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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY_ 22 Pages-No. 10
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At July 4th Ceremonies In Park
Twelve Seniors Vie For
Queen Of Candles Crown
The twelve candidates for
the 1984 Queen of Candles
Pageant have been an­nounced
by the Lititz
Woman’s Club.
They are Beth Ann
Eidemiller, Paige Renee
Hilton, Terri Lynette
Keasey, Susan Marie Lusk,
Lisa Anne Marcolina, Karen
Elizabeth Maurer, Tracey
Lynn Miller, Sheila Marie
Moody, Leslie Ann Parker,
Tracy Lynn Randall, Karen
Louise Samelko and Ann
Kathryn Yeager, all seniors
at Warwick High School.
The winner, chosen by the
senior class at Warwick, will
be crowned during the
Fourth of July ceremonies in
Lititz Springs Park.
Flower girl for this year’s
Queen of Candles pageant is
Elizabeth Anne Hamsher,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Hamsher, 610 W.
Third Ave.
Crownbearer is Jason
Nicholas Brown, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilfred Brown, 852
Cindy Lane. Both were
chosen from the kin­dergarten
classes of War­wick
School District.
Vying for the Queen of
Candles crown are:
Eidemiller
Beth is the daughter of Mr.
and M rs. R ich a rd
Eidemiller, 433 E. 28th
Division Hwy. She was class
treasurer in ninth grade,
class president in 10th grade
and Homecoming Queen this
year. She also participated
in track and basketball all
four years of high school.
Beth was chosen Student
of the Month during her
senior year.
After graduation, she
plans to attend Clarion
University of Pennsylvania
to study business ad­ministration
and marketing.
Hilton
Paige is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Hilton,
909 May Road.
She was on the track team
in 9th and 10th grades and
was also a member of the
tennis team for four years.
P a ig e h a s been a
cheerleader for four years,
servng as captain in her
senior year. She was a
member of the yearbook
staff during her junior year
and was in the Homecoming
Court this year.
After graduation, she
plans to enter the secretarial
field.
Keasey
Terri is the daughter of
Mrs. Donna Bucher, 26
Woodland Ave. She was
class vice president and a
homecoming representative
in ninth grade, was on the
track team two years and
hockey team for four years,
serving as co-captain as a
senior.
Terri was active in the
Varsity Club for three years
and served as club president
as a senior. She was also a
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For Borough Employees
Council Recognizes Union
Lititz Woman Sentenced
In Insurance Fraud Case
State Police Say Arson
Caused Guyon Fire
problem with congestion.
Mayor Raymond Reedy
said the police concurred
with Stauffer’s findings at
both intersections.
In other matters council:
• Authorized David R.
Anderson, director of public
works, to spend up to $425 to
buy the “ best mower
available” as a replacement
for one at the wastewater
treatment plant.
• Awarded a contract of
$36,634.25 to Highway
Materials, Inc., Lititz, to
resurface parts of Forney
Drive, East Main, South
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knowledge that Garner was
alive came last August in the
form of a phone call from her
brother-in-law in Lewistown,
NY, informing her that
Garner was coming to
Lancaster.
On his arrival in Lan­caster,
Garner moved in
with his niece, Mrs. Betty
Beck, at 916 Fulton St.,
Lancaster.
Not long after that the FBI
began an investigation into
Garner’s case, after which
Garner went to city police
and asked them to find out
what was happening.
According to police,
Garner said his boat had
capsized and he had gotten
lost, later joining a group of
French speaking fur trap­pers.
He later left the
trappers and moved in with
a daughter residing in
Denver, Colo.
His daughter reported him
to the authorities and he
moved back to Lancaster,
where he was questioned by
FBI authorities about the
insurance money.
On Nov. 13 Garner died of
a heart attack and his great
niece, Pamela Degler,
found his body in the living
room of her mother’s home.
Lititz Borough Council
T u e sd ay n igh t
acknowledged the borough
employees’ union and
agreed to petition the
P e n n sy lv a n ia L a b o r
Relation Board for joint
certification, therefore
eliminating the scheduled
June 1 union election.
C Wendell Hower,
oorough council president,
said the council saw “no
reason to make anything
more difficult.” He said that
"in order to establish rap­port
i with the employees)
and to create a good
bargaining atmosphere,”
council was recognizing the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers as the
employees’ co lle c tiv e
bargaining agent.
According to state labor
relations laws, the borough
has a right to require a
monitored vote, although it
has the option to waive a
vote by petitioning the PLRB
jointly with the employees
for certification of the
IBEW, Local 414 as the
em ployees’ co lle c tiv e
bargaining agent.
