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T H E R E S S SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY 110th Year ESTABLISHED APRII 1877 AS THE SUNBEAM CONSOLIDATED WITH THE L ITIT7 RECORD ! 93 7 Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, June 11,1987 25 CENTS A COPY. $8.50 PtR YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages-No. 10 Inside today's Record a mm What is Warwick Township P.D. Officer Ray Lausch working on in this photo? Answer: he's engraving an identification number on a bike as part of a bike rodeo program held by the department Saturday. Read about it on page 16. Five members of Lititz Church of the Brethren were honored during choir recognition Sunday. Together they have a combined serive total of 248 years. Their story is on page 23. Yes, there is still gold in California's American River Country - and one lucky Lititz couple found some during a visit. Read about their adventures on page 16. Children, police appeal to hit/run driver by Linda A. Harris The large red, white and blue sign at the entrance to the Yoder home, 1151 Clay Rd., says it all: “Would the person who hit out mom with their car Saturday on Clay Road please call her at Ephrata Hospital (733-0311) and tell her your (children’s spelling) sorry. Signed, Hannah, Linda, Barnaby, Elise and Jackson.” The sign carries a large red cross at the bottom. Four of the children and their mother, Sharon, were returning to their home Saturday around 12:15 p.m. after three of the children participated in the Warwick Township Police Bicycle Rodeo at Rothsville Fire Company. The family outing was just the beginning of the good times Mrs. Yoder had olanned with her children this summer, according to her husband Jack. And the first outing proved a very successful one with two of the children bringing home prizes (see article on rodeo) Near Tragedy But, the success of the day became near tragedy for the happy group. Mrs. Yoder had Elise, 2, strapped in an infant seat attached to the rear of her bike and Jackson, 8, was riding just in front when Mrs. Yoder stopped by the side of the road to check Elise who had fallen asleep. Just about a mile from their home, a dark brown car struck Mrs. Yoder as she checked the child. At first she remained standing with the support of the bike, but soon pain caused her to collapse with the bike falling into the field at the edge of the road. Jackson, who was stopped about 100 to 200 (Turn to Page 12) Supervisors consider road turnback’ by Linda A. Harris Warwick Township residents may be seeing some improvements on a number of roads they travel if Warwick Township supervisors have their way. Supervisors were expected to approve petitioning the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to take over several roads and streets which are currently considered state roads during a meeting June 10. These include: Newport Road from the Lititz Pike to Rothsville Road; Clay Road from Rothsville Road to Newport Road (L.R. 36156), from Newport Road to Pine Hill Road, and Pine Hill Road from Clay Road to Brunnerville Road (L.R. 36062); Church Street from Main Street to Disston View Drive and Disston View Drive from Church Street to Becker Road (L.R. 36011). Several Provisions The petition is subject to a number of provisions. First, PennDOT must retain responsibility for Pa. Rt. 772 through Rothsville which is not involved in the proposed water system. Second, Clay Road will only be accepted if PennDOT builds a new bridge over Lititz Run, however, the township will assume no responsibility for any bridges, including the proposed one on Clay Road. Finally, if the proposed water system is not constructed, the township will take over only Clay Road from Rothsville Road to Newport Road. In addition to the above provisions, supervisors have asked that a number of repairs be made by the state as part of the package. Repairs requested include widening and stabilizing the shoulders on Newport Road and applying a seal coat; repairing the edges of Clay Road, removing the railroad track knob, improving bridge approaches and applying a seal coat (L.R. 36156); repairing the edges of Clay Road and applying a seal coat, repairing the edges and applying a seal coat to Pine Hill Road (L.R. 36062); repairing the edges and applying a seal coat to Church Street and Disston View Drive (L.R. 36011). Brunnerville fire fighters roll out the hose at Tuesday night’s fire in the Lititz First Church of God, 33 E. Center St. The state fire marshall said the fire, which began in the basement, was the result of arson. Fire marshall continues investigation Church fire determined to be arson Trooper Dave Fisher, Pennsylvania State Police fire marshall, has determined the Tuesday night fire at the Lititz First Church of God to be the result of arson. The