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Groff Hits Plans to Eliminate Rothsville School
Raymond C. Groff, who was
recently renominated for his
fourth term as a school board
member, this week denounced
plans of the Warwick School
District to eliminate the Roths­ville
Elementary School.
Groff agreed that the school
is obsolete and should be de­stroyed,
but he maintained that
a new school should be built on
the six acre site the school dis­trict
owns in Rothsville.
Construction costs for a new
conventional school building
are an estimated $350,000. but
Groff said a prefabricated
structure could be built for
around $200,000.
He said area citizens would
be content with a pre-fab build­ing
in preference to losing the
school altogether.
Troop 42 Will
Collect Funds
Raymond C. Groff
‘School Should Stay’
Groff estimated that a pre­fab
structure could be financed
without a bond issue at a cost
to the school district of the
from local lending institutions
equivalent of about one mill of
tax.
Commenting on the present
building, Groff stated, “I’m for
tearing it down. It’s a match
box. But I’m for putting up
another school.”
Groff said the school board
recently took an unofficial vote
at a closed meeting and will
take official action at its Tues­day
night meeting. He indicated
the straw vote was in favor of
eliminating the school.
Groff estimated about 150 to
175 children are involved.
He also stated, “I would hope
my people would come to our
(school board) meeting Tues­day
night (June 15) at 8 o’clock
in the high school. If you don’t
bother, we may wind up with­out
a school at Rothsville,” he
stated.
Zoning Board Hears Fire Co. Building Plan,
But More Information Asked, Decision July 12
The Lititz Zoning Board Mon­day
night tabled action on the
Lititz Fire Company’s request
to allow a fire station at 149 S.
Broad St.
The Zoning Board asked for
time to consider information
gathered in a one and a half
hour hearing and to obtain fur­ther
information from the fire
company on its proposed build­ing
plans. A decision will be
made at next month’s meeting
July 12, it was announced
The fire company asked for a
special exception to build a 40
by 125 foot station at 149 S.
Broad St. in an R-2 residential
district. The lot is 58 feet by 200
feet, with the rear portion on
Raspberry Lane.
Zoning Board members said
they were particularly concern­ed
about storm drainage from
the site. In addition to the
large building, most of the re­mainder
of the tract would be
hardtopped for parking and ac­cess
for equipment.
Citizens said there is already
a serious drainage problem at
Lemon Street, toward which
much of the water from the
site would flow. One citizen
said that during heavy rains,
water backs up nearly to her
basement.
Near the end of the meeting
in discussion on the types of in­formation
needed to complete
the decision on the fire com­pany’s
request, George Steedle,
For Bob Harding Three Seniors Win Rev. I. Walton Bobst Awards Boy Scout Troop 42 will spon­sor
a Chicken Barbecue at the
Lions Club Playground from
3:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 18.
Proceeds from the event will
benefit Bob Harding and the
troop equipment fund.
Members of the scout troop
are selling tickets door-to-door
throughout the vicinity. Dead­line
for obtaining barbecue
tickets is June 15.
Harding, who has been af­filiated
in the scouting program
for a number of years, has been
hospitalized with a heart condi­tion.
He is 'presently a patient
at John Hopkins’ Hospital, Bal­timore,
Md.
Bob is suffering from blocked
veins which feed the heart. He
will undergo surgery at the hos­pital
Thursday (today). The
operation will consist of graft­ing
veins from hi? leg into the
affected area in the heart cavi­ty
to bypass the unfunctioning
veins.
In order to further assist the
Harding family meet hospital
expenses, a Robert Harding
fund has been set up at the
Farmers National Bank, Lititz.
Persons wishing to make con­tributions
to this fund may do
so by stopping by the bank or
mailing in their donation.
Checks should be made payable
to Troop 42 Committee with a
notation for the Robert Hard­ing
fund.
A reported $626 has already
been donated towards the
operation. These funds were
donated by Bingeman’s Restau­rant
and represented the day’s
receipts on June 6.
Susan Harbison, Jenny Kis­singer
and Karen Kreider were
presented with Rev. I. Walton
Bobst Awards totaling $5,000 at
Tuesday evening’s graduation
exercises at Warwick High
School.
The awards are presented by
Elmer Bobst in honor of his
father, the Rev. I, Walton
Bobst, to three outstanding
graduates.
