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(CoDBolidated with The lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penine. 17543, Thursday, May 24,1973 10 oenta a Copy; $4.00 per pear bp mall
within Lancaster County 20 Pages — No. 9
School Board OK's Tentative
Budget, Plans 3-Mill Tax Hike
A pool manager’s work is never done!
Above, Larry VanBrookhoven, manager of
Lititz Springs Pool, gets bouyant markers
ready at pool side.
'S trict' Pool Manager
Says Safety Comes First
By Peggy Frailey
Managing a swimming pool
isn't what it used to be. Today it's
a business dictated by thick
books filled with state
regulations, all of which have to
be followed while, at the same
time, keeping both employees
and the public happy.
To Larry VanBrookhoven,
manager of Lititz’ quarter-million
dollar swimming pool
complex, it’s also a challenge.
About to start his third year as
pool manager, Larry looks at his
job this way—
“It’s like any other managerial
position—I*m responsible for the
total pool complex. If anything
goes wrong I’m the one they jump
on.”
“I firmly believe in enforcing
all die state and borough rules
about die pool, even if 1 don’t
agree with all of them,” Larry
wait on.
“And you have to have a
system and organization if you
want to get a job done,” he
continued during a poolside in­terview
last week with the
Record-Express. “I guess I'm old
fashioned, but I don’t go for in­formal
organization. You have to
have a chain of command. One
person has to be responsible for
calling the shots, whether he’s
right or wrong all the time. It
helps keep me on my toes.”
In his years as pool manager,
Larry has gotten the reputation
for being a “strict manager,” a
label he acknowledges comes
from his insistance on sticking to
the rules.
“I may not always be right, but
as long as I’m responsible, I want
the employees to consider the
public’s safety first, and their
happiness second,” he said.
Then he added, “If the public
isn’t safe, eventually they won’t
be too happy.”
The state keeps a careful check
on public pools, he explained, and
DER inspectors are likely to
come in here unexpectedly at any
time. State regulations on pools
change every year, and we have
to be on top of the changes.”
For instance, he tells how one
year the state decided that all
pool snack bars had to be en­closed,
so Lititz enclosed its
snack bar. Another time they
ruled that soap bars could not be
used in shower rooms, so soap
dispensers were installed.
Another time they said all dishes
had to be soaked overnight in
chlorox, so Lititz complied.
In addition, state inspectors
show up frequently, and unex­pectedly,
to check written
records on how much bromine is
being used, the number of gallons
of fresh water that are being
added to the pool, how often the
bottom and sides are cleaned.
The pool has never been closed
by the state, Larry pointed out,
but if we didn’t comply with the
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A three mill tax increase is
foreseen in a $4,371,290 tentative
budget approved by Warwick
District School Board Tuesday
night.
The budget is up $107,039 over
the 1972-73 budget, with major
increases allowed for salaries,
bussing, and “ intersystem”
payments, including Vo-Tech
schools. i
The proposed millage increase
will be from 73 to 76.
The biggest cut in the budget!is
in capital outlays, down $34,000.
For the first time Warwick
School Board has set up two
special additional periods for the
public to examine the tentative
budget. It will be on display June
12 at John Beck School and June
14 at Kissel Hill School, starting
at 7:30 p.m., at which time board
members will be available to give
an overall view and breakdown of
budget figures. The budget will
also be open for inspection in the
administration until its adoption
June 30.
Expected income covered in
the budget allows for a $31,000
drop in real estate taxes, which
the school district will lose if it
collects only half of the one
percent of these taxes from
Elizabeth Township, Warwick
Township, and Lititz borough.
Elizabeth Township passed an
ordinance recently to collect half
of the real estate taxes that have
been going to the school district,
which will amount to about
$5,000.
The School Board maintains
that, because of this, it will be
forced to give up an equal per­centage
of taxes it has been
collecting from the borough and
Warwick Township, stating that
the school code calls for “equal
taxation.”
This point in law has aroused
controversy with Warwick
Township supervisors, two of
whom were present at the budget
meeting Tuesday. C. William
Dussinger, chairman of the
supervisors, and Richard I..
Hoffer, township secretary, told
thè school directors that they do
not want the district to reduce its
levy on the township by a half
percent.
They stated that if the school
district goes through with its
“equal taxation” plan , it will
mean higher taxes for the
township and borough, because
the school district will have to
raise its own taxes to make up for
the loss.
They stated that the $5000 loss
it will take .from Elizabeth
Township will amount to only
about .28 mills of taxes, but that a
$31,000 loss, if it is applied to
Warwick Township and the
borough, will mean that the
school district will have to come
back with higher taxes for
everyone to make up for it.
