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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 PAGES — No. 52
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Mrs. Jane King, 412 Hensley St, exhibits two of
the prize-winning flags she made for the Bicen­tennial
and displayed for the first time at the Lititz
Woman’s Club creative nights program Monday. In
the background is the Bennington Flag, which she
will fly from her own home. In the foreground is a
banner bearing the official seal of the Moravian
Church.
As Bicentennial activities
gain momentum, numerous
persons throughout Lan­caster
County have em­barked
on the ambitious
project of making their own
Bicentennial flags to fly
during the big year.
Mrs. Jane King, 412
Hensely St., is one of these
persons, and becomes the
first in Lititz to unfurl for
public view the Colonial flag
which she made herself and
will fly from her own home
The Lag s one of thiee
which Mrs King has made in
ihe past year ‘ nd hi h took
blue riDbon- a the I ltitz
Woman : Club creative night
program Monday. All three
of the banners will be en­tered
in the Lancaster
County Federation of
Women’s Clubs competition
on April 4.
The design she chose for
her Colonial flag is the
Bennington Flag, named for
Local Woman Unfurls Area’s
First Bicentennial Flag
School
Directors
Sued Warwick school directors
appeared to be in the dark
Tuesday night about a
federal suit filed against
them by the Pennsylvania
State Education Association,
on behalf of former Warwick
teacher James Wynkoop,
whose constitutional rights,
according to PSEA, were
violated by the School Board.
While School Board
President John Evans said
Tuesday night that he “had
been told” that Board
members were being sued
individually, he added that
directors have not received
any official notification of
this. When one member of the
audience at Tuesday’s Board
meeting asked Evans about
details of the case, the Board
president attempted to
explain events leading up to
Wynkoop’s d ism issa l.
However, he was interrupted
by School Director William
Owens, who objected to
discussing the subject at a
private meeting.
“ The man (Wynkoop)
asked for a private hearing
and he’s entitled to it,”
Owens said.
Nevertheless, before the
interruption, Evans did have
time to explain that
Wynkoop was a non-tenured
teacher in the district, who
after teaching three
semesters, did not receive a
satisfactory rating from the
superintendent and was
subsequently dismissed last
July 5.
Wynkoop had asked for a
-private hearing, Evans said,
and was granted it in Sep­tember.
Results of the
hearing were turned over by
the Board to attorney John I.
Hartman, as an impartial
hearing examiner.
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an infantry group from
Bennington, Vt. that carried
this as its symbol during the
Revolutionary War.
Ihe United States didn’t
have its own flag then, she
explained-that’s why there
are so many different
designs.
“I didn’t own a flag of my
own, and I wanted one with
the nation’s colors, red,
white, and blue,” she went
on. “Also, I liked the appeal
of the figure 76 that appears
n ihis(design,'” she-'said. ■ ■
This is the flag that she
will fly from her porch, she
said. It measures four by
rive feet, contains 15 stripes
and 13 stars, and is double
faced so that the blue field
can be seen from both sides.
The second of her prize­winning
flags is one she feels
would be appropriate for
Lancaster County during the
Bicentennial-the ehblem
which the Hanover
A ssocia tors, L a n c a ste r
County riflemen, " used
during the Revolutionary
War.
While actual construction
of the flag took her only
several weeks, she spent a
great deal of time resear­ching
this design.
Although there are
engravings of this flag in the
historical archives at
Harrisburg, no actual
Hanover Associators’ flag
exists, she said.
“It’s actually an artists’
conception,” she explained.
The flag has a red field, is
bordered with yellow fringe,
and bears the inscription
“Liberty or Death.”
The third piece which Mrs.
King displayed Monday
night is actually a “banner”
rather than a flag, she said.
It contains the official seal
of the Moravian Church,
“which I duplicated in my
own fashion,” she explained.
“The Moravian Church has
no flag, as such,” she added.
The banner has a royal
blue field on which Mrs. King
appliqued the church seal,
using a nubbly textured
lamb on a velvet field, and a
cross done in metallic cloth.
The seal was embroidered
before it was appliqued to
the banner. It measures four
by six feet.
While the designs are
historic, the actual fabric
Mrs. King used is a modem
cotton and polyester blend,
and much of the work is
machine sewn, she ex­plained.
The finer détails of
the design were worked by
hand.
Mrs. King, who is
secretary at the Moravian
Church, became interested
in flag making last year
when enthusiasm started
growing for Bicentennial
projects. To supplement her
research on the various
emblems, she sent for
special literature on
Bicentennial flags available
through Congressman
Eshleman’s office.
