Lititz Record Express

              T H E R E S S
SER VING THE WAR WICK AREA FOR NEARL Y A CENTUR Y
96th Year E s ta b lis h e d A p ril, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz Record-Express, Thursday. January 4,1973 10 c e n ts a Copy; $4.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r C o u n ty 16 PAGES—No. 41
Dussinger Reelected
Chairman by Warwick
Township Supervisors
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C. William Dussinger, III, was
reelected chairman of the
Warwick Township board of
supervisors in a special
reorganization meeting held
Tuesday night. Richard I. Hoffer
was reappointed secretary-treasurer,
and Joseph Brubaker
was renamed to the posts of vice-chairman
as well as sanitation
officer.
Other reappointments were:
Paul Haines, chief of police;
Joseph Snavely, zoning officer
and planning commission
chairman; Dale Kofroth, road
foreman; and the Lancaster law
firm of Roda, Morgan, Hallgren
and Heinley as solicitors.
At a special year-end meeting
last Friday evening, the super­visors
announced they would ask
the township planning com­mission
to require that all future
Planners Seek
Meeting w ith
Warwick Twp.
Stating that he sees a long-range
merger between Lititz and
Warwick Township as a definite
possibility, borough Planning
Commission Chairman Dennis
Craig called Tuesday night for a
meeting between the borough
planners and the Warwick
Township Planning Commission.
Boro Manager George Steedle
said he will try to set up an in­formal
meeting between the two
groups in February.
Craig told the planners that
since the borough and the
township shared many of the
same problems, and since the
borough was getting ready to
revamp its zoning and sub­division
ordinances, now was the
time for the two municipalities to
discuss common needs and plans
for the future.
“The first meeting will just be
to discuss what we want to
discuss,” Craig said.
housing developments include
the assignment of house num­bers.
The supervisors noted a
rash of recent complaints from
property owners who were
without house numbers long after
occupying their homes.
A new regular meeting date
was again announced at the year-end
meeting. The supervisors
will meet on the second Thursday
of each month, beginning at 7:30
p.m., in the Warwick Township
Municipal Building. In 1972, they
held 39 official meetings.
The township budget, which
had been previously announced,
was unanimously adopted by the
supervisors. Anticipated income
for 1973 is $87,381, which includes
no provision for federal revenue
sharing funds. Estimated ex­penses,
including operation costs
and capital expenditures, amount
to $84,783, leaving an estimated
year-end balance of $2604.
The balances at the end of 1972
were $7022 in the general fund,
$11,890 in the state road main­tenance
fund, and C°^«0 in un­budgeted
revenue sharing funds.
Rates for tax collection fees
were adopted and are unchanged
from last year. On real estate
taxes, the collector gets two
percent on taxes paid early, three
percent on those paid by the due
date, and five percent on late
payments. The per capita rates
are the same except that the
collector gets three percent on
early payments.
Conditions of state roads within
the township were also discussed
at the meeting. It was pointed out
that state road crews are simply
not doing the work that needs to
be done, and in some instances
roads are becoming dangerous to
travel.
The supervisors also men­tioned
that they’d like to assume
responsibility for the old
Rothsville Road which is now a
state road. They said they
wouldn’t take it over, though,
until the state paves it and builds
up the shoulders, and the state
has made no move within the past
two years to do so.
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New chief of Lititz Fire Company
Number 1, Howard Mowrer (left), and the
newly elected president of the fire com-m
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L ititz R e c o rd E x p re s s P h o to
pany, Richard D. Keller, shake hands
following their recent elections.
Progress, Change Noted in
Warwick Area during 1972
(Editor’s Note: This is the
second of two articles
highlighting local news events of
1972.
Tax rates and budgets, new
construction, teachers wage
contracts, retirements, and
elections all were part of the
scene during the last half of 1972.
Following are highlights of the
year, taken from the pages of the
Lititz Record-Express.
July
6 - Debra Kleinfelter, 18 year
old Warwick High School
graduate, was named Queen of
the Candles during Lititz’s 31st
Annual Queen of the Candles
Pageant Tuesday night in the
Lititz Springs Park.
6 - Warwick Township
Supervisors decided Friday night
to postpone the installation of a
township water system. Instead,
the supervisors and the Warwick
Township Municipal Authority
will concentrate on the plans and
proposals needed for the in­stallation
of a sewer system.
6 - A petition containing 199
names, asking that fluoridation
in borough water be submitted to
a referendum vote next fall, was
presented to Boro Council last
week.
13 - Lewis Sturgis, only sur­viving
child of America’s first
pretzel baker, is 89 this week.
This blue eyed cherub of a man,
one of Lititz’ dearest links with
the past, celebrated his birthday
on Monday and is being honored
all week long at the Pretzel
House, where decorations have
been put up and birthday cakes
are being decorated for him.
20 - The 1972 teachers contracts
ShellyTakes Off Fire Chief s
Hat after 11 Years in Office
By Peggy Frailey
After 11 years as head of Lititz’
53 volunteer firemen, Ammon
Shelly has hung up his fire chief’s
hat.
