Lititz Record Express

              Our Aghttng men are doing
Böig their share. Here at home
jgg| the least we can do is put 10%
Æ t f of our income in War Bonds
affi for our share in America.
Not everybody with a dollar
to spare can shoot a gun
straight—but everybody can
W shoot straight to the bank and
J v boy War Bonds. Bay your
1»% ovary pay day.
Vol. LXIV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., July 15, 1943 No. 37
Game Tonight
Will Decide
Championship
Evans. And Moravians To
Decide Tie In S. S.
League
Sam Snavely’s snappy Luther­an
team won their second straight
game on Tuesday by scoring at
will in the closing innings after
trailing 5-4 going into the seventh
inning.
The Brethren held a 5-1 lead at
the end of the third inning, scoring
five runs off Stark, Lutheran pitch­er,
who gave up three walks and
three hits in the third inning.
Earl Ludwig, pitcher of Lititz
High School’s 1941 County Cham­pionship
team, who is now station­ed
at Camp Taylor in Massachu-setss,
arrived home just in time
to patrol centerfield for the Luth­erans.
On Thursday the first half cham­pionship
will be decided when the
Evangelicals and Moravians cross
bats.
Softball Standings
W L P
Evangelicals 3 2 .600
Moravians 3 2 .600
Lutherans 3 3 .500
Erethren 2 4 .333
Week’s Schedule
Thurs., July 15—Moravians vs.
Evangelicals.
Mon. July 19—Moravians vs.
Lutherans (first game of second
half).
In case of rain games will be
played on the next clear evening.
Moravians Beat Brethren to Tie
for Leadership
(Continued on Page 8)
MRS. GUY CALVERT
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Mrs. Guy Calvert, of this bor­ough,
underwent an operation at
St. Joseph’s hospital, Lancaster,
Wednesday morning. Her condi-ion
was reported as favorable to
day.
S P O R T S
D IG E S T
THESE WOMEN! By d* Alessio Salem Lutheran Church
To Observe 120th Anni’sary
“I wouldn’a ccme out (or this ballet stuff, except 1 heard
the professor teaches the Conga after hours!”
Local Exhibit
Will Feature
War Display
Five Trap Co. Employees
To Operate Bullet
Machine At Wanamaker7s
By E. S. Dechert
Intercollegiate Football?
The Navy V-12 students and
Marine Corps boys are puling into
the colleges and universities sel­ected
by the Navy Department for
special training of its boys. You
never saw such a mixup in all a t­hletic
setups.
a certain crack university
there are lads who in normal times
would have had as much chance of
admission as they would have of
learning the einstein theory. There
are students who always wanted to
be there and also students who
would not have gone there on a
bet had they had any say.
There you find crack football
players from Pennsylvania, Yale
and where not. Dartmouth has
players from . Fordham, Cornell
and other schools. Yale has ath­letes
from New York University
and so on and so on.
On these scrambled elevens which
the colleges are now beginning to
call out for early practices you
will find crack football players who
in 1942 were giving their all to
wallop the team of the university
which is now their alma mater, and
—if they can find time for the
game—will be playing on that
team against their original eleven.
Can we truly call this absurd and
polygot concourse of college ath­letes
collegiate football?
All-Star Game Reciepts
(Continued on Page 8)
Littz s recognzed as a commun­ity
doing its bit for the war ef­fort
in a huge munitions and war
materials display to be opened to
the public next week on the eighth
floor of the Wanamaker Depart­ment
Sore in Phialdelphia.
An important part of the display
has been turned over to the Ani­mal
Trap Company of America
where one of the large machines
used in the manufacture of bullet
cores wil be set up and placed in
operation.
Employees of the local plant,
in brand new uniforms obtained
for the oecasjon, will demonstrate
to the public the maner in which
Lititz men and women have turned
out millions of bullets for the arm­ed
forces.
The display will remain open for
the next six weks. Maintenance
men who will be stationed at the
Severe Storm
Creates Some
Damage Here
Tobacco Shed Wrecked At
Brickerville; Telephones
Knocked Out
One of the most intensive elec­trical
storms in recent years struck
Lititz with its full fury Monday
evening at 5:30 P M. but fortu­nately
resulted in comparatively
li-tle damage to property here.
Other sections of Lancaster and
Chester counties did not fare as
well, however,’ with half a dozen
tarn fires, flooded roads and dam-
?ged crops resulting.
With a series of electrical flash­es
striking in the borough, more
than a hundred telephones were put
out of order throughout the district.
