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Threading up one of these large knitting machines at Travis Mills Inc. is a complicated process demanding
considerable experience along with a keen eye and a steady hand. Once a machine is started, it must run 24
hours a day until the roll is completed.
Popular New Fabrics Made
By Travis Mills, Inc.
When you buy a garment
made of the popular new
terry cloth or some types of
lingerie, athletic wear of
nylon mesh, nurse or
waitress uniforms, the
fabric very possibly was
made in Lititz by Travis
Mills, Inc., subsidiary of
FAB Industries, Inc.
For almost 30 years Travis
Mills has been contributing
to the dynamic mix of in­dustry,
agriculture and
suburbia that comprises the
Lititz area. And since its
acquisition by FAB In­dustries,
Inc., in September
of 1979, Travis Mills is an­ticipating
another step
forward in its operation.
The company has started
in Philadelphia in 1946 by
David Travis, a far-sighted
business man who was
convinced of the potential for
fabrics made of synthetic
fibers. Five years later
Travis moved his operation
to Lititz where the plant
eventually expanded to
become a fu ll-lin e
manufacturer of knitted
fabrics. By September, 1972,
the plant also included a
complete dyeing and
finishing operation which
enabled it to become the
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Proposed For Penryn Landfill
Townships Citizens Committee
Submits Restrictions List
To Cost An Estimated $450,000
Borough Council Seeks
Bids For Proposed
Water Plant Expansion
Lititz Borough Council
voted Tuesday night, after
having reviewed the plans
and specifications with Huth
Engineers, to receive bids
for the proposed water plant
expansion at an estimated
cost of $450,000. The new
expansion will be located to
the rear of the existing
Maple Street water plant
and will include a filtration
plant. The vote was 4-2 to go
ahead with the plans.
Pool Rates
In other action Tuesday
night, council raised the
rates for the swimming pool.
Under the new schedule, a
family rate will be $55, or $50
(if purchased before May
15); the new single rate will
be $27.50, or $25 (if pur­chased
before May 15); daily
admission will be $2.50 for
adults 18 and over, $1.75 for
youth 10-17, $1 for youths 6-9,
50 cents for children under
six, and the new group rate
will be a minimum of $50 or
$1.50 per person.
The increase in rates is
expected to bring in an
additional $4,895 in revenue.
A revised swimming pool
budget was adopted to
reflect the change in rates
and the additional revenue.
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Classified 13,14,15
Social 16,17
Church 22
Business Directory 24
In a related matter,
council awarded the job of
spray painting the ceiling of
the shower house, snack bar
and entrance way to R.R.
Landis of Ephrata for $875. It
was announced that the work
crews or pool employees will
paint walls and other areas
requiring painted.
Flood Study
It was announced that Mr.
Stu Applebaum of the US
Army Corps of Engineers
was in town to do a
preliminary study for Flood
Control. This is in response
to council’s request of last
year and a delayed start of
work promised for last fall.
Spring Cleanup
Council announced that
the week of April 14-18 has
been designated “Spring
Clean-Up Week.” Borough
crews will pick up yard
debris left at the curb for
pick-up. This clean-up is for
yard debris only - no junk,
furniture or other trash.
Council asks citizens to
bundle branches and
shrubbery trimmings, bag
grass, leaves and small
trimmings. Mark bags
“Spring Clean-Up” and keep
separate from regular
garbage and trash.
Other Business
In other business council:
• Awarded typewriter
service contract to Don’s
Typewriter Service of
Maytown. It did not renew
the contract with IBM
because the rates were in­creased.
• Announced the first
phase of active training and
classroom training for sewer
plant personnel has been
completed and David An­derson
and two plant
operators will travel on a one
day trip to Milton and
Sunbury, PA, to observe
operations at those plants.
• Authorized David
Anderson and D. Curtis
Amidon to attend a one day
seminar on “Disaster
Response/Emergency Ma­nagement”
at Hershey at a
cost of $15 each.
• Agreed to hire one
temporary summer worker,
Robin Haines, and to apply
fo r sum m e r s tu d e n t
program under CETA for the
rest of the help needed.
• Awarded the bid for
street resurfacing to B. R.
Kreider at a cost of
$29,021.20. Streets to be
resurfaced are: Skylark;
North Cedar, from Main to
North Lane; South Cedar,
from Marion to Second Ave.;
East New, from Locust to
North Lane; and South
Locust, from Main to Plum.
