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Four retiring drivers were honored Saturday
by the Warwick Ambulance Driver’s Association
for their many years of volunteer service. Reco­gnized
at a testimonial dinner held Saturday even-ing
at the Warwick House were (left to right)
Harold Horn, for 25 years of service; Carl Foltz, 22
years; Wes Snader, 16 years; and Carl Frederick,
11 years. (Photo by Barry Runk)
Warwick Ambulance Drivers Honored For Years Of Service
Four former Warwick
Ambulance drivers were
honored recently at a
testimonial dinner held at
the Warwick House.
Honored by the Ambulance
Drivers Association for their
many years of service were
Harold Horn, Carl Foltz,
Wesley Snader and J. Carl
Frederick.
Together, these four men
have driven for a total of
almost 88,000 hours, having
spent a combined total of 74
years of helping the com­munity
through ambulance
driving.
Horn received a special
award clock, fitted with an
engraved plaque denoting 25
years of service from 1956 to
1981.
Engraved trays were
presented to Foltz, who
served 22 years from 1958 to
1980; Snader, who served
from 1964 to 1980; and
Frederick, who served from
1969 to 1980.
As long as the American
Business Club sponsors the
Warwick Ambulance, these
four men will hold life-time
complimentary mem­berships
in the association.
School Board Meets
Warwick Advertises Intent
To Levy New Taxes
In a statement of the
School Board at their April
meeting Tuesday evening,
board president William
Owens said, “We are looking
at a tight budget year; losing
some state revenue, losing
monies due to declining
student population, and we
will lose some funds from the
federal government. Plus
the loss of the one quarter of
the one percent wage tax.
“In a nutshell this means
that expenses are probably
going up in the neighborhood
of five percent.
“It is for this reason that
we find it important at this
time to advertise the intent
to levy new taxes. The final
decision will be made by the
board and the community
(as to which taxes are to be
levied) and it is important to
let the board members know
which taxes the community
can live with.”
Wilson B. Smith moved
that the board adopt
resolutions for intent to levy
new taxes:
One half of one percent of
the real estate transfer tax
to be effective July 1,1981 in
Lititz and Warwick Town­ship
and effective Jan. 1,
1982, in Elizabeth Township.
The reason given by Dr.
Bonfield for the difference in
dates is that with the taking
of the one quarter of the one
percent of wage tax, the
Borough of Lititz and
Warwick Township agreed
by resolution to release the
one half percent real estate
transfer tax by July 1,1981.
Occupational millage tax,
a tax in which rates will be
set at a later date based on
individual occupations ef­fective
July 1,1981.
Construction tax which
would be a one percent tax
on all construction within the
school district effective July
1,1981.
President Owens em­phasized
that the purpose of
this advertisement to levy
new taxes is to get the
reflection of the community
opinions.
Present taxes include real
estate taxes, per capita tax
and earned income tax.
Other Business
In other business, the
board approved the 1981-82
school calen4ar which shows
182 student days and 185
teacher days with the first
day of school scheduled for
Sept. 9 and the end of school
on June 11.
• The board voted to
continue the position of
student representative to the
school board for the 1981-82
school year. This position
has been in effect for four
years and the directors feel
it provides a valuable link
between students and the
board.
Toby White, represen­tative
for the 80-81 school
year, remarked that he had
found it a learning ex­perience
that he has “really
enjoyed.”
• The board approved a
request for an oceanography
field trip for 40 eighth grade
students to go to Seaville and
Sand Harbor, N.J., May 5-7.
• The board approved an
a g r e em e n t between
emergency management
office of the Red Cross and
the Warwick School District
which would make district
facilities available in case of
a natural disaster.
• The board approved the
resignation of Aria Huber as
a physics and math teacher
at the high school effective
April 17. She will stay on as a
substitute in math/physics
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Memorial Fund Still Open
The Memorial Fund in
memory of Scott
Spangenburg is still
open for donations. The
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.
Donations may be
made by stopping at the
bank and asking any
teller. Or you can mail
your contributions.
Checks should be made
payable to The Scott
Spangenburg Memorial
Fund.
Lititz Lions To Sponsor
Pre-School Eye Testing
Scheduled For May 8,9
Wissler Stars As 'King Arthur'
in Warwick’s 'Camelot'
Druid priest who Watches peace throughout his
over, guides and directs
The Lititz Lions Club, in
co-operation with the
Association for the Blind, is
sponsoring an Ambliopia
Screening (Lazy Eye
screening) at the Lititz Rec
Center on Monday, May 4,
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This
screening is free of charge to
anyone in the Warwick
School District, and is very
beneficial, especially to pre­school
children (ages 3-5). If
there is an eye problem, this
screening can usually detect
it in the child at an early age,
before the child starts his
first year of school.
Testing the children will
be Warwick school nurses
Jane Mills, Peggy Hess,
Linda MacFerran and
Nancy Wolf.
