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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 30 Pages-No. 27
Councilmen Approve Sonar Test For Recreation Site
Returns Juniper Lane To Two-Way
For New Rothsville Medical Office
Groundbreaking Ceremony Held
A G ro u n d b re a k in g
Ceremony was held at 1 p.m.
Monday at the site for the
new Rothsville Medical
Office to be erected just
north of Route 772 along the
New Rothsville Road.
Participating in the ,
ceremony were the Rev. f
James Pond, pastor of St.
P a u l ’s E v a n g e lic a l'
Congregational Church,
Rothsville, who offered the
invocation; Robert L.
Bensing, chairman, Board of
Dire cto rs of E p h ra ta
Community /H o sp ita l
(ECH); and J. Arne Forney,
representing the Warwick
Township Lions Club.
The medical office is being
built by Ephrata Community
Hospital in cooperation with
the Warwick Township Lions
Club, who support the need
for such an office in the
Rothsville area. The need for
a medical office was pursued
at the request of interested
community members who
contacted the ECH, which
offered its services to guide
and assist in developing a
medical office building for
the area, and to recruit a
physician for Rothsville.
Instrumental in the initial
plans for a medical office in
the Rothsville area was the
late John M. Kostecky, who
served as chairman of the
Board of Directors of ECH
from July 1978 until his death
in July 1981. Mrs. Kostecky
requested that con-fbufions
given in John’s
kfiory be designed for the
new medical office. The
hospital is in the process of
recruiting a physican for the
Rothsville area.
The new medical office
will be built on a 1.2 acre
tract of land purchased from
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Landis,
and will be constructed from
blue prints developed by J.
Roy Wise, Inc. Contractors
will be Walter Bollinger, Jr.,
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Victor S. Messina, left, president of Ephrata Community Hospital (ECH), and
Robert L. Bensing, chairman of ECH board of directors, dig the firs t shovelful of
d irt, symbolizing the beginning of construction of the new Rothsville Medical
Office. . . . *?■ - , .* •
Lititz Borough Councilmen
voted unanimously Tuesday
night to return two-way
traffic to Juniper Lane,
effective (today) Oct. 1.
Earlier this year, Council
had voted to amend the Lititz
Traffic Code to make
Juniper Lane one-way going
east from South Broad Street
to South Cedar Street and
one-way west from Church
Avenue to South Cedar
Street for a 90-day trial
period, beginning July 1,
1981.
Council’s earlier decision
was made in response to a
request from the Warwick
School Board which hoped to
relieve congestion at the
Lititz Elementary School
when parents dropped off or
picked up their children. The
primary reason for the trial
change was to secure more
safe conditions for the school
children.
The decision to make the
street one-way was met with
some opposition at that time
from r e s id e n ts and
businessmen in the area.
During September, the
traffic pattern on Juniper
Lane was reviewed by
members of Borough
Council and the Lititz Police
Department.
“1 didn’t see any harm (in
having one-way traffic),”
Councilman Donald C.
Stauffer concluded Tuesday
night. "On the other hand,”
he added, “I didn’t see a lot
of good.”
Stauffer then made a
motion to restore Juniper
Lane to two-way traffic
permanently, effective Oct.
1. The motion was seconded
and approved unanimously.
Stauffer suggested that
Council may want to con­sider
erecting a "no left
turn” sign on Juniper Lane
at Broad Street sometime in
the future.R
ec Center
In other action Tuesday
night, Borough Council
approved a request from the
Lititz Recreation Center to
conduct sonar geological
testing on a site west of the
municipal pool to determine
if the location is suitable for
construction.
Earlier this year, Council
had denied a request from
the Recreation Board to
conduct standard geological
testing because of the
proximity of the site to the
borough wells. Council
members also feared that
drilling or blasting might
harm the borough’s water
table.
Council President C.
Wendell Hower stressed that
the councilmen were
granting permission for
sonar testing only, and that
permission for testing does
not mean the borough in­tends
to give the land to the
Rec Center.
Warwick Township
“That’s aB we’re asking
for...your approval to test
the land at our expense with
no damage to the land," Rec
Center representative Craig
Wagaman acknowledged.
Council members ex­pressed
opposition to any
future use of blasting at the
site.
"Even if (there’s just a
minimum of blasting...I’d be
opposed to it,” Councilman
Stauffer said Tuesday.
Rec Center director Jerry
Kiralfy told council mem-
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With The Supervisors
The Warwick Township
supervisors announced
Thursday night that a public
hearing will be held at their
October 8 meeting on the
proposed 1982 Community
Development Program
funded through the Lan­caster
County Redevelop­ment
Authority.
