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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages-No. 30
Warwick seniors selected as Halloween Queen candidates for the Halloween
Parade in Lititz on Monday night, Oct. 26, are (left to right) Elizabeth Hummer,
Kelly Neiss and Mary Beth Gibbel.
Lititz Halloween Queen
To Be Crowned At Parade
Three Warwick High
School seniors have been
chosen as candidates for this
year’s Halloween Queen,
with the winner to be an­nounced
Monday night, Oct.
26, during the Lititz Lions
Club Halloween Parade in
downtown Lititz. The parade
is scheduled to begin at 7
p.m.
The candidates are:
E liz a b e th Hum m er,
daughter of Judge and Mrs.
Wayne Hummer, Jr., 318
Linden St.; Mary Beth
Gibbel, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry H. Gibbel, 11 E.
Third Ave.; and Kelly Ann
Neiss, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Neiss, 80
Speedwell Forge Road.
The queen will be crowned
by Lions Club President
Roger Moyer in front of the
judges’ stand on East Main
Street.
Contestants
Elizabeth Hummer has
been a member of the Girls
Tennis Team for the past
three years. She has also
served as class vice-president
since 10th grade
and has been a cheerleader
(co-captain) for four years.
She served on the Human
Relations Committee in 11th
and 12th grades and at­tended
Rotary Leadership
Camp. Her hobbies include
art, gourmet cooking and
dancing.
Mary Beth Gibbel has
been a cheerleader (co­captain)
for four years. She
was on the track team in
ninth and 11th grades and
the racquetball team in 12th
grade. She served as ninth
grade vice president, 10th
grade student government,
and 11th and 12th grade
treasurer. She attended
Leaderhip Camp for Girls
and was named September
Senior of the Month. A
library aid for three years,
her hobbies include reading
and sports.
Kelly Ann Neiss was ac­tive
on the softball team in
10th grade and the basket­ball
team in 11th grade. She
has served as a library aide.
During 11th and 12th grades,
she has attended vo-tech in
marketing and distributive
education and she received
the fourth place trophy at
districts in the manager
level of apparel and ac­cessories.
She is the DECA-secretary
of the class of 1981-
82. Her hobbies include
rollerskating, backgammon
and reading.
Prizes
Cash prizes totalling $307
will be awarded by the Lititz
Lions Club to marchers in
the four judging categories:
Group Division, Children’s
Division, Float Division and
Adult Division.
Please note that no prizes
are awarded for “Com- and Lititz Community Band
mercial” entries and that will participate in the
they are discouraged from parade,
entering. The parade will move
Floats and Marchers promptly at 7 p.m., begin-
Floats, individuals and ning at Main and Cedar
groups without floats will streets and going west on
register the night of the Main Street to Broad Street,
parade beginning at 6 p.m. south on Broad to Lemon
Lions Club members will be Street, east on Lemon to
on hand at the corner of East Cedar Street, north on Cedar
Main and Cedar streets to Main Street, and west on
(McElroy’s Pharmacy) to Main Street, where it will
assign each person, group or pass the judges’ stand a
float a number. second time and then
Judges viewing the par- disband,
ticipants in the parade will Winners
refer to marchers by the All first prize winners are
numbers they wear. asked to report to the judges’
Judges stand after the parade to be
Judges will be Dixie photographed -for the
Stinton, Warwick Home newspaper.
E co n om ic s te a c h e r , There will be a slight
Georgine Hampshire, pause the first time the
Warwick e lem e n ta ry parade reaches the judges’
counselor, and Abbey stand to announce and crown
Barbato, Garden Spot ag the 1981 Halloween Queen,
teacher. The Warwick High School
Parade Routes Band will also perform while
The Children’s, Group and the judges are making their
Adult divisions of the parade decision,
will form on the East Main White Cane Collection
Street, east of Cedar Street. During the p a rad e ,
Bands and floats will line members of the Lititz Lions
up on South Cedar Street, Club will circulate among
south of Main Street. the crowd to raise funds for
The Warwick High School their annual “White Cane”
Band, Middle School Band (Turn to Page 12)
School Board Approves
81-82 Bus Contracts
The Warwick School
Board approved the public
and non-public bus contracts
for the 1981-82 school year at
the October meeting,
Tuesday night at Lititz
Elementary School.
Business manager Walter
Lightner noted that the state
formula used to determine
costs for Warwick showed a
22 percent increase over last
year and that this year the
district was running four
more buses than last year
with 27 on the roads for the
district in 1981-82.
The public contract daily
rates were approved at
$459.52 plus gasoline for
Raymond E. Groff and
$676.01 plus gasoline for
Fred H. Kauffman. The
district files for the return of
$.11 per gallon state tax, on
the gasoline and in order to
receive that return figures
the cost of the gasoline
separately.
Non public contracts were
awarded to Fred H. Kauff­man,
$157.32 plus gasoline;
Fred H. Kauffman, Ephrata,
77.30 plus gasoline; Lititz
Area Mennonite School,
$171.21; Raymond C. Groff,
Manheim, $53.00; Robert D.
