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(ConsoJuliUrc? with T h e TiitUr. R e c o rd , 1907) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, August J0, 1969 10 c e n ts a C op y , $4,00 par y e a r b y m a il
w ith in L a n c a s t e r County 12 Pages — No. 19
See Boost In
School Enrollment
On September 3
Another record enrollment is
expected when Warwick Union
Schools re-open for the coining
year on Wednesday, September
3, Supervising Principal Curvin
C. Smith announced this week.
Based on pre-school surveys
1 it is estimated that this year’s
enrollment will be 3,734 stu­dents
as compared with 3,673
last year. And this enrollment
would have been approximately
150 more had it not been for a
change in the minimum age for
kindergarten enrollment, Dr.
Smith revealed.
The high school enrollment
will be approximately 1,600, the
largest on record. The elemen­tary
school enrollment which
reflects a slight decrease, is ex­pected
to be as follows:
John Beck School, 540; Lititz
Elementary, 827; Rothsville,
199, and Kissel Hill, 568, a total
of 2,134. All elementary schools
go through grade six with the
exception of Rothsville where
it goes only through grade four.
The change in the kindergar­ten
age limit now is five years
old by September 15 instead of
February 1 in previous years.
A total of 34 new teachers to
the faculty will report on Thurs­day,
August 28, for an orienta­tion
program, Dr. Smith said.
This will include the projection
of slides depicting various
phases, historical and other­wise,
of the Warwick area.
This will be followed by a
tour of all the school buildings
in the district where the princi­pals
of each school will address
the new teachers. The entire
faculty will report on Septem­ber
2.
Students will report and class­es
will start on Wednesday, Sep­tember
3. The cafeteria will be
open the first day. The bus ser­vice
will be the same as last
year with the exception of the
Kindergarten routes which will
be announced next week.
Taking aim at their first revolver-fir­ing
meet here Tuesday are members of
the Lititz Borough Police force. In the fore­ground
is Chief of Police George Hicks,
flanked by Officers Earl Steffy, Jr., James
Fritz, Charles Shenenberger, Robert Kel­ler
and LeRoy Emmerich.
L ititz Police Hold
1st Pistol Shoot
Sounds of pistol fire at the
bottom of Lexington hill Tues­day
afternoon marked the first
pistol shoot by members of the
Lititz Borough Police force.
In the shoot, which is expect­ed
to become a regularly held
affair for police here, local
officers were competing for a
trophy as well as for a one-day
vacation to the winner, as Chief
of Police George Hicks explain­ed
it.
Leroy Emmerich emerged as
winner of the trophy. Officer
Ames Fritz came in second, fol­lowed
by Chief Hicks, Robert
Keller, Earl Steffy and Charles
Shenenberger.
As booby prize winner, Shen­enberger
was presented with a
trophy showing an officer aiming
at a target but with his hand
held over his eyes, a work of art
made by Chief Hicks himself.
As booby prize winner, Shen­enberger
also will have to work
the day that Emmerich takes
off.
In the shoot, officers fired 10
rounds of single action and ten
rounds of double action from dis­tances
of 25 feet, 50 feet and 75
feet. Justice of the Peace Paul
F. Diehm was judge of the con­test.
Boro To Lay Over 1,100 Tons O f
Paving On Streets Here Next Week
Borough streets will weigh ap­proximately
1,171 tons more in
another week than they do today
—believe it or not!
For next week, the borough’s
annual street re-surfacing pro­gram
will get underway when
varying stretches of six streets
and four lanes will be given an
added inch of paving surface at
an estimated cost of $12,664.62,
give or take a few bucks either
way.
And, since the borough will
be paying for this re-surfacing
by the pound, Borough Manager
George Steedle and Street
Superintendent Raymond Lan­dis
have set up a system for
checking the weights of each
truckload and the distance cover­ed
by the material they contain.
The re-surfacing program is
expected to be completed in a
week or ten days, weather per­mitting,
The work is being done
by B. R. Kreider, of Manheim.
It takes approximately 100
pounds of paving material to
cover a one square yard of street
with a one-inch re-surfacing, Mr.
Steedle explained. In instances
where the present surface is not
smooth, this weight some times
jumps to about 150 pounds.
“As the work proceeds Mr.
