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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e L it it z R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, June 3,1971 10 o ,n ta • Copy; ( 4-00 p o r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r C o n n ty 14 Pages No. 9
"Preparation For Future" Theme Of
Commencement Speakers June 8
Baccalaureate services will
be held in the Warwick High
School auditorium at 7 p.m,
Sunday, June 6.
Rev. Ralph M. Bomman, pas­tor
of Trinity Evangelical Con­gregational
Church, Lititz, will
deliver the address. Rev. Robert
Etter, pastor of the Coleman
Memorial Chapel, Brickerville,
will give the Invocation and
Benediction. The Senior High
School Chorus, under the direc­tion
of Mrs. June Lantz, will
provide music during the ser­vice.
Commencement ceremonies
will be held on the High School
athletic field, weather permit­ting,
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 8.
Rev. Edward Albee, assistant
pastor at the Moravian Church
will give the Invocation and
Rev. James Stough, assistant
pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, will give the Benedic­tion.
Commencement speakers will
present commentaries on the
subject, “How Education Pre­pares
You For The Future.”
The speakers are: Jenny Kis­singer,
“Academic Areas,” Ger­ald
Martin, “Fine Arts,” Sandra
Bollinger, “Commercial Area,”
and Michelle Lefever, “Extra
Curricular Activities.”
Dr. H. Dale Winger, superin­tendent
of the school district,
will present the class of ’71 to
Paul Wissler, school board presi­dent,
who will present the di­plomas.
Harold w. Swisher, high
school principal, will present
the awards.
The Warwick High School
Band, under the direction of
Dale Weller, will present a con­cert
prior to the graduation
ceremonies. They will also play
the processional and recession­al
music. Sharon Weiler will be
soloist with the band.
13-Mill School Tax Hike Sought in 1971-72
Dr. Winger Says Budget ‘Marginal Operation’
Planners Urge Three More
Blocks Be Zoned Historical
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
Tuesday night recommended
that borough council zone his­torical
two blocks of Broad
Street and a block of East Main
Street.
The only area presently in the
historical disrict is the second
block of East Main Street. Un­der
the new proposal, which was
endorsed last year by the Lititz
Chamber of Commerce, the fol­lowing
areas would be added:
first block of East Main Street
from Broad Street to Cedar
Street and two blocks of Broad
Street from Orange Street to the
railroad.
The plannning commission also
completed its study of a new
housing code and will recom­ment
its adoption to council.
The commission has been work­ing
on the proposed housing code
since February, 1970.
The commission approved final
plans for the second section of
Linden Acres, a development
underway along Water and
Cedar Streets. The approval this
time was for 16 building lots and
10 lots were previously ap­proved.
The Warwick School District
Tuesday night received tenta­tive
budget calling for a 13 mill
increase in the district’s real
estate tax.
The school tax, which applies
to Lititz Borough, Warwick
Township and Elizabeth Town­ship,
is presently 60 mills and
the increase would take it to
73 mills.
The tax increase amounts to
$13 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Assessed value in the district
generally is about one-fourth or
less of actual property market
value.
The proposed budget must
set 30 days before the school
board can adopt it.
The proposed budget for
1971-72 is $3,834,882, up about
$400,000 from this yCar.
In presenting the budget, Dr.
H. Dale Winger, school superin­tendent,
said original figures
called for a budget increase of
more than twiqe as large. The
figure was reduced to 13 mills
through a combination of cut­backs
in spending this year and
in eliminating and reducing
spending items for next year,
he said.
Budget Surplus
The school superintendent re­vealed
that he placed the school
district under a stringent spend­ing
cutback in February in an
effort to build, up as much re­venue
as possible in anticipa­tion
of many built-in cost in­creases
in the 1971-72 budget.
The increases primarily in­volve
salary increases (which
are still under negotiation), vo-tech
reimbursement costs and
start-up costs for the new Mid­dle
School.
As a result of spending cut-,
backs, Dr. Winger said, many
budget items this year still have
significant amounts of unspent
money. Altogether, the school
district estimates about $107,000
will be unspent by fiscal year’s
end June 31.
At the same time, the district
collected about $68,000 more
frofn revenues this year than
had been expected.
