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T H E R E S S S E R t ' IMG T H E U i R U I C K A R E A E O R M E A R I , i t C E M A R Y lOOth Year ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1877. AS THE SUNBEAM I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Thursday, January 20,1977 15 CENTS A COPY; $5.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 PAGES—No. 23 Warwick High School hosted visitors from all over the world during AFS (American Field Service) weekend last Friday and Saturday, sponsored by Warwick's Student Council and the local AFS Chapter. The visitors and their hosts, shown at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Smith, 506 Robin Rd., were (clockwise, beginning with the girl wearing glasses in left foreground of picture) Pam Smith, Lorena Loschi from Italy, Shelia Drewen, Lars Schultz from Sweden, Wendy Krushinski, Bill Hadded, Keith Buchbaum, Debbie Chappell, Melana Morant from Bolivia, Steve Palkovic, Wendy Teaman, Lenise Menezes from Brazil, Tom Gibbet, Patti Snavely, Ljubica Rajkovic from Yugoslavia, Jolande Bensink from the Netherlands, Linda Smith, Gary Derek, and Cari Jo Cavalcante. See Story on Page 17 Hearing Set Tuesday About Boro Employees Joining Union An important step in attempts of Lititz’ public works crew to be represented in negotiations by the Teamsters Union will be taken at a hearing before the state Labor Relations Board Tuesday at lb: 30 a.m. at the Lititz Rec Center, second floor. The Labor Board will determine at the hearing whether or not a petition submitted by the Teamsters, to represent the local workers, is valid and should proceed to an election. If the Board permits an election, then a majority vote of the workers involved will determine whether or not Local 777 of the Teamsters will be recognized as the official bargaining unit for the borough employees. Under Act 195 (Public Employees Bargaining Act), an election can be held if: 1. Thirty percent of the employees who want to be represented have petitioned the Labor Board, or 2. If the municipality agrees to recognize the Teamsters as the bargaining unit. So far, the borough shows no inclination to recognize the Teamsters in this capacity, and are, in fact, opposing the affiliation of its employees with the Teamsters Union. According to Harry Himelwright, business representative from Local 777 in Lancaster, some members of the local works department have already joined the union, which is nearly the largest labor organization in the country. He said that the union had asked the borough to enter a joint election request with its works crew, in which the borough and its employees would request the Labor Board to schedule an election on whether or not to join the union, but that the borough had responded only “No comment.” Under these conditions, Himelwright explained, the next step is the hearing before the Labor Board. A l t h o u g h n e i t h e r Himelwright nor members of the works crew will comment on specific grievances, the works crew reportedly has “lost confidence” that the borough’s personnel policy will grant them job security. The controversy involves only members of the street department and the sewer and water department. It does not involve the police, the borough manager, or clerical employees. There is also a question about which of the borough employees are eligible to belong to the union. “First-l e v e l s u p e r v i s o r s , ” described by Himelwright as ■ those with the right to hire or fire, are not eligible. The Labor Board is expected to decide whether assistant supervisors of the various departments are eligible for union membership. If the Labor Board rules that an election may be held, and if 30 percent or more of the employees vote for union representation, it would be the first actual unionization of municipal employees in the Warwick area. THIS WEEKEND - 3 Big Days To Save DURING LITITZ RED TAG DAYS THURS., FRI., SAT. - JAN. 20, 21 & 22 ★ SAVINGS THROUGHOUT LITITZ AREA STORES ★ TWO HOUR FREE PARKING ALL THREE DAYS ★ MANY LITITZ STORES OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS ★ REGISTER FOR '150 GIVEAWAY RULES FOR REGISTRATION 1. Register your name at any participating merchant listed below. No purchase necessary. 2. Contest open to all ages; persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult to register. 3. Prizes will be awarded as follows: $100 Lititz Shopping Dollars first prize; 2nd prize: $25 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 3rd and 4th prizes: $10 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 5th prize: $5 Lititz Shopping Dollars. 