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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 PAGES — No. 51
Local Industries
Rely on Railroad
The fate of the Reading
railroad line through Lititz
will have a direct effect on a
number of local industries,
and if the line should be
abandoned, it will prove a
“hardship” to several, their
officials say.
However, one user, J. Roy
Yerger of Yerger Bros., is
optimistic that Lititz “will
never lose its railroad.”
Yerger Bros, has the
newest siding in the area,
having installed it about six
months ago, and relies on the
rails for about 40 percent of
its incoming raw materials.
These come from all the
the world, as well as the west
coast of the United States,
Yerger said. The company
uses its own trucks to ship
outgoing goods.
“We feel the railroad will
be here for a long time or we
wouldn’t have involved
ourselves,” Yerger said. He
said he had been informed by
“very reliable” sources that
Lititz probably won’t lose the
railroad, even though it may
fall under some later plan
involving state subsidy.
“This is a good paying
line,” he said.
Wilbur Chocolate Com­pany
depends even more on
the railroad, getting about 95
percent of its raw materials
via the rails, according to
Wilbur’s traffic manager,
Hob Neidig.
The local chocolate
company has most of its
cocoa beans and sugar
shipped here from
Philadelphia piers and milk
powder from the midwest.
The plant has its own
siding, and gets several
carloads of raw materials a
week, sometimes as many as
16 in one day, Neidig said. By
contrast, only about 20 to 30
carloads a year of Wilbur’s
goods are outbound.
“We’re geared for inbound
rail service,” he said, ex­plaining
that the siding
allows cars to stop alongside
hoppers.
Losing the rail service
would be a real hardship,
Neidig said. “It would be an
awful inconvenience, we
would have to revamp our
entire input system,” he
said.
If the railroad goes, he
said, Wilbur would have to
resort to trucking to bring
raw materials, and this
would be more expensive.
Edwin Miller, traffic
manager at Woodstream
Corp., said that only a minor
percentage of their raw
materials come in by rail,
but this amounts to about 70
cars a year. This involves
lumber, plastics, and waste
papers out of the midwest,
Texas, Ohio, and Oregon.
If the rail line is aban­doned,
Miller said, Wood-stream
also would have to
resort to the costlier system
of truck transport.
Ed Guión of Guyon, Inc.
depends heavily on rail
service for his raw
materials, and bought his
factory site with the idea of
putting in his own siding.
Losing rail service “would
be a financial hardship,” and
he would have to make
arrangements to have his
raw materials brought to
Lititz from another rail line,
he said.
“We would either have to
cut profits or tack it onto the
finished goods,” he said.
“Either way, it will be a
hardship for someone.”
He added that he doesn’t
know just how much weight
the small businessman will
carry with the government
to leave the line in.
Warner-Lambert is also a
user of the rail line, and has
its own siding, but actually
depends more heavily on
trucks for shipping.
However, loss of the Lititz
line definitely would be a
hardship to Warner-
Lambert. A spokesman from
there told the Record that
Lambert is contemplating
using more rail service than
before and loss of the Lititz
line would hurt them.
Major Primary Race Seen
For Warwick School Board
Renee Snyder, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Snyder, Lititz R2 won Five
Lititz Shopping Dollars for the Best
Entry in the Easter Coloring Contest
being sponsored by the Record-
Express.
Coloring Contest Winners
Renee Snyder, 8, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Snyder,
Lititz RD2, received Five
Lititz Shopping Dollars for
the best entry in the Easter
Coloring Contest being
sponsored by the Lititz
Record-Express.
Awarded Five Lititz
Shopping Dollars by a
drawing from all the entries
received was Megan Hoff­man,
9V2) daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. Max Hoffman, 448 S.
Walnut St., Lititz.
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.
Entries should be mailed
to the Lititz Record-Express
office and be received by
Noon Monday of each week.
Return entire ad and fill in
name and address form.
