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within liancaeter County 16 Pages — No. 31
Community
Calendar
Thursday, October 28
7 p.m. - Halloween Parade,
sponsored by the Lititz Lions
Club.
7 p.m. - Baron Steigel Lions Club
meeting, Brickerville Fire
Hall.
7:30 p.m. - Lititz Historical
Foundation meeting, Trinity
EC Church.
8:30 p.m. - Jaycees meeting,
Legion Home.
Friday, October 29
7:30 to 11:30 p.m. - The Bridge,
Ree Center.
Saturday, October 30
5 to 10 a.m. - Hunter’s Breakfast,
sponsored by Explorer Post 42.
Monday, November 1
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 Zoning Hearing
Board, Borough Hall.
Planners to Discuss Apartment Proposal Nov. 2
Three Wilbur Chocolate Co. employes
involved in personnel changes, effective
November 1, are: left to right: Al Garner,
named vice president; John Woodward,
currently a vice president, named a
director and member of the board, and Dr.
Rodney Welch, retired as vice president
and director, to become part-time technical
consultant.
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Tuesday, November 2
p.m. - Inter-church Family
Dinner, Lititz Church of the
Brethren.
p.m. - Lititz Rotary Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7 a.m.-8 p.m. - General Election.
Vote!
7;30 p m. - Lititz Planning
Commission, Rec Center.
8 p.m. - Lady Sutter Rebekah
Lodge 435 meeting, Lodge Hall.
Co. Lists Personnel Changes
The Wilbur Chocolate
Company board of directors this
week announced three major
personnel changes, all effective
November 1.
Wednesday, November 3
6:30 p.m. - Ambucs meeting,
American Legion Post Home.
7:30 p.m. - Fall Rally service, St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church.
7:30 p.m. - Ladies Auxiliary to
Brickerville Fire Company,
Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m. - Warwick Township
S u p e r v i s o r s m e e t in g ,
Municipal Building.
Thursday, November 4
9 a.m. to 9p.m. - Rummage Sale,
Odd Fellows Rail, sponsored by
Woman’s Club.
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. - Senior
Citizens Activity Day.
6:30 p.m. - Lititz Lions Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30p.m. - Ladies Auxiliary to the
Lititz Fire Company meeting,
Fire Hall.
The board “regretfully” ac­cepted
the resignation of Dr.
Rodney Welch as vice president
and director. At the same time,
Dr. Welch was given a part-time
assignment as a technical con­sultant
to the company.
Welch will be replaced as vice
president by Al Garner who has
been employed with the company
since 1923.
; In addition, the board elected
John Woodward, who has been a
vice president since 1964, as a
director and member of the
board.
Dr. Welch, who is well known in
Lititz and has been active in local
civic organizations, joined the
local 'company in 1943 as plant
superintendent. He was named
vice president in 1955 and
director in 1959.
He had previously been an
assistant county agricultural
agent in Washington state and
had a doctors degree in dairy
science.
In explaining how he became
associated with the local com­pany,
Dr. Welch noted that dairy
science is part of the food
sciences and dairying is part of
the food industry. “They all
pretty much tie together.”
Despite the changes in titles
while with the company, Dr.
Welch noted that he was always
primarily in charge of plant
production.
He lives at 415 S. Cedar St. with
his wife Evelyn. They have three
children: Mrs. Joan Bernice
Beck, Lancaster, Mrs. Mary
Lynne Bragg, Ellicott City, Md.,
and Rodney Welch Jr, Lititz,
science teacher at Warwick High
School.
Welch’s activities in Lititz
include past president of the
Lititz Rotary Club, past deacon at
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, past
member of the board of directors
of the Lititz-Warwick and Lan­caster
County Community Chest,
member of the Lititz Springs
Park board of directors and past
member of the Warwick Board of
Education.
He has also been active in
numerous commercial trade
associations, including past
secretary of the technical
committee of the Chocolate
Manufacturers Association and
member of the International
Association Milk and Food
Sanitarians, New York Academy
of Science, and American
Association for the Advancement
of Science.
He has been listed in both
“American Men of Science” and
“Who’s Who in Commerce and
Industry.”
Garner, who started with the
former Ideal Chocolate Company
in 1923 as a laborer in the molding
department, was named foreman
of the department at the age of 21.
