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Scrantonian Tribune, Tuesday, January 16, 1990 9 Unions OK Page One) Donald K. Strauch Donald K. Strauch, Hopewell N.J., died Sunday at Princeton Medical Center, Princeton, N.J., after an illness. He and his wife, the former Myrtle Zulauf, would have celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary this year. Born in Scranton, son of the late Edmund A.

and Mabel Stewart Strauch, he was a graduate of Scranton Central High School and Lackawanna Business College. He had been employed as a district manager of the U.S. Plywood Company for 20 years and later worked as an accountant and office manager for Prince Chevrolet, New Jersey. He was a member of St. Peters United Methodist Church, New Jersey.

Also surviving is a brother, Edmund Scranton. The funeral will be Wednesday at 11 a m. from Arthur E. and Brian A. Strauch Funeral Home, 602 Birch with the Rev.

William Boulet, pastor, Grace Bible Church, officiating. Friends may call one hour prior to service time. Memorial contributions may be made to the Pennington United Methodist Church Memorial Fund, 60 S. Main Pennington, N.J., 08534. Gervasi said an employee who has family coverage and voluntarily changes from the current plan to access care could reduce insurance costs by approximately $195 monthly which would mean a split of $97.50 for the worker and $97.50 for the city.

Right now the city pays $542 per month for each worker with family coverage. The insurance savings, Connors said, is not going to cover the automatic deficit built in by city council in its adopted version of the municipal budget. The legislators deliberately underfunded health insurance payments for 1990 by what was initially estimated at $800,000 but Connors said Monday is more like $600,000. Connors said the $600,000 deficit definitely will not be erased just because some employees are expected to voluntarily switch from the current health plan to access care. The city also is auditing its employees receiving health coverage to reduce costs.

So far it has turned up that the deceased wife of a city worker was being kept on a family one-year contract but he stressed to them that his only! intention in seeking a pact of such short duration was to get, common expiration dates for all the city contracts. The pattern of a common expiration date was broken, when an arbitrator last awarded city firemen a four-1 year agreement while all the other unions settled for three-year pacts. Clerical Workers Union President Rose Dunleavy said after the Monday morning ratification vote in city hall that the employees would have preferred at least a two-year agreement but they understand why Connors wanted the one-year pact. I worked with members of the clerical union for four years and I respect them, Connors said. Maybe next time we can offer them a two-or three-year contract.

The ratification of the DPW contract took place Monday evening in the American Legion Hall, Clay Dunmore. Like the clerical workers contract, the newi DPW pact is retroactive to Jan. 1 firemen which is BCBS. The city can find a new insurance carrier for DPW workers so long as the terms of coverage remain the same. As with the clerical workers, each DPW employee has the voluntary option of entering into the cheaper BCBS program and splitting the savings with the city.

I think employees with young families will find that access care is a better program for them and they should be happy with the extra cash, said the mayor about the kickback incentive. The DPW workers also had another me too clause on wages with police and firemen in their old agreement. They gave up that as well in these negotiations because Gervasi said the wage offer was fair. The new administrations transition leader, Dave Baker, said it was absolutely essential the DPW union make this concession considering the police are slated for binding arbitration and are seeking a $4,000 raise. Connors said it was difficult to get both unions to agree to a Melvyn C.

Robinson Melvyn C. Robinson, 1169 Mistywood Harrisburg, N.C., died Saturday at Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. His wife is the former Betty Lou Mitchell. Born in Scranton, son of the late Donald and Doris Freeman Robinson, he was a retired staff engineer and scientist for IBM Corp. He was an Air.

Force veteran of the Korean War and a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7091, Harrisburg, N.C. Also surviving are two daughters, Yvonne Robinson, Harrisburg, N.C., and Mrs Lisa Morris. Kingston. N.Y.; a son, Glynn S. Robinson.

Sarasota, two sisters, Mrs. Donna Wallace, Fremont, and Mrs. Marlene Lindsey, Nicholson; three grandchildren. The funeral will be Thursday at 11 a m. in South Gibson United Methodist Church with the Rev.

Vicki Johnson officiating. Interment, Clifford Valley Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday, 7 to 9 p.m., at Shifler-Parise-Scotchlas Funeral Home, 102 Dundaff Clifford. Marybclle Griffith Miss Marybelle Griffith, 51, of 134 Orchard Moscow, died Thursday at Community Medical Center after being stricken ill at work earlier in the week. Born in Moscow, daughter of Lurissa Sayer Griffith, with whom she resided, and the late Edwin D.

Griffith, she was employed as a secretary by Topps Corp. since 1966. She was previously employed by Nationwide Insurance. She was a graduate of Moscow High School and was a member of Moscow United Methodist Church. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs.

Lucille Aten, Elmhurst, and Janice Carlsson, Sweden; nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a brother, Lincoln Sayer. Memorial services will be held at a time to be announced in Moscow United Methodist Church. Interment, Springbrook Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Moscow United Methodist Church.

