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Vol. 93, No. 45
25 Cents
No arrests
in fatality
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
No arrests have been made in
connection with the fatal death of
56-year-old Betty Britt last Wednes-
day afternoon on Route 309. Mrs.
Britt was a passenger in a gray 1983
Chrysler LeBaron driven by her
husband Edwin Britt, 70, of RD 3,
Hunlock Creek.
Dallas Borough Police report the
Britt vehicle was crossing Route 309
from Stapinski’s Drug Store in the
Dallas Village Shopping Center to
Jedidia’s Restaurant when the acci-
dent occurred. Their car was struck
broadside by a red and cream 1972
Scout International driven by Janice
Tracewski, 25, of Box 95, Harveys
Lake which was traveling north on
Route 309. :
The accident occurred at 2:09
p.m. and Mrs. Britt was pronounced
dead at the scene at 2:30 by Luzerne
County Deputy Coroner Joseph
Shaver and Deputy Coroner Richard
Disque of Dallas. The drivers of
both vehicles were transported to
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital in the
Dallas Ambulance.
Ms. Tracewski was treated and
released, while Britt was hospital-
ized and listed in stable condition.
Both vehicles spun around from the
force of the impact with the Britt
s Dallas Pos ampbe
Just in time las Post/Ed Campbell
Dallas High School quarterback Bernie Walsh barely gets a
pass off before falling to the hands of Marty Onzik, Lake-
Lehman tackle. The Mountaineers shut out the Black
Knights, 16-0, last Saturday, earning the right to return the
Old Shoe to their trophy case. (Story, additional photos,
page 11.)
4 5
. Medical Center to open
Dr. Gallagher and Dr. Lehman,
both Back Mountain physicians, will
relinquish their curent office loca-
tions to move to the Medical Center
upon its completion while Dr. Car-
boni, who is also an allergist, is
relocating to the Back Mountain
from the Philadelphia area.
According to Joseph Grilli, vice
By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
The Mercy Medical Center at
Dallas, a subsidiary of Wilkes-
Barre’s’ Mercy Hospital, is sched-
uled to open in January, 1984, and
will bring full-time hospital services
closer to the people of the Back
Mountain.
Upon completion, ‘the center will
become the second of its kind in the
Back Mountain Area, as the Back
Mountain Medical Center on Route
118 in Lehman operated by Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital, Kingston also
offers medical services.
Located near the entrance to Col-
lege Misericordia in Dallas, the
center will house the medical offices
of three physicians, and such ancil-
lary services as x-ray, physical
therapy and laboratory.
Dr. Harry Gallagher, a general
practitioner, Dr. Clinton Lehman,
an internist, and Dr. Vincent Car-
boni, a pediatrician, will all conduct
office hours in the 5400-square foot
‘building, but will work independ-
ently of Mercy Hospital.
president of Planning and Develop-
ment at Mercy Hospital, the Wilkes-
Barre medical institution conducted
a study of the Back Mountain area
and found a need for moderate
outpatient services. He also
explained that at the time the study
was conducted last spring, there
were no pediatricians in the Back
Mountain Area.
Grilli said the location of the
Medical Center was chosen because
of its closeness to both College
Misericordia and the Meadows
Apartments and Nursing Center:
Although the three physicians will
be conducting their own office
hours, Grilli said the other services
(See MEDICAL, page 8)
Their last days
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
vehicle backed down into a culvert
in the northbound lane while: the
Scout came to rest in the south-
bound lane of Route 309.
Ironically, the scene of the acci-
dent was at the same location where
Candy Jo and Daniel Lorah were
By DOTTY MARTIN
Associate Editor
stands what reformed smokers
mean when they say the hardest
time to kick the cigarette habit is
following a meal.
