Phone 675-5211 Strike Force THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1972 i 83 NO. 44 : / DALLAS, PA. Ralph Kates, special assistant attorney general with the Environmental Strike Force of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania informed the Post that the Common- wealth filed action Nov. 2 against Beatrice Murray, owner of a piece of property at Pole 265, Harveys Lake! Borough, for violation of The Water Ob- struction Act. This act is the statute that controls and regulates all incursions into the Commonwealth waters, passed in 1913. Mrs. Murray was notified by certified letter Nov. 17, 1971 that she was violating the act by dumping broken concrete, slabs, stones, building demolition debris and dirt into the lake, Atty. Kates reports. The letter instructed her to cease dumping immediately and to remove the debris that she had already dumped into the water. Mrs. Murray not only disregarded the order but continued to dump more debris and thus left the department no alter- native but to file a complaint requesting the Common Pleas Court of Luzerne County to order her to refrain from dumping debris into the lake and to The Environmental Strike Force of the Department of Environ- mental Resources has filed suit against Beatrice M. Murray, Wilkes-Barre, charging her with extending her property into R Harveys Lake by, approximately 20 feet. The suit claims that he Mrs. Murray has extended her property with fill consisting of broken concrete slabs, stones, dirt and building demolition Despite Election Day problems by Shawn Murphy There was little that happened during the murder trial of David Scoggins to suggest its explosive climax Saturday night at 7 p.m. During the six days the trial was in pro- gress, an atmosphere suprisingly free of rancor and tension had existed in court- room four of the Luzerne County Court- house. Presiding Judge Bernard J. Pod- casy had established an attitude of un- failing courtesy and helpfulness toward the attorneys, witnesses and jurors, and there was an unmistakable air of congen- The ongoing feud between Harveys Lake Borough Council and it’s municipal authority continued last Thursday night when members of council took another swipe at what it terms ‘‘foot dragging’’ on the Pag of the authority in formulating Pilot Project Success Story For a short while after the pilot project began, everyone connected with it was holding his breath. The project, a joint operation between the Wilkes-Barre Campus of Penn State and the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, had and no one knew for sure how it all would work pout. Would the inmates’ fellow classiiates object to or discriminate against the prisoners? Would the prison residents react well to their comparative freedom on the campus? After nearly a year of classes, adminis- trators associated with the program are breathing a lot more easily. The project seems well on its way to becoming a happy success story. Initiated last January with 26 hand- picked residents of the institution, the program was the brainchild of John Kolesar, Penn State instructor. Mr. (continued on PAGE TWENTY) \ f plans for the community’s sewer system. Council President Thomas Cadwalader read a letter he had written to Glace and Glace Engineers requesting that they set up a meeting date with council’s financial advisors ‘‘to enable them to make a commentary on the projections of the cost of the sewer project.”’ The letter also asked that the engineering firm ‘furnish council with a copy of your revised plans and specifications and addendum’’ by council’s regular meeting date, Nov. 2. A reply dated Oct. 25 from Ivan M. Glace Jr., president of Glace and Glace, was also read by Mr. Cadwalader. Mr. Glace declared that “your requests were discussed with the municipal authority who advised us to defer action until the request had been presented to the authority at its next regular meeting.” The authority was scheduled to meet last night at 7:30 p.m. in the Daniel C. Roberts Fire Hall. By unanimous vote, Council approved an ordinance which prohibits the con- struction, alteration or rebuilding of any drain, culvert, footwalk, drive or driveway--or any other means of ingress or egress on to a borough road--without a permit. A $5 permit fee was approved, with violators of this ordinance subject to a sliding fine of $10 to $50 or 10 days (continued on PAGE TWENTY) iality among Scoggins’ attorneys, Public Defenders Robert Scovell and Bruce Miller, and Dist. Atty. Patrick Toole and his first assistant, Dan Daley. David Scoggins, a life prisoner at the State Correctional Institution, sat re- moved from his attorneys and was kept under close guard by two or more deputy in plain clothes. It was almost as though the judicial process whirled along with- out him, mindful of the full-bearded de- when he was identified by witnesses as the killer of Alexander Edinger, a fellow inmate at the institution. (continued on PAGE TWENTY) Solons Back Abolition of Milk Price Fix If last week’s consumer advertisement asking legislative candidates how they would vote on a measure to abolish milk sumers in Northeastern Pennsylvania can count on their law makers in Harrisburg to protect their interests. Of the 22 candidates for the Penn- sylvania General Assembly in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties, 14 favored abolishing retail milk price controls. Eight opposed such a measure. The advertisements which ran in weekly newspapers Thursday, and in the daily newspapers continuously from Friday through Sunday, indicated the count was 11 for and 11 against at first. But that soon changed with a telephone call from Robert Jones (R-Scranton), the 113th District candidate, who said that the milk issue is one of his pet peeves. He asked to be put in the column “for’’ milk price abolishment. The following day (continued on PAGE TWENTY) stemming from voter re-registration snarls in Luzerne County, the vote in the Back Mountain community was generally higher than it has been in several years. The vast majority of voters in the eight Back Mountain municipalities of Leh- man, Lake, Jackson, Kingston, Ross and Dallas Townships and the Boroughs of Dallas and Harveys Lake voted to en- dorse the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. The margin of victory for the President accurately reflected the national landslide figures, with 6397 voters casting their ballots for Mr. Nixon and 2087 persons voting for Sen. George McGovern. Vern Pritchard, long time poll watcher in Kingston Township, reports that Trucksville voters turned out in greater numbers than they have in his memory. “Trucksville drew 1,275 voters on Election Day,”” Mr. Pritchard told the Post, ‘and the next highest number that I recall was 1,250 when Eisenhower was running.’ He reported that the ‘‘overall picture was excellent,”’ despite the fact that at least 50 voters were turned away at the polls because there was no record of their registration. A similar report came from Jackson FIFTEEN CENTS Prohibits previously, Mr. Kates concluded. At the present time the debris projects 20 feet into the water and extends 25 feet along the shore. The Commonwealth is also asking for costs incurred in taking this action. Twp. OK’s Home Rule Thanks to an overwhelming mandate from the people of Kingston Township, the concept of home rule will be thoroughly examined by a government study commission elected Tuesday. the approval of 964 voters asked whether or not a commission should be established to study home rule, the present township form of government, and optional forms of government. Only 185 persons voted against the question. (continued on PAGE TWENTY) Township, where an unprecendented 80 percent of the voters flocked to the polls, casting 499 votes for President Nixon, and 188 for Sen. McGovern. Harveys Lake Mayor William Connolly observed that the vote in that borough was substantial, too, with a total of 714 persons from approximately 900 registered voters casting their ballots for President Nixon (514) and George McGovern (173). Among his constituents in the Back Mountain communities, Rep. Dan Flood (D) took 4849 votes to Donald Ayers (R) 3611 ballots. At the state level, the most impressive mandate in the Back Mountain may have been the victory enjoyed by Rep. Frank 4017 votes in Dallas Township, Dallas Borough and Kingston Township. His opponent, John C. Levandoski (D), garnered only 1126 votes. . In the 117th legislative district’s Ross Township, the east and north districts re- ported 301 votes for George Hasay (R) and 98 votes for incumbent Stanley Me- holchick. (D). Mr. Meholchick appeared to be a victim of Mr. Nixon’s long shirt- tails. An excellent turnout was i!
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