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The Litte Record-Express
Vol. LXVII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., May 2, 1946 No. 23
Council Takes Action
To Obtain More Data On
Boro Water Softening
Town Meeting
To Decide On
War Memorial
Public To Be Invited To
Vote On Project At
Meeting
Final decision on the matter off
establishing a war memorial foir
Lititz will be decided at a towm
meeting to be called within thee
next three or four weeks, accord­ing
too action taken by the local
memorial committee at a meeting
in the Recreation Center Sunday
afternoon.
At the meeting, it was revealed
that the proposed construction off
a public swimming pool is leading
suggestions made to-date witlh
several local clubs and organiza­tions
favoring this idea. At th<e
meeting, however, an additional
suggestion was made when once
member recommended the build­ing
of a field house at the atlet-ic
field as a memorial.
Following a general discussioni,
it was decided that no action olf
any kind will be taken until a fte r
the public has been given an op­portunity
to decide definitely
whether a memorial is desired and
if so, the type of memorial.
iDr. F. W. Stengel, chairman off
a committee named to investigate
the costs of constructing a swimi-ming
pool, reported that this cosit
would vary from $15,000 to $50„-
000, dependent upon the size and
style of pool to be built as well ais
the cost of the ground to be used!.
“Much will depend upon the eni-thusiasm
shown at the public
meeting planned,’’ Rev. Charles
Trunk, chairman of the memorial!
committee, dedip red. “It would
bewrong to go ahead and plam
further until We have proof thait
. the public wants a living memor­ial
such as we have discussed.”
The meeting will be held in thte
High ¡School Auditorium and la
date will be'Sfet within the com­ing
week, it was indicated.
Take Action
To Widen
Stream Here
Tax Collector Granted 643
Exonerations Including
Service Men And Wives
Brushing aside technlcalittes
which have delayed action to r
months, members of borough
council Tuesday evening decided
to go ahead as soon as possilblle
and to clean and deepen thie
stream through town.
Agitaton to increase the size o f
the stream and to straighten ouit
curves arose last summer after
nearby homes had ¡been flooded
following rains.
¡Council also announced th a t
grades will be obtained prepara­tory
to laying a permanent surface
along Noble Street where four nenw
homes aTe being built this yea'r.
A survey will be made this weeik
¡by (Paul F. Diehm.
Raymond Redy, tax oollectoxr,
was granted exonerations on 4811
service men and their wives, and
the Lititz Recreation Center.
Fresh Air Children
Committee Named
Fresh air children will arrivre
in Lititz for their annual vacations
on July 16 and it is hoped th a t
many homes here will be opened
to them, it was announced thiis
week with the completion of thie
local committee.
The local committee again iis
headed by Louis Huebener, whio
will be serving his sixteenth yeatr
in that capacity. Other members
of committee are Alfred L. Doup-le,
first vice chairman; Melvin
Huber! of Nesville, second victe
chairman; Miss Mae Brenneir,
Mrs. Walter Demmy; Mary New­comer,
Elm; Norman Badorf, W.
U. Trefethren, John Biemesderfer,
Penryn; Chester Reitz, of Mill­way;
F. W. Bowman, Rothsvlle;
William Young and John Keehn.
BICKEL RECEIVES CHARGE
George Bickel, Jr., of this bor­ough,
who is a student at Leban­on
Valley College, has been ap­pointed
to a student charge of
Evangelical Congregational chur­ches
at Robesonia and Neumans-town.
Leaves $500,
Antiques To
Mor’van Home
Will Of Late Florence Sel-donridge
Is Filed At
Court House
Five hundred dollars will go to
the Moravian Home for the Aged,
from the $12,500 estate of Flor­ence
G. Seldomridge, late of this
borough, who died April 19, ac­cording
to her will, filed for pro­bate
In the Court House Mon­day.
The cash balance, after the pay­ment
of several other bequests,
will go to Clarence G. Brubaker,
this borough, one of the executors
of the will.
The will also leaves two dwell­ings
at 226-228 S. Broad St., to
Mr. Brubaker until his death, then
they are to be sold and the pro­ceeds
divided equally among the
Moravian Church here, the Mis­sionary
Fund of the local Mora­vian
Sunday School, and the Ross-mere
Tuberculosis Sanitorium.
Included in the bequests made
in the will is a grandfather Gray-bill
clock to the Moravian Home
in memory of A. Clara Graybill
Seldomridge, the decedent’s moth­er.
Several antique pieces of
jewelry she left to cousins and
friends. The Farmers National
Bank of Lititz as executors, was
made July 14, 1941.
