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Vol. 106 No. 25
Dallas, Pennsylvania
Bug solution 7 Do nothing
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
BACK MOUNTAIN - Kids sing
songs about inchworms and cat-
erpillars, but the bugs aren't cute
when hundreds of them are para-
chuting down in big clumps onto
your roof, yard and clothes day in
and day out.
The little pests have nearly
stripped trees of their foliage in
parts of the area, dropping from
trees to splatter onto windshields
as they drive by.
Nothing short of powerful
commercial sprays seems to im-
press them - hitting them with a
broom, blasting them with a hose,
Raid, Yard Guard, diluted chlo-
rine bleach or even a dose of soapy
water.
Five different types of leaf-eat-
ers have set up housekeeping in
the area: the elm spanworm, the
fall cankerworm, the Eastern tent
and forest tent caterpillars, and
the all too familiar gypsy moth.
“It's unreal,” said Harveys Lake
resident Michele DeLeur. “They're
crawling all over the sides of the
house and the deck. For the past
three weeks we haven't been able
to sit outside at all. Last week I
couldn't even open my back door
because the back of the house
was covered with caterpillars.”
She said she was outside at
least five times a day trying to
sweep the little pests away, but
within 20 minutes they returned.
She has tried flea spray, Raid,
Yard Guard, even soapy water,
which worked for only a short
time.
“We killed some, but within an
hour the others would come back
See BUGS, pg 10
POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE
LIKE FISH ON A STRINGER -
Dallas Township resident
resident Tom Honeywell holds
several caterpillars on their
- weblike strings, which he pulled
from a tree in his yard. The
caterpillars have stripped trees
of their foliage in many areas of
the Back Mountain.
Runnin’ for
the Gators
L The first Gator Run to benefit
Gate of Heaven School was
held Saturday. The 5-mile race
. started and finished at the
school. Sixty-seven runners
started the race, and all but six
leaves from the starting line. At
right, Ed Onzik looked pretty
loose already as he stretched
before the start. At left, he gets
+ his reward - a kiss from wife
Mary Anne - after being the first
Gate of Heaven parent to cross
the finish line.
finished. Above, a crowded field |
PHOTOS BY CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK
Ed Dubill's truck is one-of-a-kind
By JACK HILSHER
Post Correspondent
FOR SALE, 1929 ANTIQUE
TRUCK, FULLY RESTORED,
ONE-OF-A-KIND.
Interested? If so, get your check-
book out. Owner Edward G. Dubil,
Sr., of Harveys Lake wants to settle
up for his children’s college educa-
tions and may be agreeable to some
modest haggling.
Be warned however. Dubil has
had his vehicle professionally
appraised at a quarter million
dollars! That's $250 followed by
three more zeros. And he has
turned down several interesting
offers. One was at $100,000 (Dubil
paid $950 for it!) and the other,
last year at a show in Hershey, was
a swap offer...the truck for a condo
in Florida. A Chrysler rep hasbeen
nosing around but nothing solid
has come up yet.
“It's coming for sure,” says Ed.
The machine-turned dash has
the art deco look of the era.
for the capital gains crunch. I've
saved every scrap of paper show-
ing all I've spent over the years on
restoration. You could say I'm
ready!”
Dubil, 46, is greying prematurely
and has one of those evenly pleas-
ant dispositions. He has two grown
children, Ed Jr., 25, in law en-
forcement for the SPCA and Lau-
“And don't think I am not prepared _ rie, 23. who works for a child foster
care organization.
Ed was in the army for three
years in security, worked in qual-
ity control at a nuclear facility,
then spent three years as an army
buyer at Tobyhanna until he was
laid off.
He now “details” cars at Came-
lot Car Care on the Dallas Memo-
rial Highway, a subject he has
been an expert on most of his life.
(Camelot will wash and wax your
car for $34.95, but would rather
you invest in one of their ‘detail’
jobs. There are three, a Regular, a
Super, and an Ultimate, where a
car becomes so shiny inside and
out you can see its past life in the
reflections!)
Ed's truck is a Chrysler “77”
meaning it will cruise at 77 miles
per hour. For the technically
minded, it has a 268 cubic-inch
engine which develops 93 horse-
power at 3200 rpm. (There are
guys who will understand this.)
