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72nd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 27, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 43
Offer Many Bargains
In Red Tag Day Specials
Here Friday And Saturday
Approximately 50 Retail­ers
Co-operating In
Sales Event Here
Starting tomorrow - Friday
- and continuing throughout'
Saturday - Lititz shoppers will
enjoy a heyday of bargains as
local retailers stage th eir sec­ond
Red Tag Days Bargain
Festival.
With approximately 50 re ­tailers
co-operating in an ef­fo
rt to offer more sensational
bargains than ever presented
here a t any one time in the
past, the Red Tag Days are
expected to attra c t hundreds
of shoppers from all parts of
Northern Lancaster County.
Already several dozen stores
throughout the borough are dis­playing
the red and white pen­nants
advertising the bargain
event. Today a number of re ­tailers
are sacrificing their
weekly half-holiday in order
to decorate windows with items
which have been reduced for
the occasion, and to place the
small red tags on the hundreds
and hundreds of special b ar­gains.
A pre-view of the Red Tag
specials will be found in the
advertising columns of this is­sue
of the Lititz Record-Ex­press
and give some indication
of the length to which local r e ­tailers
have gone in th e ir de­termination
to make hew
friends - and to offer old
friends real savings in ap­preciation
of past patronage.
The bargain festival is being
sponsored by the Lititz Retail­ers
Association, a branch of the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce.
The first such affair was held
last year.
Scout Supper
To Be Held
Next Wed.
First Super-
Hgy. Damage I
Claim Paid
$8,500 Paid For Damage I
To Home Located Near
Poplar Grove
With dozens of nearby pro­perty
owners presently nego­tiating
with the state over sim-ular
claims, the first property
damage as a result of the
building of the new super­highway
through the country
north of here, has been paid, it
was disclosed this week.
The first check from the
state commission was presented
to Mrs. Emma Sensenich, of
this borough, for damage to a
property near Popular Grove,
and amounted to $8,500. -The
damage was caused by the re ­location
of Route 322 which
placed a large embankment
directly in front of a dwelling.
A mixed re-action on the
p a rt of other claimants resulted
from the settlement as soon as
word of it spread. Some ap­peared
elated a t the size of
the damage paid and fe lt re ­assured
they would receive ad­equate
payment for similar
damages. Others, however, felt
the state was driving a stiff
bargain in handling the land
damages sustained.
During the past several
weeks, scores of conferences
between state and private coun­sel
have been held and while
progress was reported by some,
none of these claimants reached
an agreement, as far as could
be determined this week. Sev­e
ra l groups of home-owners
have made numerous trips to
Harrisburg in an effort to
reach settlements.
SCHOOL BOARD
The annual covered Dish
Supper of the Scout units
sponsered by the Men’s Bible
Class of the Moravian Sunday
School, will be held in the
basement of Fellowship Hall
next Fednesday evening, Feb.
2nd at 6:30 P.M.
The event for many years has
been one of the high lights
of Scout week. This year the
dinner will be held a week
earlier due to the bicentenial
anniversary of the Moravian
Church.
Those attending the dinner
will be Troop 42, Cub Pack
142 Explorer Scouts 342 and
their parents and friends.
Chief C. W. Armstrong will
show pictures of scouting in
the Council taken during the
past year.
The units will attend Church
in observance of Scout Sun­day,
on February 6, a t the
evening service.
M. C. Demmy, supervising
principal of the borough schools
was directed to obtain prices
on new caps and gowns and
to trade in old school type­writers
at a meeting of the
school board Wednesday night.
Tuition bills amounting to
$2,623.76, covering the cost of
instructing pupils residing out
of the borough, were mailed.
The tuition fees are $9.27 a
month for pupils in the first
through sixth grades, and $12.-
84 for those attending the sev­enth
through twelfth grades.
Charles Keath, president of
the board was in charge of the
meeting.
Dr. and Mrs. William Ridge­way
and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Myer of Akron and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Delp J r., visited
th e Rev. and Mrs. George B.
Carvell on Sunday.
Olympian Joins Drive
Nancy Merki Lees (left) mem­ber
ol the 1948 American Oly­mpic
swimining team took up
swimming to aid h er recovery
from a childhood attack of
polio. An ardent backer of the
March of Dimes, she is shown
with a swimming pupil at a
pool in Portland, Ore.
