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Harvard cancer researcher Dr. Dennis Solt recently returned to Lititz for a
holiday visit accompanied by his wife, Dr. Lilian Calderon Solt and two year old
daughter Anna.
Former Lititz Man Researches
Oral Cancer At Harvard
Dennis Solt graduated
with the Warwick High
School Class of ‘64. Today he
is a Harvard researcher
trained in dentistry and
experimental pathology.
He was graduated from
Penn State in 1968, Pitt
University Dental School in
1972 and was awarded his
P h ,D .„ from Temple
University in 1978.
Dr. Solt is currently an
assistant professor at the
Harvard School of Dental
Medicine, having received a
five year career develop­ment
award &nd three year
research grant from the
National Cancer Institute to
study oral cancer.
Specifically, .Dr. Soft
explained, the goat of his
research is to establish a
system for studying the
steps in the progression of
cells exposed to known
carcinogens as they become
altered, but precancerous
cells.
“I’m basically studying
cells that are not cancer
cells yet, but that have a
greater risk because they
have been irreversibly
altered by a carcinogen,”
Dr. Solt said in an interview
published recently m the
Harvard Medical Area
. “Focus.”
"Some day, if we can
detect these cells early and
we know what helps them to
progress , from one step to
mother, then maybe we can
eradicate them soon after
tiey form, or manipulate the
eivironment to prolong the
solution of the disease
byond the natural life span
tithe host.”
Dr. Solt took a break from
hs research at Harvard to
vsit his parents, Mr. and
IVrs. James Spiekler, 317 S.
bcust St., in Lititz for the
Ciristmas holiday. He was
acompanied by his wife Dr.
Ilian Calderon Solt, who is a
nuropathologist at the
Diversity of Massachusetts
JV-dicai Center, and their
tio-year-oid daughter Anna.
The Solts currently reside
itNewfon, Mass.
Police Continue Investigatiti g
Borough Residents Named
O f Daytime Burglaries
Lititz police have warned
homeowners in the nor­thwest
section of the borough
to be\yare of a gang of
daylight burglars who have
stoleii between $5,000 and
$6,000 m cash and valuables
from area homes and
businesses during the past
several weeks.
According to Police Chief
George Hicks, the burglaries
are currently under in­vestigation.
Police suspect
the burglaries to be the work
of a troublesome group of
teenagers. No arrests can be
made, however, until the
thieves are caught in the act
of one of them admits in­volvement
and implicates
others, police said.
The burglaries have taken
place in a three or four block
area in the vicinity of Front,
Water, Noble and Liberty
streets, and police are
warning residents in those
areas to be on the look-out
for suspicious activities.
Police said the burglars,
who have been stealing large
amounts of cash, old coins
and jewelry, usually strike
during the day when rbbody
is home.*
According to poiicf, gang
members are siispe'ted of
being responsible for
burglaries at the :
Hon Thompson rsidence,
523 Bluebird Roai; in the
Warwick Acres develop­ment.
On Dec. 2 thieves
stole cash and cois valued
at between $400 arl $500.
Mike Musser residence,
201 E. New St.£>n Dec. 8
thieves stole diamond rings,
emerald rings Hamilton
watch and 21,<lollar gold
piece.
R ic h a rd Weidman
residence, 22f£- Front St.
In thi Issue
Editorial ' 4
Sports Sedon 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Church 14
Businesshrectory 17
Classifie 18,19
Or Dec. 16 thieves stole
as.orted jewelry valued at
$2j00.
,ean Messinger residence,
118N. Liberty St. On Dec. 4
thuves stole a large jug
filbd with change. About
$70) was taken.
Martin Moore residence,
399 N. Water St., costume
jevelry and silverware
stoen Dec. 3.
John Dawber residence,
110 Leaman St. Thieves
broke through a basement
doer Dec. 3, but apparently
gotno loot.
In a d d itio n , th e se
businesses in the northeast
section of Lititz reported
recent burglaries:
Cellu Products on N.
