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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 PAGES — No. 8
Eshleman to Speak
New Fire Hall
To Be Dedicated
In Festivities Sat.
Congressman Edwin D.
Eshleman from the 16th
Congressional District will
be main speaker at the
d e d ic a tio n c e rem o n y
Saturday at 3:30 p.m. of the
lititz Fire Company’s new
station house.
The fire company has
moved into its new quarters
on West Main Street, and
dedication of the new
building will be part of a
special fire company
weekend to be held in con­junction
with local mer­chants.
Retailers will be offering
special sales prices during a
sidewalk sale Friday night to
benefit the fire company,
and the Ladies Auxiliary of
the fire company will be
selling hot dogs at the old fire
hall on the Square from 4-9
p.m. Friday.
Saturday’s festivities will
begin with a chicken corn
soup sale starting at 8 a.m.,
and continuing throughout
the day. Sidewalk sales will
also be conducted during the
day.
Other activities, with all
proceeds going toward the
cost of the new fire hall, will
include games, fire truck
rides for children and adults,
tours, and a grand prize
drawing for a car and other
items donated by local
retailers. The fire truck
rides will leave from the old
fire station on South Broad
Street and are scheduled
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday. Children will be
given free fireman’s hats.
Preceding the dedication
ceremony, the Lititz Com­munity
Band will give a
concert at 3 p.m.
Opening the dedication,
Ted Stauffer, secretary of
Lititz Fire Company, will
lead the Pledge of
Allegiance. The invocation
will be given by Rev. Dale
Wenzelburger, associate
pastor of St. Paul Lutheran
Church. Paul F. Diehm,
treasurer of the fire com­pany
and assistant fire chief,
will serve as master of
ceremonies.
Richard D. Keller, fire
company president, will give
the welcoming address.
Remarks will be given by
Mayor Raymond Reedy, D.
Curtis Amidon, president of
Lititz Boro Council, Howard
Mowrer, fire chief, and Mrs.
Pauline Shelly, president of
the Ladies Auxiliary.
Honored guests who will be
introduced will include Clair
Gehman, president of the
Lancaster County Firemen’s
Association; Charles E.
Welcomer, president-elect of
the association; Ernest J.
Rojahn, secretary of the
association; and D. Laverne
Stauffer, president of Zone 2
of the association.
Diehm, who is also
chairman of the Building
Committee, will present the
keys of the new fire hall to
Ray C. Bixler, chairman of
the board of trustees.
Following a benediction by
Pastor Wenzelburger, fire
equipment will be formally
New sister, new brother, new home.
Joy Lynn from Korea, (left) has lived
with parents Becky and Terry Grube
for six months, but Matthew (right)
has been part of the family for slightly
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s P h o t o 4
over a week. One of the April evacues
from An Loc orphanage in Vietnam,
Matthew has found a ready-made
family with Becky and Terry and their
two children, David and Joy Lynn.
Area Families Adopt
Vietnamese Children
Edwin D. Eshleman
housed. The Community
Band will again perform,
and the fire company’s
chicken corn soup supper
will take place.
Lester Bingeman is
general chairman of the
dedication committee.
Serving with him are Ronald
Roberts, Robert Keller, Paul
F. Diehm, and members of
the Ladies Auxiliary.
Meanwhile, the fire
company is launching a
second fund drive to pay off
the remaining $39,235 debt
by: Bonnie Szymanski
Are they crazy, or have
they discovered a sure-fire
way to happiness?
Several area families who,
in spite of already having
large families or other
toddlers, have taken on the
added burden (although they
wouldn’t call it that) of
another child.
We were recently in­formed
that numerous
families in and around the
Lititz-Warwick area were in
the process of adopting
Vietnamese orphans, all of
whom were among the April
evacuees from conquored
South Vietnam and in
desperate need of homes.
The privilege of adopting
these special children was
offerd only to families across
the United States who had
already for the new facility. , .. been th,r ough t.h..e
To date, costs have been adoPtlon Pr°c_edure with
We visited most of the
children, as they began their
first days in school. Three
have recently started kin-dergarden
at White Oak
School in the Manheim
Central District; one has
begun classes at the Sporting
Hill School in the same
district; and one is a bit too
young for any school: he’s
only 18 months old.
