io ow SI=EAVAN CHI Rg | =HO1@]\ [VISTI REI=ISH@] oil Bo | =88 BVAV EM WARSI. AW WAY (=5 HM = | \V AV ES{ed [0/0 I BI ICH BE 21 [03 ESS -Vol. 105 No. 30 Dallas, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 27, 1994 Chase prison will hook up to water line #®By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Six years after asking the Pennsylva- nia Department of Corrections to rely on a water pipeline instead of wells at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCID), the SCID Concerned Citizens can chalk up a victory. Corrections commissioner Joseph D. - Lehman wrote to state senator Charles . Lemmond July 20 that he had de- nh to allow SCID to use the pipeline full-time and use the facility's three wells only in case of an emergency. The $663,000 pipeline to the Ceasetown Reservoir had been built two years ago, but prison officials had re- fused to use it, even after a $43,000 hydrogeological study had indicated that the prison’s continuing reliance on its wells could affect between three and 10 nearby wells. The prison pumps between 300,000 and 400,000 gallons of water each day from its wells, the survey said. “Make no mistake about my decision to use the PG&W pipeline,” Lehman wrote. “I have not been convinced that Dallas has ever posed any threat to the area's watershed. However, there are times when the Commonwealth must demonstrate it has been and will con- tinue to be a good neighbor to area communities. This is one such occa- sion.” Corrections department press secre- tary Ben Livinggood refused to elabo- rate on Lehman's reasons for making his decision. “The letter speaks for itself,” he said. Lehman's letter didn’t give a definite date when the prison will change water sources. He said that using the water line will cost approximately $100,000 a change water sources and adapt the existing wells to a standby status, Liv- inggood said. “I'm elated,” said Pat Rusiloski of SCID Concerned Citizens, a group which had worked with area legislators for six years to get the water line installed and in use. “I didn’t expect it. Our organiza- tion is very happy with Commissioner Lehman's decision.” Jackson Township supervisor Wal- ter Glogowski said that he is pleased that the prison is following a good neigh- water line is what we had wanted them to do.” “I'm delighted with the decision,” said representative George Hasay, who worked with representatives Stanley jarolin and Phyllis Mundy and senator Charles Lemmond to unite to help SCID Concerned Citizens. “This will help resolve the water problem - it's only common sense. The legislative team’s hard work hasn't been done in vain.” Lemmond said that he is “absolutely delighted.” 3A Bo eR TIE Sr Gra PENI a ae Be EB I UC MR ' year. Engineers are expected to go to SCID this week and begin making plans to bor policy. “Commissioner Lehman made a re- “We're pleased with the commis- sioner’s decision,” he said. “Using the '] Post Correspondent & Last week five members of x and no fanfare. > we feel like it we may put g) cupying a reserved spot at B-24 Vets reunite By JACK HILSHER Fifty years ago Tech. Sgt. Lamar Sharpe of Old Carver- ton Road in Trucksville was looking at black puffs appear- ing like magic outside his B- 24 bomber. But there was nothing magical about the pieces of metal those black “flak” bursts could send through a plane's fuselage. his World War II B-24 bomber crew of nine gathered in the Back Mountain for their first reunion in 50 years, to recall those flak bursts and other close calls, and talk, and then talk some more. “This reunion,” said Sharpe, who acted as coordinator, “will be low key. No dancing girls coming out of a cake, no fuss Five out of nine attending (we couldn't locate the other four) isn't a bad turnout. It took a lot of time and a lot of phone calls, but we're just going to remi- nisce, and we have a lot of that to do.” Barney Reagan, the plane's nose gunner, alsowarned, “No program, no champagne. If “'something on the charcoal, but that's it!” They both sounded serious, so there is no reason to believe the reunion didn’t go exactly as planned. And since the press was “excluded” we'll just have to assume so. From Corning, NY, Reagan was