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within Lancaster County 22 PAGES — No. 6
One-Way Traffic on
Sturgis Lane Asked
By Boro Planners
One-way traffic, flowing north,
was recommended for Sturgis
Lane Tuesday night by the
borough Planning Commission.
The recommendation followed
a request from Lititz Im­provement,
Inc., which recently
unveiled plans for going ahead
with a proposed shopping mall in
downtown Lititz, along Sturgis
Lane.
The planners agreed with Lititz
Improvement that one-way
traffic would improve the flow of
traffic along Sturgis Lane and
into a parking lot proposed for the
east side of the lane.
Planners also reviewed two
proposed amendments to the
Zoning Ordinance, concerning
the commercial district, which
they had recommended to Boro
Council in April and which
Council had sent back for further
review.
The former proposed amend­ments
had called for permitting
dwelling units in commercial
districts if they do not take up
more than 50 percent of the
building’s floor area, and also set
a limit of three stories on
buildings in commercial
districts.
Upon recommendation of the
Lititz Improvement, Boro
Council called for deletion of the
first proposed amendment,
stating that parking
requirements in the borough
would effectively control
dwelling units in the downtown
area. Boro Council also called for
à four-story limit on new
buildings, instead of the three
story limit planners had
recommended.
In its second round of
recommendations on the
proposed amendments Tuesday
night, the planners called for
dwelling units as permitted uses
in commercial districts provided
commercial uses and-or
professional offices were used on
the entire first floor of buildings.
The planners also approved a
four-story limit on new buildings
in commercial districts. Com­missioner
Glenn Davidson ab­stained
from the vote on the
height limit. Chairman Dennis
Craig, who formerly advocated a
lower height limit on new
buildings, was not present at the
meeting.
The new proposed amendments
will now go back to Boro Council
for a public hearing at Council’s
regular meeting May 29.
In further business, the
planners voted to ask Council for
an opinion on a PUD (Planned
Urban Development) ordinance
for the borough before drawing
up a draft of such an ordinance.
Last month, Chairman Craig
had instructed the planners to
prepare outlines for Tuesday’s
meeting, stating what the
borough wants a PUD ordinance
to accomplish, and what it wants
the ordinance to protect the
borough against.
However, planners Tuesday
night stated that drawing up such
an ordinance would involve a
great deal of work, possibly
taking an entire year, and they
were not inclined to go ahead
until they had sounded out Boro
Council on the matter.
Chairman Craig was not
present for the discussion and
could not be reached by press
time for comment.
Boro Council had viewed a slide
presentation, showing PUD
developments in other areas of
the country, at a special meeting
Monday night. The slides were
shown by Hurst Brothers
Builders, who are seeking zoning
changes in the borough to allow
them to build a PUD in an area at
the north edge of the borough.
Local Candidates State
Views on Current Issues
In Boro, School District
This scene of the large front room,
housing the antique and gift shop, shows a
display of Armetale pewter on the round
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table, with antiques and paintings by ar­tists
from the area on the walls. Peggy
Lawton is standing in the background.
Antique Shop-Restaurant Opened
In Historic Brickerville House
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The historic old Brickerville
House, at the intersection of
Routes 501 and 322 north of Lititz,
opened Tuesday under new
management, with a fine
collection of antiques and
paintings by artists from the
area.
Special attraction of the new
establishment is a “mittag
essen” (midday eating), a cold
luncheon featuring over-sized
sandwiches on homemade bread,
salad, and home-style desserts.
New owners of the Brickerville
House, which had been unused
for about the past four years, are
Bill and Peggy Lawton of
Hopewell Forge.
The couple started renovating
the building 13 months ago,
turning it into a rustic, attractive
antique shop-restaurant, utilizing
the original sandstone and old
country colors for an Early
American flavor.
Antiques and gift displays are
located in two large rooms at the
front of the building, and two
dining areas, with a seating
capacity of about 80 persons, are
located at the rear of the
building. Dining tables are also
set up on the front porch.
Merchandise in the shop in­cludes
many antiques from the
area, a variety of gift items,
decoupage plaques, handmade
quilts and rugs, Armatale
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pewter, Zercher handpainted
jewelry, and a large selection of
paintings, many of them done by
Peggy herself.
