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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, July 14, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 13
Nearly 10,000
Jam Park
On Fourth
Number Of Paid Admission
Are Lower This
Year
LITITZ’ FUTURE RED TAG CUSTOMERS
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Nearly 10,000 people jamed
Lititz Springs P a rk for the
106th Independence Day cele­bration
last week. Again it
was a highly successful affair,
it was reported although the
p a id attendance totaled only
5,200, and 1200 below last years
peak crowd of 6,400 paid ad­missions.
The extremely hot weather
and high humidity helped to
thin out the expected crowds
somewhat. And the higher ad­mission
price of 74 cents seem­ed
to reduce the number of
paid admissions, it was ob­served.
Attendance was good a t the
baby parade where Carol Lud­wig
again walked off with the
top prize, a twenty-five dollar
Savings Bond. There were only
35 entries as compared to last
y e a r’s high of 50 entrants.
After the supper hour, as the
weather became slightly cooler,
more people came to swell the
crowds for th e big events of
the evening. Miss Barabara
Lou Miller was crowned queen
of the candles amid the fanfare
of trumpets, and immediately
afterwards, the 8000 thousand
candles were lit. The evening
was climaxed by a dazzling dis­play
of fireworks.
Estimates of the crowd ran g ­ed
to a high of 10,000 the
number reported a t last y e a r’s
celebration. This y ear’s F o u rth
was more elaborate, with addi-
(tonal prizes for all th e e n tra n ts
in the baby parade and more
fireworks.
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\4 . ll T h is is a n o th e r g ro u p of lo c a l y o u n g s te rs as th e y w e re s n a p ­ped
for The Record—Express some time ago. They are, left to
right, top row: Tom, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Forney; Dennis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Betty Enck, Jere, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Ken­neth
Obetz; bottom row: Claudia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
Nelson Bowden; Emma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wit-wer,
and Jo Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.- Richard Pfautz,
all af Lititz.
Mart Hess Invites Public
To Pay Him A Call
150 Register
At Playground
For Six Weeks i
Eugene Dechert, Mrs. W.
Walls Start Point
System, Devotions
FIVE TIME WINNER
The Weather
Philosophers
Well - Mrs. Veiss. Come in
and set down. I see we had a
little rain for a chainch, didn’t
we?Y
es, and it was chust about
in time, Mrs. Espenshate or
everything would of been ru in ­ed
still. Even as it is, they say
th ere ain’t near enough yet.
No, if a body listens to the
farmers much we could do with
a lot more. But then the farm ­ers
is never satisfied. They is
always grumbling about the
weather^
Th at’s for sure. I remember
my Uncle Choe used to tell
about a farmer he knew who
was never satisfied. One year
Uncle Choe asked him how is
crops, and the farmer says, not
enough ra in - everything is
dried up. The n ex t summer was
real rainy like and when
Uncle Cfioe asked him how was
crops, he says, too much rain,
the crops is all rotting away in
th e ground, he says. The nex t
summer was chust right, lots of
rain and nice hot sunny days
in between. So Uncle Choe says
to th e farmer, weU, this year
you can’t complain about the
weather, can you. The farmer
thought a while and then he
says, yes, the crops is aU right,
but th ey is so big th a t they is
draining the very life’s blood
out of th e soil!
Ha, ha! I have to laugh! But
ain’t th a t tru e with a lo t of
people. They is never satisfied
with th e weather. They never
learn th a t they might chust as
well tak e it as it comes and
make th e best of it. Chorch’s
married sister Ella w as chust
one like that. She used to think
th a t the weather was arrainched
chust to spite her. When it
• rained still on a Monday she
used to carry on like- all the
rain was in h e r back y a rd and
nobody else’s and if it rained
when she wanted to go some­place
she would say th a t it was
chust sent to h er as a punish­ment
for something wrong she
had done. She used to say
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Mart Hess this week extend­ed
an invitation to the public
to come down and pay him a
visit at his farm ju st east of
the borough along the Roths-ville
Road—and don’t get the
idea th a t it’s ju st an ordinary
visit, either.
For, Mart wants everyone to
come down and take a look at
the dam on the farm as well as
th a t section of the Lititz Stream
which passes through his p ro ­perty.
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“I ’ll show anybody who cares
to visit me ju st how te rrib le
stream pollution can be,” he
commented. “Right now the
dam on my farm which should
be a place of beauty in its n a tu ­ra
l setting, is a mass of filth,
sewerage, oil desposits and
bits of paper.
