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I Lebanon Hershey Palmyra Pine Grove Toll-Free 1-800 Info-Line Sound Off Classified Mail Box 272-561 1 838-6345 838-6345 345-8812 457-5929 272-5000 272-5000 Ext. 1060 272-5000 Ext. 8005 35 per copy $1.25 on Sunday $3.35 weekly (single copy) $2.75 weekly (home delivery) JDaila Jtetos Serving the Lebanon Valley since 1872 SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1994 122ND YEAR NO. 185 LEBANON, PA. OMteMmeEL take crowna ft LVC earns national title with overtime win over NYU By ED GRUVER Daily News Sportswriter BUFFALO, N.Y.

Junior forward Jason Says controversial basket at the end of regulation pulled Lebanon Valley College into a 54-54 tie with New York University, and the Flying Dutchmen went on to claim a 66-59 overtime win in the NCAA Division III national championship game here at Buffalo State University Sports Arena. The national championship is the first in school history. Word of the victory spread quickly across LVCs Annville campus. Hey, we won! We won! a male student shouted to a group of friends on Sheridan Avenue. The information desk phone in the Munn College Center rang constantly, providing for a busy night for Boyertown junior Lisa Hollowbush, who was working at the desk Saturday night.

Everyone wanted the same information. Yes, we won, 66-59, Hollowbush said a half a dozen times in the space of five minutes. The campus was not overly boisterous, but Hollowbush explained that most of the campus is in Buffalo. She said many professors cancelled classes on Friday to allow students to make the trip. There are parties going on in the dorms, Hollowbush added.

Says basket was scored with no time left on the clock, and television replays seemed to indicate that the basket had been scored late. Referee Gregg Bennett, however, ruled the basket good. Bennett refused to respond to reporters questions after the game, and the media was not allowed to interview any members of the officiating crew, which included Haywood Bostic and alternate Roger McTavish. "I definitely thought it was good, Say said afterwards. I grabbed the ball and left it go before I heard the buzzer.

The Violets, 25-5, trailed by as much as 10 points in the second period, before outscoring LVC 25-15 in the final 12 minutes. Senior guard and captain Adam Crawford led NYU with 24 points. Junior guard Mike Rhoades, the tournament MVP, scored a team-high 20 for LVC and added 10 rebounds and six assists. Say added 10 points and 5 rebounds. NYU scored the first four points in overtime, before LVC rallied on a baseline basket by Rhoades and a three-point jumper from senior Steve Zeiber.

Zeibers basket gave the Dutchmen the lead for good, 61-59, and Rhoades and Stephenson combined for 6 free throws in the final 2:31 to clinch the win. LVC, 28-4, took a 24-21 lead into halftime after holding NYU scoreless for nearly a full five minutes midway through the first half. Tied at 7 with 14 minutes to go in the half, the Dutchmen took the lead following two nearperfect passes from Rhoades. The first was a dish underneath to sophomore forward Phil Campbell that gave the Dutchmen their first lead of the game, 9-7, with 13:43 to go. Some 22 seconds later, Rhoades hit Mark Hofsass with a pass in the paint, and the junior forward slammed it home to give LVC an 11-7 lead.

Baskets by Say and Rhoades capped an 8-point run that gave the Dutchmen their biggest lead of the half, 15-7. Rhoades had game-high totals of nine points and six rebounds in the first half. Coverage on page 1C. Hot Dog Frank Aftosmes LVC supporter Hot Dog dies on day of title game Hot Dog Frank didnt live to hear about the Lebanon Valley College Flying Dutchmen winning their championship Saturday night. But its not hard to believe that he was somewhere, helping out just a little bit as LVCs mens basketball team won an overtime thriller to claim the NCAA Division III national championship.

Frank Hot Dog Aftosmes died Saturday at 3 p.m., about six hours before the final buzzer of the championship contest. For 45 years, Aftosmes and his wife, Mary, ran Franks Hot Dog Shop on the square in Annville, a block from the LVC campus. It wasnt just the mans hot dogs steeped in a secret sauce of San Giorgio spaghetti sauce, spices and hamburger that brought students to his shop. He and his wife helped uncounted numbers of students, offering them generous side dishes of advice, and an occasional loan. Loan amounts were registered in a ledger he kept under his business marble counter-top.

He said the students always paid him back. On Feb. 12, he returned to the campus to become a member of the Lebanon Valley College Senior Alumni Association. Maybe Hot Dog had one more LC girls reach Final Four 1 I Hazardous? The Pennsylvania Social Services Union claims the Lebanon County welfare office is unsafe. Page ID AT A GLANCE Seriously, folks, spring is here At least a foot of snow still covers much of Pennsylvania.

Trees are still dormant Vegetable gardens are a long way off. Welcome to spring. The calendar doesnt mean anything this year, said Vicki Morrone, the master gardener coordinator for the state cooperative extension service. Spring arrives today at 3:28 p.m. EST when the sun crosses the equator and begins beaming light directly on the Northern Hemisphere.

Its gotten to the point where if we even got to normal temperatures, wed think it was a heat wave, said Keith Eggleston of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. I dont think March 20 has anything magic about it that things are going to start changing, Eggleston said. The equinox is pretty much relative. Trying again South Annville Township officials will hear a revised proposal this week for a 660-acre residential development and golf course to be located south of Route 422 across from Wimpey Minerals. Story on page 3A.

