This is not a joke. I was told this a long time ago by the daughter of a Buffalino made guy who is now an attorney, as well as some others from Scanton?pittston, and I have never been able to either refute it or find it to be verifiably true. She and they claim the development of calcium chloride for commercial ice melting in the 1950s was funded by Buffalino family money and for a time they made a cut of the sale of millions of tons of it to counties in PA. Anyone else ever hear this and can anyone state if it is true or not?