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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTT 24 PAGES-No. 6
Warwick Twp.
Still On Fence
Over Wage Tax
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By Bonnie Szymanski
The bimonthly meeting of
the Warwick Township
supervisors had been in
session only twenty minutes
Thursday night when one of
the several citizens gathered
in the township municipal
building asked the question
that was on everyone’s
mind: What is the township
supervisors’ opinion of
taking one hall of the one
percent wage tax from the
school district? And more to
the point: What action is
being taken at this time?
Although the wage tax
question had been scheduled
for discussion later in the
evening under new business,
tiie supervisors willingly set
aside protocol and opened
the floor to discussion of the
wage tax controversy.
“First of all,” explained
Bill Dusslnger, chairman of
the board of supervisors,
“we haven’t decided on the
full one half percent; we lean
toward taking a quarter
percent.”
The next question from the
floor followed as naturally as
water rushing over a cliff:
Why do you need to take the
money at all?
Rather than attempt an
incomplete and half-hearted
explanation to the people
gathered in the room,
ostensibly fold out why they
were to be subjected to
further taxation, Dussinger
referred to a list of five main
areas township officials had
agreed were the prime
reasons that taking the wage
tax percentage was now
undo* serious consideration.
Why Money Needed
Point 1: Supervisors are
looking forward to the
possible loss of revenue
sharing funds from the state.
Although they now believe
that revenue sharing will be
re-enacted they noted that
the $2»,000 received would be
used entirely for the
operation of the Warwick
Township police depart­ment.
Point 2: The township has
a commitment to its own
municipal sewer authority
and to the borough of Lititz to
support the reconstruction of
a sewer plant if the funds are
not available when con­struction
begins. This
means, according to the
supervisors, that they would
have to borrow $177,000 to
back up the now all but
fundless township sewer
authority.
In fact, the only money
coming into the authority at
this time is about $100 per
month from a water system
that runs just into the
periphery of the township.
The authority has no means
of generating income until
the Lititz sewer system has
been expanded and township
residents have hooked on.
Then, and only then, will the
money start coming in, via
hook-up charges (estimated
by supervisors at $700 now
with an additional 16 percent
escalation cost per year) and
annual sewage bills
estimated as high as $300 to
$350 per household.
Said the supervisors,
certain areas of the township
have been designated by the
Department of En­vironmental
Resources for
sewage, and the township *
must go along with those
demands. They explained
that the costs of sewage
hook-up. and yearly use are
not excessive in the light of a
sewer authority’s need to
cover the cost of the system
as well as to establish a 10
percent sinking fund for
repair costs.
Point 3: Warwick Town­ship
supervisors recently
have become concerned
about the inability of the
Rothsville Fire Co. to sup­port
itself and pay a large
debt on the new fire station -
meeting hall. Supervisors
agree that negotiations for a
loan for the fire company
must be initiated soon in
order to keep the volunteer
organization from suc­cumbing
to economic
collapse.
Supervisors noted that in
addition to the large debt,
the company faces a need for
funds to replace the fire
fighting apparatus presently
used.
Said DuSsinger, the
problem is that when a
volunteer fire department
runs into money problems
there’s a chance the firemen
may become discouraged,
leaving the township to hire
firemen.
Point 4: There is a specific
need in the township to
Improve services to
residents by increasing the,
work staff. At present, there
is no paid township
secretary. Most of the
township clerical business is
taken care of by Richard
Hoffer, secretary-treasurer
of the board of. supervisors.
Point 5: The final point of
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A crew of cameramen from Atlanta, Georgia,
visited Lititz recently in connection with a Com­monwealth
National Bank ad in the making. The
crew asked people along Main S tre e ts verbalize
utitz Record Sxpxeia Photo
their ideas about good banking service while being
filmed. The men remarked that Lititz was one of the
most unique and attractive towns they had ever
seen in their filming travels.
Film Crew Visits Main Street
The borough of Lititz was
visited by a camera crew
from Atlanta, Georgia,
recently during the filming
of a Commonwealth National
Bank advertisement to be
aired on television in late
summer.
