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T H U R S D A Y , D e c e m b e r 1 8 , 1 9 9 7 Lititz Record Express 121 ST YEAR 30 Pages- No. 36 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA Two sections 30 Cents «¡»»»MSS INSIPE Workers hit hard twice □ as factory folds □ Holiday Deadlines L Please take notice of the 'early deadlines that will be in ¡effect for the Lititz Record Express issues on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. J For the Thursday, Dec. 25 ¡issue, ail news and retail display ads must be received by ;5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19. Classified reader ads will be accepted until noon on Monday, Dec. 22. The issue will be printed on Tuesday, Dec. 23 and received by subscribers on Wednesday, Dec. 24. : The Jan. 1 issue will require all news and retail display ads be received no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 26. Classified reader ads accepted until noon on ‘Monday, Dec. 29. The issue will be printed on Tuesday, Dec. 30 and received Wednesday, Dec. 31. □ Out of the Past The world’s biggest ■: pipeline here? T One hundred years ago this week, construction on the ¿longest pipeline in the world” ¡¡was completed, connecting Millway with Bayonne, N.J., ,128 miles away. See Page 17. □ School Students honored r Two Warwick High School ■seniors, Dana Irwin and Stefani Moose, were recently Ihonored for their academic ‘achievements. For more on each student’s accomplishment, see Page 7. STEPHEN SEEBER □ Sports Warriors victorious in Section challenge The Warwick boys basketball team faced a big challenge in its first Section One game on Tuesday against Hempfield, but came away with a big victory. For more on the game, and on all of the local sports action, see Pages 8-12. □ Entertainment Lititz is favorite spot of travel author Record Express Staff LITITZ — Lightning may not strike in the same place twice, but don’t tell that to 160 unemployed people who worked for a local office furniture manufacturer. Great Connections reportedly went out of business last week after a series of mergers, set in motion by the firm’s top shareholder, pulled too much money from the profitable Front Street industry. Terry Thompson, Great Connections president, is apparently trying to revive operations with a skeleton crew of workers, but for many of the out-of-work employees, this is the second management breakdown in two years. Most are not optimistic about the site’s future. A successful Yerger Brothers business was run out of the facility for nearly 80 years. Many say the factory took a turn for the worse when John Yerger took control in the late 1980s. Yerger Brothers went bankrupt in Barn up one w eek after fire STEPHEN S E E B E R __________ Record Express Staff BRUNNERVILLE — One week after fire destroyed his bam on Lexington Road, David Sensenig is back in business. Church members and neighbors joined forces less than 24 hours after the blaze downed the structure and caused an estimated $230,000 damage. By Monday work was complete. “it’s amazing,” said Sensenig, who was away from home when a feed wagon malfunctioned on Dec. 4 and ignited straw in the bam. Lititz and Brunnerville fire fighters were on the scene, but flames had already overtaken the building by the time they arrived. Sensenig said that he hasn’t received all the bills yet, but he thought the damage estimate was excessive. Brunnerville Fire Chief Ken Kline said last week that it was a ballpark figure. More importantly, none of Sense-nig’s animals were injured during the incident. He runs what he calls a general farming operation with steer, hogs and poultry. It was initially reported that Sensenig did not have insurance, making it (See New barn, Page 20) 1995 and because the company offered a self-insured health plan, many of the workers were left with unpaid medical bills. Even though prospects seemed grim two years ago, Yerger was able to help bring in Great Connections to take over the operation and most of the unemployed Yerger Brothers workers went back to work in a few days. Earlier this year, the sound of thunder was heard again when a textile factory in Georgia was on the brink of going out of business. That factory was reportedly owned by Great Connections’ top investor, Jodi Vitale, who began pulling from Lititz profits to compensate for his southern disaster. Before long Great Connections began missing deliveries on some of their contracts. Last week, Great Connections contacted Staples office supply superstore, the company’s largest client, to let them know that they could not meet contractual obligat e Great Connections, Page 20) __ _______ Greg Nies, left, talks to other out-of-work Great Connections employees during a