Hurl VOL. 84 NO. 47 FIFTEEN CENTS, An unofficial low bid of $1,698,000 for the construction of a new Lake-Lehman elementary school was submitted by the Boyd H. Kline Company at the regular monthlygmeeting of the Lake-Lehman School Bard a week ago Tuesday. The Bloomsburg firm’s bid was the lowest of nine submitted. The two next lowest bids differed by only $300, prompting one school official to observe that the contractors had used “very sharp pencils’ in figuring their bids. Raymon Heddon and Son’s bid of $1,714,000 was just $300 less than the bid submitted by the Sutter Corporation. Enterprises ($1,740,000); John Garbade ($1,757,000); Sordoni Construction ($1,789,145); Raymond and Son ($1,849,500); Grosek and Sons ($1,923,755); and Tabone and Barbera ($1,938,600). Bids submitted by sub-contractors revealed the same ‘‘sharp pencil”’ figuring as did those submitted by the general contractors. Only $460 separated the three low bids for the plumbing contract: The Hughes Corporation was the apparent low bidder at $209,400, while iv.E. Benson and J.L. Turner submitted bids of $209,599 and $209,860 respectively. In the electrical construction bids, the two lowest bids showed only a $49.13 difference. Schwab Electric was ap- To Post, Drug Ma Kino Township police chief Paul they “9 proud that they are aware of the drug problem today, and point out that they are the only Back Mountain police force which is affiliated with the Greater Wilkes-Barre Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area Narcotic Investigation Unit. Patrolman Pugh, the Kingston Township narcotics officer, in addition to his regular township duties, gives up to 20 percent of his working hours to the narcotics investigation unit. The unit operates on an agreement between the participating municipalities. The two local law enforcement officers discussed their feelings about the drug proble&: in response to a story published in lastweek’s edition of the Dallas Post. The story dealt with drug raids and prosecutions in Luzerne County. Chief Sabol and Patrolman Pugh, who maintained that theirs is not the type of department which ‘‘grabs any kid with a joint,’”’ told the Post that they are proud Photo by Doris Mallin Back Mountain firemen move in to extinguish a pro- pane gas fire in a practice session Sunday. With hoses trained on the blaze, the firemen go close enough to turn off the emergency valve. (Story on page Bl4.) : Raid Story that no one is ‘selling drugs on (Kingston Township) street corners.” Patrolman Pugh said that he found last week’s Post story too “strong on prison bars,”’ noting that the purpose of the new Pennsylvania drug law (Act 64) is to take necessarily to jail him. If the dealer is being arrested for the first time, the patrolman maintained, the implication in ‘Act 64 is that he should be given “‘a break.’’ Normally the first-time offender is put on probation, after which, by order of the drug board in Harrisburg, all arrest records are expunged. According to the local policemen, any officer who does not expunge records as directed is guilty of a misdemeanor. Patrolman Pugh added that he con- siders a period of probation, imposed without the issuance of a verdict and followed by expungement of arrest records, to be a conviction. The Kingston Township patrolman agreed that present court procedures are lengthy and costly when employed to arrive at such anticlimactic decisions; he added that the system is, and should be, open to criticism and change. Patrolman Pugh added, however, that the people must deal with the rules and the system as they exist, lest its populace go ‘‘back to the jungle.” (continued on PAGE A THREE) 16 Cherry Trees At Area School Felled by Vandals Sixteen Japanese cherry trees have been cut down, on two separate oc- casions, by vandals at Lake-Lehman Senior High School. Anthony Mar- chakitus, Lake-Lehman assistant super- intendent and high school principal, told the Post that he was called to the school Sunday afternoon by a custodian, to find that 13 of the trees had been felled by a ‘sharp instrument.” By Monday mor- ning the remaining three trees were also down. In addition, the pads were stolen from the Lake-Lehman football team’s seven- man practice charging sled and a stone was thrown through the window of a school bus. The pads are valued at $40 apiece. The bus was parked at the home (continued on PAGE B TWELVE) parent low bidder at $281,964, while Brennan Electric was an incredibly close second at $282,913.13. Bids for the heating, ventilating and air conditioning contract revealed that, in a field of seven competitors, J.L. Turner was substantially lower at $274,556 than the next lowest bid of $282,533. Essbar Equipment Company’s $80,022 bid on kitchen equipment for the new school was the