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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages-No. 37
Warwick School Board Reorganizes,
Owens Elected President
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eginning this week the Lititz Post Office, working with the Lancaster County
Office of Aging, will offer a "Carrier Alert” service to elderly and handicapped
postal customers in the Lititz Area.
Meeting at the local post office last week to discuss final plans for the program
were (front row, from left) Lititz Postmaster Gene Rohrer; Betty Jacobs, Carrier
Alert coordinator, Lancaster County Office of Aging; (second row) Chip Martin,
president of the Lititz Rotary Club, the local sponsoring agency for the program;
John Badorf, the local post office’s liaison with the Office of Aging; (third row)
Lititz Police Chief George Hicks; Sgt. Gerald Szmurlo, Pennsylvania State Police,
Ephrata barracks; and Warwick Township Police Chief Harry Aichele.
Through Carrier Alert Program
Local Mailmen Deliver
Peace Of Mind
By Jennifer Shenk
Beginning this holiday
season, elderly and han­dicapped
persons living
alone in the Lititz area will
be offered a special gift by
the local post office. They
will be offered the gift of
p e a c e of m in d ...th e
knowledge that a friend is
looking out for them.
Starting today, Dec. 8, the
Lititz Post Office, working
with the Lancaster County
Office of Aging, will
distribute registration forms
for its new “Carrier Alert”
program.
Carrier Alert is a volun­tary
program designed to
bring help to the home of
those who register when an
accumulation of mail is
noticed by their le tte r.
carrier.
A pile-up of mail could
mean an elderly or han­dicapped
person is in trouble
and needs help. Participants
in the Carrier Alert program
will fill out a registration
form, including their name,
address, telephone number
and the names of persons to
be contacted in case a
problem arises.
The registration forms will
be kept in confidential files
at the Office of Aging. Par­ticipants
in the program
must agree to pick up their
mail on a daily basis and to
notify the local post office if
they plan to be away.
Letter carriers will be
notified of which mailboxes
belong to Carrier Alert
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The Warwick School
Board met Tuesday to
reorganize for the coming
year.
William G. Owens, 218
Swarthmore Drive, was re­elected
president. Wallace
B. Hofferth, 212 E. Second
Ave., was re-elected vice
president and Gaylord E.
Poling Jr., 119 N. Cedar St.,
was elected treasurer.
New board members
sworn in Tuesday were
Gerald Downing, 339 E.
Second Ave., William
Flickinger, 17 Longenecker
Road, and Louise Kauffman,
325 Speedwell ForgeRoad.
The board reappointed
Roger Reist of Shirk, Reist
and Posey as its solicitor for
the coming year. Poling was
named to serve a one-year
term as the b o a rd ’s
representative to the Lan­caster
County Tax Bureau
with David Zerbe as alter­native.
The board named Ruth
H u sse r as Vo-Tech
representative, and Louise
Kauffman, as alternative,
for a three-year term.
Mrs. Husser will also
serve a three-year term as
W a rw ick ’s IU#13
representative.
Committee Assignments
The Warwick School
Board’s 1984 committee
assignments are as follows:
Committee of the Whole
(meets the first Tuesday of
each month) - All board
members; Jerry Shupp,
recorder.
Student Activities (second
Thursday) - Bruce Holland,
chairman; Gerald Downing;
Thomas Logan, recorder.
Building and Property -
Wilson Smith, chairman;
William Flickinger; George
R. Remetz, recorder.
Finance and Legal
(second Thursday) - Gaylord
Poling, chairman; Wallace
B. Hofferth; Robert Heron,
recorder.
Legislative - Ruth Husser,
chairman; Gaylord Poling.
Personnel - Wallace B.
Hofferth, chairman; all
board members; Gary
McCartney, recorder.
E d u c a tio n ( second
Monday) - Ruth Husser,
chairman; Louise Kauff­man;
Stephen Iovino,
recorder.
Meet and Discuss - Bruce
Holland.
Guidance Counselor
representative - Ruth
Husser.
