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Vol. LXV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., June 1, 1944 No.
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Letter Tells
How Sgt. Enck
Died In Crash
None Of Bodies Of The
Crew Were Saved,
Navy Reveals
That Staff Sergeant Gilbert V.
Enck was killed when his plane
crashed in attempting a landing
and that his body was not recov­ered,
was revealed here this week
in a letter received by his mother,
Mrs. Clarence Hoover.
The letter describing the mishap
was written by A. B. Galatian,
Jr., one of the members of the
squadron to which Staff Sergeant
Enck was attached and on duty
in the South Pacific. The letter
is the first definite account of
Sgt. Enck’s death received by his
mother who originally was noti-ed
of his death in a telegram from
the War Department April 25.
Describing the local youth,
• Galatian declared that “Gilbert’s
loss has been a blow to all of us
in the squadron. He was an ex­cellent
radio gunner and a true
and loyal friend.”
The letter received By Mrs. Enck
is as follows:
29 April, 1944.
My Dear Mrs. Enck:
It is with deep regret that I
'find it necessary (to write this
letter concerning the death of
your son, Gilbert.
I will explain the circumstances
surrounding the accident as fully
as security regulations will per­mit.
On the night of 21 April 1944
Gilbert was in a plane returning
from a combat mission when en­gine
trouble developed. While
the pilot was attempting to landi
the plane in extremely bad weath­er
it crashed and all aboard were
lost. Gilbert’s body was not re­covered.
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S. S. League
Opens Here
ON June 12
Governor Bricker
At Brickerville
COUNTY BASEBALL CHAMPIONS
Congenial Governor. John W.
Bricker, of Ohio, apeared redluct-ant
to leave his kin folks yester­day
afternoon when he lingered
about the speaker’s stand long af­ter
the celebration staged in his
honor at the Brickerville Cross­road.
While most of the crowd claim­ed
kinship to the Presidential as­pirant,
few could definitely fill
the links back to Bricker’s ances­tors
who helped to settle the small
community north of here. Even
Bricker admitted he had never
completed the ancestral lineage.
But litle Brickerville was out to
do him honor and was resplendtly
decorated with flags and bunting.
Council Wars
On Dumpers
And Speeders
Plan To Paint Flag Pole;
Ten Parking
Violators
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Is Wounded
In Italy
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Left to right: 1st row, Eliot Krane, Manager; Wilbur Kane, Donald Coble, Charles Roth, Earl Fred­erick,
John Marks, Stanley Scho enenberger, Wilbur Reist, Donald Mohler, Manager, and Coach
Dechert. 2nd row: Marvin Miller, Richard Waltz, John Buch, Herbert Fry, Ray Kreider, Claude
Young, Eugene Hamaker, Bruce Wike and Curtis Summy. i
Locals County Champions By
Defeating Manor High’ 9—2;
First Crown Since 1941
Borough Council at its meeting
Tuesday evening declared war on
two local groupsofipests—speed­ers
and dumpers.
Anouncing that the dumping of
more than 30 tons of rubbish on
Market Street had been cleaned up
at considerable expense to the
borough, President of Council El­mer
Bomberger declared that any
future dumping in the borough will
be met with immediate vigorus
prosecution.
Burgess Victor Wagner at the
same time gave notice that those
responsible for a recent outbreak
of speeding along borough streets
also will be dealt with severely by
borough police. Several arrests
were made last week and more will
be made in the future if the situa­tion
continues.
Ten parking violators also were
fined during the past few weeks.
Council also voted to paint the
flag pole in the square and to eli­minate
dust in local alleys by oil­ing.
H. S. Scores Every Ining
But 6th; Manor Errors
Help
QUEEN OF CANDLES’
'22 Games Scheduled; Wil­liam
Bingeman Elected
President
The Sunday School Softball
league will play its first game on
Monday, June 12, with a total of
22 games scheduled to be played
before the season closes August
24, it was announced today.
