Fe el Se Te en = SY Uh Page 5 To The Editor: During the past few months, the proposal of a back mountain mini-hospital on donated land. While this idea is grand, and the donation of 12 acres is magnanimous, we don’t think it feasible at this time. Our opiaaitn, based on con- cepts forget by living most of our lives tut of state, is that the immediate need is for an emergency clinic pathological laboratory . set up in a professional medical arts building with room for six to ten doctors or dentists. The purpose of this emergency clinic would be to the local hospital while the medical arts building will semi- insure the availability of proper help. Some of the services that in- travenous feeding, X-rays, type and crossmatching for possible blood transfusion (at the hospital). In regard to heart patients, emergency electro- cardiogram and medication can be administered prior to hospital admission. The added advantage of the laboratory is that many back mountain residents have to travel to local hospitals for tests many days before their actual doctors appointments. While we are sure, as all concerned citizens are, that the area will someday warrant a hospital, we don’t feel that the cost of a twelve bed hospital is needed nor can be supported at this time. Kingston Twp. Supers Will Meet January 8 Kingston Township Board of Kenneth Adams 8 p.m. in the Kingston Township Barbara Adams | Ambulance Log | DALLAS Dec. 18—Stella Gorto, 230 Parrish St., Dallas, to General Hospital. Crew: Jerry Torr and MiMi Wilson. Dec. 20—Harry Swepston Sr., Upper Demunds Road, Dallas, to Leader Nursing Home. Crew: Wes Cave, Jerry Torr. Dec. 20—Auto accident Route 309, Dallas; Diana Kowek, Trucksville, and Robert LaBarre, RD1, Dallas, both to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Crew: Jim Davies, Bill Ward and Ted Wright. Dec. er Olie, Oak Hill, Lehman Township, to General Dec. 21-‘Ernest Steckial, Haddonfield Hills, Dallas, to General Hospital. Crew:Jim Davies, Jerry Torr, Dr. Irvin Jacobs and Mrs. Winse, R.N. ; : Dec. 22—Bret Hunter, 21 Davenport ‘St., Dallas, to General Hospital. Crew: Jim Davies, $3ill Ward and Jan Machell, R.N. Dec. 23—Florence Frantz, 19 Grandview Ave., Dallas, from General Hospital to home. Crew: Ted Wright, Mike McFadden. Dec 24—Ida Humphries, Warden Road, Dallas, to General Hospital. Crew: Don Shaffer, Dave Cary and Ted Wright. Dec. 28—Mary Pickarski, Kunkle, to General Hospital. Crew: Tim Carroll, Dan Carroll and Bob Cartier. Dec. 30—Sr. Kenneth, Mercy Center, College Misericordia, assist at college. Crew: Ted Wright, Ed Roth and Tim Carroll. Dec. 30—Stella Gorto, 330 Parrish St., Dallas, from General Hospital to home. Crew: Ted Wright and Jerry Torr. Dec. 31—Sr. Kenneth, Mercy Center, College Misericordia, to Mercy Hospital. Crew: Ted Wright, Sonny Smith, Bob Besecker. : HARVEYS LAKE a ; Dec. 23—John Honeywell, Sorber Mt. to General Hospital. Crew: John Stenger Rich Williams, Jim Faerber. = Dec. 24—AN hony Kizis Jr., Anchor Inn to Nesbitt Hospital to Anchor Inn. Crew: John Stenger, Jim Faerber. Dec. 15—¢ 4 ley Golis, Carpenter Road to General Hospital. Crew: John afenger, Jim Faerber. Dec. 27Frank Zurinski, Carpenter Road to V. A. Hospital. Crew: John Stenger, Chet Davis. Dec. 27—Nora Rowan, Alderson to General Hospital. Crew: John Stenger, Chet Davis. : Dec. 29—Jessie Douglas, Carpenter Convalescent Home to Fen- eral Hospital and back to the Home. Crew: Myron Williams, Chet Davis. ; Dec. 30—Hyman Lisses, Dudley Avenue to General Hospital. Crew: Fred Merrill, Chet Davis. Dec. 30—Accident, Pole 202. Alexander Law, Eugene Pesta to Nesbitt Hospital. Crew: John Stenger, Rich Williams, Jim Faer- ber. Jan. 1—Peter Dragon, Laketon to General Hospital. Crew: John Stenger, Pat Stenger, Jim Faerber. SKIDDING FOR SAFETY ON DRY PAVEMENT oer. FROM 20 MPH LR TOV R IT 149 FT. Rl sow TIRES 151FT. ICE AT 25°F. STUDDED SNOW TIRES REINFORCED TIRE CHAINS, 257 50" 75' 125° 150° ‘The above chart, prepared by the Safe Winter Driving League, illustrates the extreme hazard of driving on glare ice. Tests show that with regular tires stopping distances on glare ice. may be nearly nine times the normal, dry pavement distance. Studded tires reduce braking distance by 19 percent while reinforced tire chains cut braking