Lititz Record Express

              T H E R E S S
SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR NEARLY A CENTURY
95th Year E s t a b lis h e d A p r il, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e I ilt lt z R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, January 27,1972 10 c e n ts a C opy; $4.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in I ia n c a s t e r Cou n ty 14 Pages — No. 44
Spachts Give Continuous Service Since 1919
Editor's Note: This is the
second in a new series of articles
to acquaint our readers with our
local retailers. The third article
will appear next week.
Hill vSpacht began working for
his father at the age of 10 and for
the past 20 years has been
managing the f urniture store and
luneral home that his father,
Ralph M. Spaeht, started in 1919
when he came to Lititz.
As a youth, Spaeht unpacked
lurniturc, went with the delivery
truck and did odd jobs, like
washing windows. In fact, he
relates he still does some of the
same jobs now.
Ralph Spaeht came to Lititz in
November 1919 from Phila­delphia
and purchased the
business of William Enck located
in the Rannels building, 63 East
Main Street. In 1926 he purchased
the Rudy building at 27-31 East
Main Street where he continued
the furniture store and funeral
home on the same premises.
Renovations were made in 1939
when partitions were put up to
separate the funeral home from
the furniture store. Bill Spaeht
recalls an open stairway to a
mezzanine where his father had
draped Oriental rugs and palm
branches and spotlighted them.
The store even provided “model
apartments” for customers who
wished interior decorating help.
The models actually were the
Spaeht family’s residence, which
served a dual purpose.
In 1958 the funeral home was
moved to South Broad and East
Center Streets and the furniture
store expanded into the space
provided by the funeral business
being moved out. The funeral
parlor had originally occupied
the right side of the building and
the furniture store the left.
Bill Spaeht, active retailer in Lititz for twenty years, is
shown working at his desk in Spacht’s Furniture Store on
East Main Street. Spaeht manages the furniture store and
operates Spacht’s Funeral Home on South Broad Street,
businesses started by his father, Ralph M. Spaeht, in 1919.
R. William Spaeht is a native of
Lititz, graduate of Lititz High
School and was a member of the
L’.S. Navy Medical Corps during
WW II. He graduated from
Franklin and Marshall College
and Eckels College of Mortuary
Science. Bill and his wife Ruth
are parents of two daughters,
Carol and Susan. They live at 127
South Broad Street.
The Spachts are grateful to
the people of Lititz and the area
that they have had the op­portunity
to serve over the past 52
years, and hope to continue to
offer line service and mer­chandise.
The Warwick Township
Committee on the on the En­vironment
held a regular
meeting at the Township
Municipal Building last Thur­sday.
The group approved a request
by the chairman, president,
Richard Brown, to meet with
Philip McCloud, chairman of the
Lititz Borough Committee on
Environmental Control, to
discuss the feasibility of a solid
waste disposal center in the Lititz
area.
Brown will also check with
Warwick Township supervisors
on what buildings or areas may
be available as waste collection
sites.
Other Warwick Environment
Committee members attending
the meeting were: Mrs. Donald
Caldwell, secretary, Mrs. Scott
Garman, Addison H. Gery,
Ronald R. Loercher, and William
E. Sharpless.
Brown, Loercher and Sharpless
attended a county-wide meeting
January 19 of the “Municipal
Officials of Lancaster County.”
The committee announced its
meeting night has been changed
from the third Wednesday to the
second Thursday of each month
at 7:30 p.m. Next meeting is 7:30
p.m. February 10.
Miss Annetta Rorabaugh
Greeting Our
New Teachers
Editor's note: This is sixteenth
in a series of articles describing
the new teachers in the Warwick
Schools. The seventeenth will
appear next week.
Miss Annetta Rorabaugh has
joined the faculty of the Warwick
Middle School as a science
teacher.
A graduate of Penn Manor
High School in Millersville, Miss
Rorabaugh earned her B.S.
degree in Messiah College in
Grantham, Pa.
Last year Miss Rorabaugh
taught in Cades High School,
Cades, S.C.
May Cost As Much As Sewage?
Waste
“Solid waste is going to cost us
as much to dispose of in the
future as sanitary sewage does
today.”
That was the statement of
and higher costs of handling solid
wastes.
Steedle specifically suggested
Tuesday night that council
consider not renewing the
(A Record-Express News Analysis)
George Steedle, Lititz Borough
manager, Tuesday night at
borough council meeting.
Steedle made the comment
during a report on a recent
county-wide meeting on solid
wastes. In recent months, Steedle
and other borough officials have
expressed increasing concern
about possible future problems
Hexnlosion Conies to Lititz
WHEX Radio, 1580 on your AM
dial, will be broadcasting from
Lititz daily from 10 to 10:30 a.m.
every weekday morning starting
on Monday, January 31.
