pe — —% 83.NO 23 Samplings of Harveys Lake water will be he this week and tested by the Depar¥iment of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Water Pollution, Kingston. Bacteriological testing of water and four public beaches are reported as being planned. Of the four public beaches, Sandy Beach, Hanson's Sunset and Sandy Bottom, two of these, Hanson’s and Sandy Beach, are currently closed. It is not known at this time if they will continue to be closed for the summer season. Test@ywill be made for analysis in Philadelphia since there are no testing facilities in this area. The results of such testing will not be known until after July 15, according to the Environmental Resources Department. At the present time state requirements for water usable for swimming sports must not contain more than 1,000 coliform organisms in 100 milliliters of water. Pending legislation is to reduce the number of coliform organisms in 100 milliliters of water from 1,000 to 200. According to the local health depart- ment, Harveys Lake has not met these requirements in the last two years. A spokesman admitted, even before test results are known, that the prospect does not look good for this year either. Raw sewage, @ or boating and congestion of homes ai% reported as the main reasons for pollution. Harveys Lake Borough has a municipal authority, whose members were ap- pointed, by the borougii council. Dallas Area W¥nicipal Authority has offered to provide facilities for treatment of sewage for Harveys Lake Borough. However, according to R. Spencer Martin, D.A M.A. chairman, no formal reply has been received from Harveys Lake Municipal Authority concerning the offer. In an editorial in the Sunday In- dependent, it was stated ‘‘what is needed and what some day will have to be done is to run a sewage line around the lake and sewer all the houses located along creeks that feed into the lake. This will be ex- pensive and has been successfully delayed in the borough for several years now.”’ Horse Show Queen Will Be Chosen July 1 Eighteen young beauties representing high schools throughout the Wyoming Valley will compete for the 1972 title of “Lehman Horse Show Queen’ July 1. Selection of a queen will be based on beauty, poise and personality, with the crowning to provide an opening night highlight of the three-day horse show. On hand to crown the new queen will be Sandy Kabeschat of Dallas, 1971 Horse Show Queen who represented Wyoming Seminary. Queen candidates include Debbie Steve, Wyoming Valley West (Luzerne); Rose Ambrose, West Side Area Vocational Technical School; Pam Adams, Lake-Lehman; Judy Kocylowski, W.V.W. (Plymouth); Audrey Lastowski, Nanticoke; Ann Reilly, W.V.W., (Forty Fort); Valerie Klemow, Dallas; Donna Volvic, G.A.R.; Lee Ann Courey, Central Catholic; (continued on PAGE 19 In an apparent effort to resolve the stale-mated contract negotiations bet- ween Lake-Lehman’s Education Associa- tion and School Board, a majority of the association’s members met Tuesday night mediately prior to a regularly PEL Repaving Planned for Area Roads Better roads are in the future for motorists of the Back Mountain. Paving of roads in Dallas and Kingston Town- ships and Dallas Borough began in May, but was held back by the record amount of rain which fell in May and to date in June. Dallas Area Municipal Authority an- nounced that all roads in the three muni- cipalities dug up for sewer line installa- tion W1 be repaved from curb to curb or edge to edge, as the case may be. Trenches and manholes will be built up, after which a one inch overlay will be put down. Gravel will be spread on those dirt roads which were dug up for sewer con- struction. Paving is going on at a rapid pace on those streets off Carverton Road and Harris Hill Road, Kingston Township. Residents are reminded that Carverton Road will not be paved completely at this time due to the planned realignment and construction of the road by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. (continued on PAGE 19 A picnic atmosphere prevailed in the school cafeteria as teachers chatted, ate a smorgasbord style supper, or tossed basketballs through indoor hoops. In the upstairs classrooms, however, the mood was more serious, with closed door bargaining sessions being conducted by both the school board and teachers’ negotiating teams. The concerted negotiations met with success at 12:30 a.m. when the Teachers’ Association voted 55-14 to accept a new one-year contract. The package includes provisions for one personal leave day for each professional employee and starting salaries of $6900. Teachers entering their last year will receive a $300 increase and all instructors at retirement will receive $10 for every day of accumulated sick leave over 100 days. The length of the school day will remain the same. The school board ratified the contract 6-1, the dissenting vote was cast by Ellis Hoover. Richard Phelps, a representative of the Pennsylvania Board of Mediation, was on hand to arbitrate at the negotiating session. He told the Post Monday af- ternoon that ‘‘the prime reason I'm going up there is to attempt to get it settled,” and held out hope that his mediation would prove successful. ‘If the parties are meeting, that certainly is progress,’’ Mr. Phelps had said, ‘and the parties are meeting.” He stated that he had been informed by Joel Riegel, a representative of the Pennsylvania Education Association and chief negotiator of the teachers, that the teachers would ‘‘be available’’ to meet Tuesday night in a body. (continued on PAGE SIX) DALLAS, PA. Photo by Alex Rebar Taxpayers Groups Formed Phone 675-5211 < FIFTEEN CENTS Lehman Horse Show Queen candidates posed Adams, Donna Volvic, Judy Kocylowski, Lee Ann Courey and Audrey Lastowski. Standing are Elizebeth Eyet, Angela Merolli, Debbie Fataicher, Diane Dunn and Karlina Hahn. Organizations to combat the formation of a water authority are springing up all over the Back Mountain Area. Two new ones were established Monday night at separate meetings.