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Vol. LXV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., January 20, 1944 No, 9
Launch Drive
To Sell Bonds
In Borough
57 Solicitors To Make
House-To-House
Canvass
Led ¡by a brigade of Blue Star
Mothers, a total of 57 solicitors
launched the fourth war loan drive
here Tuesday, determined to ob­tain
more than the goal of $500,-
000 in war bond purchases before
February 15.
Armed with forms, pamphlets
and pledge blanks the group plans
to make a house-to-house canvass
of the borough. Stickers showing
that bonds have been -purchased
during the current campaign will
be awarded each purchaser of
bonds at the local banks and post
office at the time of the actual pur­chase
of the bonds.
Campaign headquarters for the
drive have -been set up in the
Young Mens Business League. The
first report of the progress of the
-campaign will ibe made there to­morrow
night from 7 to 9 P. M.
The headquarters will be open the
evenings of January 21, 24 and 28,
and February 4, 7, 9, 11 and 15.
Ten of the local Blue Star (Moth­ers
also stimulated the drive when
they appeared over the radio from
Station WGAL, Lancaster, describ­ing
their work and their sons in
the service. Those who spoke were
Mrs. Lloyd Hess, Mrs. B. M. 'Lea-man,
Mrs. Ellis Kauffman, Mrs. Ar­chie
Shelly, Mrs. Samuel Krane,
Mrs. Estella Horn'berger, Mrs. Ed­ward
Grube, Mrs. Fred Gorton,
Mrs. Clarence Maharg and Mrs.
Morris McCloud.
The public was advised by Wm.
Fassrracht,- focal chairman of the
campaign, not to wait for the soli­citors
but to make purchases im­mediately.
These can be reported
when the solicitor interviews as
well as additipnal pledges signed.
Only actual purchases of (bonds
count.
Four Are Awarded
Silver Wings
Four boys of the local high
i school were awarded silver wings
during the assembly -period recent­ly.
They were Elmer Good, Wm.
Hall, Theodore -Smith and Nevin
Bowman. The boys passed their
mental -and physical tests and are
enlisted in the Air Force -Reserves
and when called to active duty will
begin a course of training which
■will -prepare them to become avia­tion
cadets.
World Peace
Institute To
Be Held Here
Rotary Club Plans Series
Of Four Meeting; Well-
Known Speakers
Reformed S. S.
Re-organizes
For Year
Guy S. Snyder Is Elected
Sunday School
Supintendent
Guy S. Snyder was elected super­intendent
of -the Evangelical and
Reformed Sunday School at the
meeting of -the congregation held
recently. Other officers elected
were as follows: Mrs. Marguerite
Overly, assistant supt.; Mrs. Liz­zie
Getz, cradleroll supt.; Mrs.
Alice Oberly, Home Dept Supt.;
Allen D. Ditzler, treas.; William
V. Carper, sec.; Miss Mary Bow­man,
asst, sec.; Mrs. Edith Heis-ley,
Missionary Supt.; Mrs. Alma
Troutman .Temperance supt.; Doris
George, assistant.
Mrs. Minnie Roth, Supt. of the
Beginners and Primary Dept.;
Mrs. Dorothy Market, pianist;
James R. RJo-th, librarian; assisted
by Roy Rohrer; Allen Adair, pian­ist
for the school, assisted by Ruth
Moyer; J. Russel Market, song
leader.
William V. Carper was elected
elder of the church for a -term of
three years and James R. Roth
was elected deacon for a term of
three years. The Rev. George B.
Raezer is the pastor of the church.
An Institute of International
Understanding to be conducted
here in Lititz is an ambitious pro­ject
on which the local Rotary
Club has been working for some
-time past.
At the weekly meeting on Tues­day
night the chairman of the
International Committee was able
to announce that all preliminary
arrangements (have -been complet­ed
and that f-our distinguished
speakers have been secured,
The I-nsti-tute will consist of four
sessions, the first to be held on
Monday evening, February 28th,
and the rest on the three success­ive
Monday evenings. The ses­sions
will consist of -two parts, the
address by an -outstanding speak­er
who is a specialist in his sub­ject
and a open forum in Which
all may participate by asking per­tinent
questions.
