Lititz Record Express

              T H E R E S S
SER VING THE WAR WICK AREA FOR NEARL Y A CENTUR Y
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Tastee-Freez, Zoners
End Long Conflict
Over Lights, Signs
A year long conflict between
the Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board and Tastee-Freez, Inc.
ended this week with the zoners
achieving another set of Early
American lights for the borough
and Tastee-Freez getting a
variance for a large sign.
Tastee-Freez has been seeking
a variance for their sign since
April 1972, when it first an­nounced
it wanted to build one of
its fast foods chain stores at 741S.
Board St.
Store officials wanted to erect
a sign that exceeded size limits
set by the borough Zoning Or­dinance.
The zoners’ position has
been that if the board grants a
variance for a larger sign' it
wants something in return:
specifically, they wanted to have
a say about the kind of lights
Tastee-Freez erected in its
parking lot.
The battle of wits between the
board and Tastee-Freez per­sonnel
was resumed periodically
throughout the year, with Tastee-
Freez never quite managing to
come up with the type of lights
zoners felt they could smile upon.
But Monday night, Tastee-
Freez succeeded. They produced
pictures of Early American
Mercury vapor lanterns hanging
from wooden posts, and in return,
were granted a variance to erect
a 60 square foot lighted sign,
heralding the “Big Tee Burger,”
and a 16 square foot sign an­nouncing
“Tastee Crisp Chicken
Carry Out.”
The store also received per­mission
to erect two smaller
lighted signs at the entrance and
exit to the parking lot.
The store, now under con­struction,
aims at an early
summer opening. Ray M. Funck,
Palmyra, will own and operate
the store.
In further business, zoners
granted special authorization to
Lititz Improvement, Inc. to build
five retail stores, with eight
apartments above them on
Sturgis Lane, another step
toward the start of a down-town
shopping mall which the
organization of local
businessmen announced last
month.
George Lewis, representing
Lititz Improvement, told zoners
that the store fronts will face
Sturgis Lane, two of which will
be set back from the others and
have boxed bay windows.
Three materials will be used on
the fronts of the stores - brick,
horizontal aluminum siding, and
vertical siding. The roof will be
peaked, made of Cyprus colored
asphalt shingles. The building
will be trimmed with black
wrought iron railings, louvered
shutters, and Early American
light fixtures.
Zoners granted the
authorization with the provision
that a color scheme would be
presented next month.
Special authorization was also
granted to Walter C. Popejoy, 40
E. Main St., to erect two wooden
signs, each seven square feet in
size, at the two front corners of
his pharmacy (the former
Benner’s Drug Store). The signs
will be colonial in design, and will
carry a picture of a pestle and
mortar, and the single word
“Pharmacy.”
However, zoners questioned
two 150-watt Mercury lights
Popejoy planned to install on his
building to light the signs. The
zoners objected that the proposed
lights would throw “too much
light in the wrong place,” namely
the street and the road, and
would light up “the whole area.”
Popejoy stated it was his in­tention
to light the sidewalk, but
volunteered to return in June
with an alternate lighting plan.
Special authorization was
granted to J. Richard McCloud to
recover the rear of the dwelling
at 117 E. Main St., in the
historical district, with white
aluihinum siding.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Becker, 17
N. Cedar St., were granted a 14-
foot variance to rebuild their
garage to within six feet of the
rear lot line. The reconstructed
garage, in the industrial district,
will still be in line with neigh­boring
garages, Becker said.
Allen H. Eshleman, 201 N.
Broad St., was granted special
exception to hang a 5.8 square
foot wooden lighted sign at his
store, Cam Tech of Lititz,
replacing a 20 square foot lighted
sign that was there formerly. The
sign will be lighted with two 75-
watt spot lights.
Diehm & Son was granted
special authorization to erect a
six square foot unlighted sign at
the office on Juniper Lane, in the
Historical District.
Rodney Moseman, 101 E. Main
St., was granted authorization to
put new black asphalt shingles on
his roof and to replace the
present spouting and gutters with
five-inch galvanized spouting and
gutters.
Two New Ordinances
Adopted by Elizabeth
Township Supervisors
At their regular monthly
meeting last Friday night, the
Elizabeth Township supervisors
adopted an ordinance which will
allow light industrial uses in
commercial districts as a special
exception to the zoning code.
They also adopted an ordinance
which requires building permits
on all new structures or
alterations with a market value
of $300 or more. The old law
called for building permits when
market value exceeded $1000.
