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School Board Approves Personnel,
Milk Contract and Teacher Salaries
Warwick Twp. Building Permits
A t All Time High For 8 Months
Council OK’s Raises In
Police Benefits, Salaries
The Warwick School Board
approved some personnel
changes, a milk contract and
temporary 1971-72 teacher
salaries, pending change in the
national wage freeze and com­pletion
of the teacher salary
negotiations.
In the special board meeting
Tuesday night, Mrs. Suzanne
Beecroft was named full-time
elementary teacher at John
Beck School at a salary of $6,-
300. She had previously been
hired part-time at Kissel Hill
School.
The resignation of Renee Z.
Heupcke, first grade teacher at
John Beck, was accepted, “ef­fective
when released by the
school district, not to exceed
60 days from August 30.”
Charles H. Umland Jr.,
Brownstown, was hired as
school custodian, effective
August 31 at a salary of $4,500.
Three clerical aides hired at
$1.80 per hour are: Mrs. Virgie
E. Abel, Kay A. Kuch, and Mrs.
Jean Krushinsky.
The board approved the sub­stitute
teacher list and voted
to offer the $2 per student
dental insurance, underwritten
by the Pennsylvania Dental
Services Corporation and avail­able
to interest students.
The board approved some tax
exonerations and fund trans­fers.
After some discussion by
representatives of Graybill and
Cloister dairies on which firm
should receive the school dis­trict
milk contract, the board
voted to enact a decision pre­viously
reached informally in a
committee of the whole discus­sion.
The decision gives Graybill
the contract for the high school
and middle school, accounting
for about 53 per cent of the dis­trict
enrollment, and Cloister
the elementary schools, ac­counting
for about 47 per cent
of enrollment.
Dr. H. Dale Winger, school
district superintendent, noted
that previously enacted in­creases
in cafeteria and sports
event fees cannot be carried
out because of the president’s
wage-price freeze. But the
board authorized the adminis­tration
to proceed with the
Chief of Police
Hicks Receives
Commendation
Borough Council presented a
letter of commendation for out­standing
police performance to
Chief of Police George C. Hicks
at its meeting Tuesday evening.
The letter was accepted by As­sistant
Chief James Fritz.
Chief Hicks is credited with
saving the life of four-month-old
Tresse Landis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Landis,
29 West Orange Street, Lititz,
on Saturday, August 14, by giv­ing
mouth-to-mouth resuscita­tion.
The letter was presented to
Chief Hicks in recognition of
“his outstanding professional
performance of duty and
humanitarian service in saving
the life of a breathless child.”
Miss Susan Harbison, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs James Harbison,
311 E. Second Ave., Lititz, will
appear in the Miss Lancaster
County Scholarship Pageant to
be held at the Ephrata High
School Septmber 25.
Miss Harbison is among 13
contestants who will participate
in the pageant. Five of the con-
Susan Harbison
price increases as soon as it is
feasible.
Dr. Winger also presented a
starting teacher salary schedule
which, because of the wage
freeze, is similar to last year’s
schedule. An exception is that
teachers who improved their
educational status, such as
moving from a Bachelors to a
Masters degree will get the
“educational” increase. But
the annual state mandated $300
increment has been frozen.
Negotiations between the
schools board and teachers also
have been proceeding. But
since any negotiated increases
cannot be enacted until the
price freeze is lifted,which will
be November 12 or later, there
is no urgency for immediate
settlement, it was indicated.
Dr. Winger said that, at this
point, he considers the negotia­tions
are proceeding smoothly,
with agreement already reach­ed
on many issues and agree­ment
apparently near on most
others.
Fifty dealers from New Jer­sey,
Maryland and from all
parts of Pennsylvania will dis­play
exhibits at the Fifth Annual
Antique Show being held in the
Springs Park on Saturday, Sep­tember
4 in conjunction with a
Chicken Barbecue.
The Show will begin at 9 a.m.
and continue until dusk.
The park concession stand, op­erated
by volunteer workers
from the Summer Youth Minis­try
(SYM) in Lititz will serve a
pancake breakfast starting at 6
a.m. Cost for the breakfast is
$1.25. They will also serve
lunch, and from 2 p.m. until 7
p.m. they will serve chicken bar­becue
in the park.