In organizing for the year, the
league selected William Binge-man
as president; Marlin Wolf as
vice president, WIillis Fasnacht as
treasurer and William Carper as
official scorer.
As in former years the league
will consist of teams representing
the Church of the Brethren, Luth­erans,
United Brethren, Evangel­icals
and the Moravian.
Boys belonging to the St. James
Catholic Church or the Community
Tabernacle who desire to play, may
submit their names to the league
officials and these will be drafted
by the various teams.
The schedule for the summer is
as follows:
Sunday School Softball League
M June 12—Breth. vs. Lutheran
T. June 15—U. B. vs. Evan.
M June 19—Luth. vs. U B.
T. June 22—Mor. vs. Breth.
M June 26—U. B. vs. Mor.
T. June 29—Evan. vs. Luth.
M. July 3—Evan. vs. Mor.
T. July 6—U. B. vs. Breth.
M. July 10—Mor. vs. Luth.
T. July 13—Breth. vs. Evan.
M. July 17—Luth. vs. Breth.
T. July 20—Evan. vs. U B.
M. July 24—U. B. vs. Luth.
T. July 27—Breth. vs. Mor.
M. July 31—Mor. vs. U. B.
T. Aug. 3—Luth. vs. Evan.
M. Aug. 7—Mor. vs. Evan.
T. Aug. 10—Breth. vs. U. B.
M. Aug. 14—Luth. vs. Mor.
T. Aug. 18—Evan. vs. Breth.
M. Aug. 21—Playoff date.
T. Aug. 24—Playoff date.
By Marvin Miller
Sgt. Zander Home
After 25 Missions;
Awarded Air Medal
After completing 25 bombing
missions over Genmany and oc­cupied
France without sustaining
a scratch, Tech. Sgt. Harold S.
Zander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elam
E. Zander, Lititz R. D. 1, return­ed
home on a 30-day furlough last
week. i
j Despite the air medal and oak
I leaf cluster which he was awarded,
i Zander modestly declines to ela­borate
upon his experiences but
indicates he wants to get back in­to
action and help “clean things
up.” He expects to be stationed at
Atlantic City prior to being re­assigned
for service.
• Zander served on his misions in
the capacity of a turret guner.
The Lititz High baseball team
came through with flying colors on
Monday afternoon to defeat Manor
High for the Lancaster County
High School Championship by a
9-2 count.
The Dechertmen displayed wide
open brand of ball and were con­tinually
moving men into scoring
position to keep the opposing
pitcher in hot water throughout
the contest. The Lititzites scored
in every inning except the sixth
and left no less than sixteen men
stranded on the base paths. As
for Manor it looked like a case of
jitters and over-confidence and the
lump came up on them in many of
the crucial moments of th« game.
Getting back to the locals, who
won-the first County Crown since
1941, and who this year have hung
up a most impressive record of
12 games won and 3 lost, we can
only congratulate them on the fine
comeback they staged after being
tabbed as the underdogs in the
eyes of local fandom.
Manor drew first blood in the
opening inning by scoring a run
on one hit and the only two errors
committed by Lititz. The “Pretz­els”
came back in their half of
the first on a walk to Summy,
Buch then laid down a perfect sac­rifice
and the Manor third base-man
threw wild to first putting
men on first and second, Young
then hit sharp bounder to short
and again the pressure was too
much for the Manor lads as the
shortstop also fumbled, loading
the basées. Yours t^ily then lifted
a long fly to center field to score
Summy after the catch. In the
second Lititz added three runs on
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Jane Reidenbaugh, who was
chosen by her fellow-students to
be crowned “Queen of the Candles”
at the park celebration July 4.
