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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26Page$-No. 29
Heniy H. Gibbel
To Chair NAMIC
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Mrs. Deloris Miller (left), president of the
Lancaster Association for Children and Adults with
Learning Disabilities, presents literature on
Learning Disabilities to Mrs. Fay Derr, volunteer
librarian, at the Lititz Public Library.
Death Penalty Sought
In Derr Trial
Henry Gibbel, executive
vice president, secretary
and director, Lititz Mutual
Insurance Company, has
assumed the gavel of
chairman of the Board of the
National Association of
Mutual Insurance Com­panies
(NAMIC). Gibbel
began his chairmanship
during the closing General
Session of the 1,200 member
association’s 85th annual
convention, September 27-30,
at the New Orleans Marriott.
In addition to his role with
Lititz Mutual, Gibbel, is
executive vice president,
secretary and director of the
Penn Charter Mutual In­surance
Company, Lititz,
and past president of the
Pennsylvania Association of
Mutual Insurance Com­panies
(PAMIC). He is also
vice president and director,
Excess Mutual Reinsurance
Company, Philadelphia, and
is a member of the
Executive Committee,
Devco Mutual Association,
Media, Pennsylvania.
He and Mrs. Gibbel were
among 1900 delegates
representing property and
casualty insurance com­panies
throughout the United
States and Canada in at­tendance
at the 85th Annual
Convention of the National
Association of Mutual In­s
u ra n c e C om p an ies
(NAMIC) held in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
“Listen and Learn ...
Share and Succeed” was the
theme of the Annual
meeting, which was held
September 27th to 30th.
Outlining the crises facing
the insurance industry in the
‘80's, during his acceptance
speech, Gibbel charac­terized
them as being
challenges to the industry.
“The insurance industry
today is in a chaotic con­dition,”
he declared. “A
highly destructive wave of
severe competition has been
set loose by the struggle to
gain dollars for investment
income at historically high
interest rates.
“Today, too many com­panies
are operating on the
‘total return’ theory. The
seemingly obvious solution
to maintaining a market
share is to reduce rates in
hope that the investment
income off the cash flow will
offset the expected un­derwriting
loss.
“Not only has our financial
stability been jeopardized,
but our credibility as rate
makers has become suspect
in many quarters. Persistent
lowering of rates in the face
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Henry H. Gibbel
Judge Paul A. Mueller Jr.
told a panel of 25 prospective
jurors Tuesday that he had
been informed that the
prosecution is seeking a
verdict of first-degree
murder and the death
penalty in the trial of Larry
James Derr, Jr., 21, of Lititz
R2.D
err is charged with the
May 2 murder of 42-year-old
Shirley Marie Albright of
Lancaster, whose body was
found outside the employee
entrance of Warfel Con­struction
Co., North Prince
Street, Lancaster.
Derr was charged with
murder, criminal attempt at
rape, criminal attempt at
involuntary deviate sexual
intercourse, aggravated
assault and indecent assault
on Mrs. Albright by city
detective Bernard G. Grimm
Jr.
Mrs. Albright was an
employee of the Alsam Shoe
Co. City police said she was
killed sometime between
1:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. on May
2 after Derr allegedly
followed her out of the Green
Briar Cafe, at North Prince
and New Streets in Lan­caster.
A jury can impose a death
penalty in a murder case
only if it feels that the
aggravating circumstances
of the crime outweigh the
mitigating circumstances.
Defense attorneys are
Robert S. Trigg and James
P. Cullen. Assistant District
Attorney Louise G. Herr will
be prosecuting attorney.
Lititz Postmaster, Florence Rutt Retires
Florence Rutt’s career as
a school teacher was aide
tracked while she was still in
high school and was
working, “helping out” at
the post office.
Of her almost 40 years in
the postal service, the last
eight or nine of which she
has served as Postmaster of
Lititz’ branch post office,
Mrs. Rutt says, “I’ve never
been sorry I changed my
mind about being a school
teacher. Lititz has been
wonderful to me. Fan­tastic!”
Mrs. Rutt will retire from
her Lititz postmaster’s
position one month short of
five years. She hastily ex­plained,
“1 get a lot of
letters addressed to ‘Post­mistress’
but that really is
not the correct term. They
insist on Postmaster,” she
said and chuckled that ERA
has not yet reached into the
postal system, to that extent.
Mrs. Rutt started as a
window clerk and said that
while she worked at that job,
she had a chance to see all
the pretty stamps, the
commemoratives and
special editions, and then
she used to collect them.
