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(CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD, 1937| Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543 Thursday, April 24,1975 10 CENTS A COPY; $4 00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 18 PAGES — No. 5
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Steel poles embedded in concrete were recently
erected at the site of Rudy Dam along Rudy Dam
Road. Placed there by Warwick Township to
eliminate a dangerous situation, the poles are
intended to prevent out-of-control cars from
running into the creek. Said Dale Kofroth, township
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road foreman, ‘‘These will stop someone who’s out
of control, but someone who's really barreling . . .
nothing can stop them.” The township also in­stalled
new guard posts along each side of the road
along the dam.
Penn Twp. Residents Down But Not Out
A controversial tract of
land in Penn Township has
been rezoned from com-merical
to industrial at the
request of two area in­dustries
to facilitate the
building of an airstrip.
S u p e r v is o r s p a s s e d
unanimously on the rezoning
evem though 670 residents
has signed a petition against
it and had presented their
case at the March 26 public
hearing, .. ^ y , --
The two industries directly
affected by the action are
Myer’s Metered Gas, which
hopes to construct an air­strip
in connection with a
liquid propane gas
operation, and Ebersole
Land Development. Since
the area is now rezoned
industrial, other industrial
sites could begin blooming in
the area.
According to reports,
Supervisor John Henry Hess
moved on the rezoriing
despite a lack of discussion
on the subject during the
April 16 meeting.
Residents attending the
meeting asked supervisors
to explain the reason for
their decision in favor of the
rezoning when they knew
most of the residents were
against it.
Explaining he felt a
mistake had been made
when the zoning ordinance
was passed in 1971 zoning the
region commercial rather
than indsutrial, Supervisor
Jacob Bruckhart said some
members of the planning
commission had felt the
same way.
When questioned as to who
on the planning commission
in 1971 had felt the mistake in
classification had been
made, Bruckhart named Bob
Doster, no longer a member |
of the commission. Never-:
theless, Bruckhart noted
later that Doster had not
recommended rezoning to
industrial.
Bruckhart told the
gathering that rezoning had
been discussed before, but he
felt the time hadn’t arrived
for the change at that point.
He said he felt the change to
industrial zoning at this time
was acceptable “for the good
of the township” and said
there are many people in
favor of the change.
Pressed by those out front
to know who the people were
in favor of the industrial
zoning, both Bruckhart and
Hess referred to the town­ship
and county planning
commission’s approval of
the change.
It was mentioned later,
though, that the Lancaster
County Planiiing Com­mission
had written to the
township to question certain
drainage problems as well as
the fact that the township’s
comprehensive plan and the
changeover to industrial
zoning were of somewhat
opposing philosophies.
Horace “Bud” Martin told
the supervisors, “ I can
accept the decision if you
have good, logical reasons.”
According to those in at­tendance
at the meeting,
none were forthcoming.
Attorney Charles B.
Grove, Jr. had suggested to
the supervisors after the
March 26 meeting that they
gather signatures in favor of
the rezoning. Apparently,
this was not done, as no
petition was offered by them.
The attorney, in an at­tempt
to safeguard residents
from wide-open industrial
policies now in effect in the
township - for the time being,
any zoning officer approved
industry can move into the
area - asked the supervisors
to consider a curative
amendment to the new
zoning ordinance so that
industry growth would be
placed under certain
regulations.
He told supervisors at the
Boro Fines and Fees
Could Go Up, Up, Up
The day of the fifty cent
parking fee and the $2 fine
for letting your car sit on
borough streets for a week
may soon be a thing of the
past.
According to Boro
Manager Dave Anderson,
Councilman William York
has requested that council
consider updating borough
ordinances for fines and fees
at the next borough council
meeting scheduled for April
29.I
f council agrees that the
fines should be made stiffer,
residents will be paying
more for the pleasure of
visiting the borough office
every once in a while to turn
in their little yellow tickets.
