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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 PAGE S— No. 47
Mick Sload Resigns as
Warwick Football Coach
By Mike Hoffman
“Ten yean is a long time
and I’ve enjoyed it, but the
time has come to move on to
something else.” These were
sentiments of retiring
Warwick football coach Mick
Sload after handing in his
resignation to Warwick
School Superintendent Dr. H.
Dale Winger.
Sload met with his
assistant coaches last
Friday to let them know of
his decision and later in­formed
his players on
Monday.
Sload said, ‘‘My time was
being divided between too
many activities and it wasn't
fair to my team because I
could no longer give the
proper amount of time to its
miming.”
Good Memories
“The thing 1 really enjoy is
the kids who return to see me
after they have graduated. I
met many great people and
the kids I worked with were
all super. 1 hate to see it end
but there are other things I
am interested in and want to
do. I’ll always have the
memories and they will be
good ones.”
Next Year
“ I was really looking
forward to next season
because we have a bunch of
good young players retur­ning,”
he said. “The next
few seasons should see some
good teams coming out of
Warwick; there is a talented
group of kids here.”
The Warwick team of last
season had consisted mainly
of underclassmen. The 1975
teams record was 4-4, they
also lost two other by one and
two points respectively, so
apparently the talent is
there.
Career Record
During the 10 year period
In which Sload guided the
team, he amassed a very
respectable 5543-2 record. In
his first season a t the.
coaching helm for the
Warriors, he led them to an
6-2 record while setting a
school record for points
scored in a season with 275
points. The highlight of
Sload’s coaching career
came in his second year as
the Warwick coach when he
Polling on
Boro Hall
Continues
Approximately 500 questionnaires have been
distributed to sound out Utitz residents’ preferences
regarding remodeling Boro Hall or building a new one.
Councilman Lester Stark, who was appointed to head an
ad hoc committee of citizens studying the matter, said
that he expects the bulk of the questionnaires to come
back during the next two weeks. He said he has gotten
back “a few” of the papers, “some for, some against”
remodeling.
Original cost estimates given more than a year ago for
remodeling the present building ran $135,000-$150,000.
Cost of two pieces of land that would be available for a
new building each run $30,000 he said. One is a three-lot
plot and one a two-acre plot.
Stark said that he was not expressing any personal
opinions on remodeling or building a new building, and
that Boro Council wants to obtain all the public opinion it
can get before expressing any opinions, official or
otherwise.
Stark said that any resident who wants to fill out a
questionnaire can obtain one from members of the
committee. They include Stark, John F. Hartz, Donald E.
Rannels, John K. Eberly, Russel L. Templeton, and
Wayne G. Hummer.
Former Record Editor
To Run for Congress
Warwick Football coach Mick Sload is shown
talking to one of his players during a Warwick
game. Sload announced his resignation as head
coach this week, citing personal reasons and in­dicating
he wants to get into athletics ad­ministration.
led his team to a 9-1 record
enroute to the Lancaster
County Football Cham­pionship.
Sload served as
coach of Warwick longer
than any of his previous
coaching colleagues for the
Big . Red. He also was only
the second coach in Warwick
history who had coached
longer than two seasons, to
end his career with a win­ning
record.
A successor to Sload has
not been decided upon at this
time. It will probably be a
few months before a suc­cessor
is named, but in the
meantime, the school board
will seek out its top can­didates.
Undetermined Future
When asked about his
future plans, Sload said,
“Right now I am thinking of
getting into athletic ad­ministration,
I was thinking
about going to Alabama or
Texas A&M to get the proper
education for this type of
work.” When asked if he
would accept a coaching
position at another school
Sload stated, “I could not
rule out that as a possibility
at this time; I am too young
and have too much time
ahead of myself to decide
either way on that subject,
but there always is the
chance I may coach some­where.”
Sload, also the J.V.
wrestling coach for Warwick
said, “I took the coaching job
because I love football;
that’s the reason I took the
wrestling job. But more than
the sports 1 love working
with tiie kids.”
State Rep. Marvin E.
Miller (R-Lancaster) will
run for the Republican
nomination for the 16th
District seat in the U.S.
Congress, he has announced.
Miller, a member of the
Pennsylvania House of
Representatives since 1967,
said he will not seek
nomination for re-election to
the State House.
Miller is a native of
Warwick Township and a
former editor of the Lititz
Record Express. He was the
original sponsor of the
Sunshine Law in 1968, which
was passed in 1974. Miller
was also instrumental in
ending secret meetings of
committees of the Penn­sylvania
House. Last year,
he also sponsored the
legislation that now permits
live radio and television
broadcasts of House Floor
proceedings and committee
meetings.
Other major pieces of
legislation sponsored by
Miller include: the amend­ment
to the State Con-
The land north of Landis Valley Road and west of
Kissel Hill school, now empty except for the large
boro water reservoir (the edge can be seen at left),
will be the site of an eight unit apartment building
XtltltB XUoord Sxpraas photo
soon to be constructed by John A. Hogan. Kissel
Hill elementary school can be seen in the
background.
Z o n e r s O K H o g a n A p t s .
Train Collectors
Lease Controversial
Flanagan Building The Flanagan building at 9
S. Broad St., which became
one of the town’s most
controversial buildings for a
two-week span when the
county sought to lease it for a
JP office, has a new tenant.
The Train Collectors
Association, Inc., a national
organization of model
railroad buffs and collectors,
has taken out a one-year
lease on the building, ef­fective
Feb. 15.
