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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 PAGES —No. 52
School Board Defeats Move
To Shorten Maternity Leaves
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Derailed Reading railroad cars near Warner-
Lambert plant are under continual surveillance by
railraod workers for the time being because of
carload of granular fertilizer mixture that was
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spilled along the tracks. The derailment occurred
Monday morning. Cars in foreground can be seen
off tracks, while cars in background are still
upright.
About 90 persons turned
out for the Warwick School
Board meeting at Rothsvllle
Tuesday nieht. most of them
there to protest a pending
change in the Board’s policy
on maternity leaves for
teachers.
The Board was set to adopt
a new policy that would put
maternity leaves in a
category with “disabilities”
and would limit their length
to about six weeks. The
Board defeated a motion to
make the change by a three
to six vote, with Board
President John Evans, and
Directors Wallace Hofferth
and Bill Owens casting the
only votes in favor of the
change. Directors David
Buckwalter, Raymond
Groff, Ruth Husser, Richard
Mearig, Wilson Smith and
Roy Yeager voted against
the change.
The policy will be
reconsidered at the Board’s
Committee of the Whole
meeting April 5.
About eight persons, a
number of them teachers in
the district, spoke out
against the proposed change
at the start of the meeting,
pointing out that shortening
the maternity leave would
force teachers to choose
between being a parent or a
teacher. Some said they
would like to continue
teaching, and would also like
to raise a family, but would
not be willing to leave a six-week
old infant in order to
return to the classroom.
The point was also made
that if the change was
adopted, many women who
want to raise families would
leave the teaching profession
and this would upset a good
balance between younger
women and more mature
women with experience in
child raising, a balance that
now exists in the school
district.
Doster Tract
In further business the
Board opened five bids for
the Doster Tract, two of
them bids on rental and
three of them sale bids.
Bidding on renting the land
as farmland for one year
were Richard K. Buck-waiter,
bidding $630, and
Spahr Farms, bidding $810.
Bidding to purchase the
land were St. James Catholic
Church, $90,000; Henry H.
Gibbel, $72,088.17; and
George J. Morgan, $69,000.
The Board will discuss the
bids at its April 5 committee
meeting and is expected to
make a decision a t its
regular meeting April 20.
Resignations
The Board accepted
resignations from Deborah
Homberger, a teacher at
Lititz Elementary who has
been on maternity leave of
absence; Kathleen Kutruff
as drama director at the high
school; and Clayton Frank­fort,
a custodian.
Drama Director
The Board hired Mrs.
Faye Meier, a teacher at
Kissel Hill, as drama
director to complete the
school term at a salary of
$298, half the beginning
salary for this position. Mrs*.
Meier will direct the high
school spring musical.
Maternity Leaves
The Board granted
maternity leaves of absence
to Kathryn Frankhouser, a
teacher at the high school,
from June 14,1976 to June 30,
1977; and to Anita
Lipkowski, a teacher at
Lititz Elementary, from
Sept. 1, 1976 to June 30, 1977.
Budgets
The Board approved the
Rec Center budget for next
year, with the district’s
share to be $12,600. The
entire budget is for
$18,875.31, a decrease over
the current budget of
$19,793.84.
The Board unanimously
rejected the budget sub­mitted
by the Lancaster
County Tax Bureau.
The Board accepted the
proposed budget of In­termediate
Unit 13. This
budget must be approved at
the IU annual convention in
the spring.
Train Derails, Fertilizer Dumped Teachers Speak Out on Negotiations
Eight railroad cars
comprising the midsection of
a Reading train derailed
shortly after 11 a.m. Monday
behind the Warner-Lambert
Company on Lincoln
Avenue, with one carload of
granulated fertilizer mix
being dumped.
The train, en route from
Reading to Lancaster, was
carrying a variety of metal
building supplies, lumber
and fertilizer.
Although there were no
reported injuries, one
railroad car carrying an
ammonia-nitrate-phosphate
mixture of fertilizer dumped
its contents on the southside
of the track and is under -
guard and surveilance.
During a telephone in­terview
with the Reading
Company early Tuesday
morning, a spokesperson for
the company explained that
any chemical spilled from
the rail container must be
kept under guard until the
debris is removed.
“The fertilizer poses no
problems as long as people
are kept away from the
sight,” the spokesperson
noted.
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“A guard will be kept at
the wreckage until the clean­up
is complete.”
“A private firm secured by
the Reading Company will
begin clean-up later this
week although no specific
date has been announced.
The cause of the
derailment is still under
investigation and cannot be
determined until the
equipment can be inspected.