Price for the chicken barbecue
dinners in the park will be $1.75.
Take-outs will be $1.25 per half,
and will be available at conven­ient
drive-in locations. Graybill
Miller, Manheim, is barbecuer.
Dealers who will exhibit an­tique
displays include: Ida’s An­tiques,
Columbia, Iva Buchen,
Lancaster, Benney’s Antique
Shop, Harrisburg, Seminary An­tiques,
Pottstown, Blanche Bu-chter,
Lancaster, Ray Lynes,
Lancaster, Davanna’s Antiques,
Baltimore, Md. Kocevar’s An­tiques,
Manheim.
Hollingers, Manheim, Weber
Shoppe, Pittsburgh, The House
of Lloyd, Philadelphia, The Vil­lage
Gift and Antique Shop,
Lampeter, Violet Henry, Unique
Shop, Newtown Square, Ye Ole
Lamplighter Shop, Lititz, Helen
L. Short, Bethlehem, J. G. Mc­Ginnis,
Harrisburg.
Ben Morgan, Williamstown,
N.J., Robert Lausch, Ephrata,
Thomas Antiques, Hamburg,
Kershners, Lititz, Mrs. Frank
Kellenberger, Spring Grove,
Elizabeth and Philip Gibson,
Parkesburg. Nelson Fry’s An­tiques,
Lancaster, Richard
Wright, Phoenixville, Whalan’s
Antiques, Muncy. Arlene Min-nich,
Ephrata.
Moseley’s Antiques and Curios,
testants have already appeared
in local contests and become
crown winners.
Seven contestants, including
Miss Harbison, have entered the
pageant directly for the first
time in the history of the event.
During the talent part of the
pageant, Sue will sing a com­position
she composed entitled
“Rejoice.” She will accompany
herself on the guitar.
A 1971 graduate of Warwick
High School, she was a recipient
et one of the Bobst Scholarship
Awards. She is enrolle dat Penn
State University and will pursue
the speech therapy course at the
Mount Alto campus.
Sue, at the present time, is not
being sponsored by any group or
organization.
Warrion Yearbooks
Arrive At School
The 1971 Warrian Yearbooks
have arrived at the High School.
The Yearbooks will be distri­buted
in the main lobby from 9
a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 4
p.m. on Thursday, September 2.
Warwick Township issued 23
permits for August with a total
value of $369,500 of which 14
were new residences, totaling
$316,500.
Permits for nine new resi­dences
were issued to Lloyd P.
May, Snyder Hill Road. Others
were to Elam Bucher, Appa-loosa
Drive; Donald Shenen-berger,
East Orange Street;
Marshal Mullett, Hiawatha
Drive; Grant Ross, Green Acre
Road; and S. Wayne Grube, Lin­coln
Road.
According to the Township
Zoning Officer, Joseph Snavely,
the total permit value of $1,287,-
300 fbr the first eight months of
1971 exceeds all previous fig­ures
for any total year. In Au­gust,
total permits issued in the
last eight years went over the
$9 million mark reaching $9,-
120,500.
The volume of new home per­mits
also exceeds any previous
full year, with 49 already is­sued,
18 to Lloyd P. May for the
Hilltop Manor development
along Snyder Hill Road.
Permits for garages were is­sued
to Howard Waganjan,
Reading, George Kamm, Lititz,
Shirley’s Antiques, HighSpire,
Buttonwood Hollow Antiques,
Kutztown, Kenneth R. Gerhard,
Ephrata, Lyle C . Sheik, Eph­rata
.
Lester and Florence Good,
Landisville, Mildred , Leinthall/'
Lebanon, Escourt’s Antiques,-
Philadelphia, Donna’s Antiques,
Lancaster, Mrs. Robert Johnson,
Lancaster, Eshleman and Craig,
Akron, Tex Johnson, Reading,
David R. Cunningham, StraS-burg.
