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S c h e d u l e O f E v e n t s
10 A.M..............Clearing of the Grounds
1:00-1:30 P.M.... Pete Geist - Magician/Mime
1:45-2:15 P.M.... Bobby Pleis - Juggler/Unicyclist
2:45-3:45 P.M.... Lititz Community Band
4:00-5:30 P.M....The “Front Page” Guitar Trio
5:45-6:45 P.M.... The “Out Of Towners” - Dixieland
7:00-8:30 P.M....The Rohrerstown Band
9:00-9:30 P.M....Queen of Candles Pageant
10:00 P.M......... Huge Fireworks Display
Entertainers add pizazz to star-spangled celebration
Saturday marks the 146th
annual celebration of the
Pageant of Candles at Lititz
Springs Park.
And the day promises to
be one which will be remem­bered
long after the crowd
has cheered the coronation
of the 46th Queen of
Candles.
The long list of festivities
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Front Page will lead revelers into the evening
performances with their three-part harmonies
and country and blues style. Pete Geist
includes the traditional
Queen of Candles Pageant, a
full day of entertainment at
the bandshell in Lititz
Springs Park, the popular
Historical Foundation Anti­que
Show and Sale and the
finale of fireworks.
Entertainment at the
bandshell will include
juggler/unicyclist Bobby
Pleis, the magical mimicry
of Pete Geist, a program by
the Lititz Community Band,
the Dixieland strains of The
Rohrerstown Band and gui­tar
stylings by Lititz’ own
“Front Page.”
The day of celebration
begins with the tolling of all
church bells at 6 a.m. At 10
a.m., the park grounds will
be cleared of early arrivals
so that admission s can then
be taken at the gates. Adult
admission is $3.50, admis­sion
for children under 12 is
$.50.
At 1 p.m., the first perfor-
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The Grand Army of the Republic chose the
Fourth of July celebration to renew acquain-tences
and to reunite the boys from Lititz who
fought in the Civil War with those who lived out-sidethe
borough. Included inthis photograph are
John Carpenter, (seated center with bow tie and
SBlli
hat) Mr. Sturgis, seated at Carpenter s left, Alan
Hacker, (standing fourth from left). A Mr. Hack-man
is to his left and a man identified only as
“Grandpa Mathers” is pictured standing to his
right.
Gettysburg forced cancellation
of 41st celebration in the park
by Becky Collins
The Lititz Fourth of July
celebration is known far and
wide as one of the oldest
such observances of our
nation’s independence. But
few are aware that rather
than 146 years of annual
celebration, we should dis­count
year number 41 - the
only year that L ititz
canceled its “F o u rth ”
festivities.
It was the summer of 1863
and rumors of advancing
Rebel forces were filtering
throughout southcentral
Pennsylvania.
The Confederate Army
had garnered impressive
victories in Virginia at Man­assas,
Bull Run, Fredericks­burg
and Chancellorsville
and, according to reports,
were in the midst of a North-n
Invasion.
The Rebel forces had
advanced as far north as
York and Chambersburg
and were bearing down on
the Wrightsville-Columbia
bridge, intent on riding north
in to L a n c a s te r an d
Harrisburg.
But on June 29, the
Wrightsville Militia burned
the bridge over the Susque­hanna,
stopping the northern
advancement of Rebel
forces.
Southern commander
Gen. Robert E. Lee then
began massing his troops,
preparing to engage the
Army of the Potomac in the
Gettysburg valley.
According to the July 2,
1942 edition of the Lititz
Record, “preparations were
already in progress for
Fourth of July affair when
word arrived of this critical
period of the rebellion. All
eyes turned toward Gettys­burg.
There was no time for
anything else.”
The two armies clashed in
a bloody three-day battle.
Gettysburg was a. decisive
victory for the Union forces,
and a turning point in the war
between the states.
The newspaper makes
note that stragglers were still
pouring through town from
th e b u rn in g of the
Wrig h tsv ille -C o lumb ia
bridge and the Battle of Get­tysburg
throughout the week
following.
Thus the 41st celebration
of the Fourth of July was not
held at Lititz Springs Park.
