1947 WB Record Almanac, Record of Local Events for 1946 The following information is posted for the sole purpose of family research within the Yahoo Group The Court House Gang. It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc. without prior written permission and guidelines from the group owner, to ensure that proper credit is given to the group and all of our volunteers that helped with this project 1946 WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC RECORD OF LOCAL EVENTS Principal Happenings in Luzerne County for the Year Which Began December 1, 1945, and Ended November 30, 1946 DECEMBER, 1945 1. Two men, one a veteran of World War 2, killed in automobile accidents . . . City takes on colorful hue as holi­day lights go on. 2. School boards in various bor­oughs and townships reorganize. 3. Fourth pedestrian killed by auto­mobiles in four days . . . Ice and snow cover highways making travel treacherous . . . Col Benjamin F. Evans retires from active service . . . Influenza epidemic hits city schools. 4. North Moreland Church pre­pares to celebrate 100th anniversary . . . Duck hunter loses life in fall from Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad bridge . . . Girl Scout council plans camp enlargement. 5. Wilkes-Barre Lions Club spon­sors skating rinks in city . . . Fred J. Potter elected commander of Asher Miner Post 4, Society of the 28th Division. 6. Vulcan Iron Works names five new executives . . . County GOP re­ports expenditures of $13,007 in pri­mary election. 7. State distributes $651,341 to coun­ty schools. 8. John B. Kennedy, superintendent of Kingston Schools, shot in hunting accident . . . Peak in illness wave reached . . . DeMolay Chapter in­itiates class of 82 in honor of Presi­dent Harry S. Truman. 9. City experiences cold wave. 10. Concordia presents winter con­cert with Conrad Thibault as guest artist. 11. Kingston American Legion Post initiates 375 veterans . . . Georgetown home badly damaged by fire . . . Mer­cury drops to low of 26 degrees. 12. Lehigh Valley Coal Company janitor found dead after fifth story plunge. 13. Adelaide Hartpence installed as religious education director of First Presbyterian Church, city . . . Shrine initiates 100 novices. 14. Three unmasked bandits obtain $4,800 in holdup of Scranton Dress Factory . . . City Council grants raises to salaried employes. 15. Temperature drops below zero in rural regions . . . Martz Old River Road plant damaged by Woodward Mine squeeze . . . Many fires occur in valley . . . Scranton Diocese ordains 12 men. 16. Fela's Bar and Grill destroyed by explosion of gas. 17. City employes flood skating rinks as temperatures remain below freezing. 18. City Chevrolet Company of Kingston robbed . . . City Council passes 1946 budget on first reading . . . Benjamin S. Dowd elected presi­dent of Vulcan Iron Works. 19. City and state highway men battle heavy snow as nine to 15 inches blanket valley . . . Dr. Carl E. Hontz elected president of Luzerne County Dental Society . . . Rev. Hugh McGroarty, Plains native, ordained into priesthood. 20. Duck hunter trapped in river by ice as boat rams against bridge . . . Rabbi Reuben Katz, formerly of Temple Israel, goes to Akron, 0. 21. E. H. Kent selected director of 1946 Red Cross Campaign. 22. Holiday travel reaches peak as trains sell "standing room only." 23. Youth released from prison for Christmas holidays wounded while fleeing police . . . Sunday mail delivery clears post office jam. 24. Corn. William T. Kinsella award­ed Navy Cross, Gold Star in lieu of second Navy Cross and Bronze Star Medal . . . Rocky Glen concessions destroyed by fire. 25. Mr. and Mrs. BIair Troxell, Wilkes-Barre, celebrate 50th wedding anniversary . . . Rainstorm turns high­ways into treacherous avenues of ice, travel over Pocono Mountains is stopped. 26. New York man crushed by train at Lehigh Valley station . . . Coal shortage presents problem to local residents. 27. Scranton Diocese announces work program with King's College plans included . . . Matthew B. Welsh retires after 40 years as chief clerk and. assistant chief clerk in prothonotary's office . . . Col. Ernest G. Smith, president of Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, dies. 28. Evan Jones, retired city fire cap­tain, killed by automobile . . . Scran-ton Diocese announces 19 changes among priests. 29. Army and Navy release 273 men and women. 30. Native Lace Company plans building at Dallas . . . Hazleton suffers $75,000 fire Mr. and Mrs. Ed­ward M. Bartikowsky celebrate 50th wedding anniversary. 31. Residents of Wyoming Valley extend noisy welcome to 1946 as they celebrate first peacetime New Year's in five years . . . 1945 reported to be wettest year in last 25 years. JANUARY, 1946 1. Willard Long and John Ney, vet­eran Record printers, retire . . . One man killed and nine reported injured in holiday accidents . . . Thomas F. Gallagher retires after 45 years ser­vice with Lehigh Valley Railroad. 2. Mrs. Melanie Heller, who escaped Gestapo in Poland, returns to Wyo­ming Valley. 3. Jack Flannery named president of Neighborhood Club . . . Three wo­men trapped in burning house as three children are thrown to safety Pittston Young Men's Institute destroyed by fire with estimated loss set at $250,000. 4. Inkerman man's death fourth highway fatality during week . . . Rev. James W. Connerton arrives in city as president of King's College. 5. Large section of Pittston street drops into mine cave. 6. Russians open observance of Yule holiday . . . Warmest January 6 recorded as temperature hits 59 de­grees. 7. George Williams, Record report­er, takes oath of office as burgess of Dallas Adaline Dock, Oregon, joins Osterhout Free Library . . . An­thracite output for 1945 is 14.4 per cent lower than 1944 . . . Borough, town­ship, city and county officials take office. 8. City banks hold reorganization meetings . . . Rev. Peter K. Emmons, Scranton, addresses Community Forum. 9. OPA officials study rent in­creases in Wyoming Valley . . . Army recruiting office accepts 225 regular Army volunteers. 10. Earth tremor detected in cen­tral city . . . Wilkes-Barre Township Legion post authorized . . . Dr. Charles Miner reelected president of Kirby Health Center. 11. Bureau of Highway Safety an­nounces Luzerne County leads state in number of deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents. 12. Rent raising in local areas pro­tested by union groups as individuals file complaints with Real Estate Board. 13. John A. Riley, Sugar Notch, elected president of Ancient Order of Hibernians to succeed Joseph M.' Gaynor, who retired after serving three years. 14. Avondale Colliery mine boss vic­tim of marsh gas . . . Avoca Council pays light bills due 10 years . . . At­torney John Verbalis seated as presi­dent of AMVETS. 15. Five-year-old child and aged man killed by automobiles . . . Mar­riage licenses hit four-year high in 1945 . . . General Hospital reports show 8,700 persons treated in pre­ceding year. 16. Roscoe B. Smith elected poten­tate of Irem Temple at annual busi­ness meeting . Meat packers' strike cuts valley's meat supply. 17. Louis Leger appointed , to vacancy on Kingston School Board. 18. National steel strike effects local Hazard plant . . . Nanticoke woman dies of burns suffered when clothing became ignited. 19. Infantile Paralysis Fund opens drive . . . New American Legion Post organized in Wilkes-Barre Township . . . Charles F. Johnson resigns as superintendent of Kis-Lyn Industrial School and is succeeded by Charles E. Horton . . . Warden William B. Healey reelected president of Police Executives Association. 20. Mercury dips below zero. 21. Hazard Wire Rope Company employes join national steel strike . . . Attorney Frank Pinola named head of Luzerne County Bar Association . . . Torch Club selects Dr. Joseph J. Kocyan as president. 22. Completion date for Veterans' Hospital set as September, 1947. 23. Plymouth sailor dies in Bedford, Pa., auto crash . . . Nine-year-old Bobby Todd, Plymouth Boy Scout, visits President Truman . . . Raymond S. Davis named chief deputy tax col­lector in City Treasurer's office. 24. Frank B. Novakowski, Nanti­coke, directs veterans' activities for 28 counties . . . Andrew J. Sordoni heads drive for funds for Bucknell Junior College expansion. 25. Irem Temple Country Club opens 1,200 foot toboggan slide . . . Army announces plans to close local Induction Station, effective February 28. 27. Pringle veteran kiled by auto . . . Luzerne County Victory Clothing Drive nets 10 tons of clothing. 28. Mad dogs become county men­ace . . . Four employes escape ex­plosion at Atlas Powder Company. 29. Councilman Kniffen proposes police examinations for applicants for police force . . . Col. J. Henry Pool addresses Rotary Club. 30. County budget excludes salary increases . . . Kenneth Croop, aged 9, of Nanticoke, drowns in Susquehanna River. 31. David C. Vaughan named head of Republicans in eight counties . . . Three servicemen become United States citizens at Federal Court ses­sion in city. FEBRUARY 1946 1. Jackson Township husband and wife die from shock and burns after home is destroyed by fire . . Leo A. Tierney, Pittston chief of police, re­signs. 2. Veterans Administration takes over Sterling annex for offices. 