At a meeting held with the
PLRB, borough represen­tatives
and employee
representatives in April, 17
employee positions were
made part of the collective
bargaining unit.
Once the union is certified
the employees will then elect
their own union officers,
which include a chief
steward chairman, an
a s s is ta n t steward, a
recording secretary, and a
three-member executive
board to draw up the bylaws,
according to Joe DeLancey,
one of the borough em­ployees
who was involved in
the union negotiations.
Then the union will ap­proach
the borough to work
out the terms of a contract,
DeLancey said.
“Our main concern is a
benefits package, not
wages,” DeLancey said.
In another personnel
matter, Council accepted
“with very great reluc­tance”
the resignation of
borough business manager
Kenneth Wiest.
Wiest, who has been
business manager since
April 12, 1982, said he has
accepted a position with a
private corporation in
Lancaster County and would
continue to reside in Lititz,
but would be terminating his
employment with the
borough as of June 30.
“We’re not happy with
what you’re doing,” Hower
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Church 16
Business Directory 18
Classified 20,21
said, “but we wish you
well.”
In a discussion on borough
streets and traffic, council
said a suggestion by a
resident to install a four-way
stop sign at the intersection
of West Lincoln Avenue and
Liberty Street would not
solve the problem of
speeding there and would
make the situation only
more dangerous because of a
blind corner.
C ou n c ilm an Donald
Stauffer said he had studied
the in te rs e c tio n and
determined that the traffic
“does in fact move at a fast
rate of speed there.” He said
A federal judge Friday in
Harrisburg sentenced Betty
J . Garner, 49, of 115
Rothsville Station Road to 60
days in jail for her con­viction
on fraud charges for
collecting over $200,000 in
federal life insurance funds
after having her husband
declared dead when he was
still alive.
Judge William Caldwell
also ordered Mrs. Garner to
pay fines of $1,500, perform
400 hours of community
service work and make
restitution of $104,259.96 to
the federal government.
Mrs. Gamer was con­victed
by a federal grand
jury on April 10 on the fraud
charges. She could have
received a maximum sen­tence
of 25 years in prison
and $40,000tin fines.
L o c a l c o u r ts had
pronounced her husband,
Bernard Garner, dead in
June 1983, one year after he
disappeared during a fishing
trip in Canada.
Garner had worked for the
Navy Ships Parts Control in
Mechanicsburg and in June
1983, after he had been
declared legally dead in
Lancaster County Court,
Mrs. Garner collected
$205,000 in federal insurance
benefits. He later showed up
alive, but died in Nov. 13,
1983, of a heart attack in
Lancaster.
Throughout the trial Mrs.
Gamer maintained that she
did not know her husband
was alive until late last
August.
The prosecution contended
that Mrs. Gamer knew her
husband was alive more
than seven months prior to
her petitioning the court to
have him pronounced
dead.
Witnesses in the trial in­cluded
Garner’s three
daughters who gave con­flicting
testimony about
th e ir fa th e r ’ s disap­pearance.
Kim Row of Colorado
testified that Mrs. Gamer
having the police spend
more time on surveillance
might “slow traffic to a
more civilized speed,” but
that “Lititz is no different
than any other city, borough
or township in that all roads
and streets are used by
people and some people have
no regard for other people’s
rights.”
Stauffer also said a
request to eliminate left
turns from North Lane onto
North Broad Street would
not solve the problem at that
intersection, which he said
he saw as being the difficulty
to pedestrians trying to cross
North Lane, rather than a
knew her father was alive as
early as September 1982, but
two other daughters, Jane
and Lisa Gamer, Lititz,
cooroborated their mother’s
version of the events.
From earlier accounts, the
events surrounding the case
are:
Garner left his Rothsville
home on May 21, 1982 for a
weekend fishing trip in
central Canada. He flew into
a wilderness area near Lac
DuMoine, but when the plane
returned to pick him up, the
pilot found only Garner’s
capsized boat.
When an extensive search
failed to turn up Gamer,
police told Mrs. Gamer they
suspected a storm had
caused Garner’s boat to
capsize and that he had
drowned.
One month later Mrs.
Garner filed to collect her
husband’s insurance and on
May 27, 1983 she appeared
before Lancaster County
Orphan’s Court and got an
order declaring her husband
officially dead.
Later, she received
$205,000 in federal insurance
funds.
Mrs. Garner has main­tained
that her first
A fire which destroyed the
Guyon Industries, Inc. plant
May 19 was deliberately set,
a state police fire marshal
said this week.
State police fire marshal
Trooper David Fisher said
Tuesday there was “ a
conclusive determination of
arson” based on the fact of
“multiple points of origin”
and “supported by other
evidence.”
