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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. Pg 9
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