Lititz Record Express

              Commuity Supper
A t The ‘Center’
Saturday, Nov. 23rd.
Honor This Pin
Voi. LX VII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., November 21, 1946 No. 51
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Annual Xmas
Party To Be
Held Dec. 21
Lions Club To Sponsor
Community Affair In High
School Gym
A Community Christmas party,
similar to those held durM>r lie
war, will be sponsored thi- mm'-
by members of the Lititz Lions
Club, according’ to action Liki n
at a director’s meeting Monday
evening.
The Christmas party »ill be
held in the High School Gv:nni‘>-
ium on Saturday evening, Di'tin-ber
21, and will feature a poirrain
o fentertainment, music, carol
singing, dancing and refreshment-'.
The program is being planned
by a committee headed by Hum
Way and Dave Wright and will
feature a well-known band.
“During the war many service
men read about the annual Christ­mas
party but tew had the opport­unity
to attend,” Mr. Wright ex­plained.
“This year most of them
are again civilians and will be able
to enjoy the program as well as
the rest of the community. The
club is sponsoring this affair in
appreciation of the support Lititz
has gven it in the past and not
as a money-raising affair. Admis­sion
will be charged but only to
cover the actual expenses.”
Rev. Jacob Dick, pastor of the
Church of the Brethren, will ad­dress
members of the Lions Club
at their annual Thanksgiving
meeting at the General Sutter
Hotel this evening.
Ask Boro For
Better Lights
At Crossings
Chamber Of Commerce
Also Criticizes Condition
Of Rothsville Road
Make Plans
For District
Scout Rally
To Be Held In Ephrataa
High School On
Dec. 4
VOUNG MISS GREECE—and her sister, too—eagerly watch grand-
Kakavias of Corinth open a Greek War Relief Association
i 35 . . *p°d. parcel. Any American, like the generous person who helped
me Kakavias, wanting to supply food to starving Greece merely sends
W2JS to the Association in New York City and that night his order is
telegraphed overseas. In a few days a hungry Greek family is eating
nutritious, staple foods. In addition to the parcel service, GWRA launches
this winter a $12,000,000 fund-raising campaign to build 40 health centers;
« u * yw feet) 375,000 war orphans; and to supply a warm, noonday
to almost 2 million hungry school children,
Will Collect
Old Glass in
Scout Drive
Legion Drive
For Members
In Full Swing
Solicitors Begin Collections May Treble Membership;
Here For Girl Scout j Donald Derby Chairman
Camp Fund | Of Campaign
The third annual Cloister Dist­rict
Rally will be held in the Eph-rata
High School auditorium on
Wednesday, December 4th at 8 p.
m. This is another district event
which is being resumed after hav- I
ing been discontinued during the
war years due to the transporta- ;
tion difficulty. j
Final arrangements for the rally
were made at the scoutmasters ,
round table session which was |
held in the Recreation Center last j
Thursday evening. The rally was j
suggested at the District Commit­tee
meeting in September at which .
time ■ the commissioners were ap- j
pointed to make plans for the
event with the scoutmasters. I t '
was decided to hold the rally In j
Ephrata this year due to the cen­tral
location. In successive years
the rally will be held in other large
towns in the district which Includ­es
Hbpeland, Brickerville, Brun-nerville,
Lititz, Rothsville, Upper
Leacock, Ephrata, Reamstown,
Terne Hill, New Holland and
Adamstown.
Prior to the opening ceremony,
craftwork and hobbies will be
displayed by the troops. The e x ­hibit
will open at 7:30.
The opening ceremonies will be­gin
at 8 p. m. followed by Scout
songs led by Eagle Scout Elliot
Krane. Stuntts by the troops will
include: Cooking, Lashing, Track­ing
and Trail Signs, Semaphore
Signaling (Lititz 42), Knife and
Axe (Lititz 43), Rope-work
(Lititz 44), Scout Games, First
Aid, War Service, Safety, Scout
Tests, Dramatization of the Scout
Oath and Law, and a Campfire
Stunt.
(continued on page 10)
Girl Scouts of Lititz will under­take
a new project, glass colection,
during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Glass containers, whole or brok­en
and any color with the excep­tion
of emerald and blue glass will
be acceptable. Lids, stoppers and
labels should be removed and the
glass placed in carton on the curb.