Hoffer urged the School Board
to “let the $5000 go” and not “do
anything else.”
The Board indicated, however,
that it intends to collect only half
the one percent property tax
from everyone involved, several
of the directors maintaining that
it is a “matter of principle” to
impose equal taxation.
The three mill tax increase
called for in the tentative budget
is based on the school district
collecting only half the real
estate taxes it now collects, and
the tax increase could go higher if
teachers salaries are negotiated
at higher figures than are now in
the budget.
Director William Owens told
the board Tuesday that the
negotiating committee “is still
having some differences” and
that the WEA had rejected the
latest offer from the School
Board.
A tentative $2,233,872 has been
budgeted for instructional costs,
with $1,983,117 of this alloted for
teachers salaries. This is the
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Warwick H ig h L is ts
Graduation Sp ea k e rs
Police Urge Caution
By Holiday Drivers
Special reminders are
made to motorists by area
police chiefs to be
especially alert to safety
practices on streets and
highways over the holiday
weekend.
Police Chiefs George
Hicks from the Lititz
borough, Paul Haines from
Warwick Township, and
Herbert Weidman from
Penn Twp. urge motorists
to bear in mind that this is
the first big holiday of the
season and traffic is ex­pected
to be extremely
heavy.
Motorists are urged to
drive cautiously and avoid
peak traffic periods when
possible.
Speakers have been announced
for the 17th annual com­mencement
exercise of Warwick
High School, which will be held
Tuesday, June 5 at 7 p.m. on the
high school athletic field.
The program will be held in the
gymnasium in case of inclement
weather.
Student speakers will be Marie
Ann Mease, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Raymond Mease, 221 N.
Broad St.; Brad Lee Lauder­man,
son ot Mr. and Mrs. H. Paul
Lauderman, Lititz RD2; and
Thomas Allen Kroeck, son of E.
Robert Kroeck, 645 E. Main St.
The commencement theme will
be “Living Each Day to the
Fullest.” Miss Mease will speak
on “ Career P rep a ratio n ,”
Lauderman on “Extracurricular
Activities,” and Kroeck, on
“Community Involvement.”
Rev. Ralph Bornman, pastor of
Trinity EC Church, will give the
invocation, and Rev. Robert
Hoover, pastor of Jerusalem
Lutheran Church, Rothsville, will
give the benediction.
Harold Swisher, high school
principal, will present the
awards. Dr. H. Dale Winger,
superintendent of schools, will
present the graduating class to
David Buckwalter, School Board
president, who will in turn grant
the diplomas.
Baccalaureate services for die
graduating class will be held in
Thomas A. Kroeck
the
Battle of the Trees
Won bv Local Man
Paul Groff reported this week
that he’d won the battle to save
his trees. Groff, who recently
purchased the Amos Strickler
farm near the intersection of
Speedwell Forge and Pumping
Station Roads, became involved
in a dispute with Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation
engineers almost before the ink
on his new deed was dry.
The dispute arose when Penn-
DOT said it had to remove a line
of 40-year-old spruce trees in a
road-widening project. The road
is being widened at the same time
that a nearby bridge, washed out
by last spring’s floods, is being
repaired.
Groff felt the roadwork could
be done without sacrificing the
trees which tower above his 18th
century farmhouse. He voiced his
opinion to this and other
newspapers, to his state senator,
to local environmental groups as
well as to PennDOT.
PennDOT called on Groff last
week with revised plans calling
for the removal of, at the most,
one tree. “Actually, I had the
trees trimmed last week,” Groff
said, “and they might decide that
they don’t have to take any at
all.”
Groff added, “I asked the
PennDOT engineer why they had
decided to revise the plans. He
said it was because of all the
phones calls and letters they got
after I started telling people
about the trees.
high school auditorium
Sunday, June 3 at 7 p.m. with
Rev. Luke Rau, pastor of United
Methodist Church, Brunnerville,
in charge of the service. Rev.
James Shannon, pastor of St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church, will be
the main speaker.
The high school orchestra will
play the processional and
recessional under the direction of
Ralph Lehman. The high school
glee club, under the direction of
Mrs. June Lantz, will present
several numbers during the
program.
Members of the Senior Class
are Karen E. Adams, Kim M.
Adams, Robin A. Adams, Gary
R. Ahnert, Nina K. Almoney,
Leland M. Amand, Susan M.
Amand, Gerald E. Aument,
Larry J. Aument, D. Kim
Balmer, Leland J. Beachy, Lloyd
E. Beamesderfer, Jr., Jeffrey W.
Beaner, Donald G. Becker,
Randolph C. Behm, Dan G.