Howell Heritage, Freehold,
NJ., Heather Valley Antiques,
Lancaster, Gypsy Pot Antiques,
Lancaster, Ben Buchen, Man­heim,
Fieldstead Farm Antiques,
Lancaster, Warren Souder, Her-shey,
Country Antiques, Mt. Joy,
Mary Lou Wilson, Gwynedd, Wil­liam
L. Keller, Broomall, Paul
and Lorraine Wenrich, Antiques,
Lancaster, Harold’s Antiques,
Thomasville and James W. Frey,
Strasburg.
All proceeds from the two
events, sponsored by the Park
Trustees, will be used toward thfc
park improvement fund.
Committees in charge of the
event are as follows: Amplifica­tion:
Richard W. Summers,
Franklin E. Brown. Ronald R.
Loercher.
Antique Show and Sales: Mr.
Calendar
Community
Thursday, September 2
6:30 p.m.—Lititz Fire Company
Auxiliary banquet, Brunner-ville
Fire Hall.
6:30 p.m.—Lititz Lions Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m.—Warwick Township
Supervisors meeting, Munici­pal
Building.
Friday, September 3
7 p.m. — Elizabeth Township
Supervisors meeting, Brick-erville
Fire Hall.
Saturday, September 4
9 a.m.—Antique Show, Chicken
Barbecue, Lititz Springs
Park.
Monday, September 6
7 p.m.—Sertoma Club, Warwick
Haus.
7 p.m.—TOPS meetings, Rec
Center.
1:30 p.m.—IOOF, Lodge Hall.
Tuesday, September 7
6 p.m. — Rotary Club, General
Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m.—Lady Sutter Rebekah
Lodge meeting, Lodge Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Rothsville Fire Com­pany
meeting, Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Lititz Plannning Com­mission,
Boro Hall.
Thursday, September 9
11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.—Senior Citi­zen
Activity Day, Rec Cen­ter.
6 p.m.—St. James Altar Society
Covered Dish S u p p e r ,
Church Hall.
7 p.m.—Toastmasters meeting,
Ephrata Museum, Ephrata.
7:30 p.m.—Rothsville Fire Com­pany
Auxiliary meeting, at
home of Mrs. Catherine Mus-ser,
Picnic Woods Road,
Rothsville.
Rothsville Road; Cleo Weaver,
Millport Road; and Titus Hurst,
2172 Main Street, Rothsville.
Fire permits for alterations
were issued to John L. King,
Millport Road, silo and wash
house; David H. Wenger, West
Lincoln Avenue, silo; John G.
Burkholder, 908 Pine Hill
Road, garage addition; Lloyd K.
Sensenig, 306 Lexington Road,
siding; Gladys Achey, 929 Lititz
Pike, office addition; and Ray­mond
Siegrist, 339 Pierson
Road, corn barn.
Post Office Will Be
Closed On Labor Day
The Lititz Post Office will be
closed on Monday, September 6
in observance of Labor Day.
There will be no carrier de­liveries,
except for special de­liveries
in town. Lobby hours
for box patrons and vending
machine sales will be from 7
a.m to 5 p.m.
There will be normal mail
service on Saturday, September
4.
and Mrs. Joseph M. Carl, Nor­man
L. Habecker, and Richard
W. Summers. Table set-up: Jay
R. Oberholtzer.
Bgrbecue Pit: Harold P. Bortz,
Daniel S. Shenk.
Barbecue Pit Helpers: Douglas
L. Minnich, Stephen J. Palkovic,
Paul Diehm, Donald Diem,
Wayne H. Gainer, Alan R. Price,
Richard E. Sipe, Paul W. Wiss-lcr,
J. Richard Coates, Bruce B.
Wike, Max F. Hoffman, William
H. Morgan, Jesse D. Roberts,
Jr':, Jimmy Pettyjohn, Richard
E; Boose, Arnold Cropf, William
E. White, Bill Boose, J. Vincent
Bedker, Glenn H. Groff, Richard
Coulter, Donald L. Heisey, Mark
S, Hershey, David T Hevener,
Jay R. Oberholtzer, John E. Hat­field.
James Bowersox, Richard
Coulter, Mrs. Irene Zimmerman.
, John R. Helter will be Mod­erator.
Wallace E. Lausch in charge
of Shuttle Bus operation for the
Barbecue.
General Chairmen: E. H. Bom-berger
and G. K. Biemesderfer.
Finances; C. William Dussinger.
