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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 2 4 P AG E S— No. 8
Special Public Meeting May 19
$51/2 Million
School Budget
To Be Unveiled
A proposed $5% million
budget for Warwick School
District will be presented to
the public in a special
meeting Wednesday, May 19
at 7:30 p.m. in the Middle
School auditorium.
This will be the only
special public session which
the School Board will con­duct
to introduce and explain
the budget to area residents
and taxpayers.
In the last two years, three
special sessions a year were
held each spring in various
schools. Because attendance
at these was sparce, the
Board will consolidate the
meetings into one session.
The proposed budget,
which will be adopted as a
tentative budget at the
r e g u la r * School Board
meeting Tuesday night, is a
total increase of $566,674
over the current budget. This
amounts to an 11.4 percent
increase.
The largest single Increase
is for teachers salaries,
Superintendent H. Dale
Winger said, declining to say
the amount that the Board
anticipates from a pending
collective bargaining set­tlement.
Another big Item is $90,000
additional money to be
applied to the d istric t’s
debt service next year. The
district has sold the Doster
,Tra# on Woodcrest Avenue
tor this amount, and the
money must be applied
either to capital ex­penditures
or debt service.
Although included in the
budget as an expense, it will
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Women’s 10,11
be offset by the sale of the
property.
The budget is up another
$57,000 for salaries for an
additional high school
guidance counselor and five
new positions on the
elementary teaching staff.
School districts are now
required to pay into the
retirement funds of all part-time
employees. This will
mean a $30,000 increase in
the budget.
Of the total budget in­crease,
9.2 percent will be for
increases in costs at vo-tech
schools, Intermediate-Unit
13 classes, transportation,
athletics, and instructional
materials.
The district will lose ap­proximately
$90,000 from the
real estate transfer taxes
that Warwick has
relinquished to the option of
municipalities in the district.
Warwick Township and
Lititz Borough have
delivered letters of intent to
collect this tax. Elizabeth
Township already takes Vfe
percent of this tax, but has
not informed the district
whether it will take the other
half.
Another $75,060 will be ink
next year in state reim­bursement,
because the
district has a lower aid ratio
than last year. This is
determined on the basis of
real estate value as the value
increases in the district, the
state aid decreases.
In addition to adopting a
tentative budget Tuesday
night, the School Board will
be electing a treasurer and
auditor, adopting a vo-tech
budget, of which Warwick’s
share will amount to
$204,539, and considering an
increase in ticket prices for
sports events.
Warwick Twp.,
Lititz to Levy
Transfer Tax
T h e t r io a b o v e s p e n t a d a y re c e n tly c le a n in g a
c a tc h o f 10,000 sm e lts to fre e z e fo r a d in n e r a t th e
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a n d h is g a n g h o p e d to be o n h a n d to h e lp c a tc h th e
s lip p e r y c r it te r s , th e fis h s ta r te d “ r u n n in g ” b e fo re
th e y w e re e x p e c te d . So E lm e r h a d to be c o n te n t
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w ith ju s t c le a n in g th em th is y e a r. H e lp in g h im a re
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b r in g b a c k th e fis h in b u s h e l b a s k e ts , a n d Ray
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“ D u tc h m e n ” a ro u n d th is a re a w o n 't e a t th e fis h
u n le s s th e ir h e a d s h a v e b e e n rem o v e d , s a id E lm e r.
So . . . o ff w ith th e ir he a d s , y o u n g b u s in e s sm e n !
Warwick Musical Is Smash Hit
Warwick’s production last weekend of “Sound of
Music,” still getting rave notices from the community,
will go down in local history as one of the finest produc­tions
staged here.
The show played to a packed house Friday night and a
near capacity crowd Saturday. Nearly 700 persons at­tended
a special matinee performance Sunday, scheduled
the week before the show opened because of the great
amount of interest and demand for tickets.
The student cast, guided by director Faye Meier, vocal
director June Lantz, and orchestra director Ralph Leh­man,
carried this show far beyond the status of a “school
musical.”
The students’ stage presence and grasp of their roles,
and the marvelous choral and instrumental ac­complishments
of the music department were a tribute to
both the fine talent of these students and the excellent
direction they received.
The stage settings and costumes, made mostly by
Warwick teachers and friends, were as fine as any we
have seen on even the professional stage.
The musical had been headed for the scrap pile just six
weeks ago, for lack of a coordinator, but was 'salvaged
when Faye Meier volunteered to direct it. In spite of a
hasty rehearsal schedule, and bouts with flu and measles
throughout the cast, the students and their directors came
up with a production that thrilled the entire community
with its beauty.
Warwick Screening Students for Lice
A district-wide screening program for lice is in effect in
Warwick School District as a preventive measure against
a problem that has hit schools throughout northern
Lancaster County.
Warwick superintendent, H. Dale Winger, said this
week that not more than two to four students in a school
are being sent home to their family physicians with a lice
problem — adding that even some of these are
questionable cases — and that lice are “not a significant
problem” at this time in the district.
Warwick did have a problem two weeks before Easter,
he noted, when a total of about 35 students were sent home
from school with what was identified or suspected to be
lice.M
eanwhile the nursing staff in the district, working as a
team, has been setting up stations in gymnasiums and all­purpose
rooms in the various schools to screen students.
“This is purely a preventive measure, since there
seems to be a problem with lice throughout the area,” Dr.
Winger said.
Lititz Borough and War­wick
Township have stated
definitely they will levy and
collect a 1 percent transfer
tax on real estate in their
municipalities as of June 30.
