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should not be so sure their chil-
dren will not go out to drink if they
are allowed to drink at home. “If
the parent takes the car keys off
the minor when he is drinking,
what is to stop him from walking
down the road and getting picked-
up by someone?”
Sgt. Jerome B. Majeski, district
office commander for the Pennsyl-
vania State Police Bureau of Liq-
uor Control Enforcement, said even
in a private residence, underage
drinking is against the law. He
said the bureau would raid any
home they find to have underage
drinking occurring.
"My parents give it to me as long as I don't
drink and drive. They figure I would get
it someplace anyway."
17 year-old, Dallas
began being issued in the mid-
1980's, has several features de-
signed to make successful tam-
pering with them almost impos-
sible.
“There are certian hidden iden-
tifiers on the new driver's licenses,”
explained Sgt. Majeski. “Investiga-
tive officers are able to look for
NO WAY - Former police officer and present owner of Tup’s Bever-
age Barn, James Tupper has a simple motto for his beer distributor-
ship when it comes to minors. “No identification, no service, no
exceptions.” (Photo by Scott A. Davis)
“Ifitis in a home, we have to get
into the home to see that the crime
actually is occurring,” Sgt. Maj-
eski explained. “There are certain
investigative tools that we use,
which I would not want to become
common knowledge, about how
we go about getting into a place.
Nothing is done illegally.”
One 15-year-old Dallas youth
said it was difficult for a minor to
purchase alcohol in the Back
Mountian. “Most stores are strict
about the age of their customers,”
she said. “The trick is to find
someone over twenty-one to buy it
for you.”
She claims an adult has been
purchasing alcohol for her from a
local beer distributor for two years.
“It is a little more expensive than
(the distributor) charges,” she said
explaining she has to pay the per-
son who is getting her the alcohol.
“I think he (the adult) buys it for
me to make extramoney,” the youth
said.
A 20-year-old Dallas youth said
his brother buys him alcohol. “He
figures I am almost twenty-one.
Besides, he drank when he was
underage. I'm just following in his
footsteps,” the youth said.
The youth said it is difficult to
obtain a false driver's license, so
he relies on his brother. “These
new-fangled licenses can not be
copied. It's too chancy. It is too
easy to get caught,” the 20-year-
old said.
Officer Fowler said he believes
the two beer distributers in his
jurisdiction are responsible and
do not supply knowingly minors.
James Tupper, a former Dallas
Borough police officer and present
owner of Tup's Beverage Barn in
Dallas, agrees with the youth. “The
new licenses are hard to fake. We
get a lot of the old Pennsylvania
driver's licenses which were faked.
The old ones are easy to fake,”
Tupper said.
The new driver's license, which
these hidden identifiers and
thereby determine quickly whether
or not a license is fictious.”
Sgt. Majeski said the photo-
graph, lamination, paper, and
several other parts of the new li-
censes would be very difficult to
alter or copy without detectable
changes.
“Aside from the hidden identifi-
ers, are the normal attempts that
kids do to change a license,” Sgt.
Majeski said. “Erasers or maybe
the date of birth does not line up,
for example.”
they refuse to serve, I go some-
where else,” she said.
Tupper said if a person forgets
their license, they can fill out a
Declaration of Age form which is
checked later. The person must
still have some form of identifica-
tion.
“No identification, no service,
no exceptions,” Tupper said.
Another source of alcohol for
minors is college parties. One 19-
year-old Dallas youth attending
Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre
said, “All I have to do to get alcohol
is go to a college party.” He said
students over twenty-one buy the
alcohol and then charge the stu-
dents for admission into the party.
“For two or three dollars, I can
have all the alcohol I want,” he
said. “They have never checked my
I.D. and I never saw them check
anyone else's.”
The youth explained that the
college parties are thrown by older
students. The money the students
make on the parties is used to pay
their rent. “Sometimes there are
up to 200 students, mostly under-
age, drinking in the one house,”
the youth said. :
Sgt. Majeski said any college
party serving underage drinkers
can also be raided. “You have to
develop probable cause and get a
warrant,” Sgt. Majeski said. “Prob-
able cause is developed through
being at the party, then coming
back out and getting a search
warrant. That sometimes takes
time.”
According to Sgt. Majeski, one
exception to the search rule is the
possibilty of exit of offenders be-
fore authorities can obtain a war-
rant. “If we feel the party might
break up before we can geta search
warrant, or if it is at a time that is
not conducive to get a search
warrant; then we, without the
warrant, have the probable cause
that a crime is occuring. We go
ahead and just arrest right then
and there,” Sgt. Majeski explained.
DOT explains that carrying a
fake I.D., lying about one's age to
get alcohol, or by purchasing ,
consuming, possessing, or trans-
porting alcohol, a person could
have his driver's license suspended
for up to two years, plus fines. The
person will pay a fine up to $500
and police will notify the offender's
parents, even il the offender is over
Tupper said that it is difficult to 18 years old.
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"As a cop, you think it's easy for us to tell
who is underage. But from behind here,
it's not so easy.”
