Williams And
Robinson Win
Take Firsts In Dog
Show In Harrisburg
Two local dog breeders won in
their class at the Harrisburg Dog
Show on Saturday, where over 1200
dogs from all over the country and
Canada compete. .
Rufsell’s Candida, female, eight-
een months old standard size Dach-
shund, shown by Elmer Williams of
Dallas, who is new to the show
business, went best in her class of
American Bred Dachshunds. Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Robinson, showing
miniature poodles, took two firsts.
Holly Court Star Bright, male, two
years old, and Robin Star Tim, eight
months old, miniature poodles, both
home-bred at the Country Kennels,
were successful. Robin Star Tim, the
youngest puppy in the group, com-
peted against puppies already ac-
customed to being shown, and Holly
Court Star Bright was up against a
formidable class.
Mr. Robinson showed also a dog
from Williamsport, Champion Bryan
of Hollabird, which won for the third”
successive year under his handling
in the short-haired pointer class.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams will take
their Dachshund to the show at
Teaneck, N. J. on Sunday. Candida
had a nice litter of puppies eight
weeks ago, already sold. Mr.
Williams will purchase a sire with
exceptionally good championship
lines.
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UNION DISTRICT OPERATIONS..
Dear Editor:
I believe the following on Union
School District Operations may be
of timely interest.
I, personally, have always favored
a Union District.
Sincerely,
C. L.
The Provisions of the School Code
Generally, union districts result
from voter action on state-approved
petitions by interested school boards
or interested voters.
Sections 251 through 254 and Act
508 of the 1955 General Assembly
(which repeals Section 312 of the
Code) set forth in detail the neces-
sary legal steps to form a union dis-
trict. They provide that any two
or more districts may form a union
district by the following procedure:
(1) Either at least a majority
of the members of the board in each
district, or at least 25% of the regis-
tered voters in each district, may
present a petition to the county
commissioners requesting the com-
missioners to place the question on
the ballot in each district at the
next general or municipal election.
(2) The commissioners then re-
quest approval of the petition from
the Superintendent of Public In-
struction in Harrisburg, and, if ap-
proved the question is then placed
on the ballot. \
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(3) If a majority of the voters
inn each district approve, the union
district becomes operative on the
first Monday in July after it is
formed. All the debts and liabili-
ties of the several districts become
debts of the union district, unless
otherwise provided by an agreement
approved by a majority vote of each
board prior to the time the ques-
tion is submitted to the voters. All
rights of the creditors are preserved.
All school property of the several
districts vests in the union district,
and all debts and taxes owing the
districts, uncollected in the several
districts and all moneys in the
treasuries of the several districts,
shall be paid to the treasurer of the
new district.
The Beard
Act 508 of the 1955 General As-
sembly provides in effect that a
union district school board is com-
posed of a number of directors
elected at large as are necessary to
make up the number of directors
by law for school districts of the
class to which the union district be-
longs.
Audit
Section 2401 (7) provides that
the court of common pleas of Lu-
zerne County, upon petition of the
board of the union district, shall,
as soon as convenient after the cre-
ation of the district, appoint three
persons to audit the financial ac-
counts of the district. The auditors
so appointed shall, on the first Mon-
day of July, at the time of organ-
ization, or within five days there-
after, and within thirty days, care-
fully audit and adjust the financial
accounts of the school district for
the preceding school years. At the
first municipal election after a
union district is formed, there shall
be elected three school auditors, one
for a term of two years, one for a
| term of four years, and one for a
term of six years, and their succes-
sors thereafter shall be elected for
terms of six years each. When a
vacancy occurs in the office of audi-
tor by reason of death, resignation,
removal from the school district, or
otherwise, the court of common
pleas of Luzerne County, upon
petition of the board, shall appoint
a person to hold such office for the
unexpired term of the person whose
| place he is appointed to fill. The
compensation of both the appointed
and elected auditors shall be five
dollars per day for each day neces-
sarily spent by each auditor, to be
paid by the union district.