Each year the most beautiful girl
of the Senior Class is elected to
this honor. Her court will be com­posed
of the following: Dorothy
Bowers, Arlene Miller, Ruth Gor­ton,
Sara Lowe, Betty Nagle, Mary
Rapp, Joanne Snavely, Cressie
Steely, Marion Sumers, Rene Yath,
Romaine Myers and Shirley
Eberly.
m■Hit In Arm By Shrapnel;
Is Awarded Purple
^ Heart Medal I — Jill Private William DeWald, of this
gljboro ugh, has been wounded in ac­tion
and now is hospitalized in
Italy, according to a letter and
telegram received here Memorial
Day by his mother, Mrs. Ardell
DeWald, 211 Leaman Street.
,The telegram from the War De­partment
briefly informing Mrs.
DeWald that her son had been
wounded, and DeWaid’s letter giv­ing
details of the incident were
received at the same time.
On May 11, DeWald informed
his mother, his group were making
an attack when two white phos­phorus
shells exploded in their
midst. Private DeWald received
a shrapnel wound just below the
elbow of one arm. DeWald’s in­juries
are not thought to be ser­ious
inasmuch as he was a short
distance from where the shells hit,
although' others in the group suf­fered
more seriously.
‘What those shells did to my
buddies in front of me was not a
pretty sight nor a sight I ever will
be able to forget,” Private De­Wald
wrote.
“I was afraid you would think
that I was more seriously injured
than I am,” he wrote his mother.
All previous records for waste Three days after bein£T wound-paper
collection here were shat- , ed> Private DeWald was presented
tered Monday evening when a tot- with the Purple Heart medal at
al of approximately 23 tons were th« hospital in Southern Italy
gathered in and quickly shipped where he is recuperating,
away to meet the present critical j (continued on page eight)
need. ----------------------
Break Record
In Monday’s
Paper Drive
3 Tons Collected; Half A
Carload Above Quota
Sought
The paper collected filled ap­proximately
one and one-half
freight cars as compared with the
carload sbught in the collection. I
Christ Nissly, local salvage chair- 1
man, reported that the paper col­lected
weighed 45,660 pounds.
Starting out Monday at noon,
Nissly personally took charge of
the collection of several tons of
paper from local industrial plants,
stores and other places of busi­ness.
At six o’clock the main
door-to-door collection was made
by approximately 50 Boy Scouts
and a group of volunteers.
Beaming over the results from
the paper collection, Nissly an-
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Many Attend
Memorial Day
Services Here
Men In Service Interested
In New Community Building
That those in the service are
closely watching the progress
being made in opening the Lititz
Community Building here was
proven in a letter received this
week from Pfc. Archie Shelley, Jr.,
I stationed at Drew Field, Tampa,
Florida.
His letter is as follows:
Mlay 21, 1944
I want to thank you very-much
for the paper, Will. I really en­joy
getting it. I surely get the
lowdown on the whole town by
reading it, you really cover the
town.
I am glad to hear that the town
is finally getting a community
building, they should have had
one a long time ago, that’s one
thing that helps a commuity along,
it gives the young folks something
to do besides going to a movie
every night, they get tired of that.
I am running a radio supply
down here. I see that all outfits
going to the field for training
have enough radios for training
and communication back to the
field, it is very interesting work
and I like it, its tough at times
but it has its good points too. One
thing, I don’t pull K. P. or guard
duty, that two of the good points.
I expect to be coming home for
the 4th of July, if things go right
djity, that’s wto of the good points.
Thanks again for the paper.
Just
Arch.
Fire Co. Auxiliary
Donates $700
Members of the Fire Company
Auxiliary reported 125 new mem­bers,
bringing the membership of
the organization to aproximately
960 ladies. In addition the aux­iliary
voted to give the Lititz Fire
Company a gift of $700 to be used
for general fire company work.
The present mebmership of the
auxiliary is the largest in its his­tory,
Mrs. M. C. Demy, president,
reported. A membership campaign
was completed at last night’s
meeting.
The $700 turned over to the fire
company was raised through acti­vities
conducted by the auxiliary
during the year.
The meeting was the last until
September.
E F. LUTZ POOL
READY FOR SEASON
B. F. Lutz built the first swim­ming
pool in Lancaster County,
outside of Lancaster City twenty-five
years ago. Most of the boys
and girls living in Lititz that are
in the armed forces today have
learned to swim in this pool.
The pool has "been‘set in order
for this season’s use. It will be
safe for children. The water at
its deepest will be only from three
to four feet deep, so that almost
any child that can swim can be
considered a life guard for this
pool. The pool will be open every
afternoon. Chlorine is applied to
the water daily.
Will Collect Fats
On Monday Morning
The Girl Scouts will collect fats
on Monday morning, June 5th.
Residents are requested to place
them on the curb before nine
o’clock or at any of the following
stores before one o’clock: R. G.
Hirst, R. W. Gonder, C. S. Kauff­man,
E. R. Bollinger, C. B. Snyder,
Trimmer’s, G B. Minnich, Ford’s
Market, P. A. Doster, Frank S.
Ford, Elsie Becker, W. B. Ffcy
Garage, A. S. Sharp, Five Points
Store, C. S. Zartman, B. M. Lea-man,
B. L. Sharp, D L. Diem &
Sons, Bruckhart’s Store.
Three Bands In Parade;
Rev. Trunk Delivers
Address
We must be alert to the dangers
of the peace ahead—so that those
now dying on distant battlefields
may not have died in vain, Rev.
Charles F. Trunk declared in an ad­dress
which featured Memorial
Day services at the Meravian
Cemetery here Tuesday morning.
‘The world is full of voices of
the departed frying to tell us to
know our dangers,” Rev. Trunk
asserted. “Brave men know dan­ger—
and go ahead while the fool
merely ignores danger and goes
ahead.
“We here today honor not only
he who gave his life in battle but
be who served and sacrificed and
those at home who sacrificed with
the men in uniform. Their sacri­fices
and trials are their true
monuments.”
Rev. Trunk recalled that this is
the seventhy-seventh consecutive
year in which Americans have ob-
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Playground Will Operate
During July And August
WILL DELIVER
SENIOR ORATIONS Letters From
The
Service Men
MARGARET BUCH
GLENN MEARIG
Commenc’m’t
Exercises
Here Tonight
‘Have A High Goa’, Rev.
Trunk Advises Graduates
In Baccalaureate
Assurance that the local play­ground
will qperat during July
and August was given this week
when Borough Council and the lo­cal
Schol Board each appropriated
$125 to help defray the cost.
As was done last year, idle play-round
wil be operated under the
supervision of the Lititz Youth
Council. The Youth Council will
meet Tuesday evening to name an
adult leader and two assistants
and to complete plans for the play­ground
program.
It is estimated that the opera­tion
of the playground will cost
approximately $325. Costs above
the $250 appropriated by council
and the school board will be met
out of the treasury of the Youth
Council.
The playground committee of
the Youth Council consists of Les-
Balmer, Willy dePerot and Marlin
Wolf. The Lancaster Y. M. C. A.
also is co-operating and will send
a representative out to the play­ground
at least once each wek, the
council revealed.
Members of the Youth Council
also plan to use the new Com­munity
House as headquarters
during the summer, providing that
alterations have progressed to
that point by July 1.
The group also plans one out­door
activity for both the Senior
and Junior groups each month.
A Youth Council dance also will be
held at the High School gymnas­ium
on aSturday, June 10. A band
already has bee nengaged for the
occasion.
Have a high goal and attain it
through humble service, Rev.
Charles F. Trunk told members of
the graduating class at baccalaur­eate
services held Sunday evening
in the Moravian Church.
“Get on God’s side, be honest
with others, and with yourself, and
try tf> do a little good each year,,’
Rev. Trunk added. “All great men
and women in history are great
because they served,” he con­cluded.
Rev. Edwin Kortz presided at
the service. The church choir
sang an anthem, “Arise, O Lord”
by Hoffmaster-Dies.
