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T a x I n c r e a s e S e e n
F o r S c h o o l D i s t r i c t
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School taxes will probably go up in excess of five mills,
Superintendent of Schools Dr. H. Dale Winger said this week.
“It looks like a major tax increase this year,” Dr. Winger
told school directors at their regular meeting Tuesday night.
Dr. Winger said that 1974-75 is going to be a “very difficult
budget year,” stating that there is no sign of any additional
funds from the state or federal government.
“Any additions over this year’s budget will have to come
out of local taxes,” Dr. Winger said, noting that inflation will
be raising prices on food items and many school supplies.
Dr. Winger said it was impossible at this point to say what
the millage increase would be, but he expects more than a
five mill increase.
The Board approved a budget calendar for 1974-75, which
calls for a preliminary review of the proposed budget on or
about April 1. For the first time, the preliminary review
session will be conducted at a public meeting, the board
decided Tuesday. Two days of public display will also be
scheduled at John Beck and Kissel Hill Elementary Schools.
Budget forms and instructions to administrative and
supervisory staff were distributed Jan. 11 and forms are
being distributed at faculty meetings this week. On Feb. 12,
budgetary requests are due in principals’ offices. This is the
first cut-off date on the calendar.
The final cut-off date for budget requests is March 1.
Budget conferences with staff are scheduled for March 11-22,
with preliminary review by the board set for April 1.
Additional budget review by the board has been scheduled
for April 16-30, with preliminary adoption set for May 21.
Public budget meetings will be held May 28 and 29.
Final adoption is set for June 18.
Cindy Robbins, Warwick High School junior who
broke her leg in a motorcycle accident last week
while riding on snowy Green Acre Road, smiles
from her bed at Lancaster General Hospital, where
she has been in traction since her accident. The toy
x a titz R e co rd E x p re s s P h o to
mouse she is holding was a gift from a classmate. In
good spirits despite her discomfort, Cindy has a
message for any would-be winter cyclists - “ Stay
off the ice!” she warns.
Warwick Iwp. Police Reports
Local Girl Breaks Leg
Accident on lev Green
in Cycle
Acre Rd.
Cindy Robbins, 16-year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
D. Robbins, 19 Pfautz Ave.,
was reported in fair con­dition
at Lancaster General
Hospital this week, where
she is undergoing treatment
for a broken leg, the result of
a motorcycle accident last
Wednesday, Jan. 9.
Cindy, a junior at Warwick
High School, was in the
passenger seat of the cycle
when it went out of control
and skidded in the snow,
falling over on its side and
landing on Cindy’s leg.
Police report that William
M. Sweitzer, 38 Center St.,
was operating the cycle
when the accident occurred.
The two were traveling south
on Green Acre Road, at 6
p.m., when snowy roads
caused the bike to go out of
control. The cycle is owned
by the injured girl’s father.
A local physician was
summoned to the scene and
Cindy was taken to General
Hospital by the Warwick
Ambulance.
Icy roads were also
blamed for tvri> separate
accidents, each involving
three-car pileups, early last
Thursday morning, Jan. 10,
with one driver rushed to
Lancaster General Hospital
for X-rays and treatment.
One of the accidents oc­curred
on Kissel Hill Road at
7:06 a.m., and the other
happened about two hours
later on Route 501 in
Elizabeth Township, near
Lexington.
Mrs. Ruth N. Williams,
Lititz RD1, was the motorist
who was hospilized following
the accident at Lexington.
She was released Monday.
According to Warwick
Township police, state police
cars were tied up because of
a rash of accidents on the
morning of Jan. 10, caused
by icy roads, and township
police were called to inves­tigate
the accident near
Lexington.
Involved were David L.
Yerger, 21N. Locust St., who
was operating a 1969 In­ternational
truck owned by
F. R. Schreiber Co. Mrs.
Williams, driving a 1970
Volkswagon sedan, and Alice
D. Yost, Lebanon, driving a
1973 Oldsmobile coupe.
The truck was filled with a
variety of warehouse
merchandise. It reportedly
skidded on the icy road
surface into the two cars.
