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(Consolidated with The I iitltz Record, 1937) Lititz Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, June 8,1972 10 c en ts a Copy; $4.00 pe r y e a r by m a ll
within L a n c a s te r County 18 Pages — Na 11
GroffGets
SchoolBus
Contract
After renegotiating next year’s
school bus contract following
disagreements with the suc­cessful
bidder, Raymond E.
Groff, Lititz RD4, Warwick
District School Board awarded
the contract to Groff at $245 per
day, $10 higher than Groff’s
original bid.
The settlement was made at a
recent special meeting of the
board.
Groff originally had submitted
a bid of $235 per day for six buses,
which was accepted by the school
board at their regular May
meeting. At the same time Groff
submitted an additional bid of
$250 for a second year contract,
which was rejected by the board,
who said the rate of increase was
Bert Klotz, owner and operator of Klotz
Kleners, 11 S. Broad St., spot cleans a
wedding gown with a special spray gun
before giving it regular cleaning treatment.
Klotz Kleners is the only on-premise
cleaners in the borough.
Today’s Fabrics Get Special
Attention from Klotz Kleners (Editor’s Note: This is the 21st in
a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 22nd article will
appear next week.
Keeping up with all of today’s
new fabrics is a full-time job for
men like Bert Klotz, whose
professional lives are devoted to
caring for other people’s clothes.
The new synthetics, the
combinations of vinyls and
suedes used with other fabrics
like cotton and wool, and the
large variety of knits on the
market all create their own
special cleaning problems which
the professional dry cleaner must
conquer.
Bert Klotz is starting his third
year in Lititz as operator of Klotz
Kleners, 11 S. Broad St., the only
on-premise drycleaning firm in
Lititz. His plant, formerly owned-by
Joe Hess, is located m the rear
of the J. B. Hess menswear store.
Before coming to Lititz, Bert
operated a plant m Lancaster for
20 years, and still maintains a dry
store, or outlet, there.
The services that Bert and his
wife, Jeanne (his Girl Friday
Bert calls her) provide the public
in their plant include professional
dry cleaning, professional “coin­op”
cleaning (which Bert does
himself), winter and summer
storage, and repairs and small
alterations such as hemming,
cuffing, sleeves, etc., which are
done by Mrs. Irene Sensenig.
Shirt laundering and cleaning
of furs, leathers and suedes are
also available but are “sent out ”
One of the newest dry cleaning
devices on the market for
professional cleaners are
steaming cabinets, which take
most of the wrinkles out of
garments. Cleaned and dried
items are hung in the cabinet
before they are pressed, most of
the wrinkles falling out before the
garment ever reaches the
pressing board.
Bert built his own cabinet
several years ago out of marine
plywood, “to see if it was as good
as they say.” It was, he decided,
and plans now to buy a larger,
automated cabinet.
What happens to your dress or
suit when you take it to the
cleaners?
First, Bert explains, it
is checked for spots, and spot
cleaned if necessary.
Next, it is put in a large
automatic washing machine in a
solution of “perk,” (perk-chlorethylene),
which replaced
the old petroleum cleaning fluids
of 20 years ago
From the washer, the clothes
are transfered to a large dryer,
and then hung in the steam
cabinet. They then get a final
pressing.
Clothes that go through the
“ coin-op” process, where
customers are charged by the
pound, go through the same
washing and drying procedure,
the big difference being that they
don’t get a final pressing.
Bert does almost all the
drycleaning himself and often
performs the spot cleaning and
steaming, too.
A member of the National
Institute of Dry Cleaners, Bert’s
knowledge of fabrics and their
problems, proper care and
treatment is kept alive by
monthly NIDC leaflets containing
samples of new fabrics and in­structions
on cleaning them, and
by attending dry cleaning con­ferences
to learn about new
techniques. His business has
grown over the years as his
reputation has become known for
being able to identify and correct
elusive clothing problems.
The hardest garments to clean,
he says, are combinations—
fabrics trimmed with vinyls,
suedes, etc. For example, often
a dress bodice can be cleaned by
standard methods, while the
skirt, or a collar, or pocket
require some special treatment,
he explains.
One of the biggest boons to the
professional dry cleaner will be a
law now under discussion,
requiring that all garments be
labeled with proper washing and
cleaning instructions,if and when
it gets passed, Bert says.