James Tupper
Owner of beverage store and former police officer
catch someone who is purchasing
alcohol for minors. “Kids will come
in and get turned down,” Tupper
explained. “Next thing you know,
someone twenty-one comes in and
asks for the same beer and you do
not really know if they are supply-
ing the kids or not.”
“I get served just about any-
where,” said a bearded 17-year-
old from Shavertown. “The trick is
to grow a beard. It makes you look
older.”
Tupper admitted it was difficult
to tell if a person is underage or
not. “It's hard to tell ages nowa-
days,” Tupper said. He said he
recently carded someone who
looked thirty years old who turned
out to have just turned twenty-
one.
“I have been on both sides of the
counter,” Tupper said. “As a cop,
you think it is easy for us to tell
who is underage. But from behind
here, it's not so easy.”
An 18-year-old Dallas youth said
she gets alcohol by telling the clerk
she forgot her license at home. “If
The court may require an of-
fender to complete alcohol educa-
tion, intervention, and counsel-
ing. Before an offender can get his
license back, or before he can be
considered for a learner's permit,
he must also pay a $25 restoration
fee. After the license is returned,
the offender will carry five points
against his license.
If the offender does not have a
license and gets caught drinking
or carrying a false I.D., he will be
unable to apply for a learner's
permit for the time period of the
suspension. For those under 16-
years-old, their suspension will not
begin until their 16th birthday.
Chief Fowler offered tips to par-
ents who may fear their underage
child is drinking. “Get up close to
them. Smell them. Do not be afraid
to get right into their face. You may
be averting a tragedy. Also, make
you child's friends pick him up at
the house. Make them come in.
How do you know your kid is not
getting into the car with some
drunk?”
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Cocolin, refreshment stand and John Grote, grounds chairman.
Library auction set to open July 5
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Writer
The social event of the year in
the Back Mountain is just one
week away - Wednesday, July 5 is
the opening day of the Back
Mountain Memorial Library Auc-
tion, the event which brings back
former residents to renew old
friendships, to meet new friends
and most important, to attend the
‘Auction’.
The auction, which has been
held annually since 1942, is the
only fundraising held to finance
the operational expenses of the
library. It has grown in size, it has
changed somewhat in appearance,
changed location and greatly in-
creased its annual goal, but is still
the event most attractive to for-
mer residents and to their friends-
an event many out of state former
Back Mountaineers plan their
vacation around.
This year’s auction officially
opens Wednesday, July 5, but it is
hoped that the Library Auction
Horse Show held Sunday, June
25, will also become an annual
event and one that will do a great
deal to supplement the funds
raised at the auction.
For the second consecutive
‘year, Dr. John Shaskas is serving
as chairman of the auction as-
sisted by his co-chairman Dr.
Durelle T. Scott, who with his wife
plans to make the new goods booth
bigger and better than ever.
Dr. Shaskas, chairing the auc-
tion for three out of the past four
years, announced that this year’s
auction goal is $90,000. “That's
the amount we need and that's
the amount we will try to make,”
Shaskas said.
New to the auction thisyear are
five spaces for exhibits, three of
which are already taken-one for
tee-shirts, one for woodwork and
one for encyclopedias.
For the first time in some time,
parking has returned to the Gate
of Heaven parking lot thanks to
the generosity of The Most Rev.
William Cusick. The members of
the Dallas Lions Club will be in
charge of parking the cars.
However, there will be no park-
ing in the Gate of Heaven lot on
Saturday until after 7 p.m. be-
cause of church services.
The Rotary Club will be in charge
of the food booth this year rather
than one person trying to manage
the busy concession.
A departure this year from oth-
AUCTION CHAIRMENS-Pictured above, from left, are Dr. John Shaskas, general chairman; James
ers is that the auction volunteers .
are not accepting large used items.
“We appreciate the residents’
generosity but it is difficult for us
to get rid of them,” explainedShas-
kas. “Lastyear it cost us more than
$1,000 to have them taken away.
That's $1,000 that could have gone
to the library. We just can't afford
them.”
There will be no car raffled off
this year but in its place there will
be 50-50 chances sold at $5.00
each. Il there are 2,000 tickets sold
the first prize will be $2,500, and
there will be cash prizes awarded
for the first five places.
There will still be games for the
children and new this year for the
children will be the ‘Moon Walk’,
which is expected to be popular.
New goods are coming in better
than ever before. Received already
are a gazebo, a rolltop desk, four |
new sinks, and a wood stove, to
name only a few.
There will be an antique raffle
again this year and some beautiful
antique pieces have already been §
collected and stored by the com-
mittee.
The auction will open Wednes-
day, July 5, at 6 p.m. and continue
until 10 p.m.; open Thursday, July
6, the same times; Friday, July 7,
6 p.m. till midnight; Saturday, July
8 and Sunday, July 9, 3 p.m. till
closing.
Familiar sights will continue to
be the food booth, book booth,
odds and ends, nearly old and the
baked goods. YE
The popular spot at the auction,
however, will be the auction block
where people will sit or stand, if
necessary, waiting for the items
they are looking for to come across
the block.
Volunteers are ready, booths are
in order, auctioneers are waiting
anxiously for their turn. Now all
that is needed is plenty of sun-
shine, blue skies and a gentle
breeze.
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