Parking—Elmer M. Murry.
FIRE CALL
The Lititz Fire Company re­sponded
to a car fire in the
parking lot of the East End Gro­cery
Store, 370 E. Main Street
at 12:05 p.m. Sunday. A car
owned by Andrew Flores, Pen-ryn,
began to burn when the
engine backfired. Damage esti­mated
at $50.
Her full name is Elvira Rosa
Guadalupe Theiller Sodero, but
to her American family and
friends she is known as Viru
Theiller. Viru is the American
Field Services Exchange Student
at Warwick High School for
1971-72.
Viru’s American family will be
the Russell Schreiber’s of 114
West End Ave The association
between the Schreibers and Viru
reached the personal stage when
the Lititz family met Viru in
Harrisburg on August 23. Viru
had been in the United States
for only four days after spending
a three-day orientation period at
C. W. Post College in New York.
The meeting in Harrisburg
ended a journey which began in
Coronda, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Coronda, a community of 12,000,
is in the North of Argentina.
Viru is the first AFS Student
from the community and was se­lected
from the AFS chapter in
Santa Fe, the capital of Santa Fe
Province.
The eighteen year old student
is preparing for a career as a
bio-chemist, a program which
will take six years to complete..
Viru has already finished the
work offered at two schools she
attended, the Escuela Normal, a
public school, and Asficana/Fil-ial
Coronda, a private academy,
before beginning study at the
University in Santa Fe.
Borough Council Tuesday
night approved a three per cent
pay increase effective Septem­ber
1 for all Borough em­ployees,
including the five regu­lar
police officers. These raises
will be postponed, however, due
to the wage and price freeze
currently in effect.
In addition, the council
recommended that wages and
salaries be increased by six per
cent on January 1, 1972, based
on a cost of living increase esti­mate.
The police officers not in
the top pay classification at that
time, will receive an additional
three per cent raise.
School doors will open again on
Wednesday, September 8, at 8:45
a.m. for all Warwick Elementary
students except Kindergarten.
Students should arrive at their
respective schools by 9 a.m. and
report in the following manner.
Students attending Lititz Ele­mentary
should enter the school
by the main entrance on Orange
Street. Teachers inside the front
entrance will direct the children
to their respective classrooms A
large poster with classrooms,
classroom numbers, teachers,
and class lists will be on display
just inside the door. Children
will report directly to their
classroom after entering the
building.
Kissel Hill students of grade
one ( 1) should report directly to
their rooms. Grade two (2) and
three (3) should report to the
cafeteria and students of grade
Following a cooperative in­vestigation
among three police
units, officers arrested a pair of
Lititz men in a 178-plant field
of marijuana and charged them
Saturday with possessing the
plants, valued at $20,000.
Charged with possession of
marijuana plants before justice
of the Peace Paul Diehm were
Glenn Michael Roth, 21, of 136
E. Lincoln Ave., Lititz; and
Leon B. Buch, 20, of Lititz RD2.
Each posted $1,000 bail for a
heating at a later date.
Roth was also charged by
Lititz police after a marijuana
Cigarette was found in his car.
He also posted $1,000 bail on
that charge.
Warwick Township police,
Chief Paul Haines and Patrol­man
Rodney Hilton, were
assisted by Lititz Borough
While attending the Univer­sity,
Viru lived in Santa Fe and
returned home only on weekends.
Viru’s father is retired from a
position as manager of an elec­tric
company and now operates a
small appliance repair shop.
Her mother is a vice-principal in
The budgeted salaries for
1971 for the five regular police
officers are: Chief Hicks—$9,-
304; Assistant Chief Fritz—$7,-
783; Patrolman Emmerich—$7,
331; Patrolman Keller—$6,704;
and Shenenberger—$6,316.
Salaries for 1972 will be
Hicks, $10,174; Fritz, $8,766;
Emmerich, $8,018; Keller, $7,-
553; and Shenenberger, $7,116.
Council rejected the police
request for a 40-hour work
week and said there will be no
change in the present 45-hour
work week. Holidays have been
increased to seven-and-a-half,
four (4) should go directly to the
gym. Kissel Hill students enter­ing
grade five (5) should re­port
to the lower hall.
