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CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, December 18,1980 20 CENTS A COPY $6 00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages-No. :
Nativity Scene in the Square
Lititz Square at Broad and Main Streets is once
again graced with the almost life sized Nativity
scene under a Moravian star reminding us of the
city’s founding as well as the sentiment of the
season.
Ethics Commission Questions
Warwick Officials
The Warwick Township
Citizens Committee for an
Equitable -Sewer System
(WTCCESS) was recently
notified that an investigation
is underway concerning the
complaint in which the
committee outlined charges
to the State Ethics Com­mission,
against eight
Warwick Township Officials
for alleged financial
disclosure violations.
The complaint was filed by
WTCCESS about two weeks
ago and was a sworn
statement.
According to Edward M.
Seladones, Executive
Director of the State Ethics
Commission, Act 170 of 1978
which created the in­dependent
investigative
Commission and set forth its
guidelines, requires total
confidentiality of any in­vestigation.
Seladones would
neither confirm nor deny the
Warwick investigation.
He explained the Com­mission’s
process as a group
or board' compiling a report
of allegations and fact fin­ding
then taking the report
before the seven member
commission with recom­mendations.
The fact finders
are permitted only to
recommend to the com­mission,
and subsequently
act on the Commission’s
findings.
The Commission must,
according to the Act, in­v
estig a te any sworn
statement and the complaint
from the WTCCESS was
notorized.
The Act states, and
Seladones explained, that if
the Commission decides to
issue an order, then it
becomes public.
The two year old Com­mission
is comprised of
seven members of which
three are appointed by the
governor and the remaining
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four are selected by the
Pennsylvania house and
. senate.-The majority party
in the house and in the senate
sends one Commission
member per branch, as does
the minority party.
A spokesman for the
citizens group said the
complaint centered on the
absence or improper filing of
fin a n c ia l d is c lo s u re
statements required of
elected officials.
Supervisors James Wit-myer,
J. Lloyd Rohrer and
former supervisor Richard
I. Hoffer are reportedly
named in the complaint.
Rohrer remarked in a
telephone interview this
week that he had indeed
been investigated and said,
“ To my k n owled g e ,
everyting was in order. I had
filed my ethics report and
the man who was in­vestigating
me seemed
almost apologetic that he
had to take up my time. He
felt that I didn’t need a
lawyer and even said that in
99 per cent of the cases they
investigate a letter is sent
okaying the files and
exonerating the official in
question.”
Rohrer went on to say that
th e re may be one
discrepancy in his filed
report in that he omitted to
mention that he gets an
income from Warwick
Township. The Supervisors
are paid for each meeting
attended and Rohrer figured
that since the investigators
knew he was a supervisor he
didn’t have to repeat that
that was a source of income.
In general, charges such
as these are considered
“minor” according to
Early
Deadlines
B e c au se of the
Christmas and New
Year holidays, deadline
for news and ad­vertising
will be earlier
for the Record Express
issues of Dec. 24 and
Dec. 31.
Advertising deadline
for the Dec. 24 issue is
noon, Monday, Dec. 22;
for the Dec. 31 issue, the
deadline is noon,
Monday, Dec. 29.
The deadlines for
correspondent copy and
all news, except for
police and late-breaking
news, are 5 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 19&28.
Community
Chest Looks
For Needy
The Warwick-Lititz
Community Chest is
looking for names of
needy persons in order
to provide them with
some of the things they
need.
The Community
Chest, which operates
solely on donations,
endeavors to supply
those who are less
fortunate with turkeys
or food baskets over the
Holiday Seasons. They
also supply oil, food or
any other need to these
persons.
If you know of any
family in need, call Mrs.
Rabold at 626-5675 or
Jim Eby, 626-5727.
Fulton Bank
Promotes Two
Fulton Bank has named
two women to officer status.
Kathryn L. Renner,
Hillside Ave., Lancaster, has
been appointed financial
management systems of­ficer
in the Controller’s
Department. Rebecca J.
