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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 26 Pages-No. 52
Another Continuance Scheduled For April 3
Rothsville School Hearing
To Be Continued
Concerned Warwick Township citizens turned
out in a large group to protest the HDC housing
project in Rothsville. Citizens were heard at the
Monday meeting, but the hearing has been con­tinued
with the final meeting scheduled for Friday,
April 3 in the Rothsville Fire Hall.
Should Warwick Pick Up Tab?
Cluster Four
Lose CETA
V m a May
Money
by Mildred Spear
Warwick High School has
been on the receiving end of
a CETA funded program
which gives students an
opportunity to train for
future jobs right on the spot
within the high school. It is
the Cluster Four Program.
This program is among the
ones that will be dropped
with the Reagan cutbacks, in
CETA funding, and although
it was instigated at WHS
with the idea that it would be
carried through for three or
so years, the threat of the
cutbacks already has in­fluenced
the examination of
such programs.
The Cluster Four Program
offers Warwick students,
who meet the CETA
req u irem en ts, an op­portunity
to try their hand
and interest at welding,
electrical work, gas engines
and horticulture. CETA
requires that the par­ticipants
in the Cluster Four
program meet economical,,
not necessarily educational
criteria, to qualify for the
funded program.
At Warwick, the Cluster
Four students, working in
conjunction with the Vo-Ag
class on a class within a
class concept, are respon­sible
for the appearance of
the green house at the side of
the high school building.
Under the direction of
Richard Stinson, teaching
assistant in the program, the
students themselves put
together the mortared
cinder block base, aluminum
frame, glass sides; and
moved the sidewalk,
resisting the nearly over­powering
temptation to
autograph their work in the
newly smoothed concrete.
Due to the fact that the
program would provide a
learning experience for the
students in both Cluster Four
and Vo-Ag, the school was
able to buy a green house in
“kit form” and the students
put it together. That trim­med
the cost from about
$7,000 which is ap-
Scott Spangenburg
Dies in Accident
Scott Spangenburg, 19, of
100 Woods Drive, Lititz, who
was killed Friday night in an
auto accident near Pott-sville,
was born in Lancaster
County, a son of Oren E. and
Shirley Seifried Spangen­burg.
He lived his entire life in
Warwick Township, and
attended the Lititz Church of
the Brethren. He was the
owner of Metz Trophy Store,
Lancaster. A sports en­thusiast,
he played for
Zangari’s softball team and
the Metz Trophy volleyball
team.
He and two friends were
traveling to Pottsville High
School to attend the War-wick-
Tamaqua interdistrict
basketball playoff game.
The two passengers, Gerald
Heck, of 111 Liberty St., and
David Shirker, of 115 Brusen
Dr., were treated at Pott­s
v ille H o sp ita l and
dismissed.
Police said the collision
with a truck-tractor oc­curred
about 8:10 p.m at the
intersection of Routes 61 and
183, about five miles south of
Pottsville in North Manheim
Township, Scuylkill County.
Police said Spangenburg
was traveling north on Route
183 when he entered the
intersection at Route 61 and
was struck on the driver’s
side by a 1973 International
truck-tractor driven by
Robert Boyer, S. Liberty
Street, Orwigsburg.
Boyer, who was not hurt,
was southbound in the left
lane of Route 61.
Surviving Spangenburg in
addition to his parents are
two brothers, Gary L. and
James E., both at home, and
two g ra n dm o th e r s ,
Elizabeth Seifried, Lititz,
proximately what the
assembled green house
listed for, to about $3,700,
which is what the district
paid for the structure.
The Clusters
The Cluster Four program
works by forming units, or
clusters of students who
share an interest in one of
the four subjects offered.
Gradually, each of the
clusters overlaps another
interest group so that once
the program is complete,
each cluster of students has
had some experience in each
area of learning.
A student who has had
some experience welding,
wiring, gardening, and
coping with the intricacies of
gas engines, is then well
prepared to find work after
graduation, as a grounds
custodian if he wishes to use
all the learned talents, or in
any phase of the four sec­tions.
The girls in the program
are, according to their
teachers, immediately in­terested
in the horticulture
division of the program, but
they also get into the other
three divisions of the work.
One of the reasons more
girls are showing an interest
in this type of program is
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Record Express
Sponsors Easter
Coloring Contest
For the fourth time the
Warwick Township Zoning
Hearing Board (ZHB) heard
long hours of testimony in
the Rothsville School case,
before adjourning and
continuing the hearing to
Friday, April 3 at 7 p.m. in
the Rothsville Fire Hall.
