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CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, June 22,1989 30 CENTS A COPY $9.50 PER YËAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages- No. 11
Board approves 3.25-mill
tax increase for 1989-90
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Several Lititz businessmen plan to develop an 18-hole
golf course near Speedwell Forge in an attempt to fill a
“desperate need” for golf courses in Lancaster County.
Tim Mason, president of Speedwell Management
Corp., confirmed that his Lititz-based company has reach­ed
purchase agreements on 231 acres of the Darlington
farm property located west of Speedwell Forge Road in
Elizabeth Township, and additional acreage of an adjoin­ing
property.
A price was not disclosed. Purchase agreements are
contingent upon conditions such as approval by municipal
boards.
Speedwell Management Coip. is a limited partnership
of Mason, who serves as controller at R.W. Sauder Inc.
egg firm in Lititz, a couple of Sauder family members, and
others.
William and Barbara Darlington will continue to own
the property surrounding their home and historic man­sion,
nestled at the upper end of Speedwell Forge Lake.
The Darlington tract includes gently sloping hills,
woods, meadows and wetlands along the Hammer Creek,
where the Pennsylvania Fish Commission has flowage
rights, Darlington noted.
Darlington said he is pleased to see his farm trans­formed
into a golf course, rather than a landfill. He said he
was approached previously by landfill developers.
Besides the Darlington farm, the proposed course
encompasses some 90 acres of farmland in Penn Town­ship
at the site of the former Glen Gary brickworks.
A sanitary landfill was proposed there 13 years ago. The
tract, located east bf Penryn Road, is currently owned by
Aldean Hamilton of 970 Fruitville Pike.
However, the landfill was abandoned after scores of
nearby residents fought the plans of R.E. Wright Associ­ates,
Harrisburg, a geological consulting firm that wanted
to lease the property. At the time of a heated landfill battle
which lasted four years, the site was owned by Leon and
Bill Hess of Manhcim.
Plans for the course are in the preliminary stages at this
point, changing on a daily basis, Mason said. Derek and
Edson Associates of Lititz are land planners for the
project.
Top-quality golf course architects from Florida are
assisting in the design of the course, Mason added.
He would not elaborate on details of the plan, at this
point. “We want to do things right. It will be a top-notch
development,” he said.
The golf course developers briefly informed Elizabeth
Township of its proposal several weeks ago. In addition to
the golf course, Speedwell Forge Management Corp.
hopes to develop an undetermined number of residential
lots.A
rchitectural plans of the course were not shown at the
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By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Warwick School Board adopted a $16.9 million budget
Tuesday for the 1989-90 school year, which calls for a
3.25-mill increase in the real estate tax.
The increase from 45.75 mills to 49 mills means the
average homeowner will pay an additional $51.80 in real
estate taxes, according to Warwick Superintendent Dr.
John R. Bonfield.
The district raised taxes 6.75 mills in 1988 and four
mills in 1987.
No changes were made since the preliminary budget
was approved in May. The budget requires the continua­tion
of all other property and occupation taxes.
Earned income will be taxed at a rate of one half of 1
percent, while realty transfer also will be taxed at a rate of
one half of 1 percent. The controversial occupation mil-lage
tax will continue to based on a rate of 100 mills of val­ue
of a person’s occupation.
The new budget marks a 19.5 percent increase over the
1988-89 school year. Bonfield said the largest increases in
the budget are in the areas of staff salaries and debt
service.
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Beck paintings
to highlight
Antiques Show
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
A couple of treasured
Beck paintings may
return to Lititz, if local
collectors are fortunate
enough to purchase them
at the 28th Annual Anti­ques
Show and Sale on
the July 4 weekend.
That’s when Lancaster
antiques dealer Joyce M.
Leiby hopes to sell her
paintings.
