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The U titz Record-Express
72nd Year Established April, 18.77, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 6, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No- 40
Boro Officials Start
Work On 1949 Budget,
Few Changes Expected
Property Tax Rate Is
Not Expected To
Be Changed
Postal Rate
Changes Are
Lititz’ borough property tax Explained
rate will remain unchanged
during the coming y£ar, bor-o‘
igh officials revealed this Postal ra te increases and
week as they began their an- changes were announced this
n u a l task of preparing the this week by Postmaster Robert
budget of receipts and ex- Pfautz. All of the changes be-peiiditures
for 1949. | came effective Jan u a ry 1, and
A t the same time, some include a ir mail post cards, a
»Peculation has developed new service, at four cents each,
over the proposed increase in R eg u lar a ir mail, limit of 8 oz„
the; per-capita or head tax t o . has been increased from five
cover the cost of the borough cents to six.
collection of garbage. And | And you can’t continue to
while a $1.00 per person in- j send greeting cards in unsealed
crease was a t first proposed,; envelopes for one and one-half
present collection figures in-1 cents, as previously. From now
d ^ a te this may be halved ■ on the minimum ra te for cir-when
brought up to a vote | culars and misceilaneous p rin t.
efore council. ed matte r and merchandise is
Oddly enough, either figure j two cents for the first ounce or
Will permit the borough either f raction
Wedding invitations, birth
announcements or death an­nouncements
all are considered
first class and req u re a mini­mum
of three cents. Special
delivery of first class mail will
be 15 cents fo r letters; third
and fourth class up to 2 lbs. 25
cents; fo u rth class up to 10 lbs.
35 cents; and over ten pounds,
45 cents.
Local Stores
Will Hold
Red Tag Days
To Present Special Bar­gains
Friday & Saturday,
January 28 - 29
a substantial or a slim margin
of profit to pu t back into the
general fund. The only other
source of revenue not enjoyed
iist year will be from the
parking meter proceeds which
may add an ex tra $4,000 to
the borough receipts during
the coming year.
Obviously happy over the
good state of affairs inasmuch
as the borough ended up last
y ear with $15,000 in its cof­fers,
borough officials were
quick to warn, however, th a t
the sewerage project may
bring forth added costs d u r­ing
the coming year which
cannot be contemplated a t
this time.
During 1949 the borough
will turn over another $12,500
to the Borough Authority,
bringing to a total of $25,000
funds turned over to this
board. The entire $25,000 ap­propriation
will have been
spent a t the end of 1949 how­ever
as the survey and pre­liminary
plans already are well
ahead of schedule.
Then, too, borough officials
recognize the fact th a t the
proposed building of streets
and the laying of water mains
may require an amount far
above normal. And so, while
the borough ended up the year
, with a nice balance, taxes will
remain where they are ip the
hope th a t this balance can be
doubled within the next
twelve-month period.
Alice Faye, beautiful singing
screen actress who is the “better
half” of the lovable, laughable
“Harris and Faye Show,” Sundays
over NBC, has curtailed the num­ber
of movies she makes so as to
have more time to devote to being
Mrs. Phil Harris, mother of twc
little girls. In radio, it’s not neces­sary
to spend long periods separat­ed
from her family.
Forrest Home
Wins Lighting
Contest Here
Given $25 Award;
Carl Reedy Wins
Second Prize
Bert Beck
Is Honored
Red Tag Days will be ob­served
by Lititz stores Friday
and Saturday, Jan u a ry 28 and
29 when a wealth of outstand­ing
and sensational bargains
will be offered local shoppers.
Plans for the Red Tag Days
were completed at an enthus­iastic
meeting of the Lititz
Retailers’ Association held
Tuesday evening at the Young
Men’s Business League.
Retailers present emphasized
th a t prices will be cut drast­ically
in order to make this
occasion as successful as the
very successful Red Tag Days
held for the first time last
Summer.
Stores participating in the
Red Tag specials will be de­corated
with hundreds of little
red tags as well as red ban­ners
and adornments. Efforts
will be made to a ttra c t shop­pers
here from all p arts of
Northern Lancaster County
with the prospects th a t this
will be a tru ly gala occassion
for the borough.
