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Record Express Photo/Kathleen King
Pausing in the middle of rehearsals are the cast members of “Mary, Mary",
front row: Anne Marie Lusk, Mary Jane Trump, Bill Oehme; back row: Andy
Brubaker and Spencer Keasey.
Curtain Rises On
'Mary, Mary’ Tonight
'By Kathleen King
I t will be a
beautifully, tastefully
appointed apartment,
but for the present the
furniture consists of
only metal folding
chairs, placed here and
th e re to simulate
couches and lounge
chairs.
A large stepladder
looms in the background
and the walls are bare
plasterboard. The sound
of hammers echo
through the deserted,
dark auditorium.
In spite of the
background noise, and
distraction of having the
set built right around
them, the actors run
through the first act.
They pick up imaginary
g la s s e s from an
imaginary table and
walk out imaginary
doors, all while student
director Anna Kirk
prompts them if they
get stuck on a line.
Director Joe Centini,
sitting in the empty
auditorium, watches the
a c tio n with con­centration.
It’s the stage of
Warwick High School
and it will be the scene
tonight and Saturday of
the Drama Depart­ment’s
presention of
“Mary, Mary.” Curtain
time for this three-act
comedy by Jean Kerr is
7:30 p.m. tonight and 8
p.m. Saturday. There
will be no Friday per­formance.
By then there will be
real tables, real doors
and real glasses on
stage, and people in the
auditorium.
“ M ary , M a ry ’’,
Centini says, is a play
about a separated
couple who, at the
beginning of the play,
are on the verge of
divorce. Sophomore Bill
Oehme plays Bob, the
soon-to-be ex-husband.
He is a publisher who is
en g a g ed to th e
beautiful, and very rich,
Tiffany Richards,
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Shenenberger Is Named
Patrol man/Detective By Jennifer Shenk
Lititz Borough police of­ficer
Charles Shenenberger
has been designated
“patrolman/detective” to be
assigned to special in­vestigations,
prosecutions,
arrests and court time by the
borough police department.
With the new designation
which became effective Jan.
3, Shenenberger, a 15-year
veteran of the Lititz police
force, will now be assigned
to p la in c lo th e s in ­vestigations
in addition to
the routine patrol duties
which he will continue to
serve in uniform.
The 42-year-old officer will
be assigned the majority of
criminal investigations in
the borough, a move that the
mayor and police chief hope
will prove to be time-conserving
for the Lititz
force.
“This will save time in
court and over-time in­curred,”
Police Chief
George Hicks said, ex­p
la in in g th a t sin c e
Shenenberger will now be
handling most criminal
cases, from the initial in­vestigation
right on through
to filing the arrest, he will be
making the majority of court
appearances for the borough
police department.
“In any investigation, if
there’s any arrests to be
made, I’ll be filing them and
following them right on
th ro u g h to c o u r t,’’
Shenenberger explained,
adding that with the actual
physical arrests, he would
have the assistance of the
rest of the department.
Hicks added that there will
be times when the other men
on the force will have to
appear in court as witnesses,
but not as often as in the
past.
The new patrolman/
detective designation will
also “give much more
flexibility” to the officer,
Hicks said.
“Investigations no longer
are limited to the borough,”
he explained, pointing out
that cases may take the
investigating officer outside
the borough into Lancaster,
for example. Since the man
working as patrolman has to
operate within the borough,
any investigations outside of
Lititz had to be done after
completion of routine patrol
duties.
“ (Shenenberger) will be
assigned to investigations
which may involve more
than a day or two, and he will
follow them through from
start to finish,” Hicks said.
Murder Probe Continues
State police were con­tinuing
their investigation
this week into the Jan. 6
slaying of Penryn fuel oil
dealer Leo W. Bahn who was
shot to death in his home.
The 68-year-old Bahn was
found lying in a pool of blood
late last Thursday afternoon
in his home at Newport and
Penryn roads. An autopsy
revealed that he died from
more than one gunshot
wound to the back of his
head.
Funeral services were
held for Bahn in Manheim on
Tuesday. He was buried in
the Penryn Cemetery.
Police this week were
continuing to interview
Penryn residents and
customers of Bahn. They
were trying to reach anyone
who saw or talked to Bahn
between 5 p.m. on Wed­nesday
and Thursday
morning in an effort to
establish the time of his
shooting and to determine if
he had been upset or
threatened and may have
told a customer about it
before his death.
According to police, Bahn
is known to have been seen
alive late Wednesday af­ternoon.
Revenge and robbery were
two motives being con­sidered
in the case, in­vestigators
said.
Bahn lived alone in the
large, two-story frame house
at the northwest corner of
the crossroads in Penryn. He
had been divorced several
years ago from his former
wife Olga. He is survived by
a daughter Terri and a son
David, Allentown.
Record Express Photo/Jermifer Shenk
Officer Charles Shenenberger will investigate most of the borough’s criminal
cases as the Lititz Police Department’s first “patrolman/detective.”
Shenenberger agreed on
the time-conserving benefits
of his new designation.
“I’ll be able to follow-up on
the m a jo rity of in­vestigations,
which you
couldn’t do while on patrol
duties,” he said. “You could
be conducting an interview
and be interrupted for
calls.”
