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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, March 11,1971 10 o u t ! » Copy ; 04.00 p«r paar by mall
within Lancaster County 14 Pages No. 49
High winds that were part of the snow storm Thursday
ripped the top off this large tree on South Broad Street. The
photo was taken shortly after noon Thursday from the south­west
corner of Orange and Broad Streets at the Lititz Bap­tist
Church. In falling, the tree top ripped out the service
wire of the house on South Broad next door to the church. '
Police Ask Help
On Drug Problem
Dangerous drugs in Lititz?
Yes, there are dangerous drugs
in Lititz. according to Police
Chief George Hicks.
In order to combat the prob­lem
the Lititz Police Department
needs and is seeking the assis­tance
of the citizens.
Too often bits of information
are passed on to the police de­partment
by people who call in
and refuse to identify them­selves.
This information is practically
worthless to the police due to
the fact they (police) must have
documented information in order
to obtain a search warrant.
Anyone who has any informa­tion
regarding drug abuse should
not wait two or three weeks be­fore
notifying the police. Hicks
emphasized that the Police De­partment
wants it NOW!
The only way the drug abuse
problem can be solved will be
with the co-operation of the
citizens, Hicks said.
Elizabeth Twp.
To Act on Plan
The Elizabeth Township meet­ing
to adopt the new comprehen­sive
plan will be held at the
Brickerville Fire Hall at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 16.
The comprehensive plan is an
in-depth study of existing town­ship
land uses and a projection
of future development patterns.
It is a preliminary step toward
a new zoning ordinance, on
which public hearings have
been set for April 8 and 13 at
the Fire Hall.
Three meetings or “public
viewings” of the comprehensive
plan have been held. (Editor’s
note: The Record-Express re­grets
an error last week in re­porting
the third public viewing
would be held Sunday; the cor­rect
date was Tuesday.)
The comprehensive plan iden­tifies
areas in the township
which are suitable for commer­cial,
industrial, residential and
recreational use.
Community
Calendar
Thursday, March 11
6:30 p.m.—Lititz Fire Co. Aux­iliary,
covered dish social,
Fire Hall, postponed from
March 4.
7 p.m.—Baron Stiegel Lions
Club, Polly’s Restaurant.
7:30 p.m.—Warwick Twp. Plan­ning
commission, Municipal
Building.
7:45 p.m.—Glee Club Concert,
Warwick High School.
8:30 p.m. — Jaycee Meeting,
American Legion Home.
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Warwick Twp.
Hires Financial
The Warwick Township Muni­cipal
Authority has released a
policy statement regarding the
proposed water system for the
township.
Chairman J. Arne Forney an­nounced
selection of Kidder
Peabody and Co. of Philadel­phia
as financial advisors and
Rhoads, Sinon and Reader, Har­risburg,
as bond counsel.
At the present time it is im­possible
to determine the costs
and rates which will be levied
because the engineer’s surveys
are incomplete. However, final
engineering plans are expected
by about May 1, 1971.
The areas to be served by the
water system have not been
finally determined, but will
probably include the areas of
Brunnerville-Lexington, Kissel
Hill, Pfautz Development,
Water Authority
and Bond Counsel
Rothsville and others at the sug­gestion
of the engineers.
Due to a new state law —
General Assembly Act 97 —
signed April 22, 1970, hook-up
to the system will be manda­tory
if the lines pass the pro­perty.
However, residents will
not be required to cap their
wells.
At this time, the System will
include only water.
The Municipal ' Authority
meets the third Wednesday of
each month at 7:30 p.m. at (the
Township Building, 315 (5lay
Rd. A public meeting will be
held as soon as all the facts:are
collected and can be presented.
Authority members in addi­tion
to Chairman Forney (are:
George J. Kamm Jr., vice-choir-man;
Raymond L. Kingcaid,
secretary; Russell Keith, trea­surer,
and Donald. L. Tetitnis,
assistant secretary-treasurer.
PTA Groups Sponsoring Drug Program
Mike Almoney and Teresa Réssler, students in Lester
Stark’s sixth grade at the Lititz Elementary School, place
their contributions for Teen Challenge in the barrel at the
school. Items collected will be given to the Teen group
at the Drug program at the high school March 18.
Students and adults in the
Warwick School District will
hear about the dangers of drug
abuse as a team of cured nar­cotics
addicts are featured in a
program at the Warwick High ;
School on March 18 at 7:30.
