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3 Contracts Awarded for
Non-Public School Bussing
District Will Transport 102
Students to Seven Schools
Contracts for the bussing of
non-public school students were
approved by Warwick District
School Board Tuesday night, and
will involve the bussing of 102
students to seven different
schools in the county.
So far, the contracts will cost
the district $10,620 next school
year. The contract for bussing
elementary and junior high
students to Lancaster Christian
Day School has not yet been
settled.
Complete time schedules and
boarding places will be an­nounced
in a later issue.
The contracts were awarded in
compliance with Act 372, that
says public schools must tran­sport
all non-public school
children to schools within a
radius of 10 miles.
Contracts were awârded to
Raymond E. Groff, to take
students to Our Mother of Per­petual
Help School in Ephrata, at
$3,240, and to Lancaster Catholic
High School and Lancaster
Country Day School, at $5,220,
and to Eugene Hoover, to take
children to Locust Grove Men-nonite
Elementary and Lan­caster
Mennonite High School, at
$2,160.
The board voted to put Lan­caster
Christian Day School
students on Groff buses, with
appropriate adjustments to his
contract.
Public school bus contracts
were awarded to Fred Kauffman,
at $63,720, and to Groff, at $50,562.
Approximately 2500 students
will be involved in these con­tracts.
Sload, Keener, McIntyre
Get Top Coaching Jobs
Coaches and extra-curricular
activities sponsors were hired
Tuesday night by Warwick
School Board, with top-paying
jobs going to Ivan Sload, head
football coach at $1400, Kenneth
Keener, head basketball coach at
$1190, and Ronald McIntyre, head
wrestling coach at $1190.
Also elected were Leroy Trupe,
athletics director, at $900; David
Remley, equipment manager,
$700; David Althouse, John
Sukenik, and Terry Kauffman,
assistant football coaches, at
$840; David Cochran, freshman
football coach, at $770; Dennis
Bortz, assistant, $560; Althouse,
JV basketball coach, $700;
Thomas Clausen, freshman
basketball coach, $490; Larry
Burkholder, assistant, $420; Jay
Harry, golf coach, $280; Robert
Derr, JV wrestling coach, $630;
Maurice Blose, freshman
wrestling coach, $560; James
Konevitch, assistant, $420; Henry
Rush, cross country coach, $420.
Also, Derr, track coach, $560;
Clausen, assistant, $490; Mark
Hoover, baseball coach, $700;
Sload, assistant, $490; Blose,
boys tennis coach, $350; Barbara
Spengler, girls tennis coach,
$420; Barbara Spengler, girls
hockey coach, $560; Sandra
Moyer, assistant, $420; Maxine
Slagle, freshman girls hockey
coach, $420; Maxine Slagle, girls
basketball coach, $560; Sally
Watkins, senior high
cheerleading, $420; Pamela
Lauris, freshman cheerleading,
$350; Wanda Gehret, yearbook
advisor, $560; David Weaver, A-V
maintenance, $280; Dean
Baublitz, student council, $210;
Wanda Gehret, newspaper ad­visor,
$280; Dale Weller, football
band director, $700; Dorinda
Cochran, band front advisor,
$210; June Lantz, vocal group
advisor, $140; Richard Weik,
stage manager, $280; Kathleen
Hummel, dramatics director,
$490; Mrs. Barbara Shaw,
majorette advisor, $300; John
Mattern, Middle School student
council, $140; John Fissel, Lititz
Elementary safety patrol, $140.
School Directors Reject
Change in Ree Board
Following many months of
discussion and tabling actions,
Warwick District School Board
Tuesday night rejected a
modification to the cooperation
agreement between the board,
Bòro Council, and the Ree
Fire Company
Gets *6,878
From Estate
Over $6,000 from the estate of
Leroy Bare, who died last
December at the age of 71, has
been willed to the Lititz Fire
Company, the remainder going to
charities and Trinity Evangelical
Congregational Church.
Funds from the $27,814 estate
were distributed this week, with
equal amounts of $6,878 going to
the local fire company, Lan­caster
Chapter, American
Cancer Society, Lancaster
County Chapter, Boy Scouts of
America, designated for J .
