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It was an early Thanksgiving celebration
for some specially chosen turkeys in Penryn,
courtesy of the Women’s Auxiliary to the
Penryn Fire Company.
The auxiliary held its annual dinner Nov.
11, with the complete fixings of the feast —
turkey, potatoes, the works. More than 450
people passed through the doors of the hall to
sit down and eat, or to take their dinners out.
Dinners have been served “I think forever,”
said Dorothy Galebach of the Auxiliary. “At
least since they built the fire hall in 1950.”
Over the years, enough people have heard
about the turkey supper, which occurs the sec­ond
Saturday in November each year, that the
potato salad ran out. “We began at 3 p.m., and
sold out at 6 (p.m.), Galebach said. The turn­out,
she said, was “about average” for the
event.
Above, local residents (clockwise from
left) Alan D. Hershey, Pamela Hershey,
Monie Shelly, Ruth Wolfe, volunteer John
Sides (with turkey platter), Michael Shelly,
Jen Hershey, Heather Hershey, and Donna
Leed, with potato filling, get together for
some hearty food. At left, Mabel Kissinger, of
Penryn, serves up some mouthwatering fare at
the annual dinner.
Federal Mogul workers strike
for the first time at Lititz plant
For the first time since the
Federal Mogul plant opened
in Lititz, members of United
Steelworkers of America
Local 1035 have voted to go
on strike.
The W. Lincoln Ave.
plant, which opened for
operation in 1986, had pick­et
lines at its gates Sunday,
after talks broke down Nov.
17 and union members voted
Nov. 18 to strike. They
rejected proposals both to
renew their old contract and
to accept the company’s new
offer. The picketers were
still present early this week,
w ith no p u b l i c a l ly
announced schedule of talks
in sight.
Phil Herman, Federal
Mogul local manager, and
John Haser, a union rep­resentative,
were not avail­able
Monday afternoon for
comment, but according to
earlier reports, the dispute
has arisen over wages, insur­ance,
and pension plans.
The proposed three-year
pact rejected by union mem­bers
included annual salary
raises of 45,40, and 40 cents
over the life of the contract.
That offer was 25 cents
I f Photo by Bruce Morgan
Striking Federal Mogul workers, members of United Steelworkers ot America
Local 1035, walked the picket line at the front and side gates of the Lititz plant Mon­day
morning after voting Saturday to strike. More than 400 workers are taking part in
the walkout at the Lititz and Lancaster plants.
under what workers had $i, and 50 cents per month
employed over the three-year
contract.
requested for the contract’s
first year, and 20 cents off
what had been requested for
each of the following two
years.
In addition, the union had
asked for annual pension
payment increases of $2 per
month for each year worked,
while Federal Mogul had
proposed increases of $1,
When the firm opened the
Lititz plant on W. Lincoln
Ave., it was hailed as an
example of teamwork and
automation, with teams of
employees being responsi­ble
for producing the bear­ings
from beginning to end.
The union signed a three-year
contract with Federal
Mogul, which expired at
noon Sunday. Picket lines
arrived on die scene soon
afterward, and remained on
site Monday, when the plant
re-opened for operation.
Strikers were present at
two entrance gates Monday
morning, carrying signs.
Funds sought for expansion
by Ambulance Association
By Dave Knauss
Record Express
Managing Editor
The Warwick Communi­ty
. Ambulance Association
wants to enlarge its building
at Water Street and North
Lane and it needs your help.
Financial help, that is.
The association, which
answered 1,200 calls in
1988, plans to add a wing
containing a third garage, an
office and storage space. At
the same time, it will retrofit
the facility to improve quar­ters
for emergency workers
and to meet all state Depart­ment
of Labor and Industry
standards as well as Lititz
Borough codes and fire safe­ty
codes.
All this has a price tag of
$176,900, the low bid from
Caldwell, Heckles & Egan,
Inc. of Lancaster. Since the
organization already has
$80,000 in its building fund
account, it will borrow
$95,000 from a financial
institution to cover the
balance.
