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Vo. LXVI Lititz, Lancaster Co„ Pa., February 22, 1945
No. 13
Red Cross
Drive Starts
Here Friday
$8,500 Fixed A Quota For
Lititz; John Miller
Named Chairman
The Red Cross 1945 War Fund
Campaign will begin here tomor-ow
when local solicitors will seek
to raise a total of $8,500 as Lititz’
Quota. The quota for the county
has been fixed at $290,000.
The following committee has
been appointed to conduct the cam­paign
in Lititz: John Miller, gen­eral
chairman of the district in­cluding
the Industral division,
Mrs. John Hershey, chairman of
the house to house solicitation div­ision,
Henry K. Neff, chairman,
mercantile division.
The industrial division and the
merchantile division will conduct
ther campagn begnning February
23rd and ending on March 5th.
The house to house solicitation
division will conduct their cam­paign
beginning March 5th and
ending March 29th.
The slogan for this year’s cam­paign
is ‘‘Keep your Red Cross
at his side.”
The Red Cross is rendering
many services to our boys and
girls in the Armed Forces, includ­ing
the collection of blood plas­ma,
distributioin of Jpristoner of
war packages, assistance to the
families o fthose in the Armed
Forces and many others. The need
for these services to be contin­ued
and, if possible, expanded is
greater today than ever before and
it is, therefore, imperative that
we meet and, if possible, exceed
our quota. Those in the Armed
Forces are rendering the greatest
service to us and the least we can
do in showing our appreciation is
to put this War Fund Drive over
the top.
Many Stores
Will Remain
Open Today
Grocers Explain That All
Deliveries Are Received
On Thursdays
ROTARY INSTITUTE SPEAKERS
Through the Red Cross the American people serve the men of their
Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
Dean Spahr
Promoted To •
A Captain
Is Menrixer Of Bombardier
Group Cited By Presi­dent
For Bombing
Services For
O. K. Bushong
On Friday
Was Active In Civic Affairs
Here; Died Tuesday Af­ter
Long Illness
AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE
BOMBER STATION, England —
Dean V. Spahr, 25, formerly of
Lititz, Pa., an Eighth Air Force
administrative officer at a B-17
Flying Fortress basg, has been
promoted from first lieutenant to
captain. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Vance D. Spahr, 430 West
King Street, Lancaster.
Captain Spahr is a member of
the 34th Bomb. Group and the
Third Air Division, the division
cited by the President for its now
historic • England ^Africa shuttle
bombing of Nazi Messerschmitt
aircraft plants at Regensburg,
Germany.
In addition to holding the job
of adjutant of one of the squad-4
rons in the group, Capt. Spahr is
assistant personnel officer for the
entire station and is responsible
for the maintenance of administ­rative
records affecting all per­sonnel
on the base.
Entering the Armed Forces
as an enlisted man in April, 1939,
Capt. Spahr was assigned to a
harbor defense unit at Pearl Har­bor
from^June of 1939 until Sept.
1942, during which period he was
promoted to the rank of master
sergeant, the highest obtainable
non-commissioned officer rank,
and served in the capacity of serg­eant
major of his organization.
Temporarily transferred to
duty in the United States, Capt.
Spahr was commissioned a second
lieutenant in January, 1943 and
was promoted to first lieutenant
in July, 1943, the same day on
which he arrived in the European
Theater of Operations. He has
been a member of the 34th Bomb.
Group since September, 1944.
Before entering the Army Air
Forces, Capt. Spahr was a stu­dent
at high schools in both Lan-part
of 1938 and 1939, his par­ents
lived at 41 East Front Street,
Services will be held here Fri­day
afternoon for Omar K. Bush­ong,
for many years local station
master for the Reading Railway,
who died at 12:39 A. M. Tuesday,
less than 12 hours after being ad­mitted
to St. Joseph’s Hospital,
Lancaster.
Mr. Bushong was widely known
throughout this section -and was
active in many civic projects here.
