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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 47
Two Lititz men vie for 97th District Seat
Callahan prepares to go the distance
“I believe that there is a good chance I could
vin this election,” 97th District Rep. Democratic
¡andidate Tim Callahan has observed. Callahan
md his wife, Barbara, are pictured with their
:hildren, Timmy and Megan, in their Lititz Bor-
>ugh residence.
Editor’s Note: Two of
the four candidates for
June Honaman’s 97th Dis­trict
Representative seat
are Lititz residents. Demo­crat
Tim Callahan has
received the endorsement
of his party in an area that
is predominantly Republi­can.
Republican Richard
Brown plans to seek his
party’s nomination with­o
u t th e lo c a l p a r ty
endorsement. Both men
acknowledge that they are
facing an uphill battle.
Why did they get involved
and how do they plan to
win the voters’ confi­dence?
We take a close
look at both candidates,
beginning with their pri­vate
lives, in the first seg­ment
of this two-part
series.
by Becky Collins
“While political pundits
in the area may say my can­didacy
in this election is a
no-win situation, I view it as
a no-lose situation,” declares
34-year-old Timothy Calla­han,
Democratic candidate
for 97th District Legislator.
Gutsy? Perhaps. But Cal­lahan,
the only Democratic
contender for the Pennsylva­nia
House of Representa­tives
seat being vacated by
June Honaman, views his
candidacy as the return of
the two-party system in Lan­caster
County.
Callahan, 524 Humming­bird
Drive, is a retired U.S.
Army NCO who served in
the 18th Military Intelli­gence
Battalion in Munich,
Germany until three years
ago when he was diagnosed
as having a chronic form of
leukemia.
The doctors told Callahan
and his family in 1985 that
his condition was fatal and
that he had two to three years
to live. He and his wife, Bar­bara,
were just beginning
their family. Their daughter,
Megan, had been bom just
three weeks prior to the diag­nosis
and son, Timmy, was
three years old.
On Jan. 29, 1986, Tim
Callahan underwent a bone
marrow transplant at the
Veterans’ Administration
Hospital in Seatde, Wash.
His younger brother, Den­nis,
was the marrow donor.
For the first two to three
weeks, Callahan suffered all
the complications that
accompany marrow trans­plants,
but he insists, “the
support of my family and my
belief in God pulled me
through.”
Two years later, the doc­tors
have given Callahan a
good prognosis for living a
normal lifespan. “I’m doing
better than 99.9 percent of
transplant patients,” Calla­han
said. He explained that
as in organ transplants, there
is always the chance that the
marrow transplant will not
be successful, a condition
known as “graft versus
host.”
“I have not had even the
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“If I felt that the candidate endorsed by the Republican party reflected my
views, I wouldn’t be running,” stated Richard “Dick” Brown, one of three can­didates
vying for the Republican vote in the April 26 primary election. Brown is
pictured above with his wife, Bea, and their children Andrew, Christine and
Cathleen.
Brown faces primary without endorsement
by Becky Collins
“If I felt that the candidate
endorsed by the Republican
party reflected my views, I
wouldn’t be running for this
seat,” admits Richard M.
“Dick” Brown, 109 Brubak­er
Road.
Brown tossed his hat into
the political arena in late
January as he joined more
than a dozen Republicans
seeking the party’s endorse­ment
in the April 26 primary
for 97th District Representa­tive
in the Pennsylvania
General Assembly.
The Republican Commit­tee
endorsement went to
another candidate, but that
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Parents cooperate
with boro police,
charge two juveniles
Lititz Borough police
ave petitioned two Lititz
•ea juveniles to juvenile
jurt as a result of two sepa-ite
theft incidents.
Chief Jim Fritz empha-zed
that in both cases the
a rents of the bdys alerted
le police to the crimds and
ere very cooperative dur-g
the investigation and
indling of the cases.
THEFTS
Det. Charles Shenenber-
;r petitioned a 14-year-old
ititz area boy into juvenile
>urt on three counts of
eft. The teen took his
ther’s pick-up truck and
iproximately $480 from
s parents residence. The
cidents occurred Feb. 9
id Feb. 18. On Feb. 18, he
ashed the truck into a fence
l the Fruitville Pike, north
' Petersburg Road.
Officer Harry Yochum
ititioned an 11-year-old
ititz area boy into juvenile
iurt on a charge of theft by
llawful taking. The inci-
:nt occurred Dec. 31. The
>y is alleged to have taken
/o rings valued at $2,700
id $100 in currency from
his parents residence.
CRIMINAL TRESPASS/
MISCHIEF
SPRUCE ST.: Det.
Shenenberger charged
David L. Frey, 37, of 216 S.
