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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e I a t i t z R e c o rd , 1 9 3 7 ) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, July 23,1970 10 c e n t s a C o p y ; $ 4 .0 0 p e r y e a r b y m a i l \4 P a g e s — N o . 1 6
w ith in L a n c a s t e r C o u n ty
Alfred Guión Chosen New
School Business Manager
Alfred B. Guion, Malvern,
Pennsylvania, was elected to
the position of Assistant to the
Superintendent for Business of
the Warwick School District at
a meeting of the Warwick
School Board Tuesday evening.
Guion, 33, recently received
his MS degree and has had sev­eral
years of industrial account­ing
and business administration
experience. He will start at $13,-
500.
Guion will replace Herbert E.
Fry who resigned effective July
1 to accept the position as busi­ness
manager of the York
School District.
School Board
Hires Four
New Teachers
The Warwick School Board
accepted resignations from two
teachers and hired four teach­ers
at its monthly meeting
Tuesday.
Resignations were accepted
from: Dorothy M. Detwiler, ele­mentary
corrective reading in­structor,
effective July 21; and
James M. Kerr, high school
vocational agriculture teacher,
effective July 24.
New teachers hired included:
Mrs. Helen E. Miksch, 121 E.
Main St., Lititz, part-time art
at a salary of $3650.; Ellen L.
Hyman, 1120 Olde Hickory Rd.,
Lancaster, first grade Lititz
Elementary, $6900.; Mrs. Gayle
K. Miller, 1035 Olde Hickory
Rd., Lancaster, high school
math, $6600.; and Mrs. Donna
Olah, E1410 Passey Lane, Lan­caster,
fourth grade in Lititz
Elementary, $6600.
In other business, the board
okayed a request by the Denver
and Ephrata Telephone and
Telegraph Co. to install tele­phone
service in the football
press box from an extended line
running into the middle school.
The installation will be at no
cost to the school district.
The board also approved a
change order to the Middle
School in the amount of $1,759.
to cover the erection of steel
frame work, not included in the
construction bid but required
to support the cooling tower.
In other action, the hoard:
—approved Engle and Ham-bright
of Lancaster for student
insurance for the year 1970-71.
—awarded bids totaling $4,-
185.92 for industrial arts shops
and vocational agriculture sup­plies.
Dr. William M. Potter, direc­tor
of Field Services for Associ­ated
Educational Consultants,
Inc., reviewed a proposed
school board policy manual
which the board approved sub­ject
to several changes. The
manual cost $4500 to prepare.
Editor’s Note: The following
is a statement released by the
school board. The clarification
that the school board requests
did not result from inaccurate
reporting by the RECORD-EX­PRESS.
A1I statements in the
previous article were direct
quotes, rather than the opinions
of this newspaper.
The school board statement—
"During the course of the
meeting, a discussion arose con­cerning
an article which appear­ed
in the July 2 issue of this
paper. The board members
agreed that there were several
points which should be clari­fied.”
“The new assistant to the
superintendent will have the
title of administrative assistant,
and the board has authorized a
salary of $14,500 for the posi­tion.
There will be an approxi­mate
saving of $4,500 this year
because of a necessary delay in
filling the position. Therefore,
only $10,000 was budgeted for
the ’70-71 school term.”
“It had been stated in the
July article that the salary of
$7,000 for a home and school
visitor could be eliminated be­cause
Warwick Township would
do the work required free of
charge. It is not clear how this
could be done since the position
requires specific education and
state certification.”
“The elimination of $1,250 for
dental supplies would not result
in a saving, since this cost is
totally reimbursed by the
state.”
“Professional evaluation of
our school district has disclosed
that our high school guidance
staff is presently overburdened.
This would obviate the previous
suggestion that $9,000 for an
elementary guidance counselor
could be saved by moving a
high school guidance counselor
to the elementary position.”
