By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
The Dallas Borough Council last week at its monthly
meeting adopted by a 4-1 vote an Amusement Tax
ordinance that will force Dallas business owners to
pay a $25 license fee to own and operate entertainment
machines.
The tax would affect items such as juke boxes, video
games and pinball machines that are displayed for
public use.
Council member Harold Brobst voted against the tax
saying, ‘It’s another swipe against the small business-
man.” But councilman Russell Stone disagreed. “We
are faced with the difficult decision of finding means
of developing revenue,” he stated.
“I have had some second thoughts about it, (the tax)
but I’ve seen people spend their entire lunch hours on
these things. I just feel if these machines are foolish
enough to waste so much time on we should have some
kind of revenue from it. But I'm going to take a look
at it for a year and evaluate the situation, and if I see
things differently maybe I'll rescind my vote.”
Those voting to accept the ordinance along with
Stone were: Bill Berti, Byron Grieves and Ted
Montross.
In other business, Council promised to look into a
possible health hazard situation involving two proper-
ties on Rice Street.
Cathy White, a resident who lives next door to one of
the sites, says the dwelling is not hooked up to the
sewer system and that sewage has backed up into her
yard. She also said the lawn has not been mowed this
season and that a number of cats roam the grounds.
Another neighbor said his wife had been bitten by one
of the cats and that he, too, would like something
done.
Stone said council would go through the items of
complaint one by one to see what can be done about
the problem legally and to find what ordinances have
been violated. In a separate complaint concerning run
down vehicles on another property, police chief Ed
Lyons said the automobiles would eventually be
removed.
In other business council voted to accept:
— An ordinance granting Tele-Media Company
rights to hook up cable television lines.
— Accepted by a 5-0 vote to accept William Tabor,
Hickory Street, Dallas, to fill an opening on the zoning
board.
— Recommended commendations and plaques be
given to Dallas police officers Wayman Miers and
James Tupper who suffered gun shot wounds while in
the line of duty on June 7.
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By KATHY SUDA
Staff Correspondent
Two Briarcrest Road residents told Harveys Lake
Borough Council at the council’s regular monthly
meeting on Tuesday that their road is impassible.
David Forester, head of Road Department, told
Briarcrest Road residents that the borough’s equip-
ment is in disrepair and road work is behind in the
borough. The residents told council that since the last
heavy rainstorm the road is impassible because of a
large obstruction in the middle of the road. Residents
complained that the road has been ignored for five
years. Forester reassured residents that the condition
of the road would be looked at and he hopes to have
the road regraded and drains installed.
Construction of the borough’s dry fire hydrant
. system has begun. The system will consist of 20 fire
hydrants around the lake with no pressure in them.
They will have a direct line into the lake making
water to douse fires more accessible in freezing winter
needs repair
months. Council President Richard Boice told resi-
dents that once the system is complete they will
realize an insurance break.
Two part-time patrolmen for the borough, James
Drury and John Naylis, resigned last month to accept
full-time employment.
Congressman Paul Kanjorski has taken up the battle
between the borough and the Pennsylvania Fish
Commission.
Kanjorski plans to intervene in the three-year
dispute concerning the fact that the commission
refuses to hook up existing restroom facilities at its
public access area to sewer lines the state demanded
the borough to have put in. Kanjorski hopes to
pursuade the commission to comply with the bor-
ough’s request to connect the lines and also to pick up
the tab for maintenance of the facility.
A contract worth $38,103 for the Lakeview Road
Project was awarded to the Wilkes-Barre Construction
Co.
The next informal town meeting has been set for
July 16 at 7 p.m.
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juvenile detention center in Wilkes-
Barre after being charged with the
theft of a car last weekend in
was stolen. Her 1982 Plymouth
Reliant was later recovered on High
Street in Plymouth. She also
reported that $20 was stolen from a
cash box.
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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
The Kingston Township Board of
Supervisors met with officials from
the Department of Environmental
Resources last Friday to discuss
ways of financing a feasibility study
for a Waste Energy Facility to be
located in the township.
The project would be an alterna-
tive to the high cost of utilizing
landfills which have burdened resi-
dents living in Dallas Borough,
Kingston Township and Dallas
Township.
The DER said it may be able to
finance the study which would be
conducted by Environmental Engi-
neers.
In other business:
— The township awarded a bid to
Lake Shore Markers of Erie, Pa., at
a cost of $873.00 to install a welcome
sign at the intersection of Carverton
Road and S. Memorial Highway.
The sign, which was the idea of
Stetson Swan of the Dallas Kiwanis,
will read, ‘Welcome to Kingston
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signs to appear at various locations
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The sign, which will be an alumi-
num maintenance free construction,
should be installed by the end of the
summer. The sign will be paid for
by the township, but will be reim-
bursed in part by the eight service
clubs, probably at $50 apiece, who
are also part of the project.
— The township awarded a bid of
$39,940.50 to Anthracite Paving for
the resurfacing of township roads in
Westmoreland Hills.
— Awarded a bid of $5,092.00 to
LaFemme Company, of Hammon-
ton, New Jersey, for the installation
of 850 feet of used steel guardrail.
— Authorized the secretary to
advertise for bids on a new 1986,
11,000 GVW dump truck with plow
and spreader.
— Approved the first reading of
an ordinance establishing a stop
intersection at Shaver Avenue and
Main Street.
— Approved a resolution transfer-
ing the Cable Television Franchise
Agreement of the Tele-Media Com-
pany of Eastern Pennsylvania to the
County.
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