Bird Club To
Install Officers
New officers of the Lititz Bird
Club will be installed at a meet­ing
to be held in the Nature Den
at the Recreation Center on Mon­day
evening at seven o’clock. Miss
Anna K. Miller will have charge
of ithe installation. Plans also will
be completed for the annual War­bler
walk to be held Sunday, May
12.
¡Recently elected officers are
George Pennypacker, re-elected
president; William Light, vice
president; Charles Regennas, Jr.,
recording secretary; Mrs. George
Pennypacker, corresponding sec­retary;
and J. Wilbur Kready,
treasurer. Directors: Ford Goch-enauer,
B. L. Sharp, Menno Roh-rer
and Ed Bear.
Turkey Dinner
Marks Anniversaries
A turkey dinner Sunday mark­ed
the thirty-first wedding an­niversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Fenstermacher, 357 East Main
Street. The occasion also was the
fifty-second birthday of Mrs. Fen­stermacher.
Guests included Miss Anna
Fenstermacher, Elmer Fenster­macher,
this borough; Miss Arlene
Klopp, Robesonia R. D. 1; Miss
Mary Peachey, Ephrata; Christ
Fenstermacher, Akron; Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Lehn, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Rynier and son, Ken­neth
Lee, this borough.
¡Many cards and presents were
received by Mr. and Mrs. Fenster­macher.
FIRE DRILL
The first Spring drill for fire­men
will be held Tuesday even­ing
at 6:30 p. m. Fire Chief Ray­mond
Runk announced this week.
All firemen are urged to attend.
A meeting of the festival and
chicken committees will be held
at 8:30 p. m. the same evening.
Engage Engineer To Pro
vide Information Needed
For Future Action
Members of Borough Council
are going to look into the matter
of installing a borough water-softenjing
system.
Briefly discussing the matter
Tuesday evening during which
several members of the group ex­pressed
their skepticism over the
project, council decided to ask
Frederick H. Dechan, of Phila­delphia,
engineer who supervised
local water plant improvements
several years ago, to come here
and present any data he may have
upon the subject. j
Dlechan will not appear at a !
public meeting of council, how­ever,
¡but will present his data to
them at a private committee
meeting, according to the council-manic
action. The matter then
will be discussed publicly at the
May meeting of council, Tuesday
evening, May 28.
The matter was introduced at a
meeting of council by President
of Oounci Harry R. Way who de­clared
that “this matter of bor­ough
water-softening has gone far
enough before any word comes
from council. When people in
town are sending in donations to
The Record-Express, it is time we
take some action,” he added. ,
‘‘If there are reasons why the
borough cannot economically sof­ten
the water, or if it can be
done - those are the questions we
want answered toy a competent
engineer,” Mr. Way continued.
“The statement that this would
not change the taste of the water
does not sound reasonable and
that is just another question we
want answered.”
- “A few years .ago Dachau claim*
ed it would cost $15,000 to operate
a watet^sofitner,” Councilman
Tom Steffy then declared.
“If we spend $15,000 to save
$30,000 it’s still good business,”
Councilman Frank Ditier answer­ed.
i
The series of articles which ap­peared
in The Record-Express
(continued on page 8)
Dr. J. W. Grosh
Addresses Delphians
The manner in which the Army
Medical Corps kept casualties at
a minimum on the German front
during the historic battle of the
bulge was described to members
of the Delphian Society Thursday
evening in an address by Dr. Jo­seph
W. Grosh, who served with
distinction as a captain during
the war.
Dr. Grosh also exhibited his
field equipment containing blood
plasma and sulpha drugs, the use
of which were accredited with
having saved many American
lives. The meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. Carl Workman.
The Delphian 'Society will meet
this evening at the home of Mrs.
Henry Gibbel when a musical pro­gram
will be presented by Miss
Myr/lle Eckert, music instructor
at Linden Hall.
ENJOY SKATING PARTY
Approximately fifty pupils of
the eighth grades held a skating
party on Tuesday evening at
Maple Grove. Mr. Roehm, Mr.
Cadman, Mr. Buzzeli and a num­ber
of parents accompanied the
group.
RECOVERING FROM INJURY
'Sherman Coates, architect at
the Wilbur Suchard Chocolate Co.,
is recovering from a bad fracture
of his arm. The fracture was
sustained when he fell against a
post while at work two weeks
ago.
