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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e I ilt lt z R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Pènna. 17543, Thursday, May 23,1974 10 c e n t s a Copy; 84.00 p e r y e a r b y
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L ititz R e co rd E x p re s s P h o to
18 Mill Tax Increase Gets
Tentative Okay from Board
Firemen battle blaze at Eastern Mobile Mills in
Rothsville Friday morning, working over two hours
to get the fire under control. The fire started in the
Three Lititz men trying for spots on the November
general election ballot all failed on Tuesday to collect
enough votes in the primary voting. Gerald Husser, 311
Balmer Rd., and Stephen Palkovic, Kissel Hill Rd., were
contesting for the Republican nomination to the 102nd
legislative district seat in the Pennsylvania House.
Richard Pohner, 320 E. New St., had the backing of the
Lancaster County Democratic organization, but lost his
bid, too, for the right to run in November.
The two winners in the 102nd district were Republican
Nicholas B. Moehlmann and Democrat William A. Moore.
They will face each other in the fall.
Moehlmann, an attorney from Lebanon County,
swamped his three rivals by better than a two-to-one
margin. The Lebanon County Republican organization
had endorsed Moehlmann, but the Lancaster County GOP
was neutral in the primary race.
Moore, a Berks County dairy farmer who is a supervisor
in rural Tulpehocken Township, was running as an in­dependent
Democrat against both Pohner and Charles
Brown, of Womelsdorf RD1, another independent.
Moehlmann rolled to his easy victory by building up
insurmountable margins in Lebanon County where the
GOP organization went all out to hold onto the 102nd
district seat in the face of challenges from the Lititz men.
Husser was second in the contest, Palkovic was third, and
Luther Swanger, also of Lebanon County, finished fourth.
paint shop on the first floor of the garage and
spread rapidly to the upper story, where truck
parts were stored. See story on page 11.
Final unofficial returns showed Moehlmann with 1,745
votes in the 102nd, to 873 for Husser, 639 for Palkovic and
526 for Swanger.
On the Democratic side in the 102rtd, Moore won with 63
votes to 538 for Pohner and 291 for Brown.
The 102nd race will be a three-way contest in the Fall
with Moehlmann and Moore also facing Penelope Yingst,
who was unopposed for the Constitutional Party’s
nomination in Tuesday’s primary.
A breakdown of the voting in the 102nd district shows
Moehlmann taking the Lebanon County portion of the
102nd with 1,571 votes to 126 for Husser, 131 for Palkovic
and 413 for Swanger.
Husser took Lancaster County with 729 votes to 108 for
Moehlmann, 498 for Palkovic and 72 for Swanger. In Berks
County Moehlmann led with 66 votes to 18 for Husser, 10
for Palkovic and 41 for Swanger.
On the Democratic side in the 102nd, Moore built up big
margins in Lebanon and Berks County, while Pohner
easily swept the Lancaster County portion of the 102nd.
Moore had just 40 votfes in Lancaster County, but he got
399 in Lebanon County and 199 in Berks County. By
comparison, Pohner had 331 votes in Lancaster County,
190 in Lebanon County and only 17 in Berks County.
Brown had 28 votes in Lancaster County, 140 in Lebanon
County and 123 in Berks County to finish third in the three-man
Democratic contest.
Warwick District School Board voted approval Tuesday
night of a tentative $4,523,473 budget for 1974-75 that calls
for an 18 mill tax increase that will take real estate taxes
to 92 mills effective July 1.
Final adoption is scheduled for June 25, with an interim
public meeting called for June 3 to make possible changes
in the proposed budget. Meanwhile, the budget will go on
display for 30 days in the school district’s administration
office, during which time the public may examine budget
items and make suggestions for additions or deletions.
The proposed budget is a four percent increase over the
present one. Total revenues anticipated during 1974-75 are
estimated at $4,199,441. This, combined with an expected
drop in state funding, leaves a budget deficit of $324,025,
which figure must be made up through increased taxes.
In presenting the tentative budget, Superintendent Dr.
H. Dale Winger pointed out that state legislators are now
working on a bill that would increase state subsidies to
school districts, and if this bill is passed before the budget
is adopted it could mean a lower tax hike.
Major increases in the tentative budget include:
$204,000 for salaries and benefits for all teachers in the
district; $30,000 for other salaries and benefits in the
district; $90,000 toward renovation of Lititz Elementary
School; $8,500 for a part-time school psychologist; $9,000
for a reading teacher for the elementary schools; $8,500
for salaries for 15 teachers doing curriculum work over
the summer; $5,000 for instructional materials for lear­ning
disability students; $6,000 for tuition reim­bursements
to teachers; $6,000 for new equipment for the
high school printing shop; $2,700 for jumping pits for the
high school; $1600 for painting classrooms; $3,500 for
cafeteria furniture for the high school; $1500 for a water
softener brine tank for the high school; $4,500 to re-tube a
boiler in the high school; $2000 to repoint the mortar at
Kissel Hill School.