church is located at 33 E. Center St. Although Fisher declined to elaborate on his continuing investigation, he did confirm that the fire started in the basement of the church and that curtains were involved. This is the second fire within less than a week that has occurred in the southeast section of the borough. On June 4, fire broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold McKinney, 18 E. Orange St., while the couple was away. Trooper Fisher declined to speculate on a possible connection between the two fires, as he was out of town when the June 4 fire occurred and has not conferred with Trooper Barry White, who investigated the earlier fire. Lititz Fire Chief Joe Texter reported extensive smoke damage to the church with an estimated damage total “around $10,000.” He explained that the basement of the building was on fire in three different locations. “A fire was located in the kitchen area and two other fires were located along the sliding drapes used in the basement area as room dividers,” Texter said. He added that the combination of smoke from a burning box of styrofoam products, combustibles in the kitchen area, and the drapes “put off a tremendous amount of soot.” “There was so much smoke that we were unable to determine if all the fires were out,” Texter commented. The blaze was declared under control at 10:42 p.m. approximately 30 minutes after fire officials arrived on the scene. Firefighters remained on the scene late Tuesday with exhaust fans. A s s is tin g L ititz fire fig h te rs were the (Turn to Page 13) Received bone marrow transplant in March Kevin Gerhart counts days, as doctors count blood cells by Bonnie Szymanski Kevin Gerhart, 22, spent 65 days in Johns Hopkins Hospital before moving into the Joanne Rockwell House, where he has been staying in Baltimore while he waits for his blood count to reach the magic number of 1,000. Now an outpatient, Kevin, son of Phares and Sandra Gerhart, 209 Swarthmore Time Memories, future predictions encased capsule buried at Moravian Manor by Becky Collins They’ve seen our society become motorized. When they were children, the horse and buggy was still the popular mode of travel. Then came Henry Ford whose model “T” revolutionized transportation and later brought forth the tractor to replace the horse-drawn plow. Only fifty years later, men were actually walking on the moon. They’ve seen great advances in the workplace. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, women were given two :hoices if they wanted to work outside the home. They could be nurses or teachers. Today, they watch their great-granddaughters working with computers in elementary school. They’ve seen great strides made in medicine as researchers look for answers in the tre a tm e n t of P a rk in so n ’s and Alt-zheimer’s diseases and a cure for cancer. They are our country’s greatest natural resource - our best link to the past and our hope for the future. They are our older Americans. In celebration of Older Americans month, Moravian Manor recently held a special program during which they buried a time capsule to be opened on May 29, 2012, twenty-five years from now. Inside were the names of all the staff of the Manor, a listing of the Manor residents, volunteers and board members, as well as a listing of the names and notes from children enrolled in the Children’s Corner. Also encased in the capsule were a copy of the newspaper, a collection of predictions for the future and essays from Warwick High School Teen Volunteers. The residents chose to include all current information on the prevention and treatment of Parkin- Moravian Manor administrator Nancy H. O'Hara places the time capsule filled with memorabilia and predictions for the future in the ground at the Paul W. McCloud Memorial Garden on the Manor Green. With Mrs. O'Hara are Barbara Musser, the Manor's oldest resident, and representatives of the Warwick Teen Volunteers as well as students at Children’s Corner. son’s and Altzheimer’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Some Manor residents were interviewed about their past professions and the changes they have seen occur during their lifetimes. The time capsule contains essays from three Manor residents who were involved in agriculture, (Martin Decker), education, (Mary Goodyear), and nursing (Mrs. Margaret Shull). Education Mary Go o d y e ar remembers that “women had only two choices” if they decided to work outside the home. “They could be nurses or teachers,” she observed. College e n tr a n c e examinations were different, too. “Latin was a prerequisite for college admittance,” she recalled. Miss Goodyear, who received her master’s degree from Columbia University, enjoyed Latin and soon after graduation became a teacher at Linden Hall. She taught Latin at the girl’s school from 1928 