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The Lititz Record - Express
Serving The Warwick Area For Nearly A Century
95th Year l i t a b l l ik t d April, 1877, u TU« Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The A it it i Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, October 7,1971 10 o s a t i a Copy; ( 4M per y e a r b y m a ll
within Lancaster County 14 Pages — No. 28
L i t i t z , I n t e r c o u r s e B a n k s C o n s o l i d a t e
The Fanners Natiomal Bank of
Lititz is planning to “ con­solidate”
with anotherr Lancaster
County bank and cchange its
name, it was announced Wed­nesday.
The consolidation imvolves the
First National Bamk of In­tercourse.
The new consolidated bank will
be known as Farmers First
National Bank.
Jack S. Watson, currently
president of the Farmers
National Bank of Lititz, will be
the new organization's president
and chief executive officer.
You Can Win *50
The Lititz Reccord-Express has received several fine
entries in its miasthead contest, which includes a $50
savings bond fo»r the winner. But entries are still open
through October 15.
The masthead! is the identification banner across the
top of page 1. Our masthead is basically the same as
when publication started nearly a century ago we’re
inviting our reacders to help us develop a new one to
reflect our new offset printing process and our growing
community.
Regardless of' age or artistic talent, try your hand at
developing our new masthead.
We’re not neccessarily seeking the best drawing, but
most usable idea.
In fact, a drawing is not essential for an entry, since
we plan to hawe a professional artist; express the
winning idea. Trhis final product of the professional,
artist will eventually become a part of our page 1 every
week.
Suggestions aind rules for entries to be eligible for
the $50 savings; bond are as follows:
— The entry can consist of letters, words, symbols,
drawings, picturees. The contestant is free to choose any
means of expression, but should keep in mind that we
must reproduce it in black and white.
— The entry «.should suggest or symbolize Record-
Express and itis relationship with the community.
Drawings of welll-known local landmarks, combinations
of these or other means may be used to show this.
— The final piroduct must include our name, Lititz
Record-Express. Individual entries may include our
name or omit it, but the contestant should consider in
submitting his eintry that it will be added.
— The contestant may submit as many entries as he
wishes.
— Our decision on winners will be final.
— All entries «are the property of The Lititz Record-
Express, to be used or modified as we see fit.
— Note that our present masthead is about eight
times as wide as it is tall. While there are no restric­tions
on size of entries, we must consider how the
individual «entry can be adapted to our needs; the
ability to adapt the entry to the available space will be a
prime consideration in choosing the winner.
— The winning entry should suggest a theme which
is usable in the years ahead. We want our new
masthead to serve us well for the next several years,
possibly the next several decades.
— Entry deadline is October 15. All entries must be
in our office by 5 p.m. Friday, October 15. Winners will
be annou ced shortly.
— Entries can be delivered directly to our office at 22
E. Main St., Lititz, or be mailed to us as follows: Lititz
Record-Express, P.0. Box 266, Lititz, Pa. 17543.
Mail your entry right away. Help us make a per­manent
change in our appearance and be eligible for a
$50 savings bond at the same time.
Headquarters will be in Lititz
with four branch offices at In­tercourse,
Lancaster Shopping
Center, Neffsville, and Park City
Shopping Center.
The consolidation is subject to
ratification by both the Lititz and
Intercourse banks’ shareholders
and approval by the U.S. Comp­troller
of the Currency. Special
shareholders’ meetings will be
called at both banks during
November.
The Lititz bank was founded in
1901 and the Intercourse bank in
1908.
Historically, both have been
locally orienteid in philosophy and
the consolidation will result in a
county banking organization
better equipped to service
Lancaster County customers at
the local level, it was announced.
WEA, School Board Reach Tentative 71-72 Wage Contract
Mrs. Barbara Stump
Greeting Our
New Teachers
Post Office Will
Be Closed Mon,
The Lititz Post Office will be
closed on Monday, October 11 in
observance of Columbus Day.
There will be no window ser­vice
nor town or rural deliveries,
except special deliveries in town.
The lobby will remain open
from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for box
patrons and vending machine
sales.
Normal Saturday service will
be provided on October 9.
Editor’s note: This is the first
in a series of articles describing
the new teachers in the Warwick
Schools. The second wil appear
next week.
Mrs.Barbara Stump has joined
the teaching staff of the Lititz
Elementary School as a fourth
grade teacher this year.
A native of Berks County, Mrs.
Stump is a graduate of Kutztown
Area High School and Millersville
State College. She plays the
piano, bridge and is interested in
reading.
