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VOL. 76, NO. 25.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1965
Proposed First-year Budget For Harveys Lake Boro
Slates 10-mill Tax,
Police Chief Would Get
# At $4200; Initial Millage Is Up From 4.1
A model budget posing a
$5 per capita tax, an $8,500 a year borough manager and
$3,000 a year clerk, and a $5,200 a year police chief for Har-
veys Lake “borough” has been causing a stir around Lake
Township recently.
The proposed first-year budget prepared for the Harveys
Lake Executive Association by the Pennsylvania Economy
League, in conjunction with the Association’s efforts to form
a borough around Harveys Lake, has not yet been publicized,
but its existence was reported to
the Dallas Post, which quickly
sought one out for study.
The Executive Association, as is
commonly known, has been investi-
gating all possible ways to form
a borough, purportedly to improve
municipal services at the Lake it-
self now provided on a township
level to two rural districts and a
seasonally urban North District
around Harveys Lake.
A representative of the Executive
Association explained the borough
move to the Post several months
ago, including plans to hire a man-
ager, and the Post presented a
special article on it at that time.
The controversial report was made
known unofficially to the Lake pub-
® in a limited way, being: posted
y a Noxen Road innkeeper in his
bar, and was subsequently borrowed
by a Township Supervisor for study.
At the base of the financial
“® structure of the proposed bor-
ough are two loans—a $20,000
6-month lean anticipating tax
receipts for the year, and a
long-term $10,000 loan for
capital outlay. :
Millage Compared
In a letter to Frank Burnside,
president of Executive Association,
the Economy League reported that
the millage of 10 “could be reduced” | |
to 8 after the iinitial capital ex-
penditure.
Present township millage is 4.1.
Township valuation is $5,164,064,
for Lake, $4,470,010 for Lehman.
Number of square miles of road
in the proposed borough will total
7, compared to 28.58 square miles
in Lake Township, and 23.07 in
Lehman, only a fragment of which
lies within the borough confines.
_. Population of the proposed bor-
ough will number 1300 from that
wart ef Lake affectediard 3506: from
Lehman. (Oak Hill development is
not included in the borough.)
Future valuation will be about
$3,920,940 on property now in Lake
Township, to be annexed to borough,
and $651,540 from Lehman.
First year budget, says the Econ-
omy League, foresees a $41,153 in-
come from the 10-mill tax, taking
into consideration some that is un-
collectible.
A $5 per capita tax on 500 col-
lectible heads will bring in $2500.
Present per capita tax is $3 in Lake
and $5 in Lehman. Report says that
there could be an ‘improved collec-
tion effort” to derive more per
capita revenue,
A township officials points out
that the ‘improved collection ef-
fort” could mean elimination of
a nbatements on old people and in-
$a present township practice.
The Harveys Lake borough would
¥ hope to gain most of the estimated
$4500 in beverage licenses, since
almost all taverns in Lake Town-
ship are close to Harveys Lake.
Borough Payroll
One of the most controversial
items on the proposed budget is the
payroll. The police chief will be
assisted by a patrolman who will
get $4200 a year. Present police
are paid $3600 and $2800 respec-
tively. Chief will also act as health
officer.
There will be a mayor who will
receive a token $200 a year, and
he will also be Justice of the Peace.
Actual running of Lake Borough
$5200, One Officer
10 mill borough property tax,
will be in the hands of the manager
and his clerk.
Other help will include two ex-
tra special police, for which $2000
is set aside, an engineer at $500
yearly, a street crew composed of
a forman-driver at $4000 and a la-
borer at $3600, as well as the stand-
ard solicitor and auditor fees.
Vehicle expenditure is seen at
$3500 outlay for a police car and
$6000 for a dump-truck, hopefully
a 4-wheel-drive truck, says the re-
port.
The administration will take over
duties of tax collection and health
administration, eliminating these |
costs.
$8500 Manager, $3000 Clerk
The report says, given a popula-
tion of 1650 and 3.31 miles of
eligible streets, the borough would
receive $2,716 in 1965, on fuel tax
return.
NOTE: Economy League says
that amusement taxes in 1964
brought Lake $1792, while Leh-
man Township got $6251. Leh~
man derived its revenue mainly
from bingo contributions, says
the League, “which are not
legal.” (Bingo places in Leh-
man Township are termed by
the Board of Supervisors as be-
ing sponsored by the fire com-
panies, and thus legal, but they
return half to the township in
contributions.)
Your Property Tax
On a valuation of $500, a Lake
Township resident now paying $2.05
(4.1 mills) would pay to the bor-
ough $5, according to the report.
