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              The Lititz Record - Express
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94th Year Bstabiisliefl April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with. The Record, 1937Ì Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Wednesday, December 23, 1970 10 cents a Copy; $4.00 per year by mail
within Lancaster County 14 Pages No. 38
Borough Council Set
To Adopt ’71 Budget
Elizabeth Township
Meeting Schedule
Elizabeth Township super-visors
will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday (December 30)
at the Brickerville Fire Hall
for the annual budget meet­ing.
A
doption of the 1971 town­ship
budget is planned. The
budget calls for constructing
a new township building,
financed by a five-year $25,-
000 note.
The supervisors regularly
meet on the first Friday of
each month at 7:30 p.m. at
the Brickerville Fire Hall.
In addition, the supervis­ors
meet each Tuesday from
7 to 9 p.m. to conduct town­ship
business, such as issu­ance
of building permits.
The supervisors previously
reported in a legal notice on
December 10 that the new
budget would be open for
public inspection at the
Tuesday meetings until the
December 30 meeting.
The local newspaper account
last week of a hit and run acci­dent
led to a charge of hit and
run against a Lebanon RD5
man, according to James Fritz,
assistant Lititz police chief.
Fritz said Lititz police receiv­ed
tips from citizens following
the newspaper story and the
third tip led to the hit and run
charge.
Charged before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm was Jose­ph
Szewczak. Szewczak was ap­prehended
by Fritz at his Leb­anon
RD5 home at 4 p.m. Fri­day.
■The hit and run auto struck a
parked car owned by Richard E.
Watson, 225 N. Broad St., early
the morning of Saturday, De­cember
12.
. The newspapei account last
week reported police were look­ing
for a green or blue 1955 to
1958 Cadillac that would have
damage to the right front fend­er.
The citizen tips and the.
charge followed, according to
Fritz.
Elsewhere, an estimated $450
damage occurred in an accident
on East Main Street at 5:05 p.m.
Thursday, December 17.
Patrolman Charles Shenen-berger
said a car driven by Dan-
Lititz Borough Council will
meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
(December 29) to adopt the
1971 budget.
The budget calls for increas­ing
the real estate tax millage
by 3.5 mills to a total of 18 mills
and retaining other taxes, in­cluding
the $10 per capita and
$10 occupational taxes.
Council also will review the
request of the Lititz Fire Com­pany
in regard to an agree­ment,
discussed at a meeting
with firemen last week, to erect
a new fire hall within four
years.
Council will review the street
lighting situation throughout
the borough. It will review two
pending requests to'have mer­cury
vapor lamps installed, one
in the 300 block of East Second
Avenue and one on West
Orange Street in the vicinity of
Walnut Street and the entrance
iel E. Gainer Jr. 136 Front St.,
Lititz, was traveling east on
East Main when it was swerved
to the left to avoid hitting a
man opening a truck door. In
swerving, Garner struck a truck
operated by Mervin Zimmer­man,
Lititz RD4, who was tra­veling
west on East Main. There
were no injuries or prosecu­tions.
In a two-car accident at 12:30
p.m. on Saturday, a car travel­ing
south on South Spruce
Street, driven by Ruth S. New­comer,
436 S. Cedar St., Lititz,
was hit by a vehicle operated
by Susan J. Williams, 450 S.
Spruce St., Lititz. The Williams
vehicle vehicle had entered the
street from a private drive way.
Patrolman Robert Keller es­timated
damage at $300. There
were no injuries or prosecu­tions.
The following traffic viola­tions
were listed by the Police
Department: December 19 —
Dennis E. Weaver, 221 Miller
Drive, Manheim, failure to con­form
to regulations; Ruth R.
White, Lititz RD3, stop sign;
December 21 — Gretchen K.
Zink, 30 E. Main St., Lititz,
speeding.
to the High School.
A report will be given to
council stating that the addition
to the borough garage has been
completed. It contains crew
quarters and office space. Coun­cil
will be asked to pay the cost
of the addition amounting to
$4,217.25.
