Lititz Record Express

              T H E R E S S
SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR NEARLY A CENTUR Y
97th Year E s t a b l i s 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 i t h T h e L i t i t z R e c o rd , 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, April 12, 1973
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w i t h i n L a n c a s t e r C o u n ty 22 PAGES — No. 3
Property Owner Battles
PennDOT Over
I d t i t z R e c o rd E x p r e s s P h o to
Paul Groff would like to stay the woodsman’s axe from the
stand of pines which shade his newly purchased home on
Speedwell Forge Road. Groff, who recently bought the Amos
Strickler home, says the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation is going to cut his trees down in order to
widen the raod.
Trees Paul Groff’s whispering pines
may soon be reduced to a pile of
kindling, and he’s not at all
pleased. Groff’s trees tower 40
feet above the old farmhouse he
recently bought from Amos
Strickler. ft’s located near the
intersection of Speedwell Forge
and Pumping Station Roads, very
close to a bridge that was washed
out in last spring’s flood. The
flood, in fact, is the real villain in
the tale of Paul Groff’s trees.
The farmhouse was built in
1742. The trees, planted some 40
years ago, dominate the property
and provide a very pleasant
arboreal setting for the hand­some
sandstone house. Every one
of the/ trees survived the flood.
Where Agnes failed, however, the
Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation may yet succeed
with bulldozers, axes and
r e g u la tio n s . E s p e c ia lly
regulations.
PennDOT is charged with the
unenviable responsibility of
building and maintaining state
roads. In any roadbuilding
project, they have to consider
costs, esthetics, property rights,
safety, convenience, how many
vehicles travel a particular road
and the average weight and
speed of those vehicles. For the
Speedwell Forge Road repair
project, this list of factors must
be lengthened to include federal
regulations governing the
reconstruction of flood-damaged
roads.
Federal funds are being used to
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Penn Twp. Opens Sewer Bids
Sealed bids for a sewer system
serving parts of Penn Township
were opened Monday night by the
township board of supervisors at
their regular monthly meeting.
Harfield Engineering, Ltd., of
Malvern, Pa., was the apparent
low bidder with a quote of
$169,800. The final awarding of
the bid is contingent upon the
satisfactory completion of a
performance bond by the con­tractor,
according to Lawrence
Zimmerman from Glace & Glace,
Inc. Glace & Glace is the
Harrisburg engineering firm
hired by the supervisors as
consultants, and Zimmerman is
project manager for the Penn
Township sewer project.
Construction on the system is
expected to begin within a month.
It will serve areas along Stfegle
Valley Road, Doe Run Road and
White Oak Road. Included in the
service area are 16 existing
dwellings, 96 apartment units,
the new shopping center and an
industrial park which has been
planned for future development.
The sewer lines will empty into
the Manheim Borough treat­ment
plant. For the first year of
operation, a pumping station will
pump the sewerage to the plant.
The pumping station will have a
maximum capacity of 30,000
gallons daily. An interceptor will
Winners Named in Coloring Contest
Four year old Troy Sensenich,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K.
Sensenich, 308 E. New St., Lititz
received Five Lititz Shopping
Dollars for the best entry in the
second week’s Easter Coloring
Contest being sponsored by the
Lititz Record-Express.
Kevin Fritz, 8, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Fritz, 124 E. New St.,
Lititz was awarded Five Lititz
Shopping bollars by a drawing
from all the entries.
The following youngsters who
were listed as honorable mention
will each receive One Lititz
Shopping Dollar. They are:
Kathy Deibert, 5, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Deibert, 212 Elm
St., Lititz; Cindy Hurst, 6,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Hurst, Lititz RD3;
Rhonda Witmer, 7, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Witmer, 420
Clay Road, Lititz; Megan Hoff­man,
7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
r . f:
Max Hoffman, 448 S. Walnut St.,
Lititz; Brenda Myers, 8,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross A.
Myers, 40 Front St., Lititz; Amy
Ziegler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Larry Ziegler, 123 N. Clay St.,
Manheim and Peter Dussinger,
10, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. William
Dussinger, 401 Woods Drive,
Lititz, Pa.
The contest, open to all
youngsters four to 10 years of
age, continues this week. Paint,
watercolor or crayons may be
used to color the pictures.
Contest rules and the next
pictures to color can be found on
page 17.
Entries should be mailed to the
Lititz Record-Express office, 22
E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543 and
be received by Monday Apr. 16.
Judges for the contest are Mrs.
Donna Olah, Art Instructor at the
Warwick Middle School, and
William Young, well-known local
artist.
Troy Sensenich, 4, center, proudly poses with the Five
Lititz Shopping Dollars he won for the best entry in the
Easter Coloring Contest being sponsored by the Lititz
Record-Express. Julie Herr, 5, left and Susie Rohrer, 5, Troy's
friends look on.
be constructed after the first year
to take the sewerage directly to
the plant, at which time the
pumping station will be phased
out.
Financing plans for the system
call for a municipal bond issue,
which will be amortized through
user payments over a period of
years. There would also be a hook
up fee charged to users, but no
front foot assessment fee.
