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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
It ‘was only a minority of parents
who voiced concern at last week’s
board meeting over the elimination
of four bus runs by the Lake-
Lehman School District.
These parents voiced concern
about their children spending extra
time going to and from and in
school because of the elimination of
the bus runs. Because of this, the
school directors agreed to. review
the possibility of reinstating these
four runs.
Reinstatement, however, could
cost the District an additional $16,-
000 to $17,000 per year in transporta-
tion costs. This money would have
to be taken from the budgetary
reserve of only $30,000 for the entire
school year. According to the Lake-
Lehman District’s business man-
ager, Raymond Bowersox, this
could present a problem since the
school year has just begun and
unexpected expenses could develop
throughout the year.
Bowersox explained that over the
past number of years, classes of the
district were’ dismissed at 3 p.m.
Buses would go to Vo-Tech School
Lehman School at 3:30 p.m. The Vo-
Tech School bus and three other
busses would then do a post-school
run one taking students to Lake-
Noxen, one to Loyalville, one to
Sweet Valley and one to Jackson
Township.
Students on those busses used to
leave for home about 3:15 to 3:20
p.m. on those four runs. Now, all of
the children from an area travel on
the busses- at the same time and
actually most are getting home just
about the same time.
According to Bowersox, the
classes still begin at the same time
as in the past, 8:10 am, and
dismiss at 3:15.
Lake-Lehman District no longer
own and operate any of their own
busses. Transportation is provided
by Leon Emmanuel, Jack
McManus, George Sabulsky, and
Dick Sutton and Bob Slimak, part-
ners, who purchased the busses
previously owned by the District.
These two men provide bus trans-
portation on the routes formerly run
by Lake-Lehman.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
@ Dallas High School was visited by
the chairman and assistant chair-
man of the Middle States Associa-
tion of Colleges and Secondary
Schools Evaluation Committee last
week to make sure preparations
were well underway for the school’s
evaluation in October.
' Chairman Ralph Rizzolo, vice
principal of Pequannock High
School, Pompton Plains, N.J. and
Assistant chairman William Lin-
nane, Susquehanna High School in
Glen Rock, Pa., spent last Wednes-
dasy doing preparatory work with
Edgar W. Hughes, Jr., Evaluation
Consultant.
In order to be an accredited high
school, every school must go
“through a self-evaluation and must
be visited by a committee assigned
by the Middle States Association.
Hughes is former principal of
Dallas Senior High School and
familiar with the evaluation proce-
dure, having served as a committee
member three times.
The value of the entire process is
the preparation because’ it involves
the entire faculty. The evaluation
includes insight into the entire pro-
gram, the school facility, faculty
and everything related. This must
be done every 10 years.
The evaluation is based onthe
philosophy and objectives of each
individual school. The departments
within ‘the school are formed into
committees and all necessary forms
are prepared. The Middle States
Association Committee will study
the ratings of the committees and
increase or decrease these as they
believe necessary.
Prior to the Middle States Com-
mittee receiving the forms and self-
evaluations, the committee studies
them, Hughes goes over them, then
Hughes and the faculty review them
together.
Each committee receives an
Evaluation Handbook and the
Middle States Association Evalua-
(See MIDDLE, page 10)
~~ (EDITOR'S NOTE: In observance
‘of Emergency Medicine Week, Sept.
18-24, Dallas Post Staff Correspon-
dent Joan Kingsbury spent an eve-
ning in the emergency room at
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kings-
ton. Her observations of what actu-
ally takes place in a hospital emer-
gency room follow.)
By JOAN KINGSBURY
Staff Correspondent
I had always pictured an emer-
gency room as one small room
equipped for medical emergencies.
And I had always wondered what it
would be like to work there, and
how doctors and nurses managed to
control their emotions in an emer-
gency situation and why patients
sometimes have to wait for what
seems to be an eternity.
My ideas of an emergency room
have ehanged, however, and my
WR
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questions have been answered after
spending an evening last week
observing in the emergency room at
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital under
thé supervision of Dr. A. Anthony
Anzalone.
The one small room I always
pictured as an emergency room
turned out to be five minor trauma
rooms, one major trauma room, a
gynecological room, an ear, nose
and throat room, an endoscopy
room and a holding area with four
beds.
