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w i t h i n X ia n c a s t e r C o u n t y 18 PAGES — No. 44
New Law Changes the Rules
School Board to Vote on
Rehiring Winger Tuesday
Boro Manager George Steedle and retiring
mayor, Russell Templeton, were honored by the
Lititz Retailers Association for their service to the
community during a dinner dance at the General
Sutter Inn Saturday night. In the picture are (left to
X t it it z R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o t o
right) Steed le, holding a tackle box which the group
presented him, Mrs. Steed le, Mrs. Lester
Bingeman, Bingeman, who is president of the
retailers group, Mrs. Templeton, and Templeton,
holding a deep sea fishing rod presented to him.
Steedle, Templeton
By Lititz Retailers
Feted
Assn.
Lititz’ Boro Manager and
the town’s retiring mayor
were feted Saturday night by
the Lititz Retailers
Association, at the first
social event in the group’s
history, a dinner dance at the
General Sutter Inn.
The two honored guests,
Boro Manager George
Steedle, and retiring mayor,
Russell Templeton,, wha are
both avid fishermen, were
presented with special gifts
by Lester Bingeman,
president of the association.
Steedle was given a tackle
box in appreciation of many
details he has handled in
cooperation with local
retailers’ events. Templeton
was given a deep sea fishing
rod in appreciation of more
than 20 years of service to
the community.
In reviewing the
a s so c ia tio n ’s a c t iv itie s
before the group of local
businessmen, retailers and
guests gathered at Saturday
night’s event, Donald
Campbell, secretary, stated
that one of the group’s
purposes is to give local
businessmen a chance to
discuss common interests
and problems during the
group’s monthly meetings.
“These meetings, along
with future social events,
will enable those who
operate stores and
businesses in the Lititz area
to get to know each other a
little better,” Campbell said.
“As with any retailers’
group, our aim is to promote
shopping in Lititz area
stores,” Campbell said. “To
accomplish this, we have
organized monthly townwide
sales promotions and held
registrations for prizes and
contests in connection with
these events.”
“The grand total of what
the association did in 1973
would probably surprise a lot
of people,” Campbell com­mented,
noting some of the
highlights of the year.
“In 1973 we gave away
“We send flowers when
there is sickness or death in
the families of our members.
We also send floral
arrangements for business
anniversaries and grand
openings. Over 20 such
bouquets were sent in 1973,”
he said.
“Perhaps the least known
of our projects is the repair
of the stars used as
Christmas decorations in
Lititz,” Campbell said. “It
was brought to our attention
just a few months ago that
these stars had deteriorated
to the point that some of
them just couldn’t be used.
We had 12 of them repaired
in time for this past
Christmas and 13 more will
be repaired in time for next
year.”
The stars are being
repaired at one of the area
vo-tech schools, he said,
where students provide the
Volunteers Aid Heart Victim
Through the combined efforts of two women who became
involved in an emergency situation, a local woman was able
to have heart surgery at a Philadelphia hospital this past
Monday morning.
Mrs. Robert Strickler, Lititz RD4, had been scheduled for a
heart operation at the hospital last week. She did not know
when she was admitted that blood used during her stay would
have to be replaced. The family had no blood doners.
Word of the situation facing the Strickler’s was relayed to
the Moravian Church office last Thursday where Mrs. Jane
King, church secretary, enlisted the aid of Mrs. Phyllis
Wagner, in charge of the church’s Blood Bank.
Faced with the task of obtaining 15 pints of blood, the
women found that the local bank did not have Mrs. Strickler’s
blood type - O-RH negative.
Spurred on by the emergency, Mrs. King and Mrs. Wagner
called local and area industries and schools for volunteers
and found volunteers at Woodstream, Yerger Brothers,
Wagamans, Hamilton Watch, RCA, Armstrong, PP&L. By
Thursday evening they had 18 promises of doners.
However they reportedly hit a temporary snag when they
contacted the Lancaster General Hospital for assistance in
taking the blood doners and preparing the blood for tran­sportation.
The hospital was reluctant to handle this.
Undaunted, the women contacted the Red Cross, who in­tervened.
