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(Consolidated with T h e L it it z R eco rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, March 20,1969 10 c e n ts a Copy; $4.00 p e r y e a r by m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r C ounty 16 Pages - No. 50
Over *1000. In Prizes During
Lititz Treasure Chest Hunt
The “'Easter Treasure Chest
Hunt” sponsored by the Lititz
Retailers’ Association starts to­day.
Over $1000. in prizes, gifts,
cash discounts and gift certifi­cates
are available to shoppers.
Participating stores are dis­playing
a large banner in their
window and a ‘‘Treasure Chest”
■rill be found in the store. The
chests are loaded with many
gifts and prizes. Shoppers will
receive keys to the chest and
those lucky shoppers receiving
keys that open the locked “Trea­sure
Chests” will receive a
prize. Adults only will be eligi­ble
to receive keys.
Some of the many things
available to shoppers are: hun­dreds
of dollars in cash dis­counts
and gift certificates, a
TV set, a stereo, $50. in shopp­ing
sprees, 10 lb. turkeys, new
aluminum boat, rod and reel
outfits, camp ■ stoves, table
lamps, radios, records, electric
scissors, a diamond ring, a
ladies watch and many others
too numerous to mention.
The participating merchants
are: Martin’s Chevrolet Inc,;
Keller Bros. Auto. Co.; Bob’s
Save Rite Market; Bingeman’s
Restaurant; General Sutter Inn;
Michael’s TV & Appliances; The
Lititz Sewing Center; Armold
Jewelers; Dick’s TV & Appli­ances.
The Lititz Sports Center;
Harris Variety Center; Gear-nart’s
Self-Service; Giassmyer’s;
Lititz Book Store; Kenyon’s
Pastry Shop; Charlotte’s Ap­parel
Shop; J. B. Hess Men’s
Wear; K & M Campers; Kathryn
Sipe; McElroy P h a r m a c y;
Spacht’s Furniture Store; Long
& Bomberger Home Center
Inc.; Western Auto.; Benner’s
Pharmacy; Lititz Record-Ex­press.
The “Easter Treasure Chest
Hunt” continues until April 5.
Gym Skills,
Speaker Slated
For Lititz PTA
Meeting Tonite
The Lititz Elementary School
P.T.A. meeting will be held
Thursday, (tonight) at 7:30 p.m.
at the school. The meeting will
j feature a two-part program
which should be of interest to
i everyone.
j Beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the
I gym several upper grade stu­dents,
under the direction of
j Mr. Henry Rush, physical edu­cation
teacher, will give a
■ demonstration of gymnastic
|P| j skills which they have learned.
At eight o’clock the meeting
will move to the cafeteria where
State Representative John Pit-tenger
will give his views on the
current legislative session in
j Harrisburg. Mr. Pittenger will
answer questions from the
audience.
Officers for t h e 1969-70
school term will be elected at
I this meeting. .
Middle School Completion
Until January, 1971
Groff States Discipline
Lacking A t High School
LISTENING INTENTLY TO AN 'IN ­TERESTING
STORY being read by Mrs.
James Harnish, a volunteer from the Man-heim-
Lititz Welcome Wagon Ciub, are:
left to right — Jennie Bertz, Kenny Show­ers,
Terri Brown and Craig Ahlum. A
Story Book Hour is being sponsored by
the Club at the Lititz Public Library eacl
Saturday during March from 10 a.m. to
11 a.m. Other activities provided, for the
youngsters include: movies, games anc’
recorded music. The program is well a t­tended
by 45 to 60 children of various ages.
Firemen Put Out
Grass Fire
The Lititz Fire Company ex­tinguished
a grass fire behind
Miller’s Service Station, 733 S.
Broad St., Lititz, at 9:20 a.m.
on March 15.
The fire apparently started
when sparks from an incriner-ator
ignited gross behind the
station.
Lititz Fire Co.
Flans Events
The Lititz Fire Co. #1 will
hold a Smoker Thursday, April
24th, at the fire hall. Marvin
Miller, State Representive will
be the keynote speaker. A fam­ily
style chicken and pot-pie
dinner will be served. Donald
Krushinski, of the Fire Co., is
chairman of the committee.
