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The result of snow, sleet, and ice storms over the weekend, is a ship, the lake glistening as the sun slowly rises behind a nearby
beautiful sunrise at Speedwell Forge Lake in Elizabeth Town- farm.
Two Snowfalls Leave Boro with Slippery
Streets, Residents Told to Clear Sidewalks
Anyone still trying to chip
away at the ice and frozen
snow left over from the two
storms that hit the borough
during the past Week?
Boro Manager David
Anderson has reminded all
residents of the borough
ordinance that requires
property owners to remove
snow from their sidewalks
within 24 hours after a
snowfall has stopped.
Anderson also reminds
residents that it is not legal
to throw the snow they
shovel into the road or keep
it piled at the curb ends.
He issues this word of
advice - when you shovel
snow to the end of your
driveway, pile it on the right
hand side (facing the street).
That way, snowplows will
not be pushing it back into
your driveway as they pass.
Two snowstorms hit the
county, one last Thursday
and Friday, and a second one
on Sunday, the second one
turning mostly to rain and
sleet on Monday. High winds
following Friday’s storm
caused hazardous drifting on
roads in the area. Although a
heavier snow accumulation
was expected Sunday,
Monday’s moderating
temperatures and rain
turned the snow into slush on
the highways, and this in
turn froze when tem­peratures
dropped rapidly
late Monday afternoon.
In spite of the hazardous
conditions, borough police
report that few traffic ac­cidents
occurred.
Borough street crews
spent most of last Thursday
night plowing the roads, and
started in again about 5 a.m.
Friday, working until after
11 p.m. after wind started
causing drifting.
Street crews were out
Moehlmann Named to
Hiree Gov’t Committees
State Representative Nick
M o e h lm a n n , 1 0 2 n d
Legislative District, has
been appointed to the House
Finance, Liquor Control, and
State Government Com­mittees,
House Republican
Leader Robert J. Butera has
announced.
“Nick’s desire to continue
his work to remove the
inequities for working
persons in the state’s per­sonal
income tax and his
efforts to improve the state-owned
liquor store operation
earned him a seat on the
Finance and Liquor Control
Committees,” Butera said.
“He also will be working
with the State Government
Committee which reviews
legislation pertaining to
state government, par­ticularly
election law
reform.”
Moehlmann, who is ser­ving
his second term with the
House, said that he looks
forward to continuing his
work with the House Finance
Committee.
“ The Liquor Control
Committee will be dealing
with proposals to permit the
sale of beer and wine in
grocery stores, the
elimination of state-owned
liquor stores, price control,
and lowering the drinking
age,” he said.
“Last session the State
Government Committee was
given the responsibility of
Rep. Nick Moehlmann
reviewing Sunset legislation
which is designed to
eliminate obsolete state
bureaucracy.
“This proposal, which will
be reintroduced this session,
requires that all agencies be
phased-out between July 1,
1978 and July 1, 1983, unless
specifically recreated by an
Act of the General Assembly
prior to their termination
date.
“ In this manner the
General Assembly will be
able to review all agencies to
ensure that they are per­forming
their functions
economically and that
senseless duplication is
eliminated,” he said.
again Sunday night,
primarily for cindering and
salting, and started to plow
at 7 a.m. Monday.
Parking meters on the
north side of East Main
Street were bagged Sunday
night, for plowing and all
meters on East Main were
bagged Monday, so that
front end loaders could
remove plowed snow from
the curbs. The snow removal
equipment was hired from
Rohrer’s Quarry at an an­ticipated
cost of $400-$500,
the boro manager said.
Most of the curb-side piles
of snow had been removed
by late in the afternoon on
Monday.
Warwick schools were
closed both Friday and
Monday because of the
snowfalls and hazardous
road conditions. School
resumed its normal hours on
Tuesday.
Power Failure Disrupts Northern
Part of Lititz After Weekend Storms
The northwest section of
Lititz, including homes and
some industries, was without
electrical power for several
hours early Monday morning
in the wake of Sunday night’s
storm.
PP&L officials, who were
notified of the power failure
about 6 a.m. Monday, said
that the electrical wires
were weighted with snow
and ice, and when the wind
swung them, several rubbed
together, tripping a breaker
at the substation.
About 500 customers,
including Wilbur Chocolate
Company, Beford Shoe
Company, Badorf Shoe
Company, Cellu Products,
and the Warwick House,
were affected by the power
failure.