Altogether, the current year’s
budget is expected to have
$175,356 balance to carry into
1971-72. This balance, which is
equal to nearly 11 mills of tax,
helps off-set some increased
costs in 1971-72, but still leaves
a proposed 13-mill tax increase.
Items Eliminated
Dr. Winger also said many
items were eliminated or reduc­ed
in the coming year’s budget.
At the new Middle School alone,
he listed the following jobs
which had been projected, but
were eliminated to help bring
Pòlice Dept. To Expand
Thè Lititz Firemen at its
monthly meting last Wednesday,
approved a request from the
police department for additional
space for the expansion of the
department on the second floor
oi the fire hall.
The additional area, which will
come from half of the firemen’s
recreation room, will provide
more space for police offices.
An agreement is now being
drawn up.
Brief History of Wilbur Chocolate
Editor’s note:
The following article was com­piled
by Benjamin Forrest, vice
president and assistant treasurer
of the Wilbur Company. It was
presented to the Lititz Historical
Foundation which made it avail­able
to the Record.
The present company origin­ated
with H. O. Wilbur, in Phila­delphia,
Pa. and the Kendig
Chocolate Company, in Lititz,
Pa.
Back in 1865, H. O. Wilbur was
successfully operating a hard­ware
and stove business in Vine-land,
N. J. The chance of unit­ing
with Samuel Croft in the
confectionery business in Phila­delphia,
seemed to offer a larger
opportunity, and they became
partners under the name of Croft
& Wilbur, starting in the candy
business at 125 N. Third St.,
Philadelphia.
They produced largely molasses
candies and hard candies, which
were sold to the railroad
company for train-boys to sell.
The train-boy was a very im­portant
member of every train
crew in those days. Confection­ery
manufacturing equipment at
that time consisted of a kettle,
with a coal or coke fire, some
buckets, and a marble slab.
Their business flourished, mak­ing
it necessary for them to seek
larger quarters, at 1226 Market
St., Philadelphia, which was
prior to the days of the Wana-maker
store. A large part of the
freight items in those days was
hauled in freight cars by long
lines of horses. The streets were
covered with hay in the winter,
and in summer grass grew be­tween
the street car tracks.
Heavy items were hauled in odd,
low, two-wheeled trucks, and
Market St. was filled with farm­ers
and their wagons on market
days.
The business continued to
grow, and it was necessary for
the company to build a separate
factory for the production of
their chocolate requirements.
In 1884 it was decided to
separate the business into the
manufacture of cocoa and choco­late,
as apart from the manu­facture
of candy. The company
of H. O. Wilbur & Sons was
formed for the manufacture of
chocolate products, while Croft
and a Mr. Allen continued the
candy business under the name
oi Croft & Allen.
In 1887, larger quarters were
again required, at which time
H. O. Wilbur & Sons moved to
their last location in Philadel­phia;
at Third, New and Bread
Sts. The business continued
successfully, making it possible
for H. O. Wilbur to retire at 59
years of age, which placed the
full responsibility of operating
:
* 4
Personnel at the Ideal Chocolate Com­pany
included: front row, left to right, N.
D. Leaman, Sam Snavely, J. Frank Buch,
Frank Reisner, unknown, William Muth,
Walter Light, unknown, Bill Fasnacht.
Second row, Marie Heagy, unknown, un­known,
Jake Pfautz, Willy Bupp, Jake
Fenstermacher. Third row, Nellie Christ,
Mary Crawford, Wally Spickler, Fred
Mohler, Showers, John Leisey, Hiram
Eberly, unknown, Shorty Fasnacht. Fourth
row, Mabel Leib, Minnie Whiter aft, un­known,
Mary Butzer, unknown, John Ben­der,
Clayton Haverstick, Bish Bear, Jim
Engle, Sammy Hacker, Aaron Burkholder,
unknown, unknown. Back row, Minnie
Wood, Mabel Herr, McCreary girl, Anna
Brown, Jerry Hertzler, unknown, Tully
Guyer, unknown, unknown, unknown, un­known,
a Frederick, unknown, unknown.
