Lititz Record Express

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S e r v i n g T h e W a r w i c k A r e a F o r N e a r l y A C e n t u r y
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School Boord, WEA
Sfili Negotiating
It was learned unofficially
this week that negotiations
between the Warwick Educa­tion
Association and the
Warwick School Board on
teacher salaries are continu­ing
and possibility of a local
settlement has not been of
ficially ruled out.
Meanwhile, both the WEA
and school board indicated
this week the news blackout
which has surrounded the
negotiations may end in the
near future.
Marie Mease, ninth grade student at sion of thd Science Fair. The project show-
Warwick High, displays her project that ed how plants produced leaves and roots
v/on second place in the Junior High Divi- in different solutions.
Warwick Student Wins Runner-Up
Award For Exhibit at Science Fair
A 14 year old ninth grade stu­dent
at Warwick High School
was judged the runner-up in the
Junior High Division at the 1970
Lancaster-City-County S c ie n c e
Fair held at Columbia High
School on April 1.
Marie Mease, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Raymond Mease, 221
Rev. E. C. Aibee
Named Assistant
at Local Church
Edward C. Aibee will become
the new Assistant Minister of
the Lititz Moravian Church.
The new pastor will complete
his theological studies for a
Master of Theology degree in
July and will be ordained and
installed on July 26th. He will
begin duties on July 20th.
Mr. Aibee is a graduate of
Moravian Preparatory School,
Bethlehem, graduating in 1982;
Moravian College (A.B.) 1966;
Boston University School of
Theology B.C. 1970; the Th. M.
July 1970. Ned, as he is com­monly
known, is the son of
Moravian minister Rev. & Mrs.
Nathaniel Aibee of Alleniown
and is married to Ann Lauder-milch
of Easton, Pa. They have
two sons, Brian, age 10, and
Mark, age 15 months.
During his college days, the
new assistant minister worked
with boys and girls of special
needs at the Wiley House in
Mountain Hill, near Bethlehem.
While at Boston University he
has been student chaplain at
the Boston State Hospital and
Assistant Director at the Nick­erson
Children’s Home in down­town
Boston. Mrs. Aibee has
been a nurse at Betli-Israel Hos­pital.
In pastoral duties Brother
Aibee has been serving as stu­dent
minister at the Port Wash­ington
and Sharon, Ohio con­gregations,
1968-69.
Record-Express
Begins 94th
The Lititz Record-Express is
beginning its ninety-fourth year
this week..
The paper was founded as the
Sunbeam by John G. Zook, who
continued as editor for many
years. The Sunbeam office was
located at 22 E. Main St., where
Kreider’s TV was formerly lo­cated,
now Charlotte’s Apparel
Shop, and originally was a
monthly publication, 9 by 12
inches in size.
Its name was changed to the
Lititz Express in 1881. Mean­while,
the Lititz Record had
been founded elsewhere by
Frank Buch in 1877, and merg­ed
with the Express in 1937,
when it became the Record-
Express.
Ralph Buch, son of Frank,
succeeded his father as owner
of the Record and 34 years ago
sold out to Edward Fulweiier
and James R. Johnson. They
in turn sold the merged paper
to William Young, who continu­ed
as publisher and editor for
nearly 25 years.
In January of 1962, the paper
was acquired by the present
owner Robert G. Campbell.
N. Broad St., Lititz, received a
silver plate medal and ribbon
and the Lincoln Library of Es­sential
Information for her prize­winning
entry titled “Do Leaves
Affect Root Formation?”
She had entered her project in
the Fair last year and received
an honorable mention.
The purpose of the experiment
was to stimulate root growth on
Coleus cuttings with auxin, a
plant hormone. To determine the
effect of different solutions on
the formation of roots. To find
out if the number of leaves a cut­ting
contains affects root forma­tion.
Procedure
The experiment was carried
out over two two-week periods.
There were four groups of jars
with four jars in each group.
(Total of 16). Each of the four
groups contained a different solu­tion.
The two basic solutions
were nutrient solution and tap
water.
