Lititz Record Express

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Write To The Boys
In The Service
KEEP ON
WITH WAR BONDS
Vol. LXV Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., August 24, 1944 No.
Warm Tribute
Paid De Wald
At Service
Gould Urges Borough
To Plan Now For
Sewerage System Here
Program Held During S. S.
Hour At Trinity E. C.
Church
Tribute was paid to Pvt. William
H. DeWald at a very Impressive
and inspiring memorial service
held in the Evangelical Church
during the regular Sunday School
hour, last Sunday morning.
The program included group
singing by the congregation, vo­cal
solo by Howard Weaver, re­citations
by Miss Paula Good and
Mr.. Eugene S. Dechert. A num­ber
was also played by the Brass
Quartette consisting of (Ralph
ney, Yoeman William Hornberger,
Richard Leed and Robert Ham­mond-
Stars were placed on the service
flag for the following hoys:
Rhodes Westerhoff, honorably dis­charged,
MM 3/c Richard Ricken-hach,
Pvt. Elton Reed, Pvt. John
Hanna, Pvt- George Kiling, Pvt-
Robert L. Welk.
Silver stars wdre placed on the
flag for those sent overseas since
the last star placing service was
held and these were for: Cpl.
Floyd Ylngst, England; Pfc. Rich­ard
Birkenbine, Italy; Pfc. Clar­ence
(Lehn, (North Africa; Cpl- Carl
Mathers, England; Sgt. Carl Bru­baker,
England; Pvt. Earl Holl­ingsworth,
England-
After the star service a reading
of the record of 'Private DeWald
was heard and the Gold Star was
placed on the service flag as taps
were blown by Ralph Downey. A
memorial bouquet was placed for
Pvt. DeWald by the Sunday
LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA
Ensign Bill Mlksch, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W- Miksch, Sr., left this
week for California after spending
ten days at his home here. He i
graduated recently at Columbia
University at Commencement Ex­ercises
held in the Cathedral of
SaintJo hn the Divine witnessed
by his father and sister, Betty.
Will Present
Play In Park.
Friday—Sat.
Arsenic And Old Lace Ex­pected
To Top All Other*
Presentations
100 Children
At Playground
Picnic Friday
Program Brings To Close
Season For Local
Group
Over one hundred youngsters at­tended
the picnic in the park last
Friday afternoo nwhich brought to
a climax the summer session of the
local playground program. A
treasure hunt, scavenger hunt, re­lay
games, peanut and kiss scram­bles
and a guessing game were
features of the .afternoon. Mrs.
David Jones and Eugene Dechert,
supervisors, were in charge.
Nancy and Esther Dee Hower
and-'Nancy Kline were in charge of
the hunts. The team with Joanne
Wagner as captain won the scav­enger
hunt- In the treasure hunt,
. Ray Kreider’s team came In short­ly
before Curt Summy’s.
In a contest to guess the num­ber
of beans in a jar William
StauffeT placed first, Ray Kreider
and Pete Shultz tied for second
and iMoBToe Wonder and Bob Dal­ton
tied ttSrthird place.
Winners in the games were: re­lay,
Sandy Espenshied, Ronnie Au-ment,
Barbara Foltz, Sylvia Fred­erick,
Judy Meiskey, Shelba Jean
Foltz, Charles Meiskey, Dicky
Walters, Jerry Kemper, Jimmy
Swarr, John Henry Sewcomer; in
individual races, Mary Annn and
Louise Haddad, Barbara and Vi­vian
Myers, Joyce and Patsy Roth,
Casper Haddad, Monroe Wonder,
Dorothy and Patsy Kreider, Gary
end Lamar Sipe, Bernetia Ember,
Sally Hanna, Junior Kreider, Le­roy
Keller.
Its now full speed ahead for
the Lititz Dramatic Theater’s pro­duction
“Arsenic and Old Lace.”
With the show scheduled to go on
this Friday and Saturday the last
few details have been taken care
of by the various committees.
Although they will be (denied
the use of the park bandshell for
a few nights this week because of
other activities being held there,
the cast will still be practicing,
only in such cramped quarters
that it will be rather difficult to
get back to the large space on the
bandshell and still get all the
benefits of knowing where scenery
will be placed and just how to
move, on stage.