Seated in the car are: Jeff Usner, driving
and Eli Garber. The photo was made
available to the Record through the cour­tesy
of Mrs. Martin Moore, 905 Orchard
Road, Lititz.
the business on his two sons;
William Nelson Wilbur (affec­tionately
referred to by his em­ployées
as “Father”) and Harry
L. Wilbur (referred to as “Hell-
Fire Harry”). The third son,
Bertram K. Wilbur, was a
medical doctor who practiced in
Alaska. He returned to Phil­adelphia
at the death of his
brother, Harry, in 1900, and
assumed supervision of produc­tion
in the chocolate plant.
During the early 1890’s, W.
N. Wilbur brought two brothers
from France — Steve and Mass
Oriole, both experienced choco­late
makers — who contributed
much to the famous Wilbur
chocolate items.
In 1905, a third generation of
Wilburs entered the picture in
the person of Lawrence H. Wil­bur.
He was trained in Ger­many
and tutored in the manu­facture
of chocolate by Steve
Oriole. He later developed the
machine to foil-wrap the famous
Wilbur Buds, which were first ,
introduced in 1893 and were
made by Fred Kurtz who con-tinued
as an employee until his
death in June, 1956.
The firm was incorporated
under the name of H. O. Wilbuj-
& Sons in January, 1909, and
the Wilbur family continued to
control the company until. 1926,
when F. L. Lamson was elected
President.
In 1927, negotiations were
started with Suchard Societe
Anonyme, of Switzerland, with
Willy and Roger dePerrot, cul­minating
on February 17, 1928,
in a change of the company
name to Wilbur-Suchard Choco­late
Company, Inc., and included
a merger with Brewster-Ideal
Chocolate Co., of Lititz, and
Newark, N.J.
* * • * *
Back in 1898, William Reisner
and Maris Kendig met at the old
Lincoln Hotel in Lancaster, to
discuss the possibility of going
into business, which resulted in
the purchase of about an acre
of land situated along the Lititz
creek to build a caramel factory.
This small business was success­ful,
resulting in the Kendig
Chocolate Co. being chartered by
the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­vania
on November 2, 1900, with
a capital of $25,000. Shortly
thereafter, an additional $75,000
was raised locally and part of
the present factory at 48 S.
Broad St., Lititz, was built.
On February 14, 1902, the
name of the company was
changed from Kendig Chocolate
Co. to Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate
Co., of which Eli L. Garber was
President.
On March 31, 1911, the Board
of Directors authorized the pur­chase
of the Puritan Pure Food
Co., of New York City, from H.
A, Cuppy, who was elected
President of the Ideal Cocoa and
Chocolate Co. on July 19, 1911.
(He served in this capacity until
June 5, 1918, being succeeded
by Charles E. Atkinson).
The company continued to
prosper and additional facilities
were required. On April 17,
1913, the Directors authorized
the construction of an additional
building, between the two or-
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the budget in line: assistant
principal, a secretary, half-time
physical ed teacher, a custo­dian,
a clerical aid and three
teaching positions in reading,
Spanish and math.
Dr. Winger said he’s convinc­ed
that any further cuts will
have to come from the quality
of education through cuts in
teaching equipment and staff.
He said the new budget reflects
“a pretty marginal operation,
but we’re going to live with it,”
because he’s convinced the pro­posed
tax increase “is the' ab­solute
maximum we can fund.”
The budget shows some in­creases
from existing revenue
sources, but the total increased
spending of $472,018 ($3,362,864
this year compared to $3,834,882
next year) comes primarily
from the $175,356 balance from
this year and the 13 mill tax in­crease,
which would generate
about $210,000 at the present
rate of about $16,200 per mill
of new tax.
Some Budget Increases
Besides increases in, the costs
of materials and salaries, the
new budget primarily reflects
substantial start-up costs for
the new Middle School and a
large increase in the district’s
contribution to the new county
vocational schools, including
the Brownstown Vo - Tech
School.
The biggest single increase,
according to Dr. Winger, is the
$91,000 increase to vo-tech. The
school district had some initial
vo-tech costs last year, but the
increase this year represents
the first payment of the local
school district’s share of vo-tech
salaries. The $91,000 alone
represents more than a five-mill
tax increase.