The -speaker will also address
the high school student body in
-the afternoon.
The sessions will foe open to all
citizens. The local Rotary -Club
has assumed full financial respon­sibility
for the Institute as a part
of its community and international
service. There will foe no charge
for admission but admislsion will
be -by ticket only.
Fuller announcement will - be
made later. '
Rotary International has a four­fold
objective.
It seeks first to promote good ¡
fellowship within the club mem- |
bership and through its member-ship
in the community and in the
-world at large. |
Its second objective is express- '
ed in its -motto, “He profits most
who serves the best.” Each Ro­tarían
to be true to the ideals of
Rotary (must consider his vocation
or hi-, craft as a -means of service I
to his fellowman. It is also ex-
-pressed in this way: no déal is a
good deal unless- it profits both j
-participants in the transaction. ¡
As a third objective emphasis is
-laid on community service. Every i
good Rotarían mus-t of necessity j
-be a good citizen and give of him- !
self as much as is possible to the |
community. - !
The final and fourth objective is ]
the promotion of understanding ¡
and good will among all nations j
os that there may come peace upon
the earth. The Lititz club, under ¡
the leadership of the District Gov­ernor,
in financing this Institute
is following its third and fourth j
objectives, service to the commun-
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Pre-war Dads
In Local
Draft Group
Total Of 12 From Here
To Leave During
Next Few Days
A -total of -seven pre-Pearl Har­bor
fathers are included in a to­tal
of 12 selectees from Lititz and
adjacent territories who were in­ducted
into the service last week
and the -first of whom will leave
here Saturday.
Local men Included in the Janu­ary
draft call are as follows:
Army: Howard E. Stauffer, Lit­itz
R. D. 2; David D. Greiner, Lit­itz
R. D.; E-larn H. Bucher, -Lititz
R. D. 1; Richard K. Lehman, this
borough; Eugene Adams, this bor-j
ou-gh; Ira F. Yeagley, this boro­ugh;
Harold'E. Ibach, Lititz R. D.
4; Thomas W. Miller, R-othsville.
Navy: Luther E. Nagle, Jay W.
Charles and James E. Walters, all
of this borough; -Charles -E. Gable
and -Richard R. Groff, -R-oth-sville.
Navy -selectees will leave 'Satur­day.
The remainder wil-1 leave
seven days later.
Enjoying the Party
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Council Fails
To Fill Two
Vacancies
COMPLETES AVIATION
COURSE
Lester Miller Resigns From
Water Dept; Officer
Nagle Inducted
Frederick Ret-tew, Jr., son of
Mr. and (Mrs. Frederick S. Rettew,
307 Front Street, this borough,
has completed training as an av­iation
radioman at the Naval Air
Technical Training Center, Mem­phis,
Tennessee. He enlisted last
May 28 and received hi-s- boot train­ing
at Great Lakes, 111.
Letters From
The
Service Men
Men and women from here who attended tlie annual party of the
Lititz Service Association. How many can yon identify. The photo
was taken by Frank Longenecker.
T OENTER COLLEGE
George Bickel, son of Mr. and
-Mrs. George Bickel, Locust Street,
will enter Lebanon Valley College
'as a student for the ministry, on
Tues-day. Bickel is a -senior at the
local high school and is president
of the student council.
Frank Buch
Observes His
92nd Birthday
Dinner Held In His Honor
At General Sutter Hotel
Tuesday
Mrs Gockley
Suprised
At Shower
Affair Held In Recreation
Room At H. J. Pierson
Home
Miss Lillie Artz and Mrs. Lin­coln
Artz entertained at a shower
for their sister, Mrs-. Samuel Gock­ley,
-who was. recently -married.
The affair was held in the recreat-tion
room at the home of former
Senator and Mrs. H. J. Pierson on
Tuesday1 evening.