According to the Lawtons, the
front portion of the building was
built about 1753, with the east
wing built on about 1926 by
Wayne Weidman, who ran a hotel
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on the inside of the house, and
dug out an enormous fireplace in
a back room, now the focal point
of one of the dining rooms. All the
doors, partitions, and framing
that they used in remodeling
came from some part of the
original structure. The original
bars from the old hotel are now in
use as counters in the antique
shop.
The Lawtons moved to
Hopewell Forge area three years
ago from their former home in
Lancaster. They have two
married daughters, Mrs. Bar­bara
Farmer, who was Miss
Lancaster County in 1971, and
Mrs. Scott Singleton.
Peggy will run the business
with Mrs. Libby Strauss of
Brickerville as cook. Other
employees are Mrs. Carol
Snavely, and the Misses Barbara
Local People
Ride in
Bike-a-thon
A group of 72 people, including
members of Boy Scout Troop 27,
Rothsville and Girl Scout Troop
268, Lititz and members of St.
Luke’s UCC, participated in the
Bike-a-thon for Retard Children
on Sunday afternoon. They rode
from Lititz out the East Peter­sburg
Road to the Fruitville Pike
and onto the Manheim Township
Community Park. They crossed
501 and went east on the Oregon
Road to Kissel Hill Road and
continued across Second Avenue
to Warwick Millde School where
the trip terminated. Dennis Bart
was in charge of arranging the
l o c a l r i d e .
Two other groups also par­ticipated.
Troop 44, with 18
Paul K. Flory, owner of Flory Distributing Company, gets
ready to start a busy day at his store at 725 S. Broad St.
Variety of Beverages
Available at Flory's
. .(Editor’s Note: This is the 67th
in a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 68th article will
appear next week.)
With summer weather ap­proaching,
Flory Distributing
Company, 725 S. Broad St., will
be a popular spot.
In business locally since 1953,
Paul K. Flory, owner, specializes
in beer, soft drink, and fresh
roasted peanuts.
Doing primarily a local
business, Flory carries 25 brands
of beer, including canned, bot­tled,
and draft brew in quarter
and half barrels. He also has
tapping equipment available for
rent.
The store also carries a variety
of soda, both canned and bottled,
the latter in quart, 10-ounce and
seven-ounce sizes.
A big seller at the store is fresh
roasted peanuts, which Flory
roasts and bags himself. He
estimates he sells about 100
pounds of peanuts a week, the
volumne increasing during the
summer months.
Flory has been at his present
location for 10 years, in the
building formerly occupied by
Steffy Appliances. He previously
had his distributorship on Rodney
Lane.
A resident of Lititz since 1937,
Flory and his wife, Gladys, live at
725 S. Broad St. and have three
children, Sandra (Mrs. Curtis
Sensenich), Randy and Kenneth,
all of Lititz.
Servicing all the hotels in
Lititz, and others throughout the
area, he employs two full-time
and two part-time workers, of­fering
a delivery service to
homes and businesses.
The store is open Tuesday
through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8
p.m., and is closed Mondays.
and general merchandise store Persons> started their trip at l
there until his death in 1968. P m- an<^ another group from St.
When the Lawtons purchased Lutheran Church rode bikes
the building a little over a year Sunday morning,
ago, they had no idea just what
they would do with it. Neither
Bill, who is manager of
engineering purchases for Arm­strong
Cork Company, nor
Peggy, who calls herself “an
antique nut,” had had any
previous experience at operating
this type of a business.
With the help of many of their
friends, they undertook the major
task of restoring the building
themselves.
They exposed all the sandstone
Local Man Wins Appeal
J . Lowell Forney, Rothsville,
was found not guilty in Lancaster
County Court on April 26
following his appeal of a traffic
violation.
Forney was arrested by
Patrolman Charles Shenen-berger
and arraigned before
Justice of the Peace Paul Diehm
on Dec. 6, 1972 for a red light
violation at the corner of Broad
and Main Sts.
