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w itM u L a n c a s te r C o u n ty 26 Pages — No, 33
Proposed 1971 Lititz Boro Budget
Asks 3.5 M il Property Tax Increase
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Mayor Russell Templeton signs a pro­clamation
declaring next Wednesday night
as American Field Service Night in Lititz.
Warwick High School’s Student Council
will sponsor a door-to-door campaign to
collect funds which will be given to the lo­cal
AFS Chapter, The funds are used to
send local students abroad and to bring
foreign students to the U.S. Observing the
Mayor are: left to right: Brian Donmoyer,
council president, Gonzalo “Pepe” Atla-gich,
AFS students and Sally Good, stu­dent
council secretary.
Alvin Menno Clair Of Brunnerville
Charged With Murdering Wife,
Hearing Slated in Lititz For Dec. 7
A Brunnerville man was
charged last week with murder
in connection with the mysteri­ous
death of his wife several
weeks ago.
Alvin Menno Clair, 32, 1309
.Front St., Brunnerville, was
charged last Thursday with
murdering his wife, Gloria, also
32, on October 8,
Police so far have released
few details on the case, but a
preliminary hearing has been
set in Lititz in early December.
The preliminary hearing has
been scheduled at 3 p.m. Mon­day,
December -i, at the office
of Squire Paul F. Diehm, 103 E.
Main St.
Clair was arrested at his
home Thursday on a warrant
issued by Justice of the Peace
Diehm, after Trooper Robert D.
Lapp, Ephrata state police, had
filed a complaint alleging that
Clair “did feloniously and wil­fully
and with malice afore­thought
kill and murder” his
wife between 3 p.m, and 4 p.m.
on Oct. 8.
Clair was arrested about 7:30
p.m. Thursday by Trooper
Lapp, accompanied by Sgl,
James J. Wenner, Lancaster
state police, and Sgt. Robert
Lowe, Ephrata barracks com­mander.
The mother of two small chil­dren,
Mrs. Clair was found dead
in the living room of her home
on Oct, 8 about 4 p.m.
Police at the time were in­formed
that Clair had found
his wife’s body and had noti­fied
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Clair, Apple Street,
Ephrata.
They called a Lititz physi­cian,
who in turn called Lititz
Deputy -Coroner Dr. Joseph
Grosh.
Dr. Grosh at the lime said
the woman died “under unusu­al
circumstances.” An autopsy
was performed and County
Coroner Dr. Newton Kendig
said results were uncertain and
that exact cause would not be
known until completion of a
toxological test of body fluids.
At the time of the autopsy,
performed on the day of death
at Ephrata Community Hospi­tal,
it was reported that there
were bruise marks on the neck
of Mrs, Clair’s body.
A source close to the case,
who declined to be identified,
last week said: “It appears that
death was due to strangula­tion.”
Noting he has not yet receiv­ed
a full report on the toxologi­cal
studies, Dr.. Kendig added
that he “would rule out the pos­sibility
of a suicide.”
The decision to file charges
against Clair, police indicated,
was made last week after a con­ference
between state police,
the county coroner and Assis­tant
District Attorney George
T. Brubaker.
The proposed 1971 Lititz
Borough general fund budget
calls for a 3.5 mill lax increase.
The proposed $292,199 budget
would increase the borough’s
real estate millage from 12.5 this
year to 16 in 1971.
The increase is outlined in a
budget prepared by George
Steedle, borough manager, in
consultation with other borough
officials, including borough
councilmen.
The budget will go on official
display until it is officially acted
December, 7 and will remain on
display until is officially acted
on by council at its December
29 meeting. The budget will be
presented to council at the No­vember
24 meeting.
Th increased spending called
for in the budget primarily
represents increases in costs for
existing services, particularly in­creases
in salaries of borough
employes.
Besides salaries, the budget
calls for about a $5,000 increase
for street resurfacing, an addi­tional
$2,000 for parking meters
and a $1,000 hike for street
lighting.
The proposed budget calls for
increasing spending in 1971 by
about $23,000 over 1970. Rev­enues,
however, will be hiked
about $33,000. The budget also
projects a $6,000 deficit at the
end of 1971.
