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CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, April 28,1983 25 CENTS A COPY: $7.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 6
The first day of spring may technically be in out weather until this week and most folks found
March but it didn’t FEEL like grass cutting, laundry something to do out of doors.
But Nobody Came
School District Hosts
Budget Meeting By Mildred Spear
The budget meeting at
Warwick Middle School at
which the public was invited
to ask questions and air their
views of the school district’s
1983-84 budget was held
Monday.
Or rather it wasn’t.
Everyone was there ex­cept
the public.
The School Board mem­bers
were there en masse.
The administration was well
represented. There were
was one candidate for
election to the school board.
And one reporter.
Since all of us had heard
the budget discussed in
detail on several previous
occasions the meeting was
adjourned.
The board has budgeted
more than eight and one half
million dollars ($8,696,021)
for use in the district during
the upcoming fiscal year.
Although there is a 2.3 in­crease
in the budget over
last year, no tax hike is
required to meet the ad­ditional
expenditures.
Had anyone cared to brave
the drizzle and cold to see
where their monies are
being spent, Superintendent
John Bonfield was prepared
to show a category by
category breakdown of
expenditures.
Board and administration
would have answered all
questions.
And this detailed analysis
of how one budget dollar
would be spent would have
been given to each person in
attendance.
Expenditure of
One Budget Dollar
INSTRUCTION 49
This category includes the
salaries of teachers and
librarians, teacher and
library aides, principals,
supervisors, building
s e c r e t a r i e s , and an
allowance for substitute
teachers...the expenses in
conjunction with in-service
training for teachers, text­books,
teaching supplies,
library books, audio visual
material, student field trips,
special reading programs,
IE P ’s...and services for
instruction relating to
computerized report cards,
and scheduling...graduation
expenses, gifted students
programs, and special
programs... includes federa­lly
funded programs and
employees.
ADMINISTRATION 3
The administration of the
educational program in­cludes
all school board
expenses, the salaries and
supplies of the central ad­ministration
staff and their
supportive clerical and
secretarial employees, data
processing for business
services ... legal services ...
auditors ... salaries and
supplies for tax collection,
census enumerators as
required by law ... postage
and printing ... mailing of
newsletter for residents, and
other communications.
PUPIL PERSONNEL t
All related services which
deal directly with the
students and their ad­justment
... salaries of
s ch o o l c o u n s e lo r s ,
psychologists, and their
secretaries... computer cost
fo r a tte n d a n c e
a ch ie v em e n t te s tin g
programs ... Guidance In­formation
Terminal ...
testing for identification of
gifted students, other pupil
testing and evaluation.
PLANT OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE 11
This category includes the
salaries of all employees
involved in plant main­tenance
and operation ...
maintenance and custodial
supplies ... heating fuel ...
utilities (water, sewer, gas,
electric, telephone)
equipment for buildings ...
roof repairs ... energy
conservation projects... and
necessary instructional
equipment replacement and
rep a irs , such as AV
equipment, desks and
chairs.
TRANSPORTATION 5
Pupil transportation ex­penses
include the cost of
transporting students to
public and non-public
schools, special education
pupils, gifted pupils...con­t
r a c t e d bus s e r ­vice...
gasoline.
FIXED CHARGES 11
This category contains the
fire and extended coverage
insurance... vandalism in­su
r a n c e ...lia b ility in­surance...
workmen’s com­pensation
insurance... the
district’s share of Social
Security and retirement
fund payments, increased
greatly due to recent
legislation ... life insurance,
m a jo r m e d ic a l,
h o s p ita liz a t io n , and
u nem p loym en t com ­pensation
for district em­ployees.
DEBT SERVICE 7
Included in this category
are interest payments for
loans and bond issues for
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Hear Results Of DCA Study
Borough, Township Officials
Discuss Police Merger
By Jennifer Shenk
Representatives of Lititz
Borough and Warwick
Township met last Thursday
night (April 21) in the
township municipal building
to continue talks started
over a year ago on the
possible merger of the two
m u n ic ip a litie s ’ police
departments into one force.
At Thursday’s meeting,
Alfred J . Hockley, police
consultant with the Penn­sylvania
Department of
Community Affairs (DCA),
presented the results of a
study he recently completed
on consolidating the two
police forces.
Hockley recommended
that officials of Lititz
Borough and Warwick
Township each appoint
committees to conduct their
own follow-up study on a
regionalized force.
