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| CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD. 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543, Wednesday, December 29,1976 15 CENTS A COPY; S5.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 18 PAGES—No. 20
Boro Council Meets Dec. 28 Boro Gets EPA
Sanction on New
Sewer Plant
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Action is finally moving
again on approval of Lititz’
planned new sewer treat­ment
plant, with latest
reports being that the En­vironmental
Protection
Agency has approved a new
3.5 million gallon a day
capacity plant for the
borough, with full 75 percent
federal funding for the entire
project.
There had been some
question over whether or not
EPA would allow funding for
the entire 3.5 mgd capacity
plant, because it had ap­proved
only a 2.4 mgd
capacity plant earlier.
kBoth Travis Mills and
Cellu Products have signed
industrial cost recovery
agreements required by
EPA for users of 10 percent
or more of the proposed
design capacity of the plant.
The agreements are for
350,000 gallons a day for
Cellu Products and 600,000
gallons a day for Travis
Mills.
The only factor left to be
finalized is signing an
agreement between the
borough and Warwick
Township, which will be
another big user of the
facility. This is expected to
be done in January.
Meanwhile Boro Council is
expected to receive a full
report on the status of the
upcoming project at its
meeting Dec. 28.
Council is also scheduled
to enact a new tax penalty
ordinance at its Dec. 28
meeting, changing the
penalty for late payment of
local taxes to 10 percent and
the discount for prompt
payment to two percent.
Council will also be
deciding whether or not to
pu rch ase p ro fe ssion a l
services to codify all the
borough ordinances, at a
total cost of $7500. The
borough manager has
recommended that this
action be taken, noting that
the present codification is on
ditto sheets, making it hard
to keep the ordinance book
up to date and also making it
difficult to keep track of the
many revisions Council
makes to ordinances.
Council is also scheduled
to approve its 1977 budget,
which will leave real estate
tax millage at 23 mills on
each dollar of assessed value
in the borough. Other or­dinances
to be voted on are
those setting the per capita
tax at $10 for every resident
of the borough over 18 years
of age, continuing the $10
occupational privilege tax
for persons employed in the
borough, and enacting a one
percent realty transfer tax.
Brethren Church
Trailer Gutted
By Fire Dec. 21
A trailer located four feet
away from Grace Brethren
Church was gutted by fire
Dec. 21 but the church had
only minor damage, fireman
said.
Lititz Fire Chief Howard
Mowrer said the church
owned the trailer. Members
of the church were
remodeling the trailer.
The chief said the trailer
was to be used as Sunday
school classrooms.
The fire started about 8:15
p.m. possibly by a
malfunction in the furnace.
Damage was estimated at
between $8,000 and $9,000.
The only damage to the
church was a few cracked
windows.
The Lititz Fire Company
was assisted by the Brun-nerville
Fire Company.
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Landfill Denial
Appealed by
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1977-78 Warwick School Board officers are
newly elected president, Bill Owens (seated left),
treasurer David Buckwalter, re-elected (standing
center), and the newly elected vice-president,
Wallace Hofferth, (standing right). Mrs. Elizabeth
Thomas, who continues as secretary of the Board,
is seated at the table.
Dussinger Appointed to Evans’
Unexpired Terni on School Board
C. William Dussinger, 401
W. Woods Dr., was seated as
the newest member of
Warwick School Board last
Tuesday night (Dec. 21) to
fill the unexpired term of
John M. Evans, who
resigned.
Dussinger, who has been
chairman of the Warwick
Township supervisors for the
past five years, has resigned
from the board of supervi­sors,
effective immediately.
His current term was due to
expire the end of 1977 and he
had previously announced
his intentions not to seek re-election.
A new supervisor
must now be appointed by
the present board of
supervisors within 30 days.
Dussinger had been ap­proached
to seek the School
Board vacancy, and he also
was endorsed for the post by
the Warwick Area
Republican Committee.
