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w ith in L a n c a s t e r C ou n ty ” 1 No. 9
Theatre Marquee Hauled Away After Fife Years
After standing five years in the heart of downtown Lititz
with no purpose, the theatre marquee was finally removed
this week.
The large marquee was removed by crane by Roger E.
Gerhart Inc. of Lititz Tuesday afternoon and loaded onto a
flatbed truck and hauled away.
The unsightly structure had been the source of numer­ous
complaints since the theatre closed five years ago. The
removal is one of the first steps to spruce up the downtown
by a group of Lititz businessmen who recently purchased
the theatre building and two adjacent properties.
Moravian Eastern District
Synod Set Here June 11 -14
Robert Porter
Will Receive
Eagle Award
Robert D. Porter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Verne B. Porter of
Lititz, RD4, will receive the Eag­le
Scout Award on Sunday morn­ing,
June 7 at the Lititz Church
of the Brethren. Mr. Thomas W.
Williams, Ass’t District Scout
Executive, will make the pres­entation.
As a member of Troop 154,
sponsored by the Lititz Church
of the Brethren, he is the first
member to be awarded the honor
of Eagle Scout. Jerome Kiralfy
is the troop scoutmaster,
Robert has been active in
Troop #154 for the past three
years. In 1969 he was the receip-ient
of the God and Coum ry
Award. He is a member of the
Order of the Arrow, a national
organization of honored camp­ers.
In fulfilling all requirements
for the Eagle Scout Award, he
has earned twenty-one merit
badges, completed a sendee pro­ject
for the church, community
ot school, a special conservation
project as well as serving in the
capacity of three junior leader
positions.
A freshman at Warwick High,
he participates in the orchestra
and chorus, was treasurer of the
student council and a member ot
the football team. The 14 year
old youth also is a member of
the Lancaster Rifle Team.
Robert attends the Young Peo­ple’s
Department of the Morav­ian
Sunday School and is a mem­ber
of the Moravian Church.
Robert D, Toiler
The Eastern District Synod of
the Moravian Church will meet
in Lititz June 11-14, according to
Di. Edwin A. Sawyer, Bethlehem,
president of the district.
The synod will bring together
250 delegates and visitors from
Moravian congregations in New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Ohio and Indiana.
Sessions of the synod will be
held in the church and Christian
education building of the Lititz
congregation, with the delegates
fed and housed at Linden Hall
School for Girls in Lititz.
Elect President
Chief interest in the synod
A Lititz woman surprised burg­lars
in her home last week, lead­ing
to the arrest of two youths
w ho were apparently involved in
a total of four burglaries or at­tempted
burglaries in the bor­ough,
according to James Fritz,
assistant police chief.
A 17-year-old juvenile and a
2i-year-old Neffsville man were
arrested last week and charged
with house burglary and at­tempted
burglary,
Mrs, Clifford Hess, 313 Goch-nauer
Ave., Lititz, surprised bur­glars
in her home when she re­turned
at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday;
May 27. The burglars fled.
But Fritz investigated and not­ed
a dark green sedan parked
across the street from the Hess
residence. The registration was
checked out and a stake-out was
set up.
But at about 11:30 p.m, Wed­nesday,
the 17-year-old reported
■to'Manheim Township police that
the car had been stolen. During
questioning, the juvenile report­edly
admitted to Manheim Town­ship
officer Ron Savage that he
had been involved in the Lititz
burglary.
Police also charged Robert E.
Foultz, 21, of 2380 Lititz Pike,
Neffsville, with one count of
burglary and one count of burg­lary
and larceny and released
him on $6,000 bail. He was
charged before Squire Paul F.
Diehm by Lititz Officer Charles
Shenenberger.
Officer Fritz said about $50 in
coins and a portable radio were
recovered from the Hess burg­lary
and are being held by local
police until the case is closed.
may center around the election
of a new district president to
succeed Dr. Sawyer, who will
head the proposed Moravian
Academy, which will result from
a merger of Moravian Prepara­tory
School and Moravian Sem­inary
for Girls at Bethlehem.
Dr. Sawyer has served in Ms
position as district president for
the past nine years, and com­pletes
his second full term of
office when the provincial synod
of the Moravian Church meets in
Bethlehem in August.
Elect Members
The district synod will also
elect five other members of the
Police said two counts of at­tempted
burglary will be- filed
against Foultz in connection with
activity in the area May 27
which was reported the following
morning, Thursday.
The home of Mrs. Fred Spin­ner,
428 S. Cedar St., showed pry
marks around the lock of the
front door. The house was vacant
and no entry was gained. The in­cident
was reported by Mrs Jam­es
Ralhkey, 208 E. Third Ave.