Robert Martin from
Wilbur Chocolate said that
production was halted at the
plant for about three hours,
when all machinery was shut
down by the power failure.
Some of the employees were
put to work shoveling snow,
but the rest had to wait for
the electricity to come back
on, he said. Martin
estimated that the shut-down
cost the company several
thousand dollars. He noted
although production got
behind schedule, it was
caught up by the end of the
day.
A spokesman for Beford
Shoe Company on Kleine
Street said that all that
company’s machines and
lights were out until 8:30
a.m. and the plant got behind
schedule, also. The
spokesman said that a
number of employees drove
by the plant, but since the
lights were out, they thought
the plant was closed and did
not report for work. Officials
shut the plant down at noon,
Loss Totals *6,000
In Farmhouse Fire Quick response by the
Lititz Fire Company Sunday
helped keep damage to a
minimum after a two-family
farmhouse on West Millport
Road was threatened by fire
from a gas furnace located in
the residence of David and
Merv Sands.
Fire officials said the fire,
which is still under in­vestigation,
started in the
vicinity of a gas furnace
recessed in the hall floor of
the Sands residence. The
other part of the house,
which is owned by Enos K.
Good, 114 New Haven Dr., is
occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
John Keller, who discovered
the fire and turned in the
alarm at 4 p.m. The Sands
brothers were away at the
time of the fire.
According to fire officials,
heavy smoke caused an
estimated $6,000 damage,
but reports revealed that a
few more minutes delay
would have been time
enough for the entire house
to become engulfed in
flames.
1 About 30 firemen were on
the scene for one-and-a-half
hours. Merv Sands told a
reporter that he did not even
know the house had been on
fire until he returned home
at midnight to find the smoke
filled rooms. Sands, who
stores a considerable
amount of his own artwork in
his home, said that none of
the work had been
irreparably damaged and
that most of the smoke
damage was to clothing and
personal effects in the up­stairs
rooms.
with the failure resulting in a
“substantial” loss to the
company, the spokesman
said.
Badorf Shoe Company on
West Lincoln Avenue
notified area radio stations
that the plant would be
closed for the day when the
power failure was
discovered at 6 a.m.
Although some employees
reported for work after 7:30
a.m., they were sent home,
and only a few office workers
were kept on the job, a
spokesman said. “Because
of the production work here,
we have to have everyone on
the job to operate,” the
spokesman said.
The Warwick House
restaurant on North Broad
Street also was without
power for two hours and 14
minutes, a spokesman said,
but this affected only the
rented second floor rooms,
and not the operation of the
restaurant, which does not
open until 11 a.m.
Cellu Products, on North
Cedar Street, also was
without power, but since the
failure occurred prior to the
sta rt of the plant’s
operations, there was no
production loss, a
spokesman said. He said a
boilerman reported the
electric power went off there
at 4 a.m.
The failure apparently
affected only customers
north of the railroad tracks,
mostly those to the west, and
a few to the east along Front
Street. Woodstream Cor­poration,
Yerger Brothers,
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In This Issue
Business Directory 16
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Eidtorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10
Lititz’ Work Crew
Seeking Membership
In Teamsters Union By Peggy Frailey
Plans of some of Lititz’
public works crew to join the
Teamsters Union are
meeting with opposition
from borough officials, and
as a result, a hearing is being
set up with the state Labor
Relations Board for later
this month.
Ha rry Himelwright,
business representative
from Local 777 of the
Teamsters Union told the
Record this week that some
members of the local works
department have already
joined the 2,500,000-member
union, which is almost the
largest labor organization in
the nation.
Himelwright said that the
union had asked the borough
to enter a joint election
request with its works crew
(in which the borough and its
employees would request the
Labor Board to schedule an
election on whether or not to
join the union), but that the
borough’s only response had
been, “No comment.”
Himelwright said he had
spoken only to the borough
manager, as was his usual
procedure, and had not taken
the matter to Boro Council.
He said that under these
conditions, the next step will
be a hearing before the
Labor Board, Which will be
conducted in the Lancaster
County Courthouse.
“We wanted it (the
hearing) sooner, but it
probably won’t be until the
end of January,” he said.
