Lititz Record Express

              T H E B E S S
SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR NEARLY A CENTURY
97th Year E s t a b l i s h e s A p r il, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n s o lid a te d w i t h T h e L i t i t z R e c o rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, August 16, 1973 l ° 0“ V th iiPL Â e r " c o ^ ïy by 18 PAGES - NO. 21
School Board’s Extension of
Teachers Medical Benefits
Up for Ratification Tuesday
School Board president, David
Buckwalter, said the board’s
action in extending teachers’
medical benefits and life in­surance
through August will be
subject to ratification at the
board’s public meeting Tuesday
night.
Buckwalter had sought consent
of board members to extend the
benefits by taking a telephone
poll at the end of July, and the
legality of the method of voting
was challenged by school
director Carl Reedy in a
statement to the Record-Express
last week.
Buckwalter said that after
contacting members of the
School Board and receiving
majority consent, he signed a
letter that was mailed to all
members of the Warwick
Education Association, the
teachers’ collective bargaining
unit, telling them that benefits
scheduled to expire July 31 had
been extended through August.
The letter, dated July 31, was
prepared and mailed after
negotiators for the School Board
and teachers union reportedly
had reached a tentative
agreement at a bargaining
session July 26.
The board had previously voted
to terminate the benefits July 31,
after already extending them one
month beyond expiration of the
teachers contract for 1972-73.
Buckwalter said he was
directed to extend coverage
through August by a majority of
the School Board members as a
“temporary measure to maintain
employee insurance coverage.”
He said the letter was prepared
and mailed only after contacting
every member of the board and
receiving majority consent.
“This was the only recourse
available to prevent lapse of
employee insurance,” Buck-waiter
said, “since the School
Board does not meet officially
until Aug. 21.”
He said this was the first time
he had ever taken a telephone
vote of board'members.
At the Aug 21 meeting, he said,
the action will be up for
ratification by school directors.
By law, any contract between
the school district and the WEA
must first be ratified by the
WEA, then the School Board.
Negotiations, details of which
are released only through
prepared press releases from the
superintendent’s office, are still
continuing as opening date for
schools in the district ap­proaches.
Some controversy-has
arisen the past few weeks over
the most recent press release
from the superintendent’s office
stating that a “ tentative
agreement” had been reached on
the contract.
Through letters to the editor of
the Record-Express, a few
teachers have protested this
announcement, and have stated
that teachers have still not ap­proved
the contract because of
disagreement over a grievance
procedure.
Under the expired 1972-73
contract, a spokesman said, the
grievance procedure requires
teachers to take complaints
through the administration
before bringing them to the
School Board. A spokesman said
teachers want to be able to go
directly to the School Board with
grievances.
Spokesmen from both
bargaining parties have in­dicated
that salaries are not the
major holdup in the contract.
John Evans, chief negotiator
for the School Board, said that
“hopefully” a contract would be
agreed on before school opens
this fall, but some teacherg have,
said in statements to the press,
that the WEA will not meet to
ratify an agreement until Sept. 4,
the day before school is
scheduled to begin.
The 1972-73 contract was not
ratified by the WEA until one
hour before school opened, the
action taken at a last minute
meeting held at the Rec Center.
Lititz Retailer's Association
Announces Bicycle Winners
Brian Hammer, 455 Ft. Ross Ave., Lititz,
is shown above receiving the bicycle he
won in last week's contest held by the Lititz
Retailer’s Assn. Presenting Brian with his
prize is Tom Hagy of Hagy's Western Auto.
The bicycles awarded are Western Flyer
Bikes from Western Auto.
The winner of the girl’s bike was Kim
Frey, 377 East Main St., Lititz. Kim was
unavailable for a picture in time for this
week's Record Express.
Local Youth Charged
in Hit and Run
A local youth was taken into
custody Tuesday night, about one
half hour after he was reportedly
involved in a hit and run accident
on West Orange Street.
The youth, Arthur L. Stauffer,
19,119 N. Broad St., was charged
with hit and run before Squire
Diehm and posted $500 bail.
Stauffer was also charged with
minor drinking and fined $125 and
costs. Police Chief George Hicks
said this was Stauffer’s ninth
offense.
Swim Pool Ordinance
Passed in Penn Twp. An ordinance requiring fences
around all swimming pools in
Penn Township was adopted
Monday night during the regular
monthly meeting of the township
board of supervisors.
