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Vo. LXVI Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., September 27, 1945 No. 44
Center Drive
Will End
Saturday Nite
Favorable Reports Being
Received From Team
Captains
White many favorable reports
already have been received, th e .
the drive to pay off the indebt- I
edness of $4,500 on the Recreation i
Center will not end until Satur­day
night, Raymond S. Reedy, i
chairman of the campaign, an- j
nounced today.
Few of the captains have sub­mitted
final reports and these will j
not be tabulated until the close of ,
the campaign. No indication as
to whether the house-to-house
canvas is reaching the desired
quota will be available until that
time.
Due to the inclement weather
during the past two weeks, the
drive has progressed slowly.
Those in charge of the campaign
are anxious to complete the solici­tation
as quickly as possible in
order that no confusion with the
United Drive result.
“We have been hampered by
the weather but there still are
strong indications that the people
of Lititz are meeting the quota
of $4,500 to wipe off the indebted­ness
on the building,” Mr. Reedy
explained. “Once this indebted­ness
is removed the Center will
hav a real chance and opportun­ity
to go ahead with a real prog­ram
of supervised recreation for
our young people as well as pro­vide
an excellent meeting place
for adults.”
COLLECTING SOUVENIRS
j Pvt. Ray Shelley has arrived at
| Saipan and already is beginning
I what should be an outstanding col-
| lection of war mementos, accord-
| ing a letter received this week,
j Soon after reaching Saipan he
explored a number of caves in
which Japanese soldiers had
sought refuge land had obtained a
Jap skull along with ¡other ob­jects,
as a souvenir, he explained.
He is one of 85 airmen on the
island who are being equipped for
flights on B-29 bombers.
Scouts Will
Hold Charter
Service Sun.
Troop 42 To Receive Sev­enth
Charter At Mora­vian
Church
Linden Hall
Center Of
Tax Dispute
Local Institution Expected
To Oppose Effort To
Collect Boro, School Taxes
A dispute over the question of j
whether Linden Hall should pay
borough and school taxes rniay be j
aired in court In the near future,
it was indicated here this week.
The controversy arose last week
when the borough school board
notified itlhe trustees of Linden
Hall to the effect that buildings of
the locail junior college have been
taken off the tax-free list and have
been placed on the taxable list.
With properties of the schorl
assessed at a total of $104,950,
this subjects Linden Hal'l to an
annual sohool and borough tax of
between $2,700 and $3,000. It also
was Indicated that this tax may
be declared retroactive for at least
a ¡three-year period.
The decision to place. Linden
Hall on the taxable list was made
at a meeting of the borough sohool
boaind jlast week. Members of
borough council followed suit at
a special meeting Monday even­ing
although the matter was not
discussed publicly.
In placing the Linden Hall
buildings on the taxable list, mem­bers
of the school board took the
stand that the institution no long­er
is a charitable one but that
tuitions charged and collected
make it self-sustaining.
(Continued on page 8)
150 Firemen
To Meet Here
Friday Night
County Association To Be
Entertained By Local
Company
Approximately 150 firemen from
all parts of Lancaster County will
be entertained here Friday even­ing
when the Lititz Fire Com­pany
will srve as host to the Lan­caster
County Firemen’s Associa­tion.
This organization meets with a
different company each night,
making their visits here once
every four years. Local firemen
were planning a royal reception
for the visitors and will present
a musical program by Tony
Marianna, well-known accordian
player.
The entertainment committee of
the local company also will pro­vide
refreshments for the visit­ing
firemen. A number of imporih.
ant matters of interest to fire­men
will be brought up during
the meeting.
At a meeting of the local com­pany
la_st night, eight new mem-beqs
were admitted. They are
Francis E. Enck, Fred Rettew,
Jr., Harry J. Williams, Earl
Steffy, Jr., Nathaniel Bailey,
Harvey B. Miller, Jay B. Miller
and Lowell Stengel.
The Spring Garden Band with
40 men has been procured by the
firemen for the victory parade.
11 firemen and auxiliary members
are urged to parade and to help
at the auxiliary eating and re­freshment
stand in front of the
firehouse. Members parading
should meet at the firehouse at
7 p. m.
At the close of the meeting the
refreshment committee served
ice cream, cakes and coffee.
NEARBY FARMER REPORTS
THEFT OF 5» CHICKENS
A man and woman In a battered
automobile were being sought this
week as suspects who stole a iota’
of 50 pullets from the farm of
Daniel G. Mumimia, Manheim, R. D.
