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Vol. LXVIII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., November 20, 1947 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by maii No. 47
Big Turkey Suppply
But Thanksgiving Feast
Will Strain The Budget
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Churches Here Plan
Services For
Holiday
There mil be plenty of turkey
and all the trimmin’s—hut the
Thanksgiving feast this week is
liable to strain the 'budget, ac­cording
to a survey made here this
week.
Witlh all foodstuffs up with the
exception of turkeys, it was rough­ly
estimated by local grocers that
this year’s turkey feast will cost
from ten to twenty iper-cent higher
than it did a year ago. There will
be a larger variety of .foodstuffs,
¡however, to compensate for the in­creased
costs.
Turkeys were reported plentiful
although not as much as last year
largely due to the fact that feed
costs are higher. A brisk demand
which completely exhausted one
local flock also indicated that
prices maiy show an advance before
next Thursday.
With sugar off the ration list
for the first time since before the
war, local housewives were able
again to go in for a batch of old-fashioned
baking with pies anl
cakes destined to regain their
former places of prominence on
the Thanksgiving menu.
The first of the students to re­turn
home for the holiday were
scheduled to reach Lititz this
week-end. Ano/miber of social
functions have been planned for
their (benefit.
The Thanksgiving 'Day will he
observed by all local churches
with special programs. The Uni­ted
Brethren Church here will hoild
its service on Wednesday evenimg
at seven o’clock. Other local
churches have planned special ser­vices
for Thursday morning.
Monroe Miller
Died In Fall
At Plant Here
Honor Roll
Students
Announced
The students on the honor roll
for the past six weeks are as
follows: seniors, Clair dePerrot,
Cynthia Diller, Robert Halblelb,
Gary Hanna, »tartan Lutz, Robert
Mentzer, Vivian Shenk.
Juniors, Mien Adadr, Rachael
Balmer, Bette Behmer, Nelda Bru­baker,
Joanne Ember, Joan Fas-nachit,
Mary (Lou Hershey, Joseph
Hess, William Kauffman, Reba
Kline, Doris Kolb, Donald Kreider,
Albert Leanza, (Dolores Little, Joan
Ruebman, Mary Alice Weber, Pat­ricia
iPtauta.
(Sophomores: Marianne Baer,
Nancy Brettigan, Delores ¡Hack-man,
John Keehn, Joyce Roth,
Janet ReUbmait, Lorraine Stehman,
Lamar Sharp; Grade Bight, John
Hershey, Robert Hess, David
Schnee, RaMi Ford, Paula Good,
Elaine Hackman, Bsterlee Hower,
Frances Kipp, Barbara KUng, Dor­othy
Kreider, Shirley Neff, Jacque­line
Owens, Nancy Stroble.
Grade Seven, David Amldon,
Donald Garber, Bruce ifcMtrnberg,
Donald Ruhl. Larry Wenger, Debra
Diehm, Freida Hberly, Rachael
Longenecker, John Warner, Audrey
Reist, Audrey Risser, (Polly Ann
Risser, Lee Ann Sohoff&tfll, Phoe­be
Spacht, Patrica Steinn$an, Mer­ita
Wagaman, Stanley Stout and
June Badortf.
Body Found At Base Of
10-Ft. Platform In Keath
Planing Mill
Choir Director Named
At Trinity Evan. Church
George Shultz, a student study­ing
for the ministry at Franklin
and Marshall College, Lancaster,
has been appointed choir director
of the Trinity Evangelical Con-
Monroe L. Miller, sixty-six,
night watchman at the Keath
Planing Mill, was found dead
Thursday ¡at 9:55 p. m„ apparently
the victim of a fall from a high
platform in the plant.
Miller reported for work at 5:30
p. m., according to the time clock
card he punched. When he could
not be located, Elwood Keath,
foreman, called' Jacob Frey,
another night watchman. They
entered the build(*ng find found
Miller lying near (the platform,
which is about ten feet high.
Dr. Paul Hess was called to
(the ¡plant, ¡in the absence of Dr.
M. H. Yoder, coroner, and pro­nounced
the man dead. Dr. Yoder
later issued a certificate of ac­cidental
death due to a fractured
skull, and |said Miller had prob­ably
been dead severa hours be­fore
he was found.
The watchman was bom in
Warwick Twp., a son of the late
Henry and Lizzie Landis Miller.
He was a member of the Lititz.
Mennonite Church.
Surviving are his wife, the for­mer
Mamie Sheaffer, and the fol­lowing
children: Alvin, Esther,
Henry, all at home; Albert, Lititz;
Ruth, wife of Amos Clair, Willow-
Street, and Chester, Coatesville;
six grandchildren, and three
brothers, Benjamin, Lititz; Har­vey,
Lititz R. D., and Charles,
Landsdowne.