Bonnie Busch of West Marion
Street, Lititz, will be broad­casting
daily news events and
news of church, social, civic and
service organizations of the
Lititz-Warwick Township areas
from the studio located at 508
West Marion Street.
All residents of the Lititz-
Warwick area are invited and
urged to call Bonnie at 626-4012
with news from their
organizations.
Bonnie is well-known
throughout the Lititz area for her
artistic talents as well as her
service to the youth of the
community through her efforts as
secretary of the Recreation
Center Board of Directors.
This is a Lititz program for and
about the people of Lititz and
should be enjoyed by all area
residents.
Also associated with the
program is Bill Gardner, well-known
Lititz native and area
representative for WHEX.
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Bonnie Busch
The program is being made
possible through the public ef­forts
of Lititz area business
people.
In addition, WHEX radio 1580
will be providing complete Lititz
news coverage throughout the
entire broadcasting day.
C om m u n ity
Calendar
Thursday, January 27
7 p.m. — Baron Stiegel Lions
Club, Brickerville Fire Hall.
8:30 p.m. — Lititz Jaycees,
Legion Home.
Friday, January 28
7:30 to 11:30 p.m. — The Bridge,
Rec Center.
Saturday. January 29
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Bake Sale,
sponsored by the Parents
Basketball Club, Stauffers
Market at Kissel Hill.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Clam Mix,
Soup, Bake Sale, Brickerville
Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m. — “The Pit and The
Pendulum” movie at Rec
Center.
Monday, January 31
7 p.m. — Sertoma Club, Warwick
Haus.
7 p.m. — TOPS rheeting, Rec
Center.
7:30 p.m. — IOOF meeting,
Lodge Hall.
Tuesday, February 1
6 p.m. — Lititz Rotary Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m. — Lititz Planning
C om m ission m e e tin g ,
Borough Hall.
8 p.m. — Mother Of Twins Club
meeting, Cleft Palate Clinic,
Lancaster.
8 p.m. — Lady Sutter Rebekah
Lodge 435 meeting, Lodge
Hall.
Wednesday, February 2
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Ambucs
meeting, Legion Home.
7 p.m. — Lancaster County
Coordinating Council, Pa.
State Education Association,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m. — Junior Girl Scouts
Ecology Fair, Rec Center.
Thursday, February 3
10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. — Senior
Citizens Activity Day, Rec
Center.
6:30 p.m. — Lititz Lions Club
meeting, General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m. — Ladies Auxiliary to
the Lititz Fire Company
meeting, Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m. — Ladies Auxiliary to
the Rothsville Fire Company
meeting, home of Mrs. Nancy
Ditzler, 2025 Main St.,
Rothsville.
7:30 p.m. — Warwick Township
S u p e r v is o r s m e e t in g ,
Municipal Building.
borough’s $12,000 garbage con­tract
which expires at the end of
this year. Steedle said this money
should be used to cover the costs
of engineering work to develop a
landfill operation handled by the
borough itself.
Officials have indicated
previously that they expect the
garbage contract, if renewed,
would cost considerably more
than $12,000.
At the same.time, other trends
and policies both locally and
statewide are pointing toward the
need for the borough to find a
place to put its solid wastes,
according to local officials.
At the meeting, officials
discussed the possibility that the
Lancaster Area Refuse
Authority, which currently is
processing arid disposing of the
solid wastes from the Lititz area,
may refuse to do so at some point
in the future. Concern is
developing because the Lan­caster
Suthority’s landfill in
Manor Township near the
Susquehanna River is filling up
very rapidly. This may bring
pressure for the Lancaster
Authority to quit handling refuse
from areas such as Lititz, it was
indicated.
At the same time, new state
regulations in recent years have
made it virtually impossible for
local refuse disposal firms to
have their own landfill operation.
In particular, the landfill
operated by Diflenderfer. one of
the most important local trash
hauling firms, has been closed
down by the state.
Steedle and other local officials
Pool Construction Contract Awarded;
Bathhouse, Financing Bids Received Lititz Borough Council Tuesday
night awarded the contract for
construction of a second pool and
received bids for financing the
project.
Final action on the financing
and a second construction project
involving enlarging the
bathhouse facilities was delayed
until council meets at 7:30 p.m
February 22.
The construction contract
totaling $99,580, was awarded to
Mosemann Construction Com­pany.
The bid was received
nearly two months ago. It in­volves
the basic pool construction
project.
Council also received five bids
for phase two of the project which
includes enlarged bath facilities
and other changes including
moving the refreshment area.
Low bidder for phase two was
Warwick Builders of Lititz with a
bid of $31,385.
Wohlsen Construction Com­pany,
the firm which built the
new Warwick Middle School, was
a close second at $32,194. Three
other firms with bids up to $39,850
were: Rice and Weidman, Buck-waiter
Construction, and E. E.
