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SER VING THE WAR WICK AREA FOR NEARL Y A CENTUR Y
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w ith in L an ca ste r County 14 Pages — No. 43
In the beginning in mid-1700’s, East Main Street of
Lititz was planned as a quiet residential street, with
Church Square as the center of activity. Business was
relegated to North Lane along Lititz Springs Creek.
But a spring which supplied water for this plan dried
up. Broad Street became a major highway. There were
other changes. And the early plan was soon changed
considerably.
So reports Hiram M. Eberly, well-known Lititz
historian, in the second of a two-part, illustrated article
this week appearing on page 14. Eberly, who has done
literally dozens of articles on Lititz history, considers
this series, begun last week, as the most important
work he has ever done on the town. Don't miss it.
Western Auto Started Here 20 Years Ago
Council to Consider Pool Bids
The taking of three bids will
highlight the borough agenda at
council meeting beginning at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, January 25.
The first bid will be for interest
In This Issue
Brunnerville News 3
Business Directory 11
Business News 11
Church News 10
Classified Ads 13
Clay-HopelandNews 5
Editorial Page 4
My Week at the Eec 3
Obituaries 5
Penryn-Elm News 5
Rothsville 14
School Menu 2
Society Section 2
Sports Section 6,7
Youth Section 8
Warwick Students
in Choir Festival
Warwick Senior High School
will be well represented at the
First Honors Choir Festival held
this weekend at Elizabethtown
College.
Early this fall the Music
Department of the College
contacted each of the 80 high
schools in the Southern District of
Pennsylvania.
The following students were
chosen: Soprano, Donna Kepner,
Lisa Moore; Alto, Ruth Amidon,
Joyce Myer; Tenor, Richard
Whitehead, Dave Workman;
Bass, John Kauffman, Jeff
Young.
The students, along with Mrs,
June Lantz, their vocal coach
from the High School, will
journey to the College on Friday
morning where they will be
rehearsing all day and into the
evening.
Saturday morning at 10 a.m.
the students will resume practice
until 4 p.m. At 6 p.m. they will be
feted at the Festival Banquet,
followed by the concert at 8 p.m.
in the Brethren Church
(Elizabethtown) which is ad­jacent
to the Elizabethtown
campus.
rates on the general obligation
bond in the amount of $214,000
which will include refinancing
the current debt of $72,000 for the
present borough swimming pool.
The second bid will be received
for the modification to the
borough swimming pool bath
house facilities.
Council will then decide
whether or not to accept bids and
proceed with the expansion of the
pool.
Borough officials have em­phasized
that monies spent for
construction and operation of the
borough swimming pool are
monies received from family and
individual memberships and
daily admissions — not from
taxes.
The third bid received a
preliminary report from Parking
Unlimited concerning parking in
the downtown business district.
Council will discuss the
proposed reorganization for the
Lititz Community Center.
Council will receive a request
to restrict parking on Maple Lane
between West Orange Street and
Lock Up Lane.
Borough Manager George
Steedle will present $100 to
council from St. Paul's Lutheran
Church as a token payment for
police protection during the past
year.
Editor's Note: This is the first
in a new series of articles to
acquaint our readers with our
local retailers. The second
article will appear next week.
The original Western Auto
franchise store in Lititz was
located next to Bingeman’s
Restaurant on North Broad
Street. The front was painted red
and it was heated only with a
spaceheater.
Floyd Hagy related these facts
about his dealership, now in it’s
twenty-first year, with con­siderable
humor and a friendly
smile, when interviewed last
week.
Hagy came to Lititz from
Reamstown where he had built
and operated a service station
along Route 222. After an illness,
he could no longer work outdoors
and had to find another line of
work. The building he rented on
North Broad Street was owned by
Steve Grosh.
Hagy said he felt the town was
opposed to the store at first
because they considered it to be
a “chain” store. Among his
memories of those early
beginnings was the fact that he
had to hand-pump the tires that
he sold.
Probably his fondest
recollection is that of the pony
cart and Santa Claus. In the early
1950’s, the Western Auto Santa
would go around town in a pony
cart at Christmas time and all the
children would come out to
welcome him.