Meetings
The board meetings will
continue to be held the third
Tuesday of each month at
7:30 p.m. All but four of the
board’s 1984 meetings will be
held in the Warwick High
School board room. (The
March meeting will be at
Kissel Hill Elementary;
April at John Beck; October
at Lititz Elementary; and
November at the Warwick
Middle School.)
Committee of the Whole
meetings will be held the
first Tuesday of each month,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the
high school.
Class Trip
Plans for the senior class
trip were discussed by the
Committee of the Whole
following the board’s
reerganizational meeting.
Jay Harry of Bon Voyage
Travel, 221 N. Lime St.,
Lancaster, presented to the
board an itinerary for the
senior class’s proposed trip
to Boston, Mass., on May 25,
26 and 27.
“The itinerary is a little
more packed than last
year,” high school principal
Stephen Iovino told the
board Tuesday. “There’s a
little less free time than last
year.”
The school board will take
action on the class trip at its
regular meeting on Dec. 20.
Vo-Tech Selection
The Committee also
discussed guidelines for
student selection for Lan­c
a s te r County a r e a
vocational-technical schools
at its meeting Tuesday.
John Bonfield, superin­tendent
of the Warwick
School District, presented to
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CHRISTMAS
TURKEY!
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TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
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, Contest open to anyone 18 years of
age or older.
Children under 18 are also eligible,
if accompanied by an adult.
One turkey per person. If a name is
drawn twice, a substitute winnerwill
be picked.
Register slips at any participating
merchant. No Purchase necessary!
Contest ends Sat., Dec. 10th
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Register At Participating Merchants - Winners Will Be Notified And
Announced In Dec. 15th Edition Of The LITITZ RECORD EXPRESS!
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bicycle World
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman's Restaurant
Bingeman's Texaco
Bob’s Save Rite Market
Bo-K Flower Shop
Commonwealth National
Bank
Den of Antiquity
Dori Mae Dress Shop
Farmer's First Bank
First Federal Savings & Loan
Glad Raxs Thrift Shop
REGISTER AT THESE AREA LOCATIONS;
Glassmyer's
Hamilton Bank
Hess Men’s Wear
Jeanne's Turquoise
Kelly's Deli
Kreidet Hardware Co.
Lippart's of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Record-Express
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger
Home Center
McCormick Travel Agency
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller Hess Shoe Outlet
The Pewter Mug
Rule’s Model Trains
Stauffer's of Kissel Hill
Sturgis Pretzel House
Sundae Best Ice Cream
Parlour
Trudi K Shop
Weis Markets (Lititz Only)
Westlake Furniture Outlet
White Shield Discount Center
Wilbur Chocolate Factory •
Candy Outlet
Wuischpard's Jewelry
Merv. Zimmerman Inc.,
Plumbing & Heating
Showroom
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In T h is Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Classified 14,15
Business Directory 21
Church 26,27
Local
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New members joining the Warwick School Board Tuesday were (from left)
William Flickinger, Louise G. Kauffman and Gerald Downing.
Holds Taxes At 10 Mills
Elizabeth Township
Adopts 1984 Budget
The Elizabeth Township
Supervisors adopted a
$191,612 budget for 1984 at
their regular monthly
meeting Monday evening.
Though the new budget
represents a $17,315 increase
over 1983’s budget, the
su pervisors held the
township’s real estate tax at
10 mills and the per capita
tax at $10.
The largest allocation in
the 1984 budget is $120,712 for
highways, an increase of
$8,890 over the 1983 figure.
The largest increase in the
1984 budget is in the $34,210
allocation for general
government expenses, an
increase of $10,910 over the
current year.
A total of $17,815 has been
allocated for protection of
persons and property, an
increase of about $7,000 from
this year’s figure.
The new budget also in­cludes
allocations of $1,300
for recreation, $14,675 for
insurance, and $2,900 for
social security tax and
unemployment taxes.
Revenues anticipated „ by
the township in 1984 include
$32,800 in . real property
taxes, $73,900 in local
enabling act taxes, $3,400 in
fines, $3,000 in interest
earnings, $3,500 in local
government grants, $10,000
for public safety (building
and sewage) permits and
$1860 for general govern­ment
services.