The leading roles are being
capably handled by Arlyne Demmy
and Winifred Walls. They will as­sume
the parts of two old ladies
who develop a lust for poisoning
men. The whole plot centers
around these two ladies and the
townspeople can be sure lof an
evening of entertainment, for the
play is a comedy in every sense.
The leading supporting role is
being played by Polly Moyer and
the male roles are many, none
of which could be termed “heavy.”
Director Jack McCartney will
again appear on the set and a new
face will be that of the well-known
Captain Harold Brown, 71
year old thespian.
Tickets can be purchased from
any member of the club and will
also be on sale at the park. Cur-tain
goes up at 8:30.
Proposes Improvement As
No. 1 Post War Project
In Lititz
An appeal for local organiza­tions
to take up the matter of
urging the local Borough Council
to construct a sewerage system
in the borough was made this week
by Richard Gould, president of the
A. J. Beford Shoe Company, in an
open letter addressed to M. C.
Demmy, president of the Lititz
Chamber of Commerce.
In discussing his letter, Mr.
Gould urged that the matter be
given immediate attention so that
plans can be made before the con­dition
here becomes critical.
His letter is as follows:
Mr. M. C. Demmy, Pres.
Chamber of Commerce
Lititz, Penna.
Dear Mr. Demmy:
I am writing you as a member
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Having been a resident here for
several years I have seen very
clearly that our town needs a
sewage system very badly. I
know of a good many towns smal­ler
than ours in Pennsylvania who
had such systems even before the
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Polio Scare
In Borough
Is Unfouhded
Sgt. Richard Templeton
Wounded In France;
Gantz Hit At Saipan
Five Suspected Cases All
Prove Negative; Lutz
Closes Pool
New Moravian
Youth Group
Makes Aims
HAL¿ IN TEXAS
William H. Hall, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. Gerald Darlington,
Speedwell Farm, Lititz R. D. 2,
is at Sheppard Field, Texas, in
basic training with the Army Air
Corps in which he enlisted last
December. Hall graduated from
Lititz High School last June and
reported for active duty on Aug,
10.
REV. BOWMAN TO
PREACH HERE SUNDAY
The Rev. Harry S. Bowman, of
Runnemede, N. J., will preach in
St- Paul’s Lutheran church Sunday
morning. This will be the last
Sunday of the vacation of the Rev.
Charles F. Trunk, Jr., the pastor.
The Sunbeam Class held a cov­ered
dish supper in the springs
park last evening.
A mild Infantile paralysis scare
developed here during the past
week when a ‘total of five suspect­ed
eases were kept under strict
vigilence by local physicians. To­day
physicians here reported that
all of the cases under treatment
had proved negative and that all
of the patients were well on the
road of recovery.
With many cases of infantile
paralysis being reported in other
sections of the county and
(throughout the state, local phy­sicians
were urging parents to ex­ercise
certain precautions and to
endeavor to keep the resistence of
all 'childre nat a high level.
As a precaution against any pos­sible
infection resulting, B. F. Lutz
announced (Monday that the Luitz
pool will be closed for the remain­der
of the season.
The annual picnic of employees
of Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Com­pany
and their families, scheduled
to be held last Saturday at Eph-rata,
also was cancelled because of
the outbreak.
With physicians feeling that out­door
meetings are not a source of
spreading the dreaded disease,
none of the programs at the park
have been cancelled. Unless the
situation becomes considerably
worse, local schools will open on
(September 5 as scheduled, it was
Indicated.
Will Strive To Be Better
Christains; Got Inspira­tion
At Camp Innabah
At a meeting held at the home
of the pastor, Rev. Edwin Kortz,
further plans were made concern­ing
the newly organized Moravian
Youth Fellowship of the Lititz
Moravian Church.
Present at the meeting were the
members of the executive board of
th Fellowship with the exception
of the treasurer. Plans were dis­cussed
for the next meeting of the
group which will be on Monday,
August 28 at 7:30 P. M. A con­stitution
was also drawn up by
the board and the advisor which
shall be read to the entire group
at the next meeting and will be
subject to change by them.
Various committees were made
and they will be made public at a
later date. The program Innabah
Echoes will be presented by the
members of the Fellowship in
Sunday School this next Sunday,
August 27. The prgoram will in­clude
group singing and several
short talks by members of the
group.
