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Pennsylvania’s new drunk boating
law took effect on Monday. The new
law makes major changes in the
enforcement and penalties for oper-
ating a watercraft under the influ-
ence of alcohol and controlled busi-
ness.
Fish Commission Executive
Director, Ralph W. Abele, hailed the
new drunk boating law as an impor-
tant tool for promoting safety on
Pennsylvania’s waters.
“Fish Commission law enforce-
ment personnel are ready, willing
and able to enforce the new. drunk
boating law when it takes effect.”
Abele declared, ‘This tough new
law should act as a strong deterrent
to boaters who would drink too
much and then operate a boat.
Although we're prepared to take
necessary enforcement action, we
hope there will be no need for
arrests. The new law will have done
its job if it deters operation of
watercraft under influence of alco-
hol or drugs,” Abele noted.
Drunk boating has been against
the law in Pennsylvania since at
least 1963, but the new law makes
operating while under the influence
a misdemeanor which carries a
potential fine of $2500 and up to 90
days in jail, and loss of boat operat-
ing privileges for one year. What’s
more, Act 68 provides that all per-
sons who operate watercraft on
Commonwealth waters are deemed
to have given their consent to chem-
ical tests of their blood, breath or
urine for purposes of determining
the level of alcohol or controlled
substance in their body. ‘‘A person
uses to take ‘a chemical test will
SCultural
*Center
disbands
By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
The Back Mountain area will soon
be losing a vital part of its heritage.
Those who enjoy the finer things in
life will: be saddened to discover
that the Back Mountain Cultural
Center has decided to completely
disband itself.
Mrs. Priscilla Allison, board
member - and past president and
vice president for the center, cited a
lack of leadership and interest as
the reasons.
gone through three presidents,”
Allison said. ‘Each time one would
g&esign, someone had to temporarily
ke their place.”
Allison commented that the deci-
sion to disband was not because of a
lack of interest from the public.
“Everything we did was well
received by the public,” she said.
The Cultural Center was. a brain
child of Howard Grossman, a local
resident. Grossman proposed the
idea after moving here from Phila-
delphia 10 years ago.
“The Grossmans were involvea
with their local cultural center when
they lived in Philadelphia,’’
explained Allison." “When they
moved to the Back Mountain, and
no such organization existed here,
Mr. Grossman decided to begin
one.”
The center, which was recently
holding its meetings in the St. Paul
Church, Shavertown, was responsi-
ble for many of the new culture-
oriented courses conducted at Col-
lege Misericordia. The six-week
courses were geared to both child
and adult students. They included
gymnastics, sewing, drawing, pre-
allet, microwave cooking, and
oven French classes for pre-school
age youngsters.
All of our classes were success:
ful,” said Allison. ‘Fortunately, it
looks as though College Misericor-
dia will be continuing these
classes.” .
Besides the classes, the center
also sponsored the Folk Arts Festi-
val held annually at College Miseri-
cordia.- The festivals began in 1975,
and featured all types of art form.
However, because of the center’s
lack of personnel, the festival was
canceled for the past two years.
Other events which ultimately had
to be discontinued were concerts,
guest lecturers, photo exhibits, and
chartered bus trips to points of
interest for the members of the
center.
lose his or her boating privileges for
one year,” Abele observed.
The act also provides for chemi-
cal tests to be administered at local
police stations, state police bar-
racks or clinical laboratories and
for pre-arrest breath tests. If a boat
operator is stopped by an officer
having reasonable suspicion to
believe the boater is operating
under the influence, the officer may
ask the operator to take a pre-arrest
breath test by blowing into a small
device. The test, which is not used
in evidence, indicates whether there
is a probability that the operator is
under the influence.
How much is too much? Well, if
your blood alcohol content is .10
percent or more, you are boating
under the influence of alcohol under
the new law. The rule of thumb is
simple: If in doubt, don’t operate a
boat. “For a person of average
weight, as few as two drinks could
put him over the top,” Abele noted.
The new law also identifies and
sets penalties for thecrime of homi-
cide by watercraft operated under
the influence. This crime now car-
ries a fine of from $2500 to $15,000
and imprisonmentof up to seven
years, with a minimum sentence of
three years in prison. This tough
penalty should make every one
think twice or three times about
drinking and boating since, on the
waer, almost any accident has the
potential for becoming a fatal one.
Safe boating is everyone’s busi-
ness and excessive drinking and
boating just don’t mix. “The tough
new drunk boating law should help
us rid Pennsylvania’s waterways of
drunk boaters and make boating
safer for all,” Abele concluded.
Check presented
“The classes we sponsored ran
smoothly,” said Allison, “But we
needed a lot of people for the other
events, and we just didn’t have
them.”
Members of the cultural center
decided to distribute what was left
of their treasury to other local
organizations. The art gallery at
College Misericordia will be receiv-
ing a $1,000 donation from the
center and it has been suggested
that the gallery may purchase
something for its permanent collec-
tion with the money. Other recipi-
ents include, Sinfonia da Camera,
$2,000; the Wilkes-Barre campus of
Penn State University, $2,000 for
their Mountain Arts at Hayfield
program; and the Back Mountain
Four weeks away
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Will Dallas School District have a
superintendent and a high school
principal before the opening of the
new school year? It seems no one
has a definite answer to that ques-
tion :since opening of the school is
only. four weeks from now and
preliminary interviews for appli-
cants for the principal or principals
positions are just beginning this
week.
