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(C o n s o l id a t e d w i t h T h e l i l t l t z R e c o rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa. 17543, November 9, 1972 10 c e n t s a C o p y ; 54.00 p e r y e a r b y m a l l
w i t h i n L a n c a s t e r C o u n ty 16 PAGES — No. 33
GOP Dominates Local Polls
Pat Minitti sets up one of the tables in the front dining
room at the Pretzel House Restaurant, 219 E. Main St, which
he has been operating since last April, featuring a variety of
homemade items for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Pretzel House Restaurant
Specialty Home Cooking
R e p u b lic a n c a n d id a te s
dominated the local elections.
Nixon ran far ahead of McGovern
locally, incumbent Ed Eshleman
defeated Shirley Garrett for
Congress, and Robert Rowe kept
his seat in the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives by
outstripping Earl Fitting at the
polls.
Voter Turnout Heavy
Voter turnout in the area was
one of the heaviest ever, running
80 percent of the registered
voters in the borough, 79 percent
in Elizabeth Township, 80 percent
in both Penn Township (South
district) and Warwick Township,
and 79 percent in Warwick East
District.
Republican Robert C. Rowe,
Lebanon attorney, was re­elected
to the General Assembly
from the 102nd District, defeating
his Democrat opponent, Earl W.
Fitting, Lebanon.
The 34-year old Rowe has
served one term in the state
legislature, being a member of
the Law and Order, and the
Labor Committees in the Penn­sylvania
House. He also served
two years as assistant Public
Defender, and was attorney for
the Pennsylvania Labor
Relations Board two and a half
years.
The Lancaster County vote
was:
Rowe: 4,198
Fitting: 3,197
Rowe ran up a 3,197 vote
majority in the districts which
are in Lancaster County, which
are Lititz Borough, Elizabeth,
Penn and Warwick Townships.
The vote was:
County, and by a 4,938 majority in
Lebanon County.
Presidential
Locally, President Nixon ran
way ahead of McGovern, with
Schmitz from the Constitutional
party running a poor third.
State Treasurer
State Treasurer, Democrat
Grace Sloan, was re-elected,
although locally the high vote
went to her opponent, Republican
N.
683
665
769
M.
148
148
165
S.
8
17
11
Fitting Rowe
Lititz—1st Ward 166 660
2nd Ward 165 647
3rd Ward 89 765
Eliz. Township 91 825
Penn Township
(South Penn
District)
Warwick Ehst 241 825
688
902
2260
910 83
In the two other counties in the
102nd District, Rowe won by a
plurality of 274 votes in Berks
(Editor’s Note: This is the 42nd
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 43rd article will
appear next week.)
Looking for a restaurant with
the unbeatable combination of
atmosphere, home cooking, and
low prices?
The Pretzel House Restaurant,
219 E. Main St., offers all three.
Once considered mainly a tourist
spot, the local restaurant, under
new management since last
spring, now caters primarily to
the local trade, and is open seven
days a week for late breakfast,
lunch, and dinner.
“About three-quarters of our
meals are under $3,” says Pat
Minitti, who operates the
restaurant on a lease basis from
the famous Pretzel House,
located in the same building.
“And it’s all home cooking, from
our turkey to our shrimp
scampi.”
Minitti, who formbriy operated
Minitti’s Diner on Columbia
Avenue in Lancaster, oversees
the kitchen and does much of the
cooking himself.
Some of his best sellers are
stuffed chicken breasts, turkey
and filling, flounder stuffed with
3 Winners Last Week
crabmeat, ham with pineapple
sauce, and T-Bone steak.
Most of the meals range in
price from $2.50 to $4.95 (with
lobster running $6.95), and in­clude
such extras as homemade
bread, homemade baked beans,
corn and apple - fritters, and
salads.
“We make everything
special,” Minitti says. “We stuff
the chicken breasts right here in
the kitchen. Our turkey filling is
fried in butter with each in­dividual
order. And our baked
beans are made from scratch
here in the restaurant.”
“Three-quarters of the dinners
on our menu are under $3,”
Minitti says. These include such
favorites as the stuffed chicken
breasts, chopped steak with
mushrooms, breaded veal, baked
ham with pineapple sauce,
chicken and waffles, and chicken
pot pie.
Two specialties of the house are
a one-pound T-bone steak dinner,
and shrimp scampi, prepared
with Minitti’s own wine sauce,
both selling for $4.95.
The luncheon menu, which
ranges from $1.25 to $1.95, is
another feature at the restaurant,
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Warwick Twp Votes
No Change in Curfew
Lancaster County district
attorney Henry Rutherford’s
proposal for a county-wide
uniform curfew ran into another
roadblock on Friday night at a
meeting of the Warwick Town­ship
board of supervisors. The
supervisors voted to retain the
present curfew which is in effect
from 12 midnight to 6 a.m. every
day of the week. It applies to
everyone under 18 years of age.
