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VOL. 84 NO. 24
A Greenstreet News Co. Publication
Fresh Air kids from New York City
seem to thrive on love and attention.
They get plenty of both from a number of
area people who annually open their
homes to the children, giving them a two-
week vacation in the country.
Begun in 1877, the Fresh Air Fund, is
independ’ orgamization finanf%ed
wholly by™onations, the Fund coord-
inates the efforts of over 40 social and
welfare agaicies in New York who select
children frdh 5 to 12 years of age from
the underpriveleged neighborhoods of the
city, and over 300 volunteer committees
who select and recruit host families in
“Friendly Towns” from Maine to Virgin-
ia. :
Headed by Kay Kale and her co-chair-
man, Shawn Murphy, the local Fresh Air
Fund program is sponsored by the Dallas
Junior Woman’s Club which, in addition
to financial support, provides an annual
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Auction Pickup
The general solicitation pickup for
the Back Mountain Library Auction
is slated for June 23, beginning at
8:30 a.m., according to an announce-
ment made by Jack Krogulski, gen-
eral solicitations chairman. Trucks
will visit the following locations:
Oak Hill, Haddonfield Hills, Elm-
crest-Elmerest Woods, Shrine View,
Shrine Acres, College Manor, Old
Goss Manor, Applewood Manor,
High Point Acres, Chase Manor,
Field Crest, Sutton Road, Midway
Manor, Brown Manor, Westmore-
land Hills, New Goss Manor, Or-
chard View and Stone Hedge.
Residents of these areas who have
items for pickup are requested to
call the auction pickup number, 675-
1240, to hfe their names listed for
pickup, In addition, on Saturday
morning, residents are asked to
place their “house brooms’’ on the
front porch to indicate that they
have made a “clean sweeyp’’ of their
homes and have items for pickup.
Mr. Krogulski stated that donors
who call the auction number and
then place their broom on the front
porch, will help speed the pickup,
since the drivers and helpers will
know exactly where to look in each
neighborhood. ;
The 1973 Library Auction, sched-
uled for July 6, 7, and 8, needs the
support of every member of the
community to insure its success.
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Library Hour for each group of visiting
children.
Over 16,000 children from New York
City’s black, white and Puerto Rican
neighborhoods will travel by bus or train
this summer to the homes of their hosts.
The program has enjoyed such growing
popularity in this area that the number of
Fresh Air invitations has increased from
eight in 1967, 28 in 1969, 45 in 1671 to 54 in
1972. :
Due to the generous acceptance of the
program in the Back Mountain and sur-
rounding communities, the Fresh Air
Fund has increased the quota of children
who may be invited and Dallas “Friendly
Town’’ has developed several auxiliary
Friendly Town programs in nearby
Hunlock Creek, Shickshinny, Forty Fort
and Laflin.
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Architect Firm
Completes Plans
For New School
Preliminary plans and specifications
for the new Lehman-Jackson Elegentary
School have been completed by the firm
of Lacy, Atherton & Davis, Architects
and Engineers. The new school will be
constructed on a gently, sloping 17 acre
site located in Lehman Township bet-
ween the ‘existing :junior-senior high
school and the Lehman-Huntsville Road.
Plans anticipate a physical plant of
approximately 75,000 sq. ft., containing,
as mandated by the state, 27 classrooms,
two special education classrooms, two
kindergarten rooms, separate art and
music rooms, as well as general educa-
tion areas; such as a library and a multi-
purpose room. The school will also
provide for kitchen and cafeteria areas,
as well as district offices.
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The “Eddy Laibinis Campaign’, con-
ducted by WBAX Radio and College
Misericordia on behalf of the twelve-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel
ceeded the $1228.30 pledged by listeners
during the six-hour radio drive.
According to the latest report from the
Alumnae Office at Misericordia, accoun-
tants for the campaign, a total of $1386.52
has been collected, with additional
money being received daily. Approxi-
mately 90 percent of the pledges have
been received, according to alumnae
director Janet Wills, with a lot of money
sent in by people who did not call during
the radio campaign over Memorial Day
weekend. Expectations are that the cam-
paign will eventually exceed $1500.
The campaign resulted after Sister
Miriam Teresa, RSM, president of
Misericordia read an article in a local
paper regarding the surgical removal of
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DALLAS, PA.
FIFTEEN CENTS
by Millie Hogoboom
The regular June meeting of the
Jackson Township Supervisors bore a
striking resemblance to a typical New
England town meeting. Over 40 tax-
payers jammed the basement of the fire
hall determined to voice their opinions.
Chairman Frank Elenchik was hard
pressed at times to keep order, with a
hair brush substituting for the familiar
gavel. However, solicitor Blythe Evans
remained completely calm and with the
help of John Filip, president of the
Taxpayers Association, many of the
constituents’ questions were answered.
Despite the hubbub, a great deal of town-
ship business was dispatched without
incident.
Harry Zbiek, treasurer, announced
that $200 of the Federal Revenue-Sharing
Funds is to be contributed to the Back
Mountain Memorial Library. The
remainder of the Federal Funds or about
$16,500 will be used to pave the Smith's
Pond Road and a part of Sutton Road.
Harold Bertram, road supervisor, also
proposed that the state funds be used to
pave four-tenths of a mile on Sutton Road
nearest to Kingston Township at a width
of 16 feet. It will be necessary to have a
state engineer evaluate the work to be
done.
