Lititz Record Express

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SER VING THE WAR WICK AREA FOR N EA R L Y A CENTUR Y
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Picket lines walked in front of high school
Wednesday morning until all students had been
sent home.
No Tax Hike Seen For Warwick Twp.
Warwick Township has sidestepped a tax increase
again for next year, mostly due to federal revenue
sharing funds.
The millage will stay at 5 mills if the proposed budget is
adopted. Supervisors will review it on Nov. 27 and vote on
adoption Dec. 26.
“If revenue sharing stops, the township will be in
trouble,” supervisors said last Thursday night when the
proposed budget was presented.
“Revenue sharing money made it possible not to raise
taxes the last few years,” chairman of supervisors,
William Dussinger, said. “We’ve done well with our
revenue sharing—it’s made it easier,” he said.
Revenue sharing funds that the township receives
amount to three and a half tax mills, Dussinger said. This
year the township expects to get $24,224.
Dussinger said the township has been using the revenue
sharing funds “100 percent for public safety,” and has not
used it for anything involving the state’s prevailing wage
scale.
Under the proposed budget, the township is anticipating
ending up with a $19,548 surplus at the end of 1975.
It is aniticpating $155,599 in income to the general fund.
Of this, $40,000 will be from real estate taxes, and $38,500
from per capita taxes.
Projected expenses from the general fund include
$19,800 for General Government; $63,920 for police, fire,
and building regulation, planning and zoning: $5,000 for
sewers; $5,800 for gas and diesel fuel; $8,600 for main­tenance
of roads and bridges; $14,000 for all insurance
policies; $4,631 for social security for township em­ployees.
The street lighting fund for Brunnerville and Rothsville
is the only fund “running behind,” Hoffer said. He said the
township will be ending up with about “$1200 less than the
light bills” for those areas and will probably have to in­crease
front footage fees for residents there.
One of the biggest budget increases noted is $14,000 for
township insurance premiums. This will include an errors
and omissions insurance, new in the township, to cover
individual township employees in the event of law suits.
Boro Exploring New Joint Investment Plan
given to all the citizens of the
community to set apart the
time to share in an effort to
give proper thanks to God for
blessings He has given us.
Lititz borough has already “started the wheels turning”
to explore the possibilities of combining borough money
with money from other municipalities into one account for
investment purposes, Curt Amidon, Lititz Boro Council
president, said this week.
Attorney General Israel Packel has just issued an of­ficial
opinion that it is legal for municipal governments in
Pennsylvania to combine funds for this purpose.
And, in the same vein, PennDOT secretary, jacob
Kasaab, has stated that this permits municipalities to
combine any of its accounts, including the Liquid Fuels
Tax revenues, for investment purposes. Until now, Liquid
Fuels Tax money had to be kept in a separate account and
could not be comingled with money from other accounts.
Amidon told the Record-Express this week that he
thinks the attorney general’s official opinion is an “ex­cellent
idea.”
Essentially, what municipalities would be doing is
taking money coming in from taxes and investing sur­pluses
during periods of time when the funds are not
needed, Amidon said. It would mean local governments
Annual Community Thanksgiving
Service at Moravian Church
The Annual Community
Thanksgiving Service has
been planned for Wed­nesday,
Nov. 27, at 7:30 p.m.
It will be held in the Lititz
Moravian Church, and the
Rev. John Denlinger, pastor
of St. Luke Church of Christ,
will be the preacher for the
service.
The Offering for the ser­vice
will be given to CROP,
an interdenominational
agency which is interested in
helping meet the needs of
those who suffer throughout
the world in the food shor­tages
now so prevalent.
Special music for the
Thanksgiving Service will be
provided by the choir and
organists of the Moravian
Congregation, and Dr.
James Hughes will be in
charge of the worship and
welcome those who come
from area churches and the
community to share the
service.
Others who will be taking
part are Mr. Elmer Allwine,
a member of the committee
preparing the service and
local trea su rer of the
Warwick Association of Scott Rathkey, son of Mrs. Fay
Churches, and Pastor Luke Rathkey who opened her home to
Rau and W. Clemens striking teachers during the Wed-
Rosenberger. nesday morning picketing, serves
coffee to two teachers from the Lititz
would have to plan ahead, he stated, since these accounts
would probably require a 30-day notice for withdrawal.
“The idea of course would be to get up to $100,000 (for
investment),” he said. “It would take a number of
municipalities to get the liquidity we would need.”
Accounts over $100,000 draw higher rates of interest, he
explained.