Also $1800 for ceiling repairs throughout the district;
$3,000 for legal services; $1000 for a lawn tractor, mower
and blade; $2000 for a truck lift; $1200 for tax collector’s
commissions; $6,000 for substitute teachers salaries;
$6,700 for textbooks in all schools; $13,000 for public school
bus transportation; $2000 for non-public school bus
transportation; $1500 for transportation of the high school
band; $11,000 for maintenance and operational supplies;
$3,700 for fuel; $5,500 for insurance, and workman’s
compensation; $3,800 for salaries of coaches and spon­sors.
Items that were cut out of original budget requests, but
could still be put back into the budget include: two ad­ditional
reading teachers for the elementary schools and
one for the Middle School, $27,000; a reading clinician for
the district, $12,000; transitional first grade at Lititz
Elementary, $8,500; additional reading materials for the
elementary schools, $6,000; resource centers for the
About 160 persons turned out for a four and a half hour
School Board meeting Tuesday night, moved to the high
school auditorium because of the crowd, with spectators
raising questions, many of them belligerent, on a range of
items including the proposed budget and tax increase, the
possible closing of the Rothsville School, renovations of
Lititz Elementary School, and official recognition of
Concerned Parents and Educators.
It was difficult to determine just how many spectators
were present to discuss the budget and tax increase. The
subject came up frequently during other agenda items,
but by the time school directors reached the proposed
budget, the last item on the agenda, it was already 11 p.m.
and fatigue was obvious both among spectators and
directors.
Early in the evening, Stephen Palkovic, high school
guidance counselor, set the tone for much of the meeting
when he donated to know why he had been “overlooked”
for the new post of coordinator of pupil personnel ser­vices,
accusing the school board of “persecuting” him.
From that point on, the meeting went downhill most of
the way, with spectators frequently guffawing comments
and explanations of directors and the superintendent,
some of them calling insults from their seats.
Coordinators
One of the early agenda items, election of coordinators
for various academic departments and the guidance
department, brought Palkovic to his feet in the
auditorium, stating that he had been doing the sort of work
required of the guidance coordinator “without pay” for a
number of years.
Whitney L. Evans, a guidance councelor, was up for
recommendation to the new post and was subsequently
elementary and middle schools, $25,000; a part-time
physical education teacher for the middle school, $4,000; a
part-time music teacher for the middle school, $4,000; a
part-time typing teacher for the middle school, $4,000; an
additional guidance teacher for the high school, $12,000;
Summer Happening, the elementary summer school
It’s 18, not 8
It was widely reported by news media Wednesday that
the proposed tax increase for Warwick School District is
eight mills. This is inaccurate. The proposed budget calls
for an 18 mill tax increase.
program, $8,000; a coordinator of audio-visual services
for the district, $11,500; audio-visual equipment for the
district, $7,900; in-service training for teachers, $4,000;
assemblies in elementary schools, $1300; the marine
science program in the middle and high schools, $800; all
field trips, $2500.
Also, replacement of instructional equipment in all
schools, $1500; replacement of non-instructional equip­ment,
$3,000; contracted services for instruction in all
schools, $9,000; reduction in athletics programs in middle
and senior high schools, $10,000; new instructional
equipment for all schools, $13,000; a fence for the football
field, $9,000; a reduction in cafeteria furniture for the high
school, $8,500; new lockers for the senior high boys locker
room, $6,000; replacement of three oil burners in the high
school, $14,500; shades and draperies for the high school,
$4,000; asphalt walks and pads at the Middle School,
$2,000; classroom furniture for Rothsville School, $2500;
miscellaneous repairs and painting in all schools, $12,500;
four elementary teachers (vacancies which will not be
filled), $32,000; library books and supplies for all schools,
$5,400; audio-visual supplies, $1300; general materials
and supplies, $10,000.
Of the total proposed budget, 52.5 percent constitutes
instruction. This includes salaries of teachers, principals,
secretaries, clerks, aides; supplemental salaries paid
teachers for summer work; salaries of librarians; text­books;
instructional materials; library books and sup­plies;
audio-visual equipment and supplies; workbooks;
in-service training of teachers; tuition reimbursement to
teachers; teacher conference expenses; expenses of
principals; teacher mileage; repair and replacement of
equipment; and miscellaneous supplies and materials for
instruction.
Greatest continuing increases in the proposed budget
are for plant maintenance and operation, which makes up
10.14 percent of the budget; debt service, 14.8 percent;
fixed charges, 6.84 percent; and intersystem payments,
3.53 percent.
elected.
However, Palkovic told the board that he himself has
been a guidance counselor for eight years and a teacher
for 20 years, and that Evans has only been a counselor for
one year.