Murry Construction.
Charles Edson of McCloud,
Scatchard, Derek and Edson,
Lititz Landscape Architects,
previously had estimated phase
two at about $20,000, but Edson
said the project was expanded
somewhat since the original
estimate.
Two bids were received for
financing the project. Farmers
National bank of Lititz was low
bidder at 3.75 per cent and
Commonwealth National Bank
bid 5% per cent.
Because phase two cost was
higher than origianl estimates,
councilmen indicated that the
total bond issue, which includes
refinaneng of the original bond
issue on the first pool, will
probably total about $225,000
instead of the $214,000 which had
been previously projected.
During discussion of the
project, some councilmen in­dicated
concern that the com­bination
of higher financing
costs, plus higher operating
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Eight members of the Warwick High
School Glee Club participated in the First
Honors Choir Festival at Elizabethtown
College last weekend. Chosen to par­ticipate
in the festival were: front row, left
to right, David Workman, Lisa Moore,
Donna Kepner and Joyce Myer. Back row:
Richard Whitehead, Jeffrey Young, Ruth
Amidon and John Kauffman.
Businessmen Ask for Members on Historic Board Lititz businessmen appeared
before borough council Tuesday
night to strongly urge that the
new historical area advisory
committee include a strong
representation of businessmen
currently operating in the
downtown business district.
The businessmen expressed
deep concern that if some of their
own members are not included,
enforcement of the new historical
ordinance will be detrimental to
business development which has
proceeded rapidly in the down­town
in the past couple of years.
have indicated that the com­bination
of these events, plus
ever-growing volumes of refuse,
will soon force the Lititz area to
come up with a solution of its own
to the refuse problem.
Present thinking is that the
problem should be handled on an
area basis, probably including
Warwick and Elizabeth Town­ships,
and possibly other areas.
One possibility being explored
is a joint landfill system in­volving
the Council of Govern­ments
(COG) area, which also
includes Manheim Borough and
Penn Township.
A joint solution also including
Ephrata has been mentioned.
There is strong feeling among
some officials for' a disposal
system involving incineration, as
well as recycling of some
materials. So far, the feeling is
that at this point incineration is
too expensive relative to landfill.
It was reported that a new
incineration system is being
developed at Carisle. In­cineration
has also is being used
at Shippensburg.
But indications now are that
incineration is still more costly
Adult
Courses
Still Open
This is the last week to register
for adult evening courses being
offered at Warwick High School.
There are still openings in the
following courses: typing, in­vestments,
sewing, G.E.D.,
German, Ceramics, Spanish and
Bridge.
Interested persons may call the
guidance department at the high
school. Monday, January 31 is the
deadline for registering.
Grows
than landfill and probably will
remain so until better techniques
are developed for recycling
various by-products of in­cineration,
including the various
metals which are left over iron)
the burning process.
Speaking for the businessmen
were Lester Bingeman, operator
of Bingeman’s Restaurant, and
Jack S. Watson, president of the
Farmers National Bank of Lititz.
Bingeman noted that he has
recently been advised that he
can’t install storm windows on
his restaurant. He also said that
many of the names suggested for
the historical committee “are
fine people but I can’t afford
them.” He also said he’s con­cerned
these people will “want it
(the historical area) a little
better than I can do it, a little
faster than I can do it.”
Watson confirmed that “some
of us in the business community
are considerably disturbed” —
and he emphasized the word
considerably — by recent in­dications
of what the historic
board might do to business in the
downtown.
He cited a possible conflict
between historical aspects and
practical business and stated, “If
things become too impracticable,
the money invested (in the
downtown business area) will be
wasted.” He stated that many of
these businesses have already
spent large sums for these im­provements.
Watson stated that the com­mittee
should not be packed with
businessmen, but said the “need
stronger representation than I
have seen so far.”
Curtis Amidon, council
president, particularly praised
improvements that have been
made to Bingeman’s building and
noted that “stores are filled and
things are going well.” He also
said, “We don’t want to
discourage the merchants.”
Mayor Russell Templeton said
that “the thinking of council in
the beginning was that at no time
would a hardship be put on
merchants — financially or
otherwise.”
Councilman Floyd Hagy, who
operates a downtown store,
suggested that the problem was
in making the historic group
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Bishop Carl J. Helmich, 74,
Former Local Minister, Dies
Junior Girl Scouts
Plan Ecology Fair
The Junior Girl Scouts of the
Rolling Hills Neighborhood will
sponsor an Ecology Fair Wed­nesday,
February 2, at the Lititz
Recreation Center.
All families of Scouts are in­vited
to attend the event which
will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
A presentation of colors by
Troop 251 will open the Fair,
followed by the repeating of the
conservation pledge by Troop
246.
