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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e L i t i t z R e c o rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday, February 29, 1968 10 c e n t s a C o p y ; 94.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in E a n o a s te r C o u n ty 14 Pages — No. 47
Proposed Chancel In St. Luke’s New Building Boro To Start $160,000
Street Program In May
Lititz Springs Park Trustees
Appoint Grounds Committee
Shown above is a sketch of the proposed Chancel of
the new church building program of St. Luke’s United
Church of Christ, N. Broad St., Lititz. It is interesting to
lote the large cross in the background which is to be
tiand-hewn from a tree on the present site. The seating
capacity will be for 240 persons. Sunday, April 21 is the
date set for the corner stone laying, following the regu­lar
morning worship service. Dedication is scheduled
for the Sunday, June 2. Mrs. Russell Markert is chair­man
of the Memorial Committee.
Teachers Disappointed With School
Board Action But Will Teach Mon.
It Was further moved'that ff the
proposed PSEA legislation is hot
passed by March 22, 1968, the
president of the PSEA will call
president of the Warwick Education Association that he has i représentai
requested the Record-Express to publish.
Even though the local teachers are disappointed with
the decision made by the Warwick School Board, they will
report to school as usual on March 4.
Following is a statement submitted- by Jerry Schupp,
This is the first in a series of
articles on the Warwick School
System to be presented by the
Warwick Education Association.
The f i r s t article will help to
clear up the Warwick Teacher's
position on the controversial Ac­tion
For Education Day on
Lititz Y-Teens
To Help With
1968 Heart
The Y-Teens of Lititz demon­strate
an awareness for com­munity
service by donating their
services to the HEART FUND
DRIVE. The Y-Teens Will be
soliciting HEART FUND dollars
through door to door contact
and the Heart Association of
Lancaster County urges every­one
to co-operate with these
community minded teenagers.
In 1966 there were P, 796
deaths from all causes. O' this
total figure 60 37% or' 1,688
deaths were directly caused by
Heart and related blood vessel
diseases. The heart and -ir'jula-tory
diseases do not respift age,
sex, creed or economic tatus,
no home, no person, no business
is immune. These diseases cause
widespread suffering a nit/ fre­quently
create economic -diffi­culties
for the family. When the
Y-Teens of Lititz knock on your
door, won’t you give a gift to
the Heart Fund that will help to
lengthen the lives of millions of
Americans? Please give —< gen­erously
— so more will live! For
further information contact the
Heart Association of Lancaster
County, 246 W. Orange Street,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Rhone
393-4781.
TRASH LAWS
As a reminder to old resi­dents
and information for
those new in Lititz, the fol­lowing
fire ordinance provi­sions
are: all bon-fires are to
be not less than 50 feet from
any structure, unless confin­ed
in waste container; trash
cannot be burned to within
10 feet unless a waste con­tainer
is used, and this de­pends
on wind velocity which
causes hazardous conditions.
All fires should be u n d e r
supervision of responsible
person until extinguished.
Violators are subject to not
less than $5 or more than $25
or in default of fine, 7 days
in jail.
March 4. In the following weeks
you will be given a brief ex­planation
of the new methods
and devices used in our school
system and the typical problems
of our teachers and administra­tors.
It is hoped that these ar
tides' will make you, the sup­porters
of this school system,
better Informed parents.
On February 10, 1968, the
teachers of Pennsylvania moved
to declare March 4, 1968, Action
for Education Day. All members
of the Pennsylvania State Edu­cation
Association through their
local associations, such as the
Warwick Education Association,
were to negotiate with t h e i r
school boards to change the
school calendar.' (This change in
calendar was necessary to en­able
the teachers to legally he
released f r om school on this
date, so that they may go to
Harrisburg and emphasize the
need for immediate passage of
salary and subsidy legislation.)
Warwick Will
Adopt Budget
Friday Night
Wa rwi c k Supervisors will
adopt the new budget at a meet­ing
tomorrow night at its regu­lar
meeting.
