Intelligencer Journal from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 28

28-INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL, Lancaster, Tuesday, January 4, 1972 Lancaster City's Weather for 1971 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER HIGH JULY 8 LINE INDICATES NORMAL HIGH LINE INDICATES 40 NORMAL LOW PRECIPITATION IN INCHES TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR 1971 LOW FEB. 53.63 INCHES 10 NORMAL PRECIPITATION 42.12 INCHES 11.72 3.45 3.45 3.54 4.01 2.61 1.70 1.83 5.51 5.23 NORMAL 1971 NORMAL 1971 NORMAL 1971 NORMAL 1971 NORMAL Intelligencer Journal Photo Mayor Monaghan, left, adminis- Witmer, Dr. Jack Metzger and ters oath of office to Lancaster city Thomas P. McElwee. councilmen, from right, Kenneth I.

McElwee, Witmer Sworn-In; Council Re-elects Metzger Dr. Jack B. Metzger was reelected president of City Council Monday after he and Kenneth I. Witmer and Thomas P. McElwee took their oaths of office in Council chambers.

Witmer and McElwee officially entered their first term of office Monday, while Metzger was sworn in for his second term. There remains one empty seat on Council, vacated by Richard Filling who resigned last month because of increased demands on his time by business. Council will meet next Tuesday for its first regular business meeting, at which time it is hoped that a successor to Filling will be named and new Council committees organized. Republican sources report that in the reorganized Council, Witmer, a former city policeman, will be named to head up the public safety committee and McElwee will probably get the nod to head the Public Works Committee. Bernard V.

Santaniello, now county register of wills, was formerly head of the public safety committee. Daniel S. Templeton, whose term of office expired with the seating of McElwee and Witmer, was formerly head of the public Templeton, whose terms of ofworks committee. Mrs. Julia Brazill, presently head of the personnel com- 178 10 10 07No 3.47 3.16 1971 NORMAL Manor Bar Prospect Protested By MARVIN I.

ADAMS Intell Staff Writer The prospect of a restaurant with a liquor license on Millersville Road filled the Manor Twp. building Monday night with protesting residents. James Heinly, attorney. for Robert Dommel Real Estate, 1507 Butter Road, presented the township supervisors with a petition asking for rezoning a tract of land along Millersville Road from R-2 residential to Commercial. Heinly said his client, Robert Dommel, former owner of the Foodergong Restaurant, wants to build a restaurant on the property and secure a liquor license.

The property is located just east of the intersection of Joseph and Millersville Roads. between the Millersville Road and Kreps Road. According to plans presented by Heinly, the restaurant would measure 35 by 75 feet. Manor Twp. does have one liquor license it can award.

Six establishments already have licenses. Heinly said the property was purchased from the Banker, Bond and Mortgage Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1971. He told supervisors that Dommel Real Estate would lose more money than the property was worth if the zoning change was not made. OFFERS TO SELL LAND After over half an hour of listening to citizen protests, Heinley said he was prepared to sell the property that night for $35,000.

He had no takers. In presenting his petition, Heinly noted that traffic conditions at the tract location 'are bad because ot a sweeping curve in the road and high banks which cut down on visibility on access roads. He said Dommel Real Estate would attempt to limit access to the proposed restaurant and possibly even cut down the banks. But he noted that he felt the big question was "a restaurant with a liquor license in Manor Twp." When the citizens who had crowded into the meeting room got their turn to talk, they told the supervisors that the road was too dangerous now, and couldn't take more traffic. "I propose there is no safe Jack Ernst, 1019 Millersville Road, told the pervisors in referring to the plans for access to the restaurant.

L.E. Maynard. 801 Millersville Road, referred to many accidents along the curve and said at times his home "has been like a hospital" for persons injured in crashes. Heinley noted that the property could not be used for building homes or for farming and that the supervisors had given a similar zoning change for a game company nearby. Manor Twp.

supervisors said they would study the rezoning request and make a decision. The township zoning board voted down the petition before passing it along to the supervisors. 8 6.58 4.38 4.37 1971 NORMAL 1971 Pay Board To Abide By Rules WASHINGTON A business member Pay (APhe Board said Monday it will cut down somewhat a 12 per cent pay raise for aerospace workers, then begin living by its 5.5 per cent rule. The business member, General Electric Co. Vice President Virgil Day, said he and the other four business members want the aerospace raise cut at least to 8 per cent, and the five public members also want them trimmed by an unspecified amount.

