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The increase in price for school lunches in Dallas
School District, approved at the July 25 meeting of the
Board, applies only to the Class A lunches at the
secondary level, according to Patricia Gregory, chair-
man of the cafeteria committee.
The board approved prices of 85 cents at the
elementary level, 95 cents at the secondary level and
lunches. In addition, the reduced price lunch will
remain at 30 cents and the ala carte half pint of milk
price at 25 cents. The increase at the secondary level
amounts to five cents over last year’s cost of 90 cents.
The board’s action was based on a proposal submit-
ted by Mary Reistetter, A.R.A.’s food service manager
in the Dallas District. Reistetter based her proposal on
an estimated increase in food prices during the 1983-84
school year.
She recommended an increase at the secondary
school students eat larger portions and because of a
decline in the number of students buying the Class A
lunches.
Reistetter recommended that a Deli Cart be initi-
ated at the intermediate school in order to give
students a choice of foods and also allow them an
option as to juice or milk.
The faculty daily sandwich and salad menu will
remain the same as last year’s with offerings of cold
cut, turkey or ham and cheese hoagie at $1.00; tuna
hoagie $1.25; egg salad hoagie 95 cens; tuna salad
sandwich, cheese hoagie, roast beef or corned beef on
rye sandwich 85 cents; ham or turkey sandwich 75
cents; bologna, bologna and cheese, salami, turkey
salad or salami and cheese sandwich 65 cents; and
egg salad sandwich 60 cents.
Faculty members also will have a choice of numer-
ous cold plates, ranging from $1.50 to 50 cents per
plate. White, chocolate or skim milk will be served for
25 cents; coffee or tea 20 cents.
Students may purchase ala carte items ranging
from $1.00 down to 55 cents. A cheese steak hoagie
costs $1.00. Other hoagies and sandwiches cost from 90
cents down to 55 cents with hot dogs, hamburgers,
grilled cheese and bologna sandwiches at the low
price.
Hot entrees range from turkey casserole 80 cents,
beef stew or hot turkey sandwich 75 cents; tacos (2),
roast turkey or pork parmigiana 70 cents; spaghetti,
creole, baked shells 60 cents; salisbury steak, meat
loaf 65 cents; macaroni and cheese 50 cents or pizza 35
cents.
Students may purchase cold plates or salads ranging
from $1.00 to 50 cents, vegetables 25 cents, French
fries or soup 30 cents, fresh or canned fruit 25 cents,
juices 25 cents, pie 35 cents, ice cream or chips 30
cents, cake 25 cents or cookies 15 cents each.
Based on the proposal submitted by Miss Reistetter,
the directors approved the five cents increase at the
secondary level for the 1983-84 school year in an
attempt to assist operation of the cafeteria at a break-
even figure.
sufficient, nutritious meals to the children and operate
in the black,” said Mrs. Gregory: ‘It remains to be
seen what the coming year will bring.”
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Dallas Post/Rod Kaye
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New tax laws
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
If the average man on the street is confused about
the new state taxes enacted to balance the budget and
just what they will mean to him personally, he
apparently has a lot of company in state agencies.
Following receipt of a generalized press release
from the Department of Revenue in Harrisburg
announcing that a six percent state tax would be
placed on cigarettes starting Aug. 5, phone calls were
placed to several state agencies seeking further
information.
The State Bureau of Cigarette and Beverage Taxes
in Wilkes-Barre reported they had ‘nothing from
Harrisburg’ on the subject, asked what information
we had and then transferred the call to the Sales Tax
Office. That agency stated they didn’t have ‘‘any
official news’’, put several different people on the
extension, including one of whom thought it was a five
percent tax that might take effect some time next fall.
An attempt was also made to clarity another
statement in the press release that ‘‘the legislature
exempts state Lottery winners from paying personal
income tax on their prizes...withholding 2.45 percent of
Lottery prize winnings directly from the Lottery Fund.