Bender, Gregory R. Bomberger,
Lynn S. Brewer, Gary Gene
Brown, Janet L. Brubaker, Dale
Brumbach, Hildegard M. Bryson,
Thelma J. Bucher, Karen J.
Buchter, Susan J. Buckwalter,
Richard L. Burger.
Doris Burkholder, Ruth A.
Burkholder, David Carson, Kevin
D. Carvell, Jane E. Chandler,
Kwang J. Choi, Sandra J.
Coldren, Jeffrey L. Conner, Paul
R. Cooper, James P. Cordaro,
Odile Costaz, Tommie J. David,
Roy L. Deamer, Jr., Kristel L.
Delp, Barry Derrish, S. David
Dietz, David J.. Dinkel, Melanie
A. Ditzler, Steven R. Doan,
Marie A. Mease
Beverly J .‘Douglas, Angélique E.
Doyle, Nevin H. Dull, Kathleen L.
Ecenroad, Gary L. Eckenrod,
Kathrvn M. Eckert, Christine L.
Eichelberger, Teresa Enck,
Brad L. Lauderman
Kim E. Erb, Kirby K, Erb,
James E. Faus, Dennis E. Fink,
Diane E. Fizz, Joseph L.
Flowers, Beverly K. Foreman,
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Borough, Warwick Twp. Meet to
Resolve “ Personality” Conflicts
A closed-door meeting betwelen
Warwick Township Supervisors
and Lititz Borough Council was
held last Friday night in the
Borough Hall. There had been no
public announcement made of the
meeting, and a Record-Express
reporter was barred from at­tending
by borough manager
George Steedle.
Steedle explained that the twe
groups planned to iron out somt
“ personality” conflicts which
have been straining relations
between the borough and the
township. He said they didn’t
plan to explore the broader issues
of annexation and water and
sewer service, problems which
the two governments must solve
jointly. j
Steedle implied th a t any
meetings where these matters
were to be discussed would be
open to the public.
Reports after the meeting by
some of the participants indicate
that the personality conflicts
biggest single item on the budget,
and is up $16,696 over the current
budget.
This is the most significant
“unknown factor” in the budget,
and will remain so until contract
negotiations are settled.
Another “unknown factor” will
be bussing, with final figures
depending on the cost of bussing
non-public school children. A
tentative $112,000 has been put in
the budget for bus contracts, but
contracts have not been signed
yet, Dr. Winger said, and will
hinge on the arrangements that
have to be made for non-public
school students. The district
expects to be bussing more than
200 students to non-public
schools, and this could cost the
Senator Richard Snyder
Memorial Day Speaker
were straightened out and that
there was little discussion toward
settling the issues which had been
previously discussed at an open
meeting in the Warwick Town­ship
Municipal Building.
Post Office Closed
The Lititz Post Umce will be
closed all day Monday, May 28, in
observance of Memorial Day.
There will be no rural or town
mail deliveries except that
Special Delivery Mail will be
delivered in Town.
The Post Office Lobby will be
open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the
convenience of Post Office
Boxholders and for customers
who may want to purchase
stamps at the Vending Machine.
Banks Closed
The Commonwealth National
Bank, Lititz Springs Branch and
the Farmers First National Bank
will both be closed for the
Monday holiday.
Residents of Lititz and War­wick
Township are cordially
invited to attend and participate
in Memorial Day parades and
services, Monday May 28,
sponsored by American Legion
Post 56 and Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 1463. The traditional
rites are scheduled to begin at
10:45 a.m. in Lititz and 9:15 a.m.
in Rothsville.
Richard A. Snyder, Senator
from the 13th Senatorial District
of Pennsylvania, will deliver the
annual Memorial Day address in
the Lititz Moravian Cemetery at
11 a.m., Monday. May 28.
Children will decorate graves
of veterans with flowers. Dr.
James C. Hughes, Pastor,
Moravian Church, Lititz, will
give the invocation. Albert S.
Ebbert will lead the audience in
singing America and the National
Anthem. Kurt Strause, son of Mr.
& Mrs. David A. Strause, 419
Eshleman Drive, Lititz, will give
the Gettysburg Address. Rev.
Ralph H. Bornman, Pastor,
Trinity Evangelical Church,
Lititz, will pronounce the
Benediction.
Prior to the Memorial Day
service a parade will form at
10:30 a.m. on Warwick Street,
proceed at 10:45 a.m. east on
West Lincoln Ave. to Broad
Street, south on Broad Street to
Main Street, east on Main Street
to Church Square, then south to
the Moravian Cemetery.
