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(C o n so lid a ted w ith T h e lâ titæ R e c o rd , 1 9 3 7 ) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, April 17,1969 1G cen ts a Copy; $4.00 per y e a r by mail
within L a n c a s te r County 14 Pages No. 2
Kindergarten
Registration
Scheduled At
Elem. Schools
Registration ror an new Kin­dergarten
children in the War­wick
School District will take
place in the various elementary
schools on the following dates:
Rothsville Elementary School,
April 28.
John Beck E l e m e n t a r y
School, April 29.
Kissel Hill E l e m e n t a r y
School, April 30.
Lititz Elementary S c h o o l ,
May 1.
Registration for the Lititz
Elementary School will be be­tween
9:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M.
and from 12:30 P.M. to 3:15 P.M.
Registration for Kissel Hill and
John Beck Elementary Schools
will be between 9:00 A.M. and
11:00 A.M. and from 1:30 P.M.
to 3:15 P.M. Registration for
Rothsville Elementary School
will be between 9:00 A.M. and
11:00 A.M.
Parents are requested to
bring with them the child’s
birth certificate, vaccination
eertificiate, and all immuniza­tion
records. It will not be ne­cessary
for the child to be pre­sent.
Any child not previously en­rolled
and who is going to enter
first grade should also be regis­tered
at this time. These chil­dren
should be present in order
to be tested for school readi­ness.
Children entering kindergar­ten
must be five years of age
before September 15, 1969, and
those entering grade one must
be six years of age before Sep­tember
15, 1969.
Sixth Grade
Science Fair
The sixth grade students at
the Lititz Elementary School
will hold their second Science
Fair in the school gym.
The Fair will be held on April
21, 22 and 23. The building will
be open from 7:30 p.m. to
8.30 p.m.
Judges for the Fair will be
Mr. Stanley Schoenberger, Mr.
Kline and Mr. Kurek of the
high school science staff.
Winners in each area will re­ceive
ribbons and all entrants
will receive a certificate.
Discipline In School
Will Be Subject Of
Special Commit tee
it is appai cut that concerns exist in our school
regarding the behavior of pupils, teachers and
Bob Brown, Coordinator for all fish
nurseries for the Pennsylvania Fish Com­mission,
takes the water temperature in
one of the rearing ponds This photo shows
the small amount of water used tor one
pond which housed 12,000 yearling trout.
Outdoor Art
Show Planned
The Third annual Lititz Out­door
Art Show sponsored by the
Lititz Village Art Association,
in cooperation with the Lititz
Retailers Association, will be
held on Saturday, July 26 from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The rain date
will be August 2 or 9.
The Show will be divided into
two divisions—Adult and Chil­dren.
The Show is open to all
artists living in a 100 mile radius
of Lititz. All art work must be
original.
Zoning Decision
Is Appealed
Abram P. Groff, owner and
operator of a trailer court in
Warwick Twp., has appealed to
Lancaster County Court from a
decision of the Warwick Twp.
Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Groff claims he made appli­cation
to the board requesting a
special exception in order to
expand his trailer court, which
is a non-conforming use under
the zoning ordinance.
He says that on Jan. 28, after
due notice, a public hearing was
held before the board and on
March 8, the board denied the
application.
Study Of Allentown Project Points Up
How Springs Here Could Be Big A ttraction
Editor’s Note: It is the conviction of many local spoi !-.:n"ii
that the stream and trout basin in the Lititz Springs Park
easily could be converted into a highly-successful trout-raising
site which would soon prove a popular attiaction to all and
would soon attract hundreds of visitors and touii-Js to I lie pai l
This very thing lias been done in Allentown with less natui.d
resources than we have here. With this in mind, John IScUm-went
to Allentown and reports his findings in the following
article. Also — turn to the editorial page and read our com­ments
upon this subject, one which could become om r«(",l
most desirable community project!
By John Heifer
Within the city limits of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is one
fcf the most unique tourist attractions in the state.
Here, sportsmen, in cooperation with the city officials,
raise and display over 50,000 trout each year.
Years ago, in an effort to protect the water-shed from which
Allentown takes it’s drinking water, a piece of land was pur­chased
along the banks of the Little Lehigh River. Once it had
served as a private fish hatchery and walled ponds and a good
spring were assets worth acquiring.
The city, not wanting to be in the fish-raising business, leased
the land for a dollar a year to three local sportsmen’s organiza­tions.
The trout Creek, Pioneer, and Lehigh County Fish and
Game Associations banded together in a project to rear and stock
trout.
Allentown’s only restriction was that all the fish raised in
the hatchery had to be stocked within the City limits. There are
over 11 miles of stream, the Lehigh River, Little Lehigh and the
Jordan Creek, in its boundaries.
