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LITITZ SPORTS
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Agreement Reached On Rothsville School Conditions
Township Legal Dispute With HDC
Appears To Be Near Conclusion
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The Lititz Sports Center moved to its present location in 1971 and offer a wide
selection of sporting goods from hunting and fishing supplies to students’
athletic equipment, swimming, tennis and golf goods.
Lititz Sports Center
Is 18 Years Old This Month
Editor’s note: This is the
second in a series of articles
to acquaint our readers with
our local retailers. The third
article will appear next
week.
The Lititz Sports Center,
47 East Main Street, is 18
years old this month and
-since its beginnings in 1964
its proprietor, Jack Lange,
has seen many changes in
the sporting goods field and
in the shop.
Lange opened the Lititz
Sports Center when he was
just five years out of college.
He holds a degree in elec­trical
engineering from
Penn State, but said he was
between jobs then and
wanted to be his own boss —
“part of the great American
dream.”
He enjoys hunting and
fishing and sports activities,
getting into the business he’s
. in because of that. “It’s like
“We were first' To c a ^ iSr''“i^ l '"laying, ‘Just because
41 E. Main St.,” he said, you like wine doesn’t mean
you should buy a winery.’
That’s applicable,” he
laughed. “I love hunting and
fishing, but those are the
busiest seasons here" and I
have to burn the candle at
both ends (to enjoy the
business and the hunting) .”
In addition to providing a
wide selection of items for
“and moved to the present
location in 1971. This used to
be the lobby of the (movie)
theater, and of course the
theater itself was where the
parking lot is now.” The
Franz de Merlier murals
pointed for the theater lobby
are still an added attraction
in the shop.
the sportsminded shopper,
Lange also offers hunting
licensing as a customer
service. “It’s a maze of
paperwork but it doesn’t
confuse us since we work
with it daily.
“We are about on the
average....have sold about
500 licenses so far this year.
We deal with up to about 1500
or so licenses a year, but
some people buy more than
one.”
The shop is constantly
adding and dropping lines to
provide customers with the
things they ask for. “It’s
amazing how something new
comes along and before you
know it you’re carrying it,”
Lange pointed out and
suggested running shoes as
an example. “They aren’t
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The Warwick Township
S u p e rv is o rs a g re e d
unanimously Thursday
evening to a change in a
condition set forth by the
township’s zoning hearing
board in its July 7th decision
on the Rothsville School
project.
That decision, specifically
condition 11 of the decision,
was under appeal by the
Housing Development
Corporation (HDC) of
Lancaster County in the
Lancaster County Court of
Common Pleas.
During Thursday night’s
re g u la r semi-monthly
meeting, Steve Wallace,
chairman of the board of
supervisors, said that after
discussion with HDC’s at­torney,
Warwick Township
so licito r William C.
Crosswell recommended
that the township agree to a
change in condition 11 and
that HDC and the township
withdraw from all suits and
appeals.
According to the super­visors,
HDC is willing to
agree to all conditions set
forth by the ZHB’s July 7th
decision with the exception
of condition 11.
The condition, was written
by the ZHB on July 7, said:
“HDC shall, at its cost,
correct any water supply
problem suffered or oc­casioned
by property owners
whose wells are situated
within 700 feet of the well of
HDC provided said problem
is attributable to the
removal of water from the
well of HDC. The imposition
of this condition is not in­tended
to limit, restrict or
diminish any cause of action
or remedy which any party
may have whose well or
property lies either within or
outside of the specified 700
foot area.”
Acting on Crosswell’s
recommendation, the
supervisors agreed Thur­sday
night to the following
change:
“The foregoing condition
shall not be deemed to limit,
restrict, diminish, impair or
otherwise a ffec t any
statutory or common law
rights or remedies either in
law rights or remedies either
in law or iniquity which any
person or entity, including
the Township of Warwick,
may have as a result of the
withdrawal by HDC, its
successors; and assigns, of
water from the well(s)
s e rv in g th e s u b je c t
premises.”
According to Crosswell, if
the township or its residents
suffer a loss as a result of the
withdrawal of water from
HDC’s wells, they would
have the right to seek
redress for that wrong, but
they would have to deter­mine
if they have a viable
condition.
“We’re not talking in
terms of any distance,”
Crosswell said this week.
“From HDC’s point of view,
it takes the whole issue of
damage to people’s wells out
of the realm of zoning. In
other words, it would not be
a violation of zoning.”
On Thursday night’s
meeting, supervisor William
Hazlett commented, “As far
as 1 can tell, we’d have a
hard time proving HDC
responsible (for damage to
wells in the 700 foot area). ”
The 700-foot condition was
the major point of contention
between HDC j and the
township, according to
Crosswell, who added that
by approving the change, “it
appears we (HDC and the
township) have resolved the
legal differences that
existed.”
Supervisor Lloyd Rohrer
said Tuesday, “If both
parties agree to the change,
in all probability the project
for the Rothsville School will
go through.”
