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Vo. LXVI Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., September 20, 1945 No. 43
Make Plans
For United
Drive Here
Community Chest Board
To Consider Budget On
Friday Evening
A special meeting of the Lititz
Community Chest Board will be
held on Friday, Sept 21st in the
conference room of the Chocolate
factory when Prof. M. C. Demmy
will present the needs of the new
Recreation Center and George
Harwood of Lancaster will speak
on the coming drive.
The annual public meeting of
the Community Chest will be held
on Tuesday, October 9th at eight
o’clock in Room 207 in the school
building.
Plans for these meetings were
made at a meeting of the board
held recently in the Conference
room of the Chocolate factory
with the president Harry Ruley in
charge of the meeting and fol­lowing
board members attending,
Miss Mary Huebener, Mrs. Frank
Longenecker, Mrs. Henry
Snavely, Richard Gould and Wm.
Young.
Miss Emma Erb, the commun­ity
nurse gave the following re­port,
May, 21 patients and 122
nursing visits; June, 17 patients,
149 visits; July, 26 patients, 157
visits; August, 24 patients, 13
visits; during this time only two
families received assistance.
(The Lititz United Drive will be
held October 15th to 80th, this
will include the following agen­cies,
Lancaster Welfare, War
Fund and the Lititz Charity and
Nursing service.
INJURED IN CRASH
COL. KELLER DISCHARGED
White Oak Dam
To Be Developed
As Bird Sanctuary .
Lititz Bird Club Leases 20-Acre Tract from H. C.
Maybe, Manheim; Shooting and Trapping to Be
Prohibited; Will Erect Feeders, Shelters, etc.
------- Negotiations between Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Maybe of Manheim and
Directors of the Lititz Bird Club
have been completed for the deve­lopment
of White Oak Dam as a
Bird Sanctuary.
The tract includes about 20
acres (10 of which are under
water) and is only 7% miles
northwest of Lititz. The club
plans to erect boxes for use by
wood ducks as nesting places,
feeders for small birds and shel­ters
for larger birds. They also
intend to follow a planting prog­ram
as prescribed by the Nation­al
Audubon Society which will
furnish food and shelter for var­ious
species.
(Shooting and trapping will be
prohibited on the sanctuary but
fishing will be allowed as usual.
The local ornithologists should
have the cooperation and support
of the entire county in carrying
out the plans which will make this
area a haven for all sorts of birds
from warbler to great blue her­ons.
Since the Bird Club reorganized
in April of this year the member­ship
has increased from 21 to 87.
It is responsible for the fine Na­ture
Den in the Recreation Cen­ter,
has brought and Is planning
to bring to Lititz some of the best
nature lecturers in the country
and beginning in October will
hold Instruction Meetings which
will be open to anyone who de­sires
to learn more about birds
and their habits.
Joseph Keath, Brunnerville, sus­tained
the fracture of a pelvic
bone and several ribs, in a col­lision
between a car he was driv­ing
and one driven by Charles
Keller, Lime Rock. The accident
occurred near Poplar Grove.
Keath was removed to the office
of Dr. D. C. Martin where he was
treated and then taken to the
General Hospital for x-rays.
16-Hr. Search
Locates Aged
Missing Man
Michael Adams Suffered
No 111 Effects From
Experience
C l” FAT SALVAGE CANT QUIT! '
“ This wonderful headline still doesn’t mean we can let up on our fat
salvage for a long time yet,” Capt. Wesley B. Moore, Director of Food
Service, Hospital Center, Camp Edwards, Mass., tells cook T/5 Arthur
H. Maxwell. The armed forces know that used cooking fat, required
in great quantities for civilian products and peacetime reconversion,
will continue to be needed until the islands of the South Pacific again
become fats and oils exporters.
Lt. Col. Robert W. Keller, vet­eran
of three and one-half years
service in the Army Air Forces,
was honorably discharged from the
armed forces, following relief
from active duty at the Fort Sam
Houston, Tex., Separation Center.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen B.