But secretary-treasurer
Don Coble and Tim Koenig,
Former pharmacist
dies after accident
Benefit features local firm’s pottery
Glenn H. “Mac’
roy, 80, of 426 S.
McEl-
I muon
St., died Nov. 17 at ( cnci.d
Hospital less than iw o
weeks after he was st: in t. h>
a car in Lititz.
McElroy has been .s
patient at Lancaster Geneiai
since Nov. 4, when ii, 'u a
struck by a car i iln
intersection of East M.ue.
and Cedar streets.
He was the husb.ni I oi
Mildred Schultz Mu-In",.
The couple celebrate,! iheir
54th wedding anniversary
Sept. 24.
Bom in Wrightsville, he
was a son of the late Samuel
J. “Jess” and Ella Mae
Hinkle McElroy. He owned
and operated the McElroy
Pharmacy in Lititz from
1940 until his retirement in
1976.
A 1927 graduate of the
Temple University School
of Pharmacy, he served on
the Board of Elders of Lititz
Moravian Church. He also
served as a past president of
Lititz Rotary, and was a
member of Manheim Lodge
The Lititz-Belgium con­nection
is going strong,
thanks to Randolph Arts of
Lititz. But prospective buy­ers
of the artistic pottery
need not hop the next plane
to Europe— or Los Angeles
or Dallas, for that matter.
The work of the local
firm, operated by partners
Deborah Hahn-Randolph
and Isabel W. Lark, will be
featured this weekend at
Lancaster’s Willcox Gallery
in a benefit for the Lancaster
Shelter for Abused Women.
In addition to the regular
items offered by Randolph
Arts, the company will pre­miere
a new line of “Ancient
Jade” pottery, “a whole new
segment that looks like it’s
been pulled off the ocean
floor,” Randolph said.
Recently, Lark received
the 1989 Service to Mankind
Award from LaSertoma for
her work with the shelter, an
involvement which trig­gered
Randolph Arts’ parti­cipation
in the Dec. 1-3 ben­efit.
“She (Isabel) has been
very instrumental with the
shelter for many years, serv­ing
in many different capaci­ties,”
Randolph said.
Another factor influenc­ing
their decision to take
part, she said, was a desire to
“tie in with a benefit, espe­cially
at Christmas,” and to
re-establish local recogni­tion
“because we’ve been
focused so hard on interna­tional
and national whole­sale.”
The benefit show, “Illu­minated
Porcelains and
Decorative Vases,” will
begin at the Willcox Gallery,
117 E. Chestnut St., with a
reception Dec. 1 from 6 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m, and will con­tinue
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 2
and noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 3.
Their new line of
“Ancient Jade” pottery,
which has been featured in
advertising campaigns, is
divided into two main sec­tions:
“Shadow lamps,” a
concept and phrase coined
by Randolph, and a series of
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chairman of the major pro­jects
committee for Lititz
AMBUCS (American Busi­ness
Club of Lititz), the
founder and sponsor of the
Ambulance Association,
want to retire that debt as
soon as possible.
That’s where you come
in.
The association recently
sent out letters to 5,500
homes and businesses ask­ing
for donations for the pro­ject.
Support from the com­munity
has been excellent in
the past, say Coble and Koe­nig,
and they know they
won’t be disappointed this
time around.
Through the letter —
which is not a subscription
notice — they are asking for
a special donation for this
project. “We are asking peo­ple
to give whatever they can
afford,” Koenig says.
The money will be put to
good use, he assures.
An important feature of
the addition will be a busi­ness
office, which is now in
Coble’s home. Also in the
new wing will be extra stor­age
space for equipment.
What may prove to be the
greatest advantage of the
addition is room for a third
ambulance, if needed. Coble
and Koenig say that is a
strong possibility.
The Warwick Ambulance
Association started with one
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Glenn H. McElroy
587 of the F ree and
Accepted Masons, York
Rite and Scottish Rite, and
the Harrisburg Shrine.
He was a member of the
Lancaster County Pharma­ceutical
Society, the Lititz
Independent Order of Odd
Fellows Lodge 1050, the
Rockford Foundation and
the historical societies of
Lancaster, Lebanon and
York.