to show up in a 30-foot Winnebago and planned to sleep whoever wanted to, oc- Frances Slocum'’s trailer park, See B-24, pg 16 JAUNTY CREW - Lamar Sharpe and his crew buddies posed by their plane in this photo. Sharpe is kneeling at the far rignt. Others who made the trip to the Back Mountain for a reunion last weekend were, John Byrne, navigator, standing far left; Capt. C.D. Adams, pilot, “Several crew members lay down and kicked the bombs free. These were kids, reckless kids at that. But they made the best gunners because they didn’t give a ‘hoot’ for anything.” Lamar Sharpe WWII bomber crew member standing third from left; Barney Reagan, nose gunner, kneeling second from left; and Claude Smith, radio operator, kneeling third from left. Crew members of the World War Il B-24 bomber met at Sharpe's Trucksville home last weekend. Post Staff 1992. Post Staff layout. \#8y GRACE R. DOVE Red Cross gears up for blood drive Post Staff Chicken about giving blood? There's no need to be, say Back Mountain residents Nancy Gruver and Sy Chadwick, who have do- nated 22 gallons of blood between them. Nancy just received a plaque from Chadwick, a volunteer for the Back Mountain Blood Coun- il, for donating five gallons - 20 pints. She has never missed a blood drive. “] got into it after Don Weidner, the health director where I work at Offset Paperback, asked me if I'd try it,” she said. “I kidded him that I would, but maybe they wouldn't take it.” The cheerful Ross Township esident, a 14-year employee at ffset, said that giving blood doesn't hurt. ' “I'd recommend it to anyone,” she smiled. “It's easy. And they yi a POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE GIVING PART OF HERSELF —- Ross Twp. resident Nancy Gruver recently received a plaque recognizing her as a five-gallon blood donor from Red Cross volunteer Sy Chadwick. give you goodies afterwards.” Nancy also helps out in her community in another way, bring- ing puppies from the SPCA to Wyoming Valley Health Care Nursing Home several times a Red Cross Blood Drive Tues., August 2 - 1-6 p.m. Fellowship Free Evangelical Church Hildebrant Road, Dallas month. Occasionally accompanied by her husband, Bob, and daughter, Linda Gruver Kovalick, she's never missed a visit there either. Chadwick has donated 17 gal- lons — 136 pints — of blood and is a member of the Back Mountain Blood Council, an organization of area churches which organizes open community blood drives every eight weeks. See BLOOD, pg 16 See PRISON, pg 3 Water co. asks for rate hike By GRACE R. DOVE If the Public Utility Commission approves a rate increase request by General Waterworks, Back Mountain water rates will take another turn on the roller coaster which they have been riding since This time it’s up, not down. The proposed rate increase would add $1.73 to the $88.23 quarterly bill of the typical customer using 15,000 gallons of water in the Dallas division and $18.37 to the $66.59 quarterly bill of the average customer using 15,000 gallons of water in the Noxen division. According to general manager Mike Coyle, the increase was needed to finance capital improve- ments in the system. See WATER RATES, pg3 Orloski gets variances, plans to build By GRACE R. DOVE Describing his plans for the sites of the former Dallas Exxon and Tokyo Restaurant as “a unique - approach,” Edward Orloski obtained approval from Dallas Borough for a 7,440 square-foot combina- tion convenience store, drive-through gas station, full-service bank and car wash, which will create between 20 and 30 jobs for the Back Mountain. The planned Orloski's convenience store will sell Citgo gasoline and house the Astro full-service car wash and the Commonwealth Bank, with both walk-in and drive-through service. The borough's Zoning Hearing Board had met June 30 and July 7 to study Orloski's building plans and consider his variance requests and had walked the site to familiarize themselves with its See ORLOSKI, pg 2 HM Titletown, USA Four Back Mountain teams wear district champion crowns. Page 11. Hl It's official Nancy Davis is out as Lake-Lehman superintendent, and former super John Zaleskas is in, temporarily. 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