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David M. Isaacs, a member of
© the field organization staff of
the national citizens’ movement
Common Cause, will be the
‘guest speaker at a joint meeting
of the Wilkes-Barre and
Scranton Junior Leagues, Nov.
13 at 1:30 at the Treadway Inn.
Cocktails and Luncheon will be
served for the members,
invited" to. hear Mr. Isaacs
speak.
Mr. Isaacs is a native of
Wilkes-Barre, now residing in
New York City. He received his
B.A. from Colgate-University in
1960. His business associations
have included Becton-Dickinson
& Co., Reynolds Securities Inc.,
and Computer Dimensions Inc.
Mr. Isaacs joined Common
Cause in the fall of 1970 and
served two years as associate
director of the New York
regional office. Currently he is
continuing to organize Common
Cause members in the Middle
_ Atlantic States from the
national headquarters in
Washington, D.C. -
Common Cause, working in
the public interest at all levels
of government, has professional
lobbyists in Washington and
more than 250,000 members
active in every state. Independ-
ent of political ties, it is able to
bring pressure on both parties
to improve the effectiveness. of
government. Common Cause
has worked on a variety of
crucial issues, the protection of
the environment, an end to U.S.
military involvement in Indo-
china, removal of discrimin-
ation based on race, sex, or
; ethnic background, and the 18-
year old vote.
In 1971, Common Cause sued
both major political parties for
violating the old and inadequate
campaign finance law. This
action was instrumental in
motivating Congress to pass
new legislation, effective April
7, 1972. Common Cause also
sued the “Committee to Re-
Elect the President” to disclose
source and amounts of gifts
made prior to that date. This
organization has been very
active in bringing about
congressional reforms such as
the breaking down of the out-
moded seniority system and the
opening up of previously secret
committee meetings.
According to Common Cause,
any citizen interested in
working to revitalize the system
of government and return the
country to the people may join
this movement.
In an attempt to control the
gypsy moth in the region, the
seven counties of Northeastern
Pennsylvania have requested
the State Department of En-
vironmental Resources (DER)
to spray 108,800 acres of foilage
in the spring of 1974.
According to DER, the spray
program will be used in con-
Junction with a parasite release
program. DER said that non-
toxic sprays will be used, and
neither the wasps nor the flies
involved in the parasite
program are known to be
other than the gypsy moth
caterpillar.
~ DER estimates that over one
miilion acres were defoliated by
he gypsy moth in the state this
rear, with some 776,000 acres
defoliated in Northeastern
Pennsylvania alone. °
The following is a list of
ccunties and the number of
acres each has requested DER
to spray in the spring of 1974 for
infestation by the gypsy moth:
Carbon; 16,000, Lackawanna;
700, Luzerne; 20,500, Monroe;
56,100, Pike; 6,000, Schuylkill;
11,800, and Wayne; 5,700.
According to Howard J.
Grossman, executive director
of the Economic Development
Council of Northeastern Penn-
sylvania, the council is involved
in a three-pronged effort in
combating the gypsy moth’s
devastation here. ‘In addition
to supporting state and federal
legislative efforts to fund gypsy
moth control programs, the
council will serve as a catalyst
to bring together public and
private groups at all levels
which are interested in controll-
ing the gypsy moth. Finally, the
council has an informational
role to play, in cooperation with
DER, in educating the public
regarding the implications of
the various methods.”
Mr. Grossman added that the
council has also prepared a
report on the aspects of the
gypsy moth problem and its
implications for Northeastern
Pennsylvania. Copies of the
report may be secured from the
council at Box 777, Avoca,
Pennsylvania, 18641.
~The 1st Battalion, 109th Field
Artillery, Pennsylvania Army
National Guard, commanded by
Major Robert D. Carroll, is now
participating in an intensive re-
cruiting campaign, with the
goal of reporting a net gain of 60
‘new reeruits for the period Nov.
_ 1through Nov. 18. The 109th Ar-
tillery campaign is a part of a
~ statewide exercise of the 28th
Infantry Division, referred to as
“Operation Keystone Plus’.
Major Carroll announced that
the 109th Artillery Armory,
Kingston, and the Battery B Ar-
mory, Nanticoke, will remain
open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, and
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays
and Sundays, during the cam-
paign. Personnel to conduct in-
terviews, administer mental
tests and arrange for medical
‘examinations will ‘be available
in the armories during the hours
mentioned above.