An announcement was made
during the meeting that the tax
collector had so far received
$9,283 in per capita taxes and
$17,853 in property taxes this
year. Except for the state liquid
fuels tax and federal revenue
sharing funds, this represents the
bulk of the township’s tax
revenues for 1973.
The new township municipal
building is expected to be com­pleted
in a matter of weeks, the
supervisors announced. They
approved payment of some
In T h is Issue
Business Directory 19
Church News 18
Classified Ads 20,21
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 16,17
$23,000 in bills incurred during
the construction of the building
on Sleepy Hollow Road.
A petition was presented to the
board by J. W. Bradley, Elsie
Bradley, Harvey Bissel, Richard
W. Wanner, and John Hevner, Jr.
The petitioners each own parts of
a 20-acre tract along Brubaker
Valley Road and Oak Lane. That
tract is now zoned residential,
and the property owners are
asking to have it zoned industrial.
J. W. Bradley operates a rifle
repair business at his home, and
has since 1947. He was the
principal backer of the petition.
A couple who own a mobile
home in Poplar Grove were at the
meeting in the hopes of gaining
approval from the supervisors
for an addition built onto their
home without a building permit.
The couple said that they weren’t
sure they needed a permit,
because they’ve witnessed many
structures being erected in their
area without permits. They also
said that they tried to get a
permit at the last minute but
were unable to obtain one. They
told the supervisors that if they
were forced to remove the
structure, they would lose
everything.
The supervisors said they
would turn the case over to the
zoning hearing board. It is that
board which must ultimately
decide whether or not the
structure may stay.
j Voter Interest in Primaries
Sparked by GOP Contests
L it it z R e co rd E x p r e s s P h o to s
Mrs. Wayne (Delores) Parsil displays one of the crocheted
handbags available in her new gift shop, The Straw Wheel, in
Zum Anker Alley. The shop specializes in items made by local
craftsmen.
New Gift Shops Open
In Zum Anker Alley
(Editor’s Note: This is the 68th in
a series of articles to acquaint
our readers with our local
retailers. The 69th article will
appear next week.)
Gifts, hand crafted and
otherwise, are making a big
appearance in the two newest
shops to open in Zum Anker
Alley, off East Main Street—The
Straw Wheel and Alley Gifts.
The Straw Wheel, which
specializes in items made by
local craftsmen,is being operated
by Mrs. Wayne (Dolores) Parsil
of Lititz.
Dolores, a former German
teacher at Millersyille State
College, chose the name of her
shop from the straw wreaths used
throughout Austria as symbols of
hospitality. One of the wreaths
hangs in the front window of the
shop, and a variety of them are
expected to be available in the
near future.
Selling mostly by consignment
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Mrs. Barbara Ganino and her three year old daughter,
Michelle, are shown with one of the unusual paintings from
Alley Gifts, new gift shop opened in Zum Anker Alley. Bar­bara
and her husband, Salvatore, are owners of the new
shop.
'Meals on Wheels'
To Start in June
A Meals on Wheels program
will get underway in Lititz before
the end of June, as a result of a
special meeting held May 3 to get
the project rolling in the com­munity.
Six persons volunteered to
serve on a temporary steering
committee, and will work with
the initial group of citizens who
called the meeting.
The new members of the
committee are Miss Barbara
Wise, Lester Wenger, Mrs.
Donald Rannels, R. M. Shank,
Mrs. Larry D. Zimmerman, and
Mrs. Jack Watson.
The committee will choose a
chairman from among its
members to serve as a tem­porary
coordinator.
The first meals, which are
hoped to be delivered before the
end of June, will be provided by
Lancaster Meals on Wheels for a
trial period.
Meanwhile, the committee is
searching for a place to use as a
dispensing point for the meals
and which can eventually be used
as a kitchen where the local
group can prepare its own meals.
The program is designed to
bring nutritious meals into the
homes of elderly, infirmed, or
handicapped persons who cannot
provide meals for themselves.
One of its chief goals is to help
persons stay out of nursing
homes as long as possible.
The service can be used on a
temporary basis, for as long as
the need exists.
Persons interested in obtaining
meals, either for themselves or
for a friend or relative, can
contact Mrs. Mary Swan, 626-
2592.
Persons interested in volun­teering
as drivers or visitors
(those who carry the meals into
homes) can contact Mr. or Mrs.
Warren Newcomer, 626-2474.
Further information can be
obtained from Mrs. Charles
Eshleman, 27 N. Broad St., or
Mrs. James Shannon, 215 S.
