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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages-No. 54
Gem-Chem seeks approval
to expand operation
In 1979, Steve Gibble of Lititz met George Bush of Washington D.C., when
Gibble was chairman of the College Republican National Committee and Bush
was thinking about moving into the White House.
Lititz attorney has strong ties
to Reagan's Washington
by Bonnie Szymanski
Recalling the first time he
discovered how closely his
own political philosophy
aligned with th a t of
President Reagan’s, Lititz
attorney Steve Gibble ob­served
recently, “That man
articulated to the letter
everything I believed in.”
It was 1976, and Gibble
was chairman of the Gerald
Ford for President cam­paign
at Oral Roberts
University, where Gibble
earned his bachelor’s degree
in history in 1979.
A friend convinced him to
listen to a Reagan speech on
television, and ; he was
hooked.
Gibble was to meet
Reagan in person only a year
later in Tulsa, Okla., where
he was involved in cam­paigning
for a Republican
congressional candidate.
‘My father still has the
photo taken that day,”
reports Gibble. “There is
complete shock on my face.”
He remembers the advice
Reagan offered him: “As a
young person, you’ll be
tem p te d to do
things you don’t believe in,”
said the Great Com­municator.
Reagan left young Gibble
with the challenge: “You
can succeed and win by
doing things you believe are
right, even when you’re
overruled.”
Ten years and three
campaigns later, Gibble
remains a member of the
extended Reagan family.
He continues to keep in
touch with many of the
friends he made during his
two-year tenure as chairman
of the College Republican
National Committee, the
largest student political
organization in the Free
World and an auxiliary of the
R e p u b lic an N a tio n a l
Committee in Washington,
D.C., according to Gibble.
In 1979 when he ran for the
office, he was already known
as a Reagan man, so much
that it was rumored his
campaign was being
financed by Reagan.
Gibble denies this, ad­mitting,
though, that he did
have the use of the
Republican Hospitality Suite
in Washington for his
receptions.
After he won the national
chairmanship, he received a
call from soon-to-be
President Reagan himself,
congratulating the young
Lititz resident on his victory.
When the call came in to
his parents’ home in Lititz,
laughs Gibble, his mother
and father, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gibble, thought it
was a joke.
Many of the youth who
served with him during his
term as college Republican
chairman, and many of
those he met at national and
international conferences
“have gravitated upward,”
says Gibble. Some are
m em b e rs of s ta te
legislatures, some are in
Congress and one man, Lee
Atwater, is directing the
George Bush for President
campaign.
Reagan campaign
A month after Reagan’s
congratulatory telephone
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by Linda A. Harris
Larry Gemmel, president
of Gem-Chem, presented an
initial request to Lititz
Borough Council April 14 to
assist the local firm in
petitioning the state for
permission to expand its
operation.
Gemmell told the council
that due to changes in
federal and state regulations
his firm was classified in the
hazardous waste category
and that designation had
increased the firm’s liability
insurance from $15,000 to
$70,000. In order to offset
that increase, it had two
options: get out of business
or expand to offer additional
types of services.
“We don’t want to get out
of business. We feel we offer
a valuable service both to
the state and federal
government and to the
community,” Gemmel said.
Gemmel explained that his
firm hopes to begin a
household hazardous waste
recycling program. He
added that “the actual
operation will be no different
than what we do today and
we are not asking to store
any greater volume than
what we are presently
permitted. The types of
materials will be different.
In this issue
We are not going to make the
situation anymore hazar­dous
to the community.”
Council president Clyde
Tshudy said he was not
convinced of the desirability
of such a proposal con­sidering
the number of
stories on the television
concerning hazardous waste
clean-ups. Gemmel replied
th a t mechanisms are
already in place to handle
any problems which might
occur in the future and that
he didn’t foresee any of the
problems to which Tshudy
was alluding.
“I came here to ask the
assistance of council in
petitioning the state for this
project and to educate and
inform the community in a
responsible manner as to
what we are proposing. I’ll
take whatever time is
needed to help you un­derstand,”
Gemmel said,
even offering to pay for
Tshudy to attend a course on
hazardous waste.
“We will not begin the
petitioning process without
the approval and un­derstanding
of both the
council and the community.
I’d like to have a public
hearing as soon as feasible to
present the information to
the public and I’m asking for
the help of the council,” he
concluded.
Gemmel agreed to
Editorial 4 prepare a brief statement as
Sports Section 6,7,8 to exactly what additional
Social 18,19 types of wastes his firm was
Manheim 20,21 proposing to handle and to
Church 22,23 outline the petitioning
Business Directory 24,25 process for the next council
Classified 13,14,15 meeting.
Fire destroys car at high school
Lititz Fire Company
volunteers responded to fires
April 10 and 11.
