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Lititz, Lancaster County PA, 17543. Thursday, February 20,1986 25 CENTS A COPY. $8.50 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 46
P o lic e o b s e rv e s a fe ty w e e k
By Linda A. Harris
Pennsylvania law (Penn­sylvania
Child Passenger
Protection Act-Nov. 1, 1983)
provides that all children
age four and under must be
restrained in child safety
seats or seatbelts when
riding in motor vehicles. As
of Jan. 1, 1985, parents and
other adults not complying
with the provisions were
made subject to fines.
Lititz Police Chief James
S. Fritz, a firm believer in
seatbelts for adults as well,
that the law was passed not
to place a burden on parents,
but to help them understand
that automobiles can be a
very dangerous place for
young children.
“ Every year, 2,700
children are injured in
traffic accidents in Penn­sylvania.
Statistics show
that using child restraint
systems can reduce serious
injuries by 80 percent and
death by 90 percent if a
vehicle in which the child is
riding is involved in a
collision,” Fritz said.
“The law,” he explained,
“allows children ages one
through four to use lap belts
if they are seated in the rear
of a vehicle. However,
children riding in the front
seat must use a child safety
seat.”
Safest In Middle
The veteran law en­forcement
officer added that
statistics show that children
are actually safest seated in
the middle of the rear seat of
the vehicle.
Fritz said that he and the
officers in his department
will be observing Child
Passenger Safety Week
(Feb. 23-Mar. 1) by jotting
down license numbers of
vehicles in which they ob­serve
children properly
restrained according to the
law. The numbers, he ad­ded,
will be sent to the
Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation PennDOT)
and the owner of the vehicle
will receive a special cer­tificate
of commendation
from PennDOT.
A pamphlet, “Buckle Up
Baby,” put out by the
Governor’s Traffic Safety
Council, explains various
types of child restraints and
is available in limited
quantities at the Lititz Police
Station.
Various programs exist in
the county to assist parents
of young children obtain
child safety seats.
Lancaster Auto Club
Dan Klementovich, infant
restraint seat coordinator
for the Lancaster Auto Club,
34 N. Prince St., Lancaster,
says the club currently has
125 Century Love seats
available for use by mem­bers
who are parents or
grandparents. The seats,
designed for infants up to
nine months of age or 20
pounds, are available for a
$25 deposit. Each month, he
explained, $1 is deducted
from the deposit and when
the seat is returned clean
and in good condition, the
remainder of the deposit is
returned.
“We began the program
three years ago as a service
for our members because of
our concern for child safety
and because we realized that
providing special seats can
be very costly, especially if
you have twins or a number
of small children,’ ’ he said.
Klementovich added that
55 of the seats are currently
on loan. “The seats were
selected for their per­formance
in tests, and the
latest shipment has a
seatbelt-type release which
makes it easier for the
parents to get the child in
and out of the car.
Currently, we only have the
infant carriers for children
up to 20 pounds, but we are
considering expanding the
program in the future,” he
added.
He explained that Penn-sylvania’s
law is modeled
very closely on Tennessee
law which was the first state
to pass such a law. “In the
tests done there, it was found
that the middle of the rear
seat was the safest area in a
car for a young child. The
tests also showed that for
infants, riding facing to the
rear in the back seat is best.
Today, a number of car
manufacturers are putting a
small safety belt in the
middle of the rear seat just
for children,” he reported.
Open House
Klementovich said that
parents and grandparents
may obtain further in­formation
on the law and on
the loaner program by
contacting him or by at­tending
the club’s open
house which continues
through Friday. “It is our
first ever open house and
we’ll have various displays
as well as a film “AAA
Today” and a guided tour.
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Shawn Sensenig likes using a Cosco-Peterson booster car seat with shoulder
harnesses which allows him a better view when riding in a car, according to his
parents. Officer Meil is one of seven Lititz officers observing cars as part of Child
Passenger Safety Week.
Fatal crash on Route 501
A 79-year-old Lancaster
man died Tuesday evening
of internal injuries sustained
in a one-vehicle accident
Tuesday afternoon. The
accident occurred on Route
501, near the Texaco station,
according to Warwick
Township Police Chief Harry
Aichele.
Aichele reported that a
1982 grey Oldsmobile station
wagon was being driven
south on Route 501 by Fred
E. Leach, Wabank Road,
Lan c a ste r, when for
unknown reasons it crossed
the roadway and ran into a
bridge abutment at ap­proximately
40 mph. A
witness driving behind the
vehicle told Aichele he ob­served
no brake lights or
other warning that the
driver was leaving the lane
of travel.
The accident occurred at
2:38 p.m. Traffic was tied up
for approximately a half
hour as fire police tried to
direct traffic to alternative
routes while rescue units
worked to remove Leach
from his vehicle.