Lititz police are continuing
their efforts to cut speeding
in the borough by initiating
speed traps at different
locations.
Arrested for speeding
April 15 at Broad and Fourth
Streets are Jean Snader,
1225 Orchard St.; John C.
Longenecker, 707 Webster
Hill Rd.; Alfred F. Tyler, 577
Hiview Dr.; Rita S. Weaver,
Manheim Rl; Robert D.
Kilheffer Jr., 4 Doris Place,
Lancaster; Melvin N.
Snyder, 119 W. Newport Rd.;
Robert G. Brubaker, 115
Race St.; Russell M.
Weidler, 45 E. Main St.;
Richard H. Adams, 1817
Brunnerville Rd.; Brian W.
Snavely, 450 Snavely Mill
Rd.; Kathleen H. Haffner,
804 Gail Place, Lancaster;
Gloria F. Olesh, 18 Plateau
Rd.; Earl Elser, Ephrata
R5; Robert F. Mowrer, 723
E. Orange St., Lancaster;
and Gerald Lee Foreman,
305 E. New St.
Nabbed for speeding April
15 at Woodcrest at Walnut St.
are Elizabeth L. Meek, 544
W. Third Ave.; John B.
In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 10,11
Church 18
Business Directory 20
Classified 21,22,23
How sure are you that your
child can see all that he
should be seeing? Many
parents, and children
themselves, are unaware of
sight problems that might
exist until certain test are
performed.
Last year, 48 children
were given the “lazy eye”
test and two were found to
have a sight problem.
Because of its work in the
area of blindness prevention,
the Lititz Lions Club is
hopeful that this annual
event will provide an op­portunity
for parents to
make sure no problems exist
before sending their children
to school.
In the case of “lazy eye” it
is important to have early
Risser, 848 Cindy Lane;
Jacqueline Mosemann, 221
E. Main St.; Steven Gayle
Young, 820 Woodcrest Ave.;
and Ronald W. Troy, Lititz
Rl.
Motor Violations
April 2 - Timothy Ray
Diem, 810 Webster Hill Rd.,
speeding.
April 14 - Susan M. Ur-sprung,
29 W. Donegal St.,
Mt. Joy, obedience to traffic
control devices; Adam W.
Samelko, 508 W. Orange St.,
traffic light violation.
April 15 - Michael J.
Harley, 532 N. Water St.,
operating during suspension.
April 17 - John Richard
Mackley, 32, of 3 W. Second
Ave., operating a motor
vehicle during suspension
Mackey was arrested again
on the same charges on April
18.
April 19 - Thomas William
Pomessa, 527 N. Third St.,
Lebanon, traffic light
violation.
Frances Reinhart, Littiz
Rl, traffic light violation.
Minor and Alcohol
April 17-1:10 a.m. - Terry
Lee Moyer, 19, of 1351 Stony
Lane, and Barbara Lynn
Yerger, 19, of 534 N. Water
St.
April 18-9:42 p.m. - Glenn
R. Walter, 18, of 33 Woodland
Ave .; Norman K.
Williamson, 18, of 18 Becker
Dr.; Steven D. Bass, 20, of
522 W. Marion St.; and Grant
B. Kent, 18, of 16 Becker Dr.
April 18 - 10:50 p.m. ,-
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discovery and treatment.
According to information
from the Lancaster Blind
Association, treatment
before the age of three is
more successful than after
that age, and treatment
after the age of six results in
improvement in only a small
percentage of cases. Eye
examination at the age of 4
or earlier is recommended.
“Lazy Eye” can be due to
muscular imbalance,
refractive error or other
defect present when the eye
is still learning to see. By the
age of six the eye should
already have learned to see
and if it hasn’t, then it may
be too late to learn.
For example, a child may
have eye trouble that causes
him to see a double image
instead of one, or images of
different size or shape. This
confuses the child and when
he tries to get the two
separate pictures to come
together as one and fails, he
tends to suppress the weaker
eye and uses only the
stronger one. When this
becomes a habit, the vision
in the weaker eye is
gradually lost.
Treatment usually con­sists
of putting a patch over
the strong eye, forcing the
child to use the weaker eye
to see. If treatment is started
in time, normal vision may
be recovered.
Parents can also watch for
signs that can mean the
possibility of eye problems
in their children. Some of the
signs are:
1. Rubs eyes excessively.
2. Shuts or covers one eye,
tilts head one thrusts head
forward.
3. Has difficulty in reading
or in other work requiring
close use of the eyes.
4. Blinks more than usual
or is irritable when doing
close work.
5. Stumbles over small
objects.
6. Holds books close to
eyes.
7. Is unable to participate
in games requiring distance
vision.
8. Squints eyelids together
or frowns.
Any of the above could
indicate a sight problem and
parents should get their
child’s eyes examined at the
e a rlie s t possible op­portunity.
The Lititz Lions Club urges
everyone with pre-school
children in the three to five
year old age group to take
advantage of this eye
screening program.
