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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 18
School, boro discuss
flood control measures
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Reacting with laughter to the Brothers Orchestra rendition of “The William
Tell Overture,“ are sisters, left to right, Betty Rosenberg, Doris Neff, Jean Ben­der,
June Shelley (hidden), Betsy Derek, Jane Rannels and Doris Allebach.
P a g e a n t s , c o m m u n i o n , l o v e f e a s t
Lititz Moravian Church
celebrates
Members and friends of
Lititz Moravian Church will
be joining in a week-long
celebration to mark the
200th anniversary of the pre­sent
sanctuary Aug. 9-16.
“If These Walls Could
Speak,” a light and sound
pageant first produced in
1976, will be presented Aug.
9-16 at 9 p.m., weather
permitting.
In addition, “Historical
Sketches of Lititz,” a live
pageant, will be presented
Aug. 13 and 15 at 8 p.m. fol­lowing
a half-hour program
by the Trombone Choir. The
pageant, written by Daniel
Graybill Jr. and Dale S.
Shelley, will be presented
outside weather permitting.
The program will be moved
inside if necessary.
The play includes two
acts. Act I focuses on the
theme “Building for the
Future.” Act II is divided
into three scenes: Scene I —
Fiddle, Faddle; Scene II —
The Use of the Lot to Tie the
Knot; and Scene III - - -
Father, Give Us Your
Blessing.
The cast will include the
following: the Rt. Rev.
Allen Schattschneider, the
Rev. Roger Knisely, the
Rev. Larry Lindenmuth,
Doris Allebach, Richard
Allebach, Jean Bender, Tho­mas
Caskey, Betsy Derek,
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Groff
for arson
Lititz Borough Council
requested that the Warwick
School Board “consider”
setting aside $25,000 for a
retention basin at the west
end of Lititz Springs Park
during the district’s commit­tee
of the whole meeting on
Tuesday night.
Clyde Tshudy, borough
council president, presented
the proposal to school offi­cials,
noting that the bor­ough
has been promised
$25,000 through the state
parks and recreation depart­ment
for the construction of
a retention basin to ease
flooding along Lititz Run.
“It used to be that the run
flooded only during heavy
rains, but now it seems that
with each little rain, we’re
having problems,” Tshudy
noted.
To correct the problem,
borough council plans to
build a retention basin at the
present site of the BMX
track. “We have been prom­ised
$25,000 from the state,
and the borough plans to
match that with $25,000 in
next year’s budget,” Tshudy
commented. “The School
district is part of the problem
with runoff from the parking
Moravian sisters June Shelley (back), Doris
Neff, left, and Jean Bender respond with surprise
to a faux pas by the Brothers Orchestra.
Inside today’s Record
The new Lititz Community Center’s information col­umn
starts today on page 17. In it, the executive director
discusses his feelings on moving back to the county he
knew as a youth and introduces us to the concept of an
expended community center program.
It’s a city mouse-country mouse story, and this time,
the city mouse, who has visited the country mouse
many times over the years, has invited the country
mouse to come and see what it’s like in the Bronx. How
will the little country mouse fare? See page 9.
Stop i
a t S e c o n d
a n d C e d a r
Lititz Borough has
adopted an ordinance
providing for four-way
stop signs at the intersec­tion
of East Second
Avenue and South Cedar
Street.
The new stop signs
will be installed on
Thursday, Aug. 6 (today)
on the intersection at East
Second Avenue facing
east-bound traffic and
East Second Avenue fac­ing
west-bound traffic.
Vehicles are advised to
come to a full stop before
entering this intersection
from any of the four
comers.
The borough has taken
this action in an attempt
to lower the accident rate
at this intersection.
jailed
conviction
Police nab nine
Lititz borough police
cited nine motorists during a
speed check on South Oak
Street on July 31. Speed lim­it
on the street is 25 mph.
Cited were: Kim Doutri-ch,
Lot 24, R2 Ephrata, 37.5
mph; Marion Groff, 529
Front St., 39 mph; Lori Hal-lacher,
19 E. Second Ave.,
39 mph; Keith Hostetter,
732 S. Cedar St., 39 mph;
Daryl M. Hurst, 47 Pine-wood
Ave., 46 mph; David
Klaassen, 271 Meadow Val­ley
Road, 41 mph; James
Rathkey, 208 E. Third St., 39
mph; Lois Ravegum, 31
Twin Brook Drive, 41 mph;
and Pamela Smith, 506
Robin Road, 39 mph.