• Increased payment to
Mr. Clarence Weaver for
hauling sludge from the
present sewer plant. The
payment was increased
from $8,000 annually to
$9,500 annually, payable
quarterly at $2,375, effective
with the April 1 payment.
• Approved the Inter-
M u n ic ip a l P o lic e
Cooperation Agreement for
Lititz Borough Police. This
agreement allows Lititz
police to go outsie the area to
help other police depart­ments
in an emergency. It
will also allow other
departments to come into
our area in case of
emergency in Lititz.
Parking Meter
Rate To Change
The Lititz parking
meters will be set to the
new rates starting
tomorrow, F rid ay ,
March 28. The meters
will be set to register 30
minutes for a nickle and
1 hom- for a dime.
Maximum time which
can be accumulated on
a meter will remain at 2
hours.
The new rates are in
accordance with Or­dinance
C-243 enacted
December 26; 1979. The
meters will be changed
starting Friday on Main
Street and will all be
changed to new rates by
4/4/80. Estimated ad­ditional
revenue is $3500
for an estimated total
revenue from parking
meters for 1980 to be
$14,000.
(This is the first in a two-part
series concerning proposed
restrictions presented by the
SOS committee to the Penn
and Elizabeth Township Zoning
Boards.)
The Save Our Soils
Committee, a citizens op­position
group, presented a
detailed listing of proposed
operational restrictions for
the proposed Penryn landfill
to the joint zoning boards of
P e n n and E liz a b e th
Townships.
The list and remarks were
submitted by J. Scott Shank,
Secretary of S.O.S.
The listing is as follows :
Restriction 1. No hazar­dous
wastes as defined by
the Federal Resource
Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976 shall be accepted
for landfilling or processing.
Remark. This prohibits
the acceptance of any
radioactive hospital wastes
or whatever possible scrap
from TMI clean-up ac­tivities.
This also prohibits
chemical waste from low
volume sources such as
laboratories in hospitals,
schools, etc.
Restriction 2. At a
minimum, the following
information shall be
recorded for each waste
hauler entering the landfill:
A. Driver’s name and
operators license number, B.
Vehicle registration num­ber,
C. Origin of the waste,
D. generators’ name, E.
Time and date of entry, F.
Driver’s signature and
operator’s counter-signatu­re.
Remark. This will help
affix the area of respon­sibility
for any criminal
action or assessing of
damages should non-permitted
waste be dumped.
Restriction 3. Industrial
wastes (no RCRA defined
hazardous wastes) shall be
accepted only when ac­companied
by a certificate
of a n a ly s is from a
laboratory of recognized
standing. If wastes are
accepted from a hauler
and/or generator from a
state requiring a properly
executed manifest for ac­ceptance
and transport, said
manifest shall accompany
the waste. Landfill operator
shall retain and file said
manifest in accordance with
a p p lic a b le law and
regulation for a minimum of
ten years which ever is the
greater.
R em a rk . P r e s e n t
legislation may well be
prohibiting certain wastes,
but as is readily evident in
numerous landfill sites as
close as neighboring Chester
County, the law is not always
obeyed. Here again, this will
further enable offenders to
be tracked down albeit after
the damage is done.
Restriction 4. The town­ships
shall be provided with
a time-based estimate of the
amount and strength of the
leachate to be generated by
the landfill. Said estimate
shall be fully supported by
calculation and adequate
literature reference so as to
make technical review and
possible.
Remark. Since leachate is
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New Store To Be
Opening This Summer
The D. E. Furlow store closed its doors for good last
Saturday.
The Record Express, noticing an ad in the classified
section of this week’s paper, contacted the owner of the
building, Mr. E.D. Harris, to see what the future plans
for the building were.
According to Harris, he will be opening a new store
at the location but at this time he is not ready to specify
what type of store. He noted that fixtures must be sold
and extensive remodeling done before it can be opened.
Shippensburg Bank and Commonwealth
National To Merge Tuesday
The merger of The First
National Bank of Ship­pensburg
with and into
Commonwealth National
Bank will take place on
Tuesday, according to a joint
announcement by Robert E.
Graham, president of the
Shippensburg bank; and
John R. Biechler, president
of Commonwealth National.
The merger proposal, first
an n o u n c ed in e a rly
February 1979, was over­whelmingly
approved by
shareholders of the two
banks on January 15, 1980,
and has been approved by
the U.S. Comptroller of the
Currency.
