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CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, August 9,1984
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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 Pages-No. 20
May Call Special Meeting
Elizabeth Township Supervisors
Squabble Over Bid Advertisements
Members of the Lititz and Neffsville fire com- plant, 60 Wright Ave., Lititz, Tuesday. The firemen
panies await the arrival of a hazardous material were called to the scene when a barrel of solvent
response team at the Forry Hacker Inc. printing started fuming.
Fumes Leak At Printing Firm
The drum, containing an industrial solvent known as Rapid Solv 2, is kept
under close watch until the team arrives. Apparently the solvent underwent a
chemical reaction to parts of arijlymihum pump, forming hydrochloric acid andl
potentially explosive hydrogen gas.
Chemical Lititz Fire Company was
called to assist neighboring
Neffsville Fire Company
Tuesday morning with a
potentially dangerous
situation involving a drum of
industrial solvent which was
emitting fumes.
According to Lititz Fire
Chief H. Richard Neider-myer,
the companies were
called to the facilities of
Forry and Hacker, 60 Wright
Ave., Lititz, located in a new
mini industrial mall off of
Koser Road in Manheim
Township. The printer called
the fire companies to assist
in the disposal of a drum of
Rapid Solv 2, a solvent used
by the company to clean
presses of oil-based material
used in the printing process.
The drum of solvent,
composed of naptha and
methlylene chloride, was
discovered emitting fumes
by a Forry and Hacker
employee. According to Kurt
Bieber, plant manager, the
employee, George Beheba,
37, of Lititz, was later taken
to Lancaster General
Hospital as a precautionary
measure, when he com­plained
of feeling ill.
However, he required no
treatment and was back on
the job Wednesday, Bieber
said.
According to Kurt Elmer,
assistant fire chief of the
Neffsville Fire Company,
the solvent underwent a
chemical change, ap­parently
reacting to a pump
which contained some type
of non-ferrous metal.
Elmer said the reaction
produced free hydrogen,
which was potentially ex­plosive
and hydrogen
chloride, an irritant to the
skin and respiratory system,
which becomes hydrochloric
acid when mixed with water.
If the chemical reaction had
occurred “fast enough” the
drum of solvent might
possibly have ignited, Elmer
said.
Elmer said the fire
companies responded about
8:15 a.m. after a police of­ficer,
called to the scene by
the printing company,
determined that the fire
company should be there.
“The fire company almost
always handles a hazardous
material situation because it
has the breathing apparatus,
etc,” Elmer said.
Elmer said the printing
company had apparently
bought the pump at the
recommendation of a sup­p
lier other than the
manufacturer of the solvent,
which is known to react to
aluminum. The pump had
been in use for nearly a year
with no previous problem,
Elmer said.
The heat and humidity
apparently contributed to
the chemical reaction,
Elmer said.
C o n ta c t was made
Tuesday morning with the
manufacturer of the solvent,
Tower Chemical Company of
Easton, Pa., which sent a
hazardous disposal team
from Delaware Container
Company in Coatesville to
pick up the drum, Neider-myer
said.
The fire companies were
on the scene about four hours
until the disposal team
arrived, Neidermyer said.
Lititz responded with 20
men, two trucks and the air
truck to assist Neffsville’s 15
men and two trucks,
Neidermyer said. About
half-way through the
morning, one Lititz truck
and some of the men were
sent back to the fire hall, he
said. The Manheim Town­ship
Ambulance also stood
by, and transported the
Forry and Hacker printer
who became ill.
Following lengthy and
som e tim e s h e a te d
discussion Monday night, the
E liz a b e th Township
supervisors decided to delay
action on proposed roadwork
in the township until they
have seen the specifications
for materials and work
currently being prepared by
their engineers.
A disagreement arose
Monday between the
supervisors over whether or
not to authorize Huth
Engineers Inc., Lancaster,
to advertise for bids for the
repair of four township roads
included in a road inspection
report submitted by the
engineers at the supervisors’
July 2 meeting.
At the July meeting the
supervisors had accepted a
road inspection report on
Long Lane, Crest Road,
Webster Hill Road and
Hershey Road from Huth
Engineers. The supervisors
at that time authorized the
engineering firm to do ad­ditional
studies on Long
Lane and Crest Road and to
prepare specifications and
bid documents for the repair
work on the four townshp
roads as listed in the report.
Huth Engineers submitted
their report on Long Lane
and Crest Road, indicating
that they did not recommend
any changes to their initial
inspection report findings,
but informed the supervisors
that they would not have the
specifications prepared until
later this month, the
supervisors said Monday.
Supervisor and road-master
Jay R. Ober told the
board Monday that he
thought they should allow
Huth Engineers to proceed
with the advertisement for
bids.