Dr. Clyde Lynch, president of
Lebanon Valley College, will de­liver
the principle address at the
58th Commencement Exercises to
be held in the High School Audit­orium
this evening at eight o’clock.
Diplomas to the 55 graduates will
be presented by Supervising Prin­cipal
M. C. Demmy.
Orations will be delivered by
Margaret Buch, who will speak
upon “LeSabot,” and by Glenn
Mearig, whose subject is, “Ori­ginality.”
The alumni award will
be presented by Margaret Buch.
Honors conferred by the class
are: All Around boy, Robert
Kline; Al around girl, Cressie
Steely; Boy athlete, Robert Kline;
Girl athlete, Ruth Gorton; Dra­matics,
Jane Reidenbaugh, who al­so
was chosen Queen; and Music,
Shirley Eberly.
I Class Day exercises were held in
the high school yesterday after-j
non when Juniors and Seniors
joined in poking fun a t various
members of the uper classes.
The Senior Class presented the
school with $300 to be used for the
purchase of an amplification sys­tem
to be purchased after the war.
This system will permit a pro­gram
being presented in the
auditorium to be heard in all the
classrooms.
The clas book, also distributed,
was dedicated to members of the
class now serving in the armed
forces. ,
Lititz Service Association:
Excuse this brevity but please
be assured that everything the
L. S. A. is doing is deply apprec­iated.
With thanks and kindest regards
to all concerned.
Commander F. S. Habecker.
Dear Friends:
I was in the Hospital 9 days
with a case of measles and I al­most
lost my Co. I did get a new
address. Our course is very hard
and I must go to Night school 18
nights to make up for what E
missed so I will be very busy. '
I sure do appreciate what the
Association has done for me in the
past.
Yours truly,
Gerald K. Zook.
Dear Members of
Lititz Service Association:
I received your most appreciated
gift this morning and I want to
thank you very sincerely for it.
The members of the association de­serve
a million thanks for the
splendid cooperation they are ren­dering
to all of us in the service.
With deepest gratitude, I re ­main
Yours truly,
Clyde W. Brossman.
Lititz Service Association:
I wish to thank you for the
boxes you sent me since I entered
the service.
I intended to write you before
thanking you, but I was kept
rather busy while going to Sound
School at Fishers Island. Now
that I have completed my course
I have a little more time to drop
a few lines to my friends. At -the
present time I am stationed at
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Mid The Turmoil
Several weeks ago, Mrs. Earl
Strauss, wife of a service man
now overseas, appealed to the Ser­vice
Association for help in finding
a home for herself and children.
And did the folks of Lititz. re­spond!
According to Mrs. Strauss
she received a dozen or more offers1
and succeeded in finding an ideal
location—thanks to the Service
Association.
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Ralph Gonder tells about an
unusally-intelligent dog. The idog
daily met the mailman and carried
in the mail. One day the master
went away and wrote letters to
each member of the family —and
then added one for the dog. When
the mail arrived the dog took out
his letter and opened it immedi­ately.
“What did he write to his
dog?” we asked. “Oh, he didn’t
write anything—he just put a
dried herring in the envelope,”
Ralph concluded.
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Talk about registering joy—a
little boy’3 happiness increased by
leaps and bounds Saturday when
he wandered into a rummage sale-and
purchased a canary bird.
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Speaking of unusual gifts—Peg­gy
Buch received two live kittens
and Glenn Mearig got a live pig­eon
at the annual class day exer­cises
yesterday afternoon.
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Peace and calm has returned t#
the McCreary Family now that
Mrs. McCreary is home again. The
d-og has come back and Esther is
-doing better, a local soda-jerker
tells us.
MAGICIANS—Perform breakfast
magic with_new cereal combina­tion—
Post’s Raisin Bran. Golden
wheat and bran flakes plus seed­less
raisins. It’s new!
—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
Oonsistant with Quality and Ser­vice—
Prices at B®CK BROS, are
lower.
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