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Warwick Higlh School
seniors will go to William­sburg,
Va. for their class trip
this spring.
The three-day class trip
was approved by Warwick
School Board Tuesday (Dec.
21) during the board’s
regular meeting. The trip
will take place May 26-29, at
an all inclusive cost of $145
per person.
Warwick seniors have also
decided to use money that
has accrued from interest on
the school activity accounts
for connections for cable
television in the high school.
Some of the money will also
be used to buy a marquee-type
sign to list activities
outside the high school
building, and some will be
given to the Scott Nyland
Fund.
Approximately $3700 will
be available.
Warwick Township Unveils
Five Year Road Work Plan
Lititz’ 1982 New Year’s babies, twins Juliane (left) and Jessica Brown, will
soon be a year old. The girls were the first babies born in Lancaster County last
New Year’s day. Surrounded by new Christmas toys, they pose with big brother
Jason and their parents, Linda and Bill Brown, 852 Cindy Lane.
Warwick School Board
Approves Senior Class Trip Contracts
In further business, the
board awarded $4,322.33 in
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Warwick Township un­veiled
a five-year road and
street maintenance program
last week estimated to cost
about $60,000 during 1983.
Township supervisors
“approved the plan in
principle” and commended
Roadmaster James Maser,
who oversaw preparation of
the plan.
The plan will be used as a
guide to road maintenance
and followed as much as
possible, supervisors in­dicated.
The plan for 1983 includes
a $12,139 oil and chip
program for approximately
two miles of township roads:
Heck Road West from Owl
Hill to Route 772; Heck Road
East from Route 772 to the
Pfautz farmhouse; Brevity
Lane from Owl Hill Road to
Heck Road; East Woods
Drive from Kissel Hill Road
to the overlay treatment for
the sewer installation on
East Woods Drive; and
Stauffer Road from East
Woods Drive to the township
line. ,
A d d itio n a l roads
recommended for surface
treatment in 1983 are Short
Road from Becker Road to
Cedar Street and Millport
Road from Owl Hill Road to
the township line.
Overlay Plan
The plan recommends
overlay surface treatment
for about IV2 miles of
township roads which are
either deteriorating or have
water runoff problems.
These include Woods Drive
Boro Council To OK Budget
Lititz Boro Council was expected to adopt a proposed
$829,220 budget for 1983 at its regular meeting Tuesday
night (Dec. 28). Because of the New Year’s holiday, the
Record Express went to press before the meeting.
Coverage will be published in next week’s Record.
from Landis Valley Road to
the intersection of Kissel Hill
Road and Kissel Hill Road to
the township line; 1,277 feet
of roadway in the LeHoy
Forest development; .15
miles of Ridge Road; and
2,484 square yards of Shelly
Court and North Becker
Drive.
Also recommended over
the next three years is
reconstruction of the incline
at Rothsville Station Road
from Pleasant View to the
old railroad tracks at
Binkley and Hurst. The area
is rough and is almost im­passable
in winter, the
roadmaster stated.
The plan also recommends
reconstruction of Pine Hill
Road at the intersection of
Buch Mill Road, which lies
very low and is in poor
condition, the roadmaster
said. The Lancaster County
Soil Conservation District
has voiced concern about
this area of roadway.
The plan recommends
topping for the following
roads during 1984: Short
Road from Becker Road to
Cedar Street; East Millport
Road from Owl Hill to the
township line; Ballstown
Road from the top of the hill
to the overlay at sewer line;
Meadow Valley Road from
Rothsville Road to the sewer
line overlay; Spur Lane
from Newport Road to Old
Rothsville Road; Skyview
Lane from Newport Road to
Newport Road; and Briar
Hill Road from Skyview
Lane to Rothsville Road.
