Lititz Record Express

              Vol. LXVIII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., December 11, 1947 5 cents a copy ; $2 per yr. by mail No. 50
A Real Plea
For A Real
Memorial
Pre-Christmas Mailing
And Shopping Rush
In Full Swing Here
Much hits been written during
the past few months regarding the
tyipe of War Memorial to be erect­ed
in Lititz.
This week, however, the editor
of the Record-Express received a
lengthy poem and letter which
embody one of the most thought-provoking
bits of reading upon
this subject yet to be made pub­lic.
I
t is 'printed as received with­out
editing or further editorial
comment:
Mr. Young:
Since this memorial question is
causing so much argument at this
time, I thought this poem might
help straighten out a few people
about me. Of course, you know
most of the young G.I.’s are con­fused
on this issue and have the
idea that the memorial is for
(them, the living rather than the
dead. My own feeling in the matter
is that a nice shaft erected beside,
the (Revolutionary mo n ume n t
would 'be the most effective in the
long run—and I see no reason why
the anen in the first world war
should not ibe remembered as well.
Some day there may be a third
and our descendents may wonder
what became of Number 1.
So if you can use this at the ap­propriate
time, go to it, or return
it with any changes you may wish.
HME
MEMORIAL
The Lititz vote, cast recently
Whs proof beyond a doubt,
A County-wide memorial
Was definitely out.
The question now, that’s still in
doubt:
What might have been the score,
Suppose the vote were on our owni
(Memorial of war?
“We’re deeply grateful to our vets’’
Most folks are heard to say,
And patriotism knows no hounds
Until they’re asked to pay.
That nothing has been done to
date,
Is somewhat hard to face;
A sordid situation that
I® really a disgrace.
A meeting of the town was called
To have all angles hared;
The folks that came were few, in­deed
;
It seemed that so few cared.
This meeting then selected a
Committee to report,
Whose sincere work has gone
ahead
dn spite of no support.
We Veterans of Wars One and Two
Ask nothing of onr town,
Bat surely some respect is due
Oar comrades that went down,
They’re coming back in caskets
now,
These men that had to fall;
Perhaps they’ll set some towns-folks
thoughts
On why they (gave their all.
We know that this Memorial
Committee needs our aid—
A wee bit of encouragement
Should soon be well repaid.
Let’s hear from ye Rotarians,
And let the Lions ro aT ;
Auxiliaries and Women’s Clubs,
And many, many more.
»
A self-supporting tribute,
One that is free of debt,
Is due our Cold (Star heroes,
Lest some of us forget.
Disgruntled Vet.
Pfautz Warns Public To
Be Careful In Wrap­ping
Parcels
The first of the Christmas rush
of mailing (struck the local post-office
'tMs week with indications
that this year’s volume will equal
and possibly pass the record-breaking
total of last year, Post­master
Robert Pfautz announced
today.
At the same time, local mer­chants
reported that the shopping
rurih hit its full stride here in.
the past 48 hours and that, largely
due to greatly increased stocks
being carried by local stores, was
keeping local clerks on the jump.
With mailings expected to
reach their peak early next week.
Brethren To
Hold Candle
Light Service
Annual Xmas Program At
Church Of Brethren
This Sunday
The Annual -Christmas Candle
Light Service will be held in the
Lititz Church of the Brethren at
7:00 P. (M. this 'Sunday -evening.
The trio -composed of Mrs. Lloyd
W-ituner, -Mrs. Franklin Ca-ssel, and
Mrs. John M-ohler will sing
“Christmas Time Has Come
in­clude
a number of college stud­ents
who are returning home this
week-end for the holday)-.
Willard Hershey, James Buch
and Karl Home will be put on
as clerks while the following, in­cluding
several ex-servicemen,
will (work as -extra carriers: Ro­bert
Bender,. John Bear, Ray
Kreider, Winfield Rosenberg, John
Zell, G. Ha maker and Richard
Gorton.
