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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 20 PAGES — No. 29
Week Marked by
Openings of New,
Expanded Shops
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East Main Street and Zum
Anker Alley are a flurry of
interest this week as a
number of local businesses
open in new larger quarters,
and several new enterprises
begin opening in the smaller
shops.
In all, three firms have re­located
and expanded, one
new one has opened already,
and two more new ones are
getting ready to open.
The reshuffling in this
prime section of Lititz’
historical business district
has triggered a spree of
redecorating, new signs, and
an expanded focus on crafts
already attracting an in­creased
number of shoppers
and interested onlookers.
The growing interest in
antiques and early American
crafts is evident in the
prominence these are
playing in most of the shops.
The shopowners themselves
are bringing their special
skills and expertise into the
stores. From all indications,
this section in the heart of
downtown Lititz may well
become a- hallmark of
quality and interest to rival
some of the best known in the
county and state.
The reshuffling began
when Lippart’s of Lititz,
clothing store for big and tall
men, owned by Jim Lippart,
moved from 22 E. Main St. to
46 E. Main St., half a block
away, the site of the former
Hagy Western Auto Store.
The new Lippart store has
been holding its grand
opening all this week.
Two of the former Zum
Anker Alley shops then
moved into the store at 22 E.
Main St., dividing the space
between them. Leatherset, a
shop owned by Ron Musser,
relocated in the eastern half
of the store building, and
unofficially opened for
business last weekend.
Charlotte Hecfc Antique
Jewelry moved into the
western half of the building,
with a grand opening
scheduled for today
(Thursday).
Last week Little
Wheel Antiques opened
at 6 Zum Anker Alley, in the
former Leatherset space.
This shop is owned and
operated by Mrs. Grace
Fruhoeffer, an antique
dealer from the Rock
Rimmon Ridges area near
Lancaster.
Next week Mrs. Cecilia
Musser, whose husband
owns Leatherset, will be
opening her own fiber craft
shop, The Weaver’s Tale, at
1 Zum Anker Alley.
And on Nov. 1 Mrs. Jeanne
Loomis of Ephrata, who used
to work at the Picket Gift
Shop when it was in Lititz
and who is now at The
Pewter Mug, will be opening
an American Indian jewelry
shop, Jeanne’s Turquoise
Nook, at the rear of 24 E.
Main St., in the former
Charlotte Heck Shop, with its
entrance off Zum Anker
Alley.
There is a new look to all
the shops, where owners
have been busy with pain­ting,
carpentry work,
lighting, and unusual win­dow
displays for the past
month.L
ipparts of Lititz
Lippart’s store is three
times the size of his former
one, and he is now carrying
an even larger selection of
clothing for big and tall men
than he had available
previously to customers
from all over Pennsylvania
and other Eastern states.
The front part of the store
has been completely
remodeled, with attractive
and easily accessible display
racks. The final days of the
grand opening will continue
today, Friday, and Saturday.
The store opens at 9 a.m.
on weekdays and Saturdays,
and is open until 5:30 p.m. •
Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, until 9 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, and to
5 p.m. Saturday.
Charlotte Heck
Mrs. Heck, now on East
Main Street, has gone into a
new concept for her antique
shop, using room
arrangements to display the
period furniture and ac­cessories
she is now han­dling.
The store has been
done in shades of blue —
walls, carpet, drapes — for
an elegant background for
the antiques. Focal point of
the room is a grouping of
Victorian furniture arranged
in front of a mantle. Also on
display are an antique desk,
corner cupboard, drop leafs,
chairs, lamps, and prints
and paintings.
“We’re trying for a dif­ferent
concept in antique
shops,” Mrs. Heck ex­plained.
“We tried to make it
a shop that people would
enjoy coming into and
looking around.”
The store’s main product
will continue to be antique
jewelry, which is displayed
in large well-lighted show
cases. Mrs. Heck will also
continue to emphasize the
Wegwood and pewter wares
that have made her shop so
popular with antique lovers.
As of the grand opening
today, the shop will be open
Monday through Saturday
from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
and also Fridays until 9 p.m.
Leatherset
In an interesting contrast,
Leatherset, next door on
East Main Street, is a replica
of a scene from the Old West,
complete with dessert scene
in the window.
Musser, who let spon­taneous
inspiration take its
course as he designed and
built the carpentry work in
the store, has installed rustic
stained beams both
overhead
and along the walls, which he
uses to display the hundreds
of leather bags, hats, belts,
hanging planters, scounces,
etc., all custom made on the
premises. A rustic display
case, located near the back
of the store, is filled with
many of the smaller items
Musser makes — leather
mirrors, wallets, notebooks.
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R E G IS T E R
FO R
G IF T
C E R T IF IC A T E S . . .
