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John Allen
John IL, Allen, RD 1, Sweet
Valley, has been appointed editor of
The Dallas Post, according to: J.
Stephen Buckley, publisher.
Allen served as manager of the
Post prior to founding the Triboro
Banner, a weekly newspaper in Old
Forge, in 1970. From 1965 to 1969 he
was a reporter and managing editor
Summit. He also served as editor
and president of the “I Am You”
Journal, Moosic, a monthly
publication promoting respon-
sibility:
A journalism graduate of Los
Angeles City College, he served
three years with the 82nd Airborne
Division during the Korean War. He
and his wife, Annabelle, recently
moved to Sweet Valley with their
two children, Craig, 23, and Heidi,
21.
Charlot Denmon, who has been
serving as editor, has been ap-
pointed News Editor.
by Tom Mooney
Harveys Lake Borough Council
member Michelie Boice has asked
Attorney’s office to investigate the
council.
Boice said she delivered to
District Attorney Chester Muroski
on Friday morning a letter setting
forth what she alleged were im-
proper actions by the council and
asking for an investigation.
‘I'm very disturbed at the way the
council’s been running,’ said Boice.
‘This 1s a formal request for an
investigation.’
Boice, the only Democrat on the
seven-member council, has been
openly critical of several of coun-
cil’s policies and decisions in the
year and a half following her
naming as replacement for former
council member Jack McManus.
Her term expires this year, and she
has not sought renomination.
One of the claims made in her
letter to Muroski, she said, is that at
a ‘special Saturday morning
meeting recently she was called out
of order and refused permission to
make a nomination for a
replacement ‘council member
before the vote was taken and the
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meeting adjourned. :
Other claims in her letter, Boice
said, involve what she called
potential irregularities or violations
of law in regard to the purchase of a
borough truck, the hiring of several
police officers, and the borough’s
taking out a loan to cover an in-
surance premium. ,
She charged that the truck may
have been purchased informally
beforehand, that the Civil Service
Commission was ignored in
nominating the officers, and that
the selection of an insurance carrier
and the arrangement of payment by
loan were not brought before
council properly.
Boice announced over a week ago
that she was considering notifying
the District Attorney, and she said
she prepared her letter even before
learning of the firing of her
husband, Richard Boice, by the
Harveys Lake Municipal Authority:
-an action she called ‘illegal.’
Boice said she was asking the
investigation ‘for the benefit of the
taxpayers,” claiming that most
people in the community are not
fully aware of what she called
improper actions by council.
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by Tom Mooney
The beleagured Fall Fair cleared
two major hurdles recently, and
apparently it will go on as
scheduled this September.
Just last week the Lehman Twp.
Zoning Hearing Board granted the
Fall Fair Association, sponsor of
the annual event, the right to
‘accessory use” of the part of its
property that lies in the township
for purposes of holding the fair this
year.
Earlier, the Dallas Borough
Zoning Hearing Board granted a
‘‘special exception’’ to the
Association so that the part of the
property lying within the borough
can be used for the fair. The
Association owns a large plot of
land along Rt. 415, including some
in both communities.
The Lehman beard, in making its
decision, set aside complaints by
Richard Pearsall and Stanley
Davies, owners of residential
property near the fair grounds.
They had cited, as individuals,
problems of traffic congestion, loud
music broadcast by amplifiers,
heavy dust, loudspeaker noise, and
a fireworks display.
The board did, however, limit the
permission for the time being to
four days in 1981 only. It also set a
Fair Association to meet, including
dust control, garbage removal,
crowd and traffic control, noise
reduction, and construction of a
barrier on the edge of Pearsall’s
land, which abuts that of the fair-
grounds. Davies’ property does not
abut the fairgrounds.
The ‘Dallas board’s formal
decision contains no mention" of
It ‘does, however, set up three
conditions. They include dust
control, placing of a gate at the
entrance to’ the fairgrounds, and
making sure all loudspeakers point
away from Pearsall’s property.
Alan Landis, president of the Fall
Fair Association, said he an-
ticipated the Fall Fair would go on
as scheduled this year. Pearsall,
however, said he would review the
decisions and decide if an appeal
would be in order.
Said Pearsall, ‘“The only way I
can be totally satisfied is if the Fall
Fair is not held at all. I’ll just have
to review them both and decide
what to do next.”
Pearsall said he had no quarrel
with the idea of a fundraising fair
but didn’t want it held next to his
property in what he considered a
built-up, populated area. He con-
ifs ‘present site. :
The Association formerly held its
fair on the Lehman Horse Show
Grounds, also located along Rte.
