Lititz Record Express

              i t Onr fighting men are doing
their share. Here at home
the least we can do is pnt 10%
of onr income in War Bonds
for our share in Amerien-
Vol. LXIV
5 Mot everybody with a dollar
§ to spare can shoot a gun
^ straight—but everybody can
■hoot straight to the bank and
r boy War Bonds. Bag yew
“ 10% ovsry pay day.
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Lititz. Lancaster Co.; Pa.. April 29, 1943 No. 28
Keeping Up With
The Ratoning Changes
Bond Drive
Still Short
Of Goal Here
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Sale* Must Total Over
$50,000 Daily Today
And Tomorrow
Residents Of Lititz must pur­chase
a daily average oi more
than $60,000 in war bonds today
and tomorrow if the second war
loan drive is to reach its goal,
William Fassnacht, local chair­man,
anounced yesterday.
At the close of business Tuesday
a total of $324,000 in bonds had
been purchased since the campaign
was launched several weeks ago.
The goal is $500,000 before May 1,
based on a population of 5,000 per­sons.
The national quota is $13, 000,-
000,000, which is *100 per person.
Stamp hooks which are completed
by April 30, tomorrow, wil toe in­cluded
in the local quota, Mr.
Fassnacht explained.
'Solicitors are calling from door-to-
door in town. The committee
advised that if anyone has been
missed in this solicitation that
they ge to* the post office or the
two local banks and make pur­chases
of bonds before closing
time Friday. .
SPORTSMEN'S ACTIVITIES
A booklet listing the aotivlttea
of the Lititz Sportsmen’s Associa­tion
for the past ten years has
just been compiled toy Abe Her-shey
and is being circulated among
members of the group.
Victory Club
To Hear Talk
On Canning
Miss Diffenderfer To Ex­plain
Five Ways To
Preserve Food
The subect “Spring Canning”—
more important now than ever be­fore—
will be discussed May 3, by
Miss Diffenderfer of the PP & L
at the Animal Trap Co. Health for
Victory Club meetihg.
With food rationing making it
necessary for housewives to plan
row for next winter’s meals, Miss
Diffenderfer will describe - five
ways to preserve food; dehydrat­ing,
quick freezing, brining, can­ning
and storing foods in cellars
’j '-f main part of her talk, how­ever,
will deal with the preparation
of food for quick freezing and four
principal ways to can foods, in­cluding
pressure cooker,' oven or
roaster, water bath and open kettle
methods.
Discuasng the coming meeting,
Mis Diffenderfer today said:
“Many women who never canned
foods will give a slight shudder
at the idea, remembering the child­hood
days when they saw a boiler
on the "■‘■ove filled with bubbling
tomatoes.
“But canning today is different;
it’s streamlined. The pressure
cooker, electric oven and roaster
nrthods eliminate the mess that
used to go with canning,”
ome women who never did any
canning, Miss Diffenderfer point­ed
out, probably will fear their
Tack of previous experience will
make it difficult to preserve focds
in such a way that there will be
no spoiling. - i . i
“If certain fundamental rule are
■followed, canning will be complete­ly
successful,” Hie home economist
explained. “Thé firt rule is al­ways
use good quality, fresh, clean
fruits and vegetables. Blanch all
vegetables in S steam bath is the
second requirement. Other 'musts'
ar to sterilize all, containers and
use the proper equipment.”
For Home Dressed Meat follew
the crowd and land in LUTZ’S
Meat Mayket. Prices,, a i^ quality
do the trick. Phone 293 R. We
deliver-
GASOLINE—‘A” Book Coupons
No. 5 are good for three gallons
each and must last through July
21 in the east coast shortage area.
COFFEE—Stamp No. 23 (1 lb.)
good from 26 through May 30.
SUGAR—Coupon No. 12 good
good from April 26 through May.
30.
FUEL OIL—Period 5 coupons
valid in all zones.