In 1944 he was named head of
the company’s research and
development program, was
named assistant plant
superintendent in 1958, technical
director is 1965, and plant
superintendent in 1967.
He has been active in numerous
trade associations and is a
member of Lititz Moravian
Church. An ardent antique
collector, his hobby includes
refinishing antiques.
He and his wife Anna live at 15
Woods Drive and have four
children, Robert, Eugene, Carol
Ann, and Linda, and nine
grandchildren.
3 Firms Ask New Service, So;
Lititz Sewage Plant Inadequate, Expansion Planned
As recently as June of this
year, citizens and businessmen of
Lititz were being assured that the
borough’s sewer system was
adequate to meet expanding
needs of the next five years.
Now, only a few months later,
the projection is that the borough
sewer system will barely be half
big enough to meet the needs of
the next five years.
Besides the long-range shor­tage
of capacity, the borough is
faced with an immediate
problem. Major requests for
increased sewage disposal are
pending. To meet these requests
would bring the amount of
sewage going into the system
well over the systems rated
capacity. What Happened?
What happened to change the
borough’s sewage outlook in such
a short time?
The projections by the
borough’s engineer that the
system would be adequate for the
next five years were based on the
expectation that the demand for
sewage treatment would grow at
the relatively modest rate that it
had been growing for the last
several years.
What happened, beginning in
July, was that the borough
received three major new
requests for service.
Travis Mills started the ball
rolling in July with a request that
the borough accept 100,000
gallons per day of industrial
wastes immediately, with a
projected increase to 500,000
gallons within five years.
Previously, the waste from
Travis Mills was relatively in­significant,
involving domestic
wastes and no industrial wastes.
The borough accepted the
Travis Mills request with the
stipulation that the industrial
Travis Mills Requests
Borough Water, Sewer
Travis Mills has officially
asked the borough to reserve
500,000 gallons per day of
capacity in its sewage system
withing three to five years.
In a letter read at Lititz;
Borough Council meeting:
Tuesday night, Travis Mills;
asked that the firm’s 500,000)
gallon request he included in a
proposed expansion of the Lititz
sewage plant.
Travis Mill’s request for 100,0001
gallons in the present system.
But officials said this week the
present system is near capacity.
During discussion of the firm’s
request, George Steedle, boroudh
manager, pointed out that the
firm’s request for sewage also
involves use of the same amount
of water.
Steedle said the borough’s
water system, a well system,
presently distributes about one
million gallons a day to
customers. In addition to the
Travis Mills request for 500,000,
Warwick Township has been
promised 500,000 if the township
proceeds with its plans for a
water system, Steedle said.
Steedle noted that the
allocation to the township is for
“ domestic, not industrial or
agricultural purposes.”
He said the Travis Mills and
Warwick Township requests
would double water usage to two
million gallons a day and would
be 50 per cent of the present rated
four million gallon capacity of the
borough’s underground water
system.
Steedle said the long-range
water heeds of the borough and a
more detailed study of the un­derground
water capacity is
being made in light of these
major requests.
wastes be pre-treated at the plant
and be released at a regulated
flow over 24 hours. This requires
that Travis Mills build a
retaining system to regulate the
release of the sewage. The new
sewage is part of a major ex­pansion
underway at Travis
Mills.
In August, Morgan Mills asked
that the borough accept 125,000
gallons per day from the local
plant, with an expected increase
to 400,000 gallons per day by 1975.
The borough presently accepts
only domestic sewage and no
industrial waste from Morgan
Mills.
Morgan Mills presently has a
system involving dumping of
waste water on a local farm. But
the firm has been under fire from
the state health department to
change its system.
In September, the borough
received an additional request
from Soble Construction Com­pany
of Pleasantville, N.J. to
build 240 garden apartments in
Lititz near the Kissel Hill
Elementary School. Soble asked
the borough to accept about
66,000 gallons per day of sewage
from the new development. The
number of units has since been
reduced to 210.
All three of these requests are
major ones in relation to the size
of the borough sewage system.
And they represent new requests
which were not previously
figured into the borough’s
projections on the future of the
sewage system.
Plant Capacity
George Steedle, borough
manager, explained that prior to
the Travis Mills request the plant
was processing about one million
gallons of sewage a day. The
borough’s permit from the
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources allows
processing of 1.17 million gallons
per day.
