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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e iLititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, April 8,1971 10 oanta a Copy; 04.00 par yaar by maU
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This was the scene at Millway in War­wick
Township at about noon Tuesday
following a derailment at about 3:20 a m.
Tuesday of five cars of a 31 car freight
train.
■ One of the cars is resting on an em­bankment
and the others are off the track.
The cars were hauled away and the
Borough Planners Consider Zoning Change To Ban
Apartments and Semi-Detached in R-1 Districts
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track repaired within 24 hours. Freight
came through to Lititz again at about 5
a m. Wednesday.
Local railroad officials indicated there
wasn’t much damage to the contents of the
cars, but three cars were damaged and
will have to be repaired.
Warwick Supervisors Will
Pare Disston View Drive
After Postmaster Stops Mail
The presently unpaved section of
Disstoh View Drive, east of Mill-port
Road, will be reconstructed
by Warwick Township in the
near future.
Disston View, a no «UtieUroad,
leads to the property of Elmer
Shreiner. The other property
along the unpaved portion is
owned by Elam Zook and ten­anted
by his son, Ephriam Zook.
After receiving a directive
from postmaster Rader that the
postman would no longer deliver
the mail down the unpaved sec­tion
<fi»e, to the poor condition of
the road, the Township Super­visors
met With Shreiner and the
Zooks to determine a course of
action.
As aroSuJt of that meeting; the
townSfiür will reconstruct the un­paved-
section, about four-teriths
of a mile, using monies alloted by
the State from the liquid fuels
tax refund. Twenty-five per cent
of that refund is earmarked for
new construction.
The postrrlaster has been noti­fied
that the road will be resur­faced.
In other business, road fore­man,
Dale Kofroth, reported that
the road crews are presently
cleaning up the intersections and
will then clean the gutters.
Numerous complaints have
been received concerning the
condition of Landis Valley Road.
However, according to Kofroth,
the ground underneath is too
soft to repair the road at this
time.
Stones have been filled in and
the erew will continue to regrade
them at least once a week.
Easter Egg Hunt
Lititz
The VFW Auxiliary will hold
an Easter Egg Hunt at 11 a.m.
Saturday,. April 10. Local
youngsters are to meet at the
Post Home,
The Lititz Lions Club will hold
its annual Easter Egg Hunt Sat­urday
at 2 p.m. at Warwick High
School. Rain date is 4 p.m. Mon­day,
April 12.
Warwick Twp.
The Warwick Township Lions
Club will hold an Easter Egg
Hunt at the Mememoial Build­ing
at 2 p.m. Saturday. Rain date
is 5 p.m. Monday, April 12,
Elizabeth Twp. Hires
Full-Time Road Master
Elizabeth . Township Super­visors
have announced the hiring
of Jay Russell Ober as full-time
Road Master at the regular
Supervisors meeting last week.
Ober will begin his duties May 1.
He will be responsible for
road maintenance, signs, bridges
and percolation tests in Eliz­abeth
Township.
In other business, contracts for
stones were awarded to D. M.
Stoltzfus and Son, Inc, and for oil
to McMinns Oil Co.
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
is reviewing a proposal to
exclude apartment and semi­detached
houses from R-1 resi­dential
districts.
At the same time, the Plan­ning
Commission is reviewing
existing R-1 districts with a
view toward possibly changing
some, possibly including Sutter
Village, to a less restrictive R-2.
The proposal to exclude apart­ments
and semi-detached from
R-1 districts originated at the
Planning Commission’s month­ly
meeting in March when many
residents appeared to protest
plans to build semi-detached
housing in the Forney develop­ment.
According to the comments,
the semi-detached development
is proposed by Rock-Towne De­velopment
Corp. for semi-de­tached
housing in the Forney
development on a tract under
agreement with Benjamin For­ney.
Residents objected to the
semi-detached construction and
asked that action be taken to
maintain the area for single
family homes.