Also on next Tuesday
evening’s agenda, Dr. Byron
K. Home, chairman of the
Lititz Bicentennial Com­mittee,
will be requesting
council action and advice on
matters involving visitors to
Lititz during 1976, with
particular reference to
campers and motor homes
a c c om m o d a tio n s and
sanitary facilities for those
vehicles.
Boro Manager Anderson
will be reporting to council
on a request he received
from Lititz resident, Wendell
C. Hower, 367 N. Broad St.,
that council provide Hower
with the status of an alley
near his property. Hower is
interested in knowing if the
borough would accept
responsibility for the dead­end
road, as it is at this time
classed neither as borough
nor private property, and
under what conditions they
would accept it for purposes
of upkeep.
The boro manager will be
making his reports to
council. These include:
May meeting dates: Boro
Council, May 27; Sewer
Authority, May 22; and
Bicentennial Committee,
May 15.
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M em o r ia l w e ek -en d
garbage collections will be
moved back one day with
each scheduled collection
taking place a day later.
“ April Shower” Gift Certificate Winners
Announced By Lititz Retailers
The Lititz Retailer’s who
participated in last
weekend’s April Shower of
Gift Certificates have an­nounced
their winners.
Below is a list of those who
shared in the more than $850
given by local retailers.
Unless otherwise indicated,
the amounts shown were
awarded in the form of gift
certificates. Following are
the stores and their winners:
Benner’s Pharmacy: $25
to Linda Bunnell, Lititz;
World Globe to Linda
Clausen, Lititz.
Bingeman’s Clothing
Store: $25 to Don Ober; $15 to
Mike Buch; $10 to Mrs.
Edward Pelger, all of Lititz.
Bingeman’s Restaurant:
$5 each to Arthur Nolt,
Evelyn Heisey, Emma
Roberts, Woody Neidermyer
and Richard Gorton, all of
Lititz.
Bob’s Save Rite Market:
$25 in Groceries to Mrs.
Arthur Kling; $15 in
groceries to Louise Lausch;
$10 in groceries to Martin
Mou, Lititz.
Commonwealth National
Bank: $25 Savings Account
to Freeman Becker, Lititz.
Dori Mae’s Dress Shop:
$10 to Mrs. Helen Worley,
Lititz.
Farmer’s First Bank: $25
Savings Account to Mrs.
Emma Roberts, Lititz.
First Federal Savings &
Loan: $25 Savings Account to
Mary Lou Balmer, Lititz.
D. E. Furlow 5 & 10: Table
Lamp to Hulda Royer, Lititz.
Glassmyer’s: $15 to Sara
Hackman, Brunnerville; $10
to Charles Sweitzer and $5 to
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meeting he would submit a
curative amendment to them
in 10 days for their perusal.
CITIZEN REACTION
We spoke with John
Dobosh a few days after the
supervisors’ meeting of
April 16. Dobosh, a Penn
Township resident, is one of
the more vocal opponents of
the controversial rezoning;
is, in fact, one of the more
vocal opponents of the
present township super­visors.
Said Dobosh, “This turn­down
has really upset the
people here after we spent
nine days gathering all those
signatures.
“It’s all cut and dry,” he
continued. “They couldn’t
give any reasons (for the
decision). There are certain
people here who are given
approval for anything they
request, and they all just
happen to be doing business
together and for the town­ship.”
He told the Record-
Express that in his opinion
the supervisors rezoned the
tract so parcels can be sold
to industry which is
necessary to bring in
revenue to pay off their
recent bond issue.
Pheobe Hunter, retired
school teacher, Penn
Township resident and
another opponent of the
rezoning measure and the
tactics employed by
supervisors, admitted she
was far from satisfied with
the answers given citizens as
to why the supervisors went
ahead and rezoned the land
without taking the
majority’s wishes into
consideration.
As one of the canvassers
for signatures to the petition
against rezoning, she felt
cheated and wondered aloud
why Supervisor Willis Huber
spent the entire meeting with
his head down refusing to
answer anyone’s questions.
