VO 83 NO: 38 FIFTEEN CENTS — Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks Gives Melodeon ¥ The Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction has, during its 26 year history, generated much loyalty and generosity on the part of its many sustainers. The most recent indication of such generosity has come in the form of a rosewood melodeon from Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, editor emeritus of the Dallas Post and former long-time resident of Dallas. Hix, as she is affectionately called, love@®Whe rosewood melodeon. It stood in the corner of her living room on South Pioneer Avenue, voiceless in these last , years because the bellows had developed a crack. It was a treasure to her because it was a replica in miniature of the big square rosewood piano that her mother had had from her mother as a wedding gift. Hix remembered the scrolled music rack, bulbous legs, and fold-back top from her childhood. The melodeon was found and sold to Hix in 1947 by Dr. Malcome Guthrie, brother of Jessie Conyngham, after she had moved to the “Pump House’ on Demunds Road in East Dallas. And now Mrs. Hicks is giving the rosewood melodeon to the auction--as she says, her last significant gift to the librarq@) her way of saying how much Dallasand the library have meant to her. She has also donated a chaise lounge that came from Dr. Sarah Wycoff’s office (Dr. Wycoff lived in a house at the Bird ne on Center Hill Road to the ripe old age of 95). Hix’s enthusiasm for the library and its auction has rubbed off on her family, too. Her grandson, Howard Harding, one of the twins now stationed in Germany, has the auction in his blood, too. He found and sent a venerable clock that arrived in June just before the flood. Although disrupted by the catastrophe that hit Wyoming Valley, the library auction will still have the support of one of the area’s outstanding citizens. Will it have your support as well? Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, former Dallas resident and long-time benefactor of the Back Mountain Memorial Library, has donated her cherished rosewood melodeon to the auction. The melodeon is displayed here by Mrs. Paul Rodda, a close friend of Mrs. Hicks’. Artention] 11 Library Auction chances will be sold at the Dallas football game Saturday. Celebrity Items To Be Auctioned What do President Nixon, Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Sen. Hugh Scott and Joe Paterno have in common? Not their political persuasion, certainly, but if the gifts they’ve sent to the Back Mountain recently are a clue, they’re all interested in helping make the 26th annual library auction the grandest one ever. Oct. 6, 7 and 8--circle the dates on your calendar now and plan to come out to bid on the many ‘‘celebrity items’’ which will be placed on the auction block. Mr. Nixon has sent an attractive black and white lithograph from the White House, Sen. Humphrey has favored the auction with an autographed pictoral autobiography, and a handsome black glass ash tray embossed with the seal of the United States Senate is the gift of Sen. Scott. - For book lovers there is a hard-bound, illustrated volume outlining the history of the United States from Sen. Schweiker. Congressman Daniel Flood and Rep. Frank O’Connell have hewed to traditions established in the past and have sent flags which have flown over the capitol buildings in Washington and Harrisburg. Bidding is expected to be fast and furious on the football sent by Coach Joe Paterno from the locker room of the Nittany Lions at Penn State. The pigskin (continued on PAGE FIFTEEN) “A Dream Plan..." Lions’ be auctioned off at th ‘A dream plan for the future’ was the description given by R. Spencer Martin in reference to the sewer expansion master plan of the Dallas Area Municipal Authority, which projects to the year 2000. Details of the master plan for the future of the Back Mountain sewer lines were presented to the Kingston Township Supervisors, Dallas Township Super- visors, and Dallas Borough Council at a meeting of the D.A.M.A. Sept. 21 in the li- brary of the Dallas Senior High School. Chairman Martin stated that the plan is a ‘‘direction to proceed in and it is an orderly plan for the sewer system as it develops.” Such a plan will help in Fed- eral planning and will make it easier to get money for projects. Douglas Diehl, project manager, and ‘Robert Laslow, engineer, reviewed the master plan for the supervisors and councilmen, pointing out areas of im- mediate concern those areas that would be developed in the future. Areas of immediate concern are the Dug Road—Carverton Road area; the Orchard View Development; Stone- hedge; White Birch Trailer Park, and the Powderhorn Drive—Machell Avenue area. These areas are in the planning stage now and the additional sewer lines added here will serve approximately 1600 more people. The present main trunk line will be adequate for a long time, at least until the end of the