Bill Young, well-known
artist, will be the judge.
Contest rules and the
second picture to color can
be found on page 8.
Winners will be notified
and names published
Record-Express.
Lititz Police Reports
m
Eight, and possibly nine
persons, including at least
one incumbent, have filed
petitions to run for Warwick
School director in the spring
primaries. Most of them
cross filed for both
Republican and Democratic
tickets.
One incumbent, Director
Carl Reedy, told the Record-
Express he had filed his
nomination petition but
refused to state when he had
filed it. The registration
office at the courthouse was
still sorting petitions Wed­nesday
morning and that
office was not able to con­firm
whether or not Reedy
had filed. Deadline for filing
would have been 5 p.m.
Tuesday.
The other incumbent
whose petition was on file at
the courthouse when
checked Tuesday is John M.
Evans, current School Board
president.
Voters will be electing
three directors, and with the
area GOP committee an­nouncing
it will not officially
endorse any candidate, it
looks like a wide open
election.
Other contests are seen in
the election for District
Magistrate, where the in­cumbent
is being challenged
by three other potential
hopefuls, all cross filed, in
the Elizabeth Township
supervisors race, in the race
for Lititz’ Second Ward Boro
Council seat, and in election
of one supervisor each in
Elizabeth and Penn
Townships.
No one appears to be
Police Investigating
Rash of Hit and Runs
Local Woman Robbed, Warrant
Issued for Arrest of Suspect
Lititz police said Tuesday
that a warrant of arrest for
theft has been issued for a
man who allegedly robbed a
79-year old local woman of
$700 on March 5 while posing
as an electrician looking for
a short circuit.
Assistant Police Chief Jim
Fritz said that possibly some
other arrests will also be
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Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 12
made on this case. He did not
reveal the name of the man
against whom the warrant
was issued. He said the man
does not live in Lititz.
At the same time,
Assistant Chief Fritz issued
a warning to local residents
not to admit persons who
come to their doors without
proper identification. He
said that if residents have
“any doubt” about persons
who come to their homes,
they should refuse them
admittance, and then call the
police and give them a
description of the person.
“People should not be
afraid to call us. We will be
more than willing to check
out any of these reports,”
Fritz said.
Upon request of the local
woman who was robbed last
week, Fritz did not release
her name. He said she lives
in a single-family home in an
older neighborhood in Lititz.
According to Fritz, the
thief knocked on the door of
the victim’s home about 11
a.m. Wednesday, March 5,
said he was checking the
houses in the neighborhood
for a short circuit, and asked
to be admitted.
He then looked at the fuse
box, told the woman her
electric stove was faulty and
handed her a bill for $40.10.
The woman paid him in
$10s, Fritz said, but the man
said her preferred $5s. The
woman then went upstairs,
and removed cash from a
box in her bedroom, and paid
him.
The thief apparently
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Lititz police have been
plagued with a number of hit
and run accidents involving
parked cars in the borough
during the past week. In­vestigations
are continuing
on most of them.
The most recent took place
March 8 at 4:53 a.m., when a
car owned by Mildred
Mantz, Orwigsburg, Pa. was
hit while parked along South
Broad Street.
Charles M. Eshelman, 237
S. Broad St., will be charged
with hit and run in the case,
Officer Charles Shenen-berger
said. The officer said
a total of $2225 in damages
resulted from the crash.
Two hit and runs occurred
on March 4, tirrie unknown
by police, and David Hillard,
201 N. Locust St., was
charged with both incidents
by Officer Shenenberger.
The first one occurred in
the first block of South
Spruce Street, when Hillard
allegedly hit a parked car
owned by John Fry, 10 Ridge
Ave., Ephrata. Damages
amounted to an estimated
$300 to the Fry vehicle.
The other incident that day
challenging the Warwick
Township in c um b e n t
supervisor, or the Boro
Council incumbents from the
First and Third Wards.
