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w ith in L an c a s te r County 18 PAGES — No. 51
3 Brothers Enter
Elizabeth Twp. Race
Three brothers will be running not available for comment at
for constable of Elizabeth press time this week.
Township in the spring
primaries, two of them com­peting
with each other on the
Republican ticket, and the other
running on the Democratic
ticket.
Filing nomination petitions on
the Republican ticket were
James P. May, Litiz RD1,
present deputy constable in the
township, and Eugene P. May,
Lititz RD1, a former police of­ficer
and deputy constable in
Warwick Township.
Filing under the Democratic
ticket was Wilbert E. May, Lititz
RD2, a third brother.
James May was appointed
deputy constable in the township
four years ago, to fill an unex­pired
term. He is owner of James
P. May Dodge, Ephrata.
Eugene May, a special officer
at Lancaster County Prison,
served on the Warwick Township
police force from 1963-69, two
years of which he also served as a
deputy constable in that town­ship.
Wilburt May, a carpenter, was
Another member of the family,
Edith S. May, Lititz RD2, an aunt
of the three brothers, has filed a
petition for Judge of Elections in
Elizabeth Township.
A husband-wife team has also
filed nomination petitions under
the Republican ticket. Charles A.
Herr, Lititz RD2, will run for
township supervisor, and his
wife, Jean W. Herr, will be
running for Inspector of Elec­tions.
Herr, currently a member of
the township Planning Com­mission,
on which he has served
for the past six years, will be
running for the supervisor job
now occupied by Earl Butzer,
whose term expires Dec. 31. His
wife has been serving as In­spector
of Elections for the past
year and a half, having been
appointed to fill an unexpired
term.
Also running in Elizabeth
Township on the Republican
ticket will be Janet M. Steffy,
Lititz RD2, for re-election as tax
collector, and Walter G. Nooney,
Newmanstown RDl, as auditor.
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Jean W. Herr
Candidate for
Inspectorof
Elections in
Elizabeth Twp.
Charles A. Herr
Running for
Supervisor in
Elizabeth Twp.
Warwick Twp.Citizens
Call For Action On
Rothsville Rd. Traffic
If you live between Rothsville
and Lititz on Rothsville Road,
you take your life in your hands
every time you get on the school
bus or cross the road to your
mailbox. This was the message of
a citizens’ group at last Friday
night’s meeting of the Warwick
Township Supervisors. One
resident told the supervisors that
sooner or later, someone was
going to get killed on Rothsville
Road, and it could be a busload of
school children.
The problem is most serious at
the curve by Warwick Farms,
one area resident, a mother with
a school age child, said. Her child
boards the school bus at the farm,
and she said she’s seen many
cars ignoring the school’s
flashing lights. Motorists pass the
bus either because they’re
ignoring the law. or they see the
bus too late to stop, the mother
said.
Warwick Township chief of
police Paul Haines reported that
he was aware of the problem, and
that he had stationed police cars
at the trouble spots many mor­nings
in recent weeks. Several
residents commended the chief
on his department’s coverage of
the area. Haines pointed out,
though, that it would be im­possible
to patrol all the trouble
spots, because there are other
critical areas where motorists
pass school buses. He cjted Route
501 as an example.
Haines urged the bus drivers to
get license numbers of offending
cars and turn them into his office.
Lititz and Warwick Township
Settle Annexation Differences
James P. May
Running for
Constable in
Elizabeth Twp.
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Several drivers were at the
meeting, however, and they said
that it was often impossible to get
the numbers from moving
vehicles.
Several solutions were
discussed, and it was finally
decided that the Township
supervisors would approach the
Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation to lower the speed
limit between Rothsville and
Lititz. They’ll also ask Penn DOT
for permission to erect warning
signs along fhe road, and they
will install whatever signs are
permitted.
In other action, the supervisors
announced that they had received
a final payment of some $3400
from the federal government as
the result of last spring’s flood
damage. They also reported that
the township had received $49,000
from the state liquid fuels tax.
The money will be used for this
yea r’s road maintenance
program.
Contracts were awarded to
Burkholder Paving and Rohrer’s
Quarry. Burkholder had sub­mitted
a low bid for supplying the
township’s requirements for
asphalt and bituminous paving
materials for the coming year.
Rohrer’s had been low bidder for
the stone requirements.
It was announced that license
renewal notices had been sent to
operators of three of the four
mobile home parks in the
township. These licenses must
be renewed annually for a park to
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Eugene P. May
Running for
Constable in
Elizabeth Twp.
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Savings, Loan
Assn, Plans
Lititz Branch
The First Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Lancaster
will open a branch office at 69-A
E. Main St. in early summer, if
their operation is approved by the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
in Pittsburgh.
