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Vol. 97, No. 37
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By JOHN HOINSKI
Statt Writer
. Dallas Borough police have begun
cracking down on motorists exceed-
ing the town’s speed limit in an
effort to put an end to a problem
that residents say has become a
life-threatening situation.
At the Borough council’s monthly
meeting last week, Jay Pope, of 165
Huntsville Road, told board mem-
bers the problem has become so
severe that he and his wife will no
front lawn.
“Automobiles have landed in our
front yard four times this year,”
Pope stated. “The telephone pole
has been sheared off twice. Now, we
are going to put up a protective
fence to keep motorists off our
property. A couple of cars have
already come close to taking off our
front porch.
“And it’s not just young people,”
Pope continued. ‘It’s old people,
middle aged people, all of the age
groups are guilty. The problem is
causing tremendous concern among
residents.”
Councilman Tim Carroll said the
board is aware of the situation and
soon be taken. Some of those steps
have already been taken and now
police are out clamping down on
offenders with the help of a newly
installed VASCAR unit.
“We will use it in different places
s0 people won’t become familiar
with where we are all the time,”
Carroll said. We have had many.
reports of people speeding, but I
think within a month you will see a
big difference.”
“Once word gets around, people
will begin to obey the speed limit
signs,” councilman Russell Stone
added.
In other business, the board:
— Met with officials from the
Dallas Acme concerning the traffic
problem with motorists pulling out
of the lot onto Church and Foster
Streets which abut it, causing
traffic congestion. Borough Solicitor
Insalaco’s
Markets
Insalaco’s: Market began inter-
viewing prospective employees last
week for its new store located at the
County Club Shopping Center in
Dallas, tentatively scheduled to
open by mid-November,
Last Wednesday between 10 a.m.
and 2 p.m and again between 4 and
8 p.m., throngs of people lined up at
the Irem Temple Country Club in
Dallas to fill out job applications in
hopes of becoming one of the 70 to
80 persons the company expects fo
employ at its new building located
on Route 309.
“We had hundreds of people here
when we began this morning,” said
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athletic fields in the future.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The work on the Dallas School
District’s new. soccer field for the
high school varsity team has been
completed and another phase of the
District’s long range plan for future
development was underway last
week with the razing of the former
Newman house which was part of
property owned by the school dis-
trict.
Most of the work on the soccer
field was done by the active U.S.
Marine Corps and the Marine
Reserve Corps which volunteered
its services in leveling the field. In
addition, much of the finishing work
was made possible by other commu-
nity volunteers, who donated the use
of equipment or labor. The field is
constructed according to P.I.A.A.
regulations and, now that the grad-
ing and seeding is completed, will
soon be the home field of the Dallas
High School varsity soccer team.
With closing of the Dallas Town-
ship’ Elementary building, officials
of the district decided to use the
building for a central storage facil-
ity. The central area will make it
easier to take inventory and to
check supplies and equipment in
and out, according to Property
Committee Chairman Harry Sick-
ler.
District board members recog-
nized that soccer is a growing sport
in the local area as is numerous
other youth athletics and antici-
pated a need for additional athletic
fields in their long range planning.
" The barns behind the former
Newman house and the house itself
were deteriorating and, without ren-
ovations at an enormous expense,
these buildings could become haz-
ardous in the near future. As a
result, district board members
approved the razing of the buildings
and leveling the ground thus elimi-
nating the cost of maintenance and
upkeep of the old structures.
The razing of the buildings
increases additional space for addi-
tional athletic and recreation fields
and tentative plans of the board of
wall between the Intermediate
building and the former Newman
property to make additional recrea-
tion area for: the students in the
Intermediate building.
The Combined Knights of Colum-
bus Councils of Wyoming Valley,
which include Wilkes-Barre, Pitts-
ton, Nanticoke, Luzerne, Lake Silk-
worth and Dallas, will conduct their
Tenth Annual Rosary Rally on
Sunday, Sept. 28. Host council is
Nanticoke 913. Theme for the gath-
ering is ‘Eucharistic Reparation.”
Those interested in joining the
march are asked to assemble at the
Zayre-Sunshine parking lot, Route
309, and Spring Street, Wilkes-
Barre, at 2:30 p.m.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
In 1957 two mothers, who had
recently lost their husbands, sat on
a beach along the ocean in New
York watching their children play-
ing nearby. They began talking with
one another and, in the course of
their conversation, discovered that
they both had similar problems in
making friends and mixing with
groups since their husbands were
gone.
After some discussion, they
decided to try to organize a group of
some kind and encourage others in
similar circumstances to join and,
perhaps, in some way, form a sup-
port group for others like them.
They placed an advertisement in a
daily paper inviting others to con-
tact them. They received very little
response from that first ad but,
refusing to give up, the two women
continued to advertise and also
talked to other widows or divorcees.
Before long, they had enough inter-
ested people with some of the same
needs and that year, 1957, the orga-
nization, Parents Without Partners,
was born.
The organization was successful
and so well-received that it began to
mushroom and today there are
more than 1,000 chapters of Parents
Without Partners across the coun-
try.
There is a local chapter in Wyo-
ming Valley which meets regularly
at the Parsons VFW. The local
Chapter #961 was founded in 1975
and members first met in a church
on North Main Street in Wilkes-
Barre.
partners, widowed, divorced or
Single parent
Mary Ann Daley is a member
of Parents Without Partners
and mother of seven chil-
dren she raised by herself.
single parents, belong to the organi-
zation which is a form of support
group to help these adults through
some troubled times. The parents
are able to share problems with one
another as these problems arise.
For the first time, Governor Rich-
ard Thornburgh of Pennsylvania
has declared September as Parents
Without Partners Month in the Com-
monwealth, and Wilkes-Barre
Mayor Thomas McLaughlin signed
a proclamation designating Septem-
Month. x.
The local chapter meets the third
Wednesday of each month and
usually has a speaker whose topic is
related to social education or family
activities. There are also weekly
activities for the adult and family
with the focus on the children.
Many family activities are
planned for Sundays since Sunday is
the day when many fathers have
their children.
Since Parents Without Partners is
a type of support group for parents,
coffee and conversation meetings
are held regularly so parents may
get together and discuss problems
similar to those others might have.
Although a specific topic is usually
planned for these meetings such as
“Making It Through the Holidays”,
“Dating”, etc., these are discarded
if someone has a specific problem
they want to share and discuss.
One Back Mountain member, who
joined for the family activities when
her daughter was younger, used to
have a holiday wine and cheese
party at her home and, in the
summer, a steak roast in her yard.
In the summer the members plan
picnics or excursions to certain
places. They go in groups so they
feel more comfortable than if alone.
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Speakers are scheduled for the
meetings and among those speaking
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Inside The Post
Births
Calendar .......... 15,16
Classified ......... 13,14
Cookbook ................ 7
Obituaries ............. 2
People................... 8
Sports-............ 9,10,12