He always took a keen interest
in the Lititz Siprings Park and
served as a member of the Park
committee for many years.
He also was very active in the
work of St. Paul’s Lutheran
church. He also served las an
officer of the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce for several years.
He was a member of the Ma­sonic
Lodge, F. and A. M., of
Mount Joy; the Tall Cedar lodge
of Lancaster; the Lancaster Lodge
of Perfection and the Veterans’
Association of the Railroad.
In ill health for more than the
past year, his condition hecame
worse approximately three weeks
ago.) He was admitted to Sit.
Joseph’s Hospital _ Monday after­noon.
He is survived by his wife,
Gertrude Butzer Bushong; one
son, Arthur, of this borough; a
daughter, Alverta, wife of Eugene
(Continued on Page 4)
Capt. Eyler
Gets Citation
For Bravery
Helped Evacuate Hospital
While Under Fire Dur­ing
Counter-Offensive
iNurses and enlisted men of the
68th Station Hospital, of which
Captain Paul Eyler, of this bor­ough,
is a member, has received
a citation from their commanding
officer,- Brigadier General C, 0.
Thrasher for the'manner in which
they evacuated an entire hospital
under fire during the December
German counter-offensive, it was
learned here this week.
Captain Eyler, is in charge of
the x-ray department of the hosp­ital
which came within the direct
line of fire daring one of the most
hemtic periods of the counter­offensive
on or around December
27.
Despite the heavy gun fire “all
hospital personnel remained at
their posts of duty until all pat­ients
were completely evacuated to
the basements of the hospital,”
the citation revealed, ‘‘with great
risk of their lives during the
whole of the emergency.”
‘‘The successful evacuation of
the ho&pitail plant, without a cas­ualty
or injury to any patient, was
made possible only by the exemp­lary
conduct of each individual
and devotion to duty in accord­ance
to the finest traditions of
the MJedical Department of the
Army of the United States,”
Brigadier General Thrasher con­cluded.
The all-day closing of stores as
a means of saving fuel, scheduled
to start here today, will be only
partially effective, a survey re­vealed
this week.
Approximately half the stores
in the borough will remain open
due to their inability to suspend
business on that particular day,
it was revealed.
Meeting this week, one group of
grocers pointed out that Thursday
is the day of the week on which
all wholesale deliveries are made
from nearby wholesalers. All pro­duce
for the week-end also is de­livered
on the same day.
“We feel that Monday would be
a much better day for closing in­asmuch
as stores are not open
Sunday and in this way could he
kept without heat two days in
succession,” B. L. Sharp, one of
the group, declared. “As far as
the local grocer is concerned,
Thursday is one day we must re­main
open to receive our supplies
and there would be no point in
keeping our doors locked.”
Approximately 59 per-cent jof
the retail ,stores in the center of
the borough will remain (closed
all day today, however.
Members of /the local emerg­ency
fuel committee announced
this morning that the situation
here has not improved and that
practically no anthracite has been
received. Deliveries y>f bitumi­nous
coal and other substitutes
are being made and no suffering
has been reported to-date.
GIVEN TESTIMONIAL
Lititz Eliminated From Race
In Heart-Breaking Game
By Marvin Miller
Big Elmer Kreiser did every­thing
against .Lititz except throw­ing
in the towels as he led his
mates'to a 31-39 win over Coach
Gene Deckert’s favored Pretzel
club on the Millerrsville College
floor last Friday night.
Kreiser not only paced the boys
of Harry- Langford in the scoring
department but was instrumental
in retreiving rebounds from both
back boards and acting as a
steadying influence to an other­wise
jittery Tide five. An example
of the big fellow’s prowess is of­fered
in recalling that it was El­mer
who scored nine out of his
team’s ten point total compiled in
the first quarter.