A native of Haverford, Penn­sylvania,
Guion graduated from
Juniata College, Huntingdon,
Pennsylvania, in 1959 with a
bachelor of science degree in
economics and business admin­istration.
In June, 1970, he received the
masters degree in business
economics from the University
of Pennsylvania.
He taught for one year in the
Brandywine School, Coatesville,
and then worked in industrial
accounting and business admin­istration
for a period of six
year.
Since 1967, he has been con­nected
with the business ad­ministration
of University City
Science Center, Philadelphia, a
joint Temple-Penn State re­search
complex.
Married and the father of
two children, he will be mak­ing
his home in the Lititz area.
He will begin his duties with
the Warwick School District as
Assstant to the Superintendent
for Business on Monday, July
27.
Jay Thomas Stauffer displays some of
the many pewterware items he has made.
Shown are dishes, spoons and a candle-holder.
He will show many of his items
at the Schaefferstown Fair Saturday and
Sunday.
The Craftsman Doesn’t Like to Mass Produce It
Stauffer Pewterware Is Widely
By Pat Wilson
Record-Express Feature Writer
The time-honored crafl of
making pewterware, so perfected
' it is almost art, will be demon­strated
at the Shaefferstown
Craft Fair Saturday and Sunday
by Jay Thomas Stauffer of Lititz
RD2.
Stauffer, who has been working
with pewter for about 10 years,
has made everything from the
tiniest of buttons to large plat­ters.
In between are salt cellars
with matching spoons, table­spoons,
pins, animal figures,
candlesticks and sconces, plates
and placques.
All of his designs' are Colonial!
He reproduces actual old pieces
from museums and private col­lections,
using the original molds
if available or making new ones
of plaster, bronze, kirksite or
rubber.
The process of making pewter­ware
is almost as time-consuming
as it is time-honored, but the
result is a permanent piece of
lasting beauty and value.
Care of pewterware is much
simpler than caring for silver,
Mrs. Stauffer says. There are
Sink Hole Breaks
Boro Water Main
Eight homes on Port Ross
Avenue in Sutter Village were
without water temporarily Wed­nesday
when a six-inch main
broke at a sink hole, according
to George Steedle, borough
manager.
The main broke at about 2
a.m. Wednesday. Borough
workmen found the sink hole
had dropped the main onto a
rock, where it broke. The break
was expected to be repaired
Wednesday.
Only a limited number of per­sons
were effected by the break
because it occurred near the
end of the main, Steedle ex­plained.
He said about 35 to 40 yards
of cement already have been
poured into the sink hole in an
effort to plug it. Before the lat­est
break, officials had thought
the hole had been stopped.
Besides repairing the main,
the work involved additional ef­forts
to fill the hole.
commercial polishes available,
but she finds that frequent rub­bing
with a tea towel preserves
the glow of the pewter. Its ap­pearance
actually improves with
age,, much as silver’s does, but
without the work involved in
preserving silver.
To make a pewter piece, Mr.
Stauffer either selects a mold
that he has borrowed from a
museum or from someone who
has a collection, or he makes
one that is an exact replica of
an old pattern, accurate even to
the dents and scratches found
on true antiques.
The liquid pewter, which is
usually an alloy of tin, copper
and 'antimony, is then poured
into the mold and allowed to
harden. “That’s good pewter,”
Stauffer says of the blend he
prefers. “Some others are also
used.”
, Making the mold, if this is
necessary, takes a great deal of
time, but Stauffer has a complete
shop and can make whatever is
necessary. If it’s made of plas­ter,
the mold has to harden be­fore
the pewter can be poured
into it. Then the pewter has to
harden.
Mr. Stauffer has made so much
pewter in his years of working
with the metal that his house­hold
is full of it. “We even eat
off pewter,” his wife laughs.
There are also pewter orna­ments,
particularly scones and
candlesticks, throughout the
house. Especially attractive are
pewter and cherry wood candle­sticks.
Mrs. Stauffer added that
her talented husband also made
a pair of pewter and ebony
candlesticks.
