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73rd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, April 14, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 1
Only Fair Weather Needed
To Make Easter Observance
A Gala Affair Here
Special Services Will Be
Held By All Local
Churches
The waning hope for c le a r,1
Springlike weather still was be­ing
cherished as many here
planned to mark the coming
Easter holiday by donning new
togs.
The weatherman, too, had
not given up hope and indicated
th a t despite the th re a t of show­ers,
Sunday may result in clear
an d warmer weather, every­thing,
in fact, th a t Easter morn­ing
paraders could ask for.
College students were re ­turning
home this week with
the prospect th a t the coming
week-end will be marked with
an unusually heavy social cal­endar.
Local chulches all have plan­ned
outstanding Easter services
to culminate a week of pro­grams,
all of which have been
well attended. Outstanding
among the Holy Week services
has been the mid-day service
in the Trinity Evangelical Con­gregational
Church, sponsored
by the ministerial especially
for school children.
This y ear’s attendance a t the
mid-day service has broken all
records. Monday a total of 424
attended; 425 Tuesday and 377
Wednesday. In attending, stud­ents
gave up p a rt of their noon
hour to do so. Two local
students serving as organists
a re Nancy Hess and Carl Bal-mer.
Brosey; and Thomas Gene For-
The annual Good Friday un­ion
service will be held this
y ear from noon to 2:30 P.M. in
the Moravian Church and will
be followed immediately by the
Traditional Moravian Service
to 3:10 P.M. Local stores and
offices, almost as a unit, will
be closed during this th ree hour
period to enable employees to
attend.
Banks also will be closed all
day Friday but the Post Office
will observe its regular hpurs
and schedules.
Brethren To
Hold Easter
Services Here
. On Easter at the 10:30 A.M.
service in the Lititz Church of
the Brethren the Senior Choir
will sing, “Blow Golden Trum­pets”
and “Christ The Lord Is
Risen Today.” An Easter Mes­sage
by the pastor will be en­titled
“I Am The Resurrection
And The Life” , the last in a
series of sermons on the great
“I Am” sayings of Christ.
Easter Musicale
The Chapel Choir and the
Senior Choir of the Lititz
Church of the Brethren will
present an Easter Musicale at
7:00 P.M. Included in the pro­gram
will be, “He Lives” ; “Hail
Mighty Victor” ; and “Were
You There?” by the Chapel
Choir. Both Chapel and Senior
Choirs wil sing together, “Al­leluia”
; and “The Strife Is
O’e r.” The Senior Choir will
present, “The Holy City;” “All
in The April Evening;” “In
Joseph’s Lovely Garden;” Blow
Golden Trumpets;” “Christ The
Lord Is Risen Today;” “O Morn
of Beauty;” “Lilies of The
Dawn.” “In Joseph’s Lovely
Garden,” Harold Hollinger will
sing the solo part; and in
“Christ The Lord Is Risen To­day,”
Mary Lou Hershey will
play a flute Obligato.
89 Members
Are Admitted
At St. Paul’s
Combined Choirs Will
Present Musicale
In Evening
Eighty-nine new members
were received by St. P au l’s
Lutheran Church on Palm Sun­day,
the largest number recei­ved
a t any one time or in any
one year in the history of the
local congregation.
The Confirmation Class con
tained 22 members a n d in ad­dition
16 were received by
ad u lt baptism, 27 by le tte r of
transfer and 24 by profession
of faith. The Rev. Charles F.
Trunk, the pastor of the church,
was assisted a t the service on
Palm Sunday morning by Dr.
O. O. Leidich, of town. There
was a capacity congregation for
the service.
At 2:30 Sunday, Rev. Trunk
baptized 1 children and on Sun­day
evening another capacity
audience heard one of the finest
three-choir musicals ever p re­sented
in St. P au l’s, when the
Junior, Young People’s and
Senior Choirs sang a program
of Palm Sunday and Lenten
music under th e direction of
Albert S. Ebbert, with Mrs. E.
D. Fulweiler as organist.
Four crates of eggs and a
large amount of cash were giv­en
a t the Sunday School Sun­day
for the Lutheran homes at
Loysville and a t Topton.
For th e th ird Sunday in a
row a new high in attendance
was recorded in the church
(eentinued* from page 6)
Lutherans
Will Hold
Dawn Service
Observance of Easter will be­gin
in St. P au l’s Lutheran
Church a t a Dawn Service at
6:30 Sunday morning, a t which
the Ju n io r and Young People’s
Choirs will sing and the self-denial
offering envelopes will
be received.
