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United Way
of Lancaster County
Lititz' own Mayor Raymond Reedy takes red paint and brush in hand to filHn
the 31 percent of the United Way’s goal on the thermometer poster next to
Borough Hall. (Record Express Photo)
The United Way
Reaches 31% Of Its
Goal In Two Weeks
Revealing the highest total
ever raised in a two week
time period by a United Way
Campaign, Campaign
Chairman Robert L. Mon­tgomery
announced the
United Way Campaign
raised 31 percent of its 2.9
million goal.
The campaign has raised
$908,606 in just two weeks,
Montgomery reported.
Records indicate last year,
on Sept. 28, the campaign
had raised $871,322, or 33
percent of its 2.6 million
goal. At that time last year
the report came three weeks
into the campaign. This
year’s campaign started one
week later.
Last year’s campaign was
the first time in 12 years
where campaign pledges
exceeded the goal.
In his first report to the
community last Thursday,
Montgomery said, “The
momentum from last year’s
campaign has carried
over...we got a real good
start this year...an en­thusiastic
feeling of par­ticipation
is present in all the
volunteers.”
Montgomery told the
group of about 125 campaign
volunteers and community
leaders at the campaign’s
first report meeting, at the
Host Town last Thursday,
that part of the reason for
this year’s early success is
NOTICE
The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailers'
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The October
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, Oct. 10'
at 7:30 P.M. at Wellsj
Warwick House. j
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend.
due to the fact that “we
really got off to a good start
with some of our pacesetter
company campaigns.” A
pacesetter company is a
company selected before the
campaign to set the pace for
other company campaigns.
Another reason for this
year’s good start, according
to United Way Com­munications
Director, Bill
Donovan, is the fact that “we
are telling the United Way
story to more people this
year.
“The media has been very
supportive of us this year. I
believe it is a carryover
from last year,” Donovan
said. “Last year, thanks to
local television and radio
stations and newspapers we
were able to let people know
more about the United Way.
The people responded,
consequently we received
pledges exceeding the goal.
We’re hoping we can get that
momentum working for us
again this year,” Donovan
said.
W illiam F . Hoke,
president, Fulton Bank and
chairman of the United
Way’s cultivation program
was the keynote speaker for
the first report meeting. He
cautioned the crowd on being
overconfident.
“We must keep moving
ahead all the time - there is
no time to stop to pat our­selves
on the back,” Hoke
said. “Each of you must
accept the responsibility for
keeping your division
moving until you each attain
the goal you have accepted.
After Hoke spoke, the
group viewed the United
Way slide show, “You
Needed Me” , which was
written and produced locally
by Barry Bruce. The show,
critically acclaimed as one
of the best shows of its kind,
describes various _ United
Way agencies located
throughout the county.
Montgomery presented
h This issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 12,13
Church 16
Business Directory 18
Classified 19,20,21
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Was Asked By Borough To Reconsider Decision
Zoning Hearing Board Again
Denies Petition For Variance The Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board again denied a special
exception and variance to
the Zoning Ordinance, Ar­ticle
122.16.A.3, requested by
Mr. Bruce Lefever, 25 S.
Spruce St.
The board was asked to
reconsider its previous
decision, made at the Sep­tember
meeting of the
Zoning Hearing Board, by
the Lititz Borough Council.
Lefever is a craft wood­working
and furniture
refinishing specialist and
currently works in his home
and occasionally in the barn
in the rear of his residence
and is interested in retaining
this operation.
He submitted a sketch of
his lot at the September
meeting of the Zoning
Hearing Board showing a
proposed addition 22 feet
wide by 50 feet long which he
plans to erect adjacent to his
bam in the rear, leaving a 75
foot yard between the new
Rearich Absolved
Of Criminal Negligence
Gold Awards to nine United
Way agencies and one
secondary school for their
outstanding contributions to
the campaign.
Receiving gold awards
were: Mt. Joy Vo Techn,
American Red Cross, Boy
Scouts, United Way staff,
Girl Scouts, Lancaster
County Mental Health,
National Council on
Alcoholism, Welsh Mountain
Medical Clinic, Salvation
Army and Boys’ Club.
