ww Page 3. Vol. 103: No. 21 Dallas, PA Wednesday, May 27, 1992 TT | 35 Cents] . Inside Story [21210] of ES Little League results Sports page. ES pL —- Local girls win vocal awards Page 9. gDallas High | academic awards Page 9. . Lehman prom queen Page 3. DALLAS BORO Council mulls over zone plans COMMUNITY Charlotte Martin, Florence Hozempa to be honored Page 8. 14 Pages 1 Section Calendar.............. 10 Classified........ 12-13 Editorials................ 4 Obituaries............ 12 Police report.......... 2 Property transfers..2 School... ...h...0 11 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING To honor their memory Dallas High School band’s Erick Sinclair plays “Taps’ the Honor Roll. Story, more photos on back page. (Post photo/Grace R. Dove) ' during Monday's Memorial Day ceremony at Perot supporters seek Back Mountain signers By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff Jack LoughneyIl has met George Bush, and thinks he’s a “hell of a decent guy.” The retired U.S. Secret Service Agent has never met Ross Perot, but Loughney is working to gather petitions to get Perot on the ballot for president in November's elec- tion. “I know George Bush. I guarded him when he was vice president,” said Loughney, who worked as a Secret Service agent from 1970 to 1985. “He is a very personable and honorable man, but he does not represent me. He's a very decent man, but he's not a very effective leader.” “I've been interested in Ross Perot since the late 60's,” said Loughney. “Ross Perot is a can-do kind of person and the Secret Service is a can-do kind of opera- tion.” Czech visitor says change coming slowly By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff Free refills of coffee and all-you- can-eat salad bars with fresh let- tuce. Things Americans take for granted at restaurants. But to Milan Madar of Brati- slava, Czechoslovakia, those two things come to mind first when describing the difference between his country and ours. In Czechoslovakia, you don't get refills or all-you-can-eat of any- thing at restaurants. “Here the hotels, and restau- rants, everything is spotless clean,” said Milan, through his interpreter and cousin, Joseph Kunec of Dal- las. More than two decades ago, in 1965, Kunec visited Milan in Czechoslovakia when he was 19 and just getting ready to enter the Soviet Army. Now he's returning the favor, See CZECH CITIZEN, pg 3 Library board will meet to discuss controversial firing By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff The firing of Charlotte Oley {from the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary in April has sparked both outrage and concern. Outrage that Oley was fired in April after 15 years of service. Concern for Oley and for the library, which is dependent upon volunteers and public goodwill. The president of the library board, Dr. Durelle Scott, would not discuss the matter Monday evening, May 25. He said that the library board will meet this week and release a statement on its side of the story. Head librarian Susan Frey has been reported as saying Oley was fired because her work was slip- ping, but later refused to make any comment. Oley was diagnosed as having a brain tumor April 20. She received a letter in the mail from the library three days later notifying her that she had been let go. See LIBRARY, pg 14 In the next several weeks, Lough- ney, coordinator [or the petition drive for Perot in the Back Moun- tain, and about 35 other volun- teers will be getting signatures so Perot's name can find it's way in the voting machine. “] see him as a man of action and see the big problem with the country as stagnation,” said Lough- ney. “I think the time has come when we have to look outside the regular political channels.” Federal funds. '99% sure’ for traffic lights By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Three intersections | on Route 309 and | one on Route 415 may be eligible for According to State Representa- tive Phyllis Mundy, federal fund- ing for traffic signals on Routes 309 and 415 may soon be on its i ; way. 4 traffic light funding. | Because criteria for the state to | fund traffic signals have been loos- | ened, Mundy is very optomistic traffic signals.” | that the Pennsylvania Department State Senator Charles Bj of Transportation (PennDOT) will Lemmond said that he is “very pick up the tab for traffic signals at pleased” with the information, Route 415 and Center Hill Road at according to Lisa Baker, a spokes Pickett's Charge and three Route man for the senator's office. 309 intersections: Hillside Road, “Senator Lemmond is anxious Franklin Street, and Main Street (oreceive written confirmation from by Offset Paperback. Transportation Secretary Howard “The funding will come [rom Yerusalim. Then he'll be more federal money distributed through comfortable,” Ms. Baker said. | the state,” Mundy said. “We are When funding sources for & 99% sure that a portion of the $2.5 traffic light at Route 309 and Mait million allocated for road improve- Traffic on 309 up only 2.2%, says PennDO By ERIC FOSTER Post Staff location on April 14, 1992, showed an average daily traffic total of 37,318 vehicles, a 2.2% increase] Truck traffic, counting every} thing bigger than a dump {ruck increased from 1,372 trucks td 1,694. The traffic counts do not repre sent literally how many cars trav eled the road on that day, but arg numbers that are adjusted so they are not skewed by factors such as the day of the week or season of the year. According to Bonacci, the ad: justed figures give a truer picturg of how much traffic is on the road See PENNDOT, pg 14 Has traffic gotten heavier on Route 309 since the last segment of the Cross Valley Expressway opened last winter? Yes, says the Department of Transportation, but not much. A traffic count taken near the rock cut in Kingston Township on September 19, 1991 before the final leg of the Cross Valley Ex- pressway opened, showed that the average daily traffic total on Route 309 was 36,505 vehicles, accord- ing to Ron Bonacci, traffic engi- neer for PennDOT. Atraffic count taken in the same According to Norm Gavlick, don't want a Ross Perot on thg Luzerne County chairman for the ballot.” ] Perot petition drive, 37,216 signa- And why not. i tures are needed to get Perot on Ina recession economy, the las the presidential ballot in Pennsyl- person you might expect to capi vania, but they're shooting for ture the public support is a billion 200,000 signatures, with a goal of aire. Instead of resentment al 10,000 from Luzerne County. Perot’s wealth, supporters say tha “The important thing is the he can't be bribed or bought. © accuracy of the petition,” said “It's very hard to buy a multi Gavlick. “The people in Harrisburg millionaire. It's even harder to buy will be looking at the petition with a [ine-tooth comb. Obviously they See PEROT, pg 14 Scouts clean up cemeteries By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Memorial Day weekend, tra- . ditionally the time to replace cemetery decorations and spruce up the area around the family burial plot, was different this year at the Trucksville and Cedar Crest cemeteries. Nearly 40 American flags were removed from graves in both cemetaries and desecrated, ac- cording to Nancy McDonald of the Cedar Crest Cemetery board and Margaret Goodwin of the Trucksville Cemetery Associa- tion. Several bronze markers on the graves of veterans from all wars also were bent. “This is just a shame!” Mrs. Goodwin said. “Trucksville Cemetery dates from before 1848, when my father’s grand- father, Jacob Rice, donated a section of land from his farm for the cemetery and the Trucksville United Methodist Church. Some area veterans of the Civil War are buried there.” The cemeteries, located be- See CLEAN UP, pg 14 REPAIRING THE DAMAGE - Boy Scout Jonathan Bradbury sets a new flag in a veteran's marker during Saturday's cleanup of the damage at Trucksville and Cedar Crest cemeteries. (Post photo/Grace R. Dove)
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