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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY’“ 24 PAGES — No. 45
Is Gas Rationing the Answer? Will Wait for Warwick Twp.
Lititz Residents Say No’ BOID DITTOS Water ISSlie
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Last Friday, Record-
Express reporters took
advantage of the current
upheaval in the fuel situation
to ask people about their
views and opinions on the
subject.
What are people worried
about as the tight fuel
situation relates to their own
needs? Would most persons
Chief George Hicks
prefer paying higher prices
rather than be told they can
use only an allotted amount
of gas per week, or do they
favor rationing as a measure
of conservation?
Or, do some people have
their own solutions to the
problems?
We wanted to know; and
when we want to know
something, we head for the
streets to ask the public.
Here is what they told us.
Mrs. Sarah B. Slosser, 44
E. Lemon St., is a secretary
at the Lititz Borough Hall. -
She told Record-Express
interviewers that rationing
wouldn’t affect her too much
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Women’s 16
Company. “People have to
begin to discipline them­selves
(in the area of gas
consumption).
“Some of my employees
are really concerned about
this and what will happen to
the cost of gas,” he told us.
“My philosophy is that the
whole e n v iro nm e n ta l
situation will eventually
solve itself. If auto
m a n u f a c tu r e r s could
produce engines that con­sume
less gas, clean air
would solve itself.”
Gingerich seemed to be of
the opinion that the govern­ment
has the power to make
or break us, so to speak, as
far ecology and economy are
concerned, for he said, “The
whole economy is affected
by government regulations
on clean air and oc-cupatioinal
safety. One
affects the other and it
pyramids. The regulations
came on too fast; that’s part
of the reason why the whole
economic situation is where
it is.
“Information needs to be
given to the public on the gas
crisis,” he asserted, “and
fi
k
Steve Leed
Mrs. Dennis Andrews and children, Amy and Jay.
the government is the logical
body to do this.”
James Eckman, 317 N.
Broad St. is an employee of
Wagaman Brothers Prin­ters.
He said he doesn’t think
rationing would solve the
problem and admitted that
he “could easily walk to
work but usually drives.”
‘I think a lot of answers
can be found in engineering
that we aren’t being in­formed
about. There must be
something automobile
manufacturers could do to
help. High prices won’t solve
anything; they won’t help
inflation.”
[Continued on Page 8| U.S. Gingerich
James Eckman
since she doesn’t use her car,
very often.
She added, “But I wouldn’t
want to see higher prices,
either.” After a moment’s
thought, she continued,
“Rationing might mean I
wouldn’t be able to see the
kids as much; they live out of
town.” She told us that
rationing would be nothing
new to her as she and her
Dr. Roy Yeager
husband had faced the
problem during World War
II and solved much of it by
car pooling.
“I don’t think rationing is
going to solve the problem,”
answered U.S. Gingerich,
president of Badorf Shoe
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Farmer’s First Bank
First Federal Savings & Loan
D. E. Furlow 5 & ,10
General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
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Hershey's Shoe Store
Hess Men's Wear
House of Warwick
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Boro Council tabled action on an agreement to sell
water to Warwick Township Tuesday night, with no
discussion other than saying they were tabling action “in
light of new information.”
Asked what that “new information” was, Councilmen
said they were “trying to find out what Warwick Township
is doing with this.”
“We’re not trying to force the issue,” Councilman Bill
York said.
Councilman Donald Stauffer, who has been strongly
opposed to selling water to the township for the past
several years, agreed to the tabling, and told the Record-
Express following the meeting that he had been “ap­proached”
by other Council members to drop the hot issue
for the time being.
He said the borough is not going to do anything more
about the water issue until Warwick Township actually
approaches them.
“But we’re ready to go with a referendum if the matter
comes up again,” Stauffer told the Record.
He said he had already prepared a referendum to put
the issue to a public vote, asking local citizens whether
they wanted the borough to sell bulk water to Warwick
Township. He also said that a number of local persons had
petitions ready, but that he had told them not to present
them to Council Tuesday night, but to wait until Council
resumes any talk of action on a water-selling agreement.
