Lititz Record

              Vol. LVIII LITITZ, PA. THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934 No, 2
Local Woman Aids
Attempts to Revive
Ship-Fire Victims
Mrs. J, L. Hertz, Vacationing
At Shore, Among Volunteers
In Vain Work On Bodies
Mrs, J. L. Hertz, E. Main Street,
was one of the many volunteer
nurses along- the New Jersey
coast who assisted in trying to
revive victims of the recent Mono
Castle disaster. She, with Mrs.
Norman Badorf, returned to Lititz
on Monday a f t e r a two weeks' stay
at Manasquan, a resort about two
miles f r om Sea Girth.
Although about 20 bodies were
"washed up on the shore at Manas-quan,
and artificial respiration and
hot applications were administered
to them, not one was revived.
I t is believed that most of them
had died of exposure and exhaus-tion
as the beach was five to six
miles from the scene of the burn-ing
liner. The victims, had been in
the water from seven to eight
hours. The first body washed
ashore at this point was an elderly
"woman 60 or 70 years old.
A touching arid yet beautiful
scene, as related by Mrs. Hertz,
was that of the priest from Spring
Lake administering the last rites
to the victims on the boardwalk.
Although the loss of lives seemed
terrible at the time it happened,
she says it grows more horrible as
she thinks over it. Her wish is
t h a t she may communicate to the
relative^ and. friends of those who
were found at Manasquan the
message that loving care was given
to their loved ones.
Tendered Shower
A surprise shower was tendered
Miss Dorothy lVIiksch Friday at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
William Miksch, by eig-hteen of her
friends in honor of her engagement
t3 William Fasnacht.
Misses Grace and Margaret Mi:
ler arranged th( party, and others
present were: Misses Dorothy
Roth, Margaret Souders, Myrtle
"vckert, Virginia Nissly, Mary
"' lishleman, Mrs. Charles P'fautz
Mrs. James Mummert, Mrs. Lloyd
Smith, William Fasnacht, Mr. and
Mr«. Albert Hernley and daughte :,
Both, Mrs. Elmer Bomberger and
Mrs. Lloyd Bomberger.
Board Plans Final
Athletic Field Work
Final work to complete the ath •
letic field on West Orange Street
was authorized last night at the
September meeting of the Lititz
School Board in the High School.
This called for the expenditure of
$546 for trees and other necessary
material, the labor to be paid for
by the Government. Work is ex-pected
to start by the first of next
month.
Discussion of the field and of the
plans for an addition to the present
building, if the Government goes
through with its plan to aid in
financing such a building project,
occupied most of the time of the
meeting, which was attended by
all members.
The board refused to sanction
long distance automobile trips by
classes, for which private cars are
hired or borrowed, because of the
great liability to the car owners.
This matter was brought up by
the request of the senior class to go
to Philadelphia tomorrow.
The board also issued a warning
about the discharging of air rifles
by boys in the vicinity of the school.
The t r e a s u r e r reported a balance
of $13,572.51 and bills amounting'
to $3,400 were approved and order-ed
paid.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Workman,
-who have been visiting here since
their return from Europe a month
e; so ago have gone to ,New York
vvhere Mr. Workman will be sta-tioned
for some time by the Inter-national
Telephone and Telegraph
Company, with whom he has been
employed for a number of years.
Charles K. Keath will build two
houses, on the South side of Front
Street, between Locust and North
Streets.
Lititz Lodge, Knights of Malta,
will hold the first of a series of
card parties on Saturday evening.
October 6th.
Mr. and Mrs. John Brinsef and
family, of Middletown, visited Mr.
and Mrs. T. T. Dussinger on Sun-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Brinser moved
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New Airport Close To Town
To be One of Finest in U. S.
Completion of the Lancaster air-port
near Kissel Hill is not only
assured but when finished, it "will
be one of the finest landing fields
in this country, Henry W. Bru-baker,
of Lancaster, told the Lititz
Rotary Club at the weekly meeting
i.. the General Sutter Hotel Tues-day
evening'.
Mr. Brubaker, an official of the
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co.,
1 resident of the Lancaster School
Board and a member of the com-mittee
that negotiated for the air-port,
spoke very interestingly of
the project and related some facts
about it that are not generally
la: own.
Many surveys have been made in
past years for an airport for this
County, Mr. Brubaker said, and
nearly everyone of them chose a
spot at or near the present location
as the ideal site. But the only re-sult
of these surveys was the crea
tion of the privately owned pres-ent
Lancaster airport on the Man-heim
pike.
It was with the creation of the
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Shoiu Board
Changes Day of
Mummers Parade
The Mummers Parade of the an-nual
Community Show here will be
held this year on Thursday evening,
it was decided at the meeting of
the Show Association Monday eve-ning.
The change was made to.
draw a crowd of people here that
night, which usually has the small-est
crowd.
Alo.ng with the switching of the
parade f r om Saturday to Thursday,
steps were taken to insure that
the entire show would be ready
for opening that evening. This will
mean advancing the time for the
entries, judging and setting up. of
concessions.
Another good crowd attended the
meeting of the Association, and
progress along many lines was re-
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Fall Weather Here
Tastes of various kinds of Fall
weather were on hand this past
week. Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday brought rain, which
turned into a steady downpour on
Sunday. Wind's that night chased
much of the dampness, hut brought
cooler air and shivers. Yesterday
morning brought a light f r o s t , ard
¿'though the air grew warmer
summer appears to have departed.