The Travis Mills request, when
implemented, will initially bring
the system’s load to about 1.1
million gallons per day, leaving
only about 70,000 gallons of
unused capacity.
But the Morgan Mills request of
125,000 gallons and the Soble
Construction request for 66,000
totals 191,000 gallons, well
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The Lititz Planning Com­mission
has scheduled a meeting
on a proposed new llOTunit
housing development at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 2 in the
Lititz Rec Center.
The meeting was moved from
Council Chambers to the larger
Rec Center facilities after
several citizens protested the
proposed project at the Com­mission’s
October 5 meeting and
indicated the opposition would
continue. The Planning Com­mission
tabled the preliminary
site plan October 5.
The proposed development is
located on 21.5 acres owned by
John Hogan, Lancaster, to the
east of Kissel Hill Elementary
School.
The 18.3 acre elementary
school tract was condemned and
taken from Hogan about 1964.
The 21.5 acres, with 50 foot access
from both Owl Hill Road and
Landis Valley Road, is the
remaining ground following the
condemnation.
The tract has rough terrain and
is zoned residential R-l. Under R-
1 zoning, single family, semi­detached
and apartment units all
are allowed. Under the proposed
housing project, the builder is
proceeding under the section
which allows apartment houses
with a minimum of 20,000 square
feet and 100 feet at the building
line based on a minimum density
of one dwelling unit per 4,000
square feet. Representative^ of
the builder, Soble Construction
Company of Pleasantville, N.J.,
have stated publicly that they
will abide by every rule and
regulation of the borough in
constructing the project.
Soble Construction already has
agreed to lower its initial plans
for 240 units to 210 units. This
involved dedication of streets
within the project to the
borough, thereby lowering the
total square footage on which the
number of units could be
calculated.
At its September 7 meeting, the
Lititz Planning Commission
tabled the proposal to allow study
of three issues: one, whether the
connecting street from Landis
Valley Road to Owl Hill Road
should be dedicated to the
borough; two, whether the
borough’s sewage disposal plant
could handle the additional load
(see separate story), and three,
to permit the Commission to
compute the population density
for the land.
Following the September 7
meeting, a letter was sent to the
Warwick Township Planning
Commission informing them of
the project, since much of the
land in the immediate area is
township land.
Charles G. Edson, Warwick
Township Planning Commission
secretary, informed the borough
by letter on several points. He
concluded:
“In general, the Commission
feels that apartments should be
considered an acceptable use of
the subject property. However,
based on the fact the property
was annexed to and zoned by the
Borough in accordance with an
approved subdivision plan which
proposed single family, detached
dwellings, it is felt the proposed
development provides for a much
higher density and creates
problems not envisioned with the
original plans for this area.”
Edson was referring to the
Pennwick Estates Plan of 1960,
which was a restricted
residential subdivision involving
more than 40 acres and including
the present elementary school
land. Loss of the school land
completely destroyed the
proposed road system in Penn­wick
Estates and the project was
never carried out.
In 1966 the Planning Com­mission
received a preliminary
sketch showing single family
homes on the present 21 acre site,
but this was never followed
through.
At the Lititz Planning Com­mission’s
October 5 meeting, one
nearby homeowner objected that
his deed contains restrictions
against building apartments on
the 21-acre tract. But the Plan­ning
Commission said that such
restrictions are entirely a private
matter between the property
owners and not an issue to be
considered by the commission.
The Federal Department of
Housing and Rural Development
(HUD) meanwhile asked the
Lancaster County Planning
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Council Okays Parking Study, Second Pool
Lititz Borough Council Tuesday
night authorized a parking study
for downtown Lititz and approved
asking of bids for a second
swimming pool.
plans and proceed with bidding of
the project.
Parking Unlimited, Pottsville,
was given the okay for a $1,500
preliminary report on downtown
parking. The study was strongly
urged by representatives of the
Lititz Retailers Association.
In other actions council:
— Decided to request an ex­tension
till the end of the year of
an option to purchase Eby’s Mill
property, 35 Cedar St., as a
possible location for a new
borough hall.
— Announced that the Lititz-
Manheim Area Council of
Government will meet Nov. 10 at
Brickerville Fire Hall.
— Announced that the Lan­caster
County Planning Com­mission
will hold its regional
meeting at 8 p.m., Nov. 17 at the
Lititz Community Center.