Edmund Ruoff, president
of HDC, was unavailable for
comment at press time.
Secretary-Treasurer
In other action Thursday
night, the supervisors voted
to employ the services of a
full-time secretary and
treasurer for the township.
Hazlett, who currently
serves as se c re ta ry -
treasurer for the township,
informed the board that he
will not be able to continue in
that capacity, though he will
remain on the board through
December 1985.
Supervisor Lloyd Rohrer
said that the action came as
a result of a consensus
among the board members
that a supervisor should not
hold that position.
The b o a rd a g r e e d
unanimously to advertise for
the position of township
secretary and treasurer,
effective Jan. 1.
Crossing Guards
The supervisors approved
the hiring of two substitute
crossing guards for the
township.
The board also adopted a
resolution Thursday night
recognizing an educational
service agency as the
township’s “ agency for
management and control of
the school crossing guards.”
The purpose of the action,
according to Hazlett, is to
prevent crossing guards
from applying for unem­ployment
compensation
from the township when they
aren’t working.
Witnesses
Sought
Warwick Township
Police Chief Harry
Aichele has requested
that any person who was
a witness to the accident
in Rothsville Sunday
afternoon that took the
life of a 6-year-old boy
should contact the
police department at
626-8882.
Witnesses should also
stop in at the depart­ment
which is located in
the Wajrwick Township
Municipal Building, 315
Clay Road.
’Old Barbery Square’ Sign Denied
Applicant To Appeal Zoning
Hearing Board’s Decision
Members Refuse To Work Overtime
Wilbur Chocolate Requests
Injunction Against Union Slowdown
Wilbur Chocolate Com­pany
Inc., filed a complaint
in equity Sept. 10, against
Bakery Confectionary and
Tobacco Workers In­ternational
Union, AFL-CIO
464, asking for a preliminary
injunction against the union
which has allegedly created
a slowdown situation at the
North Broad Street factory
by refusing to work any
overtime hours.
Wilbur claims in the
complaint that the union as
defendant and its members
are in disregard of the
current contract which
states that during the term
of the agreement there shall
be “no strikes, lockouts,
slowdowns, stoppages of
work, picketing or sitdown
strikes of any kind, sym­pathy
strikes by any party or
any action of a similar
nature.”
The hearing set for
Monday (Sept. 13) turned
into a legal conference in
judge’s chambers. Judge
Ronald Buckwalter, who
was to have heard the case
Monday, did not appear in
court.
Tuesday at noontime,
Wilbur president John
Buzzard notified the Record
Express that “the meeting is
off,” in reference to the time
and place of the postponed
hearing.
Buzzard had said earlier in
the day that both courts
(common pleas and federal)
have precedents for hearing
a case of this type, but
“when both courts have
precedents, the case is
usually passed to the senior
court, in this case, the
Federal Court.”
Union attorney, Leonard
S p e a r, P h ila d e lp h ia ,
believes, according to Union
President Everett S. Miller,
that the case should be heard
in the federal court rather
than in the court of common
p le a s and b egan
arrangements Monday to
have the case moved from
Lancaster County Cour­thouse.
“We should use the
grievance machinery.”
Miller said.
Wilbur Chocolate a t­torney,
Richard Nuffort
said, “In essence the eight
page complaint in equity
alleges that the union
members at Wilbur have
caused a work slowdown by
refusing to work any
overtime hours.”
Nuffort explained that
Spear madeseveral motions
for dismissal of the case due
to lack of jurisdiction, at the
courthouse Monday. “We
(Wilbur) opposed the
motions and we prevailed,”
Nuffort said.
‘‘Judge Buckwalter
deferred the case for one day
and there is a petition for
removal from the state court
to the federal Court, by the
Union attorney.
The case must now be
deemed acceptable or not for
the Federal Court and the
case is deferred until that
decision is made.
Nuffort said, “We had
hoped to proceed in the state
(court) because we felt it
could be handled faster. We
thought the union would face
(the case) on its merits, but
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.“I’m definitely going to
appeal. I’m angry and hurt.
Everybody that comes into
the shop thinks the sign is
beautiful. The sign meets all
the qualifications of the
zoning regulations, but the
decision made by the Zoning
Hearing Board was based
solely on the personal tastes
of the Historical Advisory
Committee.” This statement
was made by Mrs. Francine
Krebs after Monday night’s
Zoning Hearing Board
(ZHB) meeting.
At that meeting, which
was delayed for a t least 30
^minutes until a board
member could be called to
attend in order to make a
quorum, the ZHB denied for
the second time Mrs. Kreb’s
request for a special
authorization to the Zoning
Ordinance. Her first request
was denied at the ZHB’s
August 2 meeting.
Mrs. Krebs has asked the
ZHB fo r a s p e c ia l
authorization in order to
erect a 40-inch by 29-inch
sign which would be dropped
from a porch roof in front of
her hair-styling shop at 6 S.