At 9:15 the main depart­ments
of thè Sunday School
will combine in the church aud­itorium
for a special Easter
session. '
At 10:30 and again a t 7
Holy Communion will be ad­ministered.
The Confirmation
Class will commune at the
morning service.
Two more of the early morn­ing
services sponsored by Clar­ence
Hendrickson’s class of
high school boys will be held
tomorrow (Friday) and Satu r­day.
There have been good a t­tendances
each morning for
these services and for the light
breakfasts which have followed.
191st. Dawn
Service To
Be Held Sun.
Moravian Program Will
Climax Series Of
Meetings
Rivals Toot The Same Tune
PM
EASTER PLAY AT ST. LUKES
The Easter play “Mine Eyes
1 Hiath Seen Him” will be given
at St. Luke’s Evangelical and
Reformed church on Easter
evening April 17 at 7:00.
The 191st Easter Dawn Ser­vice
wil be held at the Mor­avian
Church a t 5 A.M. on
Easter Sunday Morning. After
the custom of these many years
the worshippers will gather in
the Church ju st before day­b
re ak and review th eir creed.
At dawn a procession of Min­isters,
Choir and people are led
by the Trombone choir to the
graveyard (God’s Acre) for the
conclusion of the Service.
The music has always been
the feature o f, the Holy Week
and Easter Services. The Trom­bone
Choir, under the direct­ion
of John Keehn, will an­nounce
the resurrection by
playing Chorales throughout
the town.
Victor Wagner is Choir d ir­ector
and on Easter Sunday
morning the Choir will sing
Handel’s “Lift Up Your Heads,
O Ye Gates,” and “The Halle- j
lu jah Chorus” from “The Mes- j
siah.” In the Evening Service I
the beautiful “I Know That My
Redeemer Liveth” and “Unfold,
Ye Portals Everlasting” will be
sung. Also included in the Ser­vice
will be “The Lord Is My
Strength” (Novello) and “Come
Unto Me” (Tschaikowsky).
On Palm Sunday the follow­ing
members were received into
the fellowship of the Church.
Jan e t F. Balmer, Helen L. Hec-kel,
Esterlee Hower, Sarah E.
Muth, Nancy J . Stroble, Joanne
M. Wagner, Gary E. Sipe, John
R. Hess, Robert E. Bertzfield,
John B. Grosh III, Dorothy L.
Jameson, Philip M. Macferran,
Dexter Erline, Mr. & Mrs. Louis
B. Romaine, Mrs. Jacob Hal-bach,
Mrs. John Grosh, Mr. &
Mrs. Richard Hardenbergh,
Charles R. Shotzmann, Mr. &
Mrs. Arth u r Thorn, C. William
Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Cox,
Ruby Adams, Mr. & Mrs. Henry
Sharpe, Mrs. Annie Shuyler,
John and Robert Shuyler, Mrs.
Fred Snavely, Maebelle Voll-rath,
Mrs. Winifred Walls. Mr.
& Mrs. Willy DePerrot were re ­ceived
on March 27, and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Shotzmann
will be received at the Thurs­day
Communion Service.
Children will be baptized at
the Great Sabbath Love Feast
on Saturday afternoon at 3 P.M.
During the Holy Week the
members of the Congregation
brought gifts of food to be
packed for European Morav­ians.
This effort is in conjunct­ion
with a state wide in te r­church
appeal for continued
aid to Europe.
—Photo by Donald Reidenttaugh.
Here’s a shot of the Blue Notes taken during their first
public appearance at the Bunny Hop in the Lititz Community
Center last Saturday evening.
School Rivals Join Hands
To Furnish Dance Music
Lititz and Ephrata High
School students, arch-rivals on
the sports field, didn’t even hit
a sour note Saturday night
when they joined in furnishing
the music for the Bunny Hop
held a t the Community Center.
The group, which is made up
of Lititz and Ephrata students,
is known as “The Blue Notes”,
was making its first public ap­pearance
and immediately won
the acclaim of the local young­er
crowd. The band consists of
F ran k Showers, Ray Shaub,
A rth u r Kling, Dick Neff, Carl
Showers, Lemar Sipe and Lynn-ford
Owens, of the local high
school; Don Harsh, John Peif-fe
r and Rodney Mellinger, Eph­ra
ta High School students.
The Bunny Hop Was sponsor­ed
by the Student Council of
which Elvin Mearig is presi­dent.
Other officers are Dale
Herr, vice president; Nancy
Breitigan, secretary; Anna Hal-deman,
treasurer; Bill Bru­baker,
chairman, decorating
committee.