Edward Mack Scout R eser­vation,
and Lone Scout Memory
Lodge Endowment Fund, being
used for a museum to perpetuate
the memory of Lone Scouters. In
addition, $300 was willed to
Trinity EC Church for its
cemetery.
Bare, who lived at 10 S. Broad
St. for many years, was active in
Boy Scouts and the fire company
most of life, and was a former
fire chief of the local company.
He also was a forest fire warden
in charge of the Furnace Hills
fire tower in northern Lancaster
County.
His wife, Esther, died in April
972. He was the last of his
amily.
Center, and voted to- update the
whole agreement.
The modification involved one
paragraph in the agreement and
would have permitted members
of a nine-member Board of
Directors of the Rec Center to
also serve on a five-member
Recreation Board, the body that
audits Rec Center budgets and is
a legal requirement for chan­neling
funds from the School
Board and borough through to the
Rec Center.
Strongest opposition to ap­proving
the modification came
from Directors Bill Owens and
John Evans, who claimed that
the wording of the revised
paragraph in question did not, in
fact, make clear the intent of the
modification.
Directors also objected to
several clauses in the agreement
which they claimed were ob­solete.
The board voted that a
representative from the School
Board, the borough, and the Rec
Center should meet to bring the
entire agreement up to date.
School Lunches
Hiked 5 Cents
Warwick School Board
approved a five cent hike in
the price of school lunches in
elementary and secondary
schools lunches for next
school term.
The increase, due to in­creased
food costs, brings
the price of lunches for
elementary students to 40
cents a student, and for
secondary students, to 50
cents a student.
The faculty lunch price
will remain at 65 cents.
Warwick Marching Band members
practice a close order drill during a session
at Band Camp held this week at the Middle
Xoititz R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o t o s i
School soccer field. The marching unit will
present a new show "Precision 1973” at
the field Friday evening at 7 p.m.
Dale Weller,
Warwick High
center, director of the
School Marching Band,
discusses close order drills and music at
Band Camp with his assistants, left to
right, Jeffrey Thomas, percussions, Mrs.
Dorinda Cochran, flag squad and rifle
squad, Mrs. Barbara Shaw, majorettes and
Curtis Heckert, color guard.
Warwick Band to Present “Precision 1973”
Show at Middle School Field Friday Evening
The Warwick High School
Marching Band under the
direction of Dale Weller, has been
busily engaged this week at­tending
Band Camp at the Middle
School learning basic fun­damentals
enabling them to
present a good performance at
parades, competitive events and
half-time programs at football
games.
Culminating the all-day
sessions of training throughout
the week, the Band and Band
Front will present a show titled
“Precision 1973” at the Warwick
Middle School Soccer Field at 7
p.m. Friday, August 24.
This year the Warwick Band
has 100 members. The Band
Front consists of 11 majorettes,
headed by Deb Glick, featured
baton twirler, 16 flag squad
members and 16 rifle squad
members and 10 color guards.
Mike Helman is the Drum Major.
Musical selections with close
order drills to be presented
during the show will be: “Aida’s”
theme from Wagner’s opera
followed by “Carmen’s ” theme
by Bizet. The featured concert
number from Super Star is en­titled,
“Heaven on Their Mind.”
During the colors presentation,
a medley of tunes including,
“Chester,” a Revolutionary
Hymn, combined with “America
the Beautiful” will be performed.
The “Conquerer’s, a Spanish
march will be played as the exit
number. The final fanfare will be
“I Got to Be Me.”
An additional two selections
will be presented Friday night.
They are the popular “Fancy
Colors” and “Get It On.”
Assisting Weller with the band
camp program were: Mrs.
Barbara Shaw, majorettes; Mrs.
Dorinda Cochran, flag squad;
and rifle squad; Jeffrey Thomas,
percussion and Curtis Heckert,
color guard.
Weller, who attended Peabody
Conservatory of Music this
summer, begins his fifth year as
band director at Warwick.
