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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages- No. 42
Crime in Warwick Township increases 14 percent
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
Crime is up 14 percent in
Warwick Township from
1988 to 1989, a fact that
Chief of Police A1 Olsen
attributes to the growth in
the population.
The Uniform Crime
Report for the township
states that 263 criminal inci­dents
were reported in 1989
to the police. In 1988 that
figure was 230.
“As population grows in
the township, the people live
closer and closer to each
other, resulting in an
increased amount of unrest,”
Olsen said. “That brings
more incidents. You have
noise problems, parking
p ro b lem s , d o m e s tic
problems.”
The calls about crimes,
combined with all other
calls, kept the township
police busy last year. They
answered a total of 2,092
calls, up 62 percent from the
1,289 calls in 1988.
And if the pace of the last
four months continues
through 1990, they will have
answered over 2,600 calls by
Dec. 31, Olsen said.
Part I crimes — the more
serious ones — increased
percentage-wise just as
much as the less serious Part
II crimes did, Olsen said.
Following are the number of
Part I crimes for 1989 (with
the number of 1988 crimes
in parentheses): criminal
homicide, none (none); rape,
none (none); robbery, one
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Warwick Township Officer Rick Groff runs out 1989 crime data on the computer.
(two); assault, 11 (10); burg­lary,
19 (12); theft, 72 (73);
arson, three (one); car theft,
13 (six).
Total Part I crimes: 119
(104).
Part II crimes: forgery/
counterfeiting, 2 (none):
fraud, nine (two); embezzle­ment,
none (none) ; RSP/
possession, one (three);
criminal mischief, 33 (53);
weapons violation, one
(none); sex offenses, three
(two); drug violations, two
(one); gambling, none
(none); offenses against the
family, one (none); drunken
driving, 24 (12); liquor law
violation, 11 (nine); public
drunkenness, 12 (three); dis­orderly
conduct, 22 (20);
vagrancy, one (none);
others, 22 (21).
Local masseur rebuilding
Teaching gets Angelo into business
By Bruce Morgan
Record. Express Staff Writer
Whether they’re recover­ing
from an accident, seek­ing
better circulation or just
in need of pain relief, people
from all walks of life are
coming to Frank Angelo.
He gives each person one
small piece of advice —
“become a wet rag” — and
then lets his hands do the
rest. And once Angelo’s
hands take over, it’s only a
matter of time before people
come to appreciate his work.
His work is giving mas­sages,
mostly from his home
off Rothsville Road, but he
will also make house calls.
And now, as an added ser­vice,
he is also becoming
available at thé Lititz Com­munity
Center.
At present, he has to share
a room being used for a
nursery and is available by
call at the center only on
Tuesday and Friday even­ings.
Angelo said he is hop­ing
to get a room there once
an addition to the center has
been completed.
It wasn’t too long ago that
Angelo was practicing his
business at a health place in
the Golden Triangle, but
they closed their doors last
September. Although he has
been involved with this
work, at times off and on, for
the entire 10 years he has
lived in the Lititz area,
Angelo is now rebuilding his
business locally.
He started giving mas­sages
full-time when Golden
Triangle opened in the
mid-‘80s and he has been
doing them ever since. His
full-time work was the cul­mination
of many years of
learning.
The training process
started back in 1971 as an
employee for Carl Kaiser’s
chiropractic center, manag­ing
his health center. He got
more and more involved
with that center over the
years and then joined the
American Massage and
Therapy Association for a
few years.
His path eventually led
him into sales, but he always
kept a portable table and
stayed in practice on a part-time
basis.
“I came up like an appren­tice
—I didn’t go to a formal
school,” he said. “I came up
the slow, grinding, appren­tice
way.”
He actually got interested
in massages as a spinoff
from his 13 years in teach­ing.
During the time he
taught school, there weren’t
any rooms used solely for
art, so teachers had to carry
their supplies from room to
room.
At the end of the day, the
school’s teachers would go
to the lounge with aches
from these activities and get
Angelo to massage then-feet.
“I’d sit on the floor and
massage their feet and put
them to sleep, or they would
have a headache and I’d
work on their neck and
shoulders to relieve them of
this,” he said. “I was never
thinking that when I was a
teacher that I’d get into the
massage business.”
If Angelo could have his
way, there would be more
people doing massages.
