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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- ‘1 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. “T i l M tÊÊSm SaÊÊÊÊm W È È Ê ■ J | | I ; ; j i T lÉkh*. HBf.' W s B jSid m a 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 X»ititz R e co rd E x p r e s s P h o to the company, succeeding his father (above left), fire chief the past 22 years. Charlie will now serve as his son’s first assistant. ■ Son Takes over Dad's Job as Fire Chief I iit lt z R e c o rd E x p r e s s P h o to 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 (Continued on Page 7) 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, (ContinuedOn Page 14) 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 (Continued on Page 8) 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. C o W » n 9 YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A 3-day, 2 Night TRIP TO NASSAU WATCH THE LITITZ RECORD EXPRESS NEXT WEEK FOR MORE DETAILS TRIP SPONSORED BY THE LITITZ RETAILERS ASSOCIATION 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.
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Full Text | 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- ‘1 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. “T i l M tÊÊSm SaÊÊÊÊm W È È Ê ■ J | | I ; ; j i T lÉkh*. HBf.' W s B jSid m a 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 X»ititz R e co rd E x p r e s s P h o to the company, succeeding his father (above left), fire chief the past 22 years. Charlie will now serve as his son’s first assistant. ■ Son Takes over Dad's Job as Fire Chief I iit lt z R e c o rd E x p r e s s P h o to 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 (Continued on Page 7) 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, (ContinuedOn Page 14) 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 (Continued on Page 8) 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. C o W » n 9 YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A 3-day, 2 Night TRIP TO NASSAU WATCH THE LITITZ RECORD EXPRESS NEXT WEEK FOR MORE DETAILS TRIP SPONSORED BY THE LITITZ RETAILERS ASSOCIATION 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. |
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