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Stephanie Schaich (second from left) of Lititz and a friend chatted with
actress Kelly McGillis and co-star Alexander Godunov (right) last summer
during the filming of "Witness,” which opens in Lancaster this week.
F a m i l i a r F a c e s O n S c r e e n
Local Audiences Await
'Witness' Premiere
Eighteen - year - old
Stephanie Schaich of
Lititz mingled with the
likes of Hollywood actor
Harrison Ford and
international ballet star
Alexander Godunov last
summer when she
worked as a background
person, or “ extra”
during the filming of the
movie “Witness” in
Lancaster County.
S te p h a n ie , the
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Schaich of
1401 Rothsville Road,
was a senior at Lan­caster
Catholic High
School when she was
chosen for a small, non­speaking
background
role as an Amish girl in
the Paramount film.
Now a fashion design
student at Drexel
U n iv e r s ity in
Philadelphia, Stephanie
hopes to have the op­portunity
to renew some
of her movie-making
acquaintenances tonig­ht
(Thursday) during a
reception at Central
Market in Lancaster,
following a premiere
showing of the film at
the Fulton Opera House.
, She is also looking
forward to seeing
herself on screen-but
that will have to wait for
the weekend. Unable to
get tickets for the
b e n e fit p r em ie r e
showing to n ig h t,
Stephanie plans to see
the movie after it’s
released for general
viewing in theaters
Friday.
According to her
mother, Stephanie is
hoping her friends at
Drexel will be able to
recognize, her on screen.
“Some of them don’t
really believe she’s in
(the movie),” she said-
Mrs. Schaich said she
is also looking forward1
to seeing the film.
“Maybe an afternoon
matinee when the lines
aren’t so long,” she
laughed.
The special showing
of the movie, which was
filmed in Lancaster and
P h ilade lp hia, will
benefit the Fulton Opera
House Foundation and
the Historic Preser­vation
Trust of Lan­caster
County. Tickets,
which were priced at
$100 and $60, sold out.
Stephanie was able to
purchase, at half price,
a ticket to the reception
at Central Market which
Will be catered by
Lancaster restaurants.
Actors Kelly McGillis
and Alexander Godunov
will attend the world
premiere of “Witness”
at the Fulton, a
spokesman for the
benefit showing said
this week Harrison
Ford, who was also
invited to the premiere
showing and reception,
will be unable to attend
due to a scheduling
conflict, she said.
Hower Says ’No’ After 18 Years on Council
Local In cum b en ts Announce
In ten tio n s To Seek Re-Election
By Karen Belber
Several local incumbents
whose terms will expire at
the end of this year said this
week that they will seek re-election,
but one veteran
Lititz Borough councilman
has announced that he will
not seek another term.
Incumbents and others
interested in running for
office in Warwick Township,
Elizabeth Township and
Lititz Borough will be able to
file nomination petitions
Feb. 19 through March 12
with the Lancaster County
Board of Elections.
C. Wendell Hower, 53, an
18-year veteran of the
borough council, said
Monday that it’s time for
“some new ideas and new
thoughts,” and that 18 years
in office has been long
enough.
Hower, currently council
president and a principal at
Manheim Township High
School, said th a t he
originally “got on council to
see the borough swimming
pool get built.” He added
that in the years he served
on the council, the “borough
has seen tremendous
growth.”
“I never felt that in a town
this size you could just come
in and change everything
overnight. '
" I t ’s a matter of up­dating...
keeping current and
modern what we already
have,” the councilman said,
referring to the relative cost
of updating the borough’s
sewer system.
“People complain about
cost but our costs are
relatively lower than if we
bought a new sewage
system...We pay for our
water but costs are cheaper
than surrounding com­munities,”
Hower noted.
Hower served on the
council initially for two four-year
terms, took some time
off, then returned and has
served as a councilman for
the past ten and a half years.
Council vice-president
Clyde R. Tshudy, 48, a
council member for the past
eight years, said this week
he plans to seek re-election
for another four-year term.
Tshudy, president of
Sturgis Pretzel, cited some
issues that the borough will
have to contend with in the
future, such as the refuse
removal situation--what to
do with all the trash-traffic
problems due to community
growth and increased rates,
costs and labor of the sewage
plant. The councilman also
noted that electric rates will
be increased by 25 percent.
He said he is concerned
about “ growth without
additional income.”
“Many people are looking
at Lititz as a backward
community,” the coun­cilman
explained, “but there
will be mushroom effects”
because of community
growth outside of Lititz.
“Lititz will be forced to
employ more policemen”
due to increased traffic,
Tshudy said.