The budget projects only a
minor surplus of $114 for 1970
for carryover into 1971. The
1970 budget was balanced with
the help of a carryover of near­ly
$14,000 from 1969.
If the budget is approved, it
would -be the first time the
borough real estate millage has
changed since 1962, a period of
nine years. Prior to that the
borough tax was 16 mills in 1961
until the county-wide reassess­ment
dropped the figure to 12.5.
Steedle said the new budget
represents an overall increase in
spending ol about nine per cent.
Staling that the average Lititz
residential property is assessed
at about $2,800, he said the lax
increase represents an additional
tax of about $9.81 on this typical
property.
The borough’s $10 per capita
tax, levied in 1981, will remain
at $10 and the $10 occupational
privilege tax, levied in 1969, will
remain unchanged.
Steedle noted that the 3.5 mill
tax increase represents an ap-
Borough Plans
Pool Fee Hike
Lititz borough is planning to
increase fees at the Lititz
Borough swimming pool in
1971.
The proposed 1971 swimming
pool budget calls for increases
in season tickets from $15 to
$18.75 for single persons and
from $30 to $37.50 for a family.
Daily admission during the
week would remain unchanged
at $1 for an adult and 50 cents
for minors. But the weekend,
Saturday and Sunday, daily ad­mission
would be increased to
75 cents for minors and $1.50
for adults.
George Steedle, borough
manager, said the increased
rates are necessary to meet
rising operating costs, including
both wages and supplies.
The pool budget for 1971 calls
for spending $38,825, compared
to $34,384 in the 1970 budget.
Actual experience this year,
however, shows the budget un­derestimated
spending by more
than $3,000.
Compared to this year’s bud­get,
the new budget calls for in­creases
in wage outlays of $2,-
500. A $1,000 item is also added
in the new budget as an admin­istrative
fee for the general
fund.
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New Mexico Adventure Set As
Travelogue Presentation Nov. 28
The Rotary Club will present
the second of its “Travel and
Adventure series” on Saturday,
November 28 at 3 p.m. and 8
p.m. in the Warwick High
School Auditorium.
The featured artist will be
Romain Wilhelmsen, who will
narrate an adventuresome trave­logue
entitled “Enchanting New
Mexico.”
A resident of East Lansing,
Michigan, Wilhelmsen attended
St. Joseph’s College for two
years, and graduated from Pas­adena
Playhouse. He started his
professional career on the stage,
and enjoyed two successful sea­sons
on Broadway.
However, his heart was not in
acting, so he left the stage for
a life of adventure and explora­tion.
When he had gathered
enough history on an area to
speculate where old treasures
might be located. ,he set out to
find and film them. His success
has been phenomenal.
He has not only found lost
cities, missions and forts, but
treasure, weapons of war, and
armor that had not been seen
by white men for centuries.
His unsurpased adventure and
exploration films, excellent
photography, combined with his
stimulating narrative, help make
Wilhelmsen one of the country’s
most interesting and successful
travel and adventure artists.
This is New Mexico!! The
Legend Hunter, Romain Wil­helmsen,
will unfold before your
very eyes a land of great con­trast,
Much of Arizona is a
wilderness of dazzling scenic
beauty. The spirit of the Old
West, with its Indians and cow­boys,
remains strong' in this thin­ly
populated state.
Space-age industries, sleek
modernistic resorts and resi­dences,
mammoth irrigation
¡projects, air conditioning and
swimming pools — these are
also part of the scene. Arizona
has become one of the fastest
growing states in the nation.
But, it is still a frontier in some
respects, but a distinctly con­temporary
one.
From the Cimarron Strip to
the great Broadway of Albu­querque,
we see this land of
immense contrast. Between the
history of the oldest capital in
the United States, Santa Fe, and
the White Sands Atomic Re­search
Center, Wilhelmsen will
relate the historic spell of this
barren-to-green territory. From
the Taos Pueblo Indian to the
contemporary oil worker, the
difference in people will be por­trayed.
