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Passed, July 15.
Nays 16%
16.
Passed, July 16.
July 16.
17.
18.
Noes 336. Rejected, July 18.
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| July 22.
By Alan Berlow
Post’s Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON—With the
support of Pennsylvania’s two
Republican Senators, Hugh
Scott and Richard Schweiker,
the Senate appears to be mov-
ing slowly toward approval of a
bill to create a Consumer
Protection Agency.
But attempts to establish the
independent non-regulatory
agency—walich would represent
rE before other
agencies and courts—could be
defeated before the Senate is
given a chance to consider the
bill on its merits. And a final
vote on the bill — approved by
the House last spring — may be
more than a week away.
The question now facing the
consumer agency advocates is
whether Senate supporters can
muster a two-thirds vote to end
a threatened filibuster. Carol
Foreman, director of the
Consumer Federation of
America, one of the leading
organizations fighting for crea-
tion of the i@lly agency, said that
while she i$ sure a majority of
is not certain there are enough
votes to cut off debate. Fore-
man presently sees more than
10 undecided Senators on a
cloture vote.
Reps. Scott and Schweiker
have indicated they will support
a vote to end a filibuster, as they
Pieroghi Sale Set
For St. Andrews
Mrs. Robert T. Rhodes, chair-
man, has announced that St.
Andrew’s Orthodox Church will
hold a pieroghi sale July 25,
. from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at
the church in Lehman.
did in 1972 when a consumer
protection agency bill was de-
feated in the Senate.
A key test of Senate sen-
timents came last week when
the lawmakers voted 57-40 to
exempt labor-management
negotiations from CPA inter-
ference. Reps. Scott and Sch-
weiker supported the exemp-
While such negotiations have
an, obvious and extensive im-
pact on consumer prices, labor
and consumer groups both
opposed CPA interference.
Most observers saw a vote
against the exemption as an
attempt by opponents to kill the
bill by weakening labor support.
The CPA is supported by the
major labor unions, including
the AFL-CIO, as well as a
coalition of 130 labor unions,
consumer groups and Ralph
Nader.
The Nixon Administration
position on the bill is unclear,
although Virginia Knauer,
assistant to the President on
consumer affairs, has been a
vocal supporter of the bill.
Opposition to CPS is being led
by the National Association of
Manufacturers, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Grocery
Manufacturers of America.
Opponents of CPA question
a ‘‘consumer viewpoint.”’ They
say a CPA would simply set up a
new bureaucracy, which would
create more paperwork for the
nation’s businesses.
But some of the steam may
have been taken out of op-
position to CPA by a Senate
amendment to exempt small
businesses employing fewer
than 25 workers from having to
respond to CPA interogatories
and questionnaires on con-
sumer and business matters.
The amendment passed 91-2
with Sens. Schweiker and Scott
in support.
yh
Jackson Township
Almost instant justice was
meted out last Saturday morn-
ing by Jackson Township Chief
of Police Don Jones.
About 5:30 a.m. residents
near the Huntsville Reservoir
were awakened by the squeal-
ing of tires as two young men,
ages 18 and 21, used their
rubber tires to decorate the
pavement of that major inter-
section. When Chief Jones in-
vestigated, both men readily
acknowledged their guilt and
admitted they should have
known better.
Instead of taking them to a
magistrate, Chief Jones de-
cided to put them to work. For
four hours they weilded brush
hooks to cut down weeds at
several major intersections of
the township.
Chief Jones reported an auto-
mobile operated by Tomick
Charles, 9 Parsons Drive, Dix:
Hills. N.Y. pulled into the
Hazletine Gulf Station. After
having his tank filled, his bum
per hooked on to the pump hose
as he pulled out of the station.
The hose was pulled away from
the pump.
On ‘July 13 at 10:30 p.m. a
Pontiac sedan operated by
Marie Sharon Leggett, 638
Northhampton St., Wilkes-
Barre and owned by her
brother, Henry Leggett Jr., of
Jeffrey Court, West Nyack,
N.Y., was traveling on the
Weavertown Road when it
struck a pot hole in the road.