The following persons had
filed petitions for nomination
as of this paper’s last official
check with the courthouse.
Other names may surface
when personnel there are
finished sorting petitions.
Warwick District
School Board
Aristide “Ray” Adelizzi,
business teacher, 102 Market
St., cross filed.
Victoria H. Badorf,
housewife, 118 W. End Ave.,
cross filed.
Robert W. Cooper, foundry
worker, 162 Weidler Lane,
Rothsville, Republican.
James D. Eby, chemist,
216 E. Lincoln Ave., cross
filed.
John M. Evans (in­cumbent),
engineer, 206 Owl
Hill Rd., cross filed.
Barbara E. Gainer,
waitress, 119 W. Lemon St.,
Republican.
Ruth Husser, housewife,
311 Balmer Rd., cross filed.
Wilson B. Smith, engineer,
506 Robin Rd., cross filed.
District Magistrate
(Justice of the Peace)
Paul F. Diehm (in­cumbent),
24 S. Broad St.,
cross filed.
Linda J. Huxta, secretary,
432 N. Cedar St., cross filed.
Sharron A. Simpkins,
notary public, 311 New
Haven Dr., cross filed.
occurred when Hillard
allegedly hit a parked car at
450 N. Water St., owned by
John Burns, of that address.
Estimated damage to the
Burns vehicle was $100.
Police said they traced
Hillard after they found his
car sitting in the middle of
Locust Street with extensive '
damage.
Officer Leroy Emmerich
is investigating a hit and run
incident that occurred
March 6 at 2:42 a.m., when
someone hit a parked car
owned by James L. and Ruth
Heisey, 325 S. Broad St. The
car was parked in front of
their residence. The car was
hit in the back end and
pushed 45 feet along Broad
Street and over a curb.
Damage was estimated at
$450.
Another hit and run oc­curred
March 5 on the
Warwick High School
parking lot on March 5,
between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Owner of the car, Peter H.
Styer, 17 Church St.,
Rothsville, a Warwick
student, said he had parked
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Boro, Warwick Twp.
Has to Cooperate,
Sewer Authority Says
Borough and Warwick Township officials went to
Harrisburg Tuesday to try to get some answers to their
sewer expansion dilemma but “not much came out of it”
other than the determination that the Sewer Authority is
going to have to decrease its expansion plans to 2 4 million
gallons a day if a new treatment plant is built.
“Other than that, there’s not too much to say,” Howard
Redcay, the Sewer Authority secretary, told the Record-
Express after the two-hour meeting with DER people.
Lititz now has to determine if the borough should ex­pand
the plant just for its own needs, or make
arrangements to include Warwick Township, Redcay
said.
The chances are the borough won’t get its federal grant
if it doesn’t include the township, because then it would
not be considered a regional plant, he said.
“Everyone seems to want to get Warwick Township in
now,” he said. “And the longer we wait, the more it will
cost.”
It’s going to have to be cooperation on both sides, he
added. “There may have to be some sacrifices on both
sides,” he stressed.
“It seems to be to everyone’s advantage to try to con­tinue
on this thing,” he went on, pointing out that Lititz
has to expand its treatment plant whether or not Warwick
Township is included.
But the borough also wants to hang onto its promised
federal grant, and this may mean a looser agreement with
the township, he said.
He said maybe the borough would not be “holding
Warwick Township down as tight as we had planned. ”
“We’re going to get some figures together from our
engineers on what we need from Warwick Township, and.
see if the township can swing it until they get their grant
in,” he said.
“We may have to help Warwick Township in order to get
our grant,” he added.
No municipality can build sewers any more without
federal money, Redcay said. He added that Lititz’ was the
first case to reach Harrisburg where two municipalities
were involved and one was “out of line” on dates.
“Now other ones are coming in,” he added.
Redcay said Lititz still has its priority for a federal
grant (an anticipated 75 percent funding), so long as it
reduces its plan from a 3.1 million gallon expansion to a
2.4 million gallon one.