Both telephone and Pennsylvania
Power and Light Company line­men
were kept busy throughout
the night restoring service to resi­dences.
Several local gardens also were
badly washed but damage was not
declared to be severe.
During the week of July 18 to
35, the congregation of Salem Lu­theran
church, Kissel Hill, will
observe, with appropriate services,
the 120th anniversary of its or­ganization
and the congregation
herewith extends to everyone a
most cordial invitation to attend
all of these services. An excell­ent
program has been prepared
under the direction of a special
committee and also a Souvenir
H istorical booklet has been pre­pared
and issued which contains
a complete History of the congre­gation
and its various organiza­tions
together with the pictures of
many of its former pastors who
have served the congregation,
and the program of the Anniver­sary
services of the week.
For the information of the fri-j
ends of the congregation, a brief
outline of the program is herewith
given:—On Sunday afternoon,
July 18, at 3 o’clock, the Rev. J . B.
Baker, D. D„ York, will be the
guest preacher and his many fri­ends
will he verys glad to meet
him on this occasion. Dr. Baker
has paid a semiannual visit to
this congregation for the past 8
years. On Tuesday evening, July
'20, the Rev. W. R. Sammel, D. D,
York, a former pastor, will preaefh
the sermon. On Wednesday even­ing,
July 21, the Rev. George D.
Clark, Lionville, Pa., also a former
pastor will deliver the sermon. On
Thursday evening, July 22, the
iRev. C. E. Rice, Neffsville, and the
Rev. Charles F. Trunk, Lititz, will
bring the messages and greetings.
Salem congregation is the Mother
congregation of both St. Peter’s
Neffsville and St. Paul’s Lititz.
There will he special music
presented at all the services.
These services will he brought to
an appropriate close on Sunday
afternoon, July 25th, at which
time the Mid-Summer Holy Com­munion
will be administered.
Anniversary Speaker
Will Gather
Paper, Rags
On Tuesday
Seek To Make Collection
Largest So Far In
The Boro
SPOTTERS POST HAS
PERFECT JUNE RECORD
REV. J . B. BAKER
G. McElroy
Candidate For
Sch‘ director
display different periods will in- ’ A 36 by 100 foot tobacco shed on
elude Barret oGchenauer, Charles ’ the farm of Madison Dietrich, near
KENNETH SHELLEY
ARRIVES IN AFRICA
Reinier and Herbert Long.
Local women operators who also
will be on duty for three-week per­iods
are Margaret Haggerty and
Emma Dougherty. Other official
Emma Dougherty. Other officials
of the Animal Trap Company will
participate from time to time.
The display is being supervised
by Col. David N. Hauseman, of the
Philadelphia Ordinance District,
who presented the Army-Navy
‘*E” to the local concern this
Spring. The exhibit is intended
to acquaint the public with war
marterials, what they are, what
they look like and the purposes
they serve.
It is expected that 10,000 people
daily will see the local exhibit.
Brickerville, was wrecked by the
high wind during the storm. Farm
’machinery stored in the structure
was also damaged. Dietrich esti­mated
his damage at $5,000.
Lightning also struck a tree and
followed a wire into the barn caus­ing
a slight blaze which was ex­tinguished
before any damage re­sulted.
Claudia
Rehearsals
Continue
Achey To Enter Three-
Cornered Fight For Vst
Ward Constable
Efforts to create a new all-time
record for paper and rag collection
there will be made next week yb
Lititz Boy Scouts, Christ Nissly,
chairman of the local salvage com­mittee,
announced today.
The paper and rag collection will
be made Tuesday, July 20, at 6 P
M. Persons with rags or paper
are asked to have them placed on
the curb not later than 6 o’clock in
order that one trip of the trucks
will be sufficient to collect all do­nations
to the salvage effort.
Any person willing to assist in
the collection is asked to report
at the statio nat 6 P. M. Truck
owners who will donate the use
cf their machnes are asked to get
in touch with Mr. Nissly not later
than Tuesday noon.
Proceeds of the paper collection
will be turned over to local scouts.
A new record also was chalked
up here last week when a total of
6,460 pounds of tin cans were col­lected
from the borough. Prac-tcally
all cans had been cleaned
and flattened according to direct­ions
and the collection was made
without any added effort, Mr.
Nissly reported.
The local spotters’ post was con­gratulated
for having maintained'
a 100 per-cent vigilance during the
month of June, in a correspond­ence
received this week by Rev.
