VOL. 83 NO. 11
Photo by J. Kozemchak Sr.
With the appointment Tuesday night of
Allen Fox as its supervisor of recreation,
Dallas Borough became the first com-
muuity, in Luzecne County™u spoutior a
full-tijg recreational leader under the
auspices of the Emergency Employment
Act Program of 1971.
Under the new program, which is ad-
ministered by the Department of Labor’s
Manpower Administration, the Federal
Government will pick up the tab for all
but 10 percent of Mr. Fox’s $6,240 salary;
Dallas Borough will supply the remaining
$624,
The appointment was finalized at the
regular monthly meeting of Dallas
Borough Council Tuesday night, and had
been agreed upon in principle the pre-
ceding night during a joint meeting of
council and the borough’s recreational
committee.
GI to Improve
Dallas Service
Commonwealth Telephone
Company plans to begin a major
cable installation and underground
corfruction program during the
week of April 3, according to an an-
nouncement made by R. Dale
Wagner, Dallas Area Manager.
The $67,000 project includes
placing of four manholes and 2,504
feet of conduit along Center Hill
Road between Lake Street and the
Tunkhannock Highway.
In addition, a 1,200 pair cable will
be run through the conduit from the
Dallas Central Office on Lake Street
to Church Street. This cable will be
used to provide relief to the Brandy-
wyne apartment development, the
Whitesell mobile home park, and the
“te Birch mobile home ranch.
The work is expected to be com-
pleted within two months in order to
meet the time schedule for repaving
by the sewer authority.
Wagner pointed out that increas-
ing demands for new and better
grades of service in the northern and
eastern parts of the Dallas 675 ex-
change, plus anticipated growth in
the future, necessitated construction
of additional facilities at this time.
Wagner also noted that placing tele-
phone facilities underground will be
done wherever feasible in order to
preserve the ecology of the area.
Rotary Club president; Joseph
Bernard Banks Jr., who
According to Mr. Fox, his primary re-
sponsibilities will include developing and
administering the borough’s recreational
prog: am, “which includes suuiner and
winter activities at the community’s park
at Burndale Road and Luzerne Avenue.
‘‘No one has a true picture of exactly
what has to be done yet,”” Mr. Fox told the
Post earlier this week, ‘‘but we hope to
develop a program which will provide re-
creational opportunities for persons of all
ages.”
Mr. Fox, 22, is a-'1967 graduate of Lake-
Lehman High School and lives presently
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Fox
Sr., on the Huntsville-Ceasetown Road in
Lehman Township. Following his gradu-
ation from high school, he was employed
as a teller by the United Penn Bank,
Dallas office, a position to which he re-
turned after a tour of duty with the U.S.
Coast Guard. He studied business admin-
istration at the Wilkes-Barre Campus of
Penn State during the academic year
1970-71 before accepting his new position
with the borough.
The young recreational director has a
keen interest in sports, having played
Little League baseball, basketball and
softball while a student in school. He cur-
rently bowls in four bowling leagues and
suggests that bowling may soon be in-
cluded in the community’s recreational
program.
The E.E.A. Program, which is coordin-
ated in Luzerne County by John Farrell,
works with the Bureau of Employment
Security to provide employment oppor-
tunities for applicants by filling job re-
quests submitted by the county or local
communities. Since its inception, E.E.A.
has allocated workers to such programs
as Valley Crest, Lu-Lac, and the county’s
road and bridge department.
Auction has a new home—and a new
house. Appropriately enough, the new
auction grounds will be located between
the library’s two buildings on Main Street
in Dallas, along a spacious terrace which
slopes down to the main building and the
Children’s Annex.
The auction’s new ‘house’ will be a
rectangular barn fashioned of cedar and
Douglas fir; the barn, and adjoining
auction block, will be located to the left of
and just behind the Annex.