In a letter to all municipalities
in the county Rutherford had
urged the adoption of a curfew to
be in effect from 10 p.m. until 6
a.m. weekdays, and 12 midnight
to 6 a.m. weekends. A uniform
curfew, according to Rutherford,
would eliminate problems arising
from differing regulations
throughout the county.
Richard Hoffer, board
secretary, said he had no ob­jections
to uniformity, but he felt
10 p.m. was too early a deadline
to be workable. Sporting events
and young people with evening
jobs would make enforcement too
Bingo Prize; $100 Lititz
Shopping Dollars
USE White Cards
Three winning cards were
turned in last Friday, so the prize
of $200 was distributed equally
($67.00 to each winner.) Check
those White Cards using the
numbers that appear in this issue
of the lititz Record Express.
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 bingo
cards. If you find all the numbers
on your WHITE 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, Nov. 10 (tomorrow).
Here are a few important
reminders:
1. The game is COVER-ALI^- 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 usuing the correct color card.
The color for the numbers ap­pearing
today is WHITE.
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 theprize is not
claimed in any one week, the
prize accumulates until we have
a winner.
-- (ContinuedOn Page 14)
(Editor’s Note: The third
winner in last week’s game was a
resident of RD3, Lititz, and
requested that we not publish her
name. The Lititz Record Express
is honoring that request. Her
prize was also $67.00.
John Dorwart, of Armold Jeweler’s, Inc., presents
one-third of the $200 prize, ($67.00) to Mrs. Carolyn
Hartman, RD2, Lititz. Mrs. Hartman was one of three
winners in last week's Bingo game.
Most of the Frederick family came to present a winning
Bingo card last Friday. Shown accepting her share of the
$200 prize money is Mrs. Earl Frederick, Lititz. Mrs.
Frederick is holding her daughter, Buffy, while Jackie Jo and
Win look as though they are eagerly anticipating helping
mommie spend that prize money. Presenting the $67.00
prize is Earl Stauffer of Stauffer's of Kissel Hill. Mrs.
Frederick got her winning card at Bob's Save Rite.
difficult, Hoffer said. In their
vote, the supervisors supported
Hoffer’s viewpoints.
In other action, the supervisors
adopted a resolution to change
part of the boundary line between
Warwick and Penn Townships.
The change will simplify road
maintenance for both townships.
The action will become official
when and if the Penn Township
supervisors adopt a similar
resolution.
Some discussion was devoted to
the advisability of making 18-
year-olds subject to a township
head tax, but nothing definite was
decided.
The Warwick Township En­vironmental
Committee was
granted permission to use a
township building on Route 772
for the storage of glass bottles
during the months of November,
December and January.
Lititz-lst Ward
2nd Ward
3rd Ward
Total
Borough
Elizabeth Twp.
South Penn Twp.
Warwick Twp.—
Warwick
Warwick East
Total Town­ships
Total Boro and
Twps. 4377
Locally, Nixon’s plurality over
his Democrat opponent in the ‘72
election was higher all around
than in the 1968 election, when he
won the Presidency over Hubert
Humphrey.
In 1968, Nixon won in the
borough with a majority of 1,204
votes over Humphrey, and in
1972, with a majority of 1,656 over
McGovern.
In the townships, Nixon’s 1968
plurality over Humphrey was
1130 in the borough, and 1811 in
the townships.
Congressional
Locally, Congressman Edwin
Eshleman’s majority over his
Democrat opponent, Shirley
Garrett, ran high.
Ekhleman Garrett
Lititz—1st Ward 675 152
2nd Ward 666 151
3rd Ward 780 154
Elizabeth-Twp. 352 58
Penn 321 55
Warwick—
Warwick 691 157
Warwick East 882 197
Auditor General
Although Democrat in­cumbent,
Robert Casey, won in
the state, his Republican op­ponent,
Fbank McCorkel had a
big majority locally.
C. M.
Lititz—1st Ward 227 591
2nd Ward 232 574
3rd Ward 252 681
Elizabeth Twp. 115 308
Penn 82 288
Warwick—Warwick 295 549
Warwick East 326 737
Gien Williams.
S. W.
Lititz—Ist Ward 195 621
2nd Ward 218 588
3rd Ward 221 706
Elizabeth Twp. 103 319
Penn 77 290
Warwick—Warwick 266 577
Warwick East 318 740
Home Rule
Charter Study
Local voters followed a county
trend in voting yes for a Home
Rule Charter Study Committee.
The 11 candidates endorsed by
the Bipartisan County Govern­ment
Committee and the
Republican and Democratic
Parties rolled to easy victories
over thr-ir ir.drpcndrnt rival?
Elected were Mrs. Nancy H.
Bare, H. Clay Burkholder,
Martin H. Eshleman, Jay H.
Lutz, Mrs. Elaine E. Holden,
Harold S. Weaver, Dennis F. Cox,
James J. Lombardo, Calvin E.
