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SER VING THE WAR WICK AREA FOR NEARL Y A CENTUR Y
96th Year E s ta b lish e d A p r il, 1877, a s T h e Su nbeam
(C on so lid a ted w ith T h e L i t it z R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa. 17543, October 12, 1972 10 c e n ts a Copy; $4-00 per y e a r b y m a il
Within L a n c a s te r County 1& PAGES — No. 29
Sewers Top
Warwick
Twp.’ Agenda
Sewers, a wrecked police car
and a Township boundary change
were among the items discussed
at last Thursday night’s meeting
of the Warwick Township Board
of Supervisors.
Discussing the sewer issue, the
supervisors again pointed out
that the Pennsylvania Depart­ment
of Environmental
Resources was requiring a notice
of sewer availability before
approving the issuance of any on-lot
sewage treatment facilities,
such as septic tanks.
In effect, this means the DER
can halt development of built-up
areas within the township if it
becomes apparent that a sewer
system is not an imminent
possibility.
A sewer authority is one of the
first steps on the road to a sewer
system, it was pointed out by
chairman C. William Dussinger,
and the supervisors plan to set up
an authority as soon as possible.
The year of sewer availability
must be stated on all future plans
submitted to the DER. In some
cases that year may be as early
as 1975. In other cases, it may be
as late as 1990 or 2000.
In all liklihood, the township
sewer lines would be connected to
the Lititz Borough treatment
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Lftitz OK’s $2 Million Expansion to
Sewer Plant-County Says ‘Wait’
Microwave oven in center of picture is
one of the latent items for kitchens at the
House of Warwick, 54 N. Cedar St. Left to
right are Jim Graybill, general manager,
Joy Lesher, interior design department,
and Ted Koser, floor coverings manager.
House of WarwickFeatures
Latest In Kitchens, Baths
(Editor’s Note: This is the 38th
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 39th article will
appear next week.)
Penn Twp. Developments
To Have Water* Sewers
Penn Township will soon have The apartments will be built by
the beginnings.of both a water Kreider and Qläybill Corp.
and a sewer system. Costs for the
initial steps, however, will be
borne by private developers.
At a Township board of
supervisors meeting on Monday
night, a contingent of local
residents voiced their concerns
over the funding, the ownership
and the operation of a water and
sewage system which will be
built to service an apartment unit
and a shopping center on Stiegel
Valley Road.
The shopping center is already
under construction, and the 110-
unit apartment complex will
break ground in the near future.
Clyde Horst, a New Holland
builder, is president of the cor­poration,
and the sons of Noah
Kreider are participating in the
project.
At the moment, plans are for
the developers to pay for the
installation of all water and
sewer pipes. The sewers would be
connected with the Manheim
Borough treatment plant. Water
for the water system would come
from deep wells, which would
also be drilled at the developers’
expense. When the system is
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Longing for a modern kitchen?
Tired of your old-fashioned
bathroom fixtures? Wondering
how to give your house a face­lifting?
The House of Warwick may
have the answers for you.
Specializing in the latest trends
in kitchens, baths, and floor
coverings, this local enterprise,
located at 54 N. Cedar St., not
only is equippped with all the
necessary appliances, cabinets,
and fixtures, but also offers a
complete decorating service to
help customers develop their
idea's.
“We like to think of it as a sort
of one-stop shopping,” says Ted
Koser, who heads the floor
covering division of the business.
“Anyone who wants to re-do a
kitchen or bath can find
everything he needs right here,
including the carpenters,
plumbers, and electricians to do
the job.”
Jim Graybill, manager of
House of Warwick, opened the
store at its present location three
years ago as an extension of
Warwick Builders, a construction
firm which he operated from an
office at 45 N. Broad St. With a
staff of 15. employees, Jim now
operates the combined
businesses from the Cedar Street
store, With Mervin Groff
assisting him on the
management end, Joy Lesher
handling much of the decorating
and design service, and Koser in
charge of floor coverings.
The latest in kitchen appliances
are available at House of War­wick,
with names like Ther-mador,
Modern Maid, Kit-chenaide,
Corning and Jenn Air.
One of the hottest things on the
market now (no pun intended) is
the microwave oven, now coming
into its own for domestic use.
House of Warwick carries four
different lines of these, the most
popular a Thermador microwave
that sells for $495, and can bake a
potato in three minutes, an apple
in one minute, and vegetables
right out of the freezer in three to
five minutes.
The new trash compactors are
also featued items at House of
Warwick, designed to level a
trash bag full of cans and glass
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Lititz Sewer Authority last
Week approved plans for a
$2,302,000 expansion to the
borough sewer treatment plant,
that will increase capacity to 3.1
million gallons a day.
However, Lancaster County
Planning Commission Tuesday
“declared an interest” in the
plant because it concerns the
county Comprehensive Sewage
Plan, and said it would not take
action before conferring with
representatives from other
municipalities in the area.