Bert employs seven persons in
his plant, several of them part-time.
His wife, Jeanne, formerly
a buyer for Watt & Shand
department store in Lancaster,
takes care of the front desk and
carries out her husband’s
philosophy “to care about their
clientele and their clothes.”
Bert and Jeanne reside in
Columbia. Bert is a member of
the Lititz Retailers Association
and the Pennsylvania
Association of Professional
Drycleaners.
too high.
When his request for a two year
contract was rejected at the
meeting, Groff told the board he
was withdrawing his bid, saying
he could not afford to risk being
“stuck” with six new buses the
following year.
However, Groff agreed to sign
a one year contract the following
week, according to Dr. H. Dale
Winger, superintendent of
schools. At that time Winger said
a money “modification” in the
contract would be made.
Groff’s $245 contract is $5 a day
more than the bid placed by the
next lowest bidder last month,
Elmer E. Rock, who holds the
current bus contract, and who bid
$240 per day for 1972-73.
Rock’s office said he had been
contacted by the school district to
submit another bid when the
contract was being renegotiated,
but had declined to do so.
Winger said that when awar­ding
Groff the contract at the
higher per day figure, the board
had taken into consideration the
amount of reimbursement from
the state to the school district
that Groff’s buses would bring, as
well as the per day figure.
Groff had stated he plans to buy
six new buses. According to
Winger, the state reimburses the
school district $20 per day for
each bus one to three years old.
In Groff’s case, the reim­bursement
would be $120 a day
for six new buses.
Trees, Signs, Bikeways
Proposed by Derek
In a special letter to the
Planning Commission Tuesday
night, architect Robert Derek,
chairman of the Lititz Zoning
Hearing Board, recommended
three projects for improving and
beautifying the borough.
Derek recommended that trees
be planted on both sides of South
Broad Street from the Hanna
Building south to the borough line
“to soften the harsh commercial
look of the south entrance to the
community.”
Derek also recommended
posting signs for visitors to Lititz,
near the square, directing
visitors to Lititz’s historical and
shopping area. He recommended
an Early American decor on the
signs, suggesting the familiar
pretzel at the bottom of the sign
and Moravian star at the top.
Derek also recommended
posting signs on Broad Street
directing visitors to parking
areas in the borough.
A bikeway for Lititz was
Derek’s third recommendation,
and one that brought the most
comment from Commission
members, several of whom
appeared to be bicycling en­thusiasts,
and have observed
bikeways in other parts of the
country and in Europe. Derek
suggested that the bikeways be
well marked and designed for
safety.
SteedleSays No to Bingo
Games in Borough Hail
It was a proud night for the three win­ners
of the I. Walton Bobst Awards
presented at Warwick High School’s
graduation Tuesday night. The three
winners are (left to right) Sharon Posey,
who won the first award of $2,500; Debra
Kieinfelter, recipient of the third award for
$1,000; and Mary Ann Lahr, winner of the
second award of $1,500.
197 Receive Diplomas
Bobst Awards Highlight
Graduation at Warwick
Sharon Posey, Mary Ann Lahr,
and Debra Kieinfelter were
named winners of the Bobst
Awards, and Anne Rannels was
named recipient of a new
scholarship from the Lititz
Woman’s Club, at Com­mencement
exercises Tuesday
night at Warwick Senior High
School.
Because of threatening
weather conditions, the
graduation ceremony was held in
the school gym, where 197
students were awarded diplomas
by David E . Buckwalter,
president of Warwick District
School Board.
The three Bobst awards, which
total $5,000, were established
more than 20 years ago by Elmer
H. Bobst, chairman of the board
of Warner-Lambert Corporation,
in memory of his father, the Rev.
Isaac Walton Bobst.
The top award, $2,500, went to
Sharon B. Posey, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert S. Posey, 609 S.
Spruce St. Miss Posey plans to
attend the University of
Delaware to major in social
work.
The second award of $1,500 was
presented to Mary Ann Lahr,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester
S. Lahr, 38 E. Market St., who
will major m political science at
Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory,
N.C.
The third award, $1,000, was
given to Debra A. -Kieinfelter.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry V. Kieinfelter, Lititz RD2,
she will enter Lancaster General
Hospital School of Nursing.