3. Alfred Gabrio, Hazleton, Civil War Veteran, celebrates 100th birth­day anniversary . . . William M. Phil-lips, Kingston, suspended as assistant director of motor vehicles at Harrisburg for alleged illegal issuance of drivers' licenses. 4. OPA rent control agents start survey in Luzerne-Lackawanna coun­ties . . . Fire sweeps 10 acres of land in Pringle Borough . . . YMCA elects seven directors. 5. State Senator George Woodward, former Wilkes-Barrean, retires at age of 82 ... Paul R. Mehm of Wilkes-Barre named dean of men at Key­stone College. 6. Kenneth Croop, Nanticoke drown­ing victim, found by father after being missing since January 29 ... Charles Weissman elected president of Playground and Recreation Associa­tion. 7. State pays Luzerne County In­stitutional District $100,000 for Retreat property . . . Returned veterans flock to City Hall with applications for police and fire department vacancies. 8. Boy Scouts run city for an hour . . . Subscription drive to pur­chase land for Veterans' Hospital in­dorsed. 9. Drive to raise $2,000,000 for King's College starts in Scranton Diocese. 10. Valley ice skate fans flock to lakes exceptionally smooth with 12 inches of ice. 11. Blast at stripping mines causes severe damage to many homes in Edwardsville . . . Walter Cassel, bari­tone, scores hit at Irem Temple. 12. OPA receives protests on rent increases . . . Selective Service Board members receive medals. 13. Comerford Theaters announce plans for remodeling and enlarging two city theaters-Penn and Orpheum ... Boy, 3, used as shield for rob­bery of barbecue stand on Narrows Highway after which owner tracks down robber and turns thief over to police. 14. Street caves in Larksville short­ly after bus load of Cigar Company employes passes . . . Wilkes-Barre gets one of three allotted Naval Recruit­ing Stations. 15. Five parishes reach goal in Scranton Diocese subscription drive for King's College . . . Rev. A. Paul Lam, Moosic native, accepts charge at Bennett Presbyterian Church, Lu­zerne . . . Public asked to subscribe for purchase of land for Veterans' Hospital . . . Thief throws pepper in woman's eyes arid escapes with $2,968 proceeds and payroll of John R. Roberts Coal Company . . . Frigid winds chill Wyoming Valley. 16. Brotherhood Week opens . . . Five cars of Central Railroad derailed in Penobscot Yards. 17. Knights of Columbus initiates class of 100 candidates . . ." Rev. Pius Keating reads first mass at Plymouth. 18. Dr. P. M. Kerr addresses Wyo­ming Valley Torch Club . . . Bucknell Junior College adds nine to faculty. 19. Al Wilfong named new professional golfer at Wyoming Valley Coun­try Club . . King's College Fund boosted to $2,451,854 . . . Four-inch snowfall slows city and highway traffic. 20. Dorothy Maynor, Negro soprano, delights Community Concert audience . . . Heavy snowfall continues as winds pile drifts on roads. 21. OPA investigators recommend rent control for Lackawanna, Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill counties ... Two persons killed in Dupont auto crash. 22. Public drive for Veterans' Hos­pital starts . . . Col. F. P. Strome, Ash-ley native, awarded Legion of Merit . . . TWA asks permission to land planes in Wilkes-Barre. 23. Veterans' Hospital Fund reaches $20,000 . . . Miner-Hillard Milling Company honors veterans at dinner at Hotel Sterling. 24. Seven Pittston residents injured when car hits steel divide of bridge in Lee Park . Zionist organization honors Congressman Daniel J. Flood. 25. Rev. T. Ross Paden installed as secretary of Wyoming Valley Council of Churches. 26. Measles epidemic continues . . . Luzerne County Commissioners retain 7-mill tax levy. 28. Applications for marriage licen­ses set February peak . . . Wilkes-Barre Induction Station closed after 250,000 took pro-induction tests. MARCH 1946 1. Community Welfare Federation observes 25th year of service. 2. Capt. Charles McRae named commander of Wyoming Squadron 3, Pennsylvania State Police. 3. Two women killed and two in­jured in auto crash at Shickshinny. 4. Kingston Borough hires new sec­retary. 5. Dinner marks closing of Wilkes-Barre USO . . . Wilkes-Barre City School District reinstates three war veterans. 6. Red Cross Showmobile entertains city residents . . . Luzerne County Police authorities open drive against gambling. 7. Wilkes-Barre man shot in at­tempted hold-up of New York City jeweler . . . Wilkes-Barre Record re­ceives citation from Treasury Depart­ ment for services rendered during war. 8. State pays county for Retreat properties . . . Two communities, Wilkes-Barre Township and Bear Creek, first in campaign of Red Cross to go over top . . . Moose present hot pack for Kenny treatment of polio to Wilkes-Barre's City Board of Health. 10. Strike of Brotherhood of Rail­road Trainmen of Jersey Central Rail­road called off. 11. Col. Mitchell Jenkins and Daniel J. Flood, Republican and Democrat, respectively, file for Congress . . . Ad­vance gifts to Red Cross campaign reach 80 per cent. 12. Scranton District OPA office asks for speedy action on rent curbs . . . Rabbi Marcus Saizman completes 50th year as rabbi of Temple B'nai B'rith, South Washington Street. 13. Railroad engine provides steam to run Hazard Okonite Division which had been idle due to strike of Ameri­can Chain and Cable Company . . . Fire damages shaft of Loree Colliery of Hudson Coal Company. 14. Notre Dame announces plans to send. eight teachers to King's College. West Side robberies cleared with the arrest of five Edwardsville youths. 15. Measles declared quarantineable for 16 days from onset of disease in effort to halt epidemic . . . Leiand W. Green resigns as executive secretary of South Side YMCA . . . Income tax rush on last filing day less than an­ticipated. 16. Beer shortage in taverns worst since repeal of 18th Amendment. 17. Fifty-five new industries located along Lehigh Valley Railroad during 1945. 18. Children who have not had measles banned from school during epidemic . . . Pittston Stove Works changes hands . . . Miner Aylesworth withdraws from gubernatorial cam­paign. 19. Veterans' Hospital site check totals $114,736.08 . . . Joseph Murray named captain of city detectives as council overrides Mayor McCole on Police Department promotions . . . Wilkes-Barre delegation welcomes Cruiser Wilkes-Barre at Philadelphia upon return from Pacific campaign. 20. Stephen A. Teller renamed as­sistant district attorney . . . Leonard Pomicter named head football coach at Berwick. 21. Former Pine Street school in East End converted into textile mill . . . Glen Lyon miners charge store­keepers with favoritism in sale of but­ter. 22. Ashley By-pass section in Georgetown damaged by 100-foot sub­sidence . . . Rabbi Marcus Saizman lauded on 50th anniversary of min­istry . . . 5,200 see Allentown defeat Williamsport in Eastern District semi-finals of PIAA basketball at Kingston Armory . . . Chamber of Commerce names board to handle Veterans' Hospital fund. 23. Reorganization of 109th FA authorized by National Guard. 24. Matteo Miglionico of Hughes-town killed by automobile in Duryea . . Dozen marksmen open campaign against stray dogs in effort to halt rabies epidemic. 25. James E. Sugden named division commercial manager by PP & L . Bureau of Mines recommends study of "backfllling" program to prevent surface cave-ins in anthracite area . . . Gerald P. O'Neil purchases Penn-Stroud Hotel at Stroudsburg. 26. Glendale Farms Dairy merged with Woodlawn Farm Dairy. 27. John H. Harris, Wilkes-Barre, retires after 44 years' service with Central Railroad . . . "Blossom Time" presented at Capitol Theater . . . New bus line to operate between city and Tunkhannock via Shavertown . . . City seeks Federal aid on sewage dis­posal system. 28. Robert S. Mercur, Jr., named PP & L district manager for Wilkes-Barre Division . . . Bingo halted at Hazleton . . . Francis Murphy succeeds Peter Mather as president of Magis­trates' Association . . . Traffic Officer John A. Fiesler to retire. 29. American Red Cross drive ex­ceeds $125,150 goal by 28 per cent. 30. Mrs. Mary Smith, Wilkes-Barre, victim of automobile accident . , . Fed­eral Court grants temporary injunc­tion restraining ICC from enforcing lower rates on anthracite coal haul­age by 10 railroads . . . State Chris­tian Endeavor Union holds executive meeting in city. 31. Dr. Charles Shafer of Kings­ton named chairman of State Board of Medical Education and Licensure . . . Dr. Benjamin S. Davis of Ply­mouth publishes analysis of drownings at Harvey's Lake and in river . . . Measles cases in city during March total 860. APRIL 1946 1. Rev. J. Rolland Crompton of Kingston elected headmaster of Pen-nington School for Boys at Penning-ton, N. J. . . . "Dear Ruth" staged at Capitol Theater . . . 30,000 veterans of two World Wars drawing pensions in 28 counties . . . Dr. John Giering promoted to lieutenant colonel by Army. 2. Wilkes-Barre votes to go on Day­light Saving Time April 28 ... City to seek loan for Susquehanna River sewage plant . . . Barbers announce increase on haircut price to 75 cents and shave to 40 cents. 3. T. Newell Wood of Harvey's Lake named trustee of Mansfield State Teachers College . . . Brewery Work­ers' Union gives 30 days' notice of intent to strike against five breweries. 4. Robert E. Hoffman, 14, Wilkes-Barre, killed by accidental blast of shotgun . . . Mrs. William Myers, 57, found drowned in river. 5. Hazard Wire Rope Company's 74-day strike ends . . . Scranton-Spring Brook Water Service Company reorganizes . . . Salvation Army seeks $70,000 for Youth Center. 