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DEC W9 P-M' fauq, New Board in Action 46 UNCASTER, NEW ERA- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1979 New Director Announces Changes Farm Show to Open Clumba May Dump School On a Sunday, Livestock Comprom ise By ED KUMUSKA Naw Era Staff Writer Exhibits All Week ByTIMMEKEEL New Era Staff Writer fif UK' Li Unique Clock Given to Mueller House in Lititz HARRISBURG-Forthefirsttimein its 64-year history, the week-long State Farm Show will open on a Sunday instead of Monday to give the public an extra day to sample Pennsylvania's finest agricultural products. The move is one of several changes in store for the annual blue-ribbon show, now under the guidance of Rawlinsville native Hugh Coffman. Other Changes Coffman, interviewed in his Farm Show Building office this week, also announced: Designating Monday of Farm Show Week (Jan. 6-11) as Senior Citizen Day. Reversing last year's unpopular policy of having dairy and beef livestock on exhibit for only half the week, restoring their full-week appearance.

Possibly expanding the complex, by building a wing. Eliminating non-agricultural exhibitors, to create extra space for livestock exhibitors. Governor's Preview Events The Sunday opening means the public can see the traditional Governor's Preview events, in the past limited to invited guests only. Typically the preview show has taken place in the complexs large arena, with entertainment such as precision marching teams and horse drill teams. The governor, or his representative, also samples items brought him by com-, modity queens.

"We think if Sunday is well received, we Would open on Sunday from now on," said Coffman. 'Farm Family Day' "Some of the crowd should spill over to Sunday. The day is being billed as Farm Family Day." The Farm Show is on the verge of becoming too popular for its own good, with the complex frequently jammed with visitors packed elbow-to-elbow. The 1979 edi-' tion drew roughly 500,000 persons. "I would not say were necessarily overcrowded.

We are very crowded. We are trying to alleviate the congestion, to channel people." But Coffman stressed he does not wish to deter anyone from attending. "The crowds we get are a combination i hi 4t vVig Wfk Hugh Coffman of every type of life. I'm not sure we want to stymie that kind of participation. I'd rather try to manage the crowd as pleasantly as possible." 'Senior Citizen Day' One way of "directing" the throngs is to have a special day for a segment of them, like 1980s inaugural "Senior Citizen Day." The schedule is being organized with the cooperation of Gorham Black, head of the state Department of Aging.

An entrance will be marked especially for senior citizens to use. Once indoors, they'll have tours and an information booth available. "We don't think senior citizens need to be shepherded, Coffman cautioned. "This is for people who want it. Also slated is an evening program, with plans yet to be completed, geared toward the senior citizens.

"That isn't very elaborate, I know, he admitted. "I make no pretense. But it's a beginning. Perhaps later we can get into some special discounts and more It's these little steps which can add up to major improvements, Coffman said. Since the 31-year-old has held his job only since May 9, it would be premature to expect miracles.

Nonetheless, livestock exhibitors would consider the Lancaster Countians Sm FARM Page 35 arately to give the clock greater strength. The only metal parts are the pinions and the sockets in which they are mounted. A spokesman for the Historical Foundation said that the clocks come apart in sections and were moved without great difficulty. The second section of the clock opens out into a bookshelf, and the door on the third section, with the Oriental scene, pulls out into a writing desk. The designs on the clock are symmetrical and were used only for artistic value, rather than for religious or other significance.

Carpenter died at the age of 69, in 1929. The stonemason reportedly carved tables and chests as well as clocks, using a scroll saw as his chief tool. Carpenter had no survivors and left his wooden creations to Charles Krick, who sold electrical appliances in Lititz for many years. Mrs. Krick.

his widow, recently sold her house. This unusual handmade clock, built by a Lititz stone mason in 1909-1915, was one of two clocks recently donated tc the Mueller House of the Lititz Historical Foundation by Mrs. Charles Krick of Lititz. The clock, made of 50,000 individual pieces of wood, some no larger than a pinhead, stands 9 A feet tall and over two feet wide. The clocks were designed and hand-crafted by the late Rudolph Carpenter, who had a shop on 131 Cedar St.