Services were held Sunday from
Spacht’s with interment in the
Hess .Mennonite cemetery.
Bomberger Honored
By County Bankers
Paul H. Bomberger, cashier of
the Farmers’ National Bank here,
was re-elected secretary for the
seventh consecutive term of the
Lancaster County Bankers As­sociation
at the annual meeting
held last Thursday night in the
General Sutter Hotel. The meet­ing
was the largest ever held by
the association.
The program included a talk on
“Economics and Banking,” by
Harold Cherry, vice president of
the Lionel ¡Edie and Company, New
York; And a discussion of the
“Community Property Law of
Penna.’’ by Robert S. McClure, of
Lancaster.
JOINS STAFF
Paul Sipe has been added to the
staff of janitors in the public
shcools. He began work on Mon­day.
Mahlon Hostetter
Has Narrow Escape
Mahlon Hostetter, well-known
local (farmer, had a narrow escape
from serious injury on his farm
near here last week when his hand
became caught in a corn tuusker.
The mishap occurred when a
helper misunderstood Mr. Hostet­ter
wle| he declared he would
clean out the machine. He had
just reached in when the helper
started the busker. The machine
was stoped immediately but had
to be placed in reverse before his
hand could be released.
Rev. Couillard
To Speak Here
On Sunday
Sound Film To Be Shown
In Moravian Churh
Sunday Night
Tihe Rev. Vernon W. Couillard of
Bethlehem, Pa. will occupy the
pulpit of the Moravian Church on
Sunday, November 23rd. The Rev.
Mr. Couillard was recently install­ed
as Dean of Moravian Theolog ­ical
Seminary. He was called to
this position from the pastorate of
the New Drop Moravian Congrega­tion
on Staten Island, New York.
In the evening service the mes­sage
will be brought by a Cathed­ral
sound-film entitled, “Man of
Faith.” The film is based on the
incident in the 2nd. Chapter of St.
(Mark’s Gospel when 4 men lower
a sick friend through the roof of a
Local Woman
Settles Suit
For $ 6 2 ,0 0 0
Mrs. Kathryn Derr Recov­ers
Damages For In­juries
Sustained
A suit ¡for more than $6(2,000
damages arising from an accident
in which a Lititz (woman was run
over by a truck, was announced
as settled when Common Pleas
Court opened Monday.
The suit was filed by Donald and
Kathryn Derr, of Ltiitz, against
(Stella Miller, trading as the IMiller
Junk and Waste Co., Lancaster, for
damages totaling $62,267.32.
It arose from an accident in
which Mrs. Derr was struck and
run over by a truck of the junk
firm while she was walking an
Hazel St., Lancaster, at 2:40 p. m.
on April 15, 1946.
(Mrs. Derr claimed that she had
suffered permanent injuries in the
accident. Terms of settlement
were not made public.
Sealed Verdict
A sealed verdict was returned
at 5:30 p. m. Monday by a jury in
the case of Blanche E- Follmer,
Milton, trading and doing business
under the name of H. H. Foll-mer
Contract Hauling versus C.
Roy, H. Melvin and C. Ralph Bink­ley
and Harry B. Ober, trading
and doing business under the name
of ‘Binkley Bros, and Ober, and
Kenneth F. Kiehl of Nefffeville and
Lititz. A counter suit was also
filed.
The suit resulted from an acci­dent
(which occurred on Mlarket
POLAR RENDEZVOUS
(house to bring him' to Jesus.
On Thanksgiving day a service j ^ reet, Elizabethtown, when a Foil-of
worship will be held In the jjjer truck, enroute to Harrisburg,
church at 9:30 a. m. The custom
of the church will be followed in
bringing gifts of food, farm pro­ducts,
canned goods, etc., for the
‘Moravian Home.
Rebekahs Announce
Prize Winners
party
given
A successful card
which turkeys were
prizab was held in the firehouse
last week by members of the local
Rebekah Lodge.
Prize winners were as follows:
Five jHundred: Grace Benner,
Sally Clausen and Grace Harnley.
4-Hland Pinochle: J . C. Carpent­er,
Calvin Miller, Bessie Brene-man,
Riley Lausteh, Anna Dus-singer
and Laura Burkhoder.
3-Hand Pinochle: Raymond
Buch and Monroe Mundorf.
Door prize: Samuel Herr.
Prizes on books: Dorothy
Bowerfe, C. A. .Witmyer, Jay Web­er
and Edna Heck.
Prizes on chances: Mrs. Curtis
Long and Mrs. Helen Ritz.
