| Service Station Owners } Predict Dreary Future Long lines at gas stations or no gas at they they must not over sell, or they will ‘all have begun to bother regional motor- be forced to close down completely before ists in Northeastern Pennsylvania. But the March gasoline allotment is deliver- the general consensus of most station ed. managers is that things are going to get a Many stations throughout the region lot worse before they get better. ran out of gas last Thursday before the Most gas station operators polled by February allotment was delivered Greenstreet News this week agree on one Friday. Some in the outlying areas such specific: February is going to be a short as Nuangola didn’t receive their month’s month gas-wise. Most agree that some share until Saturday, forcing their re- form of rationing must be initiated, even gular customers to sustain almost three if the burden falls on them, Of the 30 or dry days. Others Degan closing thelr. “yymprng Tg THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1974 DALLAS, PA. FIFTEEN CENTS more st#4ion managers interviewed, pumps at noon, even Friday after their : most said they have learned the hard way February quota was delivered, realizing that while their tanks were full, it wasn’t : going to last long. : deiniiecomn Northeastern Pa. Truckers escaped a shortage including Texaco, : ® ; Mobil,” American, Sunoco, Arco, BP, : : a Gulf, Kayo, Citgo, Exxon, and Phillips. 2 In addition to the shortage, motorists ® ® rare Dac ationwide Shutdown which generally went into effect Friday. : New prices ranged from a high of 55.9 _ a Re friction) Fo ei ETT cents a gallon for high test at some - by Larry Hertz an offer from the federal government to page of any duration, they feel, will affect major-brand stations, to a low of about While Gov. Milton Shapp and other allow independents to pass on increased almostevery consumer and will force the 40.9 cents. But it was anything but a bar- state and national officials met in Wash- costs tothe consumer, calling the plan in- government to take action on their de- gain hunter’s market. The average ington to discuss a solution, independent flationary. Cherkoski’s group further mands. motorist was more concerned with the truckers in Northeastern Pennsylvania maintained they will settle for nothing Naro said he did not believe the Nation- quantity that he could buy, if he could joined a nationwide shutdown and vowed less than a flat 32.9-cent ceiling on deisel 31 Guard would be able to provide trans- find a station open at all, rather than the to keep their rigs off the road until the fuel. portation for the goods independents car- price. And station managers were quick government and oil companies meet their While noting that they are receiving no ry, since it does not have the necessary to point out that when prices go up it demands for a fuel price ceiling. “strike benefits’ or other income during specialized equipment. He added, how- doesn’t help them. Most conceded quickly Gov. Shapp Monday night declared a the stoppage, the truckers were quietly ever, that his organization would be wil- that the price increases are ordered by state of emergency in the Common- confident that their absence wil be keenly Jing to transport food and other neces- ‘ their distributors with the added revenue wealth, but there were indications Tues- felt in supermarkets and other stores sities to local hospitals and other in- oe going to the company. day that negotiations between truckers throughout the country by the end -of the stitutions. Ls Outside the . gion .ings didn’t appear and government officials were progress- week. Independents, who comprise about Cherkoski emphasized, however, that bi much different. From Texas the Dallas ing slowly but steadily, 55 percent of the trucks on the road, haul the independents do not wish to cause any a Morning News, in a copyrighted story, Michael Naro, president of the In- more than 90 percent of the perishable hardships and said the stoppage is being reported that the Federal Energy Office dependent Truckers’ Association of produce (meat, dairy products, vege- undertaken for the benefit of the average ‘plans late next week to order major oil Northeastern Pennsylvania (ITANP), tables and other goods) and nearly 99 citizen. companies to share gasoline and other and Edward Cherkoski, Clarks Summit, percent of the steelin the country. A stop- (continued on PAGE B SIX) fuels with competitors in short supply. leader of a dissident group of owner- The News quoted a “high official’”’ in the operators, both rejected Gov. Shapp’s : fuel’ policy division of the Federal plea for a 45-day moratorium and vowed ® Government assaying that the “goal is to to stay off the highways ‘for as long as it High wa y R es urfa C ing make everybody run out of gas at the takes.” same time in February, if we do our job Sporadic violence broke out on several ne right,”’ by spreading available supplies area highways as truckers still on the \ out the area. Other photos on Page BS. (continuzd on PAGE B SIX) lets. Naro and Cherkoski both issued ; n ; : statements deploring the violence. (For a by Russ Williams have tobe bought and so on. It willbe well ~~ 4, report on National Guard activities re- As potholes on state-maintained roads into spring before they can do anything.” 