The first place winner, Sue
Harbison, receives $2,500; Jen­ny
Kissinger, second place, $1,-
500, and Karen Kreider, third,
$ 1,000.
Winner of the first prize this
year is Susan Harbison, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Har­bison,
311 E. Second Ave.
Sue, 17 years old, has been
Elizabeth Supervisors
Discuss Dump, Bridges
At the regular monthly meet­ing
last week, Elizabeth Town­ship
Supervisors acknowledged
receipt of a letter about an
open dump owned by Morgan
Mills Inc. on Sleepy Hollow
Road.
The reply to the supervisor’s
complaint was from G. N.
Wentzel of the Pennsylvania
Department of Health. Went­zel
told the supervisors that the
matter has been referred to the
Operations Section for further
investigation.
In other business, it was an­nounced
that weight limit signs
will be placed at seven town­ship
bridges.
trigonometry and calculus. Trig
and calculus were her favorite
subjects and those in which she
received the best marks, al­though
all her marks were good
this year.
A member of the Lititz Mora­vian
Church, Sue is active in
the Youth Fellowship.
This summer, she plans to
work for the Lititz playground
program, probably in Bricker-ville.
In fall, she will begin studies
in speech pathology and audio­logy
at Pennsylvania State Uni­versity.
Her special interest is
in working with handicapped or
mentally retarded children.
Jenny Kissinger
active in music, dramatics and
cheerleading as well as being
an honor student during her
years at Warwick.
She played the flute in the
high school band and orchestra
and served on the glee club
council to plan concerts, as well
as singing in the glee club and
county chorus.
Sue was also active in the
drama club and participated in
the school productions of “The
Miracle Worker,” “Camelot”
and “The Music Man.”
She was also a member of
the cheerleading squad, pep
club and varsity club. In math
club she was vice-president.
In her junior year, Sue was
elected to the National Honor
Society. Her subjects this year
were English, problems of dem­ocracy,
Spanish, physics and Susan Harbison
Students Receive Awards At Assembly
Award assemblies were held at
Warwick High School for the
junior and senior high students
May 28 and June 3.
Highlighting the junior high
assembly, on June 3, was the
presentation of $1,100 to the
Andy Palkovic Fund by the jun­ior
high student council. Andy,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pal­kovic,
Fredericksburg, RD1, Pa.,
is a nephew of Stephen Palkovic,
guidance counselor at Warwick
High.
An appeal had been made at
the school for funds to help
fiance a kidney operation for
Andy. Student council member
Becky Hershey suggested a fund
raising campaign. Funds were
obtained from the students, the
community and a benefit basket­ball
game.
Becky, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John 11. Hershev, Hilltop
Road, Lititz, presnted the check
to Steve Palkovic, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen Palkovic. Kissel
Hill Road, who accepted it on be­half
of Andy, his cousin.
Awards presented wore as fol­lows:
American Legion, Becky
Kauffman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Kauffman. 220 E. Sec­ond
Ave., Lititz and Hans Heil­man,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant
Heilman, Lititz RD3.
The Legion awards are pre­sented
to an eighth grade boy
girl who possess the qualities of
honor, service, Americanism,
leadership, courage and scholar­ship.
The awards were presented
by Mrs. William Spacht and Al­fred
Douple.
Mick Sload, physical education
instructor presented WCTU es­say
aawrds to James Wolf, first
place, $10; Kevin Reedy, second
place, $7.50 and Brian Morgan,
third place, $5.
Student council certificates
were given by Kenneth Hartman,
council advisor, to: Dave Zug,
president; Ted Schmid, vice
presdent; Heidi Fritz, secretary
and Tom Carvell, treasurer.
Ralph Lehman, junior high
music instrutor, presented band
Becky Hershey, a member of the
Junior High Student Council, presents a
check in the amount of $1,100 to Steve
Palkovic during the Junior High School
awards assembly. The check, representing
the funds collected at the school, in the
community and at a benefit basketball
game, will be used for a kidney operation
for Steve’s cousin Andy Palkovic.
camp scholarships to Marcia
Slump and Becky Kauffman.
Douglas Minnich, administra­tive
assistant, presented the Lititz
Art Awards to Gregg Harten-stine,
second and Caroline
Miksch, third.
