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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
For years Ronald Schacht thought
about starting up his own radio
station. Now, if everything goes
well, he will have his wish.
Schacht, along with his wife,
Denise, general partners of Moun-
tain Broadcasting, have filed an
application with the Federal Com-
munications Commission to con-
struct and operate a new FM station
in the Dallas Area.
The 950 kilowatt station, which
will operate on a 93.7 mHz fre-
quency and have its transmitter
located in Plymouth Township, will
be an easy listening, news broad-
cast type operation.
“For about 15 years, I thought
about running my own radio station,
and for about the last 12, I thought
about having it here in Dallas,”
Schacht, a Plymouth resident said.
“I started laying the groundwork
in March of ’85. I had engineering
maps all over the floor. I was
I driving my wife crazy. But there
f are a lot details involved, plus you
have to show why a station is
needed in a particular area,’”’
Schacht explained.
“The people in Dallas are served
mostly by Wilkes-Barre and Scran-
ton stations, but I think they should
i have their own broadcast station.
i That’s mainly why we want to start
i one here. And it could be of service
to the community, too. Look at that
tornado that came through there
last year. Those people had no
warning it was coming.”
Schacht, who currently serves as
an engineer for a number of radio
stations while also doing work for a
local TV station, has spent approxi-
mately $1000 in cash so far and
f about nine times that amount in
| man hours. And even though he
says he isn’t sure where the build-
ing will be located yet, preliminary
plans have been completed. Unfor-
tunately, an FCC rule involving FM
stations says that the application
must be advertised for 30 days, thus
allowing anyone interested to bid
for the station Schacht laid the
foundation for.
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A large company from New
Jersey did and now the FCC is in
the process of reviewing the appli-
cation, a process that can take
months or even years to settle.
Schacht says two ways of solving
the problem, among others, would
be by default or by a lenghty, drawn
out hearing. In the first instance, if
the application of one of the parties
is found to be defective, the other
gets it by default. In the second
case, a hearing inquiring who would
be the most qualified could also
take place. But that can take
months, even years to settle.
“One advantage we do have is
that the FCC usually gives it to the
local person,” Schacht said. “But I
am going to fight hard for it. We
laid out all the plans for this and
then some big company comes
along, who doesn’t even specialize
in this line of work, and tries to
horn in on it.
“One other advantage we have is
that we would be right here to
manage the station. How can a
company that takes its orders from
people in New Jersey know what is
going on?”
Schacht says managing his own
station will also allow him to be
more creative and to make adjust-
ments he would like to see done.
“Managers look at all aspects
when they are running a station,”
he noted. ‘‘I never had my own way.
But It’s just like any job. You can
make suggestions to the boss, but
they make the ultimate decisions.
“There is so much technology in
radio today that what I'd like to do
is make the station sound so good
that it would be like plugging in
your compact disc player at home.”
Schacht, who says he probably
won’t hear anything for about a
month from the FCC, has had expe-
rience in this type of venture before.
He spearheaded a 10-watt station at
the Penn State/Lake Lehman
campus from 1974 to 1978. The
station went off the air a year or
two later, however, after he left
when the FCC stopped the operation
of 10 watt stations. Because of
funding problems, the station then
ceased operations.
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| By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
If you happened to be traveling
along Route 309 in Kingston Town-
ship and in Dallas early last Friday
afternoon you may have noticed two
unusual bicycle riders along the
way. Not that cyclists are a rare
site, but these two definitely looked
out of place — and they were.
Clad in heavy pants and shirts
rolled up to their knees and elbows,
and with their bikes bogged down
with backpacks, sleeping bags and
other equipment, Robert Baert, 23,
of Long Island, and Ralph Hilton,
18, of Houston, Texas, slowly eased
their way past the Dallas Shopping
Center and continued up what
seemed like an endless hill. But
they were in no hurry.
For the past month and a half, the
two have biked from Dallas, Texas,
and plan to keep going until Septem-
ber or October when they reach San
Francisco where they will work for
a publishing company as - what else
- bicycle messengers.
“We have a friend there, so we're
going to work there for about five or
six months,”” Baert said. “Then we
will probably go to Europe. I would
like to travel from London to the
Great Wall of China. But, first we
have to save up some money.”
The young men, who have been
averaging approximately 100 miles
a day, usually spend a total of about
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will pick up small jobs for usually
no more than a week at a time to
help them get by.
