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(Consolidated with The E ltitz Record, 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, August 1,1974___________ 10 c<,nt,w?tht^ Pl ia^^tePrecoyuntyby maU___________20 PAGES - No. 19
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A young German couple have been visiting Lititz
for the past two weeks as members of the
American Host Program, an organized tour for
teachers of English from Western European
countries, and have been touring some of the
schools and industries of the area. Shown above
with their host family, the John Helters of 53 Front
St., are Karin Hildebrandt (left), a college English
teacher, and her husband, Hartwin Hildebrandt
(second from right), a civil engineer. With them are
(left to right) Mrs. Heiter, Mrs. Marsha Heiter
Campbell, and John Heiter.
German Couple
With American
Lititz is a long way from Worfelden, Germany, but two
residents of that small village feel right at home here.
Karin and Hartwin (“Macky”) Hildebrandt are in this
country a& members of the American Host Program and
are spending two weeks as guests of Mr. and Mrs. John
Helter, 53 Front St. They have been touring schools in the
area, some industries, shopping centers, and local homes,
and also made ihjfge
Mile Island, and to Philadelphia and Washington.
Their visit here has also been well rounded out with
experiences at some of the local highlights - a Boro
Council meeting Tuesday night, the outdoor art show last
Saturday, Bingy’s Restaurant, the Goldwassar Room at
the Sutter, Henny Hershey’s bow and arrow trophy
collection, and a Hammer Creek fishing excursion, where
incidentally, Macky was well indoctrinated when he fell
into the creek.
The Hildebrandts lead a busy life in their home country,
where they live in the small village of Worfelden, near
Frankfurt in Western Germany.
Macky, a civil engineer, does concrete research and
building material testing, and has been involved with the
concrete work for a number of atomic power plants in
Germany.
Karin, who teaches English and Russian in a college in
Mainz, is also assistant mayor of her village. Politics and
government are major interests with her, and she readily
Visiting Lititz
Host Program
discusses her views and those of her students about both
the German and American governments.
Remarking that she has been following the Watergate
trials and lately the impeachment hearings, she explained
that the United States is considered a powerful, but
corrupt government in Germany, especially by the youth.
College students there, she explained, believe that the U.
S. President has too much power. The youth don’t like
this, she said, adding that they have the same objections
about Germany’s chancellor.
The young couple applied last winter to come to |his
country with the American Host Program, and chose the
eastern part of the United States from a “historical point
of view”. As Karin explains, “Europeans went to the east
first and we wanted to, also.”
“This is a very friendly country,” Karin went on, adding
that she had been warned that people in the larger cities
here are cold and hard. “Even in New York City, people
were friendly and helpful to us,” she said.
To Karin, Lititz is a delight, and not so very different
from her home village, which is populated by 2800 Ger­mans
and 350 Americans, mostly military families.
After their two weeks with the Helters, the couple will
leave Friday for another two weeks with a family in Rock­ville,
Md., where they hope to get a closer view of the
nation’s capitol.
Local Boy Seriously
A 14-year old Lititz boy is still in serious condition in the
constant care unit of Lancaster General Hospital, where
he was taken after he and another youth had a head-on
collision while riding their motorcycles on a private trail
Friday about 1 p.m.
Listed by the hospital in “serious” condition in Kevin
Herzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Herzer, 502 Woodcrest
Ave. He was expected to undergo surgery this week for
injuries of the nose and forehead, his family said.
Also injured was Dennis Achey, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Achey, 18 S. Elm St., who was treated at the
hospital and released to the care of his doctor.
Hurt in Cycle Crash
cornfield between Owl Hill Road and Swarthmore Drive,
in the southern end of the borough. The boys were
traveling toward each other when they collided at the
bend. The trail is heavily used by motorcyclists.
Chief Hicks said both boys were wearing helmets.
Although both were only 14, and ineligible for drivers’
licences, it is legal for them to ride motorcycles without a
license on private property, the chief said.
He said that those who are too young to operate the
cycles on the streets usually push them on city streets
until they arrive at the trails.