Neither Himelwright nor a
spokesman for the public
works crew would discuss
the specific grievances about
working conditions that
sparked local workers to
seek membership in the
union. Himelwright would
say only that the
“grievances are long in­debted,
and did not happen
overnight.”
However, several borough
officials said that most of the
trouble centered around
wages and salaries. Some
members of the work crew
reportedly are dissatisfied
with getting their paychecks
every two weeks, instead of
weekly, and with a relatively
new policy of the borough to
grant merit increases
midway through the year,
rather than in January.
Lost Confidence
Reportedly, the works
crew has “lost confidence”
that the borough’s personnel
policy will grant them job
security.
The controversy involves
only members of the street
department and the sewer
and water department. It
does not involve the police
d e p a r tm e n t , w h ich
negotiates its own contract
with the borough through its
own solicitor, nor the
borough manager, nor the
clerical employees.
There is a question about
which members of the works
crew are eligible for union
membership. The borough
feels that those in a super­visory
capacity qualify as
“management” and are not
eligible to join a union.
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DER Balks at Slam By
Penn, Eliz. Twps.
In Landfill Decision
Harry Steigman, Director
of Environmental Protec­tion,
Harrisburg Regional
Office, Department of En­vironmental
Resources,
announced today that he
does not agree with one of
the conclusions drawn by the
zoning boards of Penn and
Elizabeth Townships.
R. E. Wright Associates, a
Harrisburg geological firm,
was denied a special ex­ception
from the two
townships’ zoning regulat­ions
for the construction of a
sanitary landfill on Penryn
Road.
According to published
news accounts, both the
Penn and Elizabeth
Townships zoning boards
stated that one of the reasons
for the denial of the Wright
firm’s request was that “The
Department of En­vironmental
Resources
could not enforce its
regulations due to
inadequate manpower.”
Edward R. Simmons,
Regional Solid Waste
Program Manager, states
that although Department of
Environmental Resources’
budget and manpower
requirements have been
constrained for this fiscal
year, the Solid Waste staff
has not been reduced, nor its
duties curtailed, and does
have the capability to en­force
the requirements of the
Pennsylvania Solid Waste
Management Act throughout
the region.
Simmons further said he
could find no scintilla of logic
in the townships Boards’
actions of using alleged
inabilities of DER as “a
point of fact.” Since any
sanitary landfill cannot
operate without a permit
from DER, such a facility
would have to comply with
all permit conditions.
Simmons said his staff is
available to provide
assistance to Penn and
Elizabeth Townships and its
citizens on matters of en­vironmental
protection and
regulation at any time.
There’s Still A 5C Gup
of Coffee in Lititz
Benner’s Pharmacy can
still boast having the lowest
coffee prices in town, at only
five cents a cup, despite
nationwide coffee price
increases.
Other Lititz restaurants
and shops seem to be
resisting the need to increase
their, coffee prices as well,
but the traditional five cent
Benner’s cup of coffee still
leads the others.
A cup of coffee at the
General Sutter Inn is still 25
cents, and no increase is
expected. The 25 cents in­cludes
refills of coffee as
long as the customer is or­dering
a meal.
The Warwick House
continues their 25 cent cup of
coffee, with the second and
third cups free. Free coffee
is provided with dinners.
Herb’s Sandwich Shop
hasn’t increased their 20 cent
cup of coffee, and doesn’t
plan to either.
Customers can still get a
cup of coffee for 25 cents at
Chicken Lickin’, and the
manager hopes that an in­crease
won’t be necessary.
Lester Bingeman, owner
of Bingeman’s Restaurant,
found it necessary to raise
his prices from 15 cents to 20
cents a cup. He said that he
used to buy a pound of coffee
for $1.45, but that now the
cost is $2.90 a pound.
Another increase noted in
the Lititz area is at
Glassmyer’s on North
Broad, where the price has
gone from 15 cents a cup to 20
cents. The increase took
place on Monday, Jan. 10,
but is still a small increase
compared to the national
market increases.
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Many have claimed that
the five cent cup of coffee is a
long-lost American tradition,
but in Lititz there’s still a
chance of finding a nickel
cup of coffee and maybe
even a free cup, if a meal is
ordered, at some Lititz
locations.
Shirley Prinz (left) pours a cup of one of the best
bargains in town, Benners' five cent cup of coffee.
Hen Hershey (center) and Doug Cassel enjoy the
rare treat in these days when coffee prices are
soaring throughout the nation.