PUBLIC
DRUNKENNESS
Dennis White, 651 E.
Main St., was charged with
public drunkenness by
Officer William Seace after
he was found lying across
the steps at 75 E. Main St. at
In t h i s i s s u e
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 12
Manheim 16
Directory 18
Church 16,17
Classified 19,20,21
10:01 p.m. on July 28.
DOG ORDINANCE
Officer Kerry Nye cited
Frank Spleen, 201 Skylark
Road, on July 27 for a viola­tion
of the borough dog ordi­nance
after his dog defe­cated
on the property of
Brenda Frank, 205 Skylark
Road.
ACCIDENT
A car driven by Donna J.
Coffey, 2797 Cobblestone
Lane, Lancaster, suffered
moderate damage when it
was struck in the rear by a
second car while stopped for
a traffic light on South Broad
Street. According to investi­gating
officer Kerry D. Nye,
Paul B. Lefever, R3, Box
250, Schuykill Haven, oper­ator
of the second car, failed
to see the stopped traffic and
struck the Coffey vehicle.
The Lefever vehicle suf­fered
light damage. No pro­secutions
were made.
TRAFFIC CITATIONS
Lititz police cited the fol­lowing
drivers for traffic
citations: Carl D. Colon, 902
Snyder Hill Road, traffic
control signals violation,
Aug. 1.; Steven Crowder, 6
Landis Valley Road., requir­ing
registration and title,
July 31; and Seila Chapp, 15
Sycamore Road, Ephrata,
operating a vehicle without
inspection, July 27.
The Pennsylvania State
Superior Court on April 17
“affirmed” November 1984
convictions of an Elizabeth
Township man charged with
arson and recklessly endan­gering
others and ordered
him to begin serving concur­rent
jail sentences as of July
13, 1987.
Daniel M. Groff, 1651
Furnace Hills Pike, was sen­tenced
to six to 23 months
for each charge in Lancaster
County Court by Senior
Judge Wilson Bucher in
1984 after a jury found him
guilty of the charges.
Groff had been allowed, to
remain free on $25,000 bail
while the appeal was pend­ing
with the State Superior
Court.
The sentence stems from
an incident which occurred
on Aug. 16, 1984. On that
date, Groff used an explo­sive
device to set fire to two
junked cars on his property
as an Elizabeth Township
solicitor and a Lancaster
photographer arrived to take
pictures of his property in
conjunction .with a zoning
dispute.
For years Groff has been
involved in an on-going dis­pute
with Elizabeth Town­ship
officials over zoning
matters, mosdy related to the
appearance of his land that
fronts Route 501 south of
Brickerville.
In September of 1983
areas, that’s why we are
coming to you to ask you to
meet our pledge,” Tshudy
explained.
Russel Pettyjohn added
that Warner-Lambert cur­rently
has a retention basin
which holds water runoff
from their parking areas and
also from Federal-Mogul on
the north side of Lincoln
Ave. He added that borough
council plans to ask those
businesses for contributions
to the basin as well.
Pettyjohn conceded that
rapid development of the
area has also contributed
greatly to flooding problems
being experienced along
Lititz Run.
“There is no question that
development has taken its
toll on the stream,” Tshudy
added. “Flooding along the
run is a problem, it has been
a problem for years, but it’s
been pushed aside to be dealt
with at a later date. Now we
are experiencing a widening
of the channel through the
borough.”
“It may take two to five
years to (build the retention
basin), but at least we’ll have
a plan of action,” he
remarked.
Borough council expects
the retention basin to cost
around $100,000.
Transportation
Dr. John B onfield, War­wick
su p e r in te n d e n t,
reported to committee mem­bers
that a petition had been
sent to PennDot requesting
an assessment of the school
route between Quail Ridge
development in the north­eastern
sector of the borough
and Lititz Elementary
School. “We’re asking them
to assess the route to deter­mine
whether it is hazardous
to elementary school stu­dents
and also to secondary
sch o o l s tu d e n ts ,” he
explained.