Council will review the water
main project involving North
Cedar Street and Willow Lane.
The jobs have been completed
and council will be asked to
authorize payment of the bill
for $20,925.49.
Council will review the storm
drainage plan prepared by the
engineer to construct impound­ing
basins west of the Lititz
Springs Park.
A possible expansion of the
Lititz Springs Pool will be dis­cussed.
Council will review a request
to install gas lights from the
walkway on East Main Street to
the Municipal parking lot, along
the General Sutter Inn.
Council will review a compre­hensive
sewage plan and a
storm drainage plan, as well as
the new Lancaster County Sub­division
ordinance, prepared by
the Lancaster County Planning
Commission.
A request from Ben Forney
to rezone a portion of his pro­perty
will be reviewed by coun­cil
and a date will be set for a
public hearing.
A request to remove unopen­ed
Noble Street, between North
Water Street and North Cedar
Street, from the borough plan
will be reviewed by council. A
date will be set for a public
hearing.
Council will review a request
from the Lititz Police Depart­ment
to send two patrolmen,
Robert Keller and Charles
Shenenberger, to training
school.
NOTICE
The RECORD-EXPRESS
will be published next
week on Wednesday, De­cember
30 because of New
Year’s. AH news and ad­vertising
should be in the
RECORD office by Mon­day,
December 28.
Newspaper, Cithern, Polke
Cooperate en Hit and Run
Paige Lee Buchter, 6, daughter of Jere
Bucbter, 32 E. Orange St., Lititz, is telling
Santa some of the things she wants for
Christmas. Santa, sponsored by the Lititz
Fire Company, will officially arrive in Lit­itz
on the Fire Truck at 9 a.m. Thursday.
He will tour the town and visit the homes
of the elderly at the Zion Home, Quincy
Home, Moravian Home and Luther Acres.
Santa will sit in the Castle beside the Sut­ter
Inn on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. and present each youngster who
visits him with a gift.
Jaycees Give ¡8 Children
Christmas Treat in Lititz
Eighteen needy children in
the Lititz area were treated to
a shopping spree in Lititz stores
by the Lititz Jaycees recently.
Each child was given five dol­lars
to spend as he wished. The
youngsters were accompanied
on a tour of the stores byJay-eee
members.
Following the shopping tour,
the children were taken to the
Warwick Haus for hot choco­late,
cookies and ice cream.
Santa Claus made an appear­ance
at the party and present-ed
candy canes and chocolates
to each child and gave each one
some personal attention.
Jaycees thank Lititz mer­chants
and the management of
the Warwick Haus, Helen Land­is,
Roy Sweigart and Bill Kauff­man
for their cooperation.
Members of the Jaycees who
made arrangements and took
part in the event are Bob Land­is,
Jack Kendig, Ralph Klein,
Bill Zetyinroyer, Terry Fulmer,
Adam Samelko, Bill Kauffman
and Ray Burkholder,
No Postal Deliveries
On Saturday, Dec. 26
Word from the Lititz Post
Office issuing a reminder to­day
that Thursday, Dec. 24’s
mail delivery begins a long,
letter-less weekend for Lititz
town and rural route patrons.
Richard C. Racier, Postmas­ter
at the Lititz office, said
there’ll be no mail deliveries
next Friday (Christmas
Day), Saturday, or Sunday.
Window service will be re­sumed
Saturday morning
from 8:30 A.M. - Noon on
Saturday, Dec. 26th with
Lobby service available for
Post Office Box patrons from
7 A.M. - 4 P.M. that day.
Heron Named Middle School Principal;
Kaufman Made Administrative Assistant
Carl B. Kaufman
in educational administration at
Temple University,
Heron began his career in pub­lic
education as a ' sixth grade
teacher in the Lancaster City
schools. After one year in this
position, he became a teacher
team chairman in the Stanton,
Delaware, public schools. Return­ing
to his native county in 1962.
he became an elementary school
principal in the Solanco School
District, where he served for a
period of three years.
