Lititz Record Express

              Hie Lrtitz Record-Express
75th Year
Established April, 1877, as The Su ab earn
(Consolidated with The Lltitz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, May 3, 1951 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 3
To Mark 90th Anniversary of Pretzel
Will Unveil
Plaque At
Sturgis Plant
Livengood To Speak; H.S.
Band To Lead
Parade
Next Wednesday will truly
be Pretzel Day in Lititz.
Plans completed here this
week by the National Pretzel
Bakers Institute will commem­orate
the humble beginning of
the multi-million-dollar pretzel
industry in an all-day cele­bration.
The high-spot of the cele­bration
will be the placing of
th e bronze plaque on the stone
wall of th e N. D. Sturgis plant
on East Main Street, birthplace
of the first commercial pretzel
in America. State Secretary of
In tern al Affairs William S.
Livengood, J r., will deliver the
principal address.
U.S. Senator James Duff and
Governor John S. Fine also
have been invited bu t both have
expressed doubt th a t they will
be able to come here, due to
the pressure of official business.
And in observance of the
Ninetieth Anniversary of the
pretzel, classes a t th e borough
school will be dismissed a t <J
P.M. Immediately following, the
Lititz High School Band will
lead a parade of school children
from the school building to the
Square and east on Main Stre e t i
to the Sturgis plant. j
Borough and county officials |
also will be present during th e
unveiling of the plaque a t the
'b ak e ry . Thè actual unveiling !
will be done by Tiny Linda
Herr, six-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Herr, a
great grandchild of Julius
Sturgis, pretzel pioneer; and
h er cousin, Robert Spickler,
eight, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H a rry Spickler, a great-great
grandchild.
The National Pretzel Bakers
Institute, which is sponsoring
the affair, will begin the day’s
activities with a meeting in the
morning at the General Sutter
Hotel, followed by a luncheon.
A dinner meeting in the evening
will conclude the program.
Wednesday’s
Program
11:00 A.M.
Meeting of the National P re t­zel
Bakers Institute, General
Sutter Hotel. Speaker will be
from the Office of Price Stab­ilization.
There will also be re ­ports
from the institu te’s Com­mittees
and Officers. ,
1:00 P.M.
Luncheon for the members
of th e National Pretzel Bakers
Institute.
3:30 P.M.
Unveiling of Plaque on the
N. D. Sturgis Pretzel Bakery,
marking the first pretzel bakery
in America. Speaker • will be
Hon. Wm. S. Livengood, Jr.,
6:00 P.M.
Dinner fo r th e members of
the National Pretzel Bakers
Institute.
AN ART HANDED-DOWN
TO SPEAK HERE
State Secretary of Internal
Affairs William S. Livengood,
Jr., who will be th e principal
speaker a t the unveiling of a
memorial plaque a t the Sturgis
Pretzel Bakery next Wednes­day.
Two Arrested .
After Auto !
Goes Berserk j
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Car Crashes Into Two!
Buildings At Main |
And Cedar !
OUR FINAL CHAPTER—OF FUTURE CITIZENS
Charges were preferred i
against a high school student :
and a local car owner here this
week as result of an accident
in which an automobile struck
Complete Laying Sewer Mains
Through The Springs Park;
As Work Is Speeded Up
GRANTED DIVORCE
The Adams county court
granted a divorce on Saturday,
April 28th to Mildred E. Dear-dorff
Sesseman, Cashtown,
from Lester A. Sesseman, Up­per
Darby.
Contractor Offers Soil For
Fill-In To Improve
Park
Mrs. N. D. Sturgis
Hand Twisting
Still Way To
Make Pretzels
Tennis Team
Pulls Upset
On Hershey
Dave McNicol’s fighting Lititz
High School tennis team pulled
a startling upset in the Inter-
County League last Monday,
pulling through a 4-3 win over
highly-touted Hershey High
School.
Hershey, which vanquished
the local squad 7-0 in an e a rlie r
meeting, apparently was on its
way to another sweep when
Eli Mastromatteo and Joe
Grosh dropped th eir first two
matches of singles competition.
Stanley Stout appeared head­ed
for defeat also as he dropped
his first set 4-6, bu t then staged
an inspiring rally to tak e the
final two sets from Marcocci,
7-6, 6-3, giving the Lititz squad
th eir first match point
Gary MacFerran then dupli­cated
Stout’s fine performance,
taking the last two sets of his
match with ease, 6-0 and 6-1,
a fte r losing the opener, 3-6.
The match was evened a t this
point and then J e rry McCreary
pulled another surprise, when
he outplayed Bucher, in straight
set victories, 6-1, 6-4.