Palkovic Named Sports
Editor of Lititz Record
Road, joins the Record
Express staff this week as
sports editor.
A long-time resident of this
area, Palkovic is widely
known for his activities as a
wrestling and football
referee. He was founder of
the Lancaster Wrestling
Officals Assn., of which he is
secretary-treasurer, and for
16 years has been chairman
of the awards committee for
tiie outstanding lineman and
back in the Lancaster-
Lebanon Football League,
an award he helped
establish. He is also
president of the Football
Officials Assn.
This year he was named
Outstanding Football Of­ficial
by the Lancaster-
Lebanon League.
Palkovic has been active
in sports since his high,
school days. At Lebanon
High School, he was on the
football, baseball, basketball
and track teams, and at
Millersville State College, he
wrestled and was on the
baseball and football teams.
A guidance counselor at
Steve Palkovic
Warwick High School, he
formerly taught math and
science at Lebanon Catholic
High School and Manheim
Township High School. He
also coached football,
wrestling, and golf at
Manheim Township.
In addition to his referee
work, he is a golfer, and has
his private pilot’s license.
Palkovic is married and
has two children. He is a past
president of the Lititz Lions
Club, a member of the
church council of St. James
Catholic Church, and is in
charge of adult education in
Warwick School District.
The Atlanta-based crew is
part if a company called the
Great American Bank
C a m p i i g n s , i w h ic h
specializes in filming
commercials *nr banks.,
Carolyn North t i the
Harrisburg Commonwealti
National Bank had ac­companied
the crew in a
public relations capacity.
She told the Record that the
crew had been in Lancaster
earlier in the day and had
come into Lititz for af­ternoon
filming of on-the-street
interviews with
Commonwealth customers
and non-customers alike.
She said it was the first
time the men had seen the
town and that they were all
taken with its physical
beauty and its well-p
r e s e rv e d h i s to r ic a l
character.
In fact, she quoted them as
telling her they thought its
uniqueness made it one of
the most attractive towns
they had ever visited during
their filming travels.
The bank campaign
consists of many on-the-street
interviews with people
from the six-county area
served by the bank’s 42
branches. Carolyn had been
with the crew for most of the
interviews and said she was
quite impressed with the
way they handled the in­formal
on-the-spot question
and answer sessions. She
said the men worked without
scripts, relying instead on a
few questions to prompt
comments from the people
about what they expect from
a bank.
Although they will be using
only about half of the filmed
interviews in the televised
presentations, the crew
spent several hours walking
up and down Main Street
asking strollers and shop­pers
to take part in the in-erviews.
Their friendly
&)proach charmed a number
of Lititz. residents into
becone temporary TV stars.
The commercials will be
Shown over he six-county
area served by Com­monwealth
sometime in
August or September. These
counties include Lancaster,
Lebanon, York, Cum­berland,
Dauphin, and
Perry.
In this issue
Business Directory 20
Church News 18
Classified Ads 22,23
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 12,13
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However, effective with
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single copy price of the
Lititz Record Express
will be 15 cents. A one
year subscription within
Lancaster County will
be $5.00. This increase is
necessary because of
substantial increases in
postage, newsprint and
other production costs.
Walker Leads Congressional Race in 16th District Robert S. Walker from
East Petersburg, the can­didate
endorsed by
C o n g re ssm an Edwin
Eshelman for the 16th
Congressional District seat
that Eshelman is vaqating,
appeared to have won the l i ­man
race that has held the
c o u n t y ’ s a t t e n t i o n
throughout the primary
campaign.
At press time, the paper
ballot votes from Chester
County were not reported,
but Walker was ahead
elsewhere by more than 1,000
votes.
However, in Lititz
borough, Marvin Miller got
tiie most votes, in Warwick
Township, Miller and Darvin
Boyd were top vote getters,
and in Elizabeth Township,
Boyd got the most votes.
