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w ith in L a n c a s te r C o o n ty 16 Pages — No. 13
Hearing Set on
WEA Charges
Against Board
A hearing before the Penn­sylvania
Labor Relations Board
has been set for July 6 on charges
of unfair practices filed against
Warwick District School Board
by the Warwick Education
Association.
The WEA has charged that the
school board refuses to bargain
on beginning salaries for
teachers and also has voted not to
work'this fall if a contract has not
been agreed on by opening day of
school.
John Evans, negotiator for the
school board, said the charges
against the board were filed with
the Labor Relations Board on
May 30.
He said that of the six items
being negotiated by the two
teams, four have been agreed on.
The other unresolved item, in
addition to beginning salaries,
was not revealed.
School Board
Will Sell
Doster Tract
Warwick District School Board
voted eight to one Tuesday night
to sell a tract of land it owns in
the borough, known as the Doster
tract, and will receive sealed bids
until 8 p.m. July 18.
Board president David Buck-waiter
was the only member of
the board voting against selling
the land.
The tract consists of 20 acres
located on Woodcrest Avenue
east of Sutter Village. It was
purchased by the school board as
a possible site for a new school at
the time Sutter Village was being
built. Since the Kissel Hill School
has been built, the board feels it
no longer needs the tract.
Found Guilty in
Horse Death
Charles E. Shutte, 458 Revere
Rd., Lancaster, was found guilty
last Thursday of cruelty to
animals in connection with the
death of his Tennessee walking
horse last May m Elizabeth
Township. He was fined $100 and
costs before District Magistrate
Paul F. Diehm of Lititz.
Shutte had been riding the
horse in the Speedwell Forge
area on May 7 and had tried to
put the horse in a trailer to take it
home. When the horse would not
budge he tied it to the trailer and
pulled it with his car for about
two miles until the horse died.
Public Meeting on
Water Set June 30
A public meeting to discuss
results of water survey letters
sent out by Warwick Township
supervisors on May 19 will be
held June 30 at 7:30 p.m. at
Rothsville E lem en ta ry
School.
A total of 1774 water survey
letters were mailed to
residents of Warwick
Township, asking them to
state which of two finance
plans they prefered for a
proposed water system in the
township.
The meeting has been called
by the supervisors and the
township Municipal Authority.
This mother-daughter team considers a
challenge like running the Chimney Corner
Restaurant, Lititz RD4, all in a day’s work.
Mrs. Dorrie Loomis (center), owner and
operator of the restaurant, is shown
outside the establishment with her two
daughters, Karen (left) and Kimberly.
Personal Touch, Rural Cooking
Chimney Corner Trade Secrets
(Editor’s Note: This is the 23rd
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 24th article will
appear next week.
Good old rural cooking and a
personal touch are two well
known “trade secrets” of Dorrie
Loomis, who owns and operates
the Chimney Corner Restaurant,
711 E. Main St.
With her husband, Emery, and
two daughters, Karen and
Kimberly, as her main backups,
Dorrie has converted what used
to be a six car garage into a
homey popular restaurant with a
list of regular customers all year
round and a long line of tourists in
the summer.
Known for its homemade
chicken pot pie (made with hand
rolled noodles), homemade soups
and daily specials like chili,
spaghetti, and stew, which don’t
even appear on the menus some
days, the Chimney Corner also
offers a wide variety of dinners
and sandwiches.
Some of the tempting menu
items are flounder stuffed with
crab meat, fried oysters,
scallops, or fried shrimp, all of
which sell for either $2.00 or
$2.25; a roast beef dinner with
filling and gravy for $2.25; grilled
smoke ham or a honey dipped
fried chicken half, each at $2 25;
five different combinations of
club sandwiches, all of which are
$1 50, or hot roast beef or turkey
sandwiches for $1.75.
The restaurant is a family
project for the Loomis’s. They
bought the property in 1967 as an
investment. It included the Ole
Rome Inn, the original part of
which was built in 1730, and
which has been converted into
apartments; a chicken house
which was demolished and
replaced with the East Gate
Motel, and a six car garage, now
transformed into the restaurant.
Neither Dorrie nor Emery had
any experience in the restaurant
business.
“I’m an industrial dropout,”
says Loomis, who had been an
Council to Hear Requests
From Police Department
New requests from the Lititz
Borough Police Department will
be on Boro’s Council’s agenda
Tuesday night.
Borough officials declined to
state what the police deaprtment
is asking for at this time.
At 8 p .m., council will open bids
received for seeding and sodding
at the new swimming pool.
Also on the agenda will be the
formal agreement between the
borough and the Lititz Fire
Company on financing the new
fire house, a statement from the
Lititz Historical Foundation on
the amount of rent they want for
the Klein Barn should the
borough decide to lease it, and
speculations on a new truck
which the borough plans to buy to
replace its present Ford dump
truck.