1. According to ¡Mumma, his son
saw the woman sitting in the car
which had been parked at the end
of the lane leading to the farm.
When the theft was discovered a
few minutes later, the car had
disappeared.
Troop 42 will ¡receive its seventh
charter at the evening ¡service of
the Moravian Church this Sunday
evening, September 30, at 7 p. m.
The troop is sponsered by the Uni­ted
Men’s Bible Class of the Mora­vian
Sunday school. The ¡troop is
under the leadership of Charles
Regennas Jr., scoutmaster assist­ed
by Harry P. Regennas. The
troop committee is headed by
Frank ¡Macferran, chairman. Other
members of the committee are:
Howard B. Richardson, treasurer;1
Eld ward Grosh, George Sipe, Carl
Workman, Rev. Edwin Kortz, and
Ahram Beck. Two other scouters
are also registered are ¡serving in
the armed forces. They are Ro­bert
C. Rosenberg, assisstant
scoutmaster ¡and Joseph Carl,
committeeman.
The troop has registered fifty-one
boys including five who were
taken into the service of our
country while they were scouts.
They are: ¡John Himmelberger,
Robert Harding, ¡Bruce Keith, Wil­bur
Reist and John Bear.
Several awards wil be made
along with ¡the troop’s charter by
Donald C. Simpson, Lancaster
County Council’s Field Executive.
Elliot Rrane will receive the Eagle
Award. Elliot is the first scout in
troop 42 to earn this award.
local sailor now stationed in
California succeeded in making
the thrilling capture of an alleged
jewel thief he saw rifling a win­dow
— only to have a hard time
explaining the whole thing later
to police, according to a letter
received this week.
He is Seaman Paul E. Coble,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Coble,
South Spruce Street. In writing
his parents of the thrilling ex­perience,
Coble also sent clippings
from the Shoemaker, California
newspaper reporting the capture.
Coble and a companion came
across the man removing jeyelry
from a smashed jewel case. Fol­lowing
a chase the local youth and
his companion captured the fellow
and got back the jewelry. When
police arrived, Coble was standing
holding the jewelry and police at
first thought he was the thief.
Civilians who had witnessed
the incident soon cleared up the
Delphians
Open 25th
Season Here
Program For Year An­nounced
By Pres.‘, Mrs.
Carl Workman
The Delphian Society opened its
twenty-fifth season with a meeting
at the home of Mrs. Florence Gib-bel
on Tlhunsdjay evening. The
program for ¡the year was an­nounced
by the president, Mrs.
Carl Workman and will feature
the eminent men of Lancaster
County, also book reviews and
current events.
.Mrs. Valentine Brobst was ap­pointed
to attend the Lancaster
County Workshop in Lancaster,
sponsored by the Federation of
Women’s Clubs. The ladies also
decided to participate In the Vic­tory
parade on Oct. 4th.
The roll calls for the year will
be answered by each member giv­ing
something relative to the sub­ject
for the evening.
The programs will be as follows,
October 3rd., Mrs. Charles F.
Trunk will review “African Jour-matter.
“I swear my knees were playing
the Anvil Chorus when all those
policemen started' asking questions
and to make things worse, there
were about a hundred people
watching them go through with
their regular procedure.
“The ¡fellow w€ caught didn’t
put up much of a battle — after
all he couldn’t very well handle
two of us. The civilian fellow
who was just standing by (he was
about sixty-five) and saw the
whole thing, an dam I thankful
because when we got the fellow
we made him shell out about $400
worth of goods and I was standing
holding all that when the police
drove up. .
“At first they were all set to
blame it on nie but this civilian
stepped up and explained how my
friend and myself made him hand
it over,” Coble explained in his
letter.
Miss Wanda Daye, of Lancas- ney” by Robeson; and Mrs. Ed-ter,
teacher of the fifth grade is j ward Buch will give “Rickshaw
in the hospital. Mrs. Frank I Boy” by Lau Shaw.
Longenecker is substituting. (Continued on page four)
Seaman Paul Coble Figures
In Jewel Thief’s Capture
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HAMAKER’S KICK GOOD
Pictured is Fat Hamaker* scoring point 20 against Lower Paxton.