7. Frank Bonner of Kingston fatal­ly injured when struck by automo­bile . . . Fire razes Orange Grove Fruit Market in Kingston. 8. Exeter Township gets first fire department. 9. Eugene S. Teter succeeds A. P. Cope as county superintendent of schools . . . National Commander John B. Stelle speaker at American Legion dinner in Wilkes-Barre. 10. Anthracite Institute announces new type house designed for anthra­cite heat . . . Comerford Theaters, In­corporated, to reopen Strand Theater, closed for several years. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nolde of Shea-town mark 67th wedding anniversary. 12. Louise Gobel, 14, Kingston, strangled by falling window . . . Miss Eloise Dougherty, 84, of Wilkes-Barre, fatally burned. 13. Pennsylvania Railroad marks 100th anniversary. 15. Kingston burgess refuses request of ministers to prohibit horse parade on Easter Sunday . . . Pennsyl­vania Power and Light to distribute $600,000 in back pay as result of con­tract with employes. 16. Five children orphaned when early morning fire asphyxiates James McKeown, 47, of Georgetown . . . City School Board schedules salary in­creases ranging from $5 monthly to $400 yearly for employes . . . Rabid dog bites 17 persons in Hanover Township, Wilkes-Barre and Plains Township . . . Glen Alden to backfill stripping operations . . . Kirby Park band stand destroyed by fire. 17. Wilkes-Barre Barons win Penn State Basketball League play-off. 18. Survey by mail carriers in Wilkes-Barre and 26 surrounding towns reveals only 500 vacant houses in area housing 220,000 19. Native Lace Works, Incorporat­ed, purchases 16-acr.e site in Dallas Township for $475,000 factory . . . W. S. Carpenter, Wilkes-Barre native, awarded medal for distinguished ser­vice to Ordnance . . . Mrs. Harriet Bayley fatally burned at Nanticoke. 20. Larksville stages first Easter-Egg Hunt. 21. Fifty thousand see annual horse parade on Easter Sunday . . . Mrs. Louis Helfrich of Wilkes-Barre mys­teriously shot on South Main Street . . . Lehigh Valley Railroad observes 100th anniversary. 22. City Council approves $41,000 loan for proposed sewage treatment plant . . . Burton E. Puterbaugh of Tunkhannock killed by Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train. 23. Bread supply cut 25 per cent in conformity with government order . . . Army engineers begin survey for new Veterans' Hospital on East End Boule­vard. 24. Rev. Ralph T. Haas of Scran-ton elected moderator of Lackawanna Presbytery . . . Survey reveals only 11 per cent of parking violators in Wilkes-Barre pay their fines . . . At­torney Arthur Silverblatt succeeds At­torney Louis Shatter as an assistant district attorney. 25. Tri-District miners opening con­vention in Hazleton hear Lewis blame U. S. Steel for soft coal strike . . . Jersey Central traffic tied up when 29 cars jump track between Rockport and Penn Haven . . . Harvey (Twin) Weiss, New York fighter, fatally in­jured in bout with Patsy Gall of Free-land at Kingston Armory . . . Mrs. Sophie V. Sromovsky, 29, of Plymouth, fatally injured in Burlington Railroad wreck in Illinois. 26. A. H. Mitchell, West Pittston, supervising railroad movement of food into China . . . Anthracite miners de­mand federal retirement at 55 instead of 65. 27. Inch of snow falls in mountain areas . . . W. A. Brong to retire after 59 years' service with Central Railroad at White Haven . . . Milton C. Huey of Forty Fort fatally injured when struck by automobile. 28. Majority of valley communities go on Daylight Saving Time . . . Rev. Roswell W. Lyon named superintend­ent of Wilkes-Barre District as Wyo­ming Conference holds closing session at Binghamton. > 29. U. S. Supreme Court refuses re­view of levy on bank shares of stock­holders of closed banks . . . Douglass V. Brown, Wilkes-Barre native, named to MIT professorship . . . Milan Vuko-vich, 37, of Hazleton, sentenced to five years in slaying of Evo Buzovich. 30. Reconstruction of Plymouth-Breslau Bridge to be completed by May 30. MAY 1946 1. Ruth Dattner, 39, of Wilkes-Barre, fatally stabbed on South Main Street by John Vaverka, 38 ... Barons beat Scranton in 24th Eastern League opener before record 8,829 crowd . . . Robert W. Gloman to succeed Elmer E. Matthews as superintendent of General Hospital . . . William Henry Chamberlain, journalist and author, speaker before Polish-American Con­gress audience . . . Debate on "Social­ized Medicine" attracts record audi­ence to Peoples' Meeting . . . S. M. Wolfe, Jr., named alderman of 10th Ward, Wilkes-Barre. 2. City Engineer proposes projec­tion of Main and Market Streets through Public Square as solution to traffic problem . . . Governor Martin and Attorney General James H. Duff make political speeches in Irem Tem­ple . . . J. Truman Evans and Will Wood complete 50 years' service with Vulcan Iron Works. 3. Glass workers end two-weeks' strike . . . Thomas L. Owen's abstainence from liquids for 12 years feat­ured in Ripley's "Believe It Or Not." 4. Maj. Gen. E. R. "Pete" Quesada and Capt. Dale Harris, USN, honored by Wyoming Seminary alumni at din­ner . . . Arthur Roberts, 15, of Forty Fort fatally injured when struck by automobile. 5. Branch YMCA to be established in former Odd Fellows Building in Parsons. 6. Twentieth annual district con­ference of 177th District, Rotary In­ternational, opens in city . . . LVRR firemen and engineers take strike vote . . . Rev. H. Hatton succeeds Rev. Theodore Gould as PM pastor at Ply­mouth. 7. Congressman John W. Murphy of Dunmore, Avoca native, appointed Federal judge in Middle District . . . State gives King's College right to grant degrees . . . City Council adopts new rules of conduct for police de­partment. 8. Soft coal strike forces railroads in valley to curtail freight and passen­ger trains . . . Motor Club to seek highway and river bridge to Retreat Mental Hospital . . . Frank W. Ander-son to head Community Welfare Fed­eration fall campaign . . . Textile magazine reveals lace curtain industry had start in Wyoming Valley in 1885. 9. Nanticoke reverts to standard time . . . Westinghouse strike, affect­ing 65 employes in city, ended after 115 days . . . Officials of dozen West Side boroughs seek measures to cut highway traffic fatalities. 10. Capt. William J. Dohman of Wilkes-Barre Fire Department to re­tire after 26 years' service. 11. State reports 609 stray dogs shot during quarantine in Luz-erne County . . . Mrs. Moria Myers of Wapwallopen fatally injured in automobile accident. 12. Rev. A. W. Campbell succeeds Rev J. B. McLaughlin as pastor of West Nanticoke Evangelical Church. 13. Plymouth raises school em­ployes' pays . . . Vera Brittain, British author, lectures in city . . . Kenneth Ferrell denied new trial and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing of Charles Randall of Harvey's Lake. 14. Igor Gorin soloist at concert by Concordia Singing Society . . . Diocese of Bethlehem opens two-day session in Wilkes-Barre . . . CAA withdraws orders suspending- American Airlines' ser­ vice to Wilkes-Barre Airport. 15. Gypsy moth-infested area in Bear Creek, Jenkins and Pittston Townships sprayed with DDT by two "hedge-hopping" planes . . . Diocese of Bethlehem, Episcopal Church, unani­mously approves merger of Protestant Episcopal Church with the Presbyter­ian Church in the USA . . . Laros Tex­tiles Company to expand Kingston plant . . . Byron H. Creasy, Jr., new manager of Irem Temple Country Club. 16. Merger of White Haven Sana­torium and Jefferson Medical College Hospital of Philadelphia announced . . . John Vaverka, slayer of Ruth Dattner, adjudged insane and com­mitted to Farview Hospital for Crimi­nal Insane . . . N. W. Bloss to retire after 38 years as educator in Conyng-ham Township . . . Rev. 0, A. Charsky of Nanticoke elected moderator of Wyoming Baptist Association . . . William R. Graver of Wilkes-Barre retires after 54 years' service with LVRR. 17. Mrs. Petronella Gloss of Lynd-wood marks 105th birthday . . . Welsh Baptist Association opens 91st annual session in Wilkes-Barre. 18. Railroads experience slight in­terruption in service when strike scheduled by engineers and trainmen is postponed at last minute . . . State Junior Chamber of Commerce opens two-day convention . . . LVRR's "Black Diamond" marks 50th anniversary. 19. "I Am An American Day" pro­gram held on River Common. 20. OPA freezes rents for living quarters at March 1 levels . . . United Jewish Appeal launched . . . General Aviation Equipment Company plant at Ashley to be sold. 21. Light turnout marks Primary Election . . . State Police charge John G. W. Hess of Pike County with 32 safe-cracking jobs in Northeastern Pennsylvania . . . City School Board adopts tax levy of 18'/a mills and per capita tax of $5 ... Plains voters ap­prove bond issue for new stadium, Ashley defeats $200,000 bond issue for school building improvements. 22. Miner-Hillard Milling Company makes meal, grits for Europe's hun­gry . . . Norman E. Weiss and Law­rence Miller to be graduated from U. S. Military Academy . . . William Hahn, 17, arrested for shooting of Mrs. Louis Helfrich and attempted extortion of Dr. Louis Schwingen, both of Wilkes-Barre. 23. Postal workers receive increases of $400 yearly through bill signed by President Truman . . . Nation-wide strike of engineers and trainmen halts railroad freight movement at 4 p. m., but Lehigh Valley Railroad continues operation of passenger trains with supervisory personnel. 