Keller, Third Avenue, this boro,
he was a student at Franklin and
Marshall College, when he en­listed
in the Army Air CoTps in
November, 1941.
A pilot, he was sent overseas
in June, 1943, and served for two
years with the 9th Air Force as a
squadron commander in the Eu­ropean
Theater.
Col. Keller, who was separated
from military service with an ad­justed
service rating of 106
points, was awarded the Unit
Citation, Distinguished Flying
Cross with one Oak Leaf cluster,
the Air Medal with 10 Oak Leaf
clusters, and the European Theat­er
ribbon with six battle stars.
He was stationed at AAF Central
Flying Training Command head­quarters
upon his return from
foreign service.
An aged local man who spent
all night in a cornfield as result
of a lapse of memory, apparently
had suffered no ill effects and was
reported in goo dhealth at this
home here this week.
He is Michael C. Adams, 85, of
212 South Spruce St. The aged
man wandered from the home of
his grandson, Richard Roth, of 27
W. Lincoln Ave., last Saturday
about 6 P. M. and was the sub­ject
of an intensive 16-hr. search
by local firemen and. others.
The search was started by rela­tives
and neighbors bu twhen Mr.
Adams had not been located at
2:39 A. M„ the fire siren was
sounded and a group of 20 volun­teers,
headed1 by Chief Raymond
Runk, took over the hunt.
The aged man was found in the
cornfield on the farm of N. W.
Buch qt 10 A. M., Sunday. He
was given first-aid treatment by
Dr. I. Siegel, a member of the
searching party, and was treated
later by his own physician, Dr. M.
H. Yoder.
Members of the family this
week extended their thanks to
those who assisted in the search.
Will Collect
Kitchen Fats
Here On Sat.
Woman’s Club
Hears Talk
By Miss Keim
Assisting This Week In
Collecting For Recrea­tion
Center
OSTEO. AUXILIARY
PLANS SOUP SALE
Lititz Swamps
West York
In Opener
Start Season With 26—
Victory; Kreider
Stars
Starting off the season In a
burst of glory the Ldtlitz High
School football team ran all over
West York to defeat them 26 to 0,
Aided by some beautiful down
field blocking, Big Ray Kreider
scored all of the touchdown«, 4
in number. Fat Hamaker added
two of the extra points. Kreider’s
first score was a line plunge from
the five after Schoenberger car­ried
the ball there. His second
«core was a dazzling run after he
intercepted a pass which was
aided by beautiful blocks by Bob
Bushong and Joe Bender. On the
first play of the 3 period Ray ran
45 yearde down the sideline for
another score. The last touch­down
was a 70 yard run down the
sideline after Ray had outrun the
two safety men. Marks got off on
a 30 yard run but was brought
to earth by the safety man.
(Continued on page 8)
The ladies of the Lancaster
Osteopathic Hospital Auxiliary
will hold a vegetable soup sale on
Saturday at the Fire House beg­inning
a t eleven o’clock, accord­ing
to plans made at the meeting
held on Friday evening at the
Lititz Recreation Center.
Mrs. John Zimmerman, the
president, was in charge of the
meeting and appointed the follow­ing
committee in charge of the
sale, Mrs. Harry Stormfeltz, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hepp, Mrs. Atkenson,
Mrs. Mary Todd, Mrs. Leroy
Firestone.
Mrs. Zimmerman was the host­ess.
The next meeting will be
held at the hospital on October
12th.
H. S. Classes
Elect Officers
The high school clases recently
elected the following officers:
Senior: Ray Kreider, president;
Ned Leaman, vice president;
Margaret Grosh, secretary; John
Marks, treasurer; Hazel Greiner,
student council.
Junior: Robert Bender, presi­dent;
James Johnson, vice presi­dent;
Ramona Keath, secretary;
Betty Carman, treasurer; Doris
Shelley, student council.
The Woman’s Club began their
year’s activities on Monday even­ing
when they met at the General
Sutter hotel with Mias Genevieve
Keim of Columbia as the guest
speaker.