An agent at: the State Lotteries Bureau on South
Main Street stated, “I don’t know anything about it,”
but said he would have someone else call back with
the information. Another man did call long distance
from the Harrisburg Lottery Office but as it turned out
they did not have ‘‘the details because we will not be
administering it.”’ He gave the name of still another
agency in Harrisburg to call, and they in turn
suggested another agency.
Stifling the impulse to go out and buy all the
cigarettes and lottery tickets available since I was
apparently the only one other than maybe the gover-
nor who had this information, I decided instead to
share the information. Suprisingly, a few local retail-
ers had also received letters from Harrisburg.
Jack Magee, Manager of Stapinski Drugs in the
Dallas Village Shopping Center, was kind enough to
share his Harrisburg notice from - oddly enough - the
Bureau of Account Settlements, License and Bonding.
It confirmed that there would be a six percent state
tax going into effect this Friday on all cigarettes sold
over the counter or in vending machines.
The amount will be added on as a sales tax at the
cash register rather than be reflected as a change in
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the quoted price, Magee explained, adding that this is
the same tax and method presently in use for tobacco
and cigars.
Daring’s Market on Memorial Highway had received
absolutely no word at all nor had their main supplier,
the Economy Stores Warehouse which orders and
delivers thousands of cartons of cigarettes weekly.
When last heard from, warehouse officials were in the
process of wiring Harrisburg for further information
on the tax that goes into effect in less than a week.
In the meantime, Mary Ellen Neely, head cashier at
Daring’s, did some quick arithmatic and figured out
that a pack of cigarettes will go from 95 cents to $1.01
and a carton of regular size from $8.13 to $8.54 while a
carton of king size will go from $8.34 to $8.85.
Despite the increase, the second in two months,
Mary Ellen said, “I’ll continue to smoke.” Her opinion
was shared by a woman shopper from Harveys Lake
who proudly stated, ‘I’ve been smoking for 60 years
and I’m not going to stop now.”
At the Dallas Township Police Station where three
hale and hearty smokers were at work, the story was
the same.
Patrolman Wayman Miers said “If you want to
smoke, you'll pay for it” and added a tip on where to
get cigarettes wholesale. Police dispatcher Bernie
Pecukonis said, ‘I always said if the price went up to
cents, then if it ever hit 90 cents a pack. But I didn’t,
so 1 guess I'll keep on (smoking) now.’’ Patrolman
John appel, after considering the bad news for a few
minutes, decided he, too, would continue smoking.
On the subject of the State Lottery, comments
ranged from “Uncle Sugar wants it all in one lump’’ to
several volunteers who wanted to pay the taxes if poy
won eignt million dollars.
Dallas Township Tax Collector ‘Leonard Kozick
worried about proposed new distribution of lottery
monies saying, ‘‘The State Lottery was supposed to be
for. the benefit of Senior Citizens over: 65 and it should
be kept that way. Now it sounds like everybody's
trying to get their hands on the money.”
So the consensus of opinion, despite the selective
information available, seems to be that most people
will go on smoking and or buying Lottery tickets with
whatever money they have left. It ‘probably won't be
much either after the new 2.45 percent personal
income tax is withheld from your pay at a retroactive
rate of 2.8 percent.
This information also comes from a press release
from Harrisburg. Anyone know anything about it?
Dallas Pos
manager; Steve Horan, and Bob Walsh.
It may look a lot like Dallas, Texas but it really is
still good, old Dallas, Pa. and the employees at Rea &
Derick are just having fun. Western dress was in
order at the Church Street drugstore this week as part
of the company’s Summer Fun Days.
Pharmacist Joe Campbell, who is also store man-
ager, explained that this is the first annual summer
fun program throughout the Rea & Derick chain where
each store selects its own theme and proceeds to have
fun with it.
A lot of the customers thought it was fun for
shopping at ‘the ranch drugstore” admiring beaver
hats, prairie skirts, western jeans, suede vests and
gen-u-ine cowboy boots.
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