Organizations participating in
the parade should report at the
starting point promptly at the
time mentioned.
In Rothsville, the parade will
form on Old Rothsville Road at
9:15 a.m. and move west through
Rothsville and end at the
Lutheran Cemetery where
Memorial Day Services will
begin a t 9:30 a.m., the speaker
being Robert Rowe, member of
the State House of Represen­tatives
of Pennsylvania, 102nd
Legislative District. Kurt Strause
will give the Lincoln’s Get­tysburg
Address. The Warwick
High School Band will play
America and the National An­them.
Rev. James C. Mohn,
Pastor, St. Paul’s Evangelical
C o n g r e g a tio n a l C h u rc h ,
Rothsville will give the In­vocation
and pronounce the
Benediction. Details of the
parade and service at Rothsville
are being handled in cooperation
with the Rothsville Fire Com­pany.
Harold S. Zander, Commander
of Garden Spot Post No. 56, The
College Planning
Information Nite
A “College Planning In­formation
Night” for parents of
junior class members will be held
in the high school cafeteria at 7
p.m. Thursday, May 31.
Mrs. Lila Rohrer, guidance
counselor, will provide
procedures for parents~to follow
after students have taken the
college boards.
district as much as $15,000, Dr.
Winger said.
Another issue which caused
some controversy in the district
was whether the budget would
allow for purchase of new band
uniforms. This was settled
Tuesday when the board awarded
an $8,323 contract to Oswald,
Inc., for 140 new uniforms, 120 for
the band, 20 for the band front,
and one for the major.
Although the directors voted
unanimously to purchase the
uniforms, Owens said he was not
in favor of having the uniforms in
the budget and said a “reasonable
limit” should be put on the size of
the band in the future.
The proposed budget looks for
$2,106,091 of revenue from local
sources, $2,071,056 from the state,
and $33,000 from the Federal
government. Dr. Winger said
that $5500 of Federal funding will
be lost next year, as well as
$16,500 from state re im­bursements,
and that about
$33,000 ESEA Title I money is “in
jeopardy.”
This, combined with increased
cost of bussing and loss of some of
the taxes from Elizabeth
Township, could cost the school
district as much as $100,000 next
year, he said.
These losses have been
somewhat compensated for in the
proposed budget through cutting
out a number of capital outlay
projects, an approximate $1500
cut in the athletic program, and
revision of some of the clerical
staff positions.
Dr. Winger stated previously
that the cuts should not result in
any loss of jobs to teachers,
although he said in some cases,
teachers who leave the district
will not be replaced. One instance
^ . , of this has already shown up in
Senator Richard A. Snyder the board’s decision to drop
American Legion, and Charles I. Spanish from the school
Weller, Commander of Veterans curriculum next year. The board
of Foreign Wars Post 1463, urge stated that the district could not
the widest possible participation afford to offer three foreign
by the residents of the com- languages, as well as Latin, and
munity in Memorial Day services decided to drop Spanish because
and to display the United States it reportedly was the least
Flag in solemn tribute
meaning of the day.
to the sought-after of the language
courses.
William B. Fry, long-time Pontiac dealer in the Lititz area,
sits at his desk in the Fry complex at 539 E. Main St.
Fry Pontiac Serves
Three Generations
In This Issue
Business Directory 17
Church News 16
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 14
(Editor’s note: This is the 70th
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local retail
merchants. The 71st article will
appear next week.)
William B. Fry has been
operating the Oakland-Pontiac
dealership for three generations
of families in Lititz and
surrounding areas.
Since the business first opened
in 1928 at 519 E. Main St., it has
undergone a three-fold building
expansion program and now
houses a complete dealership,
sales, service, and auto body
repair departments.
The business now includes a
staff of three generations, in­cluding
Bill and his wife, the
former Emma J. Engle, who has
been a key in the success of the
agency, and their children: Mrs..
EdwardC. Crowl, Jr., executive -
bookkeeper; William Dale, Sr.,
service and parts coordinator;
Mrs. Millard M. McKennon, Jr.,
pay roll administrator; Lee
Byron Fry, salesman and a
member of the Pontiac Master
Salesman Guild.
Three in-laws and two grand­children
also make up the
nucleus of the dealership. Sup­porting
members are a staff of
technicians and factory trained
personnel.
F ry ’s has expanded its
buildings along with its continual
increase in sales, starting out in
the western-most building of the
Fry complex oh East Main
Street, then building a second
salesroom next door, now used as
the paint and body shop, and
finally adding the third and
largest building to the east, which
houses a modern salesroom, the
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