te, he a re RES ie Sirs SOD 2 BERR SNS Ea LS Aas SrA CER sa samen mE ER oie dy i PAGE FOUR GROSSMAN by Howard J. Grossman The life style of a neighborhood, community, or region is often dictated by the quality of its design. A strong factor in attracting new economic development and or encouraging a better quality of life is the design feature built into facilities, buildings, and the landscape. In Northeastern Pennsylvania, the sensitivity to design has often been lacking, and a real gap exists between the creation of ideas and the eventual transference of an idea to the landscape. In many cases, we have not taken the time to develop an appreciation of design and its impact on community liveability. Many surveys have shown that the overall community appearance and beautification of areas within Northeastern Pennsylvania is rated substantial improvement and treatment in order to permanently create the overall improvement of the region. THE SENATE SIDE Recently some steps have been taken in the city of Scranton and elsewhere to establish a better appreciation’ of design. The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects has endorsed efforts to create a better community image through improved design and neighborhood preservation. The Pennsylvania «= Department of Community Affairs is undertaking to obtain a federal grant to once again promote as a major priority neighborhood preservation throughout Pennsylvania. Public awareness or appreciation of design as a quality factor in the overall development of a community remains a large issue, and much more should be done to encourage public participation in the use of architecture, landscape architecture, and other disciplines to accomplish an improved quality of design. Citizen advisory boards or committees officially established by local units of governments or the use of local planning commissions many of which already exist in Northeastern Pennsylvania may be a route to follow toward improved quality of design. While it is next to impossible to legislate esthetics, it may be useful to have further public participation in design considerations as new projects evolve throughout the region. One of the best places to start would be at the elementary and secondary school level through community development and or urban and regional planning courses which could be offered in conjunction with ongoing tions in each school district of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Economic Development Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania is one organization available to provide ‘technical assistance in establishing these types of courses and in encouraging a quality of design which will feature an improved quality of life for our regional residents, present and future. by Sen. T. Newell Wood Two campanion bills, centering on reform of the Public Utility Commission, are now in final states for passage in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. The consumer-oriented measures, which I have cosponsored, are Senate Bills 1216 and 1217. Together they comprise a package that is of special concern to all utility customers in the state. They are important because of recent events in which the Public Utility Commission authorized two Company and Metropolitan Edison Company, to recover about $32 million in retroactive rate hikes. The retroactivity problem, caused by the PUC'’s year-long delay in approving a permanent rate, produced a tidal wave of angry protests throughout the outcry, we here in the general assembly accelerated work on the utility-reform bills. The bills, which have now emerged from a Senate-House conference committee, prohibit what I believe is a most obnoxious provision, the retroactive rate hike. Under present procedures the PUC can award a temporary rate increase to a utility firm. Then, over the course of the following 11 months, the commission can grant a permanent-- and higher-rate. In such situations, it then allows the companies to recover the difference between the temporary rate and the premanent one that it approves at a later time. I am very much opposed to that procedure. The new utility-reform package specifically forbids this practice. Under the provisions of the new laws, all utilities, except transportation firms, will file for general rate increases to take effect in 60 days after the date of filing. If the commission does not take action on the boost within that 60-day span, the increase is