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Dallas borough
grabs share
of school tax idea
(Story...Pp. 1,4& 5)
Christmas in
Wembo Nyama
under Mobutu
(Column...P.2)
How would you
‘clone’ a new
Northeastern Pa.?
(Column...P.4)
The Jaycees
have done a lot
for the Back Mt.
(Featured...Pp. 14-15)
West Side & Back
Mt. join in bridal
fashion show
(See P. 20)
Ray Hillman
Local jobs
pending in
“79 elections
There should ‘be a good deal of
Xt ons, as the terms of 16 council
‘members and supervisors and six
school board members will expire this
year.
Expiring in Dallas Borough will be
the terms of council president Harold
Brobst, William Carroll, Kenneth
Young, and Craig Aicher, who was
only recently sworn in to serve out the
unexpired term of Peter Arnaud after
he left the area.
In Harveys Lake the terms of
council president Robert DeRemer
and council members Guy Giordano,
Robert Wintersteen, and Margaret
Purcell will expire.
Council terms in both boroughs are
four years.
Kingston Township, with its home
rule charter providing for four-year
terms, will have three supervisor
vacancies. Expiring will be the terms
of chairman Herbert Hill and
supervisors Willard Piatt and Daniel
Wisniewski.
Each of the remaining townships:
will have one vacancy each. As they
are second-class townships, the
Avositions are for six years.
(4 Dallas Township supervisor
chairman Philip Walter’s term will
expire this year, as will those of
Ignatius Hozempa in Lehman
Township and chairman Fred
Fielding in Jackson Township.
The terms of two more supervisor
chairmen, John Adams in Lake
Township and Alec Matukatis in
Franklin Township will likewise
-expire in 1979.
Each of the two area school boards
will have to elect three members.
Expiring on the Dallas Area School
Board will be the terms of Harry
Swepston, William Dierolf, and Harry
Lefko. ?
In the Lake-Lehman School District
the terms of Flora Anderson, Donald
Jones, and board president Gilbert
Tough will likewise expire.
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Carl Derhammer, 28-year-old son of
. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Derhammer, RD 1,
Dallas, underwent a bone marrow
transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, Md., recently.
Carl has A plastic anemia, a rare
jisease in which his bone marrow
completely stopped producing any
blood cells. The only known cure for
this disease is a bone marrow tran-
splant and Johns Hopkins Hospital is
one of the few hospitals in the country
that does this type of operation.
Prior to the operation, Derham-
mer’s family was called to Johns
Hopkins for a series of tests to find
which one of Carl’s brothers or sisters
provide the bene marrow for the
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Harveys Lake borough council
members are considering a proposed
tax-saving suggestion of the borough’s
municipal authority for a meeting
place.
Albert Gulitus, secretary of the
General Municipal Authority for the
Borough of Harveys Lake attended
the council meeting last Thursday to
present the authority’s written
proposal for offices and a meeting
place for the conducting of the
borough’s general business affairs.
The proposal, an outgrowth of a
Jan. 13 meeting between borough and
authority officials, was an offer by the
authority to accommodate the
borough with facilities for meetings
and other borough activities at the
authority location.
The intent would be to eliminate the
need for acquisition of other property
At a recent meeting of the Fall Fair
Association, new officers were elected
for the coming year.
Ray Hillman, Dallas Kiwanis, was
elected president; Alan Landis,
Dallas Rotary Club, vice president;
Tom Reese, Dallas Lions Club,
secretary; Kay Whitehead, Dallas
Women of Rotary, assistant
secretary; Bob Bayer, Jr., Back
Mountain Jaycees, treasurer; and
Charles ' Kishbaugh,
assistant treasurer.
Outgoing officers were Francis
‘‘Red’”’ Ambrose, president; Ray
Hillman, vice president; Tom Reese,
secretary; Dan Chapman, deceased,
treasurer.
1979 marked the first year an
assistant secretary and assistant
treasurer were elected to office under
the new bylaws.
