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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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