O. 0 Leidich, chief observer her.
Whil the post was manned every
hour of the day and night during
June, it was necessary for some
of the local spotters to take more
than one period in order to create
this record, t was explained. Per­sons
anxious to help in the work
of spotting planes here are asked
to get in touch with Rev. Leidich.
Clear $325
At Festival
In South End
Money To Be Used For
Further Improving
Boro Lot
U. B. PICNIC THURSDAY
The Sunday school, Vacation
Bible school, and Christian En­deavor
members of the United
Brethren church wil hold their
picnic in the Springs Park on
Thursday, July 22.
Pays Maximum Fine
For Parking Overtime
Mrs. Kenneth Shelley has re­ceived
a letter from her husband,
Cpl. Kenneth Shelley that he has
arrived in North Africa.
Archie Shelley, Jr., in training
at Drew Field, Tampa, Fla., is
spending a fifteen day furlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Shelley, Lititz R. D. 2.
¡Blame it on the heat the hum­idity
or just plain, ordinary war
nerves—but it took a simple park­ing
violation to provide Justice of
the Peace Joe Herr with the most
exciting hearing he has held this
summer, last week.
And, incidentally, it was the first
time since the one-hour parking
ordinance was passed by borough
council more than two years ago,
that the maximum fine of $5, plus
costs amounting to five dollars
more, were imposed for parking
an automobile more than an hour
Friday afternoon on East Main
Street. '
The defendant was Monroe Gar-man,
of Lititz R. D. 2, whose car
was tagged almost two months ago
by borough police, who claim that
Garman left the vehicle stand in
the one-hour zone longer than the
legal time limit.
According to Burgess Menno
Rohrer, Garman immediately came
to his office, refused to pay the
usual one dollar fine and declared
that before he would pay the fine
he “would settle accounts with the
police.”
When Garman failed to return
and pay the fine, Burgess Rohrer
wrote another letter and then turn­ed
the matter over to Justice of the
Peace Herr. Herr sent a regist­ered
letter to Garman but this was
refused. He next sent a constable
after the irate motorist.
Garman had still failed to cool
off when he arrived for the hear­ing—
so ’Squire Herr just went
ahead and socked on the maximum
fine.
Work on the play “Claudia” con­tinues
at a fast pace as the Dra­matic
Theater of Lititz draws
bead on another knockout pro­duction.
Directed by Arlene
Demmy, produced and cast by the
club, “Claudia” may well prove
a challenge to the club’s mose suc­cessful
hit of a few years ago,
“Our Town.”
With war time conditions pre­vailing
the club was reluctant in
attempting another play this sum­mer.
After selecting Arlene to
direct the drama they held their
breath, hardly hoping for a satis­factory
cast to support her. Like
so many football coaches Arlene
viewed the prospecs of this season
a dismal. But paradoxical as it
was, the cast now selected looks
like varsity material capable of
matching the best of them.
With the dates less than two
weeks off,, July 23, 24, the troupe
enters their third week of rehear­sals
The paly tself centers around
a young girl, Claudia, ably por­trayed
by Betty Cooper. Claudia,
a newly-wed, finds herself totally
unable to meet with life’s pro­blems
as her husband, David, play­ed
by Ed Hoffman tries frantically
to change her.
The story has in it delightful
characters who move about in an
even more delightful way. Mrs.
Brown, a gentle woman and the
mother of Claudia is Betty Lou
Jones. Betty McCreary smartly
does the role of Julia. Vci Herm-stead
as Daruschka, a lively Rus­sian
opera star. Then Jerry Sey-moure,
an English author is taken
ty Ed MacFerran in a catchy role.
Bertha, the plump housekeeper of
European origin is done by Peggy
Snyder Jones. Her husband Fritz,
by Harold McCreary.
Several additional political con­tests
loomed in the borough this
week as nominating petitions con­tinued
to be circulated among
local voters.
A contestvfor the two positions
to be filled oh the borough school
board was in prospect with the
announcement o fthe candidacy of
Glenn H. MoElroy, well-known
local druggist. McElroy circulat­ed
his petition here this week at
the request of friends and declared
he would file It at the court house
today.
Two others who announced their
candidacies last week for school
directors are William Fassnacht
and Frank Longenecker, both of
Whom are completing terms on the
local hoard.
Th eoontest for constable also
became further complicated with
the announcement of ithe candi­dacy
of Harry Achey, Orange St.
Achey is opposing Constable Ja-cab
Singley. Incumbent, and Night
Officer Luther Nagle, both of
whom are seeking the first ward
office.
