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‘Why not ask the kids
what they want?
What a mess! Steve Fugowski would like to operate a
Yileo ga me arcade at Hickory Corners on Carverton
oad. |
Betty Williams, who lives about a block away on
Highland Avenue, doesn’t want it in her neighborhood.
Joseph Blazes, who lives about a mile away and-is
owner of the property at Hickory Corners, is interested
in renting the arcade and has promised to be a strict
landlord.
Joseph Voitek, a teacher, feels that children that fre-
quent arcades are troublesome and it bothers him that
these children can ‘‘throw away $20 in one night.”
Mr. Fugowski replies to charges of children creating
disturbances by drinking and doping that there is a bar
just across the street. Ambrose Gavigan, township
supervisor, states that the bar doesn’t serve children.
Mr. Fugowski says that not only children but even
adults frequent arcades.
Implicit in the desire of Mr. Fugowski to enter the
mainstream of the free enterprise system, is the desire
of others to deny him that choice. Implicit in the desire
of Mrs. Williams and others is to be free from fear.
So fear and free enterprise is fought out in a public
forum, the democratic way. But missing from the
forum is a major subject of the conflicting desires— the
children. They love those quarter-eating machines and
we would suspect that they see no evil whatsoever in
their playing them.
We will pass no moral judgement upon the spending
“of money on games of any kind, but we will condemn
the wholesale condemnation of children as being, or
possibly being, drinkers and dopers. We know of many
people who play those new video-games and we know
them to be of sound character and of sound mind.
J.A.
Learning from history, or
notonly yesterday
From the New York Times, June 6, 1932:
“Eugene Olsen, 16 years old, a senior at George
Washington High School, standing high in his classes
and especially interested in scientific studies, com-
mitted suicide by hanging himself with a dumbwaiter
cord in the basement storeroom that was his home.
‘““‘His father, a carpenter, had been out of work for
several months. Unable to pay the rent, the family had
been evicted and were occupying a basement
storeroom rent-free. The father said the only reason he
could give for the boy’s suicide was worry over their
financial condition.”
“How | stopped worrying and
learned to live with nukes”
The following is excerpted from the ‘Control Center
Comments,”” a monthly news sheet produced by the
Luzerne County Civil Defense Control Center, Cour-
thouse, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The heading “How 1 Learned to Stop Worrying and
Live With the Nuclear Plant,” is a not-so-light warning -
of how the citizenry is lulled into complacency concern-
ing the safety of nuclear power plants, and is the
opinion of the undersigned, not necessarily that of the
Post.
JOHN ALLEN
The heading used by the Civil Defense is simply
entitled:
NUCLEAR FACILITIES TEST EXERCISES
‘Three Pennsylvania nuclear plants are scheduled to
hold full scale test exercises within the next few
months. Included is the Susquehanna Steam Electric
Station in Salem Township. The purpose of the exer-
cises is to test the feasibility of the emergency response
plans from all levels of government, as well as the
utility company involved. Although this is the first ‘‘full
scale exercise’ for the plant, numerous ‘drills’,
testing the feasibility of certain aspects of the plan,
have been held. The “full scale exercise’’ will combine
all the aspects of the plans already tested in ‘‘drills’’,
and a simulated accident scenerio, developed by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission. After the initial
notification that an ‘‘accident’’ has occurred, all in-
volved agencies and participants will be activated and
practice reacting to the situations as they are given.
This may begin as an ‘Unusual Event’, where no
action is required, and work up to a ‘General
Emergency’’ status.
The involvement and testing of the municipalities’
reaction is also required, and it will be necessary for
‘the municipalities to demonstratre certain aspects of
their plans. The extent of participation from the
municipalities has not yet been determined, pending
further information and the scenerio finalization.
Further information pertaining to the municipalities
participation will be discussed in two upcoming work-
shops; one dealing with emergency workers and one:
designed for elected officials and local Civil Defense
Directors. Information on both workshops is included in
this months’ comments and we urge the local Directors
to contact members of the organizations within their
municipalities to ensure their attendance.
March 18, 1982 is the scheduled date for the exercise
involving Luzerne County and the Susquehanna Steam
Electric Station!
