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7 3rd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, May 19, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 6
Legal Technicalities Delay
Acceptance Of Legion Plan
For War Memorial In Square
Local Student-Musician
Honored At Nationwide
Radio Broadcast
Sf«.?Atw?.rL°tck Local Church
Any Traffic Hazard
Several technical difficulties
this week were holding up ac­ceptance
of the plan for creat­ing
a Lititz War Memorial
through the erection of a flag­pole
and illuminated fountain
on the traffic island in the
Square.
At a joint-meeting of the
Legion Committee which had
the plan drawn up, and the
War Memorial Committee, held
last Thursday night, no serious
objection arose but members of
both groups recognized certain
legal and technical questions
which must be solved before
the plan can be presented more
widely.
These questions are headed
by that as to whether the bor­ough
is at liberty to use Roe­buck
Memorial Funds toward
the maintenance of a War Mem­orial
and exactly what would
happen to the fund if the Roe­buck
fountain, still in a bad
state of repair, were not re ­placed
in the Square.
Borough Council this week
presented this legal teaser to
Borough Solicitor Paul A. Muel­ler
whose answer is expected to
be available within the coming
week. .
Another question is whether
, the size of the traffic island on
which the Roebuck Fountain
formerly stood, can be increas­ed
approximately five feet on
both of its Main Street trian ­gular
sides.. Some question
arose in borough councilmanic
Circles as to whethef the State
Highway Department might or
could legally object to increas-
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Will Mark
Anniversary
Trinity E. C. To Celebrate
13th Year Of New
Church Edifice
2 4 To Receive
Diplomas At
Rothsville
Trinity Evangelical Church
will celebrate the thirteenth
Anniversary of the new Chur.ch
edifice this Sunday with special
features at each Service.
The Sunday School at 9;30
A.M. will be in charge of the
General Superintendent Mr.
Aaron Landis assisted by Carl
Frederick. Program includes
instrumental solo by Donald
Mohler and baritone solo by
Mr. Leroy Book, student at
West Chester State Teachers
College.
Rev. S. Neitz Dissinger, of
Summit, N. J., a Son of Trinity
Congreagtion who was licensed
to preach in 1895 and received
his first charge fifty years ago,
will speak briefly in the Sunday
School session and bring the
Message in the morning Wor­ship.
Special recognition will
be given to Mrs. Nancy Ging­rich
the only living Charter
Member of the Church which
was organized seventy seven
years ago. Special music will
be furnished by the choir and
Mr. Leroy Book will be the
featured soloist.
The evening service at 7 P.M.
•will be in charge of the pastor
arid will be musical in nature,
with instrumental selections by
Messrs. Harry Neidermyer and
Richard McCloud and vocal
selections by Mr. Book and by
Rev. and Mrs. Carvell. Mrs. T.
T. Dussinger will preside at the
organ during the morning ser­vices
and Mrs. Warren New­comer
in the evening service.
Dr. À. G. Breidenstine To
Address Graduates;
Baccalaureate May 29
Twenty four seniors will re­ceive
diplomas at the thirty
ninth annual commencement of
Warwick Township High School
which will be held in the high
school auditorium on June 1, at
eight o’clock. Dr. A. G. Breiden­stine,
Dean of Students at
Franklin and MarshaUCollege
will give the address t<kt the
class. i,S!
Walter Martin, Herman Reitz,
and Dorothy Keener, student
speakers, will base their or­ations
on the theme “Working
Together for the World We
Want.” The class wiU sing sev­eral
vocal selections and Garth
Becker, Leah Becker, Audrey
Stief, Joretta Hess, Janet Shel­ly,
and Helen Stoner will play
in an instrumental ensemble.
Diplomas will be presented
by the supervising principal,
Prof. N. J. Fuhrman. The Rev.
K. R. Texter, Pastor at the
Salem Evangelical United
Brethren Church, Rothsville,
will give th invocation and
benediction.
Members of the class are:
Garth D. Becker, Leah Jane
Becker, Harold E. Bomberger,
James David Brenner, Thurley
Mozelle Buchter, Jay Donald
Fisher, Robert Bowman Ging­rich,
Nancy Joanne Grube, Jor­etta
Fay Hess, P. Richard Ibach,
Ray Earl Kauffman, Dorothy
Kendig Keener, Charlotte F.
