Voting
By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
Election 1983 is over now, and,
except for the candidates involved
in last Tuesday’s general election
who will spend the next two months
offices, the campaigning and the
hullabaloo have subsided.
Voting, however, has become an
art among the American people and
the registered voters of today all
have their very own reasons for
making appearances at the polls on
Election Day and for choosing the
candidates for whom they have
voted.
The Dallas Borough Building on
Main Street was a rather busy place
during the chilly early afternoon
hours of Election 1983 and the rea-
sons for voting offered by a few
Dallas residents were all different.
A middle-aged woman who
seemed to be in quite a hurry
wouldn’t stop te talk but shouted
over her shoulder, “I’m from a
long-time Republican family - that’s
why I come out to vote,” while a
young man behind her voted
because “It is my duty as an
same gentleman claimed that, in
most cases, he voted for a candidate
because of his or her political back-
grounds
ELAINE FLINT
Although she seemed to chuckle
because she feels, ‘It is a privi-
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
Not too many years ago when you
called the police, you got an answer-
ing service or, worse yet, no answer
at all. This has all changed dramati-
cally lately due to the Back Moun-
tain Police Communication System
operated by. Dallas Township. This
24-hour provides instant communi-
cation and instant help to residents,
not only of the Township but of
Dallas Borough, Kingston Township
and Harveys Lake.
Step One: When you call the
police, a trained police dispatcher
answers the telephone and takes all
the information. The dispatcher
then relays the information to the
closest policeman or, in cases of
emergency, can immediately alert
several police departments to
respond. This instant communica-
tion is made possible because of
more sophisticated equipment like
the new high frequency band radio
recently received at the Dallas sta-
tion.
The new radio has the capability
of scanning 40 channels and has
four transmitters and eight receiv-
ers. It may be operated county-wide
as well as between local depart-
ments. It also makes it possible for
local police departments to be in
touch with the State Police, the
Luzerne County Communications
Center, the National Police Net-
work, the F.B.I., mobile intensive
care units, and fire and ambulance
companies.
The Back Mountain Police Net-
work also monitors and broadcasts
fire calls for the Dallas, Kunkle,
and Shavertown Fire Companies
and has the capability of activating
the fire sirens and the tone coded
beepers which are carried by volun-
teer firemen. The former police
radio that was just recently
replaced is presently undergoing
renovations to program it to operate
totally as a separate fire monitoring
unit.
Two full-time police dispatchers,
Bernie Pecukonis and John Pimm,
and five part-timers, Eleanor Fred-
erick; Marion Lamoreaux, Wayman
Miers, Kay Wright and Phyllis
Walter, work three shifts a day. The
salaries and benefits of the dis-
patchers are paid according to a
joint agreement whereby Dallas
Borough, Kingston Township and
Harveys Lake each pay the equiva-
lent of one full operator’s pay and
Dallas Township pays one and a
half as well as buying and maintain-
ing all equipment. :
The dispatchers’ other duties
include operating a computer ter-
minal connected to the Luzerne
County Police Records Information
and Retrieval System which is cap-
able of instant car license and
registration checks, locating crimi-
nal records, warrants and stolen
vehicle information in addition to
the information programmed in at
the dispatch center in Dallas. The
police departments of Lehman,
have the availability of using this
equipment.
Personal observation of the com-
puter’s capabilities is impressive
when one can see his or her own
license number or as few as two
digits from it entered to produce an
array of information on the screen.
A printed copy of all available
information is also provided by
another nearby unit for police use
only.
Behind the desk at the Dallas
Township Police Station has
obviously become a highly technical
operation geared for the best possi-
ble protection of the residents of
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when approached as to why she
votes, Helen Honeywell of Lake
Street said, “Because it’s the thing
to do. I’ve been doing it for a long
time.”
Elaine Flint of Hickory Road con-
siders herself a newcomer to the
area having lived in-Dallas just two
years and finds it rather difficult to
evaluate all the different candi-
dates.
“I use the information provided
by the League of Women Voters,”
she said. ‘I find that to be very
helpful. And then, I look at the
experience a candidate has that is
relevant to the job and also the
training that is relevant to the job.”
Elaine admitted that all’ of her
votes were cast for candidates
whose poltical views she liked and
that none of her choices were for
personal friends.
Ellen Kern of ‘Mill Street doesn’t
fulfills the promises made prior to
Election Days, but ‘some of them
try harder,” she said.
Exercising her right to vote
lege,” Ellen chose candidates
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ELLEN KERN
Willard Newberry of Main Street,
probably wouldn’t come to vote. I
have no other interest in this elec-
tion and no other candidates inter-
est me. I'm just here to vote for my
brother.”
Melba’s Fashion Nook, in the
Hickory Corners Shops on Carver-
ton Road in Trucksville, opened
Sept.” 14 of this year and held a
grand opening celebration the week
of Nov. 7.
One of the hottest items in the
shop during the grand opening were
‘Little People” dolls, predecessors
of the ever-popular ‘‘Cabbage Patch
Kids”.
The dolls, which sell for anywhere
from $75 to $150, were a popular
item during Melba’s grand opening
and they were featured along with
the ladies retail clothing in which
the shop specializes.
Melba Boudreaux, proprietor of
the shop, said she is trying to obtain
more ‘Little People’ dolls to sell in
her shop, but is uncertain as to
whether another shipment will be
available to her.
become more difficult to find as the
Christmas shopping season gets into
high gear, the ‘‘Little People’ dolls
may become even more popular.
“Little People’’ dolls are the origi-
nal creations of artist Xavier Rob-
erts and, according to Mrs. Boud-
reaux, a much better quality doll
than the “Cabbage Patch Kids’.
‘‘Little People’ dolls, which
sparked the ‘‘Cabbage Patch’ spi-
noffs, are all handmade and not
mass-produced. Each one features
the hand-written signature of Rob-
erts on their hind ends, rather than
the stamped signature found on the
‘‘Cabbage Patch Kids.”
The originals, which were
declared collector’s items in 1981
come from Babyland General Hos-
pital in Cleveland, Georgia, the
‘same birthplace as the ‘Cabbage
Patch Kids’ and also come com-
plete with adoption papers and birth
certificates.
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Dallas, who made a trip to the
polling place with his wife, Ella,
. was out not to cast a vote for a
particular candidate, but rather to
vote against another candidate.
Newberry felt one of the candi-
dates running for county office had
pulled some ‘‘dirty tricks’ and
wanted “to get even with him” so
he went to the polls for the specific
purpose of pulling the lever of the
candidate running against that par-
ticular man.
And then there were those who
felt a need to show their loyalty for
family members by voting on Elec-
tion Day.
Wayne Harvey of Woodlawn
Avenue who stopped at the polls
with his wife before doing some
shopping at the Wyoming Valley
Mall, voted because his brother,
Leonard Harvey, was running for
District Magistrate.
Wayne, who stopped for a
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Whatever their reasons and, for
as different as those reasons are,
every one of these voters was at the
their vote. It is for these reasons
that Election Day in America is the
individual sport that it is.
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
is shown here as he
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