Susan Shaw, a three year
resident of Penn Township,
told the Record-Express that
she and some others
questioned the assumption
by most people that the
airstrip was automatically
part of the new zoning and
would be built with no fur­ther
zoning procedure.
“I read the zoning laws,”
she said, “and it said an
airstrip can be put in as a
special exception to a rural
area.” She wondered if the
two industries that pushed
for the rezoning measure
had pushed themselves out
of an airstrip.
We wondered, too, and
called the Lancaster at­torney
who had been present
at the March 26 hearing to
present the citizens’ petition.
Carles B. Grove, Jr.,
explained that in its present
state as an industrial tract of
land, the chances for getting
an airstrip on the con­troversial
land are much
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R e e C e n te r B u d g e t In Je o p a rd y
R e a lis tic R e v is io n O n ly A n sw e r
“We had to have time,”
answered Pat Neroh,
president of the Rec Center
board when asked why she
requested school board
directors to vote on the Rec
Center budget at the school
board meeting on April 15,
even though she admitted
she was pretty certain it
would be voted down.
Rejected by the board
because of its $10,000 jump
over last year’s budget, the
new budget raised many
questions as well as many
complaints from directors.
Giving the nod to the new
budget would have meant
adding another $6,600 to the
1975-76 school budget since
the school district is
responsible for two thirds of
the needed Rec Center funds
while Lititz Borough handles
the other one third.
But considering today’s
tight money market,
directors were un­derstandably
not in the mood
to go that route. No one,
including President Neroh,
was surprised.
Nevertheless, it is im­perative
that the Rec Center
budget be in final acceptable
form by next month so that
when their fiscal year ends
on June 30, they will be
prepared with a new budget.
Director Roy Yeager was
vocal during the Tuesday
night meeting in em­phasizing
the need for a joint
session between represen­tatives
from the center, the
borough and the township.
Everyone concerned agreed
to the wisdom and the
practicality of Yeager’s
suggestion, but, according to
Miss Neroh, the Rec Center
is not in a position to wait for
action on a tabled budget.
Budget Revision
She cited the need to
rework and finalize a budget
so it would be agreeable to
all three groups involved.
That meant voting on the
budget presented at the April
15 meeting. In its rejected
form the Rec Center budget
is now open to revision.
Speaking of the planned
joint meeting with
representatives from the
three interested groups,
Miss Neroh told the Record-
Express in a later interview,
“We hope for an influx (of
opinions) at this meeting to
hopefully determine the
philosophies of the council
and board as far as the Rec
Center is concerned.
“I’ve heard that some
members of the board feel
they’re not in the Rec Center
business, they’re in the
school business. I can un­derstand
how they feel but
what they don’t realize,” she
continued, “is that, if the
Rec Center closes, then they
must expand the elementary
and middle school athletic
programs; the Rec Center is
geared to that age group. It
would probably end up
costing them more.”
This is Miss Neroh’s first
year serving as president of
the Rec Center board. She
told us “I’ve had a crash
course in the budget for the
past three months so that I
can answer everyone’s
questions.”
She explained that since no
increase had been asked for
in last year’s budget, the
request for an extra $10,000
is based on definite program
needs, though it may look
frivilous to those unfamiliar
with the Rec Center budget
and programs involved.
“Most other Rec Centers
are funded completely by
their municipality, but this
one (incorporated in 1946)
was set up to be and always
has been semi-self-supporting.
Community Center
Explaining that the term
“rec center” is really a false
one because the center is
really a community center
(in fact it was incorporated
as such) she said, “People
take advantage of it, take it
for granted.”
We wondered how many
people would be affected if
the center had to close down,
say for two months each
winter in order to save
money on utilities. “Well, it
would interfere with the
nursery school during the
school year would be directly
affected, and indirectly
affected would be all the
parents whose children are
kept busy and physically
active in the Rec Center
athletic programs.
