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T r a d i t i o n a l H o l y W e e k
O b s e r v a n c e s P l a n n e d
B y L i t i t z A r e a C h u r c h e s
The solemn services
climaxing Holy Week will
begin in Lititz area churches
with Maundy Thursday
communion services tonight
(Thursday) and continuing
with the Annual Community
Good Friday Service, which
will be held this year at St.
Paul Lutheran Church,
Lititz, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30
p.m. under the sponsorship
of the Warwick Association
of Churches.
T h e s e m e a n in g f u l
ceremonies, observed in
C h r i s t i a n c h u r c h e s
throughout the world at the
end of the 40-day Lenten
period, herald the joyous
Easter celebrations that
begin for many during vigil
services on Easter Eve, for
others in daybreak services
on Easter morn and
throughout Easter Day.
The guest preacher for this
year’s Community Good
Friday Service will be the
Rev. Carl J. Frederick, who
is senior pastor at Redeemer
L u t h e r a n C h u r c h ,
Lancaster. He and his wife,
the former Kathleen Hess of
Lititz, were both former
members of St. Paul
Lutheran Church. They and
their three children now
reside in Lancaster.
Rev. Frederick was
graduated from Franklin
and Marshall College in 1953
and from Gettsburg
Theological Seminary in
1956. He served two years as
pastor at St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Hagerstown, Md.
and served as pastor of
Trinity Lutheran Church,
Harrisburg, until 1964.
Special music for the
service will be presented
again this year by the
Warwick High School Glee
Club under the direction of
Mrs. June Lantz. The Choir
will sing, “Sanctus,” by
Schubert, “The Glory of the
Father” by Hovland, “The
Lord’s Supper” by Lapin and
“The Blessing of Aaron” by
Ramsey.
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Rev. Carl J. Frederick
The service will be in two
parts, thus giving wor­shippers
opportunity to enter
and leave at approximately
12:50 p.m. The Rev. Mr.
Frederick’s first meditation
will be: “Sharing WithChrist
- His Kingdom and Power” ;
his second,“Sharing With
Christ - His Defeat and His
Victory.”
Area ministers and lay
persons participating in the
service this year include
Dale Wenzelburger, Donald
Crews, James G. Shannon,
Dwight Mikesell, Frances
Huetter, Russell Pettyjohn,
James C. Mohn and Robert
Hoover.
The Warwick Association
of Churches, whose Worship
Committee planned the
service, invites and en­courages
all members of our
wider Christian community
to attend the Good Friday
Service.
The traditional Holy Week
services at Lititz Moravian
Church, of much historical
interest in this area, will
reach a high point at the
Crucifixion Service on Good
Friday at 2:15 p.m. This
service will reach its climax
at 3 p.m., when the church
bell will toll 33 times while
the congregation joins in a
period of silent prayer.
On Saturday, the
Funeral Services Are Today For
Charles Sweitzer, Boro Inspector
Funeral services will be
held today (Thursday) for
Charles E. Sweitzer, Sr., 38
Center St., inspector for the
borough of Lititz for the past
18 years, who died Monday
at 3:40 a.m. at Lancaster
Osteopathic Hospital.
Sweitzer was 58. He had
been under the care of a
physician for a number of
years after several severe
heart attacks, but had been
at his job as inspector the
Friday preceding his death.
He was the husband of E.
Lorraine Fry Sweitzer, and
resided in Lititz for the past
40 years. He was a member
of Lititz Moravian Church
and Lititz Fire Company.
Sweitzer started working
for the borough July 21, 1959
as a maintenance man in the
works department, doing
inspections from the start,
and worked his way up to the
official title of borough
inspector.
He was highly respected,
by his peers in the street
department, by members of
N O T I C E
The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The April
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, April
13 at 7:30 P.M. at the
General Sutter Inn.
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend this special
meeting.
Boro Council and other local
officials, and by contractors
who worked in the borough.
Since he was on the job
during much of the
expansion of the borough, he
had an excellent knowledge
of all the water and sewer
lines, and storm drainage
installed in Lititz. He not
only was noted for the
complete records he kept,
including diagrams and
plans of everything that went
into the streets, but also for
the vast amount of
knowledge about the
borough that he kept in his
memory.