Matthew
Matthew is the third child
of Mr. and Mrs. Terry
Grube, 221 S. Spruce St.
Their first is David, 7; their
second is Joy Lynn, 2, who
came to them via Korea
about six months ago; and
the third and newest child is
Matthew, 18 months, newly
arrived from the An Loc
orphanage in Vietnam.
Matthew and Joy were last
seen by this reportr playing
beginning to think perhaps
they wouldn’t be called. But
they were and immediately
drove to York to meet
Matthew.
Now their children number
three, and Becky dosen’t sit
still for a minute. But as she
dashed past us to retrieve a
straying toddler - she’s
become quite light on her
feet since Joy and Matthew
arrived - we couldn’t help but
feel a pang of jealousy about
the wonderful adventures in
parenthood that lay before
the Grubes.
Daphne and Melanie
Daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn F. Shenk, Lititz R2,
Daphne and Melanie are still
called Lowm and Hoa at
times by teachers when they
want to get the children’s
attention. Daphne, 6 and
Melanie, 8, have been with
agencies authorized to bring
them into the country.
Therefore, most of the
families had at least one
oriental or bi-racial child
they called their own.
The reason for contacting
4c.o l*lcenc ted la_stj y ie_a_r ai mao_u_n__te_df amilimes was, of course, th£e
obvious one of implementing
the adoptions as quickly as
but also for
$69,273 in addition to the
original purchase price of
$90,000. Much of the
renovation of the building,
formerly a laundromat, has
been done by fire company
members. Contributions
in the Grubes’ backyard as if the Shenks for about two
they had known each other weeks now and are finding
to $50,537, and local firemen
and members of the
auxiliary have raised a n _...
additional $47,000. The t
borough contributed $22,500 P f P. acf.,, ®,nt
toward the initial purchase homf a!r,eady fllled W1 h
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Dedication Ceremony
Miller to Speak Sunday
At Rothsville Fire House
and the yard for years.
Becky Grube said they
picked Matthew up in York
last Wednesday after
receiving a call from a
representive of the Tressler
Lutheran Social Service
Association telling them a
child was available and
needed a home.
The Grubes had been in
contact with the organization
about three or four weens
ago and had agreed to take a
Vietnamese child if asked to
provide a home for one.
Becky said they hadn’t heard
anything from the
organization and were
activities in their new en­vironment
more and more
familiar.
The Shenks have four
other children, two of whom
are also adopted. Audrey
Shenk, their mother, told the
Record-Express that the
girls were adopted together
because they have lived
most of their lives in close
contact at the An Loc or­phanage
and relate to each
other as sisters. They will
become real sisters in six
months when the adoption is
finalized.
The girls spent their first
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5281 in Warwick Area
Eligible to Vote Tues.
In Primary Elections A total of 5,281 registered
voters in Lititz Boro, War­wick
Township and
Elizabeth Township are
eligible to vote in the
primary election Tuesday,
and a total of 1275 registered
voters in Penn Township are
eligible to vote.
Major contests in the
Warwick area will be for a
supervisor in both Warwick
and Elizabeth Townships, a
justice of the peace, and
three Warwick school
directors. Lititz voters will
also be nominating three
councilmen, but the
Republican incumbents are
all unopposed on the primary
ballot.
Penn Township voters will
be nominating a supervisor
and directors of Manheim
Central School District.
Of registered voters in the
Warwick area, 3934 are
registered Republican, 1325
are registered Democrat,
and 22 are registered Con­stitutionalist.
Another 327
are registered as in­dependents
and won’t be
eligible to vote in the
primaries.
In the three districts of
Penn Township, 954 are
registered Republican, 276
are registered Democrat, 45
are registered Con­stitutionalist,
and 62 are
registered as independents.
Voters will also be
nominating for county-wide
offices: two county com­missioners,
district a t­torney,
judge, sheriff,
prothonotary, prison war­den,
and coroner.
