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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. Ä J8 ?
Marion St. Residents Appeal
ZHB Stable Decision
Edward Rosenquist and
Earl Koth, spokesmen for
the residents of E. Marion
St. who oppose the building
of a stable and indoor arena
on the Linden Hall Campus
near their homes, have ap­pealed
to the courts within
the 30 day limit and are
waiting to hear the judge’s
decision.
According to Rosenquist,
the least that could happen
would be for the decision to
be remanded to the Board
again.
The Zoning Hearing
Board granted a special ex­ception
in a two to one vote,
after a motion presented by
Mrs. Charles Eshelman, to
permit the building of an in­door
arena and the moving
of the stable at Linden Hall.
Lawyer for the E. Marion
St. residents is William
Crosswell, who wrote the
appeal and feels that the
residents have cause for
complaint.
One of the features of the
aDneal is that the location
of the stable as advertised
prior to the June 2 meeting
does not coincide with the
location considered and ap­proved
by the ZHB... The
original advertisement
located the stable and in­door
arena approximately
100 feet from S. Locust St.
and 300 feet from E. Marion
St. The site the study and
plan presented by Robert
Derek, Land Planning Con­sultant
to Linden Hall, at
the June meeting listed
placement of stables some
220 feet from Marion St.
and 600 feet from Locust.
In a meeting July 8 when
the ZHB granted the special
exception, a petition con­taining
157 signatures,
gathered after only one
ev en in g ’s work, and
representing 90 involved
families was not considered
by the ZHB.
Neidermyer Filming In Progress Hollywood Comes To Town
Lititz is a busy place at the
best of times but with the
Monday morning start of
filming Dan Neidermyer’s
Maranatha Production
“Triumph in the Streets”,
the borough took on a look of
Hollywood and there were
people trying to be in eight
places at once and some
folks trying to be no place at
all.
Lititz Police Chief George
Hicks made his acting debut
for this film and, as you may
have guessed, he is playing a
police chief. In Monday
filmming he had the dubious
Heavy Rains Mark Flood Meeting
Flood Plain Hearing Held
To Answer Questions
A public hearing to discuss
the borough’s proposed flood
plain ordinance was held
Tuesday night during the
closest thing to flood Lititz
has had this year.
D e sp ite tem p o ra ry
electrical outages (borough
hall is equipped with
emergency lights) caused by
the severe thunderstorm,
members of Lititz Borough
Council, Planning Com­mission
and a spokesman for
the Federal Insurance
Adminstration were present
to answer the questions of
residents concerning the
proposed ordinance,
Arline Shannon, chairman
of the Planning Commission,
explained that the Com­mission
had been working
with Borough Council on the
flood plain ordinance for a
long time and that it was not
something new.
Joseph Gavin, a Federal
Emergency Management
consultant, presented a brief
background and explained
the need fora new flood plain
ordinance.
“A detailed engineering
survey had not been com­pleted
prior to now,” he said.
“With flooding details now
available, more complete
regulations are required.”
According to Gavin, a
municipality is required to
have a floodplain ordinance
within six months of the time
the engineering study is
completed.
“The flood plain study was
completed in Lititz in April
of this year,” he said. “The
ordinance is due in Oc­tober.”
Gavin explained that
residents in the* floodplain
districts will be able to in­crease
their flood insurance
after the adoption of the
ordinance.
“No one will pay a higher
rate on existing structures
because of the change,” he
went on to say. “New con­struction
may be affected
adversely if it doesn’t
comply to the regulations.”
Garth Becker, advisor to
the Planning Commission,
explained what the or­dinance
will mean to those in
the floodplain.
“A common miscon­ception
is that base rates for
insurance would increase,”
he said. “Base rates will not
increase and in some cases,
lower rates will be
available.”
According to Becker, what
the ordinance means is that
construction of new homes
and buildings will not be
permitted in the floodplain.
Certain expansions will be
allowed with special ap­proval.