-SHOES—No. 17 stamp in War
Ration Book One good for one pair
through June 15.
RED STAMPS—-Red stamps let­tered
“E” became valid April 25.
Expiration date to be announced.
’ Unused A, B, C, or D stamps good
through April 30. v
BLUE STAMPS—D, E, F ex­pire
oh April 30, G, H, J became
valid April 24, and are good until
May 31. ‘ /
To Be Sent
To Russians
Catons To Be Placed In
Firehouse Friday, Satur­day
And Monday
Lititz has been asked to say
"Thank you”, to our Russian allies,
in a way that everyone will under­stand.
The civilian population of
the war desolated area, needs
clothing. We are being asked to
give our discarded, outgrown, old-fashioned
and useless garments to
clothe the men, women and chil­dren
who are returning to the
ruins, which they call home.
The collection will be made Fri­day,
Saturday and Monday, ending
Monday- afternoon when the car­tons
of old clothing will be taken
away.
Leave your contributions at the
Fire House, where carbons are
conveniently placed. Warm cloth­ing
is especially desirable, as the
Russian winters, recently sampled
by the Hitler army, can be severe.
This drive for clothing will be
conducted under the auspices of
the committee in Lancaster of
which F. Lyman Windolph ,is .the
head.
Mrs. M. C. Demmy is in charge
of the collection in Lititz, and will
supervise the paeking and sorting
of all contributions.
Tin Can Collection
Here Wed., Thursday
t* -
Tin cans will toe collected at the
local school next Wednesday and
Thursday. Christ Nissly, chairman
of the Lititz Salvage Committee,
announced today. Nissly empha­sized
the need of obtaining, more
tin in order that thè defense work
can continue uninterruptedly. -
Persons having cans to contri­bute
are asked to clean them and
flatten them out in the manner
prescribed toy the defense council
and to take them to the school
building. 'Those unable to take
the cans are to call iM. C. Demmy,
supervising principali, who will
make arrangements for the collec­tion
of the cans.
Hagers Display
War Products
An inttresting display of war
products being turned out by 16
manufacturing plants of Lancaster
city and-county is attracting much
attention at Hager’s Store, West
King Street, Lancaster. The huge
display, -which includes two Lititz
plants,, occupies the entire 17
windows of the Hager store.
The two local plants (represented
are Sensenicb Brothers, propeller
manufacturers, and the Animal
Trap Company of America. The
■Sensenich display includes a num­ber
of propellers of the type being
used extensively by our flying
forces in the . wan The Animal
Trap Company‘has exhibited bul­lets
manufactured-here.
Postal Card Query
You will get a postal card ap­plication
for Ration Book Three
in your mailbox between May 20
and June 5. The head of the
house will fill out the cards for the
famjly and post them between
June 1 and June 10. It will save
you standing in line at the school-house.
Don’t Start Rumors
At the same time OPA Admin­istrator
Prentiss M. Brown asks
you not to start rumors about Ra­tion
Book Three described as a
“replacement book.”
“We will be reported making
ready to ration clothing ( although
this one has been worn pretty
threadbare), stockings, neckties,
fresh vegetables, broomis, fish or
what have you,” says Mr. Brown.
$125 For
Playground
Appropriation Is Turned
Over To Youth Council
Of Boough
. Lititz’ Youth Council was givn
the “go-ahead” ignal to conduct
the playground in the park here
ths summer and to present a sum­mer
youth program when borough
council Tuesday evening appropri-ted
$125 to help finance the pro­ject.
\
Through Warren Diehm, presi­dent
of the Youth Council, bor­ough
officials were informed that
the local group had planned a com­plete
summer youth- program- pro­viding
that appropriations are giv­en
by the council and -by the bor­ough
school board.
At a recent meeting, it was re­ported,
the borough school board
approved the project and agreed
to appropriate an amount equal
to that donated by the borough.