The ordinance says that any
reasonably permanent open pool
or tank with a depth greater than
18 inches must be enclosed to
According to Chief Hicks, prevent uncontrolled access by
Dhifyl L. Belim, 307 S. Broad St.
was traveling west in the 200
block of West Orange Street when
he was passed by another car,
also traveling west, which cut
him off, causing damage to the
left front fender. The other car
kept traveling west on Orange
Street, police stated.
Stauffer was taken into custody
and charged at 7:35 p.m.
Pam and Jack Returning Home
A fte r Volunteer Service Here
children. Property owners with
pools will be required to place
them in the rear yard, and to
enclose them wnn a ience at least
four feet high. The ordinance
applies to existing pools as well
as those that may be constructed
in the future.
Excluded from the ordinance
are farm ponds and lakes, as long
as swimming is not the primary
purpose of these bodies of water.
The supervisors reported
during the meeting that they had
installed “Watch Children” signs
on Penryn Road just south of Doe
Run Road. They also voted to
erect similar signs on Sunrise
Drive, in response to an area
resident who said there were 13
children living in the neigh­borhood.
During the meeting, the zoning
officer reported that he had
issued 11 building permits for
private residences for the month
of July, with a total construction
value of $183,890. There was also
a permit issued for a $15,000
industrial building and one for a
$2,000 alteration.
The sanitation officer reported
that he had conducted five per­colation
tests in July, issued five
permits and conducted ten in­spections.
Police chief Herbert Weidman
reported that in July he had
received a total of 75 police calls
and made 20 motor vehicle
arrests.
In This Issue. . .
Business Directory 15
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 12,13
Flood Insurance
Resolution Okayed
In Warwick Twp.
A resolution which paves the
way for flood insurance in
Warwick Township was adopted
Thursday night during the
regular monthly meeting of the
township board of supervisors.
This was the first in a number of
steps which the federal govern­ment
requires of municipalities
desiring flood insurance ap­proval.
Final approval is expected to
be announced within a few
months, according to township
secretary Richard Hoffer. At that
time, anyone wishing to do so will
be able to buy flood insurance.
The insurance will be sold by
private companies whose per­formance
will be guaranteed by
the federal government.
In their resolution, the
supervisors took note of the
perennial flooding threat in the
township from the Hammer
Creek, Cocalico Creek, Santo
Domingo Creek and Lititz Run.
They pledged to comply with the
land use and management
criteria set forth in the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and
to recognize and evaluate flood
hazards in all official actions
pertaining to land use in flood
plain areas.
The Warwick Township
Planning Commission was
named in the resolution to ad­minister
the flood insurance
program. William DUssinger,
president of the board of
supervisors, commented that
only a handful of property-owners
would likely take ad­vantage
of the insurance
availability. He pointed out that
the supervisors felt it prudent to
adopt the resolution because
without it, no one would be able to
buy flood insurance for any
township property.
Insurable buildings will be
those presently standing in flood
plain areas. Buildings erected on
flood plains after the insurance
program is in effect, though, will
not be eligible for insurance. The
insurance package should cost
around $70 per year for a
maximum of $17,500 coverage on
a property and $10,000 on con­tents.
These minimums are
expected to be increased in the
near future.
In other action, the board
awarded a $7,995 contract to
Rohrer’s Quarry for repaving a
0.7-mile stretch of Pierson road.
Included in the bid was a
provision to repair all damage to
private drives occurring as a
result of the project. Un­successful
bidders for the project
were Burkholder Paving Co. with
a bid of $9,430, Lancaster Valite
which quoted a price of $9,110.20,
and McMinn’s Asphalt at $8,077.
Appearing at the meeting was
an engineer representing Amos
Stoltzfus, a Gap builder with an
option on a tract of Township
farmland west of Lititz. The
engineer sought to allay the fears
of the supervisors that the 158-
unit housing project would
present imposing problems of
water supply, sewerage disposal,
water runoff and consequent
damage to the watershed serving
Lititz Borough.
Among other things, the
engineer said that he felt the
area, if developed, would present
less of a runoff problem than
exists now when the land is
planted in corn. He said that on-lot
sewerage systems could
possibly contaminate wells in the
area, but this possibility was
remote if the systems were in­stalled
according to
specifications laid down by the
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources. He
agreed, though, that the best way
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M o r e S p e e d T r a p s
S la te d f o r B o r o
Lititz will intensify its crackdown on speeders during the
next two weeks, with a series of rotating two-hour speed
traps to be set up throughout the borough.