Carpenter developed the unusual coloring and design of the clocks by using different hues of ebony, walnut, cherry, maple, mahogany, white holly and rose wood. In the Oriental scene at top right (a closeup view of the scene on the clock case), Carpenter used the wood shades to make one woman a brunette and the other a redhead. The works of the clocks are also made of wood (lower righti with each of the wooden cogwheels inserted sep In swift fashion, the Concerned Citizens Association-controlled Columbia School Board moved Thursday night to assert its authority over borough school affairs, threatening to dismantle a building compromise and perhaps in the process prolong the borough's school agony. The Columbia Concerned Citizens Association, a pro-neighborhood school citizens group that gained majority control of the school board in the November election, exercised its new power by: Calling a special meeting Tuesday night to review plans for the $3.3 million Park School Elementary Center and hinting that the 550-student school will be scaled down. Having director William Meisen-bach, a pro-neighborhood school director, drill school board solicitor Donald Nikolaus about his loyalty to the new school board.

Nikolaus had personally favored having one elementary school in the borough instead of three. Hearing director Hilda Spiese release confidential information from a meeting with the state auditors. Mrs. Spiese charged a business office bookkeeping error might cost the district 5300,000 in federal funds. Rejecting bids for temporary repairs to the vacant Manor Elementary School, which was to get a quick-fix so that students could re-occupy it this year and thereby alleviate elementary school split-sessions.

CCCAs intention is to make permanent repairs to the turn-of-the-century building. Slim Control The CCCA, a tenacious taxpayers group that battled the school board's plans to build one elementary school in the borough for four years, won slim control of the school board in the November election and named longtime CCCA leader Richard Seifried president. CCCA, which favors keeping three small elementary schools in Columbia, has five members on the nine-director board. But one of its directors, Robert Run-kle, is expected to move out of the borough soon. Before CCCA took control of the school board, feuding school officials and CCCA leaders approved a compromise to build a 550-student Park Elementary School Center and make temporary repairs to the Manor School so that it could be re-opened this spring.

Now elementary students are attending half-day sessions at the converted Wool-worth building downtown and at the Taylor Elementary School. But CCCA seems intent on changing the compromise building agreement. After the meeting, Seifried said CCCA does not feel totally bound by the compromise, adding "it allowed things to proceed until the new board was elected in November. Apparent Plans CCCAs plans are apparently to: Make permanent renovations to the Manor and Taylor schools and convert them to kindergarten to grade three schools. Scale down the Park School project further, but keep it as a kindergarten to grade six school.

The change of heart means that elementary students will attend split sessions for the rest of the school year and perhaps longer. Seifried said the districts architects will present enrollment figures at Tuesday nights meeting, which the school board wiil mull over before making any changes in the current plans. He said he hopes the figures will justify CCCAs ideas. If (hey do, he will vote for it, Seifried said. The first indicator of a shift in CCCAs plans came when Seifried, responding to a question from a representative of the teachers' union, said the 550-student capacity Park Elementary Center might be scaled down a little more.

Why Build? Added director Sue Kauffman, another CCCA supporter, If the (student) population doesnt require it, why build all these classrooms? Then the schoool board rejected bids to renovate the Manor School. One reason was the lowest bidder made a mistake in submitting his bid and the second lowest bidder exceeded federal wage guidelines. But Seifried also said that temporary repair work was not good enough. While CCCA moved to consolidate its power on the board, a small crack in its armor showed. A Meisenbach motion to put a hold on all Park School plans was defeated.

In another show of its power, CCCA in effect told longtime school board solicitor Nikolaus to be loyal to CCCA building plans or lose his job. Meisenbach, who said he was investigating a change in solicitor, said the Columbia-based lawyer has done a very good job for the district. But he wanted to know if Nikolaus could be as diligent for the new school board, considering his support of the one-school plan. Nikolaus replied yes, explaining he saw the school building dispute dragging Colum- So COLUMBIA Pag 35 For Community Service Dr. Beittel Gets Sertoma Award Grinnell Employee Columbia Man Wins $50,000 In Pa.

Lottery Impresses State Demos Gov. Brown Campaigns In Penna. member of the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 and has held a seat on the board of the Community Action Program of Lancaster County. He is a past president of the Elizabeth Martin Elementary School PTA and a past board member of the Unitarian Church of Lancaster. An active member of the Lancaster Opera Worashop who has appeared in many productions.

Beittel currently serves as a medical advisor to the La Leche League, a medical consultant to Head Start in Pennsylvania and an advisory committee member of the Lancaster-Lebanon Learning Disability Association. Beittel is a director of the Lancaster County Public Library. Gov. Jerry Brown At Three Mile Island A Columbia mans pockets are a bit heavier, as he walked away a winner of $50,000 from a recent Big Fifty drawing in the Pennsylvania Lottery. Ralph Brummer, of Columbia R3, a millwright at the ITT-Grinnell plant in Columbia for 39 years, correctly matched the red, white and blue numbers 246, 12 and 5 for the winning combination.

