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With 18 days left until the election,
Back Mountain school board candi-
dates are preparing for real fights at
the polls for the three vacant Dallas
seats and the three openings out in
Lake-Lehman.
What makes this election different
the Back Mountain’s past is the politi-
cal diversity of the candidates.
For the first time in many years,
both Lake-Lehman and Dallas have
Democratic candidates in the general
election and in all cases the primary
has not decided any seats.
Paul Crockett, in Lake-Lehman
Region II; although running unop-
posed in the primary and picking up
* both nominations will face a write-in
oppgyent in Keith “Skip”” Bonham.
#tham has publically asked
Crockett to meet him in a debate at
the Lake-Lehman High School. At
press time Crockett had not
responded to the letter.
In Dallas, with three board vacan-
cies left by the retirements of Ted Dy-
mond and Hanford Eckman and the
primary defeat of William Cutten, the
race will be between two candidates
with both nominations, and : one
republican and one democrat.
Both Richard ‘‘Dick” Hislop, RD 3,
Orange, and Earl Fritzges, Trucks-
ville, picked up nominations from
both parties in May.
itzges is the only Dallas
céf@idate running who has previously
held a position on the school board. He
was on the Dallas board from 1969 to
1972 and chose not to run for the last
term. Fritzges is employed by Dunn
and Bradstreet and has six children,
three of whom still attend the Dallas
schools.
In commenting on some of the pro-
blems facing the school board during
its next term, he said he believed the
transportation system in Dallas to be
‘‘very good.”” He said he felt the same
way about the school’s curriculum
and athletics, although he also be-
lieved there was room for improve-
ment in the latter two.
In curriculum, Fritzges said he
would like to see more emphasis
placed on vocational training in the
district. ‘I'd like to see more students
advised to take advantage of the West
for them,” he said. =
expansion of the female athletic
“program and a little more publicity
for woman’s sports.
As far as tax investment in the
Dallas schools, Fritzges said he feels
“overall, the taxpayer is getting a fair
return for his tax dollar.” He added
that he felt the system has to be
constantly improved and the board
must keep up with it.”
Hislop, a tool and dye maker at
Diamond Manufacturing Company,
West Wyoming, has three children all
attending Dallas Schools. He said he
also believes the taxpayer is, ‘getting
what he pays for,” in the Dallas
School District.
“The millage isn’t real high, and it
isn’t real low, we're getting real edu-
cation for what we're paying,” he
said.
Hislop agreed that the trans-
portation system in the Dallas schools
was “more adequate than most dis-
triets.”
He said he felt the quality of educa-
tion in the Dallas schools was some-
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1975
thing to be “proud” of and added
“there is always room for improve-
ment here and there.”
In athletics Hislop said the varsity
program was ‘more than adequate,”
but the intramural system ‘‘could
stand improvement’ to allow more
students to participate.
The Republican candidate in
Dallas, Gloria (Mrs. Joseph) Bren-
nan, from Dallas borough, is a house-
wife with five children, two of whom
are still going to-Dallas schools.
She has a different idea about
school athletic participation, Mrs.
Brennan said, ‘People should get
over the idea sports are just for those
who participate. They are just as good
for spectators. They bring the whole
school together.”” Mrs. Brennan
added she is impressed and pleased
with the athletic program at Dallas.
> She also expressed her belief the
transportation and educational
systems at Dallas are good, adding,
“Different things keep coming up.
DALLAS, PA.
TWENTY CENTS
by Terry Bonifanti
This is the third in a series of four
articles dealing with the structure of
the family in the Back Mountain.
Article appearing in Newsweek, Sept.
22, 1975 and U.S. News and World
Report Oct. 27, 1975 raised interesting
questions on the family in this
country. This series will review
questions on family life in the Back
Mountain. This article allows several
parents from the area to give their
views on raising children in this
area.)
Speaking with parents in the Back
Mountain, one is almost forced into
believing this area is not undergoing
the same changes in its family
structure felt by the rest of the
country
“I don’t honestly know the cultural
change has hit the Back Mountain
yet,” Mrs. Carol Hessions, a mother
of-tive from the Oak Hill section of
Lehman Township, said.
Dennis Dobinick, a father of vie
from the same area when asked about
the cultural and social change
problems facing our youth agreed
with Mrs. Hessions, ‘I don’t think we
have the problems here.”
Agreeing ‘‘the cultural climate is
difierent here,” was Mrs. Irene
Crawford, a mother of five who has
lived in new Goss Manor for 12 years
(coming from the suburbs of
Philadelphia. Mrs. Crawford said, ‘it
hasn’t been a bad place to raise kids.”
Quality education is an ongoing thing.
It can’t be allowed to slip backward;
the board must stay active in all
aspects of the system.”
Mrs. Brennan also said she would
like to see more community involve-
ment in the district, more parent
teacher groups represented at board
meetings.
As for taxation, Mrs. Brennan said
she believes the Dallas schools are
presently producing a dollar’s worth
of education for each tax dolla:
collected and added, ‘‘You can’t know
what the future will bring. Spending is
another ongoing thing that has to be
supervised.”
Completing the Dallas slate, Mark
Umphred, a color separator for Offset
Paperback is running for a Dallas
seat on the Democratic ticket.
