Lititz Record Express

              T H E B E S S
SER VING THE WARWICK AREA FOR NEARLY A CENTUR Y
96th Year E s ta 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 iit lt z R e co rd , 1937) Lititz Record-Express, Thursday, January 11, 1973 10 c e n ts a Copy; $4.00 p e r y e a r b y m a il
w ith in Z ianca ster Cou n ty 14 PAGES—No. 42
Good's Specializes in
A ll Types Car Repairs
(Editor’s Note: This is the 51st
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 52nd article will
appear next week.)
Bob Good, owner of Good’s
Auto Service at the rear of 467 E.
Main St., has been working on
cars since he was 12 years old,
when he started working in his
father’s general repair shop in
Philadelphia.
Now owner of his own car
repair shop, Good does all types
of general repairing, working on
“anything from Cadillacs to dune
buggies.”
In business since September
1967, he specializes in all types of
motor work and overhauling,
transmissions, and tuneups.
Special new equipment at his
shop includes an electronic
engine analvzer that checks out
points, condensers and the entire
electrical circuits in engines, and
resur-
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special equipment for
facing disc brake roters.
Good also does all types of
collision work in a body and paint
shop at his garage.
Other features of Goodes Auto
Service are road service in the
entire Warwick area, towing
service, and state inspections.
In addition to repairs, Good has
a used car department, and also
handles Lee tires and Motor Craft
batteries.
Good, a native of Lancaster,
spent eight years in the
Philadelphia area, and then
returned to Lancaster County,
where he attended Warwick High
School and later, the General
Motors Training Center at
Morrsion, N.J.
Before going into business for
himself, he worked 13 years as a
mechanic in the Lititz area.
His shop is open from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. Monday through Friday,
closed Saturdays and Sundays.
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Brickerville Fire Company’s father-son
firefighting team, Charlie and Sid Adams,
have exchanged jobs this year. Sid (above
right) has been elected new fire chief of
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the company, succeeding his father (above
left), fire chief the past 22 years. Charlie
will now serve as his son’s first assistant.
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Bob Good, owner of Good’s Auto Service, rear of 467 E.
Main St., operates a new electronic engine analyzer, used to
check out the electrical circuits in engines.
Local
Farm
Women Take
Show Prizes
Two local women won 63 prizes
between them in the canned
goods division at the State Farm
Show in Harrisburg this week.
Mrs. Roy B. Mull, Lititz RD4,
was awarded a total of 33 prizes,
including 10 first place awards,,
and Mrs. James Long, Lititz
RD1, won 30 prizes, including
nine blue ribbons for her entries.
Mrs. Mull received blue rib­bons
for her canning efforts in
pork sausage, single entry grape
jelly, sweet white cherries with
pits, single entry whole tomatoes
in juice, cream-style corn, red
raspberries, dark sweet cherries
with pits, blackberries, pears and
beets.
Mrs. Long took top honors for
her display of canned vegetables,
single entry canned tomato juice,
single entry asparagus, single
entry dried apples, single entry
canned pork loin, dried corn,
display of different jellies, single
entry currant jelly and
single entry quince jelly.
Other ribbons presented to
Mrs. Mull included second:
peaches, dried apples, dried
peaches, single entry curant
jelly, single entry quince jelly,
single entry snap beans, display
of six different jellies; third:
display of canned meat, single
entry canned chicken, single
entry lima beans, hulled peas, cut
tomatoes in juice, menu and
display of foods, display of
canned vegetables, single entry
asparagus, single entry
blueberries, single entry black
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By Peggy Frailey
The Brickerville father-son
firefighting team, Charlie and Sid
Adams, are exchanging jobs this
year.
Charlie Adams, chief of the
Brickerville Fire Company for
the past 22 years, has turned over
his chiefs badge to his son, Sid,
his first assistant since 1971.
This year Charlie will take on
the job of being his son’s first
assistant chief.
“How does it feel to be Dad’s
boss now?” we asked the new 29-
year old fire chief, during an
interview with him and his father
at the BP station the two operate
in Brickerville.
“Pretty good!” the younger
Adams grinned.
The two have worked together
with the fire company for the past
15 years. Sid started training as a
junior fireman at the age of 14,
became a senior fireman when he
was 18, and served as his father’s
first assistant chief for the past
two years.
