09 PN ® oD ® 0 3 D ‘Details on page 12 Vol. 105 No. 47 Dallas, Pennsylvania Nov. 23 thru Nov. 29, 1994 Bus driver arrested on child sex charges By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff .'A man who drives a school bus in the Dallas School District has been ar- rested on four charges each of invol- untary deviate sexual intercourse, in- "decent assault, corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of chil- dren. According to Kingston Township police, Franklin Township resident Dean Lee Werts, 30, was arrested at his home November 17, shortly after 7 p.m., and charged before District Magistrate James Tupper. Werts drives a school bus for Eman- uel Bus Lines, transportation con- tractor for the Dallas School District. According to a three-month investi- gation by Kingston Township police, detective Debbie Van Horn of the Luzerne County District Attorney's office and Luzerne County Children and Youth, Werts had performed sex- ual acts on two Wyoming Valley boys whom he had taken camping at Frances Slocum State Park every week- end this past summer. He had also forced the two 12-year- old boys to perform sexual acts on him and told them not to tell anyone about it, police said. Werts has no prior convictions of this nature, police said. He had been a driver in the district for about a year. “His latest Act 34 is okay," said bus lines owner Leon Emanuel, referring to a background check and arrest record required by the state for every- one who works with children. “He was a good employee — we can't believe it,” Emanuel said. “Kids watch a lot of TV today. You have to be careful of things like this.” The incident had happened in an- other school district before Werts came to work for Lim, Emanuel said. Second graders celebrate, holiday By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Dallas Elementary School's second-graders killed two birds with one stone, celebrating Thanks- giving and National Educa- tion Week with their annual program, complete with ~ skits, music and dancing Pilgrims November 18. Directed by Mrs. Klick, Mrs. Lyons, Mrs. Yurko, Mrs. Zezza, Mr, Hoover and Mrs. Ford, students sporting Pilgrim hats took turns reciting poems about hidden turkey nests and Pilgrim children, ending with a special Thanksgiving prayer. Other students presented the play “Jack Frost and the Scarecrow” and sang “Over See HOLIDAY, pg 2 Dallas school superintendent Ger- ald Wycallis had little comment, say- ing that Werts was employed by the bus company and not the school dis- trict. Werts was also charged with inde- cent assault and corruption of minors in a separate incident, police said. Werts is lodged in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in de- fault of bail and will have a prelimi- nary hearing before Tupper Nov. 23. LITTLE PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS - Andy Josuweit and Jana Stec played the part of Pilgrims in the Thanksgiving play performed by Dallas Elementary second graders last week. POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE « o Anzalones in good company with record pact 9 Q @ 0 By JACK HILSHER Post Correspondent Once upon a time there were two brothers. Their names were Anthony and James. When they were 10 and 12 their parents sent them to the Hilda Mann Hertz Studio in Wilkes-Barre, where their vaudeville-type singing act caught the attention of a talent scout from a hotel in the Cat- skills. They were hired to perform at $250 per week. That was in 1958 dollars...big bucks for two kids! This is not a fairy tale. The brothers’last name was Anzalone, and you would think at that sal- ary they would have stayed in show business. They didn't. One became a doctor and the other became a lawyer. But they missed singing and so, in 1987, listening to their idols The King- ston Trio, they looked at each other in agreement and said, “We've got to get back into this.” And that was not the end of the stoty, only the beginning of the “Anzalone Brothers and Com- pany.” On the way to stardom? Why not? Sigma Record Com- pany must think so, for their Rage- N-Records division has just signed the brothers to a nationwide re- cording contract. These people handle Patti La Belle and Bill Cosby, among many others, and have the marketing know-how and clout to move products off the shelves. Marketing vice president Vince Kershner says, “We expect to do great things with the Brothers...already we've seen good action in the west and around Harrisburg. Watch our tracking!” The doctor half of this talented team, Anthony Anzalone, began practice 20 years ago at his main office on Huntsville Road. He also has an office in Sweet Valley, where his receptionist and