4 THE UT ————— % Class of 1937 By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Correspondent When Ernest Line of Wasilla, Alaska, former Dallas Borough High School basketball coach and history teacher, unexpectedly arrived in the Back Mountain last Thursday, it didn’t take long for some of his former team members to get together and talk over old times with one of their favorite teachers and coach. Line, whose home is about 40 miles north of Anchorage, had been in Bloomsburg to attend the 50th reunion of his Bloomsburg College class and, since he was such a short distance from Dallas, he decided to come here and find some of his former students. Getting a call from Line, Gerald Sullivan, 1937 graduate and a member of the team immediately contacted as many members of the championship basketball team as possible and set up a meeting at the home of William Mann, Carverton, another class member, for Thurs- day afternoon. By 3:30 p.m., Atty. Robert Fleming, Ray Kuderka, Alvah Jones, Loren Fisk, Gerald Sullivan and Line had arrived at the William Mann residence and began to reminisce about their basketball days at the former Dallas Borough High School. The six men and Robert Hull, Philip Templin, Warren Culp, Fred- eric Drake, Odell Henson, Clyde Veitch and Robert Gould comprised the team that took the Back Moun- tain League title in 1937. Most of them were also members of the team that took the title in 1936. It was in 1936 that Ernest Line came to Dallas Borough directly from Bloomsburg State College where he played football, basketball and track, and accepted the position as history teacher, basketball and football coach. During that first season, Line said he drilled the athletes and molded them into a championship team, thus giving them permanent posses- sion of the league trophy. In 1937, Line was again successful in putting together a strong team and the team won six of its eight games to tie Kingston Township for the league championship. A three- game series to determine the cham- pionship was agreed upon and the first game was won by Dallas Bor- ough, 25-17, on their competition’s floor. The second game was played at Dallas and the bozough team won again, 34-23. Since Dallas Borough was the winner, the team repre- sented the Back Mountain League in the P.I.LA.A. playoff with Newport Township. Dallas lost 55-17 to end the roundball season. Since most of the members of the basketball team were also members of the football team coached by Line, the group became a close-knit family and for several years kept in touch with each other, until careers, war, marriage, etc. kept them busy. Only once in the past 46 years did they have a class reunion. A com- mittee of local class members organized a 25th class reunion which was held at the Castle in 1962. Nackley named to position InterMetro Industries Corpora- tion, Wilkes-Barre, has announced the appointment of John G. Nackley to the position of Director of Mar- keting & Sales, Healthcare Division. He will be responsible for develop- ment objectives, policies and pro- grams for marketing and sales activities, as well as coordinating the efforts of marketing and sales personnel in the Healthcare Divi- sion. A 1974 graduate of King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Nackley holds- a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathe- matics. He has also had extensive training in programming, systems analysis, marketing and manage- ment. Prior to his appointment with InterMetro, Mr. Nackley served as Vice President - Sales & Marketing with Diamond Manufacturing Com- pany, Wyoming, Pa. A native of Wilkes-Barre, he now resides in Dallas, with his wife, the former Dena Capristo and their three children. VOTERS LAKE-LEHMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT REGION 2 (Sweet Valley, Lake Silkworth and Lehman) THANK YOU For Your Support In The May Primary Since that time the class mem- bers have lost touch with one another and the men who met last Thursday decided it would be a worthwhile project to try to find out where their former classmates ar and what they are doing. There were 22 graduates in the class of 1937, 11 girls and 11 boys. They were Elsie Culp, Jane Knecht, Roberta Van Campen, Leila Cragle, Elsie Johnstone, Florence Kelley, Alberta Himmler, Gertrude Ber- tram, Bettie Weid, Vivienne Rogers, Verna Sheppleman, Richard Major, Gerald Sullivan, Robert Fleming, William Niemeyer, Robert Hull, Kenneth Davison, Raymond JOHN G. NACKLEY our 9 By JOHN F. KILDUFF Staff Writer Dallas Borough Police Chief Edward Lyons recently announced the hiring of two new part-time patrolmen. The two new borough officers are Michael Valeta, a 17-year resident of West Nanticoke and Chris Pur- cell, 12 Marshall Drive, Dallas. Valeta, 43, is a 1979 graduate of the Act 120, Pennsylvania Municipal Police Training Academy, Wyoming Pa., and had worked full-time as a patrolman from 1979-80 for the Nan- ticoke police department. Currently, Valeta patrols on alter- nating shifts; in his new position with Dallas Borough as well as ‘“‘swing- shifts” for Harveys Lake police, where he has been a part-time officer since: April of 1982. Vietnam in :1 966-67. Purcell, 27, has been active for over nine years with Dallas Bor- ough and Dallas Township Volun- teer Fire Departments and cur- rently plans to take the Act 120 Pennsylvania Municipal Police Training Academy within the next year. State 1negulations mandate the training be completed within a year after beginning part-time patrol duties. CHRIS PURCELL By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN Special to The Dallas Post Imagine a book which is a combi- nation geological time machine, travellogue, geography