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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Due to an increased demand on dormitory facilities,
College Misericordia last month applied for an $1. 6
million college housing loan for the possible expansion
and renovation of campus housing units.
A report issued by the Luzerne County Planning
Commission indicated the college has applied for a
federal loan from the United States Department of
Education totaling $1,613,810 to construct 60 townhouse
type units and to renovate 60 dormitory units in
McAuley Hall at a total cost of $1,688,810.
The project is still in the preliminary stages and
nothing has been finalized, including the building of
the townhouses.
“It is an option we are looking at,” said Judy Daley,
public relations director for College Misericordia. ‘It
has been traditional for students at Misericordia to
live in on-campus housing, but for the first time this
year we could not make that promise to students who
have made requests because of the increased number
of resident applications.
“Townhouses are something new on college cam-
puses and they have worked well,” Daley continued.
“It would also give us (Misericordia) the option of
members.’
The townhouses, which would be located on Lake
equipped with a kitchen, offering students an alterna-
tive to the meal plan.
College officials have not yet heard any news
regarding its application.
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Statf Correspondent
“New Look” on Main Street, Dallas. Sue and Joe Hand
are in the process of renovating: and adding to their
Starting from the rear of the building on the corner
of Main Street and Huntsville Road and working
forward, construction of the new addition is underway
under the direction of contractor Don Flick. The new
addition will be used for the storage of art supplies
and framing materials and moulding.
Art students and framing customers will still be
using the well-established part of the structure, built
and used by Joe’s dad, the late Joseph Hand, as a
men’s clothing store.
Once the addition is completed, all of the art
supplies and framing supplies will be moved into that
section and, hopefully, there will also be office space
for use by Joe and Sue.
When this is accomplished, the front section will be
re-decorated and renovated and become much more
spacious than it is now. Sue and Joe are hoping to
have the entire project completed by October of 1987
since most of the work is being done by family and
friends. They are doing their own designing of the
front area where Sue holds classes and have not
finalized the plans to date. They have decided that the
outside of the building will be re-stuccoed and across
the front, Sue is going o do a large ‘Trompe L’Oueil”’
(fool the eye) mural - a scenic mural of foliage,
bushes .and trees since there is no room for landscap-
ing.
Working with Don Flick on the project is a fantastic
crew comprised of Flick himself, a biology instructor
at Wyoming Seminary during the school year; Don’s
daughter, Wendy Flick, an art student of Sue’s for
many years and a biology graduate of Penn State
University. Wendy does free-lance medical illustration
and wildlife illustration. Don’s son, ‘Bud’ is a
cinematographer and does video work for WVIA-TV
and free lance videography. He is also a graduate of
Penn State. Chuck Puckey, son of Lowry Puckey, also
one of Sue’s students, is a photographer but is also
assisting on the project as is Curt Williams, 1984
graduate of Dallas Senior High.
Don, Wendy and Don, Jr., have been doing carpen-
try during the summers for many years and built their
own home in Kunkle. Wendy started roofing as a
young teenager and helps with all phases of carpentry
work.
The Art Studio is another of the long line of
businesses renovating their locations on Main Street,
Dallas. The “New Look’ is a credit to the center of
the borough, particularly along the right hand side of
the street going toward Huntsville Road.
The Main Street began to take on its “New Look’
several years ago when Dominic ‘Bob’ Fino reno-
vated and remodeled both the inside and exterior of
his pharmacy at 3 Main Street and bordered the front
with green foliage and bright-colored flowers, arousing
the admiration of local residents and passers-by.
In 1979, Enola Gay Wittaker purchased the home on
pad, whit
Bodycomb, a dentist. Shortly after buying the house,
she added new aluminim siding, greatly enhancing its
appearance. Later, in 1983, Whittaker had it profes-
sionally landscaped, completing the beautification of
the entire property where she operates her Whittaker
Day Care Center.