Underground a visit
will be taken to one of the won­ders
of the world at the Carls­bad
Caverns. A remaining relic
of the Old West will be seen at
the ruins of old Fort Union,
Ghost towns and abandoned mis­sions
are also on the itinerary.
Officials of the Lancaster County Co­ordinating
Council of the Pennsylvania
State Education Association review re­sults
last week of a public relations dinner
held at the General Sutter Inn, Lititz, The
men are, left to right: Richard A. Pohner,
county public relations chairman, Douglas
Minnich, county vice president, and Ed­ward
P. Blazer, county president. Pohner
and Minnich are both teachers in the War-wick
School District. Besides county and
regional PSEA members and officials, the
meeting of about 60 persons included
numerous representatives of tlie news
media including county weekly and daily
newspapers and radio and television stat-tions.
Besides presenting their own view­points
on various aspects of education, the
teachers queried the newsmen on how to
establish better press relations.
Asks State Certification of WEA
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Romain Wilhelmsen
The Warwick School Board
Tuesday night adopted a resolu­tion
requesting certification of
the Warwick Education Asso­ciation
(WEA) as the bargain­ing
representative for profes­sional
employees of the school
district.
The resolution was made be­cause
of the recently enacted
Act. 195 or the Public Em­ployee
Relations Act. Generally
the act permits public employes
to organize and to bargain col­lectively
on wages, hours and
terms and conditions of employ­ment.
However, it was immediately
evident that the WEA was not
in full agreement with a critical
point in the resolution. , The
resolution excludes department
heads of the district.
William Hazlett, president of
the WEA, said after the meet­ing
that “the WEA feels that
department heads should be in­cluded
in the bargaining unit,
as is the case in our current
agreement with the school
hoard.”
However, school officials
staled the state act can he inter­preted
to read that department
heads need not he included in
the bargaining unit.
Therefore, the Pennsylvania
Labor Relations Board will have
to interpret the act in War­wick’s
case to determine the
status of the department heads.
Street Lights
Raymond Groff requested the
board investigate the cost of
installing street lights along the
walk from the high school to
and along Orange Street. Groff
said the area is very dark and
recently an attempt was made
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will be published next
week on Wed., Novem­ber
25, because of Thanks­giving.
All news and ad­vertising
should be in the
RECORD office by Mon­day,
November 23,
there to molest three high
school girls.
Five substitute teachers were
elected by the board, includ­ing:
Mrs. Olive K. Donolli, Lan­caster;
Mrs. Janet E. Hoover,
East Petersburg, Mrs. Margie
Lisi, Lancaster; Mrs. John T.
Mitchell, Akron, and Mrs. Patri­cia
Sensenig, Lititz.
James Konevitch, a high
School English teacher, was
hired as an assistant junior
high wrestling coach. As such,
he will be paid $200 for the re­mainder
of the season,
Mrs. Lois C. Washchysion was
employed as a cafeteria aide
at, the high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Stei­ner,
both junior high teachers,
were granted sabbatical leaves
effective the second semester
of the present school term. The
couple will tour the United
States and Europe.
The board will hold its annu­al
reorganization meeting Mon­day,
Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. The next
regular meeting was scheduled
for Tuesday, Dec, 15, at 8 p.m.
proximate millage increase of 28
per cent since 1962, about the
same percentage that the con­sumer
price index rose from
June 1962 to June 1970.
Steedle said one mill of tax
in the borough produces about
$8,454 of revenue.
The borough also increased its
administrative charge to the
borough water and sewer funds
by about $2,500 and added a Sl,-
000 administrative fee from the
swimming pool fund.
Personnel cost increases in­clude
the following: about $4,000
in administration; about $5,000
in police; about $4,000 in high­ways
and about $2,600 for pen­sion
fund, health insurance,
service bonus, vacation and so­cial
security.
Departmental Breakdown
By departments, spending in
the new budget breaks down as
follows:
General Government (admin­istrative),
$50,191, compared to
$48,870 in the 1970 budget. Wage
increases and a $3,600 drop-off
in funds allocated for building
improvements are the major
changes.
