Lititz Record Express

              73rd Year ' Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 2, 1949
Mart Hess Voices Protest
Over Dumping of Oily Waste
Into The Lititz Stream
OUR CITIZENS OF TOMORROW
Claims Pollution Has Ruin­ed
Dam & Milk Business;
To Contact Governor
A vigorous complaint against
th e “continued pollution’’ of the
Lititz steam which he claims is
sending huge deposits of “an
oily waste” into the dam on his
farm, was voiced today by W.
Martin Hess, well-known local
dairy farmer.
“I w an t to know why we
must continue complaining for
years before anything is done
in regard to pollution in this
a re a ? ” Mr. Hess asked. “Re­cently
th e stream has been
carrying heavy oil deposits into
my dam to th e point where now
the banks are coated wifth a
black oily covering.
“I have traced this pollution
to the gas company plant even
though they claim th a t they are
not responsible,” Mr. Hess con­tinued.
“I know th a t a t least
one o th e r plan t used oil bult
they te ll me they have provided
facilities for removing this from
the w a te r and my personal in­vestigation
indicates they are
telling me the truth.
“I have reached the limit of
my patience and intend to con­tinue
protesting u n til some­th
in g is done. Several years
ago the pollution of the stream
through my property ruined my
milk business and I have suffer­ed
numerous inconveniences in
addition to my financial loss
from this source.”
Mr. Hess also indicated th a t
he will seek a conference w ith
Governor Duff or if this proves
an impossibility, with a’s' high'
state officials as he can reach.
“I doubt if I can get very
high,” he added, “for it seems
to me th a t pollution in this area
is one subject everybody is a
bit hazy about.”
Memorial Project
Still Awaiting
Borough Ruling
Action on the w a r memorial
proposed for the Square was
* still delayed this week due to
th e failure of th e borough
solicitor to present an opinion
on whether th e Roebuck fund
could be used fo r this purpose.
The local Legion committee
has learned th a t th e state high­way
department would not ob­j
e c t to extending the traffic
* island to enable placing an il­luminated
fountain and flag­pole,
it was revealed. The p ro ­je
c t can not be officially en ­dorsed
until th e borough’s
stand is known, it was stated.
Thank Public In
Rag Collection
Local Senior Girl Scouts and
th e ir leaders this week warmly
thanked th e public for th e
generous response given the ap ­peal
for waste rags. In the
collection last Saturday, a to ta l
of 1,530 pounds of rags were
donated and collected by th e
Girl Scouts, it was announced.
Proceeds from this collection
wiU be added to th e activity
fund of the Girl Scouts and
will assist them in presenting
th e ir program during the com­ing
season. The collection was
th e largest y e t made by th e
group here.
Hendricks Given
Strip Of Land
fclyde Hendricks, local florist,
was the recipient of a strip of
land - th e free gift, or nearly
free gift, from the Borough of
Lititz. The strip is a narrow
patch of land between Hend­ricks’
property and the curb at
Spruce Street which remainfed
when the street was re-located
some years back.
Since then it has been re ­garded
as a nuisance by the
borough which was anxious to
give it to Mr. Hendricks who
in tu rn , agreed to pay all costs
of the transfer in order th a t he
may lay curbs himself ra th e r
than wait for the borough to
do so.
Will Probe
Dumps Here
After listening to reports of
the condition of dumps located
inside the borough limits, d ir­ectors
of the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce last evening decided
to make a survey of the sit­uation
and to take stringent
steps a t th eir n ex t meeting.
Spots used for storing paper,
debris and for general dumping
were reported to be rat-infested
and threats to public health.
The group also voted to write
letters to borough council, the
school board and. any other in­terested
parties urging th a t th e
request for traffic lights on
Broad a t Orange street and
Lincoln avenue and on Main
a t Cedar street, be renewed.
Rat Drive
Results of the ra t drive which
ended Ju n e 1, showed th a t a
total of 298 ra t-ta ils were
tu rn ed in. Carl Shirk won the
first prize of $15 with 119 rat-tails
to h is credit while Robert
Rollman, with 89, received sec­ond
prize of $10, and Richard
Walters, th ird of $5 with 83.
Others taking p a rt were Donald
Kling, three; David Minnich,
one; and Susie Myers, one.
