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DALLAS, PA.
The Dallas Post (J. KOZEMCHAK SR.)
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1971
1927 Mack Firetruck
Leads Another Parade
Proudly representing a total of 167
years of volunteer fire service to the Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Co. five ‘‘old-
timers” rode in Dallas’ Memorial Day
Monday Fire
Destroys Home
An early Monday morning fire gutted
the home and garage of the William
Dogns family in Lehman Township while
the family were visiting with Mrs.
Downs’ parents in Wildwood, N.J. No in-
juries were reported.
The alarm was called in at 4:20 a.m. by
a member of the John R. Vivian family,
neighbors ‘of the Downs. Lehman and
Jackson Township fire companies and
Jonathan R. Davis Fire Co., Idetown, re-
sponded with seven pieces of equipment.
' Lehman Township fire chief Harold Cool-
baugh directed about 40 volunteer fire-
fighters; he was aided by assistant chief
L. ,C. Sutton. Several members of
thMDr. Henry M. Laing Fire Co., Dallas,
also helped to battle the blaze, but their
equipment was not used.
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Parade Monday. Their special mode of
transportation was an ‘‘oldtimer”’ too—a
1927 Mack pumper truck.
For those who viewed the parade, the
driver of the Mack was James Besecker,
a charter member of the Dallas fire unit
since its organization in 1927. A fire chief
for 15 years, Mr. Besecker is still an
active member of the unit.
him was Les Warhola, also a former
chief; Riding on the back of the fruck
were Dan Richards, a former chief: Tom
Kingston, and Henry Peterson, former
president and currently a vice-president.
Average years served with the fire
company is 31 years - with Mr. Besecker
serving in his 44th year. Each of the five
men were presented with helmets,
marked with their names.
The chain-driven 1927Mack was given a
special restoration job in time for the day
on which America honors her dead from
all wars. Fire chief Don Shaffer was in
charge of the restoration project.
“Everything that could be removed
from the truck and chassis was taken off
and refinished, refurbished, rebuilt, or
restored,’ declared a fire company offi-
cial.
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Seated with
Proud veterans of the Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Co.
rode aboard a completely restored 1927 Mack
pumper in the Memorial Day parade held in Dallas
Monday morning.
Garinger Wins
In Vote Dispute
A petition which sought to have nine
absentee ballots cast in the May 18
primary election at Harveys Lake
Borough included in the borough’s of-
ficial returns was approved by the
Luzerne County Board of Election, Court
en banc, following a hearing last Thurs-
day morning.
The petition initiated by Arnold Garin-
ger, Republican candidate for school di-
rector in Lake-Lehman’s first region,
was filed by Atty. Charles D. Lemmond
Jr.
In presenting the petition before
Judges Robert J. Hourigan and Peter
Paul Olszewski, Atty. Lemmond noted
that ‘an examination of the open and
sealed returns does not indicate that
these ballots were included in the returns
to the board.”’
Eight of the absentee ballots in
question were cast by Republicans; one
by a Democrat. The count revealed that
Mr. Garinger received seven votes, J.
Franklin Patton received three votes,
Ellis Hoover, three votes; and Earl
Booth, two votes.
The vote count reversed an apparent
victory for Mr. Booth and indicated that
Mr. Garinger was in fact the Republican
party’s second school board nominee.
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Former Globe Store Executive
JoinsNewspaper Management
William W. Davis Sr., 611 Lilac Lane,
Clarks Summit, has been named vice
president and general manager of Green-
street News Co., according to an an-
no geement made this week by William
W. Scranton 3rd, president. Greenstreet
publishes three regional suburban
weekly newspapers, The Abington Jour-
nal, The Dallas Post, and The Mountain-
top Eagle.
Mr. Scranton said that Mr. Davis’ prin-
ciple functions will be to direct the adver-
tising, circulation and business depart-
ments of all three newspapers. His ap-
pointment becomes effective immed-
iately.
Widely known in the advertising and
business community of Northeastern
Pennsylvania, Mr. Davis was formerly
national advertising manager of the
Scranton Tribune and Sunday Scran-
tonian. Later he joined the Globe Store as
advertising director and then became
sales promotion manager. In 1960 he was
named vice president of the Globe Store.
More recently he was eastern sales
manager for Ad-R-Holt, Inc., where he
was a specialist in retail promotion ser-
vices.
"Mr. Davis, a Scranton native, is a grad-
uate of Central High School, Keystone
Junior College, where he majored in
business and journalism, and the Univer-
sity of Scranton, where he studied adver-
tising and marketing.
A member of many civic organizations,
Mr. Davis is a former president of the
Scranton Commercial Association;
former vice president of the Scranton
Better Business Bureau; a former
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William W. Davis
member of the board of directors of the
Scranton Chamber of Commerce; and a
former member of the Scranton Adver-
tising and Sales Club. He has served on
various other committees, including the
United Fund, Downtown Development
Committee, Chamber of Commerce
public relations committee, and the
chamber’s sustaining drive.
