VOL. 84 NO. 12 FIFTEEN CENTS 675-5211 Returns to The Post (See Page 8) FIFTEEN CENTS The Dallas Board of School Directors and the Dallas Education Association recently concluded negotiations with a two-year contract agreement. The first of its kind to be signed by the two groups, the agreement becomes effective Sept. 1 and establishes salaries and fringe bene- Johnson, Hel catable After ° board and the . teachers’ contract@pt the Dallas School board meeting, March 13, further business dealt mainly with the new relocatable school and with finances. Directly after the ratification and signing of the contract, however, there was a short exchange of compliments. Board Chairman Bernard Novicki commended the teachers in their negotiation technique, their open- mindedness and understanding. Walter Glogowski, chairman of the teachers negotiations committee, then made similar remarks about the board’s hand- ling of their side of the bargaining. The treasurer’s report revealed that the schoo gy istrict is presently in the envi- able position of holding a cash balance, as of Feb. 28, of $184,055.20, with no loans or notes outstanding. Most board members had no report to give on their standing committees, but L.L. School Is Criticized A disgruntled parent appeared at the regular meeting of the Lake-Lehman School Board March 13 to challenge the school district’s athletic program and criticize the training its high school aih- letes receive. Angelo DeCesaris, a resident of Chase, declared that the ‘status of athletics at the high g§chool doesn’t reflect on the student body but on the school board’s policy which results in young boys being sent out to play untrained.” He argued that Lake-Lehman ‘‘doesn’t for proper training.”” Mr. DeCesaris suggested that a Universal gym is ‘‘one such piece of equipment which would nurture and bring out the abilities of these young athletes.” Edgar Lashford, former school board president, took issue with Mr. DeCesaris’ comments and stated unequivocally that “there is no equipment needed which (continued on PAGE TWENTY) ¥ 13 BM fe oy ul.aing William F.. Cutten, chairman of the vocational-technical school committee, raised interest when he stated that the West Side Vocational-Technical School is Improve Bad Situation years. The two-year contract was reached after a series of productive negotiations meetings between the Dallas Education Association’s negotiating committee and the Board of School Directors’ personnel committee. Many proposals and counter tatives of both groups. An early agree- ment was reached, with final board roll call turning in a 6-0-1 approval Milton J. Evans was the abstainer; Hanford L. Eckman and William E. Price were absent. Highlights of the new two-year contract include an increase in the starting salary at the Bachelor’s degree level from the present $6,900 to $7,300 for 1973-74 and $7,700 for 1974-1975. Annual service incre- ments set at either $300 or $400 depending upon the specific number of years ex- perience for 1973-1974, move to $400 incre- ments in 1974-1975 for up to 14 years service. Additional $100 increments will be awarded to individuals reaching their 15th, 20th, and 25th year of experience during 1973-1974. The 1974-1975 portion of the agreement adds a service increment for individuals with 30 years experience. Included in the 1973-1974 agreement are $50 increments for each six credits earned beyond the Bachelor’s degree up to 24 credits. This amount is increased to $75 for 1974-75. The Master’s degree level remains $500 above the Bachelor’s degree scale during 1973-1974 and in- creases to a $600 differential for 1974-1975. For both contract years, $100 increments are awarded for each six credits beyond the Master’s degree up to a total of 18 credits. Upper limits of the Master’s plus 18 credits salary level are $13,600 with 25 years experience in 1973-74 and $14,700 with 30 years experience in 1974-75. Other benefits continued in the agree- ment are group major-medical and hospitalization insurance, group life in- surance coverage. Dental health care insurance for the employee will begin with the 1973-74 agreement. Salary increases and other employee benefits adhere closely with the guide- living council. Members of the Board personnel committee are Ernest Ashbridge, chairman; William E. Price, and Harry D. Swepston Jr., Bernard M. Novicki, president of the Dallas Board of School Directors, served as ex-officio with the committee. Negotiations committee members of the Dallas Education Association are Walter Glogowski, chairman; William R. Helgemo, John D. Johnson, Doris T. McCain, Charles M. Preece, and Philip A. Zachary. John D. Johnson is president of the Dallas Edu- cation Association. ; Dallas Area Municipal Authority signed a formal service agreement with the Harveys Lake Municipal Authority at the regular monthly meeting of DAMA Members of the Harveys Lake Authority approved the re-drafted agreement Wednesday night and it was presented to DAMA by Andrew J. Strutko, treasurer for Harveys Lake. Douglas Deihl, project engineer for Roy Weston Environmental Engineers, stated that the agreement is fair and equitable to both parties and the cost to users will be less as sfon as Harveys Lake hooks up to the DAMA system. The original DAMA sewerage system was designed to take the Harveys Lake hook-up and negotiations have been in the planning stage for quite some time. According to Merton Jones, solicitor for DAMA, the agreement has been revised by Russ Williams D.I.C.E. (Dallas Inmates Christian Establishment) is a group of inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, who are betting on their fellow inmates and on themselves. With the help of the Rev. George Pickett, the institu- tion’s representative of the Protestant faith, who they refer to as their ‘‘spiritual