CONTEST ENDS AT 9 P.M. FRIDAY
Lititz Retailers are giving you the opportunity to join in the celebration of
Lititz Football’s 50th Anniversary. There will be a weekend of special events
on October 10 and 11, plus, you can register for valuable Gift Certificates
★ REGISTER FOR MORE THAN 50 GIFT CERTIFICATES! ★
More Than $600 in Valuable
Gift Certificates to be
given. . . all you have
to do is register.
NO
PURCHASE
NECESSARY.
RULES:
Look for the footballs
throughout the ads in this
week's paper to tell you
what you can win.
1. Contest open to anyone (children should be accompanied by an adult to
register.)
2. Registration starts October 2 and ends Friday, Oct. 10 at 9 P.M.
3. Each store will pick its winners from those who register in that store.
4. Winners will be notified and published in the Record-Express.
PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS:
Volunteers from six fire companies battled flames that
destroyed the upper portion of the large barn on the Joseph Boll
farm, Lititz R2, Tuesday afternoon. Included in the loss were
I iit itz R e co rd E x p r e s s Photo
3500 bales of hay, 500 bushel of shelled corn, and three tons of
soybean meal. The fire is believed to have been started by an
electric heater.
S i x F i r e C o m p a n i e s F i g h t B a r a F i r e
A t J o s e p h B o l l F a r m o n T u e s d a y
By Dieter Krieg
Volunteers from six fire
companies battled a barn
fire at the Joseph Boll farm,
Lititz R2, on Tuesday af­ternoon.
The fire is believed to have
been started by an electric
heater. The blaze, which
engulfed and destroyed the
entire upper portions of the
structure, was visible from
as far away as Lancaster,
according to fire officials.
The fire started at about
12:15 p.m. with what was
described as an explosion
and it spread to the roof and
hay mows within minutes. A
spectacular column of black
smoke rose straight into the
air for several hundred feet
before the fire alarms had
even gone off. Fifteen
minutes later most of the
barn, located on Fairview
Road, 3M> miles northwest of
Lititz, had already been
consumed by flames.
Lost in the blaze were 3,500
bales of hay, 500 bushel of
shelled corn, three tons of
soybean meal, a bin wagon,
and a weed sprayer. There
were no cattle in the barn at
the time, and the livestock
area itself was untouched by
flames.
Boll’s son, Richard, who
operates the farm, told us he
was just coming home for
lunch from a neighbor’s
field, where he had been
cutting silage, when he
discovered the tragedy.
“The fire was in a bin wagon
of shelled corn when we got
home,” he said.
The elder Boll was in his
home about a half mile
away. He said he heard what
sounded like an explosion
and immediately looked out
the window. It was then that
he noticed the fire at the
barn.
The blaze touched off what
is known among fire officials
as a “zone alarm.” Six
companies (Penryn, Lititz,
Manheim, Brickerville,
B r u n n e r v i l l e , a n d
Rothsville) rushed to the
scene, and four others were
alerted to be on standby.
The younger Boll ex­plained
that he had been
heating some vegetable oil
with an electric heater, and
supposed that it might have
sparked the explosion. The
vegetable oil is an ingredient
for a feed mix he makes on
the farm.
“I have been doing it for
School District Threatens to Fire
Contractors on Lititz Elem. Project
Backporch Candle Shoppe
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob's Save Rite
B & V Outlet
Commonwealth National Bank
Farmers First Bank
First Federal Savings & Loan
The Gladell Shop
Glassmyers
Hess Men’s Wear
Hollinger’s Farm & Home Supply
The Jewelry Shoppe
Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts
Kelly’s Delicatessen
Kenyon’s Pastry Shop
Klotz Kleners
Lads & Lassies Children’s
Apparel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Paint Shoppe
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller's Furniture Store
The Pewter Mug
Shelly's Garage
Shoes 'n Things
Spacht's Furniture Store
Trudi K Shop
PARADE & PEP RALLY FRIDAY NIGHT 7:30 P.M.
Warwick School District
has informed the contractors
involved with renovation of
Lititz Elementary School
that if their work is not
finished by Oct. 21, the
district will terminate their
contracts, according to
Superintendent H. Dale
Winger.
If that happens, it means
that the district will withhold
the approximate 20 percent
not yet paid on the contracts
and get someone else to
finish the job.
Dr. Winger said that only
two of the four contractors
would actually be affected -
Wickersham, Inc., which is
the general contractor, and
Harry A. Ressler Inc., which
holds the heating and ven­tilating
contract.
Dr. Winger said the other
two contractors, the John
Fullerton Company, which
holds the electrical contract,
and Zimmerman & Bitts,
which has the plumbing
contract, have finished their
work, except for a few
details which must follow the
work of the other con­tractors.
