EOX 334
BRIGHTON, Ia
Siren
arrives
By JUDIE MATHERS
Staff Writer
Neighbors of the- State Correc-
tional Institution at Dallas received
good news earlier this week when
Mrs. Pat Rusiloski, chairperson for
the Citizen’s Committee of that
instition, was notified that the com-
pletion day for a new siren has been
moved ahead by almost two years!
The new completion date for the
warning siren at the prison has been
set for August 31, 1985.
At a meeting with Superintendent
Joseph Ryan and area legisltors on
March 1, 1985, the Citizen’s Commit-
tee had voiced strong opposition
when it was announced the new
siren was included in a 1.5 million
dollar project scheduled to be com-
pleted by May 1, 1987.
“We need that new siren sooner!”
Mrs. Rusiloski had exclaimed
during that meeting. “We can’t hear
the one we have now!”
Dominic = Fatheryar, another
member of the Citizen’s Committee
had urged, “The siren is the most
important thing to us! Can’t we get
that sooner and wait forthe other
things included in the project?”
Apparently, the citizens’ concerns
did not fall on deaf ears. On March
5, Superintendent Ryan wrote a
letter to Senator Frank O’Connell
requesting his (O’Connell’s) assist-
ance in expediting the siren installa-
tion as a priority and emergency
segment of the total project.
“The siren is considered to be a
vital part of the SCI-Dallas warning
system should an inmate escape
from custody,” Ryan explained.
The following day, Jeffes notified
Superintendent Ryan that the
Bureau shared the concern regard-
ing the need for installation of the
new warning siren and announced
that action was underway to expe-
dite that installation.
Mrs. Rusiloski called The Dallas
Post this past Monday and
announced, “We did it! We're get-
ting our siren!”’ She had just
received a copy of the following
schedule:
Sketch Submission — April 16,
1985
Pre-Final/Final Submission —
May 31, 1985
Advertise Project — June 12, 1985
Receive Bids — July 3, 1985
Award Contract — July 17, 1985
Construction Completion —
August 31, 1985
HR2GA0
All ‘made up’
BY JUDIE MATHERS
Staff Writer
Army friends and family mem-
bers paid special tribute to Pfe.
Richard Zimmerman last Wednes-
day as he was laid to rest in full
military fashion.
One of 12 young men killed during
training at Fort Bragg, N.C., Zim-
merman’s remains, accompanied
by a personal friend, SP4 Matt
Evans of Shavertown, were flown
home the previous Sunday.
“The Army handled everything,”
recalls the slain soldier’s dad, Herb
Zimmerman, ‘Down to the last
detail. His> mother and I told them
what we wanted and they made
sure that was the way it was done.
SFC Roy Evans, a local man, (no
relation to Matt) arranged ever-
thing personally. He was one of the
‘two men who came to our homes fo
notify us of Rick’s death, and he
carried on from there.”
“It was a very nice funeral,” says
Pat, Rick’s mom. ‘It was personal
and warm, but formal and beauti-
fully done. Twelve guys from Ft.
Bragg who were friends of Rick’s
guards, and make up the firing
squad for the 21 gun salute. A bugle
palyer from the Lake-Lehman band
played taps.
“We wanted it that way because
‘the band is so outstanding and Rich
had gone to Lake-Lehman,” Mrs.
Got a problem? Need advice?
Let “Aunt Patty” help you!
“Dear Aunt Patty,” a column
designed to answer your ques-
tions, lend advice and make
suggestions will appear soon in
The Dallas Post.
Readers are encouraged to
send their letters to “Dear Aunt
Patty,” c-0 The Dallas Post, P.O.
Box 366, Dallas, Pa., 18612.
“Dear Aunt Patty” is strictly a
localized column and is not
nationally syndicated. Letters to
“Dear -Aunt Patty’”’ will be
answered by a Back Mountain
resident who is trained in the
area of counseling. Get your
letter to “Aunt Patty” out today
and watch The Dallas Post for
your answer.
Zimmerman continued. “We did not
allow the news media at the funeral.
We wanted that to be private and it
was. Rich’s roommate ‘and close
friend came from North Carolina to
hand me Rich’s class ‘ring and
beret. Because his dad and I are
divorced, the Army had two flags -
one for each of us, and gave each of
us bullets from the (21-gun) salute.
Personal flower arrangements were
sent to us from his company and
we’re both still receiving letters of
condolence from various Army offi-
cials.”
“A representative from Paul Kan-
jorski’s office called us,” noted Mr.
Zimmerman, ‘‘and asked if there
was anything the Congressman
could do to help with arrangements.
Although there was nothing, we
really appreciated the gesture.”
According to the family, an investi-
gation is now underway to deter-
mine the cause of the accident that
took the life of Rich Zimmerman
and 11 other passengers and crew
members of the Black Hawk heli-
copter on March 13. The investiga-
tion is being conducted by an eight
man team from the Army Safety
Center at Fort Rucker, Ala.
The helicopter, in which Zimmer-
man was a passenger, crashed
shortly after it had been flying in
formation with two other Black
Hawks at 100 mph, 75 feet above the
ground. To the Zimmermans’
knowledge, this is at least the 34th
fatality caused by the Black Hawk
since 1979.