“But now I don’t see them as
readily, because I don’t work
at the window, and I don’t
collect them anymore.” She
worked 16 years as a window
clerk and 14 years as
supervisor before she was
promoted to postmaster
almost nine years ago.
Once she has retired, Mrs.
Rutt says that she wants to
travel” within the United
States. I’ve flown over, but
that isn’t the same as getting
out and seeing the place. I
love to travel but really have
no desire to go to Europe,
even though both my parents
were bom there.”
The rise in stamp prices
could hardly be avoided in
any discussion with a
I n T h i s I s s u e
Obituaries, Births 2
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Classified 13,14,15
Manheim News 18,19
Social 20,21
Church 22
Business Directory 24
postmaster, and sure
enough, Mrs. Rutt said that
she knew it was going to
happen.
“It’s like everything else,”
shrugged the attractive
youthful lady. “But our
letters are still the cheapest
in the world. Think of being
able to communicate with
someone in California or
Hawaii for just twenty
cents.!”
A big portion of Mrs.
Rutt’s retirement will be
spent with her first grand­child.
“I want to spend as
much time as I can with that
little gal,” she said smiling.
Mrs. Rutt is a member of
St. John’s Lutheran Church
is Denver and listed several
activities that she used to
enjoy while describing
A M a ry la n d man
sustained head, injuries in a
collision Oct. 7 at 8:55 a.m.
at the intersection of South
Broad Street and Second
Avenue, according to Lititz
police.
Edwin Paul Lange, 20 S.
Main St., Kreedysville, Md.,
was taken to Lancaster
General Hospital by the
Warwick Am b u lan ce
following a collison with a
vehicle operated by Steven
H. Vigunas, 541 Golden St.,
police said.
According to police, Lange
was headed north on South
Broad Street, entered the
intersection and collided
with the Vigunas vehicle
which was headed east on
West Second Avenue.
Following the collision, the
Lange vehicle ran up over a
curb and sidewalk, onto a
lawn. D amag e was
moderate to both vehicles,
police said. Lange was cited
for a traffic light violation
following an investigation by
police.
Hit and Run
Lititz police received the
report of a hit and run ac­cident
which occurred
sometime on Oct. 7. A car
belonging to Norma M.
Walter, 18 N. Locust St., was
parked on a private lot when
someone struck it sometime
during the night, causing
Florence Rutt
herself as “not a club per­son.”
Her son seems to be
carrying on the postal
Lititz Police News
light damage, and left the
scene without providing
identification. The hit-run
car should be dark blue,
police said.
Collision
No injuries were reported
in an accident that occurred
Oct. 9 at 5:12 p.m. at the
intersection of North Cedar
Street and North Lane.
According to police, a
vehicle being operated by
Ella F. Hensel, 923 Pine Hill
Road, was travelling east on
North Lane, stopped for a
stop sign and entered the
intersection, striking a
vehicle being operated by
Deborah H. McLaughlin, 157
W. Fulton St., Ephrata.
McLaughlin was headed
north on North Cedar Street.
F o llow in g an in ­vestigation,
police charged
Hensel with vehicle entering
intersection violation.
Incidents
The following incidents
were reported by Lititz
police:
Oct. 5 - Moravian Manor
reported the theft of a red
McCullough Chainsaw,
model Max-6, from a storage
area.
Oct. 6 - 3:54 p.m. - officer
on patrol observed a car
being driven through a red
traffic signal. The operator
refused to stop upon the
officer’s signal and a short
tradition in the family. He is
a letter carrier in the Denver
area.
The next postmaster for
the Lititz area will have to
meet slightly different
requirements than Mrs. Rutt
did when she was moved up
into the job. “The new
person must be a resident of
Lititz, for one thing. That
wasn’t required when I came
along. But I had to go to
Philadelphia and go before a
board of men that I had
never met. Now I expect the
decision will still be made by
a board, but not like what I
had to do.”
Florence Rutt will be
missed in Lititz, but perhaps
while she’s travelling and
enjoying her retirement,
she’ll drop us a post card.
pursuit followed, during
which several beer cans
were thrown from the
window of the car, police
said. The driver, Kenneth D.
Snyder, 20, of 809 Wisteria
Dr., Ephrata, was charged
by Lititz police with
depositing waste material on
the highway, traffic light
violation, attempting to
elude a police officer,
reckless driving and minor
and alcohol.
Oct. 8-7:52 p.m. - Joseph
G. Stanke III, 19, of 201
Skylark Road, was charged
with a stop sign violation and
minor and alcohol violation
after police stopped him for
a motor violation at Locust
and Noble Streets and found
a quantity of beer in his car.
