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The Lititz Record-Express
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Vol. LXVIII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., March 27, 1947 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 15
Council Orders Removal
Of Evergreen Trees
On 3rd. Ave. Tract
Complete Plans For Laying
Water Main On
Noble St.
The fate of nine evergreen trees
which ftank one side of the bor­ough
water tower tract on Third
Avenue, source of a neighborhood
controversy several years ago, ap­peared
sealed today.
fn a motion presented with lit­tle
comment and quickly passed
Tuesday evening, members of bor­ough
council voted to remove tue
trees. Repeated requests to have
the trees <;ut down have been
made rn past years by residents
living just west of the borough
land who explained that the trees
cut off the view from their home.
When orignally brought before
council several years ago, other
residents of the district protested
against removing the trees on the
ground that the borough had
spent time and money to improve
the appearance of the tract pf
land.
The new move to remove the
trees was presented by Council­man
Thomas Steffy who presided
during the absence of President of
Council Harry Way, ill at his
home here. “The trees do ob­struct
the view and I think we
ought to accommodate these
people,” Cuncilman . Steffy de­clared.
t
'IShoniMtat Walter Miller be
consulted,” Councilman Elmer
Steffy declared there was no need
for this. Water Superintendent
Miller had defended the trees
previously.
At tins point Councilman Christ
Nissly announced that he second­ed
the motion. “But who made
the motion?” Borough Secretary
Elam E. Habedcer asked.
“My: Dtfxler did,” Councilman
Nissly replied. “Question.”
“Any objections?” Councilman
Steffy asked. “If not, so ordered.”
Council also made plans for
putting in /water mains on Noble
Street, held up more than a year
due to the scarcity of pipe, when
they authorized' the advertising of
bids for the excavating and grad­ing.
Bids will be opened on April
25 and work is expected to start
almost immediately.
Bids also will be opened' at that
time for the purchase of road oil
for street repairs here this sum­mer.
Two building permits were Issued,
one for the construction of an
addition to Hess’ Men’s Store i t
16 South Broad Street /and the
other for an addition to a home at
Second Avenue and the Petersburg
Road, owned by Dr. H. B. Min-mich.
DISTRICT LEGION MEETING
HEjRE FRIDAY EVENING
American Legion posts from all
parts of the county will gather
here Friday evening when the
Tenth District, American Legion,
will meet at the local Legion
Home. Ambrotse Plummer, of
Elizabethtown, district. command­er,
wil be in charge of the meet­ing.
Dr. Kummer
Will Open
Office Here
To Practise Medicine
Starting April 1; Dis­charged
March 3
Dr. William M. Kummer will
open an office at 36 East Main
Street, for the general practice of
medicine on Tuesday, April 1 , he
announced here this week.
Dr. Kummer received his hon­orable
discharge with the rank
of Lieutenant Commander in the
U. S. Navy on March 3rd at Cud-dihy
Field, Corpus Christi, Texas,
where he had been stationed as
Senior Medical Officer.
While still in the service, Dr.
KuMmer purchased the home at
Third' Avenue and Linden Street
from Abe Hershey. His wife and
two children lived here during
his service in the Navy.
Dr. Kummer is a native of Lan­caster
and graduated from Frank­lin
and Marshall College in 1936.
He received hi® degree in medicine
from Hanneman Medical College
In £943. and interned in the Uni­ted
States Naval Hospital at
Philadelphia.
During much of the war he
was stationed with the large car­rier
air group of Halsey’s Third
Fleet. He also is a graduate of
the Navy School of Aviation
Medicine at Pensacola, Florida.
Work of renovating the offices
to be .used by Dr. Kummer were
nearing completion this week. _
Students To Compete
At Hershey Saturday
SEEK CLERK-CARRIER
FOR POSTOFFICE HE|RE
An examination for substitute
■Jerk-carrier for duty at the local
xX* office was announced today.
Applicants must be able to drive
in automobile. Persons interested
ire asked to contact Paul Seaber
it the local office.
\ The .winners in the Forensic
dnd Music League held recently in
the local High School, will go to
Hershey on Saturday where the
District Contest will be held in
the Hershey High School.
The following are eligible to en­ter
and' expect to go to Hershey
to compete: The Band; Donald
Mohler, clarinet; Nancy' Lutz,
vocal; Gary Hanna, tuba; Rufina
Balmer, piano; Nancy Hickman,
declamation; Geraldine Lehn,
poetry; Donald Kreider, original
oration.
The winners in this contest will
be eligible to enter the State con­test
to be held in York on April
18 and 19.