Amidon, who is also president of the Manheim-Lititz
Council of Governments (COG), which includes Warwick,
Elizabeth, and Penn Townships, said this group of
municipalities has been discussing the possibilities of
joint investments, and that he is currently talking with
some banks to see if they are interested in handling this
type of an account, or interested in bidding on it.
He said banks are now set up with computers to handle
this sort of thing.
If such an account would be put into operation, it
probably would not happen until next spring, after tax
bills go out, he said. He added that he expects Boro
Council to be discussing the idea “a little” at its meeting
next Tuesday.
In a release this week, Kassab said that the Auditor
General’s office and Treasury Department have con­curred
in the opinion given by the Attorney General.
“It should be noted,” Kasaab said,“that the questions
and the opinion are predicated upon assurances that:
1. The funds are adequately secured;
2. A clear audit trail is established;
3. Earnings from each account are individually com­puted,
credited, and recorded;
4. Receipts, disbursements, and transfers are processed
through separate accounts where required.
Elementary School, Kathey Hughes
(center) and Karen Tompos. Both
teachers affirmed their position as
they said, “We're proud of what we’re
doing."
As of press time Wed­nesday,
negotiations had not
resumed between Warwick
District School Board and
W a rw ic k E d u c a t io n
Association, and no decision
had been made as to whether
schools would re-open
Thursday.
Schols were closed down
about 9 a.m. as Warwick
teachers embarked on
Lancaster County’s first
teacher strike.
The decision on re-opening
the schools Thursday will be
made later Wednesday and
announced either late
Wednesday night or early
Thursday morning in radio
broadcasts, superintendent
of schools, Dr. H. Dale
Winger, stated.
The administration began
sending students home from
school at 8:50 a.m. Wed­nesday,
after the teacher
strike was in progress and it
became apparent there were
not enough teachers crossing
picket lines to man the
classrooms. School was
canceled for the remainder
of Wednesday, and all
athletic practices were
canceled for the remainder
of the strike, Dr. Winger
said.
A total of 16 teachers,
including department heads,
crossed picket lines to go to
work Wednesday morning.
Dr. Winger said he knew
as of 5:30 a.m. Wednesday
that the strike was going to
take place, and was notified
officially of it by WEA
president, Fran Lyon, at 6:30
a.m. Wednesday.
However, he said, he
opened the schools “ to
permit us to assess the
situation on who was coming
to work.”
“It became apparent that
we could not operate the
schools,” he said, and
Members of the WEA negotiating
team and state education association
advisors wait in teachers lounge
Tuesday night for School Board’s final
decision on accepting a fact finders
report on negotiations. The team met
I s ititz R eco rc l E x p r e s s P h o to s
with Board negotiators shortly after.
Left to right are Floyd Montgomery,
WEA chief negotiator, Lonnie
Heibeck, PSEA Uniserve represen­tative,
Tom Stutzman and Don
Hunsinger from the WEA.
sismissal proceedures were
started. Bus contractors had
been on an “alert” on the
situation, and after com­pleting
their runs, returned
to Warwick schools to take
students home. The high
school was dismissed first,
then the Middle School, and
then the elementary schools,
Dr. Winger said.
He said that an­nouncements
updating the
situation would be given to
news media throughout
Wednesday, and Thursday
and that radio broadcasts
would be made either late
Wednesday or early Thur­sday
morning on whether
Citizens
On
Speak
Striking
Out
Teachers
schools would reopen on
Thursday.
Early morning strike
scenes were similar at the
six schools in the district,
Wednesday morning as
picketing teachers walked
slowly back and forth on
sidewalks and driveways
leading to schools. A con­tinual
light rainfall soaked
the signs they carried,
bearing statements like:
“We don’t want to but...’,
“Quality education for our
children,” “Help our
children,” etc.
Picket lines were orderly,
and Dr. Winger stated that
he was “ extremely
pleased” with the conduct of
students. He said no disorder
or commotion resulted from
the situation.
Extra police officers were
called to most schools to
control the traffic that began
jamming up as parents
transported students to
school, and lingered to watch
the picket lines.
Students, some ac­companied
by parents,
clustered around the en­trances
to schools. Inside the
high school, corridors were
empty except for a few of the
administrative staff and
departments heads, and
several teachers who had
crossed the picket lines.
When students were let
into the schools, they were
directed to the auditoriums
where they waited until
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In This Issue
Business Directory 14
Church News 12
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10
What do your neighbors
think about the current
situation in the Warwick
School District? Do the
majority of people favor the
striking teachers, or do they
feel the school board has a
right to refuse to bargain on
the issues they call
management prerogatives?