“My feeling is if we let
Long Lane and Crest Road
go another year, we’ll have
to rebuild the whole road,”
he said Monday. “I think it’s
a mistake to wait this long.”
Supervisor Rodney May
told Ober, “I get the feeling
you’re trying to rush
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something through,” to
which Ober replied, “I’m not
trying to rush anything
through...I don’t care if we
don’t get anything done.”
Larry Wiker, chairman of
the board of supervisors,
said Monday that he was
concerned about both not
seeing the specifications
from Huth Engineers before
they are advertised and an
agreement with a township
landowner whose property
may be affected by the
roadwork.
The engineer’s proposal
for the improvement of a
dra in ag e and erosion
Two Warwick Township
drivers were involved in a
head-on collision early
Monday morning, resulting
in one of them being tran­sported
to Lan c a ste r
General Hospital, according
to Warwick Township
Police.
Jeffrey S. Adams, 19, of
1003 Union House Road, was
transported to Lancaster
General Hospital by War­wick
Ambulance for
tre a tm e n t of wounds
sustained to the face in the
12:20 a.m. collision ac­cording
to police.
Police said the accident
occurred when Troy L.
Graffius, 18, of 20 Snyder Hill
Road, was traveling north on
Brunnerville Road, ap­parently
took his eyes off of
the road and went off of the
berm. In an attempt to get
back on the roadway
Graffius apparently over­steered
to the left. He hit the
southbound Adams’ vehicle
head on, which had veered
from his lane in an attempt
to avoid hitting the Graffius
car, police said.
According to police, the
Lititz Fire Company also
provided assistance at the
scene.
Graffius was charged with
reckless driving, having no
insurance ca rd, and
operating a vehicle without
an official certificate of
inspection, police said.
Adams was charged with
problem on Long Lane in­cludes
the installation of a
plunge basin on the town­ship’s
right-of-way and the
property of John Farrington,
Speedwell Forge Road,
according to Ober.
Ober said Monday that he
had received a verbal
agreement from Farrington
to go ahead with the work.
He added that Farrington
had contacted the Soil
Conservation Service about
a grant to cover part of the
cost of the basin. The SCS
will not make a decision on
the grant until Aug. 20, Ober
said.
driving on the incorrect side
of the roadway, police said.
A three-car crash Friday
afternoon at 2107 Main St.,
Rothsville, resulted in minor
injuries and automobile
damage.
Police said Claude M.
Grube, 45, 1404 E. Newport
Road, was traveling east on
Route 772, and struck the
rear of a vehicle operated by
Neal David Reichard, 22,118
Owl Hill Road which was
stopped for traffic. The
Reichard vehicle in turn was
pushed into a third vehicle
driven by Gardner F.
Rhodes, 49, 2107 Main St.,
Rothsville.
Rhodes was stopped,
waiting for traffic to clear to
make a left hand turn into
his driveway.
Grube was charged with
reckless driving.
All injuries, according to
The Warwick School
District will conduct a
k in d e rg a r te n bus
orientation program for
a ll k in d e rg a r te n
children and their
parents on Wednesday,
Aug. 29.
The o r ie n ta tio n
program will be held in
the auditorium of the
“I’m a little leery about
going ahead with this
without seeing something in
writing,” Wiker said,
referring to Farrington’s
agreement and the ad­vertisement
for bids. “The
feeling I get on it is we’re
buying something without
seeing it,” he added.
May agreed, saying, “you
can’t turn down the bids
because the specs you ad­vertised
weren’t what you
w a n te d ...it’s too late
then...you’ll look like a...”
“I personally would like to
re a d th em (th e
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Driver
Collision
police were treated at the
scene. Reichard complained
of pain in his leg, and his
wife, Barbara Ann, who was
a passenger in the car,
complained of head pain.
The Reichard and Grube
vehicles were towed from
the scene of the accident and
the Rhodes car was driven
from the scene.
A third accident reported
this week occurred on Route
772 at Rome Mill Restaurant
on the night of August 1.
A vehicle driven by Holly
L. Shaffer, 19, 313 Owl Hill
Rd., was hit from the rear by
a car driven by Scott Joseph
Driscoll, 21,421N. Cedar St.
Ms. Shaffer and Michael
Tshudy, a passenger in that
vehicle, which is owned by
Barbara Ann Tshudy, 215 E.
Main St., complained of neck
injuries but refused medical
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Warwick Middle School
beginning at 9 a.m. The
program will include
the viewing of a shori
bus safety film, as well
as a brief bus ride for
th e k in d e rg a r te n
youngsters. Members of
the administrative staff
will be present to an­swer
parent questions.
Warwick Township
Injured In Head-On
Warwick Offers Kindergarten
Bus Orientation Program
A r t i s a n R e b u i l d s T h e C h a r m O f H i s t o r i c L i t i t z I n M i n i a t u r e s
By Karen Belber
If you happen to see a
young woman outside
sketching or wildly snapping
photos of your home, par­ticularly
if you’re an historic
homeowner, don’t despair.