Hershey evened the match at
3-all in the first doubles event,
their men taking Mastromatteo
and Grosh, 6-4, 6-4.
In the final doubles match
Macferran and Stout displayed
th e ir best brand of tennis of
the year to come from the brin k
of defeat and tak e the final two
sets, 6-0, 6-3. They had been
working under the handicap of
dropping the first, 3-6.
Twisting pretzels by hand,
as illu strated h ere by Mrs.
Nathaniel Sturgis, is one of
several reasons why th e re is
no substitute for Lititz p re t­zels,
according to local old-timers.
Mrs. Sturgis is the daughter-in-
law of the man who founded
the pretzel industry in America,
Julius Sturgis, and still owns
the building housing th e S tu r­gis
Pretzel Company, being
operated by Ex-G.I. John A.
Hubley, J r.
Hubley credits th e success of
the Lititz pretzel both to the
hand-twisting as well as to th e
original formula for making
pretzels. This formula fo r
keeping pretzels fresh was
brought to Lititz b y an itin er­ant
baker who was befriended
by William H. Rauch, baker,
and his a le rt apprentice, Ju liu s
Sturgis, way back in 1861.
Rauch, not realizing the im­port
of the formula, passed it
on to young Sturgis, who then
established the first pretzel
factory in the world.
About the only thing modern­ized
about th e pretzel bakery
is the manner of kneading
dough. While this is done elec­trically
today, it formerly was
done by means of a “jumping
log.” This was a q u a rte r oak
strip and log so built th a t p er­sons
sat on it, jumped up and
down and caused the plank to
“spank” the dough.
Several old-timers here also
recall th e days when a horse
on a treadmill provided th e
power fy r kneading the dough
for pretzels.
Will Observe
Loyalty Day
This Sunday
Sunday, will be Family Loy-i
alty Day at St. P au l’s Lutheran
| Church; Since it is the sixth
| Loyalty Sim day and also
| Christian Family Day. Members
are urged to attend worship as
families. The sermon for the
day wil be: “What is a Christ­ian
Family.”
In the Sunday School it will
be Camper’s Day. A Worship
program will be presented by
the young people who have a t­tended
the Church Camp,
Nawakwa, a t Bigerville^ -
At 2:30 Sunday afternoon
members of the Luth er League
and th e ir friends will meet a t
the church preparatory to going
on a hike. Transportation will
be provided to Witmyer’s
cottage, where the hike, to the
Fire Tower, will begin. Those
! wishing to go are urged to
j bring th e ir lunch along. It is
planned to have a picnic supper
i followed by a worship program.
| May 8th the Usher’s Assoc­ia
tio n will meet a t Keath’s
Shuffle Board Court a t 7:30 for
an evening of recreation.
Overflow Audience Jams
Church At Close of Conf.
Elected Head
Of Library
Yes, we are sorry to say, this is the final installment of photos
of local boys and girls, snapped some weeks back especially for I
buildings on opposite corners the Record-Express. They are, left to right, Mary, daughter of ¥ 1 W J 1
of the intersection of Main and fMr- and Mrs- Walter White; Gloria and Sheila, daughters of Mr. « J O I 1 H l " l 0 F S H 0 y
Cedar Streets early Saturday i and Mrs- Jacob Brubaker; and Judy, daughter of Mr. an d 'M rs.
morning. David Buckwalter.
Those being prosecuted are
Garry Sipe, 26 S. Willow St.,
high school student, charged
with operating an automobile
alone on a le a rn e r’s permit;
and Wayne Elliott, 224 E. New
Street, charged with permitting
an unlicensed person to oper­ate
his automobile.
Chief of Police Clarence
Kreider, who pre fe rred the
charges before Justice of th e
Peace Paul F. Diehm, declared
An outpouring of nearly 1,200 Conservation Club
persons to hear an inspirational On Fishing Trip
address by Rev. Lloyd F.
Brownbeck, Royersford, marked
th e close of the East Pennsyl­vania
Conference of the Evan-an
effort was made to p re v e n t! gelical Congregational Church
police from learning details o f ! at the Trinity Church here Mon-the
accident. Eleven hours after
the accident occurred and after
he had completed his investi­gation,
principals appeared a t
his home to make a report of it,
he asserted.
day night.
Every seat in the large
church auditorium was occupi­ed,
with several hundred chairs
placed in every available space.
. At th a t some of the overflow
According to Chief Kreider, | audience h e a rd the addresses
Sipe, driving Elliott’s car, at- through amplification from
| tempted to tu rn from Main St.