Stauffer had stated last month that he would bring a
crowd of local citizens into Tuesday night’s meeting to
oppose selling water if Council pursued the issue, and
reportedly had two other Councilmen lined up to vote to
put the question on a ballot in the form of a referendum.
Several statements from persons questioned by the
Record Tuesday afternoon actually throw a new light on
the water issue, and make it appear that perhaps there
has been “much ado about nothing.”
Bill Dussinger, chairman of supervisors, told the
Record that no one in Warwick Township except Amos
Stoltzfus has even asked for water, and that a poll taken in
1972 showed that the majority of township residents do not
want borough water.
And Bill Crosswell, the borough’s solicitor, told the
Record that there is no provision in the Boro Code for an
issue of this type to be put to a popular vote. Asked if any
of the borough officials had asked his advice on the
legalities of a referendum, he said they had not.
“Very few things are a matter of referendum, to my
knowledge,” Crosswell said, adding that annexation was
an example of a proper issue to go on a referendum.
And even if the water question would go to referendum,
he said, Boro Council would still have to vote on the issue,
and could over-ride the results of a popular vote.
Asked who in Warwick Township really wants water
from the borough, Bill Dussinger, chairman of the
Warwick Township supervisors, told the Record that
Amos Stoltzfus is the only person that has asked for it.
Stoltzfus is developing the critical area in the borough’s
watershed area, an area that lies in Warwick Township,
but is the present main source of Lititz’ water supply. This
development is the one which has drawn the most ob­jections
from Council, so far as servicing it with water.
Because it is not now sewered, Council fears that further,
development there will pollute the borough’s water
supply.
Asked how the whole issue of seeking water for the
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New Plan Approved
R e s id e n t s , I n d u s t r y t o G e t
I n c r e a s e in S e w e r R a t e s By Peggy Frailey
Expansion of the Lititz Sewer Treatment plant is going
to mean an across-the-board rate increase for all
residents of the borough, and will have a financial impact
on local industry.
When federal money is used, Sewer Authority officials
pointed out, every user must pay the same rate for sewage
treatment. A graduated rate scale, now used by Lititz, will
no longer be permitted.
This means that sewer rates will go up for everyone,
Don Russo, the Authority’s engineer, said during a public
meeting on the sewer expansion last Thursday night.
Rates probably will increase two and a half to three
times the present ones for big users, he said.
Industry will also be hit under an Industrial Cost
Recovery bill, which states that every industry that puts
industrial waste into the system must pay back, over a 30
year period, a share of the grant based on the percentage
of the overall flow that is put into the plant by that in­dustry.
For example, if 10 percent of the overall flow (a
hypothetical figure) treated by the sewer plant comes
from the particular industry, that industry must pay back
10 percent of the grant over a 30 year period.
Fifty percent of this will be retained by the local Sewer
Authority (with 80 percent of this to go into a fund for
more expansion), and the other 50 percent will be sent to
the Environmental Protection Agency.
What this amounts to is that the federal government is
willing to subsidize municipalities, but not industries, for
their waste treatment.
Russo said that local industries now use about 40 per­cent
of the plant’s capacity, and he expects tham to be
using 50 percent in coming years.
Boro Council, and not thè Sewer Authority, will be
setting the rates in Lititz, officials said, but pointed out
that the Council “can’t really set sewer rates as they see
fit.” According to Curt Amidon, Council president, “with
a grant in the picture, we’ll have to have uniform rates for
everyone.”
Close to 50 persons attended a public meeting last
Thursday to question members of the Authority on plans
for the multi-million dollar expansion of the treatment
plant, and the effects it will have on the environment.
Despite numerous protests that expansion will lead to
excessive development of land surrounding the borough,
and despite the fact that the federal government might not
grant funding for anything over a 2.5 million gallons per
day expansion, the five members of the Authority passed
a resolution to go ahead with a 3.1 million gallon ex­pansion.