Longenecker, Walter John Mar­tin,
Ray W. Miller, Robert G.
Ober, Herman Rudolf Reitz,
Mary Jane Risser, Janet Marie
Shelly, Marlin J. Spangler,
Esther Mary Sprout, Audrey
Fern Stief, Helen Lee Stoner,
William James Styer.
Class officers are: President,
Garth Becker; vice, president,
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Art Club
Heats Talk
By Hackman
Lititz’ newly-organized Vill­age
Art Club, which held its
second meeting in the Center
Tuesday night, got off to an
enthusiastic start with more
than thirty members in at­tendance.
Getting right down to work,
the group was presented with a
demonstration of oil color paint­ing
by Floyd Hackman, local
businessman, who recently ex­hibited
a group of his paintings
at Oxford, Chester County.
The group will meet again
this Tuesday evening when all
members are expected to bring
their paints or crayons and to
begin serious work. Various
different instructors will be
supplied from time to time.
Winning the title of solo
cornetist pf the All-State Band
at Bradford last week was the
thrill and honor bestowed upon
Donald Kreider, local high
school musician, who is shown
being congratulated by Paul
Lavalle, the distinguished con­ductor
of the Cities Service
Band.
During the All-State Band
Festival at Bradford Friday
night, Donald and the other
members of the band listened
to the beginning of the Band of
America program over the
nationwide NBC network until
it switched over to Bradford
and the All-State Band played
its part of the program. Mem­bership
in the All-State band
was made up of members chos­en
from the eight, district
school bands in recent com­petitions.
L. H. S. Band
Faces Busy
Schedule
School Tax
Will Remain
At 23 Mills
THE MAY QUEEN AND HER COURT
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Rate Unchanged Desptie
$8000 Boost In j
Teachers’ Pay
;
The Lititz School Tax will ‘.‘‘i
%
remain unchanged during the
coming year despite an $8,000
boost in teachers’ pay, members
of the local school board an­nounced
at a meeting held
Monday evening.
Thé board voted to have
school rooms painted and to
purchase new window shades.
The board also voted to accept
the resignations of Miss Arlene
Schlosser, vocal music, and
Douglas Fleming, assistant
coach and English teacher.
In framing this year’s bud­get
of expenditures, the school
board took into consideration
the new school act which, local­ly,
brings about pay raises of
approximately $200 each for
the 40 members of the borough
school faculty.
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Summer Rehearsals Start
Monday; Will Give Con­cert
Here Memorial Day
Religious Film
Will Be Shown
Here This Sunday
The - latest production of the
Protestant Film Commission
will be shown at the Moravian
Church on Sunday evening at
7 P.M. The film is a challeng­ing
message entitled, “My Name
Is Han.” Han and his little
family take the long trek home
after the war in China to till
again the ancestral soil. Han’s
wife is a Christian, but he is
“practical.” They arrive to find
their home a shambles, their
land devasted. He cannot un­derstand
the “foolishness” that
prompts his Christian friends to
leave their own fields to toil
his. As understanding comes to
Han, so it has come to many.
The film will bring the mess­age
in the evening service to "be
held in Fellowship Hall. Every­one
is invited to attend.
Summer rehearsals of the
Lititz High School Band will
start this Monday evening with
one of the busiest summer sea­sons
in the history of the band
facing its members this year, ac­cording
to an announcement
made today by the director,
Henry Steiner.
The student-musicians will
rehearse at the high school each
Monday evening at eight o’clock
during the summer months.
They will play the first concert
of the summer season in the
Springs P ark on Memorial Day,
Monday, May 30.
The Memorial Day concert
will start at 3 P.M. and will be
open to the public. The pro­gram
is sponsored by the park
committee.
Other appointments include
playing during the Fourth of
July celebration, in the Flag
Day parade in Lancaster on
June 14, as well as at a dozen
or so picnics and festivals.
Midget Ball
Season Opens
This Monday
The Lititz Midget Baseball
League season opens at the
Athletic Field Monday evening,
May 23, and the Midget-Midget
League games get under way
on Wednesday evening, May 25.
The first game Monday even­ing,
starting at 6:00 P.M., will
match The American Legion
“56-’ers” . against The ForemanV
Club “Indians”, while the sec­ond
game will be between the
Simplex “Boxers” and The
Rotary “Cogs”. •
On Wednesday evening the
first game, starting at 6:00 P.M.,
will be The Lions “Cubs” vs.
