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Vol. LXV
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Lititz, Lancaster Go., Pa., May 25, 1944
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No. 27
Herr Scores
Cost System
Of ’Squires
Some Magistrates Pile Up
Costs On Defendants,
He Declares
The practise of certain magis-tiates
and justices of the peace
in piling up costs unnecessarily
upon the heads of persons charg­ed
with some minor offense, was
emphatically criticized in an ad­dress
delivered by Justice of the
Peace Joseph B. Herr before the
Lititz Rotary Club here Tuesday
eevening.
A certain element of the minor
judiciary has brought criticism
upon the whole system due to
this practise, ’Squire Herr de­clared.
He did not identify any
of the corrupting element of the
minor judiciary other than “a
Lancaster magistrate who sent his
constable out here to arrest a
man, refused to permit him to put
up bail here and then placed him
in jail until bail could be brought
to Lancaster from Lititz.” This
was done for the sole purpose of
being able to tack on charges for
commitment papers and for papers
releasing the defendant,” ’Squire
Herr explained.
“My solution to this situation
would be to have one justice for
every 10,000 persons, place this
person on a salary basis and then
to have all costs in minor cases
payable to the county,” ’Squire
Herr explained.
During the remainder of his
talk he discussed the manner in
which local officials dispose of
cases and paid high tribute to the
work, especially among young
people, being done by Chief of
Police Clarence R. Kreider.
’Squire Herr was intorduced to
the club by Elmer Bomberger,
chairman of the program commit­tee.
Jr. Candidates
Hold Practise
Here Saturda V j
Large Group Competes For
Places On Local
Team
By Marvin Miller
The first practice session for
candidates seeking berths on the
local town team for boys eighteen
and under was held last Saturday
afternoon on the atheletic field.
Inclement weather kept some of
the boys. in doubt as to whether
practice was to be held, but as the
afternoon wore on more hopefuls
appeared to try to impress their
fashion of play upon Coaches
Carl Reedy and John Schoeneber-ger.
The drill was centered mainly
around the offensive part of the
national pastime, with a two hour
batting practice taking the spot­light.
A practice game was held
later in the day with every boy
present getting into the melee and
displaying his brand of play be­fore
Mesrs. Reedy and Schoene-berger.
The boys had the privi­lege
of trying out at any position
they so desired.
The nucleous of the outfit will
undoubtedly be formed by boys
who have had considerable high
school experience. Among these
are found Curtiss Summy, Claude
Young, John Buch, Dick Waltz and
"Mooney” Reist, all regulars on
the Lititz High nine of the past
season. '
Others who were on the squad
at L. H. S. but did not see much
action include, Jack Marks, Char­ley
Roth, Gene Hamaker, and Stan
Schoeneberger. “Elly” Kreider,
A1 Pierson, Johnny Steffy, Larry
Pierson, Thorton Tompkins, and
Bruce Ulrich also reported.
—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
RECEIVES ADVANCED
TRAINING
Cadet MAHLON A. SAYLOR
Mahlon Saylor
Learns High
Level Bombing
Enrolls At Carlsbad, New
Mexico, For New
Training
Aviation Cadet Mahlon A.
Saylor, son of Walter S. Saylor,
215 N. Cedar St., this borough, has
reported at Carlsbad, New Mex­ico,
Army Airl Field, where he
will receive advanced flight train­ing
in high-level bombardiering
and dead-reckoning navigation.
The Carlsbad Army Air Field is
the newest bombardier school in
the Army Air Forces Training
Command.
During the eighteen weeks
training course Cadet Saylor will
study bombardiering and dead-reckoning
navigation under sim­ulated
combat conditions. On
graduation he will be awarded his
silver bombardier’s wings and will
be ready for active duty as an of­ficer
in the Army Air Forces.
Playoff Scheduled
For This Afternoon
Unless rain again intervenes,
the county championship will be
decided this afternoon at 3 P. M.
when Lititz will meet Manor Twp.
at Stumpf Field, Lancaster.
Meeting Ttiesday, the locals
were trailing 5 to 0 when the
game was called in the fourth in­ning.
After going through a
strenuous practice session yester­day,
the locals predicted a dif­ferent
story for today.
DR. HAGEN ON VACATION
Dr. E. S. Hagen left Lititz Wed­nesday
morning to spend several
weeks with his daughter, Mrs. O.
