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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 Pages-No. 3
Housing Developments Flourish in Warwick Twp.
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By Bonnie Szymanski
Editor’s Note: A special
thanks to Marv FeUer,
Warwick Township zoning
officer, who provided the
Record with a complete
profile of the housing
development situation in
Warwick Township to date.
Like a new frontier,
W a rw ick Township
represented a golden op­portunity
to housing
developers during the late
sixties and early seventies.
Today, there are some 20
or more developments in
various stages of planning
and completion spreading
semi-detached houses, town
houses and apartments.
Development of the Warwick
Township stage is about five
years away, said Feiler, and
completion of the entire
development is a decade in
the future.
Included in the plans for
Fair Meadows is the ex­tension
of Oak Street, which
will run through the entire
development.
An Older Development
After the “Big Two,” some
of the other developments
may seem small, but even
some of these are impressive
in scope.
Hilltop Manor, developed
Key To Housing Development Locations
Pine Lane Estates
Richard Claff ey Development
Crosswinds
Owl Hill Terrace
Millway Acres
Warwick Estates
7. Knob Hill
8. Fair Meadows
9. Donoview
10. Deer Run Estates
11. Hilltop Manor
12. Skyview Heights
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Woodstream Acquires CaL Fishing Rod Firm
Woodstream Corporation
has finalized the purchase of
a west coast fishing rod
manufacturing firm and will
operate it as a wholly owned
subsidiary, Woodstream
president, Richard G.
Woolworth, announced
Tuesday at Woodstream’s
a n n u a l sh a r e h o ld e r s
meeting.
Man Piiuied
Under Car A man, unidentified at
press time Wednesday
morning, was pinned
under a car on which he
was working at the
home of a friend, Jeff
Stofko, 22 Pinewood
Avet
Stofko was not at
home when the accident
occurred and neighbors
did not know the identity
of the victim.
Rescue workers were
still tying to free the
man from under the car
about 11:30 a.m. The
Warwick ambulance
and Warwick Township
police department had
been called to the scene
and Lititz Fire Com­pany
was on stand by at
the scene.
The newly purchased firm
is the Fenwick Corporation
in Westminster, Cal., a
privately held company that
introduced the first graphite
fishing rods in 1973. The
company reported sales of
$8.6 million for the fiscal
year ended July 31,1977.
On March 13, Woodstream
announced agreements to
purchase more than 50 per
cent of Fenwick’s out­standing
common stock.
No purchase price was
disclosed.
Woolworth announced
Tuesday that the Lititz-based
Woodstream Cor­poration
has purchased all of
Fenwick’s outstanding
stock.
Woolworth also indicated
Woodstream will begin
manufacturing the full line
of Fenwick rods in its
Niagara Falls, Ontario
facilities late this year.
Fenwick products for the
United States and Canada
are currently produced in
Westminster, Cal., Bain-
In This Issue
Business Directory 20
Church News 18
Classified Ads 22,23
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 12,13
bridge Island, Wash., and
Boise, Idaho.
At th e su b s eq u en t
directors meeting Tuesday,
the Woodstream board
declared a quarterly cash
dividend of 10 cents per
share payable May 15, 1978
to stockholders of record
April 29, 1978, and a quar­terly
cash dividend of 62%
cents per share on preferred
stock outstanding with the
same record and payable
dates.
FIVE SHADE 100 BINGO JACKPOT!
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Shown above are four of the five persons who presented winning bingo cards at the Lititz Record
office last Friday. Presenting each winner with 20 Lititz Shopping Dollars is Wm. Spacht (right),
owner of Spacht’s Furniture Store. Above are (left to right) John Mohler, 316 S. Cedar St.; Robert
Myers, 216 E. New St.; Harold Eckert, 311 Meadow Valley Rd,; and Joyce Bedger, 514 Rome Rd.
The 5th winner, Eugene Querry, was not available for the picture.
Check Lilac & White Bingo
Cards With 63 Bingo Numbers
In This Issue
Warwick To Sponsor
Drug, Alcohol Panel
A panel discussion for parents on ‘ ‘ Communication
and Drug/Alcohol Awareness” will be held on Thur­sday,
April 20, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Warwick
Middle School.
The three panelists will be :
-Carl Snyder, the director of the Council on
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in Lancaster, who will
discuss “Youth & Drugs & Alcohol, The Why Behind
It.”
-Barbara Brown, coordinator of community life
enrichment for the Lancaster County Mental
Health/Mental Retardation/Drug and Alcohol Abuse
program, who will talk about parents and com­munication.
