(continued from PAGE ONE) Mr. Yuscavage said of Mrs. Arnold’s efforts in his behalf: “She said, we'll have to twist a couple of arms to work some- thing. But we’ll get something.” The documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch include a number of memorandums between GSA officials referring to conversations with Mrs. Arnold, as well as one memo staff member. One of the memos from one GSA official to another reads in part: Mrs. Arnold replied that the plement of Mr. Yuscavage in Wilkes-Barre is very important to Sen. Scott. Mr. Yuscavage has done a tremendous amount of work for the party and is ex- tremely well thought of in that area. He was fired from his Pennsylvania state government job because he refused to change his (party) registration. Sen. Scott is getting calls and letters from the state and county (Republican) chairmen, state and county committee members and Pennsylvania state representatives and senators are pushing hard for Mr. Yuscavage.” Mr. Yuscavage lost his state job as a highway foreman when a Democratic state admini- stration took over in 1971. His job was not covered by state civil service laws and such patronage jobs usually change hands when an administration of another party takes over in the state. Title V, Section 3303 of the U.S. Code makes it illegal for any federal agency or depart- (continued from PAGE ONE) unarmed man, identified as William Reilly, wheeled around street. The knife wielder, Kenneth Harvey, 25, of 13 Buckingham Ave., Luzerne, threw the knife in the direction of Mr. Reilly and started chasing him down the street. Patrolman Paratore pursued Mr. Harvey and overtook him at 273 Main St. where he placed him under arrest. He was placed in the cruiser and taken back to the borough building ‘®re he was advised of his rights. Questioned later Mr. Har- vey’s mother said she had noticed a knife sticking out of her son’s back pocket when he left the house earlier that night. She asked him about it and he said ‘I'm going to get me a cop.” She said she did not report the incident because she thought he did not mean it, and she did not want to make unnec- essary trouble. Police charged Mr. Harvey with posession of a prohibited weapon. At the borough building Mr. Harvey signed a waiver of his right to remain silent and sub- mitted to questioning. He was allowed a telephone call. Police said while Mr. Harvey was being questioned: he became ‘‘loud, boisterous, and unruly.” Police then put him in a cell. Wilkes-Barre Magistrate John Bednarz was notified and Mr. Harvey was arraigned a short time later. He was later committed to Luzerne County Prison in default of $1,000 bail. A hearing was scheduled Nov. 19 before Magistrate Stephen Stefanides, Swoyersville, but was postponed until Nov. 25 as Mr. Harvey had no defense counsel. (continued from PAGE ONE) unsettled. Last Wednesday's meeting was no exception. One resident said, ‘I hope you hold on to that money until this dam- age gets fixed.” + “At this point in the sewer job it appears ‘the ‘authority’s-main reason for existence is to see the da™gage claims are settled. At 1a¥) Wednesday’s meeting Glace and Glace representative Gary Dubbs submitted closing documents for Plescott Electric NE and work done on the hoting tank by B.G. Kuhn. Mr. Leandri asked Glace and Glace to send the borough coun- cil a letter saying operation of the sewers are now the bor- ough’s responsibility. There are still over 200 people in the borough who have not hooked up to the sewer. Last month the authority considered asking council to raise the hook- up fee from $125 to $250 for delinquents. Last night - solicter. - Arthur Piccone again outlined his solu- tion to the roblem. He said he thought the authority should re- commend an ordinance to coun- cil which would prohibit use of septic tanks in the borough. Those who have not hooked up would then be in violation of the ordinance, which should carry a $300 per day fine. Atty. Piccone said the bor- ough should then ‘pick one out of a hat and prosecute.” Secretary of Property and Supplies, Ronald G. Lench, today announced a public sale of 200 cars and trucks at auction in Harrisburg, Dec. 12. The auction, to be held at the state garage, 22nd and Forster Streets, will include Buick, Ford, Matador and Plymouth passenger cars; Ambassador, Chevrolet, Dodge, GMC and station wagons and pickup trucks, and some International trucks. 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RENTALS—1 Bedroom, 1 Bath- completely furnished. $300 month plus utilities. We have cther listings. Call for details. ASK FOR ELEANOR BARNES HOWELL AND JONES . Exclusive Agents for Newberry Estate a or 822-517 Supplies and their relatives. Prospective bidders must register before the start of the auction. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the site of the sale, on the date of the sale. Sale begins at 10 a.m. All vehicles are offered on a “where is, as is’ basis and no refunds or adjustments will be made. Lench said a security deposit of $25 must be paid by the suc- cessful bidder immediately after each vehicle is auctioned and the balance must be paid within five days. Keep Your Food Safe Don’t let cold cuts and cold- sliced meats reach room tem- perature. Keep them cold (below 40 degrees F) and serve cold. A food safety tip from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. ment to consider -- or even be aware of -- a job applicant’s party affiliation and back- ground. It is also illegal for a member of Congress to recom- mend an individual for a career civil service job on the basis of though it is quite proper and common for a congressman to recommend an individual on the basis of his qualifications for the job. Mr. Yuscavage eventually did not get the job he wanted other jobs that he felt did not pay enough. Another memo from one GSA official to another obtained by the Post-Dispatch reads in part: “‘Scott’s office now trying to pressure us into raising salary for Yuscavage after PBS (Public Building Service) set up the job.” Mr. Hamburger, Sen. Scott’s administrative aide, told the Post-Dispatch he did not think the disclosures con-erning Mr. Yuscavage job attempts were particularly important. “I don’t consider that there are any violations. It’s not a violation until someone charges a violation and proves a viola- tion,” Mr. Hamburger said. He declined, however, to allow the Post-Dispatch reporter an interview with either Mrs. Arnold or Sen. Scott. The Post-Dispatch said Mr. Yuscavage had talked quite freely about his contacts with Sen. Scott’s office but turned down a request to provide correspondence with the office, explaining; “If I get Mr. Scott in trouble, then I'll never get nothing. I wouldn’t want to jeopardize -- there has to be loyalty; there's even loyalty among thieves. But I suggested these are the facts around here; I think if they want to, they can do some- thing.” Luzerne Borough firemen report they have taken poss- ession of the old Schooley Mill grounds - the site they intend to use for their new fire house. Fire Chief George Shonk and Assistant Chief Thomas Thorne said construction of the new fire house will begin ‘in the very near future.” The old Schooley Mill burned down about 3 years ago. The land has a 150 foot frontage. The firemen intend to build a new one story building with a ban- quet hall, a 10 foot bay and two 12 foot bays, The firemen said at one point there was some concern the Cross Valley Expressway would interfere with their plans. PennDOT officials said according to surveys the ex- pressway would miss the site. Capable of starting a front line of 7-1, 6-9 and 6-9 against King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, ‘Nov. 27 at 9 p.m. the Czechoslo- vakian National Basketball Team promises to be a major Northeastern Pennsylvania at- traction, Athletic director Ed Donohue of King’s points out this is the same team that Czechoslovakia is. preparing for the 1976 Olympic Games. Three of the Czech players were members of their coun- try’s 1972 Olympic contingent, which finished eighth in the world competition. They are Jiri Pospisil, Zdenek Kos and Kamil Brabenec. Pospisil is ranked with the ability to make All American if he played in this country. Since the Czechs can start such a towering team, it is one of the reasons why Coach Donohue booked them as a regional attraction. “Our obvious weakness this season is our power up front and rebounding strength,” said Coach Donohue. ‘Playing a team as big and as physical as the Czechs will give us a good idea of how much work we have before our Nov. 30 opener with Le Moyne in Syracuse and what type of ad- justments we will have to make for the season,” he added. In the opening game on the bill, the King’s junior varsity squad of coach Pat Kennedy opposes the Luzerne County Community College five of coach Jim Atherton. Coach Atherton’s team in- cludes from Wilkes-Barre: Jim DeMichele, 6-2; Norm Magyan, 6-2; Wade Reezes, 6-4; and Duane Walker, 6-3; from Pitt- ston: Ned Bilbow, 5-10; Kevin Connors, 6-3; and Jim Gilhooley, 6-3; from Hazleton: Tom Donahue, 5-10, and Joe Gabriel, 6-2; from Freeland: Cy Falatko, 6-0: from Pocono Mountain: Rick Hull, 6-3; and from Mountaintop: Tom Pedley, 6-0. : Tickets to the twin bill are on sale daily in the King’s gym, North Main Street, Wilkes- Barre. A $202 million increase in sales in 1973-74, bringing Agway Inc. dollar volume to $869.3 million for the ‘year; was reported to Agway members at their annual meeting in Syracuse, N.Y. recently. In his annual report to the membership, Ronald N. Goddard, executive vice president and chief executive officer, also noted that total assets at the end of the year were $347 million, a gain of $44 million over the previous year. Agway is a farm supply and food marketing cooperative owned by 113,000 farmers in 12 northeastern states. Its head- quarters are located in Syracuse and it operates stores, feed plants, fertilizer manu- facturing plants, petroleum bulk plants, and other manuf- acturing and storage facilities in nearly 1,000 communities in the states where it serves. During his report, Goddard outlined some of the difficulties encountered during the past year in keeping supply lines to farmers open in the face of shortages, mounting costs, and allocations. He cited, as an example, the difficulties in procuring crude oil and refined petroleum products in the face of the Arab embargo last year. “The embargo hit especially hard at independent refiners who did not have their own crude oil sources but had to purchase their needs on the open market, ‘‘Goddard declared. He pointed to Texas City Refining, Inc., (TCR) in which Agway holds a majority interest, as ‘just such an example.” With regular sources of supply shut off, TCR had to go into the open market NS or reservations, please call 288-7083. Burl Antiquity With Integrity and search out supplies whatever the cost, if the far- mers who depend on Agway were; to...get; the. fuels. they needed. “We did not make any wind- fall profits from our petroleum operations,” Goddard told members. “In fact, petroleum earnings were