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New Warwick Township police officer John Flounlacker was the outstanding
marksman of his class at the State Police Academy, firing a 299 out of a possible
300. He said the best thing he’s found about working with Warwick Township
officers so far is being with people "who share a mutual dedication." His least
favorite aspect? The midnight-to-8 a.m. shift. “It’s crummy," he said.
Tony Russell, one of Warwick Township’s recent graduates from the State
Police academy in Hershey, said one of the most enjoyable aspects of his job is
the responsibility he has as a police officer. "When people ask for assistance, it’s
mainly your decision (as to) how things are going to go, ” he said.
Hearing Set In August
Rezoning Sought In Millway
By Julia Marshall
Tony Russell and John
Flounlacker, the newest
additions to Warwick
Township’s Police Depart­ment,
have a couple of things
in common.
For one, they each had the
boyhood ambition of
becoming police officers.
For another, they both took a
major step toward realizing
that dream on May 20 when
they graduated from the 12-
week Municipal Police
Officers Training Course at
the State Police Academy in
Hershey.
During their training, each
ea rn ed distinguished
records. Flounlacker, an
avid hunter, received the
Revolver Marksmanship
Award for firing 299 out of a
possible 300. Not far behind
was Russell, who fired an
impressive 291 despite the
fact that he’d never fired a
handgun before his training.
In addition, Police Chief
Harry Aichele said the pair
were among the top
graduates of their class at
the academy.
“We have their reports
back and they both are
outstanding scholastically.
They both appear to be real
intelligent young men and
I’m sure they’re going to do
a real nice job for us,” he
said.
The academy training
included coursework in
criminal law, vehicular
codes, weapons, physical
defense, handling domestic
calls, police history, traffi#
control, a c cid en t in­vestigation,
and a number of
other subjects. Students
who, lik e o ff ic e rs
Flounlacker and Russell,
lived at the academy during
the training, were also
subject to KP and cleanup
duties. Both officers in­dicated
that the latter two
subjects were definitely not
the highlights of their
training.
The actual classwork was
sometimes grueling, Russell
said.
“You’d sometimes sit in a
classroom for eight hours a
day, sometimes not leaving
the room except for 10-
minute breaks. In a course
like criminal code, you have
The Warwick Township
Supervisors were submitted
a petition to rezone ap­proximately
17 acres of land,
located in Millway, from
rural to industrial at their
regularly scheduled meeting
on June 8.
The supervisors accepted
the petition and scheduled a
public hearing on the
rezoning request for their
August 10 meeting at 8 p.m.
Petitioning the super­visors
for the zoning change
are Charles and Verna
Hevener, 34 Woods Drive,
who own a number of tracts
in the Millway area of
Warwick Township.
R e p re s e n tin g . th e
Heveners at last Wed­nesday’s
meeting was
Dennis Pierce, 2000 Old
Rothsville Road, vice-president
of the Farfield Co.,
which is situated on part of
the Hevener property.
“Our contention is that
this area has always been
Julia Marshall Joins Record Staff
Julia Ann Marshall of
Manheim has joined the
Lititz Record Express staff.
She succeeds Mildred Spear
who resigned to pursue other
interests.
Ms. Marshall, who holds a
journalism degree from the
University of Tennessee,
was formerly a com­munication
specialist for the
Tennessee Valley Authority,
a f e d e r a l a g e n cy
headquartered in Knoxville,
Tenn. While at TV A she was
responsible for the in­formation
and public
relations needs of the
Division of Air and Water
Resources.
Before joining TVA, Ms.
Marshall worked as a
reporter for The LaFollette
Press, a weekly newspaper
in LaFollette, Tennessee.
During college she was a
reporter for the University
of Tennessee Daily Beacon
and was selected as the
university’s outstanding 1979
journalism graduate.
A native of Hartsville,
Tenn., Ms. Marshall moved
to Lancaster County in May
to join her husband, Dave
Hopkins, who has
named news director
WLYH-TV.
been
for
textbooks and you start at
the beginning and read
every sentence, every page,
and an instructor explains
each law specifically and in
detail,” he said.
Flounlacker said the
academy instructors added
a dimension to this textbook
training, howèver.
“The instructors were all
very good and had lots of
expertise in their areas. If
you asked a question, they
could relate it to their own
experience,” he said, and
added that the physical
portion of the training was
not as demanding as he’d
expected.
Both the new officers had
some background in law
enforcement studies before
their academy training.
Russell, an Ephrata native
and graduate of the high
school th e re , studied
criminal justice at both
Harrisburg Area Com­munity
College (HACC) and
Alvemia College in Reading.
Flounlacker, a Refton native
and graduate of Lampeter-
Strasburg High School,
s tu d ie d p o lic e a d ­ministration
at HACC.
Despite this preparation,
31-year-old Russell said the
real study begins now.
“Most of your training
goes on when you come back
here. You really don’t begin
the job until you get out on
the street and start doing
in,” he said.
Flounlacker, 23, agreed,
and said that now that his
academy training is com-
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Carlton W. Busko, M.D., Lititz, is currently in the process of buying the
Rothsville Family Medical Office at 1810 Rothsville Road from the Ephrata
Community Hospital. He has announced plans to open the facility full-time after
July 5 when he takes on a partner, Dr. Thomas Weida of Lancaster. The medical
office was formerly operated as a branch of the Ephrata Community Hospital
with Dr. Busko staffing it on a part-time basis.
Announces Expanded Hours
Lititz Physician Takes Over
Rothsville Medical Office
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 9
Classified 10,11
Church 16,17,19
Business Directory 18
By Jennifer Shenk
A little over a year after its
opening, the Rothsville
Family Medical Office is
changing hands.