Miss Huebener’s History
Of Lititz Soon To Appear
fThe demand for an authentic
history of Lititz from Its eariy
days as a Moravian village has
been prevalent for some time* es­pecially
in the past few years.
Requests for such a booklet have
come not only from the people of
this community but the Chamber
of Commerce has received them
from all over the country.
Although various groups, in­cluding
the Chamber of Com­merce,
talked about publishing
such a booklet, nothing was done
on the matter due to the great
amount of work involved' in gath­ering
the necessary data.
Such a booklet is now in the
process of publication with Miss
Mary Hnebener as the author and
publisher. Miss Huebener has
dome extensive research into the
available historical data on this
community, and is well-fitted to
write such a booklet.
According to the plans announc­ed
by the author, the booklet will
contain 24 pages of reading mat­erial
telling an interesting ac­count
of life and conditions in the
early village of Lititz, aind traces
many of the present day customs
and institutions back to their
origin in the past. The book will
also include 28 illustrations, many
of them reproduced from Tare old
photographs.
Published' under the title “A
Brief History of Lititz,” the book­let
has been endorsed by the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce and
will be sent 'by the Chamber in
response to any requests for data
concerning the rich history of our
town.
The regular edition of this book­let
will be sold at 50 cents each
(continued on page 8)
High Winds
Cause Some
Damage Here
Weatherman Hands Lititz
Odd Assortment Includ­ing
Thunder Showers
Lititz received a taste of all
brands of weather this week as
a wintery -blast returned on the
wings of a capricious gale which j
toppled a number of poles and i
trees throughout this district.
^Starting with warm, humid I
weather on Monday when th e !
thermometer climbed to nearly 70 |
degrees despite overhanging ]
cloud's, the weather took a sudden |
turn cooler Monday night in the |
wake of a sleep-disrupting thun- j
der shower.
High winds which reached gale |
proportions Tuesday and Wednes­day
wede blamed for throwing
the business secion into darkness
Tuesday night. P. P. & L. officials
still were in the dark today as to
the cause for the street standards
in the central district suddenly
going black.
(Lights were put on again after
several dozen large bulbs had
been replaced. (
Local linemen also remained on
duty all night Tuesday repairing
damage caused by the wind. One
pole fell near Lexington while
another, located along the high­way
was in danger of falling.
Poles also crashed from the
force of the wind at Elstonvilie
and Mount Airy.' The soft condi­tion
of the ground was partially
blamed.
The new home of Benjamin
Groff on West End Avenue Was
damage^ by the wind when a
number of shingles blew off the
roof Tuesday. 1
Local haberdashers and clothing
retailers reported that the sales
Of new Spring togs which broke
all reeords over the past week-end
slowed up considerably this week
with the return of cold weather.
Girl Scouts
To Collect
Fats Saturday
I f each family in the United
States saves and turns in one
pound of used cooking fat per
month during the first ¡half of
1947, industry will have resources
of industrial oils approximately
the same as it had diiriiig the first
six months of last year.*. Every
pound of used fat, converted into
industrial oil®, will increase the’
production of such badly needed
household articles as soap, paint,
testiles, electrical appliances and
floor coverings.
Girl Scouts of Troop 15 will
make a house-to-house collection
of used fats on Saturday morning
beginning at 9 o’clock. Fat should
be placed' in tin cans and put on
the curb or taken to the nearest
eighborhood grocery store where
it will be collected at 1 p. m.
Proceeds from the collection go
into the Girl Scout Camp Fund
for the establishment of the
permanent Girl Scout camp lo­cated
between Brickerville and
Ephrata. Work on the new camp,
will be started in the near future.
A door-to-door glass collection
will be made the first Saturday
in April.
GOES TO CAMP
Robert Raihl, of this borough,
left this week for Fort Jackson,
South Carolina, where he is train­ing
in the army. Raihl, who has
been employed at the Wilbur-
Sucharj plant here lived with his
aunt, Mrs. John Weitzel, Rasp­berry
Street. He is the son of
Ralph Raihl, Ephrata.
The time of your life! Don’t
miss it! The whole town will be
rocking with laughter. You’ll be
talking about it for days and days
after. Watch the papers for fur­ther
details. Then make a date
with your Mends to enjoy an
evening of fun on Thursday, April
24th.
This sirloin, steak that Morris Slegelmsn, New York City, is selling
Mrs. Helen leaver contains almost a pound of fat, needsd for flavor
and digestibility. However, by conscientious fat saving, aha can reduce
the cost of her steak dinner. Since decontrol meat dealers pay sub­stantially
more for used cooking fat.
