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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 18 PAGES — No. 23
Golf Team
Re-instated
At Warwick The golf team has been re­instated
at Warwick High
School.
Warwick School Board
voted 6-0, with one ab­stention,
during a special
meeting Tuesday night to put
golf back into the athletic
program for the coming
school term, so long as the
cost does not exceed $1,000
and so long as the funds are
not taken from any
academic program.
The action was taken
swiftly, with little
discussion, and came as a
surprise to the approximate
20 spectators at the meeting.
In the past few months, the
Board had voted against the
program three times, each
time with split votes.
Wallace Hofferth, one of
the directors who had voted
in past meetings to eliminate
golf, had requested that the
matter be put on the Board’s
agenda for more discussion i
Tuesday night. It was
Hofferth who made the
motion to re-instate the
program, after telling the
Board that since last week’s
School Board meeting he had
changed his position and
decided this was not the time
to cut programs.
Hofferth said that he had
not been under pressure
from anyone, or received
any phone calls on the
matter during the past week,
but that he had “talked to
several people” and had
come to the conclusion that
the “timing of his thinking
was out of phase with the
modem world.”
Hofferth stated last week
that he had been using the
golf program as a “test
case” to see if an established
program could be
eliminated.
He told directors on
Tuesday that the decision to
drop golf had been “ap­propriate”
when originally
made — for economic
reasons and lack of an
available golf coach — but
that he had now “changed
his mind.”
Directors John Evans,
Ruth Husser, Richard
Mearig, Bill Owens, Wilson
Smith, and Hofferth all voted
to re-instate the program.
Director David Buckwalter,
who had voted for the
program three times
previously, ab sta in ed
Tuesday night, telling the
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Record Express later that he
felt “four votes (on an issue)
was too many.” He said he
was not opposed to golf — he
had voted for it three times
already — but that he did
object to the manner in
which the whole issue had
been handled.
Directors Raymond Groff
and Roy Yeager, who had
voted against the program in
earlier sessions, were absent
Tuesday night.
Following the vote,
Superintendent H. Dale
Winger commented on
statements in last week’s
Record Express and com­ments
made at last week’s
School Board meeting that a
golf coach’s salary was
about the same amount as
money allocated for an
engraved plaque for the
newly renovated Lititz
Elementary School, telling
the Board that any com­parison
of the two items was
irrelevant, because money
for the plaque is being taken
from a special construction
fund.
Director Bill Owens
retorted that it all was,
nevertheless, coming out of
the taxpayers’ pocket, one
way or the other, and
stressed that he had voted
against buying the plaque.
In further business the
Board:
- Hired George R. Ruhl,
Lititz R2, as a custodian at a
salary of $6,448.
- Rejected a request from
Henry H. Holt, III, Lititz R2,
that the district pay tran­sportation
costs for his son,
who attends the Penn­sylvania
School for the Deaf
in Philadelphia. The Board
stated they believed this was
the responsibility of the
Philadelphia school.
- Readmitted as a ninth
grade student Marshall
Sheaffer, who was expelled
last spring from the Middle
School and who has been
attending an after-school
program.
-Approved the following
benefits for full-time em­ployees
who are not mem­bers
of the collective
b a r g a i n i n g u n i t :
h o sp ita liz a tio n , m ajo r
medical and surgical
benefits, term life insurance
in the amount of $5,000;
continuation of other
benefits in effect during the
past school year.
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The Golden Years Home on Brubaker Valley
Road has been ordered vacated by the state
Department of Labor and Industry for failure
comply with fire and safety regulations.
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Bargaining Session Goes on for 7 Hours
Teachers, School Board Moving
Closer on Contract Settlement Warwick School Board and
teachers came “ pretty
close” to an agreement in a
late session Tuesday that ran
until 3:30 Wednesday
morning, according to Bill
Owens, chief negotiator for
the School Board.
Justice Simpkins Gets
*6,000 Pay Raise
D is tr ic t M a g is tr a te
Sharron Simpkins will be
getting a pay raise Sept. 13,
her salary increasing from
$12,184 to $18,277, according
to an announcement from
the Court of Common Pleas
Administrative Office.
