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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 30, 1949 5 cents a copy ; $2 per yr. by mail No. 12
Local Gas Plant May
Stop Operating In Sept.;
To Use Natural Gas
. . „ ---------- MAYLONS WILL FLY
Local Company Plans To t o Sw it z e r l a n d
Tap Pipe Line Running
Thru Boro Mr. and Mrs- Charles May Ion
will leave on Friday, Ju ly 8th
and fly to th e ir home in Switz­erland.
Mr./ Maylon will r e ­main
a month and visit friends
and relatives and the Suchard
Chocolate factories in th a t
country. Mrs. Maylon will not
refurn until September 6th.
h i w t a w f t
Park Meetings
Will Start
This Sunday
Community Band To Pre­sent
Concert ; Rev. Trunk
Will Speak
After being in operation for
more than forty years, the
Lititz gas plant will end its
long career this September, it
was disclosed here this wek.
At that time, the United Gas
Improvement, owners of the
local plant, will cut into the
n a tu ra l gas line which has
passed through the southwest­ern
section of the borough for
many years.
By furnishing local consum­ers
with n a tu ra l gas, the gas
company will be able to effect
price reductions which may
lead to the use of gas for home
heating purposes here, it was
explained.
gas line passing through here
While tapping the n atural
was suggested on several p re ­vious
occasions, opposition a l­ways
was voiced by coal oper­ators
and th e change never
could be accomplished.
It is expected th a t the gas
plant here which was con­structed
in '1907 will not be
razed immediately b u t probably
w ill be dismantled some time
within the next few years,
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Hunting Licenses Revoked
For Four Local Men
The hunting licenses of four
local men have been revoked
fo r two years, according to an
announcement by the Pennsyl­vania
Game Commission.
The four men and th e ir viol­ations
follow: Kenneth W. Diet-rich,
R l, killing black bear in
closed season; Kenneth E. Mill­er,
20 N. Spruce St., killing a
ringneck pheasant hen; Harvey
M. Shirk, 15 W. Maple St., a t­tempting
to kill ringneck
pheasant hen; and August Suess
R3, assisting to conceal a deer
unlawfully killed and failing to
maintain a complete roster.
All the suspensions a re ef­fective
u n til August 31, 1951.
The 4th Oi Chuly
Philosophers
Wdll - Mrs. Veiss! Come on
up once. What’s' new?
Nothing a t all, th a t I know
of, Mrs. Espenshate. Chust th e
same old things - and next
week is th e Fou rth already.
Time >flies, don’t it? When a
body gets old, I mean.
Well - I a in ’t what I ’d call
old y e t - bu t still and all, time
goes awful fast. I t sems like
Christmas was ju st a few weeks
ago.A
in’t th a t the tru th . Are you
and Chake going away any­wheres
over the Fourth?
No, we a in ’t. Chake thought
still we might go to see his
Uncle Chon who has a farm up
in Center county and his uncle
wrote and said we should come
bu t his uncle made the mistake
of saying he would be right
glad for Chake’s help with the
veet-harvesting. That finished
th e trip for Chake - and for me j
too. You mind what cooking f o r ,
such a harvest gang of men is j
like, 1 guess.
Don’t I chust. You and Chake
is lucky for knowing about it
in adwance like.
Chake says h e is going to
chust loaf around on Saturday
an d Sunday and on th e Fourth
will chust go to th£ Springs
Park.
Me and Chorch wil do about
the same thing. Chorch says he
won’t drive anywhere fa r off
because he says h e don’t want
to be lulled on a holiday.
1 wouldn’t w an t to be neither.
And chust look what we have
in Lititz! People come here
from all ovei to see it, they
say. Band mi and the baby
The Rev. Charles F. Trunk,
Jr., will be the speaker this
Sunday night, Ju ly 3, in the
park, for the first of a series of
Sunday evening programs to be
held during Ju ly and August
sponsored by the Lititz Minis-tèrial
Association. The Com­munity
Band will play and the
program will get under way a t
7:30 p. m.
