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More Debate Expected
on New School Budget More debate is expected
tonight (Thursday) at a
Warwick School Board
meeting before final
adoption of a new school
budget for 1975-76.
Although tonight is the
deadline for approving the
budget, school directors are
still divided over some of the
items that are and are not
included in the $4,972,045
budget.
A tentative draft of the
budget was approved by only
a 5-4 vote of school directors
last month. Earlier this
month, the directors still
were in disagreement over
two issues in particular -
whether or not to hire an
additional guidance coun­selor
for the high school, and
whether to include four, or
only one, of the girls sports in
a new program recom­mended
by the District
Superintendent H. Dale
Winger.
“There is not total ac­ceptance
as the budget now
stands,” Dr. Winger said this
week. He said he does not
expect the revised budget to
pass tonight without more
discussion, and possible
further revisions.
The proposed additional
guidance counselor, which
was in an earlier draft of the
budget, was deleted,
knocking out approximately
$11,000 from the budget, and
the four-sport girls athletic
program, estimated at
$16,000, was reduced to one
sport, thus knocking out
another $12,000 from the
budget.
As it now stands, the
budget will require a seven
mill increase in real estate
taxes.
The tentative budget has
been on display in the school
district office for the past 30
days, but as of Tuesday,
according to Dr. Winger, no
one had come in to review it.
In further business
tonight, the School Board is
expected to accept
resignations from Hazel I.
Garner, reading teacher at
Kissel Hill School, who is
retiring, Mrs. Ann W.
Hoover, home economics
teacher at the high school,
who is leaving the teaching
profession for the time
being, and from Dorothy L.
Showalter, fifth grade
teacher at Kissel Hill, also
retiring.
The Board is expected to
hire Mrs. Peggy L. Hess,
Ephrata, as a nurse in the
high school.
J. F. Hartz
New Vice-President of
Commonwealth Bank
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John F. Hartz, 7 Neil Dr.,
has been named assistant
vice president of Com­monwealth
National Bank.
Along with his new
position, Hartz will remain
as branch manager of the
Lititz Springs Office of
Commonwealth Bank.
Hartz began his career
with Commonwealth in 1968
as personal loan ad­ministrator.
He was
promoted to assistant
cashier and local branch
manager in 1973.
He is a graduate of
Tremont (Pa.) High School
and Stevens Trade School,
Lancaster. He has received
his basic certificate from the
American Institute of
Banking and is also a
graduate of the School of
Banking at Bucknell
University.
Prior to coming with
Commonwealth Bank, he
served in the Pennsylvania
National Guard.
Hartz is a member of the
American Institute of
Banking, the Lititz Chapter
of the American Business
John F. Hartz
Club, the Lititz Retailers
Association, the Young
Men’s Business League of
Lititz, and Lititz Area
Bicentennial Committee,
and the Lititz Fire Company.
He is an officer of the
American Amateur Trap-shooters
Association and is
active in various other
sportsmen’s associations
and clubs.
Hartz is married and has
two children. He is a
member of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church.
Gas Lights May Be
Removed on Sutter Boro Manager David
Anderson will be recom­mending
that Boro Council
remove the gas street lights
bn Sutter Avenue, from
Woodcrest Avenue to Golden
St., and replace them with
some brighter lights at the
intersection.
The recommendation will
be made at Council’s regular
meeting Tuesday at 7:30
p.m.
Anderson said that leaks
have occurred in the pipes to
the gas lights, and that the
gas has now been turned off
by the gas company. The
lights have not been in
operation for some time, and
the darkened street, and a
reported odor of gas, has
been a subject of complaint
by residents of that area.
Anderson said he will be
recommending that the
lights at the intersection be
upgraded to 6600 lumen
mercury vapor lights like
those used at other in­tersections
in the borough.
Anderson will also be
Four women are expected
to be hired as cafeteria
cooks, and the maternity and
sabbatical leaves of three
other women employees are
expected to be terminated.
