Lititz Record Express

              CURTESY The Lititz Record-Express
74th Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, February 22, 1951 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 44
Move Started To Have Boro
Include Flood Control Funds
In Budget Being Prepared
Animal Trap Co. Officials
Urge Construction Of
New Bridge
MIDNIGHT SUPPER
OF FRIED EGGS
A move to have the borough
include funds for local flood
control in the budget to be ap­proved
next Tuesday evening,
was placed before thee Borough
Manager and members of Bor­ough
Council during the past
week.
The plan, which was suggest­ed
by officials of the Animal
Trap Company of America, calls
for the construction of a larger
bridge and culvert which would
take the place of the present
bridges a t Water Street and a t
New Street, both of which have
proved inadequate in carrying
away storm waters in the past.
Those • contacting Borough
Manager Orville Over included
Chester M. Woolworth, presi­dent
of th e Animal Trap Com­pany,
and his assistant, Charles
Straley. Both reported th a t in
the flood here last week, waters
came within a few inches of
flooding the huge Animal Trap
warehouse.
The tentative budget to be
considered by council on Tues­day
evening carries an item of
only $4,000 fo r bridges. This
would permit only repairs to
local bridges and obviously is
not intended for any new con­structions.
Should council decide to con­stru
c t any new bridges this
amount would scarcely more
than cover the engineering
costs. A new structure would
mean th a t the present borough
tax ra te of ten mills in all
probability would have to be
revised.
Agitation for the borough to
take steps to rid the- north­eastern
end of town of the
danger of floods from flash-storms,
such as occur here a t
least once every several years,
is by no means new. In 1946
following two floods in quick
succession, a large group of
residents of the section of New
and Noble Streets were instru­mental
in having a preliminary
survey made by Fred S. Dech­ant,
of Reading, water engin­eers
engaged by th e borough.
At th a t time it was estimated
th a t it would cost from $15,000
to $20,000 to increase the size
of the two bridges. The engin-e
e r’s_ rep o rt was tabled for
fu rth e r study a t th a t time.
A midnight supper of fried
eggs promises to become the
latest fad in this section, ac­cording
to a group which
gathered a few nights ago a t
the home of Roy Gingrich,
Lititz, R.D.3. Guests included
William Zell, Edward Bender,
Martin Bucher, P au l Minnich,
Daniel Coldsmith and David
Miller.
H.S. Cafeteria
Serving 300
Lunches Daily
The High School Cafeteria
has served on a daily average
of more than 300 lunches since
it was started here and has
proved even more successful
than had been predicted, mem­bers
of th e school board were
informed at th eir meeting last
evening.
This number of lunches is al­most
three times th e dumber of
meals previously contemplated
and make it necessary to con­tinue
selling only weekly tick­ets,
it was explained. There has
been considerable demand fo r
the right to obtain meals on a
daily basis.
It Was decided to accept bids
for the painting of six rooms on
the second floor of the school
building. I t also was announ­ced
th a t th e reimbursement
faction which determines the
amount of state support will be
.556 as compared with .5541
last year, a slight increase in­stead
of a reduction as had
been expected.
Abe Hershey
Is Appointed
Chief Warden
Local Defense Set-up Be­ing
Completed by Mr.
Rohrer
OUR FUTURE CITIZENS OF LITITZ
Junior Play
Cast Named
A three act comedy, “Our
Miss Brooks” by P e rry Clark,
will be presented by the Ju n io r
Class of the Lititz High school
on Thursday and Friday even­ings,
March 15 and 16 a t 8:00
P.M. in the high school audi­torium.
The cast includes five boys
and twelve girls portraying
high school teachers and stud­ents.
