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f i l T T T l l I U l R E S S S E R V I N G T H E W A R W I C K A R E A F O R N E A R L Y A C E N T U R Y 98th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL 1877, AS THE SUNBEAK I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LiTITZ RECORD 1937 Licite, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Thursday, March 20,1975 10 CENTS A COPY; $4.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 PAGES — No. 52 X d t i t z ¡ R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o t o 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. | Continued on Page 2| 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 Danville Pk., Lancaster (Route324). S p e n d a W e e k e n d o f Your C h o ic e a t L a n c a s te r's N a tio n a lly F am o u s Host Farm Resort. All E x p en se s For 2 P a id By Lititz R e ta ile rs Assn. C h e c k In Frid ay . . . C h e c k O u t S u n d a y fo r Din in g , D a n c in g , S h ow s, Sw im m in g , T en n is, G o lf or J u s t P la in R e lax in g ! R e g is te r At Lititz R e ta ile r 's Listed B e low . M a rch 22! PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS: C o n te s t Ends Backporch Candle Shoppe Benner’s Pharmacy Bingeman’s Clothing Store 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: Kenyon’s Pastry Shop Klotz Kleners * 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 In This Issue Business Directory 18 Church News 16,17 Classified Ads 20,21 Editorial Page 4 Sports Section 6,7 Women’s 12,13 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. T , y t - ¿1 > \'4j--- , v*w; A . ' i v M i l *c. J r 9 - V* : î _ • > . .Ü S . ’S S f . ^ A î . i 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 | Continued on Page 5] 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
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1975-03-20 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
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Date | 1975-03-20 |
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Full Text | f i l T T T l l I U l R E S S S E R V I N G T H E W A R W I C K A R E A F O R N E A R L Y A C E N T U R Y 98th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL 1877, AS THE SUNBEAK I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LiTITZ RECORD 1937 Licite, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Thursday, March 20,1975 10 CENTS A COPY; $4.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 PAGES — No. 52 X d t i t z ¡ R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o t o 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. | Continued on Page 2| 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 Danville Pk., Lancaster (Route324). S p e n d a W e e k e n d o f Your C h o ic e a t L a n c a s te r's N a tio n a lly F am o u s Host Farm Resort. All E x p en se s For 2 P a id By Lititz R e ta ile rs Assn. C h e c k In Frid ay . . . C h e c k O u t S u n d a y fo r Din in g , D a n c in g , S h ow s, Sw im m in g , T en n is, G o lf or J u s t P la in R e lax in g ! R e g is te r At Lititz R e ta ile r 's Listed B e low . M a rch 22! PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS: C o n te s t Ends Backporch Candle Shoppe Benner’s Pharmacy Bingeman’s Clothing Store 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: Kenyon’s Pastry Shop Klotz Kleners * 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 In This Issue Business Directory 18 Church News 16,17 Classified Ads 20,21 Editorial Page 4 Sports Section 6,7 Women’s 12,13 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. T , y t - ¿1 > \'4j--- , v*w; A . ' i v M i l *c. J r 9 - V* : î _ • > . .Ü S . ’S S f . ^ A î . i 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 | Continued on Page 5] 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 |
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