The terms of the merger
will give shareholders of The
First National Bank of
Shippensburg eight-tenths of
a share of Commonwealth
National stock, plus a cash
payment of $5 for each share
of stock of The First
National Bank of Ship­pensburg.
The Shippensburg bank’s
main office in the Borough of
Shippensburg will become
the Shippensburg Region
Main Office of Com­monwealth
National Bank,
with Robert E. Graham as
the Region President.
The officers and staff of
The First National Bank of
Shippensburg will remain
with the merged bank.
Henry E. L. Luhrs, a
member of the Board of
Directors of The First
National Bank of Ship­pensburg,
will become a
director of Commonwealth
National Bank on the date of
the merger. Other directors
of the Shippensburg bank
will become members of the
Shippensburg Region Board
of Commonwealth National
Bank.
Commonwealth National
Bank had $1,020 million in
total consolidated assets as
of December 31, 1979, and
The First National Bank of
Shippensburg reported more
than $<50 million. Combined
assets of the two banks will
exceed $1,070 million.
As of December 31, 1979,
The First National Bank of
Shippensburg had 121,000
shares of common stock
outstanding.
Commonwealth National,
as of December 31,1979, had
1,393,250 shares of common
stock outstanding owned by
more than 4,000 individual
and institutional investors in
42 states. Commonwealth
National Bank stock is
traded nationally over-the-counter
via the symbol
CNBK.
After the merger, Com­monwealth
National’s of­fices
will increase from 44 to
47 in Cumberland, Dauphin,
Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry,
and York counties.
Brickerville Ambulance Receives
Voluntary Service Certification
The Brickerville Fire
Company’s Volunteer
Ambulance Association was
awarded the Pennsylvania
Voluntary Ambulance
Service Certificate in
c e rem o n ie s a t th e
Brickerville Fire Hall last
Wednesday, March 19.
The certification program
is a joint state-wide project
of the Pennsylvania
Department of Health,
Division of Emergency
Health Services, the Penn­sylvania
Department of
Transportation, the Penn­sylvania
Emergency Health
Services Council, and the
Regional Emergency Health
Services Councils of the
Commonwealth.
The Brickerville Am­bulance
Association was the
270th service, out of 1079
services in Pennsylvania, to
receive ce rtific a tio n .
Making the presentation
Wednesday evening was
Paul E. Graeter, Regional
C o -o rd in a to r of th e
Emergency Health Services
Federation of South Central
Pennsylvania.
In o rd e r fo r th e
Brickerville Ambulance
Association to be eligible for
certification, the service had
to m e e t s ta n d a r d s
established by the Pa. EMS
Council’s Committee on
Transportation and Pre-
Hospital Care.
The standards encompass
ambulance design, equip­ment,
personnel training,
and s ta f f in g , com­munications,
reporting and
operations. It also involves
an assessment of all factors
relating to the provision of
emergency medical care.
To receive certification,
the Brickerville ambulance
had to be in substantial
compliance with federal
design standards, equipped
with the minimum equip­ment
recommended by the
American College of
Surgeons and have light
rescue capacity. At least one
Em e rg e n c y M ed ic a l
Technician must be on each
emergency call and there
must be at least two at­tendants
on the ambulance.
Other requirements met
by the Brickerville Am­bulance
Association were
that the service have radio
equipment which operates
on public service frequen­cies
and enables at least two-way
direct communication
with a base station; and,
finally, the service must
maintain patient records
and provide 24 hour, seven
day per week coverage in the
community.
The Brickerville Am­bulance
Association’s
certification will be effective
for three years and is
renewable upon reinspection
by the Regional Council and
fulfillment of the procedures
for certification.
Members of the Brickerville Fire Company's
Volunteer Ambulance Association were on hand
Wednesday evening to witness Fire Chief Sid
Adams and Paul Graeter, regional coordinator of
the Emergency Health Services Federation, place
the voluntary certification program decal on the
ambulance. From left to right are (standing) Ed
Strohm, Adams, Graeter, Sharon May, Ann Miller,
Luann Adams, Linda Kupp, Deima Alyton, Pat
May, Debbie Pohner, Joyce Good, Richard Good
and Millie Strauss; kneeling are Wilbert May, Mike
Corcoran, Dave Buckwalter, Nevin May and Donna
May.