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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The: Dallas High School soccer team’s plans to travel
to Scotland have been cancelled. At a meeting of the
boys and their parents held last week, it was
unaniniously agreed to cancel the trip because of the
recent terroristic acts in England and other European
countries. The boys and the parents voiced their
concerns about recent rumors of more terrorism,
especially after only a few of the chaperones indicated
they were willing to go to Scotland.
Most of the adults said if they could get a flight that
would take them directly to Scotland they would not
worry as rnuch. It is England that they are concerned
about and, unfortunately, any flight the group might
Sandra Richardson and Carole Morris, co-chairper-
sons of the Scotland trip, said Monday they believe the
right decision has been made. Mrs. Richardson has
polled most of the parents and the majority approved
a trip to Los Angeles.
The team members and chaperones will stay at
UCLA and will have access to all of the university's
facilities. Their complete itinerary is tentative at
present, dependent upon decisions by the PIAA. The
trip, however, will continue to be an educational one
with some sightseeing tours such as Disneyland,
Knottsbury’s Farms, Howard Hughes plane, the Sprice
Goose and the Queen Mary which is docked at Los
Angeles.
The group, approximately 40 people, will depart
from Avoca on July 23 and will stay at UCLA for
seven nights and eight days. It is planned that the
boys will see the All-Star World Soccer game at the
Rose Bowl. The teams will be chosen from the World
Cup Games by the Federal International Football
Association (F.I.LF.A.) and will include players from
Europe, North America, South America and Asiatic
countries.
If approved by the P.I.A.A., the boys will play two
varsity and two JV soccer games on the university’s
soccer field. They will also visit Universal Studios and
see a film in the making, attend the taping of a CBS
television show and tour the city of Los Angeles.
Due to the sudden change in plans all of the events,
the committee hopes to have for the athletes, have not
yet been scheduled.
Mrs. Morris said that due to the tension in the
European countries, Dr. Thomas Cyphers, Dallas High
School principal, is pleased with the group’s decision.
The only concern of the committee is that it needs the
approval of the P.I.A.A. The committee will have to
get waivers for the boys to play soccer because it will
be out of season, but that is the time they go if they
want to see the All Stars Pro Game.
John McCafferty, the high school soccer coach, said
he is disappointed that the boys will not benefit from
the opportunity to go to Scotland and play against
some excellent opposition, but he realizes that the first
concern must be the safety of the boys.
“I want whatever is best for the athletes,” said
McCafferty. “Their welfare comes first.”
So, too, did those who attended the meeting last
week and voted to cancel the long anticipated trip.
“We have raised approximately one fourth of the
money needed for the trip,” said Carole Morris. “We
will continue with our fundraisings and hope that the
business people and other residents will continue to
support our trip.”
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is shown parked outside the inn.
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Jim Roxby, a 40-year old Inker-
man resident, will celebrate the
the way most Americans do. He’ll
spend time with his family, maybe
have a cookout and just relax in
general. Like most people, he is
looking forward to the long weekend
and one more chance to forget
about the daily struggles for a
while. ;
But Jim Roxby will also take time
out to observe the day the way it
should be. First he’ll watch or
participate in a parade or two, and
then reflect on the 58,022 young
men, some of whom he had served
with in battle, who forfeited their
lives in Vieitnam for their country.
He cannot forget that.
“You can’t help but think about
about all those people who can’t be
here. These were people who you
saw and talked to during the war
and then all of a sudden they're
killed in battle. You’re here now but
they can’t be.”
Roxby; who fought in Vietnam for
one year in 1966, doesn’t single out
any one incident during his stay. To
him it was all one big nightmare.
“From the first'day to the last,
that’s what I'd like to forget about
is
Vietnam,” he said. “People can’t
imagine the ugliness over there.
They just can’t imagine it.”
Mike Milne, another Vietnam vet-
eran who served in 1969, and who is
now executive director of the Swoy-
ersville chapter of the Veterans of
Vietnam War Inc., agrees with
Roxby’s description.
