Lititz Record Express

              Litìtz Honor This Pin
Vol. LXVIII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., June 12, 1947 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 26
Many Will
Enter College
In The Fall
Large Percentage Of Grad­uating
Class To Continue
Education
OUR CITIZENS OF TOMORROW
A large portion of this year’s
graduating class expect to contin­ue
their education this fall or
next. In many cases the reject­ions
outnumber the acceptances.
However, those not accepted will
most likely have preferance th e ,
following yar. These are fhe ones /
who plan to go: I
Rufina Balmer, Nancy Lutz and
Bob Heagy plan to attend Leban­on
Valley, north of here. Heagy
"has been offered a scholarship for
football theTe. Robert Bender
has been accepted at the U. of P.
and will study to become a veter­inarian.
It is likely he will also
play football.
Jean dePerrot will wait a year
before trying to enter Lehigh.
This school is very crowded In
that of the eighteen hundred who
•applied, only eight hundred could
be accommodated. Mahlon Clarke
will also wait a year before enter­ing
Gettysburg where he plans to
•enter the the ministry.
Jim Johnson has been accepted
a t Penn State but will have to
■start the freshman year at Mil-lersville.
Harry Eshleman also
hopes to enter Penn State. Bob
Bushong will also be going to
Millersville to take up physical
education.
.Nancy Fahnestock wil study at
Madison College, Harrisonburg,
Va. Thomas Hartenstine plans to
go to Temple University. Robert
Keath will take the science course
at F. & M. Richard Leed has been
accepted at Oberlin College.
Donald Mohler will study at
the Eastman School of Music, Ro­chester,
N. Yjj Stanley Schoen-berger
expects to attend East
Stroudsburg. Lanette Sheaffer
has entered Mary Washington
College, Fredericksburg. Va. Dick
Waltz hopes to enter Gettysburg
this fall if it is not too late for
him to apply.
Lititz Borough Fathers
Burn The Midnight Oil
Over Devel’ment Controversy
Top row, left».to right: Ronald, 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
iRichard Nelson; Robert, 7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Clark;
Jay, 3 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Armold.
Bottom row: Sallie Sue, 7 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Templeton; George, 6 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Carvell; Philip, 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hess.
Elmer Bobst’s Announcement
Of $1,000 Student Awards
Was Entirely Spontaneous
Idea Came To Him After
He Had Finished Talk,
He Reveals
ALUMNI SPEAKER,
Will Open
Sport Goods
Store Here
Lititz’ newest retail business,
the Gardner Sport Shop, will be
formally opened to the public at
22- East Main Street this Friday,
according to an announcement
made today.
The store will be operated by
George W. Gardner, Jr., and Ro­bert
W. Gardner, brothters, of
Lebanon, and will include sport
goods, fishing tackle, hunting
equipment, etc., as iweilil as engage
in all types of gunsmithing.
The two proprietors conducted
a repair shop for the repair of
guns, fishing equipment, tennis
rackets, golf clubs, etc., for a
•number of years in Lebanon and
have built up an enviable reput­ation
in this respect.
George Gardner was associated
with a Lebanon sport goods store
for the past few years. In addi­tion
he has played in several
bands including the Steitztown
String Band.
Robert Gardner distinguished'
himself in the 4th Air Force dur­ing
the war, serving with the
rank of Captain. As pilot of a
P-38 he was forced to land behind
German lines in Sicily but mir­aculously
escaped capture. He is
recipient of a presidential citat­ion,
the ail maltl with seven
oak leaf clusters and the disting-
■ uished flying cross.
Elmer Bobst’s action in an­nouncing
that he will present
$1,000 in awards each year to
members of the Lititz High School
graduating class, was entirely
spontaneous, he revealed follow­ing
the alumni banquet Friday
evening.
“I was particularly impressed
by the granting of the alumni
medal and the thought came to me
that it would be nice to carry this
a step further. The thought of
making the annual awards of
$1,000 Came to me a moment after
I sat down after making my talk
to the alummi association,” Mr.
Bobst added.
Mr. Bobst also revealed that he
has been seeking means of honor­ing
the memory of his father, the
late Rev. I. W. Bobst, who preach­ed
at .St. Pawl’s Lutheran Church
here years ago.
“I want this award divided $500
to the first student, $300 to the
second and $200 to the third and
that the award be based upon
and the ability to lead and in­fluence
others to accomplish
things, more than solely on schol­astic
standards,” Mr. Bobst ex­plained.