automatically suspended for a period not to exceed seven months. If the PUC has still not handed down an order by the end of the full suspension period of nine months, the rate hike will go into effect. However, the PUC could come up with a final order at a later date and could order refunds ‘of overpayments, plus interest at the prevailing home- mortgage rates. This is only part of the consumer- protection features which we have built into the measures. Another provision deals with fuel adjustment clauses. The PUC is required to keep a careful watch over the operations of the fuel-adjustment clauses. An annual audit may be carried out either by PUC personnel or by independent auditors who are knowledgeable in the field. Within five months after the annual audit, the commission must review the clauses and the amounts collected from them. The PUC is authorized to intervene in cases of overcharges or under-collections. Because the bills greatly increase the range of the PUC’s duties and powers, the commission will need more money for operational purposes. The commission’s budget is derived from an assessment of two-tenths ot one percent of the total intrastate operating revenues collected by utility firms. The assessment will be 3 by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert I wonder how many of you remember back to when your chief house-cleaning tool was the broom! Carpet sweeper, perhaps; carpet beater--1 did a lot of that when I was trying to ‘work my way’ through school. I think it was in 1910 or 11 that I tried to make some money demonstrating and selling, if possible, the thing called a vacuum cleaner. It seems to me that it must have been very early myself not trying so much to sell the machine as to sell the idea of cleaning by vacuum. That first vacuum cleaner was a awkward looking contraption; in the motor. The machine, however, was a draw by suction the household dirt not only from the top of the carpet but even from the floor and up through the carpet, deposit it in a can of about two gallon capacity, and later empty it out. This was the way it was constructed: the can had suspended from the inside of the cover a cloth sack in the top of the can was a hose attachment; to the hose was connected the wand, a tube of metal; at the floor end was a slotted implement through which the dirt was drawn from the floor, through the wand and hose into the porous cloth bag inside the’ can cover. At the top of the can was a glass “window” through which you could see the dirt cloud hurrying to get out of that carpet, into the sack. The dirt came swooping up the hose in a mighty wind, the harmless and almost clean air going out the exhaust into The lady of the house was sure that was too lazy a way to clean. At that point however, she had not yet manipulated that wand nor the handle on the pump. One lady, when she invited me in to demonstrate, was kind enough to tell me that I need not try it on the part of the carpetshe had already cleaned with a broom. Of course not, why waste labor on what to show her that she had not really cleaned that strip of carpet after all. That was right disgraceful of me to try to show her that her method, hard work as it was, still left a cloud of dust in and under the carpet! ‘‘Lady, you just watch that little window while I run this handle back and forth operating the pump and with the other hand pass the wand back and forth across the rug.” She didn’t appreciate that at all. As a demonstrator I was expert in holding + that wooden platform on which the pump and can were fastened; my weight in those days held the thing steady. Then I could put the machine under my right arm and hold it against my hip while I steered my bike with my left hand and pedaled on to the next house for another demonstration. I still think that pump was a marvel of perfection, for it had the toughest Dan Hanson, candidate for the State Legislature from the 4th District, today charged incumbent Fred Shupnik with failure to support legislation designed to create thousands of new jobs in the Commonwealth. Hanson made the statement after Shupnik increased to three-tenths of one percent, with a provision for a supplemental assessment to initiate the commission’s expanded programs. The utility-reform bills also raise the salaries of the five members of the commission. The PUC members now draw $24,000 a year, and the commission chairman receives $25,000. These are considered part- time positions, and