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w ith in L an ca ste r County 26 Pages — No. 34
Community Barry Smith Named
Calendar Administrative Assistant
At New Middle School
Thursday, November 18
12 noon to 8 p.m. — Rummage
Sale sponsored by the Ladies
Aid Society of Trinity EC
Church, Odd Fellows Hall.
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Lions Club
meeting, General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m. — Senior Cititzens
meeting, Rec Center.
8 p.m. — Turkey-Card Party,
sponsored by the Legion
Auxiliary. Legion Home.
Friday, November 19
9 a.m. to 12 noon — Rummage
Sale sponsored by the Ladies
Aid Society of Trinity EC
Church, Odd Fellows Hall.
7:30 p.m. — The Bridge, Rec
Center.
Saturday, November 20
1:30 p.m. — Puppet Show, Rec
Center.
4 to 8 p.m. — Baked Ham Supper,
Rothsville Fire Company, Fire
Hall.
7 p.m. — Movie, “The Comedy of
Terror,” Rec Center.
Monday, November 22
7 p.m. — Sertoma Club, Warwick
Haus.
7 p.m. — Tops meeting, Rec
Center.
7:30 p.m. — IOOF meeting,
Lodge Hall.
Tuesday, November 23
6 p.m. — Lititz Rotary Club,
General Sutter Inn.
6:30 p.m. — Warwick Township
Lions Club, Chimney Comer
Restaurant.
Wednesday, November 24
6:30 p.m. — Explorer Post 154
J u n i o r A m b u l a n c e
Association, Ambulance
Garage.
6:30 p.m. — Ambucs, Legion
Home.
Mrs. Anita Lipkowski
Greeting Our
New Teachers
Editor’s note: This is the sixth
in a series of articles describing
the new teachers in the Warwick
Schools. The seventh will appear
next week.
One of the new fourth grade
teachers at Lititz Elementary
School is Mrs. Anita Lipkowski.
Her hometown is McKees Rocks,
Pennsylvania, and she is a
graduate of Clarion State
College.
Mrs. Lipkowski enjoys
crocheting and reading as her
hobbies. She previously taught
three years at Higbee Elemen­tary
School in the Lancaster City
Schools. She now lives at 220
North Walnut Street, Lititz.
Barry O. Smith, 29, 531 Spring
Ave., Lititz, has been named
administrative assistant to the
Warwick Middle School prin­cipal,
effective in about 60 days
or as soon as a replacement can
be found for Smith’s current
teaching position.
A teacher of mathematics and
physics since joining the faculty
of Warwick Senior High School in
September 1966, Smith ' also
served as faculty advisor to the
senior class, the National Honor
Society and Teepee Topics, the
school newspaper.
Smith has also been sports
editor of the Lititz Record-
Express for the past three years.
A member of the church
council of St. Paul Lutheran
Church, he is financial secretary
of the church and advisor to the
youth group. He is also an active
member of the Lititz Lions Club
and the Lititz Chapter of
American Field Services.
Graduating from Bloomsburg
State College in 1964 with a
bachelor of science degree in
secondary education, Smith
earned the master of science
degree in mathematics at
Bucknell University in 1969. He is
currently enrolled in the doctoral
program in secondary school
administration at Temple
University, Philadelphia.
In his new position, Smith will
assist Robert A. Heron, principal
of Warwick Middle School, with
the general administration of the
school.
Specially, he will have charge
of discipline, pupil attendance,
extra-curricular activities and
assume a variety of other
responsibilities to permit the
princiapal to spend more of his
time working with members of
the faculty and the instructional
program.
Smith is married to the former
Ida J. Gingrich. They are parents
of two children, ages four years
and three months.
Warwick Environment
Committee Is Approved
Warwick Township Super­visors
approved the new
“Committee on the En­vironment”
for the township in a
meeting recently.
Members of the committee
are: J. Vincent Becker, 624
Woodcrest Avenue; Richard M.
Brown, 109 Brubaker Road; Mrs.
Donald Caldwell, 130 Mayfield
Drive; Mrs. Scott Garman, 18
Woodland Avenue; Addison H.
Gery Jr, Lititz RD1; William E.
Sharpless Jr, 1231 Orchard Road;
Ronald Loercher, 19 Hilltop Road
and Daniel Haught, 2 Ridge
Road.
