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Consolidated with The lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Thursday, December 12,1974 10 cents a Copy; $4.00 per year by mai within Ziancast r Conn tv 24 PAGES — No. 38
Special Clause
Made New Teachers
Contract 'Palatable' The clause in which the
W a rw ic k E d u c a t io n
Association recognizes the
School Board as “sole and
final authority” in matters of
management of the school
district played a critical part
in getting a contract set­tlement
this week, with some
of the negotiators saying the
clause was the actual
“ break-through” in the
deadlock between teachers
and the Board.
WEA President Fran Lyon
said Tuesday night, after
signing a two year contract,
that the clause was the single
biggest factor in breaking
the ice between the two
bargaining parties.
“We realized that if we
included all the things we
wanted under that clause, it
made it palatable to the
Board,” she said.
She said the clause was
solely for the benefit of the
School Board.
“The teachers didn’t care
if we had that clause or not —
we recognized the Board’s
authority before,” she said.
School directors had a
slightly different viewpoint
on where the breakthrough
was centered.
“The clause was a critical
one,” Bill Owens, chief
negotiator for the Board,
said Tuesday night, “but I
think what really broke the
ice was that the WEA began
to deal with specifics and got
off of generalities.”
School Board President
John Evans said he didn’t
think any one item broke the
deadlock, but the
“memorandums” did make
certain items “more
palatable” to the Board, he
said.
“I only hope everyone who
voted to ratify knew what
was in the memorandums,”
he said.
The significance of the
personnel clause, he said, is
its recognition that “these
are items of Board policies.
Yet under this (clause) we
could agree to certain
things.”
“I don’t think the Board
gave away a great deal,” he
said.
The items in dispute “have
been the Board’s authority
all along,” Evans said. He
added that he did not con­sider
the contract “a vic­tory”
for teachers, which
Mrs. Lyon had termed it
earlier.
Mrs. Lyon said Tuesday
night that teachers were
“very very pleased with the
contract” .
The contract includes “a
little less for teachers than
before — the biggest thing
gone is Appendix B,” she
said.
“There would have been a
problem if we had not gotten
the few things we did,” she
said, adding that including
these things under the
“personnel clause” made
them acceptable to the
School Board.
She said that while the
WEA members had voted on
ratification of the contract,
she had not called for a vote
on the memorandums.
“I just didn’t think to take
a vote on it,” she said. “The
memorandums were all
explained to them (WEA
members) earlier.”
Some question arose at the
Board meeting Tuesday
night on the validity of Mrs.
Lyon’s statement that the
WEA had ratified the con­tract
and agreed to the
memorandums.
Agreement between the
two parties stipulates that
the WEA must ratify first,
then the School Board. Mrs.
Lyon had no signed
document with her at the
Board meeting, stating that
she had inadvertently
forgotten to bring it with her,
and during a brief recess in
the Board meeting, she re­typed
a ratification notice
and stated that the WEA
agreed to the memoran­dums.
Owens, discussing the last
minute movement of the two
negotiating teams, said that
basically the contract does
not constitute a “victory” for
either side.
Both sides had to com­promise,
he said.
However, he added, the
contract does not take away
any real authority from the
School Board.
He said that once the
teams got down to talking
about specifics, and not
generalities, movement was
made.
“I don’t think there was
ever any controversy over
transfers,” he said. “It was a
misunderstanding on just
what is a transfer.”
“Almost any movement
whatsoever is a transfer.
Teachers should have an
opportunity to talk a transfer
over with a principal first.
Yet contract stipulations on
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N e w T e a c h e r s C o n t r a c t
S i g n e d a f t e r H a l f Y e a r
O f B a r g a i n i n g D i s p u t e s
^ Lititz Record Express Photo
Everybody is getting all dressed up for the holidays,
even Suzette, two year old French Poodle. Suzette
stopped by the Record office to model her red and
white felt outfit. She is the family pet of Mr. and Mrs.
Sonny Little, 308 S. Cherry St., Lititz.
