Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1998
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122ND YEAR 30 Pages - No. 18 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA Two sections 30 Cents
□ INSIDE
□ School
Irish students live the
life of an American
: Two Northern Ireland teen­agers
with different religious
backgrounds, Kerry McVeigh
and Mary McDonnell, spent
several weeks with a Lititz
family to learn more about life
in Am e rica . Though
Protestants and Catholics are
often at odds in the troubled
country, Mary and Kerry
became fast friends. Their
story is on Page 6.
□ Manheim
Zoning rates revised
in Penn Twp.
In an effort to create more
equitable rates for zoning and
building permits, Penn
Township has revised its fee
schedule. To find out what this
might mean for future building
projects, see Page 18.
□Back Page
New Line Revue
captures n a f! titles
Two teams o f'twitters and
dancers from New Line Revue
traveled down to North
Carolina to compete at the
national level for the first time,
and impressed the judges
enough to sweep the top
awards. For more on their
amazing accomplishment, see
Page 30.
□Church
First female bishop
Former Lititz resident Kay
Ward was elected the first
female bishop in the Moravian
Church of America. For the
/, see Page 14.
□ Editorial
Lititz Speaks Out
What do your neighbors
think about the joint strategic
planning between Lititz and
Warwick Township? Page 4.
□ Sports
WHS Boys Basketball
coach resigns
After three successful years
as head coach of the Warriors
boys basketball team, Steve
Eshleman has submitted his
resignation. For more on his
decision and a look at his
career, see Page 8.
Lititz Pirates win
championship
The Lititz Pirates won 13 of
their final 17 games, including
a best-of-five series against
rival Manheim to capture the
Lancaster-Lebanon League
championship last week. See
Page 8.
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Remembering
a local pioneer
BRUCE MORGAN
Photo by Richard Reitz
Investigators examine the vehicle at the scene of the crash that killed two men early on Aug. 7 when Jon
Justin Dewalt drove into the home along Newport Road where Jimmy Dale Robbins was sleeping. Pictured
are (from left to right) Warwick Twp. Police Sgt. Gary Hutchinson, Police Chief Alfred Olsen, and Pa. State
Police Fire Marshal Adam Kosheba.
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Driver’s girlfriend was following from local bar
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
WARWICK TWP. — Driving at
a speed of 107 miles per hour, a Lan­caster
man was killed when he lost
control of his vehicle along Newport
Road and slammed into the side of a
home, causing a fire and killing a loc­al
man sleeping inside the house.
Warwick Township police said
that shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Aug.
7, Jon Justin DeWalt, 25, of Lancas­ter,
struck the left side of the home of
Jimmie and Klara Robbins, 1561
East Newport Road, less titan a mile
from Schaiun's Corner in Browns-tov/
n. The accident occurred shortly
after DeWalt left a local bar.
DeWalt’s vehicle hit the bedroom
of Jimmy Dale Robbins, 22, who was
asleep in his bed at the time of the
crash. The headboard of Robbins’
bed was along the wall that was
struck by the vehicle.
Robbins was airlifted by Life Lion
helicopter to Lancaster General Hos­pital,
where he was pronounced dead
at 11:20 a.m. from massive head
injuries.
DeWalt died while trapped in the
burning vehicle, and was pro­nounced
dead at the scene at 6:10
a.m. by Dr. Barry Walp, Lancaster
vahujij Coroner. His body was
pulled from die wr xkrge at ahou* 11
a.m.
The exact cause of DcWalt’s death
is pending an autopsy and toxicology
exam. A blood alcohol test is also
pending, according to police.
Shortly before the crash, W arwick
Police Officer Jeff Martin was on
patrol heading west on East Newport
Road toward Rothsville when he saw
DeWalt driving at a high rate of
speed heading east.
Martin turned his cruiser around at
the entrance to Wheatfield Estates to
follow the vehicle. He also contacted
West Earl police to inform them of
the speeding vehicle heading toward
their municipality.
(See Fatal, Page 20) - .