He could pinpoint the
location of every joint of a
water line on any system
installed when he was
inspector.
He was considered the
“eyes and ears” of the
zoning officer in matters
concerning building permits.
He frequently drove around
town in a small green truck,
checking out things he saw
that appeared to be in
violation of the town’s zoning
ordinances.
His fellow workers said of
him that Sweiker had only
one standard, and that was
to do the job right. He is
considered the person
responsible for the borough’s
streets being put back in
good shape after they were
dug up for installations or
repairs - Sweitzer “stood
there and made sure,” a
former co-worker said. “He
knew what went
underground and th a t’s
important.”
Sweitzer worked under
four borough managers
during his employment,
including the present
manager, David Anderson,
and George Steedle, who
preceded Anderson. Both
considered him a highly
valuable, cooperative, and
much respected person. The
borough is so much better off
just because of the interest
he took in making sure a job
was done right, they said of
him.
Sweitzer was the principle
inspector for some of the
town’s largest residential
developments, including
Sutter Village, Libramont,
and the Balmer
development.
He was the main inspector
in charge of reconstruction
of North Broad Street from
the Square to the north end of
town in 1964, a project that
included the planting of
numerous maple trees there.
He also was the primary
inspector on East Main
Street when the D & E
telephone company dug up
the street several years ago
to put in underground
conduits, making sure the
job was done properly.
He was on the job as
inspector when the 12-inch
water main was installed
connecting the new wells on
Locust Street to the Maple
Street pumping station.
He also was inspector for
all the water, sewer and
storm drainage lines that
were installed in the Kissel
Hill School area, as well as
for the sewer lines that were
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Moravian’s Great Sabbath
Lovefeast will be held at 4
p.m. Visitors are welcome to
attend this service, and all
other services at the
historical church.
Following a custom of 219
years, residents of Lititz will
be awakened Easter
morning between 3 and 5
O’clock by a brass choir from
the Moravian Church
heralding the ressurrection.
The choir will gather for a
choral at 3 a.m. on Church
Square, and then divide into
groups and proceed on foot
through town, inviting
people to the Moravian
sunrise service. This service
will begin at 5:15 a.m. in the
sanctuary and continue on
God’s Acre. Communion will
follow this at 6:15 a.m. in the
church.
Sunrise services will be
held Easter morn at many
other churches in the area,
one of the most historical
being the Easter Dawn
Service at Old Zion Church,
Brickerville, when St. Luke’s
United Church of Christ will
celebrate at 5 a m. This
service will take place in the
cemetery, facing the rising
sun, following an annual
tradition of more than 25
years.
The Holy Week liturgy at
St. James Catholic Church
will begin Thursday evening
(tonight) with the traditonal
ceremony of the washing of
the feet.
Good Friday services will
be held at 7 p.m. at St. James
and the Easter Vigil Mass
will be held at 7 p.m.
Saturday, with the
traditional lighting of the
new fire and the blessing of
the water.
S p e c ia l com m union
services, musical programs,
and fellowship breakfasts
are planned throughout
Easter weekend at the
numerous churches in the
area. Details of these
services can be found on the
church pages in this edition.
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This scene is one the congregation
will see when they attend Easter
services at the First Church of God,
33 E. Center St. The tomb in the
background was created several
years ago by the young people of the
church. Said the Rev. Paul Kocher,
pastor of the church, the tomb is
made of burlap stuffed with
newspapers - “probably the Lititz
Record” - and held in place with
wire. The rustic cross in the
foreground was made by Bruce Barr,
a member of the congregation. He
used the trunk of the Christmas tree
which had stood at the front of the
church at Christmas. The Christmas
tree itself was significant in that it
h|d actually been the top of a huge
half-century-old tree cut down in
December by Bob McAlpin, another
church member.
Six To Be Interviewed Next Week
For School Superintendent
Warwick School Board will
be interviewing six
applicants for the job of
superintendent of schools on
April 15 and 16, Director
Wallace Hofferth, chairman
of the Board’s selection
committee, said this week.
