Lititz Record Express

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Federal Mogul May Build
Multi-Million Dollar Plant Here
An early morning fire Sunday completely
destroyed a two-story garage to the rear of 305 S.
Broad St. and damaged three other buildings.
Record Express Photo'Stan Hall
About 50 firefighters from the Lititz, Rothsville
and Brunnerville fire companies responded to the
3:30 a.m. call.
Interrupts Telephone Service
Early Morning Fire Damages Four Buildings
A fire of undetermined
origin completely destroyed
a tw o -sto ry g a r a g e ,
damaged three others, and
burned through a Denver
and Ephrata telephone cable
in the 300 block of Raspberry
Lane early Sunday morning.
Damage to the garages
were estimated at $10,000,
according to Lititz Fire Chief
H. Richard Neidermyer.
According to Neidermyer,
45 to 50 firefighters from
Lititz, Brunnerville and
Rothsville fire companies
were on the scene from 3:39
to 6:10 Sunday morning. The
Warwick Ambulance also
stood by, he said.
A garage located to the
rear of 305 S. Broad St.,
owned by Jack Hartz of 7
Neil Drive, was completely
destroyed in the fire. The
garage is rented to Carl
Stone of Lancaster, but
Neidermyer said Monday
fire officials have been
unable to contact Stoner.
Neidermyer said it was
believed only lumber, old
chairs, and “nothing much
of value” was stored in the
Hartz garage. Damages to
that garage were estimated
at $5,000 to $6,000, Neider­myer
said.
Record Office To Be Closed
New Year’s Day
The Lititz Record
Express Office, 22 E.
Main St., will be closed
Tuesday, Jan. 1, in
observance of the New
Year’s Day holiday.
B e c au se of the
holiday, deadlines for
news and advertising
will be . changed as
follows for the Jan. 3
issue. Press releases
should be submitted by
10 a.m. on Monday, Dec.
31.
The deadline for
display advertising will
be noon on Dec. 31.
C la s s ifie d a d ­vertisements
will be
accepted until 10 a.m.
on Monday, Dec. 31 for
the Jan. 3 issue.
Have a safe and
happy holiday.
Also damaged in the fire
were garages owned by
Richard Tshudy, 301 S.
Broad St.,; Michael Mishler,
307 S. Broad St.; and M.V.
Fleischmann, 309 S. Broad
St.
The Tshudy b a rn
sustained about $1,000 to
$1,500 damage to the roof
and side, Neidermyer said.
The Mishler garage was
“half-destroyed” in the fire,
Neidermyer said, and a car
parked in it was slightly
damaged. He estimated
damages to that property at
$2,000.
Neidermyer said the
siding and roof of the
Fleischmann structure were
scorched but had no damage
estimate on the property.
Lititz police reported a car
owned by Goldie Heiss, 307 S.
Broad St., which was parked
near one of the garages,
suffered damage on the
driver’s side from the heat of
the fire.
The fire also burned
through a Denver and
Ephrata telephone cable
which ran along the alley
close to the barn, cutting off
the 911 emergency service
between Lititz and Lan­caster
for about two hours,
until it could be re-routed,
Neidermyer said.
According to Roger
Gehman, repair service
supervisor of D&E at least
1500 customers were af­fected
when the fire burned
through three cables
carrying lines between Lititz
and Lancaster.
Gehman said the three
cables were on the same pole
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In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6, 7, 8
Social 9
Church 14
Business Directory 15
Federal Mogul Cor­poration,
a producer of all-steel
ball bearings, may be
building a multi-million
dollar plant in Lititz which
would consolidate their other
facilities in Lancaster and
employ more than 550
persons, Philip Herrman,
F ed eral Mogul plant
manager confirmed last
week.
Herrman said Federal
Mogul has an option on a 30-
acre site on West Lincoln
Avenue, across from the
Warner-Lambert plant. The
site is currently owned by
Clair Brothers Audio,
Herman said.
The board of directors of
the Michigan-based cor­poration
will meet Feb. 4 to
decide whether or not to go
ahead with plans for the
building, Herrman said. He
said that local Federal
Mogul rep re sen ta tiv e s
would be giving a presen­tation
to the board of
directors of Southfield,
Mich., at that time.
Federal Mogul has been
considering the construction
of a new facility plant for
about a year, Herrman said.
The new slant would con­solidate
manufacturing
facilities located on the
Harrisburg and Manheim
Pikes and the storage
facility located on in the
Fulton Warehouse, on
Frederick Street.