In a regular business session following the public
meeting, Authority Chairman Elser Gerhart made it clear
that the borough would go ahead with the full-scale ex­pansion
originally planned, even though it might mean
the borough will have to foot a bill of about $60,000 for
expansion over and above what the Environmental
Protection Agency has recommended.
The resolution, approving the plans subject to any
changes the Department of Environmental Resources
might require, was approved by Boro Council Tuesday
night. [Continued on Page 8]
Who Should Run Swimming Pool?
Who should manage the community swimming pool, the
Rec Center or Boro Council, through its present hired
manager Larry vanBrookhoven?
The question came up again at Boro Council Tuesday
night, as members of the Rec Board and Rec Director
Jerry Kiralfy urged Council to make whatever changes
were necessary to improve operation of the pool.
The Rec Board had submitted a proposed new
management plan, which leaves financial responsibility
with Boro Council, at last month’s meeting.
“This is only a proposal,” Kiralfy and Rec Board
President, Patricia Neuroh, stressed to Councilmen.
“We’re willing to look at any compromises that will insure
a good pool operation.”
Kiralfy told Council that he had been asked “by the
community” to propose a new method of operation. “I’m
not standing here to fight for this, but to offer our ser­vices,”
Kiralfy said.
He said that some citizens want the Rec Center to get
involved with management of the pool, which he said is
done “in most areas.”
Major complaints, according to the Rec Board mem­bers,
were that Larry vanBrookhoven was not managing
the pool properly.
“He (vanBrookhoven) is not a part of our proposal,”
Faith Tallman from the Rec Board told Council. “Three-fourths
of our proposal relates to poor management,
which goes back to Larry,” she said.
One of the main areas of complaint which she men­tioned
was that lavatories at the pool were not being kept
clean.
vanBrookhoven, whom Council had asked to attend the
meeting Tuesday, said he had studied the Rec Board’s
proposal, and found a number of “weaknesses” in it.
“But I’m not here to criticize,” he said. “There’s a lot
more to this than meets the eye. It’s not as simple as it
seems.”
“I know the Rec Center has problems, financial and
otherwise, and I don’t know if this is going to be good for
the Rec Center,” he said. “We’d be giving them another
problem, and goodness knows, they have enough
problems already.”
He added later, “If this is what Boro Council wants, I
would be happy to work with them through my experience
and expertise.”
He said the proposal was not a matter of good or bad,
but that the timing was important.
Council agreed that this would be a “poor” time to turn
pool management over to the Rec Center.
“We would love to unload it (the pool) on the Rec
Center, but I think you need to work into it,” Councilman
Bill York said. “I don’t think you realize what you’re
getting into. The problems are deeper than what is in your
proposal.”
Council President Curt Amidon acknowledged that the
borough has a “problem” with the pool — “We just
haven’t generated enough enthusiasm and perhaps the
Rec Center could inject this,” he said.
“Last year was rough,” he said. The pool was set up so
that it would support itself. But, Amidon said, a $15,000
sinking fund set up by the Jaycees many years ago will be
“clobbered” this year.
“I think we’re going to have to put some tax money in,”
Councilman Donald Stauffer commented.
Councilman Jim Yerger, who said he probably had
“more experience than anyone with building pools around
here,” reminded Council that it had promised never to use
tax money for the pool.
“And our reserve fund is practically gone,” he said. “It
takes guts to put the dues to the point where they cover
expenses. Some people are afraid we’d lose members if
dues go up, but I don’t believe this,” he said.
Stauffer said the Rec Board’s proposal has a “lot of
good points in it,” and asked Rec Board members to
consider a compromise to their proposal, wherein the Rec
Board would run the pool program, vanBrookhoven would
manage the pool, and Boro Council would do the ad­ministrative
work.
A meeting with Rec Board members, vanBrookhoven
and Council was set up for Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m.