Cedar Street, two break-ins.
Thieves took ^radios,
tachometers and other loot.
Hollinger’s Mobil service
station, Front and Cedar
streets, theft of snack items.
Lititz Bowling Lanes, 100
N. Broad St. Police said last
Friday night thieves looted
every vending machine and
stole about $800.
Warwick Township Supervisors
Rabbit Hill Residents Oppose
Rezoning Request
Residents of Rabbit Hill
Road presented a petition to
the Warwick Township
Supervisors in opposition to
a rezoning request from
Paul G. Heimer Jr. at a
meeting Friday night in the
municipal building.
Heimer’s request is for a
zoning map change for a
parcel of land located on the
north side of Rabbit Hill
Road containing about five
acres of land. He requested a
change from Rural Zoning to
Residential 2 Zoning
classification for the tract,
which would allow building
on lots of V2 acre instead of
the P/2 acre lot size now ex­isting.
The petition, containing 11
signatures from Rabbit Hill
residents, opposes Heimer’s
rezoning on the basis of six
major points, including
water, sewer, traffic, safety
and storm water problems.
Following an hour and a
half discussion of the rezon­ing
request, the supervisors
deferred their decision until
Jan. 22.
Rothsville Water Study
In other action, the super­visors
agreed Friday to look
into the costs of hiring an
earth resource consultant to
comprehensibly assess the
ground water supply con­ditions
in Rothsville relative
to the proposed conversion of
the Rothsville School to an
apartment complex.
A spokesman lor the
township said the super­visors
hope to have the
assessment of the water
situation for review before
the zoning hearing on the
Rothsville School which is
Warwick Band
In Orange
Jamboree Parade
The Warwick High
School Band will appear
in the NBC-televised
portion of the King
Orange Jamboree
Parade on New Year’s
Eve, between 8 and 9
p.m.
The band left War­wick
High School
Saturday morning to
compete in the “Super
Bowl of Marching Band
Events,” the fourth
annual Great Bands of
the Orange Bowl
Competition, held Dec.
29 in Miami.
Warwick p la c e d
fourth out of the nine
bands from across the
country chosen to
participate in the event.
First place was won
by Franklin High School
of Franklin, Tenn.;
second, by Tate High
School, Gonzales, Fla.;
and third, by Madison
High School, Anderson,
Ind.
tentatively scheduled for
Jan. 29.
Appointments
The supervisors made the
following appointments for
1981.
Marvin C. Feiler was
appointed to a five-year
term on the Warwick
Township M u n ic ip a l
Authority.
Ronald D. Nuss, 7 Becker
Drive, and Lloyd S. Martin,
337 Lexington Road, were
appointed to four-year terms
on the Warwick Twonship
Lititz Police News
Planning Commission.
Leroy A. Mull, 529 Lincoln
Road, was appointed to a
three-year term on the
Warwick Twonship Zoning
Hearing Board.
Also, the supervisors
Icy Roads Result
In Series Of Accidents
The icy, snowy road
conditions in the borough
resulted in several accidents
last week, Lititz police
reported.
Among the accidents was
a collision occurring about
9:20 a.m. on Friday at the
intersection of West Second
Avenue and West Orange
Street.
According to police, a
vehicle driven by Mary L.
Dickinson, 513 W. Orange
St., was eastbound on W.
Orange St., turning right
onto W. Second Ave.,
skidded on the ice and struck
a vehicle driven by Leroy S.
Brubaker; Manheim, which
was stopped at a stop sign on
W. Orange. Brubaker was
towing a third vehicle owned
by Mark Fritz of SW
Washington, D.C., police
said, which was also struck
by the Dickinson vehicle.
Damage was light to the
Dickinson and Fritz
vehicles. The Brubaker
vehicle received moderate
damage.
There were no injuries or
prosecutions.
Two Car Accidents
Dorothy Seeker, 219
Swarthmore Drive, was
injured in an accident oc­curring
Friday at 12:31 p.m.
at the intersection of East
Second Avenue and Rasp­berry
Lane, when the car she
was driving westbound on E.