On Thursday, April 10th the
Lititz Fire Co;, will be hosts to
its Ladies Auxiliary at a dinner
to be given and served by the
fire fighters to show their ap­preciation
for the loyal support
shown by the ladies. The din­ner
will be served at 6:30 p.m.
at the fire hall.
Citizens Oppose Open
Pit Mining Project
One hundred and twenty-five cured on it, it will be submitted
landowners and township offi-1 I° ^ le Callahan Mining Com
Student-Teachers
Assigned To
Warwick Schools
Twelve Millersville State Col­lege
students have been assign­ed
to teach for one semester
full-time under the guidance of
cooperating teachers in the
Warwick School District.
The student-teaehers are:
John Beck School — Patricia
Signore, North Wales; Bonnie
Montag, Reading. Lititz School
— Alice Signore, Ambler;
Cax-ole Hunsberger, Reading;
Elizabeth O’Brien, Philadel­phia;
Harold Herneisen, Man­heim.
Warwick High School —
Frank Grabusky, Lebanon;
James LaSalle, Ridley Park;
James Madgey, Philadelphia;
Larry Benner. Lancaster; Judi-
! th Keath. Laureldale; David
i Krum, Hatfield.
1 <-
F
ciáis met to discuss the air pol- pany.
The land to be mined is north
lution and water conservation | oi; Litil7 in Elizabeth and West
effects of open pit limestone i Cocalico Twps.. where nearly
mining in northern . Lancaster i 2,o00 acres of farmland is al-
County at a meeting sponsored
by the Lititz Sportsman’s Asso- j
ciation last Monday night.
ready under option to the Calla­han
Mining Co. Test drilling has
been completed on some farms
, land mining operations could
Circulated during the meet- start in the near future.
ing was a petition seeking the | .<We focl this mj„jng opera-halt
of the mining project and ^ on js not jn the best interest
when sufficient names are se- J 0£ Lancaster County” s a i d
Philip L. McCloud, president oi
i, I the Lititz Sportsmen’s Assn.
“Some of the finest farm land
«jin the world is. at stake and
!i| once the mining is completed,
T this land can never belreclaim-s;
ed.” .
Fred . Brock from the Com­munity
Planning Section of the
Lancaster County Planning
Commission said the area in
question is part of the “Ann-ville
limestone formation,” a
large band of pure limestone
beneath the ground in that part
of the county.
Lime For Industry
He said the lime that would
be processed is much in de­mand
in the steel industry as
well as for use as road stone
and fertilizer. He also noted
that the flat land in that part
Raymond Groff, Warwick
School Director from Rothsville,
stated after a meeting Tuesday
night of the Warwick School
Board, that a lack of discipline
exists in the high school.
At the meeting Groff had
passed out to each board mem­ber
a written motion, which was
not seconded. It was then mov­ed
to table Groffs motion,
which the board did and that
ended the meeting. Groff got
up and walked out and later
presented a copy of tiie mo­tion
to a Record-Express re­porter.
It read as follows: “I move
■that the Warwick School Board
support the professional em­ployees
when the conduct ol
pupils is improper and detri­mental
to our educational sys­tem
and that reprimands are
dispensed to those administra­tors
who interfere with the im­plementation
or perform in an
unethical procedure any acts
which are not in the best inter­ests
of our educational system.”
Groff said in explanation that
a lack of discipline was evident
in the high school (he empha­sized
high school) and “it had
to be brought out in the open”.
He Said, “there is not enough
cooperation, expecially ph dis­cipline
matters, between the
school administration and the
teachers.”
Groff cited the case of the
resignation of band instructor
Donald Rentschler. He said
Rentschler’s resignation had
been accepted at the meeting
with no explanation. and
“there’s a lot to that case.” He
also said in some cases disci
pline is not maintained in the j
high school cafeteria. And, eer- ;
tain students that are real !
trouble makers,purposely tried j
to set a fire at the school just I
recently.
Groff said he was waiting un-1
til the next meeting to see what j
action would be taken on his j
motion. |
Warwick Planners
Meet Tonight
Warwick Township Planning
Meeting will be held this Thurs­day
evening, March 20 at 7:30
P.M., instead of the regularly
scheduled March meeting. This
was done in order for the mem­bers
to attend the regional plan­ning
meeting being held in
Ephrata. •
Being considered at the meet­ing
will be an application for re­zoning
filed by William Risser,
Lititz, R # l, who. wishes to erect
a truck garage on a tract owned
by him on Union House Road in
Lexington.