A graduate of Warwick High
School, and a veteran of the U. S.
Navy, with service in Viet Nam,
Sid lives with his wife, Louann,
and two children, Michael, 6, and
Michele, 2, in an apartment
above their Brickerville garage.
It was his father who first
organized Brickerville’s junior
firemen, 12 of whom are now
County Historic List
Includes Area Sites
Many historic sites and
structures in the Warwick area -
including Lititz Springs Park, the
Pretzel House, Molly Plaster’s
Tavern, and Speedwell Forge
mansion - are included in a recent
inventory of such historic places
in Lancaster County made
recently by the Lancaster County
Planning Commission.
Of the 850 places on the list, 21
are from Warwick Township, 19
from Lititz borough, 20 from
Elizabeth Township, and 11 from
Penn Township.
The inventory was made as a
part of the county Planning
Commission’s first major effort
at identifying and preserving the
total range of historic resources
in the county.
Along with compiling the list
and making various recom­mendations
concerning the
county’s heritage, the county
planners are also recommending
that the specific historic sites
mentioned be registered by the
state to protect them from
damage through publicly
financed projects.
The list includes:
Warwick Township
1. Bomberger Memorial,
Newport Road west of Memorial
Road - marks site of dugout built
by Christian Bomberger, for first
shelter in the wilderness of 1734.
2. Snavely Mill, Snavely Mill
Road west of Hammer Creek.
3. Outbuilding, on north side of
Manheim Street, east of West
Lincoln Avenue.
4. Log Cabin, reported north of
Lititz by community historians,
not located.
5. Hoober’s Tavern, Circa 1740,
Newport Road - where Count
Zinzendorf, founder of the
modern Moravian Church and
the settlement of Lititz, preached
in December 1742, ultimately
leading to the donation of John
Klein’s farm for the development
of Lititz.
6. Bank barn, on south side of
Newport Road, east of Orchard
Road.
7. Farmhouse on north side of
Pine Hill Road, at Buch Mill
Road.
8. Farmstead on south side of
Pine Hill Road, west of Buch Mill
Road.
9. Eby House, Meadow Valley
Road east of Cocalico Road,
about 1769.
10. Reist House, north side of
East Petersburg Road, west of
Millport Road, 1795.
11. House on north side of Owl
Hill Road; resident: Earl Dooley.
12. Salem Lutheran Church,
Owl Hill Road, west of Landis
Valley Road.
13. Rome Mill, Lititz Run Road
east of Rothsville Road, 1885.
14. Rome Hotel, Rothsville
Road east of Lititz Run Road.
15. Compass (Lititz) Mill, circa
1775-76; Hess House, 1797,
Rothsville Road north side at
Pierson Road.
16. Rothsville (Pfautz) Mill,
Rothsville Road west of Heck
Road, 1783, “Warwick Farms.”
17. House on east side of Creek
Road south of Woods Drive Road;
owner: Emory S. Glick.
18. Reist Farmstead, Becker
Road south of Log Cabin Road,
1836.
19. Union Meeting House, Log
Cabin Road east of Cedar Drive,
1846.
20. Rose Hill Covered Bridge,
Wissler Road at Roseville Road,
1849.
21. Grey stone Manor Farms,
U.S. 222, south of Cocalico Creek.
Lititz Borough
1. Bank Barn, north side of T
914, decorated brick barn with
the initials J. M. K. as part of the
ventilator pattern decoration.
2. Albright-Bricker House, 314
N. Broad St., 1813.
3. Lititz Springs Park,
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senior fire fighters for the small
rural community.
“I expect to have a lot more
time to work with the juniors now
and build them up for the chief,”
Charlie Adams said, talking
about his retirement from the
chief’s post.
He starts the boys at the age of
14, giving them two years of
training and drill before they are
even allowed to ride on the fire
trucks.
When they are 18, they may
advance to senior fire fighters,
with several years of valuable
training already behind them.
“Either you want to be a
fireman or you don’t,” Charlie
commented, “If a boy is in­terested,
it shows up early.”
Adams'was born and raised in
Lititz, and joined the Lititz Fire
Company under Chief Emory
Wagner.