“Just this past February 22,”
says Mr. Zimmerman, “four men
were killed and four injured in
another Black Hawk crash.” The
family says they would like to know
(See SOLDIER, page 6)
¥
25 Cents
writing
Staff Correspondent
At the monthly meeting of the
Dallas Borough Council, Council
members decided not to support a
request by the Luzerne County
Transportation Authority to protest
budget cuts by writing letters to
government officials.
Current trend throughout the
Wyoming Valley seems to be in
support of such letter writing, in
hopes of pursuading the Reagan
administration to uphold Federal
Revenue Sharing. Other boroughs
and townships have passed resolu-
tions in favor of writing these let-
ters.
Wilkes-Barre Township passed
such a resolution last month and
wrote directly to the Dallas Council
requesting that they re-think their
position on the matter. Leo
Kuciewz, secretary to the Wilkes-
Barre Township board had said,
“We strongly believe most commun-
ities of our area will suffer as a
result of these cutbacks, which will
create an extreme hardship to indi-
vidual residents, therefore we
choose to exercise this means
(letter writing) of speaking on our
behalf and recommend that other
boroughs and townships do the
same.”
The effect of lessened revenue due
to revenue sharing cutbacks can be
understood when one realizes that
$18,000 of the $300,000 of the bor-
ough’s budget consists of Revenue
Shari ing Funds.
Says Council Chgirman Harold
Brobst, ‘‘Let’s fce it, Revenue Shar-
ing has been ‘‘found money,”
idea
though I believe we can handle the
cuts.”
“I think the position of the board
may have been misunderstood,’’
claims council member Gary Ide
who had been the most outspoken on
the council as far as not supporting
the transportation authority. ‘We
are not singling out one group and
denying them, rather, this is a
policy the board has adopted as far
as protesting the federal budget
cuts,” said Ide. “rather than cry out
with every threatened cut, we're
trying to do our share,” he said.
When asked if council was support-
ing the Reagan cuts, both Ide and
Brobst said yes.
The issue began when the Luzerne
County Transportation Authority
wrote letters to all councils on its
bussing routes in the Luzerne
County area in an attempt to secure
support from these councils by way
of letters to congressmen and sena-
tors, protesting the 1986 budget cuts.
“$1.1 million is supplied to us
federally,” claims Harold Edwards,
executive director of the authority.
“Imagine what could happen if
most or all of it is done away with.
Mass transit may make up 3 per-
cent of the Fedceral budget but, it
makes up 5 percent of Reagan’s 30
billion dollar cuts,” he said.
“I frankly cannot understand the
borough’s reluctance to support us,”
Edwards said. “It’s not as if we're
asking them for money,” he contin-
ued. “We service 18,600 people per
month on our Dallas routes and
these people will undoubtedly
suffer.”” Green maintained that real- -
istic options were few; either cut-
ting down on bus routes or doubling
(See LETTER, page 6)
The Dallas Township Board of
Supervisors okayed an ordinance
Tuesday to change the zoning regu-
lations of an 8-acre parcel of land
adjacent to the Meadows Complex
on Church Street in Dallas.
The matter had been discussed at
the February supervisors’ meeting
when Ecumenical Enterprises
asked that the current zoning of the
property, S-1 (suburban), be
changed to R-3 (residential), where
one and two family dwellings could
be built.
The land, owned by the Sisters of
Mercy, was to be the cite of 40 new
townhouse apartments, but the
board ruled last month that zoning
regulations would permit only 30
Army buddies
of skin-grafting surgery.
units to be built on the land.
Thomas Brennan, counsel to the
Sisters of Mercy, said, ‘The Sisters
of Mercy would be happy to sell two
more acres of land to E.E.1., so that
they could complete their 40 unit
plan.”
E.E.I’s choice was either to
reduce their 40 apartments to 30 or
to buy additional land. Ray Condo,
director of E.E.I. said that he felt
the cost of construction on the extra
two acres may be prohibitive, as it
would exceed funding from the Fed-
eral Farmers Home Administration.
The final bid figures, says Condo,
will determine whether or not the
project has to be cancelled.
— PAMELA AARON
This week's
a free one
If you were surprised to receive a
copy of this week’s Dallas Post in
your mailbox, don’t be alarmed!
It’s absolutely free - our gift to you.
Periodically, residents of certain
areas of the Back Mountain receive
a complimentary copy of The Dallas
Post. This is our way of introducing
our newspaper to your households in
hopes you will like to read us every
week.
This week, residents in the RD 3
mailing area will receive our news-
paper. Thus, those people residing
in the RD 3 area who are current
subscribers of The Dallas Post will
receive two copies of this week’s
paper.
You will not be charged for
today’s newspaper, however, should
you decide you-would like to become
a regular subscriber of The Dallas
Post, call Jean Brutko, our circula-
tion manager, at 675-5211. Subscrip-
tion rates are $12 per year, how-
the blue insert you received in the
complimentary copy of the paper,
you will be charged the discount
subscription rate of $10 per year.
Inside The Post
Calendar .......... 1 6
Classified ..... 17, 18 19
Commentary” Cs
Cookbook ...........
Crossword . arsenite
es ine
People ............ i
School eeirreinieariees
Sports .......... I, 1
“Leo le :
k
*r