About 200 persons enjoyed
the splendid entertainment,
clever decorations and delic­ious
food. The entire group ex­pressed
appreciation of the
newly appointed managers, Mr.
and Mrs. P au l Seaber, for
th eir assistance in decorating
the excellent sandwiches and
cake available a t the Snack
Bar. There were several tables
of adults who were having just
as much fun as the younger
people and all mingled together
to make the evening a huge
success.
Open Hours A t The Center
Monday,. Tuesday, Wednes­day
and Friday 3 to 5 and 7
to 10:30.
Saturday 1 to 5 and 7 to 11.
Sunday 1 to 5 and 8 to 10:30.
Firemen Are
Entertained
By Auxiliary
Turkey Supper Served;
Mrs. M. C. Demmy
Re-elected Pres.
TRIMBLE TWINS ILL
Philip and David Trimble,
twin sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Trimble, East Main
Street, were adifiitted to the
Osteopathic Hospital this week.
They were reported greatly im­proved
today.
Evangelical Easter
Program At 9 :3 0 A. M.
Midget, M-M, Ball Players
To Report Here Saturday
All local boys anxious to
play Midget or Midget-Midget
baseball this year are asked to
rep o rt at the High School F ri­day
morning when teams will
be selected, it was announced
following a meeting Monday at
the Warwick House.
Two four-team leagues will
be organized as follows:
Midgets: The Boxers, spon­sored
by the Simplex Box Co.,
and manager by George Sipe;
Wilbur-Suchard team, Warren
Klopp, Robert Martin and Paul
Rhoads, managers; 56-ers, Am­erican
Legion team, Robert
Schatsmann, manager; and
Rotary Cobs, Rotary team, Rob­e
rt Ludwig and Sil Gochenauer,
managers.
Midget-Midgets: Boots, spon-sored
by Badorf Shoe, Charles
Ludwig and Roy White, man­agers;
Cubs, sponsored b y Lions
Raymond Reedy, manager;
ATCO, sponsored by Animal
Trap, Charles Kling, Roy Clair
and Richard Zartman, manag­ers;
Lacers, sponsored by Lititz
Shoe, Bill. Dengler, Devoe Em­ber
and Donald Kreider, man­agers.
i
Approximately 150 boys are
expected to rep o rt IJriday
morning at 10 A.M. Each mem­ber
of a team will receive a
baseball cap and shirt with the
name of his team in colored
letters. Practise periods also
will be announced. Games
again will be played on Mon­day
and Wednesday evenings
this year.
The following members were
received into the fellowship of
the Trinity Evangelical Con­gregational
church on Palm
Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. William
Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Laverne
Barber, Cletus Forney, Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Hendricks, Je rry
Moore, Lamar Kauffman, Randy
Miller, and Mrs. Floyd Yingst.
The Rev. George B. Carvell,
pastor, baptized the following
: children on Sunday afternoon,
! Arth u r Ervin Lafever, son of
1 Mr. and Mrs. Arth u r Lafever;
| Theodore Richard Brosey, son
j of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R.
I Bosey; and Thomas Gene For­ney,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus
Forney.
The Sunday school will pre­sent
a special program on East­e
r morning at 9:30 A.M., and
at 10:30 A.M. Holy Communion
will be observed. At this service
Two hundred members of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Fire
Company were entertained by
the Firemen a t a tu rk ey pattie
supper on Thursday evening a t
the Fire house. Professional en­tertainment
was provided door
prizes given and each guest
was presented with a box of
chocolates. Emory Wagner was
master of ceremonies.
A short business meeting fol­lowed
the supper and election
of officers was held with the
following results, Mrs. M. C.
Demmy, president; Mrs. C. G.
Hoffman, 1st vice-president;
Mrs. Floyd Stark, 2nd vice-president;
Mrs. Arville Burk­holder,
secretary; Miss Ada
Schnerer, treasurer; Mrs. Henry
Hackman, financial secretary.
The president appointed Miss
Mae Stauffer chairman of the
program committee and Mrs.
Levi Yerger, chairman of the
Ways and Means committee.
The ladies made plans for a
rummage sale to be held on
Thursday and Friday, April 21
and 22 in the Fire house with
Mrs. Esther Sheneberger in
charge.
Local Taxi
Demolished
In Crash
Strikes Moving Truck
On Cedar St.
Wednesday
The front end of a Lititz
taxicab was demolished and the
driver narrowly escaped in­ju
ry yesterday afternoon when,
according to Chief of Police
Clarence Kreider, the taxi
crashed into the re a r end of a
truck.