Sportsmen Slate
Annual Ox Roast
The Lititz Sportsmans Assn.
Will hold its annual Ox Roast
on March 27th at 6:00 p.m. at
the Lititz Rec. Center.
Mr. Charles Schlegelmilch of
Lancaster will show films of 2
hunting trips in North America,
Les Bingeman will serve the
meal and prizes donated by local
merchants will be given away.
This is your chance to support
your Assn, and have an evening
of fun.
1 Council Agenda Slates Reports,
I Visit From Youth Day Officers
4
! The Youth Day in Govern-
| ment officers elected at War-i
wick High School will observe
| the proceedings at the meeting
I of the Borough Council on
March 25.
action for police intra-munici­pal
assistance and responsibility
review, approve and enact an
ordinance in regards to door-to-door
salesmen, discuss and send
compliance to state in regards
Reports will be submitted by | to solid waste matter
Borough Manager George Stee-i Council will be asked to .au-dle
and will include: an invita-1 Ihorize the right of way on the
tion for council members to at-1 proposed E. Lemon St. between
tend a meeting with the Lancas-, Locust and Forney Drive in ou­ter
County Farm and Home I der that the sewer authority
Foundation concerning a plann-1 may install a sanitary sewer
Michael Weirich
main.
A proposal of whether or not
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ing program for the county for
11985; a resume form a Philadel-
! phia chemist in regards to un-i
authorized deposits responsible, Weirich 1st Place I for the improper functioning oi | ------------------ ----------------
A . *wer treatment Science Winner plant: a i - . j. ; notice has been sent to Morton ■ S p r in g A r t SIk w
! Brodsky, owner of the local i A t W a rw ic k T o n ite
Michael Weirich, son of Mr. \ theater, advising him that, the
and Mrs. Harold R. Weirich, R.
I D. 3, Lititz, is a senior enrolled
in the Liberal Arts course at
Warwick High School. He has
participated in Glee Club and
was a member of the Biology
Techniques Club.
Mike was a first place winner
of the county contains some of j of the Millersville Science Night.
Candidates of the SNOOPY party were
elected last Friday a t Warwick High dur­ing
the Youth Day in Government activi­ties
conducted a t the school. The project
is sponsored annually by the Lititz Jay-cees.
Nicola de Cesare, seated, was elect­ed
as Mayor. Elected as School Board
Members are standing, left to right —
Sharon Mountz, Jim Harbison and Cathy
Hess.
Warwick Youth Day In Government
As an annual project, the
Lititz Jaycees in cooperation
with the Warwick High School
sponsored the Youth Day In
Government Elections held this
past Friday at the High School.
Of the six-hundred students
enrolled in the senior high
school, four-hundred and seven­ty-
eight went to the polls to
vote for their candidates. The
SNOOPY (Students Naturally
Owned and Operated Party for
Youth) and STUDS (Students
Together Under a Democratic
Society) Partys were engaged in
a very close split- ticket ract
which ended with eleven STUDS
and 9 SNOOPYS in office.
The officials are now engag­ed
in meeting with the local
political bodies in order that per­tinent
party planks are present­ed
to the repective bodies in
the community. The Mayor and ,
Borough Council Elect will meet!
with the Borough Council next!
Tuesday evening. j
The School Board Directors j
Elect met with the Warwick j
School Board this past Tuesday
evening and presented a few
party planks. The greatest dis-1
cussion evolved around the pos-j
sibility of having an “Open” ’
Prom and the desire for new j
and student-selected clubs for'
the new academic school year, i
One suggestion offered by the:
electees concerned a request to
allow a student representative
to participate in faculty meet­ings;
this request was well-qual­ified
by the Mayor to mean that
the representative would only be
present during those meetings
or parts of those meetings
which directly concerned the
student-faculty bodies.
The State Representatives and
State Senator will travel to Har­risburg
later this month. The
.Jaycees are completing plans to
take the Elect Officials to Wash­ington
in late April or early
May.