What remains to be done,
Dr. Winger said, is finishing
work, including plastering,
painting, some corrections
on the flooring, and
corrections to the heating
system.
He told school directors
Monday night at their
Committee of the Whole
meeting that he had sent
letters to the four con­tractors
setting the Oct. 21
deadline. He said a final
inspection is scheduled for
Friday.
The building principal,
Jack Edgerton, told direc­tors
that he has not noticed
any additional workers being
added to the contractors’
forces at the school, but
added that he could “see the
job being done (by Oct. 21) if
more workers were added.”
Meanwhile, a contractor
from Ressler’s, contacted
Tuesday by the Record-
Express, said that the
heating and ventilating work
had been finished as of
Tuesday.
The president of
Wickersham, Clint Clubb,
also contacted by the
Record-Express, said he
doesn’t see “any problems
with getting finished.”
Asked for his comments on
the Oct. 21 deadline set by
In This Issue
Business Directory 14
Church News 12
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10,11
the district, and on com­plaints
from the district that
the work is behind schedule,
Clubb replied that it “is
virtually impossible to do a
job of that scope” within the
time the contractors actually
were permitted in their work
areas.
He said that the contract
specs had set an April 15
starting date, but that the
administration had not
permitted the workmen into
certain areas that had been
specified in the contract
while school was in session.
“Remodeling is always
difficult, especially when
people are in the building,”
Clubb said.
Dr. Winger had told the
directors Monday night that
he was especially concerned
about getting this first phase
of the renovations finished
before it started overlapping
with the second and final
phase. Bids on this last phase
are scheduled to be opened
at the Board’s Oct. 21
meeting, and work is
scheduled to start Dec. 1.
Busing
In other business Monday
night, school directors faced
more problems with busing
non-public school children, a
decision on providing an
English Second Language
program for the Vietnamese
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years,” he said sadly, still
bewildered as to how and
why the disaster struck. The
amount of oil which was
being heated was in a five-gallon
can and a 55-gallon
drum stood just a few feet
away.
Boll believes the fire
started with the heater and
oil and then went to the bin
wagon, which was loaded
with shelled corn. It was at
that point that he and his son
walked into the barn and
began pulling out equipment.
The family was able to save
most of the machinery which
had been stored in the 120 by
45 foot structure.
With fire trucks and
personnel arriving one after
another once the zone alarm
was sounded, the area
around the barn was buzzing
with activity and lined with
more than a dozen hoses. A
small pond behind the barn
provided water at the rate of
2,000 gallons per minute for
the more than two hours that
firemen spent fighting the
blaze. The fire was under
control by about 1:15, but
adjacent structures, in­cluding
the Richard Boll
home, were still of concern.
By 2 p.m. firemen and neigh­bors
had already begun
clean-up activities in spite of
isolated areas of burning
debris.
Attempting to assess the
damage, Boll was unable to
come up with a figure in
terms of dollars. His main
concern was being able to
milk his herd of 44 Holsteins.
Early reports indicated he
would be able to do so. The
milking parlor and the lower
level of the barn, which
contains free-stalls, were
untouched by flames. But
there was considerable
damage from smoke and
water, and the electrical
wiring will need to be
replaced.
Campaign Articles
To Be Published
In Oct. 23 Issue
The Record-Express
will again accept
campaign articles by
candidates in the
general election Nov. 4,
and will publish these in
the Oct. 23 issue of the
paper.
Any candidate who
cares to may submit one
article commenting on
his or her qualifications
and views on issues. The
articles should be
typewritten, double­spaced,
and should not
exceed two 8V2 x 11 inch
pages. They must be
submitted by Friday,
Oct. 17. They should be
addressed to Editor,
Lititz Record-Express,
22 E. Main St., Lititz,
Pa. 17543.
Local Paper Mill May
Change Hands Again
Officials of the recently formed Lititz Paper Company,
which was getting ready to go into production when its
owner, Stanley Preston, died unexpectedly, are
negotiating for sale of the mill to another company, ac­cording
to plant manager, David Haronois.
Haronois said that the company has asked not to be
identified at this time, but that he is “almost positive”
that there will be a paper mill opening here.
He said Monday that everything should be “settled”
within a week or so.
According to Haronois, the unidentified company is in
the midst of looking over commitments, etc. which
Preston had made and negotiations concerning Preston’s
estate. The former officers of Preston’s corporation will
not be taking part in any new operations of the mill,
Haronois said.
The manager said that he has retained a skeleton crew
at the plant. Last summer, about 50 persons were hired to
get the plant and machines ready for operation but,
Haronois said, he was directed to cut back on this staff,
and any other large expenditures, until a sale went
through.