Seven engineering firms have
been interviewed for water fea­sibility
study who will make
cost proposals by March 15. The
firms interviewed are: Hi F.
Ruth, Lancaster; Buchart and
Horn, York; .Gannett, Fleming,
Corddry and Copenter, Harris­burg;
Albright and Friel, Phila­delphia;
Herbert Associates,
Harrisburg; Tracy Engineers,
Inc., Lemoyne; and Whitman,
Requardt & Associates, Balti­more.
One or these will be se­lected
to make the study.
Bids are open for stone, as­phalt
and the new police car.
New uniforms have been order­ed
and expected to arrive this
week.
order to decide another course
of action.
Newspapers throughout the
state have been inclined to call
this Action For Education Day
a strike. It is not! Sections 1503
and 1504 of the Pennsylvania
School Code clearly state that a
school board can d e c l a r e s
teacher's institute during the
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Lititz Retailers Will
Have Special Program
The Lititz Retailers and their
employees will attend a program
to be presented by two detec­tives
from Lancaster, Luther
Henry and Robert Jones at the
Lititz Community Center on
Thursday, March 7 at 8 p.m.
The detectives will show
slides on the subject of “Shop
Lifting. A question and answer
period will follow. Rodney Mil­ler,
president of the Lititz Re­tailers
will preside at the meet­ing,...........
S t Paul’s Vote
$643,026 For
New Building
The congregation of St. Paul's
Evangelical Lutheran ’ ■ Church
voted to s p e n d $643,026.00 to
build a new church building on
West Orange Street, East of the
present Educational Building.
The package includes $519,820
as cost of the building and park­ing
facilities; $22,500 furnish-!
ings; $52,400 for pipe organ;
$41,600 architect fees; $3,000 for j
landscaping; $3,000 for carillon
bells and a $700 figure for in­surance
while under construc­tion.
Deleted from the original
plans is a $19,300 figure for the
addition of a Chapel.
Russell Schreiber, Building
Committee Chairman, stated
“We still have the hope that the
Chapel may be added as a Me
morial Gift by someone in the
congregation.”
Harold E. Wagoner, the archi­tect
from Philadelphia who de­signed
the building, said “The
proposed building will be the
first of it’s kind to be construct­ed
with in 200 miles of the Lititz
area.”
“We hope to have contracts
r e a d y to be signed in two
weeks.” Schreiber said. “Con­struction
could begin with an
early Spring break in the weath­er.”
Warwick Zoning
Law Set For
Final Revision
The Warwick Planning Com­mission
will make final rev,F
sions to the proposed township
•zoning ordinance at a meeting
tonight at the Warwick Town­ship
building at 7:30.
Joseph Snavely, chairman” of
the Planning Commission, said
that as far as he knows there is
“no major area of disapproval”
among township residents.
He stated that at tonight’s
meeting final revisions will be
made to the preliminary draft
of the ordinance so the commis­sion
may obtain approval of the
township supervisors to hold
public meetings leading to final
adoption of the ordinance. .
A grounds committee for ’68-
'69 was appointed at a meeting
of the Trustees of the Lititz
Springs Park, Inc. conducted by
J. M. Leed, president.
Appointed were: Elmer Bom-berger,
chairman; George Bie-mesderfer,
Harold Bortz, Rich­ard
Walters and Vincent Bec­ker.
Bortz will serve as the park
superintendent.
It was announced that permis­sion
was granted to St. Luke’s
UCC to operate the concession
stand in the park during the
summer. It was reported that
Erb Brothers had sprayed 54
oak and nine elm trees in the
park and that Biemesderger’s
Lanscaping will place trailer
right dress, a form of tanbark,
in the swing and playground
areas.
Dead trees, trimmed out dead
branches and stumps were re­moved
from the park premises
at a cost of $1,000.