distance by 50 percent. Regardless of the help provided by this equipment, however, the League warns motorists that far slower than: normal speeds are essential when driving on icy pavements. Guest Editorial by H.M. Basserly in the Tulia, Texas, Herald Long ago we resolved never to permit this space to be a forum for the promotion of mother, home, and apple pie. We don’t even write seasonal editorials concerning Christ- mas, Thanksgiving, or the Fourth of July unless we feel that we can contribute something to the subject that hasn’t already been con- tributed. After a point has been made, after an issue has been resolved, it loses its worth as an editorial topic. That's why we don’t write editorials on women suffrage, the sweat shop, or compulsory education. And we try not to write editorials on non-controversial subjects. We hate having to write : editorials arguing the merits of sober driving; the undesirability of ‘driving while drinking! What challenge is there in arguing a subject on which all are agreed? A topic almost as challenging is ‘‘driving carefully over the Labor Day weekend’ or ‘being thankful during the fourth week of November.” Another subject which we have almost abandoned is the race problem. Time was that an editorial advocating school integration or voting rights for blacks was controversial, stimulating a few anonymous letters of disagreement! But those days have passed in most civilized communities of the United States. Purpose of these once timely editorials was to prod the Congress to enact needed legislation. This has been done. In fact, Congress has leaned over backwards, even to the point of being ridiculous on occasion, in enacting corrective legislation. ‘About the only additional thing that can be done for the Negro is a change in the hearts of people. And heart changes cannot be legislated. We have nothing more to say concerning civil rights legislation. But cerning human hearts yet unchanged. Billy Graham was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the race issue became a matter of ‘great guilt” in the church. Some church leaders, he said, did not become in- volved ‘‘until it became popular’ to take a stand. He said he faced abuse in the South when he desegregated his meetings back in 1951. An African Baptist minister, product of African missions, was in this country, in Texas, to speak in Texas Baptist chur- ches. Quite obviously, he faced the problem of eating on his travels. He was warned by his, host to stay close to bus stations and to eat in bus station eating Correction Please! The names of two Dallas students were omitted from the 11th grade honor roll pub- Post. Richard Crompton should second honors. Cindy Bucan was incorrectly listed in the 10th grade instead of the 11th. places, that he would be fed if he patronized only those places which deal in interstate com- merce. He followed instructions, but was refused service in a Texas bus terminal. Feeling that a mistake had been made by the waiter, he asked to speak to the manager of the eating place. Instead of calling the manager, the waiter called the police, and this African minister was hoisted off to jail. On the way to jail, he asked the police officer if he could contact the pastor of the First Baptist Church. The officer said, ‘‘T am a member of his church and he is out of town.” \ Later, when he was taken before the judge, again he expressed a desire to contact the pastor of the First Baptist Church. It developed that the judge also was a member of the First Baptist Church. “Let’s not fool ourselves,’”’ he told the pastor. ‘I am a Baptist, the arresting officer was a Baptist, the judge was a Bap- tist...and I am supposed to speak in a Baptist church on ‘Christ Loves All Races’.” A white missionary to Africa said recently that after he became involved in his work, his greatest problem was not loving Africans...it was hating whites! He said that in the part of Africa where he served, the black man, under white domination for several hundred years, still was not allowed to own land...only whites could own land. i He said that if a native African was struck down by a car driven by a white man and injured, the incident was completely ignored, regardless of the guilt of the driver. But if a Negro motorist