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Voi. LX Vili Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., November 27, 1947 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 43
Deer Hunters ! Lititz To Pay Respects
To Leave Here * To Its Patriotic War Dead
On Sunday To Arrive Here This Week.
Roy Eberly And Henry
Long Shoot
Bear
Body Of Tech. Edwin M.
Walters On Ship
Off Coast
Approximately 150 hun/ters froim
this section will make their exodus
for western Pennsylvania over the
coming1 week-end for the opening;
of deer hunting season on Mon­day
morning.
With reports of an unusually.'
large number of deer also roam­ing
this part of Lancaster and!
much of Lebanon and Berks
Counties, the btay-at-homes alsce
were contemplating real hunting;
and it was expected that an un­usually
large number of deeiL-hunters
will take the field here.
During the past several weeks,,
small-game hunters reported
sighting deer in both the Southi
Mountains and the Blue mount­ains.
Local deer hunters who al­most
annually organize to spend
Saturdays in these sections were
planning to go out the first Sat­urday,
December 6, for buck andl
then to return on the last day off
hunting when those who were
unsuccessful in obtaining buckc
can shoot doe.
The small-game season willl
come to an end this Saturday.
Several local hunters also were
successful in bagging bear this
year. They include Roy Eberly;,
of Spruce Street, who shot a 150
lb. bear and Henry Long, of Lex­ington,
who bagged a 250-lh.
specimen.
Most of the larger local clubs
will leave here early Sunday foir
their camps in the western partt
of the state. These will include
the Hershey Hunting Club whiclh
will go to Cedar Run, Lycoming
County for the sixteenth conse­cutive
year. Members of the
club planning to participate are;:
Owen, Abe and John Henry Her-shey,
Roy Long, Paul Doster1,
Eugene Long, Dr. C. L. Wertschi,
Clarence Hoffer, Eugene Stauffer,
Stanley Weit, Harvey, Raymond!
and Dervin Runk, Ike Hershey, off
Manheim, Joseph Hess, of Man-helm,
John Wagaman and Franlk
(continued on page four)
Lititz today was somberly
awaiting definite word of the
docking of the ship which is re­turning
the body of the first of its
patriotic war dead who paid the
Supreme sacrifice on foreign soil.
In a telegram received here
over the week-end, the Quarter­master)
in Phihldelphia revealed
that the ship bearing the body of
Tech, Edwin M. Walters, who was
killed in action in Germany,
Miarch 9, 1945, was expedted to
dock within a few days in New
York harbor.
Arrangements have been made
to receive the body when shipped
to Lancaster but until now no de­finite
word htas been received. As
soon as the body reaches Liititz,
public flagjs here will be lowered
to half-mast in honor of his mem­ory.
j The request that flags be low­ered
wias conveyed this week by
! Menno Rohrer, cotamiander of the
j Garden Spot Post of the American
Legion. Flags which will silently
saltue his return are those at the
Square, in front o£ tfhe Postoffice
and ,in front of the Borough
School.
The body will be brought here
by Rlalph M. Spacht and inter­ment
will be made in the Mac-pelah
cemetery. Particulars 'if
the military honors1 to be accord­ed
will not be announced until
after the body arrives.
Tech. Walters was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Walters,
of 228 East New Street. He was
twienty-five years of age and went
overseas October 1, 1944 attach­ed
to an engineer group bead-quarters
compafiy. He attended
Lititz High School and was a
member of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church where a service latex was
held in honor of his memory.
TECH. EDWIN M. WALTERS
I S Million
Xmas Seals
In Lane. Co.
Stamps Distributed Here
This Week In Annual
Drive
Meet The
Amish
(A Book Review)
MEET THE AMISH.) A plc<-
tortal study by Charlies S. RIc<e
and John B. Shenk. Rutgers
University Press.
