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S E P T EM B E R 2 6 « O C T O B E R 2 The Lititz Record-Express
72nd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday Sept. 2, 1948 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail N o. 21
Council Turns Down
Building Of Market Street
If Borough Pays All Costs
Claim No Funds Now D P .1
Available For O O T O r a t h e r S
Streets
Borough Council Tuesday flatly
refused to pay the costs of build­ing
Market Street - or to go ahead
with the construction until pro­perty
owners agree to pay one- C r e a te
third the cost willingly.
This was the outcome after an­other
fiery discussion which mark­ed
the scond visit of Market
Street property owners who claim­ed
the borough should pay the
entire cost of this street inas­much
as it is an old street which
has been in use for more than the
past Century and a half.
In sticking to their guns in fol-owing
to letter a resolution ad­opted
more than a year ago,
borough councihnen refused to
consider Market Street and de­clared
they would not build any
new streets at ..their expense.
“We had only $6,000 in the bud­get
for building streets and all
but $1,900 of this went for Noble
Street,” President ctf (Jouncil
Harry Way announced.
“I don’t feel that we should
build streets until we get the co
operation of the property owners,”
he continued. “I will not be a
party to building streets and then
filing Hens to collect the cost,” he
added in response to a question
by Former Burgess Menno Roh-rer
as to why the borough did not
proceed and then collect costs
afterwards.
'♦‘Raying ©¡f streets cannot be
done with a ten mill tax rate,”
Mr. Way added and then pointed
to the need for improved water
hydrants, Imains, etc. the need for
sewerage and other factors.
Oouncihnen Elmer Bomberger
and Frank Ford, only other tlwo
members of council present at the
meeting, agreed that Market
Street could not Ibe built at boro­ugh
expense without tossing out
last year’s resolution.
It iwas estimated that the cost
of building streets is about $4 a
foot or approximately $30 to $50
as the share for the average lot
owner. One owner present, how­ever,
declared he would not con­sent
to pay this share even though
he has resident built which he
could sell if a street was to be
built in front of it.
In Session
Til 1:30 A. M.
New Endurance
Record In Six
Hour Session
Lititz’ Borough Fathers broke
tall previous endurance records
here this week when they re­mained
in session from 7:30 PM.
to exactly 1:20 A. M. Wednesday
Imoming considering a dozen mat­ters
which required their action.
And they weren’t alone either
for a t times couneilmanic cham­ber
resembled a New England
Town Meeting. At one time there
was a total of twenty-seven per­sons
awaiting chances to present
some matter for action, toss an­other
petition on the council-manic
table or to register a com­plaint.
One delegation sought to ob­tain
paving for Market Street,
another had |d petition against
the otwner of dogs which they
Mary Bothwell Is the only woman
artist from this side of the Atlantic
to be selected as soloist for Lon­don’s
famous Promenade concert
season. The Canadian soprano, en­thusiastically
acclaimed as opening
night soloist for the “Prom” con­certs
In Albert Hall last season, will
sing in all-Wagner programs this
year during August and September
Volunteers
Needed In
Registration
Draft Enrollment Being
Made At Local School
Building
76,825 Gallons Boro Water
Gushes Down Broad St.
An appeal for volunteers to as­sist
in the peacetime selective sdr-claimed
disrupted the peace of th e ! vice registration which hias been
entire neighborhood; another was going on at ithe high school build-present
.to hear the local garbage j ing since Monday, was .issued to-ordinance
read; another wanted day by M. C. ¡Deraimy, icheif
grades on a local development registrar.
changed; another wanted the boro-| Two volunteers Will toe required
ugh to accept a tract for a swim- each day from next Wednesday
Iming pool as a war memorial -j until September 17, inclusive,
jtnd one fellpw was present to from 6 A. M. to ® P. M., he ex-cdmlplain
against paying for g ar-' plained. Volunteers should be
bage collection by a per capita be able to write clearly and Will
tax levy on the ground that it was serve without remunration of any
not fair to Wave both he and h is' kind.