Officer Kenneth Martin
from Warwick Township
investigated. Damages were
estimated at $1200 to the
Williams car, $1000 to the
Yost car, and $50 to the
truck.
No prosecutions were
made.
All three drivers involved
in the accident on Kissel Hill
Road escaped injury,
although damages totaled an
estimated $1500.
Officer Martin, who also
investigated this accident,
reported that Donald A.
Gregg, Owl Hill Road, was
heading south on Route 501 in
a Chevrolet truck, which was
the property of the Manheim
Township M u n ic ip a l
Department, when he ran
into the rear of a 1972 Old­smobile,
being driven by
Henry F. Long, Lititz RD1.
Long had stopped on the hill
because traffic in front of
him had come to a halt.
When the truck struck the
Long car, it pushed it into a
third car, which had come to
a halt facing north on 501
after having already spun
around on the ice. This car, a
Plymouth sedan, was
operated by James E. Faus,
145 N. Locust St.
Police report that traffic
was tied up due to the ac­cident
for 45 to 60 minutes.
Damages were estimated at
$500 to the Manheim
Township vehicle, $600 to the
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119 Teachers in WEA Vote
7No Confidence7 in Winger
Long car, and $400 to the
Faus car.
Two other snow-related
accidents occurred last
Wednesday, Jan. 9, with one
motorist suffering minor
injuries.
Clyde M. Good, Lititz RD2,
escaped with a cut on his
hand when he ran head-on
into a tree on Newport Road,
in front of Eastern Mobile
Mills, Rothsville. Police
report that Good was
heading west on Newport
about 5 p.m. when his
vehicle, a 1968 Chevrolet van
truck, ran off the road and
went out of control in the
snow, smacking into a large
tree. Damages were
estimated at $500 to the van.
Earlier that same day,
about 7 a.m., police report
that • Jay Howard Young,
Lititz RDI, was heading
south on Route 501, near the
Zion Home hill, when he ran
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Dennis J. Craig
Craig Named
To Head County
Planning Unit
Dennis J. Craig, 28 S.
Broad St. Lititz, was elected
chairman of the Lancaster'
County Planning Com­mission
Monday.
Craig is assistant
treasurer of Armstrong Cork
Co. He was appointed to the
county board in July 1972 to
fill an unexpired term, and
was re-appointed to a four-year
term in December of
that year.
Craig served as vice
chairman in 1973 and often
presided at meetings when
the chairman, Paul H.
Gerber, was unable to attend
for health reasons.
Craig is also chairman of
the Lititz Planning Com­mission.
He has been a
member of that borough
group since 1961 and its
chairman since 1967.
A graduate of Villanova
University, he also has
earned a master’s degree in
business administration
from Temple University. He
is married and the father of
four children.
Superintendent of Schools,
Dr, H. Dale Winger, came
under fire from Warwick
Education Association
Tuesday night, when the
president of the teachers’
union James Konevitch,
announced that teachers had
given Winger a “vote of no
confidence.”
Although news of the
resolution had been cir­culating
all week, there was
some doubt whether the
teachers would make it
public. Floyd Montgomery,
chief negotiator for the
WEA, had stated earlier in
the week that he did not think
the resolution would be
presented at Tuesday’s
School Board meeting.
Konevitch, an English
teacher at the high school, in
reading the resolution from
the WEA, said it had been
approved by 119 teachers
affiliated with the WEA. He
said 32 teachers had ab­stained.
The resolution which
Konevitch read charged a
“lack of leadership” on Dr.
Winger’s part and charged
that Dr. Winger had
“alienated himself from the
faculty.”
It stated that he has failed
to establish and maintain
sufficient lines of com­munication
with his
faculty,” and that he has “at
times made unilateral
decisions affecting the
welfare of students and
faculty.”