A first draft of a proposed
student rights and respon­sibilities
policy for the
district will be submitted by
the superintendent for
review before possible
adoption in July.
The Board is also being
asked to authorize bid ad­vertisements
for resurfacing
the tennis courts, and pur­chasing
draperies and
shades for some of the school
buildings this summer.
The Board also will be
reviewing another exemp­tion
policy for per capita
taxes, prepared by Dr.
Winger, Robert Boltz,
business manager, and
David Anderson, borough
manager. Earlier this
month, the Board turned
down an exemption policy
proposed by the borough.
The Board will be asked to
approve a re-financing and
work schedule for
renovations at Lititz
Elementary School. The
final two phases of the
renovation have been
collapsed into one continuous
project to follow im­mediately
after completion
of the first phase, now in
progress.
l i e new work schedule
calls for advertisement for
bids on Sept. 15, awarding of
bids on Nov. 3, and the
beginning of construction
work on Dec. 1. The entire1
project is expected to be
completed by Aug. 6, 1976,
under the new schedule.
The Board is expected to
approve salaries for the
administrative staff, and for
non-instructional employees,
tonight. The tentative
salaries are included in the
1975-76 proposed budget.
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I n T h i s I s s u e
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L ititz R e co rd E x p re s s P h o to
Looks like serious business . . . and it is. While Robert Keller,
Penn DOT district 8 engineer (right), explained the state's
position on the Millport Road - Route 501 intersection, Warwick
Township Supervisors Dick Hoffer and Bilj Dussinger, Township
Road Foreman Dale Kofroth (hidden) and State Representative
Nick Moehlmann (next to Keller) listened with interest despite
the steady rain during an on-site inspection that took place at
the notorious crossing last Thursday afternoon.
Warwick Supervisors, State Rep.
Meet With PennDOT On Millport
Business Directory 16
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 12
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A band of men - Warwick
Township Supervisors Joe
Brubaker, Dick Hoffer and
Bill Dussinger, along with
Township Road Foreman
Dale Kofroth, State
R e p r e s e n ta t iv e Nick
Moehlmann (Rep., 102nd
District) and PennDOT
District 8 Engineer Robert
Keller - met at the in­tersection
of Millport Road
and Route 501 on Thursday,
June 12 to discuss, in the
words of representative
Moehlmann, “what can be
done to make this in­tersection
safer.”
The meeting had been
instigated by Moehlmann
who called Keller and asked
him to meet with supervisors
at the site of the notorious
intersection. Apparently set
up without regard to weather
reports, the meeting took
place outside in a steady
rain, while Warwick
Township Police Chief
Haines kept curious drivers
moving.
Nevertheless, the men
stood their ground, wet
though it was and discussed
various possibilities open to
the state and township to
help make the Millport
Road-Route 501 intersection
a less dangerous area.
According to Keller, there
are two means open to the
state: First, that portion of
Route 501 which dips down
from Kissel Hill to form a
knob that hides oncoming
traffic could be filled in and
reporting on conditions at
Lititz Springs Pool Tuesday
night. He said this week that
modifications have been
made in the circulatory
system of the wading pool.
All the pools are clear this
summer, he said, one factor
being the use of sodium
hypocholoride as a disin­fectant.
Miss Lyn Forbes has been
hired as new snack bar
manager. The former
manager, Randal Burke,
resigned last Sunday to take
a church Job in Alabama.
The water lines and meter
have been installed for the
Stoltzfus development in
Warwick Township, An­derson
said. His report to
Council will include the
borough’s share of the cost,
$11,237.
The new line completes a
loop between Moravian
Avenue and Second Avenue
to the meter pit at the
borough line on West Orange
Street.
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leveled; second, they could
“knock off the top of the
knob.”
Though both solutions are
theoretically sound, chances
are neither one of them will
become a reality very soon.
In Keller’s estimation, the
“cost-benefit ratio” is low
when considering recon­structing
the intersection.
He explained to super­visors
that there were
hundreds, indeed thousands,
of Millport Road in­tersections
ail across the
state, and they all had to be
considered by Penn DOT as
to their statistical im­portance
to be placed on a
priority list for recon­struction.
