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Post will be closed Thurs-
day and Friday, November
26-27 for the Thanksgiving
holiday. We will reopen at
8:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30.
Items may be left in the
mail slot over the weekend.
18 Pages 2 Sections
Calendar.............. 18
Classified........ 16-17
Editorials... 4
Obituaries............ 15
Police report.......... 2
Property transfers..2
School.....oi....ic... 12
SpOHS.................. 11
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HELPING OTHERS ON THANKSGIVING - Charles Lemmond, right, goes over the menu with Shawn
Murphy before serving dozens of people Thanksgiving dinner. The Lemmond and Murphy families have
been sharing their Thanksgiving dinner with others for nearly 20 years.
Lemmonds, Murphys serve 125
‘guests’ a Thanksgiving dinner
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
"As they have for nearly two
decades, two Back Mountain
families will serve Thanksgiving
dinner to 125 guests before they
sit down to their own holiday meal.
Nineteen years ago, three
families began the dinner, which
has since grown into a tradition, to
honor the memory of deceased
family members. Anyone in the
comunity is welcome, as long as
they have made reservations first.
Sister Barbara Craig of the
Sisters of Mercy, Mr. and Mrs.
John Murphy and Senator and
Mrs. Charles B. Lemmond, Jr.
obtained space at First United
Mansions in miniature on display
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
Some lucky person will win a
hand-built three-story, 12-room
Georgian Colonial house the
weekend of November 28-29.
The house features hand-cut
siding, custom windows, wallpaper
and carpeting. [t's very economical
to maintain and won't cost its new
owner a penny in property taxes.
But only people less than 6" tall
can live there, because it's a doll
house.
Built by Fred and Lois Hughes
of Dallas Township, the house will
- be chanced off at a Christmas
dollhouse show featuring more
than 50 decorated dollhouses,
sponsored by “Dream Homes in
Miniature” November 28-29 at the
Penn State Lehman campus.
All houses built by the
organization, a group of 13 area
people interested in building and
furnishing miniature homes, are
Rukstalis' art
and words
become book
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
When Dallas resident Susan
Rukstalis was in junior high school,
she loved to write stories about
queens and dragons and show
them to her art teacher.
Her magical stories have grown
up with her.
Rukstalis has just published her
first book, How Many Steps Before
the Queen, peopled with wizards,
magic, a queen and a prince.
A children's story, How Many
See RUKST. LIS, pg 10
Methodist Church. on North
Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre,
gathered dopations ¢f food and
recruited friends to help in the
kitchen.
“As our families grew, our
children began to help out,” Mrs.
Shawn Murphy said. “They're
coming in from all over. We're glad
they have picked up the tradition.”
Unfortunately, Sister Barbara's
work called her away from the area
several years ago and she is no
longer able to participate, Mrs.
Murphy said.
The guests, many of whom
otherwise would be alone for
Thanksgiving, sit down at tables
set with tablecloths, china place
settings and centerpieces to a
on a 1:1 scale, where one foot is
reduced to one inch.
Lois Hughes, club president, and
her husband, Fred, have built
several miniature houses,
including a farm house and a
Victorian mansion which Fred
Hughes designed from a drawing
of the home of the creator of “Little
Orphan Annie.”
Fred designs and builds the
homes; Lois decorates the rooms.
He hand-cut every piece of the
siding for the exterior of the
Georgian Colonial home to be
chanced off at the show. “It was
easy. l used foam board, which can
be cut and shaped with a sheet
rock knife or X-acto tools,” he said.
Except for the bathroom fixtures
and a kitchen table and chairs, the
rooms are unfurnished.
“You can spend a small fortune
on this hobby, unless you make
everything yourself like we do.”
See MINIATURE, pg 10
A TALE OF MAGIC - Susan Rukstalis reads her book How Many
traditional family-style turkey
dinner - everything from soup to
‘nuts. After dinner, the centerpieces
are chanced off.
“Gene. ‘Brady from the
Commission on Economic
Opportunity (CEQ) is able to supply
us with much of the meal,” Mrs.
Barbara Lemmond said. “Friends
donate homemade desserts.
Hillside Farms supplies the
beautiful floral centerpieces at cost.
And a small free-will offering also
helps offset the costs.”
Brady said that his staff takes
up a collection to buy the turkeys
and trimmings for the dinner.
According to church secretary
See DINNER, pg 10
A TINY BED - Fred Hughes
shows off a bed that he build on
a 1 foot to 1 inch scale for the
Victorian dollhouse that he and
his wife, Lois, will display at the
Christmas dollhouse show. (Post
Photo/Grace R. Dove)
Steps Before the Queen to the second grade at Gate of Heaven
School, as John Treven, Sharleen Casey, and Ashlee Fagula, left,
and Joe Buczko, Charles Latona and Maria Bassano, right, look
on. (Post Photo/Grace R. Dove)
Lake official 4
show no crim
By BILL HARPER
Post Staff
Two state audits of Harveys Lake
finances have turned up nothing
out of the ordinary, according to a
Harveys Lake official.