A higher price will be realized by
the girls if the clear glass is kept
separate from the coored glass. ,
Used glass has become of un­usual
value as the result of the
shortage of certain materials, such
as soda ash, used in the manufac­ture
of new glass containers. This
used1 glass will be crushed at the
factory and become a part of a
batch that is mielted to make new
bottles and jars. Only with this
help will it be possible to avoid
further shortages of food's,n medi­cinéis,
beverages, cosmetics and
other products normally packed in
glass.
Glass -will ib*e collected by the-
Scouts on Friday, November 29
and' the entire proceeds of the
collection will be contributed to
the Girl Scout Camp Fund now
being raised.
Solicitors for Lititz have started
on he drive to raise $3,000 in this
vicinity. War bondá amounting to
$150 have already been contributed
by troops 15 and 122, Mrs. Willy
dePerrot and1 Mrs. Amos R. Miller,
troop leaders. These bonds were
purchased with money earned
through the collection of waste
fats.
The Legion membershiup drive
is going over very successfully
and at the present time it looks
as though the Post can triple its
membership by the December meet­ing
or not later than the first of
the year.
Donald Derby, chairma nof the
membership committee has mapped
out the entire town for Legion-aires
to convas prospective mem­bers,
which is working out suc­cessfully.
Read the ad on page 3
of this issue and' see what it means
to belong to the American Legion.,
These men are taking part in
the membership drive:
Donald Derby-^South side of
2nd Ave.; west side of Cedar to
Boro Limits.
Elton Rieed—East side of Li­berty;
south side of Market; west
side of Apple; north side of Cedar.
Meftiin (Jberlin—(Bast side of
Cedar; south side of New; west
side of Water; north side of Front.
Woodrow Neddermyer —- East
side of Water; north side of New;
west side of Locust north of rail­road.
Quay Enck and Leo Rossi —
East side of Water; east side of
Cedar; everything to Boro Limits.
Earl Dissinger — East side of
Broad; south side of Main; north
side of Orange east to Moravian
church.
Mahlon Young—North of rail­road;
w e s t side of Broad to B oto
Limits.
(Continued on Page 6)
The recommendation that the
borough should invetigate placing
brighter street lights at import­ant
and dangerous intersections
was made at a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce last even­ing.
Intersections regarded as dang­erous
for pedestrians include
those along Broad Street and
Main where the state recently
prohibited the placing of traffic
lights. The latest accident at any
of these intersections occurred last
Friday night when Councilman
Christ Nissley was struck by an
auomobile while walking across
Broad Street at Orange, and slight­ly
injured.
The local Chamber of Commerce
alo criticized the condition of the
Rohsville Road between this bor­ough
and Rothsville and plans were
made to take this matter up with
Warwick Township Supervisors
immediately.
Plans for the Chrismas decora­tions
were completed with the
announcement that seven new star
forms will be placed on Main
Street between Cedar Street and
Linden Hall. The square decora­tions
will feature a huge tree at
the fountain as well as a beautiful
display to be erected by the Lititz
Mutual Insurance Company on the
lawn of its office building oppo­site.
A total of 15 names were sub­mitted
by a nominating commit­tee
as candidates for the nine
positions on the board of direct­ors.
They are Paul Diehm, Abe
Beck, Raymond Reedy, Elmer
Bomberger, Tobe Ehline, William
(Continued tm Page 7)
Special Church Services
Will Mark Thanksgiving
Holiday Here Thursday
Community
j Thanksgiving
Supper Sat.
Wright Urges Public To
Attend Affair In
Recr. Center
Carol Sue Tarbox, V/2, of Fairlawn, N. J., makes lots of laundry for
her mother, but consistent fat salvage helps Mrs. Tarbox buy enough
soap to keep her baby, house and d is h e s clean. The Department of
Agriculture points out that if it w e r e n 't for fat salvage in 1945, every
household would have had one s o a r ' ?3 '- lo n t h , or food fats would
have had to be diverted into inuus;, c.—insls. For more soap in
1946—salvage more fat.
Plan Early
Thanksgiving -
Service Here
Church Family Breakfast
To Feature Program At
St. Paul’s
AUX. COMMITTEE TO MEET
The December committee for
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fire
Company will hold a meeting on
Monc|ay evening at seven-thirty
at the Fire Hhouse. Mrs. Harry
Smith is chalrlady.
