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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, July 21, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail NO. 14
Eight Red Tag Days Start Here Frid
Council Invites Public
To Meeting Tuesday
On War Memorial Project
War Memorial Committee Endorses Plan
With Reservation; Project Expected
To Be Decided Finally At Meeting
A definite decision to a c c e p t'
or reject the proposed war
memorial project for the Square
is expected to be made at the
regular meeting of borough
council on Tusday evening.
President of Council H a r ry '
R. Way this week issued an in­vitation
to all persons in te r­ested
in the war memorial pro­ject,
whether adherents or op-opints
to the idea, to attend
council meeting and to exprss
which ever sentiment they hold.
Borpugh Council also has is­sued
special invitations to the
local War Memorial Committee
headed by Paul F. Diehm and
the American Legion Memorial
Committee headed by Joseph
M. Carl, to attend the meeting.'
The memorial was proposed re ­cently
by the Legion committee.
The local War Memorial Com­mittee
this week issued an ann­ouncement
favoring the type of
memorial bu t reserving its un ­qualified
endorsement until af­te
r the people of Lititz had an
opportunity to indicate whether
o r not th e Square is the most
suitable location.
' The War Memorial Com­mittee
announcement was as
follows:
“The War Memorial Com­mittee
definitely approves the
type of Memorial suggested for
th e Square, bu t is of the opin­ion
th a t the people of Lititz
should have an opportunity to
indicate whether or not the
Square is the most suitable
location. If no other location is
p referred by the community
then the Committee approves
th plan without reservation
The Cpmmittee urges all in te r­ested
citizens to attend a public
meeting to be called by th e bor­ough
Council.”
The meeting of council will
be held in the councilmanic
chamber on the second floor of
the firehouse a t 8 P.M. Tuesday.
Ree Center
Plans For
Block Party
\
Service Clubs Cooperate
To Set Up Stands
For Aug. 4
| Animal Trap
Slows Down
1 During July
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f ! 75 Given Extended
| j Vacation For
I Two Weeks
Plans for the Community
Block P a rty to be held on
Thursday, August 4, were made
at the meeting held on Tuesday
evening at th e Recreation Cen­ter.
The affair is being spon­sored
b the Recreation Center
and all proceeds will go into its
treasu ry for renovations to the
building and new equipment.
In response to invitations sent
out by the center, nearly all ser­vice
clubs sent a representative.
Each club plans to help pu t the
Block P a rty over by contribut­ing
materially, setting up
stands, supplying labor, and
giving donations.
These representatives meet­ing
with the Rec Center Com­mittee
drew up plans for the af­fair.
The Blue Notes will be
on hand to provide musical en­tertainment
and the north end
of Spruce St., from West Main
St. to th e p a rk Will be roped
off to provide plenty of room
for the stands. Cakes, sand­wiches,
hot dogs, soft drinks,
and potato chip« will be on sale.
This week solicitors have
been canvassing the merchants
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Red Foley, baritone star oi NBC s
“Grand Ole Opry,” Is surrounded ov
music at home, as in the radio stu
dio. Red’s wife, as Eva Overstay
was a vocalist on a Chicago pro
gram, and the Foleys’ thra? !i :
girls are musical and enjoy : i r -
harmony. Often, they form a > " • v
tet, with Eva at the piano a. j
plunking the guitar.
Again Delay
Dial Phones
Till Late Fall
Another Crisis For
The Philosophers
Well now Mrs. Veiss. I began
to th in k you had forgot me
this week. Where you been still?
Oh, no place particular. I was
chust setting around the house.
My feet have been bothering
me here of late and I been fav­oring
them like.
Well, set down and tak e the
weight off them, as Chorch
says to me sometimes still. I
chust been reading here in the
paper about this here crisis in
England. Must be terrible. This
man Chipps or Cripps or some­thing
is worked up something
wonderful over it.
What for a crisis are they
having chust now?
Oh this high financial busi­ness.
I t must be awful b u t still
and al) I can’t understand it.