We spoke to some Warwick
r e s id e n ts W ed n e sd ay
morning as teachers
picketed schools all over the
district. Some were almost
entirely ignorant of the
issues, some were apathetic,
some refused to offer an
opinion and many, though
they did voice their ideas,
asked that their names not
be used in print.
One mother, upon retur­ning
from taking her
children to the Kissel Hill
Elementary School, told this
reporter that she had just
driven through a blockade
which “made me mad” . She
was so mad, in fact, that she
had nothing else to say about
the matter.
A n o th e r c o n c e rn e d
mother, who preferred to
remain anonymous saj
“I’m concerned about
quality of education?
Because of this concern, she
feels that she would rather
her children attend school in
the summer than be exposed
to teachers who are working
under these pressures.
She continued, “The school
board has given no good
reason why they can’t give
the teachers the courtesy of
granting these requests.”
Carson Mellott, 201
Skylark Rd., was deter­minedly
partial toward
teacher demands as he
candidly told us, “I am in
favor of the teachers. I think
that Winger is behind it all;
he should have been fired in
the first place.”
Another anonymous
speaker offered his general
feeling on strikes when he
stated, “There are three
places unions don’t have a
place: fire companies,
hospitals and schools. My
children and your children
have to go to school.”
He added that although he
didn’t know all the basic
issues, and he didn’t know
who was right and who was
wrong, he still felt that “two
wrongs don’t make a right.”
His companion voiced a
similar view of the situation
when he told the Record-
Express, “These teachers
are supposed to be educated
and intelligent enough to sit
down and discuss these
things calmly.”
Mrs. J. Craig Hess, 18 W.
Orange St., said in a short
interview, “They’re a good
bunch of teachers. What
they’re asking for is not
unfair.”
In contrast, a man who
wishes to remain anonymous
revealed his feelings when
he said, “Teachers have no
dedication anymore; they’re
just out to make money.”
On lady felt so strongly
about the right of teachers to
strike that she opened up her
home to those teachers
picketing the Lititz
Elementary School and
made pot after pot of coffee
as they streamed in and out
of her house all Wednesday
morning.
Mrs. Fay Rathkey lives
behind the Lititz Elementary
School at 101 Cedar St. When
asked why she had offered
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^ TURKEY
GIVE-AWAY
7-9 P.M . FRIDAY
Registration Slips Available^
All Day Friday At
participating Merchants^
Record to
Be Published
Earlier Next Week
Because of the
Thanksgiving holiday,
the Record-Express will
be published one day
earlier next week. It will
be on the newstands -
Tuesday afternoon and
received by subscribers
Wednesday. Deadline
for display ads will be
noon on Monday, and for
classified ads, 5 p.m.
Monday. Deadline for
church and club news,
and woman’s page
items will be noon
Monday.
Turkey Give-Away 7-9 p.m.
Friday in Downtown Lititz
A Turkey Give-Away, featuring a free turkey every
fifteen minutes between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., will be held
this Friday evening in downtown Lititz.
Tickets can be obtained all day Friday, FREE, from
participating merchants. No purchase is necessary to
obtain a registration coupon.
The shopper should sign his name and address and
deposit the coupon at the drum in front of the General
Sutter Inn. Winners’ names will be posted on the
bulletin board at the Sutter and the turkeys must be
claimed by 9:30 p.m.
Be sure to register Friday and watch for the winners
on the board at the Sutter beginning at 7 p.m.
The following merchants are participating in the
Turkey-Give-A way:
The Backporch Candle Shoppe
Benner's Pharmacy
Bicycle World
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman's Restaurant
Bob’s Save Rite Market
Cam Tech of Lititz
Commonwealth National Bank
Dori Mae Dress Shop
Farmer's First Bank
D. E . Furlow 5 & 10
First Federal Savings & Loan
General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
Glassmyer’s
Hagy's Western Auto
Hen & Dave's Bike Shop
Hershey’s Shoe Store
Hess Men’s Wear
The Jewelry Shoppe
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Kenyon's Pastry Shop
Klotz Kleners
Kreider Hardware
Lads & Lassies
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Paint Shoppe
Lititz Record Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller’s Furniture
The Pewter Mug
R. D . Hollinger Assoc.,
Realtors
Shoes 'N Things
Spacht's Furniture Store
Spring Meadow Farm in Lititz
Central Market
Trudi K Shop
Wilbur Chocolate Factory
Candy Outlet