Special Thanksgiving Market
Wednesday 2 to 9 P. M.
Lutz Market
Basketball Season Here
Looks Very Promising
A special Thanksgiving service
will be held next Thursday morn­ing
at 8 in St. Paul’s Lutheran
church and will be followed by a
church family breakfast in the
social rooms.
The Thanksgiving morning ser­vice,
instituted several years ago
by Rev. Charles F. Trunk, the pas­tor,
has grown in appeal and an
even larger attendance than at
last year’s service is expected'.
Dorcas Class
The Dorcas Class met ‘Tuesday
night and a paper products de­monstration
was held.
Near Quota
Since May St. Paul’s has con­tributed
$3585.88 to Lutheran
World Action and it is hoped' to
complete the two year quota of
$4388 by the end of the year.
Choirs To Sing
The Junior and Young Peoples’
Choirs will sing at the services on
Sunday, he former at the morn­ing
service and the latter at Ves­pers.
By The Sports Editor
With another football season
rolled off and onto the record books
Littz High athletes are now turn­ing
their thoughts to the court
game as Head Coach Earl Reist
is preparing his 1946 model Lititz
High basketball team for their de­but
a few short days hence.
With the introduction of Reist
as headl coach, succeeding easy
going Gene Deckert, whose name
is synonomuos with winning clubs,
local hoop fans will probably see
a drastic change in thestyle of
play employed by the Pretzel lads
this coning season.
Reist steps into a position sim­ilar
to that Larry Umstead en­countered
when he took the reins
of the football team, in that the
Pretzels with wealth of material
last season rambled to the Section
B Championship and also the coun­ty
title. Afer vanquishing West
York in a PIAA playoff game, the
Dieekertmen werfs eliminated by
Chambersburg on the York court.
Wih three of the first ten re­presenting
varsity holdovers Reist
will probably build' his club
around Joe Bender and Jackson
Waltz, two stellar guards, and
Bob Bushong, a likely center, who
at the present is injured. Press-
! ing hard for first sring berths will
! be Wilbur “Legs” Neff, Larry
¡Pierson, Henry Hershey, Dick
j Gorton and1 Stan Schoeneberger.
(Continued on Page 6)
Dr. Herbert Beck
Will Speak Here
A,n interesting discussion of
bird life along the Suwanee was
presented' ihy Allan D. Cruick-shank,
noted ornithologist, at a
public meeting in Fellowship Hall
Tuesday .evening, sponsored by the
Liitz Bird Club. He was introduc­ed
by George Pennypacker, presi­dent.
Dr. Herbert H. Beck will deliver
his talk on “Birds of the Cones­toga,”
at a meeting of the club in
the Nature 'Den on Tuesday, Dec.
3, at which the puiblc is invited to
attend. Ths is one of Dr. Beck’s
most famous lectures but one he
has never'delivered here. ‘
Mrs. Phillips
Addresses
Meeting Here
Delivers Instructive Talk
On Child Welfare;
300 Attend
During the war we taught 15
million youngsters to kill - now
we must teach 30 million the skills
of living, Mrs. Dorothy Waldo
Phillips, noted youth counselor,
declared a t a community meeting
held in the high school auditorium
Monday evening under thesponsor-ship
of the Lititz Woman’s Club.
“Wemust keep the good kids
good and give the child ■ more
chance for confession and less
chance for confusion,” she declar­ed
in one part of her lecture.
“Bring yourself down to the same
age bracket as the child in helping
to solve their problems.”
Mrs. Phillips also emphasized
the need for “good teachers” and
declared that “you don’t get good
teachers unless they are well
paid.” She also asked parents if
they are “satisfied with the faculty-in
the home?”
Approximately 309 attended the
meeting. Mrs. Phillips was intro­duced
by Mrs. Ellsworth McMul­len,
president of the club. Hos­tesses
were Mrs. Floyd Mott and
Mrs. Theodore .Schmidt. Mrs.
Landis Herr read the collect. Girl
Scouts ushered.
The club chorus directed by Mrs.
Edwin Kortz sang several num­bers.
