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Vol. LXVIM Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., August 14,1947
Miss Young
To Sing Here
Sunday Night
Sacred Program Will Be
Presented At Bandshell
In The Park
. ¡Musi«-!overs will be given a
treat this Sunday evening when
Miss Mildred Young, mezzo-sop­rano.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard S. Young, East Orange
treet, will present a program ¡n
the Springs Park.
Miss Yeung returned from New
York Monday to spend the week
with her parents here. She has
been engaged in operatic work in
New York City for the past sev­eral
years.
'She will be accompanied by
Mrs. Kenneth Wimyer. The prog­ram
which will be presented in
the bandshell and which will be­gin
at 7:30 p. m. is as follows:
PART I
“God My Shepherd," Bach;
'‘When Children Pray," ¡Fenner;
“Ave Maria,” Bach-Gounod.
PART II
“How Lovely Are Thy Dwell­ings,”
Liddle; ‘“Were You
There?" NegTo Spiritual; “I
Talked To God Last Night,"
Guion.
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ON TRAINING QRUISE
Midshipman Sebastion Savoco
will reftrni -August 15 from an
eight weeks cruise. Starting from
Annapolis, he touched the Panama
Canal, Trinidad, Porta Rica, Cuba,
Bermuda, New York Harbor and
will disembark at Hampton Roads,
Va. While stationed in Cuba the
ship took part in extensive gun­nery
exercises.
HOIÏ1E
T o u m
g g p O P T E P
IN WASHINGTON
WALTER S H £ A p , ; ^ U (Correspondent
Digging Deep
T HE 80th congress may
have set a record for in-jvestigations
of various kinds,
¡for during this past session
¡more than 120 resolutions were
¡brought up in both houses calling
for probes ranging from the system
■ of operating cafeterias in govem-iment
buildings to the security of
atom bomb secrets.
Already congressional investlgat-
,ing committees have spent thou­sands
of dollars in these probes. For
instance, the special committee in­vestigating
national defense has
spent $74,495; the senate sub-com­mittee
on privileges and elections
has spent $53,000, and the senate
special committee to study prob­lems
of small business has spent
¡$29,416. Probably $50,000 has been
spent by other lesser sub-commit­tees.
Many of these probes are ex­pected
to continne during the
congressional recess.
For instance, a senate committee
to make a survey of the hoof and
mouth disease is authorized to spend
$50,000; a banking and currency
committee has $50,000 for a re­cess
investigation of reconstruction
finance corporation; the senate civil
service committee has $35,000 for a
probe of postmaster appointments;
the foreign relations committees of
both house and senate have been
authorized to investigate the state
department foreign information and
“ G h o s t ” P la n e s F ly F a s t e r T h a n M a n
1 j& M ÎP ï ÿ ¡ W i .
cultural relations program at a cost
of $100,000; the house interstate and
foreign commerce committee has
$25,000 to study transportation; the
house public lands committee has
$25,000 for a general investigation
of public land usage, and a joint
committee was voted $100,000 to in­quire
into high prices.
A senate sub-committee investi­gating
military occupation currency
policies was voted $60,000; the vet­erans
affairs committee has $25,000
to probe Veterans’ administration;
a special committee on newsprint
was voted $25,000, and the un-
American activities committee was
voted $100.000 in extra funds.
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SEVEN MILES UP above the Atlantic Ocean,
off the coast of Cornwall, England, pilotless,
rocket-propelled projectiles are streaking across
the sky at speeds higher than man has ever
flown. Named Ghosts by the British technicians
who are working with them, the robot ’planes
transmit radio signals back to scientists in
England, providing valuable information for
experiments being carried out with faster-than-sound
flight. Super-speed, piloted aircraft,
named Meteors, also make photographic records
of the Ghosts as they fly.
Above: Close-up of a Ghost. It is allowed to crash into the sea after its experimental dash]
Bight: Model of a Ghost suspended beneath a model of a Mosquito, two-motored, high-speed British
bomber. The Mosquito takes up the Ghost and launches it an its flight.
Menno Rohrer
Nominated
Legion Comm.
Post To Probe Housing
Shortage; Five Bodies of
World War II Casual­ties
To Be Returned
Camera Club
Elects Harry
Landis Pres.
Club To Hold Picnic At
Spring Lake On
September 11
War Memorial Project
Receives New Impetus
At Two Meetings Here
Harry H. Landis was elected
president of the ¡Lititz Springs
Camera ¡Club at ia re-organization
meeting ¡held in the club’s head­quarters
in the Business League
Monday evening.
