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New Assessments
Bring Protests
Wyoming County Scenes
May Be Re-enacted Here
The moaning which ascended in :
Wyoming County last week when
property owners protested the new
assessed valuations adopted by the
County Commissioners were a fore-
taste of what may happen in Lu-
zerne County when a similar boost
takes place here.
An act adopted last year by the
State legislature, requiring that as-
sessments be based at ‘market
value”, instead of at the figure of
40 to 75 per cent of the sale value,
‘as in the past, must be put into ef-
fect eventually in Luzerne County,
and scenes like those which have
been enacted in Wyoming and Lack-
awanna Counties are almost certain
to take place here.
" Throughout last week Wyoming
County’s commissioners met com-
plaining property owners and
studied requests for reductions in
assessments . By the week’s end,
many of the property owners had
been granted lower assessments on
their properties.
At the same time the commis-
sioners boosted the assessments, in
keeping with the new act, they re-|
duced the tax levy, but property
owners protested that although
some assessments had been doubled
and tripled the millage had not
been cut in half. The situation
seemed to have cleared this week
so far as the Commissioners were
concerned but taxpayers were fear-
ful that municipal sub-divisions,
some of which already have their
millage. at the limit, may seize
this opportunity to boost taxes
heavily.
That the County Commissioners
—both here and in Wyoming
County—are in an unpleasant posi-
tion as a result of the new law is
certain, and however fair they try to
be they will probably be criticized.
They welcome the act as a way to
correct the existing system, which
often permits abuse, favoritism and
neglect.
Faculty To Have Program
"At Lehman PTA Monday
The Parent-Teacher Association of
Lehman will meet on Monday night,
March 11, at 8 in the high school
auditorium. After the business meet-
ing there will be a program spon-
sored by the faculty, with pupils of
various departments taking part.
Clarence Boston will have charge.
One of the most plentiful sub-
stances on earth, salt has been heav-
ily taxed from time immemorial.
Today, inhabitants of China, Japa=, |
India, France, Brazil, Italy, Spain,
Greece. and the Netherlands (to
name a few) stapd for a Govern-
ment levy on it.
MODEL WC
— KUNKLE
COMMUNITY HALL
Friday, March 15th
—at8 P.M. —
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PENNSYLVANIA'S DREAM HIGHWAY IS COMING TRUE!
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cuts 145 miles off New York-Chicago route. Goes under
Cost $279,000 per mile.
loreest highway earth moving job.
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Involves world’s
Sometime next summer motorists
will have a dream of many years
standing come true when traffic
starts over what is officially known
as\ the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a
new super-highway stretching 160
miles between Harrisburg and Pitts-
burgh, dipping under mountains and
hills; cutting 145 miles off the New
York to Chicago route; providing
road visibility of at least 600 feet
and by-passing all towns enroute.
Two concrete lanes, each 24 feet
wide, will be separated by a ten-
foot landscaped parkway.
For more than 100 years Pennsyl-
vania has tried to build a road that
would overcome many of the bar-
riers presented by the Allegheny
Mountains.
As far back as 1837 Pennsylvania
appropriated money for a railroad
through the mountains which would
avoid mountainous grades. In 1882
construction work began on the
South Pennsylvania Railroad, which
reduced mountain grades 13,000. feet
long to less than 4,000 feet and
gradients from 9 per cent to less
than 3 per cent. The project was
abandoned after ten million dollars
ihad been spent on it.
In 1937 the. Pennsylvania Turn-
pike Commission was created and
the R. F. C. and P. W. A. provided
loans of $70,000,000 to finance the
MEET YOUR FRIENDS — DISCUSS FARM PROBLEMS !
Plan now to be with ud!