Response from -the floor
ranged from very . specific
questions about. individual
properties to a com­mendation
of the floodplain
ordinance itself.
One resident of the Car­dinal
Road area explained
his flooding problems and
expressed his concern over
Tuesday night’s rain. (In a
Wednesday morning phone
conversation, the Record
Express office was informed
that Cardinal Road was
impassable following the
This Monkey Business
Is The Real
storm and the resident’s car,
which was parked in front of
his home, was flooded with
18 inches of water).
“In our neighborhood we
get flooded everytime we get
a storm like this,” he said.
“It’s more of a run-off
drainage problem, but we’re
glad to see this ordinance. If
it were in effect earlier, it
may have prevented some of
the problems in our
development.”
In response to his com­ment,
Becker pointed out
that the ordinance is not a
storm drainage ordinance,
but will put certain controls
on areas in the floodplain, v
Mrs. Shannon added that
the Planning Commission's
next project is a drainage
ordinance.
Another resident asked if
the Borough was working
with Warwick Township in
any way.
Larry McCowan, who
owns the old mill on Lititz
Run Road, expressed his
c o n c e r n s . “ A la r g e
manufacturer is moving a
lot of dirt around there—the
next big flood, and that’s
going to all come down on
my place, ’ ’ he said.
He was told his questions
should be addressed to
Warwick Township at this
point. The township is also in
the process of updating its
floodplain ordinance, but not
in conjunction with the
borough.
A question was raised
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pleasure of releasing a
smart mouthed punk played
by Ivan Kane in the part of
Aldo.
Chief Hicks was also one of
the people who was needed
in several places at the same
time on Monday. While he
was making his rounds, with
the keys to the local jail in
his pocket, Kane found
himself locked in a very
small cell. That part wasn’t
just acting. They really did
shut the door and the lock
really did catch and Chief
Hicks really did have to be
located and brought back to
release “Aldo” so that the
camera crew would wedge
themselves into the cell for a
camera’s eye view of life on
the other side of the bars.
The scene filmed in the
Lititz jail called for “Aldo”
to kick the cell bars and with
great r ealism, Kane
walloped the door. There
may have been a little too
much enthusiasm for their
particular manuever,
because extreme pain
resulted and a doctor was
called, although an ice pack
arrived first and filming
resumed.
Filming in Lititz will
continue throughout the
week and appearances by
other leading citizens will be
made.
“Triumph in the Streets,”
which will eventually appear
on television, centers around
two gangs of middle-class
American youth who are
bored with life and are into
burglary, quick money and
quick thrills, according to
Neidermyer.
The 50-minute film will
take two weeks to shoot. It is
being filmed for the In­ternational
Society of
Christian Endeavor, an
in te r n a tio n a l youth
organization, which will
celebrate its 100th an-
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Lititz Police Chief George Hicks makes his screen debut as a tough cop in
Maranatha Productions’ “ Triumph In the Streets", which began filming Monday
in Lititz. Above, the police chief escorts gang leader Aldo (played by Ivan Kane)
from his cell.
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Ivan Kane (left) and Galen Hibshman occupy neighboring cells at the Lititz jail
during the filming of “ Triumph in the Streets.”
Band and Choir to Perform
Craft Show Set For Saturday
Sidewalks in the center of
Lititz will be magically
transformed into a veritable
fairyland of art objects
Saturday at the second
Lawrence J. Ruggiano an­nual
Lititz Rotary Han­dicraft
Show.
More than 200 craftsmen
and craftswomen will con­duct
d isp la y s and
demonstrations throughout
the entire Lititz business
district. Those scheduled to
attend and to display the
manner in which they
create their art objects in­clude
hobbyists and pros
from a 100 mile radius in­cluding
Eastern Penn­s
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Delaware and New Jersey.
A list of those showing
and demonstrating their
Lititz Police News
wares reads like a page
from Who’s Who among Ar­tists
and Craftsmen. In ad­dition,
entertainment and
music will be provided by
the Warwick High School
Band and the Moravian
Trombone Choir.