The banquet held in the high
school gymnasium for the first
year, was the most largely at­tended
in the history of the
ailumlni association. Morje than
300 persons were present.
(In his address, Mr. Bobst spoke
uipon the subject of “Life Is What
We Make It,” which incidentally
/was the subject of his Senior es­say
when he graduated from the
high school here in 1901.
Elect Officers
During the session these officers
were elected: Robert Reidnbaugh,
president, to succeed Paul W. Mc­Cloud;
Dr. John Bender, vice
president; Geraldine Hollinger,
recordng secretary; Mary Snave-ly,
corresponding secretary; and
William Hornberger, treasurer.
Leon Klaus presided during the
session and members of the 1947
graduating class were introduc­ed
by M. C. Demmy, supervising
principal.
The response was given by Ro-berty
Heagy, and’ Robert Keath
received the Alumni medal. Dr.
Harry E. Bender, a 1897 graduate
of the school gave a toast. The
speak sr was introduced by his sis­ter,
Mrs. D. P. Brieker. Follow­ing
the banquet, a dance was held.
Hold Lengthy Caucas Try­ing
To Find Solution
To Dilemma
Lititz’ Borough Fathers this
week were burning the midnight
oil in an effort to find a way out
of a controversy which has been
plaguing them for the past six
months.
Scheduled to make their final
decision on a new street plan sub­mitted
by Ben Forney, owner of
the large tract in the east end of
the borough south of Main Street,
at a special meeting to be held
Friday evening, members of coun­cil
went into a secret huddle Tues­day
evening.
Abandoning the councilmanic
chamber on the second floor of the
firehouse, Borough Fathers took
up their study of the perplexing
problem in the kitchen of the
Young . Men’s Business League
across the street where they
spread plans and blue-prints over
the kitchen stove, tables and
chairs.
The meeting was merely a
committee meeting at which other
members of council were free to
attend and was not called for the
purpose of taking any action, they
explained as they filed out less
than an hour before midnight.
With theplans for the develop­ment
of the Forney tract present­ed
months ago by the local land­scaping
firm; of McCloud &
S'catchard, council has continued
its study of the plan due to ob­jections
raised by William Fry,
owner of adjacent lands, and at
the last special meeting, by Sam­uel
N,uss, owner of the Gochen-auer
tract, south of Forney’s
plots.
Fry has claimed repeatedly that
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Mrs. Ditzler Fractures
Ankle In Fall
Mrs. Frank Ditzler sustained
the painful fracture of her left
ankle Tuesday evening when she
slipped and fell while walking
across the lawn of her home at
39 West Lincoln Avenue.
Dr. Paul Hess, who was called,
found that the hone was fractured
just above the ankle and had Mrs.
Ditzler removed to the Lancaster
General Hospital where the break
was reduced.
At the time of the mishap, Mrs.
Ditzler was following her hus­band,
Borough Councilman Frank
Ditzler to their automobile parked
at the curb.
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LOCAL FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT Legion Post
Creates Vets
Welfare Fund
Membership Increased To
458, Lagest In History
Of Local Group
ELME|R BOBST
Fishermen Await
Re-opening Of Streams
Summertime
Dance Will
Be Held Sat.
Amid a charming and refresh­ing
moonlight summer garden
setting, a full evening of enter­tainment
and sociability, and
more awaits all guests attending
“Sumlmertime,” the semi-formal
dance sponsored by the Lititz
Community Center, on Saturday
evening, June 14, at the Center.
From 9 p. m. till midnight music
for dancing will be provided by
Bob Lyters’ 15 piece orchestra
featuring Jane Stewart as vocal­ist.
Another feature will he - no
corsages. For this evening
guests are requested to use
Park entrance to the Center.
all
the
REV. J. H. HERSHEY
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
After serving .for a year In the
¡Marine Corps, Fred Sturgis, of
West Orai/ge Street, received bis
honorable iis'harge at Cherry
Point, iN. 1C., and has returned
home, fie returned to his formeT
/position at the Moyer Pharmacy
this Week. During the ¡past year he
was stationed at Parris Island,
Cherry Point and Camp Lejuene.
STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
A strawberry festival will be
held on the lawn at the rear of
the Moravian Sunday School Sat­urday
afternoon and evening,
June 21. The affair is being
sponsored by members of the Jun­ior
Adult Class as a benefit for
the Visual Educational Fund. In
case of rain the festival will be
held in Fellowship Hall.
