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William Shaughnessy
Wilbur
names
new chief
Wilbur Chocolate Co.
announced this week the
promotion of William J.
Shaughnessy, 40, to chief
e x e cu tiv e o f f i c e r .
Shaughnessy, who has
served as president since
coming to Wilbur in 1983,
succeeds John A. Buzzard
who will continue as
chairman of the board of
directors.
Shaughnessy is a graduate
of the State University of
New York, Stony Brook, and
Harvard Business School.
He was vice president of Gill
and Duffus, Inc. and director
of commodities for Hershey
Foods Corporation.
AmBrit, Wilbur’s parent
company, is 85 percent
owned by Clabir Corp., a
growing conglomerate
holding a diversified mix of
companies specializing in
the manufacture of items
ranging from Wilbur’s
ch o c o la te b a r s to
mechanical time fuses for
defense materials.
Under John Buzzard’s
guidance, the company
showed an increase in sales
from $21 million to $110
million annually, a fact that
AmBrit’s Clarke attributes
to Wilbur’s greatest strength
- its management.
Wilbur is en g aged
primarily in the manufac­ture
of chocolate, con­fectionery
and ingredients
for the dairy, baking and
food processing industries.
In sid e to d a y ’s R e c o rd
Do you remember the 1956 Rothsville Halloween
Queen? On page 16, she is pictured with the 1986
queen, the 1985 queen and this year's court.
“ Out of the Past” is one of the Record's most
widely-read columns, featuring news stories from
years ago. Some are amusing, while others remind
us of yesterday's tragedies. Ten years ago, on Nov.
11, a 17-year-old Lititz girl drowned in Speedwell
Forge Lake after her car skidded on the icy bridge
and flipped over the guardrail into the icy water.
See story recap on page 19.
Achievement, attitude and effort: these are three
criteria middle school administrators use to choose
the middle school students of the month. Meet
November’s students on page 13.
The girls finally did it. In the ninth week of the
Record Express Football Contest, we have a female-type
person taking the prize. See page 3.
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Local hunter shot
for wild turkey
Lititz resident Kenneth
Longenecker, 31, was shot
while turkey hunting in
Mifflin County last week
with his two brothers, Barry,
36, and Roland, 33, a
Manheim resident.
Kenneth’s father, Carl
Longenecker of Temperance
Hill Road, reported the
accident Monday, noting, “I
think hunters should make
sure they know what they’re
shooting at.”
The elder Longenecker,
who was not present when
the accident occurred, said
his son was shot about 2 p.m.
by a hunter who later told
the state game warden, “I
thought he was a turkey. ’ ’
According to Longe­necker,
hunters stalking
turkey are not required
to wear fluorescent hunt­ing
gear. They dress in
camouflage colors and
darken their faces to blend in
with the terrain.
Longenecker explained
that this effort is to avoid
being seen by the turkeys,
who are known to be keen­eyed
fowl.
Longenecker said he was
told the hunter who shot his
son was about 20 to 25 yards
away in a stand of trees
which, according to
Longenecker, was “ not
dense.”
Following the shooting,
Kenneth was taken to the
Lewistown Hospital, where
he spent about three hours in
out-patient surgery, said his
father.
Longenecker said doctors
did not remove the 12 or 13
pellets in Kenneth’s lower
back and leg to avoid further
damage to the area.
This is normal procedure,
said Longenecker, and
Kenneth will, like others
before him, keep the pellets
as a memento of the event.
Kenneth received an equal
number of innoculations,
reported his father, but he
was unsure what all the
shots were for, he said.
Turkey shot usually holds
about 50 to 75 pellets, said
Longenecker.
Longenecker concluded
that he thinks all hunters
should wear florescent
hunting gear for safety, even
if they’re hunting the sharp-eyed
turkey.
Warwick Township P.D. Officers Ed Tobin and Al Olsen investigated an accident involving two
moving vehicles and one parked vehicle at the Landis Valley/Owl Hill intersection Oct. 30 at 1:25
p.m.