He was a charter member
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C o o k s sh a re se c re ts for library
B y Jennifer Kopf
Record Express News Editor
Some people say too many
cooks spoil the broth.
Not staff members at
Lititz Public Library. For
them, the more cooks, the
better.
The staff and friends of
the library collected recipes
and put together “Home
Cookin’ is a Family Affair,”
a fund-raising cookbook that
not only passes out family
recipe secrets, but is also a
store of helpful hints for
cooking, cleaning, and
entertaining. The first print­ing
of 200 books went like
wildfire, said Library Direc­tor
Donna Hammond, so the
book went into a second
printing and has just arrived
at the library.
“A lot of the community
got involved with this pro­ject,”
Hammond said, “and
it’s been a lot of fun for us.”
It barely took three weeks
last spring, she said, for the
library staff to bring in more
than 200 recipes for inclu­sion
in the fund-raising
book. “We have about 30
volunteers and student hel­pers,”
she said, “and they
took the recipe forms home,
and asked friends too, and it
didn’t take long. They were
very willing to help, and we
really got a wide variety (of
recipes).”
Working through a
Kansas-based company that
specializes in creating cook­books
for fundraising, the
library was able to pick out a
cover design, styles for the
inside pages, and what
“extras” they wanted, like
stain-removal charts, herb
guides, microwave instruc­tions,
and a special page list­ing
how much food is
needed to feed groups of
100.
In the 80-plus pages of
recipes and hints, some fam­ily
treasures are revealed.
Some, like “Jan’s salad
dressing,” “Charlie’s din­ner,”
“Ross’ barbeque
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NORTH POLE - The
Record Express learned
this week that Santa
Claus has contacted the
Lititz Fire Co. and
requested transportation
to his castle in Lititz this
Saturday, Nov. 25.
According to reports,
Santa will ride around the
streets ofLititz on the fire
truck beginning at 9 a.m.
so that he can wave to all
his friends. Following his
tour ofLititz, Santa will
arrive at his casdc at 11
a.m. The castle is located
on Sturgis Lane, just off
Main Street.
Once Santa arrives at
his castle, he will be dis­tributing
a Santa coloring
picture to all his visitors.
After coloring the pic­ture,
boys and girls may
return them to the castle
and be eligible for a ran­dom
drawing for a bicy­cle
to be given away Dec.
22. There will be one boy
winner and one girl win­ner
selected and all
youngsters up to 10 years
of age are eligible.
Santa’s castle hours
will be this Saturday from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
every Friday from 5 to 8
p.m. and every Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
throughout the holiday
season.
Zoo comes to the school Christmas activities in the spotlight
Students at St. Paul’s
Christian Child Care Cen­ter
recently had a close
encounter with the animal
kingdom. A naturalist from
Zoo America in Hershey
brought a snake, a baby
alligator and other crea­tures
to the school. And it
was a nice hands-on
experience for the young­sters
who got to touch and
feel. Read more on page
22.
ba r
Christmas events are
coming on strong now and
three area events are
scheduled early in the
Yuletide season. Begin­ning
Friday and lasting
until Dec. 31, Mount Hope
Estates offers its annual
Dickens Christmas. The
first weekend in Decem­ber,
a bed and breakfast
tour, The Twelve Inns of
Ch r i s tma s , wh i c h
includes five local inns.
Each inn will have a diffe­rent
theme and be identi­fied
by one of the items in
the Christmas song, “The
Twelve Days of Christ­mas.
"And on Nov. 30 and
Dec. 1 and 2, Landis Val­ley
Museum offers Days
of the Belsnickel, which
will include a holiday lunc­heon
and a tour of three
historic buildings. Read
more on page 5.
Warriors’ offense steals -.tog
The Warwick foot­ball
team concluded
this season with a .500
record, winning three of
their last four games
and gaining respect in
th e L a n c a s t e r-
Lebanon League.
Offense was the best
part of their game, and
the Warriors ranked
among the league
leaders in individual
and team statistics.
Read more about the
Warriors on page 6.
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