A The Back Mountain's =2\ vy a 20 ¢ > h £50, ATs CE AAAS Newspaper Since 1889 ve YR wv % LER BAA > 4. > 4 3% $ "The Dallas Post . Vol. 104 No. 39 Dallas, PA SISISAVIIN [CRN | =Hele\V|\V [8] NR RI SSRe Tam Nw | SH BVM WARCRY WAN (=H N= 5 | LN ES{e] o [ee] Bn] Sf J 21 [0 KS ol Wednesday, September 29, 1993 RA a Oak Hill neighbors protest auto body work By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Neighbors say that Kurt Sch- neider is operating an auto body repair business in the garage of his home in Lehman Township's Oak Hill section. Schneider says that it's just a hobby and that his neighbors are harassing him. Matters came to a head at the September 20 Lehman Township supervisors’ meeting, when John Keefer, Schneider's next-door neighbor on Birch Drive, and Tom Yoniski, who lives two houses away from Schneider on Hilltop Drive, complained about Schnei- der, who lives on the corner of Birch and Hilltop Drives in Oak Medic 1 unit in accident By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Police won't file charges in connection with an accident be- tween Nesbitt Hospital's Medic-1 unit and a car on Route 118 Fri- day morning, September 24, which has left an area woman pregnant with twins in the hospi- tal. Acccording to Lehman. Town- ship police, the Medic-1 unit, a 1991 Chevrolet Suburban oper- ated by Carl K. Carey, Jr., 48, of Harveys Lake, had been traveling east on Route 118 and was at- tempting to turn into the drive- way of the Back Mountain Medi- cal Center when it collided with a 1992 Subaru Legacy station wagon operated by Tammy Renee Payne, 25, of RR 2 Dallas, which had been traveling west on the highway. Personnel from the Lehman Rescue Unit had to cut Ms. Payne, who is pregnant with twins, from her car, police said. She was trans- ported by the Lehman ambulance to the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, where she was treated in the emergency room and admitted. She is listed in fair condition, according to a hospital spokes- person. ; Carey and a passenger, Mark Henn, 33, of Tunkhannock, were transported by the Dallas ambu- lance to the Nesbitt Memorial See MEDIC 1, pg 2 Hill. “He does body work and paints cars in his garage six days a week, eight to 12 hours a day. I can hear his air compressor and air-oper- ated tools running continuously,” Keefer said. “It's so loud that I can't sit outside and enjoy my yard on nice days.” Schneider stores a rollback tow truck and other vehicles under the carport of a vacant home owned by William Smith between his and Yoniski's homes, Keefer continued. “Wrecked cars come in on the rollback, get some work done, then disappear,” he said. “He's using his place as a stag- ing area for his cars,” Yoniski said. “For the last two months, he's kept three vehicles without license plates, an old yard tractor and the tow truck under Smith's carport.” Keefer said that Schneider is also operating a vending business from his home. On his days off during the summer, he said that he saw four full-size tractor-trail- ers back into Schneider's drive- way to make deliveries. Keefer said that Schneider has been doing this work at his home for about the past 10 years. “I tried to talk with him once about it,” he said. “He told me that he works on the cars for his wife to drive. His attitude was that it's his yard and he'll do whatever he wants to with it.” “I won't say that there aren't cars here,” Schneider said. “Some people in our neighborhood have more cars in their yard than I do. I have never worked on cars be- longing to anyone in this area.” He continued that he has no sign in his yard and doesn’t do any work on cars for other indi- viduals. “My wife has a car that was hit in the rear end. I'm going to fix that,” he said. He added that the rollback tow truck belongs to his wife. Schneider said that one of his neighbors has been harassing him ever since they moved into the neighborhood. He attributes the situation to dogs. Whenever his half Labra- dor-half retriever gets loose the Contact sport POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Dallas shut out a previously unbeaten Coughlin 38-0 Saturday, in a game filled with hard hitting. Wingback Jared Cooney needed care for a cut he suffered on one play. The whole story, and this week's predictions, on page 11. The Dallas Post. arship fund. You could win it all at Monopoly tourney If you've ever wanted to be a millionaire, here's your chance. You could be one of two lucky readers to compete in the first annual Wyoming Valley Monopoly Tournament, compliments of The tournament is officially sanctioned by Parker Brothers, Inc., which has produced the game since 1935, and is one of many similar events held throughout the nation. The winner of the local tournament will have a chance to move to state competition, and may go on to play in the U.S. Monopoly Game Championship. 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Address City/Town Phone No. State .