the commissioners often engage in outside law practices or other forms of employment. Now, however, the commissioners must spend full-time at their duties and are, therefore, barred from accepting outside employment. On January 1, 1977, their salaries will jump to $35,000 a year (with a salary of $37,500 for the chairman); one year later, the salary levels will be boosted by another $5,000. Other sections of the bill will establish minimum hearing procedures such as those used in courts and on federal levels, and they will permit full participation in the proceedings by individual customers and consumer groups. In addition, there will be a central bureau to receive consumer ‘complaints and to assure prompt action on these complaints. Utilities also will be required: to, file annual conservation reports to assure that the companies are taking full advantage of new technology. In summary, the PUC will be given the: authority and the resources to carry out its expanded responsibilities. If it fails to perform these new duties, I will be among the first to find out why and to take the necessary action. These reforms are too important and are long overdue. eater vacuum I ever saw in an air pump. pipe where the hose went on and you could stop the pump. I worked! I did a lot of house cleaning in those days while demonstrating. But neither that nor my talking and smiling sold any machines for the Cyclone Vacuum Cleaner Company. People did finally believe in the principle of cleaning house by suction. I haven’t watched anybody beat a carpet on the clothesline in years! I didn’t need to write an article to convince you dear readers that this is the way to clean your carpets. I know that you young housewives learned it from your mothers and you'll teach it to your children. If you think that today any child of yours is about to volunteer his services in beating the dirt out of your carpets... well, if I know your children they will all prefer said. system for laws Hanson months.” EDITORIAL No one is issuing any official explanation for the abrupt resignation of Dallas Police Chief Ray Titus a couple of weeks ago. Although gossip is rampant, it may be that the information is not essential to public well being, except as an item of morbid curiosity. But we believe the borough council retains some general responsibility in the matter which requires their review of the situation. If the rumors regarding the chief’s resignation are untrue, then the council has permitted the maligning of the man unjustly--and the matter could be set straight with the truth. If the rumors are true-then the council has to consider its obligations to the public. Was the matter investigated promptly when first indications of a problem were submitted? If not, the council could be vulnerable to civil liability if a lawsuit is filed by persons witha legal interest in the matter. In addition, the borough council needs to consider what it must do to preclude the alleged situation from recurring. Are police recruiting procedures, supervision, and intradepartmental relations what they should be? : No one envies the position of the council in delicate matters such as these. But once in the positions they officials be responsive to the public and fully obliged to the requirements of office. It’s been our experience that no Back Mountain police agency was as “closed” to public information as the Dallas Borough Police—-and this is the vulnerable to = government. problems of K 40 years ago-September 25, 1936 Engaged-Marjorie Phipps to cents lb.; endive, 2 lg. bunches 25 Sen. A. J. Sordoni this week Stanley D. Shewan. cents; corn top bread, 17 cents; purchased the Shemansi farm Married-Hannah Mae Gibbons and Reynolds wrap, 75 ft. roll, 71 cents. increasing his land holdings at Harveys Lake to 1,500 acres. He will raise chickens on the new tract, he said, building special coops and starting with 2,000 poultry. The Dallas Junior Women’s Club Glee Club made its first appearance on Monday night when it appeared before the Township PTA. Spirited contests over local option will dominate the Fall election in four local communities-Lake Twp., Dallas Borough, Dallas Twp., and Kingston Twp. A system of student government has been instituted at the Dallas Borough High School, it was announced by Principal Harry L. Tennyson this week. Fifteen prizes ' await the winners of the Post’s 10-week Most Popular Baby Contest, who will be announced this Saturday. Coach