The rearing ponds are about the width of the Lititz Springs
Creek where it flows through the park. Although a constant
flow of spring water feeds the ponds, our local spring provides
double the amount of water they use.
One City official said “Thousands of people visit the ponds
each week. We can’t say in dollars, what the project has done
for the city of Allentown, but we do know it is our most impor­tant
tourist attraction.
The only expense involved for the city is one man, five days
a week, as a caretaker. Saturday and Sunday club members main­tain
the area. A wishing-well built near the ponds, houses a basket
of bagged fish pellets. A sign asks for a contribution il you use
the feed and on the third Sunday in March the take was $143.00
between one o’clock and five in the evening. Last year over
$4,000 was taken in.
As the project caught on, a fish-for-fun area was posted.
About a quarter of a mile of the Little Lehigh River was stocked
heavily with trout. The area begins just below the hat.chery and
is restricted to fly fishing only. Each fisherman may catch ail the
fish he can but may keep only one fish, measuring 20 inches or
better, each day.
Ken Crilley, the club project manager, said there are iislicr-men
on the stretch of water every day in the year. There is no
season in a fish-for-fun area.
Today, Allentown has developed five miles of park from
the hatchery down stream through the City. Parking, picnic
tables and recreation areas are provided along the banks of the
Little Lehigh.
Truly a community project that has no equal!
The following is Superintendent of Schools Dr. Curvin
Smith s statement on discipline presented to the school board
Tuesday night.
At this t.ii
and eornmurut
administrators. In many instances there is a valid cause for con
cein In some instances there may be over-reaction to specific
incidents without just cause.
How well one behaves is difficult to evaluate. Good behavior
to some people is regarded as bad behavior to others. Some par­ents
tolerate forms of child, behavior which others hope to eli­minate.
Teachers do not always agree among themselves what
constitutes good behavior. The same condition exists among
school administrators.
Since the above parameters exist it becomes necessary to
establish a position concerning acceptable behavior within our
schools. Although standards of conduct have been developed in
the past perhaps we should now review them.
We recognize that the youth of our school district compare
favorably with most areas of our country in terms of student
conduct. However, the tendency to thwart authority, to show
disrespect for parents and teachers, to defy law and order, and to
deprive the functions of the education process does exist within
our schools. Therefore, we need the sincere cooperation of par­ents,
students, civic groups, churches, teachers, and school ad­ministrators
to keep our standard of behavior consistent with
our school philosophy.
No school has mastered the problem of controlling pupils to
the satisfaction oi everyone concerned. Our administrators are
willing to listen to suggestions and enter into discussions pertain­ing
to changes that should be made at Warwick.
It is apparent that teachers, students and parents want to
participate in policy formulation. As an institution with demo­cratic
ideals we do not want to thwart their ambition. However,
just as these groups, including parents, share in the formulation
of policy they will need to share the criticism which may be re­ceived
because of the implementation of policy. Our district, like
all others, has groups who undoubtedely will question the wisdom
of rules and regulations which will be required to change be­havioral
patterns. Therefore, we have the risk of creating prob­lems
as we attempt to solve them.
In order to establish communication regarding behavioral
patterns of students it is suggested that a group of people com­posed
of school board members, school administrators, teachers,
students and parents be organized. The purpose of this group
would be to formulate a philosophy of discipline which would be
acceptable to the school board. The help of this same group
would be solicited to implement directions for improving "what­ever
unsatisfactory practices which might exist in our schools
Campaign Dinner Scheduled
A dinner and program will be
held on Monday, evening, April
21, 1969 at 6:30 P.M. in the
Lutheran Educational Building
at West Orange St. Lititz, to
open a campaign for the build­ing
of a new United Methodist
Church and Educational facili­ties
of brick construction on the
recently purchased 7 acre plot
of land at the corner of Market
and New Streets in Lititz, about
two blocks from the present
church, in hopes of starting to
build in the Spuing of 1970.
Elementary school children
will be entertained by two sound
motion picture films during the
program following the meal.
The campaign theme - “Build­ing
for Christ” was chosen by
the Local Conference in light of
the fact that the Kirby-Smith
Associates have been engaged
to conduct both a spiritual and
financial crusade for the church.
This will be a personal house-to-
house visitation of the mem­bers,
beginning Tuesday April
22nd, following the congrega­tional
kick-off dinner, under the
direction of Mr. Alfred Emer­son,
who will introduce Mr. Wil­liam
Griffen and Mr. Alfred Bow­man,
Mr. William Hansen, and
Mr. Samuel Brolsma who will
assist him in the visiting.
In preparation for the cam­paign,
Pastor Young has been
conducting Cottage Prayer Meet­ings.
The evening program will be
opened with an invocation by
Rev. Blanche C. Lengle. Mr.