The proposed plant would
be about 250,000 square feet
and would be an expansion
as well as a consolidation,
Herrman said.
Federal Mogul has been
looking at numerous sites
and narrowed the choices to
two, a site in East Hempfield
Township, now the site of the
Hodecker Celery Farm, and
the Lititz location.
Herrman said con­struction
of the building
would begin immediately if
the board of directors ap­proves
it on Feb. 4 and would
take about 18 months.
Herrman said the site m
Lititz is under construction
because "we like the
borough, we like the
location, we like the town,
we like the city fathers and
we.like the school board.’
Representatives of the
borough council and school
board met with those from
Federal Mogul about two
weeks ago, according to Dr.
John Bonfieid, superin­tendent
of the Warwick
School District.
"We discussed the relative
merits of the Warwick
Community,” Bonfieid said.
The conversation dealt
with a number of topics,
Bonfieid said, such as the
" c h a ra c te ris tic s and
character of the com­munity”
and the resources
that would be available to
Federal Mogul if they
located in Lititz.
Bonfieid said Federal
Mogul has an excellent
reputation in Lancaster
County and is known to
"want to be a real part of the
community.”
He said he felt the Federal
Mogul representatives had a
"positive view of the Lititz
community and the Warwick
area as a result of the
meeting.”
Bonfieid said there would be
mutual benefits to both the
community and the cor­poration
if Federal Mogul
would locate here. The
community would benefit
from an expanded industrial
base which would give a
better balance between the
residential and industrial
tax bases, he said.
C. Wendell Hower,
president of borough council,
said that the council would
be "very receptive” to
having "any industrial
growth within borough
boundaries.” He cited an
increased tax base and in­c
r e a s e d use of the
wastewater treatment plant
as two possible benefits to
industrial growth.
The site under con­sideration
by Federal Mogul
is already zoned industrial,
Hower said. The company
would have to go through the
normal channels of sub­mitting
land development
plans through planning
commission and borough
council, Hower said.
The local division of
Federal Mogul began
business in 1898 as the Star
Ball Bearing Retainer Co.,
and produced ball bearings
for bicycles, and later cars.
It later became the
Bearings Company of
America and was purchased
by Federai Mogul in 1953.
Locally the company
brings in $45 to $50 million in
sales annually, Herrman
said. On a national basis,
Federal Mogul is "in
anything associated with
transportation,” he said, and
does $900 million dollars
worth of sales annually.
For Auxiliary Building, Organ, Landscaping
$100,000 Fund Drive Underway
For Old Zion Church Projects
Council Report
To Appear
Next Week
L ititz Borough
Council met Wednesday
evening a fte r the
Record had gone to
press. A complete story
on Council’s December
m e e tin g will be
published in the Jan. 3
issue.
An auxiliary building to
house restrooms and other
modem facilities is the
primary focus of a $100,000
restoration and development
fund drive now underway for
the historic Old Zion Church
of Brickerville, according to
Lynn Rossi, secretary of the
Old Zion Board.
The funds will also be used
to acquire a small organ for
the church gallery, either a
reproduction or a replica of
one which would have been
found there originally.
“ One of the more
challenging tasks will be to
paint the interior walls of the
edifice with the hope of
hiding unsightly cracks, but
retaining 19th century
graffiti,” Mrs. Rossi said.
In addition the trustees of
the Old Zion hope to land­scape
the property, add
fencing, a driveway to the
cemetery, a wooden pump, a
new sign, and connect a
wood-burning stove.
The drive was begun in
July of this year with the
Russell Markert Memorial
Fund and will be conducted
through 1988, the 175th an­niversary
of the church,
Mrs. Rossi said.
Russell Markert was one
of the original church board
members who for more than
25 years helped maintain
and preserve Old Zion until
his death this summer. His
wife created a memorial
fund in his honor.
Some of the Russell
Markert memorial funds
have already been used to
finance the painting of the
wine-glass pulpit, a task
recently completed by
conservator Peter Deen of
Nottingham, Pa., at a cost of
$5,000, Mrs. Rossi said.
People who have visited
Old Zion recently received
the latest issue of “Old
Zion’s Trumpet,” the
board’s newsletter, and a
donation card requesting
funds for the projects, ac­cording
to Mrs. Rossi.
The auxiliary building has
been deemed a necessary
addition to the Old Zion
grounds in order to provide
restrooms, a small kitchen,
storage facilities,a nd a
preliminary area for brides
who are about to be married
in the historic church, Mrs.
Rossi said.
