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Charges have been filed against
the driver of a 350-horsepower Mas-
tercraft speedboat responsible for
the death of four people June 18 at
Harveys Lake.
District Justice Leonard Harvey
of Dallas presided at a preliminary
hearing Friday at 1:30 p.m.
Dennis John Abromavage, 24, of
84 Columbus ‘Ave.,’ Pittston, was
charged with eight counts of invol-
untary manslaughter, one count of
aggrevated assault, four counts of
recklessly endangering another
person, two counts of reckless and
negligent operation of a watercraft
and one count of operating a water-
~ craft under the influence of alcohol.
Killed in the accident were Sharon
Pallis, 39, of Valley View Drive, RD
3, Wyoming; her son Joseph, 6;
Karen Pitcavage, 34, of Crown Hill
Village, Box 146, RD 3, Wyoming;
and her son Thomas, 7.
Michelle Pallis, 10, was critically
injured in the accident and remains
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in the intensive care unit at Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital.
Leonard Pallis Jr., 39; Thomas
Pitcavage, and his daughter, Mel-
issa, 11, were passengers in Pallis’
19-foot Baja outboard motorboat but
escaped injury.
It is not anticipated that any
charges will be filed against Mark
Turner, of Shavertown, owner of the
speedboat.
In other related matters, the Har-
veys Lake Protective Association
held a closed-door meeting June 26
to discuss possible ways of making
Harveys Lake safer for boating.
President Guy Giordano and
members of the Association drew up
the following proposals in an effort
to increase safety on the lake.
- Warning signs at all public boat-
access roads telling boaters to
travel counter-clockwise on the lake
- Buoys should be installed, mark-
ing the distance 100 feet from shore.
- The state Fish Commission
should be urged to step up lake
patrols.
- State legislators should be asked
and require all boaters to be
licensed and carry property and
liability insurance.
- The borough government and the
state Fish Commission. should be
urged to inspect boats to insure
engines are not too large, that boats
have safety equipment, and that
swimmers stay ‘within 100 feet of
docks. Speedboating should be
banned after dark.
- Local residents would help
patrol the lake in their own boats.
The Harveys Lake Borough Coun-
cil and the Pennsylvania Fish Com-
mission are . expected to hold a
meeting July 21 to discuss safety at
Harveys Lake.
Borough Council is also expected
to conduct a public meeting for the
purpose of discussing safety issues
at a time to be announced.
Memorial Library Auction.
By JANE C. BOLGER
Post Correspondent
The barn behind the Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library is bursting
with goods, new and old, that will
start crossing the block this Thurs-
Qo when the 37th Annual Library
Auction starts under the leadership
of Chairman Joann Freeman. As
always, antiques will be one of the
biggest draws and Antique Co-chair-
men, Barbara Lemmond and Anne
Davies, have some really unique
items to offer.
The two sisters, Mrs. Lemmond
and Mrs. Davies, who have been
hard at work for months, take pride
in showing the merchandise for
auction. Included among their finds
are such things as an antique green
velvet sofa, a copper tea kettle and
a cut glass water tumbler that is
one of a matched pair. Also, there is
a one-of-a-kind cranberry bowl, a
pink satin rose bowl and a lustre
china sugar bowl.
Auction Chairman Joann Free-
man, who hopes to reach an auction
goal of $70,000, climbed up on the
block to show some of the other
treasures to be sold to the highest
bidder. There was a wicker baby
buggy, a refinished wooden flap top
trunk and a five-quart bucket Tele
painted by Meryl Young. There is
also a silver pitcher’ enscribed
“Best In Breed’’ which is just one of
the items from the Harvey estate
that will be featured.
* There are a host of other antiques
such as the two black leather trunks
to fit on the back of a roadster, a
salesman’s wooden jewelry case
shade painted and signed by Ollie
Schallenburger, and a set of copper
candlesticks. There is also a J.B.
Carr biscuit box bearing the com-
pany’s original South Main Street
address, a copper oil can, a batter
jug labeled Pittston, a small oil
painting, “Back Mountain Fall Fai-
nery’ done many years ago by
Margery Harvey Smith as well as a
nest of four Shaker boxes.
There is something for everyone,
particularly if you love the library
and are willing to support it. You
can easily go home with a treasure,
particularly if you are lucky enough
to win the pine slant top desk or the
lamp with the shade painted by
Helen Lamb that are being chanced
off.
Or you could start collecting your
own antique art portfolio by buying
one of the numbered prints of the
library auction done by Sue Hand
which will depict the same scene as
her yearly watercolor original that
will be sold over the auction block.
Take your pick, just be there early
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, get a good seat, buy a bag
of books, a hot dog and start bid-
ding.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Post Correspondent
Dallas Senior High School ecology
instructor, Wayne Hughes, will con-
tinue in his position at the senior
high during the 1983-84 school year.
The resolution of the Educational
B Committee to retain Hughes at the
Senior High School rather than
transfer him to the junior high was
at the June 30 meeting. The board’s
approval was met with applause by
those in the audience and both
student and faculty representatives
expressed their appreciation to the
directors for their decision.
In approving the 1983-84 $8,300,393
budget, the board members
remain at 111 mills, per capita tax
at $10, earned income tax at one
percent, and occupational tax at
$10. The earned income tax and
shared equally between the district
and its respective municipalities.
~The directors alse announced that
Dallas Elementary and Trucksville
Elementary, buildings will
appraised but no decision has been
made by the board as to the disposi-
tion of the properties. The future of
the elementary schools will not be
decided until the appraisals are
completed.
Representatives of the Back
Mountain Library Association
attended the meeting and again
indicated their interest in obtaining
the Dallas Borough Elementary
Building for the library’s "use.
