Lititz Record Express

              Oar fighting men are doing
their share. Here at home
the least we can do Is pnt 10%
of onr income In War Bonds
for onr share in America. The Lititz
Vol. LXIV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Ju¡n3e* ;3, 1943
Not everybody with a dollar
to spare can shoot a gun
straight—bat everybody can
shoot straight to tho bank and
boy War Bonds. Bg
Mft ovary gag dag.
No. 32
World Needs Common-Sense
Dr. Theodore Distler Tells
Graduates At Commencement
Urges Students To Discover ‘Joy of Helping Others' ;
46 Graduates Receive Diplomas, Four en Absen­tia
; Alverta Zartman 'and Flora Adams Speak
A 'dass of 46 proud graduates the nation is waging its present
were awarded diplomas a t the
Fifty-Seventh Annual Commence­ment
Exercises held at the local
(high sohool Tuesday evening.
The diplomas were given the
graduates by M. C. Demmy, super­vising
principal. The graduates
occupied places of honor behind an
array of rose® and floral arrange­ments
which transformed the
auditorium into a blase of color.
Four of the graduates received
thei^ diplomas en absentia. Paul
Zug, one of the four, is now serv­ing
in the United States Navy,
while Robert Longenecker, a pati­ent
of the Crippled Children’s
¡Hospital at Elizabethtown, receiv­ed
his diplomas for having com­plete
the equivalent amount of
study and work despite that he
never attended high school here.
Patsy Mastromatteo who 'had a
perfect attendance record until a
few days ago, was kept from the
exercises by illness as was Helen
Oehme.
That Young Americans are well
aware of the objectives for which
Health Club
To Discuss
Dehydration
Meeting Tp Be Held In
Firehouse On Mon
. day Evening
The importance of dehydration
and brining to preserve foods now
for next winter’s meal® wil be dis­cussed
a t the monthly Health for
Victory Club meeting a t ithe Fire
House on (Monday evening, June
(7, at 7 o’clock. x,
“Although it sounds like a new­fangled
word, dehydration 4s one
of the oldest known methods of
preserving food,” Miss Diffender-fer
said today. “Years ago the job
pf preserving foods for winter use
was quite a problem. Quick-freeze
plants were unknown and canning
equipment was scarce, so our pio­neer
homemakers dried their sur­plus
fruits and vegetables out in
the sun.”
Since then dehydration, or dry-ling,
has been the subject of exton-sive
research and it has been
found that foods are more health­ful
when nu|t overty-exposed to
the sun. It has also been deter­mined
that vegetables baste better
if they are blanched before being
dehydrated.
“At onr Health for Victory meet­ing,"
Miss Diffenderfer explained,
“we will discus« the latest meth­ods
of drying foods indoors.” She
.said the vegetables best suited’ for
dehydration are com, beans, peas,
carrots and okra. The 'best fruits
are apples, pear®, peaches and
apricot®. 'Strawberries do not dry
well but dewberries, blackberries,
gooseberries and raspberries are
•excellent for drying.
The Bixpesb (ostwi,irI.lu ta tf
The six steps necessary for beat
results will be described and de­monstrated,
including the proper
.selection of fruits and vegetables,
when to dry, when and how to
blanch, types of dehydrators which
may be used, how much heat is
required and how and where to
-Store the dried foods.
The discussion of brining will
■center around two methods: dry
salt and wet «alt The home econ­omist
will explain how to brine
•cabbage, 'turnips and other foods,
pointing out the proper procedure
and describing the necessary
-equipment ,
^ -
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the crowd and land In (iIITZ’S
Mont Market Prices and quality
-do the 'tridk. -Phone 93-R. We
•deliver.
war, was proven In 'the commence­ment
addresses delivered by Al­verta
Zartman and Flora Adams.
Mias Zartman spoke upon the free­doms
of speech and religion,’ em­phasizing
the need of constantly
protecting these, while Miss ‘ Ad­ams
devoted her address upon the
freedoms from want and fear.
