Citizens' Voice from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • 9

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Or call Xerox at 800-648-5888, operator They'll give you more reasons why the Xerox 3300 towers above its competitors. An all-out drive to get a bus-assembly plant in Luzerne County is advocated by Luzerne County Transportation Authority. Neoplan USA Corporation, a division of a West German firm with a plant in Lamar, was low bidder for 1,000 buses being bought by transportation authorities in Pennsylvania in a pool purchase arrangement. Harold E. Edwards executive director of LCTA, was in Colorado last week with a committee of executive directors and maintenance directors to review Neoplan's production and financial capabilities.

He told the authority board at a special meeting Monday that Neoplan intends to build a plant in Pennsylvania. He said executives of the firm will be in Pennsylvania in two weeks to look for a site, and the firm plans to have buses rolling off the line in October. The first few under the contract may be assembled in Colorado, he said, but the majority will be assembled in the new Pennsylvania plant. The executive directors learned that 92 percent of the component parts are manufactured in the United States. At the Colorado plant the firm employs 350 persons, it is separate from the parent company in West Germany, and only two or three persons are German the rest are Americans living in the Lamar area.

LCTA board chairman Frank DeAndrea and others spoke of the excellent supply of skilled and non-skilled workers available in the region and the network of interstate highways which make it easily accessible to eastern seaboard cities. Most of the buses to be built under the pool purchase are intended for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Hazleton will get 10, LCTA will get seven. On motion by Robert McGinley, the authority voted to urge Economic Development Council, Chambers of Commerce and other agencies to mount a drive to present Luzerne County's advantages for construction of the proposed bus manufacturing plant. Authority Hires New Operations Director A Williamsport man was hired by Luzerne County Transportation Authority as operations director and a Dupont man was hired as dispatcher in action at a special meeting Monday.

Named operations director at a salary of $19,000 was Joseph Gilbert, currently supervisor of drivers at Williamsport Bureau of Transportation, a transportation authority said to be somehat smaller than the county authority. He is expected to begn his duties by March 22. Gilbert fills the post vacated by Robert Boston, Kingston, in an administrative move laid to internal problems. The dispatcher is John Gruzenski, who will fill a position currently being handled by two drivers on a part-time basis. The drivers will be returned to their duties as drivers, it was said.

Gruzenski is to start immediately. On recommendation of the solicitor, Atorney George Spohrer, the authority voted to withdraw its protest, filed with Pennsylvania PUC, on the request of Frank Martz Coach Company to re-establish service between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. The bus firm will not pickup or discharge passengers from Luzerne County and LCTA has no interest in the procedure it was explained. Authority board received some preliminary data Monday on an analysis of its routes and ridership being made by Simpson and Curtin, the transportation planning division of Booz, Allen and Hamilton. The authority expects to ask several drivers to sit in on the operations committee meetings on the survey so they will be kept informed.

There will be no decisions until summer, it was said. Laflin Firefighters to Drill Laflin Volunteer Fire Department will conduct a drill Wednesday night at 6:30 under the supervision of Chief Tom Bullaro. Drill will be held in the borough building and all firefighters and junior firefighters are urged to Ill V1 XEROX I'd like a sales representative to contact me a demonstration more information. Send to: Xerox Corporation, Box 24, Rochester, N.Y. 14601.

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