century, and the capacity of some lines may never be reached as some areas will not grow as fast as others. The local community leaders are asked to review the master plan and present any additional suggestions to the author- ity before the final draft plan is adopted. Mr. Diehl outlined the ‘“‘capped sewer ordinance’’ that the townships and bor- ough are requested to adopt. The town- ships would have to adopt it as a subdivi- sion ordinance and the borough as an ordinance. The ordinance specifies: 1. If adjoining a sewer line, a new developer must connect; 2. If not adjoining, he must build a trunk line if he is not too far away from the system; 3. If too far away, he must use a capped sewer; 4. If too far out for even this, then he must build a small treatment plant. As a result of this ordinance, a home buyer will pay for the connection in the initial home payment cost and he will not have an additional assessment for sewers nor will he have his street and property dug up. The local supervisors will decide what each developer is to do and each case will be evaluated separately. Chief operator Tom Bagley reported that the treatment plant is working good and that already it is having ‘‘a plus (continued on PAGE FIFTEEN) Raymon R. Hedden was tabled by Dallas Borough Council at its regular meeting Sept. 19 when the owners of property adjoining the proposed apart- ment complex appeared to voice com- plaints about the contractor’s plans. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel V. Foster Jr., 15 Elm' St., Dallas, disputed Mr. Hedden’s written statement that the four two-bed- room apartments he hopes to construct will be built on property whoily sur- rounded by other Hedden-owned land. Said Mr. Foster, “The property he’s talking about shares a common 120 foot boundary line with our property.” Registering a complaint by letter against the requested zoning waiver was Gordon S. Dietterick, 226 Machell Ave. Mr. Dietterick wrote that he had ‘‘serious objections” to the multi-family dwelling proposed by Mr. Hedden, insisting that he conformed to the borough’s zoning code. Council President George Thomas ex- pressed keen displeasure with the waiver request and suggested that council vote on it immediately Councilman Harold Brobst pointed out that Mr. Hedden, in seeking a waiver, ‘‘deserves a hearing’’; his opinion was seconded by Solicitor Charles D. Lemmond Jr. ‘““The man does have a right to petition council,” Atty. Lemmond advised. ‘‘Let him come in and explain his plan, let his neighbors come and express their state- ments, and then make your decision on the basis of that information.” p.m. to consider the request of Mr. Hedden as well as that of John Voitek, who hopes to convert property at 132 Main St., Dallas, into a three family apartment. (continued on PAGE FIFTEEN) Seek Increase The price of milk, which dropped Sept. 18 from $1.15 a gallon minimum to 99 cents, appeared destined to go back up this week, region have their way. Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg handed down a decision last Friday order of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board. According to the up to its pre-Sept. 18 price, depending only on a $300,000 bond being placed by the dealers. The price hike would include all retail outlets in Lackawanna, and Pike Counties. portion of the recent MMB order granting a 30-cent per hundredweight increase in price to dairy farmers. The nine dairies which filed the petition with the court Farm Dairy, West Pittston; Burschel Scranton; Dallas Dairy, Dallas; Gorman Dairy, Wilkes-Barre; Grablicks Dairy, Inc., Pittston; Orange Farm Dairy, Dallas; and Purvin Dairy Co., Wilkes- Barre. = sumers of milk in the six-county region, figures indicate. court again, represented collectively by Harrisburg Atty. Willis Daniels, for the court late Tuesday, however, indicated that the appeal had been denied, and until the full bond is met, the minimum. Peter Sandfort Sr., said Monday that he decision to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in order to keep the price of milk down. He told Greenstreet News that through his attorney, Morey Myers of Scranton, he will ask the Supreme Court which in turn benefits the consumer, the farmer and the dealer. “I just don’t see why the consumer should bear the brunt of this,”’ the milk executive said, “when consumers are buying Pennsylvania produced milk at 96 cents a gallon in New York and New Jersey.” : d dealers ‘feared open competition.”’ ‘The oriented milk bill in the Assembly Sept. 11, tirely. The Shapp bill amends the Commonwealth’s 1936 Milk Marketing the farmer by continuing to set minimum nrices dairies must pay the farmers. “For too long the public and the far- requirements of the 1936 Milk Marketing all members of the General Assembly. “It is time we change that by giving Pennsylvania’s citizens a break at the protection for Pennsylvania’ farmers.”
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