In closing the ceremony
Montgomery said, “We are
very happy and encouraged
with the early results. We
are off to a good running
start and I think we have an
excellent chance of making
and exceeding our goal. I
just want you to remember
you will be the one that
makes the difference.
“The only way we can be
successful is for us to realize
we are all working for the
same thing...for the good of
the community,” Mon­tgomery
said.
The United Way Campaign
is broken into ten divisions.
This includes every business
organization in the county
that conducts a United Way
campaign. Here is each
division’s progress to date :
CORPORATE DIVISION
Goal $803,094
Total Raised 492,819
% of Goal 61.3
INDUSTRY &
CONSTRUCTION
Goal 688,691
Total Raised 103,925
% of Goal 15.1
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Craig Thomas Rearich,
143 N. Cedar St., was found
not criminally negligent by a
coroner’s jury in the May 8
accident that took the life of
Homer Kauffman, 75, of 427
Linden St.
The inquest was conducted
in the Lancaster County
Courthouse to determine
whether R e a rich was
criminally negligent when
his car crashed into the rear
of the Kauffman car, pinning
Kauffman between the
bumpers of the two vehicles
at West Fourth and South
Broad Streets.
Lititz Officer Charles
Shenenberger testified that
Kauffman had stopped his
car in the southbound traffic
lane, while he walked to a
comer mailbox to post a
letter.
Kauffman was stopped,
with his engine turned off,
the officer said, in an area
which had been posted for
‘ ‘no parking at any time. ’ ’
As he was returning to his
car, Shenenberger said,
Kauffman was behind his
vehicle when it was struck
and he was pinned by the
Rearich car.
He specified that there
was no berm to the roadway;
that Kauffman was stopped
in the southbound traffic
lane.
An occupant in the back of
the Rearich car, Ricky Ruhl,
211 N. Cedar St., Lititz, in a
statement to police con­firmed
Rearich’s previous
account that Rearich was en
route to Lancaster Catholic
High School and was driving
Ruhl to a Lancaster der­matologist’s
office.
The jurors were told that
Ruhl now is in the U.S.
Marine Corps, and his
testimony was obtained by
Shenenberger for the jury to
consider.
The officer said that both
Rearich and Ruhl told him
they were traveling 30 to 35
miles per hour in an area
zoned for 35 mph.
Rearich had Md the of­ficer
on the date of the ac­cident
that there were no
flashing lights, no brake
lights activated on the
Kauffman car, and he was in
the intersection before he
realized that the car was
stopped.
Shenenberger said that
Rearich’s car left 20 to 22
feet of skid marks, and the
vehicle swerved toward the
curb in an apparent effort to
avoid hitting Kauffman.
Thomas B. Weidman, 409
Clay Road, Lititz, told of
seeing the car parked in the
southbound lane as he
walked northbound across
the street.
He said he saw the impact
and went to a nearby home
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addition and his home. This
addition is permitted at the
present time under the
zoning for this property.
Lefever stated that he
could erect this addition at
the rear of his residence in
the front portion of his lot but
has chosen not to do so
because it would block the
view of the neighbors and he
said, “I wouldn’t do that to
my neighbors.”
He also told the Zoning
Hearing Board at its Sep­tember
meeting that he
currently operates his
business as a full-time oc­cupation
and does operate in
his home. According to
Lefever, the proposed ex­pansion
would give him the
flexibility to bring larger
pieces of furniture into a
building on his property for
refinishing because he
cannot get the large pieces of
furniture into his dwelling.
Lefever stated that there
are similar operations
located in the neighborhood
including Mr. Shaw, who
operates a cabinet-making
operation across the street
from the Lefever property.
Incidentally, Mr. Shaw is in
favor of granting a variance
to Mr. Lefever. Other
operations in the neigh­borhood
are the Durex
Warehouse in the former
Webco Building, the
warehouse used by the Lititz
Mutual Insurance Company
and the previous exception
granted for Mr. Boultbee at
19 S. Spruce St. which
allowed religious services in
the bam at the rear of
Boultbee’s property. This
land is now owned by Mr.
Pettyjohn and is in use for
storage.
In addition to Mr.
