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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 30 Pages- No. 35
Container labels focus attention on drinking and driving
Locally, Pennsylvania’s .10 blood alcohol content limit
has led to five DUI arrests in 1989 through October in
Lititz Borough, according to police records. The lev,el has
remained relatively consistent over the past three years,
records indicate, with three DUI arrests during the same
time period in 1988; and four DUI arrests during the same
time period in 1987.
Those records are an improvement over 1986, when
there were 10 DUI arrests made in the January-October
time period.
The national MADD organization holds its rally during
the holiday season, Large said, this year scheduling the
event for Dec. 10 in Orlando, Fla. The Lancaster County
chapter holds its vigil in April, and ties it into the national
Victims’ Rights Week, held to draw “attention to victims
of all violent crimes,” Large said.
Elizabeth Twp.
votes to drop
real estate tax
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
“Reading the small print” is a cautionary measure, and
most use it in reference to legal documents or complicated
matters. There’s some new “small print,” though, a very
simple message, and many groups hope its message is
especially loud and clear next week.
Dec. 10-16 is National Drunk and Drugged Driving
Awareness Week and, just in time for the observance, the
federal government has approved a special label for all
alcoholic beverage containers. Beer, wine, liquor, and
wine coolers must, as of Nov. 18, all carry the following
message:
“Government Warning: (l)According to the Surgeon
General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages
Christmas trees
selling early at
local tree farms
during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. (2)
Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability
to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health
problems.”
The move, said Ida Mae Large of the Lancaster Chapter
of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), “is a step in
the right direction. He (former Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop) really brought the position to where it is now. He
was instrumental on the national level in getting this
accepted in the alcohol industry.”
Locally, the labeled containers have not yet arrived on
beer distributors’ shelves in either Lititz or Manheim,
although they are scheduled to arrive soon at Flory Distri­buting
Co., South Broad Street.
The label is the result of the Alcohol Beverage Labeling
Act of 1988, sponsored by South Carolina Senator Strom
Thurmond.
The “small print” may not be in evidence locally yet,
Large said, but the “big print” is getting the word out about
drinking and driving in time for the long holiday season.
MADD billboards are helping to bring the group’s mes­sage
to county residents.
“Hopefully, eventually, we’ll have eight MADD bill­boards
in Lancaster County, although they’re not all there
yet,” she said. “We’re really pleased with them.”
Spreading the message to use alcohol in moderation “is
a step by step process,” she said. “First, it was the 21
(minimum age) law nationally, then it was the labeling. In
January, California will go to .08 (blood alcohol content as
the legal determination for ‘driving under the influence’),
and three other states have already adopted that,” Large
said, naming Oregon, Utah, and Maine as the other states
with .08 limits.
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
The holiday season is
barely into full swing, but
local Christmas tree farms
have already been selling
their best trees.
Everything from firs,
spruces and pines have been
selling even earlier than
most years as people get out
in search of the tree that they
can string popcorn and rasp­berries
from for the Christ­mas
season.
Some bring video camer­as
and others their kids and
dogs to help scan the thou­sands
of trees, which are
neatly pruned in nice even
rows.
“Some like big bushy
ones, not too tall, others like
them thin and tall and others
like normal (sized trees),
from 5 A to 6 'A feet,” said
Paul Hagey, who operates a
tree farm off of Fox Road in
Elizabeth Township. “Peo­ple
will take as long as 10
minutes and up to two hours
until they find something
they like.”
He and his brother-in-law,
Robert Krouck, own nearly
15 acres solely for Christ­mas
trees. They started sell­ing
trees over Thanksgiving
weekend and sold more than
what they usually do in pre­vious
years.
“People were out (two
weekends ago), which is ear­lier
than most years,” he
said. “I’ve always sold some
but this year there were more
on Thanksgiving weekend
than other years.”
Should this continue,
Hagey will probably stop
selling early in the season,
just as he has done the past
three or four years, and pre­pare
for next year’s crop.
“We have about two
weekends and then try and
look through the fields and
try to keep (some) for the
following year,” he said.