Locust St.
With more than 6,000 voters in
Warwick School District eligible
to vote in the primaries Tuesday,
a good turnout at the polls is
expected to be generated by the
unusually large number of
contests in this year’s local
election.
Figures from the Lancaster
County Registration Commission
show that 3,172 persons are
eligible to vote in the borough,
2,385 in Warwick Township, and
526 in Elizabeth Township.
In the borough, candidates will
be selected for mayor, auditor,
and tax collector, and in each of
the three wards, a Councilman,
constable, judge of elections, and
inspector of elections. Borough
voters will also be selecting three
candidates for school director.
In Warwick and Elizabeth
Townships, candidates will be
selected (one from each town­ship)
for supervisor, auditor, tax
collector, constable, judge of
elections and inspector of elec­tions.
Voters in the townships will
also be selecting three candidates
for school director.
Most of the candidates will
appear on the Republic ticket.
Those appearing only on the
Democratic ticket will be for
Inspector of Elections in the
Second and Third Wards of the
borough, and in Warwick East
District, and for constable in
Elizabeth Township.
The local Republican
organization announced this
week that it has endorsed in­cumbents
vying for Council seats
in the Second and Third Wards,
and the constable post in the
Third Ward of the borough.
The party stated it was not
endorsing any of the candidates
for Council from the First Ward,
because no incumbent is running,
nor is it endorsing any of the
candidates for School Board.
Major contests on the
Republican primary ticket will
be for the three Council seats in
the borough and for the three
available seats on Warwick
District School Board.
In the borough, Republican
voters may choose one Boro
Council candidate from the Ward
in which they live. Four can­didates
will be on the ballot in the
First Ward, none of them an
incumbent, and two each in the
Second and Third Wards, an
incumbent and a newcomer to the
race in each ward. All are on the
Republican ticket.
In the school district, seven
candidates are running “ at
large” for School Board. Four of
these candidates have cross-filed
and will appear on both the
Republican and Democratic
tickets. Voters may select three
of the candidates on their ticket.
There will be no contests on the
Democratic ticket. Other con­tests
on the Republican ticket will
be for Elizabeth Township
constable, Warwick Township
tax collector, and constable from
the Third Ward of the borough.
There will be no contests on the
Republican ballot for the jobs of
Mayor of Lititz, or supervisors in
Warwick and Elizabeth Town­ships,
only one name appearing
for each spot.
Candidates’ names follow,
grouped in alphabetical order.
Warwick District
School Board
David E. Buckwalter, Lititz
RD3 (incumbent); Robert E.
Gregory, Lititz RD1, Wallace B.
Hofferth, 212 E. Second Ave.,
Louise G. Kauffman, Lititz RD2;
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Will M e e t Tuesday
Park Trustees Concerned over
Illegal Drug Traffic in Boro
Trustees of Lititz Springs Park
will look for ways to curb illicit
drug traffic in the park at a
meeting next Tuesday, board
president George Biemesderfer
told the Record-Express this
week.
Biemesderfer was contacted by
the Record after state police
investigators named the park as
one of the “favored meeting
places” for drug transactions,
following a county-wide series of
drug arrests early last Thursday
morning.
Undercover agents stated that
they had made 12 illegal drug
purchases in the park during a
countywide investigation that
started ■ last September. This
constituted about one-third of the
illegal purchases made in the
county outside the city of Lan­caster.
Biemesderfer told the Record
that trustees suspected the illegal
drug traffic was going on in the
park but “we never could prove
it,” he said.
“We have been discussing it'
over and over again, and in view
of what has occurred, we’ll have
to discuss it more,” he said. He
said the board would be meeting
next Tuesday.
Biemesderfer said one of the
big problems lies in the fact that
the park is not borough land, that
it is private property designated
for public use.
Local police hâve authority to
go in the park, he said, but added,
“We can’t ask them to spend all
their time there.”
Police Chief George Hicks, who
took part in last Thursday’s
arrests, also stated that the
private status of the park land
was a handicap to law en­forcement
there, as well as the
lack of curfew and other
restrictions in the park.
At one time, officials had
considered chaining off the
parking lot in the park, one of the
alleged gathering places for drug
traffic, but this was not done,
Chief Hicks said.
Chief Hicks said local police
were also handicapped by the
fact that all the officers are well
known to persons using the park,
and cannot successfully engage
in any undercover investigations.
He said the park has been
under close surveillance by his
men, as well as “several other
spots” in the borough, and that
this surveillance will continue.
