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There she is
J e n n ife r G ra e b e r w ins
s c h o la rs h ip p a g e a n t
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J e n n if e r G ra e b e r, M is s L a n c a s te r C o u n ty
Photo by Preston Whitcraft
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
Jennifer Graeber, 19,
a 1988 graduate o f War­wick
High School, is the
new Miss Lancaster
County.
Daughter of Bob and
Sandy Graeber, 511 S.
Broad St,, she was
named the 40th winner
of the Lancaster County
Scholarship Pageant last
Saturday evening at
Ephrata High School
auditorium.
Her title includes
$2,000 worth of scholar­ships,
a new wardrobe
and other awards. In her
new role, she will face a
year of appearances,
challenges and oppor­tunities
and will compete
in the Miss Pennsylvania
pageant at Altoona in
June. I f she captures
that title, she will
advance to the Miss
America pageant.
Miss Graeber is the
second Lititz woman to
capture the Lancaster
County title. Mary Jane
Hill was named Miss
Lancaster County in
1962.
A sophomore at Mil-lersville
University, Miss
Graeber is enrolled in
the honors program and
plans to do her graduate
work in medical illustra­tion
at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore.
Miss Graeber was one
of 12 contestants who
competed in talent,
swimsuit and evening
gowji competitions and
interviews. A contes­tant’s
interview with the
panel of judges is consid­ered
an important factor
in determining the
winner.
Miss Graeber per­formed
a piano medley
of Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony and the
“Terms of Endearment”
movie theme fo r the
talent show.
For the swimsuit con­test
she wore a purple
bathing suit. For the
evening gown competi­tion,
she modeled a
cobalt blue sequined
gown with a silver-veneered
bodice.
Other Lititz women
participating in the scho­larship
pageant were
Donna Groff, fourth
runner-up, who won a
$350 scholarship, Jill
Downing and Stephanie
Keebler.
An ambitious and
bright young woman,
Miss Graeber articulated
her goals and aspira­tions
in an interview
Monday upon returning
to college life. Her Mil-lersville
friends show­ered
her with cards and
flowers and her room­mate
posted a sign on the
dormitory door, saying
“Miss Lancaster County
slept here.”
Q: How does the title
Miss Lancaster County
make you feel?
A: It makes me feel
motivated to be able to
meet the challenges that
are ahead of me this year.
I’m really excited. I’m
numb and I still can’t
believe it.
Q: Did you feel any
different going to class
today than when you
left on Friday?
A: I felt a little shy
today and quietly self-confident
because I
didn’t know who might
recognize me. When I
passed the paper vending
machine and saw my
mom and father and me
pressed against the glass,
I couldn’t believe it. But,
unfortunately, I didn’t
have 35 cents on me.
Q: How did you get
involved in the scholar­ship
pageant?
A: It was the middle of;
the summer and I had just
gotten back from tutor
counseling in the Upward
Bound program at Miller-ville,
and they (pageant
officials) called me and
asked me to be in it. I nev­er
thought of being in the
pageant. But my parents
encouraged me from
there.
Q: Have you lived in
Lititz your whole life?
A: We moved around
almost every year. My
father’s job as a transpor­tation
consultant took us
to a lot of different
places. Now he has his
own business. I’ve lived
in California, all over
Pennsylvania and in New
i Jersey.
Q: Did living in other
areas help broaden
your perspective?
A: It made me see that
there is no one way of life
that is right or wrong.
They’re all just different.
Q: Do you think
a tten d in g Wa rwick
H ig h S c h o o l (sh e
entered her junior year)
helped prepare you for
this pageant?
A: Yes I do. Actually,
there are three important
people whom I’d like to
mention: Faith Lange,
my art teacher, and
Deann Showers and Sally
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Warwick band named
the Grand Champion
By Dee Eolin
Special to the Record
Last Saturday night was
the Warwick High School
marching band’s first com­petition
of the season. It was
a most successful start as
Warwick brought home not
only top honors in Group
III, but die Grand Champion
Trophy as well.
With a score of 69.05,
Warwick placed first in
Group III. Second place
went to Shippensburg
(59.05) and third place to
East Pennsboro Area High-
School (57.5). Warwick
also won Group III top hon­ors
for Best Overall Percus­sion,
Best Overall Band
Front, High General Effects,
and Best Field Commander.
The Grand Champion
Trophy is presented to the
band with die highest score
of all competing bands.
Warwick topped Group II’s
Cedar Cliff (66.15) for the
honor. Red Land High
School Principal Gary
Smith presented the 4-foot
high trophy to Warwick.
The trophy will remain on
display at Warwick High
School until next year’s
Sounds of the Patriots at
which time the Warriors
must win it again in order to
keep it permanently.
Warwick’s awards were
accepted by band officers
Lamar Esbenshade and
Amy Andrew, and drum
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Truck takes 5
By Jed Kensinger
Record Express Staff Writer
A Lancaster man narrow­ly
escaped injury Tuesday
afternoon when a concrete
slab collapsed under the
weight of his truck, sending
the vehicle into Lititz Creek
and spilling hydrocarbons
into the stream.
Cephus Hargrove, 324
South Marshall St., Lancas­ter,
had just entered the cab
of a single-axle dump truck
when it fell through a con­crete
foundation adjacent to
the Water Street bridge at
about 12:30 p.m.
Hargove walked away
with a minor shoulder
bruise, according to mem­bers
of the Warwick Ambu­lance
Association, head­quartered
in a building
¿cross the street from the
accident.
“I got into thè truck to pull
away and I heard a cracking
noise,” Hargrove said. “The
next thing I knew, the truck
was standing 15 feet in the
air.”
“The back end went down
first and that’s when I had to
jump,” he explained, “and I
had to do it fast.”
“If I hadn’t done that I
wouldn’t be here talking to
you,” Hargrove said. After
he jumped, the truck quickly
rolled upside down. The cab
was crushed and submerged
in six feet of water.
Hargove, an employee of
the J.M. Brenner Co., Lan­caster,
was one of several
construction workers dredg­ing
the creek for Lititz Bor­ough.
“He’s lucky to be
alive,” said John Brown,
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Adams is convicted
on 3 arson charges
James R. Adams, 21, a
former Lititz volunteer fire­man,
was convicted recently
in Lancaster County Court
for two counts of arson and
one count of attempted
arson.
Adams, who now lives at
213 Cardinal Road, Lancas­ter,
was convicted in a trial
before a judge and will face
sentencing at a later date.
He was originally charged
last January with three
arson-related incidents that
occurred in the Lititz area.
Trooper David Fisher, a
Lancaster state police fire
marshal, charged Adams
with starting a fire in a stor­age
bam on the property of
Amos L. Esh, 381 Memorial
Road, on Dec. 4. The blaze
caused damage estimated at
$40,000:
In ad d itio n , F ish e r
charged Adams with tossing
a lighted highway flare into a
pile of wooden pallets on the
property of Nelson Weaver
& Sons Inc., 381 Memorial
Road, on Dec. 23. The flare
burned out before any dam­age
occurred.
Adams was also charged
with arson attempt on the
same date in a large frame
bam on the property of Ken­neth
Witmer, 322 Memorial
Road.. Started by a lighted
flare, the fire was spotted by
a passing motorist and was
extinguished before it was
able to cause any damage.
Also in Lancaster County
Court recently:
• Michael C. Black, 21 of
32 Market Square, Man-hcim,
was given concurrent
one-year probation and
ordered to pay $325, costs
and restitution for disorderly
conduct and possessing a
switchblade knife.
• George Cook of Lititz
pleaded guilty to delivering
cocaine. A pre-sentence
investigation was ordered.
• Timothy E. Kypreos, 22,
of 409 Arrowhead Drive,
charged with driving under
the influence of intoxicants
with a blood alcohol content
of 0.16 percent, was
accepted into the Acceler­ated
Rehabilitative Disposi­tion
program. Manheim honors its railroad station
By Kathryn I. Shreiner
Record Express
PenrynlElm Correspondent
Last Saturday, the people
of Manheim paused to cele­brate
108 years of railroad­ing
in the borough as local
citizens met at the railroad
station, 210 Charlotte St. to
honor the birthday of the
station.
John Dunlap Kendig
added to the festive occa­sion
as he was wearing
black hat, tie and tails with a
red rose in his lapel. Man­heim
is known as the red
rose community. Manheim
was founded in 1762 by
Henry William Stiegel,
“The Baron.”
Local citizens basked in
bright sunlight and tapped
their toes to the tunes played
by the Manheim German
Band comprised of: John
Blanck, clarinet; Joseph
Fauber, tuba (director);
Marcia Myer, clarinet; Betty
Ober, trumpet; and Robert
Stormfeltz, trombone.
The program was called
to order by master of cere­monies
Gary Campbell,
who introduced James R.
Brosey, mayor of Manheim.
The mayor welcomed the
250-plus people to the gala.
Campbell said the Man­heim
Railroad Station was
purchased in 1984 by the
Manheim Historical Society
by a grant made available
through the Lanc aster
County Housing Rede­velopment
Authority.
Melissa Boyer at age 11
made a plea (by letter) to
save the railroad station,
suggesting remodeling and
perhaps charging a fee for
admission. On Saturday a
mature Melissa spoke to the
crowd and commended the
Society on the restoration
efforts. She summed up all
the efforts of many dedi­cated
volunteers with this
statement, “ The building is
preserved for future genera­tions
to catch a glimpse of
what the past was like.”
Charles Hammer was
honored in word and song as
the a capella quartette com­prised
of John Blank, Gary
Rambler, Lester Rambler
and John Stormfeltz hon­ored
him in song singing
home-town lyrics. Hammer
introduced many people,
some of whom worked at
the Manheim Railroad Sta­tion.
Ninety-eight-year-old
Elmer Dohner spent 43
years in railroading. Dohner
served as a clerk and tele­grapher
in Manheim in
1920-22 and recalls work­ing
a 12- to 13-hour daily
shift, seven days a week,
with a monthly paycheck of
$25. Dohner said, “ Those
were the good, old days.”
Philip O’Rourke, Jr., a
Conrail official, spoke on
the present and future of
railroading. O’Rourke said
Conrail serves 125 short­line
railroads and serves
many small towns like Man­heim.
He said railroading’s
future is promising.
James Huber, Chairman
of the Lancaster County
Commissioners and a home-
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Photo by Kathryn I. Shreiner
A highlight of the open house at the Manheim Railroad Station was this mule-drawn wagon on which dignita­ries
rode through town after the event. Owners Bob Adair (at the reins) and his wife, Ellie (beside him) pause to
give mules Jack and Jill a break.
R e t a i l e r s
s e t m e e t i n g
The monthly meet­ing
of the Lititz Retail­ers
Association has
been scheduled for the
second Wednesday of
this month. The Octob­er
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, Oct.
11, at 7:30 p.m. at the
General Sutter Inn. All
area businessmen are
welcome and invited to
attend.
W a r r i o r s c r u s h C o m e t s 3 0 - 9
The Warwick High
School football team
show ed co n tin u e d
progress by dumping
Penn Manor 30-9 last
weekend. Leading the
Warrior offensive was
Daryl Shaak who net­ted
148 yards on the
ground and Scott Barn­hart
who collected 142
yards in the air. Read
more about the game
on page 7.
B e n e f i t a u c t i o n
The 4th a nn u al
Country Auction will be
held Oct. 7 to benefit a
Lititz home for unwed
mothers-to-be. House
of His Creation is a car­ing
placé that offers
love and support for
young women as they
make a decision of
whether to keep the
child or give it up for
adoption. For a story,
see page 26.
C o u n s e l o r ’s C o r n e r i s b a c k
Stephen Suskie, a
Warwick High School
guidance counselor, is
a guest columnist who
explores Issues in edu­cation
relevant to stu­dents
and parents. In
this week’s Record, he
recommends p ro g ­rams
to students who
are considering post-high
school education
and training. Turn to
page 4.
R e c y c l i n g
s c h e d u l e
The Water Street
Rescue Mission will
pick up recyclable
materials— glass con­tainers
and aluminum
cans — on Wednes­day,
Oct. 11, in the area
north of Main Street
and east o f Route 501.
Residents should have
their recyclables on the
curb by 7:30 a.m.
Record
Index
Business 12
Church 16
Classified 22-25
Editorial 4
Manheim 18
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 21
School Menu 14
Social 14-15
Sports 6-8