happened to strike a white man, he was summarily sent to prison. The arrogant white man in Africa in many instances treats the African Negro no better than the Negro has been treated in the United States. We feel that legislation has done all it can do for the blacks. We believe the majority of whites honestly want to give the blacks a fair break, something their ancestors never received in America. But the danger always present when one abuse is corrected is that the pendulum is inclined to swing to the other extreme, sparking a different abuse but one just as evil. We saw it when laborers were freed from the sweat shop and allowed to organize. Today we are not filling the role of a “bleeding heart,” arguing for additional civil rights legislation. Nevertheless, we are reminding our readers of some - of the inconsistencies present. problems, blame: -for place on Kennedy, Johnson, and others who were forced to face them, instead of on a society which the African minister encountered when he visited Texas. When we are prone to point out an apparent abuse of recent civil rights legislation, let us pause a moment to reflect upon the original abuse which initiated it! Correction In the Dec. 28 issue of the Dallas Post, we inadvertently printed incorrect information regarding an accident oc- curring in Kingston Township Dec. 21. The correction reads as follows: Daniel Mathers, 112 Carverton Road, Trucksville and Lester Jordan, 195 Carver- ton Road, Trucksville, were in- volved in a minor accident when the Mathers vehicle stopped for a red light at the Harris Hill Road intersection and Mr. Jordan, traveling behind, was unable to stop in time. against rust-tbrough! 8 SPRUCE ST. SWOYERSVILLE 287-2296 Dedicated to the Highest PROTECTED DALLAS Laing Batchler Tel: 675-3221 VANGUARD 30 STERLING AVE. DALLAS, PA. A BY Ralph Nader WASHINGTON—The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Whitney N. Seymour, is distributing a 64 page booklet entitled ‘Fighting White Collar Crime’ to cor- porations and other business groups. This effort is a follow-up to a speech last July by Mr. Seymour in which he stated: “Let there be no mistake about it, there is extensive crime in the business world. Our office currently is prosecuting scores of cases involving the payment of bribes, securities abuses, tax frauds, and numerous other violations. Virtually every single one of these cases was developed without any cooperation from the business community. In fact, most of of a look-the-other-way attitude by businessmen who could have prevented the crimes from ever happening in the first place.” In that address before the Rotary Club of New York City, Seymour was clearly indignant. He complained that business crimes receive favored treatment in the courts which give much lighter sentences, frequently suspended, than are given to individuals prosecuted for petty stealing. ‘‘Businessmen,’’ he noted sharply, ‘‘too often tend to smile understandingly at illegal conduct by their colleagues— while loudly complaining about ‘crime in the streets.” We must set these things right.” Official complaints about “crime in the suites” are in- creasing. Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray told another business group in Cleveland recently that, among other lawbreakers, corporate executives who conspire to fix prices in violation of the anti- trust laws ‘‘attack the society of law from within.” State and local governmental units, recognizing that business crime costs consumers billions of dollars yearly, are stepping up their enforcement. California, for example, has brought suit under the antitrust laws against snack food panies for fixing the prices of milk and milk products sold to local school districts. Illinois has cases in the courts over alleged statewide coal price- fixing and tie-in sales of milk and ice cream, milk price-fixing in Chicago, and beer price- fixing in Decatur. New York has charged a large oil company with price-fixing and price discrimination. In addition to the increasing number of suits brought by state attorneys general, con- sumer fraud offices are being local levels in cities such as New York City, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, The New York Department of Consumer Affairs, led by