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THURSDAY, Ja n u a ry 30, 1992
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114TH YEAR LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 24 Pages- No. 41 30 cents
Sullivan’s fighting heart
Big brother Travis knows just how to take care of Sullivan
Baby reaches
1st birthday
after year of
operations
JENNIFER KOPF
L ititz Record News E d ito r
Travis Bard wants to be a doc­tor
“so I can fix people.”
Clad in a small white lab jacket,
complete with a stethoscope and
“Dr. Travis Bard” nametag, the
blonde 3 year old certainly looks
the part He’s followed the com­ings
and goings of Mom and Dad,
PJ. Whiskeyman and Mike Bard,
who are emergency medical tech­nicians.
And he’s watched doctors
work on his little brother, Sulli­van,
operating three times on his
heart, replacing valves, and
inserting three pacemakers.
To see the two brothers rolling
around on the floor together is to
realize that both Travis and Sulli­van,
of 2 1 S. Spruce St., are lucky
little boys. For now, it seems that
Sullivan is “fixed.”
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P.J. Whiskeyman “corrals” her two sons for a photo: Sullivan (left)
and Travis.
Will school adopt IU classes?
Board, unsure o f regulations, says no
JENNIFER KOPF
L ititz Record News E d ito r
Confusion about new state
requirements for assimilating Inter­mediate
Unit programs led to War­wick’s
school board voting to take
over four IU13 programs for the next
school year, then later rescinding
approval by a 5-4 vote.
Noting that the classes in question,
Wrigley reps to visit
Lititz for site talks
JENNIFER KOPF
L ititz Record News E d ito r
Work on a site for the new elemen­tary
school progresses, Warwick
Superintendent Dr. John Bonfield
told school board members last
week.
At the board’s January meeting,
Bonfield said that the owners of the
Wrigley Corp. tract, located at the
end of Front Street near Oak Street in
the borough, will be in Lititz during
the first week of February to “discuss
a possible purchase and possible
timeline.”
; He is hopeful that, “by this time
next month, we should have some
kind of definition about where we
stand with that.”
The Wrigley land is currently
zoned Industrial; it would have to
have approximately 20 acres subdi­vided
off for the new elementary
school and that portion would have to
be rezoned.
If it is determined that the district
should move forward in its consider­ation
of purchasing part of the Wri­gley
tract, an Act 34 public hearing
would be held for citizens to air their
views. A similar hearing was held in
May of last year to discuss construct­ing
the new school on a 20-acre Clay
Road site adjacent to the Warwick
Township Municipal Building.
taught by IU13 teachers, serve War­wick
students, the school board last
week voted to have the district take
over operation of the educational
programs. These included a part-time
learning support class at Kissel
Hill Elementary, a resource room at
John Beck Elementary, gifted stu­dent
programs at the three Warwick
elementaries, and a primary, part-time
learning support class.
If the intermediate unit teacher
wished to come along with the class,
he or she would then be put on the
district payroll.
Questions later arose, however,
about the hiring requirements that
may be put on the local district as a
result. While ■ superintendent Dr.
John Bonfield noted that “many
other solicitors feel differently,” one
intermediate upit solicitor has an
interpretation of the rules that school
board member^ said infringed upon
their right to make final hiring deci­sions
for teaching jobs.
According to Ruth Husser, board
member who heads the legislative
committee, the hiring issue is “a gray
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Council
of land
proposes ‘trade’
for new walks
LORIN BEIDLER
Record Express S ta ff
Lititz Borough Council Tuesday
night took action to settle a long­standing
dispute with the Linden
Hall School for Girls over the ques­tion
of sidewalks.
At its regular monthly meeting,
council moved to offer Linden Hall
approximately $22,000 for the
purchase of land the school owns
along East Marion Street in exchange
for the school agreeing to install
walks along the stretch.
The school had been asked to
install sidewalks along the Marion
Street as part of the borough’s recent
sidewalk renovation project. The
school refused, saying that the bor­ough
had long ago promised that the
school would never be forced to put
in sidewalks. The school was also
unwilling because large trees and a
fence would have to be removed to
make way for the walks.
Council felt strongly about having
the walks installed, however, fearing
the borough could be held liable were
a pedestrian to get hit along the walk­less
north side of the street.
As a possible solution, the bor­ough
had proposed buying the land
for the walks for the price of sidew­alks.
The school would then turn
around and install the walks. The
school had verbally agreed to consid­er
such a settlement.
The borough has since acquired
bids for such a project from area con­tractors.
Council moved Tuesday to
propose to Linden Hall that the bor­ough
buy the land for the equivalent
of the lowest bid, $22,000.
Council also moved to take similar
action for an adjoining strip of land
that is owned by the Moravian
Church. Cost for walks along that
strip was estimated at $8,000.
In other news, the acceptance of
the 1990 BOCA Codes by the bor­ough
council, as proposed by a joint
committee of Lititz Borough and
Warwick Township representatives,
may finally be close to reality.
Council President Russell Petty­john
Tuesday night reported the find­ings
reached by a presidential com­mittee
to review the applicants for
the task of borough building inspec­tor.
The committee not only made a
recommendation for a building
inspector but also set down guide­lines
for resolving the BOCA issue in
the borough.
