cont from PAGE ONE) claimed, one-man investigation into what he refers to as the 'walerways patrolmen’s “Gestapo tactics” at the lake. He claim that they make many picMine arrests, and ‘tha! they collect fines at the scene, without going through a magistrate. Mr. Tattersall insists that the Lake needs’ policing. but gives the opinion that ‘“‘they have to be belter trained...and they have to start using more common sense.”’ He added that they “always have their sirens blowing around here.. they have everybody on edge.” Mr. Tattersall told the Post that during the recent hearing before justice Jones, a man ceedings, because ‘‘he said that there were 11 policemen outside who were harassing him.”” Mr. Tattersall said that the man put himself ‘‘under the custody of the attorney representing Mr. (continued from PAGE ONE) district. Usually in July they are then taxed by the school district. The county, school board, institutional district and the municipality tax the residents based on a millage percentage of property evaluation. A mill is one, one-thousandth of a dollar, or one tenth of a cent. If the municipality, Dallas Borough for instance; decides that they need to levy 10 mill tax for 1974, they will be taking ten-tenths or one penny, for every dollar that each property is valued at in the borough. Because school board members, borough councilmen, township supervisors, and other elected officials determine what millage is to be charged based upon how much money they think they need, if one person is being charged too little, then someone gy only has to pay more than $hat individual, but must make up for the deficit that person has caused to the overall average necessary. This is what is happening in the Back Mountain. Because there are so many who are not assessed as high as they should be, a higher millage must be charged from everyone, and the higher millage, of course, {ends to hurt the person with the higher assessed value. A management spokesman at the assessor's office was asked if they assessed every property, every year. ‘‘Yes, why not? We have men on the road almost every day,”’ he answered. But when he was asked specifically if his office assessed new pur- chases he sajd, ‘‘If we see that somebody No it for $50,000 and we have it down for $10,000 we know something’s fishy, and we go out gad check it.” He reported (If all newly-built homes are assessed. A Dallas Post survey of the average listed-evaluation of an average home in the Dallas Township-Dallas Borough- Kingston Township area arrived at a figure of $12,817.14. With all the large, expensive homes to be found in these three municipalities, and with the area’s lack of any major slum district, this figure appears ridiculously low. The average figure was arrived at by listing all im- provements noted as ‘houses’ found on each of four pages of ment records, four pages of the Dallas Township 1973 assess- ment records, and four pages of the Kingston Township 1973 assessment records. The pages were opened_at random. A sample group of 115 homes were arrived at. They were correcled from the 35 percent figure to their full value, totalled, and then divided by 115, to reach the average, $12,817.14 figure. The average was raised slightly by the fact that one ‘improvement’ was listed, under one figure, as a ‘‘house, barn, and shed”, but was in- cluded in this list of ‘houses’. It is also worth noting that 50 of those 115 are valued at under $8000. That is a 43.48 percent at $8.057. It is undesirous to think that almost half of the homes in these three munici- palities are worth about $8,000 or less. One quick look around shows that ours is not such an underprivileged = community. 24, or just over one out of every five homes were valued al $6,000 or under. If the average evaluation is almost $13,000 and if almost 50 percent are valued down around Harveys Lake Township will issue permits July 14 to town- ship residents only to use the landfill Saturdays. Paul Davies “will be in charge of the operation to prevent use of the facility by outsiders. Cards will be given lo each resident and the cards vl have to be shown before the ¥¥sident can use the dump. the township and Leslie and Mildred Kocher at the regular meeting Saturday morning for use of the gravel pit owned by the Kochers. Harold Hoover, chairman, was absent and Dorothy Bryant presided in his place. Supervisor Nesbitt Hummel noted that the fire line on the Sears upper land area is not in good condition. The board decided with the assistance of their solicitor William Valentine to hire a bulldozer and push down some (rees to make a new fire line. William Jonathon, represent- ing the Pennsylvania Economy League was present and requested that the board meet to fill out a survey to determine services, equipment. and per- sonnel available in the town- ship. They met following the regular session. Bids were advertised for calcium chloride for road work but none were received. The board decided to re-advertise Sears gis Rt. 115 - Wilkes-Barre : 829-1311 $8,000, and under it is obvious that many homes are valued at much more than $13,000. In the first 100 pages of the Dallas Township assessment book the Post survey looked for all the homes listed in the Town- ship area of Pioneer Avenue and those listed as being in College Manor. These two areas were selected because the Dallas Township Pioneer Avenue homes are older, and are more-expensive homes. The College Manor homes are much average in “cost. The Post selected 12 sam- plings from each area when the hundred pages were noted. The College Manor evaluations averaged out to $20,476; the Pioneer Avenue evaluations averaged $15,688.57. The College Manor residents of that group were paying 20 to 25 percent more in assessment taxes than were the Pioneer Avneue group. Whether a tax observer agrees that the tax-assessment problem follows the older- homes-newer-home pattern, he will have to admit that some- thing is wrong with the system. He will, no doubt, be in favor of a more vigorous re-assessment or not in favor, based on his current evaluation figure. Those whose homes are valued at what they think is an accurate rate, or slightly less than the actual value, are the ones who are being cheated, and made to carry an extra load. Many, many homes are valued at. amounts tha{i aré¢ only a fraction of what they would sell for. Think A Little He who comes up {to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. Neifert for self-protecuon’ from the waterways policemen. ~ Justice Jones told the Post that the man referred to by Mr. Tattersall. was ‘‘just some crackpot of some kind’, who the proceedings.” She said that the man had come in and remained quietly for some time before he suddenly started “making wild accusations against almost everybody there...taking my part against everybody.” She said that the man amazed everyone by breaking into the proceedings, loudly saying things like ‘‘She won't let the Fish Commission pull the wool over her eyes’, and saying that she knew ‘‘this judge, and that attorney’, as justice Jones put it. She said that the man claimed that his attorney had sent him to the justice and that he was “under the protection of the court.” She said that she later learned that he is ‘‘just some character who shows. up at things and carries on.” In a recent Post story about the current dispute between the Fish Commission and Mr. Tattersall, it was claimed that the alleged threats, by Mr. Tattersall on the life of Mr. Neifert were made when the patrolman had attempted to make a water pollution test “on the Tattersall property.” Mr. Tattersall told the Post that the patrolman and ‘‘a man from Environmental Resources’’ were first noticed in his bedroom. Mr. Tattersall said that he asked them what they were doing and if they had ‘‘any papers’. They told him, he his toilets, and that a ‘little girl in.’ Mr. Tattersall says that the “little girl” has never been produced. He added that “‘one man said ‘a young girl’ and the other said ‘a lady’.”’ He said that when they were asked for “papers’’, the Environmental Resources man left, but Mr. Neifert remained ‘‘to tell me why he had every rigat to be ithere.” Alty re Joseon Ona} is presently counselling Mr. Tattersall; Mr. Neifert is being represented by Patrick Daugherty. Patrolman Neifert is presently on vacation, and could not be reached to com- ment on the issue. ~ Orig. $11.95 Hours: 10 to 4 daily TEL: 675-2149 10 to 9 Thurs. & Fri. Adhesive Material ® Washable scrub off high heat e Assorted colors 16 E. Center St. $1.50 Shavertown ¥ oldest Story on Page 1 Dan Richards has been with the Dallas Fire Company as an active member for 43 years. Above, Dan receives a trophy from Bob Richardson, president of the Dr. Company. 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