A Greenstreet News Co. Publication ; Ambulance Log Feb. 6- Gilbert Boston to General Hospital and returned. Crew: Earl Crispell, Arthur Parrish, Dale Clark. Feb. 7 - George Hayner to General Hospital and returned. Crew: Earl Crispell, Dave Fritz. : Mablick Occurrences Feb. 20 Classical guitarist Pete Segal will appear at Hayfield House on the Lehman Campus of Penn State. Starting time - 7 p.m. Feb. 15 Instruction on knitting, crocheting, quilting will be given at College Misericordia for Back Mountain Senior Citizens. Lorraine Stair and Minnie Roberts will head the sessions bet- ween 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. reb. 15 Dallas Area Municipality Authority will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the treatment plant building. Feb. 15 The Jackson Township Ambulance Association will meet at the home of Don Shaffer, Chase Manor. Feb. 16-18 _ A photography exhibit by Frank Kardell will be held at College Misericordia. The exhibit will feature both color and black and white photography and will be open to the public at no charge from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 daily in Kennedy lounge. Feb. 17 Trucksville Fire Company Auxiliary will hold a sausage and pancake supper at the Kingston Township Municipal Building. Serving will begin at 5 p.m. and continue until 7. Tickets will be available at the door or from members of the auxiliary or fire company. The men of the East Dallas United Methodist Church will hold a pancake supper at the church. Serving starts at 5 p.m. All you can eat, including homemade pie. Feb. 19% The Lake-Lehman Booster Club will meet at 8 p.m. at Bill's ~ Cafe, Sunset, Harveys Lake. Members are urged to attend. Feb. 19 The Back Mountain Memorial Library Book Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the social rooms of the First National Bank, Dallas Shopping Village. Feb. 19 Dallas Township Planning and Zoning Board will meet at 8 p.m. in the Dallas Township Municipal Building. Feb. 19 : Dallas Township Board of Directors will hold a hearing on the ‘Capped Sewer Ordinance’ at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 The Lake-Lehman Band Sponsors will sell hoagies. Orders must be in to Mrs. John Houser by Friday. Proceeds will g0 towards the Virginia. trip. The . Club of Luzerne County will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Genetti’'s Hotel, Wilkes-Barre. Single, widowed, divorced or separa individuals over 21 are invited to attend by making reservations with Maude Cloak, 675-2356 or Tom Wenrick at 477- 2486 evenings. Feb. 24 Annual parish dance will be held at Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. The dance, which is scheduled for the hours of 9-1 a.m., will be held in the school auditorium and will be preceded by a buffet lunch at 11 p.m. For The Record Congress Votes is issued every week that Congress is in session. It covers all votes of record and reports the position taken on’ each measure by the elected official whose name appears below, | : — Daniel J. Flood, € 11th Congressional District, Pennsylvania ) Feb. 20 ; February 8, 1973 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The House will not meet next week, and accordingly the next issue of CONGRESS VOTES will be dated February 22nd. Motions to suspend the normal rules of procedure governing the consideration of bills are in order on certain days each month. Debate on such bills is limited, amendments are prohibited, and passage requires an affirmative vote by two- thirds of those voting. Use of suspension procedure is usually reserved for relatively noncontroversial legislation. On Monday the House considered H.J. Res. 123 which extends the life of the COMMISSION on HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION until Dec. 31, 1973. On the motion to suspend the rules and pass the resolution: Yeas 283. Nays 40. Passed, Feb. 5. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. On Wednesday the House acted on the controversial RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (H.R. 2107) which directs the Secretary of Agriculture to spend the remaining portion of the amount appropriated last year ($225 million) for this program. The unspent portion (over $200 million) is part of the funds impounded earlier by the President. There were four votes of record in connection with this measure. The firsgeame on a motion to vote on the rule (H. Res. 188) making it in order to debate H.R. 2107. Yeas 237. Nays 150. Previous question ordered, Feb. 7. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. The rule was then agreed to by a voice vote. During debate, the Mizell amendment was offered to H.R. 2107. It fixes the amount to be spent at $140 million. Ayes 176. Noes 217. Amend- ment rejected, Feb. 7. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. The Findley amendment restricts participation in the program to farmers with incomes of $10,000 or less. Ayes 132. Noes 260. Rejected, Feb. 7. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. Whether to pass H.R. 2107. Yeas 251. Nays 142. Passed, Feb. 7. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. TV instructor. An unprecedented curriculum growth and increases in the number of participating schools or other educational institutions have been the impressive in- structional television story at WVIA-TV Channel 44. During the 1972-73 school calendar WVIA has added near- ly 40,000 students from 18 public school districts and other insti- tutions to its in-classroom’ in- structional telecasts, bringing to 51 the number of educational institutions enrolled in 44’s I-TV service. Student participation increased from 165,000 to over 200,000. Channel 44’s I-TV series con- tributed to the enrollment of Chase Correctional Institution, Robert Packer Psychiatric Day Care Center, and Mansfield State College. The relationship with Chase in its educational program resulted in not only their membership in 44 I-TV service but also a cooperative work-study program for Chase residents. Over half the teachers in 44’s participating districts eval- uated programs in the fall pre- view project with more than 3,500 teachers submitting written evaluations. The 1973-74 programming will increase the number of series from 47 to 53. The 44 I-TV staff visited every school district at least once, conferred with superintendents and other officials, and con- ducted in-service utilization programs. At the new Public Broadcasting Center, designed from all Northeastern and Northcentral Pennsylvania and for the enrichment of the educa- tional community, visitations are taking place daily. An audio-visual workshop for teachers will be held in the spring. The 44 I-TV provides master guides and individual Effective Feb. 20 Telephone Numbers for Kingston Twp. Police Municipal Building 696-1174—696-1175. Don’t Miss Out Did you miss the second Sinfonia da Camera concert? Make certain you don’t miss the final concert of the season scheduled at College Misericordia May 9 at 8:30 p.m. Reservations can be made Dolores at 675-2181. teachers guides and publishes a monthly I-TV newsletter. Acting to meet expressed re- quests from teachers, 44 has in- vested money in such quality programming as ‘‘Biography’’ and “Man and Environment.” Channel 44’s I-TV staff has worked closely with the 44 engineering staff to help mem- ber schools with equipment and other technical matters. It has also established cooperative efforts with the instructional materials service directors of the Intermediate Units within the 44 viewing area. Future growth is mandated by the I-TV department and sta- tion manager George Strimel Jr. Channel 44 is currently in- vestigating the possibilities of instructional radio when WVIA- FM activates broadcasting. The station is also studying the fea- sibility of accomodating more teachers by investing in a 2500 megahertz ITFS system which would allow for multi-channel broadcasting. The 44 studies also include investigating the applicability of videocassettes to the instructional service and classroom utilization of TV. And Channel 44 1-TV may not take a summer vacation! Channel 44 hopes to broadcast a summer I-TV schedule this year to accomodate those schools which hold summer sessions. by William Ecenbarger For more than a year the been buffeted by an internal feud over whether or not it does a good job in regulating elec- tric, gas, telephone and other utility rates in Pennsylvania. The instigator of it all is Louis J. Carter, Montgomery County Democrat, who was appointed to the commission by Gov. Milton J. Shapp. Mr. Carter contends that PUC procedures in setting utility rates ‘‘stink.” The specific target of Mr. Carter’s criticism is the venerable George I. Bloom, Pennsylvania’s Y¢Mr. Republican’ and the chairman of the commission. Mr. Bloom deprecates ~ Mr. Carter’s arguments as demagoguery to win cheap political points for the governor. There are three other members of the commission, but they don’t really matter. Two Republicans--Robert K. Bloom (no relation to George) and James McGirr Kelly--have little to say about anything and vote the way George Bloom tells them. The chairman runs the PUC with an iron fist. The fifth PUC member is former state Sen. William G. Sesler, Erie Democrat, who was named by Gov. Shapp less than two months ago despite the lack of any visible qualifications. Mr. Sesler probably will follow Mr. Carter on most issues-- meaning that a lot of million dollar rate cases are going to be decided on votes of 3-to-2. The whole field of utility regulation is a mind-boggling maze of accounting, law and technology-garnished gener- ously with partisan politics. But the common denominator to all the facets of the current dispute is the role of the commission. Is the PUC the defender of the rights and pocketbooks of the Pennsylvania consumer? Is the PUC a disinterested in- termediary between the con- sumer and the utilities? Chairman = Bloom would answer affirmatively to. both questions and see no conflict in this dual role. Mr. Carter sees it quite differently, and here is a synopsis of the position he has articulated over the past 14 months: Utilities dispatch hordes of attorneys to argue rate increase requests before the PUC, but the commission cannot act as an equally zealous advocate for the consumer because it has a judicial role. The commission must be ‘‘fair”’ to the consumer. The result, the Carter theory says, is that the rate-making process is weighted in favor of the utilities. To remedy the imbalance, Mr. Carter prescribes the assignment of PUC staff at- torneys to argue against the utility lawyers in rate cases. Mr. Bloom's position, which has prevailed thus far, is that the commission itself is taking good care of the consumer. Neither: Mr. Carter nor Mr. Bloom has cornered the market on infallibility, but one has to be more right than the other. Either Pennsylvanians are paying a fair amount for their utility service (as Mr. Bloom implies), or they are paying too much (as Mr. Carter alleges). The question is too