Justice Simpkins will be
one of 20 district justices in
Lancaster County who will
be getting pay raises under
the Magisterial District
Reform Act (House Bill
1375), signed by the governor
July 13 and taking effect
Sept. 13.
Ron Reedy, court ad­ministrator,
explained that
district justices’ salaries are
currently computed by
adding the product of the
population in a justice’s
district times 40 cents to a
$6,000 base amount. The new
law ups the multiplier to 60
cents and the base figure to
$9,000.
’Bicen D a y s ' O p e n s
Tonight on M a in S t re e t
Lititz Bicentennial Days
opens today (Thursday) and
continues through Saturday
night, with food and game
stands, a rts and crafts
demonstrations, a hobby
show, a barter booth, and
continuous entertainment on
East Main Street and at the
Lititz Elementary School
gym and playground.
A special added attraction
will be two magic show
performances by Mike Buch,
son of Mrs. Robert Buch, 304
S. Cherry St., and the late
Mr. Buch, on Friday from
8:15-8:45 p.m. and Saturday
from 7-7:30 p.m. on the
Sturgis Lane patio.
The three days of events
will begin at 6 p.m. today and
Friday, and at noon on
Saturday.
Traffic Detours
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday,
August 25, (when stands are
being erected), the first
block of East Main Street
will be closed to traffic from
the east side of the Farmers
F irst Bank driveway to
Cedar Street.
Traffic will be permitted to
enter East Main Street and
make a left hand turn into
the bank drive for bank
business only. Signs will be
erected to this effect.
Because of the detour, no
parking will be allowed on
the west side of South Cedar
Street between Juniper Lane
and East Orange Street
(along the Lititz Elementary
School property).
Bus traffic will also be re­routed
off of the first block
of East Main Street.
These special regulations
will be in effect continuously
until late Saturday night,
Police Chief George Hicks
said.
The following events are
scheduled:T
hursday
(Continuous) — Food and
game stands, arts and
crafts demonstrations,
barter booth.
6 p.m. — Senior Citizens’
“Kitchenaires”
7 p.m. — Red Rose Bar­bershop
Chorus.
8 p.m. — Country Music with
Red Thomas, featuring
The Men of Note
Friday
(Continuous) — Food and
game stands, arts and
crafts, barter booth.
6-9 p.m. —■ Hobby and
Collection Show (Lititz
Elementary gym)
7 p.m. — Bicentennial Choir
singing old fashioned and
patriotic songs
9 p.m. — Community Square
Dance with Dave Kreiter
and the Swing Thrus - an
experienced couple will
dance with all par­ticipants.
Saturday
(Continuous) — Food and
game stands, arts and
crafts, barter booth
3:30 p.m. — Senior Citizens
Chorus
8 p.m. — Teen Dance with
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The main sources for the
increased salaries come
from steeper fines assessed
defendants found guilty in
criminal cases, and in­creased
fees and civil case
filing costs. No additional
state revenue sources need
to be instituted for these pay
raises, according to Gregory
A. Sahd, deputy court ad­ministrator
for the county
district justices.
“The District Justice is the
judge of a court which
functions at the earliest
stage of the judicial
process,” Sahd explained.
“However, traditionally, the
district court justice has
received one of the lowest
salaries of any officer within
the judicial system.”
He said the act has been
long overdue.
D i s t r i c t j u s t i c e s ’
jurisdiction or responsibility
to handle cases from
beginning to end has also
been expanded by House Bill
1375.
For example, they will be
able to exercise total
jurisdiction for most third
degree Criminal Code
misdemeanors, provided
certain criteria are met, and
all civil claims where the
sum demanded does not
exceed $2,000. These two
aspects of the new law are
expected to decrease the
Common Pleas Court case­load
by giving the District
Justice the authority to
dispose of such cases, where
before they could only be
settled in the Common Pleas
Court.
A n o th e r b a rg a in in g
session is scheduled for Sept.
2. Meanwhile, a special
School Board meeting has
been called for Wednesday
(Aug. 25) to discuss the
opening of schools in the
light of a still unsettled
contract.
The seven members of the
School Board who had at­tended
an earlier meeting
Tuesday night remained for
the bargaining session —
although all of them didn’t
last until 3:30, Owens said —
and a large segment of the
W a rw ic k E d u c a t io n
Association bargaining team
was on hand, with a group of
teachers waiting outside the
building, reportedly.
