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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 14 PAGES — No. 16
Effective Sept. 1
What they won’t do for their swim
team! On the Fourth of July members
of the Woodridge Swim Team held a
pie eating contest at the pool. Here,
Jeff Krushinski and Mary Beth Gibbel
are battling it out over what looks like
cherry pie. However, Kurt Smith
turned out to be the grand champion
pie eater.
Lunch Prices on Agenda
For School Board Tues.
W a rw ic k ’s s c h o o l
cafeterias have ended the
year with a hearty balance,
thanks to a surplus of beef
from the goi eminent this
year, and school directors
are now trying io ueciae
whether to raise or lower the
price of school lunches next
year.
The final decision is ex­pected
to be made at the
School Board’s regular
meeting Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, a straw vote
taken at the Board’s com­mittee
of the whole meeting
last Monday indicates that a
majority of the directors are
leaning toward raising the
price a nickle.
Mrs. Doris Stauffer, food
service director, told the
Board in her annual year-end
report that she was
ending the year with a
$70,000 balance, although
School Director Carl Reedy
hastened to point out that
this balance does not take
into account the electric bill
and the food service
director’s salary, all of
which comes out of the
district’s general fund rather
than the cafeteria budget.
Mrs. Stauffer said she
served a total of 439,842
I n T h is I s s u e
Business Directory 10
Church News 11
Classified Ads 12,13
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 8
student lunches during the
past school year, 13,731
faculty lunches, and 22,819
free and reduced price
lun he«
Seventy-six percent of the
students ate school lunches,
as compared with 72 percent
the preceding year, she
reported.
She said she received
about $28,000 worth of beef
free from the government
this past year, adding that,
in fact, she hadn’t had to buy
any ground beef at all.
However, she noted, she
never knows what the
government is going to send
her, and the district could be
getting much less next year.
For the last five weeks of
school, student lunch prices
had been reduced by ten
cents, were at 30 cents for
elementary students and 40
cents for secondary students
at the end of the term.
Faculty prices remained,at
75 cents. /
The School Board must
now decide whether to revert
to original prices of 40 and 50
cents, which Mrs. Stauffer
recommends, or reduce
them by five or ten cents.
Mrs. Stauffer is also
seeking permission to buy a
$3,100 convection oven out of
cafeteria funds to start a
limited baking operation in
the school district. She told
the directors her cooks
would be able to supply
students with fresh bread
and rolls, along with cakes
and cookies, with this new
equipment.
Water, Sewer
Rates Go Up
This decision also will be
made Tuesday night.
School directors also will
be acting on a proposed
student rights and respon­sibilities
policy which was
prepared by a committee of
students, teachers, and
parents, along with District
Superintendent H. Dale
Winger.
Shots Fired
At Vehicles
On E. Orange
Lititz police are in­vestigating
a number of
shots fired into the hoods of
two parked vehicles on East
Orange Street last week.
On July 4 at 4:25 p.m., i Harold Gower, 16 E. Orange
St., reported that a hole had
been shot through the hood of
his van, parked in front of his
house, and later, a neighbor,
Charles Stoner, same ad­dress,
found that a bullet had
been fired at the hood of his
car and had glanced off.
Police said the hole in
Gower’s van appeared to
have been made by a .30
caliber gun, and that a slug
was found under the hood.
Police said that someone
apparently fired a rifle from
a passing car, but so far no
suspects have been
questioned, and no witnesses
have supplied any
descriptions of passing
vehicles.
Borough water and sewer
rates will bq increased as of
Sept. 1 billing, the first time
in the last six years that
Lititz households will be
required to pay more for
combined sewer and water
service.
The rates are being in­creased
to help pay for a
coming expansion of the
water system in the borough
and the planned expansion of
the sewer treatment plant.
While the present increase is
relatively minor, Assistant
Boro Manager Curt Amidon
said that a larger increase in
sewer rates can probably be
expected after the treatment
plant is actually expanded
and a new treatment system
is put into effect.
The combined water and
sewer rate increase set for
September will amount to 80
cents a quarter for
households on a minimum
rate, those using up to 800
cubic feet of 6,000 gallons of
water.
The minimum rates for
water will be increased from
$4.40 a quarter (for up to
6,000 gallons) to $4.80.
Minimum rates for sewer
services will be increased
from $4.80 a quarter (for the
same amount of flow) to
$5.20, or a total of $10 for
combined sewer and water.
Households using more
than 800 cubic feet will be
getting bills showing in­creases
of anywhere from 90
cents (for 900 cubic feet) to
$12 (for 12,000 cubic feet).
In the last 10 years, when
the cost of most things was
starting the big climb, Lititz’
sewer and water rated were
one of the few commodities
that not only held the line but
at some points decreased.
In 1964, combined
minimum sewer and water
rates dropped from $10.50 a
quarter to $10.125. (This was
for up to 750 cubic feet or 5625
gallons).
One year later, while the
minimum quarterly water
rates were left at $4.50, the
sewer rated dropped again
from $5.625 to $5.25 a
Zoning Board OK’s Three
Historical Area Changes
The borough has a new councilman
as of Monday at 7 p.m. when C.
Wendell Hower, (left), 367 N. Broad
St., was sworn in by Mayor Raymond
Reedy before the council. Hower is a
past councilman and the principal of
Manheim Township High School in
Neffsville.
At their Monday evening
meeting, the Zoning Hearing
Board granted special
authorization to Dr. Harry
G. Resh for the modification
of an existing sign in front of
his chiropractic office at 126
E. Main St.
The sign change was given
approval by members of the
Historical Area Advisory
Committee present at the
meeting after Dr. Resh
described his plans for a
“colonial look” in keeping
with the general atmosphere
of Lititz’s historical district.
