Lititz Record Express

              Worse than Pearl Harbor
Lititz in shock over terrorist attack on Twin Towers, Pentagon
Flags around town are at
half-mast today as the country
mourns the many lives lost in
Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. A
death toll has yet to be re­leased,
but most are anticipat­ing
it will be in the thousands.
STEPHEN SEEBER________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Tuesday’s reign of
terror in New York City, Washing­ton,
D.C. and Pittsburgh impacted
the Lititz area in the form of school
closings and prayer vigils... and
disbelief that something so horrific
could happen in this country.
“I just think it’s very scary,”
said Victoria Gavin, who was wait­ing
to pick up her son from Lititz
Elementary School Tuesday. “I
just thought we were more prepar­ed
for something like this. My first
thought was to get my children.”
News that two hijacked com­mercial
airplanes were flown Ka­mikaze-
style into the Twin Towers
of the World Trade Center in New
York City early Tuesday morning
began to filter into Lititz around
9:30 a.m. As the tragedy unfolded
and the two towers crumbled to the
ground, taking with them an un­told
number of victims, shock
began to set in here as everyone ev­erywhere
glued themselves to tele­visions
and radios for updates.
An hour after the attack on the
110-story Twin Towers, a hijacked
planed crashed into the Pentagon
building in the nation’s capitol.
Soon after, another crashed about
80 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Warwick School District decid­ed
around noon to send students
home, Lancaster Airport was com­pletely
shut down, several govern­ment
offices were closed, and a
community prayer meeting was or­ganized
for Wednesday evening.
Many of Lititz’ congregations
held their own vigils on Tuesday
night. Rev. Beth Rohn of Lititz
Moravian, which held a service at
7 p.m. Tuesday, said that as news
of the attacks filtered into the
church office the pastoral staff de­cided
that members of the congre­gation,
and the entire community,
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INSIDE
Entertainment
Tree Art
On Sept. 24, Cindy Kamide
will present a program at the
Lititz Public Library on bonsai,
the Asian art of creating minia­ture
trees. Page 14.
□ Social
Sept. Celebration
Wondering what to celebrate
in the month of September
after Labor Day passes. Kathy
Blankenbiller has a few sugges­tions
in her In Sites column on
Page 10.
□ Commentary
Lititz Response
How should Lititz respond to
Tuesday’s tragic terrorist at­tacks.
Richard Reitz shares his
thoughts in his For the Record
column on Page 4.
□ Also Inside
Movement Lab
Young dancers have been
getting quite an international
experience from their studies
under Judy Williams Henry at
Movement Laboratories. Page
17.D
Sports
Classic Victory
The Warriors earned another
field hockey victory over a per­ennial
powerhouse on Satur­day,
toppling Lower Dauphin
on an overtime goal by Kelly
Wood in the championship
game of the Warwick Classic.
Page 21.
□ Index
Arts/Entertainment..................14
Births......................................... 10
Business............................18-19
Classified...........................28-31
Commentary/Letters.............3-4
Obituaries............................... 8-9
Out of the Past................... 26-27
Police/Fire Log.......................... 2
Religion..............................12-13
School News...........................6-7
Social................................. 10-11
Sports.................................21 -24
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Smith murder suspects
showing no remorse
STEPHEN SEEBER________
Record Express Staff
EPHRATA — John Schofield is
one of several county detectives in­vestigating
last week’s murder of
Lucy and Terry Smith.
Assisting Ephrata Borough Po­lice
in one of the most gruesome
and baffling acts of violence ever to
hit this area, Detective Schofield of
the Lititz Police Department has
been interviewing witnesses and es­corting
the suspects for blood and
hair analysis. The investigation is
ongoing as police tie up loose ends
on what appears to be a cut and
dried case.
Two Ephrata teens, Michael
Bourgeois and Landon May, have
been charged with killing Bour­geois’
adoptive mother and step­father,
Lucy and Terry Smith. Last
Thursday, the Smiths were found
stabbed, beaten and shot inside
their Ephrata home. The following
day, the boys were committed to
U -------------------------------
Whether or not this
was premeditated
will have to be
determined in
court.
John Schofield
Lititz Detective
5 ?
Lancaster County Prison without
bail.
“It was a very brutal double
homicide,” Schofield said this
week, adding that his dealings with
the suspects were disturbing.
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Unruly fans flee crash
Township teen faces DUI charge
after post-game football incident
STEPHEN SEEBER________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — When sports rivalries
get out of hand, local police have
to be prepared for just about any­thing.