Ernest Line’s Dallas Borough High School football team will open its season this afternoon against Tunkhannock, ancient rival of the local squad. Kingston Township will continue its series with Wyoming Valley High Schools, playing Meyers High School. Mrs. Emma Shaver, Mrs. Lott Thompson, Thomas Knorr, and Mrs. Hattie Stevens, made the 1280-mile, three day trip to Callendar, Canada, to visit the Dionne quintuplets. More than 1,000 persons turned out to see the donkey baseball contest, sponsored by the Dallas American Legion. The score ended in a 1-1 tie. Married-Marion Virginia Mills to Walter S. Steelman, Jr. You could get-Fresh pork butts, 27 cents 1b.; center cut chuck roast; 19 cents 1b.; tub butter, 2 lb. 75 cents; yellow onions, 10 lb. 35 cents; sweet potatoes, 10 1b. 25 cents; celery hearts, 2 for 15 cents; spaghetti or macaroni, 4 lbs. 25 cents. 30 years ago-September 27, 1946 Work is moving on schedule at the new Natona Mills plant along Memorial Highway, Dallas. Niles Hess, age 2, son of Mrs. and Joseph Patrick: Bettie Welsh and P. William Hanna, Jr., Selma Benjamin and Benjamin Winogrodski; Josephine Nichols and Frank J. Besecker. Deaths-Harry Swithers, Trucksville; Albert Stull, Alderson; W. G. Allen, West Nanticoke; Albert Culbert, Dallas. You could get-Coffee, 34 cents lb.; orange juice, 2 No. 2 cans, 37 cents; cents; Lux toilet soap, 3 bars 20 cents; Danish cabbage, 3 cents lb.; sweet potatoes, 3 lbs. 17 cents; cauliflower, extra large head, 15 cents. 20 years ago- September 28, 1956 Kingston Township Police Chief Jesse Coslett withdraws charges against drunken driver despite the posting of $500 bail and the pronouncement by Dr. R. J. Crompton that the driver was intoxicated. Charges were withdrew while Justice of the Peace Beatrice Williams was on vacation and unable to protest. Lehman Methodist Church observes its 100 years anniversary. Mrs. John Conyngham gave a $1,500 organ in memory of her husband. Lehman-Jackson Ross and Lake- Noxen joint school boards studied tentative set of agreements accepting them in the main without lengthy discussion but questioning the possibility of establishing elementary schools in areas which might become populous. The paralyzed shepherd pup owned by Bernard Grishaber, stung by yellow jackets 17 days ago, is fighting for his life at Dr. R. C. Post’s animal hospital, Shavertown. Ray Daring’s new sausage ‘plant will be in operation by the end of October. : Fernbrook Mill has been purchased by the Greater Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund and negotiations with a new industry are nearing completion. Dallas Ambulance Drive nets $3,397, with treasurer W.B. Jeter noting that contributions were still 10 years ago- September 29, 1966 Harveys Lake Police Chief Walbridge Lienthall, shot through the abdomen in line of duty Sunday evening, remains in the intensive care unit at General Hospital but his condition is improving and is now listed as fair. : A giant sheepshead mushroom, 4 8 RN - the Post by Morris King of Shavertown, who found it at his place in Sullivan County. Prospects of reopening the Linear Plant at Fernbrook are zero, according to Atty. George Sphrer, council for management. The starts this Saturday at 7 a.m, Wyoming Valley Chapter, National Foundation March of Dimes. College Misericordia’s Theatre Ballet Theatre at Irem Temple as the first of its presentations for the 1966-67 season. Dallas Mountaineers rallied in the second half Saturday afternoon to down Lake-Lehman, 18-7, before a ’ 1 the first of two games to be played by the teams this season. Now playing at local “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”’, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Forty Fort Theatre; 1 1 r Segal, Luzerne Theatre. Schneider, Jr.; Gloria Jean Covert to’ Wesley Squier. Renate Kaub to Staff * Sgt. James Keiper. R. Duncklee, 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Barber, 25 years; Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Arja Brown, 19 years. Deaths-Berton M. Mrs. Niles Hess, Trucksville, was coming in. Shavertown; Mrs. Ruth Swingle, seriously injured when he fell from Now playing at local theatres- Shavertown; Mrs. Emma the Hess’ car, then was struck by an “Trapeze”, Burt Lancaster, Gina Brodmarkle, Plymouth, John approaching car driven by, Fuller Dymond. Harry Harding, Trucksville, is in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital as a result of first and second degree burns received