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — You don’t have to
look very hard for signs of just how
big of an impact Dr. Joseph W. Grosh
had on Warwick High School
athletics.
There’s the football field, which,
in 1977, was named after the long­time
family doctor and Warwick
School District school and team
physician.
And then there’s the Joseph W.
Grosh Scholarship Award, which is
annually presented to the top male
and female senior student-athletes at
Warwick
Last Wednesday evening, Aug. 5,
die local community lost a true icon
when Grosh, 92, died of natural
causes at Moravian Manor Retire­ment
Community.
“He’s probably made more of an
impact on the student-athletes at
Warwick and other school districts in
She 35 years that he was team physi­cian
than any other individual,” said
Warwick Athletic Director Teny
Kauffman.
Indeed, one of the enduring char­acteristics
of Grosh among everyone
who knew him was that, no matter
who the person was or where he or
she came from, he took the time to
help them.
It was common practice for Grosh
to treat student-athletes not only
from Warwick, but those from other
schools also, whether they were
rivals of the Warriors or not.
Mick Sload, Warwick’s head foot­ball
coach from 1966-75 and current­ly
a Warrior assistant, said, “He used
to frustrate me. He said, ‘Mick, I got
the tailback for Catholic ready,’ and I
said, ‘Thanks a lot.’ But he did that
for everybody, so it all evened out.
Dr. Joseph Grosh
“He was a great, great man,” Sload
added. “He was like a mentor for me.
He was diere for everybody.”
After graduating from Lititz High
in 1924, where he played baseball
and was a captain of the basketball
team, Grosh earned a bachelor’s
degree from Franklin & Marshall
College in 1928.
He then went on to receive his
medical degree from the University
of Maryland in 1932 before opening
his family practice at 2 S. Broad St. in
Lititz in 1934.
Grosh continued to practice family
medicine until he retired in 1992. In
between, he served as a combat sur­geon
in World War II for three years,
from 1942-45. While overseas, he
served in the campaigns in northern
France, Rhineland, the Ardennes,
and Central Europe.
Grosh was promoted to captain
and was a medical unit commander
with the 106th Infantry Division in
Europe. He was captured briefly by
(Sec Grosh, Page 10)
Elizabeth Twp. requests
quicker police response
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
BRICKERVILLE — State
police visited Elizabeth Township
Monday to update supervisors on
crime statistics and allow residents
an opportunity to voice concerns
with police service in the area.
Generous
veterans
rewarded
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Post 1463 is home of
the hat trick.
The Lititz Springs VFW as a
whole earned top honors for com­munity
activities in the state for the
third year in a row. It was just one of a
series of awards and recognitions the
post recently received, and the icing
on the cake was Jack Keath’s third
All-State Quartermaster hat in as
many years.
Post 1463 Commander John
Zagorski said that Keath’s consistan-cy
is impressive when considering
that the state only selects 50 all-stars
from a pool of 630 posts each year.
“Jack’s responsibilities are tre­mendous,”
Zagorski said this week.
(See VFW, Page 20)
While there were a few trouble
matters addressed, Larry Wiker,
chairman of the township supervi­sors,
told the troopers that “The pre­sence
is seen and it is recognized...
and we’re glad that you are here.”
A rural municipality of just under
6,700 residents, Elizabeth Township
does not have its own police depart­ment,
meaning that laws in the grea­ter
Brickerville area are enforced by
approximately 30 officers from the
Troop J barrack of die Pennsylvania
State Police.
Supervisor Rodney May voiced
what is perhaps the largest concern
with state police service in this area
— the need for quicker response
times.
Lt. Richard Gibble of the state
police agreed, but then pointed out
that Troop J, which is currendy
located in Lancaster, covers five
municipalities and a total of 105.3
square miles. Those municipalities
include Caernarvon, Brecknock,
Clay, West Earl and Elizabeth town­ships.
If a state trooper is responding
to the west end of Elizabeth Town­ship
from the east end of Caernarvon,
it will take some time.