The six were chosen by the
Board from approximately
50 applicants for the job now
held by Dr. H. Dale Winger,
whose unrenewed contract
with the district expires June
30.
The applications were
categorized and turned over
to the Board by Dr. Lloyd
Ruoss, executive director of
Intermediate Unit 13, who
conducts a free service for
school boards in his unit
New Antique
Shop To
Open In Lititz
A new antique shop, The
Cucumber Pump, will be
opening in Lititz early in
May, under the ownership of
Mr. and Mrs. Francis B.
Ebersole, 233 Front St.
The shop will be located in
the basement at the rear of
the building at 69 E. Main
St., and will c a rry
primitives, furniture, china,
glassware, etc.
The Ebersoles have been
antique dealers for a number
of years at Hummers An­tique
Mall, on Route 222
north of Ephrata.
Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board granted the couple
sp ec ia l au th o riz atio n
Monday night to erect two
wooden unlighted signs,
painted shades of antique
green. One will be a two
square foot sign mounted on
a post at the entrance to the
shop, and one a 4 x 2M: foot
sign mounted on the side of
the building.
faced with hiring a new
superintendent.
Hofferth said that after the
six persons are interviewed,
the list will be narrowed
down to from one to three
persons for a second more
extended interview. He said
Board members would also
be visiting the home
territories of the “finalists”
to get more input.
Originally, the selections
committee had been set up
with the idea of including
some non-Board members
from the community and
school district staff.
However, Hofferth said he
does not plan to add any
more to the committee, since
the entire School Board is
now involved in the
selections process.
He said that his committee
had already requested input
from the community and the
teaching staff on what
qualifications they wanted in
a new superintendent, and
that he had had about 75
replies to his requests,
“most constructive and
rather repetitive,” he added.
“ The actual selection
should be made by the
Board,” he said.
He said that after the new
superintendent is chosen, he
intends to respond
personally to everyone who
offered input to the
committee.
“ I ’m pleased with the
response from the
committee and the
professional staff, and with
Dr. Ruoss’ efforts,” Hofferth
told the Record this week.
“We are fortunate to have
had him (Ruoss)” he said,
commenting that the IU-13
director has the strong
advantage of knowing the
various school districts and
knowing his counterparts in
other intermediate units,
through whom he could gain
objective and impartial
comments on potential
applicants.
Hofferth said his
committee is aiming for mid-
May for a final selection.
Asked what salary the
district will offer the new
superintendent, he said that
none has been set yet, but the
district would probably offer
“whatever is necessary to
get what we want.”
From the input his
committee received from the
community and teaching
staff on what they want in a
new s u p e r in te n d e n t,
Hofferth made this
summary:
—Professional qualificat­ions:
as equal number of
persons said that a doctorate
degree was a “must” as said
it was desirable but not
essential. Most said the new
superintendent should be
professional competent in
school law, finance,
b u s i n e s s , c o n t r a c t
negotiations, curriculum
c o o r d i n a t i o n a n d
development
Most said he should have
p r o v e n e d u c a t i o n a l
leadership; i.e. should have
been a superintendent or
held a position of
comparable authority.
Many wanted someone
with successful experience
as a classroom teacher,
principal, and chief school
administrator.
“In short, they want a
proven track record,”
Hofferth said.
—Personal qualifications:
the citizenry requested
dedication to the job, skill in
public relations, and
adeptness at handling
personnel problems.
They emphasized that the
su p e rin ten d en t should
establish effective two-way
communications, be open-minded,
and seek out and
respect the opinions of the
staff, students, and
community.
They asked for an
imaginative, creative and
innovative candidate, one
who works well with others,
has a genuine interest in
people, and who will
delegate responsibility.
Teachers Ratify
Average 7.5%
Salary Increase
Warwick school teachers
have ratified a bargaining
agreement on salaries for
next school year that
provides an average $935
increase, representing a 7.5
percent increase over
present salaries.
The tentative agreement
also included a new salary
compensation concept, an
incentive increment of $100
added to the masters salary
level at steps 10 through 14,
designed to encourage
teachers with masters
degrees to “go back to
school” for more credits
after they have been
teaching a number of years.
