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101st Year ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1877 , AS THE SUNBEAM
I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD, 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, October 27,1977 15 CENTS A COPY; $5,00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
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If you’re driving through Penryn, you can’t miss
this funny fellow on the lawn in front of the Clair
Strickler home on Newport Road. The pumpkin­headed
scarecrow is part of a Halloween scenario
in the yard.
Woodstream Planning
To Purchase Daffin
Finn of Lancaster
Woodstream Corporation
of Lititz and Irl Daffin
Associates, Inc. of Lancaster
jointly announced this week
that they have reached a
tentative agreement for
Woodstream to purchase the
Daffin firm.
The two firms are still
negotiating and the un­derstanding
is tentative,
subject to completion of a
d e ta ile d p u r ch a s e
agreement, operational
reviews, and approval by
Daffin shareholders and the
boards of directors of both
companies, the two company
presidents stressed.
If the transaction is made,
Daffin Associates will
operate as a division of
Woodstream, with Wood-stream’s
headquarters
remaining in Lititz. There
are no changes anticipated
in management operations
or location of facilities.
The monetary amount of
the transaction was not
disclosed.
The understanding calls
for the purchase of all the
outstanding stock of Daffin
Associates for cash and
Woodstream common stock.
Richard G. Woolworth is
president of Woodstream,
which m a n u fa c tu r e s
specialized hunting, fishing,
trapping, boating, and
camping equipment.
Irl A. Daffin is president
and principal shareholder of
Daffin Associates, which
manufactures construction
equipment.
Daffin Associates is about
one-third the size of
Woodstream Corporation.
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Bany Smith Ending
Last Week at Warwick
Friday will be the final day
for Barry O. Smith, 531
Spring Ave., as assistant
superintendent of Warwick
Schools.
Smith will take over his
new position Monday as
assistant superintendent of
the Midd-West School
District in western Snyder
County. The position is a
newly created one, and
Smith will be assigned to the
area of instruction, to work
on the development of
educational programs.
Smith and his wife, Ida,
and two children will be
moving to the village of
K r e am e r , b e tw e en
Se lin sgrove and Mid-dleburg,
this week-end.
The Mid -West School
District is located just west
of Selinsgrove. It is
primarily a rural district,
en c om p a s s in g a
geographical area of 224
square miles and with a
student population of 3250.
The district is currently in
the midst of a massive
building program.
Smith came to Warwick as
a high school math teacher
in 1966 and was appointed
assistant principal of the
Middle School in November
1971. Following a year’s
leave of absence for a
graduate assistanceship at
Temple University, he
returned to Warwick and
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Barry O. Smith
In this post he has worked
in the areas of tran­sportation,
public relations,
negotiations, administration
of sp e c ia l education
programs, coordination of
federal programs, and for
the last two years has
coordinated most of the
computer services for the
district.
He was honored by his
fellow workers recently at a
farewell breakfast at
Bingeman’s Restaurant,
attended by Superintendent
John Bonfield, the office
staff, and Mrs. Doris
Stauffer and Mrs. Velma
Jurell from the food service
department.
He was also honored at a
reception Sunday in the high
school cafeteria, that was a
combined event to welcome
Superintendent Bonfield to
the district and to bid
forawell Smith
This pumpkin family are Halloween
guests on the front lawn of the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Minichino, Meadow Road, Manheim
R5. Two-year old Peter Minichino is
at left and Sandra Minichino, 5, is at
right.
New amendments to the
s ta te ’s umemployment
compensation law will mean
th a t Warwick School
District, Lititz Borough, and
Warwick Township may be
paying anywhere from $1500
to $24,000 a year in unem­ployment
tax the next few
years.
The new amendments,
which include school
Halloween Queen Candidates
Selected for Lions Parade
Sharon Kay Drewen,
Cheryl Lynn Martin, and
Danelle Louise Martin,
members of the senior class
at Warwick High School,
have been selected as the
Halloween Queen candidates
for the Lititz Lions Club
Parade, scheduled for
Monday, October 31, at 7
p.m.
