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(Consolidated w ith The L ititz Record, 1 9 3 7 ) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, July 19,1973 10 cen ts a Copy; $4.00 per y ea r by mall
w ith in L ancaste r County 28 PAGES NO. 17
Parents Ask School Board
For More Insurance on
Warwick Football Players
WEA Contract Expires, District to Pay
For Teachers’ insurance through July Insurance—both for football
players and teachers in Warwick
School District—triggered some
controversy at Tuesday night’s
Warwick District School Board
meeting, when one football
parent asked the board to buy
non-deductible insurance for
football players and, in another
discussion, the board announced
it was still paying life insurance
and hospitalization premiums for
teachers, even though their
contracts ran out June 30.
Director William Owens
chaired the meeting, in the ab­sence
of President David E.
Buckwalter, who is hospitalized.
Director Paul Wissler was also
absent from the meeting.
Jay Wenrich, 401 Sutter PI.,
representing the football parents
organization, asked the board to
reconsider its decision of last
month to buy $10 deductible in­surance
for football players, and
to go for non-deductible in­surance
instead.
In June, the board voted for a
$27.50 policy, with $10 deductible,
for senior High School players,
payable by the school district. At
the same time the board also
approved optional insurance for
all students, at $3.25 per student,
with $10 deductible, the entire
amount payable by the student.
Wenrich said parents wanted
full coverage for football players,
and stated he feared some boys
wouldn’t get the proper medical
attention if it involved fees of $5
or $6 for the parents.
He said the nature of football,
as a contact sport, rendered it
“different” from other sports,
and in need of complete
coverage. He said football
coaches were not qualified to
diagnose extent of injuries on the
field, and recurring medical fees
might keep some parents from
sending players to the hospital or
to their physician for diagnoses
when there is some doubt about
an injury.
He said he did not think any
parent should have to pay for
injuries incurred during a school
athletic event.
Asked why the board had gone
New Street Sweeping
Schedule Starts Mon.
The Public Works Department
will sweep all streets in the
borough, using the same schedule
as that followed for trash
collections, effective Monday and
continuing through Aug. 15.
Residents are requested to
remove their automobiles from
the streets until the sweeper
passes.
for $10 deductible insurance,
Acting President Owens stated
that it was “not an economic
move. ” He stated later during the
discussion, however, that it was
one step on the part of the board’s
insurance committee to help
control the district’s high claim
record.
“High Risk” District
He said Warwick District is
considered a “high risk” for
insurance and added that two
insurance company’s said they
“wouldn’t touch the district with
a 10-foot pole.”
Superintendent of Schools, Dr.
H. Dale Winger, stated that the
district is “in jeopardy of losing
our insurance because of the
experience records” of claims.
He said the alternative to losing
insurance would be paying very
high penalties, possibly $4.50-$5,
where other districts are paying
$3.25.
He said the athletic program
has hurt the insurance program
for all students, from kin­dergarten
on up.
The football insurance is
written as a separate policy, but
both it and regular student in­surance
are tied together, he
said. Districts cannot buy foot­ball
insurance without buying
regular insurance also, he said.
He said for a number of years
there has been an increase, in the
number of claims for relatively
minor injuries in athletics,
particularly wrestling. He said
there has also been an increase in
“nickle and dime claims” from
the Senior High School,, ex­cluding
athletics.
He said that as of • June 8,
claims on regular student in­surance
in the senior high school
(which includes classroom,
physical education, and team
sports, but does not include
football) amounted to $3194, more
than the $2498 paid out in
premiums. Of this amount of
claims, $1332 was for wrestling
alone, he said.
Football Claims
He said football claims
amounted to $1646, also more
than the $1175 paid in premiums.
By contrast, he said, claims
from the Middle School and the
elementary schools were
relatively insignificant and did
not amount to as much as paid
out in premiums.
He said the bulk of claims from
the athletic program last year
were for therapeutic treatment,
with only one major claim being
made.
Asked by a parent whether any
of the board members would
support a request for non-
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Am o s S t o lt ifu s Wants tö Build. B u t.
Problems Plague
Builder's Housing
Development Plan
Elizabeth Township’s board of supervisors
are shown standing in front of the
municipal township building which will
officially open for business on August 6.
There will be open house on Saturday,
August 4, to which the public is invited.
Shown left to right are Earl Butz, Charles
Strohm and Luther Ober.
Elizabeth Twp. Plans
To Open New Building
Elizabeth Township’s new
municipal building will be open
for business starting Monday,
August 6, it was announced at the
regular monthly meeting of the
board of supervisors last Friday
night. There will be an open
house on Saturday, August 4,
from noon to 4 p.m., to which the
public is invited.
The building is located off
Sleepy Hollow Drive on South
View Drive. Erected at a cost of
about $30,000, *the structure will
house the township’s road and
other maintenance equipment in
addition to the municipal offices.
In other action, William
Lawton, Lititz RD2, was named
to the township planning com­mission.
Lawton replaces
Charles A. Herr, whose term
Local Groups
To Donate A r t
Show Prizes
The Lititz Retailers
Association and local civic
organizations are again con­tributing
money for the annual
Outdoor Art Show, scheduled
Saturday, July 28 in downtown
Lititz.