Concerts To Feature
Lions Carnival
Here June 17— 18
Bafid concerts 'by both the
Lititz High School Band and
the Warwick Township High
School Band Will feature the
Lions Club Carnival to be held
Friday and Saturday, Ju n e 17
and 18 at the Borough Lot, Sec­ond
avenue and Spruce street.
An unsually large number of
attractions is addition to num­erous
food and refreshment
stands will be incorporated in
the carnival. Proceeds Will go
toward th e fu rth e r development
of th e lot by the club as a re ­creational
center and baseball
diamond for local youngsters.
This week we proudly present the* first installment of
photographs of the boys and girls of Lititz and vicinity, a fe a t­ure
which we will continue throughout this summer. The bright
youngsters depicted this week are as follows: Top row, left to
right, Norman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Faus, Jr., qf 329
Front Street; Lowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Benjamin, of
130 New Street; Rozann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Halde-man,
of 131 West Orange Street; bottom row, left to right,
Leslie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard DeVerter, of 122 New
Street; Judy, Larry and Ronald, children of Mr. and Mrs. L.
Rohrer, Lititz, R.D. 2; Kathleen and Thomas, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward McKinney, of 26 Pine Street. Look for the
next batch of photographs next week.
Warwick Township Group
Takes Up Collection
To Rebuild Rural Road
Budget or no budget—one
group of Warwick Township
citizens have decided they must
have a new road—and they’re
getting it, too!
This was divulged over the
Week-end when township em­ployees
began rebuilding the
Hill Road whichi extends from
the Rothsville Road at a point
ju st east of the Bill Shimp
Farm, a mile east of this b o r­ough,
up to the Owl Hill Road.
Contacting the township sup­ervisors
some weeks ago, Mr.
Shimp obtained a pledge th a t
the road would be re-built if
Mr. Shimp could raise $100 or
more toward th e project. Last
week he again Went before the
suprvisors and this time for the
purpose of turning over from
$200 to $300 in cold cash which
residents of the district had do­nated.
Work was started immediate­ly
and already consists of cu tt­ing
several particularly rough
and dangerous “humps” in the
steep grade. Grading will be
completed next week when the
road will be re-surfaced.
Supervisors in the township
a re Samuel Keller, Raymond
Hess and Paul Ibach.
$612 IN METER REVENUES
The borough collected a total
of $612 in parking meter re ­venues
during the month of
May. One-half of this amount
remains in the general fund of
the borough while th e remain­der
goes toward paying for the
meters.
Will Present
Piano Recital
-.W—
Miss Dorothy S. Habecker
will present h er pupils in a
recital on Wednesday evening,
Ju n e 8th at the General Sutter
hotel. The program will be
given in two parts, the first
beginning a t 7:30 P.M. and the
second p a rt a t 8:30 P.M.
The students participating in
p a rt one include, Loretta Kel­ler,
Larry Hollinger, Irene
Diehm, Fay Horst, Kay Burk­holder,
Nancy Eicholtz, George
Carvell, Sylvia Swarr, Mary
Kathleen White, P a tty Kauff­man,
Kenneth Doster, Marie
Savoca, Lucille Hall, George
Hoaster, Sally Sue Templeton.
Susan »Beck, Fay Ober, Patsey
Markley, P o rtia Bowman, Doris
Whitcraft, Sylvia Wertsch,
James Swarr, Mary Mastro-matteo,
Etta Hershey, Patsey
Nagle, William Landis.
The following will take p a rt
in the second p art, Batsey
McMullen, Svea Eckert, Robert
Doster, Bernice Getz, Mary Ann
Templeton, Elaine Longenecker,
Audrey Risser, Iris Hall, Donald
Ruhl, Chester Wertsch, Elearnor
¡Lambert, Caroline Miller, Doris
Neff, Lois Reedy, Ja n e t Balmer,
j Susanne Slosser, Gloria Benner,
! Joanne Maharg, Nancy Hess,
Mary Jane Neff, and Benjamin
Lutz, f 1
Comm. Hagen
Addresses
Service Here
Asserts Character-Building
Of Homes Are America’s
Greatest Asset
The character-building forces
of American homes are Amer­ica’s
greatest defense against
any enemy forces, Commander
John F. Hagen, famed U.S.
Navy Chaplain and son of Dr.
E. S. Hagen, this borough, em­phatically
asserted in a stirring
Memorial Day address delivered
before several hundred persons
here Monday.
Commander Hagen’s address
highlighted the service held in
the Moravian Cemetery shortly
before noon Memorial Day, qne
of the th ree services conducted
here, a t Rothsville and at Brun-nerville
by local ex-service
men.
Parents must give more time
and attention and devote more
effort in building character in
our coming generations i;
America is to remain strong
Commander Hagen continued.
“Good homes are the basic
factor which decides to what
heights a nation can rise,” he
concluded.
P rio r to the service, the an­nual
Memorial Day parade
marched through the center of
the borough with Legionnaires,
the V. F. W., th e ir auxiliaries,
several hundred school children
and Boy and Girl Scouts partic­ipating.
Both the Lititz Com­munity
Band directed by Harry
Neidermyer and the Lititz High
School Band directed by Henry
J . Steiner played in the line of
march.
Df- Joseph .W,,„QroSh, com_
mander of the Garden Spot Post
of the American Legion, was in
charge of the service. Rev.
Paul A. Miller, chaplain of the
Legion post, pronounced the
benediction a fte r which Donald
Kreider, high school senior, r e ­cited
Lincoln’s immortal Gettys­burg
Address. The memorial
salute was given by a firing
squad under th e direction of
Fred Gochanauer.
Graves of the patriotic dead
were decorated by school child­ren.
Collect Chickens
For Firemen’s
Festival June 11
Cost of Curbing Boro Lot
Perturbs Council Members
Youth Fractures
Skull In Fall
From Balcony
DADDY BAKES CAKE FOR
DAUGHTER’S BIRTHDAY
Ju d y Reidenbach’s b irthday
p a rty last evening was an ex tra
special one if for no (Other re a ­son
th an th a t heir daddy,
Charlie Reidenbach, ldqal jewel­er,
had baked h er b irthday cake
himself.
Starting out on
Charlie mixed th e batte:
he placed in the oven, all ac­cording
to the rules on the side
of the flour box. And much to
th e surprise of everyone, it
tu rn ed out O.K.
¿l dare,
ter which
Faced with an expenditure
of $1,222 and th e necessity of
borrowing th e ir second $5,000
in two months, borough eoun-cilmen
hesitated before finally
awarding a contract for placing
curbs a t the borough lot, a t a
meeting held Tuesday night.
The only bid submitted for.
the work 'was handed council
by Leroy Steffy and Mahlon
Young, who quoted $1.50 per
foot for placing curb around
the borough lot, a distance of,
523 feet; and $1.75 for placing
curb around the traffic triangle
a t Spruce and Second, opposite
the lot, a distance of 250 feet.
A bit of h u rried figuring re ­vealed
th a t this would amount
to exactly $1,222 instead of
around $600 to $700 which
council had originally estimated.
“Where are we going to get
the money?” President of Coun­cil
Harry Way asked, adding,
“We borrowed $5,000 last
month and we Wouldn’t even
wait for this meeting to make
a temporary loan of another
$5,000 to pay bills before us
tonight.”
“We should have sold the lot
several years ago,” Councilman
Steffy interrupted. “It has cost
the taxpayers money - why if
we could sell it tonight for
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Falling more th an 15 feet
when he toppled off a balcony
here, F ran k Grube, Jr., eleven-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs.
F ran k Grube, of 143 North
Cedar Street, sustained a severe
fracture of the skull last Thurs­day
night.
Following treatment, the
youth was removed to the Lan­caster
General Hospital where
he was admitted as a patient
and is still under treatment. His
condition was reported im­proved
today.
At the time of the mishap,
the Grube boy was playing with
several companions on the bal­cony
at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Earhart, New Street.
In falling, his body struck a
clothes line, pa rtia lly breaking
the force of his fall. This fact
was credited with possibly sav­ing
his life.
Throughout th e year local
volunteer firemen remain ale rt
and ready to respond to any
call to duty regardless of weath­e
r or inconvenience. This week
they again learned th a t the
public appreciates th eir faith­fulness
when farmers through­out
the section again donated
several hundred chickens for
the annual chicken com soup
festival to be held at th e fire­house
Saturday, Ju n e 11.
The collection of chickens
will be completed early next
week under the direction of
Amos Bucher. House to house
collection in the borough will
be started this week with the
collection of cakes for the fes­tival
to be made the day of the
festival. When the solicitor a r­rives,
greet him with a smile.