4 lated to the truck stoppage, see another become more numerous and deeper, He noted, however, that if the one-cene 4 story on this page.) state legislators remain cemented in a tax is passed, the state can ‘‘immediate- z Da Lis 4 n no un ces Pla ns At a meeting last Wednesday in Dun- controversy over how to fund $100 million ly’’ borrow needed funds, at low interest, o more, more than 200 members of the for road resurfacing. Although both sides based on tax anticipation. 3 3 ITANP voted unanimously to join the in this political question agree that the Citing the fact that paving can not be- 1 planned nationwide shutdown. The or- money is desperately needed, the funds gin before April due to weather condi- } or N, Cw ] raffic Li l h I S ganization is seeking to have the govern- remain lacking. Fund-providing bills tions and PennDOT rules, Rep. O'Connell | ment set a ceiling of 32.9 to 34.9 cents per submitted from both sides have met with claimed that “monies from the tax would 5] gallon of deisel fuel. The ITANP and defeat because of solid opposition and be in by that time.’ : A new 5 of traffic lights should be Several months ago, following a minor Cherkoski’s dissident group both rejected politicians wary of voting for any bill that He said that a big advantage of the one- 5 installed within the next year to 18 break-down of the traffic system, mayor would lead to a tax increase. cent tax is its selectivity. It taxes in fe months at the intersection in the center of Steve Hartman told council that the re- Robert Brader, area maintenance direct proportion to usage. Heavy users Dallas Borough. Ralph Garris, secretary pairman had advised him that several supervisor for PennDOT, working out of of vehicular fuels will pay a much greater i and road foreman for the borough, said parts of the mechanism could no longer Truck Shutdown the Bear Creek office, told Greenstreet tax than occasional and non-users. Extra the state has been advising the borough be obtained. ’ s News that he favors ‘‘immediate heavy users, like trucking firms, and out- for many months that their old system is “I used to have nightmares about it,” Guardman S View money’’, indicating that he would like to of-state users of the state highways will antiquated and substandard. Mayor Hartman told the Post recently. see the Democrats’ implement their bond also be taxed proportionately, he noted. i Borough council decided to use part of “If that timer broke, I thought, we’d have by Kurt Weidner issue plan for funding road repair. 120th Rep. O'Connell berated Gov. Shapp for | their 1974 revenue sharing funds to pur- tohave a cop at that intersection 24 hours The men of Support Company, Me- District state representative Frank making a commitment not to raise taxes, 4 chase the new system, which should cost a day, for months. You take your life in chanized First Battalion, 109th Infantry = O’Connell Jr. (R) favors his party’s one- calling it a promise that ‘no governor 5] somewhere in the vicinity of $14,000. your hands directing at that intersection. turned out at the armory on Adams Ave., cent gas tax raise. should make.”” The representative in- Ey Council decided to put the project in the I learned that during the flood.” Scranton, at 7 a.m. Saturday. It was a re- Referring to the bond issue idea, dicated that he felt that it was this com- | 1974 revenue sharing budget, following The mayor noted, however, that the en- gularly scheduled drill and the men had® Luzerne County Rep. Frank O’Connell mitment which resulted in Gov. Shapp | months of concern over the possibility of gineering firm contacted to do a study of been preparing for the annual division told Greenstreet News, ‘‘Shapp’s way is and the Democrats favoring a bond, i) a breakdown of the system now in use. the intersection, has indicated that they command ‘inspection by Maj. Gen. bankruptcy. The whole Commonwealth rather than a fuel tax raise. a could get the borough