Dimes Drive
In Progress
In Borough
Good Response Reported
As Various Groups
Collect
The Dimes Drive in Lititz is
expected to reach new heights
this year as a result of the
flood of donations which have
been pouring in for this worthy
cause during the past few
weeks, it was revealed this
week.
The house-to-house canvass
being conducted by Boy Scout
Troop 42 will probably be
completed next week. The
public school collection also is
being completed and will reach
a new high.
Mrs. M. C. Demmy, local
chairman, who was ill at her
home this week, left her sick
bed to express h er thanks and
appreciation to members of the
Lititz Sports Club for th eir
work in behalf of the Dimes
Drive. The Sports Club turned
over $70.50 collected a t the re ­cent
basketball game with the
Globe Trotters.
A recent volley ball game
between the faculty and stud­ents
also produced $33.70 for
the dimes drive, receipts of
which are used to promote the
work of fighting infantile p a r­alysis.
Several hundred dollars
more are expected to be added
to the local total through a
collection at the Lititz Theatre
February 3 and 4.
Interest in the drive has
been increased by a display of
local children who have been
treated for infantile paralysis,
which is being displayed in the
window of the P.P.&L. Build­ing
on- Broad Street.
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
TO MEET FEB. 4
The Lititz Auxiliary of the
Lancaster General Hospital Will
meet at the home of Mrs. John
Hershey, Third Ave., Friday at
8 P.M. February 4th. Dr. Al­fred
L. Shoemaker of the De­partment
of American Folklore
a t Franklin and Marshall Col­lege
will be our guest speaker.
All members of the Auxiliary
are cordially invited to attend.
LARGEST FAT COLLECTION
IN LAST TWO YEARS
A total of 677 pounds of fat
were collected on Saturday by
the Girl Scout Troop 15 which
is the largest fa t collection in
the past two years.
The girls and their leaders
want to express th eir apprec­iation
to the Lititz housewives
and to the Wilbur Suchard
Chocolate Company for the use
of their station wagon.
Fire Losses Were $8,356
In The Borough Last Year
Fire losses in Lititz and vic­inity
during the past year
totaled $55,806, Fire Chief Ray­mond
Runk reported a t the an­nual
fire company smoker held
a t the firehouse last evening
when chicken patty dinners
were served to more than 400
firemen and friends.
Local fire losses consisted of
$8,356 in the borough and
$47,450 in the adjacent town­ships,
Chief Runk declared the
per capita loss in the borough
was $1.001, In 1947 losses in the
borough were only $1,210 or
24.2 cents p er person although
the losses in the district that
year totaled $61,020.
A total of 18 alarms in the
borough and 13 outside, or a
grand total of 31 calls were
responded to by local firemen
and apparatus. This required a
total of 23% hours of service
with local apparatus traveling
a total of 84 Vz miles in answer
to calls.
Fire-fighting dignitaries from
the county and state were
guests of the local company at
the smoker last night. Arthur
Hackman, superintendent of
schools in EastHempfield Twp.,
Lititz native, was the speaker
and proved popular with a talk
of timely interest.
Dozens of hams were given
as door-prizes in addition to a
large number of other gifts, in­cluding
the usual number of
humorous presents for some of
the better-known fire company
members.
¡Need $2,000
i Before Center
| Can Re-open _____ _
New Heating Unit Is
Needed Immediately,
Directors Disclose
i Lititz’ Community Center
| which has been closed for the
past two weeks, will not re-open
unless several thousand dol-
] lars in funds for much-needed
I repairs are forthcoming im­mediately.
|
This was disclosed by d ir­ectors
of the Center today as
they asked for bids for the
purchase and installation of a
new heating unit for the large
three-story frame building ad­joining
the park. While bids are j
being asked, th ere still is no |
indication as to where the
money is to come from to pay
for the repairs, directors woe­fully
admitted.
Although behest with finan­cial
problems almost continuou­sly
during the six years of the
Center’s operation, the Center
met its Waterloo two weeks
ago when the heating boiler
in the basement burst.