The township’s Federal
Revenue Sharing budget for
1984 totals $12,674. The 1984
general fund budget for
Elizabeth Township in 1984 is
$133,935.
The tax structure in
Elizabeth Township will
remain the same in 1984,
with real estate tax at 10
mills, per capita tax at $10, a
one-quarter of one percent
wage tax and one-half of one
percent realty transfer tax.
Other Business
In other action Monday,
the supervisors:
• Announced that Judge
Ronald L. Buckwalter,
Lancaster County Court of
Common Pleas, has ap­pointed
Miller and Miller,
CPA’s, 701 S. Broad St., to
audit the township’s ac­counts
for the fiscal year
ending Dec. 31,1983, at a cost
of $1,200 to the township.
• Awarded the 1984 con­tract
for the maintenance of
the traffic light at Route 322
and 501 to McMinn’s Asphalt
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Attempts To Contact Columbia
Ham Hears From Shuttle
By Jennifer Shenk
“This is Kilowatt, Alpha,
Three, Echo, November,
Papa.”
KA3ENP. CaU letters for
local amateur radio en­thusiast
Bruce Barr who was
one of hundreds of “hams”
trying to make contact with
astronaut Owen Garriott
aboard the space shuttle
Columbia this week.
Barr, who lives at 524 Pine
Hill Road in Brunnerville,
was able to pick up
Garriott’s transmissions
from the shuttle this week,
but will have to wait until the
shuttle lands and Garriott
has an opportunity to listen
to his tape recordings before
he will know if his tran­smissions
reached the
astronaut as he orbited the
earth nearly 150 miles out in
space.
“The chances of me ac­tually
making contact (with
Garriott) are as good as
anyone else’s,” an optimistic
Barr said this week.
Barr received Garriott’s
transmissions during the
shuttle’s 96th and 97th orbits
on Monday morning and
again, weakly, during its
129th orbit on Tuesday
morning.
G a rrio tt introduced
himself as “W5, Lima,
Foxtrot, Lima,” before
“ c a llin g CQ North
America,” ham’s lingo for
accepting calls from any
station listening in North
America, Barr said.
At 8 a.m. Wednesday as
the space shuttle passed
over the Eastern United
States in its 144th orbit, local
ham radio operators were
able to hear astronaut Owen
Garriott commenting on his
Amateur radio operator Bruce Barr of 524 Pine Hill Road, Brunnerville, at­tempts
to make contact with astronaut Owen Garriott aboard the space shuttle
Columbia. Earlier this week Barr recorded radio messages sent out by Garriott
during the space shuttle’s orbit over the Eastern U.S.
view,
“I have a beautiful view of
the ea st coast right
now...I’m having a hard
time keeping my eyes off the
window,” Garriott said,
before announcing that he
was standing by for more
calls.
Local hams had another
opportunity to try to make
radio contact with the
shuttle at about 2:43 p.m.
Wednesday when the shuttle
¡passed nearby directly over
Pennsylvania.
“He would be transmitting
down at every even number
of the hour, 8:40, 8:42, and
we would transmit up on odd
numbers,” Barr said.
Though Garriott did
confirm some of the stronger
signals over the radio, most
will be confirmed after the
astronaut listens to his
tapes.
Garriott, a ham radio
operator, is one of six
astronauts launched into
space aboard the space
shuttle Columbia on Mon­day,
Nov. 28. The crew is
scheduled to land at Ed­wards
Air Force Base in
California today.
According to Barr, the
astronaut took the amateur
radio equipment aboard the
space shuttle “to give
amateur radio the public’s
focus of attention... to get
those with an interest in
radio to be motivated to a
higher ground, a more
technical and experimental
plane.”
“Owen Garriott believes,
as do many hams, that
technical and electronic
advancements are the very
breath of life to this coun­try’s
survival,” Barr said.
“Amateur radio is only
a means to an end — a new
and young breed of eager
learners may experiment in
am a teu r radio, then,
amateur radio licensing,
completing the “novice”
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