24. Frank C. Mueller to head Wyo­ming Valley Chamber of Commerce. 25. Railroad strike ended at 3:57 p. m., three minutes before deadline set by President Truman for operation of railroads by Army. 26. Dead of three wars honored at memorial services . . . Raymond P. Lewis of Plains to be ordained priest at Philadelphia. 27. Civilian Production Administra­tion approves $500,000 shoe factory for Wilkes-Barre . . . Mine Inspectors In­stitute of America holds convention in Wilkes-Barre . . . Louis G. Feldman of Kingston admitted to Luzerne County Bar . . . Alderson Methodist Church marks 50th anniversary. 28. Kingston National Bank com­pletes 50 years of service . . . West Nanticoke hard hit as four days of steady rain sends Susquehanna River on rampage . . . Veterans' Adminis­tration approves rental arrangements for Q'/z-story building to be erected on North Main Street at reported cost of $1,300,000 . . . Rotary presents Dis­tinguished Service Award to Wyoming Valley Chapter, American Red Cross. 29. Susquehanna River crests at 32.01 at 3 p. m. 30. Valley's services for war dead impressive . . . Survey shows 700 Plymouth homes and business places damaged by flood waters. 31. Records show May wettest in 13 years . . . Mrs. Beatrice Gallagher of Ashley to retire after 50 years as teacher. JUNE 1946 2. 800 brewery workers accept con­tract providing $2 to $6 a week in­creases . . . Residents of three Forty Fort homes flee when river cuts bank . . . Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen lectures at Irem Temple. 3. New Susquehanna River flood crests at 16.86 . . . College Misericordia graduates 58 ... Plymouth citizens hurl charges of "negligence" because of flood damage. 4. Wyoming Seminary graduates 84 at 102d commencement . . . Lt. Gordon F. Smith of Wyoming, Marine Corps flier, killed in Ohio plane accident . . . Mercy Hospital Training School grad­uates 48 nurses. 5. Bread joins scarce items, with stores reporting 25 to 30 per cent cut in supplies . . . Two-foot increase in height of dike along River Common to be sought by city . . . RFC grants $1,000,000 loan for new Veterans' Ad­ministration Building on North Main Street . . . City landlords register rents with OPA . . . Dr. Harold Clayton Urey, atomic bomb expert, speaks at Bucknell Junior College commence­ment. 6. Dr. S. H. Strassley named presi­dent of Wilkes-Barre Lions Club . . . Attorney John Q. Creveling celebrates 85th birthday anniversary . . . Exterior of Miners National Bank cleaned with high pressure steam . . . Increase in number of persons bitten by mad dogs reported . . . Wilkes-Barre regional office of Veterans' Administration has total of 36,000 claims on file ... $1,003 collected in fines in Wilkes-Barre dur­ing May. 7. New Anthracite contract signed giving miners 18 ^ cents an hour increase in wages and a health and wel­fare fund . . . PUC orders DL & W to maintain station at Hunlock Creek. 8. Flash electric storm marked by heavy rainfall and hail in some sec­tions of valley . . . Luzerne County Property Owners' League joins forces with Lackawanna Landlords' Union No. 1 for attack on recent rent con­trol regulations. 9. Kingston Borough Council grants wage increases ranging to $30 per month . . . Registration for delegates to Odd Fellows' convention starts . . . Federal-State Flood Forecasting Ser­vice announces that May flood crest was 1.09 feet below record high of 33.10 in 1936 . . . Andrew J. Sordoni reelected president of Pennsylvania Motor Federation at Allentown ... Many mine locals give approval to new contract. 10. James G. McDonald, member of Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, speaks to capacity crowd at YMHA Auditorium . . . Samuel Gedroz, Sr., accidentally shoots seven-year-old-son while examining pistol. 11. Five airplanes spray Pittston-Rocky Glen area with DDT to kill gypsy moth . . . Federal government urged to extend flood control program throughout Wyoming Valley at hear­ing held by U. S. Army Engineers at Courthouse . . . Advertising Club holds first anniversary dinner . . . United States Employment Service reveals there are 8,200 anthracite job openings . . . May fire loss reported at $692. 12. 410 GAR and Meyers High School students receive diplomas . . . Oliver Price reelected Republican chairman of Seventh Legislative Dis­trict . . . Col. Benjamin F. Evans re­ceives Legion of Merit for wartime services . . . Population of Kis-Lyn in­creased 20 per cent since first of year with 273 boys now at the institution. 13. King's College accepts 100 ap­plications . . . Joseph Hawrylich, 24, Georgetown, wounds Wilkes-Barre Township neighbor and fires at police­man before surrendering . Fulton Lewis, Jr., speaks at Irem Temple. 14. Flags scarce in city on Flag Day . . . Corn. John D. Bulkeley, Con­gressional of Honor Medal winner and famed for exploits with PT boats in Philippines, speaks at Flag Day ex­ercises at Lincoln Stadium, Nanticoke . . . Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, chief medical director of Veterans' Administration, speaks at Hotel Sterl­ing . . . M. H. Vivian reelected chair­man of Wyoming Valley Red Cross at annual meeting. 16. Nine persons injured in week end automobile accidents . . . Bakery strike continues as it cuts bread pro­duction 70,000 daily . . . American Newspaper Guild opens convention at Scranton. 17. Luz-erne County asked to join Susquehanna River System Flood Control Association . . . 228 landlords form permanent organization to be known as Luzerne County Property Owners' League to test legality of federal rent control. 18. Luzerne and Lackawanna Coun­ties rap CAB selection of All-American Aviation, Incorporated, to service Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport and say they do not want "hop, skip, jump" service . . . J. B. Carr named presi­dent of Wilkes-Barre Day School at 92nd annual meeting. 19. Capt. W. W. Juvenal announces that Cruiser USS Wilkes-Barre will remain part of the active fleet and will be commanded by Capt. Rutledge B. Tompkins . . . Health defects found in 1,185 Wilkes-Barre City school pupils . . . County Election Bureau an­nounces that Republicans spent $9,213 in spring primary. 20. Col. A. Robert Ginsburg, native of Wilkes-Barre, cited for work in Southwest Pacific area . . . Anthracite Institute starts occupancy ot Martz Building on Old River Road. 21. Wage Stabilization Board ap­proves wage boost for miners but rules that 5-cent royalty a ton to establish health and welfare fund is outside of its jurisdiction . . . Bishop William J. Hafey announces 12 transfers among pastors in Scranton Diocese . . . Rev. Robert Yost assumes pastorate of First Methodist Church, Plains . . . Greater Wilkes-Barre area CIO Coun­cil forms Political Action Committee. 22. Four persons hurt as converted army reconnaissance car hits pole on Market Street Bridge approach and overturns . . . Allan P. Kirby donates three more famous American paint­ings to the collection in Kirby Hall at Lafayette College. 23. Catholic War Veterans in na­tional convention at Newark bestows Order of St. Sebastian on Bishop Wil­liam J. Hafey . . . Mrs. Sadie Roth-stein, Wilkes-Barre, elected senior vice president of Ladies' Auxiliary to Penn­sylvania Jewish War Veterans at Har-risburg convention. 24. Chamber of Commerce goes on record opposing natural gas as anthracite competitor . . . Ideal summer weather as mercury hits 88 degrees . . . John Shivell, Plains, again heads Republican Party in Third Legislative District. 25. Office of Price Administration advances anthracite coal prices on an average of 91 cents a ton . . . Board of Assessment and Tax Revision an­nounces drop of $1,360,852 in county valuation . . . Armed Forces Food and Packaging Institute conducts tests of frozen foods in conjunction with Percy A. Brown Company. 26. War Department announces 1,216 Luzerne County residents made the supreme sacrifice . . . General Aviation Equipment Company strike ends with increases of 19 to 25 cents an hour and $10,000 in back wages to be paid on a seniority basis . . . Robert Eyerman named architect by County for Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport ad­ministration building. 27. Shortage of gondola cars closes Prospect Colliery for one day . . . James J. Law announces that he is not a candidate for renomination as chairman of Luzerne County Demo­cratic Party . . . Robert T. Kruse elected president of Sordoni Social Club. 28. Stephen A. Farris, Swoyerville, elected county chairman of Demo­cratic Party . . . War Department ap­proves plan of Wilkes-Barre Connect­ing Railroad to rebuild Susquehanna River bridge in North Wilkes-Barre . . . Operators sign new contract at meeting in Anthracite Institute's new headquarters on Old River Road . . . Three men hurt in blast at Oliver's Garage, Dallas . . . Bakery and Con­fectionery Workers Union (AFL) lose in Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board poll conducted at Kingston Cake Company . . . Public Utility Com­mission approves plans for Ashley trackless trolley . . . Decrease in en­rollment causes dropping of six Plains school teachers. 29. Railroad and bus lines prepare for holiday rush ... 