Broad St., which is in the
Office and Professional
District in the Historical
Area. The sign is made of
stained glass. It has a ruby
background with white
lettering, medium blue
border, corners accented in
pale green, is framed in
natural oak wood and lighted
Within by two 15-watt
fluorescent blubs.
According to Kenneth
Wiest, borough business
manager, and Russell
Pettyjohn, borough coun­cilman,
Mrs. Krebs reap­plied
following the August
meeting and was given
permission to hang the sign
on a conditional, temporary
basis. ZHB member John
Reidenbaugh, however, said
he was not aware of any
conditional approval given
to Mrs. Krebs. He said her
first request was denied
because of inadequate in­formation,
and that she
made a second application
for a hearing.
At Monday n ig h t’s
meeting Mr. Jerry Schaech
represented Mrs. Krebs. He
presented a photo to the ZHB
which showed the actual sign
as it is now hanging. Mrs.
Charles Eshelman, chair­man
of the ZHB, asked the
Historical and Architectural
A d v iso ry C om m itte e
(HAAC) for its opinion, after
first explaining to Schaech
that although the ZHB asks
th e HAAC fo r its
suggestions, the board is not
bound to accept them and
that, in the end, it is the ZHB
that must make its decision
based on the evidence
presented.
Dr. Byron Horne served as
spokesman for HAAC and
stated that although the
committee did not meet as a
group they are "all of the
opinion that a stained glass
sign is not compatible.” He
added it is too large and
cannot be made compatible
He also stated that (the
HAAC) thought that “the
colors are not in harmony
with the bricks of the
building.” Horne said the
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Auction To Be Held Sept. 18
Brethren Volunteers Work Near And Far
To Provide Relief To Disaster Victims
'Back To School Night’
Scheduled For Parents
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I n T h is Is s u e
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 15,16
Classified 12,13
Church 20
Business Directory 21
“Back-to-School Night”
be held Thursday,
September 23, in the War­wick
Senior High School for
parents of ninth, tenth,
eleventh and twelfth grade
students.
Purpose of the program
will be to acquaint parents
with th e ir ch ild ren ’s
teachers, their school and
their academic program.
Parents will assume the
regular Thursday class
schedules of their own
youngsters and go from
class to class in abbreviated
periods of twelve minutes
each. During each period,
te a c h e r s will mak e
presentations relative to the
subject they teach.
The program will begin at
7 p.m. with a short meeting
in the cafeteria. At 7:12 p.m.;
parents will go to their first
period classes.
This program is not only a
chance for parents to meet
their children’s teachers, but
also an opportunity to be
informed regarding the
subjects taken by their
children.
LITITZ LIONS
HALLOWEEN
PARADE
The annual Lititz
Halloween P arad e
sponsored by the Lititz
Lions Club has been
scheduled for Monday
evening, Oct. 25.
Announcement is
being made at this time
so that persons or
groups interested in
entering the event can
make plans for par­ticipation.
Cash prizes will be
awarded by the Lititz
Lions Club to marchers
in the four judging
categories: Children’s
D iv isio n , Group
Division, Float Division,
and Adult Division.
Please note that there
is no judging or prizes
awarded for “Com­mercial”
entries and
th a t th e y a re
discouraged from en­tering.
Rain date for the
parade will be Tuesday,
Oct. 26.
The sixth annual Church of
the Brethren Disaster Relief
Auction' will be held
Saturday, Sept. 18, at the
Lebanon County F a ir
Grounds, off Route 72, just
north of Lancaster County
line.
All proceeds from the
auction go directly to beneift
disaster victims in the U.S.
and around the world. The
annual auction of the Church
of the Brethren was founded
six years ago in an effort to
raise money for the Brethren
Emergency Disaster Fund,
a nationwide project of the
Church of the Brethren to
help disaster victims around
the world.
Last year, over $166,000 of
this fund was spent to help
floor victims in Ohio,
Montana and West Virginia,
to aid refugees in Indochina,
El Salvador and Somalia,
and to send food and supplies
to Poland and other parts of
the world.
The goal for the 1982
auction is $50,000.
Features at this year’s
auction will be nearly 80
handmade quilts, arts and
crafts, household goods, and
more.
A complete menu of
homemade food will include
roast pork and barbecued
chicken dinners, sand­wiches,
chicken pot pie,
so u p s, fre n c h f r ie s ,
homemade ice cream,
caramel corn, pies, cakes,
cookies and more.
The Volunteers
Volunteers from the
Church of the Brethren work
year round in support of the
Disaster Relife program,
both at home and at the
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Bill and Anna Mary Bredthauer, 206 S. Spruce St., Lititz, gather a collection of
the ir handmade crafts to be sent to the sixth annual Brethren Relief Auction at
the Lebanon Fairgrounds this Saturday. Both retired, the Bredthauers remain
active in the Disaster Relief Program through donations of Bill’s woodwork and
Anna Mary's crocheted ornaments.
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