.wife pay to have their garbage Assisted only by his secretary,
hauled away inasmuch as they had Mr. Demmy has been conducting
never before paid to have their the draft registration each day
garbage hauled awiay. this week and declared he will
And so it went - on and on - ¡continue until after the fall school
throughout the night and into the!term opens when he will no long-wee
hours of the morning. er be available.
The manner in which the boro­ugh’s
water supply could be com­pletely
deleted in a very short
jperiod of time by a single bad
break was illustrated here shortly
after midnight Sunday, Water
Superintendent Walter Miller dis­closed
today.
IThe breaking off of a fire hyd­rant
by an automobile at a point
along Broad Street near Third
Avenue caused borough water
from- the standpipe nearby to flood
down Broad Street a t the rate of
nearly 2,000 gallons per minute,
his figures revealed.
The break occurred at exactly
12:10 A. Mu when the water in thej
standpipe stood at a 95-foot level,
according to the chart kept auto­matically
by the borough measur­ing
device. Thirty-five minutes
later at exactly 12:45 A. M. the
break was repaired and a t that
time the water level had dropped
to a 70-foot level in the standpipe.
The standpipe holds 3,073 gal­lons
per foot. This means that
in the period of only slightly more
than half an hour, the single hyd­rant
on Broad Street sent forth
a total of 76,825 gallons of water.
The fire hydrant was complete­ly
repaired a t 7 A. M. and the
Third Avenue standpipe was back
up to its 95-foot level again at
10 A. M., according to borough
records.
School Bells
To Ring Again
On Tuesday
Increased Enrollment Ex­pected;
Eliz. Twp. Stud­ents
To Come By Bus
$25 Bond
Offered In
Baby Parade
Brubaker Reunion
Here On Saturday
The 26th annual Brubaker Re­union
will be held in the Springs
iPark on Saturday, September 4th,
there will be a morning session
Group Àsks
Boro To Stop
Barking Dogs
AT PARK HERE LABOR DAY
(Claiming that a Second Wftrd,
resident is harboring dogs which
bark constantly all night and dis­turb
the entire neighborhood, »
group of Front Street residents
Tuesday night petitioned borough
council to end the alleged nuis­ance.
Following a lengthy discussion,
Burgess Victor Wagner and mem-iTo-
date no delays have been j berg of councii advised the group
A twenty five dollar war bond
will be given as the grand prize
for the best float in the Baby par­ade
the last day of the Community
Show, Saturday, October 1st. In
addition to many money prizes
every contestant will receive a
valuable grift. The float receiving
the grand prize will not be eligible
for any other award.
There will be four classes, best
floats, with ten money prizes, the
highest ten dollars, the lowest on©
dollar; most artistic, most origin­al,
and baby in decorated coach,
all with seven money prizes, the
highest seven dollars and the low­est
one dollar.
Any child who is not old enough
to start school is eligible to enter
the parade. In case of rain the
parade will be held the following
Saturday. Registration will be at
1:30 and the parade will start at
the public school building.
The committee includes. E. Guy
Brubaker, chairman, Mrs. Bru­baker,
Mrs. Arville Burkholder,
Mrs. Samuel Krane, Mrs. Harry
Galdbach, Mrs. Edward Grube,
Mrs. P. F. Snyder.
at ten o’clock in the morning and j
another at 1:30 in the afternoon.
J. Clayton Brubaker of Lititz is
the president land Adam B. Bru­baker
of Llanerch, Pa., will pre­side.
The Rev. Jacob B. Brubaker
of Lancaster will be the guest
speaker and Tahlman I. Brubaker
of Lititz will welcome the guests.
Semi S. Brubaker of Lancaster
will give some family reminiscen­ces;
Historical report and introd­uction
of guest speakers by the
Rev. p. iB. Cobble, of Elphrata
historian, Attorney Menno Bru­baker
Rohrer, Lititz, Attorney
Theodore L. Brubaker of Lanc­aster,
and Louis C. Brubaker of
Washington D. C.