following a spontaneous gasoline explosion in the basement workshop of his home. Lehman High School appointed Edward F. Hendericks, teacher of math and science, and Virginia King as teacher of social studies and as librarian. Harveys Lake Light Company cut down the huge old oak tree standing at the corner of Harris Hill Road and School Street. Lollabrigida, Himmler Theatre; ‘The First . Mexican’’, Joel McCrea, Luzerne Theatre; ‘Moby Dick’’, “Trapeze’’, Dallas Outdoor Theatre; “The Bold and The Brave”, Mickey Rooney, Wendell Corey, Moonlite Drive-In. Engaged-Gail Eastwood to Francis Barry; Marjorie E. Dewitt and George Swales. Married-Betty Marie Montross and Robert C. Statnick. : Deaths-George L: Dodson, Shavertown; Mrs. Daisy Cease Wint, Sweet Valley; Clarence S. Neely, Lake Silkworth; Mooney, Harveys Lake. cents 1b.; cornish hens, 45 cents lb.; butter, 1 lb., 2-Oz. jar, 59 cents; can, $1.39; rye bread, 29 cents 1b. loaf; frozen spinach, 4 10-0z. pkgs. 49 cents; (Continued from Page one) Town meeting Dallas Legionaires «= defeated Ruggles. - Jackson to the tune of 6-2 in one of the You could get-local dressed and best exhibition games played at the drawn fryers, 37 cents lb.; standing - - Jackson diamond. rib roast, 59 cents 1lb.; frozen to hold another town meeting to Now playing at local theatre-‘‘The Spiral Staircase,” Dorothy McGuire, ‘George Brent, Ethel Barrymore. “The result of and the down.” pineapple juice, 2 6-0z. cans 29 cents; Birds Eye wax beans; 2 1 oz. pkgs., 45 cents; Philadelphia cream cheese, 59 Hanson added that House Bill 650 would have provided business Administration having to make exotic deals as in the case of the Volkswagen plant in New Stanton, Pennsylvania. continue to discuss the recreation problems and that the suggestions made at these meetings be sent to community officials. The next town meeting will be held after Jan 1, 1977. cluded, Mrs. Landis, Perry, Mrs. John Oravitz, Mrs. “climate in Pennsylvania,” inducements equally Edmund Narkiewicz. Mis. Charles. - Hanson said. throughout Pennsylvania, Parente. Mrs William Parrish Mrs. “This legislation was an instead of the Shapp Clarence Michael. Mrs Charles u Mrs. Hank Wasilewski, Mrs. Paxton, Mrs. James Borton and Mrs. Evan Bonawitz. ® nu All area high school stu- dents and their parents are being invited to visit the College Misericordia campus in Dallas this Sunday afternoon for the college’s annual open house. According to a spokes- man for the college, the campus will be open to the public from 2 to 5 that afternoon. Among the activities scheduled are campus tours, entertain- ment, and informal dis- and administration at the college. Prospective college students will have the opportunity to review facilities, meet with faculty members in the discipline in which they are interested, and obtain complete information on admissions policies and re- quirements. In addition, the college will provide refreshments and entertainment by Ferdinand Liva, dire¢tor of the Sinfonia da Camera chamber orchestra. For the general public, College Misericordia bills open house as ‘‘a nice way to spend a Sunday after- noon.” The campus is particularly beautiful in the fall, the spokesman re- marked, with the variety of flora on campus arrayed in Tie ALLASCP0ST Ray Carlsen, Editor & Publisher Mrs T M.B, Hicks, Editor Emeritus Joseph ‘‘Red’’ Jones, Advertising Chariot Denmon, News & Advertising Virginia Hoover, Circulation Bea LaBar, Circulation Asst. Blaze Carlsen, Asst. to Publisher . Susan Heller, Office & Production Olga Kostrobala, Office & Production Eleanor Rende, Office & Production Jane Lutz, Office & Production Randy Steele, Advertising Art & Photography Sally Riegel, Office & Production full fall glory. All visitors are asked to stop at Merrick Hall in the center of campus first. All tours will originate from that building. Visitors may take student-guided tours or walk around the campus at their leisure. MEMBER N:N:A::» Association - Founded 1885 inihnnd.aml. 2 W.R. Risse, News and Advertising # Greg Mercurio, News and Advertising Art An Independent newspaper published each: Thursday by Pennaprint, Inc. from 44 Men Stree: Dallas, Pa. 18612. Entered as second Slagss matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1889. Subscriptions, $9 pér yea Telephone 675-5211 or 825-6868, POSTMASTER: Box 366. Dallas. Pa. 18612. If undeliverabl® please send Form 35/% to 0 Era EERERE nail
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