On a valuation of $4000, a resident
now paying $16.40 would pay $40,
on valuation of $8,500 the tax would
rise from $59.45 to $145.
For dumping the Lake Borough
would expect to rent facilities at
$500 yearly, presumably from Lake
Township, if the township is willing.
Historic old Dallas passenger
station, « Lehigh Valley Railroad,
falls to the swrecker’s axe. =~
Photographer Jim Kozemchak did
not have much time to take this
shot, as the demolition was accom-
Proper Roadways
First Essential
Protective Assoc.
Gets Out Petition
Tonight at the meeting of Back
Mountain Protective Association in
the Library Annex, Edward Schal-
lenberger, chairman of Recreation
and Parks, will speak. He is a mem-
ber of Luzerne County Planning
Commission. :
Petitions to make available by |
proper roadways a large tract of’
land deeded to Dallas Township
twenty years ago, are being circu-
lated.
One of the first to sign was Sen-
ator Harold Flack, who is on the
| advisory committee. He feels that |
| there is definitely need for recrea- |
| tional facilities for the youth of the
area. The Department of Forests and
| Waters will cooperate. The meeting
| will take up the necessity for a
| long look at, the sanitary facilities
| now existing in the Back Mountain,
| with an eye to future development.
| Dr. F. Budd Schooley met last
| week with members of the Planning
Commission in Wilkes-Barre, and
Monday night with Dallas Township
Planning Committee Fritz Holliday,
Old Dallas Depot Falls
&
plished in a matter of hours, ye
day morning. :
Having spanned two centuries, the
life of the depot was given a tem-
porary extension by contractor Ray-
mon Hedden, who donated it lock,
stock, and roof to the Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library after being
given the contract to build the new
postoffice, which will be located on
the depot site. Library offered it
for sale, but there were no takers.
Depot was abandoned by the rail-
road, as tracks were ripped up more
than a year ago,
Creek line being unprofitable, and
the intrusion of a new highway
necessitating relocation of two
ster-
thirds of a mile of track if the rail- |
road were to continue.
Freight station adjoining was
torn down last December. Wreckers
said there was no salvage value in
the passenger station.
Carl Goeringer, Benjamin Edwards,
Raymond Elston and Jacob Taylor.’
Disposal of sewage in the entire
area was discussed. Detergents, it
ig claimed, produce a solid residue
which the anaerobic bacteria in a
septic tank are unable to break
down and liquify.
Sewage disposal and an adequate
water supply go hand in hand.
If the area is to expand accord-
ing to plans, the entire densely
populated area along Toby's Creek
calls for a sewage disposal plant
constructed by a Sanitary Author-
ity, for which Federal funds may
be available.
It cannot be done by any individ-
ual municipality.
the Bowman’s
New Goods For Auction
To Be Received June 28
According to Bowden Northrup,
the Auction Barn will be open for
reception of new goods Monday,
June 28. Hours are 9 to noon, 1 to 5.
Barn Destroyed.
Milk Machinery.
3000 Hay Bales
Two Fire Companies
Save Smaller Barn
And Twelve Heifers
Firemen ‘ from Huntington Mills
and Sweet Valley were able to save
a small barn. and livestock from
disaster, but the main barn on the
John Metcalf property, Harveyville-
Broadway road. was completely de-
stroyed around 2, Tuesday after-
noon, with ~.damage at about
$15,000 to $17,000.
Consumed in the inferno, which
was ‘still smoking yesterday morn-
ing,” were about 3000 bales of new
hay, some 400 bales of straw, and
all milking “machinery.
No cause .has been advanced for
the fire, but .it “is. speculated that
it started in the hayloft.
- Firemen remained on the scene
until . early ' evening.
. Barn was described by the family
as not too old, about 40 by 70 feet,
two-story. Sea
When firemen arrived, after being
called -by Mrs. Metcalf, the main
barn: was in flames: :Also burning
was the small barn across the road,
in which were twelve heifers and
a supply of feed. Firemen were
able to, save it.. 4
All livestock from the main barn
was out to pasture at the time,
and: thus was. safe from the blaze.
LL PTA Votes.
Blood Program
At a recent board meeting of the
Lake-Lehman. Joint P. T. A. it was
decided to join with the Back
Mountain P. T. ‘A. Council in their
blood = assurance . program.
«Parents, - teachers. and residents
‘whoo have: paid ‘the $.50' dues of the
Lake-Lehman'- Joint “P. T. 4. and
eligible ‘members: of their families;
are: assured that whole blood will
be provided when needed. All mem-
bers “will be. covered by this plan,
not just’ those’ who donate blood.
