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\ r * «I« *■ \L D'otti Forget Block Party At Ree Center Next Thursday The Utitz Only Two More Days For Red Tag Bargains 73rd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam (Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, July 28, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No 15 Red Tag Days Will End < Here Saturday Night With $100 Prize Drawing Merchandise Award Winner Will Be Drawn Publicly At Firehouse Red Tag . Days moved into the last two rounds with only Friday and Saturday remaining for Lititz’ consumers to take advantage of this circus of bargains. Many retailers reported heavy volume of sales, particularly during the first two days of the sales, last Friday and Saturday. Much summer stock has already moved out and the rest has been drastically reduced in order to get rid of the goods which will soon be obsolete with the new product soon to be coming in this fall. In line with practically all retailers all over the country, Lititz merchonts are trying to keep their inventories as low as possible and are going all out to put over this eight day sales event. A public drawing will be made Saturday night a t 10:30 at the Fire House to determine the winner of the $100 merchandise prize. Tickets have been handed to each customer mak- WARREN NEWCOMER PAINFULLY INJURED Warren Newcomer, of West End Avenue, sustained the painfu l injury of the thumb and a fimgei1 of his right hand Sunday when his hand became caught in the spring of an automatic garage doorway at his home. At the time of the mishap he was endeavoring to release the spring which had jam-edl. He was treated by Dr. L. H. Koster. FUTURE RED TAG CUSTOMERS A Council Gets All Fouled Up Over The Heat First Tie Vote In Past Ten Years, Is Recorded Blame it on the heat - and it surely was hot - for the fact that borough council recorded its first tie vote in the past de- P.P. & L. Will Spend $35000 Around Lititz SERIOUSLY ILL Work Started Last Week To Increase Rural Facilities Of Co. “2* cade late Tuesday night - and ing a purchase of a dollar or ja il on a matter of providing fore a t any of the Red Tag stores. And the merchants have been requested to turn in their half of the ticket stubs a t the Fire Hall by 10:15, Saturday night. Prices are down V* to % below the regular price in many stores some places have cut them more in an effort to reduce the volume of their inventories. The Frustrated Philosophers Well - come on up on the porch, Mrs. Veiss . It’s chust too hot to do anything today, ain’t not? That’s for sure Mrs. Espen-shate., I yet believe this is the hottest isurrimer we ever had still. And the nights is so hot a body don’t get any rest. Last night Chake got real wild like and went out on the porch to sleep, but the bucks and mosquitoes drove him back in. You should tell him what Chorch does still on hot nights. He learned it when he was down south one summer. You chust get into the bath tub and get all wet and chump into bed without drying yourself off. Then you will go right to sleep. The water dries and cool* you off h® says I must tell Chake, but then he is one that loves to suffer and be such a martyr about it Seems like he would rather fuss about the heat than do something about it. Yes, well. A body has- to have something to complain about. It is chust human nature. In the summer it’s the heat and in winter it’s the cold. By the way, how is your feet? Oh, they is all right again. ] guess it was chust that my new shoes was a little tight. Chake says I remind him of the wo man who was asked what size shoes she wore still, and she says, veil, I take a four, but fives feel so good I always buy sixes. I had to laugh still! What size were they? They was fives. I guess they should ‘a’ been . . sixes, no doubt. No doubt. But you know how you hate’to admit you got big feet, specially when you get dressed up to go someplace. I know. But the young girls nowadays don’t seem to worry. Some of them wear shoes that look like,canal boats—flat heels and all. Loafers, I think they is called. (Continued on Page 12) relief from the heat! And the tie vote still stands due to the fact that Burgess Victor Wagner had suffered so from the intense heat of the councilmanic chamber that he had departed for home a few minutes prior. The whole thing started when Councilman Frank Ford declared council should provide eliectric fans for the council-manic chamber. “Why should we sit here and roast - we surely can spend that much for our own comfort,” he asserted. When President of Council Way did not take the suggestion seriously, Ford made it in' the form of a motion. “We a t least should have an electric outlet here - then if council can’t buy a fan I ’ll bring one from home,” Ford added, not too coolly. “I second it,” Councilman Bomberger declared. Brought to a vote, Ford and Bomberger voted for the fan - only to be stalemated when Councilmen Way and Christ Nissley voted against the pro- Here is another group of children as they posed for photographers of the Record-Express: Top row, left to right: Janice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bricker, Nancy, Lois, James, and Donald, daughters and sons of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Nolt, Ann Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kofroth. Bottom row: Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Smith; Ralph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Bair Jr.; amd Marion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Getz, all of Lititz. School Board Contest Ends As Two Candidates Withdraw; Other Contests Develop Then Nissley spoke up. “I think they turn the street lights off too early in the morning,” he asserted. “Why they’re ofif as early as five o’clock.’ But everybody was too busy mopping their perspiring brows to give Christ’s complaint a second thought. Rev. Dick To Speak Sunday The Rev. Jacob T. Dick, pastor of the Brethren Church will be the speaker this Sunday evening at the fifth vesper program to be held this summer in the park. - - , - - The White Oak Fellowship, a young peoples organization has arranged a musical program to be presented from 2 P.M. until time of th i service, at 7:30 P.M. It will include mixed choruses and quartets from Lititz, East Fairview, Middle Creek, Salunga, Springville, An-nville, West Green Terrace, Mechanic Grove Palmyra, Man-heim, and Chiques. In case of rain, the Moravian Church bells will ring indicating that the program will be held in Fellowship Hall. DESCRIBES TRIP BEFORE ROTARY Charles K. Keath describe«? the recent motor trip he and his wife took to the Pacific Coast in a talk before the local Rotary Club Tuesday evening. The trip included many scenic points of interest in this country and in the Canadian Rockies. Local Travelers Reach Far Ends Of Continent Three young people of Lititz are scattered to the fartherest parts of this continent working and studying or just traveling around the countryside. From th e Emporer Maximilian’s palace in Mexieo City to the Alask a wilderness to the Colorado Rockies for a meeting of some of: the “world’s greatest,” these th ree have been having the time of their lives and have sent home some accounts of th e ir experiences. Elliot Krane, son of Mr. and MIrs. Samuel Krane, 128 S. Broad St., has been spending the whole summer in the South-wiest and Mexico visiting relatives and hitch-hiking across hundreds of miles of arid country to see the excitements in th e cities like New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, Tucson, Arizona, Guadalajara and Mexico City in Mexico. For the most part this is old-shamping grounds for Elliot because he covered much the satme ground last summer al- ' tough not going as far south. As soon as his studies were finished for the year at Penn State he and some of his friends quickly hopped to New Orleans, where he visited a t the University of Louisiana. Then going on alone, he went to Houston arid to Tucson, Arizona, where he visited his sister, Rhoda. Realizing a long wished for ariibition, he went below the Rio Grande to Guadalajara and then on to Mexico City. There he visited friends who were studying at the University and did a lot of sightseeing. One of the most fascinating spots was the palace of the former Emporer of Mexico, Maximilian. At the present time he is in New Orleans and expects to be home in Lititz within a week. He hopes to catch a boat out of New Orleans and sail coastwise, landing at New York. One local political contest was eliminated late yesterday when two candidates for borough school board withdrew, but several more tifts developed in the final batch of petitions filed at the Court House Monday. The two candidates to withdraw their names less than a week after they had filed their papers are Joseph M. Carl, former commander of the Garden Spot Post of the American Legion, and John Badorf, well-known local ex-service man. Both announced that they had reached their decision to withdraw in the interest of harmony, especially at a time when the local school district is in the midst of a school merger project to be voted upon in November. The two incumbents, Frank Longenecker and William Fassnacht, now are unopposed for the Republican nominations for the two positions to be filled. An unexpected contest developed when former Justice of the Peace Andrew Shissler, of Cedar Street, filed his petition as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of Justice of the Peace. He will oppose Justice of the Peace Paul F. Diehm, who is a can didate for re-election. Another unexpected contest developed in councilmanic circles when Walter Grosh, West Main Street, 'filed his petition as a candidate for the Republican nomination for one of the two positions in borough council to be filled this November. He will be opposed by Former Burgess Menno Rohrer and Paul McCloud. The two retiring members of council, President of Council Harry R. Way and Councilman Elmer Bomberger will not seek re-election. Center of interest, however, remained in a three-cornered contest for the office of borough tax collector with Tax Collector Raymond Reedy being opposed by Leo Rossi, ex-service man who is employed as bookkeeper and salesman a t the Lititz Auto Supply; and Martin Garman, who is employed at the Armstrong Cork Company. Another contest to be decided by voters of the First Ward is that in which former Borough Police Officer Lester Haines is opposing Constable Walter Auk-er for the Republican nomination as First Ward Constable. Both are expected to conduct To meet the increased demand for more and more elect- ! ricity to the rural areas surrounding Lititz, the PP&L has ' started a $35,000 program to '* improve the service by in sta ll-; ing heavier lines to the out ly- j ing areas and thus taking the ! load off of the sub station and removing the threat to