Sponsored by the Lititz
Historical Foundation,
the event will be held in
the air-conditioned War­wick
Middle School Fri­day,
June 30, from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. and Satur­day,
July 1, from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Leiby will be one of 40
leading dealers from five
states who will exhibit
some of the most trea­sured
antiques ever
assembled under one roof
in Pennsylvania. Most of
the dealers have been
returning to the show
each year since its
inception.
In addition to the paint­ings,
there’s “something
for everyone at afford­able
prices,” says Suzan­ne
Sload, who is organiz­ing
the event.
Antique furniture, pri­mitives,
glass, quilts, chi­na,
dolls, books and post­cards,
tools and other
items will be featured at
the show. Several new­comers
will show pattern
glass, stoneware and Pen-n
s y lv a n ia G e rm an
primitives.
. / Veteran Lititz exhibi­tors
include: Alisanne
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Joyce Leiby holds a Beck painting she plans to sell
at the Annual Antiques Show and Sale.
Businessmen eye golf course
for the Speedwell Forge area
Clair Brothers hits Japan
through joint agreement
By Dave Knauss
Record Express Editor
The sound equipment of
Clair Brothers Audio Enter­prises
Inc. of Manheim will
now be a fixture at The Big
Egg and other concert sta­diums
in Japan.
The 23-year-old firm
recently completed a joint
operating agreement — its
first—with a Japanese firm,
moving Clair Brothers oper­ations
onto three continents.
The London office was
opened in 1985.
The 15-year deal with
Sunplant Ltd. of Tokyo pro­vides
for the latter to lease
equipment and use the trade­mark
name from Clair
Brothers under the new
company Clair Brothers
Audio Japan. Sunplant owns
the new firm but Clair
Brothers retains “a reason­able
amount of say in man­agement
decision-making,”
says Greg Hall, Clair
Brothers business manager.
Terms of the agreement
were not disclosed.
“We want continuity
throughout the world and the
last big market and strong­hold
(in providing sound
equipment for rock-n-roll
concerts) is Japan,” says
chief executive officer Roy
B. Clair Jr. of 40 E. Third
Ave„ co-owner with his
brother, Gene.
He says Japan is the
h e a l t h i e s t m u s i c /
entertainment market in the
world, followed closely by
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Greg Hall shows some of the correspondence to Sunplant during negotiations.
It’s in plain Japanese — written by the Japanese student at Millersville University
hired by Clair Brothers as an interpreter.
S o l d - o u t a u d i e n c e
e x p e c t e d a t
J o a n J e t t c o n c e r t
By Becky Collins
Record Express News Editor
She’s intense.
Joan Jett has been called
“the toughest, grittiest,
hardest-working woman in
rock and roll.”
That she is. This week
alone, she has performed for
audiences in Texas and
California.
And Saturday night at 8
p.m. she’ll deliver her no-holds-
barred brand of rock
and roll to a sold-out audi­ence
at the new Lititz Com­munity
Center.
Jett was booked for the
performance by Lititz mayor
Roy Clair, co-owner of
internationally-renowned
Clair Brothers Audio of
Manheim. Clair said he first
heard Jett when she was the
opening act for former Led
Zeppliner Robert Plant. “I
don’t normally listen to the
first act, but I was impress­ed,”
Clair said.
“She is a good entertain­er,”
he added.
During the Robert Plant
tour, one of Clair’s people
became Jett’s audio monitor
and, so to speak, that’s
where the connection
begins. After the Plant tour,
Jett headlined her own tour
with Clair Bros, equipment.
Clair later told Jett’s man­ager,
Kenny Laguna, about
the new community center
going up in Lititz and what
the community has accom-
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Photo by Dave Knauss
Practicing a number for the concert and dance on Friday night at the Lititz Com­munity
Center are members of BobTroxell Big Big Jazz Band: from left, Bob Troxell
of Lancaster on trombone; Phil Capp, who just moved from Lititz to Lancaster, on
guitar; Terry Millard of Rothsville on lead alto saxophone; and Jim Powell of Lancas­ter
on bass trombone.