Dussinger was completing
the fifth year of his first six-year
term, ; on, the board of
supervisors. He served as
chairman throughout that
term.
An industrial engineer
with Sperry New Holland,
where he has been employed
for 22 years, Dussinger has
been active in community
affairs for many years. He is
a member of the Lititz Lions
Club, a former Jaycee, and a
former member of the Lititz
Springs Park Board of
Trustees. He also served on
the council of St. Paul
Lutheran Church, was
treasurer of the Sunday
School there, was a coach for
the midget football league in
Creche Presented To Lititz
Lititz, and for the last few
years has been a referee for
the league.
He was raised in Lititz and
is a 1954 graduate of Lititz
High School. He is married
to the former Dolores
Showers of Lititz and has two
sons, Bill, 16, and Peter, 14,
both students in Warwick
schools.
Three Teachers Hired
In further business the
Board hired three teachers
for the current school term.
Jon M. Bard, 56 Forney
Dr., was hired to teach
English at the high school, on
a letter of employment for
the period Dec. 21 through
June 10, at a salary of $8,625.
Bard graduated from
Millersville State College on
Dec. 23.
Michael R. Gumpert,
Monocacy Station, Pa., was
hired to teach fifth grade at
Lititz Elementary, effective
Jan. 21, at a salary of $8,625.
He is a 1976 graduate of
Kutztown State College, with
a bachelors degree in
elementary education.
James M. Drescher, 675
Harman Station Rd., Lan­caster,
was hired as a Middle
School teacher to replace
David E. Remley, who was
granted a sabbatical leave of
absence for the second
semester of this school term.
Drescher will be paid $46.62
a day, effective Jan. 27
through June 10:
Mrs. Miriam E. Salmon,
business education teacher
at the high school, was
granted an unpaid leave of
absence for child care, ef­fective
Jan. 21 through June
30.
New Post
Established
Acting on a request from
Harold Swisher, high school
principal, for establishment
of a new cocurricular
position of stage technician
to assist with dramatics
productions, the Board
approved a memorandum of
understanding to establish
such a position for this school
year, with the individual’s
pay to come from profits
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By Peggy Frailey
Decisions by the zoning
boards of both Elizabeth and
Penn Townships to deny
construction of a sanitary
landfill along Penryn Road
have been appealed by R. E.
Wright Associates of
Harrisburg, the developing
firm that wants to build the
landfill.
The appeal was filed this
month in Lancaster County
Court of Common Pleas and
is based both on the findings
of fact of the two zoning
boards as well as the similar
conclusions arrived at by the
two boards.
Wright Associates have
taken exception to 15 of the
49 points of fact in the two
zoning dicisions.
They say there has been
insufficient evidence to
support the following fin­dings
of the zoning boards:
...That a “green belt”
proposed for around the
landfill would not screen one
of the neighboring proper­ties;
...That uncollected runoff
would drain into Hammer
Creek and then into
Speedwell Forge Lake;
...That solid waste buried
in the landfill may not
become inert within 10 years
after the landfill operations
cease and untreated
leachate could filter into
Hammer Creek and
Speedwell Forge Lake;
...That the developers
would not rule out the
possibility of pollution to
nearby water sources;
...That the Department of
Environmental Resources
would not enforce its
regulations adequately due
to lack of manpower;
...That access roads to the
proposed landfill are not
adequate to accomodate
increased traffic generated
by the landfill;
In This Issue
Business Directory 15
Church News 14
Classified Ads 17
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Women’s 12
...Data given on the base of
Penryn Road and the width
of Mountain Road, Pumping
Station Road, and Speedwell
Forge Road;
...That the weight of large
garbage trucks would be too
hard on the roads;
...That there are about 15
school bus stops on Penryn
Road and traffic to the
landfill would create a
hazard to school students
waiting at these bus stops;
...That although the area is
zoned rural, there are three
or four homes abutting the
proposed landfill site and 30
to 40 families living within
one-half mile of it;
...That there are existing
building lots for about 30
more homes available in
Penryn Acres, across
Penryn Road from the site;
...That property values
near the landfill would
decrease, as testified to by a
real estate expert;
...That farm crops on
reclaimed land would not be
as good as those from the
same soil prior to a landfill;
...That the landfill would
have an estimated life of 15-
30 years and could reach a
height of 30 feet.
