DICE IE IR FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY The Dallas Post 3 Vol. 104 No. 4 Dallas, PA Wednesday, January 27, 1993 35 Cents 1} |} Ee ..,.,.. Inside Story Second generation Charles Wasserott V is Eagle in same troop as his father. Page 3. § SPORTS ‘Back Mtn. ‘Baseball ‘registration this Saturday. Sports page. Knights reign as kings of local wrestling. Sports page. COMMUNITY Gift of art honors Dallas Mayor Paul LaBar. Page 2. Yedesko triplets celebrate first birthday Page 3. Red Cross Blood drive Wed., Feb. 3, 9amto 2 p.m., Dallas High School. Call 823-7164 for ap- pointments. 14 Pages 1 Section Calendar............. 10 Classified........ 12-13 Editorials............... 4 Obituaries............ 1] Property transfers.2 School...........x. 5. 7 SPOS... cic iiiensvan 9 CALL 675-5211 FOR HOME DELIVERY, NEWS OR ADVERTISING Teachers back principal Middle School staff signs petition in his favor By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff In reponse to charges by a Dallas Township family that their 13-year- old son was struck by Dallas Middle School principal Anthony Martinelli, 42 middle school teachers and staff recently signed a letter in support of Martinelli. The letter, signed by 40 middle school teachers and - two secretaries, states that they believe that Martinelli's character has been broughtinto question. The teachers describe him as “someone who puts the students’ best interests as his number one priority.” “I feel that Mr. Martinelli is a good principal,” said middle school guidance counselor John Wolensky, the letter’'s author. "No teachers were coerced into signing the letter.” Wolensky said that he had left the letter on a table for any interested teachers to sign after a faculty meeting; he returned an hour later to find the 41 signatures under his name. Howard and Debbie Jones have filed harrassment charges against Martinelli with District Magistrate Earl Gregory. Aspokesman for the magistrate's office said that Martinelli will have ten days from the day that he receives the complaint form to either request a hearing or plead guilty and pay a fine of up to $300 without a hearing. According to Howard and Debbie Jones, on Friday, January 8, their See TEACHERS, pg 2 reception in honor of his retirement at St. Paul's Lutheran Church January 24. (Post Photo/Grace R. Dove) Chief Sabol turns in his badge By DAVE KONOPKI Post Correspondent Paul Sabol has never taken himself too seriously. He's never been one to overstate his role as a police officer. But when he first set [oot in a cruiser back in 1963, Sabol, like many young police officers, had a single ambition. He wanted to change the world. Since that day the world has seen many changes. The threat of communism has gone the way of the tie-dye shirts and leisure suits. The Berlin Wall has fallen and men have set foot on the moon. No, Paul Sabol didn't play a role in those things. But in the lives of people living in Kingston Town- ship, Paul Sabol did change the world. At least their part of it. This Friday, Sabol will don a police uniform for the final time as an active officer. He'll work an abbreviated day, probably until noon. Then quietly, without much fanfare, he will step out the door for the final time. After 30 years of service to the people of Kingston Township, the popular police chief is retiring. “It will be a sad day,” according to Sabol, who resides in the town- ship with his wife Fern, a retired nurse. “I've thought about it a lot. It's not going to be easy to walk out. There will be some sad mo- ments, believe me." But the last three decades have hardly been an unhappy one for Sabol. During that time he has become a virtual “Who's Who Among Public Servants”. See SABOL, pg 6 Fair warned before fines imposed By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Although the Luzerne County Fair has been fined by the Department of Enviormental Resources for sediment discharges into a nearby stream, fair board members claim that they didn't know that they needed a sediment control plan when they began earthmoving operations at the fairgrounds. According to Mark Carmon of the Department of Environmental Resources district office, Dallas Fall CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR - Richard Boice has announced his candidacy to run for mayor of Harveys Lake Borough on the Democratic ticket. (Post Photo/ La ®¥ Grace R. Dove) Ly £3 Fair, Inc., operators of the Luzerne County Fair, were assessed a $12,750 fine by DER's Bureau of Land and Water Conservation for failure to correct sediment discharges into a nearby stream. Eleven inspections between May, 1991, and July, 1992, by the Luzerne County Soil Conservation District and DER's Office of Land and Water Conservation staff noted that excavations on the hill behind the Back Mountain Medical Center to create more parking space and grading of a roadway at the livestock entrance were done without adequate soil erosion control measures, Carmon said. “We don't understand this,” said grounds chairman Ray Hillman. “We thought that it was all over between us and DER after