Library officials believe the build:
ing will afford the additional space
needed for the rapidly growing com-
munity facility.
The school board directors were
unable to open the bids for the Dreis
Project due to an error in the
specifications by the Soil Conserva-
tion Service. The specifications will
have to be corrected and new pro-
posal forms sent to the interested
contractors.
Approved as assistant coaches at
the junior. high school were Charles
Suppon; football; Michael Caputo,
soceer; and Candace Fike, girls’
hockey coach.
No action was taken by the board
to fill the principal’s position at the
senior high school left vacant by
Edgar Hughes recent retirement.
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By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
Joann Freeman sometimes finds herself With $0
many things to do, she doesn’t know which to do first.
Acting as this year’s chairman of the Annual Back
Mountain Memorial Library Auction, Mrs. Freeman
has found that her time is not her own anymore, but
rather that of the library’s.
“I simply love the auction,” she said when asked why
anyone would want to burden themselves with so much
responsibility. ‘I have been involved with it since 1977
when my husband (Kerry) was chairman.”
The Upper Demunds Road resident explained that the
bulk of her responsibilities includes coordinating the
efforts of all the committees involved in putting the
auction fogether.
“My job is to find people to head the eommittees,”
she said. “Most of the committees are coming along
fine: They're doing a super job and it’s all volunteer-
ism. N@ one is paid for the work they do for the
auetion”
Mrs. ‘Freeman explained the work of the auction
chairifin should really begin in February of every
year in order to coordinate all that is involved. Since
she got started a little later than usual this year, she
has relly had her hands full getting everything ready.
Her wviork, however, will culminate when the auction
opens its doors tomorrow evening at 6:00.
Thi auction will run from July 7-10 with doors
o neng al 8 nim: both Thursday and Friday. The
children’ s auction will be held Saturday morning at 10
with the regular auction getting underway at 1 p.m. on
Saturday. The auction will resume Sunday at 1 p.m.
According to Mrs. Freeman, there is no real closing
time for the auction every day as that depends on the
crowd itself.
“The auctioneers feel out the crowd,” she said.
the crowd is good, then the auction will continue.”
The chairman explained the auctioneers all work on a
volunteer basis, also.
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“We have doctors, lawyers, engineers and hardware
store owners,”’ she said. ‘There really is a wide variety
of people involved and every one of them is a
volunteer.”
Some of the things those who plan to attend this
year’s auction can look forward to are Antiques, New
Goods, Odds ’N Ends, Candy Booth, Baked Goods and
Fruit Booth, T-Shirt Booth, Funnel Cakes, Book Booth,
Refreshment Booth and Children’s Activities.
“We really have some super children’s activities this
year,”’ Mrs. Freeman said. ‘I’m sure the kids will lave
a good time and, while their parents are viewing fhe
auction articles, they can be sure their children are
safe.”
Joann also explained that the children’ Ss auction isa
rather unique part of the whole affair.
“The library really doesn’t make any mohey on the
children’s auction,” she said. “But the children's
auction does give the kids the opportunity to get the
flavor of the auction. Some kids will walk away with a
treasured item for only two dollars but they feel as if
they have participated.”
Mrs. Freeman's 13-year-old son, Brian, is a volunteer
with the Children’s Auction.
“Brian has been working with the auction since he
was 5 years old,” -she explained. ‘‘He started by
working with Mrs. Crump, carrying books for the Book
Booth.”
Mrs. Freeman: explained her whole family has
become a part of the auction.
“When somebedy inoul family golsainuGhved with
something, it is usually’ a whole family effort,’ she
added. “We all get involved in one way or another. 2
Mrs. Freeman's husband is also a volunteer this year
as is 9-year-old, Kelly.
The Freemans have been working together,
they have been working. hard - to make this year’s
auction a success. The real test, however, comes
Thursday at 6 p.m. when the curtain opens on the 1983
Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction.
Dallas Pos
Face Nine-Mill
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Post Correspondent
Increase
the board to discuss the proposal,
the board returned and Garinger
Lake-Lehman taxpayers will pay
107 mills, a nine-mill increase, fol-
lowing the adoption of the 1983-84
school budget by the Board last
week.
It took the directors two rounds of
voting before a majority approved
the adoption of the budget. The first
vote failed to pass when directors
Arnie Garinger, Don Jones, Allen
Keiper, Ed Mark and Allen Sorchik
voted ‘“no’’ due to the proposal
submitted by director Thomas Wil-
liams. :
Williams recommended that com-
munities in the district lying in
Luzerne County pay a nine-mill
increase and those areas in Wyo-
County so those residents would be
assessed 113 mills under Willnams’
proposal.
According to Williams, his recom-
mendation was based on Pennsyl-
vania Law which calls for equaliza-
tion of all taxes within the district.
- Director Arnie Garinger stated he
believed the varied tax rates would
be unfair to Wyoming County resi-
dents because they had not been
told such a dual tax rate was under
consideration.
Garinger recommended a letter
be included with the next tax bills
sent to residents in Wyoming
County within the district warning
them that such a tax rate will have
to be put into effect next year.
Following a 15 minute recess by
wo :
made the motion eliminating the
Noxen millage increase but noted a
letter is to ‘be sent next year notify-
ing that equalization will be insti-
tuted.
‘The second vote passed with a 5-3
vote. Vince Marchakaitis, newly-
sworn in to replace Kenneth Wil-
liams who resigned, abstained
because he was not familiar with
the budget information.
The total of the 1983-84 budget is -
$6,819,295. The budget also allows
for the sale of the district’s school
buses and the engaging of an out-
side transportation contractor.
Raymond Bowersox, District
Business Manager, stated the sale
of the school buses should raise
$103,000 for the district and aid in
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