I'll never forget those numbers, he said. The numbers were drawn on Nov. 14, but the winners were just announced this week by lottery officials. Previously Won $25 Brummer declined to say how many tickets he buys per week, but he remarked, "I played them ever since they started them. I won $25 about three years ago.

The Columbia- father of three and grandfather of four has been married to his wife, Theresa, for 40 years. He said he has no immediate plans for the money. I told the guys over at the lottery that I never expected to win it, so I never made any plans. Despite the windfall. Brummer said he expects to continue buying lottery tickets.

"I'll still buy, as long as I keep working and have my house and if it's for a good cause. They clam it is. he said. Lottery proceeds benefit the states senior citizens programs. In Philadelphia Local Ad Found On Murder Victim The Lancaster Sertoma Club presented its 1979 Service to Mankind award this afternoon to Dr.

Janies P. Beittel, a local pediatrician The award is presented annually to a person who ex emplifies outstanding community service. Beittel, 44, of 16 N.Bausman Drive, is active in a number of civic and community activities, and is a former member of the school board of the Lancaster School Dr. ome Beittel District. "Dr.

Beittel has been selected to receive this award for his many years of service to the Lancaster community, according to the organization's official statement. "He has been particularly active in working with retarded children and it is appropriate that this award be presented to Dr. Beittel in this, the International Year of the Child, the statement continued. Lancaster Native A Lancaster native, Beiitel is a graduate of McCaskey Ifigh School and Oberlin College. He attained his doctor of medicine degree at Temple University.

He served his intership at Lancaster General Hospital and a residency in Pediatrics at St. Christophers Hospital for Children, Philadelphia. Beittel is married to the former Mary-lin Pauley, a speech pathologist, and is the father of four children. In addition to numerous professional affiliations, Beittel was one of the founders of the Retarded Childrens Day Care Services of Lancaster County, now the S. June Smith Centers.

The pediatrician has served as president and board member of that organization. Beittel served three years as a board Former Local Couple Parents Of Triplets By JACK MOORE New Era Staff Writer California Gov. Jerry Brown the trailing third man in the Democrats 1980 presidential race served notice on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee Thursday that hes dead-serious about his candidacy. He said he expects to be our partys nominee, and insisted that we must refocus the direction of the nation, revitalize our thinking, our organization and its thrust or were in for profound trouble. "The nation is going down the drain, he suggested, "because our leaders are not telling the truth.

Both President Carter and Sen. Ted Kennedy are leading the nation in the wrong direction, he contended, criticizing their support of the $50-billion MX mobile missile system. Brown said domestic needs and the rebuilding of our deteriorating industrial capacity, not fear of Russia, should get top priorities. Brown spoke to the state committee late in the morning in Carlisle, after making an early-morning appearance in Philadelphia. Tours TMI Plant In the afternoon, Brown, an outspoken critic of nuclear power, toured the crippled and idle Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

He emerged to label President Carter "the chief salesman for the nuclear industry, and predict that todays electricity users will face billions more in higher bills if nuclear plant licensing is resumed by the federal government. Carter had drawn his loudest applause from the state committee when he had called for more national reliance on coal as an energy source. Reminding the group that California which has banned construction of any new nuclear plaqts is now building two new coal-burning power generating plants "that will be the cleanest in the world, Brown declared that, I cant think of anything that would help Pennsylvania more than if we were to stop the building of more nudear plants. Brown made an impressive hour-long late morning appearance before the state committee, speaking without notes and drawing repeated applause with his candid fielding of questions. Afterward, a number of committee members were overhear to agree, hes no flake he made sense.

National reporters traveling with him on this week-long live-estate campaign swing, reported that he had evoked similar reactions in his appearances this week in Iowa. Illinois, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. "He's banking heavily on making an -See GOV. BROWN -Pag 35 A middle-aged woman, described by Philadelphia homicide detectives as a "transient, was found beaten and strangled to death Tuesday morning in a North Philadelphia apartment building, and police said among her possessions was a newspaper advertisement for Rocky Springs bowling alley in Lancaster, Philadelphia police have no idea if the woman, who police knew as simply Mary Smith, is from Lancaster or how she came upon the clipping. They are seeking information as to her actual nanie, age, and address as well as suspects.

