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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1877, AS THE SUNBEAM
I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD 1937] Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Thursday, Jan. 22,1976 10 CEN1S A COPY, M OO PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 16 PAGES— No, 44
Lititz Elementary
Has Wall Leaks
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Reviewing progress on the
renovation of Lititz
Elementary School, the
board of directors of War­wick
School District were
informed by Superintendent
H. Dale Winger that an inner
wall leakage had been
discovered by the general
contractor, Samuel E. Long,
Lancaster.
According to Dr. Wingfer,
the architect has said the
deteriorating wall is caused
by rising ground level water
and that the wall should be
completely replaced.
Dr. Winger explained that
the architects, Shenk and
Seibert, Wyomlssing, Pa.,
propose to tear out all of one
27-foot wall and about three
feet of an adjoining wall. He
has given the school district
the option of replacing the
original wooden studding
with new wood studding, at a
cost of $558, or to replace the
deteriorating portion with
the steel and concrete at a
cost of $1,116.
After consideration of the
situation, the directors voted
to pay the greater cost for
steel and concrete rein­forcement
as an assurance
against future deterioration.
Art Room Leakage
Dr. Winger brought up the
subject of the water leakage
that had been apparent in the
art room “for years.” He
explained that the water
causes plaster to come off
the walls and the floor to
buckle. He said that ex­cavation
of the wall reveled
the problem extended
beyond the original
estimation. Continued ex­cavation
led to the discovery
that a wall beyond the first
wall would also need to be
sealed and waterproofed.
Total cost for the waters
proofing and sealing was
given as $1,438. Directors
authorized the operation and
approved payment upon
fulfillment of the work.
Sink«
Twe Lititz Elementary
teachers were on hand to
express the need for sinks in
every classroom from the
primary grades (K,l,2)
through the intermediate
grades (3,4,5). They noted
that intermediate students
make good use of sinks in
projects including plants and
animals in the classroom
and that room sinks allow
the children to wash their
hands and get a drink
without interrupting the
teacher who may be involved
with other groups at the
time.
Principal Jack Edgerton
told directors that according
to a poll of Lititz Elementary
teachers taken two years
ago, he had received no
requests from teachers of
the elementary grades for
sinks in their rooms.
Directors were concerned
that in addition to the ex­pense
for sinks and plum­bing,
there would also be the
expense of adding tile aprons
around each sink to protect
the carpeting being put in the
rooms. Director Raymond
Groff suggested doing away
with the idea of carpeting if
the cost began to look too
high.
A decision was made to
contact the architects and
get a cost estimate on sinks,
tile aprons, plumbing and
o th e r accommodations
before making the final
authorization.
Dr. Winger mentioned that
a sump pump was being
Installed inside the building
and would be attached to an
emergency power system in
order to assure its operation
in the case of a power failure
during a storm.
■ Heating-Plumbing
At Dr. Winger’s
s u g g e s tio n , d ir e c to r s
authorised payment of
plumbing c o n tra c to rs ,
Zimmerman and Bitts, upon
completion of a caulking job
which washed out, and the
release of the contractors on
phase one of the project
under the same stipulations.
Dr. Winger told directors
some faults had been found
in the new heating system
which had not been working
at peak efficiency. He said
an engineer had discovered,
among other things, that a
heating pipe was placed too
low and two balancing
valves had been put in back­wards.
The automatic changeover
from night temperature (80
degrees) to day temperature
(68 degrees) which should
have taken place every day
at 4 a.m. was having to be
operated manually and, in
fact, during very cold
weather, the system was
being left on 68 degrees for 24
hour periods.
Dr. Winger explained that
the heating contractor,
Harry A. Ressler, Inc.,
Mountville, would dismantle
and correct the faulty
portions of the system during
the two days of winter
vacation in February.
State Aid Ratio Loss
Dr. Winger reported the
second highest state aid
ration per pupil loss to the
district in six years.
According to the
superintendent, the state aid
ratio is now set at $750 per
pupil, but the real cost of
educating a pupil is $1090 for
elementary pupils and $1200
for high school pupils.
Because of the Warwick
school district’s gain in real
estate market value over the
years, the state aid ratio to
the district has gradually
decreased until the district
stands to lose $42,000 on the
1976-77 school budget. Said
Dr. Winger, that amounts to
two mills of real estate tax.
Moravian Manor
In other business, direc­tors
denied a request from
Moravian Manor for a tax
exoneration of a garage
located on the southeast side
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Stan Miller and his mother take a ttiuch deserved
break between customers as they relax and talk
over the past two months since Stan has taken
over as the new lunchwagon chef on the Square.