After about four years on North
Broad Street, Hagy found it
Park Board Re-Elects Biemesderfer, Cites
Vandalism and Rejects Old Roebuck Fountain
Floyd Hagy, operator of tne Lititz Western Auto store, is
shown with a line of fishing equipment in his store on East
Main Street. Hagy has been a local retailer for over 20 years.
necessary to move his store.
Following a considerable search,
the Western Auto was moved to
East Main Street. The building
was remodeled before they
moved in, and two additions have
been made since. The store
carries sporting goods, toys,
automotive supplies, TV’s, radios
and small appliances. Now they
also have a full automotive
service department, with a
service bay and automatic lift.
Hagy and his wife, Thelma; are
the parents of four children:
Christine Sheppard, Lansdale;
Constance Rannels, Union
Deposit; Thomas, 151 Front
Street, Lititz; and Andy, age 10.
They also have a foster son,
Raymond Alvarez of Neffsville
and one grandson.
Grace Brethren to Build New Church
The Grace Brethren Church of
Lititz has chosen a 6.6 acre plot
on the Howard L. Erb Farm as
the site for their new church
building.
Lititz Bank Consolidation
Is Held Up ‘Indefinitely’
The consolidation of the Far­mers
National Bank of Lititz and
the First National Bank of In­tercourse
has been “held up
indefinitely” because of unex­pected
state tax complications,
Jack Watson, Lititz bank
president, confirmed this week.
While Watson said that the
consolidation has been formally
approved and can be completed
at any time, shareholders have
been informed that “we won’t put
it together until we get this fax
matter resolved.”
Watson declined to comment on
the “snag”, but it apparently
involves a state interpretation of
“unrealized capital gains” which
is different from the federal
interpretation.
Under federal tax law, in­creased
stock value is not taxed
until the stock is sold, but ap­parently
the state, in recent
rulings, has been taxing this
increased value whenever a
consolidation or merger occurs —
in effect, treating consolidated
and merged stock for tax pur­poses
as though it had been sold.
Located at the corner ot
Manheim Street and W. Lincoln
Avenue, the site promises easy
access to people from the entire
area, and provides more than
adequate space for future
development.
Ralph Hall, of the Brethren
Architectural Service, Winona
Lake, Ind., will serve as ar­chitect
for the project, which is
scheduled to begin in July.
Preliminary plans are now being
drawn up.
The local congregation, which
currently holds Sunday services
in the Lititz Community Center,
is another branch of the Grace
Brethren Church of Greater
Lancaster (Rohrerstown), a
vibrant testimony that has
fathered five new churches in the
ten years of its existance.
The Grace Brethren Church of
Lititz is a member of the National
Fellowship of Brethren Churches
(NFBC) and receives guidance
and support from both District
and National Home Mission
Boards. The NFBC is a grouping
of Brethren Churches that are
known for strong Bible teaching
ministries, and non-involvement
with the National and World
Council of Churches.
Those interested in additional
information about the local
congregation are invited to call
Jerry R. Young, pastor, 665-2322.
Election of officers, vandalism,
a decision not to buy the Roebuck
Fountain and discussion of the
coming year’s program were
among topics at the
reorganizations meeting of the
Lititz Springs Park, Inc.,
Tuesday night.
George K. Biemesderfer was
' re-elected president. Other of­ficers
are:
Elmer M. Murry, vice
president and Douglas L. Min-nich,
secretary-treasurer.
Elmer H. Bomberger will
Community
Calendar
Thursday, January 20
6:30 p.m. - Lititz Lions Club,
General Sutter Inn.
7:30 p.m. - Senior Citizens, Rec
Center.
8 p.m. - Card Party, sponsored by
the Ladies Auxiliary to the
Garden Spot Post 56, Legion
Home.
Friday, Janaury 21
7:30 to 11:30 p.m. - The Bridge
will re-open. David Worth,
guest speaker.
Monday, January 24
7 p.m. - Sertoma Club, Warwick
Haus.
7 p.m. - TOPS meeting, Rec
Center.