important to allow a continuation of the current sanguinary stalemate. The average Pennsylvanian pays more for his utility service than for his state income tax. The PUC is an agency of the Legislature, created by the lawmakers in 1937 to do what they didn’t have the time or ability to do. And most con- sumers would agree that it’s time for the General Assembly to take a look at its neglected progeny to see if it’s behaving properly. Mind Pollution Washington—General Motors is disturbed that somehow millions of school children believe that air pollution can seriously ravage their health. To change their minds, GM has launched a massive brain- " washing campaign to tell them that auto air pollution isn’t so bad and will soon disappear. The first stage of the auto giant’s strategy is an 18-page booklet, entitled ‘What Is Air Pollution? A Story of Air Pol- lution and Cars’’. It is narrated by a Professor Clean who wears, incidentally, a very pro- minent “GM’’ belt buckle. The booklet is being offered free to 62,000 elementary schools in classroom quantities. GM’s public relations staff reports a first printing of one-half million copies, and that’s only a begin- ning. Using crayon pictures by 9- and ten-year-olds to illustrate points, the GM booklet attempts to define air pollution, where it comes from, how cars pollute and all the amazing things the car makers are doing to eli- minate auto emissions. Along with professor Clean, there is Harry Hydrocarbon, Charlie Carbon Monoxide, Ollie Oxide of Nitrogen and Pete Parti- culate Matter as the chief char- acters of this country’s largest corporate polluter’s story. One important omission from the booklet is any treatment of what air pollution does to un- dermine human health. No mention, for example, is made of air pollution’s causing dis- ease (such as lung ailments), soiling, damaging property, harming natural beauty and re- creation, and endangering transportation. Insidiously, the various pollutants from autos are portrayed as little pixie ‘demons’ that are very often harmless, sometimes annoying but generally going away fast. Harry Hydrocarbon is des- cribed as a ‘harmless demon” if he is just by himself. The tra- ditional GM line that hydrocar- bons are a problem only in places like Los Angeles is em- phasized. This is not true, of course, as numerous medical and public health research find- ings have shown. Furthermore, the children are not informed by this corporate anesthetic that hydrocarbons contain cancer- causing elements. It is not surprising, though still noble, that GM would stoop to such levels of manipulation. After all, for years, it has pro- duced over half the motor ve- hicles and over 25 percent of the air pollution (by tonnage) in the nation. For years, it colluded with other domestic auto com- panies to restrain the develop- ment and marketing of auto pol- lution control systems, accord- ing to justice Department docu- ments obtained from the auto industry in an antitrust case. (The case was settled in 1969 with a promise by the com- panies not to collude anymore). For decades, its massive trea- sury has been applied to styling and horsepower, at the expense of safety and new Kinds of engines that would prevent pol- lution and give motorists more fuel for their dollar. These are some of the facts that school children should learn and discuss. They should also know what the GM booklet baldly leaves out, for instance: (1) Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas and harmful in very low concentrations. (In- stead, the children are told that \ CO is blown away by the wind except in cities with lots of cars crowded together where too much of Charlie Carbon Monoxide is ‘‘not a good thing to have.”’) ; Sai (2) Lead is not only particu- late that comes from cars as | GM claims. Nor is lead used | only in ‘‘some gasolines today.” Lead is a component of most of the gasolines burned currently. And enormous quantities of harmful fine particulates of rubber and asbestos are given off from automobiles; the auto research to them. (3) The booklet concludes by saying that ‘‘Air Pollution from cars has become less and less in. the last few years.’”’ This is de- liberately misleading. Pollution controls on recent model cars degrade rapidly in effectiveness while consuming even more gasoline. Ignored as well is the more mileage on the roads have offset any alleged controls on new cars. Of course GM does not mention the mass transit lution nor does it indicate how many better kinds of engines can be used to replace the pollu- ting, infernal internal combus- tion engine that it clings to. School principals and elem- entary school teachers can ob- tain much more accurate and lution from the Environmental Protection Agency and numer- ous private conservation and environment organizations. They might also ask that GM recall these booklets and stop polluting young minds with self- serving corporate chicanery. DALLAS TOWNSHIP It was a bad weekend for accidents in the Back Mount- ain.. There were four reported in Dallas Township last Satur- day. On Saturday evening within nearly an hour of each other there were two accidents on Lake Catalpa Road. The first, involving Earl Parsons, RD 5 Shavertown, occurred when the Parson vehicle skidded on the icy road and ran onto the pro- perty of Joseph Hardisky. Shortly afterwards, Donna Bytheway, Box 424 RD 5 Shavertown lost control of her car in about the same area and also slid onto the Hardisky pro- perty. There were no injuries. Patrolman Elliot Ide