He will succeed Dave Miller who
headed the club during the past
year.
¡Other officers eleetd are:
Vice ¡President, John Boyd who
will isiuoceed William Light. Sec­retary,
Ray Kreider who will suc­ceed
Warren Newcomer. Treasur­er,
Robert iZartman, who will suc­ceed
John Hiestand.
The club enthusiastically accept­ed
the offer oif a picnic and picnic
supper at Spiring Lake on Thurs­day,
September 11, offered by ¡Ro­bert
Zartman. ,
The print oif a colored boy sub­mitted
by Dr. William C. Wright,
of Lancaster, won first prize in
the monthly competition judged
by iMiss Anna Bucher, ¡Miss Mary
Nissiley, Lancaster; and E. C. Ber-toilet,
Jr., this borough.
Other awards were as follows:
HOpe Springs ¡Eternal by John
Boyd, second prize; ¡Landscape toy
Mrs. Helen Buckwalter, third
prize; One Day Excursion, At the
Inlet and Dull Business all 'by
John Boyd and a print by Mrs,
Buckwalter, honorable mention.
President-elect Landis urged all
members of the club to submit a
single print in an open competition
to be judged at the next meeting,
Monday, September 8.
Court Acts Favorably
On Hendricks Petition
W. Clyde Hendricks, local
florist, whose petition was filed at
the court house two weeks ago,
was formally appointed a mem­ber
of the borough school board
by the Lancaster County court
Friday morning.
Mr. Hendricks was named to
serve during the unexpired term
of Frank M. Hunter, who resign­ed
last month. He will take the
oath of office at this month’s meet­ing
of the school board.
• Two other vacancies also were
filled by the court Friday. Earl
Himeisen, Lititz R. D. 1, was ap­pointed
judge of elections for
Clay Township, replacing Ray­mond
E. Hensel, who resigned to
accept the position of Justice of
the Peace. Paul B. Eberly, Stev­ens
R. D. 1, was named inspector
of elections to fill a vacancy caus­ed
by Himeisen’s resignation.
Memorial Entrance To Park
And Permanent Park
Building Proposed
A Memorial entrance to the
Springs Park was pro prised
at a meeting of the War
Memorial Committee held
here last evening.
The entrance would aim to
beautify the entrance to the
park and would be a memor­ial
to veterans of both World
I and II, if approved. A
permanent park building to
replace the present pavilion,
also was proposed.
Following a general discus­sion,
members of the commit­tee
arranged to confer with
members, of the Springs Park
Committee for a joint-discus­sion
of this project, in the
near future.
The athletic field (project
has not been necessarily
abandoned, however, Paul F.
Diehm, chairman of the com­mittee,
explained.
That the War Memorial project
which has laid dormant here for
more than a year may soon re­ceive
a new lease on life, was in­dicated
by two separate meetings
held here this week.
The first meeting held earlier
in the week was a conference
between representatives of the
Garden Spot Post of the Ameri-an
Legion and the Lititz Lions
Club called for the purpose of
discusing ways and means of
raising money. Several plans for
obtaining funds to give the war
memorial project a real start were
tentatively approved.
A more optimistic outlook for
the memorial project also was re-bected
at a meeting of the local
memorial committee headed by
Justice of the Peace Paul F.
Iliehm, which was held at the
Community Center last night.
While the original memorial
committee was organized ap­proximately
two years ago, its
work at no time in the past reach­ed
more than the stage of dis­cussing
possible projects. Sev­eral
local groups, however, have
at various times laid aside mon­eys
to be used when and if a
definite war memorial project is
adopted by the community.
LIONS CLUB PICNIC
NEXT THURSDAY
GETS CARDS "OF SYMPATHY
OVER PLIGHT OF AUTO
Donald Stauffer, chef at the
General Sutter Hotel, today turn­ed
the tables on a number of his
friends who mailed him cards of
sympathy this week when his
automobile was laid up for re­pairs.
Today Donald walked into
the Record-Express office and
plunked down the price of a Card
of Thanks which reads as fol­lows:
“I wish to express my
thanks for the kind remembrances
sent me during the time my car
was being repaired. Donald
Stauffer."
Former Burgess Menno Rohrer
was nominated without opposition
for the position of post command­er
of the Garden Spot Post of the
American Legion at a meeting
held in the post home on Tuesday
evening.
Mr. Rohrer will succeed com­mander
Joseph M. Carl. Other
nominations, all of whom will be
voted upon in September with in­stallations
scheduled for the Oct­ober
meeting, are as follows:
1st Vice Commander, W. Roy
E-nck.