In general, the advantages of a
union district are the advantages
of any single school district. While
it is possible to secure optimum ed-
ucational benefits from joint opera-
tions, the task is more difficult be-
cause of certain disadvantages in
joint operations.
Advantages of a Union District
1. A union district is the ultimate
logical method for the reorganiza-
tion of school districts in areas
which may be considered a natural
community.
2. Under a union district there is
one governing body and possibly a
superintendent for the entire school
program. The board, though cum-
bersome at the beginning, ultimate-
ly becomes a more workable size
than a joint board.
3. In the borrowing of money
and the erection of buildings, the
union district has the highest de-
gree of permanence.
4. Fiscal affairs in the union dis-
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trict are simplified to the extent
that there is a single tax rate and
no duplication in the work of treas-
urers and secretaries. Furthermore,
there is one budget for the district.
5. | Costs of general control are
less due to elimination of function
and personnel.
Advantages of a Joint Board
1. A joint board may be formed
immediately by the participating
school boards and need not be voted
on by the electorate.
2. Costs are apportioned among
the districts in any desirable man-
ner.
Disadvantages of a Joint Board
1. A joint board adds a ‘“‘super-
structure” to existing governmental
units. Political boundaries which do
not necessarily correspond to logical
school attendance and administra-
tive boundaries are preserved.
2. The joint board has often
proved to be a cumbersome size
working organization due to its be-
ing composed of all members of
each component board.
8. A joint board does not have
the permanence of a union district
in planning the future of schools.
4. Additional administrative costs
might be incurred because of the
necessary adoption and operation
of a joint board budget in addition
to those district budgets already
in effect.
5. The present tax collectors are
retained in each sub division.
LIVE CONCERTS AND BASEBALL
Dear Editor:
Thank you loads for the fine arti-
cle about the Community Concert
series under ‘Barnyard Notes” in
today’s Dallas Post.
It is wonderful praise and pub-
licity and we are very appreciative.
Television and radio are remark-
able and thrilling additions to mod-
ern man’s enjoyment of life but
most people, I am sure, will agree
that there is no substitution for
seeing and hearing “live” a fine
concert, a good play, and exciting
baseball game.
Sincerely,
Dorothy M. Sanders.
GOD GIVE THEM WISDOM
‘Dear Editor:
As a former member of Kingston
Township School Board, I wish to
support my good friend, James
Hutchison in the Dallas Area Joint
Schools controversy. Due to cir-
cumstances beyond his control, Jim
was chosen to represent his Board
Monday evening at a meeting of
Back Mountain citizens interested
in better schools held in the Dallas
Township school building.
As a member of the panel seated
on the platform Jim represented the
Kingston Township Board and when
called upon to speak he expressed
the view of his entire board.
Due to the unique character of
the meeting, other members of the
| various school boards, seated inthe
cluded from expressing their views
or answering statements with which
they did not agree.
This was evidencad by the cha‘r-
man challenging Mr. Hess of the
Franklin Township Board when he
arose to speak on a point after
having been permitted to present a
written statement of Franklin Town-
ship’s position.
The impression was given that
this was primarily a citizens’ meet-
ing and school board members
should confine their arguments to
future Board meetings rather than
take up time allotted to the citizens.
In other words, if the citizens are
sufficiently interested in hearing and
determining the personal viewpoints
of various members they should
make it a poiht to attend the school
board meetings to which they are
always welcome and in fact cordial-
ly invited.
It is the writer’s personal opinion
that no one individual or group of
individuals attending this meeting
should take offense at what Jim
said. In his usual forthright man-
ner, Jim said exactly what he hon-
estly felt needed to be said. He has
never in the many years in which
I have known and been associated
with him, been a man to say any-
thing behind your back. If he has
‘| something to say to you he tells
you to your face, a quality which I
shall never cease to admire in any
man.
