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D. Curtis Amidon, formerly of the south side of ternoon, the old homestead was facing south,
Front Street, stands beside his home Monday waiting to be towed across Front Street onto its
afternoon. The front porch still faced north, as it new site. (Record Express Photo)
had since it was built in 1913, but Tuesday af-
A house right in the middle of the street! Drivers
attempting a left turn onto Front Street Wed­nesday
morning couldn’t believe their eyes, but it
was true. The house movers were moving Curt
Amidon’s house from the south side to the north
side of Front Street to make room for an expanding
Yerger Bros, plant. (Record Express Photo)
Amidon House Moved Across Front Street Wednesday By Bonnie Szymanski
In times past, turtles,
snails and certain nomadic
peoples were the only ones to
take their homes with them
into a new neighborhood.
The rest of us had to be
content with staying in one
place - be it castle, cabin or
cave - or be faced with the
sometimes unpleasant ex­perience
of leaving a secure
nest for unfamiliar lodgings.
Locally, one man has
followed the example of the
tortoise and has decided to
take his house with him. He
has moved it from the south
side of Front Street all the
way to...the north side of
Front Street.
Two years ago, D. Curtis
Amidon, assistant borough
manager and one-time
president of Lititz Borough
Council, sold his property to
his neighbor, Yerger Bros.,
Inc., 520 Front St.
Both Amidon and the
company assumed plant
expansion would take place
within a decade, and Amidon
felt secure in the fact that he
would be living in his own
home for another 10 years.
But, said Amidon’s son,
Tom, the custom wood­working
company began to
need its growing room
sooner than expected, and
Amidon was faced with the
prospect of leaving his
home.
One of the family’s first
ideas was to move the house,
said the younger Amidon.
Because, after living in a
home for 32 years and
raising six children there,
it’s hard to say goodbye.
So, after negotiating to
purchase the property
across the street, Amidon
made the decision: he would
move, but his house was
going to go with him.
According to Tom Amidon,
who with his wife, Christine,
and their family of four
children also will be moving
into the newly situated
house, the entire operation
will cost them the price of
buying or building a new
home.
Tom explained that a new
heating system will be in­stalled
and a three-car
garage built onto the new
site to replace the old two-
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Warwick seniors selected as Halloween Queen candidates for the Halloween
Parade in Lititz Monday night are (left to right) Jo Ann Washchysian, 508 Kissel
Hill Rd., Kathy Jo Gibble, 11 E. Third Ave., and Michelle Eileen (Missy) Clair, 40
E. Third Ave. All three girls are members of the High School Cheering Squad.
(Record Express Photo) Lititz Halloween Queen
To Be Crowned At Parade Three Warwick High
School senior cheerleaders
have been chosen as can­didates
for this year’s
Halloween Queen, with the
winner to be announced
Monday night during the
Lititz Lions Club Halloween
Parade in downtown Lititz.
The parade is scheduled to
start at 7 p.m.
The girls are Michelle
Eileen (Missy) Clair,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Clair, 40 E. Third Ave.;
Kathy Jo Gibble, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibble,
11E. Third Ave.; and Jo Ann
Washchysian, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Wash­chysian,
508 Kissel Hill Rd.
The queen will be crowned
by Lions Club President
Russel Schreiber in front of
the judges’ stand on East
Main Street.
Contestants
Missy Clair has been a
member of the High School
cheering squad, hockey
team, and track team for
four years. For the past two
years, she has been a
member of the National
Honor Society and the
Varsity Club. She was a Girl
Scout for five years and an
active member of the
Human Relations Com­mittee.
During her junior
year, she received the
American Legion’s Keystone
State Award. Missy works
part-time for Clair Bros.
Audio in Lititz.
Kathy Jo Gibble has been
a four-year member of the
High School hockey team
and cheering squad, as well
as treasurer of her class. She
has also participated on the
school tennis, track, and
softball teams, and played
three years in the school
orchestra. During her junior
year she was elected to the
National Honor Society,
atten d ed the Rotary
Leadership Camp for girls,
and was listed in “Who’s
Who Among American High
School Students.” She is a
member of the “Y” Swim
Team and has worked for
Woodridge Swim Club as
lifeguard and assistant swim
coach. She has also been a
candystriper at Lancaster
General Hospital.
Jo Washchysion has been a
member of the cheering
squad for three years, and
also a Homecoming at­tendant
for three years. She
has been a member of the
Varsity Club and Student
Government for three years.
She also is listed in “Who’s
Who Among American High
School Students.” Last
summer she was employed
as swimming instructor for
the Lititz Recreation Center.
Prises
Cash prizes totaling $307
will be awarded by the Lititz
Lions Club to marchers in
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Note: Rain date for
the parade will be
Wednesday, Nov. 1, and
not Tuesday, Oct 31 as
previously announced.
The ra in d a te was
changed so it would not
conflict with Trick Or
Treat Night
Warwick Band Places Second In Nationals,
Band Front, Brum Major Take Top Honors
By Peggy Frailey
“It’s like kissing your
cousin,” said Warwick High
School Band Director Dale
Weller this week after the
band placed second in
n a tio n a l c om p e titio n
Saturday night at Veteran
Stadium in Philadelphia.
“It was disappointing to
get so close (to first place)
and not take it all,” he said.
“But generally, I’m pleased
and I think the kids feel
about the same way.”
Competing against seven
other top high school bands
in the nation, Warwook took
second in the Class A
Division in the National
Championship of Marching
Bands.
