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              TERMINATION OF OPTION TO PURCHASE


     AND NOW, this 16th day of March 1998, this Termination of
Option to Purchase is hereby entered into between Mark Centers
Limited Partnership, with offices located at 600 Third Avenue,
Kingston, Pennsylvania  18704 and Marvin L. Slomowitz, Trustee,
600 Third Avenue, Kingston, Pennsylvania  18704.

                         WITNESSETH:    

     In consideration of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) and of the
mutual covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as
follows:  That Mark Centers Limited Partnership hereby agrees to
terminate its Option to Purchase as set forth in the records of
Union County in Records Book 478 at Page 76 and 499 at Page 105
and that this termination can be recorded of record in Union
County.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF and intending to be legally bound hereby,
the parties hereto have set their hands and seals on the day and
year first above written.

                         MARK CENTERS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
ATTEST              By:  Mark Centers Trust, its General Partner
/s/Jon Grisham           /s/ David S. Zook
                         David S. Zook
                         Executive Vice President

WITNESS:
/s/ Isobel C. Slomowitz  /s/Marvin L. Slomowitz
                         Marvin L. Slomowitz, Trustee




                         






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                       ACKNOWLEDGEMENT


COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF LUZERNE


     On this 16th day of March, 1998, before me, a Notary Public,
duly commissioned and qualified in and for the Commonwealth and
County aforesaid, personally appeared DAVID S. ZOOK, Executive
Vice President of MARK CENTERS TRUST, General Partner of MARK
CENTERS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a limited partnership, and that he
as such Executive Vice President, being authorized to so do,
executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein
contained, by signing the name of the partnership by himself as
Executive Vice President.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and official
seal.

                                   /s/ Diane Policare
                                   Diane Policare, Notary Public 


My Commission Expires:

March 18, 2000