This method of financing the sum­mer
recreation was used several
years ago.
'Later Tuesday evening the bor­ough
school board also appropria­ted
$125 for playgrounds.
The motion to appropriate $125*
by the borough was introduced by
Councilman Harry Way and e-conded
by Councilman Thomas
Steffy. The motion was passed
unanimously with all members of
council voting.
To Improve Fountain
A motion also was passed to re­pair
and re-paint the fountain in
the quare. Ground beneath the
fountain will -have to be dug away
in order to clean out a clogged-up
drain pipe, it was explained.
Any other repair found necessary
will be made and the whole orna­ment
will be given a bright new
coat of paint, according to plans.
Noble Street Again
Proposed improvements to Noble
Street which Jiave been under diis-cusion
by council periodically for
the past three years 'again bobed
up this week when Raymond Sch­midt,
one of the residents, appear­ed
before council and requested
that curb b laid in front of the
property of Harry Adams in order
to prevent part of the street from
being washed away.
Owners of the property will be
contacted and if the curbing is not
laid, definite action will be taken,
it was indicated.
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
Two representatives from the
local school’ wil lattend the ses-
Economics Association meeting in
sions of -the Pennsylvania Home
Wilkes Barr« this Friday, They
are Miss - (Margaret Hewer« - home
economics teacher, and Miss Fay
Carpenter, a . senior in the "home
economics department, who • is
"listed;- as one of the speakers for
the • meeting,,. Miss Carpnter will
discuss, (‘Planning, ¡for Tomorrow.”
V. F. W.
Raided After
Warning
Burgess Rohrer Informs
Council Many Complaints
Were Received
- The raid staged here Saturday
afternoon by borough police in
which four slot machines were
seized at the Veterans of Foreign
Wars on Spruce Street cateé as
the result of a series of complaints
and following due warning, Bur­gess
Menno Rohrer informed bor­ough
council Tuesday evening.
“I am sorry that the raid ,had
to be made upon a veterans’ or­ganization
but due warning was
given through Cheif of Police
NMder several weeks ago that if
machines were operated we would
prosecute,” Burgess ¡Rohrer ex­plained.
In- the raid staged by local pol­ice
without the usual fanfare of
state and county police assistance,
four slot machines all set-up and
ready for what had been expected
to toe a big ©aster week-end haul,
were seized.
Warrants were served against
Earl Disinger and John Todd, tooth
of this borough, both of whom pro­vided
'$*00 bail each ¡for hearings
before Justice of the ¡Peace Joseph
B. Herr this ¡Saturday.
Local police were given full cre­dit
for the raid. Gaining admis­sion
to the post home Friday ev­ening,
according to Cheif of Police
Clarence -Kreider, Night Officer
Luther Nagle played the slot ma­chines
for half an hour. At that
time Dissinger was on duty and
was named in the original com­plaint
sworn out before ’¡Squire
Herr.
Accompanied toy Burgess Rohrei,
Chief of Police Kreider, ¡Nagle and
Constable Raymond Binkley staged
their raid shortly after two o’clock
Saturday afternoon ¡when, they
claim, they ¡found John Todd in
charge and four machines ¡set-up
ready for play. The machines
were removed and taken to ‘Squire
Herr’s office.
According to ¡Burgess Rohrer,
complaints that gambling devices
were being used at the home were
received several months ago. At
that time he sent Chief of Police
to the V. F. W. home to Warn those
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Name Classes
For Local
Antique Show
Mrs. Martín Risser, Gener­al
Chaiman Of Exhibits
May 13 - 14
The various classes and chair­men
for the Antique and Hobby
¡show to be presented by the Lititz
Woman’s Club on May 13 and 14
in the former Marlite Grille ¡build­ing
have been announced by Mrs.
Martin Risser, chairman of the
Ways and Means committee.
The show is promoted to stimu­late
the ¡sale of War stamps and
bonds and the public is cordially
invited to take an active part by
placing exhibits and also attend­ing.
