Derrick (Newspaper) - August 6, 1977, Oil City, Pennsylvania THE DERRICK Founded 1871 No. 183 Oil 20 Telephone SATURDAY AUGUST Family Service Program Seeks More State Funds Family Service and Children's Aid Society has been making a lime study to keep of how much each program costs The Venango County agency plans to use the study to seek lunds from the state ment of Welfare To provide family Its main Ihe agency Is spending per one-hour in- according to the lime study for the first half of 1977. Yet low income persons arc receiving counseling for or an hour or free of charge If they cannot afford a don't turn anyone away even they can't Executive Director Robert Family Service has been using Its own funds to provide help for low income The agency plans Lo ask DPW for reimbursement for its tual costs In serving persons on public Carone DPW could provide funds from federal money il has under Title XX of the Social Security Act. The proposal still in very beginning he The director has discussed II with the DPW western regional office In and the agency told him to go ahead and develop a he He does not know it DPW will agree to a reimbursement of the full the agency spends per counseling at least we'll be closer to recouping our actual he For the time Family Service determines the cost of each program by having staff members keep a how time Is Their salaries and expenses are divided according to the time they give each Costs for funding proposals and management are then divided up among the programs according to each one's centage of the agency For the first half of 1977. expenditures totalled The agency was open 946 hours In the six so Ll cost per hour to slay open The their total expenses and the cost as Family counseling with Interviews at a cosl of 225 families counseled Meals on Wheels about with 17 screening interviews at a cost of Adoption 31 interviews at a cost of each Information and referral to area social services with 119 contacts at Homemaker program hours spent on administration at 22 Decision a center problem drinkers with 463 hours spent on ad- ministration at The service and Decision House have separate program so the Family Service study includes only administrative costs for In making the study of program big thing Is accountability to the Carone Last around one-third of the agency budget came from state and federal funds Family Service conducted three Decision House and Youth chore The agency has staff bers with salaries paid by the federal Job program of Comprehensive The community fund drives of two United County and made up 12 per cent of last year's Local residents also support agency through other con- memberships and The time study our budget Carone want to be as accountable as possible to our funding Family Service sends quarterly reports on program costs Eo the Samuel Justus Charitable The fund provided 15 per cent ot last year's The agency uses the time study In making fund requests to the United The study was begun In April 1975 to comply with the dards of accounting of United Way of said Mary Lou administrative Carone said the financial committee helped develop the study fiel a belter business look At the total The report Is useful in preparing proposals for Iho and Decision House programs since It snows how close Ihe reimbursements come to actual Mrs. Rarer The figures were also requested by the Commission of Charitable Organizations in since Ihe agency lias an annual membership Lightning Bolt New Zealand Youth Crushes Dream Is Staying In Oil City Of Two Boys An electrical storm yesterday morning shattered two Seneca area plans to participate in the Venango County 4-H The horses they planned to enter in the fair were struck and killed by a bolt of lightning during the The horses were owned by Mike 17, and his 1J- year-old and the animals were in a Held on the James Morrison property in Seneca when the storm The horses were in a Held with about nine other Morrison when the lightning struck and killed The is planned from August 15 lo 20, and Morrison reported the youths had been working for months to get the horses The animals were he adding that they would have been entered in the limed events al the competition al Ihe He said the boys had hopes of one of the horses having a chance of making it to the state-wide show In couldn't believe the work the kids put In with these Morrison adding they worked with them at least once a every day of the He noted the incident has everyone in both families a little shaken The Morrison family is now looking around lo try to find someone who may have a horse they are not entering in the competition and could lend lo Ihe He said it is already loo late to establish the relationship thai is needed to perform well at the but said if he could two horses that are not already il would at least give the a chance lo participate in Ihe In two Kiwi has been lo four traveled over 12.000 made scores friends and eaten a variety of Ian Scoll 17, known by his is the 1977 American Field Service ex- change student lo Oil City The New native arrived in Ihe U.S. two weeks ago lo begin his long slay with the Sherman Powers family ol LM E. Bissell Ave. The lean youth will be a senior al Oil High School this His classmates will include two host family a and a New Zealand sent 73 students from Kiwi's to the U.S. under the auspices of i the American Field Service i AFS is Ihe exchange student program in the nation's high This trip is the first outside his according lo And America has held some surprises for His hometown is treeless and its climate is He is charmed by the Venango Action Staff Members Aid In Relief Four staff members ot Action Corp were among volunteers helping with flood relief in the town Executive Director David me He saw two six-story ment houses with their walls knocked by the force ot Ihe was like they were hit wilh a wrecking he Water washed out the land a and two lanes of it collapsed 200 Most of the roads were torn up and covered with he said saw cars piled up by the some of them were brand new he Two train boxcars were pushed off Some homeowners were still pumping waler out of their basements ten days the Under the waler was six lo inches of Steel had live to six feet of water mils -I don't think there was one part of Johnstown that didn't gel Mildebrand said In downtown Oil Cily in the could have been the same he said A severe Hood was anticipated because of the large amount of ice and snow that accumulated during Ihe The flood never came since the ice anil snow melted Venango Action slaff members were involved in preparations for the flood did not In the Johnstown relief was joined by Gordon a caseworker for senior and Tom and John both members of the Shaw go and Norcross delivered food and water to neighborhood cenlers for Iwo days last week