Pry marks were reported on
the side door of Mrs. Kerola Fra-elich,
301 Linden St.
Mrs. Fraeiich said she return­ed
home at about 9 p.m, Wednes­day
night and was in the second
floor bedroom watching televis­ion
when the doorbell rang.'She
didn’t answer, but went down­stairs
to check when she thought
she heard a noise. She saw noth­ing
until the next-day.-
Burglars did gain entry, how­ever,
to the home of Mrs. Isabelle
Stahlman and Miss Virginia Sta-blman,
55 Forney Drive. The in­cident
was reported by Arthur
Feldman, 43 Forney Drive, who
was checking the house while
the Stahlmans were away. He
had checked the house at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday and found the
disturbance at 11 a.m. the next
clay.
A door knob on the south side
door was twisted and the locking
device broken. A jewelry box ap­peared
disturbed, but nothing
was found missing.
Officer Fritz this week express­ed
the gratitude of local police
to the many borough residents
who cooperated in the investiga­tion,
district executive board: two
clergy and three laymen. Cur-rently
serving on the board are:
Alfred L. Douple, Lititz, Robert
R. Rominger, Indianapolis, Ind.;
Charles A. Saderholm, Staten Is­land,
N.Y.; The Rev. Clement E.
Semper, Eipmaus, Pa.; and the
Rev. Milton A. Yaeck, Easton,
Pa.
Balloting
The first balloting for district
president may ,come as early as
the second plenary session on
Thursday night, June 11. It is an
open ballot without- nomination
but requires a 2-3 majority vote.
Dr. Sawyer will give the key­note
address at the opening wor­ship
on Thursday afternoon. The
Rev. William. Flanders, Washing­ton,
D.C., will lead the worship
in contemporary style on Friday
and Saturday morning. He is
well known in the field of reli­gious
folk music.
The Rev. Dr. G. Williams Web­ber,
president of New York The­ological
Seminary, will give the
synodical sermon at the public
worship service in the Lititz
church on Sunday, June 14, ac
10:30 a.m.
Lititz Planners
Discuss Central
Business Plan
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
Tuesday night discussed in
a general way plans for develop­ment
of the central business dis­trict.
Commission Secretary George
Steedle said letters have been
mailed to representatives of 12
organizations interested in a
study of the district proposal, in­viting
them to a July 7 meeting.
The organizations- invited are:
American Business .Club, Board
of Historical Review, Borough
Council, Lititz Chamber of Com­merce,
Lititz Historical Founda­tion,
Lititz Improvement, Inc.,
Lititz Junior Chamber of Com­merce,
Lititz Retailers Associa­tion,
Lititz Rotary Club, Lititz
Womans Club, Lititz Lions Club,
and the Lititz Sertoma Club.
Landscape architect Robert.
•Derek will present sketches-and
plans of the proposed district
during the July, 7 session. To be
included are recommendations
on buildings to be preserved,
traffic flow suggestions and sim­ilar
details.
Borough Council has approved
spending up to $800 for develop­ing'
a guide on the central busi­ness
district.
Lititz Woman Surprises
Burglars; Two Charged
WEA Approves 1970-71T eacher
Wage-Benefit Package; School
Board Slated to Act June 16
Comparison of '69-70 and '70-71 Teacher Wages
Years of Master’s Degree or
Service Bachelor’s Degree Master’s Equivalent
69-70 70-71 69-70 70-71
1 6200 6300 6500 6900
2 6500 6600 6800 7200
3 6800 6900 7100 7500
4 7100 7200 7400 7800
5 7400 7500 7700 8100
6 ■ , , 7800 7900 8100 8500 ?
7 8100 8300 8400 8900
8 8400 8700 8700 9300
9 8700 9100 9000 9700
10 9000 9500 9300 10,100
11 9400 10,000 9700 10,600
12 9700 10,500 10,000 11,100
13 10,300 11,400
The Warwick Education Asso­ciation
officially approved a new
wage package for 1970-71 at a
meeting Monday night, it was
learned this week.
The WEA ratification came
after the teacher and school
board salary mediation represen­tatives
had reached agreement.
The Warwick School Board
will consider the proposal at its
regular June 16 meeting, accord­ing
to John Evans, board media­tion
representative.
A WEA official said Wednes­day
the wage package was gen­erally
acceptable to the WEA
membership, although there was
disappointment about the start­ing
wage scale.
The new starting salary is $6,-
300 for a bachelor’s degree and
$6,900 for a master’s degree. The
BA starting wage is up $100 from
this year, while the starting
MA figure was hiked $400.
The WEA spokesman said
that the new salary scale is be­low
the county average for the
first seven to eight years of ex­perience,
but is competitive for
the teachers with experience be­yond
that level. ,
For a BA degree, the scale
climbs $300 per year to $7,900
after six years, then adds $400
per year to $9,500 after 10 years,
then $500 per year to a maxi­mum
of $10,500.