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Voter Registration
Today in Lititz
Voter registration will
be held today (Thur­sday)
at Warwick High
School from 1:30 to 8:30
p.m.
Any person who has
not voted in the past two,
years, or who has
moved into this district
or changed voting
districts, or who has just
become 18 years of age
must register in order to
vote in the spring
primaries.
M ic h a e l B r a u n e r ,
president of Warwick
Education Association, told
the Record this week that
Warwick teachers are
“shocked and dismayed by
recent attempts of the School
Board’s negotiator to
provoke a bargaining crisis
again this year in Warwick.”
Brauner, who heads the
1 56-membe r t e a c h e r
association in the school
district, said that contract
talks between the teachers
and School Board had not
been productive as of last
week, but that teachers saw
reason to ask for mediation
services of the Pennsylvania
Bureau of Mediation “in
order to keep the talks going
and to avoid the possibility of
early crisis, as has occurred
in previous years.”
“This is in no way to
suggest that we feel the talks
are hopelessly deteriorated
by any means,” Brauner
said.
A n o th e r b a rg a in in g
session, with state mediator
Fred Edwards, is scheduled
for April 8.
“We cannot see that the
in f lam m a to ry c r is is -
provoking statements of the
Board’s chief negotiator,
William Owens, are in line
with good faith attempts to
reach settlement,” Brauner
stated.
Referring to an article in
last week’s Record on the
proposed contract the School
Board had offered to the
teachers, and which
teachers rejected, Brauner
said that the issues of the
bargaining so far have been
grossly misinterpreted by
Owens.
Brauner said the principal
issues from the WEA’s
viewpoint are length of day,
preparation time, use of
substitutes, and salary..
On length of day, noting
that the School Board wants
to add 15 minutes at both the
beginning and end of the day,
he said that the total number
of hours of the working day is
not the issue.
“What we object to is the
Board’s insistence that we
not be permitted to work
with our students before and
after school as we have for
years. WEA finds it in­credible
th a t the Board
negotiator would expect us to
give up time spent in helping
students with special
problems, holding parent
conferences, team teacher
planning, discussions of
problems with guidance
counselors, administering
student makeup work, and
advising students working on
special projects — to name
just a few,” he said.
“Time after time,” he
said, “we have asked the
Board to name the length of
the school day but they
consistently refuse.”
Preparation Time
A memorandum of un­derstanding
accompanies
the current contract and
guarantees a certain amount
of preparation time for
teachers. The Board wants
to drop this, Brauner said.
“ The Board expects
teachers to give up the small
amount of planning time
, they now have. Instead of
j planning lessons and
j working with students, we
would be expected to patrol
halls, police lavatories, and
roam cafeterias. We feel this
is unfair to students and
denies teachers their right to
give their best toward the
education of their students,”
Brauner said.
Use of Substitutes
A clause in the current
contract obligates the
district to hire a substitute
when a teacher is going to be
absent for one-half day or
longer. The Board wants to
delete this clause, main­taining
it does not belong in a
bargaining contract. The
WEA wants the clause left
in.
“Owens claims the Board
does not have any obligation
to hire substitutes when a
teacher is absent from
school,” Brauner said.
“Under the present contract
the Board must hire sub­stitutes.
By their current
proposal, they would use
substitutes if and when they
want to, according to Owens.
We feel this allows the Board
to break the continuity of the
learning program.”
Salary
Referring to an article in
last week’s Record, which
reported that the WEA had
rejected an offer that in­cluded
a 7% percent salary
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Penn Township Sued by Developers
Arctic Express Ice Cream Parlor
B & V Outlet
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s-Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob’s Save Rite
Commonwealth National Bank
Dori Mae's Dress Shop
Robert E. Dull, Jeweler
Farmer's First Bank
First Federal Savings & Loan
D. E. Furlow 5 & 10
General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
Glassmyer's
Hess Men's Wear
Hershay’s Shoe Store
Hollinger's Farm & Home Supply
House of Warwick
The Jewelry Shoppe
Keller Bros. Auto Co.
Kenyon’s Pastry Shop
Klotz Kleners
Kreider Hardware TV
Lads & Lassies Children's
Apparel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Central Market
Lititz Record Express
Lititz Paint Shoppe
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger Home
Center
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller's Furniture Store
The Pewter Mug
Rent-A-Space Garage
Scott & Kurt Factory Outlet
A. H. Shelly, Inc.
Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill
Shoes 'n Things
Spacht’s Furniture
Travis Mills Fabric Outlet
Trudi K Shop
White Shield Discount Center
Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet
Pénn Township, along with
its sewer and water
authority and its consulting
engineers, Glace and Glace
of Harrisburg, are being
sued by Clabell Kreider
company, developers of
Meadow Ea st apartment
complex along Steigel Valley
Road, for an alleged breach
of a sewer contract
agreement that Clabell
Kreider says cost them
$45,663.
