Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - April 3, 1979, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania WEATHER FORECAST Rain tonight and day Low tonight 45 High Wednesday around 50 THE Truth Our Guide The Public Good Our Aim ESTABLISHED 1902 VOL 77 NO 79 14 My GETTYSBURG PA TUESDAY EVENING APRIL 3 wire With Honor To Ourselves And Profit To Our Patrons GOOD EVENING Automation creates jobs it takes more people to cor- rect each mistake CHOIR ON TOUR Gettysburg College Choir is shown as it left the campus for its annual Spring Tour This year's tour is taking the choir to Tyrone Pa Friedens Pa Pittsburgh Johnstown Cleveland and Dearborn Mich then back into Ohio to sing in Dayton Springfield and Columbus The tour will conclude with con- certs in Cumberland Md and Washington Dr Russell Getz director and Mrs Diana Getz are shown in the round of the picture The Choir will present its annual Home Concert of on Palm Sunday April 8 at 3 p.m in Christ Chapel The concert is free and the public is welcome to attend this afternoon of sacred choral music College Choir To End Its Annual Spring Tour With Home Concert Here On Palm Sunday The Gettysburg College Choir under the direction of Dr Russell P Getz will present its annual Home Concert of Palm Sunday April 8 at 3 p.m in Christ Chapel on the college campus The con- cert is free and the public is welcome The formal concert the third pre- sented under the baton of Dr Getz will consist largely of sacred choral works It will also include for the first time a number of secular selections The mixed choir has just re- turned from its annual Spring Tour This year the Choir performed a dozen Bad Littlestown Area Driver concerts in Johnstown Friedens and Pittsburgh Pa Dayton Cleveland Springfield and Columbus Ohio berland Md and Washington The Choir has also sung recently in timore York and Lancaster in concerts sponsored by the of the Women's General League of Gettysburg College located in those areas The concert will consist of three parts of sacred music one of secular music and several optional selections The Part one Hosanna to the Son of Gibbons Ave Verum Byrd Christe Adoramus Monteverdi and cendit Deus Gallus will consist of dem Herren Psalm Schutz It was a bad day for James Andrew Shanefelter 47 of Littlestown R 3 when he was involved in two separate mishaps with his car in Littlestown Monday morning the second of which caused him injury and severely aged his vehicle and another car Littlestown Borough Police said the first accident occurred at Monday when Shanefelter attempted to drive his 1973 Chevrolet sedan from a parked position along the west curb of S Queen St According to police Shanefelter drove his car forward and it clipped the rear of a 1971 Buick owned by Charles M and Judy Gladhill Littlestown R 1 which was parked in front of the Shanefelter vehicle Then police said Shanefelter backed up and his car struck and bent over a Rt 97 directional sign Police reported minor damage to the directional sign and no damage to either vehicles At police said Shanefelter was injured when his eastbound sedan ran off the south curb of the 100 block of W King St and struck a telephone pole and a car owned by Jane M Clapsaddle 124 W King St Police reported that Shanefelter was taken in the Littlestown bulance to the Hanover Hospital for treatment Littlestown firemen assisted on the scene Continued on Page 3 Legionnaires To Place Flag Pole At Park The Albert J Lentz Post 202 of the American Legion Monday night made plans to visit the Veterans Hospital in Martinsburg and heard reports from a committee arranging to place a flag pole at Recreation Park Walter 0 Powell VA hospital tion chairman reported a group from the local American Legion and its will visit the VA Hospital at April 21 to conduct a party for those veterans in Ward 101 of the tal Richard Kershner reported all plans just about completed for the placing of the flag pole at Rec Park The pole has been donated nearly all other ment has been obtained and volunteers are ready to actually place the pole he said Tentatively he said the tion of the pole has been set for May 19 County Veterans Affairs Director James D Fox reported that the GI will run out for a number of Vietnam veterans next year He said it is mated Vietnam war veterans in Continued on Page 3 Biglerville Will Present Students at Biglerville High School will present the rock opera Friday and Saturday nights at 8 in the high school auditorium The production is under the direction of Mrs W William Settle assisted by students Jenni Schmidy and Stacy Settle The cast includes Buddy Cutshall Mark Mawver Jenni Schmidt Stacy Settle Craig Funt Donna Miller Mindy Warren Kathy Hartman Alan Black and Karen Gustafson Musicians for the presentation will be Cindy Wilson Greg Clark and Kim Brownley Tickets may be obtained at the door Honor Officer Who Gave Life Retired Police Chief Donald Rentzel presented the widow of police officer James R Redding with a flag and a medal in honor of her husband who gave his life in the line of duty The was made at the New Oxford Borough Council meeting last evening Mrs Redding expressed her thanks to the council and President Earl mert told Mrs Redding that council concurred with the presentation that was made by Rentzel Rentzel also presented the Safety Committee of the council a flag to be flown during Law and Order week in honor of Redding In a matter that President Mummert later informed both parties was a civil matter John Wolford informed council that he was a resident of the area for 50 years and that he