Bonfield noted that the
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In Elizabeth Township
Clay Manor plans
given final OK
by Becky Collins
Road construction could
begin as early as September
at Clay Manor, a 41-unit
residential development to
be located east of Brubaker
Valley Road and south of
Route 322 in rural Elizabeth
Township.
Elizabeth Township’s
Board of Supervisors
approved final plans and
agreements for the 20-acre
residential development at
their Monday night meeting,
issuing in the first public
sewer system in the
township.
Clay Manor has been in
the planning and discussion
stage for eighteen months.
The reason - the develop­ment
will be the home of one
of the first sand mound sew­age
disposal systems in Lan­caster
County.
Homeowners’ Association
The sewage system will
not be the responsibility of
the township but will be
maintained through user
fees and by an association of
homeowners of Clay Manor
properties.
The sand mound sewage
disposal system to be
installed at Clay Manor was
designed by J.C. Engineer­ing
and will cost an esti­mated
$46,000. The deve­loper,
Glenn Wissler, will
place $35,000 in escrow to
begin building interest as a
reserve fund, to cover any
failure of the system or the
dissolution of the homeow­ners’
association.
Wissler will also install an
alarm system at the pumping
station to warn residents in
the event of failure of the
sewage disposal system. He
added that one resident from
the development will be
checking the pumping sta-tion
each day according to
the homeowners’ associa­tion
agreement. Regular ser­vice
of the sewage system
was also included in the
township’s agreement with
the developer.
The homeowners’ associ­ation
will be responsible for
maintaining the develop­ment’s
septic tanks, insisting
that they be pumped on an
annual basis, controlling
water usage by development
residents, and maintaining
the sewer system in working
order. If the association dis­bands,
the township will
then take over administra­tion
of the sewage system.
User Fees
To recoup the initial
investment of $35,000, the
developer will charge prop­erty
owners a tapping fee of
$900 when they tie on to the
system. Clay Manor resi­dents
will be charged a $275
annual maintenance and
user fee.
Owners of unimproved
lots at the development site
will be charged an annual fee
of $150 for upkeep of the
system.
Clarifications
The possible failure of the
homeowners association
was one major concerns
voiced by the supervisors
throughout the planning
stage. “We just want it clear
that anything that happens to
this system should be at
these 41 property owners’
expense. Not a penny of tax­payers
money will be spent
by Elizabeth Township citi­zens
to keep the system up,”
supervisor Rodney May
asserted.
Wissler’s attorney, K.L.
Shirk II assured the supervi­sors
that the homeowners’
agreement for residents of
Clay Manor “spells out solu­tions
to any future difficulty
where the sewage system is
concerned.”
“I’m going to try my very
best to put in a good deve­lopment
that will be an asset
to the community,” Wissler
promised the supervisors.
He added that the homes will
be equipped with two-car
garages and will sell in the
upper 70’s and 80’s.
Stringent restrictions will
be placed upon homeowners
in the Clay Manor develop­ment,
including restrictions
on hedges and fences, and
recreational vehicles. Water
usage and sewer disposal
will be closely monitored.
A note in the homeow­ners’
agreement drafted by
Wissler’s attorneys suggests
that all potential buyers con­sult
an attorney prior to sign­ing
any agreement.
Setting The Stage
Following the meeting,
supervisors Larry Wiker
remarked that a test case had
recently been decided con­cerning
the construction of a
private sewer system in an
area where no public sewer
system is available.
“Basically what we were
told is that the township can­not
stop someone from put­ting
in a private system
where no public sewer sys­tem
is available,” Wiker
commented.
That advice was probably
passed on to the supervisors
prior to their Dec. 15, 1986
meeting where the words
“community ” and “public”
were deemed interchange­able
in the context of the Eli­zabeth
Township zoning
ordinance. Prior to that
amendment, the land on
which Clay Manor will be
built was zoned R-2.
Three new members elected
to community center board
Daniel M. Groff
township officials filed a
civil suit against Groff seek­ing
an injunction to remove
the junked vehicles and a
large sign that did not con­front
to zoning restrictions
from his property. The
photographs were being
taken as evidence in the
lawsuit.
Prior to the arson incident,
Groff was convicted of two
counts of violating the Eli­zabeth
Township zoning
ordinance in 1981. He was
charged in February 1980
with operating a junkyard in
an Residential R-2 district
and storing unlicensed and
unregistered vehicles in the
district.