Postmaster Pfautz urged the
public to mail all -cards and par­cels
as early as possible. He al­so
stressed the necessity of wrap­ping
-and addressing parcels as
carefully as possible. Careless
wrapping annually causes (some
parcels to be damaged or lost, he
explained. He also urged the
use of air-mlail in (sending caTds
a great distance.
Christmas cards which are
mailed first class may be sealed
and may include written messages
which the cheaper mailing does
not permit, he added.
Windows 'at the poptoffice will
remain open 7 a. m. to 7 p. rii.
Mondlay through Friday and Sat­urday
from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m.,
until Christmas.
Again.’’ The Call To Worship will
extra help will be hired to handle! be given by Mrs. Isaac -Gib bde.
the added volume. These will in- Folia wing a Christmas Carol, the
Christmas 'Story will Ibe told in
Song and Scripture. A -prayer
Meditation by Mrs. Jacob Dick
with musical m-untoer-s included
during the meditation.
After the first (pause the trio
will sing “Away In A Manger’’;
then Mrs. Raymond Forney will
play a piano solo.
After the third pause the (Senior
Choir will sing, followed by an­other
piano solo and trio (selection.
_Janet Shelly will play a mvedley of
Carols for -the offertory.
Miss Rebekah Shaeffer will give
the "Story of The (Other Wise Man”
and the Choir iwill sing "'Return
To ¡Bethlehem.’’
The interesting “Story of the
Cardie” will ibe presented by
Katherine Larkin and during the
Candle Lighting Donald IMohler
will play Christmas music.
This service promises to toe one
of the outstanding candle light
services in the current series of
programs.
It’s a very doggy audience that is spellbound by “The Lassie
Show,” starring the famous M-G-M wonder collie Lassie, over ABC
Sundays. Dr. W. A. Young, managing director of Chicago’s Anti-
Cruelty Society where this picture was taken, says that dogs know
the difference between actual dog noises and those made by sound-effects
men. The cabinet ot tnis set is probably made from bark.
Preacher And Hymn-Writer
Lock-Horns In
Line-Fence Dispute
500 Fanners
To Meet Here
Next Thurs.
Lancaster Production Cre­dit
Will Hold Meeting
In Fellowship Hall
Approximately 500 farmers and
their families will gather in
Lititz next Thdrs^y to ¡attend
the annual meeting of -the Lan­caster
Production Credit Associa­tion.
, The meetings will be held in
Fellowship Hall of the -Moravian
Churh and will be presided over
by Graytoill G. Minnich, of this
borough, president of the organi­zation.
The meeting will start at 10 a.
m. and will be continued through­out
the diay. A cafeteria lunch
will be served at noon.
Full Military Funeral
To Be Held This Sunday
For Tech, Edwin M. Walters
White Gift
Service Sun.
At St. Paul’s
Body Of First Of Lititz'
Returned Patriotic Dead
To Arrive This Afternoon
Mrs. Fulweiler To Play
Special Xmas Music;
Junior Choir To Sing
The annual White Gift service
of -St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
will be held on Sunday evening at
7.
'Gifts received at the service
will be sent to the Tressler Or- j
phans’ Holme at Loysville in time
j for Chri-stmas. Cash gifts will
The main speaker will be An-, be to ^ Home,s fuad fm. here, the flag-draped
drew Bajshore, of Harrisburg,
Dispute To Be Aired Be­fore
Justice Of The
Peace Diebm
A pifaiperty-lfne dispute bet­ween
a local tabernacle preacher
and B. F. Lutz, retired butcher
and -composer of hymns, will be
aired to the public this Mon-day
evening at 7 p. m. when a hear­ing
will be held before Justice of
the Peace Paul F. Diehm.
