By PAMELA AARON
Staft Correspondent
At a special meeting last Monday evening, the
Dallas School District Cafeteria workers voted unani-
mously to conduct a selective strike. A selective strike
occurs at a moment’s notice with no advance warning
to school administrators.
Notification was made to Mary Ehret, ARA cafet-
eria manager, by Western Union. The workers,
members of P.P.S.P.A. union, made their decision last
Tuesday morning prior to the opening of school after
nearly nine months of negotiating for their new
contract.
A notification sent by the ARA Company, managers
of the cafeteria program in the Dallas School district,
informed the workers in July of 1984, there would be
hours cut in the coming year. The cutbacks were due
to budget problems, claimed ARA. The workers, many
of whom had been working long before ARA had taken
over the cafeteria program two years ago, not only
had less in monetary reimbursements, but had lost
benefits as well.
At the August meeting of the Dallas School Board, 21
of the workers showed up to protest the cutbacks and
asked the board if they would negotiate with ARA and
the union for an increase in hours and benefits before
their new contract in October of 1984. Attorney
Benjamin Jones, solicitor for Dallas School District,
promised to meet with both the ARA and the workers
to try and iron out the contract problems, but to date,
has not met with them.
A negotiations specialist was brought in to negotiate
between ARA and the union, but although some points
in the original 1984 contract were restored, other
points were not. The full scheduled hours were not
restored.
The workers were asking for their full amount,
retroactively, since their contract expired in October;
however, they were offered only 12 and one half cents
per hour to make up the loss.
Unsatisfied with ARA’s final offer, the workers
decided to strike. The strike will be a ‘selective’ one
in that it will not be reported when or where (in which
particular school) the strike will take place.
The school’s maintenance workers, members of the
same union, have been involved in contract disputes
for well over a year. Louis Bobeck, leader of the
union, has said he hopes things will be settled without
striking. At present, the maintenance workers are
waiting to schedule further negotiations.
Vol. 96, No. 9
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By PAMELA AARON
Staff Correspondent
Effective April 1, the West Side
Landfill Authority will be raising its
hauling rates $1.50 per cubic yard.
The hike is the first major one in
the last three years and will raise
dumping rates another $3.50 per ton.
The rates will apply only to pri-
vate haulers and not to the Author-
ity’s 12 member townships; who pay
$2.40 per resident for the privilege
of using the dump. Members, how-
ever, can expect an increase in
January 1986, according to the
authority’s secretary, David Whip-
ple.
The increase expenses are due
primarily to the new baler facility
at the landfill. The Authority’s
accountant, Donald Kronick, drew
up specifications on a plan to assist
the Authority in handling their
increased budget. Increased opera-
tions and maintenance costs of the
baler demanded that increased rev-
enue be sought, according to Solici-
tor Joseph Persico.
Representatives Leonard Kova-
leski from Edwardsville and Jerry
Washcalus of Plymouth both
opposed any rate hike initially.
Kovaleski enumerated the many
hardships that would occur to the
private hauler and also added that
the major: portion..of. revenue is
(See LANDFILL; page 8)
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Donald E. Britt and immediate Past
here are, from left, Edward G. Bath, Sr.;
and Mrs. Clyde R. Oster.
Women in business
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Ten years ago Mary Taylor opened her first beauty
salon on Lake Street, Dallas — a small shop but one in
which she offered full professional service with
personal attention. Two years later, Mary opened her
hair and skin care center on Carverton Road, Trucks-
ville, and in 1980, the full service salon in Kingston.
Last month (January), Mary opened a fourth hair
and skin care center on the Sans Souci Highway,
Wilkes-Barre. In addition, she and her husband,
Philip, own the Hickory Corners Shoppes in Trucks-
ville, which they plan to expand in the near future.
A native of Kingston, Mary moved with her family
to Philadelphia when she was only about two years of
age. She had an aunt and uncle in that city who were
cosmetology teachers. Mary worked for them from the
time she was 12 years of age.
“I always wanted to be a hair stylist,” said Mary. “I
enjoyed being around it.”
Following graduation from high school, Mary served
as an apprentice for her aunt and uncle then finished
at Empire Beauty School. She attended graduate
programs in other parts of the country. She always
found that she had ideas of her own which proved to
be best. She worked for several years, then opened her
own salon.
Mary started with just three persons in her first
business, herself and two others. Now she has
approximately 30 employees, averaging at least 1,000
clients each week.
- Mary Taylor's Hair & Skin Care Centers are full
service salons with professional staff members trained
by Mary and her managers.
(See WOMEN, page 8).
Dallas Post/Ed Campbeil
The board of supervisors has
elected to donate $5,000 to the
Kunkle Fire Dept. to help with
equipment costs for the year.
