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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2001 ^ a r d - W i m , ^ L ititz Record Express Publication 124TH YEAR 28 Pages- No. 52 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 Cents [INSIDE Pettyjohn earns second endorsement □ Coloring Contest STEPHEN SEEBER received his GOP backing without a quorum. Final Winners Record Express Staff So last Thursday, April 12, 10 of the 12 borough WARC members met at Lititz Borough Hall to con The final three winners in the LITITZ — Incumbent mayor, Russell Pettyjohn, is officially endorsed by the local Republican committee. duct a re-vote on the mayoral endorsement. The result Record Express Easter Color was again in Pettyjohn’s favor, this time 9-1. ing Contest, plus the winner of Old news, right? this year’s grand prize, can be No. Jim Bednar, one of the committee’s Lititz represen tatives, said that the quorum situation was an over found on Page 17. While it was reported, in this newspaper, that the mayor received the endorsement of the Warwick Area sight and that the re-vote was necessary in order to □ School Republican Committee in February, there was some “solidify (Pettyjohn’s) support within the committee.” Interestingly, had Greg Nies won in the recount, the All-State Fest question as to the validity of that endorsement. Current committee chairman Randall Wenger local Republicans would have begun backing a new This weekend, three Warwick called the Record Express office this week to confirm candidate after already publicizing its support for Pet students will be heading to the that only six of the 12 committee members who repre tyjohn. All-State Festival in Hershey to sent Lititz Borough voted at the mayoral endorsement However, the result of last week’s recount was ex perform with some of the finest pected to lean heavily toward the incumbent, which it musicians in the state. The meeting in February. Mayor Pettyjohn was endorsed story is on Page 6. at that time and the original endorsement could have did, and the campaign signs will not need to be re stood, Wenger said, but he ultimately decided to call a printed. And as far as Wenger is concerned it should □ Social second vote as a means to clarify the committee’s po put to rest any further discussion as to the validity of sition and end circulating talk that Mayor Pettyjohn the endorsement. Garage Sailing It’s the time of the year when garage sales return, and bar gain hunters like Kathy Blan- Stay alive, kenbiller begin their vigorous routine in the hopes of finding the gems. Her In Sites column stay put is on Page 14. □ Entertainment Rescue dogs to be Take a Holiday featured in demo On Saturday, the Lititz Rota ry Club will present “Scandina LITITZ — If your child got lost vian Holiday,” the final program in the woods would he know what of the season in its travelogue to do? Would you know what to series. Page 22. Photo by Kathy Blankenbiller do? Angie Lackley, 9, gets her hands a little slimy as she learns how Each year, hundreds of children □ Out of the Past some materials take on fun and interesting properties when they get lost in the woods; many do not are mixed together. survive because they panic. Any Elmer Fry will discuss the days when trolleys like this one, pic A New School parent would agree that tragedy tured outside the old Lititz train depot in June 1937, were a vital can occur in the blink of an eye. source of transportation to-and-from the borough. Ten years ago this week, Li Ask Patricia Fordham, whose titz knew that it was getting a son disappeared during a Boy new elementary school, but its Touching the Pfuture Scout picnic. name and location were still “I looked down for a split sec being worked out by the War Trolley memories ond to keep from slipping on a wick School Board. Find out Learning is gooey fun in Science Club more about local history, from rock and when I looked up, Eli 10 to 120 years ago, on Page was gone,” she said, thinking back Lititz Library slide lecture will recall days 20. KATHY BLANKENBILLER club meet weekly. Various Pfizer on that fateful Labor Day outing. Record Express Staff scientists visit the club offering “I didn’t see him again for 23 when trolley bells clanged through Lititz □Also Inside unique introductions to different hours.” LITITZ —- The impact that a branches of science through fun, Elijah Fordham, 4, was one of KATHY BLANKENBILLER The origins of the trolley car can group of Pfizer scientists has made Record Express Staff be traced back to the 1800’s when Antiques Lecture fact-filled experiments. the lucky kids, found sitting on a cities began their growth spurts. on the young people at Bonfield Roll call sets the tone immedi rock, waiting for his rescuers, LITITZ — Listen cfosely to re The