Vol. 92, No. 44
The question is: Will they still have
it after Saturday’s game, or will it fall
The Dallas Mountaineers and
Lake-Lehman Knights will compete
for the Old Shoe, Saturday, Nov. 20,
at the Edward Edwards Stadium at
Lehman.
It will be the 34th time the
bronzed shoe will be up for grabs
between two Back Mountain
Schools. The Dallas Rotary Club
initiated the bronze shoe compe-
tition in 1948 with the intent that the
-0ld Shoe trophy was to remain with
the school who won a set number of
That has
changed through the years and now,
each year the winner of the tradi-
tional game between Dallas and
Shoe.
ship, now a part of the Dallas School
District, took home the shoe. Other
winners were Dallas Township,
Lehman-Jackson Township, Dallas-
Franklin Township and Westmore-
The Mountaineers kept the shoe
for 17 out of the past 22 games. They
also kept it for eight consecutive
seasons from 1970 through 1977. In
1978 the Knights, under Coach Rich
Gorgone, took home the shoe and in
1979, under Coach Tom Hisiro, the
Knights again won the shoe.
In 1980 and 1981, under Coach Ron
Rybak, the Dallas Mountaineers
won the shoe and it now rests in the
Dallas High School football trophy
case.
The contest is considered a toss-
up eacj uear fpr a special kind of
rivalry exists between these two
schools, who during the rest of the
season cheer for each other against
other teams in the Wyoming Valley
Conference. Though many will ex-
press support of their individual
schools, few will predict the out-
come of the Old Shoe Game, for
they know that anything can hap-
pen.
Knights Coach Mark Kirk, in his
first season at Lake-Lehman, has a
young, inexperienced team but they
are fast and aggressive and deter-
season have been much closer than
the scores indicate. Junior quarter-
Al Martin, Chris Boyle and Tracey
Slocum have been turning in some
outstanding performance for the
Knight.
Dallas Coach Ron Rybak also has
a young téam, having lost 18 seniors
through graduation in June. He has
had some great play from powerful
backs Matt Moran and Greg||
Kravitsky. Jerry Rollman, Sam
Noone, Gregg Dukinas and D.|
Bolton have turned in super per-||
formances. Senior quarterback I
Steve Federici and junior QB}
Bernie Walsh have had some good!|
passing games and Steve Thomas is |
an athlete to be reckoned with. |
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Both coaches agree that it can be’
an exciting contest and one where |
you throw away the record books. |
As Coach Ron Rybak said, “Any- |
thing can happen in a game bet- |
ween the Mountaineers and |
Knights. The desire to win and the ||
effort put forth could well be the ||
deciding factor. |
About that Old Shoe...Come out |
Saturday to see the winner... Lake- ||
Lehman's . Edward Edw ds
Stadium, 2 p.m. Tan
Pennsylvania’s Department of
Transportation will work with a $90
million budget to to battle winter
weather this year. With the state
having the largest highway, system
requiring snow removal in the
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17 percent of all money available
for use in 1982-83.
In Luzerne County alone, snow
removal crews cover 950 lineal
miles for a total of 2,400 lane miles
of roadway. This includes 614
bridges.
According to Transportation
Secretary Thomas D. Larson,
expenditures for equipment and
materials account for the largest
1982-83 Winter
Maintenance Budget
Labor
$$83
$83
Salt - 470,000 Tons
Anti-Skid Material -
1.2 Million Tons
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portion of the winter maintenance
budget. Almost $16 million has been
spent for fleet additions, bringing
the total to 9,100 pieces, including
dump trucks, plows, graders,
loaders and backhoes. Over the last
four years, over $40' million has
been spent on upgrading and
maintaining equipment. Depending
on the need, about 1,000 additional
vehicles will be available as rental
supplements to the standard fleet.
The county utilizes 87 pieces of
equipment, 45 of which are rented
from private operators.
On the savings side, PennDOT
figures show the department has
saved about $4 million annually
since 1979 by reducing salt usage.
Salt, at $26 per ton, is the most
expensive material used for winter
maintenance. Based on calculations
for an average winter, the depart-
ment estimates salt usage for the
upcoming season at 470,000 tons.
Anti-skid materials, including sand
and cinders (and costing one
quarter the amount of salt) is ex-
pected to reach 1.2 million tons.
Larson explained the state uses
salt as efficiently as possible by
mixing it with sand, calibrating
spreaders more carefully and more
closely monitoring usage. Salt has
been found to be effective on
heavily traveled roads and when
the temperature is above 25
degrees. It does cause erosion ‘of
road and bridge surfaces and can
cause ground water pollution if not
stored properly.
buyer in the nation. The department
stores its salt supplies in perma-
nently covered domes. Fifteen such
structures were built last year,
bringing the total statewide to 49.
This is enough to store 30 percent of
all salt left after winter.
Lierne County’s stockpile for
starting the winter season includes
17,000 tons of salt and 40,000 of anti-
skid materials stored in 12
locations.
Of course, labor costs are the
single largest expenditure for
winter maintenance. Across the
tate, 800 removal crews come out
whenever the white stuff begins to
fall.
Locally this translates to 90
equipment operators who, begin-
ning Nov, 15, will go on the dueal
shift system. Dual shift goes into
high gear as of Dec. 15 and con-
Two groups of Back Mountain
effectively fight increased . utility
rates. To protect themselves from
inevitable water rate increases and
maintain control over future
operations, the residents of Chase
Manor and Fieldcrest in Jackson
Township bought their respective
water companies.