No, n o r I heither. I t is away
over my head, as they say still.
You have gotta be ime o f
these high finance» I guess to
get the head and ta il of it. I
asked Chorch to explain it and
he chust laughed an d said I
wasn’t to worry my little bead
about it. I says to him, I says,
do you understand it, I says.
And he says of course he un­derstands
it bu t my opinion is
th a t he don’t know no more
about it than I do.
Men is like that. They never
want to show th eir ignorance
about such big money affairs.
But when they get talking
about anything more than sev­enty-
five dollars a week, they
a re about through with finances.
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St. Paul’s Ushers
To Hold Picnic
At Penryn
Luth er Wohlsen,'president of
the Lutheran Brotherhood will
speak this evening at the an­nual
picnic of the Usher’s As­sociation
of St. P au l’s which is
being held this evening (Thurs­day)
a t the Penryn Park.
Nearly 250 men a re expected
to attend including th e Lititz
Lions Club as weU as eight to
ten other brotherhoods from the
surrounding vicinity. A short
worship service will be held
p rior to the main speech, a t
about 5:00 P.M.
Supper will be served a t 6
o’clock. In case of rain, it will
be held in the church basement.
New System Being Held
Up By Lack (H
New Equipment
The Denver and Ephrata
Telephone Co. announced th is
week th a t the new dial phones
will not be ready for us«! this
summer as previously announ­ced
and the switch will pro­bably
not be made until late
fall.
“A definite date has not been
set and probably will not be
set soon,” a spokesman for the
company said. When the central
office at Ephrata cut over from
the old type phone to the dial
system, some time ago a de­finite
date for the change was
not set until shortly before it
occurred.
Many telephone numbers have
been changed in reent months
in preparation for th e new sys­tem
and new telephone books
will be issued at th e ir regular
time in September. But the en­tire
listing for the dial phones
will no t be included in the new
books and a supplement will
probably have to be issued.
The postponements have been
caused b y thé failure of man­ufacturers
to ship th e necessary
equipment on schedule.
Animal Trap Co. has extend­ed
the vacations of one-half its
employees to include the last
two weeks in Ju ly , in addition
to the two previous weeks when
the whole plant was shut down
for the annual vacation period,
it has been announced.
This temporary slow down
has been brought about by the
conditions of the country, p ar­ticularly
the theatening steel
strike, Charles Straley, vice
president of the plant said re ­cently.
He added, th a t the steel
situation may cause a drop in
steel prices as well as other
goods. “We don’t want to get
caught with too much on hand
when prices are dropping,” he
said.
Straley assured th a t the slow
down is only temporary and re ­gular
work will be resumed
again before too long.
Approximately 75 workers
are affected by this new order
which was issued last week.
MORE FUTURE CITIZENS Hundreds Of Bargains
Offered By Local Merchants
In Gala Sales Event
Red Tag Days Will Continue Throughout
Next Week; Expect Affair Will
Attract Thousands To Boro
245 Register
Here Monday
At Firehouse
Here is a another group of local children as they posed for
photographers of the Record-Express early this summer. They
are, left to right, top row: Judy, Kenneth and Donald, daughter
and sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Shotzberger this borough; Fay
Ann, and Ray, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Burkholder,
this borough, and Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Muth,
Rothsville. Bottom row: Anita, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Buch, J r. this borough; Peggy and Tommy, daughter and son of
Mr and Mrs. James Neideigh, this borough; Linda, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Ray Gassert. this borough.
Political Pot Boils Over
As Several Contents Develop
LITITZ WRENS REACH
MIDGET SEMI-FINALS
The Lititz Wrens reached
the semi-finals in th e Midget-
Midget baseball competition
last evening when th e local
aggregation defeated the Stomac
Tigers, of Lancaster, by the
score of 8 to 2. The semi-finals
will be played n ex t week.