Menno H. Brubaker is the fou­nder
of the clan.
encountered in the registration of
drateeis with a steady flew of men
reporting at the local office. On
Monday a total of 25 were re­gistered
while on Tuesday the
day’s enrollment jumped to 40.
Yesterday 22 more were added to
Uncle Sam’s list.
The registration is being made
at the office adjioning the super­intendent's
office on the first floor
of the borough School building.
Wh Must Register
Every male ¡citizen o the United
States and every other male per­son
residing in th© United States,
who, on the day or days fixed for
registration is ¡between the ages
of eighteen and twenty-six.
When—
Sept. 2 and 3, men born in 1924.
Sept. 4 and 7 men ¡born in 1925.
Sept. 8 and 9, men born in 1926.
Sept. 10 and 11, men born in 1027.
Sept. 13 and 14, men born in 1928.
Sept. 15 and 16, men born in 1929.
Sept. 17 and 18, men born in 1030,
before Sept. 19.
LIONS GIVEN PERMISSION
TO ESTABLISH PLAYGROUND
NORMAN BADORF RE-NAMED
TO SEWERAGE AUTHORITY
The local Sewerage Authority
this week announced that Norman
Badorf has been re-elected to ser­ve
a five-year-term as a member of
the authority. Mr.’ Badorf was
named to a one-year term pre-pire
rn January.
The local (Lions Club this week
was granted permission by the
borough to use the borough lot at
Spruce and West ¡Second Avenue
as a playground, providing enough
land ¡remains or use of the bor­ough
seWeirage authority for stor­ing
(material.
The request was presented to
council by Dr. Chester Wertsch,
president of the Lions Club.
REV. CHARLES F. TRUNK
WILL PREACH SUNDAY
Jaycees To Meet
Wed., Sept. 22
On Lighting Project
Letters were mailed this week
to local organizations by the Lititz
Junior Chamber of Commerce in­viting
local groups to attend the
meeting in the Comjmu’nity Center
Wednesday, September 22 at 7:30
P.IM. At that time the proposed
project of »Installing lighting at
the athletic field for baseball and
football (will be discussed.
Members of the Jaycees an­nounced
that figures of costs for
placing lights will be available.
ti bring prosecution before a
Justice of the Peace but agreed at
the same time to consult Boro­ugh
Soicitor Paul A- Mueller re­garding
the situation.
The petition ¡which contained
n rimes of more than 30 residents
of the section was presented to
council by Roy Ditzler, Front
Street. The petition named Ran­dolph
Brown, Front Street, as
owner of the dogs and asserted
that Brown has refused to do any­thing
about the barking of his
dogs.
Street Grade Changed
A request by Ben Forney for a
change in grade on Forney Drive
due to the finding of considerable
rock which would make excavat­ions
more costly was strenuously
opposed by three other property
owners, Frank Martin, John Kil­lian
and Walter Reinhard.
After debating the subject for
morel than an Ihoutr with maps
spread over council chamber and
with three engineers participat­ing,
the group was asked by coun­cil
to go into the water superint­endent’s
office and reach an ag­reement.
A ccmipromise then was found
|n d |di parties declared bhem-selves
satisfied.
School bells will ring in Lititz
Tuesday morning at 8:30 A. M.
And with the bell-ringing, mem-
I hers of the local faculty will be­gin
organizing the largest en­rollment
in borough history with
the prospect of steadily increas­ing
enrollments for the next eight
years.
M. C. Detajmy, supervising prin­cipal,
announced that all children
should report to the rooms which
they were assigned last Spring.
The first day of school will mere­ly
be a half session with members
of the new faculty scheduled to
¡meet in the afternoon.
Full-time classes will be con­ducted
Wednesday.