Levis, William A. Mehler, Jr.,
and Mrs. R. Jeanne Sonntag.
Flood Tax Rebates
The referendum direct flood
tax rebates was approved by a
40,376 to 14,678 vote throughout
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Lititz firemen battled a Tuesday morning
blaze at Herdco Trailers Inc., a truck
leasing firm on Woodcrest Avenue. The
local fire fighters have been kept pretty
busy in recent weeks battling blazes at
Morgan Mills and R.W. Sauder, Inc.,
addition to the fire at Herdco.
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Herdco Trailers Inc. was the
latest firm hit in a rash of recent
Lititz fires. Flames destroyed a
40-by-60-foot building on the
company’s Woodcrest Road
location on Tuesday morning.
Lititz Fire Chief Ammon Shelly
estimated damage at $10,000 to
the one-story terminal building
and $5000 to its contents.
Some 30 large semi-tractor
trailers which were on the
property at the time were not
damaged in the blaze.
About 50 Lititz and Manheim
firemen responded to the blaze,
which was discovered at 8:15
a.m. by a Warwick Twp.
supervisor and a passing school
bus driver.
The supervisor, Joseph M.
Brubaker, was taking soil tests
on a nearby property when he
“heard an explosion and saw
flames in the building.” He
flagged down a passing truck
driver, who in turn phoned the
Lititz Fire Co. from nearby
Rohrer’s Quarry.
Included in the loss were about
20 truck tires, wheels and
paneling for the inside of tractor
trailers.
Don L. Hevener, firm
manager, said 120 traders are
regularly leased from the ter­minal
site. He said drivers pull
their trucks into the terminal and
pick up their trailers.
Chief Shelly said firemen had
the blaze under control within
one-half-hour after they arrived at
the scene. Water was obtained
from the quarry located about
2,500 feet from the trailer firm.
Chief Shelly termed the turnout
of 50 firemen “excellent,” noting
that some area firms were closed
for Election Day.
Trooper Robert Gordon of the
Ephrata State Police barracks is
investigating the Herdco fire.
Gordon said the cause of the fire
is as yet undetermined.
Morgan Mills Fires Set
Last Friday’s fire at Morgan
Mills was the third time in recent
weeks that firm has been hit.
According to Detective Robert
Haycock, Lancaster State Police,
the last two fires were “definitely
set”.
“Both fires followed the same
pattern,” Haycock said, “and
both broke out at the same time
of day. We don’t know yet who set
them or why, but we’re working
on it.”
Chief Shelly said Friday’s fire
destroyed about $10,000 worth of
baled paper waste inside the
company’s building. Some 30
Lititz firemen responded to the
call. They were assisted by one
unit from the Manheim Fire Co.,
which supplied additional gas
masks for the local fire fighters.
Sauder Fire
Detective Haycock said that a
cause has still not been deter­mined
for the R.W. Sauder fire of
two weeks ago. He said he was
still investigating that blaze.
Haycock pointed out that at this
time there was no apparent link
between the fires in the three
different companies.
The Ballingers and the Farm Museum
It All Began With Mummy Dusting
When you start dusting
mummies, you never know where
you’re going to end up. For
Phyllis Ballinger volunteer
mummy dusting at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art led
to a very active association with
the Landis Valley Farm
Museum. Mummy dusting,
Phyllis explains, is really a
euphemism for just about any
kind of volunteer work in
museums. She actually spent
many of her volunteer hours in
P h ila d e lp h ia c la s s if y in g
Egyptian amulets.
Phyllis and her husband, Gene,
moved from Philadelphia to
Lititz in 1965, and they now live on
4 Ridge Road. Gene is a casualty
underwriter with the Lititz
Mutual Insurance Co.
Shortly after the Ballingers
moved here, Phyllis’s interest in
In The Issue
Business Directory 13
Church News 12
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 4
School Menu 11
Sports Section 6
Women’s 10,11
antiquities led her to volunteer
her services as a guide at the
Landis Valley Farm Museum.
She soon became more deeply
involved in the museum’s work,
and today serves as the secretary
of the Landis Valley Associates.
Gene, too, became involved, and
is currently serving his second
term as president of the
Associates.
The Associates were formed
about 13 years ago by Blanche
Riegel, a retired director of the
Museum. Well over 600 members
now belong to the organization.
Gene Ballinger explained that
the Associates has no official
connection with the Museum,
which is administered by the
state. The Associates are simply
an organization of people in­terested
in the Museum’s work.
Many serve also as volunteer
workers.
All funds raised by the
Associates are spent for Museum
activities. The annual Harvest
Days program is the group’s
biggest undertaking. There’s also
a craftsman program partially
funded by Associates money.
Phyllis explained that crafts
classes are being conducted for
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Gene and Phyllis Ballinger examine one of
the artifacts in the old courftry store wich is
a part of the Landis Valley Farm Museum.
Gene is president of the Landis Valley
Associates, and Phyllis is secretary.
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