4. Contest closes at 5 P.M. Saturday, Jan. 22. Winners will be selected at random from those who register. R E G I S T E R A T T H E S E Benner's Pharmacy Bingeman’s Clothing Store Bingeman’s Restaurant Bob’s Save Rite The Carpet Shop Chicken Lickin Restaurant Commonwealth National Bank The Donut Shop Dori Mae's Dress Shop Farmer’s First Bank First Federal Savings & Loan D. E. Furlow 5 & 10 Geib’s Stationery General Sutter Inn The Gladell Shop Glassmyer’s Hess Men’s Wear Jeanne’s Turquoise Nook Klotz Kleners Kreider Hardware Co. r iN G M E R C H A N T S Lads & Lassies Children’s Apparel Lippart's of Lititz Lititz Book Store Lititz Paint Shoppe Lititz Record Express Lititz Sewing Center Lititz Sports Center Long & Bomberger Home Center McElroy Pharmacy Miller’s Furniture Store The Pewter Mug Pots & Knots Shoes 'n Things Spacht's Furniture Store Stauffer's of Kissel Hill Travis Mills Fabric Outlet Trudi K Shop Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet Woodstream Factory Outlet ASSOCIATION THE LITITZ RETAILERS ASSOCIATION URGES YOU TO: • SAVE TIME • SAVE GAS • SAVE MONEY SHOP LITITZ FIRST School Board Axes Winger in 6-3 Vote against Contract By Peggy Frailey Warwick School Board voted 6-3 Tuesday night against renewing a contract for Superintendent of Schools, H. Dale Winger, and set up a special committee to select a replacement for this top job in the school district. Earlier in the meeting, the Board had referred to its attorney a request from Dr. Winger for a one-year sabbatical leave of absence for the 1977-78 school year to take additional study in school administration. Although Dr. Winger made no public comment when the vote on his contract was taken, he told the Record after the meeting that the Board’s action “ jeopardized” his request for a sabbatical, and that he intended to see his lawyer first thing Wednesday morning to take legal recourse to get it (the sabbatical). He said he would sue the School Board if he had to to get the leave. According to Board president, Bill Owens, Winger is probably eligible for the leave, and probably will be given it. He said that the Board had had only one day to consider Dr. Winger’s request, and had treated it strictly as a personnel matter in referring it to legal counsel. Earlier in the meeting, Winger himself had told the Board he himsélf had been “sitting on” a similar request for a sabbatical from teacher David Remley since Nov. 9. Under state law, a superintendent is eligible for sabbatical leave after 10 years in the state and five years in a district. The superintendent has to agree, under law, to return to the district for one year after the leave, unless the School Board waives this requirement. Complications may arise from another section of the school code that says the Board may waive the requirement “upon completion of the sabbatical.” Winger told the Board Tuesday that he would be willing to return to the district for a year after his leave, if the Board so desired. Winger’s current contract expires June 30. He is now completing his eighth year as superintendent of the district. His original contract was a five-year one, which was renewed for three years in 1974 amidst much controversy and in the face of a “vote of no confidence” by Warwick teachers. Renewal of the current contract has also been a controversial subject for the past year. While it has not triggered the publicity of the 1974 renewal, the School Board has held numerous S:; ^ ' ✓ Dr. H. Dale Winger discussions on it among themselves, with Dr. Winger, and also with members of the community. One of the first duties assigned to Bill Owens when he took over as new School Board president last month was a directive from the Board to inform Dr. Winger that a majority of the Board was opposed to renewing his contract. Owens informed Winger of this in the' school district office on Dec. 23, explaining that the Board wished to give Winger as much time as possible to make any personal decisions before the actual contract-voting time arrived. Winger would have had the option of resigning before the vote for renewal came up at the January meeting. He did not do this, however, and his request for j sabbatical leave came as a ■surprise to many, including some School Board members. According to Owens, Winger had handed him the letter requesting the sabbatical on Monday night prior to a Board committee meeting, just one night before the Board’s official meeting to vote on Winger’s qt rac t . Owens said the letter was dated Jan. 14. Those members of the Board who had not attended the committee meeting did not know of the letter until shortly before Tuesday night’s official meeting. Some contend that the request for a sabbatical was a ploy on the part of the superintendent to put the Board in a bind. State law requires that a superintendent be given at least 150 days notice of whether or not his contract will be renewed, and that a vote must be taken at a public meeting. If no such action is taken by a School Board, the s u p e r i n t e n d e n t i s automatically given a new {Continued on Page 14j Judge Orders Sharron Simpkins to Stop Writing Newspaper Column By Peggy Frailey Judge W. Hensel Brown, president-judge of Lancaster County Court, this week ordered Warwick area’s District Magistrate, Sharron Simpkins, to stop writing a newspaper column that appeared for the first time in last week’s issue of the Lititz Record Express. The Record first learned of the order when it received a letter from Justice Simpkins stating: “Due to circumstances beyond the control of Justice Simpkins and the publishers of the Record Express, the article ’From The Magistrate’s Desk’ will not be published as intended. We are not at liberty at this time to divulge the reason for dropping the article, but it is by no means the fault of Justice Simpkins or this newspaper.” Contacted