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(Consolidated with The Ziltitz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, January 21, 1971 10 oanta a Copy; $4.00 par yaar by w a ll
w ith in L ancaste r County 14 Pages — No. 42
Woman's Club Plans Benefit Ball
For Downtown Restoration Project
The Lititz Woman’s Club held
its January meeting in the Luth­eran
Education Building Monday
eevning. Miss Barbara Wise, 1st
vice president, was in charge of
the meeting in the absence of
Mrs. Roy Yeager, preisdent.
The Ways and Means commit-te,
Mrs. William Scatchard, co-chairman,
reported a profit of
$103 from the Christmas Bazaar.
She also reported the card tour­nament
is now in progress.
The Public and International
Affairs Department, Mrs. J.
Franklin Everett, chairman, re­quested
an individual cash dona­tion
be made to CARE for the
East Pakistan Relief Fund.
The Home Life Department,
Mrs. Henry Gibbel, chairman,
announced the plans for Creative
Woman’s Day to be held at the
February meting. All kinds of
hand-made articles and crafts as
well as sewing, knitting, paint­ing,
etc are invited to be dis­played
at the meeting.
Articles sheVld be brought to
the Lutheran Education Building
on February 15 from 9:30 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m. Articles chosen
will then be displayed at the
Lancaster County Creative
Women’s Day to be hid in March
ai the Hilton Inn, Lancaster.
Mrs. Gibbel also announced the
knitting interst group will meet
at the home of Mrs. Harold Zan­der.
All interested members are
invited to attend.
The Dance Committee, headed
by Mrs. Albert Vigunas, an­nounced
that the Benefit Ball
will be March 13 at the General
Sutler Inn. The Dance will
benefit the Restoration of Down­town
Lititz.
“A Prelude To Spring Bene­fit
Ball” is open to the public
and all are invited to attend.
Music will be provided by the
‘‘Royal Tones,” with dancing
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Mrs. Vigunas announced the
following committees: tickets,
Mrs. Robert Bomberger and Mrs
Arthur Holder; patrons, Mrs.
John Skinner and Mrs. Russell
Templeton; decorations, Mrs.
Robert Gibble, Mrs. Vigunas;
posters, Mrs. William Spacht.
Other committee members in­clude:
Mrs. Reyer Swan, Mrs.
Richard Smith, Mrs. Edward
Pelger, Mrs. Garth Becker, Mrs.
Donald Steffy, Mrs. Richard Dra-beck,
Mrs. Albert Wilhelmi, Mrs.
Robert Lowther, Mrs. Elwood
Hann and Mrs. Ronald Tweed.
Mrs. Harold Kauffman is in
charge of publicity.
Miss Pat Sullivan announced
the plans for the play “Four For
The Money,” to be cast for the
March meeting. She has six
roles to cast. If interested
please contact her by calling 626-
4345.
Mrs. Zander, chairman of the
Conservation Committee, passed
out letters to prevent pollution
to members to be signed and
sent to the state senators and
Congressmen.
Grant Heilman, representing
the Lititz Chamber of .Com­merce,
presented a plan for the
beautification of the first block
of East Main Street in Lititz by
taking down all over-head elec­trical
wires and removing utility
poles and using rear utility serv­ices
and possibly underground
cables.
He encouraged the club to un-dewright
the project and a com­mittee
will be formed to look
into the further investigation of
the project.
The program for the evening
featured Edward Hill who pre­sented
“Interpretations of Ma­ture’’
time lapse photography
pictures of local wildlife and
things of beauty. He was intro-tiuced
by Mrs. Scott Garman.
Mrs. Arthur Holder read the
Collect and the Birthday Flowers
were presented to Mrs. William
Scatchard. Hostesses for the
evening were Mrs. Frederick
Augustine and Mrs. Robert
Thompson.