The committee will meet with
Vincent J. Fauci, member of the
Planning Commission, who will
serve to coordinate activities
between the two committees.
School Officials Tell Why Cafeteria Loses Money
The Warwick School District
cafeteria fund is apparently
losing about $4,000 a month,
according to a report at the
Warwick School Board meeting
Tuesday night.
Dr. H. Dale Winger, school
district superintendent, ex­plained
Wednesday that the
cafeteria fund actually has been
losing money for several years,
although the rate of loss is larger
now than usual.
He attributed the loss to a
combination of rising costs,
particularly wage increases to
cafeteria personnel and the rising
cost of food.
He also noted that under
federal law the school district
must give free lunches to pupils
who can’t afford to pay for them.
WW Club Plans Season Events
Turkey Give-Away 7-9 p.m.
Friday in Downtown Lititz
A Turkey Give-Away, featuring a free turkey every
fifteen minutes between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., will be held
this Friday evening in downtown Lititz.
Tickets can be obtained all day Friday, FREE, from
participating merchants. No purchase is necessary to
obtain a registration coupon.
The shopper should sign his name and address and
deposit the coupon at the drum in front of the General
Sutter Inn. Winners’ names will be posted on the
bulletin board at the Sutter and the turkeys must be
claimed by 9:30 p.m.
Be sure to register Friday and watch for the winners
on the board at the Sutter beginning at 7 p.m.
The following merchants are participating in the
Turkey Give-Away:
Warwick Zoning Board
Slates Public Hearing
The Warwick Township Zoning
Hearing Board has scheduled a
public hearing on the proposed
construction of a building in a
commercial district on West
Woods Drive.
The public hearing will be held
at 7:30 D.m. Tuesday, November
23 in the Township Municipal
Building, 315 Clay Road.
Seeking a special exception to
construct the building is Henry H.
Ross, 759 Brunnerville Road,
Lititz.
The Lititz Welcome Wagon
Club met Tuesday evening at the
Lititz Recreation Center. Mrs.
Zane Wilson, president conducted
the meeting.
Club members selected the
Lancaster Association for Brain-
Injured Children, Inc., to be the
recipient of the proceeds ob­tained
from the planned Style
Show-Card Party. The event was
announced by Mrs. Larry Herr,
civic chairman and Mrs. Francis
Roberts, vice chairman.
interest group meetings were
announced by Mrs. Floyd King,
chairman. Mrs. Ira Yeagley,
guest instructor, will teach the
basics of working with pine
cones, seed pods, nuts, etc. in
making a wreath on Monday,
November 22 at the Recreation
Center.
On December 6, also at the
Recreation Center, a work shop
meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m.
to make Christmas tree
decorations. The Book Review
group will meet December 9 at
the home of Mrs. Edward Albee
with Miss Fran Huetter as co­hostess.
They will share favorite
findings that pertain to the
holiday season.
Mrs. Jack Lamoreux will
demonstrate the making of
Christmas aprons and stockings
in her home on Tuesday,
November 30 at 8 p.m. “Mrs.
Lawrence Green will be
assisting.
New members introduced
by Mrs. Irel Buckwalter,
membership chairman were:
Mrs. Michael Autrey, Mrs. C.
Kenneth Brown, Mrs. Je rry
Potts, Mrs. Albert Summerlin
and Mrs. Leonard Zimmerman.
The sponsor of the month was
D. E. Furlow who contributed a
candle which was given to Mrs.
William Diviney.
A Christmas party, especially
for the children, will be held at
the Recreation Center from 2 to 4
p.m. on December 12. Mrs. John
Sando will tell Christmas stories
using puppets and dolls.
Rev. Elwood Mehle entertained
the group with chalk drawings.
They were presented to Mrs. C.
Kenneth Brown and Mrs. Francis
Roberts.
Guests who attended the
meeting were: Mrs. Norman
Kolp, Mrs. Carlton Mulkey and
Mrs. J. Mitchell Smith.
Refreshments chairman was
Mrs. Charles Ditmer. She was
assisted by Mrs. Kenneth Evans,
Mrs. Charles Ransone and Mrs.
Mahesh Shah.
The Lititz Welcome Wagon
hostess is Mrs. Larry Zim­merman.
Her assistant is Mrs.
Arthur Myers Jr.
Christmas lights
Will Be Lit Fri.