This caused the wheel of her car
to collapse because of a broken
ball-joint. Patrolman Andy
Kasko investigated and the
automobile was towed away.
On July 15 at 5:45 p.m. James
Lyons, Lloyd’s Homes, Moun-
taintop, reported that 80 sheets
of plywood had been stolen from
a new home site on Jesse Road.
The home is being built for Jos-
eph Domkowski, 220 Pringle St.,
Kingston. Chief Jones stated the
investigation is continuing.
On July 18 at 9:15 a.m. Mrs.
Grant Cooper, Newhard’s Hill,
RD 5, Shavertown, was: oper-
Huntsville Road between
Follies Road and the Huntsville
intersection, when she saw a
truck parked in the roadway to
deliver building supplies to a
home on Huntsville Road. Mrs.
Cooper lost ‘control ‘of her car
and skidded broadside” into a
1970 Cadillac sedan owned and
operated by Robert Blecher, 289
Grant Street, Exeter who was
traveling east at the time. The
truck was owned by the Shaver-
town Lumber Co. and was
operated by David C. Jones, 233
Church St. Boonton, N.J. Mrs.
Cooper said she would see her
own physician for her injuries
and she was able to drive her
car from the scene. The Cadi-
llac was towed by Sims Auto
Body of South Wilkes-Barre.
Chief Don Jones and Patrolman
Richard Arnold of the Jackson
Township Police investigated
but Lehman Police Chief
Willard Russell, State Trooper
Poplawski and an unidentified
patrolman of Dallas Township
were also present at the scene.
Dallas Township
Only one accident was
reported in Dallas Township
last week. Mark Yurko, 32 5th
St., Wyoming, had his 1972 Ply-
mouth sedan parked on Main
Street, Fernbrook, July 21 at
1:30 p.m. when a Chevrolet
failed to stop.
marked and the driver is un-
known.
Patrolmen Elliot Ide and
Douglas Lamoreux put out a
general alarm for the hit and
run vehicle. The officers esti-
mated $300 damages to the
Yurko car. :
Kingston Township
Two accidents were reported
in Kingston Township last
week. The first occurred July 20
at 11:35 a.m. Amelia Donovan,
Box 134, Noxen, was traveling
south on Route 309 and
Leonard Everett, 17 Larch St.,
Wilkes-Barre, was traveling in
the same direction on Route 309.
Mr. Everett crossed in front of
the Donovan car in an attempt
to get into the traveling lane.
Police investigation disclosed
that Mrs. Donovan was aware
of the approach of the Everett
car. Mrs. Donovan pulled her
car to the right and applied her
brakes. Skid marks measured
72 feet to the point of impact.
Impact was on the berm of
the southbound lane. The opera-
tor of the Everett car stated
that he did not see the Donovan
car.
Sgt. William Pugh investi-
gated and estimated damages
at $750 to the Everett car and
passengers were taken to
Nesbitt Hospital in the Kingston
Township ambulance.
A second accident occurred
July 21 at 11:30 a.m. Wilfred
Anderson, Tudor Drive, Endi-
cott, N.Y. was traveling west on
East Center Street, Shavertown
on a motorcycle with Judith
Anderson as a passenger.
Alvirda Cook, 92 Ridge St.,
Shavertown was turning off
Shagbark Drive onto East
Center Street in an easterly
direction. Mrs. Cook told police
that she looked before she made
the turn and did not see the
motorcycle. Point of impact
could not be determined by the
investigating officer, Sgt.
William Pugh, because there
was no debris evident.
The Andersons were taken to
the Nesbitt Hospital in the
Kingston Township ambulance.
Damage was estimated at
$450 to the car and $150 to the
motorcycle.
Chief of Police Paul Sabol
reported that July 21 in the
early morning hours, a car was
spotted parked on the side of
Route 309 with four occupants.