the townspeople of a possible breakdown. | At present the lines carry a i load of 4800 volte to these out-of- town spots but with the new lines now being put up, they will carry 12,000 volte. This requires bigger poles, stronger lints, new transformers, and better protective devices. The work started last week with the erection of a line of new poles beginning a t the corner of S. Cedar St. and Orange St. and extending west ward along West Orange towards Manheim. The new lines when hooked up, will go as far as Lime Rock and the Sun Hill area. On the other end of the town, the first leg of the eastern section has already been completed. It is attached to the high power line which towers above Front St., coming from the sub-station in back of Eby’s mill. Dr. J. Harold Mumper Rev. Mumper Is Stricken Seriously 111 Reported In Coma For Past Ten Days; Recovery Expectd Dr. Harold J. Mumper, former pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, was stricken ill last week and taken to the Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Va., He has been in a coma for the past ten days and has suf-fered a relapse. But doctors This first leg is expected to have just announced that there be “<:ut over” and energized for ^ js hope for his recovery. He had use, in a matter of days. To do ^ been teaching a t summer school , when he had the attack. hours during which time the main industries of Lititz will have to be cut off. This first Serving the local church from 1931-38, Dr. Mumper was sched- , . uled to speak here on Sunday, leg extends out to the end of August 14. He has been serving lumber yard and out to Binkley and Ober’s stone quarry. (Continued on Page 7) Farm Show Donates $50 To ‘Center’ Informed that the Lititz Community Center was in dire need for funds in order to continue in operation, members of the Lititz Community Show Association Monday as one of the editors of the P arish and Church School Board of the United Lutheran Church. Previous to that appointment he was pastor at one of the largest Lutheran Churches in Washington, D. C. Through his pastorate here and his recurrent visits to Lititz he has many friends both in and out of the congregation. Cut Rag Weeds Burgess Warns Burgess Victor Wagner this evening weei£ warned property owners voted a donation of $50 to the cu^ rag-weeds as well as Center. The plea for funds was voiced before the group by Lloyd Smith, president of the Farm Show group and also president of the Center, who declared that the Center’s need for funds has reached a critical state of affairs. The Center contemplates some relief a t its block party now being planned. The Farm Show group also launched plans for a big Made-in- Lititz display which is expected to prove a • feature of this years show. It is hoped to be able to exhibit several hundred items which are manufactured in and near the borough. Raymond Reedy was named chairman of the committee planning the display. Other members of the committee are Charles Straley, John Boyd and Harry Grubb. The group plans to meet again early next mohth when County Farm Agent Smith will be present and assist in a revision of rules and regulations for farm and home exhibits as well as 4-H features of the show. other sources of hay-fever. Several warnings have been given out and others will be issued by police where property owners are negligent. The matter of ridding the town of ragweed also was taken before council Tuesday evening by Ted Stauffer, local businessman and hay-fever sufferer, who warned that the hay-fever season will reach its heighth in two weeks’ time. Elected by her college to at- j lively campaigns, tend the cultural conference in Colorado, Claire, daughter of Mr. ond Mrs. Willy DePerrot, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, N. Broad St. and son Earl Smith, Church Square, this borough Jr., spent last week-end at the (Continued on page 4) ! Poconos. Ralph Downey Named As Choir Director Ralph Downey has been named as choir director at St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church in Quarryville. He has recently accepted the position of music director of the Southern Lancaster County Joint High School which is th e result of a merger of the schools in and around Quarryville. War Memorial Fountain Project Was Unopposed At Public Council Meeting GOES TO ATLANTIC CITY ON MOTOR BIKE Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wagner, Jr., drove down to Atlantic City on a two-seater motor bike Saturday for a days vacation. The total cost of the transportation by bike both ways, amounted to 62 cents. Wagner returned the ' same evening on th bike while Mrs. Wagner returned by train. Boro Pensions Would Cost $53,722 Yr. First Year Cost Of Retirement Plan Would ‘Bust’ Budget A retirement fund for all borough employees would cost the Borough of Lititz $53,722.65 the first year, members of council were advised' by insurance representatives Tuesday night - and immediately decided to table the proposal indefinitely! The suggestion that council start a retirement fund for borough employees was made several months ago in a resolution adopted by the local American Legion Post. Bujt - members of council later explained - whoever thought up the project failed to take into cognizance the fact that the borough’s street department is made up of anything b u t youngsters. The ages of the five huskies in this department, in fact,, range from a mere sixty-nine