In answer to three
questions from Robert
Sharkey, 326 Owl Hill Road,
James Whitmyer, chairman
of the board, answered that
“yes,” a township police
officer had written a letter to
the editor of the Record
Express concerning the
burglary of Bob’s Save-Rite
Market on Route 501; “yes,”
the supervisors had asked
him to withdraw the letter;
and “no,” the officer was not
threatened with the loss of
his job if he didn’t comply
with the request. The
supervisors noted that the
request to withdraw the
letter was made because of
the on-going investigation
into the burglary.
Mr. Church, 115 Mayfield
Dr., asked the supervisors if
they ever receive any
compliments for the work
they are doing and stated
that “he’s tired of all the
petty remarks made.” He
noted “what a nice place
Warwick Township is to live
in.” He also asked the
supervisors about the
parking problems in his area
of the township.
In other business, the
supervisors:
• Announced that the
Rothsville Halloween parade
will be held Friday, October
30.
• Announced they are
waiting for a formal request
from the State Police before
they make a formal request
to the state to lower the
speed limit on Lexington
Road.
• Agreed to advertise for
bids on anti-skid materials
and roadways and to open
the bids on Oct. 22,1981.
• Unanimously voted to
have Warwick Township
enter into an «agreement with
the Warwick Township
Municipal iAuthority for
purchase and rental of the
addition to the municipal
building. The initial
payment is to be $75,000. The
remaining payment of
$117,000 is to be paid over the
next ten years at 9.355
percent annual interest.
One-third of the utilities will
be paid by the Authority to
the Township, plus $7,392
annual rent for square
footage allotted for office
and machinery space.
In This Issue
Obituaries, Births 2
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Classified _ 15,10,17
Manheim News 20,21,24
Church 26
Business Directory 28
Warwick Whirrs and Hums with th e
Lititz Police Investigate
Accidents, Burglaries
Bicycle thefts, burglaries
and accidents have kept the
Lititz Police busy during the
past week.
Chief George Hicks
reported that Lititz Police
investigated a burglary
September 15 at 11:15 p.m.
at the home of Natalie
Miller, 530 N. Water St. He
said that the victim reported
hearing people outside the
apartment then heard them
enter the apartment while
she was upstairs. Chief
Hicks said that she reported
that she heard the per­petrators
downstairs, then
saw two young males run
across the lawn. She
reported $47 in cash stolen
from her purse.
Kathy du Planti, 69 N.
Water Street, was the victim
of a theft September 26 when
a sum of $55 cash was stolen
from a dresser in the
bedroom. Chief Hicks
reported that the house was
locked and there was no sign
of forced entry.
The theft of a bicycle was
discovered September 23,
having occurred between
September 18 and 23. The
victim, according to Chief
Hicks, was Larry Stauffer
and the 27 inch boys Schwinn
bike, repainted white with a
black seat, black tape on the
handle bars, and green chain
lock wrapped under the seat
was stolen from a shed on
the Stauffer property at 209
EL Main St.
Ruth Hutchinson was the
victim of a bicycle theft,
Chief Hicks said, when the
blue boys Ascot ten speed
bike, parked in front of 430
E. Main St. was stolen
September 25. He reported
that it was subsequently '
recovered.
A boys Huffy Santa Fe ten
speed bike, white with brown
stripes was stolen from the
front porch of Carol Egolf,
344 E. Main St., sometime
between September 25 and 26
according to police. The bike
is in new condition and has a
light on the front with a
generator.
An accident occurrred
September 25 at 8:12 a.m. on
East Main Street near Broad
when Benjamin M. Neideigh
Jr., 224 Hickory Drive,
legally parked on East Main,
opened his car door into the
path of a vehicle driven by
D o ris K ilts , 2155
Harrisburgh Pike, Lan­caster.
Neideigh was cited for
opening and closing vehicle
d o o rs. D am ag e was
moderate to both vehicle and
no injuries resulted, police
said.
The intersection of Front
and Water Streets was the
scene of an accident
resulting in minor injuries,
September 28 at 7:51 a.m.,
police said.
The vehicle driven by
Wanda L. Lines, 1935 Larch
Ave., East Petersburg, had
stopped at the stop sign then
proceeded into the in­tersection
and collided with
the vehicle driven south on
Water Street by David Alan
Heffner, 1426 Dridge Hill Rd.
According to police,
damage was severe to both
vehicles.
Barry Lee Longenecker,
Lititz R6, was cited Sep­tember
22 for a traffic light
violation.
By Mildred Spear
We are living in the age of
the computer/electronics,
from TV games, to magazine
subscriptions and sweep-stakes,
right up to the advent
of the home computer...the
machine that nestles next to
your refrigerator and helps
you budget, make grocery
lists, pay bills and take
messages.
