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Downtown Streets Filled Wi
Business bustled in downtown Lititz Friday and
Saturday as Christmas shoppers filled the
Meet Karen Koncle—
New Borough Office
&
l i f t i f p t X X M
ith Christmas Shoppers
sidewalks and shops. Lititz merchants were
pleased with the turnout of customers.
Manager
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Open House
The Lititz Borough
Council invites the
public to attend an open
house at the newly
renovated Borough Hall
at 7 S. Broad St.,
Friday, Dec. 7 from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m.
The renovation was
started Sept. 11, 1978
and was completed last
week.
Karen Koncle, Borough
Office Manager, stepped into
her newly-created post on
Oct. 1. And after just eight
weeks she is beginning to
feel at home in the job, just
as she and her family feel
happy and comfortable in
the community.
Orginally from Lebanon
County, Mrs. Koncle and her
husband, Edward, came to
Lititz in December 1978, with
their children, Kelly Jo, 11,
and Katie, 9. Prior to
coming here, they had lived
for the past eight years in
Oxford, N.J., where Mrs.
Koncle was program
assistant to the Extension
Service 4-H Agent.
She worked with the
County Agent in im­plementing
the entire 4-H
program with special
responsibility for the 4-H
Prep Program-working
with children age 7, 8 and 9-
and was also in charge of
arts and crafts, music and
o u td o o r r e c r e a tio n
programs.
Both she and, her husband
were deeply involved in
community service work.
She served on the local
school board and was a
Freeholder appointee to the
Warren County College
Study Committee, which was
created to study the
feasibility of establishing a
community college in the
area.
She was also chairman of
the publicity sub-committee,
responsible for providing
information to all the media.
She was involved in
scouting, PTA and church
work.
“ I enjoy community
service work and so does my
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husband. He was chairman
of the Planning Board in
Oxford,” she said.
Not only is Mrs. Koncle:
new in her job, but the job:
itself is a new one created
when the borough ad­m
in is tr a tio n was
reorganized this year.
Dave Anderson, formerly
Borough Manager, is now
Director of Public Services,
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 14,15
Church 18
Business Directory 20
Classified 21,22,23
responsible for all Borough
service and properties, while
the office administration is
under Mrs. Koncle’s
direction. They each report
directly to Borough Council.
She is totally responsible
for the overall functioning of
th e b o ro u g h o ffic e :
b o o k k e e p in g , b u d g e t
p re p a ra tio n , the in­numerable
state and federal
reports, the secretarial staff
and assistant Borough Office
Manager.
“Dave is extremely
pleased with the new
organization and so am I. We
both feel our particular
stren g th s lie in our
r e s p e c tiv e a r e a s of
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Borough Office Manager Karen Koncle relaxes
for a moment in her comfortable office at Borough
Hall. But, then it’s back to preparing agendas for
the Borough Council meeting that evening, just
one of her varied duties.
Nelson Hershey of Manheim was the first one to report in to the Record Ex­press
Monday. He shot his 8-point, 130 lb. buck at 6:50 a.m. in Heidelberg
Township, Lebanon County. Hershey had only been hunting five minutes before
he shot his deer.
Monday’s bad weather and
unseasonably warm weather
ruined the deer hunting for a
lot of hunters, according to
state-wide reports, but local
hunters seemed to fare very
well on Monday, according
to local butcher Vernon
Ranck.
According to Ranck, the
first day of buck season,
Monday, saw as many deer
as last year in his shop.
Ranck’s butcher house
behind his meat market is a
main depository in Lititz for
the kill brought out of the
mountains by hunters from
all over the country.
As of Tuesday noon, Ranck
reported the following list of
hunters who brought deer in
for butchering:
Richard Myers, Harry
Zimmerman, Phil Heagy,
Mike Long, Rock Wise, John
Hess, Grant Buchter,- John
Gilbet, Harry Badorf and
Mike Keller.
Also: Jay Fisher, Garry
Gross, Douglas Olt, Leon
Carvell, David Ament,
Walter Posey, Bill Lengel,
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Borough Council Proposes
$10 Occupation Tax
Borough Council is
proposing a $10 Occupation
tax as part of the 1980 budget
of $621,671. Also in the new
budget is a one mill increase
in real estate taxes and an
increase in parking meter
fees from five cents to ten
cents per hour.
The proposed budget
represents an increase of
$36,491 over the 1979 budget.