New Zealand Film For Travelogue
Series; Set For Saturday, Jan. 23
The Lititz Rotary Club will
present the third program of its
“Travel and Adventure Series
Saturday, January 23 at 3 p.m.
and 8 p.m. in the Warwick
High School auditorium.
“Welcome—New Zealand,” a
color adventure film, will be
narrated by Robert E. O’Reilly.
O’Reilly attended the Univer­sity
of Notre Dame majoring in
Mechanical Engineering. En­listing
in the Air Force, he
•was commissioned 2nd Lieuten­ant
and served as Armament
and Chemical Warfare Officer
of the 441st Fighter Squadron,
3rd Air Force.
He was Vice-President of an
Office Supply Company until
1964 when he organized his own
photography business and mo­tion
picture business. He has
been official photographer for
the sheriff’s department and al­so
for the Indiana State Police.
Being an accredited Depart­ment
of Defense photographer,
he has covered many overseas
assignments. Active in the Red
Cross, he has served as chair­man
for many important com­mittees
and as a director.
“NEW ZEALAND” is an ex­tremely
comprehensive film
covering a country that is most
amazing. On the trip through
this South Pacific port-of-call,
we will find just about every
type of scenery on the face of
the earth. We will go from
Whangaroa and the Bay of Is­lands
in the far north to Inver­cargill,
southernmost city in
the British family of nations.
We will go deep-sea fishing in
Warwick Twp.
Reelect Officers
Warwick Township Supervi­sors
re-elected officers for 1971.
They are: Robert Gibble, chair­man;
Joseph Brubaker, vice
chairman, and Richard Hoffer,
secretary-treasurer.
The supervisors also named
George J. Morgan Esq. solicitor
and Commonwealth National
Bank depository.
The supervisors appointed
Donald Tennis to a five-year
term on the Warwick Township
Municipal Authority.
A final hearing on the tabled
petition of Wesley Burkholder
for rezoning was set January 21,
The Lancaster County Plan,
ning Commission Sewerage
Plan for Warwick Township was
adopted.
Books of the treasurer were
audited January 16 by the War­wick
Township auditors.
Robert O’Reilly
the Bay of Islands, and will sec
the magnificant thermal areas
are found at Rotorua.
The Maoris will entertain
royally with unique dances and
songs that were recorded on the
spot. The rare and unbelievable
Kiwi birds and the thousands of
gannets nesting at Cape Kid­nappers
that will be seen, are
natural history wonders.
The audience will thrill to the
sport of P-Class boat racing in
Auckland and jet speedboat
trips up the Wanganui River.
Unbelievable beautiful scenic
attractions will include the fam­ed
Chateau recreation area, the
Kaingaroa State forest, Mt.
Cook and the Franz Joseph
glaciers, and superb Milford
Sound with its mint-coloi-ed
fiords and snow covered peaks
— perhaps the world’s finest
view.
New Zealand is wonderful
country, just as this film story
is “just too wonderful for
words.” An exquisite country to
see with Bob O’Reilly narrating
a most interesting story in per­son.
The New Middle School Concept
And Its Educational Structure
Editors Note: This article is’
the second of a series from
school officials that will explain
the new middle school concept.
We are publishing it in order to
help educate the public prior to
the opening of the new school
scheduled for this fall.
Our society continually
changes at a rapid pace. As
these changes take place and
scientific research provides new
information related to problems
in education, changes are subse­quently
made within the educa­tional
structure of the schools.
Within the last decade, new
information was revealed in re­lation
to pre-adolescent and
early adolescent needs and
growth. An increased under­standing
of the student from
11 to 13 years of age encouraged
some change in teaching tech­niques,
content of subject mat­ter,
and the school environ­ment;
As a result, the education­al
structure of the intermediate
school shifted its emphasis on
subject matter to that of the
needs and interests of the stu­dent.
One characteristic of the mid­dle
school is that the education­al
program be flexible rather
than stagnate. In this way; the
school can more easily work
with the many changes that
take place, and in turn help the
individual student become a
more valuable members to his
respective community.
