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Looking ovF* plan? for conversion of the garage Curvin Smith, president of library board, Donna
into a reading roons at the Lititz Public Library, Hammond, librarian, and James Gibbel, board
are, from left, Nell Rohrer, board member; Dr. treasurer.
Library To Undergo $30,000 Expansion
For Community Development Funds
Supervisors Give Fire Truck
By Kathleen King
The Lititz Public Library
will undergo a $30,000 ex­pansion
program to convert
a garage into a reading
room, Dr. Curvin' C. Smith,
president of the library
board of trustees, announced
last week.
According to Smith, the
garage, which is attached to
the library building at 302 S.
Broad St., will be renovated
to make room for a quiet
area designed for reading
and research. Construction
is expected to begin within
the next 30 days and to be
completed by the end of
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The garage doors will be
replaced by windows, an
outside emergency exit will
be installed, and the floor
level raised slightly, Smith
said. The room will be ac­cessible
through the main
library.
In addition, some outside
painting and landscaping of
the garage area will also be
done, Smith said.
The lib r a r y b o a rd
awarded the contract for the
work to The Fields Company
of Lancaster, the lowest
bidder. Total cost for the
project, which includes
installing a fire escape for
the second story apart­ments,
will be $29,424, Smith
said.
The library board will then
have to spend about an
additional $10,000 for new
furniture and equipment for
the room, which will contain
some book stacks as well as
the reading area, Smith said.
The room will provide
working and reading area
for about 20 people, Smith
said.
Architects on the project
were Levengood Associates
of Lancaster, he said.
To finance the project, the
board took out a three-year
construction loan from
Farmers First Bank. Smith
said Farmers First gave the
library a very favorable
variable loan, which will
average about 13 percent
interest.
“We will probably have a
fund d riv e s ta r tin g
sometime In the fall,* ’ Smith
said, to help pay for the
construction loan and buy
furniture for the room. He
said the board has been
considering the idea of
allowing citizens to make
donations for a specific piece
of furniture, but formalized
plans for the fund drive had
not yet been made.
According to Smith, the
library relies almost totally
on donations and volunteers
to support it. He said the only
local tax money that goes to
the library is a contribution
from the borough and
Warwick Township. He said
this year the borough
donated $2,000 and Warwick
Township pledged $1,000.
“The library is part of the
Commonwealth’s system of
libraries,” Smith said. “We
come under the county’s
system, yet we’re an in­dependent
library. We own
the building as a corporation
and operate with our own
board of trustees.”
Smith said the library has
an “ excess of 10,000”
The P e n n s y lv a n ia
D e p a rtm e n t of E n ­vironmental
Resources is
still studying the application
of Gem Chem Chemical
Management Company to
operate a hazardous and
residual waste recycling
center in Lititz. A depart­ment
spokesman said late
last week that a final
decision will probably be
made by the end of August.
Gem Chem had applied for
a permit to operate the
recycling center at 140 Klein
Lane last fall. The company
proposes to take industrial
wastes, such as sludges, oils
and inks, and recycle them
into a fuel product.
At a public hearing con­ducted
by Lititz borough
council in March ap­proximately
50 residents
opposed the facility. Council
then sent a letter to DER
telling them that “there was
strong community op­position
to this particular
facility being located within
the borough.”
Robert Benvin, DER
facilities supervisor, said
volumes of its own, but has
access to “millions of books”
through the interlibrary loan
system.
DER still has “several
minor questions” on the
application and the process,
and will be sending some
comments to the company
‘ ‘within the next two weeks.’’
Benvin said the matters
concern the waste analysis
plan and procedure and are
“a few loose ends.”
Once DER receives a
satisfactory response from
Gem Chem on these
questions, DER will be in a
position to make a final
decision on the permit,
Benvin said.
At this point Benvin said
he did not see “ any
significant reason” to deny
the permit. “The comments
now a r e not r e a l
significant,” Benvin said,
“but we have not made a
final decision yet and we
won’t until we get these final
questions answered.”
If Gem Chem receives its
permit the company will be
able to immediately begin
construction of its facility
and then operation when
construction was complete,
Benvin said.
Warwick Township
Supervisors, at their regular
monthly meeting July 11,
authorized applications for
$475,000 in community
development funds to be
used toward a new fire truck
and a '50,000 water storage
tank for the proposed
Rothsville municipal water
system.