All my wild dreams of what it
would be like to work in a real
“ER were brought to life as 1
watched the hospital staff members
perform during what they termed a
‘‘slow night.” They treated a
woman who had injured her hand in
a fall, a boy who had been involved
in a motorcycle accident, a woman
(See EMERGENCY, page 10
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Gabriel
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By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
“It’s really hard to believe!
I’ve never won anything before!’’
said Joe Kravitz of Sweet Valley
when he was told he had: won
“Fronts PagssNews't Bocnest,
sponsored by The Dallas Fost in
conjunction with the 1983 Luz:
erne County Fall Fair.
Hopefully, winning the Sony
AM-FM stereo-cassette player,
dinner: ($50 value) at, Picketts
Charge Restaurant and this
newspaper interview will be just
the start of a big winning streak
for Joe.
It should be; since Joe is active
in so many organizations that he
regularly buys two or three
chances a week for worthy
causes. He also works for them -
you may have seen Joe selling
balloons at the Shriner’s Circus
or playing the tambourine with
the Irem Temple Oriental Band
as he will be doing this week at
Wildwood, New Jersey.
Or maybe you knew Joe when
he was Commander of the Dallas
American Legion Post or Com-
mander of the Harveys Lake
Post or President of the Bowling
League at Bonomo’s. Joe is not
just active on a social level, but
he also carries. his energy and
big smile into the Native Textile
worked for the past 35 years.
Joe has been Manager-Trea-
surer of thé Natona Employees
Federal Credit Union at the plant
for over 10 years. He was also
President of Union Local 1824 for
six years and President of the
Keystone Joint Board, which
governed 40 unions, for another
Six years.
A native of Larksville, Joe
grew up in Edwardsville where
his mother still lives; and is the
father of two daughters, Rose-
mary and Carol ‘Ann. In his
spare tine, he ‘takes his 22:foot
camper that sleeps six peopie to
Cedar Point, New York or: to
Tobyhanna State Park. He can
also be found watching football
games, rooting for the Philadel
phia Eagles, or going out to eat
which is another of his favorite
things.
Fortunately, The Post guessed
right on that and awarded Joe a
dinner.
“Pll take a friend to Picketts
and probably have a steak or
lobster tail,”’ Joe said adding, “I
like to have a good time, I really
enjoy it!”’
He plans to have many more
good times after he retires next
May. ‘I'm going to live it up;
enjoy it,” he said. “‘I might even
end up in California.”
Wherever he goes, Joe is sure
to have a great future as he
takes along the enthusiasm he
expressed . when he ‘was
presented with the stereo by
Peggy Poynton, receptionist at
The Dallas Post who is being
held responsible for talking her
former neighbor into entering
this contest.
“I'll treasure this; it is the
first prize I've ever won,”’ Joe
said with a big grin. Hopefully it
won't be his last big win even if
he ‘did say ‘If 1 ever won the
lottery, I'd faint,’ something he
fortunately did not do for The
Dallas Post prize.
We
Advising paramedics
A. Anthony Anzalone, M.D,
Public interest in the case of John
Gabriel who was ‘twice fired” as
Building. and Grounds Supervisor
for the Dallas School District has
turned the matter into the hottest
campaign issue in years for the
seven Dallas School Board candi-
dates.
Four of the candidates - Ernest
Ashbridge, Patricia Gregory, Shawn
Murphy and Al Pisaneschi are
incumbents who are presently sit-
ting as ‘judges’ at the Public
Hearings for Gabriel that began last
week and will continue Sept. 27.
Analysis
The other three candidates,
Johnny George, Donald Jones and
Harry Sickler are not presently on
the board although both Jones and
Sickler attended the first Gabriel
hearing. Only eight of the nine
school board members were present
at the first hearing. Absent was
Harry Letko who even now is con-
sidered ‘‘a lame duck’ since he is
not seeking reelection and will be
off the board shortly.
An attempt is apparently being
made by Atty. Charles Lemmond,
Special Counsel to the School Board,
to limit the hearings to three. Defi-
nite ground rules have been set
governing the times of each hearing
to a 7 p.m. start with a break at
8:30 and continuing only until 9:30
p.m.