The middle school concept
varies throughout our country
due to differences pertaining to
finances, specialized teacher
preparation, teacher orientation
toward the student’s stage of
growth and development, and
the size of school. In some
cases, the schools are middle
schools in name only. However,
most middle schools reveal
common characteristics within
their educational structures in
order to provide a learning en­vironment
that is relative to
the needs and intrests of the
pre- and early adolescent.
The local school community
affects the educational program
within its schools since each
community has its own educa­tional
desires and expectations.
Basically, the educational
structure within the middle
school . . . should closely plan
the learning activities in rela­tion
to the 11 to 13 year old
student’s needs, abilities and
aspirations. . . . should develop
its» educational program in rela­tion
to the whole develbpment
of . the student; that is, the so­cial,
emotional, physical and in­tellectual
growth of the pre-and
early adolescent. . . . should
provide a cohesive educational
program that would be develop­ed
in relation to past elemen­tary
school experiences as well
as to the needs of the oncom­ing
senior high school require­ments.
. . . should provide vari­ous
short term elective subject
courses and activity classes
through which the student
could develop an awareness of
his interests and abilities.
In this type of educational
program, the preadolescent is
more abale to develop a self­understanding
and therefore,
continue to develop confidence
in himself within our society.
“A middle school program,
properly conceived, is not just
a series of hurdles which a child
must jump, but a means to a
far broader and nobler end —
developing and/or increasing
the self-concept of each child
as a valuable human being.”*
*The Middle School, Pennsyl­vania
Department of Education
(1969).
Bernice Otis, left, district deputy pre­sident
degree mistress of the Lancaster
County Degree Team, conferred the Re­bekah
Degree on Harlan Hoffman, Lan­caster,
new member of the Lady Sutter
Itebekah Lodge 435 and Maude Bachman,
new member of the Lady Alice Dunn Re-bekah
Lodge 280, New Holland at the local
Rebekah Lodge meeting Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Beatrice Grosh, right, Noble Grand
of the Lititz Rebekah Lodge, conducted the
business meeting.
School Board
Elects Two
New Teachers
The Warwick - School Board
Tuesday night elected two: new
teachers. They arc: Edward H.
Rand, 2122 Pine . Street, Phila­delphia,
Rand will graduate
irom Millersville State College
this month and will teach mathe­matics
in the juninor high
school. Mrs. Karen Sue Tompos,
214 North George Street, Mil­lersville,
who will graduate from
Millersville in May and be as­signed
to an immediate grade.
The board also announced that
applications and information for
free or reduced lunch prices
were being sent all parents. This
complies with federal regula­tions.
A letter was read from the
State Secretary of Education
commending the district for ex­cellence
in filing applications for
state and federal reimburse­ments.
The board granted a military
leave of absence to John R. Mat-tern,
a junior high science
teacher, who has been inducted
into the Army.
The following were elected as
substitute teachers: William F.
Brossman, 145 E. Main St., Eph-rata;
Mrs. Virginia Burleson. 22
Earl Lane,’ Rothsville; Richard J.
Gerz, Jr., 15 N. Shippen Street,
Lancaster; Mrs. Beth R. Ludwig,
440-H Euclid Ave., Lancaster;
Mrs. Elaine K. Radcliffe, 1018
Hunsicker Road, Lancaster;
Terence J. Robb, 237 S. Broad
Street, Lititz; John M. Schrei-beis,
250 Stone Mill Road, Lan­caster;
and Mrs. Betty Dale St.
Germain, 28 Peach Lane, Lan­caster.
Garden State Paper Acquires
Rest of Morgan Miffs Stock
Morgan Mills, Inc., has be­come
a wholly owned subsidiary
of Garden State Paper, Inc.,
through the acquisition by Gar­den
State Paper of the balance
of Morgan’s outstanding shares.