: north on Cedar as he was driv-
1 ing west on Main. He was
traveling at such a high rate
of speed th a t he failed to ne­gotiate
th e tu rn and crashed
into the comer of th e Mentzer
property on the northwest
corner tearing down a rain-spout.
other p a rts of the church build­ing.
T
he five-day conference was
described by many of the dele­gates
as one of th e most suc­cessful
in the history of th e
congregation.
Roy M. Neidigh, this borough,
son of Mr. and Mrs Ross Neid­igh,
W. Marion Street, was one
The automobile then c a r e e n e d t h e eight jjieq granted license
across m e stre e t and «raSKfed in - jtb preach by the East Pennsyl-to
the home owned by Miss vania Conference of the Evan-
Mary Reidenbach, Chief Krei­der
reported. Had anyone been
standing on o r near the street
comer they would have been
' killed, Chief Kreider said.
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Homb0rg©r
Heads Bowling Barbara Getz
gelical Church at its meeting
here, Saturday.
Stanley F. Imboden, Reading,
grandson of the Rev. G. W.
Imboden, a former pastor of
Trinity E. C. Church, also re ­ceived
license.
Hazel Greiner
Presents Solo
Miss Hazel Greiner, daughter
of Mrs. Amos Shreiner, Lititz
R2, a student nurse a t the
Osteopathic Hospital in Phila­delphia,
was one of the soloists
at the annual spring concert
presented by the combined
Glee Clubs of the Philadelphia
College of Osteopathy an d th e
school of Nursing of the Osteo­pathic
Hospital last Friday
evening.
Mrs. Amos Shreiner, Nancy,
Ronald, Gayle, Kay and Tim­othy
Shreiner attended.
Leagu© H©r©
William Hornberger was in­stalled
as president of the Lititz
Community Bowling League at
the sixth annual banquet held
last Thursday evening at the
Warwick House. Approximately
40 bowlers attended.
Other officers who will serve
next year are: A rth u r Myers,
vice president; Herbert Kauff­man,
secretary, and John Shen-enberger,
treasurer.
James Sensenig was present­ed
with the trophy for having
had the highest average for the
past season.
Final league standings and
the last week’s scores are as
follows:
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Work of laying mains in the
Springs P a rk has been com­pleted
and the task of leveling
off and filling in ground was
in full progress today.
And despite th a t the park 's
appearance is one of rolling,
miniature hills, sewer contract­ors
were confident th a t the p a rk
can be brought back to its
former state in very quick or­der.
Sewer contractors this week
John G. Hershey was elected offered to provide a consider-
...................... ~ ” able amount of soil to fill-in
and improve the p a rk if the
park committee would have it
spread about areas where it
might be desired.
The laying of sewer mains
through borough streets a ls o '
went into high gear this week
with considerable progress be-
[ ing made in both the central
president of the Lititz Public
Library Association a t the an ­nual
meeting held Tuesday
i evening.
| Other officers elected are:
The Conservation Club of Mrs. John Badorf, vice presi-the
High School spent from dent; Mrs. Florence B. Gibbel,
Friday to Sunday a t the cabin secretary; and Mrs. Alfred L.
of Melvin Brubaker, Sullivan Douple, treasurer. M. C. Demmy
County. The group spent th e ir was re-elected to the board and
time fishing and hiking. The Miss Mary Sturgis was named p a rt of the borough and in th e
following boys, accompanied b y a new member, both to serve
Melvin Brubaker and Russel five-year terms.
Longenecker, made th e trip: Miss Bessie Searle submitted
Elmer Greiner, Tony Longen- h e r annual report showing
ecker, Glenn Pfautz, Donny 10,539 volumes in the library.
Ruhl, David Schnee, J e rry New books last y ear cost a total
Savoca, F ran k Fry, , F red of $117.59. Miss Searle was as-
Hoover, J e rry Moore, Jimmy sisted during the year by 32
Witmyer, Marcus Becker. Tony high school girls. Miss Paula
Longenecker is president of the Good was named to assist dur-
Club. ing the summer months.
Installa- -ti on i - - Observe Anniversaries
Marks V.F.WJmi#cal
Aux. Dinner
northeast end.
On Cedar Stre e t the laying
of mains has passed the inter­section
of Marion while on
Cedar it has passed Main Street.
On Locust Street mains have
been laid to Noble Street.