Building comes down They brought their cameras, their binoculars and their children. And when they saw a modern office building disappear with the push of a button Saturday morning, the crowd in downtown Allentown cheered and gasped in awe. Story on page 6 A. INDEX Business 8C, 9C, ID, 2D Classified 3D-12D Editorial 4A, 5A Entertainment 7B Info-Line 5D Lifestyles 1 B-3B Obituaries 2A Sound Off 9A Sports 1C-6C TV 7B Weather 9A lina hi Directory on page 5 D. Good Response! The customer who placed the following ad in The Daily News classified section reported a good response! GREAT RESPONSE Be a paraiega1 Accred Atty in-structed home study FREE INFO Catt xxx xxx xxxx Call The Daily News Classified Advertising Department today at 274-3474 to place your ad.

teammate John Harper in Saturdays national championship game. the cylinder for his home team. It would be the kind of thing Hot Dog would do. Obituary on page 2A. Volunteers restore Cold Spring station The Beavers are within one game of reaching the state championship for the second time in three years.

They won it all in their only state championship appearance in 1992. Yesterdays win did not come easy. The Beavers faced a big scare when Elkland, the champs of District Four, raced out to an 11-0 lead. But the Beavers rallied for the victory behind Abby Minders 20 points and Sarah Wades 18 points. Coverage on page 3 C.

From there, Ditzler, on behalf of the Lebanon County Historical Society, and several other historical societies opened a dialogue with the game commission to begin restoration. The county historical society then agreed to move it to the Union Canal Tunnel Park, and thats when members were told that the station had collapsed. This whole situation has generated quite a lot of interest in the community, and we hope that people come out to see the end result, Lehman said. I dont think anyone expected that this good of a job could be done to restore it. Its Final Four time for the Lebanon Catholic girls.

The Beavers reached the PIAA class A girls basketball semifinals on Saturday, with a 55-47 win over Elkland in a quarterfinal round game in Williamsport. Lebanon Catholic now meets Lourdes of Shamokin on Wednesday at a site to be determined. The winner of that game will advance to the state championship game on Saturday at Hersheypark Arena. abandoned Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad that ran from the Susquehanna River to Schuylkill County, according to society records. The station was situated about one mile west of the Appalachian Trail, where it carried passengers to towns located in this once remote area.

Over the years, the station had fallen prey to vandals, who broke the lumber and carved graffiti into the aged wood. In the winter of 1989, a vandal attached a chain to the stations overhang and his pickup and yanked the building partially off its foundation. helping of love to offer the students at LVC. Maybe he looked down on Buffalo last night and nudged a basketball or so into Cold Spring was the last remaining railroad station along the now-abandoned Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad that ran from the Susquehanna River to Schuylkill County. explanation.

So far, no have been forthcoming, according to Marilyn Lehman, society coordinator. Once the pieces of the station were transported to the society building, volunteers began piecing together parts of the historic puzzle. Instrumental in reconstructing the station were Francis Ditzler, Ervin Kline and John and Pat Calkins, Lehman said. Other who helped were project designer Nancy Gingrich, Richard Heisey, Don Rhoads, Mary Lou Harris, Joan Pierce, Louise Bealer and Harold Lehman. They studied old photographs of the station and examined the original site to ensure that it was erected as closely as possible, Lehman said.

Mary Lou Harris, a nationally known artist, began work on colorful murals depicting the railroad in its heyday during the late 1800s. By ERIC EBELING Staff Writer The last chapter in the ongoing saga of the historic Cold Spring Railroad Station finally has been written in the basement of a well-known Cumberland Street building. Thats where a core of dedicated volunteers joined forces to reconstruct the century-old station that withstood the ravages of time and vandalism in Cold Spring Township, along the northern edge of Lebanon County, until it was razed in June. On Monday night at 7:30, the Lebanon County Historical Society will dedicate the recently completed exhibit during a ceremony open to the public. For the past several months, society members worked to salvage the original lumber and other materials from a landfill at Fort Indiantown Gap where the damaged pieces somehow found their way from the original site miles to the east.

Questions still remain about how the station ended up in the landfill. It either collapsed or was demolished while members of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and a National Guard engineering unit attempted to move it, according to reports. A number of local officials, including state Sen. David Chip Brightbill, responded with outrage to the discovery of the debris, and asked for some type of Enc Ebeling The Daily News Mannequins help recreate this scene depicting the historic Cold Spring Railroad Station in the basement of Lebanon County Historical Society on Cumberland Street. The Society will dedicate its new exhibit on Monday night.

Her artistry shows women strolling through pastoral fields under ornate parasols, a steam engine heading down the tracks, and a horse-drawn carriage transporting passengers and luggage. Lehman said the exhibit, complete with the station masters cubicle and telegraph, was finished at the start of this year. Although the station is a bit narrower and shorter in length and height, its original design has remained intact, she said. The Cold Spring station was the last remaining railroad station of 13 that were built along the now- EZ TmT: i mil irn--niirVfn iifi i Tt ilffi i i utm i 1 i a i a ii mr A.