The guests included Mr. and
Mrs. John Ross and so-ns, Donald
and 'Jerry, Mr. and Mrs. John
Gockley, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Roy­er,
Margaret Royer, Mildred Roy­er,
Nancy Groff, Noami Gockley,
Luther Weidman, Melvin Bowman,
Richard Gockley, Harold Glick,
Mrs. • Clayton Adams, Mrs. Nor­man
Carpenter.
Misses Della Roadcap, Lillie
Arndt, Ruth Reed, Lillie Artz, Mr.
and Mrsi Eiari Gockley, Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Stump, Mir. and Mrs.
Elmer Miller and sons, Mrs. Mar­gie
Adams, Mrs. Annie Zell, Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Artz, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Gockley, Mrs. Elton
Reed and son, Miss Catherine Ad-
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REBEKAHS TO INITIATE
Ten candidates -for membership
in the local Re'bekah Lodge will be
taken to Elizabethtown where they
vill be given the Rebekah degree
-by members of that 'lodge. The -lo­cal
lodge also is -planning to or­ganize
a degree team which is
scheduled to put on a degree in
the near future for the newly-or­ganized
New Holland lodge.
Still active and taking an inter­est
in world events, Frank Buch,
one of the borough’s oldest resi-denfcj,
Tuesday observed his nine­ty-
second birthday.
The anniversary was fittingly
observed at a family dinner ten­dered
in his honor a t the General
Sutter Hotel. Those attending in­cluded
Mr. and Mrs. Buch, Mr. and
Mrs. .. John- .. Brubaker, Mm -Erla
Stultz, Mrs. Jack Grubb and
daughter, Jacqueline.
For many years Mr. Buch was
an ardent ospntsman and took an
active interest in the projects of
local sportsmen. During all of his
adult life he has been an enthus­iastic
church worker and was one
of -those responsible for the found­ing
of St. Paul’s Lutheran church
-here.
For many years- he was in bus>-
iness in the borough. Enterprises
which he organized included a
tobacco manufacturing plant and
a -pretzel bakery. For several
years he also conducted a book
store on East Main Street.
TEACHER NAMED
Forty-Nine Students Enrolled
In Leadership Training School
Miss Evelyn R. Evans, Lancas­ter,
was elected teacher of history
and English in the high school at
a meeting of the school board j
Wednesday night. She will sue- j
ceed Eugene Deckert, who was j
named physical education direct­or
to fill the vacancy caused by -
the resignation of Harold Reese,
who is going -to Hanover. A va-cancy
in the commercial depart­ment
was not filled. Miss Dorothy j
Stoll, Lancaster, has been teach- I ing since Leon DeFernelmont -
joined the Navy.
Forty-nine students enrolled in
the Community Leadership Train­ing
-Sobol held in the Moravian
Sunday School building on Mon­day
evening. This was -the -first of
a series of a six -weeks’ -course
which will continue -for five conse­cutive
Monday evenings.
Twenty-three enrolled in “Ways
-of Teaching,” taught by Miss Anna
K. Miller; ten in “Christian Evan­gelism,”
taught -by the -Rev. L.
Clarence Hunt; and -sixteen in
“Jesus and His Teachings,” by the
Rev. James M. Moore.
The school is open f-or registra­tions
any evening and persons are
welcome to attend any of the lec­tures
if they are not able to attend
all of them. Credit will be -given
if v-fie are attended.
The -Rev. Edwin W. Kortz is the
dean and Warren Diehm the re­gistrar.
It is sponsored by the
Ministerial Association and -the
Sunday School Superintendent’s
Association of Lititz. The admin­istrative
committee includes the
Rev. J. C. H. Light, Calvin Weitzel,
the Rev. Charles F. Trunk and
Eugene Deckert.
MILDRED YOUNG RETURNS
FROM CAIRO, EGYPT
VIA AIRPLANE
Flying from one army camp to
another, singing every day of your
life before various groups of ser­vice
men not oml can give you the
satisfaction of having brought at
least a -bit of happiness to the men
at the front—it also can give you
a few added pounds of avoirdupois.