No arrests have been made. Sgt. Herbert Gibbons, one of the investigators. described the woman as follows: White female, 55-to-60 years old, five-foot-two, 100 pounds, blue eyes, graying white hair, partial dental work, partial good teeth and a bum scar on her right thigh. She was wearing a red wig.

Gibbons said the womans clothing was disheveled, but there is no indication she had been sexually assaulted. The woman was found dead about 11 a m. Tuesday in the basement of a three-story apartment building in the 700 block of Corinthian Avenue near the old Eastern State Penitentiary in North Philadelphia. A tenant discovered the body. Police said recently the woman had been going door-to-door among businesses in the area asking for handouts.

The woman, police said, was articulate, appeared to be well-educated, and, according to reports, dressed "fairly well. A former Lancaster couple living in Fort Myers Beach, became the parents of triplets Tuesday in a Miami hospital. Mr. and Mrs, Jack Carson, formerly of 367 Arbor Road, have known Mrs. Carson would give birth to triplets since September, so the couple has been preparing for the multiple births.

The paternal grandmother, Mrs. Helen Kaylor Carson, whn has been with the family since Thanksgiving, said that "everyone is fine and the babies will be hospitalized for another four to six weeks. The babies are named Jackie Jamie R. and Jennie and the doctors think the triplets are identical, which is quite a rarity, Mrs. Carson said.

The baby girls weighed two pounds, 13 ounces; three pounds; and three pounds, six ounces. The triplets mother, the former Barbara Nolt, of Eplirata, and also the mother of four teenage daughters, had to remain in bed for precautionary measures since the end of September. This is the second marriage for both parents. Mrs. Carson formerly lived in Ephrata where she operated Barb's Beauty Salon for eight years.

She has four daughters, Elizabeth Nolt, 19, and Sue Nolt. 18, who live in the Fort Myers area, and Julia Nolt, 15, and Carla Nolt, 13, at home. Carson, a native of Columbia, was employed by Gould's before moving to Florida where he is self-employed. Carsons parents, Mr. and Mrs; Jake Carson, of 602 S.

15th Columbia, have been living with the younger Carsons since Thanksgiving and will stay to offer another pair of hands she's really going to need them, said the grandmother. Suspect Coaxed Off Phila. Ledge PHILADELPHIA (AP) A robbery suspect jumped through an open courtroom window and then perched on a slippery, six-story ledge for IV2 hours before police coaxed him back inside. James Porter, 31, had been brought to the courtroom Thursday before Common Pleas Judge Marvin Halbert to stand trial for simple assault, robbery and burglary, according to prosecutors. After diving through the window, Porter ran along a three-foot ledge, slickened by a cold rain.

He then re-entered the building down the hall only to be chased back onto the ledge by police and deputy sheriffs. Shot During Confusion Porter was shot during the confusion. For an hour and a half Porter stood on the ledge, shuffling from one foot to the other, or sat on a window air conditioner in the rain. Police, leaning through two windows that flanked him, tried to coax him back inside. Then at 11:59 a.m., Porter stepped inside.

He was handcuffed and led to an elevator. Afterwards, he was admitted to the James C. Giuffre Medical Center with a bullet wound above his left elbow, police said. Doctors also removed a lead fragment from Porters neck. Staff Inspector Paul Frankenfield said police knew of only one shot being fired, by a deputy sheriff.

Duke Home Decorates Pine Tree For Birds' Holiday The residents at Duke Convalescent Residence, 425 N. Duke who spend a good bit of their time watching the neighborhood birds and squirrels, decided that Christmas is for the birds, too. Today they trimmed a pine tree on the side lawn near the parking lot for their feathered and four-footed friends, with strings of popcorn and cranberries, and pine cones that have been spread with peanut butter and trimmed with red yarn. They have been working all week popping popcorn, stringing cranberries, and preparing the pine cones, with the help of the activities director, Jean Ramsay, nurses and volunteers from Lancaster Catholic High School and RovnrtMc Hiph Srhool. RRTA's New Monthly Photo Pass Goes On Sale Monday The Red Rose Transit Authority will begin selling the new monthly RRTA pass on Monday at Jaffaes Camera Center, 24 E.

King St. Identification pictures will be taken for the passes beginning Dec. 17 through Jan. 5, Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m and Saturday from 10 a.m.

to noon at Jaffaes Camera Center. Alternate photo times can be arranged by calling the RRTA office. Monthly passes will be effective on board all RRTA buses beginning Jan. 2. Bus riders who have questions about the pass program are urged to call RRTA.

Daify Lottery The winning daily lottery number or Dec. 13 is: 7-1-9.