Paul Paes Confirms
Will Work for State
LttltE 2t«cord Sxproat Kioto
Owned and operated by Bob Rosenberg for yèürs(
the lunchwagon has been a regular Saturday stop
for weekend shoppers in the boro since 1921.
Former county com­missioner
Paul Paes said
Tuesday night that his new
post as a liaison between the
State House and local
government is an “ ex­perimental”
one and only a
temporary one for him.
Although he has not
received official con­firmation
from House
Republican leader, Robert
Butera, Paes said the job is
already in effect.
Some of the problems he is
already working on, he said,
are funding for the Office trf
the Aging, state reim­bursement
for Conestoga
View and some other county
homes, and uniform election
laws throughout the state.
Paes said he was selected
for the job because he knows
most of the county com­missioners
in the state.
knows the legislators, and
also knows the problems of
state and local government.
The Governor’s office has
“all types of people out
running around” gathering
information, Paes said, but
the legislature has had to
depend on lobbyists for
public input.
The new post will pay a
salary of $13,000 a year, Paes
confirmed.
Asked if the new post will
have any effect on a decision
to seek reelection as county
GOP chairman, Paes replied
onlyttwHie would be making
that decision within the next
month. He finished a term as
Lancaster County Com­missioner
as of January 5.
A resident of Refton, Paes
and his wife, Betty, own and
operate the Lititz Upholstery
Center at South Broad and
Lemon Streets.
Pondering who ordered a hamburger and who
ordered a hot dog takes up most of Stan Miller’s
Saturdays since he bought Rosey’s Lunchwagon.
Still a senior in high school, Stan is on his way to
success in the world of short order cooking.
New J.P., New J.P. Office For Lititz In Bicentennial Year
By April of this, our
Bicentennial year, Justice
Sharron A. Simpkins is
scheduled to be presiding
over hearings in a newly
c o n s tru c te d d i s t r i c t
magistrate’s office north of
Lititz along the west side of
Route 501.
The announcement by the
Lancaster County Court was
made a week ago and ended
two weeks of clamor over the
moving of the district
magistrate’s facilities to an
office at 9 S. Broad St.
Residents and retailers
had been against the move
from the start and objected
via a petition and public
outcry that the location was
unacceptable. Controversy
also centered around the fact
that the building belonged to
the aunt of the wife of former
County Commissioner Paul
F. Paes, who, with Com­missioner
Raymond Herr,
had signed the six-year lease
for $400 a month.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Flanagan, owners of the
property, decided to give up
the lease last week, and the
county was then free to look
elsewhere for a new district
magistrate’s office.
Log Cabin
President Judge W. Hensel
Brown and the county
c om m is s io n e rs h av e
authorized the building of
new facilities to be con­structed
by Hollinger En­terprises,
Inc., along Route
501 within Warwick Town­ship.
Judge Brown has
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described the proposed
building as “in keeping with
the Bicentennial theme” in
that it will be constructed of
logs. Plans call for 900
square feet of office space
with six parking spaces.
Facilities for additional
parking during hearings will
be made available.
Until April, District
Justice Simpkins will remain
at her office at 130 E. Main
St. in a building owned by the
Denver and Ephrata
Telephone and Telegraph
Co.
"I think it’s going to bv
fine,” said the new Lititz
magistrate in a recent
conversation with the
Record Express. “The effect
of a log cabin will be nice for
Lititz during the Bicen­tennial
year,” she noted.
She went on to explain,
“ Lititz deserves a good
J.P.’s office because the
office of district magistrate
itself deserves a building of
dignity.”
Justice Simpkins, sworn in
as new district magistrate
for Lititz on January 5, told
the Record Express she had
been working behind the
scenes to fight against the
lease on the Flanagan
building since she first
learned about it 15 minutes
after the lease had been
signed on December 31.
New Chef In
Lunchwagon
On Square
Mrs. Simpkins said she
went to Judge Brown on Fri.,
Jan. 2, and complained that
she had not been informed
prior to the signing. She told
him she objected to the
location and that she was
aware local police and
retailers also objected to the
use of the Flanagan building
as a J.P. office.
The Magistrate reported
that Judge Brown told her
not to make any public
statements on the situation
until the matter was settled
because he was working on
it.
However, Justice Sim­pkins
told the Record she
had been in contact with
many residents and mer­chants
of Lititz and noted
that she had been “working
for the people of Lititz” to
get the office moved to
another location.