Mrs. Stump lives at 54 East
Center Street.
The Warwick Education
Association and the Warwick
School Board negotiators have
reached tentative agreement on a
1971-72 teacher wage-benefit
contract.
The agreement was in the
process of being drawn up in
legal form early this week.
The WEA is scheduled to
consider formal ratification at a
special meeting Monday, October
18, and the school board will
consider ratification a t its
regular meeting Tuesday
evening, October 19.
Dr. H. Dale Winger, district
school superintendent, said
Tuesday that both the WEA and
school board negotiators have
formally agreed on all points of
contention.
The WEA chief negotiator is
Thomas McKinne and the school
board is represented by John M.
Evans.
The agreements which have
been reached are in the form of
several separate signed
agreements by the negotiators,
Dr. Winger explained.
The next step is for the solicitor
Roger Reist to prepare a draft of
the agreements in legal form for
review by both Evans and
McKinne. When approved by the
two, the contract will be printed
for official submission to the
WEA and school board.
Dr. Winger said the contents of
the contract will not be released
prior to action by the two groups.
He did say that the chief points
of contention were economic,
including salary, extra pay for
extra duty and fringe benefits.
While the cost of the contract
has not been computed, he said
the school district can meet the
cost out of its present budget. The
agreement won’t cause an
operating deficit in the current
school year, he said.
He said the agreement was not
what the district had anticipated
in its budget approved this
summer, but it is “not out of
bounds.” The settlement “fell in
the middle of the upper and lower
limits of what had been an­ticipated,”
he said.
Fire Company Says No to Mill Site
The Lititz Fire Company has
voted to reject the Eby’s MUi site
as a location for a new fire
company.
The Fire Company action came
after Lititz Borough Council
voted at its last meeting to take
an option on the property and
asked the Fire Company to ex­press
its opinion on the site. The
option expires at the end of Oc­tober.
Meeting last week, Fire
Company members voted to
reject the site. The vote was 10 to
5, it was learned.
Paul F. Diehm, chairman of
the company’s building com­mittee,
said there wasn’t much
discussion at the meeting. He
noted that the firemen generally
have not liked the location from
the beginning.
In previous debate on a site for
a new company, objections by
firemen to Eby’s Mill have in­cluded
: it’s not centrally located
in the fire company’s service
area, growth in the service area
is generally to the south away
from the site, fire equipment
would be forced to leave the site
uphill, cutting down on reaction
time to fires and possibly causing
problems during icy winter
weather.
Community
Calendar
George Steedle, borough
manager, said this week that the
next step on what to do about the
Eby’s Mill site will be up to
borough council. He said he
doesn’t think the borough “will
arbitrarily pick Eby’s Mill.” but
will probably “try to find another
site that is mutually agreeable.”
But Steedle also pointed out
that the suitable sites which are
available are “not very plen­tiful.”
Residents Protest Apartment Complex
Wilbur Strike Really Wasn’t the First
Last week’s two-day strike at
the Wilbur Chocolate Co. was not
the first strike at the local plant,
according to a Lititz man.
Elwood Ritz, 203 E. Third Ave.,
who is more than 72 years old,
said he recalls that when he was a
teenager working at the plant
around 1914-15 there was a strike
that lasted three or four days.
The Record-Express had
reported last week that it was the
first strike in Wilbur Chocolate’s
106-year history.
But Ritz noted that the local
firm wasn’t known as Wilbur
then. It was operating under two
names: Puritan Chocolate Co.
and Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate
Co.R
itz said the earlier strike
resulted when the company
dismissed the president, Walter
Light, and brought in Mose
Tressler from Germany. The
strike was resolved on the con­dition
that Light be reinstated,
according to Ritz.
Ben Forrest, Wilbur Chocolate
vice president, who has written a
company history, said as far as
he knows the company’s records
don’t indicate a strike in the 1914-
15 period, when the local plant
was know as Ideal.
But Forrest did note there was
a brief strike in the 1940’s after
the firm was taken over by
Wilbur in the early 1930’s. It was
during the NRA days and was the
period in which the local union
' More than 30 Warwick
Township residents appeared at
the Lititz Planning Commission
meeting Tuesday night to protest
the proposed construction of 240
garden apartments on a 21.5 acre
tract at the rear of Kissel Hill
Elementary School.