39 take test for mine foreman and assistant mine foreman at Coughlin High School . . . Charles Murray named commander of Wilkes-Barre Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . Stanley R. Bunn, Wilkes-Barre, named Eastern vice commandant of Marins Corps League at convention in Lancaster. 30. Nine young men ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William J. Hafey at St. Peter's Cathedral, Scranton . . . 70 motorists who parked on Lehigh Valley tracks at Harveys' Lake to get bill from railroad for delaying an ice train nearly an hour . . . Dallas Free Methodist Church rededicated. JULY 1946 1. Parking meter receipts for Wilkes-Barre City show an increase of $6,372 for first six months of 1946 . . . William E. Rushin named super-. intendent of Newport Township schools . . . Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club re­ceives three awards from Kiwanis In­ternational. 2. County Recorder of Deeds' report shows reduction in real estate boom after a 21-year high . . . Wilkes-Barre School District approves $125,000 bond issue to purchase property adjacent to Coughlin High School ... Dr. S. H. Straessley installed as president of Wilkes-Barre Lions Club. 3. Streamlined Diesel-electric engine used to power Lehigh Valley's Black Diamond in experiment to cut sched­ules . . . Senator Andrew J. Sordoni returns from trip to Europe and lauds unconquerable spirit of British and French. 4. Minor mishaps mar July 4 ob­servances . . . 24th Annual Slovak picnic draws 25,000 . . . 5,400 veterans make application to local VA office during June for schooling. 5. Osborne Schultz, Union Town­ship, named chairman of Democratic Party in Fourth Legislative District . . . Wilkes-Barre School District re­duces bonded indebtedness $65,000 in fiscal year. 6. City food inspector bars 187 cases of cantaloupes as unfit for human consumption . . . Decrease in enroll­ment causes Wilkes-Barre Township School District to drop 16 teachers. 7. Long holiday week end comes to end with transportation facilities taxed to limit and bus companies halting sale of tickets . . . John Reddy, 22, Pittston, drowns in Susquehanna River at Falls when brother, who jumped to his rescue, is forced to re­lease grip to prevent a double tragedy. 8. Kelley and Gruzen named as architect-engineers for new Veterans' Hospital on East End Boulevard . . . Frank Martz Coach Company peti­tions PUC for new route to Philadel­phia along Bethlehem Pike . . . Exeter Borough School Board votes $100 increments for all teachers and prin­cipals . . . Edward Joseph of Duryea named Democratic chairman of Sixth Legislative District. 9. Killian Skating Rink, Kingston, destroyed by fire . . . Pickpockets run wild in central city, lifting more than $900 in six days . . .Miner Park swim­ming pool closed as vandals clutter pool with filth, broken bottles and debris . . . Leon Najaka, Glen Lyon, sworn as Representative of Fourth Legislative District. 10. Georg.e Birdy, 7, fatally injured by automobile on Curry Hill, Ply­mouth . . . Attorney Theodore A. Evans elected president of Little Theatre. 11. Republican Party renames David C. Vaughan, Nanticoke, as county chairman . . . Henry Jones, Martin McCloskey and A. J. Sordoni, Jr., receive life memberships in Wyoming Valley Motor Club. 12. Percy A. Brown named presi­dent of Wilkes-Barre Deposit and Savings Bank . . . Cost uncertainties blamed for lack of bids on the re­surfacing of Market Street Bridge . . . Two Lower County natives killed in accident at Mountain Top . . . After a lapse of 30 years Vulcan Iron Works reenters the sugar mill manufactur­ing field. 13. Edward Finney installed as business agent of local Carpenters' Union for 15th term . . . Sales of E and G Savings Bonds increase during June in Luzerne County. 14. James Carey, 8, Sebastopol, drowns in Ewen Colliery Reservoir when he steps off ledge . . . Hand bakers in seven local shops return to work after strike is settled. 15. Lance Colliery motor runner and helper killed under fall of rock . . . Kingston Borough Council to seek court action to correct fire menace at Ruggles Lumber Yard . . . Col. John Rice, Democratic nominee for gover­nor, asks removal of Miss S. M. R. O'Hara as State Secretary of Welfare . . . Increases in price of beer by breweries taken up by retailers . . . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Podmore, Kings­ton, celebrate 57th wedding anniver­sary. 16. Ten objectives outlined to re­lieve acute housing shortage in Wyo­ming Valley at Emergency Housing Committee meeting . . . Congress passes bill for bridge over Susquehanna River between Plymouth and Hanover Township. 17. R. L. Birtley, president of An­thracite Operators' Association, named as industry member for new anthra­cite Health and Welfare Board . . . Congressman Daniel J. Flood asks that atomic energy research be cen­tered in anthracite coal fields. 18. J. B. Carr Biscuit Company and Consolidated Biscuit Company, Chicago, conclude negotiations for merger of two firms . . . Federal Works Agency advances Wilkes-Barre School District a $30,000 loan to prepare plans for proposed Coughlin High School addition. 19. Patrick Finn elected chairman of Democratic party in Seventh Legis­lative District . . . Mercury reaches peak of 98 degrees as hot weather causes recurrent attacks of malaria on servicemen who contracted the disease while serving in the tropics. 20. Peter J. Bomboy, formerly of Kingston, killed in fall from 110-foot scaffold at Philadelphia . . . Rev. James W. Connerton, OSC, reappoint-ed president and superior of King's College. 21. 12,000 attend annual Irish Field Day at Sans Souci Park . . . Rains bring little relief from heat as mer­cury tops 90 degrees . . . Mrs. Edna Prentiss, Wilkes-Barre, elected na­tional president of auxiliary to the Society of 28th Division. 22. Three thousand employes of Duplan Silk Company granted an 8-cent-an-hour raise . . . Local hos­pitals raise cost of rooms to offset increased costs . . . Spasmodic rains help break heat wave in region. 23. Property damage and liability rates for automobile insurance raised 15 per cent due to increased number of accidents . . . Generator failure idles 1,000 miners at Susquehanna Collieries Company's Glen Lyon oper­ation . . . Lehigh Valley Coal Corpor­ation retains same directors for an­other term. 24. Vulcan Iron Works ships eight Diesel-geared locomotives to Turkey . . Court rules shuffleboards are not gambling devices . . . Two bandits slug and rob Alex Aponick, owner of Wyo­ming grocery store . . . Eleven mem­bers of Wilkes-Barre Police force take examinations for third-class radio op­erator . . . 150 men idle in Seneca section of No. 10 Tunnel of Kehoe-Berge operations when water rises above safety level. 25. Rent controls restored by local OPA . . . Part of ceiling in probaiton office in basement of Court House falls . . . Five temporary buildings at Wikes-Barre-Scranton Airport pur­chased by County Commissioners for $15,000 to provide facilities for passen­gers and freight. 26. Heights Baking Company plant at Bowman and Laurel Streets destroyed by early morning fire . . . Cyrus Hoffa elected president of Pennsylvania Millers' Mutual Fire In­surance Company. 27. Rev. Michael A. Hally, assist­ant pastor of Holy Savior Church, East End, elected national chaplain of Veterans of Foreign Wars at Phil­adelphia convention . . . Hugh Hughes, Jr., Plymouth, drowns in quarry on Larksville Mountain when he slips on rock in a pool. 28. Luzerne County Chapter, Cath­olic War Veterans, holds first annual outing at Camp St. George . . . Six hundred attend Mozart Choral Club concert at Irem Temple. 29. State Police called to rescue Patrolman Joseph Sheerin of Plains Township from angry mob of from 300 to 500 persons who threatened him for allegedly using night stick on a young man and firing two shots in air at bazar of SS. Peter and Paul's Church . . . John W. Murphy formally takes seat on Federal Court bench at Scranton. 30. Price of gasoline increased 1 cent . . . Four streets to North Wilkes-Barre closed for repairs . . . 12-ton truck wrecks three cars, a milk wagon and rips porch off a double dwelling on Kidder Street after brakes fail on East End Boulevard. 31. Seven-hour deluge of rain floods cellars, delays thousands in returning home and causes damages estimated at more than $100,000 in Plymouth Borough when Brown's Creek leaves banks in vicinity of Bull Run Cross­ing. Official reports show 7.57 inches of rain fell in Forty Fort and 5.23 inches in Wilkes-Barre to establish an all-time new high for a 24-hour period in Wyoming Valley . . . William G. Kleiner, 63, Wilkes-Barre, killed by D & H locomotive near Scott Street crossing. AUGUST 1946 1. Luzerne County tomatoes hard hit by blight but Bordeaux Solution saves much of the crop . . . New record for delinquent per capita tax collections in Wilkes-Barre City set by Office of City Treasurer . . . Arthur A. Maguire, Plains, nominated as U. S. Attorney for Middle District Federal Court . . . Wilkes-Barre picked as site of one unit of 79th Infantry Division of Reserve Corps. 2. Mrs. Florence Randall, found guilty as an accessory after the fact in the Memorial Day 1945 murder of her husband, Charles Randall, granted new trial . . . President Truman hands lease for new Veterans' Administration building in Wilkes-Barre to Sterling Wandell in Washington. 