His educated toe accounted for three out of four successful extra
point conversions. Other Lititz players shown include Kreider hold­ing
ball, Ulrich No. 51, John Buch, ¡executing ¡beautiful shoulder block
and Sammy Savoca on ground in lower right. Photo by Bob Kreider.
Clocks To Be
Turned Back
Saturday Nite
Advanced War Time
Officially Ends At
2 A. M. Sunday
Don’t forget to turn your
clocks and watches back one hour
before retiring Saturday night.
Advanced wartime which has
been in effect since 1942 will de­finitely
end at 2 a. m. Sunday
morning. But inasmuch as few
will — or should — be up at that
¡time, clocks as a rule wifi be
shoved back late Saturday night.
Local industrial plants opera­ting
night ¡shifts Indicated that
the time change will be varied In
order to bring about the change
in hours as shifts change.
The standard time schedule al­so
will become effective on the
radios and on train timetables at
2 a. m. Sunday.
All local Sunday School and
church services will be held on
standard time. While announce­ments
t|o this effect have been
made in several of the churches,
the usual confusion of some ar­riving
for church an hour late is
expected.
So — If you don’t want to be
greeted by the doxology when you
arrive for church, turn your clock
back one hour when you go to
bed Saturday night.
Runs To Greet Son
Breaks Arm In Fall
The excitement of realizing
that his son had arrived home
proved disastrous for Walter
Grosh, West Main Street, Satur­day
night. Hearing his son,
Sergeant Walter Grosh» Jr., at the
door, Mr. Grosh ran for the stair­way,
tripped and fell down the
stairs, sustaining the fracture of
his left arm. He was treated by
a local physician.
Sgt. Grosb recently returned
from service in France and Ger­many.
Upon arriving at Indian-town
Gap, he was given a 45-day
furlough due to the fact that too
many men had arrived for dis­charge.
He expects his discharge
soon after reporting back early
in November.
Linden Hall Students
To Enter Parade
Students at Linden Hall Junior
College will contribute their share
to the success of the Victory Par­ade
next Thursday evening.
According to plans announced
today, the entire student body will
parade along with teachers and
college officials. The students al­so
are decorating a float for the
parade.
The Linden Hall group will be
headed by the Lebanon Valley
College Girls’ Band and Color
Guard which they have engaged
for the occasion.
This will be the first time Lin­den
Hall students have ¡partici­pated
in a local parade since the
Victory Parade which was held
following World War I.
Boro Flood
Control At
A Standstill *
State And County Will Not
Help Pay Cost Of
Local Project
Neither the county nor the
state wil lhelp shoulder the cost
of any flood control porject in­side
the borough, President of
Council Elmer Bomberger an­nounced
this week.
Efforts to get assistance in
regard to any project to control
the flooding of districts around
New and Noble treets have failed
with both county and state with­out
any jurisdiction in the mat­ter,
it was explained. At the
same time, efforts were renewd1
to have the county engineer, Haz-let
Crawford make a survey of
the local condition.
Crawford has been kept busy
conducting similar surveys thru-out
the county since the last flash-flood,
Mr. Bomberger explained.
Work of excavating and grad­ing
East Third Avenue where
several homes will be built in the
near future has been delayed
slightly du ¡to the inability to get
bids for the work. An excavator
was expected to be obtained this
week and council authorized the
extension of the street and water
mains.
Council also authorized the
purchase of water main from the
U. S. Pipe and Foundry Company
for 87 cents per foot.
Burgess Victor aWgner inform­ed
council that he had procured
six mounted state police officers
from the Hershey Training Bar­racks
and four state police from
the Lancaster station to supple­ment
the local force.
Council voted to participate in
the parade and to place a wreath
at the honor roll in front of the
postoffice. They appropriated $100
to cover expenses of parade par­ticipation.
Burgess Wagne rreported ■ two
arrests for drunkenness, two for
driving too fast for conditions,
two for disorderly conduct, 24
parking violations and one lodger! •
A building permit was issued to
Frank Macferran for erection of
aresidence on the west side of the
E. Ptersburg Road.
Authority to purchase water
pipes for the extension of the line
on East Third Avenue and South
Water treet was given.
A resolution renwing the five-year
contract for street lighting
with the PP&L, as of Dec. 16,
1945, was passed.
ARCHIE SHELLEY
RE-ENLISTS
Pfc. Archie Shelley, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Shelley,
Pine Hill, re-enlisted for three
yelars’ seiVice in the army im­mediately
after receiving his
honorable discharge last week.