TO ENTERTAIN SCOUTS
Troop 15 Girl Soouts will enter­tain
the Boy Scouts of Troop 42
on Tuesday evening, May 7, be-ginnng
at 5:30 p. m.
Babies Still Suffer from War Horror
AFTER IMMEDIATE ATTENTION for the sick and starving, a
planned feeding scheme for children and vaccination and inoculation
campaigns, in which 100,000 men and women of all races and colors
have already been treated, were launched by the British in Singa­pore.
They returned to their great Far Eastern naval station last
September, but years of work, including door-to-door searches for
disease, still face them before they can restore the health services
completely destroyed by the Japs. Pictured here is a mother holding her
baby while it is examined by Dr. Mary Tan. Meagre food had covered
the child’s body with sores and prevented its normal progress.
Lutheran
Father, Son
Banquet Tues.
Reah Reynolds To Address
Group; Women Of
Church To Serve
The annual Father and Son
banquet of St. Paul’s Lutheran
congregation will be held at 6:30
next Tuesday evening, May 7, in
the social room of the church. T^e
speaker will be Reah Reynolds,
of the Coatesville Y. M. C. A.,
a friend of Rev. Charles F. Trunk,
pastor.
¡Women of the church will pre­pare
the dinner and there will be
group singing.
All men and boys of the con­gregation
are invited to attend
and a special invitation has been
extended to St. Paul’s former
servicemen by Robert J. Hanna,
president of the Ushers Associa­tion,
which is sponsoring the ban­quet.
PUBLIC LIBRARY MEETING
The annual meeting of the Pub­lic
Library Association will be
held ait the library on Tuesday
evening at 7:15 p. m. Officers and
directors will be elected for the
year and the annual report of
activities will be read. The public
is invited to attend.
MARVIN KEITH DISCHARGED
Sl/c Mervin H. Keith, who was
in the service 27 months and last
stationed aboard the U. S. S. Ti-conderoga,
has received his hon­orable
discharge at Bainbridge
and has returned to his home here.
Businessmen
To Meet At
Animal Trap
Moving Picture Program
And Tour Of Plant Plan-
For C. Of C.
A special meeting in the form
of a visit to the plant of the Ani­mal
Trap Co. has been arranged
for next Tuesday, May 7, by the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce. ,
Members of the Chamber will
meet at the cafeteria of the plant
at 8 where a short business meet­ing
will ibe held. Following that,
moving pictures will be shown
and then the group will be taken
on a tour of the parts of the plant
in operation, returning to the
cafeteria for a lunch. Tobias Er-line
has arranged the meeting.
According to Paul F. Diehm,
president of the Chamber, this
meeting will take the place off the
April and May meetings, and will
be the first of a series featuring
visits to local industries.
Return post cards have been
sent to all members of the Cham­ber
so that the number planning
to attend can be learned. It is
important that these be return­ed
at once to the secretary, E. D.
Fulweiler.
TO GIVE COMIC OPERA
TONIGHT AND FRIDAY
Final rehearsals were completed
this morning for H. M. S. Pina­fore,
the comic opera, to be pres­ented
by members of the High
School Glee Club, directed by Jo­seph
Sheckard tonight and Friday
evenings. While ticket sales have
been brisk tickets are still avail­able
at the high school.
Local Brethren Start
Food For Relief Garden
Realizing the great need for
food in Europe and other parts of
the world, the Church of the
Brethren will raise food for re­lief
this summer. J, Madison
Dietrich has already planted an
acre of sweet corn which he has
given to this project. When the
corn ripens it will be sold in and
around Lititz, thus making it pos­sible
for people to feed themsel­ves
and also to help feed starving
people in Europe at the same
time.
Also, there is a three (3) acre
plot of ground right beyond Third
Avenue on Mark Keller’s farm
which has been given as a garden
for Food For Relief. This ground
has already been plowed by Har­old
Hollinger; it will be disced by
Samuel Becker, and scored out by
Paul Shelly. Part of this three
acre plot will be planted in beans
which will be canned by the Wo­men’s
Wbrk Organization and
sent directly to Europe. Anoth­er
part of the garden will be
planted in late sweet corn, how­ever,
the bulk of the garden will
be planted in tomatoes which will
be sold and the money sent di­rectly
to Europe for relief.
Dr. Franklin Cassel is the chair­man
of the Relief Garden Com­mittee;
other members of the
committee are, ¡Samuel Ziegler,
representing the Crusaders Class;
Willis Hackman, representing the
Alexander Mack Sr. Class; Mrs.
Clifford Smith, from the Women’s
Work; and Roy Hollinger, from
the Young People.