Local Doctors Quit
Jobs at Co. Prison
Lancaster County Com­missioners
now face the job
of finding two doctors to
serve the county prison and
“it’s not an easy task to get
them,” according to County
Executor Ben Weaver.
Two Lititz osteopaths who
have been the official prison
physicians for the past four
and a half years have
resigned effective Dec. 31.
Drs. Gerald L. Weaver and
George L. Bradley, who are
in practice together at 4
Kissel Hill Rd., submitted
letters of resignation to the
County Commissioners and
the resignations were con­veyed
to the prison board
this week by Warden Jack
Tracy.
Dr. Weaver told the
Record-Express on Tuesday
that he and Dr. Bradley had
decided to quit their prison
jobs because their private
practice had expanded to the
point where they no longer
had time for the prison work.
In addition to routine
medical work at the prison,
the two Lititz doctors also
oversaw a drug testing
program with inmates. The
program became a con­troversial
matter in the
county and ended eight
months ago.
County Executor Ben
Weaver explained that the
county keeps two physicians
on the prison staff to cover
possible emergencies.
“It’s not a full-time job,
but it is a continuing one,”
Warwick School Board
finally has an official con­tract
with its teachers.
A two-year contract, which
will mean an estimated total
expense increase of $199,000
to the district for the first
year alone, was signed
Tuesday night by heads of
Warwick School Board and
W a rw ic k E d u c a t io n
Association.
School directors ratified
the contract in a brief
session Tuesday night, after
WEA members had ratified
earlier in the day.
School directors ratified
the contract in an 8-1 vote,
with Director Carl Reedy
casting the only opposing
vote.
Ratification followed a
stormy six months of
b a r g a in in g im p a s s e e
culminating in a three-day
strike by teachers shortly
before Thanksgiving. The
final agreement comes more
than three months after
schools opened for the 1974-
75 term, and just one month
before negotatiations must
start on salaries for the 1975-
76 term.
A critical part of the new
agreement is a personnel
management clause giving
the School Board “sole and
final authority” over mat­ters
of management policy,
including personnel.
Some of the items causing
a hangup in negotiations
were put into the contract
under this personnel clause,
and some others, while not in
the contract, were covered
with “memorandums of
understanding.” These in
essence recognize the
Board’s sole authority but
also state the Board’s intent
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Saturday Night
Shopping
In addition to evening hours offered Monday
thru Friday for your Christmas shopping con­venience,
most Lititz stores will be open
Saturday nights, Dec. 14 and Dec. 21.
SHOP Mon. thru Sat. In Lititz!
to recognize and deal with
problems in particular areas
of teacher-school district
relationships.
Under the new contract,
teachers got an average
salary increase of $937, or 9.4
percent, with increases
ranging from $900 to $1,700
this year. A salary re-opener
is included for the following
year.
The salaries are
retroactive to July 1.
The contract allows an
estimated $10,000 increase
for extracurricular salaries,
tuition reimbursement and
dependent medical in­surance.
It increases salaries of
coaches and extracurricular
activities sponsors by 10.7
percent during 1974-75 and
by 21.4 percent during 1975-
76.
It provides that the school
district will reimburse
teachers for 75 percent of
their actual tuition costs,
with a maximum of $350
each year for all teachers.
This year Intermediate Unit
13 courses are included as
reimbursable for the first
time.
The district’s share of
payment for dependent
medical insurance is in­creased
from $6 to $10.
Teachers are allowed one
paid day for personal
reasons each year, and may
accumulate up to three days
during the term of the
contract.
The total number of days
which teachers may be
absent for WEA business,
with the district paying the
salary for a substitute
teacher, has been increased
from four to eight days.
The wage reopener for
1975-76 permits teachers to
strike if agreement on wages
is not reached by Sept. 1,
1975.
While the contract deletes
school board policies from
the grievance procedure, it
makes school board policies
from the grievance
procedure, it makes
provisions for the posting of
vacancies, handling tran ­sfers,
securing substitute
teachers, and distributing
Official Insignia Adopted by
Lititz Area Bicentennial Corp.