Lititz Historical Founda thanks to the nationally-known Distances were measured by how tion will sponsor a program on Elementary will last them a life ately. As Lewis calls out each stu tired mechanical engineer Elmer far a man could walk or ride a antiques dealer and artist Hat time. “Hug a Tree and Survive Pro Fry as he speaks about the trolleys dent’s name, he is rewarded with gram” that he had attended at a horse. Soon the electric age tie K. Brunner, presented by “We call ourselves the Psi Pfi the cheerful response from each of yesterday and you may hear the brought the trolley, deemed a me Gladys Eckenroad, on Sunday, Cub Scout meeting four months Team,” explained Darren Lewis, child, “I love science!” faint clang of the bell and the clat chanical marvel in its time; a flat April 22 at 2 p.m. Page 19. co-chair of the team. “We’re a earlier. A review of the “scientific meth ter of the heavy steel wheels as car, enclosed by slats of wood, was Volunteering group of Pfizer Global Manufac Lititz Public Library, in conjunc they tumble over the rail joints. od” is always the beginning of the tion with Patti and Allen Means of the very first “trolley car.” Stein- turing volunteers partnering with Local expert Elmer Fry will metz’s “alternating current” and Next week is National Volun class. The children eagerly raise the Red Rose K-9 Search and Res teer Week, and groups like the the school district to promote edu cue Team, will present the “Hug- present an informative slide lec the “interurbans” were born in the Lititz Meals on Wheels are cation in science and technology.” their hands high in the air to be the ture, “Trolley Cars and the Histor 1900’s and were used until 1938 first to name the steps, in the prop A-Tree and Survive” program on grateful for having such a dedi Pfizer Global Manufacturing, lo Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in the ic Lititz Area,” on Monday, April when the trolleys died out. cated community that supports cated at 400 W. Lincoln Ave., Li er order, that they will follow in community room. As a special fea 30 at 7 p.m. at the Lititz Public Li Over 1,000 cities in the United their efforts to provide meals to their experiments that afternoon. brary. States had trolley cars clanking local residents unable to pre titz — the former Warner-Lambert ture, they will be bringing the Red site — is the manufacturing and Week five, last in a series of six, Rose K-9 S.A.R. Team working Fascinated with trolleys since over 42,000 miles of shiny metal pare their own. Page 3. 1927, Fry was only three years old track by the end of World War I. Ox Roast largest division of Pfizer Inc, a has proved to be the students’ fa dogs along for an “up close and global pharmaceutical company. vorite so far; the experiment of personal” introduction to the audi when he and his family lived in The popular automobile, devel Palmyra, a block-and-a-half away The Lititz Sportsmen’s Asso PEI, better known as the Pfizer mixing Poly Vinyl Alcohol and So ence. oped about the same time as the from the trolleys that they rode trolley, however, soon became the ciation recently held its 65th Educational Initiative program, is dium Borate — better known to They will offer insights on teach annual Ox Roast, and pres ing your children how not to get each weekend to visit his grand less expensive transportation meth ented several awards. This responsible for the creation of a most kids as slime. Excited parents near Trenton. od of choice. The government real popular activity that began last lost in the woods and if the chil ear’s winner of the John Helter “Oooh’s” and “Ahhhh’s” were dren do get lost, how to survive by “I always loved railroads... but ized the opportunity, purchasing Semorial Award was Larry year at the Bonfield Elementary heard as the Pfizer scientists remembering seven easy steps. railroads are remote. You couldn’t and paving the all the turnpikes VanBrookhoven. For more de School, The Future Scientists of brought out containers filled with Parents must also learn what to walk right up to one,” Fry said. available. Cars began to take over tails, see Page 21. Bonfield Science Club. the ingredients for the experiment. do if they realize their child is “But a trolley car — you could and skimmed the profit margin Third and fourth grade mem walk right up and touch it; it was □ Sports bers of the inter-active after school More PFIZER on A-21 More BLOODHOUNDS on A-2 more personal.” More TROLLEYS on A-19 Egg Run Mike Craighead and Amy Pyles were the men’s ana Catch of the day women’s champions in the 10th Restoring Hammer Creek annual Sauder’s Easter Egg Run, and the second time it Alliance pounds ahead with efforts to preserve vital watershed was held in Lititz.

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