Lititz Record Express

              The Lititz Record-Express
74 th Year
Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, August 10, 1950 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail
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No. 16
Many Here Await Call;
Local Guardsmen Return;
Still Need More Spotters
Captain Fred Gochenauer
Volunteers To Return
To Service
Lititz’ war tempo settled
down somewhat this week as
dozens of young reservists and
former service men anxiously
awaited definite word as to
when they will be called back
into the colors while 23 local
National Guardsmen, who will
go to Indiana next month, re ­tu
rn ed home to spend' the next
th re e weeks getting civilian af­fairs
completed.
In the meantime, news from
the fighting front in Korea was
being carefully scanned for
some indication as to how
general the present mobiliza­tion
will become.
At Penryn, Norman Getz was
completing preparations f o r ;
opening an airplane spotters
station a t the rear of the Gar-man
garage there. This station
will be the successor of th e !
spotters station conducted at
Lexington during the recent i
war and likewise will be op- \
erated on a round-the-clock 24-1
hour schedule. i
Many more volunteers will
be needed if it is not to im - :
pose a hardship upon the small
group presently making the
plans, it was indicated today. |
Failu re to obtain these may
bring about a real demand f o r :
the mobilization of the com­plete
former home defense set­up,
it was stated. 1
Gochenauer Volunteers I
Captain Fred Gochenauer,I
w h o ' saw n e a rly six years of
service in the last war, much 1
of it along the Italian fighting
front, this week volunteered to |
re tu rn to the Army Signal |
Corps and immediately w a s ;
given his physical examination. \
Captain Gochenauer, who lives i
on East Lincoln Avenue, th i s !
borough, expects to be called
within the next two weeks. 1
A local Marine reservist also
awaiting his call is L ieu ten an t;
Charles Bargerstock, 15 East
Main Street, who is associated j
with the Lititz Mutual Insur-1
ance Company. j
The 23 local guardsmen who
were encamped at Indiantown
Gap when they received word
of being placed in active ser­vice,
arrived home Monday
night.
AT THE SHORE
Rotarians
To Entertain
Dist. Governor
Local Club Held Outing
In Springs Park On
Tuesday
District Governor W. E. Shiss-ler,
of Harrisburg, will be en­tertained
as guest of honor by
the local Rotary Club next
Tuesday evening.
Scheduled to reach Lititz
Tuesday afternoon, Governor j
Shissler will be taken on a tour !
of Lititz by Joseph B. Hess, !
president of the Rotary Club.
L a te r he will meet- the various
committee i chairman of the
local club and will assist them
in outlining the activities for
the year.
His address to be delivered
during the regular meeting of
the club in the General S utter
Hotel will be on thè subject of
“Rotary Horizons.” ;
The District Governor is a
prominent Harrisburg attorney
and lives at West Shore.
The local club met last Tues­day
in the p a rk with quoits
proving the feature of the pro­gram.
The evening meal con­sisted
of a Smorgasboard plan ­ned
by Charles Schatzman, chef
a t the General S u tte r Hotel.
ANNOUNCEMENT !
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bear, of
West Lincoln Avenue, are spend­ing
th eir vacation at the cottage
Hershey’s Barber Shop, Front
Street, will be closed from Aug­ust
14 to 17th, inclusive. Open
of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Badorf as usual Friday and Saturday,
at Long Beach, New Jersey. August 18 and 19th.
Well, Mrs. Espenshate! Come
on in. I thought you was stay­ing
in Atlantic City for another
week still.
I was a t first but I had en-oughl
with chust one week. I
don’t know rig h t what it was
bu t I got sick an d tired of it
and decided to come home.
There wasn’t much to do an d I
guess what I really needed was
something exciting like to do
instead of chust setting around
and eating and going someplace
in a rolling chair. So I packed
my things this morning and left.
Well, I am glad you are back,
but I am sorry you didn’t have
a good time.
Oh, I had a good time for
the first couple days, but I
guess I got tired of dressing up
two or three times a day and -
well - maybe I got lonesome
without Chorch around. I felt
toward the end that I was like
a widow already. Sort of lost
lik e - if you know what I
mean.