M
rs. Risser announced the fol­lowing
classes with their respect­ive
chairman: Class 1, Hobbies for
children, Mrs. Demmy and Mrs.
Willis Fasnacht; Class 2, Anti­ques,
Mrs. Norman Badorf, Mrs.
Valentine Brobst and Mrs. William
,Stanton; Clasts 3, adult hobbies,
Mrs. John Garber and Miss Betty
Girvin; Class 4, Anything unusual,
Mlisis Lena Risser; Mrs. Paul Mc­Cloud;
Class 5, flower arrange­ment,
Mrs. Frank Hunter and
Mrs. Wiliam Young.
All exhibits are to be set up on
Wednesday, May 12 from seven to
ten o’clock.
Mrs. Henry Muth is in charge
of admissions and war saving
stamps. Mrs. Harry Weaver and
Mrs. C. Eugene Long, of the work­ers,
assisting during; the show.
Want Clothing Council Gives
TRIO FROM LITITZ
NOW WITH THE MARINES
Robert B. Enck
Boro To Fine
Owners Of
Stay Dog
Draw Up Ordinance To
Put An End To Nuisance
Throughout Town
Norman Faus, Jr.
Theodore Brosey
Local Youths
Get Training
In Marines
Col. Smith Praises Trio
For Alertness In Preli-x
minary Training
(Special to the Record-Express)
Philadelphia—Three more Lititz
men are taking-their places at the
head of a large group now receiv­ing
training at the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South
Carolina, according to Colonel W.
Dulty Smith, officer in charge.
The three who show more than
the uual promise of living up to
the reputation of the Devil-Dog®
are Robert B. Enck, 305 North Ce­dar
Street; Norman Fans, Jr., 23
East Main Street; and Theodore
¡Brosey, 66 North Water Street,
all of Lititz, Pa. I
At Parris Island, the youthful
Devil Dogs.arenjja^tructed in close
order drill, bayonet, rifle, pistol,
and other basic element of mo­dem,
high-speed warfare.
At the end of six weeks of in­tensive
training, men leave Parris
Island for posts at home and a-broad.
Dogs must be kept tied—or their
owners will be hauled before local
justice of the peace and fin-id.
This was the ultimatim handed
down by members of borough
council Tuesday evening following
a lengthy discussion of scores of
complaints th^t dogs are doing
considerable damage to newly-dug
gardens here.
The mlatter was brought official­ly
before -the councilmanic group
when Burgess Rohrer reported
■that police here have received
more complaints this Spring than
ever before. Councilman Guy Cal­vert
also reported that many per­sons
had contacted him and asked
¡that the borongh do something to
rid the town of the nuisance.
Informed that under the exist­ing
state law, local 'police could
shoot any dog found running loose
which did not have a license and
that ¡the same could be done to
licensed dogs after the
were given a warning,
of council emphatically agreed
that they had no desire to shoot
any of the pets here.
Councilman Harry Way then re­ported
that he had ¡asked the bor­ough
solicitor to draw up a pro­spective
dog ordinance but that
Mr. Mueller had not had ¡suffici­ent
time to do this. On the recom­mendation
of Councilman Calvert
it then was 'agreed to ask Mr.
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Local Youth
Painfully Burned
Seriously burned when he ¡tossed
¡turpentine on a fire while burning
brush Tuesday night, Fred Andes,
flifteen-year-old ¡son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Andes, 67 East Front
¡Street, was -admitted -to the Lan­caster
General Hospital.
At the hospital it was revealed
that the youth, a student in the
fifth grade, had sustained painful
burns -oif the face and chest.