Achey is employed at the Arm­strong
Cork Company and is well-known
throughout the borough
A1 lof these contests are for the
Republican nominations.
At the same time, Samuel H.
Nuss, local Democratic leader, an­nounced
that local Democratic
workers will meet in the Malta
Temple Friday night to discuss
election 'plans and to decide upon
their slate for all local offices.
Local Selectees
Will Leave
On July 28
A total of 28 of more than 100
selectees from District No. 5 who
were examined at Harrisburg were
rejected, according to those who
returned here last evening.
As a result of the large number
not inducted at this time, Lititz
will not be faced with selecting a
a new burgess inasmuch as 'Bur­gess
Menno Rohrer was one of
those not accepted for immediate
service.
Those from the local district
iwho were accepted for service in
the army who will leave following
the customary furlougs are as fol­lows:
'Cletus L. Forney, John A. Hertz,
John O. Vollenweider, Luke W.
Royer, Galen M. Shreiner, Jr., Wil­liam
Moyer, Raymond C. McCoy,
John H. Enck, James K. Long,
Clairence Brugiger, Charles E.
High, Charles M .Mohler, Merton
W. Henry, J-r., Robert C. Garman,
George H. Dissinger, John W. Le-beir,
Jr., Wilbur W. Klopp.
John W. Wenrich, Harry B.
Whitcraft. Charles R. Beam, Wil­bur
J. Schnader, Jerry M. Weaver,
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—For Home Dressed Meat follow
the crowd and land in LUTZ’S
Meat Market. Prices and quality
do the trick. Phone 93-R. We
deliver.
Sunbeam Class Will
Hold Garden Party
Blood Donors
Will Report
Here Monday
Hundreds Of Wounded
Owe Lives To Project;
Director Informs Club
A total of four millon pints of
blood must be donated in this coun­try
this year in order to save the
lives of war casualties, George P.
Shaeffer, state director of the Red
Cross Blood Bank at Harrisburg,
informed members of the Lititz'
Rotary Club Tuesday evening.
Local volunteers will provide ap­proximately
120 pints of this vast
total on Monday when the blood
bank equipment will be installed
in the Fellowship Hall at the Mor­avian
Church. Lloyd Hess, in
charge of arrangements, announc­ed
that several more volunteers
are needed.
He urged anyone between the
ages of 18 and 59 who will donate
blood, to call him at his home here
before Monday. The blood bank
here is being sponsored by the local
Rotary Club.
According to Mr. Shmeffer, there
are but 10 laboratories in the Uni­ted
States equipped to process the
blood and only 33 centers for col­lecting
it. The blood is dried and
made into a plasma wlhich can be
stored and shipped to any part of
the earth.
Hundreds of soldiers and sailors
wounded and injured in all parts
of the world today owe their lives
to the fact that this blood plasma
was available when needed, he de­clared.
DR. GROSH PROMOTED
PTO CAPTAIN
A public garden party will be
held at the home of Mrs. David
Wright, 510 South Broad Street,
by members of the Sunbeam Class
of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Refreshments and gifts will be
offered for sale. An interesting
program of entertainment also is
being arranged by the committee
in charge. The party will be held
from 4 P. M. to 10 P. M.
In case of rain the party will be
field in the church basement. The
public is invited to attend.
The committee in charge in­cludes,
.Mrs. B. L. Sharp, Mrs.
Cullen Carpenter, Mrs. Orris Nuss,
iMrs. John Steffiy, Miss Anna
Mary Frank, Mrs. Frank Ditzler
and Mrs. Wright.
According to wiord received in
town, Dr. Joseph W. Grosh has
been promoted from First Lieu­tenant
to Captain. Captain Grosh
has been in the service since Nov­ember
9 and served in the medi­cal
unit at Camp Pickett, Va„ be
fore going to Fort Jackson, S. C.,
where he is at the present time.
CARL MATHERS PROMOTED
Carl Mathers, who was inducted
from the borough seven weeks ago,
has been promoted to Private First
Class, it was announced this week.
Pfc. Mathers is stationed at Sal­ma,
Kansas. Mrs. Mathers will
leave today for a visit with her
bubband.
Net profits of around $325 to be
used for improving the playground
in the south end were realized
Tuesday evening when several
thousand persons all but filled
every available inch of space on the
borough lot, Spruce Street and
West Second Avenue.
The festival, started by a group
of neighbors anxious to further
improve the recreational center
and sponsored by the Lititz Lions
Club, proved one of the most
spontaneous and successful civic
projects launched here in years.