a timer, in the Nicholas Kafkalas, 28th Infantry Division debt situation scares the life out of me.” Rep. O’Connell said that a bond now , r—~ N event that the old one should fail, ‘“to get commander. Speaking to the claimed ‘“‘immediacy’’ willmean atleast a one-and-one-half cent : , us out of a jam.” By lunch time, some of the men would of the bond plan, Rep. O'Connell reasoned fuel tax raise, or some other equivalent A Mite To Readers The Interstate Safety Service Inc., an be patrolling in Jeeps, bundled up in wool that “‘it will take three months before tax raise, in the future, because of in- engineering firm in Clarks Summit, has shirts and field pants against the sub- they can implement the bond...the terest charges. The increased cost and scarcity of promised that they will survey the freezing cold, checking out overpasses finance company has to review it, bonds (continued on PAGE B SIX) newsprint, another postal rate in- borough’s lighting needs as soon as the for angry independent truckers intent on crease in the immediate future, and weather gets a little better, according to doing violence to the big haulers who generally rising production costs Mr. Garris. have not cooperated with the indepen- necessitates an increase in the sub- The firm will survey the intersection, dents nationwide strike. scription and newsstand price of make recommendations about what type At 10 a.m. Support Company’s com- Greenstreet News Company pub- unit and how many lights are required, at marder, Capt. Eugene Klimash told the lications including the Dallas Post. no fee, in the hope that they will win the 35-man detail what he expected them to | The new subscription rate will be contract for the system. The firm will do. They were to report to the company © $9.00 per year for 52 issues and the also make arrangements for the neces- :- any trouble they observed and the com- newsstand price will be 20 cents per sary state approval. pany would in turn inform the State copy. A year’s subscription thus rep- Mr. Garris noted that the borough is not Police. The men were to avoid confronta- resents a savings of $1.40 per year obligated to make use of the Clarks Sum- tions, and conduct themselves in a mili- ved or COSL. mit firm. They will advertise project spe- tary manner at all times. He said they Subscribers: who wish to renew cifications, based on the firm’s recom- could probably expect to be doing the their subscription at the current rate mendations, advertise for bids, and same thing Sunday and there was always may do so until March 1st regardless accept the lowest satisfactory offer, he the possibility they could be activated. of the month in which their subscrip- said. Driving around in an unheated Jeep is a tion expires. Just call or write The Mr. Garris noted that it is really very cold way to spend the weekend. Standing Dallas Post, 41 Lehman Ave. difficult to pinpoint how much the project guard on a bridge is even worse. And itis Dallas, Pa. 18612. The telephone will cost. He said that a representative of sad to think that the National Guard Z number is 675-5211. the engineering firm told him that a simi- should have to be used to keep citizens of The staff and management of the lar project in another community cost the state from seriously injuring people Dallas Post appreciates the con- “12 to 14 thousand, but that was three or with stupid pranks like dropping cinder tinued patronage of the Back Moun- four months ago. If we get a low bid of blocks from bridges. The National Guard tain and Wyoming Valley commun- $12,000 we'll be very happy.” has been put to more constructive tasks, ity. For the price of one medium Explaining why it would probably be like helping people during the flood. sized sirloin roast, or a quart-of another year before the new system is Sunday the roads got slippery and driv- scotch whiskey, we will continue to totally installed, Mr. Garris said that ing more dangerous. Visibility was poor. bring to the public a full year’s “these traffic engineering people are Drivers constantly stopped their Jeeps to worth of timely and informative backed way up because of the 1972 flood. clean off their windows. There was also news and opinion on local, state, re- The flooded communities had to replace a an increase in the truck traffic over Sat- Cascading waters framed by rugged rock ledges near Huntsville ‘{ gional, and national issues. lot of lights.” urday. Drivers for the large haulers Reservoir paint an interesting picture. —-Photo by ' Mazar \ ih (continued on PAGE B SIX) (continued on PAGE B SIX) : Photography.
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