Miss Keim displayed a repres­entative
collection of dolls from
all over the world. She showed
dolls made from dried apples,
from gourds put together with
sugar cane, climaxing the ex­planation
of the various types
with an exhibition of a doll made
by the modern French doll maker
Ravca. Her oldest doll dates back
to 1723.
Mrs. Longenecker was in charge
of the meeting, Mrs. Menno Roh-rer
read the collect and Mrs. Her­bert
Cooper and Mrs. Ralph
Spacht served as hostesses.
The group decided to assist in
the collection of funds for the
Recreation Center this week, Mrs.
Martin Muth, chairman of the
Ways and Means committee, an­nounced.
They will send' articles
to the Bazaar sale to he held at
Snavely’s on Thursday evening.
The Club chorus will begin re-harsals
on Monday Sept. 24th at
7:45 in Fellowship Hall.
Girl Scouts of Troop 122 under
the direction of Mrs. John Helter
will make another fat collection
in the borough on Saturday
morning. Although other forms
of salvage collection will soon end,
the need' for used fats is still cri­tical.
Salvage men say that even
before the war ther was a srious
shortag of waste fats for Indus- ’
trial purposes and the shortage
is much more serious at the pres­ent
time.
Fats should be placed on the
curb before 9 A. M. or taken to
one of the following neighbor­hood
stores before 1 P. M. The
grocers co-operating in this col­lection
are R. W. Gonder, C. S.
Kauffman, E. R. Bollinger, Noah
Trimmer, R. J. Hertz, Minnich’s,
C. B. Snyler, B. L. Sharp, C. S.
Zartman, Leaman’s Five Points
Store, A. S. Sharp, D. L. Diem &
Sons, Fry’s Garage, Bruckhart’s
Store, Elsie Becker, Frank Ford,
Paul Doster and Ford’s Market.
Housewives are also asked to
save all small bits, full cakes
and odds and' ends of soap and
place on the curb with the waste
fats. This soap is sent to the
Lancaster committee for French
relief. Approximately 40 pounds
of soap were turned in iii the
May collection.
Don’t forget! Save all waste
fats and soap and contribute to
the Girl Scouts.
BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR
MISS RUTH FRY
THREE GET DISCHARGES
Three local service men who re­turned
from overseas and were
grantd honorable discharges at
Indiantown Gap this week were
Staff Sergeant Lloyd S. Varner,
R D. 3; Pfc. Robert M. Weidler,
r ' d 3; and T-5 Wayne N. Boy­er,
R. D. 1.
Wilbur Stark
Enrolled In
British Univ.
Studing Dramatics While
Awaiting Shipment
Home
SHRIVENHAM AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND —
Corporal Wilbur H. Stark, 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Stark
of N. Water Street, Lititz, Pa., a
former student at the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts, New
York, is a member of the Theater
Branch of Shrivenham American
University, Shrivenham, England.
One of the most ambitious un­dertakings
of the Information and
Education section of the Army,
the school was opened to the
American soldier, to give him the
opportunity of attending college
level classes while awaiting ship­ment
home.
A member of Company A, 740
Tank Battalion, which since Aug­ust
of 1944 has been fighting it out
with the Germans, Cpl. Stark
plans to be a radio announcer and
actor. While here at the Univer­sity,
he is working in the radio
studios which broadcast programs
over the American Forces net­work.
Cpl. StaTk is also taking courses
in acting and speech from the
Theater Branch. These courses
are directed by Herschel L. Brick-er,
University of Maine, and
president of the American Edu­cational
Theater. Mr. Bricker is
assisted by Lieutenant Wilbur L.
Dingwell, formerly director of
drama at the University of Ro­chester.
Cpl. Wilbur Stark is an out­standing
leader among 80 stu­dents
who write, act, direct, and
produce their own shows. He is
currently appearing in an adap­tation
from an O. Henry story
called, A Home for the Winter.”
