Nov. 16, 1969
City takes back trash pickup
Starting Nov. 17, Scranton would be back in the garbage-collection business.
Mayor James Walsh had terminated a five-year contract with Controlled Sanitation Corp. after the company could not obtain a performance bond to cover the second year of the contract. With the contract terminated, Controlled Sanitation Corp. had to return all city-owned equipment the company used to collect garbage.
Public Works Director John Washo said collections would start Nov. 17. The city would have 80 men working on the city’s garbage collection, with 13 Packmasters and two other trucks.
Diwali celebration in city
The Suburban Presbyterian Church on Olyphant Avenue in Scranton was the setting for the newly formed India Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania Diwali Day dinner.
Eighty guests at the dinner enjoyed a buffet of homemade dishes such as a cauliflower curry, batata curry, puffed Indian bread, pulao, raita and rava kesari.
After dinner, a group performed traditional Indian dances, and a film on Mahatma Gandhi was shown.
At the movies
“Midnight Cowboy” at the West Side, “Horror Show” and “Easy Rider” at the Comerford, “Cinderella” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” at Cinema North, “In the Heat of the Night” at the Roosevelt, “The Sterile Cuckoo” at the Center and “Marlowe” at the Strand.
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