“I’m not retiring,” said the 46-
year old Shelly, who at the age of
34 was one of the youngest men in
this area to be elected fire chief.
“I just decided not to run for
election this year. Eleven years
is long enough for one person.”
His decision not to run for re-election
has been on his mind for
several years, he said in a private
interview in his home office. This
year he informed the fire com­pany
of his plans, and “stuck to
it,” he said.
Shelly will be succeeded as
chief by Howard Mower, a 15-
year firefighter and president of
the local fire company for the
past four years.
Surrounded by the cluster of
electronic monitoring and
dispatching equipment which
Shelly and his wife have been
manning for Zone 2 fire com­panies
since 1968, Shelly in­dicated
that he has no intentions
of withdrawing from other fire
company activities, even though
he has relinquished his title as
chief.
“I’ll still be a firefighter,
wherever they need me, ’ ’ he said.
He will continue to man the
dispatching station until Zone 2
converts to a county wide hookup
sometime next summer, and will
also continue to sit on the ad-
1 visory board of fire chiefs for the
Lancaster County Fire Alert
System until a replacement is
made.
Shelly estimates that the Lititz
company has fought 605 fires
’nee he was named chief in 1961,
eraging about 55 a year,
in his 11 years as head of local
.unteer firemen, much growth
i taken place in the company,
o new fire engines were
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have run out, as of June 30, and a
contract between the Warwick
Education Association and the
school board no longer exists.
With a threatened teachers strike
looking them in the face, the
school board met in regular
session Tuesday night and
learned from its negotiator, John
Evans, that the problems bet­ween
the two bargaining units
have been dropped in the lap of
the state government, and so far
,fhe state has remained silent on
its decision.
20 - This summer’s first group
of fresh air children from New
York City descended on Lan­caster
County last weekend, with
almost 40 of them coming into the
Lititz area.
20 - Rev. Roy L. Yund, 73, 628
Spruce St., died at 2 p.m. July 14
at home after a lengthy illness.
He served as minister of St.
John’s Lutheran Church,
Brickerville for eight years.
27 - A four and a half per cent
increase on base annual salaries
for Lititz Borough policemen was
approved by Borough Council
Tuesday night, effective Jan. 1,
1973. Council also voted to hire
one more full-time police officer,
bringing the full-time force to six
officers, and to purchase a new
police car in the fall.
27 - Edward G. Reese, 649 E.
Main St., resigned from Borough
Council Tuesday night after 11
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In This Issue
Business Directory 14
Church News 12
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10,11
Mowrer Elected Chief,
Keller Named President
Of Lititz Fire Company
Howard E. Mowrer, 21 W.
Orange St., was elected chief of
Lititz Fire Company No. 1 last
week, succeeding Ammon Shelly,
who served as chief for the past
11 years.
Richard D. Keller, 24 W.
Marion St., was elected president
of the fire company. He succeeds
Mowrer, who served as the
company’s president for four
years.
Mowrer, who operates his own
business as a carpenter and
electrical contractor, has been
active as a member of the fire
company and a fire-fighter since
1957. He and his wife, Doris, have
three children, Linda, 18, Larry,
12, and Lorn, 9.
Keller, who is employed by
Farmers First National Bank,
Lititz branch, has been a fireman
since 1965. He and his wife, Carol,
have two children, Dina, 5, and
Tracey, 3.
Other officers elected by the
fire company last week were:
first vice-president, Lester G.
Bingeman; second vice-president,
James R. Wiegand;
secretary, Ted Stauffer;
financial secretary, Leroy P.
Emmerich; treasurer, Paul F.
Diehm; and chaplin, Robert
Nagle.
Ray C. Bixler was elected a
trustee, to serve with Carl M.
Brubaker and Charles L.
Grumbling, who are fulfilling
terms from past elections.
Gary L. Zong was elected new
member of the Disability Board,
to serve with Jere Buchter and
Richard Neidermyer.
In his year end report, Shelly
stated that fire losses in the
borough totaled $165,265, and
losses out of the borough,
$190,000. He reported that
$3,500,500 worth of property in­volved
in fire was saved.
Firemen answered a total of 33
fire calls inside the borough, and
12 out of the borough since Jan. 1,
1972, with 888 men on calls.
Over a mile of three inch hose
was laid last year, with totals
amounting to 6,600 feet of three
inch, 5,850 feet of two and a half
inch, 2600 feet of one and a half
inch, and 4,130 feet of booster
hose laid.
Local firemen traveled a total
of 184 miles, and put in 73 hours of
service on fire calls, with 34 of the
firemen putting in more than 1100
additional hours during the June
flood.
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Henry K. Neff, left, discusses some of the latest shirt styles
with Robert Bingeman. Neff sold his men’s clothing store at
30 E. Main St., Lititz, to Bingeman as of the first of the year.
Neff first opened his store some 35 years ago.