State Representative Nick
Moehlmann, unchallenged
on the Republican ticket, will
be the GOP candidate in the
fall election, and Douglas G.
Stauffer, also unchallenged,
will be the Democratic
candidate tor the House seat.
In the race for the
nominations for the U.S.
Robert Walker
Senate seat held by Hugh
Scott for almost 20 years,
John Heinz from Allegheny
County won the Republican
n o m i n a t i o n a n d
Congressman Bill Green of
Philadelphia won the
Democratic nomination.
The former Georgia
governor, Jimmy Carter, got
the nod for Democratic
candidate for President
across the state and in
Lancaster County. President
Gerald Ford was un­challenged
in the Penn­sylvania
primary for the
Republican nomination.
v In local balloting for
committee persons, the
following were elected:
Lititz Boro, First Ward, 1st
Precinct — Paul Diehm and
Nancy Wolfe; 2nd Precinct
— Gordon Trump; Second
Ward, 1st Precinct — Allen
Eshelman and Nancy Work­man;
2nd Precinct — Gerry
Husser and Deb Smith;
Third Ward, 1st Precinct —
Paul McCloud and Mary
Carl; 2nd Precinct — Wayne
Hummer and Carol Ruth.
Elizabeth Township —
Leroy Ulrich and Barbara
Lederer Darlington.
Warwick — Rothsville —
Vincent J. Fauci and Mrs.
Robert Wohlson; Warwick
Brunnerville — Dean
Baublitz; Warwick Kissel
Hill - Richard K. Walter
and Nancy Brenner.
Voter turnout in this area
ran over the 50 percent
mark, committee officials
Rep. Nick Moehlmann
reported, one of the highest
primary turnouts in years.
Nancy Brenner, who is
beginning her second term
as committee woman in the
Kissel Hill District, told the
Record that the vote count
took about an hour longer
than usual in her district
because there were so many
write-in votes.
Most of the write-ins
weren’t “serious,” she said.
One person didn’t vote for
any of the listed candidates
but instead wrote in all the
names of the Philadelphia
Flyers hockey team.
“I can’t imagine anyone
taking the time to come out
and vote and then doing
something like that,” she
commented.
Breakdown in votes for
Congressman is:
Walker - 170 in Lititz
Boro, 126 In Warwick Twp.,
31 in Elizabeth Twp.
Miller—460 in Lititz Boro;
251 in Warwick Twp.; 32 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Armodt — 18 in Lititz
Boro; 21 in Warwick Twp.; 4
in Elizabeth Twp.
Mohler—72 in Utitz Boro;
27 in Warwick Twp.; 3 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Boyd —165 in Utitz Boro;
272 in Warwick TVp.; 65 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Durry — 83 in Utitz Boro;
118 in Warwick Twp.; 41 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Mearig—49 in Utitz Boro;
Alternatives
By Peggy Fralley
Utitz Boro Council members are divided over whether
or not the borough should follow suit if Warwick Township
claims a portion of the wage tax within the next two weeks
—a portion that now goes to the school district—but there
was no doubt at Tuesday night’s Council meeting that
local officials are worried about the situation.
Council President Jim Yerger said he would stand
ready to call Council into a special session if Warwick
Township makes a move before May 15, the deadline for
filing an application to take a share of the earned income
tax.
Assistant Boro Manager Curt Amidon proposed as a
possible alternative that the three municipalities involved
— the borough and Warwick and Elizabeth Townships —
each take a portion of the real estate transfer tax instead,
and agreed to make this proposal to Warwick Township
supervisors. Amidon calculated that this tax would give
Warwick Township approximately $90,000, enough to help
them through their financial bind, he thought.
Councilmen thrashed over the issue for nearly an hour
Tuesday night, in the wake of a recent joint meeting with
the township in which the Warwick supervisors stated
they needed the added revenue to help pay for increasing
costs, which they said was primarily brought on by the
approaching hookup with the Lititz sewer system.