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Lititz Fire Company, Lititz
Fire Police, the Warwick
Ambulance and Lancaster
General Hospital Medic
units responded to the scene.
The fire and rescue units
extricated Leach from the
vehicle where he had been
trapped for a short period,
ancfhe was transported to
Lancaster General Hospital
by the LGH Medic unit.
According to Aichele,
Leach was admitted in very
critical condition. A hospital
spokesman said he died at
6:05 p.m. of internal injuries
in the operating room.
Dr. Nancy Harrison, a
hospital deputy coroner,
pronounced the man dead.
No autopsy was ordered.
On Feb. 17 at 2 p.m., Of­ficer
Richard Groff was
dispatched to an accident on
Route 501 in front of Zart-man
Dodge. He reported
that Robert Wolfgang III, 18,
of Mount Wolf Rl, failed to
see a vehicle driven by
Jeralyn Pickel, Lititz, stop in
front of his vehicle and
struck the Pickel vehicle.
There was moderate
damage to both vehicles.
Wolfgang was cited for
following too closely.
O ffic e r Tim Davis
responded to an accident on
Feb. 13 at 5:02 p.m. at East
Newport Road and
Rothsville Station Road. He
reported that George E.
Cook Jr., 38, of 105
Pleasantview Drive, was
driving west on East
Newport Road in the
direction of Rothsville
Station Road when his
vehicle slid on the snow-covered
roadway and went
into a ditch on the south side
of the road. At the same
time, a vehicle driven by
Donald Bellesheim, 135
Ninth St., Hicksville, NY,
was eastbound on East
Newport Road and struck
the Cook vehicle on the side.
There were no injuries and
only minor damage reported
to both vehicles.
Officer Joyce Blatt is
continuing her investigation
of a theft report received
from H&R S to p p a rd
Builders, Mount Joy, on Feb.
13 at 9:50 a.m. Blatt’s report
indicates the theft of two
external steel doors from a
home under construction in
the Brookwood Perch
Development. The loss is
estimated at $320.
Officer Shane Becker
investigated a two-vehicle
accident Feb. 11 at 3:23 p.m.
at Rothsville Road and
Keller Mountain. He
reported that Tony D. Ice,
713 Main St., Akron, was
traveling east on Rothsville
Road, when a car driven by
Stanley R. Musser, 11 Picnic
Woods Drive, allegedly
pulled in front of him. The
Ice vehicle sustained
moderate damage, while the
Musser vehicle sustained
light damage. There were
no injuries.
The department received
one dog complaint.
The following motor
vehicle violation citations
were issued: inspection-2;
stop sign-1; license-2;
registration-1; and per­mitting
an unauthorized
person to drive-1.
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Kristina Taylor has been named Outstanding
Young Woman of Pennsylvania by the Penn-sylvnaia
Women of Today.
Kristina and her son, Brian, share a hug in
Kristina’s in-home office.
Taylor honored
at state level
by Kathleen King
A Lititz woman recently
named as the area’s Out­standing
Young Woman by
the Lititz Women of Today
has been selected as the
state recipient of the same
award.
Kristina Lee Taylor, 1375
Furnace Hills Pike, will be
honored at a luncheon given
by the Pennsylvania Women
of Today (successors to the
Pennsylvania Jaycee
Women) on Saturday, March
8, in Grantville.
Linda Zeiders, president of
the Lititz Women of Today,
said this is. the first time a
local nominee has received
the state award.
Taylor said she was
honored by the selection
especially since she feels it
reflects favorably on her
career as a developer of
family day care homes.
“I have a deep feeling that
working with young children
is important,” she said
recently. “A lot of people
put a lot of love and care into
c a rin g for y o u n g e r
children...and it’s important
that that be recognized. ’ ’
West Virginia graduate
Taylor is a graduate of
West Virginia University.
She entered the field of
family resources and con­centrated
in the areas of
social work and child
development.
After her graduation she
returned to school for ad­ditional
credits in business
administration and received
her certification in early
childhood education.
Originally from West
Virginia, Taylor moved to
this area when her husband,
Daniel, was recruited by
Alcoa.
Having taught kin­dergarten
in public school in
West Virginia, Taylor knew
the field of early childhood
education was an area she
enjoyed and wished to
remain with.
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The School/Community
Intervention Program in the
Warwick School District is
coming alive and is well on
its way to setting up an ef­fective
identification and
intervention program for
students with drug and
alcohol problems.
Introduced by Stephen
George, high school
assistant principal, the
program will include the use
of teams made up of
volunteer teachers.
M.J. Rice, coordinator for
the programs in districts
across the county, noted that
the program’s concept is
modeled after employees’
assistance programs and
has been coordinated with
outside help, such as the
Gate House, an alcohol
rehabilitation center in
Lititz.
