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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e Ztltitz R e co rd , 1 937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, August 12,1971 10 c e n t , » Copy; $4.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
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J. Arne Forney, Warwick Township Award to Lion Walter Cammauf for out-
Lion Club president, left, presents the standing club participation for the past
Chester Reitz Memorial Lions of the year year to “Lionism.”
Warwick Lions Present Award
Frank Williams, Akron,
Lions District Deputy Governor,
installed Clarence Brubaker
Community
Calendar
Thursday, August 12
6 p.m.—Young Men’s Business
League Picnic, Elmer Mur­ry’s
Cottage, Hopeland.
7 p.m.—Lititz Recreation Center
Summer Playground Talent
Show, Park bandshell.
7 p.m. — Baron Stiegel Lions
Club meeting, Brickerville
Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Elizabeth Township
Zoning Hearing Board,
Brickerville Fire Hall.
8 p.m.-—Lititz Recreation Center
Summer Playground Art
Show, Rec Center.
8:30 p.m.—Lititz Jaycees meet­ing,
American Legion Home.
Saturday, August 14
6:30 p.m. — Barbershop Music
Nite, Long Park, Lnca.ster.
Sunday, August 15
10 a.m.—Brickerville Fire Com­pany
Picnic, Fire Hall.
7 p.m.—Vesper Service in Lititz
Springs Park.
Monday, August 16
6 p.m.—VFW Auxiliary picnic,
home of Aux. President, 444
N. Cedar St., Lititz.
7 p.m.—Warwick Instrumental
Music Parents Organization
(WIMPO) meeting, band
room Warwick High School.
7 p.m.—Sertoma Club, Warwick
Haus.
7 p.m.—TOPS meeting. Rec Cen­ter.
7:30 p.m.—IOOF meeting, Lodge
Hall.
7:30 p.m. — Lititz Sportsmen’s
Club, Albert Prinz home.
Tuesday, August 17
6 p.m.—Rotary Club, General
Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m.—Lititz Stamp Club,
Wilbur Chocolate office.
8 p.m.—Warwick School Board
meeting, High School.
8 p.m.—Lititz Springs Trustees,
Wilbur Chocolate office.
811 p.m.—Rec Center Dance,
“Legends” Lititz Springs
Pool.
Wednesday, August 18
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Ambucs,
American Legion Home.
Thursday, August 19
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Lions Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m.—Senior Citizens, spe­cial
meeting, Rec Center.
into the membership of the
Warwick Township Lions Club
at the club’s meeting Tuesday
evening at the Chimney Corner
Restaurant.
J. Arne Forney, Warwick
Township Lions president, pre­sented
the Chester Reitz Me­morial
Lions of the Year Award
to Walter Cammauf for his out­standing
club participation for
the past year to “Lionism.”
During the business meeting,
the club decided to hold the
annual fall Chicken Barbecue
on October 2 at the Warwick
Township Lions Hall in Roths-ville.
Lions Chester Eckman
and John Kurtz announced that
Snyder Named Elizabeth
Elizabeth Township Super­visors
appointed Ralph Snyder,
Lititz RD1, as the new township
zoning officer at their regular
monthly meeting last week.
Snyder succeeds Ralph Wolfe
Jr, whose resignation became
effective August 1.
Snyder, an insurance agent,
resides on Loop Road, Lexing­ton,
with his wife and two chil­dren.
He is a graduate of Man-heim
Central High School and
The Lititz Recreation Com­mission
gave approval to the
Recreation Center to continue
the Summer Youth Ministry
program at the center over the
winter months at its meeting
Monday night.
The ministry group will con-
Elizabeth Twp.
Gives 9 Permits
Elizabeth Township issued
nine building permits for a total
of $34,150 in July.
A permit for a new residence
was issued to Clyde W. Martin
for $16,000.
Other permits were: Mahlon H.
Bear, $2,500, siding: Sidney G.
Snell, signs; Ronald Shreiner,
signs; Esther M. Withers, re­pairs,
$450; Mable Nissley, trai­ler,
$2,900; R. C. Zercher, acce-sory
building, $.300; Larry Wiker,
mobile home, $7,000, and Paul
B Martin, garage, $5,000.
the barbecue will again be a
joint effort with the Rothsvillo
scouts.