“I feel there should be 100
of us doing this and there
should be a lot more people
enjoying a legitimate mas­sage,”
he said. “There were
some real problems three or
four years ago when they
had the massage parlor
issue. We went through a
period of time when the
word ‘massage’ was consid­ered
to be a dirty word. To
me, it ’s an honorable
profession.”
Among the variety of
clients that Angelo meets
include retired people just
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Pedestrian struck
on borough street
A Newmans town woman
is in good condition at Lan­caster
General Hospital after
being struck by a car at
Broad and Mam streets Fri­day
afternoon.
LuAnn Kochel was seri­ously
injured when, walking
at the intersection’s cross­walk
at 12:15 p.m., she was
struck by a car driven by
Carmen Ann Sliks of 58
Green Acre Road, Lititz
Borough police said. Sliks
was traveling south on
Broad Street and failed to
come to a stop, her car strik­ing
Kochel in the chest area.
Investigating Officer Car­olyn
A. Ditzler of the Lititz
Borough Police cited Sliks
with failing to observe traff­ic
control signals. Damage
to Sliks’ vehicle was light.
Emergency medical ser­vices
and transportation to
Lancaster General Hospital
for Kochel were provided by
the Warwick Ambulance
Association.
Daina Savage named
staff writer at Record
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Photo by Jennifer Kopf
WOOMERT IS CHAMPION HUGGER — Luther Acres sponsored a contest in
honor of National Hugging Day this week, and Leah Woomert, originally from
New Holland, emerged the victor. Above, Norman Ranck, originally from Millers-ville,
adds to Leah's total with a squeeze of his own. The full story on the event is
on Page 22 o f this week’s Record.
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Daina Savage, a recent
graduate of Dickinson Col­lege,
Carlisle, has joined the
Lititz Record Express as a
staff writer.
The 21-year-old Landis-ville
resident majored in
English, with a concentra­tion
in creative writing.
During her study at Dickin­son
she served an internship
in journalism and another in
public relations.
She served as editor of
the Dickinson Review, the
college literary magazine,
and was a member of Eta
Sigma Phi, the Latin honor
society.
Savage, a native of Deep
Creek Lake in western
Maryland, is a volunteer
with the National Ski Patrol
at Wisp Mountain, Md. Her
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Ekco Inc. terminates
70 Woodstream jobs
By Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
Ekco Group, Inc., parent
company of Lititz’ Woods­tream
Corp., re cently
announced that it will termi­nate
approximately 70 jobs
at the local plant.
Plant employees were
notified in early January that
the jobs, primarily in the
manufacturing departments,
would be eliminated. The
move, said Neil R. Gordon,
treasurer of Ekco Group,
Inc., was part of Ekco’s
ongoing restructuring of
Woodstream.
Ekco Group President
Robert Stein was quoted in a
press release as saying that,
Total Part II crimes: 144
(126).
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Lexington area in 1989
reported the most criminal
incidents — 111 (these fig­ures
also include incidents
not reported to the Uniform
Crime Report such as dog
violations and false alarm
prosecutions).
The other areas of the
township reported these
criminal incidents: Kissel
Hill and areas south of Lititz,
96; Rothsville/Millway/
Millport residential area, 92;
the business area on Main
Street in Rothsville, 34; Fur­nace
Hills Pike, 28; Lititz
Pike, 26.
T h e B r u n n e r v ille /
Lexington area sent out the
most calls for police service
in 1989, with 536, Olsen
said.
The rise in crime in the
township should be a warn­ing
to residents that condi­tions
are changing, Olsen
said. It’s time to start locking
doors and windows, and on a
regular basis. Not doing so
raises your chances of being
burglarized — in 1989 over
50 percent of the homes bro­ken
into in the township
were not properly secured.
He urges residents to help
the police by reporting any­thing
suspicious.
“Sometimes people are
reluctant to call the police.
I’d like to see them call more
often — that’s the best way
to catch burglars and prow­lers,”
he said.
ABWA hosts benefit auction
selling vacations, dinners
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Daina Savage
interests include ski racing,
windsurfing, anil writing
poetry and fiction. She lives
in Lancaster.
By Daina Savage
Record Express Staff Writer
Imagine escaping from a
Pennsylvania winter to
enjoy a week’s vacation in
Mexico, or leaving the kids
behind to enjoy a romantic
weekend at a local bed and
breakfast.
Sound impossible?
It’s not if one is a bidder at
the benefit auction spon­sored
by the Lititz Charter
Chapter of American Busi­ness
Women’s Association
(ABWA) this Saturday, Jan.