The Halloween Queen will
be crowned by Lions Club
P r e s id e n t Melvin
Eichelberger in front of the
judges’ stand on East Main
Street.
Sharon Kay Drewen is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Drewen, Lititz R2, and
she is a member of the
marching and stage bands.
She is also active in sports,
participating in tennis,
basketball, volleyball, and
cross country. She plans to
attend the University of
Pittsburgh.
Cheryl Lynn Martin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jere Martin, 548 Spring
Ave., has been a cheerleader
for four years. She works
part-time at Moravian
Manor, and plans a career in
cosmetology.
Danelle Louise Martin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Martin, lives at 537
Lincoln Rd., and she has
been a member of the
Warwick Band for four
years. She is currently a
drum majorette, and her
other activities include
working on the yearbook
staff and working part-time
at Moravian Manor. She
hopes to attend college next
fall, with plans of eventually
becoming a teacher of the
deaf.
Prizes
Cash prizes totaling $249
will be awarded by the local
service club to marchers in
Cheryl Martin
The following persons are prize winners in the
$100 Lititz Record Express Giveaway in
celebration of our lOOth Anniversary.
The persons named below can claim their
prize at the Lititz Record Express office, 22 E.
Main St. (rear), L ititz ..
*5© WINNER
Mrs. Robert Wonder
355 E. Lexington Rd.
Lititz
*25 WINNER
Ronald E. Coldren
440 W. Marion St.
Lititz
*10 W IN N E R
Ella Steger
140 S. Broad St.
Lititz
*10 W INNER
Megan Hoffman
448 S. Walnut St.
Lititz
*5 WINNER
John Lanese
315 Owl Hill Road
Lititz
Original Couple; Most
Original Group (3 or more
persons); Most Comic, and
Most Artistic.
Preregistration of Floats
Organizations entering
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will assign each person or
group a number. Judges will
view the parade participants
and will judge by the
numbers worn by marchers.
Judges for this year’s
event include Dixie Stinson,
Mike Brauner and Dean
Baublitz, all Warwick High
School teachers. William
Dussinger, a member of the
Lions Club, will serve as-master
of ceremonies.
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Danelle Martin
the four judging categories,
which a re Children’s
Division, Group Division,
Float Division, and the
newly added, Adult Division.
An increasing number of
adult participants the past
few years has encouraged
the Lions to re-establish the
Adult Division. In the adult
division, $6 cash awards will
be presented to persons
judged best in five
categories, including ■ Most
Original Individual; Most
Sharon Drewen
floats in the parade are
requested to register in
advance by calling Russell
Schreiber at 626-7575. This
request is made in order to
anticipate the number of
floats to be entered in the
annual event.
Other Registrations
Individuals and groups
without floats will register
the night of the parade
beginning at 6 p.m. Lions
club members will be on
hand at the Comer of East
Main and Cedar Streets
(McElroy’s Pharmacy) and
Trick or Treaters in
Warwick Township and
Lititz Borough will be
out Saturday night, Oct.
29, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Warwick Township
officials, wishing to
coordinate the town­ship’s
Trick or Treat
activities with those of
the borough’s, have
changed their earlier
announced date from
October 31 to October
29.
In Penn Township,
Trick or Treat Night
will be held Monday
evening, Oct. 31, from 6
to 9 p.m.
The R o th s v ille
Halloween parade is
scheduled for Thursday,
Oct. 27 (tonight). The
Lititz Halloween parade
will be held Monday,
October 31.
districts and local govern­ments
in the group of em­ployers
that must now pay
into the unemployment
compensation fund, go into
effect Jan 1.
Warwick School Board and
Lititz Boro Council are
currently trying to decide
which is the least expensive
of the two optional routes
they can follow:
1. Register as a con­tributory
employer, and pay
an annual two per cent tax
on the first $6,000 of wages
paid to every employee.