The discussion of the merits
of limiting R-1 areas in the
borough to single family con­struction
was further reviewed
. at Tuesday night’s Planning
Commission meeting. Planning
Commission members reviewed
the existing zoning ordinance
item by item to see what
changes would be necessary in
the law to allow the proposed
change.
Planning Commission mem­bers
also announced they will
tour existing R-1 districts in
the borough between now and
next month’s meeting, when the
discussion will continue.
The R-1 districts account for
a major portion of the
Jaycees Plan
Street Fair
The Lititz Jaycees annual
Spring Street Fair will be held
May 22 on West Main Street.
The Jaycees have invited all
the civic organizations of Lititz
to participate in the Street Fair
this year.
The project is designed both
to raise funds for community
projects and to gain community
recognition.
The Street Fair includes
goodies such as cotton candy,
candy apples, balloons, snow
balls, popcorn, hoagies, bever­ages
and kiddie rides.
Any questions can be direct­ed
to A1 Morgan at 626-5153 or
Bill Kauffman at 626-2797.
Easter Rites To Be Observed Sunday
Easter will be observed in
Lititz and surrouding areas
with traditional services signify­ing
the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ and symbolizing the im-moralty
of man.
Stores Close
Good Friday, most sores will
be closed part of the day, usual­ly
from 1 to 3 p.m. commermat-ing
upon the Cross of Calvary.
Citizens of Lititz will be
awakened about 3 a.m. Easter
Sunday morning by the Mora­vian
Trombone choir, under the
direction of John W. Keehn, a
tradition which has been prac­ticed
for more than a century.
This will be followed by the
Moravian Easter Dawn Service,
beginning in the church. With
the first rays of sunshine, the
congregation will file outside to
“God Acre” in the cemetery for
the final segment ofthe service,
Easter Dawn Services will also
be held by S. Luke’s UCC, at Old
Zion Church, Brickerville, the
Coleman Chapel, Brickerville
and a service will be conducted
or, the lawn of the United Meth­odist
Retirement Home, 125 S.
Broad St., Lititz.
School Vacation
Schools in the Warwick School
district begin their Easter Vaca­tion
on Thursday. High School
students will be excused at 2
p m. and elementary students at
2:30 p.m.
All schools will reopen on
Monday, .April 12 at he regular
time.
Warwick Zoning Board
OKs Garage Expansion
Warwick Township Zoning
Board approved last week the
request for non-conforming use of
Norman Weaver, Newport Road,
to expand his truck garage by
50 per cent.
Weaver had asked the change
to allow him to fit a trailer into
the full legth of the building. His
present building is 30 feet long.
Yes, It’s True! Class of 1899 Has Reunion
Three members survive from
the Lititz High School class of
1899, and these three women,
now about 90 years old, had a
get-together Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Reedy, 102 E, Third Ave. Mr.
Reedy is the son of one of the
women.
The survivors, celebrating
their 72nd high school class re­union,
are Mrs. Katherine
Daugherty, Mrs. Anna C. Zart-man
and Mrs. Jean Reedy.
Although the women aren’t
as spry as they were in 1899,
are somewhat hard-of-hearing
and with some vision problems,
they enjoyed the opportunity to
chat and reminisce.
Mrs. Daugherty still lives in
Lititz, with her daughter Emma
Daugherty, 18 E. Lincoln Ave.
She has another daughter, Mrs.
Katherine Garrity, 28 E. Lin­coln
Ave.
After graduating from high
school, Mrs. Daugherty . lived
“out West.” She was an ordain­ed
minister in the Church of
God, but retired about 30 years
ago. She did speak at the alum­ni’s
50th reunion, she remem­bers.
Mrs. Zartman now resides at
Luther Acres. She has two chil­dren,
Richard E. Zartman, E.
Lincoln Ave., and Mrs. Esther
E. Ludwig of St. Louis. She also
has five grandchildren and
seven great grandchildren. Af­ter
graduating from high
school, she worked in a knitting
mill.