Arriving home here Tuesday af­ternoon
after spending the past
several months singing abroad,
Miss Mildred Young, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs-. Howard S. Young,
East Orange St., revealed that
during the next few weeks she is
not only going to get a -well-earned
rest—-but shes going to try to g e t:
her weight down again.
iSpendin much of her time a-board
airplanes, excepting for the
time when she was presenting en­tertainment
programs for the ser­vice
men and -women, she had lit­tle
opportunity to obtain real phy­sical
exercise, Miss Young reveal­ed.
And in addition to that, the
meals ¡served in the army camps
in Northern Africa and Italy are ;
mighty good -an-d substantial, she
-testified. I
Leaving Cairo, Egypt, by plane j
Saturday, January 8, she made the t
entire trip home by plane. She
brought with her a substantial col­lection
of souvenirs and -photo­graphist
DR. WITMER TO SPEAK
Frank Ford Jr.
Is Married
In Chicago
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Military Wedding Attend­ed
By Members Of
His Company
At a military wedding held in
Chicago Saturday evening, Miss
Florence N. Ness, of Chicago, be­came
the bride of Cadet Frank S.
Ford, Jr., of this borough.
-Cadet Ford is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Ford, East Main
Street. His father is -owner of
the Ford Markets here. His bride
(s the daughter of Rev, and Mrs.
Maurice H. Ness, of Proctor,
Minn.
The romance blossomed on the
campus of the University of Chic­ago
where Cadet F-ord is enrolled
for special instruction. He has
-been in -the service for the past
several years.
With members of his company
sanding as guard, the ceremony
took place in the Thomdyke Hil­ton
Memorial Chapel Saturday
evening at seven o’clock. Rev. I.
V. Blair officiated.
Following the ceremony, a re­ception
was held at the Theologi­cal
Seminary of the University of
Chicago.
Cadet Ford is scheduled to com­plete
his training a t the Univer­sity
of Chicago in two weeks.
TWo vacancies remain to be
filled among borough employees
with a scarcity of applicants al­ready
evident, it was revealed fol­lowing
a special meeting of (bor­ough
council (Monday evening.
The two vacancies are those of
Lester .Miller, assistant water sup-erintenden',
and Luther Nagle,
night police officer of -the borough.
-Nagle was inducted into the ser­vice
in Harrisburg last week and
will report for active service in
the Navy on Saturday. Following
Monday night’s meeting, members
of council declared that no ap­pointment
will foe made for several
days at least.
President of -Council Elmer
Bomberger pointed out that de­spite
-the loss of the night officer,
Lititz will not be without police
protection at night. Chief of
Police Clarence Kreider is re-ar­ranging
his ho-urs and will remain
subject to call 24-hours a day.
Miller submitted his resignation
to accept a position with the Sim­plex
Paper -Box Company His
'duties are being assumed, temp-or-
-orily at least, -by J.H. Eberly.
COST ACCOUNTANTS
TO MEET FRIDAY
The monthly meeting of the N.
A. iC. A. -will (be held tomorrow
evening in Hotel Brunswick, Lan­caster.
The speaker will -be Harry
Ness, C. P. A. of York, Pa. The
subject will he “Renegotiation and
-Cancellation of War Contracts.”
Harry Tshudy Heads
Business League
-Harry H. Tschudy was reelected
president of the Young Men’s Bu­siness
League at the annual meet­ing
and sm-oker held at the League
on Monday evening. Abram Her­shey
was reelected vice-president,
and T. I. Brubaker, sec’y-treas.
The new directors are: C. S.
Zartman, Norman Badorf and Har­ry
Gorton. The retiring directors
include: C. Eugene Long, P. F.
Snyder and William H. Zeller.
School Takes Part
In War Loan Drvie
Women Enjoy
Program By
Girl Scouts
Theatre Group Prents
Thornton Wilder
Play
Mrs. M. C. Demmy
Heads Local Dimes
Drive Committee
The Lititz March of Dimes Com­mittee
for the President’s Birthday
Ball was being organized here thi.,
week. The -committee is headed bv
Mrs. M. C. Demmy who was named
-local chairman by Christian C.
Rudy, general chairman of the Co
Committee arranging the Presi­dent’s
Birthday Ball in Lancaster.