John Ahlfeld, county planning
consultant, said he would call a
meeting “probably next week”
with staffs and representatives
from a number of boroughs and
townships in the area, and the
Department of Environmental
Resources.
Officials at the DER office in
Lancaster said yesterday that the
county Comprehensive Plan calls
for a regional sewage treatment
plant in the Brownstown-
Talmadge area, which would
include Lititz, Ephrata, Denver,
Akron, and the townships of
Warwick, Elizabeth, Clay,
Ephrata and West and East
Cocalico.
This regional plant is expected
to be built in the next 10-20 years,
although the DER office said no
one knows for sure when it will go
in. The office said there is »a
possibility it may never be built.
The county plan calls for the
regional plant to cover an ex-timated
population of 85,000
persons by the "year 2010. If it is
built, the. office said, local
treatment plants would probably
be a^ndoned.
The office said the , county ,
Planning Commission is eon-
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In The Issue
Bfickerville 2
Business Directory 13
Church News 12
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 1
Mt.Airy "•
Rothsville
Sports Section
Women’s 11
Youth 3
Local Officials’ Views
A bill proposed by Represen­tative
Marvin Miller, Sr., that
would require all meetings of
government bodies and
authorities to be open to the
public has brought varying
reactions from several top local
officials.
“It’s great,” is the opinion of C.
William Dussinger, chairman of
Warwick Township Supervisors.
“There should be no private
sessions. Anything done (by
government officials) should be
done in public.”
Lititz Borough Council
president, D. Curtis Amidon, took
a somewhat different view.
“Government is better for:
private meetings and
discussions,” Amdion said. “The
idea of having non-public
meetings is being done on a
substantial scale. Officials are
not to be criticized for this, but
are to be complimented for
C. William Dussinger
Chairman, Warwick Twp.
Supervisors
wanting to spend so much time at
their jobs.”
Miller’s proposed bill, was
written in conjunction with
Representative James Knepper,
Jr., and patterned after the
Florida “Sunshine Law,”
adopted in 1967. That bill declares
that all meetings and discussions
of state, county, and municipal
commissions, boards, and
agencies must be open to the
public at all times, and their
records must be open to public
inspection.
The Pennsylvania bill, in­troduced
Sept. 26 and now in
committee, requires that all state
and municipal meetings at which
official acts are to be taken must
be declared public meetings,
open to the public at all times,
and that no resolution, rule,
regulation, or formal action shall
be considered binding unless it is
taken or made at an open
meeting.
The bill also requires that the
minutes of any such governing
group be promptly recorded and
open to public inspection, and
states that citizens can seek an
injuction to enforce this.
The bill also calls for a fine of
up to $500, and-or imprisonment
in the county jail up to six months
for any member o& a governing
board who violates the provisions
of the bill.
Miller, a newspaper man
himself and a former editor of the
Lititz Record-Express, said in a
telephone interview that while his
bill is aimed primarily at the
State Legislature, it also applies
to local governing bodies.
He said he introduced the bill
because goverritnent is making
secret decisions in caucus.
“Government says that the
public is apathetic,” Miller told
the Record-Express. “But the
public goes to meetings and sees
that decisions have already been
made, or sees the officials go into
caucus and make decisions. This
turns people off.”
“In private meetings, persons
with vested interests, who may
have the ear of the governing
body, make their opinions
known,” he continued.
. Stating that all decisions should
be “ironed out” in public, Miller
said that if there is not a personal
interest involved, then there is no
problem in doing this.
“It may be awkward at first,
but if a matter cannot be
discussed in public, maybe it
shouldn’t be discussed at all by a
governing body. Maybe it isn’t
pertinent. Any knowledge that
can’t be made public shouldn’t
■ PM
D. Curtis Amidon
Boro Council President
influence a public policy,” he
said.
Dussinger, questioned on his
opinion of the bill and of closed
government meetings, said, he
felt the context of Miller’s bill
was good, and agreed there
should be nothing secretive about
local or state meetings.
“We don’t allow executive
sessions in Warwick Township—I .
don’t believe it should be done.
Everything is township business
and should be public,” he said.
He did make an exception here
of personal problems of township
employees. “Some things in this
line become privileged in­formation
when an individual
comes to you as an employee,” he
said.
“Special meetings are per­mitted
in Warwick Township
without notification,” Dussinger
said, “and we (the supervisors)
do get together quite a bit. But
minutes are kept and “r
public record.”
“In Warwick Townsl
have had recesses at -»»mi*
hearings to determine \
want* to do—whether to
decision at that time or
matter under advisemer.' lull l
don’t feel we should g<
closed room and n
decision,” he said.
“Anything I find th
public,” Dussinger said,
do something about.”
“However,” he quauueu,
“when two people get together,
they discuss, things, and I don’t
see how they (the law) can stop
this.”
