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Published: June 18, 2010

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- An issue that seemed to arise regularly in the hard-coal region was in the news. Philadelphia wanted to ship its excess garbage to the Mount Carmel area, using abandoned mines as dumping sites. The Reading Anthracite Co. said the idea was OK with them, and that it would even furnish the freight cars to handle the messy cargo and take it to unused mine sidings for the dumping process. Mount Carmel Mayor Larry Joyce and Shamokin City Council went on record immediately as opposing the idea.

- Paul MacElwee was not just some guy off the street - he was the highly respected editor of the Shamokin newspaper, so this story took on a lot more in the way of credibility had he not been involved. MacElwee and his neighbor, David Noll, sighted not one, but three objects in the night sky over North Mountain, and they were both convinced the objects were UFOs.

- At Salem United Church of Christ in Shamokin, the brand new, $13,000 pipe organ was unveiled in style, with Larry Ferrari, a widely known television organist from Philadelphia, in town especially to do the honors.

- Another new facility was set for dedication as well: The $175,000 Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library in the American Legion building, in what had been a department store.

- In Harrisburg, Gov. Raymond Shafer kept up his pitch for a state income tax despite the warning from his GOP counterparts that the Democrats would win the governorship if Shafer kept it up. He did because he felt there was no alternative. The tax came in.

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