The Christmas lights that have
been erected in the borough will
be lit this Friday evening the
Lititz Retailers Association
reported. The lights were put up
on November 19 and will stay up
until January 1.
Notice
The Lititz Record-Express will
be available a day earlier than
usual next week because of the
Thanksgiving holiday Thursday.
Next week, the Record-
Express will be available on local
newstands on Tuesday evening
and will be in the Wednesday
mail.
During the past month, 800 free
lunches were distributed.
Part of the problem stems from
the national price freeze. The
school district had planned to
raise the secondary lunch rate
from 40 cents per pupil to 45
cents. The increase was canceled
when the wage price freeze was
announced.
Besides the 40 cent rate to
middle and high school students,
the rate includes 35 cents for
elementary pupils and 60 cents
for teachers.
Raymond Groff, who is
chairman of the school board’s
cafeteria committee, said he’s
been getting criticism from some
school board members because
the cafeteria is losing money
while cafeterias at some neigh­boring
districts are making
money.
But Groff stated some of these
other districts aren’t doing some
of the things the local district is,
including giving such a large
number of free lunches. Groff
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fit This Issue
Business Directory 11
Church News 10
Classified 12,13
Editorial Page 4
Society Section 2
Sports Section 6,7
“ Hosteling In Germany” To Be
Presented by Travel Series
The Rotary Club of Lititz will
present the second program in
the Travel and Adventure series
Saturday, November 27. There
will be a matinee at 3 p.m. and an
evening showing at 8 p.m. in the
auditorium of Warwick High
School.
“Hosteling in Germany” will
be presented by Robert Q.
Ostlund. The film will present an
adventure of bicycling and
hosteling through Germany with
three teenage bicyclists. The
film, done in color, will take the
viewer on an intriguing ride
through the winding countryside
filled with natural wonders and
the glories of the past. A travel
and adventure film with a bit of
typical youth hostel thrown in, it
becomes truly a “romance on
wheels.”
This film will appeal to the
“ rover” instinct in almost
everyone who ever wished to
travel. It begins in the oldest
town in Germany, Trier, under
the shadow of the Porta Nigra,
one of the most ancient and
northern Roman Arches in the
world.
The rider, and viewer, travel
on to Bernkastel cycling past
famed vineyards in the shadow of
medieval castles perched like
crowns on hills overlooking the
zig-zagging Moselle.
We meander through the
landscape of the valley to
1971-72 Teacher Wage-Benefit Package
Armold Jewelers, Inc.
Backporch Candle Shoppe
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bingeman's Texaco Service
Bob's Save Rite Market
Byler’s Self-Service
Cam Tech of Lititz
Carpet Shop
Commonwealth National
Bank
Farmers National Bank
D. E. Furlow
General Sutter Inn
Gladell Shop
Hagy’s Western Auto
J. B. Hess Men’s Wear
House of Warwick
Kathryn’s Flower and Gifts
Kelly’s Korner
Kenyon’s Pastry Shop
Klotz Kleners
Kreider Bros. TV
Kreider Hardware
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Record-Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Springs Garage
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger Home
Center Inc.
McElroy Pharmacy
Michael’s of Lititz
Henry K. Neff
Pick-it Gift Shop
Spacht’s Furniture Store
Trudi K Shop
Thanksgiving Vacation
Thanksgiving vacation will
begin for students in the Warwick
School District next Wednesday
afternoon. Dismissal times have
been scheduled as follows:
Middle School, 1:55 p.m.; senior
high school, 2 p.m. and all
elementary schools, 2:30 p.m.
Vacation time will extend
through November 29.
Classes will resume at all the
schools on Tuesday, November
Her Students Speak Out: 30.
She's a Miss and Still Eligible
When we called her Mrs. last
week, we did more than simply
goof, according to the fifth grade
students of Miss Gloria Gerlitzki.
We ruined her chances, four of
them wrote in letters to the
editor.
The mistake was made last
week in our page one picture and
story on “Greeting Our New
Teachers”.
The four letters, just as we
received them are recorded
here:
Dear Sir:
I don’t like you calling my
teacher a Mrs. now she won’t be
able to get any elegible
bachelars.
Barry Geib
Dear Editor,
My teacher is Miss Gerlitzki
not Mrs. — yet. Eligible
bachelors please take notice.
Student
Sherri Hoffman
Record you put
BUT it’s Miss
Dear Editor’s,
In the Lititz
Mrs. Gerlitzki
Gerlitzki.