Though no action was
taken Thursday, Steve
W a lla ce , a Warwick
Township supervisor, said
that he would introduce a
resolution to appoint a study
committee for the township
at the supervisors' next
meeting (May 11).
Lititz Borough Council
Tuesday night appointed
councilmen Russell Pet­tyjohn,
C. Wendell Hower
and Clyde Tshudy to a police
merger study committee.
Repre senting L ititz
Borough at Thursday’s joint
meeting were councilmen
Hower and Tshudy, borough
manager Kenneth Wiest,
Mayor Raymond Reedy and
Lititz Police Chief George
Hicks.
From the township were
the five supervisors,
Wallace, Lloyd Rohrer,
William Hazlett, Roy Irvin
and Robert Smith, township
administrator Karen Koncle
and Police Chief . Harry
Aichele.
The Study
The idea to consider the
cost-saving possibilities of a
borough-township police
merger came up early in
1982 when Warwick Town­ship
was looking for a police
chief.
The two municipalities
agreed at that time to ap­point
a representative of
each community to look into
the feasibility of such a
merger. They also requested
that DCA conduct a study of
consolidating the two forces.
Paul F. Diehm, a former
Lititz magistrate, and
Richard I. Hoffer, a former
Warwick Township super­visor,
were appointed by
Mayor Reedy and the
Township supervisors,
respectively, to conduct a
study into the feasibility of a
police merger.
In their study, completed
about eight months ago,
Diehm and Hoffer stated
that it was their opinion
“that a merger of the Lititz
Borough Police Department
and the Warwick Township
Police Department would be
feasible and desirable.”
In their report to township
and borough officials they
commented that a merger
“would result in a cost
s a v in g s to e a ch
municipality, better police
coverage for both areas and
a better trained police
force.”
During their investigation,
Diehm and Hoffer visited a
working consolidated force,
Northern York Regional
Police Department in Dover,
Pa.
Hoffer told represen­tatives
of the borough and
township Thursday that
Northern York Regional
consists of three townships
and two boroughs with a
population of 30,000-plus and
covers 500 miles of road.
The northern York force is
currently directed by a five-iman
board (one represen­t
a t iv e from e a ch
municipality).
Hockley said Thursday
that if Lititz Borough and
Warwick Township police
forces would consolidate,
each municipality would
appoint members to an
advisory board, responsible
for managing the force.
Each municipality would
have to appoint at least one
member to the advisory
board, Hockley said, but can
appoint more if both
municipalities agree.
Hockley said that DCA
recommends that the
borough appoints the mayor
to the commission because
“he’s the head of the police,”
but added “There’s no need
to have an elected official on
there at all.”
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Discusses Trees, Curbs, Detour
Council Puts Out Bids On
South Broad Street Project
Lititz Borough Council
Tuesday night approved a
motion to advertize for bids
on the water main relocation
work for the South Broad
Street project, estimated to
cost the borough ap­proximately
$115,000. Public
Works Director David An­derson
said he thinks the
work by the state on the
reconstruction of , South
Broad Street will begin July
11 and be finished by mid-
October.
Anderson sa id th e
borough’s contractors will
be working on a timetable in
conjunction with the state so
that the water main work
will be done just as the state
begins work on recon­struction
of the first four
blocks of South Broad Street.
Trees
Borough Council discussed
the possibility of trying to
save some of the older
“ specimen type trees,”
which are scheduled to be
cut down as part of the work.
Council agreed it would
give property owners of
those trees the chance to
keep their trees if they are
Candidates
Articles
Articles submitted by
candidates running for
election to offices in
Lititz Borough, War­wick
and Elizabeth
Township and Warwick
School District in the
May 17 election appear
on pages 15 and 16.
willing to take the risk and
sign a statement agreeing
they will remove and replace
the trees should they die
from the effect of the street
work.
Council also told Anderson
to have those parties who
want to make recom­m
en d a tio n s ab out
replacement trees to give
their suggestions to the
Shade Tree Commission.
“We don’t wantto make the
same mistake % e did on
Main Street,” Councilman
William York said, “by
putting the same type of tree
the whole way up the
street.”
Council will be bearing the
cost of removing and
replacing the trees. Council
President C. Wendell Hower
said according to the
agreement the borough has
signed with the state, the
wood from the trees will
become the property of the
contractor, although he said
he felt certain the property
owner could buy the wood
from the contractor.