3. Paul A. Mulcey appointed director of Anthracite Institute laboratory . . . State Highway Department to distribute $59,398.88 from motor fund to municipalities of Luzerne County . . . Robert Hendershot, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hendershot, East End Boulevard, killed in wreck of Jersey Central trains at Bayonne, N. J. . . . S. Robb Keener, Kingston, field supervisor of Farm Bureau Insurance Company, killed in automobile accident in North Carolina. 4. Thomas McGlynn, Avoca, dies from injuries suffered when struck by Lehigh Valley locomotive in that borough . . . $1,000,000 worth of horses perform for 10,000 persons at Irem Temple Horse Show . . . Rev. Lyman B. Greaves, minister of St. George's Episcopal Church, Nanticoke, resigns to accept pulpit at Kensington, Md. 5. Central Railroad Company of Pennsylvania starts operation in Commonwealth and takes over personnel, lines and equipment in Pennsylvania of Central Railroad of New Jersey . . . Federal Judge Frank Murphy makes initial local appearance as jurist as he admits 132 persons to citizenship in Wilkes-Barre Federal Building . . . Rev. Patrick R. Duffy, CSC, assistant to president of King's College, transferred to New England. 6. Work on removal of rails and feeder lines on Ashley, Sugar Notch and Warrior Run line begins preparatory to installation of a trackless trolley system . . . First National Bank of Dallas awarded $125,000 bond issue of Wilkes-Barre School District. 7. Thieves fail in attempt to crack safe at Grand Theater, Eflwardsville . . . Congressman Daniel J. Flood requests new Post Office for Nanticoke . . . Yankee Brewery, Pittston, sold to United Breweries, Philadelphia. 8. Vandals damage dike riprap . . . 200 attend Luzerne County Bar Association outing . .. . Capt. Joseph Mc-Bride of Wilkes-Barre Fire Department elected president of Pennsylvania Fire Fighters' Association at convention in Erie . . . Bernard J. Kelly, Exeter native, named manager of Philadelphia office of RFC. 9. Dr. Gordon D. Bell joins Nan-ticoke State Hospital staff as resident physician . . . Hanover Township post of AMVETS obtains charter and elects officers . . . Maj. and Mrs. W. A. Bamford, Salvation Army executives in Wilkes-Barre, transferred to Hartford, Conn. 10. Rev. Michael A. Hally, unanimously elected national chaplain of Military Order of Purple Heart at Portland, Ore., convention . . . Traffic conditions in North Wilkes-Barre further complicated when repair work begins on Butler Street. 11. Mrs. Rose Cray McDonnell, Dunmore, killed when automobile she is riding in collides with bus at Beaumont and Wyoming Streets . . . Plymouth flood victims plan ouster proceedings against borough councilmen . . . Joseph Bishop appointed superintendent of Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Hospital. 12. Francis C. Paules, Regent Street, awarded Legion of Merit and cited for courage in leading 9,000 Air Corps men in a Nazi prison march . . . County's municipal units set Sept. 1 as due date of taxes under provisions of uniform tax law . . . Jersey Central Lines makes trial runs with 4,500 horsepower Diesel-electric unit between Scranton, Ashley and Jersey City. 13. Eugene D. Hegarty, Forty Fort, appointed housing expediter for eight Northeastern Pennsylvania counties . . . Senator Andrew J. Sordoni elected to board of directors of Central Railroad Company of Pennsylvania . . . Brazen robber steals furs valued at $1,000 from island show case of Isaac Long Store. 14. Several hundred buyers and growers attend region's first tomato auction. 2,500 attend Shriners' Picnic at Irem Temple Country Club. 0.5. Violent gas blast rocks large section of South Pittston and damages numerous business places . . . Frank Sullivan, manager of Whelan's Drug Store, Public Square, dies of injuries suffered when struck by a street car on South Main Street. 16. Federal Court approves Increases for Wilkes-Barre Railway Corporation employes Stockholders of Plains State Bank settle all claims for $5,000. 17. Miss Mary Hoffman, former Wac, first woman to represent 12th District American Legion at State convention . . . Cyrus Weiss honored at dinner by County Executives' Association of Jr. OUAM. 18. Approximately 190 professional and industrial men leave on three-day "good will tour" to Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit . . . Leslie Williams, traffic expert, recommends central city parking ban, one-way streets and special devices to keep traffic moving. 19. Kingston and Edwardsville Boroughs award contract for joint maintenance of flood control system . . . Mrs. Martha Mather named alderman of Fifth Ward, Wilkes-Barre, to serve unexpired term of late husband . . . Prime Bishop Hodur, founder and head of Polish National Church, celebrates 53rd anniversary of ordination. 20. Absence of two Wilkes-Barre councilmen delays action on request to install gasoline storage tanks on Old River Road . . . Strike at Frieder cigar plants at Parsons and Philadelphia settled in New York by U. S. Conciliation Service. 21. Pennsylvania Power and Light Company announces 30-cent dividend for quarter . . . Heavy blasting of coal company in Prospect Hill section of Newport arouses ire of residents of that area. 22. Wilkes-Barre Red Cross chapter sends four local nurses to East St. Louis, 111., to assist in fighting polio epidemic . . . 250 employes of Leon-Ferenbach Silk Company receive an eight-cent-an-hour increase in pay. 23. Joseph McCracken, Kingston, and Mrs. William Briggs, Wanamie, elected to offices at State Legion convention at Philadelphia . . . Duryea Borough files claim against Scranton Electric Company for taxes on poles from 1901 to 1945. 24. Five members of Luzerne County Future Farmers of America selected as members of Pennsylvania State Band . . . Charles Weissman obtains building permit to convert old Harry Hillman Academy into apartment house. 25. Cold wave sends mercury to 44 degrees . . . Bishop William Hafey scores bad comic books and alcoholism at meeting of Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. 26. Nesbitt Memorial Hospital School for Nurses enrolls 37 girls in training . . . Emanuel "The Pop Corn Man," back at old stand on .South River Street after being held by Nazis in Greece for six years . . . Howard M. Shafer, Philadelphia, orally agreed upon by Lackawanna and Luzerne County Commissioners as manager of Wilkes-Barre^Scranton Airport. 27. Survey shows, that few veterans desire to be home owners . . . Area 4, Pennsylvania College Center, opens office in Brooks Building . . . Iva Reynolds Landmesser resigns as acting director of Playground and Recreation Association. 28. Veterans clamor to get dis-charg.e papers out of bottleneck in Recorder of Deeds office, where some papers have been tied up for eight months or longer . . . Dr. Edward J. Janjigian, former physician in Wyoming Valley, writes book, "Doctor's Destiny," at his Indiana home. 29. Attorney J. R. Reap, Jr., Avoca, named county commander of Catholic War Veterans . . . S. Freider and Sons Company sign contract with CIO union. 30. Tomato prices advance as blight damages crop . . . Bus lines and railroads add extra sections for Labor Day exodus. 31. Wyoming Seminary announces the largest enrollment in school's history . . Milan Ochodnick, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, returns from Czechoslovakia and relates seeing parents going to Nazi crematory while he was in a concentration camp. SEPTEMBER 1946 1. Maj. Gen. William F. Sharp, USA, (retired) addresses dinner of llth U. S. Field Artillery Veterans' Association at Hotel Redington . . . State Highway Department rejects bid to repave Market Street Bridge. 2. Favored with blue skies and fair weather an estimated 30,000 persons spend Labor Day at region's three big parks . . . David C. Vaughan, sheriff of Luzerne County, dies of cardiac attack at Lake Silkworth summer home. 3. Ground broken for $1,500,000 Veterans' Administration Building on North Main Street . . . Wyoming Valley Community Chest sets goal of $475,000 for 1946 campaign. 4. Thieves rob Acme Market on Hazle Street of cash and sugar stamps . . . Checks for final payment of closed Liberty Bank mailed. 5. More than 10,000 pupils 'return to classes as city schools reopen . . . County Commissioner Robert Lloyd elected president of Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners at Philadelphia convention. 6. Kingston citizens open drive for permanent war memorial in form of swimming pool . . . Bishop William J. Hafey announces transfer of 14 priests in Scranton Diocese. 7. Last street car on Ashley line leaves Public Square at 12:45 a. m. . . . State Department of Public Instruction distributes $442,942,32 to Fourth Class school districts of Luzerne County. 8. Mid-summer weather returns to valley with temperature at 83 degrees and humidity high . . . Pontifical high mass at St. Mary's Church, Wilkes-Barre, marks formal opening of King's College. 9. Luzerne County Gas and Electric Company announces $3,000,000 expansion program for Hunlock Creek plant . . . Heights residents plan permanent memorial to Heights servicemen who gave their lives during World War II. 10. Capacity audience, whose sobbing punctuated the beauty and solemnity of the occasion, attend most impressive Gold Star memorial service in Irem Temple, when fitting tribute is paid to Luzerne County's heroic dead of World War 2 . . Attorney Patrick J. O'Connor named district deputy of Knights of Columbus . . . Wilkes-Barre Post Office survey shows 225 vacant dwellings in the delivery area. 11. Hundreds of thousands of Wyoming Valley's men, women and children turn out to officially extend welcome to servicemen and women of World War 2, monster parade held in morning with 30,00ft filling Kirby Park to witness or take part in four closely scheduled events during afternoon and night. 