“We must alleviate those
that save the most lives,”
said Keller. “Although we
don’t like to talk in terms of
lives, statistics must be
taken into consideration.”
Priorities
The three main reasons
PennDOT cannot im­mediately
fix every
dangerous spot on state
highways are in order of
importance: 1. money; 2.
money; and 3. money.
“It’s a matter of high and
low priorities,” explained
the PennDOT man, “as to
what projects get the money
that’s available.”
He told the group that the
state initiates a 12-year plan
for the maintenance and
reconstruction of highways
in each county.
The plan is implemented
after receiving input from
county agencies as to their
road needs, as well as from
the state agencies; then, the
input is coordinated, and a
priority list is assembled
from which PennDOT
chooses projects it will
tackle.
Although the plan is up­dated
every two years,
there’s little chance of
getting a low priority
problem, like Millport-501,
put on a high priority list
when statistics say the need
is greater elsewhere.
As Supervisor’s Chairman
Dussinger told his colleagues
in the rain, “We’re just
kidding ourselves if we get
our hopes up about this. We
can put in for the 12-year
plan, but we’re not going to
get on this one.”
Said Secretary Hoffer, “If
the legislature would get in
on it, they could suggest
more funds.”
“It would help, but..
admitted Keller with the air
of a man who is all too aware
of the ins and outs of state
money matters and knows
there are a lot more ins than
there are outs.
“They keep coming up
with programs,” he ex­plained,
“which they are
willing to give us, say 70
percent of the money for; but
we still have trouble finding
the other 30 percent.”
“They shot up motor
license fees to satisfy the
demands of the state police,”
he added, and noted that the
state police are paid from
highway funds, a fact of life
PennDot would rather not
have to live with, according
to Keller.
“There are other hangers-on
to our budget, too,” he
said, “ like driver’s
education in the schools.”
Instead of increasing the
license fee, Keller intimated
that the department could
use some more tax money.
Other measures
Even though the day
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Warwick Twp. Gets
New Streets, Numbers
Warwick Township supervisors recently approved two
resolutions that will cause a significant change in the
addresses of some township residents in the near future.
The first resolution states that all houses now in the
township and any new ones constructed in the future shall
be given a street number.
The system of street numbering is intended to ease the
voting redistricting procedure township officials see as
imminent. It will also help in postal delivery and in
keeping track or residents moving in and out of the
township.
According to supervisors, the system goes into effect
immediately and anyone who is to receive a number or
change of number will be notified soon, if they have not
been already.
Supervisors estimated that the hew system will affect
approximately 850 to 1000 people in the township.
New Street Names
Five streets are to be renamed, two extended, two
dropped entirely, one street that now has no name will be
given a name and one street will change either its name or
its numbering system in the township soon.
Supervisors adopted a resolution at their last meeting
which will provide for the dividing and renaming of four
roads: Newport Road will become East and West
Newport roads, divided by Route 501; Lexington Road will
become East and West Lexington roads, divided by Route
501; Millport Road will become East West Millport roads,
divided by Route 501; and Heck Road in Rothsville will
continue to the north side of Rothsville Road Route 772 to
divide Heck Road into North and South Heck roads.
Woods Drive, located on the east side of Route 501, will
become East Woods Drive. *
Woodcrest Avenue will be extended to Erbs Quarry
Road, and Erbs Quarry Road will be extended to Waters
Edge Road, thereby eliminating from the township Sego
Sago Road and East Petersburg Road.
A short one-way street in Rothsville, which up to this
time has gone without a name, will be named Spur Lane.
Residents of Third Avenue will be given the choice of
retaining the name of their street and having the street
numbers changed or keeping their same numbers ,and
letting the township change the name of the street.
Third Avenue residents, in an unofficial poll, have
expressed the desire to retain the name of their street. If
the name remains the same, the numbers will have to be
changed to keep them consecutive with the new numbers
being added in the township.