Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, October 26, 1995
Lititz Record Express
119TH YEAR 32 Pages- No. 28 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA Two sections 30 cents
Fry-McKennon
keeps heirloom
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
Two of the five parcels of land
auctioned off in Tuesday’s Fry Pon­tiac
sale stayed in the family, as for­mer
Fry Pontiac President Ruth Fry-
McKennon bid highest on the family
home and the vacant lot along Oak
Street.
Fry-McKennon secured the two
properties for a combined price of
$146,000. Bidding haulted at
$86,000 for the vacant lot and reach­ed
$60,000 for the home.
“I was very pleased to get them,”
Fry-McKennon said after the sale,
adding that she intends to continue
the current rental agreement with the
tenant at the East Main Street home,
and has no immediate plans for the
vacant lot.
The 3.8-acre showroom brought in
the highest purse, sold to Paul Mar­tin
of Pine Hill Road in Lititz for
$333,000, but was still far less than
Trick-or-Treat
night Oct. 31
Trick-or-Treat night in munici­palities
throughout Lancaster
County has been set for Tuesday,
Oct. 31, from 6-8 p.m. Have a
fun and safe Halloween!
Is your car
ready for winter?
Now is the time to make sure
your car is prepared for colder
weather and difficult driving
conditions ahead.
See pages 22-25 for timely tips
and special offers from your
local car-care experts.
VFW leader honored
for compiling book
Former Lititz Springs VFW
Post 1463 Commanger John
Zagorsky was recently honored
by state and national VFW dele­gates
for his work on a book that
details the group’s many contri­butions
and community service
projects
For the full story, see page 28.
Strategic planners
establishing ‘visions’
The Warwick School District
Strategic Planning Committee
met for the third time last
Thursday, and began evaluating
the district’s mission statement
and sharing ideas that will lead
to the creation of a “vision” for
the future of education at
Warwick through state-mandated
outcomes based education.
For more, see School News on
page 6.
Girls hockey falls
in L-L League playoffs
The Lady Warriors dropped a
2-1 decision to Lancaster
Mennonite in the Lancaster-
Lebanon League playoffs last
week, but their successful season
will now continue at Districts.
The team has logged an impres­sive
15-4-1 record thus far.
For more, see Sports on page
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the minimum set by Lancaster Court-appointed
atto rn ey Richard
Umbenhauer. Umbenhauer said
that he could not release the amount
of the minimum price, but said the
Fry family was happy with the sale
result. Early in the bidding, the sho­wroom
and vacant lot were offered in
a package deal for $306,000, but
there were no takers and the proper­ties
were sold individually.
Renovation costs for the building
and responsibility for a pair of under­ground
fuel tanks on the property
were two of the main concerns for
potential buyers, and was in part
responsible for the less-than-aggressive
bidding on the general
business-zoned property. Umben­hauer
said that a private environmen­tal
firm tested the tightness of the
tanks two weeks ago and found no
leaking.
The two-parcel body shop on
Raspberry Lane was purchased by
(See Auction, Page 17)
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Boo! Sweet smelling spooks
si i l i staying at Alden?
j :Ll >VEY
C a r g l i !
contract
on hold
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
Union and management negotia­tors
reconvened this Tuesday at the
Oregon Pike Quality Inn, hoping to
bring closure to a long-awaited con­tract
settlement for approximately
200 Wilbur Chocolate workers.
After one hour of discussion, man­agement
announced it was putting
negotiations on hold until a study of
employee surveys and insurance
quotes was considered.
Management’s decision was the
result of union membership’s recent
rejection of a proposed 12-hour day
and a health benefit premium quote,
obtained by the union, which was
inconsistent with Cargill figures.
According to head union negotia­tor
Bob Oakley, the insurance com­pany
used in the Cargill health bene­fit
plan gave the union a quote of $27
(See Wilbur, Page 17)
H a llo w e e n
P a r a d e s e t
The ever-popular Lititz Lions
Club Halloween Parade will march
through the streets of downtown
Lititz on Monday, Oct. 30, starting
at 7 p.m.
Kaye Bucher, Alison- Darras
and Melissa Marks, a trio of War­wick
High School seniors,, will pre­side
over the festivities as the 1995
Halloween Court.
Kaye, the daughter of Nevin and
Ruth Bucher, is active in varsity
soccer, student council, National
Honor Society and the youth group
of Lititz Grace Brethren Church.
She is employed at Luther Acres
and plans to major in elementary
education after graduation.
Alison, daughter of Bill Darras
and Beth Schultz, served as class
secretary in grades 9-11, National
(See Halloween, Page 20)
Photo by Richard Heil?
HI’YA PUMPKIN! — Two-year-old Melissa from Lititz marvels at the Halloween pos­sibilities
with these giant pumpkins, on display and for sale at Thomas Farm Market
along Route 501. Hundreds of pumpkins of all sizes were available at the market, but
Melissa prefers to think big, and hopes her parents feel the same way!
Warwick pondering
Amish horse ‘whoas’
ilic -u d Express Staff
■ L that time of year again when stories of ghouls,
and goblins are on nearly everyone’s tongue, so it
-ii> i-iprise that some of the people in Lititz have their
very own stories.
■ v such legend is The Rose Lady of Alden House.
'I -v story is one of many in Charles Adams’ book
“Pennsylvania Dutch Country Ghosts Legends and
Lore,” and a familiar story to the Alden House’s current
i- ■ i. ;. Fletcher and Joy Coleman.
According to Adams, one of the previous owners of
the Alden House claimed that after redecorating the bed
uni >■ .ikfast, she began to smell a strong rose scent com­ing
from one of the rooms. Even after a thorough clean­ing
of the room, the scent would still be present.
uc ■ wner said that the smell would be most evident
when she was under a lot of stress.