Spruce St., with criminal
trespass and criminal mis­chief
as a result of an inci­dent
Feb. 13 between 2 p.m.
and 2:30 p.m. at the home of
his ex-wife, Cindy Frey, 216
S. Spruce St.
Frey is alleged to have
gone to the residence where
he kicked in the front door
and went after his ex-wife
who fled the house and
called the police. Frey left
the area before the arrival of
police. He was charged Feb.
15 before District Justice
James Garrett. A prelimin­ary
hearing has been set for
March 9.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
LOCUST ST.: Joseph
Hippie Jr., 17 S. Locust St.,
called police Feb. 19 at 8:45
a.m. to report an incident of
criminal mischief. Hippie
told Officer Doug Shertzer
that on Feb. 18 between 11
a.m. and 7:30 p.m., someone
smashed the glass in his
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Inside today’s Record
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Mitch Picard is the orga­nizer
and host for this
weekend's Children’s
Workers Conference
sponsored by the Lititz
Grace Brethren Church.
Read about this growing
annual event on page 22.
A group of young thes-bians
at Warwick High
School will go on stage
next weekend with Frank
Lloyd Weber’s first musi­cal,
“Joseph and and the
Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoal ” Read about it
on page 22.
Both the boys and the
girls varsity basketball
teams won their section
championships. The sto­ries
are on pages 6 and 7.
It’s leap year! That
o nce-every-four-year
event happens this Mon­day
and there are some
“leap year specials” in
this week’s issue. If you’re
a bargain hunter, those
specials are for you.
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Stephanie Hess, a Warwick High School senior, receives a certificate from
Steve lovino, high school principal, recognizing her as a National Merit Scho
larship finalist.
Stephanie Hess named
National Merit finalist
Stephanie J. Hess, a War­wick
High School senior,
has been named a National
Merit Scholarship finalist.
She is the only student from
this year’s senior class to be
selected.
Only one-half of one per­cent
of American high
school seniors are named
National Merit finalists.
That means Stephanie was
one of 13,500 finalists cho­sen.
From that group of
finalists 6,000 Merit Scho­lars
will be chosen.
Stephanie plans to attend
Washington College in
Chestertown, Md. to major
in English.
Stephanie is active in the­ater
and the literary maga­zine
at school. She has been
performing on the Warwick
High School stage since her
freshman year.
Among the parts she has
performed are: Corrie in
“Barefoot in the Park,” Lt.
Fury in “M.A.S.H.,” Emily
in “Our Town,” and Eli­zabeth
Proctor in “The Cruc­ible.”
She was also in the
chorus of “Bye, Bye Birdie,”
and “The Sound of Music.”
Currently she is student
director of the upcoming
spring musical, “Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat.”
In addition to the War­wick
stage she has per­formed
with the York Litde
Theater in “Brighton Beach
Memoirs” and “Tribute,”
both in 1987.
In her sophomore year she
won a best actress award in a
drama competition spon­sored
through the Bucks
County Playhouse.
Stephanie is co-editor of
the high school literary
magazine, “Expressions.” A
personal narrative which she
submitted in the Lititz
Woman’s Club contest won
a first place in the state.
In addition to school and
extracurricular activies, Ste-phanie
has worked at the
Log Cabin Restaurant for
the past two years.
She is the daughter of Fre­derick
E. Hess, 945 Valley
Road, Lancaster and Mar­garet
and Thomas Corle, 950
Log Cabin Road. She has a
brother, Hunter, who is a
freshman at Warwick.
The National Merit Scho­larship
program receives
neither federal nor state
funding. It is financed by
grants from over 600 inde­pendent
sponsors who share
the goals of the National
M e r i t S c h o l a r s h i p
Corporation.
In 1988 the corporation
will be able to provide
awards for about 44 percent
of the finalists. Each finalist
must use the merit scholar­ship
for full-time attendance
at a college or university in
the United States that holds
accredited status with a reg­ional
accrediting commis-son
on higher education.
Boro Council concerned
about tree removal
by Kathleen King
Sidewalks, road resurfac­ing,
trees, water and POW
flags were among the sub­jects
of Boro Council’s four-hour
meeting Tuesday night.
Mayor Roy Clair express­ed
concern that Lititz resi­dents
are cutting down
healthy trees to comply with
the borough’s new sidewalk
ordinance, which requires
residents to repair all exist­ing
sidewalks and install any
missing sidewalks by 1991.
“I have seen four healthy
trees removed recently,”
Clair said. “I think before it
gets to be of epidemic prop­ortions...
we should make
sure that a tree removed is a
tree replaced”
Clair said people have
been taking trees out and not
replacing them, claiming
that the tree is ruining the
sidewalk every two years.
Council agreed to set up a
meeting with the Shade Tree
Commission to “to clear the
air” about the issue and be
certain healthy trees are not
being removed.