The Dallas Borough Municipal Building * situated
between the United Penn Bank and the building now
occupied by Dr. Alan Boonin has always been kept in
good condition by borough officials adding to the ‘‘New
Look” on that side of the street.
Recently, United Penn Bank did a lot of renovating
and construction on its property adjacent to Fino’s
Pharmacy, adding to the facelift of Dallas Borough
Center. The bank officials tore down the old drivein
windows, constructed new ones toward th rear of the
property and remodeled the side and rear exterior of
the bank building. The blacktopping of the entire
parking lot made a more complete “New Look’ in the
borough.
It was not long after the bank completed its
renovation that Dr. Alan Boonin purchased the build-
ing formerly operated by now retired District Magis-
trate Leonard Harvey. Dr. Boonin did a complete
reconstruction of the building and the property,
remodeling both the interior and exterior.
On the opposite side of Main Street, beginning at the
traffic light intersection, Besecker’s Realtor Office is
nicely with the new look on Main Street.
Hugh King’s Recyclery Shop is also a neat-looking
building and both. of these businesses whose back
entrances facing the Memorial Highway are a compli-
ment to the borough. So, too, is the back entrance of
Saylor Furniture housed in the brick building which at
one time was a grocery store and meat market ownd
and operated by the late C.A. Frantz.
At the other end of that side of Main Street, James
Eason, owner of Dallas Centre Hardware has reno-
vated the front and the back of the store.
The front of the building is completely modernized,
adding to the new appearance of Dallas Center and the
back with a new entrance and large windows gives a
good impression to motorists approaching the intersec-
tion in Dallas Borough.
There remain only a few places that need a facelift
on Main Street, Dallas, primarily the rear of those
properties which can be seen from Memorial High-
way. Most strangers coming into a town judge the
area by what they see when they first approach the
area.
With some time and effort, the rear of these
buildings can be as attractive as any places anywhere.
When this is done, residents of the borough can be
certain strangers coming into Dallas Borough will
have a good impression of the community.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre will
observe its 70th anniversary during
the 1986-87 academic year and to
celebrate, the campus is holding a
year-long series of special events.
Kicking-off the festivities will be a
birthday party with a giant cake
and balloons Thursday, Sept. 18 that
will begin at 1 p.m. on Public
Square Wilkes-Barre and continue
out on the campus in Lehman in the
afternoon, ending with a giant fire-
works finale.
A committee of community lead-
ers and campus personnel, headed
by the Hon. Charles Lemmond, has
been working for months planning
the year’s events. Helen Patella,
Director of Volunteers at the John
Heinz Institute, is co-chairpersen
along with Senator Lemmond. Both
are Penn State Wilkes-Barre Advis-
ory Board members.
Co-chzirmen for the Sept. 18
activities are Sylvia Hudacek and
Madeline Motzki. Other committee
members include the Hon. Peter
Paul Olszewski, Sally Sagenkahn,
Diane Ryan, JoAnn Post, Gerry
Kolesar, Joan Diana, Jody Millard,
the Rev. Lynn Rothrock, Carol
Hussa and Marianne Puhalla.
Ellen Campbell will serve as
campus liaison.
Additional 70th Anniversary spe-
cial events include a performance of
the Theater of West Virginia, Sept.
30; a concert by Regency, a five-
man acapella musical group that
will perform jazz, swing, motown
Sirs
and classical selections Oct. 16; and
a performance of The Magic of
Broadway, a stunning recreation of
Broadway’s highlights from Show-
boat to West Side Story, that will be
presented April 3, 1987. All events
will be held at 8 p.m. and all are
free to the public.
A black tie Harvest Ball will be
held Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Hay-
field House mansion with music by
the Penn State Phi Mu Alpha Dance
Band, from University Park. Other
anniversary events will be
announced later, according to Mrs.
Patella.
As the oldest higher education
presence in the Wyoming Valley,
Penn State Wilkes-Barre has an
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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Keeping in line with the statewide
trend, the number of serious crimes
reported in the Back Mountain has
decreased during the past year.