An insignia, featuring a
pretzel and a Moravian star,
has been adopted by the
Lititz Area Bicentennial
Corporation as the area’s
official Bicentennial symbol.
The symbol, designed by
Robert I. Derek, will appear
on publications, literature,
stationery and other
Bicentennial projects. It
bears the local theme:
“Cherish the Past-Create
the Future.”
Plans are underway by the
various local Bicentennial
committees for many unique
programs to take place
throughout 1976. The
Historical Research Com-mittee,
under the direction of
Mrs. Ann Fissel, has already
completed much of its work,
and has prepared a
bibliography of the Lititz
area which will serve all of
the other committees in their
efforts.
As other program plans
are completed, they will be
outlined in detail for the
public.
It is necessary to go back
more than several months to
outline the organization of
the local celebration.
On Dec. 27,1973, the Lititz
Borough Council moved to
organize a Lititz Area
Warwick Choral Group To Entertain
Shoppers This Fri. Evening
Shoppers in Lititz this Friday evening will be
in for a special event as a group from the
Warwick Glee Club will be caroling throughout
the shopping district. The event is sponsored by
the Lititz Retailers Association and you will be
able to hear all the familiar songs and carols of
the Christmas season as you shop.
Shop Lititz this Christmas season and
especially Friday evening and take a few
minutes from the hustle and bustle of this busy
time to enjoy the music that will be presented.
Bicentennial Committee to
plan for a celebration in
Lititz honoring the Nation’s
200th birthday in 1976. This
was merely the formal
organization of plans which
had been worked on for some
time.
The committee was to be
composed of an honorary
chairman, a working
chairman, steering staff and
10 working committees. Dr.
Byron K. Home is serving as
the working chairman with
Robert Derek and Wilbur B.
Miller as vice-chairmen.
This is the nucleus for the
committee, along with the 10
committee chairmen.
To obtain the initial
working committees, in­dividuals
were contacted to
form a base for the 10
committees: Historical
Research, Special Events,
Performing Arts, Tour
Development, Religious
Coordination, Arts and
Crafts, Education, Publicity,
State and Legal Coordination
and Finance.
From the initial enlistment
of interested persons, each
committee has enlarged its
membership with other
interested persons so that
today there are over 100 local
citizens working and plan­ning
the celebration.
Insignia above has been adopted by
the Lititz Area Bicentennial Cor­poration
as the area's o ffic ia l
Bicentennial symbol. Featuring a
pretzel and a Moravian star, it will be
used on publications, literature, and
s ta tio n e ry d u rin g B icentenn ial
preparations and celebration.
On May 16, the Lititz Area
Bicentennial Corporation
was officially chartered.
The purpose of the cor­poration
is to formulate,
coordinate and execute plans
for the observance of the
Nation’s Birtbdav on a loon!
level. The corporate officers
are Dr. Horn, president;
Derek and Miller, vice-presidents;
Mrs. Pat Tweed,
secretary, and Ronald L.
Miller, treasurer.
Now being able to conduct
business as a ooworstion.
the next task was to secure
an honorary chairman. Less
than one month ago, famed
industrialist, Elmer Bobst
officially accepted an in­vitation
to serve as the
honorary chairman for the
t Hitr celebration.
Salary Guide
Step B B + 24 M M + 15 M + 30 M + 45
0 7,750 8,150 8,550 8,800 9,050 9,300
1 8,100 8,500 8,900 9,150 9,400 9,650
2 8,450 8,850 9,250 9,500 9,750 10.000
3 8,850 9,250 9,650 9,900 10,150 10,400
4 9,250 9,650 10,050 10,300 10,550 10,800
5 9,600 10,000 10,400 10,650 11,900 11,150
6 10,050 10,450 10,850 11,100 11,350 11,600
7 10,450 10,850 11,250 11,500 11,750 12,000
8 10,800 11,200 11,600 11,850 12,100 12.350
9 11,200 11,600 12,000 12,250 12,500 12,750
10 11,600 12,000 12,400 12,650 12,900 13,150
11 12,000 12,400 12,800 13,050 13,300 13,550
12 12,400 12,800 13,200 13,450 13,700 13,950
13 12,750 13,150 13,550 13,800 14,050 14,300
14 13,950 14,200 14,450 14,700
Each professional employee on a standard certificate level shall
receive a salary increase of $900.