It’s only Sue Ann Leed, 24, a
local craftswoman who is the
creator of charming, wooden
miniatures, whose sketches
and prints provide the
necessary details for the
miniature reproductions.
The Old Towne Antiques,
Johannes Mueller, Moravian
Square and Barbery shop
buildings are but a few of the
several historic structures in
Lititz that Sue Ann scales
down to Lilliputian-size.
“People go bananas over the
M o rav ian S q u a re
(miniatures),” she said.
Bananas or not, the craft is
second nature to Sue Ann,
whose father, Jay Stauffer,
is a well-know pewter maker
in Elm.
Her family, she said, is
extremely supportive of her
work, which has now become
so time-consuming that she
decided to leave her auditor
position with F.R. Schreiber
on Furnace Hills Pike after
three-and-a-half years.
She said that her husband,
Ray, has been wanting her to
pursue the craft for a long
time now. The two have been
married for about two years
and Ray also is a wood­worker
in his own right.
Their modest home at 329
E. Main St., is decorated
with sev e ra l antique
reproductions Ray has built,
including a unique Shaker
design candle holder.
Sue Ann’s hobby started
about two and a half years
ago, at her family’s urging.
She’d taken art classes in
high school and was brought
up in a craftsman’s en­vironment,
so the wood­working
and painting
process, she said, really
comes naturally for her.
Most of her work is
commissioned by word of
mouth and a lot of people she
deals with, she said, take one
of each building. Right now
she’s got about 12 houses
which she reproduces on a
regular basis. “I’ll make one
new one a month,” she said.
There’s no real order to
which house comes first.
Usually, she said, she
chooses the most requested
structure.
“I’ll reproduce anyone’s
home. But I more or less
stick with the historical
ones.
“One woman wanted the
garage, the house, and the
whole bit,” she added.
With a table saw, a ban
saw and sanders, Sue Ann
goes to work on two-by-fours
in her backyard workshop.
“It’s an assembly line
process,” she said. After
handcutting, the wooden
m in ia tu re s then are
decorated authentically with
a c ry lic p a in t. Some
miniatures, she mentioned,
require more detail than
others. So the time she
spends on each house varies.
The houses are intricately
designed, each with definite
characteristics: chimneys,
dormers, and Palladian
windows adorn many of the
wooden reproductions. Tiny
paint brushes are used for
acrylic application.
Most of the miniatures,
she said, sell for about $15 to
$20.
She’s now in the process of
establishing this hobby as a
business. “I’m working now
on a fictitous name,” Sue
Ann said.
She plans to take her
talents to Williamsburg, Va.,
in the fall, and present her
miniatures tot he historical
societies there. She also has
plans for historic Marietta.
For now though, Sue Ann
is busy preparing for the
annual sidewalk Lititz
Rotary Craft Show this
Saturday. “I’ll exhibit about
100 houses this year,” she
said. She also hopes to have
Over 500 Entries In Craft Show
Craftspeople and
artisans from 197 cities
and towns will
c o n g re g a te h e r e ,
Saturday, August 11, in
the business district and
in the Lititz Springs
Park, to participate in
the sixth annual Lititz
Rotary Club Lawrence
I. Ruggiano Sidewalk
Crafts Show.
The craft show will be
in full swing from 9 a.m.
until 5 p.m. Saturday.
Well over 500 entries
have been accepted for
the show, in which
exhibitors from eight
states and the District of
Columbia are expected
to exhibit their crafts.
The crafts show, held
in cooperation with local
retailers, is believed to
be the largest one of its
kind around.
Last year, $5,000 of
the $7,000 earned, was
donated to the Lititz
Springs Park for the
repair of the park
pavilion roof. The
remaining $2,000 went to
the Rotary’s student
loan fund.
This year’s show
director is Tom Oehme.
The ra in d a te is
scheduled for August 25.
the same location as she had
last year in the park.
Her very first craft show
exhibition was the General
Sutter Christmas show two
years ago. Since then the
craftswoman has exhibited
at the Rotary show and the
Rec Center show, which will
be held again this year in
October.
If you spot the Farmer’s
Bank (Sutter’s house), the
Barbery shop or the
Moravian Church in
miniature, more than likely
you’ll have stumbled across
Sue Ann Leed’s Lilliputian
reproductions of historic
Lititz.
Sue Ann Leed has decided to make her hobby of
miniature woodcrafting a fulltime job. She’s in the
process of negotiating all the necessary details to
establish her business.
She's shown here with some of the miniati
houses of Lititz. Do you recognize them? Hint:
couple of the Moravian Square buildings «
pictured.