Mrs. Reedy, who lived in Lit­itz
till her graduation from high
school, moved to Philadelphia
where she lived about 50 years,
then to Wyncot. Besides Mr.
Reedy, she has a daughter, Mrs.
Anna Kulp of Ardsley. She has
one grandchild and two great
grandchildren.
The three remaining members of the Lititz High
School class of 1899 at their 72nd reunion Sunday are:
left to right, Mrs. Jean Reedy; Mrs. Anna C. Zartman,
and Mrs. Katerine Daughterty.
A published writer, Mrs.
Reedy has written articles,
short stories and poetry which
have appeared in several news­papers
and magazines, includ­ing
Ideals. She is still work­ing,
she said, on a novel, but
her eyes are giving her prob­lems.
The class of 1899 of Lititz
High School was the school’s
thirteenth graduating class. The
motto of the class was “Row­ing,
Not Drifting,” and its
flower was the syringa.
Class officers were Morris
Eugene Seaber, president; Anna
Catherine Evans, secretary;
Charles Augustus Pfautz, treas­urer;
and Jennie Fahs Fisher,
presenter.
Members of the class of 1899
were Charles B. Amer, David
W. Becker, Katie W. Becker,
Clarence Garfield Brubaker,
Henry Wadsworth Brubaker.
Also, Lillian Gertrude Diet-rich,
Anna Catherine Evans,
Jennie Fahs Fisher, Ralph W.
Fry, Mary Kissinger, Elizabeth
Miller, Charles A. Pfautz, Mon­roe
E. Reedy, Morris E. Seaber
and C. M. Snavely.
The ladies still treasure their
class diploma and graduation
program.
Principal of the school at that
time was G. Herman Goetz.
John Lincoln Hertz, M.D., Hay­dn
H. Tshudy and Aaron Ha-becker
were on the board of
trustees.
Each lady was presented with
a red rose and greenery in a
milk glass bud vase by Mr.
Reedy during their get-together
Sunday.
borough’s residential area and
R-1 areas include: all of the
Forney development; a major
section in the northern end
of the .borough including War­wick
Acres and the area be­tween
Locust and Market
Streets and generally north of
New and Leaman Streets; Sut­ter
Village; the area between
Second and Third Avenues;
Pennwick Estates, which in­cludes
Kissel Hill Elementary
School.
If the proposed change is ap­proved
by the Planning Com­mission
and then by Borough
Council, apartments and semi­detached
houses would be ex­cluded
from all these areas.
Apartments and semi-detach­ed
houses already are excluded
from R-S districts, the
borough’s most exclusive resi-dentially
zoned area which is
located in one section in the
Southern part of the borough
approximately south of Third
Avenue from Kissel Hill Road
to Walnut Street.
Warwick Water
Authority Seeks
Federal Funding
Chairman of the Warwick
Township Municipal Authority,
J. Arne Forney, reported to the
township supervisors last week
that letters requesting aid in ob­taining
funds for the township’s
proposed water system have
been sent to Senators Hugh Scott
and Richard Schweiker and Con­gressman
Edwin Eshleman.
A new application for funds
from the Department of Hous­ing
and Urban Development
(HUD) has been prepared by
Tracy Engineers in the autho­rity’s
name. The original appli­cation
was made in the name of
the supervisors, it was explain­ed.
F
orney announced that Tracy
Greenlund of Tracy Engineers
will present some cost figures
for the water system at the next
Municipal Authority meeting,
April 21.
At the same time, however,
officials indicated that existing
R-1 areas will be reviewed to
possibly change some existing
R-1 zones to R-2.
Under present zoning, R-2 is
the only residential area besides
R-1 to allow semi-detached and
apartment building. If the pro­posed
change is adopted, apart­ments
and semi-detached would
be restricted to the R-2 areas.
There are basically two R-2
areas, one in the older central
part of the borough between
Walnut Street and Cedar Street
and between Main Street and
Second Avenue and the other
area is north of Front Street
from Locust Street to Travis
Mills.