Harold McCreary will be Master
of Ceremonies for the evening.
Mrs. Glenna Bracken will be
song leader.
Our General Chairman, Mr.
Samuel Hess and our General
Building Committee Chairman,
Dr. Chester Wertseh, will give
brief messages following the
dinner as will also Mr. Emerson.
The mam sneaker will he Dr.
Carl M. Schneider D.D. ol Ling
leslown, Pa. The architect, Mr.
David Lynch, of Lancaster, Pa.
will give a brie! explanation of
the architectural plans up to the
present time.
'Special music will be provided
by a quartet—Mrs. Eugene Brac­ken,
Mrs. Richard Boose, Mr.
Samuel Hess and Mr. Jack Stauf­fer—
who will sing “Born To
Serve The Lord”, by Bud Cham­bers,
accompanied by Mrs. Sam­uel
Hess.
The evening will be climaxed
by the giving of the prizes to
the winners of the Essay and
Poster contests held earlier this
year. The Essay theme was
“What the New Church Building
will Mean to Me” and the poster
theme was “Christian Giving
and Sacrifice as Related to Our
New Church and Church School
Building.”
Pastor Young will have the
benediction,
Ken Crilley, manager of
the Lil-Le-Hi Trout Nursery
stands behind the basket of
bagged trout pellets that are
offered to the public to “feed
the fish” . On a good Sunday
the take will be close to $150.
Rec Center
Hears Reports
It was recommended at the
Recreation Center Board meet­ing
that ideas be obtained on
how to stimulate more action on
the part of the Junior Board
members. It was announced
that Valerie and the Chateau’s
will provide the music for the
Post Prom Party following the
Junior Prom. Waiters for the
affair have been' selected form
civic organizations. Letters re­questing
financial support for
the event have been sent to
civic groups.
The Board reviewed the bud­get
they had sumbitted to the
Recreation Commission which
had been vetoed. The budget
will be resumbitted.
Jim Harnish, center director,
gave a report on various pro­grams
being conducted at the
center. He also had attended a
workshop in Middletown pre­sented
bv Penn State tor Rec­reation
Center personnel!.
Harnish announced that to
date 25 students have respond­ed
to the Hey Kid Get a Job of­fer
at the center. The center is
considering using some of the
high school students to assist at
the summer playground pro­gram,
A secretary for the sum­mer
months will be hired it was
stated.
Two Boys Allegedly
Rope 16 Year Old
A 16 year old Lititz girl,
sometime between 8 p.m. and
9 p.m. on April 14, was taken
from the area of the Recreation
Center to the baseball field be­hind
the Wilbur Chocolate Com­pany
by two 17 year old boys
and allegedly raped, according
to the Lititz Police.
The girl was taken to Dr. A.
S. Griswold for examination and
sent to the Lancaster General
Hospital for further examina­tion.
The two boys, according to
Patrolman James Fritz, have
been committed to Rarnes Hall.
Lititz Fire Co.
Calender Of Events
19 April—Bus trip to Balti­more
to visit Baltimore fire
stations.
24 April—Smoker at the fire
hall, public invited, Marvin Mil­ler
speaker. 6:30 p.m.
30 April — Monthly business
meeting—all members & public
welcome. 8:00 p.m. at the fire
hall.
10 May—Sausage & Egg break­fast
at the fire Hall,
28 May — Monthly business
meeting—all members & public
welcome.
14 June—Corn Soup festival—
at the fire hall.
Kinderg arten
Testing
Kindergarten testing will be
conducted in the Warwick Ele­mentary
Schools on April 21, 22
and 23. Parents of kindergarten
pupils will be sent notices sche­duling
the date for their child’s
testing. There will be no classes
conducted, for kindergarten chil­dren
on the testing days.
Woman’s Club To Hear
Mrs. Wallace E. Fisher
Mrs. Wallace E. Fisher, Lan­caster,
will be the guest speak­er
at the monthly meeting of
the Lititz Woman’s Club. The
meeting will be held at the Gen­eral
Sutter Inn on Monday,
April 21 at 8 p.m. with Mrs. J.
Frank Everett, president, pre­siding.
Mrs. Fisher will present a pro­gram
entitled “Romance Among
the Greats.” She will be intro­duced
by Miss Dorothy Habeck-er.
Mrs. Fisher was born in Pitts­burgh.
She graduated from
Gettysburg College and did
graduate work at Carneige-
Miliai. Institute and the Uni­versity
of Pittsburgh. She is
th» wile oi the Rev Wallace E.
Fi.iher, scnioi minister of the
Lutheran Church of the Holy
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The Warwick School Board at a meeting Tuesday night;
attended by about 50 citizens, adopted a resolution establish­ing
a committee to formulate a philosophy of discipline.