Mrs. Shaw, a former head
majorette and featured twirler
with the Elizabethtown High
School Band, is a holder of many
N.B.T.A. titles and is nationally
known as an accomplished
teacher of novelty type twirling
(fire batons, sabre knives, hoops,
etc.)
Mrs. Cochran was formerly a
majorette with the Manheim
Township Band. She is a second
grade teacher at the Lititz
Elementary School.
Thomas, a student at Miller-sville
State College, is a member
of the Lancaster and Harrisburg
Symphonies.
Heckert, from Herhsey, per­forms
with the White Roses
Drum and Bugle Corps.
At Band Camp refreshments
were served during morning and
afternoon breaks. Co-chairing the
refreshment committee were:
Mrs. Myma Hollinger and Mrs.
Ann Van Brookhoven. They were
assisted by: Mrs. Betty Perini,
Mrs. Pat Robbins, Mrs. Jane
Ammon, Mrs. Erma McCall,
Mrs. Evelyn Schreiber, Mrs.
Virginia Haught, Mrs. Irene
Pettyjohn, Mrs. Marty
Yunginger, Mrs. Barbara Stump,
Mrs. Dot Rosenquist, Mrs.
Gladys Helman, Mrs. Jan e t
Boaman, Mrs. Norma Rowe,
Mrs. Sally Phillips, Mrs. Pat
Hess and Mrs. Annetta King.
The Band and Band Front are
really working hard to put
together a good show for com­petitive
events and half-time
programs at football games.
Come on out to the show Friday
evening and give them your
support! Persons attending the
performance are asked to bring
lawn chairs. In case of inclement
weather, the show will be given in
the high school auditorium.
School Board Approves
Controversial Extension
Of Teachers’ Insurance School Directors went through
three motions and a great deal of
confusion Tuesday night before
getting the necessary votes to
ratify a previous board action
that extended teachers’ medical
benefits and life insurance
through August, in the face of an
expired teachers contract and no
new one in sight before the
beginning of September.
The board also voted to extend
coverage through September.
Tempers flared briefly as some
of the directors, who voiced
strong opposition to extending the
coverage while no contract
exists, maintained that the action
was setting a poor precedent, and
that teachers had been duly in­formed
that their benefits ex­pired
along with their 1972-73
contract.
The first motion to pass was
one made by Director Bill Owens
and seconded by Director Ken­neth
Weaver, to pay coverage for
the month of October. Director
Carl Reedy, who has been
publicly opposing extending the
coverage, Director John Evans,
who is chief negotiator for the
School Board, and Director
Raymond Groff cast opposing
votes.
The second motion that passed
was also made by Owens, and
seconded by Director Henry
Martin, and continues extension
of the insurance through Sep­tember.
Reedy, Evans, and Groff
also cast opposing votes to this
motion.
The board had gone ahead to
extend the coverage through
August at the end of July,
following a telephone poll which
Board President David Buck-waiter
took among the nine
members of the board.
Director Carl Reedy objected
to this method of voting in a
public statement to the Record-
Express, claiming that it was an
illegal method of voting. He
objected to it again at Tuesday’s
meeting.
Buckwalter, in explaining his
action to the board, said he did
not consider the telephone calls a
“vote,” but that his intent was to
“poll” members to find out if
they were in favor of extending
the coverage. He said his action
was based on a favorable reac­tion
from the majority, and that
he was aware the action would
have to be ratified at the next
board meeting, which was
Tuesday.
Owens, who had taken over the
chair at the July board meeting,
in Buckwalter’s absence, told the
board Tuesday that he, Dr. H.
Dale Winger, superintendent,
and John Evans had decided to
bring Buckwalter up to date
following the July meeting.
Buckwalter had been
hospitalized at the time.
“It was a matter of timing,”
Owens told the board. He said the
premiums on teachers’ benefits
were due by Aug. 10, and it was
necessary to act fast.
He said that since the board
and WEA negotiators had
reached a tentative agreement on
a new contract, he felt it was only
fair that the teachers be covered,
and it was necessary to act fast
before this coverage ran out.
Noting what he termed “some
confusion” over what a tentative
agreement amounts to, Evans
told the board that on July 26 the
negotiating teams had reached
an understanding on each subject
of the proposed new contract.
