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(Consolidated with The I iltitz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, March 4,1971 10 oaata a Copy; 94.00 p e r y e a r by maU
with in Xi&ncaeter County 14 Pages No. 48
J. B. Hess Shop Sold, But
A Hess Is Still the Owner
New Names Enter Local Political Picture This Week
As the March 9 Primary Filing Deadline Approaches
J. B. (Joe) Hess is stepping
down after managing the J. B.
Hess men’s store at 11 South
Broad Street for 26 years.
But the long-established
clothing shop will stay in the
family. The new manager is
Mike Hess.
Twenty-two year old Mike is
the son of Dr. Paul Hess, who
is a first cousin of J. B. That
means the two shop owners, the
outgoing and the incoming, are
cousins and the two men in­dicated
the relationship is a
close one.
The new owner indicated he
expects and hopes J. B. will be
helping at the shop part time.
Actually, the shop’s owner­ship
is a partnership. J. B. Hess
was a partner with his wife
Beulah from the start back in
1944 and Mike and his wife
Brenda will be full owners and
partners.
Asked about merchandising
policy under the new manage­ment,
Mike said there will be
more emphasis than before on
“style and fashion. We want to
be fashionable without getting
too far out.” The shop will con­tinue
to carry a general line of
merchandise.
J. B. Hess added the clean­ing
operation to his clothing
outlet in 1955. The cleaning
establishment was taken over
by Klotz Kleners last March.
J. B. Hess recalled that when
he started in 1944, it was “much
harder to get merchandise than
to sell it. Anything you could
get you could sell.”
Now the merchandise is avail­able
and the important part is
selling it.
And finally: Joe and Beulah
Hess wish to thank all their
loyal customers who made the
business possible.
Mike Hess, right, is the new manager of the Hess’ men’s
store at 11 South Broad Street. J. B. Hess, left, Shown helre
checking some merchandise with the new proprietor, is
stepping down after managing the store since 1944.
Local School Officials To Be
In State Labor Board Hearing
Thursday, March 4
6:30 p.m.—Lititz Lions Club
meeting, General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m.—Ladies Auxiliary of
Lititz Fire Co. covered dish
social, Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Delphian Society,
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A hearing to determine the
status of Warwick School Dis­trict
department heads in the
teacher-school board labor ne­gotiations
will be held in Har­risburg
Monday.
The Pennsylvania Labor Re­lations
Board will hear state­ments
by both the Warwick
Education Association (WEA)
which represents teachers and
the Warwick School Board at
the 10 a.m. hearing in the Labor
and Industries Building.
The local negotiations on the
1971-72 teacher wage package
are held up by mutual agree-
Warwick Planners to Have
Comprehensive Plan in '71
The Warwick Township Plan­ning
Commission has adopted
as its 1971 goal the develop­ment
of a comprehensive plan
for the Township.
At its regular monthly meet­ing
last Thursday the Planning
Commission started discussions
of the potential elements of
such a plan and mapped out
a course of action.
It is contemplated that Huth
Engineers of Lancaster will pro­vide
consultation service
through its planning director,
Garth Becker, a township rési­dent.
“The rapid growth of the
township in the last 20 years,”
said Planning Commission
Chairman Joe R. Snavely,
“proves how wise a move its
citizens made when they adopt­ed
a zoning ordinance in 1968.
Population in Warwick Town­ship
has doubled since 1950 and
we are now the sixth largest
township in Lancaster County.”
Snavely pointed out that be­fore
the zoning ordinance was
presented for adoption a con­siderable
amount of prelimin­ary
work had been done. This
resulted in the creation of a
proposed transportation net­work
map, a utilities location
map, a future land use map, an
existing land use map, a topo­graphical
map and a variety of
useful data pertaining to condi­tions
in the township, including
population projections for the
future.
The Planning Commission
proposes to update the material
in its files and produce a series
of maps reflecting current and
projected conditions. It also will
produce a brief textual booklet
indicating the direction the
township should take in the
years ahead.
“Proposed provision of muni­cipal
water to the built-up areas
of the township in the hear fu­ture,”
Snavely noted, “should
step up thii growth of the town­ship
in the years immediately
ahead. In view of this fact, the
Planning Commission will rec­ommend
certain changes in the
zoning ordinance.
“The Commission is particu­larly
interested at this time in
doing more to protect its flood
plain soils from unwarranted
building development. It is also
searching for a way to preserve
open space areas for the use of
future citizens of the township
who may not always be able to
enjoy the rural atmosphere we
now have.”
Any changes to the zoning or­dinance,
Snavely pointed out,
will be presented to the citizens
of the township for their appro­val
before being submitted to
the township supervisors. This
will also be done with the com­prehensive
plan when it is
ready for enactment.