(In his address to the graduates,
Dr. Theodore A. iDistler, president
of Franklin and Marshall College,
urged students to “go forth into
the world and discover the su­preme
joy gained from helping
others.” Dr. Distler emphasized
the need of developing courage,
honesty and common-sense.
“While genius always is appre­ciated,
what this (country needs
more than genius is ordinary, ev­eryday
common-sense,” he de­clared.
“This country was not founded
on genius—but on common-sense
and while common-sense may seen
trivial it is the hardest attribute
to cultivate,” .Dr. Distler added,
continuing, “As for courage, we
are proud of the physical cour­age
being demonstrated by our
boy« fighting In the service of
their country.
“Another need is mental cour­age,
that courage which is needed
when we stand alone and must
make decisions of our own.’ Dr.
Distler also emphasize the need of
“that good old-fashioned honesty
when a handclasp was a man’s
Edwin W. Kortz pronounc­ed
thwj^.invocation 'while Rev.
Charles F. Arunk, gave the 'bene­diction.
A trombone .solo by James
Gangwer and several selections by
the ¡Senior Olas® also featured the
program.
BOB BACHMAN
COMPLETES COURSE
Baccalaureate
Preached By
Dr. L: C Hunt
Must Follow Truths Of
Worthwhile Living, He
Tells Graduates
We must follow the simple
truths of worthwhile living if life
is to he succesful, Dr. L. C. Hunt,
pastor of the Trinity Evangelical
Congregational Church, told mem­bers
of the graduating class of
Lititz High School at the annual
Baccalaureate Sunday evening in
the United Brethren Church.
Basing his sermon on the text,
Acts 13:22,36, Dr. Hunt pointed
out that worthwhile living is
founded upon three basic truths:
the true object of life is to serve;
the sphere of service is our own
generation; and the secret of suc­cess
is the will of God.
“The present call today to be all
out to win this war is an expres­sion
of this purpose of service,"
he added, pointing out as grounds
upon which this truth rests, the
com'mand of God that men shall
serve, the promise of the presence
of God to those who obey in ser­vice,
the example set by Jesus
himself who came, not to be min­istered
unto but to minister, the
beneficial rewards which service
itself brings1 and the divine law of
service as the way by which life
itself shall be perpetuated.”
“Given twenty, thirty or more
years of life, our problem is first
to find the maximum of happiness
and usefulness to myself; and then
to project these values of my life
n the largest way into the lives-about
me,” Dr. Hunt continued.
He closed with a quotation taken
from the urn containing the ashes
of John Brashear, inventor of the
telescopic lens, which reads:
“We hav^loved the stars too fondly
to have any fear of the night.”
Keeps Pledge Here
Made 47 Years Ago
Camp Lejeune, New River, N.
C.—Pvt. Robert Bachman, , N.
Water St., Lititz, Pa., has com­pleted
the Field Telephone Opera­tors’
Course at this Marine Base,
and is now ready for advanced
schooling or assignment to com­munications
duty with the Fleet
Marine Force.
Graduation followed eight weeks
of intensive and technical train­ing-
MUTH AT ABERDEEN
Wm. M. Muth, Jr., formerly of
Lititz, who was recently taken in­to
the service, has been sent to
the Ordnance Replacement Train­ing
Center, Aberdeen Proving
Ground, M|d., where he will re
reive (his basic training as an Ord­nance
soldier.
He formerly lived at Lititz R.
D. No. 4.
Mrs. Leaman
Dies Suddenly
At Home Here
Heart Stroke Causes
Death Of Well-Known
Woman
Dinner Held In Hónor
Of Miss Anna K. Miller
The faculty of the public schools
held a complimentary dinner for
Miss Anna K Miller on Monday
evening in the Home Economics
department of the school. Games
were played and Miss Miller was
presented with a gift from the
faculty.
The following attended: Prof,
and Mrs.. M. C. Demmy, Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Brubaker, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Reese, Mr. and Mrs.
Leon de Fernelmont, 'Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Kready, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Smith, Miss Marian Alt-house,
Miss Margaret Anderson,
Mrs. Marguerite Arntz.
