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20 Pages- No. 22
Renovation, expansion nears completion
at Kissel Hill, John Beck schools
A workman constructs ceiling tracks in a corri­dor
at Kissel Hill Elementary School.
Planners, council reach
compromise over street by Becky Collins
It’s been a whirlwind
summer for the Warwick
School District. Two of the
district’s elementary schools
have undergone extensive
renovation during the sum­mer
vacation. At the same
time, the district has been
finalizing plans for a two-phase
expansion at Warwick
High School which will
begin next summer.
The final touches are
being completed at John
Beck Elementary in Brun-nerville
where a two-phase
expansion and renovation
has taken place.
Eight classrooms and
three group instruction
rooms were added to the
sprawling facility last sum­mer
during Phase I of the
project. In addition, the dis­trict
began a massive asbes­tos
removal program at the
school which was completed
this summer.
The original structure,
built during the 1930s, was
the focus of Phase II. Joseph
Narkiewicz, principal at
John Beck Elementary,
observed last week that the
renovation program is draw­ing
to a close.
“We’re in good shape,” he
said. “At this point all of our
classrooms are ready for the
teachers to come in.” Nark­iewicz
added, noting;
“That’s all we need to get
started.”
“We’re still working on
the music room, gym and
by Bonnie Szymanski
Special to the Record
Don’t call for Joe’s taxi
service yet.
Even though Joe Laven-ture,
114 Noble St., has been
granted approval from the
Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission to operate the
Lancaster County Taxi Ser­vice
Co., no cabs will roll
until Joe has shown proof
that he has sufficient public
liability and property dam­age
insurance.
Joe received his PUC
approval in a letter dated
Aug. 18. In the meantime, he
has 60 days from that date to
meet the final requirements
and,have his taxis on the
JTt’s going to cost
between $2,000 and $3,000
per vehicle,” reported Joe
this week.
Actually, the fledgling
cab company is quite cab­less
at the moment.
That’s right. No wheels,
no go.
On the road soon
Joe is heavily into negoti­ations
with 18 dealerships,
no less, and within a month,
he promises to have five
vehicles moving along
Route 501 between Lititz
and Neffsville (the west side
only), west from Neffsville
to East Petersburg and Man-heim,
and east from Millport
Road just north of the Lan­caster
Airport to Browns-town
and the Ephrata area.
These are the geographi­cal
specs agreed upon by Joe
and at least one Lancaster-cafeteria,
but we expect
those rooms to be ready for
the first day of school,” he
remarked.
The only area that may not
be in order on opening day,
Narkiewicz said, is the prin-cipal’s
office. “We’ve
moved the office from the
oldest part of the school to a
more central location,” he
said.
Phase II of the project did
not add any additional class­room
space, according to the
principal. It did, however,
add much-needed space for
counseling, faculty and
health areas.
Enrollment at the school
currently stands at 572. At
the end of school last year,
522 students attended John
Beck Elementary.
To meet the growing
enrollment, the district has
added two teachers. Karen
VerBryck will be teaching
third grade and Janice
Snavely will be teaching
fourth grade.
“We’re all looking for­ward
to the beginning of
school,” the principal said.
Kissel Hill
“We’ve got three class­rooms
ready today and we
expect to have five more
ready before the beginning
of school,” said Kissel Hill
Elementary School principal
Robert Heron.
Heron was discussing the
two-story 12-classroom
addition that is slated for
completion at the school
based cab company, Friend­ly
Taxi, to prevent an over­lap
of services.
Friendly and a second
company, Lancaster Limou­sine
Service, initially filed
protests with the PUC in
1987 when Joe applied for
approval of the new taxi ser­vice.
According to a Record
article of Dec. 23,1987, both
Lancaster companies had
agreed on a compromise
limiting the Lititz com­pany’s
territory.
Joe’s drivers also will be
allowed to transport passen­gers
to the airport, but outgo­ing
travelers are to be left to
the Lancaster cabbies.