The one mill increase in the
real estate tax, from 23 to 24
mills, .is expected to bring in
about $10,800.
The borough also levies a
per capita tax of $10 and a
$10 occupational privilege
tax, as well as a realty
transfer tax.
The new occupation tax
will apply to all residents
who are employed either in
or out of the borough and is
viewed as a way of in­creasing
revenues without
putting a burden on
residents who live on fixed
incomes. The new tax is
expected to bring in about
$30,000 while the increase in
parking fees should amount
to about $3,500.
Total income is expected
to be $616,900 plus a begin­ning
balance of $13,371 for a
total income of $630,361. The
borough expects the ending
balance to be about $8,690.
Budget categories include
the following:
-General government.
$121,232 up from $112,756 in
1979.
-Protection to persons and
property, $142,672, up from
$133,598.
-Health and sanitation,
$70,450, up from $61,950.
-Highways, $147,825, up
from $132,370.
-Recreation, $24,662, up
from $23,756.
-Miscellaneous, $89,110,
up from $81,460.
-Transfers, $25,720, down
from $39,290.
The proposed budget will
be placed on public display
from Dec. 10 to 26.
Corrections and changes
may be made by council up
The Warwick Township
Board of Supervisors un­veiled
its 1980 proposed
budget last week and stated
that there would be no need
for an increase in municipal
taxes, which will remain at
seven mills.
Total estimated receipts
and cash balance as of Jan.
1, 1980 is $534,302. Total
estimated expenditures
to its adoption at the Dec. 26
meeting.
In other business, council
discussed the proposed use
of Federal revenue sharing
funds for 1980 in the amount
of $49,451, plus estimated
carry-over of $148 and in­terest
income of $360,
making $49,800 available for
1980.
Funds will allocated as
follows: Police telephone,
$2,800; contributions to fire
company, $6,600; street
lighting, $29,000; Lititz
Public Library, $1,500; Lititz
Community Center, $1,950;
Lititz Springs Park, $1,200;
fire insurance, $2,500;
from the general fund for
1980 is $457,020.
The supervisors anticipate
$29,571 in revenue sharing
funds. The State’s liquid
fuels fund anticipated
receipts and cash balance is
$65,502, with total estimated
expenditures set at $64,902.
Rezoning Granted
In other action, the
supervisors rezoned 200 feet
automobile casualty in­surance,
$4,000.
Council also plans to apply
for Community Develop­ment
Funds to complete the
water line on N. Water
Street, $35,000; line stream
bed in Locust Street Park,
$32,200; and reconstruction
of 100 block of E. New Street,
$60,000.
The b orough has*
scheduled the last leaf
pickup for Nov. 30. Christ­mas
trees will be picked up
at curbside during the week
of Jan. 7.
Council has approved the
purchase of a new 125 KW
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east of the present eastern
property line for J. Lloyd
and Elva Bomberger, Route
501 North, from Rural to R2.
There was no opposition.
Street Deeds
The supervisors accepted
s tre e t deeds for the
following: Douglas Drive
and Cindy Lane, May
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Warwick Township Supervisors
No Increase In Property Tax
Seen For Warwick Township
Late Monday afternoon a tornado-like storm Wenger, Penn Valley Road, inis was the scene
destroyed a hog barn on the property of Menno Tuesday as the job of cleaning up begins.
Lititz Firemen On Scene
T o r n a d o - L ik e W in d s
D e s tr o y H o g B a r n
A cold front, moving
across the state Monday,
reached the Lititz area about
4 p.m., causing tornado-like
winds which collasped a 200-
by-40 foot bam on the farm
owned by Menno Wenger Sr.,
Penn Valley Road, Lititz R6,
killing three pigs and in­juring
several others.
Carl Brubaker, assistant
Lititz Fire Chief, said high
winds blew the tin roof off
most of the one-story cement
block hog barn, which
contained 730 pigs.
According to Brubaker,
debris was strewn around a
wide area and he had
“gotten reports” that air-bom
debris from the bam
had been seen near Lititz. He
thinks it was a twister.
The eastern end of the
building “was pretty well
knocked down,” he said.
Although most of the roof
was blown away, a portion of
it collasped into the building.
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Debris from the roof is strewn about in front of the barn. Lititz firemen were
on location for 4 hours helping to dear away the wreakage so that the 730 pigs
could be removed. Photo by Kay Gibble.