¡The Deckertmen played steady
ball and only scored on shots that
were ¡taken when they were not
only “set” but in good shooting
position. The same tough luck
that has plagued them on the
Manor court followed them into
the play-offs and eventually decid­ed
the outcome of the game, as
many shots carened from the
basket and just barely missed
being scores. The final analysis
of the statistics of the game
showed however that it was the
foul shooting or rather the lack
of foul shooting that really gave
the Columbians the title to Sec­tion
2. The Pretzels, usually de­pendable
foul shooters, made only
six successful conversions out of
seventeen throws from the char­ity
line.
Ray Krieder, the biggest man
on the Lititz squad, looked like a
midget against the ponderous
Kreiser as he again performed in
a stellar role although his team
went down to defeat. -
Dr. Herbert K. Cooper, of this
borough, whose appointment as
associate professor of research
has just been announced by the
University of Pennsylvania, was
guest of honor at a testimonial
dinner held in his honor at the
Elks Club, Lancaster!, Tuesday
evening by members of the Harris
Dental Society. Dr. Cooper, who
is president of the Pennsylvania
State Dental Society, was lauded
for his work among cleft-palate
patients in testimonials offered by
Dr. John Nightengale, Dr. Louis
Nightengale, Dr. T. B. Garvey,
Dr. J. T. McNinch, all of Lancas­ter,
Dr. Hollister, Harrisburg,
and Dr. Clarence Richmond, New
Holland.
Victory Gardens
Being Planned
Victory Gardens here again will'
be sponsored this year by the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce, ac­cording
to action taken at a meet­ing
held Tuesday evening. Christ
Nissley was re-named chairman
of the project. Complete details
will be made known later, it was
announced.
Elmer Bomlberger reported that
a new industry is seeking to !o
cate here providing that a suit­able
building can be found.
Tickets Now Available
For Rotary Institute
FARM SHOW MEETING
ON MONDAY EVENING
.Nomination of officers for the
coming year will feature a meet­ing
of the Lititz Community
Show Association to be held in the
firehouse Monday evening at eight
o’clock. Dates for this year’s
show and preliminary plans for
the program also will be dis­cussed.
250 Attend
Girl Scout
Festival Here
Mrs. Mary Baker of Washing­ton
D. C. returned to her home on»
Tuesday after spending two weeks
with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Grosh.
Interesting International
Program Is Presented At
Fellowship Hall
Approximately 250 Girl Scouts
and friends attended the Juliet
Lowe International Festival on
Tuesday evening in Fellowship
Hall, planned by the six troops
in the Rolling Hills neighborhood
group, Rothsville, Hopeland, Bric-kerville
and 3 Troops from Lititz.
The program of songs and
dances was followed by a tour of
the various booths representing
Poland, France, Mexico, Hawaii,
Greece and Italy. Each booth was
attractively decorated and many
valuable and interesting art idles
were on display. Refreshments
characteristic of each country were
on sale ranging from Italian
bread and cheese, French dough­nuts,
Polish cookies, Mexican fud­ge,
Grecian cakes and Hawaii fruit
juice. The proceeds of the even­ing
will go to the Juliet Low Fund
to further Girl Scouting over the
world.
Mrs. John Garber and Mrs. O.
R. Heistand were the judges of
the Juliet Low containers entered
by the troops and awarded the
prize to the Rothsville troop, the
prize being a two year subscrip­tion
ito Council Fire, an internat­ional
Girl Scout Magazine publish­ed
in England.
Mrs. Walter S. Kaufman, Girl
Scout commissioner, Mrs. Horace
Kinzeir, Jiuliet Low representat­ive
and Miss Iren Ciochine, Girl
Scout secretary were present ard
spoke.
February 22, Washington’s
Birthday, is observed by Girl
Scouts in all countries as Girl
Scout Thinking Day.
That Lititz is anxiously await­ing
the Rotary Institute of Inter­national
Understanding was indi­cated
this week when tickets for
the four public meetings were
made available for the first time.