Easter Egg Hunt To Be
Held Here Saturday» April 5
Lititz will have an Easter Egg
hunt for the first time in its his­tory^
on Saturday; afternoon ■ April
5th, according to Barton Sharp,
chairman of the Boys’ and Girls’
Committee of the Lions' Club,
which is sponsoring the affair.
It will be held for children
twelve years and under who are
to gather at the Recreation Cen­ter.
at one o’clock and; go to- the
place to be announced later where
£200 colored eggs, 1000 pieces of
Eiaster candies .including1 rabbits,
peeps and eggs and Over two
hundred other prizes will be hid-
HOME ON LEAVE
’ Wilbtrf'>FauSy -json>"of -Mr; and
Mrs. Norman -Faus, Main St.,. Is
spending a 30-day leave at his
home here.- ’ He is"a member of
the Merchant Marine and has
been staionej on the west coast.
Odd Pheasant
Goes Berserk
At Speedwell
den. j
The Activities Committee of
!h,e Club is working with the
B6ys’ and Girls’ Committee in
planning the affair. Other details
will be announced next week.
The local Lions club made a
contribution of $20 to the Red
Cross at the meeting Thursday
evening at the General Sutter
Hotel. A sum of $20 was given to
the American Legion Garden
Spot Post No. 56 to buy baseball
suits for the Junior team.
The club was entertained by lo­cal
high school pupils who won
first place in the Forensic and
Music League Contest held re­cently.
Rufina Balmer presented
a piano solo; Donlad Mohler, who
also won first chair with the clari­net
in the State band contest, play­ed
a clarinet solo; Nancy Lutz
sang. Three girls presented a flute
trio accompanied on the piano by
Allen Adair. The girls are Lan-ette
Shaeffer, Mary Lou Hershey
and Miss Fry.
John Steffy, the vice president
was in charge. The next meeting
will be held on Thursday, April
3, a t 5:45 p. m. when a short pro­gram
will be presented.
Coopers Witnessed
Daring Sea Rescue
The exciting experience of
watching a rescue at sea was re­lated
here this week by Dr. and
Mrs. H. K. Cooper who returned
Saturday from a month’s tour of
the Panama Canal Zone.
The rescue was made shortly af­ter
the S. S. Christobal, on which
Dr. and' Mrs. Cooper sailed, left
New York, and consisted of the
removal of the crew of the Kath­ryn
Brown, a disabled' freighter
which was in a sinking condition.
iphe Coopers found ideal weath­er
conditions alt Panama, and dur­ing
their stay made a tour of the
canal in the company of the com­manding
officer,-a brother of Mrs.
Cooper.
jMrs. Florence Style of Harris­burg
spent Sunday with Mrs.
Sara K. Jenkins.
A pheasant which goes berserk
every time it gets a glimpse of
school children has been threaten­ing
to cause a wave of absentee­ism
at the Speedwell School for
the past several weeks.
The pheasant is one of a number
of cock birds recently released
by members of the Lititz Sports­men’s
Association. On several oc­casions
tt has attacked small boys
and girls, scratching them , much
as a turkey might.
In fact the attacks became so
numerous that several parents
have repeatedly threatened to
keep their children home from
school until after the pheasant is
destroyed, it was declared today.
Mrs. Mary Newcomer, teacher at
the school and a sister of Justice
of the (Peace Paul F. Diehan, does
hot take the .matter too seriously,
however, and' feels the pheasant
is .merely an unusually friendly
one.R
ecently local sportsmen tried
to obtain photographs of the bird.
Accompanied by Jane Bradley, ten-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Z. Bradley, Lititz R. D. 2, who
has been followed (home by the
pheasant almost daily for two
weeks, the sportsmen walked along
the same route.
As long as the sportsmen were
present, however, the bird failed
to make its appearance and they
could not obtain the photos. The
very next day, though, the bind
was back again following at little
Jane’s heels. (
'Nobody has been able to ad­vance
any reason for the bird's
peculiar actions.
FIREMEN WILL
ENTERTAIN LADIES
Members of the Lititz Fire Co.
are planning an unusual program
in which laughteT will be the key­note
for their meeting on Thurs­day,
April 10, when they will en­tertain
members of the Ladies
Auxiliary. Members of the aux­iliary
must make reservations with
Mrs.. Arville Burkholder by phone
or card not later than Saturday,
April 5.