In other business, the super­visors
listened to the water woes
of Elvin Terrace and Park Hill
residents. Houses in those areas
are served by the Manheim
Borough water system, and the
residents were complaining of
low pressure and dirty water.
The supervisors said they had
been discussing those two
systems with the borough water
officials. The borough so far
hasn’t announced any plans for
corrective actions.
A motion was passed during the
meeting to erect an identification
sign for the township municipal
building.
Another motion was passed to
require all new residential
streets to be constructed with an
ID-2 topping and curbs.
The zoning officer reported
that he had issued 10 building
permits in March, all for
residential units, for a total value
of $276,000. A total of 21 per­colation
tests, 24 sewage permits
and 5 inspections were reported
by the sanitation officer.
Lions Club
Easter Egg
Hunt Apr. 21
The Lititz Lions Club’s annual
Easter Egg Hunt will be held on
Saturday, Apr. 21 at 2 p.m. at the
Warwick High School.
There will be colored hard boiled
eggs, chocolate eggs and rabbits
for everyone. Also many of the
eggs will be marked and cash
prizes will be awarded to the
lucky hunters.
The following age groups will
be at the indicated locations:
Ages 1 & 2, circle in front of high
school; Ages 3 & 4, baseball field;
ages 5, 6 & 7, football practice
field and ages 8, 9 & 10, field east
of the Springs Pool.
In This Issue
Business Directory 19
Church News 18
Classified Ads 20,21
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 16
Fred Behm, owner of the property at
North Cedar Street and Lincoln Avenue
whdre a Rohrer’s Quarry truck fell through
the macadam, thought he was temporarily
in the concrete business over the weekend,
with a basement full of wet cement and a
mixer truck embedded in his driveway.
Behm, shown atop the truck, refused to let
the truck be removed until insurance
claims were settled.
Truck 'Impounded' over Weekend
Cement Mixer Embedded in
Local Man's Parking Lot
It wasn’t as though Fred Behm,
local steeplejack and contractor,
hadn’t had enough trouble this
past year at his North Cedar
Street warehouse.
Last summer flood waters
wiped out all the construction
material he kept stored in his
warehouse, and none of it was
covered by flood insurance.
At the same time, flood waters
also destroyed several antique
cars he had in the warehouse, one
of which he had just finished
restoring after working on it for
two years.
And for the past year, Fred has
been having problems keeping
trespassers out of the driveway
beside his warehouse, with cars
using it as a shortcut, he says,
and construction workers from a
nearby building project using it
for a parking lot. Often, Fred
says, they make it impossible for
his own crews to park near his
warehouse to load and unload.
But the payoff, for Fred,
came last Friday, when a
Rohrer’s Quarry seven-yard
cement mixer backed into his
parking lot and fell through the
macadem, its rear end becoming
embedded in the enormous hole it
made when it fell through to the
basement storage area un­derneath.
The upset caused a great deal
of excitement around town, and a
crowd gathered rapidly to wit­ness
the spectacle.
Lititz firemen and PP&L
workers stationed at the office in
the front of Behm’s warehouse
building spent several hours
flushing the wet cement out of the
truck’s mixer before it could
harden.
Meanwhile, a crane large
enough to pull the truck out of the
hole had been summoned from
Lancaster.
The result of which was, that
when Fred arrived on the scene,
he found a cement mixer laying
on its side in a hole in his parking
lot, a crane getting ready to pull
it out, and his basement loaded
with seven yards of ‘cement mud’
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1st Week Shopping Dollar Winners
Announced by Lititz Retailers
Wayne H. Elliott, 224 E. New St., Lititz, holds the 50 Lititz
Shopping Dollars he won in last week’s drawing held by Lititz
Retailers. Mr. Elliott registered at one of the more than 30
participating merchants.
Other winners of $10 each were: Bill Michel, Lewis Perini,
Elwood Kreider, Elva Hertzler and Edward W. Grube, all of
Lititz.
$100 will be awarded again this week, and each remaining
week during the month of April.
Shopping Mall
Proposed for
Downtown Lititz Lititz Improvement, Inc. un­veiled
tentative plans Tuesday
night for a proposed shopping
mall for downtown Lititz, in­cluding
five stores, eight apart­ments,
and a large parking lot.
The proposed complex is to be
built off East Main Street, along
Sturgis Lane and North Lane, on
property owned by Lititz Im­provement.
The plans, still under con­sideration
by the corporation of
local businessmen, were an­nounced
when Lititz Im­provement
appeared before the
Lititz Zoning Hearing Board
seeking a variance concerning
parking spaces for the project.
Zoners granted the variance,
which will permit some of the
parking spaces required for the
proposed shops and apartments
to be located in a parking lot
scheduled to be built nearby.
The Local Zoning Ordinance
allows the Zoning Board to
permit required parking spaces
on other off-street property when
they cannot ‘reasonably’be
provided on the same lot as the
stores and apartments.