The doners were notified to report to the blood
bank at the General Hospital from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday
and from 8 a.m. till noon on Saturday.
St. Joseph’s Hospital was contacted and loaned equipment
to keep the blood refrigerated. But the Strickler’s had to
provide their own transportation.
Thirteen qualified blood doners appeared at the hospital by
8 p.m. Friday and two more came in Saturday morning.
The Moravian Church appealed for and obtained the 15
pints of blood.
Ten pints of the blood were taken to Philadelphia by the
Strickler’s son, Tim and the remaining five pints left in
Lancaster.
The Red Cross congratulated Mrs. King and Mrs. Wagner,
both members of the Moravian Church, for the terrific job
they had done for obtaining volunteers with this blood type.
Mrs. Strickler is recuperating from heart surgery per­formed
Monday morning (Jan. 21) at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
labor and the association
foots the bill for the project.
Concluding with an outlook
for 1974, Campbell noted that
membership in the
association has already
surpassed last y e a r’s 33
members, the previous
highest total.
“There are quite a few
long-time members who
have not yet responded and
some new prospects for
membership are being
contacted,” he said. “ I
really don’t feel that a total
of 50 members is impossible
or unrealistic for 1974.”
The School Board learned
this week that it must make
a decision on rehiring the
superintendent of schools by
Feb. 1, about a week earlier
than its former deadline.
The state law on hiring
su p e r in te n d e n ts was
changed Jan . 16, when
Governor Shapp signed a
new Bill, effective im­mediately,
that says school
boards must act on the
rehiring of a superintendent
150 days prior to the ex­piration
of his contract—
Which is Feb. 1 here.
The new law says school
boards must do this at a
regular public meeting, and
that five or more directors
must vote affirmatively on
motions to either:
1. Rehire the superin­tendent
for a term of three,
four, or five years, or
2. Notify the superin­tendent
they are considering
other candidates for the job.
If no action is taken, then,
under the new law, the
s u p e r i n t e n d e n t is
automatically rehired for
another term, the same
length as the term he is now
serving. In Warwick’s case,
this would be a four year
term.
Under the law, if school
boards have already held
their January meetings, they
may call another public
meeting, but must have an
agenda that includes items
other than the hiring of the
superintendent.
School Board President
John Evans said he has
called a “special regular”
meeting for Tuesday, Jan. 29
at 8 p.m. He said the agenda
will include three items: the
Two Local Garages
Running Out of Gas
over
chandise, we put into cir­culation
more than 800 Lititz
Shopping Dollars, we gave
away 27 turkeys during the
Thanksgiving and Christmas
holidays, and we awarded a
trip for two to Nassau for
three days, and a five-day
trip to Miami and the Orange
Bowl.”
Campbell continued that a
third purpose of the
organization is to do things
for the community that
merchants could not do
individually.
“For instance,” he said,
“we co-sponsor the Outdoor
Art Show, along with the Art
Association”. The show is
held on the sidewalks of
downtown Lititz each
summer, with the retailers
making a donation toward
prizes for this event.”
Keller Bros. Auto Co., 730
S. Broad St., ran out of gas
this week, with another week
still left to go before the end
of the month, and Griffith’s
Chevron station at 737 S.
Broad St. expects to be out
by the weekend. Both are
along heavily traveled Route
501 at the south end of Lititz.
Although this is the first
time Keller Brothers has run
out of gas, Griffith was out in
December, also.
John Forry from Keller
Brothers said that his firm,
which sells Arco, has been
out of gas since last Friday
and that he has tried in vain
to get help.
“We’ve tried every avenue
we know to get some, but no
luck,” he said. He said he
had called Congressman
Eshleman’s office, the
energy office, and several
other departments, but could
get no relief.
“Our supplier says we’ve
had our allotment for the
month,” Forry said. “We
were always told by our
supplier to ‘sell,’ so that's
what we’ve been doing,” he
said.
Bob Griffith, who runs the
in cash and mer- but added that if too many
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other gas stations run out,
and their customers come to
him, it might be a different
story.
“We have run into this
situation,” Shelly said. He
added that he has been
taking “ p re c a u tio n s ” -
selling only one five-gallon
can of gasoline at a time, not
filling big trucks or big
drums.