Prior to the beginning of the case,
Atty. Arthur. Piccone, who repre-
sents Gabriel, had estimated that
there could be ‘10 to 15 hear-
ings...maybe 40 hours of testimony
and cross-examination.’”’ If this does
turn out to be the case, the Gabriel
hearings could continue well until
election time and beyond.
Election Day is Nov. 8 - five
weeks from the next. scheduled
hearing. The reorganization of the
Dallas School Board when the old
directors leave office, which, in this
case, will include at least two
judges in the Gabriel case, will take
place four weeks later.
Another factor further confusing
the issue is that last week at its
September meeting, the Dallas
School Board ‘‘fired”’ John Kundrat,
another custodial employee. The
manner of firing Kundrat was simi-
lar to that used when Gabriel was
fired at the August meeting except
that the charges against him -
“neglect of duty and acts of impro-
per conduct’ - appear to be more
specific than those against Gabriel.
Kundrat has also been given the
option of having a Public hearing
before the Dallas School Board. The
starting date announced for his
hearing is Oct. 5 which could put the
school board in the position of con-
ducting two trials at the same time,
further limiting the probability of
finishing either case prior to elec-
tion.
The election itself apparently
could be influenced by the Gabriel
case’ or, more specifically, by the
manner in which he was fired.
Voters are questioning not just the
procedures, but how much ‘the
double legal fees will ultimately
cost the taxpayer. This is an issue
that is reportedly being fanned into
life by more than one candidate.
There are also political rumblings
being heard about who voted how
and more importantly why, who has
a vendetta going, who lives next
door to whom, who is waiting in the
wings for Gabriel’s job and predic-
tions of what the final outcome will
be. The Gabriel case has had politi-
cal overtones from the very first - a
fact of which some candidates are
apparently taking advantage,
Obviously, the Dallas School
Board ‘‘judges’” have their work cut
out for them. The. pressure: isi om’
them not only for a fair tiaii but (or
a fast one.
The first project funded under the
Resource Conservation and Devel-
opment Program (RC&D) in Luz-
erne County is under construction at
the Dallas Area Senior High School.
The purpose of the project is to
provide drainage for the track
which surrounds the football field,
and provide drainage for the base-
ball field and practice football field.
A secondary benefit will be provid-
ing an outlet for a future drainage
system which may be needed when
a vacant field is developed for other
athletic fields. During the process of
installling the drainage system, the
entire track is being resurfaced.
The baseball infield will receive
new surface material and much of
the area will be reseeded because
the existing vegetation will be
destroyed during the process of
installing the drainage system.
Dr. Shipe, Superintendent of
Schools and school maintenance
personnel, statéd that several track
meets and baseball games were
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
The project, initiated by John
Gabriel, Supervisor of Building and
Grounds, Dallas School District, is
funded by the Dallas Area School
Board with 50 percent of the funds
for the drainage measure coming
through the RC&D Program funded
by the U.S. Department of Agrieul-
ture, Soil Conservation Service.
Phillip Sheets, District Conserva-
tionist, Soil Conservation Service,
Nanticoke explained that the RC&D
Program offers technical and finan-
cial assistance to local governments
and non-profit organizations to
develop and protect their natural
resources for the benefit of the
community.
High priority types of projects
include treatment of critical erosion
areas and flood control. Other eligi-
ble measures include land drainage,
public water based recreation devel-
opments and public water based
fish and wildlife developments.
The ' county commissioners and
county conservation districts in Luz-
erne, Lackawanna, Wayne, Pike,
Monroe, Schuylkill, and Carbon
Counties are sponsors of and direet
the Pocono Northeast RC&D Area.
Applications for assistance are
accepted through the local conser-
vation districts and may be made
by townships, cities, boroughs,
school districts, state governments,
industrial development groups,
YMCA’s and other non-profit com-
munity oriented organizations.
Applicants in Luzerne County to
date include Black Creek Township,
Kingston Township, Hunlock Town-
ship, Ecumenical Enterprises,
Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund, and
Pennsylvania Department of Trans-
portation.
For further information, contact
Phillip Sheets, Soil Conservation
Service or Ruth Ann Balla, Luzerne
County Conservation District at 735-
8700, or write to Agricultural Sery-
ice Center, 71 North Market Street,
P.O. Box 148, Nanticoke, Pa. 18634.