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By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Staff Writer
State Correctional Institution at
Dallas (SCID) officals said Friday
that tests taken on the two inmates
suspected of having Aquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) have proven ‘‘inconclusive’’
and further testing must be con-
ducted.
SCID press relations director Tom
Figmik told The Dallas Post Friday
that the “Immune Deficiency Pro-
file results of the two inmates at
SCID have come back inconclu-
sive.”
Figmik said the test samples
taken on the un-named inmates did
not provide enough information to
determine if the prisoners actually
have AIDS.
Pennsylvania State Correction
officials have said the two inmates
recently ‘showed signs’ of having
AIDS and that they were not ‘‘con-
firmed AIDS victims.”
Figmik said the two inmates will
examined by an immunologist to
determine if infact they have AIDS.
“While they (two suspected AIDS
inmates) are awaiting further test-
ing, they will be kept in isolation,”
Figmik said.
The new test results are expected
fo be released within the next seven
to 10 days. .
The AIDS controversy at SCI
reached its peak last week when
nearly 100 SCID employees and
administrators met Thursday night
at the Russian Orthodox Club on
Main Street in Edwardsville.
Those in attendance discussed
health safety procedures at the
SCID facility ‘and they were given
pamphlets ‘which discuss current
medical findings of the AIDS
malady.
Department of Corrections
Deputy Press Secretary Amy Dugan
said Friday the prison system has
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not discovered any new confirmed
AIDS victims within the system’s 10
correction facilities.
Over 14,000 inmates are housed in
the system and only three prisoners
have been confirmed as AIDS vic-
tims. The three AIDS inmates are
currently being housed at the Camp
Hill prison.
Recently, a fourth confirmed
AIDS victim died at the Camp Hill
the prison system about health
safety.
Dugan said each of the 10 State
Correctional Institutions is handling
potential AIDS inmates on a case-
by-case basis.
SCID employees called last Thurs-
day’s meeting due to fears of con-
tracting the disease while working
around the prisoners.
Reports from anonymous SCID
employees indicate that many
prison workers are wearing rubber
gloves while serving food to the
inmates. Other employees at SCID
reportedly will not handle inmate
food trays unless they have been
sterilized.
The medical community currently
believes that AIDS can only be
transmitted by sexual contact or by
a blood transfusion. Tests are con-
tinuing to determine whether or not
AIDS can be contracted by saliva
meeting the skin. The “saliva”
issue is one of great concern to
prison workers who say inmates
often threaten guards that they will
bite them (guards) if they give
them (inmates) trouble.
It has also been widely reported
that many inmates often spit at
prison employees and even throw
cans of urine at guards they
(inmates) do not like.
75 percent of AIDS victims have had
some form of homosexual contact.
At present, there is no known cure
for those who contract the AIDS
disease. Most AIDS victims die
within the first year of diagnosis.
By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Staff Writer
If Harveys Lake Borough Council
approves the Environmental Advis-
ory Council’s (EVAC) recommenda-
tion of hiring the ecological firm of
F.X. Browne Associates next
Wednesday, solutions for the lake’s
water quality problems may surface
within a year.
During last Thursday’s EVAC
public meeting, the advisory com-
mittee indicated they would recom-
mend to council the hiring of the
Lansdale, Pa. firm in order to begin
a year-round water quality study of
Harveys lake. Council is expected to
address the hiring of F.X. Browne
Associates during next Wednesday's
regularly scheduled meeting.
According to Dr. Frank Browne,
owner and founder of the eight-year-
old water testing firm, the proposed
$15,000 study of Harveys Lake will
be the first step in coming up with
solutions to the problems similar to
the recent ‘‘anabaena’ algae
blooms.
“To my knowledge, nobody has
ever done a comprehensive study to
the water problems at Harveys
lake,” said Browne. ‘‘Testing in the
past has been done on a piece-meal
approach with individuals and small
groups taking tests.
“What we propose to do at Har-
veys lake is to conduct a general
ecological study which will lead to a
any problems in the future,”
Browne added.
Browne said if his company is
selected to do the study, testing will
begin at two or three specially
selected spots on Harveys Lake
sometime in January of 1986. Test-
ing would continue throughout the
year and would end in December.
The testing would include two
phases. The first phase would be
taking water samples once a month
of the lake water at the designated
spots. The second phase would be a
study of the lake’s watershed (sur-
rounding areas which feed the lake
with runoff water).
“What I proposed to the EVAC a
while back based on their limited
funding,” said Browne, ‘‘was a brief
overview study with sampling taken
once a month or so.”
Browne said his firm will test the
lake’s nitrogen, phospherous, P.H.
and sediment levels. In addition,
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Class of 1945
Janice Jones Harrison, Bath,
Purcell,
Balloon race set s
Custom Management Corporation and General Foods will jointly sponsor a hot air balloon race
on Saturday, October 5, to benefit local institutions. Activities begin at 2 p.m. on the campus of
College Misericordia, Dallas, with the actual balloon launch at 5 p.m. A first for the area, the
‘Great Balloon Race’’ will feature a spirited, one hour competition between representatives of
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Nesbitt Hospital, Wyoming Valley West High School, Wyoming
Seminary Upper School and College Misericordia. (Photo courtesy of Sister Eloise McGinty,
RSM, College Misericordia.)