All John Beck students should
report to the cafeteria where
they will meet their teachers and
be taken to their classrooms.
Rothsville students will report
to the auditorium.
Middle School
Students attending the new
Middle School should report at
8:10 a.m. to the school auditor­ium
as follows: September 8,
eighth grade only. September 9,
seventh and eighth grade only.
September 10, all students re­port.
Starring time for the senior
high school students will be 8:05
a.m. September 8. These stu­dents
are to meet in the high
school auditorium.
Assistant Chief James Fritz
and Ephrata State Police CIS
Albert Failoa and Trooper
Ronald Brynarsky.
Hilton said the field was in
Warwick Township but he de­clined
to state the exact loca­tion.
Hilton said the field had been
discovered about a week ago
and had since been under 24-
hour surveillance. Roth and
Buch were arrested when
caught in the field Saturday.
Hilton said the plot measured
about 20 by 80 feet and contain­ed
rows of marijuana plants
.standing up to eight feet tall.
He said that all, except a small
portion to be used as evidence,
would be destroyed. Police
worked Saturday afternoon to
cut down the plants.
an elementary school. Viru’s
twelve year old sister still at­tends
Escuela Normal.
Formal study of English has
been a part of Viru’s schooling
for nine years and she comes to
Warwick with a proficiency in
the language of her host coun-but
there will be no time-and-a-half
for overtime or double­time
for vacation for which
police had asked.
A full paid hospitalization
plan for all employees has been
accepted as well as three days
paid funeral leave for death of
immediate family, parents, and
grandparents. No change was
made in the vacation schedule.
Retirement, sick leave and
service bonus plans will be
maintained. There will be no
change in the residence require­ment
for policemen. They must
live within the Borough limits.
The police had asked that the
requirement be changed to al­low
them to reside within a
five-mile area.
Council agreed to budget
$100. per year for cleaning of
regular police officers uniforms,
and to pay for the annual physi­cal
examinations for all regular
police officers by a physican ap­proved
by council. In addition,
the present policy of paying $2
per hour for approved training
courses will be continued.
There will be no change in
the composition of the present
police department. The police
had asked for additional of­ficers
as well as a budget allow­ance
for new uniforms. The uni­forms
will be added to the next
year’s budget, along with an ad­ditional
$250 for firearms train­ing.
In the future, the borough
will pay for the officer’s side-arms.
Borough Manager George D.
Steedle reported that the Zon­ing
Hearing Board had denied
the request of the Fire Com­pany
for a rehearing on the
South Broad Street site for erec­tion
of a fire house. Steedle in­dicated
he had been contacted
by Joel E. Habegger, owner of
Eby’s Mill) 35 North Cedar
Street, on tliej possibility of the
sale of his property for $75,000.
The borough has taken a 60-day
option on the property and
Council authorized obtaining
two estimates on the property
as well as estimates on the exist­ing
fire hall. A decision on the
purchase will be made by the
October 27 deadline.
The borough now has a gar­age
adjacent to the Eby Mill
property.
Acting on complaints from
residents of North Water Street
concerning speeding, council
agreed to ask the police depart­ment
to enforce the 35 mph
speed limit by means of a mea­sured
speed operation. This
method requires use of stop
watches and two-way radios.
Council approved the re­quest
of Chief Hicks for stop
signs at Laurel Avenue and
Swarthmore Drive and at Ox­ford
Drive at Laurel Avenue.
Mrs. Robert L. Oehme has
been employed as a crossing
guard for the station at West
Orange and Spruce Street. She.
will replace Mrs. C. Louise Fink
who resigned.
try. Her only problem is to get
the Americans to “speak slow­ly.”
Although only in the United
Slates for a little over a week.
Miss Theiller has made some ob­servations
about Americans and
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Susan Harbison In County Pageant
Antique Show, Chicken Barbecue
In Springs Park September 4
To Live With Schreibers
Host Family Welcomes AFS Student
Viru’s American brother and sister, The Schreiber’s will be Viru’s American
Jeff and Becky Schreiber, discuss the com- family during her stay in the United
ing school year at the Schreiber’s home. States.
Warwick Schools Open Sept. 8
Police Arrest Two,
Destroy Marijuana