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22 The Pocono Record, The Stroudsburgs, Pa. Aug. 7, 1975 Freedom Train attracts trouble as well as people MASSIVE MODEL Louis Kuebler, 79, adjusts from keel to masthead, has working bronze line on elaborate model of USS Constitution, gun pumps and sails and was bought from 'Old Ironsides', which he and a friend, now de- Kuebler by Chicago bank for bicentennial ex- ceased, built over 25-year period, from 1932 hibit. Sale price wasn't disclosed, but model to 1957. Model, 12 Viz feet long and 1 1 2 feet has been insured for $1 million.

(UPI) Not just tourist attraction Deserf dinosaur arfisf s' dream By ROY J. HARRIS, JR. Dow Jones-Ottaway News CABAZON. Calif. Along Interstate 10 northwest of Palm Springs, the wind- scoured desert, ringed with bare and jagged peaks, has an almost lunar beauty.

Suddenly, as you drive along, there rises out of the desert a creature from the dimmest past. It grows in your car's windshield and grows some more. personal cost of more than S100.000. Some men aspire to board chairmen and retire as clerks: others want to be great athletes and wind up weekend bowlers. Claude Bell wanted to build with his own hands something memorable, permanent, above thing big.

He did it. Bell is a small, wiry man who has been an artist-artisan which Mr. Bell also owns. Says Bell: "When you're stretched to four, five, a de- By ROBERT W. MERRY Dow Jones-Ottaway News It's 0:30 a.m.

in Springfield. Ohio, a quiet farming community with 82,000 residents and no train station. A thick fog embraces the town, the air is crisp and dank. And on Washington Street, a crowd is gathering where the train station used to be. There's not much there now: Dirty warehouses surrounding an empty parking lot; a lonely brick crackerbox building where a Perm Central trainmaster clings to the old days; large patches of clover and weeds pushing up through crumbling cement.

The trains that pass through Springfield these days are like the wind: They do not stop. An exception is the American Freedom Train, a museum on wheels scheduled to arrive with the dawn's early light on this morning. Now it's 6:40. and the crowd has grown to about a hundred, including lots of kids and two dogs. Why are they here? "To see the steam engine, mainly." says Jim Roberts, who runs a hobby shop.

"You don't get a chance like this everyday." The American Freedom Train is moving west, tracing the paths of those settlers and a pushed through the country's vast western reaches on the way to manifest destiny. Laden with historical heirlooms and pulled It's now 7 a.m.. the crowd numbers close to 300, but still porations Pepsi-Cola Co. Prudential Insurance Co. no train.

Finally a policeman America. Kraft Foods. Genera announces the Freedom Train will arrive about 8:30. "Well, let's go get some breakfast." sighs Roberts. But an hour later he and the rest of the crowd are back.

And then, with a scries of whistle blasts, the huge mass of steel moves into town, anil creaks to a halt. A steam locomotive can bring out the crowds in these uncertain times. In Springfield the schedule called for a mere 15-minute water stop, and still hundreds turned out al dawn. Thousands more lined the route south to catch a glimpse as the train chugged through and Atlantic Richfield Co. each contribut ed SI million to the project.

That was enough to acquire a train, renovate a couple old steam engines, collect the artifacts, and put the show or the tracks. The rest of Hit project's $18 million budgel was to come fi'orn admission fees and souvenir sales in the cities and towns sehedulet for train stopovers the next 18 months. But three months and several communities after the train began its journey in Wilmington. it is becoming clear that attendance and conces- Public Notices doing something like this, you ear was swallowed up by the beast. The thought that someday tingle of enthusiasm.

I've his dream might actually be finished disturbs cade. An average of 810,000 a by a anl Readin 1M sleam can forget about eating and sleeping, and just live on that he says. -I'll never be ness ln times. worked ail through the night sometimes. A younger man something probably couldn't plan this and finished.

After the Bronto- all some- do it; you need to build up the saurus, I'm going to build a money, and the dedication, too. When you're young, you're too dumb, you run crazy after The monster is four stories all his life. At 78 years of age. girls." Train's 25 cars all freshly painted in red. white, and blue are calculated to tweak the country's national conscious- these bicentennial high and half a football field long, and it weighs hundreds of tons; it is a Brontosaurus almost triple the size of the actual dinosaur of the Jurassic Period the largest animal ever to walk the earth.