breakfast meeting at the Chimney Comer. "'fe*. P on tz h on o red for y ea rs w ith L egion Now he is looking for younger veterans to continue tradition RICHARD REITZ Photo by Stephen Seeber Members of White Oak Mennonite Church and neighbors of David Sensenig’s Lexington Road farm pitched in to rebuild his barn after a Dec. 4 fire. Record Express Editor LITITZ — When Jack Pontz joined the American Legion Garden Spot Post 56, the veterans organization had about 200 members — many of them veterans of the first World War. Today Post 56 boasts a robust membership of about 975 members, and is one of the largest American legion groups in Lancaster County. But the World War II veteran is concerned that those numbers may start dwindling. “Younger veterans are not taking over like we did after we joined following World War n ,” the Lititz resident said. “Fifty percent of our membership now is from WorldWarII,70 years old and over.” If membership has to fall, Pontz wants it to be for the right reasons. “We don’t mind being put out of business, as long as it’s because we don’t have any more wars,” Pontz added. Pontz has been one of the most active members of the Lititz American Legion post since 1947. But now, 51 years after he first joined, he his stepping down from his longtime work as an officer and as a member of the Board of Directors. He has served for the past 19 years as the treasurer for the Garden Spot Home Association, which funds the community, social and activity projects supported by the organization. “I’ve served on just about every committee,” Pontz said. That includes three terms as the post commander, in 1955-56, 1963-64, and in 1969-70. “It has been my life, outside of my job and family,” he said. Pontz, at retired computer systems analyst at Armstrong, joined the American Legion after serving his country from June 1942 to November 1947. He initially served as a teacher at the radar school in Boca Raton before being transferred to the Ninth Air Force at the France- Germany border from March-August 1945, at the close of the war. “We were supposed to be sent to Japan, but before that happened the (See Pontz, Page 20) Coal stove carbon monoxide leak sickens family RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor BRUNNERVILLE — An malfunctioning coal stove created a carbon monoxide emergency that caused a Warwick Township family to become ill in the early hours of Dec. 9. But the smell of sulfur may have helped the family recognize the danger and escape the house safely. Warwick Township police, Brunnerville Fire Company and Warwick Community Ambulance responded to the home of David and Cheryl Heiss, 1 Knollwood Drive, shortly before 12:45 a.m. Mr. Heiss said he had noticed earlier that day that the coal stove had not been burning very well, and had an unusual odor. He said they had never had any trouble with the five-year-old stove, but that night his wife was up when she smelled a strong sulfur odor, and began feeling sick. The rest of the family also began feeling ill, and Mrs. Heiss then called 911. The operator suggested they leave the house immediately, suspecting that it wasn’t that odor that was mak-ing them sick; it was carbon monoxide. Mr. and Mrs. Heiss and their two children, Michael, 16, and Andy, 11, were out of the house when emergency crews arrived at the scene. “It was a big scare,” Mr. Heiss said. “We didn’t realize just how lucky we were.” According to Brunnerville Fire Chief Ken Kline, the residence had a positive reading of 64 parts per million of carbon monoxide in the basement. “It was not life-threatening at that moment,” Kline said. “But it was enough to make them sick.” Kline said carbon monoxide can initially cause headaches and nausea. “You can’t smell it, can’t taste it, and can’t see it,” Kline said. “It will make you sleep, and if it’s present and you are already asleep, it won’t wake you up. You can die from i t ” Although they were alerted by the smell of sulfur emitting from the stove, it turned out to have little to do with what was making them sick. “It’s the stuff that you can’t smell that’s dangerous,” Mr. Heiss added. Firefighters on the scene cleared the air in the residence while two Warwick ambulances transported family members to the St. Joseph Hospital for observation. Mr. Heiss said that they were placed on oxygen on their way to the hospital. When they arrived, Mr. and Mrs. Heiss and Michael were told they had 18 percent carbon monoxide in their blood. Andy had a 13 percent reading. They were released three hours later, only after the carbon monoxide level fell below five percent, he said. Everyone recovered completely from the incident (See Monoxide, Page 20) T yp ical tow n m e e tin g Pitts tackles issues