Miss Helen Brendle, Miss Doris
Harrison, Eugene S. Dechert, Miss
Jane Harison, Miss Margery E'nok,
Mrs. -Kenneth Shelley, Mr|. Mir­iam
Fasnacht, Miss Jeanette Shel-ienberger,
Miss Hazel Gamer, Miss
Agnes Hensel, Miss Vera Hoff­man,
' Miss Margaret Hower, Ml®.
Richard Altick.
Miss Elizabeth Workman, Miss
Anna Mellinger, Miss Bessie Sear­le,
Mip Martha Sturgis, Miss Kath­ryn
Horwell, Miss Anna M. Herr,
Miss Elizabeth Fluck, Mis Sara
Weidman, Miss Margaret Wil­liams,
Mias Margaret Klemmere'r.
Also the following directors:
Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Yoder, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank H. Longenecker and
William Fasnacht.
Apparently In good health, when
she retired Tuesday night, Mm.
Annie ¡Risser -Leaman, well-known
local woman, was 'found dead in
bed Wednesday morning shortly
-after nine o’clock.
Dr. M. ‘H. Yoder, who was sum­moned,
declared death to have
been caused by a coronary occlu­sion
and estimated that death had
occurred «orno time between mid­night
and three o’clock Wednesday
morning.
Tuesday evening, Mrs. Leaman
had entertained guests at her
home, 147 East Main Street. These
guests included her daughter, Bar-ana,
and her husband, (Martin A.
oore, Lititz, R. D. 1. 'None had
noticed anything unusual about
her health at that time.
When Mirs. Leaman did not arise
at her usual time Wednesday
morning, Nrs. Elizabeth Hepp,
who lives in part of the same
•house, went to her room. Fear­ing
that Mrs. Leaman was dead
she summoned Dr .Yoder.
'Mrs. Leaman was the widow of
N. IB. Leaman, who for many
years was one of Lititz’ most pro­minent
businessmen. He was a
senior member of ¡the firm of Her-
( Con tinned on Page 4)
Sunday School League
Will Open Season
At Athletic Field Monday
The Schedule
The schedule ¡for the S. S. ¡sort-hall
league is as follows:
. June 7—Moravian vs. Lutheran
June 10—Brethren vs. Evans.
June 14—Moravian vs. Brethren.
June 17—Lutheran vs. Evans.
June 21—Moravian vs. Emns.
June 24—Lutheran vs. Brethren.
June 28—Brethern vs. Evans.
July 1—Moravian vs. Lutheran.
July 6—Lutheran vs. Evans.
;JuIy 8—Moravians vs. Brethren.
July 13—Lutheran vs. (Brethren.
July 15—Moravian vs. Evans.
Second Half
July 13—Moravian vs. Lutheran.
July 22—Brethren vs. Evans.
July 26—Moravian vs. Brethren.
July 29—Lutheran vs. Evans.
August 2—Moravian vs. Evans.
August 6—Lutheran vs. Brethren.
August 9—(Brethren vs. Evans.
Aug. 12—Moravians v®. Lutheran.
Aug. 16—Lutheran vs. Evans.
Aug. 19—Moravian vs. Brethren.
Aug. 23—Lutheran vs. Brethren.
Aug. 26—Morvian vs. Evans.
Starting August 30 a 5 game
¡playoff ¡series will start with the
¡first half winners playing the sec­ond
half winners, thus 'deciding
the champion.
Four Teams To Compete;
U. B. Players Divided
Among League
Apledge made nearly half a cen­tury
agio again was kept Memorial
Day when Mrs. Charles Miller, of
Lancaster, came here to decorate
the grave of Fanny Dougherty in
the Moravian Cemetery.
(Several years prior to the death
of Fanny Dougherty ,the two sol­emnly
pledged that they would
decorate ¡the grave of the one iwho
died first, each year on Memorial
Day. Mrs. Miller has never failed
to keep the pledge although her
friend passed away approximately
47 years ago. -
Lititz In Darkness
When Storm Disrupts
High Tension Wires
BOB PÉIFFER PROMOTED
iSecond Lieutenant Robert D.