Looking at the bulging operator of a portrait studio that has regularly grossed 5140,000 a year, he could have retired in comfort long ago. Yet he still spends most of ger. far grander his spare time, in fact half of mere elephant, every week, puttering around his giant reptile. To the resi- Tyrannosaurus 65 feet high with a viewing platform in the head. After that, more, a whole dinosaur garden.

I'm Bell has long been fascinated going on 80 and I've got'25 or the oi le lin less a ctmnni with the great dinosaurs. The one that fit his dream was. of course, the biggest far big- than any 30 years left to live. I figure, and I'm going to work until can't work anymore." mile roule. "So far." says Rowland, a locomotive, the Freedom 34-year-old New York commodities broker, "we've made just about what we need to stay in business.

But. the last month has been under what we need. The problem is alerting the people that the product is But like the westward-bound' 'here a what the product is." Rowland, whose father and a a railroaders, is a licensed steam-locomotive engineer with a passion for old trains. His long-standing idea for a Bicentennial Freedom Train took root last year, when five cor- tiny villages and budding corn- sions receipts may not be fields toward Cincinnati. Up enough to sustain the project, north in Columbus, where the Still.

Rowland wards off pessi- Freedom Train rested at a sid- mism: "I can't believe this ing for 12 days, 147,000 persons project will be allowed to die." passed through the museum cars. That's about 12.250 a day at $2 for adults and SI for kids. And still it's not quite enough, says Ross E. Rowland. Jr.

chairman of the American Freedom Train Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates what is billed as the only nationwide bicentennial project currently under way. It was expensive the train on the tracks, says Rowland, and it's expensive to maintain the train on its planned 17.000- migrants of old. those operating the Freedom Train at no government expense, they are quick to point uut are find- than smooth. That's clear enough right here field. in Spring- shoulder muscles, the curling dents of Cabazon, the figure in tail, the rough-textured green hide, it is possible to forget for moment that it is just steel he is known simply as "The Di- the flower-printed cap is so identified with his creation that and sculpted concrete.

It is even possible briefly to ignore the fire escape (a grudging concession to safety) and the surroundings a gas station, the Wheel-Inn Cafe, and other features of the roadside economy of Cabazon, population nosaur Man." Clearly, only a Brontosaurus. and outsize one at that, would do. And, since it would be his Brontosaurus. there would have to be a few modifications on the basic Jurassic model. The head, for example, dis- Trucker's strike key factor in Citizens Band boom Bell, who lives with his wife pleased him; too small.

He in a spartan cabin near the di- made it a little bigger. The nosaur when he's in town, says project took shape in his draw- that maybe he'll get a little of ings and plans, and in 19G4 he his investment back by charg- broke ground, ing admission to a museum he is installing in the beast's cavernous belly. But profit clear- The dinosaur is much more ly has little to do with it. than just another tourist attraction, however. It is the realized lifelong dream of one "If all he wanted to do was make money, he would have Working week after week.

Bell scrounged what he could and paid for the rest. He got steel from a washed-out bridge and concrete for the foundation from a road-builder's surplus. man. who built'it himself, for two," says Alice Richmond, a its own sake, over 11 years at a waitress at the Wheel-Inn. had that lizard up in a year or The construction, which he originally figured would only take a couple of years.

BRING YOUR SCRAP CARS TO COUNTRY HEST PAID IN For JUNK CARS Any Type Drive Them In! Tow Them In! Drag Them In! Cars Must Have Radiator, Battery and Motor. Turn Your Scrap Cars Into Cash At D. KATZ SONS, Inc. SCRAP YARD and RECYCLING CENTER DREHER AVENUE STROUDSBURG, PA. PHONE 421-1464 By JOHN RYAN Dow Jones-Ottaway News CHICAGO "I remember one shot on the evening news showing the chief of the striking truckers flying along in a helicopter above the highway and using CB radio to instruct his members to get their rigs moving again.

