The two Back Mountain candi
dates for the office of District Mag-
istrate, Leonard Harvey and Rich-
ard Tattersall, nearly met under
rather unusual circumstances in the
court room of District’ 3-8 last
Thursday. Had candidate Tattersall
appeared as schéduled he would
have been the defendant«in .a case
being heard by the incumbent Mag-
istrate Harvey.
Charges against Tattersall; a Har-
veys Lake resident, for failure to
file .earned-ineome ‘taxreturns for
the: Tears. 1979," A980 and 1981 had
been tiled April 16 by Berkheimer
7 Associates. Tattersall did not
request a change of venue so that
his case would not be heard by his
political opponent but did request a
continuance.
In a Mail-O-Gram sent to Magis-
trate. Harvey from Tattersall’s Nep-
tune Chapel in Hunlock Creek, he
requested to haye the hearing post-
poned until after the election, stat-
ing in'part ‘I -personally feel you've
got enough coverage out of this one
case.” The request for continuance
was denied by. Magistrate Harvey
¢ ALIRALe ECUSE. : ;
gistrate ‘Harvey and: Berkhei-
itz waited a full hour beyond the 10
a.m. hearing time. Prior to that
time Tattersall had called Harvey's
home and told his wife that he
would be late because heshad to go
to the hospital.
After checking local hospitals and
finding Tattersall had not been
admitted, Magistrate Harvey’ ruled
that Tattersall was in default of
appearance and awarded the case
to Berkheimer. The fine for this
offense ‘may be ‘set upto a maxi
ru 6 $500 A warrant was 1Ssted
for Tattersall's drnest ‘and given fo
a local constable to be served.
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A Better Idea
BY JANE BOLGER
Underage drinking is a growing
problem recognized not only here in
the Back Mountain where a panel
discussion was held at the Dallas
Senior High School, but also by the
State Senate. Two Senate Bills are
currently being sponsored, the first
would fine’ teenage drinkers a mini-
mum of $300 for a first offense. The
second bill would allow sentencing
of youths to work in their own local
municipality or school district under
the direction of the court.
The first bill, which increases the
fine to $500 for a second offense, has
been widely hailed and received a
great deal of publicity. The second
bill SB535 has never come out for a
veto and is known as a ‘sleeper’
except in certain judicial cireles
where it is considered a far more
constructive solution to curbing
teenage drinking.
The principle is simple, according
to Magistrate . Earl Gregory who
was questioned on his feelings on
the two bills. “If I fine a kid $300
and his mother and father pay, it
doesn’t accomplish anything. The
Sharon Dougherty, a sophomore
at Dallas Senior High School
recently attended the Hugh O'Brian
Youth Fundation Seminar in Lan-
caster, from April 7 through April
14.
“Sharon was chosen by sophomore
teachers to represent Dallas Senior
High School. She was chosen based
on the criteria of leadership ability,
sensitivity to others, desiresfor
knowledge and ability to relate to
new and different experiences.
Sharon had the opportunity to
visit the capitol in Harrisburg and
also to tour Three Mile island.
During the course of the seminar,
to various speakers and to partici-
pate in different discussion groups.
Free
Store
Lake-Lehman Education Associa-
tion will conduct its second Free
Store for students, parents and
other residents of the Lake-Lehman
School District. The faculty col-
lected clothing, toys and miscella-
neous articles, processed them and
will display them in the multi-
purpose room of the Lake-Lehman
Junior High School for shoppers to
select free of charge. The Free
Store will open at 5 p.m. and close
at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 26.
Concert
Friday
The Dallas Junior High Band will
perform a public concert, without
charge, Friday evening, May 20, in
the school auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Sixty-five musicians will play under
the theme ‘Infinite Variety In
Music,” from ‘‘Overture 1812,”
through selections from ‘‘Music
Man’’ to ‘Chariots of Fire,” plus
Latin, folk, concert rock, and mar-
tial music. A well-known soloist will
make a special guest appearance.
It’s The
aw
In order to prevent the possiblility
of disaster and heartbreak, the
Dallas Post reminds parents, teens
and friends across the Back Moun-
taln that a life is a tragic thing to
waste. Our graduates are just
beginning to take their place in this
world. Let’s insure that they have
the chance. Let us not forget in the
excitement of prom and graduation
time, that our youth are still just
that--youth. They are neither legally
old enough nor mature enough to
handle alcohol.