The new Middle School fuel
costs are budgeted at $13,000,
with light and power set at $20,-
000. Add two mills for these
items. Dr. Winger noted that
recent PP&L rate increases, in­cluding
the new Middle School
share, will account of in in­crease
in spending of $13,000
next year.
Middle School librarian costs
amount to $15,900, about equal
to one mill.
Supplies for the Middle
School library amount to $18,-
000, but a large part of this
figure was made up by cutbacks
in library spending for the
other schools in the district.
The Middle School gets priority
this year, because of the neces­sity
of getting the school in
operation, he explained.
Two new guidance counselors
at the Middle School are budget­ed
at a total of $17,000. Add
another mill.
Scattered throughout the
budget are new items for sup­plies
for the new Middle School.
While many of the items are
relatively small, one is a $15,811
item under secondary instruc­tional
equipment and includes
typewriters and some furniture,
and another is a 11,764 item
under industrial arts for new
equipment for students. Alto­gether
these scattered items
total nearly $37,000, or more
than two mills.
Other increases totaling near-
FIRE CALL
The Lititz Fire Company was
summoned to the 400 block of
Pierson Road to extinguish a fire
when a motorcycle caught fire at
7:15 p.m. May 27.
The cycle was being driven by
Richard Kennel, 573 E. Main St.,
New Holland. Damage was esti­mated
at $200.
The firemen responded to two
calls on May 28. The first fire
ocurred at 9:35 a.m. on North
Liberty Street in a car owned by
Jacob Ober. At 10:45 a.m., the
firemen extinguished a fire on
the Linden Hall campus
Police Phone Numbers
Lititz Borough Police
626-2209
Warwick Township Police
733-1818
ly two mills are: $7,000 increase
for bus transportation, primari­ly
to install amber flashing
lights along with present red
lights on 16 buses to comply
with state law, $5,000 increase
in employe retirement fund,
$8,000 to repair and replace
items at Warwick High School,
$6,000 interest to pay for loans
made necessary because state
subsidies have been late, and
$4,450 for a clerk at the Middle
School.
In addition, the state cut its
reimbursement by $16,300, equal
to ahout one mill.
The Salary Question
All this doesn’t include the
big question of salaries. The
School Board and the Warwick
Education Association are un­der
negotiations on 1971-72
salaries and wage benefits. But
no figures were available in
time for the preliminary budget
Dr. Winger explained that he
had to assume a salary figure
and work it into the budget. In
an effort to avoid prejudicing
the negotiations, however, the
figure was scattered throughout
the budget in places where' it
could not readily be detected as
such, he explained.
Thus, the preliminary budget
includes a salary increase, al­though
it won’t be known if it is
adequate until agreement is
reached.
Mandated salary increases un­der
Act 95, the Teacher Man­dated
Salary Act, alone will cost
the school district about $50,000,
equal to about two and a half
mills. About 60 per cent of the
district’s 181 teachers under
collective bargaining fall under
this act, which guarantees a
$300 yearly salary increase
through the ninth year of em­ployment.
Altogether, these items total
well over the proposed 13 mill
increase. But a combination of
monies saved from this year’s
budget and increases in income
from existing tax sources will
>make up the difference, Dr.
Winger explained.
School Negotiations Report Issued
The Warwick Education As­sociation
and Warwick School
Board have issued the first joint
release on progress of the 1971-
72 teacher wage-benefit negotia­tions.
The full text of the release is
as follows:
Under the ground rules work­ed
out in the last several months,
the Warwick School Board has
agreed to start preliminary
negotiations with the Warwick
Education Association pending
certification of the W.E.A. as
the bargaining agent for certain
professional employees of the
school district. These negotia­tions
are being conducted under
the regulations of the recently
enacted Public Law 195.
The status of the Department
Heads resulted in a hearing
on March 8 by the Pennsylvania
Labor Relations Board to de­termine
the composition of the
bargaining unit.. A decision on
this item is expected in the very
near future.
In order to expedite negotia­tions
and facilitate the prepara­tion
of the annual budget the
Board and the W.E.A. have
held preliminary negotiation
meetings. Only a tentative
agreement can be negotiated,
however, until the official certi­fication
of the unit is received.
Items being negotiated concern
the working conditions and terms
and conditions of employment.
