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VOL. 86 NO. 27
Related photos on page 12.
Photo by Terry Bonifanti
Vern Pritchard, tax collector for
King, Township has announced
that 5 school taxes have been
mailed. They are subject to a 2 per
cent discount until Sept. 15, 1975.
For the convenience of the local
Dust, driv
by Terry Bonifanti
“Dust, as much as a quarter inch
develops in one day at work.” ac-
cording to Mrs. Al Donnelly. Mrs.
Donnelly is a resident of Brown
Manor on Carverton Rodd in Kingston
Township, which is presently under
construction.
Her main complaint, along with
many of her neighbors is the amazing
amoui@®f dust and dirt. the unbreath-
able, unsightly and unstoppable dust
that comes into homes and yards in
that area as a result of the con-
struction on Carverton Road.
David Jones, project engineer for
Wyoming Sand & Stone, the con-
tractors on the Carverton Road
project, when asked about the dust
said, ‘We've got a water truck run-
ning all day, it’s hard to take care of,
we're trying.”
Mrs. Donnelly believes Jones. ‘The
contractor makes an effort. However,
to control the amount of dust that
comes each day, would be a 24 hour a
day job. Mrs. Donnelly's opinion of
life og arverton Road at the present
is ** arable’.
Neighbors on the road share Mrs.
Donnellys opinion. Dr. Les Jordan,
who lives near the intersection of
Springarden and Carverton Road
mentioned the dust first in his feelings
about the road, ‘‘We eat outside in the
summers, it's been close to im-
possible this year."
Dr. Jordan said the only way he and
his family can eat out in the yard is if
he hoses down the street near his
home prior to dinner, to hold down the
dust.
Just riding down the road is enough
witness to the dust. No matter how hot
the day, most of the cars that go up
and down Carverton Road do so with
their windows closed. The sight of
someone in a front yard or seated on a
front porch near the construction is
"rare. The sight of dust coated-shrubs,
cars, steps and even children is not.
The construction is progressing,
although not readily visible to the eye.
residents the tax collector will be at
the Shavertown Branch of the
Wyoming National Bank
Wednesday, Aug. 6 and Wednesday,
Sept. 10 between the hours of 9 a.m.
and 3 p.m.
1975
THURSDAY, JULY 31,
DALLAS, PA.
TWENTY CHUNTS
Back Mountain area residents are
going to have an opportunity to openly
discuss a number of important local
issues Thursday night at a ‘‘town
meeting’’ open to the public and held
at the meeting room of the First
Eastern Bank across from the Dallas
Shopping Center.
Dr. F. Budd Schooley, president of
the Back Mountain Protective
Association, sponsoring group for the
town meeting, said the discussion
would begin at 7:30 p.m. Announced
subject for the meeting is ‘‘com-
munity affairs’’, a generalized theme
which will include a number of con-
cerns of area residents.
If attendance exceeds the capacity
of the bank meeting room, Schooley
said arrangements have been made
with Dallas High School to transfer
the meeting to school facilities.
A spokesperson for meeting
planners said the discussion could
include such items as the ever-
increasing cost of school operations,
the problems of water supply service
to Dallas and adjoining communities,
and sanitation and the cost of
operation of municipal waste treat-
A visit by 20 teachers from Ireland,
added to authenticity of the annual
Irish Day celebration at Harvey's
Lake July 19. The teachers, in the
area as the guests of the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick of Greater Wilkes-
Barre, climaxed a four day stay at
Harvey's Lake by entertaining and
being entertained at the Irish Day
celebration.
The teachers are members of an
Irish Teacher’s Seminar Program
conducted annually at the University
of Delaware. The program was
revealed to the local Irish group on a
June 1974 trip to Dublin through
contact with Steve: Daley, co-
ordinator of the program. The Wilkes-
Barre group offered to host the
visiting teachers and did so last year.
This year, the Wilkes-Barre Har-
vey's Lake visit was made the first leg
of the teachers visit making this area
the first contact with the United
States for many of the teachers. The
stay in this area was also expanded to
four -days this year, allowing the
teachers to stay in the homes of area
residents.