The borough had joined forces
with Warwick Township 1)4 years
ago, creating a committee made up of
borough and township residents who
reviewed the 1990 BOCA Codes,
adapting them to situations unique to
the area. The joint committee
advised that the two municipalities
adopt the codes as well as a new
building permit fee schedule it had
drawn up, and also hire building
inspectors.
Warwick Township has since
adopted the codes and fees and hired
its own building inspector. The bor­ough
council, on the other hand,
doubted its ability to support a build­ing
inspector and decided to hire an
inspection firm to do inspections on a
case-by-case basis.
In addition to recommending the
hiring of Keystone Planning Consul­tants
and Engineers as the borough’s
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I.O R IN R F LORIN BEIiDn iL EF RR_ _________ Record Express S ta ff
During its monthly meeting
Tuesday night, Lititz Borough
Council took action that effective­ly
nullifies all previous action
taken on the part of the Borough’s
Civil Service Commission to find
two new borough police officers.
Council took action to start the
hiring process over again from
square one, moving to advertise
for candidates again in the help
wanted section of local papers.
All applications previously sub­mitted
for the post, civil service
exam results and interviews will
be thrown out, it was announced.
The action followed a closed-session
personnel meeting that
preceded the public portion of
Tuesday’s meeting.
The only sign that the selection
process was encountering any
snags cropped up during council’s
Dec. 27 meeting, when P J. Whi­skeyman,
an applicant for one of
the positions, alleged that the civil
service commission had used
questionable methods in carrying
out its mission of narrowing a
field of more than 80 applicants
down to several finalists.
Citing a member of the com­mission,
who is also relative of
hers, as the source of her informa­tion,
Whiskeyman alleged that the
commission pared down die field
of applicants without regard to
results of the civil service exam it
had given. She herself had scored
high on the test and had not been
retained as a finalist.
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Remembering the glitter of
Hollywood’s legendary
LORIN BEIDLER
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To those who remember well the
1930s, ’40s and ’50s, Hollywood
will always be a mystical place inha­bited
by the likes of Clark Gable,
Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart, Greta
Garbo, Louis Mayer and Samuel
Goldwyn. To the average American,
Hollywood in those days was bigger
than life, taking on the supernatural
proportions of a Camelot or Eldor­ado,
inhabited only by heroes and
royalty.
Fueling the myth of Hollywood
was a whole network of reporters,
newspaper and radio commentators
and gossip mongers who followed
every move made in the city. Movie
studios gladly encouraged this papar­azzi,
as it became one of their best
publicity sources. .
For those who wrote for the Holly­wood
press corps, the motion picture
capital of the world was not quite so
mystical. It was, however, no less
glamorous.
Lititz resident Patsy Brookmycr
should know— she was a member of
the Hollywood press elite. Brook-myer,
who then went by her stage
name of Patsy Gaile, worked as a per­sonal
secretary for Hedda Hopper,
one of the world’s most prominent
Hollywood columnists and a celebri­ty
in her own right, from 1943 until
Hopper’s death in 1966.
Patsy and her husband, Lititz
native Lloyd Brookmyer, just moved
back to Lititz last summer when they
decided to trade the smog, fast pace
and crime of Los Angeles for the
comforts of family in northern Lan­caster
County.
The pair obviously have fond
memories of their involvement with
Hollywood. It was Hollywood after
all that brought the two together.
Bom and raised in Lititz, Lloyd
Brookmyer became well known as
an advertising salesman in the Lan­caster
and Reading areas after his
graduation from Lititz High School.
In the 1930s, however, Brookmyer
started yearning to see the world and
decided to take a vacation to Los
Angeles. What began as a two-week
vacation became a 60-year stay.
Brookmyer eventually put his
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After spending their working years in Los Angeles, he as an advertis­ing
salesman and she as an assistant to Hollywood columnist Hedda
Hopper, Lititz native Lloyd Brookmyer and his wife Patsy have returned
to settle in Lititz.
THIS WFEK IN THE RECO RD EXPRESS
Lady Warriors deal Cedar Crest its first loss
The Warwick girls put
together their best game of
the year to upset previously
unbeaten Cedar Crest 53-45.
The Falcons went through the
first half of the season with a
perfect record. However, last
Friday it was the Lady War­riors
all the way. Read more
on page 8.
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Thrift Shop thrives
with faithful workers
The password today is recy­cle
and that’s just what is done at
the Nearly Nu Thrift Shop,
located at 16 South Main Street
in Manheim. Success for the
thrift shop is due to the faithful
volunteers who sort, price and
act as sales clerks. Read more
on page 19.
WHS students make
aquaculture tanks
Milk tanks are not an
uncommon sight in Lancaster
County. What is a little more
unusual, is seeing a milk tank
full of fish. That’s exactly what
you’re likely to see, however,
if you drop by Lisa Acampo-ra’s
biology classroom at
Warwick High School. Read
more on page 17.
THE INDEX
Church 16
Classified 20-23
Editorial 4
Lunch Menu 6
Manheim 19
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6
Social 14-15
Sports 8-11
WEATHER: Thursday, partly
sunny. Fair Friday. Chance of
snow or flurries Saturday. Fair
Sunday.
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