For the first time, students at­tending
Lititz High School from
Eliziabeth Township will be brou­ght
here by bus. Elizabeth dir­ectors
announced yesterday that a
total of 37 students will enter the
local high school Tuesday. All
but a few Seniors who are a t­tending
Mianheim or Ephrata High
Schools, will be sent to Lititz
this year.
The new bus schedule will go
into effect at 7:30 A. M. and will
reach Brickerville by 8 A. M.
From there it will contract Ham­mer
Creek, Clay and is scheduled
to reach Lititz at 8:20 A. M.
Students we#e notified that they
Should give themselves plenty of
time in order to catch the bus on
the first day or until the schedule
becomes definitely fixed.
In the borough, police again will
patrol Broad ¡Street and the, same
safety measures as were institut­ed
last year, will be ¡put into ef­fect
again this year. Through
this ¡plan, boys and girls from the
west side of Broad Street, cross
Broad IStSreet at the Orange St.
crossing only.
The safety measures which were
inaugurated last year by Burgess
Victor Wagner ¡proved both ef­ficient
and popular here.
Assiba and Sabina, Penna. Dutch Comedians, who will
appea r here Monday.
Penna. Dutch Program
Will Feature Lotwaerrick
In Park Labor Day
An old-fashioned Lotwaerrick or
Apple-Butter Making Party with
an elaborate array of Pennsylv­ania
Dutch entertainment headed
by the famed Wtunnernoss, to be
presented in the ¡Springs Park,
Will feature the Labor Day cele­bration
in Lititz Monday.
Cotamg to Lititz yesterday, the
Wiunnernoss, who speaks over the
radio from Reading weekly, an­nounced
that the progralm arran­ged
for the Lotwaerrick is an out­standing
one. Commencing at
2:30 P. M. the various entertain­ments
will continue until late that
evening.
The apple-butter making will
begin early in the morning when
members of the Farm Women’s
Society will snitz the apples and
prepare to fill the huge vats in
the park. The apple butter boil­ing
and stirring will continue
throughout the day with the ap­ple-
butter being affered for sale
late in the afternoon.
The entertainment will begin at
2:30 P. M. with ia half hour con­cert
by the Reinslmith and Kulo-witch
Little Dutch Band of Allen­town.
Die Wunnernoss will serve
as master of ceremonies and (will
series of interviews
the afternoon and
conduct a
throughout
evening.
Another feature will be the ap­pearance
of Asseitoa and Sabina,
¡popular Pennsylvania-Dutch radio
characters, whose amusing and
lovable family life is presented
each ¡Sunday over the radio from
Allentown. Asseba is portrayed
by Dr. Harry Hess Reichard, pro­fessor
of German a t Muhlenberg
College, and Sabina Is played by
Paul R. Wieand, entertainer and
playright.
An address by Dr. Blyrorn K.
Horne, headmaster at Linden Hall,
will feature the evening program.
Dp. Horne already is famous for
his many, many Pennsylvania
Dutch stories and poetry and is
called upon on numerous occas­ions
to address Pennsylvania
Dutch groups.
Labor Day will mark the re­turn
of local vacationers who have
been spending the summer months
at seashore or mountain resorts.
The first of these returned home
today.
Banks, ¡business places and local
industries will observe the holi­day.
Band Will Play
At New Holland
SUNDAY CONCERT WAS
A BIG SUCCESS
This Sunday will be observed
a3 Lititz Day in the New Holland
Park with concerts to be pre­sented
throughout the evening by
the Lititz Community Band.
(Band members will be enter­tained
by ¡Ed. Webber, formerly
of this borough, who is the owner
and operator of the New Hol­land
park. The group will go to
New Holland early in the day.
The park is considered one of the
most beautiful in the county.
REGISTRARS WILL
SIT HERE SATURDAY
Registrars will Isit at the fire­house
Saturday ¡from 10 A. M. to
10 ,P. M. for the purpose of en­rolling
voters for the coming
presidential election. Any person
twenty-one years of age or over
¡who is not registered can do so at
that time. (Persons who have
changed addresses also are ire-quesed
to appear.