The first fire destroyed a
1981 Chevrolet Impala
stationwagon owned by
Clyde “Tim” Brown. Brown,
a CORE/SCIP director,
parked his vehicle outside
the Warwick High School
building April 11. He told
firefighters that the vehicle
had been parked about
20 minutes when bus
drivers who were waiting for
students at the end of the
school day and someone
inside the high school
building noticed the car’s
engine compartment on fire
and called the fire company.
Firefighters extinguished
the blaze within a few
minutes. However, the
vehicle was completely
gutted. The loss was
estimated at $2,000 liy Lititz
fire chief Joe Texter. Texter
said the fire appeared to be
the result of a fuel line
problem. Firefighters were
on the scene approximately
one-half hour.
The second fire occurred
April 12 about 1:30 a.m. at
Yerger Brothers. Texter
said that workmen had
performed routine main­tenance
on a paint booth and
replaced filters. They placed
the used filters in a barrel
and closed the top. Spon­taneous
combustion caused
an explosion about six hours
later, blowing the lid off the
barrel.
“Fortunately the sprinkler
system was activated by the
smoke and heat and the fire
was extinguished by the
system when we arrived.
The building was filled with
smoke and the challenge was
to find the source and make
sure it was put out,” Texter-said.
He explained that a
sprinkler system, such as
Yerger Brothers employs, is
activated as smoke and heat
rise. The heat sets off the
sprinklers by melting or
fusing a link when the
temperature reaches a
preset figure. “In this case,
there were two things
working in favor of minimal
damage: the building had a
sprinkler system which
activated before the flames
reached above the system
and Yerger Brothers runs a
very, very clean operation -
there was no dust and debris
to catch fire from the initial
explosion,” Texter ex­plained.
Lititz firefighters were
assisted at the scene by
Rothsville and Brunnerville
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Registration for Warwick
children planning to enter
kindergarten in September
will be held in district
e lem e n ta ry sch o o ls
Tuesday, April 21, through
Tuesday, April 28, during
school hours.
Enrollment of children
planning to enter first grade
in the fall but who are not
now in kindergarten will also
be held at this time. Students
presently attending kin­dergarten
do not need to be
registered again.
Children entering kin­dergarten
in September
should be 5 years of age
before Sept. 15, and those
entering first grade must be
6 years of age before Sept.
15. Children with exceptional
ability, whose 5th birthday is
between Sept. 15, 1987, and
Jan. 31, 1988, may be
examined by the school
psychologist to determine if
kindergarten placement is
recommended. Arrange­ments
for this special testing
must be made through the
building principal. All
children who are to be
enrolled in kindergarten
must be scheduled for the
district screening program.
Registration and the
kindergarten screening
program will be held at John
Beck Elementary on April 21
Warwick township police are investigating this accident which claimed the life
of David S. Brandt, the driver, early Saturday morning. Photo by Chris Knight
Fatal accident still
under investigation
ACCIDENTS
OWL HILL ROAD:
Warwick Township P.D.
Officer Rick Groff is con­tinuing
to investigate an
accident which claimed the
life of David S. Brandt, 35, a
former Denver resident,
April 11.
Brandt died instantly in
the 7 a.m. crash, according
to information received by
the department from Dr.
Barry Walp, county coroner,
who performed an autopsy.
Walp told Groff that the man
died of a severed aorta arch.
Earlier speculation that
Brandt had possibly suffered
an epileptic seizure prior to
the crash was ruled out
during the autopsy, ac­cording
to Groff. Results of
other tests performed as
part of the autopsy are
pending.
Brandt, who was driving
the stationwagon, and two
passengers, John J. Adams,
20, and William Steffy, both
of Ephrata, reportedly spent
April 10 at a quarry east of
Lititz and were returning
from there when the vehicle
slammed into a tree on the
property of Barbara Walter,
901 Lititz Pike. The
passengers both sustained
cuts and bruises and were
admitted to Lancaster
General Hospital. The
vehicle was reported to have
been traveling between 60
and 70 mph in the 40 mph
area at the time of the crash.
Officers William Fasnacht
and A1 Olsen assisted at the
scene. Assisting police were
members of the Lititz and
Manheim fire companies,
fire police, and ambulances
from Ephrata Community
Hospital, Lancaster General
Hospital and Warwick
Ambulance Assn.
TWIN BROOK ROAD:
Officer Olsen investigated
an accident April 12 at 4:45
p.m. He reported that Carol
Shoener, Pine Grove R3,
backed into the David
Shaffer residence at 6 Twin
Brook Rd. There was
moderate damage to the
residence and minor
damage to the vehicle.
BECKER ROAD: Officers
Ed Tobin and Darren
Stoltzfus investigated a one-vehicle
accident April 7 at
9:10 p.m. on Becker Road.