The academic dean at College
Misericordia, in an attempt to
become one of the millions of smok-
ers across the nation who joined last
week’s Great American Smokeout,
failed the test right after lunch, just
he is famous for in the Back Moun-
tain. His mom reports he is now off
intravenous and is once again
propped up reading each and every
card he has received and trying to
remember if he has met the people
who. are wishing him well. Bobby is
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
Bobby Adams, the boy from
Trucksville who so many Dallas
Post readers remembered with
cards and letters as he awaited
surgery, has had his first operation
and it was successful. Thirteen-
year-old Bobby had his right leg
operated on last Monday in Shriners
Hospital, Philadelphia but a planned
operation on his left leg was post-
poned after the youngster required
six pints of blood platelets for clot-
ting.
Bobby is still in a lot of pain and
is wearing a total long leg cast that
extends to the groin area. Despite
that, however, he has recaptured
his wonderful sense of humor that
a confirmed people lover and wants
to know everyone.
Bobby is also entertaining
thoughts of water skiing, horseback
riding and hunting after his other
leg is operated on. He hopes that
will be next week. Just prior to his
operation he did get another chance
to ride his famous purple bike which
his parents Carol and Gerry Adams
brought down to the hospital as
Bobby requested.
Hospital regulations did not allow
Bobby to ride up and down the halls
(See BOBBY, page 8)
have a Band-Aid in the house.
slightly more than 12 hours into the
day.
He tried, though. Boy, did he try!
Chomping on peppermint candies
supplied by his encouraging secre-
tary, Mary Dower, and gripping the
arms of his chair until his hands
turned blue, Dr. Pallante tried to
quit smoking.
The urge, however, became too
much following a quiet office lunch
of cheese and crackers - and he
ave in.
“] went 12 hours without a ciga-
rette,”” Dr. Pallante said, almost
proudly, the next day. “That’s good
for me because I have never gone
without smoking for 12 minutes.”
Admitting that he was still smok-
ing the day after the Smokeout, Dr.
Pallante said he was not puffing
away at his regular pace.
“My level of guilt is much higher
today,” he said: ‘“I am very con-
scious of reaching for a cigarette
now. and I have definitely reduced
my level of smoking.”
The Great American Smokeout,
held Nov. 17. this year, is a pro-
gram whereby the American
‘Cancer Society urges all smokers to
give up cigarettes for 24 hours -
from midnight to midnight. The
every ¢ five. Stokers to
for good as a result of the Smo-
keout.
Having smoked a pack of ciga-
rettes a day since he was 16 years
old, the 44-year-old Pallante admit-
ted he was serious about “‘trying’’ to
give up cigarettes.
Boy, is this rough!
killed last March while walking
across the road. The jury in the
trial of Alva Taylor who was
charged with that double fatality
had visited the same accident scene
just two days before this fatality.
Dallas Borough Patrolman James
Dallas Post/
Savage
His Smokeout Day began with a
“varied beginning” as he walked
the 3.1 miles from his home on Deer
Hill Road ‘in Shavertown to his
office.
(See GIVES, page 8)
Township Patrolman Joseph Bren
and Patrolman Robert Stitzer of the
L,
racks,
Motorists,
thinkin
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“on Rotte
they were also think-
ANALYSIS
TTT dividers have always
been proposed as a solution, but this
was not in the usual million dollar
rary highway barriers of the type
used on the Turnpike when con-
4
lane and install them on our high-
see if they work.
These barriers are manufactured
locally by a Nanticoke firm at a
Better yet, they are ‘on hand in all
would be required is the labor to put
them in place. There would be no
road cutting, no permanent concrete
work. It would just be a trial, just a
chance to safe a life or two. :
Another excellent idea proposed
have access lanes leading into all
the shopping centers. A further
improvement would be to widen
only.
government official neither of whem
ments along Route 309. It is a state
highway and only the state may
mandate physical changes such as
traffic lights, turn lanes, over:
passes, medial barrier strips and
way businesses.
Well over 10 years ago,
residents petitioned for
light at the Y intersection of Route
309 and 415, but that was denied
following a PennDOT study. Most
other physical changes have also
* (See MOTORISTS, page 8)
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