The MA degree, under the new
schedule, climbs $300 per year
to $8,100 after five years, then
$400 per year to $10,100 after 10
years, then $500 per year to $11,-
100 after 12 years, and another
$300 to a maximum of $11,400
after 13 years.
The new salary schedule also
gives additional recognition to
credits beyond'the master’s de­gree.
Under the present system,
additional pay is granted for-60
credits beyond the MA, but ihe
new schedule gives an additional
$200 for each 15 credits. This
gives the teacher with 45 credits
beyond the""MA" an' additional
$600 which would not have been
possible under the present sched­ule.
While the hew schedule gives
only a $100 extra for a starting
BA, the BA with eight years of
experience gets a $300 increase,
nine years gets $400, 10 years
gets $500, 11 years gets $600 and
12 years gets $700. These are in
addition to increases due to mov­ing
up a year in experience.
Teachers with MA degrees
moved from a high of $10,300
this year to a maximum of $11,-
400 in 1970-71.
In addition, teachers won sev­eral
new fringe benefits which
will directly or indirectly cost
the school district.
These in.ci.ude tuition reimbur­sements
increased from $180 to
$300; hiring of para-professionals
to aid in non-professional duties;
two days emergency leave; an in­crease
from $300 to $600 differen­tial
between BA and MA; person­al
day of leave cumulative to
three days; computer scheduling
in the high school.
Evans said he and WEA repre­sentative,
William Felger, ‘‘came
to a mutually agreeable solu­tion
to each of the problems’’
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There’s a boy at Linden Hall,
a boy owl that is! A 13-w.eek-old
“hoot” owl has taken up resi­dence
at the school. Well, actu­ally
he is housed in a small
building at the school stable.
Dubbed “Duncan” by his
owner Miss Leigh Hunteman, a
senior at Linden Hall, he is at­tracting
considerable attention
throughout town. He- is beauti­fully
colored with tan and
blackishish-gray plumage. A
goodly part of his head is still
covered with down which in
time will “feather out.” She es­timates
his wing spread to be
two to three feet now.
“I named him Duncan, she ex­claimed,
because prior to my
getting him, we were studying
Macbeth in school and the bird
seemed to be in exile just like
his namesake in the play.”
Water Line Work Slated
On Main, Cedar Streets
Beginning on Monday of next
week, the contractor working for
the borough, will begin install­ing
the new 12 inch water main
back to the Woodstream Corp. "
from E. Main Street through
Willow Lane. ■
In about three weeks, the con-'
tractors are expected to move up.
to Cedar Street where they wil‘
install a 10 inch water main t(
Morgan Mills. Cedar St. at thi:
time is expected to be closed ex
cept for local traffic.
Leigh admitted climbing 35
feet up a pitch pine tree located
near her home in St. Michaels,
Md., to get the owlet when he
was three weeks old. Since owls
are not. protected in Pennsyl­vania,
she brought it along to
school and has started to train
it.
Duncan, a bird of prey, is
baad fed once a day and his
diet consists of hamburg mixed
with raw eggs, chicken parts,
and mice. He is being weaned,
with small birds,
Leigh wears a heavy duty
glove when handing him. A
nylon leash with “jesses” on it
is put on the bird. She is in­structing
Duncan to respond
when she calls and to jump
short distances. He is also learn­ing
to fly.
The nocturnal bird seemed
quite content but curious when
brought out into the bright af-ternon
sunshine. His appear­ance
on the campus caused a
noticeable ruckus among the
other birds. He remained un­concerned.
In fact, he didn’t
even give a “boot!” He can’t
until he is six months old.
Leigh has specific plans £oj
Duncan. He will be trained for
falconry purposes, that is to
hunt. “The area near my home
in Maryland is located in hunt­ing
territory,” she remarked,
“and there is ample space in
which to work with him. He’ll'
learn to hunt rabbits, quail and
pheasants, mostly by sound,”
she added. He will be taken
hunting in the evening and
early morning hours,
Duncan will have to learn
four important hunting skills —
landing on the prey, holding it,
killing on the spot, and waiting
until the hunter comes to re­trieve
it.
He shouldn’t have too much
trouble mastering these skills
since his trainer is a licensed
enthusiastic falconer.
Duncan, 13 week old owl, surveys his surroundings on
the Linden Hall Campus. He perches on the glove of his
owner, Leigh Hunteman, a student at the girl’s school.
Owl At Linden Hall
Doesn’t Give A Hoot
Duncan, the “hoot” owl, perches .on
the gloved hand of his. trainer, Leigh
Hunteman, Linden Hall senior, as he dis­plays
his beautiful plumage and wing-spread.
Duncan’s appearance on the
campus causes quite a ruckus among the
other birds.