J.' B. Hess, chairman of the
committee, presided. Retailers
also discussed plans for future
L ititz’ Bert Beck was fittingly
honored Monday evening when
more th an 100 Jmembers and
friends of the Lancaster County
Historical Society attended a
testimonial dinner in his honor
a t Lancaster.
The dinner marked Dr.
Beck’s retirement as president
of the society after having ser­ved
in th a t capacity for the past
twenty-five years. Paul A.
Mueller and a dozen other
speakers praised Dr. Beck for
his work in half a dozen fields
of interest.
BRUNNERVILLE FIREMEN
ELECT HOWARD KLINE
Teen Talk
By Don Fisher
I Well here we are back in
Sjchool again. Ju st hope the
days go th a t fast durng the
\|racationless months of March
3p d April.
; Here’s a flash! According to
Reports Bill Risser and Pauline
îjliley have joined the “steady”
q!lub.
I And by the way Ja ck Keath
was , seen in Lancaster on
Thursday night esorting Sara
Bertzfield. But Sunday night
in Lititz it was say who was
she Jack?
Quite a few young men in
town are going with girls of
unknown identity. When a few
sélect fellows were asked who
the girls might be they answ­ered,
“We don’t know who
they are. A gang of girls came
out to th e “Rec.” one evening
and now Gorton is going with
one and Stauffer with another
—but we have our hopes.”
(Anonymous.)
What’s this about the eight-point
“musts” invoked a t the
high school? By way of the
gr.ipewine it seems to be di­rected
mainly at the seniors
and the song, “A Little Loving
Goer a Long, Long, Way.”
During the Xmas vacation—
when quite a few college boys
were home too—yours truly
“ thumb” how became engaged
in ta lk n g with the craziest con-
( Continued on page 5)
Howard F. Kline was elect­ed
president of the Bricker-ville
Fire Company at the
meeting held on Monday eve­ning
at the Fire House. Other
officers elected were, Earl
Butzer, vice-president; Win-th
ro p Trefethern, secretary;
H a rry May, treasurer; Leroy
Ulrich, financial secretary; Is­aac
Brumbach, fire-chief; Har­ry
Brumbach, chief driver;
Joseph Haines, was elected
tru ste e for three years.
The group^ decided to hold
a series of four carnivals next
sum m e r.. They will be held
on four consecutive Saturday
evening* beginning on July
16th.
The gayly decorated home of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Forrest
on West End Ave. was awarded
first prize of $25 in the judging
last Thursday rught in the ti well as a dinner
CMmbe.- of Co rtm.rce Ch™t- . ‘ „ he„ .
mas Lighting contest. |
In addition to lights a rtisti­cally
arranged about doorways,
windows and shrubbery, win­dows
also contained large poin-settias
which were illuminated.
Second prize was awarded to
Mr .and Mrs. Carl Reedy , of
Spruce Street, who were p re­sented
with $20. Decorations
here centered about a huge San­ta
Claus which filled th e entire
front doorway. P au l Bomber-ger,
Broad Street, won th ird
prize of $15 while Harry Neid-ermyer
Spruce Street, was giv­en
fourth prize of $12.50. Other
prizes were fifth, John Ross
$10; sixth, Ralph Miley, $7.50;
seventh, Wilbur Wolf, $5;
eighth, Charles Flowers; ninth,
John Steffy; and tenth, Wilbur:
Ditzler.
Judges were named by the
ministerial association.
Predicts Success Of Drive
To Raise Funds For
Athletic Field Lights
Odd Fellows
To Consider
A Building
Will Light For
Baseball And
Football
Both
i Optimism over the success
of the present drive for funds
for the purchase of lighting
The organization of a Build- facilities for night football
ing Fund Committee will be here, was expressed Tuesday
decided at a meeting of the
Lititz Lodge of Odd Fellows to
be held this Monday evening.
Taking up the matter of buy­ing
or purchasing th e ir own
home members of the lodge de­layed
final action on th e p ro ­posal
until this Monday evening
in .order th a t all members of
the lodge can become acquaint­ed
with th e plans.
sident of the local Jaycees, in
an address before the Lititz
Rotary Club.
