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some of the students wanted to
leave before this whole thing
started. Buf, nobody expected an
invasion.”
Nobody expected an invasion and,
although Alan admits he had mixed
feelings about the whole thing at
first, now feels the United States did
the right thing.
“I guess they did the right thing,”
he said, but immediately became
more definite. ‘Yes, he (President
Reagan) did make the right deci-
sion. Everything he said in his
speech (last Thursday) was true.
“The one misconception that most
people seem to have is that the
invasion was like the big, bad U.S.
picking on poor little Grenada,”
Alan said defensively. ‘People think
it was machine guns against mach-
ettis. Believe me, it wasn’t like that
at all. There were an awful lot of
Cubans with a lot of heavy military
equipment. And the Americans had
to do a lot more fighting than they
expected. That's why it took them
so long to evacuate the students.”
Not realizing what the invasion
has done to the island on which he
had lived for the past two months,
Alan likened Grenada to ‘‘a cross
between Fantasy Island and Gilli-
gan’s Island.”
Alan explained that he chose to
attend St. George's for ‘‘the same
reason most American students go
to St. George's - because I couldn’t
get into an American medical
school.” .
St. George's, Alan reported, has a
good track record of students who
gain good clinical experience in the
United States - another reason why
he chose to go there.
“Grenada is beautiful country,”
he said. “It’s a lush trophical island
and has some of the nicest beaches
you’ve ever seen in your life.
“I mean, they don’t have any
good ice cream, no electronic
games and no decent bars,” Alan
said. “It isn’t a rich country. There
is 75 percent unemployment there,
but the people are warm and
friendly.”
Although he missed his girlfriend
the most, Alan liked Grenada and
would go back if he had the chance.
His biggest priority, however, is
finishing his first semester of medi-
cal school.
“1 would like to continue the
semester,” he said. “I would have
been taking mid-terms right now
and I don’t feel like losing the whole
semester.
“I’m just going to wait to hear
from the school to see what they’re
going to do, but I will go back,” he
added. “Hopefully, they’ll give me
to leave all his books in his living
quarters in Grenada when he was
evacauted from the island.
“For right now, though, it sure
does feel good to be home.”
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Alan
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Spending most of his first day
home with his girlfriend, Jacqueline
Flinker of Moorestown, N.J., Alan
tried to remember what went
through his mind during the inva-
sion.
“I was sleeping when it all
started,”” he said, with a hint of
excitement in his voice. ‘But, all of
a sudden, there was a lot of noise.
“Nobody was sure just what it was
since we had heard a lot of those
kinds of noises before because the
military government in Grenada
was always keeping control of
things.
“But, when we heard the air-
planes, we knew something was
happening,” he added. ‘You never,
ever hear airplanes in Grenada.
You just don’t hear them. A few
minutes later, somebody knocked on
the door and said the Marines had
landed.”
Alan explained that he and. the
other students in his living quarters
were moved to another campus
building which had been draped
with white sheets to avoid destruc-
tion.
Alan was never really scared for
his life; but was concerned as to
“when’’ he and his fellow students
would be evacuated.
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mind during that waiting period was
‘Boy, am I psyched to get out of
here!’ ”’ he said.
Alan’s evacuation signal came at
8 p.m. Wednesday when he and
several other students boarded an
Army plane and flew to Barbados.
After a several-hour layover in Bar-
bados, the plane departed for
Charlestown, South Carolina where
Alan arrived at 6:30 a.m. Thursday.
It was from Charleston that he
grabbed the first opportunity to
contact his family to tell them he
was okay.
“My parents were ecstatic to find
out that I was alive and well,” Alan
said, hinting that he would have
jumped on an opportunity to phone
them earlier. {
“You have to understand,” he
said. “It takes about 17 hours to
place a call to the United States
from Grenada under normal cir-
cumstances. I phoned my Dad the
Sunday before the invasion to let
him know I was alright. I placed the
call at 9 a.m. Sunday and was never
put through to him until 2 a.m. the
next day.”
Now that he is home safe and
sound and the Grenada invasion is
something he can remember, read
about, and watch on TV, Alan just
wants to relax and recuperate.
“Home never looked as good as it
did the other day,” he said. ‘“‘It
feels great to be home; and it’s so
nice to see my family so they don’t
have to worry. It’s great watching
this stuff on TV. Everybody at
school knew each other and every
time I watch TV, I see people I
know.”
Alan immediately returns to real-
ity and remembers his own loss in
the Grenadian invasion.
“Leaving my flute behind bums
me out to the max,” he said,
sounding more like a typical college
student than a young man who had
just witnessed a military invasion.
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Shavertown. ‘But, once the adver-
tising started, people started buying
them. They (the dolls) have been on
order since the summer, but I don’t
know when we will get them.”
Mrs. Landis Said people inquire
about. the dolls regularly, while
across the street in the Back Moun-
tain Shopping Center, Jordan Moye,
manager of McCrory’s, said his
staff takes between 10 and 20 calls a
day from people looking to purchase
a Cabbage Patch Kid.
“We haven’t had any in the store
yet,” Moye said. ‘We’ve had them
on order for some time now, but I'm
not even sure whether or not the
order is going to be filled.”