Kauffman, Ephrata, $33.35;
and Paul R. Repine, Leola,
$19.
The Board also approved
the recommendation that
rates for field trips and
extracurricular activities
trips be set at $.80 per mile
and $4.25 per hour. The
rates, negotiated with the
contractors are still less
than some districts but show
an increase of $.08 per mile
over last year and $.45 above
last year’s hourly rate.
Lititz Borough requested
that the Warwick School
Board exonerate the
properties at the rear of
Woodcrest Avenue and the
narrow strip along General
Sutter Avenue effective
January 1, 1982, instead of
July 1, 1982, as previously
approved. The change in
date will coincide with the
Borough’s fiscal year.
In other business the board
accepted the resignations of
Leslie J. Frederick as a
cafeteria employee at the
high school; Kathleen Kelly
Acker, special education
teacher at the Lititz
Elementary School, and
Michael Lucas, School
Newspaper Advisor, tran­sferred
to the Vo-Tech
Schools.
The board elected Marcia
Longenecker, Lititz R6, as a
cafeteria worker in the high
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Faces Mandatoty Life Imprisonment
Larry Derr Found Guilty
O f Second Degree Murder
Larry James Derr Jr., 22,
of Lititz R2, was found guilty
Tuesday of second-degree
murder for the brutal
slaying of Shirley Mane
Albright, 42, of 238 W.
Liberty St., Lancaster, last
May 2.
Second-degree murder
carries a mandatory sen­tence
of life imprisonment.
The jury of seven men and
five women deliberated for a
little more than 10 hours
Tuesday before it announced
its decision. The jury began
its deliberations at about
10:15 a.m. and returned its
verdict after filing back into
the court room around 8:30
p.m.
Derr was also convicted of
attempted rape, indecent
assault and aggravated
assault. He was found not
guilty of criminal attempt at
involuntary deviate sexual
intercourse.
A Chevrolet van burst into
flames in Rothsville October
17, destroying the vehicle
and damaging wires
b e lo n g in g to D&E
Telephone, according to
Warwick police.
The 1:45 p.m. accident
occurred when the gas tank
became dislodged, due to a
broken bracket, police said,
and the operator, James R.
Brenneman, Lititz R4,
removed the tank and placed
it inside the van.
According to Warwick
police chief Kenneth Martin,
“They apparently tried to
operate the van without the
gas tank and the van
backfired. The fumes in the
van ignited.”
The Rothsville Fire
Department responded to
the scene. Police said the
van was a total loss.
An accident occurred
October 15 at 9:15 p.m. on
Main Street at Twin Brook
Road in Rothsville when the
vehicle operated by Charles
N. Miller, 501 Doe Run Road,
Manheim, stopped on Main,
and was struck in the rear by
the vehicle operated by
Tamela R. Livengood, 338 E.
New St., Lancaster.
Police said the Miller
vehicle was waiting to make
a left turn.
The Livengood vehicle
received severe damage and
required towing. Damage to
the Miller vehicle was
moderate, and no injuries
resulted.
As a result of the in­vestigation
by Officer Jim
In This Issue
Obituaries, Births 2
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Classified 13,14,15
Social 18,19
Manheim News 20,21
Church 24
Business Directory 26
Assistant District At­torney
Louise G. Herr had
asked the jury to convict
Derr of first-degree murder
and to sentence him to death.
The trial began Tuesday,
Oct. 13 when the jury
selection began and ended
Tuesday night with the
verdict. Derr showed no
emotion when the verdict
was announced.
Jam es^P . Cullen and
Robert S. Trigg were
defense attorneys for Derr,
whose case was heard before
Judge Paul A. Mueller.
Trigg expressed disap­pointment
at the verdict
stating that he thought there
was a possibility of
acquittal. Trigg also stated
that an appeal will be filed.
In his 80-minute sum­mation
to the jury Monday,
Trigg emphasized that once
police got the statement
from Derr, they stopped
investigating the murder of
Shirley Albright and started
investigating a murder by
Larry Derr.
He co n ten d e d th a t
someone else may have
come along after Derr had
left Mrs. Albright and killed
the woman. Trigg also noted
the uncertainty as to the
whereabouts of Mrs.
Albright’s alleged boyfriend,
Bob Glick, who had ac­companied
the victim to the
Green Briar Cafe, North
Prince and New Streets,
Lancaster, but left the cafe
earlier than Mrs. Albright,
only to return several times
and ask her to leave, which
she refused to do.
Using a quote from Sir
William Blackstone, Trigg
told the jury, "it is better
that 10 guilty persons escape
than one innocent suffer.”
Following the conviction,
Mrs. Herr stated she was
satisfied with the verdict and
that it was a proper one.
Mrs. Herr said outside the
courtroom that she believed
the jury found that Derr
killed Shirley Albright while
committing rape. She noted
it was a classic case of
second-degree murder. She
theorized that Derr mur­dered
Mrs. Albright
following the attempted rape
to try and keep the victim
from identifying him. She
also noted that no one can
say what Derr’s state of
mind was or what really
happened because no one
was there but the defendant
and Shirley Albright.
in her summation, Mrs.
