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within Lancaster County 16 PAGES — No. 22
Council Will
Appoint Hew
Member Tues.
Appointments to Boro Council
and the Lititz Planning Com­mission,
a continued discussion
on whether to open Swarthmore
Drive through to South Broad
Street, and a recommendation to
change the Zoning Ordinance to
establish a separate district for
apartments and keep them out of
other residential districts, will all
come before Boro Council
Tuesday night.
A counter proposal on the
Municipal Parking Lot, to allow
free two-hour parking instead of
redesigning of the lot and
eliminating some of the spaces,
also will be coming before
Council.
Other agenda items will in­clude
a proposal for a new binder
and sealer to be used on borough
streets in place of the asphalt
macadam now used, a petition
from a group of citizens in the
Forney housing development to
rezone the area from residential
R-l to residential R-S, a report on
estimated costs of new traffic
signals for the borough, two
proposed resolutions for the
borough to enact to make it
possible for citizens to get sub­sidized
flood insurance, and
discussion of whether to appoint a
Civil Defense Director for the
borough.
The appointment to Boro
Council, scheduled for Tuesday
night, will be to fill the unexpired
term of Edward G. Reese, who
resigned from Council last month
because he is moving out of the
borough. The term will expire
Dec. 31, 1975.
The second appointment
scheduled for Tuesday, to the
borough Planning Commission, is
to replace Wallace B. Hofferth
for a four year term ending June
30, 1976. Hofferth did not seek
reappointment when his term
expired June 30 of this year.
It is possible that Council will
also appoint a Civil Defense
Director Tuesday night. The
question of appointing a director
came before Council last month,
when Larry Von Brookhoven, Jr.,
manager at Lititz Springs Pool,
volunteered for the job and
outlined some of his ideas on how
such a post could be set up. At
that time, Council decided to
table the matter until it had
formulated a definition of the job.
A proposal last month to open
Swarthmore Drive through to
South Broad Street, as an ex­tension
of West Seventh Avenue,
will be discussed further this
month, with some residents of
Swarthmore strongly objecting to
the proposal. Several of them
indicated that they would attend
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v ‘Tentative Agreement’ Is Reached on
Teachers Contracts: Strike still Possible
The Lititz Book Store at 49 E. Main St., owned and
operated by Bill Bell, carries a wide variety of equipment and
supplies for schools, churches, and offices. The owner, a
former school teacher, has been in the bookstore business
for the past 10 years.
L ititz Book Store
Stock Runs from
Paperclips to Desks
(This is the 31st in a series of
articles to acquaint our readers
with our local retailers. The 32nd
article will appear next week.)
Whether you’re looking for
paper clips or a new office desk,
you’re bound to find it at the
Lititz Book Store, 49 E. Main St.
Owned and operated by Bill
Bell, school teacher turned
businessman, the store is the only
one of its kind in Lititz, with
shelves stacked to the ceiling
with paper, envelopes, jackets,
binders, and art supplies.
Bell, who used to teach history
in a high school in New York, has
been operating the book store for
the past 10 years, as both a retail
and a wholesale business. He
carries equipment and supplies
for three lines—school, church,
and office—including a complete
stock of office furniture, either
available immediately from his
warehouse or by order.
He has filing cabinets and
desks, as well as adding
machines, typewriters, and
calculators from such companies
as Smith Corona, Royal, Craig,
Olympia, Brothers, and Un­derwood.
He also handles a complete line
of Eaton stationary, greeting
cards from Hallmark, Norcross,
and Rust Craft, and gift wrap­pings.
Under a separate division of
the store, Pennsylvania Dutch
Product Distributors, through
which Bell wholesales. Penn­sylvania
Dutch products, he
handles a line of gift items, in­cluding
Amish dolls, framed
paintings, and some souvenirs.
Interspread among the shelves
of office supplies are displays of
Timex watches and Sheaffer pen
sets. He has wall calendars (the
hard to find kind with large
blocks for writing). There are
also abundant supplies of pencils
and erasers in all shapes and
sizes, fancy plastic thumbtacks
(the kind that don’t tear your
fingernails apart), rulers by the
hundreds, tablets, notebooks,
various weights of typing paper.
The shelves in the back of the
store are just as fascinating.
There are stacked boxes full of
file folders (who ever realized
they came in as many varieties
as Bell carries?), manilla en­velopes,
index cards ranging
from the standard 3 x 5 upwards
to practically poster size, and the
filing boxes to hold them.
What is a book store without,
books? While he processes large
orders of textbooks for several
school districts, Bell also has
available in the store such
favorites as cookbooks, paper­back
bestsellers and many of the
classics.
Catering largely to the office
trade, Bell has to keep a
tremendous amount of stock on
hand.
“Offices are all set up dif­ferently,
and want supplies to suit
their individual needs,” he ex­plains.