The Band will start its
parade from the high school
at 9:30 a.m. and will march
from the school grounds,
down Orange St. to Broad,
down Broad to Front St.,
along Front St. to Cedar
and up Cedar to Main St.
and finally along Main St.
and back to the school. Dale
Weller directs the WHS
Band.
The Moravian Trombone
Choir will perform between
noon and 2 p.m., under the
direction of John Yerger.
“We are amazed at the
wide variety of interests
represented by those who
will be exhibiting, and it
should be a show long
remembered,” remarked
William Bell, president of
the Lititz Rotary Club. He
added, “all proceeds from
the show will go to civic
organizations of this local
area.”
A sampling of the exhibits
and demonstrations in­cludes
patchwork quilts
featuring antique design;
leather craft of all types; a
demonstration of woodburn­ing;
jewelry making; can­dle
dipping and decorating;
sand paintings; theorem
paintings on velvet as well
as slate painting; barn
board art; hex signs;
decorated milk cans; sew­ing
and creating Christmas
decorations and items.
Other features will be the
making of ornamental
wrought iron objects in
traditional and original
design; ceramics and stain­ed
glass; earrings and
necklaces; silver and gem
cutting for plaques and
jewelry; authentic Indian
items; wooden toys, weav­ing
and macrame; scissors
cuttings; cross stitch and
needlepoint items; hand
made dolls; tole painting
and chair caning.
Rain date for the show is
August 23.
Accident on Cedar St.
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Photo by Jennifer Shenk
Lititz Police investigated
three accidents July 29 with
one resulting in a broken leg
for a bike rider involved in
an accident on North Cedar
at East Lincoln.
According to Lititz Police
Chief George Hicks, Jeanne
Krushinsky, 213 S. Spruce
St., was injured when the car
driven by Karen L. Berger,
1306 Lookout Lane, turned
onto Cedar from Lincoln St.,
narrowly missed another
bike rider in the group of
th r e e , and did hit
Krushinsky.
Berger was cited with
failure to drive on the right
side of the highway. The
accident occurred at 8:55
p.m. !
In a morning accident on
July 29, a truck tractor
owned by Gimble’s Leasing
Co., Minneapolis, Minn., and
driven by Nathan Walker
Jr., 1502 N. Ninth St.,
Reading, braked to avoid a
car stopping in front.
According to police the
truck skidded backwards,
crossed to the west side of
the road, went over the curb
and sidewalk and came to
rest next to a tree belonging
to Helen McCreary, 408 S.
Broad St. There was also
damage to the curb
belonging to Dr. Chester
Wertsch, 440 S. Broad.
No injuries resulted from
the 9 a.m. accident and
damage to the vehicle was
light.
An accident occurred at
10:30 p.m. July 29, on Noble
St. near Water, when Larry
Lee Lausch Jr., 165 E. Main
St., Reamstown, backed his
car out of a driveway and
into the parked car
belonging to Russel E.
Loose, 217 Noble St.
There were no injuries.
Thefts
Five incidents of theft
were investigated by Lititz
police between July 26 and
August 3.
Keller Brothers Auto,
reported the theft of a CB
mike and knobs for a radio
from a vehicle parked on
their lot. The incident was
reported July 26.
A bicycle was reported
stolen July 29, by Mark
Carvell, 15 N. Locust St. It is
a Schwinn 10-speed bike,
yellow with a head light. The
Lititz bike license number is
3358 and the serial number is
GL552672.
Joann Robb, 125 W. Third
St., reported that two
wooden, folding directors
chairs were stolen from her
porch, August 1 at 1a.m. The
chairs have orange canvas
seats and backs.
Lawn furniture was stolen
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Last year’s Craft Show featured woodworking,
tinsel painting, and needlework. The second an­nual
Rotary sponsored show is scheduled for
Saturday and promises to be bigger and better
than last year.