By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The Dallas School! Board may
have yet another problem to con-
tend with in the near future. The
recent 5-2 vote of board members to
assign William Baran, senior high
school driver’s education instructor,
Woo Junior High as a social
Bg dies instructor gives Baran legal
cause to file a grievance against the
board and Baran intends to do just
that.
o
Baran, who has been with the
district for 29% years, is convinced
that seniority, loyalty and doing
one’s work efficiently mean nothing
to the present board of directors.
“I have been told by some mem-
bers of the district that there is a
Vol. 95, No. 29
Era ends at
‘lake beach
By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
A 30-year era of enjoyment and
relaxation at Harveys Lake will
come to a halt this Labor Day. Jim
and Carlene McCaffrey, owners and
operators of the Old Sandy Bottom
Beach, recently announced their
retirement from the resort business.
“After 31 years with this busi-
ness,’ said Mr. McCaffrey, “we
decided it was about time to retire.”
Owning and running a public
beach isn’t easy. According to Mr.
McCaffrey, the family has to do
everything that needs to be done.
“We're responsible for everything
* from clean-up to close-up,” he said.
“We have to police the beach, oper-
ate the ‘refreshment stand, and
_madke all needed repairs. Usually,
&m here from 5:30 in the morning
till 9 o’clock at night.”
"oe Sandy Bottom Beach was
nce a forested swamp. Then, in
1954, Mr. McCaffrey’s parents, Joe
and Marge McCaffrey, purchased
the land with the thought of turning
it into a public beach area. The
beach was completed by the
summer of 1955, and opened to the
public. Since then, the beach has
played host to thousands of area
residents and tourists.
The McCaffreys gave a lot of
thought to the sales of the beach.
Unlike its past competitor, Sandy
Beach, which was sold several
years ago for home building lots,
Old Sandy Bottom Beach will live
on in a new role as an association
within the Harveys Lake commu-
nity.
‘‘Harveys Lake, along with our
friends and neighbors, has been
kind. to us over the years,”
remarked Mr. McCaffrey, ‘‘and it
has always been our fondest hope
that when the time came for us and
our family to move on in life, we
would be able to find some way of
Wecerving the beach for continued
use and enjoyment. The view from
this spot of the lake is one which
you have to travel far and wide to
duplicate in beauty.”
certain faction trying to get rid of
me and I’m beginning to believe
that it is true,” Baran said. ‘In all
the years I have been in the district,
it is the first time that the board has
voted against the administration
officials’ recommendations.”
Baran has been driver’s education
instructor for the past 19 years,
since the program was initiated in
the mid 1960’s, and prior to that,
taught social studies in the high
school. Before this school year,
Baran kept the school car in his
garage at home where he washed
and polished it, changed the oil and
did all but major servicing. This
year, without any explanation,
Baran was directed by the board to
leave the car at the school, thus
causing more expense for the dis-
trict since all maintenance was
done by a local garage.
1984
After 19 years in driver’s educa-
tion without any blemishes on his
record, Baran’s position was elimi-
nated when a majority vote of the
board approved dropping the train-
ing program despite objections by
taxpayers, insurance representa-
tives and Back Mountain police
departments.
Baran is also instructor-coordina-
tor for Luzerne Intermediate Unit
18, a position he has had for the past
nine years. He taught graduate
courses in driver’s education at
for 10 years and has a *Master’s
Equivalency in Safety Education.
“Dr. Richard Shipe, acting super-
intendent Gerald Wycallis, senior
high school principal Frank Galicki
and members of Dallas Education
Association recommended that due
fo seniority, I should be given the
Dallas Post/George Poynton
scorekeeper.
Although the final details of the
sale are yet unknown, the McCaf-
frey’s realtor is in the process of
transferring ownership of the prop-
erty to a newly formed organization
of private citizens.
According to Mr. McCaffrey, the
organization is comprised of resi-
dents within and from without the
community who are interested in
preserving and enhancing the com-
munity asset for the use of its
members and families only.
The McCaffrey family is unsure of
what the future holds for it now. But
one thing is for sure; for the first
time ever, the McCaffreys are going
to be able to enjoy a normal
summer vacation.
“My wife, my family and I have
never had the pleasure of a summer
aw cation,” McCaffrey said. “The
w, of our business precluded
that. It was our business to see that
our customers enjoyed their vaca-
tions and leisure time while they
were with us. We are looking for-
ward to be able to see and enjoy the
beauty of the lake after all these
years - to see from the other side
what summer is all about.”
5 #5
O
When one thinks of the Olympic
Games, thoughts of patriotism,
newly-found heroes, and countries
joining hands come to mind. How-
s on page 12 of
are urged to
the first day
ever, there’s a completely different
side to these Games as the Olym-
pics can be financially profitable,
also.
Businesses in Los Angeles that
have stocked their stores to the
brim with Olympic memorabilia
havg been surprised, however. The
souvenirs aren’t selling all that
well, and businessmen are losing
money.
What about Back Mountain busi-
nesses? Have they been seeing the
same trend with their Olympic mer-
chandise? How much merchandise
of this type have they been offer-
ing?
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
According to Jordan Moye, man-
ager of the McCrory’s Department
Store, Shavertown, the demand for
Olympic souvenirs in the Back
Mountain has been practically nil.
“We didn't carry anything like
that,” he said. ‘Perhaps it was a
failure on the manufacturer’s part.