To us. Meet the Amish Is bjy
far the most faisciniating studjy
of the Amish of Lancaster Coun­ty
of any published work to-date:
And if for no other reason, w«e
welcome this timely-printed vol­ume
tecau»« of its truly-sympat-hetic
and convtncingly-authentuc
text. We here in Lancaster County
have blushed in shame from aomte1
of the crude Amish booklets
which have been published in thte
pasit ten years with an eye om
the tourist trade. Filled wltlh
ridiculous inaccuracies thesie
little booklets have sold by thie
thousands.
Meet the Amish is the work of
Charles S. Rice, Lancaster photo,,
gnapher, who hag turned in tine
first real pictorial story of th<e
Amish, and John B. Shenk, ta
member of the faculty of Mill-lersville
State Teachers’ College,
whose simple presentation of fa.-,
of ffhe Amish is a tasty prelude
to the photographs.
For years, big-time photograpi-hers
representing news syndicates
and magazines have been invadl-ing
Lancaster County to snajp
pictures of the Amish. But thie
Amish have no time for photoi-graphs
and up to now have 1?uc:-
cessfully eluded the photographe r
(Continued on Page 4)
A Chinese Dinner
Features Affair At
Church Of The Brethren
A three course Chinese dinner
Was served in the Church of the
Brethren on Wednesday even­ing
by the Missionary Society oi
the church. The food and decora­tions
were of a Chinese motif and
the program was one of a series
of four special programs by the
Society.
Miss Lottie Nies was in charge
of the program, which included
a geography lesson on China; a
letter from Mrs. Dolores Hartman
Snader, the missionary the So­ciety
supports in China; and pic­ture!}
of thè mission. Eighty
persons attended. The
stjudied included, India,
China and Ecuador.
series
Africa,
REV. TRUNK ELECTED
MINISTERIAL HEAD
SAUERKRAUT DINNER
The Dorcas Bible Class of Sit.
Paul’s Lutheran Sunday School
will hold a sauerkraut dinner oin
Wednesday, December 3, from
11 a- m. to 1 p. m. in the churclh
basement.
Thanksgiving
To Be Joyous
Holiday Here
Local Tastes Divided Be­tween
Chicken, Duck
And Turkey
Presentation to Governor in y
Opening of Christmas Seal Sale
Lititz’ Thanksgiving promises
to be a joyous one with even the
weatherman co-operating in pro •
viding clear, cold weather to
Sharpen appetites.
And while the day is tradition •
ally known as Turkey Day, Lititz
folks this year will divide inter­ests
among turkeys, chickens ai.d
ducks, it seemed imminent this
week. The ladies at the Moravian
Hotaie have expressed a prefer­ence
for chicken while th ladies
and gentlemen at the United
Zion Home agreed to follow their
annual custom of enjoying a duck
dinner.
Turkey growers, however, re­ported
a spurt in turkey sales
with this year’s hales expected to
exceed those of the past several
years and with prices remaining
at about the same level.
'Special services in local church­es
will feature the day although
family reunions about the festive
board will be the big climax of
the holiday.
'Fifteen million penny 'Christmas
Seals are being distributed to city
and county residents this 'week as
the 47t!h annual Christmas Seal
campaign opens. The Seals were
put into the mails over the week­end,
addressed to more than 50,000
prospective contributors.
The Christmas Seal Sale, spon­sored
by the Tuberculosis Society
of; Lancaster County, host fr-goal-of
$35,000—sole suport of the Society
in its work of tuberculosis preven­tion
and control in this community.
The design of the Seal this year
is by artist Raymond Lufkin, of
Tenafly, N. J., and is an interpreta­tion
of the spirit of Christmas as
a team of oxen hauling a load of
evergreens—reflecting the spirit of
community teamwork which car­ries
on the fight against tuber­culosis.
Posters for the campaign bear
the message “Protect Your Home
from Tuberculosis.’’ These are
ibeing distributed by Boy Scouts
in the City and County, and Girl
'Scouts in the city.
The Seals will be sold only
through the mail campaign in the
county. Contributions are to be
sent The Tuberculosis Society of
(Lancaster County, 600 Jiuliette
Ave., Lancaster, Pa. Checks are
to be made payable to H. F. Myers,
Jr., treasurer.