Charles Edson, a member ot a
local landscape architect firm,
discussed plans and drawings for
a second swimming pool. While
the plans are not finalized, Edson
said most of the work has been
done. Council authorized Edson
to work with borough manager
George Steedle to complete the
— Appointed Rodney C. Welch
Jr, 220 S. Spruce St., to a four
year term on the environmental
quality control advisory com­mittee.
— Appointed Wilbur B. Miller
as Lititz Borough auditor for 1971.
— Hired Ronald L. Sandhaus,
95 Valley Road, Neffsville, as a
policeman and announced plans
to hire a part-time patrolman.
In This Issue
Births 9
Business Directory 13
Business Report 3
Church News 12
Classified 14,15
Editorial Page 4
Obituaries 9
Society Section 10,11
Sports Section 6,7 General Election Is Nov. 2
The general election will be
held November 2, with the pòlis
open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Locally, there are positions
open for school directors,
borough council, township
supervisors and auditors. All
candidates in these races,
however, are Republicans and
unopposed.
The ballots also show contests
for Justice of the Suprememe
Court, Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas and numerous
county officers including County
Commissioner, Prothonotary,
District Attorney, Sheiff, County
Treasurer, Register of Wills,
Clerk of the Common Pleeas -
Criminal Division, Coroner,
Prison Keeper, and Prison In­spectors.
Ther is a contest in all of the
court and county contests in­volving
at least two of three
registered parties -- Republican,
Democrat and Constitutional.
The local contest for school
directors for the Warwick School
District, which includes Lititz
Borough and Warwick and
Elizabeth Townships, are:
Raymond C.Groff, Roy K.
Yeager and William G. Owens.
There are three school directors
posts open.
I. Luther Ober is running
unopposed for reelection as
supervisor of Elizabeth Town­ship,
and C. William Dussinger is
seeking the Warwick Township
supervisor post vacated by
Robert Gibble. Gibble is
presently chairman of the
Warwick Township supervisors.
In the borough seeking three
borough council posts are: Ed­ward
G. Reese, incumbent;
Richard L. Mearig, incumbent,
and William C. Yo/k, a
newcomer.
Candidates seeking the
auditors posts include: Raymond
L. Pettyjohn, Lititz Borough;
Charles L. Adams, Elizabeth
Township, and Robert H. Won­der,
Elizabeth Township.
Voters Transportation
J. B. Zartman, local
businessman, will provide a Vote
Wagon, to take anyone in the
borough, to the polls to vote on
Tuesday, November 2.
Persons desiring tran ­sportation
may call 626-8551 or
call the polls and request tran­sportation.
In the county races, much of
the interest centers on the County
Commissioner race involving two
Republicans, three Democrats
and a Constitutional candidate.
Two positions are open. Abram
D. Dombach, a Republican, is the
only incumbent. Other can­didates
are: Raymond G. Herr,
Republican; Jean D. Mowery,
Democrat; George S. Schwartz,
Democrat, and Charles T. Gibson
Jr, Constitutional.
Lions Club Halloween Parade Tonight
The annual Halloween Parade,
sponsored by the Lititz Lions
Club, will be held tonight
(Thursday) at 7 p.m.
Four senior students at War­wick
High School have been
selected as the finalists to vie for
the role of Halloween Queen at
the festivities.
on South Cedar Street at Main
Street. Lions Club members will
be stationed at the corner of
Cedar and Main to register
parade marchers.
The girls, selected by members
of the senior class, are: Judy
Hofferth, Debra Kleinfelter,
Adessa Schmid and Cathy
Whitcomb.
This year, the parade will
follow the same route as last
year. The participants will form
All floats and commercial
displays to be entered in the
parade must obtain permission
from the Lions Club.
The parade will move west on
Main Street to Broad Street, turn
south on Broad to Orange street,
and then proceed east on Orange
to Cedar Street.
The route will then turn north
on Cedar Street and continue to
Main Street..
The parade will then move west
Firm Wants to Join Sewage System
Morgan Mills Would Rather Devote Energies to Production
The Morgan Mills paper plant
in Lititz has been under pressure
from local and state officials and
citizens for many months to
improve its waste treatment
system which includes spraying
large quantities of water on a
local farm.