Statistics released by the Pennsyl-
vania State. Police department in
Harrisburg shows that serious
crimes reported in 1985 decreased
by one per cent from last year from
363,024 to 359,254. It was the fifth
consecutive year the numbers have
decreased, accounting for an 18.9
per cent drop since 1980.
Crimes such as robberies, burgla-
ries, larceny/theft and motor vehi-
cle thefts have all gone down, but
others have gone up, including mur-
ders, three per cent; forcible rapes,
3.7 per cent; aggravated assaults,
6.2 per cent and arson, 2.1 per cent.
Despite what has seemed like an
unusually busy year for Back Moun-
tain poli€e departments, serious
crime offenses have declined here,
tGo.
“Vandalism is up, but burglaries,
thefts and violent crimes are down
pared ‘to this time last year,” said
Kingston Township police chief Paul
Sabol. “But; we are much busier
this year. It seems like we are out
investigating more calls.”
Sabol says public awareness and
good patroling by the police depart-
ment are two possible explanations
for the crime decrease.
“The Neighborhood Crime Watch
helps,” said Sabol, who has been
police chief for nearly 15 years.
“We haven’t developed it to the
point we would like, but they do
help. People are more aware of
their neighbors and what they are
doing.
“We just got a call the other day
about someone in the neighborhood
people were inquiring about,’”’” Sabol
added. “We brought him in and
straightened the problem out. We
don’t fool around with things like
that.”
At Dallas Boro, Police Chief Ed
Lyons says serious crimes have also
declined. ‘“The major crimes are
down, but you will always have the
summary and mischievous types of
offenses. But robberies and burgla-
ries have dropped.
“I think you have to give credit
for that to the increased patroling,
policemen properly handling their
cases and the increased number of
burglar alarms = people have
installed in their homes,” Lyons
added. ‘‘Also, there are not a lot of
repeat offenders around. It seems a
lot of these people have left the
area.”
tially fatal situation when officer
James Tupper and Dallas Township
policeman Wayman Miers were shot
durng a scuffle at the township’s
municipal building in early June.
“Something like that is a seldom
occurring thing,”’ Lyons said. “It’s
a rare occurrence back here. That’s
not to say it won’t happen again, but
if you look at the number of officers
who have been shot over the years,
you’ll probably find it is very low.
“But now people are aware that
something like this does occur
because it happened where they
live,”” Lyons continued. ‘There
were the two policemen up here that
were shot and the poor officer in
Avoca that was killed. Maybe
policemen are shot at every day.
But until it happens where you live,
you really don’t notice it.”
The State Police report indicated
that in 1985 there were 2,919
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interesting history to celebrate. The
first Penn State class was held in
the building now housing Coughlin
High School in 1916, in response to a
request from the Chamber of Com-
merce and Rotary Club of Wilkes-
Barre. Classes expanded and were
eventually moved to the Guthrie
Building which is now the headquar-
ters for Inter-Metro Industries on
North Washington Street.
In December 1964, the Hayfield
House, the summer residence of Mr.
and Mrs. John Conyngham, was
given to the University to be devel-
oped into a permanent campus. The
present Chairman of the Penn State
John N. Conyngham III, nephew of
the benefactor.
Today, the 50-acre campus com-
prises six buildings, two private
apartment buildings, and more than
900 students are enrolled. Other
buildings are in the planning stages.
Penn State friends and family are
invited to join the celebration. “We
are especially interested in hearing
from persens who attended or
taught Penn State classes in the
early days at Coughlin or Guthrie,”
said Mrs. Hudacek, ‘or those who
have memorabilia of the early days
of the campus.’y
Those wishing to help are asked to
contact the Penn State Wilkes-Barre
University Relations Office at 675-
9228.
Inside The Post
Births ................; 10
Calendar .............. 20
Classified ......... 17,18
Commentary ......... 6
Cookbook ....... raisin?
Obituaries ............. 2