“I’m optimistic that it can be worked out,” he said.
“Lititz will gain by anything we do, but if we lose the
grant it will be too costly to go it alone,” he said.
Redcay, Boro Manager David Anderson, engineer Don
Russo, and two attorneys represented the borough at the
session with the DER on Tuesday. Warwick Township was
represented by Marvin Feiler, chairman of the township’s
Municipal Authority, Bill Dussinger, chairman of
supervisors, and three of the township’s engineers.
Redcay said no meeting dates between the borough and
township have been set up yet, with both municipalities
waiting to see figures on what can be done financially in
Warwick Township.
Leroy S. Ulrich, office
manager, Lititz Rl, cross
filed.
Lititz Boro Council
First Ward: Lester E.
Stark, (incumbent) retired,
37 Plum St., Republican.
Second Ward: Donald
S tau ffe r, (incumbent)
production planner, 528
Bluebird Rd., Republican;
Thomas P. Rearich, Jr.,
bricklayer, 143 N. Cedar St.,
Democrat.
Third Ward: William York
( i n c u m b e n t ) , s a l e s
manager, 117 W. Third Ave.,
Republican.
Warwick Township
Supervisor: Joseph M.
Brubaker (incumbent), 38
Brusen Dr., Republican,
unopposed.
Auditor: Robert D. Gar­ner,
banker, 30 Woods Dr.,
Republican.
Elizabeth Township
Supervisor: Dale F.
Diehm, surveyor, Elm,
Republican; Jay R. Ober,:
road master, Lititz Rl,
Republican.
Auditor: Fred V. An­derson,
administrator, Lititz
R2, Republican.
Penn Township
Supervisor: John J.
Dobosh, c o n s u lta n t,
Manheim R5, Republican;
John Henry Hess (in­cumbent),
farmer, Manheim
Rl.A
uditor: Larry L. King,
banker, 51 Sunset Ave.,
Manheim, Republican.
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To Move Into
Hagy Store
'James Lippart, proprietor
of Lippart’s Men’s Clothing
Store, 22 E. Main St., an­nounced
recently that he has
purchased the Western Auto
Store building at 46 E. Main
St. from Floyd Hagy, the
store’s present owner who
will » be retiring from
business sometime this year.
Lippart has purchased the
building with the intent of
moving his business and will
announce the details of his
plans at a later date.
Cgntacted by the Record-
Express, Hagy’s wife said
she believes the Western
Aflto Associate Corporation
is “trying to find a location”
in Lititz for a future store.
The Record-Express also
spoke with Charlotte Heck
who has expressed a definite
interest in moving her
jewelry and antique business
into the portion of the
building next to the Sutter
Hotel. Said Mrs. Heck, “I
would like to move into the
one room on the side toward
the hotel, the one with the
front window.”
The building which now
houses the Lippart store is
owned by Frank Ford, 103
Front St., who said that his
decision on the new use of his
building is still under con­sideration.
WIMP0 Cooks 27% Miles of Spaghetti for Fund-Raiser
By Peggy Frailey
If all the speghetti cooked
for WIMPO’s fund-raising
dinner last Saturday was
laid end to end, it would
stretch for 27 V2 miles.
In fact the dinner turned
into such a shopping success
that the cooks had to start
serving three hours ahead of
schedule.
“We never expected to sell
that many tickets,” Mrs.
Garth Becker, cochairman,
said. Last fall, the band
parents organization sold 900
tickets to their spaghetti
dinner and THAT was
considered good. Last week,
ticket sales reached slightly
over 2600, and about 2350 of
the ticket holders showed up
at the Warwick High School
cafeteria, 400 for carryouts,
and the rest staying there to
dine.
Who cooked all that
spaghetti?
Mrs. John Jurrell for one.
