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Officials seated at the speakers table at the Baseball for Boys
banquet are pictured above from left to right, front row: Marie
Jones, Mary Law, Bob Law, president, Charlotte Slocum, Ann
Bell. Standing: Andrew Schlosser, vice commander American
Legion Post 672, Joe Muldoon, John Bell, Joe ‘‘Red’’ Jones, Fred
Hughes, Post commander.
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The league champions of the
Back Mountain Baseball for
Boys with their managers,
coaches and league officials
were honored at a banquet
recently at the American
Legion Home, Dallas.
Joe Muldoon, Baseball for
Boys vice-president, presented
trophies to the managers and
coaches of each team. They
then presented each boy on
their team with an individual
trophy. Trophies were also pre-
sented to the team sponsors
including Teener League,
Westmoreland, sponsored by
the Shavertown Lumber Com-
pany; Major League (National)
Lehman-Jackson Cardinals,
sponsored by Owen Williams
Carpet; Major League
(American) Trucksville Tigers,
sponsored by Duke Isaacs.
President Joe Law introduced
guest speaker Joe “Red’’ Jones
who talked with the boys on the
meaning” of an athlete. Fred
Hughes, American Legion
Commander, welcomed the
group. The invocation was
given by Richard Staub.
Special plaques were given to
Leo Corbett and Tom Reese for
the many years of outstanding
service which they had given to
the Little League. Mr. Corbett
served as secretary and Mr.
Reese was treasurer.
The banquet was prepared
and served by the American
Legion Post 672 and the auxil-
iary.
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Dallas Reds, Minor League champions, are shown above with
their manager and coach. Front row, left to right: Tad Rad-
zinski, Jackie Bittner, Daren Barbacci, Gary Daley, Kurt
Garner, Scott Jobson, Ricki Rogers. Back row: Bob Masoner,
coach; David Rose, Gary Rost, Craig Meister, Jim Hagen, Mike
Kern, Jeff Brady, Jeff Bolinski, Paul Jobson, manager.
coach.
harassment by other players
because each member of the
Lake-Lehman squad wore a
different kind of sneakers.
“Why can’t the school board
purchase sneakers for the
team?’’ asked Mr. Allardyce.
Suggesting that ‘‘what’s good
for the goose is also good for the
gander,”’ Director Garinger
pointed out that such action
would set a precedent which
might prove prohibitively
expensive. “If we buy the
sneakers for the boys’ basket-
ball team, then what about the
girls’ team? Or the band? Or
field hockey?” Mr. Garinger
wondered.
High School Principal An-
thony Marchakitus explained
that present policy dictates that
items of a personal nature and
footwear which can be used for
another activity--including
sneakers--be purchased by the
students.
The board agreed to consider
Mr. Allardyce’s request at its
next athletic committee
meeting.
A change order involving the
installation of two 2-inch water
valves in the renovation project
at the Lehman-Jackson
building raised the hackles and
nay votes of Directors
Garinger, Ellis Hoover and Ken
Williams. Said Mr. Garinger of
the proposed $230 charge: “It
seems inconceivable to me that
valves costing $20 apiece should
cost $100 to install.”’ The change
order passed on a six-three
vote.
Requests from teachers to
ttend eight di
ional conferences were approv-
ed by the board, and President
Slimak and Director Peg An-
derson were designated as
voting delegates at the Pennsyl-
vania School Boards Conven-
tion scheduled later this month
in Philadelphia.
Charles D. Lemmond Jr.,
school board solicitor, informed
the board that ‘a new man at
the Human Relations Commi-
ssion’’ believes the board may
have to pay interest on sick
leave pay accrued by high
school English teacher
Florence Finn during a
maternity leave last year.
According to Atty. Lemmond,
the interest would be owed from
the date of a letter attesting to
Ms. Finn’s confinement written
by her obstetrician, Dr. Jane
Hazlett, to the date of the
board’s action affirming
payment of the sick leave pay--
a period of only two weeks.
Mr. Marchakitus ‘announced
that the district has scheduled
two football games with Troy
High School, (one this year and
one next. These contests, Mr.
Marchakitus said, would give
the Knights an opportunity to
play a team from a school with
a population the size of Lake-
Lehman’s.
Following a year of meetings
to study the length of Lake-
Lehman’s school day, the board
agreed to a shortened schedule
recommended by the commi-
ttee of teachers, administrators
and directors appointed to
consider this question. The
elementary school day was
shortened by 15 minutes and the
high school by five. The change
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course Nov. 22 and will be avail-
able for investigative work on a
full-time basis at that time.
Mayor McCulloch has high
hopes for the program.
“Before we acquired the in-
vestigator,’’ he said, ‘‘we had to
take a man off patrol to look
into serious crimes. That left us
short. Forty Fort and Swoyers-
ville have traditionally helped
each other out if one or the other
had their men tied up but this
gives us a man to handle all the
investigating. It will be a big
help.”
The idea of cooperation
between borough police depart-
ments and the establishment of
joint services raises the
question of control of local
police. Luzerne Borough, ap-
proached on a joint juvenile
officer plan by Swoyersville
Borough rejected the idea as an
ominous trend toward con-
solidation and loss of local
control.
There is no doubt that the
detective plan is a step in that
direction. But it is not a great
step and neither community
sees it as an ominous one.
Mr. Winters’ immediate
supervisor will still be the Forty
Fort Chief of Police. But he will
be controlled by both borough
councils and must submit a
progress report on all cases he
has worked on to the councils
each month. If either council
feels he is somehow acting
improperly they could pull out
of the program the following
year. 3
The idea of consolidation of
services including police is
being heavily endorsed by
federal agencies and the state
Department of Community
Affairs, headed by William
Wilcox.
According to Joe Zinkavich,
who heads the code en-
forcement program under the
West Side Council of Govern-
ments, the state has designed
interest in regional rather than
local programs.”
The two boroughs have now
the services of a juvenile officer
under the same state and
federal programs. No cost
figures are available at this
time but initial outlays should
be significantly less than that of
the investigator.
It remains to be seen whether
the two boroughs can muster
the required cooperation to
make the program a success.
Optimism is high in both com-
munities and the project could
provide needed information to
other communities considering
similar programs.
Red Cross to-Offer
Home Nursing Course
Classes in home nursing are
now being formed by the
Wyoming Valley Chapter of Red
Cross: This 12 hour course, off-
ered free of charge, is a certifi-
ed Red Cross course.
Those persons interested in
learning basic skills in home
care of the ill and elderly are
asked to call the Chapter House
(823-7161) between 9:00 a.m.
and 4:00 p.m. for additional in-