In 1965 Heron became prin­cipal
of Lititz Elementary school,
his current position in the War­wick
School District.
He is immediate past president
of the Lancaster City-County
Elementary Principals Associa­tion,
a member of Phi Delta
Kappa, and a member of the
Pennsylvania Elementary Prin­cipals
Association, the National
Elementary Principals Associa­tion
and the Pennsylvania As­sociation
of School Administra­tors.
He is married to the former
Helen Yates. Mr. and Mrs. Heron
are the parents of two children.
Suzanne, two years of age, and
Theresa, five years of age.
Kaufman’s Background
Kaufman, who resides at 204
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Authority Authorizes Bids
For New School Furniture
Pretzel House
Is International
The Lititz Pretzel House
is used to receiving featuriz-ed
write-ups in small and
large, unsung and kell-known
national publications.
The Ford Times and the
New York Times are among
publications which have giv­en
the nationally known
tourist attraction write-ups.
Now the Pretzel House is
international.
The “Parade” section of
the Honkkong Standard this
fall gave nearly 100 column
inches of space to the Pretzel
House under a large head­line,
“Pretzels Can Be Seri­ous
Business.”
In particular, the Stand­ard
article zeroed in on the
popular Lewis Sturgis, 87-
year-old pretzel twister and
his family ties to the 109-
year-old Pretzel House, the
oldest pretzel bakery in
America, owned by Lititz
businessman ’ Robert Buch.
The article describes the
history of the pretzel indus­try
and how the pretzel in­dustry
is being taken over by
the machine.
Smith Named
Works Manager
Richard G. Woolworth, Presi­dent
of Woodstream Corporation,
has announced the appointment
of Tom C. Smith as Works Man­ager
for the Woodstream Cor­poration.
Smith will be respon­sible
for the manufacturing and
purchasing divisions of the Lititz
operation as well as overseeing
the same operations at the
branch plants located in Pasaca-goula,
Mississippi, Providence,
Rhode Island and Niagara Falls,
Ontario.
A graduate engineer of Penn
State, Smith is registered as a
licensed enigneer in New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He served as an engineer for
Chance-Vought for two years
prior to joining Hamilton
Watch Company, where he serv­ed
in various capacities for eigh­teen
years.
Mr. Smith joined Woodstream
in October of this year and has
been active in instituting new
systems in the manufacturing
division. He will replace Mr.
James 1. Anthony, Vice Presi­dent
of Manufacturing, who is
leaving Woodstream Corpora­tion
on January 1, 1971 to form
his own company, Datcon In­strument
Company.
Mr. Anthony will remain on
the Board of Directors at Wood-stream
and continue to serve in
an advisory capacity. Datcon
Instrument Company was formed
by the purchase of the Elapsed
Time instrument Division of
Hamilton Watch Company, an­nounced
earlier this month.
Woolworth also announced the
appointment of Warren G. Botz
as Special Assistant to the Presi­dent
in addition to other duties
-that Boltz is currently assigned.
Jaycees Seek Truck
Ralph Kline is donating the
use of a truck for the annual
Jaycees Christmas tree pick-up
in Lititz January 5.
The Jaycees, however, are
seeking another truck. Anyone
wishing to cooperate should call
Adam Samelko of the Jaycees at
626-2512.
Workers Reject
Union Offer A t
Sensenich Corp.
Sensenich Corp. production
and maintenance employees Fri­day
rejected the United Furni­ture
Workers of America, AFL-CIO,
as their collective bargain­ing
agent by a vote of 69 to 36.
Lawrence S Wescott, corpora­tion
attorney, said that all 105
eligible employes voted in the
National Labor Relations Board
sponored election.
This was the fourth time since
1964 that employes turned down
the UFW as a bargaining agent,
Westcott said.
