Scrantonian Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 17

0 I-1' -7 1 1 Ik I ft 1ft 'tfl I )'. i ,1 1 pijpi'' iPiP-w mtm gf 1 t' i SECTIO THE Local News Obituaries Ionian SECTKtS II Financial Porter II PA. 18501 SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1981 Tr Runaway Rig Hits Home, Car In Key ser Valley rv John Bethea, 39, Indianapolis, suffered cuts and a possible arm fracture Saturday when the tractor-trailer he was driving ran out of control while descending the Morgan Highway, struck a house at 1125 Pulton St. and slammed into a parked car, pushing it over a 10-foot embankment. Police said Bethea, who was taken to the hospital in an ambulance and released after treatment, stayed with the rig long enough to guide it across N.

Keyser Avenue and into a parking area behind Gabe's Diner. Bethea then jumped from the cab into the parking lot. The tractor-trailer, shown at right, continued on for another 50 feet and was starting to turn when it clipped the side of the home of Florence Peresta and slammed into the car parked alongside the house. The damaged house and auto are shown in photo at far right. (Scrantonian Photos by Stanley Olds) 1 1 u- c- 1 'W A Patrons of Metrinko's Bar Alert to History in Making Michaels Release Principal Topic chance to be near history or by the inexpensive prices and manly atmosphere, is arguing the merits of fire companies.

"Pete may throw them out, the oldtimer says as a playful shoving match begins. Peter Metrinko. Michaels uncle, does not take any action. Conversation again takes over as the shoving stops. Michael was always studying, the oldtimer says.

Hes rather go to a library than a ballgame. Sports werent for Michael. By RAY FLANAGAN The rambling red-shingled building in which Michael Metrinko grew up stands at the end of Olyphants Delaware Street, just a little more than a stones throw from the manmade mountain of rock and coal ash that towers over the Mid Valley community. Towels are stuck under doors in the unused rooms to keep out the biting January cold. Inside, 20-cent drafts and shots of schnapps or brandy are the order of the day for the young men who crowd the bar.

You should see- the backroom," a newcomer is told. "It hasnt been used for years, but they used to have dances in it. Theres an old Victorian piano. They used to have fights and wrestling in there, an oldtimer recalls. "On the weekends there were big bands.

The conversation turns to the Metrinko family. There were three boys, you know. Michael (who was completing his 441st day of captivity in Iran) was in the middle. Gregory, the oldest has a Peter is an attorney. Theyre both in Maryland.

The conversation continues at a table in the corner of the tavern. The younger crowds, whether attracted by the He may have learned from his older brother, the oldtimer guesses. Harry handled him just right. He didnt want to go to school so Harry gets him a job moving furnaces. He used to come home and lay on the rug, he was so tired.

He finally said "I want to go to school." The oldtimer gets up from the table and steps into the backroom. A minute later, hes back. Harry wanted to know about church; hes going to 5 o'clock. THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS A longtime friend of Harry and Alice Metrinko, who refused to identify himself, looks over the newspapers Saturday for the latest news on the possible release of Michael Metrinko and other American hostages in Iran. The setting was the Metrinko family tavern in Olyphant.

When a visitor wants to use the phone, Peter Metrinko directs him through a door into the family room. No. one is there; Harry and Alice are in another part of the home. AWAITING THE RELEASE Peter Metrinko, The conversation revolved around everyday Michaels uncle, continues his bartending routine subjects, but a hush fell over the tavern whenever a Saturday as customers gather in the family tavern newscast came on. to wait for news of the hostages possible release.

(Scrantonian Photos by Stanley Olds) You know Harry and Alice were over there (Iran) Michael made sure they went on trips. They were in Greece, too. The climates were good for them," the oldtimer said. Church Sale Sparks Interest Nuclear Plant's 'Dryer' Gear Weighs Total of 125 Tons one source explained "The building may be worth $100,000 but the church keeps thinking about that last offer. Just then, a news update comes on.

The noisy bar quiets down. The tone is upbeat, but still there is no specifics about the release. "No use getting our hopes up too high. Weve been here before. The oldtimer says.