Patsy Pfautz will take the
leading role by impersonating
Miss Brooks, an English teacher;
Elaine Hackman will take the
p a rt of Miss Finch, the lib ra r­ian;
Robert Hess will take the
leading male role by portraying
Mr. Wadsworth, the high school
principal; Paula Good will take
the p a rt of Miss AUduban, the
music teacher; others in the
cast are, Nancy Stroble, Joane
Kemper, Anna Stoner, Myrna
Bachman, Frances Kipp, Nancy
Reist, Ruth Ford, Shirley Neff,
Lloyd Peiffer, Ronald Hartman,
Tim White, and Anna Miller.
The play will be directed by
Harold Swisher.
SHIRLEY STONER HONORED
Miss Shirley Stoner, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Stoner,
Lititz R.D.3, a senior at Kutz-town
State Teachers College
was on the Dean’s list, accord­ing
to the announcement made
by Dr. Clyde Lytle, dean of
Instruction at the College. Miss
Stoner has accepted the position
as teacher qf fifth grade in the
Quakertown schools for the
1950-51 term.
Abe Hershey local merchant,
has been appointed Chief War­den
of the Lititz Civil Defense
set-up, according to an an­nouncement
made today by the
local chairman, Acting Burgess
Menno Rohrer.
Hershey was active in the
local a ir raid warden organi­zation
here during the last war.
The appointment of a chief
warden here was made at the
request of W. W. Heidelbaugh,
county head of the group.
No immediate steps will be
taken here until county defense
plans are completed. During
the last war, the borough was
divided into approximately 18
districts with several wardens
responsible for each district. It
Was expected th a t a similar plan
Will be followed this time.
Mr. Rohrer and Roy Long,
members of th e local unit of
Auxiliary Police, Monday
evening attended a meeting of
county defense groups a t Lan­caster.
At th a t time plans were
made to have auxiliary police
attend sessions each Monday
night when they will be in­structed
regarding th e ir duties
by Kenelm L. Shirk,, county
head of the auxiliary police.
Steps also were taken this
week to insure Lititz of having
at least one local factory
whistle in readiness in case of
any fu tu re a ir raid alarms. In
the past none of th e local fac­tories
have maintained steam
over the week-ends b u t this
now has been changed, ft was
declared.
NO RESPONSE FROM R.R.
ON BLINKER PROTEST
A le tte r of protest sent Read­ing
Railroad officials regarding
the careless use of blinkers at
local crossings for hours a t a
time, has gone unacknowledged
to-date, it was reported a t a
meeting of Chamber of Com­merce
directors last evening.
The blinkers have still been
blinking away for long periods
of time although tra in crews
at times have placed a man at
the crossing to assist motorists.
! Lions Will : Actual Sewer Construction
Mark 10th Will Be Started Next Thurs.
[Anniversary To Begin At West End of Park
Big Program To Be Pres­ented
Here Next
Thursday
TO in d u c t f iv e T u e s d a y I Contractors Seek Living
Quarters For Crews
of Workmen
At lease five local men will !
be inducted into the armed i
service next Tuesday, Draft j
! The tenth anniversary of the jBoard 83 announced this week, j The actual construction of
founding of the Lititz Lions i These include Lester M. S h u ltz ,, Lititz’ $1,800,000 sewerage fac-j
Club will be marked at a sp e c -' Donald C. Coble, Stanley C. ilities will begin next Thurs- j ial charter night program to be i Shoenberger, Robert M. Leek- day morning, contractors an-
1 presented in the General Sut- in® and Cleon J. Weidman. nounced here this week.
i The first shovelful of d irt for
| the first length of sewer main
¡will be overturned a t the head
lend of the Lititz Springs P a rk
| grounds with the section which
extends through the p a rk being
te r Hotel next Thursday.
Big Fox-hunt
Planned Here
Here is another fine group of o u r local kiddies as they were
photographed fo r the Lititz Record-Express. They a re left to right,
Top Row: Jeffrey and James, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Walt­er,
Elaine, daughter of Mr. Ford Gorton, and Mary Ann daughter
of Mrs. Fred Gorton. Bottom Row, Rebecca, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry L. Kline, James and Mary, children of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Siebert and Michael, son of Mrs. Arlene Frymyer, all of
Lititz.
designated as the opening for
A six-month plan to rid this | work.