2nd Vice Commander, Dopiald
Derby.
Finance Officer, John BadoTf.
Chaplain, Rev. Paul Miller.
Historian, Dr. Jonas Risser.
Sergeant - At - Arms, Raymond
Herr.
Directors (3 years), Richard
Rader, Paul McCloud, Joseph
Carl, Roy tReidenbaugh.
The large and beautiful mem­bership
trophy which was award­ed
the local post at the recent
state convention held at Pitts­burgh,
was presented to the club
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Schoenberger
Presented
Scholarship
(Members of the Lititz Sports
Club lost evening formally pre­sented
a sports scholarship to
¡Stanley Schoenberger, all-around
high school athlete, who graduated
last year.
iSchoentoenger is the first recipi­ent
of the 'scholarship recently an­nounced
by the local ex-service
men’s organization. The scholar­ship
carries a value of $25 per year
for four years and was established
an an effort to recognize deserving
athletes here.
The idea was originally present­ed
to the club, which sponsors a
number of sports teams, toy Earl
Reist, a member and head ¡bas­ketball
coach at Lititz High
¡School. The olujb unanimously ac­cepted
the idea and worked out
the details.
¡Schoenberger, the Hirst hoy to
he honored was an outstanding
athlete at Lititz High. He won
three varsity ¡letters in football,
where he was a backfield star. He
also won varsity letters in base­ball
and basketball.
Will Enter Stroudsburg
A son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Schoenberger, Spruce Street, (Lit­itz,
he plans to enter Stroudsburg
State Teachers College this fall.
FORMER RESIDENT TO
OBSERVE 90TH BIRTHDAY
PAPER) COLLECTION
HERE ON SATURDAY
A paper collection will be made
throughout the borough this Sat­urday
afternoon, it was announc­ed
this week. Persons with paper
to contribute are asked to tie it
up in bundles and to place these
at the curb prior to 1:00 p. m.
when the collection will start.
Proceeds will go to the local Boy
Scouts.
The annual Lions Club picnic
will be held next Thursday aftei •
noon and evening, August 21, at
the Ephrata Park.
An intresting program is being
arranged, according to John Stef-fy,
, president of the club. This
will include games and a number
of prizes will be awarded.
HAZEL HUNT WEDS
(George K. Schoenberger, former­ly
of this ¡borough, Will observe
his ninetieth birthday on Sunday.
In good ¡health, the former local
man was looking forward to greet­ing
many of his friends.
The anniversary will be marked
with an open house to be held at
¡the home of his daughter, Emma
Espeneade, BOO Church ¡Avenue,
Ephrata.
Ralph Schnee
Joins Life
Ins. Agency
Local Man Associated With
Geo. Wade Agency Of
Ohio Life Ins. Co.
Ralph Schnee, 331 Front ®t., this
¡borough, has recently become as­sociated
with the Geo. Wade
Agency of the Ohio National ¡Life
Insurance Co.
For the past -five and a half
years Mr. ¡Schnee has ¡been associ­ated
with the Animal Trap Go. of
America. (Previous to that he was
a Teller in the Farmers iBank ¡and
Trust Co., Lancaster, Pa.
Mr. Schnee’iS work ¡in this com­munity
will deal primarily with
co-ordinating Social ¡Security bene­fits
and insurance.
The Company he represents is
strong and conservative with
$317,046,412.00 Insurance in force
as of Dec. 31, 1947. $2,000,000.00 of
this was purchased last year for
the security of Lancaster County
families.
STOP WORRYING—THEY’RE BOTH REPUBLICANS—Jim
Beviloqua, keeper at Highland Park Zoo in Pittsburgh, got his
hand back after placing a big apple in his special pet’s mouth.
Thermometer Explodes
As Record Heat Wave
Grips Boro This Week
A therometer which registers
120 degrees proved the only cas­ualty
during the ¡record-shatter­ing
heat wave which struck Lititz
Tuesday afternoon and was con­tinuing
throughout Wednesday
and today.
In fact frying eggs on Main St.
would have been tame stuff dur­ing
the current “torrid spell in
which local therometers climbed
as high as ninety-eight degrees
which was registered here shortly
after three o’clock Tuesday after­noon.
The lone casualty, fortunately,
proved to be a large thermometer
hanging not too far from one of
the ovens at the N. D. Sturgis
pretzel bakery on East Main St.
