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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 Pages-No. 14
Police Charge Nine Youths
In Three-Month Crime Spree
A three-month series of
criminal mischief and
burglaries came to an end
this week with charges being
filed against five Lititz
youths who allegedly
committed the crimes and
four others who received the
stolen property.
Beginning in April, Lititz
Borough Police started
investigating incidents at the
Village Pedaler, the Cam­bridge
Village housing site
on Arrowhead Drive, Lititz
Springs Pool and the Sturgis
Lane Laundramat, ac­cording
to Officer Charles
Shenenberger. The first lead
came as a result of one youth
admitting his role to police
on June 28. From that point
the investigation quickly
advanced and police this
week filed a series of
charges against the youths.
The following charges
have been lodged: a 15-year-old
youth...four counts of
criminal conspiracy, four
counts of burglary, four
counts of receiving stolen
property, four counts of
theft, and two counts of
criminal mischief; a 15-
year-old youth...three counts
of burglary, three counts of
criminal conspiracy, two
counts of criminal mischief,
and two counts of theft; a 15-
year-old... one count of
criminal conspiracy, one
count of burglary, one count
of theft, and one count of
criminal mischief; a 14-
year-old...four counts of
burglary, four counts of
criminal conspiracy, three
counts of theft, three counts
of receiving stolen property,
and three counts of criminal
mischief; a 15-year-old...one
Cyclist Slides
Under Car
Matthew Brubaker, 105
Chestnut St., was taken by
Warwick Ambulance to the
Lancaster General Hospital,
where he was treated for
multiple scratches and
bruises following a 6:30 p.m.
car-motorcycle accident at
the intersection of Route 501
and Owl Hill Road Tuesday,
July 9.
According to Officer Ray
Lausch of the Warwick
Township police depart­ment,
Brubaker failed to
observe the car in front of
him,operated by Mark
Harding, Swamp Ridge
Road, Stevens, as it slowed
to make a left turn from
Route 501 onto Owl Hill
Road.
When Brubaker noticed
the car slowing, said Lausch,
he locked his brakes and slid
under the rear of the car.
In addition to the Warwick
Ambulance, a medic unit
was dispatched from the
Lancaster General Hospital.
According to Lausch, a
medic unit is automatically
dispatched in every case
where a motorcycle is in­volved
in an accident.
Lausch said the Brubaker
motorcycle had a temporary
tag at the time of the ac­cident.
count criminal conspiracy,
one count of burglary, one
count of receiving stolen
property, and one count of
criminal mischief; and
finally four 15-year-o
ld s...receiv in g stolen
property.
Lititz Chief of Police
George Hicks reported that
police are still holding a
quantity of U.S. currency
found on North Broad Street
at the bridge near the
railroad tracks on June 29.
Police are also holding a
ladies diamond solitaire ring
found near the Lititz Springs
Park concession stand on
June 21. In addition, a
quantity of currency
wrapped in paper was found
on a bench outside the police
station on July 5.
Owners of th^. above items
may claim them by con­tacting
the police and
identifying the items.
Sally Kennen, 104 New
Haven Drive, was cited for
stop signal and yield
violations as a result of an
accident on June 26 at 5:54
p.m. at West Second and
South Spruce streets.
Police report that Kennen
was southbound on Spruce
when she failed to see a
vehicle driven by Steven W.
Strauss, R.D. 1 Durlach
Road, Ephrata. She
proceeded into the in­tersection
and struck the
S trau ss c a r causing
moderate damage to both
vehicles.
Kathleen M. Coates, 763
Brunnerville Road, was
cited for a traffic signal
violation as a result of an
accident June 27 at 12:11
a.m. at Broad Street and
Second Avenue. Police said
that the Coates car was
traveling east on Second
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Residents Unite To Oppose
Townhouse Development
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Cindy Hurst Crowned
Queen Of Candles
Cindy Hurst, right, was crowned Queen of
Candles at the Fourth of July celebration in Lititz
Springs Park. She was crowned by last year's
queen, Beth Eidemiller, and assisted by Tara
Ritter, flowergirl, and Andrew Fenacle, crown
bearer. (See additional photos on page 17).