Contractors asserted th a t the
section through the p a rk will
be completed without delay in
order th a t the grounds can be
Ministerium Announces Plans
For Good Friday Service
Lions from all p a rts of East- |
ern Pennsylvania are ex p e c ted !
- here to join the local members
j in marking the anniversary.
¡Former District Governor Mon-i
roe Knute, of Kennett Square.
who is being proposed as Third ~ B1* '1“ T pial\ ro ™ mls
Vice President of Lions I n te r - 1 ^ Ctl° ? °f COUnty °f foxes’
national, will be the speaker o f jweasel® and f craws- w“ an‘
the evening. Inounced as a feature of the an-ini
program is be- Sportsmen«s Association at the;retumed to present shape
h 8 , , 8 d a committeej fjrehouse last evening. lon8 before the picnic seaeson
headed by Frank Longenecker.! 'arrives.
This will include honoring a 1 The contest will be conducted j Engineering crews which a r-list
of local members who have j throughout Warwick and E liz a -' rived in Lititz a week ago were
maintained a 100 per-cent a t - ! beth Townships. Prizes already already busily engaged com-tendance
record since th e local j totaling $65 in merchandise will pieting the preliminary steps in
club was organized. | be awarded winners in the con-1 the project. Tony Galosso, rep-
Past Presidents of the local test, John Helter, president of resenting the John B. Shultz
club ranging from Raymond the association, who presided, Contracting Company of Buf-
Reedy, the first president, and announced. jfal0i N. Y„ one of the three
TO HOLD BAKE SALE
The Ju n io r Department of
the ‘Lititz Evangelical United
Brethren Church a re having a
Bake Sale on Saturday a t Lutz’s
Meat Market.
Come in, Mrs. Veiss. I was
chust standing here on the
porch listening to a red -b irt
and thinking maybe Spring is
coming a t last.
You mean you h e a rd a cardi­nal
already?
Yes, I believe they are called
cardinals. But I chust call them
red-birts. There - didn’t you
h ear it whistle like?
Yes, th a t was a cardinal for
sure.
Some people know the rig h t
names for all the birts, b u t I
was never able to remember
them. Sparrows, I know -
I Yes, b u t th e re a re dozens of
■ different kinds of sparrows -
j song sparrows and Inklish spar­rows
and maybe chunkoes - and
II don’t know w hat all. Chake
bought such a b ir t book once
but I never could do anything
with it. By the time I had found
the book to see what for a b irt
was outside the window, the
b irt was gone still. But I do
remember there was a lot of
sparrows in it.
My land, I thought sparrows
was chust sparrows.
No, bu t don’t ask me th e ir
names. Chake was re a l clever
at it onGe when we was first
married. He would look out th e
| window and say, quick Lizzie,
look th e re ’s such a downy
'chested woodpecker or a tufted
fly snatcher or a titra t or
something or other. But he got
over it like everything else. He
said he was giving it up be­cause
th e dumb b irts would not
stand still fo r him. He did not
have enough patience to watch
birts.
No - Chorch wouldn’t have
either. He hates to w ait around
io r anything - even fo r his
meals. He would never watch
birts. That I know. Well, what’s
new around town?
Oh nothing rhuch except the
usual things. They certainly
had an awful time over in Col­umpia
without any water, didn’t
they?
That they did. I guess a body
never realizes how much they
need w a te r until they tu rn a
spigot and nothing comes out.
I read someplace th a t th e re
wasn't enough for the men to
shave themselves in th e morn­in
g.Y
es, it must have been p re tty
bad. I t is kind of funny though,
with all th a t good water in the
Susquehanna River and nothing
in the water pipes. I thought of
that old pome we used to read
in high school, where it said
“water, water, everywhere, b u t
not a drop to d rin k .”