Mayor and Mrs. William Connolly
of Harveys Lake and their family
to Irish Day
were among those accomodating the
Irish visitors. Staying with the Con-
nollys were Maire Philomena White
and Mariead Desmond. Mrs. Connolly
commented after the girls left about
their “frequent” expression of ad-
miration for the trees in the Back
Mountain. :
Mrs. Connolly said, ‘‘The trees were
of special interest because Ireland is
known as a sparsely wooded area.”
The Connolly children were im-
pressed by their visitors musical
background. Miss Desmond plays the
viola in the Dublin Symphony Or-
chestra. She also plays the piano and
an instrument called a recorder, a
whistle with a flute-like sound. Miss
White plays the piano and likes folk
singing and dancing.
The Connolly girls, along with
Aileen O'Donnell and Jackie Mec-
Manus, are members of the O'Donnell
Dancers, a group, under the direction
of Maureen O'Donnell who perform
traditional Irish dances. The prize
winning group has performed both
locally and in national competition.
Both the O'Donnell dancers and the
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ment and collection facilities.
The Back Mountain Protective
Association was founded in 1945,
chartered and incorporated as a non-
profit, non-partisan organization to
protect and defend rights of local
taxpayers. The association serves the
11-Back Mountain municipalities,
including Noxen and Northumberland
townships in Wyoming County.
Schooley said the group works to
develop solutions to local problems in
a spirit of constructive cooperation
and good will. In addition to
Schooley the advisory committee to
the association includes Atty. James
IL. Brown, the group's solicitor;
Congressman Daniel J. Flood;The
Rev. Thomas M. Jordan; the Rev.
Robert Dewitt Yost; Averell Chad-
wick; and Justice Benjamin R.
Jones. : -
All preparations for the annual
chicken barbeque sponsored by the
Harveys Lake Lions Club have been
completed for Aug. 3 at Don Hanson's
Amusement Park at the lake.
Serving will begin at noon and be
over at 6 p.m. The menu will feature
one half bar-b-que chicken a roasted
potate a cob of sweet corn, pepper
hash, bread and butter and milk or
coffee. Clams, clam chowder and
extra corn can be purchased at the
stand all day.
Michael Casey is the chairman of
the bar-b-que and is assisted by all
lions.
All profits from this affair will go to
the projects of the Lions club in the
Harveys Lake area. Some of the
projects are: the care, examination
Registration
open at Jr. High
Students who have not previously
attended Dallas Junior High School,
grades 7 to 9, and plan to do so this
fall, are asked to register as soon as
possible at the Dallas Junior High
School. The student must present,
upon registration, his or her report
card from the previous school, and
birth certificate.
and conservtion of the sight of the
people in the community. the Nor-
thEast Pennsylvania Eye Bank,
Seeing Eye Dog School, Beacon
Lodge, a summer camp for the blind,
the Eye Institute in the New State
General Hospital at Hazleton, a boy
scout troop and little league team, aid
to the Fire Companies and ambulance
in our area and financial aid to any
community-minded clubs at Harveys
Lake.
So when you suppert the Harveys
Lake Lions Club your getting a good
meal and begin a part of all these
projects that the Lions participate in
your community. So get your tickets
from any Harveys Lake Lion or at the
Barbeque grounds enjoy your self and
help these thirty five dedicated men..
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Deep ditches that once spanned the
sides of the road near Memorial High-
way have been filled as Pennsylvania
Gas & Water Company has completed
a project of dropping and moving gas
lines in those areas, bridge abutt-
ments stand now as concrete bases
where holes stood alone a few months
ago, but the disadvantages of the
construction still exist in large
numbers.
Residents believe the construction
is progressing. ‘‘You can't really see
it, but it’s being done. It's so gradual
or slow, and it's been torn up so long,
it's hard to notice any real change’,
according to Alan Root who lives in
the 300 block of the road.