Letters
TO THE POST:
Please print this letter and please
let every paper in the U.S. print it
also. I am very sorry I have to write:
this letter in pencil. I don’t own an
ink pen.
Our government freezes our
wages, car industries have to give
up benefits that they have worked |
for all their lives and yet the biggest |
racket of all, the Blue Cross which |
is run by big shot doctors and |
medicare that I carry, go up every |
other month: I just cannot afford to|
pay such high costs for. medical
attention. Some factories can not
afford to give us workers the best
policies.
Why not let the state or govern-
ment take over these hospitals and
medicine we need? We would only
be too glad to pay so much for every
member in our family.
Our government could train
people to be good doctors and be
specialists in certain fields of
medicine and get rid of all the
crooked doctors in this country that
rob us poor people.
Wise up America, it’s time to get
rid of this sort of highway robbery
of us poor people.
Please, won't some one in this
country of ours help us poor people?
Let these doctors work for the same
wages we have to work for.
Tired of being bled to death
month after month. I just cannot
afford all these food, oil, and doctor
bills just to stay alive.
A DALLAS CITIZEN
(ED.NOTE: Why, oh why do people
with strong beliefs fail to stand up
and give their name? If your ideas
are worthy of publicly stating, state
them loudly and as clearly as
possible, but always stand behind
them by declaring who you are. The
Dallas Post will not print letters
that specifically attack individuals
BY NAME unless the author
identifies himself. Exceptions are
made when the letter speaks in
generalities, such as the above.)
Thought for
Today...
The wealthy dominate throughout
the world...working people fight for
security...the rich use their wealth:
to make more millions...the
laboring class struggle to survive.
Wealthy corporations monopolize,
with more inflation to burden the
poor. Greed and selfishness are
names of the game, people are
victims of more of the same. The
elderly and retired wonder
why... little concern whether they
live or die. The inflationary spiral
is so high, it’s more like a crust of
the same old pie.
F. BUDD SCHOOLEY, M.D.
DALLAS
Only Yesterday
30 Years Ago - Feb. 8, 1952
Mad foxes were still on the
rampage in the area with a huge
grey fox killed in Trucksville and
many sighted throughout the area.
Mrs. Harold Dixon, who was ad-
mitted to the hospital Jan. 31 after
being attacked by a rabid fox 10
days before, was being given the
anti-rabies serum and was reported
in good condition.
Robert Hontz and Richard Perry
were elected State Representatives
to the Legislature and represented
Westmoreland High School in the
State Model Legislature in Harris-
burg. Westmoreland was the only
Back Mountain school represented
in this program.
Engaged--Vera
Gilbert Tough.
Married--Lorraine Casterline to
Robert A. Moore; Ola Mae Mon-
tross to George Schoonover.
Deaths--Guy T. Sowden, Wilkes-
Barre; Jack Pauling, Dallas.
You could get--Smoked hams 59¢
1b.; standing rib roast 79c Ib.;
shrimp 79c 1lb.; oysters 89c pt.;
haddock 45c 1b.; slicing tomatoes
15¢ per pkg.; lettuce 10c head.
Whitesell to
20 Years Ago - Feb. 8, 1962
United Presbyterian Fellowship
purchased a seven-acre plot of
Junior High School on the road
leading to Irem Temple Country
Club. Rev. Andrew Pillarella was
appointed organizing minister for
the new church.
Ross Township School raised $316
for the Fred Hennebaul Fund. The
school planned to hold a variety
show to reach their goal of $500. Re-
cently injured in a wrestling meet,
Hennebaul was recuperating at
Geisinger Medical Center.
Ns
Engaged--Patricia Ann Jenkins to
Andrew G. Stasko; Carol Meade to
Robert Turak.
Anniversaries--Mr. and Mrs.
Torrence Naugle, Sweet Valley, 57
years; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Crispell,
Harveys Lake, 49 yeasrs.
Deaths--William = Barnard,
Lovelton; David D. Evans, Shaver-
town; Margaret Hildebrandt,
Dallas; Theodore Dix, formerly of
Dallas. a
You could get--Tuna 3-6» 0z. cans
95¢c; fig newtons 3 1-lb. pkgs. $1;
Campbell’s soups 6 for $1; hams 39¢c
1b. rib steaks 69c 1b.; wholewheat
bread 21c loaf.