Other zones including com­mercial
and industrial would re­main
unchanged. Housing is
completely excluded from in­dustrial
areas, while apartments
and motels are allowed in com­mercial
areas.
Specifically mentioned as a
possible area for changing to
R-2 zoning was Sutter Village,
which is already predominately
semi-detached and apartment
units.
While the proposed exclusion
of apartments and semi-detach­ed
units from R-1 areas would
restrict this type of building in
the borough, officials noted that
it would still enable construct-tion
of single family homes on
lots smaller than in the R-S dis­trict.
R-S district lots, according to
the present law, must be a
minimum of 12,500 square feet
with a minimum of a 90 foot
frontage, while R-1 district
lots must be a minimum of 8,-
400 square feet with a mini­mum
of 70 foot frontage.
In summarizing the proposed
changes, George Steedle, Boro­ugh
Manager, said it “all comes
down to removing apartments
and Semi-detached from R-1
areas.” And if this change is
approved, he said, some R-1
areas might be changed to R-2,
possibly ending up with a larger
R-2 district and a smaller R-1
area.
Under the proposal, both R-S
and R-1 would become single
family districts, with the pri­mary
difference being in the
minimum lot size requirements,
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Welsh Film Slated For Travelogue
Walter S. Dodson
Community
Calendar
Thursday, April 8
7 p.m. — Baron Stiegel Lions
Club, Polly’s Restaurant.
7:30 p.m.—Warwick Township
Planning Commission, Muni­cipal
Building.
8 p.m.—First Public Hearing on
Elizabeth Township Zoning
Ordinance, Brickerville Fire
Hall.
8:30 p.m. — Jaycee meeting,
American Legion Home.
Friday, April 9
12:15 to 1:15 p.m.—Community
Good Friday Service, St.
Luke’s UCC.
8 p.m.—The “Bridge” at Rec
Center.
Saturday, April 10
8 a.m.—Moravian Sugar Cake
Sale, sponsored by Farm
Women 1, Stauffer’s of Kis-sil
Hill.
11 a.m.—Easter Egg Hunt, spon­sored
by Lititz VFW Auxili­ary,
Post Home.
2 p.m.—Lititz Lions Club Easter
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The Lititz Rotary Club will
present its sixth “Travel and
Adventure Series” program in
the Warwick High School Audi­torium
at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 17.
“Welsh Wonderland” will be
the featured film. Commentary
on the film will be narrated by
Walter S. Dodson.
Born and educated in England,
Walter Dodson became a U.S.
citizen in 1957. Before bringing
his family to the United States
in 1949, he served with the Brit­ish
Army from 1939 until 1946
and traveled extensively in
Europe and the Middle East.
Since his emigration, he has
been active in industry and civic
affairs.
He has combined his profes­sional
skill in cinematography,
his ability to understand and win
the friendship of people of other
lands, and his informative and
unbiased reporting to bring his
audience exciting and unusual
travel experience.
Wales, land of rugged country­side
and sleepy country villages,
still lives in the spirit of the
past. Accent of the ancient Cel­tic
tongue, still in use, will min­gle
with festive traditional cos­tumes
and whimsical folklore to
capture the aura of bygone years
in he midst of modern life.
Proud birthplace of kings, the
stirring past of Wales will be
recalled in the medieval magni­ficence
of Langharnc Castle,
Tintern Abbey, Ruthin Castle,
and Raglan Castle. Vestiges of
Roman rule remain from even
earlier times.
“Cymru”—the land of “com­rades”
or “friends”—is the affec­tionate
name given to Wales by
the Welsh people themselves.
This term is quickly substan­tiated
by the warm hospitality
which radiates through the rug­ged
independence and fierce loy­alty
of this proud people. Inti­mate
visits to the home of young
and old will reveal the hearts
of the Welsh.
This historic landmarks and
the ruggedly’beautiful scenery of
Wales depicted in the film will
present a variegated panorama
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