No Aug. Water Meeting
Ther will be no meeting of the
Warwick Township Municipal
Authority in August, according
to J. Arne Forney, chairman.
Requsts for funds from the De­partment
of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) are still
pending and until there is some
word from HUD on the applica­tion,
the Authority can take no
further steps, it was explained.
Twp. Zoning Officer
has lived in the area for 12
years.
Supervisors reported all the
weight limit signs have been
posted at the nine township
bridges, with the exception of
the bridge on Pumping Station
Road which is still undergoing
reconstruction.
No new developments have
been reported on the dumping
site operated by Morgan Mills
on Sleepy Hollow Road.
duct an outreach meeting on
Tuesday evenings and regular
weekly meetings on Thursdays.
The Commission accepted the
resignation of Mrs. Mary Matz.
commission secretary. The Matz
family is moving to Bethlehem.
A replacement will be named
at the next meeting scheduled
for September 13.
The Commission gave its
approval to issue new recrea­tion
identification cards with
pictures on them for the ele­mentary,
junior and senior high
school members.
The Summer playground pro­gram
took in 295 children over
the past six weeks in five play­grounds.
About 287 youths par­ticipated
in the Summer swim­ming
program.
The “Bridge” a coffee house
at the center which has been
closed all Summer will open
again in September, the direc­tors
said.
In other business, the direc­tors
announced that the cen­ter’s
nursery school still has
openings for about nine chil­dren.
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The Warwick High School Senior Band
will perform at the All-Star Football game
being held at the Lancaster Catholic Foot­ball
Field this Saturday evening. Discus­sing
preparations for the band perfor­mance
are; left to right, Dwight Bomber-ger,
flag squad and color guard instruc­tor,
Dale Weller, band director and Mrs.
Vivian Keith, majorette instructor. The
Warwick Instrumental Music Parents Or­ganization
(WIMPO) will meet at 7 p.m.
in the band room Monday, August 16.
Warwick Supervisors Accept Police Change, Discuss Roads
Warwick Township Super­visors
have accepted the resigna­tion
of Hershey Zimmerman as
patrolman for the township, ef­fective
August 7. Zimmerman
cited personal reasons for re­signing.
In light of Zimmerman’s resig­nation,
Rodney Hilton was ap­pointed
full time patrolman. Hil­ton
served in a part-time capa­city.
In other action at the Super­visor’s
meeting last week Secre­tary
Richard I. Hoffer reported
that stop signs have been erect­ed
on Snyder Hill and Elbow
Roads and on Snyder Hill and
Union House Roads. Hoffer also
reported that the Superintend­ent
of Lancaster County has been
notified to erect a stop sign at the
intersection of Newport Road
and Rothsville Station Road.
Road Foreman Dale Kofroth
gave an account of the damage
caused by the recent week of
heavy rains. West Millport Road
was flooded and a basement re­quired
pumping due to the water
level. Millway Road was torn
up past Rothsville Station Road,
and the surface of Warwick Road
is raised where the water cover­ed
it.
Borough Issues
Bldg. Permits
The borough issued $23,730 in
building permits during the
month of July. Of this amount
$20,000 was issued for new con­struction
and $3,730 for remodel­ing.
New construction permits were
issued to: Kepner Construction
Co., 548 Spring Ave., new home;
Kepner Construction Co., 548 and
532 Spring Ave., sidewalk, G. A.
Terriman, 404-406 W. Sixth St.,
sidewalk, Charles M. Earhart,
202 N. Broad St., two-car garage.
Permits for remodeling were
issued to: Jay Reedy, 207 E.
Main St., paint home, Mrs. Helen
Furlow, 229 Front St., aluminum
siding, Wm. Mickle 229 N. Cedar
St., replace sidewalk, Melvin
Koch, 227 N, Cedar St., replace
sidewalk, Lester P. Neff, 307 E.
New St., replace sidewalk, Wil­helm
Supply Co., 12 N. New St.,
roof and siding.
Franklin K. Cassel, 371 E.
Main St., replace porch roof,
Russell Markei’t, 41 E. Market
St., replace roof, Frank Sinz, 424
Laurel Ave., replace roof, Mrs.