Nine Jaycees To
Attend Conventions
Nine Members of the Ju n io r
Chamber of Commerce will a t­tend
the State convention to be
held Friday and Saturday a t
Williamsport. The local Jaycees
are presenting Ray Oatman as
candidate for Executive Vice
President in the election of state
Women Attend
State Convention
Mrs. Lloyd Sheaffer, newly
elected president of the Lititz \
Woman’s Club and Mrs. Cul-1
len Carpenter attended the
State Convention of th e Fed­eration
of Women’s Clubs held
at the Yorktowne Hotel, Y o rk ,!
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-'
day of this week. |
Mrs. J. B. Hess, retirin g p r e s i ­dent
and Mrs. Hiram Eberly
also attended.
Well, hello, Mrs. Veiss. Come
on in - or would you ra th e r set
on the porch for a while? I t’s
right warm today fo r a chainch.
No, I would ra th e r set inside.
A body can catch a headcold
setting outside these days. I set
out a while yesterday and I got
to sneezing wonderful.
Well, come on in then and
set down. Is this window open
too much?
No, chust le t it open and I
will set over here so it don’t
blow rig h t on me. I hate it so
to get one of these spring or
summer headcolds. They hang
on all summer sometimes.
Yes, th a t they do. I had one
last summer and it didn’t really
go away u n til it got cold in the
fall. It was chust like such a
hay fever. Chorch says I got it
because I let the cellar fire go
out so many warm days in th e
spring. But I hate to b um coal
when it’s warmer outside than
in.
Yes, that does spite a person,
with coal so high anyway. And
besites on a warm day you can
easy forget about a cellar fire.
Well, what’s new?
Is Improved
Barbara Getz, sixteen, of
East Main Street, this borough,
who was in ju red Sunday in an
auto crash, n e a r Newark, Del.
and has since been in th e Dela­ware
Hospital is off th e critical
list and may re tu rn to h e r
home the la tte r p a rt of this
week.
Mrs. A rth h r Getz, Barbara’s
Mother, is in th e Memorial
Hospital, Delaware, suffering
from an in ju ry to the pelvis an d
other complications.
A rth u r Getz, fa th e r and hus­band,
was released from the
hospital, Monday, a fte r tre a t­ment.
Other occupants of th e c a r
in which the Getzes were d riv ­ing
were: Miss Mary V. H a rt­man,
Oregon, Mrs. Ethel Au-ment,
Jay e Aument, of Lan-;
caster. All a re in th e Wilming­ton
General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Elser Gerhart
1 entertained on Sunday for two
______ couples who were observing
— — , th e ir wedding anniversaries. I officers.
Mrs. Isabel Repony was i n - ; Mr. and Mrs. David Hamish, j Oatman, who is very active
stalled as president of the Lititz i parent s Qf Mrs. Gerhart were ¡in all Jaycees affairs, has thi
Springs .F.W. Auxiliary a t t h e , married 50 years ago on May support of the following nine
annual dinner meeting last \ i st and the Rev. and Mrs. Ar- county chapters: Lancaster, Col
week. Other officers installed | lington G e rh a rt of Shillington
are Mrs. Grace Sipe, Sr. ^ V ic e , who were *married th irty one
President; Mrs. Reba Kissinger, years ago on Sunday. The Rev.
J r. Vice President; Mrs. Clara Mr. Gerhart is a twin brother
,Zug, Treasurer; Mrs. Emmy (to Mr. Elser Gerhart.
I Hartenstine, Chaplain; Mrs. j The guests included, Mr. and i -------
Grace Hackman, Conductress; Mrs. Henry Brubaker of Lan-1 Miss A. Virginia Grosh, i
disville who were attendants a t I resident of the Moravian TTnm«
the Hamish wedding; Mr. and | is resting comfortably a t St
umbia, Ephrata, Elizabethtown,
Terre Hill, Denver, Manheim,
Mt. Joy, and Lititz.
IN THE HOSPITAL
Mrs. Anna Haddad, Guard; Mrs.
eronica Walsh, Trustee; Mrs.
Dorothy Shuemakpr, Secretary;
Mrs. Reba Sipe, Mrs. Haddad,
Mrs. Betty Miller and Mrs. Ruth
eagley, Color Bearers; Mrs.
Mary Todd, Historian; Mrs.
iola Reichstein, Patriotic In­structor.
The afgan raffled off by the
auxiliary was won by Mrs.
Betty Miller.
Grade Musical
A Big Success
Display Paintings
By Charlotte Mathers
Eleven paintings by a thirteen
year old Lititz girl a re on dis­play
a t Weaver’s Restaurant,
North Broad Street, under the
sponsorship of th e Village A rt
Association. The young a rtist is
Charlotte Mathers, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. Ermine Math­ers
of 65 Fro n t Street, and
great niece of the la te J ohn
Mathers, well-known local a rt­ist.