Mr. Davis will assume some of the
duties formerly held by both Mr. Scran-
ton and J. R. Freeman. Mr. Freeman will
now hold the position of vice president in
charge of news for Greenstreet. He will
also continue his duties as editor of The
Journal.
In his new position, Mr. Davis will
maintain offices at Greenstreet Corpor-
ate headquarters, 41 Lehman Ave.
Dallas. In addition, his responsibilities
will entail duties in The Mountaintop
Eagle offices near the Triangle in Moun-
taintop, and The Abington Journal offices
in the Tenant Building in Clarks Summit.
A former master sergeant in the U.S.
Army, Mr. Davis, and his wife, Lucille,
are the parents of two sons and a daugh-
ter, William W. Jr., a trust officer at
Northeastern National Bank; Charles H.,
with the Aetna Insurance Co., Scranton;
and Sheri, a student at Endicott Junior
College, Beverly Mass.
FIFTEEN CENTS
Teacher, Board Dispute
Flares in Lehman District
No agreement has been reached in con-_
tract negotiations currently in progress
between the Lake-Lehman School Board
and teachers in that district, The Dallas
Post learned earlier this week.
According to Calvin Kanyuck, chief
negotiator for the Lake-Lehman Educa-
tion Association, a meeting with the
school board’s negotiating team was
scheduled for last night at 8.
“We are hopeful that a contract agree-
ment will be reached before the end of the
school year,”” Mr. Kanyuck stated. The
purpose of the meeting last night, the
negotiator told The Post, was to ‘‘iron out
the major areas of disagreement’ be-
tween the teachers and the school board.
He indicated that these “major areas’’
involved teacher salaries and hospital-
ization benefits for dependents.
On May 12, Lake-Lehman teachers
voted against accepting proposals which
had been agreed upon by their own nego-
tiating team and the school board; the
proposals were reportedly defeated by a
- vote of 39 to 40. ih
In commenting on the current contract
negotiations, Atty. Charles D. Lemmond,
chief negotiator for the school board,
acknowledged the defeat of the proposals
“by a single vote’’ and stated that his
committee—comprised of school board
directors J. Franklin Patton and Michael 3
Slimak—would ‘‘meet as often as is
necessary to arrive at a contract settle-
ment which is satisfactory to both par-
ties.”
Mr. Kanyuck stated that he does not
anticipate a strike inasmuch as the
teachers have not at any time taken a
strike vote. “The only voting which has
been done has been on the proposals,” he
said.
Other members of the teachers’ nego-
tiating team are Frank Wilczewski, Zack
Riehl, and Bettie Strawser.
Dallas Teachers Agree
On Proposed Contract
Details of salaries and benefits for
professional employes of Dallas School
District were revealed Friday by Walter
Glogowski, president of the Dallas
Education Association.
Unproper Voting
Found in Borough
Primary Election
The three-member election board of
Harveys Lake Borough was admonished
by Luzerne County Judges Robert J.
Hourigan and Peter Paul Olszewski for
apparent lapses in proper voting proced-
ures on Primary Election Day at a
hearing before the Court en banc last
Thursday morning.
The hearing was prompted by an affi-
davit filed by Democratic Watcher Helen
Sgarlat, who alleged that the election
board of Harveys Lake Borough had per-
mitted the voting polls of that community
to be ‘‘conducted in an unlawful man-
ner.”
Present at the hearing were Judge of
Election Cornelius Smith, Minority In-
spector Bina Stenger, and Majority In-
spector Helen Bainbridge.
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Starting salaries range from $6,400 to
$6,700, with an additional $100 in the fifth
and 11th steps. With a bachelor’s degree,
a teacher’s salary will increase to $10,800
after his or her 14th year of service.
Fringe benefits have increased in some
areas. Prior to this contract, Blue Cross
and Blue Shield was singular; itis family
coverage now, with $4 per month paid by
the district. Teachers will also have the
benefit of $3,000 life insurance.
The length of the school year is 187
days. School hours per day remain the
same. ’
Although contracts have not been
signed, agreements were reached last :
week by the school board and DEA‘S
negotiators. Formal signing of contracts
will be made upon completion of perusal
by Ben Jones 3rd, school board solicitor,
and Peter O’Brien, northeastern repre-
sentative for Pennsylvania State Educa-
tion Association.
The DEA president was asked about
comparable salaries in this school
district and other area districts. He
stated that even with increases this year,
local teachers are not receiving salaries
asremunerative as last year’s s alaries in
Wyoming Valley West, Wilkes-Barre,
Tunkhannock and other districts. “Parity
was not attained,”” Mr. Glogowski in-
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