Mrs. Jurrell, who was
cochairman, is employed as
a cafeteria cook in Warwick
School District, and she’s
been through it all before.
“But I never cooked for
that many,” she said. “When
we make spaghetti for the
school children, we usually
cook for 900 to 1,000 persons.
This was more than three
times that much!”
Of the 23 band parents who
helped her in the kitchen, 15
of them had worked in a
cafeteria at some time or
other, she said, and the rest
were novices.
All, including the
professionals, had volun­teered
their time free of
charge, and even donated
the tips they got Saturday to
the fund drive, to raise
money to send the Warwick
High School Band to the
Virginia Beach Music
Festival in June.
“I was a little concerned
when I learned how many
were coming,” Mrs. Jurrell
admitted. “I knew from past
experience that most people
would come between four
and six o’clock.”
And that’s just about what
happened. About 600 people
had been served between
noon and 3:30. The other 1750
persons showed up at dinner
time.
But there was only one
time when the spaghetti
couldn’t keep up with the
crowd, she said.
Meanwhile, those in the
waiting line (which extended
into the gym) were en­tertained
by Warwick’s
Stage Band, performing in
the hallway.
How much goes into a
spaghetti dinner for 2350
people?
Well, Mrs. Jurrell noted,
consulting her list, there was
300 pounds of fresh ground
beef, 16 cases of canned
spaghetti sauce, tomato
paste, puree, catsup, etc-
(that figures out to about 96
gallons), and 320 pounds of
spaghetti.
And then tossed salad, of
course. That took six cases of
lettuce, a crate of endive, 25
pounds of carrots, a crate of
radishes, to mention a few of
the ingredients. And eight
gallons of salad dressing.
There also were 240 dozen
rolls and 55 pounds of butter.
And a case of Parmesan
cheese.
And 10 pounds of coffee,
and 1900 cartons of iced tea,
orange drink, and milk.
Not to mention 2700 cup­cakes,
all donated. And
enough applesauce for
almost everyone, all but
three cases of this
homemade and donated.
Mrs. Becker attributes the
huge success of the dinner to
WIMPO’s enthusiasm.
“We only had one meeting
on Feb. 3, when we were
presented with the budget
for the band trip, and found
out the spaghetti dinner was
scheduled for March 7,” she
said. “We had one month and
five days to get ready.”
And they did it without any
more meetings. “It was all
by letter,” she said. “I sent
letters to all the band
parents with a check list for
them to indicate what they
would do to help.”
The results showed
tremendous cooperation
between the students and
parents, she said.
And why is WIMPO such
an enthusiastic group?
“I guess it’s because you
see enthusiasm in your
children, that you’re willing
to work hard,” she said.
“And because of the respect
the children have for their
band director (Dale Weller)
and the discipline he has
with them. The parents
appreciate that,” she said.
The invitation to p a r­ticipate
in the week-long
Virginia Beach Band
Festival is a big honor for
Warwick’s band, Mrs.
Becker continued. Only 16
were chosen. I t’s very
competitive, she said, and
this requires an “all-around
band.” The students will be
judged on marching, concert
performance, sight-reading,
and field competition.
The Virginia Beach
Chamber of Commerce
sponsors the event, she
explained, and the rules and
regulations are “ really
rough” - it’s for desciplined
bands.
Successful as the spaghetti
dinner was, the fund-raising
is not over yet. The band has
to raise a total of $14,000 to
pay their own way to the
festival (they have asked for
no money from the school
district), and students and
parents alike will be working
all spring to raise this. A
stage band competition on
March 2i, a band concert on
April 10, WIMPO’s annual
chicken barbecue on April
26, and a volley ball
m a r a th o n t e n ta tiv e ly
planned for April 4 and 5 are
some of the major fund­raising
projects scheduled.
Meanwhile, life goes on -
Mrs. Jurrell was back in
Warwick’s cafeteria at the
time of this report, cooking
lunch for the school children.
The menu was spaghetti.