Mr. Stauffer, whose regular job
is designing patterns for Wilton
Brass which produces pewter­like
reproductions, makes pewter
pieces as a hobby, spending a
lot of his spare time in his base­ment
workshop.
“I work most of the winter
making pewterware,” he ex­plains.
“Then, I sell most of it at
craft fairs.”
He has been demonstrating his
craft at the Kutztown Pennsyl­vania
Dutch Folk Festival for
the past four years, and has also
exhibited at Landis Valley Farm
Museum, He has also shown the
making of pewter at Woodlawn
Craft Festival in Maryland.
The craftsman spends any­where
from five to 20 minutes
explaining and demonstrating
how he makes pewterware, and
answering questions. His pieces
are for sale at the fairs.
However, Stauffer prefers not
to make pieces on order and he
doesn’t like to mass-produce his
pieces. “When you start to mass-produce,
it’s no longer a craft,”
he believes. Some of his pewter
items are one-of-a-kind treasures.
When he first started making
pewterware, Stauffer related how
he made the rounds of shops that
sell gifts and antiques, begging
them to take some of his items
on consignment; now the shops
are begging him for pieces, but
he turns them down.
Railroad Cables, Clamps
Are Located-No Larceny
Scratch eight cables and 32
clamps from the borough police
larceny list.
The items, reported stolen
last week from the Reading De­pot
in Lititz, turned up later in
the week.
A workman had removed
them, but failed to notify the
railroad, which temporarily as­sumed
they were stolen, police
said.
Drunken Driving Charged
Vernon Bauer, Nail, Arkan­sas,
was arrested and charged
with drunken driving by Patrol­man
Charles Shenenberger
Tuesday.
Bauer was operating a tractor
and trailer on the second block
of East Main Street.
He was taken before State
Police for a chemical test and
charged before Squire Paul
Diehm. He was then taken to
Lancaster County Prison in
lieu of bail.
At 7:30 a.m. Tuesday Patrol­man
Shenenberger arrested
Charles P. Doman, 264 Noble
St., for operating a motor ve­hicle
during suspension. Doman
posted $500 bail before Squire
Diehm.
Accidents
At 7 p.m. Friday at the inter­section
of South Broad Street
and Juniper Lane, an auto
driven by Edward J. Vogeler
III, 23, 619 Kissel Hill Road,
struck a car driven by Wanda
L. Amand, 34, Columbia RD1.
Vogeler was attempting to
make a left hand turn onto
Broad Street and hit the Amand
auto which was travelling noiih
on South Broad Street. A camp-er-
pick-up had stopped to let
Vogeler out and Mrs. Amand
passed the camper.
Damage was estimated at
$140. No proescutions are being
made due to traffic conditions.
At 7 a.m. Saturday, living T.
Hughes, Newmanstown RD1,
was operating a local garbage
truck near Kline Lane and
Water Street when he backed-up
and struck William Henry
Peters, 55, and knocked him
down and drug him a short dis­tance.
Peters suffered facial injuries
and a fractured left leg. He was
taken to the Lancaster General
Hospital by the Warwick am­bulance.
There were no piose-cutions.
At 4:30 p.m. Friday Barbara
Ann Skutlin, 609 E. High St.,
Seaford, Del., was arrested at
Save Rite Market for disorderly
conduct.
Mrs. Skutlin had been drink­ing
and created a disturbance at
Save Rite according to police,
and was charged before Squire
Kauffman by Patrolman Em­merich.
She was released upon
payment of fine and costs.
Traffic Violations
Richard Nagle, Lititz PiD3,
was arrested for a traffic light
violation July 15. .
Donald Garner, 23 Orange
St., Ephrata, stop sign violation,
John Leroy Marinkov, Frede­ricksburg
RD1, speeding viola­tion,
and Joan L. Stoltzfus. 462
E. Main St., traffic lignt viola­tion,
all arrested on July 16.