Scrantonian Tribune BOB VENTRE CLOTHED IN WHITE Bundled in hats, scarves and mittens, 2-year-old Jeff Bachak, front, and his 7-year-old brother, Tim, pause on top of a snow-covered slope near their home before takeoff on a slide which seemingly could land them in the heart of Mayfield, which was dressed in winter white Monday morning after an overnight storm dumped two inches of snow in the area. (Continued coverage plan and the city was carrying a recently married woman on individual coverage when her insurance should have been consolidated with her husbands plan. It also was disclosed Monday that a former city police sergeant who left the force last year to attend law school also was continued on coverage. But Connors does not believe this audit will save the city enough in health costs. What is most important, Connors said, is that the city also was able to negotiate out of the clerical workers contract the stipulation that the insurance carrier has to be mutually agreed upon by the administration and the union.

Removal of this language allows that at some point during the year the city could change insurance carriers if BCBS costs do not come down. We have reputable (insurance) carriers knocking on our door now to make proposals, the mayor noted. In a similar move, the DPW employees have agreed to give up their me too clause on the same health coverage as (Continued from Page Three) IBM For Your Hair" For Men, Women Children txceWencevnH1 Prvaf00 rs 125 N. Main Old Forge No Appointment Necessary Or II You Prefer Call (717)457-8331 from This was the was proclaimed fell on Kings unrecognized in and New people rallied Arizonas lack King. It was to for the first gained enough on the effort aided community, states repeal of King, a Baptist through the South to end discrimination was gunned Earl Ray at a Sen.

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31 and addiitonal damages for each cop short of a 158 minimum since the beginning of the year. The damages represent the! salaries that would have been! paid for 10 months to 38 officers the city never hired 1 Jennings said the city may try to seek mitigation of damages by claiming it has hired some provisional (part-time) patrolmen. Regardless, the lawyer estimated this arbitration will cost the city no less than $250,000. Jennings also announced an arbitrator has been picked to settle the policemans regular contract. He is Steve Wolf, Philadelphia, a member of the National Academy of Arbitration and a specialist in Act 111 cases.

The city police are covered under Act 111 and are reported to be seeking a $4,000 raise per man in the next contract. The cops filed for binding arbitration to settle their contract, which expired on Dec. 31 np 1 Trivial (Continued from Page 5) Its free and it would cost us money to mail it out. I dont think well ever start charging for it Currently, Foglietta prints 8,000 copies of La Triviata each month, although he published 10,000 in December for Christmas. Its a magazine that strives to bring something new to Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, he said.

It offers little stories every month, which I think would be of interest to people and which they probably wouldnt read if I didnt print them. Ira N. Dennis Ira N. Dennis, 872 Hill Archbald, died Monday at home after an illness. His wife is the former Margaret ODowd.

Born in Winton, son of the late Charles and Rosella Stanton Dennis, he resided in Archbald for over 40 years and was employed by Miller Casket Jermyn. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Conflict. Also surviving are three, daughters, Margaret Ann, at home; Susan Holmes, Archbald; and Betsy Dennis, Mount Cobb; a son, William, at home; a sister, Mrs. Hope Verduce, Lake Henry; two brothers, Gerald, Montdale; and Elivin, Morrisrun, five grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

A sister, Muriel, and two brothers, Livingston and Charles, preceded him in death. The funeral will be Thursday at 10 a m. from Harrison Funeral Home, 374 Main Archbald, with the Rev. Gerard Gannon and the Rev. Carmen Perry officiating.

Interment, St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery, Archbald. Friends may call Wednesday, 2 to 4, 7 to 9 m. Archibald L. DeGroot Archibald L.

DeGroot, 839 Madison died Sunday at Mercy Hospital after an illness. His wife is the former Florence Dinner. Born in Troy, N.Y., son of the late Morris and Jennie DeGroot, he was a graduate of City College of New York and Brooklyn Poly-Technical Institute. Prior to his retirement, he was the director of the civil engineering department of the International Textbook Company. He edited several books for that company and for other publishers.

He was a member of Temple Israel and past secretary of the American Contract Bridge League. Also surviving are a daughter, Phyllis Weinstein, Rochester, N.Y.; four grandchildren; a great-grandchild; several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be Wednesday at 2 m. from Ziman Funeral Home, 612 Gibson with services by Rabbi Yaacov Rone. Interment.

Temple Israel Cemetery, Dunmore. Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's favorite charity. Howard Miller Howard D. Miller, 94, of 1519 Fairview Road, Clarks Summit. died Monday night at Mercy Hospital.