Driver, Vincent Manganello,
205 Salem St., West Pittston
appeared to be intoxicated,
police said. The group was
taken to the Wyoming Barracks
by Patrolmen John Appel, John
Stevenson, Sgt. William Pugh
assisted by Dallas Township
Patrolmen Elliot Ide and Doug-
las Lamoreux.
Mr. Manganello refused to
take the breath-a-lizer test. The
suspects were taken before
District Magistrate Earl Gre-
gory for certification.
Patrolman Lamoreux said he
found a knife, can of mace, one
pack of cigarette papers, can of
beer, flask of wine, four hash
pipes, and a citation from the
Pennsylvania Police.
The other occupants were two
girls and Kerry Corcoran. The
group was arrested for carrying
offensive weapons, and possible
possession of a controlled sub-
stance.
Gladys Watkins, Freeman's
Trailer Court, was brought to
the Kingston Township Police
department Monday morning
by a woman who was trying to
get her to the Nesbitt Hospital.
Mrs. Watkins was in an ex-
treme amount of pain, ac-
cording to Chief Sabol, who
Ambulance crew for assistance.
They transported Mrs. Watkins
to the hospital.
by Alan Berlow
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON—Several
Pennsylvania = representatives
are among Congress’ most fre-
quent foreign travellers at tax-
payer expense, with Rep. Frank
Clark, D-Bessemer, well in the
lead.
A survey by the Journal's
Washington bureau of con-
gressional itineraries, travel
and expense reports for the 13
most recent years for which re-
cords were available, show that
overseas sojourns by 12 Penn-
sylvania lawmakers have cost
taxpayers at least $118,000 and
that Bessemer Democratic
Rep. Frank Clark has accoun-
ted for more then $32,000 of the
total.
Rep. Clark’s globetrotting
took him to 20 foreign countries
on 12 trips for the Public Works
Committee, the Merchant Mar-
ine Committee and as a dele-
gate to the NATO Parlia-
mentarians’ Conference.
Ligonier Democratic Rep.
John Dent placed a distant
second. He has traveled to
India, Egypt, Japan, Iceland
and Western Europe at a total
cost of $18,088.
Trailing in third place was
Scranton Republican Rep.
Joseph McDade who logged
visits to Russia, Iceland,
Switzerland, Denmark and
several other countries. The
pricetag on Rep. McDade'’s
trips was $11,434.
Wilkes-Barre Democratic
Rep. Daniel Flood followed
McDade with six visits to South
and Central American countries
at a cost of $8,768.
Other well-traveled Pennsyl-
vania lawmakers include:
Smethport Republican Albert
Johnson, Pittsburgh Democrat
William Moorhead, Thomas
Morgan, D-Fredericktown,
Fred Rooney, D-Bethlehem,
Herman Schneebeli, R-
Williamsport, Lawrence Will-
iams, R-Springfield, George
Goodling, R-Loganville, Law-
rence Coughlin, R-Villanova,
Edward Biester, R-Furlong,
Gus Yatron, and Joseph Vigor-
ito.
There were no listings of for-
eign travel for Reps. John
Ware, R-Oxford; E.G. Shuster,
R-Everett; John Murtha, D-
Johnstown; John Heinz, R-
Pittsburgh; and Joseph Gay-
dos, D-McKeesport.
Only four Pennsylvania law-
makers returned any unspent
personal allowance money to
the state department. Reps.
Crew: Paul Wheat.
Dave Harris and Jim Faerber.
ber. A
Moorhead, Johnson, Dent, and
Schneebeli.
Congressmen are presently
allowed to pick up $75 a day in
spending money at each stop on
their trip, in addition to travel
and lodging costs. Critics have
charged that there is no way a
lawmaker, busy with confer-
ence work, could legitimately
spend that much money.
The total published costs of
foreign trips by Pennsylvania
representatives is probably low,
however, because transporta-
tion costs—usually the most ex-
pensive foreign travel item—
have not always been included
in the reports. Also, members
frequently travel on military
aircraft and no cost or other re-
cords -are available for those
trips.