Located at Landis Valley Road
and Owl Hill Road, the apartment
In This Issue
was born, Forrest recalls. Business Directory 10
That strike was briet, lasting Church News 9
only about half a day. Classified Ads 12, 13
Which indicates that even if Editorial Page 4
last week’s strike wasn’t the first, School Menu 8
the company has had a relatively Society Section 8
strike-free history. Sports Section 6, 7
Wilbur Chocolate Employes End Strike, Company-Union Negotiate Issues
After a two-day walkout,
Wilbur Chocolate Co. employees
voted last week to return to work
at 2 p.m. last Thursday.
The approximately 200 em-eniployes
returned to work as
scheduled and early this week
company and union officials were
continuing to negotiate to resolve
differences which started the
walkout.
He also said he is currently
“satisfied with the way things are
moving.”
John Buzzard, company
president, in announcing that the
men were returning to work,
emphasized he was pleased.
Lloyd Long, president of Local
272, Bakery and Confectioners
Union of the AFL-CIO, said this
week:
Buzzard said both sides were in
the process of submitting their
greivances in writing as the first
step in carrying out the greivance
procedure outlined in the com­pany-
union contract reached this
summer.
“The feeling that management
won’t talk no longer exists. If
they would have ; talked last
week like they are this week, this
(walkout) would never have
happened.”
After the walkout last week,
Buzzard had asked the men to
return to work so that the
procedure of settling the dif­ferences
could begin under the
contract.
RothSVille PTA Douglas Williams Earns Eagle Award
Slates Meetings
The first meeting of the
Rothsville PTA will be held at
7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 14,
in the Rothsville Elementary
School.
The topic “Fire Prevention and
First-Aid” will be presented by
Claude Young, Rothsville fire
chief. A social hour will follow in
the cafeteria.
Other programs scheduled for
the coming year include:
November-Open House; March-
Cleft Palate Clinic; April-Spring
musical by the children.
The executive committee,
responsible for the programs,
consists of Jesse Balmer,
president; Marvin Wittmer, first
vice-president; Frankllin Myers,
second vice-president; Sylvia
Salter, recording se c retary ;
Linda Hilton, tresurer; and Mrs.
Mary Clark, school represen­tative.
Other committies a r e :
P ublicitYrJanice Weidman,
Sylvia Slater,-) andl Loretta
Kurtz; Safety-Claude Young;
Hospitality-Mary Maist, Patsy
Hess, and Rosene Steflfy.
Also Auditing-J, Arme Forney
and James F a rm e r; Mem-bership-
Ruth Wenger, Mary
Martin, Dot Forney, and Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Baublitz. School board
representatives are Franklin
Myers and Evelyn Wissler.
Douglas T. Williams, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas W. Williams,
Leola RDl, will receive the Eagle
Scout Award at a Parents Night
program being held this evening
(Thursday) by Troop 160,
sponsored by St. Luke’s UCC.
Doug is the troop’s first Eagle
Scout.
The award will be presented by
Thomas F. Lehmier, scout
executive of toe newly con­solidated
Lancaster-Lebanon
Council.
Doug earned 15 activity badges
as a cub scout and has served as a
Webelos Den chief.
He attended the 1970 junior
leader training camp and was a
scout life guard at Camp Mack.
He is a member of the
Brotherhood of the Order of toe
Arrow, ordeal ceremonial team
chairman. He is also a member of
toe Conowingis Chapter, Order of
toe Arrow Dance Team.
He is now serving as a senior
patrol leader in Troop 160.
The company last week ob­tained
a federal court injunction
to stop the walkout. At first,
employes voted to continue the
walkout, but a day and a half
later voted to return to work.
Doug is a defensive end on toe
Warwick freshman football
team.
Both sides were reported early
this week to be working to have
toe injunction dismissed and
avoid toe federal court hearing
which was scheduled for 10 a.m.
Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Buzzard said the company
Monday pleaded with toe court
that toe injunction be “dismissed
because of compliance, although
tardy, without prejudice.”
Asked what “without
prejudice” means, Buzzard
explained it is very important
because it ends the company’s
right to collect damages for lost
and damaged materials which
Were in process when employees
walked off the job and for loss of
customers as a result of toe
strike.
Buzzard said he hopes the
union will adopt the same type of
attitude and emphasized that
“nobody wins” in a dispute of this
type.
Long indicated early this week
that progress already has been
made toward settling differences
with the company. He said seven
of 19 men that had been
dismissed September 24 were
called back to work Monday.
Discussion is continuing on 11 of
the other employes and a 12th has
been dropped by mutual
agreement.
Long said toe company has
agreed to meet another major
union grievance: inform the
union in advance of lay-offs and
workload changes. The company
has agreed to inform the union in
advance of why changes are
being made and who it’s going to
affect, he said.