It is estimated that approxi­mately
1,000 adults ¡here are not
registered to vote at the coming
election This is one of the last
opportunities to do iso as the 're­gistration
books will be closed in
six days ¡until after the ¡November
¡balloting.
OPTOMETRY DEGREE IS
AWARDED TO MELVIN NEFF
Melvin H. Neff, Ison of Mr. and
Mrs. D. L. Neff, IE. Main ¡St., re­ceived
his doctorate degree at the
Pennsylvania ¡State College of
Optometry, Philadelphia, Thurs­day.
|He is a graduate of Lititz High
School and a veteran Of three
years’ Army service, including
action in the European- African-
Middle Eastern theater where he
wais wounded.
Boro Delays
Acceptance Of
V. F. W. Tract
Expect War Memorial
Committee To Take
Some Action
The offer of a tract of land and
building on Spruce Street oppos­ite
the Community Center as a
site for a swimjming pool to be a
war memorial, Was discussed by
borough council this week and then
tabled for future consideration
later.
In tabing the letter temorarily,
President of Council Harry Way
instructed the borough secretary
to express the borough’s apprec­iation
to the local post of Veterans
of Foreign Wars for their offer.
In the discussion which followed
reading the offer from’ Howard
Dissinger, commander of the V.F.
W. Post, it was pointed out by
members of couneil that to accept
the property placed council in a
position where it pledged the build
ing of a ¡pool as a war memorial.
Paul F. Diehm, chairman of the
local war memorial committee,
who was present at the time was
asked if his committee has definit­ely
approved a swimming pool as
a suitable project. He replied
that no action had been taken due
to the need of a site and the need
of some means of raising the funds
to be needed.
“I feel we shoud delay accept­ance
until after the was memorial
committee takes scone action,’
one member of council explained.
“Then, if the memorial committee
obtains a charter to ¡put this mem­orial
plan into effect, it could like­wise
accept title to this site of­fered.”
(Other persons present in the
room also explained that several
years ago Dr. F. W. Stengel was
authorized by the first war mem­orial
committee to obtain estimat­es
on the building of a swimming
pool and at that time it would
have cost in excess of $50,000.
It is expected that the war meohr
orial committee will also consider
the VjF.W. offer prior to the next
meeting of borough council.
Garbage Law
To Be Revised
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Bricker
and children, Rosanne and Riand-1 council this week.
Lititz’ garbage collection ord­inance
¡Was still in the process of
being drawn up following a dis­cussion
and the reading of a pro­posed
ordinance before borough
olph Jr., of Nutley, N. J. are
spending several days with Mr.
land Mrs. D. P. Bricker.
WINS PROMOTION
The vacation of the Rev. Charles
F. Trunk, pastor of St. Palil’s
Lutheran Church, will end this
week and he will preach at the
service on ¡Sunday morning. Ta-night
at 7:30 P. M. the Willing
Workers Class will meet at the
home of Mrs. David Brian, Front
Street.
Miss Jane Workman, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Work­man
West Oange ¡Street, Wednes­day
assumed the duties of head
nurse at the Hershey Industrial
School, Hershey, Pa. For the
past eight years, Misis Workman
has been a nurse at the Hershey
Hospital.
A total of eighty-one persons
participated in th© program of
isacred music presented last Sun­day
evening by the combined
choirs of Lititz In the ¡Springs
Park A large audience attended
the ¡program.
Albert Btobert, choir director at
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, was
in charge. He was assisted by
Victor Wagner, Moravian Ghuirteh
choir director.
TO ATTEND LEHIGH
Robert E. Mentzer, 79 East
Main Street, this borough, has been
accepted as a Freshman at Lehigh
University, Bethlehem. He will
register there on September 22.
Corp. Donald Waring
Graduates From
Air Force School
Corporal 'Donald Waring grad­uated
last week from the Air
Force Communications ¡School at
Scott Air Force ¡Base, Belleville,
Illinois, it was announced by the
¡base comlmander, Brigadier Gen­eral
Emil C. Kiel.