Under the concept, if a
teacher earns three credits
in any four year interval,
while he or she is at steps 10
through 14 on the salary
scale, that teacher’s salary
will be increased an ad­ditional
$100 above the
regular masters step.
The tentative agreement
was reached March 29, after
four bargaining sessions
held since January, and was
ratified by Warwick
Education Association
members on Monday.
The School Board will
consider ratification at its
regular meeting on April 19.
Five votes are necessary for
ratification by the Board.
The tentative agreement
will cost the school district
approximately $170,000 for.
teachers salaries.
It increases the beginning
teacher salary at the
bachelors level from $8,625
to $9,100, and the bachelors
maximum from $14,575 to
$15,150.
The current three-year
co llec tiv e b argaining
agreement provides a wage
reopener for the 1977-78 and
the 1978-79 school years. It is
under this provision of the
agreement that negotiations
have been taking place in the
school district.
EHzahetli Township Supervisors
Hearing Date Set
For Poplar Grove
Road Situation
The date for the public
hearing to discuss the road
situation in Poplar Grove
has been changed from April
13 to Wednesday, April 20, at
7 p.m. in the Brickerville
Fire Hall.
The change is due to the
township solicitor being
unable to attend the April 13
meeting. The discussion will
involve the controversial
issue of whether or not the
roads in Poplar Grove should
be made public.
No final decision will be
made at the hearing. All
residents of Elizabeth
Township are urged to at­tend
so that a definate idea is
given of the township
residents’ interests in the
matter.
The road issue was
discussed many years ago in
the township, after the
community of Poplar Grove
was originally started as a
vacation and summer resort.
Homes there later became
y e a r - ro u n d , le a v in g
residents with many
questions about road
ownership.
The situation was most
recently brought up again
when former township
supervisor Carl Stohler and
residents of Poplar Grove
brought the issue before the
supervisors again.
While most of the residents
of the community of Poplar
Grove have asked that the
township take over the
maintenance of the roads,
many other township
residents have argued that
they do not wish the township
to be responsible for private
roads, thus increasing their
taxes.
Due to the controversial
nature of the situation, the
supervisors have asked that
as many as possible of the
township residents attend in
order to give them an idea of
what the majority of
E l i z a b e th T ow n sh ip
residents want.
Gehman Resigns
David Gehman, sanitation
officer, announced his
resignation due to his busy
schedule. He said that he
would no longer have
enough time for the township
job, but that he would try to
find persons who might be
interested in the job.
Gehman also added that he
would stay on until a new
officer was chosen, finishing
all present work as
sanitation officer.
Zimmerman Development
Paul Zimmerman, who
has proposed a development
in the Brubaker Valley,
requested an official letter
from the township stating
their decision on further
tests for his lots, according
to Gehman, who said that
Zimmerman had called the
township building earlier.
The supervisors discussed
the matter and Luther Ober
said that he would write a
letter to Zimmerman asking
that more tests be performed
since the D.E.R. has
recommended the tests.
Bids
Sealed bids were opened at
8 p.m. for stone and oil
needed for township road
maintenance. The super­visors
said that they would
notify the bidders after they
had made their decision.
Exoneration
Susan Miley and her
daughter, Irene, were given
per capita tax exonerations
at the request of tax collector
Janet Steffy. Susan Miley
was exonerated per­manently,
and Irene was
exonerated on a yearly
basis.
Rec Center
A letter from Phil Bailey,
president of the Lititz
Recreation Center, was
read. The letter requested
that the township contribute
to the Rec Center funding,
as the Boro and Warwick
Townships were.
Bailey requested that
Elizabeth Township con­tribute
$403.82, which is half
of the total amount
requested on a yearly basis
($807.64). Bailey also said
that 10 percent of all
membership to the Rec
Center is from residents of
Elizabeth Township and that
the township “ has an
obligation to participate”.
The supervisors decided
that before a decision is
made they would like to find
out more about the Rec
Center’s funding, and about
the interests of township
persons involved in the Rec
Center program.
I n T h is Issue
Business Directory 16
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page . 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 10,11