Elizabeth Township offi­cials
note that Groff still
owes the township over
$1,000 in violation fines per­taining
to his property.
Three new members have
been elected to the Lititz
Community Center Board of
Directors, raising the num­ber
of board members from
nine to 12.
The announcement was
made this week by J. Fred
Garman, executive director
of the center.
Elected from a field of
applicants were William W.
Binzen, 14 E. Market St.; W.
Eugene Clair, 153 Owl Hill
Road; and Linda R. Rose,
209 Beechwood Drive.
Contacted this week, Bin­zen,
said “I ’ve been
involved in sports programs
for years. I thought this
would be a good time for in-depth
work with a broad
cross-section of all the
youth, not just the athletes.”
Binzen noted that he has
participated mainly in the
baseball program in the past,
but that he has “some ideas”
to offer on the full communi­ty
center program, now that
he is a member of the board.
Binzen is a salesman for
Lancaster Malleable Cast­ings
Co., Lancaster.
Clair, well-known in the
area as one-half of the Clair
brothers of Clair Brothers
Audio Enterprises Inc., said
he decided to get involved
“because I have a lot of
experience in areas that
would be helpful to the new
community center.”
Clair said that he and his
brother, Roy, have been
involved in rec center prog­rams
since the days when the
rec center was an old three-story
wooden building
behind the site of the present
rec center.
“We spent a lot of time up
there,” said Clair, referrring
to the third floor weight­lifting
room furnished and
William Binzen
directed by Elmer Witmer.
Recalling those days,
Clair alluded to the spirit of
camaraderie he felt back
then and remarked: “I’d like
to see if I could be of influ­ence
to bring back some of
those old feelings.”
Ms. Rose, the third
elected board member, was
Gene Clair
not available this week for
comment.
The three new members —
one from Lititz Borough,
one from Warwick Town­ship,
and one from Elizabeth
Township — have been
added to accommodate the
expansion of the community
center.
Phil Conlin, board vice
president, commented: “The
response we received for the
additional board positions
was excellent and made the
s e le c tio n p ro c e s s a
challenge.”
Garman also reported this
week that eight new stand­ing
committees have been
created to be filled by board
members. These committees
are long range planning,
programs, personnel, com-m
u n i t y r e l a t i o n s ,
development/fund raising,
finance/legal, building and
grounds, and fa c ility
expansion.
Other members of the
Lititz Community Center
Board of Directors include
Richard P. Nuffort, presi­dent;
Conlin, vice president;
Barbara Tshudy, Curtis
Amidon, Louise Kauffman,
Carl Kauffman, Pat Neuroh,
Joe Pfautz and Craig
Wagaman.
Truck stolen from Farfield
recovered in Lancaster
A truck stolen from The
Farfield Co., 312 Meadow
Valley Road, on July 28 has
been recovered, Warwick
Township Police reported
Tuesday.
Police said Doug Stick,
assistant warehouse mana­ger
of the company, discov­ered
a broken window at
6:30 a.m. on July 28 when he
reported to work. Police said
the burglar apparently
gained access to die office
through the window, took a
set of keys and drove off
with a 1986 Ford stake body
truck. The truck was recov­ered
in Lancaster on Aug. 2.
The incident is under
investigation by Officer Ed
Tobin.
OTHER THEFTS
Several other incidents of
burglary or theft were inves­tigated
by Warwick Town­ship
Police this week.
Carolyn Hurst, 818 Mid­way
Road, reported that
sometime on Aug. 2 some­one
gained access to her
home and took $50 in coins.
Officer Darrin Stoltzfus is
investigating.
Police are also investigat­ing
a theft of three money
collection boxes from
High’s Car Wash, 727 Fur-nace
Hills Pike. The theft
was reported on Aug. 3.
O f f i c e r T o b i n is
investigating.
On July 29 Officer
Stoltzfus charged Donna E.
Lloyd, 218 Petersburg Road,
with retail theft at Stauffer’s
of Kissel Hill, 1050 Lititz
Pike, after she allegedly put
items valued at $12.98 in her
purse without paying for
them.
ASSAULT
A Warwick Township
man faces multiple charges
following a verbal alterca­tion
that became physical on
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