Yes, I know. A body misses
th em when they are not
around to get under foot and
fuss and argue with.
Well, w h a t’s new in Lititz?
Oh, nothing much. Chust the
same old things. Chake took
me to Philadefiia to see a base­b
a ll game last Saturday and we
h ad supper afterwards and then
came home. Sunday we drove
over to the Gap and saw the
review of th e soldiers and Mon­day
we was over to the Weav­ers
and played canasta and
Tuesday - well I guess we was
home Tuesday evening, - and
then on Wednesday - le t’s see -
My land, you was really busy
with things.
Yes, we was and now th a t
there is such a war going on
Chake is going to volunteer to
be such an airplane spotter on
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Two Serious
Mishaps Here j
During Week ;
Three Youths Hurt When
Car Overturns & Burns;
Albert Zug Fatally Injured
A series of grim automobile
accidents in which one local
man was fatally injured and
th ree others painfully hurt,
both saddened the community
and spurred rep e a ted demands
for more stringent policing of
county highways.
One accident which was at­tributed
largely to speed, oc­curred
just north of the bor­ough
on the Brunnerville Road
early Saturday evening when a
machine driven by Samuel Gor­don,
eighteen, “ of Manheim,
R.D.3, failed to negotiate a
curve and crashed through a
guard fence.
After overturning, the car
pinned two other passengers in
the wreckage and then burst
into flame. Local firemen were
called to extinguish the flame.
Gordon was admitted to the
Lancaster General Hospital
where it was found he had sus­tained
a skull fra c tu re and
other injuries. His condition
was reported as satisfactory to­day.
Fred Gordon, Lititz, RD1, a
cousin of the driver, and Clif­ford
Wise, Manheim, RD3, both
eighteen, passengers in the car,
were pulled from the blazing
machine and found to have sus­tained
only minor injuries.
All th ree victims were given
first-aid treatment by Dr.
Fran k lin K. Cassel, this bor­ough.
Police this week were noti­fied
th a t a number of residents
of the borough and the vicinity
north of the borough had been
attracted by the allegedly ex­cessive
»speed of the machine
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Dr Horne To
Speak Tonight
At Playground
Dedication Will Launch
2-Day Lions Carn­ival
Dr. Byron K. Horne will be
the speaker a t the dedication
o f , the new playground on
Spruce street this evening at
7:30, according to Abe Beck,
who will be in charge of the
program. The high school band
will play and the Boy Scouts
will raise an d lower th e flag.
This will be the official opening
of the new playground which
was sponsored by the Lions
Club.
The Club has worked at the
project for the past two years
the lot which is owned by the
borough, was graded, then
twelve Plane trees planted and
recently the equipment placed.
The Club has spent over one
thousand dollars, the equipment
includes, 'a jungle gym, swings,
baseball diamond, baseball
court, p a rk benches, and a
flag pole. Roy Long donated a
flag. The work was accomplish-
| ed during the terms of Mr.
Beck and Dr. C. L. Wertsch as
presidents. The committee
working with them included,
John Witmyer, chairman, John
Steffy, Roy Schaffstall, Charles
Dussinger and Charles Shank.
A festival and carnival will
follow the dedication to be held
on Thursday and Friday even­ings.
The chairman in charge of
the various committees includes
Mr. Witmyer and Raymond
Pettijohn, food; Robert Aument,
picnic hams; Samuel Nuss,
watermelons; Charles Dussin­ger,
fru it baskets; Bernard
Rider, milk bottles; Edwin
Stroble, penny pitching; light­ing,
Charles Shank and Edward
Pelger; Raymond Reedy, amp­lication;
Mr. Reedy will also
have charge of the cake walks.
REFRESHING PICKUP Pay Boost i Borough Presents Plan
Announced By To Re-locate Section of
A. J. Beford East Main St. Approach
For the nation’s 2,600,000 Boy Scouts, summer is adventure time. On
the trail, in camp or at home they’re always on the go. And they enjoy
ice cream anytime as a refreshing food at mealtime and around the
campfire as a pickup. According to the National Dairy Council, Boy
Scouts help boost America’s ice cream consumption to nearly five and a
quarter billion pints a year.