Jaycees,
by the borough and, according to the
proposal, ‘expenditure of large sums
of money.”
The authority indicated that it has
acquired additional land at its present
location in the Sunset section of the
borough which is “now available to
the borough at no cost.” The proposal
noted that ‘‘the borough will be able to
place on this parcel of land, tem-
porary facilities for borough activities
which may not now be possible (to
accommodate) in the authority
building, such as the police depart-
ment and borough administrative
offices.”
(The present authority building
already includes a modern meeting
room which presumably would be
available for borough meetings. The
borough presently holds council and
other official meetings, houses police
and administrative functions in
portions of a building rented from the
Daniel Roberts Fire Company for $150
per month.)
The proposal went on to say that ‘‘in
the near future, the authority, subject
to your approval, will construct a
permanent facility which will house
those activities of the borough not
by Charlot Denmon
The recent enactment of the per
capita occupational privilege tax by
Dallas Borough is of great concern to
the Dallas School District, which
originally levied the $10 tax in the
municipalities of the district.
Dallas School Board approved the
tax in order to close a void in the
budget when the state and federal
appropriations were cut back. Board
members believed it more equitable
‘to levy the $10 occupational tax than to
increase real estate taxes another one
or two mills.
Earl Fritzges, chairman of the
board’s finance committee, said that
the figure of approximately $54,000
was the estimate given the board by
the tax collection agencies.
To date, he said, the district has
received about $24,000 with returns,
among them some from business with
large numbers of employees still to be
made.
The board has requested a complete
report from the Wilkinson Tax
Collection Agency and will wait for
that before coming to any final
decision. :
Fritzges said that he believes the
borough’s share will be less than 25
percent but he isn’t sure.
He also said that the board mem-
bers will have to look at the tax and
decide whether or not it is worthwhile
to continue. Fritzges is not keen about
the occupational privilege tax but
voted for it because he believed it was
something necessary at the time.
‘““There are some advantages to it,”
he said. “Persons who live in housing
projects are subject to the tax and
thus, pay a fair share.
The Dallas Area Medical Center
board reviewed bids of eight con-
tractors at their meeting last week.
The architect, Carl J. Schmitt
Associates, and engineers, Martin and
Fladd, attended the meeting.
Basic bids were made for the center
and four alternative bids for paving,
landscaping, light posts and a sign.
The basic bids for the building were
$302,500 by Pethick Construction
Company; $298,000 by Sordoni Con-
transplant.
Carl’s sister Martha was selected
because her bone marrow was
comprised of exactly the same
components as her brother.
The treatment for A plastic anemia
is sometimes worse than the disease
itself. Before the transplant Carl had
‘to undergo four days of Cytoxin
treatments, a very powerful
chemotherapy drug which was used to
kill his remaining bone marrow to
prepare him for the transplant.
There are numerous side effects
from this powerful drug. The actual
operation involved transplanting the
bone marrow from his sisters hip bone
into Carl.
A strong will to live keeps Carl
alive, according to his families. His
struction Company; $292,800 by
Raymon R. Hedden and Company;
$273,968 by Somerville Construction
Company; $235,509 by George L.
Ruckno, Inc.; and $243,155 by Remley
Construction Company.
The contractor selected by the
medical center board will be an-
nounced at a meeting next week. A
well will be drilled now for adequate
water supply.
(Continued on p. 6)
immume system is now like that of a
newborn baby. The smallest infection
can prove fatal. For that reason Carl
was in complete isclation and now
must wear a filter mask to protect
him from any type of infection.
Carl is employed by the Muskin
Corp. in Wilkes Barre.
He must remain at Johns Hopkins
for at least 100 days of treatment and
observation. He would like to hear
from anyone who would care to write.
The address is:
Carl Derhammer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Oncology Center
Third Floor South Wing
Baltimore, Md. 21205
“If all municipalities were to pass
the occupational privilege tax, it
would mean about $27,000 or nearly
one mill. The board would have to look
to other areas to meet the financial
needs of the district. Our final
decision has to wait until all figures
are in.”