These young men from the
Teen Challenge Training Cen­ter
are part of a relatively
small minority of addicts in the
U.S. who have overcome nar­cotics
addiction.
The programs which Teen
Challenge has been sponsoring
in high schools throughout the
state have been recommended
by the Pennsylvania Criminal
Justice Planning Board, a
branch of the State Crime Com­mission.
The program will include a
film entitled “Youth-in-a-Fix.”
The film will reveal an inside
look at the unusual ministry of
Teen Challenge.
All P.T.A. groups within the
School District are supporting
this presentation as their March
program.
As a gesture to Teen Chal­lenge,
each school is encourag­ing
donations of toothpaste,
soap, toilet articles, canned
good, laundry bags, clothing ar­ticles,
etc. These items should
be brought to school by our stu­dents
and placed in a barrel
provided for this purpose.
The campaign to collect arti­cles
will begin Tuesday, March
9th. The items collected will be
presented to the Teen. . Chal­lenge
group on March 18th.
Council, School Board Races Develop for Primary
A two-way race developed for
council in Lititz Borough’s Third
Ward this week as the final peti­tions
by candidates were filed
for the May 18 primary election.
Entering the Republican pri­mary
for borougn councilman
from the Third Ward was Don­ald
L. Krushinski, 42 E. Second
Ave.
Announced last week as the
party nominee for the post was
William C. York, 117 W. Third
Ave.
Other candidates seeking
nominations for local school
board, township supervisor and
local auditor posts in the May
primary remains unchanged
from last week.
Besides the Third Ward, the
only local contest is for the War­wick
School Board. Four Repub­lican
candidates filed for three
available board posts. Unli\e
other local posts, however, can­didates
for school board run in
an “open primary” without party
endorsement.
A Warwick Township man who
said he would run for county
commission did not file by the
Tuesday deadline. He is E.
James McConaghy Jr., 1236
Orchard Road, who stated last
week that he would run for the
county post without party en­dorsement.
All the local candidates are Re­publicans.
No Democrats filed,
according to county election of­ficials.
Krushinski, a 32-year-old Lititz
native, is an industrial engineer
at Howmet Corp., Lancaster,
where he has been employed for
eight years. He is also as­sociated
with Warwick Realty as
a real estate salesman.
The council candidate is mar­ried
to the former Lynn Good of
Lititz and they have three chil­dren,
Wendy, nine, Daryl, seven,
and Jeff, six.
Krushinski’s activities include:
served as area captain for the
Lititz Library Park and Recrea­tion
Center combination drive
and as co-chairman of the Lititz
United Fund Campaign; is co-chairman
of the Lititz Fire Com­pany
building conimi^ce, par­ticipated
in Fire Company fund
drives and was past first and sec­ond
vice president of the com­pany;
is a member of the Lititz
Springs Park Board, the Lititz
American Business Club, the
Lititz community band and Lititz
July 4 Queen of Canedles Pag­eant
committee.
A graduate of Lititz High
School, he completed two years
at the Penn State Center at York,
served in the Pennsylvania
National Guard, and worked at
Lambert-Hudnut and the county
assessment office.
William G. Owens
School Board Candidate
The four Warwick School
Board candidates are: Raymond
C. Groff, Lititz RD4; Robert E.
Gregory, Lititz RD1; Dr. Roy K.
Yeager, 304 S. Board St., Lititz,
and William G. Owens, 218
Swarthmore Drive, Warwick
Township.
As previously announced, Dr.
J. William Miksch Jr., 121 E.
Main St., Lititz, did not run for
re-election to the school board.
Groff and Gregory are present­ly
school board members, while
Yeager and Owens are seeking
the post for the first time.
Elsewhere, I. Luther Ober
filed for re-election as the Eliza­beth
Township supervisor and
Penn Township Supervisor Wil­lis
B. Huber, Manheim RD3,
filed for re-election. Huber has
been supervisor since 1952.
C. William Dussinger, West
Woods Drive, Lititz RD3, is the
Republican candidate to succeed
Robert Gibble as Warwick Town­ship
supervisor. Gibble who is
chairman of Warwick Township
supervisors, previously an­nounced
he would step down to
devote more time to his plumb-inb
business.
Republican candidates for au­ditor
posts are: Charles L.