Two cabs per town
Joe plans to have two cabs
circulating in each of the
Oct. 15.
“The top floor will be
ready for opening day,”
Heron remarked, adding that
the new library is expected
to be completed Sept. 1
(today).
Heron observed that the
continued construction in
the bottom floor of the addi-gears
up
service
towns surrounding Lititz,
maintaining a cross-over
pattern to conserve cab
mileage, he explained.
George Nolan, manager
of the company, has been
doing “most of the leg-work,”
says Joe, maintaTm
ing contact with car dealers
and hiring drivers. At pre­sent,
about six part-time and
two or three full-time drivers
have been hired, and appli­cations
are still being
accepted.
Only drivers 25 or older
who can meet criteria estab­lished
by the insurance com­pany
are elig ib le for
employment with the com­pany,
Joe stated.
Meanwhile, Joe is opti­mum
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tion will not pose a problem
for students or their instruc­tors.
“The top floor can be
entered from our existing
top floor,” he explained.
The top floor of the addi­tion
will include five class­rooms,
a large library, two
small group instruction
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Sept. 5 in observance of
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Sept. 6 at 3 p.m.
by Kathleen King
Lititz Borough Council
Tuesday night approved a
request by the Lititz Lions
- Club to close several down­town
streets on Oct. 29 for a
daytime Halloween parade.
Don Campbell, chairman
of the Lions parade commit­tee,
told council that the
Lions wanted to try a day­time
Halloween parade as an
“experiment.”
He said the Lions Club
has been concerned over the
years about the darkness of
the parade route and the late­ness
of the hour.
He said although the first
block of Main Street is well
Opening day
information
Because of street and
sidewalk repairs on East
Orange Street, school buses
will be loading/discharging
students at Lititz Elementary
on South Cedar Street
betweeri the alley and East
Orange Street until the work
is completed. Parents are
requested not to park in this
area before or after school.
If the sidewalk on the
North side of East Orange
Street is not completed,
parents are requested to
direct their children to con­tinue
crossing at Broad and
Orange, and then to walk
south on Broad Street to
Center Street, east on Center
to South Cedar Street and
South Cedar Street to the
school.
On the first day of school,
all John Beck Elementary
children should report to
their homerooms and, all
Lititz Elementary children
should report to their
homerooms.
At Kissel Hill Elemen­tary,
Grade 1 - follow
in stru c tio n s in le tte r
received from their teacher;
Grade 2 and 3 - report to the
gymnasium; Grade 4 - report
to Miss Wilson’s room; and
Grade 5 - report to Mr.
Clausen’s room.
For the first day of school
on Wednesday, Sept. 7, all
senior high school students
are to report to their home­rooms
at 8 a.m. Homeroom
assignments are listed on the
schedules which were mail­ed
to students and will be
posted in the cafeteria and
auditorium lobbies.
Full-time and part-time
vo-tech students are to
report to the cafeteria at 8
a.m. All vo-tech students
must ride the district pro­vided
vo-tech bus on the first
day of school.
Students who did not
receive their 1988-89 class­room
schedule should con­tact
the high school office to
determine if they owe a debt.
All debts, over due books or
other obligations from the
previous year Sept. 2, 1988.
Bus schedule
The 1988-89 bus schedule
for public and non-public
students within the Warwick
School District is found on
page 2 inside today’s
Record. Parents are advised
to read the schedule careful­ly
and instruct their children
of any changes in bus stops
or times from last year.
lighted, with the help of
Michael Tait, the rest of the
parade route is often very
dark. In addition, young
parade participants are often
taken home by their parents
before the winners can be
announced.
A Saturday also works out
because there is no football
game that particular day,
Campbell said, so the War­wick
Band would not have a
conflict in scheduling.
Mayor Roy Clair express­ed
concern about traffic and
the reaction of downtown
merchants to closing the
street.
