One Of The Boys

  The picture below (including the cropped enlargement) is of Mr. Conahan taken during a dance at the D. A. Harman Junior High School, Hazleton, Pa. The date shown indicates month of development. Dance held earlier that spring, 1967. He was transferred to Harman in mid term of 7th grade.

  Mr. Conahan, who graduated with me in 1970, took over as District Justice when Mr. Jay Scarcella left office. (Jay Scarcella was a silent partner with my then father-in-law, S & S Trucking.) As for his new appointment, Mr. Conahan inherited a mess of scandal, missing money and much more. For several years Mr. Conahan lived in an apartment complex near my business.

  One incident I mention for now. It was a daily raiding party having the police come and ticket vehicles. Mysteriously, one vehicle was vandalized, again, this time with a broken windshield. I picked up a used windshield and installed it. Still on the used windshield was an expired Pennsylvania inspection sticker over two years old. Didn't bother to scrape it off because it was expired and had other things to worry about. The car was parked.

  I received a citation in the mail for "Fraudulent Use Of Inspection Sticker". I thought these cops are crazy. Two elements of said violation are (a) vehicle must be moving and/or (b) to commit fraud the sticker must be current. An "expired sticker" is no longer an Inspection Sticker. (If one removed a current, valid sticker off of car(1) and placed it on car(2), to use the car(2) on the road by deception, that is what the statute spoke of. Also, a secondary charge of theft is needed.)

  What happened? Mr. Conahan found me guilty. Like talking to a wall.

  I'll be supplementing this shortly.

Updated: 11-29-2001