Photo by Barbara Evans The Dallas Booster Club has scheduled a full slate of activities for the Thanks- giving Day game between Dallas and Lake-Lehman. The action gets underway Nov. 21 at smoker at the Dallas American Legion Home. Dallas head football coach Jack Jones and his coaching staff will head the evening’s program with remarks. A spe- cial invitation is extended to all former Dallas High School athletes to attend. The Booster Club is planning a Thanks- givinge Day caravan of cars with the starts point at the Dallas High School parking lot at 8:30 a.m. The caravan will follow, ¢he team buses along Center Hill Road®iarveys Lake and Route 415 to the Lake-Lehman field. There the Old Shoe Trophy will be on up for grabs, with the Dallas Mountain- eers heavily favored to win it. But, there is no way to predict the outcome of this annual contest when the rival Back Mountain high school teams put forth their best efforts. Dallas has held the Old Shoe for the past three years and is going for their third consecutive title in the B Division of the Wyoming Valley Conference. The Mounts currently lead the division with a 3-0 record. The Knights are 1-2. The Old Shoe, awarded annually to the winner of the Thanksgiving Day game, was initiat- ed by the Dallas Rotary Club in 1948. Kingston Township, now part of the Dal- las School District, copped it the first year. Dallas area teams have won 10 of the past 13 games, and the Black Knights, three. Other winners, before the school mergers in the Back Mountain, were Dal- las Township, Lehman-Jackson, Dallas- Franklin, and Westmoreland. Ted Kostrobala will have Dallas foot- ball pennants available for car aerials, and Bob Hislop will have Dallas Booster Club jackets for sale. John and Lynn Sheehan, members of the club, have donated motion picture film in color for filming the Thanksgiving Day activities. The Sheehan brothers donate the film annually in memory of their father, the late John F. Sheehan Sr., an avid sports fan. The film will be shown early in December at a Booster Club meeting. ' Hoover and Milbrodt, Lehman, have been awarded a contract by the Dallas - School District board of directors to de- molish an attached two-room wooden > frame building at the Dallas Borough Elementary School, Huntsville Road, Dallas. A low bid of $890 was approved at the last board meeting. ; Dr. Linford Werkheiser, superinten- dent, announced that demolition would begin Nov. 17 and continue through Nov. 19 when there is no school for the elemen- tary grades. It is hoped that work will be completed by Monday. Disposition of the old school building, which is ‘also located on the Dallas Borgigh Elementary property, was also disg®ssed by members of the board. It was suggested that the building be adver- tised for removal. It is of historical value, the board felt, and some local group per- haps would consider relocating it. The space could be used for a play area and if additional rooms are needed, Dr. Werk- heiser suggested that an addition could be built on to the present building. William Price, Ernest Ashbridge and Patricia Gregory refused to approve pay- ~ment of a check for $27 to Walter Glogow- ski for birthday cards. According to Dr. Werkheiser, a principal (he did not men- tion the principal’s name), thought the school if an attempt was made to estab- lish a closer relationship between the school and pupil. The principal had birth- day cards with a picture of the building bered on his or her birthday. The three directors and members of the audience objected strongly to this prac- tice, stating that it should not be paid for with tax money, but rather from private funds. Dr. Werkheiser stated that he understood why people felt the tax money should not be used and that the value of the project could not be determined im- mediately. He also stated that each prin- ing his own ideas. _ The board agreed that applications for all jobs in the school district continue to be accepted even though a substitute list is available. This would include teachers, cafeteria workers, housekeepers, custo- dians, clerical workers, aides and main- tenance workers. Bids for garbage compactors were opened and it was suggested that the real need for such equipment be investigated before recommendation for purchase is made. The board approved submission of the Approval of School Site Petition form to the Pennsylvania Department of Educa- tion for analysis of the Shavertown school site. John Garbiel, Harveys Lake, was ap- pointed supervisor of maintenance at an annual salary of $10,500. He will replace John Paul, who is retiring. There were 3,598 absentees during October, and 35 injuries were reported. terscholastic programs, Section B - Two Back Mountain municipal governments were startled by an edict