Auto Ablaze
After Crash
On Main St.
Will Dedicate
Church Organ-
This Sunday
Kissel Church To Honor
Memory Of Sgt. Paul
Leeking
An Es'tey, two-manual reed or­gan,
will be formally dedicated
to the memory of the late Ser­geant
Paul Leeking, Kissel Hill
youth killed in action in the Eu­ropean
sector during the war, at
special services to be conducted
Sunday afternoon in the Salem
Lutheran Church a t Kissel Hill.
In receiving his allotment of the 1947 Christmas Seals Governor James H. Duff was presented with two
framed pictures showing oxen at work on a Clearfield County farm, a scene more familiar in former years.
In making the presentation Admiral M. F. Draemel, State Secretary of Forests and Waters, told the Gov­ernor
the teamwork of oxen as depicted on the Seal typifies the cooperation which is gradually subduing
tuberculosis. At the left is Clifford L. Fenton, president of the Tuberculosis and Health Society of Dauphin
and Perry Counties, who holds a copy of the Christmas Seal poster, and at the right is Willard S. Hagar,
Deputy Secretary of the State Department of Agriculture, with a sheet of Seals. Mr. Hager had experience
with oxen in his boyhood days in Bradford County and later as farm agent in Mercer County he led the
fight to eliminate tuberculosis in cattle on a county basis. The Seal design is typical of oldtime forest and
farm scenes in Pennsylvania.
Congressman Dague
Is Opposed To
Consumer Controls
The Rev. Charles F. Trunk,Jr„
was re-elected president of the
Ministerial Association at a meet­ing
held recently. Other officers
elected were as follows, the Rev.
Jacob T. Dick, vice-pres.; the Rev.
George B. Carvell sec-treas.
Community Hymn Sing
A Christmas Community hymn
sing was planned toy the ministers
to be held on December 14 in the
Moravian Churoh. Plans were also
discussed for the Teacher Training
School to be held after the holi­days.
Congressman Paul Dague, who
represents Lancaster and Chester
Counties in Washington, is op­posed
to consumer controls at
this time, according to word
reaching here from Washington
this week.
“I do not believe in consumer
controls except in a time of a
great emergency and abteoute ne­cessity
and from my knowledge of
the situation a t the moment, I do
not believe that .this is so,’’ Con­gressman
Dague declared.
“Production is the answer,’’
Dague answered, adding1, “Pro­duction
will lower prices and what
we need right now more than any­thing
else is isoime good hard work
on everybody's part - a little el­bow
grease to Save what free
enterprise we have left.”
The Lititz Fire Comany was
summoned a t 12:3>0 a. m. Sunday
to extinguish 'a slight blaze in an
automobile which had figured in
a two-car collision at the inter­section
of East Main and Cedar
Streets. The1 firemeh were" not
needed since the blaze was ex­tinguish'd
when they arrived’.
Officer LuKher 'Nagle reported
that a car driven by Ralph Hart-ranft,
Ephrata, traveling east n
Main Street, collided with a car
operated by Robert Enck, Lititz
R. ,1, who wafc traveling south on j
Cedar Street. j
The blaze, of unknown origin,
developed in the Hartranft car, I
police said, and both cars were
damaged to the extent of several j
hundred dollars. Mrs. Hartranft,
an occupant in her husband’s car,
suffered a laceration above her
eye iand was treated by Dr.
Frlanklin Cassel.
Fire In Shed
The Lititz Fire Company was
called at 12:30 p. m. Saturday to
extinguish a fire in a shed, where
waiste materials and six four-wheeled
trucks are kept, adjoin­ing
the Wilbur-Suchard Co.
The trucks and the shed itself
were charred, Fire Chief Raymond
Runk reported. The Are company
was aided in combatting the fire
by factory employes.
A second fire brought out the
Lititz fire company just after
midnight to quench a blaze in an
auto on main street.
THANKSGIVING — 1947
O God, beneath Thy guiding hand
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea;
And when they trod the wintry strand,
With prayer and psalm they worshiped Thee.