Police are expected to concentrate on Market Street,
South Spruce Street, West Second Avenue, East Main Street,
North and South Broad Streets, Woodcrest Avenue, and
Kissel Hill Road.
Decision to step up the speed traps, some of which have
been in operation in the bprough the past month, came
during a specially called meeting Tuesday night between
Police Chief George Hicks, Assistant Chief Jim Fritz, Mayor
Russell Templeton, and Boro Council members, including
Council President Curt Amidon, and Councilmen Donald
Stauffer, Jim Yerger, and Lester Stark.
Stauffer had asked for the meeting at last month’s Council
meeting, when he called for an intensified campaign against
speeders and reckless drivers in the borough.
Stauffer told the Record-Express Wednesday that he was
‘‘not completely satisfied” with the results of the meeting,
but felt it was ‘‘a good start.”
He said he thought four-man police traps would be more
effective, but that he was willing to go along with the two-
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Pamela Russell and Jack Farrell have been working at the
Lititz Community Center for the past year as participants in
the Brethren Volunteer Services program. Their service is
ending this month, and they’ll be returning to their homes in
the Midwest.
“I have learned more about
myself, other people and God,”
Pamela Russell says of her two
years here in the Brethren
Volunteer Service. For the past
year, Pam, from Elgin, 111., and
her boyfriend co-worker, Jack
Farrell, from Syracuse, Ind.,
have been helping out at the Lititz
Community Center.
“We came here originally to
work at the Brethren Village in
Neffsville, ” Pam recalled on
Monday morning, taking a short
break from the paper work that
flows into and out of the direc­tor’s
office at the Center. Jack
was outside, trimming the
hedges. “We were also working
with youth groups at the Lititz
Brethren Church.”
“It turned out that the Center
needed a lot of help, and we ended
up working here. We’ve both
enjoyed the work and the com­munity.
And Mr. Kiralfy was
great. We couldn’t have found a
nicer person to work for.”
Explaining the mission of the
Brethren Volunteer Service, Pam
said, “BVS accepts volunteers of
any age over 18. Anybody can
volunteer, but most are young
and most come from the
Brethren Church. There are
maybe 2000 BVS volunteers
working in this and other coun­tries.
“The BVS program is
something like VISTA and the
Peace Corps, but we begin with
the church. We come not just to
work, but to bear witness and to
share our faith.”
Volunteers in the BVS program
undergo a one-month training
period at BVS headquarters in
Elgin, 111., before being assigned
to a particular area. They serve
for a minimum of one year and a
maximum of four years, with the
average around two years. Both
Pam and Jack are finishing their
two year stints in the next few
weeks, after which they’ll be
returning home. Both hope to
continue working in some way
with people.
Many volunteers stay with host
families while they’re in the
program. Jack is staying with
James Gibbel, 430 W. Orange,
while Pam is with George and
Mildred Forry, 22 W. Lincoln.
Room and board are provided for
the volunteers, plus $15 per
month the first year. The second
year they got $20 per month.
What do you do on $20 a month?
“Learning about yourself is an
important part of BVS,” Pam
said. “Without money, you learn
to value the things that should be
valued, and you learn to spend
what little you do have on im­portant
things. Jack and I aren’t
materialistic. We might buy a
pair of jeans when we need them,
but we don’t think it’s important
to keep up with sty le s.”
Which is not to say that Pam
and Jack led an altogether
Spartan life. Pam said, “We play
tennis. Read. Go places on Jack’s
motorcycle. We see a movie
sometimes, but only if it’s one we
really both want to see. Lately
Record-Express Special Report
R i s i n g C o s t s H i t S c h o o l s
Rising costs are showing
up in purchase of school
supplies for the district,
where the price of many
things, from duplicating
paper for the business
office to a new base
trumpet for the music
department, has jumped
since last school year.
The most severe in­creases
will be felt in
utilities, according to
business manager, Fred
Guion. A rate increase by
PP&L last spring will hike
the • school district’s
electric bill, particularly at
the all-electric Middle
School, Guion said. Nor
was the district able to get
a firm bid on fuel oil, but
rather settled for an
escalating bid, which
means the price can
continue to go up
throughout the year.