Campaign
Articles To Be
Published
The Record Express
will again ac cep t
campaign articles by
the candidates in the
primary election May
19, and will publish
these in the April 30 and
May 7 issues of the
paper. No articles will
be printed in the May 14
issue.
Any candidate who
cares to submit one
article commenting on
his or her qualifications
and views on issues.
The articles should be
typewritten, double-sp­aced,
and should not
exceed two 8M>xll inch
pages. They must be
submitted by the Friday
before the desired date
of publication.
They should be ad­dressed
to Editor, Lititz
Record Express, 22 E.
Main St., Lititz, PA
17543.
Post High School
Planning Session
Offered
Parents of 11th grade
students are invited to
meet with the Warwick
High School counselors
to discuss post-high
school education plans
for their children. The
meeting will be held in
the High School Library
on Wednesday, April 29
at 7 p.m.
Topics of the meeting
will include selection of
the school, entrance
procedures and
financial aid.
All interested persons
are invited to attend.
'Camelot' Tickets
Go On Sale
Tickets for the Warwick
High School musical
production, “Camelot” , will
go on sale Monday, April 27
at 6:30 p.m. in the high
school auditorium. They will
be sold every rehearsal night
through May 7 from 6:30 to 9
p.m.
Tickets may also be
purchased the nights of the
performances, May 8 and 9.
The cost is $2.50 for adult
general admission and $1.50
for student general ad­mission.
Reserved seat tickets are
available for both per­formances
at $3.50.
Well-known Warwick
senior John David Wissler,
321 Meadow Valley Road,
will play the challenging and
demanding role of the
legendary hero King Arthur
in Warwick’s spring musical
“ CAMELOT” to be
produced on stage May 8-9,
at 8 p.m.
A Broadway classic,
“Camelot” retells with a
musical excitement and
dramatic flair, the story of
the mythical Britton king
who leads his people from
the Dark Ages into the
feudalists society that was
to weld Britian’s many
smaller kingdoms and petty
fiefdoms into a powerful
nation.
John David portrays
Arthur, this noble leader
who emerges as Britain’s
power, with a dramatic
strength that matches the
character of Arthur himself.
Long active in Warwick’s
stage, John David played the
beautiful role of Tevye in
Warwick’s “Fiddler on the
Roof” last spring and was
recently the conniving
detective murdered in
Warwick’s fall production of
the long-running Broadway
mystery “The Bat.”
A senior planning to major
in art history and fine arts
following graduation, John
David carries a major
portion of the music within
the musical, singing such
well-known Broadway show
tunes as: “I Wonder What
the King Is Doing Tonight,”
“How To Handle a Woman,”
“What Do the Simple Folk
Do,” and, of course, the title
song, “Camelot.”
D ire c te d by Dan
Neidermyer, John David
will create the role of Arthur
with a sense of authenticity
in each step, surrounded by
a huge stone castle designed
by Warwick-alumnus Kelly
Mann and amateur film­maker
Dirk Large and
wearing researched and
designed costumes dating
back to the middle ages.
A cast of 50 joins John
David in helping to
musically and dramatically
recreate the story of a young
lad, who upon pulling the
sword Excalibur from a
stone, suddenly finds himself
crowned King of England.
But much of this sudden
r is e in p owe r was
manipulated by the fiendish,
wizened magician Merlyn, a
Arthur with a vengeance
tempered by a “fathers
love.” It is Merlyn who
enhances Arthur’s court
with the planned marriage of
Arthur to Guenevere, a
m a r r ia g e th a t will
strengthen through treaty
alliances made between
fiefdoms, Arthur’s nation.
But Merlyn is unable to
help Arthur in the difficulties
encountered with Lancelot, a
knight come from Nor­mandy
seeking a seat at the
famous “Round Table,”
created by Arthur to sustain
kingdom and nation..
“Camelot” ran almost 700
performances on Broadway
with Richard Burton
carrying the major role of
“King Arthur.” Within the
last year, the musical
“ Camelot” has been
revived, is playing in major
cities around the country,
and is heading towards
another Broadway showing.
In addition to his work
onstage in Warwick’s
musicals (John David has
handled major roles in
“ Wh e re’s C h a rlie ,”
“Oklahoma!” as well as
“Fiddler on the Roof” ) and
plays (“Annie Get Your
Gun” and “The Bat” ), John
David is an artist. He has
had one-man shows
throughout the area, most
recently a t Chimney Comer.
John David has also been
active in Warwick’s music
organizations: singing in
glee club, playing in or­chestra
the trombone, and
marching with the band, this
year serving as drum major.
He has been active in
W a rw ick ’s m u sic
organizations for the last
four years.
During a quiet scene in "Camelot", John David Wissler as King Arthur sings
“ How to Handle a Woman.” The musical will be presented at Warwick High
School on May 8 and 9. (Photo by Kate Duncan.)
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