Two other local citizens at
the meeting, one of them
representing an organized
group, also spoke to the
In This Issue
Business Directory 13
Church News 12
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10,11
Forney Resigns from
Warwick Twp. Post
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o to
Warwick Township Police Chief Paul H. Haines, who
was elected president of the Northern Lancaster
County Chiefs of Police Association, is shown at his
desk in the township Municipal Building.
Haines Elected President
Of Police Chiefs Assn.
Paul H. Haines, Warwick Township police chief, was
elected president of the Northern Lancaster County Chiefs of
Police Association at a recent meeting.
Chief Haines was elected to a one-year term of office,
succeeding Police Chief Gene Willwerth of Ephrata.
The association includes the 17 police departments con­nected
with the Ephrata Communications Center and the
area game protector.
Chief Haines, who lives at Lititz RDI, has been chief of the
Warwick Township police department since December, 1968,
having served as acting chief for a period before that. He is
the elected constable in the township.
Also elected by the police chiefs association were Ephrata
Township Chief Richard L. Mull, vice-president, and New
Holland Chief Donald J. Troupe, secretary-treasurer.
Directors elected were West Cocalico Township Chief
Richard E. Fasnacht, West Earl Township Chief William R.
Booth, and Adamstown Chief Eugene W. Bezier.
Wa rwick Township
supervisors accepted the
resignation of J. Arne
Forney, Skyview Lane,
Rothsville, from the
Municipal Authority last
Thursday night at their
re g u la r semi-monthly
meeting.
Forney, who was chair­man
of the authority,
resigned for business and
health reasons, according to
Richard I. Hoffer, secretary
of the supervisors. He has
been succeeded by Marvin
Feiler, 332 Owl Hill Rd.
The supervisors also
announced they will be
accepting suggestions for a
new zoning officer after
April 1. The present zoning
officer, Joseph Snavely, will
be vacating the post for a
year’s travel abroad.
The supervisors discussed
and tabled a decision on
closing certain roads and
streets in the township for
sledding. The discussion will
be resumed at their next
meeting Jan. 24 after in­surance
liabilities have been
studied.
The supervisors also
announced they will be
advertising for a new truck
in the next month.
Motor in School
Catches Fire
Lititz Fire Company
responded to a fire call at
Lititz Elementary School
Tuesday about 9:30 p.m.
when one of the motors in the
ventilator unit in the gym­nasium
ceiling burned up.
The gym was in use by the
Rec Center at the time. The
motor and its wiring were
destroyed, and some
classrooms and corridors
were filled with smoke,
which was cleared out
Tuesday night, school of­ficials
reported. Classes
were held as usual Wed­nesday.
board concerning Dr.
Winger, primarily asking for
a re-evaluation of the
superintendent and for other
candidates to be considered
for his job.
Dr. Winger was present
when the letter from the
WEA and the other
statements were made, but
made no comment at that
time.
He did, however, talk with
th e R e c o r d -E x p r e s s
following the meeting
stating that “nobody should
evaluate a superintendent,
or any other public official,
unless they are fully aware
of the circumstances in
which he works, including
the financial situation.”
Dr. Winger said he
believes the group qualified
to evaluate a superintendent
is the School Board, adding
that there are a “few”
persons in the community
who have worked with the
school district whom he also
felt were qualified to make
such an evaluation.
“Unless you know the
circumstances of any job, I
don’t see how you can
evaluate how a person is
doing it,” Dr. Winger said.
Dr. Winger added that he
was also concerned about
some of the younger
teachers in the profession,
stating that many of them
show a “ lack of un­derstanding
and a lack of
empathy for students.”
The other statements
concerning Dr. Winger came
from Gary Hanna, president
of, Concerned Parents and
Teachers, and Larry van
Brookhoven, Jr., 217 Front
St., a teacher in the
Columbia School District.
Hanna urged that the
superintendent be “ re ­evaluated”
before his
contract is renewed ant that
the School Board seek
“community input” for the
evaluation.
vanBrookhoven told the
board that he will be sending
them petitions concerning
Dr. Winger within the next 10
days.
v anB ro o k h o v e n h ad
requested a meeting with the
Personnel Committee to
present petitions he said
were now being circulated,
but his request was denied
after committee chairman,
William Owens, said he saw
no need for a private
meeting on the matter.