Subsequent celebrations
were marked by the reunions
of local veterans of the Great
Army of the Republic. One
such reunion, held in the late
19th century, includes a
number of notable Lititz last
names such as Hackman,
Sturgis, Carpenter, Mathers
and Hacker.
1863 was the year that Union and Confederate soldiers
fought on the battlefield at Gettysburg. They Just happened to
meet during the first four days of July, precipitating the only
cancellation of the Fourth of July Celebration in Lititz’ history.
Pictured above are six Lancaster County re-enactors who will
be home in time to attend the celebration in the park, includ­ing
Lititz residents Bill Mendenhall Jr. (far left) and Steve
Gibble (center).
Inside
Today’s
Record
Business 19
Church 9
Classified 20-23
Editorial 4
Vlanheim 16,17
Out of the Past 18
Social 14,15
Sports section 6,7,8
Lehnware b u c k e t
Antiques devotees
will be in their natural
element Saturday at
the 27th annual Lititz
Historical Foundation
Antiques Show in the
Warwick High School
gym. An antique water
bucket coopered by
local crafter Joseph
Lehn will be a special
fund raiser. Find out
about this annual affair
on page 13.
Candlelight
Why do we light can­dles
in the park in
observance of Inde­pendence
Day? How
has the celebration
changed over the
years?
Find out why this pat­riotic
observance is so
popular not only with
locals, but with people
who drive long dis­tances
to see it on page
24.
mer of the day will go on
stage at the bandshell. Pete
Geist combines theatrical
mime, magic and dance his
own natural talent for mak­ing
people smile to start off
the day’s entertainment.
Juggler/unicyclist Bobby
Pleis will roll onto the band
shell stage at 1:45 p.m. to
delight young and old with
his astounding repertoire of
balancing and juggling feats.
The Lititz Community
Band takes the stage at 2:45
p.m. to perform a varied
program of concert pieces
and marches appropriate for
the day. The band will be led
by Heidi Limbert.
The guitar trio, “Front
Page” will lead off the even­ing’s
entertainment at 4 p.m.
The trio including Carl
Kline, Walt Saunders and
Mike Diehm made their
hometown debut last year.
The “Out Of Towners”
will have the crowd tapping
their toes to a Dixieland beat
beginning at 5:45 p.m. The
band, led by Howard Hem-merly
and Gary Peters,
includes many recognizable
faces.
The “Rohrerstown Band”
will perform a repertoire of
marching music for the
Early
deadlines
Record Express dead­lines
in both the advertis­ing
and editorial depart­ments
have been moved
to an earlier day for the
issue of July 7.
Because of the July 4
holiday, retail display ads
and editorial material for
church, social and Man-heim
pages must be in the
Record office by 5 p.m.
on Friday, July 1.
All other news items
will be accepted until
noon on Tuesday, July 5.
Classified ads will be
accepted until 3 p.m. on
Tuesday, July 5.
The office will be
closed on Monday, July
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crowd begining at 7 p.m.,
leading up to the 46th annual
Queen of Candles Pageant
beginning at 9 p.m.
The Queen of Candles
The Queen of Candles,
who is selected by her class­mates,
will preside over a
fairyland created by more
than 5,0(X) candles used to
illuminate the park.
The queen will be
announced from a court of
12 recently graduated War­wick
High School girls and
will be crowned by last
year’s queen, Julie Turano.
Flower girl and crown bear­er
this year are Lenora Corle
and Chad Texter.
Following the crowning
of the queen, the thousands
of candles that line the Lititz
Springs Creek will be lit,
turning the park into a Fairy­land
of Candles.
Rain date for the celebra­tion
will be Monday, July 4.
1987 Queen of Candles
Julie Turano
Neil Crone plays the tuba in the local Big Band
orchestra, the “Out-of-Towners.”
Council, employees sign
new union contract
Woodstream
calls halt
to lawsuits
by Kathleen King
L aw s u its b e tw e e n
Woodstream Corporation
and a group of dissident
shareholders have not been
dropped, but are temporarily
on hold, according to
Woodstream Corporation
Director of Communica­tions,
John Reid.
Reid said Tuesday that
last week’s agreement
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by Kathleen King
A new, three-year contact
between Lititz Borough and
its remaining union employ­ees
was signed Tuesday
night at the borough council
meeting.