He was found guilty and ap­pealed
the case in the court of
Judge William Bucher where the
decision was reversed.
Banta, Connie Rutherford, and
Denise Houshouer, all of the
Brickerville area. Assisting them
during the opening are Sam
Strauss, Brickerville, and Mrs.
Donald Stauffer, who operates
her own antique shop in Lan­caster.
The shop will be open Tuesday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to
6 p.m., closed Mondays. “Mittag
essen” will be served from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through
Friday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturdays, and noon to 6 p.m.
Sundays.
Accidents Occur
In Penn Twp.
A car operated by Walter
Greenawalt, Scotdale, P a .,
traveling south on Penryn Rd.,
skidded on wet road, striking a
utility pole at 2 a.m. April 28 at
intersection of Cool Spring and
Penryn Roads.
Greenawalt received minor
injuries and was treated by his
family physician. There was an
estimated $700 damage to the
car. Penn Township Police Chief
Herbert Weidman investigated.
On April 29, 3:30 a.m., a one-car
accident, occurred about 2
miles south of Manheim
Fruitville Pike. Mrs. Audrey
Bechtel, Lebanon, told police she
saw a curve sign, panicked, hit
the brakes and the car skidded
onto the property of Anna
Oberholtzer, Manheim and hit a
road sign belonging to PennDOT.
There was an estimated $500
damage to car and property.
Chief Weidman investigated.
In T h is Issu e
Business Directory
Church News
Classified Ads
Editorial Page
Sports Section
Women’s
Final Shopping Dollar Winners
Announced by Lititz Retailers
Mrs. Joan Keenen, 113 Liberty St., Lititz accepts the top
prize of 50 Shopping Dollars from Lester Bingeman,
President of the Lititz Retailers Association. Shoppers
registered at participating merchants and $100 dollars were
awarded each of the 4 weeks in April. This week’s 10 dollar
winners were: Clara Williams, Charles Regennas, Mrs.
Edward Ivey, Jean Kline and Kathryn Groff, all of Lititz.
Current and long-range issues
concerning the borough and
Warwick School District are
discussed in this issue by local
candidates for the May 15
primary election.
The candidates—eight for Boro
Council and seven for the School
Board—were sent nonpartisan
questionnaires prepared by the
Lititz Record-Express several
weeks ago and asked to state
their views on matters affecting
the borough and the district.
The candidates all replied to
the questionnaires, and their
answers, in their own words,
appear along with their pictures
on Pages 10 and 11 of this issue.
The candidates’ answers appear
in two groups—one consisting of
those from Boro Council can­didates,
the other from School
Board candidates.
The candidates’ names and
their statements are being
printed in alphabetical order.
Boro Council candidates were
asked the following questions:
1. Why do you want to serve on
Lititz Boro Council?
2. How do you feel about a
merger between Lititz borough
and Warwick Township?
3. Do you think more housing is
needed in the borough of Lititz,
and if so, what types of housing
are most needed?
4. What, if anything, do you
think Boro Council should do to
promote or improve L ititz’
downtown business area?
5. Do you think all meeting of
local government bodies should
be open to the public and-or the
press?
School Board candidates were
asked these questions:
1. Why do you want to serve on
Warwick District School Board?
2. What do you think the
primary function of Warwick
District School Board should be?
3. What is your evaluation of
expenditures within the school
district, and what areas of ex­penditures
do you think should be
reduced or increased?.
4. What is your opinion of the
quality of education offered in
Warwick School District and
what, if any, changes do you
think are necessary?
5. Do you think the area Vo-
Tech schools are serving the
needs of students from Warwick
School District?
6. Do you think there could be
more cooperation between
Warwick Education Association,
and if so, what would you do to
a c h ie v e i t ?
Boro Council candidates in the
primaries are :
F irs t Ward: Lester G.
Bingeman, Stephen J . Palkovic,
Lawrence J . Ruggiano, and
Clyde R. Tshudy.
Second Ward: D. Curtis
Amidon (incumbent) and James
L. Snavely.
Third Ward: George W. Swan
and Jam e s H. Yerger (in­cumbent).
