TRE To ® a 3 _ The League of Women Voters of the Wilkes-Barre area will hold a general membership meeting Nov. 13 at 10 am., in the Kirkendall Room of St. Stephenfs Church, 35 S. Frank- lin 5 cs Barre A panel of board members will present in- formation on the total program of the league. : They will deal with the league program at the local, state and national levels, with emphasis on what the Wilkes-Barre lea- gue can do to implement specific parts of the program. The meeting will be run as a group discussion and question- raising session. An update will also be given on the league outlook toward juvenile justice, government study commissions, the role of the state in secondary and ele- mentary education, human re- sources, environmental quality wi and. the Susquehanna Inter- League Council. A Members and guests are in- lunch after the meeting. Every- one is requested to bring a sand- Legislators Seek More Funding Representative Frank J. O’Corngitll Jr., (R-Luzerne), re- ported¥recently that a group of state legislators has asked the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation to seek increased federal funding for municipal sewage ‘treatment plants, and urge passage of a federal strip mine law as strict as Pennsyl- vania’s 1963 statute. ‘Eight members of the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pol- 4 Committee also protested a pro- posed cutback by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency of matching funds for sewage treatment plant con- struction for fiscal 1974-1975,” he added. : : “The legislators pointed out that the proposed reduction in the State’s share of funds avail- able nationally. from . a, re: cent Would mean a $189 million Joss for Pennsylvania.” Amgndments to the Federal wal dpPlaton Control Act in 1972 Yacluded a three-year ap- wich or to order one when they arrive with a local delicatessen. The board will provide coffee and a light desert. ~ Babysitting will be available. Lunch arrangements for the children will be handled in the same manner as for their mothers. To Look for Gas Leak Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire . Company, Dallas, responded to ta call from the Mark II Rest- aurant Saturday night at ap- proximately 10 o’clock. The call expressed concern that there was a gas leak in the basement of the building. Two engines, under. the direction of chief Don Shaffer, answered the call. The restaur-. ant had been evacuated before they arrived. Firemen turned Railway Other provisions of the House bill include: loans for acquisi- tion of railroad property; loans for modernizing railroad equip- ment; financial assistance to AMTRAK; loans for providing provision for setting up a con- solidated court to administer the new program. ‘ The Nixon Administration, although not against the general concept of federal involvement to assist the railroads, opposes some provisions of the House bill, including a labor protection package that would guarantee to age 65 the salary of workers displaced in the reorganization process. The cost would be some $250 million in federal payments. Squabble (continued from PAGE ONE) while Mr. Parker says it is zoned ‘‘M-2,”’ thus permitting light industry to locate there. The supervisors, who admit that they do not know what the proper. zoning is, suggested to Mrs Rhodes that she attend the next planning: and)zoning com- mission. meeting to ask that board for assistance. Mrs. Rhodes suggests that the state be forced to move its road propriation of $18 billion for a equipment, in the spring, to a j E giant construction program for More suitable site away from | the treatment of sewage in loca] = Tesidential areas. communities, with the Federal Government paying 75 percent of the cost, Rep. O'Connell said. Under the act, Pennsylvania has already placed 69 treatment plants in construction, and an additional 131 projects have been submitted for federal ap- proval. There are also 239 pro- jects still on the drawing board. The cost of all Pennsylvania projects will approach $800 mil- lion. They state legislators further poi! out that cutbacks in funditig by the Environmental Protection Agency for fiscal 1973 and 1974 resulted in a de- “ficit-of $520 million for Pennsyl- vania communities. : State matching funds under the Commonwealth’s land and water conservation program, amounting to $100 million, have already been spent or commit- ted, resulting in the con- struction of 550 sewage treat- ment plants since the program - was approved by the electorate in 1967. During their conference with the Congressional delegation, the state legislators also urged that the proposed federal strip mine law include the following provisions, which are now part of Pennsylvania law: re- storation of all strip-mined land to approximate original con- tour; a prohibition against re- tention of highwalls, regardless of the slope of the ground; and the ing of dislodged topsoil, and lanting of stripped areas with grasses and trees. Mrs. Rhodes accused the supervisors of being afraid to take action in the matter. They replied that they are not afraid but said, ‘What could we do about it?’’ The supervisors con- tend that they were unaware that the state was moving in until after the fact, and that her complaint was a zoning pro- blem having nothing to do with the board of supervisors. ~ Mrs. Rhodes left the meeting stating that she would attend the next planning and zoning The board approved a low bid from Stephenson Equipment Co., Wilkes-Barre,, for a nine- foot and a 10-foot cinder spreader at a cost of $5,273. Delivery will be in the im- mediate future. The board has been summon- ed to appear before the Pa. De- partment of Environmental Resources because the super- visors have not approved the county sewage plan. The super- visors said they had understood that because the township is included in the Dallas Area Municipal Authority and part of the sewerage system, they did not have to comply with any other plans. The county has its own sewerage feasibility plan, which each municipality must approve or present a detailed outline of its own plans. Solicitor Townend suggested that a letter be sent to the DER stating that Kunkle and the west end of Overbrook Avenue are sewers. a n ‘PRICE o. ie o, oo Ris by Russ Wiliams Helen Sgarlat, of Laketon at Harveys Lake, has contacted the Post to report that she has found the Don Wilkinson Agency to be ‘‘very inefficient’, and to let it be known that she too fears that the agency is being used as a political tool. Last week, William Gunster, chairman of the Harveys Lake Municipal Authority, and William Connolly, mayor of Harveys Lake Borough, let the Post know that they feel that the agency is being used as a weapon of revenge against those who have angered a certain member or members of borough council. Mr. Gunster went as far as to say that all of the cases of notifi- cation by, or prosecution by, the agency, he has heard of affected someone ‘‘who was presumed to have been against Mr. (William), Hoblak and Mr. {Thomas) Cadwale?ai Tn the primaries.” ) Mrs. Sgarlat,” who fits the category described by Mr. Gunster, told the Post that she has thus far been ‘bothered by the Don Wilkinson Agency three times.”’ She said that the borough council-hired firm first sent her a notice saying that she had not paid up her mid-term amount on the one percent local wage tax. She said that her accountant had filed her return for the total year, and that her one percent tax had been paid by check which was cashed. To prove that, she said, she had ‘to go through flooded checks for hours.”” Luckily, she noted, the check was there, and was not among the papers she had lost to the 1972 flood. ‘“‘How’’, she asked us, ‘‘could they have cashed the check, Car Owners Warned Of Plowing Procedure Dallas Borough residents are advised by police chief Ray Titus that, with winter weather coming, cars must be kept off the streets, especially at night, to facilitate plowing. : The chief noted that owners o cars left on the streets over- night will be awakened and asked to move their cars if the vehicles obstruct the path of the snow plow. If the owner of the car cannot be located, the car will be towed at the owner’s expense, the chief adds. Publicity deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Don’t put off until tomor- row what you can do today. We want to hear from. you. without credit?” “Next they started on my John,” © she explained. John having - given me broker. Mrs. Sgarlat reported to us that because her son works out of a Philadelphia firm, he pays a total of three-percent in local wage taxes. ‘His taxes are deducted from his pay at work...I had his W-2 forms...and I checked with his firm to make sure that they had sent out the payments properly,” she said. Satisfied that everything was in order, she contacted the agency to get this problem straightened out. ‘Their excuse was that they had:two John Sgarlat’s’’, she told us. She added that she felt that it was very injurious to her son’s career, that he be noted in the newspapers as one who has been contacted by a tax collec- tion agency for non-payment of tax. : Mrs. Sgarlat reported thatthe third event happened within the last two weeks: She told us that a notice of prosecution from the agency was received by Carl Vaesen, “who is an 83-year old, retired miner who I brought out The agency employee added that the three percent local tax referred to by Mrs. Sgarlat is paid solely to the city of Phila- delphia. The tax in question, the one paid by Mr. Sgarlat, was on income made ‘‘before, after or in addition to his Philadelphia employment,” Miss Rundel not- ed. She ‘said that she does not know who Carl Vaesen is. ‘We must have a card on him...