The suit, an action in
assumpsit and trespass,
which demands a jury trial
in the Court of Common
Pleas, was filed on Feb. 1L
It charges that the Penn
Township supervisors and
Glace and Glace promised
Clabell Kreider in Sept, of
1972 that the township would
furnish them with sewer
facilities by Spring of 1973,
and relying on this promise,
the suit says, Clabell Kreider
went ahead with con­struction
of Meadows East.
However, the suit continues,
the township decided to
change its sewer plans — to
expand the area that would
be serviced — and sewer
facilities were never ready
until 1974.
The developers had to
install holding tanks and
have these pumped out and
serviced for 16 months, the
suit charges, which cost
Clabell Kreider $58,596. The
developer estimates sewer
service would have cost
$13,234, if the township had
had it installed on time, and
Clabell Kreider is suing for
the difference.
The charges against Glace
and Glace allege that that
firm reassured Clabell
Kreider as late as December
1972 that sewer service
would be ready by the spring
of 1973, knowing all along
that it would not be.
The suit charges that the
Northwest Lancaster County
Sewer Authority took on the
obligations of the township
after it was formed, and thus
was also liable.
Discussions In 1971
According to the suit,
Clabell Kreider, the town­ship
supervisors, and a
representative from Glace &
Glace had discussed planned
construction of the apart­ments
on numerous oc­casions
in late 1971, along
with a need to provide sewer
and water service to it.
About February 1972, the
suit states, the developers
told the township that con­struction
would start in the
Spring of 1972, subject to the
availability of sewer
facilities by August or
September of that year, and
the developers asked the
township to provide these
facilities or else approve
Clabell Kreider’s con­structing
sewers at their own
cost.
In March of 1972, the suit
states, Clabell Kreider hired
Larry Zimmerman from
Glace & Glace to prepare an
estimate of construction
costs, and the next month
(April 1972) Clabell Kreider,
along with Sardec, Inc.,
developers of the shopping
center next to the apart­ments
proposed to the
supervisors a plan to con­struct
the sewage facilities
necessary to both the
apartments and the shopping
center, at the developers’
own expense, for completion
by Sept. 1, 1972.
That May, Glace & Glace,
acting as agents for the
township, prepared the
developers’ plans showing
where the sewer lines for the
apartments should be ac­cording
to the April plan.
This plan called for eight-inch
sewer line in Steigel
In this issue
Business Directory 16
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10,11
Valley Road running to a
treatment plant site at the
intersection of Steigel Valley
and White Oak Roads. The
temporary sewage tre a t­ment
plant was to have a
22,000 gallon capacity with
provision for increased
capacity.
Conditions for this plan,
the suit stated, were that
Sardec would furnish a 100’
by 100’ tract at the site of the
treatment plant at no cost,
that the completed facilities
would be turned over to the
township supervisors, that
the supervisors would
operate and maintain the
facilities, that the super­visors
would charge $50 a
year per residential hookup,
and $100 a year per com­mercial
hookup, with this
money to be used for
operating and maintenance
cost.
Access fees., would be
rebated to Sardec and
Clabell Kreider in proportion
to their capital contributions
to the construction of the
facilities. If the supervisors
or any other developers
wanted to hook up to the
facilities, they would pay the
township, and the township
would reimburse Sardec and
Clabell Kreider propor­tionately
for the proportion
of the system they would be
using.
DER Rejects
According to the suit,
Glace & Glace neglected to
tell the DER these were
interim plans when they sent
them to Harrisburg, plans to
be used only until the
township had built its own
sewer system, and because
of this the DER rejected the
plans, saying they did not
conform to their
requirements for a regional
system.
Glace said it would
resubmit the plans but
meanwhile, about August
1972, Clabell Kreider came
up with a second proposal to
the township to install
sewage facilities in con­formance
with the regional
plan. This involved con­struction
of a pump station
and inceptor connecting
sewer lines serving the
apartments to Manhelm
Borough sewer facilities.
Clabell Kreider offered to
construct these at no cost to
the township. In return, the
developer sp e c ific a lly
requested the township’s
approval of the plan so
construction financing could
be finalized. They needed
permission to install a four-inch
force main in the
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