Sincerely,
Anita Davidson
Dear Editor,
I am one of Mrs. Gloria
Gerlitzki’s students. Her name is
Miss Gerlitzki. She is not
married.
Sincerly,
Melanie Sheneberger
To show that we’re bending
over backwards to make things
right, we’re enclosing Miss
Gerlitzki’s picture again, along
with the important information
she lives at 48 Fresh Meadow
Miss Gloria Gerlitzki
Eligible, Students Say
Drive, Lancaster, and enjoys
sewing and music.
Oh, yes, and she’s eligible
according to her students.
The 1971-72 Warwick School
District teacher wage benefit
package amounts to ap­proximately
a 9.4 per cent in­crease
over 1970-71.
The package includes about a
nine per cent overall increase in
wages and the rest in fringe
benefits, according to Dr. H. Dale
Winger, school district
superintendent.
In explaining the new
agreement, Dr. Winger placed
emphasis on the first five steps in
the new wage scale. He said,
“The Warwick Education
Association (WEA) and the
Warwick School Board were in
agreement that this end of the
wage scale was low compared
with other school districts in
Lancaster County and needed to
be improved.
In comparison with the
previous year, the current year’s
salary schedule in the early steps
shows a $500 per year increase.
A teacher with a bachelor’s
degree and one year of service
had a $6,600 salary last year and
the new schedule shows $7,100. A
similar teacher with a master’s
degree demanded a $7,200 salary
last year and $7,700 this year.
Similar increases are shown
for the more experienced
teachers. A top salary of $11,400
for a bachelor’s degree and 13
years this year compares to a top
scale of $10,800 last year. The top
for a master’s and 14 years
service this year is $12,400
compared to $11,700 last year.
Under the wage plan, most
teachers get a wage boost from
two sources: the increased wage
scale, plus a move up the wage
scale. Thus, the teacher with a
master’s degree and one year of
experience, earned $7,200 last
year; with a higher wage scale
and an additional year of service,
the same teacher earns $8,000 or
an $800 increase this year.
With the combined higher wage
scale and yearly increment, most
Warwick School District teachers
in 1971-72 will receive increases
of $600 to $900 over 1970-71.
The new salary scale also
provides for a teacher with a
bachelor’s degree to receive an
extra $200 for 15 credits toward a
master’s degree, $400 for 30
credits, and $600 for 45 credits.
Dr. Winger emphasized,
however, that the new salary
scale cannot be presently im­plemented
because of the
national wage price freeze.
The present phase of the
national economic program is
due to end in mid-November.
What will happen after that is
highly uncertain, he emphasized.
Present reports on what might
happen, he said, range all the
way from possible full im­plementation
of the new wage
package, including retroactive to
pick up wage increases lost by
the freeze, to a possible allowable
wage increase in the range of
four to five per cent. Im­plementation
of the wage
package will be subject to the
national guidelines, he said.
In adopting its budget in June,
the school board had budgeted
money for a wage increase ef­fective
September l. Unless the
new federal guidelines allow the
wage increase to be retroactive
to September 1, this would mean
that some of the budgeted wage
increase will not be spent in the
present school year.
But Dr. Winger refused to
comment on the school district’s
financial situation until after the
new federal guidelines are
released. He explained that the"
situation is so uncertain that any
statements on finances at this
point would be strictly guesses.
He did note that since passage
of the state income tax, all state
subsidies have been received,
including an unexpected $15,000.
He said this money is extremely
important since the state ac­counts
for 43 per cent of the local
school district’s budget.
When the state was in the midst
of its economic squeeze earlier
this year, state payments were
late and the school district had to
borrow twice. But the borrowed
money has been repaid and the
district’s present cash balance is
“pretty good,” Dr. Winger said,
adding that the future, however,
still depends on what the state
does.
Dr. Winger noted that the
agreement last year between the 1
WEA and school board was “an
i n f o rm a l n e g o t i a t i n g
agreement,” but the agreement
this year under Act 195 is “a legal
contract binding under the law.”
Some key points in the contract
include:
—As provided by Act 195, the
school board sets the starting
salary of new teachers. The
salary scale negotiated by the
WEA does not apply until the
second year of the teacher’s
service. This is true, Dr. Winger
explained, because the WEA can
negotiate only for its members
and a teacher is not a member of
WEA until after the hiring by the
school board.