His wife, the former Cecelia Kerr, died in '1968. Bom in Edella, son of the late Charles E. and Sarah Stanton Miller, he was a lifelong resident of the Scott Twp. area and was a self-employed farmer prior to his retirement. He was a member of Justus Primitive Baptist Church; member and past master of Green Grove Grange: member of the advisory board of Northeastern Bank, Scott Twp.

branch; and 50-year member of Cooperative Farmers Market. He was the writer and publisher of two books detailing the ancestry and life of both the Miller and White families of Lackawanna and Luzerne County first time since the holiday in 1986 that the observance actual birthday. It is still Arizona, Montana, Idaho Hampshire. In Phoenix, 15,000 at the state capitol to protest of a state holiday honoring have been celebrated there time this year, but opponents petitions to require a referendum proposal in November, an greatly by the Italian-American which was smarting from the the Columbus Day holiday. minister, led marches during the 1950s and 1960s against blacks.

He down April 4, 1968, by James motel in Memphis, Tenn. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said legislation this month rights of minorities and have been eroded by recent decisions. city of Atlanta, thousands Peachtree Street for a parade in his honor. dissident Shen Tong, a years pro-democracy protests Tiananmen Square, was grand place of entertainer Sammy canceled because of illness. was preceded by an ecumenical honoring King at the Ebe-nezer Church, where King served as his father and where his in 1974 as she played the Morrison, a short history of Kings career by the Rev.

Dominic Totaro, S.J., the songs This Land is Your Land, Kumbaya, and We Shall Overcome by the 11-girl, 5-boy Progressive Childrens Chorus and presentations of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards. A procession of children Abreia Scott, Shane Parker, Tony Sandy, Jonathan Waiters, Amber Senecal, Keesha Dickey and Billy Parker read short portions collectively titled A Day for Living the. Dream.

The King Awards were presented to Carol Coleman, Rosearle Garner and Donald Thompson. Recipients are selected by the 28-member United Neighborhood Centers Board of Directors, according to Dawn Brennan, UNC Executive Director. They are presented to those who demonstrate in words and deeds the kind of things the dream of Martin Luther King would fulfill. This is a program by and for children, to educate them about who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

was and what he did, Brennan said in her introductory remarks. The program closed with a stirring rendition of all seven verses of We Shall Overcome. joined by the audience, who locked hands during the second verse. Well walk hand-in-hand. Among the other Martin Luther King Day events were a ceremony at the University of Scranton at noon, a 4 p.m.

mass at Marywood College and a 7 m. ecumenical service at Shiloh Baptist Church. Local schools, county and federal offices, post offices and City Hall ere all closed. James P. Simmons James P.

Simmons Box 1030 RD 1 Moscow, formerly of Mesa, died Monday at home. Born in LaRoucheile, France, son of Mrs. Patricia F. Mattice Simmons. Moscow, and the late James P.

Simmons he was employed by the Pixley-Richards Co. -West, Gilbert, as a high value tech-detail engineer, prior to his illness. Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Jamie Kozemko, Trucksville; Ms. Cassandra Bagley, Brandon, and Mrs.

Betsy Slocum. Scranton; a niece and several nephews. She was preceded in death by a sister, Leora, who died in 1959, and a brother, Niel, who died in 1982. The funeral will be Wednesday at 11 a m. from Snowdon Funeral Home, 401 Church Moscow, with the Rev.

K. Frederick Mauger, rector, St. Johns Episcopal Church. Hamlin, officiating. Interment.

Fairview Memorial Park, Elmhurst. Friends may call tonight, 7 to 9 pm. Marie Carden Marie Carden, Carbondale Road, Waymart, died Monday at the home of her niece. Mrs. Margaret White, Manville, N.J., after an illness.

Her husband. Thomas, a hospital administrator, died in 1949. Born in Greentown. daughter of the late Grant Howard and Ida Moylan Gilpin, she resided in California, Lancaster and Philadelphia, and in the Waymart area since 1957. She was a graduate of Kutztown College and was a substitute teacher at South Canaan Elementary, Lake Ariel and Waymart schools.

She was a member of St. Marys Church, Waymart. and its Altar and Rosary and Blue Army societies. Also surviving are a niece, Mrs. Nancy Fobes, Manville; two nephews.

Jack O'Hora, Lake Ariel, and James O'Hora, West Chester; 21 grandnieces and grandnephews; 13 great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Beatrice White and Minnie OHora; two brothers, Robert and Harold; and a nephew, Robert hite. The funeral will be Thursday at 11 a m. at St Mary's Church. Waymart Surviving are a son, Glenn A.

Miller, Clarks Summit; a daughter, Mrs. Vera M. Peregrim, Clarks Summit; eight grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by four brothers. Floyd, Burdic.

Marvin and Melvin, and two sisters, Mabel and Maude. The funeral ill be Thursday at 11 am. from Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home. 418 S.

State Clarks Summit, with Elder Wes Johnson, pastor, Justus Primitive Baptist Church, officiating. Interment, Miller Cemetery, Edella Pa. Friends may call Wednesday. 2 to 4, 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Miller Cemetery Association, in care of Glenn Miller, Fairview Road.

Clarks Summit. Pa 18411.