It was thats a
announced special
question of sewage for Jackson Town-
ship. A representative from the Roy
Weston Engineering Co. was present to
answer questions. A committee of
residents was appointed to further study
the issue. They are John Haley, Field-
crest; Lew Harris, Chase; Tom Bunney,
Hillside Road; John Filip, Huntsville
Road; and Frank Fabian, Chase Manor.
Millie Hogoboom asked the supervisors
who had hired Atty. John Aponick as
solicitor for the zoning board and why
this was necessary. Solicitor Blythe
Evans responded that he represents the
supervisors and can not take a zoning
board action into a court of law, such as
the recent hearing before Magistrate
Leonard Harvey involving the American
Asphalt Company. However, it was noted
that the supervisors had not acted on
Atty. Aponick’s appointment at a con-
vened public meeting of the Township
supervisors. :
Joe Kapitula of the Weavertown Road
asked how the members of the zoning
board were selected and what qualifi-
cations were needed for the job. Atty.
Evans called on Robert Maturi, a
member of the zoning board, to respond
to the question. Mr. Maturi said that he
was ‘‘a taxpayer and citizen of Jackson
Dallas Township policemen left the
regular supervisors’ meeting last week,
stating they had little encouragement
that their pleas for help would be an-
swered soon. The policemen on the Dallas
Township force have the unique and un-
enviable distinction of having no police
pension fund and they are ineligible to
collect Social Security benefits.
Officer Carl Miers, speaking for the
nine-man group, pleaded with the super-
visors to settle the unusual situation or
they would be forced to hire legal counsel
and bring action against the board.
Dallas Township police originally had a
police pension fund for their two-man
force. In 1969 when the force expanded, it
was necessary for them to comply with
State Act 600, which requires that a force
of more than two men have a general
police pension fund, and in order to be eli-
gible to collect, a man must be on the
force for 20 years.
tor General's office told board secretary
Glenn Howell that the policemen could
also apply for Social Security. Mr. Howell
applied and the deduction was made from
each man’s pay.
Last year, a man from the State Social
Security for Public Employees Bureau
informed Mr. Howell that the police could
not have Social Security and a police pen-
sion fund, too. He advised the secretary
to stop collecting and to apply to Harris-
burg for reimbursement of money al-
ready paid into Social Security. Accord-
ing to Mr. Howell, he stopped collecting
and applied for reimbursement, but has
heard nothing from Harrisburg. Social
Security monies for public employees
goes through state channels before going
to the Federal government. Meanwhile,
the policemen cannot have a police pen-
Security is settled.
These very technical and complicated
laws, requirements, decisions and rever-
sals result in two facts, according to
township officials. One is that Chief
“Pete’’ Lange, who is 65 years old, cannot
collect Social Security because he hasn’t
paid enough ‘‘quarters” to make him eli-
gible. He had paid into the original police
pension fund but has only worked on the
force 15 years and so cannot collect a
pension because he has to be employed 20
years.
Secondly, the police officers are ineli-
gible for Social Security and their pension
fund is being held up because of the mix-
up with the Social Security. The men pay
toward a pension fund, and the money is
put in trust at the First National Bank of
Northeastern Pennsylvania until things
are straightened out.
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Township and with some common sen-
se.” ”
John Filip interjected that the theory of
the zoning board was that ‘‘it be ecom-
posed of laymen to interpret the zoning
laws.” The board’s main function is ‘“‘to
be concerned about land use.” The board
as such, may hear appeals, but it can only
interpret the laws made by the super-
visors. “Final jurisdiction lies with the
Department of Environmental
Resources.” Mr. Kapitula expressed sur-
prise that it was not necessary for these
men to have some knowledge of the
building trades.
Once again the question of an insurance
policy for Police Chief Robert Cooper was
raised. Chief Cooper explained that in
1954, a policy was issued for him, but that
for the past 13 years the premiums of that
policy have been paid for from ‘‘funds in
a bank”. At one time there was an active
policemen * and firemen’s relief fund
which covered these payments. This
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PSU to Hold
Graduation Event
At WB Campus
Larry Egedind and Charles Boughton,
instructors at Wilkes-Barre Campus in
Lehman, dare co-marshals of the on-
campus graduation exercises to be held
June 16 at 2 p.m. Ninety-three seniors in
the associate degree curriculums of high-
way engineering technology, business,
surveying technology, mass communi-
cations-radio broadcasting, electrical en-
gineering technology, mechanical en-
gineering technology, will be conferred
degrees in the ceremonies being held out-
of-doors near Hayfield House.
George W.Bierly, campus director, will
preside over the program which will
begin with the academic procession.
Invocation will be offered by the Rev.
John Topolewski, Trucksville United
Methodist Church, followed by a welcome
by John N. Conyngham, president of
Wilkes-Barre Campus Advisory Board.
Dr. Robert G. Quinn, dean of academic
instruction for Commonwealth Cam-
puses, will deliver the charge to the
graduates. Edward A. Dreisbach, acting
assistant director for resident instruc-
tion, will present academic awards. J.P.
Cancro, instructor in business, will
present the Wilkes-Barre Campus
Walker Award, and Leroy A. Sweinberg,
professor of engineering, will present the
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