While Warwick’s 17-14 loss to
Manheim Township was consid­ered
a season opener upset, the
commotion outside Grosh Field
was the more distressing story on
Sept. 1.
A car full of Manheim Township
students, who were suspected of
drinking beer and were yelling ob­scenities
toward Warwick football
fans, totaled their vehicle near a
crowd of pedestrians on Campus
Drive.
“Luckily he didn’t hit and kill
somebody,” said Lititz Police Sgt.
Kerry Nye, who was called to the
scene after the accident. “There
was a lot of foot traffic in that area
after the game.”
Officer Ken Lockhart was di­recting
post-game traffic at the in­tersection
of Orange Street and
Campus Drive when he first heard
the rowdy teens taunting Warwick
fans with foul language. When
Lockhart approached the car to
stifle their disorderly comments, he
smelled a strong scent of alcohol
coming from the boys.
Lockhart asked the teens to pull
over, to which their response was
to gun the car’s engine and at­tempt
an ill-advised getaway.
Their escape was brief as they al­most
immediately crashed into the
driver’s side door of a Lancaster
man’s truck, which was idling in
traffic on Campus Drive.
The four or five teenagers, iden­tified
at this time as Manheim
Township High School students,
bolted from the totaled car imme­diately
after impact. With the pe­destrian
crowd hindering his es­cape,
the driver of the car was
quickly captured by Officer Lock­hart.
Now these teens, who began
their evening as high school foot­ball
fans, are criminals facing stiff
penalties along the lines of DUI,
underage drinking, causing ah ac­cident,
endangering public safety,
disorderly conduct and fleeing a
police officer.
Through interviews with the
teen driver, police were able to get
the names of the other students in­volved.
The DUI charge against
the driver is pending the result of a
blood alcohol content test that was
conducted at Ephrata Community
Hospital. Police did find a case of
beer in his car.
Amazingly, no one was seriously
hurt at the scene of the incident.
The driver of the truck, David
Enck of Lancaster, had his two
children with him when accident
occurred. According to police, they
were uninjured.
“(The driver) is facing some seri­ous
charges for a 17-year-old,” Nye
said, adding that Lititz police will
continue to maintain a strong pres­ence
at future sporting events that
are considered to be rivalries.
Terry Kauffman, Warwick’s
athletic director, said that he does
not expect the incident to become a
black mark on what is normally a
very positive competition between
the two schools.
“It’s one of the three big rivalries
for football,” he said, “the others
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Photos by Stephen Seeber
In the wake of violence, many in Lititz are calling for prayer. Sign holders in the town square on
Tuesday afternoon are, from left to’ right, Dan Gotwalt, Ryan Shelley and Katie Shelley. Earlier in the
afternoon, Atle Bjanes of Lititz spread the message to passing motorists and pedestrians.
One teen
responsible
for 90% o f
summer thefts
STEPHEN SEEBER________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — The capture of a
young thief, who returned to the
gas station crime scene to buy fuel
for the truck he had stolen,
brought closure to 90 percent of
the summer vehicle break-ins re­ported
in the Lititz area.
Detective John Schofield said
the 15-year-old Lititz boy admitted
to stealing from more than 60 vehi­cles
this summer, items that in­cluded
everything from CDs and
cell phones to jewelry and keys.
Schofield said the boy’s crime
spree came to an end Sept. 1 when
workers at a Brunnerville garage
recognized the stolen truck he was
driving, restraining the boy until
Warwick Township police could be
called to the scene.
The previous day, Schofield ex­plained,
the boy had stolen a car
from the parking lot of the Toy
Soldier Restaurant & Pub in Lititz.
He drove the car around for about
12 hours, visiting friends until re­turning
to Lititz around 4 a.m., at
which time he went for a joy ride
through a local com field. The off­road
excursion severely damaged
and disabled the car, so the boy
parked it at Mearig’s Garage in
Brunnerville and managed to find
an unlocked truck.
The keys of the truck were left
inside, so the boy drove from the
scene and parked his second stolen
vehicle around the corner from his
home in Elizabeth Township.
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More Fun than You Can Bear
Photo by Tara Liddell
The Lititz Women of Today hosted another successful
Teddy Bear Day last Saturday, with fun and games for the
whole family at Lititz Springs Park. One of the games offered
was the Behive Ring Toss, and 2-year-old Julia discovered
that the closer you are, the better your chances! For more on
the event, plus a list of the coloring contest and teddy bear
parade winners, see page 16.
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