Landis will tabulate the amount
of material used,” Mr. Steedle
explained, “We then confer at
regular intervals and I convert
the progress of the work from
pounds to dollars and cents.
Then if we find we are low in
our estimates we add more
streets — and if the work is
costing more than we estimated,
wc eliminate something.
“In this way we end up within
five per-cent of the money ap­propriated
by council,” he con­cluded.
Streets to be re-paved are:
South Cedar from 2nd to 3rd;
Front Street from Elm to Oak;
North Locust from the railroad
tracks to Front; East Market,
Bomberger Between Two Fires In
His Park Improvement Drive
Former Borough Councilman
Elmer Bomberger was caught
between two fires in his Lititz
Springs Park Improvement pro­gram
this week!
On the one hand, Elmer was
busily guarding park facilities in
a continuous effort to end the
outbreak of vandalism which has
plagued the park this summer.
And on the other hand, be­lieve
it or not, to try to keep
Mayor Russel Templeton from
becoming too meticulous when
it comes to keeping the park spic
and span.
“The mayor worked hard for
weeks removing all signs of de­bris
such as bottles, cans and
paper, from the head of the
springs and the stream,” Elmer
explained. “Now every time he
sees a pebble out of place he
thinks we have to put on our
boots and wade in to get il —
before he’s through he’ll probab­ly
have us perfuming the stream
from one end to the other.”
Elmer was kidding, of course,
but he wasn’t kidding Monday
when he called borough police
to the park to round up a group
of teen-agers who damaged the
roofs of three of the buildings
in the park, the Scout cabin, the
coffee house and the pavilion.
Climbing on top of the build­ings,
the teen-agers tore out a
number of shingles. Police
rounded up the group which
allegedly did the damage and
assured park officials that they
will be made to reimburse the
cost of having the buildings re­paired.
The group of volunteers and
park crew which recently got the
lion’s head fountain at the Broad
Street entrance to the park,
working once again, also were
busily engaged making repairs
to the fountain. Two days after
the fountain was put in opera­tion,
vandals tore away a screen
and rammed objects into the
pipe jamming up the pump.
A wooden pole also was forced
into the lion’s head ornamant but
this did not materially damage
the stone. The pump, however,
appeared damaged with the re­sult
-that one of the park boost­ers,
Bob Gibble, Lititz R4 plumb­er,
has launched a search for a
new pump which he hopes to be
able to donate to the park.
from the new construction to
North New; and Golden from
General Sutter to West 6th
Street. Cost of this is estimated
at $8,781.18.
Lanes to be re-paved are:
North Lane, from Water to Lo­cust;
Mulberry from South Lo­cust
to Elm; Raspberry Lane
from Center to Lemon; and
Cherry Lane from East Main to
North Lane. The estimate for
this work is $3,883.44.
Antique Show
In The Park
Sat. Aug. 30
Dealers from six states will
be exhibiting at the third an­nual
outdoor antique show and
barbecue to be held in the
Springs Park Saturday, August
30, according to reservations re­ceived
to-date.
In order to eliminate the
crowding of stands, the show
committee this year is limiting
reservations to fifty spaces, Jo­seph
M. Carl, show chairman,
explained. At the rate reserva­tions
are being received, it is ex­pected
all spaces will be reserv­ed
well before the show.
Dealers who already have de­cided
to come here include those
from North Carolina, New Jer­sey,
New York, Maryland, Ohio
and practically all parts of
Pennsylvania. The show is the
big event locally of the Labor
Day week-end and all proceeds
go to the park improvement
fund.
The antique show will start
at 9 a.m. and will continue until
dusk. Workers of St. Luke’s
United Church of Christ will
serve a pancake and sausage
breakfast at $1.00 per plate,
from 6 to 9 a.m.
The annual chicken barbecue
will continue from 2 p.m. until
7:30 p.m. with Graybill Miller
catering. The barbecue offers
both take-outs and table service
at from $1.25 to $1.75.
The committee assures plenty
of free parking and emphasized
that no admission is charged,
Blame Girls For
Telephone Calls
A brash of anonymous tele­phone
calls, which occurred here
during the past several weeks,
were blamed on a group of young
girls after one of the calls was
traced last week, Chief of Police
George Hicks reported Wednes­day.
A number of the calls were
made to a local married woman
who became highly disturbed.
