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Lititz Record Express
116TH YEAR Two sections LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 32 Pages- No. 28 30 cents
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LORIN BEIDLER
iT’C T u c r D c » T n . , . , n . „ . , Photo b y Jennifer Kopf
! PUMPKIN— Two Robert Thompsons — Kissel Hill kindergartener Bobby Thompson
o R? r 6ri Th° mpson ~ put the finishing touches on a jaggy-toothed jack o’lantern dur-ing
a school project last Friday. See more on the Kissel Hill pumpkin creations on the School pages of this
weeks Record Express.
Record Express Staff
A decision on whether or not the intersection of North
Broad Street and Lincoln Avenue will be improved
should be forthcoming within a month, Lititz Borough
Council announced at its monthly meeting Tuesday
night.
In an update to his fellow council members, Council
President Russell Pettyjohn said council now has most of
the funding for the project arranged, with only about
$25,000 of the $230,000 project unaccounted for.
The project was conceived by borough and local
industrial leaders as a way of relieving traffic congestion
at the beleaguered intersection. Tractor trailers, traveling
to and from the industrial corridor in the northwest comet
of the borough, frequently clog the intersection as they
need to cross into other lanes to negotiate the tight turns.
Homes stand just feet from the northeast and southeast
comers of the intersection, making expansion of the turn­ing
radii difficult.
Warner Lambert, whose trucks frequently use the
intersection, volunteered to pay for engineering studies
aimed at finding a solution to the Broad/Lincoln woes.
While less complicated solutions were considered, most
parties involved agreed that the best way to fix the
intersection properly would be to move the Gerard
Schouten home, which is located on the southeast comer
of the crossroads.
U n u s u a l c h a r a c t e r s t a k e o v e r t h e t o w n
Crowd lines streets for borough’s annual parade
By moving the house back from the comer, the road­way
could be widened, the turning radii could be
increased and lanes could be shifted. The cumulative
effect would be that trucks would have room to make
turns without disturbing normal traffic flow.
According to Pettyjohn, funding for the project will
come from industries that use the intersection (including
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Public to have say
on school site at
Nov. 19 hearing
LORIN BEIDLER _________________________
Record Express Staff
Following Tuesday night’s Lititz Borough Council
meeting, the fate of the Wrigley Tract, a possible site fora
new Warwick elementary school, is now one step closer
to being determined.
Council announced that a public hearing on rezoning
the tract, a 70-acre parcel of land in the northeast comer
of the borough, is tentatively being scheduled for Nov. 19
at 7 p.m. in the Warwick Middle School auditorium. The
date is one of several options offered by the Warwick
School District and is subject to the district’s final
approval.
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JENNIFER KOPF
Lititz Record News Editor
There are some real characters in Lititz, and
Monday night there were even more than usual.
Dalmations and the Dukes of Hazard shared the
streets with walking smoke detectors and sur­geons;
boxers, baton twirlers and bikers marched
beside mummies, musicians and a newly married
gorilla.
Residei » lined borough streets to catch a
glimpse of the parade, or settled on porches to visit
with neighbors. One group had a prime seat, on a
second-floor balcony just across Main Street from
the judges’ stand.
And they weren’t disappointed by what they
saw, as lions, tigers and bears filled the parade
route for two hours from start to the final flourish of
the Warwick High School Marching Band.
For years, the parade has given adults and child­ren
a chance to show off their creativity.
Sometimes, a sense of humor shown readily
through. There was the “Grim Sweeper”, for
instance, an appropriately gaunt ghoul who carried
a big broom through the entire parade. There was
Fred Flintstone, contentedly clutching his bottle
outside of his cave. One young pioneer girl was
attached by a long cord to her dad, a Lititz Com­munity
Band musician. The crowd also had the
chance to hear the middle school band, giving that
group an idea of what it’s like to play in front of an
appreciative audience.
And children in the parade crowd got another
preview of Halloween: candy, tossed to them by
marchers as they wound around town. That beats
the former Halloween Parade tradition: spectators
throwing com at the marchers.
Neighbors u p d a ted on d ra in ag e solution
JENNIFER KOPF
Lititz Record News Editor
A system of swales and pipes was
proposed last week as a possible sol­ution
to storm water drainage prob­lems
in Pine Hill Estates.
Several neighbors from that area
turned out at the Warwick Township
supervisors’ meeting to assess the
project’s progress. ‘There has to
be something done; there’s no doubt
about it,” supervisor V. Riggs Kohler
assured the audience. “Too many
people living out there are unhappy
with the situation.”
Currently, there is no way for
storm water at the northern end of the
development to get to the basin at the
southern end. Engineer Grant Hum­mer
said that may be due to a variety
of reasons, one of which is that
swales initially part of the develop­ments
design have been blocked or,
in some cases, removed altogether.
One possible solution is a system
of pipes and swales that would be
located along Green Acre Road and
between that route and Buttonwood
Drive. There are two options for
completing this, Hummer said, and
to put it out on bid would cost the
township between $80,000 and
$90,000.