The 109th Field Artillery is
presently operating at 61 per-
cent of its authorized strength,
which permits it to perform its
mission, but in order to render
community support, as it did
during the 1972 flood disaster,
more National Guardsmen are
needed to fill up the battalion’s
ranks, according to Major Car-
roll. Mr. Carroll, who recently
was named the commander of
the 1st Battalion, is requesting
the support of all the people of
the Wyoming Valley to help the
battalion exceed its minimum
goal. ’
Major Stanley’ E. Smith Jr.
and Captain Eugene P. Klynoot
have been appointed as inter-
viewing officers, and one of
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Silent
sound, color film, an answer to
Soviet propaganda about
religious freedom in the USSR.
It will be shown locally at the
Dallas Community Church,
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“Would higher. gasoline and
‘automobile taxes help alleviate
the shortages?"
“They probably would help,
but they would only be half a
solution. . You can discourage
taxes, but you cannot create
more supply with taxes. The
‘best way to balance supply
with demand is to let prices
seek their natural level.”
_ ® Mr. Davis was principal au-
thor of the National Petroleum
Council's “U.S. Energy Out-
look” prepared .for the U.S.
Interior Department. ~~.
Dallas-Harveys Lake Highway,
7.p.m., Nov. 11.
In 1970 the Soviet Union circu-
lated extensively through the
Free World a Soviet-made
propaganda film portraying the
alleged religious freedom in
their country.
The Rev. Richard Wurm-
brand obtained a copy of this
Soviet propaganda film then
added to it documents showing
the true state of the church in
Russia, and the daily. perse-
cution of Christians, at the
hands of the Soviet Secret
Police.
Rev. Wurmbrand, a Roman-
lan Lutheran pastor, who was
arrested in 1948, and served a
total of 14 years in communist
solitary confinement, com-
ments on the film. Pastor
Wurmbrand and his family
were ransomed out of commu-
nist Romania in 1965 for $10,000,
by Christian friends from
Norway. ‘
He is now the director of
‘Jesus To the Communist
World, Inc.’’, a missionary
organization whose primary
activity is missionary work in
communist countries. py
The film enables the viewer to
see both the Soviet propaganda
line and the Christian answer to
it. See for yourself what hap-
pened to church buildings in
Russia. i
Pastor Wayne Brooks has
view the film.
them will be on duty in the 1st
Battalion headquarters, located
in the 109th Artillery Armory,
Kingston, during the hours not-
ed.
The battalion is seeking men
who can qualify for member-
ship in the 109th Artillery. Men
with prior service in any of the
branches of the armed forces,
active or reserve, if they meet
the service, age, medical and
mental requirements, may be
enlisted in the pay grade they
held at the time of their last sep-
aration from service.
Major Carroll stated that the
army pay is good. A prior ser-
viceman who was separated
from military service in pay
grade four, with over six years
service, will receive a full day’s
army pay of $16.39 for a four
hour assembly.
When the battalion ‘conducts a
training assembly on a Sunday
this constitutes two day’s army
pay, for a total of $32.78. The
total annual income would
amount to $1032.57.
These prior servicemen can
become a member of the 1st
Battalion under the National
Guard’s “Try One’ program,
which allows the veteran to see
if he likes the Guard, and, if he
does, he can extend his enlist-
ment after one year to any num-
ber of years not to exceed his
60th birthday. ;
Young men without prior
military service must enlist as
privates and will incur a six
year military obligation, how-
ever, the 109th Artillery is now
offering a. three year enlist-
ment, which will require active
participation in the 109th Artil-
lery for a period of three years,
and, since the new Guardsmen
will incur a six year obligation
by law, he may be transferred
to the United States Army Re-
serve (Reinforcement) after
the three years, by merely re-
questing the transfer,
New, non-prior service
guardsmen will be required to
undergo a period of active duty,
for training at an active duty
military installation, for a per-
iod of four to six months, de-
pending upon the military skill
in which he will be trained.
While on active duty, the
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Recycling
To the uninitiated, it looks like
a big bundle of cardboard. But
to the ecology-wise, it’s a thing
of beauty! They see green trees
and. clear skies instead of the
neat bales of paper in the back
room of the Giant Markets
throughout the area.
That’s because it is estimated
that an acre of trees is saved for
every ton of paper recycled. At
the same time, the cause for
purer air gets'a boost because
the paper no longer is burned.
board now is being recovered
for recycling at the Giant stores
each week, thanks to hydraulic
balers, manufactured by Maren
Engineering Co., sold and ser-
viced locally by WEPCO in Dal-
las. j
Jack Robinson, Giant's direc-
tor of warehousing and trans-
portation, explains that corru-
gated cardboard, which forms
some 75 percent of a food store’s
Back Mountain Couple
Sponsoring Indian Girl
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barber,
236 Machell Ave., Dallas, are
sponsoring Jacqueline, a seven-
year old American Indian girl of
the Apache tribe, through Save
the Children Federation; an in-
ternational child welfare or-
ganization of Norwalk, Connec-
ticut. This was announced re-
cently by Dallas Johnson, direc-
tor of the organization’s Ameri-
can Indian program.