E. Mills, Brooklyn, N. Y. Before
returning here he plans to spend
several weeks with another daugh­ter,
Mrs. Fred Pfaff, Winston-
Salem, N. C.
The girls of Linden Hall aca­demy
and Junior College have
been rehearsing daily for the an­nual
horse show to be held on Sat­urday,
May 27 at nine o’clock in
the morning.
Dr. Herbert H. Beck will be the
ringmaster assisted by Norman
Badorf. Lowell O. Stengel will
be the announcer. The show is
open to the public.
There will be four classes and
the following girls will partici­pate:
advanced, Cornelia Crouse,
Lorris Foster, Mary Hoover, Mar­ian
LaFollette, Ruth Miller, Edith
Miles, Mary Ann Shipherd; inter­mediate,
Betty Ahlfield, Janet
Bosworth, Nancy Crouse, Elinor
Eaton, Mary Jane Engel, Estelle
Kemp, Barbara Nadelman, Pat­ricia
Short, Carmalita Woodis,
Adelaide Zademach.
Novice, Brenda Bendt, Grace
Dukes, Marcia Fox, Mary Gilbert,
Bettie Glazer, Joan Harmon, Bar­bara
Holcombe, Elizabeth Lange,
55 To Receive
Commenc’m’t
Diplomas At
Rev. Trunk To Preach
Baccalaureate Sunday;
Honor Students Named
A total of 55 members of the
Senior Class will receive diplo­mas
at the annual commencement
exercises of the Lititz High School
next Thursday evening, Supervis­ing
Principal M. C. Demmy an­nounced
late yesterday.
Commencement week activities
will start Sunday evening at 7 P.
M. in the Moravian Church when
Rev. Charles Trunk will preach the
Baccalaureate sermon to the grad­uates.
Rev. Edwin Kortz will
have charge of the service.
No classes wil be held Tuesday,
Memorial Day, but Class Day
exercises will be held Wednesday
at 2 P. M.
The Commencement exercises,
which will start at 8 P. M., will
bo addressed by Dr. Clyde Lynch,
president of Lebanon Valley Col­lege.
The program will include
invocation by Rev. C. L. Hunt,
several selections by the Senior
Class Chorus and benediction by
Rev. J. C. H. Light.
Orations will be delivered by
the following graduates: Margar­et
L. Buch, whose subject will be
“Le Sabot; and Glenn Mearig,
v/ho will speak upon “Originality”.
Diplomas will be presented by
Mr. Demmy.
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Will Collect
Used Clothing
Here June 2 ,3
Donations To Be Turned
Over For Relief Of
Russians
Civilians, returning to their
homes in the towns which have
been recaptured from the retreat­ing
Germans, will receive the
clothing which Lititz will collect
on Friday and Saturday, June 2
and 3.
Mrs. M. C. Demmy, chairman of
the drive, has arranged that all
contributions be brought ito the
Fire House on those days, before
2 P. M. Saturday, where a com­mittee
will sort and pack.
It is difficult for us, with the
war being fought away from our
own country, to visualize the utter
destitution left by total war.
Every machine that turns, turns
out material for defense, and
clothing is a luxury which must
be put aside until the war is won.
These people are our allies,
fighting the same enemy whom our
sons and brothers are fighting,
and by helping them we give them
the courage to fight harder.
Pat Leonard, Phyllis Pountney,
Nancy Rogers, Marilyn Roman-elli,
Lorraine Sisselman, Mary
Williams; Junior College, Eliza­beth
Anderson, Sunny Bastress,
Betsey Beach, Lucille Bigoney,
Joanne Davis, Charlanne Eaton,
Eleanor Jones, Suzanne Kaufman,
Dorothy Swain.
The May Day pageant will be
held in the aftemoqn on the camp­us
in charge of Mrs. Richard
Rand, teacher of physical educa­tion.
The queen’s identity will not
b. disclosed until her appearance.
The days’ activities will close
with a play, "Say It With Music”,
a comedy by Wilbur Braun to be
presented in the gymnasium a t
seven-thirty and directed by Miss
Thelma Shreiner, teacher of dra­matics.
In case of rain the programs
will be presented on Monday,
May 29.