Incumbent councilman
Russell L. Pettyjohn, 50, also
will seek re-election for the
1986-89 term as represen­tative
of the third ward, he
said this week.
Pettyjohn, a self-employed
contractor, serves as
chairman of the budget
committee, and has been a
council member since 1982.
If re-elected, Pettyjohn
said he would like to see a
better working relationship
with Warwick Township,
examining various avenues
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Four Warwick School
Board Seats Opening
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section ; 6,7,8,9
Social 10
Church 18
Business Directory 20
Four Warwick School
Board seats will be open at
the end of this year, and this
week the incumbents an­nounced
plans to seek re-election
for the next term.
Veteran board member
Ruth Husser said that as a
representative of the district
to the Lancaster-Lebanon
Intermediate Unit 13 and
L a n c a s t e r County
Vocational Te ch n ical
Schools, she would like to
seek re-election to see the
programs “make great
strides,”
As for her aspirations as a
school board member, Mrs.
Husser noted that she would
like the school district “to
provide the very best for all
of the students.
“I ’m seeing doors open up
and I’m encouraged by
that,” she said. Mrs. Husser,
a ten-year board member,
said that she would like to
see “expanded time for
gifted students, and all
classroom programs, in­cluding
classes for adults,
broadened.
She mentioned that with a
new director, Dr. Richard
Buriey, at Vo-Tech, she
would like to see the
programs there expand, as
well. “It’s an exciting time,”
Mrs. Husser added.
A nurse’s assistant at
Brethren Village, Mrs.
. Husser said she plans to
cross-file, as she has done in
the past.
The newest member of the
nine-seat board up for re-election,
Gerald Downing,
also plans to run for office,
after having served a two-year
term.
“I ’ve only gotten my feet
wet and haven’t had a fair
chance with only a two-year
term,” Downing explained.
He said that, he has en­joyed
working with the
board and school officials,
and that the time com­mitment
is agreeable with
his schedule.. Downing is a
sw itch in g eq u ipm en t
technician with Bell of
Pennsylvania.
“I think things are running
well and Federal Mogul is a
plus,” he continued.
Downing is also en­couraged
by the positive
responses they received with
the TELLS (Testing for
Essential Learning and
Literacy Skills) program.
He said that he’d like to see
Warwick as “something
more than just a jock and
band school.’
Downing said he also plans
to cross-file.
Incumbent board member
Gaylord Poling announced
that he, too, will run for a
second term. He is in his
fourth year as a board
member.
“We’re fortunate we don’t
have too many issues in
Warwick,” the 36-year-old
Quaker Oats executive said.
“It’s a smooth-running
district and the feelings are
very positive, ’ ’ he noted.
P o lin g , th e board
treasurer, said that if re­elected,
he would like to
address “the content of total
life training” for the student
body; that he would like to
see the students prepared for
social issues as well as
academic.
Wilson B. Smith, current
board chairman of the
buildings and property
committee, said that he has
not decided whether or not
he will seek re-election.
Smith, 50, has served a six
year term on the board and
is currently in his fourth
year of his second term.
He is vice-president of
Huth Engineers.
Planners Give Go-Ahead
Moravian Manor Unveils long Range Plans A master plan detailing
the development of the
remaining land on the
Moravian Manor grounds
got a nod of approval from
the Lititz Planning Com­mission
Tuesday night at its
regular monthly meeting.
Some of the development
is planned for this summer,
Robert Derek of Derek and
Edson Associates, the design
engineer, told the planning
commission.
Elizabeth Township Supervisors
Approve $120,000 Road Project
Derek said the Manor
hopes to construct a six-unit
apartment building along
Second Avenue this summer,
as well as to install a storm
water management system,
and landscape dn area of
ground to be known as the
“Manor Green.”
Future plans call for a
three-story and a four-story
apartment building with a
total of 70 units which would
be set among the existing
wooded area on the grounds,
Derek said. That section
would have its own dining
facilities, he said.
The Manor also plans to
add onto the existing nursing
and sheltered care facility,
Derek said, to provide 50
more beds in the skilled and
intermediate area, 32 beds in
a new personal care ;area,
24 more single rooms in the
sheltered care area, and 16
new suites in the sheltered
care area.
The Manor currently has
110 beds in the skilled and
intermediate care section, 49
single rooms in the sheltered
care section, 16 cottages, two,
one-bedroom units, and 18
two-bedroom deluxe units.
No new cottages are
planned, Derek said.
In addition, a chapel, a day
care center for employees’
children, and offices for a
home health agency to serve
the community! are also
proposed, as well as a larger
maintenance building, he
said.