Harry Neidermyer, director
of the Community Band, an­nounced
th a t soloists will in­clude
Raymond Shenk, trom­bone
soloist w ith the Ringgold
Band of Reading. Another fe a t­ure
of the program will be a
clarinet duet by Donald Mohler
and Earl Myers.
Selections by the band will
include “Morning, Noon and
Night in Vienna,” overture by
Suppe; “Scenes Pittoresque” by
Massanèt; “Ballet Music from
Rosamunde by Schubert; “Se­lections
from May time” by
Romberg; and “American Fan­tasia”
by Victor Herbert.
The Community Band also
will play for the dedication of
the Musser Memorial P a rk on
Ju ly 4.
Ju ly 10th, The East Peters­burg
Male Chorus will sing arid
Rev. George B. Car veil will
give the message,
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TO ATTEND CONVENTION
ARTIST’S DRAWING OF PROPOSED WAR MEMORIAL FOR THE SQUARE
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Industries To
Close Down
Next Week
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The above drawing by McCloud and Scatchard depicting the memorial being sponsored by
th e Garden Spot Post of the American Legion, attracted widespread interest this week when
exhibited a t a meeting of borough council.
Boro Plans Public Meeting
On Ordinance To Permit
War Memorial In Square
Mrs. Luther Nagle
Burned By Paraffin
Mass Vacation Period To
Be Observed In
Lititz
Expect Thousands Here
For Bigger And Better
4th Celebration Monday
Mrs. Harry Hartenstine and
Dorothy Shuemaker will attend
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Department of Pennsylvania
Convention to be held in
Philadelphia on Ju ly 7-9.
Plans for a picnic to be held
in the near fu tu re and th ree
new members were received in­to
the auxiliary a t the regular
monthly meeting Tuesday night.
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CUTS HEAD AT SEIBERTS
Ray Gamer, of Keller’s
Mountain, fell headfirst from
the diving board a t Seiberts
swimming hole Monday and
and struck his head on the
rocks on the edge of the stream.
He .was -treated for severe cuts
on the head.
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NURSE ON VACATION
Miss Emma Erb, the Com­munity
nurse, will be on her
vacation Ju ly 4th to 18th. Mrs.
Edwin Stroble will assume Miss
E rb ’s duties during h e r absence
and anyone wishing th e services
of the Community nurse will
please observe the same hours
followed by Miss Erb.
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RELIEF WORKER TO SPEAK
Legal technicalities which
temporarily blocked progress
on a plan to erect a war mem­orial
fountain and flag-pole on
the Square at the site of the
former ROebuck memorial, foun­tain,
were eliminated Tuesday
evening when borough council
took steps to change th e present
status of the traffic island in­volved.
After reading a legal opinion
submitted by Borough Solicitor
Paul A. Mueller in which it was
stated th e type of memorial in
the Square could be changed,
President of Council Harry Way
suggested th a t the solicitor be
instructed to w rite an ordin­ance
replacing the Roebuck
ordinance passed in 1910 and
1912.
Before the proposed change
will be made, the public, mem­bers
of the local war memorial
committee and the Legion w a r
memorial committee, will be
given an opportunity to attend
a special or regular meeting of
council to discuss the war
memorial proposed, Mr. Way
emphasized.
“At th a t time any opposition
to changing the Square in this
manner can be voiced,” Mr.
Way asserted. '
P resent a t Tuesday n ight’s
meeting were Joseph M. Carl,
P au l McCloud and John Badorf,
members of the American Leg­ion
Memorial Committee, who
explained various features of
the proposed fountain and flag­pole
P au l F. Diehm, chairman
of the war memorial committee,
la te r appeared before council
and endorsed the action taken
by borough council.
The Legion committee em­phasized
th a t the memorial was
proposed to create a lasting
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Photographic Salon
Will Open Here
This Sunday
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Robert Kell­er
and children Barbar and
Robert arriv ed in Lititz Monday
evening to spend sometime with
his mother, Mrs. A. B. Keller.
Keller has been stationed at
Albany Field, Georgia. He is
now ordered to rep o rt to Boll­ing
Field, Washington, D. C.,
where he will serve as Comp­troller.