The series of four meetings will
bgein Tuesday, March 6, in the
High School Auditorium. Tickets
are free and can be obtained at
the Record-Express office, Mc-
Elroy’s Pharmacy or from any
member of the Rotary Club, which
is sponsoring the Institute.
Four outstanding authorities on
world affairs will address the
meetings. Each meeting will end
with a public forum session when
those attending will be given an
opportunity to question the
speaker.
The opening meeting will be
addressed by No-Yong Park, an
authority on China and the Pac­ific.
The second meeting on
Tuesday, March 13, will be ad­dressed'
by Benjamin R. Showal-ter,
who will speak on the part
America will pay in the post-war
period.
On Tuesday, March 20, Archi­bald
Gilchrist, of Australia, will
give ithe Australian slant while at
the final meeting, Tuesday, April
10, Simon M. Davidian will ex­plain
Russia’s position.
2 From Here
Named As
Casualties
Ellsworth Hollinger Killed;
Birkenbine Wounded;
Abandon Hope For Flier
A former Lititz youth was re­ported
killed in action and another
reported wounded for the second
time, in war department telegrams
received here this week.
In a ithird war department
communication received this week,
the government indicated that it
had practically given up hope for
Lieutenant Charles Loercher, hus­band
of Dorothy Walter Loercher,
of Spruce Street.
The service man killed in ac­tion
was Pfc. Ellsworth E. Hol­linger
who died in France January
27 of wounds received in Germany
on December 17. He was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Hol­linger,
who formerly lived on the
Mu'th farm at the eastern end of
Front Street and who now reside
near Clay.
The service man wounded is
Pfc. Richard L. Birkenbine, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lemon Birken­bine,
36 Front Street, according
to a war department telegram re­ceived
Tuesday.
Birkenbine was wounded the first
time several months ago and had
only returned to active duty on
January 10 after a prolonged stay
(Continued on Page 5)
Woman’s Club
Plans Spring
Fashion Show
Mrs. Herbert Cooper Spoke
On Post War Legislative
Measurers
The Lititz Woman’s Club will
hold a spring Fashion Show at the
next meeting according to an an­nouncement
made at their tegular
monthly meeting held on Monday
evening at the General Sutter
hotel. The apparel will be sup­plied
iby the Logan store.
Mrs. Herbert Cooper spoke on
Legislative measures relative to
post way planning and' Mrs. Willy
dePerrot announced the interna­tional
Festival to be held by the
Girls Scouts on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. D. M. Grayblll will report on
the Pin Money Bond drive which
will end on March 1st, at the next
meeting.
Mrs. Frank Longenecker, the
president, presided and Miss Betty
Girvin read the collect, and'
Mrs. Harry Landis and Mrs. W.
H. Poetker served as hostesses.
Major Carryl Stauffer was the
guest speaker. He told about en­tering
Algiers on D-Day and the
life of the American soldiers in
Africa and Italy. He was intro­duced
by Mrs. Clyde Hendricks.
Group To Hold
‘Asian’ Dinner
The Young Women’s Mission­ary
Society of St. Paul’s Luther­an
church will hold a “South-East-
Asia Dinner” on March 1. Ruth
Juram, secretary of the executive
board of the Missionary Society
of the United Lutheran church,
will speak.
Sunday, March 11, a Lenten re­cital
will bep resented at 3:39 p.
m.
A basket of flowers was placed
at the altar Sunday by members
of the Susquehanna Recreation
Club in memory of Pfc. Richard
Neiderrayer, who was killed in ac­tion
in Italy one year ago.
MOVE TO CINCINNATI
Mr. and Mrs. John Espensheid
and family, of this borough, yes­terday
moved to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where Mr. Espensheid will re­present
the Wilbur-Suehard Cho­colate
Company. Mr. Espensheid
A. J. Beford Shoe Company.
BOB LOWE PROMOTED
Robert C. Lowe, of 121 West
Orange Street, has been promoted
from the rank of Private First
CClass to that of Corporal, ac­cording
to word received this week
from the European Theatre of
Operations. Corp. Lowe is -seeing
service in Northen France and
Germany as a sound ranging ob­server.