investi- gated. . Earlier in the day there was an accident on Route 309 at the intersection with Main Street involving a Dallas Township ambulance. The ambulance crew, Bob Besecker, Church Street, Dallas and David Carey, Dallas, reported that they had stopped in the northbound passing lane on Route 309 when a car driven by Joseph Maier, 152 E. Market St., Wilkes-Barre ran into the right rear of the ambulance. Mr. Maier was charged with driving too fast for conditions. No one was injured. Patrolman Carl Miers investi- gated. At 2:35 p.m. Saturday Evelyn Bevan, Sheridan Manor, Wilkes-Barre was slightly in- jured when her car ran into the rear end of another auto driven by Stephen Fronczek, Pinecrest Avenue, Dallas. Mr. Fronczek was stopped in the northbound passing lane on Route 309 waiting to make a left hand turn into Main Street. The investi- gating officer was Carl Miers. Last Thursday at 5 p.m. David Schooley, RD 1 Dallas was travelling on Upper De- munds Road when he lost con- trol of his car and slid off the road. The young man was not injured. On Friday about 8 a.m. an accident took place appro- ximately % mile from the Kun- kle-Alderson Road. Richard E. Stredny, RD 2 Harveys Lake, travelling south on Route 309 was stopped behind a loading school bus when Howard Sprau, RD 1 Dallas struck Stredny’s 1972 Datsun truck from the rear. Mr. Sprau claimed that the glare on the ice-covered roadway blinded him and he ‘truck in front of him. Both parties sustained cuts and bruises and Carl Piszczek, RD 1 Noxen, a passenger in the Stredny vehicle complained of shoulder injuries. Mr. Sprau, 22, was charged with driving with- out a license. Patrolman Lamoreux investigated. KINGSTON TOWNSHIP There were four accidents in Kingston Township last Satur- day, investigated by Chief Paul Sabol and Patrolmen John Appel and Jack Stephenson. Very early Saturday morn- ing, David Lechah, 131 Main St., Luzerne was travelling south on Route 309 when he lost control of his car, veered to the right of the roadway and then over- turned. Mr. Lechah was not Senior Citizens of Luzerne and Wyoming Counties can avail themselves of free help in filing federal income tax returns by coming into the Senior Citizens Centers in Pittston or Wilkes-Barre. The announcement comes from Margaret R. Spencer, executive director of the Luzerne- Wyoming Counties Bureau for Don’t lose your tire balance, cautions the Tire Industry Safety Council. If a. wheel doesn’t roll true it can cause uneven tread wear patterns and erratic, unsafe steering. If you feel telltale vibrations from any wheel, have the balance checked. the Aging, a member agency of the United Services Agency (USA). Help will be available in the Wilkes-Barre’ Senior Citizens Center, B’nai B'rith Building, 61 East Northampton St., Feb. 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and again March 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The same assistance will be available in the Pittston Senior Citizens Center, 48 South Main St., Pittston, Feb. 23 and 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Assistance in filing Penn- sylvania State Income Tax forms will be available Feb. 16 only in the Wilkes-Barre Center. The USA is a special demonstration project of the Pennsylvania Department of visably injured however he complained of pain and dizzi- ness. Patrolmen Jack Stephen- son and Hugh Gallagher in- vestigated. : SE About 6 p.m. that evening,’ there was an accident on Car- verton Road 220 feet west of Staub and Carverton Roads. Thomas Reese, W. Eighth Street, Wyoming was travelling west on Carverton Road when an oncoming car forced him to the right side of the road, knocking down a Common- wealth telephone pole. The operator then lost control of the automobile which ended unside down in the west lane with the driver being pinned under the vehicle. Mr. Reese was re- moved from beneath the car with the assistance of the state police and immediately taken to Nesbitt Hospital by the King- ston Township ambulance. Not long afterwards John Rocoski, 24 Durkee Kingston and Josephine Heller, 294 Huntsville Road, Dallas were involved in an accident on Ms. Heller was travelling south preparing to turn into Schmidt's Service Station when a motor- cycle driven by John Rocoski passed her on the left, cut in front of her car and caught onto its left front bumper. There were no injuries. Damages were estimated at $80. At about 9:30 p.m. there was another accident near Center Street. Vincent Burakiewicz, Meadowcrest, Trucksville was travelling north on Route 309 when a car passed in front of | him, causing him to veer to the right side of the road, hitting a parked unoccupied vehicle in front of Evan’s Drug Store. There were no injuries. DALLAS BOROUGH Last Saturday there was a hit and run accident reported at the Dallas intersection with Route 415. Thomas J. Miskin, 182 Andover St., Wilkes-Barre said that he had stopped for the red light at the intersection when a car coming in the other direction, smashed into his on \ the left side and failed to stop. The accident is still under in- vestigation. g On Feb. 8 there was another accident apparently hit and run: Craig Daron, RD 2 Dallas had parked his 1971 Ford sedan in the parking lot behind the Kozy- K bar. When he returned to the car at about 9:50 p.m., Mr. Daron found that the left front door had been damaged. There were no other cars parked in the lot at that time nor was any paint visible on the damaged door.
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