Hagel’s father started the
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Photo by Jennifer Kopf
CAROLING TO FILL LITITZ WITH SONG — The courtyard at Lititz Moravian Church will ring with the
sound of holiday trombones and voices as the Lititz Historical Foundation’s annual Lititz Community Carol
Sing takes place Thursday, Dec. 14. Beginning at 7:15 p.m. with the Moravian Trombone Choir (above),
under the direction of Jean Doherty, community members and friends can then join in the caroling at 7:30 p.m.
Song sheets will be,provided by the Foundation, and caroisrs are advised to bring along pocket flashlights or
lanterns, and to dress warmly. Carolers can rid themselves of any lingering chill after the community sing with
some help from hot cider and cookies in the Moravian Church Social Hall.
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
The only sure things in
life, they say, are death and
taxes, but in Elizabeth
Township it seems the “sure
things” aren’t quite as defi­nite
as they used to be. By a
2-1 vote Tuesday night, the
supervisors voted to elimi­nate
the township’s 2'A -mill
real estate tax as part of their
unanimous approval of the
general budget for 1990.
“We have enough of a car­ryover
to knock (the tax)
off,” said supervisors chair­man
Larry Wiker, “although
we don’t know how long
that’ll last.” Supervisor Rod­ney
M ay , tow n s h ip
secretary-treasurer, sug­gested
simply lowering the
tax rate and saving the extra
income. His was the dissent­ing
vote in the adoption of
Resolution 11-89, which did
away with the real estate tax.
The slack from the dis­continued
tax will be picked
up by income from the
earned income tax, Wiker
said. The economy is doing
well enough, he said, to
make up for the approxi­mately
$52,000 formerly
brought in by the 2A mill
real estate tax.
There were few com­ments
from the half-dozen
or so in the audience at the
time of the vote, and town­ship
officials were told that
no residents asked to see a
copy of the budget during its
advertised period of display.
“If or when we reinstate
the tax,” one supervisor said,
“I can guarantee it won’t be
as quiet as it is tonight.”
In other end-of-the-year
matters, supervisors re­appointed
Jerome Peters to
the township zoning hearing
board; Dale Diehm to the
vacancy board; and Dave
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Bingo is her call
This is the first article
in a series on three vol­unteers
at local nursing
homes, recognizing
some of the many peo­ple
who observe The
Holiday S pirit year
round.
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
Grace Whitcraft, 6
Lime Rock Road, has
gotten to be an expert
bingo caller in the last
five years, thanks to her
Volunteering —
The Holiday Spirit
volunteer service at
Audubon Villa.
Every Tuesday from
10 to 11 a.m. she calls out
the letters and numbers
for the bingo crowd at the
nursing home, located at
125 $. Broad St. She has
performed this duty every
Tuesday for the last four
years, after a year of
doing it twice a month.
“I enjoy being with
older women (only about
two of the 12-16 bingo
players each week are
men). After all, some of
them are not much older
than I am,” says Mrs.
Whitcraft, 73.
The benefit is not all
hers. Joann Thomas,
activity director at Audu­bon
Villa, says the com­petition
from bingo helps
keep the seniors’ brains
stimulated. “We don’t
want them to lose their
edge,” she says.
And of course, the
bingo is good socializa­tion
for these personal-care
residents, Mrs. Tho­mas
adds.
Don’t look for Mrs.
Whitcraft to talk about
the merits of her volun­teer
work. The modest
73-year-old shied away
from this interview, satis­fied
with merely the good
feeling that comes from
doing good to others.
She remembers how
she got started with the
bingo. One time during
Sunday School at her
church, a woman came to
the class and asked if
someone would call the
numbers at Audubon Vil­la.
Mrs. W h itc ra ft
thought this was some-every
Tuesday
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Photo by Dave Knauss
Volunteer Grace Whitcraft, 6 Lime Rock Road, has
called bingo at Audubon Villa every Tuesday for the
last four years.
thing she could do for
o t h e r s , so s h e
volunteered.
“All these years I was
working for a living and
so I decided to do some­thing
for people,” she
explains about volunteer­ing.
“I enjoy making old­er
people happy.”
Mrs. Whitcraft runs
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Hofferth re-elected to board
By Bruce Morgan
Record Express Staff Writer
The Warwick School
Board unanimously re­elected
Wally Hofferth to
his third one-year term as
president and Ruth Husserto
her third one-year term as
vice president at its annual
reorganizational meeting on
Monday.