Mr. Rannels also disclosed
th a t the Ju nior Chamber of
Commerce, sponsors of the
campaign, and the borough
school board, have agreed up­on
a combination baseball and
football lighting arrangement
which can be purchased for
Should the m a tte r be approv- j around $1 3;50o. The Jaycees
ed, a building fund committee ; alsQ plan to spend $1,500 for
Lassie and Baritone Ken Carson co-star on “The Lassie Show’’
Saturday, Jan. 8, when it returns to NBC a t a new air time—three
quarters of an hour earlier—following two weeks’ vacation during
the holidays. They will appear in “Get Along, Little Doggie,” a
musical comedy about an unsuccessful cowhand whose dog Buttons
gets him into the movies as a singing cowboy.
will be named Monday evening, j
All members are urged to be
present. Refreshments will be
served.
Diamond Jubilee
Tea On Thursday
First Community Concert
To Be Held January 25
noted merchandiser may be
obtained as a speaker.
Name Officers
At Reformed
Church Here
The first of the three com­munity
concerts to be present­ed
here this season will be on
Tuesday evening, Jan u a ry 25,
according to an announcement
by officers of the Lititz Comm­unity
Concert Association over
the week-end.
Must Settle
Dog Nuisance
Lititz’ barking dog nuisance
must be. corrected within ten
days, Judge Oliver S. Schaeffer
ThSfi concert wil be a joint! ordered Tuesday a fte r hearing
recital by Je an Carlton, sop-1 a dozen local witnesses which
rano, and F ran k Rogier, b a ri-! included two local physicians
This y ear marks th e seventy-fifth
y ear of the organization of
the National Woman’s Christain
Temperance Union. The local
union begins its celebration
w ith a te a for members afid
guests on Thursday, January
13, at 2:30 P. M. n th e United
Brethren Church.
The Lititz organization is
65 years old with an unbroken
record of teaching and preach­ing
“total abstinance fo r th e in­dividual
and prohibition fo r the
nation.”
Hears Brother
Sing On Radio
Last Wednesday, Mrs. Vic­to
r Getz and her daughter,
Fro n t St., were listening to the
General Electric House P a rty
Program on the radio, of
which A rt Linkletter is the
Master of Ceremonies. It so
David Bowman was elected
elder emeritus at the congreg­ational
meeting of the St.
Luke’s Evangelical and Re­formed
church held recently.
Mr. Bowman has served on the
church board since the church
was organized gnd was an el­der
for many years.
Other elections were as
follows: Paul Bushong, elder
for three years; Clarence Roh-rer,
deacon for one year; Mrs.
Clarence Troutman and Mon­roe
Mundorf were elected
deacons for three years.
Russell Bishop of Penryn
was elected president of the
joint consistory board of the
Penryn Evangelical and Re­formed
church and St. Luke’s
of Lititz, Mrs. Troutman, Vice-president;
William Carper,
secretary; and Wallace Zook,
Lititz R. D., treasurer. This
tone. It will be in Fellowship
Hall, Church Square.
In addition, the local group
announced th a t mailing of
tickets to members of the as­sociation
has been held up
pending a date for one of th e 1 Judge Schaeffer informed both
concerts. This is expected in | Randoph Brown, 136 East
who testified th a t the health
of th eir patients have been
harmed due to the noise.
If no solution is found in
the
will be hauled back into court
happened th a t he had M iss; board takes care of the pro-
Beryl Davis, an English singer I perties and the work the two
as guest for th a t day. As is churches have in common.
he went 1 ------------------------------
N.A.C.A. BOARD MEETING
The Board of Director» of the
Lancaster Chapter of the Nat­ional
Association of Cost Ac­countants
will meet on Friday
Jan u a ry 7, 1949, in the Fac­to
ry Administration Building,
Armstrong Cork Company,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at
7:45 P.M.
R. L. Templeton is Director
of Member Attendance; R. E.
Zartman, Director of Special
Activities; R. M. Schnee, As­sociate
Director of Special Ac
tivites; R. E. Girvin, Assoc­iate
Director of Membership;
H. F. Ruley, Associate Direct­or
of Publicity.
hiS usual custom, FRACTURES LEG
through the audience to select
three persons who never sang
over the air before, one of
which happened to be George,
Dennis, Yeoman v j2. n.d Cla.s s, I fractur’ed her brother of Mrs. Victor uetz.
