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CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, August 16,1984 ¿5 CENTS A COPY: $7.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
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At Sept. 12 Hearing
Warwick Township Supervisors
To Consider Marian! jzoning
Moravian Manor, Inc. has announced plans to build a
$800,000 addition which will include a chapel/multi-use area
and a daycare facility. No construction date has been set and
funding for the addition is currently being explored by a commit­tee
headed by Dr. Byron K. Horne, honorary chairman.
By Kathleen King
The executive board of
Moravian Manor, Inc., has
announced plans for a
$800,080 addition to their
facilities on Lemon Street
which will include a chapel
and a daycare center for
children of employees.
According to Dr. Byron K.
Home, honorary chairman
of the fund raising com­mittee,
for the addition,
“funding is being explored.”
No specific date has been
given for construction to
begin but Nancy O’Hara,
To Build Chapel, Daycare Center
Moravian Manor Plans
$600,000 Expansion
administrator of the facility,
said they “hope and pray” it
will be within a year.
Plans for the addition call
for a 6,821 square-foot chapel
area which will be used for a
variety of purposes in ad­dition
to worship.
Also a day care facility is
being planned for part of the
new wing to serve children of
employees and provide
intergenerational programs
for the residents and
children.
According to Mrs. O’Hara,
the cbspel had been in the
original plans for the Manor,
but it was not built because
of limited funding.
Over the years plans for
the chapel and its proposed
location have undergone a
number of changes, with the
board recently deciding to
build it to the east side of the
main entrance, Mrs. O’Hara
said.
The chapel will have a
Moravian steeple , a
traditional clock and room
for the trombone choir to
perform from the bell tower,
Mrs. O’Hara said.
Mrs. O’Hara said the
chapel is being built because
“we need a focus of what
we’re here for.” She said the
Manor is “not just a
business, it’s a ministry.
That’s the bottom line of the
whole thing.”
She said the Manor is
“here to serve people in a
personal, ca ring and
Christian community.”
The chapel will be used in
a variety of ways and will
not be set aside for worship
alone, Mrs. O’Hara said.
Permanent seats will not be
Rash Of Thefts Under Investigation
Car Stolen From Lititz Auto Lititz Borough Police are
c o n tin u in g th e ir in ­vestigation
this week of the
theft of one car and parts of
two others from the lot of a
local car dealer last Friday.
According to Lititz Police
Chief George Hicks,
someone stole a 1965
Chevrolet Nova two-door
and parts of a 1970 Chevrolet
Nova and a 1971 Monte Carlo
from the lot of Keller
Brothers Ford, 730 S. Broad
St.
The stolen car was
recovered by the Manor
Township Police Depart­ment
in a park in
Washington Boro at about 2
a.m. Friday, but was only
returned to Lititz after the
thefts were reported early
Friday afternoon, police
said.
According to a police
spokesman, Manor Town­ship
Police Officer Terry
Longacre observed a car and
a motorcycle in the
Washington Boro park at
1:59 a.m. The park is closed
at that time, police said.
When the officer stopped
to investigate, the drivers of
the two vehicles attempted
to flee. Longacre was able to
block the exit before the car
left the park, police said.
The driver of the car, a
white male, approximately
five feet, 10 inches tall, with
dark brown hair, got out of
the car and fled on foot,
police said.
The car was towed to the
Manor Township police
station where it was later
claimed by Keller Brothers
Ford, Lititz.
According to police, the
c a r ’s windshield was
smashed and the ignition
damaged, apparently when
the car was hot-wired.
Items reported stolen from
the other two vehicles in­cluded
two gauges, a car­buretor,
a shifter knob, two
radio knobs and other parts
from the 1970 Nova, and two
Craeger wheels and tires, a
12-volt battery, a stereo
radio and other parts from
the Monte Carlo.
Lititz police are also in­vestigating
a string of thefts
from unlocked vehicles
parked in the borough last
week.
According to Hicks, the
following persons reported
to police the theft of items
from th e ir unlocked
vehicles.
• David Wright, Lititz,
reported to police that
sometime between Aug. 7
and 8 someone stole a solar-powered
calculator, valued
at $25, from his vehicle
which was parked to the rear
of 125 Liberty St.