PRACTISE TEACHING
Mifcs Shirley Place and Miss
Mary Smith, -two ¡Seniors from
State College, are taking practice
teaching under Miss Margaret
Hower in the Bom« Economics de­partment
for the next eight
weeks.*
and a truck owned by Binkley
Bros, and Ober and headed to­wards
Lancaster, collied in Feb­ruary,
1946. The Follmer truck was
operated by Marlin Page, Win­field,
Pa., and Kenneth F. Kiehl
was operating the second truck at
the time of the accident.
• To Award $ 1 0 0 In Prizes
—| For Best Decorated Homes
Here This Christmas
The far-flung activities of American submarines during World War n
fhat brought the undersea w aft to the home waters of the Japanese
Empire in the van of the fighting fronts, are continued into peacetime
data to bo need far (
(OBqIi I V. S, Hu rt P bn og ttp h )
Record Again Will
Publish Baby Pictures
The Record-Express this week
a/nuounces the forthcoming pub­lication
of a peries of locfel chil­drens
pictures, yet «to be taken.
Arrangements have been complet­ed
with the Kelly Studios of
Biarnesboro, Pa., a nationally
known firm, specializing in chil­drens
photography for news­papers,
take the pictures and
furnish the engravings.
Epipert childrens photographers
gregational church choir. He ’ for the studio- with a11 the neces-succeeds
Robert Hackman who i s ' s« y equipment for this specialized
studvmg in New York. work, wiU be in Lititz 011 Monday
The Rev. A. R. Kratzer, super- 1 and Tuesday .December 15 and 16.
intendent of the Herndon Home ' The special studio will be set
for the Aged, preached in the UP the Lititz Fire House and
Evangelical Congregational church will be open December 15 and . 6
on Sunday in the absence of the fbom 12 noon to 8:00 p. m.
Rev. George B. Carvell who is There is no charge to the par-conducting
evangelistic services in ents. There ifc absolutely no ob-the
First E. C. Church at Read- ligation to this invitation. There j many pictures as possible so don’
ing is no age1 limit. It Is bonafide in j forget the days andi dates.
every sense of the word.
Parents do not have to be sub­scribers
nor even readers of this
newspaper. Neither are they ob­ligated
to purchase pictures after
they are taken. Those who want
some additional prints may obtain
them by arrangement with the
studio Representative when they
select the pose they want printed
in the paper. It is entirely up to
them.
You will be happy, afterwards
if you let your child or children
participate and very sorry if you
don’t. The kiddies will have fun
and mother and dad will be very
proud to see theirs ¡pictures in
print later. Many will clip them
out and pTeperve them until jun­ior
grows up.
The Record-iExpress wfr.nts as
Parents Are
Scored By
Speaker Here
Mrs. Ross Myers, Dean Oi
Girls At McCaskey High,
Addresses Meeting
“It is the adults of today who
make the environment in which
youth lives and set the patterns
for their (behavior,” asserted Mrs.
Ross Myers, Dean of Girls at Mc­Caskey
High School in her address
on Youth and Liquor.
Mrs. Myers was the guest speak­er
at the Dues Meeting and Birth­day
(Party of Lititz Woman’s
Christain Temperance Union last
Thursday evening in the social
room of Trinity Evangelical Con­gregational
Church.
The November Roll Call brought
in over one hundred annual dues.
Eleven new members were report­ed.
The Department of Soldiers,
Sailors and (Marines displayed an
afghan made (by (Mrs. Mary Guiles
and a few others who contributed
knitted square®.
Mrs. Lily Zook, Department Di­rector
appealed for yarn, old or
new, much or little.
Master John Newcomer, enter­tained
with marimba music at in­tervals
during the evening.
Refreshments were served to
the groups seated around their re­spective
month tables. The table
decorations were clever and
unique.
Dr. Home
Addresses
Woman’s Club
Describes History And Ac­complishments
Of The
Penna. Dutch
(Dr. Byron K. Horne, headmas­ter
of Linden Hall addressed the
Woman’s Club a t their meeting,
Monday evening a t the General
Sutter Hotel. “Some Contributions
of the Pennsylvania German to
Out American Way” was the Sub­ject
of his talk.
He told of the migration of
the people from the Rhine Valley
comling to this country between
the years of 1730 to 1740, in the
port of Philadelphia and settling
in Germantown, Bucks county,
Berks county and Lancaster coun­ty.
During the years 1740-1768,
there was another migration of
Lutherans, Reformed and Mora­vians,
following in the path of
the Mennonitefe, these people set­tled
in Northampton, Berks, Leb­anon
andl York counties.