“We are forced to take it (the wage tax) whether you
like it or not,” Council President Jim Yerger stated flatly
during the discussion of how the borough will react if the
township decides to file for the wage tax this spring.
He also objected to the township citing the pending
sewer hookup as its main cause for financial problems,
stating that the real problem was the fact that the
township has too low a tax rate, five mills, and is also
facing a major financial problem with the Rothsville Fire
Company.
Councilman Wendel Hower did not agree that the
borough would have to take the tax. Rather he insisted
that the borough should NOT take its permitted half
percent of the wage tax, or $75,000, regardless of what the
township does. Hower maintained that the borough budget
is already set for the year, that the borough does not need
the extra $75,000 right now. He said it would be better to
live with the possible “inequality” that may develop
within the school district than to make a claim on money it
doesn’t need and drive school district taxes up even
further.
He proposed as an alternative that the school district
take only a half percent of the wage tax from each
municipality in the district, and thus eliminate the need
for Lititz borough to claim its half percent, and have the
extra $75,000 on its hands.
Councilman Donald Stauffer, on the other hand, said
that the borough should take its permitted share of the tax
if the township does, and insisted that Boro Council be
ready on short notice to file a claim for the tax if Warwick
Township does so before May 15.
59 in Warwick Twp.; 10 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Krank—6 in lititz Boro; 5
in Warwick Twp.; 0 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Baxter—7 in lititz Boro; 3
in Warwick Twp.; 0 on
Elizabeth Twp.
Scott — 92 in lititz Boro;
76 in Warwick Twp.; 22 in
Elizabeth Twp.
Lewis — 96 in lititz Boro;
40 in Warwick Twp.; 4 in
Elizabeth Twp.
bt-Semce Day
The May in-service
education program for
teachers which Warwick
School District had
scheduled for Monday, May
3 has been moved to Monday,
May 10. High school students
will be dismissed at 12:30
p.m., middle school
students, at 12:35 p.m., and
elementary students, at 1:10
p.m. There will be no af­ternoon
kindergarten classes
that day. .
Front Street, 5-Points
May Be Rebuilt in ’78
The notorious intersection of Front and Cedar Streets in
the north end of the borough, known as Five Points, may
be in for some long-needed changes.
Boro Council gave a tentative nod Tuesday night to an
$87,000 reconstruction project for Front Street, between
Broad and Cedar, and passed a motion to notify property
owners on Front Street that it intends to start the job in
1978, and that the property owners will be responsible for
paying the cost of their own curbing and sidewalk.
The cost estimate was compiled by Huth Engineers, and
does not include the costs that must be borne by individual
property owners or the cost of any new storm drainage
system at Front and Cedar.
Councilman indicated that by 1978 the overall cost to the
borough alone may be over the $100,000 mark.
A main concern, as pointed out by Huth Engineers, are
trees that protrude onto the road and damage curb and
sidewalk. Council will be faced with deciding the fate of
these trees.
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Boro to Put Up Matching
Funds lor Sertoma Park
A plan to build a pavilion and walkways through the
Locust Street Park this summer, presented by the Lititz
Sertoma Club to Boro Council Tuesday night, drew en­thusiastic
approval and an offer to match any money that
the club puts into the project with matching borough
funds, up to $2500.
Council also approved naming the park “Sertoma
Park.”
The park land is owned by the borough, but its upkeep
and improvements have been a project of the Sertoma
Club for a number of years. Club President, Harold
McKinney,, told Council that the Sertomans have a little
over $2,000 to spend on the project this year. The club
wants to build & 20 by 40 foot pavilion in an area behind the
pumping station, and put in asphalt walkways. As a long
range project, the club also wants to put foot bridges over
the stream, to give easy access to both sides of the park.
They anticipate the total project will cost about $3500,
not including trees and shrubbery they want to plant.
WhenTftdKinney
available to use on the project, Councilman Bill York,
commending the club on its willingness to put its own
funds into the park, suggested that $2500 now held in
escrow for parks be used as matching funds. This motion
passed unanimously.
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