Direct Lines Now Open
To All District Schools
The Warwick School
District now has a direct
dialing system to
connect callers directly
to each school. It is no
longer necessary to call
the central office to be
connected with the
various schools in the
district, said a school
D & E’s Fiber Optic Cable
Replaces Century-Old Copper
Editor’s Note: This article
was provided by Ronald E.
Frisbie, vice president of
Denver and E p h ra ta
Telephone and Telegraph
Co.
The unprecedented growth
in the Denver and Ephrata
Telephone and Telegraph
Co.’s operating territory,
and more specifically in the
Lititz exchange area, is the
reason the public has been
observing so much D and E
activity at the southern end
of Lititz.
The extensive six-year,
seven million dollar ex­pansion
and upgrading
program announced last
year is well underway.
Currently the company, in a
joint project with the Bell
Telephone Co. of Pa., is
placing a new type of cable,
called a fiber optic cable,
between its Lititz Central
Office and Bell’s main office
in downtown Lancaster.
The fiber optic cable
replaces the conventional
copper conductor-type
cable, which has served the
industry for over 100 years.
In simple terms, a fiber
system is the transmission
medium for carrying signals
of light emitted by a laser.
On the originating end,
light is encoded by sound
waves; on the distant end,
the light signal is decoded
and translated back into
sound. The new cable with
its 18 fibers measures just
five-eighths of an inch in
diameter.
The diameter of each fiber
is 50 microns. An analogous
indication of the size would
be to say that each fiber is
approximately twice the
thickness of a human hair.
With each pair of fibers
carrying 2,016 simultaneous
conversations, the initial
capacity of the cable is 18,144
circuits. This fact alone may
seem incredible, but the
ultimate capacity of the
cable is twice the initial
capacity, or 36,288 circuits.
The doubled capacity is
accomplished by adding
From sound to light to sound:
your voice becomes a beam of bght
until someone answers
at the other end of the line
district spokesman this
week.
Callers a re en­couraged
to use the
following numbers for
direct connection with
individual schools:
• C e n tra l Of-fice/
Business Oftfice-
626-2066
• High School Office-
626-2061
• Jo h n Beck
Elementary School-626-
2062
• Lititz Elementary
School-626-2063
• K is s e l Hill
Elementary School-626-
2067
• Middle School-626-
2064
A group of residents who
live near the proposed
townhouse and apartment
development at the corner of
Brunnerville and East
Newport Roads has banded
together to oppose the idea.
According to Ellen Booley,
a spokesperson for the
group, nine or ten couples
got together over the
weekend and drafted a letter
to the property owner, Dr.
Robert Huber, a Lititz
dentist.
The letter expresses
concern about the loss of
property value to their single
fam ily homes if a
development of townhouses
and apartments would be
constructed there, Booley
said. It also details concerns
about the need for increased
police protection, the safety
of children in light of in­creased
traffic, and possible
flooding from strom water
run-off.
The letter requests that
“ Huber re s tr ic t the
developer to single family
homes as a condition of
sale,” and asks that Huber
meet with the group to
discuss “ some creative
alternatives.”
Booley said Monday that
teams of residents had
circulated the letter among
the neighbors who live near
the proposed development
and had obtained ap­proximately
75 signatures.
She said the letter would
be mailed to Huber Monday
or Tuesday night.
“We’re not being closed
minded about this,” she said
Monday. “We’re not a
vigilante group...we would
like to see the townhouse and
apartments stopped. If not,
we have some creative
alternatives,” she added.
Booley was unwilling to
discuss what those creative
alternatives were.
Huber, contacted at his
office Tuesday, expressed
surprise at the opposition.
“It was zoned for R-3 (high
density housing under
current Warwick Township
ordinances) back 10 years
ago,” he said. “It isn’t that
we’re going against zoning.”
Huber said there was no
problem when the property
was rezoned in the 1970’s.
The tract of land, he said.
is 31.3 acres and is all that
remains of a 400 acre tract of
land that was deeded to his
ancestors by William Penn’s
sons in 1749.
“Down through the years
as a woman married and left
the family, a tract would be
given to her,” he explained.
Gradually the property
decreased in size until its
present 30 acres, he said.