He said WEA negotiators had
not agreed to recommend the
package, only to present it to
their members.
Evans said he himself never
said whether he would recom­mend
the package or just present
it to the board, because “he
wasn’t asked.”
At that time, Evans said, the
WEA negotiators had asked him
if he would extend hospitalization
and insurance, and he had told
them he could not speak for the
board.
Evans still did not state to the
board whether he would
recommend the agreement or
just present it. He said the WEA
would have to move before the
board did, and that the WEA
plans to present the agreement to
their constitutents on Sept. 4.
Woolworth Warehouse
Almost Came to Lititz
Local Realtor Says
The F.W. Woolworth
warehouse th a t’s coming to
Denver Borough came within an
inch of locating in Lititz, ac­cording
to Don Kepner. Kepner’s
real estate firm, with offices at
601 S. Broad St., Lititz, handled
the land acquisition for the
retailing giant.
“ Lititz was Woolworth’s
Towanda Man Named To High School Post
A science teacher from
Towanda, Pa. was named
assistant principal of Warwick
Senior High School Tuesday
night, and the appointment of a
Middle School mathematics
teacher to one year term as
assistant principal of the Middle
School was announced.
Hired as high school assistant
principal was Thomas L. Logan,
38, a teacher at Towanda Area
High School for the past 12 years.
He replaces John Sukenik, who
left the post to return to teaching.
Transfered to the Middle
School post is Dennis Fulmer,
who will replace Barry Smith, on
a one year’s leave of absence.
Logan is a 1958 graduate of
Washington and Jefferson
College, and received a master of
science degree in secondary
school administration from
Bucknell University. He also
attended Penn State University
and Edinboro State College.
In addition to teaching science
at Towanda Area High School for
the past 12 years, he has been
director of athletics there for four
years, basketball coach for seven
years, and has been secretary of
the Susquehanna Valley PIAA for
four years. He was hired at a
salary of $15,000.
In further business the board
accepted resignations from three
teachers and hired six teachers
and a librarian.
Resignations were accepted
from Mrs. Miriam E. Dull, Lititz
Elementary, John W. Mast,
Kissel Hill school, and Lucy A.
Morris, senior high school, all
effective Aug. 21.
Hired were:
Carol A. Bingeman, 204
In This issue, . .
Swarthmore Dr., to teach fourth
grade at Kissel Hill school,
replacing Mast, at a salary of
$7,000. She is a 1973 graduate of
Millersville State College with a
B.S. in elementary education.
Judith A. Drager, Marietta
RD1, to teach business education
at the senior high school,
replacing Patricia Joyce, at a
salary of $7,300. She is a 1972
graduate of Shippensburg State
College with a B.S. in business
education, and has taught in
Cocalico School District.
Mrs. Ruth I. Evans, 55 Nor-thview
Dr., Lancaster, to teach
first grade at Lititz Elementary,
replacing Mrs. Dull, at a salary
of $9,200. She is a graduate of
Mansfield State College with a
B.S. in elementary education.
For the past four years she has
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Sports Section 6,7 Judie Lane, Lancaster, to teach
Women’s 10 business education subjects at
the senior high school, replacing
Lucy Morris, at a salary of $7,300.
She is a graduate of Rider College
with a B.S. in business education
and has one year of teaching
experience in New Je rsey
schools.
Mrs. Linda D. Reese, 800 Park
Hill Dr., Manheim, to teach
mathematics in the Middle
school, replacing Dennis Fulmer
for one year, at a salary of $7,000.
She is a 1973 graduate of
Elizabethtown College with a
B.S. in mathematics.
Susan J . Workman, 208 E.
Lincoln Ave., to teach kin­dergarten
at Kissel Hill
Elementary as a long-term
substitute on a half day basis, at a
salary of $18.92 per half day. She
will replace Mrs. Janet Frace,
who is on maternity leave of
absence. She is a graduate of
Georgia College, with a B.S. in
elementary education.
Mrs. Patricia Sensenig, 237 S.