This off-election year has
seen a major increase in
campaign activity in both
the Warwick area and Penn
Township, with a number of
Republican incumbents
being challenged. In
Elizabeth Township, usually
a Republican stronghold,
two persons are vying for the
Democratic nomination for
township supervisor.
In the Warwick area, the
following persons are
seeking nominations:
Warwick School Board
Republican Ballot
(Order in which names
will appear on the ballot):
Carl Reedy, (incumbent)
James Eby, John Evans
(incumbent), Wilson Smith,
Aristide Adelizzi, Ruth
Husser, Victoria Badorf,
Barbara Gainer, and Robert
Cooper.
Democratic Ballot
(Order in which names
will appear on ballot):
Smith, Evans, Adelizzi,
Badorf, Eby, and Husser.
Lititz Boro Council
Republican
First Ward: Lester E.
Stark (incumbent); Second
Ward: Donald Stauffer
! (incumbent); Third Ward:
William York (incumbent).
Democrat
Second Ward: Thomas P.
Rearich, Jr.
Warwick Township
Republican
Supervisor: Joseph M.
Brubaker (incumbent);
James G. Witmyer.
Auditor: Robert D. Gar­ner.
Elizabeth Township
Republican
Supervisor: Dale F. Dieh-m;
Jay R. Ober.
Auditor: Fred V. An­derson.
Democrat
Supervisor: Carl A.
Stohler; Robert C. Shirk.
Penn Township
Republican
Supervisor: John Henry
Hess (incumbent); John J.
Dobosh.
Auditor: Larry L. King.
Justice of the Peace
( C a n d i d a t e s a l l
cross-filed): Leroy S.
Ulrich, Linda J. Huxta, Paul
F. Diehm (incumbent), and
Sharron A. Simpkins.
The primary ballot will
also include a referendum
question, asking whether
interim appointments made
by the Governor should be
approved by the Senate in all
cases before they are con­firmed.
Congressman to Present Flag
Bobst to Speak at Local
Bicentennial ‘Kick-off’ Lititz is the only com­munity
in Lancaster County
that has been designated a
National Bicentennial
Community, to be presented
with the official Bicentennial
flag, and the borough will
accept the honor with a flare
on Saturday, May 24.
To mark the occasion, both
Congressman Edwin D.
Eshleman of the 16th
Congressional District, and
Elmer Holmes Bobst,
famed industrialist, who
once lived in Lititz, will be
taking part in the presen­tation
ceremonies.
The congressman will
present the flag and an
accompanying certificate to
the borough and Bobst, who
is honorary chairman of the
Lititz Area Bicentennial
. . . T i i v r f r
Marvin Miller, Sr.,
representative from the 97th
Legislative District, will be
guest speaker at the
dedication ceremony of the
new Rothsville Fire Hall on
Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Fire Chief Claude Young,
Sr. will highlight the history
of the fire company during
the program. Richard
Houser, assistant fire chief,
will serve as master of
ceremonies.
The welcome will be given
by J. Paul Clugston,
president of the fire com­pany.
Robert Wohlsen St. and
Robert Wohlsen, Jr., general
contractors for fire hall, will
present the keys to the new
building.
A tour of the facility will
follow the dedication and
refreshments will be served
to the public.
Special guests who will
take part in th e1 program
include the three Warwick
Township su p e rv iso rs:
William Dussinger, Richard
Marvin Miller, Sr.
Hoffer, and Joseph
Brubaker; Police Chief Paul
Haines; three pastors from
Rothsville churches: Rev.
Robert Hoover, Jerusalem
Lutheran Church, Rev.
James Mohn, St. Pauls EC
Church, and Rev. Robert
Smethers, Salem United
Methdodist Church; Paul
Knier, county fire marshall;
Robert Haycock, Penn­sylvania
State Police fire
marshall; Clair Gehman,
president of the Lancaster
C o u n t y F i r e m e n ’ s
Association; and Dr.
Laverne Stauffer, president
of Zone 2 of the Lancaster
C o u n t y F i r e m e n ’ s
Association.