of local concern STEPHEN SEEBER □ Index Ai o n n a Smi t h of Philadelphia has written a pew guide book “Lancaster Recofd &p fe s s §faff County - The Best Fun, Food, L IT rrz _ Congressman Joe Lodging, Shopping and pitts ^ to Litit| for ^ old_ Sights which touts Lititz as fasMoned town meeting on Dec. 11. one of the most ¡ntngumg After a Wcf ^ ¿ t l o n of ses-towns in the county to visit sion ^ hts b ^ 16th District fo r more on her book and R ¿ T aL immediately opened her local ties, see Page 18. upp’for some good oldJ as^ ned Clinton bashing. Campaign finance reform, or at Business 24-25 ^east 311 inquiry into the daily func- Church 14-15 lions what many in attendance con- P.lpQcifipri 97-9Q sider to be an immoral and manipula- Ed tonai / Letters......................... ...... ,4 stievee mWehdittoeb eHaotuospep raiodmritiynfiostrr^atio2n5,’ Entertainment.............................18 people that stuffed themselves into Manheim News....................... 16 borough council chambers. Ob itu arie s / Births..... 2, 15, 19 Afterward, Pitts called it a “typical Out of the Past..........................17 town meeting.” Police Log....................................30 He assured those concerned the School News............................ 6-7 issue is serious and is being S o c ia l......................................22-23 investigated. Sports 8-12 “What they’ve (Clinton-Gore) done leaves a bad impression on our young people,” said one audience member. “It’s going to hurt this countiy in the long run.” Pitts, who said that he would never borrow money to run a campaign, said that he is pushing for limits on soft money and full disclosure for every dime used. “They (the Clinton administration) say that everyone does it,” said Pitts. “That’s not true.” Other topics of interest included changes in social security, mudsling-ing, predictions on who would be the next Republican nominated candidate for president, medicare private contracting, human rights, the anti- Christian media, crime and drugs, and education. The Pitts-sponsored Dollars to the Classroom bill, which would send 90 percent of every federal dollar that is earmarked for education to the local (See Pitts, Page 20) in Joe Pitts discusses social security with Lititz resident Charles Hendrick after last Thursday’s town meeting Lititz borough hall.
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Full Text | T H U R S D A Y , D e c e m b e r 1 8 , 1 9 9 7 Lititz Record Express 121 ST YEAR 30 Pages- No. 36 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA Two sections 30 Cents «¡»»»MSS INSIPE Workers hit hard twice □ as factory folds □ Holiday Deadlines L Please take notice of the 'early deadlines that will be in ¡effect for the Lititz Record Express issues on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. J For the Thursday, Dec. 25 ¡issue, ail news and retail display ads must be received by ;5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19. Classified reader ads will be accepted until noon on Monday, Dec. 22. The issue will be printed on Tuesday, Dec. 23 and received by subscribers on Wednesday, Dec. 24. : The Jan. 1 issue will require all news and retail display ads be received no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 26. Classified reader ads accepted until noon on ‘Monday, Dec. 29. The issue will be printed on Tuesday, Dec. 30 and received Wednesday, Dec. 31. □ Out of the Past The world’s biggest ■: pipeline here? T One hundred years ago this week, construction on the ¿longest pipeline in the world” ¡¡was completed, connecting Millway with Bayonne, N.J., ,128 miles away. See Page 17. □ School Students honored r Two Warwick High School ■seniors, Dana Irwin and Stefani Moose, were recently Ihonored for their academic ‘achievements. For more on each student’s accomplishment, see Page 7. STEPHEN SEEBER □ Sports Warriors victorious in Section challenge The Warwick boys basketball team faced a big challenge in its first Section One game on Tuesday against Hempfield, but came away with a big victory. For more on the game, and on all of the local sports action, see Pages 8-12. □ Entertainment Lititz is favorite spot of travel author Record Express Staff LITITZ — Lightning may not strike in the same place twice, but don’t tell that to 160 unemployed people who worked for a local office furniture manufacturer. Great Connections reportedly went out of business last week after a series of mergers, set in motion by the firm’s top shareholder, pulled too much money from the profitable Front Street industry. Terry Thompson, Great Connections president, is apparently trying to revive operations with a skeleton crew of workers, but for many of the out-of-work employees, this is the second