! the parking lot at Disque’s Funeral
Burning Tank-truck Is Doused By Prompt Firemen
Firemen and workers at American |
Asphalt Company Plant, Chase, are
seen here extinguishing remnants
of a fire which burned much of the
cab of the oil tanker at left and
the burner plant at right, around
6:45 Monday morning.
Road oil, itself highly inflam-
mable, also spilled out of a loose
hose onto the ground following the
fire, which was put out with water
by Jackson Township Fire Com-
pany. -Trucksville and Luzerne
companies were also called out to
stand by.
Truck had come from Perth Am-
Marilyn Eck Makes
Straight A Average
Two local students have been
named to the spring semester dean’s
list at Susquehanna University.
They are Marilyn Eck, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eck, 85 N.
Lehigh Street, Shavertown, a junior
chemistry major, and Nancy Elston,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Elst-
on, Shadyside, Kunkle, a junior
English major.
Miss Eck was one of 12 students
at Susquehanna who had perfect
4.0 or ‘straight A” averages dur-
ing the spring semester, when the
university had an. enrollment of
1,060.
Douse Car-fire
Fire broke out in the motor of a |
car driven by Emerson “Si” Evans,
Huntsville, early Sunday evening in
Home. It was extinguished by. an
unidentified ' man, who took a
blanket from his car and smothered
it. Dallas fire company was notified
to stand by, but was not needed.
Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins was hostess
Monday afternoon to members of
the Antiques Committee for the
Back Mountain Memorial Library
Auction, scheduled for July 8, 9
and 10.
Shown here at the table where
advanced gifts were ranged, are, left
Auxiliary Will Serve Famous Food At Lehman Horse-show
somone
Shown here are members of the Left to right are: Mrs. James Cook, | follows: Hot roast beef sandwiches,
Auxiliary of the Lehman Volunteer | president; Mrs. Russell Coolbaugh, home
Fire Company who will serve dinner
at the Lehman Horse Show
grounds on Monday, July 5, starting
at noon. This group, well-known
throughout the area for the serv-
ing of delicious food, is headed by
Mrs. Dorrance Mekeel, chairman of
the dinner. Mrs. Mekeel said that
the women’s stand will be open
both days, Sunday and Monday,
serving snacks, and will serve
breakfast on Monday morning,
starting at 6:30.
Mrs. A. M. Major, Mrs. Charles Ely, |
Mrs. Myron Baker, Mrs. Joe Ells- |
worth, Mrs. Glenn Johnson, Mrs. |
Allan Fox, Mrs. Morton Connolly,
Mrs. Howard Ehret, Mrs. Alex Re- |
bar, Mrs. Florence Davenport, Mrs. |
Joseph Stolarick, Mrs. Michel Dubil, |
Mrs. Robert Marr, Mrs. Thomas Els- !
ton, Mrs. Alice Elston, Mrs. Harry |
Howell, Mrs. Delores Desormo, Mrs.
H. A. Brown, Mrs. Raymond Sear-
foss, Mrs. Dorrance Mekeel, Mrs.
Albert Ide, Mrs. John Hudak.
Dinner menu for July 5 is as
baked beans, french fries,
pepper hash, home made pie, bev-
erages.
Breakfast menu includes bacon,
eggs, toast, doughnuts and coffee.
The 21st annual Lehman Horse
Show will start Sunday, July 4, at
1 p.m. and will continue all after-
noon and evening. At 9 p.m. on
Sunday, the Rodeo Queen will be |
crowned. The July 5th show will
start at 9 am. with a parade up
Route 118; horse show will start at
10 am. and continue all day.
PHOTO: PARAMOUNT STUDIO
/
to right, Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, chair-
man, holding a Mary Gregory pitch-
er, and Mrs. Jenkins, hostess and
member of the planning committee,
with a piece of delicate cranberry
glass donated by Mrs. Howard Ris-
ley, co-chairman of the committee.
Miss™ Frances Dorrance, one of
the mainstays of the Committee on
Antiques was present at the tea,
i but because of prior commitments,
will not be able to attend the Auc-
tion this year.
Antiques which were brought to
the tea were carefully wrapped, to
remain in a safe place until the
two days when antiques are re-
ceived at the Barn, Tuesday and
Wednesday, July 6 and 7. Hours
are 10 to 2. Mrs. Harold Titman
will be in charge of receiving, with
a committee of her own naming.
Mrs. Fred Howell, in charge of
assigning hours for duty on the
three days of the Auction, had her
chart with her, ready for signatures.
Mrs. Homer Moyer did a brisk
business in chance books for the
| arrow-backed settle decorated in
Early American motif by Mrs. Paul
Gross.