The union had contended that
the 19 men were laid off without
notice to toe union and that this
had resulted in overloading some
other men with work.
The layoffs occurred after a
management study by a Chicago
firm. Buzzard explained last
week that the moves were made
because of rising costs of raw
materials, toe price freeze on
finished products and the need to
remain competitive in toe in­dustry.
complex is planned by Soble
Construction Co.
The residents objected to
having that many apartments in
the area, claiming the complex
would be detrimental to property
values, would bring a large
number of children into the
school district and would create
traffic hazards.
Commission members said,
however, that toe major problem
might be sewage disposal. While
toe construction firm plans to use
public water and sewer, toe
recent proposal by Travis Mills to
expand its plant and sewage
output is bringing the borough’s
sewage system to near capacity
use, it is reported.
The borough will have to
determine if toe sewage system
has toe capacity to accept toe
new apartments, according to
George Steedle, borough
manager.
The borough zoning ordinance
lists toe area as R-l and permits
apartments at the rate of one for
each 4,000 square feet of land.
But the commission tabled toe
issue till 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
November 2, because two
members weren’t present.
The commission also said it
will meet in private session with
its solicitor to discuss a proposed
housing ordinance on October 20.
New Dress Shop to Locate Here
The Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board has granted a special
exception to Richard A. Hart­man,
general manager of the
Gladell Dress Shop in
Elizabethtown, to open a second
shop in Lititz.
farm a t the Libramont
Development Bams in Kissel Hill
from Oct. 4,1971 to April 1, 1972.
The board held that complaints
from residents about the
possibility of odor and flies were
not sufficient to warrant a denial.
! The new dress shop will be
located at 21 S. Broad St., the
former Lititz Sewing Center
location, in an office and
professional zoning district.
The board stipulated, however,
that Longenecker must:
— Have the bam cleaned
thoroughly at least twice during
the six-month period.
The Sewing Center has moved-to
9 S. Broad St. —Have all cattle and manure
removed from premises by April
1, 1972.
Tne board also granted a
variance to Fomey Longenecker,
Lititz RD3, to operate a steer
— Agree not to
manure on
Development land.
spread any
Libramont
Thrusdaju October 7
11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. — Senior
Citizens Activity Day, Rec
Center.
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Lions Club,
General Sutter Inn.
6:30 p.m. — LYM meeting, Rec
Center.
7:30 p.m. — Delphian Society,
home of Mrs. Ethel Kauffman,
Neffsville.
7:30 p.m. — White Oak PTC
meeting, White Oak Elem.
School.
7:30 — Lititz Fire Company
Auxiliary meeting, Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m. — Brickerville Fire
Company Auxiliary meeting,
Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m. — Warwick Twp.
Supervisors Meeting, Twp.
Municipal Bldg.
8 p.m. — St. James Altar Society
meeting, Church Hall.
Friday, October 8
7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. — The
Bridge, Rec Center.
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Rummage
Sale, sponsored by the
Welcome Wagon Club, Odd
Fellows Hall.
Saturday, October 9
1(30 p.m. — Society of Farm
Women 1, home of Mrs. Willis
Bucher, Lititz RD2.
4 p.m. to 8 p.m. —Turkey Supper,
sponsored by the Rothsville
Fire Company, Fire Hall.
8 p.m. — Public Installation of
IOOF officers, Lodge Hall.
Sunday, October 10
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Chicken Pot
Pie Dinner, Brickerville Fire
Hall.
Monday, October 11
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 ' WCTU
meeting, St. Luke’s UCC.
8 p.m. — Recreation Commission
meeting, Rec Center.
Tuesday, October 12
6 p.m. — Rotary Club, General
Sutter Inn
6 :30 p.m. — Warwick Township
Lions Club, Chimney Comer
Restaurant.
7:30 p.m. — Lititz Guild to
Osteopathic Hospital meeting,
home of Mrs. Phares Ginder,
Lititz RD2.
7:30 p.m. — Fashion Show-Cart
Party, sponsored by Lititz Fire
Company Aux., Rec Center.
7:30 p.m. — Warwick Footbal
Parents meeting, Rec Center
7:30 p.m. — St. Luke’s Women’!
Guild meeting, Church Chapel
8 p.m. — Garden Spot Post 5>
American Legion meeting
Post Home.
Wednesday, October 13
7:30 p.m. — Ladies Auxiliary ti
the Penryn Fire Compan;
meeting, Fire Hall.
