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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
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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
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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
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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
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