Linda L. Peterson, Williams­port,
Pa., was charged for ignor­ing
an over due parking ticket.
Initial Response to Lititz Art Show Is Good;
Clubs Contribute Prize Funds, Judges Named
Four Lititz area civic clubs
have again contributed prize
money for the fourth annual
Outdoor Art Show Saturday in
downtown Lititz.
The American Business Club
of Lititz donated $50 for first
prize in the show category, all
other media.
A $50 donation for fifst prize
in oils was made by the Lititz
Rotary Club. The Lititz Lion’s
Club has given $25 toward prize
money.
All prizes in the children’s
division of the show will come
from the $25 donated by the Lit­itz
Jaycees.
Hours for the show are 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. on Saturday. Exhibits
may be seen on South Broad
Street, beginning at Orange
Street and North Broad Street
to Front Street, as well as
along East Main Street from the
square to Church Square. Chil­dren’s
exhibits will be placed
along North Broad Street at the
entrance to Lititz Springs Park.
Art Show judges will be A.
Earle Bilcher of Baltimore and
W. Reginald Watkins of Balti­more.
A native of Philadelphia,
Bilcher received his art train­ing
at the Newark School of
Fine and Industrial Arts. He
has exhibited at many shows.
He received a $100 award from
the Center Club of Baltimore
at the 7th Annual Art Exhibit
honoring Baltimore artists.
A Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts, England, Watkins was
an instructor at the Maryland
Institute for over 40 years and
was for five years an instructor
of an accelerated art course at
the University of Maryland
Summer School. Well known
for his painting demonstrations,
Watkins is listed in Who’s Who
in American Art and in Who’s
Who in the East.
S.o far, nearly -125 entries
have been received in the adult
division and nearly 25 in the
children’s division. Entries are
being accepted from anywhere
within a 100-mile radius of Lit­itz.
Seven adults in the handicap
art class sponsored by the Unit­ed
Cerebral Palsy Society and
instructed by Richard Slaugh,
who is president of the Lancas­ter
Art Association. Work is
mostly coulage with some oils.
One spokesman for the show
committee reported that res­ponse
to the show has been ex-
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Chief Hicks to Ask 25-mph
Speed Signs on 5 Streets;
No Outdoor Vending Sought
A request to install 25 mile
per hour signs on five borough
streets and a proposed new or­dinance
to prohibit outdoor
vending machines will be
among Items on Lititz Borough
Council’s agenda next week.
Police Chief George Hicks
has asked that the street speed
signs be placed on the follow­ing
streets:
North Locust Street from
Front to Water Streets.
Kissel Hill Road from For­ney
Drive to the Borough’ line.
East Lincoln Avenue from
Broad Street to the Borough
line.
, North Cedar Street from
Front to the Borough line.
South Spruce Street from
Orange to Sixth Streets.
George Steedle, borough man­ager,
also reported that a pro­posed
ordinance will be receiv­ed
from the solicitor “for dis­cussion”
on prohibiting outdoor
vending machines.
Known
Many of his friends and neigh­bors
had no idea of the extent
of his hobby, yet fair visitors
from New York and elsewhere
very likely have examples of his
work in their homes.
Some pieces of Stauffer pewter­ware
are on exhibit in the Dutch
Wonderland Wax Museum, he
added.
Mr. Stauffer has been in the
pewter pattern trade for about
20 years, he explained, but his
interest in working with metals
goes back even farther.
“I’ve been around foundries
since I was a kid. My uncle had
■a foundry and I practically grew
up there,” he says.
Asked how he began to spe­cialize
in pewter, Stauffer admits
he has had no special training
other than experience. “I just
picked it up,” he adds.
He formerly worked for
Hubley Manufacturing Company
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Local Taxpayers Get-
Discount Extension
The discount period on real
estate taxes for local taxpayers
has been changed from August
15 to October 15. Previously it
was August 1 to October 1.
