Lititz Record Express

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116TH YEAR LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 28 Pages- No. 24 30 cents
V P Q u a y l e o u t l i n e s p l a t f o r m
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o n c e a g a i n
JENNIFER KOPF___________
Lititz Record News Editor
Pennsylvania is “ a battleground
state,” Vice President Dan Quayle
said Saturday in Harrisburg. On a
short campaign trip through the mid­state,
Quayle spoke to a panel of five
weekly newspaper reporters about
issues which face the Bush-Quayle
ticket in the next few weeks.
During the session, Quayle
addressed questions which must be
faced by both sides in this election —
health program reforms, agricultural
issues and the problems facing voters
— and explained his views.
□ Do you see the problems facing
a small-town voter as being the same
as those that face more urbanized
voters?
I think the issue is the same, and
that’s economic growth, jobs, eco­nomic
development opportunities,
whether it’s small town or big town.
We will certainly offer a program for
renewal for rural America through
lower taxes, less government. I think
people in small towns are much more
apprehensive of what big govern­ment
can and should do for them.
They’re much more interested in
having tax incentives... they don’t
wan ta lot of... people coming in from
the outside and telling them how to
run their life.
So I think in a small town our
programs would be very compatible
with their desires.
□ Environmentalism and agricul­ture
are often portrayed as being at
odds with each other. How do you see
that?
I think we can have both. I think
we can preserve our environment and
we can also enhance opportunities
for farmers. What we’ve got to do­is
have common sense. We can’t just
have every little puddle considered a
wetland,” or the farmer “can’t be
productive.
“...You can’t just outlaw pesti-
Photos by Jennifer Kopf
Dan Quayle makes a point during an informal question and answer
session Saturday in Harrisburg.
cides and insecticides and things like
that. You’ve got to work to make it
more environmentally safe. If you
listen to some of the environmental
regulators, they just want to regulate
everything. It’s basically a no­growth
agenda. Farmers don’t buy a
no-growth agenda. They want pro­ductivity,
they want open markets,
they want exports.”
□ How does your view of agricul­ture
differ from your opponents’?
One, just remember: the last time
we had a grain embargo, in this coun-
%
try it was (under) Jimmy Carter.
Two, Bill Clinton doesn’t talk
about agriculture. I’ve, hardly ever
(heard anything)... he certainly
doesn’t know about agriculture here
in Pennsylvania, or... in the midwest.
“He will use the heavy hand of
government when it comes to agri­culture.
We will use the heavy hand
of creating exports and export oppor­tunities.
He will be much more
inclined to see... a managed farm
economy... (former Agriculture Sec-
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Lititz’ early sewer budget
contains no 1993 rate hike
LORIN BEIDLER__________________________
Record Express Staff
Lititz Borough officials have managed to stave off the
taxman once again.
A preliminary budget for the borough’s sewer system,
accepted by the borough council on Tuesday night, did
not include a rate hike for sewer services despite the fact
that the system is projected to operate at a significant
deficit in 1993.
According to Council President Russell Pettyjohn, a
scheduled skip in a bond paymentproved to be the differ­ence
between a rate hike and maintaining current rate
levels. As it is, costs for the sewer system in 1993 are
expected to exceed revenue by some $179,000. Fortu­nately,
the system will carry over $260,000 into the
upcoming fiscal year.
One factor that is making the sewer system more and
more expensive all the time is the growing necessity for
composting in exposing of sewer wastes. The borough
has traditionally relied heavily on spreading the wastes
— known as “sludge” — on farmers’ fields much the
same way animal manure is spread.
Increased regulation of land applications by the Pen­nsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources, and
a longstanding over-nutrification problem in Lancaster
County, however, have cut down on the number of avail­able
farms. Many county farms either produce all the fer­tilizer
they need in the form of animal wastes, or they are
simply not allowed by DER to accept the sludge.
When sludge can’t be land applied, it must be com­posted,
a far more costly enterprise. Lititz Wastewater
Treatment Plant Manager Dean Miller estimates that land
applying sludge costs a penny or two per gallon. Com­posting
costs around 15 cents per pound.
This year, the borough budgeted some $11,000 for the
purchase of composting services. Actual costs will likely
exceed $35,000. In response, finance committee chair­man
Dennis Stuckey said, the budgeted amount for 1993
will be $75,000.
An additional $80,000 has been allocated for permit­ting
costs in finding new farms to accept sludge. Before a
farm can accept the sludge, DER must first give its bless­ing.
DER charges around $ 10,000 to test and permit each
farm which potentially will join the program.
In related news, borough council on Tuesday heard a
report from Nutrient Resource Management (NRM), a
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Fish nursery re-stocked
following summertime sp ill
LORIN BEIDLER______ _____
Record Express Staff
The Robert B. Koch Fish Nursery
is back in business.
After losing nearly all of its fish in
an early-August ammonia spill, the
company apparently responsible for
the spill has made reparations.
Last week, 12,000 trout finger-lings,
purchased by Wilbur Choco­late
Company, arrived via special
tank trucks from the Green Springs
Trout Farm in Newville. The deliv­ery
was the first of two that, when
complete, will almost replace the
nursery’s pre-spill stock “fish for fish
and species for species.”