10 Years Ago - Feb. 17, 1972
Dug Road Taxpayers Association
presented a petition to the Kingston
Township Board of supervisors
requesting installation of sewers in
their area. Luzerne County Housing
Authority was dragging its feet on
sewer connections for Meadow-
crest. The Dallas Area Municipal
Authority was assured by solicitor
authority could be made to hook on
if it did not cooperate. -
Engaged--Kathleen Whitesell to
Edward Jones, Jr.; Donna Lock-
hart to Harry Galletly.
Married--Mary Lou Jackowski to
Keith Arsenault.
Anniversaries--Mr. and Mrs.
Harold I. Smith, Beach Haven,
formerly of Dallas, 50 years.
Deaths--Luella A. Roberts,
Dallas; Steven Maceiko, Carpenter
Road; Laura Whitesell, Huntsville
Road, Glen Clark, Beaumont.
You could get--Turkeys 33c lb.;
pork chops 89c lb.; sliced bacon 1-
Ib. pkg. 39¢; Temple oranges 59c
doz.; ida Red apples 4 1b. bag 49c;
21 oz. can cherry pie filling 49c.
by Barry McWilliams
DUMB GIRLS
VALENTINE !
50 Years Ago - Feb. 5, 1932
An athletic benefit dance was
held at Dallas Borough High School
by the Sunowa Club. Proceeds fro
the affair wee used toward the pu¥e?
chase of showers for the athletic
dressing rooms.
A midnight blaze destroyed two
automobiles and the garage at the
home of Mrs. Charles Brobst. The
fire was believed to have originated
from short circuited automobile
wiring and caused more than $2,000
worth of damage. ;
Married--Harry = A. Kresge to
Frances DuBois.
Deaths--James S.
Kunkle.
You could get--Fig bars 2 lb. 19¢;
eggs 19c¢ doz.; cocoa 13c can;
pineapple 2 big cans 27c; raisin
bread 16 oz. loaf 10¢c.
Kunkle,
40 Years Ago - Feb. 6, 1942
Rev. Roswell Lyons began his
pastorate at Shavertown Methodist
Church. More than 150 people at-
tended the reception held in the
church parlors to welcome Rev.
Lyons.
register with the draft board
_war. effort. Boy: Scouts collecte
books for service men and a play
netted $150 for the Red Cross.
Engaged--Jane Gail Bishop to Bill
Kistler’ Hazel West to Jimmie
Kistler’ Hilda Wech to George
Hofmeister’ Emma Ruth Shaver to
William Broad.
Deaths--Rev. Samuel D. Knecht,
Shamokin; Tom Warmouth, former
Lehman resident.
oysters 32c pt.;
29¢ 1b.; cabbage 4c lb.;
per lg. lead; grapefruit 2 for 9c.
day
with
Debbie
Hey look everbody, I'm here--not
there--or gone, but here. What's
going on? TI’ll fill you in--grab a
seat.
I'll start with the controversial
issues down in Kingston Twp.,
namely; Hickory Corners where a
gentleman has proposed a new
arcade. I say ‘“‘great’’; along with’
hundreds of other youngsters (I'm
still in the young age bracket) in the
Back Mt. © I've been doing some
Pac-Man, (Video Games in
General) research and so far I can’t
really say that I have found the
ideal arcade. And to put the lady
who is worried about the drugs, etc:
that arcades bring, I'll point out
that lady is still living in a time
warp fantasy. Maybe the best cure
for her would be to visit some ar-
cades. If she is up at the mall, she
may have to wait her turn for a
machine--most of the sales clerks
from various stores occupy the
games on their ‘coffee’ breaks.
If she finds that surprising I
suggest Fat Man’s in Luzerne. You
can’t get in the place with even a
regular cigarette, yet along a
“funny’’ one.
Of course the people who ‘‘down”’
arcades haven't ‘been there--the
computer world is vicious. Why
with all those time zones, and
galaxians chasing you if I didn’t
know better I'd be petrified!