A combination of treat­ment
is recommended for
the following roads during
1985: Snavely Mill Road
from Loop Road to the
township line (a cooperative
project with Elizabeth
Township); Pine Hill Road
from Millway Road to Clay
Road; Buch Mill Road from
Pine Hill Road to the
township line bridge;
Carpenter Road from Clay
Road to the township line
bridge; Erb Bridge Road
from Millway Road to the
township line bridge;
Millway Road from Newport
Road to Meadow Valley
Road; Rothsville Station
Townships Okay Budgets
Both Elizabeth and Penn
Township Supervisors met
Monday evening to adopt
new budgets, with Elizabeth
Township holding its real
estate tax at 10 mills and
Penn Township again
foregoing any property tax.
Warwick Township
Supervisors met last
Thursday to adopt a 1983
budget that lowers real
extate tax from five to four
mills. All three townships
have increased budgets for
the new year.
Warwick Township
Warwick Township’s 1983
budget is $286,668, up $78,956
from 1982.
Major allocations include:
g e n e r a l g o v e rnm en t,
$84,575; public safety,
$202,692; highways, $243,520;
miscellaneous expenses,
$26,000; and other financing
uses, $22,434.
The supervisors retained
the township’s $10 per capita
tax, and also one-half of one
percent real estate transfer
tax and one-half of one
percent earned income tax.
Elizabeth Township
Elizabeth township’s new
budget is $174,297, up $21,644
from the 1982 budget. The
largest increase is $111,822
for highways, which is in
part a preparation for a four-year
road program to
maintain the 28 miles of road
in the township.
A total of $10,700 has been
allocated for protection to
persons and property, $4,000
of this from Federal
Revenue Sharing funds. The
new budget also includes
$23,300 for general govern-ln
This Issue
ment; $11,575 for insurance;
and $2,700 for Social
Security, unemployment and
taxes.
The Federal Revenue
Sharing fund budget of
$18,200 includes a $7,000
carry-over from 1982,
allocated for general
g o v e rnm en t, $7,000;
protection to persons and
property, $4,000; highways,
$6,000; and recreation,
$1,200.
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Road from Millway Road to
Pleasant View; and Clay
Road from Pine Hill Road to
the township line.
The plan for 1986 includes:
Elbow Road from Lexington
Road to the sewer line in­stallation;
Hackman Road
from Brunnerville Road to
the township line bridge;
Firestone Road from
Lexington Road to Snavely
Mill Road; Memorial Road
from Newport Road to the
township line; Lime Rock
Road from Orange Street to
the township line (this will
require widening during
1985, according to the
roadmaster) ; Longenecker
Road from Green Acre Road
to the sewer line installation.
The 1987 recommended
road plan includes: West
Millport Road from Route
501 to Woodcrest Avenue;
Buckwalter Road from West
Millport Road to the town­ship
line; Hess Road from
West Millport to West Woods
Drive; West Woods Drive
from Route 501 to Woodcrest
Avenue; Waters Edge from
Woodcrest to the township
line; and Sego Sago Road
from Woodcrest to Waters
Edge Road.
These roads are all in fair
to good condition now but
probably will need new top
or wearing surface to
strengthen and preserve
them, the roadmaster said.
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Warwick Ambulance
Phone Number Changed
New telephone numbers are now in effect for the
Warwick Ambulance, due to a change in dispatch
procedure.
The following numbers should be used:
EMERGENCY Ambulance calls—Dial 911 (any time)
1 Immediate Transport—Dial 299-5501 (any time)
Scheduled Transport—Dial 626-1200
(8 a.m. thru noon, Mon., thru Fri.)
Women In Politics
More Gals Holding School Board Seats Than Ever Before
(Editor’s Note: The
following commentary was
prepared by the Penn­sylvania
Commission for
Women.)
Women lost representation
in the Pennsylvania
Legislature in 1982 but had
reached an all-time high on
school boards, according to
the Pennsylvania Com­mission
for Women.
While women in state
legislatures nationwide
increased their numbers
from 12 to near 14 percent,
P e n n s y lv a n ia women
slipped from 4.3 to 3.9 per­cent,
ranking the Cradle of
Liberty third from last of all
50 states. At the same time
women were going into the
1983 municipal elections with
a base of 24 percent on school
boardls.
