“ BRIGHTON, IA po 200 2 1330 1 RATA Vol. 96, No. 42 25 Cents Impasse exists may not By JOHN F. KILDUFF Staff Writer If the current ‘‘Maintenance Agreement’ impasse between Har- veys Lake Borough and Pennsyl- vania Fish Commission (PFC) offi- cials remains unsettled, the proposed $23,000 restroom facility with running water may never be built at the Harveys Lake Public Boat Launch, The Dallas Post learned Friday. Harveys Lake Municipal Author- ity (HLMA) Chairman, George Maurer, said Friday that they HLMA never agreed to maintain the proposed restroom facility, which would service up to six patrons with hot and cold running water. Maurer said over a year ago the HLMA agreed to pay for the sewage hook-up for the restroom at not cost to the PFC. The PFC, according to Maurer, would not be charged for the sewer usage and would inturn maintain the restroom as part of their respon- sibility. Maurer said Harveys Lake Bor- ough agreed to ‘‘check up” on the restroom, but not to conduct routine maintenance. The PFC contends agreed to maintain the proposed restroom and recently (July 31,1985) sent a maintenance contract agree- ment to Maurer for his approval and signature. The PFC contract sent to Maurer required the HLMA to assume com- plete maintenance and responsibil- ity for the restroom over a 25-year period. Maurer said the HLMA will not accept such a long-term mainte- nance agreement. “There is just no way we would sign a maintenance agreement like the one they sent us,” said Maurer. “We just cannot accept it as it stands. Our solicitor (Thomas 0’Conner) said we would be opening a ‘can of worms’ if we accepted it.” Maurer continued by saying, “It is not that we do not need the restroom, we do. But the PFC said be built they would put it (restroom) in and we (HLMA) said we would watch the restroom. We never said we would maintain it completely.” The PFC has continued to main- tain that until a maintenance agree- ment is reached, they will not begin constructing the restroom. Phil Anderson, assistant to John Hoffman who is Chief of the PFC Real Estate Division in Harrisburg, said Friday, ‘If they (Harveys Lake officials) are willing to negoti- ate an agreement then that is some-' thing we would welcome. But it is entirely up to them,” said Ander- son. Anderson said they (PFC) have not received a response to their July 31,1985 contract request. Said Anderson, ‘Without some kind of response, we can do very little.” Last week Harveys Lake council- man Ray Jones said he would not approve of borough tax dollars being spent on the maintenance of the proposed restroom. Jones said the PFC should maintain the rest- room because they (PFC) collect large sums of money from citation, fishing licenses and boater registra- tions. Harveys Lake Borough receives no money from the PFC citations, fishing -licenses- or boater registra- tions. When asked if the PFC would consider giving Harveys Lake offi- cials a percentage of the above mentioned monies, Anderson said, “Mr. Hoffman is the person you will have to talk to about that issue.” Councilman Jones said last week he anticipates an approximate $6,000 to $7,000 annual outlay for the maintenance of the restroom. Jones said, “He cannot speak for the other councilmen” but hinted that most of the councilmen were against Harveys Lake solely paying for the maintenance of the rest- room. HLMA Chairman Maurer said all five of the Municipal Authority members are totally against the current PFC maintenance agree- ment stance. Tire pops off Dallas Post/Ed Campbell An estimated $800 worth of damage was caused to a Rent-Rite van parked in the 309/415 Plaza last Wednesday afternoon when a 300- pound tire assembly popped off a dump truck traveling south along route 309 and crashed into the parked vehicle. At approximately 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, Robert Litzenberger, who was operating a J&H Concrete Com- pany dump truck, was negotiating a left hand turn onto the southbound lane of Route 309 when a right side tire assembly came loose from the truck and slammed into the Dodge Aries van parked in the plaza. Litzenberger said he believes the tire assembly popped off due to truck’s “dummy axle’ being in the down position when he was turning onto Route 309. ‘““The usual procedure when making turns is to lift up the center ‘dummy axle,””” said Litzenberger. “I know I raised the axle, but it could have - malfunctioned and caught the pavement as I turned onto 309.” Litzenberger said he never noticed that the tire assembly popped off until an unknown motor- ist pulled up along side him and indicated that ‘‘something was wrong.” “I did not even notice the tire fall off,” said Litzenberger. ‘This is a heavy truck and if that car (unknown motorist) had not told me I would never have stopped.” Dallas Borough Police Chief Ed Lyons investigated and said Monday the damaged van is registered to the Rent-Rite Company of Blooms- burg. Rent-Rite is also located in one of the shops in the 309-415 Plaza. Trick or treat! Dallas Post/Ed Campbell category. Lake officer back on job Harveys Lake Police Chief Lionel Bulford and part-time patrolman Christopher Keats said Monday the decision not to give borough council- man William Gallager a Blood Alco- hol Content (BAC) test after being stopped for suspicion of drunk driv- ing on October 17 was made at the discretion of the officer and not from any outside pressures. “The decision for something like that (an officer giving a motorist a BAC test) is totally at the discretion of the officer,” said Police Chief Bulford. “He (Keats) apparently felt he was doing the right thing in not giving him (Gallager) the test. That is all there is to it,’ Bulford said. Last week, reports alluded to the possibility of Harveys Lake Mayor Frank Picchi putting pressure on Keats not to administer the BAC test to Gallager after Gallager had called Picchi on the telephone and asked him to come to the Harveys Lake municipal building following his arrest. Patrolman Keats was holding Gal- lager at the municipal building for suspicion