to a venerable seventy- five years. To place these employees on a retirement basis would cost the borough approximately $10,- 000 for each employee who then would «utomatically be retired from service at $50 a month - and the borough would have to find five substitute street department workers and then take up the matter of setting up a fund for them. In the ‘ water department, with the exception of Superintendent Walter Miller, $4,138.05 would have to be expended the first year. “Our first opinion that a pension system fo r borough employees a t this time is impossible, is confirmed by these figures,” one member of council announced. Trunks To Leave For Ocean City Miss Betty Jane Howard Was Wed Saturday To Robert Halbleib Miss Betty Jane Howard, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Howard, 35 W. Lincoln Ave., to Robert L. Halb-leib, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Richwine, 218 E. New St., were married at 2:30 P.M. Saturday in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Neffsville. The Rev. Clay E. Rice officiated. The bride was given in marriage by her uncle, Raymond Franck, East Petersburg, and was attended by Miss Barbara Miller, this borough. Eric Buck-ley, Jr., this borough was best man. Ushering were Larry Howard, uncle of the bride, and Clarence Yingst, uncle of the bridegroom, both of Lititz. . . . OILING STREETS The borough’s program for oiling streets will be completed this week, Street Superintendent Addison Harding announced this week. Sunday will be the last time before vacation for the Rev. Charles F. Trunk to preach in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. The Trunk family will go to Ocean City, N.J., for the month of August. The pastors who will supply the pulpit during his absence will be announced next week. More than $150. has been received for the gift to the Rev. Edwin Grafe to aid in taking an automobile to South America next month when he returns to the mission work in Argentina. Rev. Graefe is supported by St. Paul’s. The Sunbeam Class met at the church on Tuesday evening. The Senior Choir, «iirected by Albert S. Ebbert, and the organist, Mrs. E. D. Fulweiler, will return from a month’s vacation for the service. Sunday morning. The Choir held a rehearsal last night (Wednesday). Ordinance To Be Finally Adopted In August If No Opposition Develops The proposed war memorial fountain to replace the former Roebuck fountain in the traffic island on the Square moved one more laborious step closer to final and official acceptance a t a meeting of borough council on Tuesday evening. Braving the sweltering 98 degree temperature inside councilmanic chamber, ten proponents of the plan thrashed out final details which call for the placing of a drinking fountain at or near the spot now occupied by the bubbler and the specification that this be dedicated to the fnemory of Dr. P. J. Roebuck with a suitable plaque. Following the long discussion President of Council Harry R Way opposed a move from some of those present who sought to have the ordinance passed immediately and announced that council will not act until the August meeting, Tuesday, August 30, when anyone opposed to the proposed move will have still another opportunity to be heard. The ordinance introduced and scheduled to be re-considered next month, officially changes the triangle from a Roebuck memorial to a war memorial site but specifically states that the Robuck drinking fountain will remain. Those present, including members of both the Lititz War Memorial Committee and the Legion Memorial Committee, included several members who voices some opposition to mixing up the two memorials at the same site. They finally concurred on ’ the stand that for sentimental reasons the Roebuck phase of the fountain should be preserved for future generations. (Continued on Pas« 7) Garber Family Reunion Here This Saturday The fifth Reunion of the Garber family will be held this Saturday, 12:30 P.M., D.S.T., in the Lititz Springs Park, here. This year’s Reunion will start with a “LUCK LUNCH”. Each family is to bring two things for the lunch. Plates, cups, coffee and ice-cream will be provided by the Reunion Program Committee. Each family are to bring their own spoons, etc. An interesting program has been planned including special entertainment, addresses, and a business meeting. Those invited have been asked to bring along games—croquet, quoits, baseball equipment, etc. All Garbers are invited and if any have not received the regular invitation they are to consider themselves invited and be sure to come. Each year the number attending has been increasing. Mr. Paul Garber, Elizabethtown, is President and Miss Helen Garber, Elizabethtown R.D. 1, is Secretary of the Garber organization. REBEKAH CARD PARTY The local Rebekahs will hold a public card party next Wednesday evening a t the home of Mrs. John Steffy, 240 S. Broad St., a t 8 P.M. Prizes will be awarded at each table and refreshments will be sold. Ban Parking In AHey Here After receiving a complaint from Ted Stauffer, proprietor of Four-Star Bakery, against congestion in the alley south of Main Street between Broad and Cedar, borough council directed police to ban parking alcmg the alley from Broad Street to Doster’s Alley. Trucks and other motor vehicles will be permitted to stop only long enough to load and unload, it was stated. t
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