Pfc. Shelley will report for duty
on December 23.
REPORTED IMPROVED
Jerry Adams, of North Cedar
Street, is recuperating at his
home following several weeks’
illness.
Parade To Be
Largest In
Boro History
20 Bands And Over 100
Organizations To March
Next Thursday
ILititz’ Victory Parade next
Thursday night promises to be
the longest march of its kind
ever staged here.
Approximately 20 bands and
nearly 100 organizations will par­ticipate,
according to the parade
formation released today by
members of the parade committee.
The bands appearing in the line
of march include such outstand­ing
organizations as the Ring-gold
Band, the Spring Garden
Band, the Indiantown Gap Service
Band and the Perseverance Band
of Lebanon.
Veterans of the four wars,
Spanlsh-American War, World
War I, World War II and a Son-of-
Veteran, representing the Civil
War, will head the marchers.
The parade will be marked with
services in front of the Honor
Roll at the Post Office when
wreaths will be put In place by
the Borough and by High School
students, honoring the memories
of the patriotic dead of the war
just ended.
Parade particulars are as fol­lows
:
(Rain Date - October 6th)
¡Formation as follows:
Military ¡Division—¡Pennsylvania
Mounted Police; chief marshall,
Norman !M. Badorf.
Aides to Chief Marshall; Elmer
Bek and C. E. Ridenbach.
Division Staff: Victor Wagner,
Lloyd C. Smith, Carl V. Redy, Ray­mond
S. Reedy.
American Legion-VFW Color
Guard; Firing Squad; Lititz Com-
(Oontinued on Page 8)
Farm Show
Will Open
rhursday
Expect Exhibits To Be
Larger Than Last Year
Several Innovations
Lititz’ Farm Show which opens
Thursday will Ibe marked with a
number of added agricultural fea­tures
as well as increased ¡home
and agricultural exhibits in the
high school gymnasium.
Innovations of the present show
will include a 4-H Baby Beef Show
to be held in the pavilion in the
park which will Inculde a special
showmanship contest in which the
young exhibitors will be judged
for the manner in which they ex­hibit
their animals.
A1 ilexhihits to be placed in the
¡higih ¡school gymnasium should be
put i nplace ¡between ¡the hours of
6 P. M. and 9 P. iM. Wednesday ev­ening,
the committee announced
this week. Judging will take place
Thursday morning.
Harry Gorton, chairman of the
concessions, also announced a
large number of spaces reserved.
Mr. Gorton also issued an appeal
to the public to be on the lookout
for any signs of gambling and to
report these to the show commit­tee
immediately.
“We will not tolerate any torn
of gambling and will close up any
¡offenders immediately,” ¡he as­serted.
By Marv Miller
Displaying a wide open brand of
football a la Georgia Tech style
Russ Gilberts ¡boys donned in the
Red and Black regalia of Lititz
High more than pleased an open­ing
day crowd at home by running
and passing a cocky Lower Paxton
eleven to a 27-7 defeat.
Combined with some timely
blocking by the line, a well round­ed
backfield of hard-running Lititz
lads, scored once in the first per­iod
and came ¡book strong after
Lieut. ROBERT SNYDER
Lieut. Snyder
Speaks Before
Rotary Club
Describes Capture At
Heighth Of Battle Of
The Bulge
Lititz service men overseas were
the envy of their buddies when |
they received their monthly pack-'
ages from the Lititz Service As­sociation,
Lieutenant Robert Sny­der
informed members of the Ro­tary
Club in a talk Tuesday even­ing.
“And to receive a Wilbur bar
with the word Lititz, Pa. on the
wrapper can be compared as one
of the big thrills of the war, he
added.
Discussing the invasion of the
Normandy coast, Lieut. Snyder
described the contact maintained
between the infantry and the air
forces. Messages from the invas­ion
front were received and placed
befor th air forces in Britain
within 12 minutes’ time,” he as­serted.
Describing the battle of the
bulge, Lieut. Snyder declared that
few o fhis companions expected
the Germains to attempt any
great push of the kind. The ease
with which Americans swept thru
Germany following the battle of
the bulge proved that they had
thrown everything into the move,
he said.
Describing his • own capture,
I.ieut. Snyder asserted that he
and an officer of higher rank
were going to the rear behind
their own lines when they came to
an American truck in the middle
of the road. When he went up to
the truck he found it filled with
German soldiers who arrested he
and his companion.