Xmas Lighting
To Come Back
C. - C. Decides
New Directors Elected By
Lititz Chamber Of
Commerce
Outdoor Christmas lights will
go on again in Lititz this year,
according to plans made at a
meeting of the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday evening at
which directors were elected for
the coming year.
Directors are as follows: Paul
F. Diehm, Tobe Erline, Harry
Ruley, Elmer Bomberger, Ray­mond
Reedy, Clyde O. Benner, M.
C. Demmy, Abram Beck and Wil­liam
Young.
After several years in which
cutdoor Christmas exhibits and
decorations were discouraged due
to the war effort, outdoor Christ­mas
displays will once again be
encouraged, it was decided. Prizes
to be offered for yuletide decora­tions
of homes will be decided
upon next month.
At the same time, plans were
made for again erecting stars at
the light standards throughout
the business section and for plac­ing
a yuletide setting at the foun­tain
in the square.
Committees for handling this
project will be named immediately
following the election of officers
at a meeting of the newly-elected
board of directors within the next
two weeks.
Th matter also was suggested of
holding an annual dinner this win­ter
but no definite action was tak­en.
The Chamber of Commerce
also voted to place a float in the
Victory Parade, October 4. Plans
for the float were placed in the
hands of the secretary, E. D. Ful-weiler.
FINAL PAPER DRIVE NETS
26,495 LBS. HERE
The final waste paper collection
held Saturday here netted 26,495
pounds. Christ Nissley, chairman
of the Salvage Committee, was in
charge, assisted by members of
the Boy Scout troops.
Charles H. Reegnnas and Russel
Markert, scoutmasters, directed
the collection, and trucks were
donatd by the following organi­zations:
Lititz Borough, Simplex
Paper Box Co., Lititz Furniture
Co., and the Animal Trap Co. of
America.
Mrs. John Brubaker was admit­ted
to the hospital at Temple Uni­versity,
Philadelphia, for treat­ment.
Many Bands
And Floats To
Mark Parade
Groups Plan To Place
Wreaths At Honor
Roll
Eagle Photos
Will Feature
Ed Hill Talk
Colored Movies Taken
Along Susquehanna De­clared
Sensational
On Wednesday evening, Sept.
26 at 8 o’clock the Lititz Bird
Club will once more bring to town
one of the most outstanding na­ture
lecturers in the East when
Edward A. Hill will present in
Fellowship Hall his newest pic­tures
on the “American Eagle.”
The program includes a pictor­ial
exploration of the “thousand
island” ffegiono fetaoishrdcmfw
island” region of the Susquehanna
where Devil’s Cauldrons are car­ved
out of rock nine hundred mil­lion
years old. Colorful river
scenes In both spring and fall, wild
flowers and smaller birds, fill in
this photographic record of the
home life of the American Eagle.
¡Upon his island kingdom in one
of America’s oldest rivers, the
king of birds still screams defiance
of the centuries. Climbing from
cloud to cloud across the screen,
he brings you the same moments
of majesty that thrilled the Sus-quehannocks
in ancient Indian
days.
Ninety feet up in the tallest
trees, you will visit the great
aeries or nests, large enough to
hold a man, where the young
grow from downy gray eaglets to
the rich brown gold of maturity
with head and tail flashing silver
in the sun. This emblem of the
United States of America Is rtans-lated
for you from a symbol to
a living reality . . . out of mystery
and legend . . . from the past to
the present.
Eugene Miley First In Nation
To Graduate From V. H .c
! A birthday surprise party was
¡held on Saturday evening by Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. B. Fry in honor of
I their daughter Ruth on her four­te
en th birthday. The following
attended: Misses June Houck,
iciicj, _____________ i, Annetta Keller, Mary Lou Her-
Sophomore: Ray Forney, presi- t shey, Mary George, Anna Halde-dent;
Larry Howard, vice presi-1 ' T TT-~~
dent; Betty Jane Howard, secre­tary;
Robert Brubaker, treasurer;
Homer Adams, student council.