State Opposes-1
Traffic Light
Applications
Inform Borough 1,000 Ve'
hides Must Pass Per
Hr. Before Permit Will
Be Granted
-Prospects of erecting traffic
lights at three local intersections
practically evaporated into thin
air Tuesday night following a con­ference
of borough and state
highway officials.
“The 'State Highway Depart­ment
will not issue permits for
traffic lights merely to slow down
traffic,” H. C. Gafvert, district
suprintendent of the State High­way
Department Traffic Bureau,
informed members of borough
council.
He then explained that traffic
lights are permitteed only where
at least 1,000 vehicles pass per
hour, more than 300 pedestrians or
where there is an unusual traffic
hazard. This traffic check is made
on a week day and not over week­ends
when traffic is regularly
heavier, he added.
Burgess Victor Wagner then
revealed that a recent traffic
check-up made by himself and and
¡borough police on a Saturday
night revealed an average of 125
vehicles passing the intersection
of Main and Cedar Streets in each
15-minute period.
¡When Mr. Gafvert explained
that everything, including the
police accident records for these
three intersections before an ap­plication
for traffic lights is turn­ed
down, members of borough
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High School Band
Plays For Rotary
The Lititz Hi^h School Band
must have been up against some
mighty tough competition not to
have been crowned state champion
at the competition held in Johns­town
last Saturday.
'This was the ¡unanimous tri­bute
paid the local high school
musicians Tuesday evening by
members of the local Rotary Club.
Meeting at the high school the
Rotary members were presented by
director Steiner with a repeat per­formance
of the pieces played at
Johnstown.
Although playing under diffi­culties
inasmuch as some of the
band could not be placed on the
platform due to the scenery, Mr.
Steiner duly impressed his aud­ience
with the ability of the band.
At the state finals at Johnstown
the local band placed fourth.
Members of the cast of the H.
M. S. Pinafore, comic operetta
being presented by the High
School Glee Club Thursday and
Friday evenings, also sang sever­al
numbers for the benefit of the
club. On a tour of the library
they were given a short talk by
Miss (Lois Dissinger.
¡Dinner was served the Rotar-ians
by the Home Economics De­partment
and featured roast chic­ken.
During the dinner, Beatrice
Pennypacker and Reba Hammond
presented a short skit explaining
the work of the department.
Dr. Stengel, Bassett
Assist In Organizing
Temporary College
Dr. F. W. Stenigel and Dean T.
Robert Bassett of Linden Hall at­tended
the meeting at Indiantown
Gap held on Friday by the edu­cators
of the State to consider the
possibilities’ of establishing a
temporary college at that place
for the overflow of 25,000 stu­dents
who have applied and can­not
be accommodated in schools
of higher education.
The meeting was called by
Governor Martin and attended by
approximately 150 educators, the
heads of institutions, and was
presided over by Dr. Theodore
Distler, president of Franklin &
Marshall College, Lancaster.
The group recommended that a
college be established fop three
years uness the ¡same group de­cided
it shoud be discontinued.
TO ADDRESS
CONFERENCE
Charles C. Straley, vice presi­dent
and treasurer of the Animal
Trap Company of America, who
will be one of the speakers at an
all-day conference of the Lancas­ter1
Chapter of the Society for the
Advancement of Management, to
be held in Lancaster tomorrow.
Mr. Straley will discuss the sub­ject
lof “How Small Business Can
Compete with Large Business.”
The conference will be held at the
Brunswick Hotel. Lester K. Wal­ters,
this ¡borough, is president of
the chapter.
Osteopathic
Drive Quota
$6,000 Here
David L. Wright And Dr.
I. Siegel Campagain
Heads In Boro
(The Lititz share of the $300,-
000 Lancaster Osteopathic Hospi­tal
Building Fund will be $6,000
as announced by David L. Wright
and Dr. I. Siegel who are heading
the campaign in our boro. The
goal for Area 2 in w-hich Lititz
belongs and which is under the
supervision of J. C. Brubaker as
chairman, is $14,75i).
Chairman Brubaker states that
all expectatons at the beginning
as to the number of workers who
would be organized in this cam­paign
throughout the county have
been exceeded and that the prob­abilities
are that the total num­ber
of citizens who have volun­teered
to help raise this fund will
run well over 400 instead of the
maximum of 250 as originally
cant emulated.1 Included in the
Lititz organization with Mr.
