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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 PAG ES—No. 17
Even the feathers of a stuffed duck get ruffled.
Ron Hevener, Newmanstown, a student of
xidermy under Richard Busch, Lititz, smooths the
wing tip of a wild duck mounted on an original
Hevener painting. The unusual art form in­corporates
the craft of the taxidermist with the art
of the painter.
Ron HevenerExpands
The Art of Taxidermy
By Bonnie Szymanski
As a boy, Ron Hevener’s
“ service” to his “ com­munity
of friends” was to
create delicate animals from
pieces of wire he had
salvaged from his father’s
electrical equipment. Even
today, several of these early
creations can still be found in
some Lititz homes.
With longer wire and
slightly more sophisticated
techniques, Ron still creates
a motionless world of
animals. A student of
taxidermy - the art of
preparing, stuffing, and
mounting animal skins - Ron
is able to turn a lifeless
carcass into a work of art,
breathtakingly beautiful and
vital in appearance.
To the people who would
disdain such a practice as
cruel or barbaric, Ron is
quick to remind them that
without, the art of the
taxidermist, the proud
remains of animals killed
through accident or by the
hunters’ bullet would be lost
to Nature’s clean-up crews.
“I’m against cruelty to
animals, and I’m not a
hunter,” he explained, “but
at least the animal isn’t
going to rot somewhere. It
will last for a hundred years
(he later changed that
estimate to hundreds of
years); it will stand for
something.”
Ron, a 1968 Warwick High
School graduate, is a second
year apprentice with
Richard Busch, 508 W.
Marion St., who is
preparator of exhibits at the
North Museum on the
Franklin and Marshall
College campus. Although
still officially an apprentice,
Ron has fulfilled state
requirements to be licensed
as a taxidermist in Penn­sylvania.
Artist Plus
Ron has always looked at
life from the artist’s point of
view. Even at the untried
age of nine, he was acutely
aware of the validity of his
own creative spark and
attempted to “protect” it by
refusing the offer of art
lessons.
Recently though, having
satisfactorily developed and
proven the value of his own
native talent by working in
commercial art for several
years, Ron has begun at­tending
classes under the
direction of Floyd Hackman,
Lititz.
Characteristically, during
the time he was producing
art forms for sale in the
commercial field, he was
also involved in an oc­cupation
far removed from
the often sedate artistic life.
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GIVE-AWAY
7-9 P.M. FRIDAY
Registration Slips Available^
All Dqy Friday At
Participating Merchants^
A Turkey Give-Away, featuring 2 free turkeys every
fifteen minutes between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., will be held
this Friday evening in downtown Lititz.
Tickets can be obtained all day Friday, FREE, from
participating merchants. No purchase is necessary to
obtain a registration coupon.
The shopper should sign his name and address and
deposit the coupon at the drum in front of the General
CHRISTAAAS
TURKEY!
18 FREE TURKEYS TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
RULES;
1. Contest open to anyone 18 years of
age or older.
2. Children under 18 are also eligible, if
accompanied by an adult.
3. One turkey per person. If a name is
drawn twice, a substitute winner will
be picked.
4 . Obtain registration slips at any
participating merchant. No Purchase
Necessary!
5. Names must be signed on official
registration forms available free at
participating merchants.
Sutter Inn. Winners’ names will be posted on the
bulletin board at the Sutter and the turkeys must be
claimed by 9:30 p.m.
Be sure to register Friday and watch for the winners
on the board at the Sutter beginning at 7 p.m.
The following merchants are participating in the
Turkey-Give-Away:
Owens Elected New School Board
President, Will Work for More
Involvement from Community
Active as a full time farmer,
Ron, with his wife Judy, was
the proud owner of 50 head of
Black Angus cattle. It was
this herd, in addition to other
items sold, that enabled Ron
to enroll as a student at
Franklin and Marshall
College two years ago.
Having already succeeded
in art, in animal husban­dry,
and even in seeing
several articles published in
trade journals, Ron was
studying to become a
v e t e r i n a r i a n . B u t
somewhere along the line,
his old love of art intervened
and he was drawn to the
ancient craft of taxidermy.