(See VETS, page 2)
No new
leads
No new information has been
obtained in the case of a 16-year old
Dallas youth who was killed last
December following a hit and run
accident along route 415 in Dallas.
Walter Karasek, 149 Pine Crest
Road, Dallas, was struck down by
an unknown vehicle at approxi-
mately 10 p.m. on the night of
December 14, 1985, while walking
home from work at the Mark II
Restaurant.
Since then, local and state police
have been working on the investiga-
tion, but no new leads have been
obtained.
Last week, the Sunday Independ-
ent newspaper offered a $5,000
reward to the person or persons who
can provide information to police
which leads to the arrest and con-
viction of the operator of the car.
“We haven't received any new
information as a result of the story
done by the Sunday Independent,”
Sgt. Anthony Matson of the Pennsyl-
vania State Police, Wyoming Bar-
racks said. “But we are looking for
assistance from anyone who can
help out on the investigation, and
that all information obtained will be
confidential.”
Karasek, who was a sophomore at
West Vo-Tech High School, also
served as a newspaper carrier for
the Sunday Independent for two
years.
“We haven’t heard anything yet,”
Thomas Heffernan, President of the
Independent said. ‘‘But we’re
hoping someone will come forward.
He (Karasek) worked for us for a
while and that’s one of the reasons
why we are offering the reward. But
that family has gone through a lot
of pain, and we just want to help out
any way we can.”
— JOHN HOINSKI
Heart
developer
to lecture
Dr. William Pierce, director of
the research team that developed
the Penn State artificial heart, will
be the guest lecturer this Friday
night at a dinner sponsored by the
Penn State club of Wyoming Valley
at the Hayfield House in Lehman.
Dr. Pierce, who was born in
Wilkes-Barre and is the son of
William and Doris Pierce of Dallas,
is the chief of the Division of
Artificial Organs at the Milton S.
(See HEART, page 2)
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Although the American Cancer
Society’s annual investment into
cancer research has reached the
staggering sum of nearly $67 mil-
lion, one third of the total ACS
budget, emphasis has now been
focused to a large extent on cancer
Over the past few years, scientists
have found that many forms of
cancer may be related to a person’s
life style — what a person eats and
drinks, their work and recreational
habits, whether they smoke or not
— and that about 80 per cent of
cancer cases are tied in with that
criteria.
“The chances that one cure wil
be found to eliminate all forms of
cancer probably won’t happen in
our lifetime,” said Andrea Hincken,
field representative for the Wyo-
ming Valley Unit. ‘There are so
many different types of cancer that
it’s just unlikely that one form of
treatment will be found to cure
them all.
“So now we’re working on preven-
tion methods by telling people what
they can do to help themselves,”
Hincken continued. ‘We are giving
them tips on their diet, telling them
to stop smoking and so forth to at
least educate them enough to be
aware of the warning signs, so that
if they do have a problem, we can
get to it early.”
Even though the survival rate for
those suffering from cancer has
improved to the point where, at one
time three out of four would have
died, that figure now has dropped to
one out of two. Still, because of the
increasing age and size of the popu-
lation, the number of people
expected to die this year will be
472,000 as opposed to 462,000 in 1985.
Last December, Hincken attended
a four-day seminar in Chicago
called the ‘‘Basic Building Blocks’
which stressed the education of
people and the most effective ways
of reaching them. Through the ACS
Public Education setup which
reaches approximately 40 million
into two categories: Adults and
Youth.
“In the adult phase, people are
reached basically in four ways,‘
Hincken said. ‘‘The workplace,
(See CANCER, page 2)
Inside The Post
Calendar ............. 16
Classified ......... 14,15
Commentary .........6
Cookbook ............... 7
Health.............. 12,13
Obituaries ............. 2
People ................... 8
Sports ............ 9,10,11
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