Lititz Record Express

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SER VING THE WARWICK AREA FOR NEARLY A CENTURY
97th Year Established April, 1877, as Tha Sunbeam
(C o n s o lid a te d W ith T h e n u t z R e c o rd , 1 9 3 7 ) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, October 4,1973 IO centi a Copy; $4.00 per year by mall
within Lancaster County 18 PAGES — NO. 28
Conservationists
Oppose Penryn
Sewer F acility
Penn Township sewer plans
ran into a snag Monday night
when the board of directors of the
Lancaster County Conservation
District voted to oppose the
building of a sewer treatment
plant on Gish Road. The Lan­caster
County Planning Com­mission
had earlier voiced op­position
to the proposed treat­ment
plant, also, a fact which the
commission communicated to the
township supervisors in a letter
this past June.
Terry Brown, an official with
the Planning Commission, said
their opposition is based on a
conflict with a proposed flood
control dam at White Oak. The
dam has been in the works since
1963, and was originally proposed
for flood control on Chickies
Creek. Plans for the dam had lain
dormant for a number of years,
until last year, when Agnes sent
the creek up over its banks and
roaring through downtown
Manheim.
The township supervisors want
to put a small treatment plant, at
a cost of close to $300,000, on a
, tributary of Chickies Creek. The
plant would handle sewerage
from sewer lines to be installed in
the Penryn area. Funds for the
treatment facility would come
from a $2.5 million federal grant
which would be used to pay for
two other sewer projects as well.
According to Brown, the new
White Oak darn would be built ten
feet upstream from an existing
dam. A five-acre lake now lies
behind the present dam. The
proposed dam would impound a
90-acre area, and the new lake
would rise to within a few hun­dred
feet of the proposed'
treatment plant. Brown said that
Council Votes
'No Raise'
For Members
Just about the time a bill
raising the salaries of borough
mayors and councilmen passed
the House by an overwhelming
vote, and was sent to Governor
Shapp for signature, Lititz Boro
Council voted to drop its own
consideration of raising local
officials’ salaries, and leave
them as they are.
Council’s move came last
week, afte r several months
consideration of three a lte r­natives:
raise their own and the
mayor’s salaries, lower the
compensations, or drop them
altogether.
Council voted to leave the pay
as it is: i.e., $25 a month for
Councilmen, payable if they
attend the regular monthly
Council meeting, and $25 a month
for the mayor, payable whether
or not he attends Council
meeting.
. Currently, under state law,
borough mayors get $300 an­nually
in any boroughs with less
than 1,000 people and $200 for
each additional group of 1,000.
The proposed law would raise the
base salary to $450 and provide
$300 more for each additional
1,000 of population.
Borough councilman salaries
now range from $25 to $200 a
month, depending on borough
population. Under the legislation,
the range would run from $35 to
$250 per month.
if both the dam and the plant
were built, the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental
Resources (DER) would un­doubtedly
require a very high
treatment capacity at the plant.
This would be necessary to insure
that water running into the lake
would be as clean as possible.
Building a plant with that much
capacity could become very
expensive, Brown commented.
“Another thing that’s going
against the treatment plant at
that particular site ,” Brown
added, “is that the 90-acre lake
could become the focal point for a
recreation area. If it were to be
designated a recreation facility,
it wouldn’t be a good idea to have
a sewer plant there. Areas
around treatment facilities tend
to develop fairly rapidly, and that
kind of development could
destroy the area’s potential for
recreation,”
“We have suggested an
alternate site to the township
supervisors,” Brown continued.
“It’s on another tributary, but it’s
downstream from the dam. We
feel this would be an equally
suitable site, but the supervisors
haven’t told us their thoughts on
our suggestion.”
Brown pointed out that the
Planning Commission was 'also
opposed to a sewer project in an
area south of Manheim, around
Buck Noll Road and the Manheim
Auto Auction. “This is prime
agricultural land, which we feel
should be kept in farms,” Brown
said. “And whenever an area is
sewered, it is also developed.”
Brown did say that the com­mission
felt sewers might be
installed to handle present needs
in that area, if a problem Exists
with on-lot septic tanks. But he
added that the commission would
be against any sewer capacity in
excess of that needed to handle
the residences now in the area,
because that would only en­courage
more development.