until her retirement on 1964. Miss Goodyear noted in her essay, “even with all the computer technology of the 1980’s, we tend to go back to our basics.” “For example,” she explained, “Latin, a basic requirement for college entrance in the early 1900s, later became almost non-existent. Yet today Latin has returned as an elective subject in high schools and colleges.” The time capsule buried by residents of Moravian Manor in recognition of Older Americans Month. Nursing When 1 8 -y e a r-o ld Margaret Shull reported to Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing the day after her graduation from high school, she was in for the experience of her life. The year was 1919 when she decided to enter the three-year program which included a healthy amount of “on the job” training and limited classroom instruction. “Nurses primary duties were taking the patients’ pulse and temperature, bathing and feeding patients if it was required, making beds, cleaning the rooms and administering medicatons,” Mrs. Shull recalls. “Nurses were not required to take blood pressures or change dressings. These were only done by a physician,” she explained. Mrs. Shull remembers that surgeries were often long and that nurses were required to to stand for hours monitoring the patient’s pulse. Anesthesia, she revealed, was administered by dropping liquid ether into a cone-shaped mask placed over the patient’s mouth and nose area. Nurses in the 1920s made a starting salary of $5 a day working seven days a week with four hours off on Sunday. A regular shift was from 7 to 7, and their uniforms were ankle-length dresses with blue stripes, a starched bib apron and cuffs, black stockings and shoes. Nurses were also required to wear a starched (Turn to Page 13) Drive, returns daily to the hospital for white blood counts, red blood counts, platelet counts, “polys” and other tests to gauge the balance of his body chemistry. The daily counts represent the completion of a process that began in March, when Kevin entered the hospital to prepare for an “autologous” bone marrow transplant to combat the non-Hodgkins lymphoma that threatened his life. Because no compatible donor could be found for Kevin, it was necessary for him to become an autologous donor; that is, he donated his own bone marrow, which was treated with an anticancer drug before being replaced. Because the treated marrow was also sent through a light activator to intensify the effects of the experimental drug, Kevin was required to spend three full days in complete darkness while wearing sunglasses. This was part of the precautionary procedure, said Kevin, made necessary by the use of the new drug, which Kevin c a lle d “Marocinin.” Honorable discharge His stay in the hospital came to an end about two weeks ago when his doctors discharged him despite the fact that his blood count was still below the ideal level. But Kevin had surprised all his doctors by rebounding from the the dramatic medical procedure with little infection, only two brief periods of high fever, and no more than mild nausea. A majority of patients are expected to react violently to the large doeses of antibiotics used to fight the infections that take hold of In this issue Editorial 4 Sports Section 6,7,8 Classified 13,14,15 Social 21,22 Church 23,24 Manheim 25,26 Business Directory 27 Kevin Gerhart immuno-suppressed patients like Kevin. But, contends Kevin, “I must have a strong will; I set my mind to it that I was going to doO.K.” And he did. He was only the second bone marrow transplant patient at Johns Hopkins who didn’t require an intravenous food supplement, noted Kevin with understandable pride. “I kept up my appetite,” he recalled, then laughed: “I would throw up, then go eat.” Medical students, resident doctors and teaching fellows would enter his room each morning to study his case. But they wouldn’t stay, laughs Kevin, because he had so few complaints. Since leaving the hospital, Kevin continues to improve. In fact, he’s been doing so well that he and some family members walked around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for a full day last weekend, he reported Monday. Company calls Kevin’s mother has been staying in Baltimore to be near her son since he entered the hospital for the bone marrow transplant. Since his move to Johns Hopkins, Kevin has received visits and phone calls almost continually. In addition to his parents, his grandmother, Grace Heiler of Lancaster, visits once a week. His other grandmother, Mary Gerhart of Denver, calls him every day, he said. (Turn to Page 9)
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1987-06-11 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | Lititz newspapers 1877-2001 |
Publisher | Record Print. Co. |
