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The entire Queen of Candles court stands on a stage in the bands-hell
during the candlelighting ceremony in Lititz Springs Park. Particip­ants
are, from left, Melissa Youngblood, Tonya Franck, Alisa Valudes
Kelly Graybill, Megan Altemos, Debra Haddad (1988 queen) Kirn
Photo by Jed Kensinger
Harris (1989 queen), Kerrianne Felty, Elizabeth Bachman, Dawn
Rosensteel, Heather Reeder, Dawn Hollis and Missy Adams. Stand­ing
in front are Brooke Gelatka, flower girl, and Joe Shelly, crown
bearer.
H a r r i s i s c r o w n e d Q u e e n o f G a n d i e s
■ Photo by Jed Kensinger
Kim Harris, center, is crowned Queen of Candles, as Debra Haddad, last year’s
queen, and Joe Shelly, crown bearer, look on;
Perfect day boosted
by lighting of candles
By Becky Collins
Record. Express News Editor
“I was very surprised,” said a smiling Kimberly Har­ris
after being crowned 1989 Queen of Candles at
Lititz’ Independence Day celebration Saturday.
Twenty minutes after the floral crown was placed on
her head by last year’s queen, Debbie Haddad, Kim
said, “My face is a plastered smile.”
Miss Harris, daughter of William and Marlene Har­ris,
208 Weaver Drive, is a life-long Lititz area resi­dent.
She has been an active varsity cheerleader, win­ning
three varsity letters. She is a member of the junior
board of the Lititz Community Center and participated
in student government, Varsity Club and intramural
volleyball. .
Miss Harris plans to attend Shippensburg University
this fall to major in social work.
“She has been a pleasure since the day she was.
born,” said Kim’s beaming mother, Marlene. “This is
just really neat.”
The annual Fourth of July celebration was post-ironed
Tuesday due to rain, and resumed under sunny
skies Saturday.
Local sage Ike Kauffman, who served as master of
ceremonies for the day’s events, jokingly attributed the
breezy summer weather to the fact that coordinators
had secured the services of a Moravian emcee.
The weather was perfect for outdoor activities, and a
huge crowd was on hand for the crowning ceremony
and lighting of the candles.
“We grossed $12,500 in gate receipts, before
expenses,” reported Sue Long, park board treasurer.
Mrs. Long noted that because of the rain postpone­ment,
the park board expected lower attendance num­bers'
than they would have normally had if the celebra­tion
had been held July 4. ,
“We made about $300 less than last year,” she said.
Admission fees charged at the Fourth of July celeb-
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$12.9 million in contracts awarded
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Warwick School Board
awarded $12.9 million in
construction contracts at a
special meeting Tuesday for
the high school addition and
renovation project.
School officials expect
total project posts to reach
about$17 million. Construc­tion
costs represent about
$15.2 million of that figure,
said David L. Zerbe, War-
Township asked to pass
smoke detector ordinance
At the request of the three
area fire chiefs, the Warwick
Township supervisors are
considering adoption of a
smoke detector ordinance.
At the recent supervisors
meeting chief Joe Texter of
the Lititz Fire Company said
an ordinance could be a
touchy subject. But he added
that an ordinance passed in
Lititz in October 1987 has
not proven to be an infringe­ment
of personal rights, as
some people feared.
The Lititz ordinance does
not carry a fine for failure to
comply but does suggest that
at least one smoke detector
be placed at the hallway
leading to each sleeping
area, said borough Business
Manager Sue Barry.
In new buildings, detec­tors
should be wired to the
e le c tric a l system but
battery-powered ones are
acceptable, she said.
She usually only knows of
non-compliance when fire­men
tell her after putting out
fires in buildings that don’t
carry them, Barry said. Then
she sends the residents a let­ter
asking them to comply.
Texter says smoke detec­tors
definitely save lives. He
cites one case in which a
man walking along Main
Street at 2 a.m. heard a
detector go off in a building.
He called the fire company
which snuffed out a pan of
food burning on the stove,
while the resident lay passed
out.
“It would have become a
large fire if we hadn’t come
so the smoke detector saved
the man’s life,” Texter said.
He says Manheim Bor­ough
has a smoke detector
ordinance.
wick School District busi­ness
manager.
All fo u r c o n tra c ts
awarded Tuesday — gener­al,
HVAC, plumbing and
electrical — were for con­struction.
Three construc­tion
contracts will be
awarded in the future.
The general construction
contract was awarded to
E.E. Murry Construction
C o ., L a n c a s te r , fo r
$7,983,688.
The s c h o o l b o a rd
accepted E.E. Murry’s alter­nate
bid to delete a gymna­sium
divider from the con­tract
specifications, a sav­ings
of $22,000.
The board also accepted
the company’s alternate bid
to furnish and install tinted
and insulated glass, which
will cost an additional
$4,500.
Worth and Company Inc.
of Doyles town received the
heating, ventilation and air
conditioning contract for
$1,966,900.
The plumbing contract
went to the McClure Com­pany
of Harrisburg for
$856,000.
Farfield Company of
Lititz was awarded the elec-t
r i c a l c o n t r a c t fo r
$2,119,000. The board
chose Farfield’s alternate
bid to delete wiring and con­trols
for the gymnasium
divider, a deduction of $200.
The food services con­tract,
casework contract and
furnishings and equipment
contract have yet to be
approved.
The board rejected all
food services equipment
bids due to irregularities in
the bidding process. In addi­tion,
the bids were higher
than the board and school
officials expected.