Police Chief Jim Fritz
said he had no problem with
the traffic and Campbell said
an “informal” survey of
some downtown merchants
raised few objections.
Campbell said the parade
would begin at 11 a.m. The
raindate would be Monday,
Oct. 31.
In other business Tuesday
night, council:
■Awarded a $5,847 bid to
John Stump Inc. for storm
sewer work on Rome Road.
•Instructed Mike Brubak­er
of Brubaker Agronomic
Consulting Services to
pursue a possible site near
(Turn to Page 4)
by Kathleen King
After two hours of heated
discussion at a meeting
Monday night, Lititz Plan­ning
Commission and Bor­ough
Council appear to have
reached a compromise on
the hotly debated “connector
road” between Lincoln
Avenue and West Orange
Street.
The two groups met to
work out final details on the
new comprehensive plan for
Lititz Borough, a plan which
has been in the formulating
processes for several years.
Included in the plan is a
map detailing future streets
for the borough.
At a previous meeting on
July 19, the two groups did
head-to-head battle over the
proposed road.
Several borough council
members objected strongly
to the location of the road,
which would cross Warner
Lambert’s property and con­nect
to Campus Drive,
between the new community
center and the middle
school.
School officials have also
expressed displeasure at
locating a road there.
July 19 Meeting
At the July 19 meeting,
council members asked the
planning commission to
reconsider its recommenda­tion
and return at the next
meeting with an alternative.
At Monday’s meeting,
most of the council members
present and the mayor a-greed
by the end of the night
that there was a need to keep
a corridor open between
Lincoln Avenue and Orange
Street.
The original idea was for
the street to be an “inner col­lector”
enabling residents to
drive from North Broad
Street through several con-
Thursday on the American
Stock Exchange to $15.38
per share as of noon Tues­day,
according to Hughes.
“It’s continuing to rise,
but not as rapidly,” Hughes
said.
Hughes said the decision
to sell the company was “a
decision of the board in the
best interest of maximizing
shareholder value.”
The board’s decision was
made at Thursday via a tele­phone
conference call.
Hughes said the decision
grew out of an unsuccessful
takeover attempt in the
spring led by a group of dis­sident
shareholders, includ­ing
Russell C. Chambers and
Lawrence $. Black.
The Woodstream treasur­er
would not identify any of
the possible buyers, and
would only say it had several
candidates.
ic auctions held in Lancaster
and surrounding counties.
Many of the Longeneck-er’s
items were locally
made. An early 20th century
cast iron trough, made by the
Mountville Manufacturing
Co., and a cast iron and brass
hand pump, manufactured
by Barry and Zecher, Lan­caster,
are items Longeneck-er
is saving for Saturday’s
sale.
A wooden wheelbarrow,
painted red and made by
Buch Manufacturing Co.,
necting streets, some yet to
be built, across Lincoln
Avenue, through the school
campus, and connect to
West Second Avenue.
Mayor Roy Clair said if
the street is to serve the
school system and the new
recreation center, such a
street would not have to con­nect
to West Second
Avenue. He said it could
eonnect to West Orange
Street to the east of the high
school, using High School
Drive.
Futher Ahead
“If we’d eliminate die
traffic on Broad Street going
to the school, we’d be a lot
further ahead,” Clair stated.
Clair said locating the
street in that vicinity would
assure the cooperation of the
school district.
Planning Commission
chairman Arlene Shannon
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Black and Chambers
group, which owns 16.3 per­cent
of Woodstream stock, is
among the interested parties.
To examine the possible
sale Woodstream has
created a special committee
of three outside directors.
The committee will work
with the company’s finan­cial
adviser, Shearsori Leh­man
Hutton Inc. to evaluate
the offers and made a recom­mendation
to the board,
Hughes said.
The committee will con­sist
of Samuel A. McCul­lough,
president of Meridian
Bancorp Inc., acting as
chairman and Kenneth W.