The recent acquisition by
Garden State represented a
“significant” portion of stock.
Garden State, however, pre­viously
had majority ownership
of Morgan Mills.
Garden State was one of the
organizers of Morgan Mills in
1969. The firm previously was
known as Morgan Paper.
Garden State Paper, Inc., is
a subsidiary of Media General,
Inc., a major holding company
in the communications field, or­ganized
slightly more than a
year ago with headquarters in
Richmond, Va.
The company and its subsi­diaries
own and operate news­papers
in Richmond; Tampa,
Fla.; Winston-Salem, N. C.; and
Newark, N. J.
In addition to TV, radio and
CATV interests, the company
also includes Garden State
Paper, Inc., and its unique
manufacture of newsprint from
waste newspapers in plants lo­cated
in New Jersey, Illinois
and California.
The local Morgan Mills plant,
however, produces sanitary pro­ducts
and has nothing to do
with newsprint, it was explain­ed.
George K. Blemesderfer
To Resign From Council
Borough council at its regular
monthly meeting next Tuesday
(Jan. 26) will receive a letter
of resignation from George K.
Biemesderfer, 6 East Third
Avenue.
Biemesderfer states in the
letter that he is resigning be­cause
of the press of other busi­ness
and he finds it difficult to
give the proper time to council
work. Biemesderfer, active in
many community activities, has
served on council since last
January having been elected to
a four year term.
Under the borough code coun­cil
has thirty days in which to
appoint a successor.
Borough Manager George
Steedle said council would
probably make the appoint­ment
at the regular meeting on
February 23. He said several
people have already expressed
an interest in the post.
Public Hearing
Council will hold a public
hearing at the meeting concern­ing
a proposal from Benjamin
Forney to rezone a strip of land
on East Main Street from resi­dential
RD1 district to general
business in order to permit the
erection of a gasoline service
station.
Council will also hear a re­port
from Frank Ford in reply
to a letter from council, offer­ing
to reimburse him at a rate
of $420 per year for lease of the
Municipal Parking Lot.
Borough Manager George
Steedle expects t h e Lititz
Springs Swimming Pool com­mittee
to report on the pro­posed
addition to the pool and
cost estimates are to be present­ed
by McCloud, Scatchard,
Derek and Edson, landscape
architects.
Council will again review the
Lancaster County Comprehen­sive
Sewage plan, as prepared
by the Lancaster County Plan­ning
Commission, to meet re­quirements
of the Pennsylvania
Department of Health in accor­dance
with the Pennsylvania
Sewage Facilities Act.
The restricted “no parking”
on Second Avenue and Spruce
Street and along Pine Lane will
be reviewed by council. The
restriction was authorized Octo­ber
27 for 90 days on a trial
basjs. It will be recommended
to council that the special zones
be made permanent.
Council will discuss thè pro­posed
change to the zoning or­dinance
and schedule a public
hearing for the Libramont area
in regards to authorizing the
erection of town houses in a
residential RD1 district.
It will be reported that the
engine burned out of the 1958
Willy’s jeep half ton pick up
truck during the last snow re-moval.
Council will accept bids
on a used half ton four wheel
drive pick up truck on February
3.
Council will review a request
that 25 mile per hour speed
limit signs be erected along
Kissel Hill Road within the
borough.
Council will review specifica­tions
for a new police car and
ask for bids on February 23.
Chief of Police George Hicks
will recommend that speed
limit signs be erected on cer­tain
streets in the borough. He
will also request council to es­tablish
a no parking zone along
the Linden Acre property on
North Cedar Street and North
Water Street.
Borough Manager George
Steedle will announce that the
Lancaster County Borough’s
Association will meet at Eliza­bethtown
on Feb. 10.
Steedle will also report that
four officials from Morrisville,
N. J. visited Lititz on Jan. 15.
Parent-Teacher
Conferences At
Elem. Schools
Parent-teacher conferences
will be held at all elementary
schools in the Warwick School
District on the following sche­dule:
Kindergarten — January 27,
28 and 29.