He pointed to binders as
an example of the wide variety in
sizes he carries on most items—
this item alone carries nearly a
dozen graduated sizes.
Keeping track of all his in­ventory,
the retail items on the
shelves as well as boxes of
wholesale orders coming and
going through the store all day’
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A tentative agreement between
Warwick District School Board
and the Warwick Education
Association was reached last
Thursday, and with a possible
teachers strike still in the pic­ture,
both groups must yet meet
to ratify the agreement.
Thomas Stutzman, WEA
president, said that he will call a
meeting of the 160 teachers in the
WEA for Tuesday, Sept. 5, the
day teachers are scheduled to
return to school.
He said this does not mean the
end of a possible strike, which the
WEA threatened if the school
board did not approve terms of
the contract they seek. He said
teachers will return to school on
Sept. 5, and that he will meet with
them at the end of the day. He
said he hopes to have the terms of
the tentative agreement in their
hands early in the day, so that
they are prepared to voted on it at
the special meeting.
He also said that if the teachers
do not ratify the agreement, it
may mean they won’t return to
school the following day, which is
the day students return to school.
While terms of the agreement
are still not available to the
public, Stutzman said it does
include some increases in
teachers salaries, varying with
the number of years and ex­perience.
He also said some
changes were made in the
agreement pertaining to
demands of the teachers, and
that there “probably will be some
teachers unhappy.” Based on
these changes, he said he could
not predict whether or not the
teachers will ratify the
agreement.
About 160 teachers in the school
district are involved, and
ratification requires the presence
of a quorum of one-half the
membership with a vote by the
majority of this quorum.
He said a letter is being sent out
this week to the teachers,
notifying them of the Sept. 5
meeting.
In order to go into effect, the
agreement must be ratified by
both the WEA and the school
board.
John Evans, negotiator for the
school board, said that the
agreement must be ratified first
by the WEA before the board will
vote on it. He said the school
board will probably vote on it at
its next regular meeting, which
will be Sept. 19.
None of the negotiators would
comment on whether or not the
teachers will remain in school
during the interim between the
WEA meeting and the school
board meeting.
The 1972 contract ran out June
30, in the midst of negotiations for
a 1973 contract. In June, the WEA
filed charges of unfair practices
against the school board with the
state Labor Relations Board,
charging that the school board
refused to bargain on beginning
salaries.
Meanwhile, fnany of the
teachers signed separate extra
duty-extra pay contracts, not
included under collective
bargaining, enabling coaches to
go back to work this summer.
In May the school board ap­proved
its 1972-73 budget, and
kept the real estate tax at 73
mills, with teachers salaries
still an unknown factor. The
budget, set- at $4,267,191, was an
increase of $394,607 over this
year’s budget, the factor of
unknown teachers salaries being
one of the main reasons for the
increase, according to Dr. H.
Dale Winger, superintendent of
schools. Over a million dollars of
the budget was projected for
teachers salaries.
At the time the budget was
being presented, WEA president
Tom Stutzman, in a letter to the
R e co rd -E x p re ss, o b jected
strongly to Winger’s statement
that unknown teachers salaries
was a main factor in the budget
increase, and stated that teacher
salaries as a percentage of the
total budget have decreased
since 1969, while administrative
costs have risen during the same
period.
Evans told the Record-Express
this week that “the tax payers
are safe,” since the tax rate
cannot now be effected by any
possible increase in teachers
salaries.
Elizabeth Twp. Supervisors
Reject H e lf red Petition
Helfred Realty may go to court
over a decision to reject that
firm ’s request for a zoning
change in Elizabeth Township.
Closed to a hundred people
turned out Monday night at
Brickerville Fire Hall to hear the
Elizabeth Township board of
supervisors vote down the
Helfred petition. The company
wants to develop a 360-unit
mobile home park on a 77-acre
tract in the Speedwell Forge
area. In order to do so, the land
must first be rezoned from rural
to commercial.
The meeting lasted for only
about five minutes. The super­visors
read the petition to the
assembled group, voted
unanimously to deny it, then
adjourned the meeting.
F. R. Schreiber and his wife,
Helen, are the owners of Helfred
Realty. Contacted after the
meeting, Schreiber said he in­tends
to fight the board’s
decision. His first step, he said,
will be to appeal for help to the
Pennsylvania Manufactured
Homes Association.
A call to Association office in
Harrisburg revealed that they
had yet to decide on whether or
not to assist Schreiber. A board
meeting is scheduled for next
Tuesday, and a decision is ex­pected
to be rendered then.
