Lo RS sgt So High School Sports Pages 12 and 13 VOL. 84 NO. 5 FEB. 1, 1973 DALLAS, PA. FIFTEEN CENTS Estate who was the shooting victim of an unknown assailant or assailants last Thursday night is expected to be released today following treatment for a gunshot wound of the left leg. Hugh Hall, a resident of 76 Pioneer Avenue, was patrolling the exclusive Street exit at approximately 10:30 p.m. when he spotted a form at the side of the roadwajy Mr. Hall got out of his car and was standing in front of its headlights when he was shot approximately four inches above the left knee. Mr. Hall told police that he believes there were two persons in the immediate vicinity at the time of the shooting. The victim limped back to his car and drove to the estate’s lodge where he was removed to the hospital in Kingston via the Dallas ambulance. The possibility of a link between the shooting incident at the Newberry estate and the recent beating of Dallas Borough Patrolman Ronald Dudick is being considered currently by police. Borough Police Chief Ray Titus states or 1966 black Dodge on Davenport Street which matches a description of the car which Officer Dudick’s assailants were driving Jan. 18. The automobile repor- tedly had neither license tags nor license (continued on PAGE FIVE) by Marie McCandless Several years of successful advertising are bearing somewhat bitter fruit for utility companies this winter. While Americans in places as far removed as Sioux City, Iowa, Wichita, Kan., and Nebraska City, Nebraska, are suffering actual shortages of fuel for heat, some customers of Northeastern Pennsyl- vania’s own Pennsylvania Gas & Water Company face a related problem of the ‘energy crisis’ - increased costs. Revenue Sharing In a letter dated Jan. 15, PG&W in- formed its liquid propane customers that, effective Feb. 1, 1973, the cost of that fuel would increase to 25 cents per gallon. The company did not state in its letter, how- ever, that this represents an increase of over 100 percent to some customers. Curious customers who phoned PG&W upon receiving the notice were shocked to learn that their fuel bills would be more than doubled, without prior warning, in the middle of the heating season. Where do you live? This question has gained significance funds, and some local government offi- cials are concerned that their municipal- ities will not receive the amount of fed- eral funds to which they are entitled. The unintentional shortchange may occur because people are inclined to con- fuse their actual address with their mail- ing address when filing out forms, and it is information gleaned from federal tax returns which will be used to compute re- venue sharing allocations beginning in 1973. The 1970 census forms, which were used to determine revenue sharing ap- propriations for 1972, requested only mailing addresses and made no provision for listing the political subdivision in which one resides. At a recent meeting of Dallas Borough Council, ‘President George Thomas ex- pressed concern that persons who live in Dallas Borough may list their address simply as “Dallas,” with the result that revenue sharing funds may be ear- marked for Dallas Township instead of the borough. - People who live in rural and semi-rural areas, too, may make the mistake of list- ing their mailing address as their actual address when the former is, for instance, a rural delivery route. Several areas of Lehman, Lake, and Kingston Townships, for example, are designated ‘‘Dallas RD’’ by the U.S. Postal Service and do not reflect accurately the municipalities in which the persons reside. Many Shavertown RD 5 mailing addresses, for example, belong to persons living on Sutton Road who actually reside in Jack- son Township. Listing one’s correct address on var- ious forms can affect not only revenue sharing allocations, but also the foreign fire insurance reimbursement paid by the state to the community’s volunteer fire companies. (Out-of-state insurance companies holding policies in Pennsyl- vania pay a two percent tax on premiums to the Commonwealth. That money is then returned to the local fire companies based on the number of policyholders in their area in the form of what is common- ly known as “foreign fire relief.”’ The tax on foreign casualty insurance premiums Fund.) (continued on PAGE SIXTEEN) One such customer irately told Green- street News Company: “The gas com- pany sold the idea of the gas furnace six years ago with the promise of being con- nected to the natural gas line within a year or two. Meanwhile, they promised to supply propane at the natural gas rate until the line could be extended.’” Under the new rates this customer’s typical bill of $44 would jump to $112. The promise was apparently made to more than the ‘‘just eight customers” that Roswell Patterson at the Scranton office of PG&W said are affected in the Abington area of Lackawanna County. It now appears that several hundred cus- tomers throughout the PG&W area (‘‘gas country’) are facing the increase. Complaints have reached the offices of Greenstreet News from several Dallas area PG&W customers, and at least one of these has hired an attorney and plans to organize a public protest. Florence Finn said Monday she is planning to advertise for supporters in her fight