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Vol. 100 No. 42 "A Centennial Edition”
Dallas, PA Wednesday, October 25, 1989
35 Cents
‘Night shooter’ cripples deer, mother of two fawns
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Writer
There are hunters and there are
J killers, according to Game Com-
mission Agent William Wasserman.
Hunters are those individuals
who purchase a license and go
deer hunting during season obey-
ing the law as specified in the book
received with a license. Killers are
those individuals who go spotting
deer illegally in order to know where
they are, then come back at night
and shoot illegally. They are night
shooters and they are dangerous,
according to game commission
agents.
Game commission officials say
it was a night shooter who shot a
large doe, the mother of twin fawns,
approximately two weeks ago on
the grounds of a registered wildlife
habitat of about 48 acres.
The shooter, later apprehended
and prosecuted, shot the doe, then
left the scene thinking the doe was
dead and planning to come back
later and take it. He did come
back, but he couldn't find the doe
and nearby neighbors got a decrip-
tion of his vehicle and its license
number.
The wildlife habitat, which is
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Smith, is well posted but that night
they didn’t see anyone nor did they
hear the shot. The next morning,
however, when Mrs. Smith was
leaving the property to go to work
she saw a large circle with grass
. torn up all around it.
She realized at once that the
torn grass must have been caused
by the thrashing of an animal and
started to look around the area.
Not far from the circle she found
the doe, still alive but shot through
the spine and the spinal cord
damaged so the animal could not
get up.
The Smiths called the Game
Commission and when the game
commission's agent arrived he had
to shoot the deer. He also told the
Smiths he would continue the
investigation.
In the meantime, the twin fawns
kept coming to the area where
‘their mother was shot every day
and stood around as though wait-
ing for her to come back.
This past week the Smith's re-
ceived good news. The agent had
located the individual who shot
the doe. Since he is a juvenile, his
name cannot be published but his
parents were informed of what he
had done, the boy was fined $800
Halloween in the Back Mountain
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15 So. Lehigh St., Shavertown
15 Jackson St., Dallas
Fire victim upset about trash dumped on lawn
By SCOTT A. DAVIS
Post Staff
When Helen Bennett's Harveys
Lake home went up in flames on
Labor Day, she thought she had all
the trouble she would need. Now,
she is trying to rebuild the home
that was literally gutted by the
flames, and someone has dumped
garbage in her front lawn.
“I am mad because people are
lying to me,” Bennett said from
admist her burned out home lo-
cated at Pole 189, right next to the
Old Sandy Bottom Beach. Bennett
said she knows who dumped the
trash on her property and she plans
to have a detective come in to dust
for fingerprints. She admitted the
fingerprint scheme is a long shot
because of the rain that has fallen
since the garbage was dumped
Friday night, but she said it is
worth a try.
Bennett claims that a local gas
station was responsible for the
dumping, but the station denied
the accusations. She explained that
an 18-year-old boy who works for
her was blamed by the gas station
for dumping trash from the house
clean-up in their dumpster.
“He is a good kid. He has been in
my home for two years and there is
money in there. Never once has he
taken anything,” Bennett said.
She explained that she asked
the boy if he did dump garbage in
the station's dumpster, and the
boy said he did not. “That is good
enough for me. If he said ‘no’, then
he did not do it.”
Then, on Saturday morning,
~ Bennett discovered a pile of old
lamps, paint cans, and other gar-
age dumped on her front lawn.
le said the gas station denied
dumping the garbage there and
told her to consider other neigh-
bors, but she said she was con-
vinced it was them.
She lowered herself slowly to
the pile of garbage and displayed
some of the items in the pile. In-
cluded in the pile was anti-rust
enamel, automotive paint and
primer cans. She pointed to her
car and said she did not paint it.
Bennett walked through her
house Monday svening Gi;
out the damage and work being
done on her home.
Most people would have given
up on this home a long time ago.
There are holes burned through
walls. The floors will need exten-
sive repairs or replacement. A life-
time of memories were set aside on
shelves in what appeared to have
been a kitchen at one time. Under
each shelf was a piece of paper
listing a price for the damaged
trinkets. One read $1.00 each.
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Throughout the house, bags of
garbage were piled in corners.
Outside was a garbage dumpster
filled to the brim with old fur-
nature and other wreckage. Ironi-
cally, the garbage dumped on her
property was only ten feet away
from the dumpster.
Helen Bennett is best explained
that the fire itself was not the
cause of most damage to her home.
“The fire was not so bad, it was the
water damage that did the most
harm.”