New High School Cafeteria
Can Serve 375 Meals Daily
Will Temporarily Offset
Raise In Living Costs,
Gould States
A five per-cent pay boost for
several hundred workers here
was announced today by Rich-
I a rd Gould, president of the A.
I J. Beford Shoe Company.
| In announcing the pay boost
which becomes effective im­mediately,
Mr. Gould stated
I th a t this increase is to compen-
| sate for the increased living
costs which have resulted since
I the war effort was revived
more than a month ago.
The five per-cent raise, he
stated, will temporarily adjust
this higher standard of living
costs. F u rth e r adjustments will
be made when and if conditions
merit, he added.
The increased pay will be ac­corded
all employes including
both factory workers and office
and sales personnel.
Lititz High School’s new
cafeteria will be able to pro­vide
meals for 375 students
each noon, it was disclosed this
week as work was being speed­ed
up in order to have the new
service in operation in time
for the opening of the fall
term.
The dining room which is
located in the p a rt of the gym­nasium
formerly occupied by
the bleachers, had been p a r­titioned
off and will be equipp­ed
with a series of tables with
a total seating capacity of 125
students. •
While the cafeteria may at
first have two servings a t noon,
three will be instituted if the
demand for noontime meals
reaches anywhere n ear the 375
capacity.
The new kitchen is located
in what formerly was the girls’
locker room. While equipment
has not as yet been installed,
painting and other work will
be completed this week. In
what was formerly the shower
room will be located the dish
washer and storage space.
A counter in fro n t of the
kitchen will enable the students
to file past and to reach the
dining room without walking
too great a distance. After com­pleting
th e meal, the student
then will be expected to carry
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Will Take Midgets
To See Athletics;
Need More Automobiles
All boys who took p a rt in
the Midget and Midget-Midget
baseball here this summer will
be taken on a trip to Philadel­phia
to see the Athletics and
Cleveland play on Saturday,
August 26.
Dr. Charles A. Landis who
is making arrangements fo r th e
trip, announced th a t th e re is
need for more cars and drivers
to take th e boys to th e ball
park. Anyone interested in of­fering
his car an d services
should contact Dr. Landis im­mediately.
Mrs. John H. Brenner
Dr. Sammel
Will Preach
Here Sunday
Dr. W. Raymond Sammel, of
Gettysburg, former pastor of St.
P a u l’s Lutheran Church, will be
the guest preacher this Sunday,
filling the pulpit during the vac­ation
of the Rev. Francis R. Bell,
pastor.
Dr. Sammel left Lititz in 1931
to become a pastor in York and
recently retired from th a t posi­tion
to make his home in Gettys­burg
Supper Meeting
A family supper meeting was
held on Tuesday night in the
Lititz Springs P a rk by the J.
■ Harold Mumper Missionary
! Society. A box was packed for
I the migrant work of the society,
j Attending Nawakwa
I Debra Diehm, Audrey Risser
and Lee Ann Schaffstall are a t­tending
the two-week Senior
Girls Camp at Camp Nawakwa.
The missionary societies of St.
P au l’s have announced two
courses in Mission Study to be
given at Camp Nawakwa from
August 28 to Sept. 3 The cost
is $16 fo r the week and anyone
interested should contact Mrs.
Cullen Carpenter or Mrs. Clay­ton
George.
Ted Stauffer Launches *
Drive On Ragweed
Ted Stauffer, one of Lititz’
numerous hay-fever sufferers,
today launched his annual cam­paign
to bring about the cutting
I of all weeds inside the borough
| limits.
j “This year the situation Is
1 not quite as bad as in former
j years as quite a number of lot
owners already have cut the
j weeds,” he reported. “But there
! a re still plenty of ragweed
around and this is enough to
cause a lot of suffering.”
In behalf of local suffers, Mr.
Stauffer urged all landowners
to make certain th a t a ll weeds
were cut and not permitted to
blossom. Borough police also
indicated this week th a t they
will begin notifying negligent
owners to obey a borough or­dinance
by cutting weeds im-ediately.
'Penryn Sunday School
Will Hold Picnic
] The annual picnic of the St.