had ten centers where flood victims could free and clothing Sheffer and Hildebrand were there from Thursday evening Johnstown Fund Drive Sunday Aid to Johnstown Day will be observed here tomorrow through Ihe cooperation of and churches and Uie Tree of Lite Church doors will be open between 9 am and 1 pm lo receive public donations of money from city Money donated will be distributed in the form of direct aid to Hood victims The public en- by city Is being sponsored by the Oil City Ministerial through Shelter transported cleaning supplies and food to rural areas around Johnstown Hildebrand loaded a truck with furniture and household goods destroyed by mud and water then drove It to city He also hauled loads of mud to the A bulldozer placed the mud in trucks then teers shoveled il out al Ihe The work he never been so dirty or tired in my Venango Action sent teers to the city after Johnstown officials all area Com- munity agencies for workers and trucks lot of cleanup was done while we were Hildebrand said was a tot better by the time we left Moil of Ihe volunteers arc gone now since the cily received federal disaster he said The city has hired private contractors to finish the He said he was concerned about the power the National Guard had In enforcing the 8 pm To prevent no one could enler downtown lown after fl Persons living In lown were not permitted to leave after really scares me is how easily Ihe military could take he said He noted that many persons showed signs of emotional distress from their flood SCOTT forests and intrigued the coming winter's he's never touched Mice arc only rodent in New So Kiwi has been amused at seeing ground snakes and While students arc nearly universal in their interests and Kiwi has found ferences in American and New Zealand men and For he was surprised lo sec boys and young men wearing suits In New don't buy suits until they finish And a women to offer her hand for a is unheard of In his homeland Kiwi is looking forward loa casually dressed body al Oil City High School His school was who wo re uniforms Schooled in the metrics student is rapidly learning to convert his measurements to American More com- things are light switches flip opposite in New driver's seats In cars are on the other even the direction of the swirl in a commode is Kiwi after the Kiwi a native symbol ot New Zeal and 1 is the youngest of three children His older brother and sister have both traveled his sister as an exchange student to Con- tew years Ills father Is an accountant while his mother is employed as a clerical When he returns home next he will enter the seventh Ihe equivalence of a senior at Hobbles Include and While Kiwi will take a full course load al Ihe Oil City High The Powers family has been busy Kiwi's they have visited Niagara local a circus and They have as well as made the rounds of reunions with To host an exchange student seemed a natural thing for the family lo according to Mrs. Their friends and relatives have been involved in the AFS They have also extensively have found the benefits of new is one way we can contribute to a belter un- among the peoples of the explained Mrs this will benefit We welcome the opportunity lo learn from f Mr. Powers is manager of the II and H Block in Oil City while his wife is director of food services for Polk They have two other and 20. Water System Barkeyville Gets Project Priority Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission yesterday rated the water as its number one in the coming Harold E. secretary of Barkeyville said last installation of first water system within the borough will open the area to a great development He expressed the hope that if grants arc Ihe project would be slanted by summer Smith said cosl will ex- ceed to cover a installing a con- a storage lank anil installing trunk Jines and sewer Since Northwest Engineering made its feasibility study in 1973, Smith Inc search funding has been under An basic grant was The Farmers as grants was designated as Ihe source lo determine the eligible project The 1977 project report pointed that I lie borough was suited for light Industry but not If il Lacked a central waler system Smith said whal is proposed Is a system to serve the part of the borough south of the interchange of 80 on page TOYS Michael two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Eckert of Grandview wilh some wooden trucks and train cars on display at a crafts sale on Oil City's South The which features more than runs through 8 pm today al the home of Marilyn 315 Cowell Items on display include rugs and Christmas Elm St. Paving Slated Next Week Officials hope lo take some of Ihe bumps out at the drive through downtown Oil City next week wilh Ihe resurfacing of Elm James city reported yesterday contractor paving crews arc scheduled lo go lo work on Ihe North Side business district street Wednesday City Streets Department will be busy on the roadway Monday and preparing il for the resurfacing pointed thai work schedule depends on the weather for the first three days or Ihe and said any changes in the schedule would be announced as soon as The plans are close Kim from to Duncomb lo all at 9 am Wednesday will be no parking permitted on the street while the paving crews are The city had been holding off on the of Iho possibility of the roadway being lorn up again in connection wilh the underground utility line work in the downtown renewal City Redevelopment Authority officials have stated there are some corrections required in the while the contractor has maintained the work is Contractor and authority have been negotiating to Iry to settle I he differences The corrections the authority feels should be apparently do not involved further digging in the reported as far as he knew are no plans now for any additional digging on the The city crews be working lo correct some un- of Ihe road surface in al least one and also build up some of areas on the The city superintendent reported that plastic strips will be used to mark cross and center lines on the The plastic markers will be installed while the street is being paved He noted if the is put in at the sanir time Ihe paving work is going the crews can use a roller lo install il and Hie plastic wili probably last for three or four years Ihe markers have to be touched up City Police Robert on page 18) Inside Today Welfare recipients in Pennsylvania won't get their checks 2 Looking where logo this Check the Weekender 4 For weekend try Salmon Don't let the name fool 7 Weekend Weather Warm and humid wilh a few and showers through Rain may he heavy at Low tonight In the mid High holh days 80 to 85. Chance of rain 60 per cent today and 70 per cent Deaths Martin Henderson of Fairmount City RD 1 Mrs. Mary Hess of Parker RD 1 Harold Hoover of Colbert Ave. on page 8)