Claude Young, Sr. is
chairman of the dedication
committee, assisted by
Richard Houser, Donald
Hackman, Mrs. Esther
Ruth, and Mrs. Barbara
Bowman.
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Business Directory 24
Church News 22
Classified Ads 16,17
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 20,21
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WITH MERCHANDISE!
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Weekend’s Events on Page 18.
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>: Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
;!• Bingeman’s Texaco Station
Bob’s Save Rite
ijrThe Carpet Shop
Commonwealth National Bank
Don Mae’s Dress Shop
Farmer’s First Bank
|i;D. E. Furlow 5 & 10
j; General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
¡•JGIassmyer’s
God's Own Creation Christian Book Store
Hen & Dave’s Bike Shop
Hendricks’ Flowers, Inc.
Hershey's Shoe Store
Hess Men’s Wear
Hollinger’s Farm & Home Supply
The Jewelry Shoppe
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Kelly’s Deli
Kenyon's Pastry Shop
Kreider Hardware TV
Lads & Lassies Children’s Apparel
Uppart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
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Long & Bomberger Home Center;-:
McElroy Pharmacy j|;
Miller's Furniture Store ¡1:
The Pewter Mug
A. H. Shelly, Inc.
Shoes 'n Things
Spacht's Furniture Store
Trudi K Shop
Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet
FRIDAY &
SATURDAY
BY LITITZ
RETAILERS
DON'T MISS ANY OF THE SPECIAL EVENTS
PLANNED FOR YOU THIS WEEKEND.
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Corporation, will be
speaking on “Reflections”
on the history of Lititz.
The ceremony will serve
as the “kick-off” to the Lititz
Area Bicentennial and will
take place on the front porch
of the Young Men’s Business
League on South Broad
Street at 10 a.m. on May 24.
South Broad will be closed to
traffic from the Square to
Orange Street during the
program. In case of in­clement
weather, the
program will be held in the
Warwick High School
auditorium at 10 a.m.
The honor being bestowed
on Lititz comes from the
A m e ric a n R e v o lu tio n
B i c e n t e n n i a l A d ­ministration.
Lititz has also
been designated a Bicen­tennial
Community by the
Bicentennial Commission of
Pennsylvania.
Congressman Eshleman
will present the Bicentennial
flag to Mayor Raymond
Reedy, who will accept on
behalf of the community.
Mayor Reedy will then give
the flag, and also an
American flag that was
flown over the capitol of the
United States for the
borough, to local scouts, who
will raise the two flags on the
pole on the Square.
Dr. Byron K. Horne,
president of the Lititz Area
Bicentennial Corporation,
will open the ceremony with
remarks, and Rev. Luke E.
Rau, president of the
W a rw ick M in is te r ia l
Association, will give the
invocation.
Greetings will be given by
Donald G. Goldstrom,
president of the Lancaster
County Bicentennial Com­mission,
and Sen. Richard A.
Snyder, a member of the
Pennsylvania Bicentennial
Commission, and a former
resident of Lititz.
Honorary guests who will
be introduced will include
Paul F. Paes, county
commissioner, and mem­bers
of Lititz Boro Council.
Local scouts who will raise
the flags are Joe Trayler and
Elmer H. Bobst
Everett Earhart from Boy
Scout Troop 42; Kim Newell
and Jacki Lamoreux, Girl
Scout Troop 242; Tim Reedy
and Brian McElvoy, Cub
Pack 142; and Renee Runk
and Tracy Randall, Brownie
Troop 288.
Decorations for the event
are being provided by the
Lititz Springs Park Board of
Trustees. Amplification will
be provided by Clair
Brothers, and the lecturn, by
Warwick School District.
R. Ronald Reedy, local-state-
national coordinator,
and Mrs. Helen Becker,
chairman of the special
events committee of the
Lititz Area Bicentennial
Corporation, are in charge of
the ceremony.
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Football Anniversary
There will be a meeting of
the committee that is
making plans to com­memorate
the 50th an­niversary
of football in the
Lititz area on Thursday,
May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the
American Legion Home. All
committee members are
urged to attend.
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