The Ditzler “Lacers”, and the
second The Badorf “Boots” vs.
The ATCO “Trappers” . »
Commissioner Dr. Charles
Landis, Jr., plans a big opening
game with Burgess “Vic” Wag­ner
presiding and tossing out
the first strike. The boys will
be wearing their bright new
shirts and caps, and they are
raring to go. More than 150
boys between the ages of 8 and
15 prornise plenty of good base­ball
and entertainment. The
teams are well matched, and it
looks like an exciting pennant
race this year in both leagues.
The schedule calls for two
games every Monday and Wed­nesday
evening,- the first game
starting at 6:00 P.M. This is a
wdnderful program for the
boys, and both the program and
the boys deserve your support.
Come out to root for your
favorites and enjoy their fun
with them.
Arrest Three Youths
For Disturbance
Here Sunday Night
Photo By Donald Reidenbaugh
Approximately 2,000 persons witnessed the crowning of the
Queen of May at beautiful and spectacular May Day exercises by
local school students at the Athletic Field Saturday afternoon.
Even threatening storms held off until a few minutes after the
large crowd had departed. Barbara Miller, Was crowned Queen
knd she is shown above surrounded by her court: Gloria Adams,
maid-of-honor; Joan Fasnacht, Virginia Ranck, Doris Barber,
Marian Shelley, Dianne Zaiss and Cathleen Hess. Flower girls
were Marian Getz and Orpha Hershey.
Borough Schools To Observe
Open House This Tuesday
Mrs. Hershey
Heads Fresh
Air Group
Open House will be obser­ved
by the borough schools on
Tuesday evening when several
thousand visitors are expected
to view exhibits of work done
during the past year by both
high school and grade students.
The open house will continue
from seven o’clock until 9 P.M.
and will include displays by
every department in the school.
Ceramic and weaving products
made by students in the Home
Mrs. Elmer Hershey has been
named chairman of the Lititz
Fresh-Air Committee, it was
announced this week. Mrs.
Bruce Keith has been appointed
Economics Department and a : chairman
demonstration of handiwork by | o th e r members of the com-the
manual training depart- mjttee are Mrs. Lester Wenger,
ment will be features of this Walter Miller and Mrs.
year’s open house.
The ceramics being produced
through the use of the high
School kiln include candy dishes
artistically decorated With floral
designs and baked to a glisten­ing
hardness comparable in
quality with ceramics being
sold in gifts shops and else­where.
The weaving includes sam­ples
of table covers and rugs
which the students have made.
Seat caning and even the com­plete
construction of modern
living room chairs are other
products of this department.
In the gymnasium there will
be an exhibit of the art work
done by students in grades 7
to 12. These will feature char­coal
work, oil and water color
paintings and pastels.
Supervisor M. C. Demmy u r­ged
all parents and the public
at large to attend the open
house to acquaint themselves
with the type of work being
done by present-day students.
Local Family
Leaves For Japan
R. H. Minnich. Persons in the
borough or surrounding town­ships
who are willing to en­tertain
“Fresh-Air” children
from New York this summer
are asked to contact any mem­ber
of the local committee.
Reservations should be made
during the next three weeks,
it was announced. This year’s
committee has adopted . the
slogan: “Open Your Hearts -
and Your Homes - A Fresh Air
Child is Waiting to Hear From
You.”
PRE SCHOOL CHILDREN
EXAMINED
A total of eighty-one children
who will enter the borough
school this fall were examined
at the school building last week.
Due to the recent outbreak of
measles, however, many child­ren
have not a s , yet been ex­amined.
They will report at
the school on' May 27 at 2 P.M.
CATCHES LARGE FISH
Local I. 0 . 0 . F.
Will Attend
Church Sunday
Charged with creating a noisy
disturbance outside the local
Mennonite Church last Sunday
evening, three youths all of
whom live outside the borough,
will be arraigned for hearings
before Justice of the Peace Paul
F. Diehm next week.
The three defendants charged
with disorderly conduct in war­rants
sworn out this week are
D. Clyde R. Moyer, Manheim,
RD2; Amos K. Buckholder,
Denver; and Luke A. Hollinger,
Talmage. The warrants were is­sued
on the complaint of Bor­ough
Police Officer Lloyd Hoff­man.