The taxicab, one of two auto­mobiles
owned and operated
here by Manie Guito, was be­ing
operated a t the time of the
accident by Raymond S. Ulrich,
Lititz, R.D.3. Ulrich was driv­ing
south on Cedar Street.
At a point south of the Diem
Implement garage, Ulrich not­iced
th a t a tru ck in front of
him had slackened its speed.
He applied his brakes bu t the
taxi skidded on the wet street
and crashed into the re a r end
of the other vehicle.
Damage to the taxi was es­timated
at more than $200. The
truck which was not damaged
is owned by Ammon Brothers,
Lancaster, and was being oper­ated
by Harold McCorkle, Eliz­abethtown.
The mishap occurred at 12:20
P.M.
Groups Will
Meet Monday
On Memorial
Jaycees Invite Council And
School Board To
Confab
135 Children
Photographed
Despite an epidemic of gum-chewers,
a total of 135 children
had th e ir photographs taken
for the Record-Express a t the
General Su tter Hotel last F ri­day.
Representatives of the Lan­dry
Studio reported th a t when
their picture^taking started they
could not understand so many
strained expressions until they
began removing wads of chew­ing
gum - much of which had
been surreptitiously smuggled
into th e ir mouths to their p a r­ents
amazement.
Results of the wholesale pic­ture-
taking were quite gratify­ing
with many unusually fine
pictures resulting. Proofs of the
pictures were being shown this
week and will be ready for
publication in this paper, sta rt­ing
in about five weeks.
Spelling Bee
Saturday At
Town’s End
A Spelling Bee will be held
at Town’s End on April 23,
according to plans made by the
Society of Farm Women No. 1
at the meeting held on Satu r­day
afternoon a t the home of
Mrs. John Witters near Ephrata.
Mrs. Robert Behmer will be
in charge of arrangement.
Mrs. Leonard Miller tender­ed
her resignation as president
of th e group, she expects to
move to Martinsburg, W. Va.
June 1st. Mrs. Daniel Brubaker,
the vice-president, became p re­sident
and Mrs. Lerby Firestone
was appointed as vice-president.
Miss Yvonne Cook, county
extension worker, spoke on
“Storage Space” ; Dona Sprech-e
r played an accordion solo and
Donald Witters and his mother,
presented a saxophone and
piano duet. Mrs. Firestone was
in charge of devotions and Mrs.
Firestone ■ and Mrs. Clarence
Troutman were appointed os
representatives on the Recreat­ion
Council.
The group contributed fif­teen
dollars to the Ephrata
Community hospital. Two new
members, Mrs. Willi? Bucher
and Mrs. Bushong were receiv­ed.
Twenty members and four
visitors were present and the
next;, meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Richard Landis at
Rothsville with Mrs. Adrian de-
Vink as co-hostess when films
will be shown by the P.P.&L.
LeRoy Book, J r. will be the
guest soloist. '
Ralph Downy, a student at
Lebanon Valley College, is
spending the spring vacation
with Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Krei­der.
CLEFT PALATE CLINIC
IS BEING EXPANDED
The Cleft Palate Clinic foun­ded
by Dr. Herbert K. Cooper,
this borough, is being greatly
expanded and will soon move
to new q uarters «at 24 North
Lime Street, Lancaster, it was
announced this week. An­nouncement
also was made th a t
the clinic is to receive support
from the State Department of
Health.
DR. WILLIAM F. FOSHAG
Dr. Foshag, who is Head Curator
of the Department of Geology ol
the Smithsonian Institution, will de-:
liver the main address at the an-1
nual meeting of the Pennsylvania !
Academy of Science at Franklin and j
Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., on i
April 15. It will be the twenty-fifth |
anniversary meeting of the Acade-1
my, and the sessions will extend
through Saturday, April 1C.
Woman’s Club
Will Hear
Talk On Glass
Collection Of Glass To Be
Exhibited At Hotel
Monday Evening
A meeting of the various
groups interested in obtaining
a war memorial for Lititz has
been called for Monday evening
in the firehouse, Harold Kauf­fman,
secretary of the Ju nior
Chamber of Commerce, an­nounced
this week.
A recent meeting of Jaycee
Directors and the War Memor­ial
Committee headed by Paul
F. Diehm was “quite gratify­ing”
Kauffman reported. Local
Jaycees are urging the adopt­ion
of the Athletic Field as a
War Memorial with the project
of installing lights for night
games as the first step in its
development.
Other groups invited to a t­tend
Monday’s meeting, he said,
are the borough school board,
borough council, borough of­ficials
and the Lititz Sports
Club. The public also is wel­come
to attend the meeting.