At the senior high assembly
May 28, the following awards
were made: American agricultur­al
award, presented by Mrs.
Graybill Hollinger, president of
the Society of Farm Women 1
to Judy Snyder, vocational home
economics student and Kenneth
Grube, vocational agricultural
student.
Max Smith, Lancaster County
Farm Agent, presented the Farm
and- Home Foundation Scholar­ships
to Gerald Martin and Leon
Ressler. Martin also received
the Kunzler FFA Scholarship
from Chris Kunzler.
Dennis Cox, representing New
Holland Division of Sperry Rand,
presented the Community Serv­ice
Award to Reid Lauderman.
The senior high WCTU essay
awards were given by Ronald
McIntyre, physical education in­structor,
to Rick Tropasso, first,
David Lutz, second and Thomas
Lantz, third.
Sandra Bollinger, received the
outstanding typist award from
Leon deFernelmont, head of the
commercial department.
The Teepee Topics award was
presented to Ruth Amidon.
Athletic awards were present­ed
as follows: Daniel Furlow,
Bernie Rider Memorial Award,
Joe Bender, outstanding athlete
award, Linda Rathkey, outstand­ing
senior girl athlete.
Douglas Minnich, administra­tive
assistant, presented the fol­lowing
awards: Woman’s Club
Sewing awards: Cynthia Balmer,
$15, first prize; Brenda'Vollen-weider,
$10, second prize, Doris
Horst, $5, third prize.
Elaine Brubaker received the
Bausch and Lomb award. This
award gives recognition to the
outstanding senior student who
has the highest scholastic stand­ing
in chemistry.
Jenny Kissinger and Brian Don-
¡moyer were awarded the Dan-forth
“I Dare You” award. This
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borough manager, stated in re­gard
to drainage in the area:
“Drainage on Lemon is hor­rible.
It’s the worst drainage
problem left in the borough.”
Steedle also noted that it
would cost $75,000 to solve the
problem. He indicated that ma­jor
construction which would
increase water run-off could
greatly aggrevate the problem.
Besides information on how
storm run-off will be handled,
the zoners indicated they want
a site plan that will specify re­lative
elevations. Specifically,
zoning member Robert Derek
voiced concern about state­ments
that the entrance to the
fire station off Broad Street
would be four feet higher than
four foot drop in the 35 foot
the curb. This would mean a
distance from the building en­trance
to the curb. At the same
time citizens indicated that the
center of Broad Street is at
least 18 inches higher than the
curb and questions were raised
about whether these elevation
changes could be a problem.
Fire company officials repeat­edly
indicated this wouldn’t be
a problem, either from a safety
or equipment standpoint.
Several area citizens were
present to object to building
the fire station in the predo­minantly
residential area. It
is one of the borough’s older
sections. One fireman pointed
out, however, that there are
about five small businesses in
the area.
Presenting two petitions of
20 and 39 stations opposing the
fire station was Raymond L.
Pettyjohn, 154 S. Broad St.
In urging the location, sever­al
firemen, including Chief Am­mon
Shelley, pointed out its
central location. Shelley point­ed
to a map of the area for
which the fire company is res-
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Community
Calender
Thursday, June 10
7 p.m. — Baron Stiegel Lions
Club, Polly’s .Restaurant,
Briekerville.
8:30 p.m. — Jaycees meeting,
American Legion Post
Home.
Friday, June 11
7.30 p.m. — The “Bridge,” Rec
Center.
Saturday, June 12
8 a.in. — Fire Company Festi­val,
Fire Hall.
Monday, June 14
7 p.m. — Sertoma Club, War­wick
Haus.
7 p.m. — TOPS meeting, Rec
Center.
7:30 p.m. — IOOF meeting,
Lodge Hall.
8 p.m. — Recreation Commis­sion
meeting, Rec Center.
Tuesday, June 15
6 p.m. — Rotary Club, General
Sutter Inn.
8 p.m. — Lady Sutter Rebekah
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Karen Kreider
Sue’s hobby is horseback rid­ing.
She has a sister Peggy, 21,
who attends the School of
Veterinary Medicine at the Uni­versity
of Pennsylvania, and a
brother James, 18, who is plan­ning
to transfer from Millers-ville
State College to the Uni­versity
of Delaware.