While several other youths
participated in the near-riot
which caused persons living in
the neighborhood to call police,
these were all who could be
identified at the time, Justice
of the Peace Diehm declared.
Lititz Lodge Ndife'1050 I.O.-
O.F. will attend services in the
Evangelical United Brethren
Church on Sunday evening May
22nd at seven o’clock. The Rev.
Paul A. Miller will deliver the
sermon. The members will
gather at the Reedy Building
promptly at 6:30. The Lodge
attends a service annually in
commemoration of the Found­ing
of Odd Fellowship in Am­erica.
The men are* soliciting funds
to purchase a hospital bed, they
already have two beds, these
are given to anyone in the
Community needing that type
of bed. This work was started
in September 1947.
ATTENDING CONVENTION
Paul Bomberger, cashier of
the Farmer National Bank, is
attending the annual convent­ion
of Pennsylvania Bankers at
Atlantic City, N. J., from Wed­nesday
to Saturday.
Sergeant Roscoe Heiler and
wife, Carrie, and two soris,
Thomas and Ronald, spent a
short visit here with his mother,
Anna Weitzel, before leaving
Wednesday for Japan.
Sgt. Heiler will spend the
next three years in Japan with
the 24th Infantry Division,
which he served with in the
Philippines and Japan during
the war. He has a total of eight
years service to his credit, two
years in the states and the re­mainder
overseas having gone
to the Pacific area in September
1944.
He recently was stationed at
Caipp Campbell, Ky., where he
won letters of recommendation
from Major General P. W.
Clarkson for his work among
Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and
Cubs.
Donald R. Weaver of Cedar
St. is credited with catching a
large ' pound Catfish, Wednes­day
evening near Snavelys mill.
LEADS RAT CONTEST
Roger Rollman has turned in
a total of 71 rat-tails to lead the
ra t extermination contest being
sponsored here by the Chamber
of Commerce. Carl Shirk is
second with 65 while Richard
Walters has 5; Donald Kling
3; and Susie Myers, 1. The
contest will close June 1.
Largest Class At L. H. S.
Will Receive Diplomas
At Exercises On June 2
Linden Hall
Comm’cement
On June 14
Diplomas Will Be Awarded
To Class Of Forty-Two
Students
Linden lia ll Junior College
and Academy will graduate a
total of forty two at the Com­mencement
excercises to be
held on Tuesday June 14th at
ten o’clock in the Moravian
Church, according to an an­nouncement
made by Dr. Byron
K. Home, headmaster.
Dale H. Gramley Editor of
the Globe-Times of Bethlehem,
will be the guest speaker at the
Commencement. Mr. Gramley
is president elect of Salem
Academy and College at Wins­ton-
Salem, North Carolina.
Dr. Raymon Kistler, president
of Beaver College, Jenkintown,
will preach the sermon to the
graduates on Sunday, June
12th. Other commencement ac­tivities
include the Alumni
luncheon on Saturday, 11th at
one o’clock in the school dining
room and Class Day on the
school campus on Monday,
June 13th.
The President’s Banquet for
the Seniors of the Academy
will be held on Tuesday, June
7 th and for the Seniors of the
College on June 8th, both at
the General Sutter hotel.
The Big Sisters of the Acad­emy
will entertain the Little
Sisters on Sunday afternoon at
a picnic at the Out Door Fire
Place.
A group of students attended
“Medea” in the Hershey
Theater on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Elsa Meiskey Rhoads
presented her students on Wed­nesday
evening in .voice in a
recital in the school gymnasium.
The Junior Prom of the
Academy will be held on Satur­day,
May 21st.
V. F. W. Auxiliary
Memorial Program
At Center Tuesday
A memorial service will be
held by the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars on Tuesday evening at
eight o’clock in the Lititz Com­munity
Center.
The memorial will include an
open air service andi the public
is invited to attend.
The auxiliary will visit the
Perry Point Veterans Hospital
on Sunday. All members who
have reservations will meet at
11 A.M. in front of the Post
Office. -J
VISIT HERE
Baccalaureate Service At
Moravian Church Sun­day,
May 29
The largest class in the his­tory
of Lititz High School will
graduate at the sixty-third an­nual
commencement exercises
to be held in the school audit­orium
Thursday, June 2, when
diplomas will be awarded to
approximately seventy - two
students.