“There was a lot of give on
both sides,” Owens told the
Record Wednesday morning.
He said the Board had
agreed to sign a
memorandum of un­derstanding
pertaining to
preparation time for all
teachers, and allowance for
elementary teachers to leave
their classrooms when
specialists are with their
students. This memorandum
has been in effect the past
two years, but the Board
wanted to eliminate it in a
new contract.
The Board also agreed to
establish a seven hour work
day for secondary teachers
and a six and three-quarter
hour work day for
elementary teachers, with
the stipulation that a t­tendance
at faculty
meetings, parent con­ferences,
etc., would be over
and above this stipulated
work day. Secondary
teachers have been working
a six and a half hour day and
elementary teachers, a six
and one-quarter hour day.
The newly stipulated work
day would include the 15
minutes before and after the
student day that the Board
wants teachers in the school
building and available to
students.
The Board agreed to leave
in the contract clauses
requiring the school district
to bring in substitute
teachers in a regular
teacher’s absence, and
permitting accumulation of
personal days for teachers.
The Board had wanted to
delete these clauses and the
WEA called this “contract
stripping.”
The Board’s demand for
cafeteria monitoring duty by
teachers was dropped last
June.
The main hangup centers
around the Board’s attempts
to establish a maximum
salary for teachers in the
bachelor degree category,
Owens said.
Floyd Montgomery from
the Pennsylvania State
Education Association, who
has been negotiating for the
WEA, said Wednesday
morning he was disap­pointed
that the contract
didn’t get settled Tuesday
night, but that he thinks both
sides are “much closer”
now, and he hopes to “get the
thing locked up on Sept. 2.”
He agreed there was “a lot
of movement” on both sides,
but declined to comment on
specific issues, stating that
“everything is at a critical
stage right now.”
State Orders
Golden Years
Home Closed By Peggy Frailey
The Golden Years Home,
boarding house facility on
Brubaker Valley Road, has
been ordered closed by the
Department of Labor and
Industry because of failure
to comply with state fire and
safety regulations.
J. W. Dwyer, director of
the state Bureau of Oc­cupational
and Institutional
Safety, told the Record this
week that the facilities there
are a “fire hazard,” par­ticularly
for 14 residents
housed in a basement room
and an attic room.
He said vacate signs were
posted on the home last
Thursday and a court order
seeking an injunction was
filed with Commonwealth
Court in Harrisburg the
following day.
A hearing will be
scheduled and the owners
will have the option to appeal
the Labor and Industry
ruling, Dwyer said. If the
court upholds the vacate
order, Golden Years will be
the first boarding house in
Lancaster County to be
closed down by the state. It
also will mean that the
residents will have to be re­located
in foster homes or
other boarding homes.
The owners of the home,
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin
Burkholder, are away on
vacation and the home is
being operated in their
absence by their son and
d a u g h te r -in -law . The
younger Mrs. Burkholder
refused to discuss the matter
with the Record this week,
other than to confirm that
the state had ordered the
facility vacated.
Dwyer said his depart­ment
has been trying to get
the home to comply with
state regulations on building
structure since 1973.
Among the violations he
cited were:
- The housing of nine
people in the second floor, or
attic, of one of the buildings,
with exiting by one stair­way;
- The housing of five
people in the basement of
another building, where they
must go through two storage
rooms to get outside;
- Extremely heavy fire
load stored in the basement;
- All frame buildings, with
no separation between the
two existing buildings,
(masonry exteriors are
required);
- No certification of flame
resistant drapes, curtains,
etc.;
- No Class A fire alarm
system;
- Improper ceilings in
boiler and heating rooms;
- No latches on kitchen and
stairway doors;
-Storage and work areas
have exposed joists and are
not fire retardant;
- No exit signs;
- Walls of sleeping quar­ters
are not one-hour fire
resistant.
Dwyer also said that no
plans for the buildings had
ever been submitted, even
though plans had been called
for.
