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•ORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543, Thursday, April 13,1989 30 CENTS A COPY $9.50 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY . 26 Pages- No. 1
Fifty years ago (from left) Roy and Helen David­son,
Harold and Florence Bortz, Frank and Laura
Bucher (front, right), and Henry and Alda Hufford
were married — all on the same day. The couples,
Photo by John Tropp
who celebrate each anniversary together, join
together here after the ceremony last weekend when
the Bortzes reaffirmed their wedding vows.
‘Golden’ couples mark 50 years,
celebrate anniversaries together
By Becky Collins
Record-Express News Editor
Harold and Florence Bortz, 202 Oxford Drive, were
married again last weekend.
Actually, the Bortzes reaffirmed wedding vows made a
half-century ago Saturday at St. Luke’s United Church of
Ctirisl. This time, however, they weren’t alone with the
pastor. Instead, they were wed before their families and
friends in a church ceremony complete wilh attendants
and a reception at the Holiday Inn.
Romance was in the air on April 8,1939. It was the day
that Harold married Florence for the first time, culminat­ing
a courtship of 3'A years. It was also the day that Frank
and Laura Bucher, 2160 Main St., Rothsville, eloped to
Virginia.
On that day, Roy and Helen Davidson, 635 S. Spruce
St., said their “I do’s” in front of the late Rev. James
Moore at the parsonage of the Lititz. Church of the Bre­thren.
Henry and Alda Hufford, 122 Academy Drive,
Ephrala, were married in the United Methodist church in
Rothsville by the late Wesley Martin on the same day.
Fifty years later, all four couples are grandparenis>and
all are still happily married. Together, they have formed
an exclusive anniversary club of sorts and meet eacn Apiti
8 to celebrate their common anniversaries.
Soon after their wedding, Harold and Florence set up
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Rothsville water goes on line
By Becky Collins
Record-Express News Editor
Five hundred Rothsville
homeowners now have 90
days to connect to a new
# public water system at a cost
of $1,200 per household.
Warwick Township’s
supervisors approved notifi­cation
of residents by certi­fied
mail last week, inform-'
ing them of the requirements
, and cost for hooking up with
the system.
According to Ron Nuss,
operations manager for the
Warwick Township Munici­pal
Authority, each home-owner
will pay a $550 tap­ping
fee, a $600 connection
500 residents to receive
water connection notices
fee and $50 for a meter yoke
assembly. An additional $25
permit fee will be charged
for homes currently under
construction.
The quarterly charge for
the minimum water usage
will be $61 for 15,000 gal­lons
of water. Additional
costs will be incurred for
consumption above the
minimum.
Nuss oversaw the installa­tion
of 24,325 feet of six-inch
water main in the vil­lage
of Rothsville, a project
that began last August. He
. reported Monday that the
mains and laterals for the
system have been laid, an
80-foot standpipe is in place
and the well house is nearly
completed.
“The job went very well,”
Nuss observed. “All we need
is an electrical panel for the
pump and then we can test
the lines,” he added.
He reported that the
authority could open the spi­got
providing public water
to die village early next
month.
The addition of 500 cus­tomers
in the Rothsville area
brings the customer base of
the authority up to 1,150.
Currently 650 residential
and business customers are
supplied with water from
Lititz by the authority. The
Rothsville system will oper­ate
on the township’s first
public well.
The authority also oper­ates
waste water lines for a
large portion of the township
bordering Lititz borough.
The township supervisors
also got a first-hand look at
elevations for a new munici­pal
building. Gregory Scott,
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Recycling is coming to borough
By Dave Knauss
Record-Express Editor
Residents of Lititz, get to
know your food and bever­age
containers better. Come
January of 1991, you’ll be
recycling them.
That’s the month when
Lititz Borough will start its
new trash collection contract
as well as its new state-mandated
recycling prog­ram.
Consumers will have to
set aside tin and steel food
cans, aluminum cans, glass
containers, and hopefully
newspapers, according to
Jim Warner, recycling man­ager
of the Lancaster Coun­ty
Solid Waste Authority.
The state passed a law last
July stating that all munici­palities
of more than 5,000
people in the Common­wealth
must start recycling
by 1991.
It won’t be voluntary. The
Lititz Borough ordinance
will include penalties for
those not cooperating. How­ever,
Warner notes that, like
with every law, the penalties
will only be as good as
enforcement.
Only about 15 percent of
Litilz residents are currently
participating in the curbside
recycling program of the
Water Street Rescue Mis­sion
in Lancaster, Warner
says.
But he expects that to
change in Lititz, perhaps go
up to 70 percent, as it is in
Mountville. The Solid
Waste Authority set up a
pilot project in that com­munity
last June and now the
borough has a three-contract
for a hauler to take away
trash and recyclables. Mount
Joy and Marietta have simi­lar
three-year contracts.
Recycling will be easier
and more common in Lititz
because residents will get
into the habit of placing their
recyclables out on the curb
every week — along with
the trash, Warner explains.
Now, it’s once a month for
Water Street.
To boot, all residents will
receive from the Solid
Waste Authority nice, rigid,
colorful receptacles to put
their cans and botttles in.
