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Vol. 95, No. 3
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By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
Pulses quicken and palms become
cold and clammy as the high
pitched sound of the dentist’s drill
pierces through the air.
The tension in the waiting room is
heavy and thick. Your eyes dart
backzand forth from one person to
the next. as. you ponder the thought
of who will be next.
Suddenly, a receptionist’s voice
calmly calls out your name. Your
legs become like jelly, and you're
sure there’s no way you can make it
to the dreaded dentist’s chair.
Sounds like a typical scene in a
dentist’s office, doesn’t it? Not
exactly. There’s one dentist in the
Back Mountain Area who is trying
to change all of this.
Dr. Leonard C. Medura has been
practicing dentistry at the Back
Mountain Professional Building for
the past five years. Prior to that, he
received his training while stationed
at Pearl Harbor with the United
States Navy.
Dr. Medura feels that most peo-
previous experiences.
‘Adults fear dentists far more
than children because of stories
related to them by other people, and
perhaps bad experiences with other
dentists in the past,” he said. Dr.
Medura, however, has his own spe-
handling fearful
patients. Besides the usual local
anesthetic, or novacaine, Dr.
Medura administers nitrous oxide
gas to those patients he feels are
more apprehensive than others.
“The gas,’’ he explained, ‘gives a
calming, relaxed feeling.”
(See DENTIST, page 8)
Fund-raising efforts continue
By DOTTY MARTIN :
Associate Editor
John Charney, Sr., of RD 3, Box 136-B, Dallas, left
his Back Mountain home Monday morning for a trip
he would rather not take.
Charney’s son, John (Jack), was injured in Egypt on
Jan. 23 while on the last leg of a two-year world tour
and the elder Charney, with the aid of Marc Holtzman
of Kingston, is on his way to Egypt to be with his 28-
year-old son.
Holtzman, a powerful figure in the Republican
party, was instrumental in securing a passport for
Charney, who was to pick up the passport in Philadel-
phia Menday morning and leave the Philadelphia
airport Tuesday for Egypt.
According to his mother Elaine, the younger Char-
ney was struck by something protruding from an
Egyptian military truck, was knocked to the ground
and run over by the back wheels of the vehicle. Mrs.
Charney said her son suffered four fractures in the
pelvic area, two broken ankles and was ripped open
from the rectum to the front.
At the time of the accident, which occured Jan. 23,
Charney was standing on a street corner in the
company of a German nurse and her husband.
According to Mrs. Charney, if it wasn’t for the nurse
her son would have been ‘‘left for dead.”
Mrs. Charney reported that she and her family were
first notified of the accident on Jan. 25 when they
received a call from the State Department, asking
them to forward $1,000 to the Egyptian hospital so that
doctors there could begin medical treatment on her
son.
“We first spoke to him (John) on Thursday (Jan.
26),” Mrs. Charney said. ‘‘He is in a'lot of pain and his
spirits are very bad. He’s confused, he doesn’t know
what’s going on and he’ feels bad about the money
pecause he knows we don’t have it.”
on for travelling, would take up four seats on the plane
and TWA would charge the family accordingly.
Mrs. Charney also explained that her son’s attending
physician in Egypt would not release the patient for at
least 10 days.
“Because of the severity of his pelvic fractures, the
doctor will not release him,’’ she said. ‘Even if he was
strapped on a litter, if he was jarred at all, ‘it could
cause internal injuries and possibly even death.”
Charney, who had been employed as an art and
history teacher at the Stowe School, a private high
school in Stowe, Vermont for the past three years,
began a world tour in June of 1982 and was scheduled
to return home in June of this year.
His backpacking tour included stops in London,
Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Israel and Egypt. He
was headed to Kenya and Nigeria before returning
home.
David Gibson, headmaster of the Stowe Séhool, was
unaware of the accident until Monday and was
extremely upset when he received the news of a goed
friend.
“Jack was so effective here (at the Stowe School),”
he said. ‘“‘He was most creative and was a very
important figure around campus. He really is a wide-
awake person. There isn’t another person like him on
the face of this earth.”
According to Mrs. Charney, her son was the sole
financer of the world tour and will now have to put -
whatever travelling money he has left toward medical
expenses. His room in the Egyptian hospital is costing
him $100 per day in addition to his doctor and*medical
expenses.
Area residents have already begun fund-raising
efforts to aid the family’s attempts to fly their son
back here for medical treatment.
Shirley Troy, from the corporate division at Jewel-
cor Travel Services in Kingston, is coordinating the
fund-raising efforts. Anyone wishing to contribute to
the drive may contact her at 288-9381.
Mrs. Barbara A. Kuznicki, R.N.,
of Shavertown, has been named 1984
Nurse. of Hope for the Wyoming
Valley Unit of the American Cancer
Society.
Mrs. Kuznicki, who is employed
as a nurse at the Veterans’ Admin-
istration Medical Center, will take
over where Mrs. Mary L. Simons,
R.N., 1983 Nurse of Hope left off.
She will be involved in various
functions sponsored by the local
American Cancer Society Unit.
