Vol. 95, No. 12
Twp. building burns
Thursday.
The Lehman Township Municipal Building was
destroyed by fire last Thursday, however, no
injuries were reported in the blaze.
Firefighters from Lehman, Jackson Township
and Idetown responded to the blaze at the Hunts-
ville Road building and were forced to battle the
flames in a torrential downpour. Approximately 25
firemen were at the scene.
The building housed the Lehman Township police
department, zoning office and road maintenance
equipment and, although police records and one of
three township trucks were salvaged, all zoning
Going to China
Dallas Post/George Poynton
office records were destroyed.
The two trucks that were destroyed in the fire
were a 1981 GMC four-wheel drive and a 1972
International Loadster. Two cinder spreaders were
also lost.
Township records such as payroll checks, ledgers
and savings accounts from 1978 to the present are
kept in the home of Alvin Cragle, township Segre:
tary, and were safe from the fire.
The fire is believed to have been caused by the
explosion of a propane gas heater inside the office.
Damage is estimated to be in the thousands of
dollars.
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
time of the photo was Doug Maslow.
‘Contractual difference’
By DOTTY MARTIN.
Associate Editor
The Dallas Borough Police Department is currently
operating without the services of seven veteran part-
time police officers and is advertising for part-time
patrolmen.
The part-time patrolmen, who, according to Police
Chief Ed Lyons, are involved in a “contractual
difference with Council” have not worked since
January, 1984. The seven officers involved are Edward
Montross, Donald Smith, Timothy Carroll, James
Gruver, John Appel, Clark VanOrden and Wayman
Miers.
The patrolmen, who have nearly 70 years combined
experience, reportedly are not satisfied with a 20 cents
per hour wage increase offered them by Council and
have set down certain conditions contingent upon their
serving the borough as part-time patrolmen.
The men, in a letter sent to Kenneth Young,
president of Dallas Borough Council, stated that as of
January 23, 1984: (1) they are not available for cruiser
work, where the part-time man is the only one on
duty, i.e. weekend shifts, vacations or sick days, etc.;
(2) the part-time men will work as a second man in
the cruiser for transportation of prisoners or any other
type situation where a full-time officer is in charge;
and (3) they will continue to work parades, bazaars,
auctions, or any other type function which isin need of
a part-time officer.
An eighth part-time patrolman, Thomas Lewis, who
also signed that letter to Young, has since returned to
work and will continue, according to Lyons, as a part-
time patrolman with the borough police department.
In addition to Lewis and Chief Lyons, the borough is
also under the protection of ‘three full-time police
officer in Severn Newberry, James Tupper and Jack
Fowler.
According to Tim Carroll, who has been a part-time
police officer in the borough since 1971 ahd is also the
IS a whole
new world
By WALLY KOCHER
Statf Correspondent
As with every theater production,
there are always some unexpected
surprises, unplanned happenings,
and amusing anecdotes.
Last weekend’s presentation - of
the “Return of the Pink Panther” at
the Lake-Lehman High School was
no different.
It all began on the morning of
opening day. As Mrs. Jean Lipski,
director of the play, forced her eyes:
open from a deep sleep, she realized
the home she shares with her hus-
band was surrounded by a new
fallen snow. Now, this wasn’t just
your normal snow fall, but the worst
snow fall of the past decade.
Soon,, the phone at the Lipski
home began to ring. According to
Mrs. Lipski, the first call came
around 8 a.m. and, after that, it
seemed as though every time she
would hang up, someone else would
call. Everyone wanted to know the
status of the play.
When this reporter phoned her at
approximately 10 a.m. for the same
reason, Mrs. Lipski exclaimed,
“You're my millionth caller!”
(See STAGE, page 8)
constable of Dallas Borough, the part-time men first
approached Borough Council in the form of a letter
dated Nov. 13, 1983.
In that letter, the part-time patrolmen outlined
certain requests they asked Council to consider. Those
requests were: (1) a 75 cents per hour raise; (2) their -
own lockers at the police station; (3) new up-to-date
crime code and vehicle codes; 4) ammunition allot-
ments for the purpose of practice; (56) a more
sufficient clothing allotment; and (6) compensation for
a full day’s pay when they appear in court as police
officers.
The part-time patrolmen, who all hold other full-
time jobs, claim to having to leave those full-time jobs
in order to appear in court on cases which they, as
police officers, handled.
Chief Lyons reported that the men are paid at their
hourly wage for any time they spend in court. He also
said that a subpoena to appear in court takes
precedence over the officer’s full-time job and that the
officer is required by law to appear in court.
Carroll said the men never received a formal
answer from Council after submitting that letter, but
that it was “rumored on the street’ the men would
receive a 20 cents per hour increase.
Carroll informed The Dallas Post the part-time
patrolmen then sent a folloy- -up letter, dated Jan. 15
In that letter, the men asked Council to reconsider
their requests and to have members of Council meet
with their representatives.
Carroll said the part-time patrolmen never received
a formal answer to their second letter, either.
Young reported the men approached Council for a
raise in January of this year, but he could not
remember how much of a raise they requested.
The president also said that Willard Newberry,
police chairman, and other members of Council met
with Carroll at a special meeting and informed Carroll
(See COPS, page 8)
of
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
opin
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
In August of this year, 18 mem-
bers of the Wyoming Seminary
soccer team will depart for a two-
week visit to the People’s Republic
of China. \
The Seminary athletes, through
the efforts of Thomas Furth,
member of the International Games
Committee of the United States
Youth Soccer Association, received
an invitation from the China Sports
first schoolboy team ever to partici-
pate in China’s soccer program.
Seven members of the team are
from the Back Mountain area. They
are John Wilson, Chris Saul, Jerry
Gunster, David Heydt, Guy Gut-
stein, John Evans and Doug
Maslow.
Dr. Wallace F. Stettler, president
of the Kingston College Preparatory
School, announced at a press confer-
ence last Thursday that the school
had accepted the invitation which
comes at the conclusion of Wyoming
Seminary’s 140th Anniversary year.
“We feel greatly honored to have
been chosen to represent high
school soccer in this experience of
athletic diplomacy,” Stettler said.
The school president explained
that 20 months filled with hundreds
of phone calls, letters and personal
visits by Tom Furth to the school
campus led up to the April 5
announcement.
It was in August, 1982, that Stet-
tler’s attention was directed to a TV
morning news show that featured a
soccer coach and one of his players
from a team that had just returned
frm a three-week trip to China and
Japan. After several weeks of
research, contact was made with
Furth then a senior at'Case Western
University Law School and also
involved in U.S. Soccer.
Furth had taken a team of All
Star players from Virginia and the
Cleveland area to China. Early in
1983, Furth visited Wyoming Semi-
nary and, while there, indicated
that the Chinese were interested in
having a schoolboy team from the
USA, visit their country sometime
in the future. Members of the
Chinese Sports Federation had indi-
cated to Furth they would rely on
(See CHINA, page 8)
Food program
The Commission on Economic
Opportunity sponsored a free food
distribution program last Friday at
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Shav-
ertown.
According to Gene Brady, execu-
tive director of the CEO office in
Wilkes-Barre, the program assisted
2,304 people from the Back Mon:
tain area.
serves 2,304
Those people received 4,608 1-
pound blocks of butter; 1,705 5-
pound blocks of cheddar cheese and
2,896 5-pound blocks of American
processed cheese.
This was the first time the free
food distribution was conducted this
year; however, Brady ‘anticipates
the program wil be held quarterly.
School Eeassavaneres we