was surprised to see his name in the paper after last month's meeting in connection with a drainage problem that he was having on his Continued on Page 3 Meade School To Open Next Week Meade Elementary School's 180 youngsters will not return to their school until next week at the earliest ing to a statement issued by School Superintendent Dr Robert C Curtis Curtis said that although the Office of Emergency Preparedness and have indicated the building can be used school officials feel a thorough cleaning of the building is required before student use adding that is a time-consuming task All Meade School pupils are adequately housed at James Gettys Elementary he said and in the Administration building so no additional school time is being lost Curtis added students parents and all school personnel continue to be most cooperative A further evaluation and report is ex- to be issued Thursday Sing Unto God from Judas Handel and How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place Brahms Several secular works will be formed in part Evening daly the Yowes Scottish folk song arranged by Vaughan Williams with tenor solo by Paul Wasmund a junior from Downingtown Just as the Tide Was Flowing English folk song arr Vaughan Williams Knight of the Telesco and Little Blue Pigeon Cascarino with soprano solo by Susan Solomon a senior from spire Pa Part four will consist of the following Jesus and the 1 Heard a Great Voice and Lord Thou Hast Been Our Re- fuge Psalm Vaughan Williams with trumpet solo by Stuart Knade a junior from Williamsport Pa The Choir's optional selections in- clude The Bells of Senft A Mighty Fortress Luther arr Sherrill and Ezekiel Saw the arr Dawson Smokehouse And Meat Go Up With The Smoke Hams shoulders and bacon from two hogs were lost in a fire that destroyed a frame smokehouse at the residence of Herman Scott on the Taverns Rd a mile south of Two Taverns around p.m Monday Firemen from Barlow arrived to find the about 10 by 10 foot frame structure totally involved in flames Fire Chief Melvin Durboraw said the flaming structure was beyond saving His teers hosed down the remains of the fire For some reason Durboraw said the fire being used to smoke the meat rently caught onto the wooden frame building The fire was discovered by a neighbor Firemen were on the scene about an hour conducting mop-up tions Around 10 p.m Greenmount and Emmitsburg firemen were alerted to a fire on U.S Rt 15 just south of the Steinwehr Ave inter- change midway between the two com- Lindsey Riley first assistant mount fire chief said that Wayne Hoff operating the 1975 White Road Com- mander truck tractor was headed south toward Frederick when a passing motorist hailed him down and told him of the fire In the meantime the flames in the right rear wheel burned themselves out as firemen arrived on the scene Riley said the firemen cooled down the wheel with dry chemicals and water He surmised that the brakes caught fire due to a leaking wheel seal A Greenmount firemen Ronald Pittman who is employed as a diesel mechanic backed the brakes off the crippled wheel so that Hoff could return the tractor to Gabler's Trucking nal at Aspers R 1 for repairs Damage was confined to the wheel Riley saia Continued on Page 3 Inside The Times Local Ann Landers 4 Star Comics Crosswords 6 Radio TV 6 At Wit's Classifieds Upper Adams Superintendent Of Schools Resigns As Of July 12 Upper Adams School Superintendent Dr N James Schoch surprised his board members and the community Monday evening with a request for the acceptance of his resignation to become effective July 12 The public statement of his intentions approved by the board was read by Board President Robert Kluck following a closed executive session held to discuss a recent newspaper cle appearing in the Gettysburg Times The article reflected a problem the dis- and Dr Schoch are having in lishing a state approved developmental reading program for seventh and eighth 3 Mile Island Reactor May Become Billion Dollar Mausoleum HARRISBURG API experts warned today that the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor may be so contaminated by radiation that the entire facility may have to be junked becoming a billion mausoleum Federal officials said the dangerous hydrogen bubble inside the reactor was continuing to shrink But they also worried that vital measuring instruments might fail be- cause of intense radiation making it impossible to be sure what conditions inside the reactor were In Washington Sen Gary Hart chairman of the subcommittee on lear regulation said it might be more expensive to clean up the plant than it was to build it It might be a billion mausoleum Morris K Udall chairman of the House energy subcommittee said the contamination inside the containment building was unprecedented in the tory of nuclear power and was so bad it will be months before any possible cleanup can begin if indeed a cleanup is possible Nobody's seen those fuel rods that's the Udall said You can't Continued on Page 2 grade students The state Department of Education has threatened the district with taking corrective action if its guidelines for the reading program are not met by tember of this year Early in last evening's meeting Dr Schoch commented briefly on the article stressing I think it's unfortunate these things have to occur but was abruptly cut off with the suggestion of an tive session to discuss the situation by school director Eugene Motter One school director noted later the intentions to resign were made known to the board members for the first time during that session Although