Grades 1 through 6 — Janu­ary
28 and 29.
School will not be in session
for students on days when the
parent-teacher conferences are
scheduled for their grades.
All parents will be notified
by their school as to dates and
times of their individual con­ferences.
Four New Homes Being
BuHt In Sutter Village
Permits were issued last week
for the building of four new
semi-detached homes in Sutter
Village. The permits were taken
by Robert Ranck of Lancaster.
The homes, which were al­ready
under roof early this
week, are located at 525, 527,
545 and 545 Yz Golden St. Hunt­ington
Homes is the builder.
Designed by architect J. C.
Snavely of Landisville, the
homes are of brick and siding
with asbestos shingle roofs.
W W Club Slates Events
The Lititz Welcome Wagon
Club is forming two new interest
groups it was announced during “
the business meeting conducted
by Mrs. William Rishell, club
preisdent, Tuesday evning.
The groups are: creative em­broidering,
Mrs. Clarence Rut-ball
as chairman and bowling,
chairman to be announced at a
later date.
Interest group meetings have
Teachers In-Service Day Events
A schedule of events has been
planned for the senior and jun­ior
high school faculty members
during the In-Service Days,
January 28 and 29.
Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 12
noon, the senior high faculty
will visit selected schools in
other areas.
The junior high school staff
and the elementary circulating
teachers will meet in the high
school cafeteria from 9 a m. to
12 noon on Thursday and dis­cuss
the New Middle School.
From 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. the
group will be writing position
papers for the Mddle School. ,
On Frday, from 9 a.m. to 12
noon, the senior , high faculty
members will meet in the audi­torium
to review and discuss
their observations of the sehools
they visited on Thursday.........
The junior high staff and cir­culating
teachers will met in the
high school cafeteria Friday
morning and discuss the curri­culum
and programs to be used
in the New Middle School...........
Miss Janet Oberholtzer, right, second
grade teacher at the Rothsville Elemen­tary
school was feted at a Farewell Party
by her students last Friday. Miss Ober­holtzer,
who has spent 14% years teaching,
is leaving to further her studies in religion ,
at Messiah College, Grantham, Pa. She
taught at the Rothsville School for 3%
years. She will be replaced by Miss Carol
Rees, Lancaster. Stacy Groff, seated, pre­sented
a floral gift to Miss Oberholtzer as
classmates Billie JoBaublitz, left, Wendell
Ginder and Bonnie Adams look on.
been scheduled as follows: book
review, January 28 at 8:15 p.m.
at the home of Mrs. John Snado;
arts and crafts, February 1 at
7:30 p.m. at the Rec Center,
bring scissors and all purpose
glue; pinochle, February 4 at
7:45 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Gerald Anderson and bridge,
February 11 at 8 p.m. at the
home of Mrs. Terry Hendricks.
Anyone interested in joining
any of these groups may do so
by contacting the group chair­men,
The club will sponsor a Square
Dance at the Lititz Recreation
Center on Saturday, March 6 at
7:30 p.m. Chester Grossman,
Millersville, will be the caller.
Mrs. Russell Mellinger; social
chairman is in charge of the
dance arrangements. The dance
is open to the public.
The club members voted to
hold a dessert-card parly, as a
civic project, sometime in the
Spring.
A program on interior decora­tion
will be presented by Mrs.
Richard Duncan, free lance in­terior
decorator, at the next club
meeting to be held at the Recrea­tion
Center Tuesday, February
16 at 7:45 p.m.
Mrs. Robert Wallin, Leola, is
the Lititz Welcome Wagon hos­tess
and is assisted by Mrs. Larry
Zimmerman, 303 Linden St/
Lititz. •
Police Phone Numbers
Lititz Borough Police
626-2209
Warwick Township Police
733-1818
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