The aims of the young people
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War Memento
Feature Of
Block Party
To Auction Piece Of Jap
Zero Bought Back By
Capt. Rawcliffe
Seek Youths Letters From
Who Attempt | The
Pvt. Elmer Enck Dies Of
Wounds; Bill Powers
A Prisoner
A piece of a Jap plane shot
down in the South Pacific will be
displayed a t the North End Com­munity
Party Thursday evening,
August 24 on Warwick Street.
The piece of fuselage was brought
to Lititz by Capt. Rawcliffe of N.
Broad Street, who has donated it
to the group to auction off at the
close of the evenings doings.
The program will begin at 5 P.
M. at which time chicken com
soup, hot dog and hom|e made
sandwiches, watermelon, ice cream,
Two more Lititz youths have
been wounded in the war areas,
cne in France and the other in the
South Pacific, according to War
Department telegrams received
here this week.
Word also was received this
week of the death of Private El­mer
Enck, Lititz R. D. 3, previous­ly
reported as seriously wounded
in France.
They are:
Staff Sergeant John Richard
Templeton, who has been reported
as seriously wounded in France
on August 2.
Private Robert Gantz, reported
as having been slightly wounded
at Saipan on July 20.
At the same time relatives of
Private William E. Powers, of
this borough, previously reported
as missing in France, received
word through the International
Red Cross that he is a prisoner of
the Germans.
Templeton Wounded
The first news that Templeton
had been wounded was received
in a War Department telegram re­ceived
early this week by his
brother, Russel Temjpleton, Front
Street, stating that Templeton had
been seriously wounded in France
on August 2.
Yesterday afternoon, however,
his mother, Mrs. Sallie Temple­ton,
of Spruce Street, received a
letter written by her son in which
he stated that he was confined to
a hospital in England. The letter
was written on August 18.
In it, Sgt. Templeton declared
that on that day he had shaved
and Washed himself for the first
time since being wounded more
than two weeks before. He made
light of his wounds, though, and
expressed the opinion that he
would be returning to his old unit
“real soo.n”
Templeton was attached to the
66th Armored Field Artillery, a
unit which has played a conspicu­ous
part in the armored march
through France.
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SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
S-Sgt.,J. RICHARD TEMPLETON
WOUNDED AT SAIPAN
Girl Inujred
When Hit
By Auto
Robbery Here
Break Into Home Of John
Bettes; Other Thefts
Are Solved
Service Meri
Private |ROBERT GANTZ
City Band Will
Play Here Sunday
cakes and coffee and potato chips . .... m i m*
will be served. Entertainment will L illia n D e c k , P in e
consist of special music by local Sustains Broken Leg
And Other Injuries
Brethren Defeat Moravians,
Bahner Allows Only One Hit
By Marvin Miller
The Brethren, behind the bril­liant
one hit pitching of “Don”
Balmer sent the Moravians down
to their second consecutive defeat
Monday on the Athletic Field by
a 2-0 count.
The game was without a doubt
the best witnessed by local fan­dom
in the softball league. Red
Girvin, losing pitcher, pitched
good enough to win but was un­lucky
in running up against the
fine pitching of Balmer.
The Moravians handed the win­ners
their first run in the very
first innning of play when Shoene- j.
berger beat out a bunt and stole
second, Keith grounded out second
to first, Hershey then drove one
down to third and the Moravians
had a force play on Schoeneberg-er,
Foltz, the Moravian shortstop,
then developed a case of fumble-itis
and mpffed two consecutive
grounders to ¡give the Brethren
their one tally.
The final Brethren tally came in
the sixth when with Schoeneberg-er
again beating out a bunt, went
to second when Buch erred and
scored on Keith’s fly to left. All
told the Brethren gathered four
bingles, three of these were by
Schoeneberger (all bunts) and
one by Myers in the final inning.
The Moravians got only one hit,
that being Buch’s rousing double
down the left field foul line in the
first frame.
Highlights of the game were
Yerger’s circus catch of
talent, Ned Rutledge, the magi­cian,
hand concerts by the North
End and Lititz High School bands
and many other features which
promise a lively evening.
The North End group is looking
forward to serving as hosts to the
people of Lititz at their first party
of this kind and assure them their
evening and money will be well
spent.
(Rain date - The first clear night.
The Lancaster City Band will
play in the Springs Park Sunday
evening as a feature of the Vet­erans’
t nighmrgrpaoetashircmfw
erans’ Night program being spon­sored
by the Lititz Springs Post,
V. F. W., as a benefit for the
Lititz Service Association.