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Firemen Fill
Cistern Here
parade and t l
works - and
almost nothir
(Confina*
idles and fire-costs
a body
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Mrs. Helena Kruger, a relief
worker, who recently returned
from Europe, will speak in
Kauffmans P ark , Manheim,
Sunday evening a t 8 P.M.
The film “Daybreak” which
portrays the role of displaced
persons will be shown. The pro­gram
is under th e auspices of
the East Fairview Church of the
Brethren.
The Sixth International
Photographic Salon will be
open to th e public from Simday
Ju ly 3, to 10 a t the Early Amer­ican
Room in the basement of
Spacht’s F u rn itu re Store - from
1:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon
and from 6:30 to 9:30 in the
evening.
Over 150 prin ts will be on
display from all over the
world. They have been selected
by a committee of three judges
out of a to ta l eight hundred
entrants. Dave Miller and Wil­son
Browne, members of the
Lititz Springs Camera Club,
have had prin ts accepted.
No admission will be charged
to th e exhibit.
Wednesday’s downfall helped
but considerably more rain will
be needed to prevent serious
crop losses from the drought,
farmers and gardeners here
agreed today. Water Superinten­dent
Walter Miller assured the
public, however, th a t th ere is
no indication of any shortage
Local firemen came to the
of borough water,
rescue of one local family last
evening when they pumped ap­proximately
7,000 gallons of
borough water into the cistern
a t the home of Russel L. Cook,
Wilbur plant manager, a t 700
South Broad Street, sole source
of w a te r other than drinking
water.
When Cook appeared before
council Tuesday night, he was
informed he could not be sup­plied
permanently with boro­ugh
water unless th e property
was annexed to th e borough, de­spite
th a t exceptions to this
have been made in th e past.
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LEAVE FOR CANADA
Mrs. Luther Nagle, wife of
the borough police officer,# was
painfully b urned Wednesday
morning when a k ettle of p a ra ­ffin
caught fire in the kitchen
of h er home on East Main St.
Fearing th a t the house would
catch fire, Mrs. Nagle grabbed
the blazing container and car­ried
it out the backdoor, toss­ing
it in th e yard. Neighbor^
a ttracted by h e r screams took
h er to the office of Dr. Paul
Hess where it was found she
has sustained first and second
degree burns of the face, hands,
arms and legs.
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Playground
Here To Open
On July 11
When the Borough Council
voted Tuesday night to add
$125 to the same amount a l­ready
appropriated by the Lititz
School Board, the last obstacle
was pushed aside for six weeks
of supervised summer play­ground
activities in the park.
The activities will begin on
Monday, Ju ly 11, w ith regis­tration
a t 9 A.M. a t the Recreat­ion
Center for all children of
school age, and will continue
every morning from 9 to 12 u n ­til
August 19.
The boys will be under the
high school teacher and coach
supervision of Eugene Dechert,
of the basketball team, while
the girls will be directed by
Mrs. Winifred Walls and her
assistant, Nancy Kline.
Paul Seaber, in charge of the
Recreation Center which is
sponsoring the program this
year, has requested th a t anyone
having playground equipment
such as quoits, volleyballs, base­balls,
bats, gloves, etc., which
the playground could use, to
please call him a t 20 Willow
St., or phone 391, and he will
pick it up. The cost of th e pro­gram
prevents the buying of
Nearly all Lititz will close
down the first week in Ju ly as
several thousand employees of
the major industries begin their
annual mass vacations.
Wilbur-Suchard has already
closed down this week and will
continue u n til Ju ly 11th, while
Morgan Paper Co., will sta rt
th eir mass vacation on Monday,
Ju ly 4th and will continue for
two weeks.
The Animal Trap Co. will be
away from the job from July
3rd to 16th, the* first two weeks
in July. Harry Grubb of the
Linden Underwear Co., an­nounces
th a t th e ir plant will be
shut down for a whole week,
from the 4th to the 9th.
F o u r shoe factories will close
for the first week in July. They
are: Bedford Shoe Co., Lititz
Shoe Co., Badorf Shoe Co., and
B and G Co.