The Heveners have lived in
an old sandstone farm house
for seven years. Situated
north of Lititz near the
Middle Creek Wildlife
Management Area, it
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By Peggy Frailey
William G. Owens, who
has been chief negotiator for
Warwick School Board for
the past three years, was
elected president of the
Board Monday night at the
school directors’ annual
reorganizational meeting.
Owens succeeds John M.
Evans in the top spot on the
Board. Evans had served as
president for three years,
and earlier had announced
his pending resignation from
the Board, effective last
Monday night.
As a result of Evans’
resignation, a “vacancy” on
the Board was officially
declared. The Board has 30
days to fill this vacancy by
appointing a new director. It
had requested resumes from
interested residents of the
school district and is ex­pected
to announce its
decision at its regular Dec.
21 meeting.
Owens, who has been a
Board member for five
years, is a former vice-president
of the School
Board as well as its chief
negotiator. He told the
Record following his election
that he definitely will not be
serving as negotiator while
president, and that he ex­pects
to appoint a new one on
Dec. 21.
He said one of his main
goals as president will be to
get more input from the
community and Board
members. He intends to do
this by revamping and
making fuller use of Board
committees, he said.
All Board members will be
put on all committees, he
explained, but the com­mittees
will be broken down
into sub-committees and will
include several Board
members and probably some
members of the community
and-or administration, he
said.
“I will be looking for
outside help on the com­mittees,”
he emphasized.
Owens won the election for
the presidency over Wallace
Hofferth by a 4-3 vote by
secret ballot. Director David
Buckwalter was not present
due to illness. Hofferth was
subsequently re-elected vice-president,
winning over the
other nominee, Wilson
Smith, by a 4-2 vote, with one
abstention.
Smith was named to a
three-year term on the Vo-
Tech Joint Committee, with
Roy Yeager as alternate.
Buckwalter was re­appointed
the Board’s
representative to the Lan­caster
County Tax Bureau,
with business manager
Robert Boltz named alter­nate.
Roger Reist was re­appointed
solicitor for the
School Board.
Lititz Police News
Stolen Laundry Part
Of Burglary Rash
A rash of thefts and
burglaries continue to
plague Lititz residents, in­cluding
one woman who had
a load of wash stolen out of
the laundromat where she
was drying it.
Mrs. Mary Neff, 134 E.
Lincoln Ave., told police she
had put a load of laundry in a
dryer at the New Street
Laundromat about noon on
Nov. 30, had left, and upon
return, found that not only
the laundry, but her pink
plastic wash basket were
gone.
She told police another
woman had been in the
laundromat earlier, but was
gone when Mrs. Neff
returned. She could not
I n T h is I s s u e
Business Directory 24
Church News 14
Classified Ads 16,17
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Women’s 12
describe the woman, but said
she was driving an old model
stationwagon with wood
paneling.
The laundry, valued at
about $35, included clothing
and towels. Police Chief
George Hicks is in­vestigating
the incident.
Home Burglarized
Thieves broke into the
home of Ray Kauffman, 220
E. Second Ave., on Dec. 4
sometime between 2:45 and
9:05 p.m., when the oc­cupants
were, away, went
through the three bedrooms
of the home, and stole a
number of $2 bills, an Indian
head penny (possibly with a
1903 date, and between $5 to
$10 in change. I
Thieves apparently tore a*
screen on a porch door on the
southwest side of the house
to gain entry, pushed and
broke a set of shutters on
another window, and pushed
open an unlocked bathroom
window on the first floor.
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Owens was elected to the
Board in 1971, and has one
more year to go before his
term expires. He told the
Record this week that he
probably would seek re-election
in 1977, although he
has made no definite
decision.
During the past year he
has served as chairman of
the Board’s personnel
committee and as a member
of the buildings and property
committee, in addition to
being chief negotiator.
He is a senior research
scientist for Armstrong Cork
Company. He and his wife,
Jean, reside at 218 Swar-thmore
Dr., and have two
children, Michael Owens and
Mrs. Wilma Collins, both of
Lititz.
Owens is a native of
Lancaster. He and his family
moved to Lititz in 1953, then
moved to Hempfield, and
returned to Lititz 10 years
ago.