The developers also ap­pealed
five of the nine points
covered in the zoning boards’
conclusions, claiming the
following points are not
based on sufficient evidence
submitted, are erroneous
and demonstrate a
capricious disregard for the
law and the evidence sub­mitted
to the hearing
boards:
...That the landfill would
have a greater impact on the
public interest than what
might be expected under
normal circumstances;
...That the protesting
residents had carried their
burden of proof to show
projected injury to the public
adequately enough to justify
denial of Wright’s request;
...That the landfill would
work against the safety,
health and welfare of the
public for numerous
reasons;
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The Year That Was:
Bicentennial 1976
Despite frosty winter winds, a large crowd
gathers near Lititz Square to sing Christmas Carols
as part of the dedication of the new Lititz com­munity
creche. The creche was presented to James
Yerger, president of Boro Council, by Mrs. Jane
Craig, 28 S. Broad St. Mrs. Craig first suggested
giving Lititz a creche in a letter to the editor of the
Record, written Dec. 18,1975. A little more than a
year later, Lititz received the fruit of Mrs. Craig's
labor when the creche was dedicated on Dec. 23,
1976. Dedication remarks were made by Rev. W.
Clemens Rosenberger, who had assisted with the
community-wide fund-raising drive, and the Lititz
Heritage Choir lead the singing of Christmas
Carols.
April 1976
The spotlight plays across
a reclining figure, sound
asleep. It’s Count Nicholas
Von Zinzendorf, esteemed
founder and spiritual leader
of the infant community of
Lititz - And so the American
Business Club play, “That’s
the Way It Was,” begins.
From there on its a series of
one-liners and . pointed
allusions created by a group
of clever Lititz iconoclasts,
all designed to make us take
a more realistic or at least a
more enjoyable, look at our
staid ancestors’ lifestyles.
XXX
Boro Council unanimously
and wholeheartedly ap­proved
the Rec Center
budget for 1976-77 Tuesday
night when they were in-formed
it was $1800 less than
last year’s budget.
The Warwick Education
Association will once again
sponsor a Warwick area
Bike-A-Thon during the April
county-wide Bike-A-Thon to
benefit the Lancaster
Association for Retarded
Children.
XXX
The Welcome Wagon Club
has completed the refur­bishing
of the Children’s
Reading Room at the Lititz
Public Library. The
basement area, designed to
capture attention, has been
transformed into an ap­pealing
cozy room where
children can enjoy story
reading.
The much discussed
Doster Tract, a 17-acre tract
of land on Woodcrest
Avenue, owned by Warwick
School District, has been
sold to St. James Catholic
Church for $90,000 for the site
for a new church.
XXX
The Lititz Area Jaycees
will again sponsor cleanup
day in Lititz Springs Park on
Saturday to prepare the park
grounds for this season’s
activities. All citizens are
invited to participate.
XXX
Lititz area churches, are
about to begin the solemn
services that will climax
Holy Week, beginning with
communion services in
many churches tonight and
continuing with two com­munity-
wide Good Friday
services the following day.
XXX
Eleven men from Lan­caster,
Lebanon and Chester
Counties will be vying for the
Republican nomination for
the 16th Congressional
District seat, to replace
Congressman Ed Eshleman.
On a local level, this
nomination has triggered a
great deal of interest,
because of the large number
of persons running for the
seat.
XXX
Modular units are being
put in place now for the Lititz
Family Health Center, new
professional medical office
building being constructed
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