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Council eyes buying
house, two lots at
Lincoln and Broad
By Becky Collins
Record Express News Editor
Rumors that the stately
brick house at the comer of
West Lincoln Avenue and
North Broad Street is back
on the market spurred a
detailed debate at Tuesday
night’s borough council
meeting.
Council members dis­cussed
the possibility of pur­chasing
the house and two
lots, listed for $325,000, and
moving the home back away
from Broad Street to allow
for a wider intersection and
improved traffic control.
Council was informed
that the residence, in a com­mercial
district, is being sold
as a potential bed and break­fast
establishment or as law
offices.
They discussed the furor
created several years ago
when the home was up for
sale. Local speculation at
that time was that the resi­dence
would be demolished
and a convenience store con­structed
on the site.
“It might cost as much as
$100,000 to move the house
back and then we’d incur the
cost of fixing the intersec­tion,”
noted council chair­man
Clyde Tshudy.
“There’s a problem here
that has to be addressed,
whether or not this is the sol­ution
remains to be seen,”
said councilman J e ff
Siegrist.
Council instructed bor­ough
Business Manager Sue
Ann Barry to ask Sen. Gib­son
Armstrong’s office and
the Lancaster County Plan­ning
Commission about pos­sible
funding for such a
project.
Council also held a public
meeting to detail plans for
Community Development
Block Grant funds they hope
to secure through Lancaster
County.
(Turn to Page 11) Raymark fire forces
worker evacuation
By Becky Collins
Record Express News Editor
A fire Monday in the
toluene charcoal filtration
system at Raymark Indus­tries,
Manheim, forced the
evacuation of employees at
the plant and sent seven fire­fighters
to Lancaster Gener­al
Hospital for heat exhaus­tion
and skin irritation.
About 75 to 100 firefigh­ters
from four fire compa­nies
and three hazardous
materials units took turns
trying to cool a tank that
serves as an air pollution
control device and solvent
recovery system.
“That’s my building,”
said Mike Riggs, head
mechanic at Raymark, as he
watched the efforts of fire­fighters
Monday.
Riggs said his first indica­tion
that something was
amiss came at 7 a.m. Mon­day
when he arrived at the
plant for work.
“When we got here at 7
this morning, we could smell
sulfur. As we were cleaning
out the bins it started getting
stronger and stronger,”
Riggs said.
“How a fire got in there is
virtually impossible to say,
where the spark came from
is almost impossible to say,”
he added.
Riggs said he was unsure
how the fumes built up in the
filtration system, although
he commented that they may
have accumulated over the
weekend.
Riggs explained that four
large tanks on the exterior of
the «budding hold sulfur and
other chemicals used in
manufacturing at the brake
and clutch products plant.
By cooling the tanks, he
said, firefighters hoped to
send the heat from the blaze
up through the air pollution
device to prevent an
explosion.
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T h e y c a m e
t h e y b i d a t
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Nostalgia-seekers were a dime a dozen
at the public sale of the former Bingeman’s
Restaurant equipment and supplies held on
Saturday.
Many of the 350 registered bidders
came to buy souvenirs from the restaurant,
which closed May 27 when Lester and
Mary Bingeman went into retirement.
Others came just to look and pay their
last respects to a Lititz institution. The sale
was a bittersweet event for the Bingemans
and their customers.
“It’s a happy day for me, believe me,”
said Marx 'Bingeman who siood in the
, t h e y s a w ,
B i n g e m a n ’ s
parking lot where people were gathered
around an auctioneer’s stand.
Meanwhile, Bingeman sat at a booth
inside the building, where he greeted his
friends. “Everybody’s h e re ,” he
exclaimed.
“This man came in here for years,” said
Bingeman, pointing to William Weitzel of
Schoeneck. You were the coffee maker
for a lot of years,” he reminisced.
Weitzel said he would stop in for break­fast
on his way to work in Lancaster. An
early bird, Weitzel used to heat up the cof­fee
before the waitresses and cooks
arrived.
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Weaver, left, is presented with an artifact from the building,where he and
Bingeman, right, both operated eating establishments.
L iv in g H is to ry Sessions se t
Aug. 1-3, Dianne Gillet­te
of 1410 Knob Hill Drive
will pilot a time machine
taking children back to
1892 at the one-room
Maple Grove School. She
will lead Living History
Sessions at the facility
located at Landis Valley
Museum near Neffsville.
The kids will do exercises,
make toys and play
games ala 1892. See
page 22 for more.
Swimmers to meet on Saturday
Swimmers from nine
teams throughout Lan­caster
County will com­pete
in the L ititz
Springs Invitational
Saturday. Woodrige
and L ititz Springs
teams will participate in
the event. The first race
begins at 9 a.m. For
more swimming news,
turn to page 7.
Recycling
schedule
Recyclable mater­ials
will be picked up in
Lititz in the area south
of Main Street and east
of Route 501 on Wed­nesday,
J u ly 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.
Yugoslavian spreads Gospel
Ondrej Franka, an
evangelist with the
Pocket Testament
League in Yugoslavia,
recently visited Lititz
and talked about his
experiences. He and
his countrymen are liv­ing
behind the iron cur­tain
in a new era of
“giastnost” and “pere­stroika.
” Read this fas­cinating
story on page
16.
Record
Index
Business 9
Church 16
Classified 18-21
Editorial 4
Manheim 13
Out of the Past 17
Social 14-15
Sports 6-8