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Askin’ & Tellin’ 4
W® CarLot 14,15,16,17
Classified 19
Coming Events 5
Cookbook 6
On the West Side 12,13
School Page 18
Social 7
Sports Post 9.10
Wilkes-Barre Fats 10
Vol. 92, No. 40
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25 Cents
Roads Damaged
Kingston Township Police have
issued several warnings to the bus
driver and school bus contractor
Leon Emmanuel concerning
damage to the pavement of Harris
Hill Road. Police say an extended
tailpipe on Bus No. 3 scrapes the
pavement on the road, causing it to
tear up. Police Chief Paul Sabol
said the problem has been ongoing
since the start of the school year.
Don Moss, inspections mechanic
for Emmanuel, explained the
“We have five buses traveling that
route every day and only one hits,”
he said. “If it were the bus, they'd
all be hitting.”
Moss said the same problem
to hit. They are all carrying 72
person leads which adds to the
weight. But I can take anyone of our
buses through those areas and not
hit.”
Sabol said he is particularly
concerned that the problem be re-
solved because the road is new and
Jackson Township Police Chief
and Pennsylvania State Trooper
Robert Stizer are continuing an
investigation into a burglary at an
RD 2 Dallas home, which netted
thieves seven firearms, several of
vintage quality. The home of Meryl
Wagner was burglarized sometime
during the hours of 7 and 9:15 p.m.
on Friday, Oct. 15.
Taken, along with the firearms,
was a 13’’ Zenith color television, a
General Electric radio-cassette
Kingston Township Police Chief
Paul Sabol has already received
calls from citizens complaining of
property vandalism normally
associated with the Halloween
season. Sabol said his department
will have increased patrols
throughout the next two weeks.
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recorder combination, a fire ex-
tinguisher and $30. The firearms
included a Mossburg bolt action .22
rifle with four power Bushnell
scope; a .32 caliber Winchester
Special, pre 1864 model, lever ac-
tion; an Ithica featherweight, 20
gauge pump shotgun; a .50 caliber
Thompson-Hawkens black powder
rifle; a 45 caliber Pennsylvania
long Kentucky rifle, black powder;
a 308 caliber Remington 780 rifle;
and a .38 special, four inch blue
barrell revolver.
Anyone caught destroying or
damaging property, whether it be
other means, will be arrested and
charged with criminal mischief on a
summary offense. Persons con-
victed of the offense! will be subject
to fines. \
Board Approved
The recent increase in administrative salaries
approved by the Dallas School Board are with a few
exceptions below the average of administrators
listed by participating districts across the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania. Approximately 50 per-
cent of the districts in the same classification as
Dallas, by size 5 and by wealth 3, submitted ad-
ministrative salaries to the state These salaries
were reported at different times during the 1981-82,
according to the date the increases were approved
by each district.
The average salaries by size and wealth including
the inflationary figure for 1982-83 school year are as
follows: Superintendent, $45,327; Assistant
$33,798; Assistant secondary principals, $28,509;
Elementary principals $30,648; and business
manager, $27,512.
In approving administration salaries the board
increased Dr. Richard Shipe, district superin-
tendent’s salary from $41,500 to $44,500 annually, or
$3,000, approximately $1,000 below the average
across the state. Gerald J. Wycalis, assistant to the
superintendent, was increasd from $32,000 to
$35,000, $1,927 lower than the average.
If your local neighborhood police officer appears
to be looking extra long at your vehicle as it passes
on the highway, it is not necessary to become overly
alarmed. A number of area patrolmen are involved
in answering a survey for the Pennsylvania Police
Chief’s Association, to be used in lobbying a piece of
legislation requiring dual license plates for motor
vehicles.
_ The survey has an interesting twist, as it is also
being taken in neighboring Ohio, which already has
a dual license system and is considering its aban-
donment. Similar questions are being asked of
patrolmen- and traffic contre personnel in beth
states, with the results going to lawmakers for
consideration before the next plate issue in 1984.
The survey is being conducted by Market Opinion
Research of Detroit, Mich. and is expectged to pro-
vide valuable information on the use of license
plates as a law enforcement tool. Dallas Township
patrolmen received copies of the survey last week.
Instructions indicated that all patrolmen should
answer and several randomly selected officers.