Mrs. Demmy today announced
the appointment of Mrs. Frank H.
Longenecker as secretary and
-treasurer of the -local committee,
■and announced that her committee
would be completed during the
next few days. Tickets have arri­ved
and already are on sale.
The tickets will admit the hol­der
to the birthday ball to be held
on January 28 in the Moose Halil, j
,E. King Street, Lancaster. While
all the proceeds will be used for |
work among infiantile paralysis j
victims and other crippled chil- j
dren, 50 per cent of this money |
will be used locally, it was an- \
nounced.
Special efforts wil-l be made in
the -schools to sell stamps and war
bonds -during the fourth War Loan
Drive. Application forms will be
given to the pupils to sell in the
schools oir in -the town. The room
selling $5,000 in stamps and bonds
will be called -the Star Room and
will be granted special privileges.
Pupils who (have stamp books will
be urged to buy bonds.
Thus -far the stamps and bonds
sold :in the cshools total $11,454.70.
-Last week the amount -totaled—
$1,441.60.
The Girl Scouts of Lititz under
the able direction of Mrs. Willy
dePerrot, Troop committee chair­man,
and Miss Jean Moyer, Troop
leader, presented an interesting
and entertaining demonstration of
Scout interests, activities and aims
at the monthly meeting of -the (Wo­man’s
'Club on Monday evening in
Fellowship Hall, Moravian Sunday
School building.
The mothers of the Scouts were
guests of the Club.
‘Journey from Camden to Tren­ton”
by Thornton Wilder was giv­en
by -the Lititz Dramatic Theater
directed by Miss Jane Hopkins.
(Mrs. Quinten Keath whose char­acterization
was atoly presented,
was supported by Lanette Sheaffer,
Jean -Shauto, George Bickel, Elliot
-Krane and Harold McCreary.
Mrs. John G. Hershey, president,
presided at the -brief business
meeting. Reports were given by
(Mrs. Frank Hunter, Welfare chair­man
and Mrs. D. -M. Graybill, chair­man
of -the Ways and Means com­mittee.
The Club voted to con­tribute
fifty dollars to the Lan­caster
General Hospital Building
Expansion Fund.
Mis-s Margaret Anderson, finance
chairman, presented a motion -for
the purchase of a one hundred
dollar War Bond, which was car­ried.
'Mrs. Hershey announced
several members of the Club were
aiding in the solicitation of funds
for the General Hospital.
A social (hour followed the pro­gram
during which the hospitality
-committee was aided by the Girl
Scouts in serving refreshments.
December 31, 1943
Dear Folks:
I received your Xmas package
today, so I will write you a few
lines. I want to thank you very
much for the gift. It is nice of
you folks -at think of us boys, even *
though we are far away. I am
over in Italy, and I like it very
much. I am in fine health and
-ho-pe this will find all the folks
in Lititz the same. I had the priv­ilege
of meeting Stanley Becker
yesterday. I was very glad to see
him. He was the first boy from
around Lititz that I have seen over
here. I would be glad to have the
address of all the boys who are
over here from Lititz. I get
around pretty much over here, so
-maybe I’ll run into one. I go to -
town pretty often. My job is very
easy. The onl/y thing I do is keep
(censored) of the (censored). I '»
am sorry I don’t have any pictures,
but my parents have one if they’ll -
give it up. I’ll have to close hop­ing
to return to good old Lititz
shortly. My correct address you’ll a
find at the top of this sheet. »-
John H. Oebme.
)
January 14, 1944
Dear Members of the
Lititz Service Association:
I want to thank everyone for
the Christmas presents that were
sent to me. I sure appreciated
every one of them. '
I also want to -apologize for not
writing sooner ibut I was kept
rather busy and didn’t get much
time to write.
Wisjhing all the Members a Pros­perous
and Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
Cletus Forney
TOMATO GROWERS MEETING
A large number of local tomato
growers are planning to attend
meetings of the Vegetable -Growers
Association to toe held Wednesday
morning and afternoon in Martin
Auditorium, Y. M. C. A., Lanca
Speakers include R. S. Kirby, of
State College; C. B. Raymond, of
Ithaca, N. Y.; ,H. S. Sloat, Lancas­ter;
Raymond iS. Hovis, Millers-vil-
le; -Jesse -M. Huffington, State
College, and representatives of the »»
-local ration board. The meetings
have been arranged by County
Farm Agent F. -S. Bucher.