The Retailers Association will
contribute $50 for first prize in the
watercolor division.
The ABC Club Award will be
$50 for first prize in graphic arts
and sculpture. The club will also
donate $25 for prizes in the All
Children’s Division.
Rotary Club will contribute $50
for first prize in oil paintings.
Lions Club will donate $25 for
other prizes.
expired after seven years on the
commission.
Board chairman Charles Stroh-m
reported that he’d been trying
to contact officials of the Mt.
Hope Trailer Co. to inform them
that building permits had to be
issued for all mobile homes
moving into the township.
In response to a query from the
floor, the supervisors said it
wouid be at least six years before
the township could afford to
resurface Pumping Station Road.
Five Teachers Resign,
Four Hired by Board
The resignations1 of five
teachers were accepted by
Warwick District School Board
Tuesday night, and four teachers
were hired.
Resigning were: Mrs. Joanne
Baker, Kissel Hill School, ef­fective
July 3; Frank J. Holcz-man,
Middle School, effective
June 28; Mrs. June F. Ibach,
trainable class, effective July 17;
Patricia Joyce, Senior High
School, effective July 5; and
James J. Madgey, Middle School,
effective June 29.
Four new teachers were hired
by the board.
Mrs. Kathleen C. Helter, 26
Front St., was hired to teach in
the John Beck School at a salary
of $7,300. She is a 1971 graduate of
Shippensburg State College, with
a B.S. degree in elementary
education. Last school term, she
was a long term substitute
teacher at the Rothsville School.
John A. Price, State College,
Pa., was hired to teach
mathematics in the Senior High
School, at a salary of $7,000. He is
a 1972 graudate of Pennsylvania
State University, with a B.S.
degree in mathematics.
Mrs. Barbara Z. Landis, 313
Herr Ave., Millers ville, was hired
to teach social studies in the
Middle School at a salary of
$8,050. She is a 1967 graduate of
Western College of Women,
Oxford, Ohio, and has taken
graduate work at American
University, Millersville State
College, and Penn State
University. She taught four years
in Kansas, Okinawa and Lan­caster
schools.
Mrs. Peggy Montgomery, 205 B
hf. High St., Manheim, was hired
to teach mathematics in the
Middle School at a salary of
$7,000. She is a 1973 graduate of
Millersville State College, with a
B.S. degree in elementary
education and a minor in
mathematics.
Also hired was Mrs. Linda P.
Macferran, 233 S. Spruce St., as a
part-time nurse in the Lititz
Elementary School at a salary of
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Amos Stoltzfus, a Gap
developer, would like to build 159
houses on the Chester Sensenich
farm, just west of Lititz on Green
Acre Road
He’s been working on the
project for about a year. Had he
begun five years earlier, the
development would be com­pleted,
Had he begun just a year
earlier, chances are Stoltzfus
would have sold his first house by
now, and there would be houses in
various stages of completion all
over the Sensenich farm. As it is,
Stoltzfus doesn’t know when he
can build. He doesn’t know if he’ll
build. His plans have been
stymied, maybe scuttled, by the
in c r e a s in g l y s t r in g e n t
regulations being imposed on
builders throughout the state and
the county.
For the past year, Stoltzfus has
been working on engineering
plans and site layouts. He’s been
looking at alternatives for water
and sewer service for his planned
development. And at various
stages of his planning, Stoltzfus
has been seeking interim ap­provals
and comments from a
number of government bodies.
One arm of the Lancaster
County Planning Commission has
given at least conditional ap­proval
to Pine Lane Estates, as
Stoltzfus’ planned developmfent is
called. Another arm of that
commission has recommended to
the Borough of Lititz that they not
extend water and sewers to that
area because it would encourage
development in the Lititz
watershed. The Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental
Resources has said that there can
be no large scale development in
Warwick Township without water
and sewer service.
Stoltzfus attended the Warwick
Township Supervisors regular
monthly meeting last Thursday
night. He came in search of
answers. He left with a new set of
questions.
Pine Lane Estates has been
conditionally approved by the
Lancaster County Planning
Commission (LCPC). On June 25,
Stoltzfus presented a preliminary
plan to the Commissions. In
granting conditional approval,
that body said that the plans
should be amended to show the
location and size of the public
water supply. Too, Stoltzfus’ plan
indicated a slope of 0.35 percent
for one street, while the County’s
subdivision ordinance calls for a
slope of 0.75 percent.
The Commission also asked for
an affidavit from the Lititz
postmaster stating that none of
the proposed street names in
Pine Lane Estates were in
conflict with already existing
streets.
The Commission later granted
a waiver to Stoltzfus for the street
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Thirteen-year old Kelly Reedy, daughter of Mr. a M JWrS..
Jay Reedy, 207 E. Main St., is being sponsored by the Rotary
Club of Lititz in the Miss National Teenager contest. Kelly
will enter state competition July 27 and 28 at Harrisburg,
and if successful, will go on to the national contest in Sep­tember
at Atlanta, Ga.