Gemmill, an attorney with
Dechert, Price & Rhoads,
and Alexander Ewing, part­ner
in Ewing, Cole, Cb ■' iy
& Parsky, architc n • ri
engineers.
Elizabethtown, is in “almost
mint condition.”
Longenecker says he
strives to acquire items that
are in original condition. An
object’s patina, its authentic
appearance, is worth pre­serving,
notes Longenecker,
who avoids tampering wuh
the the antiques.
One of the most remark­able
antiques Longencecker
hopes to sell Saturday is a
wheelbarrow attributed to
Berks County’s Gruber
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Inside
Today’s
Record
Business 9
Church 14
Classified 17-19
Editorial 4
Manheim 15
Out of the Past 16
Social 12-13
Sports 6,7,8
R e lo ca tin g
Leon Overpeck,
Atlantic States rep­resentative
fo r the
P ocket Testam ent
League, lives in Stras-burg.
He soon will be a
lot closer to his com­pany’s
headquarters,
which, is moving from
Lincoln Park, N.J. to
Lititz next year. The
organization annually
distributes 100 million
scriptures on five conti­nents
in 30 languages.
See story on page 14.
O n P a g e F o u r
•Ike Kauffman extols
the m e rits o f the
Musicfest.
•The editorial urges
compromise and coop­eration
between the
Lititz Planning Com­mission
and the Bor­ough
Council.
•Off the Record won­ders
“w h a t’s in a
name?"
•A Journalist’s Jour­nal
wistfully remem­bers
those back-to-college
days.
In light of sale, Woodstream
‘cognizant of community’
by Kathleen King
Although Woodstream
Corp. plans to sell the com­pany
in 60 to 90 days, the
“management is cognizant
of its responsibility to its
employees and the commun­ity,”
Michael Hughes, cor­pora
te tre a su re r said
Tuesday.
Hughes said all parties
interested in acquiring the
company “have stated they
would have Woodstream
function as a distinct entity,”
and would re ta in its
employees.
Currently about 450
employees work at the Lititz
plant and another 75 in
Canada.
Since the possible sale
was announced late last
week, the value of Woods­tream
stock has risen almost
$3 per share, from $12.50
per share at closing on
Farm collectibles among
those at park antique show
by Jed Kensinger
Furniture, crocks, glass
bottles, clocks, quilts and
baskets appear to be the
ingredients of grandma’s
attic. But the list is actually a
sampling of high quality
items that over 100 dealers
from Pennsylvania and sur­rounding
states will, bring to
Lititz Saturday for the 22nd
annual Outdoor Antiques
and Collectibles sale.
If that list resembles
grandma’s attic, then Elmer
Longenecker’s treasure
trove must be grandpa’s
bam.
Longenecker, an Arms­trong
World Industries reti­ree,
222 Owl Hill Road, has
reserved two spaces in Lititz
Springs Park to sell his farm
antiques and primitives.
Longenecker offers an
unusual variety of tum-of-the-
century agricultural
implements, including a
one-horse row maker, straw
cutter, two express wagons,
a seven-gallon white cedar
cylinder butter chum and a
spring wagon seat.
An A-frame chicken
coop, housing live chickens
Longenecker raised on his
farmette, is likely to draw
people to his stand.
A collector for 35 years,
Longenecker began to sell
his private inventory when
he retired in 1982. He
attends about six shows per
year. “I like the Lititz show
and keep my prime stuff for
there,” Longenecker said.
Pointing to a child’s sled
he bought in Penryn,
Longenecker said he obtains
some of his antiques at publ-
Elmer Longenecker gets ready to load a pair
antique express wagons for Saturday’s Outdoor
Antiques and Collectibles Sale.
Local entrepreneur
Joe Laventure holds the logo that will be dis­played
on the fleet of cabs for his new Lititz-based
Lancaster County Taxi Service. Daytime Halloween
parade gets okay