by the Record, Greg Sahd, deputy court administrator, said that he had notified Justice Simpkins of the judicial order to stop writing the column. He said that Judge Brown’s reasons were that Justice Simpkins was sitting in a judicial capacity and should refrain from commenting on any real or fictitious judicial matters. “Any advise she could give would border on legal advice and this must come from attorneys,” Sahd said. Sahd said that when district magistrates get any requests for information, they should be told to ask an attorney, and if an individual cannot do this, he or she should be referred to the court administrator’s office. The newspaper column was initiated as an In This Issue Business Directory 20 Church News 18 Classified Ads 22, 23 Editorial Page 4 Sports Section 6, 7 Women’s 12 educational question and answer-type article to inform the public about services available from the district magistrate’s office, and to answer questions from the public on such things as the motor vehicle code, how to collect on a bad check, etc. It was scheduled to appear every few weeks in the Record. Justice Simpkins said that she and other district magistrates had been told at various seminars to try to educate the public about the office of district magistrate by giving talks at club meetings, schools, etc., and that she had considered the newspaper column one way of doing this. Sahd, however, said that he had received no such instructions when he took a basic district magistrate’s course. The newspaper column was brought to Judge Brown’s attention by Court Administrator Ronald Reedy, who lives in Lititz, and who directed his deputy, Sahd, to show the column to the judge. Reedy told the Record that Justice Simpkins was “not in the position to discuss rules and regulations,” that this was an “ administrative function.” He said that it was really a function of the court administrator’s office to answer questions from the public, but added that rather than deluge his office with phone calls, people with questions about law should contact their legislators, who, he said, “make the laws.” “A magistrate can give direction, but not legal advice,” Reedy said. Asked to comment on Judge Brown’s order, Justice Simpkins replied, “I feel that the people elected me, and I’m here to help them solve problems on a grassroots level.” “I think the column is a good way to answer common questions of the public,” she said, adding that she had stated in her initial column that she would not comment an specific cases or answer Over $10 million worth of property involved in fire within the borough was saved during 1976, Lititz Fire Company reports, a staggering increase over the $407,785 reported saved from fire damage in 1975. The high potential fire loss figure was due primarily to three factory fires last year, the largest one at Travis Mills. As estimated $10,574,050 worth of property involved in fire within the borough was saved during 1976. Property outside the borough limits reported saved from fire damage is estimated at $62,070, as compared with $88,050 worth of property saved outside the borough in 1975. However, fire loss in the district served by Lititz Fire Company increased in 1976 over the previous year. An estimated $83,850 worth of property was lost to fire damage in the borough during 1976, as compared with $5,076 loss reported in 1975. Fire loss outside the borough limits during 1976 is estimated at $29,720, as compared with the $5,730 worth of loss outside the borough reported in 1975. This sets the total fire loss in the district served by the Lititz Fire Company at $113,570 during 1976, an increase over the total $10,806 fire damage loss reported for 1975. questions that should be taken to an attorney. “But, according to the court administrator’s office, lay judges are not allowed to answer questions,” she said. Fire calls answered by Lititz Fire Company in 1976 totaled 98, 47 of them within the borough and 51 outside the borough limits. This was an increase over the 76 calls answered in 1975. The calls responded to included three factory fires, one business, five trash fires, seven grass fires, 10 house fires involving chimneys, appliances, and electrical equipment, 11 calls involving electrical wires or transformers, 11 washdowns or standbys at traffic accidents, 13 car or truck fires, and two bam fires. They also included a basement wall cave-in, a house trailer fire, a call involving swimming pool chemicals, a lawn mower fire, a farm tractor fire, a trucking terminal fire, and a fire at the local police station. Fourteen of the calls were either false alarms or malfunctioning alarm systems, and six were standbys for other fire stations. In all, firemen logged 71 hours of service, traveled 208 miles, and reported a total of 1,808 men answering calls. - The fire company used 3,935 feet of booster hose during 1976,1,900 feet of 24i>- inch hose, 1175 feet of 24 2 - inch hose, 6,150 feet of three-inch hose, 62 pounds of dry chemicals, and raised 124 feet of ladders. Over MO Million Potential Fire Damage Prevented By Fire Company in 1976
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1977-01-20 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