Both developments are served by
wells previously owned by John
Fielding. When Fielding indicated a
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the opportunity. They formed
associations, incorporated and are
now shareholder in their own water
companies.
“The way utilities keep in-
creasing rates, you could see what
would happen if someone just
bought it for an investment,’ said
Chase Manor Water Association
president Albert Jenkins.
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The Chase Manor well has been
purchased outright from Fielding
by the shareholders, for $15,000.
Each family contributed an equal
amount to the purchase price and
. each owns one share in the ‘com-
pany. As a non-profit organization,
Jenkins explained, the company is
not under PUC control.
The hope is to keep water rates at
the present $100 per year. “The fee
will hopefully .cover improvements
and repairs, at least for now,” said
Jenkins.
If necessary, any rate hikes will
come through a democratic
process. The corporation is run by a
board of nine directors. Vice-
president of the association is Sam
Pauletti and secretary-treasurer
John Stubeda.
Another reason homeowners at
Chase Manor were anxious to keep
the well from falling into the hands
- Kingston Township recently com-
pleted the installation of a new solid
state system of traffic lights, which
they are confident will improve
traffic conditions along Memorial
Highway in the township.
Three new 12-inch lights have
been installed at a total cost of
$43,581, replacing the former eight
inch traffic signals in operation
since 1962. “The old lights served
the township well,” said Township
Manager Mark Kunkle, ‘ “‘consider-
ing there was an average daily
traffic of 20,000 vehicles during
those 20 years.”
The new lights replace those
formerly at Carverton Road and
a
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of an outsider, is that it provides a
better-than-adequate water flow.
“It served us throughout the
drought without fail. We felt we'd
like to protect the water supply for
the development,” said Jenkins.
At Fieldcrest, the situation is
similar with only the details
varying. Tom Adams, president of
cited the same reasons for the
almost 40 families in the develop-
ment to purchase the well. Field-
crest has set up a payment schedule
with Fielding and hopes to pay the
$10,000 purchase price by next year.
“We're feeling it out right now,”
said Adams.
the start that it could work but there
are problems to be solved.”
One of the problems is getting
tain the well’ and run the cor-
poration. Adams believes this will
Rte. 309, Pioneer Avenue and Rte.
309, and at Center Street and Rte.
309. All of these have a left turn
signal, one left on Carverton Road,
left on Pioneer, and the third left on
Center Street, Shavertown.
They also have a pedestrian
signal for the side streets, a button
to be pushed by the person who
wants to cross. Loop detectors in
the highway create a sensitivity
field. When cars go over these
detectors, a signal goes into the
signal control that there is a car
waiting and in seconds the light
changes.
There is a preemption button on
the signal at Carverton Road where
the fire hall is located which can be
A
kind of voluntary effort is involved.
“It’ll probably come down to a few
doing most of it, but that’s always
how it happens,” he said.
Owning their water company puts
these residents in an enviable
position in the Back Mountain.
Water woes have long been a prime
gripe in many sections of the
community. Shavertown residents
recently ‘aired more complaints
before the PUC at a hearing to
determine yet another rate increase
for the Shavertown Water Com-
pany. It can also’ be assumed a good
number of people are paying more
than $100 per year for highly
inadequate service. Such customers
probably would be very happy to
own the water company. Although
not feasible for all kinds of
residential developments, the. idea
may well be a forerunner of things
to come.
pushed for an emergency vehicle to
go through. The signal will change
to red on the north and south bound
lanes of Rte. 309 and on Church
Road: The signal stays green for 70
seconds then goes to red so the
emergency vehicles can get out of
Carverton Road.
From midnight to 6 a.m., the
signals at Carverton Road and at
Harris Hill (Pioneer Avenue) will
go into low volume flashing state.
The one at Center Street will con-
tinue to operate red and green.
the lights from Signal Service, the
installation was done by Kuharchik
Construction.
tinues until ‘mid-March. Basically,
it consists of a 24-hour radio
monitoring system and crews on
hand from 4 a.m. to noon, and noon
to 8 p.m. shifts. The remaining
hours are covered with radio
monitors and road patrols.
Snow removal is based on a
specific priority system which is the
same throughout the state. Under
the system, the most heavily
traveled roads such as interstates
are plowed first. Primary and
limited access routes with heavy
traffic are serviced second, and
rural roads with light to moderate
traffic, third. 2
Many secondary roads are ser-
viced through municipal snow
removal agreements. Under these
contracts, the department pays a
municipality to ‘plow state roads
a record number of agreements
covered some 6,300 miles of roads.
This number has been increased by
more than 100 percent since 1977-78,
percent. For the upcoming season,
PennDOT has signed more than 600
agreements with local
municipalities for servicing over
5,000 miles of roads. The county has |
a total of 17 municipal agreements |
to cover 128 miles of state road. This |
is only slightly increased from pre: |
vious figures.
The agreements appear to be |
cost-effective from the State’s point |
of view because in many cases local |
crews must pass over state roads to
plow their own. The agreements
expedite snow removal on local
roads while freeing department
crews to concentrate on plowing the =
more heavily traveled roads. 5
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Considering the above impressive
list of facts and figures, it would |
appear Pennsylvanians should be
able to rest easy and feel well
protected * from the coming on-
slaught. The facts indicate the State
is prepared for winter, are you?
PennDOT spokesman Joe Quinn
explained it costs the public $50,000
every time an inch of snow falls on
the ground. He warned the Tran-
sportation Department big as it is,
is dwarfed by the enormity of
keeping the State’s roads free for
travel during the snow season. He
said the public can help to keep the
costs down by practicing snow
preparedness themselves.