I just'dont know how much longer everyone can hold on. Anthony Caruso, the city's director of Economic and Community Development, said he has no idea if federal money could be used to purchase the church and turn it into public facility. I really have no idea, he said. You have to examine things on a case-by-case basis. the steam through series of passageways and tubes, providing surface area to which water droplets adhere.

By the time the steam enters the main pipe to the turbine-generator, more than 99 percent of its moisture has been removed. Both the separator and the dryer are in the shape of cylinders about 20 feet in diameter. The separator is about 20 feet high and weighs about 70 tons. The dryer about 15 feet high, weighs about 55 tons. The Unit 1 is now about 90 percent complete and the plant is more than 78 percent complete overall.

Susquehanna is jointly owned by and Allegheny Electric Cooperative a Harrisburg-based cooperative which supplies power to '14 rural electrical distribution systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Weighing a total of about 125 tons, equipment installed to remove moisture from steam in Unit 1 at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Salem Township, Luzerne County, isn't exactly your run-of-the-mill dehumidifier. A spokesman for the plants principal owner, Pennsylvania Power Light said the two pieces of equipment, a steam separator and a steam dryer, are needed to improve efficiency and protect other equipment. Together, the two can dry out nearly 14 million pounds of steam per hour. Without the separator and dryer, said Norman W.

Curtis, water droplets in the steam would cause pitting and other damage to blades of the turbines which drive the units electricial generator. Curtis fs director of the Susquehanna project for The separator and dryer work by channeling Police Nab Dunmorean from Central High School he wrote. The library is in an interesting location, across the alleyway trom the 14th Century French Renaissance style of the Albright Memorial Library and across Vine Street from the Romanesque Central High School. Around the corner is the Byzantine style of the Masonic Temple and the classical Gothic School Administration Building. The church fends itself very well to a cultural center, a kind of performing arts center," one writer explained, "it is the.

perfect location in the perfect setting. But cho can afford it?" John J. Lavelle appraised the church several years ago when Adams-Plaa, its neighbor, wanted to purchase the structure. Lavelle refused to tell The Scrantonian the figure but newspaper sources disclosed it was $100,000, even though Adams Plaza's developers, Stonehedge offered the church $225,000. That $225,000 number has stuck in their head ever since, A 36-year-old Dunmore man, Richard Dermody, 2218 Madison was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he allegedly rolled up his car window on the arm of city A trustee of the Scranton Public Library explained that talk of the church being turned into an annex is ridiculous.

In light of the branches being closed," he said, you tan't open a building right next door to the Albright. And besides, where are we going Jo get the money to run it? The trustee noted that the church is heated by a coal-fired stoker. At $75 a ton for coal, the healing plant must be converted, he said. "And then there is the cost ot other renovations. But I haven't been inside.

I don't know what it looks like. Patrolman Larry Roche at Nay Aug Park Saturday morning. Appoint Mroczka To Center Staff Roche Reported Dermody was sitting in his car ith the engine running and the radio playing at full volume near the duck pond Several small groups ot performing arts people expressed initial interest in the building, explaining it is the perfect size and location for a community-run theater. The popularity of a community or cooperatively owned facility gams credibility when it is noted that one-night rentals run as high as $950 for the Masonic Temple, $500 for the smaller West Side Theatre and $250 for the yet-smaller and slightly-out-of-the-way Marywood Fine Arts Theatre. The Christian Scientist practitioners themselves will move into the small Reading Room in the 300 block of N.

Washington Avenue. Their numbers have dwindled to just -a handful. The Reading Room was opened in June of 1954. The Christian Scientist movement, officially called First Church of Christ, Scientist, began in the late 1800s when it was founded by Mary Baker Eddy, a woman who was healed while reading of Jesus healing in Matthew 9.1-8 The movement quickly came to Scranton and the local society was chartered -the first in Pennsylvania-Jan 19, 1898. The local unit had been operating out of a three-story building at 519 Adams the top two floors rented out to practitioners.