“The state doesn’t have to
put photos of stream pollution
in the papers for my benefit be­cause
I can show them some­thing
tru ly worth photograph­ing.
Ju st when or what relief
I ’ll get is doubtful bu t never­theless
I do intend to go t o ! C r n r - r ~> p : r n ;r
Harrisburg la te r this week or Iw w t c I 8 1
n ex t in the hope th a t i will be Next Thursday
able to present my case before
some member of the governor’s
staff.”
While some of the pollution
has been traced directly to in­dustries,
much of the sewerage,
from all appearances, goes down
the stream . from a total of
twenty to th irty homes and
small places of business located
in the borough along the stream
which use the stream to dump
all sewerage and waste.
All of these homes do not
have cesspools or other means
of catching sewerage bu t merely
ru n lines to the stream, Mr,
Hess pointed opt,. Relief from
this source of pollution will not
come until after sewer facilities
are constructed here unless the
local board of health feels some
action is necessary—which is
not considered too likely, he
added.
But, even if relief is not
forthcoming, Mart is anxious to
show anyone interested just
what it means to live along the
Lititz Stream east of the bor­ough.
Expect 8,000 To Attend
RECEIVES DEGREE
Paul Mowery, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J . B. Mowery of Lancaster,
and formerly of this borough
recently received a bachelor of
science degree from Baldwin-
Wallace College, Berea, Ohio.
Miss M. Elizabeth Sinz
To Be Married Saturday
To F. W. Maguire
The marriage of M. Elizabeth
Sinz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
F ran k Sinz, 208 East Second
Avenue, to Francis W. Maguire,
the Bronx, New York City, will
tak e place a t 10. A.M. this
Saturday Ju ly 16, in the St.
James Catholic Church. The
Rev. F a th e r Michael Kleeman,
who presided at the wedding of
the bride’s parents, will officiate
at thei ceremony. The bride will
be given in marriage by h e r
father.
She will be attended by Mrs.
Lucille Smith, Columbia, as
matron of honor. Her brides­maids
will be Miss Wanda
Myers, Lititz Pike; and Miss
Je&hette Weiss, Lancaster, cou­sin
of the bride.
William Maguire, brother of
the bridegroom, will serve as
best man and Carl Sinz, brother
of th e bride, and Lamar Furlow
this borough, will be ushers.
Mrs. Joseph Ransing will p re ­side
a t th e organ and Joseph
Ransing will be the soloist.
N'ext Thursday, Ju ly 21, the
annual Lancaster County Gro­cers’
Picnic will be held at
Atlantic City with upwards of
8,000 expected to attend.
Seven trains of th e Pennsy-
Vania Railroad consisting of
one hundred cars will be stand
ing by for the one day excur­sion
to the shore. Officers ana
committee men have been ap­pointed.
Town grocers who qre
serving on th e committees are:
C. S. Zartman and Eugene
Becker, publicity; and Amos S.
Shrom, Millway, on the prize
committee; and Ed Maharg
Transportation committee.
Every year a large group of
townspeople attend this outing
which is sponsored by the Lan­caster
Wholesale Grocery Com­pany,
Inc., in conjunction with
the Lanco Food Stores, Inc.
One hundred and fifty school
age children registered for the
Play ground activities in Mon­day
morning, according to
Eugene S. Deckert, in charge.
Many innovations were planned
which have met with hearty
enthusiasm by the children.
The point system has been in­augurated
this year by Mr.
Deckert and Mrs. Winifred
! Walls, supervisors, by which
| the children are awarded sev­eral
points by answering roll-call,
winning in games, and
various activities merriting re­cognition.
A prize will be given
for the child gaining the most
points.
Morning devotions are also a
p a rt of the day’s schedule for
the first time since the opening
of the play ground several
years ago. The fallen trees near
the cabin serve as benches for
the children and here theylisten
to a Bible story, have a Prayer,
salute the Flag and answer to
the* roll-call.
Much new equipment has
been added through the kind­ness
of various organizations.
Lumber was donated for a
basket ball goal, which the
boys made and installed, a new
croquet set, badminton, quoits,
and a basket ball. The Wilbur -
Suchard gave candy, and the
Simplex gave card board and
glazed paper for handicraft
work. The Girl Scout Troop 122
loaned their American Flag.
