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By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Staff Writer
Dallas Borough Council members,
at their regular monthly meeting
held last Tuesday night, unani-
mously agreed to fund the initial
stages of an upcoming Neighbor-
hood Crime Watch Program: sched-
uled to kick off in early July.
By a 7-0 vote, including an affirm-
ative vote from Mayor Paul Labar,
Council has earmarked $150 for the
purchase of Neighborhood Crime
Watch kits. Each individual kit
costs $2.50 and includes a member-
ship decal and a variety of informa-
tion pamphlets relating to crime
prevention.
Dallas resident Polly Michael, of
35 Michael Drive, is coordinator of
the Crime Watch and Herb Dreher,
of 140 Elizabeth Street, holds the
secretary/treasurer position. Both
Dreher and Ms. Michael attended
Tuesday night’s meeting and
explained why they felt the money
was needed.
“We really need the pamplets,”
Ms. Michael stated. “With poster
and pamplet advertising, we can
create interest and involve more
people.”
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A nursing instructor at College
Misericordia, Ms. Michael told
council that the money would also
be used toward establishing a
Dallas Borough Community Safety
Education Day, (DBCSED) sched-
uled for August.
‘“As a nurse, I’ve found that many
children are frightened by the bulky
equipment policemen and firemen
use,” Ms. Michael said. “We need
to teach our children, and even
some adults, about police and fire
equipment and even how to make
emergency calls.”
Ms. Michael says she would like
to see the DBCSED include a tour of
_ municipal buildings, inspection of
fire equipment and the police
cruiser. Cardiopulmanary Resusita-
tion (CPR) instruction as well as
how to make police and fire emer-
gency calls would also be planned.
Mayor Labar said the idea would
be “an asset to our community. It
(Crime Watch Program) could also
take some strain off the police
department.”
Borough Police Chief Ed Lyons
was also very supportive of the
program. “I think Council should
support it. The whole municipality
should support it,” the chief said.
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Four new Kingston Township
neighborhood ‘‘captains’ were
appointed and a wide variety of
crime prevention topics were dis-
cussed at the initial meeting of the
Crime Watch Program, coordinator
Harold Shelly said F'riday.
The Kingston Township Neighbor-
hood Crime Watch Program met
Tuesday night, June 18, at the
municipal building and attracted
over 40 township residents. Guest
speakers at the event were Elmer
Bradshaw, Chairman of the Luzerne
County Crime Watch Association;
and Lieutenant Gerald Cookus, a
Crime Prevention Specialist with
the Crime Prevention Unit of the
Wilkes-Barre City police depart-
ment.
“It was a very successful meet-
ing,” Shelly said. ‘‘Everyone was
very interested and we attracted a
good cross-section of the township.’
Appointed as neighborhood cap-
tains were: Frank FHirleman, 184
Ferguson Ave, Shavertown;
Edward Carey, 1 Sunset Ave, Shav-
ertown; Jim Wisnieski, a former
Kingston Township patrolman of 62
Zinn, Trucksville; and Janet Rob-
erts, of 55 Longdale Ave Shaver-
town.
Neighborhood captains, Shelly
said, are responsible for the recruit-
ing of residents and providing them
with current crime prevention infor-
mation and programs.
Lt. Cookus provided those in
attendance with the ‘basic structure
of neighborhood crime prevention
programs.” Cookus told The Post
Friday that his efforts in crime
prevention are part of a county-wide
program designed to make the Wyo-
ming Valley more attractive to
potential industries.
“Our goal is to spread Neighbor-
hood Crime Watch Programs
throughout the county,”’ Cookus
said. “We’re working in cooperation
with the Committee for Economic
Growth (CEG) in order to make this
area more attractive to potential
businesses.”
According to Cookus, national, as
well as local, statistics indicate that
crimes such as burglary, vandalism
and thefts can be reduced by as
much as 37 to 50 percent, depending
on the community.
“It (crime watch) can be very
successful if you have 50 to 60
percent neighborhood participa-
tion,” Cookus said.
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By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Statt Writer
After one week of polling Wyo-
ming Valley residents about the
possibility of contacting some form
of heart disease due to a variety of
‘risk factors’, upwards of 6000 tests
have been returned to the OK Heart
headquarters, W-B, Public relations
director Mark Thomas said
Monday.
Thomas said project officials are
anticipating between 30-50 thousand
returns when the testing period ends
sometime this week.
“We're still having them (tests)
pour in pretty well today,”” Thomas
told The Post Monday. “We hope to
get an overall picture of the heart
disease status of Wyoming Valley
with these tests.”
In addition to the tests results,
Thomas said random testing of a
‘small portion of Wyoming Valley
residents’ began Monday at four
Wyoming Valley hospitals.
Testing at either Mercy, General,
Nesbitt or NFW includes diagnostic
examinations of blood cholesterol
levels, blood pressure, height,
weight and a review of a patients
medical history, at no cost to the
patient.
“The random tests, we anticipate,
will supply us with the much needed
scientific medical evidence relating
to heart disease,” Thomas said.
The kickoff of the OK Heart
Project in Wyoming Valley was held
last week and it is reported to be
the first nationally coordinated
medical survey performed on a
local and temporary basis.
Acting in cooperation with the
project, Offset Paperback, Dallas
has printed over 25,000 copies of Dr.
Edward B. Dietrich’s Heart Test
Book, available at local libraries,
Boscov's department store in
Wilkes-Barre or at the OK Heart
headquarters in Wilkes-Barre’s
Hotel Sterling.
According to Arizona Heart Insi-
tute statistics, over one million
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Americans will die in 1985 as a
resuil of heart disease. Approxi-
mately 500,000 of thai number will
suffer fatal heart attacks.
Dr. Dietrich, Medical Director of
the Arizona Heart Institute, said of
the project at last Tuesday’s press
conference, “We want to detect and
modify the ‘risk factors’ of heart
disease and hopefully affect the
community.”
Dr. Dietrich and his highly
acclaimed ‘Heart Tess,” are famous
for the well documented case of 38-
year-old Pat Taylor of Long Island,
New York, who after two heart
attacks, three catheterizations, two
open heart surgeries and scores of
drug perscriptions returned to a
relatively drug-free lifestyle in just
over an eight-week period in 1980.
The Taylor case, which utilized
Dr. Dietrich’s Heart Test and Diet
Plan, eventually led to a nationally
televised segment, ‘‘The Great
American Heart Test,” on ABC’s
20-20"’ television magazine in Feb-
ruary, 1981.
The telecast marked the first time
in history a health survey was used
on TV and it garnered an ABC
network record response of over
250,000 pieces of mail. The large
response, Dietrich said in his Heart
public’s thirst for knowledge
Dietrich and his crew are in Wyo-
ming Valley and the entire country
will be awaiting the results of our
local survey.
A second test, which will again
chart the so-called risk factors of
heart disease, will be held through-
out the week of August 9-14.
“The second test will be used to
get a general idea of how well the
people (of Wyoming Valley) have
responded,” Public Relations Direc-
tor Thomas said.
Risk factors include those that
can be modified and those that are
tors such as age, sex, family history
ble. Blood fat levels, blood pressure,
diet, smoking and exercise sched-
ules can be modified.
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