$3,378 Raised
By Red Cross
In The Boro
Local Churches To Present
Special Musical Services
On Palm Sunday
Contributions Far Exceed
Quota; Workers Are
Lauded By Douple
The .most successful Red Cross
drive for funds was concluded here'
Monday with local contributions
totaling $3,378.47 as compared
with the budget of $2,400 fixed for
the borough.
While active solicitation ended
on Monday, the returns of work­ers
had not been completed this
morning with the total donated
from the borough expected to ex­ceed
$3,500, the largest ever con­tributed
here.
“The returns are very gratify­ing
and Lititz has every reason to
feel proud of its record f°r this
worthy cause,” Alfred L. Douple,
local chainman, announced today.
“I also want to warmly thank all
workers for a fine job done in
such a short, period of time.”
¡Returns by divisions showed
that the industrial group again
led with a total of $1,968.72. The
house-to-house c|anvas produced
$982.25 while the mercantile All-
Veterans’ division turned in
$382.50 with several workers
still to report. Local organizations
contributed the remaining $45.
Parik Committee
Plans Impovements;
Hires Allentown Band
> Improvements to bfe made In
the Springs park this summer’ will
‘include 20 new tables now being
made by the manual training de­partment
at the high school, it
was announced a t a meeting; of
the park committee.
|IThe park committee also is en­deavoring
to obtain a number of
new benches to be added to the
equipment. Plans for building
the refreshment stand in the park
eannot be completed for some
time.
A formal contract was signed
with the Allentown Band' to play
the concert in the park during
the evening of the Fourth of July
program. That the park faces an
unusually successful season was
indicated by the fact that a total
of 29 picnics and reunions already
are scheduled for the months of
July, August and September.
NABBED FOR SPEEDING
Robert L. Derr, twenty-two', ;2B
E.. Lincoln Ave./xand George W.
Albert, Jr., twenty-one, 997 Bar­ber
St., Columbia, charged with
speeding, were arrested by State
Police Saturday night after an 80-
mile-an-hour chase oh the Lin­coln
Highway west.
HOMES COMPLETED
Two homes on West Lincoln
Avenue have just been completed
and will be offered to local G. I.’s
who will heighten first opportunity
to purchase, Richard Gould an­nounced
this week.
YOUTH TO ATTEND
NOON DAY SERVICES
1 The noon-day themes for the
public school youth to be held in
tihe Trinity Evangelical Congre­gational
church at 12:30 to 12:55
beginning Monday, March 31 and
continuing Thursday are as fol­lows,
“Cold Hands—Hands of
Peter,” ‘‘Greedy Hands—Hands
of Judas,” “Dirty Hands—Hands
of Pilate” and “Loving Hands —
Hands of Jesus.”
The services are sponsored by
the members of the Lititz Minis­terial
Association.
Encampment
Installation
Held Tuesday
I. 0 . 0 . F. Will Hold Elec-
Of Officers This
Monday Night
An, elaborate ceremony herje
Tuesday evening marked the in­stallation
of officrs of the General
Sutter Encampment, 76, I. 0. O.
F., in the local lodge hall.
District Deputy Grand: Pat­riarch
Oblarles Walmer, of Pal­myra,
and his staff, were in char­ge
of the installation. The Royal
Purple Degree was conferred upon
three candidates at the same time.
C. A. Blair, of New Holland,
was installed as Chief Patriarch
of the local Encampment. Other
officers installed are Luther Oxen-rider,
high priest; Robert Camp­bell,
senior warden; Clarence
Weidman, junior warden.
Follownlng the ceremony, re­freshments
were served. The next
meeting will be held April 8.
I. O. O. F. To Elect
On Monday evening, the Lititz
Lodge, 1090, I. O. O. F., will hold
its regular election of officers.
Grand Lodge officers also will be
voted upon at the same time and
all past grands are urged to be
present.
Lorraine Hess Wins
County Essay Contest
• Lorraine Hess, local high school
senior, who recently won the
Essay contest conducted by the
Garden Spot Post of the American
Legion here, this week /was select-d
as the winner in District 10 by
the County Legion Council, which
is composed of all posts in the
county. ■ ,
Miss Hess’ essay which is en­titled'
“Democracy - Yardstick for
International Amity,” now will be
entered in the state contest. Win­ners
in the state contests will
compete for national honors-.
Lititz High Will Open
Baseball Season Tuesday
Special Program Will Con­tinue
Thoughout
Passion Week
^Passion Week will be ushered
in with (special services and mus­ical
presentations in the various
churches on Palm Sunday.
The Moravian Church will begin
the reading of the Passion Week
manual on Saturday evening with
the service at 7:30 and special
music by the choir. At the morn­ing
service Palm Sunday at 10:30
there will be Confirmation, Bap­tism
and Reception of Members.