After receiving a number of
complaints, police enlisted the
co-operation of D. & E, officials
who succeeded in tracing a call
to the woman’s phone last Fri­day.
Acting on this information,
Chief Hicks picked up four girls
ranging in ages from ten to
twelve years. They were given
reprimands by police and turned
over to their parents.
CENTER HOURS
The Recreation Center will
be open from 9 a.m. until noon
next week and will be closed the
week of August 25, it was an­nounced
this week.
And Thefts
Reported
A burglary in the Woodridge
pool office, a local plant, a
series of petty thefts and a prow­ler
or peeping tom, were re­ported
here during the past
week by borough police.
Thieves Tuesday night broke
into the building at the Wood­ridge
pool and removed 20 boxes
of raw pretzels and pizzas, two
footballs, a soccer ball and $2.50
in cash. Entrance was gained
into the building by breaking a
window. After rifling a desk and
looting the office, the thieves
climbed the fence into the pool
area where they stole the pizzas
and soft pretzels.
Enter Plant
The burglary and larceny oc­curred
at the Ted-Rich Industries
plant on North Locust Street,
where intruders gained entrance
by breaking a window over the
week-end. This is the third loot­ing
of the plant in recent
months.
Once inside the thieves reach­ed
an office by breaking down a
door. Here they obtained a
small amount of cash plus a
number of candy bars.
Sneak Thief
Mrs, Mary Houser, of 223
North Cedar Street, reported to
police that a sneak-thief entered
her home some time late Friday
and removed $40 in bills form
her purse.
She had gone out only a few
minutes and discovered the theft
upon her return, she said. The
house was unlocked at the time.
Loot Automobiles
Sneak thieves with a weakness
for the knobs off gear shift
levers, gave police their most
perplexing complaints. Over the
week-end four cars, three of
which were Volkeswagens, had
the knobs removed while parked
on borough streets, Chief of
Police George Hicks reported.
Tools valued at $8 also were
stolen.
All of the ears were parked
in the vicinity of Five Points,
Linden and Laurel Streets. Cars
looted are owned by William
Hornberger, Linden Street, his
Motorized Mini Bikes
Give Police New Problem
How to regulate motorized
mini-bikes which are becoming
increasingly popular with youths
oi the borough, was the prob­lem
facing borough officials this
week.
According to Mayor Russel
Templeton the bikes are operat­ed
at such speeds that at times
the lives of children are en­dangered.
On the other hand,
Chief of Police George Hicks
pointed out that he has spent
several months getting the mini­bikes
off the streets and alleys
and that some provision should
Mystery Still
Cloaks Cause
Of Bam Fire
The possibility of arson still
has not been ruled out as the
cause of the fire which destroy­ed
the barn on the farm of Carl
Galebaeh between Penryn and
Elm early Sunday morning.
Neighbors in the area were re­ported
to have heard a car start
up a short distance from the
barn shortly before the fire was
discovered. By 1 a.m. Sunday
the 40 by 60 foot structure had
burned to the ground.
At the heighth of the fire
flames could be seen for a dis­tance
of four miles. The Penryn,
Lititz and Manheim fire com­panies
responded to an alarm
shortly after midnight.
The barn was practically
empty and contained only a
wagon, a hay baler and a small
quantity of hay. The farm was
recently sold to a neighbor, Carl
Myers, but the Galebaeh family
still resides on the property.
brother, Harry Hornberger, Lin­den
Street; Dennis Barbine.
Laurel Street, ana Rober Wer-rich,
Lititz R4.
The prowler was reported-peering
in windows in the vicin­ity
of North Cedar Street. Ponce
were unable to connect me
prowler with any oi the theits
reported here during the past
week.
Out early in the morning rehearsing
their drills, this group of young Ranger-ettes
paused long enough to prettily pose
for the Record-Express photographer.
They are, left to right; Front row, Vicki
m „ l
Morgan; second row, Dianne Herr and
Cheryl Ober; third row, Debra Bingeman,
Chris Miles, Vicki Sauders and their lead­er,
Vivian Landis Keith.
Rangereffes Practicing Daily For
Their Third Thanksgiving Parade
To most of us Thanksgiving
Day seems far away — but not
so to an industrious group
of youngsters who appear on the
scene every morning of the
week!