Lawrence J. Ruggiano, local
attorney and vice-president of the
Rec Center Board of Directors,
who has been working on some
method of regulating park hours,
told the Record this week that
trespassers in the park cannot be
prosecuted so long as there are no
signs posted that specifically list
park hours and trespassing
violations.
Signs imposing a dusk to dawn
curfew in the park had been
posted last summer, but these
were subsequently torn down and
sprayed with paint, local of­ficials
said.
Ruggiano said that while the
big problem apparently is in the
parking lot of the park, trustees
hesitated to close the parking lot
because it was used at various
hours for legitimate purposes,
such as parking by shift workers,
and by school students traveling
back and forth to school events.
Mayor Russell Templeton, in a
statement to the Record this
week, said that a stricter curfew
“doesn’t seem to be the answer.”
“They just change their
gathering place, even using
private homes,” the Mayor said.
“We had talked about a 10
o’clock curfew in the park, but it
never materialized,” he said.
“It’s hard to differentiate bet­ween
legal parkers (in the
our
the
parking area) and others.”
“Limitations are put on
police by the law itself,’
Mayor commented, adding that
he has been asking the court
“who they are trying to protect.”
“Stopping the source is the big
problem,” he said, noting the
heavier penalties being imposed
on the drug pushers. “A lot will
depend on the outcome of the
Bearings.”
“The police did a splendid job
(in the mass arrests) but we
haven’t stamped out whoever is
bringing it in (to the borough) in
bulk,” the Mayor said.
Four police officers from the
borough, and two from Warwick
Township took part in the sur­prise
series of arrests throughout
the county last week, resulting in
the arrests of 42 suspected
narcotics pushers.
Arrests involved three persons
from the borough, one of them a
juvenile, and two in the township.
Local officers working with
state police in making the arrests
in the borough were Chief Hicks,
Assistant Chief Joseph Fritz, and
Officers Ronald Sandhaus and
Charles Shenenberger.
Chief Paul Haines and Officer
Ray Lausch worked with state
troopers in making the two
arrests in Warwick Township.
Adults arrested included:
Walter David Hartman, 18;
318 Laurel Ave., Lititz,
charged one sale of prescription
drugs.
Michael James Yoder, 23, 220
E. Market St., Lititz, charged
with one sale of marijuana and
one count of conspiracy.
Glenn Eugene Miller, 21, Lititz
RD2, charged with conspiracy,
two sales of marijuana, one sale
of hashish and one sale of
prescription drugs.
Frederick Daniel Miller, 18,
Lititz RD1, charged with one sale
of marijuna.
Warwick Student Drivers Learn
You Can't 'Stop on a Dime,'
Pistols cracked and tires
screeched in front of Warwick
High School Friday as Warwick
students put their driving
abilities to a test -- and at the
same time learned some facts of
life about the highways.
The students were taking part
in a traffic safety education
program to disprove the old
bromide that a car can be
“stopped on a dime.”
Testing their reactions and
braking speed at 20 miles an
hour, students used a demon­stration
car specially equipped
with three revolvers attached to
the front bumper—one fired when
a red stop signal flashed in front
of the car, the second fired when
the student slammed on the
brakes, and the third fired when
the car was brought to a dead
stop.
Each firing marked the road
with yellow paint, showing the
distance it took the students to
bring the car to a halt after the
red light flashed.
As fellow students lined the
curbs along the road, Dirk
Schoenberger, Lititz RD3, a
senior at Warwick, slid behind
the wheel of the specially
outfitted sedan. Beside him sat
Millard N. Neff, safety engineer
for Nationwide Insurance,
sponsors of the program.
“Dirk has been driving for two
years,” Neff said over a loud
speaker attached to the car.
Warwick High students measure the
distance it tqok this car, driven at 20 mph
by senior, Dirk Schoenberger, to stop after
brakes were applied. Boys kneeling in
background are marking at the spot where
Dirk hit the brakes, 26 feet, 10 inches from
the sign labeled “ Car Stopped." Skid
marks can be seen on the road.
“Now let’s see how quick he can
stop at the ’terrific speed’ of 20
miles an hour.”
“Get the car going 20 miles an
hour,” Neff told Dirk. “As soon
as you do, I’ll fire the first gun
Immediately the red light will
flash on, and a yellow paint bullet
will blast a mark on the
pavement.”
“That’s your signal to put on
the brakes. When your foot hits
the pedal, the second pistol will
fire. The third gun fires when the
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