While the company has gone to
considerable trouble and expense
to improve its present waste
system over the past several
months, company officials made
the decision this summer that the
only good solution will be to Join
the Lititz borough sewage
system.
But just when Morgan Mills
reached the decision to use the
borough system, a decision that
just about everyone involved
Post Office Hours Change November 1
The Lititz Post Office an­nounced
that on November 1 a
change of Window Servce will
beome effective. Postmaster
Richard C. Rader stated that in
order to establish conformity in
the level of window service
provided in the Lancaster Sec­tional
Center, new hours at Lititz
will be: 8a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday and 8:30
a.m. to Noon Saturdays.
apparently thought was
necessary, the borough suddenly
found its sewage system may not
be able to handle the extra load
(see related story on lititz
Sewage Plant on page 1).
Paul (Pete) Wc shaar, Morgan
Mills plant manajer, stated this
week that going with the
borough’s sewage system is “the
most economical solution for both
the town and the company.”
He said his firm presently is
doing a study on the cost, in­cluding
capital cost and
operating cost, of operating the
company’s present system and
compiling other data. The study
is required by the state.
Meanwhile, George Steedle,
borough manager, reported to
council Tuesday night that the
engineers, Albright & Friel, have
been studying the disposal plant
“ to determine if they can
chemically process the waste in
order uo permit Morgan Mills to
discharge into our system. To
date no definite conclusions have
been reached.”
Steedle indicated that the
engineers are trying to improve
the efficiency of waste treatment
in order to raise the total amount
of waste the plant can process
each day.
The Morgan Mills study is
required in part because of the
state’s concern that if the local
sewage plant is expanded to meet
the company’s projected need of
400,000 gallons per day by 1975,
the borough would need to be
assured that the company
wouldn’t pull out of the system in
the future by building its own
system.
But Weishaar explained that
the local firm’s parent company
has three major plants
elsewhere, all larger than the
local plant, and all three are
using public sewage systems.
Trick And Treat Night
Trick and Treat night will be
held Friday, October 29 in
Warwick Township, it was an­nounced
by Warwick Township
Police Chief Paul Haines.
Small, private sewage plants
a ren ’t “ easily feasible” ,
Weishaar said.
He added the Morgan Mills
would rather not be in the sewage
business, but rather devote its
energies to making paper
products.
This represents a major
change in thinking by the local
firm. It has previously processed
its own sewage and refused to
join the borough system.
But new regulations and
tougher enforcement by the state
has made this treatment in­creasingly
costlier and harder to
manage.
Morgan Mills presently has a
“primary treatment” system
adjacent to its plant. This
primarily involves settling out
the major part of the solids.
The water from this settling
and a relatively small volume of
tiny paper particles which did not
settle out, is then carried by
pipeline to the firm’s 53-acre
farm about one mile west of
Lititz.
(rAntiiiiiorl An Pocro O'!
Main to Broad again where the
groups will disband.
The second trip down Main
Street will have the paraders
pass the judges stand for a
second time. The judges will be
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hamsher
and Dan Cochran..
Cash prizes will be awarded at
the parade. The grand prize will
be $25. There will be two divisions
in the parade: group and
children. Prizes will be awarded
for artistry, comic effect, and
originality.
’Die Warwick High School Band
and the Lititz Community Band
will provide the music for the
parade.
Refreshments will be available
from the Lions Club stand. Fresh
pumpkin pie, apple cider, coffee,
taffy apples, sauer kraut and hot
dogs, and other treats will be
sold. The stand will be located in
the entrances to the drive-in
windows of the Farmers National
Bank on Main Street.
Persons participating in the
parade should keep their num­bers
for admittance to the movies
at the Rec Center at 7 p.m. .
Friday, October 24 and Saturday, .
October 30. The numbers are
good for one time only.
Trick or Treat
Chief of Police George Hicks
has announced that Trick and
Treat night will be observed in '
Lititz on Saturday night, October
30.
Hunter's Breakfast
Explorer Post 42 will sponsor a
Hunter’s Breakfast at the Lititz
Fire Hall from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Saturday, October 30. The break­fast
will feature pancakes and
sausages. The breakfast will cost
$1.T
he Post members are
receiving First Aid training from
Fred Powell, Lititz. They held a
campout recently at Camp
Cooper and will campout again in
November.
The Post meets at the scout
cabin in the park every Wed-