Since then all efforts to r e ­pair
the boiler have been
abandoned and it has been de­cided
that a new heating unit
is necessary. The building is
heated by lengthy, multiple
series of pipes which extend
around the walls from the first
to the th ird floor.
For the past several years,
the Center’s operating costs
have been p a rtially met through
an annual $1,500 appropriation
from the Lititz Community
Chest. In co-operation with the
Chest the Center has not con­ducted
a separate fund-raising
campaign since the second
year after it was opened.
Available funds have been
barely enough to keep the
Center going with no reserve
fund possible to care for spch
emergencies as now face the in ­stitution,
directors emphasized.
Purse Thief
Stops Woman
On Front St.
Police today were running
down several clues in the hope
of arresting a man who a t­tacked
a local woman walking
along Front Street in an ef­fort
to steal her purse.
The woman who eluded the
purse-snatcher when she ran
across the street and aroused
residents was Miss Betty Meis-key,
of Cedar Street.
Miss Meiskey informed boro­ugh
police th a t as she was
walking along East Front St.,
a short-stocky man wearing a
lumber-jacket, made a grab
for her pocketbook, which con­tained
a sum of money. Miss
Meiskey went to the home of
Willis Steely.
Apparently quite brazen, the
man walked away following
the episode. By the time re ­sidents
had been aroused, how­ever,
he had disappeared, Of­ficer
Hoffman searched the
neighborhood bu t could not
locate the man.
Report Theft
Police also reported the theft
of a sum of money from the
home of Ada Yerger, Front
Street, at approximately 8:40
A.M. Saturday morning. She
informed police th a t when she
arose she found the front door
of her home open and the purse
on the floor. A five-dollar bill,
three ones and 80 cents in
change was missing.
INFANT DIES
The infant daughter of Mar­lin
and Roselyn Landis Waltz,
of 402 S. Broad Street, died
Tuesday a t 11:15 P.M. at the
General Hospital. In addition
to her parents she is survived
by h er maternal grandmother,
Mrs. Martha Landis, of thi%.
borough.
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Such information is additionally of invaluable aid to the American
public in many ways and is available when needed.
(Official Navy Photograph)
Enthusiastic Audience
Enjoys Opening Concert
By Chester H. Norton
The Lititz Community Con­cert
Association presented the
first concert in a series of three
Tuesday Night at Fellowship
Hall. Jean Carlton, Soprano,
and F ran k Rogier, Baritone,
appeared in a joint recital. The
initial concert was definitely a
success. A large enthusiastic
audience had a thoroughly en­joyable
evening of good music.
The program was highlighted
by Menotti’s immensely suc­cessful
and highly original one
act play “The Telephone.” Mr.
Rogier created the role when
it was originally produced in
New York and Miss Carlton
has sung it many times on
Broadway.
The Menotti music is modern
witty and provocative and
seems to be the modern v e r­sion
of the delightful Gilbert
And Sullivan Operas of by­gone
days. The program stated,
“London, Paris, Chicago, Bos­ton
and Philadelphia have en­thusiastically
applauded this
droll, delightful, typically Am­erican
opera,” and we in Lititz
should feel privileged to en­dorse
enthusiasm especially
with Mr. Rogier bringing us
his a rtfu l nonchalance.
Paul Sargent, Pianist, con­tributed
in no small way to
the success of the presentation
The score is difficult, the rh y ­thms
intricate and the subtleties
many and varied - all of which
were accomplished with the
ease of a true artist.
Earlier in the program there
were both solo groups and
duets. Mr. Rogier sang Wolf
lieder and songs by Guion and
Rose. His voice is a high b a ri­tone
perfectly focused, which
he used with buoyancy and
clarity, keeping at all times an
effortless melodic line. His
diction in both German and
English was faultless.
Miss Carlton’s best effort was
an unaccompanied Irish Song,
“I Know Where I ’m Goin’.” in
which her pianissimo was very
effective. In her other songs
h er voice seemed tired but her
charm and vivacity easily sur­mounted
this obstacle.
The Mozart duets were given
with refinement and delicacy
bu t the long excerpt from Ver­di’s
“Traviata,” at least to this
scribe, suffered from lack of an
orchestra and a better English
libretto. (If Verdi must be sung
in English!)