“Sometimes we’ll get odd jobs at
a farm or something like that, but
we don’t stay too long. And then
sometimes we’ll offer to wash
dishes in return for a meal,”’ Baert
noted. ‘Last night for instance we
stopped at a pizza place and we
explained our situation to the
owner. But he gave us a big pizza
and drinks and we didn’t even have
to wash dishes. That was real nice
of him.”
But not all of their experiences in
the area have been pleasant, Hilton
explained.
, “We were in Bear Creek. I will
never forget that name,” Hilton
laughs. “We pulled up to the front of
one house to ask the people if we
could camp out by their house. Bob
pulled his bike up to the front of the
house and I parked mine on the
side.
“As I started walking back to my
bike a bear came up from the back
of the house,” he continued. ‘Just
then Bob came around the corner
and said, ‘Ralph, there’s a bear!’ I
looked up and there he was standing
almost right next to me. I got real
scared and made a noise and the
bear took off. I'll never forget Bear
Creek, Pennsylvania.”
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In celebration of their 50th wedding anniver-
sary, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Ellsworth of
Lehman announce an Open House invitation to
family and friends on Sunday, June 29, from 2 to
5 p.m. at their home on Mill Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth were married on June
17, 1936, in Lehman Methodist Church by Rev.
Lynn H. Brown.
Mrs. Ellsworth is the former Celia Whitesell,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Olivet
Whitesell of Lehman. Mr. Ellsworth is the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Ellsworth of Meshop-
pen.
The couple has three children, Louise Glad-
kowski of Monroeville, Pa.; Kenneth Ellsworth
of Warren, Ohio; and Howard Ellsworth of
Allentown. They also have four grandchildren,
Michael and Brenda Gladkowski and Mark and
Karen Ellsworth.
Mr. Ellsworth taught school for 45 years in
Wyoming, Susquehanna and Luzerne Counties,
retiring in 1971. A resident of Lehman since 1942,
he has been a member of Masonic Lodge of
Tunkhannock for 57 years, has been a member
of Odd Fellows for 60 years and was treasurer of
the Lehman Township Volunteer Fire Company
for 30 years. Mr. Ellsworth repairs furniture in
his spare time.
Mrs. Ellsworth is a member of the Friendship
Class and United Methodist Women of the
Lehman United Methodist Church. She is also a
member of Lady Toby Rebekah Lodge of
Lehman and a member of the Lehman Fire
Company Auxiliary.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth are active
members of the Lehman United Methodist
Church.
They request no gifts other than the presence
of their family and friends during the Open
House celebration.
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being chosen to open up your thea-
tre,” Gregory said. “It sounds fabu-
lous and I hope I can put on a great
show for you.”
Gregory, who is currently per-
forming at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York, will begin the first of
her 32-city tour in Wilkes-Barre.
And she is excited about it.
“I always prefer to work in older
theatres than in the newer ones,”
Gregory noted. “You get that thea-
trical feeling in the older build-
ings.” \
Gregory, who first appeared on
the cover of the prestigious Dance
Magazine at the age of seven and
nine times overall, is considered to
be the reigning American ballerina.
“We're so used to seeing Soviet
dancers running around. It’s nice to
see an American, the really first
ballerina, off on her own,” said Bill
Como, editor in chief of Dance
Magazine.
The tour also received national
attention, too. First Lady Nancy
Reagan is honorary chairman for
the event.
The theatre, which seats approxi-
mately 1,800 people, is expected to
be a sellout on opening night. But,
Virginia and Mennenites in Tennes-
see. But so far they like Pennsyl-
vania the best.
“This is really a beautiful state,”
Baert said. ‘People in rural areas
are much nicer than city people.
Sometimes you'll get spit on and
run off the road by people in the big
cities, but not from rural people.
It’s really true when they say you
have a friend in Pennsylvania.”
Baert has been on the road the
longer of the two, since January,
and in fact didn’t even know Hilton
until they met in Dallas, Texas,
where they struck up a friendship.
Having weathered snow in Canada,
rain throughout Tennessee and tor-
nado warnings in Texas, Baert
faced his biggest obstacle, however,
in the Lone Star State.
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who operates Albar Machine Corps
in Effort, Pa., doesn’t mind his
traveling across the country. But
for Hilton, who has another semes-
ter to go before finishing high
school, he says his parents are not
too thrilled about the idea. ‘They
didn’t like it too much,’ he smiled.
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