Protection of Persons and -
Property, $65,460, compared to
$57,667 in the 1970 budget. A
$5,000 increase in police pay,
$500 additional for school cross­ing
guards, about $2,000 more
for new parking meters and some
additional for vehicle mainten­ance
and supplies account for
the increase.
Highways, $101,983, compared
to $92,604 in 1970. Nearly all
the increase is accounted for in
three items—nearly a $4,000 in­crease
in wages, bringing wages
in this area to $50,300, nearly
half of the total; nearly a $5,000
increase in resurfacing, nearly
doubling the outlay for resurfac­ing,
and more than a $1,000 in­crease
in street lighting.
Health and Sanitation, relative­ly
stable, $30,400 in 1971 com­pared
to $29,875 in 1970. The
new budget includes a $500 in­crease
to a $1,000 total for an
item designated “stream clean­up
and rat control.”
Recreation, almost identical,
$10,350, compared to $10,360 this
year.
Miscellaneous, $33,815, com­pared
to $29,621 in 1970. The
increase for 1971 mainly involves
about $2,600 for increased em­ploye
fringe benefits and a $1,-
300 increase in the equipment
reserve fund.
In addition to the general
fund budget, borough council
will receive the following bud­gets:
water revenue, water sys­tem
construction, highway aid,
highway construction, storm
drainage, police pension, em­ployes
pension, swimming pool
and equipment reserve. Al­though
each of these is handled
in a separate account, some of
the monies involved either come
out of or go into the general
fund.
Council Agenda
In addition to the budget,
borough council will consider
the following items at the No­vember
24 meeting:
The water main project on
Cedar Street for Morgan Mills
and on Willow Lane for Wood-stream
Corporation has been
completed.
The engineer will be present
to discuss with council the storm
sewer plan West of the Lititz
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'No Tax Hike' in
Elizabeth Twp.
The 1971 Elizabeth Township
operating budget will have no
tax increase, according to I.
Luther Ober, township super­visor.
The proposed new township
budget, however, calls for a
new $10,000 township building,
Ober said.
But present plans call for
financing this new building
through a five-year bank note,
he said.
The present 10-mills of real
»state tax and $10 head tax will
remain unchanged in the com­ing
year and no new taxes will
be added, Ober said.
The Elizabeth Township su­pervisors
“didn’t decide yet” on
when to adopt the new budget,
he said. The supervisors regu­larly
meet on the first Friday of
each month, The next regularly
scheduled meeting is December
4.
Ober also, however, said that
the supervisors “will adopt it
before the end of the year”.
Woman's Club Hears Commentary
On Local Downtown Restoration
The Lititz Woman’s Club
held a Mothers and Daughters
program at their meeting at the
Sutter Inn Monday evening.
Featured entertainment in­cluded
piano solos, piano duets,
readings, musical acts and flute
duets.
During the business meeting*
conducted by Mrs. Roy Yeager,
president, the articles were
amended and approved on the
membership by-laws.
Mrs. Richard Goodling* re­signed
as club treasurer and
Mrs. Garth Becker, past trea­surer
was appointed to fill the
position.
Robert Derek presented a
commentary on the downtown
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restoration, The birthday flow­ers
were presented to Mrs. Ron­ald
Tweed,
Hostesses for the evening
were: Mrs. Albert Ebbert and
Mrs. Robert Posey. The Home
Life Committee, chaired by
Mrs. Henry Gibbet, planned the
Mother-Daughter program. The
Hospitality Committee, Mrs.
Dale Shelley, chairman, served
refreshments to the guests.
A Membership Tea was held
November 14 at the home of
Mrs. Garth Becker, membership
chairman. New members wel­comed
were: Mrs. Rufus Burk­holder,
Mrs. Allen Eshelman,
Mrs. John Fissel, Mrs. Daniel
Haught and Mrs. Ronald Tweed.
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pours tea for Mrs. Vernon Dillman at the Membership Tea
held November 14 for new members. Mrs. Garth Becker,
membership chairman, a t whose home the Tea was held,
looks oo.