“Why was I overlooked?” Palkovic asked the board,
“no one objected to the work I’ve been doing for free-my
principal or Dr. Winger (superintendent ol schools) never
objected,” he said. “Now that they’re going to pay
someone, they get someone else,” he said.
Telling the board how many hours he has spent recently
in extracurricular work with students, Palkovic said,
“This is the way you slap me in the face.”
As directors continued with election of coordinators, a
spectator, Dr. Robert Huber, asked why Palkovic’s
questions were not answered. Board President John
Evans replied that Dr. Winger had answered the
questions when he explained that the coordinators had
been selected from applicants based on a thorough
knowledge of their field, experience past performance,
and the “feeling of other teachers” involved. This com­posite
had been considered by the personnel committee,
he said.
Another spectator demanded whether board members
actually knew the people they were voting on, adding that
it sounded like there was some “politics” involved.
Director William Owens, chairman of the personnel
committee, said that his committee had in fact evaluated
these people, and that the committee’s judgments had
been made on merit. “We’re not playing politics and we’re
not playing games,” Owens said.
In addition to Evans, other coordinators named were
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Lititz Retailers and Service Clubs
Raise *8,563.72 for Lititz Fire Co.
Lititz retailers and service Cam Tech of Lititz
club contributions to the Carl W. Fuss Co.
Lititz Fire Company The Carpet Shop
Building Fund amounted to Commonwealth National
$8,563.72 as a result of last Bank
weekend’s promotion. Robert E. Dull, Jeweler
This total is the winning Farmers F irst National
figure in the $100 contest Bank
sponsored by the Lititz First Federal Savings &
Retailer’s Association. The Loan
winner of the 100 Lititz D. E. Fur low Variety Center
Shopping Dollars will be General Sutter Inn
notified and announced in The Gladell Shop
next week’s Lititz Record- Glassmyers
Express. Hagy’s Western Auto
A spokesman for the Lititz
Retailer’s Association in­dicated
that the weekend
events were successful and
the response of the public
was gratifying. Special
thanks go to the Lititz
Community Band; to the
Warwick Middle School
Band; and to the Warner
Lambert Company and to
Woodstream Corporation for
contributing advertising
space to promote the
weekend festivities.
The following businesses
and service clubs are
responsible for the $8,563.72
in donations that have been
received:
Armold Jewelers
Backporch Candle Shoppe
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bicycle World
Bingemen’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bingeman’s Texaco
B & V Outlet
Bob’s Save Rite Market
Hen & Dave’s Bicycle Shop Lipparts of Lititz
Hendricks’ Flower Shop Lititz Ambucs
Hershey’s Shoe Store (Dunking Machine)
Hess Men’s Wear Lititz Book Store
Hoffy’s Tavern Lititz Bowling Lanes
Hollinger’s Farm & Home Lititz Central Market
Supply (Spring Meadow Farm)
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts Lititz Jaycee’s
Kelly’s Delicatessen (Balloon Stand)
Keller Bros. Auto Co. Lititz Lions Club
Kenyon’s Pastry Shop Lititz Pet Shop
Klotz Kleners Lititz Record Express
Kreider Hardware Lititz Rotary Club
Lads & Lassies Children’s Lititz Sports Center
Apparel Lititz Sewing Center
Long & Bomberger
Miller Furniture Store
Miller’s Service Station
Wilbur Miller, CPA
McElroy Pharmacy
Parkview Hotel
Ranck’s Meat Market
Shoes ’n Things
Stauffers of Kissel Hill
Spacht’s Funeral Home
Spacht’s Furniture Store
P. T. Trimble Hardware
Trudi K Shop
Wells Warwick House
Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet
J. B. Zartman, Inc.
Funds were also raised
through other donations and
sales, including $50 from the
Lititz Community Band,
over $100 in sales at the hot
dog stand Friday night,
nearly $600 on fire truck
rides, and more than $1900 on
the chicken corn soup sales.
More Fire Company
Weekend pictures appear on
page 10.
Boro Council Faces
Controversy over
New Street Lights
Faced with numerous letters of protest, and objections
from two local persons active in historical preservation in
Lititz, Boro Council is expected to take up the subject of
new street lights at its regular meeting Tuesday at 7:30
p.m.
Council had an “experimental” street light, consisting
of a “historical” fixture attached to the present
Washington Boulevard standards, installed at the square
this month and called for citizens to express their opinions
on it.
A number of letters to the editor have appeared in the
Record-Express objecting to the lights. Boro Manager
George Steedle said he has had 10 letters also objecting to
the lights, and has had four or five verbal opinions in favor
of them.
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Can you find yourself in this picture? Youngsters Saturday, each getting a free fireman’s hat for the
by the dozens had rides on Lititz fire engines trip.
Moehlmann and Moore Win
In 102nd Dist. Primaries
C itiz e n s , S c h o o l B o a r d
T a n g le in L o n g S e s s io n