The accident, the eighth this year at the site, resulted in one driver being transported to St.
Joseph Hospital for treatment of severe bruises of her right knee and two of the three vehicles
having to be towed.
In the above photo, Adrienne M. Litz is assisted by an unidentified ambulance crew member as
Warwick Township Police Chief Harry Aichele and Officers Al Olsen and Ed Tobin, right, look on.
Lititz Fire Chief Richard Neidermyer is behind the ambulance crew member.
Tobin reported that Sadie M. Yost, 72, of Landis Homes, Lititz R3, was driving a 1973 Plymouth
north on Landis Valley Road, stopped at the stop sign, and proceeded into the intersection. Her
vehicle was struck by a 1986 Chevrolet Spectrum, being driven west on Owl Hill Road by Litz, 21, of
2441 Fruitville Pike, Lancaster. Litz had purchased the Spectrum last month.
The Yost vehicle caused minor damage to the left rear quarter panel of a 1985 Cadillac owned by
Melvin Lapp, 434 Estelle Drive, Lancaster. The Lapp vehicle was parked at Buchter's Garage, Owl
Hill Road.
Litz was transported to St. Joseph Hospital, Lancaster, by Warwick Ambulance. Yost was cited for
failure to yield the right of way at a stop sign.
Accidents increase
at blind intersections
By Linda A. Harris
Warwick Township police
are becoming increasingly
concerned about the number
and frequency of accidents
at certain township in­tersections.
Despite the installation
three weeks ago of signs on
Landis Valley Road warning
of stop signs ahead at the
In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 12,13
Church 14
Manheim 15
Business Directory 20
Classified 21,22,23
Clairs open London office,
negotiate on sales in Orient
by Bonnie Szymanski
From Lititz, Pa. to 4344
Huxton Square, London, in
20 years....
Known on the other side of
the Atlantic as Clair Bros.
Audio Ltd., the company was
established at its London
address only a year ago by
Roy and Gene Clair. They
moved operations overseas
to accommodate their
European customers, the
rock groups that use Clair
Bros. Audio Enterprises
Inc., as the company is
known in Lititz, where it was
bom and raised.
“Since 1970, our presence
has been known in Europe,”
Roy claimed recently in an
interview conducted at his
home on West Third Avenue.
A visitor to the Huxton
Square address will find an
office and warehouse, where
a small staff keeps watch
over equipment that once
provided a pillow of revenue
for the boat companies and
airlines that shipped the
Clair sound equipment to
Europe many times a year.
Jam e s K ah la ff, an
engineer with the Clairs for
15 years, is now a permanent
resident of London, in
charge of the British
operation.
The inconvenience and
expense of shipping the huge
pieces of equipment back
and forth across the Atlantic
is in the past, explained Roy,
noting how their European
customers “had been putting
pressure” on them for a long
time to make the move.
London’s Tower Bridge: a landmark in England's historic city, where Clair
Bros. Audio Enterprises Inc., a.k.a. Clair Bros. Audio Enterprises Ltd., has
opened an office to headquarter its European operations.
These customers include
big-name entertainers like
the rock groups’ rock group,
“Queen,” and singer Paul
Young, described by Roy as
“huge in Europe.”
“Three-fourths of our
customers are English,”
said Roy.
Clair Bros, now has about
60 permanent accounts, who
use no other sound company
but Clair Bros.
Who represents their most
famous account?
Mentally skimming a long
list of names, Roy answered,
“Bruce Springsteen.”
Going international
Twenty years ago, neither
Gene nor Roy could have
imagined the magnitude of
the sound system dynasty
they were creating.
Both were fledgling sound
engineers, working part-time
at a hobby/business
they loved but couldn’t
depend on for a livlihood.
Roy finished at Miller-sville
State College (now
Millersville University) and
spent a semester teaching
industrial arts.
But it was becoming all too
clear that sound was where
their future lay.
A successful concert at
Franklin and Marshall
College soon brought them
repeat business.