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Full Text | \ r * «I« *■ \L D'otti Forget Block Party At Ree Center Next Thursday The Utitz Only Two More Days For Red Tag Bargains 73rd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam (Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, July 28, 1949 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No 15 Red Tag Days Will End < Here Saturday Night With $100 Prize Drawing Merchandise Award Winner Will Be Drawn Publicly At Firehouse Red Tag . Days moved into the last two rounds with only Friday and Saturday remaining for Lititz’ consumers to take advantage of this circus of bargains. Many retailers reported heavy volume of sales, particularly during the first two days of the sales, last Friday and Saturday. Much summer stock has already moved out and the rest has been drastically reduced in order to get rid of the goods which will soon be obsolete with the new product soon to be coming in this fall. In line with practically all retailers all over the country, Lititz merchonts are trying to keep their inventories as low as possible and are going all out to put over this eight day sales event. A public drawing will be made Saturday night a t 10:30 at the Fire House to determine the winner of the $100 merchandise prize. Tickets have been handed to each customer mak- WARREN NEWCOMER PAINFULLY INJURED Warren Newcomer, of West End Avenue, sustained the painfu l injury of the thumb and a fimgei1 of his right hand Sunday when his hand became caught in the spring of an automatic garage doorway at his home. At the time of the mishap he was endeavoring to release the spring which had jam-edl. He was treated by Dr. L. H. Koster. FUTURE RED TAG CUSTOMERS A Council Gets All Fouled Up Over The Heat First Tie Vote In Past Ten Years, Is Recorded Blame it on the heat - and it surely was hot - for the fact that borough council recorded its first tie vote in the past de- P.P. & L. Will Spend $35000 Around Lititz SERIOUSLY ILL Work Started Last Week To Increase Rural Facilities Of Co. “2* cade late Tuesday night - and ing a purchase of a dollar or ja il on a matter of providing fore a t any of the Red Tag stores. And the merchants have been requested to turn in their half of the ticket stubs a t the Fire Hall by 10:15, Saturday night. Prices are down V* to % below the regular price in many stores some places have cut them more in an effort to reduce the volume of their inventories. The Frustrated Philosophers Well - come on up on the porch, Mrs. Veiss . It’s chust too hot to do anything today, ain’t not? That’s for sure Mrs. Espen-shate., I yet believe this is the hottest isurrimer we ever had still. And the nights is so hot a body don’t get any rest. Last night Chake got real wild like and went out on the porch to sleep, but the bucks and mosquitoes drove him back in. You should tell him what Chorch does still on hot nights. He learned it when he was down south one summer. You chust get into the bath tub and get all wet and chump into bed without drying yourself off. Then you will go right to sleep. The water dries and cool* you off h® says I must tell Chake, but then he is one that loves to suffer and be such a martyr about it Seems like he would rather fuss about the heat than do something about it. Yes, well. A body has- to have something to complain about. It is chust human nature. In the summer it’s the heat and in winter it’s the cold. By the way, how is your feet? Oh, they is all right again. ] guess it was chust that my new shoes was a little tight. Chake says I remind him of the wo man who was asked what size shoes she wore still, and she says, veil, I take a four, but fives feel so good I always buy sixes. I had to laugh still! What size were they? They was fives. I guess they should ‘a’ been . . sixes, no doubt. No doubt. But you know how you hate’to admit you got big feet, specially when you get dressed up to go someplace. I know. But the young girls nowadays don’t seem to worry. Some of them wear shoes that look like,canal boats—flat heels and all. Loafers, I think they is called. (Continued on Page 12) relief from the heat! And the tie vote still stands due to the fact that Burgess Victor Wagner had suffered so from the intense heat of the councilmanic chamber that he had departed for home a few minutes prior. The whole thing started when Councilman Frank Ford declared council should provide eliectric fans for the council-manic chamber. “Why should we sit here and roast - we surely can spend that much for our own comfort,” he asserted. When President of Council Way did not take the suggestion seriously, Ford made it in' the form of a motion. “We a t least should have an electric outlet here - then if council can’t buy a fan I ’ll bring one from home,” Ford added, not too coolly. “I second it,” Councilman Bomberger declared. Brought to a vote, Ford and Bomberger voted for the fan - only to be stalemated when Councilmen Way and Christ Nissley voted against the pro- Here is another group of children as they posed for photographers of the Record-Express: Top row, left to right: Janice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bricker, Nancy, Lois, James, and Donald, daughters and sons of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Nolt, Ann Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kofroth. Bottom row: Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Smith; Ralph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Bair Jr.; amd Marion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Getz, all of Lititz. School Board Contest Ends As Two Candidates Withdraw; Other Contests Develop Then Nissley spoke up. “I think they turn the street lights off too early in the morning,” he asserted. “Why they’re ofif as early as five o’clock.’ But everybody was too busy mopping their perspiring brows to give Christ’s complaint a second thought. Rev. Dick To Speak Sunday The Rev. Jacob T. Dick, pastor of the Brethren Church will be the speaker this Sunday evening at the fifth vesper program to be held this summer in the park. - - , - - The White Oak Fellowship, a young peoples organization has arranged a musical program to be presented from 2 P.M. until time of th i service, at 7:30 P.M. It will include mixed choruses and quartets from Lititz, East Fairview, Middle Creek, Salunga, Springville, An-nville, West Green Terrace, Mechanic Grove Palmyra, Man-heim, and Chiques. In case of rain, the Moravian Church bells will ring indicating that the program will be held in Fellowship Hall. DESCRIBES TRIP BEFORE ROTARY Charles K. Keath describe«? the recent motor trip he and his wife took to the Pacific Coast in a talk before the local Rotary Club Tuesday evening. The trip included many scenic points of interest in this country and in the Canadian Rockies. Local Travelers Reach Far Ends Of Continent Three young people of Lititz are scattered to the fartherest parts of this continent working and studying or just traveling around the countryside. From th e Emporer Maximilian’s palace in Mexieo City to the Alask a wilderness to the Colorado Rockies for a meeting of some of: the “world’s greatest,” these th ree have been having the time of their lives and have sent home some accounts of th e ir experiences. Elliot Krane, son of Mr. and MIrs. Samuel Krane, 128 S. Broad St., has been spending the whole summer in the South-wiest and Mexico visiting relatives and hitch-hiking across hundreds of miles of arid country to see the excitements in th e cities like New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, Tucson, Arizona, Guadalajara and Mexico City in Mexico. For the most part this is old-shamping grounds for Elliot because he covered much the satme ground last summer al- ' tough not going as far south. As soon as his studies were finished for the year at Penn State he and some of his friends quickly hopped to New Orleans, where he visited a t the University of Louisiana. Then going on alone, he went to Houston arid to Tucson, Arizona, where he visited his sister, Rhoda. Realizing a long wished for ariibition, he went below the Rio Grande to Guadalajara and then on to Mexico City. There he visited friends who were studying at the University and did a lot of sightseeing. One of the most fascinating spots was the palace of the former Emporer of Mexico, Maximilian. At the present time he is in New Orleans and expects to be home in Lititz within a week. He hopes to catch a boat out of New Orleans and sail coastwise, landing at New York. One local political contest was eliminated late yesterday when two candidates for borough school board withdrew, but several more tifts developed in the final batch of petitions filed at the Court House Monday. The two candidates to withdraw their names less than a week after they had filed their papers are Joseph M. Carl, former commander of the Garden Spot Post of the American Legion, and John Badorf, well-known local ex-service man. Both announced that they had reached their decision to withdraw in the interest of harmony, especially at a time when the local school district is in the midst of a school merger project to be voted upon in November. The two incumbents, Frank Longenecker and William Fassnacht, now are unopposed for the Republican nominations for the two positions to be filled. An unexpected contest developed when former Justice of the Peace Andrew Shissler, of Cedar Street, filed his petition as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of Justice of the Peace. He will oppose Justice of the Peace Paul F. Diehm, who is a can didate for re-election. Another unexpected contest developed in councilmanic circles when Walter Grosh, West Main Street, 'filed his petition as a candidate for the Republican nomination for one of the two positions in borough council to be filled this November. He will be opposed by Former Burgess Menno Rohrer and Paul McCloud. The two retiring members of council, President of Council Harry R. Way and Councilman Elmer Bomberger will not seek re-election. Center of interest, however, remained in a three-cornered contest for the office of borough tax collector with Tax Collector Raymond Reedy being opposed by Leo Rossi, ex-service man who is employed as bookkeeper and salesman a t the Lititz Auto Supply; and Martin Garman, who is employed at the Armstrong Cork Company. Another contest to be decided by voters of the First Ward is that in which former Borough Police Officer Lester Haines is opposing Constable Walter Auk-er for the Republican nomination as First Ward Constable. Both are expected to conduct To meet the increased demand for more and more elect- ! ricity to the rural areas surrounding Lititz, the PP&L has ' started a $35,000 program to '* improve the service by in sta ll-; ing heavier lines to the out ly- j ing areas and thus taking the ! load off of the sub station and removing the