“We have seen audits of the police
pension fund and the liquid fuel
accounts, and although there may
have been a few discrepancies,
nothing criminal was discovered,”
Harveys Lake sewage control officer
William Mann said.
Mann claimed that the audits
are probably politically motivated
and are not related to the arrest of
Assistant Police Chief Ronald
Spock. He has called for authorities
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
For the fourth year in a row,
Dallas Township taxpayers will
enjoy a tax rate of only six mills,
pending the final approval of the
township's 1993 budget.
Projected expenditures of
$1,126,000, including estimated
increases of $25,000 for utilities,
repairs and “equipment and
$25,800 for police salaries and
expenses have been offset by
increases in per capita, real estate
transfer and earned income taxes,
according to preliminary figures
released by the supervisors.
Kingston Twp. will show surplus |
By BILL HARPER
Post Staff
Kingston Township's 1993
budget will see an increase in
spending of only about $8,000,
according to Township Manager
Jeff Box. He said that this is a very
conservative figure and believes
that the township's management
will result in no tax increase.
“The growth which we are
experiencing is offsetting the
increase in spending and the
township has been very prudent in
the way which we have managed
our finances,” Box said.
The township's 1993 budget,
which had its first reading at the
November 11 supervisor's meeting,
calls for a estimated revenue of
$1,105,175, up {rom the
Dallas Borough tightens its belt
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
Read their lips: no new taxes.
But faced with an estimated
$36,931 decrease in revenues from
1992, the Dallas Borough Council
may have to bite the bullet a bit
harder in 1993.
The proposed budget passed by
the borough council at its regular
meeting Tuesday, November 17,
estimated decreases in occupation,
per capita and real estate transfer
taxes, as well as fees for mechanical
devices, pave cuts and building
No new taxes!
Dallas Twp. sees more revenue .
"projected at $570,000, up from a |
to release all investigation result
in order to end speculation abou
corruption in the borough. |
Spock is accused of accepting a |
television set as a bribe in exchange |
for dropping a driving under the |
influence charge in December |
1991: Raby
Luzerne County District |
Attorney Peter Paul Olszewski sai
that a trial probably will not be
scheduled until January 1993
Spock waived arraignment o
September 25 and Luzerne County |
Court Judge Patrick Toole denied |
a defense motion to dismiss the: |
case on October 15. a i]
See LAKE, pg 10
The largest revenue increase is
in the earned income tax, which is
$480,000 projection for 1992.
However, receipts from the tax
stood at nearly $483,000 at the |
end of October. at.
“This is a only a draft of the |
budget, not a final copy,” said |
solicitor Frank Townend. “During |
the next 30 days we will complete |
all of our calculations and prepare |
the final copy for approval.” |
The proposed budget will be |
posted for public inspection at the
Dallas Township Building until |
December 15, when the |
supervisors will consider approving |
a final budget. LORE
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$1,097,019 estimated revenue
from 1992. Box said that the |
township expects to spend |
1,105,175 in 1993 compared to |
the 1,097,019 which was spent in
1992. |
Box said that the final budget |
will be read at the December 9]
meeting. |
Box said that in writing the
budget, several line items were cut
back and that the growth in
revenues was not as great as in|
recent years. He added that no
changes in the budget are
anticipated between now and the |
final reading. Fg
“We have had two public
meetings to prepare the budget]
and the supervisors made minor
changes prior to the first reading,” |
Box said. 3
permits. The draft budget also
projects lower receipts from fines,
zoning variance fees and interest
income. 3
The losses are offset by estimated
increases in real estate and earned |
income taxes, cable television |
franchise fees, pension fund |
reimbursements and motor tax |
allocations. pa
Estimated increases in|
“municipal employees’ salaries and |
expenses for the purchase of road |
equipment account for much of
See DALLAS, pg 2 |
18612, and 675-5211.
The Dallas Post will |
move December 2-3 |
The Dallas Post will move to new offices at 45 Main Road in
Dallas Township the week after Thanksgiving. The building,
formerly a private home located across from Offset Paperback, is
being remodeled into the newspaper's office.
When completed, the building will contain more than twice the
space of the present office, with parking for employees in the rear
and visitor parking in front. Inside, the building will provide
separate rooms for business, news and composition functions, a
darkroom and adequate space for storage and future expansion.
Persons should bring items for publication to the present office |
until Thursday, December 3. The Post's mailing address and |
telephone number remain the same: P.O. Box 366, Dallas PA