Date | 1987-06-11 |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact LancasterHistory, Attn: Library Services, 230 N. President Ave., Lancaster, PA, 17603. Phone: 717-392-4633, ext. 126. Email: research@lancasterhistory.org |
Contributing Institution | LancasterHistory |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | T H E R E S S SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY 110th Year ESTABLISHED APRII 1877 AS THE SUNBEAM CONSOLIDATED WITH THE L ITIT7 RECORD ! 93 7 Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, June 11,1987 25 CENTS A COPY. $8.50 PtR YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages-No. 10 Inside today's Record a mm What is Warwick Township P.D. Officer Ray Lausch working on in this photo? Answer: he's engraving an identification number on a bike as part of a bike rodeo program held by the department Saturday. Read about it on page 16. Five members of Lititz Church of the Brethren were honored during choir recognition Sunday. Together they have a combined serive total of 248 years. Their story is on page 23. Yes, there is still gold in California's American River Country - and one lucky Lititz couple found some during a visit. Read about their adventures on page 16. Children, police appeal to hit/run driver by Linda A. Harris The large red, white and blue sign at the entrance to the Yoder home, 1151 Clay Rd., says it all: “Would the person who hit out mom with their car Saturday on Clay Road please call her at Ephrata Hospital (733-0311) and tell her your (children’s spelling) sorry. Signed, Hannah, Linda, Barnaby, Elise and Jackson.” The sign carries a large red cross at the bottom. Four of the children and their mother, Sharon, were returning to their home Saturday around 12:15 p.m. after three of the children participated in the Warwick Township Police Bicycle Rodeo at Rothsville Fire Company. The family outing was just the beginning of the good times Mrs. Yoder had olanned with her children this summer, according to her husband Jack. And the first outing proved a very successful one with two of the children bringing home prizes (see article on rodeo) Near Tragedy But, the success of the day became near tragedy for the happy group. Mrs. Yoder had Elise, 2, strapped in an infant seat attached to the rear of her bike and Jackson, 8, was riding just in front when Mrs. Yoder stopped by the side of the road to check Elise who had fallen asleep. Just about a mile from their home, a dark brown car struck Mrs. Yoder as she checked the child. At first she remained standing with the support of the bike, but soon pain caused her to collapse with the bike falling into the field at the edge of the road. Jackson, who was stopped about 100 to 200 (Turn to Page 12) Supervisors consider road turnback’ by Linda A. Harris Warwick Township residents may be seeing some improvements on a number of roads they travel if Warwick Township supervisors have their way. Supervisors were expected to approve petitioning the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to take over several roads and streets which are currently considered state roads during a meeting June 10. These include: Newport Road from the Lititz Pike to Rothsville Road; Clay Road from Rothsville Road to Newport Road (L.R. 36156), from Newport Road to Pine Hill Road, and Pine Hill Road from Clay Road to Brunnerville Road (L.R. 36062); Church Street from Main Street to Disston View Drive and Disston View Drive from Church Street to Becker Road (L.R. 36011). Several Provisions The petition is subject to a number of provisions. First, PennDOT must retain responsibility for Pa. Rt. 772 through Rothsville which is not involved in the proposed water system. Second, Clay Road will only be accepted if PennDOT builds a new bridge over Lititz Run, however, the township will assume no responsibility for any bridges, including the proposed one on Clay Road. Finally, if the proposed water system is not constructed, the township will take over only Clay Road from Rothsville Road to Newport Road. In addition to the above provisions, supervisors have asked that a number of repairs be made by the state as part of the package. Repairs requested include widening and stabilizing the shoulders on Newport Road and applying a seal coat; repairing the edges of Clay Road, removing the railroad track knob, improving bridge approaches and applying a seal coat (L.R. 36156); repairing the edges of Clay Road and applying a seal coat, repairing the edges and applying a seal coat to Pine Hill Road (L.R. 36062); repairing the edges and applying a seal coat to Church Street and Disston View Drive (L.R. 36011). Brunnerville fire fighters roll out the hose at Tuesday night’s fire in the Lititz First Church of God, 33 E. Center St. The state fire marshall said the fire, which began in the basement, was the result of arson. Fire marshall continues investigation