Oct. 9-11:52 p.m. - Joseph
S. Conway, 18, of 2 Snyder
Hill Road, was charged by
police with disorderly
conduct that occurred in the
700 block of South Broad
Street.
Burglaries
According to Police Chief
Hicks, the following
burglaries occurred:
Sept. 29 and 30 - someone
forced open the door to a
g arag e belonging to
Frederick Bear, 306 Linden
St., and stole an old green-colored
metal tool box with a
homemade handle. The tool
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Driver Injured In Collision
’Each One-Reach One, Teach One*
All Children Learn Differently Lancaster Association for
Children and Adults with
Learning Disabilities is
pleased to announce that
O c to b e r h a s been
p ro c la im e d N a tio n a l
Learning Disability Month
and the organization
president, Deloris Miller of
Manheim, says, “We have
been busy trying to make the
term ‘L.D.’ become a
familiar word.”
Mrs. Miller said that her
goal for th ii year is to
“Enlighten Parents and
Assure Positive Parental
Support. We are also hoping
to utilize our motto which
states, ‘Each one — reach
one and teach one’ ! ”
She explained that books,
films, brochures, pamphlets,
pictures, book marks,
cassettes, place mats, and
such are just some of the
items used in the group’s
effort to reach out and
enlighten the public to be
more familiar to the term
L.D. and to realize that the
organization takes its
acronym, ACLD, from its
full title, Association for
Children with Learning
Disabilities but that the
initials also fit its motto, “All
Children Learn Differently.”
Working in support of the
campaign to reach as many
people as possible, area
Brownies and Cub Scouts
will distribute thousands of
bookmarks which give the
organization’s address and
phone number.
Place mats will adorn the
tables at Bingeman’s
Restaurant in Lititz and
Enck’s Family Restaurant
and the Dutch Kountry
Kitchen in Manheim.
The placemats distributed
to the three family-style
restaurants were donated by
the Welcome Wagon Coterie
of Lancaster and the mats
explains “Who is this
child?” and “A parent’s
feelings” in addition to
giving information regar­ding
the local ACLD group.
Bernie Walker, president
of Manheim Heintzelman
Art Association, donated her
time and talent to design the
cover for the Program
Booklet which features a
trapped bug, caught in a
webbed prison.
Sheri Miller, daughter of
the ACLD president, com­posed
a poem which has
been reproduced on the
placemats and in the
organization’s newsletter,
along with the Walker
sketch.
Imprisoned
Bug
Small bug
caught in a web
struggling to free
yourself
from a prison of
thread
our life.
like us,
Sheri Miller
Halloween Festivities
The poem is the cover
theme for this year, Mrs.
Miller said.
Both the Lititz and
Manheim libraries have
additional information,
distributed by the ACLD
members.
The volunteer speakers
bureau for the group is now
in the process of making
arrangements to visit
organizational meetings and
to speak on the topic of
Learning Disabilities.
“We also have films as
well as a Youth and Young
Adult group who, as a panel,
will give a presentation on
exactly what it’s like to have
a learning disability, Mrs.
Miller said.
We also have parents who
are willing to inform groups
of their experiences. ’ ’
For more information
about how to have a speaker
address your group or
organization, contact Debbie
Brooks, Chairman of Public
Affairs, 394-2777.
Margaret J. Humphrey,
Lititz psychologist, was the
guest speaker for the recent
ACLD October meeting. A
licensed and certified school
psychologist, Mrs. Hum­phrey
operates a private
testing and assessment
service in Lititz. Her topic
for the meeting was “A
Parent’s Guide to Un­derstanding
and In­terpreting
Psychoeducatio-nal
Test Results.”
Mrs. Humphrey does
volunteer testing at Barnes
Hall and the county Juvenile
Scheduled For Area
Halloween festivities
scheduled for the Lititz-
Manheim area are:
• Lititz Borough - Trick or
Treat, Saturday, Oct. 31
from 6 to 9 p.m; Halloween
parade, sponsored by the
Lititz Lions Club, Monday,
Oct. 26. Registration starts
at 6 p.m. in front of
McElroy’s Pharmacy on
East Main Street. The
parade will start moving at 7
p.m. Rain date is Tuesday,
Oct. 27.
• Warwick Township -
Trick or Treat, Saturday,
Oct. 31 from 6 to 9 p.m.;
Halloween p a rad e at
Rothsville, Friday, Oct. 30 at
7 p.m.