we spent $65,000 correcting the wetlands problem.” “This fine has nothing to do with the wetlands case or the laying of macadam for a walkway in the amusements area, although published reports indicated this," Carmon said. “It deals strictly with See FAIR, pg 2 Boice announces he will run for Harveys Lake mayor By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Councilman Richard Boice announced at the Harveys Lake Borough Council's regular meeting Tuesday, January 19, that he intends to run for the office of mayor on the Democratic ticket, after the borough's present mayor, Joseph Boyle, declined to run for another four-year term. “Mayor Boyle worked hard and did the best job possible,” Boice said. *}. {eel thal since I'm in the borough building every day, I'll be more available to work with the police.” co] Boice said that the mayor's main job is supervising the police department, which he wants to do more hands-on work with. He believes thal serving as mayor will not be a conflict of interest with his present position of execulive director of the Harveys Lake Municipal Authority, where he has worked for the past seven years. “These two offices are separate governmental entities,” he said. Boice currently earns $19,900 per year with the municipal authority and $600 per year as a councilman. The mayor's salary is also $600, Boice said. 1993. Dallas teacher salary negotiations re-open | It's salary negotiation time again for the Dallas teachers. : In a contract approved March 11, 1992, the district's 142 | teachers accepted a five percent average pay raise for each of the | first two years of a three-year contract. The third year's salaries, for the 1993-94 school year, were left open to be negotiated in early Dallas Education Association president William Wagner confirmed that negotiations had just started, but he would not offer any comment until they progressed further. The contract was retroactive to September, 1991, when the teachers had returned to school and worked under the old contract until a new one could be approved. Under the present contract, the average teacher's salary for the 1992-93 school year is $42,607, up from $40,578 for 1991-92. by Grace R. Dove Meningitis case is small risk to spread Lake-Lehman student came down with disease last week By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff According to epidemiologist Bernard Healey of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, a case of bacterial meningitis has been confirmed in Lake-Lehman School District. Bacterial meningitis is an infection and swelling of the central nervous system which attacks the membranes and fluid around the brain and spinal cord, according to the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. : Healey said that symptoms of bacterial meningitis include very sudden high fever, intense headache, nausea, vomiting, a stiff neck and occasionally a rash on the body. Healey and other health experts said the risk of the disease spreading was small. Once a person has been exposed, the disease will develop within four days, Healey said. “Only other members of the patient's household and anyone who has had extremely close contact for a long time with the patient are at risk,” said Dr. Robert Brown, infectious disease specialist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Sitting next toan infected person in a classroom or on a school bus doesn't usually place people at risk of contracting the disease, Brown said. Many people have been exposed to bacterial meningitis germs, but don't know it, and have, become immune to it, Brown said.’ People who believe that they may have been exposed should contact. their family physician immediately, Brown said. i The strain of bacterial meningitis which Brown believes to be involved, which was diagnosed through laboratory analysis of fluids from a spinal tap, is treated with heavy intravenous doses of penicillin for at least two weeks, followed by oral antibiotics. Lake-Lehman superintendent Mrs. Nancy Davis said that the student's family doctor told her late Friday night, January 22, that the student, who was Life-Flighted to the University of Pennyslvania Hospital in Philadelphia, had been definitely diagnosed with the illness that day. “The doctor told me that anyone who had had any close contact with the child had been notified and advised to seek treatment,” Mrs. Davis said. “We'll continue to monitor the situation very closely.” According to the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, bacterial meningitis often results from another infection, in the ears, sinuses or even an abcessed tooth. Left untreated, bacterial meningitis can cause permanent neurological damage, such as deafness, blindness or mental retardation. It can be fatal in extreme cases. Award-winning house Ruth Burak is shown in the kitchen of the renovated farmhouse in Kingston Township that won the Home beautification award presented by the Back Mountain Citizens' Council. Story, more photos on page 14. (Post photo/Charlotte Bartizek)
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