The tax has been collected
by Warwick School District
in the past, except for Vz
percent collected by
Elizabeth Township for the
past two years. However, the
school district passed a
resolution Monday night to
release the full 1 percent to
the municipalities.
Superintendent H. Dale
Winger said Wednesday he
has had no notice from
Elizabeth Township whether
or not they plan to take any
of the transfer tax again next
year. Deadline for filing this
notice is May 15.
If Elizabeth follows the
other two municipalities in
the district and takes the tax,
it will mean a $90,000 loss to
the school district.
However, the move to take
the transfer tax was made by
the Warwick Township and
the borough in lieu of
collecting a portion of the
earned income tax which the
school district now collects.
Taking the wage tax would
have meant a significantly
larger loss to the school
district, and a subsequently
larger increase in school
taxes in all municipalities.
“ I t ’s an equitable set­tlement,”
Dr. Winger said
after receiving letters of
intent from the borough and
Warwick Township this
week.
The loss in transfer tax to
the district will amount to
about 4.4 mills on real estate,
he said. The full loss of Vz
percent of the wage tax
would have meant a loss of
$350,000 to the district, and
the full loss of V* percent of
the wage tax would have
meant a loss of $185,000 to the
district, he said.
Referring to the $90,000 the
district will lose from the
transfer tax, he said, “We
can live with this and
recover better from it.”
Warwick Township's
decision to take the transfer
tax was a measure designed
to bring in extra revenue
needed without resorting to
taking a share of the wage
tax from the school district.
The township is faced with
pending installation of a
sewer system, a request for
financial help from
Rothsville Fire Company,
and general increased costs.
The township’s tax rate of
five mills is not sufficient to
meet these, needs, super­visors
said.
Lititz Boro Councilmen
originally were divided over
whether or not to take a
share of the wage tax if
Warwick Township went that
route, because of the
financial hardship it would
be to the school district.
However, when the township
decided on the transfer tax,
and the school district said it
would relinquish this tax to
the municipalities, the
borough voted to levy this
tax, also.
The full 1 percent of the
transfer tax will mean ap­proximately
$43,000 for
Warwick Township and
approximately $40,000 for
Lititz Borough. Elizabeth
Township now collects $5,000
in the Vz percent it levies.
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Building a plant north of
town and putting in a large
parking area has paid off in
more ways than one for
Wagaman Brothers printing.
Wagaman Brothers had
done work for “TV Guide”
magazine’s advertising
department several years
ago but, according to Joseph
Z a b in s k i, p u r ch a s in g
supervisor for the magazine,
getting to Lititz by car from
his home base in Radnor was-time
consuming and a “real
hassle.”
Not so any more. Zabinski
and artist-designer Fred
Rosato arrived at
Wagaman’s by helicopter
Tuesday morning to check
out some work the local firm
is doing for TV Guide. The
compact little a ircra ft,
known as a “jet ranger,” left
Radnor at 9 a.m., put down
in a comer of Wagaman’s
parking lot just after 9:30,
and was back in Radnor by
11 a.m. In between, the two
TV Guide men met with
Wagaman officials, looked
over the job the printing firm
is doing for them, and even
had time for coffee and
donuts at the plant.
The jo b—a mitten-shaped
insert for “TV Guide” that
compares the magazine’s
advertising clout with that of
other magazines — was the
first Wagamans has done for
the magazine since the plant
was built on Route 501.
“We always liked the work
Wagamans does,” Zabinski
explained as he was getting
ready to board the helicopter
for the flight back to Radnor.
But, as in any business, time
is money, and driving to
Lititz was a costly
proposition for his depart­ment.
Expansion Brings Old Customer
Back to Local Printing Company
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“ je t ra n g e r,” o n th e p a rk in g lo t o f W a g am a n
B ro th e rs , R o u te 5 0 1 n o r th , w a s a b ig a d v a n ta g e to
tw o e x e c u tiv e s fro m T V G u id e m a g a z in e T u e s d a y
m o rn in g , w h o w e re a t th e L ititz p la n t to lo o k o v e r a
jo b th e lo c a l p r in t in g f irm is d o in g fo r th e m a g a z in e .
H a r r y W a g am a n (s e c o n d from r ig h t ) says g o o d b y e
Lltltt Siooid IxptMf Photo
to J o s e p h Z a b in s k i (c e n te r ) , p u rc h a s in g s u p e r ­v
is o r fo r th e magazine, F re d R o s a to ( le f t ) , a r t is t -
d e s ig n e r, a n d C liff M u rra y ( r ig h t ) , W a g am a n sales
re p re s e n ta tiv e in th e P h ila d e lp h ia a re a , b e fo re th e
th re e b o a rd e d th e p la n e fo r a r e tu r n f lig h t to TV
G u id e 's h om e o ffic e In Radnor.
Being able to set a
helicopter down right outside
Wagamans back door means
that he and his staff can now
accomplish in a few hours a
task that used to eat up an
entire day. They rent the
craft, hire the pilot, and just
sit back and enjoy the view
between destinations.
The take-off was an in­teresting
spectacle for
Wagaman employees and
attendants at the Texaco
station next door, who don’t
see a helicopter in their back
yard every day. Many -were
lined up on the loading
platform to watch as Harry
Wagaman, president, and
Ray Shaub from Wagamans
said goodbye to their
visitors.
“Good we built the parking
commented. “This is a great
thing.” He had a bit of a
gleam in his eye when he
said it. Could be we’ll be
seeing a lot more of the
whirleybirds around town.