Council will also receive
several subdivision plans for
approval, and discuss property
damage settlements between the
borough and residents of West
Second Avenue
Annual contributions from the
borough to the fire company, the
library, and the Warwick Am­bulance
Association will be an­nounced.
RCA executive.
Loomis’s original plans were to
use the building as a garage, or
maybe some other commercial
venture. Dorrie decided about
that time that she would like to
try the restaurant business, on a
small scale, and asked her
husband “for space” in the
building.
As it was, she ended up with the
whole building. Together, they
skinned it out, put on a new roof,
rewired it, put in new plumbing,
and then started on the interior
layout. Never having been in a
commercial kitchen, Loomis set
up the work flow in the kitchen
and did such a commendable job
that it has been admired since by
many long-time restauranteers.
The hard working couple built
their first tables themselves—
doors on legs—and finished 120
unfinished chairs.
They named the place
“Chimney Corner’’, after
favorite spots in their own homes.
Dorrie and Emery both were
raised on farms—she in Bucks
County and he in Lancaster
County and both had chimney
corners (used for summer
cooking) in their homes.
“We thought it was a good
name,” Dorrie says. “ I t ’s
associated with food, preserving,
drying, etc. It fitted in with what
we wanted to serve, and that’s
rural cooking, the real thing, like
we both knew back home ”
On Nov. 5, 1968, Election Day,
the new restaurant was ready to
open. “I was scared to death,”
Dorrie says. “I was expecting a
sandwich crowd. Instead we got
65 people that day, and have had
at least that many every day
since.”
Dorrie holds the secret of the
re stau ran t’s popularity, her
family insists.
“It’s Mother’s personal touch,”
Karen says, telling how her
mother often sends gifts to her
regular customers when she
knows they are sick. “She makes
friends with all her customers.
They even follow her out to the
kitchen to talk to her.”
The main dining room, the first
to be built, seats 50 persons, and
an additional 10 can be seated at
the counter, a second dining
room, often used for small
wedding receptions, rehearsal
parties, club meetings, etc., was
added later. The Granary, a
small room between the two, is
saved for “parties under 10.”
“We cater to the small
groups,” Dorrie explains. “Most
places overlook these and go
after the big ones. We provide a
nice place for smaller receptions
and parties.”
All the Loomis family work in
the business in some capacity.
Karen does waitress work for
banquets, helps her father with
the motel, and oversees the entire
operation when her parents are
away Fourteen year old Kim­berly,
who started learning to
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cook on the grill when she was 10,
is the Sunday hostess. The
Loomis’s son, Emery, 17, is the
“outside man,” handling the
buildings and grounds.
“But we all started as dish
washers,” the girls put in.
The restaurant is a real
challenge, Dorrie says, but then
that’s what she likes.
“That’s how we live,” she
explains, “always with a project
going. We have a couple new ones
in mind already!”
Antiques Show
On July 3 ,4
Thirty-one exhibitors from a
five state area will attend the 11th
Annual Lititz Antiques Show and
Sale July 3 and 4 at the Lititz
Community Center.
Many of the exhibitors will be
returning for the eleventh time to
the show, which is sponsored
annually by the Lititz Historical
Foundation to coincide with the
borough’s annual Fourth of July
celebration.
Mrs. Glenn McElroy is
chairman of this year’s show.
Her committee includes William
Light, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Rader, Mrs. J. M. Leed, Mrs.
Frank Wolf, Mrs. B. J. Losensky,
Mrs. Alfred Melzer, Mrs. Roy
Rodger, Mrs. Wilbur Miller, Mrs.
R. A. Eicholtz, Mrs. William Oeh-me.
Also, J. Robert Hess, Mrs. John
Newcomer, Mrs. Menno Rohrer,
J. Donald Steffy, Mrs. Richard
Yotter, Mrs. Robert Hanna, Mrs.
Valentine Brobst, Mrs. Michael
Cannon, Mrs. John Hershey, Mrs.
Donald Rannels, Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Shelley, and Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Collins.
Wins Prize
Miss Sally Good, daughter of
Mrs. Betty B. Good, 111 E.
Marion St., won first prize in the
human interest' photography
category at the Summer Arts
Festival, current in Lancaster.
Her picture was of a small Negro
boy being handed a flag.
Miss Good, a graduate of
Warwick High School, has
completed her freshman year at
Rochester Institute of
Technology, where she is a
photography major.
In This Issue
Following charges of inef­ficiency
and failure to keep
campaign promises to cut ex­penses,
made by a former school
board president, Warwick
District School Board Tuesday
night gave final approval to a
$4,267,191 budget for 1972-73 and
voted six to three against
lowering taxes.
The new budget is an increase
of $402,309 over the current
budget and contains only
estimated figures for teachers
salaries.
The board also voted a six and
a half percent increase in ad-minstrative
staff salaries.
However, the board would not
make the amount of the salaries
available to the Record-Express.
Salaries for non-instructional
employees were also approved,
effective July 1. These figures
also were not made available to
the ecord-Express.