The sponsorship will help pro-
vide funds for clothing, school
supplies, personal books and
spending money which will en-
able the child to take part in
school activities. The average
Indian youngster leaves school
before the eighth grade, often
for lack of these bare essentials.
Part of the sponsorship con-
tribution will be pooled with
funds donated by other sponsors
to help the members of the tribe
accomplish self-help projects of
their own choosing. Indian men,
women and young people are
contributing all the labor to
such projects as building health
clinics, libraries and commun-
ity centers, To combat the lan-
guage barrier which is con-
sidered why Indian youngsters
lag two years behind their non-
Indian classmates in school, the
Federation often helps tribal
communities secure supplies
and school materials for kinder-
gartens, where English is
taught to five-year-olds before
they enter first grade.
An individual, school or group
interested in helping a child
should contact Save the Child-
ren Federation, Norwalk, Conn.
06852.
guardsmen will receive $326.10
for each 30 day period of active
duty.
Major Carroll invites all
young men and veterans to visit
the armories in Kingston and
Nanticoke during the campaign
to find out for themselves how
they can serve in the 109th Field
Artillery, and thereby serve
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waste, formerly was burned in
an incinerator or hauled away
to land fills. Now it is sent to
paper mills to be used to make
new boxes.
Giant Markets now has 15
compactor-balers in operation,
the near future.
Each paper bale turned out by
the baler weighs 400 pounds,
compressed into a compact 30 x
40 x 48 inches. The baler itself
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weighs two tons, condenses the
paper (under 2,000 pounds-per-
square-inch pressure) to a frac-
tion of its original bulk. The
baler operation is automatic
and requires a minimum of
time and manpower to operate.
Giant Markets’ contribution
to the ever-growing ecology
movement will account for the
savings of over 1,000 tons of
waste cardboard, or 1,000 acres
of trees each year.
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Dallas Rotarians were given
advice about good business use
of the telephone at their Oct. 27
meeting. Dale Wagner
presented a film on the subject
entitled, “If an Elephant An-
swers.”’
The film emphasized prompt
answering of all business calls,
with dispatch and courtesy to
the caller. Prompt return calls,
when necessary, were also
advised.
Kingston Rotarian Cliff
club’s: Nov. 1 meeting. Mr.
Bigelow, vice-president of the
American Automobile Associa-
tion, gave the Dallas club the
latest news on the “Cross-
Valley Expressway.”
Family fun in the outdoors
was the goal of Cub Scout packs
in this area that were cited last
week for their summertime
program.
The National Summertime
Pack Award has been earned by
55 Cub Scout packs in the Penn
Mountains Council, Boy Scouts
of America, aecording to
missioner. In addition, 125 dens
are receiving participation rib-
bons, and over 250 Cub Scouts
will be wearing the new in-
dividual awards.
One of the favorite summer
activities tallied from pack app-
lications was Cub Scout Day
Camp held at Camp Rotawanis.
Mr. Peeler explained that Cub
Scouting is a year-round pro-
gram for 8, 9 and 10-year old
boys with monthly summer
activities that encourage Cub
Scouts and their families to take
part on special trips and out-
ings.
The summertime program
also makes it possible for Cub
Scout packs to be ready for fall
activities including such themes
as Genius Night in November
and Customs of Countries in
December, Mr: Peeler said.
He noted that section of the.
highway, from Luzerne to the
west bank of the Susquehanna
River, has not .yet been ap-
proved. Section twig: from
Rutter Avenue in Ki@lon to
River Street, Wilkes-Barre, is
now under construction. Section
three, from River Street to
Routes 315 and 81, he said, is
“having problems.’
Mr.
many problems the highway
department is running into,
such as environmental impact,
citizen complaints, etc. He said
that if things continue to go as
they are now, it will be many
years before the job is -com-
pleted.
The Touchdown for Boypower
campaign this fall is being held
to. invite boys to become Cub
Scouts, Mr. Peeler said, and the
Penn Mountains Council also
expects to organize 15 new Cub
Scout packs before the end of
the year.
Information about Cub Scout-
ing, which is a year-round,
home-centered program, is
available from the Council ser-
vice center, 200 Kingston Cor-
ners Bldg.; Kingston.
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..Check ~~ Thermometers--The
heating season is here. Take
time to doublecheck your
thermometers for accuracy,
says James K. Rathmell, Jr.,
Extension: floriculture and
nursery ‘agent. One practical
method of ‘checking therom-
ometers is to place them in
cracked ice for about 15
minutes. They should read 32
don’t'read 32 degrees. If you do
replace one thermometer,
same way, adds Rathmell.
Jordan, pastor of Gate of
at the right.
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