In the year 1810, a number of
Irish, English, Germans and
Welsh arrived, settled, intermar­ried
and there deveoped a sect
known to us as the Pennsylvania
German.
The four contributions of the
Pennsylvania German to Our
Aimerican Way were in the field
of education, agriculture, their
natural resourcefulness and their
contribution to our American
Democracy,
The Finance committee was in
charge of the program, with Mrs.
John Garber, introducing the
speaker.
Mrs. V. Brobst, president, was
in charge of thp meeting and
! Mrs. Lloyd Sheaffer, of the Wel-i
fare committee, reported g lft3
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Seniors Complete
For Scholarships
WILLIAM FASNACHT ACCEPTS
POSITION WITH BANK
William Fasnacht has accepted
a position in the trust department
of the Conestoga Nationl Bank,
Lancaster, and took over the dut­ies
of his new position this week.
For the past several years, Mr.
Fasnacht, who is a member of
the borough school board, has
held an executive position in the
Morgan Paper Company plant
here. Prior to that he was em­ployed
at the Farmers’ National
Bank of this borough.
The Pepsi Cola scholaship ex­amination
will be held on Friday
at 9:00 a. m. in the local high
school, according to M. C.
Demmy, supervising principal.
The senior class selecter three of
their members who they though
would contribute the most to hu­man
progress, they are, Cynthia
Diller, Robert Mentzer and Vivian
Shenk.
Those who pass this examina­tion
successfully will be awarded
a scholarship entitling them to a
paid college tuition for four years,
twenty-five dollars a month and
traveling expenses for the four
years. One hundred and nineteen
will be awarded in the country.
Thank Service
At St. Paul’s
This Sunday
Dr. Barbara DeRemer Will
Speak In Evening; To
Collect Clothes For Needy
The annual Thank Offering
service of the Missionary Societ­ies
of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
will be held Sunday evening at 7
The speaker will be Dr. Bar­bara
DeRemeri, of Williamsport,
a missionary now on furlough
from India. Also taking part in
the service will be Mrs George D
Clarke, Mrs. Robert J . Hanna and
Miss Winona Leed. The Junior
Choir, directed by Albert S. Eb-beTty
will sing “Father Most
Merciful,” by Franck. The Rev.
Charles F. Trunk, pastor of St.
Paul’s, will pronounce the bene­diction.
St. Paul’s has set the time from
Sunday to Thanksgiving Day for
the collection of clothing for the
needy of Europe and Mia., the
third such collection made by the
local congregation. The church
will be open those days and' all
clothing which members of St.
Paul’s or others of Lititz wish to
give can be left there.
Thanksgiving Service
The annnual Thanksgiving ser­vice
will be held at 8 on Thurs­day
morning, November 27, fol­lowed
by the customary church-family
breakfast.
The Young People’s Choir, also
directed by Mr. Ebbert, will sing
‘-Hold Thou My Hand,” by Briggs,
at the service this Sunday morn­ing.
Koffee Klatch
The Sunbeam Ola$s will hold
a Koffee Klatch from 7 to 10 this
evening at the home of Mrs. John
Steffy^ South Broad Street.
Everybody is invited.
John Peters
Dies Suddenly
In Arizona
Well-Known Retired Far-
I mer Had Gone West
For His Health
Street Lighting Will
Erected Here Next
Week
Be
John F. Peters, retired farmer,
of this borough, died at 7 a. m.
Wednsday in the St. Mary’s Hos­pital,
Tucson, Arizona. Arrange-mei\
i were being completed to
|8hip the body eastward when
plans for the funeral service will
be made.
Mr. Peters, who was sixty-six,
flew to Tucson five weeks ago
seeking relief from an acute as­thma
condition. He also suffered
a heart condition which is thought
to have been the cause of his
death.
His hobby was fishing and he
spent much of his time in recent
years along the Susquehanna
River.
Bom in Mfenheim Township,
he spent most of his years farm­ing.
Four years ago he retired
and moved to thfr? borough where
he engaged for a time in the re­tail
fish business. He was a mem.
her of the Liititz Fire Company,
the Lititz Sportsmen and the
E. Petersburg Mennonite Church.
He is survived by one daugh­ter,
Anna Ruth, wife of Roy Gar­ber,
Lititz R. D. 1, two sisters, a
brother and two step-sisters.
Major Gum Will
Speak Here Monday
Joel B. Guin, major 0 . R. C.
will deliver a lecture in Fellow­ship
Ball, Moravian Sunday
School building on Monday even­ing,
at 8:00 p. m. on the subject,
“What's Right With Amettkju?”