MODEL RC
DEVENS MILLING COMPANY
DALLAS — PENNSYLVANIA — KUNKLE
— Russell Miers, Manager, Farm Machinery Dept. ——
CENTURY-OLD DREAM REALIZED
AS SUPER-HIGHWAY NEARS END
construction of the turnpike. The
Commission purchased with $2,000,-
000 of this money the abandoned
railroad, thus obtaining 124 miles
of roadbed and seven tunnels. In
October 1938, work on the new road
started, involving the largest high-
way earth moving job in the his-
tory of the world. Before the new
turnpike is finished 26 million cubic
yards of earth and rock will have
been excavated. A total of 392,000
tons of cement, 50,000 tons of steel,
700,000 tons of sand and more than
a million tons of crushed stone will
go into the new highway, the build-
ing of which will entail the use of
$25,000,000 worth of road building
machinery to complete the job in
20 months instead of the normal
three or four years.
At its peak, work on the turnpike
required 15,000 men on the payrolls
of 127 general contractors. The total
cost per mile of the road will be
$279,000. Draining and grading
alone will cost $139,700 per mile as
against $25,000 per mile for ordinary
road building. Some six and one-
half miles of tunnels will be used,
all concrete lined, power ventilated
and equipped with various safety
devices. These tunnels will reduce
grades and curves, cut down mile-
age and defeat traffic-delaying fogs
and storms on mountain tops.
FUERTE TE
RACTOR DIVISION-MILWAUKEE
Angwin Seeking
GOP Nomination
Tosses Hat In Ring For
Representative Office
Robert Angwin of West Pittston,
prominent labor leader, has an-
nounced his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination for State Rep-
resentative from the Sixth Legisla-
tive District, which includes Dallas
and its vicinity.
Mr. Angwin, a resident of West
Pittston, is widely known for his ef-
forts in behalf of the laboring man
He is president of the Wilkes-Barre
Allied Trades Council, one of the
most powerful labor groups, and is
a member of Local 137 of the Press-
men’s Union.
He and his family are members
of the Trinity Episcopal Church of
West Pittston. “I do not intend to
make a lot of fantastic promises I
cannot keep,” Mr. Angwin said, in
announcing his candidacy, “but I
can assure the voters of the district
that if I go to Harrisburg as their
‘ling even rice and sunflower seed.
Devens Will Sell
New Farm Line
"Invites Public To See
‘Allis-Chalmers Line
To mark his entry into the field
of farm equipment sales, A. C. De-
vens, proprietor of Devens’ Milling
Co., with plants in Dallas and Kun-
kle, will hold open house for farm-
ers. from this section on Friday
night, March 15, at Kunkle Com-
munity Hall at 8.
Mr. Devens, who is one of the
best known feed dealers in this
section, has become the local agent
for Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing
Company, and prominent represent-
atives of that tremendous firm will
come here to direct demonstrations
of equipment and meet local peo-
ple.
Educational motion pictures of
subjects interesting to farmers will
be shown and R. M. Groff, local re-
presentative for Allis-Chalmers and |
a former Lancaster County farmer,
will introduce experts from the fac-
tory, including C. F. Webster, who
will explain advantages of Mr. De-
vens’ new line.
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.,
which has seven huge plants, is 90
years old. Its Tractor Division, now
one of the largest divisions of the
company, takes up four big plants
and manufactures more than 200
types of units. Allis-Chalmers en-
tered the tractor field in 1915, when |
it designed a three-plow farm trac-
tor. Since then it has promoted a
series of spectacular innovations and
improvements, the Controlled Ig-
nition oil tractor, the rubber-tired
tractor and the All-Crop Harvester,
to mention just three.
In the last 10 years the company
has climbed from tenth to first
place in unit sales of farm equip-
ment. Today Allis-Chalmers symbo-
lizes leadership in the industrial
and agricultural tractor and power
equipment fields.
One of its finest pieces of equip-
ment to free the farmer from drud-
gery and increase his profit is the
All-Crop Harvester, which has suc-
cessfully harvested 84 different
small seed and bean crops, includ-
Mr. Devens will carry a full line
of Allis-Chalmers repair parts.
Representative I will meet every
problem as it comes up and decide
upon it with nothing but the wel-
fare of the electorate in mind.”
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