Symphony Director
Addresses Rotarians
America spends 250 million dol­lars
a year in juke boxes as a
small part of what is spent an­nually
for music, George K. Raud-enbush,
director of the Harrisburg
Symphony Orchestra, informed
members of the Lititz Rotary
Club Tuesday .evening. Approxi­mately
$40,000,000 i sspent week­ly
for musical instruments alone,
he asserted1.
“Music has become the second
larges industry of America even
though the writers of the finest
music scarcely make a living
from their compositions,” he ad­ded.
He was introduced by Harry
Neidermyer, local musician, who
plays with the Harrisburg Sym­phony.
Three County
IOOF Rally
Here Saturday
General Sutter Encamp­ment
Will Entertain Pat­riarchs
Of Penna.
Odd Fellows from three counties
will gather here Saturday after­noon
and evening when the Gener­al
Sutter Encampment, of this
borough, will entertain the Grand
Encampment Officers of Pennsyl­vania
at a rally and banquet.
At 2 p. m. there will be a class
iiiitation to be conferred by the
Waishingtn Eocnampment of El­izabethtown,
who will bring their
full lline of equipment and candi­dates
to witness the Patriarchal
Degree. The General Suttter En­campment
will confer the Golden
Rule Degree o conclude the after­noon
session.
Dinne will be served at 5:30 p.
m. and will be followed at 7:30
p. m. with the Royal Purple De­gree
by the local encampment.
Following this visiting Patriarchs
will address the group.
A nold-fashioned community sing
will be one of the features of the
Community Thanksgiving Supper
and -Social to be held in the Re-
I creation Center this Saturday at
| 5 p. m. at the first community-wide
project to be sponsored by the
I new co-ordinating council.
David Wright, the head of the
Co-ordinating Council which is in
charge of the social, asks that
everyone interested in Ithe Com­munity
try to attend. All local
organizations have been asked to
take part in helping to make this
Covered Dish Social a ¡success.
Decorations are in charge of
the Woman’s Club, Hostesses will
be members of the Kings Daugh­ters
Circles, VW Auxiliary, Fire
Company Auxiliary members will
make and' serve coffee, and the
4U girls will be Junior Hostesses
Members of the Farm Womens’
Club will assist and the entire
community is invited. The com­mittee
asks that those attending
this social remember to bring their
own plate and utensils, the cups for
coffee will be provided.
The planning committee for the
Covered Dish Supper who worked
with Mrs. Paul Bachman consists
of Mrs. Joseph Herr, Mrs. Emmy
Hartenstine, Mrs. John Hershey
and Mrs. Samuel Krane.
DRIVER IS ARRESTED
FOLLOWING CRASH
Charges of driving too fast for
conditions were preferred against
Donald Hackman, of Ephrata, fol­lowing
an accident last Friday
night in which a car he was driv­ing
crashed ino the rear of the
automobile of Ftrjamk Jacobs, of
Lancaster. The accident occurred
on Lncoln Avenue shortly after
10 p. m. Hackman will be ar­raigned
before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm.
Dr. Raymond S. Haupert
Will Speak Before
Moravian Church
The speaker at the Moravian
church on Sunday morning at
10:30 a. m. will be Dr. Raymond
S. Haupert of Bethlehem. Dr.
Haupert is the president of Mor­avian
College and Theological
Seiminary and comes to Lititz for
a service marking. College Prayer
day.
This is Dr. Haupert’s second
visit to Lititz since he was ap­pointed
to the presidency of the
college, having been the speaker
at the Church Workers banquet a
number of years algo. He received
his Ph.D. at the University of
Pennsylvania atter studying in
Palestine and then became a mem­ber
of the faculty of tlhe college
prior to his executive appoint­ment.
The public is cordially in­vited
to the service.
REPORTED IMPROVED
James H. Breitigan, who suffer­ed
a heart attack at his home on
Wednesday evening of Hast week,
was reported much improved to­day.
•
Twelve Former Pastors
Now Living Here
SPECIAL TONIGHT
The Youth Temperance Council
of Lititz will hold a covered dish
socail in the Evangelical U. B.
church (formerly United Brethren)
on North Cedar Street this even­ing
(Thursday) at 7:30 p. m.
Every one is welcome.
It’s no wonder if Lititz folks
are well behaved.
According to a concensus made
here this week, Lititz is the home
of a total%)f twelve retired minis­ters
of vairous congregations or
pastors who are on leaves of ab­sence
due to health.