' ‘F u r th e rm o r e , the
modern additions will
facilitate food preparation at
the Strawberry Sodai and
the Christmas Carol Sing,”
she said.
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Kathleen King
When he got off Route 283
and headed toward East
Petersburg, Dave Welshofer
knew he had almost reached
his destination - home.
Home for the holidays. It’s
a phrase dear to every
serviceman and woman and
even dearer to the parents
and family who wait for
them to come home.
To Mr. and Mrs. John
Welshofer of 16 Green Acre
Road, it is an especially nice
phrase. With son Dave in the
Navy, daughter Barbara
leaving the day after
Christmas to take a job in
New Jersey, and youngest
son Jay in his last year of
high school, time together is
more and more scare.
But for a few hours this
week the Welshofers had
some time together - time to
exchange gifts and smiles,
time to re c a ll other
Christmases, and time to
talk about where life is
taking them.
Dave was last home
exactly a year ago at
Christmas, but it was one of
those “hello, goodbye” type
holidays that lasted less than
a day.
"I was home for Christ­mas
morning and back on
the boat for Christmas
dinner,” he explained.
“I had about 14 or 15 hours
of leave, and came home on
a train,” he said. Till he got
in it was 1 a.m. Christmas
morning, but the surprise on
his parents faces was worth
it.
This leave will be much
more relaxed for the 1979
Warwick graduate. He’ll
have 25 days to see friends
from high school and college
as well as visit with his
family, he said.
Although it’s a relaxing
and fun time, it does take
some coordination of
schedules, he said. With
some friends in town for only
a few days and other friends
scattered, Dave says he tries
to arrange his leave to see
the greatest amount of
people.
“There’s people you’ve
lost touch with that you
didn’t want to,” he said.
“You want to see them.”
“ And there’s people
you’ve maintained contact
with, there’s still a lot of
catching up to do with them,
too,” he said.
“And I want to sit down
and eat dinner with my
family at least once,” he
adds.
Dave has been in the Navy
since October of 1981. The
first two years were spent in
training in the nuclear
program. And recently he
earned his “Dolphins,”
which indicates that he is
now a full-fledged “sub­mariner.”
He is stationed
a b o a rd the USS
Albuquerque, a fast attack
nuclear submarine based in
Connecticut.
He also just completed his
longest underwater run / 61
days.
He laughingly admits that
life aboard a submarine is
“surprisingly like the old
World War II movies.”
He said the captain does go
through the “up-periscope”
routine, and that diving
submarines do make that
“ ah-oo-gah, ah-oo-gah”
warning just like in the
movies.
The service has its ad­vantages
and disad­vantages,
like anything else,
Dave said.
Being away for long stints,
you tend to lose track of
other people’s lives, he said.
“But you realize you’re
trying to work and develop
yourself,” he said and that
helps balance out some of
the loss.
"Besides, it’s nice to be in
a job that you can take off for
a month,” he adds with a
laugh.
Coming home for the
holidays now is different
than when he was in college,
Dave said. “The absences
get longer and you tend to
skip the idle chit-chat. ’ ’
His mother agreed.
“You don’t take so much
for granted,” she in­terjected.
“When they’re at
school you know you’ll see
them in a couple months.”
But when her children
leave now after being home,
she said, it may be a long
time until the next hello.
With long absences, it’s
little things that give the
homecoming a sense of
reassurance, Dave said.
“I knew when I came
home the stockings would be
lined up on the mantle and
the Christmas tree would be
set up in a certain place,” he
said. “And they were.”
“It’s the little memories
that make the difference,”
he said. “When you find
them the same, i t ’s
reassuring. The simple act
of g e ttin g h e re is
reassuring.”
The differences he does
notice are not the physical
differences so much as
differences in the lives of his
friends, how they have
changed, matured, married,
had children, he said.
“It makes me think about
myself, where I am,” he
said.
And seeing the difference
in his “little” brother is both
pleasurable and poignant, he
adds.
“Last year he was just
starting to date, and he was
really excited about that.
Now he’s more mature, he
has a steady girl...”
Seeing the changes in
others is fun, he said, but you
“look back and see that
you’ve missed it, and you
feel sorry for yourself, that
you’ve been missing that
part of their growth. ’ ’
Having his big brother
home is “excellent” in Jay’s
mind. “I’m really proud of
him, I look up to him,” he
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The John Welshofer family of Green Acre Read enjoyed their Cnristmas
together with Dave, on left, home on leave from the Navy. Brother Jay, in
rear, is thinking about a career in the navy as well.