Lititz is indeed indebted to
the Committee who have lab­ored
so h a rd to bring Com­munity
Concerts here. Their
efforts have not been in vain.
Next concert February 16th.
HEADING- SOUTHWARD
Mrs. Wilson Grube will leave
Sunday for St. Petersburg,
Florida, where she will spend
the winter with h er sister, Mrs.
Samuel Locke, and h er brother
Daniel Light, and family.
Boro To Speed
Snow Removal
The borough has signed a
snow-removing contract which
will get rid of drifts in the
central section in the course of
an hour or so, no matter how
heavy the drifts, Councilman
Elmef Bomberger reported this
week.
The contract has been given
the same contractor as r e ­moves
snow in Lancaster and
who will use a modern auto­matic
snow-loader which is
capable of loading a tru ck in
12 seconds. Four trucks will be
used here. Persons in the sec­tion
where meters are installed
are asked to shovel the snow
beyond the curb so th a t the
loader will get it.
Borough officials also will
use the borough snow plow,
which is attached to the boro­ugh
truck, in clearing lanes of
traffic throughout borough Sts.
outside the business section.
Girl Scout Group
Elects Officers
The following officers were
elected at a meeting of leaders
and members of the Girl Scout
Troop committees of Rolling
Hills Neighborhood held at the
Moravian Church: Mrs. Frank
Longenecker, Chairman, Mrs.
Clyde Benner, vice chairman;
Mrs. Fred Kauffman, Rothsville
secretary. A summer day camp
fo r the neighborhood scouts was
discussed. Camp stamps now
are available to all scouts who
will attend camp.
Plans were made by the com­mittee
women to have a cover­ed
dish social for leaders on
March 4. Mrs. Willy dePerrot
has been appointed council as­sistant
for the district.
ADDRESSES SERVICE
AT LINDEN HALL
The Rev. Mervin Weidner,
pastor of th e Midway Manor
Moravian Church addressed the
Vesper service a t Linden Hall
on Sunday evening. He spoke
on “Are You Listening” ?
The girls of the Ju n io r Col­lege
will have several days
vacation, from the time they
finish th eir examinations this
week until Wednesday, Feb­ru
a ry 2nd.
FOOD SALE
The Women’s Missionary Soc­iety
of the Moravian Church
will hold a food sale a t the
Fire House on Saturday, J a n ­uary
29th beginning at 11:00
A.M. Cakes, pies, peanut b rit­tle,
etc will be on sale. Mrs.
Willis Bucher and Mrs. C.
Mervin Balmer will be in
charge.
New Borough Budget
Is Expected To Produce
A Comfortable Surplus
Dr. Landis
Local Head Of
$2 Per Capita Boast To
Bring In Twice
Added Cost
Ï Ï _ _ j Lititz Borough, which ended
n e a r i J L ^ r i V e up 1948 with a comfortable sur-
Campaign For Heart Cen­ter
To Be Entirely
Voluntary
plus, is planning to get itself
into an even b etter financial
position, according to the 1949
budget introduced at a 20-min­ute
session of borough council
Tuesday evening.
An enthusiastic response in
this section has greeted the
opening of the campaign to
raise $125,000 in Lancaster
County for the Heart Associat- '
ion, which plans to operate a
heart clinic in Lancaster, Dr. i
Charles A. Landis, district j
chairman, announced today. j
The campaign for funds will
continue until February 17 and j
will be entirely voluntary. Noj
house-to-house canvass will b e !
made and persons anxious to
contribute are asked to tak e or
send th eir donations to A. L.
Douple, a t the Farmers Nat­ional
Bank.
The association has p u r­chased
the Children’s Heart
Home on Duke Street, Lanc­aster,
and intend to operate
this as a clinic for th e pro­tection
of children from rheu­matic
fever and Heart ailments.
Rheumatic fever is the worst
of children’s diseases and often
carries its destructiveness into
adult life, Dr. Landis explained.
Dr. Landis has appointed
Raymond S. Reedy, borough
chairman; Carl Brubaker, War­wick
Township chairman; and
Forry Zartman, Elizabeth Twp.
Chairman.
IOOF. Bldg.
