The Best!
Wednesday,
Denis John Abromavage, of 84 Columbus Ave.
Pittston, will stand trial in connection with a boating
Lake.
The decision was made after a day-long preliminary
hearing held July 22 at which District Justice Leonard
D. Harvey presided. It was decided then that there is
enough evidence against Abromavage to demand a
trial.
The boating accident occured when a 350-horsepower
Mastercraft speedboat, driven by 24-year-old Abroma-
vage, slammed into a Baja outboard motorboat driven
by Leonard Pallis of 39 Valley’ View Dr., RD 3,
Wyoming. The Mastercraft boat is owned by Mark D.
Turner, of Shavertown, and his father, Ralph, of
Harding. ;
Killed in the accident were Pallis’ wife, Sharon, 39;
Crown Hill Village, Box 146, RD 3, Wyoming; and her
another passenger in the Pallis’ boat, was critically
Barre General Hospital while Pallis, 39; Thomas
Children’s Picnic
Pitcavage, and his daughter, Melissa, 11, also passen-
gers in the Pallis’ boat, escaped injury. Passengers in
the Mastercraft boat, Abromavage, Turner and 22-year-
old Carol Hite, of 50 Vine St., Pittston, were also
uninjured.
Abromavage is charged with eight counts of inveolun-
tary 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 watercraft
under the influence of alcohol.
Testifying. at “the June 22nd hearing were Hite,
Turner, Pallis; Pitcavage, Dr. Ok Hee Won, a patholo-
gist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital; Chief Deputy
Coroner Joseph M. Shaver, Thomas Czerniakowski, a
worked on the Pallis’ boat; Claude Neifert, waterways
several law enforcement officials. 5 + wu ;
Although no’'date has been set for the trial, if #must
take place 180 days after the original complaint was
tiled, which was July 1. :
Richardson. The clowns are from lrem Temple.
Townhouse Project
By SHEILA HODGES
Post Correspondent
The Dallas Township Municipal Building was full to
overflowing for the Zoning Planning Committee Meet-
ing held July 19. Dallas Township Residents were there
in force to hear developers’ proposals for the erection
of Townhouses on Carden Avenue and Country Club
Road, adjacent to the golf course. :
Shortly before the meeting began, Atty. Frank
Townend announced that Dale and Dale, the developers
who had proposed for Country Club Road, had with-
drawn their application at 3 p.m. that afternoon.
However, the residents were welcome to come inside
and register their objections which they elected to do.
This first group was represented by Atty. Alan
Kluger who stated that approximately 190 people had
signed a petition objecting to the building of 60
townhouses on approximately six acres of land adja
cent to the Country Club. Their reasons were mainly
concerned with density of population, danger on an
already dangerous road, extra strain on municipal
services and the adverse affect on property values.
The Country Club was represented by Atty. Steve
Pellion who added that it was felt to be at variance
with the zoning. The residents of this group were
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relieved that the application had been withdrawn, but
were concerned that the matter could come up again in
the future.
The group of residents who had attended last months’
meeting .on the matter of the Church Street, Claude
Street and Center Hill Road area which is known as the
“fictitious Carden Road” had, as its ‘spokesman, Tom
Debbie, had been instrumental in organizing the
petition which was presented at the June meeting.
Atty. McHugh, representing the developers, Sobeck
and Lindquist, put the application before the board and
was questioned concerning such matters as car parking
and whether the property would be community or
individual. It transpired that it would be communal
peoperty but the feeling was that the car parking space
for owners would be limited. Atty. McHugh stated that
the proposed dwellings would fall within the zoning
code for the area. When asked whether the developers
owned the property, he stated that they had not yet
purchased it.
Atty. Townend then opened the floor to the residents’
group and stated that all those wishing to object should
be sworn for the record. Tom Hadzor commenced by
putting the majority of the group’s concerns before the
(See TOWN, Page 14)
July 27, 1983
Dallas, Harveys Lake
By JANE C. BOLGER
Post Correspondent
Good news for taxpayers in Harveys Lake and Dallas
Boroughs - ‘State Auditor General Al Benedict has
praised your local governments for earning money.
The two Back Mountain municipalities were among
five Luzerne County municipalities officially recognized
for having invested temporarily idle liquid fuel tax
“earned $312.