B i g B i g J a z z B a n d t o p l a y
F r i d a y a t c o m m u n i t y c e n t e r
Mix one part Tommy and sionals will perform gratis Mary Ann and the band pro-
Jimmy Dorsey, add Count for concert listeners and for duce musical fireworks
Basie and Woody Herman, the ballroom dancers on the together. Like her fellow
season with Glen Miller, center’s new floor. musicians, vocalist Garrett
sprinkle with Johnny Long This concert marks the has her music for an avoca-scat
vocals, stir in a classic 20th anniversary of The Big tion only. She’s wife to
Phil Harris vocal, simmer Big Jazz Band’s opening Conestoga Valley Professor
two contemporary ballad concert for the Summer Arts Dan Garrett, mother to two
vocals, cap with a dash of Festival. The series began at young sons, and is full-time
The Twist and what have Long Park Amphitheatre in president of Owl Hill Day
you got? 1969 as an opening act for Care Centers, Inc.
It’s the Bob Troxell Big the famed Buddy Rich Big Drummer Jimmie Sheck-
Big Jazz Band dance and Band. Location of the annu- ler will be featured in a
concert at the new Lititz al Arts Festival concerts was classic twist tune of the
Community Center at 8 p.m. changed with completion of ‘50s, “Goin’ Outa’ My
Friday, June 23. This climax the bandstand at Lancaster Head.” He’s quality mana-to
Adult Day at the new cen- Square. ger for Burnham, Inc. of
ter features pianist Dr. J. Big band excitement is Lancaster.
Albert Schulz along with generated when Lititz voc- Pianist-Arranger Dr. Al
vocalists Mary Ann Garrett alist Mary Ann Garrett Schulz spends his profes-and
Lititz’ . own charming appears with the band, sional time as a lead psy-vocalist
“Scat” Roy Folmer. Whether a sultry “Georgia chiatrist at St. Joseph Hospi-
“Maestro Trox” and his 18 On My Mind,” toe-tapping tal in Lancaster,
fund-raising amateur musi- “Blue Skies,” or the swinger “ S c a t ” v o c a l i s t /
cians who play like profes- “Singin’ In The Rain,” (Turn to Page 11)
Early deadlines announced
Record Express deadlines in both the advertis­ing
and editorial departments have been moved
up for the issue o f July 6.
Because of the Independence Day holiday on
July 4, retail and classified display ads and all edi­torial
material must be in the Record office by 5
p.m. on Friday, June 30.
Reader classified ads will be accepted until 3
p.m. on Monday, July 3.
The office will be closed on Tuesday, July 4.
Baseball’s in full swing
Baseball has been
i called America’s favo-
| | rite pastime. That's cer-
* tainly true in Lititz,
where the baseball and
, softball season is in full
UJ swing. See pages 6-8
p for scores and photos,
i including little league
i and community teams.
Recycling
schedule
Recyclable mater­ials
will be picked up in
Lititz in the area west of
Route 501 on Wednes­day,
June 28. Recycl-ables
— aluminum
cans and glass con­tainers
— should be
placed on the curb by
7:30 a.m. for pickup by
the Water S tre e t
Rescue Mission.
New shop
Donald Biechler of
Lititz has begun his first
business venture — a
shop at The Warwick
Center, offering a wide
variety of crafts, anti­ques
and other elegant
items. Treasures —
Past ‘n Present carries
wall hangings, pillows,
patch work, Christmas
ornaments, Heisey
glass, stoneware and
more. Read more on
page 9.
Grand opening
underway
The Grand Opening
Week at the new Lititz
Community Center is
being held this week.
Wednesday was sche­duled
for the grand
opening ceremony,
Thursday is Children’s
Day, Friday is Adult
Day, Saturday is Teen
Day and Sunday is
Community Day. See a
complete schedule on
page 11.
Record
Index
Business 9
Church 14
Classified 18-21
Editorial 4
Manheim 16
Out of the Past 15
Social 12-13
Sports 6-8