Bess Myerson, believes catching business violators is not enough. She says full refunds with in- terest must be repaid defrauded consumers. In Maryland, un- precedented prison sentences of six and ten years were meted out to the operators of an auto repair store which systematically fleeced motorists. What is clear from a survey of business crime prosecutions brought by federal and state authorities .in recent years is that the defendants represent a wide diversity and cross-section of industry and commerce. They are not just fly-by-night outfits. Price-fixing or other economic crimes have been located in such varied in- dustries as companies selling pharmaceuticals, bread, heavy electrical equipment, steel sheets, plumbing fixtures, cranberries and chrysan- themums. What such depradations do to the consumer dollar in the marketplace is similar to what a pay-cut or traditional inflation does to individuals’ purchasing power. Senator Philip Hart’s Antitrust and Monopoly Sub- committee, for example, reports that consumers spend about $10 billion annually on auto repairs (and parts) that are improperly done, un- necessary or not performed at all. A House subcommittee estimates that elderly citizens are swindled out of $1 billion yearly through medical quackery. The Michigan Department of Agriculture found shortages in 15 percent of 50,000 food packages that it examined. Given these and many other similar surveys and cases, what is the reply to the Indiana of- ficial who stated at a recent antitrust meeting of state at- torneys general: ‘We have no money and we have no staff. But we have a healthy in- terest.” The best advice for state attorneys general is to vigorously apply for grants from the U.S. Justice Depart- ment’'s Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). According to LEAA’s General Counsel's office, funds can be made available for corporate crime and consumer fraud law enforcement pur- poses. In fiscal 1973, LEAA will have almost $850 million for distribution to law enforcement agencies. Some of these funds can be wisely used to combat the corporate crime wave. Police DALLAS TOWNSHIP There were two very early morning accidents New Year's Day in Dallas Township. The first occurred at 3:30 a.m. and involved Robert Davis Wentz, River Street, Forty Fort, as he was traveling east on Route 118. Mr. Wentz failed to stop at the ‘stop sign and crossed through the Routes 118- 415 intersection and his 1972 Camaro ran over the bank. He was uninjured. Patrolman Charles Coombs was the in- vestigating officer. The second accident took place at 6 a.m. in the private driveway of Thomas. Evans, RD 3, Dallas. According to the re- port, Frederick Sokoloski, 95 Davenport St., Dallas, left his car unattended in the Evans driveway sometime during the night. When Mr. Evans left for work the next morning; he did not see the other vehicle in the driveway and backed into it. Damages were estimated at $325. KINGSTON TOWNSHIP On Dec. 28, Paul Goeringer, RD 3, Dallas was injured on Route 309 at the Holcombs Road intersection when he fell asleep at the wheel and lost control of his car. His automobile left the road and struck a tree on the right side of the highway. Report Patrolman Lohmann inves- tigated. Joseph | Blazes, ‘RD 3, Wyoming was involved in an accident the day after Christ- mas when he lost control of his car traveling north on Dug Road, 1000 feet north of Bunker Hill Road. His car swerved over to the left side of the road and then sideswiped a large tree. Officers Prutzman and Rozelle investigated. Kunkle Kunkle United Methodist Women will meet Jan. 10 at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ray Henny. Mrs. Russel Miers will be co-hostess. Mrs. Fred Dodson will preside at the business meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Kraft Jr. and daughters Roxanne and Michelle, Bel Air, Md., spent the Christmas holiday with Mrs. Kraft's mother, Anne Weaver, Kunkle. Residents of Kunkle area who have items of interest, engagements, weddings, an- niversaries, or meetings scheduled, are urged to contact Barbara Evans at 675-2050 or mail to her at 111 Church St., Dallas. i MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY Secretary
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