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________WITHIN LANCASTER COUTH Y, 24 Pages- No. 32
GOP wins big
at polls here
President-elect George
Bush garnered a whopping
71 percent of Lancaster
County’s popular vote in the
presidential election race
Tuesday, but Republican
state House candidate Jere
Strittmatter did him one bet­ter.
Strittmatter gained a
three-to-one vote margin
against Democrat Timothy
Callahan in the race for the
97th district state House seat
being vacated by June N.
Honaman.
Strittmatter, who took
74.7 percent of the popular
vote, an unofficial tally of
21,797 votes in the predo­minantly
Republican dis­trict,
told reporters Tuesday
night his priority will be
“working with citizens,
elected officials and com­munity
leaders to make sure
their views are carried forth
in Harrisburg.”
He attributed his victory
to teamwork.
His opponent in the state
House race, Timothy Calla­han
of Lititz, offered his
congratulations to Strittmat­ter,
but added that he will
consider another nm against
the Representative-elect.
Callahan’s strongest
showing was in Lititz Bor­ough,
where he racked up
872 votes compared to 2,074
for Strittmatter. Warwick
Township voters added to
Strittmatter’s edge, giving
the Republican candidate
3,058 votes compared to 873
votes for Callahan.
President-elect George
Bush did very well among
local voters. He took 2,439
votes in Lititz Borough,
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Elizabeth Twp.
residents to see
no tax increase
By Jed Kensinger
Record-Express Staff Writer
Elizabeth Township
supervisors Monday night
proposed a 1989 budget of
$492,870 which calls for no
tax increase.
The real estate millage
rate of 2.5 mills will remain
the same.
The proposed budget will
be available for public
inspection at the township
office until the Dec. 5 meet­ing
when the supervisors
plan to adopt it.
If the budget is adopted as
proposed, it will mark a
30-percent increase, or
$112,975 over the 1988
budget.
Major expenses include
$200,00 for road construc­tion
and rebuilding, $75,000
for highway maintenance,
$40,000 for planning, zon­ing,
engineering and legal
fees, and $25,000 for capital
purchases, including fund­ing
for a dump truck.
Projected revenues are
$267,110. A 1988 budget
carry-over of $300,00 is
e x p e c t e d . P ro j e c te d
revenues are earned income
tax, $150,000; real estate
tax, $49,000; and real estate
transfer tax.
Secretary/treasurer Rod­ney
May said the only
change in the proposed
budget might be the amount
allocated for the Lititz Com­munity
Center. In the past
the township has contributed
$1,300 to the Rec Center.
Because of the expanded
facilities and services, the
Community Center is asking
each of the municipalities in
the Warwick School District
to contribute $2 per person.
The current school district
census shows a population
of 3,355 persons living in
E liz a b e th T ow n sh ip ,
according to a letter sent to
the township from the Com­munity
Center, In Elizabeth
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; he. J.uir, ¡Lit petfciius if: chartipics'iship
competition as ornamental balls are whirled
Band captures
third place
at Hershey
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
The rain didn’t dampen Saturday evening’s perfor­mance
by the Warwick High School marching band at
the Cavalcade of Bands championship held at the Her­shey
Stadium.
In fact, the marching band captured third place out of
the 10 bands competing in the Liberty Conference.
The score of 86.35 was the highest all season and the
highest in recent memory of Warwick marching band
fans. Band director Steve McMillan believes the score
to be the highest since he has directed the band. McMil­lan
said,“The score was good and they did a super job.”
But, McMillan cautioned, “I don’t put much empba ■
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Future band gives
good luck send-off
The 1988 Warwick
marching band mem­bers
were given a spe­cial
surprise last Fri­day
while they prac-t
i c e d f o r th e
Cavalcade of Bands
competition. They
were visited by the
Warwick marching
band of the year 20031
Children from St.
Paul’s Christian Child
Care Center dressed as
future Warwick band
members and marched
into the first period
band practice and
played an unidentifi­able
tune for the high
school students. They
also p re sen ted a
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’d'-9 - V- uy ensemble.
Gvo.:..:- Jed Kensinger).
David Beiier, son of Marsha and Samuel
Beiler, 60 Brookiawn Rd., played a trumpet
tune last Friday when the “Band of 2003”
performed for the Warwick Hgh School
marching band: (Photo by Jed Kensinger)
Township holds
line on taxes
By Becky Collins
Record-Express News Editor
Warwick Township’s
board of supervisors have
decided to hold the line on
taxes during 1989, project­ing
a budget of $1,305,000
for the coming year. The
new budget reflects an
increase of $265,000 or
25.48 percent over last
year’s general operating
budget of $1,040,000.
