% Vol.90 No. 32 . Pennaprint Ine., publishers of The Dallas Post, this week an- nounced that Editor-Publisher Ray Carlsen would be leaving his position effective next week to acceptan appointment as executive director of an association of news- papers. The company said details of the new appointment would be an- nounced later in conjunction with an announcement by the association. Charles Trettel, presently ad- vertising manager of the Berwick Enterprise, will serve as interim a. publisher for Pennaprint, head- W¥ quartered in Dallas, at the com- /pany’s central offices. Pennaprint “Wis a subsidiary of Press-Enterprise Ine. publishers of the Berwick Enterprise and The Morning Press of Bloomsburg. An announcement regarding the new editor-publisher is expected shortly. Carlsen has served as editor- publisher of the Pennaprint news- papers since January of 1975 when he purchased the publications from former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton’s Greenstreet News Company. In 1978, Carlsen’s company was acquired by Press-Enterprise Inc. and he, continued as editor- publisher for the company. Mrs. Carlsen has also served the business on a parttime basis in advertising related positions. Carlsen said the appointment would provide new opportunities to serve in enhancing the performance of newspapers in service to their communities. He said the new job would include publishing of association publications, assisting newspapers defending the first amendment freedoms, and certain legislative activity. He has served as a director of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association and as a member of the postal affairs committee of the National Newspaper Association. In this area Carlsen served as a member of the Wilkes-Barre YMCA board, a director of the Dallas Rotary Club and with the Back Mountain Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. The family was also active in Trinity United Presbyterian Church, Dallas. Dallas Fire and Ambulance men and women are ready for the annual . Country Carnival this weekend, There will be plenty of homemade food, clam chowder, potato pan- cakes, clams, fresh sweet corn, fire burgers, pizza, ice cream sand- wiches and beverages of all kinds. There will be games and fire truck rides for young and old, a craft booth, and much more. Chances are being sold and can be purchased at the Carnival for a 19- inch General Electric TV; $250 gift certificate at Daring’s Market; 30.06 Remington rifle and a 31 day Linden School strike clock. Music will be provided each night with the Back Mountain String Band, Friday night; The Country Kings, Saturday night; and Abilene, Sunday night. Proceeds from the Country Carnival are used to maintain the fire and ambulance equipment. There will be a firemen’s parade, including uniformed units from Irem Temple, Saturday night, beginning at 6:30 p.m. m_ Members of the Lake-Lehman Education Association eliminated taxpayers concern about a teachers strike, Monday night, when they voted 57-49 to accept the five-year contract proposal offered by the school directors at the recent mediation session. The contract includes a 9.5 per- cent increase for the first year to 8.2 percent for the fifth year for an average of approximately 8.5 over the five years. Mrs. Carol Pyle, president of the LLEA, said that a number of the teachers were apprehensive about signing the five year contract because of the uncertainty of the economy. The settlement also will increase salaries for extra-curricular ac- tivities, chaperone duties and homebound teachers. The teachers dental plan will be increased from 80 percent to 100 percent. Tuition reimbursements for credits will increase from $50 in 1981 and 1982 to $65 per credit for the remaining years of the contract. Jackson Twp. Sept. 8 meeting ~ Henry Zbiek, secretary-treasurer of the Jackson Township board of supervisors, announced the meeting scheduled for Sept. 1 has been rescheduled to Sept. 8, due to the Labor Day holiday. The board normally meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Jackson Township Firehall. Zbiek noted an amend- ment to the flood plain ordinance will be considered at the Sept. 8 session. Congressman Ray Musto an- nounced Friday that the Farmers Home Administration in’ con- junction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved a loan of $2 million for the purpose of con- structing a nursing home in Dallas. Funding will be used to construct a 120-bed nursing home as part of the Meadows by Ecumenical Enterprises Inc. of Greater Wilkes- Barre. The loan is in addition to an Appalachian Regional Commission grant of $70,000 to assist with the drilling of a well to provide the project's water supply. Ray Condo, executive director of Ecumenical Enterprises, said on Tuesday that the Meadows project long under consideration by the corporation will consist of two separate buildings. One building will be an apartment complex of 120 one-bedroom apartments for the elderly. The apartment complex is funded under the Housing Urban Development (HUD), Section II-8, program for the elderly. : Cost of the complex is estimated at $4,789,000. Condo stated Ecumenical Enterprises plan to break ground for the building about mid- September. Adjacent to the complex on the 50- acre parcel of land opposite College Misericordia, the 120-bed nursing home for skilled and intermediate care will be constructed. The nursing home costs are estimated at $3 million, $2 million loan from FHA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and an additional $1 million financed through Nor- theastern Bank. Condo stated that Ecumenical Enterprises, Inc. has engaged Smith-Miller Associates, who are in the process of planning the design and setting up construction schedules for the nursing home. He does not expect construction to get underway before the spring or summer of 1981.
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