! P au l Lutheran Sunday School
j of Penryn will be held on Sat-
| urday August 19, in th e church
| grove.
Music will be furnished by
the Lititz High School Band.
Chicken Corn Soup, sand­wiches,
ice cream and home­made
cakes and pies will be
'o n sale.
A Baseball game will be held
in the afternoon.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Moravian S.S.
Picnic Here
Next Thurs.
, The annual Lititz Moravian
Sunday School Picnic will be
j held in the Lititz Springs P a rk
! on Thursday, August 17, be­ginning
a t 3:15 in the after­noon
with peanut and candy
I scrambles for the. children of
I the nursery, beginner, primary
and junior departments.
I Games thoughout th e after-
1 noon include those fo r the
Juniors at 3:30 to 4:00, Prim-
1 ary from 4:00 to 4:30, Begin-
1 ners from 4:30 to 5:00, and
Intermediates from 5:00 to 5:30.
At 6:00 the supper hour is
scheduled - with free coffee
being served from 6:00 to 7:00.
Free ice cream from 6:15 to
7:00.
The devotional period with
the Rev. Carl J. Helmich in
1 charge will be conducted from
th e bandshell from 7:00 to
7:30. Games for adults from
7:30 to 8:30 will be followed
by a band concert by the Lititz
High School Band, and the ev­ening
will be concluded with
a number of cake walks.
The cakes for the . cake
walks will be presented for
the occasion by Mr. Schotz-
| man of the General Sutter
! Hotel, who will bake an d de­corate
these cakes.
| The general committee in
j charge of the picnic consists
! of H. Richard Bomberger and
I George Sipe, co-chairman, Mr. j and Mrs. Willis Bucher, Wil­liam
Fasnacht, * Harvey Artz,
A rth u r Myers, Harry Adams,
I Mrs. John N. Garber, Jr., Mrs.
' J. B. Losensky, J. Roy Yerger.
The tables during the sup­p
er hour will be arranged in
such a fashion as to give the
idea of a family gathering.
Many new and different
features have been devised by
the committee to make this
picnic a bigger and better one
fo r everyone to share and
enjoy.
ON YELLOWSTONE TRIP
Miss Comogg
Is Bride Of
John Brenner
Wedding Takes Place In
Westminster Presbyterian
Church, West Chester
A wedding of considerable
local interest took place Satur-day
in West Chester when Miss!
Jean Scattergood Comogg,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walt­er
Pyle Cornogg, of Wymmoor
Farm, near West Chester, be­came
the bride of John Harvey
Brenner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
! Domer Brenner, of the Lititz
Pike.
The setting for the wedding
was the Westminister Presby­terian
Church in West Chester.
Rev. Robert B. Boell, pastor,
performed the double ring cere­mony
a t seven o’clock in the
evening.
The bride was given in mar­riage
by her father. Mrs. Ulys­ses
G. Cornogg, 3rd, sister-in-law
of the bride, was matron of
honor, and Sarah Deborah
Cornogg, cousin of the bride,
junior bridesmaid.
Bridesmaids were Miss Joan
Doremus, Reading; Miss Nancy
Kreyer, New York; Mrs. James
R. Neely, Jersey City; and Miss
Anita Know, West Chester.
Bruce Keith, of this borough,
served as best man. Ushers were
Ulysses G. Cornogg, 3rd., West
Chester; Eugene Ludwig,
Robert Hess and Stanley Die­trich,
all of this borough.
Miss Lavinia G. King, h ar­pist,
played selections includ­ing
“I Love You T ruly” and
“O Promise Me.” Miss M. Ruth
Thomas, church organist, played
the wedding march.
The bride is a graduate of
Linden Hall. The bridegroom
is a graduate of Lititz High
School, attended Fran k lin and
Marshall College and served
with the Army Air Corps for
three years. He is associated
with the Simplex Paper Box
Company.
REBEKAHS WILL HOLD
OUTDOOR CARD PARTY
The Lady Su tter Lodge of Re-bekahs
will hold an outdoor card
party on the lawn of the home
of Mr. and Mrs. David Wright,
Broad Street, early in Sept­ember,
according to plans now
; being completed.