Following an opening
statement by Charles Grove,
attorney for ZHB, all wit­nesses
were sworn in as a
group.
O. Howard Mummau,
attorney for several War­wick
Township residents,
voiced some objections as to
how the meetings were being
conducted. He objected, for
the record, to a ruling
p ro h ib itin g o ffe rin g
evidence concerning sub­sidized
housing. He also
objected to the procedure in
which objections have been
handled. Mummau charged
Grove with not giving the
ZHB a chance to decide on
the objections. “The advice
of counsel became the rule,”
he charged.
Mummau also charged
Grove with a serious
question of conflict of in­terest
in representing the
ZHB when he (Grove)
previously represented the
Lancaster County Planning
Commission (LCPC) in a
case in August of last year.
Grove replied that he is not
in conflict because the case
in question was an A-95
review. He stressed it was
only a review.
An argument between
Mummau and Grove ensued
over the admission of
evidence regarding sub­sidized
housing. Mummau
said. “Due process gives the
residents the right to offer
on subsidized
hear the
an
testimony
housing. Let’s
testimony.”
“I don’t think that’s
issue,” Grove replied.
Mummau responded, “It
is an issue. The applicant
(Housing Development
Corporation) made it an
issue.”
Donald Nikolaus, attorney
for HDC, retorted, “We have
not made subsidized housing
an issue - it was the op­ponents
who made it an
issue.”
The ZHB said it is not
going to consider the issue of
subsidized housing.
Among the citizens’ wit­nesses
at Monday night’s
hearing was Claude Young
Sr., Rothsville fire chief,
who testified that he has
lived in Rothsville for 50
years and has been fire chief
for 23 years. He said he is a
graduate of the Penn­sylvania
State Fir,e School
and many seminars. He said
he has learned fire sup­pression
tactics and the
amount of water needed to
fight a fire. Water, he said, is
usually the most important
ingredient. He noted the
National Fire Protection
Organization has established
a formula for fire-fighting,
called a fire flow formula.
When asked what fire
fighting facilities Rothsville
has, Young replied that the
fire company has 140,000
gallons of water held in
reserve in four cisterns.
These cisterns are situated
on land on which the fire
company has 99-year leases.
The cisterns are located at
the White Swan Hotel, the
front yard of the Rothsville
School building, E.C. Church
parking lot, and on Skyview
Lane.
In order to calculate the
amount of water needed for
a fire, several things would
have to be taken into con­sideration,
he noted. Ad­ja
c en t buildings (ex­posures),
weather con-ditions,
would be some of the
considerations.
When asked how much
water would be needed if
there was a fire in the
Rothsville School Building,
Young estimated that the
fire company would need
2,346 gallons per minute to
fight the fire. If the ex­posures
(surrounding
buildings) were included, it
would take 3,080 gallons per
minute. After the first four
minutes, the fire gains 10
minutes on you, he testified.
When asked by Mummau
what he (Young) considered
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In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Classified 13,14,15
Church 22
Business Directory 24
Sharon Deitz summed up resident opposition
to the proposed HDC housing project in her Mon­day
night testimony.
Allocations For Liquid Fuel Funds Made
The Lititz Record-Express
will sponsor an Easter
Coloring Contest for four
consecutive weeks beginning
with this Thursday, March
26.
The contest is open to all
children four to 10 years of
age. Crayons, paint or
watercolor may be used to
paint pictures.
Five Lititz Shopping
Dollars will be awarded for
the best entry received each
week and another Five Lititz
Shopping Dollars will be
awarded by drawing from
all the entries received each
week.
In addition to this week’s
pictures, other pictures to
color will appear in the
Record on April 2,9 & 16.
Entries should be mailed
to the Lititz Record-Express
office and be received by
noon Monday, March 30. All
those entering should be sure
to include their names and
addressees.
Contest rules and the first
pictures to color can be
found on page 20.
Winners will be notified
and names published in the
Record-Express.
Return entire add and fill
in name and address form.
The allocation of $800,000
in liquid fuels funds to the
county’s 60 municipalities
for road repair and con­struction
this year was
approved by the Lancaster
County Commissioners last
Wednesday morning.
This is twice the amount
the commissioners have
been allocating each year
since 1975, with the ex­ception
of two years ago
when an emergency pothole
distribution of $200,000 was
applied.
The total distribution of
$800,000 iridùdes a special
allocation of $400,000, ap­proved
in December I960,
and the yearling allocation,
which also is $400,000.