• Manheim Borough -
Trick or Treat, Thursday,
Oct. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m.;
Halloween parade, Satur­day,
Oct. 31. The parade
forms at 6 p.m. and starts
moving at 7 p.m. Parade will
be held rain or shine.
• Penn Township - Trick
or Treat, Thursday, Oct. 29
from 6 to 8 p.m.; The Penryn
Halloween parade will be
held Saturday, Oct. 24 at 7
p.m., rain or shine.
Campaign Articles To Be Published
The Record Express
will again accept
campaign articles by
the candidates in the
general election Nov. 3,
and will publish these in
the October 22 issue of
the paper. No campaign
articles or political
letters to the editor will
be printed in the Oc­tober
29 issue.
Any candidate who
cares to may submit one
article commenting on
his or her qualifications
and views on issues.
The articles should be
typewritten, double-sp­aced,
and should not
exceed two 8%xll inch
pages. They must be
submitted by 5 p.m.
Firday, Oct. 17.
They should be ad­dressed
to Editor, Lititz
Record Express, 22 E.
Main St., Lititz, PA
17543.
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Lititz Community Band
Rehearsals To Begin
“It is time to think about
the 1981-82 Lititz Community
Band season,” Harold
Rothenberger stated. “We
would like to continue the
same philosophy of getting
together to enjoy band music
with all servies being ren­dered
without pay.”
The first rehearsal will be
held Monday, Oct. 19 from
7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Warwick
High School bandroom.
Other re h e a rsa ls are
scheduled for the following
Mondays from 7:30 p.m. to 9
p.m.; November 2, 9, 16, 23
and December 7 and 14.
The Community Band is
open for suggestions and
invitations for Christmas
Holiday concerts, i.e.
r e tir em e n t homes,
organizations, etc.
Rehearsals in 1982 will
continue on January 11.
The Lititz Community
Band will be marching in the
Lititz Halloween parade
Monday, Oct. 26. Band
members will meet at 6:30
p.m. at the Telephone
Building on South Cedar
Street. The parade will begin
moving at 7 p.m. The rain
date is Tuesday, Oct. 27.
If you are participating in
the Halloween parade and
you do not come to the Oc­tober
19 rehearsal, please
contact Harold A. Rothen­berger,
413 S. Spruce St.,
Lititz 626-1806, or Dave
Yeagley, 120 E. Lincoln St.,
Lititz 626-4418.
Band members are urged
to increase the membership
by bringing a friend.
Hospital Releases Injured Player
Dan Woolley, a senior
tackle on the Warwick High
varsity football team,
reinjured his chest during
Saturday’s loss to Conestoga
Valley. i
He was held overnight a t
St. Joseph Hospital, thert
released Sunday. Coach
Mark Snyder said Woolley
will probably be lost for the
season. He said the senior
ballplayer originally injured
himself when he dropped
about 250 pounds on his chest
while working out with
weights at his home over a
month ago.
This Saturday. O c t. 1 7 , A t Grosh Field
Warwick To Host Third Annual
'Bands On The Warpath’ Competition
Lititz is in for a real treat
this Saturday, Oct. 17, as the
third annual “Bands on the
Warpath” field competition
comes to Grosh Field. The
competition, hosted by the
Warwick High School
Marching Band, will begin at
2 p.m.
The participating bands
are: Manheim Township and
Northern Lebanon, in the
Liberty Conference; and
Manheim Central, Palmyra
and Lancaster Catholic in
the Independent Conference.
The Marching Warriors
will appear in exhibition.
Tickets will be $4 for seats
in the preferred section (the
“ home side” of Grosh
Field). Seating on the
visitor’s side will be $2 for
adults and $1 for students.
Tickets may be purchased
in advance or the day of the
show.
Members of the Warwick
Instrumental Music Parents
Organization (WIMPO)
have been busy preparing
for this competition. Ac­cording
to Warren Stone,
general chairman of the
show, approximately 80
persons were necessary to
fill all the jobs needed.
Committee chairmen are:
Warren Stone, general
chairman; Jerry Downing,
master of ceremonies; Rick
and Bert Hurst, hosts;
Phares and Sandy Gerhart,
refreshments; Dick and
Bonnie Miller, tickets; Mel
Ravegum, advanced ticket
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Manheim Central High School Marching Band to be, hosted by the Warwick High School Mar-will
be one of five bands competing in the third ching Band this Saturday, Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. on
annual “ Bands On The Warpath” field competition Grosh Field.