Edith Herr, 216 N. Elm St.,
building outside cellar entrance,
Jay Eisenhauser, 119 E. New St.,
install new heating system.
An orientation program will be
held at the Lititz Elementary
School in the auditorium from
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday,
August 16.
. The purpose of this program
will be to familiarize all of those
pupils who formerly attended
the Kissel Hill Elementary
School with the Lititz building.
Additionally, boys and girls from
Sutter Village attending Kinder­garten
will be present.
John D. Edgerton, Lititz Ele-
The crews will continue to
clean the gutters along the roads
and clean off the mud which was
deposited by the high water.
Township police reported 66
complaints in July, seven acci­dents,
two misdemeanors, nine
motor vehicle operators viola­tions,
one juvenile petition, six
faulty vehicle violations, one
juvenile petition, six faulty
vehicle violations, one stray dog,
two assists to other police de­partments,
one hearing attended,
two assault and battery, three
Oil Slick
A report of stream pollution
in the Lititz Springs Creek on
Saturday evening, August 7
brought fast action from the
Pennsylvania Fish Commission,
The Environmental Quality
Committee of the Lititz Bor­ough
and local sportsmen.
Local trout fisherman on the
stream reported oil was coming
downstream from Morgan Mills
Inc. Charles Prinz, county fish
warden, Lititz Sportsmen As­sociation
officers and members
of the Environmental Quality
committee were on the scene
within the hour and Morgan
officials contacted.
A check inside the plant
found an overflow of machine
oil that entered the stream via
a drain. The problem was cor­rected
within a matter of a few
hours.
Water samples taken along
Parents Asked To Go To
Mid-School Meeting
Three meetings have been
scheduled for parents of stu­dents
of the new Warwick
Middle School.
Robert Heron said the infor­mational
meetings have been
scheduled as follows: Monday,
August 23; Tuesday, August
24, and Thursday, August 26, all
starting at 7:30 p.m.
Besides hearing a presenta­tion
by school officials outlin­ing
the program at the new
school, parents will have an op­portunity
to ask questions,
Heron said.
Fire Company Picnic
The fifth annual picnic will be
held at the Brickerville Fire
Hall beginning at 10 a.m. Sun­day,
August 15. Entertainment
will be provided and admission
is free The event will be held
rain or shine.
mentary School Principal, will
meet with boys and girls in the
auditorium to greet them and ex­plain
where various rooms are
located in the school.
Kindergarten children will
meet in the Kindergarten rooms,
while pupils from grades one
through five will tour the build­ing
and grounds.
Letters are presently being
sent to parents of the children,
inviting them to attend this pro­gram.
burglery and larceny, two cur­few
violations.
The Supervisors resolved to
agree to the terms of the Inter-
Municipal Police Agreement
which includes seven boroughs
and eight township. The boroughs
are: Adamstown, Akron, Denver,
Ephrata, Lititz, and New Hol­land.
The township are: Caer­narvon,
East Earl. Ephrata, War­wick,
West Cocalico, East Coca-lico,
and West Earl.
Under the terms of the agree­ment,
officers of Warwick Town-the
stream will be checked by
the fish commission labs and
the outcome of the investiga­tion
is pending.
No fish were killed but at the
same places the slick extended
from bank to bank. High, fast
water over the weekend along
Rev. William W. Matz, pastor
of the Lititz Moravian Chuch,
has accepted the call to become
Dean of Moravian Theological
Seminary, Bethlehem. He will
assume his duties on Sept­ember
1.
Rev. Matz has served at the
local Moravian pastorage since
September 8, 1968.
Rev. Matz, a 44 year-old
clergyman, returns to Mora­vian
College campus after 17
years as a parish minister in the
Moravian Church. He also is
a member of the Eastern Dis­trict
Board o f. the Moravian
Church, having been elected on
June 13, 1970.
The new dean brings a wide
background of pastoral ex­perience
to the seminary which
emphasizes the training of men
for the pastoral ministry.
He has held four pastorates
since his ordination, serving the
Hilltop Community Church,
New Hartford, N.Y., (now
Utica, N.Y. Church), January
23, 1955 to October 20, 1957;
Palmyra (N.J.), October 27,
1957 to August 5, 1962; Sharon
(Ohio), August 12, 1962 to Aug­ust
31, 1968, and the Lititz Con­gregation
for the past three
years.