Peiffer who is stationed at San
Francisco, Calif., has received his
promotion and is now a First
Lieutenant in the Quartermaster
Corp of the U. S. Army.
Keeping Up With
The Rationing Changes
Next to go on the ration list will
be soft cheeses, such as cream
cheese, Roquefort and Camembert.
Cottage cheese will still be unra-six
months.
Gasoline Crisis
‘Indefinitely” is ' what Govern­ment
officials gay when asked to
tioned. Purpose of bringing more' tell the duration of the Eastern
cheeses under rationing is to save gasoline crisis.
milk.
This month, cheese will be classi-
Sugar Guides
With sugar stamps 16 and 18
Lititz remained in utter dark­ness
for more than half an hour
late Tuesday night when two high
tension wires broke near Neffs-ville
at the heighth of a sudden
windy gale.
Wind reached uch a velocity that
it caused the two high-tenion wires
to brush together, local officials of
the Pensylvania Power and Light
Company explaned Wednesday.
This is the first time such an acci­dent
occured here in recent years.
With all electric power coming
into Lititz and the surounding
districts cut off, many persons
hurying home to escape the on­coming
rain torm, quickly sought
refuge as the deluge suddenly
came earthward.
The local overhead crew also
had numerous stores to relate af­ter
they finally had succeeded in
making repairs. One member of
the crew who was the last man
to report for duty declared that
in the darkness and his hurry,- he
fell down the stairs at his home.
It was estimated that approxi­mately
50 fues were blown in this
district during the vilent electrical
storm. Other than breaking some
tree branches, little other damage
was reported.
Seniors Buy
Amplifyer
For School
System Will Permit Office
To Talk With Teachers
In Classrooms
fied in three point groups, instead good for canning sugar, the Bur-of
all having a ration value of
eight points as at present.
Red Stamp J
The red stamp J will be valid
through June.
Other Reminders
Red stamp K became valid on
May 30.
Blue stamps G, H and J good
through June 7; K, L, and M are
valid through July 7.
eau of Home /Economics issues
these guides:
Allow about % cup of sugar for
each jar.
Put up some fruit without su­gar,
if necessary.
Use honey to replace up to half
of your sugar, or com sirup to re­place
up to one third.
Points for Servicemen
Under a new arrangement, sol-
Billy Landis
Entertains Friends
Memorial Program
Is Well Attended;
Rev. Baer Speaker
That to keep faith with the pa­triotic
dead we must re-dedicate
ourselves to the all-out war effort
and permit nothing to stand bet­ween
us and a just victory, Rev.
Joe Baker, of York, native of this
borough, informed a large aud­ience
at Memorial Day services
held Sunday in the high school
auditorium.
With inclement weather forcing
the ervice to be held indoors, the
audience completely filled the audt|
torium. In his address, Rev.
Baker reviewed many of the ob­jectives
for which this nation
again has abandoned its peaceful
pursuits and has picked up arms.
Another feature of the progrtim
was the playing toy the High
School band and the reading of
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address by
Rev. aGorge B. Raezer. The mus-cal
program included a piano solo
by Jeanne Eberly and a clarinet
solo by Donald Miohler.
The invocation was pronounced
by Rev. Charle F. Trunk, while the
benediction was given by Rev. J.
C. H. Light. A. L. Douple was
chairman of the Memorial Day
committee of the Garden Spot
Post of the American Legion which
sponsored the program.
A check to start a fund to buy
an address system for the public
schools was given by the graduat­ing
class a t their class day pro­gram
on Monday afternoon. The
presentation was made by Richard
Hess, the class president, and was
received by Prof. M. C. Demmy, in
behalf of the school.
The system when installed will
permit the office to talk to the
teachers in the various rooms, al­so
to hear a program given in any
one room or to broadcast a pro
gram to all the rooms at one time.