The Park Trustees have en­tered
into an agreement with
the borough and Pennsylvania
Power and Light Company to in­stall
15 lights in the park at a
cost of $2,850. William Oehme,
treasurer of the Park Trustees,
is interested in obtaining com­mittments
from industry or in­dividuals
to help finance this
project. The cost of each light
is $200.
Committees have been named
for the annual July 4 celebration
at Lititz Springs Park.
The general committee is com­posed
of J. M. Leed, chairman,
E. H. Bomberger, Wallace
Lausch, William Oehme and
John G. Hershey.
Chairman of other committees
include George Biemesderfer,
music festival and candle illumi­nation;
Stephen Palkovic, Queen
of Candles and band; Joseph
Carl, decorations; Richard Wal­ters,
concessions and policing;
William...Oehme, publicity, tick­ets
and bell ringing ; Vincent
Becker, parking; Richard Sum­mer,
amplification; and J. M.
Leed, fireworks.
Block Parents
Approved By
Police Dpt.
The Block Parent committee
held its weekly meeting on Tues­day
everting at the home of Mrs.
James Fink, 23 W. Orange St:
It was decided that the commit­tee
members begin interviewing
on February 29 through March
13 all volunteer Block Parents
who have been approved by the
local Police Department.
Committee members conduct­ing
the interviews will be: Mrs.
Fink, Mrs. Robert Keller, Mrs.
Douglas Zell, Mrs.- Roy Seigrist,
Mrs. Richard Zercher, Mrs.
Lowell Keath, Glen Davidson,
Mrs. John Crabtree and Mrs.
Pat Kuhns. The rules and in­structions
will be gone over with
each applicant. Window signs
will be distributed as soon as
they are available.
The committee m e m b e r s
would be more than happy to
come and explain the Block Par­ent
program to any interested
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In unprecedented fast action borough council at a meet­ing
Tuesday night moved a $160,000 street construction pro­gram
into position for adoption and bid taking.
Linden Hall
To Hold
All Day Affair
More than 150 alumnae and
friends of Linden Hall will at­tend
an Open House and Confer­ence
on Saturday, March 2, ac­cording
to an announcement
made yesterday by J, Robert
Hess, vice president of the Lan­caster
Malleable Castings Com
pany, and Chairman of the Con
ference.
Beginning at 11 a.m., guests
will be conducted on a tour of
the historic buildings which
comprise the 222 year old cam-
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Abby Fidler (right), first place winner in the Warwick
Spelling Bee, is shown with second place winner, Suzie
Keith. '
Spelling Champs Named
Abby Fidler, thirteen, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L.
Fidler, Lititz, was the winner of
the Warwick Spelling Bee held
at the high school Friday. Ab-by’s
correct spelling of “optimis­tic”
and “antenna” won her a
copy of Webster’s Dictionary of
Synonyms and the chance.to rep­resent
the Warwick School Dis­trict
at the County bee in April.
Second place in the contest
went to Suzie Keith, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Keath,
Lititz. Suzie also won a Web­ster’s
Dictionary of Synonyms
and the chance to compete in
the County bee.
Third and fourth places went
to Debbie Rettew and Teresa
Ench, who will serve as alter­nates
for the County bee.
The Lancaster Intelligencer
Journal provided the dictionaries
for the winner and runner-up
and gavfe each participant a
Papermate Deluxe pen.
Other participants in the bee
were Ruth Amidon, Anita Bal-
POLICE NEWS
Lloyd L. Lefever, 321 South
Broad St., was charged with fail­ure
to yield the right of way
while attempting to make a left
hand turn on Water St., from E.
Main St. running in front of a
vehicle driven by Robert Landis
who was traveling west on East
Main St. Mrs. Landis and her
two children, Christine Ann,
age 4Vfe and Robert Jr., 18
months, were passengers in the
Landis car. The children were
taken to the office of Dr. Harry
Resh for a checkup and were
held for observation. Total esti­mate
of damage was in excess
of $1200.
