EE oe yh v Photo by J. Kozemchak Sr. A pretty four-year-old girl will probably grow up to be a pretty young woman—if her parents and she continue to take advantage of the preventive dental fe available for the child at Harveys’ Lake-Noxen Health Center’s dental unit. And, although most dental services are proviued by the dental unite, the stress is on hr care—especially for children. Rural Health Corporation opened its dental unit Jan. 24 and began providing Milk Pricing Hassle Moves To White House Nader Files Suit In Consumer Behalf Controversy over the retail price of milk has spread all the way from a hearing room in the Lackawanna County CourthMyse to the White House in Wash- ington, according to a legal brief filed in a District of Columbia Federal Court last week. And the man who filed it was non other than Mr. Consumer Advocate, himself, Ralph Nader. Though Mr. Nader’s concern is miles from concern, of a handful of con- sumer advocates who testified in Scranton before the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board last month in protest of the illegal high price paid for milk by consumers in the Luzerne-Lackawanan County region, a correlation exist, none- theless. Local consumers argue that they paid too much for milk at the retail level, (continued on PAGE FIVE) dental services on an appointment basis to rural low-income families. The new services will be provided from the dental unit of Harveys Lake-Noxen Health Center, Noxen, and includes (continued on PAGE SIXTEEN) oan or ‘Younger DALLAS, PA. Kingston Twp. PHONE 675-5211 FIFTEEN CENTS A clamorous group of some 50 Kingston Township residents voiced their op- position Monday night to a proposed re- zoning of approximately 23 acres of land in the township for the construction of multiple housing. Kingston Township Planning Com- mission, with vice chairman Richard Morgan presiding, held the public hearing in the municipal building. In the Ralph Nader Column Begins in This Issue Greenstreet News Co., publisher of the Dallas Post, the Abington Journal, and the Mountaintop Eagle, announced this week that it will provide readers in this region with an exclusive consumer column written by Ralph Nader. In the new column, beginning this week, Mr. Nader will concern himself with regulatory agencies, student activities, air, food, land, and water pollution, as well as such issues as government, corporate and institutional secrecy, radiation hazards, food processing, and auto safety. Two recent appointments by Kingston Township Board of Supervisors represent an attempt to encourage the participation by younger people in the Township government. “We felt we should try to get the younger generation interested in taking part in their municipal government, and our two appointees seem to be very inter- ested,”” Board Chairman Ed Richards commented recently for himself and Supervisors W.R. Mathers and Ed Hall. The veteran elected-official was speaking of Dale Prynn, 23, named to the recreation commission, and John Welker, 20, appointed to the board of appeals. John Welker, a graduate of Dallas Senior High School, is a junior at Wilkes College majoring in business administra- tion. Why did he, a busy college student who works during summer months, accept his appointment? “I accepted primarily for experience in this work’’ was his answer. He is part of a three-man board of appeals which hears township residents who are dissatisfied with decisions rendered by Kingston Township Planning and Zoning Commission. The appeals board does not meet on a regular monthly basis, but only when there is a planning-zoning decision to review. Speaking quietly, the young college student explains that he is a registered voter and believes in exercising this right—although he is not ‘“‘gung ho’’ for any particular party. Are politics in his future? Certainly not at any foreseeable time, he admits. He just wants to learn as much as possible where he serves with Richard Staub and Jack Porter. A native of Kingston Township, Mr. Welker and his mother live on Carverton Road, Trucksville. Another native son of the township is Dale Prynn. He and his wife live in Meadowcerest, Trucksville, with his stepson, Andrew, 7, and daughter, Margaret, who was one-year old Jan. 28. When this young man speaks of teenagers, it is easy to understand why he accepted membership on the recreation commission. ‘I’ve always been interested in younger people and feel we should ask them what we can do for them,’ he proclaims. (continued on PAGE SIXTEEN) News Interpretive n world. by J.R. Freeman CCEC co-chairman Dr. Bryon Lee has And he (continued on PAGE THREE) audience were Thomas Garrity, director of Luzerne County Assessment Office, and the three township supervisors, Ed Richards, Ed Hall, and W.R. Mathers. Elwood Bowman, representing