The supervisors, in their
decision to submit the ap­plications,
told Karen
Koncle, township ad ­ministrator,
to send a letter
to the Lancaster County
Redevelopment Authority
stating that the supervisors
felt the new fire truck had
the greater priority of the
two projects.
The decision to give a
priority to the applications
came at the suggestion of
D.L. (Steve) Wallace,
chairman of the board of
supervisors.
Wallace said he felt the
chances of the township
receiving grants for both
projects “weren’t too hot”
and he suggested letting the
Redevelopment Authority
know which project was
more urgent in the eyes of
the supervisors. Wallace
said he felt the fire truck for
He said that DER oversees
the construction phase “to
be sure it meets DER’s
standards... from an en­vironmental
standpoint. ’ ’
If the community or an
individual would object to
the permit issuance, they
could appeal it, Benvin said.
During the appeal process
the permittee could continue
to construct or operate the
facility unless the person
appealing got an injunction
from a court to stop the
construction or operation.
The appeal of the permit
would go to the En­vironmental
Hearing Board,
and independent appeal
board, Benvin said, which
would have the power to
overturn the permit. Benvin
said in the three years he has
been at DER, the several
cases that were appealed in
the southcentral region were
settled before they got as far
as the Environmental
Hearing Board.
He said the permittee
would also have the option to
appeal the permit if it did not
like the conditions placed on
the permit.
the Rothsville Fire Company
should have greater priority.
Several of the supervisors
disagreed with Wallace at
first, and a discussion on
“which came first, the water
or the fire truck” ensued.
During the discussion
Supervisor Robert Smith
said that “this whole thing
has been brought about
through HDC (Housing
Development Corporation)
— the water issue has
always been the biggest
argument.”
(The major argument by
the township against HDC’s
conversation of the old
Rothsville School into
apartments was the lack of
water in the Rothsville
area.)
“If there has to be priority,
in my opinion, it’s water,”
Smith said.
Municipal Authority
Operations Manager Ron
Nuss said the $275,000 grant
would reduce the Rothsville
water project by one-fifth.
Supervisor Pat Herr asked
that if the township receives
money for the water tank,
would that commit the
township to proceeding with
the water system. The
supervisors have only
authorized drilling a test
well and have not voted on
proceeding with the
Rothsville water system.
Wallace said the township
had to apply for community
development funds “before
they actually spent a
penny,” and that the grant
would not necessarily mean
the supervisors were going
to proceed with the project.
Smith and Herr then ex­changed
barbs over the
water system, Herr accusing
Smith of “changing the
figures” in determining
where the water system was
most needed and Smith
telling Herr that she was
“upset” because the Kissel
Hill area (where she lives)
had been eliminated from
the water system currently
under discussion.
“HDC is going to be
there,” Herr said. “We
fought it the whole way and
we lost. My concern now is
fire.”
Fire company president,
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Classified 14,15
Church 22
Business Directory 23
Dean Kissinger, reminded
the supervisors that the fire
company’s newest piece of
equipment was 25 years old.
“Things aren’t getting any
cheaper,” he said.
The fire company wants to
buy a new attack pumper,
which will cost ap­proximately
$200,000 to
purchase and equip.,
Kissinger said.
One supervisor asked the
fire chief, Claude Young Sr.,
how far the nearest source of
water was from the center of
town. Young said the pond at
Reiffs farm along Newport
Road was about a mile-and-a-
quarter away, but that
there were four cisterns in
town, each with a reservoir
of 35,000 gallons. He said to
reach the pond they use
The Warwick School
Board Tuesday night
awarded contracts for
micro-computer equipment
totalling $92,543 and the
replacement of sections of
the middle school roof
totalling $41,375.
A contract for micro­computer
equipment and
accessories to be used for
instructional purposes was
awarded Tuesday to The
Office Works, Lancaster, for
$75,824, in the second year of
purchasing in Warwick’s
th r e e -y e a r com p u te r
program.
The board awarded a
$12,000 contract to Micro-
Corn Industries, Inc., Paoli,
for micro-computer printer
switching devices, which
will allow the district to ,
hookup fiv e m ic ro ­computers
with one printer.
The switching devices will
save the district the cost of
buying printers for every
computer.