T b i pastor who was - , e... , .. • s. • named de• . i . _ fendent iri the sufit is tRj ev. eR oy, M, em, b.e r. s , .o f, , tJ^vLitrtkWoman's LT ai, r, wh, o<; is y c,h arged, wi..t.h {, cu.t.t.i ng ! Club. , he.ld. . the„ir annu. a^l C. hri*st.mas
Woman’s Club
Holds Annual
Xmas Party
Mrs. Wm. Bollman Pre­sents
Reading Of Van
Dyke’s ‘The Mansions'
CATHERINE LARKINS
INJURED IN CRASH
Camera Club
Has Unusual
Competition
The Lititz Springs Camera Club
held its Dec. meeting o-n Mon­day
evening in their club rooms at
the Young Men’s Business League.
John B-oyd won first awjard in the-
December print competition which
was on the subject—¡Farm Scenes.
Mr. Boyd’s -print was called “Re­flections”
and showed a barn by a
istream with tihe stream «casting
good reflections of the barn. Mr.
Boyd also Won third -award 'with a
-print called “The -Charm of Old
Age.’’
Harry Landis won second aiward
with a (print called “Brown Gold”
and fourth award with a print call­ed
“The Farmers Daughter.’’
The January competition will toe
an o-pen competition and should he
a keen competition.
The club members -brought their
cameras to Monday Nights meeting
and had an interesting and edu­cational
evening photographing «a
table tap. The Nativity Seen-e—
which was set up by Boh Zartman.
There -will toe a print competi­tion
on this set up in February
Which should bring out -many fine
picture judging -from the various
I types o-f cameras that the members
used in photographing this table
top.
.Catherine Larkins, twenty-eight,
of 347 East Main Street,
this borough, sustained an ab­rasion
of the forehead when she
was injured in a three-car col­lision
on the Lititz pike at the in­tersection
of Rose Avenue, north
of Lancaster, Monday morning at
8 a. m.
She wafe treated at fhe Lancas­ter
'General Hospital and dis­charged,
At the 'time of the
crash she was a passenger in a
(machine operated by William, M.
B!ard, twenty-six, 112 West
Orange Streett, this borough.
Complete Plans For
Christmas Party
down a row of 14 four- fooTt hedge
plants which flan between Lutz'
property and that of the Lititz
Community Tabernacle owned by
Frank Adamjsi.
In his complaint, Mr. Lutz
charges that the dispute aro-se
more than a year ago and then
quieted down until last week
when the preacher rolled up his
sleeves and began cutting down
the plants while Mr. Lutz looked
on.“
I merely slat there and ¡patted
the preacher’s dog - but I did tell j
him that if he was one half as
friendly as hife- dog we wouldn’t
be having such trouble,” Mr.
Lutz exaplined. The fence had
stood as a line fesnce for the past
40 years, he claimed.
Rev. Lair was sticking by his
guns, however, and declared he
All children ¡under twelve will
receive special -gifts at the annual
Oommunlty Christmas Party, John I
(StefSy, president of the Lions Club,
announced this -week. He and j
Burgeiss Victor Wagner will wel­come
guests to the party to be held j
in the school gymnasium (Saturday,
December 20. I
Hary Way, general cha-irtmian, \
reported plans completed for th-e
party which -promises to be one of
the most successful since they
were inaugurated during the War
years. He is being assisted by
Dave Wright, co-chairman.
would offer proof that the fence j John Guenth,eri
was not on -Lutz’ property. “If it
is I will apologize and make res­titution,”
he declared.
party ait the. General Sutter Hotel
Monday ¿vening with more than a
hundred members In attendance.
The program featured a read­ing
of The Mansio-nig by Henry
Van Dyke which was presented by
Mas. William Bollman, of Lan­caster.
Special Christmas music
was presented by the club chorus
which is directed by Mrs. Edwin
W. Kortz.
Mrs. Guy Redenbaugh and Mrs.
Ralph Spaht served ®s hostesses.
Mrs. Valentine Brobst, president,
presided. It was announced that
the -club will have Christmas
greens and sprays for sale. The
Christmas greens are being made
up by members of the Ways and
Means committee of which Mrs.
H. K. Cooper is chairman.
At the January meeting Mrs.