management breakdown in two years. Most are not optimistic about the site’s future. A successful Yerger Brothers business was run out of the facility for nearly 80 years. Many say the factory took a turn for the worse when John Yerger took control in the late 1980s. Yerger Brothers went bankrupt in Barn up one w eek after fire STEPHEN S E E B E R __________ Record Express Staff BRUNNERVILLE — One week after fire destroyed his bam on Lexington Road, David Sensenig is back in business. Church members and neighbors joined forces less than 24 hours after the blaze downed the structure and caused an estimated $230,000 damage. By Monday work was complete. “it’s amazing,” said Sensenig, who was away from home when a feed wagon malfunctioned on Dec. 4 and ignited straw in the bam. Lititz and Brunnerville fire fighters were on the scene, but flames had already overtaken the building by the time they arrived. Sensenig said that he hasn’t received all the bills yet, but he thought the damage estimate was excessive. Brunnerville Fire Chief Ken Kline said last week that it was a ballpark figure. More importantly, none of Sense-nig’s animals were injured during the incident. He runs what he calls a general farming operation with steer, hogs and poultry. It was initially reported that Sensenig did not have insurance, making it (See New barn, Page 20) 1995 and because the company offered a self-insured health plan, many of the workers were left with unpaid medical bills. Even though prospects seemed grim two years ago, Yerger was able to help bring in Great Connections to take over the operation and most of the unemployed Yerger Brothers workers went back to work in a few days. Earlier this year, the sound of thunder was heard again when a textile factory in Georgia was on the brink of going out of business. That factory was reportedly owned by Great Connections’ top investor, Jodi Vitale, who began pulling from Lititz profits to compensate for his southern disaster. Before long Great Connections began missing deliveries on some of their contracts. Last week, Great Connections contacted Staples office supply superstore, the company’s largest client, to let them know that they could not meet contractual obligat e Great Connections, Page 20) __ _______ Greg Nies, left, talks to other out-of-work Great Connections employees during a breakfast meeting at the Chimney Comer. "'fe*. P on tz h on o red for y ea rs w ith L egion Now he is looking for younger veterans to continue tradition RICHARD REITZ Photo by Stephen Seeber Members of White Oak Mennonite Church and neighbors of David Sensenig’s Lexington Road farm pitched in to rebuild his barn after a Dec. 4 fire. Record Express Editor LITITZ — When Jack Pontz joined the American Legion Garden Spot Post 56, the veterans organization had about 200 members — many of them veterans of the first World War. Today Post 56 boasts a robust membership of about 975 members, and is one of the largest American legion groups in Lancaster County. But the World War II veteran is concerned that those numbers may start dwindling. “Younger veterans are not taking over like we did after we joined following World War n ,” the Lititz resident said. “Fifty percent of our membership now is from WorldWarII,70 years old and over.” If membership has to fall, Pontz wants it to be for the right reasons. “We don’t mind being put out of business, as long as it’s because we don’t have any more wars,” Pontz added. Pontz has been one of the most active members of the Lititz American Legion post since 1947. But now, 51 years after he first joined, he his stepping down from his longtime work as an officer and as a member of the Board of Directors. He has served for the past 19 years as the treasurer for the Garden Spot Home Association, which funds the community, social and activity projects supported by the organization. “I’ve served on just about every committee,” Pontz said. That includes three terms as the post commander, in 1955-56, 1963-64, and in 1969-70. “It has been my life, outside of my job and family,” he said. Pontz, at retired computer systems analyst at Armstrong, joined the American Legion after serving his country from June 1942 to November 1947. He initially served as a teacher at the radar school in Boca Raton before being transferred to the Ninth Air Force at the France- Germany border from March-August 1945, at the close of the war. “We were supposed to be sent to Japan, but before that happened the (See Pontz, Page 20) Coal stove carbon monoxide leak sickens family RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor BRUNNERVILLE — An malfunctioning coal stove created a carbon monoxide emergency that caused a Warwick Township family to become ill