Edith Hart Smith, Goshen, N.Y.; Jane Widdall Webster,
Wapwallopen; Naomi Hons Haag, Reading; William J. Metzger,
Ashley; and Robert J. Ockenhouse, Haw River, N.C. Third row,
Richard F. Laux, Dallas; Robert L. Moss, Wilkes-Barre; Carl H.
DeWitt, Wilmington, Del.; Barton R. Earl, Clarks Summit;
Francis J. Beline, Dallas; Harry E. Post Jr., Kingston; William
H. Calkins, Hunlock Creek; and Marvin O. Dymond, Middle-
town, Pa.
left, first row, Edith
Pa.; Wilma Ickinger Fish, Muncy,
Ethel Daniels Moss, Wilkes-
the Castle Inn.
Mr. Frank Trimble, Class Advisor,
reunion from Litchfield Park, Ariz.
Smith, and Jane Widdall Webster, members of
the General Planning Committee, was toast
mistress, welcomed the group of 46 and read
communications from Cleo Follmer Irons, West
Melbourne, Fla; Ella Kintz Sickler, Watauga,
Texas, class members; Mr. Thomas H. Jenkins,
Shavertown, and Mrs. Emily Lewis Zubrod,
Hollidaysbrug, Pa., teachers.
Family style dinner was enjoyed by class
members, their spouses and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd
Bertrum, Buffalo, New York, Marian Fritzges
Davis, Whitehall, Pa.; Theresa Shiner Decker
and George Decker, Dallas; and Ruth and
Charles Pembleton, Buffalo, N.Y., friends of the
class. Tables were beautifully decorated by
Edith Anderson Daron with crepe paper of red
and white, class colors. Centerpieces of potted
prayer plants with white mums and covered in
red foil were provided by Mrs. Zubrod for each
table.
Everyone joined in Penny Auction which was
sprinkled with reminescent class tales told by
Robert J. Ockenhouse, auctioneer, attired in
various comical costumes. Special tribute was
paid to Mrs. Robert Ockenhouse in honor of her
birthday. Louise Dodson Phipps served as auc-
tion cashier. Funds raised will be used for the
Class’s 45th Reunion set for August, 1990.
followed by
Edith Hart
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25 Cents
Shopping
center not
ruled out
Barre, owners of the Dallas Shop-
ping Center, said Friday that
although there are no immediate
plans for construction ‘‘there cer-
tainly is a possibility’ for the con-
struction of a new shopping center
to be located between the Northeast-
ern Bank and the Dallas Township
Municipal Building along Route 309.
“We have no current plans to
begin construction,” said George
Nicholson of Humford Equities. ‘“To
this date, there has been no com-
mittment on plans, financing or
anthing else, but there is a very
good chance of something being
built there.”
shopping center on the plot of land,
which is located direetly across
from Cosscia’s restaurant, have
been in the'works for a few years.
Said Nicholson, “Building a shop-
ping center on that land seems to be
the most logical use for the land.
Right now, howyer, we do not have
any firm plans.”
Customers of the Harveys Lake
Water Company (HLWC) can
breath a sigh of relief this week
after recent water samples taken
indicated that there is no bacteria
contaminating their drinking water.
The announcement that the drink-
ing water of the company’s custom-
ers might be contaminated was
made known last week when the
company placed legal advertise-
month of August a '.9 devel’ of .
bacteria ‘per 100 c.c. of drinking
water was found during routine
testing. HE
The Department of Environmen-
tions which set acceptable bacteria
levels at .1 organisms per 100 c.c. of
drinking water.
“There is really no problem with
Salla, general manager of the
HLWC.
taken during the month of Septem-
ber indicated bateria levels of 0,1,
and 0.”
Harveys Lake, Noxen, Dallas and
Shavertown communities.
Salla said he believes the
unusually high bacteria levels found
in the August tests were the result
of either ‘‘faulty testing proce-
dures’ or ‘‘contaminated test bot-
tles.
“Occurrences like this (unusually
high bacteria levels) happen every
once in a while,” Salla said. ‘“The
bacteria level could have been
caused by any number of things.”
DER spokesman Mark Carmon
said Friday that drinking water
contamination frequently occurs
during the summer months.
“If the water really is contami-
nated, then it probably is the result
of sun warming the water supply,’
said Carmon. ‘However, I under-
stand that the Harveys Lake prob-
dure.”
Carmoen said during the summer
months the water is heated by the
sun and this creates an ideal spawn-
ing ground for bacteria. ‘Unusual
levels of bacteria are really not all
that uncommon,’”” said Carmon.
“Many times there simply is a
mistake in the testing phase.”
According to Carmon, in order for
a water sample to be contaminated
it only takes a very small amount of
bacteria. During testing, special
care must be exercised to insure
that all testing equipment is sani-
tary. Otherwise, an improper read-
ing of bacteria levels can be found.
— JOHN F. KILDUFF
Inside The Post
Calendar .......... 15,16
Classified ..... 17,18,19
Commentary ......... 6
Cookbook ............... 7
Crossword ............. 2
District Court ........ 2
Obituaries ............. 2
People -.............:s. 8,9
Police ............... varie
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