Taylor Hose and Engine Co.
No. 1 and its auxiliary have
completed plans for the 44th
annual convention of Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania Volunteer
Firemen's Federation to be held
in Taylor Sept. 6 and 7.
The federation has more than
160 members companies from
Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne,
Wyoming, Susquehanna,
Monroe, Carbon and Pike
counties. It also includes seven
companies from New York
State.
Officers of the federation are
Walter Sawchak, Olyphant,
president; Joe Rusay, Clarks
Sump first vice-president;
Wall Hartman, Olyphant,
second vice-president; Paul
Lukus, Forest City, third vice-
president; James Jumper,
Nicholson, fourth vice-presi-
dent; James Ryan, Clarks
Summit, secretary; Elmer
Daley. Dallas, treasurer; Bill
_ Bohrer, Scranton, chief; and
dward Kulas, Dickson City,
fire marshall.
larry Armstrong is conven-
tion chairman. Major David
Noskes and Edward Kania Jr.
are co-chairmen. Adeline Arm-
strong will serve as chairlady
and Eva Goble, co-chairlady for
the Ladies Auxiliary. Floyd
Walters is publicity chairman.
The convention will open
Sept. 6, with registration of
delegates at the Riverside High
School auditorium from 6 p.m.
lo 8 p.m., followed by a session
al 8 p.m. in the auditorium.
Hospitality night will be held at
Hose Co. No. 1 at 9:30 p.m. Sept.
7 activities will include regis-
tration at the school auditorium
from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. The
second session of the convention
will be held at 9 a.m. at which
time voting and election of
officers for the year 1974-75 will
be held.
At 11 a.m., memorial services
will be held at the First United
Methodist Church of Taylor.
Thomas Day is chairman of the
Memorial Services, assisted by
Nate Bettachini.
The N.E.P.V.F.F. Ladies
Auxiliary activities will begin
Sept. 7 at 9 a.m., meeting in the
First United Methodist Church
of Taylor. The Ladies Banquet
will be held at noon Sept. 7 al the
Taylor Hose and Engine Co. No.
1.
A parade is sel for Sept. 7 at
2:30 p.m. Approximately 20
musical organizations and some
75 or more fire apparatus will
participate. All units will
assemble at the picnic grounds
at 2 p.m. The parade will start
promptly at 2:30 p.m.
Parade prizes
awarded to
bands and ladies auxiliaries,
and marching units.
- Taylor Hose and Engine Co.
No. 1 held their first meeting
Oct. 24, 1894 and were chartered
in July in 1895. They purchased
their first hose wagon Feb. 22,
1896. The first hose house was
on High Street in 1900 and
moved to Main Street Nov. 23,
1913. The company moved lo
their present site in August 1971.
The first fire (ruck was pur-
chased in 1917, a second in 1923,
and a third in 1941. In 1971 a new
65 foot aerial ladder truck was
purchased.
will be
With the opening of school
just around the corner, the
Lake-Lehman Board of School
Directors approved a number of
administrative proposals at the
meeting Aug. 13 which are
necessary for a smooth back-to-
school operation.
Of pgimary interest to the
direc®s was a briefing con-
ducted’ by Solicitor Charles D.
Lemmond Jr., concerning the
status of on-going contract talks
with the district’s teachers.
‘The board negotiators are
continuing to meet with the
district’s teachers.
“The board negotiators are
continuing to meet with state
mediator, Anthony Andriole,”
Atty. Lemmond informed the
director, ‘and are confident
that a -fair agreement will be
reached before September.”
The nex! joint meeting of the
negotiating teams and Mr.
Andriole is scheduled for Thurs-
day at the high school.
The directors accepted the
resignation of elementary
school teacher Janice Rae
Camin and named Debra
Rinkeny a June graduate of
WilkeglCollege. to fill the vac-
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ancy caused by Ms. Camin’s
resignation.
Miss Rinken, a resident of RD
4, Dallas, holds a B.S. degree in
elementary education.
Also submitting resignations
were Robert Varlas, the district
career guidance counsellor, and
home economics teacher
Virginia Knapich.
In addition to'these vacan-
cies, openings exist in the high
school faculty for a reading
teacher and audio-visual
materials co-ordinator.
Extra duty assignments were
approved by directors including
the naming of head teachers of
the elementary schools. Head
teacher of the Lake School will
be Bethia King; at the Lehman-
Jackson Building, Jeanette
Williams, Noxen Elementary,
David Harris; and. Ross
Elementary Bettie Strawser.
The naming of head and
assistant basketball coaches
was deferred to a later date.
Following considerable
discussion and a 5-2 vote, milk
supplier contracts were
awarded to Dallas Dairy and
Chase Dairy. The contracts
name Dallas a suoplier to Lake
and Noxen Schools and Chase as
supplier to Ross, Lehman-Jack-
son, and the high school. Voting
against this plan were directors
Donald Jones and Gilbert
Tough, who argued that the
division was inequitable.
