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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,
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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
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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;
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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;
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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.
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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
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. 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.
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