Penn Township’s other
proposed sewer project is east of
Manheim, along Doe Run Road,
and there’s so far been no op­position
voiced to that project.
Meals on Wheels volunteers are shown
preparing meals for delivery to clients one
recent morning. The volunteers are, left to
right, Mrs. Elwood Klase, 51 N. Oak St., Mrs.
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o to
Menno Rohrer, 51 Kissel Hill Rd., Mrs.
Robert Garner, 242 Landis Valley Rd., and
Mrs. Charles Eshelman, 237 S. Broad St.
Meals on Wheels Program Now
Has 75 Volunteers, 14 Clients
From a standing start in June,
the Lititz Meals on Wheels
program has grown to the point
where there are now some 75
volunteers available for serving
14 steady clients. In all, the non­profit
program has served 24
clients in the past few months,
some on a temporary basis.
Meals on Wheels programs are
also operating in Lancaster and
the Ephrata area, according to
Mrs. Charles Eshelman, one of
the prime movers for the local
organization. “Eventually, we
hope to cooperate with other
groups to cover the entire
county,” she said.
In the beginning, the Lititz
group bought their meals from
Lancaster. About a month ago
they moved into the kitchen of the
Lititz Brethren Church. Now
every morning, Monday through
Friday, the smells of good home
cooking fill the church and an­nounce
that Meals on Wheels is
on the job.
Sometime after 9:00 a.m.,
volunteer cooks fire up the stoves
to prepare the two meals to be
delivered that day to clients.
There’s one cold meal to be kept
for the evening repast and a hot
meal to be eaten when it’s
delivered.
According to the group’s foods
chairman, Mrs. George Roosen,
25 Woodland Drive, one typical
recent noon meal included Swiss
steak, parsley rice, peas, sum­mer
slaw, Jell-0 fluff and bread
and butter. The second meal
consisted of juice, cream cheese
and olive sandwich, fruit salad,
an apple and a half-pint of milk.
Clients get both meals in one
delivery, around noon.
Mrs. Eshelman said there will
always be a need for more
volunteer drivers and cooks to
serve an increasing number of
clients. Meals are delivered now
to Kissel Hill, Rothsville,
Brunnerville, Penryn and
Manheim. Anyone who can’t or
won’t serve his or her own meals
is eligible for the program. The
fee of $10 a week covers the cost
of food and supplies', but not the
labor. Volunteer workers prepare
and deliver all the meals free of
charge.
Anyone who’d like to get Meals
on Wheels service should call 626-
2500 anytime from 9 to 12 Monday
through Friday mornings.
4 Ties For Closest Guess
No Correct Scores in Football Contest
Special Police Course
Approved by Council
Boro Council has approved a
request from Police Chief George
Hicks to send Special
Patrolwoman Floy Ulrich and
Patrolman Earl Steffy to the M-
40 Training Course being held by
Pennsylvania State Police during
October.
The 40 hour course deals with
basic techniques of investigating,
interviewing, interrogation, and
covers selected elements of the
new crimes code and the motor
vehicle code.
Mrs. Peggy Ahlum, (left) RD2, Lititz,
receives the prize of 25 Lititz Shopping
Dollars after her name was picked at
random from the 4 closest guesses sub­mitted
in last week’s football contest.
Presenting the prize is Lobert Klotz, owner
of Klotz Kleners, where Mrs. Ahlum
registered her guess.
No one had last week’s football score exactly right in the Lititz Retailer’s
Football contest. There were four persons within 4 points of being correct and
from those four names the $25 winner was chosen at random. The other three
automatically are entered in the drawing for the Miami Trip to be given in Nov. In
addition to the winner pictured above, the other three persons were: K.
Frederick, S. C. Yoder, and Jim Longenecker, all of Lititz.
Ten names were also drawn at random from all the entries and are eligible for
the Miami Trip. These names can be found throughout this issue of the Record
Express. ■
Be Sure to Enter This Week’s Contest — WARWICK vs. E-TOWN.
COMPLETE RULES and PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS can be found on page 16.
Martin S. Fidler
Fidler Is
New Lititz
Postmaster
The new postmaster in Lititz is
Martin S. Fidler, a career postal
employee who lives in Columbia.
According to Robert W. Lilley,
Lancaster sectional manager,
the appointment was made under
the non-political merit system
and does not require con­firmation
by any political body.