Many smaller industries and
business firms will be closed for
the annual vacation beginning
Monday, the 4th. Nearly all
stores will be closed during the
celebrations in th e park,
This mass vacation idea orig­inated
in Ephrata about five
years ago and has since grown
to huge proportions in this area
and has spread to all sections of
the country.
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RECORD-EXPRESS STAFF
JOINS VACATION CROWD
Will Crown
Miss Miller
4th Queen
th re e Musical Organiza­tions
To Furnish Music;
Fireworks Display
By John Leaman
Following a custom of
many years standing, The
Record-Express will not
publish n ex t week, Ju ly 7,
in order to permit the en­tire
staff to enjoy its an­nual
vacation. The business
office will remain open in
charge of John Leaman.
Lions To Hold
Festival Here
Tonight
ikiss Barbara Lou Miller will
be crowned . Queen of the
Candles in the elaborate Pag­eant
to be h eld a t 9:15, th e the Lititz High School Band
“A bigger and better F o u rth ”
is the cry raised once again by
the Lititz Springs P a rk Com­mittee
as they swung into action
laying plans for the Baby
Parade, musical entertainment,
crowning of the Queen, lighting
of the 8000 candles, climaxed
by an even more dazzling dis­play
of fireworks.
A crew of men have been
hard at work for several weeks,
cleaning the stream, painting
benches, and generally renovat­ing
the p a rk for th e expected
crowd of nearly 10,000 people.
Three musical organizations
will be on hand to furnish en­tertainment
continuously from
1:30 to 10:30 and will be pre-ceeded
by recorded music from
12 noon until Reg Kehoe and
his Marimba Band take th e ir
places in the band shell a t 1:30.
At 4:30, Ira Bowman’s orches­tra
will play and continue over
the supper hour until 7:30, when
Robert and Richard Hess,
sons of Mr. and Mrs. J . Lloyd
Hess le ft today on a vacation
trip to Canada.
evening of the F o u rth cele­bration.
The approach of the Queen
and h er court will be preceeded
by Heralds, members of the
Lititz High School Band, as
they announce the approach of
the Court. The procession will
then sta rt a t the “h e ad end”
and slowly move down th e path
to the bandshell.
Then the entire court reaches
th e ir places on the bandshell,
last y ear’s Queen, Ruth Risser,
will tak e the crown from the
crown bearer, Jeffrey Hoaster,
and place it upon the h ead of
the new queen.
The Queen and th e twelve
members of the Court have
been selected from th e grad­uating
class by the students and
the faculty of th e High School
and are as follows, in o rd er of
th e ir appearance on the tableau,
from left to right: Marian Shel­ley,
Doris Kolb, Gloria Adams,
Mary Pelger, Pauline Miley,
Jo an Fasnacht, Nancy Good,
Mary LoU Hershey, Rachel Bal-mer,
Nancy Landis, HJelen
Tshudy, and Nancy Bushong.
The tra in bearers will be
Tonight the Lions Club will 3ardner. a" d John f™ * 11
again hold th e ir old fashioned : rh .e. Cub Scout Troops of Lititz
festival on the lot a t Spruce
and Second Avenue to raise
funds for playground equip­ment
fo r th e lot.
The success of the festival
held on Ju n e 17 and 18 was
somewhat dampened by in te r­mittent
rains. But th e affair
this evening will be entertained
b y the Denver Dutch Band, a
real old-time German band
which was a feature attraction
a t the Fariri Show last year j
where they played in front ol
will be the Torch-bearers,
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Center Plans
Block Party
The Lititz Community Center
will hold a block p a rty on
Thursday evening, Ju ly 28, on
Spruce St., to raise funds for
th e youth center.
There will be square dancing,
the Warwick House on N. Broad f ames’ and refreshments. The
following committee was ap­pointed:
Harry Ruley, chair­man;
Don Steffy, Mrs. William
A. Miller, Gloria Benner, Mrs.
Valentine Brobst, Mrs. Clarence
Street.