James Esbenshade, president,
said notice of filing of the branch
office application is currently
being advertised, after which the
board will notify him whether or
not the application is approved.
First Federal now has bran­ches
in Lancaster and New
Holland. The Lititz branch, if
approved, will go into the former
Kenyon Bakery Shop, which
Esbenshade said will undergo
several months of remodeling.
I n T h i s I s s u e
Business Directory 15
Church News 14
Classified Ads 16,17
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6
Women’s 12
A free-wheeling meeting
between Lititz Borough and
Warwick Township officials on
Monday night settled an issue
which had threatened to fracture
the close bond which has
traditionally existed between the
borough and the township.
At issue was whether or not the
borough would provide sewer
service before 1975 to developers
who had approached the borough
about annexing some 65 acres
along Newport Road, by the
northeast edge of town. The
borough had told township of­ficials
that sewer service would
not be available to any township
residents until 1975, when the
present treatment plant is ex­pected
to expand its capacity
from 1.2 million gallons per day
(mgd) to 3.1 mgd.
The Township supervisors had
accepted 1975 as the earliest
possible date for getting sewer
service. Then Hurst Brothers
Builders proposed a 500-unit
planned unit development en­compassing
the 70-acre Harlan
Weaver farm, which lies half in
the borough and half in the
township. Dr. Robert Huber,
owner of a 30-acre farm in the
same area, had also approached
the borough about annexation for
his property so that it could be
developed.
An exaggerated account of the
Hurst project had appeared in a
local daily newspaper, prompting
a cry of “Foul!” from the
township supervisors. Hurst
brothers had requested an­nexation
to the borough for their
entire tract. They did so believing
that they would have sewer and
water service available before
1975.
William C. Dussinger, chair­man
of the township board of
supervisors, explained the
township’s position to the group
meeting on Monday night.
“We have been told that 1975 is
the earliest we can get sewer
service,” he said. “Fine. We’ll
wait till then. We’ve been told by
the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources that
we must service the developed
areas of this township with
sewers. We’ve also been told that
we can’t build our own treatment
plant. And we’ve been told by the
Borough of Lititz that we can’t
hook into their system until 1975.
There are areas of the township
that we might like to have ser­viced
before then, but we un­derstand
that we just have to
wait.
“Now, we’ve started hearing
rumors, and we’ve started
reading newspaper accounts of
the borough possibly annexing
township property and providing
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Core borings are being completed this week at the site
of Moravian Manor, full care nursing facility to be built
between West Second Avenue and West Orange Street.
The tests are made to determine sub-surface conditions
of the land. Shown above with personnel from American
Testing Lab, Lancaster, are (left to right) Paul W. Mc-
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Cloud, executive vice-president of Moravian Manor, Inc.,
Dr. Byron K. Horne, chairman of the Policy Committee,
Dr. James C. Hughes, pastor of the local Moravian
congregation, Benjamin C. Forrest, president of the
Moravian Manor, Inc., and Jack Watson, chairman of the
Finance Committee.
Bids Go Out Today for First
Moravian Manors Contract The first contract in the $2.4
million stage One of Moravian
Manor, full care nursing facility
to be built in Lititz, is scheduled
to go out for bids today (Thur­sday),
with construction ex­pected
to start early in April.
The first step will be con­struction
of Lemon Street, bet­ween
Walnut and West Second
Avenue, a street which will front
the administrative building and
adjoining wings of the Manor.
Paul McCloud, executive vice-president
of Moravian Manors,
Inc., said this week that bids on
the street would be due March 30,
with work to start about two
weeks after acceptance of the low
bid. He said the street is expected
to be completed by Sept. 1.
About mid-April, McCloud
said, four more contracts will be
issued for general construction of
the main building and site
d e v e lo pm e n t, p lum b in g ,
mechanical work, and electrical
work. A sixth contract, for lawns
and planting, will be issued next
winter, he said.
All contracts are expected to be
completed about 16 months after
issued, and the Manor should be
open late summer or early fall of
1974, McCloud stated.
Core Borings Taken
Core borings on the site are
being completed this week, he
said. Tests are being made to
determine the sub-surface
conditions before designing
foundations for the building.
The building committee and
executive committee of the
Manor will meet today (Thur­sday)
for a pre-final review of
drawings and specifications on
the contracts, and the Board of
Trustees will meet in Lititz on
Saturday to review final plans
Kawasaki Big News
A t Trans-Am Cycles
7th Candidate Files fo r School
Board; Wide Open Contest Seen
It looks like a wide open contest
for Warwick District School
Board directors in the spring
primaries, with the seventh
candidate for the three seats
available filing a last minute
nomination petition.