— Zip Must be 10 years of age or older to win. fr a tt er oe ae Lake council silent on cop's suspension By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff The Harveys Lake Borough Council voted at its regular meet- ing September 21, to reinstate Patrolman Mark Karlonis after a two-week suspension and pay him for one week of the time that he didn’t work. Mayor Joseph Boyle refused to comment on Karlonis's suspen- sion, saying that personnel mat- ters are always kept confidential. When asked by a reporter if Karlonis's job was in jeopardy, Boyle said, “No.” Annabelle Ave. resident James Drury, Sr., asked council to either confirm or deny reports that it is considering hiring a borough manager. President Joseph Miscavage answered, “We've mentioned it." No definite decision had been made on the matter, Miscavage continued. Councilman David Abod an- nounced in a written report that the borough has received a $5,000 county grant to install four dry fire hydrants. In other business, the council voted to: ¢ Authorize borough secretary Carole Samson to update the borough's code books for the past three years, a routine process involving entering all new ordi- nances into the borough code. e Authorize the Municipal Au- thority to enforce the sewer hookup ordinance. Council members explained that this will See SUSPENSION, pg 14 tions also will rise accordingly. dealers. Newsstand, subscription prices to rise The price of The Dallas Post at stores and by subscription will rise effective with the October 6 issue. Single copies purchased at stores will cost 50¢, while local subscriptions will rise to $18 per year from $16. Two-year subscriptions will cost $32. Out-of-area subscrip- This is the first increase in price since 1989. It is necessary be- cause the costs of news gathering, production and distribution have risen, and because advertising sales have not grown sufficiently to offset them. We hope to use some of the revenue to further improve news coverage. Part of the store price increase will be shared with neighbors complain. But they “turn their dog loose” and it goes into his yard todo its business, he says. They have nothing better to do than stick their noses in other people's business,” he said. Schneider refused to answer whether or not he was operating a vending business from his home. “Other people here have home businesses,” he said. “Lots of trucks come through here.” A reporter visiting the neigh- borhood September 24 and Sep- tember 26 noted that Schneider's home is located at the end of Hilltop Drive where it meets Birch Drive. The driveway is screened {rom the roadway by a line of hedges, Lifetime in jail making it visible only from the road directly in front of Schnei- der’s house. The garage where Keefer and Yoniski say that he does his body work and paint jobs is directly underneath the home. The back half of a red GTO with. part of adrive train inside blocked the entrance to the two-car ga--. rage. Both sides of the driveway were lined with large auto parts, including two set of rear ends, a . bumper for a medium-size blue ° car, a radiator and a chrome- . colored Dodge grille. A Dodge van and a white Nis- : san pickup truck hitched toa red two-wheeled car dolly were parked ° See OAK HILL, pg 16. for Schwartz By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Minutes after being sentenced to life in prison, convicted mur- derer Stephen G. Schwartz quoted the New Testament to the press while blinking back tears. The Dallas Township resident was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday by Luzerne County Judge Hugh Mundy for the the January 17, 1992 murder of his former girlfriend, Deborah Vanleuven, 27, of Lake Ariel in the presence of their two-year-old daughter, Stephanie. Mundy also sentenced Schwartz to 18 to 36 months on related charges: three counts each of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property, for the theft of VanLeuven's.car and credit See SCHWARTZ, pg 13 STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Road ownership at center of dispute By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff While the Franklin Township supervisors and the Luzerne County Road and Bridge Depart- ment wrangle over who actually is responsible for Crown Hill Vil- lage’s three roads, the residents face an obstacle course every time they leave home. They also face a legal obstacle course because no one knows who legally owns Farm View, Crown and Hill Drives and is responsible for their upkeep- Luzerne County, Franklin Township or someone else. The three roads are in official limbo until someone figures it out. When Walter Baseski moved into Crown Hill 20 years ago, the development's three roads were dirt tracks a scant 1-1/2 lanes wide. ot They've only gotten worse over. two decades. “You can’t walk on my road,” he said. “You have todrive very slowly.” In front of my place there are lots of deep gullies. There are some really nice homes here, but the roads are pitiful. Noone has taken care of them.” . One of Crown Hill's first fami- lies, Frank Zuba maintains 300 feet of Farm View Drive at his own expense so that he can get in and out. : “I have it good, but you should see the difference where I leave off,” he said. “It's really bad near See ROAD, pg 16 HM Fall Bridal Showcase appears on pages 7-9. BW Jack and Lou Penn State, page 3. 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