7:30 p.m. - IOOF meeting, Lodge
Hall.
Tuesday, January 25
6 p.m. - Lititz Rotary Club,
General Sutter Inn.
6:30 p.m. - Warwick Township
Lions Club, Chimney Corner
Restaurant.
7:30 p.m. - Brunnerville Fire
Company meeting, fire hall.
7:30 p.m. - Borough Council,
borough hall.
Wednesday, January 26
6:30 p.m. - Ambucs meeting,
Legion Home.
6:30 p.m. - Explorers Post 154
J u n i o r A m b l u a n c e
Association, ambulance
garage.
7:30 p.m. - Lititz Fire Company
meeting, fire hall.
7:30 p.m. - Brickerville Fire
Company meeting, fire hall.
Thursday, January 27
8:30 p.m. - Jaycees meeting,
Legion Home.
continue as Assistant Ground
Superintendent, Mrs. William B.
Oehme as Reservations Clerk
and Mrs. W. S. Walls, Recording
and Corresponding Secretary.
Lengthy discussions centered
around two items continued on
the agenda : posting of rules and
regulations governing the park
area, and returning the Roebuck
Fountain to Lititz, namely to
the park grounds.
Misconduct and continued
vandalism on park grounds have
been of great concenrns to the
trustees. Harold P. Bortz,
G ro u n d s S u p e r in te n d e n t,
reported that the public
restrooms are now completely
boarded to prevent further
destruction to the area.
Regulations effected in 1967 were
reviews and will be posted and be
enforced in the near future.
Despite favorable comments
and encouragement from others
within the community, the board
voted to rescind its motion on
May, 1970 or purchase the
Roebuck Fountain originally _
dedicated on October 1, 1895 and
placed on the square in Lititz.
Presently owned by a Lan­caster
antique dealer who felt the
fountain should be returned to the
community, the trustees, after
considered debate, on purchase
and installation of this antique
fountain the the park area, cast a
“nay” majority vote with funding
the decisive factor.
A recent tour of the park area
disclosed the necessity for
removal of additional trees,
including remaining American
Elms and several storm-damaged
maples. The trustees
were also confronted with the
replacement of a heavy duty
tractor, tables and benches
beyound re-painting and repair.
The board emphasied: On the
surface, the park continues
forever green, forever beautiful.
Behind the scenes there is much
maintenance and good care,
earnest and sincere efforts by
trustees past and present, as well
as individual and collective in­terest
from volunteers who paint
and plant and contribute many
hours of their time to these public
areas.
And, behind the scenes, are the
large and small contributions
that also continue to “balance the
budget” , to hopefully add im­provements
to the park grounds.
The good government of Lititz
Springs Park-of any park, in any
area - continues to grow in
responsibilities, in cost, in care.
This first meeting of the year
alerted trustees for this com­munity’s
park to priorities and
problems.
Biemesderfer will announce his
General Committees a t the’
February meeting.
School Board Considers a Student Grievance In recent years, new state
legislation has brought teacher
grievances and procedures in
handling them to the fore.
At the Warwick School Board
meeting Tuesday night, student
grievances and how to handle
them were discussed briefly.
In the end, the board voted six
to two not to put a letter from a
14-year old student on the
minutes. The student had com­mitted
three unexcused absences
and that the particular student
should be allowed to make up a
test which was missed.
Dr. H. Dale Winger, school
district superintendent, after
stating that he would check into
the specific situation, also ad­vised
that the board should
consider developing a policy on
making a day for students to
attend the Farm Show, as many
plained about being penalized by other schools do.
being kept after school because of Board member Dr. Roy Yeager
cautioned, however, that it’s very
difficult for teachers to conduct
school with large numbers of
students absent during the Farm
Show and he advised against
doing anything which would
missing one day of school to
attend the Farm Show.
Board member Raymond Groff
who received the letter and asked
that it be put on the minutes,
contended students were per-
Woman's Club Plans Ball
The Lititz Woman’s Club met
on Monday evening at the
General Sutter Inn. Miss Mary
Rose of Lancaster provided an
evening of entertainment with
her presentation of “Mitten
Folk”. Mrs. Scott Garman in­troduced
the program.