Fidler began his Postal Career
in 1941 at the Columbia Post
Office as a carrier. He tran­sferred
to a clerk position in 1950
and was promoted to assistant
postmaster at Columbia in 1963.
In 1972 he was transferred to the
Lancaster Post Office as a tour
supervisor. He assumed charge
of the Lititz Post Office on August
17, 1973 as officer in charge.
Fidler served in the Pacific
with the Army during World War
II. He was later transferred to a
postal unit to become First Sgt. of
the 14th Base Post Office, Seoul
Korea. After the war, he returned
to the Columbia Post Office.
He is married to the former
Dorothy Mae Cook and they have
two sons and a daughter.
He is active in the community
and in church circles, being a
member of the Pastor-Parish
Relations Board of Salome
United Methodist Church. He is a
certified lay speaker in the
United Methodist Church.
In This Issue
Business Directory 15
Church News 14
Classified Ads 16,17
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 12
Boro Needs New Water
Pump, 2nd Storage Tank,
Engineer Tells Council
A newly released report on the
borough’s water facilities calls
for a new water pump and a new
storage tank, with a cost estimate
of $869,400, to meet the area’s
water needs in the next 10-15
years.
The report was written by
Wilson Smith of Huth Engineers,
who pointed out what he termed a
“significant” 70 percent increase
in water comsumption in the past
10 years.
The report also recommends
installation of a diatomaceous
earth filter plant for a one-month
trial, to reduce sporadic turbidity
(cloudiness) in the borough
water.
Boro Council has given Huth
the go-ahead to run a pilot test on
this type of filter, at an ap­proximate
cost of $1200 for the
one-month trial.
In his report, Smith said that
whereas the borough water
system pumped 700,000 gallons a
day in 1964, it is now pumping 1.2
million gallons a day.
This is water supplied to the
system, Smith said, and in­corporates
about a 25 percent loss
within the system, through leaks,
etc. Of this, he said, about 400,000
gallons a day are used by in­dustry.
“We have indications that
industry will require more
water,” he said.
He also pointed out Warwick
Township’s request for one half
million gallons a day.
He said his projections are
based on the borough’s water
usage in the last 10 years.
The report calls for installing
an additional pump, at 1500
gallons per minute, and an in­crease
in the clear well capacity
to clorinate water.
He said the effective water
storage within the borough is
approximately 2,030,000 gallons,
about one and one-half million
gallons short of the amount which
will be needed by 1988.
Water storage requirements
are figured on three factors, he
said: storage for fluctuating
demands, fire reserve, and
emergency storage.
Lititz’ primary storage facility
is a two million gallon concrete
tank on Kissel Hill, connected to
the distribution system and the
Maple Street Pumping station by
a 16-inch pipe.
A secondary storage facility
exists at South Spruce Street and
West Third Street, consisting of a
338,000 gallon steel tank.
However, the relatively low
elevation of this tank means that
only about 30,000 gallons of this
storage would be effective, Smith
said.
The rest of the storage is
situated below the minimum
desired pressure gradient for the
distribution system, he said.
Smith recommended finding a
location for an additional ground
storage tank north of the
borough, on land that would place
the new tank at the same over­flow
elevation as the tank on
Kissel Hill.
This, Smith said, would provide
the borough with adequate
storage located on either end of
the distribution system and
A bill that would allow Second
Class Townships with populations
over 3,000 to elect five super­visors,
instead of only three, has
passed the House.
The bill states that the court of
common pleas, upon petition,
may provide for the election of
two additional supervisors in any
township of 3,000 or more, as
determined by an official census.
It states that the petition shall
be presented by the Board of
Supervisors, or by at least five
percent of the registered voters
in the township.
William Dussinger, chairman
permit an ideal pressure gradient
on the system.
Construction costs for a new
pump and filters would amount to
$209,300, Smith said. If softening
is added, the pump and softener
would cost $492,800.
Combined cost of a new pump
and filters, and a new storage
tank is estimated at $869,400.
With softening, the total package
would cost $1,153,000, Smith said.
Smith said these figures in­clude
construction costs, plus 35
percent of these costs added on
for engineering and legal fees,
financing, land purchase, and
costs contingent to construction.
The diatomaceous earth filters
are considered necessary for the
borough’s newer pumps at Locust
Street, where water comes in
A group of property owners on
Spring Avenue, in Sutter Village,
are interested in buying a strip of
land along West Second Avenue,
which runs just behind their back
yards, with the idea of keeping it
as “open space” for a play area
for their children.