In 1906, the local society bought a lot in the 400 block of Jefferson Avenue but in the following year bought the Vine Street plot of land, erecting the building in 1913. It was ready for occupancy in 1915 There was an ill-conceived movement in 1966 to convert the church into a library annex a plan largely attributed to then Councilman James Dougherty, who announced it at a council session only to have the church board deny it By LEW MARCUS The news late last week that the Christian Scientist edifice-a massive and stately Classical style church at 520 Vine St. -will be sold sparked immediate interest among Members of both the religious and cultural communities. On Thursday, The Tribune carried a news story announcing the proposed sale of the building because the building is much too large for the present needs of our congregation, The announcement produced a flurry of activity. Alan Grossinger, a real estate salesman for Hinerfeld Realty, explained that on Friday his office received eight calls -and that was before Hinerfeld had officially been designated the building's agent.

"Every pastor with a congregation over 10 people have been calling us, Grossinger quipped. But we dont have anything to tell them. We havent officially been given the listing. Grossinger said he expects to be given the details of the church and the keys on Monday. In the meantime, members of the cultural and general community have been coming up with ail kinds of ideas for the church-ranging from a museum to a library annex to an art gallery to a performing arts center.

Stanley Svctovich, 2435 Hcermans wrote to The Scrantonian to suggest that the City of Scranton buy the building and turn it into a city museuip. It would be a good move for the city to acquire the building for an archive, a place to store the citys hidden treasures. This would serve as a city museum having good architecture and nicely located adjacent to the public library, across the street When the officer asked Dermody what he was doing, Dermody, who had written a message in the snow with his foot, reportedly began swearing at the cop, telling him to "get out" so he could finish writing. GOP Leader 'Sidelined' Among those scheduled to attend are Mr. and Mrs Ralph Lomma, personal friends ot President-elect and Mrs.

Reagan. L-1LS Dermody then locked himself in his car, police said, but was coaxed into rolling down the window on the driver's side by Roche and Patrolman Joe Cawley. A Richard Mroczka in new post The board of directors of the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service (ABC Center), located in the Administration Building of the Scranton State General Hospital, has announced the addition of Richard L. Mroczka, Carbondale, to its prolessional counseling staff, according to Colin J. Holmes, executive director.

The addition of Mroczka was made possible through the award of a supplemental grant by the agencys primary funding source, the Lackawanna County Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. It will help the Center expand its ability to provide outpatient drug and alcohol treatment services to residents of Lackawanna County. Mroczka, who resides in Carbondale with his wife and two children, is a graduate of West Side Man Hit-Run Victim Fell Township High School and the University of Scranton, where he received his S. degree in psychology in May, 1972. He completed work for his graduate degree in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Scranton, receiving his S.

in May of 1974. Included in this degree work was the completion of a 15-week internship served at Laglcville Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Addictions. Upon completion of this internship, Mroczka secured full-time employment with the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania and served as directoi- of that agency's drug and alcohol counseling program in Susquehanna County. Prior to accepting his present position, Mroczka was employed by St. Joseph's I Joseph Gerard, the chairman of the Lackawanna County Republican Committee was ill Saturday and was unsure whether he would be able to assume his role as leader of the delegation of county residents, attending the inauguration of President-elect Ronald Reagan in Washington Tuesday.

Gerard said he came down with some sort of virus and was unsure as late as Saturday at 8 p.m. whether he would go to Washington for the festivities. Gerard was scheduled to leave the area Saturday along with at least 100 other people' who have been invited to the swearing-in ceremonies in the nation's capital Police said Roche reached into the vehicle in an attempt to get the ignition keys but Dermody rolled up the window, pinning Roches arm. Martin Joseph Taylor, 41, 15t6 W. Locust St was treated at Moses Taylor Hospital early Saturday after he was injured in a hit-run accident while walking on Luzerne Street at 14th Avenue.

Hospital, Carbondale, serv ing as project director of its Drug aRd Alcohol Counseling Center. The Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service receives funding for the operation of its outpatient counseling service al the hospital from varous funding sources. The program is fully licensed by the Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse Cawley and Roche smashed the window to free Roches arm and reported Dermody began punching and kicking them when they tried to get him out of the vehicle. 1 Police said Taylor was taken to the hospital by ambulance at 12 55 am. and released after treatment.

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