Wih funds now available, those
supervising the improvement of
the lot were making plans for
leveling off the tract and placing
a layer of top soil in order that
grass can be planted this falL
Equipment, benches, tables and
other such improvements also are
being considered.
With hundreds participating in
a series of games and contests, the
cake walk proved the big feature
of the evening. With each cake
walk growing larger in size, Elam
Shelly, who guided the marchers
finally was forced to take the
string of participants around the
entire circumference of the field.
Finally with the cakes all given
out, several gallons of ice cream
were offered as prizes and the cake
walk became an ice cream walk.
Hot dogs and hamburgers ran a
close second with 45 pounds of
frankfurters and 70 pounds of
hamburgers being consumed dur­ing
the evening. Ration points f«B
the meat all were donated by chil­dren
who use the lot for playing
baseball and other games.
Lester Balmer also made a big
hit with his Pennsylvania Dutch
announcements over the amplifyer.
The committee in charge consisted
oi Roy S chaff stall, Lester Balmer
and Elam Shelly.
Music was provided throughout
the evening by the Lititz High
School Band under the direction of
M. C. Demmy. Members of the band
were highly praised for the pro­gram
presented.
Rotary Picnic
On Tuesday
Baseball and quoits, plus an
abundance of sugar-cake if sugar
can be obtained, will prove the fea­tures
of the annual picnic of the
Lititz Rotary Club to be held Tues­day
afternoon and evening in the
Lititz Springs Park.
Games and sports will begin at
four o’clock with dinner to be serv­ed
at six o’clock. Charlie Brobst
is in charge of the food, while Dr.
H. B. .Minnich will be in charge of
the sports and baseball game.
*Mid The Turmoil
VISITING HIS MOTHER
Edward Spangler, of Philadel­phia,
is spending several weeks
with his mother, Mrs. Emma
Spangler.
Lutz Plans Program
For Park Sunday Night
An unusual musical program,
similar to one which attracted such
favorable comment several years
ago, will be presented in the park
at the bandshell Sunday evening
under the direction of B. F. Lutz.
In announcing the program for
the concert, Mr. Lutz revealed
that it will feature nearly a dozen
solos and that the bulk of the music
will be made up of “those old-fashioned
favorites which always
prove popular. ”
The Moravian Sunday School
Orchestra, under Mr. Lutz’ direc­tion,
will start the program sched­uled
to begin at 8:30. Vocal solos
will be presented by Mrs. George
Keehn, Thelma Lutz and Nancy
Lutz.-
Another feature will be several
cornet solos by Ralph Downey and
several goblet and musical saw
selections by John Lutz. A brass
quartette also will present several
old-time Moravian hymn selections.
Mary Hammond will be the pian­ist
with Mrs. William Fasnacht
playing the accompaniment for sev­eral
of the solos. A real treat will
be, Mr. Lutz promised, several sel­ections
by the full membership of
the Men’s Bible Class of the Mor­avian
Sunday School.
A similar program presented
two years ago attracted a crowd of
more than 2,000 persons.
Among the selections the orches­tra
will play “The Victory March,”
one of Mr. Lutz’s latest composi­tions.
Talk about enthusiasm—that
bunch which put on the festival in
the borough lot at Spruce Street
end Wes Second Avenue, really
whooped up a lot of old-fashioned
pep and showed the town how to
take hold of a thing and make a
success of it.
* * *
The other morning the kids were
having so much fun out there
playing ball that Arthur Bowers,
of Liberty Street, donated a first
aid kit to take care of any of he
usual ball-playing casualties.
* * *
According to Sol Strohm, as soon
as a dark cloud appears on the
horizon, his phone goes out of order.
* * *
Dr. Hagen tells us, this week,
that once upon a time the grape­fruit
was a lemon who just decided
to become something bigger and
Letter. The moral of which is:
“Why stay a lemon all your life?”
* * *
After banging around presses
for the past twenty-five years,
Johnnie Keehn caught his finger
in a press Tuesday with the result
that he now is sporting a big
bulky bandage on the digit. Twant
funny, Johnnie told us later
* * *
They Do Say That: The ferris
wheel used as part of the candle
display on the fourth celebration
was built by Paul Buch, Broad St.,
a year after the Chicago World’s
Fair from a decription given him
by a friend; Paul Minnich is pre­dicting
a com Shortage in the na­tion
this year; no matter how hot
it gets Charlie Keath won’t go
without a necktie; Archie Shelley
is enjoying his furlough so much
that it will take two weeks’ rest
for him after he gets back to camp.