Two of the residents, Cleon
Weidman, 549 Spring Ave., and
Ronald Price, 515 Spring Ave.,
appeared before the borough
Planning Commission Tuesday
night to find out whether they
could subdivide the strip into lot
widths similar to their own
properties and add them on to
their deeds as extensions to their
backyards. The two were
representing about 26 property
owners who are considering
buying the 980-foot piece of land,
owned by John Kendig.
The residents were informed,
however, that since the West
Second Avenue tract is zoned R-l,
any subdivision of it would have:
to be into R-l size lots, that is 8400
square feet each.
These would be about twice the
size of the residents’ lots on
Spring Avenue, which are 37¥2
feet wide.
This fall juniors and seniors at
Warwick High School will have
the opportunity to join over one
million other students around the
world in taking the Preliminary
Scholastic Aptitude Test-
National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test as an important
step in making college plans.
The test will be given at
Warwick on Oct. 25. It is designed
to measure the verbal and
mathematical aptitide, two
abilities that research has shown
to be important in doing college
work.
In addition to helping students
find out more about their
abilities, the PSAT-NMSQT
Student Bulletin, available from
the school counselor, will
describe:
--how one can enter the com­petition
for scholarships ad-of
Warwick Township’s super­visors,
said the state Township
Supervisors Assn, has been in
favor of the bill since it went into
committee last May.
Dussinger said he also favored
passage of the bill, and would like
to see five supervisors elected in
Warwick Township.
He said an additional two
supervisors would lighten the
work load for the board. “It
would give us five men, instead of
three, to do the work,” he said.
The 1970 census listed Warwick
Township with a population of
6900 persons.
cloudy after heavy rainfalls.
Although water is not used from
these wells at this time, the wells
are expected to be put into use in
the future,, as demand for
borough water increases, Boro
Manager George Steedle said.
He said the borough has “no
problem” with turbidity in the
water from the Maple Street
wells, the ones now in use by the
borough. He said filters are not
used on these wells.
Steedle said the borough
presently uses two different types
of diatomaceous earth filters on
the swimming pools, one of which
he “likes,” and one which he does
not like.
He said the borough “knows
what it wants” for the water
system.
The residents were informed
that the land could be purchased
as a corporation action, and could
be kept either as one tract, or
subdivided into R-l size lots.
The commission stated that the
borough does not want the West
Second Avenue land used as
accessory lots to Spring Avenue,
for garages, driveways, and
utility sheds. It said Second
Avenue was intended for single
dwellings, and the borough wants
to maintain the street’s identity
for that type of housing.
Residents indicated they were
primarily interested in ensuring
that apartments are not built on
the land, and feel that if they own
the land, they can control what
goes in there.
The commission also approved
a sketch plan of changes to a
street layout in the Libramont
Development on Kissel Hill,
redirecting Swanee Drive and
providing for a new street bet­ween
Swanee and Oxford Drive.
Developers, Messick Realty
Corp., must next submit
preliminary plans with water,
sewer, and street profiles.
ministered by the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation.
-how one can enter his name in
the College Board’s Search
Service (SSS) files so they can
get information from colleges.
Local Woman
Hit by Car
A local woman was injured
when she was struck by a car
while crossing East Main Street
Monday at 7:15 p.m.
Injured was Virginia R.
Martin, 25,212 Cardinal Rd., who
was taken by the Warwick am­bulance
to Ephrata Community
Hospital, where she was treated
and released.
Police report that the Martin
woman was crossing in the 100
block of East Main Street, and
had stopped in the center of the
street for a westbound car to
pass. She was struck by an
eastbound car, operated by Alice
L. Keene, 425 E. Main St., who
told police she did not see the
Martin woman standing on the
road.
The accident is still under
investigation by Officer Ronald
Sandhaus.
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‘Trick or Treat’
Halloween Trick or Treat
i Night will be observed in the
borough on Wednesday, Oct.
31. A time limit, from 6 to 9
p.m., has been set on trick or
trea ters, Police Chief
George Hicks said.
Bill to Allow Two More
Supervisors Passes House
Spring Avenue Residents
Want to Buy Kendig Land
Scholarship Tests Oct. 25
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