The action forming the committee came after lengthy
discussion and was the result of : a report from Dr. Curvin
Smith, Superintendent, on the present status of discipline in
Warwick schools; and a statement presented by Frank
Everett, 104 W. End Avenue, which was signed by 44 citi­zens.
Both Everett and Smith called for the formation of a
committee.
During the discussion Smith said, “to recognize what is
right and what is wrong in behavior will probably run into
some stiff opposition. Board members are not, in agreement
as to discipline. When citizens and board members want to
sit down and talk about discipline — I ’m ready.”
Everett’s statement called for
the formation of a committee of
teachers, citizens, school board
members and school adminis-trators
to work toward a solu-tion
of problems and channel
them back to the school board
for their review and action. He
said he wasn’t suggesting taking
any power from the board blit
trying to be helpful with the
district’s problems.
Several board m e m n e r s
thought the purpose of the ccm-mittee
should include the be-navioral
patterns _ of teachers
and administrators as well as
students, but this also was not
included in the final môtiori. v
The final motion (which was
ineffect what Dr. Smith sug-gested)
was proposed by Dr.
rtodney Welch and passed with
only one dissenting vote cast by
John Wenger. The motion was:
In order to establish communi­cation
regarding behavioral pat­terns
of students it is suggested
that a group of people compos­ed
of school board members,
school administrators, teachers,
students and parents be organiz­ed.
The purpose of this group
would be to formulate a philoso­phy
of discipline which would
be acceptable to the School
board. The help of this same
group would be solicited to, im­plement
directions for improv­ing
whatever unsatisfactory
practices which might exirt in
our schools. J , ;
Welch said the cohifriittlo
would consist of a maximum of
three people from each c.. the
various groups. Each civic chib
would be asked to submit three
names, from which the 'bôàrî
would select three for the com­mittee.
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GrofFs Motion
A motion by Raymond Groff
that was tabled at the last meet­ing
was brought up. This mo­tion
was in effect killed by a
substitute motion by Dr. Welch
that barely passed by a 5 to 4
vote. That motion was: I move
that the Warwick School Board
support the professional em­ployees
when the conduct of
pupils is improper and detri­mental
to our educational sys­tem
and that every effort be
made by the Administration and
all other professionad em­ployees
to ease any tensions
which may now exist to insure
that our goal of the best possi­ble
education for each student
be fulfilled to the extent made
possible by the Warwick School
District.
'69-70 School Calendar
August 28 —
New Teacher Orientation
September 2 —
In-Service, All Teachers
September 3 —
Students Report for School
October 20 —
In-Service (Secondary only)
November 26, 2:00 P.M. -
December 2, 8:00 A.M. —
Thanksgiving Vacation
December 24 thru January
4 (Inclusive) —
Christmas Vacation
January 22 —
In-Service (Elementary only)
January 23 —
In-Service, All Teachers
February 27 - March. 2
(Inclusive) —
Snow Days (if not used, no
school these days)
March 25 - Noon - March 30
(Inclusive) —
Easter Vacation
April 27 —
In-Service, All Teachers
June 9 —
In-Service, All Teachers
June 10 —
Last day for students
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Mrs. Wallace E. Usher
Teacher Positions
Dr. Smith reported oh teach­ers
positions during the past
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Darn Fir© Kept In Farm Shop
What might have been a real tragedy
was confined to a small loss Tuesday after­noon
when a fire on the farm of Earl S.
Minnich, Lititz R3, was put out before it
spread to his huge bank barn. Starting in
the farm shop, the fire burned its way in­to
the ceiling and sides but Minnich ap­plied
water from a garden hose until Lit­itz
firemen came to finish the job. And
while the firemen worked to keep the fire
in the shop, steers and swine right on the
other side of the board wall seemed aware
that their smoke filled pen wasn’t anything
to be happy about. Earl said he was in the
field finishing his potato planting when he
heard the siren and thought there must be
a fire somewhere. He soon saw that some­where
was at home when smoke started
coming from his farm shop. “I never had
to have the fire engines here for a fire
before,” he said. But I ’m sure glad they
came today.”
SchoolMenu
Monday, April 21
Barbecued hot dog, potato
puffs, buttered peas, carrot sticks
assorted fruit.
Tuesday, April 22
Chicken noodle soup, chicken
salad w/lettuce, orange and ban­ana
sections.
Wednesday, April 23
Sub or grilled steak sandwich,
tomato soup, celery w/peanut
butter, apple crisp.
Thurdsay, April 24
Macaroni or hamburg casse­role,
buttered corn, chef salad,
fruit cocktail.
Friday, April 25
Pork barbecue, baked potato,
cole slaw, apple berry sauce.