Local Girl to Seek
'Nat'l Teen' Crown
A local teenager will be one of
the youngest girls entering the
state contest to choose a can­didate
for the Miss National
Teenager crown.
Thirteen-year old Kelly Jan
Reedy will be the Rotary Club of
Lititz’ contestant for the state
title at a two-day event July 27
and 28 at the Penn Harris Motor
Inn, Harrisburg.
Has Binoculars,
' m
Will Travel
A pair of binoculars and a good bird book are all it takes to
get started as a bird watcher, says Margery Rutbell of Poison
Ivy Point, Lititz RD2. She and several other birders in the
area are currently trying to reorganize a local bird club.
By Peggy Frailey
When Margery Rutbell, college
English teacher, packs her bags
and heads home for the summer,
her luggage contains two im­portant
items—a pair of
binoculars and a telescope.
Margery is a member of that
unique and dedicated cult known
as bird watchers. Home to her is
at the fascinating address of
Poison Ivy Point, near Speedwell
Forge Lake, habitat of the
thousands of feathered creatures
that she pursues with her
binoculars with the regularity
and precision of a trained
marksman.
Now a full-time teacher at
Bucks County Community
College, she has been birding
since her Girl Scout days in New
York state, where an enthusiastic
leader introduced her to bird
watching. Her own enthusiasm
for the sport is contagious.
“It doesn’t have to be an
athletic fete,” says Margery, who
spends a portion of each evening
jogging around the pond near her
home. “You can be an invalid and
bird from a window. All you need
is a pair of binoculars and a good
bird book.”
“If you’re alert, you can learn a
lot about nature just by watching
birds,” she said, adding that this
goes for the armchair window
watcher as well as the stompers.
But one of the best ways to bird
is with a group, where news of
where the good birds are can be
exchanged, she said during a
personal interview shortly after
her return from a four-day
national birding convention in
Kenmare, N. D., engaged in by
180 zealot members of the
American Birding Association.
“The more eyes and ears, the
more birds seen and identified,”
said Margery, who is currently
active in reorganizing the Lititz
Bird Club. Even if the group is an
informal one, news of unusual
birds in the area, good places to
bird, or new ideas of where and
what to look for are bound to be
part of the talk. The novice can be
a big help to the old-timers while
he is learning the tricks of the
trade, she, explained.
Lititz has a tradition of interest
in birding, she said, and con­ducted
one of the first 30 annual
Christmas Audubon(Bird)
Counts in the United States, 63
years ago.
Many people in and around
Lititz are.still very much in­terested
in birds, or in simply
being out of doors with others,
learning and appreciating with
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RED TAG DAYS This Thurs., Fri. & Sat. - July 19, 20, 21
SHOP and SAVE
3 BIG DAYS
HOT DOG
& SEVEN OP
25c
Visit the wagon on E. Main
St. - Open Friday 4 p.m. to 9
p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to
4 p.m.
FREE PARKING
PARK FREE WHILE YOU SHOP
DURING RED TAG DAYS!
A t these
Participating Merchants
Armold Jewelers, Inc.
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob’s Save Rite
D. E. Furlow Variety Center
General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
Green Acre Dairy Farm Market
Hagy’s Western Auto
Hershey’s Shoe Store
Hess Men’s Wear
Hollinger’s Farm & Home Supply
House of Warwick
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Kenyon’s Pastry Shop
Lads & Lassies Children’s Ap­parel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Central Market
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller’s Furniture Store
Posey’s Garden Center
Shoes ’n Things
Spacht’s Furniture Store
Stauffers of Kissel Hill
Trudi K Shop
Ventures Chevrolet
Wilbur Chocolate Candy Outlet
Zum Anker Alley of Shops
MOST STORES OPEN THURS. & FRI. NITES TIL 9
If she wins the contest, she will
go on to Atlanta, Ga. in Sep­tember
to vie for the national
title.
The contest is open to girls
between the ages of 13 and 17, and
will be based on academic
achievement, school activities,
and personality. Some talent will
be involved in the national
contest.
The first step for all can­didates
was writing an essay on
“What’s Right about America?”
The 10 top essays will be read by
contestants at Harrisburg on July
28, the night that the state winner
is announced. Miss Congeniality,
to be chosen by all the con­testants,
Miss Personality,
chosen by the judges after in­terviews
with contestants, and
Miss Photogenic will also be
announced on July 28.
Preliminary judging is scheduled
for July 27.
Kelly, who will enter Warwick
High School in the fall, was a
straight “A” student at
theMiddle School, where she was
a member of the Audio-Visual
Club, the chorus, Flag and Rifle
Club and the mixed softball team.
She is also a member of the Rifle
Squad of the Warwick High
Marching Band. A piano student
for the past nine years, she is
accompanist for the local Rotary
and Lions Clubs. She is an avid
baseball fan, especially of the
Phillies, an interest She acquired
from her brother, Kevin, a junior
at Warwick High. Other hobbies
include an owl collection.
Kelly is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jay A. Reedy, 207 E. Main
St. She is a member of Lititz
Moravian Church.
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