Church fire determined to be arson Trooper Dave Fisher, Pennsylvania State Police fire marshall, has determined the Tuesday night fire at the Lititz First Church of God to be the result of arson. The church is located at 33 E. Center St. Although Fisher declined to elaborate on his continuing investigation, he did confirm that the fire started in the basement of the church and that curtains were involved. This is the second fire within less than a week that has occurred in the southeast section of the borough. On June 4, fire broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold McKinney, 18 E. Orange St., while the couple was away. Trooper Fisher declined to speculate on a possible connection between the two fires, as he was out of town when the June 4 fire occurred and has not conferred with Trooper Barry White, who investigated the earlier fire. Lititz Fire Chief Joe Texter reported extensive smoke damage to the church with an estimated damage total “around $10,000.” He explained that the basement of the building was on fire in three different locations. “A fire was located in the kitchen area and two other fires were located along the sliding drapes used in the basement area as room dividers,” Texter said. He added that the combination of smoke from a burning box of styrofoam products, combustibles in the kitchen area, and the drapes “put off a tremendous amount of soot.” “There was so much smoke that we were unable to determine if all the fires were out,” Texter commented. The blaze was declared under control at 10:42 p.m. approximately 30 minutes after fire officials arrived on the scene. Firefighters remained on the scene late Tuesday with exhaust fans. A s s is tin g L ititz fire fig h te rs were the (Turn to Page 13) Received bone marrow transplant in March Kevin Gerhart counts days, as doctors count blood cells by Bonnie Szymanski Kevin Gerhart, 22, spent 65 days in Johns Hopkins Hospital before moving into the Joanne Rockwell House, where he has been staying in Baltimore while he waits for his blood count to reach the magic number of 1,000. Now an outpatient, Kevin, son of Phares and Sandra Gerhart, 209 Swarthmore Time Memories, future predictions encased capsule buried at Moravian Manor by Becky Collins They’ve seen our society become motorized. When they were children, the horse and buggy was still the popular mode of travel. Then came Henry Ford whose model “T” revolutionized transportation and later brought forth the tractor to replace the horse-drawn plow. Only fifty years later, men were actually walking on the moon. They’ve seen great advances in the workplace. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, women were given two :hoices if they wanted to work outside the home. They could be nurses or teachers. Today, they watch their great-granddaughters working with computers in elementary school. They’ve seen great strides made in medicine as researchers look for answers in the tre a tm e n t of P a rk in so n ’s and Alt-zheimer’s diseases and a cure for cancer. They are our country’s greatest natural resource - our best link to the past and our hope for the future. They are our older Americans. In celebration of Older Americans month, Moravian Manor recently held a special program during which they buried a time capsule to be opened on May 29, 2012, twenty-five years from now. Inside were the names of all the staff of the Manor, a listing of the Manor residents, volunteers and board members, as well as a listing of the names and notes from children enrolled in the Children’s Corner. Also encased in the capsule were a copy of the newspaper, a collection of predictions for the future and essays from Warwick High School Teen Volunteers. The residents chose to include all current information on the prevention and treatment of Parkin- Moravian Manor administrator Nancy H. O'Hara places the time capsule filled with memorabilia and predictions for the future in the ground at the Paul W. McCloud Memorial Garden on the Manor Green. With Mrs. O'Hara are Barbara Musser, the Manor's oldest resident, and representatives of the Warwick Teen Volunteers as well as students at Children’s Corner. son’s and Altzheimer’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Some Manor residents were interviewed about their past professions and the changes they have seen occur during their lifetimes. The time capsule contains essays from three Manor residents who were involved in agriculture, (Martin Decker), education, (Mary Goodyear), and nursing (Mrs. Margaret Shull). Education Mary Go o d y e ar remembers that “women had only two choices” if they decided to work outside the home. “They could be nurses or teachers,” she observed. College e n tr a n c e examinations were different, too. “Latin was a prerequisite for college admittance,” she