(Rev. Jacob H. Hershey, eighty-four,
.208 E. Front St., this bor­ough,
a preacher of the Lititz
Mennonite Church for the past
42 years, died at 8:30 p. m. Wed­nesday
at his home after a linger­ing
illness. He was bom near
Brunnerville, Warwick Township,
a son of the late Jacob R. and
Fannie Huber Hershey. He was
president of the Hershey-Leaman
Co.
He is survived by these chil­dren:
Grace S., at home; Willard
5., ths borough; Ruth C., wife of
George Korte, Lititz R. 1.; Jacob
5., Lititz R. 4. Bight grandchil­dren,
two great-grandchildren;
and three brothers also survive:
Isaac Hershey, Kansas; Henry H.
Herhey, Lititz R. 2; and Amos H.
Hershey, this borough.
Services will be held from the
Mennonite Church Saturday at 2
p. m. with interment in the Hess’
Mennonite cemetery.
Local fishermen were anxiously
awaiting the week-end when fish­ing
again /will he permitted dn
two local streams heavily stocked
with trout this week.
On Monday, sportsmen placed
a tottal of 1,150 brook trout in the
Middle Creek. This stream will
remain closed until Saturday
morning. On Tuesday the same
group placed' 450 trout in the
Hammer Creek, which will remain
closed to fishing until Sunday
morning.
Theatre Group
Will Present
Comedy
Community Center To Give
Lavendar And Old Lace
On June 26
Score another triumph for the
Lititz Community Center’s Little
Theatre Group. They have just
announced that they have secured
the rights to present “Lavender
And Old Lace” at the Park Band-shell
on June 26 and 27. A per­fect
cast has been-selected and re­hearsals
are now in progress
under the able asistance of the
talented and well known director,
Harold McCreary.
Charm, excitement and broad
humor distinguish this vigorous
dramatization of Myrtle Reed’s
most popular and best loved nov­el.
The play is a thoroughly mod­em
portrait of present day life,
with scenes of bristling comedy,
arresting drama and a touch of
heart warming tenderness.
Following are the members of
the cast:
¡Mary Ainslie, Lorraine Waga-man;
Ruth Thome, Gloria Adams;
Hepsey, Faye Emck;l Sophrony
Trotter, Reba Kline; James Bali,
Richard' Hoff; Garl Winfield, Don­ald
Fisher; Doctor Howard Pat­terson,
Allan Adair; Joe Pendle­ton,
Albert Leanza; Jane Hath­away,
Jean Hanna; Bernice Carl­ton,
Nancy Ann Bushong.
The apparatus of the Lititz Fire Company is shown lined up on
display. Local firemen are completing plans for their annual chicken
corn soup festival.
Firemen Prepare 50 Tubs
Of Soup For Festival
All Previous Eating Re­cords
Are Threatened; To
Clean Chickens Tonight
Local firemen were out to
break all chicken corn soup re­cords
this week with no less than
fifty wash-tubs being promised
for the annual festival to be held
in the firehouse Saturday.
In fact, all eating records are
being ¡threatened according to
the array of foodstuffs lined up
for the annual affair in an effort
to prevent a sell-out early in the
day as occurred in several prev­ious
years.
This evening, firemen and mem­bers
of the auxiliary will go to
the Carl HubeT farm where they
will pick and clean a total of 260
chickens. Off this amount, ap­proximately
220 were donated by
farmers of the areas surrounding
the borough while the remainder
weTe purchased.
Friday - all day - the same
group will be busily engaged at
the firehouse preparing the food­stuffs
in order that the chicken
com soup can be offered for sale
not later than 10.30 a. m. Satur­day
morning.
In addition to the chickens they
are preparing, 2,000 clams, bush­els
and busels. of french fired
potatoes, probably a hundred
NOTICE
The Hershey Barber Shop will
be closed until Monday due to a
death in the family.
Repair Major
Leak At
Water Plant
Working at top speed last Sun­day
atfemoon, a crew of special
workmen from Lancaster succeed­ed
in completing maor repars at
the borough water plant before
the town’s reserve supply of
drinking water became exhausted.
Due to the rain, workmen did
not start the task of repairing the
leak in the 12-inch feed main in
front of the pumping station until
afternoon. Therepairs were com­pleted
at 2 a. m.
When work started, forcing
Water Superintendent Walter
Miller to shut off mains leading
from the pumping station, the two
tall standpipes were filled. One
containing 328,000 gallons was
held in reserve as a precaution
against fire.