2. Or register as a reim­bursable
employer, which
means that the school
district and the borough will
not have to pay an annual
tax, but would have to cover
u n em p lo ym en t com ­pensation
on a dollar-to-dollar
basis for any em­ployee
laid off through no
cause of his or her own.
School District
Warwick School District
has made a broad estimate
that it would cost the district
a minimum $24,000 a year as
a contributory employer.
An advantage for em­ployers
who choose to be
“contributory” is that they
may appeal any claims
made against their “ ac­counts.”
H ow ev e r, a- m a jo r
disadvantage is that these
employers will have paid the
tax even though there may
be no claims against them.
Last spring Warwick
School Board opted to
become “ reimbursable”
employers and budgeted
$10,000 to meet any claims
that might be filed against
the school district by em­ployees
laid off.
However, the Board is now
taking a second look at this
decision and has hired the
management consulting
firm of Reed Roberts to
study the district’s history of
lay-offs and recommend the
cheapest path to follow. The
study itself will cost the
district $1.75 for each full­time
employee, or $385.
The board is definitely
leaning toward the con­tributory
system now, but a
final decision will come after
the Reed Roberts study is
made.
Lititz Boro
L ititz Boro is s till
wrestling with the problem,
and still trying to get some
answers to vague sections of
the new amendments, such
as whether or not crossing
guards, swimming pool
staff, and the Lititz Rec
Center director’s salaries
must be included in the tax.
If it goes contributory, the
borough will have to pay a
minimum of $2,880 a year to
cover its seven policemen, 10
members of the public works
crew, and seven office
workers.
Warwick Township
Warwick Township has
already decided to go
“contributory,” which will
cost the township about $1500
a year.
Township superviosrs had
considered the reimbursable
option, but rejected this on
the basis that an employee’s
first week’s claim would
amount to more than the
township contributed for
that employee in an entire
year.
Boro Manager David
Anderson said that the
reimbursable option looks
“more palatable” to the
borough, too. noting that the
borough’s record of lay-offs
is “ good” and Lititz
probably wouldn’t ever get
hit by a claim.
“It’s the job hoppers that
really hurt you,” Anderson
said.
The first four quarters of
the last six quarters of
employment are used by the
state for determing an
employee’s benefits.
Assuming an employee
worked for the borough for a
year or more, then left for
another job, and was laid off
that second job after a short
time, the borough would still
have to pay a percentage of
that employee’s com­pensation,
according to the
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Lititz Police Now Monitoring CB Channel 9
With Now Equipment From Special Fire Police
Lititz police are now
monitoring Channel 9 on CB
radios, in order to cover
em e rg en cie s for the
motoring public, thanks to a
special gift to the depart­ment
from the Lititz Special
Fire Police.
The group of volunteer fire
police has purchased and
installed a new CB base
station in the Lititz police
station, with an antenna
mounted on the roof of Boro
Hall, and three mobile CB
units with antennae, now
mounted in the three police
cruisers.
Police Chief George Hicks
said that the new equipment
allows the borough police to
communicate with the
special fire police when they
are on a job, and also gives
borough police the capability
to monitor Channel 9 for
emergency calls from
motorists.
m THIS ISSUE
Chief Hicks said the base so that emergency calls can
station at the police be monitored at all times,
department will be kept on The special fire police,
Channel 9, as will the mobile headed by Capt. Jim
CB units in police cruisers, Snavely, are under the direct
supervision of the chief of
police, and assist in traffic
and crowd control at fire
emergencies and special
happenings in the borough.
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Business Directory 18
Church News 16
Classified Ads 20,21
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Socail 12
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Thanks to the Lititz Special Fire
Police, the Lititz Police Department
now has the equipment to monitor
Channel 9 on CB radios. Police Chief
George Hicks (right) holds the
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speaker of the CB base station which
the fire police purchased and in­stalled
in the police station. With him
are (left to right) Capt. Jim Snavely
and Lt. Carl Martin of the fire police.