Spruce St. to fill a vacancy as an
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number one choice,” Kepner
said. “They fed all their facts
about location, taxes, tran­sportation
and labor into their
computers, and the answer was
Lititz. That’s the main reason we
got into the deal, because we’re
here in town.”
Kepner said he and Gene
Peifer, one of his salesmen, had
been working on the project for
about a year. Final papers for the
85-acre parcel of land were
signed Monday. “We didn’t even
know who we were dealing with
at first,” Kepner reported. “We
just knew that it was a large
retailer who wanted to locate in
Lititz.”
No suitable land could be found
in or near Lititz, Kepner said, so
the search turned elsewhere.
Initially, plans called for a 20-
acre site and a half-million
square foot warehousing and
distribution facility. As the
company became more familiar
with the area, though, their plans
got bigger. “They liked what they
saw in Lancaster County,”
Kepner said, “and their plans
now are for a million square feet.
That’s bigger than all of Park
City.”
Some 400 people will be em­ployed
at the Woolworth facility
when it is completed sometime
within the next 18 months. Some
management people will be
coming in from outside the area,
but most of the labor force will be
recuited locally. Kepner couldn’t
reveal how much the firm paid
for the land, but informed
sources say it cost just under a
million dollars.
He said points covered in the
agreement include a new
schedule for tuition payments, a
wage reopener for the bachelor
scale for 1974-75 in the two-year
contract, a change in the
definition of “grievance,” ef­fective
in the second year of the
contract, and salary increases.
He said School Board
negotiators had also agreed to
give the WEA a letter of intent on
better meet and discuss sessions
for next year.
In formal action Tuesday, the
board approved interim salaries
for teachers, effective Sept. 1,
following the 1972-73 pay scale,
with adjustments to be made
after a contract is signed.
This means that teachers first
pay checks in September will be
according to the old salary scale,
with salaries moved up the steps
according to the 1972-73 guide.
Boro Council
To Discuss
Pay Increase
The cost of everything is going
up, probably even the monthly
compensation checks Boro
Council members receive.
Council will take the subject of
raising their $25 monthly allot­ments
under discussion at
Tuesday’s regular session at 7:30
p.m. in Council chambers.
At present, members get $300 a
year, or $25 a month, when they
attend Council’s regular monthly
meeting. The Mayor gets the
same stipend whether or not he
attends the monthly meeting.
A survey of compensations
paid by other boroughs in the
same population category as
Lititz (5,000 to 10,000 people),
tabulated by Boro Manager
George Steedle, shows that the
highest figure paid to councilmen
in any borough is $1500 a year.
Some boroughs pay nothing. One
borough pays its mayor $3600 a
year. Some pay their council
president more than councilmen.
The survey of 77 boroughs in
this category, some of which did
not respond to questionnaires,
showed that of the 77 boroughs in
this category, four pay from
nothing to $299 a year, 14 pay
$300-$599, 20 pay $600-$899, four
pay $900 to $1199, and 12 pay $1200
to $1499.
The allotments are meant as
token compensation for the hours
councilmen must put into their
jobs, in addition to regular
monthly meetings.
One thing we want to avoid, he
said, is making money an in­centive
for running for the job.
Lititz Garden Apartments
Also on Council’s agenda will
be submission of final plans for
Lititz Garden Apartments,
proposed apartment complex to
be built on Owl Hill Road by U. S.
Homes Communities.
The borough Planning Com­mission
recommended approval
of the plan at its August meeting,
providing certain engineering
details of the plan were worked
out. The plan is predicated on
water and sewer hookup with the
borough.
Second Avenue
Council is expected to hear a
report on the parking situation on
East Second Avenue, following
study by a committee of two,
Councilmen Bill York and Donald
Stauffer. The two will also report
on their study of the feasibility of
reverting East Orange Street to a
two-way street. PennDOT has
ordered the borough to remove
the green arrows from the traffic
signals at Orange and Broad
Streets, and Council is seeking
the best way to modify the traffic
signals there, for safe traffic
flow.
South Spruce Street
A petition from residents of
South Spruce Street for control of
speeding on the street will come
up for discussion again Tuesday.
Council is also expected to rehash
controlling the watershed area
west of the borough, in Warwick
Township.