Imagine h er surprise.
George not only had the
chance to sing “I Can’t Give
You Anything But Love” with
Miss Davis bu t also won a
portable radio and an album
of Miss Davis’s records which
she autographed. George Den­nis
took up vocal music while
in Washington, D.C. and Phil-adephia.
He is now personel
man 2nd Class, stationed at
Long Beach, California.
Mrs. Melvin Krall, Myers-town,
RD2, bride of a few
the ice and
left leg near
her home Christmas Eve. Mrs.
Krall is employed as book­keeper
a t the Keller Brothers
Auto Co. garage on Broad St.
the next week or so and upon
its receipt the tickets will be
sent out.
The recital of the two tal-enited
young artists will be
a fitting opening for the first
concert season here, for both
have won high praise from
critics in New York and in
many other cities. Both will
be heard in solo groups during
the program and they will
sing the very well-known one
act opera, “The Telephone” ,
by Menotti, which is again
playing in New York after a
long run there and then a
tour of American cities. Both
Miss Carlton and Mr. Rogier
starred in this opera when it
was first presented in New
York.
Almost 550 persons of Lititz
and vicinity are members of
the concert association as the
result of a drive pu t on here
the last week in November.
Philippine Pen Pals
Visit Friends At Elm
Mrs. Pu rie Adiarte and chil­dren,
Patrick and Irene, New
next ten days, the c a se !Y0rk City were week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Allwein of Elm. Mrs. Adiarte,
a native of Manila, Philippine
Islands, was a pen pal of Mrs.
Allwein’s before the war. Her
husband and one son were
killed on Bataan and she and
h er two children are in the
states for plastic surgery opera­tions
for severe burns.
The Adiarte’s are returning
to the Philippines early spring.
a metal fence for the athletic
field.
The recent mailing of 1,550
letters to members of the high
school alumni already is
bringing back a satisfactory
response with this batch of
contributions expected to ac-celarate
during the next few
weeks.
The new arrangement for
the lighting facilities would
mean th a t the football grid­iron
would be placed directly
over the area used as the
baseball outfield. The mid-field
stripe would fall at the
very edge of second base of
the baseball diamond and
would mean th a t no football
playing would take place on
the baseball infield.
The n ex t step in the Jaycee
campaign for funds for the
lighting will be announced
next week, Mr. Rannels ex­plained.
Front Street, owner of the
dogs, and the group of ten
neighbors who brought the
action.
The two physicians who
took the stand were Dr. M.
H. Yoder and Dr. Joseph
Grosh.
Congregational Meeting
Of Lutheran Church
Will Be Held Wed.
MILLER IS TRANSFERRED
LEAGUE TO HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING MONDAY
WARWICK P. T. A.
EX-L1TITZ RESIDENT, 91,
DIES IN BALTIMORE
Rev. Matthew J. Kerestes,
of Rothsville, will address mem­bers
of the Warwick Twp. P a r­ent
Teachers’ Association this
Monday evening in the John
Beck School at Brunnerville.
His subject will be “School and
Church Relations.” The pro­gram
begins at 8 P. M.
A pork and sauer k ra u t sup­p
er Will mark th annual meet­ing
of the Young Men’s Busi­ness
League to be held Monday
evening when officers will be
elected. The supper will be
served at 5:30 with the busi­ness
meeting expected to get
underway at 8 P, M.
The annual congregational
meeting of St. P au l’s Lutheran
Church will be held next Wed­nesday
night, Jan u a ry 12, at
7:30 in the church auditorium
Reports of classes and organ­izations
will be given and
plans for the future outlined.
In addition, two members of
church council will be elected.
Following the meeting, there
will be a social hour in the
church basement.
The Women’s Missionary
Society met on Tuesday even­ing
with Mrs. W. Earl Hick­man
leading the topic, “How
Christian is America?”
Leonard Miller, manager
of the Sunshine Feed Store
here, has been transferred to
Martinsburg, West Virginia,
where he will be in charge of
the sunshine Feed store there.
He will movp from here on
or about February 1. Ray
Allen Mann, formerly assistant
has been named manager of
the local store.