Such a line-up would mean that the five labor members, who want the full 12 per cent raise, would be outvoted. The board takes up the aerospace raise Tuesday. Even an 8. per cent raise would exceed the board's rules, which say raises in new contracts generally may not exceed 5.5 per cent a year, and even in special cases can't go over 7 per cent. TIGHT CRITERION "Once aerospace, and perhaps a couple of last few contracts are rounded up, however, the 5.5 per cent guideline must and will become a tight criterion," Day His prediction is especially significant because he and other business members SO far have sided with labor members in approving guideline-stretching contracts over the objection of public members.

The only two contracts decided by the board so far give a 15 per cent first raise to coal miners clear the first part of a 42-month rail signalmen's pact containing 47 per cent in raises. Day, who voted for both, conceded that they "clearly exceeded the 5.5 per guideline, and were clearly inconsistent with a policy of stable prices." HIKES JUSTIFIED But he said they were justified because the unions had missed a round of "flagrantly inflationary" bargaining and had a catch-up coming. "This theory is known as 'getting the last cow through the gate and then closing, the 999 Day said. "Once the gate is closed and the stragglers are pushed inside--then 1972 must and will become a 5.5 cent year. Further, 1973 must be a 5,5 per cent year or less if we have been successful in meeting the President's target of 2 per cent to 3 per cent inflation at the end of next year." Days views were given in an unpublished essay entitled "Winding Down Inflation, and in a telephone interview.

He said also the business members will attempt at this week's meetings to get passage of a new rule that would automatically roll back any future pay raises in existing contracts to 7 per cent a year. The five business members last Dec. 21 issued a blanket challenge of all such raises, which would mean the board would review each such case and roll back any individual raise it found to be "unreasonably inconsistent" with the 5.5 per cent rule. 6 4.30 4.27 3.60 2.58 3.13 2,71 NORMAL 1971 NORMAL 1971 NORMAL 1971 -NORMAL A Review of the Year's Weather 2.02 2 1971 NORMAL 53.6 Inches of Rain in '71 Second Wettest in History By ROGER CLINTON Intell Staff Writer Lancaster came within a few heavy showers during 1971 of becoming the wettest year in the history of local weather records. All those countless days and nights of soaking rains during the year just ended left an accumulation of 53.63 inches.

The wettest year on the local weather books was 1933 when 56.22 inches of rain fell. Dreary days of soaking rains was just one of the weather highlights of 1971. Another was a remarkably Summer with few 90-degree days. This can be seen on the above day-by-day temperature chart, compiled by the Intelligencer Journal, based on local weather records. Hottest Day The hottest day of 1971 was July 8, when the mercury peaked at 96 degrees.

This reading matched the 1970 high. And for the fifth consecutive Summer, the mercury failed to get to 100 degrees. This was also the eighth Winter in a row that we did not drop to zero in the city. Furnaces worked full time at the beginning of the year, as bitter cold air settled over the Lancaster area. During one period in late January-early February, daily temperatures averaged 20 degrees or more below normal.

But, oddly enough, the numbing cold failed to to to to to to to to mix with precipitation at the right time to to to to to to to to to to produce heavy snows. For the second consecutive Winter, there was a snow "drought." Only nine inches of snow was recorded during the normal snow months of January, February and March of 1971; not enough to break in a new sled. And there were only Warm Days Ripening Celery Crop By GARY MARTIN Intell Farm Writer This Winter's warmer-thanusual temperatures are bringing an early end to local celery, a crop that is often around as late as Easter. Usually by this time of year, what remains of last season's celery is safely tucked about 12 inches below the ground where nature's refrigerator keeps it just right until it can be used. But like skiers who this year are finding the slopes in poor condition, local celery growers fear their crop may soon be in similar condition because the ground has not been cold enough.

OUT SOON Jay Hodecker, East Petersburg, said he expects to be out of celery within a couple weeks since his crop ripening in the trenches faster than other years. The celery crop was smaller this year, Hodecker said, but the has been good. Coupled cuality, this, he said, has been an unusually good demand for locally grown celery this year. "I'm well pleased in a bad year. Hodecker said of the celery situation.

Paul Neidermyer, Ephrata R2, said the season has not been too encouraging for celeMore WARM Page 23 3.12 traces of snow in late November and early December. In 1970, inches of snow was measured. And that was considered a drought, compared with previous years. Laboring air conditioners and power fade-outs were absent in Lancaster during the Summer months of 1971. There were only 12 days during June, August and September when the mercury hit 90 degrees or better.