Any firemen anxious to help
are asked to contact any officer
while members of the auxiliary
are asked to reach Mrs. Stella
Keath, North Broad Street.
Members of the auxiliary will
begin preparing th e fo rty odd
wash boilers of chicken com
soup at the firehouse Friday,
Ju n e 10.
Music for the festival will be
presented by th e Lititz Com­munity
Band directed by Harry
Neidermyer. The festival will
be bigger and b e tte r th an ever,
firemen promised.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The office of Dr. Howard B.
Minnich will be closed from
Thursday, Ju n e 2, to Monday,
Ju n e 6, while Dr. Minnich a t­tends
th e dental convention in
Pittsburgh.
5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 8
Scores of Angry Protests
Arise From Dust Nuisance
After State “Repairs” Street
TO SPEAK HERE
Dr. Luke Biemesderfer
Seventy Will
Graduate
This Evening
Rev. Trunk Advises Sen­iors
To “Have What
Counts”
Our job is not to count what
we have bu t to make sure th a t
what we have counts, Rev.
Charles F. Trunk informed
members of this y ear’s graduat­ing
class in the annual baccal­aureate
delivered Sunday even­ing
a t the Moravian C h u rc h ..
“The only way you can make
your life count in anything is
by doing everything to the
Glory of God,” he asserted.
“Our question of life is not
where can I make the most bu t
where can I be and do the most.
“The key to all this is th a t
it must be done through Christ
for hefis- tft& way, th e tru th ami
the life.”
Last evening the seventy
members of th e Senior Class
made merry ànd bid happy
farewells to th e ir classmates a t
the annual Class Day exercises
held in the high school auditor­ium.
“Reflection of the Forty-
Niners,” was th e theme of the
hilarious program presented
much to the delight of a well-filled
auditorium.
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GRADUATE UNDERWENT
OPERATION SUNDAY
Ray Shaub, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Monroe Shaub,
of 319 North Broad Street,
will not be present this
evening when his name
will be called out to re ­ceive
his diploma at the
Lititz High School Com­mencement
exercises. S tr­icken
suddenly, Shaub was
removed to th e Lancaster
General Hospital where he
underwent an appendect­omy
Sunday.
He was reported well on
the road to recovery to­day.
Ray is one of two
uncle-nephew-niece groups
in this y ear’s graduating
class. Ray is a nephew of
Carl Frederick, who also
is graduating, and is ex­actly
six days older than
his uncle.
A dozen very unusual ex­amples
of photography sent
here from all p arts of the
v/orld were being exhibited in
the Long Dry Cleaning window,
East Main Street, this week, in
an interesting preview of the
sixth annual intern atio n al
photographic salon to be held
by the Lititz Springs Camera
Club here from Ju ly 3 to 10.
The p review includes a fri­endly-
looking tramp, sent in by
a Norweigan photographer; boys
fishing in Liixenbourg; a
picturesque clothes line in
Portugal and a peaceful view
DAMAGE BOXWOODS
McCloud and Scatchard, local
architects, reported to borough
police th a t boxwood plants
stored at th e ir warehouse at
Lemon and Walnut Streets had
been damaged to the extent of
$50 Tuesday night. Boys seen
around the warehouse were
blamed for th e damage.
Dr. Stengel
Sends Protest
To Harrisburg
Dr. F. W. Stengel, former
headmaster a t Linden Hall, lost
no time last week in bringing
the creation of the local “dust-nuisance”
to the attention of
state highway department heads
at Harrisburg.
His protest was contained in
a lengthy le tte r in which he
held no punches in demanding
th a t th e state do something
immediately to “abate this
nuisance a t once.”
His le tte r follows, v e r batim:
Dear Sirs:
I can’t refrain, from protest­ing
vigorously against th e out­rage
th a t has been perpetrated
upon the Citizefis of Lititz who
live adjacent to o r n e a r the
highway you recently “r e ­surfaced.”
I t was one of the poorest
jobs of its kind th a t h a s ever
come to my notice.
It was not only a fa rc e as a
re-surfacing job bu t even worse
it has subjected us to a constant
coating a«d re-coating of lime
stone dust th a t has tu rn ed our
beautiful clean little town into
an ugly gray looking place.
Our trees, lawns and flowers
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Rev. Kortz
Addresses
Rotary Club
The Christian principles of
living must dominate o u r lives
if the United States is to w ith­stand
the pressure of Com­munistic
influences, Rev. Ed­win
Kortz, pastor of 'th e Mor­avian
Church, declared in a
fiery Memorial address deliver­ed
Tuesday evening before
members of the Rotary Club.
“We must realize we are in
a revolution and th a t we can­not
stop it,” Rev. Kortz assert­ed.
“We must rid ourselves of
the d irt in which Communism
thrives. America m ust not
overlook its heritage for in
Christian living is our strength.
“If we are to stave off this
th re a t we must adjust ourselves
to the changes this industrial
age is bringing about. We must
learn and believe if we can
th a t we are our b ro th e r’s keep­er,”
he concluded.
Rev. Kortz was introduced by
Dr. F. W. Stengel, program
chairman. Harry Grubb, presi­dent,
presided.
of St. Luke’s Chapel, Bradford.
England.
The closing date for entering
prints in the international salon
is Ju n e 15, John Boyd, presi­dent
of the local club, announc­ed
today. The local show is
considered probably th e only
salon of its kind presented by
any small-town club in the
world.
The salon is attractin g prints
from North and South Amer­ica,
Europe and Asia as well as
practically all sections of th e
United States. A large number
of Lancaster County photo­graphers
are participating.
Billowing Clouds Of Dust
Change Lititz Into
A Dust-Bowl
Spic-and-span Lititz was de­liberately
transformed * into
what looked, like a p a rt of the
dust-bowl over the week-end
when state highway department
employees covered East Main
Street and West Orange Street
with a thin smattering of oil
and an avalanche of fine stone
and gravel.
With not enough oil to keep
the stone in place even for the
period of a few hours, the
hurried-up job of so-called
street rep a ir soon resolved it­self
into a billowing cloud of
dust each time an automobile
passed.
A few hours la te r buildings
were covered with a slate-colored
dust - and local temp­ers
had reached the boiling-over
point. Not realizing who
was responsible, the local citi­zenry
began calling everybody
in any position of authority, so
it seems.
“My telephone started ring­ing
Saturday morning and by
Saturday afternoon I was so
mad I ju st went out and cut
my grass and let it ring on
and on,” President of Council
Harry R. Way, who, incidentally
had nothing whatever to do
with the oiling job, declared at
a meeting of council Tuesday
night.
Councilman Elmer Bomber-ger
received so many angry
protests th a t he went directly
to the State Highway Depart­ment
district engineer who de­clared
th a t when streets are
oiled residents must either be
satisfied w ith oil being tracked
indoors or with dust. If the
weather had been warmer, the
oil would have penetrated the
stone, the state man explained.
Borough councilmen were
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Many Attend
Services For
Rev. Knittle
Pastor Of Kissel Hill
Church Died Unexpectedly
On Monday
Well-attended services for
Rev. John F. Knittle, D.D., who
died unexpectedly at Catawissa,
Pa., Monday, were held last
evening in the Zion Lutheran
Church, the famed Stiegel Red
Rose Church, a t Manheim.
Rev. Knittle was very well
known throughout this section
and was serving as pastor of the
Emmanuel Lutheran Church at
Kissel Hill at the time of his
death. He also preached • at
Kissel Hill once a month d u r­ing
his long pastorate a t Zion
Lutheran Church in Manheim.
He delivered his final sermon
in the Catawissa Lutheran
Church on Sunday and became
ill Sunday night a t the home
of his sisters, the Misses Clara
and Ella Knittle, Catawissa,
where he was visiting.
F u rth e r services will be held
today a t Catawissa where in­terment
will be made.
Rev. Knittle was widely
known as an authority on
Baron Henry William Stiegel,
the 18th Century glassmaker
and ironmaster, who was one of
the founders of the Manheim
church. Steigel fixed the ren tal
of one red rose forever when
he donated the church site and
this annual ceremony has a t­tracted
much attention.
Rev. Knittle became pastor
of the church on December
1911. He is survived by his wife
the former Lillie Fahringer;
one son, Joseph L., Manheim,
with whom he resided; a
daughter, Mary, wife of Robert
Graybill, Florin; four grand­children
and his two sisters.
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