Maze Of Operations Seen
Inside U. S. Post Office
Twenty-one full time em- 1 machine, usually operated by
ployees handling an average of | Richard Rader. This machine
A new high in registration
was set la st Monday a t the
Fire House as special registrars
enrolled 245 persons.
Speculation about the im­plication
of this record break­ing
number of registrants re ­vived
interest in the local pol­itical
scene.
By the parties the registration
ran: Republicans 157, Demo­crats
78, others 10. Thirty re ­moval
notices were filed and
th irteen changes of politics were
received by the registrars.
The special registration day
in Lititz was a p a rt of the
County-wide program th a t was
launched by th e county com­missioners
to “take the regist­ration
office to the people.”
Special registrars are being sent
to each of th e principal boro­ughs
and townships for one day
each.
Registrars sat at the Fire
House from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M.
and were busy the whole day,
particularly in the evening.
Many who had allowed their
registration to elapse through
not voting seemingly learned a
lesson from the national elect­ion
last November and realiz
ing the potentiality of the “stay-at-
home-vote” tu rn ed out to
make themselves eligible for the
fall election. Also many who
have reached twenty one also
registered.
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five thousand pieces of first
class mail every day, this ls bu t
a small picture of what goes on
in th e h e a rt of our communi­cations
system—th e U.S. Post
Office.
To get a good picture of what
the whole thing is all about, the
RECORD-EXPRESS went on a
tour through th e local post
office with Postmaster Robert
E. Pfautz.
F irst we followed th e letters
—both incoming and outgoing.
From the time a le tte r is drop­ped
in the slot at the post office
to the time it is sent out, it
goes through a maze of oper­ations
w ith great efficiency and
speed. If dropped in th e proper
slot, the le tte r falls into a sep­a
ra te box where it is picked u p
and pu t through the canceling
puts th e date on each letter, in ­cluding
the day, month and
year. It puts on th e time, the
town, the state, cancels the
stamp, and counts each letter,
all a t about th e same speed as
a fast card shuffle.
From the canceling operation
(it goes to the dispatching men,
A rth u r Badorf, Morris McCloud,
or Chester Witmyer who sort
out the outgoing mail for the
East and West bound mail
trains. Then except fo r local
¡and Lancaster County mail, the
letters are delivered direct to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Stat­ion
for the fastest possible ser­vice,
th ree times daily at 9:30
.A.M., a t 2:30 P.M., and again
a t 6:30 P.M. So in order for
th e mail to leave Lititz prompt­ly
th e mail should be in the
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Doster Opens
IG A Market
Paul Doster, veteran grocer
of this borough, this week an­nounced
the opening of Doster’s
IGA Market, constituting chan­ges
which aim to improve ser­vice
and make possible an in­crease
in the number of food
bargains and values offered.
The IGA stands for th e In­dependent
Grocers’ Alliance of
America, a national organizat­ion
of thousands of independ­ently-
owned and operated food
stores located from coast to
coast, Mr. Doster explained.
This means th a t ih e local mar
k e t will benefit from mass buy-
. ing an d merchandising plus
lowest wholesale and re ta il op-
1 erating costs, he added.
With various local factions
.doing the stirring, the political
pot here was threatening to boil
over this week as the deadline
for filing petitions for the p ri­mary
election rapidly approach­ed.
And while not a single petit:
ion has found its way to the
county commissioners’ office in
th e Court House up to now,
nearly a dozen were being cir­culated
about the borough this
week.
A survey of petitions being
circulated about the borough
indicated th a t contests are de­veloping
for the two positions
on the borough school board to
be filled this y ear and for the
office of borough tax collectors.
Candidates who apparently
a re not being opposed for
Republicon nominations include
Burgess Victor Wagner, v eter­an
borough head who recently
completed a decade in this of­fice.
Two present members of
council whose 1 terms expire
Jan u a ry 1 will not be candidates
for re-election. They are Coun-cilmen
Harry Way and Elmer
Bomberger, both of whom have
served several terms each and
both of whom have unusually
active records in borough work.