In Lititz one trash hauler
will contract with the bor­ough
to collect trash and
recyclable materials, says
Sue Barry, borough business
manager. The borough
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Council approves hike
in township water quota
By Dave Knauss
Record-Express Editor
An agreement between Lititz Borough and Warwick
Township to allocate a total of 700,000 gallons of water a
day to township users is in the works.
Tuesday night Lititz Borough Council voted 5-0 to
include Option B in a new contract to be made with the
township. The option, approved a week before by the
Warwick Township Municipal Authority, gives the town­ship
another 476,000 gallons of water — making the total
700,000—providing the township pays for die new pump
and gas generator that will make the extra allocation
possible
In its vote, the council moved to have its attorney do
research for a contract on the agreement. The contract will
then have to be signed by representatives of the borough
and township to take effect. Following that, bids will be
solicited for the new pump and generator.
This second high-lift pump and gas generator — which
would allow 3 million gallons a day to be treated and
pumped at the borough water plam—are estimated to cost
a iota: of SI 10,000.
Also under Option B, existing rates paid by township
users of Lititz public water would remain the same,
although rates would increase as new facilities are added,
such as the nitrate-removal equipment planned by the bor­ough
council.
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Sports complex costs $1 million,
plans for new stadium shelved
By Jed Kensinger
Record-Express Staff Writer
A new recreational area
and sports complex for War­wick
School District has
been estimated to cost $1
million, bqt concern over
costs has shelved plans to
build a new football
stadium.
The existing football sta­dium
would be lighted,
according to a plan pre­sented
by administrators at a
Committee of the Whole
meeting last week.
The Buch farm plan,
which has not yet been
approved, carries a cost of
$982,000.
“There’s no question the
estimate is higher than we
thought,” said Dr. John R.
Bonfield Warwick superin­tendent
after the meeting.
But “it’s still the direction to
go,” he added optimistically.
“We want to be careful
about funding. We want to
proceed in the most cost-effective
way,” Bonfield
said.
Due to the prohibitive
costs of building a new sta­dium,
the administration
recommends several cost­saving
alternatives to the
preliminary layout prepared
by the Derek and Edson
landscape architectural firm
two months ago.
In addition to lighting the
existing stadium, Bonfield
also recommends lighting a
second playing field for
night-time field hockey and
soccer games, a proposal
which was not part of the
preliminary layout.
“If we light the existing
football field, I see no need
to build a new football field
for a long, long time, if
ever,” he said. ■
However, a site has been
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Local fishermen reveal secrets
Trout season
starts this
Saturday
By Jed Kensinger
Record-Express Staff Writer
“Trout season is a sym­bolic
gesture that indicates
the real fishing is coming.
It’s like buds on a tree. The
actual fish is very unimpor­tant,”
says John Hanna, a
Lititz angler.
Hanna is one of several
Lititz fishermen who recen­tly
sat around the table at
Bingeman’s Restaurant to
swap pre-season fishing sec­rets,
during a mid-afternoon
coffee break.
This Saturday, Hanna and
thousands of other anglers
are heading for the water for
the opening day of trout sea­son.
Next week, the gang at
“Bingy’s” ought to have
some pretty good fish
stories.
Although his favorite spot
is the Delaware Bay, where
he goes salt-water fishing,
Hanna makes an annual pil­grimage
to Perry County for
the opening. day of trout
season.
He leaves the local area
for several reasons. “Num­ber
one — you don’t have
mud in the streams. Number
two — you don’t have
crowds of people,” Hanna
explains, alluding to the
fishermen who fight shoul­der
to shoulder for the best
spot in some local streams.
Streams weren’t always
so ■ crowded around here.
Hanna likes to reminisce
about a time, several
decades ago, when he and
his teenage buddies camped
out on the bank of the Ham­mer
Creek, anxiously await-
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Photo by Jed Kensinger
Harold Alleman, volunteer manager of the Robert B. Koch Nursery, nets a few of
5,600 trout that will be stocked by the Lititz Sportsmen’s Association in the weeks
ahead.
Springs Park cleanup set
It’s springtime, and
that means the annual
Lititz Springs Park
Cleanup is just around
the corner. Residents
of the area will ready
the natural area for
Summertime leisure
April 22 during an all­day
cleanup effort.
Bring your rakes,
brooms and glo ves; the
park board will supply
the coffee. The story is
on page 26.
Recycling
schedule
Recyclable materials
will be picked up in Lititz in
the area south of Main
Street and east of Route
501 on Wednesday, April
19. Recyclables — alumi­num
cans and glass con­tainers
— should be
placed on the curb by 7:30
a.m. for pickup by the
Water Street Rescue
Mission.
Softball team scores two wins
Warwick’s softball
team hasn’t been dam­pened
by the April
showers that have
postponed many sport­ing
events. In fact, the
girls scored victories in
c lo se g am e s with
Cedar Crest and North­ern
Lebanon. The com­plete
story is on page 7.
Continuing a family tradition
The fourth genera­tion
of family members
of the Long and Bom-berger
hardware and
building supplies busi­ness
is continuing a
Lititz tradition. The bus­iness,
which began
before the Civil War,
h a s s e e n ma n y
change s . History
unfolds and new own­ers
are introduced in a
story on page 21.
W iË Ê i Record
Index
Business 21
Church 16
Classified 22-25
Editorial 4
Manheim 18
Out of the Past 20
School Menu 14
Social 14-15
Sports 6-8