--Kingston Township Taxpayers Association and Franklin Township Taxpayers Association. A group of Kingston Township residents met at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, with Mrs. Peter McTague ser- ving as acting chairman. In the course of business the following officers were elected: president, David Phillips; first vice president, Mrs. Walter Karl; second vice president, Mrs. Peter McTague; secretary, Mrs. Harry Phillips; and treasurer, Reed Acheson. At meetings to follow directors will be elected to represent East and West Shavertown, East and West Trucksville, Trucksville Gardens, Meadowcrest, Midway Manor, Dug Road and Bunker Hill-Brown Manor. The stated purpose of the organization is to ““engage, promote, and nurture the well-being of residents of Kingston Township...betterment of govern- ment...investigate all matters of public interest...and serve as a voice of the people.” By-laws were adopted, and it was announced that all residents of Kingston Township, who are taxpayers, are eligible to join. Officers were given authorization by the group to select an attorney to draw up formal incorporation papers and to act as solicitor. Announcement was made by Robert Bearly, interim president of Back Mountain Taxpayers Association, that invitations to a public meeting Thursday night at Dallas Junior High School auditorium have been accepted by Rep. Frank J. O'Connell, Sen. T. Newell Wood and County Commissioners Ed Wideman, Ethel Price and Frank Crossin. Mr. Bearly stated that officers of Back Mountain Taxpayers Association back 100 percent Midway Manor Taxpayers Association’s action in writing a letter to Attorney General J. Shane Creamer.” Also, William Pugh, a member of Kingston Township Water Commission, reported the water commission was backing the Midway Manor group’s action “100 percent.” Mr. Pugh said the water commission ‘‘wrote practically an identical letter to Atty. Creamer.” wpe 2 peg \ y 2 ater The Midway Manor association sent a letter to the Attorney General, dated June 3, in which they stated their area has ample water supply; residents have borne a financial burden due to the new sewer system in the Back Mountain; opposition is listed against a water authority; and they seek an investigation against a ‘local county official’’ who “appears to be involved in what might be termed ‘conflict of interest’ since he might stand to gain a capital return if the proposed authority is formed.” Mrs. McTague, who has served as chairman for a petition-signing cam- paign, disclosed that 1,711 Kingston Township residents have signed to date or 90 percent of the voting population. ‘rotest The petitions, which are protesting a water authority, will be presented to the Board of Supervisors at their next meeting. : An extensive membership drive will be conducted by the Kingston Township organization. Franklin Township residents met in Orange United Methodist Church hall, with approximately 150 in attendance. They decided to incorporate, and elected interim officers. Peggy Psolka was chosen to serve as interim chairman of Franklin Township Taxpayers Association. Others elected were Edward Dorrance, Louis Katchko, Jack Roberts and David Werts. (continued on PAGE. ‘19 Milk consumers got the bargain of a lifetime Monday when 31 Louden Hill Farm Stores in a four-county region of Northeastern Pennsylvania dropped the retail price of milk to 93 cents a gallon, the lowest price the food commodity has been in the last 20 years. Most retail outlets charge $1.20 a gallon. In obvious protest of the high milk price set by the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board (MMB), Peter Sandfort Sr., Louden Hill president, said Louden Hill executives had given serious considera- tion to the action and had decided that his seven-year fight to lower the prices of milk through government channels had been a failure. He conceded that to date he had been no more successful in lowering the consumer price of milk under the current Harrisburg adminis- tration than he had been in the past. “Consumers in this area have been milked long enough,” Mr. Sandfort told Greenstreet News Monday night. ‘We don’t consider the last milk marketing order legal and therefore are reducing the price of milk to the point where we think it is fair, and I might add, to a point where we still make a profit.” The jug milk dealer and retailer said that effective at 10 a.m. Monday all 31 of his stores located in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming and Susquehanna Counties would retail glass jug milk at 93 cents a gallon, or 22 cents less than the current price specified as MMB minimum. Likewise, he said, the price would drop to 53 cents for a returnable glass half gallon, an eight cent reduction, $1.03 for a paper carton gallon, down from $1.20, and 57 cents for a paper half gallon, down from 62 cents. “We will continue these prices until we are stopped by the Milk Board,” the executive said, hinting that he expected the Harrisburg based agency to take his firm to task for the price reduction. The executive said that the retail price drop would not affect the price Louden Hill pays to dairy farmers. Mr. Sandfort said that he agreed the MMB should have authority to guarantee farmers a fair price for their milk, but should com- pletely get out of the retail price fixing of the only government controlled food commodity in the state. (continued on PAGE F IVE)
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