• Art Gravieno, 102 E.
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Crafts Adorn Streets Of Lititz
Lititz Springs Park offered some relief from the
occasional drizzle and damp last Saturday for the
sixth annual Lititz Rotary Club Craft Show. But in­clement
temperatures and stormy skies didn’t
keep an estimated 15,000 people from parading
the streets of Lititz, according to show director
Tom Oehme.
$10,000 was earned by the Rotary club, all of
which will be donated to community organizations.
See additional photos on page 20.
installed but seats will be
movable so that the room
will offer programming
flexibility.
Mrs. O’Hara said the
chapel will accommodate
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The Warwick Township
Supervisors will consider
rezoning a 37-acre tract of
farmland, located near Rudy
Dam, from low density to
medium density residential
during a public hearing at
their regular September
board meeting.
The supervisors last
Wednesday night authorized
the township secretary to
advertise the hearing for
Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. when they
will consider a request by
Mariani Enterprises to
rezone the Rudy Dam tract
from R-l (low density) to R-2
(med ium d e n s ity )
residential.
Last April the supervisors
denied a reqpest by Mariani
to rezone the same tract to
high density residential after
township residents protested
the possibility of apart­ments,
townhouses and
concentrated development
in the area.
The township planning
commission last month
recommended approval of
the petitioner’s request for
R-2 zoning. The local
planners had also endorsed
in part Mariani’s earlier
request for R-3 zoning last
spring, recommending that
the majority of the tract,
located to the west of Rudy
Dam Road be rezoned R-3
with six acres to the east of
the road rezoned R-2.
Public comment on
Mariani’s current rezoning
request will be invited by the
supervisors at their Sept. 12
hearing.
The township planning
commission, which meets
the fourth Wednesday of
each month, is currently in
the process of revising the
township’s zoning map.
Ron Nuss, chairman of the
planning commission, has
asked that landowners in­tending
to request a zoning
reclassification do it now
while the planning com­mission
is still in the revising
process. The commission
members are trying to in­corporate
all zoning change
requests into their revised
map, Nuss said.
In other matters Wed­nesday,
the supervisors
approved final plans for the
following subdivisions.
• Wheatfield Estates,
consisting of 10 residential
lots on the south side of
Newport Road east of
Rothsville.
• Crosswinds, Lot 99,
consisting of six multi­family
rental units on 1.4
acres in the Cross winds
Development.
• Crosswinds, Section Six,
consisting of 60 lots in the
Crosswinds Development.
• J. Graybill Hollinger
tract, consisting of a one-lot
single family detached
dwelling on approximately
half an acre located on the
south side of Orchard Road
east of Pine Hill Road.
The supervisors also
approved a draw-down
request from PRD Lan-caster-
York, owner of
Crosswinds, Section Five,
reducing their letter of
credit for site improvements
from $116,600 to $25,530.
Township zoning officer
Jay H. Ebersole reported the
issuance of 18 building
permits during July, in­cluding
10 for new homes.
Total value of the new
building is $1,040,450, ac­cording
to Ebersole’s report.
Steve Wallace, chairman
of the board of supervisors,
pointed out Wednesday that
$420,000 of that is for the
apartments in Rothsville.”
“Enough said,” Wallace
commented Wednesday.
“You win some, you lose
some.”
The zoning officer issued a
$420 permit to the Housing
Development Corporation
(HDC) for the $420,000
conversion of the former
Rothsville School into
apartments.
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Dealer Lincoln Ave., reported to
police that during that same
time, someone stole a pair of
Bushnell binoculars in a
cloth camouflage case, a
tear gas cannister and a
wood smoking pipe from the
glove compartment of his
vehicle which was parked
near his home.
• Larry Werner, 108
Hensley St., told police that
someone stole an FM Alpine
radio and equalizer from his
vehicle which was parked on
the Long and Bomberger
parking lot between Aug. 7
and 8. The items taken were
valued at $600, police said.
• Sharon Hake, 101 E.
Lincoln Ave., reported to
police that sometime bet­ween
Aug. 6 and 7 someone
took a lighted vanity mirror
from the glove compartment
of her car. The mirror was
later recovered in a borough
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A fire Tuesday morning caused approximately
$5,000 damage to a barn-warehouse owned by
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SKH Management Co. and located on Graystone
Road in East Hempfield Township.