Charles Workman will review fhe
best-seller, “Inside U. S. A.,’ by
wel'l-knowin lecturer (and orfetor.
Approximately 1,200 farmers of
Lancaster County are members of
the orglainizatiom. The meeting
here will be the 13th annual af­fair
held by the group.
a swimming pool and it is hoped
received
Linden Hall
Xmas Vespers
This Sunday
The Christmas Vesper service
will be held in Mary Dixon Chapel
on Sunday, Dec. 14th for the stu­dents
of Linden Hall Academy and
Junior College. Special music will
be in charge of Mis-s Myrtle Eck-.
ert.
A Christmas- Tea was held in the
senior parlors on Sunday after­noon
for the seniors of the Aca­demy.
Other guests included Dr.
and iMrs. Byron K. Horne, Dr. F.
W. iStengel, IMrs. Avis Stengel and
Mr. and Mrs. Rome Betts of New
York.
The annual Christmas dinner
will be held at the school on
Tuesday evening, Dec. 16th, this
will toe followed by a play directed
by Miss lieanor Filbin.
IMimi IStengel -will entertain her
classmates dn the isenior class in
the academy on Sunday afternoon
at a drop in party at her borne.
The body of Lititz’ first honored
war dead Ito be returned from,
where he fell on foreign soil was
sehduled to arrive in the borough
this aftefinoiom lat approximately
1:45 p. m. in the company of a
mi liltary escort.
It was the body of Tech. Edwin
M. Walters, who was killed in ac­tion
in GeTm-any, March 9, 1945.
Lititz will pay its respots and
full military honors will be ae-orded
the local hero at impressive
cremonies to he held here Sunday
afternoon.
Following arrival of the body
casket will
be placed in Spacht’s Funeral
from Home where the body wil lay in
state. IThe
that the cash
churches through the synod will sta^e- H'he flag-covered caskete
enable the Home to fihish the be viewed PuWiclv Saturday
pool for next season. evening between the hours of 7
The Junior Choir, directed uy
Albert S. Ebbert, will sing for the
White Gift service and 'the Young
People’s Choir, also under Mr.
Ebbert, will isii.ng at the morning
service. Mifls. E. D. Fulweiler,
organist, will play special Christ­mas
music at each.
Musical December 21
The Chrs'tmas musical of the
. and 9 p. m.
Members of Garden Spot Post
of the American Legion are
asked to meet at the Post
home at 1:90 p. m. to parti­cipate
In the military services
at the funeral home and
cemetery.
The funeral service will be held
Senior Choir, assisted by the j at Spacht’s Sunday afternoon at
Young People’s groujp, will be on two o’clock. Rev. Charles Trunk,
Sund/ay evening, December 21. ¡pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran
The Sunbeam Glafts is holding I Church, will be in charge of the
its annual Christmas banquet this ' service a t which members of the
evening at the General Sutter.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Garden Spot Post of the American
Legion will conduct the full mili­tary
ceremony
A further military service will
be performed a t the Macpelah
cemetery where the interment
The Osteopathic Hospital Auxili­ary
held a covered dish supper
and Christmas p a rty at the home J will be made.
of Mrs. John Zimimerman at Brun-j Time of the arrival of the body
nervllle on Tuesday evening. Mrs. 1 of Tech. Waters was in doubt for
Zimmerman, the president, was in utterly three weeks as the ship
charge and plans were made for ; bearing it along with 2,000 other
the dues meeting in January. I patriotic dead, remained anchored
____________ ! offshore due to a strike of dock
workers in New York.
Curator To Address
Bird Club Tuesday
Community
Hymn-Sing
This Sunday
Walter Faust
Addresses Legion
PLAN XMAS TREAT
FOR *tHE SHUT-INS LINDEN HALL CHORUS
ENTERTAINS ROTARIANS
The Love-One-Another Circle of
the Kings Daughters met at the Students of Linden Hall pres-hom-
e of Mrs. iSara K. Jenkins on ented ,a musical program at a
Tuesday evening. Twen ty-four \ meeting of the Lititz Rotary club
members attended and Mrs. Jen
kins, the leader, was in -charge of
the meeting. Plans were made to
remember the sick and shut-in at
Christmas and the following com­mittee
was appointed, Mrs. Nor­man
Badorf, Mrs. H. Lloyd Hess.