Filing for nomination was
Clarence Martin, 846 Orchard
Rd., a life science teacher in the
Conestoga Valley School system.
Also filing for School Board
were David E. Buckwalter, Lititz
RD3. current president of the
board and the only incumbent in
the race. Robert E. Gregory,
Lititz RDl, Wallace Hofferth, 212
E. Second Ave., Louise G.
Kauffman. Lititz RD2, Richard
L. Mearig. 521 Lincoln Rd.; and
Claude G. Young Sr., 2062 Main
St.. Rothsville.
Four of the candidates filed
under both the Republican and
Democratic tickets. Gregory,
Hofferth. Mearig. and Young.
Clarence Martin
Candidate for
Warwick School
Board
The other three are filed under
the Republican ticket.
All are running for six year
terms on the school board,
seeking seats to be vacated Dec.
31 by Buckwalter, Kenneth
Weaver, and Paul Wissler.
The spring contest for Boro
Council seats also looks like a
lively one, with eight candidates
filing nomination petitions for the
three terms that will expire Dec.
31. those of Council President D.
Curtis Amidon, First Ward
Councilman Floyd Hggy, and
Third Ward Councilman James
Yerger.
Amidon and Yerger will both
be seeking re-election, while
Hagy announced his planned
retirement from Council several
months ago.
There will be a battle for
Council seats in all three wards,
with four candidates running for
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(Editor’s Note: This is the 60th
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 61st article will
appear next week.)
A modern show room holding
complete lines of street and trail
Kawasaki motorcycles is making
big news this spring at Trans-Am
Cycle Sales, Inc., 933 Lititz Pike
(Kissel Hill), where owners Joe
Sharkey and Charlie Kourbis are
starting their second year in
business.
On display are a wide variety of
street line cycles, ranging in size
from 90 to 900 cc’s, and trail line
bikes, ranging from 75 to 350 cc’s.
The street bikes are all multi­cylinders,
the 250-750 ones with
three cylinders, and the late
model 900 bike with four cylin­ders.
Prices run from $300 to $2,000,
with a complete range of prices in
between depending on size and
style.
Included in the latest street
models is the big 900 model, a
double overhead cam four-stroke,
four-cylinder air cooled
engine that can hit top speeds of
up to 130 mph.
Also featured are the H-2 750
street model designed for speeds
up to 126 mph, the 500, that gives
a top speed of 124 mph, the
medium-sized 350, designed for
commuting and weekend touring
with speeds up to 106 mph, and
the 250, a smaller machine that
does a quarter mile in 14.7
seconds.
Trail bikes inlcude the 350, the
biggest of Kawasaki’s off-road
machines, the light weight F-ll
250 racing bike, the F-7 175, fast
enough for the open highway at 75
mph, the F-6 125 with adjustable
front suspension, the G-5 100
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and authorize work to proceed,
McCloud said.
To date, he said, $641,000 of
an $800,000 bond issue have been
purchased, with $159,000 in bonds
left to be sold. Selling term runs
through June 30, McCloud said.
“It appears we will be sold out
within the next six weeks the way
it is going now,” he added.
No federal financing will be
involved in the $2.4 million
project, McCloud said. He said
this will be a savings in the long
run and leave Moravian Manors
free to operate within the policies
of the Moravian congregation.
The balance of the financing
will be through mortgages with
local banks and present assets of
Moravian Manors, Inc.
To Be Proto-type
The Manor is expected to be a
proto-type of two more similar
homes in other parts of the
Eastern District of the Moravian
Church, McCloud said. It will be
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Charlie Kourbis (left) and Joe Sharkey, owners of Trans-
Am Cycle Sales, Inc., 933 Lititz Pk., show some of the late
model Kawasaki motorcycles in their showroom on Kissel
Hill. In the foreground is the biggest of the street line, the Z-l
900, with four-cyclinder air cooled 900 cc engine.
LITITZ STORES NOW OPEN
| THURSDAY NIGHTS TIL 9 P.M.
Shop these Stores on Thursday Nites
ARMOLD JEWELERS, INC.
B & V OUTLET
BENNER’S PHARMACY
BINGEMAN’S CLOTHIN’0 STORE
D.E. FURLOW VARIETY CENTER
GLADELL SHOP
HAGY’S WESTERN AUTO
HESS MEN’S WEAR
KLOTZ KLENEKS
LADS & LASSIES CHILDREN’S APPAREL
LIPPART’S OF LITITZ
LITITZ BOOK STORE
LITITZ SEWING CENTER
McELROY PHARMACY
TRUDI K SHOP
WHITE SHIELD DISCOUNT CENTER
THIS IS IN
ADDITION TO
THE REGULAR
FRIDAY NIGHT
HOURS.
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