George Lewis, representing
Lititz Improvement Tuesday
night, told the zoners that plans
now being considered call for five
stores, with eight apartments
above them, to be built along
Sturgis Lane, at the rear of the
Hèrtz building, and a 44-space
parking lot to be built on land
formerly occupied by the old
Lititz Theater and the former
Ammon Shelley and Dull
garages, all of which were
recently torn down. The stores,
as now planned, will comprise a
total of 5,000 square feet,with
eight second-floor apartments
above. Seven of the apartments
are planned as one-bedroom
dwellings, with the eighth to be a
two-bedroom unit.
Thirteen diagonal parking
spaces are planned for a strip
along the front of the stores, and
44 parking spaces are planned for
a parking lot on the other side of
Sturgis Lane, making a total of 57
prospective new parking spaces
in the downtown area.
Plans also call for making
Sturgis Lane a one-way street,
running north off of East Main
Street.
The zoners’ approval Tuesday
night of the request for a parking
variance opened the wa. for
Lititz Improvement to go ahead
with architect’s preliminary
plans, Lewis said.
These will be drawn up by
Wickersham, Inc., hopefully in
time to present to the borough
Planning Commission at its May
1 meeting, according to Jay
Wenger Wickersham.
Once plans are approved by the
borough, Lititz Improvement will
advertise from bids on con­struction,
Lewis said.
The result of these bids will
determine whether the local
corporation will go ahead with
the project at this time, he said.
Cost of the project is estimated
at between $150,000 and $200,000
by Lititz Improvement, and if
bids are awarded, construction is
expected to begin about June,
with completion hoped for early
in the fall, Lewis said.
The proposed mall will be a
continuation of Lititz Im­provement’s
activities to im­prove
the downtown area since
the group was formed about three
years ago.
Other major undertakings by
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I i i t i t z R e c o rd E x p r e s s P h o to
Mrs. David (Shirley) Landis holds one of the plump freshly
dressed chickens sold at Landis Poultry, retail poultry store
opened last fail on Route 501, two miles north of Lititz.
Register at More Than 30 Businesses
For Weekly Prizes of $100 During April
More than 30 Lititz area retailers and
businesses have combined to bring to Lititz
Shoppers the opportunity to win 100 Shopping
Dollars each of the 4 weeks during April. All
you have to do is stop at any participating
merchant listed below and Register.
There will be six winners each week with
prizes awarded as follows: 1st prize, 50
Shopping Dollars; and 5 prizes of 10 Shopping
Dollars each.
Each week is a new contest and registration
slips will be collected and the drawing will be
conducted by officers of the Lititz Retailers
Association. Winners will be announced in the
Lititz Record Express.
PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS
\rmold Jewelers, Inc.
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
B & V Outlet
Cam Tech
Chimney Corner Restaurant
Commonwealth National Bank
Farmers First National Bank
The Gladell Shop
Hagy’s Western Auto
Hess Men's Wear
Hershey’s Shoe Store
Hollingers Farm & Home Supply
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Kreider Hardware
Keller Bros. Auto Co.
Kenyon’s Pastry Shop
Lads & Lassies Children’s Apparel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger
McElroy Pharmacy
Posey’s Garden Center
Shoes ‘n Things
Spacht's Furniture Store
Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill
Thomas Farm Market
Trudi K Shop
Warwick Haus Restaurant
Most Lititz Stores Now OPEN Thurs. & Fri. Nights til 9!
Fresh Chickens Featured
At Landis Poultry Store
K (Editor’s Note: This is the 64th
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our area
retailers. The 65th article will
appear next week.)
Stuffed chicken breasts and
homemade chicken salad are the
specialities at Landis Poultry, a
retail poultry store opened within
the last year by Shirley and Dave
Landis on Route 501, about two
% miles north of Lititz.
In a modern salesroom, located
in a building behind their home,
jj the Landises sell a variety of
chickens — fryers, roaster,
stewers - as well as chicken
parts, homemade broth, boned
breasts, salad, and fresh candled
>•: eggs. All are attractively
displayed, the stuffed breasts
:j: being foil-wrapped ready for the
freezer, if desired.
During holiday seasons, the
store also features turkeys which
the Landises raise and dress
themselves. Special orders for
s turkeys are taken all year long.
Throughout the spring and
summer, they will be selling
S products from their own gardens,
including rhubarb, tomatoes,
sugar peas, green and yellow
beans, strawberries, and sweet
corn, with the rhubarb expected
in about two weeks, Mrs. Landis
said.
The Landises, who have
operated a 40-acre farm north of
Lititz since 1959, opened the local
retail store last fall. They also
operate a poultry stand at
Lancaster’s Central Market, this
business having been in the
family many years, formerly
being run by Dave’s father,
Clarence Landis. Shirley handles
most of the retail operations at
the local shop, while her husband
and his mother, Mrs. Mary
Landis, continue to operate the
Central Market stand.
Dave is a native of this area, and
his wife, the former Shirley
Hollinger, is from the Land-disville
area. They have four
sons, Dave, 17, and Phil, 14, both
of whom help operate the store,
and Mike, 9, and Don, 6.
The store is open Thursdays
and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 6
p.m.