Mrs. Roy Yeager presided at
the business meeting. Mrs. Glenn
Zartman, co-chairman of the
Dance Committee, announced
that the second annual Prelude to
Spring Ball is scheduled for
March 18. Mrs. Russell Tem­pleton,
Corresponding Secretary,
reported that blankets for in­digent
families in Lititz may be
taken to Mrs. Richard Smith,
chairman of the Welfare Com­mittee.
The Conservation Committee,
Mrs. Harold Zander, chairman,
is sponsoring two films dealing
with ecology, “What America Is
Doing for Conservation” and
“You Can Save the Land”. These
films, available to clubs, will be
shown to science classes at
Warwick High school and at the
Middle School.
Mrs. Charles Edson, chairman
of Fine Arts and Education,
announced that Rabbi Samson
Shain will conduct an armchair
tour of Israel and the Holy Land
on Monday, January 24, at 9:30
a.m. in the Gimbel’s Community
Room.
Miss Barbara Wise, Program
Committee chairman, previewed
the February 21 meeting to be
held at the Lutheran Education
Building. Mrs. Michael J.
Valavanes, featured speaker,
will introduce the club to Greek
culture, customs and pastries.
make the situation worse.
William Owens, board mem­ber,
then moved that the letter
not be put on the minutes on the
grounds that this is a matter
which properly should have been
presented to and handled by the
school administration. Owens
said the matter would have
received much faster attention
this way and he said the board
shouldn’t be involved in details of
this nature.
Owens’ motion was adopted six
to two with members Raymond
Groff and Carl Reedy opposing.
In other action, Woodrow W.
Neidermyer, 509 Kissel Hill
Road, Lititz, was reappointed as
a five-year member of the Lititz
Area School Authority.
The board also named Thomas
W. Fish, Strasburg, a
mathematics and physics in­structor
at Warwick Senior High
School to replace Barry O. Smith,
who is the new administrative
assistant at Warwick Middle
School.
The board approved a leave of
absense for David E. Royer,
Middle School science teacher,
who entered the military service,
Dec. 27, 1971. He is to be
discharged in May, 1972.
A leave of absense was also
approved for Mrs. Beth R.
Ludwig, English teacher at
Warwick Senior High School, for
one month next September to
accompany her husband, a
minister, to Great Britain.
Several members of the
Warwick School Board will at­tend
a special meeting of the
Lititz Community Center Board
of Directors at 7:30 p.m.,
February 14, in the Recreation
Center lounge.
Two scout patrols from Lititz
placed second and third, in the
Klondike Derby held at the J.
Edward Mack Scout Reservation
last Saturday.
The Giddy Up Go Go II patrol of
Troop 42, sponsored by the Men’s
Bible Class of the Moravian
Church, placed second in the
winter event. This is the third
year in a row the troop has had a
patrol place in the Derby. Robert
G. Herzer is the scoutmaster.
The Giddy Up Go Go Patrol
won first place in the first
Klondike Derby in 1970 and the
Flaming Arrow Patrol placed
second in the Derby event in 1971.
Members of the Giddy Up Go
Go II patrol were: Douglas
Buchter, patrol leader, Hal
Becker, Dan Aument, Ed Roth,
Joe Flowers, Jeff Rohrer, Kevin
and Kurt Herzer. The patrol
earned 97 points.
The Cowboy Patrol of Troop
154, sponsored by the Church of
the Brethren, placed third in the
Derby event at Camp Mack. They
earned 96 points. Jerry Kiralfy is
the scoutmaster.
Members of the Cowboy patro]
were: Steve Gibble, patrol
leader, Tom Gibble. Don Becker,
David Lamoreux, Scott
Brubaker, Chuck Rettew and
Dean Fry.
Winning first place with 122
Troop 48, New Holland. Robert
Gehman is the scoutmaster.
Four hundred and fifty boys
participated in the Klondike
Derby. They were divided into 45
patrols. Eighty adults were also
available to assist,at the event.