. ■ ¡Ik book, the former owner claims that one night a
guesr woke up to see a small “poor-looking” boy lying on
IV 11- i' crying. The guest turned away for a second, and
■. 'ii .■ sue looked back, the boy was gone.
i in ■ >wner then became worried about the spirit so she
asked her neighbor, a town minister, to “pray over the
l.i"i . ■ After that, the incidents apparently stopped.
Although the Coleman’s have heard the ghostly
n l they have not had any contact with the spirit of
fi e Lady or the boy. Yet.
(See Alden House, Page 20)
M a n h e im a re a r ic h
i,n le g e n d a n d lo re
'vTrniEN SEEBER ___________
Record Express Staff
W John Kendig if he believes in the legends and lore
■ ■... J ’ t-filled Manheim and he’ll sit back and chuckle.
V' min if he believes in the power that legend and lore
can have on the human mind and he’ll answer, “yep.”
i k 1-year-old Manheim native has lived in the bor-m
- un .st of his life, writing for the Manheim Sentinel
and archieving for the local historical society. He has
w tillen three books — Wayside Tales of Lancaster Coun­ty,
Lancaster County Waysides and Wayside Journals of
Lancaster County.
(See Spooks, Page 20)
m m
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
A horse is a horse, of course...
unless that horse is your primary
source of transportation.
At least four Amish residents of
Warwick Township have discovered
a restriction in the township zoning
ordinance that prevents them from
keeping a horse on their properties.
For them, that means they are not
able to keep their vehicle at home.
At the Warwick supervisors meet­ing
on Oct. 18, Zoning Officer Tom
Zorbaugh presented the problem to
the board. He said the situation has
resulted from several of the Amish
moving from larger farms to more
residential areas. Most are no longer
farmers and work in other trades such
as masonry, and no longer require the
large tracts of land.
Although the four calls Zorbaugh
received this past month were from
residents who live in an agricultural
zone, they all live on tracts smaller
than three acres — the smallest size
permitted for raising livestock in the
township.
“This is non-commercial lives­tock,”
Zorbaugh said of the horse
problem. “It’s strictly their vehicle,
their mode of transportation.”
He said a horse can graze suffi­ciently
on one acre of land, but as the
ordinance currently reads, he had to
prohibit their use.
The spirit of the ordinance was not
to hinder the Amish, Zorbaugh said,
but until recently had not really
posed much of a problem for them.
“This is more detrimental than what
we are after,” he said.
Township Manager Dan Zim­merman
said the supervisors will be
reviewing the matter as part of the
overal recodification of the township
zoning ordinance, which- he said
would not be completed before early
next year.
While a change to accomodate the
Amish is likely, how the ordinance
will be revised has yet to be deter­mined.
Whether it will be through a
special exception, or an overall
change to permit non-commercial
livestock on smaller lots in an agri­cultural
zone will be reviewed and
established by the supervisors.
Zimmerman said they will also
contact other municipalities to see if
they face similar problems, and how
they approached it.
In other business:
•Warwick Tpwnship Police will
hire a new police officer, and release
a veteran on the force to work on the
county Drug Task Force, supervisors
decided at their Oct. 18 meeting.
Following training, Officer Eric
Zimmerman will become a full­time
member of the Drug Task Force,
(See Warwick, Page 4)
Photo by Jill Ivey
Mike Holiday, owner of the Lititz Frame and Gallery, and his assis­tant,
Sue Smith, are glad to be back in business.
F ram ery to r e o p en
in S tu r g is b u ild in g
JILL IVEY
Record Express Staff
On June 29, Mike Holiday, owner
of the Lititz Frame and Gallery,
watched his business go up in flames.
That was the day of the Sturgis
Hotel Fire. Holiday was not in the
shop when the fire started, but when
he arrived on the scene, he expected
the shop to be a total loss.
“It looked ugly that day,” he said.
Now four months later, Holiday is
preparing to reopen the shop at 47 E.
Main St. Holiday said that he is the
first to get back into the building.
“We had the least amount of struc­ture
damage,” said Holiday. “The
doctor (Brian Sowatsky) had tons
and tons of stuff fall into his office,”
Holiday said that on the day of the
fire he thought that the renovations
would take forever. But now it seems
(See Framery, Page 17)
Airport to get $2 million facelift
This sketch shows the plan
for the $2 million renovations
at Lancaster Airport.
;;
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
“A dream of the airport authority”
is about to become a reality.
M. William Jones, chairman of
the Lancaster Airport Authority,
announced this at a groundbreaking
ceremony Monday morning — the
beginning of a $2 million construc­tion
project that will expand and
improve the terminal facilities.
It is the first major project at the
airport, located just south of War­wick
Township, since an expansion
of the restaurant in 1979.
Half of the funds for the project
will be received as part of a state
grant, with the FAA and Airport
Authority covering the rest of the
cost.
Officials anticipate the expanded
terminal will be completed by Sep­tember
1996.
The expansion will add about
7,000 square feet to the terminal,
according to Dave Eberly, airport
manager. He also hopes the new
facility will be able to attract a sec­ond
airline to the Lancaster Airport.
Currently commuter traffic is
serviced by FloridaGulf Airlines and
Jetstream International Airlines Inc.,
which both operate using USAir
Express at Lancaster. Beginning
Dec. 1, Jetstream will be replaced by
Chautaqua Airlines Inc., based in
Indianapolis.
Commuters using the- terminal
during construction should not be
disrupted much, Eberly said.
(See Airport, Page 20)