“Glass Through the Ages” to
be presented by Miss Elsie M.
Heckman of Allentown, at the
regular meeting of the Lititz
Woman’s Club on Monday even­ing
April 18th at 8:00 P.M. at
the General Sutter Hotel. Miss
Heckman, a teacher of Art in
the Allentown schools, has not
only made the collecting of
glass h er hobby, she has made
an extensive study of it.
In connection with th is pro­gram
the committee sponsoring
it is arranging an ex hibit of
glass. They are asking that
those club members having an­tique
glass they would like to
show, th a t evening, to please
bring th e ir glass shortly before
the meeting. A table will be
prepared to receive the exhibit.
Also on the program will be
several selections on th e harp,
by Miss Frances Nissley.
Hostesses for the evening will
be Mrs. P au l McCloud and Mrs.
Harry Ruley.
The chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, Mrs. H.
K. Cooper announces a Card
P a rty to be held April 27th at
8:00 P.M. a t the General Sut­te
r Hotel. Tickets can be se­cured
from any member of the
committee.
Rèd Cross Drive
Raised $2,800
SCHOOLS CLOSE TODAY
The public schools will close
on Thursday afternoon, April
14 th to reopen on Tuesday
morning, April 19th.
Lititz’ recent Red Cross cam­paign
went over th e top to the
tune of several hundred dollars,
Alfred L- Douple, local chair­man,
announced today. A total
' of $2,800.75 was subscribed
here as compared w ith the
goal of $2,500.
Mr. Douple an d Mrs. M. C.
Derrpny, who served as co-chairman,
expressed th e ir ap­preciation
to the public for its
support of the campaign and
to the workers for th e ir efforts.
James Delp Lauded
For Oil Painting
James Delp received recogn­ition
for a picture he did and
submitted to the Gimbel a rt ex­hibit.
Mr. Demmy received a
le tte r congratulating the school
and a certificate of award to
be presented to the youth. It
will be hung in the Gimbel
auditorium where it will com­pete
in the southeastern Pen­nsylvania
Regional exhibition
preliminary to the selection of
finalists for the national school
Art exhibition in the fine Arts
Gallety of Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburg. The picture was of
his brother and a radio set.
WARWICK TWP. LIONS
PLAN EGG HUNT
P au l Ibach, president, an­nounces
the annual Easter Egg
h u n t on Saturday afternoon at
2 P.M. in the Lions Memorial
P a rk at Rothsville.
All children from Warwick
Township are invited.
707 STUDENTS EXAMINED
Seven hundred and seven
persons were examined by the
X ray unit in the public
schools recently. Another op­portunity
will be given for this
examination on May 13th when
it will be a t the Fire house,
sponsored by the Ladies Aux­iliary
of the Fire Company.
Teen Talk
125 Prizes To Be Awarded
At Egg Hunt Saturday
More than 3,000 eggs in ad­dition
to hundreds of small
candy eggs, will be the booty
to be sought by an expected
avalanche of several hundred
boys and girls a t the annual
Easter Egg Hunt to be held
this Saturday afternoon at 4:30
P.M.
Members of the Lititz Lions
Club, sponsoring the event, also
announced th a t there will be
a total of 125 cash prizes to be
distributed among the kiddies.
Children who are six years
old and under are to rep o rt to
the Athletic Field where spec­ial
arrangements have been
made vto enable them to seek
Easter eggs without being
trampled by the older children.
Children in the age group of
from seven to 12 years w ill re-
• p o rt a t the Bandshell. In case
! of rain the egg h u n t w ill be
i held Monday afternoon at 4:30
P.M.
By Don Fisher
Nothing is more humiliating,
for a columnist, then having to
admit and make amends for a
mistake or misstatement of
facts. So casting my journalist­ic
pride to the winds here are
corrections for two mistakes
made during the past few
weeks. Wilbur Stark is presi­dent
of the Sigma Pi fratern ity
and not the Phi Si as reported.
Also Edward Weiler’s first
name is Edward and not Nevin
as sated last time. Now, on
with this week’s hodge-podge.
Errr, ahhh—news.
Unless the eyes don’t have
it — Bobby Roth and Patsy
Pfautz are spring smitten a-la-steady.
Jack Stauffer is sporting a
maroon head covering th a t is
a mixture of dink, beanie, and
beret. This type hat is popular
in larger cities bu t hasn’t been
fully accepted in Lititz. Hmm-mnnn.
Say, if enough fellows
wore hats of th a t style the
town’s people might forget ab­out
the loud checked numbers
Bender, Knipe, and Eshelman
proudly displayed last summer.
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