Baseball Season Closes,
Browns Win Play-Off
The Browns were declared cham-pions
of the Legion Twilight Base-ball
League Tuesday night when
they defeated the Giants, 3 to 2.
for their second straight in the
best-of-three series, for title honors
This game officially closed the
baseball season in Lititz for this
year. AH players in the League
will now turn in their uniforms so
f t h a t ¡they may be packed away at
I t h e Legion Post Home until next
1 season's opening.
Junior League Horse Show
To Be Held On Saturday
The horse show of the Lancaster
Junior League, scheduled for last
Satuday but called off due to .the
rain, will be held this Saturday at
the Log Caibin farms, southeast of
town.
The full program as planned for
last Saturday will be carried out
and with more than 80 horses en-tered,
the show promises to be one
-of the finest held in this County.
Cash prizes and ribbons, will be
awarded in two of the classes af
the show, and cups and ribbons
-ill be given in the other 12.
Will Spend Some Time Here
•Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D, Light
and daughters, Mary Ellen and
Betty, of St. Petersburg, Florida,
will arrive tomorrow to spend some
t:me with Mr. Light's sister and
brother, Mrs. W. M. Grube and
Walter Light,
Tax Collector's Notice
T. Stevens Grosh, Tax Collector,
will be at the following places f r om
2 to 8 P. M.: Wagner's. Store, Sept.
21; Warwick House, Sept. 22; Five
.Points Store, Sept. 28, and f r om 8
\ . M. to 8 P. M. at Park View Ho-cer,
September 2.9, ad
Former Local Student Writes
rticle in Chemistry Magazine
Ernest G. Enck, a former local
b.iy and graduate of Lititz High
School in 1925, now a Research
Chemist for the Foote Mineral Co.,
Philadelphia, has written some
articles along the line of rare earth
metals used in ceramics (the art of
making earthenware), which have
appeared at various times in the
"Foote-Print," quarterly publica-tion
of the Foote Company.
Recently, one of these articles
was revised with the help of G. II.
Chambers, another employee of the
F'oote Company, and published in
the May issue of "Chemical Indus-t
r i e s " under the title of "Lithium
Salts and Lithium Ores."
This, f a c t in itself is not phenom-inal,
but the knowledge that Mr.
Enek has received no school train-ing
in chemistry other than that
of his high school coarse under
Miss Anna K. Miller and a small
amount of evening study at the
University of Pennsylvania:, speaks
well for his. local school training
and former teacher. And it makes
Lititz justly proud of the things
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Linden Hall Re-opens
An increase over the enrollment
of fast year marked the opening
of the 188th term at Linden Hall
yesterday. Many students returned
tc the school in Tuesday, others
arrived yesterday and still more
are expected within the next sev-eral
days.
1500 People Hear
Chorus Song Fest
Program In Church Of the
Brethren Realizes Enough To
Endow Ten Hospital Beds
Reckless Driver Held
D. R. Neeham, of Sullivan Co.,
was arrested for reckless driving
by Chief of Police Kreider on Mon-day
night. He will have a hearing
before Squire Andrew Shissler in
the near future.
Improvements In Town
The Lititz Springs Garage is re-ceiving
a crat of paint.
The gutter crossing plate at the
driveway into Leaman's. Store, N.
Broad Street, has been torn up and
a new concrete- gutter laid.
. Roller Skating' Saturday Night,
10c and 15c. LUTZ HALL. ad.
About 1500 people attended the
Song Fest presented by the East
Petersburg Accapella Male Chorus
in the Church of the Brethren, Sun-day
evening. An overflow throng
of about 300 listened to the music
amplified in the basement of the
Church, and it was estimated that
at least 200 more went to their
homes not caring to hear the pro-gram
by loud speaker. The collec-tions
of the afternoon and evening
amounted to $223.46, with the eve-ning
contibutions alone amounting
to $181. About 1000 attended^the
congregational singing service held.
:n the afternoon, quite a few of
A'hom enjoyed the coffee served in
the basement of the Church at the
supper hour.
The proceeds will endow 10 or 11
beds in the Dr. A. D. Helser Hos-pital
in Africa, The Chorus ex-
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Henry Hess, Nathan Fahnest&ck,
J. M. Leed, Clayton Royer, J. B.
Kauffman and Samuel Givler re-port
a good time and a good catch
at Lewes, Del., on Tuesday. If
you don't believe it, ask Mr. Royer.
And as you are reading these
lines, N. D. StuTgis, H. R. Wertsch,
Rev. Byron K. Home, Lloyd Smith
end Dr. D. A. Long will be pulling
fish out of Delaware Bay. They
left early this morning.
Among the manufacturing group
exhibitors at the Lancaster Fair
we noticed the local machinists and
engineers, Morrison - Turner Co.,
who were demonstrating two ma-chines
of their own manufacture.
We hear much talk of organizing
a Sunday School Basketball League
f o r this, f a l l and winter with games
being played on the spacious Lutz
court in the east end. It certainly
looks like, a good proposition thus
f a r and we hope it can be started.
As f a r as the playing floor arrange-ments
are concerned there will be
no trouble getting along with Mr.
Luitz on the matter for he's, all in
favor of sports f o r the boys.
Although the weather was rather
cool, Jacob Harry Smith, janitor of
the local schools, took a swim, ac-cidentally.
He was giving the fish
a break by cleaning their pond on
the school campus when he fell in.
Poor, welt Jacob Harry Smith.
Constable Singley threw the first
rock in the path of one. case of
love Saturday night vvhen ' b e tag-
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