Area man
found in
Lititz Run
A 70-year-old local man
was found dead on Thurs­day,
Nov. 30, in the middle
of Lititz Run in the first
block of North Broad Street,
police said.
After being notified by a
passerby, police went to the
site and found the body of
George Hume, 36 E. Main
St., just before 10a.m.Hume
was found in the middle of
the creek in less than two
feet of water.
An autopsy was sche­duled
to be performed, but at
presstime no information
had been released by County
Coroner Dr. Barry D. Walp
as to the cause of death.
Police could not determine
how long Hume had been in
the creek before he was
found.
Hofferth has been a mem­ber
of the board for 16 years.
He served as vice president
for 11 years and is a former
member of the finance and
legal committee.
He is also a retiree of
A rm s t r o n g W o r ld
Industries.
Husser has been a mem­ber
of the school board since
1975. She will be serving as
chairperson for the legisla­tive
and education commit­tees,
pupil services represen­tative,
Lancaster County
Vo-Tech School representa­tive
and vice president of the
Lancaster-Lebanon Inter­mediate
Unit #13 Board as a
representative to the school
district.
She is a former chairper-
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K o p f n a m e d n e w s
e d i t o r o f R e c o r d
Jennifer L. Kopf has been named news editor of the
Lititz Record Express.
In addition, Bruce M. Morgan has joined the news­paper
as a staff writer.
Kopf, 24, who resides in Lancaster and is originally
from West Lampeter Township, will direct the news
gathering operations of the newspaper. She served as
assistant editor at Ledger Newspapers Inc., Quarryvil-le,
since 1987, when she graduated cum laude from
Dickinson College, Carlisle, with majors in English
and political science. She spent a semester at the Uni­versity
of York, in York, England, studying English
and government.
Kopf is a volunteer staff researcher and writer for
Solanco Heritage Project, a non-profit organization
producing a book on the history and culture of southern
Lancaster County. She also pursues freelance writing.
Morgan, 23, a resident of Terre Hill, will write news
and feature stories for both the sports and news depart­ments
of the Record. He most recently served as sports
editor for Ledger Newspapers after having worked as a
staff writer in both news and sports, as well as a sports
correspondent.
Morgan, who is single, graduated from Millersville
University in 1988 with a degree in English, journalism
concentration. He received a Steinman Communica­tions
Scholarship from 1986-1988, the Touchstone
Distinguished Service Award in 1987 and the Earl M.
Hite Award in 1988, the latter two for his work on Mil-lersville’s
yearbook.
Jennifer L. Kopf
Bruce M. Morgan
Taft puts ‘Bingy’s ’ on canvas
It was 27 years ago
that Lester Bingeman
helped as a salesman
for Al Taft, then-owner
of Al Taft Food Distri­buting.
Now Taft is
returning the favor by
presenting “Bingy” with
the second print from
Taft's recent water col­o
r o f B in g em a n 's
R e s ta u ra n t. Read
more on page 20.
Recycling
schedule
The Water Street
Rescue Mission will
pick up recyclable
materials — aluminum
cans and glass con­tainers
—at curbside in
Lititz in the area north
of Main Street and east
of Route 501 on Wed­nesday,
Dec. 13. Resi­dents
should have their
recyclables on the curb
by 7:30 a.m.
Veterans provide strong nucleus
Several veterans
with o u ts ta n d in g
records on last year’s
W arrior's w restling
team are returning to
provide a stro ng
nucleus this year. They
open their season this
weekend by traveling
to Williamsport for a
two-day Top Hat Tour­nament,
one o f the best
in the state. Read more
on page 8.
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Peace
discussed
Members o f the
Warwick Peace Fel­lowship
meet on a reg­ular
basis to learn
about worldwide con­flict
and to discuss the
efforts of those who
work in areas ruled by
the realities of conflict.
They have been
around most o f the
decade now, discuss­ing
a wide range of
themes. Read more on
page 29.
Inside
the
Record
Business 16
Church 28-29
Classified 17-19
Editorial 4
Manheim 26
Obituaries 2
Out o f the Past 24
School Menu 14
Social 14-15
Sports 6-9