Congressional travel, some-
times called ‘‘junketing,” has
long been a subject of public
debate. While most observers
do not question the need for
trips by certain committees—
such as Rep. Morgan's Foreign
Affairs Committee—they are
more skeptical about military,
post office and public works
“inspection tours’ that take
representatives on week-long
whirlwind trips to a half dozen
or more countries.
Critics charge that members
can accomplish very little on
such trips, that the work could
be done just as effectively by
committee staffers, and that a
great deal of time is spent
wining, dining and shopping—or
simply vacationing—rather
than holding serious dis-
cussions.
But other observers, in-
cluding one state department
official who was interviewed,
believe foreign travel by mem-
bers of Congress should be en-
couraged so as to improve in-
ternational relations and make
members more aware of the
problems of foreign countries.
I Critics of foreign travel point
out, however, that the largest
percentage of overseas junkets
are to Western European coun-
tries and other popular vacation
spots such as Japan, Hong Kong
«and Scandanavia.
Forty Years Ago
1934
Two leaks were discovered in
water mains in the area. It was
hoped their repair would end
the water shortage.
Harry Jeter, 13, cracked a
vertabra in his neck swimming.
Petitions urged creation of
some state parks in Luzerne
County and warned of danger to
children swimming in contam-
inated Toby’s Creek.
Dallas Firemen’s carnival
featured a boxing match,
nightly dancing and a fortune
teller.
A pair of Siamese twins were
appearing at Fernbrook Park.
New tires ranged in price
from $3.65 to $9.05.
Died: Betty Jane Spinger,
Harveys Lake infant, of whoop-
ing cough and croup; Shelby D.
Dimmick, Noxen native, vice-
president of Glen Alden Coal
Company.
Thirty Years Ago
1944
Gerald Sullivan headed a
group of boys who helped local
farmers bring in their hay after
regular working hours.
Sgt. Otto Harzdorf was
reported missing in action over
Italy.
Cpl. Walter Wilson, missing
since the fall of Bataan, offic-
ially presumed dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Love-
land, Trucksville, went to
Georgia to be with their son,
Ray, who was ill with a serious
bone infection.
Sgt. Thomas - Neyhard,
wounded by shrapnel in France,
was a patient in an English
hospital.
Pfc. Joseph Girvan graduated
from gunnery school in Texas.
Visiting nurses started a baby
clinic at Shavertown Methodist
Church.
Died: Mrs. Jacob Rau, for-
mer Shavertown resident at
Hempstead, Long Island; Jacob
Eppley, 74, Ruggles; Eva R.
Franklin, 67, at the Dallas home
of her sister, Susan Orr.
In the Outpost: Floyd Hontz,
Orlando, Fla.; Bill Price, Ft.
Benning, Ga.; Thomas Metz,
Bainbridge, Ga.; F. D. Pola-
chek, Camp Haan, Calif.; Carl
Dykman, Douglas, Ga.; Elmer
Wyant, Camp Bowie, Texas;
Irving Koslosky, Portsmouth,
Va.; LaRue Swayne Jr., Spring-
field, Mo.; Arthur Blizzard, Ft.
Jackson, S.C.; Henry Decker,
Camp Beal,Calif.; Roland
Masters, Camp Grant, Ill;
David Decker, Camp LeJeune,
N.C.; Larry Isaacs, U.S.S. Ice-
fish; Don King, Marianna, Fla.;
Francis Sidorek, Tuscon, Ariz.;
Larry Drabnick, Ft. Monmouth,
N.J.; Samuel Keats,Camp
Stewart, Ga.; Benjamin John-
son, Camp Stewart, Ga.; Frank
Billings, New Guinea; Wayman
Miers, Alaska; Kenneth
Kocher, Hawaii; John Borton,
Hawaii; William Lloyd, Central
"Pacific.
A large ad urged consumers
to pay only ceiling prices for
goods and to pay all points in
full.
Old Dutch cleanser was two
cans for 15 cents; Lifebuoy
soap, three cakes for 20 cents;
noodle soup mix, eight cents a
package.
