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Inside today's Record
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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