Professional employees on the maximum salary steps during 1973-
74 shall be paid according to the following procedure for 1974-75
Bachelor’s maximum $12,750 plus $825
B plus 24 maximum $13,150 plus $825
Master's maximum $14,725
Master's + 1 5 maximum $14,975
Master’s + 30 maximum $15,225
Master's+ 45 maximum $15,475
Effective July 1.1971 professional employees on this guide shall hold
the earned masters degree in order to progress beyond the Masters
guide. Professional employees on the staff as of July 1, 1971 are
exempt.
extra-curricular assign­ments
during the day.
The matter of teachers
ratings does not appear in
the contract.
These all were critical
items during negotiations.
Under the new contract,
“vacancies” are defined as
full-time positions on the
staff, rather than temporary
leaves of sbsence, and notice
of these vacancies must be
posted in the building
principal’s office for 10 days.,
However, the contract
stipulates that the Board is
free to hire someone to fill
the position anytime before
the 10 days ends.
The contract stipulates
that teachers have a right to
discuss any involuntary
transfers with the ad­ministration.
It stipulates that a sub­stitute
teacher must be
employed by the district
when a full-time teacher will
be absent for one-half day or
longer. The term “proper
substitute,” which appeared
in last year’s contract, was
dropped.
It specifies that unpaid
extra-curricular activities
will be divided as evenly as
is practicable among the
teaching staff, and that
where possible, teachers
who do not have a minimum
of five preparation periods a
week will not be called on for
these activities (such has
hall and lavatory patrol).
Under “memorandums of
understanding,” signed by
both parties, the School
Board agreed that, where
administratively feasible:
1. Elementary teachers
would be permitted to leave
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Man Injured Wed.
At Feedmobile
An employee of Feed-mobile,
Inc., Robert Dietz,
Denver, was injured in an
industrial accident at
Feedmobile Wednesday
morning.
At press time details of the
accident and extent of in­juries
were not available.
A spokesman from
Feedmobile said that rescue
workers were in the process
of trying remove the injured
man from a tank. The
spokesman said Dietz ap­peared
to have back injuries.
Fire Co. Called to Help
Man Trapped in Car
The Lititz Fire Co. was
summoned to pry open the
doors and remove a man
trapped in his car in front of
the Spruce Villa Dairy at
Newport and Brunnerville
Rds. on Tuesday evening.
Bryan Lee Michaels, 360
N. Broad St., was coming
from the direction of
Rothsville when, according
to witnesses, he failed to
negotiate a curve and ran off
the road where he landed in a
stream.
Robert Dana, 501 Newport
Rd., said he heard a thump
at the time of the accident
but thought it was “just a
load shifting in a truck.”
When he realized what had
happened, he notified police.
The Lititz Fire Co. was
called when it became ap­parent
that Michaels was
trapped inside his car. Ac­cording
to Paul Diehm,
assistant Fire chief, they had
Michaels out in about five
minutes.
Michaels was taken to the
Lancaster General Hospital
by the Warwick ambulance
where he was admitted with
facial lacerations and a
possible concussion. He was
listed in good condition on
Wednesday morning.
Milton Brubaker, owner of
the Spruce Villa Dairy, told
the Record-Express that a
similar accident had oc­curred
earlier this year at
the same spot where
Michaels went off the road
Tuesday night.
Robert Dana said that it
was the second accident
since he moved in about a
year ago and admitted that
“ the greasers and their
squealing tires” are the only
things he doesn’t like about
the area.
The accident is still under
investigation, and, to
date, no formal charges have
been lodged against
Michaels. Officer Donald
Gregg of the Warwick
Township Police was the
officer called to the scene of
the accident.
In This Issue
Business Directory 20
Church News 18,19
Classified Ads • 22,23
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Women’s 16