the firm of Creative Building Systems, asked for rezoning of about 13 acres, known as the George Isaacs plot on Staub Road, Trucksville, from A-1, agriculture, to R-3, multiple housing, and about 10 acres, known as the Ferguson plot at the rear of Franklin Street, Shavertown, from R-1, single housing, to R-3. The majority of questions concerning rezoning was asked by about eight residents, most speaking at least two times, but some querying the commission and Mr. Bowman for as many as three or four times. Mr. Bowman stated that if granted rezoning, his firm would build ap- proximately 100 units on the Isaacs plot. These units would be designed as two- story town houses or garden apartments, and would be rental-geared for middle income families. About 80 percent of the units would be two-bedroom, 20 percent would be three-bedroom. The average cost to build each unit would be $25,000. The builder’s representative stressed that the apartment complex would have no government or FHA subsidies; therefore, definitely would not be classified as public housing. He said his company would be the owners for at least 40 years. As owners, they would be -re- quired to set aside 60 percent of the rent for the purpose of maintaining the property, paying taxes and management. Forty percent of the rental funds would be used to pay off the mortgage. A Highland Avenue resident asked, “Where would the development get water and sewage?’’ Vice chairman Morgan replied that the development ‘‘would definitely have to go on the sewer system.’”’ Roy A. Transue of the Trucksville Water Company stated the water com- pany is endeavoring to improve the water Kingston Cop, Becomes Chief When Paul Sabol was appointed chief of police of Kingston Township Jan. 4, he had served in the police department either as a special officer or full-time patrolman for 10 years. The seasoned policeman began in a special capacity in February, 1962, and assumed full-time duties in February of 1971. Kingston Township Board of Super- visors made Chief Sabol’s appointment this year after the untimely death of Chief Herbert Updyke. “One of the most important factors in this police force is our work with chil- dren,’ Chief Sabol declared this week, as he listed details of Juvenile Officer Clif- ford Culver’'s work, plus that done by William Pugh, who serves as narcotics officer. Both Officers Culver and Pugh collaborate closely in their endeavors with the young people of the township. Chief Sabol has been active in com- munity affairs for a number of years, having been a past-president of Back Mountain Police Association and for the last three years president of Trucksville Volunteer Fire Company. He has taken basic and advanced courses as offered by the State Police, as well as other police schools. The Sabol family lives on Pioneer Avenue, Trucksville. Mrs. Sabol is the former Ferne Howell. Other members of the family are Pammy, a junior at College Misericordia, and Bob, a fresh- man at Luzerne County Community College. system and that water is available. He told the group it is ‘just a case of financing to improve the system to service a development such as Mr. Bowman desires.” He added that the utility could build a new system for this development which would be incorporated into the entire water company system. One remark Mr. Transue made which pleased the audience was that the company would start filling a new reservoir on Rice Street within the next few days. Mr. Bowman said, ‘I learned just tonight that the water pressure is not too good. We would have to be satisfied that water pressure would be adequate for the development, as well as any neighboring homes.” Blood Donor Gives Aid To Stranger A rare-blood donor was needed by the American Red Cross last Friday, and Betty Gordon of Selinsgrove responded to the emergency call, donating blood at the collection center set up temporarily at the Dallas Intermediate School. Mrs. Gordon’s blood is typed in Group O-positive, but the factor “‘I'’ is missing. After she donated her blood, it was placed aboard ‘a plane that evening and air- frieghted to American Red Cross’ nation- al headquarters in Washington, D.C. underwent ‘life and death’ surgery somewhere in the United States and cells from Mrs. Gordon’s blood were used. According to Red Cross national head- quarters, which keeps rare-donor re- cords, Mrs. Gordon is one of only four people in America with her particular type of blood. Dr. Gordon D. Bell, chief medical of- ficer with the local Red Cross, revealed that there are 70 to 80 known blood fac- tors, and that the factor ‘“‘I”’ (which Mrs. Gordon lacks) has been discovered in the last 10 years. In processing blood from a (continued on PAGE THREE) ~ Photo by J. Kozemchak Sr. Paul Sabol
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