If the public works department has
the equipment and time to tackle the
storm water, that cost could be cut in
half, Hummer said. He, Roadmaster
Jim Schmidt and Supervisor Kohler
were to meet this week to guage
whether it’s a project the public
works department could handle
along with its other duties.
While noting that “we don’t want
to do it the cheapest way, we want a
satisfactory job,” the board noted
that a $80,000 or $90,000 project
would be a huge undertaking by the
VFW POST DONATES TO WARWICK LIGHTS UP — Jack Keath, quartermaster of Lititz VFW Post
1463, earlier this month presented the Warwick Lights Up Committee with a check for $16,000, to be used
toward public restrooms and a concession stand expansion at Grosh Field. Accepting the donation from
Keath (center, in hat) were WLU members (l-r) Bill Wentling, Gerry Kurl, Gary Hikes, Mike Haldeman and
Gary Goodhart.
municipality.
Part of this storm water alleviation
proposal would consist of securing
easements back through several
properties between Green Acre Road
and Buttonwood Drive for part of the
piping system. The entire project
must be designed, neighborhood
residents said, to handle not only that
coming off of adjacent fields but also
from beyond Longenecker Road and
into Penn Township.
Finding enough land on the neigh­boring
farms in order to provide
basins, Hummer said, may prove to
be difficult. Three farmers would
have to provide about an acre of land
each, which would reduce their pro­duction
comparably.
In other business, the township
was provided with the emergency
management plan it now has on
record by coordinator A1 Landis. “1
believe it’s a good program to build
on,” Landis said of the generic plan,
“but I’m not completely satisfied
with it myself.”
Fire chiefs from the municipality
will have a chance to review the
document over the next few months,
and it is hoped that they and Landis
will make progress toward localizing
the plan by early 1993.
The request for more information
stemmed from concerns that a gener­ic
plan was not enough for the grow­ing
community, and did not address
the localized situations that can arise.
“I think the concern is these small­er
incidents,” Supervisor Bruce
Bucher said.
Keisha and Tyler McCauley, Manheim, rode their antiques-filled
float to a Grand Prize in the Lititz parade.
S tan d o ff en d s w ith ou t
in c id en t in R o th sv ille
A State Police Strategic Emergen­cy
Response Team (SERT) was
called in to help defuse a potentially
volatile domestic standoff in Roths­ville
on Saturday night, but thanks to
skillful negotiating, the squad never
needed to resort to force.
Michael Adams, 34, of 2154 Main
St., Rothsville, was charged by War­wick
Township Police with making
terroristic threats and simple assault
after a five-hour standoff with police
finally ended early Sunday morning.
The incident began when Adams’
wife Leigh Adams, 30, reported at
around 9 p.m. on Saturday evening
that she had been assaulted by her
husband. Mrs. Adams reportedly fled
the home under threats from her hus­band
that he would inflict further
harm should she return. The couple’s
5-year-old daughter remained in the
home with Mr. Adams.
Warwick Police Officer Duane
Koons contacted Adams by phone, at
which time Adams told Koons that
he had loaded weapons in the home.
Adams reportedly made several
threats to Koons, telling the officer
that “no one was going to take his
daughter from him.”
At that point Koons and fellow
officer Eric Zimmerman, with the aid
of officers from several other munic­ipalities,
set up surveillance of
Adams’ residence and Warwick
Police Chief A1 Olsen called in the
SERT team for assistance.
The SERT team is similar to the
more-familiar SWAT (Special Wea­pons
and Tactics) teams, except that
SERT teams are specially trained in
negotiation as well as armed
confrontation.
SERT members talked Adams out
of the house at around 2:45 a.m. Sun­day
morning at which time he was
arrested by Warwick Township
Police. Though arms and munitions
were found in the home, none of the
guns was loaded. Police report that
Adams had apparently been
drinking.
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AN ELECTION DAY REMINDER — A reminder to local residents,
especially those in Warwick Township, that the polling place to which they
are assigned may have changed since the last election. Election day is this
coming Tuesday, Nov. 3; area voters can check the pages of this week’s
Record Express to see where they may cast their ballot. Polls are open from
7 a.m. until 8 p.m.
THIS WEEK IN THE RECORD EXPRESS
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for winter driving?
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your car is ready for colder
weather and difficult driving
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24 to 27 for timely tips and
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Warriors upset the Bucks for first win of season
The Warwick football team
earned its first win of the sea­son
with an exciting 7-6 win
over pre v ious ly unbeaten
Conestoga Valley last Friday
night. John Male scored in the
second q u a rte r, and the
defense came up with a cou­ple
of big defensive stands.
Read more on page 8.
THE INDEX
Business 19
Church 16
Classified 28-31
Editorial 4
Lunch Menu 6
Manheim 17
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6-7
Sdcial 14-15
Sports 8-11
WEATHER: Mostly cloudy
Thursday night with a chance of
showers. Variable cloudiness
Friday.