R.N. Carol Ann Sitler, answers the question, “Would your boss ever go into the music business full time?” by saying, “Heavens, no! His first love is medicine, music is just a hobby, but it's good for him. I can THE FIRST GIG - Jim, left, and Anthony Anzalone played the Catskills in 1958, their first venture into big-time show business. always tell when they had a good concert....he comes in the next day with a glow on that lasts for days!” Dr. Anzalone says the group's growth was natural and neces- sary. He says, “As a team we used a baritone ukelele and a 4-string Martin, which is an octave higher, but we needed more ‘body’ to our sound. So we hooked up with Reverend Don Lyon, pastor of St. Stephen's Episcopal.” Lyon, a five-year member of the group, plays lead acoustic guitar and says, “This is a fun thing to do. I never miss a gig...you enjoy playing and you also enjoy watch- ing the crowds react as they enjoy it too.” Carl Kohl, a program manager for Luzerne County's CEO office, has played banjo with the broth- ers for two years, and says sim- ply, “Ilove it. Great stuff. We play pop numbers like, ‘Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley,’ * This Land is My Land,” ‘M.T.A.’ and ‘Worried Man.’ Their stand-up bass player is Perry Orfanella, a Wyoming Semi- nary and Wilkes music teacher, who also has the “house quartet” at the River Street Jazz Club. We even do some Calypso!” Perry says. The local group is with the same company as Patti La Belle and Bill Cosby Besides Kingston Trio and Everly Brothers-type material, the group features special numbers written by their own songwriter Dr. Butch Bianconi, who heads up the guidance office at Tamaqua Area High School. (The doctor prefers the “Butch” title for either of two valid reasons...someone said to him in his nursery crib, “Oh, you're going to be a Butchie!” and the other reason is the fact that his real name is Adrian.) Dr. Anzalone is married to the former Barbara Woronko, an ex- Rockette and Miss Pennsylvania, who manages a dance studio in Kingston. They have a 12-year- old son, Tony, who in addition to being in all sports, also practices classical piano without being told to. (He likes it!) Wife Barbara is tickled pink about her husband's record con- tract. She .'calls: it - a “Godsend...they try so hard to raise money for needy causes and this means they can move up from the penny-ante stuff.” Any concert profits are turned back into charities. Brother Jim Anzalone in Lehman and his wife Jessie have four daughters, Kristen, 21, a senior at RIU; Lauren, 19 at Lafay- ette; Carolyn, 17 at Sem; and Olivia, 13 at Lake-Lehman. Jessie says, “There isn't a guitar player among them. Just hockey play- ers!” See ANZALONE, pg 10 Last winter didn't By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff There's deer in them thar woods. More ‘n a milliion of ‘em. Hunters across the state have started sighting in their guns in preparation for the opening of buck season at sunrise November 28. The Northeast's worst winter on record has made very little difference in the number of legal deer available for harvest this year, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission's latest infor- mation. “Locally we found very few winter-killed deer,” said Game Commission information educa- tion supervisor Jack Weaver. “We See DEER, pg 10 cut deer numbers woods, despite last year's harsh winter. Special 2-mill tax will fund Lehman road equipment By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff While Lehman Township's proposed 1995 budget holds prop- erty taxes at 14 mills, a special 2- mill levy is expected to generate $13,000 for the purchase of road machinery. The supervisors adopted a $526,624 preliminary budget at their regular November 21 meet- ing. eal estate tax revenues are expected to increase by $3,000 or 3.4 percent to $89,000, while the earned income tax is expected to generate $165,000-an additional $5,000 or three percent over last year. The township expects a 10 percent increase to $11,000 in the real estate transfer tax and a 12 percent increase to $9,000 in sewage and building permits. A two-mill tax levied in addi- tion to the 14-mill property tax and used solely for the purchase of road machinery, is expected to generate $13,000 next year. Salaries for the tax collector and secretary-treasurer will in- crease nine percent, with the tax collector earning $6,000 and the secretary-treasurer earning $12,000. See LEHMAN, pg 13 the front of the building. Office closed Thursday, Friday The office of The Dallas Post will be closed Thursday and Fri- day November 24 and 25 for the Thanksgiving holiday. 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