Schaum, 233 S. Spruce St.,
Lititz, has been promoted to
operations analyst.
Deferred Maintenance Interest To Pay Cost
School Board Approves
Computer Purchase
At the Tuesday night
meeting of the Warwick
School Board, approval was
passed with only one no vote
for the purchase of an IBM
system 34 computer at a cost
of $56,735.80.
The cost, which includes
the purchase of pre­programmed
packages,
called “software” , from
other school districts, is to be
taken from the interest
accrued on the deferred
maintenance loan taken in
May of 1979 to cover long
range maintenance within
the district. . The money
borrowed as one “lump
sum” was reinvested, or
“arbitraged” and the in­terest
must be spent within
Elizabeth Township
Supervisors
Adopt Budget
Seladones, but must be
followed up since they are
sworn statements.
The Warwick citizens’
group was formed last
August to protest the con­struction
oi a sewage system
in the township. The tax­payers
said the costs of the
system are inequitable and
place undue stress upon the
elderly and persons on fixed
income.
WTCCESS has announced
it will seek and endorse new
candidates for township
board seats in the next
election.
The group has also gone on
record opposing the
development of the vacant
Rothsville Elementary
School into subsidized
apartments for low and
moderate income families.
That plan, currently under
consideration by the Housing
Development Corporation of
Lancaster -County, is op­posed
by the Warwick
Township supervisors, as
well.
The Elizabeth Township
supervisors Monday night
adopted the 1981 budget as
proposed at a preliminary
budget hearing held earlier
this month.
According to the newly
adopted budget, Elizabeth
Township expenses and
receipts for 1981 are each
estimated at $102,000,
representing an increase of
approximately $2,600 over
1980’s budget figures.
The supervisors agreed to
keep the 1981 tax rate the
same as in 1980. The town­ship
real estate tax will
remain at 10 mills and the
per capita tax will remain at
$10 in 1981.
In approving the budget,
the supervisors said the
township will collect one-fourth
of one percent of the
wage tax currently collected
by the Warwick School
District.
The $152,653 budget is
broken down as follows:
liquid fuels, $37,895; revenue
sharing, $25,298, and general
fund, $99,460.
The general fund includes
$31,674 earmarked for
general government; $30,311
for highway maintenance;
and $23,850 for
miscellaneous insurance and
b e n e f its ; $8,725 for
protection to persons, and
property, and $4,900 for
general highway services.
Unemployment
Compensation
In other action Monday
night, the supervisors
agreed to pay a reduced rate
to the Pennsylvania State
Association of Township
Supervisors (PSATS)
U n em p lo ym en t Com­pensation
Group Trust Fund,
effective Jan. 1,1981.
Last year the township
paid a higher rate of 3.35
percent of its payroll to the
Pennsylvania Department of
Labor and Industry’s Office
of Employment Security for
u n em p lo ym en t com­pensation.
The PSATS
guarantees a rate of two
percent for the next two
years.
Upcoming Meetings
The supervisors will hold
th e ir xeorganizational
meeting on Monday, Jan. 5
at 7 p.m. in the municipal
building on South View
Drive.
The Elizabeth Township
Auditors’ reorganizational
meeting will be held
Tuesday, Jan. 6 in the
muni eipql building.
two years of the rein­vestment.
In-house delivery of the
computer is expected by the
end of January and it is
hoped that a parallel system
to that being run through a
c o n tr a c te d c om p u te r
system, based in Bethlehem,
Pa., will be running by
March.
The board felt that no new
staff was required im­mediately,
that the existing
could retrain to operate the
computer.
The district bought the
computer because of the
rising costs for contracting
the computer services/ and
dissatisfaction with the
rented computer /'service
itself. In the 1979-80' school
. year the rented services cost
$19,600 and in 1980-81 cost
$30,000. Errors and failure to
meet deadlines by the
contracted services were
partially responsible for the
board dissatisfaction.