Freshman: Donald Fisher, presi­dent;
John Steffy, vice president;
Helen Tshudy, secretary; Patsy
Foltz, treasurer; Elvin Mearig,
¡student council.
man, Nancy Hess, Nelda Bru
baker,OilenSne Holllngler, Sylvia
Ruth, Dolores Little, Gloria Fry,
Doris Neff, Peggy Stormfeltz,
Nancy Good, Ruth Fry, all of
Lititz; Mrs. M'ary Dussinger,
Misses Marylin and Mary Ellen
Dussinger, of Lancaster; Miss
Evelyn Fry; Akron.
A Lititz youth is the first
World War II veteran to receive
a high school diploma from
America’s first veterans’ high
school.
He is Eugene D. Miley, son of
Mrs. Clara Miley, of 355 South
Cedar Street, this borough. He
graduated last week from the vet­erans’
high school conducted in
Philadelphia by the Philadelphia
Board of Education.
Miley, who went into the armed
forces from Lititz, iPa., came
back to Philadelphia last fall, af­ter
being discharged from the
service, with graying hair and an
injured leg. He entered the vet­erans’
high school on November
27.
Today, with his high school dip­loma
hanging on the wall.and his
entrance examinations to the
University of Pennsylvania pass­ed
with flying colors, he is ready
to begin his college training in
accounting at the university’s
Wharton School.
Typifying the returned veteran
who wants to complete his school­ing
in as short a time as possible,
Miley, who now lives at 921 N.
20th Street, Philadelphia, finish­ed
his high school work in ap­proximately
nine months accord­ing
to an individual progress pro­gram
of advancement which has
been especially ¡set up for veterans.
Experience the Hard Way
Except for a few unstable cases
and the physical handicaps of
others, veterans are found to be
no different from any other types
of people who come to the schools
for daytime or evening clases.
“The veteran is a man who has
had experience the hard way,”
declares William E. Brunton, new
principal of the Bok Vocational
School, who has handled the war
production training program in
(continued on page 8)
Approximately 15 bands and at
least 20 gayly-decorated floats
will feature the Victory Parade to
be held here Thursday, October 4,
which already promises to he the
largest in the history of the bor­ough,
It was revealed at a recent
meeting of the parade committee.
Special cremonies in which the
local service men who gave their
lives on the field of battle will be
honored, also will mark the par­ade,
according to plans being
made by the two local organiza­tions.
A large floral wreath will be
carried in the car which will
transport local wounded veterans
in the parade. Upon reaching the
Honor Roll in front of the Post
Office, the veterans will place the
wreath at the bast of the tablet
and will remain at attention dur­ing
the playing of the National
Anthem. A salute will be fir£d
and the parade will proceed.
The second wreath will be car­ried
in the parade by the high
school children. This also will be
placed a t the Honor Roll with an
appropriate ceremony in memory
of the members of the High
School Alumni who are numbered
among the local patriotic dead.
Practically every organization
of the borough as well as sur­rounding
districts will be repre­sented
in the parade, it was in­dicated.
Industries of the boro­ugh
also are planning to march,
place bands in the parade and to
have a large number of decorated
floats in the line of march.
Burgess Victor Wagner has se­cured
extra police to help handle
the crowd which is expected here
to witness th parade. Final plans
for th parade will be made at a
meeting of the parade committee
to be held this evening.
Center Drive
Is Continued
A Week
Rainy Weather Prevents
Solicitors From Mak­ing
Collections
Due to the bad weather condi­tions,
the door-to-door canvas to
raise funds to pay off the indeb­tedness
on the new Recreation
Center will be continued until the
middle of next week, Raymond S.
Reedy, chairman of the drive, an-nounced
today.
With many of the solicitors un­able
to cover their districts, its
was found impossible to obtain
preliminar yreports on the pro­gress
of the drive. Several can­vassers
announced, however, that
the response to the appeal was
good and that many sizeable con­tributions
already have been
made.