cut sharply. Unit volume dropped from 703 million gallons the previous year to 634 million gallons in 1973-74.” Fertilizer was another major supply problem. Increased worldwide demand for nitrogen, phosphate, and potash put fertilizer ingredients in short supply and pushed prices up dramatically. While it is planned to increase fertilizer production, it appears total supplies will remain tight in 1975. On the brighter side, Goddard reported on Agway’s insurance operation which, he declared, is the fastest’ growing service Agway offers. During the year, the newly-organized Agway Life Insurance Co. was licensed in New York State making a full line of property, casualty and health and accident, as well as life insurance coverage, avail- able to the general public as well as to members. Goddard noted that farmers, through their productivity, have been a strong force in fighting inflation, but have felt the intensifying pinch of the cost-price squeeze. “Through its research and development work, and its farm enterprise program, Agway has helped farmers increase their productivity and keep per unit cost in line,” he declared, promising that Agway would intensify its efforts to keep costs under control by means of a three part anti-inflation program aimed at obtaining more productivity from people, facilities and money. vinyl roof. ‘14 Eldorado Coupe Cotillion white finish with white cabrolet roof and blue leather in- terior trim. ‘13 Eldorado Conv. Andes copper finish with white roof and white leather interior trim, ‘73 Eldorado Coupe Persian lime firemist finish with white cobrolet sun roof and green leather interior trim. miles. Chesterfield brown finish with match- ing hound tooth interior trim and beige vinyl roof. "72 Eldorado Conv. Pinehurst green finish with white roof and green leather interior trim. ‘12 Eldorado Coupe Willow finish with white cabrolet roof and white leather interior trim. Public meetings will be held Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in the new City Hall at Nanticoke, and Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the new Borough Building at West Pittston, to discuss the Recreation, Park and Open Space, Historic Preservation, and Tourism Report of Luzerne County. Indi- vidual copies are available free at the office of the Luzerne County Planning Commission, Barre, or by phoning 825-2749. This report represents the combined efforts of the Luzerne County Planning Commission, the County Parks and Recrea- tion Commission, the County Cultural and Social Enrichment Authority, the County Tourist Promotion Agency, numerous groups interested in recreation, and Environmental Design Associates as the consultant. The report inventories pro- grams, facilities and areas of parks and recreation, tourism and historic preservation in Luzerne County. It sets up standards for areas of regional recreation, large and small compares inventory with stand- ards, and comes up with sur- pluses or deficiencies. It gives recommendations to make up for the deficiencies at present, and those which would occur in the future. It concludes that with the pro- posed Nescopeck Creek and Lehigh Gorge State parks and existing State and Federal parks, that Luzerne County will be well served with regional recreation areas in the future. There is a need for a large urban park in the Pittston Area, and another in the Forty Fort Area. Moon Lake County Park should also be more fully devel- oped in the future. The Greater Hazleton Community Park should be developed as a large urban park for the southern section of the county. County-wide, there was a deficit of 302 acres of small urban parks in 1970, which will increase to 386 acres by 1990. About half of this is in the greater Wilkes-Barre area, almost evenly divided on both sides of the river. The defi- ciency on the west side could be fulfilled by acquiring and developing the Forty Fort Impounding Basin. On the east side, it could be supplied by using the excess area near the Wilkes-Barre Municipal Golf Course, but this is somewhat distant, and it would be better to have two areas each about 40 acres in the valley. In the greater Pittston area, urban parks are needed south- Each of the winners of the Louden Hill Farm Dairy Stores Coloring Contest, which were announced recently, receives a year’s supply of ice cream. Three names were omitted from the list of lucky artists which was published in last week’s issue of this newspaper. Congratulations to Billy Melvin, 306 Tulip Circle, Clarks Summ- it; Marianne Dominick, 440 E. Main St., Dalton; and Ray Ward, Box 111, Ransom. 1 Page ¢ east of the river, and one 30 act park northwest of the Susqus hanna. In the Back Mountain are: one 60 acre or two 30 acre sma urban parks are needed. In the Shickshinny area, or 40 acre, or two 20 acre parks ai needed. As to playfields, 77 acres ai needed in the Wilkes-Bari section southeast of the rive preferably in or near Wilke Barre Township. The 76 acre needed northwest of the Susqu hanna could be obtained connection with a new hig school. In the Pittston area there i is © need of about 40 acres of play) fields which could be fulfilled b] enlarging the site of the nev| high school, or using some par} of the impoundment areas. | A playfield should b acquired in the Nescopeck area | The report also containg recommendations on develop) ment of the Susquehanna River! and tourist and historic preservation sites. Give Time for Christm ts sbeasrion Yn jeweled watch. ¢ & Water and shock @ resistant. 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