Troop J was originally located on
Trout Run Road in Ephrata, but the
barrack closed last fall when its lease
expired. Gibble said that a new facili­ty
is being built near Ephrata’s sewer
plant and that Troop J is expected to
be in there by the spring of 1999.
Also during the meeting Lt.
(See State Police, Page 20)
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Annette Minnich, Ephrata, was a first-timer solo vendor at the craft show. She sells her dried flower
arrangements to earn money for college. Another really big show
JILL GAGLIANO
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — One Ephrata teen has
found a ‘crafty’ way of earning
money for college.
Annette Minnich, who will be a
senior at Ephrata Senior High, set up
a stand at last Saturday’s annual Rot­ary
Club Craft Show. She was selling
her dried flower arrangements as a
way to have extra spending money
and to earn money for college.
This was Minnich’s first time hav­ing
a stand of her own at the show. In
Township favors business park
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Obituaries .................. .....2-3 sors listened to a request for a zoning
-Out of the Past.......................12 revision that would permit develop-
Police Log.......................... 19 ment of a business park similar to
School News......................6-7 those found further south, near Lan-
Social..............................22-23 caster Airport.
Sports.............................. 8-11 The land is zoned Airport Indust­rial,
but John Buekwalter, represent­ing
Buckwalter Enterprise Partner­ship
of Lancaster, said that some of
the uses currently outlined in the
township zoning ordinance might be
less appealing than his proposal.
Some of the “clean uses” Buck-waiter
is requesting includes banks,
laboratories, high-tech services,
health services, recreational and
other office buildings. Currently, he
said the zone would allow for less-desirable
development like junk­yards
and trucking facilities.
Buckwalter Enterprises is the
developer of the Airport and Fly way
business parks in Manheim Town­ship,
and said they are preparing for
phases three and four, which include
development in Warwick Township.
They will need a zoning revision to
proceed.
The plan will also include the
extension of the relief route currently
planned behind the proposed shop­ping
center and Giant supermarket.
The connection of the road to
(See Airport Zone, Page 20)
the past, Minnich’s mother let her
have a comer of her own booth. This
year, her mother let Minnich have her
space on Main St., and instead her
mother set up two booths in the park.
“It’s going pretty good. I’ve sold
some of my big (arrangements),”
said Minnich. “I’d like to continue
doing this. It’s pretty fun, and it’s
good money for college.”
Minnich was not the only vendor
at this year’s craft show, in fact, there
were more than 700 vendors from
near and far.
Steve Smallwood from Herndon,
Virginia has been attending the show
for about seven years. He travelled
three hours to sell his fabric covered
snack jars.
“I started setting up around 4
a.m.,” said Smallwood adding that it
makes for a long day when “you
think a better part of the day has gone
by and it’s only 10 a.m.”.
Smallwood enjoys coming to
Lititz every year and finds evetyone
veiy friendly.
“I wouldn’t mind living here,” he
said. “Strangers whose houses we’re
in front of say that we can use their
bathroom. They say, ‘The house is
unlocked come on in.’.”
Not all of the crafters come from
out-of-state, several are from right
here in Lititz.
Diane Hertzler has been making
her popular flags for about three
years and has been a regular at the
show for about 10 years. According
to Hertzler, the show has not changed
a lot.
“It’s just gotten larger. The crowds
have gotten larger. It’s just more well
known,” she said.
Hertzler set up her stand with the
help of her father at 6:15 a.m., and
she sold her first flag at 7 a.m.
Out of all of her flags, which is the
best seller?
“The Penn State flag far outsells
anything so far,” said Hertzler, who
had brought 22 Penn State flags and
by almost 9:30 that morning had sold
almost half of them.
Michelle Beck, who had a stand
near the Post Office, also lives in
Lititz. This was her first year at the
show.
“It’s going pretty well,” said Beck,
who owns the shop “by Michelle at
Broadleaf Comer” on Main S t in
Lititz.
Her stand included anything made
out of textile, original artwork, and
jewelry. She said she had a “pretty
(See Craft Show, Page 20)