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intersection of Owl Hill
Road, the intersection was
the site of the eighth ac­cident
this year Oct. 30 at
1:25 p.m. That’s an increase
of three over the 1985 year-end
total.
The same problem is
occuring at the Brunnerville-
Newport roads intersection
where five accidents have
occurred to date, an increase
of two over the 1985 year-end
to ta l. Two other in­tersections
have only one
less accident thus far this
year over last year’s total
figure. They are the Route
501/Newport Road in­tersection
(four to date) and
Route 772/Rothsville Road
(three to date).
Causes Listed
On Jan. 21, the first ac­cident
of the year took place.
In a March accident at the
Landis Valley/Owl Hill
roads site, a driver went
through the stop sign on
Landis Valley Road and
struck a second vehicle
causing light damage to both
vehicles. The first driver
was cited for failing to yield
the right of way at a stop
sign. In May, a truck driver
was cited for failing to stop
at a stop sign at the in­tersection.
His truck struck
a car which in turn struck
several posts and rails at a
home at 32 Owl Hill Road.
There was moderate
damage to the truck and
severe damage to the car.
The driver of the car was
taken to the hospital with
head and neck injuries.
On May 2, there was also
another accident at the site.
On Sept. 11, a 17-year-old
girl was admitted to the
hospital with serious injuries
following a two-vehicle
accident at Landis Valley
and Owl Hill roads. The teen
was a passenger in a vehicle
which had failed to stop at
the stop sign. Both drivers
were treated for injuries and
released from hospitals.
On Sept. 16, the in­tersection
was again the site
of an accident. The driver
and a passenger were taken
to the hospital, treated and
released. The driver had
failed to yield the right of
way to a second vehicle. On
Oct. 7, a truck driver was
driving southwest on Owl
Hill, stopped at the in­tersection
and then backed
the truck into a car. The Oct.
30 accident is documented in
the accompanying photo and
caption.
Common Denominator
The one common
denominator in a number of
the accidents is that the
driver at fault was traveling
east on Landis Valley Road.
In the March accident, the
driver was trave lin g
southeast on Landis Valley;
in the May accident, the
driver was headed east oji
Landis Valley; in the Sept. 11
and 18 accidents, the drivers
were headed east on Landis
Valley; in the Oct. 30 ac­cident,
the driver was
headed northwest on Landis
Valley. The driver in the Oct.
7 accident was headed
southwest on Owl Hill Road.
Police suspect speed,
failure to yield the right of
way at stop signs as well as
obstructions on both sides of
Landis Valley Road as
contributing factors to the
number of accidents at the
intersection.
Second Intersection
The Brunnerville-Newport
intersection has long been a
thorn in the side of police
trying to make the in­t
e r s e c t io n s a f e r for
motorists. Their concern has
increased as the number of
motorists continues to in­c
r e a s e due to new
development.
A recently-completed
traffic study by Officer Rick
Groff of the township police
department indicated
reduced visibility on one side
of the intersection and speed
as contributing factors to the
number of accidents. Among
the recommendations he
made and which are being
passed on to PennDOT are a
speed reduction, the
restructuring of the road
curve and the elimination or
reduction of an em­bankment.
According to Chief Harry
A ich e le , the r e c om ­mendations
concerning the
curve and the embankment
have been made on a
number of occasions, but the
state has failed to act on
them. He considers the
speed reduction the most
likely of the requests to be
granted.
NOTICE
The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailers
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The November
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, Nov.
12 at 7:30 P.M. at The
General Sutter Inn.
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend.
Parking plagues
rezoning efforts
i j g * By Linda A. Harris
Members of the Lititz
Zoning Hearing Board
decided four cases involving
properties fronting Broad
Street Nov. 3, turning down
one request and placing
restrictions on the second.
Steve Mitchell of Rudy
Builders, York, represented
the Lititz Baptist Church, 100
S. Broad St. He requested a
variance to substitute a non-conforming
use in order to
convert the present church
building into 14 apartments
for senior citizens.