Amidon, as president of Lititz
Boro Council, said he strongly
favors more public hearings on
issues, on both a state and local
Grace Brethren Church will hold a
ground breaking ceremony at its new
building site Sunday afternoon. This is the
architects drawing of the new building
which is contemporary in design and will
cover an area of 10,562 square feet. It will
be built on a 6.6 acre tract located at the
corner of West Lincoln Avenue and
Manheim Street.
Grace Brethren Church to Hold Ground
Breaking Ceremony for New Church
The Grace Brethren Church of
Lititz plans to “turn over a new
leaf” in the pages of its history
this Sunday afternoon Oct. 15th,
at 2:30 p.m. A spade will be used
to turn that leaf, as the
congregation meets at the corner
of Manheim .Street .and Lincoln,
Avenue in Lititz to break ground
for their new building.
Since the church was organized
on Dec. 7, 1970, the pages of its
history are few. It all began with
the vision of thirteen member
families in the Grace Brethren
Church at Rohrerstown, who also
•>kcmw:*>k
happened to be residents of the
Lititz area. Administrative and
financial support has been
received from both district add
national home mission programs
in the National Fellowship of
Brethren Churches. The Lititz
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‘ClosedMeetings’—Good or Bad?
levgl, but is opposed to discon-ithbing
executive session?.
“The public is benefiting by
executive sessions (closed
discussion meetings of governing
bodies) because otherwise the
officials would not get together as
often as they do. It results in
better government,” he said.
A governing body “saves time”
with previous meetings, Amidon
said. “In an informal discussion
you have a different approach
than when everything you say is
official.”
“There is nothing we say that
we would be ashamed of,” he
said. “But if the press were to be
invited to an .executive session-type
of meeting; it would be hard
to report. There is no agenda to
follow, no motions are made,
etc.”
Asked what he thought would
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Dale Shelly, (left) of McElroy’s Phar­macy,
and Lobert Klotz, (right) of Klotz
Kleners present the Bingo Prize of $100
Lititz Shopping Dollars to Mr. Karl John-son,
Lititz. Karl was the lone winner in last
week's game arid he picked up hrs winning
card at Spacht’s Furniture Store.
One $100 Winner Last Week
Use BLUE CARDS for This Week’s Bingo Game
Rep. Marvin Miller, Sr.
Pa. General Assembly
There was 1 winner in last
week’s Bingo game and he
received $100 Lititz Shopping
Dollars for turning in the lone
winning card. This week’s prize
will be $100.
It’s easy and fun - just check
the ads and any advertising
supplements appearing in this
week’s Lititz Record Express and
match the Bingo Numbers ap­pearing
in those ads with the
numbers on this week’s BLUE
bingo cards. If you find all the
numbers on your BLUE card,
that card is a winner!
If you have a winning bingo
card, just bring it to the Lititz
Record office, 22 E. Main St.,
between 4:45 and 5:00 p.m. on
Friday, October 13 (tomorrow).
Here a few important remin­ders:
1. The game is COVER-ALL—all
24 numbers on the bingo card
must be matched by the
numbers in this newspaper.
2. The color of the bingo card
changes each week—be sure
you are using the correct color'
card. The color for the
numbers appearing today is
BLUE.
3. Adults only are eligible to
claim the prize.
4. No purchase is necessary to
pick up a bingo card and you
can play as many cards as you
wish.
5. In the event the prize is not
claimed in any one week, the
prize accumulates until we
have a winner.
Next week’s cards will be
LILAC and they may be picked
up at any participating merchant
starting Thursday, October 12.
The numbers to jrnatch on the
LILAC cards will appear in next
week’s Lititz Record Express.
Don’t forget to check with
every participating merchant for
a bingo card-some merchants run
out of cards sooner than others,
so it is important to make sure all
the cards from every merchant
are being used in the game. And,
the more cards you play, the
greater your chances of winning.
GOODLUCK!
Participating Merchants:
Armold Jewelers
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob’s SaveRite
Bomberger’s Store
Cam Tech of Lititz
The Carpet Shop
Chimney Corner Restaurant
Draeger’s German Foods
Furlow Variety Center
The Gladell Shop
General Sutter Inn
Goods Auto Service
Glassmyer’s
Hagy’s Western Auto
J. B. Hess Men’s Wear
Hollinger’s Farm & Home Supply
Leon Hershey Used .Cars
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Kenyon’s Bakery
Keller Bros. Auto Co.
Klotz Kleners
Kreider Hardware Store
Kreider Bros. TV
Lads & Lasses Children’!
Apparel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Pet Shop
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger’s
Lehman's Garage
McElroy Pharmacy
Michael’s of Lititz
H. K. Neff
Pretzel House Restaurant
Spacht’s Furniture Store
Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill
Thomas Farm Market
Trudi K Shop