In trying to clarify his position
and his board’s, he brought up a
very forceful simile between this
jointure and a hound dog and its
tail, which perfectly fits the situa-
tion, and should cause no one to
take offense.
The three larger districts in the
area were likened to the body of
the dog and the two smaller dis-
tricts to the tail. He stated that
the present jointure is a “mockery”
and that things have reached a point
where the tail is wagging the dog
instead of the dog wagging the tail.
He went on further to point out
that if the tail is causing the dog
pain or anguish it can and should
be cut off and the dog will continue
to live a more useful and happier
life. On the other hand the tail with-
out the dog is of very little use to
itself or anyone else. ’
Jim Hutchison, without question,
probably has more close friends in
both Franklin and Monroe Town-
ships than any other member of the
Dallas Area Board. Both areas be-
ing largely rural-agricultural ore
predominantly populated by good
solid farm folk. During the more
than a quarter of a century that
Jim served as the Luzerne County
Farm Agent, he worked for and
with these very same people, partic-
audience, were more or less pre- ||
ularly Franklin Township. Monroe
Township being in Wyoming Coun-
ty was out of Jim's territory, but
nevertheless many of these good
folks availed themselves of his ex-
the proximity of their farms to Lu-
zerne County.
When Jim advised these people
to use a particular type of fertilizer
on their farms, to rotate their crops
or use contour plowing methods,
they followed his advice and bene-
fited tremendously
Many an unproductive farm was
put on a paying basis by following
Jim’s advice and countless farm
families raised their standard of
living through his technical know
how. After all these years of close
association how can these people
think that Jim has turned against
them? On the contrary the exact
opposite seems to be true.
Jim, along with the twenty-four
other members of the Dallas Area
Joint Board, has sat night after
night trying to resolve the very
complicated and trying problems
connected with transforming five
individual school districts into one
outstanding district for the benefil
of our children and future genera-
tions.
Time and again the record shows
that roadblocks have been thrown
up by members of the two smaller
districts both of which have the
most to benefit from a larger and
better school system. When four-
teen men out of a total of twenty-
five come to some semblance of
agreement on a program for the
benefit of all the children in the
area and eleven have the power fo
block such a constructive move and
obstinately continue this unreason-
able procedure, then the time has
arrived to “sever the tail from the
dog.” i
The question naturally arises as
to what will happen if the majority
of the Dallas Township Board mem -
bers should also decide to withdraw
their board from the present “mock
jointure.” That would put all the
districts back on an individual
board basis again, as the previous
two-way and triple jointures are
now out of existence and therefore
null and void.
pert knowledge and advice due to!
Monroe Township can, of course,
make overtures to become a part
of the Tunkhannock Area Jointure,
which is what the State Department
of Education advocated in the first
place. They will then, of course, be
faced agaln with the problem of a
much longer bus ride for their stu-
dents, which is one of the points
of argument now over the re-allc-
cation of students.
Franklin Township, however will
find themselves in a much more
unenviable position. They have no
buildings or teachers of their own
whatsoever. They will face the
alternative of joining with the next
closest school district, Exeter Town-
ship, or possibly Lake Township or
else sending their students to one
of the three larger districts on a
per pupil tuition basis.
It is to be sincerely hoped that an
amicable agreement beneficial and
fair to all concerned may yet be
worked out for the benefit of our
children and the everlasting better-
ment of the entire Back Mountain
UPPER ROAD
community. May God give to all!
PAGE FIVE
the twenty-five board members wis-
dom, faith, understanding and above
all the sincere desire and ability to
sit down together at a board meet-
ing and each give and take a little,
never losing sight of the fact that
to put the saving of a few paltry
dollars in taxes ahead of the best
possible educational advantages for
our children is not only foolhardy
but downright dangerous for the fu-
ture of our area, state and nation.
Sincerely yours,
Frederick W. Anderson
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