Twenty Years Ago
1954
An editorial urged the pur-
chase of large tankers for local
fire companies, after fire
destroyed the Dallas Legion
Home.
Monroe Township voted to
join Dallas Township - School
District instead of Tunk-
hannock.
Commonwealth = Telephone
Company bought Pennsylvania
Community Telephoné Com-
pany. .
Eugene Anderson was ap-
pointed agriculture instructor
School.
James Hutchison warned
farmers of nematodes coming
from uncertified southern
tomato plants.
Died: Fred Hartman, 77,
Harveys Lake; Edith Sutton, 23,
Lehman.
Menu suggestions: chilled
honeydew melon (39 cents)with
vanilla ice cream (89 cents a
half gallon), frozen lemonade,
four cans for 59 cents.
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Ten Years Ago
1964
HIX brought home a Golden
Quill, first place in 80,000 editor-
ials.
Dallas Borough Chief of
Police Russell Honeywell
suffered a heart attack. {
Lake Township beach bid for
Project 70 funds.
1907 Giant’s Despair scrap-
book in Tiny Gould’s famous car
collection. !
Twenty four year old cut rate
variety store at 28 Main Street,
Dallas, was up for sale.
Wyoming Valley scouts at-
tended a jamboree at Valley
Forge Park.
Eighth annual Center-
moreland Methodist auction
was preparing for the big day.
Postmaster Ed Buckley re-
award for his work on Ameri-
canism.
Two Plymouth boys escaped
all but minor injuries when
their convertible flipped over on
Huntsville Road.
Box on front page urged the
return of a lost wallet so that a
family of five could eat for the
next two weeks.
Born: Edward Earl, son of '
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lanning
Sr.; Brian Thomas, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Goode,
Trucksville; Elaine and Ellen,
twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Cigarski, Shavertown;
William Gale, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Clark, Beaumont;
Kristel Lynn, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Poynton,
Shavertown; Neal, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholas Colatosi,
Shavertown, and Karen Sue,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Sassaman.
Died: Elmer Lanning, Hun-
lock Creek; Carl Brobst, Beau-
mont; Minnie Sutton, Trucks-
ville; Fanny Evans, Tunk-
hannock, and Ralph Harris,
Dallas.
Saltines were 18 cents a pound
package; bacon, two pounds for
89 cents; shrimp, 39 cents a
pound; fresh sweet corn, 59
cents a dozen, and cukes were
five cents each.
It has been over a decade
since the late Edward R.
Murrow’s television documen-
tary ‘‘Harvest of Shame’’
shocked the American con-
science with its report on the
poverty of migrant workers in
the U.S. Since then, the cam-
paign to improve the migrants’
lot has been waged in the nat-
ion’s statehouses, in Congress,
in the courts and even in the
nation’s supermarkets where
food boycotts have been staged
in support of the migrant
workers’ cause. Housing of
migrants has been a local con-
troversy.
Still another battle is about to
get underway in the Pennsyl-
vania House of Representa-
tives. This one centers as at-
tempts to discharge a farm
labor bill from the House Agri-
culture Committee where it has
been bottled up for months. The
outcome could’ determine
whether the entire House will
have a chance to vote upon mi-
grant labor legislation in this
session. Also at stake is the
question of whether the House
might approve a tough new
measure dealing with migrants
or a more modest version on the
principle that half-a-loaf is
better than none.
“The key, of course, is to get a
bill out onto the House floor
where we can go to work on it,”
says Rep. James J. A. Gall-
agher, Bucks County Democrat,
and the chief proponent for
strong legislation. “Even if a
watered down bill is reported to
the floor, we can still hope to
strengthen it with amend-
ments.”
The measure Mr. Gallagher
hopes to dislodge from comm-
ittee is Senate Bill 1019. When
first introduced in the Senate it
rant worker’s prayer.