Key members of the committee
have worked together for so many
years that formation of committees
was practically automatic, each
member able to do some specialized
thing, and do it painlessly.
“The sales table, introduced some
4 Members Of Antique Committee View Treasures
years ago, practically over a few
dead bodies, has proved a practical
solution to the problem. of getting
everything over the block. Items
which are not quite top value are
offered here, genuine antiques, but
with a slight flaw, or sets of dishes
with ‘a missing cup. Visitors to
the Auction delight in the sales
table, and it has proved a real
money-maker.
Mrs. Sherwood Wilson and Mrs.
John -Wilson are cooperating in
management of the sales table..
Last year's chairman, Mrs.
George Montgomery, in her final
report, made many valuable sug-
gestions for the guidance of suc-
ceeding chairmen.
to end models. If anything was
leftout, it was not immediately ap-
parent. Typed and enclosed in a
folder, it offers a challenge to any
chairman who attempts to duplicate
it. !
Guests were: Miss Frances Dor-
rance; Mesdames Arch Hutchison,
Fred Howell,
Merrill Faegenburg, Sherwood Wil-
son, Jr., Paul Schalm III, Thomas
B. Moyer, David Ertley, Paul Schalm, |
Walter Mohr, Thomas Roberts,
Thomas E. Heffernan, Floyd Sand-
ers, Richard Maslow, H. Robert |
Beaver, Ray W. Turner, John R.|
Vivian, Norwood Brader, Arch G..
Rutherford, W. B. Jeter, W. H.|
Pierce, Jr., Stefan Hellersperk, Ray-
mon R. Hedden, George H. Mont- |
Strayer, W. E.. John, Sr.,
West, and Mrs. T. M. B, Hicks.
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| been bogged down because
It was a model |
Herman C. Thomas, |
F. Heffernan II, Heing Valtine, R.|
M. Dale, Richard A. Garman, Homer |
boy, and was off-loading, 5000 gal-
lons of RC 800 oil at American
| Asphalt. About 5000 more gallons
| of oil were in the tank adpacent.
There was a constant danger of
explosion from heat.
No one was injured.
photo by Kozemchak
Lehman's Municipal Building Foiled
By Lack Of Federal Matching Funds
Progress on the proposed Lehman
Township municipal building has
the
Board of Supervisors is unable to
latch on to federal money, the Dal-
las Post has learned.
When purchase of the land was
made, about two years ago, it was
hoped to get APW funds from the
federal government to help build
the structure. However, the board
reported at its June meeting, a let-
ter from Congressman Daniel J.
Flood informed that the APW pro-
gram had expired last year.
Supervisor William Samuel said
he had inquired as to use of ‘“Appa-
lachia” funds -- President Johnson's
new poverty program of spending --
for the building, but was told by an
official that this money would be
channeled mainly into poverty areas
in Tennessee and the mid-south.
Representative of the Dallas Post
observed that it had been reported
in ‘a national news magazine that
the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton area
had the lowest average yearly work-
er’s income of any place in the Unit-
ed States, and thus the area might
be numbered among those regions
deemed poor by Washington.
(Congressman Flood is continuing
to: request Appalachia money for
projects in Luzerne County, but
seems to be addressing deaf ears.
Solicitor William Valentine sug-
gested the Dallas Post mail copies
of the U. S. News & World Report,
which showed Luzerne County to
have the lowest income, to Wash-
ington.
Question of township building a-
rose when Mrs. Anna Kolodzej, who
sold the land to Lehman, two acres
near the high school, asked to know
if she were still being assessed taxes
on this land, in addition to her
other property.
Wants Silkworth Access
Mrs. Lillian Davenport addressed
the board to get the township to
open a right of way at the end of
what was the old Main Road, ad-
jacent to the Butch Krause proper-
ty. Mrs. Davenport said that, to the
Pictured above is Mr. James L.
best of her knowledge, there used
to be a through way to the lake
at this point. Supervisor Samuel,
who lives at Silkworth, said that
should bear expense of getting in-
volved in the matter. Valentine
said the board’s power was restrict-
ed to roads,
that the section of lake access in
question was not a road maintained
by Lehman Township. Board sug-
yer to investigate the legal status
of the land -- i. e,, who pays taxes
on it, presently.
Samuel Terranova, of Meeker,
asked to see the township tax book.
He was permitted to examine the
board’s book freely, but tax col-
lector Robert Disque refused: to let
him go through his" own “record
"book. Disque said it was not for him
to let everybody see what everbody
else’s tax business was, and that
any permission so granted would
have to’'be given by the supervis-
ors.