■«' ' _ 1 ^ ■ - ' 1,1 • ' ' ' ' •" Thou heard’st, well pleased, the song, the prayer:
Thy blessing came; and still its power
Shall onward, thro’ all ages, bear
The memory of that holy hour.
Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
Came with those exiles o’er the waves;
And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
The God they trusted guards their graves.
And here Thy Name, O God of love,
Their children’s children shall adore,
Till These eternal hills remove,
And spring adorns the earth no more.
— Leonard Bacon
Various Churches Plan
Thanksgiving Day Services
REV. WILLIAM B. TOLAND
MISS PENNSYLVANIA
WILL SING SUNDAY
ANNUAL XMAS SALE
AT HUEBENER HOME
SERVICES WEDNESDAY
FOR JOHN PETERS
Funeral services for John Pet­ers,
retired farmer, who died last
Wednesday morning in Tucson.
Arizona, will be held1 Wednesday
afternoon in the East Petersburg
Mennonite Church. A public view-p.
m. All kinds of needlework, ing will be held in Sipacht’s Fun-knitted
articles and all kinds of eral Parlor Tuesday evening from
gifts will toe on sale. seven to nine.
The annual Christmas gift sale
of the Dorcas Circle of Kings
Daughters will toe held at the
home of Miss Mary Huebener 66 E.
Main St., beginning Wednesday,
morning Dec. 3 at 8:90 a. m. and
continueing until Saturday at 6:00
Misis Dorothy Gresh, known as
Miss Pennsylvania and well-known
to Lititz audiences as the neice
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Nuss, this
borough, will be the soloist during
an inspirational rally in the Em­manuel
E. U. B. Church, Browus-town,
this Sunday evening at 7:30
(p. m.
The pally is sponsored by the
Lancaster County Federation of
Men’s Bible Classes. J. R. Bow­ers.
first national vice president
of the men's federation, will be
the speaker of the evening.
FI1RE CO. AUXILIARY
COMMITTEE TO MEET
Chorus Will
Sing Here
Sunday Night
The Rev. William B. Toland,
minister of the St. Paul Baptist
Church of Harrisburg, Pennsyl­vania
will be the speaker at the
Church of the Brethren at 7:00 p.
m. this Sunday.
The Rev. Toland is fiifst vice
president lof |h e Pennsylvania
Stto.te Convention. He will bring
with him a chorus from his church
which will sing several numbers
throughout the service.
At SiOO1 p. m. the Young People
of tthe church will have their
meeting at which rime Donald
Snider, National Youth Director
of the Church of the Brethren,
from El gib, Illinois will be the
speaker. Don Snider has recently
returned from Oslo, Norway,
where he was a delegate at the
World Youth Conference. Mr. Snid­er
alfeo visited many European
countries where the churches are
distributing relief.
At this service the local Youth
have invited the Lancaster Young
People to be their guests.
A committee for all members of
the Fire Company Auxiliary
wiho»?e birthdays come in Decem­ber
will be held at the home of
Mrs. M. C. Demmy, Spruce St.,
Monday at 7:30 p. m. This com­mittee
will make plans for the
Christmas party to be held Thurs­day,
December 4, in the firehouse
Thanksgiving will be observed
in the various churches with spec­ial
services. St. Lukes Evangeli­cal
and Reformed and the United
Brethren will hold a joint service
on Wednesday evening in the Uni­ted
Brethren churoh at 7:30 with
the sermon toy the Rev. Carl W.
Isenfberg.
i&t. 'Paul’s Lutheran will hold
their service at eight o’clock on
Thanksgiving morning with a
Church Family Breakfast in the were’ MrSl Arthur fling, vice
social room of the church. i President; Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp,
The Moravian Church will have corresPonding secretary; Miss
a Harvest Home service combined Mary Huebener, recordmg secre-witfh
9.30 w ___ ___
vegetables’ and fraU will toe given boand’ are, Miss E Mag-to
the Moravian Home. dal“ a ®ricker’ ^ « s Winifred
The Trinity Evangelical Congre-: fnbe r Mrs. C. Eugene Long,
gational Church will hold a service Mrs C- M™ f a ^ e r . The
at 9:30 with the sermon by th e , borird aso includes Miss
Rev. George B. Carvell and special C‘
miusic by the choir directed by
George Shultz.