The other two were nutrient
solution with auxin and tap wa­ter
with auxin. Every day at 5:00
p.m. results and observations
were recorded. Every week, the
jars -were washed, and fresh so­lution
was poured in. Wax paper
covered the mouths of the jars. ,
In each jar was one cutting,
which was suspended in the solu-
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Planners Suggest
Formation Of
Advisory Group
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
at a meeting Tuesday de­cided
to ask Borough Council to
form an advisory group to the
commission.
The purpose of the group
would be to assist the Planning
Commission in developing long
range objectives concerning the
central business district.
The commission suggested
that possible members could in­clude
the Chamber of Com­merce
and Retailers Associa­tion
or any other interested or­ganization.
The commission also suggest­ed
that the advisory group may
want to consider such things as
a list of objectives, needs and
problems of the central business
district.
Vo-Tech Opening
For Students
Openings for students who are
interested in attending Vo-Tech
schools are still available. Any
person whose son or daughter is
in 10th or 11th grade and inter­ested
in signing up and has not
as yet been accepted, may con­tact
Stephen Palkovic, high
school guidance counselor al
Warwick High School.
b e ! F irm
With New
A Warwick Township paper
waste processing firm has be­gun
a major expansion and im­provement
program on its
three-acre site on Litil-z Springs
Creek.
The firm is Lititz Spring
Waste Co., a subsidiary of Ram
Corporation.
The firm has obtained a $162,-
000 building permit from War­wick
Township to erect this
year a new 140 by 150 foot
building to house equipment
for an automatic baling system
to process waste paper for
paper mills.
Plans are to demolish old
structures remaining on the site
later this year and to continue
new construction on the vacat­ed
ground, beginning possibly
next year, according to Morris
Graff, Ram president.
The three acre site is located
between Lititz Springs Creek
and Lititz Run Road, just off
East Main Street.
Graff said the new structure,
being built by Wickersham Con­struction
Co., is slated for com­pletion
in July and the new
baling system should be in
operation then.
The new facility will be built
onto the east end of an existing
80 by 150 foot building. As part
of the work, the front of this
building is being enclosed and
it will be used as a stock room.
The two buildings will have
33,000 square feet of floor
space.
As soon as the new building
is in operation, old structures
located to the East along Lititz
Springs Creek will be demolish­ed,
Graff said.
The firm plans to build on
the vacated land in the rela­tively
“near term,” possibly
next year, Graff indicated.
The building permit was ob­tained
in March and work was
underway this week on en­closing
the side of the existing
80 by 150 foot building facing
Lititz Run Road. Blasting also
Warwick FFA Holds Banquet
Hard work, the desire to earn
a living and determination to
work toward a goal are all in­gredients
needed for success in
agriculture today, Timothy
Ruth, Pennsylvania FFA presi­dent,
said Tuesday night.
Ruth was speaker at the War-wick
FFA Chapter’s annual par­ent
and son banquet at Brum
nerville Fire Hall. About 115
FFÀ members, parents and
guests attended.
Awards and certificates were
presented to outstanding FFA
members and friends of the
FFA.
Ruth said the “idea of FFA
projects is to show a profit”
or help FFA members to learn
how to “earn a living.”
Among those attending the Warwick
Chapter FFA banquet Tuesday night were,
from left: Jim Kerr, chapter advisor;
Timothy Ruth, Pennsylvania FFA presi­dent;
Karen Bomberger, Warwick Chap­ter
Sweetheart, and Kenneth Weaver,
chapter president.
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“FFA projects help us decide
if this is how we want to make
a living.”
He continued, “Those who set
goals can take advantage of op­portunity.”
He described one
FFA member, Oscar Manbeck,
who set his goals early and be­came
an American Farmer and
then American Star Farmer,
the highest FFA award at the
national level.
Manbeck “told me that if
you’re not willing to set your
goal and work toward it, you’ll
never make a success no matter
how much education you have.”
He also quoted Henry Ford:
There’s only one thing that
makes prosperity and that’s
hard work.