Youth Give
Program At
Rotary Club
High School Students Dis­cuss
Problems And Ac­tivities
At School
Miss Mifler
Resigns From
Local Faculty
Retires A'ftr Teaching For
45 Years; Taught Here
31 Years
Evangilical Conference
Now In Session
Davidson Replaces
William Zartman
Learning that William Zartman,
fortaer, borough street employe
had quit his job to accept the posi­tion
of caretaker of the athletic
field for the borough- school board,
members of borough council Tues­day
evening voted to “accept his
resignation."
In a second resolution introduc­ed,.
council unanimously' approved
the appointment of Monroe David­son:
to fill the vacancy. Davidson
took over his duties several weeks
ago.
The 21st auual conference of the
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
of Evanglical Churches opened
this morning at Grace Church,
Lancaster And will continue until
Mienday, May 3. Dr. L. C. Hunt
of Trinity E. C. Church offered the
prayer at- the opening session this
morning at 9 A. M. Raymond
Reedy is the delegate represent­ing
Trinity Church.
The Board of Missions and Con­ference
Missionary ¡Society met on
Wednesday, April 28 with Rev. L.
C. Hunt, president, in charge.
Evening ¡services of the confer­ence
will feature outstanding
speakers and special music. The
public is invited to attend these
services. Guest speaker at the
evening ffieeting of the conference
on Wednesday was Rv. Dr. Go. W.
Hensoon, Philadelphia. The speak­er
this evening is Rev. P. Vanis
Slawter, Germantown; Friday eve­ning,
Dr. Ralph W. S-chlosser, Eli­zabethtown
and Saturday evening
Rev. Leon T. Moore, Philadelphia.
Evening meetings begin a t 7:30.
That the youth of Lititz are con­scious
of the many problems
brought about by war conditions
and are seriouly: seeking the ans­wers
was shown during a Youth
Week program presented at the
General Sutter Hotel Tuesday ev­ening
toy -the Lititz Rotary Club.
Discussions of various activities
owners at the borough school were dis­members
cussed by three students; Lamarr
Furlow, president of the student
council; Fay Carpenter, home
economics student who represent­ed
the state at a national home
economics conference in (Boston
last year; and Betty Cox, local
art student whose sketches already
have attracted much favorable
comment.
In his talk, Furlow described
many of the things being done by
the local student body in ¡prepar­ing
themselves to help in the war
-effort.' In a ¡bond-selling drive to
raise enough money to cover the
cost of a jeep, -students in three
weeks chalkd up a total of $2,2,56
toward their goal of $2,400. All
of this amount represents bonds
and1 stamps purchased by students
and teachers alone without out­side
assistance, he explained.
Miss \ ¡Carpenter urged local
families to budget ration coupons
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Boro Gas Reduced
From 4400 to 5230 Miles
Miss Ann!a K. ¡Miller, a teacher
for the past forty-five years, the
majority of which were spent as
a member of the faculty of the
Lititz High School, announced this
week that she wil retire at the
close of the present term.
Miss Miler’s resignation was
submitted to a meeting of the
borough school board Tuesday ev­ening
and accepted. Members of
the hoard highly lauded her long
and successful career as a teacher
in the local school.
Miss (Miller accepted a teaching
position here -thirty-one years ago
and has been a member of the loc­al
faculty ever since. In 19-14 she
became principal of the local
school following the death of Ab­ram
Longenecker, a position she
held for five and one-half years.
Since then she has taught scien­ce
in the high school and is one
of the most popular members of
the local faculty among students
and hundred® of members of the
alumni. She is a graduate of Mil-lersvi'Ue
Normal and Elizabeth­town
College.
Elect New Teacher
The school board Tuesday an­nounced
the appointment of Miss
Betty D. ¡Solh a sa second grade
teacher. She will 'be an addition
to the grade school ¡faculty inas­much
as three second grade
classes instead of two will be held
next year. She is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania
an dtaught several yeaTS at Quak-ertown,
Pa.'
YOUTH ASSOCIATION
WIL MEET TONIGHT
The Borough of Lititz received
the type of “reduction” in gasoline
all of us would like to receive, it
was divulged here this week.