Root agrees with most of
residents interviewed who believe
that living with the construction now
is worth the new road conditions it is
leading to.
Dr. Jordan, however believes, ‘‘We
didn’t want the road in the first place.
All that the end result will mean is a
speed highway for a bunch of people
to go to Francis Slocum State Park
and they got there before without the
new road, the other ways must have
been adequate.”
Dr. Richard E. Crompton, whose
office is at 206 Carverton Road and
who lives adjacent to the road
believes the end result of the new
road, ‘‘may be worth it.’ He also
believes, however, it could have been
brought about, ‘‘in a better way."
“The road has been a mess for
years,” according to Dr. Crompton.
‘It could have been done in sections
instead of this whole mess, however,”
he said.
Dr. Crompton added, ‘‘They are
taking out that terrible curve at the
bottom of the hill'and replacing the
bridge, it just seems it could have
been done a lot cheaper and quicker
than it is.”
Alan. Root found another major
complaint about the construction
worth verbalizing, ‘‘rough driving
conditions.” Root said he is afraid to
allow his children, ‘‘near the road
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with all the cars zigzagging to miss
the pot holes.”
And as far as driving himself,
“There is no way to miss the rough
driving conditions; there are 25 foot
drops, places where two cars can’t
pass each other and you're always
delayed one way or the other,” ac-
cording to Root.
“Night conditions are even worse,”
said Root, who as a truck driver
sometimes finds himself coming
home from work in the early morning
hours said. ‘There are no real war-
ning devices on the road, and it you
don’t know the road well, you can be
in real trouble at night or in the fog,”
according to Root.
Jones, from Wyoming Sand & Stone,
said that the company presently has
140 flashing warning lights ‘‘on the
job. The lights, although present on
the job, do not cover all the spots that
would require safety measures.
Observation shows that there are
places on the road where 10 to 15 foot
drops that span 500 feet may have the
warning lights spaced as far apart as
100 feet leaving large dropoffs hidden
from the night or fog driver.
The thing that really suffers when
traveling Carverton Road is the car.
Susie Brown, who is receptionist at
the Back Mountain Dental Clinic on
Carverton Road, said, ‘‘beside the
fact that the dust is such a bother in
the car and on the car, the bumps are
just awful.” Miss Brown said. As an
example “in March I had my car
aligned and in April, it already needed
it again.”
Miss Brown added, ‘‘The people
who came up the Wyoming way say
it’s just awful there, like an obstacle
course, and it really looks bad for the
winter.”
“Coming up the Wyoming way,” is
bad. About three quarters of a mile
toward Memorial Highway from
Eighth Street there is a span of road
worse that an obstacle course. One
section has a space definitely
passable by only one car, while
another, a little further up, has un-
Zag
packed soil on it that takes the car
much the same way deep snow might.
When encountering another vehicle
in this section, one is overcome with
the fear of not knowing where it might
go, and not quite knowing where his
own car might go.
What's good about Carverton Road
right now? Not much, according to the
residents and people who use it. The
progress is ‘‘slow’’ and ‘‘*hard to see’’.
It's ‘‘dusty’’ and ‘‘noisy’’ and
“‘dangerous’’, and some are not even
sure ‘‘we wanted it changed in the
first place.”
“The effort to improve it and stop
accidents caused by road conditions,
may make the construction wor-
thwhile, but not if it ‘turns the road
into a speed highway for a bunch of
wild kids driving cars.”
Those worrying about what the road
may turn into can settle their fears,
for at least another year. Although
Wyoming Sand & Stone, ‘‘thought.”
they ‘‘would have half the job done
right now’, Jones said the utility
companies and efforts to move lines
and pipes have severely hampered
progress. Months behind in their
estimated removal dates, telephone
and electric poles still stand in the
way of the road in many places.
*‘We are planning to pave the base
course of the blacktop by the end of
this year’, Jones said. ‘But it
depends on the fall weather, how fast
the utilities finish and whatever else
comes up."
At least the winter snows will hold
down the dust.