Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, June 22, 1995
Lititz Record Express
119TH YEAR 28 Pages- No. 10 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 cents
Record sets early
deadlines for 4th
Due to the Fourth of July holi­day,
deadlines for the Lititz
Record Express advertising and
editorial copy have been
changed.
Retail and classified display
ads and all editorial copy for the
July 6 issue must be in the
Record office by 5 p.m. on
Friday, June 30.
Classified reader ads will be
accepted until 10 a.m. on
Monday, July 3.
The offices of the Lititz
Record Express will be closed on
Tuesday, July 4.
Heritage Map Museum
first on fast Internet
The Heritage Map Museum in
Lititz became the first business
to link up to the Internet using
Blue Ridge CATV’s cable hook-up
To learn more, turn to the
Business section, Page 18.
Students take a close look
at life on the river
Developmental Daycare stud­ents
got an up close and personal
look at life along Lititz Run,
with the help of personnel from
GemChem
For more, turn to Page 26.
Warwick seniors honored
Warwick senior award and
scholarship winners were hon­ored
at a ceremony recently.
For a complete list of the win­ners
and their awards, turn to the
School News on Page 6.
Legion takes two
The Lititz Legion baseball
team clobbered Conestoga
Valley and Manheim Township
in a Sunday double header.
For the full story, see Page 8.
Business..............................18-19
Church..................... 16
Classified........................... 23-25
Editorial/Letters........................ 4
Manheim News.......................20
Obituaries............................. 2,22
Out of the Past................ 21
Police Log................................12
School News.......................... 6-7
Social..................................14-15
Sports....................................8-11
Tuesday. June 27, 7:30 p.m. —
Lititz Borough Council, council
chambers, 7 S. Broad St., Lititz.
Tüesday, June 27, 7:30 p.m. —
Manheim Borough Council, 15 E.
Main St.
Tüesday, June 27, 7:30 p.m. —
Penn Township Supervsors, 97 N.
Penryn Road.
Wednesday, June 28, 7:30 p.m.
— Warwick Township Planning-
Commission, municipal building.
315 Clay Road.
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Master barbecuer Mike Himes has turned Lititz Saturdays into
Lititz chicken days.
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STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
During the past few centuries,
while Lititz metamorphosed into
its current borough form, a collec­tion
of tourist attractions
developed.
The Moravian Church, a mili­tary
hospital of the American
Revolution, the world’s oldest
pretzel factory, the grave of Gen­eral
John Sutter, chocolate and
antiques are all a part of the curi­ous
draw that fetch visitors and
spur the local economy.
An often overlooked borough
trademark is the incredulous num­ber
of chicken barbecues that take
place during the warmer months
of the year.
The man who is quickly prom­oting
this Saturday poultry fest
into a legendary status for the ben­efit
of local clubs and non-profit
organizations is Lititz Chicken
King Mike Himes, master barbe­cuer
of Mike’s Chicken Bar-B-Q
Service.
Granted, there are other chick­en
barbecuers in the Warwick
School District, but as Himes
grills for about 80 percent of the
area’s barbecue fund-raisers, he is
responsible for cooking thou­sands
of chickens each year, and
the hungry public cannot get
enough.
The Warwick Area Republican
Committee (WARC), Boy Scout
troops, the Lititz Fire Company,
Lititz Springs Swim Team, War­wick
Wrestling, Soccer, Baseball
and St. James Catholic Church are
a few of the groups that Himes has
helped to raise money for over the
years.
Himes said that he does profit
from the business, but as a full­time
warhouse maintenance assis­tant
at Lancaster-Lebanon I.U. 13,
he commits most of his Saturdays
to the grill for the satisfaction of
lending a hand in local fund­raising.
Mike’s Chicken Bar-B-Q Ser­vice
is now in its fourth year, a
move that Himes made after
working for Graybill Miller’s bar­becue
service in Manheim for
about 3 years.
(See Chicken, Page 19)
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Fireworks
anniversary
highlights
Fourth fest
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
The year was 1846, and Charles
Getz of the Lancaster Museum
decided to accent the Lititz Fourth of
July celebration with a bang.
Some things never change.
This year, Lititz Springs Park is
honoring the 150th anniversary of
that first Independence Day fire­works
display with a “Star Spangled
Salute” that Park Board President
Ronald Reedy promises will be “one
of the largest fireworks displays
we’ve ever had.”
And anyone who has ever seen the
July 4th extravaganza in the past
knows that means it will be huge.
Fireworks have long been one of
the featured attractions to the longest
running continuous Independence
Day celebration in the United States,
first celebrated in Lititz Springs Park
in 1818.