threat to the townspeople of a possible breakdown. | At present the lines carry a i load of 4800 volte to these out-of- town spots but with the new lines now being put up, they will carry 12,000 volte. This requires bigger poles, stronger lints, new transformers, and better protective devices. The work started last week with the erection of a line of new poles beginning a t the corner of S. Cedar St. and Orange St. and extending west ward along West Orange towards Manheim. The new lines when hooked up, will go as far as Lime Rock and the Sun Hill area. On the other end of the town, the first leg of the eastern section has already been completed. It is attached to the high power line which towers above Front St., coming from the sub-station in back of Eby’s mill. Dr. J. Harold Mumper Rev. Mumper Is Stricken Seriously 111 Reported In Coma For Past Ten Days; Recovery Expectd Dr. Harold J. Mumper, former pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, was stricken ill last week and taken to the Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Va., He has been in a coma for the past ten days and has suf-fered a relapse. But doctors This first leg is expected to have just announced that there be “<:ut over” and energized for ^ js hope for his recovery. He had use, in a matter of days. To do ^ been teaching a t summer school , when he had the attack. hours during which time the main industries of Lititz will have to be cut off. This first Serving the local church from 1931-38, Dr. Mumper was sched- , . uled to speak here on Sunday, leg extends out to the end of August 14. He has been serving lumber yard and out to Binkley and Ober’s stone quarry. (Continued on Page 7) Farm Show Donates $50 To ‘Center’ Informed that the Lititz Community Center was in dire need for funds in order to continue in operation, members of the Lititz Community Show Association Monday as one of the editors of the P arish and Church School Board of the United Lutheran Church. Previous to that appointment he was pastor at one of the largest Lutheran Churches in Washington, D. C. Through his pastorate here and his recurrent visits to Lititz he has many friends both in and out of the congregation. Cut Rag Weeds Burgess Warns Burgess Victor Wagner this evening weei£ warned property owners voted a donation of $50 to the cu^ rag-weeds as well as Center. The plea for funds was voiced before the group by Lloyd Smith, president of the Farm Show group and also president of the Center, who declared that the Center’s need for funds has reached a critical state of affairs. The Center contemplates some relief a t its block party now being planned. The Farm Show group also launched plans for a big Made-in- Lititz display which is expected to prove a • feature of this years show. It is hoped to be able to exhibit several hundred items which are manufactured in and near the borough. Raymond Reedy was named chairman of the committee planning the display. Other members of the committee are Charles Straley, John Boyd and Harry Grubb. The group plans to meet again early next mohth when County Farm Agent Smith will be present and assist in a revision of rules and regulations for farm and home exhibits as well as 4-H features of the show. other sources of hay-fever. Several warnings have been given out and others will be issued by police where property owners are negligent. The matter of ridding the town of ragweed also was taken before council Tuesday evening by Ted Stauffer, local businessman and hay-fever sufferer, who warned that the hay-fever season will reach its heighth in two weeks’ time. Elected by her college to at- j lively campaigns, tend the cultural conference in Colorado, Claire, daughter of Mr. ond Mrs. Willy DePerrot, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, N. Broad St. and son Earl Smith, Church Square, this borough Jr., spent last week-end at the (Continued on page 4) ! Poconos. Ralph Downey Named As Choir Director Ralph Downey has been named as choir director at St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church in Quarryville. He has recently accepted the position of music director of the Southern Lancaster County Joint High School which is th e result of a merger of the schools in and around Quarryville. War Memorial Fountain Project Was Unopposed At Public Council Meeting GOES TO ATLANTIC CITY ON MOTOR BIKE Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wagner, Jr., drove down to Atlantic City on a two-seater motor bike Saturday for a days vacation. The total cost of the transportation by bike both ways, amounted to 62 cents. Wagner returned the ' same evening on th bike while Mrs. Wagner returned by train. Boro Pensions Would Cost $53,722 Yr. First Year Cost Of Retirement Plan Would ‘Bust’ Budget A retirement fund for all borough employees would cost the Borough of Lititz $53,722.65 the first year, members of council were advised' by insurance representatives Tuesday night - and immediately decided to table the proposal indefinitely! The suggestion that council start a retirement fund for borough employees was made several months ago in a resolution adopted by the local American Legion Post. Bujt - members of council later explained - whoever thought up the project failed to take into cognizance the fact that the borough’s street department is made up of anything b u t youngsters. The ages of the five huskies in this department, in fact,, range from a mere