Shortly after three o’clock the
thermometer burst with a hang
and sent a red stream spouting
out the top of the glass tube. On
the opposite side of the same
building, another thermometer
registered 105 degrees.
A freak rain storm brought
temporary relief to half of Lititz
between four and five o’clock
Wednesday afternoon—believe it
or not. Residents of the south end
'of the borough (reported a brisk
Tainfali for more than twenty
minutes—while those in the op­posite
end of town failed to note
ia single cooling drop of rain. At
Maniheimi a near-cloudburst was
reported.
Local physicians reported num­erous
calls to treat persons af­fected
by the heat but none of
which were suffering from heat
strokes. With a dry spell being
predicted for the next few days
at least, only thunder showers
held out any promise of tempor­ary
relief although temperatures
were expected \o become a bit
more comfortable over the coming
week-end.
And while Lititz does not ad­vertise
a swimming pool.Sythe
kiddies sought and found relief
both Tuesday and Wednesday af­ternoons
when they commandeer­ed
the fountain in front of the
borough school and quickly trans­formed
it into a wading pool. At
one time fourteen youngsters were
seen splashing about in enviable
comfort as half a dozen perspir­ing
adults gazed at them whist-fully.
Fire Co. Auxiliary
Plans Corn Roast
Members of the Ladies Auxil­iary
of the Lititz Fire Company
will hold a corn roast in the
Springs Park on Thursday, Sep­tember
4, according to plans an­nounced
this week.
. An interesting program is being
planned by the committee in
change which consists of those
members whose birthdays occur
during August and September. All
persons eligible to serve on this
comlmittee are asked to meet at
the firehouse next Wednesday,
August 20, at 7:30 p. m.
Driver Dies
.Under Truck
At Rothsville
DIVIDEND DECLARED
Miss Hazel F. Hunt, of Lan­caster,
forimer gymnasium teach­er
in the local school, became the
bride of Robert B. Shrom, of Eph­rata,
last Saturday afternoon in
the Bethany Evangelical and Re­formed
Clhurch, Ephrata, with the
Rev. Paul Snead officiating.
A regular quarterly dividend of
$1,25 was declared by the Sensen-ich
Corporation, propellor manu­facturers
on the Lititz Pike, for
holders of preferred stocks as of
August 31. The effective date of
the dividend is September 10,
company directors stated.
Manheim H. S. Band
To Furnish Music
For Penryn S. S. Picnic
The annual picnic of the St.
Paul’s Lutheran Sunday iSchoool
will be held ¡Saturday, August 16,
in the Penryn Picnic Grove. A
program of sports and entertain­ment
Will feature a baseball (game
between the single and married
men.
Refreshments will be on sale
and will include the famous chick­en
com soup. Music will be fur­nished
by the Manheim High
School Band.
E. PETERSBURG ROTARY
CLUB HOLDS PICNIC
The East Petersburg Rotary
Club held a picnic Thursday even­ing
at the cottage of Dr. M. H.
Yoder, near the Lebanon pump­ing
station. Twenty members and
their families attended. A prog­ram
of quoits, croquet and bowl-ing-
on-the-green followed supper.
A local physician who witnessed
the fatal truck accident in Roths­ville
Monday morning reported
that death bad come instantaneous
to the driver.
He is ¡Dr. William Kumoner, oif
'Hast Main Street, ¡who saw the
truck careen from the highway and
the truck driver, who apparently
had dozed off, topple out otf the
truck. A moment later part of
the truck landed on his body.
Running to the scene, Dr. Rum­mer
found that the driver already
was dead when he succeeded in
reaching him.
The victim was identified by po­lice
as Roy Goodhort, forty, 729
N. Fifth St„ Reading, an employe
of the Fredhofer Bakery Co., of
Reading, who was returning from
work, police said.
IDir. Henry Walter, RothsviUe,
deputy coroner for Glay and War­wick
townships, issued an acci­dental
death certiflicate. Dr. Wal­ter
said death was caused by a
crushed skuill, chest and pelvis.
'Pfc. Discavage said he learned
Goodbart, ¡who served a bread
route in the Blue Ball, Leola, Bare-ville,
and ¡Lancaster area, was re­turning
from work when the ac­cident
occurred.
He was driving .east on the nar
row road, police said, just west
of Rothsville, when be evidently
dozed off. Police ¡said his truck
swerved to the left side of the
road, and then tunned sharply to
the night
The sudden turn, police said,
threw Goodbart from the vehicle,
which overturned and dropped di­rectly
on him. Police said they
believed the sharp turn caused the
truck to ¡upset.
| Lock-Jaw
Causes Death
W. Hackman !
Scratch On Forehead
Thought Source Of infec­tion
; Funeral Today
Lock-jaw which developed from
a scratch caused the sudden death
this week of Willis B. Hackman,
of 23 South Ctedar Street, this
borough, who died Monday at
12:35 P. M. at the Lancaster Gen­eral
Hospital.