Derek said this master
plan takes care of all the
remaining undeveloped land
on the Manor campus, and is
slightly different from a
master plan presented to the
planning commission some
years ago by Paul McCloud.
The plan also calls for
some additional parking
spaces, so that when all the
proposed construction is
completed, there will be a
total of 260 parking spaces
throughout the Manor
grounds.
Derek said there is also a
projected private drive that
would go through the
grounds for use by residents
and employees only.
He said the grounds
contain a total of 19 acres,
three of which will be in open
space.
Mrs. Arline Shannon,
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The Elizabeth Township
su p e rv is o r s Monday
authorized the township’s
engineer to proceed in
drawing up specifications
and advertising for bids for a
$120,000 road program for
1985.
The project, as outlined
Monday by Herbert W.
Flosdorf, the township’s
engineering consultant,
includes improvements to
portions , of Long Lane,
Webster Hill Road, Hershey
Road, Liridel Circle, Jeanel
Circle, South View Drive and
Sleepy Hollow Road.
At their regular monthly
meeting Monday, the
supervisors said they would
like to have the first phase of
the 1985 road project com­pleted
during June.
In other matters Monday,
the supervisors granted
permission to area boy
scouts to establish a
recycling storage shed on
the township property at 423
South View Drive.
R a y N u nw e ile r,
representing Boy Scout
Troops 44 of Lititz and 252 of
Hopeland, Monday told the
supervisors “this is a prime
area” for recycling.
The two scout troops
currently operate a suc­cessful
recycling center once
a month at the Warwick
Township shed on Rothsville
Road, Nunweiler said.
“We’d like to put a shelter
here on township property
for people to drop off paper,
glass and aluminum,”
Nunweiler said.
Nunweiler told the
supervisors that an enclosed
shed, eight by twelve feet' in
size, would be provided by
th e L a n c a s t e r E n ­v
iro nm e n ta l Ac tion
Federation (LEAF).
“LEAF has a standard
shed, they’ll actually own
the building,” he said. “It
would probably be con­structed
by vo-tech students
sometime around June.”
Nunweiler showed the
supervisors plans and
photographs of LEAF’S
storage sheds.
Once th e shed is
established, people would be
able to drop off recyclable
paper, glass and aluminum
The monthly meeting
| of the Lititz Retailer’s
; Association has been
I scheduled for the second
I Wednesday of this
' month. The February
I meeting will be held
' next Wednesday, Feb.
! 13 at 7:30 P.M. at The
I General Sutter Inn.
All area businessmen
welcome and urged
Ito attend.
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at the township property.
“This would be open
anytime,” Nunweiler said,
adding that the scouts would
empty the shed “a minimum
of once a month.”
Larry Wiker, chairman of
the board of supervisors,
told Nunweiler, “I have no
problem with it, but if we see
paper blowing across the
lawn, you’re going to get a
nasty call.”
Nunweiler told the
supervisors that Warwick
Township has agreed to
allow the scouts to erect a
storage shed on its property.
“We do try to take care of
it and work very close with
the township,” he said.
Wiker’s motion to allow
the scouts to establish the
recycling storage shed at the
township building “as long
as there’s no liability to the
township and it’s kept neat,”
passed unanimously.
In other matters, the
supervisors discussed the
possibility of trading in one
of the township’s two dump
trucks for a four-wheel drive
pickup truck with a plow.
That discussion led to a
series of complaints about
winter road conditions in the
township.
Supervisor Rodney May
questioned why snow was
allowed to be “packed
down” by traffic on some
township roads before they
were plowed.
“I want more salt and
more cinders,” May told
supervisor and road
superintendent Jay R. Ober
Monday. “If we can prevent
one accident, I think it’s
worth a little more salt and
cinders...in my opinion, the
winter maintenance in the
township is poor.”
Ober said, “I ’ll use more
salt... I can gladly use
more.”
In other business, the
supervisors:
•Accepted Sharona Drive
into the township road
system.
•Accepted an amended
letter of credit from Penway
Construction for Wicker
Drive in the Elm Crest
development, pending the
solicitor’s approval.
•Accepted one letter of
credit and released another
from Kreider May for roads
in Sunrise Acres develop­ment.
•Discussed plans for the
Penn-Elm Lions Club park
along Newport Road near
Elm with Walter Z. Bradley
of the club. Bradley inquired
about driveway permits,
matching fund grants and
the availability of township
equipment and labor for the
park. The supervisors said
they would check into his
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This proposed master plan for the remaining
undeveloped land belonging to Moravian Manor
got the approval of the Lititz planning commission
Tuesday night,
additions.
Shaded areas show proposed