The Army Band from Indian-town
Gap formery scheduled to
play will be unable to appear in­asmuch
as this unit has been tran­sferred
to Western Pennsylvania,
it was explained. The program is
open to the public and will include
addresses by prominent state V.
F. W. dignitaries.
A series of petty thefts and an
attempted robbery here during the
past week appeared partially sol­ved
with the questioning of sev­eral
local youths by local police.
The attempted robbery was
thwarted by the sudden appear­ance
of the owner. The attempt
was made when two youths, both
about seventeen years of age,
gained entrance to the home of
John Bettes, Jr., 104 West End
Avenue.
Breaking through the screen of
a first floor window, the youths
made their entrance in broad day­light
despite that neighbors were
sitting on a porch noly a few feet
away. The window through which
they gained their entrance is part­ially
shielded from the street,
Bettes returned home apparent­ly
a few minutes after the two
youths had entered the house.
Entering the rear door he heard
a noise in the front room and was
able to catch a fleeting glance at
the two as they ran out the front
door.
Cutting across several lawns,
the wto made good their escape.
Bettes informed Chief of Police
Clarence Kreider that nothing of
any great value wais missing but
that articles in several rooms had
been disturbed.
Investigating a report that two
boys around 15 years of age had
gone through several parked care
at Overlook and had stolen a num­ber
of purses, fountain pens and
| other articles, Chief of Police
Kreider questioned two local
youths, both fourteen, who con­fessed
to the thefts.
After returning to Overlook
and taking police to where they
had hidden the articles stolen, the
two were returned to their homes
and given stern reprimands.
¡Several thefts also were report­ed
recently at the Lutz pool and
still are being investigated by
police.
Lititz Servic-e- -A--s-s ociation, ' I'
Lititz, Pa.
Hello All:
Well I thought I better wi
you a few lines to let you km
that I’m getting the paper rij
along and your gifts. I sure w.
to say many thanks for eve
thing and for the swell job 3
are doing right along for us ;
We sure appreciate it. I’m now
France some place. Things 1
much different than that of Els
land. I saw lots of interest;
things over here so far. 1
French people are very nice to
and not hard to get along vp
but you can’t expect too much
them after being with the Germ:
for four years1
They have very good cider, tl
wear wooden shoes over here, j
not far from the front. The pi
is nice and the weather is r
I can talk some French but
to learn more in time to
We have franc’s now and not I
Hugs in Ehglish. But not too hi
to learn. It seems funny to dr
on the right of the road again
on the left in England. Well £
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Mid The Turmoil
EUGENE STEFFY PROMOTED
TO TOUR MIDDLETOWN
FORM BOWLING LEAGUE
Keith’s high fly, Schoeneberger
getting 3 for 4 and the smart
double play pulled by the Breth­ren
in the seventh inning.
'The mainstay of the game how­ever
was the excellent hurling of
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An industrail bowling league
has been formed in town and will
be made up of six teams. A tro­phy
will be presented to the win­ning
team and will be jointly
bought by the Animal Trap and
Wilbur-Suchard Companies.
The following teams will com­pete
in the league. Animal Trap
Co., Wilbur-Suchard Co., Mer­chants,
Lions, Business League
and the Susquehanna Recreation
Club.
SIXTEENTH CHILD BORN
A local record for large famil­ies
was established here last week
when the sixteenth child was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Sonnen,
of Lititz R. D. 2. The child, a
daughter, Patricia Anne ,was born
at home, with Dr. D. C. Martin,
this borough, officiating.
A l'5-year-old girl was painfully
injured here Friday evening when
struck by an automobile at the
corner of Main and Cedar Streets.
She is Miss Lillian Beck, fifteen,
(laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus
Beck, of Pine Hill. Removed to
the office of Dr. M- H. Yoder, she
was found to have sustained the
fracture of her left leg, a deep
gash of the arm and numerous
brush burns.
Fearing that she might have
been injured internally, Dr. Yoder
ordered the injured girl admitted
to St. Joseph’s hospital. Eight
stitches were required to close the
wound In her arm.
At the time of the accident, the
young girl was riding her bicycle
north on Cedar Street- She had
reached the center of the Intersec­tion
of Main Street when the auto­mobile
being driven west by Harry
Shatfey, of Lititz, R. D. 3, struck
her, tossing her several feet and
demolishing the bicycle.
Shaffey Immediately placed her
in his -car and took her to Dr-
Yoder’s office.