But then it stayed warm during the last three months of the year, with a Summerlike 82 degrees on Nov. 2. Heavy Rains Heavy rains marked much of the Summer growing season in the Lancaster area during 1971, with heaviest amounts coming in August. At one point, there were reports some people were considering building an ark as cascades of water inundated the area. The area was flooded during the recordsetting rains of late July and early August.

A total 7.71 inches of precipitation fell here in one five-day period, topping a previous five-day records of 7.42 rainfall total from Sept. 9-13 in 1960. But unlike previous years, there were few severe thunderstorms, with damaging hail and high winds, this past Summer. Comparison Here is how Lancaster's weather in 1971 compared to 1970: 1971 1970 Temperatures: High Low Precipitation: Total 53.53 inches 43.52 inches Snow 9 inches inches -The Morning IntellWeather Roundup mittee, Benjamin High, current head of the planning committee, and Eugene Rhinier, now head of the redevelopment committee, still have two years to serve in their current terms of office, although there may be some shuffling of their committee posts next Tuesday. TWO SLOTS OPEN Filling's resignation opened up the chairmanship of both the intermunicipal and finance committees, slots which may or may not be filled by his successor.

The Republican City Nominating Committee is slated to meet tonight to continue its search for a replacement for Filling. Council will accept the GOP committee's recommendation of a candidate, but has final say over who will ultimately fill the Council seat. Mayor Monaghan administered the oath of office to Metzger, McElwee and Witmer. Monday night on a Bible opened to I Corinthians 13 on "Love." Prior to the swearing-in ceremony, Councilman Rhinier was elected temporary chairman of Council for the ceremony and the subsequent election of Metzger as Council president. Upon reassuming his seat as Council president, Metzger thanked former Councilmen Santaniello, Templeton and Filling for their years of service to the city.

NEED CITIZENS' HELP Metzger then called upon Council and the administration to continually strive for excellence in city government and he called upon the citizens of Lancaster to help in this drive He noted that democracy carries with it responsibilities as well as privileges, and these responsibilities include the duty to work for the betterment of the community. In the only business before Council for action Monday, the appointment of Charles Sharrocks as the new director of administrative services was confirmed. Sharrocks fills the vacancy created last month when Malcolm E. Knowles died unexpectedly. Belgrade High Bidder In Chess NEW YORK (AP)-The U.S.

Chess Federation disclosed Monday that bids opened in Amsterdam for the site of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world championship chess match next June showed Belgrade the highest bidder. The Yugoslavian city's $152,000 offer of prize money for the match was reported by E.B. Edmondson, of the U.S. federation. 40 30 20 10 0 Data From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOAA, U.S.

Dept. of Commerce 10 -30 50 40 COLD COLD COLD -50 WARM COLD 70 Rain 60 50 Showers FORECAST WARM Snow 2888 4 50 60 70 Flurries 40 Figures Show High Temperatures Expected 80 For Daytime Tuesday 8 Clear over most of the the south Atlantic and Gulf Coast west portion of the Gulf Coast LANCASTER Cloudy, with periods of rain today and tonight. Temperatures in the upper 30s to low 40s. POCONOS Chance of snow early today. Cloudy, with periods of rain later today, except for occassional snow in extreme northern sections.

Temperatures in the 30s. DELAWARE Increasing cloudiness, followed by a chance of rain late today. High in the upper 40s and low 50s. MARYLAND Increasing cloudiness, with rain. Mixture of rain and snow in the extreme western portion.

Highs in the '40s and 50s. Associated Press Wirephoto Map nation today. Rain in some of states, Snow in the area and into Texas. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER TEMPERATURES High Low Water Works 48 23 Ephrata 41 Lancaster (Last Year) 37 31 High for the Year 48 on Jan. 3 Low the Year 22 on Jan.

1 All- Time High This Date 58 in 1964 All-Time Low This Date 2 in 1918 PRECIPITATION (Intell Recording Station) Yesterday None Month to date .91 of an inch Year to date .91 of an inch Departure from Normal Month to date Plus .61 of an inch Year to date Plus .61 of an inch Greatest Jan. Total 5.92 Inches In: 1936 Least Jan. Total .47 Inches In 1955 WINDS (Lancaster Airport) Prevailing Direction SSW Average Velocity 5 MPH Character of Day Sunny SUN Rises 7:26 a.m. Sets 4:52 p.m. MOON Rises 3:46 p.m.

Sets 10:11 p.m. STARS Morning Venus: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter.