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Mishaps down,
injuries up
in township
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
There were slightly fewer
traffic accidents in Warwick
Township in 1989 compared
to the year before, but total
injuries increased by 13 —
and there were four traffic
fatalities in contrast to none
in 1988.
The Warwick Township
Police Department reports
239 accidents occurred in
1989 compared to 244 in
1988, despite continued
population growth and more
traffic. But injuries jumped
from 95 to 108.
Township Police Chief A1
Olsen has mixed feelings
about these statistics. On the
one hand, he is pleased about
the fewer accidents, saying
beefcd-up police enforce­ment
is working. But the fat­alities
and the higher num­ber
of injuries “means
speeding has got to be a fac­tor”
for those who do drive
unsafely.
Another factor, points out
Officer Rick Groff, trans­portation
safety coordinator,
is more people are wearing
their seat belts due to the
new state law requiring their
use. Consequently, the
shoulder harnesses some­times
cause chest pains
when accidents occur.
“But it’s still worthwhile
to wear seat belts,” Groff
hastens to add.
To wit, he cites two sepa­rate
accidents in 1989 in
which people died — one of
them a driver and the other a
passenger — who were not
wearing seat belts.
“I would like to see these
numbers (injuries and fatali­ties)
reduced, as well as the
number of accidents,” Olsen
says.
One way to do that is con­tinued
enforcement of the
law by his officers. And the
trend has been greater enfor­cement.
In 1988 the town­ship
police issued 587 traffic
citations and in 1989 they
handed out 661, Olsen says.
Of that 661,369 were issued
from August to December.
“It’s fair to say we’ve
become busy,” Olsen says.
“We want to slow people
down on the road. Wc don’t
want to see the speeders or
the drunks on the road.”
He says one of the depart­ment’s
goals for 1990 is to
lower the accident total to
below the 1985 figure of
203.
That may be tough, con-
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THE OLD AND THE NEW — Ron Nelson
(right), 133 Spruce St., demonstrates the old way
of clearing snow while Edward Kegel, 28 W.
Lemon St., shows the more modern way. Both
men got an early start battling the snowstorm
which hit the local area on Monday.
Photos by Bruce Morgan
Old business
discussed by
Lititz Council By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
It was a night for tying up
some loose ends, and conti­nuing
discussion on stand­ing
matters, at Tuesday’s
Lititz Borough Council
meeting.
At that time, Council
President Russell Pettyjohn
announced that federal
funds have been approved
for a traffic light project
within Lititz. The project,
which at the present time has
no timetable for completion,
directly affects six intersec­tions
(see related story
below).
C o u n c il was a lso
informed that the state
Department of Environmen­tal
Resources permit needed
for construction of the
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of Main/Cedar
to be safer By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
It had never been a “good”
intersection, said Lititz Bor­ough
Police Chief James
Fritz, and it was only getting
worse.
The comer of Main and
Cedar streets in the borough
has been the site of several
accidents involving vehicles
in the past few months, and
pedestrians have also been
involved in several others,
including at least one fatal
accident.
For years, said Borough
Manager/Secretary Sue Ann
Barry, Lititz has been trying
to get the intersection’s safe­ty
improved, and had begun
to run out of hope that state
or federal funding would
ever come through to help
the situation.
“Normally, the state
doesn’t pay for lights,” Bar­ry
said. “But they do have
something like a special
traffic project fund, for
something that’s out-of-the-
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Buckwalter re-elected chairman
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
The Warwick Township
supervisors are staying with
their current leadership for
1990, having re-elected Irel
D. Buckwalter as chairman
and James N. Klopp as vice
chairman at last week’s
meeting.
Also at the reorganiza-tional
meeting, Judge Way­ne
Hummer of the Lancaster
County Court of Common
Pleas administered the oath
of office to newly re-elected
supervisors Klopp and
Michael W. Brubaker, said
Township Manager Robert
C. Smith.
Sworn in by the judge as
auditors for six-year terms
were Joseph V. Stewart and
Irene D. Moody.
And he gave the oath of
office to two new officers on
the township’s police force
— Dale R. Nelson and
Duane E. Koons. One of
them fills a newly created
position, bringing the num­ber
of full-time officers to
13.
The supervisors made
these annual appointments:
• Robert C. Smith as
secretary-treasurer and
township manager.
• Marlene Harris as assis­tant
secretary-treasurer.
• Lester Andes' and Tho­mas
Caskey to the municipal
authority.
• Richard Huxta and Dale
Fetter to the planning
commission.
8 W. Scott Cummings,
Leighton Stover and Wilmer
Burkhart to the zoning hear­ing
board, and Ernest Forney
as an alternate.
• The law firm of Morgan,
Hallgren, Croswell and
Kane, of Lancaster, as town­ship
solicitor.
• The engineering firm of
Herbert, Roland, and Grub-ic,
Inc., of Lancaster, as
township engineer.
• Glenn Nelson to the vac­ancy
board, by which he
would temporarily fill an
open slot on the board of
supervisors if a replacement
could not be found in 30
days.
• Lynn Williamson as
Brickerville man loses life
in a three-car accident
Stephen L. “Mo” Ulrich,
31, a Brickerville cabinet­maker
and volunteer fire­man,
died Friday morning in
a fiery three-car collision on
Elm R o ad in P en n
Township.
Three other people were
injured in the 8:30 a.m.
crash, including Mary Mar­tin,
19, of 1331 Line Road,
Manheim.
Also injured in the crash
were Linda Sherk of 207 S.
Barbara St., Mount Joy, and
a passenger in the Sherk veh­icle,
Darlene Valle, 22, of
219 Mount Joy St., Mount
Joy.V
alle was treated and
released from Lancaster
General Hospital. Martin
was released from Lancaster
General Hospital by Tues­day
morning.
An investigation by
Officer Larry Snavely of the
Stephen L. Ulrich
Penn Township force was
continuing Tuesday.
Ulrich, a resident of 307
E. 28th Division Highway,
was the husband of Sharon
Myers Ulrich.
Police reports said Ulrich
was driving a small truck
that collided with a van on
Elm Road, just south of
Bomberger’s store in Elm.
The truck and van caught
fire, and a car then hit she
van from behind, according
to police.
Ulrich was identified
Saturday through dental
records.
According to Penn Town­ship
police reports, Ulrich
was driving his pickup truck
south on Elm Road when he
hit a slippery spot on the
road on a downhill right
curve and slid into the north­bound
lane. His truck hit the
guardrail, then the north­bound
van driven by Martin.
The impact drove the van
into the guardrail on the right
side of the northbound lane.
A car, operated by Sherk,
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sewage enforcement officer.
° Alfred Olsen as the chief
of police.
• James Maser as road-master
and Karl Schmidt as
assistant roadmaster.
In other business the
supervisors approved plan­ning
modules — sewage
systems — for about two
homes in section four of
Skyview Heights, Smith
said. The modules must now
get final approval by the
state Department of Envir­onmental
Resources.
The supervisors also
accepted the dedication of
Pleasant Hill Drive and
Homestead Drive to the
township. They are located
in Wheatfield Estates Phase
II.Borough
to widen
alleyway
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
The Lititz Borough will
accomodate a potential
increase in traffic along
North Lane by tearing down
the house located at the cor­ner
of Cedar Street and
North Lane to widen the
alley.
Borough officials believe
traffic might get heavier
with the completion of reno­vations
by Farmers First
Bank to the former Morgan
Paper Mill. The bank pur­chased
the building in July
of 1985 and then had it pre­served
and renovated to be
their headquarters and oper­ations
center and to be a new
home for its partner com­pany,
Susquehanna Bancs-hares,
Inc.
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Photo by Dave Knauss
Sharon Harnish, 347 Dead End Road, Penn Township, checks up on her steer, Alex, that she’s
exhibiting at the Farrji Show, today.
Girl, steer are in Farm Show today
Sharon Harnish taking part in baby beef competition
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
When Sharon Harnish of Penn Township showed
her steer Alex at the Manheim Farm Show this past fall,
the animal weighed only 910 pounds. Alex placed first
in his class but no better.
But today Sharon is exhibiting Alex at the junior
steer contest at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harris­burg.
He now weighs 1,275 pounds. Sharon expects
him to be in contention for good placing, entered
through 4-H.
Sharon has good reason to hope. Her steer, an
Angus-Chianina cross, has qualities that catch the
judge’s eye: He now has more rump and is thicker over­all.
He’s square in his hindquarters “where all the
steaks are and other things are,” she explains. His finish
is smoother and he has more style, and is cleaner.
One fault he has, though, is he’s not real straight
across at the top; his top dips in the middle.
Win or lose, this 16-year-old Manheim Central
sophomore is enjoying being at the agricultural extra­vaganza.
Simple fact is, she loves animals. At her fami­ly’s
farmette at 347 Dead End Road Sharon owns Alex-three
calf steers, three horses and a beef cow.
“I’m just drawn to animals,” she says. Now very
active in showing horses, she was the first in her family
to get involved in equestrian activities. She remembers
her first experience with horses fondly, when she was
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R e c y c l i n g
s c h e d u l e
The Wa t e r
Street Rescue Mis­sion
will co lle c t
recyclable mater­ials
on Wednes­day,
Jan. 17, in
Lititz in the area
s o u th o f M a in
Street and east of
Route 501. Resi­dents
should have
their recyclables on
the curb by 7:30
a.m.
W a r r i o r s t o p S t r e a k s , B u c k s k i n s in l e a g u e g a m e s
The W a rw ic k
boys b a s k e tb a ll
team won their fifth
game in a row by
c o m i n g f ro m
b e h in d to b e a t
Conestoga Valley
64-58 on Friday.
They opened their
league schedule
with a win over
Manheim Town­ship
on Jan. 2.
Read mo re on
p a g e 6. d l l S w l
S e n i o r s
o f M o n t h
Kerry Kegarise
and Timothy Ober-lin
have recently
b e e n n a m e d
S e n io rs o f the
Month for January
at Manheim Centr­al
High School.
Both students are
residents o f the
M a n he im a re a .
R ead Mo re on
page 14.
S h u m a k e r i s B u d d y P o p p y K i n g
Eric Shumaker,
L a n ca s te r, was — ** ifSrP
re c e n tly nam ed
Buddy Poppy King
for Manheim VFW
Auxiliary No. 5956.
He earned the title
by selling “buddy
poppies" and col­lecting
the largest
amount of contribu­tions
last Veterans
Day. Read more on
page 14.
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