Significant increases in
the preliminary budget are
reflected in the areas of the
township’s contribution to
the Lititz Fire Company, up
from $1,500 to $5,000, and a
15 to 20 percent hike in
insurance costs.
Warwick Township has
budgeted $336,078 for oper­ation
of its police depart­ment,
up from $310,186 last
year. The department, cur­rently
training a new officer,
expects to increase its force
by an additional officer dur­ing
the coming year. An
additional patrol car will
also be added.
Township se c re ta ry
Robert Smith estimates the
one-mill real estate tax lev­ied
by the township gen­e
ra te s a p p ro x im a te ly
$70,000 in revenues. The
real estate transfer tax is pro­jected
to generate $125,000
in revenues for the township
during 1989, and the earned
income tax represents
approximately $650,000 in
revenues in the general oper­ating
budget.
The township’s board of
supervisors voted Nov. 2 to
advertise the preliminary
budget.
At their upcoming Wed­nesday
night meeting, the
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Lititz man killed
as car rammed
at intersection
An auto accident claimed
the life of a 20-year-old
Lititz man early Sunday
morning in Lancaster.
Killed was T. Eric Zim­merman,
son of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond C. Groff, 22
Owl Hill Road.
Formal charges are pend­ing
against William M. Roh-rer
Jr., 24,33 Broad St., Lan­caster,
reports said. He was
driving the car that slammed
into Zimmerman’s at the
intersection of Queen and
James streets at 2:25 a.m.
R o h re r was given a
breathalyzer test at the scene
of the accident but the results
are not being released pend­ing
filing of charges.
According to police, Zim­merman
died almost instant­ly
when his sub-compact car
was broadsided by Rohrer’s.
An autopsy Sunday morn­ing
revealed that he died
from massive chest injuries,
according to county coroner
Dr. Barry Walp.
Rohrer allegedly ran a red
light at the intersection. He
and two passengers in his
car, Kandy Fisher, 31, oi ¡3
W. Chestnut St., and Robert
J. Heisley, 26, of 226 E. Ross
St., were injured.
Ms. Fisher was admitted
to St. Joseph Hospital where
she was listed in good condi­tion
Tuesday afternoon.
According to Zimmer­man’s
family, he had
attended a music concert in
Lancaster and was en route
to his home in Lititz when
the collision occurred. Roh­re
r’s vehicle slammed
broadside into the right ed ’
of Zimmerman’s car _ ne
w a s c r o s s i n g < . e
intersection.
Zimmerman was b> o >
pinned in the wreckay a
Lancaster City fire d
merit freed him and ■ :> 0
pronounced dead a w
scene by county emc ,
Walp.
(Turn to Page 2) Fourth-generation tinsmith hammers out unusual items
By Lynn Rossi
Special to the Record
In our society of mass-produced
goods, consumers
with an eye for quality and
who are even willing to pay
for it sometimes don’t know
where to find it. What they
may not realize is, quality
and one-of-a-kind work­manship
is often available in
their own backyard and in
some instances has been for
man years.
The little downtown of
Lititz boasts its various tren­dy
shops, gift centers,
necessity and hardware
stores that come and go with
the times, change locations
or owners, and in some
ca se s c e a s e to e x is t
altogether. Typical small­town
businesses, all of
them, a few at their present
locations for thirty and more
years, these stores often
have an interesting history.
One such retail business,
Krcider Hardware, is sand­wiched
about midway in the
east block, north side, of
Main Street between Video
Carousel and Lititz Book
and Office Products. To the
passerby, the hardware
store, at 27 E. Main isn’t all
that unique or unusual until
you learn that it’s one of the
oldest retail businesses in
Lititz, having been in that
location for 84 years. Furth­ermore,
its four generations
of owners have always
worked with sheet metal at
the rear of the building.
As you enter the front
door at Kreider’s, and the
opening of the door acti­vates
a buzzer, you’ll see a
very typical small-town
hardware store that’s some­what
reminiscent of a
bygone era. Present-day
owner, Ronald Loercher
invariably emerges from the
rear of the store, and if you
didn’t know about the sheet
metal business back there,
you’d swear h e ’d been
watching television to pass
the time between customers.
R e ta ile r s
M e e tin g
Rescheduled
The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association originally
scheduled for Wed.,
Nov. 9 has been
rescheduled for Tues.,
Nov. 15 at 7:30 PM at
Bingeman’s Restaurant.
All area businessmen
are w e lc om e and
invited to attend.
However, his walk to the
front of the store is brisk
enough so you’d never think
he’d been snoozing - even in
the afternoon. It just turns
out that there’s another busi­ness
back there, even older
than the one in the front.