Damages to the two cycles was estimated at $200 to the
Achey bike and $50 to the Herzer bike.
Lititz to Protest Putting Any
More County Money into CTC
With the council president
voting no, and the vice-president
abstaining, Lititz
Boro Council Tuesday night
voted to protest to the
Lancaster County Com­missioners
against putting
any more county tax money
into Conestoga Tran­sportation
Company.
The subject, as well as the
motion that eventually
passed, was introduced by
C o u n c ilm a n D o n a ld
Stauffer, who strongly op­posed
spending any more of
“the taxpayers’ money” on
the bus company.
“It must be a poorly,
poorly run operation,”
Stauffer said. He said his
motion leaves the door open
for the county to take over
and rename the bus com­pany,
in which case, he said,
tax money would not be
going into a private
operation. “But I don’t really
want them (the county) to
take it over,” Stauffer ad­ded.
His motion triggered some
controversy among coun-cilmen,
who were divided
over how strongly they
wanted to word their protest
to the county com­missioners.
Council President Curt
Amidon, who was on of the
strongest backers of the
borough’s recent and un­successful
trial subsidization
plan of CTC bus routes to
Lititz, asked that the newly
formed Transit Authority be
given a chance to come up
with a plan, and that the
borough only ask for a
chance to either .igrae with
or oppose such a plan, at the
same time telling the
c o m m i s s io n e r s th a t
“otherwise” the borough is
opposed to spending any
more tax money on the bus
company.
Amidon said that it was
“interesting that the CTC’s
deficits had started
skyrocketing” after county
money started going into the
company.
However, he added that “a
lot of work” was going into
trying to find a solution by
bus company officials.
“I don’t ¿low what they
(the Transit Authoirty) are
asking for,” Amidon said,
“but they shouldn’t make a
decision until the
municipalities are con­sulted.”
“We’re not going to be
consulted,” Council Vice-
President Jim Yerger, who
later abstained from voting,
replied j to Amidon’s
statement. “The county
commissioners don’t operate
that way.”
He and Stauffer both
pointed out that the county
already has Lititz’ “con­tributions”
to the bus
company in the form of
taxes.
Amidon sought an
amended motion from
Stauffer, but the Coun­cilman
held firm to his
original motion to oppose
spending any more money so
long as the CTC is a private
operation.
“We’re all saying the same
thing,” Stauffer told Council.
“It depends on how much
you want to water it down.”
Postal Service
In what may prove to be a
test case with the U.S. Postal
Service, Council also voted
to protest that department’s
recent decision to discon­tinue
front door delivery of
mail to homes on new
streets.
The decision immediately
affects residents of the new
street, Skylark Drive , in the
eastern section of Lititz,
which, according to the
Postal Service, must now put
up mail boxes along the
sidewalk.
Boro Manager George
Steedle protested that this is
“discriminatory” against
other residents of the « , and stated he does
; people driving posts
into the grass strips along
sidewalks.
He told Council there are
gas lines, TV cables, un­derground
conduits, etc. on
the street. He said an in­spector
from the Postal
Service had checked the
area and stated that the
cables were far enough
underground that mail box
stakes would not create any
problem.
However, Steedle said, he
still objects to the ruling.
Councilman Stauffer said
he had already asked
Congressman Ed Eshleman
to check on this, but pointed
out that the Postal Service is
no longer an “arm of the
government.”
“This will be a test case
and may cause a temporary
hardship if residents must
pick up their mail at the post
office,” he said.
Councilman Bill York
charged that the new ruling
was actually a strategy
move on the part of the
Postal Service to “get more
money out of the govern­ment”
by generating a
demand from customers for
more service.
Council pointed out that
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R.I.W. - Rest In Weeds - might be
good inscriptions for these tomb­stones
in a neglected cemetery along
Newport Road. The stones are in a
cemetery on private land, and the
owner of the land is responsible for
their maintenance. Exactly who owns
the land, though, is in question.
Cemetery Is Live
At Warwick Twp.