Petitions a re being circulated
for Former Burgess Menno
Rohrer and Paul McCloud, local
landscape architect, for th e two
vacancies on borough council
and present indications are th a t
neither will meet with any op­position.
Both a re ex-service
men.
A three-cornered fight for the
office of borough tax collector
was developing despite frantic
efforts in some quarters to have
on of the th ree candidates with­draw.
The three for whom pet­itions
are being circulated are
Raymond Reedy, present boro
tax collector; Leo Rossi, ex-service
man who lost an arm
in action in th e European sec­tor;
and Martin Garman, well-known
local resident.
Contests also appeared de­veloping
for the two positions
on school board to be filled
with both William Fasnacht and
F ran k Longenecker, incumbents
expected to seek re-election.
Other candidates circulating
petitions fo r the Republican
were Joseph M. Carl and John
nominations fo r school directors
Badorf.
George Bickel
Will Speak
Here Sunday
The Rev. George Bickel,
formerly of Lititz, will be the
speaker a t the Sunday evening
vesper program to be held this
Sunday evening in the park.
Rev. Bickel is a graduate of
the class of ‘44 of Lititz High
School and was active in the
local scout movement here. He
has attended Albright College
in Reading and now has his
first full time charge as pastor
of the Evangelical Congregat­ional
Church in Adamstown.
The Rev. George B. Carvell,
pastor of the Evangelical Con­gregational
Church will be in
charge of the Community Hymn
Sing.
Make Plans
For Comm.
Picnic Aug. 27
The Lititz Ju nior Chamber of
Commerce is making plans for
an extraordinary Community
Picnic. At a meeting of the
committee last night plans of
procedure were drawn up and
the various committee members
were assigned the task of con­tacts
for enterainment, ad v e rt­ising,
management, games, p ro ­ceedings
and the many details.
The enthuasiam shown by the
committee insures the commun­ity
of having a very successful
picnic. ; * :
The Jaycees have taken the
full responsibility of providing
for th e community a picnic that
can be enjoyed by all. The only
support they are asking is th a t
the people of the community
will be on h an d to enjoy the
program th a t is being outlined.
There will be more news forth­coming
in the n ear fu tu re but
for the present make a note on
the calendar th a t August 27 th
will be set aside for an after­noon
of relaxation at th e fam­ous
Lititz Springs Park.
The committee in charge of
the success of the picnic consists
of the following members Fred
Hall, chairman, Ray Oatman,
Robert Harding, Wilbur Miller,
Richard Hardenberger, Robert
Bomberger, Harry , Wagaman.
Here is a tip we are passing on
to you young men with bicycles
and the younger ones w ith tr i­cycles,
keep fifem in good shape
it may be worthwhile. Watch
for la te r details.
Mrs. Henry Bowers and Miss
Brubaker of Lebanon left on
Friday to spend th ree weeks in
Nebraska visiting Mrs. John
Shenk, a former resident of
Lititz.
L ititz’ places of business
took on a new lease on life this
week instead of the usual mid­summer
doldrums as merchants
prepared for the eight Red Tag
Days, determined to make this
the biggest sales event ever to
hit this borough.
Practically every store in the
borough is cooperating by cut­ting
prices and displaying the
red and black tags in th e ir win­dows
and on hundreds of b a r­gains.
All the merchants are
busily engaged in marking down
prices and setting up displays
to b etter show th e ir specials.
A survey of the business
places of town revealed th a t
nearly all of the storekeepers
had reduced prices of good and
desirable merchandise including
many timely summer articles,
with reductions running any­where
from 10 to more than 50
percent.
These price cuts become ef­fective
with the opening of the
stores tomorrow (Friday) morn­ing.
The participating merchants
have announced th a t the re ­ductions
will remain in effect
the whole eight day period un­til
closing time, Saturday even­ing,
Ju ly 30.