He noted that under the
present zoning ordinance,
the church could only sell its
building as a single family
dwelling or to another
congregation for use as a
church.
Mitchell explained that the
church has purchased
another property to relocate
the congregation and of­ficials
do not believe the
present building could be
sold as a private dwelling
and that the fact that there is
no off-street parking makes
it nearly impossible to sell it
to another congregation.
Parking A Problem
He told the three board
members present (Fitts,
Olah and Reidenbaugh) that
parking was one of the
r e a s o n s th e p r e s e n t
congregation was seeking
new quarters, that its growth
since 1968 was such that it
needed a larger facility. He
explained that instead of
presenting plans to the
board, he was simply there
to seek guidance as to what
use would be likely to gain
acceptance of both the board
and the community since the
building itself was historic.
Neighbors, who crowded
the meeting room, agreed
that parking was a real
problem, but they felt that
the problem could not be
resolved by creating 14
apartments. As one man
noted, senior citizens still do
drive. Earl Whiskeyman, 112
S. Broad St., declared “I ’m
66 and still drive and hope to
be driving 30 more years!”
Glenn Henry read a
prepared list of objections to
the proposal. These included
parking, no proof of hard­ship,
the church at various
times could have purchased
adjacent property for
parking, and the church
property lacks the required
amount of space for the
proposed apartments as
stipulated in the ordinance.
Mike Jennings objected
the the proposal of removing
the stained glass windows
and the lack of sketches or
other tangible evidence of
what exactly was being
proposed.
Pastor Explains
The Rev. Tracy Barnes,
pastor of Lititz Baptist,
noted that he recognized the
problem which exists
“because we’re part of it.”
He went on to explain that
the congregation has not
maintained the property the
way it should be because it is
leaving. “The only church
which would be likely to buy
it is a smaller congregation
and it wouldn’t have the
funds to maintain it. If a
larger church bought it, the
parking problem would be
worse. Our desire is to work
this out to make it amenable
to all concerned because we
don’t want to be a problem
and we don’t want the
church building to become
an eyesore,” he asserted.
Jeff Crosby, 40 S. Broad
St., said he wasn’t sure that
the only options were
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Lititz Baptist Church
Despite Casey win
Scranton takes
local popular vote
The news that Penn­sylvania’s
new governor was
a Democrat was probably a
surprise to many Lancaster
Countians. Following a
much-publicized muckraki­ng
contest for the state’s
highest office, Republican
gubernatorial candidate,
Bill Scranton carried 71
percent of the county vote in
Tuesday’s election, com­pared
to governor-elect Bob
Casey’s 28 percent.
L ititz Borough and
Warwick Township followed
the Lancaster County trend.
Unofficial election results
show the local vote as
decidedly Republican.
Scranton received 229 votes
in Lititz 1st ward, 1st
precinct, compared to 91 for
governor-elect Casey, and 3
for the Hoover-Brickhouse
consumer ticket.
Scranton picked up 292
votes in Lititz 1st ward,
precinct 2. Casey garnered
111 votes in that precinct
with Hoover earning four
votes.
Second ward, 1st precinct
voters gave Scranton 236
votes, compared to Casey’s
83, and Hoover’s 2. Second
ward, precinct 2 voters cast
299 for Scranton, 142 for
Casey, and 4 for the Hoover
ticket.
Scranton also received the
majority of votes in 3rd
ward, precinct 1 with 376
votes compared to Casey’s
127 and Hoover’s 3. Third
ward, precinct 2 voters gave
Scranton 386 votes to Casey’s
111 and Hoover’s 4.
Warwick Township polls
also showed a decidedly
R ep u b lic a n tu rn o u t.
Brunnerville voted 641 for
Scranton, 177 for Casey, and
7 for the consumer can­didate,
Hoover. Kissel Hill
results reflect 799 votes for
Scranton, 212 for Casey, and
7 for Hoover. Scranton also
took the majority of
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