The contract, which cov­ers
the three members of the
borough’s street department,
is retroactive to Jan. 1, 1988
and runs through Dec. 31,
1990. The former water and
wastewater treatment plant
employees are no longer
employees of the borough.
PSC Environmental Ser­vices
Inc., the subcontractor
for the wastewater and water
treatment plants, offered
every employee working at
the plants an opportunity to
apply for a job. Two
employees chose not to app­ly,
and one employee who
did apply refused the job that
was offered. All the remain­ing
employees were hired by
PSC.
The new contact for the
streets crew establishes a
wage progression schedule
for each employee, based on
a serv ic e-related step
schedule.
In 1988 the starting rate
will be $7/hour, increasing
to $7.35 in 1989 and $7.70 in
1990. Employees with five
years with the borough will
receive $8/hour in 1988,
$8.40 in 1989 and $8.80 in
1990.
Those employees with 10
years of borough employ­ment
will $10/hour in 1988,
$10.50 in 1989 and $11 in
1990.
After 20 full years of
employment with the bor­ough,
workers will earn
$10.40/hourin 1988, $10.90
in 1989 and $11.40 in 1990.
Based on this schedule,
rates will increase from
$7.71 to $8/hour for one
employee; from $9.13 to$10
for another employee; and
$9.88 to $10.40/hour for
another employee.
Income protection will
increase $25/week over the
next three years.
The new contract also
provides uniform rental and
laundry service, sick leave
buyout and a first-time
establishment of specific
work rules.
Other provisions in the
agreement, such as insur­ance,
medical provisions,
holidays, bereavement bene­fits,
and the number of sick
days, remain unchanged
from th e p r e v io u s
agreement.
Flood committee
Also at Tuesday’s meet­ing,
the borough’s ad hoc
Flood Control Committee
presented the details on its
application to the Depart­ment
of Environmental
Resources for a permit to
construct an elevated flood
plain along Lititz Springs
Creek.
The committee, appointed
in 1987, has been looking at
ways to relieve flooding
along Lititz Run and the
Santo Domingo.
Council president, Clyde
Tshudy, expressed concern
over the community reaction
to some of the proposals,
especially those that involve
obtaining rights-of-way
from property owners along
the stream for the elevated
flood plain.
The flood committee
members urged council to
proceed with applying for
the permit, which they said
was the most difficult step.
After the permit is obtained,
the actual work that is done
on the stream can be done in
steps, or modified as the
effects of the initial steps of
bridge cleanout and the con-
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Smoke sends two employees
of Federal-Mogul to hospital
by Linda A. Harris
Two employees o f
Federal-Mogul, 401 W. Lin­coln
Avenue, were treated
and released at Lancaster
General Hospital following
a minor fire at the plant
shortly after 9 a.m. June 28.
The injured workers were
Richard Stockbauer, 834 W.
Vine 8t., Lancaster, and
Donald Heinley, 2294
Albem Boulevard, Lancas­ter.
Stochbauer was trans­ported
to the hospital after
being treated at the scene for
smoke inhalation by Betty
Shenk, plant nurse, and Bet­ty
Runk and Betty Stauffer
of the Warwick Ambulance
Association.
On the way back from the
hospital, the ambulance
crew was recalled to the
plant to transport Heinley.
John Miller, personnel
manager, said that at least
one of the men returned to
work a short time later.
A third man, a member of
the Manheim Fire Company,
was treated and released at
Lancaster General Hospital
for shortness of breath and
chest pains unrelated to the
fire. Manheim Fire Com­pany
Chief Rick Carpenter
said that Thayne Gouse, a
firefighter for about five
years, is a county dispatcher
and that his problems were
caused by fatigue.
Miller reported that the
fire started in a dust collec­tor,
but plant personnel still
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Warwick Ambulance Association members Betty Stauffer and Betty Runk,
left, John Miller, Federal-Mogul personnel manager (plaid shirt), and Betty
Shenk, plant nurse, far right, watch over Richard Stockbauer, Federal-Mogul
employee, who uses an oxygen mask prior to being transported to Lancaster
General Hospital.