Solicitors have distributed the
red tags and placards to all th e
stores in town and collected
two dollars from each merchant
to defray the cost of the $100
merchandise prize. With each
purchase of $1.00 or more a
numbered ticket will be given
the purchaser and the one hold­ing
the lucky numbered ticket
will be awarded the prize.
These Red Tag Days are spon­sored
by the Retail Committee
of which Joseph Hess is presi­dent.
This is the th ird event of
its kind to be held h ere in
Lititz and the prospects are
that it will be the biggest sales
event ever undertaken here.
ACCEPTS POSITION
AT MENTAL INSTITUTION
Miss Diane Muth, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Muth,
South Broad St., has recently
accepted a position in H a rris­burg
for th e summer a t the
State Mental institution. She
expects to do occupational
therapy work th ere in line
with the psychology w o rk she
has been doing a t Pembrooke.
Doll And Hobby Show
At Playground Friday
A Doll and Hobby Show will
climax the week’s activities on
the Playground, according to E.
S. Deckert, supervisor. I t will
be held on Friday afternoon at
one o’clock.
A P e t Show was held with
th irty eight entries and nine­teen
prizes awarded last week­end.
Special recognition was
given to Roxanne Haldeman for
h er thirteen year old Fox Ter­rier.
Other awards were given
to th e following, Largest pet,
Roberta Lutz for h e r Dalmatian
te rrie r; Neil Shelley, collie;
Richard Walter, collie.
Smallest, Bonita Aument,
guppies; Jim Oatman, gold fish;
Frances McCabe guppies; cutiest
Bebe Kreider, cat; Shelby Faus,
cocker Spaniel; Sara Gundrum,
cat; most unusual, Joyce Steffy,
angel fish; Eddie Steffy, salam­ander;
Lois Eby bantam.
Best trained, Tommy Keehn,
te rrie r; F ra n k Grube, collie;
Linda Witmyer Boston Bull;
largest family, Nina Stroble,
hamsters; Mary and Martha
Weitzel, Cocker Spaniels; Bruce
Smith, cats.
The judges were, William
Scatchard, Gary Sipe and Stan­ley
Stout.
Monday the program featured
sand modeling. The children
were divided into four age
groups, the award Tor the five
year old was given to Jo h n Zer-cher;
the six year, to Peggy
Trunk; seven, Jeffrey H o a ste r;,
and the eight to Kenneth Reed, members.
YRB Meets
To Elect .
New Members
if*» :i
The Youth Representative
Board of the Recreation Center'
met last night for th e ir regular
monthly meeting and selected
twro new members to fill the
terms of Jack Keath and Don
Fisher who can no longer hold
the office. Jody Grosh and Jim
Sensenich were elected to fill
this vacancies.
Donald Steffy was chosen vice
president and Harold Frederick
will serve as press agent, for
the board.
The constitution was changed
so th a t in the fu tu re not more
than two members to the board
maybe from the same high
school class.
Plans were made for members
of the Rec Center to entertain
the disabled veterans a t the
new Lebanon Hospital on Aug.
14. A q u a rte t will sing and a
play will be presented by th e
The winners in the paper Bag
dramatics were Joyce Steffy,
Dick Miller, Martha Weitzel,
Shirley Steffy John Eby, Mar­lene
Zimmerman, Barbara Won­der
and Shirley Shenk.
A tire rolling contest was
held on Tuesday with th e fol­lowing
winners Kenneth Miller,
Ross Snavely, Jeffrey Hoaster,
Kennth Reed Serino Auker,
Richard Zercher, Paul Dawber,
Bill Gardner Morris Frederick.
One hundred and n inty child­ren
have registered for the
summer.
A hay wagon and tra c to r has.
been volunteered by Carl Huber
so th a t the Rec can have several
hayrides within the next few
months. A dance has been sche­duled
for September.
ROTHSVILLE TO HOLD
CARNIVAL SATURDAY
The Rothsville Fire Co. and
Lions’ Club will hold a carni­val
this Saturday night, Ju ly
23. The Aqua String Band will
play and th e re will be a parade
a t th e carnival grounds.
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