Lefever’s statements made
at the September meeting of
the Zoning Hearing Board,
letters in favor of Lefever’s
proposed shop were sub­mitted
to the board from:
Dr. and Mrs. Cassel, 34 S.
Broad St.; Curtis Sensenig,
21 W. Orange St.; and
Henrietta and John Stoner of
26 S. Spruce St.
In addition to the letters,
s e v e n n e ig h b o rh o o d
residents were present at the
September meeting to
support Lefever’s proposal.
At that time, the Zoning
Hearing Board took the case
under advisement and stated
that they would issue a
decision on or before Oc­tober
1 or within 45 days
from the date of the hearing.
They made the decision to
deny the variance on Sept.
17, before the September
meeting of the Lititz
Borough Council.
Before that, however, 74
neighborhood residents from
South Spruce Street, West
Orange Street, West Main
Street, North Spruce Street,
Spruce and Maple Street and
West Maple Street submitted
a petition in favor of the
variance to the Secretary.
The Zoning Hearing Board
denied the petition of Bruce
Lefever for a Special Ex­ception
and Variance to the
Zoning Ordinance, Section
122.16.A.3 because (1) the
incidental home occupation
requested being conducted
within a building other than
the principal building would
not meet die requirements of
the Ordinance which states
that it must be in the prin­cipal
drawing, and (2)
because it did not meet the
conditions as outlined in the
Ordinance for variances.
When his request for a
variance was denied by the
Zoning Hearing Board,
Lefever appealed his case to
the Lititz Borough Council at
its meeting last Tuesday,
Sept. 26.
Upon reviewing the case,
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Warwick Township Police
Man Dies Of Injuries From
Accident On Newport Road
Daniel P. King, 20, of 229
Butler Road, Leola, who
sustained severe head in­juries
when he was struck by
the protruding side view
mirror of a van as he was
walking in the 1500 block of
N ew p o rt R oad n e a r
Rothsville Sunday night,
died at 7 a.m. Monday at
Lancaster General Hospital.
Dr. Milton Johns, a
hospital deputy coroner, said
death was due to massive
head injuries and that no
autopsy would be per­formed.
Warwick Township Police
Chief Kenneth Martin said
the driver of the van was
Timothy Hoffman, 38, of
G re en R id g e D riv e ,
Manheim.
Chief Martin said that the
accident remains under
investigation by Officer
Joseph Kilgore and that no
charges have been filed.
King was clipped by the
mirror as he was walking
east along the roadway with
a companion, who was not
hit. Both were wearing dark
clothing, the chief said.
Born in West E a rl
Township, the son of Joel F.
and Susie Petersheim King,
Leola. He was employed by
the Martin and Hoover
Machine Shop. He attended
the Old Order Amish
Church.
Surviving are his parents
and 12 brothers and sisters:
Sarah P., Emma P. and
Susie P. King, New Holland
R3; Annie P., Katie P., and
Mary P. King, at home;
Bennie P., New Holland Rl;
Christ S., Akron; John P.
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L i t i t z H o s t s F i lm i n g
O f 'G r e g : A C o n f l i c t O f L o v e ’
Lititz recently served as
the production base and
setting of a half-hour made-for-
television movie con­cerning
the problem of child
abuse which will be aired on
WGAL-TV, channel 8, early
next month.
The film was shot entirely
on location in the county,
using a suburban Lancaster
home, Leola’s community
p o o l, B row n stow n
Elementary School, two
area factories (Yerger
Brothers in Lititz and
Hopeland Manufacturing),
and Wells Warwick House
and Herb’s Sandwich Shop
on North Broad Street.
The production received
the cooperation and support
of Mayor Raymond Reedy
and the local police and fire
departments who assisted in
crowd control and washing
down the street.
The movie, entitled
“Greg: A Conflict of Love”
is the dramatization of two
young people, married with
three children and a fourth
on the way, who find
themselves caught amid the
pressures and tensions of
today-the “high energy
costs, high food costs, a
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The crew films the encounter between Greg
(Charles Braught III) and his swimming coach
(Nathan Barrell) in front of the sandwich shop. At
left are assistant camerman Rick Lombardi, script
supervisor Shirley Horst and boom man Kyle Fultz.
Dan Neidermyer directs from the foot of the steps.