Where was that? In Colum­bia?
(Continued on page 2)
All local churches will join
in a Good Friday Service to b e
held in St. P au l’s Lutheran
Church Friday, March 23, ac­cording
to plans made a t a
meeting of the Ministerial As­sociation
of Lititz held Monday
morning a t the Church of the
Brethren.
Rev. P au l Miller and Rev.
Francis R. Bell were named a
planning committee for th e ser­vice.
The Holy Week services
held during the noon hour each
day in the Trinity Evangelical
Congregational Church again
will be held this year. Plans
for these meetings will be in
charge of Rev. Carl Helmich
and Rev. George B. Carvell.
The meeting of the minister­ial
association was presided
over by the new president,
Rev. Jacob Dick. An important
item of business was the dis­cussion
of the dates for the
Daily Vacation Bible Schools of
th e local churches. For the last
two years, the schools have
met after the Girl Scout Day
camp.
Some of the churches have
fe lt th a t the Bible Schools
should meet the week following
the close of school. Mrs. Willy
DePerrot and Mrs. Clyde Ben­n
er were present, a t the meet­ing
to discuss this matter.
I t was decided to try holding
the Bible Schools the first two
weeks a fte r the close of school'
and the Day Camp th e 'fo llow ­ing
week on an experimental
basis.
The Pastors discussed also the
National Christian Teaching
Mission. This is an interdenom­inational
effort in evangelism.
The National Christian Teach­ing
Mission will be held here
in Lititz on October 25 to
November 1, with most of the
churches participating.
Women T» Conduct
Lenten Quiet Hour Service
The Women’s Guild of St.
Luke’s Evangelical and Re­formed
church will conduct a
Lenten Quiet Hour service on
Thursday, March 22nd a t 7:30
P.M. Mrs. Isaac Stoner, chair­man
of th e Spiritual Life com­mittee,
will be in charge.
Plans were made recently at
the home of Mrs. P au l Bushong.
Clothing was packed and sent
to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sipple,
missionaries in Japan. The
group is also making crib
blankets fo r relief, th ey also
sent 150 pounds of clothing to
Windsor, Maryland, recently
for relief.
RUMMAGE SALE
The Ladies Aid Society of the
T rinity E. C. Church will hold
a Rummage Sale a t the F ire ­house
this Friday and Saturday,
February 23 and 24.
LOCAL STUDENTS COMPETE
FOR TELEVISION PROGRAM
Seven local high school girls
attended tryouts in Lancaster
this week aiming for the goal
of appearing upon Ted Mack’s
amateur program on radio and
television. They are the Girl’s
Sophomore Sextette including
Roberta Lutz, Patsy Lutz, Deb­orah
Diehm, Nancy Frey, Aud­rey
Risser and Wilma Seaber.
In addition, Joyce Pettyjohn
presented a demonstration of
baton twirling.
Judge Bard
Speaks Before
Woman’s Club
Stresses True Justice As
Basis For Lasting
Peace
The reg u lar meeting of the
Lititz Woman’s Club was an
open meeting held in th e Gen­eral
S utter Hotel Monday even­ing
February 19 when Judge
Guy K. Bard, United States
District Court, Philadelphia,
Pa.', spoke on “Women In The
Courts With Sidelights On The
Men.” Judge* Bard explained
the duties of th e various Courts
and the duties and requirements
of the Jurors. He impressed
upon his audience the import­ance
of serving as a J u ro r
stating th a t Ju ry duty is one
of the highest services a citizen
can perform—ranking n ex t to
service in the Armed Forces.
In discharging his d uty as a
Ju ro r the citizen is helping to
administer justice, and tru e
justice is the foundation for
lasting peace in th e world to­day.
M
rs. Warren Diehm in tro ­duced
the Speaker. The Club
Chorus sang • two ( selections
“Wooden Shoes” from Sweet­hearts
by Victor Herbert and
“In The Luxembourg Gardens”
Jay Kathleen Lockhart Maiming.