The children of the church will
sing the Hosanna Chorus at the
evening service at 7:00, with the
reading of the Manual and special
music by the choir at both ser­vices.
Services will be held every even­ing
during the week at 7:30 with
Holy Communion on Maundy
Thursday at 4:15 and 7:30. The
Community three-hour service will
be hel(j in the Moravian church on
Good Friday beginning a t noon
and concluding with the tradition-:
al service.
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will
have Confirmation, Baptism and
Reception of Members at 10:30
Palm Sunday; Baptism of in­fants
at 2:30 in the afternoon and .
at the evening service at 7)00 the
choir will sing “The Seven Last
Words” with the following solò-"
iste, Mrs. Roy Weaver, Mrs^ Char­les
Trunk and Mrs. Norman Bru­baker,
sopranos, Albert Ebbert
and' Quinton Keath, tenors; Wil­liam
Dengler, bass; Mr. Ebbért
Will direct the choir and Mrs: Ful-weiler
is the organist.
Services will be held on Mon­day,
Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings at 7:30 with Holy Com­munion
on Thursday.
The Church of the Brethren will
have special music by the Senior
and Chapel choirs directed by Mrs.
Robert Sollenberger at the morn­ing
service and the pastor will
(continued on page 10)
Church Of Brethren
Completes Book Drive
A special relief drive for books
and scientific magazines will close
this week at the Church of the
Brethren. These books and maga­zines
will go. to' Europe to help
restore the ruined libraries. Tbe
Men’s Work organization will
pack these books for shipment to
tbe Church World' Service Center
at New Windsor, Maryland, where
they will be sent to Europe.
Mid’ The Turmoil
The Moravian tract was filled
with kites flying at all angles over
the week-end as local kiddom took
advantage of the wind to tr y out
his flying prowess. Bill Light,
who gained fame in the Amazon
during the war when he flew five
kites on a single string, was being
urged this week to give the local
kite-flyers a sample of his ability.
* * *
(By The Sports Editor)
Lititz High baseball candidates
are going through the regular
spring training grind at this writ­ing,
with the exception of one
person whose absence hits con­spicuous
proportions. Ex-mentor
Gene Deekert.
For the first time in at least
a decade “Deck” wasn’t on hand
to welcome the new bloodj and
holdovers who aTe destined to
carry the diamond hopes of the
local school. Instead, Larry Urn-stead,
likable football and junior
high basketball coach has taken
over the helm.
JWith the opening date less than
a week away the Lititz boys have
been drilling regularly in an ef­fort
to get into shape in the short
time allotted' because of inclement
weather. The locals will’ go into
action against Ephrata High next
Tuesday in a league contest away
from home.
¡Letter-men from last year’s
runner-up squad include, Earl
Frederick, Fat' Hamaker, a bat­tery
combination that carries a
lot of weight, Larry Pierson, a
first sacker, Stan Schoeneberger,
Dubs Haldeman, outfielders, Hen-ney
Hershey, a third baseman, and
Hal Keppley, a catcher.
^Promising newcomers are Dew­ey
Haines anj Harold Frederick,
pitchers, Dick DeVerter, first
baseman, and Bobby Cochran.
From this cast Coach Umsteail
wiill have to foTm a club that is
facing a tough (Schedule in such
old Lititz foes as Ephrata, Man-heim
Thvp., West Lampeter, Col­umbia,
Qjuarryville and Mianor
Twp.
'Meanwhile the Lititz Sports
Club posted forfeit Money for
entrance in the newly-formed
Grteater (Lancaster County Leag­ue,
a semi-pro set-up. The league
will operate as an eight club cir­cuit
and will get underway
around May 3.
Another casualty of the wind­storm
was the aged and revered,
battered old hat >, which George
“Peck” Frey has been wearing
around here for years. The last
George saw of the old topper it
was spinning across a field Tues­day
afternoon. Wednesday he
showed up wearing a cap and half
Ihis friends didn’t recognize him.
* * •
Donnie Reidenbaugh, Robert
Hess, Buddy Hershey and Kirk
Garber had an exciting night of it
over the week-end when they slept
overnight in the Reidenbaugh cot­tage
north of Clay. Upon their
arrival they found that the cabin
recently had been broken into and
looted. Then to make matters
worse, the brother of one of the
campers, awoke them late a t night
by pelting the roof with stones.
When finally admitted, he found
the group heavily armed with
rocks of all sizes as well as an
assortment of clubs and toma­hawks.
,