By Bonnie Szymanski
In case you hadn’t noticed
. . . Rosey’s Saturday
Lunchwagon on the Square
in Lititz isn’t run by Rosey
anymore. Since the end of
November, the little lun­chwagon
has had a new chef:
Stan Miller of Lititz R3.
Stan, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Miller, is a young
man who would make a
Horatio Alger character look
like a Dead End Kid.
When other students in the
Manheim Township High
School Class of ’76 are
sleeping soundly in the
promise of two more hours of
sleep, Stan is up at 4:45
every morning to help his
brother Paul milk cows and
complete morning chores at
the Spruce Villa Dairy farm
where Paul works.
After school, when
classmates stream out of the
building heading for football
practice, play rehearsal of
just a slow walk to a buddy’s
house Stan heads back to the
farm to milk the same cows
he milked that morning, the
ones that will be ready to be
milked again at 5:30 a.m.
Extra Income
But, when we asked the
obvious question - “Why did
you take on yet another
job?” - Stan said, “I needed
an extra income. The job
with my brother (only) pays
for my car.”
So when he saw Bob
Rosenberg’s advertisement
to sell the old lunchwagon,
Stan saw his future flash
before his eyes in the form of
hamburgers, hot dogs and
orange drink.
Rosenberg until recently
had been owner and operator
of the lunchwagon as well as
Rosey’s Cone Shop on Front
Street. Now a real estate
salesman, Rosenberg no
longer runs the ice cream
shop or the lunchwagon,
business that had been in the
Rosenberg family since 1921
when his father, Arthur,
parked the first Rosey’s
lunchwagon on the Square in
anticipation of all the hungry
people who would be in town
for the week’s shopping.
“Secret” Recipe
“ I didn’t advertise
because I didn’t want them
(the public) to know.” Stan
admitted. “ I was afraid
they’d try to tell the dif­ference
in the hamburgers.”
In fact, Rosenberg sold his
“secret” recipe along with
the 1949 lunchwagon, and
Stan has been making the
burgers according to the
time-and-taste-proven
standards; so, if anyone
thinks Stan’s hamburgers
taste different than Rosey’s
did, it’s all in their mind.
Yes, we did say the lun­chwagon
was a 1949 vintage;
but the most amazing part is
that there are only 4,212
original miles on the truck.
Stan explained that he’s put
100 miles on it since he
purchased the truck and will
probably run the mileage up
faster than Rosenberg did
because he lives about three
or four miles from the
Square at Peaceful Hollow
Farm on the Fruitville Pike.
Rosenberg logged only about
one mile a week driving from
Front Street to the Square
and back.
A farm boy at heart, Stan
hopes to be able to buy his
own farm some day, and
since farms no longer come
cheap, he’s starting to build
his savings account early by
feeding the Saturday
shoppers.
“My brother and parents
thought I was crazy,”
laughed Stan as he recalled
their reaction when he told
them he wanted to buy the
lunchwagon.
They thought the price was
high until they looked at
Rosenberg’s records. After
over half a century of good
public relations, not to
mention good food, Rosey’s
had proven to be a finan­cially
stable enterprise, and
just the right weekend
business for a young man
with the energy and en­thusiasm
to make it work.
Family Help
Stand doesn’t work the
wagon alone; it would be
almost impossible. So far,
his mother has shared the
work, slapping mustrad,
catsup and onions on
hamburgers and hot dogs as
fast as Stan can turn them
out.
“We’re really busy from 11
to 2,” said Mrs. Miller. The
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Nativity
Fund 1976
A committee has been
formed to facilitate the
project to finance a nativity
scene for Lititz Square in
1976. Committee members
are the Rev. W. Clemens
Rosenberger, 19 Becker Dr.,
Mrs. Robert Derek, 242 S.
Broad St., and Mrs. Dennis
Craig, 28 S. Broad St.
The project was initially
suggested to boro council by
Mrs. Craig who was given
the O.K. by council to choose
a committee to work with
her on the idea.
Mrs. Craig recently
reported that the fund is now
open for residents’ con­tributions
and an account
has been set up at the Far­mers
First Bank.
Anyone wishing to con­tribute
to the Nativity Fund -
1976, the project’s official
title, may do so by depositing
money in account number 01-
15831-7-20 at the Farmers
First Bank.
» In This Issue
b lt it i JUoord Bxpraa« Photo
A lone figure crosses Main Street and submits reluctantly to
the barrage of downy snowflakes that turned Lititz into a paper-white
world on Tuesday morning and again on Wednesday a.m.
business Directory 12
Church News 10
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 8,9
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