Two to Paint
Upon approval of the
Historical Area Advisory
Committee, the board
g r a n t e d s p e c i a l
authorization for Dr. Paul G.
Hess, 514 S. Broad St., to
change the colors of his
building at 27 S. Broad St. to
Governor’s Palace Tan for
the main portion of the
building with Nicolson Shop
Red to be used for the front
door and shutters.
Also granted upon
recommendation of the
Historical Area Advisory
Committee was a special
exception for Irvin N. Miller,
lessee and proppective buyer
of the building at 47 S. Broad
St., to paint the exterior trim
Archibald Blair Gold and the
door Palace Arms Red.
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“The Postmaster’s S
Corner,” a new column :£
>y Lititz’ Postmaster
Vlartin Fidler, appears
n this week’s Record-express
on the Editorial >:•:
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quarter.
In 1969, both rates were
dropped again, water to $4.20
a quarter and sewer to $5, for
800 cubic feet or 6,000
gallons. At that time, the
borough not only dropped the
rates but increased the
amount of water allowed
under the minimum rates.
In 1971 the water rates
went up to $4.40, and the
sewer rates went down to
$4.80, which meant that the
minium combined total
stayed the same as in 1969,
$9.20 a quarter.
In the late 1960’s the
borough started building up
a water system construction
fund in anticipation of an
expansion.
The borough is now looking
at an expansion of its clear
well, the part of the system
where the water is
clorinated.
There are now two
operable pumps for the
system, but the present clear
well is only large enough to
handle the amount of water
pumped by one well. A
larger clear well will let the
borough pump more water at
one time, Amidon explained.
The borough is also looking
at a protective matting that
can be laid in the stream
near the newer Locust Street
wells. A recent dye test
showed that after a heavy
rain, water from a section of
the stream was getting into
these wells and causing
turbidity. .
Engineers and Boro
Council are now studying the
effectiveness and cost
factors involved iri various
types of expansion for the
water system.
Plans for a major ex­pansion
of the sewer
treatment plant, including a
th re e -stag e tre a tm e n t
process, have already been
apporved by the borough,
and Lititz has been promised
about 75 percent federal
funding of the project. This
expansion will include
capacity for Warwick
Township.
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Cindy Gingrich, 1975 Queen of
Candles, wearing, her crown of
flowers, holds lighted taper during
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the annual pageant. Ringbearer,
Marlin Hershey, is in background.
13,000 View Lititz’
July 4th Celebration
In addition, the board
approved Miller’s request
that he be able to place a
black wrought iron railing
along one side of the front
steps.
Mock Accident
Will Be
Staged Saturday
Three area ambulance
crews and Warwick
Township police will stage a
mock accident Saturday at 2
p.m. at Spade’s Corner, the
intersection of Lincoln and
Clay Roads in Warwick
Township.
The public may witness
the proceedings.
A three-car accident will
be simulated, and from six to
eight “victims” will be made
up to appear as though
sustaining various injuries.
Just as in a real accident,
Warwick Township police
will be notified, and dispatch
the Warwick, Brickerville,
and Rothsville ambulances
to the scene by radio.
The “victims” will ac­tually
be transported by
ambulance to the Warwick
Township M u n ic ip a l
Building, rather than to a
hospital.
Purpose of the drill is to
perfect cooperation between
tlie police department and
the ' three ambulance
associations in preparation
for a possible major ac­cident.
The three ambulance
crews recently entered into a
joint cooperation program
with the township police.
An estimeated 13,000
persons visited Lititz on the
Fourth of July to take part in
the holiday festivities in
Lititz Springs Park and to
witness the crowning of
Cindy Gingrich as the 1975
Queen of Candles.
Cindy who graduated this
year from Warwick High
School, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Marlin
Gingrich, 509 W. Marion St.
She was voted queen by the
senior class at Warwick
High.
Cindy was crowned by last
year’s queen, Kath Gamer,
and was attended by her ring
bearer, Marlin Hershey, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Hershey, 141 E. Lincoln
Ave., and flower girl,
Heather McCloud, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Mc­Cloud,
103 W. End Ave.
“Cherish the Past” was
the theme of this year’s
pageant, planned by a
committee headed by Mrs.
Garth Becker. Miss Patricia
Sulliavan, a teacher at
Linden Hall School for Girls,
was narrator for the
program.
The 12 contestants for the
queen’s title were escorted to
the stage of the am­phitheater
by their fathers.
Following the program, the
newly crowned queen led a
procession to the head of the
spring and began the
traditional cnadle lighting
ceremony, one of the few
such ceremonies still con­tinuing
in the nation.
The program was filmed
by a crew from the Lan­caster
County Bicentennial
organization and will
become part of a film that
will be shown at the county’s
Bicentennial headquarters.
A major attraction during
the holiday weekend was the
annual Lititz Antiques Show
and Sale, conducted by the
local Historical Foundation.
Two important members of the Queen of Candles
Pageant were flower girl Heather Lynn McCloud,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip McCloud, 103 West
End Ave., and ring bearer, Marlin Shawn Hershey,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Hershey, 141 E. Lincoln
Ave.
A p p ro x im a te ly 2000
persons attended the event,
held July 4 and 5 in the Ree
Center.
On hand for entertainment
during the celebration on
Friday were the Jordan
Brothers, a rock group, and
the Washington Band from
Annville. The day’s events
were climaxed by a
fireworks display.
Borough police reported
that crowds were so great in
Lititz on the Fourth that
within 10 minutes after the
fireworks, traffic on South
Broad Street was tied up as
far as Neffsville, in spite of
Manheim Township police
efforts to regulate the traffic
light there. The newly
reorganized Lititz Fire
Police were on hand to assist
with crowd and traffic
control in the Park, with two
of them assisting regular
police officers on downtown
streets.