Neff Sells Store
After 35 yrs.
The Henry K. Neff men’s
clothing store at 30 E. Main St.,
Lititz, changed hands with the
first business day of 1973. The
new owner is Robert Bingeman of
308 Elm St., Lititz.
Bingeman has been a salesman
most of his working life, and was
Cows, n o t Beauty Shops,
Permitted in R-S District,
Planners Tell Resident
Cows are permitted in an R-S
district, but beauty shops (or any
other home occupation) are not.
So the borough Planning
Commission informed a local
citizen Tuesday night in
recommending denial of his
petition to have his land on Ox­ford
Drive rezoned so that his
wife can open a beauty shop
there.
William J. Kmetz, 201 Oxford
Dr., in the Libramont develop-i
ment, told the commission he
considered it his constitutional
right to be able to do what he
wanted with his own property,
regardless of zoning ordinances,
and that he was prepared to take
the matter to court if necessary.
Kmetz, formerly a golf pro for
Media Heights Country Club in
Lancaster and now associated
with the golf division of
Executives, Inc., told the com­mission
he was facing
bankruptcy because the wet
weather of the past two summers
had interfered with his earning
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until recently northeastern
regional sales manager for
Weaver Poultry, Inc. Bingeman
is the brother of Lester
Bingeman, owner of Bingeman’s
Restaurant.
Neff has been operating the
clothing store for the past 35
years. He’s retiring from
ownership, but will be working on
a part-time basis with the new
owner. Asked about the changes
he’s seen in men’s styles over the
past 35 years, Neff said, “The
styles now, with the flared pants,
for example, are just like the
things they were wearing when I
opened my store. And some of the
newest styles, the really floppy
pants with the very wide flares,
might go back 75 or even 100
years.”
Neff said that he had enjoyed
doing business in Lititz, and
expressed his appreciation and
thanks to the people who had
patronized him over the years.
Bingeman said the business
would be conducted just as it had
been in the past with the saipe
brands, hours and friendly
service.
Curio Barn Offers Handcrafted Items
Ammon Shelly’s fire chief’s hat will go
into storage for the time being. Shelly, one
of the youngest fire chiefs in the history of
the local fire company, did not run for re-election
this
head of the
ment.
L ititz R e co rd E x p re s s P h o to
year after serving 11 years as
local volunteer fire depart-purchased
while he was chief, a
1962 Howe pumper, which con­tained
2,000 feet of three-inch'
hose at a time when two and a
half inch hose was the normal
size used by most fire companies,
and a 1966 Howe pumper and
tanker.
One of the major changes
Shelly made was to replenish the
company’s supply of smoke
masks, increasing the number of
self-contained units from two to
nine. A new automatic portable
generator system was also added
while he was chief, making it
possible for the local company to
produce its own power to pull
smoke out of buildings and make
its own night light.
Working under the theory that
“every job is important in a fire
company,” from the driver to the
top, Shelly has continually
stressed to his men that
“everyone has a job to do.”
It was this theory that helped
the local company to win first
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(Editor’s Note: This is the 50th
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 51st article w ill
appear next week.)
It’s hard to believe that one of
the most attractive and
fascinating shops in this area
used to be a steer stable. But that
is the history of Ye Olde Curio
Barn, located on Lexington Road
between E rb ’s Church and
Halfville.
The store, operated by Mrs.
Alice Hershey, is filled with items
that have been hand crafted by
local persons. A majority of the
merchandise on the shelves is in
the $1 to $10 price range.
Some of the most popular items
in the store are a line of hand­made
ceramics, ranging from
seasonal articles to year-round
items that include large soup
toureens, candle holders, bowls,
ashtrays, banks, and figurines.
Also available are many hand
crafted wooden items, including
wall scounces, bowls, can­dlesticks,
napkin holders, and
footstools.
The store does a big volumne in
candle sales, and as of Jan. 1
holds the Blue Gate candle
franchise for this area. Mrs.
Hershey plans to have a full line
of Blue Gates available in the
near future.
The shop also carries a full line
of candles made by Gaylor of
Lititz, as well as rolled beeswax
candles by Kafra of York, and
unusual spiral candles made by
Global Enterprises in William­sport.
Using local suppliers as often
as possible, Mrs. Hershey han­dles
a large collection of colorful
plastic window hangings,
sometimes used as mobiles or
blind pulls, as well as neckties,
afghans, potholders, and handy
towels, all made in this area.
Manufactured items available
in the store include Carnival
glass and many pieces of
discontinued patterns of ruby and
purple slag End of Day patterns,
some of them destined to become
collector’s items from the Im­perial
Glass Company in Ohio.
Some of the larger items are a
collection of pine end tables and
coffee tables, including some
trestle styles, manufactured in
Massachusetts, hand painted
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Mrs. Alice Hershey, owner of Ye Olde Curio Barn,
Lexington Road, is shown in her shop, where local craftsman
supply a large part of the merchandise.