The Fire Company will use the
annual donation toward a newly
purchased 1976 International Tank
Truck. The truck is able to haul
2,600 gallons of water; a necessity,
as about 90 percent of the area,
according to Fire Chief Dobson is
without fire hydrants. The total cost
of the truck is $12,000.
The supervisors make a yearly
donation, dependent upon their
budget and resources, to the Kunkle
At Dallas
By PAMELA AARON
Staff Correspondent
Fred M. Templin of 24 Southside
Ave. in Dallas, has been appointed
the new Curriculum Supervisor for
the Dallas Schoo! District.
Templin is a Math and Physics
instructor at the Dallas Senior High
School and has been involved in
coaching football for the school until
1978. He has been employed by the
Dallas School District for 20 years.
The Dallas School Board voted 7-2
on the appointment, with Joe O’Don-
nell and John Cleary voting ‘no’.
O'Donnell and Cleary both stated
they felt there was not enough
supervisory experience in Templin’s
background to warrant such an
appointment.
When Templin assumes his new
duties on March 26, his salary will
increase from $30,183 as an instruc-
tor, to $33,000 as Curriculum Super-
visor. The position is contracted for
a four-year period and has been
vacant since July of 1984.
The Curriculum Supervisor is
involved with directing educational
programs and. securing grants for
the District. It was the understand-
ing of some of the board members
Fire Dept. as it is the only fire
department currently serving
Dallas Township.
In other matters, Herbert Hanky
resigned recently as a crossing
guard. Hanky cited health and per-
sonal reasons for his resignation.
The crossing station is located at
Hildebrandt Road and Conyngham
Ave. and, as yet, the post is unfilled.
Ecumenical Enterprises has
applied for a zoning change in the
Meadows Senior Citizens Complex
on Route 309. The complex com-
prises 120 apartment units plus a
that the school district superintend-
ent was to choose his own Curricu-
lum Supervisor, but after the review
of 37 applicants and four finalists
among them were: Frank Galicki,
Assistant principal of the Junior and
Senior High School; Anthony Mar
nelli, a 6th grae teacher at
Intermediate Unit and Elea
Buda, a 7th grade English teache
at the Junior High School, the 8
member board made the motion to
decide the best candidate for the
position.
Both Templin and his wife Shirley
are natives to the Dallas area,
having lived here all their lives.
Templin attended Dallas High
School and Pittston Area High
School and received his Bachelor of
Bloomsburg State College and his
Master of Arts Degree in Education
from Bucknell University.
tary; daughter, Robin, Hessick,
Lansdale, Pa. is employed as a
nutritionist; son Fred L. is complet-
ing a Masters in Communications at
Penn State and son, Kevin, is a
second year Electrical Engineering
student at Penn State.
teaching position has been made.
construct three 10 apartment units
on the six acres of land adjacent to
the complex. The land is presently
zoned for residential use and the
three, to allow for the new apart-
ments.
The final decision rests with the
Board of Supervisors, as it was
turned over to them by the Town-
hearing is scheduled to debate the
issue on March 19 at 7 p.m. at the
Township Building.
— PAMELA AARON
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
St. Patrick’s Day, March 17 - the
day most of the Irish in America
and those Americans who wish they
were Irish, don something green,
join in the parades, and celebrate
the feast of Ireland’s most notable
saint, Patrick.
Legend has it that St. Patrick was
a Scotsman who came to Ireland
and chased out the snakes, repre-
senting demons and evil, but
modern historians favor regions
much farther south than Dumbar-
ton, a capital in an area of Scotland.
They believe St. Patrick’s birth-
place could have been in South
Wales or southwest England:
Most biographers agree that Pat-
rick was captured and sold as a
slave by Irish raiders to. a Lord in
Ireland, where Patrick worked as a
herdsman for six years.
Marie Johns Ritts of Oak Hill,
whose great grandparents came
from Dublin recalls some of the
tales her grandmother told when
Marie was a child. Her grand-
mother used to tell bits and pieces
of stories she had heard from her
mother - truth or myth - about
Patrick founding the church in Ire-
land and how he used the shamrock
to convey the idea of the Holy
Trinity.
gious oppression in Ireland and
eventually settled in the East End
area of Wilkes-Barre.
‘““My ancestors worked in the
mines,” said Marie,
where I was raised was called
“Irish Town” in those days. It was
body helped one another.
a day off from school,” she added.
“We all dressed in green and
Day parade in Wilkes-Barre. In
those days, they used to paint the
white line in the middle of South
taverns in the area sold green beer.
“The entire neighborhood used to
smell like corned beef and cabbage
and my mother always made a
green cake,” she said.
Marie said since she is. married
she doesn’t observe St. Patrick’s
Day, that a lot of the traditions she
used to observe have been dropped
along the way.
(See PATRICK, page 8)
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