- that’s obvious...but all Mrs. Sgarlat needed to do was notify us that he is 83 years old. We’d have marked that on his card and never bothered him again.” Miss Rundel summed up, “We have collected a great deal of delinquent tax money from Harveys Lake Borough. So we can’t be 100 percent wrong.” 3 ie Prof. William Dick, College Misericordia, was the principal speaker at a recent meeting of the Harveys Lake Lions Club. . Prof. Dick spoke on the teach- ing of our children and how the State governs the way they are taught. He talked about the way the State tries to lessen his own powers of deciding how he should get his education. He added that the activity of the child is governed by the teacher and the State, by enclosing him in a classroom for hours at a time, which, he says, lowers his capacity to learn. Prof. Dick said that this country has the highest rate of dropouts in the world, and blames it on the method of teaching in the country. An old time movie by Laurel and Hardy was shown at last night’s meeting. Lee Bicking was chairman of the program. The Harveys Lake Lions Club will visit the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m., and will have the op- portunity to tour the entire A Christmas party has been scheduled for Dec. 15 at the WaHoo Inn. Members are re- quested to contact Ronnie Ritts, chairman, for reservations. Re- servations must be in by the Dec. 12 meeting. The Lions Club board of directors will meet at Bill's Cafe, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. Lake Township will soon be the proud owners of a 1974 In- ternational truck. A low bid of $8,965 from Wilkes-Barre Truck Center Corp. has been accepted unanimously by the board of supervisors. Supervisor Nesbitt Hummel moved that the bid be accepted and chairman Walter Hoover seconded the motion. Super- visor Dorothy Bryant refused to second the motion. because,*‘l don’t know anything about trucks,’’ she said, Mrs. Bryant did vote in favor of the pur- chase. Cost of the truck will be paid through Revenue Sharing Funds. Judy Steltz, secretary, read a letter from Thomas Garrity, Luzerne County Tax Office, stating that per capita tax exonerations are not permanent and must be renewed yearly. At the regular board meeting, solicitor William Valentine reported that the $5 million suit To assure publication, send your news in early. Call your local correspondent or The Dallas Post, 675-5211. brought by Edward Meck against five Back Mountain police departments had been denied by Federal Court Judge R. Dixon Herman, at a special hearing held Sept. 29 Mr. Meck requested a transcript of testimony presented at the hearing, but the judge also denied his request. Chairman Hoover suggested that the board meet with the solicitor following the meeting to discuss a subdivision building ordinance. Kingston Township To Pick Up Leaves Road department trucks in Kingston Township will pick up leaves from Nov. 5 until Nov. 17, township officials have an- nounced. Residents are remind- ed that only leaves will be pick- ed up by the township and other items, such as appliances, tires and garbage, will not be accept- ed. Residents are also asked to next to the road for pickup. here to live with me.” Asked whether she had looked into this notice yet, she said that she hadn’t, adding, “It’s gotten to the point where I want them to prosecute... want them to prosecute my son too...I’ll pro- secute them right back.” Pauline Rundel, of the tax collection agency, was contact- ed by the Post. She responded to Mrs. Sgarlat’s complaints indi- vidually. To the Harveys Lake wo- man’s first problem, Miss Run- del replied that the Sgarlat check did come in time and that a credit was made to her, but the payment was not posted to her account in the agency books. Miss Rundel admitted that that was their error, but she noted that they too had flood problems...seven feet of them. She said that the Sgarlat pay- ment came in around the time confusion the payment was not posted. To the John Sgarlat problem, she responded that they had an RD 1:and an RD 2, Harveys Lake, John Sgarlat on their books. She said that the one John Sgarlat was credited for his tax payment, while the other was notified. She said that she learned from Mrs. Sgarlat’s call that the two John Sgarlats were the same man. The problem she said was the result of a recent change in mailing addresses in the area. The incorrect ‘‘John Sgarlat”’ from their records, according to Miss Rundel. 30" Parkerette 25" Parkerette make OF WILKES-BARRE ‘Member F.D.I.C. REXALL STORE SHAVERTOWN WART REMOVER CK pANLEGs EFFECTIVE [3 WART CATS Weis LT LTS 11] 7 Ty oH LR vf COLD Sopeg Rexall Store SHAVERTOWN 675-3366—675-5121 FAST SERVICE EASY TO PARK
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