Fisher said the $250,000
fire is still under in­vestigation
by state police,
the Lititz Borough Police
Department and the Lititz
Fire Company.
Over 100 volunteer
firemen from five com­panies
fought the blaze
which broke out about 12:50
a.m.
The firm, which is owned
by Nationwide Energy
Corporation of Jenkintown,
manufactured rustic wood
products such as barn
siding, fencing and paneling.
It employed four people.
Summertime In Lititz: No Time To Be Bored
Editor’s Note: This is the
first in a two-part series of
a c tiv itie s and events
planned for the summer in
Lititz that children and
teenagers might find in­teresting.
By Karen Belber
Summer’s just about here
and you know what that
means — longer days and
your kids are out of school.
For those of you who haven’t
helped your child find the
perfect project yet, or
summer camp, or whatever
— keep reading.
Nothing to do? Nothing
doing.
Right here in Lititz there’s
a world of activities and
events planned; some for
young and old alike:
everything from theatre
programs and teen dances to
swim team and Vacation
Bible School.
VolunTEEN Program
Maybe your child’s not too
excited about pitching-in
around the house but could
be inspired to exercise
his/her energies in another
environment. The Lancaster
County VolunTeen program
is interviewing youth
volunteers, ages 12-19, in­terested
in working with the
elderly, the handicapped and
the Lititz Meals on Wheels
programs.
T h e re a r e s e v e r a l
recreational activities that a
VolunTEEN could help with
at Audubon Villa. Moravian
Manor needs someone to
assist with arts and crafts,
day trips and other various
duties and the United Zion
Home also offers op­portunities
for youths to
assist the staff with resident
activities.
Friendship Community
has a need for a volunteer to
provide leisure time ac­tiv
itie s for mentally
re tard ed adults and
teenagers. Those interested
should be at least 16 years-old.
If your teenager likes to
work in the kitchen, Lititz
Meals on Wheels could use
someone to assist with meal
preparation and various odd
jobs.
The Lancaster Volunteer
Service Center, under the
direction of Bonnie Light, is
interviewing VolunTEENS
for summer placement.
Interviews are being
conducted at 3:15 p.m. and
4:15 p.m., Wednesday -
Friday. All interested
youths, at least 12-years-old,
should contact the Lancaster
Volunteer Service Center.
And for those who are
registered and will have
contributed 20 hours or more
of service there will be a
VolunTEEN recognition
event in August.
The Rec Center
There’s something for
everyone this summer at the
Lititz Recreation Center.
“Fun is the name of the
g am e ,” according to
director Je rry Kiralfy.
There are a host of activities
available, including the
regular summer playground
at Lititz Springs Park and
; John Beck School, which will
be held June 25 through
August 16, from 1 - 4 p.m.
Friday field trips “will be
( the highlight of the week,”
I according to Jerry Kiralfy.
In addition to the regular
I playground schedule there
w ill be a m orning
j playground program June 25
I through Ju ly 5 at
Rothsville, Brickerville,
Kissel Hill, and Brun-nerville,
for ages 4-13. These
participants can join in the
two regular playground field
trips scheduled for June 29
and July 6.
Aerobicizers can get in on
the morning exercise
program that begins June 18
and meets every Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday
through August 8.
Rollerskaters can skate
their afternoons away
starting June 13 at Overlook
Roller Rink.
For BMXers the track will
be available daily to all
riders as long as they wear
proper attire and abide by
track rules. BMX races will
be held now, every two
weeks through October.
During the summer
evenings there will be a boys
and girls, ages 14-18,
basketball league, which is
made possible by the
Jaycees and the school
district, at the Jaycees
basketball court (Warwick
Middle School).
For kids, 4-13, who want to
learn to swim there will be
an aquatic program offered
at Lititz Springs Pool for six
weeks beginning July 9.
Registration will be ac­cepted
until June 20. There
also will be family night
swims for Rec members and
their families and tot swim
lessons and adult classes
scheduled.
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
at 7 p.m., from June 19-
August 9, there will be an
hour of invigorating exercise
offered.
For kids, 7-11, interested in
creative-play there will be a
workshop, in two sessions,
July 2-27 and August 6-24,
filled with playacting,
bookwriting, puppetry,
mime and roleplaying.
Children can enroll in both 3-
week sessions.
As part of the childrens’
summer theatre program,
the Rec Center is offering
free transportation to the
Ephrata Performing Arts
Center for all the Saturday
morning performances this
summer.
For schedules, fee and
registration requirements
and general information call
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School’s out...well, not exactly...but very soon it
will be and you know what that means - fun in the
sun and lots of leisure (and work) time.