in the early hours of Dec. 9. But the smell of sulfur may have helped the family recognize the danger and escape the house safely. Warwick Township police, Brunnerville Fire Company and Warwick Community Ambulance responded to the home of David and Cheryl Heiss, 1 Knollwood Drive, shortly before 12:45 a.m. Mr. Heiss said he had noticed earlier that day that the coal stove had not been burning very well, and had an unusual odor. He said they had never had any trouble with the five-year-old stove, but that night his wife was up when she smelled a strong sulfur odor, and began feeling sick. The rest of the family also began feeling ill, and Mrs. Heiss then called 911. The operator suggested they leave the house immediately, suspecting that it wasn’t that odor that was mak-ing them sick; it was carbon monoxide. Mr. and Mrs. Heiss and their two children, Michael, 16, and Andy, 11, were out of the house when emergency crews arrived at the scene. “It was a big scare,” Mr. Heiss said. “We didn’t realize just how lucky we were.” According to Brunnerville Fire Chief Ken Kline, the residence had a positive reading of 64 parts per million of carbon monoxide in the basement. “It was not life-threatening at that moment,” Kline said. “But it was enough to make them sick.” Kline said carbon monoxide can initially cause headaches and nausea. “You can’t smell it, can’t taste it, and can’t see it,” Kline said. “It will make you sleep, and if it’s present and you are already asleep, it won’t wake you up. You can die from i t ” Although they were alerted by the smell of sulfur emitting from the stove, it turned out to have little to do with what was making them sick. “It’s the stuff that you can’t smell that’s dangerous,” Mr. Heiss added. Firefighters on the scene cleared the air in the residence while two Warwick ambulances transported family members to the St. Joseph Hospital for observation. Mr. Heiss said that they were placed on oxygen on their way to the hospital. When they arrived, Mr. and Mrs. Heiss and Michael were told they had 18 percent carbon monoxide in their blood. Andy had a 13 percent reading. They were released three hours later, only after the carbon monoxide level fell below five percent, he said. Everyone recovered completely from the incident (See Monoxide, Page 20) T yp ical tow n m e e tin g Pitts tackles issues of local concern STEPHEN SEEBER □ Index Ai o n n a Smi t h of Philadelphia has written a pew guide book “Lancaster Recofd &p fe s s §faff County - The Best Fun, Food, L IT rrz _ Congressman Joe Lodging, Shopping and pitts ^ to Litit| for ^ old_ Sights which touts Lititz as fasMoned town meeting on Dec. 11. one of the most ¡ntngumg After a Wcf ^ ¿ t l o n of ses-towns in the county to visit sion ^ hts b ^ 16th District fo r more on her book and R ¿ T aL immediately opened her local ties, see Page 18. upp’for some good oldJ as^ ned Clinton bashing. Campaign finance reform, or at Business 24-25 ^east 311 inquiry into the daily func- Church 14-15 lions what many in attendance con- P.lpQcifipri 97-9Q sider to be an immoral and manipula- Ed tonai / Letters......................... ...... ,4 stievee mWehdittoeb eHaotuospep raiodmritiynfiostrr^atio2n5,’ Entertainment.............................18 people that stuffed themselves into Manheim News....................... 16 borough council chambers. Ob itu arie s / Births..... 2, 15, 19 Afterward, Pitts called it a “typical Out of the Past..........................17 town meeting.” Police Log....................................30 He assured those concerned the School News............................ 6-7 issue is serious and is being S o c ia l......................................22-23 investigated. Sports 8-12 “What they’ve (Clinton-Gore) done leaves a bad impression on our young people,” said one audience member. “It’s going to hurt this countiy in the long run.” Pitts, who said that he would never borrow money to run a campaign, said that he is pushing for limits on soft money and full disclosure for every dime used. “They (the Clinton administration) say that everyone does it,” said Pitts. “That’s not true.” Other topics of interest included changes in social security, mudsling-ing, predictions on who would be the next Republican nominated candidate for president, medicare private contracting, human rights, the anti- Christian media, crime and drugs, and education. The Pitts-sponsored Dollars to the Classroom bill, which would send 90 percent of every federal dollar that is earmarked for education to the local (See Pitts, Page 20) in Joe Pitts discusses social security with Lititz resident Charles Hendrick after last Thursday’s town meeting Lititz borough hall. |
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