Miss Mathers, who is in th e
eighth grade, had had no formal
Approximately 500 grade
pupils participated in “Music’s
Magic Carpet,” a musical page­ant
presented in th e high school
auditorium last evening before
an enthusiastic audience and to
be repeated this evening a t
7:30. Music Director Harry
Forbes was assisted by grade
teachers.
Scenery and backgrounds
were painted by the a rt pupils
while home economic students
made the costumes. Miss Ruth
Frantz was the accompanist. .
Mrs. Elam Stoner, East Peters­Joseph’s
Hospital.
burg; Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Hoover, Lampeter; Mr. an d FELLOWSHIP CHORUS
Mrs. Harold Benedict and son, I WILL SING
Jimmy, Mountville; Mr. a n d ! 1-----------
Mrs. Robert Turner and son, The N o n
Jimmy, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Moyer and children Richard
and Alta Jean, all of Mount-ville
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Erb,
Mrs. Henry Shenk and Mrs.
Alta Frankford of Lititz.
BIRTHDAY DINNER
AT LINDEN HALL
Northern Fellowship
Male Chorus will hold a Bene­fit
Concert on Sunday, May 6tb
a t 7:30 P.M., at the Brunner-ville
E.U.B. Church.
The sixteen members of the
chorus a re under the director­ship
of Eugene Buchter.
A formal Birthday Dinner
was held Tuesday evening at
Linden Hall for those students
having birthdays in March,
April, May and Ju n e A play
was presenteed la te r in th e
evening By the Dramatics Club.
On Friday the girls will leave
for a long weekend, to be gone
until Monday
On May 12th the Junior-Sen­ior
Prom will be held at the
school.
LOCAL SCOUT LEADERS
ATTEND MEETINGS
Streamlined Sports Club
Opens With Mountville Sat.
Oh, nothing much except this j a rt training except what she re ­great
debate as it is called, and'! ceived in the local school until
th ere ain’t much sense for us to May, 1949 when she became a
-talk about it if the big shots i n ; charter member of the Village
Washington don’t seem to know
what it’s all about. I and Chorch
forgot to tu rn o u r clocks and
watches ahead last Saturday
night - as usual - and we didn’t
get to go to church Sunday
Art Association and began to
paint in oils w ith th e group.
Later she also painted in water
colors and pastels.
The group of paintings, which
will be on display fo r two
Chake didn’t forget to chainch j weeks, covers a v ariety of sub-
(Continued on page 10) jects.
A streamlined edition of the
Lititz Sports Club baseball
team, packing potential power
and strong pitching, makes its
debut on the Athletic Field
against Mountville this Satu r­day.
The team will practically be
devoid of old faces, although
it was reported a familiar old
face, Elly Kreider, now a mem­b
er of Uncle Sam’s Army, will
be on hand fo r the first few
games.
With Elly around fo r the
first few games, the only other
familiar faces will be lefty Don
Good, who will divide time be- j
Charles Regennas and Bot
Buch, local scout leaders, a t
tended the training course foi
Explorer Scout leaders, held ai
Colonel Haines’ ranch, Yorl
County, Saturday 3:00 P.M. tc
Sunday 3:00 P.M., as guests d
York and Adams Counties Boj
Scout Council.
Informal courses of out-dooi
activities such as archery, In­dian
lore, aviation and marks­manship
w e re ' conducted
DR. BYRON HORNE
TO ADDRESS BANQUET
Dr. Byron K. Horne, presi­dent
of Linden Ju n io r College
and Academy, will be the
tween first base and the mound, speaker a t th e 191st annual
Bobby Cochran, th e infield pep- banquet of Lancaster’s old Un-per-
pot, Chuck Bargerstock, ion Fire Company No. 1, F r
veteran second-baseman,. Bay
Kreider, who is working like
a demon a t short-stop, and Marv
Miller, who won four and lost
nine last year. •
The new faces entered on
the roster, and issued uniforms
a re quite imposing. They in­clude
Merle Brooks, hefty
right-hander, who was the bell­wether
of th e East Lampeter
mound staff last year. Fred
Quigley, veteran receiver, who
played here th ree years ago,
and who is acting in a manager-
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day evening,
Brunswick.
at the Hote
TOUR CANADA
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin E. Krel
d er and Mr. and Mrs. Johi
Pekar, of this borough, hav<
returned fro ma motor trip tt
Hastings, Michigan, where thej
visited a t th e home of Mr
Kreider’s sisters. The groiq
then entered Canada a t Pori
Huron, crossed Canada, reum
in g to th e United States ai
Niagara Falls.