All three banners will be
on display at the Lancaster
County Federation event
April 4 at the Youth for
Christ Building, 1940 New
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Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob’s Save Rite
Commonwealth National Bank
Dori Mae’s Dress Shop
Farmer’s First Bank
First Federal Savings & Loan
D. E. Furlow Co., Inc.
General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
Glassmyer’s
Hagy’s Western Auto
Hess Men’s Wear
The Jewelry Shoppe
Kathryn's Flowers & Gifts
RULES:
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Kreider Appliance & TV
Lads & Lassies Children's Apparel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Paint Shoppe
Lititz Record-Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger Home Center
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller’s Furniture Store
The Pewter Mug
Shoes ’n Things
Trudi K Shop
Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet
School D is tric t Considering
Occupational A sse ssm e n t T a x
1. Contest Open to persons
18 yrs. or older.
2. Winner will be picked at
random from those who
register.
Just register your name
and address. Contest
closes March 22.
The school district will be
losing nearly $60,000, or the
equivalent of a little over
three mills of taxes, in state
subsidies next school year,
superintendent, H. Dale
Winger, told directors
Tuesday night.
New state aid ratios
received by the district - the
formula by which state
subsidies to school district
are determined - are down
for next year, Dr. Winger
said, due to a combination of
increased property values in
the district and a drop in
enollment in the schools.
M e anw h ile , sch o o l
directors are evaluating the
pro’s and con’s of levying an
occupational assessment
tax, as a possible means of
getting more revenue next
year to deal with what Dr.
Winger said is going to be an
extremely difficult year
financially.
Dr. Winger stressed that
he was not necessarily
recommending this tax, but
merely pointing out that it is
the only other tax available
to the school district with the
exception of increasing the
real estate tax.
Warwick is not the only
school district in the county
that is trying to offset a
probable financial crunch
next year. Wealthy
Conestoga Valley School
District, center of much of
the country’s tourist in­dustry,
this week proposed
levying a tax on all tickets to
tourist attractions in their
district to get more money.
The only possible financial
salvation for Warwick, other
than the occupational
assessment tax, are two bills
currently in committee at
Harrisburg that would
permit school districts to
levy an earned income tax of
one and a half percent, an
increase of one half percent.
The bills appear to have
substantial support and
hopefully would make the
occupational assessment tax
unnecessary, Dr. Winger
said.
Dr. Winger based his
prediction of financial woes
on these things:
The school district will be
getting less state subsidy
because the property values
in the district have in­creased.
The state bases its
subsidies on ratios in­volving
real estate
assessment value and
number of pupils - as real
estate values increase, state
subsidies go down.
In Warwick’s case, student
enrollment will also be down.
He said Warwick can expect
about $60,000 less in state
subsidies.
Nor can Warwick an­ticipate-
any other big sub­sidies
from the state, Dr.
Winger said. As a matter of
fact Warwick still has $34,000
in over-paid subsidies to pay
back to the state next year.
Inflation also will be af­fecting
the school district’s
budget again, Dr. Winger
pointed out. And salaries,
which comprise about 80
percent of the total budget,
can be expected to increase.
The school district now
levies an earned income tax,
Moehlmann to Sit
In Lititz Monday
State Representative Nick
Moehlmann will come to
Lititz Monday evening to
talk to any residents who
have a question or problem
concerning state govern­ment,
a complaint, or who
just want to get acquainted
with him.
He will be at the Rec
Center, in ‘the first floor
lounge, starting at 7 p.m.
This will be the first time
in many years that a
Lebanon County legislator
representing this area has
“sat” in Lititz to talk to his
Lancaster County Con­stituents.
Moehlmann said
he hopes to follow this
procedure on a regular
bfl'ds
a real estate transfer tax, a
real estate tax, and a per
capita tax.
The only other one
available is an occupational
assessment tax, a tax which
Dr. Winger described as
“obnoxious” to most people.
In essence, this tax is
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levied on employed persons
according to their job
classification, as assessed by
the county. For example,
lawyers fall into one
classification, and all
lawyers are assessed the
same tax. The same holds
true with physicians,
teachers, farmers, etc.
It has obvious built-in
inequities, Dr. Winger said;
for example, all lawyers
would have to pay the same
amount of tax, whther they
were well established and
affluent, or “ beginners”
with relatively low incomes.
This tax can be successful
only if an annual and ac­curate
census is taken, he
said.
Solanco School District is
the only district in Lancaster
County that now levies this
tax.
This tax, however, does
prevent a burdensome real
estate tax, and since it is
applicable to persons who do
not own real estate, it is a
broader based, and perhaps
fairer tax, he said.
One of the major
arguments for this tax, he
said, is that the unemployed,
the disabled, housewives,
full-time students, part-time
employees who work less
than 20 hours a week, and
invidivuals under 18 years of
age are not taxed.
Wage attachments are
processed and issued by tax
collectors for collection of
delinquent occupational
taxes.
