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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages-No. 31 Warwick Band Wins State Championship Title
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Hundreds jammed the Midddle School parking
lot at 2 a.m. Sunday to greet the triumphant
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Warwick High School Band, upon their return as
state champions from Hershey competition.
Make way for champions bearing trophies. A
path clears through the welcoming crowd for Drum
Major Beth Rohrer with championship trophy from
state competition. Behind Beth is band president,
Jeff Stark, holding aloft a second trophy won
Saturday night. (Photos by Art Myers)
By Peggy Frailey
Lititz borough officials
aren’t very optimistic about
finding a cheaper alter­native
to building a new $13
million sewage treatment
plant, but they’re giving it
the Eleventh Hour try.
The alternative they’re
looking at is hooking up to
the Lancaster Area Sewer
Authority operation (LASA),
which services communities
in the western part of the
county. Lititz (and Warwick
Township) would become a
customer of LASA.
This latest development
was announced Monday
night at a special meeting
called by Boro Council and
attended by about 30 persons
from both borough and
township sewer authorities
and governing bodies, their
engineers and attorneys,
bond council, and LASA
members.
Tying in with LASA would
mean laying approximately
$3 million worth of sewer
pipelines to connect with the
LASA system. But Huth
Engineers, which drew up a
fast preliminary plan for the
borough, said Monday night
that the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
does, in fact, allow its grants
to be used for connecting and
conveyance lines as well as
for new treatment plants.
Huth Engineers said that
industrial recovery is also
allowed on new lines and
pumping stations.
EPA h a s a lr e a d y
authorized a $9.7 million
grant for construction of a
sophisticated new sewer
treatment plant for Lititz
and Warwick Township,
which is scheduled to be built
next to the present plant.
Bids have been accepted, but
were “frozen” until Dec. 1
because they were os
unexpectedly high.
Meeting with EPA
Even as the Record Ex­press
went to press Wed­nesday
(Nov. 7), borough
officials were meeting in
Harrisburg with EPA people
to find out if the EPA will
agree to a $3.7 million grant
so the borough can tie in with
LASA. Although it would
cost the federal government
less money, it is a change in
concept - thus the un­certainty
over EPA reaction
to it.
Engineers pointed out that
EPA just might permit the
changeover, since it would
save the federal government
about $6 million in grant
money; i.e. the federal
government would only have
to subsidize $3 million worth
of sewer pipe, etc. if it ap­proved
a hookup with LASA,
whereas it would have to
spend $9.7 million to sub­sidize
a new treatment plant
here.
Some at Monday night’s
meeting commented that the
financial logic of this would
make it unacceptable to
EPA.
However, several years
ago former Warwick School
District superintendent,
Dale Wenger, was able to
convince the state that it
would be cheaper (and thus
to the state’s financial
benefit) to subsidize the
r e n o v a tio n of L ititz
Elementary School at the
same rates as new con­struction
(a no-no until then)
rather than to subsidize
construction of a whole new
schoolhouse. Thus, the
government mind can be
penetrated on occasion.
Time Running Out
Time is the borough’s
biggest enemy at this point.
Lititz is scheduled to sign a
bond issue Friday evening,
although the bonding
company has agreed to wait
until Monday to fill in the
details if EPA approves a
changeover.
But in the meantime,
LASA must get its board
together (and two are out of
town) to set a rate for ser­vice
to the borough.
LASA now charges bulk
customers (like an industry)
72 cents per 1,000 gallons for
conveyance and treatment.
Warwick Township’s
engineer, Larry Zim­merman
from Glace &
Glace, said Monday night
that the new concept would
cost Warwick Township
about $200,000 more than
hooking up to a new plant at
Lititz.
It will mean no cost dif­ference
to Lititz, he said,
“but Warwick Township
would have to turn this
down.” He said that for the
township to break even, the
rates would have to be
lowered to 48 cents per 1.000
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Rates Neogtiable
Asked if the rates are
negotiable, a representative
from LASA told Council,
“Everything is negotiable.”
He said LASA would have to
look at the complete picture
and how the increased flow
would affect the amor­tization
of LASA’s debts.
The LASA rep said that
LASA wants Lititz as a
customer, because it is only
using about a quarter of the
plant’s capacity. He in­dicated
that the LASA board
would try to get together this
week and find a way to lower
the rate for the borough.
Lititz would become LASA’s
biggest single customer.
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In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Social 12,13
Church News 24
Business Directory 26
Classified 17,18.19
Hundreds Of Fans Greet Returning
Band At 2 A.M. Victory Party
By Peggy Frailey
They went after it and they
got it. And they returned
home in triumph, state
champions, greeted' in the
wee hours of the morning by
the cheers of hundreds of
waiting fans.
There never was any real
doubt that the Warwick High
School Band would win the
Cavalcade of Bands com­petition
(commonly known
as “the states”). They came
so close to winning the
nationals two weeks ago
(second place), and there
isn’t a band in Lancaster
County that can touch them.
But Band Director Dale
Weller d o esn’t lea v e
anything to chance and as a
result, “the kids probably
did a little better than at
nationals,” he said.
“I expected to win.” he
said.