The show’s history progressed
from a simple but creative home­made
display to the elaborate, eye-and-
ear popping gala that attracts
thousands to Lititz every year.
This year, as with previous years,
(See Fireworks, Page 12)
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Scleroderma victim Glenn Howry with son Jared
Lititz resident
f i g h t s for time
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
Last month 100 people laced up
their athletic footwear for the second
annual scleroderma walkathon at
Greenfield Industrial Park in
Lancaster.
Sclera what?
Confusion and unfamiliarity was
the reaction of local scleroderma suf­ferer
Glenn E. Howry Jr. when he
was diagnosed with the ailment in
1979. Sixteen years later this former
Lititz backhoe operator continues his
wait for a cure, hopefully before his
body completely degenerates.
According to Scleroderma Associ­ation
of Susquehanna Valley Presi­dent
Harold N. Hillegass, few peo­ple
have even heard of this auto­immune
connective tissue disease,
and they usually don’t until it affects
them personally.
Although the cause is unknown,
Hillegass said that it is related to the
over-production of collagen, which
is an insoluble fibrous protein in ver­tebrates
and the chief constituent of
connective tissues and bones. Scler­oderma
patients tend to experience
hardening in these affected areas to
the point of immobility.
“A lot of these patients are suffer-
(See Scleroderma, Page 4)
Chinese restaurant
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STEPHEN SEEBER
Parkgoers lik e Lititz Train Station con cep t
RICHARD REITZ,
STEPHEN SEEBER
AND JILL IVEY
Beth Superdock Tom Clausen
Record Express Staff
Although it would no longer serve
as the hub of transportation to and
from Lititz, a replica Lititz Train Sta­tion
would be a welcome addition to
Lititz Springs Park, according to sev­eral
park patrons questioned in a
survey.
The Lititz Record Express asked
several park patrons last week what
they thought about the plan to con­struct
a facility adjacent to the park
entrance that would house an infor­mation
center, meeting room, public
restrooms and a historic display.
Since the train station is just part of
a larger capital improvement plan for
the park, they were also asked what
improvements, if any, they felt were
needed.
Beth Superdock of Brickerville,
who was enjoying a perfect summer
day in the park with her 2-year-old
son David, offered her support for the
concept.
“I think its a good idea, especially
for visitors in the area, with the
restrooms, and maybe with the infor­mation,”
Superdock said. “I think it
will add to the community.”
When asked if there was any way
the park could be improved, she
replied that it is nice just the way it is.
“It’s much nicer than what I had
growing up. To me its a great place to
come with the kids,” Superdock said.
Tom Clausen of Lititz, a fifth
grade teacher at Kissel Hill Elemen­tary,
remembers the station as a
youngster growing up in Lititz,
although it wasn’t as functional as
the proposed station would be.
“I’m from the old school, and I’ve
(See Train Station, Page 19)
Record Express Staff
Monday night’s Lititz Zoning
Hearing Board meeting finally
brought an end to the ongoing sig­nage
requests from restaurant owner
Chun K. Eng, as the board voted
unanimously to grant authorization
for three signs on the front of his New
China Restaurant at 370 E. Main St
“I can’t believe we’re ready to
vote on this,” said Board Chairman
Glenn B. Knight just before the
decision.
The language barrier between Eng
and the board, which required a pro­fessional
interpreter during most of
the testimony, added to the delay of
the authorization.
Fortunately for Eng, the Monday
decision followed brief testimony,
and the only language on the table
this time was sign language as the
zoners agreed to allow Eng to place
an encased menu, an internally illu­minated
open sign, and to keep an
existing business identification sign.
Eng and his attorney Stephen
Gibble first approached the board in
November of 1994 with plans for lar­ger
signs, including one that would
display business hours, as well as a
non-conforming use request to allow
eat-in dining at the establishment
During the November meeting,
and throughout the next several
months, the board found several
problems with the proposals.
Insufficient parking for eat-in cus­tomers
in a residential zone eventual­ly
led to Eng’s decision to drop the
table service request. Later, he agree-d
to take some of the existing signs
down and then adjusted the size of
the three proposed signs to fit within
the 29.25 square foot requirement
Gibble described the entire pro­cess
as “give and take between the
Zoning Board and Eng.”
Two neighbors of the restaurant,
Terry L. Weaver and June Herr,
both filled out appearance forms in
order to express their support for
Eng.
The Zoning Hearing Board’s deci­sion
is on die condition that Eng
arrange to remove an ice cream sign
in the rear of the building, that he take
down the current open and entree
signs in the front of the restaurant,
and that his business offer only take­out
food service.