He said that the facility
was originally used as a
nursing home (Elmdale
Nursing Home) by previous
owners. When the
Burkholders applied to his
department for a license in
1973, they were turned down,
he said, and although his
department has been trying
to get the home to comply
with state regulations since
that time, nothing has been
done, he said.
Approximately 35 persons
live at the home, a high
percentage of whom have
been hospitalized for mental
illness or mental re ta r­dation.
A majority of the
residents are Social Security
or public assistance clients,
whose welfare is ultimately
the responsibility of the state
Welfare Department. This
department will have to re­locate
the residents if the
home is closed.
The home gets no direct
funding from the county or
state. The residents
reportedly pay for room and
board out of their social
security or public assistance
checks. A few are private
paying residents.
A team from the county’s
Welfare offices did an
evaluation study of the home
on June 21, but a spokesman
from this department told
the Record that the county
has not been informed by the
Department of Labor and
Industry that it had closed
the home, and declined to
have results of the
evaluation published.
No agency in Penn­sylvania
has jurisdiction
over programs, services,
food, etc. on boarding
homes, and there are no
standardization policies for
boarding homes in this state,
although some bills for this
have been before the state
legislature for several years,
with no action taken on
them, the spokesman said.
Boarding homes are not
covered by the stan­dardization
policies for
nursing homes.
At present, the Depart­ment
of Labor and Industry
has the only binding
regulations on boarding
homes, and these are con­cerned
only with building
structure, and not services
and programs.
Lititz Police News
Tents Stolen from Boy Scout Troop 142
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This Thurs.,
Fri. & Sat.
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For Complete
Details
Thieves took off with four
of Boy Scout Troop 142’s
seven-foot tents sometime
between Aug. 16 and 17 after
breaking into a storage
building at St. James
Catholic Church, Front and
Water Streets.
The tents are 7x7x6 foot in
size, two are blue, two,
green, and “ Troop 142,
Lititz, Pa.” is printed on
each of them. Their total
value is $360.
Thieves also got away with
two 10-speed boys bikes
parked in front of the Helter
residence at 53 Front St.
Monday night. One bike
belonged to David Helter,
same address, and was a
white Peugeot, valued at
$275; the other belonged to
Charles Lefever, 143 Owl Hill
Rd., and was a light blue
World Traveler, valued at
$225.
A Lititz youth was arrested
for stealing a battery Aug. 18
after a police officer who
was assisting him get a car
h e a d l i g h t s w o rk in g
recognized the battery as
one reported stolen.
Charged with theft was
Lonnie Lehman, 18, 36 W.
Main St.
Police said Dave Oden-walt,
1031 N. Lime St.,
Lancaster, had reported that
his battery was stolen bet­ween
4 p.m. and midnight on
Aug. 18 while his car was
parked in the Travis Mills
parking lot.
At 11:30 p.m. that night,
Officer Ronald Sandhaus
stopped Lehman’s vehicle
near the Middle School
because its headlights were
not working. When Sandhaus
attempted to help get the
lights working, he saw that
the battery cables were loose
and that the battery fit the
description of the stolen one.
Lehman was prosecuted
by Assistant Chief Jim Fritz.
Another theft was reported
from the Travis Mills
parking lot Aug. 18 between 9
p.m. and midnight by Carl
Miller, Sheafferstown, who
told police that about half a
tank of gasoline was stolen
from his parked vehicle.
At midnight that same
night, Sharon L. Constein,
233 Ruby St., Lancaster,
reported that nine 8-track
tapes, valued at $75, were
stolen from the back seat of
her car while it was parked
at the rear of the Parkview
Hotel.
Two thefts were reported
from the Warner-Lambert
parking lot Aug. 20 between 7
a.m. and 3:50 p.m.
Chester W. Tobias, Jr.,
1026 Weiss Ave., Lebanon,
reported that an FM radio
converter mounted on the
dash of his car, valued at $30,
was taken.
Robert Charles Bair, III,
159 N. Locust St., reported
that a Genie garage door
opener, valued at $20, was
stolen from his car while it
was parked there.
Leo Ogden, 153 E. Main
St., reported that sometime
before Aug. 17 the leather
shop in his home was broken
into and $63.70 was stolen.
Curfew Violations
Police report that a boy
and a girl, whose names
were not released, were
picked up for curfew
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