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well ¢ ty-wide. But there were no sur-
1jprises very incumbent carried Luzerne
' County.
The Home Rule Charter question to
change the Luzerne County system of
government was stoutly defeated, 52,370
to 41,173 in unofficial returns.
Not surprising either,
jRepublican U.S. Senator- Richard Sch-
weiker out polled his Democratic oppo-
lead - Back Mountain, but fared less
in the Back Mountain. He was declared a
state-wide winner early in the count. In
Luzerne County he polled 62,295 to his
opponent’s 43,067.
Incumbent Gov. Milton Shapp took the
Lewis, and was re-elected, with a vote of
59,377, to Mr. Lewis’ 47,019.
In the U.S. Congressional race, incum-
bent Daniel J. Flood, a Democrat,
defeated Republican Richard Muzyka in
a three-to-one vote. Unofficial returns
gave Rep. Flood 81,450, to Mr. Muzyka’s
26,267.
In t biggest landslide in the county,
state representative Raphael Musto,
incumbent Democrat, out-polled his
opponent, Republican William Spring, by
more than five-to-one, with unofficial
totals showing Musto with 13,107 to
Spring with 2,863.
In other statehouse contests, District
116 Republican incumbent James Ustyn-
oski defeated opponent Ronald Gatski,
10,110 to 8,470; District 117 incumbent
George C. Hasay defeated Democrat
Edward F. Burns, 10,620 to 8,824; District
119 Democrat Fred Shupnik out-polled his
opponent Joseph Zelinsky, 12,461 to 5,199.
In District 120, Kingston Republican
incumbent Frank J. O’Connell tallied
12,934 to Kevin Nelson’s 5,201; and in-
cumbent Democrat Bernard O’Brien of
Wilkes-Barre showed a total of 9,139 to
John Tasker’s 6,491.
In the State Senate races incumbent
Democrat Martin Murray carried his
opponent, John J. Cicero, mere than two-
to-one, with unofficial tallies showing
Murray with 49,297 and Cicero with
19,920. Incumbent Republican T. Newell
Wood in District 20 tallied 16,185 votes to
his opponent, Michael J. Lewis’ 13,727.
Unofficial totals showed that both
Wilkes-Barre City and Kingston Borough
voted to adopt a Home Rule Charter.
system of government. Yes votes in
Wilkes-Barre were 7,890; No votes were
6,128. In Kingston, Yes votes were 1,857;
No votes were 1,721.
Back Mountain and other communities
showed the following vote:
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A fire which destroyed part of the
Department of Environmental
Resources’ Public. Square office also
seems to have won Lake Township a re-
prieve from the agency in their hassle
over the township landfill.
Lake /Township supervisors Walter
Nesbitt Hummel and John
Adams were scheduled to meet with DER
representatives Oct. 23 concerning the
landfill, but a fire Oct. 21 caused the
meetingglo be cancelled.
might be rescheduled a secretary at DER
said all meetings and decisions had been
postponed and it would probably be
several weeks before anything would be
rescheduled.
Atlast Saturday’s meeting of the board
of supervisors, township secretary Judy
Steltz read two letters they had received
from State Assemblymen Fred Shupnik
and George Hasay.
Mr. Hasay said he wrote a letter to
DER asking them to reconsider any
action they might take to close the dump.
Mr. Shupnik said he would attend the
supervisors.
At last month’s meeting the super-
visors directed the secretary to write
letters tp State Senator T. Newell Wood,
Repre¢ htatives Shupnik and Hasay, and
Congressman Daniel Flood informing
department.
DER has been sending Lake Township
reports of violations at the landfill for
years. At various times the agency has
said the township must hire a profess-
the trash, install toilet facilities: with
running water at the site for the conven-
ience of the one worker who is there four
hours a week, and install truck scales to
weigh the trash. The agency has also said
the soil being used to cover the trash is
composed mainly of shale which allows
water to drain through the covering and
the trash which could pollute area water.
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VOL. 85 NO. 45
TWENTY CENTS
In a voting day press release, the
Luzerne County Committee for the
Charter charged county commissioner
Edmund Wideman Jr. with unfairness in
Tuesday's election. \
C.A. Hardwick, general campaign
chairman of the Committee for the
Charter, said that a refusal of Mr.
Wideman to permit poll watchers’ certifi-
cates to be issued cast serious doubt on
the fairness of the election. ‘“‘And,”’ Mr.
Hardwick said, ‘‘this is just another of the
tactics used to interfere with the county
charter question.’ The press release said
that commissioner Wideman twice
denied the certificates.
Commenting on the avenues open to
county voters to insure a fair and free
election, Mr. Hardwick said ‘‘Voters
should have the facts and ignore the lies,
innuendos, and scare tactics coming
from phony courthouse commitiees.
“It is unfortunate, Mr. Hardwick said,
“that the courthouse puiiticians resorted
to malicious lies in a desperate attempt to
save their patronage and power in the
county. The opposition would have voters
believe that if Home Rule is adopted in
the county all county workers would be
fired.
- “Why,” asks Mr. Hardwick, ‘‘did each
county employee receive a ‘score card’
with his name printed on it and a space
for recording the Yes and No votes with
Charles Broody and local officials are
still arguing about last Thursday’s fire at
Broody’s tire company in Edwardsville.
