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SECOND mil THE MORNING CALL. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1987 B9 Hershey Pocono sale announced Owners of The Inn at Reading to purchase resort Dresident and chief primitive offi courts, sits on 140 acres. The Professional Golfers' Association-sanctioned course is on 150 acres nearby. HERCO, which Is separate from Hershey Foods operates the 80-year-old Hersheypark amusement center, a major resort and convention facility, five golf courses, a food distributorship and several other businesses based in Hershey.

After HERCO decided to consolidate operations, it also put up for sale its amusement park in Bristol called Hershey Lake Corn-pounce, Roberts said. That park, which hasn't been sold yet is about half the size of Hersheypark, he said. The company operates two other hotels outside of Hershey, The Hershey Philadelphia Hotel and The Hershey Corpus Chris ti Hotel in Texas. Roberts said the company would sell either facility "under the right circumstances." HERCO owns the Corpus Christi hotel and leases the building in Philadelphia. By ROBERT H.

ORENSTEIN Of The Morning Call The owners of The Inn at Reading are planning to buy The Hershey Pocono Resort in Kidder Township, which includes a 250-room hotel and an 18-hole golf course, early next year. Hershey Entertainment Resort Co. is selling its 290-acre Pocono complex, which it has owned since 1976, as part of a plan to consolidate efforts at its central Pennsylvania base, company spokesman Rich Roberts said yesterday. The company did not announce a price. HERCO announced Monday that it would sell the property to Thomas R.

Norman Sr. of Wyomissing, Berks County, and Mr. and Mrs. John E. Sheehan of Ligonier, Westmoreland County.

Norman and the Sheehans, who own three other hotels in Texas and one in Florida, were unavailable for comment. J. Bruce McKinney, HERCO sort had one of the higher occupancy rates in the area and several businesses had expressed interest in buying it "We had a number of people doing feasibility studies, looking at how it fared compared to other properties," he said. Pocono Hershey did not rely on the honeymoon or weekend business, he said. "Hershey had a distinct advantage because they were very diversified.

They attracted families, couples, group conventions and bus business, Ugoccioni said. The Pocono facility opened in 1969 as Sheraton Pocono Resort, a 175-room hotel, Roberts said. In 1984, eight years after buying the business, Hershey added 75 guest rooms, meeting areas and a lounge. The company is redecorating the 175 older rooms to make them conform to the newer ones, Roberts said. The resort, which includes indoor and outdoor pools and lighted tennis cer, said the sale is part of his company's decision to focus business activities in Hershey.

"Our goal now is to develop Hershey into this nation's finest travel destination," he said in a prepared statement He said the trademark ''Hershey" no longer will be part of the resort's name. Roberts said HERCO has been trying to sell the complex since August. Business there has been excellent, he said, although loan payments to pay off major renovations and expansion in 1984 cut into the company's profit "For us, we found it was very close to a break-even situation. We were constrained by a heavy debt because of the renovations there," he said. He did not disclose any figures.

Robert Ugoccioni, executive director of the Pocono Mountain Vacation Bureau, said the Hershey Re Congolcum floors mistletoe Grodtaess sale L-STOCK SPECIALS! Tis Hie season to save on a new no-wax floor! Reg. Sal Esteem 35.75 27.75 Reflection 25.95 13.95 n. Spring .....21.95 12.95 Brlghtllfe 17.25 12.25 Vlnylcrest 7.95 4.95 FIND FAST THE DONNELLEY DIRECTORY nrHrnniT SPECIAL BONUS! Save en additional 10 OFF, if you do ths installation yourself. AraierDal remaisis called work of cult "A Reputation You Can Rely On" By RICH HARRY Of The Morning Call Quality Carpet Hardwood Ceramic Formica Custom Draperies Window Treatments Corlan Wallpaper Area Rugs Do-It-Yourselt Center CENTER lice manuals, which describe cult activity. "Every day is a challenge," said the chief.