The Glee Club of Linden Hall
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Linden Hall Horse Show
To Attract Crowd Saturday
OBSERVING EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY
Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church
Bishop Cooper
To Speak Here
On Sunday
Trinity Church Observing
Eighth Anniversary
Of Building
The eighth anniversary of the
Trinity Evangelical Congregation­al
shurch building will be observed
here Sunday at a special anniver­sary
service to be held at 10:30
A. M.
Bishop A. W. Cooper will preach
the sermon during the service.
He also will address the Sunday
School earlier in the morning.
The Sunday School program also
will include an organ solo by Mrs.
Mary Hammond Trump.
At the later service, the pro­gram
also will feature several
solos by Miss Mildred Young,
meezo-soprano. Miss Young’s
selections will be “O Rest In The
Lord,” by Mendelssohn; and "I
Talked To God Last Night,” by
Guion.
The scripture lesson will be read
by the pastor, Dr. L. Clarence
Hunt.
Betty Herr Honored
At Shippensburg
Betty Herr, daughter of Jus­tice
of the Peace and Mrs. Joseph
B. Herr, this borough, has been
elected secretary of the Presi­dent’s
Council at the Shi|ppens-i
burg State Teachers’ College.
Miss Herr, who is a junior, is
president of the Student ©opera­tive
Association.
The President’s Council is a
group chosen by the popular vote
of the student body and meets
regularly with the president of
the college to make plans regard­ing
student welfare and activities.
FAHNESTOCK TRAINING
AS AVIATION CADET *
New Haven, Conn—Wayne G.
Fahnestock, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne G. Fahnestock, of 618
S. Broad Street, Lititz, ¡has begun
training as an aviation cadet in
the Army Air Forces Training
Command School at Yale Univer­sity.
His training will prepare
him for the duties of a technical
officer in communications, and up­on
completion of the course he
will be commissioned a second
lieutenant. West Point traditions
and discipline are in effect at the
Training Command School at Yale.
BILL MIKSCH HOME
Midshipman Bill Miksch of Col­umbia
University, New York
City, spent the weekend with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Miksch of South Broad Street.
VISITING PARENTS HERE
Lt. and Mrs. ¡Earl E. Pfaiutz, and
sons Douglas, David and Donald,
of Hampton, Va., are visiting the
formers parents, Postmaster and
Mrs. Robert E. Pfautz, of ¡South
Broad Street.
ROY WAGNER IN HOSPITAL
Roy Wagner, manager of the
General Sutter Hotel, underwent
an operation in the Allentown
General Hospital on Monday. His
.condition was reported much im-
[ proved today.
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BISHOP A. ‘ W. COOPER
Open House
Attracts Much
Favorable Cjomment
The rooms in the public school
building presented a colorful ap­pearance
on Tuesday evening with
the exhibits displayed for open
house. Several hundred patrons
and friends attended but rain pre­vented
many others from being
present/
The art displays in the grade
rooms were outsanding large pic­tures
presenting scenes from life
and fiction made ¡the rooms gay
and weTe all the work of the chil­dren
under the supervision of ¡Miss
Anne Mellinger, the art teacher.
Other displays of the art depart­ment
were in the new gymnasium
and included the work of the re­lated
art class.
The manual training exhibition
in the gymnasium presented many
and varied pieces of excellent
workmanship ' ranging from a
simple tray ¡to a two wing drof leaf
table made by Nevin Bowman.
Homer Havkman Is the teacher of
this department.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Yeagley, ¡this
borough, a daughter, at 12:28 a. in.
¡Monday at the Lancaster Osteo­pathic
Hospital.
Memorial Day
Exercises To
Be Held Here
Rev. Trunk To Deliver Ad­dress
In Moravian
Cemetery
Lititz’ heroic dead will be hon­ored
at Memorial Day services to
be held here Tuesday morning.
Commander Norman Habecker
commander of the Garden Spot
Post of the American Legion, to­day
urged all service men and
ex-service men, whether members
of the post or not, to participate
in the services and to march in
the parade preceding. All local
organizations and the public also
were asked to participate.
The Memorial Day parade will
start from the fountain at the
square at 9:30 A. M. The pro­gram
at the Moravian Cemetery
is scheduled to start at 10 A, M.
Rev. Charles Trunk, pastor of
St. Paul’s Lutheran church, will
deliver the annual Memorial Day
address.