In considering the pur­chase
of a computer for the
district, the Board also
discussed the possibility of
sharing time on another,
existing computer, but said
they knew of no district
which was willing to share
time, with the exception of
Lancaster City and the cost
involved was the same as the
contracted computer ser­vice,
or “no bargain” .
Staying with the ’ con­tracted
service for five years
showed a cost of $172,000
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In this Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Classified 13,14,15,
Church 22
Business Directory 24
Wilbur Chocolate
Reveals Expansion Plans
Jo h n A. B u z z a rd ,
p r e s id e n t of Wilbur
Chocolate Co., Inc., an­nounced
that the Board of
Directors has approved the
continuation of a major
renovation and expansion
plan started in May 1980.
Buzzard stated the ap­proximately
$3 million will
be spent in the 30-month
period required to moder­nize
existing facilities and to
increase the capacity of the
plant.
“We feel the demand for
the quality chocolate
products produced by our
customers will continue to
expand and that Wilbur
Chocolate should and will be
ready to supply their
requirements,” Buzzard
stated.
Farmers First, Elizabethtown
Bank Boards Agree To Merge
The Board of Directors of
E liz a b e th tow n T ru s t
Company and Farmers First
Bank authorized the an­nouncement
today that they
have agreed in principle to
combine the two institutions.
The agreement is subject to,
among other things, the
execution of a definitive
agreement and the ap­provals
of the shareholders
and the State and Federal
regulatory authorities.
In releasing the in­formation,
the Boards of
Directors noted that the
combined bank will not only
continue the community
service that they have been
individually known for, but
will provide additional
banking services to ail their
customers, both corporate
and individual.
Under the terms of the
proposed combination,
Farmers First Bank will
acquire the Elizabethtown
Trust Company by merger,
pursuant to which Farmers
First Bank will issue four (4)
shares of its common stock
fo r e a ch s h a r e of
E liz a b e th tow n T ru s t
Company common stock.
Elizabethtown Trust
Company, headquartered in
Elizabethtown, Penn­sylvania,
with three banking
locations serving the
commu n i ty of
Elizabethtown, reported at
S e p tem b e r 30, 1980,
$52,889,000 in total assets;
$47,648,000 in total deposits;
$32,385,000 in total loans; and
$4,215,000 in stockholders
equity. For the nine months
ended September 30, 1980,
E liz a b e th tow n T ru s t
Company reported net in­come
of $483,927 and net
income per share of $5.76.
Farmers First Bank,
headquartered in Lititz,
Pennsylvania, with thirteen
banking locations serving
Lancaster County, reported
total assets of $245,211,000;
total deposits of $215,788,000;
total loans of $154,912,000;
and stockholders equity of
$18,930,000 as of September
30.1980. Farmers First Bank
reported net income of
$2,437,000 and net income per
share of $3.59 for the nine
months ending September
30.1980. Spectacle Of Lights Planned At Hilltop Manor
The residents of Hilltop
Manor invite the public to
their annual display of over
1400 candles qlong the roads
of their development.
Candles will be lit on
December 24th and 25th
from 5:30 to 10 p.m., weather
permitting.
The purpose of this display
is to light the way for the
coming of Christ. The
residents have donated
money and time to provide
this Christmas display. In a
time when there is so much
turmoil in the world, it is
nice to see that over 130
families can get together
and celebrate Christmas in
the true spirit of the season,
and as their gift to the
community.
Hilltop Manor is located
one and one-half miles north
of Lititz off route 501. The
streets to be illuminated
include Snyder Hill Road,
May Road, Perry Road,
Farm Lane, Cindy Lane and
Douglas Drive. Persons
driving through the area to
see the display are asked to
use parking lights and not to
exceed 10 miles per how.
A breathtaking scene will await visitors to the
Hilltop Manor development when they drive
through the roads using only their parking lights to
view the luminaires on Dec. 24 and 25.