Win $1,000 000 Details on page 10 50¢ vg i "Dallas, PA September 20 thru 26, 1995 | Area ops or aor celebration Avoca because l don’t havearadio. The fun flying days of just jump- Vol. 106 No. 38 By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff * kids, say parents By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff DALLAS - Two families on an unimproved dirt road feel as if they're spinning their wheels in their efforts to get the school dis- trict to change their children’s bus route. Karen Arnaud and Sandy Wal- ton, whose young children ride the Dallas school buses, have asked the district to either send the school bus closer to their homes or send a mini-van down the narrow road to pick the stu- dents up. The district says itdoesn't want to send a bus on a dirt road. The borough can’t afford to pave the road so the buses can get through. Presently the school bus only goes as far as the end of Machell Ave. near Winterview Stable, where it backs onto Reservoir Road, turns around, picks up the children and leaves. “This is a weird situation,” Arnaud said. “It isn't safe for the See DIRT ROAD, pg 8 PHOTO COURTESY OF HENRY WARD Henry “Hank” Ward of Dallas Township built this flashy stubby- winged red and white Pitt Special biplane. Dirt road unsafe for Hmtatare” dor ¢ space fight, i : one of which 3 wis used to train oo ~~: Students from Wyoming Seminary had a chance to meet Apollo 13 captain James Lovell before . his talk at last week's Celebrity Luncheon in Wilkes-Barre. Seated, from left, Andrew Volpetti, see LOVELL § bg 7 DALLAS TOWNSHIP - Two Back Mountain aviators will be on hand September 24 to help cele- brate the 66th anniversary of the valley's first air passenger serv- ice, between Wyoming Valley Air- port at Forty Fort and the major air travel hub of Newark, NJ. Pilots Dr. Marshall Rumbaugh, who owns a Cessna 210, and Henry “Hank” Ward, who has built a Pitt Special, both learned to fly The real Apollo 13 ; nry bt Special pilot at the area's first airport in Forty Fort while in their teens. Ward learned to fly with the late Danny Yatsko, owner of Danny's Air Service. Radios were- n't required on planes then. After reminiscing about seat- of-the-pants flying, relying solely on landmarks, a compass and altimeter, Ward said flying has become “more serious” today. “They're more safety con- scious,” he said. “You have to file flight plans and follow lots of regu- lations. I'm restricted from using the larger commercial airports like ing into your Piper Cub and tak- ing off are long gone.” Ward's flashy red and white stubby-winged Pitt biplane took four years and about 3,000 hours to build. He has flown it to air- shows all over the country and won numerous awards with it. Now he's working on a second experimental craft in his base- ment. See PILOTS, pg 10 2 Gasoline | cleanup showing progress By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff LEHMAN - The news from a federally-funded cleanup of a © gasoline spillis good. It's working, and the levels of contaminants oo found in 20 wells around Lehman Corners have gone down since the cleanup began last October. According to federal Environ- mental Protection Agency site = coordinators Richard Fetzer and Jerry Heston, the cleanup, in which the contaminants are being : removed from ground water in a fo wetland behind the Lehman POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Dallas; Capt. Lovell; Chad Flack, Shavertown. Standing, Dan Davis, Lehman; Dan Volpetti, = 4 Dallas: Paul Santarelli, Dallas, Andrew Feinstein, Shavertown. oh to decile wo planners’ fate By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP - The supervisors will meet September 26 at 7 p.m. in the fire hall to discuss their request for the res- ignations of planning commission members Frank Hilstolsky and chairman Ed Dorrance. The plan- ning commission meeting for that date has been cancelled. At least 50 people attended the last public meeting September 13 on proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance, described by supervisor Robert Redmond as designed “to protect the taxpay- ers of the township.” “In the past we have run into problems with increasingly larger housing developments and sew- age disposal,” he added. “We're trying to stiffen up the require- ments.” The most significant changes were to combine the two agricul- tural areas, which comprise about 70 percent of the township, create two residential-mobile home park areas and replace the suburban zone with R-1 (single family) and R-2 (two-family) residential areas, according to Jack Varaly, who helped write the amendments. K.C. Covert is advisor By JACK HILSHER Post Correspondent When 14-year-old Kevin Cov- ert asked his Mom to “mail some- thing” she did and thought no more about it. So when that “something” turned out to be a letter of application to a national magazine, and was accepted, Mom got something of a surprise. She said, “I didn’t even get to read his letter!” “K.C." as young Kevin Covert Jr. is known to friends - has just been selected for the 1995 Junior Member Advisory Board of Na- tional Geographic World magazine. The magazine, an offshoot of its prestigious parent known world- wide, was established in 1975 for children ages eight and up. Cir- culation a mere million! It would remind many seniors _ sting? “This is a great kid. I'd say that even if he didnt belong to mel’ Kevin Covert ar. SE Pheeid father of how magazines popular in their youth: Boy's Life and Girl's Life. Both were eagerly awaited each month and were packed with exciting things to do or build, along with educational features deliberately written not to be boring. The Geographic’s World is cut from the same glossy paper. There is a spread on jeans - their history and how towear ‘em. What makes avolcano tick? How come skeeters and more. There are Minimum lot sizes in the agricul- tural area are tentatively set at three acres, while they will be one acre in the R-1 zone and two acres in the R-2 zone, he added. The amendments won't affect existing lots which don't meet the requirements, unless their own- ers try to subdivide them in the future. Attorney Richard Williams said he represents 72 residents of two developments, who want the supervisors to keep the three-acre size in the agricultural zone. General contractor Jay Futch said he had a petition containing an additional 72 names, request- ing the three-acre minimum. By the end of the meeting he said he had obtained 35 more signatures. Futch, who lives near Crown Hill, said he had circulated the petition in his neighborhood. “A good 95 percent of the people I showed it to signed it,” he said. The majority of the residents who spoke favored keeping the minimum lot size in the agricul- tural zone at three acres. Redmond said the supervisors will “take everything into consid- eration” before they either pass or reject the amendments. to national magazine puzzles to solve, ways to pro- nounce tough words, even a real live maze to work out! World's Advisory Board started two years ago hoping to get reader input, likes and dislikes, even story ideas. It worked: hundreds of children replied from the United States and Canada, plus over a 100 other countries where sub- scribers live. A total of 160 kids are chosen each year. Volunteers are re- quested in January when appli- cants are asked to tell their inter- ests, three favorite things, and why they want to be a board member, and to give one hot idea for a future issue. World looks for a good mix of boys and girls, younger kids and older ones, hobby and interest See COVERT, pg 8 KEVIN COVERT JR. | Sunoco station, will probably # continue at least until spring. “We're finding increasingly lower levels of gasoline additives in the private wells as we continue to treat the water,” Fetzer said. “The source of the contamination won't last forever. We won't leave zz the site until we're comfortable | with the contamination levels - See GASOLINE, pg 8 HB Emmy again! Dallas native Neal Gal- lagher has won his second Emmy Award. Pg 3. HB Perfect. The Dallas field hockey team sports a 5-0 record so far this season. 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