In its last regular meeting before the
new. ccuncil takes office, the Harveys
Lake Borough council filled a vacancy on
the Harveys Lake Municipal Authority
which has gone unfilled since February.
At the same time, borough solicitor
Joseph Kasper submitted his resignation.
Mayor William Connolly and coun-
cilman Fred Merrill both expressed
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Ti mayor was concerned that he and
some members of council were not given
an opportunity to meet and interview the
man. He asked that council delay the
resolution saying, ‘You neglected to fill
the vacancy for 11 months..You should
delay it one more month, to allow the new
council to decide if he is the man they
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Mr. Connolly implied that the present
council was not co-operating with the new
council. He said that it took them this
long to fill the vacancy because of the
difficulty in finding a well qualified man.
Mr. Colton has over 20 years experience
in the construction of sewers, and has
lived in the borough for three years.
The vote was unanimous to include Mr.
Colton in the HLMA, with the exception of
an abstention by Mr. Merrill. Following
the vote, Mr. Merrill wd that he:
had only 15 minutes advance ‘knowledge
of the resolution. “I would have liked to
talk to him, so I’d know who I was voting
n,”’ he said.
Atty. Kasper congratulated the newly-
elected borough councilmen in a letter
that announced that he would cease
serving as the borough solicitor, Dec. 31.
Two other resolutions were introduced
by president Hoblak and passed. The
borough council resolved to accept
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ing a temporary chairman at the reor-
ganization meeting of the Dallas School
Board, prompted passage of an amend-
ment to the minutes of that meeting, at
the regular school board meeting Tues-
day night. The amendment stated,
“Minutes of the reorganization meeting
shall be amended to show that, in an
executive session of the board held prior
to the reorganization meeting, Dec. 3, the
holdover members of the board discussed
the appointment of a temporary chair-
‘man to conduct the reorganization meet-
ing. William Price was designated to act
as temporary chairman by a majority of
the holdover members, with Mrs. Gre-
gory casting a dissenting vote. This
procedure was followed by the board,
pursuant to section 402 of the Penn-
sylvania School Code.”
~ One of the directors voiced his concern
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to solicitor Ben Jones III about the legal-
ity of not choosing a temporary chair-
man. According to Patricia Gregory, the
matter was discussed thoroughly and she
said she contacted the attorney general
about it. She was informed that it was a
matter of parliamentary procedure and
not of legality, and that seating of the new
members would be in no way affected.
The amendment was added to the
minutes upon the recommendation of
Atty. Jones. Mr. Ashbridge said that fail-
ure to choose a temporary chairman had
been an oversight.
Mrs. Gregory, Mr. Lefko, and Hanford
Eckman were not present at the regular
meeting. Ernest Ashbridge read the
amendment to the board, and it was
approved by all members present.
Lillian Price, president of the Trucks-
ville Elementary School PTA, was pre-
sent and asked what action would be
taken on the rewiring of the school. Dr.
Linford Werkheiser, superintendent of
the District replied that members of the
board and an electrician had inspected
the school and specifications for rewiring
had been drawn up. They will be adver-
tised for bids and an electrical contractor
will be awarded the job. In the meantime,
Dr. Werkheiser noted, the district is
seeking an architectural and engineering
firm to handle such affairs throughout
the entire district in the future.
New fire extinguishers had also been
installed in the Trucksville building. The
books which were ordered months ago
have still not arrived, but a substantial
library will be established in the school
when they do, it was reported.
Twelve seniors from College Miseri-
cordia and 14 from Wilkes College were
approved by the board to fulfill their
district.
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VOL. 84 NO. 51
THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 1973
DALLAS, PA.
by Russ Williams
In his last regular (Dec. 13) meeting as
a Harveys Lake Borough councilman,
president William Hoblak came down
hard, a final time, on the Harveys Lake
Municipal Authority. He read into the
record numerous letters, which he
believed proved conclusively that the
HLMA had not obtained all possible
grants for the lake’s sewer project, and
gave reasons why council could not pass
two HLMA-submitted ordinances.
Mr. Hoblak said that he was reading
the letters into the record because ‘‘the
authority has said that it has covered all
available grants, and because the
chairman (HLMA chairman William
Gunster) has said that they can apply
atter the project and still be eligible.”