Just about anybody who saw scenes like that wanted to know more about the radios all those were using." Speaking is Carl Korn, president of Dynascan a Chicago importer of citizen-band radios, known as CBS. Most sells for $159.95. each other to the whereabouts In economy and flexibility, of "Smokey the Bear," as a highway patrolman is called because many wear hats re- radio covers vast distances but sembling that sported by the costs far more (about $700 to Forest Service symbol. (An unmarked police car is "a smo- key in a plain Similarly, some truckers, warned' by other drivers via service used by such agencies tCB avoid en wei hin sta as police departments and 'TMs, termed "chicken coops." drivers large taxi fleets, is also more suchantlcs CB seems costly than CB, is limited to a to be lm rov trucker-police specific frequency in a particu- relatlons as more states CB outstrips other two-way systems. Amateur, or "ham," get started), requires passing a difficult examination and cannot be used for business.

The land-mobile, or business courage its use by their highway patrols. Last September, Missouri began experimental use of CB that the independent truckers' strike early last year was a major factor in triggering a sales boom in the simple two- way, short-range radios. The truckers showed the public what CB could do and the public responded by making it a S300 million-a-year demand. lar area and is off limits to personal messages. CB, in contrast, can be used for both rn in business and personal conver- CB executives agree with Korn sation and chame)s wjl) in about a dozen police cars, function anywhere in North i( h'he number growing to 100 America.

by February. In that time, CB-equipped A not everyone truckers and motorists report- bothers with the $4, five year ed 27 wrong-way drivers, re- license issued without a test by suiting in 11 arrests; 119 ap- the Federal Communications parently drunk motorists, of Commission, applications offer whom .101 were booked; 31 some measure of CBS growth, speeders (22 arrests); and 27 business in which manufactur- In 1973 there were 246 000 new criminal cases, such as kidnapers cannot meet the surging licenses; last year the number ping and theft (21 arrests). jumped to 425,000, and in 1975 Also turned up were 120 acci- it is expected to hit one mil- dents, 50 road hazards, 94 stranded motorists and five There are believed to be sick or in ured persons. Having about 6.3 million CBs in use in thus been snown 'Show-Me the U.S., and they can be found tater nas insl alled CB in all in an estimated one of every five trucks and one in seven recreational vehicles as well as a growing number of passenger cars. The term "citizens-band" refers to the 23 broadcast channels reserved by the government since 1958 for the service.

The basic idea of CB is that from a set in, say, your home, office or car. you can i a i members, employes or anyone else you need to who also has a CB. The range of a CB set varies according to interference and other conditions, but a well- placed sender can usually be heard up to 20 miles. (Uncle Sam sets a 150-mile maxim The most popular model put out by K. F.

Johnson Co. of Waseka, the leading domestic manufacturer. 750 of its highway patrol cars. Truckers remain zealous missionaires of the medium, viewing it as a way to dispel the hypnotic tedium of driving the interstate system as well as a professional tool for keeping advised of road conditions and reporting accidents. Truck drivers often use CB to get around the 55-mile-an- hour speed limit by alerting THE LOCKHORNS "HAP LORETTA HER WIT5, SHE WOULP HAve DIEP IN INFANCY." SPECIAL NOTICE The Monroe County Area vocational-Technical school AulhorHy will meet in special session for the purpose approving bills on Tuesday August 19, 1975 at 7 P.M.

at Itie school. Ruth Mauser, Secretary Monroe County Area vocational- Technical School Authority Aug. 1-7-14. NOTICE "APPLICATIONS ARE BEING A A A A VALLEY JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOR I TEACHERS FOR THE 1975-76 I APPLICANTS SHOULD CONTACT MR. A H.

ARNOLD, PRINCIPAL, TELEPHONE: 717-992- J128." July 31, Aug. 4,7,11, IB SPECIAL NOTICE The Monroe County Area vocational-Technical school joint operating Commiltee will meet in special session immediately following the public meeting under Act 34 which is being held on Tuesday August 19, 1975. Ralph G. Turn, Jr Secretary Monroe County Area Vocational Technical School joint operating Committee Aug. 7, 13, 18.

INVITATION FOR BIDS The Price Township supervisors will receive seeled bids for tho resurfacing of approximately 7.0JJ feet of roadway. The work in general will include all labor, material, equipment, and transportation necessary lo place approximately 15,653 square yards of bituminous surface treatment in accordance wilh the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Torm Section 480. A bid for approximately 15,653 square yards of ID-2A surface course 1" in depth will be received as an alternate. Bid proposals will be received until 7:30 O'clock local time on August 11, 1975, at the home of Mr. Card O'Harra, R.D.