All municipalities are
being informed by mail of
their allocation for 1981. The
county keeps a share of the
liquid funds it receives from
the state for bridges the
county is responsible for -
over 60 - and the only roads it
has, which are in the county
park.
The rest of the money is
allocated by the county to
the city, 18 boroughs and 41
townships, which also
receive a direct state con­tribution.
Amounts distributed by
the county from liquid fuels
tax refunds from the state
are based on a population-mileage
formula, 50 percent
on the basis of mileage
within each municipality.
The population and
mileage figures were cer­tified
by the Pennsylvania
Department of Tran­sportation,
Doris S. Kiehl,
a s s is ta n t county ad-minstrator,
said.
Commissioner James E.
Huber, chairman of the
board in noting the
municipalities will be
receiving “twice as much as
they usually receive,” said
“We are happy we can do
this.”
Area allocations are as
follows: Penn Township,
$14,581.20; Rapho Township,
$20,512.80; Lititz, $12,576;
Manheim, $9,413.60; War­wick
Township, $16,676; and
E liz a b e th Township,
$7,185.60.
Tonight Is Sr. Citizens' Night
'No, No, Nanette’ Opens This Weekend
At Manheim Central
Scott Spangenburg
and Lucy Spangenburg,
North Carolina.
Funeral services were
held from the Lititz Church
of the Brethren Tuesday
with the Rev. W. Clemens
Rosenberger and the Rev.
Robert Myers officiating.
Interment was in the Old
Zion Cemetery, Elizabeth
Township.
A Memorial Fund has been
set up at the Farmers First
Bank, 9 E. Main St., Lititz,
for the purpose of pur­chasing
something in the
athletic line for Warwick
High School in Spangen-burg’s
memory.
Donations may be made
by stopping at the bank and
asking any teller or by
contacting Dave Husser, 311
Balmer Road, Lititz, 626-
7527; Carl Kauffman, vice
principal of the high school,
626-2061; Bernie Kiralfy, 129
Market St., 626-2870; Eric
Blow, 444 W. Marion St.,
Lititz, 626-7063; and John
Conway, 2 Snyder Hill Rd.,
Lititz, 626-4453.
Lititz Police News
Speeders
Caught On
Second Ave.
Lititz police report the
following motorists
were prosecuted for
speeding on E a st
Second Avenue on
March 18: Thomas S.
Burkholder, 27 N.
Locust St.; Michael E.
Conlin, 101S. Locuct St.;
Jean E. Bednar, 108
Plum St.; Patricia Ann
Snyder, 506 W. Marion
St.; Ronald R. Reedy,
116 Oxford Dr.; Robert
Steven Doan, Box 156,
Lititz Rl; Barbara F.
Burkholder, 5 Forney
Dr.; and Richard
Hoff er, 1323 Church St.,
Brunnerville.
It’s colorful, it’s fun, and
it’s coming your way March
26,27 and 28.
It’s "No, No, Nanette,” a
lig h th e a rted musical
comedy brought to you by
the Manheim Central Drama
Department.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. in
the senior high auditorium,
Adele Ave. and Hershey Dr.,
Manheim.
"No, No Nanette” is all
about Jimmy Smith, his
family and a weekend in
Atlantic City in 1925. “Tea
For Two” and “I Want To Be
Happy” are two of the toe­tapping
tunes featured in the
show.
Cast in the title role is
Michelle Gibble, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David Gibble,
55 S. Main St., Manheim.
Michelle has participated in
th re e o ther Manheim
Central production, as well
as Student Council, hockey,
track, and other school
activities.
Jed Kensinger, who plays
Jimmy Smith, Nanette’s
guardian, is a veteran of the
M.C. stage. This is his sixth
performance in a high school
production. He is also an
award-winning member of
the newspaper staff, a
yearbook photographer, and
a Student Council member.
Jed is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Kensinger, R.D.
#5, Manheim.
Brenda Huber plays
Jimmy’s conservative wife,
Sue. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Christian
Huber, R.D. #7, Manheim.
Brenda’s vocal talents have
earned her spots in county,
district, regional and state
chorus.
Cast as Billy Early,
Jimmy’s lawyer and friend,
i is Michael Hackman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Hackman, 148 Sunny Slope
Lane, Manheim. He is
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"No, No, Nanette" will be presented this
weekend by the Manheim Central Drama
Department, starring! Michelle Gibble in the title
role. Curtain time Friday and Saturday is 8 p.m. in
the senior high school auditorium.