Harveys Lake Borough Secretary-Treasurer Marion
Mitchell explained that liquid fuel taxes are state
monies. awarded fo municipalities for roads. Exact
amounts are computed by a specialized formula which
multiplies the number of roads and streets in the area
by the official number of residents according to the
federal census.
The funds which are awarded yearly to Harveys Lake
for roadwork are placed in the Pennsylvania Local
Government Investment Trust Fund which is a high
interest account open to all municipalities, school
districts and sewer authorities. The fund which allows
same day access to borough monies with no penalty
‘‘has no drawbacks,’’ according to Ms. Mitchell.
Bar-B-Que Planned
Dallas Borough Secretary Ralph Garris, who also
system to earn interest through a N.O.W. account. All
equipment, paving, grading, fixing pot holes and road
salaries and are withdrawn from the interest earning
account only as needed.
Both municipalities are turning the newly earned
monies right back into road repairs and maintenance.
Dallas Borough will be blacktopping Columbia Avenue
from Sterling Avenue up to the Laux properties.
tions to adopt three new roads - ‘Annabell, Roosevelt
miles of roads each year. ’
Recognition of these two municipalities came as a
1980 to Dec. 31, 1981.
incorporated ‘as townships and have similiar interest
earning accounts, will probably be commended in the
future when their audits are taken, according to
Annette Reiff, Press Secretary to the State Auditor
Construction of a separate exit from the Dallas: Post
Office onto Foster-Street began last Tuesday. When the
work is completed, in approximately one week, the
entire post office parking lot will be one way with
entrance only from Church Street and only the new exit
available for egress.
Foster Street, where the exit is located, has long been
an official Dallas Borough thoroughfare but appears to
most motorists to be just a part of the area of the Acme
parking lot. It connects with Woodlawn Avenue and
thus to Route 309 which is seen as a definite advantage
to postal customers traveling to the New Goss Manor-
Orchard View Terrace area.
This change, which has been in thé working for
several years, ‘is being made primarily to relieve
traffic congestion on Church Street and in downtown
Dallas. The preliminary design was done at the request
No Fault Insurance
By JANE C. BOLGER
of Dallas Borough Council by their engineer Lee
Corbett and is being financed by the U.S. Government
which awarded the contract on bid to Addy Asphalt
Company.’ : 5
The entire post office parking lot will also be repaved
this week according to Dallas Postmaster Tom Bly.
The parking lines will be repainted to designate
diagonal parking rather than the former straight
parking thus making all traffic flow toward the new
exit, :
separating the post office and the Acme lot which is
commonly used by pedestrians as a shortcut. Bly stated
this is “a safety measure to prevent possible accidents’
should someone fall in the culvert.” Instead, people
Post Correspondent
Reports that No Fault Insurance
may be on its way out are being
greeted locally by cheers and jeers.
One motorists’ statement ‘It never
worked right anyway, what good
was it?”’ seemed to be a typical
comment.
wanted to place the blame for the
failure of No-Fault on attorneys,
insurance companies, legislators,
police, doctors or hospitals. An apt
quote contibuted by one local politi-
cion was “If you want to discover
your faults, borrow your neighbor’s
spectacles.”
Whatever the reason, No-Fault
apparently did not accomplish what
it was supposed to which may be
what State Senator Edwin G. Holl,
24th District, Lansdale had in mind
this week when he sponsored a bill
to abolish No Fault Insurance state-
wide. Whether by design or not,
Holl’s Senate Bill 942 surfaced on
July 19 which was exactly eight
years to the day from the date in
1975 when No-Fauit went into effect.
Originally, most motorists thought
No Fault covered everything. One
Shavertown woman related the tale
while parked in a supermarket lot
and how she shook when she found
out her No Fault insurance covered
nothing. The fact that No Fault did
not cover property damage but ecov-
ered only medical expenses was a
lesson too many motorists learned
the hard way. So was the fact that
very often the other driver did not
even have the supposedly manda-
tory No Fault Insurance.
District Magistrat Earl Gregory
stated that in the past eight years
he can recall only three arrests in
his district under Section 104A
which made it a heavily fined mis-
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insurance. Instead, countless motor-
Code for not having any insurance
cards in their possession.
Dallas insurance agent Bruce
Slocum found the new legislation
‘very, very intersting” and stated
“I really think No Fault could have
behind it and supported changes as
they were necessary.”” He was not
alone in his opinion that right from
the beginning reforms were needed