The Rebekahs held a covered
! dish supper in th e p a rk Tuesday j of last week. Approximately 75
members and families attended.
Mr. and Mrs. David Buck-waiter,
Sr., Lititz R.D.3, and
| Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baker, of
, Elizabeth, N. J., le ft last week
! on a th re e weeks motor trip to
¡the Yellowstone National P a rk
I and other points of interest in
1 the west.
DROVE WITHOUT STICKER
Vera Martin, of Lititz, RD3,
was stopped by Lancaster City
Police this week for operating
an automobile without an in­spection
sticker. She was or­dered
to appear before Aider-man
J . Edward Wetzel, Lan­caster.
Local Boy Scouts
Return From Chicquitan
Eleven Boy Scouts from the
two local troops spent a week
j a t Camp Chicquetan where they
took p a rt in swimming, pio-
| neering, boating, b ird study
l and many other activities of-jfered
by the camp.
The group included James
! Witmyer, Ja ck Hackman, Ja ck
j Losensky, Ted Haller, John
j Amidon, Ronald Good, Dennis
J Hacker, James Swarr and John
1 Nuss, all of Troop 42 and Dale
Diehm, of Troop 43.
1 Ted Haller advanced to sec-
; ond class; James Witmer passed
the swimming merit badge te st
'a n d Donald Garber was induc­ted
into the camp honor society.
Ask State To Move Stretck
Of Highway 10 Feet
Northward
In an effort to materially re ­duce
property damage, the bor­ough
has recommended re ­locating
the section of East
Main Street near the borough­line
which it hopes to have
widened and re-paved by the
state.
This was disclosed this week
when borough council recom­mended
to the State Highway
Department engineers th a t a
section of East Main Street be
moved northward approximate­ly
10 feet.
This section includes the bad
curve which it originally was
hoped state officials would be
able to improve. While this
move will not reduce the angle
of this curve it will permit the
leveling off of two rough bumps
which make trav el th ere p re ­carious.
By re-locating the highway
the borough hopes the state
will continue its plan to in­crease
the width of th e East
Main Street approach to 36
feet. At the same time, it will
materially reduce damage which
two homes would have suffered
otherwise.
According to the original
plan, the wider highway would
have gone straight through die
front porches of the homes of
John Furlow and Ralph David­sons.
Davidson’s home, it was
believed, would have had to be
moved fu rth e r back on the lot.
The burden of this property
damage would rest upon the
borough inasmuch as the state
does not pay any propery dam­age
inside boroughs. In re ­locating
the highway, more
land is taken from th e proper­ties
on the north side of the
highway but these do not in­clude
damage to any of the
buddings there.
Borough councilmen express­ed
confidence this week th a t all
of the property owners invol­ved
will approve the plan and
will sign releases. The borough
hopes to be able to give th e
state the go-ahead signal on
the project, p a rt of the re-build
ing of the highway from Roths-ville
to a point inside the bor­ough
lim its' in fro n t of the
Revolutionary burial plot, n ex t
week.
Local Girls
Attend Baton
Twirling Camp
The fascinating hobby of
baton-twirling reached a new
high this week when three local
high school girls le ft for Somer­set,
Pa., to attend a baton-twirl­ing
camp a t Laurel Hill State
Park.
They a re Joyce Pettijohn,
Swea Eckert and Patsy Pfautz,
all leading baton fwirlers with
the local high school band. They
will be instructed by Roger Lee,
St. Louis; and Bob Dawson, Day-ton,
Ohio, famous baton-twirlers.
The camp is being operated on
a state basis and includes stu­dents
from all p arts of Pennsyl­vania.
The local girls were
taken to Somerset Sunday by
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steiner.
They will re tu rn F rid ay after
competing fo r the title of state
baton-twirling champion.
ENROLLED IN COURSE
Harry B. Gorton, 19 S. Cedar
St., is among 25 teachers en­rolled
in the Pennsylvania Con­servation
Laboratory which
closes a t Pennsylvania State
College Saturday, August 12.
Thirty-six were enrolled in the
first three-week session which
closed Ju ly 22.
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