But young people need en­couragement,
he continued,
urging, “Parents, teachers,
never fail to encourage that
FFA member who’s frying -to-reach
his goal.” Speaking to
parents and teachers at the ban­quet,
he said, it’s people like
you who are helping close the
generation gap.”
He concluded with Mark
Twain’s reminder: The world
owes you nothing, it was here
first.
Most of the guests at the ban­quet
were school teachers and
Kennel ti Grube
school officials, including Dr.
Curvin Smith, district superin­tendent;
Harold Swisher, War­wick
High School principal, and
Carl B. Kauffman, Junior High
principal; four school board
members, Robert E. Gregory,
Kenneth L. Weaver, Raymond
Groff and Carl Reedy,
Among teachers attending
and receiving certificates of ap­preciation
were: Mrs. Martha
Herr, Mrs. Sally Watkins and
Daniel Little.
Parents of Seniors honored
were Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Weaver and Mr. and Mrs. San­ford
Boll.
Foundation awards for out­standing
work in various phases
of agriculture went to the fol­lowing
students:
Kenneth Grube took three
awards, conservation of natural
resources, agricultural place­ment
and dairy.
Dale Martin, soil and water
conservation.
Calvin Hartman, home im­provement.
Allen Kline, crop farming.
Gerald Martin, farm safety
and public speaking.
Kenneth Weaver, production
agriculture.
Grube also" received the Stan
Red Rose Farmer Degree, the
highest degree at the county
level.
Chapter Farmer Degrees
were presented to Robert Styer,
Dennis Styer, Allen Kline, Cal­vin
Hartman, Ken Weaver and
Dale Martin. Martin was also
Star Chapter Farmer.
Begins Modernization
$162,000 Construction
was underway to prepare the
site of the new building for
construction.
Warwick Township also is­sued
12 other building permits
in March totaling 74,090 to the
following: Barry Lee Michael,
new residence. Chestnut St.,
Lexington; Ivan Ravegum, re­locate
residence along Cocalico
Creek; Clifford Keith, 1218
Brunnerville Road, residential
alterations; Fx-ank Gurney, 703
Pine Hill Road, garage; Norman
Weaver, 533 Newport Road,
garage; Milton M. Brubaker,
660 Brunnerville Road, siding;
Howai'd Martin, Limerock Road,
hog house; Robert Gibble, Owl
Hill Road, garage.
Twin Brook Co., 2121 Main
St., Rothsville, apartment con­version;
Ben L. King, Erbs1
Quarry Road, horse barn; John
D. Burkholder, 2157 Main St.,
Rothsville, apartment conver­sion
and Raymond Siegrist, 339
Pierson Road, cattle barn.
Wimpo Group Pians
Meeting & Barbecue
Mrs. Martha Herr
There will be a very impor­tant
meeting of the Warwick
Instrumentai Music Parents Or­ganization
(WIMPO) on Mon­day
evening, April 13 at 7:30
p.m. in the Warwick High
School Band Room. Robert Rei-denbaugh,
president, will be
presiding.
Final arrangements for the
Chicken Barbecue on April 18
will be discussed as well as last
minute details for the Junior
and Senior High School Band
Coneei't on Saturday evening,
April 18.
Other reports will be given
Letter To Editor
In your editorial on April 2,
(“Solve Problems Locally”)
you stated that the American
Arbitration Association “is
closely affiliated with-Philadel­phia
Politics”. If this statement
were merely your feeling
toward the AAA — which it is
— one could perhaps overlook
it, but you also do an injustice
to the cause of local settlement,
of controversies, a cause you
purport to favor. For this rea­son
as well as to set the record
straight about the AAA, I am
asking you to publish this reply.
There is only one reason the
AAA’s name came up in con­nection
with the current wage
dispute between the Board of
Education and the Warwick
Education Association. That
reason is that the two parties
themselves, by their local, vol­untary
choice, have named
AAA as the agency to appoint
the impartial pei'son who will
recommend a settlement. They
did so, as do literally hundreds
of other boards of education
and teacher organizations, be­cause
the AAA is a non politi­cal
impartial,organization, with
an impeccable reputation for
integi'ity.