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Missionaries Trapped in Vietnam
Friends to Many Lititz Residents
by
Bonnie Szymanski
To date, five provinces in
South Vietnam have been
abandoned by the South
Vietnamese government and
are now under Communist
control. The fate of nine
Americans trapped in Ban
Me Thuot, capital of Darlac
Province in the central
highlands of South Vietnam,
is still unkown, though un­substantiated
reports say
they are well and in Viet
Cong hands.
To date, the fate of the nine
Americans who were
trapped in the provincial
capital of Ban Me Thuot in
the central highlands of
South Vietnam when North
Vietnamese troops overran
and captured the town this
past week is still unknown.
Among the nine is a little
family well known to many
people in Lititz. Although not
local residents, the Millers -
John and Carolyn - are called
friends by members of the
T r in ity E v a n g e lic a l
Congregational Church, 40
E. Orange St.
The couple spent a year in
1972-73 on furlough in the
United States during which
time they resided in Lebanon
R2 and traveled to area
churches on speaking
engagements for a period of
nine months.
According to Mrs. Edward
Crowl, Jr., 513 Kissel Hill
Road, the Millers’ last visit
to Trinity was in 1973. Soon
after, the family left for
South Vietnam to continue
their work.
In correspondence with the
Millers for the last ten years,
Mrs. Crowl has been an
essential link between
Trinity EC’s missionary
society and the Millers. She
told us that Trinity friends of
the Millers have spent many
hours in communication and
prayer with other
Evangelical Congregational
church members for the
missionaries’ safety since
hearing of the situation.
The couple’s youngest
child, LuAnne, 5, is with her
parents in Ban Me Thuot,
but, said Mrs. Crowl, the
three older children -
Marjorie, 12; Gordon, 10;
and Nathan, 7 - are in a
mission school at Nha Tran?.
Ironically, according to
Mrs. Growl’s most recently
received letter, the Millers
told of expecting to be sent to
the Children’s Home in Nha
Trang in July to take over its
administration.
Since the Millers’ main
purpose in being in South
Vietnam is to aid in Bible
translation, they noted in
their letter that they were
“looking forward to a big
push in the next few months
to finish up our project to
translate the New Testament
into Bru (the language of the
tribe they have been working
with)” because they an­ticipated
being needed at the
school and were anxious to
complete their translation
project before being sent on
to Nha Trang.
“ One of the pressing
needs,” continued the letter,
“is for qualified people in
support jobs as business
mangers, bookkeepers,
teachers and maintenance
work, so translators can
continue their work.” They
asked that Mrs. Crowl let it
be known among her friends,
the congregation and the
community that people who
can fill those essential slots
are needed in Southeast
Asia.
John and Carolyn Miller
both are associated with
Wycliff Bible Translators of
C a l i f o r n i a , S a i g o n
Headquarters. The main
thrust of their work has been
with the Bru tribespeole of
the central highlands of
South Vietnam.
Said Mrs. Crowl, “When
they first went over (to
Vietnam) the Bru had no
written language. They had
to derive one and teach them
to read it.”
In Miller’s own words,
taped in 1964 in Saigon and
sent to Evangelical
Congregational Churches, he
explained how one goes
about creating a written
language from the sounds of
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Reedy Draws Top Spot
In School Board Race Incumbent School Director Carl Reedy drew the top
spot on the Republican primary election ballot this week
over his eight opponents, who include another incumbent,
the current Board president.
Wilson Smith drew the top ballot spot on the Democratic
ballot, over the other five candidates who cross filed for
the primaries.
Order in which candidates names will appear on the
Republican ballot is: Carl Reedy, James Eby, John
Evans, Wilson Smith, Aristide Adelizzi, Ruth Husser,
Victoria Badorf, Barbara Gainer, and Robert Cooper.
One candidate who cross filed nomination petitions,
Ruth Wenger, has withdrawn from the race.
Ballot positions on the Democratic ticket will be: Smith,
Evans; Adelizzi, Badorf, Eby, and Husser.
In Warwick Township, incumbent supervisor Joseph
Brubaker won top ballot spot on the Republican ticket
over his opponent, James G. Witmyer.
In Elizabeth Township, there will be contests on both the
Republican and Democratic ballots. On the Republican
ticket, Dale F. Diehm drew first position, and Jay R.
Ober, second. On the Democratic ticket, Carl A. Stohler
drew first spot and Robert C. Shirk, second.
In Penn Township, incumbent supervisor John Henry
Hess drew top ballot position on the Republican ticket,
and his opponent, John J. Dobosh, second.
In the race for Justice of the Peace in Warwick School
District, on both Democratic and Republican tickets,
Leroy S. Ulrich drew top position, Linda J. Huxta, second;
Paul F. Diehm (incumbent), Third, and Sharron A.
Simokins, fourth