Wellsboro Gazette (Newspaper) - June 8, 1983, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania AMY WELCH NEW DAIRY PRINCESS See Page 11 MARKETPLACE SEE SNAKES PAGE 2 MARKETPLACE SUPPLEMENT INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE Bloss Blood Collection Need for More Blood is Seen THE WELLSBORO Per Copy we did not reach our target of 175 pints of blood at our Blossburg collection held June 1, the collection was a Barb Executive Director of the Tioga County Chapter of the American Red Cross total of 139 people registered to give blood and 131 pints were This was a bad week for our collection with students graduating and the J P Ward Foundries closed for McRath the coordinated forts of Joanne Ogden and Bertha both of our donor recruiting has been ed and with this new method we feel we will achieve our targets in future Those receiving pins during the Blossburg Bloodmobile one gallon Cheryl Cowan and Thomas both of Leesa John and David all of Betty Hebe of and Homer A. Strong of Morris two gallon Joan ner and Foster both of Edwin Craig Anna Louisa Wigert and Donald all of Sara Hetzel of Liberty and William L. McNeal of Morris three gallon Mary Anthony and Donald all of Carl W. Charles and Delbert all of Donald Wickman and Ronald both of Morris four gallon John Levandoski of and Theodore De- Haven of six gallon Arline Fredericks of Donor Gives Despite Loss of Home McRath our teers are to be commended for a job well We had one volunteer donor on June 1 needs special Dean and of Morris Run lost their home in a May 31 The house was totally a was scheduled to donate the following day at our Blossburg blood Despite the fact that her family had lost thing and clothing she came to give blood bringing with her the promised baked cookies which had survived the fire because her husband had put them in their car for When asked how she could come and donate after such a traumatic Doreen Cross was reaching out to help me and my and by donating a pint of blood is my way of saying County Residents To be Asked for More The American Red Cross will ask Tioga County residents to give units of blood during 22 blood drives being held during the next 12-month period ning July 1. McRath ures represent a major increase over the current during which a total of donors are needed to reach the targeted Pennsylvania is faced with an unprecedented in- crease in the need for Rath Cross jections show a 15% rise during the next instead of the usual 8 to Army Reserves to Begin Arriving The Special Forces Group 97th U.S. Army Re- serve will soon be ar- riving for a exercise in and Lycoming Over National Guard and active service bers from the Air and Marines will be participating in the exercise to be conducted beginning June 11 through 25. Designed to give Reservists and National Guardsmen realistic training with members of the tive the exercise revolves around a fictional invasion of the Northeastern United States by foreign The invaders strike deeply into where they are met by elements of the U.S. military Supported by military gence and psychological tions as well as the Infantry and Air the men and women of the Special Forces Group will react to this scenario's The Williamsport as in the will serve as the medi cal base during the mock war training It is expected that during the exercises night airborne tions by paratroopers will be con ducted June 13-15 Speculating on the reasons for the upsurge in demand for McRath first is the growth of medical technology Simply scientists keep dis- covering more and more uses for blood and blood products that help save lives and cure illnesses second factor is the in- creasing number of aging patients in northeastern Pennsylvania The elderly are the single biggest users of blood and blood products One national study found of all blood units transfused in the U.S. go to people over 65. Since the percentage of the population 65 and over in northeastern vania continues to the need for blood is also going Between 13 and more units of blood will be she the first time the al need will exceed current need in our region has been 340 donors a day for the past McRath pointed it will rise to 400 a day Volunteers Needed The 1983-84 blood drive ule for northeastern ia was finalized at a recent ing of the Red Cross chapter At the meeting it was pointed out in addition to more more volunteers will be will need more volunteers to recruit more run the blood and transport the blood back to the Red Cross atory in Wilkes-Barre for Persons wishing to volunteer should call the Red Cross Tioga County Chapter office at 717-724- 2941. Next Bloodmobile The next bloodmobile will be held July 7 at St. Paul's Episcopal with a target of 160 pints of Wellsboro Studies Water Problem Alternatives According to Wellsboro ough engineer Russ Tatman of the firm of Tatman members of the Wellsboro Borough Council are studying ways to improve the water supply firm completed a report for Wellsboro in which we discuss two The first would in- volve development of a new ing water supply system utilizing the wells located near the junction of Routes 6 and 287 in Delmar Tatman second option involves upgrading to the maximum extent possible the existing water supply storage facilities at Brown Lee in Duncan Hamilton Lake in Charleston and the Park Hill reservoirs in basic problem with boro's present water system is that the borough is getting water ftom two Brown Lee wells and Lake Be- cause these are two different water systems which deliver ferent qualities and quantities of raw water for it makes it difficult for the existing plant to treat the water experienced last we had poor water quality because the drought caused an inability to get the amount of water needed from Brown Lee and Hamilton Hamilton Lake's when produced a that was unacceptable to Brown because of the could not deliver any water at why we did this study to determine Wellsboro's best op- the we have developed priorities for items which should be done to improve the drinking water