The last of these to return to
Lititz to regain his health is Dr.
L. Clarence Hunt, of Boyertown,
former pastor of the Trinity Evan­gelical
Congregational church, who
is convalescing at the home of
Mrs. J. L. Hertz on East Main
Street. Dr. Hunt was ill ten weeks
in the Reading hospital.
Another former pastor who re­turned'
to Lititz ¡because of his
love for this community is Dr.
Ernest S. Hagen, who has been
living at the General Sutter Hotel
for many months. Although con-fined
to his room, Dr. Hagen daily
receives a large number of visi­tors
and has kept in touch with
local affairs.
The list of etired pastors living
here include the following: Rev.
George Raezer, former pastor of
the Evangelical-Reformed con­gregation;
Rev. F. A. Weiksel,
who retired following half a cen­tury
in the Lutheran miniistry;
Rev. O. O. Leidich. former Luther­an
pastor; Rev. J. C. H. Light,
former United Brethren pasttor;
Rev. Harvey Ebenly, Brethren;
Rev. Claude Heim, now on a
year’s leave from the Evangelical
church; Rev. George Clark, Luth­eran;
Rev. Jacob Hershey, Men-nonite;
Rev. John Havener, Breth­ren;
and Riev. Louis Huebener,
who gave up preaching some years
ago.
Turkeys Plentiful But An­nual
Dinners Will Cost
10 More
Lititz was looking forward to its
happiest Thanksgiving Day ob-s-
r-rvance in several years.
For many families here, it will
be the first Thanksgiving at which
all members will be able to gather
about the festive board. While
the war already had ended last
year, many local service men had
not yet been returned home.
While prices were a bit higher,
they did not appear out of reach
and local grocers were contemp­lating
a busy Thanksgiving week.
The cost of the annual turkey fest
in Lititz was ¡estimated by local
grocers to cost from five to ten
per-eent higher than last year.
Sugar was the only scarce item
cutting into the menu and baking
products will be limited. Turkeys
were plentiful at around 70 cents
a pound and with .plenty of chick­ens
loading down local store
counters.
¡Morning church services will
be the center of interest here with
practically all local ^churches plan­ning
special programs and choirs
rehearsing special Thanksgiving
music.
At the Moravian church service
at 9:30 a. m. the annual collection
of canned goods, foodstuff and
farm produce to be donated to the
Moravian Home, will be taken.
Special music by the choir and the
sermon by the pastor will be in­cluded
in the program.
The Trinity Evangelical Con­gregational
church service also
will be held at 9:30 a. m. and will
feature special music while mem­bers
of St. Paul’s Lutheran church
will meet earlier and will feature
a church breakfast.
Many Attend Game
To See Ray Kreider
Ray Kreider proved a big draw­ing
card for local football fans
Saurday when more than a hund­red
residents of town motored to
Reading to witness the Albright-
Gettysburg game. Kreider played
an important role in the game,
tossing two touchdown passes.
A number of local fans also went
to Philadelphia Saturday although
some failed1 to gain entrance to
Franklin Field where Army de­feated
Penn. Bobby Bushong and
Eugene Hamaker, two high school
varsity players, left Lititz at 5-
a. m. in order to reach the field
early but still failed to obtain
tickets for the game.
Held For Court
For Stealing Watches
Charged1 with stealing two wat­ches
from employees at the Wil-bux-
Suchard plant here, George
Metcalf, twenty - two, of near
Longeneckier’s Church, was held
for court following a hearing be­fore
Justic of the peace Paul F.
Diehm last evening.
Unable to obtain bail, Metcalf
was returned to the county jail
to await arriagnment before the
county court. He is charged with
taking watches belonging to Geo.
Burkey, Gap R. D. 1, and Earl
Davidson, this borough.
Two Local Teachers
Will Wed Wednesday
Two local high school teachers
will be married at ceremonies to
be held in Lancaster next Wednes­day.
Members of the local school
faculty have been invited as
• guests.
| iMiss Louise Bear, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bear, West
Lincoln Avenue, will become the
bride of LaVem Wihitner at a
cerfamony to take plpee in the
Franklin and Marshall College
Chapel at 6 p. m.
Miss Louise M. Homing will
wed William Moyer at a ceremony
to take place in the First Presby­terian
Church, Lancaster a t 4 p.