Detour
Anderson told council that
two-way traffic on South
Broad Street will be
maintained on the east side
of the road while the new
water line is being installed,
but once the state begins its
reconstruction and repaving
work, a full detour will be in
effect.
He recommended that
council make the detour for
southbound traffic go west
on West Main Street, south
on South Spruce Street, and
East on West Second Avenue
to Broad Street.
The northbound traffic
would then go east on East
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American Packaging
Negotiating With Buyers
American Packaging
Corporation is currently
negotiating with several
buyers interested in pur­chasing
the entire assets of
the Lititz plant, Stanley
Schottland, president of the
corporation, said last week.
Schottland said American
Packaging has “ been
holding things together to try
and find a company to buy
the whole business” as
opposed to separate buyers
for the equipment and
building.
American Packaging had
originally stated in early
March that it intended to
close the plant, and sell the
equipment but retain the
building on North 501,
converting it into a printer’s
mall. At a printers mall
small operations would rent
portions of the building and
conduct segments of the
printing process, such as
binding, pressroom, mailing
facilities, etc.
“We are very excited
about one negotiator,”
Schottland said. “We are
c u r r e n t ly in c lo s e
negotiation with one com­pany
that would be an ex­tremely
good owners.”
Schottland declined to
name any of the companies
American Packaging is
negotiating with but said
that if things go well, a sale
“could come to fruition by
the middle of May. ”
He said that American
Packaging would “probably
come out very well,” by
selling the equipment and
the building for a separate
use, but that the company
did not want to do this
because they were “very
concerned about the people
who have worked hard
there.” By finding a buyer
for the entire business,
former employees would
have a chance to obtain a job
with the new owners,
Schottland explained.
“This will be a very
successful operation, a very
viable operation when the
right buyer is found,”
Schottland said.
By Holding Fund Raising Craft Sale Saturday
Recovered From Bouts With Cancer,
She Continues Her Battle Against It
By Kathleen King
Barbara Wise admits she
is not a patient person, and
when she gets an idea in her
head she doesn’t wait around
for someone else to begin
working on it. She gets
started herself.
About three weeks ago she
had the idea to hold a craft
and bake sale to raise money
for cancer research. She had
planned to sell crafts she had
made in her backyard on a
Saturday morning, offer free
coffee, and donate all the
money to the Foxchase
Cancer Research Center in
Philadelphia. (The sale has
now been moved to the
pavilion at the Lititz United
Methodist Church, on
Saturday, April 30, begin­ning
at 7a.m.)
Not only that, she set a
goal for herself to raise
$2,000.
Quite an ambitious project
for one woman.
But Barbara Wise is not
just one ordinary woman.
She is a woman with an
extraordinary faith in God
that saw her through two
bouts with cancer in two
years.
And now that Barbara has
been declared free of cancer,
she’s decided it’s time she do
something to help the
thousands of others whose
lives are touched by cancer,
that most feared of diseases.
***
It was almost two years
ago, in May of 1981, that
Barbara found the first
taletell sign - a lump near
her breast. At the time the
doctors felt that it was
probably a fibrous growth,
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Sports Section 5,6,7,8
Classified 12,13
Social 10,11
Business Directory 21
Church 20
especially since it was
located on the upper chest
area.
Barbara said even on the
operating table where they
did the biopsy she was told it
was a benign growth. But
as soon as the report came
back, and she saw the
doctor’s face, she knew the
truth. It was malignant.
“The doctors moved very
fast from that point on,”
Barbara said. “They did all
the scans - lymph, bone, etc.,
and determined that there
was no spread. Then they did
a m od ified r a d ic a l
mastectomy.”
After the surgery Barbara
underwent six weeks of
radiation and a year of
chemotherapy.
It was a difficult time for
Barbara and her family.
When the cancer was
discovered she and her
husband Mike had an eight-month
old son. He was a
long-awaited child, adopted
after seven years of
marriage and four years on
the adoption list.
“One of the things that
made me angry about the
cancer,” Barbara explains,
“was that it came so shortly
after getting Matt. He was
eight months old at the time
and the cancer took away a
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Barbara Wise shows off some of the many items that will be available at her
craft/bake sale this Saturday at the United Methodist Church pavilion. Barbara
decided, after two bouts with cancer, to have the sale and donate the proceeds
to cancer research.