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Date | 1977-01-20 |
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Full Text | T H E R E S S S E R t ' IMG T H E U i R U I C K A R E A E O R M E A R I , i t C E M A R Y lOOth Year ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1877. AS THE SUNBEAM I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Thursday, January 20,1977 15 CENTS A COPY; $5.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 PAGES—No. 23 Warwick High School hosted visitors from all over the world during AFS (American Field Service) weekend last Friday and Saturday, sponsored by Warwick's Student Council and the local AFS Chapter. The visitors and their hosts, shown at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Smith, 506 Robin Rd., were (clockwise, beginning with the girl wearing glasses in left foreground of picture) Pam Smith, Lorena Loschi from Italy, Shelia Drewen, Lars Schultz from Sweden, Wendy Krushinski, Bill Hadded, Keith Buchbaum, Debbie Chappell, Melana Morant from Bolivia, Steve Palkovic, Wendy Teaman, Lenise Menezes from Brazil, Tom Gibbet, Patti Snavely, Ljubica Rajkovic from Yugoslavia, Jolande Bensink from the Netherlands, Linda Smith, Gary Derek, and Cari Jo Cavalcante. See Story on Page 17 Hearing Set Tuesday About Boro Employees Joining Union An important step in attempts of Lititz’ public works crew to be represented in negotiations by the Teamsters Union will be taken at a hearing before the state Labor Relations Board Tuesday at lb: 30 a.m. at the Lititz Rec Center, second floor. The Labor Board will determine at the hearing whether or not a petition submitted by the Teamsters, to represent the local workers, is valid and should proceed to an election. If the Board permits an election, then a majority vote of the workers involved will determine whether or not Local 777 of the Teamsters will be recognized as the official bargaining unit for the borough employees. Under Act 195 (Public Employees Bargaining Act), an election can be held if: 1. Thirty percent of the employees who want to be represented have petitioned the Labor Board, or 2. If the municipality agrees to recognize the Teamsters as the bargaining unit. So far, the borough shows no inclination to recognize the Teamsters in this capacity, and are, in fact, opposing the affiliation of its employees with the Teamsters Union. According to Harry Himelwright, business representative from Local 777 in Lancaster, some members of the local works department have already joined the union, which is nearly the largest labor organization in the country. He said that the union had asked the borough to enter a joint election request with its works crew, in which the borough and its employees would request the Labor Board to schedule an election on whether or not to join the union, but that the borough had responded only “No comment.” Under these conditions, Himelwright explained, the next step is the hearing before the Labor Board. A l t h o u g h n e i t h e r Himelwright nor members of the works crew will comment on specific grievances, the works crew reportedly has “lost confidence” that the borough’s personnel policy will grant them job security. The controversy involves only members of the street department and the sewer and water department. It does not involve the police, the borough manager, or clerical employees. There is also a question about which of the borough employees are eligible to belong to the union. “First-l e v e l s u p e r v i s o r s , ” described by Himelwright as ■ those with the right to hire or fire, are not eligible. The Labor Board is expected to decide whether assistant supervisors of the various departments are eligible for union membership. If the Labor Board rules that an election may be held, and if 30 percent or more of the employees vote for union representation, it would be the first actual unionization of municipal employees in the Warwick area. THIS WEEKEND - 3 Big Days To Save DURING LITITZ RED TAG DAYS THURS., FRI., SAT. - JAN. 20, 21 & 22 ★ SAVINGS THROUGHOUT LITITZ AREA STORES ★ TWO HOUR FREE PARKING ALL THREE DAYS ★ MANY LITITZ STORES OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS ★ REGISTER FOR '150 GIVEAWAY RULES FOR REGISTRATION 1. Register your name at any participating merchant listed below. No purchase necessary. 2. Contest open to all ages; persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult to register. 3. Prizes will be awarded as follows: $100 Lititz Shopping Dollars first prize; 2nd prize: $25 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 3rd and 4th prizes: $10 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 5th prize: $5 Lititz Shopping Dollars. 