He was ordained a deacon on
January 21, 1955 in Utica by the
late Bishop Samuel H. Gapp
and a presbyter on August 13,
1961 in Palmyra by Bishop
Kenneth G. Hamilton.
Rev. Matz, a Bethlehem High
School graduate in the Voca­tional
Department in 1944, ser­ved
in the U. S. Army Medical
Corps in 1945-46 in Africa, Bel­gium
and Germany.
After discharge from the ser­vice,
he enrolled at Moravian
and graduated with bachelor of
arts degree in 1950, then earned
his bachelor of divinity degree
in 1953 in the seminary. Rev.
Matz received a master of theo­logy
degree in 1955 at Prince­ton
Theological Seminary and is
completeing his requirements
for his Ph.D. at Temple Uni­versity.
The new dean and his wife,
ship may be called to assist other
cooperating members and may
likewise call on a other munici­pality’s
officers to aide them.
Unanimous approval was given
to adpot the statement of goals
and objectives of the Lancaster
County Planning Commission by
the Supervisors. This step was
necessary to insure the appli­cation
to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
for funds by the Warwick Town
ship Municipal Authority.
with the fast action by local
citizens were credited for no
loss of fish.
The Environment Quality
Committee pointed out that fast
action of this type is the best
way to control this problem and
prevent damage to the stream.
REV WILLIAM MATZ
the former Mary Jane Dill of
Havertown, Delaware County,
Pa., returned last Monday from
a 22-day tour of Czechoslovakia,
Russia, Germany, Hungary and
Poland. They visited with
ministers and wives and laymen
of eight Moravian congregations
and Moravian youth groups in
Czechoslovakia.
Rev. Matz serves on the board
of directors of Halfway House,
a pilot rehabilitation project
in Lancaster County for boys
from junior high school age
through 19 who are on proba­tion
and is on the board of di­rectors
of the Lancaster County
Council of Churches.
He also is chairman of the
Released Time religious educa­tional
program of the Warwick
school district and is president
of the Penn-Mar Moravian Min­isterial
Assn, for ministers and
wives in central Pennsylvania
and Maryland.
Rev. and Mrs. Matz have two
sons, William W. Jr., 15, and
Randall Charles, 14.
His mother, Mrs. Anna E.
(Wismer) Matz, still resides in
the family home at 1462 Main
St., Bethlehem. His father died
in 1961.
Orientations Program Scheduled
Rev. William Matz To Assumo
Dean Of Seminary Duties Sept. I
Seeps Into Lititz Stream
Troop 42
Members of Boy Scout Troop
42 participated in a number of
scouting activities during June
and July. The activities includ­ed
a week of camping at the J.
Edward Mack Scout Reserva­tion,
50 mile canoe trip, 50
mile hike.
Seventeen scouts attended
Camp Mack the last week of
June. They worked on advance­ment
and merit badges. They
were accompanied by Robert
Herzer, Scoutmaster.
Receiving awards at the clos­ing
campfire ceremonies were:
Mike Harding, Ed Roth, Kevin
Garber, Andy Bender, Kevin
Herzer, swimming; Kevin Her­zer,
nature; Kurt Herzer, Hal
Becker, rifle and shotgun shoot­ing;
Jeff Rohrer, Kevin Garber,
forestry, Jeff Rohrer, wildlife
management.
Jan Long, Kevin Garber, ten­derfoot;
Brian Albee, Phil
York, Gary Miles, John Watts,
Scott Rehm, Howard Lee, sec­ond
class; Joe Flowers, first
class.
Hal Becker was awarded a
special badge for completing
th.e mile swim. Douglas Buchter
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Participates In Summer Events
Nine members of Troop 42 spent hv e days recently hiking on the Horseshoe
Trail Irom Valley Forge to Adamstown. Participating on the hike were: front row,
left to right, Jeff Rohrer, Kevin Herzer and Brian Albee. Back row. Scoutmaster
Robert Herzer, Philip York, Mike Harding, Douglas Buchter, senior patrol leader,
Joe Flowers, Dan Aument and Scott Rehm.