The derby followed the format
of the past two years, except that
there was no snow this year. The
enthuastic scouts, undaunted by
the weather conditions, pulled
their wooden sleds weighing 50
pounds over a five mile trail.
The sleds carried scout
equipment weighing an ad ­ditional
50 pounds that was used
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The Giddy Up Go Go II Patrol of Troop 42
placed second in the Klondike Derby held
at Camp Mack last Saturday. Happily
posing beside their sled are: front row, left
v-.: ;',v . .jo g a G
tu rignt, Kevin Herzer, Hal Becker, Jeff
Rohrer and Dan Aument. Back row:
Douglas Buchter, patrol leader, Kurt
Herzer, Joe Flowers and Ed Roth.
Fire Destroys Trailer Home On Newport Rd
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Frederick Benson
Greeting Our
New Teachers
Editor’s note: This is fifteenth
in a series of articles describing
the new teachers in the Warwick
Schools. The sixteenth will ap­pear
next week.
Frederick Benson has joined
the faculty of the Warwick
Middle School as a social studies
teacher.
Benson is a graduate of J.P.
McCaskey High School in Lan­caster
and Franklin and Marr
shall College. He is currently
enrolled as a graduate at the
Univerisity of Delaware.
His other interests include
travel, sports, camping and Boy
Scout leadership.
Ulrich Heads
Chest Board
Local Scout Patrols Place 2nd-3rd in Klondike Derby
The trailer home of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Doub, Lititz RD2, was
demolished Sunday January 16
shortly after 10 a.m. by a fire
believed caused by an electrical
short circuit.
The loss was estimated at
$12,000.
Personal possessions of the 67-
year-old Doub and his wife, 63,
including their cat, “Kelly,”
were destroyed.
G. Burnell Forney, son-in-law
of the couple, took them into his
home.
He said that the couple has
some personal possessions that
were placed in the homes of
relatives when the couple moved
into the new trailer home last
Summer.
Doub retired two years ago
from Lancaster Malleable
Castings Co.
Fire Chief Eugene Shelley,
Penryn Fire Company, reported
that the fire company was
summoned to the fire at 10:10
a.m. The trailer is on Newport
Road near Penryn.
Forney said the couple will
probably remain with him for a
few days, after which they
probably will look for a place to
rent.
The house trailer, he said, was
covered by insurance.
Leroy Ulrich was re-elected
president of the Lititz-Warwick
Community Chest Board at a
recent meeting. Other officers
elected were: Richard Heisey,
1st vice president and Mrs. Henry
Martin Jr, 2nd vice president.
Elected as new board members
were: Betty Zwally, Lititz;
Cathryn Adams, Elizabeth
Township; Elmer Bomberger
Lititz and Harold Swisher,
Warwick Township.
The following appointments
were made by Ulrich and ap­proved
by the board: Anna Mary
Franck, secretary and treasurer
and Cathryn Adams, publicity
chairman.
The Welfare Emergency
Committee consists of: Mrs.
Rodney Wolf, chairman, Mrs.
Henry Martin Jr, Mrs. Edwin
Stroble, W. Roy Enck and Elmer
Bomberger.
Retiring Board members are:
Mrs. Harold Swisher, Mrs.
Thomas Walker, Richard Adams
and Wallace Hofferth.
The next Lititz-Warwick
Community Chest Board meeting
has been scheduled for May 8 at 8
p.m. in the Lititz Community
Center.
Brunnerville Fire
Company Report
The Brunnerville Fire
Company has compailed the
following report for 1971.
The Fire Company answered 11
calls two of which were for
assistance to the Lincoln Fire
Company and to the Lititz Fire
Company.
One hundred men responded to
the calls and gave seven hours
and thirty five minutes of service
and traveled 31 miles. The
firemen used 20,000 gallons of
water.
The total amount of hose laid
was 2,650 feet of booster hose, 500
feet of 1V2 inch hose and 50 feet of
2V2 inch hose.
The Brunnerville Fire
Company membership cards are
now due and may be obtained
from any member of the fire
company. New members are
welcome. Membership dues are
$1 a year.
The Brunnerville Fire Com­pany
meets the last Tuesday of
the month.