Fire Damages SKH Warehouse
A fire which started in an
electrical service cable
caused approximately $3,000
to $5,000 damage Tuesday to
a two-story warehouse
owned by SKH Management
Co., and located in East
Hemfield Township, ac­cording
to Trooper David
Fisher, state fire marshal.
The fire was accidental
and began in the main
electrical service cable to
the bam, Fisher said. He
said the fire “got to the total
electrical service” and
caused some structural
d am ag e . T h e re was
“minimal” damage to the
contents, Fisher said.
The bam/warehouse is
used for storage of garden
supplies and is part of the
garden distribution center
for the Stauffer’s of Kissel
Hill, according to Roy
Oberholtzer, a partner in the
company.
F ir e tru c k s and
emergency vehicles from
four companies responded to
the 11:30 a.m. fire, which
was spotted by an employee
at the warehouse. Trucks
from East Petersburg,
Manheim, Landisville and
the air truck from Lititz
were called to the scene. In
addition, several am­bulances
stood by.
Chet Schoenberger,
deputy chief of the East
Petersburg Fire Company,
said there “was fire coming
out the roof and fire to
contents” when the fire
companies arrived on the
scene.
Warwick Township Man Still Missing
According to Warwick
Township Police, there are
still no leads in the search
for the missing 33-year-old
Township man who left his
home the morning of Aug. 5
on a Schwinn bicycle. He has
not been seen since then.
Searches conducted in
nearby wooded areas by
police and the man’s father
for David R. Browder, 217 W.
Woods Drive, have been
u n s u c c e s s fu l, p o lic e
reported.
Browder, who lives with
his father, Walter Browder,
had not, according to the
elder Browder, appeared at
his brother’s home in
Parkesburg, W.Va., nor
apparently had he contacted
his mother, who lives in New
York state, according to
police.
Browder, who is employed
by Trimble Surveyors, 359
W. Woods Drive, is
Caucasion, six feet tall,
weighing 165 pounds with
light brown hair and grey
eyes, according to police.
His father said that David
was wearing a grey-patterned
shirt, tan cor­duroys,
brown leather, work
oxfords and a black battery-powered
wrist watch.
Anyone who has seen
Browder or with knowledge
of his whereabouts is asked
to notify Warwick Township
Police.
A one-vehicle motorcycle
accident, which occurred at
about midnight Aug. 7, left
the driver and a passenger
with moderate abrasions
and bruises, according to
police.
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 12
Church 16
Business Directory 17
Classified 18,19
Douglas Leroy Wolf, 27,
415 S. 9th St., Akron, was
traveling west on Rothsville
Road, approximately one-tenth
of a mile from Meadow
Valley Road, and was
maneuvering a bend in the
road, when he lost control of
his motorcycle, police
reported. The motorcycle
struck a four foot wall at 1900
Rothsville Road.
Wolf, and the passenger,
Barb Price, 24,142 W. Fulton
St., Ephrata, were tran­sported
by the Rothsville
ambulance to Ephrata
Community Hospital, where
they were treated and
released.
Wolf was cited for failure
to drive at a safe speed, for
not having an official cer­tificate
of inspection, and for
not having the proper
m o to rc y c le , lic e n s e
classification, police said.
No injuries were sustained
in another one-vehicle ac­cident,
which occurred Aug.
9 on Lititz Run Road, ac­cording
to police.
Esther E. Martin, 60, of 314
Clay Road, was driving on
Lititz Run Road toward Clay
Road at 3:45 p.m. when she
lost control of her car and
skidded on the wet roadway.
Her vehicle veered to the
right and hit a stone wall,
police said. According to
police, Mrs Martin’s reac­tion
to the vehicle backing
out of a driveway caused her
to lose control of her vehicle.
She estimated her driving
speed at 25 miles per hour,
police said.
There was light damage to
the vehicle. No citation was
issued.
A hit .and run accident
involving one vehicle oc­curred
in the parking lot of
Chimney Comer Restaurant
Aug. 9, police said.
The owner of the car,
Donald M. Beck, Route 2,
Aonville, reported the
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