Voting for the truckdrivers.
■draftsmen and inspectors was
held in the company vending
machine room.
Sensenich Corp. founded in
1932, is located at the Lancaster
Airport. It manufactures wood
and metal aircraft propellors
and laminated hardwood prod­ucts.
The Warwick School Board
Monday night filled two key
positions in the Warwick school
system.
Robert A. Heron was named
principal of the new Warwick
Middle School, slated to open
this Fall.
Carl B. Kaufman was made
administrative assistant to the
superintendent of schools, Dr.
H Dale Winger.
Heron is now principal of
Lititz Elementary School and
his new position will begin
around March, depending on the
status of construction of the new
Middle School, according to Dr.
Winger.
Kaufman is now principal of
the Warwick Junior High School
and his new position as admin-
Robert A. Heron
istrative assistant will begin as
soon as a replacement can be
found. The replacement will be
in the form of an assistant for
■Harold Swisher, Senior High
School principal.
Dr. .Winaer explainer) that the
Junior High bchool principal
position will no longer exist un­der
the new Middle School pro­gram
which will start next fall.
There will, however, be an as­sistant
to the high school prin­cipal,
Dr. Winger said.
In his new position, Heron will
immediately assume primary re­sponsibility
for the planning and
organization necessary to pre­pare
for the opening of the War­wick
Middle School in September
1971. He will be responsible for
coordinating educational plan­ning,
the staffing of the school,
the ' delivery and installation of
furniture and equipment and
many other activities necessary
to propose the school for open­ing
in September.
In his new position, Kaufman
will have primary responsibility
for school district personnel
management, public relations
program, special pupil services
and a number of other major ad­ministrative
responsibilities to
he assigned, Dr. Winger said.
Heron’s School Background
Heron, who resides at Lititz
:RD2, is a native of Martic Town­ship
in Lancaster County. Fol­lowing
graduation from Penn
Manor High School, he received
a bachelor of science degree in
elementary education at Mil'lers-ville
State College.
Heron received the master of
education degree in educational
administration from Temple Uni­versity
in 1961. Since receiving
his master’s degree, he has been
involved in a doctoral program
A bidding schedule for furni­ture
and equipment for the
new Warwick Middle School
was authorized Monday night
at a joint meeting of the Lititz
Area School Authority and the
Warwick School Board.
The authority approved ad­vertising
for bids in early Janu­ary,
receiving the bids in early
February, with awards to the
successful bidders sometime in
March.
The money to pay for the
furniture and equipment is re­maining
in the original school
bond issue. The budget figure is
$315,000.
Besides setting the bidding
time-table, Monday’s meeting
provided for a review' by the
Authority and Board of the
specifications for the moveable
furniture and equipment in the
new Middle School. The bid
does not include items which
were built into the school such
as bleachers in the gymnasium,
science tables and cabinet work
in home economics, art and
music, which were inducted in
the general construction con­tract.
The bid includes furniture
and equipment for 850 pupils at
the Middle School as follows:
general classroom furniture, in­cluding
pupil desks and chairs;
furniture and equipment in the
health suite, such as an examin­ing
table and chairs; office fur­niture
in the administrative
suite; folding tablet arm chairs
in the music suite; tables,
chairs, card catalogs and other
materials for the library.
Mats and gym equipment,
such as horses and rings, for the
gymnasium; locker room items;
special arts and crafts tables
for the arts and crafts rooms;
folding roll-away tables with at­tached
stools for the cafeteria;
gang type seats for the stu­dent
lounge adjoining the cafe­teria.
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Fire Chief Ammon Shelly presents
state certificates of attainment to James
R. Wiegand and Barry R. Klopp, local fire­man,
in recognition of their completion of
45 hours of instruction in the Fundamen-tals
of Fire Fighting. The firemen com­pleted
12 hours of instruction at the Lan­caster
County Fire School and an addition­al
three hours a night for a period of 11
weeks.