“We didn’t eat for eight days
but that was principally because
they were finding it difficult to
feed their own men,” he declared.
“On the whole I was treated al­right
although we didn’t always
get the kind of food we would
have preferred,” he added.
Prof. E. It. Lancaster, of
Franklin and Marshall College,
will address the club next week
on “Post War Planning.”
BOOTS AND WINGS
¡Pvt. Charles iS. Rose, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Rose, Lititz R. 2,
won the ¡right to wear the “Boots
and Wings’ of the U. S. Paratroops
after completing four weeks of
jump training ¡Sept. 20th at Fort
Beinning, Ga. He entered ¡the ser­vice
April of this year.
halftime to ¡tally three additional
times, while limiting the visitors
scoring to a lone marker Which
came late in the final q|uarter
against the locals second string.
Kreider Scores First
Ray Kreider, Lititz field general
running the team from his quar­ter-
back post opened the touch­down
¡parade os he led an offen­sive
.foray initiated in mid-field
¡and kept in high gear until the
promised land was reached. Dur-
(Continued on Page 6)
Lititz Outplays Paxton'
Play Red Lion Here Saturday
¡United Drive
Quota Fixed
At $17,500
Community Chest Annua)
Meeting To Be Held
Oct. 9
Lititz’ quota for the United
Drive which starts October 15th
will be approximately $17,500, ac­cording
to recommendations made
at a budget meeting of the Lititz
Community Chest last Friday.
Announcement also was made
that the annual public meeting of
the oCmmunity Chest will be beld
in the High School building on
Tuesday October 9 when the quota
recommendation will be formally
j adopted and the annual campaign
j will ¡be organized.
In considering the require­ments
for the coming year, mem­bers
of the Community Chest have
added support to the new Lititz
Recreation Center. M. C. Demmy,
president of the board of direct­ors,
appeared at the meeting and
Informed the Community Chest
that from ¡the limited statistics
now available, it is estimated that
the Center will contract an opera­tional
loss of approximately $¡2,-
900 the first year of its operation.
While the receipts of necessity
cover only the period the Center
has been in operation, ¡this esti­mate
may be high, he indicated.
Members of the Community
Chest expressed the intention of
giving the center as much finan­cial
assistance as the budget, fol­lowing
the coming campaign, will
make possible.
'Officials of the Welfare Federa­tion
also were present at the meet­ing
and fixed a budget of $12,500
for Lititz to cover hospitals, other
welfare agencies and the U. S. O.
activities which must be ¡continued
until the end of 1946. The coming
campaign will be the final one for
these wartime agencies, they de­clared.
The public has been invited to
attend the annual Community
Cest meeting When work of the
¡local agencies will be described in
detail.
Extra Prizes
Offered In
Baby Parade
War Bond To Be Presented
Winner; Gifts For All
Contestants
A twenty-five dollar war bond
will be given as a grand prize in
the Baby parade to be held on Sat­urday,
October 6th during the Lit­itz
Community Show, according to
E. Guy Brubaker, chairman of the
Baby parade committee. A total
of one hundred dollars will be
given an prizes to the successful
contestants.
The parade will ¡be held at two
o’clock in ¡the afternoon and regis­tration
will be at one-thirty. The
classes will be as follows, most
patriitlc entry, most artistic, most
original, and baby in decorated
coach for the classes the prizes
will be as follows $6.00, 1st; $2.60,
2nd.; $1.00, 3rd. Best float and
most patriotic float the prizes will
be $7.00, 1st; $5.00 ¡2nd.; $3.00, ¡3rd.
All the children entered will re ­ceive
a gift and teaohers will serve
¡as judges. The committee in­cludes,
Mr. Brubaker, Lloyd
Smith, ¡Mrs. Arville Burkholder,
Mrs. Edward Grube, Mrs. S. R.
Krane, Mrs. Cullen Carpenter,
Carpenter, Mrs. E. Guy Brubaker
and MrsjP. F. Snyder
PANTRY SALE
The Barbara Snyder clnss of the
Moravian Sunday school will hold
a pantry gale in the Market House
on Saturday, Sept. 29th-
—For Home Dressed Meat fol­low
the crowd and land in LUTZ’S
Meat Market. Prices and quality
do the trlek. Phone 298-R. We
deliver