-Charles Shenenberger, Lititz police officer, who
will bring along a drug display kit to show parents what
various drugs and drug paraphernalia look like, t
Following the presentations, the audience will be
given a chance to question the panelists.
For the 3rd straight week,
five winning bingo cards
have been presented at the
Lititz Record Office. Each of
the five winners received 20
Lititz Shopping Dollars,
sharing equally the $100
prize. This week’s prize will
again be $100 and you can
play by finding the 63 Bingo
numbers in ads in this issue.
Compare them to the Lilac &
White Bingo Cards available
from participating mer­chants
since last Thursday.
Be sure the color of your
bingo cards is Lilac & White
and remember you must find
all 24 numbers on your card.
Here are a few important
reminders of the rules:
The game is open to adults
only. If you account for all 24
numbers on your card, bring
the card to the Lititz Record
Express office, 22 E. Main
St., tomorrow, Friday, April
14 between 4:45 and 5 PM.
Only at that time will win­ning
numbers be verified
and prize money awarded.
Prizes are awarded in Lititz
Shopping Dollars.
A new card of a different
color (this is important) will
be available on Thursday of
each week, exclusively at
participating merchants.
The color for next week will
be Solid White and numbers
to check with the Solid White
cards will appear in next
week’s paper.
Get your cards now at
these participating mer­chants:
R. M. Barnhart TV &
Appliances
Benner’s Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
Bob’s Save Rite Market
Chimney Corner Restaurant
Commonwealth Nat’L Bank
Fanner’s First Bank
First Federal Sav. & Loan
Glassmyers
Hen & Dave’s Bike Shop
Heritage Chevrolet
Hess Men’s Wear
House of Warwick
Keller Bros.
Kissel Hill Auto Plaza
Kldtz Kleners
Kreider Hardware Co.
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Record Express
Lititz Sports Center
McElroy Pharmacy
Minnich’s Farm Bakery
The Pewter Mug
A. H. Shelly, Inc.
Shoes ’n Things
Spacht’s Furniture Store
Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill
TrudiKShop
Wells Warwick House
Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet
Your Day Bridal Boutique
from the northern to the
southern and from the
eastern to the western
boundaries of the township.
From 1960 to 1970, the
population of Warwick
Township jumped more than
39 percent, from 4,716 to
6,562 residents. By 1990,
accomodations for more
than 1000 new families will
be available in the township
in the form of new single
homes, semi-detached
houses, condominiums,
townhouses and apartments,
bringing the total population
to an estimated 10,000 plus.
Total Community
C ro s sw in d s , under
development by Chestnut
Hill Developers, Lancaster,
has been two years in the
planning and development
stages. It has a potential of
365 living units, including
townhouses, condominiums
and apartments, as well as
single and semi-detached
homes.
L o c a ted in s o u th -,
central Warwick Township,
it is bounded by the Lititz
Borough line on the east, by
Woodcrest Avenue on the
northwest, and by the area
north of West Woods Road
(including Woodridge
swimming pool) on the south
and southwest.
Crosswinds, in its first
stages of development, won’t
see completion for another
decade, according to Marv
Feiler, Warwick Township
zoning officer, and township
liaison to the zoning hearing
board and the township
planning commission.
But when it is completed,
Crosswinds will be a model
community. Included in the
plans are provisions for a
recreation area, a com­munity
building, a picnic
area, and a lake, which will
also serve as a sediment
control basin.
At th e r e q u e s t of
developers, Crosswinds’
designers, Lititz landscape
a r c h i t e c t s McCloud,
Scatchard, Derek and Ed-son,
have put a high priority
on long-term appearance.
R e s tr ic tio n s prohibit
television antennas, cam­pers
parked in driveways
and above ground utility
lines. Cost for a single family
home will start in the $65,000
range.
Co-op Project
Next in size is the Fair
Meadows development, a
cooperative project between
Lititz Borough and Warwick
Township, bounded by
Newport Road on the north.
F a ir Meadows, also
designed by McCloud,
Scatchard, Derek and Ed-son,
is a Hurst Bros,
development. The Lititz
company has been planning
the development for about
two years and are now
working on Section I, which
includes 19 lots under con­struction
within the borough,
just off of Balmer Drive and
Elm Street.
The remaining living
units, approximately 344,
will be built within the
township boundary, and will
include single family homes,
by K May Construction, Inc.,
Lititz Rl, consists of almost
125 finished homes, and as
one of the older new
developments, is in the final
stages of completion.
Started in the late sixties,
sections one through six are
almost done, and sections
seven and eight, with 46 lots,
will be in the construction
stage soon, starting with 25
houses in section seven this
summer.
Hilltop Manor is located
north of the township and is
bounded by Snyder Hill Road
on the east and Furnace
Hills Road on the west.