The three winners were chosen
by a committee made up of
representatives from the faculty,
and school board and two citi­zens
from the community.
Although the awards have been
given for more than 20 years,
Elmer H. Bobst last year in­creased
the amount of the awards
and spelled out the criteria for
selection of the recipients. The
first winners were selected under
the new criteria during 1971.
Anne Rannels, recipient of the
new award being given by the
Lititz Woman’s Club, will receive
a scholarship amounting to $200
each year for her four years in
college, contingent upon annual
review by the club’s scholarship
committee.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Rannels, 123 S. Spruce
St., she plans to enter Penn­sylvania
State University, in the
liberal arts program.
Two Warwick Education
Association Scholarships, $100
each for each of the four years
the recipients attend college
under a curriculum preparing
them to be teachers, were
awarded to Debra Royer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Royer, 66 Front St., and Debra
Wier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Wier, 312 E. New St.
Brenda Tennis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Tennis, Lititz
RD2, was recipient of the Ser-toma
Club Nursing Scholarship,
$100 for each of three years in
nurses training.
The Lititz Lions Club Academic
Awards, $25 Savings Bonds given
to the outstanding graduates in
the areas of science, math,
English and social studies, went
to Debra Royer, for English;
Susan Siomko, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholas Siomko, 201
Leaman St., social studies; Julie
Stoughton, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Franklin Stoughton, 25
Brusen Dr., math; and Sylvia
Weber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry w jer, Lititz RD3,
science.
A $25 Savings Bond also was
presented to Donna Ditzler,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Ditzler, Lititz RD1, selected as
the outstanding business
graduate. The award is presented
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Council Head
Agrees With
Manager
While District Attorney Henry
J . Rutherford has taken the legal
curse off Bingo in Lancaster
County for religious and service
non-profit groups, the age-old
game of chance is not necessarily
being welcomed back into the
Warwick area’with open arms.
Several of the organizations
that used to sponsor regular
Bingo games, mainly fire
companies and their auxiliaries,
are in the midst of discussions on
whether or not to start up the
games again, and the decisions
could go either way.
Meanwhile, Boro Manager
George Steedle brought any plans
the Lititz Fire Company might
have on Bingo to at least a
temporary halt Tuesday when he
sent them a letter saying he
would not condone any Bingo
games in Boro Hall.
While fire company officials
said they couldn’t comment on
the matter at this time, the
company and its auxiliary
reportedly had been getting
ready to schedule a Bingo game
in Boro Hall, where the fire
company is still housed.
Steedle told the Record-
Express that he did not object to
Bingo, but he did object to
holding Bingo games -in Boro
Hall, where the local government
and police force are housed, so
long as the state law on Bingo
reads as it does. He said he felt
the seat of borough government
should be the first to uphold the
law, regardless of any loopholes
the DA might be allowing in it.
The District Attorney an­nounced
last week that he would
not prosecute any religious or
service non-profit groups
sponsoring Bingo games because
he considered Bingo to be low on
the priority list for law en­forcement.
Steedle also said he was not
speaking for Boro Council at this
point, and that Boro Council
might conceivably reverse his
decision if called upon to do so.
He also said he would not
necessarily object to Bingo
games being held in other
locations within the borough.
Boro Council president Curt
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In This Issue
Brickerville 13
Business Directory 15
Church News 14
Classified Ads 16&17
College Report 2
Editorial Page 4
Penryn & Elm 9
Rothsville 15
Sports Section 6&7
Women’s 12
Youth 5
Winner of the Lititz Woman's Club's new $800 scholarship
for a future teacher was Anne Rannels, 123 S. Spruce St. Dr.
H. Dale Winger, superintendent of schools, congratulates
her.
Donna Ditzler, Lititz RD1, was winner of the outstanding
business student award, a $25 Savings Bond, presented by
the Farmers National Bank of Lititz.
Brenda Tennis, Lititz RD2, was recipient of this year’s
$300 Sertoma Club Nursing Scholarship. Harold Swisher,
high school principal, makes the award.
Class Valedictorian, Sylvia Weber, Lititz RD3, received the
Reader's' Digest Valedictorian Award, a one year's sub­scription
to the magazine, as well as the Lititz Lions Club
Academic Award for science, a $25 Savings Bond.