Charles Lehman, who
pumps Arco gasoline at his
garage at 117 W. Lincoln
Ave., said he does not
foresee any problems
holding out for the month.
“So far, so good,” Lehman
said this week.
An employee at
Hollinger’s Mobile station,
100 Front St., also said that
station is going to have
enough to last the month.
hiring of a superintendent,
election of a long-term
substitute teacher, and a
request for an unpaid leave
of absence.
Evans said that once the
board begins its discussion of
agenda items, it will not
permit comments from
spectators at the meeting.
He said this is permissable,
according to the board’s
solicitor, Roger Reist.
He said that citizens who
wish to make comments on
any of the items, including
the one on the superin­tendent,
must indicate ahead
of the meeting that they wish
to speak, and will be given
opportunity to do so at the
start of the meeting. He
asked that citizens notify
him in advance if they intend
to comment.
“We don’t intend to turn
this into a town meeting,”
Evans said.
He said that he did not
really expect too many
citizens to attend the
meeting. Elaborating on
this, he said that even after
local citizens groups had
urged taxpayers to telephone
school directors on rehiring
of the superintendent, he and
other directors had had
“very few” phone calls.
The newly signed law
caught the School Board, and
much of the public
unawares, and even now
many school officials are
questioning the “timing” of
the new law, when most
school districts have already
held their January meetings.
“It’s hard to get nine
people together for another
meeting,” Evans said
Tuesday night, but said he
believes all nine of War­wick’s
directors would be
able to make next Tuesday’s
session.
If any are absent, it could
have a serious effect on the
outcome of the vote.
Whatever motion is passed-rehiring
or considering other
candidates—it must be
passed by five directors. If
even one director is absent,
it could mean a tied vote,
which would either mean
automatic rehiring of Dr.
Winger, or calling another
meeting sometime in the
following two days before the
end of the month.
One of the biggest changes
the bill brings about, Evans
said, is that it makes the
rehiring, or failure to rehire,
of a superintendent a total
board action, rather than the
individual actions of five
school directors.
Under the old law, five
directors could, on their own,
notify a superintendent by
registered signed letter that
they were considering other
candidates for the job. This
did not have to be done, or
even announced, at a board
meeting. It would have been
possible for five directors to
take this action, with the
other four unaware it was
being done.
If the board had chosen not
to call a public meeting
before Feb. 1, Dr. Winger
would automatically have
been rehired for another four
years.
Evans said he was first
told about the new law by Dr.
Winger himself, who in­formed
him of it the day he
(Winger) received notice
from the state Department
of Education.
Evans commented that if
Dr. Winger had not alerted
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Costs of New Streets on
Council's Agenda Tuesday
Chevron station across the
highway from Keller
Brothers, said he does not
expect to have enough gas to
last out the week.
Griffith ran out last month
over the Christmas holidays,
and said he has been getting
a lesser supply each month.
“We ran out a few other
times for a day or two,” he
said, but last month was the
longest time he was without
gas. He said last month he
was out from about Dec. 21
on.
Abe Miller, who operates
the Sunoco station at 733 S.
Broad St., said he “probably
will be able to last till the end
of the month” but he would
not vouch for next month.
“We’re being cut back all
the time,” Miller said.
Ross Bingeman, who runs
the Texaco station along
Route 501 north of town, said
his distributor would be able
to provide him with enough
gas to last the rest of the
month.
Ammon Shelly, who sells
Citgo at his garage east of
the borough, said he an­ticipates
having enough
gasoline through January,
Boro Council will be facing
a number of decisions in­volving
streets, and costs to
the borough and local
residents at its regular
meeting Tuesday night.
Council will also be getting
a report on comparable costs
and available facilities at the
county police com­munications
center.
Two of the biggest items
on Council’s agenda will
involve costs of streets and
utilities expected to go into
two areas of town, one along
West Second Avenue, and the
other off of East Main Street
in the Forney Development.
Hurst Bros. Builders are
developing both areas.
The Planning Commission
has recommended that West
Second Avenue be con­structed
between West
Marion and West Orange
with an entire cartway width
of 37 feet, along with
associated water and sewer
mains, curb and sidewalk on
the north side.