Upon his election to the
presidency, Owens thanked
his fellow Board members
and said he was “quite
pleased” and looking for­ward
to his new position.
Evans, as retiring
president, was honored
during the session by a
special thank you from
Board members and was
presented a gold pen and
pencil set.
Teacher Suspension
In further business, the
Board unanimously affirmed
the suspension of high school
teacher, Aristotle Theros, as
of Sept. 8. The adjudication
followed a fact finding report
from attorney William
Musser, prepared after a
hearing held Aug. 18 at
Theros’ request.
Theros was suspended
when a cut was made in the
teaching staff this year.
Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new
building of the Swiss Watch Technical Center were
held Dec. 3 at the site of the building located just
south of the Justice of the Peace office on Rt. 501.
W. Giroud, manager of thè Lititz center, and J.P.
Savary, president of SWTC in New York, break
ground to begin construction of thè new building.
Swiss Watch Plans New ’ 200,000 Center
The Backporch Candle Shoppe
Benner's Pharmacy
Bicycle World
Bingeman's Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bingeman's Texaco
Bob's Save Rite Market
Cam Tech of Lititz
The Carpet Shop
Commonwealth National Bank
Dori Mae Dress Shop
Farmer’s First Bank
D. C. Furlow 5 & 10
First Federal Savings & Loan
General Sutter Inn
The Gladell Shop
Glassmyer’s
God’s Own Creation Christian
Bookstore
Harold’s House of
Photography
Hen & Dave's Bike Shop
Hershey’s Shoe Store
Hess Men's Wear
The Jewelry Shoppe
Klotz Kieners
Kreider Hardware-TV
Lads & Lassies
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Central Market
Lititz Paint Shoppe
Lititz Pet Shop
Lititz Record Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
EVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE LITITZ RETAILER'S ASSOCIATION!
Long & Bomberger
McElroy Pharmacy
Miller’s Furniture
The Pewter Mug
Shoes ’N Things
Spacht’s Furniture Store
Stuaffer’s of Kissel Hill
Travis Mills Factory Outlet
Trudi K Shop
Wells Warwick House
Wilbur Chocolate Factory
Candy Outlet
Woodstream Factory Outlet
Store
The Lititz division of the
Swiss Watch Technical
Center, Inc. will move to a
new location just south of the
Justice of the Peace office on
Rt. 501. Ground for the
$200,000 building was broken
at an official ceremony at
the site on Dec. 3.
Swiss Watch Technical
Center is presently located in
the Hanna Building, 701 S.
Broad St. Miller and Miller
CPA’s are expected to move
into the offices presently
occupied by Swiss Watch,
according to Wilbur Miller.
The new Swiss Watch
center should be completed
by mid-July. The building is
expected to cost about
$200,000 and will be built on
about 2.1 acres of land. The
structure will be ap­proximately
5,000 square
feet, measuring 50 by 100
feet.
The center services Swiss
made watches of any type
for industries manufacturing
or importing Swiss watches.
According to Vice-President
W. Giroud, manager of the
Lititz center, the company
does not generally deal with
the consumer, but with
larger organizations. There
is no manufacturing done at
the center, but any type of
repair work is done on Swiss
made watches.
The Swiss Watch Center
was established in Lititz in
1970. Because of increased
demand for services, the
present building has become
too small and another
location was needed.
There are presently 36
employees of the center, and
about 50 employees are
expected to work at the
center following expansion.
The new building was
designed by Kepner Con­struction
Inc. and will also
be built by that construction
company. The design of the
new structure was described
by Don Kepner, of Kepner
Construction Inc., as being
“basic and functional”.
At the ceremony on Dec. 3,
J.P. Savary, president of
Swiss Watch Technical
Center in New York, ex­pressed
“pride in breaking
ground in such a fine com­munity.”
“Our experience of the last
few years has demonstrated
the quality and the loyalty of
our employees and the ad­vantage
of having such an
enterprise in this area,” he
said. “We want to grow and
be a part of the industrial
development of Lititz.”
“We are grateful to the
city and county for their
support and interest,” added
Savary.