This doesn’t necessarily
mean that an entire budget
category went up, Guion
pointed out. Even though
cost per item is higher in
many cases, the district
has held back on the total
volumn in some instances,
he said.
And some categories, he
said, like science and
music, involve items that
are purchased only every
five or six years, rather
than things that must be
replaced every year.
A big aid to the district
budget has been the joint
purchasing agreement
with Lancaster-Lebanon
Intermediate Unit 13,
Guion said, which allows
school districts to get
better prices on larger
volumns of supplies.
Since this is the first year
for the joint agreement,
only part of the supplies
Warwick buys is included.
More will probably be
purchased through this
method next year, Guion
said.
He also pointed out that
Warwick was able to save
money this year by
agreeing to only one drop­off
point for these jointly
purchased supplies.
The more drop-off
points, the more it costs,
he said. “This year we
went with one central drop­off,
because there were not
so many supplies. “Ac­tually
we prefer separate
drop-offs (at the individual
schools), because we run
into trouble with storage
otherwise,” he said.
He indicated Warwick
would probably take
separate drop-off points
next year.
One of the biggest items
ordered through joint
purchasing is duplicating
paper, used throughout the
district by teachers and
school offices. This year
2820 reams of the paper
were ordered. Through IU-
13, the district was able to
get it for $1.01 a ream; low
bid, if the district had
purchased it on its own,
would have been $1.07 a
ream.
Duplicating fluid was
another big savings
through IU-13. The War­wick’s
total order was for
426 gallons of the fluid.
Through joint purchasing it
cost the district 95 cents a
gallon. If they had pur­chased
it on their own, ldw
bid would have been $1.06 a
gallon.
Inflation has hit most of
the office supplies for the
d istr ic t. Mimeograph
(ditto) paper, purchased
last school year at 84 cents
a ream, will cost 92 cents a
ream this year. Onionskin
copy paper will cost $1.36 a
ream, as compared with
$1.05 a ream last year.
Even pencils are up. This
year the district has or­dered
173 gross of pencils
(that’s 24,912 pencils).
They will cost the district
$1292, or $7.47 a gross. Last
year pencils cost the
district $6,87 a gross.
Industrial arts js another
department where rising
costs will take their toll.
Last year the district paid
$180 for a supply of top
grain garment leather for
shop. The same amount
this year will cost $240.
Last year 150 board feet of
rough mahogany cost the
district $85.50. This year,
the same amount will cost
$103.
Guion explained that the
school district pays for
general supplies used in
industrial arts. However,
the individual student pays
for supplies used in any
project that he takes home.
Even iodine solution for
the science department is
up. Last year’s supply cost
$4.75. The bill this year will
be $5.54.
A total of $4,246 has been
budgeted for the music
department this year, with
a $14 price increase
reflected in the one repeat
purchase, two base
trumpets. Last year the
district bought a base
trumpet for $179. This
year’s price is $192 per
horn.
Also purchased were a
tuba, for $669, a soprano
saxophone for $359, a
clarinet at $269, two
baritone horns at $445 each,
two French horns at $197
each, a bass clarinet, for
$269, a set of bells at $168,
and 25 music stands at $7.60
each.
Audio visual equipment,
with a total budget of $4,772
for next school year, is
another area where
comparisons over the
previous year are hard to
make, Guion said. Few of
the items are repeat or­ders,
but are things pur­chased
every five or six
years.
One comparison can be
made, however, between a
16 mm sound projector,
purchased this year for
$559. The same projector
cost $517 last year.
Equipment for physical
education classes is also
reflecting price increases.
Championship basketballs
that cost $8.50 last year
cost $9.50 this year.
Volleyballs are up 66 cents
over last year’s cost.
Reconditioning of football
equipment goes up every
year, Guion said, adding
that this comes under the
athletics budget.
School districts are
required by law to ask for
bids on any class of items
that costs more than $1500.
This includes office sup­plies,
art supplies, general,
etc.A
new bill before the
state legislature, that
, would raise this ceiling to
' $2500, would be an ad­vantage
to the district in a
number of ways, Guion
said.
For one thing, he said, it
would eliminate the paper
work of compiling bids, etc.
on a number of classes of
purchases. The small
savings made through bids
on some classes isn’t
always worth the time
consumed in extra paper
work, he said. A higher
ceiling would also give the
district more flexibility to
buy locally, he said.