The barn on the site burned
down about eight years ago, *
Huber said, so the land is
rented out to a farmer and
the house to someone else.
“So it’s not really a farm
pe se” he explained.
Nor is there a sense of it
still being a family property,
he added, since there are no
longer any of his relatives
living on the remaining land.
The name rema ins,
however, in Huber’s Run,
the small creek that runs
through the property and
Huber’s Woods, the stand of
trees south on Brunnerville
Road.
Huber said he is not
“closed minded” but he thinks
the townhouse and apartment
complex would fill the need
for housing for many people,
as well as contribute to
saving farmland by having
areas of high density
housing.
“The people should have
been aware that they were
next to'an area of R-3,” he
said.
That is exactly what many
of the residents are saying
they did not know, according
to Booley.
She claims that many of
the residents of the Fair
Meadows development along
the southeast edge of the
borough, adjacent to the
Huber tract, were told the
area was going to remain in
single family housing.
She said that in many
cases it was the developer,
Richard Hurst, or a real
estate agent, who “pointed
to” or “gestured” to the
open area claiming it would
all be single family housing.
For that reason she said
the residents’ group is
“considering the possibility”
of taking some sort of
separate action again Hurst.
Hurst denied the ac­cusations
against him on
Tuesday, saying that he
would have had nothing to
gain by lying to people.
He said he told people that
the part of his development
which lies within the
borough was going to be
single family houses, but
that he would have had no
reason to discuss the Huber
tract.
As for the remainder of his
development that lies in the
township, it is zoned R-3 as
well, he said, and he could
build apartments, con­dominiums
or quads there,
but will probably build
semi’s and quads.
“I can’t say what the other
realtors' said,” Hurst said.
“But they knew what was
planned there (on the Huber
tract) too.”
“ I ’m in n o c en t,” he
asserted. “I would not
misrepresent them...but
there is no way I can prove
it.”H
urst also said that he is at
the most a “very distant
cousin” of Mel Hurst, one of
the two developers of the
proposed townhouse and
apartment complex.
Several people at the
related zoning hearing in the
township in June insisted the
Hursts were brothers, he
said. He said he knows Mel
Hurst not because they are
related, even distantly, but
because Hurst once worked
for him.
The developers of the
proposed complex appeared
b e fo re th e Warwick
Township Zoning Board in
June to ask for sideyard and
lot variances so they could
construct a “state of the art”
development with narrower
lot frontages.
The zoning board delayed
a decision on the case, which
will be continued at this
month’s meeting on July 17.
In the meantime the
developers held an public
unveiling of their proposed
development, which was not
shown at the zoning hearing
meeting, on Tuesday night.
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 14,15
Church 18
Business Directory 20
Business Update 21
Public School Prayer Issue Still Hot
electronic equipment at each
end of the cable. The
technique is called wave
division multiplexing.
A fiber optic cable has
many advantages over the
older copper wire cable; but
the two main advantages are
that it utilizes much less
space, and it is virtually
unaffected by weather-related
problems.
Of special interest is the
comparison that it would
take 30 copper cables, each
2V2 inches in diameter, to
provide the same number of
circuits as this one fiber
cable will provide.
The Lititz -L an c aster
project has been designated
“Phase A.” “Phase B” will
result in the placement of a
fiber cable between Lititz
and Ephrata; In “Phase C”,
a fiber cable will be placed
b e tw e en L ititz and
Manheim. All three phases
are scheduled for completion
by the first quarter of 1986. A
total expenditure of $753,000
is anticipated for all three
phases.
D and E Co. serves 31,000
customers in a 227-square-m
ile a r e a in c lu d in g
Adamstown, Akron, Denver,
E p h r a ta , L ititz and
Manheim.
Curently Lititz is D and
E’s fastest growing ex­change
area.
Only 5/8 of an inch in diameter, D and E’s new fiber optic cable contains 18
fibers, each about two times the thickness of a human hair. Transmission via
these fibers is by means of a laser beam, encoded and decoded by the sound of
the speaker’s voice.
By Linda A. Harris
“Congress shall make no
law r e s p e c tin g an
establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the
press; of the right of the
people to peaceably
assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of
grievances.”