Mike Dzanko, manager of Valen-
tine Toys and Hardware, Memorial
Highway, Dallas, said his store
stocked Cabbage Patch Kids up
until three weeks ago.
“We didn’t have many,” Dzanko
said. “But, they sold as soon as we
put them out. If I had 1,000 of them
right ‘now, they’d be gone in three
weeks.”
Dzanko said he has more dolls on
order and is hoping they arrive in
time for the Christmas season. Val-
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All three local business people
feel it is the individuality of the
Cabbage Patch Kids that makes
them so attractive to buyers.
Coleco, manufacturers of the dolls,
claims no two dolls are exactly
alike.
“Wach one is different,” Moye
said. “No two are the same and
because of that feature, they will
become collector’s items.”
Each doll comes complete with a
birth certificate and adoption
papers and will receive a card on
the first anniversary of its birth-
date.
Mrs. Landis does not feel the birth
certificate and adoption papers play
a big role in a consumer’s purchase
of the dolls, however.
“There have been other dolls on
the market with adoption papers
and birth certificates,” she said.
“This is the. first time this sort of
thing has been done on a large
scale, though, with a large toy
company and an advertising pro-
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It is possible the Cabbage Patch
Kids are nothing more than a fad,
however, having been sold locally
for anywhere from $23.99 to $27.99,
they may be a rather expensive fad.
“There’s always a craze for some-
thing,”’ said Moye, citing the
Rubik’s Cube which was a hot
Christmas item two years ago.
“But the Rubik’s Cube was only
$6.99,” the store manager said.
“There can’t be as much a demand
for these dolls as there was for the
Rubik’s Cube. I'm sure a lot of
people would like to have one of
these dolls, but can’t afford them.
Then, there are people who will buy
them no matter what the price
because they (the dolls) will be
worth money some day.”
Mrs. Landis feels the Cabbage
Patch Kids are no different than the
cake items of the past.
“There is a shortage of dolls
now,” she said. ‘but, that’s because
Coleco has created such a demand
for them and they're just aren’t
enough to go around. Smurf and ET
were the same and so were the
Strawberry Shortcake houses which
were advertised for Christmas last
year, but weren’t available.
While people continue to call
(Moye says he could use an answer-
ing service just for calls concerning
the dolls) and area store owners
continue to wait for their shipments,
Cabbage Patch Kids will continue to
slowly make their ways into homes
around the nation.
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Administration costs keep going up
while enrollment is going down. I
believe the taxpayers need to get
more answers than they are getting
from the present beard,” said Noon.
Running for a two-year term on
of RD 4, Dallas, and on the Demo-
cratic slate is Joseph Boyle, Briar-
crest Road, RD 1, Dallas.
Wolfe, an employee of Common-
wealth Telephone Company,
believes that he can control expen-
ses of the district better than the
present members of the board.
Boyle, an employee of Durkee
Foods, believes controlling the
expenses can be controlled by keep-
ing down administrative increases
and improving teacher productivity.
Gilbert Tough, incumbent, com-
pleting his 10th year on the board, is
the sole candidate in Region II.
Tough says he is running for the
board again because of his sense of
community interest. He believes
that his experience can bring some
stability to the district after all the
happenings of the past year. He also
says that his years of business
experience can help with the dis-
trict’s financing and that his experi-
ence in past teachers negotiations
can play an important part in nego-
tiations in the near future. Tough,
president of Blue Cross of North-
eastern Pennsylvania, won the
Republican nomination for Region
II’s four-year term.
Shavertown, received Region III'S
Republican nomination for a four-
year term. He is finishing his
second term on the board, a six-
year and four-year span.
“I have a lot of experience and
played an important part in the
growth of Lake-Lehman School Dis-
trict. ‘Good Things are Happening
at Lake-Lehman’ is not just ‘a
slogan, it is a fact.
Stanley Gierczynski, RD 2, Follies
Road, Jackson Township, received
the Democratic nomination in
Region III for a four-year term.
Like the other candidates, he wants
to see quality education at the
lowest cost to the taxpayers. In his
opinion, the board made mistakes
by selling the district buses and by
granting recent pay hikes to the
administrators.
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seat on the township board of super-
visors. Seeking his second term on
the board, Cigarski defeated
Charles Jesses for the nomination
while - Spencer defeated Charlotte
Filip.
HARVEYS LAKE
Republicans vying for four-year
seats on the borough council include
Frank Coulton, Margaret Purcell,
Richard Myers and Bernard
Boback. Boback was appointed ‘to
fill the unexpired term of Gifford
Cappellini who won in the primary
election but was forced to resign his
position when he moved to Dallas.
Providing opposition for these
four Republicans will be Democrats
Robert Maximowicz, David Forster,
Ronald Edwards and Arnold West.
Seeking two-year council seats in
the borough are Republicans Leo
Wodaski and Francis Kopko and
Democrats William Gallagher, an
incumbent; and John Yenason.
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the township board as Democrat
Jerry Paxton and Republicans Her-
bert Hill, Willard Piatt and Daniel
Wisnieski all recorded victories in
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