Owens said he preferred that
the petitions be given to the
board president. John Ev-
Press,
Barred
ans, board president, said
he would send the petitions to
the personnel committee
when he receives them.
vanBrookhoven said
following the meeting that
about 10 petitions are now
being circulated. The
petitions ask that the board
notify Dr. Winger that other
candidates are being con­sidered
for his position as
superintendent.
Public
from
Contract Talk
The chief negotiator for
Warwick teachers has
refused to negotiate in the
presence of the press or the
public, and asked one ob­server
to leave the meeting
room before the first
bargaining session got un­derway
last Thursday night.
Starting out with no formal
ground rules, the chief
negotiators for the two
b a rg a in in g te am s—the
School Board and Warwick
Education Association—
have already locked horns
over whether the press and
the public may sit in on
bargaining sessions.
William Owens, negotiator
for the School Board, has
stated publicly and had
informed the Record-
Express that he and the
board have no objections to
the public attending
bargaining sessions.
F lo y d M o n tg om e ry ,
negotiator for the WEA and a
regional representative for
the state and national
education associations, has
taken the opposite stand,
stating. “There is only one
ground rule” and that is that
he will not allow negotiations
with the press or observers
in the room.
“It upset me that
tgomery, who has
Mon-been
Bus Route May Be
Extended in Boro The borough has received
a “receptive response” from
Conestoga Transportation
Company to extend the bus
route farther east in Lititz,
as of Feb. 1.
The altered route
requested by the borough
would take buses from the
Square along East Main
Street to Oak Street, north on
North Oak to Front Street,
then west on Front Street to
Woodstream Corporation.
The present route runs
from the Square along East
Main to Locust Street, north
on North Locust to Front
Street at Woodstream, then
west on Front Street.
The new proposed route
would provide bus service
for residents and employees
at Luther Acres, as well as
residents of the Oak Street
area, and employees of
Yerger Brothers and Guyon
Industries.
Boro Manager George
Steedle said the borough had
requested the altered route
last week, and that Thomas
W. Meredith, executive vice-president
of CTC, had been
“receptive” to it. Steedle
said there is a very good
chance the new route will be
approved.
The suggested longer bus
route is part of a plan on the
part of the borough to in­crease
public transit service
for the residents and em­ployees
of the borough.
working along with the
teachers to get School Board
meetings opened up, would
take such a stance,” Owens
told the Record-Express this
week.
Montgomery had informed
a Record-Express reporter
before the meeting that he
would not permit the press to
sit in on negotiation sessions,
stating that if a reporter
showed up last Thursday
night, he would be asked to
leave.
One local woman, Mrs.
Eileen Kirk, 718 Owl Hill
Rd., did show up at the
session, and was seated in
the barganing room at
Warwick High when the
negotiating teams arrived.
She was asked to leave by
Montgomery.
According to Mrs. Kirk,
she was the first one present
in the meeting room. She told
the Record this week that
after the bargaining teams
arrived, and each person had
introduced himself, she
stated that she was “an
observer.”
She said that Montgomery
then said there was “only
one ground rule, that he
would not allow negotiations
with the press or observers
in the room.”
Contacted again this week,
Montgomery reiterated his
stand against permitting
observers or the press into
negotiation sessions.
“I don’t think it serves a
purpose from either side of
the negotiating table in the
initial stages,” he said. “The
reporting of both positions
tends to harden both
positions. Negotiations is a
matter of give and take-neither
side expects to get
what they ask at first.
(Presence of observers)
makes both sides less apt to
move from both original
negotiations,” he said.
Asked how he could make
a “ground rule” against
observers, when no ground
rules exist, Montgomery
said, “There are no formal
ground rules.”
He went on, “Last year
they (ground rules) actually
acted to hold up
negotiations.” He said they
caused much “red tape.”
He said he does not an-
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