—Most items relating to the
teacher’s work year and work
day are unchanged. One new
section on leaving school
premises was added, because
-this had not been spelled out
before. The section states:
“Members of the bargaining
unit may leave their assigned
buildings during the regular
school workday on school
business or in case of sudden
emergency. Members of the Unit
(WEA) must have prior approval
of the building principal, his
assistant, or in their absence, the
Superintendent. Professional
employees may leave their
building during their personal
lunch period.”
—The new agreement says that
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Robert Ostlund
Traben-Trarbach, at the foot of
the ruins of Castle Grevenburg,
to Zell and Cochem, below the
giant 11th century castle and on
for a visit to Burg Eltz, one of the
world’s most beautiful old
castles.
Here, the riders board a
Moselle Steamer for Coblenz
where the Moselle joins the
Rhine. Dtiririg fheTifext few clays,
the cyclists visit the knight’s
stronghold at 13th century Burg
Lahneck, the fortress castle
Marksburg with its per­pendicular
tower, and Boppard
on a lovely bend in the valley of
the busy Rhine.
Staying in hostels, houses open
on a cost-only basis, the riders
get an even more exciting
glimpse of the nation and its
people. The Alpine peaks, along
with the sparkling blue myriads
of lakes, afford breath-taking
views on this unique trip to a
historical and bountiful land.
A visit to the area would not be
complete without a cruise upon
the emerald green Konigssee,
oftimes described as the most
beautiful mountian lake in the
world, surrounded by sheer cliffs
that shoot almost straight up to
the Bavarian blue sky.
Before enplaning for the U. S.
A., the final night is spent in one
of Munich’s famour “beer Halls”
where we watch in a rollicking
and thunderous, knee-slapping
Bavarian evening of fun.
Rev. Jerry R. Young Accepts
Pastorate At Grace Brethren
Comparison of ’70 -71 and ’71-72 Teacher Wages
Years of Bachelor’s Degree Master’s Degree
Service
1970-71 1971-72
or Equivalent
1970-71 1971-72
0 $ 6,300 * $ 6,900 *
1 6,600 7,100 7,200 7,700
2 6,900 7,400 7,500 8,000
3 7,200 7,750 7,800 8,350
4 7,500 8,100 8,100 8,700
5 7,900 8,500 8,500 9,100
6 8,300 8,850 8,900 9,450
7 8,700 9,200 9,300 9,800
8 9,100 9,600 9,700 10,200
9 9,500 10,000 10,100 10,600
10 10,000 10,400 10,600 11,000
11 10,P00 10,700 11,100 11,300
12 10,8u0 11,100 11,400 11,700
13 — 11,400 11,700 12,000
14 — — — 12,400
* Starting salary to be set by the board.
The Lititz Grace Brethren
congregation held a reception for
their new pastor, Rev. Jerry R.
Young and his family, at the
Lititz Recreation Center on
November 14.
Pastor Young is a native of
Goshen, Ind. and completed his
high school education there. He
graduated (cum laude) from
Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind.
in 1961 an<J from Grace
Theological Siminary 'cum
laude) in 1964. He served as
president of the student body of
the college from 1960-61 and of the
seminary from 1963-64. He was
active in the musical ministry,
specializing in voice and trom­bone.
He was ordained to the
Christian ministry at Kittanning
in 1965. Pastor Young is serving
as a chaplain in the U.S. Army
Reserve since 1963, holding the
rank of Captain, with the 4th
Brigade 70th Division,
headquartered in Indianapolis,
Ind.
While in college, he met and
married Loreen Summers. They
both have earned BA degrees and
licenses to teach in Indiana. Mrs.
Young majored in music and
Pastor Young holds a Masters of
Divinity degree from the
Seminary.
The couple has a son, Jared,
three years old.
Rev. Jerry R. Young
Rev. Young’s pastorates have
included : interium pastor at Gay
Street -Brethren Church,
Hagerstown, Md.; assistant
pastor at Grace Church, Elkhart,
Ind.; associate pastor, First
Brethren Church, Kittanning and
pastor of Grace Brethren Church,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Grace Brethren’s congregation
welcomes the Young’s into our
area. The couple is seeking a
home in Lititz. At the present
time, they are residing at the
home of Mrs. Young’s parents in
Palmyra.