They are the 1969 version of
Vivian Landis Keith’s Lititz
Rangerettes who are diligently
drilling every morning in the
hope that by the time the
Thanksgiving Parade is held in
Philadelphia they will have their
precision absolutely perfect.
The group which this year-numbers
approximately 65 young
women ranging in ages from a
mere five to the more sophisti­cated
teen-agers, has been at­tracting
much favorable com­ment
as they drill along Liberty
Street each day.
In contrast with the natty uni­forms
they will show up in this
fall, the group appears in a
varied assortment of shorts, mini­skirts
and other bits of summer
clothing a bit more comfortable
than uniforms.
But in addition to getting their
drills letter-perfect, the young­sters
have another matter to be
disposed of first — raising funds
to finance their bus trip to
Phillie. This will be their third
annual Thanksgiving Day trek
and the group is larger than ever
before — thus more funds are
needed!
As a result Mrs. Keith has ar­ranged
for a fashion show to be
held at the General Sutter Inn
next Friday, August 22. Fashions
for the entire family will be dis­played
by the live models and
the public is invited to attend.
The first public appearance of
the 1969 Rangerettes will be at
the Ephrata Farm Show next
month. They also will parade at
the Manheim and New Holland
farm shows as well as in several
Hallowe’en parades in the coun­ty.
The group has won consider­able
acclaim in! its first two ap­pearances
in the annual Thanks­giving
Day parades in Philadel­phia.
be made to permit their
instead of attempting
them.
use
It also was revealed that most
of the use of these bikes ha$
been on school grounds and the
adjoining parking areas of War­wick
school buildings here as
well as at Rothsville and Brun-nerville.
“I watched them speeding
around within a lew feet of
where small children were play­ing
and realized that if a col­lision
occurred someone might
be seriously injured,” Mayor
Templeton explained. “I then,
asked Chief Hicks to look into
this situation.”
According to Chief Hicks, own­ers
of the bikes have been given
permission to use them on the
school grounds. He agreed, how­ever,
that this use should be
regulated and controlled to some
extent but pointed out this will
have to be done by school auth­orities
inasmuch as thev are not
being operated on public
streets.”
The bikes which are equipped
with powerful motors hare very
small wheels. To-date the only
regulated use of the mini-bikes
is on a track constructed along
Route 501 just south of the
Brickerville crossroads.
Hicks To Leave
Saturday For
FBI Academy
Chief of Police George Hicks
will leave Saturday for Wash­ington
D.C., where he will spend
the next 12 weeks attending the
F.B.I. National Police academy.
In addition to an intensive
course of instruction in all
phases of police Chief Hicks will
spend one week on the Marine
firing range at Quantico, Vir­ginia.
The F.B.I. maintains a staff of
full-time instructors and those
attending the academy include
nationally-known criminologists,
police officials and educators
from all parts of the country as
well as foreign countries.
The curriculum includes
keeping police records, firearms
and ballistics, investigative pro­cedure,
police tactics, physical
training and defense, physics
and chemistry as aids to police
investigations, fingerprint iden­tification,
etc.
Finds Monkey
in Her Ceil,
Mrs. Henry Shenk, wno lives
north of Brickerville, couldn’t
believe her eyes one evening last
week when she walked into the
basement of her home — and
was greeted by a friendly little
monkey! <
The fellow was so friendly in
fact that all he wanted to do was
shake hands — and Mrs. Shenk
realized he was somebody’s pet.
A few inquiries revealed that
the monkey had wandered away
from the home of a family living
in Bernville, near Womelsdorf,
and that they had broadcast an
appeal over a Lebanon television
station.
Within a few hours the owners
appeared and re-claimed the
monkey. They reported that U
had gotten away while they were
on vacation and. had been missing
about three weeks, even l hough
it did not seem to have suffered
any front the wot weather. -■
The Sneaks are parents of
Harold B. Shenk, who operates
a barber shop at Broad and
Front Street here.
Art Show Here;.
Showed A Profit
The recent Lititz art show not
only was one of the most inter­esting
in this area, but proved
to be a financial success as well,
ending up with a cash balance of
$91.99.
In a financial statement made
public this week by Norma M.
Eichholtz, treasurer of the
show, income amounted to
$787.00, an increase over the
two previous shows.
Expenditures were $450.00 for
prizes and the judging with
$245.01 being spent for mailing
and advertising. The balance
will prove a nest-egg to get next
year’s show started.