Monday’s meeting was the
fourth public meeting on
S c h re ib e r’s co n tro v e rsia l
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The front porches that line Lititz streets were a big at­traction
to Kristin Bohler, 27-year old Norwegian university
student who spent the last two months here as a part of the
Experiment in International Living Program. Sponsored by
the Lititz Rotary Club, Kristin is shown above on the front
steps at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Bell, 425 S. Cedar
St.
Norwegian Girl Finds
L ititz Friendly Town
By Peggy Frailey
Long warm summers, local
people sitting on their front
porches, and an abundance of
fresh fruit will be among the
memories that a young Nor-
Don Rannels-Artistwitha Lathe By Dick Wanner
If customers at Don Rannels’
beauty shop tire of talking about
the owners’ stein collection which
adorns the shop, they can talk
about his woodworking, or his
decoupage, or the quail he raises
in his backyard, or the addition
he built to his summer cabin, or
the stone fireplace he built, or . . .
or just about anything that
Rannells does when he’s not
working.
In the front window of his Main
Street shop, Rannels displays
bowls, sconces and delicate spice
boxes in the Lehnware tradition
which he produces on a lathe in
his home workshop. Everything
in the window has a price tag, but
in today’s market, the prices look
rather low.
“I don’t do these things to make
money, really,” Rannels says. “I
do it because I like wood. I like
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the feel of it. I like to work with it.
I kept turning things out, and
they kept piling up, so finally I
decided to start selling them.
Probably I could work up a little
sideline, and make a profit, but
that would take all the enjoyment
out of working with wood.”
Rannels had been interested in
woodworking for a number of
years, but he really got hooked at
a Warwick High School adult
education woodworking class.
“We’d torn the old kitchen out
of our house,” he said, “and the
built-in cupboards that were
there were made mostly of
poplar. The woodworking class
lasted for ten weeks. I used the
poplar from the kitchen to make
a hutch, which I keep now in the
shop.
“The hardest part of that whole
project was dragging my hutch
home after every class. There
was no room at the school to store
it, so I put it in the station wagon
and hauled it away. After I got
started, I bought a lathe, a few
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In This issue
A hutch made from lumber taken from Rannels'
his old kitchen, and a bowl turned from projects,
three different hardwoods are two of Don
more ambitious woodworking
Brunnerville 11
Business Directory 5
Church News 12
Classified Ads 15
Editorial Page 4
Penryn-Elm News 16
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10
THIS FRIDAY - AUGUST 25
9 P.M. to 11 P.M.
This Friday is THE NIGHT to shop in LITITZ for:
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i t Summer Clearance
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Check the participating merchants listed below and be sure to shop these 2
EXTRA HOURS — Many bargains youcan’t afford to miss will be offered only
from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Cookies Patio (General Sutter Inn) will be open for the convenience of shoppers
until 11 pm.
DON’T FORGET
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Participating Merchants %
Armold Jewelers
Backporch Candle Shop
Draeger’s German Foods
Hagy’s Western Auto
J.B. Hess Men's Wear
The Gladeli Shop
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Lads & Lassies Children’s
Apparel
Lipparts of Lititz
Lititz Sewing Center
Michael’s of Lititz
Henry K. Neff
Spacht’s Furniture Store
Trudi K Shop
wegian girl will carry back to
Norway when she leaves Lititz
next week.
“I would feel right at home
living in Lititz,” Kristin Bohler, a
native of Oslo, Norway, said last
week. “The people here are so
friendly and open, they made me
feel at home as soon as I
arrived,” she said.
“I enjoy seeing them sitting on
their front porches,” she con­tinued.
“It seems to be such a
friendly thing. At home we don’t
have front porches, only a door
and a wall. In Norway it’s usually
too cold to sit outdoors.”
Kristin is winding up a two
month visit in Lititz as a part of
the Experiment in International
Living Program. At the end of
this week, after having been a
guest in the homes of a number of
local Rotary Club members, she
will spend a week in Canada and
then fly home to continue her
studies at the University of Oslo.
She came to town shortly after
the June 22 flood disaster, (“I
was a little afraid to come after
reading about the flood in the
newspapers,” she said) and has
been occupied ever since touring
the surrounding historical areas,
visiting local churches, and
showing slides of her native
country to Rotary Club members.
Among her excursions were a
trip to Hershey, where she was
especially impressed with the
Hershey Boys School and the
Milton Hershey story.
She also had a look at the
Amish countryside and farms,
spent an evening at the Dutch
Family Festival, toured various
sections of Philadelphia, and
spent a weekend on the
Chesapeake Bay.
One day, to be long remem­bered,
she went to Wilkes-Barre
with a group of Rotary Club
wives to , help with the flood
cleanup operations.
Her visit has left Kristin with a
number of interesting im­pressions
of the United States,
and of this area in particular.
She likes the long summers (in
Norway, the summer is only two
months long and doesn’t get
much above 60 degrees) and the
abundance of fresh fruit. She had
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