12. Northeastern Region Pennsylvania Economy League recommends that Wilkes-Barre eliminate ownership or city management of Contagious Disease Hospital . . . Charles L. Gavenonis, Plymouth, named president of Head Camp of United Sportsmen of Northeastern Pennsylvania. 13. Joint meeting of Kingston, Forty Fort, Edwardsville and Swoyerville councils hears recommendations for joint sewerage disposal plant . . . Federal Communication Commission authorizes operation of new frequency modulation (FM) station by Scranton-Wilkes-Barre - Pittston Broadcasting Company, Incorporated, of Wilkes-Barre. 14. American Stores Company announces plans for a $1,500,000 warehouse at Forty Fort . . . Five properties and DL & W right of way affected by cave in Old Forge Borough. 15. Capt. Michael J. Torlinski, Nan-ticoke, awarded Navy's Legion of Merit for drafting seven Selective Service proclamations signed by President Roosevelt . . . Two armed bandits rob Hazleton tavern owner and wife of $250. 16. Robert Gicking, 8, Freeland, drowned in abandoned water-filled stripping west of that borough . . . Contract to design Veterans' Hospital on East End Boulevard- awarded to Kelly and Gruzen of Jersey City. 17. Fred Potter elected commander of Wilkes-Barre Post 132, American Legion . . . Enrollment in Wilkes-Barre schools drop 184 under that of last year. 18.. State authorizes $444,701 for three improvements at Retreat M-ental Hospital . . . Wilkes-Barre continues quarantine on dogs despite State's plan to lift ban. 19. Plymouth youth killed and Georgetown man badly injured as heavy fog veils streets of region . . . Eugene J. McHugh, former Wilkes-Barre newspaperman, named managing editor of New York Daily News. 20. Comerford-Publix subsidiary plans new theater in West End Road section of Hanover Township . . . Six merged draft boards pick new headquarters at 207 South Main Street . . . Polish Union of North America elects Waclau Bujno of Mocanaqua as president. 21. Guy W. Moore and Siegmund Knies named new county assessors . . . Pennsylvania State Aeronautics Commission approves plans for airport at Dallas. 22. Rev. Walter M. Moore, pastor of Grant Street Presbyterian Church, receives call from Verona, N. J., church ... . Police arrest Binghamton woman in Kingston for part in short coal weight case. 23. T. Newell Wood, Harvey's Lake, choice of GOP County Committee as candidate for State Senator from 20th District . . . Bandits rob 13 persons in cigar store at Dupont. 24. Fire damages Nurses' Home of Nesbitt Memorial Hospital . . . Hospitals of Valley report they are filled to capacity and have long lists of patients waiting for rooms . . . Byron Griffith named director of Little Theatre. 25. Rulison Evans made 33rd degree Mason at ceremonies in Pittsburgh . . . William J. Hankins named assistant executive of Wyoming Valley Boy Scout Council. 26. American Council of Christian Churches opens four-day convention at Hotel Sterling . . . OPA forces sellers of over-ceiling priced used cars to refund money to five purchasers. 27. Robert Sherrock, 30, Hazleton, appointed Luzerne County sheriff by Governor Martin . Officers and crew of USS Wilkes-Barre receive four radio-phonographs and silver coffee urn from Wilkes-Barre Curiser Gift Committee at ceremonies in Philadelphia Navy Yard . . . Twelve cattle burned to death when fire damages city's only abattoir on North Pennsylvania Avenue. 28. Pennsylvania League of Third Class Cities, at convention at Harris-burg, adopts Wilkes-Barre's program and recommends passage of plan by State Legislature . . . New 65-foot aerial fire truck received by city for use at No. 4 Engine House. 29. Fifty-two regional men enlist in Regular Army in two days . . . Marie Elgaway, 17, Dupont, injured when plane she is flying goes into spin and crashes into mountain in Exeter Township . . . Region returns to Eastern Standard Time. 30. Three trunk loads of documents produced by Bethlehem Steel Corporation in hearings concerning Williamsport Wire Rope Company in local Federal Court room . . . S. V. Petrell, superintendent of Pomeroy's, goes to Allied Store headquarters in New York . . . East End Primitive Methodist Church celebrates 75th anniversary . . . Webster Cigar Company purchases Mary Street, Ashley, plant of General Aviation Equipment Company. OCTOBER 1946 1. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. John Rebo burned to death in early morning fire in a double dwelling on Garnet Lane . . . William C. Luksic appointed OPA rent examiner for Lu-zerne County . . . Wilkes-Barre Township school teachers strike . . . Mrs. Edward K. Conrad, Kingston, resigns as executive director of Wyoming Valley Girl Scouts. 2. Robert W. Johnson, editor of the Record, addresses Nanticoke Kiwanis Club at its . Newspaper Week meeting. 3. Amedeo Obici honored at dinner given by Young Men's Division of Chamber of Commerce . . . Hugh Wagnon, Chief of Bureau, Associated Press, Philadelphia, addresses Kiwanis Club . . . i&even-weeks' strike of Nan-ticoke-Newport Bus Company drivers officially ends . . . Section of North Street Bridge roadway collapses . . . James M. Barry, Kingston, flight commission officer, killed in crash of American Overseas Airline plane at Newfoundland. 4. Price of milk increases one cent a quart to 20 cents . . . Attorney, Benjamin R. Jones, Jr., named chairman of Luzerne County Republican Committee. 5. Patrolman Douglas Bart of Wilkes-Barre Police Department graduates from Federal Bureau of Investigation School in Washington . . . Because of decrease in freight, due to strikes, Lehigh Valley Railroad furloughs 29 employes. 6. St. Judes' Choir of St. Stephen's Church, New York, presents program in Irem Temple . . . Congressman Alvin E. O'Konski, Wisconsin, speaks at meeting at Hotel Sterling arranged in observance of Pulaski Day . . . First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth observes 90th anniversary of founding. 7. Dr. Howard K. Petry, former Wilkes-Barre resident, named president of Medical Society of Pennsylvania . . . Mine squeeze leaves 400 residents of Welsh Hill section of Larksville without water . . . County Commissioners informed that, because of lack of materials, flags for graves of veterans may not be available for Memorial Day distribution. 8. Wilkes-Barre Board of Health lifts city-wide quarantine on dogs, but decides on rigid enforcement of State Dog Law . . . Association of Congregational and Christian Churches of Northeastern Pennsylvania holds 16th annual meeting in Second Welsh Congregational Church. 9. OPA sues three regional firms for sugar violations . . . State Milk Commission raps price increase of milk in Wilkes-Barre area . . . King's College announces plans for twilight courses. 10. American Car and Foundry Company, Berwick, awarded contract for 400 New York subway cars . . . Kenneth J. Guest elected president of Luzerne County 40 and 8. 11. Louis N. Edwards, Nanticoke, named chief of staff of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Pennsylvania . . . Nanticoke State Hospital announces 8-hour day for employes starting on November 1. 12. Sloppy Tony's Night Club, Harvey's Lake, destroyed by fire . . . Temperatures take sudden drop following heavy rain and wind storm. 13. More than 200 members of Wilkes-Barre Council, Knights of Columbus, attend annual Columbus Day communion breakfast . . . Rev. Bernard A. Siecko, Wilkes-Barre Township native, named to chaplaincy at College of St. Therese, Winona, Minn. . . . Charles Richards, 55, fatally injured when struck by automobile on Hazle Street. 14. Swoyerville school teachers ask $300 increases . . . Two new residence halls at College Misericordia dedicated . . . Wyoming Valley Torch Club opens fall and winter season with an address by Dennis Crolley. 15. John Sauer named leader of Wilkes-Barre Post 132, American Legion Band . . . Mrs. Hedwig Slazyk, Avoca, celebrates 102nd birthday anniversary. 16. John A. Smith retires after 45 years' service with the Delaware and Hudson Railroad . . . Rev. Christian H. Kehl, pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Plymouth, among 36 ministers that picket White House in behalf of amnesty for imprisoned "conscientious objectors." 17. International Order of Odd Fellows votes to hold 1948 convention in Wilkes-Barre . . . Donald Harold Fink, 12, Hunlock Creek, killed when brother accidentally fires shotgun. 18. Reports show that 31 persons lost their lives in automobile accidents in Luzerne County so far this year . . . Wyoming Valley Council of Churches announces plans for a religious census of Wilkes-Barre. 19. Charles E. (Commando) Kelly, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, speaks at Republican Veterans' Committee dinner. 