3orp. Mahlon Bear
Awarded Army Medal
Cpl. Mahlon H. Bear, who lives
on Route 3, Lititz, Pa., has been
awarded the soldier Good Conduct
medal for examplary service, it
has been announced at Headquart­ers
Antilles Department
The award was presented dur­ing
a ceremfony at a Puerto Rican
base of the Antilles Air Command.
Colonel Minthome W. Reed, base
commander, made the presenta­tion.
The citation for the award
read, “jfor demonstrated fidelity
through faithful and exact per­formance
of duty, efficiency
through capacity to produce de­sired
results, and behavior such
as to deserve emulation.”
‘Gene’ Becker Describes
Fighting In Germany
The heavy fighting which car­ried
American troops to the Roer
River in Germany only a few
weeks ago is thrillingly described
in a letter received this week from
Pfc. Eugene' Becker, son of Mrs.
Elsie Becker, East Main Street
grocery store propritress.
“Here, too, thirigs are frosty
and the dead of winter hangs
heavy over the Vaterland,” Beck­er
writes. “Perhaps you read in
the newspapers several weeks ago
that our division (102nd Infantry)
made a push to the Roer River
and captured another 97 pillboxes.
“These pillboxes are the work
of a mad genius, no ordinary hu­man
could devise such construc­tions.
The average thickness of
them is from eight to 12 feet of
steel re-inforced concrete, with
steel emlbrazures.
“The material used in them is
of the finest grade available con­trary
to many reports, and they
are so well camouflaged that they
are invisible from a short distance.
They were not constructed to fit
the terrain, but the terrain was
constructed to fit them.
“There is, however, one fault.
A high percentage are facing
Germany, in exactly the apposite
direction .from the attack. Many
people are unaware of that fact.
‘This cold weather makes living
in a hole almost unbearable. We
have heavy clothing plus the spec­ial
issue of winter clothing, plus
white snow clothes. We have
regular comlbat boots, however we
also have new winter boots. They
are a fine piece of footwear with
rubber forming the part size of
an oxford and from there on up
it is fine leather.
“We have been receiving plenty
of cigarettes. Yes, I’ll have some
yarnst o spin, truer than fiction,
(Continued on Page 4)
ENLISTS IN NAVY
Orville Wonder, seventeen, of
this borough, reported at the Phil­adelphia
Navy Yard this week to
be sworn in to duty, after enlist­ing
in the Navy.
Miss Lillian Frantz and Miss
Eleanor Harsh visited Mrs. Harry
Girvin on Sunday.
PAUL RITZ HOME
FROM S. PACIFIC
Paul I. Ritz, aviation machini:
mate 2/c, who saw plenty of a<
tion in more than eight montli
spent in the South Pacific, returr
ed home for a furlough here o
Sunday. He is the son of Mr. an
Mrs. Paul Ritz, South Cedar S’
During his service in the Sout
Pacific, Ritz took part in engage
ments at Leyte, Mindoro, Luzoi
and the Lingayen Gulf.
MISS JANE WALTER
WEDS IN CALIFORNIA
Miss Jane Walter, daughter <
Mrs. Marie Walter, S|pruce St
became the bride of Private Jasc
B. Bramhall, of Chicago, at
wedding held at San Diego, Cal
fomia, Sunday.
Miss Walter is employed a t wi
work in the Navy yard at Sa
Diego dismantling airplane ei
gdnes. Her husband, who sai
service overseas, also is station«
at San Diego.
Her brother, Donald Waite
seventeen, enlisted in the Nav
this week and went to Philade
phia yesterday to complete h
examinations.
—For Home Dressed Meat fol­low
the crowd and land in LUTZ'S
Moat Market. Prices and quality
do the trick. Phone 298-R. We
deliver