Mr. Guin is preesented by Lin­den
Hall. He is an author, lec­turer,
businessman, radio com­mentator
and world traveler, a
forceful and dynamic speaker. He
has a message very much needed
in the country today. To those
who say America does not offer
the opportunities of, yesteray, he
points out that although geo­graphic
frontie r may be closed,
the surface of educational and
social deveopment has “just been
scratched” and leaves his audience
a finer and richer appreciation
that they are Americans.
Prizes totaling more than $100
will be awarded to the best de­cocted
homes in Lititz during
l^he 'Qrlristmas holidays, accord­ing
to action taken by the local
Chamber of Commerce at a meet­ing
held in the Community Cen­ter
laslt evening.
It was indicated that the first
prize will be one of $15 with ad­ded
awards of $15, $10 and num­erous
$5 prizes. Thfr judging
will take (place Christmas week
under auspices of the Chamber
of Commerce.
Originality and artiisticness will
play an important part in the
ruling although it was pointed out
that the displays need' not be
elaborate or expensive in order
to win a prize.
Announcement also was made
that Ithe lighted stars to be plac­ed
throughout the business sec­tion
on Main and Broad Streets
will be erected nexst week and in
readiness to be ighted on Decem­ber
1. The special yuletide dis­play
to be erected on the lawn of
the Lititz Mutual Insurance Com­pany
also is expected' to be ready
by that time.
Nominate Directors
The following were nominated
as diretors with the election of
nine of these to be made by mail:
Abe Beck, Clyde Benner, Paul F.
Diehm, William Fasnacht, Harry
Grubb, Tobe Erline, Joseph B.
Hess, William N. Young, Leonard
Milleir,John Lutz, Hat-try Gorton
and M. C. Demmy.
The ballott to be mailed direc­tor^
« also will include a vote on
the loda war memorial prefer-
MISSIONARY TO ADDRESS
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
AT KISSEL HILL
The annual Thanksgiving ser­vice
of the Women’s Missionary
Society of the Salem Lutheran
Church a t Kissel Hill will be held
this Sunday afternoon at two
o’clock. Dr. Barbara DeBemer,
a missionary to India, will be the
speaker of the afternoon.
TO SELL CAKES
The Junior Glass of Lititz High
School will hold a bake sale at the
Lutz Market House next Wednes­day
afternoon. Pies, cakes, candy,
etc., will be offered for sale.
Reader Discusses
High School Football
Editor, Record-Express:
So far as L. H. S. is concerned
the 1947 football season is over.
This season was not too good but
considering all angles it wasn’t
too bad.
In a town the sfze of Lititz we
are bound to have a football cycle
and will have a winning team
every so often.
We are bound to have thejse
cycles unless we do something
about it.
What shall we do? The entire
answer to this is the organization
of a Junior High team. One that
is properly coached, properly
equipped and in all other respects
property organized.
We find it nelcessary to have
Junior High baskeetball - Junior
Band and other Junior activities
but the one sport that requires
more training and more players
than all other sports is unfortu­nately
the sport least prepared
for.
In the past several seasons
there was a lot of talk floating
around town with regards to the
installation of lights so we could
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Xmas Seal
Sale Will
Start Monday
The Tuberculosis Society of
Lancaster County will open the
41st annual Christmas Seal Sale
on Monday, Nov. 24, to continue
until Jan. 1, it was announced to­day
by Dr. C. Howard Wibmer,
Society president.
A goal of $35,000 will be sought
in the sale, for the support of the
following services:
(Low-cost Chest X-Rays—to dis
cover tubercudlosis among appar­ently
healthly .people.
Rehabilitation service—to guide
arrested cases of tuberculosis to
safe and productive work.
Education—through talks, mov­ies,
literature, to teach all people
the <sause and prevention of the
disease.
Sunday, Nov. 23, will be observed
locally as Christmas Seal Health
Sunday, with local ministers asked
to bring health ¡messages to their
congregations.
BRUNNERVILLE SPELLING
BEE ON NOVEMBER 2»
-Music by the Northern Fellow­ship
Male Chorus, directed by
Harry Baughey, will feature a
Spelling bee to be held by the
Brunnerville Fire Company at
Brunnerville, Saturday evening,
November 29. The program will
begin at 7:30 p. m. Two spelling
classes, a general information
and a Pennsylvania Dutch class
will be included. A magic act
also will feature the program
which will include a number of
door prizes.
RECEIVES CONTRACT
The Constructo Products Com­pany
of thip borough of which
Lowell Stengel is general mana­ger,
has been given the contract
for the laying of the asphalt tile
flooring in the new Columbia
Telephone Company office build­ing
at Columbia. The contract
colls for approximately 10,000 sq.
ft. of flooring.