The following members of the
club were named by the presi­dent,
Abe Beck, in charge of
the various stands: Lester Balm
er; blankets; Howard Haldemar. > T routman, Mrs. Jo h n Garber,
fish pond; A rth u r Myers, novel- I anTd George Pennypacker.
ties; John Muth, cake walk; I Last week, some th trty teen-
John Witmyer, groceries; C arl! a ? e^s a " d Paref t s from Ephrata
Reedy, milk; Charles Reiden- c «n te r f„0ro ®Ph[ a‘a
bach, ponies; Clayton George,! nlgh t-T h e Home & School O r
candy; Bernard Ryder, canes; gamzation, similar to th e PTA
Howard Redcay, food; and P a u l;were interested in t h e “Rec” as
such equipment, Seaber assert- Djetim house stand. a model for a similar youth
ed, and the loan of this equip- w it^ the funds raised from! center in Ephrata. Representat-ment
will be very much ap- " * ' ~
preciated.
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ATTENDING GOETHE FETE
Miss Clare dePerrot is taking
a trip through th e west w ith a
classmate from Antioch College,
the girls expect to go to Aspen,
Colorado, which town is ob­serving
the bi-centennial of
Goethe’s b irth with a two weks
celebration. Among the notable
men who will be th ere for the
occasiön w ill be Albert Sch­weitzer,
the musician, doctor
and missionary.
these festivals the Lions Club
plans to plan t trees on the lot
as soon as the curbing is laid.
Also a ball diamond will be
laid out and playground equip- i
ment purchased.
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SAILS FOR EUROPE
ives from the Lititz Community
Center visited the group in
Ephrata to te ll them about the
youth program in Lititz.
presents th e ir concert fo r the
evening until 10:30.
Tickets will go on sale a t
8 A.M., as soon as th e p a rk is
cleared, for seventy-five cents
per person (including tax) with
children under twelve admitted
free. Although no picnic tables
may be reserved for the Fourth,
they may be obtained on a
first come first served basis
only when the group arrives in
the p a rk with th e picnic lunch.
At 4 o’clock, entrants for the
baby parade will register a t
the Coffee House, and the par-
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Program
For The 4th
6:00 A. M.—Ringing of the
Church Bells (a custom fol­lowed
since the days of
the first celebrations).
8:00 A. M. —Clearing of th e
P a rk Grounds for the day.
(Tickets go on sale a t this
time.)
12:00 Noon—Program of re ­corded
music through the
courtesy of Reed’s Record
Shop, Lititz.
1:30-4:30 P. M.—Music and
Entertainment by Reg Ke­hoe
and his Girl Marimba
Band.
4:00 P. M.—Entrants for the
Baby Parade meet a t the
“Coffee House” for, th e re ­gistration.
4:30 P. M .—Baby Parade, fol­lowing
the main paths of
the Park.
4:30 to 7:30 P. M.—-Musical
Program by Ira T. Bowman
and his Orchestra, of L an ­caster,
Pa.
7:30 to 10:30 P. M.—Lititz
High chool Band under the
direction of Henry Steiner.
9:15 P. M.—Pageant of the
Queen of Candles (To take
place in the Bandshell).
9:30 P. M.—Illumination of the
entire P a rk with thousands
of candles.
10:30 P. M.—Grand Finale -
Gigantic display of fire­works.
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MISSIONARIES TO VISIT
IN LITITZ THIS WEEKEND
The Rev. Edwin W. Graefe,
A large crowd was on hand missionary of the United Luth-last
week when th e Lititz
Sport Club installed a television
set fo r th e Charles-Walcott fight.
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ENJOY BOXING
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Carpal*
and daughter, Ruth, were visit-eran
Church in Argentina who
is supported by St. P au l’s
Lutheran church of town, with
Mrs. Graefe and their son, will
spend th e weekend in Lititz
visiting the Rev. and Mrs
Charles F. Trunk a t St. P au l’,
parsonage. This will be thei-second
visit to Lititz in t 1
Many members of the Com­ing
friends in town enroute to munity Recreation Center en-
Hoboken, New Jersey where joyed th e Boxing Match on the
Ruth will sail on F rid ay f o r , Television Set through t h e 1 year th a t they have be'*
France and Germany where s h e 1 courtesy of the Lititz Sports j this country and they w;
will do relief work sponsored Club and set up by Raymond fo r South America in
by the Mennonite Church. Reedy. time.