Tinsmithing began in
Loercher’s family with his
great-grandfather Albert
Kreider, who plied his trade
in the basement of Iver’s
Hardware Store (now
Eileen’s Fitness) in the
1870’s.
What did tinsmiths of this
period do? They made all
manner of kitchen equip­ment
— cake pans, pie
plates, cups, coffeepots,
funnels, dippers, scoops,
lanterns, sconces, candle
and cheese molds, hearing
trumpets, bird cages, gra­ters,
boilers and even nurs­ing
“bottles,” and, of course,
Hearing s e t
The Lititz Borough
Council will conduct a
public hearing on the
update of the bor­ough
's Comprehen­sive
Plan at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday, Nov. 29, in
the council room. It will
be part of council’s reg­ular
meeting which
starts at 7:30 p.m. A
copy of the plan is on
display at the borough
office and may be
viewed Monday to Fri­day
from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.___________
the ever popular cookie
cutters.
Purchasing the property
at 37 E. Main Sreet in 1904,
Albert took his son, Maurice
Kreider, into the business,
which by now included
h a rdw a re , a common
accompaniment to tin-smithing.
When Albert Kreider’s
daughter married Charles
Loercher of Manhcitn, the
son of their marriage,
Everett, became a third gen­eration
tinsmith. By this
time the business began
expanding into roofing and
stove work and later into
furnace and plumbing
needs. Tinsmiths became
sheet metal workers.
Everett Loercher, howev­er,
didn’t join the family
business at first, as he was a
sheet metal fabricator for
NASA in California where
Rec yclin g
s c h e d u le
Recyclable mater­ials
will be picked up in
Lititz in the area south
of Main Street and east
of Route 501 on Wed­nesday,
Nov. 16. Resi­dents
should have their
recyclables — news­p
a p e r s , alumin um
cans, glass containers,
and corrugated card­board
— on the curb by
7:30 a.m. for pickup by
th e Wa ter S t r e e t
Rescue Mission.
For
the
Record
Business 20
Church 16-17
Classified 21-23
Editorial 4
Manheim 18
Out of the Past 19
Social 14-15
Sports 6-8
Drama s e t a t Warwick
A heavenly comedy
will be staged at War­wick
High School Nov.
18-20. “Heaven Can
Wait’’ will be drama­tized
by the Warwick
Acting Company, the
high sch o o l’s main
stage student acting
troupe. To find out who
will be starring in the fall
play, turn to page 13.
his son, Ronald, was born.
Faced with the decision to
continue his career or return
to Lititz, Everett Kreider
chose the latter, bringing his
son with him.
In 1942 Kreider Hard­ware
acquired the G rube
property, which today
The Record Express
will be published one day
early T h an k sg iv in g
Week because of the
holiday.
Deadline for submit­ting
display advertising
will be Friday, Nov. 18,
at 5 p.m.
Classified display
advertising deadline will
be Monday, Nov. 21, at
Meeting e y e d
T h e L a n c a s t e r
County Planning Com­mission
will have a
public m eetin g on
Wednesday, Nov. 16,
at Ephrata High School
about local road and
bridge problems. The
meeting is set for 7p. m.
Citizens will be able to
suggest new road and
bridge projects that are
not already on the
Twelve Year Program
ofthe state Department
of Transportation.
includes Video Carousel
and McCormick Travel.
Not surprisingly, Ronald
learned tinsmithing and
sheet metal work under the
watchful eyes of his father
and his great uncle who
willed the property to him at
the time of his death in
noon. Classified reader
ad deadline will also be
on Monday, at 5 p.m.
Deadline for all news
will be 5 p.m. on Friday,
Nov. 18.
The paper will be on
the newstands late Tues­day,
Nov. 22, and will be
received by subscribers
in the mail Wednesday,
Nov. 23.
1975. His father is presently
a resident of Moravian
Manor.
Part of the evolutionary
story of tinsmithing, sheet
metal work and the hard­ware
business is the sale and
repair of appliances which
Kreider’s promoted until
1985 when L o e rc h e r
deemed such sales economi­cally
unfeasible. As a result,
one-half of the store was
closed to become a rental
property.
Also a part of Kreider’s
business was L&K Plumb­ing,
begun by Loercher and
Larry Klopp, who became
sole owner in 1977. And
even though L&K still
exists today, neither the “L”
n o r th e “K ” r e ta in s
ownership.
Although retailing basic
hardware is still the front
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A historical 19th-century
house in Brick-erville
is scheduled for
razing. The building
has served as a hotel
store and post office.
The exterior of the six-bay
brick building
reflects Georgian and
Federal d e ta ils in
woodwork. Read more
about this architectur­ally
significant house
and its owner on page
4.
Old h o u s e h a s h is to r y
Deadlines slated