School Board candidates are:
David E. Buckwalter (in­cumbent),
Robert E. Gregory,
Wallace Hofferth, Louise G.
Kauffman, Clarence W. Martin,
Richard L. Mearig and Claude G.
Young.
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Local Firemen
Solicit Funds
For Festival
The Lititz Fire Company’s
annual Chicken Corn Soup
Festival Fund Drive began
Tuesday, May 1 and will continue
through Thursday, June 2.
The festival will be held
Saturday, June 9 beginning at 8
a.m. at the fire hall.
Members of the fire company
will be soliciting Lititz and the
local area for contributions.
The firemen are seeking help in
cooking and boning chicken on
Thursday, June 7. Men and
women are needed. Now is the
time to support your Fire
Company.
Top Acting
Surprise to
Award Was
Local Woman
Pat Sullivan, who will be competing for national honors in
June in the play, “ Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn,” relaxes
between classes at Linden Hall, where she is drama teacher.
New Penryn Fire House
Will Be Dedicated Sat.
Penryn Fire Company will
dedicate its new $46,000 engine
house this weekend with a two-day
program Saturday and
Sunday afternoon, and evening.
The new structure is located
along Penryn Road, just north of
the company’s fire hall, which
will be retained for social func­tions
and meetings.
Formal dedication services
will be held Saturday at 2 p.m.,
with Barry Shelly, third assistant
fire chief and son of Fire Chief
Eugene Shelly, as emcee.
Chief Shelly will also take part
in the ceremonies, along with
Claude G. Young, Sr., president
of the Lancaster County
Firemen’s Association; Paul Z
Knier, Lancaster County fire
marshall; Dennis Ober, Zone 2
president; LCFA; Isaac Bom-berger,
Penryn Fire Company
president; and Paul Diehm, a
charter member of the company.
Open house will be held
Saturday from 2 to 9 p.m. and
Sunday from 2 to 8 p.m. Refresh­ments
will be served, and music
will be provided by Leon Enck’s
band from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
The new buildinng, which
Richard E. Martin, treasurer and
building committee chairman,
estimates cost about $46,000, is
large enough to house six pieces
of equipment. The company
presently owns two pumpers and
its original 1928 fire engine,
maintained as a showpiece.
The single story building is
constructed of aluminum siding
and brick frontal facing over
frame.
By Peggy Frailey
When Pat Sullivan, drama
teacher at Linden Hall, agreed to
do her well known performance
in “Save Me a Place at Forest
Lawn” once more for an Eastern
Pennsylvania contest, she
thought it was going to be a “once
and done thing.”
Instead, she and her acting
partner not only won the contest,
but went on to win a series of
competitions that landed them
the state championship, making
them eligible for national com­petition.
In June, Pat Sullivan
( “Clara” ) and Pat Hoffman
(“Gertrude” ) will take their
prize-winning performance of
“Forest Lawn” to Lincoln, Neb.,
where they will compete with
actors from nine other regions in
the country, doing three shows a
day for three days, in competition
for the national title.
If they win, they will go on to
Monaco in August to perform in
an international program.
Pat, who has-been active in
little theater since sh,e was a
school girl herself las been
drama coach and teacher at
Linden Hall for over 20 years
She came to the school as a
substitute dramatic arts teacher
shortly after her graduation from
college, and stayed on, teaching
English and psychology as well
as drama.
Working with classes of up to 40
students, she directs five plays a
year at the school, in addition to
instructing her students in
technique, play readings, im­provisation,
and pantomine.
She is currently directing a
production of “Sound of Music”
which the students will stage May
18 during Parents Weekend.
“I don’t have time to act much
now,” Pat commented in a
personal interview between
classes at Linden Hall, “and
when I do, it’s like a luxury.”
Comparing acting with the
responsibilities of teaching and
directing, she said, “Acting now
is like a self-indulgence—you’re
only responsible for yourself. But
I really feel like I have to have
that once in awhile,”
Pat will have a lot of “that” in
the next few weeks, as she and
her partner prepare “Forest
Lawn” for national competition.
Rehearsing weekly, the two are
currently in the process of
“refining” their roles in the 31-
minute drama for their Nebr­aska
performance. As members!
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