According to Eric
Buckley, J r., a Lititz
After studying several
sketches and photos of the
apartments proposed for
land along the north side of
Landis Valley Road, the
Lititz Zoning Hearing Board
granted approval Monday to
John A. Hogan, 963 Skyline
Drive, Lancaster, to expand
the non-conforming use of
his land and construct eight
apartment units on the lot.
The approval was granted
under the provision that
Hogan submit a land
development plan to the
Lititz Borough Planning
Commission prior to ob­taining
a building permit;
that landscaping, parking,
and exterior building design
be executed in a manner
similar to those shown on
sketches and photos; and
that construction comply
with all R-A district
(residence - apartment)
regulations.
Zoners granted approval
for the apartments upon
their decision that the
project, which will be con­structed
near the borough
water reservior, will not
cause an increased
detrimental effect on the
surrounding properties.
The approval was granted
following several ap­pearances
by Hogan
representatives before the
zoning hearing board, during
which times some residents
of the area voiced com­plaints
about the proposed
apartments.
.resident who is business
manager for the national
organization, the first floor
of the building will be used as
the nationalJbuslness office,
an expansion of the office
which Buckley has been
maintaining in his home at
501 Kissel Hill fed. for a
number of years. ^
There will be no model
train exhibits in the building,
just office equipment,
Buckley said. He and a partr
time assistant will be the
only staff working there.
Remodeling will be prac­tically
non-existent, he said •
the interior is being painted
now and Buckley plans to
curtain the front show
windows.
Eventually, Buckley said,
the national business office
will probably be moved to
Strasburg, after the pending
railroad museum is built. At
that time, may of the model
train exhibits and collector’s
pieces will also be taken to
Strasburg, he said.
The model train collectors
are leasing the building from
Richard and Pauline
Flanagan, 412 Eshleman
Dr., who orginally signed a
lease last Dec. 31 to rent the
first floor to the county for a
JP office at $400 a month.
However, the Flanagans
never exercised the lease
after Lititz merchants,
public officials, and private
citizens protested to the
county commissioners about
the lease, objecting that the
location was a poor one for a
district magistrate’s office,
did not have adequate
parking available, and also
that the town had not been
consulted by the com­missioners
before the least
was signed.
Controversy continued to
flare when former com­missioner,
Paul Paes, one of
the signers of the lease,
insisted that some borough
officials had known about
and had expressed approval
of the county’s plans to lease
the building. However,
because of the conflict, the
county court directed the
commissioners to get the
matter settled to the town’s
“satisfaction.”
The court subsequently
accepted a proposal to lease
a new office which Hollinger
Enterprises, Ltd.a Lititz-based
firm, is going to build
in Warwick Township, on
Route 501 just north of Lititz.
This building is scheduled
for completion about April.
Marvin E. Miller
stitution that gives future
generations the right to
clean air and pure water,
revision of the drug laws to
permit judges to hand down.
stiffer sentences to pusher^
requiring training for local
police officers, and banning
the sale of highly flammable
toys in Pennsylvania.
Miller, regarded as an
independent thinker, was
called on last fall as a
compromise L an c a ste r
County campaign chairman
to unify party mavericks and
organize candidates for the
November election.
He said he will run on “my
record of having been an
effective force for change
within a system that needs it
very badly and of bringing
the people’s business out in
the open to a much greater
degree than heretofore.”
Miller, who is 46, was bom
in Lime Rock, Warwick
Township, and graduated
from Lititz High School.
He was a reporter, sports
editor, and assistant city
editor for the Lancaster
Intelligencer Journal from
1946 to 1956, and editor of the
Utitz Record from 1958 to
1960. After that he was a
political reporter and
assistant city editor for the
Lancaster New Era for six
years, winning six statewide
prizes for better writing and
investigative reporting from
the Associated Press and
cited by the Pulitzer Prize
Committee for investigative
reporting in 1965.
From 1966-1975 Miller was
part-time editor of the
Quarryville Sun-Ledger and
Representative from the 97th
House District.
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He is a member of the
LKltz Moravian Church, the
Lancaster Sportswriters and
Bro ad c asts» Assn., the
Lancaster Ctruflty Firemen’s
Assn., Solanco Farmers-
Sportsmen Assn., Slum­bering
Groundhog Lodge,
Quarryville. and a charter
member of the Woodridge
Swim Club of Utitz.
Is this
Bird-in-the-hand
about to be shot
in the head?
See inside, page
15 for more
photos and story
. on young Lititz
magician
Mike Buch.
In This Issue
Business Directory 18
Church News 16
Classified Ads 20,21
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10,11
School Board
Meet at John Beck Warwick School Board will begin its series of rotating
meetings Tuesday when it meets at John Beck School in
Brunnervllle at 7:30 p.m.
Agenda items will Include accepting a number of
resignations, including that of Mick Sload as Warwick
football coach.
The Board will be deciding whether or not to expand
ever further on Utitz Elementary School renovations.
Decisions will include carpeting all classrooms and
putting new tile over all the old corridors in all wings, for a
total extra cost of $21,511. The Board must decide on
water-proofing a wall that is leaking, to the tune of $1250.
And the Board must decide on installing eight sihks in
primary grades classrooms, for $11,000, or in all
classrooms, for $23,000.
If the Board opts for aU these change orders, It will
mean an expense of $6,000 over and above the $1,403,000
that the district is now authorized to borrow for the
project.
In further business, the Board is expected to adopt some
revised Board policies concerning the administrative
staff, the teaching staff, and non-instructional employees.
Reports on meet-and-discuss sessions concerning coaches
salaries, etc. are expected from Director Richard Mearig.
Census takers will be named at Tuesday night’s
meeting. The Board is also expected to authorize ad­vertising
the Doster tract for rent as farming land. No
sale is foreseen within the next year at least.
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