Winter Of '94 Brings Feast And Famine For Businesses In Poconos 
It's The Best Skiing, And 
Profits, In Years For Resorts.

2a 
Jenkins Township Board Oks $25,000 Loan 
Tax Collector Thomas Ruskey 
Said The Township Will Begin 
Making Payments On The Loan 
When Tax Revenues Are Receivedin March

By JERRY LYNOTT; Times Leader Staff Writer
 Wednesday, February 09, 1994 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 12A QUICK WORDS: WINTER'S NASTINESS
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WILKES-BARRE -- Here we are nine days into February and SNOW has become a
four-letter word. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 So has PHIL, as in Punxsutawney. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You're probably wishing that ground hog was road kill along the interstate,
squashed by a plow. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 By now we've topped the 5-foot accumulation mark. Not of anti-skid material
strewn on the roadways by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)
trucks, but of !@#$. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Officially as of Tuesday night, the National Weather Service at the
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport recorded 56.7 inches of !@#$ this
winter. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Forecasters were calling for another six to 10 inches on top of that by
midday today. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Mix in some sleet and freezing rain too. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Good thing Rolly Keisling's not a weatherman. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The view from the PennDOT spokesman's window at his Dunmore office showed
cloudy skies but no !@#$ falling late Tuesday afternoon. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Keisling said he was not buying into the forecast. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Too often he's heard calls for storm warnings on the heels of a snowfall
like Tuesday's, he said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "I'm going to go out on a limb," and say "it never amounts to anything," &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Keisling said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 A little more than 2 inches fell Tuesday, according to the weather service. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "It came very politely in a manageable way so we've been able to deal with
it," Keisling said of the PennDOT crews dispatched to the roads in his
six-county area. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 There were no road closings, but for a while the going was tricky as salt
proved ineffective in the cold weather, with the high temperature reaching
only 16. Salt works best on ice and !@#$ when the temperature is above 20,
Keisling explained. Crews scattered anti-skid material, finely crushed stone,
to give motorists traction. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 State police reported a few accidents on the major interstates. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 About 1 p.m. a tractor-trailer jackknifed into the medial strip near Exit
53 southbound on Interstate 81 in Scranton. The driver, Fred T. Roberts, 48,
of Pinefield, Conn., was not injured. State police did not report if he wore a
seatbelt. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Two rigs collided on Interstate 80 in Columbia County, stalling rush-hour
traffic around 7:30 a.m., state police said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Charles Bowman, 41, of Ohio, slammed his Mack tractor-trailer into another
trailer driven by Billy Davidson, 42, of California, in the eastbound lane of
I-80 after Davidson slowed down to avoid a vehicle stuck in the snow, police
said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Both drivers wore their seat belts and were not injured, police said. Their
trucks sustained moderate damage. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Closer to home, two trucks collided Tuesday night at the intersection of
Carey Avenue and the Sans Souci Parkway in Hanover Township. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Police said driver error rather than slick roads was the cause of the
crash. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 A Chevrolet Blazer traveling north on the parkway tried to turn left at the
intersection in the path of a Dodge Ramcharger heading south on Carey Avenue
and the two collided, police said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Police said the driver of the Blazer, Rodney Mangan, 23, of Wilkes-Barre
was not injured. Mangan was wearing a seatbelt. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The driver of the other truck, Beverly Eichhorn, 29, of Nanticoke, her two
children, Eric, 10, and Brian, 8 and a passenger, Jerry Shaffer, 28, were not
injured, police said. None of the occupants of Eichhorn's truck were wearing
seat belts. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 FOR PAGE 3A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 TIMES LEADER/RICHARD SABATURA &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 It's back &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Winter is up to its old tricks again. James Roth, 15, of Kingston, and his
trusty snow shovel went to work Tuesday cleaning a sidewalk on Loveland
Avenue. A little more than 2 inches fell throughout the county, according to
the National Weather Service at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International
Airport. For the story on the latest reminder of winter, see &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Page 12A.

Winter's Nastiness Continues In Area 
Winter's 
Nastiness 
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Tuesday's Snowfall Was `manageable' To Penndot, But Forecasters Warn Of Still 
More Severe Weather

Winter's Nastiness Continues In Area Winter's Nastiness Continues Tuesday's Snowfall Was `manageable' To Penndot, But Forecasters Warn Of Still More Severe Weather