Herr told the jury to use
common s e n s e . She
suggested that Derr sexually
attacked Mrs. Albright and
then decided to murder her.
In his instructions to the
jury, Judge Mueller said
that Derr’s intoxicated state
"is an issue in the case.” He
further explained that if the
jurors believed Derr guilty
and "so intoxicated he was
incapable of judging his
acts” at the time of Mrs.
Albright’s death, they could
reach a verdict of third-degree
murder.
Mueller also told the jury
if they felt Mrs. Albright was
killed while Derr was
committing a felony, such as
rape, their verdict could be
second-degree murder.
But, he said, if the jury
believed that Derr decided to
willfully and deliberately kill
the woman, and had time to
form a plan, they could
decide Derr was guilty of
first-degree murder.
He cautioned the jurors to
"consider all the evidence.
Don’t be hasty. Remember
your responsibilities to Mr.
Derr and our community.
Return a verdict which the
law and facts warrant. ’'
Derr was arrested around
7 p.m. on Saturday, May 2,
after a friend, Ronald Lee
Troop, had cooperated with
police and agreed to pick up
Derr at his home and drive
him back to Lancaster. A
pair of city detectives
driving an umarked police
van followed him the entire
distance. In the 800 block of
North Prince Street, Lan­caster,
near where the body
was discovered, a squad of
uniformed police and
plainclothes detectives
stopped the car and took
both Derr and Troop to the
Lancaster police station.
Derr maintained his in­nocence
throughout the trial,
claiming Mrs. Albright was
alive when he left her in the
early morning hours of May
2.
He was called to the stand
in his own defense Monday
afternoon and told the jury
that he had not killed Shirley
Mane Albright. He disputed
previous testunony given by
witnesses for the prosecution
stating that he and Mrs.
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A Chevrolet Van burst into flames in Rothsville last Saturday, when fumes
from the dislodged gas tank ignited after the van backfired.
Warwick Police News
Fire Demolishes Van
Adams, Livengood was cited
for following too closely.
The accidents occurred
October 16, the first at 3:18
a.m. on Route 772 east of
Warwick Road, police said.
The vehicle operated by
Lloyd E. Groff, 311 S.
Decatur St., Strasburg went
out of control, cross over the
roadway and climbed an
em b a n km e n t. P o lic e
reported that Groff stated he
thought the right rear tire
(Turn to Page 16)
Lititz Library To Hold
Meeting On CD Projects
Proposed Community
Development activity in
Lititz will be discussed
at a public hearing
Tuesday, Nov. 3 as' a
part of the regular
meeting of the Public
Library board of
trustees.
The meeting will
begin at 1:15 p.m. in the
Lititz Public Library,
302 S. Broad St., Lititz.
The library will be
seeking $31,000 from the
1982 Community
Development Funds
from Lancaster County
for the purpose of
renovating the garage
now attached to the
library, thereby making
that area useable as a
reference room and
reading area.
The Lititz Library
board invites the public
to attend and offer
comments on this
project.
Area Persons Serve As Volunteers
For 1981 United Way Campaign
Several people from Lititz
are serving as volunteers in
the United Way campaign.
The campaign began on
September 15 and continues
through November 12.
Contributions provide funds
for 44 social and health
agencies serving more than
100,000 people in Lancaster
County each year.
The campaign is organized
into seven major divisions:
Pacesetter, which includes
an Industry Group and a
Commerce Group; Finance;
Business; Professions and
Special Gifts; Health Care;
Government and Education;
and Residential.
Jo h n A. B u z z a rd ,
p r e s id e n t of Wilbur
Chocolate Co. Inc., is serving
as an account executive in
the Industry Group, Nor­thwest
Section.
James C. Gibbel, manager
of Hershey & Gibbel, is an
account executive in the
General Insurance Section of
the Finance Division.
The following people are
working in the Professions
and Special Gifts Division.
R o b e rt S. B o lin g e r,
president of Farmers First
Bank, and Jack Watson,
retired president of the same
institution, are both serving
as account executives in the
Statesmen Section. The Rev.
David E. Ebersole, pastor of
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church,
is an account executive in
the Clergy Section, and the
Rev. W. Clemens Rosen­berger,
pastor of Lititz
Church of the Brethren, is a
captain in the same section.
Joseph Young of Ruhl’s
Drug Store in Manheim, is
serving as an account
executive in the Business
Division, Northeast Section.
Mary Martin and Claude
Young Jr., both employees
of Sperry New Holland, are
s e rv in g a s a c co u n t
executives for the Northwest
Section.
Bolinger and Buzzard are
both members of the United
Way Board of Directors.
Other board members
residing and/or working in
Lititz are Dr. John R.
Bonfield, superintendent of
the Warwick School District;
Donald E. Needham,
president of Penn Building
Systems, Inc.; and Carol B.
W in te rs, o p e r a tio n s
manager of the Child
Development Program of
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Nancy Lewis (left) and Tammy Krentz of Junior Girl Scout Troop 242 paint the
United Way thermometer to indicate that over half of this year's goal has been
reached.