Tuesday a scavenger hunt was
held and the children brought
back clothes hangers, empty
spools, jars, worn out tires, in­n
e r tubes and paper bags, all
of which will be used in their
hand work. The wirining team
won points also. I t included,
Myrna Auker, Ju d y Christner,
Louise Ditt, Robert Doster,
F ran k Grube J r. Barbar Grube,
Alice Grundrum, William Her-shey,
Jim Oatman, Harry Rich-wine,
Joanne Seldomridge, Doris
Whitcraft Elaine Wonder, Bar­bara
Yeagley.
Mrs. Walls, asisted by Nancy
Kline has started the girls mak­ing
pap er articles as belts and
pottery. The boys are making
simple paddle boats out of
orange crates. There is no
charge except fo r gimp which
will average about eight cents
for a bracelet.
* The big event of the week
will be the P e t show on Friday,
the supervisors plan to have a
special number every Friday
afternoon fo r the six consecut­ive
weeks the Play ground is
operated.
—Photo Courtesy of Frank Longenecker
Pictured above is Carol Ludwig, age 4, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Russel Ludwig, Apple Street, who recently captured the
Grand Prize of a $25 Savings Bond at the Fourth of Ju ly Baby
Parade. The elaborate float was bulit by Dale Shelley and
F ran k Brown, 355 N. Broad St., working evening only, it took
a month to build. I t’s theme is “The Three Bears',” with Carol
sitting in the baby b e a r’s bed. On the opposite side of the float,
which is not shown above, are th e mother and fa th e r bear peer­ing
through the windows. This is the fifth time she has won
first prize and- the th ird in Lititz. Her prizes thus fa r: last year
at the Fourth parade, last y ear’s F arm Show parade, Hershey
parade, New Holland parade; and this y e a r’s Fourth parade.
Girl Scouts Win Badges;
To Attend Splash Party
Several of the Girls of Scout
Troop No. 122 have earned th eir
second class badges, according
to the Troop leader, Mrs. Wini­fred
Walls, they are, Carol Ann
Barber, Ju n e Elliot, Ruth Ann
Hoster, Charlotte Mathers, Mary
Lynn Reidenbaugh, Frances Mc­Cabe
and Linda Witmyer.
A combined committee meet­ing
of Troop No. 122 and Troop
No. 146, Mrs. John Badorf, lead
er, will be held on Ju ly 28th to
arrange for th e August trip to
Furnace Hills Camp on August
26, 27 and 28.
A Splash p a rty will be held
in the Ephrata Pool on Ju ly
19th. Mrs. Richard Zartman is
in charge of arrangements.
Three Petitions Filed
Asking Referendum
On School Union
Hundreds To Have Chance
To Register On Monday
At Local Fire House
Special Registrars To Sit
From 10 A. M. To
10 P. M.
the Lancaster Court House, but
last-minute crowds often make
th a t a more bothersome chore.
Special interest attaches to
th e election this year because
of the School Merger and the
Veterans’ bonus, both of which
will be voted upon in Novem­ber.
Most of the Borough offic­ials
and several county officials
will be elected this year.
Hundreds of voting-age resi­dents
of Lititz who are not re ­gistered
will have an opportun­ity
to qualify as voters with
ease n ex t Monday.
On th a t day, special registars
from the Registration office in
the Court House will sit a t the
Lititz Fire House from 10:00
A.M. to 10:00 P.M.
The only other way in which
unregistered citizens can get on
the books will be to go to the
Court House between now and
Ju ly 23, when the books close
in preparation for the Septem­b
er primary election.
Persons who have voted with- st. P au l’s Lutheran Sunday
in the past two years and have | School will hold its annual pic-
Lutheran S. S.
Holds Picnic
In Park
Three formal petitions re ­questing
a voter referendum on
a union school district were
filed Tuesday with the Lan­caster
County Commissioners
by Lititz borough and Warwick
and Elizabeth Townships School
Districts.
The voters of all three dis­tricts
must approve or the un­ion
will not tak e place, as the
petitions state.
The petitions Will be fo r­warded
to Harrisburg for ap­proval
by the State superintend­ent
of public instruction. When
th a t approval is received, the
question will be placed on the
November election ballot.
SCOUTS AT CHIQUETAN
Kirk Garber and Paul Seaber
a re spending some time a t the
Scout Camp Chiquetan. Donald
Garber, Donald Ruhl, Jimmy
Witmyer, and David and John
Amidom will leave on Sunday
for a two weeks stay.
not moved to a new residence
are already on the registration
rolls, it was pointed out. But
th ere are many persons who
have allowed th e ir registration
to lapse* through not voting.