The truck's “one-of-a-kind”
status comes from a Chrysler
practice of customizing something
once off the assembly line - in this
case a two-passenger coupe had
its trunk removed and a shortbed
installed behind the cab. It was
built for German brewmaster
Edward Drier in 1929. Shipped to
Germany first, the vehicle was sent
to the Drier villa in Bologna, Italy.
It was used there until 1936
when it was shipped to Ethiopia to
beat the forthcoming war. When
Mussolini invaded, Drier hid the
truck on a cotton plantation, where
it sat from 1940 to 1968. An army
sergeant found it and paid Drier’s
sister $350; at that time it had only
24,000 miles on the odometer.
Dubil explains, “My sergeant
friend couldn't afford to bring it
home. He tried to sell it for $1,450.
I offered him $950 and he took it.
Getting it back took months, and I
See TRUCK, pg 8
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP- Their
community is predominanantly
rural and township officials want
to keep it that way.
The zoning board will meet June
22 at the Orange United Method-
ist Church for further work on the
proposed amendments to the
zoning ordinance, which is being
updated to make it conform to
county and state regulations.
“Our township was formed and
built by people in agriculture,”
said board chairman Ed Dorrance.
“We're not opposed to progress,
but we want to make sure our
residents have clean air and wa-
ter.”
The zoning board and supervi-
sors also want to keep taxes low
while still providing the same level
of essential services, he added.
“We don't have any traffic lights
— we don't need them,” Dorrance
continued. “Our township has
about 1,500 residents and only a
$200,000 annual budget.”
The proposed amendments will
combine several zoning areas and
will change regulations for oth-
ers, including the mining, indus-
trial and general commercial
zones.
Minimum lot sizes will be
changed to three acres in the
agricultural zone, two acres in the
suburban zone, one acre in the
residential zone and four acres in
S Post
June 21 thru June 27, 1995
Zoners aim to |
save town's
rural charms
“We’re not opposed
to progress, but we
want to make sure
our residents have
clean air and water.”
Ed Dorrance
Zoning board chairman
the conservation zone, Dorrance
said.
The conservation zone includes
the areas around Perrin’s Marsh
and Cummings Pond.
“We want to preserve the vege-
tation, wildlife and water re-
‘sources, especially in these ar-
eas,” he said.
The zoning board wants to
control development and avoid
water and septic problems which
have occurred in neighboring
municipalities, Dorrance said.
“We don't want another Crown
Hill,” he said, referring to a devel-
opment established before. the
township had zoning ordinances,
where lots are too small to acco-
modate wells.and on-site septic
systems and roads have caused
residents numerous problems.
Because of its rolling landscape,
the township isn’t suited for grav-
ity sewer systems, Dorrance said.
Setting up a public sewer system
with pumps would cost the tax-
payers too much, he added.
Sewage outflow fixed,
supervisor believes
By GRACE R. DOVE
Post Staff
LEHMAN - The supervisors
have received a notice from the
Department of Environmental
Resources (DER) telling them how
to deal with a two-year-old prob-
lem which they have already in-
vestigated.
According to supervisor Doug
Ide, neighbors have been com-
plaining since 1993 that the
Outpost Inn at Lake Silkworth
was pumping raw sewage onto
the highway during the night.
“I've gone up there numerous
times, taken samples and sent
the sewage enforcement officer
up to investigate,” Ide said at the
June 19 meeting of the supervi-
sors. “The owners told me they
have installed a complete new
system. I'm 90 percent convinced
— not totally convinced — that there
isn't a problem up there.”
Im 90 percent
convinced not
totally convinced —
_ that there isnta
problem up there.”
: : Doug ide
Letina Twp. supervisor
The first page of the letter from
DER was dated April 6, while its
second page was dated June 6,
treasurer Alvin Cragle noted.
“It took them two months to
type the letter,” Ide joked.
Also at the meeting, surveyor
Frank Grabowski, representing
Dan Cornell, presented a plan for
a six-acre parcel of land on Route
118 near Trojan Road which
Cornell has requested a zoning
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Calendar..................... 18
Classified............... 16-17
Crossword.................. 18
EdHONAIS.......cvccrvcies es 4
Obituaries................... 16
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