We didn’t receive any type of bro-
chures having to do with the Olym-
pics. Maybe they figured that the
Olympics would be a flop because of
the Soviet boycott.
“Still, if there’s a large demand
for an item,” he added, ‘‘and our
(See OLYMPICS, page 8)
opportunity to remain as a social
studies instructor in the senior high
school,” said Baran. “The recom-
mendations fell on deaf ears
because although I have not
received an official assignment to
date, I understand I will be sent to
the junior high.”
Baran believes that a certain
school resent the fact that he
assisted the administration when
called on to do so. When former
assistant principal Brook Hunt
resigned, Baran was requested to
assist high school principal Edgar
Hughes until Frank Galicki was
Lack of facilities
assist Galicki in checking absentees
and other minor details during his
free periods. In Baran’s opinion,
this did not prove popular with
some of his fellow faculty members.
In the Dallas School District,
teachers receive their assignments
at the end of the school term in
June for the following academic
year. Baran and one other teacher
are the only ones who did not get
their assignments for the coming
school year.
After consultation with the legal
counsel of the PSEA, Baran learned
he has just cause for filing a griev-
ance against the action of the Dallas
School Board, which, under the cir-
cumstances, he is planning to do.
He is scheduled to discuss action
with the PSEA officials this week.
25 Cents
By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
The Pennsylvania State Fish
Commission recently came under
the attack of Representative George
Hasay.
According to Hasay, he has
received numerous complaints con-
cerning maintenance procedures at
two recreational facilities fre-
quented by 117th District residents.
In letters to Fish Commission
Executive Director Ralph W. Abele,
the lawmaker complained about
conditions at Mountain Springs
Lake, at Red Rock, and ‘Harveys
Lake.
In an ‘interview with The Dallas
Post, Hasay explained his feelings
on this issue.
“I believe that the Fish Commis-
sion is being irresponsible, stub-
born, and irresponsive to the
fact, I feel they are becoming the
most irresponsible agency in the
commonwealth.”
The complaints Hasay spoke of
concerned the access road leading
to the Mountain Springs Lake, and
the apparent ‘lack of concern about
the condition of restroom facilities
at Harveys Lake.”
“It’s my understanding that the
Harveys Lake protective association
is now paying for portable restroom
facilities,” he said. “The protective
association or the borough (of Har-
veys Lake) should not have to take
on this responsibility at the public
boat landing area.”
According to Hasay, fishing licen-
ses now cost $12 for resident Penn-
sylvanians and $20 for out-of-state
residents. There are 1.1 million such
fishermen.
“I could understand if the licenses
cost less,” said Hasay, ‘but the
fishermen are paying high enough
prices for these things to be taken
care of.”
According to Mike Bickler, Direc-
tor of the Office of Information for
the Fish Commission, Hasay’s com-
plaints are unfounded.
“Kirst of all, concerning the rest-
rooms at Harveys Lake,” he said,
“we used to have vault-type toilets
in the area. Then, the borough told
us that we were going to have to
hook up to their sewer system. We
agreed and pulled out the vault
toilets. Afterwards, the protective
association set up vault-type ‘toilets
on their own.
“We then met .with the Harveys
Lake Council, sewer authorities, the
protective association, and a repre-
sentative from Hasay’s office, in
June,”’ he continued.
“At the meeting, we all agreed
that the commission would pay for
the restrooms through the month of
October. We also agreed that the
commission would look into a pump-
type toilet that could hook up to the
sewer. Everyone left the meeting
satisfied.”
(See HASAY, page 8)
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Eleven-year-
old Tracy Stahl of Dallas, whose
father, Michael Stahl of Lancaster,
is the sound engineer for the Jack-
sons’ Vietory Tour, was in the
audience last week as Michael Jack-
son and his brothers performed at
the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
The daughter, also, of Roxanne
Opalicki, of Haddonfield Hills,
Dallas, Tracy will enter the sixth
grade at Dallas Township Elemen-
tary School in September. Her
sister, Michelle, age 8, a fourth
grader, was at the concert, too.
Following is a look at the Jacksons’
1984 Victory Tour - through the eyes
of an 11-year-old.)
By TRACY STAHL
Special to The Dallas Post
My summer started out like most
other summers - walking around the
neighborhood, going swimming, the
usual stuff.
But, then, it finally happened - my
dream came true. I went to a
Michael Jackson concert!
I got to the concert because my
father is the sound engineer.
Michael Jackson was playing in
New Jersey at the New York Giants
Stadium, so my sister, my step-
mother and I drove there on July 29.
As soon as we got settled in, we
went right to the stadium where my
father works. When we got there,
my father introduced us to all the
people he knows and told us what
they do. Then, my father had to do
a ‘‘sound-check.” He and the other
engineer he works with (people call
him M.L.) and Kathy Sandor (an
assistant engineer) put on a tape
and blasted it as loud as the show
was going to be.
Kathy with his walkie-talkie as he
went to every level of the stadium
‘and ‘told her if the sound was good
or bad. If it was bad, Kathy would
change a couple of levers on the
TRACY STAHL
equalizer, then when my father
came down, the band was there for
the sound-check, too.
What the band does is play cer-
tain beats that my father and M.L.
my father changes a couple of
knobs on the console.
Finally, the brothers came for the
sound check, too. Michael, Jer-
maine, Marlon and Tito were all
there. Jackie wouldn’t come
because. his leg was broken, so
Randy filled in for him. They came
because my father had to do the
(See JACKSON, page 8)
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