Wlright and Dr. Siegel are: Guy
L. Calvert, Carl V. Foltz, William
B. Fry, Mrs. David Jones, Mrs.
Samuel A. Krane, James Kready,
Clarence R. Landis, C. H. Nissley,
George Pennypacker, Russel Peif-fer,
Floyd Ritz, Fred Ruebman,
Hg)rry F. Ruley, Harry Schwartz,
Robert R Weaver, Mrs. Margaret
Weidman, Charles Reidenbach,
Harry Showers, Mrs. Mary Todd.
The opening gun of the cam­paign
will be a dinner to all work­ers
Thursday, May 2, 6:00 p. m.
at the Brunswick Hotel. The en-tre
Lititz organization is expected
to ¡be present. ,
MOTHER-DAUGHTER DINNEfR
AT TRINITY CHURCH MAY 9
The Mother-Daughter banquet
for the wom^p and girls of Trin­ity
E. C. church will be held on
Thursday, May 9.
The dinner will be provided and
served by the men of the church
and also will have charge of the
program following the banquet.
E. S. Dechert and Rev. George
Oarvell have promised some in­teresting
entertainment for the
ladies.
NEIGHBORHOOD QROUP
TO PLAN PLAY DAYS
The Rolling Hills Neighborhood
Group will meet at 8 p. m. on
Friday evening in Fellowship Hall.
Plans will be made for the sum­mer
play days for the Girl Scout
troops of Hbpeland, Rothsville,
Brickerville and Lititz.
All leaders, assistant leaders
and troop committee members are
urged to attend.
War Relics
To Be Shown
Here On ‘4th9
High School Band And
Community Band To
Present Concerts
An exhibition of war relics
brought home from war fronts in
all parts of the world by local
servicement and women will be
one of the new attractions to be
presented at the annual Fourth of
July Celebration, according to ac­tion
taken at a park committee
meeting Monday evening.
The exhibition will be placed in
the Round House at the park and
is expected to include more than
a thousand relics of all descrip­tions.
Th Crowning of the Queen of
the Candles and the candle-light­ing
pageant which has been con­ducted
annually for more than a
Century, will again prove the main
attraction of the affair which re­gularly
attracts thousands of per­sons
from all parts of Eastern
Pennsylvania.
The Queen and her court will be
selected by local high school stu­dents.
The spectacle should prove
more impressive than ever before
inasmuch as several new candle
arrangements will be installed and
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BILL MIKSCH PROMOTED
TO RANK OF LIEUTENANT
Bill Miksch, of this borough,
has just been promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant (jg), according
to word received here. Lieut.
Miksch recently was stationed ait
Yokosuka, Japan, where he had
an excellent opportunity to view
damage created by the war and to
become acquainted with the Jap-anse
living conditions. His ship,
the U. S. S. Leo, is now tied up at
a pier at Okinawa, Shima.
Rag Collection
On Saturday May 11
An appeal to local housewives
to save all rags and burlap was
made this week by local Girl Scout
leaders who announced a rag col­lection
will be made throughout
the borough on Saturday, May 11.
The collection which is the first
in more than a year will start at
1 p. m. Persons with rags to do­nate
are asked to place them in
containers at the curb in order
that they can be picked up by
trucks. Articles desired and need
ed vitally in the present re-conver­sion
period are rags of all kinds,
burlap bags, rugs and felt hats.
’Mid The Turmoil
As scarce as automobile tires
are, several castoffs were pulled
out of the stream running thru
¡the park yesterday afternoon
when workmen completed the job
of cleaning done annually. The
haul also included a grand assort­ment
of tin cans, parts of broken
furniture, etc.
* » *
Life does have its dark mom­ents,
little Carol Rohrer, three-year-
old daughter of former Bur­gess
and Mrs. Menno Rohrer is
convinced. Her parents have
been trying to buy a tricycle for
Carol for months. Recently Men­no
learned he could purchase a
tricycle at Macy’s in New York
and sent his check. Two big car­tons
arrived and after hours of
work, Menno had assembled the
tricycle - but found it was missing
an axle. He sent off another let­ter
and received another Targe
carton - but no axle. He wrote
again and this time received the
axle. He completed the job Tues­day
and then the first time Carol
took it out she left it in the drive­way
- and a neighbor’s car ran in­to
it, breaking the rear axle.
• * *
There’s just no late sleeping for
the John Hershey’s or the Doctor
MdMullin’s these days. For every
morning at daiwn, a flock of flick­ers
(woodipeckeiis to you) start
pecking away ait the roofs, spout­ing
and woodwork off their Third
Avenue homes.