Only Yesterday
Dallas Junior High School Student Council presented a check recently to Janie Griffin, Special Olympics manager, to help support the Special Olympics events. The student council members decided to use the funds raised from their annual lollipop sale to aid the Special Olympics and the Women’s Resource Center. Making the presentation were: Lisa Vozniak, Erin Johnson, Alison Labbate, Thanh Hunyh and Tracy Stahl.
A special meeting was held Monday at the Harvey’s Lake Municipal Building to determine public sentiment in the borough’s ongoing dispute with the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. The question is whether the Fish Commission should be compelled to provide public restroom facilities at the access area located at the Sandy Bottom section of the lake. The borough thinks the Fish Commission should comply with borough ordinances; the Fish Commission thinks they are exempt from such ordinances since they are a state agency.
Kingston Township Recreation Commission named its “Athlete-of-the-Month” award winners for February. February’s male athlete is Dallas High School senior basketball player Dave Szela and female athlete is King’s College sophomore basketball player Kim Rinehimer.
Cub Pack 132 of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Dallas has completed a successful popcorn sale. The boys in the pack sold 48 cases of popcorn. Prizes were awarded to the top salesmen at the Blue and Gold banquet. The winners of the prizes were Robbie Gengris, Mark Meade, Drew Jubis, John Tinner, Joe Leib, Robert Kubiski and John Troup.
Brownie Troop 647 of Noxen enjoyed pajama party at the home of their leader, Mrs. Bev Crispell. The girls played games and completed their Easter projects. Those attending were Cindy Hopfer, Danette Shaw, Ann Marie Wilson, Barbie Weaver, Dara Crispell, Missy Gale, Angie Schell, Peggy Siglin, Patti Stroud, Sandy Lamoreaux and Cheryl Simon.
Harvey’s Lake Lions will hold their annual Pancake-Sausage Supper and Breakfast at the Lake Elementary School on Saturday, April 1st and Sunday April 2nd. Chairman of the affair is Joseph “Red” Jones.
No swimming pool for the new Dallas Junior High School was the decision of Dallas School Directors at a special meeting held Tuesday night. The vote was close, five against the expense, four in favor.
Robert A. Griffith of Trucksville, Hallmark Art Contest winner and Kay Noolan Kale, Dallas, Art Contest winner were presented monetary awards at a recent meeting of the Dallas Junior Woman’s Club. Mr. Griffith entitled his drawing, “Charcoal Indian.” Mrs. Kale labeled her watercolor, “Landscape.”
Westmoreland’s basketball team won the Class A finals in thirty-first annual tournament at Bloomsburg State Teacher’s College. Members of the team: Gary Dietz, Ted Hons, Joseph Mollahan, Donald Bellas, William Strausser, James Case, Albert Dendler, Frank Cooper, Clark Mosier, William Traver, Harold Herring, Johnson Miers, Donald Rome, Richard Clark and Thomas Goddard.
Rev. Grove Armstrong, pastor of Trucksville Free Methodist Church, received a summons from Officer Howard Woolbert of Kingston Township police. The mock summons warned Pastor Armstrong that he must increase Sunday School attendance twofold before June 1st or spend three days in an especially built jail on the church parking lot. The youthful pastor is using this means to impress his congregation with the need for filling their enlarged Sunday School quarter with more pupils.
Clark Mosier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Mosier, Dallas Township, was a unanimous selection for the All-Star team at the thirty-first annual basketball tournament at Bloomsburg State Teacher’s College. Mosier was outstanding, scoring 87 points in four tournament games. When he wasn’t scoring or feeding one of his teammates, he was stealing the ball from his opponents.
Movies playing at the Shaver Theater, Shavertown, included “Green Dolphin Street” starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Richard Hart and Donna Reed; “Trouble with Women” starring Ray Milland and Teresa Wright; “Swing The Western Way” starring Mary Dugan and Hoosier Hoit Shots; and “Crime Doctor’s Manhunt” starring Warner Baxter and Ellen Drew.
Two members of Dallas Borough’s championship girls’ basketball team won uncontested places on the all-star team picked by League coaches while Dallas Township and Kingston Township placed one girl each and were tied for a guard position. Dallas Borough all-stars are Elkins and Cundiff.
Dallas Township, Lehman and Kingston Township students rated among the winners this week at the Luzerne County Music Contest of the Pennsylvania Music and Forensic League held in Forty Fort High School. Wilma Hess, Dallas Township Senior, and Betty Ide, Lehman High School, were judges superior in baton twirling. Barbara Hope, Dallas Township junior, won a superior rating in the soprano contest for girls and Harry Trebilcox, Kingston Township High School, won a superior rating in piano.
The Dallas Township Parent-Teacher Association realized $74.60 on the entertaining and hilarious Amateur Show which tickled a large crowd in the Dallas Township High School building last Friday night. Aside from the list of amateurs who performed, there was a more serious side to the evening. Guest soloist was Mrs. William Banks and during intermission Mrs. Evelyn Haley, Dorothy Gries and Estella Elston played a clarinet trio.
At local American Stores, a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna fish sold for 19 cents; fresh cauliflower was 15 cents a head and a large loaf of sandwich bread was nine cents.
Information for “Only Yesterday” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post, which is 119 years old. The information is printed here exactly as it appeared in the newspaper years ago.
