Wa— g % LL? VOL. 83 NO. 46 Dcllas School Board DALLAS, PA. sks Williams, Norton Avenue, Dallas, appeared hefore the Dallas School Board last Tuesday evening at its regular monthly meeting to express grave concern over kindergarten chil- dren from his-area having to walk along dangerous roads to and from school. Mr. Williams told the board that these chil- dren have to cross the main highway, Cl mmm nl ¥ { mt SL Street Kyith no sidewalks—to get to their school next to the Dallas Intermediate School. The walk for these children is a little over a mile each way. James Brokenshire told Mr. Williams that the policy, at the present time, is that a student must reside over a mile and one half away from the school he attends before he can be picked up by bus. The board members expressed great concern over this matter and asked if a guard stationed at this crossing would help. The parents stated their belief that all of the distance traveled was danger- permit their children to walk. Dr. Linford Werkheiser, superinten- dent of schools, informed the parents of a bill presently on Gov. Milton Shapp’s desk whidYy, if signed, would make funds available for school buses to transport Kindergarten childrey to sad frem school—regardless of where they ‘live. The supgrintendent suggested that the parents¥yf kindergarten children write to Gov. Shapp urging him to endorse the bill. A bid for a cable-chain-link fence to be installed in the Dallas Elementary School yard was awarded to the Sears Roebuck Co. pending clarification of two items. Business Manager Thomas Jenkins reported a cash balance, as of Oct. 21, of $145,279.63. Resignations were accepted from Ruth Ambrose, who is retiring after 16 years with the Dallas School District, and from Carol Pollock and Judith Paltrineri, housekeepers in the Dallas Junior High. On the recommendation of Dr. Werk- heiser, Irma Menn was hired to teach School. Miss Menn replaces Marilyn Soldo who was appointed last month but Back Mountain Hospital Closer To a Reality Blueprints have been submitted to sev- eral Back Mountain citizen’s groups for further consideration in the planned construction of a 12-15 bed hospital to be located on a 12-acre tract of land in Leh- man donated by Joseph Park, a public- minded citizen of the area. An additional 12-acre plot of ground adjacent to the proposed donated tract is also expected to be purchased by the Dallas Fall Fair Association ‘for ex- pansion if needed.” The proposed hospital, expected to cost $600,000 according to an estimate made in March gf this year, can be attributed to the conc¥rted efforts of a large group of civic-minded citizens responding to the “need of a hospital in the Back Moun- tain.” Under study for the past three years by the Dallas Junior and Senior Women’s Clubs, these John Konsavage, one of the main pro- ponents of the project, feels that the hospital may be ‘100 percent citizen funded for better control and efficiency.” (continued on PAGE EIGHTEEN) who had already accepted another offer of employment. Shirley Casaday, Joan Conaway, Jack Smith Jr. were added to the roster of substitute teachers for the elementary schools. Robert Albee, Mrs. Thomas Ambrose, Walter Carpenter, Molly Clements, V.A. McCrossen, Cor- rine Pawling, Paula Stredny and Natalie Vanderburg were included on the substi- tute list in the secondary schools. The following persons were hired as substitute staff people: Margaret Janosik and Bina Holdredge, substitute nurses; Dolores Green, substitute teacher aide; Dorothy Eipper, Theresa McCue, sub- stitute housekeepers; William R. Bowen and Mr. Denzil Morrett, substitute custo- dians. Mary Miller was employed as a clerk- typistin the senior high school and Mary A. Blazes is to be added to the list of available professional employes. Charles Youngblood has been hired as a bus driver for the 1972-1973 school year. Elizabeth Masaitis was hired as a teacher aide at the rate of $2 per hour re- placing Mary Casterlin who has resigned. Kay Shotwell and Eleanor Buda were tendered regular contracts of employ- ment as professional employes in the Dallas Junior High School. Marilyn Cigarski, Mary E. Van Shura, Irene Gorman and Linda Whalen, stu- dents at College Misericordia, were given (continued on PAGE EIGHTEEN) A parent who was distressed that his daughters had been dropped from the high school band and had been sub- sequently ‘‘denied instrumental in- struction’’ appeared to present a formal complaint before the Lake-Lehman School Board Nov. 14. Kenneth Fartchey, Chase Manor, complained that his two daughters had been dismissed from the band in June following their absence from three successive parades in which the Knights’ marching band had participated. “Emergency conditions’’ necessitated that the family be out of town during the parades, Mr. Partchey, stated, and while written excuses were submitted well in advance of their absences, the girls were nonetheless dropped from the band. Mr. Partchey did not detail what the “emergency conditions’’ were which prompted the absences. Although he had not initially intended to file a complaint, Mr. Partchey reported, he decided to do so when his daughters were subsequently ‘‘excluded from instrumental music instruction’ at the high school. A music educator himself who was a band director for nine years, Mr. Partchey expressed indignation at this ““injustice.’’ He suggested that such a practice is ‘‘similar to a youngster’s being dropped from a school sports team and then being denied physical education instruction or intramural sports activity too.” He related that after one of his daughters had been dismissed from the band, she had been informed that she would have to rent the school-owned French horn she had previously used free of charge. After School Director Arnold Garinger stated that he thought it ““a very “serious thing if your child has been denied instrumental instruction,”’ Mr. Partchey conceded that his daughter had not been summarily deprived of such instruction but had been transferred to a class taught by another music teacher. Anthony Marchakitus, high school principal, assured Mr. Partchey that he made available to his daughter if possible, and the school board acknowledged receipt of Mr. Partchey’s written complaint. Plans for a new elementary building are well underway, Superintendent Robert Z. Belles reported, with meetings scheduled on the project with Depart- ment of Education representatives. The board named the firm of Lacy, Atherton & Davis as project architect, and voted to work with the Pennsylvania State Building Authority. School Director Ellis Hoover abstained from voting on both motions. Participation by the high school band in the International Band Festival in 7 es Vienna, Austria, next summer was fir- mly quashed by the board when Mr. Marchakitus reported that such par- ticipation would cost $65,000 to $70,000. “If we were to permit such a venture,’’ Mr. Marchakitus suggested, ‘‘we’d best shut down the school right now and begin raising money for the trip.”’ The board agreed and ruled out band participation in Vienna, endorsing in its next motion the Knights’ invitation to the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Parade in Winchester, Va., May 4-6. The relocatable classroom units scheduled for erection at the Lehman- Jackson Elementary School have been approved by Department of Education and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Mr. Belles reported. (continued on PAGE EIGHTEEN) Phone 675-5211 FIFTEEN CENTS Jim Kozemchak Mountaineer Coach Jack Jones and co-captains, Wayne Evans (23) and Pete Calkins (61) take the Old Shoe Trophy out of its place of honor in the Dallas High School show case. The coveted prize will be awarded to the winner of the Thanksgiving Day game between Dallas and Lake-Lehman football teams. Below, Black Knights’ Coach Ray Caucci discusses a play with his co- captains, Joe Maskalis and Angelo DeCecaris. (See story on page 13). Supervisors from Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Kingston Township were requested by the Dallas Area Municipal Authority at its regular monthly meeting to approve an extension of the present sewer system to enable the new elementary relocatable school on Hildbrandt Road to discharge sewage into the system. The single block extension would be through Grandview Terrace and would require 500 feet of pipe. This would complete the sewage connections in that area and would pick up six more proper- ties that were not tied in before. The project was not included in the original plans and it will be considered a separate project to be paid for in two years mainly through assessments. The completion time for the new school is around Jan. 15. One big advantage of this extension is that it will allow the junior and senior high schools to connect into the system by gravity at a later date. The Bureau of Water Quality of the Department of Environmental Resources has turned to its own defense concerning the current public outery at their ‘complete indifference to do something”’ about the alleged pollution at Harveys Lake. . “We cannot answer questions unless there are tests to prove it,” stated Paul Koval, operations chief at the bureau when questioned as to their investigation of the problem. Although Mr. Koval reported no exact figures, he admitted that water sample tests for colin and fecal counts had revealed a marked ‘‘trend’”’ towards pollution in a particular area of the lake where the test counts ran considerably higher than others. The operations chief said that “malfunctioning in septic systems’’ » might be the determining factor in the pollution problem. His department has attempted to contact lake residents in the suspected areas but in many cases the people cannot be found living there presently. “We have contacted some of them and the wells are also being tested,” Mr. Koval added. He said that ‘if lake dwellers are detected dumping sewage outright into the lake, we will have them stopped.” In regards to the hepatitis cases allegedly linked to lake waters, Mr. Koval comments that ‘‘it is unlikely that they got it swimming.’ He said also that a microbiologist in the department stated determining whether or not the disease is prevalent in the water. (continued on PAGE EIGHTEEN) Letters have been sent out urging local as soon as possible. To date, 1723 connec- tions have been made with approx- imately 1200 more to be made. The master plan report has been ap- proved and accepted. Doughlas Diehl, representing engineer from Roy Weston Environmental Engineers, reported that extension project no. one is now ready to proceed. This project will include the Powder Horn Drive area in Dallas and the Dug Road-Carverton Road areas in Trucksville. The extension will have the same base of design and materials as in the original system. Mr. Diehl stressed and he outlined the next immediate steps such as obtaining right-of-ways and con- tacting property owners. Because a pump station will have to be built in the Powder Horn Drive area, a piece of land will have to be obtained. Chief operator, Tom Bagley, stated that the plant is operating well and con- tinues to show water improvement. He reported that the main circuit had burned system is now in good operating condi- tion. The Authority voted to pay all bills as funds become available. Chairman R. Spencer Martin stated that contractors will not be allowed to connect into the system unless all assessments have been paid. Assessment Receipts collected to Oct. 31 are $1,458,179.21. Rental fees collected to Oct. 31 are $146,728.26. ! All future meetings of the Authority will be held the third Thursday of the month at 8 p.m. in the new treatment plant building off Route 309.
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