These plans were revealed Tuesday
night at the regular monthly meeting of
Dallas Borough Council when the
borough’s planning commission an-
nounced that it had approved specifica-
tions for the new structure. In addition to
the barn, a permanent refreshment stand
will be erected at the foot of the wooden
stairs which lead to the library parking
lot on Rice Street.
Architects Lee Eckert and John
Gregorski envision a permanent covered
connecting walk between the Annex and
main library building which will provide
additional space for auction booths. The
antiques booth will be located at the foot
of the terraced slope behind the two
buildings.
Dallas Borough Council endorsed the
auction plans Tuesday night and gave a
green light to Clarke Bittner, chairman of
the 26th annual library auction, to
tures.
Mr. Bittner has announced that bids
are being solicited for construction of the
barn and refreshment stand, as well as
for the connecting walkway. The auction
chairman indicated that June 15 has been
set as the completion date for the new
auction buildings.
PHONE 675-5211
Given by Service Clubs
FIFTEEN CENTS
The annual ‘Citizens Award”, spon-
sored by the three Dallas service clubs,
Kiwanis, Lions, and Rotary, was earned
this year by George McCutcheon for his
many activities and services to the Back
Mountain area-and its residents.
Mr. McCutcheon received the award
March 15 at the tenth annual joint dinner
meeting of the three service clubs. The
dinner, which was held at Irem Temple
Country Club, was hosted this year by the
Kiwanis Club.
Presentation of the award to Mr.
McCutcheon was made by Bernard C.
Banks Jr., the first vice president of the
host club. In his remarks, Mr. Banks
enumerated some of the reasons Mr.
McCutcheon was selected as the award
recipient.
A former teacher and guidance
counselor in the Dallas school system,
Mr. McCutcheon is associated at the
present time with Luzerne County
Community College, where he organized
the Big Brother-Big Sister program. He
has served as chairman of the Back
Mountain Memorial Library Auction, of
the Dallas Borough Recreation Commit-
tee, and co-chairman of the Dallas Ses-
quicentennial. His activities with youth
groups include the Key Club, local
Methodist churches, Boy Scouts, and the
Kiwanis Club. Under his direction the
Circle K Club of Penn State University,
Lehman Campus, painted a home last
community. Also Mr. McCutcheon was
Dallas Area Environmental Group. The
Korean War veteran is also a recipient of
a Freedoms Foundation Award.
Ackerson, made welcoming comments at
the dinner and noted that the first inter-
that he had given opening remarks at.
each dinner since its inception.
Mr. McCutcheon served as toastmaster
at the affair and introduced Donald J.
Evans, Rotary Club president,
Joseph Harrington, Lions president. Key
speaker for the evening was Atty. Emil
Ianelli, district advisor on environmental
Protective Agency, Philadelphia.
involved in political action concerning
tatives—local, state and federal.” He told
he works. :
In attendance at the dinner meeting
were 33 and one half percent of the Lions
membership; 53 percent, Rotary; and 72
percent, Kiwanis. Hence, the Attendance
Cup was presented to the latter, which
will retain it for one year.
(continued on PAGE SIXTEEN)
At a hearing last Wednesday afternoon
before District Magistrate Leonard
Harvey, Dallas Borough Patrolman
Ronald J. Dudik positively identified
Edward Meck of RD 4, Dallas, as his
assailant in an incident which occurred
during the early morning hours of March
8.
Dudik testified that he had stopped
Meck as he was walking north along
Route 415 near Highland Boulevard at
approximately 3:40 a.m. ‘“‘on a routine
check’’ and that Meck had hit him in the
face. The defendant then sprinted up
Highland Boulevard, Dudik said, and
after trading three shots with the
patrolman, escaped into the woods
behind a carport owned by Raymon
Hedden Construction Co.
Atty. Joseph Gale, counsel for the
defendant, asked Mr. Dudik on cross
examination: ‘“‘How can you be so
positive in your identification?” Dudik
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Clifford Culver, who reported that he had
picked Meck up at the intersection of
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flashlight, some change, and several 38
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of the cruiser, a signal I interpreted to
mean that Meck was the right man.”
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