“Having a winning at­titude,
and conveying this to
the band, is important. I was
thrilled to win, because it’s
something we’ve been
working for,” he said.
Weller has had his own
share of winning in his life.
He wanted this one for the
kids, “so they have the
feeling of being Number
One.”
He let them know his own
feelings in a unique sway.
Before the competition, he
gave each band member a
folded paper with orders not
to open it until after the
judges’ decisions were
announced.
The paper was to tell the
kids how he felt “no matter
what would happen. ’ ’
It was like a chain reaction
as the kids grabbed their
papers and read them after
being named state cham­pions
late Saturday night.
“It took them a couple of
seconds to realize what had
happened,” Weller said.
What Weller had written
on the paper was. a quotation
from Alan Seeger: ‘ ‘Whether
I am on the winning or losing
side is not the point with me;
it is being on the side where
my sympathies lie that
matters, and I am ready to
see it through to the end.
Success in life means doing
that thing which nothing else
conceivable seems more
noble or satisfying or
remunerative, and this
enviable state I can truly say
that I enjoy, for had I the
choice I would be nowhere
else in the world than where
I am.”
Weller added a postscript
of his own that said, in effect,
that whatever happened, he
was happy to be right where
he was.
Where they all were, in
fact, was at the top of the
mountain, with high score of
the eight bands competing in
the Liberty Conference.
They brought home three
trophies: the championship
trophy for taking first place,
a traveling trophy for the
best overall performance,
and a trophy for the best
general effect music and
(Turn to Page 14) Korean Child Becomes
An American Citizen
Merchants Solicited In
Apparent Fraud Scheme
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Map shows route of Lititz’ proposed sewer hookup with LASA, in­tercepting
the sewer lines at Charlestown Pumping Station and Swarr Run and
dumping into the Little Conestoga Creek. Lines would run down the Fruitville
Pike. (Record Express Photo)
The Lititz Police Depart­ment
has issued a warning to
area merchants that an
apparent fraud is being
attempted in the guise of
phone solicitation for a law
enforcement-sponsored
magazine.
Officer Leroy Emmerich
said he has received at least
half a dozen complaints from
Lititz merchants this week
about phone calls from
alleged agents of the Lan­caster
County Detectives
Association, the Law En­fo
r c em e n t O ffic e r s
A s s o c ia t io n and the
Uniformed Police Officers
Association.
The merchants said they
have been receiving calls
from a man asking them to
purchase advertising for a
“ magazine or sa fe ty
program.” They said he had
refused to give an address
before being certain that a
check would be sent, and
when asked to pick up the
m o n e y , he b e c am e
“abusive.”
Officer Emmerich, a
member of the County
Detectives Association, said
he was informed by that
organization’s president,
County Detective Charles
S im m o n s, th a t the
association is not soliciting
for anything at this time.
Emmerich said he is
certain the the Law En­fo
r c em en t O ffic e r s
Association, a sta te
organization, is not soliciting
in this area because they
have been told not to do so at
any time.
Emmerich also added that
he has never even heard of
the Uniformed Police Of­ficers
Association.
The Lititz Police Depart­ment
warns merchants, as
well as anyone else solicited
by phone, not to send checks
unless you are personally
acquainted with the
soliciting organization and
know the request is
legitimate.
Anyone contacted by a
phone solicitor claiming to
be an agent of a law en­forcement
group is asked to
call the Lancaster County
Detective’s office or the
Lititz Police Department.
By Jennifer Shenk
Monica Louise Shenk is an
American.
The five-year old Korean
born daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Shenk, Lititz R2,
was one of 18 Lancaster
countains to become
naturalized U.S. citizens in a
ceremony at the county
courthouse on Friday.
Monica was adopted by the
Shenks through the Holt
Adoption Agency in Oregon,
a foreign children adoption
agency, when she was 5%
months old.
She lives on a farm in
Lititz with her two brothers
and three sisters. The
Shenks have two sons of
their own, Glenn, 16, and
Jeff, 14, and three adopted
daughters besides Monica.
Lisa, 7, was adopted first
through the Lancaster
Family and Children’s
Services, at the age of six
weeks. The Shenks adopted
Monica next; and 3% years
ago they adopted two
Vietnamese children
Melanie, who is now 11, and
Daphne, who is 10.
According to Mrs. Shenk,
Monica’s two Vietnamese
sisters will have to wait at
least another year to become
naturalized U.S. citizens.
But all three sisters went
along to witness Monica’s
naturalization and attend the
luncheon that followed the
ceremony in the Brunswick
Motor Inn.
Monica, who attends
nursery school in Penryn,
looks forward to starting
Kindergarten next year.
Before the ceremony on
Friday, Mrs. Shenk ex­plained
to her five-year old
daughter that she was going
to become an American
citizen.
Monica asked, “Will my
eyes become American
then?” _____ __
“There are all different
kinds of Americans - black,
white, Vietnamese,” her
mother explained. “And I
wouldn’t trade your eyes for
anything.”
Monica Louise Shenk, 5, shown wltn ner motner
Mrs. Glenn Shenk, is a United States citizen after
attending naturalization ceremonies at the Lan­caster
County Courthouse Friday.