The other stdpipe containing
150.000 gallons was the sum and
substance of water available for
consumers until the leak was re­paired.
When work was complet­ed,
the tank showed that 110,000
gallons had been used and that
40.000 gallons remained, Mr. Mil­ler
explained.
Laying Mains
Work of digging the long trench
to lay water mains along Noble
Street was 'completed Tuesday and
borough workmen began laying
pipe yesterday. It is expected
that work will be completed bv
Saturday.
Center Will Sponsor
Community Party
Thursday, June 19
In conjunction with the object­ives
and program planning of the
Coordinating Council, which rep­resents
all organizations and
clubs in the community, the Lititz
Recreation Center will sponsor a
Community Card Party and other
games on Thursday evening, June
19, at the Center. Elaborate
prizes for all the games will be
given to the lucky guests.
Through the cooporation of the
member organizations of the Corn­ell,
committees for the card party
will represent the different organ­izations.
All the net proceeds will
go toward the support of the L.
R. C.
Advance tickets for the card
party are now available from any
of the representatives or at the
L. R. C.
Musical Program
In Springs Park
On Sunday Evening
A musical program will be
presented in the Lititz Springs
Park Sunday evening at 7 o’clock
by the Lebanon Valley Gospel
Band, under the auspices of the
Community Tabernacle.
Prior to the program, members
of the band will pause in front of
the service plaque at the post of­fice
and render several hymns in
honor of those who sacrificed
their lives in the recent conflict.
The gospel band also will play
in the tabenacle at 2 p. m. when
Rev. Roy Lair, an ex-service man,
representative of the God’s Bible
School, Cincinnati, will speak.
Brethren
Bible School
Starts Mon.
Vacation Bible School at the
Church of the Brethren will have
its opening day on June 16 from
8:30 to 11:00 o’clock in the morn­ing.
Boys and girls are invited
to coime and’ help share in the
cakes four crates of strawberries j Play> study and worship. The pro-and
gads of other miscellaneous ! ,We6^ t eT1^’ng 0 ’
items.
In contemplation of a big de­mand
for french fries, firemen
will put into service a new french
frier which cost them approxi­mately
$250 and which requires
around 20 gallons of oil to oper­ate
- hut turns out french fries
just as fast as several hundred
persons can eat them.
The Lititz High School Band,
directed by Henry Steiner, will
present a concert during the
evening as one of the features of
the festival.
¡Members of the committee in
charge urged that as many fire­men
or members of the auxiliary
as possible volunteer to work at
the firehouse Friday and Saturday.
The creation of a veterans as­sistance
and welfare fund was
authorized by members of Garden
Spot Post No. 56, American Leg­ion,
at a meeting held in the Leg­ion
Home, North Broad Street,
Tuesday evening.
Following this action, aimed at
protecting the interests of former
servicemen of this district, Com­mander
Joseph M. Carl appointed
Howard Leho, chairman of the
committee to direct the work of
this project.
Other members of the commit­tee
are Richard Rader, Wilbur
Kready, Curtis Long and William
Getz.
The local post also announced
that it has admitted eight new
members, bringing the member­ship
to a total of 458, an all-time
high in the history of the post.
Approximately 50 members were
present at the meeting.
A donation of $25 for the en­tertainment
of veterans hospital­ized
at the Coatesville Veterans’
Hospital, was approved. Daniel
Gochenauer, chairman of the
graves registratiton committee,
announced that 300 flags were
placed on graves in this district,
graves of veterans of all wars,
on Memorial Day.
Five delegates were elected to
the State Legion Convention at
Pittsburgh August 6 to 9, inclus­ive.
Delegates are Donald Derby,
Menno Rohrer, Harry Ruley,
Richard Rader and Mary Snavely.
Alternates are: Ray Herr, Leo
Rossi, Wilbur Kready, Quay Enck
and Kenneth Bransby.
Chrtis Long was appointed
chairman of a permanent post
firing squad and color guard which,
will he used /for military funerals
and patriotic parades.
Midget Midgets
To Play Monday
Barn Burns
Home Hit
In Storm
June 27, will be the mission
schools in India. There will be
classes tor beginners, primaries,
juniors and intermediates.
(Mrs. John Mohler and Mrs.
Isaac Gihhel will teach the beg­inners
and will have as their as­sistants,
J/une Hauick, /Mary Lou
Hershey and Mrs. David Forry.