"This is the first time I had to investigate something like this. And I hope it's the last." Added he: "There are a lot of weird things going on these days." 1031 (Wftwt Sfc, UKUUS M5-M35 Ml S. Wat Ui IM, OUAKBTOWH S3t-IS9t Mori to Fn 9-5, Thurs Frt 6-8 Sat. 10-2 (Q-town) 9-4 (Emmaua SI. CITIZEN DISC AVAIL IxcLSalaHmif mi ESTiMATZS Pretuiton) InitillrtiiM 33 Vttn Eipwltnca 1 The animals bore no unusual markings a symbol, for instance that would erase any doubt a religious cult was involved, Dax said.

He theorized that the heads were removed by a straight razor. "The cuts," he said, "were very clean." Still a mystery is who dumped the bags. "I think they were just discarded by someone passing through," Dax said. He said it is likely the bag-dumpers were familiar with the part of Mountain Drive where the animal carcasses were found. The area is isolated and surrounded by woods.

However, Dax said the investigation by campus police uncovered no evidence that any religious ceremony had been held in the vicinity. "We were all over those woods, and we checked them the best we could," Dax said. "We couldn't find a thing." Dax ruled out the possibility that the culprits were prank-minded Lehigh University students. "It's definitely not Lehigh University students," Dax said. "Lehigh University students do a lot of things, but this time it just isn't in their make-up.

Students do nothing close to this, not even as a prank." The bags were found along the road on Nov. 27 by a Bethlehem family who reported the discovery to authorities. Afterward, campus police patrols were increased in the area, and Dax said there have been no further reports of suspicious activity. Following press coverage of the discovery, Dax received several phone calls from persons volunteering information on religious cults. A spokesman for the Lehigh Valley chapter of the Association for Animal Protective Legislation and Law Enforcement earlier had told The Morning Call that the group has investigated animal-abuse cases elsewhere in the state but could not link any to cult activity.

The spokesman for the association, which describes itself as an animal rights group, said it is believed that the Lehigh University case is the first in the Lehigh Valley involving headless animals. The discovery of the chickens and goat had Dax scrambling for his po The headless remains of chickens and a goat found recently on Lehigh University property likely were the work of a religious cult, but an investigation has turned up no suspects, the campus police chief said yesterday. "It's hard to explain," said Chief Eugene Dax. "There are certain ways cults cut animals, some using a downward motion, for instance." There were such "similarities," he said, with the remains of the six domestic chickens and one domestic goat placed in seven garbage bags that were found late last month along Mountain Drive on South Mountain. "There's always doubt until you actually prove it," Dax said yesterday.

"It's really hard to determine for sure." Dax, in concluding his report on the matter yesterday, said he considers the investigation complete unless new evidence emerges. The only clues so far have been the animals and some tattered clothing that had also been placed in the bags. Registration For the Spring Semester Classes of the Quakertown Classrooms dBB mm II of B'iLirBSiUDiieae will be 1 4:30 ii.ra.-7 n.m. Lafayette College library gets a first edition of 'The Federalist' aT at Quakertown High School in the lobby of the 7th St. Entrance for more information call: 437-4471 ext.

356 source for the texts of the initial 77 essays are the newspapers in which they initially appeared, and for essays 78 through 85, the most authoritative source is "The Federalist" "The set is remarkably well preserved and beautifully bound," said Diane Shaw, special collections librarian at Lafayette's Skillman Library. She said the books will be housed in the Rare Book Collection and will be available to students and other scholars. Written under the pseudonym "Publius," the essays first appeared in newspapers in 1787 and 1788. In 1788, John and Archibald McClean, owners and editors of a New York City newspaper, published the collection. "The three most important historical documents ever written in the United States are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and 'The said Cooke.

"The originals of the Declaration and the Constitution are carefully preserved as national treasures. Of the 85 Federalist essays, by contrast the drafts of only three remain, and they include so many editorial changes that they are virtually undecipherable." Cooke said the most reliable A first edition of "The Federalist," the landmark collection of essays written 200 years ago in support of the new U.S. Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, John-Jay and James Madison, has been presented to Lafayette College. Lafayette College trustee William E. Simon of Morristown, N.J., donated the two-volume set to the college's David Bishop Skillman Library at the dedication of the new William E.

and Carol G. Simon Wing. The gift was in commemoration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. "An unexcelled explanation and defense of American federalism, 'The Federalist' occupies an unrivaled place in our national political literature," said Dr.

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