Each Junior Scout Troop will
have a display to show how
ecology is related to the existing
Girl Scout program in the fields
of arts, home and the out-of-doors.
Cadette troops will join in
preparing one booth, “Ecology in
Camping.” The film “I Am a
River” will be shown by the
Senior Girl Scouts.
Mrs. Henry Gibbel is leader of
troop 251, assisted by Mrs.
Kenneth Martin and Mrs. Grant
Kent.
Troop 246 is led by Miss Judy
Wood with Mrs. Frederic Snavely
as assistant leader.
Other Junior leaders and
assistants are Mrs. Dale Frantz
and Mrs. Carl Boch, Troop 241;
Mrs. John Pilon and Mrs. Donald
Garvey, Troop 242, with Becky
Schreiber and Susan Paes as
Senior Aides.
Mrs. Ivan Ravegum is leader,
Mrs. Lloyd Groff, assistant, and
Cathy Royer, aide, of Troop 243.
Mrs. Wilson Smith, Mrs. Richard
Miller and Mrs. Larry Wagner
are in charge of Troop 248.
Leader of Troop 261 is Mrs.
William Hevener, with Mrs.
Alfred Melzer as assistant; Troop
267, Mrs. Ralph Seaman and Mrs.
Henry Groves. Troop 250, a
mixed troop of Junior and
Cadette Scouts, is led by Mrs.
Robert Shirk and Mrs. Robert
Gregory.
Cadette leaders and assistant
leaders are Mrs. Carl Kreider
and Mrs. Larry Balmer, Troop
145; Mrs. Edward Rosenquist
and Mrs. John Flowers, Troop
258; Mrs. Elgina Gilmer and Miss
Melby Busch, Troop 259; and
Mrs. Paul Glugston and Mrs.
Daniel Gingerich, Troop 20.
Mrs. Preston Leavitt is advisor
to the Senior Scouts.
In charge of refreshments for
the Fair are Mrs. Peter Riscutto,
chairman, Mrs. Arthur Myers,
Mrs. Clair Zug, Mrs. Larry
Royer, Mrs. Richard Coates,
Mrs. D. L. Weiksner, Mrs. James
Perini, Mrs. Robert Hill and Mrs.
Ronald Nuss.
In case of a severe snowstorm
on February 2, the Fair will be
postponed until Feb. 9. All girls
should check with their leaders.
Bishop Carl J. Helmich, pastor
of Lititz Moravian Church from
1949 to 1962, died unexpectedly
Friday in Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
The bishop, 74, suffered a heart
attack.
He was consecrated as the
253rd Bishop of . the Moravian
Church in Lititz on April 27, 1952.
His final sermon at the church
was delivered on August 12, 1962,
the 213th anniversary of the Lititz
congregation. It was also the day
before his 65th birthday.
Bishop Helmich then retired
and moved to Ohio, where he
served as supply pastor to
various Moravian congregations.
Upon his retirement members
of the Lititz church presented
him with a bound album con­taining
a “note of appreciation”
signed by 855 persons.
He also received a plaque from
the Provincial Elders Con­ference,
honoring his service to
the church.
Well-known and well-like in the
community, he was once sur­prised
by his congregation with
the gift of an automobile.
Bishop Helmich was born in
Northfield, Minn., son of the late
Rev. Edward F. and Mary E.
Marsch Helmich.
He attended high school in
Wisconsin, went to Ripon College
in that state and graduated from
Moravian College, Bethlehem, in
1919. Two years laer he received
his degree from Moravian
Theological Seminary.
The honorary Doctor of
Divinity degree was bestowed on
him in 1947 by Moravian College.
He served as a trustee of the
college and seminary.
His 41-year career in fulltime
ministry began in 1921 at
Lebanon Moravian Church. In
1924 he moved to a post in Win­ston-
Salem, N.C., and in 1938 he
accepted a charge in Staten
Island, N.Y.
Twice he served on the chur­ch’s
Christian Education board.
He also did post-graduate work in
religious eductaion at Nor-
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Bishop Carl J. Helmich
thwestern University, Evanston,
111.B
ishop Helmich was the
husband of the late Dorothy C.
Briggs Helmich, who died in 1969.
He is survived by two sons,
Carl J. Jr., of Philadelphia, and
Andrew E., of Honolulu, Hawaii,
and one daughter, Ruth J.
Helmich of New York.
A brother, Albert Helmich of
Sturvant, Wis., also survives.
Services were conducted from
the Lititz Moravian Church
Tuesday afternoon. Interment in
the adjoining cemetery.
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Brunnerville News 14
Business Directory 11
Business Report 11
Church News 10
Classified Ads 12,13
Editorial Page 4
My Week at the Rec 8
Obituaries 5
Penryn-Elm News 5
Rothsville News 2
School Menu 2
Society Section 2
Sports Section 6,7
Youth Section 14