A nurse for 27 years, Mrs. Kuz-
nicki has worked with the termin-
ally ill and has had personal experi-
ences with family members who
have cancer.
A graduate of Harter High School,
West Nanticoke and the Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital School of
Photo courtesy of The Times Leader
right, 1983 Nurse of
Nursing, Mrs. Kuznicki is the 1977
recipient of the Benjamin Rush
Award.
She is president of the Wilkes-
Barre Area Candlelighters, an orga-
nization for parents of children with
cancer and is also a member of the
board of the National Candlelighters
Foundation.
Castle may be sold
the Back Mountain landmark.
The Castle Inn on- Route 415,
Dallas is in the process of being sold
to Alan Roberts, owner of the Ranch
Wagon on Route 309.
Early indications are that Roberts
of East 42nd Street, Idetown and his
son Alan Jr. who is presently a
student at Wilkes College, will
jointly operate the Castle with the
possibility that it may become a
By JANE C. BOLGER
Staff Correspondent
taurant owners, police and District
Magistrates show .all ‘are unani-
mously opposed to the proposed new
legislation that would allow bars to
remain open an extra four hours
until 6 a.m. each morning.
State Senator Milton Street of
Philadelphia proposed the change in
Pennsylvania’s 2 a.m. closing law
last week. If passed, the new law
would mean that bars, which are
permitted to open at 7 a.m., would
be closed for only one hour daily.
Tom Pickett, owner of Pickett’s
Charge Restaurant, East Center
Hill Road, Dallas said, “I don’t
think it’s necessary. By 2 a.m., the
bartenders -are tired, they don’t
need to work into the wee hours.
Most people have had enough to
drink by two o’clock anyway.”
District Magistrate Earl Gregory,
commenting on ‘“‘the large increase
three-generation restaurant with the
assistance of Alan’s father Ephraim
Roberts.
The Castle Inn has been owned for
the past 14 years by Basil F. Bar-
bacci of West Dallas who will be
staying on for a while to help the
Roberts family. His wife, Jane, said
when the sale is finalized, she plans
to go into the bridal business in her
of Driving Under The Influence
cases” he has heard in the past
year, is ‘‘firmly against it.”
“They ought to go home and not
be able to stay out and drink nearly
24 hours a day,” Gregory ‘said,
adding humorously, ‘‘nothing good
happens after midnight.”
Ron Post, owner of The Hearth-
stone Pub, Main Street, Dallas, also
saw Some humor in the new legisla-
tion
“If they can’t get enough by two,
they’ve got a problem,” Post said.
While stating he is ‘‘personally
against staying open any longer,”
he did theorize that maybe it would
be acceptable ‘for people on the
night shift who get out at midnight.
To them it’s like five o’clock in the
afternoon.”
Dallas Township Police Chief Carl
“for people in certain industries
working rotating shifts’’ even
though overall he ‘doesn’t see any
benefit to changing the law.”
Miers pointed out that ‘“‘a lot of
problems involving alcohol occur in
If you want your Valentines to be
delivered on target and on time, you
can help the Postal Service by
addressing them properly, Postmas-
ter Thomas P. Bly of the Dallas
Post Office said recently.
“A return address should be the
first address a person puts on an
envelope,” he said.” ‘If there is a
delivery problem, it will allow us to
return the letter, card or parcel to
the sender.”
Both the return address and mail-
ing address should contain complete
address information. This includes
all of the following elements that
apply:
a. Full name of recipient.
b. Apartment mailbox number or
apartment number.
¢. Rural route number and box
number.
d. Street. name and number or
post office box number.
e. City, State and — VERY
IMPORTANT — ZIP CODE.
Postmaster Bly also urged use of:
legible handwriting, a ball point pen
(felt tips smudge easily) and cor-
rect postage (oversized cards
require extra postage.)
“Proper addressing is especially
important around holidays such as
Valentine’s Day, when many people
do not use their return address in
order to momentarily surprise the
recipient. But when the card or
letter is undeliverable, the one who
is surprised is the sender when he
or .she discovers it was not
received,” Bly said. “Use a little
care, and we’ll get it there.”
home.
Alan Roberts has owned the
Ranch Wagon for approximately 25
years since he started in business as
a teenager in Shavertown on the site
where the Shavertown Shopping
Center now stands. After the first
year, he bought out his original
partner, Bobby Rice, and later
moved the Ranch Wagon to its
present location in Dallas.
the first hour after the bars close”
and this would ‘‘only allow people
with drinking problems to stay out
later.” Chief Miers also pointed out,
“There are enough problems now
trying to enforce the Liquor Code.
There is a shortage of agents.”
Other miscellaneous information
gleaned from various sources
revealed that there are at least two
local bars that do open at 7 am.
private and fraternal clubs .in the
area are allowed to serve liquor
until 3 a.m. one hour longer than
bars.
Presently, drinkers can legally
purchase large amounts of liquor
prior to 2 a.m. and remain on the
premises to drink it as long as no
subsequent - purchases are made.
Some states are advocating keeping
bars open an additional hour or two
with no liquor consumption allowed
to give patrons time to sober up
before they attempt to drive.