Second Ave. went into a skid
on the ice and spun around,
striking a vehicle driven by
Dr. Manuel Balikian, 327 S.
Broad St. The Balikian
vehicie was pushed into a
tree, police said.
Both vehicles received
severe damage.
In another accident on
Dec. 26, a vehicie driven
eastward on East Main
Street by Roger Philip
Bouden of Ephrata R2,
skidded on the ice, crossed.
into the opposite lane and
struck a vehicle owned by
Irvin J. Lechner, Somerset
R3, which was parked at the
curb.
The accident occurred
about 10:48 a.m.
Driver Charged
A Lititz driver was
charged with driving under
the influence of alcohol
following an accident which
occurred about 5:40 p.m. last
Wednesday.
Douglas R. Ruhl of Lititz
R6, was cited for driving
while under the influence of
alcohol after the vehicle he
was operating westward on
East Main Street collided
with a legally parked car
owned by J. Kenneth Keener
of 425 E. Main St.
According to police, Ruhl
was cited after a breathylzer
test proved positive.
Damage was severe to
both vehicles.
Rear Collision
Another accident occurred
on Dec. 23 at the intersection
of Broad and Orange streets,
police said, when a vehicle
operated by Elmer C.
All wine, 442 S. Spruce St.,
collided with the rear of a
pick-up truck operated by
Eugene Swope, 2 Holly Lane,
Lancaster, According to
police, AHwine failed to see
the truck, which was stopped
for a red light.
There were no injuries.
Damage was moderate to
the Swope vehicle and light
to the All wine vehicle.
Passenger Injured
A two-car collision on Dec.
18 resulted in one injury,
according to police, when a
vehicle driven by Sam
Savoca, 105 E. Third Ave.,
slid on the ice, crossed the
center line into the other
lane and collided with a
vehicle operated by Irene
Hartman, 318 Laurel Ave.
J a so n H a rtm a n , a
passenger in the second car,
received slight injuries,
police said.
Damage to the Hartman
car was moderate and light
to the Savoca vehicle.
No Injuries
A two-car accident oc­curring
on Dec. 15 on North
Cedar Street resulted in
severe and moderate
damage to the vehicles in­volved.
According to police,
Scott D. Rittenhouse, 69 E.
Main St., was headed south
' on Cedar Street when he lost
control of his vehicie, slid
into the other lane and
struck a northbound vehicle
operated by Clarence L. Sipe
Sr., 653 E. Main St.
Rittenhouse was charged
with driving too fast for
conditions.
There were no injuries.
Two vehicles received
light damage in a collision
occurring Dec. 9 at the in­tersection
of N. Broad and
Front streets.
According to police, Barry
E, Shelly, 84 Front St., was
travelling west on Front
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pointments for one-year
terms.
Marvin Feiler was re­appointed
to serve as the
township zoning officer.
John Willwerth was ap­p
o in ted Sewage E n ­forcement
Officer.
The firm of Morgan,
Haligren, Crosswell and
Kane was named township
solicitor.
Township depositories for.
1981 will be Hamilton Bank
and Commonwealth Bank
(for Federal Revenue).
Kenneth Martin was re­ap
p o in te d Warwick
Township Police Chief.
Roy Irvin was appointed
road foreman.
Budget Adoption
The 1981 budget was
adopted as proposed with
estimated receipts and cash
totalling $370,494 in the
General Fund and ap­propriations
for all func­tions,
including protection,
g e n e ra l g o v e rnm e n t,
highways, maintenance,
health and sanitation,
totalling $338,220 for 1981.
The tax rate m Warwick
Township will remain at 7
mills in 1981.
In other business; Robert
G. Sharkey, spokesman a
petition, containing 132
signatures, to the super­v
is o rs , lis tin g five
resolutions (which had been
read but not presented to the
supervisors at their Oct. 9
meetmgj.
Sharkey also asked for the
resignation of each of the
supervisors at Friday
night’s meeting.