Mr. Broody claims fire officials never
should be conducted at the site or told
him of any violations to the fire codes.
An official at Council of Governments
Code Enforcement Office tells a different
story, as does Edwardsville Fire Chief
Hugh Jones.
Mr. Jones said he made one inspection
visit about one month ago. He said he told
Mr. Broody he should close the place
down because it was a fire hazard.
Joe Zinkavich, head of COG’s Code En-
forcement Office, said one of his in-
spectors made a cursory inspection of the
building a week before the fire, ac-
companied by Mr. Jones. The COG of-
ficial said at that time Mr. Broody
claimed the inspector was harrassing
him, said he was thinking of suing COG,
and that the COG inspectors had no
authority to be there.
The COG official also confirmed Mr.
Jones statement that on this visit he had
advised Mr. Broody to put in a sprinkler
system.
Thursday morning before the fire a
COG inspector was back at the Broody
Tire Co. writing up violations and taking
pictures to back up their case. Mr.
appropriate since Mr. Broody had been
claiming harrassment and had
threatened to sue. That night the fire
started.
State fire marshalls are still investi-
license number of a car seen speeding
away from the fire. Nothing new has been
reported since.
Mr. Jones claims he sent Mr. Broody a
registered letter outlining violations in
the fire code. He said he has a receipt for
‘the letter. X
Mr. Zinkavich said his inspectors were
not registered because the state has no
certification requirements. But COG has
the authority to enforce fire codes, which
was’ given to it by the borough councils.
the threat that if the No votes in his dis-
trict didn’t exceed the Yes votes, his job
scare tactic which the charter would do
tected in the charter through a personnel
merit system.”
Mr. Hardwick said that on election day
every county employee was given the day
off and was forced to work for the defeat
of the charter. ‘It would be nice if every
candidate or issue had an automatic 1,000
workers for election day.”
Mr. Hardwick said’ that, ‘No: poll
watchers’ certificates, no street lists, a
threat to county employees through the
‘score card’ approach to their jobs, and
requiring county workers to work on
election day to save their jobs indicate
what control the court house power group 1
has in the electoral process.” ;
“Over ‘the last several weeks, those
most devious and malicious tactics in
attempting to hoodwink the voters of
Luzerne County,” John B. Hibbard, a
director of the Committee for the
Charter, said, echoing Mr. Hardwick. i
Mr. Hibbard noted that the opposition’
Charter and those supporting the charter
are a special-interest group. “If they
mean by special interest that the com-
mittee was trying to bring back the
democratic form of government in
Luzerne County with representation for
each and every citizen, they are correct.
At a meeting which lasted less than 45
minutes Monday night, Swoyersville
Borough Council appointed two new men
to the recreation committee and decided
to have the zoning officer take the
necessary steps toremove a family living
in a trailer illegally.
Jim Pozaic and Tony Perzia are the
new men on the recreation board. Ac-
cording to recreation chairman Joseph
Olejnik the two have been helping out on
the committee for several months and
expressed a desire to be on the board.
This brings the total complement of the
board to seven men. Original intent was
to have a nine-member board.
One resident, who has been complain-
ing of an illegal trailer in his neighbor-
hood, got what seems to be some conerete
Dallas Buying
New 3 Patient
Van Ambulance
Dallas Fire and Ambulance Inc. have
made arrangements to purchase a 1975
Care-O-Van, an enlarged van type am-
bulance. Cost will be approximately
$18,500 and delivery date is set for the end
of February.
The new vehicle will accommodate
three patients and will have piped oxygen
and suction. It will be air-conditioned
front and back and there will be a walk-
way from the driver’s seat to the rear of
the ambulance.
The ambulance will have a Dodge
chassis and the body will be made by the
Wayne Corp., a division of Indianhead.
Wayne also makes buses and other trans-
portation vehicles.
Members of the fire and ambulance
company voted on the purchase of the
new unit at the Oct. 28 meeting. A repre-
sentative from A. Giesel and Son took the
order Oct. 29 and the contract was signed.
The ambulance will be serviced locally.
This will be the first time in 20 years that
Dallas has acquired a new ambulance.
Recent ambulances have been used
vehicles.
Bob Besecker says that the new am-
bulance will be purchased without any
a
d 3
action from council. Council will instruct
Mulberry Street 72 hours to move the
against them. The zoning officer was
necessary with borough solicitor Andrew
Puhak. The trailer resident was not} in the
flood.
The recreation committee will hold a
teenage record hop Saturday night from 8
to 11 p.m. at the Scott Street Hose
Company.
The recreation committee has been
looking for a suitable site for an ice
skating rink. Several properties have
been considered. One seems to offer the
best auxiliary facilities, but the land is
private property and the committee will
not announce its location until the owner
has agreed to its use. &
Council agreed to invest $13,800 in
monies from the police pension fund in
bonds paying the highest going interest
rate. pr!
Secretary Joseph Koval read a report
from the Council of Government Code
Enforcement Program. Last month COG
issued 49 building permits, 14 demolition
permits, seven electrical permits, three
plumbing permits, and one heating
permit. :
(continued on PAGE TEN)
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