Vol. 96, No. 7
Reward offered
By Pamela Aaron
Staff Correspondent
Edward and Bernadine Weiss of
141 Elizabeth Street in.Dallas have
banded together with their neigh-
bors in an effort to stop the vandal-
izing of their home, by offering a
reward to anyone having any infor-
mation leading to the capture of the
person(s) involved in the nine
month long seige on the residence.
The problems began in June, says
Mrs. Weiss and have continued,
despite the efforts of a neighborhood
crime watch and investigation by
the borough police. The matter of
police protection was brought up
once again at last week’s Dallas
Borough Council meeting where the
Weisses and 23 neighbors attested to
the broken windows, gasoline and
glue on the property and car and
obscene language written upon the
house proper. Mrs. Weiss claims
she and her husband have kept
records, including photos of the
damage, of which repairs have had
to be made.
The Weisses state they are igno-
rant as to the cause of the singling
out of their home for such damage.
Buying stamps
They have lived in the area 32 years
and are «xmployed by Boscov’s in
Wilkes-Barre and, according to Mrs.
Weiss, hay2 no enemies they know
of nor did anything to slight anyone.
The Weisses would like more
involvement from the police, but the
borough cllaims its police depart-
ment has investigated and stood
watch on the property and have yet
to find any clues as to the identity of
the criminal. The Weisses and their
neighbors also claim to have kept
watch to no avail. Mrs. Weiss says
she and her husband have suffered
irreparable harm due to the crime,
in terms of the tension of not
knowing what will be next.
“How can people navigate and
pursue their lives with this kind of
harassment?’” she asks.
The amount of the reward money
being offered in this case is not
being disclosec! at this time.
In other Dallas Borough Council
matters, Tom Bagley was named
secretary of the: Council, filling the
vacancy that occured when Edward
Buckley resigned unexpectedly last
month. Mr. Buckley gave no reason
for his termination of services to ihe
borough.
Dallas Post/Chz
ot M. Denmon
Zabinski.
By Charlot M. Denmon
Staff Correspondent
The increase in first class postage
from 20 fo 22 cents, by the United
States Postal Service, recently
brought few, if any complaints from
postal customers.
“In fact, I haven’t come across
anyone complaining,” said Robert
Lukas, officer in charge at the
Dallas Post Office while Postmaster
Bly is away on detail.
“People were lined up at tlie win-
dows on Tuesday waiting to pur-
chase two cent and one cent stamps
to use with their 20 cent stamj)s. We
sold out but have the two’si and
one’s on order. We do have the 22
cent stamps available.”
Ray Cecconi, superintendent of
postal operations at the Dallas Post
Office, said prior to Feb. 17 the day
the increase went into effect, there
(See INCREASE, page: 8)
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
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‘The Next Chapter’
Spending most of last week moving the Back Mountain
Memorial Library to its new home on Huntsville Road in Dallas
were, from left, Melvin Congdon, Carl Oberst, William Freder-
ick, librarian; and Nancy Kozemichak, assistant library. The
‘Project Excellence’ proving its wort
By Charlot M. Denmon
Staff Correspondent
new library, which has adopted the theme, ‘The Next :
Chapter’ will officially open on Monday, March 4, with inborn:
cutting ceremonies scheduled for 9:30 a. m. 3
“Project Excellence’, the joint
series of seminars and workshops
involving administrative ard
instructional staff from’ both Lake-
Lehman and Dallas, is considered a
most worthwhile program by both
Gerald J. Wycallis, Dallas District
superintendent, and Dr. David Pres-
tendent.
The project which brings. in out-
side consultants to present a variety
of systematic approaches to instruc-
tion developed over the past several
years from effective school
research, is made possible by the
districts sharing in a statewide 1984-
85 fiscal year appropriation by the
Pennsylvania General Assembly.
The goal is that each district,
through interaction with the consul
tants and participants in the semi-
nar, will design its own staff devel-
opment and curriuculum
management programs, hopefully
having them available for use in the
1985-86 school year and each year
afterwards.
(See PROJECT, page 8)
Women in business ; :
Spell success? E-L-L-E-N B-U-S-H
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Workshops held
Dr. Vito Forlenza, center, speaks to a group of teachers from the Dallas and Lake- Lehman
School Districts during a recent ‘ ‘Project Excellence’ workshop.
By Charlot M. Denmon
Staff Correspondent
In the good times, remember the
bad times and in the bad times,
remember the good,” Ellen Bush’s
mother always told her daughters.
Ellen has always lived by that rule
and found it has contributed to her
success as assistant vice president
and branch manager of E.F. Hutton
& Co. brokers. She is one of only
three women account executives in
the nation for the brokerage firm.
“A total mandate of dedication,
perseverance, energy and ambition
are qualities which have helped in
ny move upwards,” said Ellen. “I
believe these qualities developed
from being a member of a large,
closely knit family, with parents
whio were very caring and sincere.”
, Ellen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Bush, is one of five daugh-
ters, all of whom were raised in
Willzes-Barre, although Ellen lived
with her family on Church Street,
Dallas, when she was very young.
Today, she and her younger
sister, Joan, live in Dallas, an area
they enjoy very much. “I like the
area and the people,” said Ellen.
“And I am near my parents, whe
reside in Wilkes-Barre.”
Joan is a counselor at Keystone
Junior College. Ellen’s sister, Betsy,
is with Windows of the World,
Connie is in Washington, D.C.
where she is a member of the Holy
Child of Jesus Society, and Mollie,
an L.P.N., is married and lives in
Wilkes-Barre.
Ellen’s father is a retired sports
editor of the Sunday Independent, a
position he held for many years.
Ellen graduated summa cum
laude from Bucknell University with
Bachelor of Arts degrees in history,
political science and economics.
“None of these were relevant to
sales,” said Ellen, of her collegiate
studies. ‘‘But following graduation
from college, I returned to Wilkes-
Barre because I wanted to be sup-
portive of my parents. 1 felt they
had always been supportive of my
ambitions and I wanted to do some-
thing for them in return.”
When Ellen was first offered a
position, it was with Bache & Com-
pany. She wasn’t sure she qualified
as a broker, but thought it wouldn’t
hurt to try since she had a back-
ground in sales while working
during the summers when she was
in college.
Ellen Saried with Bache & Com-
pany and attended their training
programs. Later, she moved to E.F.
Hutton and became licensed in
insurance, stocks and bonds.
She had intended to go to law
school, but instead she fell in love —
with the brokerage business and
stayed with it. She has been with
E.F. Hutton for the past five years
and was one of four licensed bro-
kers who opened E.F. Hutton’s
office in Wilkes-Barre.
Since that time the business has
grown and presently Ellen manages
14 brokers and five operational staff
members. She derives her biggest
rewards from the clientele and from
seeing brokers develop and being
able to help them.
Ellen’s ultimate goal is “not to
forbid any type of goal in her
future.” Currently, she is working
at increasing her quality as man-
ager and to make E'F. Hutton well
known and well respected in this
area.
Since her work is demanding,
Ellen does not have a lot of leisure
time but enjoys running in the spare
time she can find. She also coached
one of the youth soccer teams for
three years and plaris to do so again
this summer. She is very familiar
v
in college.
She has two dogs, a small cock-a-.
poo and a mixed Dalmation,
“Groove’’, who has taken over th
entire household.
Ellen also travels to various os
tions of the United States to: atten
seminars.
She is a member of the Founders
Club, Financial Planners Club and:
Association of American Women in.
Management.
If one were given the opportunity’
to. use only two words to describe
success, those two words would
have to be “Ellen Bush”.