In a certificate of necessity re­ceived
from tlje rationing officials,
borough officials were informed
that the borough during the pres­ent
quarter “will receive a reduc­tion
in gasoline for borough uses
from 4,400 mile® to 5,230 miles.”
Borough officials were unable to
explain the figure®. Councilman
Harry Way, also a member of the
rationing group, consented to re­turn
the form to Ephrata for clari­fication.
Campaign Conducted Here
In Fiphmt On Cancer
The Littz Youth Association will
hold a meeting this evening with
the seniors meeting in the high
school gymnasium when basket­ball,
volley ball, badminton, shuffle-board
and table tennis will be feat­ured
and the juniors meeting in
the Moravian Sunday School build­ing
when quoits and table tennis
will be played. Craftwork will al­so
be featured. The Lions club
contributed $75 to the organiza­tion
and the Lititz Woman’s club
$25. Two ping pong tables were
given by Edward Stroible and Ro­bert
Mearig.
LIBRARY MEETING TUESDAY
The annual meetng of the Lititz
Public Library Association will be
¡held Tuesday, May 4 at the high
school. The meeting wil lfeature
¡the election of one new director
and will discuss plans for the com­ing
year.
An appeal for volunteers to con­tinue
the fight against cancer was
made here this week by the local
women’s committee of the Amer­ican
Society for the Control of
Cancer in conjunction with similar
pleas made throughout the nation.
The campaign for funds is con­ducted
annually and has always
been given considerable support
locally. Fund® raised during this
campaign are used to promote the
fight against cancer with a large
percentage of these funds remain­ing
in the county for clinical work.
Person®, anxious to help the
fight to conquer cancer should mail-or
send check® to Mrs. Frank Hun­ter,
»West End Avenue, this bor­ough.
Miss S. C. Hurst,- 234 Char­lotte
Street, Lancaster,/is county
Chairman. Women anxious to
help in this work are asked to en­list
in the Women’s Field Army
of the Society at this time. -
For centuries cancer threatened
hi inanity with its hopeless fear.
Today the Women’s Field Army of
thé American Society for the Con­trol
of Cancer carries to every
home the message that cancer can
be cured if discovered early.
¡Launchd in 1936, the Army to­day
has Divisions iii forty-seven
states and the District of Colum­bia.
It seeks to form units in
every county and community in the
United States. It has the approv­al
and support of the American
Medical Associât’->n, the Amer­ican
College of Surgeons, and the
U. S. Public Health Service. It
has the cooperation of large na­tional
women’s organizations, the
guidance' of state and local medi­cal
societies, and the assistance of
thousands of individuals. The
Congress of the U^ted State*, ap­preciating
the importance of the
cancer control program, in 1938
set aside the month of April as
Cancer Control Month. During
April the Women’s Field Army ap­peals
to everyone, both men and
women, to everyone, both men and
to participate in its work;
*Mid The Turmoil
Some of these Victory gardeners
do an awful lot of talking about
¡the amount of work they are put­ting
in on their gardens this year.
Well, if Mother -Butzer, who is
eighty-two, can spade her entire
garden all by herself, I ¡guess it’s
prtty safe stuff for the rest of us.
* * *
Overheard At The Sutter
First lady—who ¡lives on Maple
Street—(‘¡Every night ¡1 see ¡lots of
couples walking out lovers’ lane,”
Second lady—(‘Who?’’ ; •
First Lady—“I am not telling.”
*
The other day Joe Herr, and A1
Douple were on duty a t the air­craft
spotter’s station when ¡Norm
Kline shot a rat a few yards away.
The sound came in over the lis­tening
device, so it Is said, that
Joe Herr fell completely off his
chair.
Pennypacker, who has had the
appointment system in effect at
his tonsorial parlor for the past
three years, thinks that Lititz
should be given credit for showing
the way to Lancaster barbers who
now are following his example.