These in terru p tio n s
proved not only to be time-consuming
for the police, but
also could be annoying to
individuals being in­terviewed;
who might have
to be contacted repeatedly
for questioning until the
interview could be com­pleted.
The new designation will
also free Shenenberger for
surveillances, without in­terruptions
for patrol duty
calls.
According to Chief Hicks,
Shenenberger was chosen
for the patrolman/detective
designation based on his past
performance, interests and
contacts in the community.
“This is something I’d
always wanted to do,”
Shenenberger said of police
work. “I enjoy meeting
people, talking to people.”
Having lived in the Lititz
area for the past 30 years,
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 5,6,7
Classified 8,9
Social 14,15
Church 16
Business Directory 17
Edward J. Ivey, 319 E.
New St., Lititz, rejoined the
Lititz Police Department
this week as a part-time
patrolman following a four-year
leave from the force.
Ivey served as a full-time
patrolman with the Lititz
police for four years, from
1974 to 1978.
Shenenberger feels he has a
good rapport with the people
of the community, especially
the younger crowd.
“I really enjoy the kids of
Lititz—I feel we have a bunch
of real good kids,” he said.
“They call me ‘Shenny’ and I
don’t mind. That’s what
they're comfortable with.
They know they can rap with
me.”
Because of his relationship
with the young people of
Lititz, an area of particular
concern to Shenenberger is
drug abuse.
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He was sworn in Tuesday
by Lititz Mayor Raymond S.
Reedy.
Ivey Is employed full-time
by ITT, Harrisburg. Ac­cording
to Lititz Police Chief
George Hicks, 20 hours a
week have been allotted to
the part-time patrol duties.
Ivey Rejoins Lititz Police Force
Lititz Public Library Runs On The Love Of Volunteers By Mildred Spear
What do a dietician,
several teachers an artist,
an army retiree, a nurse, a
research chemist and a shop
owner have in common?
Love! In this case, love of
the Lititz Library and love of
working with people. They,
among others, are the
volunteers that make the
library function for the
public.
Mrs. Eugene Steffy,
recording secretary to the
Library Board and “leader”
of the volunteers laughingly
explained, “We’re a mixed
bag, alright! We may be the
most varied list on paper
anywhere.
“We are an awful lot of
characters, but the volun­teer
system works at the
Library because we are all
devoid of pretense... we
respect each other’s in­dividuality.
We all love each
other and we aren’t critical
of each o th e r.” she
described friendships that
have grown from the
Libarary work.
Mrs. Steffy talked about
the loyalty and devotion the
volunteers have for the
Library and a feeling of
esprit de corps began to
emerge. There is a list of
people who want to become
library volunteers and it is
with emphasis that Mrs.
Steffy explained, “Every
adult except the head
librarian, Donna Hammond,
who is state certified, is a
volunteer.”
To Be A Volunteer
In general the volunteers
at Lititz Library are retired
or have grown children.
“They must have a genuine
desire to serve the public
and they must enjoy the
Library,” Mrs. Steffy said of
the ’’requirements.”
The students work one full
year for free but after that
year are eligible for a $2 an
hour payment, since the
Library is a non-profit
organization.
The Library is open 40
hours a week and is fully
staffed by 24 adult Volun­teers
and five students.
Duties for 'the Library
workers include manning
the charge desk, signing
books in and out; reading
and dusting the shelves, and
helping with reference work
(“not call ins,” Mrs. Steffy
stated firmly. “That can tie
up a worker too long, but we
will tell people who phone
what is available for them to
come in and look through.” )
The volunteers are also the
ones who get the non-catalog
books ready for the shelves
by putting the pockets and
cards in them, keep a list of
books to be purchased ac­cording
to the requests that
come in, and call people who
have overdue books.
“ E v e ry b o d y does
everything,” Mrs. Steffy
pointed out. “Because we
are a small library everyone
needs to know every phase.
And it takes a long time to
train somebody.”
The volunteer training
program has been eased
through the work of Mrs. G.
Dale Cartwright and Mrs.
Carl Workman, Mrs. Steffy
said. “Mrs. Cartwright
wrote a very detailed and
e x c e lle n t p ro c e d u ra l
manual, and Mrs. Workman
did guidance sheets for the
new volunteers. She con­densed
the procedure
guidelines and compiled
brief (guidelines) that will
be mimeographed this
week.”
The volunteers also find
their own niche in the work
to be done.
Kay Schuman is the book
repairer, working quietly
with her paste pot to make
sure that Lititz Library’s
books are as good as new
each time they leave the
charge desk. Mrs. Rohrer
and Mrs. Workman take
“that lousy shift” from 3 to 9
p.m. on Fridays. Fred V.
Anderson, the only male
volunteer among the staff
members, Ruth Frederick,
Barbara Knowles and
Kathryne Bork are but a few
among the volunteers who
tirelessly work for the
Library.
History
Lititz Library was founded
in 1935 and according to Mrs.
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The stately old home at 302 S. Broad St. was presented by the and upstairs there are two rentable apartments. The Broad
Adam Batdorf estate in 1965 for use as the Lititz Public Library. Street location was the final destination for the Lititz Library
The downstairs of the home was made into the library proper after many moves.