Justly proud of those
programs, Miss Neroh ex-in
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Church News 14
Classified Ads 16,17
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section , 6,7
Women's 12,13
plained that most of them
are self-supporting before
they are initiated. Jerry
Kiralfy, director of the
center, approaches business
and industry in the area and
can usually count on many of
them to sponsor athletic
programs.
Said Kiralfy about the
problems he has in keeping
the recreation programs
functioning, “Money and
facilities keep us held down.
We have no gym down here
and have to rely on the
school district for gym
facilities. They’ve been
wonderful as far as the
elementary school goes, and
the high school has given us
decent co-operation; but it’s
impossible to get the middle
school gym.”
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Date Collection
The dates for public
meetings concerning the
1975-76 Warwick School
District budget have been
changed because of a
previous room commitment..
The new dates are as
scheduled: Tuesday, May 6
at 7:30 p.m. in the Rothsville
School, and Thursday, May 8
at 7:30 p.m. in the Middle
School.
The public is encouraged
to attend at least one of the
meetings to take part in any
discussion resulting from the
budget presentation. Public
input at this time will be
encouraged, and the opinions
of those in attendance will be
welcomed.
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Mother and daughter act for the benefit of those
less fortunate than they are — this team, Karen
Kolp and her mother Arlene, live in a beautiful
home in Lititz R2 but spend many hours away from
it in volunteer service. Both work with retarded
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children, Karen as a Girl Scout counselor and Mrs.
Kolp as an assistant-aide in the Intermediate Unit
13 classes held at the Lititz Church of the
Brethren. Karen also will begin participating in a
new volunteer program this month.
Volunteer Says She's
Motivated by Mother
by Bonnie Szymanski
Karen Kolp, Lititz R2, has
spent the last two years
involved in a new program
for retarded girls. The
program, initially sparked
by a mother of one of the
girls who is also a member of
the Lancaster Association
for Retarded Persons, is now
functioning under the
auspices of the Penn Laurel
Council of Girl Scouts.
Karen is one of four
women who donate time and
interest to a group of about
nine girls who would have a
difficult time keeping up
with their peers in a regular
Girl Scout troop, but who,
nevertheless, have the en­thusiasm
and desire to be
involved in the scouting
program.
Karen told us the program
was almost scrapped about a
year ago because of
leadership problems, but she
and the others now involved
decided the troop was too
important to allow it to
disband.
The troop consists of about
a dozen girls, most of whom
range in age from 10 to 15
and are at varying levels of
ability. Three of the girls are
volunteers in their own right
and have been included in
the ranks of the special troop
in order to help the other
girls with their projects.
These three also spend time
on their own, working on
badges or other more ad­vanced
projects.
“We thought we’d have to
do everything for these
g irls,” explained Karen.
“But that’s not the way it
is,” she continued as she
went on to describe a typical
meeting where the girls were
making ice cream sundaes
for themselves.
Karen is vocal about the
important service her scout
troop provides for deserving
girls who otherwise might
not have a chance to par­ticipate
in scouting, an
acitivity taken for granted
by most youngsters.
Need Lititz Volunteers
“We could use some more
volunteers from the Lititz
area,” she said, “because
there’s a girl who attends the
meetings from here and
transportation is sometimes
a problem.”
Karen spends only an hour
or two "at the “weekly
meetings which are held in a
Lancaster church, but a
great deal of her time is also
spent in preparing projects
for the girls to work on
during the meetings.
In addition, she ac­companies
about a half
dozen of the girls to a weekly
swim for retarded persons
held at the Manheim
Township High School pool
every Friday evening.
Is that all she does? Isn’t
that enough? Most of us
would say, “It sure is!” and
fell pretty proud of ourselves
in the bargain: but not
Karen. This month she is
about to embark on a new
volunteer project. But before
we tell you about that, let’s
meet her mother, a hard­working
volunteer in her own
right.
Meet Mom
Arlene (Mrs. Norman)
Kolp was straightening up
the house when we stopped
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