Adams, Lititz RD2, Elizrbeth
Township; Ammon E. Shelly,
Lititz RD2, Penn Township; Rob­ert
H. Wonder, Lexington Road,
Warwick Township, and Ray­mond
L. Pettyjohn, 154 S. Broad
Si., Lititz Borough.
Donald L. Krushinski
Third Ward Candidate
Warwick Supervisors Rezone
Wesley Burkholder Trailer Park
The long-standing request of
Wesley Burkholder to have his
trailer park rezoned to Com­mercial
was granted by a unani­mous
vote of the Warwick
Township Supervisors Monday.
In voting to allow the change,
Robert Gibble, Supervisors
chairman, noted that the pri­mary
concern of the adjacent
and adjoining property owners
about the condition of the trail­er
park had been corrected. ,
“If there is any concrete évi­dence
that pollution is coming
from that side of the road,” Gib­ble
said, “I’d be on the other
side of the fence. But weighing
what the Mobile Home Associa­tion
has sent us and what was
handed down from Harrisburg
on the Groff decision, we must
keep areas open in the township
School Board Hires New
Lititz Elementary Principal
The Board of School Direc­tors
of the Warwick School Dis­trict
has elected John D. Edger­ton,
1262 N. Adams St., Potts-town,
Pa., as principal of the
Lititz Elementary School.
Edgerton replaces Robert A.
Heron who was recently named
principal of the new Warwick
Middle School.
Edgerton will assume his
new position as soon as he is
released by his current em­ployer,
the Pottstown School
District, probably in May, it was
reported.
Edgerton is a native of Mans­field,
Pa. He received his bache­lor
of science degree in elemen­tary
education from Mansfield
State College in 1958 and his
masters degree in elementary
school administration from
Temple University. He is cur­rently
enrolled in the doctoral
program at Lehigh University.
Edgerton began his career
in the Pottstown School District
as an elementary teacher in
1958. He served as a teacher in
that school district for a period
of eight years.
He then became an elemen­tary
principal in 1967, and is
currently principal of the Edge-wood
Elementary School, a 400-
pupil building in the Pottstown
School District. Edgerton also
taught for one year in the Corn­ing,
New York public schools.
Edgerton is a member of the
Montgomery County Elemen­tary
Principals Association and
the Pennsylvania Elementary
Principals Association.
He has been active in com­munity
affairs. Currently, he is
a member of the Pottsgrove
Community Chorus and of the
Rotary Club of Pottstown.
Edgerton served 30 months in
the United States Coast Guard.
He is married and the father of
two children.
In other business Monday
night, the board approved $168,-
911 worth of contracts for mov­able
furniture and equipment
for the new Middle School.
The breakdown of contracts
awarded to 40 companies, by
category, is:
Classroom furniture and
equipment, $31,984; office,
$9,850; library, $16.243: cafe­teria,
$15,263; health suite, $1,-
984; physical education, $9,871;
industrial arts, $17,107; home
economics, $5,574; music suite,
$8,277; art room, $2,537¡foreign
language lab, $2,012; student
lounge, $1,033; faculty lounge,
$1,245; instructional planning
rooms, $16,000; audio-visual,
$19,217, and custodial and main­tenance,
$10,708.
These figures represent low
bids or lowest bids meeting the
boards specifications from sev­eral
companies in each cate­gory.
Several items will be readver­tised,
since no bids were receiv­ed
or bids did not meet the
board’s specifications. The
board received no bids on edu­cational
television receivers.
Bids for typewriters did not
meet specifications and were
rejected, the board said.
The board also completed ac­tion
on the refunding of the $4,-
720,000 bond issue let in 1969 to
finance construction of the Mid­dle
School. The refund, a move
to take advantage of current
lower interest rates in the
school bond market, is expected
to save the district about $879,-
000.A
ction was taken to permit
sale of bojids at the Farmers
National Bank of Lititz Mon­day
(March 15) through Kid­der,
Peabody, Inc., Philadel­phia.
Environment
Meeting Set
A public hearing on Environ­mental
problems within the bor­ough
will be held on March 18 at
7:30 p.m. in the borough office.
The meeting called by the new­ly
formed Environmental Quality
Control Advisory committee of
Lititz borough will be open to
all interested citizens of Lititz
and surrounding townships.