Graduated ¡as a Teletype Mech­anic,
Opl Waring is now qualified
to perform installation, mainten­ance
and repair at the communn-ioations
equipment which is so
vital in ¡performing the mission of
th© Air Force.
Opl Waring, a resident of 39
East (Main Street, Lititz, Pennsy­lvania,
is a former member of the
498th Heavy Bombardment Group.
He wears the Good Conduct ¡Modal,
American Defense (Ribbon, Asia­tic
Pacific Theater Ribbon and
the World War II Victory Medal.
Prior to entering the Scott Air
Force Base Communications Sch­ool,
Opl Waring ¡served In the
Weather ¡Station at this (base.
Sports Talk
Manager Bucky Hahn of the
Lititz Sports Club ¡said recently
he believed his team is as ¡well-balanced
as any of the teams in
the Greater County League.
This .probably could be inter­preted
to mean that the local men­tor
feels his club will be a de­fínate
factor to be reckoned with
as any In the league.
HOwever in ¡play-off competition
it might benefit the locals more
to insert Elly Zuig at third, ¡move
Strosser over to short and com­plete
the Infield with the two
aformentloned boys.
It’s no secret that Marks is the
most erratic ball .player ever seen
in ¡the upcoming ¡post season play- in (these parts. One time he will
offs. make almost incredible stops and
¡However his hunch, as is all | throws as soon as the pressure
sports hunches, is ¡based on quite (begins to bear down a little h©
a collection of “if”.
If George Frey can continue hi®
looks like a chump.
If Marks could overcome this
hatting ¡spree which saw him rise one ibiig drawback there would be
from below the .300 ¡mark to a no end to his baseball possibilities.
final batting average of .378. Frey
lifted himself to this mark with
an outourst of base-hits that all
but caused opposing pitchers to
committ hari-kari.
¡It would certainly please ¡Hahn to
see this happen.
For with Marks playing the
kind of hall we all know he is
capable of playing there certainly
The sample ordinance prepared
by the borough solicitor included
rubbish, which members of coun­cil
agreed to eliminate. Another
point of discussion was whether
such producers of large amounts
of garbage as stores, hotels and
restaurants should not be charged
extra. :-i
¡Council (proposed to pay for
garbage collection with an in­crease
in the per capita tax. In
view of this, President of Coun­cil
(Harry Way argued that hotels
and restaurants and stores should
not be charged extra.
A revised ordinance will be
presented at the next meeting of
council for first reading.
(Continued from Page One)
Building Permits
That work on the new Lititz
Processing Company plant, to be
erected on the recently-annexed
section, will be started within a
few days was asserted when the
borough issued a building permit
and agreed to lay water imains to
the site. The application was pre­sented
by C. ¡M. Balmer, local
manager. It will require the lay­ing
of approximately 180 feet of
water main to complete the con­nection.
Other building permits issued
If Norm ¡Stress er’s bad leg will, wouldn’t ¡be any sense in having
permit him to play full time duir- 'a play-off series,
ing the play-offs. Stroaser, along! (Moving to the outfield where
with Frey and ¡Henny Hershey j Hahn has a left-handed hitting
have ¡been mainly (responsible for 'trio in Elly Kreider, WaJly‘Lau®c(h.l| ^ g g ^ j^ iu jed -
the rush of the Sports Club to and .Hershey, he can boast of
third place in the league. |thtre© of the finest ¡ball hawks
An infield consisting af ¡Strosser, around,
at third, Whitey Marks a t short, | All three are speedy, have that
Charley Brown, second, and Ray j gift of judging the fly of a ball
Kreider, first, is definitely as in their direction, and possess re­strong
definitively and offensively I (Continued on Page 5)
Roy S. Reidenbaugh, construct­ion
of a stone and frame dwelling
on the Petersburg Road; John M.
Miller, remodeling of apartment
building at 32-36 South Broad
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