against the proposed increase, which has now been postponed until April public protest. Mrs. Finn has hired Attor- ney John Morris III as legal counsel. She said she chose her gas heating system which was also installed six years ago, because her comparison of fuel costs showed it to be least expensive. (continued on PAGE SIXTEEN) Several patrons at:Elby’s Restaurant last Wednesday afternoon were startled to see a burly, mustachioed young man of his arm. Elby’s, the young man was J.R. Sperl, a Dallas resident who had been deputized a few minutes earlier by Dallas Borough Police Chief Ray Titus to assist in checking out a bank alarm. The alarm had sounded at ap- proximately 1:50 p.m., and Chief Titus had deputized not only Mr. Sperl but also Joseph Reina, Oak Hill. State Trooper Joseph Kwak, who happened to be in the chief’s office when the call came in, assisted the chief in the investigation. The call turned out to be a false alarm —a mechanical failure at the bank's Dallas Village Office. The restaurant patrons, however, thought a bank rob- bery was in progress and assumed that the armed deputy was the robber. A manager at Elby’s telephoned Dallas Township headquarters, which in turn contacted Chief Titus back at the borough building, who realized immediately what the situation was. ‘‘I knew they’d seen Sperl down there with the shotgun,’ Chief Titus said, ‘but you can’t afford to take a chance on something like this.’’ So it was back in the cruiser and down to the bank again—to make certain there really was no ‘man with a shotgun robbing the bank.” Chief Titus gave the all-clear signal after checking out the bank a second time at about 2:20 p.m. : by Shawn Murphy There’s good news for parents of youngsters who must walk to school along roads without sidewalks, and it’s called Act 372. The new law provides for state reim- bursement to school districts which bus children who live within 1%, miles of the school and who must walk along “hazardous roadways.”” Previously, busing apy youngsters living within the state mé@ndated 1%.-mile limit. In the two Back Mountain school districts, the newly enacted law will have different results. At Lake-Lehman, where according to Superintendent Robert Z. Belles ‘just about everybody is ‘bused right now,’ there will be no change in the school’s busing policy. ‘““We haul all the kids now and always have,” Supt. Belles told the Post. “We’ve felt all along that it’s just too hazardous for youngsters to be walking along many of the roads in the district--who’d want kids walking around the Harveys Lake road in the spring time, for instance?’’ ‘Because of Lake-Lehman’s universal busing policy, the school district has not received reimbursement for ap- proximately 75 youngsters who live reports, a sum which will now be reim- bursed to Lake-Lehman according to Dept. of Education guidelines. “Kssentially, the fact that we will now get reimbusement for all transportation is the only change we’ll have from the new legislation,” Mr. Belles concluded. In Dallas, however, the picture is considerably different. Thomas Jenkins, business manager for Dallas School District, observes that the legislation will have a far-reaching effect on the district’s students and busing policy inasmuch as Dallas has hewed strictly to the 1%-mile limit established by the state. “A great number of our students walk to school along roads which can be considered hazardous--I'm assuming that roads without sidewalks would constitute ‘hazardous conditions,” ’’> Mr. Jenkins said. “As I see it,”’ he continued, ‘we must now find out what guidelines have been determined by the Bureau of Traffic Safety to designate roads as hazardous.” Three years ago, a group of concerned parents had banded together in Dallas to protest the school district’s limited busing policy. To many of these persons, the Act is a vindication of their efforts. To Rep. Frank J. O'Connell, too, the new legislation spells victory. Although he was not a sponsor of this particular bill, he recalls that he has been a staunch advocate of the legislation for several years. ‘It’s been a long, hard fight,” Rep. O'Connell told the Post earlier this week. “It was a controversial issue and took a lot of effort by many people.” So controversial /was the measure, in fact, that it remained on Governor Shapp’s desk--unsigned--for the entire period of the House of Representatives’ recess. The bill was returned to the House unsigned, and only after Rep. O'Connell and other proponents of the legislation pulled what he called ‘‘shenanigans’’ was the bill signed into law. Unfortunately, the governor’s delay in signing the bill may give school districts an ‘“‘out’”’ in implementing the law, Rep. O’Connell pointed out. “If the bill had been signed prior to Dec. 1, the school districts would have been mandated to put the new busing policy into effect immediately. As it stands now, the at- torney general has indicated that school districts may wait until the next school year to implement the legislation.” Rep. O’Connell hastened to explain, however, that the attorney-general’s interpretation does not prohibit a school district from initiating the new system immediately. ieuntimiad o on + PAGE FIVE : oS JERR Ep
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