The officials elected were:
Nicola deCesare, Mayor; Gary
Shelly, Justice of the Peace;
Gordie Landis, Tax Collector;
Dawn Young, Linda Helman,
Debra Goodman, Debra Ludwig,
and Cathy Hoover, Borough
Council; Deena Cole, Sharon
Mountz, Kathy Gibason, Terry
Sarge, Cathy Hess, Shirley Buck-waiter,
Keath Hacker, Leon
Buch, and James Harbison,
School Board Directors; Jill
Moyer, State Senator; Dave
Ross and Donald McClune, State
Representatives,
the best soil in the county.
Brock described the opera­tion
as forming a pit 1000 feet
long by 500 feet wide by 300
feet deep. The total operation
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Cyclist Killed
In Accident
With Car
i
I James Michael Fisher, nine,
j Peach Bottom Rl, was killed J last Saturday afternoon when
| he lost control of his bicycle
! and was struck by a car near
his home. The accident occurr­ed
on Route 222 near Wake­field.
Trooper Michael A. Eldridge
of the State Police said Fisher
was riding his bicycle north on
the west berm. He apparently
hit a stone, lost control and
came onto the southbound lane
of the highway.
The driver of the car, Charles
E. Lehman, 54, of 432 S. Cherry
St., Lititz, was traveling south
on Route 222. Lehman told
police he swerved to the left,
but was unable to avoid hitting
the boy.
Fisher was taken to the Lan­caster
General Hospital in the
Quarryville ambulance. He was
pronounced dead on arrival at I
3:10 p.m. by deputy Coroner Dr. i
Eugene Smith. , j
According to witnesses at the \
accident, the victim was travel- i
ing alone at the time of the ac­cident.
Lehman’s wife, Dorothy, I
was a passenger in the ear,
He has advanced to the finalist
standing in the 1968-69 National
Merit Program —■ the honor
shared with only % of 1% of
the graduating seniors in the
nation.
marquee is in weak condition
and that he should check it
and have it repaired; and an­nounced
the schedule for the
leaf cleaner to go around the
borough which will be the week
of April 7. The north side of
Main St. will be done on Mon­day
and Wednesday and the
south side of Main St. will be
done on Tuesday and Thursday.
Friday is slated as the rain date.
In new business council will
be taking bids for road resur­facing,
receive a resolution for
Student art projects from
¡grades Kindergarten to 12 will
be on display for public viewing
in the High School cafeteria
March 21 (tomorrow evening)
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Spring Art Show is being
sponsored by the Art Depart­ment
of Warwick High School.
Art teachers participating in
the program are: Miss Geor
gene Lucas, chairman; Miss
Nancy Bredthauer, Mrs. Nancy
Kraybill, Mrs. Charlotte Nuss
and Mr. Charles Sload.
Frederic Habecker, Former Resident
Serves 30 Years In US Navy
A former Lititz resident,
Frederic S. Habecker, has had
an illustrious career in the U.S.
Navy. His career began when
he entered the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1923 and terminated
when he retired as a Rear
Admiral on July 1, 1957.
Habecker, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Elam Habecker, grad­uated
from Lititz High School
in 1922. He resided in the local
area from 1906 to 1927. He has
three sisters, Miss Dorothy
Habecker, 149 E. Main St., Lititz,
Lorraine, wife of J. E. McSpar-ran,
Lancaster and Nancy, wife
of Howard W. Maxwell, Colorado
Springs, Colo. j
Utilizing tactical strategy, |
Habecker managed to maneuver
the ships he commanded safely
through numerous battles. His
naval associates fondly called
him. “Fearless Fred.”
An account of his naval activi­ties
has been complied as fol­lows:
Frederic Shrom Habecker was
born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
on April 2, 1905. He attended
Franklin and Marshall College
for one year before entering the
U. S. Naval Academy, from
which he was graduated in 1927.
As a Midshipman he was a mem­ber
of the 150 pound crew, par­ticipated
in intramural football,
lacrosse and baseball, and be­longed
to “The Masqueraders”
(dramatic society).
After graduation, he joined
USS TENNESSEE. He served
in that battleship until June
1931, during which time he had
periods of duty in Engineering,
communications, Gunnery and
as an Aircraft Spotter. From
August 1931 until April 1934,
he served successively aboard
the destroyers USS WHIPPLE
and USS BULMER on the
Asiatic Station. He returned to
Annapolis for a course in Com­mand
Communications at the
Navy Post-graduate School,
from which he was graduated in
May 1936.