DUMP- This trash has an elderly Harveys Lake woman upset. She says someone secretly dumped the
garbage on her property one night last week. She said she is hiring a detective to fingerprint the items
to try and match them to the person she thinks i is responsible. (Photo by Scott A. Davis)
and his rifle and spotlight confis-
cated and he will be unable to
obtain a license for a specified
period of time.
This is not the first incident that
occurred on the Smith property.
The Smith's have often seen hunt-
ers walking on their property and
have had to tell them to leave.
Since the wild habitat consists of
48 acres, people can come in from
the other side and quite often, the
members of the family have heard
shots from the highway.
Agent Wassernman said another
incident occurred in the same area
justrecently. Aresident saw a deer
that had been crippled by a car. He
shot the deer, then called the Game
Commission and expected them to
give him the meat but he had cut
up the meat before the agent even
arrived at his home.
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Wasserman warns all those with
rifles who want to shoot a deer to
get a permit, otherwise they are
liable to be prosecuted.
“Night killers are dangerous,”
said Wasserman. “It is dark and
IE.
even if they are spotlighting for
deer when they fire their rifle, they
have no idea where the bullet might
See DEER, pg 2
Former residents tell
of earthquake horror
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Writer
Mrs. Steven Pavlik, her daugh-
ters, Rose Radzinski, Alice Summa
and Carol Llewellyn, all of the
Back Mountain spent many wor-
ried hours from last Tuesday eve-
ning until Wednesday morning
after they had seen the news of the
earthquake in San Francisco and
the Oakland area of California.
Steve Pavlik, son and brother of
the Pavlik’s, lived in an apartment
house within a short distance of
the Marina area which was hard
hit by the earthquake.
“We spent many bh hours
and my mother was in panic until
we finally heard from Steve
Wednesday and learned that he
was allright,” said Rose Radzinski.
“The apartment house shook a
lot and some of the people were
knocked down but no one was
seriously injured. The greatest
damage was broken dishes and
things like that,” Steve said. “I had
the tears rolled down my fa
"When I got there
(the Marina), it was
so bad the tears
rolled down my face.”
Steve Pavlik
alot of friends living in the Marina
area so I decided to take a walk
through that area and offer ny
services to help.
"When I got there it was so bad
an officer came up to me a
asked what was wrong. You can't
image what it's like.”
Pavlik is aretired American Red
Cross official and was with the
Red Cross for many years. Al--
though retired, he has now of-
fered his services to assist.
Steve Pavlik's brother, Frank,
See QUAKE, P92 2
Dallas manager still
on job after resigning
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staft Writer
Katherine Strosnider, Dallas
Borough manager, surprised bor-
ough council members at last
Tuesday's meeting when she sub-
mitted her resignation after the
members present voted that in the
future only her agreed upon salary
would be paid.
The borough manager is paid
$5000 annually, ostensibly for
three hours daily.
Strosnider submitted her resig-
nation after she questioned the
motion made by councilman Dan
Cooper that council pay her for
additional hours she worked in
order to train two new clerks and
act as manager and borough clerk
in the interim, but from that point
on only the agreed upon man-
ager’s salary would be paid.
Strosnider questioned the mo-
tion and Cooper explained that the
motion which denied her extra
compensation was approved be-
cause the duties were part of the
position of the borough manager.
Mrs. Strosnider explained that
she has had to train two new clerks
in addition to performing her regu-
lar duties as manager, both of
whom had no experience when
they assumed the position. She
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told council that former manager
Robert Brown did not request ex-
tra compensation when she be-
came borough clerk because she
had come into the position with 20
years prior experience and Brown
did not have to teach her yery: |
much.
“He handed the clerk's job over
tome,” Strosnider said, “And since
that time the work load has at least
doubled.”
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Former Back Mountain resident
Council president Don Shaffer vs
immediately asked Strosnider
when her resignation was effective
and she answered “Now.” Shaffer
quickly responded, “That's fine.”
But Councilman Jerry Machell
discussed the subject with
Strosnider and asked her to give
the councilan opportunity toevalu-
ate the problem. “We have all had
problems this year,” he said.
Strosnider said she would think
about her decision. She has re-
ported to the office each ‘working
day since the meeting.
Councilman Tim Carroll re-
ported that he and the borough
manager met with Thomas Reese,
Sen. Lemmond's representaive,
and Rep. Scott Dietterick and a
PennDOT official about the prob- |
lem at the intersection of Rotues
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RECYCLING DRIVE-Sat., Oct. 28, 9AM, Harveys Lake Borough Building,
Rte. 415. Aluminum, glass and newspaper only.
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be held indoors at Dallas Elomanian School.