According to friends. Hackman
sustained the scratch on his fore­head
while working at his chiken-house
last Friday. It was thought
that he scratched the skin open
with a piece of chicken-wire but
hehe informed friends later that
he had pricked the skin open with
the end of a pick.
Wiping the blood away with
his hand, he continued working
for some time without applying
any medication to the slight
wound. On Saturday morning,
Mr. Hackman attended his busi­ness
hi the center of the borough.
At that time his jaw was drawn
slightly to one side and foe com­plained
that it was beioming more
painful. Friends advised him to
go to a physician immediately.
After examining him, Dr.
Franklin K. Cassel, South Broad
Street, ordered Mr. Hackman re­moved
immediately to the Lan­caster
General Hospital. His
condition continued to draw stead­ily
worse until his death.
He was seventy years of age
and lived in this borough fot the
past five years when he moved
here from his farm, at Millport.,
He was a member of the Church
of the Brethren here.
Besides his wife, Emma Geib
Hackman, he is survived by these
children: Andrew and Heniy
Hackman, both of Manheim R. 2;
Willis Hackman, Millwhy); Wal­ter
Hackman, Ephrata; Richard
Hackman, Millport; Violet, wife
of Dr. Roy Pfaltzgroff, both med­ical
missionaries at Nigeria, Af­rica;
and Emma, wife of W. W.
White, Highspire; four step chil­dren:
Herman Kreiner, Elizabeth­town;
Henry F. and Ivan Krein­er,
both of Manheim R. 2; and
Florence, wife of William Frey,
Lititz R. 4. Thirty grandchildren,
four great-grandchilren and a
sister, Mrs. Fimma Grube, Neffs-ville,
also urvive.
Services will be held this after­noon
at 1:30 from Beck Brothers
Funeral Home follewed by further
services in the Church of the
Brethren. Interment will be
made in the Millport cemetery.
VISIT HUNTING CAMP
Mr. and Mts. Melvin H. Bru­baker,
Robert and Nancy Brubak­er
and Carlos Ziegler of Lititz and
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Shimp and
family of near Stiasburg spent
the week end at their hunting
camp in Sullivan County.
TO PREACH SUNDAY
MARKS 82nd BIRTHDAY
¡Mrs. S. D. Fisher, of Columbia,
mother of Mrs. Raymond Ritz, of
this borough, (Sunday celebrated
her eighty-second birthday at the
home of her son, Cleon Fisher,
Lancaster. Five children were
present as well as guests from
Columbia, Lititz, Lancaster and
Philadelphia.
DR. MARTIN HOME
4-H CLUBS COMPLETE
The Efim and ¡Penryn 4-H Club
played the Ma.nlheim and Lititz 4-H
¡Club in ia baseball game Friday,
August 8, 1947 at the Lancaster
Airport baseball diamond.
The final score of the game was
10 to 12 in favor of the Elan and
Penryn Clulb.
Dr. D. C. Martin, who had been
confined to St. Joseph’s Hospital
in Lancaster for the past month,
was returned to his home here
this week. His condition has
shown considerable improvement,
it was reported.
RURAL YOUTH GROUP
ATTENDED CHURCH HERE
Thirty-five young people of a
Rural Youth Group from the Per-kiomen
Valley attended the Mora­vian
¡Sunday ¡School and Church on
Sunday morning. They make an
historical trip once a yeair. Fol­lowing
the service® they had lunch
at the Springs Park and then
visited the Landis Valley Museum
and the Ephrata Cloisters.
The Rev. Howard J. McCamey,
student chaplain at Gettysburg
College, will preach in St. Paul’s
Lutheran Clhurch on Sunday
morning.
ANNOUNCEMENT
¡Hershey’s Barber Shop will be
closed this Saturday, August 16,
due to the Orphans’ Court Sale
to be held at that time.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. Joseph W. Grosh wishes to
announce that his office will be
closed from August 17 to Septem­ber
1.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Elmer Mathers Barber
Shop on Orange Street will be
closed next week from Monday to
Thursday, nclusive.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The office of Dr. Robert B. Hub­er,
12 ¡South Broad Street, will be
closed from Saturday, August 16,
through Wednesday, August 20.