In other business, the Plan­ning
Commission formally ac­knowledged
the receipt from
the U. S. Soil Conservation Ser­vice
of a booklet of basic natur­al
resource data entitled “Soil
Interpretations for Community
Development.” This was pre­pared
for Warwick Township by
Orval A. Bass, District Conser­vationist.
Three maps are included
which show specific interpre­tations
regarding on-site sewage
disposal fields: building sites,
foundations and basements; and
community development with
soil interpretations.
Planning Commission Chair­man
Snavely stated that “there
are some revealing facts about
the underlying structure of our
soils and how these relate to
future building patterns of the
township that have tremendous
implications for the future
growth patterns that have de­veloped
and threaten to de­velop.”
ment of the W E A and School
Board pending a Labor Rela­tions
Board ruling on depart­ment
head status.
According to Dr. H. Dale
Winger, school district superin­tendent,
the board and WE A
“are close to agreement on the
ground rules” of the negotia­tions.
But the WE A has not sub­mitted
a request and it is mu­tually
agreed that, there is, “rto
use” to have a request until
after the department head sta­tus
ruling, Dr. Winger explain­ed.
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The school board contends
that department heads, such as
those for English; and science,
are administrative .personnel
and are not subject to teacher
bargaining under the new state
public employes act, while the
WEA contends they are teach­ers
and are part of the teacher
bargaining unit.
Dr. Winger said that two local
department heads “are directly
involved in negotiations.”
Similar disagreement be­tween
school boards and teach­er
bargaining units are report­ed
throughout Lancaster Coun­ty
and Pennsylvania. Among
school districts which have al­ready
appeared before the La­bor
Relations Board are Man-heim
Township and Manheim
Central. Some other Lancaster
County districts are slated to
appear.
So far, the Labor Relations
Board has not ruled on any of
the cases. Dr. Winger said he
expects a ruling, when it comes,
that will cover all of the school
districts.
He noted that the role and
function of department heads
varies widely from one school
district to the next. This pro­bably
explains the difficulty in
arriving at a universally appli­cable
decision, he indicated.
Several new names were en­tered
for local political offices
this week as the March 9 pri­mary
filing deadline drew near.
Two local Township super­visors,
a borough councilman,
and two school board directors,
as well as a county-wide com­missioner
position, were among
the posts that local men said
they will seek.
After indicating last week
that he will not run for reelec­tion
as an Elizabeth Township
supervisor, I. Luther Ober was
chosen by the local Republi­can
committee to run again.
Ober Tuesday night expressed
a desire to step down, but in­dicated
he will run.
C. William Dussinger, West
Woods Drive, Lititz RD3, was
named a Republican candidate
to succeed Robert Gibble as a
Warwick Township supervisor.
Gibble last week said he would
step down.
William C. York, 117 W.
Third Ave., Lititz, was named
as the Republican council can­didate
for the Third ward.
Two other borough council
posts, as reported last week, are
being filled by incumbents Ed­ward
G. Reese, 649 E. Main St.,
First Ward, and Richard L.
Mearig, 128 E. Lincoln Ave.,
Second Ward.
Two new names were enter­ed
this week in the Warwick
School District School Board
race to challenge two incum­bents
for the three positions
open.
The two are Dr. Roy K. Yea­ger,
304 S. Broad Street, a Lit­itz
dentist,, and William G.
Owens, 218 Swarthmore Drive,
Warwick Township, who works
at the Armstrong Cork Com­pany
research lab in Lancaster.
Two existing school board
members, Raymond C. Groff,
Lititz RD4, and Robert B. Gre­gory,
Lititz RDl, annouhced
last week they will seek re-election.
While all four of the an­nounced
school board candi­dates
are Republicans, local
party officials emphasized that
they will not receive party en­dorsement
and that there will
be “an open primary” for the
school board posts.
Other local candidates, how­ever,
are running with party
endorsement, except for E.
James McConaghay Jr., 1236 Or­chard
Road, Warwick Town­ship,
who said he plans to file
for the county commission. Mc­Conaghay
said he will not have
party backing.
Candidates for auditors posi­tions
are: Les Adams, Lititz
RD2, Elizabeth Township; Am­mon
E. Shelly, Lititz RD2, Penn
Township; Robert Wonder, Lex­ington
Road, Warwick Town­ship,
and Raymond L. Petty­john,
154 S. Broad St., Lititz
Borough.
Although some of the men
who said they will seek office
have not officially filed their
petitions, the petitions were re­ported
being circulated and the
men said they will seek office.
Warwick Twp. Building
Warwick Township Issued
two building permits during
February with a total value of
$28,000.
A permit for a new residence
was issued to Bruce B. Slater,
Hilltop Road, and a permit for
remodeling to John Kurtz, 2119
E. Main St., Rothsville.
Elizabeth Township
Elizabeth Township building
permits in February totaled
$52,500.