With Senior Class examinat­ions
being ' completed at the
high school today, honor stud­ents
and the exact number of
graduates will be announced
next week.
Commencement speakers Will
be Delores Little, who will
speak upon the subject of
“Characteristics of the Good
American Citizen,” and Joan
Fasnacht, who will speak upon
“Democracy in Citizenship.”
The Commencement address
to the graduates will be deliver­ed
by Dr. Luke Biemesderfer,
head, of Millersville State
Teachers’ College. The Com­mencement
program also will
feature a trumpet solo by Don­ald
Kreider and selections by
the Glee Club.
Commencement Week will be
ushered in with the annual
sermon to the graduates to be
delivered in the Moravian
Church Sunday evening, May
29, by Rev. Charles F. Trunk,
pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church.
Class Day exercises will be
held at the school on Wednes­day,
June 1. The annual alumni
banquet will be held at the
Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster, on
Tuesday evening, June 7.
Garbage Coilecion
To Change June 2
The summer schedule of bor­ough
garbage collection was
announced a t a special meeting
of borough council held on
Tuesday evening.
The new schedule which will
go into effect on Friday, June
3, calls for collections on Tues­days
and Fridays of each week.
Council also emphasized that
there will be a collection on
Memorial Day, Monday, May
30, after which the new sche­dule
becomes effective.
BARN-RAISING
Mrs. Helen Lightcap and
daughter, Barbara Anna, of
Palmyra, N. J., formerly of
Lititz, spent the past week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Reid-enbach,
East Main Street.
TAKE HOME DINNERS
TO BE SOLD SATURDAY
i
“Take Home Dinners” will
be sold at t'rie firehouse this Sat­urday
starting at 10 A. M. by
members of' the Good Will Class
of the Moravian Sunday-School.
Complete dinners will be offered
for sale. The menu includes
home-baked beans, potato salad,
deviled clams
sugar-cake.
. and Moravian
Seniors Will Present
Annual Cabaret Friday
Tomorrow the Seniors of at the door on the night of
L.H.S. will present the annual the Cabaret. The Cabaret will ers?
An old-fashioned barn-raising
was in full progress on the
Melvin Ditzler Farm at Lexing­ton
where approximately 100
class from Rothsville High
neighbors as well as a complete
School were busily engaged
this morning. The barn will be
an unusually large one.
Teen Talk
Cabaret with this years theme
being “The Forty Niners”. The
elaborate decorations, as well
as the food, will be carried out
in the spirit of the “gold rush”
days’ of ‘49.
Bob Lyter and his twelve
piece orchestra featuring Jane
Stewart, Eddie Aston, and “The
Bob Whites” will be on hand
to make your dancing a pleas­ure
and add to the gala occas­ion.
A
dmission to thè “Forty
begin at 9:00 and will continue
until 12:00.
Following are the committee
chairmen chosen to make this
cabaret the finest ever pre­sented;
John Witmyer, Decorating
Committee; Reba Kline, Publi­city
Committee; Catherine Ad­ams,
Table Committee; Carlos
Ziegler, Floor Show Committee;
Joari Frey, Food Committee;
Pauline Miley, Poster Commit­tee;
Bruce Weaver, Ticket Com-
Niners” is 50c per person and ! mittee; Nancy Landis, Menu
tickets can be secured from any j Committee; and Helen Tshudy
member of the senior class or Orchestra Committee.
By Don Fisher
Aaaaand it’s Capot! Capot!
Capot! Yes, horse racing fans
there will not be a triple crown
winner this year. Let that be
a lesson to you non-partisans.
Instead of running to the race
track, as some people do, and
betting your hard earned al­lowance
on some unpredictable
nag, why don’t you journey to
Manheim and watch those un­predictable
midget-midget rac-
The cars about twenty
inches long with hard rubber
tires and a small one cylinder
engine (slightly larger than a
model airplane). They run a
a circular track built especially
for this fast becoming popular,
but expensive, hobby. The
speedway is located behind the
American Legion. And it does­n’t
cost a cent to watch these
swivel controlled cars attain
speeds of 105 plus miles per
hour.
* * *
Bill McCloud spent the week­end
at Penn State starting
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