A neglected cemetery on
Newport Road was the
subject of an unscheduled
slide showing at last
Thursday night’s regular
meeting of the Warwick
Township board of super­visors.
Jacob Birkenbine
told the supervisors that he
became concerned about the
condition of the cemetery
when he learned that some of
his relatives were buried
there. It’s located along
Newport Road, where it
meets Rothsville station
Road.
Birkenbine’s slides showed
debris, leaning tombstones,
and a fence pushed partly
over by dirt fill from a
parking lot for school buses
recently constructed on the
neighboring property.
According to Penn­sylvania’s
township code,
the owner of any property
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Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
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Meeting
which includes a cemetery is
responsible for maintaining
the cemetery. Cemeteries
can be legally closed up, but
only after a court order has
been obtained.
Birkenbine said part of the
problem with this cemetery
is that there’s some con­fusion
as to who owns the
property.
In other action, the
supervisors read a holding
tank ordinance, township
ordinance number 33, which
will be considered for
adoption at the next
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Lititz Police Chief George Hicks said the accident oc­curred
at a slight bend in a bike trail around the edge of a
Meagan Hoffman, Lititz, won first prize in the 8 to
11 age group of the Children’s Division.
Art Show Attracts Large Crowd
The Eighth Annual Out­door
Art Show attracted the
largest number of entries
ever to the downtown streets
of Lititz last Saturday, with
artists from within a 100-
mile radius of Lititz setting
up their exhibits along Broad
and Main Streets.
Michael Parameros, a
Baltimore sculptor, won the
$100 best of show prize.
First prize in oils went to
Isadore LaDuca of Easton;
second prize to Robert Betts,
Rothsville; third prize, Scott
Spangler, Landisville; and
fourth prize, Nancy Rohland,
Brownstown. Irene Miller,
Lititz, took an honorable
mention in this category.
In watercolors, first prize
was won by Craig Myers,
Sinking Spring; second,
Raymond J. Hendershot,
Pennsburg; third, Lynne
Emerich, Lancaster; fourth,
Harry Bentz, Shippensburg.
In graphics, Gene A. Shaw,
Akron, took first prize; Lew
Johnson, Norristown,
second; C. Rae Bradley,
Quarryville, third; and
Richard W. Huck, Lan­caster,
fourth.
In sculpture, Daniel C.
Witmer, York, took first
place. Second went to Bruce
Craddock of Jim Thorpe;
third to Joseph Kelly, East
Berlin; and fourth to Juan
Torres, Lancaster. Joseph
M. Jordan, Lititz, and James
Gallagher, Lititz, both took
honorable mentions in this
category.
Judging was done by Gino
Manelli and Wasyl Palijezul,
both of Baltimore, heads of
the art department at
Western Maryland College.
Approximately 150 adults
and close to 50 children
exhibited in the show,
sponsored by the Village Art
Association in cooperation
with the Lititz Retailers
Assn. Prize money totaled
$525.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Hamsher, Lititz, judged the
children’s division.
Best of Show in this
division went to Scott
Summy of Manheim and the
show’s “most potential”
prize to Trilby Bishop of
Rheems.
In the 1 to 7 age group, first
prize was won by Daryl
Bloom of Lititz. Runnerup
was Rene Runk of Lititz and
honorable mentions went to
Douglas Steinhauer, Lititz,
and Trevor Dixon, Lititz.
In the 8 to 11 age* group,
Megan Hoffman of Lititz won
first prize. Mike Kauffman
of Lititz was runnerup and
honorable mentions went to
John David Wissler of Lititz
and Mason McEnnon of
Lititz.
In the 12 to 14 age group,
Rich Vogel of Lancaster won
first prize and Lisa Bloom,
Lititz, was runnerup.
Honorable mentions went to
Lisa Umlauf of Neffsville
and Melanie Sheneberger of
Lititz.
L it it z R e co rd E x p r e s s P h o to s
James Gallagher, Lititz, took an his pottery,
honorable mention in sculpture with