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-THE SCRANTON TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1982 Long-Promised Bridge Raising on 7th Ave. May Begin Lackawanna Avenues to L.T. areas. The Lackawanna West project is of particular concern City Council Wednesday night introduced legislation an-, thorizing the transfer of remaining in the Central-Tech Project to the Consoli The long-awaited raising of the bridge on 7th Avenue may soon begin as the Scran ton Redevelopment Authority (SRA) moves to fulfill its commitments in its few remaining urban renewal projects. the fringe of the downtown.

A portion of the funds to be transferee will be used to pay for the installation of utilities in a residential area of the Cedar East project. In other action, Council: Introduced to committee the names of Henry Fricchione, 301 Conroy and Hugh Davitt 316 Oak for reap pointment to the Board of Zoning Appeals. Introduced Mayor James Br McNulty's nomination of attorney Virginia Sirotnak as an assistant city solicitor and of Frank Hedglin, 170 Brick to the Scranton Sewer Authority. Tabled the proposed sale of SRA land at 7th and West Lynn Backs McNulty on Aid Switch to the owners of Douaihy-Hazzouri Who were romised years ago that if they ocated their business on 7th Avenue, a railroad bridge bied to prevent him from diverting money from projects in their areas to other pro- grams. Lynn said that "those that are screaming have been on the receiving end since 1975." He said he was told at the beginning of the CDBG program funds would be expended to alleviate a problem Green Ridge residents have with an underground stream, but the work never was dope because Bernard Blier, who once headed the program, said residents of that area "are too affluent." Lynn argued against Mc Mayor James B.

McNulty received the support of Green Ridge resident Leo Lynn Wednesday night as he told City Council that the mayor is right in considering redirecting Community Development Block Grant funds to industrial developmeht rather than neighborhood improvements, Move to Block Sale of WDAU spanning the street would be raised to provide clearance for large trucks. To this date, however, the wholesale distributor remains the only business on that section of 7th Avenue, partly because the bridge has Nulty's plan to use more CDBG funds-for downtown, charging that businessmen there have not done enough to help themselves. Another Green Ridge resident, Richard Parker, asked Council to rescind a CDBG allocation for completion of a recreation area at the end of North Washington Avenue. Parker, who lives at 2501 N. Washington said the choice for the park was a poor one because ofthe hilly terrain and because it formerly was used as an ash dump.

There are no plans for lights or maintenance and the park received correspondence from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stating that the bridge was going to be repaired. The work has not been done, howejier, Gerrity expressed fears for pedestrians, including students from the nearby North Scranton Intermediate School, who use the bridge daily. Barricades have been placed around the hole, but Gerrity DRANTON GRBridge Repairs Are Urged not been The SRA faces being phased out and one of its last projects may be providing clearance for trucks on 7th Avenue, thereby fulfilling an old commitment and possibly stimulating interest in further development on may become a nuisance to the neighbors.and an eyesore unless changes' are made, he charged. Saron Stoker, 1001 Moltke asked Council to visit the block on which he lives to view first-hand the conditions that have created flooding problems for him and other property owners. The problems began several years ago, he said, when the city, paved the street and raised the road higher than the adjacent property.

Council President Vincent Manzo told Stoker his complaint would be investigated. said further precautions should be taken. Councilman Michael Mel-nick recommended that council write to PennDOT and inform the agency that the city wants lights placed around the hole and to have it covered with some type of shield. Gerrity said he was not "picking on PennDOT," but hole is something to behold." CARBONDALE TOP OF 'ox. By JOSEPH X.

FLANNERY Time Special Writer A Moosic man who is suing WDAU-TV for slander also has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission in an effort to block the proposed sale of the station. A spokesman for the FCC in Washington, DC, said that the very existence of a complaint poses a problem of adjudication and that, if a comlaint has merits, it could result in a refusal of sale permission. Louis Reviello, 312 Minooka Moosic, has filed the complaint against WDAU through attorney David J. Rin-aldi. It was filed with the FCC on Jan.

5 and WDAU filed an answer to it on Jan. 29. Beyond that, according to an FCC spokesman, there has been no action on the complaint City Councilman William Gerrity Wednesday called for immediate repairs to the Green Ridge Street Bridge where, he said, a huge hole has developed in the sidewalk. Gerrity, speaking at the weekly council meeting, said he doesn't know whether he is being an alarmist, but he knows that he is "not as complacent as some people are" about the bridge. More than a year ago council COMPLETE SHOPPING CENTER Verrastro, pending an opinion from the Law Department on its veto powers.