Prevent a tragedy! i
Ignorance of the law is no
defense! Any person over the age of
21 who furnishes a minor with
alcoholic beverages or who misrep-
resents a minor to be of legal age
for the purpose of obtaining alco-
holic beverages is subject to arrest
and conviction under the provisions
of the Crimes Code and the Liquor
Code.
By obeying the law, we can insure
a safe and happy end of the school
year fer our children. And, we can
insure that they will have the best
chance at beginning their adult
years,
offender doesn’t learn a thing,” he
stated. ‘‘Justice and money don’t-
have anything in common,’”’ he con-
tinued stating further “I'd rather
see the one who threw the beer cans
along the road pick them up and
Other magistrates have had simi-
lar ideas over the years and have
sentenced teenage offenders to such
jobs as weeding along the highway,
fixing broken windows in schools,
working on township road crews,
washing fire engines and police
cars, shoveling snow and just about
any other job that was needed. The
personal involvement, the public
exposure and the job training
aspects of this approach were
judged to be excellent. But, unfor-
tunately magistrates do not actually
have the authority to sentence teen-
age offenders to personally work off
their offenses.
The Senate Bill would solve that
problem. it would leave it up to the
discretion’ of the local judiciary to
sentence offenders to ‘public serv-
ice projects under the supervision of
any municipality within the judi-
ciary district,” explained Gregory.
“In addition the municipality would
not be liable to the offender under
Workmans Compensation laws.”
This bill would also cover sen-
tencing for other minor, non-crimi-
nal offenses in addition to underage
drinking.
Under that aspect of the bill, a
youth convicted of Criminal Mis-
chief could be sentenced to physi-
cally repair the damage he had
caused. Someone found guilty of
retail theft could also be sentenced
to actually work for the store owner
or a speeder could work at the
crew.
“Most kids have no income,”
Gregory stated. ‘If a person isn’t
working, he can’t make the pay-
ment. This is a good alternative.”
Most parents questioned felt exactly
the same way, that they'd rather
see their kids working off their
sentences. One mother said,
“They'd think twice aout drinking
again if all their frientls saw them
washing windows at school.”
So
Guidance Counselor
the sophomore
(Dan Walsh Photo)
A hearing will be held Thursday,
May 19 for John Brdaric of Bunker
Hill who has repeatedly been
accused of operating an illegal
dumping ground in the area. An
irate group of Kingston Twp. citi-
zens who have been protesting
Brdaric’s operation for several
months is expected to attend.
Brdaric is charged with Violation
of Permitted Uses In A Conserva-
tion Area and Storage of Demolition
Materials and the Dumping Thereof
in an Agricultural Area. The two
summary offense charges were filed
by Kingston Twp. Zoning Officer
John Dana before Magistrate Earl
Gregory who will hear the case.
Another 32 charges against Brdaric
expected to be filed by the Depart-
ment of Environmental Resources
since last October have not been
filed to date.
Over $20,000 worth of jewelry was
stolen from a Kingston Twp. home
this. week when burglars broke a
window to gain entry into the resi-
dence of Kathleen Pacewicz, Box
222, RD' 3, Wyoming. The robbery
took place in the middle of the
afternoon while Mrs. Pacewicz was
away for a short period of time.
In addition to numerous dia-
monds, gold and wedgewood pieces
of jewelry, the burglars also stole a
Smith and Wesson 22 caliber west-
ern revolver and a set of sterling
silver. Kingston Twp. Police Chief
Paul Sabol reports that police are
presenting investigating several
leads in the case.
The theft of a pickup truck from
the parking lot at Sam’s Villa on the
Tunkhannock Highway is under
investigation by Dallas Township
Police. The 1978 dark brown with
cream striping Ford truck is owned
by Roy Martin, RD 1, Dallas. The
original investigation was made by
patrolman John Appel.
Another truck, a 1979 Chevrolet
model owned by John Gosart, Over-
brook Avenue, Dallas was reported
vandalized. The windshied of the
vehicle was shout out with a BB gun
while the truck was parked over-
night.
An AM-FM Panasoic cassette and
radio, valued at $300, was reported
stolen from College Misericordia.
Dallas Twp. Police report the equip-
ment had been locked in a closet
room at some unknown prior date
and was not discovered missing
until last week.
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