New custodians hired on a six
month probationary basis were
Frank Reakes, RD 5, Shaver-
town, and Leslie R. Sutton, RD
4, Dallas. Both men have been
working on a per diem basis for
the district during the summer.
A ditch for the football field at
the high school which was to
have been installed last yearby
Lewis Naugle, will be dug by
Carl Cook, RD 4, Dallas. Nr.
Naugle; although com-
missioned
project, never began the work.
The proposal submitted by Mr.
Cook estimates the costs ta be
$640.00.
To wrap up the school year,
June 5, 1975 was chosen as the
date for commencement, and
Donald ~"R. Bashore was
retained as ‘graduation speaker.
Commencement activities will
again be ‘held at the Irem
Temple Country Club.
John Frankowski,
Sid Sweetman, and
During the month of August,
the Pennsylvania County Fair
season switches into high gear.
By the time it reaches the grand
finale, the State Farm Show in
January, 104 separate fairs will
have been held in the state.
County Fairs are one of the
most important, time-honored
traditions of our great farming
state. Fairs give farmers a
chance to show off the products,
livestock, and a diversity of
crafts grown, raised and made
on their farms, while encour-
aging youth to continue with
farming as a career.
Fairs are a vital link of rural-
urban understanding. To help
fairs in their premiun payments
for exhibitions, contestants, and
agricultural the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
reimburses fairs for about half
their costs with money derived
from harness racing revenue.
Last year the Commonwealth's
share amounted to $1,464,645.27.
Pennsylvania is a great agri-
cultural state. There are
It Pays To Advertise
9,900,000 acres of farmland in
the State with 71 thousand
farms, averaging 139 acres
each. Cash income from
marketing farm products in
1973 was $1,349,500.
Pennsylvania leads all other
states in the production of
mushrooms, cigar leaf tobacco,
sausage products, scrapple,
pretzels, potato chips, planta-
tion grown Christmas trees and
apples, state graded for pro-
cessing. It ranks among the top
five states in the production of
milk, eggs, sour cherries, ap-
ples, grapes, peaches, pears
and maple syrup.
“Should you be young enough
to eat cotton candy without feel-
to pay off.
ing conspicuous, or should you
be steadfast enough to have
ment equipment along the mid-
way without losing your lunch
or pocket change or should you
be a parent who has sweat blood
over a 4-H project along with a
procrastinating kid, and stand
by nervously while the judges
asked him questions you're not
sure you could answer, you
can’t miss the fair.
For a free listing of the Fairs
in Pennsylvania from August to
the end of 1974, write to Fairs
List, Pennsylvania Bureau of
Travel Development, B-03
South Office Building, Harris-
burg, 17120.
For Pollution
Zero industrial pollution in
1985 is the goal of the Environ-
mental Pollution Agency ac-
cording to Dr. Martha C. Sager,
chairman of the Effluent Stand-
ards and Water Quality
Information Advisory Commi-
ttee.
Speaking at the 46th annual
conference of the Water Pollu-
tion Control Association of
Pennsylvania, Dr. Sager said,
“The committee hopes to im-
plement an alternative guide-
line to take into account indivi-
dual industrial differences and
still be a national guideline as
proposed by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).”
EPA’s first proposed guide-
line was based on a single
national average evaluation
favoring large, well-equipped
plants.
The committee’s matrix
system is an equation allowing
for differences in: waste treat-
ment technology; production
characteristics of each in-
dustry; geographic
climatic conditions; and econo-
mic equity.
Recycling Drive
Set for Saturday
The Back Mountain Environ-
mental Group is sponsoring a
recycling drive Aug. 24 from 9
a.m. until noon at the Shaver-
town United Methodist Church
upper parking lot, located south
of West Center Street on
Pioneer Avenue.
Magazines, newspapers,
cardboard, green, brown or
clear glass bottles without
metal tops, will be collected. No
metal, tin or aluminum will be
accepted. The Environmental
Group asks that magazines,
tied, boxed, or put in paper bags
for easier handling.
Money from this project is
used in improving areas in the
Back Mountain.
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“Economic equity is a hum-
said. ‘‘Consider two soap manu-
facturers. One plant is 15 years
Does the 115 year old plant
forego stock dividends to catch
up with the younger plant? The
matrix considers economic
variables such as plant age.”
Dr. Sager said the matrix
‘uses ‘‘mathematical quan-
tion”” that bogged down the
EPA's first efforts at a national
pollution guideline. :
“All of the first 27 basic in-
system,” she said. ‘However,
~many immediately filed briefs
against the EPA because they
later.”
effect.
The conference was held at
sity Aug. 7-9.
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