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Vol. 96, No. 42
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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.
Inside The Post
Calendar .......... 12,15
Classified ......... 13,14
Commentary .........6
Cookbook cesresraiinabes 7
Crossword ....... aii
District Court ..... 4
Obituaries ............. 3
People ............. ae 8
School... 11
Sports ............ 9,10,14
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