Also awarded Tuesday
was a contract for word
processing equipment for
the business education
program to E.N. Dunlap,
Inc., Lancaster for $4’927.
District, vocational and
federal funds will be used for
the purchase of the new
equipment, Dr. John Bon-field,
Warwick superin­tendent,
said Tuesday.
The board awarded a
$41,375 c o n tr a c t for
replacement of sections of
Priority
equipment from Leola’s fire
company to relay the water.
Wallace then made a
motion to write a letter to the
Redevelopment Authority to
consider both projects “as
paramount interest of the
board” but that if a priority
has to be made, the fire
truck has higher priority.
The motion passed
unanimously.
In other business the
supervisors:
• Accepted the resignation
of Donald E. Koser from the
municipal authority and
appointed Lester R. Andes,
345 Lexington Road, to fill
out the remainder of his
term. Koser is the third
member of the municipal
authority to resign in recent
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the Warwick Middle School
roof to low bidder G.L.
Kautz, Inc., Lancaster.
The board also awarded
contracts for cafeteria
equipment, totalling $7,480,
and draperies for the high
school c a f e te r ia ,
classrooms, office and
teachers’ lounge and John
Beck nurses suite, totalling
$8,618.
In other matters Tuesday,
the board:
• Approved the district’s
application for federal funds
as "follows: $81,466 for the
Title I Program, to provide
supplemental reading and
math in stru ctio n for
students in the elementary
and middle school; and
special education mini­grants,
$3,121 for “Rein­forcing
Language Arts
Skills” for elementary
resource room students, and
$2,896 for “Reading and
Thinking Skills” for
elementary EMR students.
• Accepted the district’s
final version of the Long
Range Plan and agreed to
submit it to the Penn­sylvania
Department of
Education for review and
approval.
• Hired Robin Miller, 35
Mulberry St., Lancaster, as
an elementary teacher;
Edward Hartman, 340
College Ave., Millersville, as
a part-time industrial arts
instructor at the middle
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Gem Chem Permit
Still Under Consideration
School Board Awards
Roofing, Computer
Equipment Contracts
N.Y.C. Kids Get A Dose Of
Fresh Air And Lots Of Love
By Karen Belber
For two weeks in July,
Ruth Martin really has her
hands full. And hopefully,
Marvin and Cory Price have
their stomachs full, because
the first morning of their two
week visit with the Martins,
the boys’ ravenous appetites
produced 24 pieces of cin­namon
toast — their favorite
at breakfast time. But they
did get a little help from the
seven other Martin kids.
Mrs. Martin said, though,
that it doesn’t stop there —
the boys are equally fond of
chocolate cake and shoofly
cupcakes.
The Price boys are
uniquely special to the Lloyd
Martin household. They are
second generation Fresh Air
children. Their mother,
Sharon, 25, had spent four
summers with the Martins
when she was a young girl.
The Fresh Air program
allows New York city kids
between the ages of five and
18, an opportunity to visit for
up to six weeks with a
country family, according to
Warwick chapter chairman
Mrs. Kathryn Zug. She said
the program, which is in its
108th year in Lititz,
flourishes in the “Colony
states”, from Maine to West
Virginia...Some 34 Lititz
families are participating in
the program this year, she
said. The Zugs have had the
same girl visiting them for
11 years.
The second two week
session is underway, with
the third one beginning July
31. Mrs. Zug said that she
would need only a few days
to make arrangements for
families or individuals to
have a child come for a visit.
“There are always children
able to be placed at the last
minute. And people can have
as many children come as
they can handle.”
Although this was Marvin
and Cory’s first visit with the
Martins, their family has
become a household name.
Not only did the Martins
have Sharon visit, but they
also had two of Sharon’s
sisters visit, too.
“Each year I send a
Christmas card to Sharon,”
Mrs. M a rtin s a id .
“However, the kids aren’t
too good about writing.”
Last year when Mrs. Martin
sent a card she extended an
invitation for the boys to
visit. “Sharon must have
responded that very day She
received the card,” because,
Mrs. Martin said, she got a
reply only a few days later.
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The kids take a break on a big innertube to get enjoyed Marvin and Cory Price’s visit. The boys
their picture taken, but the puppy is rarin’ to go. stayed for two weeks with the Martins as part of
Ann, Jonathon, and Michael Martin (left), have the Fresh Air program.