Fire Causes $3,000 Damage To Area Home
Firemen from the Rothsville and Lititz fire companies work together last
Wednesday to stop a fire at 14 Sherri Lane in Owl Hill Terrace. See more photos
page 2.
Local Pilcts Freed By Filipinos, To Arrive Home By Weekend
Two local pilots are
enroiite home after having
been detained in the
Philippines for 42 days. They
left the Manila International,
Airport Sunday evening in,
the same plane in which they
arrived on Nov. 18.
Duane Heist, 38, 6
Manheim R5, and Robes
Rummel, 30, of Star Lit
Drive, Lititz, were allow«
to leave the Philippm
reportedly after their e/
ployer, Electronic System
International, told govr
ment officials they c/d ,
keep the plane’s cargo. /
The cargo included 10 ti-personnel
claymore r.,es
manufactured by ESI Mh
Filipino military offals
suspected had been bight
into the country for t by
political terrorists.
Philippines prident
Ferdinand E. >rcos
dropped all charges of
possession of illegal ex­plosives
and ordered the
release of Heist and Rummel
on Christmas Day.
The pilots began their long
journey back to Lancaster
County at 8:40 p.m. Sunday
EST, or 9:40 a.m. Manila­time
aboard the twin-engine
Aero Commander they left
on.
The pilots will fly home
making stops in Guam,
Wake, Honolulu and Los
Angeles-the same route they
used after they left Lan­caster
on Nov. 12.
Their estimated time of
arrival here is sometime on
Jan. 3, over 50 days after the
mission began.
The ordeal began for Heist
and Rummel on Nov. 18
when they landed their Aero
Commander plane in Manila
with hopes of refueling and
continuing on to Kuala
Lampur, Malaysia.
Upon inspection of the
plane, Filipino officials
impounded the claymore
mines and blasting caps and
detained the pilots under a
kind of house arrest.
They stayed in the
Philippine Village Hotel
where they were first con­fined
to their rooms under
armed guard, but later were
permitted to travel freely
through the city.
The length of their
detention in Manila was due
to a disagreement with the
Filipino government over
flight clearance.
Filipino officials main­tained
that the ESI plane had
been cleared to land on Dec.
12, but did not show up until
six days later, supposedly
carrying more explosives
than originally reported to
the Filipino government.
The papers presented by
the pilots upon landing at the
airport were not found
satisfactory by military
officials and a hearing
procedure into the pilots’
mission was begun.
If they had been tried and
found guilty, they could have
faced a possible 15-year
prison term.
James Guerin, president
of International Signal and
Control Corp., which owns
ESI, and ESI attorney Alvin
B. Lewis Jr. maintained
throughout the incident that
the cargo was bound for
Malaysia for testing by the
Royal Malaysian Police.
Guerin said the mines
were sent to the Malaysian
government as samples,
hopefully paving the way for
future sales of explosives to
the country.
According to sources in
Manila, the Philippine
government was taking no
chances that the explosives
might have been intended
for delivery there following
an outpouring of terrorist
bomb attacks.
Heist and Rummel were
reported to have guerilla
skills by most of the coun­try’s
major newspapers,
which further worsened the
situation as it dragged on
into December.
When a statement an­nouncing
Marcos’ freeing of
the pilots was released
Friday, Philippine military
authorities were quoted as
saying they had suspected
the pilots’ plane may have
been brought to Manila as an
escape aircraft for terrorists
fleeing the country.
That suspicion had not
been mentioned in other
reports during the five week
detainment.
The two pilots landed in
Guam Monday, c i r ­cumnavigating
oceanic
storms to complete the first
leg of their 10,000-mile
return journey.
After a day and a half in
Guam, where they will
refuel, the men will fly to
Wake, arriving sometime
Wednesday. The will then
cross the International Date
Line, which means it will
still be Wednesday when
they arrive in Hawaii.
Heist and Rummel plan to
reach California on Friday
and fly into Lancaster the
following day.