In June 1936 he reported to
USS MARBLEHEAD, a unit of
Cruiser Division TWO, Battle
Force, and subsequently attach­ed
to the Asiatic Fleet. While
in MARBLEHEAD he was 1st
Frederic S. Habecker
Division Officer and later Assis­tant
Gunnery Officer. During
the Japanese trouble in 1938 he
had a unit of the landing force
ashore in Kulangsu (Amoy) to
protect American property arid
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The proposed Middle School
is not expected to be ready for
occupancy until January of
1971. This fact was revealed at
a meeting Tuesday night of the
Warwick School Board. Ori­ginally
it was hoped that the
school would be completed for
January of 1970, but numerous
delays have upset the time
table.
The board is now scheduled
to review final plans and dis­cuss
financing in April. It is
hoped bids can be received
about the end of May.
Dr. Curvin Smith, superinten­dent,
stated it would be neces­sary
to rent four class rooms for
secondary school students dur­ing
the next school year. He
said enough elementary space is
available.
A big unanswered question is
what the financing costs may be
with the tight money market..
The board has a joint meeting
with the School Authority sche­duled
for April 7 to discuss
financing with three financing
firms.
Rental Bids
The board had advertised for
rental bids of the Doster tract,
but since the present agreement
calls for'advance notice to the
present rentor, this action was
tabled for a later date.
Wage Tax Salary
Paul Wissler, Warwick's rep­resentative
to the Lancaster
County Wage Tax Bureau, rec­ommended
the board object to
the high salary of the executive
director of the bureau. The new
salary is set at $17,500. Wissler
said he thought the preseht
salary of $16,280. was sufficient.
The board agreed and said a
written objection would be fil­ed.
Rec. Budget
The board took no action on
a proposed Rec Center budget
for 1969-70 stating it would be
considered at the next meeting.
In other business the board:
—Accepted the resignation of
Mrs. Hettie Shenk, elementary
teacher at Lititz, effective June
20 and Donald Rentschler, mu­sic
instructor, effective March
5.
—Appointed Mrs. Jane Mc-
Gary as a substitute music
teacher.
—Elected the following new
teachers: Miss Bertha Roggie,
elementary teacher at a salary
of $7,800, and Mrs. Mary Ann
Shirk, elementary teacher, at a
salary of $6,600.
—Approved the extension of
the mandatory retirement date
of Miss Anna Harnish to the
end of the first semester.
—Appointed Charles Keller
a custodian at a salary of $4,056.
—Appointed the following
census enumerators: Richard
Mearig, First Ward; Mrs,
Helen Breneman, Second Wal'd;
Mrs. Dorothy Gochenaur, Third
Ward; for the Borough of Lititz,
at a rate of ten cents per name;
and Mrs. Margaret Herr, War­wick
West; Mrs. Miriam Mull,
Warwick East; for Warwick
Township; and Richard Adams,
for Elizabeth Township; at a
rate of fifteen cents per name.
—Awarded Industrial Arts
'equipment contracts to Graves
Humphrey’s Inc. for $940., Car­penters
Machinery Co., Inc,,
$698.55, Coe Cameras Shop,
$200., Brodhead-Garrett Co.,
$488.00, and Williams, Brown
and Earle, $362.00.
—Approved the .1969-70 gen­eral
fund budget of the Lancas­ter
Vo Tech School at $272,411.
—Set the tuition rate for ele­mentary
students at $51,88 a
month and for secondary stu­dents
at $64.28 a month.
Schoo/Menu
Monday, March 24
Grilled hamburg, baked po­tatoes,
shredded lettuce w/
dressing, assorted fruit.
Tuesday, March 25
Oven fried chicken, mashed
potatoes w/gravy, cole slaw,
peach tart.
Wednesday, March 26
Chili-con-carne, grilled cheese
sandwich, carrot sticks, pine­apple
tid bits.
Thursday, March 27
Macaroni and cheese, or
Macaroni and hamburg casse­role,
french style green beans,
chef, salad, lemon pudding w/
topping.
Friday, March 28
Pizza, cheese wedge, celery
and peanut butter, baked beans,
fruit cup.