I Mrs. J . B. H e ss,. President,
presided a t th e business meet­ing.
Twenty-fi\fe dollars was
■donated to the March of Dimes
¡and $60 was given to the Girl
Scout Troops of Lititz to be
‘ used as contributions to the
■ troops respective , meeting
' places. .
i The Club voted to establish a
Scout Award to be presented
in the Spring of 1952 to the
outstanding Girl Scout who
meets with th e requirements set
up by the Club. These require­ments
will be announced with­in
the n ex t two months.
The W elf a re Committee asked
for yarn and playing Cards to
' be given to Rossmere Sanitor-j
(Continued on Page 12)
one of the organizers, also will
be introduced and honored. Re­ports
also will be submitted
showing the progress of the
club during its first decade.
St. Paul’s
Church News
Several hundred sportsmen principal contractors, announ-and
th e ir guests attended th e ced he has enf a8ed office sPace
ox-roast and enjoyed a program ^ formerly occupied by Justice of
of addresses and moving pic- I Peace Joseph B. Herr,
tures afterwards. Talks were I Squire H e rr this week re ­presented
by Games Protectors moved ^ iudiciary of-
John Haverstick, Woodring and bce *° dle re a r Broad
Shenk. Orville Over, the new Street property where he will
borough manager, also was pre-1officiate until a fte r the sewer
sented to the group. project has been completed.
Those already on the scene
H a rry Stark, eighty-eight, I also were busy this week at-was
honored as the oldest mem- j tmpting to find living quarters
b er of the association present I for the various groups of work-
At the morning service a t St.
P au l’s Lutheran Church, Rev. i— — — --------------- .... ui »ui&-
Francis Bell will continue w ith 1 and was presented with a box ! ers who will a rriv e here early
the studies of the Ten Com­___.
___, . . . .
mandments.
The subject of the sermon
of cigars. j next week. Various tracts of
During the meeting it was iland b«th north and east of the
•n U announced that 38,000 large i —b° r °, UTgh ^IT wZ ere■ reTnt ed .^ will be ‘Honesty in Our Act- : and small mouth bass ha“ e 'we<* for„ stormg of équip­ions,
on the commandment been Dlaced in the Susmie ment and the first of
“TTAhotUuf hSShhaalltt NNOott SStteeaall .”” Ijhhaannn al £Riv err ™n ear Columbia in . ' a* e ad y have arrived
At the evenrng service there ^ i ^ n to several thousand i .
wiH be an i lustrated ta lk o n lperch and catflsh
the Painting “The Last Supper” _______— ^ ______
by Leonardo DaVinci.
The mid-week service, Wed- I f Q 1
nesday, February 28, a t 7:30 J T l f i l l * © ü O C S l K S
P.M., will continue the theme
Personalities of Passion Week.”
The subject of the sermon will
be “Anus and Caiaphas, Re­ligion
Without God.”
The Father-Son Banquet was
Before Rotary
Officials of the A. Shuttle &
j Company, of Jenkintown, an­o
th e r major contractor, reveal-j
ed th a t they will have their
i work well started by March
10. All indications a re th a t
within the next two weeks, a
total of six crews of workmen
will be engaged a t tearing up
The most serious “th re a t-1 streets in various parts of the
. . l u a - o u n D a n q u « was fr° i™ t h m ’’ is the American j borough,
held last Thursday ev en in g .: w“ ° s*ai)s sorts of labels
m, . . .. i linnn ffmrammAnfol 4i<w nli 4m
aactxu. ictbb x iiu is u a y e v e n in g . — <----------1 — — —
The Banquet was well a tte n d e d 1 upon governmental functions in m w j
and an interesting and h um -! his effort to criticize. Edgar £ I* TO U l H e r e 4n1L ...am ____ . . j ; Hare. J r., of this borouirh. in - 1 _ _ End Training
At Ft. Meade
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orous ta lk was presented by | " a re> ^ r *> this borough, in-
Rev. Bare of Lancaster on t h e ! ^orme<^ members of the Lititz
subject of Whittling. ¡Rotary Club at th e ir meeting
Classes fo r Adult instruction be*d Tuesday evening,
in Luth er s Cathecism are be- j Mr. Hare emphasized what
ing held each Monday evening he described as a tren d to glib-a
t 8:45 P.M. a t the Parsonage.
G-BURG COLLEGE CHOIR
TO PRESENT CONCERT
The Lancaster Womens Lea­gue
of Gettysburg College will
present th e College Choir in
Concert this Sunday, February
25, a t 3 P.M., in St. Jo h n ’s
Lutheran Church in Lancaster.
The Choir is directed by P ro ­fessor
P a rk e r B. Wagnild.
ly apply th e word “commu
nism” to practises with which
one does not agree. He also
emphasized the danger of losing
benefits of the “welfare state”
in making the transition from
a peaceful to a “warfare state.”
Mr. Hare was introduced by
James Cleland, program chair­man
fo r th e evening. The meet­ing
also included the annual
nomination of directors who
will be elected Tuesday, March
6.
Delaware Colony Honors
Richard Landes, Lititz Native
Richard R. Landes, a native
of Lititz, who has fo r the past
seventeen years been serving as
Psychologist and School Direc­to
r in Deleware for the State
Training School, familiarly
known as Delaware Colony a t
Stockley, was the recipient last
evening of an award and citat­ion
by the Georgetown-Mills-boro
Rotary Club.
The award was made by Mr.
Irwin Murray, President, and
a committee of the Club in the
presence of Elbert N. Carvel,
th e Governor of Delaware,
Colonel Ralph Baker, Mayor of
Georgetown, Mrs. Nan Fooks
Campbell, Chairman of the
Commission, Howard T. Ennis,
Superintendent of the Insti­tution,
and many other promi­nent
citizens of the State.
The citation reads as follows:
“The Georgetown - Millsboro
Rotary Club Presents this
Award of Merit to Mr. Richard
R. Landes fo r his many years of
faithful service a t Delaware
Colony, State Training School.
His loyalty, his industry and
his ability in his chosen field
a re deserving of the highest
Commendation.” i
In addition Mr. Landes re­ceived
from the Rotary Club an
inscribed wallet containing a
sum of money.
Mr. Landes is a brother of
Charles Landes, and is a neph­ew
of Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Yoder
of this borough.
Pvt. Lamar Furlow and Pvt.
John R. Marks, both of this
borough, have been assigned to
the 45th Infantry Division at
Camp Polk, La., a fte r com­pleting
processing a t the 2053rd
Reception Center, it was an­nounced
a t F o rt Meade, Md.,
this week.
A th ird local youth who left
a t th e same time, Pvt. William
B. Ringer, has been assigned to
the 8th Infantry Division a t
Fo rt Jackson, S. C. P rio r to his
induction, Pvt. Ringer was em­ployed
as a sales trainee a t the
A. J. Bedford Shoe Company
here. He is a graduate of
Moravian College and is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
E. Ringer, 33 W. Lincoln Ave.
Pvt. Furlow was a book­keeper
for th e Pittsburgh P late
Glass Company, Lancaster, and
is a graudate of Franklin and
Marshall College. He is the
son of5 Mr. and Mrs. Elwood K.
Furlow, 221 Spruce Street.
Pvt. Marks was an account­ant
for the Simplex P ap er Box
Corporation and is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Marks,
14 West Lincoln Avenue.
NOTICE
The office of Dr. I. Siegel will
be closed Friday and Saturday,
February 23 and 24 while Dr.
Siegel is attending the Penn­sylvania
Osteopathic Associ­ation
Convention a t Harrisburg
which is a two day Program on
Atomic Defense.