Two Trophies
Warwick also brought
home two first place trophies
- one for showing the best
band front, and one for
having the best drum major,
Warwick senior, Beth
Rohrer.
“I couldn’t believe it” !
was Beth’s reaction to being
named top drum major in
the national competition.
At 5’3” , Beth is one of the
shorter drum majors on the
marching field, but she finds
this no hindrance when she
climbs up on her platform to
lead the band through its
show.
“As long as the band can
see me, it’s okay,” she says.
Beth, daughter of Mr. and
f ween Roundup
Lititz Boro
Halloween Parade -
Mon., Oct. 30, 7 p.m.
(raindate, Wed., Nov.
1).
Trick Or Treat Night -
Tues., Oct. 31,6-9 p.m.
Warwick Township
Rothsvilie Halloween
Parade - Fri., Oct. 27, 7
p.m. (if rain, no
parade).
Trick-Or-Treat Night -
Tues., Oct. 31,6-9 p.m.
Penn Township
Penryn Halloween
Parade - Sat., Oct. 28, 7
p.m. (rain or shine).
Trick-Or-Treat Night -
Mon., Oct. 30, 6-9
p.m.
Mrs. J. Lloyd Rohrer, Owl
Hill Road, has been playing
flute in the band since her
freshman year, and before
that played in the Middle
School Band.
Drum major is a job she
wanted badly this year and
was thrilled to get.
She was “a little nervous”
Saturday night before the
band’s performance at
Veteran Stadium, “but I get
nervous before any show,
even at football games,” she
said.
Best Showing
The band gave its best
showing yet on Saturday
night, Director Dale Weller
said. It lost first place by
only 1.4 points to its
p e r e n n ia l o p p o n en t,
Plymouth-Whitemarsh, ou­tclassed
by P-W in the
“marching execution”
category, Weller explained.
Village Art
Assn. Plans
Show & Sale
The Lititz Village Art
Association will hold their
second annual Membership
Show and Sale Nov. 3 and 4
at the studio and gallery of
AlTaft, 413 N. Water St.
The event will be held
from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday
and from 1 to 8 p.m. on
Saturday. It will feature
members’ art, including
work in watercolor, oil, and
acrylic. Paintings will be on
sale in time for holiday gift­giving
ideas. Refreshments
will be served.
The show was first held
last November to promote
the work of the Village Art
Association, which sponsors
the Lititz Outdoor Art Show
every summer.
The public is invited to
attend, to browse, or to buy.
Anyone interested in joining
the Village Art Association
should contact to A1 Taft,
membership chairman.
However, Warwick came
away with the best score for
music, band front, and total
show, he said.
P-W (from Plymouth
Meeting, Pa.) compiled 82.30
points. Warwick compiled
80.90 points, and Hammton
High School from Ham-monton,
N.J. took third with
80.50.
This is the third year the
Warwick band has competed
in the nationals. It finished
third in the last two events.
State Competition
Weller says he plans no
basic changes in the show
before its next big com­petition
for the Cavalcade of
Bands Championships Nov. 4
at Hershey. The band has
another week of hard core
practice before that event,
and meanwhile will be
marching in both the Lititz
and Rothsvilie Halloween
parades.
More than 300 fans from
the Lititz area followed the
band to P h ilad elp h ia
Saturday to view the
national competition.
A total of 28 bands in the
classes A, B, and C per­formed,
with Warwick
among the last eight com­peting,
in Class A. Although
Warwick was scheduled to
Warwick High School Band’s drum major, Beth
Rohrer, salutes smartly after being named top
drum major in national band competitions
Saturday in Philadelphia.
do its show at about 9:45 the field, and about 4:30 a.m.
p.m., it was close to mid- until band and spectators got
night until the band got onto back home to Lititz.
Landfill Hearing Scheduled Dec. 8
Friday, Dec. 8 has been set
by Commonwealth Court in
Harrisburg as the date it will
hear an appeal from Penn
and Elizabeth township
residents against a proposed
sanitary landfill along
Penryn Road.
Residents filed the appeal
with Commonwealth Court
after a Lancaster County
Court decision that the
townships must permit the
landfill.
The appeal was filed by a
group formed to fight the
landfill, the Save Our Soils
Committee of Penn and
Elizabeth Townships. The
case will be heard in
Courtroom #1 at 9:30 a.m. on
Dec. 8.
Some members of the
committee plan to be there,
including Jim Bachman and
Scott Shank, officers of the
committee.
No new testimony will be
permitted at the hearing. A
panel of judges will make a
decision based on tran­scripts
from hearings held in
Lancaster County.
Residents of the two
townships have been in
action for over two years
now fighting the landfill,
which a Harrisburg firm, R.
E. Wright Associates, wants
to install along Penryn Road
in the midst of both housing
developments and farm
land. The site lies partly in
Penn, and p a rtly in
Elizabeth township.
The site is close to
Hammer Creek, and
residents protest that the
land is too full of springs and
limestone to avoid the
danger of well pollution.
Numerous other objections
were also made to the
fill.
The zoning boards of both
townships tel used lr> pf ¡n>.R
the landfill, but Wright
appealed these decisions,
and won his case with the
county court. It is this
decision by the county court
that is being appealed to the
higher court by the SOS
Committee.
During the past two years,
the committee has held a
number of fund raising
projects, and has received
private contributions to pay
the legal fees involved with
the appeal.
More fund raising projects
are planned for this fall and
winter, Shank said.
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Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Sod fi < 12
d ì Ì! r!3V 3 18
Business Directory 20
Classified 22,23