John Royer, 17, of 505 Kissel
Hill Rd., told the officers
that his vehicle was forced
off the road by another
vehicle. The Royer vehicle
landed on its roof in a creek.
Royer was cited for un­derage
drinking. The ac­cident
remains under in­vestigation.
RT. 501/SNYDER HILL
RD.: Aloysius Bleistein, 71,
of 540 E. Frederick St.,
Lancaster, was cited for
following too closely as a
result of an accident April 10
at 7:46 p.m. at Rt. 501 and
Snyder Hill Road. Officer
Ray Lausch reported that
Bleistein was driving south
on Rt. 501 when his vehicle
struck the rear of a vehicle
driven by Millicent Felty, 44,
of 937 May Rd. Felty had
stopped her vehicle and was
attempting to turn left onto
Snyder Hill Road at the time
of the crash.
THEFT
LINCOLN AVENUE:
Officer Joe Kilgore is in­vestigating
the theft of two
Realistic speakers from a
1984 Mustang owned by Elsie
Stoltzfus, 105 W. Main St.,
Leola., April 12 at 8:48 p.m.
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and 22; Kissel Hill
Elementary on April 23 and
24; and at Lititz Elementary
on April 27 and 28. It is im­portant
to understand that
the screening program is not
a testing situation. It in­volves
a review of the motor,
visual, auditory and speech
abilities of each student to
insure the best possible
placement decision.
Parents are asked to pick
up registration forms before
the scheduled registration
dates at their respective
schools. At this time, parents
will be given an appointment
for the kin d erg a rten
screening program on one of
the two registration days.
This p ro c e d u re will
eliminate waiting lines
during registration. The
registration forms may be
filled out at home at the
p a re n t’s leisu re and
returned to school on the
date of the appointment.
The records needed at
registration time include a
birth certificate and im­munization
records. Parents
are requested to ask their
fam ily d o c to r for
verification of th ree
innoculations for diptheria
and tetanus (usually jiven
as baby shots), poiio, one
dose of measles and one dose
of German Measles.
Richard Nuffort, seated left, James Hess, Tom Weidman, and Dr. Thomas
Weida, far right, as well as some of the 50 people attending the April 8 super­visors
meeting listen as supervisors discuss the issue of a manure storage pit.
Supervisor Jim Klopp is seated to the left foreground.
Supervisors approve manure pit
Warwick Township
supervisors approved a
request for a 240,000 gallon
manure storage pit during
the April 8 meeting. The vote
was 3-2 with supervisors Jim
Klopp and Irel Buekwalter
voting ag a in st, while
supervisors Bob Smith, Bob
Wohlsen and Roy Irvin voted
for the facility proposed by
James D. Hess.
The facility will be used to
contain manure from 730
feeder hogs Hess plans to
raise in an enclosed facility
on land near Clay Road. It is
to be emptied in spring and
fall with the contents in­jected
into soil on Hess’
farm.
Hess also raises 36,000
layers, 180 head of cattle,
rye, barley and no-till com
on his 260 acres on Clay
Road, near Pine Hill Road.
Hess was issued a building
permit April 9 to begin
renovations on an existing
building to house the hogs.
The renovations are ex­pected
to cost $40,000.
The permit for con­struction
of the outdoor
storage pit was delayed
while the township zoning
officer, Lynn Williamson,
requested assignment of an
engineer to supervise the
construction from the
township engineer’s office,
Huth Associates. A meeting
was held April 13 between
Williamson, Hess, Tom
Weidman of Hollinger Farm
and Home Supply, 35 N.
Cedar St., (his firm will
supply the piglets and the
feed), Huth representatives
and a representative of the
construction firm to discuss
the details of the plan.
Williamson issued a permit
following that meeting.
Williamson said that Mar-
Alien Concrete Products of
Akron will construct the
manure storage pit using
Soil Conservation Service
designs— The Soil Con­servation
Service also did
the test borings tor the site.
Art Thompson and Jack
Stone of Huth Engineers will
do the inspections while the
pit is under construction as
well as the final inspection.
Williamson estimated that
the men will do four or five
inspections. Hess will be
billed by the township for the
services of the engineers.
The tank to be constructed
is expected to cost $18,500
according to the figures
given Williamson by Mar-
Allen.
In o th e r b u s in e s s ,
supervisors approved bids
for unleaded and diesel fuels
for township vehicles with
the contract being awarded
to Worley and Obetz,
Manheim.
Supervisors also approved
a request by developers for
Staffordshire, a develop­ment
to be constructed on
Arrowhead Drive, for a
temporary cul-de-sac during
construction of phase one,
turned down a request for
slant curbing rather than the
township-required vertical
curbing, and approved an-extension
for presentation of
the final plan for the phase
one construction.