While classes will not be held
Tuesday, local school children will
report Tuesday morning when they
will bring flowers with which to
decorate the graves. The school
children will carry the flowers to
the cemetery.
The Senior High School Band
will play at the exercises in Man-heim,
due to a previous engage­ment.
Local stores and banks will re­main
closed all day Tuesday al­though
several plants engaged in
manufacturing essential products
will remain in operation. The
windows at the local postoffice
will close at noon althouh the
lobby will be kept open for the
benefit of boxholders.
No rural deliveries will be made
but borough carriers will make
one delivery of mail in the morn­ing.
Seek 15 Tons 01
Waste Paper
Here Monday
The prediction that Lititz will
raise its quota of an entire car­load
of waste paper Monday night,
was made here today by Cbrist
Nissly, salvage chairman. Scouts
will begin the collection at 6 P.
M. when they hope to gather in
approximately 15 tons.
Nisly urged all residents to have
the paper bundled and on the
curb promptly at six. Farmers
and persons living outside the
borough having paper to contri­bute
can place it on the curb any
place within the borough or take
it to the Lititz Furniture Co., at
Front and Broad Streets.
Brickerville Makes Plans
T o Entertain Bricker
(Special from the Bricker-For-
President Headquarters, Columbus,
Ohio.)
BRICKERVILLE, PA. — John
W. Bricker, three times governor
of Ohio, is coming home.
¡Coming home to the same place
his ancestors founded more than
200 years ago; coming home to the
little country churchyard where
many of his ancestors and fore­bears
are buried; coming back to
this little village that bears the
name of Bricker.
On the afternoon of Wednesday,
May 31, this cross-road hamlet
which is like a secret nook in a
pleasant land, will, spread wide its
green hills in welcome—
Because never in the history of
American politics has a candidate
for the presidential nomination
been privileged to go back to a
town founded and named by one of
his ancestors.
Governor Bricker will speak
from a little grove nestled at the
base of the Allegheny foothills
and through which flows the his­toric
"Hessian Ditch,” a canal dug
by Revolutionary War prisoners
to divert waters to the famous
Elizabeth Furnace where cannon
balls ' and guns were made for
General Washington’s army.
The governor will face the gray
sandstone chapel where George
Washington sent many of the sol-
| diers who were wounded in the
l battle of Brandywine, and past
I whose doors, an epoch later, rum­bled
the Conestoga wagons, new-i
built in nearby Lancaster, carry­ing
the life blood to the great
. West.
Peter Bricker, the first Bricker
ever to set foot on American soil,
had been dead many years when
his son founded Brickerville,
Other descendants joined the
I Conestoga caravans going south
( and west which eventually led one
of them into Ohio, little knowing
that some day a relative would
be three times governor of the
great state.
j The Brickers were among the
first settlers in this section of the
country having obtained their
land from Richard Penn, a son of
the illustrious William, and from
a vast, unchartered wilderness
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STARTS PRE-FLIGHT
Cadet Ray Shelley who recently
completed his college course and
who this week began his pre-flight
training at Maxwell Field, Ala.
Ray recently enjoyed a short fur­lough
with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Shelley, Pine Hill.
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Reifsnyder
Sees Action
In Italy
Bob Is Promoted To Serg­eant
On Battlefield;
Saw Mt. Vesuvius
Bob Reifsnyder, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Reifsnyder, South
Locust Street, has been elevated
to the rank of Sergeant on the
field of battle in Southern Italy,
it became known here this. week.
Concurrent with his promotion,
Sergeant Reiienyder was trans­ferred
to another unit to fill a
casualty vacancy. It is thought
that Reifsnyder is located in the
vicinity of the rapidly-advancing
American front-line coming north­ward
through Italy.
In the letter received here this
week, Sergeant Reifsnyder in­formed
relatives of the discom­forts
of “spending so much time
ir. fox-holes.”
He also explained that censor­ship
has been lifted on the erup­tion
of Mount Vesuvius and that
he now can reveal that he wit-
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Rothsville
Graduation
On June 2
Class Of 21 To Receive
Diplomas ; Baccalaureate
Sunday
Commencement exercises will
be held in the Rothsville High
School Friday, June 2, when dip­lomas
will be awarded to a class
of 21 graduates. Dr. Robert F.