Approved the sale of land at 2208-10 Winfield Ave. in the Cedar East project to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Nolan. Introduced an ordinance amending the 1981 BOCA Basic Plumbing Code.

milium COULD OFFER THE CORNER! 'jj' i X- i REVOLVING CHARGE IZ55lii HIGHWAY, ROUTE 6, EYMOMp mm mm mm AMANA'S BEST! THE UUE JOUCMMATIC II dated urban Renewal Project to pay for work in Cedar-East the Lackawanna West McNulty has locked horns with various neighborhood associations over the use of the federal CDBG funds since shortly after taking office. He has frozen millions of dollars while reviewing the proposed expenditures and the neighborhood groups have lob- transfer of ownership. In a reply, WDAU said that the FCC cannot judge the merits of its news reports and notes that the Reviello charge is still only an allegation that remains to be tested in court Attorney Richard Marks, a member of WDAU-TV's Washington law firm of Dow, Lohnes Albertson, declined to speculate on when the FCC might act on the application to transfer ownership of Scranton Broadcasters Inc. However, he expressed optimism that the sale eventually will be approved. It also proved impossible to get an estimate from the FCC on when action might be taken on the WDAU matter.

A spokesman said it could be "anywhere from a few weeks to three years. "I Scranton Broadcasters recently acquired ownership of the former Kresge building at 411-17 Lackawanna Ave. for $250,000 and is now renovating the structure asihe new home for WDAU-TV. In fact, some departments of the station already have begun moving to the new location from the current studios in the Scranton Preparatory Building, 1000 Wyoming Ave. The move is 1 expected to be completed in about six or seven months.

Robert Dudley, Charles Woods and A. Richard Benedek are all New York businessmen who have various interests, including television stations in other parts of the country. The public notice they had to post of their proposed purchase of Scranton's only television station showed that they completed the purchase agreement by making a $600,000 down payment on the $12 million purchase. The sellers of the Scranton Broadcasters stock include Mrs. E.

Megargee, widow of the station's founder, and her four daughters, Marcella Hoi-comb, Katherine Collins, Mary Griffin and Jean Reap. The Megargees are retaining ownership ofthe AM and FM stations of WGBI Radio and also the Muzak franchise that they own. The proposed buyers of the local station had assigned an observer to WDAU-TV to informally check on its operations, but with the understanding that he would eventually become the general manager when they took control. However, without explanation to the staff, it was learned that this person left the station several weeks ago. That triggered several ru-.

mors, including one that the sale had fallen through. A check of those rumors with the FCC led to the revelation that the objection has been filed to the sale, posing at least the threat of a long delay in the transfer of ownership and possibly even a threat to the sale. Granted in Suit ple assault and sentenced to one-year probation in June 1980. Criminal charges against Grazious, whom the complaint claims "provoked" the alleged attack and "concealed" the incident, were dismissed. Whah suffered the injuries June 20, 1979, at the car wash.

The plaintiffs, represented by attorney Lawrence J. Moran, claimed that the borough was negligent for a number of reasons, including allegedly failing to provide for the safety of its residents and failing to promptly come to the Whahs' assistance. Cottone found that the plaintiffs did not claim any willful misconduct by the borough and that it was immune on the other charges. Attorney Irwin Schneider was for the borough; attorney James M. Howley for the Mariottis, and attorney John R.

Lenahan for Bruno. Success Is Easy With RADARAI1GE MICROWAVE OVEN WHO BUT SUGERMAH'S A VALUE AS GREAT AS THIS! and none is scheduled in the foreseeable future. It was announced over six months ago that a group of New York City investors had agreed to pay $12 million to acquire WDAU-TV from the heirs of Frank Megargee, the founder. An application was filed with, the FCC in Washington, C. to transfer control of Scranton Broadcasters the Megar- gee family firm that owris the it-station, from WGBI Radio another Megargeevtftrm, to SWB the new firm set up by the proposed bpyeL However, the FCC application has now been complicated by Reviello, a businessman who sells motor vehicles and novelty games, who alleges that he was slandered duringa news broadcast on WDAU-TV last April 8.

lira suit filed in Lackawanna County Court last Oct. 15 against the station and two reporters, Reviello alleges that he was damaged by a story that had linked him with the March 22, 1981, death of Herbert Kishbaugh Jr. 18, of Dalton RD 1. Kishbaugh was killed when he was pinned beneath a car he was working on in a friend's garage at 107 N. Main Old Forge.

The WDAU-TV broadcast alleged that Reviello was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy on Kishbaugh a charge that Reviello denied in the lawsuit. The suit also stated that implications that he had anything to do with the youth's death were slanderous. The FCC classifies as "informal" the complaint that Rin-aldi filed on behalf of Reviello. It came in the form of a letter to the FCC rather than on forms the agency has for "formal" complaints. The Reviello complaint alleges that a story about him was "totally untrue" and was not in the "public interest." It asks the agency to block the A CO) AMANA'S FAMOUS T0UCHMATIC II RADARAtlGE 0VEII WITH ADVANCED MEMORY.

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