4. Contest closes at 5 P.M. Saturday, Jan. 22. Winners will be selected at random from those who register. R E G I S T E R A T T H E S E Benner's Pharmacy Bingeman’s Clothing Store Bingeman’s Restaurant Bob’s Save Rite The Carpet Shop Chicken Lickin Restaurant Commonwealth National Bank The Donut Shop Dori Mae's Dress Shop Farmer’s First Bank First Federal Savings & Loan D. E. Furlow 5 & 10 Geib’s Stationery General Sutter Inn The Gladell Shop Glassmyer’s Hess Men’s Wear Jeanne’s Turquoise Nook Klotz Kleners Kreider Hardware Co. r iN G M E R C H A N T S Lads & Lassies Children’s Apparel Lippart's of Lititz Lititz Book Store Lititz Paint Shoppe Lititz Record Express Lititz Sewing Center Lititz Sports Center Long & Bomberger Home Center McElroy Pharmacy Miller’s Furniture Store The Pewter Mug Pots & Knots Shoes 'n Things Spacht's Furniture Store Stauffer's of Kissel Hill Travis Mills Fabric Outlet Trudi K Shop Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet Woodstream Factory Outlet ASSOCIATION THE LITITZ RETAILERS ASSOCIATION URGES YOU TO: • SAVE TIME • SAVE GAS • SAVE MONEY SHOP LITITZ FIRST School Board Axes Winger in 6-3 Vote against Contract By Peggy Frailey Warwick School Board voted 6-3 Tuesday night against renewing a contract for Superintendent of Schools, H. Dale Winger, and set up a special committee to select a replacement for this top job in the school district. Earlier in the meeting, the Board had referred to its attorney a request from Dr. Winger for a one-year sabbatical leave of absence for the 1977-78 school year to take additional study in school administration. Although Dr. Winger made no public comment when the vote on his contract was taken, he told the Record after the meeting that the Board’s action “ jeopardized” his request for a sabbatical, and that he intended to see his lawyer first thing Wednesday morning to take legal recourse to get it (the sabbatical). He said he would sue the School Board if he had to to get the leave. According to Board president, Bill Owens, Winger is probably eligible for the leave, and probably will be given it. He said that the Board had had only one day to consider Dr. Winger’s request, and had treated it strictly as a personnel matter in referring it to legal counsel. Earlier in the meeting, Winger himself had told the Board he himsélf had been “sitting on” a similar request for a sabbatical from teacher David Remley since Nov. 9. Under state law, a superintendent is eligible for sabbatical leave after 10 years in the state and five years in a district. The superintendent has to agree, under law, to return to the district for one year after the leave, unless the School Board waives this requirement. Complications may arise from another section of the school code that says the Board may waive the requirement “upon completion of the sabbatical.” Winger told the Board Tuesday that he would be willing to return to the district for a year after his leave, if the Board so desired. Winger’s current contract expires June 30. He is now completing his eighth year as superintendent of the district. His original contract was a five-year one, which was renewed for three years in 1974 amidst much controversy and in the face of a “vote of no confidence” by Warwick teachers. Renewal of the current contract has also been a controversial subject for the past year. While it has not triggered the publicity of the 1974 renewal, the School Board has held numerous S:; ^ ' ✓ Dr. H. Dale Winger discussions on it among themselves, with Dr. Winger, and also with members of the community. One of the first duties assigned to Bill Owens when he took over as new School Board president last month was a directive from the Board to inform Dr. Winger that a majority of the Board was opposed to renewing his contract. Owens informed Winger of this in the' school district office on Dec. 23, explaining that the Board wished to give Winger as much time as possible to make any personal decisions before the actual contract-voting time arrived. Winger would have had the option of resigning before the vote for renewal came up at the January meeting. He did not do this, however, and his request for j sabbatical leave came as a ■surprise to many, including some School Board members. According to Owens, Winger had handed him the letter requesting the sabbatical on Monday night prior to a Board committee meeting, just one night before the Board’s official meeting to vote on Winger’s qt rac t . Owens said the letter was dated Jan. 14. Those members of the Board who had not attended the committee meeting did not know of the letter until shortly before Tuesday night’s official meeting. Some contend that the request for a sabbatical was a ploy on the part of the superintendent to put the Board in a bind. State law requires that a superintendent be given at least 150 days notice of whether or not his contract will be renewed, and that a vote must be taken at a public meeting. If no such action is taken by a School Board, the s u p e r i n t e n d e n t i s automatically given a new {Continued on Page 14j Judge Orders Sharron Simpkins to Stop Writing Newspaper Column By Peggy Frailey Judge W. Hensel Brown, president-judge of Lancaster County Court, this week ordered Warwick area’s District Magistrate, Sharron Simpkins, to stop writing a newspaper column that appeared for the first time in last week’s issue of the Lititz Record Express. The Record first learned of the order when it received a letter from Justice Simpkins stating: “Due to circumstances beyond the control of Justice Simpkins and the publishers of the Record Express, the article ’From The Magistrate’s Desk’ will not be published as intended. We are not at liberty at this time to divulge the reason for dropping the article, but