if VOL. 84 NO. 36 DALLAS, PA. FIFTEEN CENTS Lake-gehman’s teachers greeted in- coming Students yesterday with smiles and cheerful hellos, the threat of a strike having been dispelled when the education association decided Thursday night to accept the school board’s previous contract offer. The vote was 47-34. Resolution of the contract dispute followed two strike votes by the 96- member Lake-Lehman Education Association, Aug. 21 and 24 and a sub- sequent announcement by the school board that the schools would open as The teachers’ demand for a shorter investigate the administrator, two board members, and tion, the committee will report its fin- dings to the school board and association on or before March'1, 1974. The commi- ttee’s report is not binding. Large Fré 250 freghmen and 60 transfer students to the Bos Saturday, marking the largest incoming freshman class at the college within the last five years. The new Misericordians will begin Edward R. Maier Elected to Board Edward R. Maier of Dallas has been elected to the board of directors of the Stegmaier Brewing Company. He is also assistant to the president, J. Fred Maier. Mr. Maier attended Gate of Heaven Schoolfi§allas, and was graduated from Dallas High School. He received his de- gree in business administration from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis. At age 16, Mr. Maier began his appren- ticeship at the brewery, working during school vacations, and since that time - worked in every departmental operation. He represents the fifth generation of the Stegmaier family to become actively associated with the company. Mr. Maier is married to the former Ali- son Galletly of Dallas. Other members of the board are J. Fred Maier, chairman; A. Richard Ca- puto, secretary; Harold Rose, Barry Boyer, William J. Kelly and Paul R. Sny- der. arriving on campus Saturday morning for two days of orientation prior to the beginning of classes for the entire college Monday. During orientation proceedings, the students will meet counselors and academic department heads, receive class schedules, and be officially welcomed by Sister Miriam Teresa, RSM, president of Misericordia, during the President’s Convocation,” Saturday afternoon. (continued on PAGE FIFTEEN) For Adults Except for the establishment of this study committee, the contract accepted by the education association is identical to the one it rejected Aug. 24 by a vote of 43-24. The contract provides for starting (continued on PAGE SIXTEEN) Photo by Dave Kozemchak For several years the state’s use of growth has been an object of concern for environmental groups, sportsmen’s clubs, gardeners, and homeowners. Each year the spraying program sparks protests from the citizenry, and each year the Department of Transportation repeats its claim that the spraying program is a necessary, safe, and econo- mical approach to maintaining road right-of-ways. The northeast district headquarters for PennDOT is located in Dunmore. The district, according to roadside develop- ment manager Richard Hostrander, contains ‘‘about 5,000 miles ¢f rcadway.” The most economical way to maintain the roadsides, says Mr. Hostrander, is to spray them. ‘It costs about $30 an acre to spray,’ he said. ‘It would cost $600 an acre to cut brush.” In the last two years, ‘“organic’’ gar- deners--those who use no artificial methods of fertilization or pest control-- have become particularly concerned about the spraying. One suburban Scranton gardener claimed that the spraying along the secondary road on by Angela Bell A unique new plan designed to fill the very special needs of the retarded, and particularly the adult retarded, is opera- ting in Pennsylvania under the auspices of the State’s Office of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Called the Pennsylvania Fellowship Plan, the project was originally proposed by the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) and as a pilot program has received initial state fun- ding for a three-year period. Fellowship Plan headquarters for the state’s Northeastern Region, including Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Wayne, and Pike Counties, is located in the Mears Building in downtown Seranton; other central offices are located in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Philip Wolf, the coordinator for this region, is a native Chicagoan who came to Northeastern Pennsylvania a few months ago from Philadelphia, where he earned both his master’s degree and his doctorate in social sciences at Temple University. He describes the Fellowship Plan as a ‘‘citizen advocacy’ program .and the philosophy behind it, in a word, as one of ‘normalization.’ “Citizen advocacy,’ a fact shoot about the program explains, “is the concept of a mature, competent citizen volunteer representing the interests of another citizen who is impaired in his instru- ‘mental competency and-or who has major expressive needs which are un- met. ‘“The nature of the advocacy, says Mr. Wolf, ranges from the ‘mundane to the legal.” Essentially, what the Fellowship Plan does is to match a retarded person, a “friend,” with a carefully selected volunteer, a “fellow.” person thus has a “citizen advocate--an informal contact in the vcom munity who can at least partially fill the friend’s social and emotional needs and protect the friend’s rights when necessary. Working principally through the Luzerne and Lackawanna Associations for Retarded Children, the coordinator’s “friends,” many of whom are institution- alized. The program is geared to the retarded individual who is preparing to leave an institution to live within the community, and to those who are residing in the community with families or in group-type neighborhood homes. Potential volunteers are screened carefully; they are given, according to Mr. Wolf, a ‘brief overview on mental retardation’ and are made aware of the rights of the mentally retarded. Volunt- eers, once selected, must attend monthly workshops covering various aspects of mental retardation. This ‘‘grass roots” educational program is doubly efficient since the volunteers themselves are then equipped to take their information into the community, hopefully helping to put an end to the superstitions, x ceptions, and myths about the mentally retarded. Development of the friend-fellow relationship, Mr. Wolf told Greenstreet News, is “not a rigidly scheduled thing.’’ A brochure about the program maintains that fellows ‘‘are very definitely not ‘officials’ assigned to mentally retarded persons. A fellow is a personal friend and advisor.” Above all, the volunteers are not professional health or social workers or educators, the brochure continues, ‘‘but concerned citizens acting privately to the best of their knowledge, ability, talents and desires on behalf or friends.” Any instruction, says the informative pamphlet, is informal, ‘‘of the kind that an older brother or sister might provide for a younger member of the family.”” A fellow may, according to the publication, “see to it that accommodations are properly maintained; that nourishment is appropriate; that the friend has adequate clothing. and is receiving training.”’ As an advocate for his or her friend, the fellow may assist with financial matters and purchases, transportation, finding employment. Mental retardation, the Fellowship Plan brochure points out, (continued on PAGE FIFTEEN) which he resides made his wife ill: and affected his. gorden Wyoming County Spor tsmen’s Club and the Northeast Federation of Sportsmen vigorously protested the spraying pro- gram, maintaining that it is a threat to wildlife. Mr. Hostrander, however, discounts these claims. ‘‘The proportions we use are considered very low in toxicity,’ he said, explaining that the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T are the principal chemicals used in the program. Reacting to an organic gardeners’ tactic of posting ‘‘no spraying’ signs along their properties, Mr. Hostrander people who complained to post their land 1 however, the attitude of the state agency appears to be changing. ‘If they do not maintain our right-of-way the way we want it maintained, we’ll spray it,”’ he said. (continued on PAGE FOURTEEN) Mosier Planning To Lease Store Mel Mosier, owner and operator of the Forty Fort Ice Cream Store, Memorial Highway, Dallas, told the Dallas Post that he will probably soon be giving up the business. Asked whether there is-any truth to the rumor that he will lease the ice cream store to the Mark II Family Restaurant group, Mr. Mosier answered, “I believe so. It’s not finalized, how- ever.” Mr. Mosier said the change could be- come effective Oct. 1. The Mark II restaurant business is owned by two Back Mountain residents, Bernard Sult, 126 White Birch Lane, Elm- crest, Dallas, and Sheldon Munn, 209 Eli- nore St., Shavertown. Mr. Mosier said that the two men had been trying to pur- chase property in Shavertown, but that the land in question is now the site of the al Savings and Loan branch office, adja- ter. Mr. Mosier reported that should things progress as they are now, the ice cream store will soon be remodeled to become another family restaurant called Mark II Asked whether his future plans come under the category of retirement, Mr. Mosier responded, ‘For a while, any- way...I'm going to Florida.”
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