Committee
Is Appointed
Plans to establish a fund for
a new building were fu rth e r
discussed at the meeting of
Lititz Lodge No. 1050 I.O.O.F.
held on Monday evening a t the
Lodge Hall. Edward Mowery,
Noble Grand, was in charge
and appointed a committee to
plan a series of activities for
the raising of funds.
In presenting the budget,
three borough councilmen p re­sent
explained that while th e
borough property tax will re ­man
the same as last year, a
special per capita tax of $2 per
person will be instituted to
defray costs of garbage col­lection.
This brings the borough
per capita tax to a total of $4
as compared with tile $5
school per capita tax, bringing
the total tax here up to $9
per person in addition to the
property tax.
The added borough per cap­ita
tax will bring in a total
of $6,888, budget figures dis­closed,
as compared with the
contract price of $3,000 which
the borough will pay per year
for garbage collection. This will
leave the borough treasury with
another $3,000 or more sur­plus
not included last year.
Another source of added
revenue will be the parking
meters which still are bring­ing
in $300 per week - or ap­proximately
$150 per week for
the borough’s use while the
remainder goes to pay for the
meters. In its budget of ex­penditures
the borough estim­ated
this source of revenue at
$6,500, which will in all pro­bability
be several hundred
dollars short.
Water Department profits al­so
are estimated at around
$6,202.50 although last y e a r’s
surplus was more than $10,000.
The budget which calls for ex­penditures
of approximately
$70,000 estimates its receipts at
$74,456.11.
Building permits issued in­cluded
an addition to the VFW
Home on Spruce Street, re ­pairs,
Southern Pipe Line Co.,
repairs at home of William
Mathers, Orange St., and chim­ney,
home of Levi Yerger.
The committee includes, W.
Martin Hess, chairman, Walter
Z. White, Edward S. Grosh,
Edgar E. Sturgis, Fred Rettew,
Jr., S. H. Nuss, Cullen Carpen­ter,
Carl Vi Reedy, Edward L.
Mowery, Sylvan Gochnauer,
Melvin Eichelberger, Guy Nev-in
Bowman, Howard Lebo and
Daniel Reigel.
The Lodge purchased an
electric roaster to serve lunches
and is planning to initiate a
class of candidates in the near
future.
The business meeting fol­lowed
a covered dish supper
in charge of Charles Dussinger,
Carl Reedy, Daniel Reigel and
Mr. Mowery.
RECEIVES NEW DOG
John Peiffer, Orange Street,
first countian to receive a “See­ing
Eye” dog in 1934, got his
th ird canine leader Friday.
The dog, “Thelma”, is a
black German shepherd.
Peiffer got his second dog in
1939, following the death of
the first dog assigned him.
PROPERTY SOLD
The property a t 41 Fro n t St.,
consisting of a two and one-half
story frame house, barn,
butcher shop and seven garages
offered for sale Saturday by
Minnie Kauffman, of the Fro n t
St. address, was sold to C lar­ence
R. Landis, this borough,
fo r $11,220.
Henry J. Snavely 'was th e
auctioneer.
Springs Bank
Purchases Lot
On N. Broad
The Lititz Springs National
Bank has purchased the tract
of land on North Broad Street
directly adjoining th eir prop­erty,
it was announced today.
The lot of land was bought
from Dr. C. E. Lane and the
transaction was completed
through Elam E. Habecker,
local real estate broker. The
sale was on private terms with
possession to be given April 1.
Sale of the lot brought to
an end speculation as to
whether any additional efforts
! would be made to locate an
automobile service station a t
this site. More than a year ago
Dr. Lane and Dr. D. W. Mar­tin,
owner of the property
north of Dr. Lane’s lot, com­pleted
transactions to sell to an
oil company for a service
station.
When borough council held
an open hearing on the grant­ing
of a building permit, it
was denied on the ground that
the oil company had not as
yet gained possession of the
land. Later, however, the ap­plication
was withdrawn and
the sale negotiations dropped.
Dr. H. B. Minnich, James
Yerger, and John Witmyer left
last evening for North Creek,
N.Y., for a week-end of skiing.
Approximately 40 members of
the Lancaster County Ski Club
will leave late today.