There a re many others who be­came
21 in recent years and
who have never voted, and
othes have moved into a new
district without changing their
registration.
The presence of the special
registrars in Lititz is p a rt of the
County’s effort to “tak e the re ­gistration
office to the people.”
Special registrars are being sent
to each of their principal bor­oughs
and townships in the
county for one day each.
Those registered when the
books close on Ju ly 23 will be
a b le /to vote in th e September
primary. Those who fail to re ­gister
before th a t will have a
b rief chance in September and
October provided they go to
OFFICE TO BE CLOSED
The office of Dr. Virginia
Boydjieff will be closed for two
weeks, from Ju ly 18 to Aug. 2,
while she attends a post gradu
ate course in Chicago, 111.
Eight Gala Red Tag Days
To Start Friday, July 22,
Offering Many Bargains
Lititz Retailers Announce $100 Merchandise Prize
Expect Thousands To Jam Stores
During Red Tag Sales Days
Small Fire Alarm
A small fire alarm sum­moned
a small crew to ride
a small distance across the
street from the fire house
to a small chimmney fire at
the home of Leroy Bare
last week. Small damage
was reported.
Rev. Isenberg
To Speak
Sunday Nite
L. H. S. Band To Play;
Several Soloists
Featured
The Rev. Carl W. Isenberg of
St. Luke’s Evangelical and Re­formed
Church will be the
speaker Sunday evening for the
th ird vesper program to be held
this summer in the park.
Preceeding the speaker, the
Lititz High School Band will
play a medley of hymns. After­wards
the band will present a
concert including several over­tures
and marches.
Special numbers fo r the even­ings
performance include a cor­net
solo, “The Sweetest Story
Ever Told” ; a vocal number by
Allen Adair, “ In -a - Monastery
Garden; and a trombone duet,
“Bless This House” by Joe Hess
and Carl Frederick.
Next Sunday, Ju ly 24, the
speaker will be the Rev. Geo­rge
Bickel, formerly of Lititz.
The Rev. George B. Carvell
will be in charge of the Com­munity
Hymn Sing.
All services sta rt a t 7:30 P.M.
DORCAS CIRCLE SPENDS
DAY AT VALLEY FORGE
nic this afternoon and evening
in the Springs P ark , with some
500 men, women and children
expected to attend.
The outing opened this a fte r­noon
with games and en tertain­ment
for the children of the
Cradle Roll, Nursey, Beginners’,
Primary, and Ju n io r Depart­ments,
in charge of the teachers.
A cafeteria style supper will be
held with each item of food
prepared and brought to the
p a rk by the various classes of
the Sunday School. Any food
th a t is le ft wil be donated to
the United Zion Home.
After th e supper, a peanut
scramble will be held, and in
the evening, th ere will be con­cert
music by the Lititz High
School Band, directed by Henry
Steiner. A feature of the even­ing
program will be several
cakewalks, during which 12
cakes will be awarded to the
lucky persons.
. A committee, of which Lester
Balmer is chairman, has been
in charge of th e arrangements.
Choir On Vacation
The following members of
the Dorcas Cirfcle of King’s
Daughters spent Wednesday at
Holiday House a t Valley Forge,
Miss Mary Huebener, Mrs. Dav­id
Rickert, Mrs. Emory Wagner,
Mrs. P au l Mentzer, Mrs. Charles
Pfautz, Miss Erica Nethercitt,
Mrs. Harlan Hoffman, Miss
Martha Sturgis Mrs. Elwood
Hann and son, Billy, and Miss
Elizabeth Workman.
Holiday House is operated by
the organization to give poor
children from the, city a two
weeks vacation. Wednesday
was donation day an d also Open
House fo r the members of the
State to see th e w o rk being
done there.
L. H. S. Band To Play
Three Concerts In
Four Days
The Lititz High School Band
has a heavy schedule of en­gagements
this wek, with three
concerts scheduled for a four
day period.
The first one will be at St.
P au l’s Lutheran Sunday School
picnic tonight, in th e park. On
FIRE IN CAR TUESDAY
The Lititz Fire Company was
summoned to a fire in an auto­mobile
owned by Martin Wea­ver,
Raspberry Alley and Cen­te
r Street, a t 2:50 P.M. Tues­day.