20. Deluge of traffic tickets helps clear Public Square of double parking as police press campaign to stop violations . . . Lt. Gen. Laham A. Miller witnesses installation ceremonies of Edwardsville American Legion Post. 21. New majority takes control of Edwardsville Borough Council . . . Dr. Henry Horvat, former assistant supervisor of Luzerne County Schools, named dean of new Mohawk College, Utica, N. Y. . . . Clinton M. Long named president of B'nai B'rith Congregation. 22. Melvin Purvis, former FBI agent, speaks at Irem Temple . . . John E. Thomas retires after 30 years with Wilkes-Barre Fire Department . . .Guy W. Moore named permanent chairman of County Board of Assessors. 23. Women of Moose replace City Hall officials for day . . . Frederick S. Mead, Dallas, completes 35 years' service with Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania . . . Harry Costello admitted to Luzerne County Bar. 24. Governor Edward Martin and Attorney General James Duff, Republican candidates for Senator and Governor, respectively, address huge GOP rally at South Main Street Armory. 25. B'nai Jacob Jewish Congregation celebrates 75th anniversary of founding . . . Attorney John Q. Crevel-ing honored at testimonial dinner . . . Gust of wind causes 100-foot steel tower on partly constructed Veterans' Administration Building to fall. 26. I. Miller Shoe Company takes option on building on North Pennsly-'vania Avenue . . . Catherine Diamond Galloway, Nanticoke native, murdered in trailer-home at State College. 27. St. Clement's Episcopal Church observes 75th anniversary . . . John Butler, Red Cross worker in Japan and a resident of Wilkes-Barre, escapes drowning at Yokohoma when station wagon h.e is driving plunges off pier . . . Members of St. Stephen's Slovak Lutheran Church observe 50th anniversary of church and 40th anniversary of ordination of pastor, Rev. Stephen M. Tuhy. 28. Wyoming Valley Community Chest exceeds goal by $16,000 . . . Decline in Servicemen's Readjustment Allowance claims responsible for consolidation of Kingston, Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre offices of U. S. Employment Service. 29. State and County Democratic nominees attend rally at Irem Temple . . . State Department of Public Instruction approves operation of technical trade school by Kingston Borough School District . . . Civilian Production Administration approves $30,000 addition to Hess-Goldsmith plant on North Pennsylvania Avenue. 30. Peter P. Jurchak, city, reelected president of Slovak League of America at sessions in Detroit . . . Lehigh Valley Railroad abolishes post of general yardmaster at Coxton . . . J. Gordon Mason named chairman of long range program of Wyoming Valley Boy Scout Council. 31. Few adults join Halloween celebration in city . . . Weather tabulations for October show it was warmest on record with an average mean temperature of 61.07 degrees. NOVEMBER 1946 1. Wilkes-Barre and Kingston banks report more than $1,000,000 will be distributed in Christmas Club checks. 2. Central Methodist Church, city, to mark 90th anniversary . . . U. S. Employment Service reports approximately 50,000 persons idle in the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton area. 3. Nine persons lose lives when two automobiles collide head-on and burn on Harvey's Lake Highway near Dallas . . . Dorranceton Methodist Church opens celebration in observance of 50th anniversary of founding. 4. City Council receives request from Police and Fire Departments for annual wage increase of $400 . . . Public Utility Commission approves abandonment of trolley service on Plymouth line and authorizes substitution of trackless trolley service. 5. Republican candidates sweep County and State . . . PIAA suspends Dupont High School for using overage football players. 6. Trackless trolleys begin operation on Ashley line . . . Dupont pupils strike over PIAA suspension. 7. Council purchases radio-equipped motorcycle for Police Department . . . Edward F. Buckley, 70, dies after being hit by car near his Plymouth Township home . '. . Walter Covert resigns as police chief of Dallas Borough. 8. Death of John Waluk, Nanticoke, brings highway death toll in Luzerne County to 12 for one-week period. 9. Patrolman Martin Blank submits resignation to be effective December , 1 . . . South Side Branch YMCA launches membership drive. 10. Rupert White, Forest City, RD 1, superintendent of Kingston Construction Company, fatally shot at Hop Bottom . . . Rev. Joseph Buda, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Swoyer-ville, marks 25th anniversary of ordination. 11. Veterans of Plymouth Borough and Plymouth Township officially welcomed home with a two-day program climaxed by one of the largest parades in the borough's history. 12. Martin McCloskey named president of Luzerne County Liquor Dealers' Association. 13. Mrs. Thomas Walsh, Pittston, awarded Vail Medal for saving the life of an elderly woman . . . Fletcher Martin, famed artist, arrives in Valley to make sketches of anthracite scenes for Gimbel Pennsylvania Art Collection. 14. Twenty employes of Wilkes-Barre Bureau of Health petition City for $400 a year increase in salaries. 15. Department of Public Instruction reverses action of Plains Township School Board on rule that husbands of married teachers must reside within specific school district. 16. Max H. Sorensen, national commander of Catholic War Veterans, honored at local testimonial dinner . . . Fifteen Lehman High School students suspended as a result of a "strike" . . . Mercury drops to 14 degrees at Chase . . . Dorothy Nallon, 16, killed by locomotive at Horton Street grade crossing. 17. James Gustave, Plains Township patrolman, and Andrew Yencha, Plains, killed by Martz bus on River Street, Plains . . . Rev. Duana Collins named pastor of Douglass Presbyterian Church. 18. Five city departments ask for increases in 1947 appropriations . . . Mrs. James Camolocci, 49, Berwick, gives birth to her 20th child in -Berwick Hospital . . . Barons acquire Ralph Atkins of Lynn, Mass., in Class A Drawing. 19. 13,000 students and adults attend two concerts of U. S. Marine Band in Kingston Armory . . . Wilkes-Barre School Board transfers 13 non-professional employes . . . Outbreak of infectious diarrhea, which claimed the lives of nine children in the last six weeks, now under control. Dr. J. T. Millington, country medical inspector, reports . . . Dr. M. C. Rumbaugh named president of Jefferson Medical College Alumni Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania . . . Little Theatre launches its 23rd season, with presentation of "Blithe Spirit" in Irem Temple. 20. YMHA and YWHA acquire Shoemaker home, first block of .South River Street, as a proposed site for larger headquarters ... A new contract granting 121/2 cents an hour increase ends three-day strike of local painters. 21. Most Rev. Martin J. O'Connor, auxiliary bishop of Scranton Roman Catholic Diocese and pastor of St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wilkes-Barre, appointed rector of North American College in Rome . . . "Misleading" radio comment blamed for "sympathy" holiday that throws 10,000 Wyoming Valley miners into idleness. 22. Anthracite region affected by Civilian Production Administration "brownout" order . . . Lehigh Valley, Delaware and Hudson and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroads cut passenger service as a result of ODT order to conserve coal fuel. 23. Carl Pogoda, 31, lineman for Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, electrocuted when he comes in contact with high tension wire severed in automobile accident on East End Boulevard. 24. Slovak Catholic Sokol, group 7, holds annual meeting in Edwardsville . . . Glen Alden Coal Company declares fourth 50-cent dividend for 1946. 25. Cursory check of observance of voluntary dimout shows it only 50 per cent effective in central city . . . Anthracite mining operations return to normalcy tor first time in five days when all idle employes and sympathy Strikers return to -wotte. . . . Three iron. lungs, purchased by Luzerne County Chapter of National foundation of Infantile Paralysis, Installed in General, Mercy and Nesbitt Hospitals . . . Wyoming Conference, at special meeting in Binghamton, votes approval of a pension plan for retired clergymen. 26. Civilian Production Administration rejects appeal on dimout regulation of local power companies . . . Governor Edward Martin fills three vacancies on Luzerne County Board of Assistance . . . Irem Temple jammed for 13th annual Firemen's Ball. 27. Mrs. Fanny Rozen, 74, fatally injured when runaway car mounts Northampton Street curb and strikes her ... Luzerne County Commissioners approve a 10-year contract with American Airlines for use of facilities at Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport. 28. Mrs. Russell Mengel, 38, and Louis Shater Jr., 15, both of White Haven, fatally injured in White Haven-Freeland Road Crash . . . Clear, crisp weather gives zest to Thanksgiving celebration by Wyoming Valley residents . . . American Railway "Express Company announces increase in rates. 29. Fleetwood-Airflow, Incorporated, grants 10 per cent wage Increase to factory employes . . . Lehman Township School Board lists requirements which 15 "striking" students must sign before returning to school. 30. Civilian Production Administration prepares to "crack down" on dim-out violators . . . Eight railroad cars of structural steel arrive at Dallas for construction of National Mills Plant. ". . Gasoline dealers increase price one cent a gallon. Donated by Patty Matthews