So far in this valley, I've given the
Space Trek, behind Ollies in
Edwardsville top billing. They had
some music along with’ the video's
the other night, and it was very
relaxing.
I never really thought of it but
when I'm in Franklin’s, 1 can
"79 graduate of Lake-Lehman to be
my waitress. Not only is the food
good, but the service is com-
mendable. ;
Some of you Rod Stewart fans
(including yours truly) should be
glad you weren't in Pittsburg to see
Rod. I've heard through my Pitt
connection that a mad man was
near the civic arena about a week
ago with a sawed off shot gun
bombarding all the buses passing
the arena. What a nightmare!
I’ve met an interesting girl who
has transferred from Duquesne
University in Pittsburgh to College
and she lives in Trucksville. She is
pursuing a journalism degree and
with the inflating tuition costs, took
a break from the $10,000 a year
Duquesne to pick up some credits at
“Miseri”’.
With Reagan cutting college funds,
it seems like some kids are going to
have to tighten their belts and hope
for the best in the years to come.
If you're looking for Laura Jones,
she’s moved. Laura and her
say ‘drop in and seem them
sometime’. Laura and Fran were
LL students and Laura also was at
Dallas for a while. Laura is another
video addict and if I hang around
Baur’s a while, Laura’s sure to turn
up.
Penn State’s tri-semester is about
should be in soon from main
campus. Leza called me the other
day to tell me her future roomate
will be up visiting with her during
the break. A girl named Contessa
sounds like a person I can’t wait to
meet. I'll be looking forward to
seeing you guys.
By the way, where’s my buddy
Sue Burk. I hear, (through
Borton) that Sue and my other"
buddy, Eileen Borton, are starring
in the Swoyersville Dinner Theater
“Brigadoon” soon to be released.
I'm glad to see they're not letting
their talent go to waste.
Congratulations Sue and Eileen!
Another person with some trivia
last week was Cindy Sutton. Over
some chocolate fried ice cream,
Cindy was pointing out the fact that
Luzerne County is ranked third in
the state for the most bars. She
recalls the figures to be something
like one bar for every 145 people.
Now that’s a lot of bars. Really,
there’s got to be something better
for the ‘“‘over-21” corwd to do
besides chug a mug! How about a
game of Pac Man?
Members of the Dallas School
District's board of directors and
interested parents’ may soon be
asked to exert some influence on
representatives at all levels of
government in order to save the
Title I reading program.
At a recent meeting of the
Parent’s Advisory Council, Jack
Wega, Dallas School’s Title I
director, said, ‘We might have to
exert some pressure on parents of
these children. If they care about
what the program is doing for the
children, we may then ask them to
make calls to school board mem-
bers.” \
Mr. Wega presented a summary
of a presentation given by Bill
Dallam, head of Compensatory
Education for the state of Penn-
sylvania. The presentation dealt
with the changes affecting Title I
reading and math programs for the
coming year.
was started during the early 60’s
and is designed to strengthen a
child’s basic skills in reading and
math:
The changes which will take
affect on July 1, include a 30 percent
to 40 percent cut on the state level.
Local funding will be influenced
proportionally. Other changes
reflect a general shifting away from
federal to state’ and local in-
volvement.
The new law, which is give pages
long, fails to address parental in-
volvement, except for one sentence
that calls for programs to be
designed and’ implemented in
teachers.
However, Mr. Wega feels that
parents are vitally important to the
Title I program at Dallas. ‘“‘Our
greatest ‘asset ‘in keeping this
program alive is the Title I parent,”
he said. ‘Dallas has always had
parental involvement and we plan
to continue to “have the parent
council.”
The parent council is made up of
parents of Title I children, parents
and teachers. Meetings are hel
four times a year.
The program is offered in the first
30 percent of the children in those
grades. ‘‘That’s an awful lot of kids
to ignore,” says Wega. ‘‘The future
of Title I in Dallas hedges on what
we hear from Harrisburg in the
next few months.”
Last year the variance across the
state ranged from one district that
districts that took a 25 percent cut. :
This year districts expect to face a
similar drop in funding.
until we hear something definite on
says Mr.
Wega. In the meantime, he plans to
go before the schoolboard and
explain the program to new
members of the board. /
CE