The June 15th resignations of high
school principal Daniel Poorman
and district superintendent Dr.
Richard Shipe left board members
with a dual search for administra-
tors. In fact, the board may be
looking for three administrators if
members conclude supervising
junior and senior high school pro-
grams is too much for one principal.
If they go with the recommendation
of Daniel Poorman that will be their
decision.
Poorman, before leaving the dis-
trict, explained that he believed one
person could not do justice to both
schools. He stated that in order to
insure proper supervision and
administration of program, he
believed there should be a principal
in junior high and senior high. Last
year Poorman’s appointment as
prineipal of both schools, assisted
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Library, $8,500.
Each organization was chosen
because of its potential to broaden
the horizons of cultural learning in
the Back Mountain.
“We especially felt the library
was a good, general community
project,” said Allison. ‘‘Also; they
were kind enough to offer us rooms
to meet in when the center first
began.
“We would like to let the public
know how much we appreciate all of
their support,”’ added Allison.
“When you look at the community
now, and compare it to what it was
like 10 years ago, you can see that
the cultural center accomplished a
great deal.”
Staff Correspondent
Several Back Mountain youths
were honored at a luncheon at the
Irem Temple Country Club on July
27.
The three youths, Donny Ide of
Idetown, = Albert Sweitzer of
Lehman, and Bobby Adams of
Trucksville, were, at one time,
patients at the Shriner’s Hospital in
Philadelphia.
Louise James, chairwoman of the
Crippled Children’s Committee of
the Irem Temple Woman's Auxil-
iary, organized the outing.
According to Mrs. James, the
purpose of the gathering was so that
“they could reminisce about the
hospital and think about what the
hospital has done for them.”
The Shriner’s Hospital is for the
children of financially eligible fami-
(See YOUTHS, page 8)
by an assistant in each building,
was ‘an experimental project
approved by the board. According
to Poorman, the plan was not feasi-
ble since one man cannot divide
himself in two and it often devel-
oped he was not able to be where he
should be when a problem arose.
Now it is a decision to be made by
the board whether to have a junior
and senior high principal, each with
an assistant, or to appoint the
present assistant principals as prin-
cipals and hire one district principal
to supervise all building principals
in the district.
Acting superintendent Gerald
Wycallis said interviews of appli-
cants for the principal’s position
were scheduled for July 31 and Aug.
1
These dates were set by the board
at an information session held
Thursday, July 26. Following the
preliminary interviews, the person-
nel committee headed by Donald
Jones and other board members he
may select will screen the appli-
cants and
oarrow the field to a few
top, candidates. Wycallis said he
believed the board would come to
some decision on the principal’s
position at the Aug. 13 work session.
Wycallis had no definite informa-
tion relative to the superintendent’s
position. He stated that two of the
(See DALLAS, page 8)
By ANN DEVLIN
Staff Correspondent
Women have been networking for
ages.
They network as they exchange
favorite recipes amongst each
other.
They network as they pass along
:the word as to what detergents work
‘best to clean their kids’ clothes.
And now they’re networking in a
whole new environment — business.
Women in business, especially in
sales, are assuming more and more
of a role in what used to be just a
man’s world. That’s what led to the
development of the National Net-
work of Women in Sales. (NNWS).
The NNWS is an Ilinois-based non-
profit corporation founded in 1981 to
encourage the careers of profes-
sional saleswomen. .
Sharon Friedman of Dallas. is
establishing a local chapter of the
NNWS. She is formerly from Illinois
and was active in the Chicago chap-
ter of the NNWS.
Dallas Po,t/Ed Campbell
‘
Horse Show Queen
Karen Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Zzvans, of
Dallas, was named 1984 Lehman Horse Show Queen Friday
night prior to the start of the annual event sponsored by the
Lehman Volunteer Fire Department. Ms. Evans was
crowned by Theresa Onesko of Bishop Hoban, the 1983
queen. First runner-up was Kathryn Drapiewski of Bishop
O'Reilly while Michelle Valenti of Wyoming Area captured
second runner-up honors. Ms. Evans is a student at Dallas
High School. Judges in the contest were Mark Sinclair, of
WKRZ-FM Radio; Thomas Heffernan Jr., of the Sunday
Independent; and Charlot M. Denmon, of The Dallas Post.
SHARON FRIEDMAN
“The organiation is open to
anyone, whether they’re selling tup-
perware, cars, or whatever,” says
Mrs. Friedman.
The NNWS was established to aid,
educate, and encourage a career in
sales. Objectives of the NNWS
include: 1) Providing new opportun-
ities for women in sales through
seminars, discussions, and lectures.
2) Establishing a . library for
research. 3) Establishing a career
development support group and job
bank for members. 4) Establishing
a scholarship fund for a deserving
student in sales and marketing. 5)
Distributing a monthly newsletter to
The activities of NNWS are
geared toward increasing the expe-
rience and knowledge that persons
in sales need to be more productive.
Members have the opportunity to
meet with people in similar posi-
tions and exchange ideas and expe-
riences. Members are able to dis-
cuss problems and concerns and are
rewarded with feedback and reas-
surances from fellow business
people. NNWS activities emphasize
the development of self-confidence
and pride.
More than just a support group,
NNWS. enables women to learn
(See NETWORKING, page 8)