Police forée was directed by
Lieutenant Russell Walters of Lake
Silkworth during Chief Joseph Ide’s
time in the ‘hospital, and special
officers were on patrol every day.
Police report listed 25 calls, two
accidents, two fires, three septic
tanks, three building permits.
Zoning Board handed in $55 in
permits for building.
| It was agreed to advertise for
| bids for oil.
Senior High Students
Register Now For Fall
All students planning to attend
| Dallas Senior High School who are
| not already registered in Dallas
| School District are required to do
i so Tuesday, June 29.
| Registration will be held at the
office |
| Dallas Senior High School
| 8:00 to 12:00 in the morning and
{ 1:00 to 3:0 in the afternoon. Stu-
| dents must bring their report card
and birth certificate.
Trucksville’s New Big Commercial Building ‘Honored
| Carverton Road, Trucksville. Look-
gomery, John S. Wilson, Arthur L.| Brownlee, Vice President of Luzerne | ing on is Mr. Ralph Williams who | to 6 daily; Thursday and Friday, ||
Russell | Electric Division - UGI, who is pre- | will occupy the building and oper- 9 to 9. ; 4
W. Frantz, Helen Couglin, Sr., Har- | senting an All Electric Award to ate a grocery store and recreation |
old Titman, Arch Austin Ambrose Mr. Gordon Mathers, owner of the center which will open on July 1.
he did not see why ‘the township |
and Samuels added |
L-L Board Wants
Half Of 3 Taxes
Townships Levy
Resolutions Set To
Be Made At Meeting
Of Interim Session
Half the revenue now derived by
townships within Lake-Lehman
School District from per capita,
amusement, and real estate transfer
taxes will go to the School District,
some time after resolutions levying |
similar school taxes are made at a |
forthcoming Interim Committee
meeting. y
A coin-machine license fee will
also be set. /
School District decided to enact
these taxes rather than raise mil- |
lage for the coming year, according
to the administration office. 1
Secretary of the Interim Operat-
ing Committee Eleanor Humphrey
said the resolutions would probably
not take effect until after January
1. They are to be passed next
Tuesday. rig
The Dallas Post, which is carry- ;
ing advertisement of these tax reso-
lutions this week, received word
from Lehman Township supervisors
last weekend that the school board
levy would cut into their receipts.
Miss Humphrey substantiated this
to the Post this week, and said that
Lake Township, one of five school
districts involved in the action, has
had its own such taxes for years,
and the other school boards de-
cided to do the same, at a special
meeting last month.
Townships in the joint school
district are Lake, Lehman, Jackson,
Ross, and Noxen. :
Ambulance Logbook
Lake Township :
Friday, Lake ambulance took Dr.
Ben Groblewski, Laketon, to Mercy |
Hospital, Jim McCaffrey and Lee
gested Mrs. Daveport consult a law- |
| Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m.
"new all electric building located on |. Back Mountain Economy Market to 11 p.m.; Sundays, 7
| Zimmerman attending. 4
Howard Jones, Alderson, was
| taken to Nesbitt Hospital on Satur-
| day, Zimmerman and Dick William
las crew. i’ i
i Sunday, Eugene Pryor, Laketon,
| was taken to Nesbitt Hospital,
Zimmerman and John Stenger at-
| tending. 4
| ~~ Dallas Community
| "Dallas ‘ambulancé took Bernard
Bynon, 122 Main Street, to Nesbitt
Hospital on Thursday, Don Shaffer,
| Ed' Roth, and Gilbert WNiorris at-
| tending.
| Charles Lipp, Hildebrandt Road,
| was taken to General Hospital Fri-
| day, L. R. Scott and Lynn Sheeha
attending. anna
| Arthur Dungey, Lake Street, was
{ brought home from Nesbitt Hos-
| pital on Saturday, Morris and Jim
| Davies attending. pu
| Jill Shaffer, infant daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shaffer, W.
Center Hill Road, was taken to Nes-
| bitt Hospital on Monday, Charles
| Flack, Shaffer, and Davies as crew.
| Mrs. Richard Rogers, White Birch
| Trailer Court, was taken to Nesbitt
| Hospital on Tuesday, Shaffer, Davies
(and Flack attending.
Note: Latter call was the fifth
delivery Charley Flack has either
done himself or assisted in. Baby
| girl was born at home, in excellent .
| condition.
Kingston Township
Kingston Township ambulance
(Continued on page 2 A)
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| ADVANCED FIRST-AIDERS
Anthony Broody will give classes
in advanced first aid evenings July
'7 and 14 at Dallas Borough Bldg.
| will open July 1. Hours will be. 9: |
Recreation Center will be open |
to 11 p.m,
or