“If we lose our trees, we
might as well move to Kan­sas,”
the mayor declared.
Council also decided to
notify property owners
along West Lincoln, West
Second and Woodcrest
avenues that road resurfac­ing
in their area will require
the property owners to repair
and/or install sidewalk and
curbing, probably this
summer.
If acceptable bids are
returned on the 1988 street
resurfacing recommenda­tions,
borough residents in
five other areas of the bor­ough
will be required to do
the same repairs or install­ments.
Those areas are:
Cedar Street north of 6th
Avenue; Gochnauer Avenue
from Cherry to Locust
Street; East Marion Street
from Cedar to Cherry; Noble
Street from Cedar to Water;
and Moravian Avenue from
Lemon to Orange.
Also during the meeting
the mayor commended the
police department on its
honesty.
“I’m proud of the Lititz
Police Department,” he said.
“Even the mayor’s wife gets
arrested for speeding. Yes,”
he added, “Our chief is defi­nitely
above reproach.”
POW flag
In a three-to-one vote,
council gave the Lititz Vet­eran’s
of Foreign Wars post
permission to fly an MIA/
POW flag on the pole at the
square. Permission was
granted on a renewable year­ly
basis.
James Shultz, commander
of the Lititz VFW, had
requested the flag to fly per­manently.
Council express­ed
reluctance.
Councilman Jeff Siegrist
said he felt “strongly and
deeply sympathetic to the
POW cause” but believed
the flag should not fly per­manently,
especially on the
same flagstaff as the Ameri­can
flag.
Shultz replied that if the
borough did not fly the flag
permanently it would be one
of the few communities who
don’t. He said Manheim,
Lancaster, Elizabethtown
and Mt. Joy all fly the MIA/
POW flag and that the Lan­caster
County Park would be
flying it as of May 31.
A motion made by Sie­grist,
“for the sake of discus­sion,”
to fly the flag perma-nendy
died for lack of a sec­ond.
It was followed by the
successful motion by Coun­cilman
Robert B. Hershey to
fly the flag on a yearly basis
with the option renewed
annually. Siegrist voted
against the motion.
Storm water
Council put out bids for
the extension of the storm
sewer from Kleine Lane
across the Long & Bomber-ger
Home Center property,
which is located at 45 N.
Broad St.
This decision followed a
presentation by Patrick
Devery, a consulting engi­neer
from the firm of Devery
& Assoc., Lancaster, on sol­utions
to flooding on the
property during heavy rains.
Of the estimated $20,000
cost, the borough will pay
$12,822, with Long and
Bomberger picking up the
rest.
Council also decided
Tuesday night to use a
$25,000 grant from the
Department of Community
affairs to dredge the Lititz
Springs Creek and Lititz
Run, particularly under the
bridges. The money had
originally been allocated
towards the construction of a
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In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 12,13
Church 14
Manheim 16
Business 18
Classified 19,20,21
Rothsville family marvels at Olympic spectacle
by Kathleen King
They were there when
speed skater Dan Jansen fell
in his second race.
They were there when
pair figure skaters Jill Wat­son
and Peter Oppegard won
a bronze metal for the United
States.
They were there when
British ski jumper Eddie
Edwards became the darling
of the crowds.
They were there - at the
Olympics.
The “they” is Rothsville’s
J. Arne Forney and his fami­ly:
wife, Dot; daughter, Jo
Beth; and son, Brad. The
Forneys, 11 Sky view Lane,
returned Monday from an
11-day trip to the Olympics
in Calgary.
Going to the Olympics
was no last-minute decision.
In fact, Arne said, it could
not have been.
“We made the decision in
September of 1986,” Forney
said. “We had been at a
Lions International leader­ship
forum in Calgary and
saw all the publicity, so we
got our name on a list and got
an application for tickets.”
By December of 1986
their tickets to the Olympic
events had been “confirmed,
bought and paid for,” Arne
explained.
Housing was another
story. By December of 1986
all the hotels and most of the
bed and breakfasts were full.
But Calgary was prepared,
Ame said.
“Residents of the area
were allowed to apply for the
privilege of renting out
rooms,” Ame said. The
home was then inspected
before it was given the OK,
Ame said.
“Our host family, the
Scotts, were an average
middle-class family that
lived in an ordinary home.
They made us feel so wel­come,”
Ame said. “They
even gave us a key to the
house so we could come and
go as we pleased.”
This was the first time any
of the Fomey family had
been to the Olympics. They
found the atmosphere, the
events, the entire experience
exhilarating.
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Brad, Dot and Jo Beth Forney, from left, huddle against the cold at the open­ing
ceremonies. But the show was well worth the chill, they said, describing it
as “the greatest spectacle we ever saw.”