27. The Vacation/Dinner
Auction will be held at the
Lititz Community Center
with a $1 admission
donation.
The funds raised will go
toward scholarships for loc­al
women.
It promises to be a great
evening with the entertain­ing
talents of professional
auctioneer Audrey Weaver-
Wanger, who is donating her
time. Chapter members will
conduct a food stand with
hot dogs, chili and sauerk­raut.
Pies donated by Oehme
Bakery will also be sold.
Vacation getaways to
Puerio Vallarla, Chicago
and Tampa will be auctioned
off, as well as romantic
weekends at local inns and
bed and breakfasts, includ­ing
The Carter Run Inn, The
Banner House, The Alden
House, Rose Manor English
Bed and Breakfast, Apple
Bin Inn, The Hampton Inn,
and both the North and East
Holiday Inns. Several camp­grounds
in New Jersey and
Virginia have also donated
vacation packages.
The Dutch Apple Dinner
Theater and the Allenberry
Playhouse have donated gift
certificates for a meal and a
show, and the Market Fare
Restaurant has donated a lei­surely
Sunday Brunch.
Some local restaurants
participating in the auction
are the Toll Gate Inn, Chim­ney
Comer, Caruso’s Italian
Resturant and Pizzeria,
C.F.F. Yogurt and More,
Nino’s N.Y. Style Pizza and
Italian Restaurant, and The
General Sutter Inn.
Other area restaurants
donating gift certificates
include the Horse Inn, the
Edgewalcr Tnn, The Cat’s
Meow, Baron Slcigel Fami-
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“The projected savings asso­ciated
from this action
should produce lavorable
results by llie second half ot
the >ear.” Another company
spokesman, however, noted
that improved business will
not mean a return to the job
for those workers holding
eliminated positions.
“The nature of this parti­cular
decision lends to be
permanent," Gordon said
earlier this week. "Although
we're alwa>s interested in
expanding the business, this
decision was primarily
economy-driven.”
Certain components now
manufactured at and shipped
from the Lititz Woodstream
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ly Restaurant, Birch Knoll
Inn, The Resturant at
Donecker’s, The Fulton Bar
and The Hoar House, as well
as several resturants in
Delaware.
Additionally, A-Z Video
and Stero Discounters is par­ticipating
with a lifetime
membership and three
movie rentals, Fisherman’s
Wharf is offering a fishing
trip, and George Hicks is
donating a hand carved
walking stick.
These articles, as well as
many others, comprise the
more than 85 items available
to the highest bidder.
The proceeds from this
auction will be used towards
scholarship awards for local
women interested in further­ing
their educations. Last
year the Lititz chapter of
ABWA awarded $3,900 to
six young women, of which
approximately $1,500 was
raised at the auction.
Interested students may
obtain an application for a
Lititz ABWA scholarship
from Diane Tweed, 43 E.
Second Ave., before Jan. 31.
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Photo by Daina Savage
Donna Sullivan, Chairman of the ABWA Vacation Auction Fundraiser, stands out­side
the Banner House, 37 E. Lincoln Ave., a local bed and breakfast. A two night
stay here will be auctioned off on Saturday night.
B r a s s r e a d y /
f o r c o n c e r t
Eric Berlin, trum­peter,
and Jim
Metzger, trombon­ist,
will present a
joint recital this
Sunday in the Fel­lowship
Hall of
L ititz Mo ra v ia n
Church. The recital
is free and open to
the public. Read
more on page 22.
V a r i e t y s h o w s e t f o r w e e k e n d W a r r i o r e t t e s r o l l t o t h r e e w i n s S t o r y t e l l e r w i l l v i s i t c o m m u n i t y
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The M id d le
Sch o o l Drama
Club will hold their
variety show this
Friday and Satur­day
in the school’s
Auditorium. This
year’s version of
the show is “Not
Necessarily Non-cents.”
Read more
on page 22.
The Warwick
girls b a s ke tb a ll
team got back on
the winning track
last week, going
undefeated in three
big games la s t
week. They picked
up victories over
league rivals Penn
Manor and Leba­non
a n d n o n ­league
foe Cum­ber
land Valley.
Read more on
page 7.
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Inside
the
Record
is for anyone age six and above, and all
adults are welcome. She has been telling
stories for three years in the educational
community and psychiatric settings to a
variety of age groups. Read more on page
22.
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