Edward Maharg was master of
ceremonies a t the class day exer­cises
assisted by Gloria Keath.
Other numbers featuring the pro­gram
included: Fay Carpenter,
prophesy; Ray Shelley, will; Mar­garet
Yerger, historian; Genevieve
Hevener, the class poem and the
class song; Fred Rettew, class com­edian;
Ross Evans, Bruce Keith,
Gladys Enck and Genevieve Hev­ener
presented the gifts.
Home Ec. Department
To Give Demonstration
A demonstration of the prepar­ation
for freezing fruits and vege­tables
and canning non-acid Vege­tables
will be -held in the Home
Economic department of ¡the High
school on Tueday, June 8th at two
o’clock and seven-thirty. Miss
Margaret Hower, head of the de­partment
will be in charge and
Miss Lydia Tarrant, nutrition
specialist of the extension de­partment
of ¡State College and
Miss Anne Forbes of the Farm
Bureau will assist with the de­monstration.
Everybody inter­ested
is invited to attend.
The ¡Sunday ¡School Softball
league will open for ¡the season
Monday evening at 7 o’clock with
a clash between ¡the Moravians
¡and Lutherans, according to a
schedule announced today by Eu­gene
Deckert.
This year’s league will consist
of four teams instead of five, due
to the inability of the United ¡Bre­thren
Sunday School to place a
team in the field this year. So
many former players now are in
the service that only eight could
be lined up.
iGames this year will be played
Mondays and Thursdays with
Tuesday and Friday fixed as rain
dates. In 'this manner it is hoped
to keep the schedule right up to-date.
The season has been divided
into two six-week schedules with
the winners of both ¡halves to meet
in a play-off series starting Sept­ember
1.
The eight United ¡Brethren play­ers
have been divided up between
the other four teams as follows:
Lutherans: Norman Beck and
Willard Hershey.
(Moravians: Bill Stauffer and
Paul Davidson.
Brethrens: George (Ruth and Ed.
Weller.
Evans: Harry McCreary, Jr., and
Chet ¡Martin.
The properties committee con­sisting
of George Sipe, William
Bingaman, Beck and William Car­per,
planned to be on duty at -the
athletic field this evening to get
the diamond in shape for the open­er
(Monday.
The planning committee of the
league consists of Samuel Snavely,
Herlman Reedy and Eugene Deck­ert.
BABY GETS BOND FROM
MEN AT DAD’S CAMP
IMiay 31 was (the last day for C diers and sailors on furlough can
¡bookholders to have tires inspected, get a ration application for food
June 30 is deadline for B book- to be eaten at home before they
holders. Holders of A books leave camp. The person named as
must get tires inspected once every (Continued on Page 8)
Billy Landis, son of Dr. and
Mrs.1 Charles Landis entertained
the children of Mrs. James Shaef-fer’s
nursety school the last day
of the session in recognition of his
fifth birthday anniversary. The
following were present, Jacqualine
Grubb, Ronald Roth, Nancy Icoff,
Barbara Furlow, Marianne Risser,
John Henry Newcomer, James and
John Gibfole, Robert Boater, David
Weaver and Clifford Stanton.
CONFERENCE DAY
The Akron and West Conestoga
brances of the Church of the Broth
ren will observe Conference Day
Sunday. During the afternoon a
C. B. S. program will be (presented
in the Middle Creek church when
Rev. Henry Bucher, of Elizabeth­town
Colege, will speak.
The evening service will be held
in the Akron church when a mis­sionary
program wiU be presented
by Rev. Barton Kreider.
Little ¡Sandra Lou Gerihard,
daughter of the former Pauline
Zartman, Lititz R2, is the owner
of a $50 war bond sent to her by
air mail from the fellows in her
daddy’s company (at Camp Livings­ton,
La. When her father, Pvt.
Paul Gerhard, recently announced
the he was the father of a baby
daughter, the fellows took up a
collection and bought the bond for
the girl. Pvt. Gerhard mitered
service on January 21, 1943.