the newspaper article and how its contents were derived Dr Schoch had previously charged one of the school directors with abridging his oath of office by releasing the tion to the press did appear on the agenda for discussion the school superintendent's resignation was not listed The school superintendent who has been under the district's employ since July of 1975 offered no reasons for his decision In other controversy concerning the continuing conflict between the Lincoln Intermediate Unit No 12 and four Continued on Page 2 Emmitsburg Hires Police Chief Well Consultant Emergency Plans Ready If Needed The threat of evacuation of the area around Three Mile Island has diminished since the weekend but according to James D Fox director of Civil Defense in Adams County emergency personnel are still working on procedures and s in the event they are needed Fox also noted that monitoring of the air in the county has shown no increase in radiation Mile Island problem began Only the radiation has been detected locally he said A number of persons from the risburg area moved to motel rooms here during the alarm In addition to humans leaving the Three Mile land area the Waynesboro Country Club stables reported two valuable horses from the Harrisburg area were placed there to be cared for until things get back to normal Paul D Mangan public tion director at Gettysburg College said that nothing new is going on and he has learned of no mobilization plans for the college He noted that any students who stayed away from the school because of the Three Mile Island accident would be able to make up the time later in the term Selection of the new police chief in Emmitsburg carne not a moment too soon for some citizens who reported to the board of commissioners Monday night that there had been a brawl in the town square the Saturday before John Regis 38 was selected to fill the chief of police position He has had three years experience in Rockville Md as a policeman years there as judicial commissioner and four years on the Montgomery County Police ment He will relocate in Emmitsburg and was described by Burgess E Eugene Myers as being a very good The brawl according to reports had ended just before the only policeman on duty could return to the square at which time there were only six or seven people and the brawlers had dispersed The commissioners announced that the terms of the garbage contract had been agreed to and signed For a year the refuse of the citizens of Em- will be collected twice a week by Robert Wetzel who held the previous contract In his opening statement the burgess congratulated Commissioner Jane L the well-organized meeting with the National Fire Academy and interested citizens March 28 Opening the department reports Commissioner Edward T Seidel chairman of the Parks and Recreation Department announced he had re- a letter from the Little League asking for support from the town Seidel said that the town donated last year and moved that the town again give to the league His motion was seconded and unanimously approved FIELD GROOMING Myers pointed that one of the rules for using the ball park is that the infield must be dragged following each game before the team leaves He said that while the 13 to group is forming that duty regularly and the St Joseph's High School team does times there are several teams who never groom the field before leaving paving the way to a bumpy and pitted playing surface He urged Seidel to con- tact the coaches in writing if asking their help in correcting the problem For the Sewer Department Mrs linger said that the Bevin Co has com- 35 percent of the facilities plan and 40 percent of the physical survey and added that the representative of the company is due in this area during the month of April Continued on Page 3 Local Weather Yesterday's This morning's Today at Today at Lunches Are Big Business In Local Schools FOOD CENTER Food Services Director Jack kitchen in the Junior High School where meals a year Stoops and his assistant Ruth Carbaugh are shown in front of are prepared for the students and staff of all but two of the the rotating oven in the Gettysburg School District's central district's seven schools Times Photo See other picture on Page 5 Careful buying and efficient operation are credited by officials of the burg Area School System with keeping the district's cost of student lunches to about a year The district prepares and serves more than meals a year in five tary and two secondary schools Jack Stoops director of food services and his staff prepare meals a day 180 days a school year Of these 575 are free to students whose families qualify under federal guidelines for free school lunches and 250 are reduced in price to 10 cents each All other students elementary and secondary pay 55 cents per lunch Business Manager Frederic Griffin says the cafeteria program has been holding its own financially for the past three years except for the cost of dial service and utilities which cost the taxpayers about 5.5 cents per meal While the actual cost of food tion and serving costs 93.5 cents a meal the school district receives a federal subsidy of 69 cents for each free lunch served 20 cents for each regularly priced lunch 13 cents worth of surplus food a meal from the USDA There have been times in recent years when surplus foods were not available and the government paid a flat rate of 10 cents a meal in lieu of availability of certain ables and meats planned for distribution to schools The Gettysburg school system in- its central kitchen program with Continued on Page S