Whiston, of Quarryville, will de­liver
the address to the graduates.
Diplomas will be presented by
Supervising Principal F. F. Bail­ey.
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Senior orations will be delivered
by Robert Groff, Ethel Ibach and
Norma Weidler. Honor students
are Miriam Gamer, Robert Groff,
Doris Haldeman, Ethel Ibach and
Noma Weidler. Other members
of the Senior calss are: Samuel
A. Adams; Margaret M. Beck,
Warren S. Becker, Nancy L.
Brenner, Robert W. Delp, Jr.,
Kathryn S. Eberly, Clyde R. Geh-man,
Margaret J. Gehman, Ray
H. Good, Dorothy D. Grube,
Weidler Grabe, Garth P. Hacker,
Mary Jane Hershey, Helen L.
Hostetter, Betty Lou Houser and
Mabel A. Witwer.
Baccalaureate services will be
held in the high school auditorium
this Sunday evening when Rev.
Kenneth Texter, Rothsville, will
speak. Class Day exercises will
be held on Thursday evening,
June 1,
Oonsistant with Quality and Ser­vice—
Prices at BECK BROS, are
lower.
Letters From
The
Service Men
Lititz Service Association:
Hello. This is my first real
chance to give you my correct ad­dress
’cause I’ll be here for some
time. I want to thank the Ass’n,
| for the swell gifts I’m receiving
from it. I have loads of good
times.
Thanking you all again—I’ll
hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
M. Ross Evans, S2/c.
Lititz Service Association:
Thanks a lot for the gifts you’ve
been sending. You must have
some ex-servicemen in the assoc­iation
to know just what we need
and when we need it. They’ve all
been very useful.
R. L. Kauffman, S2/c.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
— —
Mrs. Theodore Schmidt, of East
Main Street, underwent an oprea-tion
at the Lancaster General
Hospital Wednesday morning.
She was admitted to the hospi­tal
Tuesday.
KILLED WHILE TRAINING
Word was received here this
week of the death of David Len­oir,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Lenoir, of Sumpter, |S. C., (for­merly
of this borough. Lenoir—,
was an air cadet and his death
occurred in an accident during
training maneuvers. He was a
graduate of the class of 1939 here.
ATTEND W. C. T. U.
CONFERENCE
Mrs. George Clark, Mrs. ¡Russel
Bechtel and Mrs. John Mohler at­tended
the regional conference of
the W. C. T. U. held in Lebanon on
Tuesday and Wednesday. There
were representatives present from
ten counties present at the confer-5
ence.
Mid The Turmoil
“f you want to go fishing with
us Sunday you’ll have to show up
at 3:30 A. M.,” A1 Frey and Elmer
Bomberger informed John Steffy
last week. At twenty minutes of
four the next morning, John drove
up to Al’s, found everything in
darkness, and after blowing the
horn and ringing the doorbell for
a few minutes, drove out to El­mer’s
place. This also was in
darkness and after twenty min­utes’
effort, Elmer could not be
aroused.
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Going back to Frey’s, John made
so much noise trying to get A1
awake that Night Officer Binkley^
rushed to the scene thinking that
there was a riot or something.
Around 5 A. M. John finally suc­ceeded
in getting his fellow-fish­ermen
drowsily into his machine.
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Elmer Beck, who was married
recently, came in for a lot of kid­ding
at this week’s Rotary Club
meeting. Members were asked to
bring him gifts. The gifts filled
a bushel basket and consisted
principally of baby milk bottles,
diapers, bibs and a pair of baby
shoes. These will probably fit
Susan—and she’ll enjoy them,”
Elmer replied. “For myself—I’m
flabbergaasted.”
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Mrs. Milton Jurell attained a
place in the hall of fame recently
when she won second prize in -
nationwide radio contest.
Mrs. Jurell was awarded ■ a $50
War Bond.
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Doris Shelley so ably portrayed
the role of Maw Perkins in a play­let,
"The Land of the Free”, pre­sented
to her classroom, that they
are planning to repeat the play
at a meeting of the Rotary Club
some time in the near future.
JANE—All is forgiven.. Tried
magic new combination, Post’s
Raisin Bran. Think it’s wonder­ful.
Crazy about those crisp wheat
and barn flakes with raisins.
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