Early on the morning of Aug. 6,
some 40 gallons of ammonia, which
the Wilbur plant uses in compressed
form as a refrigerant, leaked from the
plant and ended up in the Lititz Run.
The deadly cloud killed almost every
non-vegetative organism in a
VA -mile stretch of the stream.
Unfortunately, the nursery draws
water from the Lititz Run and even
remote traces of ammonia can be
devastating to trout populations.
Within four hours, nearly all of the
nursery’s more than 12,000 fish were
dead.
The nursery, which is located just
east of Lititz Borough on Lititz Run
Road, has been operated jointly by
the Lititz Sportsmen’s Association
and the Pennsylvania Fish Commis­sion
for nearly 40 years. The fish
commission supplies the fish and the
sportsmen’s club supplies the food
and care. That care includes twice-daily
feedings which are adminis­tered
by the club’s 150 members.
Each year, the club stocks the trout in
area streams such as the Lititz Run
and the Hammer and Middle creeks.
According to Lititz Sportsmen’s
Association President Glen Spickler,
the sportsmen took careful inventory
of every fish that was lost. They then
sought bids for replacing the fish and
took the bids to Wilbur.
“The Wilbur people were very
cooperative,” he says. “I want to
emphasize how well they cooperated
with us throughout the whole ordeal.
It was an accident and we feel like we
were treated well by Wilbur.”
Wilbur went so far as to accept a
bid that was not the least expensive.
Green Springs was not the cheapest
contractor contacted, Spickler says,
but it was the one firm that could
replace the club’s intial stock fish for
fish. The Koch Nursery had included
brook and brown as well as rainbow
trout. Many hatcheries could only
supply rainbows.
Spickler adds that the club was
especially pleased that its adult trout
population will be replenished. In
addition to the 12,000 fingerlings
lost in the spill, the club also lost
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Homecoming, lights
and backyard rivalry
this Friday at WHS
LORIN BEIDLER____________
Record Express Staff
Friday night will be a big one for
Warwick High School. The football
team will play its first-ever night
game at home. First-year Warwick
head coach Clever Daihl will go up
against his former mentor when his
Warriors take on Mike Williams’
Manheim Central Barons, a favorite
in the tough Lancaster Lebanon Sec­tion
II.
Oh, and did we mention it’s
Homecoming?
Nine Warwick seniors will try not
to be outshined by the new stadium
lights and what Warwick fans hope
will be a ferocious football contest as
they vie for the Homecoming Queen
crown.
The winner, who has been chosen
by the high school student body, will
be crowned during halftime festivi­ties.
The game is scheduled for 7:30
p.m.
The Homecoming court will con­sist
of:
□ Bree Allison Derr - Bree is the
daughter of Robert and Kathleen
Derr. She is a member of the War­wick
hockey team, serving as one of
three captains. Bree has been
selected for the Junior Olympic team
in hockey and has participated in the
Keystone Games the last three years.
Bree is also a member of the track
team and is a varsity cheerleader. She
has been named to the All-American
Cheerleading Team.
Bree was her high school class
treasurer in all four years, has been a
member of the Lititz Community
Center Junior Board and has served
as a junior hockey program coach.
She is a member of the National Hon­or
Society and is listed in the Who’s
Who of American High School
Students.
After graduation she plans to
attend college, where she will play
hockey and major in criminal justice
or early childhood education. She
will be escorted Friday by Chris
Randisi.
□ Kara DeWalt ■— Kara is the
daughter of Jeff and Barbara DeWalt.
Kara has played basketball at War­wick,
and town-league softball for
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Representatives to this year’s Warwick Homecoming court include:
(seated, left to right) Kelle Wallace, Katrina Kreider, Bree Derr, Rae
Eitnier, Mondi Newcomer, (standing) Cara Hosier, Tanya Neider-
Photo by Lorin Beidler
myer, Dianna Heisey, Kara DeWalt, Barby Lundsten, Jessica Faus-nacht
and Jacki Musser.
THIS WEEK IN THE RECORD EXPRESS THE INDEX
Booters’ winning streak is snapped by ELCO
Warwick’s soccer team had
its two game winning streak
snapped on Tuesday when
ELCO shut them out 3-0. The
Warriors defeated Township
3-0 on Saturday, and they
earned their first sectional win
with a 1-0 nod over Cedar
Crest last Wednesday. Read
more on page 11.
A p p le F e s tiv a l to b e
h e ld th is S u n d a y , O c t 4
The Lititz Historical Founda­tion’s
Apple Festival will be held
this Sunday, October 4, from 1-4
p.m., with a full afternoon of
games, entertainment, food, a
Chinese auction and more.
Read more on page 28.
Warwick welcomes
German student
The h ills of L an c a s te r
County look familiar to Andre-a
Kroos — they remind her of
the German landscape near
her home village. Andrea is
spending the year as a War­wick
High School student
through the Youth for Under­standing
program. Read more
on page 6.
Business 23
Church is
Classified 24-27
Editorial 4
Lunch Menu ^
Manheim 20
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6
Social 16-17
Sports 8-11
WEATHER: Thursday, mostly
sunny, high 60 to 65. Dry an cool
Friday through Sunday.
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