of the country-
side. The children wanted to learn
how to sew. Since Miss Lamoreaux
was, and still is, handy with a
needle, she volunteered to teach the
children the art of sewing. They
began to quilt. After completing it,
they sold it and started a fund with
the money from the sale. Soon after,
everyone became involved in
making crafts and selling their mer-
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chandise for the fund. The money
added up, and later paid the way for
a local girl to go to New York City
to study nursing. All because of the
compassion of one woman.
When Miss Lamoreaux was 35
years old, she returned to the Back
Mountain area. It was at this time
she worked at the General Hospital
in Wilkes-Barre. At the same time,
she found a new pastime, poetry;
not reading it, but writing it.
Most poets have to attend years of
college to master their talents. Miss
Lamoreaux, on the other hand, has
had absolutely no formal training in
this field.
“I guess you could call it a God-
given gift,’ said Miss Lamoreaux.
“I use the things that I see and do
for inspiration. Sometimes I can
write a poem in one sitting, and yet
others take longer.”
Miss Lamoreaux has had her
work published in local newspapers,
including the Dallas Post, in the
past. One of her poems was even set
to music after she submitted it for
consideration to a music company.
I'll never get rich from it,” she
said, ‘but I do enjoy it.”
Miss Lamoreaux has had numer-
ous exciting experiences to base her
poetry on. Just think what she’s
been through. She has witnessed
such events as the birth of a new
century, World Wars I and II, and
the rise and falls of kings, presi-
dents and dictators. She has seen
man go from an airplane built with
bicycle parts, to NASA’s space shut-
tle, Columbia. She’s gone through
the Roaring Twenties, the Great
with all its flower children, life
without the threat of nuclear war,
and even ‘“‘Where’s the Beef?”
| The history her mind holds, like
lher, is invaluable.
Through which we all may roam,
Are the paths that lead to home.
Where those whose love is true
Shining just for you.
It’s placd there by the mother
Who is praying morn and night
Praying that the Father
Will guide her child aright.
Praying that the paths
Back to her and home.
As we walk along through life
And though we stop and hesitate
We still must win the strife.
And sunshine lights the way
We feel that we are stronger
When we come to the close of day
So if your path is winding
And you know not what to do
To guide and help you through.
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Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
e baseball in the Farm League
Cardinals, who were defeated
Reds beat
by the Giants, 27-22.
Orioles:
The Reds raised their record to 2-
4 when they belted the Orioles, 12-2.
Winning pitcher Bob Barbacci
game which had Barbacci and Jon
DePaolo each blasting a grand slam
in the first inning of the contest.
Other hitters for the winners were
Dan Watchulonis, Rick Hayes and
Mark Stallard. Eric Zimmerman
performed well on the mound in a
losing effort, recording 12 strike-
outs.
YANKEES WIN TWO
The Yankees won two games on
the week to up their record 6-1. Alex
Case got the first win, a one-hit
shutout over the Red So, striking
out 10 of the batters he faced. Case
iaded his own cause by belting out
three hits and teammates Mike
Bailey and Aarron Tillman helped
with two hits apiece. Ray Russin
pitched the Yankees to their second
win of the week, nailing down 10
batters. Russin and Bailey came
through with two hits each while
Chris Lushefski and Alex Case
belted two-run homers. Eric Nar-
done did a fine job behind the plate.
MAJOR LEAGUE
SCORES
Orioles 13, Indians 11; Giants 6,
Reds 2; Astros 15, Pirates 7; Yan-
kees 12, Red Sox 0; Reds 12, Orioles
2; Dodgers 6, Phillies 1; Red Sox 17,
Tigers 2; Yankees 11, Indians 7.
STANDINGS
Daddow Isaacs Post 672 Giants 4-0
Mahaffey Oil Yankees 6-1
Gino’s Shoe Store Astros 5-1
R.N. Fitch and Sons Orioles 4-2
L.A.D. Dodgers 3-2
Suburban Propane Phillies 3-3
Franklin’s Restaurant Indians 3-4
Arthur Shelly Inc. Reds 2-4
Rita Busch Pirates 1-4
Castle Inn Red Sox 1-5
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MINOR LEAGUE
SCORES ’
Orioles 16, Giants 5; Yankees 17,
Tigers 6; Pirates 17, Indians 5;
Cardinals 25, Astros 9.
STANDINGS
Watkins and Medura Orioles 3-0
Custom Management Pirates 2-0
D.A.G. Rentals Dodgers 1-0
John M. Randolph Sr. Giants 2-1
MacGeorge Auto Yankees 2-1
Back Mt. Police Assn. Reds 1-1
Hanover Bank of Pa. Cardinals 1-2
Fay Broody Studio Phillies 0-1
Kingston Twp. Lions Tigers 0-1
Jack’s Collision Indians 0-2
Mark II Restaurant Astros 0-3
SENIOR SOFTBALL
SCORES
Dodgers 14, Cardinals 11; Indians
9, Northwest 4; Orioles 8, Phillies 5;
Yankees 21, Cardinals 2; Northwest
8, Dodgers 6.
STANDINGS
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American Asphalt Braves 2-0
American Party Favor Yankees 2-0
Bonner Chevrolet Phillies 3-2
M.A.T. Leasing Orioles 3-2
Dallas Lions Indians 2-2
Northwest 2-2
Discount Office Dodgers 2-3
Jim-Jon Tomatoes Cardinals 0-4
LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL
SCORES
Dodgers 16, Reds 10; Pirates 6,
Expos 4; Pirates 15, Cards 9; A’s 14,
White Sox 5. ow
STANDINGS
Bk. Mt. Sporting Goods Dodgers 5-0
Pittston Sewing Center Pirates 4-1
Expos 2-2
B.J.S. A’s 1-2
Reds 1-3
Misericordia White Sox 1-3
Cards 0-5
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