It would have established a
minimum wage for seasonal
farm labor at $1.80 an hour, with
time-and-a-half for over-
time. And it would have re-
quired employers to pay their
laborers while traveling from
site to site during the work day
instead of paying them only for
the time spent in the field.
The measure also would have
given workers the right to or-
ganize and bargain collectively,
thus opening up another means
for improving their working
conditions.
Most importantly, the bill also
provided for direct payment of
wages from the employer to the
worker. This would eliminate
the practice of funneling wages
through a contractor or “crew
leader” who deducts various
charges (usually higher than a
fair price) for food, liquor, ciga-
rettes and other items. leaving
the worker with barely enough
to get by until the next payday.
Also in its original form,
Senate Bill 1019 re-
quired that when a worker is
paid by check he can cash it
immediately through the em-
ployer at no charge and with
no extra deductions. This would
forestall a crew leader from
skipping town with a bunch of
endorsed checks.
The measure also included
stringent requirements for lic-
ensing and inspecting migrant
camps, which mandated san-
itary and safe drinking water
and toilét facilities.
Of major importance ‘to the
sponsors was a provision to give
farm’ workers living in camps
the same rights as tenants in an
apartment or other dwelling.
They and their guests would be
free to enter and leave the
premises as they please. In add-
ition, various public officials, as
well as doctors, lawyers,
clergymen and union represent-
atives were given clear entry
rights to migrant camps.
Finally, the measure would
have covered workers who
commute directly from their
homes to the farm (this includes
most farm workers in the state)
and those who work for proces-
sors, canners, packing shed
operators and mushroom grow-
ers.
‘One by one, these necessary
provisions were either stricken
from the bill or weakened to the
point where the bill now includ-
es only the provision for a mini-
mum wage of $1.60 an hour; a
requirement for direct wage
payment but with no mention of
extra deductions, and very lim-
ited access rights to migrant
camps,” Mr. Gallagher points
out.
“On top of that,” he says,
“the Republican chairman of
the Agriculture Committee has
refused to reply to my written
requests that he report the bill,
and he has admitted in the press
that he hasn't even read the bill
and has no plans to move it out
of Committee.” 3
Mr. Gallagher is working on a :
two-fold strategy for House
action on a migrant bill. The
first is to introduce a discharge
resolution which, if approved by
a majority of House members,
would force S.B. 1019 onto the
floor where he would offer
amendments to restore its orig-
inal provisions.
Rep. Gallagher also may
sponsor a discharge resolution
aimed at bringing House Bill
1282 to the floor. This is a meas-
ure which virtually duplicates
the original version of Senate
Bill 1019, and it is now before the
House Labor Relations Commi-
ttee.
Although he is a co-sponsor of
the House bill, Mr. Gallagher
says he would prefer to pursue
the first course in the interest of
time.
“There are only a few months
left in the current legislative
session,” he points out. “It
would be much quicker to
simply amend the Senate bill
and send it back to that
chamber of concurrence in the
amendments.
A former union official, Rep.
Gallagher has been in the fore-
front of legislative efforts to im-
prove conditions for migrant
farm workers in the state. With
a sense of satisfaction, he re-
calls a time in the early ’'60s
when the migrant issue forced
an early retirement on a Bucks
County Congressman. :
“I was with the AFL-CIO
then,’ he says. ‘It was before I
ran for the General Assembly.”
“The Congressman whose.
district included Bucks County
had a record of strong and con-
sistant opposition to improving
the migrant’s plight. Someone
learned that the Congressman
owned a farm where migrants
worked and were housed in
squalid conditions.
“The information reached the
press, and the next time around
he failed to get his party’s en-
dorsement and retired soon
afterward.
“By themselves, migrant
workers are not politically
powerful enough to bring about
major changes in the law,”
Rep. Gallagher says. ‘‘There
are about 40,000 who come into
Pennsylvania each year, and
they are scattered and isolated
in migrant camps.
‘But their cause has won the
sympathy and support of many
throughout Pennsylvania, in-
cluding organized labor and
other liberal groups, and we are
depending on that support to
help get a strong bill through
the legislature.”