Sewickley Herald

              UfftTawottp
iMMah
JHRN
The Sewickley
17 Gateway Pubfications
SUUMIAM MTTMUItQH't LAHQEST CMCUlATtON


Vol. 81 No. 43
Wednesday, October 24, 1984
30 Cents
liaside
15
Sewickley
CeuncH
debates zoning
Joint zoning ordinance, an economic monkey wrench?
6
Biedermeier and Empire: have something
m common
23
Quaker Valley
eliminated in soccer playoffs.
Halloween happenings are in the offing
Snndayf Oslofe©?
Turn back the dock
1
i
THE ANNUAL AVALANCHE. There are millions of leaves in the valley just waiting to be raked into neat piles. Little Jenny Gonze, right, thinks she has had enough of an arduous task for one day even though her guest, Ashley Pyle, is ready to continue the job. Ashiey and Jenny, both siudents at ihe Sewickiey Academy Nursery-School, were having one of the best of plays on Friday, Oct. 19, when the Herald’s photographer got the picture above. Ashley is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pyle of Osborne; Mrs. Susan Gonze is Jenny’s mother.
(Photo by Eric Hamlin)
Newman challenges Pott for 28th District
By Mike May
For the past eight years, voters in the 28th Legislative District have been saying let George do it.
But Democratic challenger Dale Newman says her Republican opponent, George Pott Jr., has been in office long enough,
Long enough to establish himself as an effective leader, she contends, and he has not shown leadership.
Long enough to vote for legislation that would improve the state, she contends, and his roie has b6en too passive.
“He’s anti-consumer, anti-environment and antipeople,” stated the Bradford Woods woman who hopes to take his seat on Nov. 6.
“I’ve done a lot in eight years,” counters the Gib-sonia legislator, who’s finishing up his fourth term
ONLY ONE OF THESE TWO can fill the 28th District seat in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Dale Newman hopes to unseat incumbent Rep. George F. Pott Jr. on November 6.
in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly.
Pott contends doing a lot can sometimes mean doing a little. Generally, he does not favor making state government and its programs bigger. And he stresses that government should be kept out of as many areas as possible.
“I’ve tried to hold the line on state government
spending. I don’t want to see the state government increase. And I don’t want to see the taxes increase.” He would like to see the number of businesses increase in the state, which, he points out, would also add taxes to the coffers. To do this he says Pennsylvania must become “more attractive” to lure potential businesses here.
To that effect, Pott cites. Ins working to reduce the corporate tax rate in the state from 10.5 to 9.5 He ajso says he’s worked to implement a new taxing strategy for small businesses. “This Will allow them to retain their capital, rather than pay it in taxes,” he explained.
Pott is a certified public accountant who still has his
own practice, He serves on the Assembly's appropriations committee and is chairman of the eastern region of the Council of State Governments.
Dale Newman, who won on a write-in in the Primary, is a lecturer in women’s studies at Carlow College.
She is a steering committee member of the Western
Pennsylvania Public Interest Coalition, a member of the National NOW Economic Equality Issue Committee, and a board member of the Pennsylvania Labor History: Society.
A pet piece of legislation Dale Newman favors is. House Bill 1130, which at-: tempts to insure “equal: pay for comparable work. ’’ Newman believes women are still victims of discrimination in the: workplace when it comes to salaries, and still are paid less than male: counterparts, ,
Based on such criteria as skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions, the bill would insist attempt to correct “unjust”; salary differences jn: places with six employees or more. ,
“Employers would have to pay by the same standards, regardless of Continued on Page 2

“•lh1BOMiiBl»«li>>i>Bg1ir'~A-v^rtitiiiirllt (lmii HiiOniiiiii iiH'iriWW iiii Ini