In spite of announcements that
the meeting was a public session,
only four spectators attended in
addition to representatives from
the press.
School directors voted only six
to three to accept the budget,
with board members William
Owens, Carl Reedy, and
Raymond Groff voting against it.
A motion by Groff to lower real
estate taxes three mills, the
equivalent of about $51,000, was
voted down, six to three. Owens
and Reedy voted with Groff on
lowering the taxes.
*A motion by Paul Wissler to
keep millage at the current rate
or 73 mills was carried six to
three, with Groff, Owens, and
Reedy voting against it.
The board voted unanimously
to keep earned income tax at one
percent. A motion to keep per
capita taxes at $5 per person,
with persons 18 years old and up
required to pay, was passed,
seven to two, with Wissler and
school board president, David
Buckwalter, voting against it.
Speaking from the floor, for­mer
school board president,
Horace A. kauffman, said that in
the three years since he had
served on the board he hadn’t
seen much increase in efficiency.
He said that some of the school
board members, in seeking of­fice,
had promised to increase
efficiency and cut expenses.
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“If you’re going to do some of
the things you say you are, get on
with it and show us that it’s being
done,” he told the board.
“There hasn’t been much in­crease
in efficiency,” he said. “If
you’ve done some of the things
you said you’d do, I haven’t seen
it.”B
oard member Reedy,
directing his remarks to Kauff­man,
said, “We didn’t know we’d
have to account for about $150,000
for Vo-Tech schools when we
went after this job.”
Kauffman replied, however,
that blaming the Vo-Tech schools
for budget increases was not
“proper,” and that this is not one
of the bigger areas of budget
hikes.
Kauffman said it was unfair to
ask citizens to inspect the school
district budget because the
budget “was exceedingly dif­ficult
and almost impossible for
the average citizen to inspect.”
State law requires that the
budget be open for inspection for
30 days before it is adopted.
Kauffman said it was hard to
identify items on the budget,
adding that “even board mem­bers
have trouble tying items and
numbers together.”
He said that unless a person
has experience with past school
district budgets or access to
school board minutes, he does not
have a chance to compare the
proposed budget against previous
budgets. He also said there were
no details on income on the
budget on display.
Agreeing with Kauffman that
the budget was hard to interpret,
Groff said, “It takes a lawyer to
go over this budget. You have to
ask your business manager to
explain it.”
School board members had
shortly before asked Alfred
Guion, assistant to the
superintendent on business, to
identify items on the budget
copies they had before them,
which were listed by number
rather than by name.
When the question of lowering
the taxes came up, which officials
said would necessitate cutting the
already approved budget
somewhere, Owens said a good
place to start cutting would be to
cut down on the number of
teachers.
“I voted a lot of no’s on the
hirings tonight,” he said. “We'
should take a good look at the
teacher count and not hire some
of these teachers we’re glibly
hiring.”
The board voted to use $63,000
of state subsidies received after
last year’s budget was approved
to offset over-expenditure. Two
areas named were the electric
bill at the Middle School, and
cafeteria losses. Total subsidies
amounted to $154,318, which
officials said were not an­ticipated
when the 1971-72 budget
was drawn up.
Committees Announced for
Fourth of July Celebrati: Chairmen for the Annual
Fourth of July program in the
borough have been announced by
the Lititz Springs Park trustees.
Harold P. Bortz will serve as
general chairman of the annual
event, with J. Vincent Becker,
David E. Hilbert, and Donald L.
Krushinski on his committee.
The Queen of Candles Pageant,
under the direction of the park
trustees and the Lititz Woman’s
Club, will be headed by Richard
W. Summers, chairman from the
trustees, and Mrs. Paul Stoner,
chairman from the Woman’s
Club.
Their committees include Paul
R. Diehm, Krushinski, Stephen J.
Palkovic, Mrs. Fred S.
Augustine, Mrs. Robert J.
Drabek, and Mrs. Harold H.
Kauffman.
Summers will have charge of
amplification, assisted by Harold
P. Bortz, Franklin E. Brown and
Katrina Kauffman
Flower Girl
Ronald R. Loercher. The Bell
Ringing will be in charge of
Richard E. Boose, assisted by
Diehm.
Other committees a re : Candle
Illumination, Jerome A. Kiralfy,
chairman, John T. Badorf, Paul
W. McCloud, Jay H. Eisenhauer,
and Lloyd Miller; Concessions:
Krushinski, chairman, and
Douglas L. Minnich;
Decorations: Jay R. Oberholtzer,
chairman, Boose, Diehm, and
Lester E. Neff.
Fireworks: Elmer M. Murry,
chairman, and George K.
Biemesderfer; Music: Boose,
chairman, and Kiralfy; Parking:
Murry, chairman; Kenneth E.
Miller and Richard P. Murry ;
Policing: Becker, chairman;
Robert B. Koch and Richard B.
Walters; Publicity: Hilbert,
chairman, and Mrs. H. W.
Swisher; Tickets: Minnich,
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