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if a local lawmaker's legislation goes through. By MEGAN O'MATZ Call Harrisburg reau "Good," said George Taylor, superintendent of the Quakertown Community School District. Because the Department of Labor and Industry wouldn't issue prevailing wage rates, which are needed for contractors to compile labor costs to bid on public projects, construction of an elementary school in Trumbauersville was delayed. "It means we may be able to so-' licit bids in August or September HARRISBURG A Lehigh Valley lawmaker unveiled legislation Wednesday requiring the state to create an Internet site for consumers to learn about the backgrounds including medical malpractice histories of Pennsylvania's 45,000 doctors. "Presently, there is no single, convenient resource available to the public to access information about their doctor, other than calling the doctor's office itself, which many consumers are uncomfortable with," said Rep.

T. J. Rooney, 1 "We're back in business. Michael Acker Labor and Industry deputy secretary Among them are jobs on tap in Quakertown, Easton and Bethlehem. From staff and wire reports HARRISBURG More than 1,200 public works projects in Pennsylvania, delayed in a legal dispute over wages for government construction workers, can go forward as a result of a court ruling issued Wednesday.

The Commonwealth Court ruling lifted an April 18 court order that stopped some $1.2 billion in highway, school and other building jobs until a lawsuit the trade unions had filed against the state was resolved. Amongthose jobs were 36 in Lehigh County worth 27 in NorthamptonCounty worth 90 in Montgomery County worth 77 in Bucks Countyworth and 23 in MonroeCounty worth $5,461,575. Project bidding could begin as early as next week and ground-breakings soon after, said Labor and Industry Deputy Secretary Michael Acker. "We're back in business," Acker said. Meanwhile, the court sent the trade unions' dispute over the new wages which reduced the pay of some workers to the Prevailing Wage Appeals Board for a hearing.

Until the dispute is resolved, the Ridge administration is permitted to impose the new wage rates that were set in March. D-Lehigh-Northampton. Under Rooney's bill, the Department of State would be required to collect data on every licensed physician, including their education, training, hospital affiliation, specialty, and awards, as well as any criminal convictions, professional disciplinary actions and malpractice judgments or settlements. The data would be posted on the Internet or available through a toll-free, state-run hotline. The system would be financed by a one-time $20 fee per doctor and a $20 biennial charge thereafter.

Rep. Tony DeLuca, D-Allegheny, said he will co-sponsor the bill, believing consumers now have no way of distinguishing between "a true medical expert and a first-class con man." "This proposed measure will offer more information than ever before to get a glimpse of the person who may have your life in their hands," DeLuca said. The legislation also has the support of the Allentown-based People's Medical Society, a national consumer health September, most likely complete it in one year and open, as was the original intent, next year," Taylor said. Taylor worried, however, that the delay would increase the estimated $300,000 price tag on another project: the replacement of windows at Quakertown Elementary School. That's because the district might have to ask contractors to do the work after school hours; the project had been planned for this summer.

The Easton Area School District solicited bids for its high school expansion project despite the court injunction, according to Superintendent Bernadette Meek. "We used old rates with the anticipation of making adjustments," Meek said. Please See WAGES Page A9 DOUGLAS BENEDICT The Morning Call Polka time Philip Hinkle of Hershey dances with his cousin, Emily Timm of Atlanta, to the polka beat of Al-gunder Bohmische Tuesday afternoon outside the Festplatz tent at Musikfest. Their families are vacationing at the festival and holding reunions with relatives. More coverage, B3 Please See BILL Page A9 i "lEsso 5 i.

When Kistler's gas station in Allentown closed, an America on Wheels museum planner seized a chance to preserve a slice of automotive history. I -v, By BOB WITTMAN Of The Morning Call Ray Kistler, who founded the service station which will now become a part of the planned America on Wheels transportation museum at Allentown's proposed Lehigh Landing i. ry stretching back practically to the beginning of the automotive age. "Everything is old there," Kistler admits. So when Zolomij saw Kistler's service station, hardly changed from its earliest days, he could visualize instantly how an old air pump, a box of outdated spark plugs and a battered oil funnel could be used to tell the story of how the automobile became America's favorite consumer product.

Zolomij called his secretary, Linda Weber, and told her to arrive as fast as possible with a pad of self-adhesive note papers. He spent the next two hours affixing the note papers to every object in sight. In the coming days, Zolomij and Kistler negotiated on a price for the objects Please See STATION Page A4 are now antique. Zolomij, executive director of the proposed America on Wheels transportation museum, wanted all of it, right down to the wooden bench covered by layers of red paint that stood in front of the station for almost as long as Kistler can remember. America on Wheels is intended to be the centerpiece of a neighborhood renewal project that planners hope will transform the decayed industrial district around Front and Hamilton streets in Allentown into a riverfront festival marketplace called Lehigh Landing.

The museum, as it has been conceived, will tell the story of how wheeled transportation was used to settle the continent and spur development of the nation. And when Zolomij stepped inside Kistler's Mobile, he saw splayed out a vein of automotive histo One day last June, John Zolomij was eating breakfast at an Allentown diner on his way out of town on a business trip when he stumbled upon an article in the morning newspaper that completely changed his plans. Gathering up his newspaper, he gulped down the last of his breakfast and headed to 18 S. 11th St. in center city where he introduced himself to Donald R.

Kistler, whose retirement was announced in that day's editions of The Morning Call. Kistler, like his father Ray before him, operated the little automobile service station in that block of S. 11th Street, just off Hamilton, and between them they assembled 68 years worth of tools, automobile parts and equipment. Many of the items UTAH INDEX ARIZONA Grand Canyon Nat Park Eleven feared dead in Ariz, canyon flood Mideast situation unclear as U.S. envoy departs National, World Section A Local, Business Section Sports Section A.M.

Magazine Section Colorado River i Grand Hikers missina Vjfanyon By DOUGLAS JEHL Of The New York Times -I Havasupa, Grand i Indian 1 Canyon Natl Reservation Bridge D7 Dining D8 Business B12 Utters A18 Classified C8-20 Lottery A2 Comics 06,7 Movies D8 Comment A19 People A2 Deaths B18.C8 Television D2 20 miles Hualapai Indian Reservation 20 km One body was recovered and searchers combing the water, mud and boulders Wednesday had little hope of finding the other 10 alive after Tuesday's flood. "I honestly think at this point we're going to find 11 bodies," said sheriffs Detective Gil Moreno. The hikers most of them foreign tourists were in a section of Antelope Canyon where the walls narrow into an awe-inspiring sliver through the gold, red and orange sandstone. The canyon near the Utah state line is so narrow that hikers can touch both sides at some 'It's hard to comprehend a place that looks like a cathedral that can turn into a death trap someone said By PATRICK GRAHAM Of The Associated Press PAGE, Ariz. A flash flood sent an 11-foot wall of water crashing through a normally dry canyon no wider than a hallway in places, sweeping away a dozen hikers.

One person survived and 11 were feared dead Wednesday. JERUSALEM An American special envoy flew back to Washington on Wednesday night with no clear indication whether his mission had succeeded in persuading the Israelis and the Palestinians to begin making gestures that would allow the two parties to step back from a precipice in their partnership. The envoy, Dennis Ross, said he believed that he had begun to revive security cooperation between the two sides after trust between them collapsed after a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem market two weeks ago. At a minimum, Ross said, he had succeeded in prevent- AP mcallDom points. "Unless you've seen a place like this, it's hard to comprehend a place that looks like a cathedral Please See ELEVEN Page A6 The Morning Call's cniine source.

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