The: number of candidates
who may file for the May 17
Primary, starting Feb. 15,
will be unusually large in
1983. School directors’ terms
were reduced from six years
to four, and this is the year
the last of the six-year terms
and the first of the four-year
terms both expire. Six of the
nine members on each of the
501 school boards are to be
elected, one to be chosen by
lot one time only for a two-year
term to even out the
turnover in future election
years.
Statewide voters in 1983
will elect a Supreme Court
justice and Superior and
Commonwealth Court
judges. The top court has no
women. The Superior Court,
which handles a significant
caseload of family matters,
has but one, Judge Phyllis
Beck, an appointee whose
term will end if she is not
elected in 1983. Com­monwealth
Court has only
Judge Genevieve Blatt, who
is near retirement.
In counties voters will be
electing county com­missioners,
row officers, and
some judges of Courts of
Commom Pleas. Locally,
boroughs, townships and
c itie s e le c t councils,
supervisors and com­missioners
and some elect
mayors.
In the General Assembly
taking office in January
there will be little change in
the female representation.
Senator Jeanette Reibman,
(D) Northampton, the only
woman ever elected to the
Senate, was re-elected and
remains the only one.
School Boards
But women have moved
into nearly a quarter of all
school director sea ts
throughout the state. At the
beginning of 1982, 1,012
females and 3,157 males
were counted on the boards
of the state, or 24 percent
women. In 1980 the figure
was 20 percent.
Although the Penn­sylvania
Department of
Education collects the
names of board members,
its form does not require
gender identification, nor
does it yield many clues in
first names. It has fallen to a
private association, the
Pennsylvania School Boards
Association, to keep records
on school directors, and
PSBA was the source of that
data in this report.
The percentage of women
in other local elected office is
far below that on school
boards. At the end of 1982 the
number of women among the
219 county commissioners
had risen to 15, plus a county
executive, or seven percent.
There were none in 1966.
Among the 4,500 super­visors
of second class
townships there were six
women in 1966. By 1982 there
were 115, up to 2.5 percent.
Some analysts say the 20
percentage point lead
women school directors have
over women in other local
offices may be the leading
edge of movement into
policy making positions. But
others point out that the job
has largely lost its attraction
for men, given its devouring
demands on time and the
tightening squeeze between
employees armed with the
right to strike for more
money and aging property
taxpayers’ resistance to
providing it. By 1977 when
the legislature acted to
reduce the six-year term to
four, the average tenure of a
school director had already
dropped below the length of
one term.
Filing Deadline
March 8 is the last date for
candidates to file for the
primary for municipal,
judicial and party offices.
The chorus urging women to
file and take on a greater
share of the responsibility
for government has included
women’s organizations,
political scientists, research
and educational institutions
su ch as the P u b lic
Leadership Education
Network, as well as the
Commission for Women.
Courses to help women
ready themselves for
political campaigning have
been developed under the
impetus of an unpartisan
effort of the Commission and
have spread from the first
one at Harrisburg Area
Community College in 1981
to others in 1982 in
Williamsport, Reading,
Lancaster and Scranton.
More women are needed
as candidates, Helen Seager,
Director of the Commission
for Women, says, because “a
woman’s experience is
different from a man’s and
that experience of 53 percent
of the voting population is
seriously underrepresented
in areas where laws are
made and cases decided. ’ ’
Seager said, “ Male
legislators are not faulted
for their interest and ex­perience
in sports, hunting,
military affairs and as
veterans. Nor should they
be. But there is a valid ex­perience
as well of women,
who bear the children, still
make most consumer
purchasing and family
management decisions, who
deal with child development,
group dynamics and in­terpersonal
relationships,
and who also bring their
particular individual ex­periences
as do the men. ’ ’
“Local offices are more
significant than ever,”
Seager added. “With block
grant decisions that can help
or hurt being made locally,
and with less money, the
decisions are more critical.
The buck is now stopping
close to home. The decisions
will be made by locally
elected bodies. Whether
those bodies include a ,
variety of perspectives will
be decided by who runs for
local offices in 1983, and by
who wins.”