it is by no means the fault of Justice Simpkins or this newspaper.” Contacted by the Record, Greg Sahd, deputy court administrator, said that he had notified Justice Simpkins of the judicial order to stop writing the column. He said that Judge Brown’s reasons were that Justice Simpkins was sitting in a judicial capacity and should refrain from commenting on any real or fictitious judicial matters. “Any advise she could give would border on legal advice and this must come from attorneys,” Sahd said. Sahd said that when district magistrates get any requests for information, they should be told to ask an attorney, and if an individual cannot do this, he or she should be referred to the court administrator’s office. The newspaper column was initiated as an In This Issue Business Directory 20 Church News 18 Classified Ads 22, 23 Editorial Page 4 Sports Section 6, 7 Women’s 12 educational question and answer-type article to inform the public about services available from the district magistrate’s office, and to answer questions from the public on such things as the motor vehicle code, how to collect on a bad check, etc. It was scheduled to appear every few weeks in the Record. Justice Simpkins said that she and other district magistrates had been told at various seminars to try to educate the public about the office of district magistrate by giving talks at club meetings, schools, etc., and that she had considered the newspaper column one way of doing this. Sahd, however, said that he had received no such instructions when he took a basic district magistrate’s course. The newspaper column was brought to Judge Brown’s attention by Court Administrator Ronald Reedy, who lives in Lititz, and who directed his deputy, Sahd, to show the column to the judge. Reedy told the Record that Justice Simpkins was “not in the position to discuss rules and regulations,” that this was an “ administrative function.” He said that it was really a function of the court administrator’s office to answer questions from the public, but added that rather than deluge his office with phone calls, people with questions about law should contact their legislators, who, he said, “make the laws.” “A magistrate can give direction, but not legal advice,” Reedy said. Asked to comment on Judge Brown’s order, Justice Simpkins replied, “I feel that the people elected me, and I’m here to help them solve problems on a grassroots level.” “I think the column is a good way to answer common questions of the public,” she said, adding that she had stated in her initial column that she would not comment an specific cases or answer Over $10 million worth of property involved in fire within the borough was saved during 1976, Lititz Fire Company reports, a staggering increase over the $407,785 reported saved from fire damage in 1975. The high potential fire loss figure was due primarily to three factory fires last year, the largest one at Travis Mills. As estimated $10,574,050 worth of property involved in fire within the borough was saved during 1976. Property outside the borough limits reported saved from fire damage is estimated at $62,070, as compared with $88,050 worth of property saved outside the borough in 1975. However, fire loss in the district served by Lititz Fire Company increased in 1976 over the previous year. An estimated $83,850 worth of property was lost to fire damage in the borough during 1976, as compared with $5,076 loss reported in 1975. Fire loss outside the borough limits during 1976 is estimated at $29,720, as compared with the $5,730 worth of loss outside the borough reported in 1975. This sets the total fire loss in the district served by the Lititz Fire Company at $113,570 during 1976, an increase over the total $10,806 fire damage loss reported for 1975. questions that should be taken to an attorney. “But, according to the court administrator’s office, lay judges are not allowed to answer questions,” she said. Fire calls answered by Lititz Fire Company in 1976 totaled 98, 47 of them within the borough and 51 outside the borough limits. This was an increase over the 76 calls answered in 1975. The calls responded to included three factory fires, one business, five trash fires, seven grass fires, 10 house fires involving chimneys, appliances, and electrical equipment, 11 calls involving electrical wires or transformers, 11 washdowns or standbys at traffic accidents, 13 car or truck fires, and two bam fires. They also included a basement wall cave-in, a house trailer fire, a call involving swimming pool chemicals, a lawn mower fire, a farm tractor fire, a trucking terminal fire, and a fire at the local police station. Fourteen of the calls were either false alarms or malfunctioning alarm systems, and six were standbys for other fire stations. In all, firemen logged 71 hours of service, traveled 208 miles, and reported a total of 1,808 men answering calls. - The fire company used 3,935 feet of booster hose during 1976,1,900 feet of 24i>- inch hose, 1175 feet of 24 2 - inch hose, 6,150 feet of three-inch hose, 62 pounds of dry chemicals, and raised 124 feet of ladders. Over MO Million Potential Fire Damage Prevented By Fire Company in 1976 |
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