Carlton W. Busko, M.D.,
Lititz, who has staffed the
Rothsville office since it first
opened in March 1982, is in
the process of buying the
facility from the Ephrata
Community Hospital.
Located on a one-acre
tract at 1810 Rothsville Road
near the Route 772 in;
tersection, the Rothsville
Family Medical Office was
built by the Ephrata hospital
as a branch to serve the
Rothsville community.
Dr. Busko, who had taken
over Dr. Franklin Cassel’s
family practice in Lititz late
in 1980, was “recruited” by
the Ephrata Community
Hospital to staff the
Rothsville office on a part-time
basis.
As of July 5, Dr. Busko
plans to open the Rothsville
office full-time, while
maintaining his “more than
full-time” practice in Lititz.
In order to do that, he will
be taking on a partner -
Thomas Weida, M.D., who is
currently finishing his third
year residency in family
practice at Lancaster
General Hospital.
“Tom’s been working with
me for three months at the
-Lititz office,” Dr. Busko
said, adding, “the patients
love him.”
The two physicians will
"share the two offices,” Dr.
Busko said.
“We have a general family
practice, all ages, from the
tiniest infant to geriatrics.
We serve the nursing homes,
deliver babies, plus
m a rria g e and family
therapy,” Dr. Busko said.
His wife B a rb a r a ,
daughter of the late Dr. Ruth
Moore of Ephrata, currently
does family and marriage
counselling at the Lititz
office and may soon be of­fering
counselling at the
Rothsville office, too.
"We’re very oriented
toward ‘p rev en ta tiv e
medicine’ — exercise,
nutrition, physicals, nipping
the disease in the bud before
it develops into something
more serious,” Dr. Busko
explained. ‘“Stress’ is also a
big factor in illness - that’s
where Barbara comes in”
During - last week’s in­terview
at the Rothsville
office on his “day off,” Dr.
Busko was called to the
telephone twice by the
beeper he wears on his belt.
“It’s like this all the time,”
he said, laughing. “I believe
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Julia Marshall has joined the editorial staff of the
Lititz Record Express.
industrial,” Pierce said this
week. “Millway was an
industrial town before the
adoption of the township
zoning ordinance. We’d like
to have it (the 16.67-acre
tract) rezoned to in­dustrial.”
In their request to have the
tract rezoned from rural to
industrial, the petitioners
stated that “the majority of
the area to be rezoned
consists of land presently
and validly occupied by
industrial establishments,
pursuant to nonconforming
uses, for the past 30 years. ’ ’
Currently operating as
“non-conforming uses” in
the rural zone are Jaden
Electric, a division of the
Farfield Company, a stove
manufacturing company,
and Columbia Gas Com­pany.
Pierce told the supervisors
that there are only a few
residences in the area and
presented to the board a list
of signatures of landholders
joining in the petition.
A c co rd in g to the
petitioners, this section of
the township “is isolated
from the rest of the township
by geographical features”
including a creek and a
railroad line.
The petition stated that
“the placement of an in­dustrial
zone in this section
of the township will not in­terfere
with other permitted
development in surrounding
areas.”
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Solemn and ceremoniously, the Class of ’83
marches to their seats during the opening
processional. Friends and relatives line up along
the field to snap their favorite senior as he or she
takes up a position on the field.
Class Of ’83 Graduates
Under Cloudy Skies
Under threatening skies
and with a brisk, chill breeze
flapping caps and gowns, 231
Warwick High School
seniors graduated at the 27th
annual commencement
exercises held at Grosh
Field, on Thursday, June 9.
The class of 1983 presented
an oil portrait of retiring
principal Harold Swisher as
its class gift to the school.
The painting will be hung in
the high school library.
Swisher, in accepting the
gift on behalf of the school,
said that he was more
nervous than the graduation
class.
Graduation speakers for
the event were Douglas
Hess, Joyce Eppig, Laura
France and Karen Cooper.
-The graduation went off
without incident, although
one senior girl was slightly
injured when a mortar­board
cap, one of many
tossed up at the ceremony’s
end by her class mates, hit
her on the head. The War­wick
Ambulance was called
to the scene but the injury
was listed as minor.
No mention was made of
the 21 seniors who were
barred from graduation
because of their violation of
school rules on the senior
class trip to Williamsburg,
Va., earlier this month.
Commencement awards
presented at graduation are
as follows:
The valedictorian award
was presented to Laura
France, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen France, by the
Warwick Township Lions
Club. It was a wrist watch
with appropriate engraving.
In addition, a $25 savings
account was given by First
Federal Savings & Loan of
Lancaster.
The Sico Foundation
Scholarship, in the amount
of $4000, was awarded to
Beth-Woodley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Woodley, Glen Weaver, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Weaver, and, Mary Jane
Trump, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Trump.
A full scholarship to the
United States Military
Academy at West Point was
awarded to Peter Sload, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Sload.
A $750 scholarship award
was presented to Julie
Downing, daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. Gerald Downing, by the
Farm and Home Foundation
of Lancaster County, based
upon scholastic achievement
and leadership ability.
Armstrong World Industry
offers a scholarship each
year to children of em­ployees.
The scholarship is
$2000 for four years. The
winner from Warwick High
School was Karen Cooper,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Alan Cooper.
A check for $25 and a
plaque are presented by the
Lititz Lions Club to the
outstanding graduate in the
areas of English, Science,
Math, and Social Studies.
They were presented to
Karen Cooper, outstanding
english student; Laura
France, outstanding science
student; Maria Anderson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Anderson, out­standing
math student; and
Joyce Eppig, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Eppig,
outstanding social studies
student.
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