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25 years ago
SERGEANT DIES: A nine-year veteran of the Manheim Borough police force died after an accidental fire broke out in his police cruiser and filled it with smoke. A fellow officer found Sgt. Delbert Flowers, 32, in his unmarked car near the borough maintenance shed. (Nov. 9, 1984)
MALL SHOOTOUT: While more than two dozen horrified people looked on, a gun battle broke out among several men in Park City Center shortly after 10 p.m. on a Friday night. Three men were wounded, and one later died of his injuries. The man who fired the fatal shot was acquitted after pleading self-defense. (Nov. 10, 12 and 13, 1984)
WATER TOWER: The East Hempfield Township Water Authority voted to place a new 3.5-million-gallon water tank in Getz's Woods, despite objections of property owners in the area. Officials said the tank was needed to relieve water-pressure problems in the area. (Nov. 13, 1984)
HOSPITAL CUTS: St. Joseph Hospital announced that decreased revenues, fewer patients and increased competition were forcing it to lay off the equivalent of 60 employees. The hospital planned to lay off 44 to 46 full-time workers and reduce the hours of others. (Nov. 15, 1984)
50 years ago
CORNERSTONE: The Hellenic Orthodox Community was living proof of the old axiom, "Where there's a will, there's a way," the Right Rev. Germanos Liamadis, Titular Bishop of Constantia, said during cornerstone-laying ceremonies for the new Church of the Annunciation on Hershey Avenue. Placed into the cornerstone were 1959 coins and a list of local, state and national church officials. After the mortaring by the bishop, each church member filed past and added a little mortar to the stone. (Nov. 9, 1959)
HEALTH PLAN: City police and firefighters asked for hospitalization coverage for their families in the 1960 budget. Only city employees were covered in the 1959 budget. (Nov. 10, 1959)
URBAN RENEWAL: Architects and city planners presented an $8.1 million proposal for the 244-acre Adams-Musser Towns Renewal Area in southeast Lancaster city. The plan called for 240 public-housing units, $700,000 in work to the Higbee School, a $140,000 city garage, a new municipal parking area on Howard Avenue and 21 acres of parks and greenways, including a major park along the Conestoga River. (Nov. 10, 1959)
75 years ago
WHEATLAND: Erection of a building to be used by the Lancaster County Historical Society was provided in the will of Miss Mary Rettew of Lancaster Township, who had died a week earlier. The will called for the building to be erected at the southwest corner of Marietta and President avenues, just east of "Wheatland," the home of President James Buchanan. The will also directed Miss Rettew's executors to sell Wheatland. The day after the will was published, leaders of the local Junior League announced they were seeking to buy Wheatland and convert the home and as many of the original furnishings as possible into a permanent shrine. (Nov. 9 and 10, 1934)
TROLLEY DEATH: A soft-pretzel vendor died after suffering a heart attack aboard a West Belt trolley at West King and Pine streets. He had been selling pretzels near Franklin & Marshall College and the West Junior High School and had boarded the trolley at Nevin and Chestnut streets. (Nov. 13, 1934)
100 years ago
TEEN TRAGEDY: A teenager who was rabbit hunting near Maytown died instantly when he was struck in the head by a bullet fired accidentally from a friend's gun. The gun discharged when the youth jumped from a fence. For the shooter, it was two tragedies in two seasons. During the summer, the youth had been fishing in the Susquehanna River when a bolt of lightning struck and killed a companion, and he had to row to shore with the dead boy's body in the boat. (Nov. 15, 1909)