A letter from the federal agency that
transferred a $2,376,070 grant from the
Environmental Protection Agency to the
HLMA told Mr. Hoblak that the grant was
for a pumping station and for in-
tercepting sewer lines, and that the
authority’s engineering firm, Glace and
Glace, never applied for a grant for
collection costs. The letter explained that
when the HLMA applied, collection costs
were not yet eligible for grants; they, the
letter said, became available in March of
this year.
The letter also reported that projects
already begun can not be awarded a
grant while the project is in progress or
after it is completed.
Mr. Hoblak told those present that
when he had asked Jack Glace, of Glace
and Glace, if he had applied for the new
collection grants, Mr. Glace had said that
Lake-Lehman HS
Brings Vandals
To Juvenile Court
The six boys who perpetrated several
acts of vandalism at the Lake-Lehman
Senior High School recently will be taken
to juvenile court for an unofficial hear-
ing, the Lake-Lehman School directors
decided at their regular monthly meeting
Dec. 11.
The recommendation to proceed
against the vandals in this manner was
offered by school principal Anthony
Marchakitus and endorsed by solicitor
Charles D. Lemmond Jr., who suggested
that an unofficial court hearing might
serve three purposes. ‘‘A hearing would
sters and might aid in their rehabilita-
tion,” the attorney observed, ‘and it
would also serve as a deterrent to others
from thinking that they can with impun-
ity wreak havoc on school property.’
The youngsters had chopped down a
number of cherry trees planted at the
‘high school, destroyed costly football
equipment and vandalized the outdoor
football scoreboard. Cost of replacing the
trees and equipment was listed at $635.
Objecting to the recommendation was
newly-elected school director Donald
Jones, who insisted that the measure was
too harsh. ‘I hate to see these kids get-
ting a juvenile record. Wouldn't it be
possible just to call in the parents and ask
if they could make restitution? Maybe we
could warn them that we’d have a hear-
ing if restitution wasn’t made.”
he hadn’t because he had only two days to
file and missed the deadline. The council
president added that he had never gotten
a satisfactory answer from Mr. Glace as
to who was responsible for giving him
only two days notice on the grant
deadline.
Mr. Hoblak next read several letters
into the record which revealed that Glace
and Glace applied in September for a
grant under the Community Facilities
Act, which had a deadline of Aug. 11, for
projects with a total cost of over $1
million. ‘I feel that if this application had
been filed on time we would have gotten
an extra $50,000 grant,”’ he summed up.
Mr. Hoblak then gave the opinion that
the Glace and Glace estimate, of 1400
borough users for the sewer, for their
‘‘pay-back figures, is
exaggerated.” ‘“We had 125 people go
figure’, he said, and arrived at over 200
less total users. He said that Glace and
Glace told him that their figures were
based on aerial photography.
a Scranton Times article and editorial
that dealt with the problem the
Lackawanna Sewer Project is having
with paying back their sewer bond,
because of an over-estimate of users.
Mr. Hoblak also entered evidence that
the sewer project is in danger of falling
behind schedule, because of two bidders,
now trying to avoid their project bids
because of bid-calculation mistakes, and
The Dallas School District has
recognized the responsibility to reduce
the use of fuel and to conserve energy
during the current -energy crisis. The
Pennsylvania Department of Education
and the State Task Force on Energy have
also asked school districts across the
commonwealth to implement plans to
conserve fuel and energy.
The Dallas district has initiated these
measures already while exploring ways
to further save:
--Beginning Dec. 17, classroom and
office temperatures were gradually
reduced to 68 degrees. Auditoriums,
areas were reduced to 66 degrees.
wear warmer clothing.
--Building occupants were directed to
avoid the introduction of cold air and the
exhaust of warm air into and out of the
building. :
--Lighting was reduced in-areas where
such reduction will not have harmful
Greenstreet News employees gather round as
log on the fire at the Dallas Post. With the room
temperature lowered to conserve fuel, the fire
proves a welcome and seasonal addition to
everyday business at the Post. Seated from left
Jofng, (Connid | Brongo, Linda Dymond (rear),
ior safety.
--Building occupants
directed to report drafts,
have been
may have for conservation.
--Unused spaces have been winterized
and sealed where such is feasible.
--Air intakes are
have been reduced during evenings and
weekends. Further
reductions will be made during long
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minimum temperatures during the
Christmas vacation period, Dec. 22 to
Jan. 1.
--District owned vehicles are ordered
Further conservation measures may
become necessary, school officials in-
dicated. Additional district plans to
approved for implementation.
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