The entire amount was for
three permits for new homes on
Elser Hill Road, Brickerville.
Lloyd May, Lititz RD2, is the de­veloper.
Planners Recommend No Semi Detach
Or Apartment Houses in R1 Areas
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
Tuesday night decided to
recommend to Borough Council
that semi detached and apart­ment
houses be eliminated from
the R1 Zoning classification.
The recommendation came at
the meeting as a result of pro­tests
by citizens from the Forney
development over a change in lot
size in the area.
Rock Towne, developers from
Lancaster, had petitioned the
commission for the change to
construct 76 semi detached and
2 single dwellings in the develop-ment.
The lot size change would
increase by one- third the num­ber
of homes over the original
plap.
Approximately 40 residents
present protested the construc­tion
of the semi detached homes.
Menno Rohrer, 5 Kissel Hill
Road, a spokesman for the
group, presented a petition he
said “was signed by everyone in
the area” and also told the plan­ners
“we are prepared to go to
court against any change in the
streets.”
Dussinger, the candidate for
the Warwick Township super­visors
position, is a 34-year-old
senior industrial engineer at
the New Holland Division of
Sperry Rand, where he has
been working for 16 years. He
graduated from Lititz High
School in 1954.
Married to the former Do­lores
Showers of Lititz, they
have two boys, Billy, 10, and
Peter, 8.
Dussinger’s activities include:
member and former church
councilman, now Sunday School
treasurer of St. Paul’s Luther­an
church; member of the Lititz
Lions Club; member and past
president in 1965 of the Lititz
Jaycees and outstanding Lititz
Jaycee in 1967; trustee and
treasurer of the Lititz Springs
Park, and treasurer and mem-
Dr. Roy K. Yeager
School Board candidate
ber of the Warwick Township
Planning Commission.
School Board
Owens, a candidate for the
school board, is a 46-year-old
employee at the Armstrong
Cork Company Research lab.
He has been with Armstrong
for 24 years and at the Lancas­ter
plant since 1953.
He and his wife Jean M. have
two children, Mrs. Wilma Jean
Collins, 23, Neffsville, and
Michael, 19, at home.
Owens graduated from Frank­lin
and Marshall College in
1947 with a BS degree in
Chemistry. He is a member of
the American Legion.
Dr. Yeager, a school board
candidate, is 32 years old. The
Yeagers have three children,
Elizabeth, 6, Ann, 5, and Jessi­ca,
3.
Dr. Yeager and his wife
Susan have starred in ABC play
productions and are now work­ing
on their fifth ABC play.
His activities include: presi­dent
of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church council: assistant trea­surer
of Woodridge Swimming
pool, and member of the Ameri­can
Business Club.
Borough Council
York, the Third Ward coun­cil
candidate, is a 49-year-old
sales manager for Cloister
Dairies, Ephrata, where he has
been employed about 15 years.
The Yorks have four chil­dren;
Phillip, 11, at home, and
three girls, all married; Mrs.
Barbara York, Lancaster; Mrs.
David Procter, Reading, and
Mrs. Bud Habecker, 144 Front
St., Lititz.
York served in the Navy as a
photographer and had his own
photography business in Lan­caster
for several years.
Previously active in and pre­sident
of the Lancaster Sertoma
Club, he is a Boy Scout commis­sioner
and has a Webelos group.
He is a trustee of the Lititz
Moravian Church.
County Commission
McConaghay, who said he al­ready
has the nearly 800 signa­tures
necessary to run for the
county commission post, is a 47-
year-old chief lineman at the
PP&L Akron area office.
The McConaghays have three
children: Sandra, 21, a senior
at Lebanon Valley College;
James V., 20, sophomore at Wil­liamsport
College, and Kathy
L., 15, ninth grade at Warwick
High School.
McConaghay graduated from
the Manheim Township closs of
1942.
He served in the U.S. Navy
from 1943-46 and worked at
Armstrong Cork Company for
awhile before joining PP&L,
where he has been employed
for 24 years.
C. William Dussinger
Seeks Warwick Twp. Post
Elizabeth Twp. Has Comprehensive Planp
Zoning Ordinance Will Be Adopted Soon
Thé Elizabeth Township Plan­ning
Commission will hold the
third of three public viewings of
its proposed new township com­prehensive
plan at the Bricker­ville
Fire Hall from 7;30 to 8:30
p.m. Sunday.
Similar viewings of the plan,
called “a comprehensive plan for
thè development of Elizabeth
Township,” Were held Tuesday
night this week and Tuesday,
February 23.
; A public hearing and proposed
adoption of the plan has been set
for 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 16 at
tpe Fire Hall, according to
Charles Herr,. Township Plan­ning
Commission chairman.
Herr explained that thé com­prehensive
plan is an in-depth
study of existing township land
uses and a projection of future
development patterns.