MOTORING SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. William
Stauffer, this borough, left
Monday by automobile for
Miami, Florida, where they
will visit Mr. Stauffer’s bro­ther.
Freundlicha Leid
Legion Aux.
Met Tuesday
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion held th eir
monthly meeting in the Post
Home on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Robert Thompson, the
president, was in charge.
The ladies decided to send
th irty dollars worth of Choc­olate
milk tabs to the Veter­ans
Hospital a t Coatsville.
They recently gave one hun­dred
and three dollars to six
Veterans Hospitals and sent
all gold star mothers a win­te
r garden a t Christmas. They
also decided to take care of
the Cloak room at the Legion
Home.
Plans were made to en ter­tain
the Ladies of the Lan­caster
Auxiliary a t the March
meeting. Mrs. Wilbur Miller
was appointed chairman of
the committee in charge of
entertainment and Mrs. LaBar
Lambert in charge of refresh­ments,
she will be assisted by
the following ladies, Mrs. Ellis
Kauffman, Mrs. Carl Bach­man,
Mrs. William Getz and
Mrs. Ralph Pfautz.
Mrs. Miller was in charge
of the social hour, th e next
meeting the ladies plan to
have a Spelling Bee and Up-sidedown
cake for refresh­ments.
COUNTY RALLY
OBSERVE 19TH ANNIV.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Heisey
observed th e ir nineteenth wed­ding
by entertaining a few
friends a t th e ir home on W.
Third Avenue on Saturday
evening.
Mrs. Hannah E. M. Oehme
ninety-one, -widow of Henry
REV. AMMON HONORED
Rev. George B. Ammon, for- with music by the Acapella
. merly of the Brickerville L u th J Male ch o ru s of East Petersburg.
Oehme, former resident of eran parish, has been elected Eev- Melvin B. Forney, of Phil-
Lititz, died last Thursday ev en -1 to the newly-created post of adelphia, will speak. The rally
ing in Baltimore, Md., at the associate secretary of the Par- is sponsored by the County
home of h er son. Herbert ish and Church School Board W. C. T. U.
Oehme. She is survived only i of the United Lutheran Church ; ------------------------------
by the son with whom she lived in America in charge of audio Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zart-and
a number of nieces and j visual education. He will be man are j spending the winter
nephews. ! stationed in Philadelphia. in California.
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und wos hov ich so feel blase- j wore ich so fro das de Annie
erlicha leid ah gadruffa. Des on mich gadenkt hut. Der
wore yo nix as good morning, Bill Yung h u t ah ains grickt.
und howare you, hello, und Ovver now hov ich druvvel
how de do. Und so set es ah Denksht du ich con ous finna
sei, des macht en monicha ebber wos de Annie era address is
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County Temperance forces | weibs mensh ah gadruffa d o s 1 ed, der Kunchdavveler Huff
will have a rally on Sunday j gag0okt h u t we sivva daag ra-1 man, der Duckter Yoder und
afternoon a t 2 P.M. in the Y. |y er wedder. Se h u t nix tsu sa- der Paul Bambarrier. Kens
M. C. A. Auditorium, Lancaster J aga cot-ich denk se hu t n e t ; fin denna huts gawist. Und ich
gute gafeeld. j kon ah net roada. Ich wais wo
Well de fire daaga sin now Yummer dohl is u n d .E ila Dohl
fer bei und mer hen oil e n ! ovver wo wooned de Annie?
shana tseit cot. Mer hen corda ich will hoffa see sayed des
grickt, hen an blaseerlicha und lust mere wissa. En har
tseit by a nonner cot in der licha Neye Yore tsu eich oil
familia und worro ah in de Smile and the world smiles
carrich. with you.
Denk yusht amohl draw, ich _ „
fun de De Polly.
BIG GAME TONIGHT
The Lititz Sports Club will
play a league game w ith Tri-
Town tonight a t the Lititz
High School Gym. A door
prize will be awarded. First
game will s ta rt a t 7 P.M.
Lititz and Millersville are
currently tied for first place.
GO TO FLORIDA
hob en cord grickt
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Krick
this borough, and Mr. and
Mrs. Chester Leicey, Lehoy
Forrest, left Sunday for Flor­ida,
where they will live in a
large bus which Mr. Krick
has converted into living
^ quarters.