Thursday, October 14
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Rummag
Sale, Lititz Fire Compan;
Auxiliary, Fire HaK
7 p.m. — LCW Guild Meeting
Lutheran Education Bldg.
7:30 p.m. — Rothsville PT
meeting, Rothsville School.
8:30 p.m. — Jaycees meetinf
American Legion Post Horn«
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drawing October 29. All toe other
coupons will be discarded. In
order to be eligible to win toe
following week, another coupon
must be deposited with .a par­ticipating
store. So, be sure to
register each week.
Lions Club Plans Parade Douglas Williams
Earns Eagle Award
Adult Ed Classes Open
There are still some openings
in the Adult Education classes
being conducted at Warwick High
School. Courses with openings
are: typing, bridge, Monday;
gourmet cooking, Tuesday and
woodshop on Wednesday.
Interested persons may contact
the guidance office at toe high
The Lititz Lions Club will hold
its Halloween Parade at 7 p.m.
Thursday, October 28. The
parade will follow toe same route
as last year. Marchers will meet
at Cedar and Main Streets.
Prizes will be awarded in
various categories. Everyone
participating in the parade will
receive a free ticket to see a
movie at the Rec Center on
Saturday, October 30.
Jim Perini and Steve Palkovic
are chairmen for to e , parade
arrangements.
Fire Call
Mrs. Kenneth Hawthorne, 345
Front Street, Lititz, was toe
winner last week of-$135 in gift
certificates in toe “LUCKY YOU
-----rFS FRIDAY” drawing. She
received 27 certificates of $5
each, one from each of the par­ticipating
merchants, and three
certificates for a free haircut, one
from each of toe participating
barber shops.
stores will be placed in a larger
box for toe drawing at 8:30 p.m.
Friday evening on the patio of the
General Sutter Inn.
Ten semi-finalists were also
drawn last Friday. They were:
Raymond Landis, 213 North
Broad Street, Lititz; Chester S.
The Lititz Fire Company was
summoned to extinguish a fire in
a pick-up truck in front of 118 S.
Broad Street, owned by Paul
Emmerich, Bethel RDl, at 3:15
p.m. September 29.
The fire was caused by exhaust
heat coming through the floor­boards
which ignited a rug stored
in the truck. There was no
damage.
A drawing will be held each
Friday for the next four weeks
with the final one October 29
worth $270. The person whose
name is drawn as the Friday
night winner must be present to
win.
To be eligible to win, the
shopper must fill out a coupon in
one of toe participating stores
and place it in the specified
container. Coupons from all the
Enck, 1451 Dridge Hill Road;
Alex Batehoff, 315 East Main
Street, Lititz; Robert M.
Niquette, 615. Kissel Hill Road;
Henry Good, RD2 Ephra ta ;
Leroy Emmerich, 25 West
Marion Street, Lititz; Annabelle
Mearig, 121 Liberty Street,
Lititz; Mrs. Robert Posey, 609
Spruce Street, Lititz; Edward J.
Vogeler, 3 Landis Valley Road;
and Claudia McCreary, 145
Forney Drive, Lititz.
These ten names will be put
aside and kept until toe final
Those businesses participating
a re : Armold Jewelers Inc.,
Benner’s Pharmacy, Bingeman’s
Restaurant, Bob’s Save-Rite
Market, Byler’s Self Service,
Draeger’s German Delicatessen,
The General Sutter Inn and
Glassmyer’s.
Hagy’s Western Auto, J. B.
Hess Men’s Wear, House of
Warwick, Kathryn’s Flowers and
Gifts, Kenyon’s Pastry Shop,
Klotz Kleners, Lippart’s Big Men
- Tall Men, lititz Book Store,
Lititz Pet Shop, Lititz Sewing
Center, Lititz Sports Center and
Long and Bomberger Home
center.
Also, McElroy Pharmacy,
Michael’s of lititz, Henry Neff
Men’s Wear, Spacht’s Furniture,
The Backporch Candle Shoppe,
The Candy Jar, and Trudi K
Shop.
Three barber shops are also
participating and giving a cer­tificate
good for one free haircut.
They are Buchter’s Barber Shop,
Stroble’s Barber Shop, and
Zong’s Barber Shop.
Mrs. Kenneth Hawthorne received 27 gift certificates as
the third winner of the “Lucky You-lt’s Friday” drawing from
Bob Zimmerman. Mrs. Hawthorne, who lives at 345 Front
Street, registered her winning ticket at Bob’s Save-Rite
Market.