Umphred said he was ‘‘really not
dissatisfied with any of the system.”
He said he felt the transportation
system in Dallas was ‘‘very ade-
quate” and the educational system
One of the nine casts of “Up With
People’. international organization
will appear Oct. 28 at the Dallas
Junior High School, sponsored by the
Dallas Jr. Woman'’s Club.
Elaine Pickett, Houston, Texas, and
Beth Shortsleeve, Vermont, advance
representatives of the group, are in
the area, making arrangments for
housing and planning meals for the
cast. :
In a recent interview with the Post,
the young women stated that their
work has been made unusually easy
for them through the cooperation of
the Woman’s Club.
Elaine also performs with the
group, which in addition to their
performance on Oct. 28 will appear at
State Correctional Institution.
“Up With People” is an educational
organization which has become
known around the world through the
international casts of people
representing 28 countries.
They have appeared in ‘countries
around the world but this year the
casts are focusing on the ¥nited
States in honor of the Bicentennial.
They performed at the Bicentennial
opening and have been invijed to
appear for the Olympics in Canada.
They will also appear at the
Superbowl, Astrodome, Mardi Gras,
and Indianapolis 500. They will climax
program in Philadelphia July 4, 1976.
‘‘Up With People’ has established a
framework for communication and
backgrounds including age, class,
‘Not to hurt the people who have to
use the bus, but for the benefit of the
customers who use shopping center,”
is how James B. Davies, a spokesman
for the merchants at the Dallas
Shopping Center, explained the move
by the merchants to stop the setef a
park-n-ride lot by the Luzerne County
Transit Authority at the center's
parking lot last week.
Davies explained there are ‘18
amount of parking space.”
The decision to end the park-n-ride
set up the shopping center was made
by LCTA following a talk with
merchants in the center. ‘‘We
origianlly talked with Carl
Goeringer,” (the realtor responsible
for the lot), who gave permission for
race, nationality or political views.
The young men and women are from
17 to 25 years of age and since its
inception in 1965, 3,500 others have
participated. Approximately 600
month,
the lot use on the basis the owners of
Dave's Holiday Market gave
approval,” Stephen Keiper, LCTA
administrative assistant said.
Receiving approval from the people
at the Holiday Market, LCTA put up
signs and. established the park-n-ride
set last week. Merchants in the center
removed the signs and after
consultation with them, LCTA
“terminated’’ their use of the lot.
“We've tried quite a few places in
Dallas’ Keiper said last week, “bat
none have worked out.”
a park-n-ride lot in the area, but we
can’t find a suitable place.” He added
“I think we're going to be stuck
leaving people to find what space they
can to park.”
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However, Mrs. Crawford whose
youngest child is 16 and oldest 24 sees,
the change arriving quickly. “I'm
glad I'm finished raising my
children... it’s becoming a whole
different world,” she said.
Mrs. Bessie Mead, a divorcee from
Idetown who has raised three sons,
one now 32, one 24, and the last
(whome she raised alone) 16, agrees
with = Mrs.
unlike Mrs. Crawford, raised her
children almost entirely in the Back
Mountain. Yet she still sees the world
changing around her lifetime.
“It is definitely more serious, more
dangerous to raise a child today. I
wouldn’t want to be a teenager now,”
Mrs. Mead said.
Society has reached a point where,
“Good and bad are blending
together,” according to Mrs. Mead.
Mrs. Joseph O'Donnell, a Kingston
Township mother of seven children
who range in age from 3!» to 11, finds
the changing society placing more
burden on the children. “Kids are
allowed to have more responsibility
today. They are learning more,
learning faster than we did. They
have more independence. They have
to make up their minds,” according
to Mrs. O'Donnell.
Mrs. George Bittenbender, a life-
sees her children ‘Definitely facing
more pressures,’ than she as a child
in the Back Mountain faced some 30
years ago. However, Mrs. Bit-
tenbender said she does not see that
was good. He also stated his belief the
athletic program might be improved
by a greater intramural emphasis.
Umphred said the actual education
of the children ‘‘should be left to the
educators.” In his opinion and the
best educators possible.”
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much of a change from the time her
24 year-old was growing up to now as
her 13-year-old enters high school.
“I know it’s hard keeping close
family these days.,’”’ Mrs. Bit-
tenbender said. She also said she
believes it is not the social pressures
or changes that make the difference.
it is the families.
Ed Lyons, a father of two who came
to the Back Mountain four years ago
from South Dakota agrees. ‘We've
been able to maintain a close family It
doesn’t depend on society. it depends
on how much attention parents want
to give their children.”
There are problems in growing up
here in the Back Mountain. Mrs.
Bittenbender cited the problems of
the consolidated schools--the
elimination of the average child from
competition, the large geographic
area to find friends in.
Mrs. Crawford mentioned peer
pressure, materialism and the in-
creased use of alcoholic beverages by
teenagers.
Mrs. Mead is worried about the lack
of protection for the child--*people
aren’t ashamed of things anymore so
the child is exposed to almost
anything.”
Mrs. O'Donnell wonders about the
pressure and responsibility placed on
the child growing up here and now.
‘“The advantages of living here far
outweigh the disadvantages,” ac-
cording to Mrs. Hessions. Everyone
seems to agree vith her.
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