. VOL. 84 NO. 23 FIFTEEN CENTS Photo by James Kozemchak Sr. Dallas Hi At an y meeting of Dallas Borough Council May 29, members decided to hire one new police officer, and to consider hiring one more. The new officer is Robert A. Kelley, well-known in the Back Mountain Area where he graduated from Dallas Senior High School in 1967. He now resides at Valley View Park, Dallas. He is a grad- uate of East Stroudsburg State College and he finished first in his class in a Washington, D.C. policeman’s school program. He joined, the metropolitan police force in Wasnilon, D.C. where he gained 13 months’ experience. Of the seven applicants who took the civil service test for the borough position, only three passed. Mr. Kelley’s grade was the highest. Dallas Borough police chief, Ray Titus, reported that four of the applicants were seriously considered for the patrolman job. Mr. Kelley, married and the father of two children, will be placed on a six- months probation period with the force. He expressed a desire to be an asset to the department and to the borough where he will be its third full-time officer. The council discussion of the possibility of hiring a fourth officer was raised by councilman Brown. Mr. Brown was of the opinion that the rapidly growing borough cruiser at nights. The negative position was headed by councilman Robert Parry, who argued that the budget would not allow for an additional officer. Mr. Parry is the head of the borough council’s recreation com- mittee. Continued on Page B-9 Luzerne County statehouse represent- ative Frank J. O’Connell Jr. took issue with a news story appearing in the last issue of the Dallas Post, he said by tele- phone this week, concerning the opera- tion of the State Correctional Institution at Dallas. : Mr. O'@nnell said that during last week’s meeting of SCID neighbors, he did not refer to the Berks County prison, but to the Bucks County facility, where a canine program supplements the duty of prison guards. During the telephone interview, the thought guard dogs could be used to in- crease security at SCID. He said again that he saw no reason why a program similar to the Bucks County program would not work at SCID. : The canine subject is one which has found the state representative and SCID superintendent Leonard Mack far apart. A recent suggestion by a neighbor to the institution that dogs be used as guards at SCID brought a resounding statement from Mr. Mack: “Over my dead body! ON aR et Middle Ages. Where would humanization be then?’’ dehumanizing when used as guards. He cites their use as wartime guards, with police departments and for riot control. He claims that they have been ‘very successful’’ at Bucks County prison. The representative points out that there has never been an escape from where the dog guards are on duty at that institution. “There have been escapes from the prison, but they went the other way...not where the dogs were’’, the rep- resentative said. He also reports that there have been no attacks on the prison- ers by the dogs at the prison. On the other hand, during the 13-year history of SCID, there has been only one prisoner escape from the inside without dogs. Mr. O'Connell relates having seen the dogs, who are under contract to the pri- son, ‘“‘in their pens with their handlers. At help guard the prison.’”’ He explains that the dogs are not ‘“‘on duty’’ when the men Continued on Page B- 12 Sy SEs AA I RES Em SE, Commencement exercises for 236 members of the class of 1973 at Dallas Senior High School will take place Friday evening at 6:30 at the senior high school athletic field. Bernard M. Novicki, presi- dent of the Dallas School District Board of Education, will award diplomas to the graduates. Guest speaker for the occasion is Dr. Robert B. Norris, dean of continuing edu- cation services and professor of education at the University of Connecti- cut, whose topic is, ‘‘Your New Fron- tiers.” A native of Montrose, Dr. Norris was graduated from Mansfield State College. He received his master’s degree in education from Harvard University and his doctorate from Columbia Univer- sity. He has served on the faculties of Lehigh University and the State Univer- sity of New York at Cortland, and prior to accepting his current position in Con- necticut, was regional superintendent of schools in Freehold, N.J. He served also as director of secondary education for the Central Bucks Joint Schools, Boylestown. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve and a district governor of Rotary International. The invocation and benediction for the commencement exercises will be offered by the Rev. Roy V. Ashmall, Cen- termoreland United Methodist Church. Two vocal selections, ‘‘An Alleluia Verse for Peace and Brotherhood,” and ‘‘O Continued on Page B-8 by Russ Williams About 40 years ago, the little water hole in Fernbrook was a vivid picture of Americana. It was ‘the swimming hole”’ you hear about. A painter might have tried to capture young boys, in cut-off pants or in ‘their ‘birthday suits”, jumping off the two, large concrete pipes into the water as the train approached. The concrete pipes allowed the clean, clear stream to run through the railroad bed to form the hole. Ten or 12 years ago, boys followed the tracks back to “The Pipes’, to sit down on the concrete cylinders and fish, perhaps all afternoon. A few broken bottles and a rusty tin can on the bottom now made swimming impractical. Today neither rugged little boys nor a catfish would consider swimming in that hole. They would have to share the water Teachers Inquire Of Split Sessions For Area Schools Requests from Wyoming Valley West and Wyoming Area School Districts for half-day lunch schedules for their stu- dents, brought concerned teachers, stu- dents and parents to a meeting of the West Side Area Vocational Technical High School board of directors Wednes- day night. After the regular board fceting, at which no mention was made of the half- Teachers Association, spoke for those present and bluntly asked if the two districts planned to go on half-day schedules. \ According to Bernard Novicki, chairman of the Vo-Tech board, projec- ted student enrollment for September is 1000 students and there is only room for 800 students. He continued, ‘‘All phases of expansion are being investigated, such as half-day schedules and an enlarged building project.” Mr. Novicki stated that the Vo-Tech board has not made any decisions on the issue, and it would be up to the individual boards to make such a decision. Students of Wyoming Valley West, Wyoming Area, Northwest Area, Dallas and Lake-Lehman now attend the school on a full time basis, and take both academic and technical subjects. On a half-day schedule, students would attend their respective schools for academic subjects, and be bused to Vo-Tech for vocational and technical subjects. One teacher noted that this would put the student in a ‘‘no man’s world’’, and he would feel as if he didn’t really belong Continued on Page B-12 A with numerous rusty cans and broken bottles, a baby carriage, tires, large chunks of an old car, and dozens of other cast-off items. On the other side of the tracks, where the creek used to wind through the trees, the banks covered with green vegetation, there is now a huge pile of trash. 5 This pile of trash is off Demunds Road, not far from Fernbroek Corners, behind the facilities once occupied by Parker Fuel Company. Efforts were made to attempt to find out who's to blame for the mess, but as with most litter, it seems that it is probably the fault of many. Perhaps it’s the fault of most or all of us. It seems that some thoughtless people are creating this eyesore and haven for rats, yet no one has formally complained. The people who have been doing the dumping probably wouldn’t have done it at all if the rest of us had taken littering a lot more seriously. Betty Turner, speaking as a member of the Back Mountain Environmental Group, reports that one woman, a neigh- bor, has complained to them about the situation. She is disturbed about the health hazard, but she won’t take the complaint, formally, to the Dallas Town- ship Board of Supervisors. Mrs. Turner unidentified- she doesn’t want to bother Continued on Page B-10 Inside The Post Horse Training Dick Kern trains horses for show. Story and photos on page Bl. Brick in Tank Back Mountain Environmental Group starts new project. Story on page Bd. Jaycee Banquet Centurion Jaycees hold installation banquet. Story and photos on page BY. School Menus Publick Occurrences Only Yesterday Local College News Nader Reports 5% \ Ambulance Logs How Congress Votes Police Reports Community News Crossword Puzzle Service Award To Misericordia For Flood Work For the second time in 12 years, College Misericordia received the Back Mountain Protective Association’s Community Award as Congressman Daniel J. Flood made the award presentation last Thurs- day evening in ceremonies at the Irem Temple Country Club. In 1961, Congressman Flood presented the award to Sister Mary Celestine, RSM, then president of Misericordia, for the college’s cultural and educational contri- butions to the Back Mountain com- munity. Thursday, Mr. Flood presented the award to Sister Miriam Teresa, RSM, president, for the same reasons but with the additional reason of the college’s out- standing humanitarian service during the flood.
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