The above words were
added to the U.S. Con­stitution
as the First
Amendment, one of ten such
amendments generally
referred to as the Bill of
Rights. This Bill of Rights
outlined specific ideas that
the people felt must be
written in order to ensure
and safeguard certain
freedoms.
In 1962 and 1963, the U.S.
Supreme Court which serves
as the interpreter of the U.S.
Constitution declared that
state laws requiring public
school children to read from
the Bible and pray certain
p r a y e r s we re un­constitutional,
(see sidebar
for various U.S. Supreme
Court rulings).
Perhaps no other ruling
other than the legalization of
abortion has caused such
modern-day furor. Bumper
stickers proclaimed kids
need to pray, put prayer
back in schools, etc. Various
individuals and groups
lobbied for state laws and
constitutional amendments
to put prayer back in public
schools. The 1984 election
campaign coalesced the
issue into a national
movement when most of the
presidential candidates took
up the cause. To date,
however, the Supreme Court
ruling stands firm that
public school children must
not be required to read the
Bible or to say certain
prayers aloud each day.
Recently, the Record
Ex p re ss conducted a
telephone survey among
area clergy and school of­ficials
to determine the
thinking in this area.
Opinions ranged from
prayer is an individual and
personal experience to how
can anyone undertake to
compose a prayer to satisfy
everyone in a pluralistic
society such as ours.
Warwick school district
students and faculty observe
a moment of silence as part
of opening exercises each
day. No instruction is given
as to how that moment is to
be spent, according to Dr.
John R. Bonfield, district
superintendent. Because no
instruction is given, the
district is not affected by a
recent Supreme Court ruling
invalidating a moment of
silence law in Alabama
because the law allowed
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Supreme Court Rulings At A Glance
By Linda A. Harris
JUNE 26.1985
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled 6 to 3 that a 1981
Alabama law requiring
“meditation or voluntary
prayer” during a moment of
silence in public schools was
unconstitutional. While it
re a ffirm ed some two
decades of Supreme Court
rulings on school prayer
issues, it touched off
widespread controversy
among school p ray e r
proponents. The suit was
orignally brought by a
lawyer, Ismael Jaffree, an
agnostic, on behalf of his
children.
The ruling is not thought to
affect moment of silence
laws in two dozen other
states, including Penn­sylvania,
since these laws do
not specify how the moment
of silence is to be used.
Writing the majority
opinion, Justice John P.
Stevens noted that the
“government must pursue a
c o u rs e of c om p le te
neutrality toward religion.”
JANUARY 18,1983
The U.S. Supreme Court
Justices let stand a ruling
that a prayer-accomodation
policy devised for Lubbock,
Texas, schools crossed the
constitutional requirement
of separation of church and
state.
At issue was whether
school officials could allow
students to “gather at school
with supervision either
before or after regular
school hours on the same
basis as other groups ...for
any...religious...purposes so
long as attendance at such
meetings was voluntary.
DECEMBER 14,1981
The U.S. Supreme Court
barred prayer meetings
during non-class hours at
Guilderland High School,
near Albany, NY.
The ruling served to show
the distinction that the
Justices draw between
elementary and high school
students as opposed to
college students. Just a
week prior to the decision,
they ruled th a t the
University of Missouri ai
Kansas City could not ban
groups from using campus
facilities for prayer and
worship if it allowed other
groups to use the facilities.
Writing for the majority,
Justice Powell noted that
university students are
“young adults...less im­pressionable
than younger
students.”
OCTOBER 5,1981
The U.S. Supreme Court
refused to allow group
prayers during optional
student assemblies in public
schools in a decision in­volving
Chandler High
School, Chandler, AZ. The
ruling arose from a suit filed
in the spring of 1978 by
Theresa Collins whio
challenged the high school’s
practice of allowing student
council members to open
assemblies with prayer.
Students not wishing tto
attend such assemblies were
required to report to ,a
supervised study hall.
The Court ruled that “th<e
Chandler students musst
either listen to a prayer
chosen by a select group o>f
students or forego the op>-
portunity to attend a majoir
school function. It is difficult!
to conceive how this choice
would not coerce a student
wishing to be part of the
social mainstream and,
thus, advance one group’s
religious beliefs.”
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