DR. YODER RE-ELECTED
HEAD OF HOTEL COMPANY
Monroe Musser Describes
Dangerous Bombing Flights
REV. KORTZ TO ADDRESS
MISSIONARY MEETING
-Dr. C. Howard Witmer, superin­tendent
of -the Lutheran Sunday
School at Neffsville, will be the j
teacher in the adult department of
the Moravian -Sunday School, Sun­day
morning, Jan. 26. He was pro­cured
by the Men’s Bible Class
committee including, B. F. Lutz
and H. C. Miller.
A special missionary meeting
will be held by the Women’s -Mis­sionary
Society of the Moravian
Church on Wednesday evening,
January 26, at 7:3-0 in the Inter­mediate
Department of the Sunday
School building.
The men’s Missionary Society
will be special guests and music
will be presented by men of this
Society.
The Rev. Edwin W. Kortz will
1: e the speaker.
AN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER
STATION, England, (Delayed) —
Returning from a raid on Bremen
on N-ov. 13, Technical S-gt. Monroe
K. M-usser, -of Lititz, radio opera­tor
on an Eighth AAF Liberator
Bomber, saw a Fortress go down
in the sea. He radioed an SOS
which was picked up and acknow­ledged
by an Air -Sea Rescue unit.
Although he never discovered if
the men were moved, he had the
satisfaction of knowing his mes­sage
-had been received.
This was three -days before Sgt.
Musser completed hi-s- tour wit-h a
mission to Norway and after long
and varied experiences in the Euro­pean
theatre with ten other Ameri­can
boys on the Liberator “Blasted
Event.” The experiences of the
“Blasted Event” and its crew were
written by Sgt. Gilbert F. Arrni-tage,
of Providence, R. I.
The group activated at Barks­dale
Field, La., in March 1942, and
after training under assimilated
field conditions at Ft. My-ers, Fla.,
where they officially sank one U-boat
and probably others, they
were moved to a staging area and
made a precedent-setting forma­tion
flight to England.
-Blasting the enemy from the
Baltic to the Mediterranean, Sgt.
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The Lititz Community Hotel
company -stockholders met or
Tuesday afternoon a t the hotel an
re-elected the directors and or­ganized
as follows, Dr. M. H. Yod­er,
president; E. L. Garber, vice-president;
E. E. Habecker, secre­tary;
Roy Wagner, treasurer and
manager. Other board members
include, Charles K. Keath, Hon.
J. B. Wissler and R. iM. iSpacht.
M id The Turmoil
COMES THRU AGAIN
Tech. Sgt. Monroe Musser, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Musser,
Water Street, who is piling up an
enviable record of bombing
exploits.
Armitage called the group and
their plane “not the best Liberator
in the world, nor the best men,
perhaps'. But as good as the best.”
Although almost every trip
brought some damage to the plane,
in the entire operations of the crew
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Fox hunting on foot blossomed
forth as a new iloca-1 sport Sundaj
when 15 members of the Litits
Sportsmen’s Association got up at
daybreak and journeyed -to th<
game preserve north of here.
* * *
While one group with -the doge
went to one end of the preserve,
■the others spread out at the op­posite
end waiting for Mr. Fox tc
show 'his face. The dags raced ar­ound
several hours but could nol
get anything started.
* * *
The snow was too fresh—Elmei
Bomberger explained and intimat­ed
that rather than be discourag­ed,
the local sportsmen are plan­ning
to get out among the hills or
another fox-hunting expedition as
soon as -conditions justify. The
f-ox hunts are being encouraged in­asmuch
as fpxes have 'become so
abundant that they are killing off
other game, particularly irabbit-s.
—For Home Dressed Meat '
low the crowd and land ir
Meat Market. Prices
do the trick. Phom
deliver