Asked how she felt upon
learning she was the first place
winner of the Bobst Awards,
Sue said, “I was so surprised,
and I’m really grateful. . . I
really don’t know what else to
say.”
Jenny Kissinger, the second
place winner, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kissinger,
115 E. Marion St.
After spending a year in Bra­zil
as an American Field Ser­vice
foreign exchange student,
Jenny returned to Warwick to
catch up with the rest of her
class, something she accom-
'plished most successfully.
She was a member of the
student council and National
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Warwick Supervisors Meet
Approval for the full con­struction
of the bridge on Car­penter
Road was announced at
the regular monthly meeting of
the Warwick Township Super­visors
last week.
The abutment on the west
end of the bridge will be re­built.
A contract for $1,500 was
awarded to Roger E. Gerhart.
Township crews will be re­sponsible
for removing the ex­isting
bridge deck and all trees,
and for replacing the new deck
and providing backfill.
In other business, the super­visors:
—Deferred action on a re­quest
for annexation to Lititz
Borough by Mylin Messick of
32.88 acres and asked the Town­ship
Planning Commission to
take it under advisement.
—Adopted a resolution for a
seven per cent pay raise for all
Township employees with a one
per cent Christmas bonus.
—Referred to the Planning
Commission a request for re-zoning
by Ronald D. Whitcrafi;
of the 2.5 acres of the old
Southern Pipeline property
from agricultural to light in­dustry.
—Will apply to the Pennsyl­vania
Department of Transpor­tation
for a stop sign at the in­tersection
of Newport Road and
Rothsville Station Road.
—Voted to purchase a trim­ming
mower from Carl B.
Kline, Brunnerville, for $85.
—Announced a meeting June
30 in Carlisle sponsored by the
Department of Community Af­fairs,
Municipal Employee
Training Division will be at­tended
by two supervisors.
—Heard a report from Secre­tary
Richard I. Hoffer on the
May 19 Lititz-Manheim area
Council of Governments meet­ing
concerning possible joint
purchase of a sign machine and
road salt.
—Heard a report from Dale
Kofroth, road foreman, that the
reconstruction of Disston View
Drive is completed.
Sixth Graders To Present “Pinocchio99
A performance of “Pinoc­chio”
will be performed by Ron­ald
Hamsher’s sixth grade class
in the Lititz Elementary School
auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday,
June 12.
Henry Gibbet has been cast
as Pinocchio, Doug Wenrich as
Gepetto, Lisa Grosh as the Blue
Fairy and Scott Ruth as Jimmy
Cricket.
Other cast members are: Jan­ice
Cooper, Fox, Patti Snavely,
Cat, Donila Frey, Lampwich,
Denise Gravely, Harlequin,
Chris Deppe, Punchinello, Gary
Rineer, Fireater, Kevin Herzer,
Dr. Owl.
Brigit Draeger, Dr. Crow,
Mark Brubaker, Master Cherry,
Daryl Lefever, Boy, Robie Leay-man,
Old Clothesman, Steve
Palkovic, Schoolmaster.
Performing as marionettes
will be: Mike David, Donna
Longenecker, Kathy Bryson,
Danny Miller, Mike Hillard,
Cindy Myers. Robin Strohm and
M. C. Feiler to Replace
Tennis on Water Board
Warwick Township super­visors
have approved a resigna­tion
and appointed a replace­ment
to the Warwick Town­ship
Municipal (Water) Au­thority.
Marvin C. Feiler, Lititz RD4,
has been appointed to fill the
vacancy.
Donald L. Tennis, Lititz RD2,
resigned, citing conflict be­tween
his working hours and
the Authority meeting times as
his reason.
Vernon Whitmyer will be the
soldiers.
Tim Whisler will be the an-nouncer.
Mr. Hamsher will pro­vide
musical accompaniment
for the production.
Members of Ronald Hamsher’s sixth grade class at the
Lititz Elementary School, appear in costume for a dress
rehearsal of “Pinocchio” at the school Wednesday. A per­formance
will be presented in the school auditorium at 8
p.m. Saturday, June 12. Cast members are: front row, left
to right, Scott Ruth, as Jimney Cricket, Kevin Herzer, Dr.
Owl. Back row, Henry Gibbel, portraying Pinocchio and
Gary Rineer as Fireater.