system so that is not spending its money in band-aid but so permanent improvements could be of the things that has been done is we draining and emptying of the little reservoir at Park Hill in It will be and the unnecessary silt that is taking up valuable space for water volume will be In we are attempting to get better controls around the reservoir's edges to minimize weed animal inhabitants and provide a better mechanism to withdraw water from the type of work on both of the Park Hill reservoirs has a high regardless of which of the two options the council decides to upgrading the present tem or pulling water from new wells in Delmar the chlorination system at the ment facility on Park Hill must be the chlorination method used at Park Hill is not cost-effective The water is being Cowley Named Bank Director John F. has been named as a new member of the Local Board of Directors for the Mansfield office of First zens National Bank Cowley is a partner in the law firm of Van der Hi and has been practicing law since 1975 He has been a resident of the Mansfield area for five years and is active in civic affairs Cowley serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Tioga Mutual In- surance Co the Mansfield and is president of the Mansfield State College Alumni Association treated before it goes into which means that an excess amount of chlorine is being used in order to provide the required disinfection level for drinking new chlorination which will be developed at Park Hill and are being funded through a Department of Affairs grant already given to will allow the borough to chlorinate the water in the dis- system after it has left the which should mean less chlorine is of the Wellsboro Borough Council appear to be receptive to the chlorination system another priority which must be done regardless of which of the two water system improvement methods is is changes made in piping take the water from the two This relates to the question at what point in the system do we inject the chlorine after the the borough did re- grant monies to implement the chlorination monies to do the piping work were not in- The decision the council has to make is whether there are funds available to do the piping work at this time or whether that project should be deferred and more grant monies sought so the work is done later can still go ahead with the chlorine work but there are benefits to doing both projects Those do not out- weigh the problem of not having enough money to get the work Wellsboro did not re- the Department of Affairs grant to develop a new drinking water supply system izing new wells in Delmar the council has the choice of either going to the second upgrading its present or its grant tion for the second funding round Option developing the wells at the junction in mar Township would cost an mated Had the DCA grant request been approved the share would have been reduced to of this cost the water user fees ate about per year which is all being If this system were installed utilizing the tion the amount needed annually would drop to plus the cost of borrowing the over a specified period of That means that Wellsboro would have been in a position to utilize the remaining generated from water user fees to pay off that borrowed to pay Wellsboro's local share of the cost of using those Delmar ship the present ing water Option will cost but it is not a grant eligible That means Wellsboro would have to borrow that total and al costs would be about per year plus the debt service cost of borrowing that which means that even though ing the present system initially costs in the long it will cost why the wells at junction in Delmar Township are so but Wellsboro needs grant money in order to make this project If new wells at the junction could be Wellsboro would probably be provided with a better quality of requiring less Tatman concluded M II I t K HSI K 108TH 29 PA JUNE 8. 674-120) Duncan and Hamilton Get Nod For Small Community Funds Shirley M Secretary of the Department of Community Af fairs has on behalf of Governor Dick the preliminary approval of Small Communities Program preapplications submitted by two Tioga County ties Duncan and Hamilton ships were the only two often pre- applications submitted which were approved in the county for further consideration for a tion of Pennsylvania's lion available through Only 26 of 307 submitted were granted approval by The 10 Tioga County which have submitted grant requests totaling just over million Nelson housing development grant to enable the township to buy 18 lots from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in New Knoxville com- munity facilities grant to make water system land housing re- habilitation grant to make energy conservation improvements at Manor and Wapiti and to fund private low-income family housing Duncan community facilities grant to make Antrim water system Mansfield housing rehabilitation grant to make energy system improvements at Sherwood Manor and to fund vate low-income family housing Blossburg economic development grant to improve the water supply to the primary J.P. Ward boro community facilities grant to develop a new drinking water supply source at Wellsboro Junction on owned Charleston community facilities grant to assist in funding a portion of the planned Route 6 and Roundtop Road sewage collection economic development project grant to be Used to make repairs and improvements to the facility used by fleld makers of ladies undergarments and Hamilton community facilities grant for Morris Run water improvement project applications which were rejected may be im- Wellsboro Gets Loan OK June 7, the Lewisburg District Farmers Home tration office received notification that burg office has reviewed boro's for a wastewater low interest loan on behalf of the Wellsboro Municipal Authority and requested that the Authority make formal tion for a low interest The in the amount of is being requested as Wellsboro's share to be used in conjunction with a U.S. Environ mental Protection Agency grant of recently award ed to the Authority for tion of a municipal wastewater sewage system and renovation and expansion of sewage tion The total project cost is estimated at Robert Community De- velopment Specialist with the Northern Tier Regional Planning and Development the Authority's loan is approved by it would re a 9.125% loan for up to 40 This would contribute to a lower cost to the average sewage user by stretching the repayment of the loan out over several years A conventional loan or a bond is sue would most likely run ten thus making repayment much higher The pre application was submitted on April 11 Blair said at that the pre applica tion is a full applica tion would then be submitted If a full application is it is extremely likely the Authority would receive the mediately resubmitted for 1983 SCP grants which will include an additional lion in available money in the state Duncan Duncan Township Supervisors have been informed that their for 1982 SCP funds in the amount of has been approved and they have been asked to submit a full cation for the The proposed project involves the rehabilitation and upgrading of the water supply system in the village of Antrim to bring the tem into compliance with state and federal public water supply Cost estimates for the project have been prepared by Hunt Engineers of Painted and the Tioga County Housing Redevelopment Authority staff prepared the Total cost of the project is estimated to be which would be ed by of local money which the supervisors already have in their budgeted for the The 100-year-old system is in a state of total disrepair and the 88 families served by the system could in no way afford the ing of the system without the in- flux of grant according to the No state permit may be issued for of the tem in its present state and al violations have been cited by the Department of Environmental Resources and the En- Protection Agency A new fiberglass storage voir is planned to replace the present 28' x 80' x 6'. wooden covered stone-walled The system is fed by two springs and an old all of which con- tribute to the high bacteria counts A continuous chlor system is needed to disinfect the water supply to insure safe drinking water A new 6-inch loop water line is planned to replace the 3-inch line which is inadequate for proper distribution of the water supply or for fire Hamilton Hamilton Township super- visors were informed that of the requested grant was approved in the pre- application process. The prepared by Hunt was written to include two separate water system ments and housing The present water built in the early 1900s, consists of a dam holding an open water supply fed by springs and a an 8" line to the village and several supply lines ranging in size from to four-inch A temporary system has been installed Plans for the water tem improvement project call for the rehabilitation of the in- of a water treatment and filter a storage tank and pump to feed the 4.000 feet of 6" and 8" water lines and 150 water a population of 325 people are served in 125 living and another 25 units may be connected to the new The housing rehabilitation grant was requested to provide grants up to for eligible property owners to upgrade living The township ed of SCP money to fund this portion of the The entire project cost is mated to total The super- visors have also submitted an plication for a Department of Commerce Community Facilities grant 0f to help defray the Since the SCP grant request will not be changes in the project may be No expenditure of local funds is planned for any of the projects except the portion that a property owner may have to contribute in relation to a housing rehabilitation Rig Driver Hurt On June 7, at Frank 48, of 11 Audet N. Y. was hurt in a accident that curred while he was driving a rig south on Route 15, about one- quarter of a mile north of the Mill Creek bridge in Tioga According to Mansfield State Caldarelli was driving a 1976 Mack truck tractor and 1979 Butler south on a long sweeping hill and attempted to negotiate a left The driver was unable to turn the rig's steering wheel to the collided with and went rolling over an unknown number of times down a 30-foot ment before coming to rest on its left Caldarelli was taken by Tioga ambulance to Soldiers Sailors Memorial where he was admitted and re- ported June 8 he was listed in good Tioga ambulance personnel been assisted at the scene by the newly operational paramedic unit operated from Hospital State police report thai the 1976 truck tractor was totaled sustained severe damage in the The rig is owned by Killian Bulk McDade Announces For Fisheries Research The House Interior tions Subcommittee June 7, approved supplemental funding in the amount of for the National Fisheries Re- search and Development The lab is located about 9 miles west of Wellsboro The additional which Congressman McDade for the Tioga are for research projects to increase the and availability of Atlantic American and Great Lakes cool water species The in supplemental funding will have to be approved bv the full then the full House of Representatives and the Senate Congressman McDade sard that is in addition to the regular operating budget for the Wellsboro facility and in crease activities at that important laboratory indicated that specific estimations to he conducted with the supplemental funds in elude 1) to determine if the hard ness level of most waters found in Pennsylvania or New York elude harmful effects of acidic precipitation on juvenile shad and cool water 2) to develop cultural methods to in- crease the number and of artificially propagated 3) to develop and assess methods to predict the optimum time for release of salmon and and 4) to investigate anadromous species propagated and released into natural lakes and streams If the funding receives approval of the House and eight more researchers would probably be employed at the according to Rowan director at the Asaph facil ity Total for June to