Your editorial states that “the
American Arbitration Associa­tion
of Philadelphia is sym­pathetic
to the interest of the
WEA.” This statement is utter­ly
without foundation. The fact
is that the AAA does not itself
make any decision of substantive
issues, and, infact, has no opin­ion
one way or the other about
the matters in controversy.
AAA’s role is limited to nam­ing
an impartial arbitrator or
fact-finder when both parties
have asked it to do so and the
decision, in all instances, is that
of the person so named, not of
the American Aribitration As­sociation.
As it was the decision of the
local representatives them­selves
to call upon my office as
a last resort, this decision
should be recognized and ac­cepted
by all who truly wish to
“solve pj-oblems locally.”
Arthur R. Mchr
Regional Director of the
American Arbitration Assn.
Philadelphia, Penna.
SchooIMenu
Monday, April 13
Beef1 barbecue, potato gems,
relish tray, asst, fruit,
Tuesday, April 14
Baked sausage w/bun, buttered
noodles, lettuce wedge, fruit
cocktail.
Wednesday, April 15
Home-made chicken corn soup,
peanut butter and marshmallow
sandwich, fruited jello.
Thursday, April 16
Machroni & hamburg casse­role,
green beans, cole slaw, ap­ple
sauce.
Friday, April 17
Fish sticks, baked beans, chef
salad, home-made cake.
concerning the Band Camp and
Flag Squad. All committee
chairmen are requested to meet
at 7:15 p.m. All parents of stu­dents
pai'ticipating in the In­strumental
Music Program in
the Warwick School District are
invited to attend.
Chicken Barbecue
The Warwick Instrumental
Music Parents Organization
(WIMPO) is sponsoring a
Chicken Barbecue on Saturday,
April 18 from 11:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. at the Lititz Springs Park.
Barbeeuer will be Graybill Mill-ex'.
Px'oceeds from the barbecue
will be used to help finance the
proposed Summer Band Camp
for the Wai’wick Senior High
School Marching Band and
other events in which the Band
will participate next year.
Tickets for the barbecue are
$1,25 and can be purchased
from any member of the WIM­PO
or any member of the
Junior and Senior High School
Band. Sales to date indicate
approximately 1,000 tickets
have already been sold. WIMPO
would like to reach their goal
of 1500 tickets by April 18, Help
support your band and at the
same time enjoy some good eat­ing.
Board? Citizen
Hit Road Danger
The Warwick School Board
Monday night agreed with a
citizen that Landis Valley Road
near the Kissel Hill School is
dangerous and will write to the
State Highways Department on
the mattei’. The road is state
controlled.
Making the complaint was
Pat Ross, secretary of the Kissel
Hill PTA, who said the road is
narrow and has a high crown,
making it dangerous for both
drivers and children.
The board also agreed to
comply with a State Depart­ment
of Health order to up­grade
Warwick High School’s
lighting within a 10-year period
and to establish the budget ac­cordingly/
In personnel business, these
resignations were accepted:
Mrs. Janet Hoover, Lititz Ele­mentary
kindergarten; Robert
Craig, high school speech; and
James Ernst, high school
world cultures.
Larry Burkholder was hired
as a social studies substitute.
Hume, Montgomery, and
Tomlinson of West Chester
were named tax collectors for
delinquent per capita taxes.
Civic Projects
Get $22,000
The ABC and ABCD show-last
week was the eleventh an­nual
event and proceeds of
over $22,090 have been distri­buted
for various local civic
projets.
Proceeds this year, when
tabulated, will also be distri­buted
to local organizations.
In the past, the funds have
gone to Little League Base­ball,
Midget Football, I. Wal­ton
Bobst Recreation Center.
Lititz Fire Company, Lititz
Springs Park, Lititz Public
Library, Lititz Historical
Foundation and others.
Sponsorship of the War­wick
Community Ambulance
and softball and midget foot­ball
fields in the Lititz Springs
Park are also local club pro­jects.
The AmBuc’s National Sch­olarship
Fund provides finan­cial
help to students majoring
in physical, - occupational,
speech and hearing therapy.