4, East Stroudsburg, a si which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read alound. Contract Documents, including Technical specifications, are On file at the office of Edward c. Hess Associates, 33 North 7th street, Stroudsburg, Pa. Copies of tho Contract Documents may be obtained by paying $5.00 for each set of documenls obtained A certified check or bank draft, payable to the order of the Monroe County commissioners or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed by ihe Bidder and an acceplable surety, in an amount equal to ten per cent (101 of the total Bid shall be submitted with each bid. The successful Bidder will be required Ifl furnish and pay for satisfactory performance and payment bond or bonds in the amount of not less lhan one hundred per cent (100) of Ihe estimated amount.

An acceptable surety company is any one included in the latest issue of the U.S. Treasury Department circular 570 listings. Attention is called to the fact that not less than me minimum applicable salaries and wages must be paid on this Project, and that the contractor niusl ensure that employees and applicants (or employment are not dis- color, religion, sex or national origin. The Price Township Supervisors reserve the right to reject any or all Bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding. Bids may be held by Ihe Price Township supervisors for a period no! to-exceed thirty (30) days from the date of the opening of Bids for Ihe purpose of reviewing the aids and investigating the qualifications of the Bidders, prior to awarding of the Contract.

Gard O'Harra, Secretary Price Township supervisors July 30, Aug. 4, 7. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting of ihe Jackson Township supervisors will be held at ihe Jackson Township Elementary School in Reeders on August 12, 1975, at 7:30 p.m. o'clock to consider only the Federal Revenue Sharing Program, and the possible allocation of cerlain Federal Revenue Sharing Funds for certain expenditures within the Township in accordance with State Law. NO other business will be conducted.

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Saturdays deadline is 9 a Policy The Pocono Record reserves II right to edil or reject any advertisii it (eels is not in the best inlerest the reader. Pocono Record Box Replies Received Yesterday: 734-738-741-747-748 750-754-756-758 Monuments Cemetery Memorials, filtering, Cleaning in cemetery. Bronze, marble, granite. Slroudsburg Granite Main al Dreher 421-3591. Card of Thanks WE WISH to lhank all our neighbors, relatives, and friends, doctors and nurses, for the sympathy cards, flowers, and food during our bereavement in the loss of our Mother, nnpi i HESLER.

Dora Hester Family Lost and Found FOUND: Clipboard with table! and other papers and pencil attached. Auctioneer's information. Name counter in Pocono Record. Call 421-73-19. FOUND: Commercial license plate.

Quite baltered. Number CH608J7. Pa. plate. Call 629-0330.

FOUND: Prescription glasses in case. On Main stbg. call 424-2240. LOST: Brown leather pocket book with red flowers on front flap IGA area. Phone 424-B645.

LOST in vicinity of Ml. Pocono, Toy Fox Terrier, female, answers to the name Call 839-8481. LOST: White and brown draw-string purse. Shawnee. Aug.

2. Reward. Call collect (717) 385-3624 alter 4 p.m. LOST! cab. Black wallet containing money and important cards.

Keep money. Return cards and wallet to 101 E. Brown East stbg. Special Notices ORGANIST and-or PIANIST will play for one who wants to take a vacalion. Call 839-7504 or 421-5947.

ASTROLOGY Swami Jay-Devananda, by ment, (717) 629-0481. TEMPORARY TAGS ISSUED import Auto, Rte. 447, E. Stroudsburg. Phone 421-6930.

COLLEGE grad going cross-country this fall. Greyhound Ameripath -wouldn't mind company. Pocono Record Box 810. GOLFERS: Please note This coming sat. The Hamlen Golf Practice Range will not open until 5:30 p.m.

due to the Air Show. NEED music or musicians for parties, weddings, dances, etc. All types Rock, Jail, Ccjntry. etc. contact Mainline Music, (717) 424-0740.

MERLE NORMAN COSMETICS Lingerie and Gifts 522 Main Slbg, 424-2130 ORCHESTRA 2-man duo featuring pianist, for open dates 424-8758 or 424-6828. Insurance 12A INSURANCE is a profession deal with professional. Our 22nd year A I A A Market Basket 14 Jackson Toi Aug. 7. iship supervisor; FARM CORN.

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