recalled. Miss Goodyear, who received her master’s degree from Columbia University, enjoyed Latin and soon after graduation became a teacher at Linden Hall. She taught Latin at the girl’s school from 1928 until her retirement on 1964. Miss Goodyear noted in her essay, “even with all the computer technology of the 1980’s, we tend to go back to our basics.” “For example,” she explained, “Latin, a basic requirement for college entrance in the early 1900s, later became almost non-existent. Yet today Latin has returned as an elective subject in high schools and colleges.” The time capsule buried by residents of Moravian Manor in recognition of Older Americans Month. Nursing When 1 8 -y e a r-o ld Margaret Shull reported to Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing the day after her graduation from high school, she was in for the experience of her life. The year was 1919 when she decided to enter the three-year program which included a healthy amount of “on the job” training and limited classroom instruction. “Nurses primary duties were taking the patients’ pulse and temperature, bathing and feeding patients if it was required, making beds, cleaning the rooms and administering medicatons,” Mrs. Shull recalls. “Nurses were not required to take blood pressures or change dressings. These were only done by a physician,” she explained. Mrs. Shull remembers that surgeries were often long and that nurses were required to to stand for hours monitoring the patient’s pulse. Anesthesia, she revealed, was administered by dropping liquid ether into a cone-shaped mask placed over the patient’s mouth and nose area. Nurses in the 1920s made a starting salary of $5 a day working seven days a week with four hours off on Sunday. A regular shift was from 7 to 7, and their uniforms were ankle-length dresses with blue stripes, a starched bib apron and cuffs, black stockings and shoes. Nurses were also required to wear a starched (Turn to Page 13) Drive, returns daily to the hospital for white blood counts, red blood counts, platelet counts, “polys” and other tests to gauge the balance of his body chemistry. The daily counts represent the completion of a process that began in March, when Kevin entered the hospital to prepare for an “autologous” bone marrow transplant to combat the non-Hodgkins lymphoma that threatened his life. Because no compatible donor could be found for Kevin, it was necessary for him to become an autologous donor; that is, he donated his own bone marrow, which was treated with an anticancer drug before being replaced. Because the treated marrow was also sent through a light activator to intensify the effects of the experimental drug, Kevin was required to spend three full days in complete darkness while wearing sunglasses. This was part of the precautionary procedure, said Kevin, made necessary by the use of the new drug, which Kevin c a lle d “Marocinin.” Honorable discharge His stay in the hospital came to an end about two weeks ago when his doctors discharged him despite the fact that his blood count was still below the ideal level. But Kevin had surprised all his doctors by rebounding from the the dramatic medical procedure with little infection, only two brief periods of high fever, and no more than mild nausea. A majority of patients are expected to react violently to the large doeses of antibiotics used to fight the infections that take hold of In this issue Editorial 4 Sports Section 6,7,8 Classified 13,14,15 Social 21,22 Church 23,24 Manheim 25,26 Business Directory 27 Kevin Gerhart immuno-suppressed patients like Kevin. But, contends Kevin, “I must have a strong will; I set my mind to it that I was going to doO.K.” And he did. He was only the second bone marrow transplant patient at Johns Hopkins who didn’t require an intravenous food supplement, noted Kevin with understandable pride. “I kept up my appetite,” he recalled, then laughed: “I would throw up, then go eat.” Medical students, resident doctors and teaching fellows would enter his room each morning to study his case. But they wouldn’t stay, laughs Kevin, because he had so few complaints. Since leaving the hospital, Kevin continues to improve. In fact, he’s been doing so well that he and some family members walked around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for a full day last weekend, he reported Monday. Company calls Kevin’s mother has been staying in Baltimore to be near her son since he entered the hospital for the bone marrow transplant. Since his move to Johns Hopkins, Kevin has received visits and phone calls almost continually. In addition to his parents, his grandmother, Grace Heiler of Lancaster, visits once a week. His other grandmother, Mary Gerhart of Denver, calls him every day, he said. (Turn to Page 9) |
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