Philip McCloud, chairman of
the committee, said that in order
for the committee to make
realistic recommendations to bor­ough
council, it is important to
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for mobile homes,” he conclud­ed.
The Commonwealth Court
ruling of March 4 in the case of
Abram Groff was cited by Sec­retary
Richard I. Hoffer. The
Court stated in the Groff case
that the township “may not
zone out population because of
problems caused by its in­crease,”
Hoffer noted.
“This approval does not mean
we’re opening up the whole
area,” Gibble said. “We’re talk­ing
about possibly 15 more
trailers.”
Burkholder must now peti­tion
the Township Zoning
Board of Adjustment, and if
any violations should occur the
approval for expansion could
be revoked.
In other business, it was an­nounced
by the Supervisors
that the State Board of Health
has reversed its original approv­al
for G. Frank Burkholder to
dump Waste from septic tanks
an a one acre tract behind his
home. . ,
In a letter from Harold Per­kins,
State Environmental Con­trol
Officer, Burkholder was in­formed
that due to the possi­bility,
of water pollution in the
residential area he would have
to seek an agricultural site and
ask for approval on the new
site.
Notice has been received
that the state allotment from
the liquid fuels tax will be $35,-
028.82 to Warwick Township.
This figure is an increase of
nearly $9,000 over 1970. The
funds are for road repair, re-construction
and new construc­tion.
In the area of per capita
taxes, the Supervisors approved
a motion to hold liable for the
year of the levy any resident
as of March 1 in the same year.
Township Police reported in­vestigating
35 complaints, 6 ar­rests,
5 vehicle operator warn­ings,
5 faulty vehicles, and 6 ac­cidents
during February.
Elizabeth Twp.
Sets Road Work
Elizabeth Township Super­visors
have recommended the
reconstruction and resurfacing
of two township roads, it was
revealed at the monthly Super­visors
meeting Friday.
Blantz Road from Weber
Road to Long Lane will be
widened due to the increase in
traffic, and Bomberger Road,
too narrow for traffic, will be
widened an additional two feet.
The Supervisors plan to re­build
at least one road per
year, it was explained.
Notice has been received that
the State allotment to Eliza­beth
Township from the liquid
fuels tax will be $15,562.75.
This refund is based on a popu­lation-
mileage formula — 50
per cent population and 50 per
cent mileage.
Funds are released for road
repair, reconstruction and new
construction.
Italian Film Set For Travelogue
The fifth program of the
Travel and Adventure Series,
being sponsored by the Lititz
Rotary Club, will be presented
in the Warwick High School
Auditorium at 3 and 8 p.m. Sat­urday,
March 20.
The featured travelogue film
will be “Italy’s Beautiful Tus­cany”
and it will be narrated by
Robert Q. Ostlund.
Robert Q. Ostlund, a native of
Webster City, Iowa, graduated
from Butler College with a B,S.
degree in merchandising and
went into the ready-to-wear
business. During World War II
he spent 2 years in Europe after
which he was honorably dis­charged,
having been an Opera­tions
Officer in the army.
In 1962 he returned to Europe
with his family, desiring to re­trace
his steps during the vyar.
Because of the popularity of the
films he brought back, Robert
launched his first travelogue
film. He is an excellent photo­grapher,
climbing to every pos­sible
vantage point to get the
desired setting. His travelogues
are both entertaining and edu­cational.
On the 'trip to Tuscany, the
tourist drives the ancient Ro­man
Via Aurelia to the lovely
little fishing village of Porte
Ercole with its “Blessing of the
Nets”. Aboard a steamer the
traveler then ferries to Na­poleon’s
Island of Elba and the
picturesque Port of Portofer-raio.
In Etruscan Volterra there are
the time-worn cistern and wells
where the women wash their
clothes on the country-worn
Robert Q. Ostlund
stones. Pisa is far more than
the “Meadow of the Miracles”
with its baptistry, Cathedral,
and “Leaning Tower.”
The tourist also visits the Piaz­za
Dei Cavalieri, Santa Maria
Della, Spina, and the Arno
River where he will watch the
“Regatta” and in the evening the
Illumination of the buildings
along the river with tens-of-thousands
of candles.
In Viareggio after the bath­ers
have gone home, the fisher­men
return from the Tyrrhen­i
a n with their night’s catch.
After watching the marble being
mined and loaded at Carrara, the
journeyer sets his course for
Siena, stopping for awhile in
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