Warwick School District is
whirring and humming
along with the times, having
added an IBM 34 System to
its work force, as well as the
complimentary copier, and
the machine is being
operated successfully with
no additional staff.
The decision to buy the
computer was based on over
11 months study with the
Legal and Finance Com­mittee
being advised by an
Ad Hoc Data Processing
C om m itte e fo rm e d
specifically to investigate
the worth of owning a
Emergency-911
Lititz Borough Police
Chief George C. Hicks
would like to remind
everyone that the
quickest way to obtain
EMERGENCY SER­VICE
for FIRE -
POLICE — AM­BULANCE
is to dial the
EMERGENCY teleph­one
number “911.”
All you need to do is
state your need to the
person answering and
he will dispatch the
appropriate agency to
assist you. However,
don’t panic, and be sure
to give your name, and
the àddress to which the
emergency personnel
should respond.
F o r p o lic e a d ­ministration
business,
call the number 626-
0231.
Remember - ah
EMERGENCY call on
the number 911 can also
be made on any pay
telephone WITHOUT
the deposit of coins.
F o r an y
EMERGENCY-“Dial -
911.”
computer - as opposed to
continuing to use the ser­vices
of a data processing
bureau which was proving
unsatisfactory, finding
another data processing
service bureau, or farming
the work out to a bank or
business willing to accept
the application.
Following a year of study
by the Ad Hoc Committee, a
recommendation was
brought to the Warwick
School Board meeting in
December of 1980, to award
a bid for the purchase of an
in-house computer. The
recommendation was based
on investigation, review and
study. The Ad Hoc Com­mittee
was comprised of
local citizens with a
knowledge of the data
processing business.
The investigation was
revealing and painstaking. It
is anticipated that the
district will save 60 to 70
thousand dollars over the
next five years.
Prior Service
For the past three years,
the school district paid for
the services of Pentamation,
subscribing to a full service
package which included
payroll and accounting;
personnel; scheduling,
grading and attendance; and
census and per capita tax
billing.
The system operated on a
"batch, feed” approach. The
information was prepared
by the district personnel on
data sheets, transported by
van to the IU and then on to
Pentamation’s Bethlehem,
Pa., offices. (To “batch
feed” a computer is to put a
quantity of information
through it at one time rather
than item by item or line by
line.)
In 1980, Pentamation in­formed
the district that that
would be the last year that
the “batch feed” service
would be available to school
districts and would also be
the last year that free van
service would be provided to
deliver the forms to Pen-tamation.
There would also
be additional charges.
Districts transporting in­formation
to Pentamation
would pay $6 per trip and the
company would also start
marketing an in-house
micro-computer tied by
telephone to a master
computer in the Bethlehem
offices.
It was at this point, that
the services provided by the
company came under the
scrutiny of the district, the
Ad Hoc Data Processing
Committee and the Legal
and Finance committee and
what Dr. Bonfield kindly
calls, the "less than
desirable service level” was
brought forcefully home.
DP Needs and Options
The d i s t r i c t ad-ministration
was the first to
study the needs and options
of the district and concluded
that any data processing
system must provide timely
and accurate financial in­formation,
complete payroll
service and analysis, a
personnel reporting system,
and provide for cost and
inventory control. Ad­ditionally,
the system should
have the capability to
complete required financial
reports and payroll reports.
It should be flexible for
additional applications, lend
itself for frequent updating
and be cost effective.
The most important factor
seemed to be that the system
should not require the hiring
of a programming staff. Cost
of any additional staff was
NOT budgeted for the 81-82
school year and the data
processing system in
Warwick is working because
current staff members have-learned
to operate the
machine so that they can do
the jobs they were doing but
with the computer making
those jobs easier in the long
run.
Based on a detailed review
of the options and additional
cost data, it was decided to
recommend the con­sideration
of * an in-house
computer system for
Warrick School District.
The Ad Hoc Committee
The Ad Hoc Committee to
investigate the expenditure
to an "on-site” computer,
included John Bowman,
Kathy Ibberson, Gaylord
Poling, Jeff Tennis and Ron
Tweed. The members
agreed to study the matter
and bring their findings back
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Rothsville Fire Company Holds
House Next Week
The Rothsville Fire Company will hold its annual
Open House Monday, October 5 through Friday,
October 9 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Open House
will coincide with Fire Prevention Week and be in
conjunction w ith the fire company’s fund drive.
There will be firemen available to answer
questions and give tours, demonstrating the uses
of the equipment. The public is invited to drop in
any night. There will be a drawing Friday evening
for a new smoke alarm, given by the fire company.