Under the ground rules estab­lished,
progress reports will be
issued jointly so that the teach­ers
and taxpayers can be kept in­formed
of progress being made.
At the first meeting the
W.E.A. presented its economic
and non-economic items, while
at the second meeting the Board
presented additional items it
wishes to discuss. The W.E.A. is
represented by Tom Stutzman,
W.E.A. President; Don Hunt-singer;
Tom McKinne; Dave Hil­bert;
Elizabeth Tarone; Dennis
Fulmer; and Floyd Montgomery,
the Pennsylvania State Educa­tion
Association representative
from Harrisburg. John Evans,
School Board member; Carl
Kaufman, Administrative Assis­tant
to the Superintendent; and
Warwick Twp.
Issues Permits
Warwick Township has re­ported
11 building permits, in­cluding
six for new houses in
May.
Joe Snavely, zoning officer,
said a total of $83 in fees were
received from building permits
totaling $132,890. This includes
$115,700 for new homes and
$17,190 for other permits.
The six new homes were list­ed
to the following: Paul I.
Mease, Brusen Drive; Donald
LaVigne, East Orange Street;
Hubert S. Fisher, Green Acres
Road, Eli Sweigart, Rabbit Hill
Road, and Melvin M. Weaver,
Newport Road.
Other permits were issued to
the following: Victor G. Miller,
Owl Hill Road, swimming pool;
Paul H. Kurtz, Church Road,
residential alterations; Roy B.
Stoner, Lexington Road, silo;
Mrs. Mildred Emich, 308 Fair-view
Avenue, patio roof; Fred­rick
W. Williams, Rabbit Hill
Road, shed, and Ronald C.
Achey, Lititz Pike, commercial
alterations.
Roger Reist, School Solicitor,
represent the Board.
Items that have been presented
are generally along the lines of
the present agreement nego­tiated
last year which expires at
the nd of ’70-’71 school year. In
the end of ’70-’71 school year. In
are requesting a starting salary
of $7,200 plus dependent health
insurance at Board expense.
The Board has offered a $200
increase above the $300 state
mandated increment and $500 to
those teachers who are already
above the state mandated maxi­mum
salaries, and no other ad­ditional
fringe benefits. Other
items covered refer to sabbatical
leave1'policies, grievance pro-1
cedures, leave allowances, tuition
reimbursement, extra-curricular
activity and other related items.
Both parties are working
toward arriving at a fair equit­able
settlement as rapidly as pos­sible
to cause a minimum of dis­ruption
to the educational pro­cess
for the children in the
school district.
Community
Calendar
Thursday, June 3
11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. — Senior
Citizens Activity Day, Rec
Center.
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Lions Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m. — Warwick Township
Supervisors meeting, Muni­cipal
Building, Clay Road.
Friday, June 4
7 p.m. — Elizabeth Township
Supervisors meeting, Brick­erville
Fire Hall.
Saturday, June 5
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Chicken
Barbecue, sponsored by the
men of St. James Church,
Church lawn, Front -and
Water Streets.
Monday, June 7
7 p.m. — TOPS meeting, Rec
Center.
7 p.m. — Sertoma Club, War­wick
Haus.
7:30 p.m. — IOOF meeting,
Lodge Hall.
7:30 p.m. — WCTU meeting,
United Methodist Church,
Hopeland.
8 p.m. — Ladies Auxiliary to
American Legion Post 56, Post
Home.
Tuesday, June 8
6 p.m. — Rotary Club, General
Sutter Inn.
6 p.m. — Osteo. Guild, Covered
Dish Supper, Neffsville
Brethren Home.
6:30 p.m. — Installation Ban­quet,
Welcome Wagon
Club, Meadow Hills Dining
Hall.
6:30 p.m. — Warwick Township
Lions Club, Chimney Corn­er
Restaurant.
8 p.m. — Post 56, American Le­gion
monthly meeting, Post
Home.
7 p.m. — Graduation Ceremon­ies,
High School Athletic
Field.
Thursday, June 10
7 p.m. — Baron Stiegel Lions
Club, Polly’s Restaurant,
Brickerville.
8:30 p.m. — Jaycees meeting,
American Legion Post
Home.