Estimated post of this will
be $56,266. The borough has
already agreed to pay half
the cost of water and sewer
mains, estimated to come to
$12,814.
This will run along the
former Kendig tract, now
owned by Hurst Brothers.
The tract includes 13 lots for
single family dwellings.
Consideration of the
Forney Development con­cerns
proposed South Oak
Street, between East Main
and Kissel Hill Road, in the
development, and an ex­tension
of this same
proposed street between
Kissel Hill Road and South
Locust, with the name to be
changed to East Second
Avenue.
Hurst Brothers will be
building South Oak and the
borough will probably assist
in construction of water
mains there at an estimated
cost of $8,995, according to
Boro Manager George
Steedle.
Steedle said the reason the
borough probably will be
helping to pay the bill is
because the borough wants a
12-inch water main in this
street, in place of the
required six-inch main, and
i n T h i s i s s u e
the borough’s policy in the
past has been to pay the
difference in material
between a six and a 12-inch
line.
Installation of a 12-inch
line will add to an eventual
12-inch loop of water lines
around the borough.
Steedle said that 12-inch
line now costs $7 a lineal foot,
and that six-inch line now
costs $2.96 a lineal foot.
He said that the cost of
constructing E a s t Second
Avenue will be ap­proximately
$36,187, with the
borough’s cost expected to
be approximately $14,872,
which would include 12-inch
water mains and 22 feet of
the total 34 foot cartway.
He said that owners of four
corner properties on the
street would not have to pay
for water lines, because they
aré getting their water
service off another street,
but that they will be required
to pay for six feet of cartway,
curb and sidewalk.
Costs to these four
property owners could range
from $1400 to $2200, Steedle
said. He said the Nuss estate,
which also owns lots on the
block, will have to pay an
estimated $13,800.
Bus Fares to Drop
Feb. 1 for 3 Months
Business Directory 13
Church News 12
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Women’s 10
CTC bus fares between
downtown Lancaster and
Lititz are expected to drop to
45 cents for a three-month
trial period beginning Feb. 1,
Boro Manager George
Steedle said this week.
The current fare from
downtown Lancaster is 72
cents.
Steedle said that Tom
Meredith, head of Conestoga
Transportation Company,
has agreed to try a plan
whereby the borough will
subsidize the bus company
for the difference in daily
revenue over this period.
The matter will come before
Boro Council Tuesday.
The greatest loss to the bus
company, if the plan fails,
has been estimated at
roughly $900, Steedle said.
The borough will pay $500 of
this and CTC will cover $400.
Steedle said the purpose of
the trial plan is to establish
whether or not more riders
would use the buses if the
fare was lower. The borough
maintains that the bus
company will get a greater
income because more
volumn would result from
lowered fares.
Steedle said the plan, in
effect, would be a benefit to
local citizens and also
persons who work in Lititz
and live in Lancaster. He
said it also is an attempt to
help alleviate congested
traffic conditions on Route
501, and to combat the
energy crisis.
Steedle said the week of
Dec. 1 was used to get an
average number of riders
(171 per day) and an average
gross revenue ($170 per
day). According to the plan,
if CTC’s gross revenue
should drop below $170 per
day average during the first
month, the borough would
supplement the income to
the extent of $500 for the
month.
After March 1, either the
borough or CTC may cancel
the agreement on seven days
notice.
Steedle said the possible
$500 it could cost the borough
is worth finding out if the
plan can succeed.
He said about one-third
more people riding the buses
are needed to break even.
He said the borough knows
that about 312 Lancaster
people work in Lititz, and
that if 40 of them rode the
bus, the plan would be a
success.
He said he has no idea how
many people from Lititz
work in Lancaster. He said
the bus route would be handy
for people who work at the
telephone company (on
North Duke Street in Lan­caster),
in downtown Lan­caster
stores, or in other
businesses along the bus
route. He said that at this
time, it would not be too
handy for employees of
Armstrong Cork Company,
who would have an ad­ditional
four or five blocks to
travel from the bus route,
but added that the CTC isn’t
.opposed to adjusting its
schedule later to ac­comodate
Armstrong em­ployees.