A two-car accident at thé in­tersection
of S. Cedar St. and
Juniper Lane happened when
the brakes of a car driven by
Ralph Weik, 43 E. Main St. fail­ed
and struck a car driven by
Elmer Harding, 24 E. Front St.
There was no prosecution by
Officer Fritz.
Investigation is being made
by Officer Steffy on a hit and
run accident which occurred in
the Rec Center parking lot. A
car owned by Brian Pfahl, 1370
Foxcroft Drive, Lancaster, was
parked in the lot and was hit by
a vehicle, breaking a headlight.
Traffic violations are as fol­lows:
Feb. 22 — Ronald J. Fre­derick,
Lititz R3, charged with
speed by Officer Emmerich be­fore
Justice of the Peace Kauff­man.
Feb. 24 — John D. Seaber,
1939 Park Plaza Lane, charged
with bucking traffic by Officer
Keller before Justice of the
Peace Diehm. Feb. 25 — Ray­mond
E. Horvath, 526 Spring
Ave., stop sign violation, charg­ed
by Officer Keller before Jus­tice
of the Peace Kauffman. Feb.
28 — George B. Biemesderfer,
Penryn, charged with a stop
sign violation by Chief Hicks
before Justice of the Peace
Diehm.
Mrs. Luther Gravely, Roths-ville,
charged with failure to
send a child to school, paid a
fine of $16.50, but was again
charged with the same offense
on Feb. 23.
Council decided to obtain
right of way by eminent domain
where property owners are af­fected.
Frank Roda, Lancaster,
was retained as special counsel
for eminent domain proceed­ings.
A p p r o x i m a t e 1 y 75 to 90
people’s property will be affect­ed
by the street program. There
was mention made at council
that some people have already
objected to the borough taking
right of way, although the boro’s
action is perfectly legal.
Council voted to ask for bids
by April 16, award them at its
April 30 meeting, and get con­struction
started in May.
Water Line
Council decided to investigate
the possibility of Weis Markets
paying part of the cost of runn­ing
a water line along a pro­posed
section of Spruce Street
to proposed 7th Street then to
Woodridge Swimmi n g Pool.
Woodridge now gets its water
through a temporary iy2 inch
plastic line and seeks a more
permanent installation.
Petition
A petition, signed by 40 per­sons
was presented to have one­way.
traffic south, on N. Cedar
Street, from Front Street to E.
Lincoln Avenue, with parking
on both sides.
Police Chief George Hi c ks
said he thinks streets are for
traffic and that there would be
more traffic jams, with cars
turning left and right at Front
and Cedar Streets.
Council had a lengthy dis­cussion
on the petition, but ac­tion
was tabled until next Wed­nesday.
Second Petition
Another petition was present­ed
by Jebb Moore, who was ac­companied
by seven o t h e r
youths. They had a petition
signed by 110 persons — about
90 per cent of whom were pro­perty
owners. This was to allow
Eckenrode Sub Shop, 353 E.
Main St., to have pin ball ma­chines
and pool tables.
Council also had quite a dis­cussion
on this petition. When
Eckenrode opened his shop, he
had pin ball machines and pool
tables there. Then, nearby pro­perty
owners got a petition to
have them removed. The zoning
board demanded Eckenrode re­move
them or else he would
have to close his shop.
Borough council said it’s the
zoning board’s duty to make the
decision, but said they will take
it to their solicitor for advise­ment.
Youths Present
The Youth Day in Govern­ment
youths attended the meet­ing.
This was the SOUL Party,
sponsored by the Jaycees. of Lit­itz.
Charles Miller Jr., of the
J ayc e e s , accompanied the
youths.
The group included Scott Ket-terman,
mayor; Dich Oehme,
borough council president; Bob
Shaub, Greg Balmer, Jack Shirk,
and Chris Brumbach, council
members.
They had requests for the
borough, which were discussed.
They were: a traffic light at E.