Mrs. W. <M. Gnube. Mrs. E. E. Ha-hecker,
Mrs. H. C. Seldomridge
and Mrs. Jenkins.
last Tuesday evening. The prog­ram
was introduced by Dr. W.
H. Stengel and included several
Christmas selections.
The club will observe ladies night
at the annual Christmas party th i,
Tuesday evening when Charles
Beckler, West Che/ter Rotarian,
will present a program of art,
magic and ventriloquism.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
AT HIGH SCHOOL
The High School will present a
Chrlshnw^f program on Ffriday
afternoon, Decgember 19th and
The danger of subversive activi­ties
of the Communists in public
offices was pointed out in an add­ress
by Walter Faust, chairman of
the Americanism committee of the
I Lancaster County Council, before
- members of the Garden Spot ‘Post,
A Coftnmunity Hymn-Sing will be American Légion, Tuesday even-held
in the Moravian Church on'ing.
Sunday evening, at 8:30 p . ’m. Mr. Faust -reported that many
Burgess Victor Wagner, choir di- Red Front organizations are being
rector of the (Church, will lead the formed in this country. H-e a-lso
singing and a brass quartette ; announced an essay contest on the
from the Trombone Choir will subject,. “Why Democracy Will
play. (Survive,’’ -for High School Seniors
The Hymn-Sing i? sponsored by ; with the county winner receiving
the Ministerial Association of-a 4-year college scholarship
Lititz and is held after all other
M. Kenneth -Corbett, assistant
curator at Franklin and ¡Marshall
College Museum, will discus» Bird
Eggs and -Nests before members of
the Lititz Bird Club on Tuesday
-evening in the Nature Den at the
Recreation Center. The public is
invited to attend.
The bird icluto is sponsoring a
bird -feeder ¡contest -with a 'list of
worth-while prizes to be awarded
January 13. The contest is open
to all and more particulars will be
announced later.
MUSICAL PIROGRAM
AT PENRYN SUNDAY
i
Horse Shoe
Trail Club
Elects Sharp
Barton ShaTp was reelected
chairman of the Horse Shoe Trail
Club and American Youth Hostel
Gotmlmittee of the Canno-n Hill
Yo-uth Hostel, at the meeting held
at his home on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Sharp has served the organi-
, . , . . zation since 1936. Other attend-meet
this evemng a t the ham* of - inc]uded( Dr. Herbert H. Beck
Mrs. Charles Hammer. --
The Sanger Male Quartette
will render a program in St. !
Paul's Lutheran Church at Pen-ryn
this Sunday evening at 7:30
p. mi. The program is Sponsored ,
by the Luther League. A cordial -
invitation is extended to all to at - ,
tend.
CLASS TO MEET
The Barbara Snyder Class of the
Moravian Sunday School will
Church services have been com- ATTEND TEMPLETON CONCERT
the grades will have their enter- i pleted for the evening,
tainment on Thursday afternoon, j For the- lalst several years these
December 18th. - informal gatherings of all the
This Friday afternoon .all th e ! churh people of town have foster­grade
teachers will go to the Mt. |ed good will and genuine fellow-
Joy High School to attend a read- j ship.
ing clinic directed by. Dr. LaVern! Thus far, every church in which
Strong of Indiana State Teachers a hymn-s-ing has been hel-d has
College. i been crowded and a large crowd
_______ _ | is expected on Sunday evening for
RECOVERING FROM jthe singing of Christmas Carols.