AUXILIARY MEETS TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the Lad­ies
Auxiliary of the Fire Company
will be held this evening in the
Fire House. This will be the last
meeting of the season.
*Mid The Turmoil
BIRTHS
IMP. and Mrs. Irvin • Floyd, of
24 Willow Street, Lititz, announce
the birth of a son at 6:69 A. ‘M.
Tuesday at the Lancaster General
Hospital. k»
Linden Hall Commencement
Exercises June 13,14, and 15
Linden Hall Junior College and
Academy will bold commence­ment
exercises June 13, 14, ¡and
1>5 in which 15 Junior College girls
and 22 academy students will
participate.
Dr. 0. S. Frantz, of the Evan­gelical
and (Reformed Theological
seminary, of Lancaster will preach
the sermon to the combined grad­uating
classes on Sunday; June 13
at 10:30 a. m., in the Moravian
Church.
A Class of 16 wil receive Junior
College diploma'June M at 19 a.
m., ‘when Dr. H. M. J. Klein, of
Franklin and Marshall College,
Will deliver the commencement ad­dress.
Twenty-two Academy graduates'
will have 'their ceremonies June
15 at 19 a. m. Speaker wil be ¡the
Rev. John Howe Treder, vicar qf
All Saints Episcopal Church. Her­shey.
All services will be in the
Moravian Church. .
Junior College graduates are:
Phyllis 'Alger, Rising Sun, Md.;
Louise Atkinson, Lancaster, Pa.;
Rita Berman, Lancaster, Pa.; Jean
Cunningham, Rixford, Pa.; Jean
Ebner, Clevelland, Ohio; Dorothy
Fleming, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Jeanne
Graham, Buffalo, N. Y.; Susan
Green, Ridgiew(ood, N, J.; Mary
Louise Harris, Morris Plains N. J.;
Charlotte Leech, Washington, jpa.;
Gay MteLay, ¡Bethlehem, pa.; (Dor­othy
Ann (Meyer, Baltimore, Md.;
Helene Undoroffler, Souderfcon,
Pa.; Betty Wilson, Dover, (Delà.;
Mary Ann Wilson, ©over, pela.
Academy graduates are: Bar­bara
Anthony, Metuchen, N. J.;
Patricia Arnold, New York, N. Y.;
Jane Bernhardt, Trenton, N. J.;
Patricia ¡Brennan, GreeuviLle, ¡Pa.;
Louise Conaty, Cleveland, Ohio;
Eleanor Conry, Rocky River, Ohio;
(Continued on Pago 5)
Ray Reedy went along with sev­eral
others last Thursday to help
orgaifze the new Baron Steigel
Lions Club at the Brickerville Die
Schier and ate so much chicken-in-
the-straw that he was laid up
all the next day. Chicken-in-the-straw,
incidentally, is chicken and
french fries without knife and
fork.
* * *
Strawberries looked mighty nice
this week—all but the price which
didn’t get under 35 cents a box
anywhere.
♦ * *
Bob Frey, who formerly ran a
restaurant n Manhem where you
could get the best lobster dinners
anyone would want to eat, return­ed
from the Navy for a short fur­lough
this week. Looking mighty
good in his uniform, Bob came to
Lititz to visit Bill Hollinger. Af­ter
the visit he found that someone
had swiped his traveling bags and
all his clothing,from his automo­bile.
* * *
Later, Officer Nagel reported
having seen two women drive off
from the vicinity of Bob’s auto and
had had presence of mind enough
to take down the license number.
And, lo and behold, the address of
the owner was no place else than
Bob’s own retaurant. Yes, you
guessed t, it was all a ¡big joke—
a big joke after Bob got his clothes
bsck from friends who had merely
played a practical joke on him
* * *
(School may. be over for some
tudents—but members of the High
School Qknd still have somewhat
of a schedule before them. Assign­ments
to-date include the Flag
Day Pradae in Lancaster, June
13; the Beck Memorial program
in the park on June 17 and a con­cert
from 2 to 5 P. M. in the park
July 3.