advisor’’, these young men are helping others and themselves prepare for life “out there’’. The program is not, how- ever, solely aimed at the day they are re- leased. It also attempts at having a theraputic effect. D.I.C.E. chairman Dan Harvey advises other inmates, ‘If you take advantage of the program, you'll be making the best of a bad situation.” Developed in May of 1972 by the Rev. Pickett and a few inmates, D.I.C.E. is a non-profit, Christian-oriented, self-help program presently enjoying a rise in membership at SCID. Their major fun- ction is providing classes in subjects rele- vant and helpful to the residents. Larry Perva, the group’s educational director, is a big, powerfully good-looking young man with a deep Southern-influenced voice. He speaks intelligently and self- assuredly about the courses they offer. Larry was raised in a Lutheran atmos- phere, and then spent seven years in the Navy. It was then that he: ‘strayed from the church’’. With the Navy behind him and ‘‘personal things’’ going wrong, badcheck trouble got him a one-year sentence. Two prison breaches later, Larry was bitterly looking at a long interment. He infers that it was due to a temporary con- finement with one of the Berrigan brothers that he began ‘thinking (and) looking back to the Church’’, so that when he was transferred to Dallas he was quick by Marie McCandless Legal proceedings are often thought of by the uninitiated (and perhaps also by those in the know) as cat-and-mouse games, where one party moves strategi- cally, anticipating a counter-move and planning accordingly, breathless and poker-faced. D. Morgan et al against the Pennsylvania Gas & Water Co. are no exception. What started as a normal utility announcement liquid propane gas customers has blossomed into all-out war. Or so it seemed until last Thursday, when PG&W mysteriously seemed to retreat and informed its liquid propane customers it was cancelling the rate increase, originally scheduled for Febru- ary 1, later for April 1. However, the class action suits are not dead. Attorneys Roger Mattes and William O’Hara, representing Mr. Morgan and the indeterminate number of other liquid propane customers affected by PG&W'’s proposed hike, last week filed interrogatories in Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, in order to determine the exact number of members in the class seeking actual and punitive damages totalling $10,000 for each member plus court and legal costs. to find his way into D.I.C.E. “Law and Environment’ is a course that teaches the resident the law and ex- plains ‘what they met up with’’ and why. It helps them understand ‘‘why what happened happened’. It is taught by an Institution resident, George Pasternak. George is from Tamaqua and has faced charges in almost all the counties in the state. He was “with the church” when he was young, but later met up with some “unsavory characters’’ and found him- self selling ‘‘hot’”” merchandise. He states was ‘do for old George Pasternak and to hell with everyone else’’’. So he tried rob- beries and finally got caught. He had felt that his success at robbery could go on forever, but now he found himself faced with over 100 charges of robbery and re- ceiving stolen goods. ‘‘Whatever was done in the counties, I was charged for.” He still goes out of the prison often to face various charges. He’s beaten some, but two convictions for receiving stolen goods have brought him two, two to four- year sentences, running consecutively. George has been in for three years so far. He got involved with D.I.C.E., even though the idea of it first “turned (him) off’’. He said, ‘this was the first time I did something for others.’’ Now the same George Pasternak who thought only of himself now claims ‘I can’t do enough for others’’. Besides teaching his class in law, George does some of the Institution’s photo processing. He says that he’s self- educated, but is now taking an account- ing course. He’d like to go on to college when he gets out. The philosophy class covers the basic philosophies of each of the pupils. This because D.I.C.E. philosophy instructor, resident Mike Hendricks, stresses class decision and participation. to meet the standards and requirements of both Authorities. Tom Bagley, sewage treatment plant superintendent, reported that many more house connections have been made to the line and it is hoped all connections will be completed by the summer. Mr. Deihl announced that applications for Federal Grants for Extension Project = No. 1 were filed Feb. 20. According to a recent Federal Government Water Pollution and Contamination Act, it is possible that 75 percent of the project will be Federally financed. Each state is alloted a cert@ingginnunt for high priority that the area covered in'Project No. 1is high priority. The Authority will not be informed until late fall or winter of their acceptance or refusal. A service agreement was signed by DAMA and Offset Paperback: Manufacturers Inc. formerly Valley Paperback, Fernbrook. The company will be billed for industrial and consumer use. Industrial use will be determined by the amount of industrial water used, during a quarter and consumer use will be determined by counting each 10 em- ployees of the company as one house unit. There are 152 employees which amounts to 15 house units. When questioned about the Brune dywyne Development in Dallas Town- ship, Solicitor Jones replied that Bran- dywyne had not yet been connected to the sewerage system because no application has been received for connection and fees and payments have not yet been received. Dave Longmore placed third in the PIAA State Wrestling Tourney Saturday, the first Dallas matman to ever place in States. He entered the he defeated in the consolations (See story on page 18).
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