Local Boy Scouts and members
of the local salvage committee
will be taken on a tour^of Olmsted
Field, Middletown, and given an
insight In war preparations being
carried on there, Sunday, Septem­ber
3, Christ Nissly, in charge of
arrangements, announced today.
The group will include approxi­mately
125 men and boys.
BICYCLE RECOVERED
A bicytle found abandoned in a
creek near Rothsville was return­ed
to its owner by local police this
week after being identified through
the license plate on the vehicle.
William Tutweiler, 313 East Main
Street, informed Chief of Police
Clarence Kreider that the bicycle
had been stolen a few days ago
but that the theft had not been
reported. Harry Sheaffer, Roths­ville
recoveree the bicycle and
turned it over to borough author­ities.
Eugene Steffy, son of Council­man
and Mrs. Thomas Steffy, has
been promoted to the rank of
Sergeant, according to an an­nouncement
made in Camp Shel­by,
Mississippi, this week.
Steffy is connected with the
Army Motor Corps. He now has
charge of a detail of jeeps and one
and one-half ton trucks including
a total of 60 drivers and three
mechanics.
SUFFERS STROKE
Suffering a stroke at his home
here last week, John Enck, of
Front Street', has been removed
to the home of his son, Warren, at
Biglerville, Adams Counyt.
GLADYS STRALEY HOME
—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
NABBED FOR FIGHTING
“Bud” Cochran, seventeen, of
this borough, was fined $10 and
costs by Justice of the Peace J.
B. Herr this week following his
arrest on a disorderly conduct
charge. Cochran was arrested by
Officer Binkley who charged him
with staging a fight on East Main
Street.
Private Gladys Straley, of the
WAC’s, is spending a two-weeks
furlough at her home here. She
will return to Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
on Monday.
SPEEDER A|RRESTED
Constable Harry Achey, special
policeman a t th eLoudon Packing
Company, this week charged Geo.
Huber, Lititz R. D., with driving
too fast for conditions. He will
begiven a hearing before Justice
of the Peace J. B. Herr.
VESPER SERVICE
The Young Peoples Department
of the Church of the Brethren will
hold a vesper service this Sunday
evening. Those wishing to attend
should be a t the church at 6:30
o’clock. The Rev. James Moore
will speak on “The Simple Life.”
- A friend calls up to tell us t'
Roy Workstable celebrated
thirty-seventh birthday Wed*
day.
* * *
Roy Wagner, Jr., now servinj
Uncle Sam’s Navy, has pro
himself a prolific letter-wri
Tues. of this week his wife'
ceived a total of 17 letters fi
“Sunny” in the morning mail,
the afternoon she received tt
more, bringing the day’s total
20. “Sunny” had been aboar
destroyer escort and wrote a
ter a day to his wife and all
these were mailed when his 1
stopped at a port in the Medi
i-anean area.*
* # >
“I knew it was going to
this morning,” Mrs. Charles K
told her husband the other r
ing. “Because my radio
cloudy last night.”
* * * a
Yesterday there was so hi
pounding in McElroy’s cellar
customers had to shout thei
ders. Finally several persons
downstairs where they found:
and Dale Shelley putting up 1
ves. Just as the spectators a:
ed the shelves collapsed. An )
later, after much more pount
the shelves collapsed again. ~
ally they got them up to stay
now the shelves are so cro
that all the bottles roll dow!
.one end.
* * *
A brother and sister travel
total of about 6,000 miles to )
each other last week but, 0«
they met right here at homer
Christy Bachmian arrived 1
from Punta Gorda, Fla., when
had been staying with her
band, Sergeant Christian J
man, Army Air Corps. Her 1»
er, Walter M. Scott, Jr., 3/c I
Officer, arrived home a few 1
earlier from the South Bi
where he took part in the invi|
of Saipan, Bougainville an<f
Marshalls, aboard an L. f
He’s been in the service th
months and will return to
fornia after an 18-day leave
His three service stars look m.
good.
* * *
John M. Pfautz, of Pitts Ip
who is visiting his bro
Charles Pfautz, this week, <
peep into the Record office y*
day morning and wanted to s|
1894 files. John, an old-timj
player when he lived here li
century ago, wanted to lorn
the record of the old Junior C
tian Endeavor team which ,5
quite a record in the count
1894. From memory John rt
the entire line-up with the e
tion of one man.