of driving while intoxi- cated. “There really is no longer a prob- lem,” said Keats on Monday. “I am not the only officer who ever ‘gave someone a ride home’ in a situation like this,” said Keats. When asked if it was his regular procedure not to test all suspected drunk drivers with the BAC test, Keats said, ‘It depends. There are a lot of things and situations you must take into account. No situation to the discretion of the officer.” Councilman Gallager was unavail- able for comment on Tuesday. Patrolman Keats, 22, of East End Boulevard, Wilkes-Barre has been a part-time patrolman with Harveys Lake Borough for two months. Luzerne County District Attorney Robert Gillespie said last week that Mayor Picchi was not guilty of any obstruction of justice involving the case due to insufficient evidence. Chief Bulford said Keats is sched- uled for work during the month of November despite rumors that Keats was fired after the incident. — JOHN F. KILDUFF Scout pinned ictims By JOHN F. KILDUFF Staff Writer Officials of the State Correctional Institute at Dallas (SCID) and members of the three-year-old SCID Citizen’s Committee gathered at the prison Friday to discuss current security construction projects and also to serve notice that no plans exist to house AIDS inmates at the correctional facility. “I discuss this issue (AIDS) pri- marily as a courtesy,” said SCID superintendent Joseph M. Ryan. “There are no current plans within the prison system to house AIDS inmates at Dallas.” Ryan continued by saying, ‘‘This whole thing has been blown out of proportion. And with all due respect for the media today, I must say they (newspapers and TV) have helped cause a situation of fear and hysteria.” Ryan told the SCID Citizen’s Com- mittee that SCID currently is hous- ing in isolation two inmates diag- nosed as having Aids Related Complex (ARC). SCID also has in isolation a third inmate. who. recently. tested positive on the ‘AIDS H.T.L.V.2 Screening Test. The third inmate, said Ryan, has not been diagnosed as having either AIDS or ARC. A fourth inmate is currently being examined after showing ‘‘signs” of an ARC patient, Trucksville. David Mathers of Trucksville was presented with the Eagle Scout Award, the highest award in Scout- ing, during Eagle ceremonies held Sunday evening at the Trucksville United Methodist Church Educa- tional Building. David joined Cub Pack 155 of Trucksville in Septmeber 1975, earn- ing the Bobcat, Wolf and Bear badges. As a Webelos he earned the Light. In 1978, David advanced into Boy Scouts. As a Scout, he earned 27 merit badges and 10 skill awards. He served as Assistant Patrol Leader, Patrol Leader, Chaplain, Assistant Scoutmaster and, at present, is Assistant Scoutmasters. He is an active member of Aca- hela Lodge 223, Order of the Arrow. He was chairman of the Order of the Arrow Dance Team. David has earned the Valley Forge Hiking Trail Award, the Get- tysburg Hiking Trail Award and the Fifty Mile Hiking Award. For his Eagle Project, David col- lected food, paper products and cash for the Salvation Army, a project he completed in the fall of 1983. David is a member of the Trucks- ville United Methodist Church where he was active in the church school and the youth group of the church. He is also a member of the’ Harveys Lake Rod and Gun Club and enjoys hunting and fishing. David graduated from Dallas High School in June. He is currently employed by Wickes Lumber Co. and plans to attend Luzerne County Community College in January. He is the son of David W. and Betty J. Mathers of Trucksville. R ¥ now Ryan said. The Pennsylvania Correctional system, which currently houses over 14,000 inmates in 10 prisons, has only confirmed two prisoners as having AIDS. When asked by SCID Citizen's Committee Chairperson Pat Rusi- loski if SCID ever was considered as an AIDS housing facility Ryan said, “It has all been a bad rumor. There are no definite plans about making this prison a central location for the AIDS inmates.” been firmly against any plans of they told Ryan on Friday if such plans did exist the location should be in one of the three new State Correctional Institutes currently being built in Pennsylvania. SCID Press Relations Officer Tom Figmick then cautioned the Com- mittee members to realize that the other nine State Correctional Insti- tutes would undoubtedly have their own ‘“Anti-AIDS” Citizen’s Commit- tees. its “You have got to realize that will not want something like this in ick. In addition to the AIDS topic; the meeting also reported that the three permanent sites for a ‘‘high-tech” secured. (See SCID, page 4) Williams is write-in Former Lake-Lehman School Board President Ken Williams told The Dallas Post Monday he will run for a seat on the school board as a write-in candidate in the November general election in order to stave off the possible victories of candidates Lake-Lehman School District. “I was not going to run for school board originally,” said the 46-year- old former school director who served from 1971 to 1983. “But after the primary election, I began to think if the wrong people get elected they could change the entire structure of the school board. And it would not be for the best,” Williams said. Williams, of RD 1 Shickshinny near Sweet Valley, will be running for one of two available 4-year seats in. the district’s Region 2 which comprises the middle and southwest district of Lehman and Ross Town- ships. t Williams will be running against GOP candidate Robert Emery and Democrat William ‘‘Bill”’ George. Williams resigned as President of the Lake-Lehman School Board in May of 1983 after an internal flap over- the resignation of then wres- tling coach ‘‘Shorty Hitchcock,’’ who reportedly was at odds with then Lake-Lehman High School principal Jim Nicholos. Nicholos died at age 48, while in his office in 1983. At the exact time Nicholos died, the Lake-Lehman School Board was meeting and was wrestling, so to speak, with the controversial Hitchcock resignation, which the board accepted. 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