The primaries will be under the
leadership of Mrs. Kenneth
Frantz who will be helped by
Mrs. Clifford ¡Smith and (Mrs. Bl-vin
Good. Mrs. Jacob Dick, with
her assistants, Margaret " David­son
and Lorraine Stehman will
direct the juniors, and Rev. Ken­neth
Frantz will teach the inter­mediates.
Mrs. Wilson Sprang
will be secretary and treasurer for
the Bible School.
Parents are extended a special
invitation to visit the Bible
School on June 25.
Rotarians Enjoy
Trapping Pictures
Moving pictures showing the
manner in which new style traps
manufactured at the Animal Trap
Company here capture and hold
coyotes, /muskrats and other
animals were shown at a meeting
of the local Rotary Club Tuesday
evening.
The pictures were taken during
a research expedition to Texas
where coyotes were trapped and
on a similar trip to the eastern
shore, Maryland, where muskrats
are caught. Joseph Zahm ar­ranged
the program. The pictures
were shown by George Brooks.
A barn was burned to the ground
at Elm and considerable damage
was done throughout this section
late yesterday When one of the
most intense electrical storms in
years swept through the county.
The ¡barn destroyed at a loss of
$10,500 was on a farm recently
purchased “by Phares Bamberger
at Elim. A daughter was in the
barn when it was /hit hut ecaped
unharmed. She and her father re­moved
all 'livestock excepting a
/pig and a calf.
The home of Wil/liam Bingaman,
Front Street, was struck knocking
shingles from the roof hut not set­ting
fire to the structure, firemen
tound. A tranformer near Leed’s
Ice Plant was struck, temporarily
knocking out motors there and in
the air-conitioning unit at the Le­gion
Home on ¡Broad /Street. The
Shock also was felt by Harry For­ry
who was sitting in a chair at
'Pennypacker’s harber shop half a
¡block away.
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59 Pupils Enroll
In Trinity School
The Vacation Bible School of
Trinity E. C. Churchy opened on
Monday morning with an enroll­ment
of 59 pupils, 8 teachers and
officers. The enrollment on Wed­nesday
morning was 100 pupils,
8 teachers and officers. E. S.
Dechert is the superintendent.
Mrs. Lester Stark and Mrs.
Ralph Habecker are in charge of
the beginner’s department and are
assisted by Jacqueline Dissinger,
Lois Reedy, Peggy Stormfeltz and
Doris Barber. Primary teachers
are Gladys and Ruth Fry with
Rev. George B. Oarvell and E. S.
Dechert teaching the funtor de­partment.
Rev. Carvell is the
pianist and Nancy Landis and
Susanne Slosser are secretaries.
ON MOTOR TRIP
Miss Mary Huebener and Mrs.
P. F. Snyder this week drove to
Howe, Indiana. They will return
with Mr. and Mrs. David Jones
and daughter, Barbara.
The Lititz Wrens, the midget,
midget baseball team being coach­ed
¡by Dr. Charles A. Landis will
make its first home appearance af­ter
winning two games away. On
Monday evening they will play the
Manheim /Mustangs.
¡In tJheir first game the Wrens de­feated
the ¡Brecht School Short
Socks, 21 to 3. On Tuesday even­ing
in Manheim they defeated
Mianheim 28 to 6. The public is
invited to watch the game ¡here
Monday.
Mid’ The Turmoil
Fire/men this week were en­deavoring
to find out just how
many years they have been hold­ing
their annual chicken corn
festival. As nearly as could be
determined, chicken corn soup
has been served every June by
the smoke-eaters for more than
the past forty years.
* * *
Thirty years ago, 1917, the fire­men
and auxiliary used 39 chick­ens
(as compared with 260 this
year) in making the soup. Other
statistics for that year were 250
clams as compared with 2,000 this
year; 50 cakes, they eat more
cake than that now; 32 boxes of
strawberries and 35 gallons of ice
cream. In 1917 a concert of class­ical
music was presented by
Hackman’s Orchestra.
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Lititz has some of the finest
and best kept tennis courts in the
entire county - but little apparent
interest in tennis, according to
Ben Forrest. “It is a shame that
some effort is not put forth to
organize a tennis competition,”
Ben commented. “We have fine
courts and it is too bad they are
not being used every day.”
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Among many here planning
motor trips this summer are Mr.
and Mrs. Abe Beck who /will he
within the next few weeks,
tending southward of that width,