The plan pinpoints areas, such
as steep hillsides, particularly in
the northern part of the town­ship,
which are not suitable for
development. It also shows that
development should not be al­lowed
in some of the “flood
plains” along township streams.
Elsewhere, some commercial
areas are identified, mainly in
areas such as Elm and Bricker­ville
where commercial estab­lishments
already exist.
Residential areas also are iden­tified,
mainly in areas where
Citizens Warned
Of Fire Danger
Citizens were reminded this
week to use extreme caution
for the next several weeks when
burning trash or debris.
It’s the time of year when fire
can easily get out of control,
reminded Lititz Fire Chief Am­mon
Shelly.
Shelly noted that the Lititz
area has been fortunate so far,
with no grass fires reported.
But many other parts of the
county have been having many
of these fires during one re­cent
evening there were about
five of them at various locations
in the county, Shelly reminded.
Even with the soggy ground,
fires can get out of control,
Shelly noted. He explained that
windy weather dries out the
dead grass and debris which is
on top of the ground and if fire
gets started, the wind carries it
rapidly.
Be extra careful with any
type of burning during windy
weather and “think before you
burn,” Shelly reminded.
residential development is al­ready
underway. This includes
the areas around existing towns
and particularly along Route
322. One industrial tract is shown
0« the southeast corner of the
intersection of Route 501 and
Brubaker Valley Road.
Herr explained that the vari­ous
land uses were specified for
particular areas after careful
consideration of maps showing
the typography of the land and
assessment maps showing indi­vidual
properties. Much field
work and actual discussions with
the property owners involved
also were included in arriving at
the map showing proposed
future land use in the compre­hensive
plan, Herr explained.
The comprehensive plan will
be the basis for the township’s
new zoining ordinance.
Herr explained that the com­prehensive
plan merely repre­sents
planning goals, whereas the
zoning ordinance will pinpoint
specific areas for commercial,
residential and other land uses.
The zoning ordinance also will
have provisions for a zoning of­ficer
and zoning board to enforce
provisions of the ordinance.
Two public meetings have been
scheduled on the proposed new
zoning ordinance April 8 and 13
at the Brickerville Fire Hall.
While considerable effort and
research have gone into making
the proposed new zoning ordi­nance
the best possible, citizens
who disagree with the ordinance
or part of it can express them­selves
and make alternative pro­posals
at the April public hear­ings,
Herr said.
A copy of the proposed zoning
ordinance is expected to be avail­able
to interested persons with­in
about two weeks.
After the hearings, the Eliza­beth
Township Planning Commis­sion
will meet to consider com­ments
and suggestions made at
the hearings. If it is felt
changes are necessary as a result
of the hearings, they will be in­corporated
into the proposed
ordinance.
Then a final meeting is sched­uled
for May 19 for adoption of
zoning ordinance by the town­ship
supervisors.
Charles E. Strohm, super­visors’
chairman, and I. Luther
Ober, township supervisor, indi­cated
they have kept informed
of development of the proposed
zoning ordinance and hope to be­gin
implementing it soon after
adoption.
Hiring of a township zoning
officer and establishment of a
zoning hearing board are plan­ned
for May or early June to
coincide with the adoption of, the
zoning ordinance.
Planning Commission mem­bers
besides Herr are; Wilbur
Graybill, assistant chairman;
Frank Weber, secretary; Henry
Keener, assistant secretary.
Three other members are: Isaac
Lehman, Charles Lusk, and
Glenn Hershey.
Eby’s Mill
To Be Sold
The Eby’s Mill property at 35
North Cedar Street near down­town
Lititz is for sale. "
Joel Habegger, firm spokes­man,
said the property was put
up for sale recently after a de­cision
that the firm will not re­build
at the site following a fire
last year which extensively
damaged the mill.
But Habegger said the firm
still is not ready to announce fu­ture
plans. It previously was in­dicated
the firm would either
rebuild on the Cedar Street site
or build at a new location.
Asked about the price of the
tract, Habegger declined com­ment.
He did note that the mill
structure itself has no value,
but the adjacent office build­ing
does have some worth.
The firm has a second plant
at East Petersburg.
Elsewhere, it was learned
that Lititz Fire Company and
Lititz Borough officials met last
week with Eby’s Mill officials
to discuss the site. But no deci­sion
was reached.
The officials are considering
the site as a possible location
for a joint municipal building-fire
hall.
Zoners Okay Dog Salon
The Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board approved Monday night
a special exception for Mrs.
Eugene M. Reilly to operate a
dog grooming salon in her resi­dence
at 153 S. Broad St.
The exception, granted for an
R2 Medium Density residential
district, is subject to these con­ditions:
—The customer’s dog must
be kept in the house at all
times.
—Customers be encouraged
to: use the Reilly driveway for
..parking.
—Objectionable noises and
odors be eliminated. .