sixty-nine to a venerable seventy- five years. To place these employees on a retirement basis would cost the borough approximately $10,- 000 for each employee who then would «utomatically be retired from service at $50 a month - and the borough would have to find five substitute street department workers and then take up the matter of setting up a fund for them. In the ‘ water department, with the exception of Superintendent Walter Miller, $4,138.05 would have to be expended the first year. “Our first opinion that a pension system fo r borough employees a t this time is impossible, is confirmed by these figures,” one member of council announced. Trunks To Leave For Ocean City Miss Betty Jane Howard Was Wed Saturday To Robert Halbleib Miss Betty Jane Howard, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Howard, 35 W. Lincoln Ave., to Robert L. Halb-leib, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Richwine, 218 E. New St., were married at 2:30 P.M. Saturday in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Neffsville. The Rev. Clay E. Rice officiated. The bride was given in marriage by her uncle, Raymond Franck, East Petersburg, and was attended by Miss Barbara Miller, this borough. Eric Buck-ley, Jr., this borough was best man. Ushering were Larry Howard, uncle of the bride, and Clarence Yingst, uncle of the bridegroom, both of Lititz. . . . OILING STREETS The borough’s program for oiling streets will be completed this week, Street Superintendent Addison Harding announced this week. Sunday will be the last time before vacation for the Rev. Charles F. Trunk to preach in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. The Trunk family will go to Ocean City, N.J., for the month of August. The pastors who will supply the pulpit during his absence will be announced next week. More than $150. has been received for the gift to the Rev. Edwin Grafe to aid in taking an automobile to South America next month when he returns to the mission work in Argentina. Rev. Graefe is supported by St. Paul’s. The Sunbeam Class met at the church on Tuesday evening. The Senior Choir, «iirected by Albert S. Ebbert, and the organist, Mrs. E. D. Fulweiler, will return from a month’s vacation for the service. Sunday morning. The Choir held a rehearsal last night (Wednesday). Ordinance To Be Finally Adopted In August If No Opposition Develops The proposed war memorial fountain to replace the former Roebuck fountain in the traffic island on the Square moved one more laborious step closer to final and official acceptance a t a meeting of borough council on Tuesday evening. Braving the sweltering 98 degree temperature inside councilmanic chamber, ten proponents of the plan thrashed out final details which call for the placing of a drinking fountain at or near the spot now occupied by the bubbler and the specification that this be dedicated to the fnemory of Dr. P. J. Roebuck with a suitable plaque. Following the long discussion President of Council Harry R Way opposed a move from some of those present who sought to have the ordinance passed immediately and announced that council will not act until the August meeting, Tuesday, August 30, when anyone opposed to the proposed move will have still another opportunity to be heard. The ordinance introduced and scheduled to be re-considered next month, officially changes the triangle from a Roebuck memorial to a war memorial site but specifically states that the Robuck drinking fountain will remain. Those present, including members of both the Lititz War Memorial Committee and the Legion Memorial Committee, included several members who voices some opposition to mixing up the two memorials at the same site. They finally concurred on ’ the stand that for sentimental reasons the Roebuck phase of the fountain should be preserved for future generations. (Continued on Pas« 7) Garber Family Reunion Here This Saturday The fifth Reunion of the Garber family will be held this Saturday, 12:30 P.M., D.S.T., in the Lititz Springs Park, here. This year’s Reunion will start with a “LUCK LUNCH”. Each family is to bring two things for the lunch. Plates, cups, coffee and ice-cream will be provided by the Reunion Program Committee. Each family are to bring their own spoons, etc. An interesting program has been planned including special entertainment, addresses, and a business meeting. Those invited have been asked to bring along games—croquet, quoits, baseball equipment, etc. All Garbers are invited and if any have not received the regular invitation they are to consider themselves invited and be sure to come. Each year the number attending has been increasing. Mr. Paul Garber, Elizabethtown, is President and Miss Helen Garber, Elizabethtown R.D. 1, is Secretary of the Garber organization. REBEKAH CARD PARTY The local Rebekahs will hold a public card party next Wednesday evening a t the home of Mrs. John Steffy, 240 S. Broad St., a t 8 P.M. Prizes will be awarded at each table and refreshments will be sold. Ban Parking In AHey Here After receiving a complaint from Ted Stauffer, proprietor of Four-Star Bakery, against congestion in the alley south of Main Street between Broad and Cedar, borough council directed police to ban parking alcmg the alley from Broad Street to Doster’s Alley. Trucks and other motor vehicles will be permitted to stop only long enough to load and unload, it was stated. t |
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