Team members receive
five days of intensive
training, said George, in­cluding
methods of iden­tify
in g d ru g - r e la te d
behavior, intervention
procedures and types of
treatment.
Peggy Hess, a member of
the first Warwick team, said
that the district would like to
have more teachers in­terested
in participating on
teams and as group
facilitators.
Group facilitators are
expected to complete a two-day
training course to
prepare them to lead support
groups for students with
drug and alcohol problems.
The first support group at
Warwick began Wednesday,
Feb. 19, for a group of five
students who have already
been through a treatment
program.
Led by Deb Henry, an
administrator at Gate
House, the “after-care”
support group will meet for
10 weeks during club
periods.
No student is forced to
participate, George stated.
It is strictly on a volunteer
even members of the
community about students
who have been observed to
have possible drug or alcohol
problems.
“We are not on a witch
hunt,” stressed George. He
added that the intent of the
program is to provide help
for the student, not
punishment.
Board president William
Owens asked if this program
will have any effect on the
established discipline
procedure at Warwick.
John Bonfield, district
superintendent, answered
that there will be some
revision in the procedure on
handling drug and alcohol
problems but that students
will still be held responsible
for their actions.
The new approach will
co n tin u e to en fo rc e
discipline, but the SCIP
program will provide a way
for students to break the
negative behavioral cycle
brought on by drug and
alcohol problems.
New guidance counselor
A physical education
teacher at Warwick High
School has been appointed to
the position of guidance
counselor at the high school.
Mark Snyder, head
football coach at the high
school for 10 years, has been
appointed to replace Ron
Rill, who has accepted the
position of assistant high
school principal at Mc-
Caskey High School.
Snyder is resigning as
head coach to accept the
position of counselor. He
holds a master’s degree
from Millersville University
in school guidance.
Upon making recom­mendation
for board ap­proval
of the appointment at
Tuesday’s school board
meeting, Gary McCartney,
assistant superintendent of
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l i k e s c e n e o u t o f j u n g l e m o v i e
Rescue workers attempt to free a Lancaster man
from his car Tuesday afternoon after he ran into a
bridge abutment on north 501. The man, Fred E.
Leach, 79, died later on the operating table of
internal injuries.
by Kathleen King
It’s not exactly the type of
adventure that would appeal
to everyone.
In fact, even Todd Gard­ner
admits that he was a
little worried on the plane
trip down.
It was to be a three-week
field study course in primate
social behavior in the
jungles of Panama.
The accommodations were
to be primitive, to say the
least.
The camp site was a two-and-
a-half hour journey by
train and boat from Panama
City.
Primitive accommodations
There was no running
water, no electric, no indoor
s h ow e r s ...o r ind o o r
anything, for that matter.
Just tents, mosquito nets,
and a tropical lagoon for a
bathtub.
For a guy who admits to
taking two or three showers
a day and changing clothes
before dinner, it was going to
be an adventure.
Just how much of an ad­venture,
he hadn’t the
faintest inkling.
Snakes, spiders, alligators
Little did he know that a
boa constrictor would make
its bed outside his tent one
night. Or that he would be
bitten by a poisionous spider.
Or that his dugout canoe
would capsize in the middle
of a lake in a sudden tropic
squall and he would nearly
drown.
But in spite of the taran­tulas,
scorpions, snakes,
a llig a to r s and n e a r
drowning, Gardner insists1
he’d do it all again
tomorrow.
The program was spon­sored
by the School for Field
Studies, an independent
educational insitution based
in Cambridge, Mass.
Gardner said he found out
about the program through
his biology class at Franklin
& Marshall College. The trip
was funded by F&M’s
Huffnagel Grant for
scientific research.
One of 15
There were 15 students on
the trip. Although many of
them were from the United
States, the rest came from
all over the world, including
China, Gardner said.
The program, led by Dr.
Dennis Rasmussen of the
University of California at
Davis, was worth three
college credits and included
nightly lectures around the
campfire, a mid-term and
final and a 10-page in­dependent
project.
“We studied the social
behavior of tamarins (a
primate) who had gathered
in this area during the ‘dry’
season,” Gardner explained.
“Others had studied them
in the ‘wet’ season, but no
one had studied them when
their food supply was not as
plentiful,” he added.
Early start
The day started at 5:30
a.m.
“We got up and washed
our face from the canteen
and grabbed something to
eat - a grapefruit, a banana,
a papaya.”
By 6 o’clock at first light
the students would be out on
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the trail in groups of three.
Gardner had been chosen
as a group leader, he said,
after Rasmussen observed
who was best at orienting
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Todd Gardner takes a break during a morning
hike along Gatun Lake in the jungles of Panama.
Gardner was one of 15 international students on a
three-week field study of the tamarin monkey.