from the Department of Environmental Resources (DER) stating that they must pass an ordinance approving the Luzerne Kingston Townships, the municipalities involved, are members of the Dallas Area Municipal Authority and are hooked up to the DAMA system. Dallas Township supervisors were summoned to the office of Walter Gilbert, regional sanitarian for the DER offices, last month to explain why this ordinance had not been passed. Ron Ptashinski, also from the DER office, appeared at the monthly meeting of the Kingston Township Board of Supervisors to in- struct them about passing the county sewer ordinance. Passage of this or- dinance is mandated for all communities in Luzerne County. ~ Dallas and Kingston Township authori- ties have balked at passage because they are involved with DAMA and feel suf- ficiently covered. Dallas Township supervisors discussed the matter with their solicitor, Frank Townend, at their meeting and decided to request Ed Heiselberg, executive director of the Luzerene County Planning Commission, to appear at the next Dallas Township Planning and Zoning meeting, Nov. 19 to discuss the matter thoroughly. Kingston Township supervisors at- tended the Nov. 15 DAMA meeting and they have decided to wait until DAMA can sit down with members of the DER to taking any action. In a previous ‘statement, R. Spencer Martin DAMA chairman, stated. that he knew nothing of a county plan. “DAMA has a long range master plan of their own and all the municipalities involved with DAMA should turn to them for assistance School milk prices, raised last month, will soon drop Dr. Linford Werkheiser, superintendent of the Dallas School District, announced that the federal subsidy of school milk will be reinstated as of Dec. 1. Milk prices for school children will return to five cents for white, and six cents for chocolate milk, he added. ! A Gate of Heaven spokesman told the five-cent price, Nov. 26. The school does not serve chocolate milk. Geraldine Mekeel, director of food service for the Lake-Lehman School District, reported that she had not yet been officially notified of the reinstate- ment of the milk subsidy. She told the Post that she supposed notification would soon be coming, and that the Lake- Lehman schools, too, would soon lower milk cost. It had been necessary for the schools to raise the price of milk to 10 cents recently, when the school boards found it impossible to carry the additional ex- pense, after the government subsidy was dropped earlier in the school year. The Dallas School District cafeteria alsoreports that there was an increase in government surplus offerings last month. The district received eight cases of dried beans, 35 cases of butter, one bag of flour, two bags of rice, one case of salad oil, 30 Photo by James Kozemchak sr. cases of turkeys and four cases of peanut butter. A total of 51,507 student lunches and 1,011 adult lunches were served in the district during October. Loss in the cafeteria budget was listed at $892.30 for the month. Attend The Turkey Day Game! Support Your Team. with this situation,’’ he said. DER, but feels that they (DAMA) have plan. plans are similar in some areas, he continued but they do vary in some local places. Douglas Diehl, engineer for Roy Weston, who designed the DAMA system, stated at the meeting that DAMA has Act 537 which regulates sewer systems. A master plan for the Back Mountain was completed in November of 1972, he three municipalities involved, Dallas Townships. DAMA representatives plan to dicet with officials from DER as soon as possible to work out the situation. The county plan under DER was made by Gilbert Associates Inc., Reading, Sewage’’ and one on ‘‘Water Supply and Wastewater Management’, compiled in 1970. The study is projected into the year of these reports and a letter of recom- mendation from the Gilbert firm. This is the same firm involved in the water controversy before the appearance of Agnes in 1972. The study was financed in part through Housing Act of 1954. Some of the areas included in the county plan are: Dallas Borough- Dallas Township-Overbrook Avenue, Hays Corners, White Birch Trailer Park, Park, Fernbrook Corners to Demunds Corners, Applewood Manor, Kunkle and Hemlock Garden Trdiler Park, Kingston Township-Meadowerest, Maplecrest Farms and Bunker Hill area. Some of these sections are already on the DAMA system and are in use and most of the areas are in the DAMA master plan. “What action will be token by the County in this situation? Must an active, wellrun and satisfactory sewage system, which has been in service for nearly two years, adopt a county sewage plan or file results of the DAMA meeting will be of great interest to all Back Mountain governments. g
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