Local tax collectors asked the
school board for the 15 day ex­tension
because they just re­ceived
the tax bills from the
firm in Camp Hill that prepares
them and do not have time to
get them out.
Steedle said there is no report
of such an ordinance existing
in neighboring localities, but
borough officials think it’s
legal.
Ice vending machines would-be
exempt.
The council meeting is set for
7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30 in
Boro Hall. The meeting was
changed from the last Tuesday
of the month.
Other items on borough
agenda, Steedle reported in­clude:
Report of a joint meeting be­tween
council and the Lititz
Fire Company at 8 p.m. August
10 at the borough office. The
firemen requested the meeting
to discuss long-range building
plans.
While no formal discussions
have been held on when, where
or how, there has been general
discussion in the past on pos­sibly
acquiring land for a new
fire hall.
The borough plans to start its
summer street resurfacing pro­gram
August 3. The borough
always starts the resurfacing
program about this time of
year in hopes of getting the
work done during the hottest
part of the summer when the
road material does a better
job, Steedle explained.
The borough has paid its pub­lic
utility tax of $1,550 on the
borough water system. Since
the state senate has confirmed
the governor’s veto of a bill to
exclude municipalities from the
tax, it now appears certain the
borough will not get this money •
back.
The money will come out of
the funds for improving and -ex­panding
the water system. No
additional taxes or surcharges
are expected as a result of the
state tax.
The borough will ask for the
first payment of $10,276.46 for
construction of water mains for
fire protection for two Lititz
firms, Woodstream Corp. and
Morgan Mills, Inc. The payment
will account for about 20 per­cent
of the total cost and the
remainder is expected to be due
by the end of August from the
firms, \khich are paying for the
cost.
The borough is installing a
12-inch main in Willow Lane
and a 10-inch main in North
Cedar Street.
The borough will discuss
some storm drainage problems,
that occurred in the storm July
9. The borough’s engineers have
reported that this was “a 100
year storm,” a storrfi that can
be expected to occur once in
100 years.
Council ’ will review the by­laws
for the Lititz-Manheim
Council of Governments.
Mrs. Rosemary Weller, school
crossing guard, will not refurn
next year and a replacement
will be recommended.
Ordination Rites At
Lititz Moravian Sun.
Sunday, July 26th will be a
special day in the life of the-
Lititz Moravian Congregation as
it shares in the Ordination Rites
of Edward C. Albee, who will
be assuming the rite of Assis­tant
Minister in the congrega­tion.
A significant part of the
ordination events will be the
participation of Mr. Aibee's
father, The Reverend Nathaniel
E. Albee, pastor of the Midland
Beach Moravian Church in
Staten Island. New York. This
father-son ministerial relation­ship
is one of six father-son
combinations within the East-
Edward C. Albee
ern District of the Moravian
Church.
Officiating in the consecra-*
lion of Edward Albee will be
Bishop Allen W. Schattschneid-er,
who also has a son David, an
ordained Moravian minister
serving’ on the faculty of the
Moravian Theological Seminary
in Bethlehem, Pa. The Senior
Pastor, The Reverend William
W. Matz will likewise be parti­cipating
in the order of wor­ship.
Mr. Aibee’s installation as
pastor in the Lititz congrega­tion
completes the staff minis­try
of three which also includes
Miss Frances Huetter, who
came to Lititz to serve as Direc­tor
of Christian Education.
On Sunday the Trombone
Choir under the leadership of
John Keehn will be playing on
the green of Church Square at
10:15 prior to the worship ser­vice
which is scheduled for
10:30 A.M. The Adult Choir will
open the service in singing
“God Is A Spirit” by Bennett,
with Mrs. William Bair direct­ing
the choir.
An informal reception will be
held on the green following the
ordination and installation ser­vice
served by the Women’s
Fellowship of the church.
There wil be no 8:00 A.M.
worship service this Sunday.
All are welcome to this spec­ial
ordination service and re­ception.