Two Estates
The Amos L. Stoltzfus
development, Pine Lane
Estates, has a potential of
150 homes, with 30 currently
completed and containing
residents.
Pine Lane Estates borders
Penn Township and is
bounded on the north by
West Orange Street and on
the east and south by Green
Acre Road.
Deer Run Estates, for­merly
known as Colony
Acres, is presently being
developed by Mahlon Young,
Manheim. It is located south
of 3runnerville, along
Brunnerville Road.
With a potential of 78 lots,
there are seven completed
homes and 24 lots recorded
with the county and town­ship.
Down South
The so u th e rnm o s t
development in Warwick
Township is Owl Hill
Terrace. It is located in the
southeast corner of the
township and is bounded by
Warwick Road on the east,
East Millport Road on the
south and Owl Hill Road on
the west.
Under construction by
Hess Home Builders, Neff-sv
ille , plans for the
development began in 1973.
With a potential of 70 homes,
there are about 20 completed
at present.
Divided by Twps.
The initial plans for
Skyview Heights were
developed in 1970-71 by
Melvin Weaver, Lititz.
Situated on land almost
equally divided between
Penn and Warwick Town­ships,
there are 24 lots in the
Warwick Township Section.
Added to the remaining lots
in Penn Township, the total
development contains about
50 homes.
According to Feiler, all the
lots on the Warwick
Township side have been
sold.
He said building began in
the late sixties or early
seventies but that “ ef­fective”
long-range planning
on the part of the developer
allowed him to build bn
smaller lot sizes than those
found in later developments.
Skyview Heights is bor­dered
by Lexington Road on
the north, the Penn Town­ship
line on the west, and is
bisected by Newport Road.
Smaller Developments
Millway Acres, with a
potential for 30 lots, is
located on the extreme
eastern boundary of War­wick
Township.
Developed by Ronald
Whitcraft, Lititz, there are
about eight residences
completed in this medium­sized
development bounded
by the New Rothsville and
Cocalico Roads.
W a rw ick E s t a t e s ,
developed by Raymond E.
and Raymond C. Groff,
Lititz, has nine completed
homes and room for about a
dozen more. The Groffs also
have placed certain building
restrictions on the lots to
keep the quality of the
development at a high level.
It is located east of
Rothsville Station Road in
Rothsville.
The M.N. Zimmerman
Co., Ephrata R2, has
completed construction of
half of Donoview, a small
development located along
East Newport Road, near
the Cocalico Creek border of
south eastern Warwick
Township. When finished,
Donoview will contain 15
residences.
Knob Hill, is a 14 lot
development located on the
east side of Clay Road, north
of Pine Hill Road. Developed
by William R. Hazlett, Lititz,
it features lot sizes of one
and a quarter acres
minimum. Three homes
have already been built in
the development.
West of Woodcrest
Avenue, just south of the
Lititz Borough boundary, is
a 12 lot housing tract whose
developer, Richard Claffey,
Lancaster, is waiting for the
installation of sewers before
beginning construction, said
Feiler. The anticipated
completion date for sewers
is sometime in 1980 at the
earliest.
Housing developments of
10 lots or less are scattered
about the township in
various areas and account
for another 50 to one hundred
new homes in various stages
of completion.
Building Since 1965
Feiler has charted con­struction
fluctuations in the
township based on the
distribution of building
permits since 1965.
In 1965, 32 permits were
granted for the construction
of new homes in Warwick
Township, while from 1967
through 1968, builders ap­plied
for 48 permits.
Construction was down in
1969 and 1970, when only 34
applications were made for
building permits in the
township, but in 1971, the
number of applications
almost doubled by mid-year.
By the end of 1972, permits
remained at a somewhat
stable 65, but by the end of
1973, the number of building
permits for new homes shot
up to 95 for the year.
In 1975, building permit
applications plummeted to
less than 50, reflecting “tight
money” in construction,
according to Feiler. But by
the end of 1976, applications
were back up to 90, then a
slow descent continued until
the end of last year.
During 1975, Feiler ob­served,
though new home
construction was down,
alterations were up because
“people decided to fix what
they had.”
Feiler predicted that 1978
would be a slower year for
b u ild in g p e rm it ap ­plications,
explaining that
builders are waiting for
sewers rather than putting in
on-lot sewage now then
having to convert to
municipal sewage in only a
few years.
Also, the interest rate on
money for construction has
risen, which discourages
developers, he noted. But, he
added, one of the main
reasons for the slack-off in
budding permit applications
is because developers have
recorded most of their lots
here with the county and
have already obtained the
permits they need for the
next three or four months’ of
construction.