He helped form the Bricker­ville
company, and became a
charter member of it, after
moving to that area to take over
the Brickerville Schier, along
Rte. 322, which he operated for
nine years.
He was the second fire chief
elected by the company, and held
the job for 22 consecutive years
until his retirement this year.
Fire fighting has been a major
part of Adam’s background,
having been a forest fire warden
for 16 years with the Penn­sylvania
Department of
Forestry, and before that, fire
control officer aboard a ship in
the South Pacific during World
War II. He is also sector director
in Elizabeth Township for
Lancaster County Civil Defense.
Much of the training and ex­perience
he gained in his earlier
years as a Navy firefighter was
put into good use in training the
Brickerville firemen, Adams
observed.
Although the types of fires, and
many of the techniques differed
from what firefighters ex­perience
in the rural area
covered by the Brickerville unit,
the same discipline and
cooperation is needed, he said.
“One of the most important
elements of a good volunteer fire
company is gaining the con­fidence
of your men,” he said.
“You have to learn to work
together and ‘know the signals.’
You have to know how each other
works,”
“You can’t get this just fighting
fires,” he continued. “You have
to spend a lot of time at drills and
working together on other things
besides fighting fires.”
Adams’ career as fire chief in
Brickerville has seen a number of
large fires in the area, some of
them devastating barn fires. Two
of the largest disasters he
remembers were the Greenly
Egg Plant fire along Rte. 322, and
the 1972 flood, when every piece
of the company’s equipment was
put into use for two days in
pumping, washing and rescue
operations.
The Brickerville company
averages about 25 fire calls a
year, Adams said, about a third
of them involving cars on the
section of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike covered by the
Brickerville company. A record
number of 37 calls was answered
in 1972, he said.
The Brickerville company,
which celebrated its 25th an­niversary
last summer, has been
marked by growth with Adams as
chief.
He was one of a group of
citizens who helped build three
17,000 gallon cisterns in that area
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In This Issue
Business Directory 11
Church News 10
Classified Ads 12,13
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 9
Ree Center Revamping
Activities, Game Room
Closed to 'Drop-ins'
In an effort to make the Lititz
Community Center more a t­tractive
and available to a larger
group of people from the area,
the Rec Board Monday night
voted to revamp scheduled ac­tivities
at the center, and at the
same time eliminate unscheduled
“drop-in” use of the game room.
Effective Monday, only Rec
Card holders who are p a r­ticipating
in scheduled activities
will be permitted to use the Rec
Center, Rec Director Jerry
Kiralfy said.
This means that as of Monday,
persons who do not hold Rec
Cards, or persons not taking part
in scheduled activities, will not be
permitted to use the center as a
lounge or hangout, Kiralfy said.
He added that these restric­tions
do not apply to parents who
visit the Rec Center to observe
their children’s activities there.
The resolution passed by the
Red Board Monday night reads:
In the interests of better
supervision and coordination of
activities, and to promote better
utilization of our facilities, the
Board of Directors of the Lititz
Community Center voted that the
center will only be open for
programs and activities ap­proved
or sponsored by the board
and not for drop-in activities,
effective Monday, Jan. 15.
The board also voted Monday
night to close the Rec Center until
9 p.m. on Friday nights when
there are sports activities, such
as basketball and wrestling, at
the high school. Regular hours
will be observed on other Friday
nights.
Kiralfy said the center intends
to provide activities for various
age groups every night of the
week, either in the game room or
in the main room.
He said a senior high billiard
tournament is already scheduled
for Tuesday evening, and a table
tennis tournament, also for
senior high students,is planned
for next Wednesday.
Various floor hockey tour­naments
for elementary school
age children are also scheduled,
the first to be held Monday night
for fifth and sixth grade boys.
Kiralfy said square dancing
programs are being scheduled
for the main room and that he
plans to start a boxing program
soon.
Kiralfy said that although he
knew the board’s action limiting
use of the game room was
coming, he did not expect to this
soon.
He said one of the reasons for
the change was criticism from
townspeople that the game room
was being monopolized by one
group of persons who used it as a
hangout.
He said the board’s action
Monday night was taken to
“create an image for more than
the one group that always is in
here.”
A member of the Rec Board
stated that the pool, or game
room had been misused and that
equipment in it, particularly two
of (he pool tables, had been
destroyed by vandalism and
carelessness.