lesson, pho- tographic essay, urban planning textbook, yet written in a style which is not only educational, but entertaining. This is the book titled “Land Prints’ by Walter Sullivan, a book which takes you through America, traveling by land and air and stopping at most of the scenic and exciting vistas across the conti- nent. Tiny segments of Northeastern Pennsylvania are identified, but the prevailing strength of the book is the ability to relate our current physical geography and natural fea- tures of the United States to the continental drifting and tectonics which slapped and slashed across the world millions and millions of years ago. Sullivan, with great patience and skill, takes the reader through floods, the ice age, glaciers, winds, volcanic eruptions and other forces which caused this continent to be what it is today. - The 394-page book reminds us of the gigantic upheavals which caused the smashing and splitting of continents many eons ago and the continuous changes which are taking place today especially along sea coasts and earthquake and vol- canic prone areas of the continent. He delves into ‘new techniques for charting layered structures within the earth the depth of several miles, As he states “it is a form of seismic, or vibrational, probing developed for oil prospecting. Fif- teen ton trucks jack themselves up on platforms to apply their weight firmly to the ground, then shake the landscape at a variety of frequen- cies. The vibrations, after penetrat- ing deep into the: earth, are recorded along a line of stations.” A number of such surveys have been done by an alliance of academic, oil-company, and government scien- tists called COCORP (Consortium for Continental Reflection Profil- ing). Crater impacts are featured in the book as shapers of the land includ- ing the huge meteor crater’” a giant scoop blasted out of the flat, gener- ally treeless Arizona plateau six miles south of Interstate 40. It is three miles in circumference and almost deep enough to hide the THOMAS PRODUCE STAND Opposite Natona Mills Dallas-Harveys Lake Hwy. STRAWBERRIES LATE CABBAGE PLANTS ROOFING + SIDING + GUTTERS + PATIO COVERS + GARPORTS| J and J Full Service and Breads Washington monument.’’ Sullivan spreads his knowledge of the North American landscape across pages of description aind facts to capture the imagination. of many Americans who have not; had the opportunity to cross the continent. ; He points to the glacial changes which have occurred over millions of years to cause and produce some of the world’s most spectacular plunge pools and potholes. Potholes are gouged lny water swirling with sufficient energy to batter the walls with stones aiid drill a deep shaft. Utilizing Northeastern Pennsyl- vania examples, he states the fol- lowing: ‘Six’ miles south of Scran- ton, Pennsylvania, along Route 6, there is a formidable pothole 38 feet deep and 42 feet wide. In Whirlpool Canyon, a third of a mile west of Pennsylvanizi Route 115 near Exit 47 on Interstate 81, a succession of seven potholes is known as The Tubs.” For those who want to acquaint themselves with the language of land. Sullivan points to drumlins, kames and eskers. Kames are hills of glacier rnaterial that look as though sand lias been dribbled from a narrow source, as sand in an hourglass, to produce an almost perfect cone. Eskers are narrow snaking ridge:s superimposed on the landscape. They were left by streams that flowed in tunnels under, or sometimes, on the ice. Drumlins ar¢: elongated hills, typi- cally shaped like partly buried eggs or (as they aire often called) whale backs. They «iccur in groups of tens to thousands, their long axes parra- lel to the form or direction of ice slope. Karsts havie similar features to what apparently is on the lunar surface. They’ take their name from the region of Yugoslavia, east of 0 4 $e FARMS INC. a ¢ a SE b America Trieste where they are common. It is a pitted type landscape with many caverns or sinks. Going beyond pure geology and geography, Sullivan talks about man-made features such as center- pivot irrigation systems which ‘have become a remarkable feature of the western states...” These are giant circles periodically sprinkled by a pipe, typically a quarter mile long, slowly swinging in a circle. The pipe is supported by self-pro- pelled towers and intervals along its length. In a series of striking photo- graphs, the center pivot system is shwon to be a remarkable invention which is cost-effective and provides an irrigation system second to none in the world. He states that ‘so striking is the pattern formed by these ranks of green discs that in 1973 and 1974 they were repeatedly used for navigational reference by the orbiting skylab astronauts as they sailed by 270 miles overhead.” Sullivan is the science editor of the New York Times and author of several other books. ‘Land Prints” is a bible for those seeking intimate knowledge of the landscape we see, but do not necessarily understand. In Northeastern Pennsylvania’s terms, it harkens back to the mid- 1970’s when a framework policy plan based on natural features of the region’s landscape was pre- pared by the Economic Develop- ment Council of Northeastern Penn- sylvania (EDCNP). The framework plan contains land prints which deserve close attention by all those concerned with the future of North- eastern Pennsylvania. It is a por- trayal of things to come which signify how Northeastern Pennsyl- vania should direct its resources, both human and physical well into the 21st century. Sullivan’s contribu- tion is to make this planning and TT ar ——T 5 : Ps GR TE) { ay & flora CO.
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