Police Chief, Carl Miers, a member of the Law
Committee of the Police Chief’s AssociaTion, cited
New faces at
Three new professional employees joined the staff
of Dallas Senior High School during the past two
weeks. {
Pamela Bird Hargas, Plymouth, was appointed
Sophomore Guidance Counselor to fill the position
Dallas.
A graduate of Wyoming Seminary, Ms. Hargas
received a B.A. degree in psychology and
elementary education from Lycoming College. She
has a M. Ed. in counseling from Lehigh University.
Ms. Hargas is presently teaching general
psychology at Luzerne County Community College.
Prior to returning to Wyoming Valley, she held a
position as counselor at Holy Cross High School in
Lynchburg, Va. Her first position was at Wyoming
Valley West as a counselor.
In addition to sophomore counselor, she will serve
as INCOMES (I Now Can Organize My
Employment Skills) Counselor.
Paul Brown of Wilkes-Barre is the new health and
physical education teacher, filling the position held
by Clint Brobst, who retired at the beginning of the
NEW EMPLOYEES--Edgar W. Hughes,
Dallas Senior High School principal, reviews
school policies with the three new
professional employees at the high school.
Seated, left to right, are Pam Hargas,
received an increase of $4,800 from $29,200 to |
$34,000, $202 above the average. His years of tenure ||
within the district were taken into consideration by (|
the board. Former junior high assistant principal, |
Daniel M. Poorman, was named principal of the I
junior high at an annual salary of $28,500, $2,500 {|
more than his 1981-82 salary of $25,500 but $5,298 less |
than the estimated state average. % {
Frank Galicki of Mocanaqua was appointed !
assistant senior high principal, to replace the i
position left open by Dr. Brook Hunt’s resignation
state estimated average.
Elementary principal Ruth Husband’s salary was
increased from $25,500 to $27,000 or $3,648 less than
the estimated average. Westmoreland elementary
principal Samuel A. Barbose received an increase
of $1,800 annually from $22,600 to $24,400, $6,248 less
than the estimated average of $30,648.
Business manager Sandra Rohrbach’s increase in
salary from $18,000 to $22,000 is $5,512 below the
estimated state average of $27,512.
The approved administrative salaries come to a
total of $269,800, or $26,440 below the estimated
average of administration salaries of participating
schools ‘of the same size and wealth across the
Commonwealth.
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several advantages to the dual plate system. There |
is, he said, more opportunity for witnesses to notice
registration numbers on a vehicle fleeing the scene
of a crime. Even a few identifying numbers on a
plant render police broadcast descriptions more
accurate. Traffic patrolmen are afforded more
safety in pursuing a vehicle observed breaking the
law as it is possible to note the registration in on-
coming traffic.
Opponents indicate the cost of the change will be
formidable, but Miers disagrees. ‘‘It probably won't
be that expensive. The plates are made in prisons. If
they can punch oul the muribers once, why can't
they just do it twice?’ Miers also noted the cost of
vehicle registration in Pennsylvania is substant-
ially less than it is in surrounding states.
Miers is hoping that attention to the license plate
system will also result in a change in the reflector
‘‘goof up”. He explained the police chiefs pushed to
have Pennsylvania license plate reflective numbers
for better readability at night. The idea was
followed up in the last issuance of plates but it was
the background, not the numbers which was made
reflective.
school term.
He has a B.S. degree in health and physical
education from West Chester State College. Prior to
accepting the position at Dallas Senior High, he was
employed by the Luzerne Intermediated Unit in its
special education program.
The new assistant high school principal replacing
Dr. Brook Hunt is Frank Galicki of Mocanaqua.
assistant junior high school principal in the Berwick
School District.
He graduated from Nanticoke High School where
he was a member of the varsity football team and
received a B.A. in social studies education from
Wilkes-Barre where he also played football.
Galicki received his Masters from Scranton
University and his principal's certificate in 1978.
He taught at Northwest High School from 1973 to
1978 before going to Berwick. He is married to the
former Teresa Brown of Wilkes-Barre. They have
three girls, Doramarie, age two; and twins, Tess
and Lena, ages one.
Galicki is presently an assistant coach in football
at Wilkes College. He hopes to relocate in the
Dallas Area in the near future. |
assistant high school principal; standing,
Paul Brown, health and physical education
teacher.