The Church of the Brethren will
have a service at 9:30 with the
sermon on Thanksgiving by the
Rev. Jacob T. Dick and special
music by the choir, directed by
Miss Arlene Schlosser.
The ofigan is the gift of the
Luther League of the church, of
which Sgt. Leeking was a mem­ber.
The dedicatory sermon will
be preached by Rev. J. F. Knittle,
D! D., pastor of the church, with
B. G. Daniels presiding at the
organ.
The program to be presented is
as follows:
Processional Hymn,
Church’s One Foundation.”
Organ, “Largo.”
The Order of Service.
Scripture Ley son.
(Continued on Page 8)
“The
Mrs. Edwin hurtz
Re-elected President
Of Missionary Society
' Mrs. Edwin Kortz was re-elec­ted
president of the Women’s
Missionary Society of the Mora­vian
Church 'at the meeting held
1 on Thursday 'afternoon at the
church. Other officers elected
a Thanksgiving service at tary-’ A- L- DouPle’ ^ s u r -
The gifts of canned goods, er- Members at large on the exe-
A. Vir-
Seldom-ridge
and Mrs. Joseph Zahm who
serve as chairmen of the Aaska-
Labador-Surinam mission boxes.
The Society decided to pay the
ftiuition and furnish the outfit for
Nannie Reed George, an Eskimo
girl in the orphanage at Bethel,
Alaska.
Mrs, Sara Jenkins
Enterains Delphians
Mrs. Sara K. Jenkins enter­tained
the Delphian Society at
her hom6 on Thursday evening.
Miss Anna K. Miller was in
c!Arge and fifteen members a t­tended.
Mrs. Avis Stengel and Mrs.
Edward Buch were appointed on
the coordinating council. The
program featured a book review,
“Plenty of Pennsylvania” by
Mrs. Florence G.ibbel, Miss Mary
Huebener, Miss Mary Reiden-bach
and Mrs. W. H. Muth. The
roll call was answered by naming
a favorite famous Pennsylvanian.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. Edward Buch
on December 4.
THANKSGIVING PRAYER
By Selina Cox
To Re-stock Pheasants
Starting Monday
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
IFOR ADULT SCOUTERS
With the small game
A
season i Will
leadership
be held in
training course
Ithe Community
Dr. F. W. ¡Stengel is spending
several weeks in New York City
visiting friends and relatives.
The Rev. and Mrs. Donald Floyd,
the Rev. and Mrs. W, H. Kauler of i
Pottstown visited the Rev. and
Mrs. George B. Carvell on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Overdorf
spent Sunday (with the Carvells.
ending Saturday, members of the
Lititz Sportsmen’s Association
will start re-stl>cking pheasants
on Monday morning, it was an­nounced
today.
Early Monday approximately 30
cock pheasants purchased by the
'association and an equal number
pufrejhased individually by mem­bers,
will be released.
Center, Thursday evening, Dec­ember
4, under auspice*? of the
Cloister District, Boy Scouts.
Registration will take place at
7:15 p. m. wiith the program 10
commence promptly at 7:30 p. ,m.
All adult scouters of the Lititz
neighborhood are invited to at­tend.
The instruction will in­clude
a slide demonstration.
How can I thank you
Lord this day
For treasure*? gained?
For fortunes won?
My horizons are so small
Day’s sdarce begun
Before the night comes on.
Little shining faces
How dear they are
I would give thanks
For each sweet smile
Buit they are not mine for long
Just loaned to me awhile
I dare not halt their mile.
Then this is my song'
God in Thy Home
Above this worried world
Thanks, thanks to Thee
For the great gift you gave
That gives me eyes to see.
That life grows to eternity.
My head is bowed
In thanks for such rich living
God with a humble heart yett
proud
I once again touch Heaven in
Thanksgiving.