unofficial low bid, with a bid of $81,270 submitted by Equipment Sales Company the next lowest. Atty. David Prior, representing the firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll, the school district’s bond counsel in the building project, told the Post after the school board meeting that the bids were “well within’’ the expected range of construction costs. “When you figure that construction costs have risen on an average of one percent per month over the past year, and that the bids submitted tonight are only five per-at ove? thobe anficipated by the architects a year ago--well, you can see that we did very well,” the Philadelphia attorney declared. Approximately 40 persons representing the various construction firms which had submitted bids were in attendance at the meeting. Contracts for the new, school will be awarded at a special school board meeting Nov. 27 after the bids are scrutinized by the sehool board. Of Crisis Situation Kennedy was such a man, by Russ Williams Richard H. Demmy, 130 Lake St., Dallas, vice president of UGI Corp. and general manager of the company’s Elec- tric Utility Division, paints a bleak pic- ture of the country’s energy, and econo- mic situation, but he has suggestions for improvement. His first suggestion, of course, is that we Americans start conserving energy. He notes that the United States, with only six percent of the world’s population, is presently consuming 35 percent of the earth’s energy and mineral production. To make his point more clear he cites the fact that the average American uses as much energy in just a few days as half the world’s people, on an individual basis, consume in one year. ‘Unless drastic and immediate action is taken on several fronts, the nation’s re- liance on imported energy supplies by 1985 could cause a deficit in the balance of payments amounting to $34 billion to $54 billion, which could bankrupt America’’, he said. : To ward off that bankrupcy, Mr. Demmy would first like to see Americans quickly develop and use mass transpor- tation. He points out that while it takes 4,000 to 8,000 btu’s (British thermal units) per mile for an individual to travel by car, it takes only 1,000 to travel by the average means of mass transportation. The exception, he notes, is jet travel, with a 6,000 btu per person per mile average. Mr. Demmy would also like to see nu- clear power production expedited in the United States. Japan, he said, can create, and is creating, nuclear plants in a period the opposition of would-be neighbors of the plant and of environmental groups stretches the process out to about eight years. These delays, he explained, will cost the United States 18,000 megawatts of power by 1980, which is equivalent to re- quiring a half-million barrels of oil per- day from a foreign source. The dollar cost amounts to over $1 billion in foreign exchange, Mr. Demmy said. He would also like to see strip mining laws changed for the efficient use of anth- racite and bituminous coal for power pro- duction. He said that in West Germany he has seen stripping operations that ef- ficiently gobbled up what had been large towns. : Mr. Demmy said that when he asked if they don’t meet opposition from the town- speople, he was told that there is some, but that operators proceed and allow the problems to be resolved by the courts. The townspeople are always paid for the inconvenience, he notes, and the stripped out areas are restored, usually through the creation of a recreational lake. Mr. Demmy claims that the land is soon more fertile than it was before stripping began. He would also like to see public opinion accept the building of more refineries. He would like to see United States oil drilling in the area of Lake Erie, as the Canadians are doing, as well as drilling off the East coast and here in Pennsyl- vania. The state has one of the largest oil deposits on the Eastern seaboard, he maintained. ed and maintained, Mr. Demmy said. He feels that rather than cut back on rail lines, they should be added to, in order to facilitate distribution of energy supplies. Mr. Demmy said that citizens should Penn State University professor has shown that forests can continuously sup- ply energy for large amounts of people, he notes. For the more distant future he suggests new technology in the fields of mining technique, coal gassification, nuclear plants and fusion generators. (continued on PAGE B TWELVE) of “THE SDar1AsCPost ON SALE IN MOST STORES - FOR WEEKLY HOME DELIVERY, ASK ABOUT A NEWSBOY IN YOUR AREA OR TELEPHONE 675-5211 825-6868 For mail delivery fill out the form on the reverse side and mail to The Dallas Post, 41, Lehman Ave., Dallas, Pa. Distribution channels must be develop- : hE 5 ee Baa
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