Board president Richard Hislop
said that Dallas Borough alone won't
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possible at this time.”
“Indications at this time are that
public grants are available to the
authority to pay for the cost of con-
struction and it is anticipated that no
other funds will be needed,” the
proposal continues.
It concludes, ‘It is. hoped that
serious consideration will be given to
this proposal so as to avoid the
duplication of facilities and to prevent
additional tax burdens on our tax-
payers.’’
The proposal indicated that
Authority Chairman George J. Alles
requested the formal presentation and
was signed by Secretary Gulitus.
The borough has been considering
Local firm
by British
The capital stock of Surface
Processes Corportation of Country
Club Road, Dallas, has been pur-
chased by Coates Brothers & Co.,
Ltd., a British Corportion which
manufactures and sells printing inks,
synthetic resins, reprographic toners
and other surface coatings products
throughout the world.
Coates, which celebrated its cen-
tennial last year, has established an
international reputation for technical
proficiency, which has ensured’ it a
leading position in the markets in
which it operates. It has also
established a network of subsidiary
companies worldwide, with some 30
factories operating in Australia, New
Zealand, the Far East, India, Africa,
continental Europe and the West
Indies. Group sales in 1977 amounted
to $164 million with profits exceeding
17.6 million.
the acquisition of land in the Sandy
Beach area with varying purchase
prices from $125,000 to $217,000,
depending on the amount of land
purchased.
Since land acquisition costs are
grants, it appeared likely that the full
cost of such a land purchase would be
born by borough taxpayers. and the
transaction has been highly con-
troversial. The Sandy Beach site was
also considered a recreational facility
possibility or a combination of both.
At the Thursday meeting, borough
council members agreed to seek
another meeting with authority of-
ficials at the earliest possible date.
bought
company
The acquisition of Surface
Processes--now renamed Coates
Reprographics Inc.--provides the first
manufacturing facilities for the
Group in the USA, although it has
been selling specialized printing inks
and technical know-how here for
several years.
Reprographics Inc. will restriet its
operations to the manufacture and
marketing of a full range of
reprographic toners, tailored to
satisfy the specialized and exacting
requirements of the office copier and
computer print-out industries.
Peter B. Thompson, who heads up
the Coates Inernational
Reprographics Division, is the new
President of the Company and one of
his fellow directors is James P.
Harris, Jr. the Wilkes-Barre attorney.
The General Manager is R.P.A.
Piercy and the vice-president sales
marketing is John A. Wise.
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As a part of its community service
activities the Dallas Kiwanis Club is
holding a ‘Town Meeting’’ at the Irem
Temple Country Club ballroom,
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m.
“Upon completion of the
Crossvalley Expressway-Then
What?” is the subject to be considered
by an authoritative panel being in-
vited to the meeting by George
Maculloch, chairman of the
Citizenship Services committee.
Sen Frank O’Connell has assisted in
selecting the panel members and has
been invited to take part in the
presentation. John Finn will represent
PennDOT and other members of the
panel will be representatives of
Luzerne County, Kingston and Dallas
Townships and Dallas Borough
governments, who will consider the
subject from their varied points of
view.
Dallas Kiwanis Club is extending
special invitations to the other Service
Clubs in the Back Mountain area and
to the public to attend this discussion
of a subject that is vital to all users of
Route 309 from Trucksville through
Dallas.
In view of the present accident
frequency and the frequent problems
of entering. onto Route 309 ex-
perienced by local motorists, the
concern is what to expect when a
greater volume of traffic is to pass
through this area in the future.
Both residents ‘and businessmen in
the area as well as others who depend
on Route 309 for daily commuting
should be deeply interested in what
plans have been or are being for-
mulated to meet the problems. .
Ray Hillman and Robert Lawhorn
are representing the Dallas Kiwanis
Club at other service club meetings to
discuss the town meeting. 3
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