Slight damage was rep o rt­ed
and the services of the fire­men
were not needed.
Firemen said th a t the blaze,
which was apparently caused
by a short circuit, was confined
to the wiring. ,
Saturday, the band wil journey
u .u . , ^ T * » «™ to Adamstown where they will
' M i I n m W to r toand the org an u t, Mrs. E. D. Ful- ^ ^ « Lutheran „ „pal cK„,ec-
Then on Sunday evening, they
will present a concert in the
Lititz Springs P a rk as p a rt of
the regular Sunday evening pro­grams.
weiler, have been enjoying a
vacation fo r the first four Sun­days
of this month.
Mrs. Marlin Allen was guest
organist the first Sunday and
will play again this coming
Sunday. Miss Rufina Balmer
was organist last Sunday and
on Ju ly 24 Karl Balmer will
be th e organist. Miss Je an Han­n
a sang a solo a t the service
on Ju ly 3, and Miss Kathleen
Hess was the soloist this pas
Sunday. Mrs. J . M. Leed will
sing on Sunday morning and
on the 24th the soloist will be
Mrs. George Keehn.
Get ready for the biggest
circus of bargains ever held in
Lititz, the annual Red Tag Days.
Eight gala days, from Ju ly
22 to 30, will feature thousands
of sensational bargains in shops
and business places all over
town. Leading merchants will
cut prices to the bone as they
sta rt the show for the dis­criminating
customers who are
expected to jam the stores.
As an added attraction, a
prize of $100 in merchandise
will be presented to the shopper
with the lucky numbered tic­kets.
These tickets will be hand­ed
out with all purchases of
$1.00 o r more.
According to the Lititz Re­tailers,
who are sponsoring this
eight day sales event, they are
determined to make this the
biggest th a t has ever hit Lititz.
Every skill of showmanship
will be used by the Lititz mer­chants
as they display th eir
wares before bargain hunting
housewives.
Red and Black tags will de­corate
the specials on the count­ers
and the shelves.
All merchants participating
will display red and black ban­ners
in their windows.
The decision to hold this
year’s sales event for eight days
was prompted by the crammed
two day period which was p re­viously
held and the large num­ber
of bargains which will be
offered this year. The eight
days should enable many out­siders
to visit Lititz to take
p a rt in these bargain buys.
The RECORD-EXPRESS will
display Red Tag Day specials
nex t week with a larger edition.
Watch for special announce­ments
to be included in n ex t
week’s paper.
ATTEND CAMP SUNAPEE
The following boys are spend­ing
six weeks a t Camp Sunapee,
New London, New Hampshire,
Joe, Billy and Paul Grosh,
James and John Gibbel, Billy
Whitten, John Henry New­comer,
John and Robert Her­shey.
Landisville
Camp Meeting
On July 22
The 79th Annual Landisville
Camp Meeting will open on
Friday, Ju ly 2nd. and extend
th ru Sunday, Ju ly 31st., it was
announced today by Rev. Dr.
Luther H. Ketels, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, Lan­caster,
and Spiritual Director of
the Camp.
The opening service will be
the Sacrament of the Holy Com­munion
at 7:45 p m. The Rev.
Douglas I. Cloud, minister of
the Olivet Methodist Church,
Coatesville, will deliver the
Communion meditation. The
Sacrament of the Holy Com­munion
will be administered by
Dr. Ketels, assisted by the
Methodist pastors, and the visit­ing
ministers.
On Sunday, Ju ly 24th, Dr.
Alexander K. Smith, formerly
pastor of the Arch Street Meth­odist
Church in Philadelphia,
and now th e newly-appointed
Superintendent of the West Dis­trict
of th e Philadelphia Con­ference,
will deliver a memorial
sermon a 11:00 a. m. In the
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Dr.
D. Stewart Patterson of Wash­ington
D. C., Executive Secre­tary
of the Methodist Commis­sion
on Chaplains will be the
speaker. The evening worship
service, at 7:45, will feature an ­other
address by Dr. Patterson.
The Choir of F irst Methodist
Church, Lancaster, will sing,
and John K. Stetler, J r. will
play seveal trumpet selections.
The program for Monday
evening, Ju ly 25th, includes a
sermon by the Rev. Dr. Allan
S. Meek, president of the
Evang. and Reformed Theologi­cal
Seminary, Lancaster, and
music by the Choir of th e
Mount Joy Methodist Church.
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