The campaign will seek to raise
$5,000 for the purpose of paying
ooff the indebtedness of $4,500
and to provide the Center with
the balance to launch its pro­gram
this fall.
Captains in charge of the can­vas
and the organizations they
Pennyjpacker, Bird CCliub; Miss
represent are as follows; George
Jean Moyer, Dramatic Club; Mrs.
M. C. Demmy, Fire Company
Auxiliary; Harry F. Ruley, Lions
Club; Willy dePerrot, Rotary
Club; Guy Buch, Lititz Sports­men;
Mrs. Eva Bechtel, W. C. T.
U.; and Mrs. B. M. Leaman, the
Lititz Woman’s Club.
This is the public’s opportunity
t ohelp the Center, Mr. Reedy ex­plained,
inasmuch as industry and
local businessmen already have
donated the bulk of the cost of—
modernizing the 3-story building
donated by Ralph M. Spacht and
located on the edge of the Springs
Park at Spruce St.
STARTS FOR PANAMA
Mrs. Parthine Long will leave
Saturday to join her husband,
Yoeman lc Curtis E. Long who
now is stationed in Panama. She
will goby train to Miami where
she will board a plane for Bal­boa.
Mid' The Turmoil
Reah Reynold-
Addresses
Rotary Club
All clubs and organizations
must be prepared to help the re­turning
veterans to find their
rightful places in civilian life,
Reah Reynolds, boys’ work secre-'
tary of the Coatesville Y. M. C.
A., informed members of the local
Rotary Club Tuesday evening.
■ Persons in all lines of business
should be willing to ¡share their
experiences and to make an effort
to seriously advise these men and
women, many of whom will be
anxious to launch business enter­prises
of their own, he empha­sized.
Mr. Reynolds was introduced
by A. L. Douple, chairman of the
program committee.
An added feature of the meet­ing
was a talk by Lieut. Fred
Gochenauer, who described con­ditions
existing In all of the Eu­ropean
capitals such as Berlin
and Paris, which he visited in his
work in the signal corps.
Lieut. Robert Snyder, who was
a prisoner of the Germans on
two occasions, will describe his
experiences before the club next
Tuesday evening.
NOTICES Bird Club Members
Bus for Hawk Mountain leaves N.
Broad St. and ¡the Boro Line at
6:30 A. M. Sunday, Sept. 23.
—For Home Dressed Meat fol­low
the crowd and land in LUTZ’S
Meat Market. Prices and quality
do the trick. Phone 298-R. We
deliver
Corporal Carl Mathers gat a big
kick out of changing over to his
“civvies” thsi week when he ap­peared
on the Main Drag attired
in a brand new suit of clothes.
He received his discharge at
Camp Gordon, Ga., last Thursday.
* * * -
Two more well-known local re­sidents
were expected to arrive
home any day now and frinds al­ready
are planning suitable wel­comes.
They are Captain Joe
Grosh, Joe Sheckard and Ken
Shelley. All have been overseas
for several years.
* * *
Ida Shantz Royer and her sis­ter,
Marion Shantz, both had to
take sleeping pills in order to get
any sleep following the excitment
of a tlephon call from Indian­town
Gap th other night when
Pfc. Bob Shantz informed his
wife and sister-in-law that he had
just received his discharge and
would be home in another day or
two.
* * *
September is the month of
birthdaye*. FHday is Ted Sch-
29th Nettie Painter will be cele-midt’s
birthday while on Sept,
brating her birthday. Mrs. Ar­chie
Shelley observes her birthday
the following day. Others having
birthdays this month ar Bob Han­na
and Prof. M. C. Demmy. Ye
Turmoiler quietly observed his
yesterday.
• • •
For the past several weeks, Tun
Herr has been trying to borrow,
beg or filch a 1909 VDBS penny
to complete his collection but to
no avail—that is until yesterday
when he bought a pack of cigar­ettes
from a machine, and, you
I was part of the change on the
gussed it, the much-desired penny
change on the side of the pack.