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mer, Darlene Bowman, Debby
Diffenbaugh, Melanie Ditzler,
Steven Doan, Charles Edson,
Ginny Ehrhart, Steve Ember,
Robert Erb, John Hess, Mark
Jaede, Kay Kreider, Kathy Mc-
Conayhay, Margo Mantz, Lori
Marks, Jeffrey Miller, Ruth El­len
Morman, Hollee Perini,
Sharon Posey, Diana Rathman,
Kathy Ressler, Susie Ressler,
Debbie RoyerF Jeanne Shelly,
Deborah Splain, Kathy Stauffer,
Debby Taylor, Tom Watson,
Chris Weber, Sylvia Weber, and
David Zug.
J. Lorell Price, head of the
Social Studies Department at
Warwick was the pronouncer.
Judges were Mrs. Dale Cart­wright
from the Lititz Woman’s
Club, Albert Vigunas from the
L i t i t z Rotary Club, and Miss
Carol Livengood, English teach­er
at Warwick. Mr. Carl Kauf­man,
Junior High Principal,
opened the program and pre­sented
the prizes to the con­testants.
till
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Lititz Girl
Injured In
Parking Lot
Linda L. Colon, 16, of 66 N.
Water St., Lititz, suffered minor
injuries in a head on collision on
the Lancaster Catholic High
School parking lot, Juliette and
Frances Avenues, at 8:05 a.m.
Tuesday.
She was treated at the Gener­al
Hospital and discharged.
Manheim Twp. police said a
sports car driven by Jay Bruce
Lindemuth, 18, of 445 New Dor-wart
St., crashed headon into
Miss Colon’s car, causing $1,000
damage.
Lindemuth, a McCaskey stu­dent,
started from a stopped por
sitition on the parking lot in
racing fashion. Officer Robert
Edwards said. He reached a
speed estimated at 40 to 50
miles an hour. His car hit Miss
Colon’s car as she was driving
onto the parking lot. Miss Colon
is a student at Catholic High.
Edwards charged Lindemuth
with reckless driving.
Diane Griswold, first place winner in the Art Contest
sponsored by the Lititz Woman’s Club, displays the colorful
collage she made from plaster, enamel paint and broken
glass.
Winners Of 1968 Art Contest
Announced By Woman's Club
Diane Griswold, 16, a Junior at Warwick High School,
Won first prize in the Art Contest sponsored by the Lititz Wo­man’s
Club at the school, it was announced this week.
Second place was won by Di­anne
Neal, 16, a junior and third
place by Julie Eby, 16, a sopho­more.
Their prize winning paint­ings
are on display during the
remainder of this week in the
window of Spacht’s Furniture
Store, E. Main St.
, Diane, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Arthur S. Griswold, 518 S.
Broad St., won $15 for her first
place collage which was con­structed
on a white plaster back­ground
with black, red and blue
enamel „paint presenting the de­sign
and broken pieces of green
glass as an accent.
She has been painting since
she was in seventh grade and
has received a great deal of as­sistance
from her father who
has won prizes for his paintings.
Dr. Griswold had taken instruc­tion
from Charles X. Carlson.
Diane enjoys working with pen­cil
drawings, oil paints and is
learning water colors. She feels
this would be her favorite. She
is active as a Cheerleader, mem­ber
of the Glee Club, secretary
of the Junior Class, a member
of the Varsity Club, Pep Club
and Hockey team and the Post
Prom committee.
Dianne Neal, daughter of Mrs.
Jane Neal, 425 E. Main St. Dur­ing
the Spring of 1967, she took
art instruction under the direc­tion
of Floyd Hackman and took
lessons in oil painting at the
Lancaster Art Association in the
Fall of 1966. She has been in­terested
in art as long as she
can remember. Diane is also a
member of the High school or­chestra.
Her second place entry which
won $10 was a portrait of a
young girl done in oils. She used
blending shades of navy and
light blues, browns and f l e s h
tones in her painting.
Julie Eby, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Harold Eby, Lititz
R4, won $5 as third prize win-
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