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Last month, the Rec Board
authorized the sale of the three
pool tables in the game room as a
trade-in on a new coin-operated
pool table, in a step toward
controlling the activities in the
pool room area.
The new coin operated table is
now installed and will be used in
billiard tourneys, Kiralfy said.
In further business, the board
reported that a check for $2,000
had been received from Warner-
Lambert Company.
The board also reported that
the boys wrestling team had sold
a total of 558 giant Santa coloring
books over the holidays, proceeds
of which were divided between a
donation to the Eric Reinhart
Kidney Fund, and purchase of
equipment for the team. As a
result of the sale, $250 was
donated to the fund.
A Walt Disney movie, “Bristol
Face,” will be shown at the Rec
Center on Jan. 27, with the main
feature starting at 8 p.m. Two
short features, a Charlie Chaplin
movie and a Laurel and Hardy
movie will be shown at 7 p.m.
preceding the main feature. A
nominal charge will be made for
the show.
The board approved two
dances to be sponsored by the
Junior Board, one schedule for
this Friday, featuring the Jordan
Brothers, and one scheduled for
Jan. 20, featuring One Nation
Underground, a local group.
The date of March 15 was
approved for the Rec Center’s
fund raising fashion show-card
party, to be held at the Warwick
High School cafeteria.
Ziititz R e co rd E x p r e s s P h o to
Two of Warwick High School’s newest students are 17-
year old Reshma Jiwa and her brother, 14-year old Shirtaz,
now residing in Halfville with their parents. The Jiwas were
among thousands of Asians expelled from Uganda last fall.
Young Asian Students
Enrolled a t W arwick
American teenagers’ lives are
full of change and uncertainties,
but few of them have known the
upheaval experienced by two of
Warwick High School’s newest
students, Reshma and Shirtaz
Jiwa.
The Jiwas, brother and sister,
and their family were among the
Asian families who were ordered
out of Uganda in the fall and
came to this country as refugees.
Under the sponsorship of the
Chiques Church of the Brethren,
Reshma and Shirtaz, their
mother and father, and an older
brother are now living in their
own house in Halfville. Another
sister is working in Canada.
The family lived in the town of
Masaka (about 18 miles from the
city of Campbella in Uganda),
where their father and uncles
owned a bus company.
All of the buses, as well as four
Mercedes Benz cars and several
large buildings which the family
also owned, were confiscated by
the government, 14-year old
Shirtaz relates.
“They did not buy them or sell
them for us,” he continued.
“Everything is nationalized now.
They took them.”
Uganda’s president’s move to
oust all Asians from the country
came as an unexpected blow to
his family, Shirtaz continued.
They were given 90 days to leave
the country, allowed to take only
one parcel of clothing per person
with them.
Asked what would have hap­pened
if they had stayed, 17-year
old Reshma replied simply: “We
would have been killed.”
They left Uganda on Nov. 4,
Shirtaz said, and went to the
international center at Rome,
Italy. They remained there 15
days before flying to New York,
and then to Harrisburg, after
which they were taken to the
home of Daniel Haldeman in
Halfville to live temporarily.
Through the help of the Chiques
church, a house and furniture
was found for the family, as well
as employment for Mr. Jiwa at
Myers Metered Gas in Manheim.
Reshma and Shirtaz were
enrolled at Warwick High, Resh­ma
in her senior year and
Shirtaz, his sophomore year, but
also taking many junior subjects.
Their 19-year old brother started
work for Donnelly Printing Co. in
Lancaster.
Both students and teachers
have been “ friendly and
cooperative,” the two young
people say, adding that their
family plans to remain here
permanently.
“We will not go back to
Uganda,” Shirtaz said firmly.
Reshma and Shirtaz both
speak English well, having been
educated under the British school
system in Uganda, although their
own Indian dialect is spoken at
home.
They have found they have
much in common with American
teens, sharing many of the same
interests. One of the biggest
differences Shirtaz commented
on was American students’ desire
to be independent of their
parents.
“In Uganda, we oheyed our
parents,” he said.
Reshma, who is interested in
the Dance Club at the high school,
says that after graduation in the
spring, she will go to work,
probably in a store. Shirtaz says
that he will go on to college after
he graduates.