415. Last year was the first yéar for
it to be held on the new property,
near the Back Mountain Medical
Center, which is the prime bene-
ficiary of the fair. The Fall Fair
Association is a union of Back
tinued, ‘In my opinion that is not
the place for a fair; this is a
residential area.
Davies, who lives across the high-
way from the entrance to the fair-
grounds, said he did not envision
any appeal. ‘‘I don’t know if there’s
anything to pursue,” he explained.
“I just wish they’d keep it where it
was.”
He too emphasized that he had no
desire to see the Fall Fair scrapped
purpose of collaborating on the
but just did not want to see it held on
annual fair.
Association; standing, Dave Phillips, secretary, Dallas
Fall Fair Association; Robert Lawhorn, Dallas Kiwanis;
and Cliff Parker, Dallas Kiwanis.
Dr. Mahmoud Fahmy, professor
at Wilkes College, was main
speaker at the Dallas American
Legion’s 46 Annual Memorial Day
Parade and Services, Monday, May
25.
The program opened witha line of
march, 9 a.m. from the Legion Post
Home. The parade continued down
opening remarks.
Rev. William Cusick, pastor,
Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas,
gave the invocation. Dallas Area
Senior High School Band, directed
hy David C. Benn, played God Bless
America.
A Boy Scout, Girl Scout, and a boy
and girl Little League played a
by Tom Mooney
Richard Boice, fired last week
from his job with the Harveys Lake
Municipal Authority, has claimed
that borough Republicans put
pressure on the HLMA ‘to get rid of
him.
“I don’t think Mr. Alles took this
completely on his own,” said Boice,
just hours after his firing from his
job of maintenance man at the
HLMA plant. “I think somebody’s
put the pressure on him.” That
‘“‘somebody’’ Boice defined as
borough Republicans who may
have become angry with him
because he recently announced he
party and perhaps drain off
Republican election votes.
Boice is a Democrat. George
Alles, chairman of HLMA, is a
Republican. Positions on the
HLMA board are determined by
borough council, which has an 6-1
Republican majority:
Simultaneously, Boice’s wife
Michelle, the lone Democrat on
borough council, said that ‘she
believes her verbal battles with
Republican council members may
have contributed to her husband’s
firing. “I think my politics have a
lot to do with his losing his job,”’ she
contended.
Boice said he showed up for work
at the HLMA building at 7 a.m. last
Thursday morning, only to be told
by his supervisor, William Owens,
that Alles had fired him. Just the
previous day Boice had made a
public statement about ‘the for-
mation of the new “party.” He said
the firing was to be effective at the
take some accumulated vacation
time and not finish the week.
He also said he had learned from
by council this week from his part-
time job as zoning officer and
building inspector. Last month
plan to have .borough secretary
Boice’s duties, calling it a prelude
to firing him.
George Alles said only ‘No
comment’ when asked for a
statement on the subject of the
firing.
Boice said he did not believe his
work had anything to do with his
being fired and pledged to serach
for answers. “I've been a faithful
worker for him. I didn’t miss any
work, and I always got along good
with Mr. Alles. I can’t believe it
would be because of attention being
drawn to the Municipal Authority.
It'll all come out in the wash soon or
later. T’ll see to it that it comes
out.”
In the meantime, he said, he will
take no action to regain his job.
“I’ve had people call and offer me
money to sue the Municipal
Authority,” he stated. “But I’m not
going to go begging for the damn
He denounced people who, in his
view, do not want to see additional
political parties. ‘A lot of these
people are very small-minded if
they wouldn’t accept a third party,”
said Boice. ‘“We’re going back into
a Communist type of thing if you
can’t be affiliated with a political
party of your choice. I might as
well finish organizing the party
Michelle Boice claimed that
Republicans on council told her on
at least one occasion that her
husband might face loss of em-
ployment if she continued opposing
their policies so vehemently.
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crowd.
Commander Lyons thanked
everyone for their participation
after which benediction’ was
delivered by Rev. Akers.
The program closed with the
playing of the National Anthem by
the Dallas High School band. 1
Gus. S. Shuleski was parade
marshall.
Memorial Wreath at the base of the
Honor Roll, then led the assembly in
the Pledge of Allegiance.
Following taps, the participants
regrouped and marched to the
Woodlawn Cemetery where Rev.
Douglas N. Akers, pastor, Dallas
UM Church, gave the Memorial
prayer. Following a selection by
the band, Dr. Fahmy addressed the
WELCOME-Dallas American Legion commander, Edward Lyons, welcomes
those who attended the Memorial Day services at the Dallas Honor Roll on
‘Memorial Day. Standing with him at the honor roll is auxiliary president,
‘Marion Kunigonis. (Mark Moran Photo)