PNEUMONIA ! -----------
* __ 11 HESS’ Y. P. MEETING
William Stauffer, South Broad: --------
Street, is about again after being'; The Lititz-Hess Young Peoples
stricken with an attack of bronch- j meeting will hold a panel discus-on
the translation of the
at the Hess Church this
ial pneumonia last Thursday. He
was confined to Ms home until
yesterday.
sion
Bible
Sunday evening.
A group of local Senior Girl
Scouts (Monday evening attended
the Alee Templeton Concert in
Lancaster. They were accompanied
by Mrs. William Whitten, Jr.,
Misses Helen Bender, Geraldine
Hoilinger and Elsie Spinner.
120 RABBITS STOCKED
A total of 120 -rabbits were stock­ed
in the last few days in the area
east o-f Route 501, the Stauffer’s
orchard area east of the borough
and in the Brunnervllile and Brick-erville
sections, B. L. Sharp re­ported
today.
(In addition the Speedwell Coon
and Beagle Club released 48 rab­bits
on their training area where
-feeding shelters also are being
built.
Local Women
Obtain Divorces
(Divorces granted by the county
•court in Lancaster last week in­cluded
that of Violet I. Weaver,
twenty-eight, 6 Maple Street, this
borough, from Lester S. Weaver.
Lanaster, on (grounds of deser­tion;
and Norma E. Shiaub, twen­ty-
three, South Cedar Street, this
borough, from Victor W. Straub,
Lancaster, on grounds of deser-nities
to the person.
The WeaveTs were married
March 24, 1940 and the desertion
occurred May 10, 1941. The
Shaubs were married on March
19, 1943 and separated May 8,
1947.
CLOISTER DISTRICT MEETING
The -Cloisters District, Boy
Scouts, will meet this evening at
New Holland. This is the annual
district banquet (meeting and offi­cers
will be elected. Music and
entertainment will toe part of the
program. (Bach -troop in the dist­rict
-is expected to be represented
To Take Baby Pictures
Here Monday And Tuesday
The Record-Express wants P her in the Firehouse on Monday
photograph of every youngster in j or Tues-d’ay, December 15, 16.
this vicinity for publication in a
forthcoming feature entitled
“Tomorrow’s Citizens.”
“It is a grand idea” seems to be
the concensus of opinion voiced
by parents of this area since our
announcement last week, as quot­ed
above. “It certainly ‘clicks’
with me” -said one mother who
plans to bring her youngsters to
the slpedal childrens photograp-
L. B. Herr, Jr., Leon Klaus, Mrs.
Virginia Towle, Philadelphia,
executive director of the Pennsyl­vania
State Council, Richard Sa-ville,
Ardmore, diaJirmari of the
Hostel House Committee of the
A. Y. H.
The Cannon Hill Hostel at
Brickerville is being remodeled
and will be one of the most mod­ern
along the American Youth
Hojiitel Trail. Members may
spend the night a t these bo-stels
for twenty-five cents. This is to
give the people of the city an op­portunity
to get in ¡the out-of-dioors
at a rate all can afford. The
trail permits hiking, horseback
riding and bicycling.
The Cannon trail begins at
Philadelphia and goes through
northern Lancaster county and
joins the Appalachian Trial at
Manada Gap north of Henehey.
She wasn’t indulging in a pun,
either.
Uniform size and good photo­graphic
reproduction quality is of
vital importance to a newspaper
feature, so arrangements were
made with specialists in this line
of work. The Kelly Studios of
BarnesboTo, Pa., nationally known
childrens photographers are going
(continued on page 12)
BUSINESSMEN’S LEAGUE
ADMITS NEW MEMBERS-Approximately
fifty members
attended the smoker held Monday
evening by the Young Men’s
Bu( iness League. Oyster stew and
a Dutch lunch wlas served with
Burgess Victor Wagner serving in
the -capacity of 'Chef.
Two new members were elected
They are Leonard T. Miller and
J. Arthur Bruckart. The club
will be presented with an illust­rated
lecture on hite recent Europ­ean
trips by Milton Jurell at the
I January meeting.