Lititz Record Express

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The Record-Express
75th Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record. 19371 Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 7, 1951 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 8
Complaints Satisfied As
Workmen Cover Trenches;
Hit Rock Near Gas, Oil Lines
Contractors Claim Excess
Rock Delays Work
Of Filling-in 1
Workmen were completing
the job of covering over sewer
trenches along the first block
of Spruce Street this week,
eliminating the source of com­plaints
voiced by residents last
week. i
Contractors also reported
considerable progress in taking
the mains fu rth e r so u th ' on
Spruce Street. One reason fo r
delays in filling-in the trenches
is th a t such quantities of rock
have been unearthed th a t the
workmen find it difficult to lo­cate
sufficient ground to place ;
next to the mains, in sp e c to rs,
explained. I
Solid rock also was located \
at 2nd and Cedar Streets, a
spot in close proximity to th ree
gas mains and one oil line, mak­ing
it necessary to remove this
q uantity of rock without blast­ing.
It also was announced this
week th a t plans to take the
main along the re a r of the Gen­e
ra l Sutter hotel has been aban­doned.
Trinity E. C.
Enrolls 103
Here Monday
The Trinity Evangelical Con­gregational
Vacation Bible
school opened on Monday morn­ing
with an enrollment of 103
pupils. The Rev. George B.
Carvell is the General Superin­tendent
with the following
teachers in charge of the v a r­ious
departments, Mrs. Ray­mond
Groff, nursery, assisted
by Marilyn Landis.
Lois Reedy, Bernice Getz and
Dawn Klopp, kindergarten 1
and Betsy Haines and Patsey
Pfautz, Kindergarten, 2. Paula
Good and Carol Ann Barber,
Grade 1; Mrs. George B. Car­vell
and Vivian Landis, Grade
2; Mrs. Earl Hollingsworth,
Grade 3; Mrs. George Gardner,
grade 4; Mrs. Carl Brubaker,
Grade 5; and Mrs. Warren New­comer,
Grade 6.
Rev. Heffner Spoke
The Rev. H. S. Heffner of
Reading, was the speaker a t the
Quarterly Conference held at
the Evangelical Congregational
church on Tuesday evening.
The Ladies Missionary Society
held a covered dish supper pro­ceeding
the.meeting. Mrs. Dan­iel
Heilman was in charge.
• Children’s Day
A Children’s Day program
will be presented in the Evan­gelical
Congregational church
on Sunday a t 7:00 P.M., Mrs.
William Homberger is chair­man
of the program committee.
DONALD MOHLER
STARS AS SOLOIST
HERE’S A VIEW OF LAKE LITITZ
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Donald Mohler, of this bor­ough,
member of the U.S. Mar­ine
Corp. Band, was the soloist
with the band program “The
Dream Hour” on WNBC Satu r­day,
May 26. Henry Steiner,
local musical director, made a
tape recording of the program.
Firemen Make
38 Wash Tubs
For Festival j
Expecting cool weather to in- I
crease local appetites, firemen I
today announced they will m a k e ;
a total of 38 wash-tubs full of
chicken-corn soup as a feature
of th eir annual festival to be
held in the firehouse this Satu r­day.
During the past week, fire­men
received a total of 268
chickens, donated by farmers
and others living in the districts
surrounding tiie borough. In ad­dition
they have purchased sev­e
ra l thousand clams ,and quan­tities
of ice cream and straw­berries
for the occasion.
When the chicken com soup
is ready at 11 A.M., persons [
with cars will be able to p a rk |
in front of the firehouse without
fearing a parking fine as meters,
in the half block will be cover­ed
up for the time being. I
The Lititz High School Bandj
will present a concert as a feat-j
ure of the evening program be-|
ginning a t 6 P.M.
GRADUATES AT
LEBANON VALLEY
A veritable lake of crystal-clear w a te r covers the site where
the pump building will stand some day at the borough’s sewer­age
treatment plant east of the borough. The lake formed when
workmen h it an underground stream.
Crystal-Clear Lake Forms
Over Site of Treatment Plant
Fishermen Bring Home
Limit From Canada
Alvin Fry, local electrician,
William A. Miller, and son,
William A. Miller, Jr., owners
and operators of the local alum­inum
foundry were on a fishing
trip a t Dorval Lodge, a reser­vation
in Quebec, Canada, from
Tuesday to Sunday.
They report th a t the number
of fish they caught were past
counting. Since there are tight
restrictions on the number
brought out, the local fishermen
came home with the limit - 30
fish, weighing 12 pounds apiece.
The men went 25 miles by
boat to the place where they
fished a t a large power dam.
They found the country to be
quite desolate and report seeing
a moose, fox an d other wild
life.
RETURNS TO BLOOMSBURG
Herm Reedy Wins
Trip To Bermuda
A week’s vacation in B e r-'
muda - this was the award be-;
ing enjoyed this week by Her­mann
Reedy, local electrical
store proprietor. Reedy s a iled 1
from New York last Saturday j
and will remain in Bermuda un- j
till this week-end’ as the guest
of the Philco Corporation. |
He is one of 400 dealers from
all parts of the country who
were signaled out because of
th e ir unusual sales records in
the handling of Philco radios,
and television sets.
Village Art Group
Photed To Illustrate
Magazine Article
Eighteen members of the
Village A rt Association and
th e ir families, were photo­graphed,
as they painted, a t the
Martin Hess Mill, east of Lititz,
on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Heilman,
free-lance w riters and photo­graphers,
whose picture of a
Vermont village appears on the
cover of the cu rren t issue of
the magazine, Woman’s Day,
were the photographers. They
expect to use th e picture to il­lustrate
an article on small a rt
groups.
Lititz became the sight of a
lovely lake of crystal-clear
water when workmen digging
a 24-foot excavation a t the site
of the borough’s proposed sew­erage
treatment plan t ju st east
of the borough, struck a strong
spring.
And Lake Lititz, as the mass
of water has been dubbed by
the workmen, if not eliminated
by winter will surely make an
ideal place for ice skating.
Seriously, however, Lake
Lititz presents a real problem
to the engineers of Rice & Weid-man,
Lancaster contractors who
are constructing the treatment
plant.
The lake at present covers
the entire site of what will
some day be the pump building.
And while this building will be
only one story above the sur­face,
its pumps and s e ttlin g '
tanks extend for a distance of
24 feet beneath the e a rth ’s sur- j
face. |
This p a rt of the work h a d 1
been dug to a depth of aro u n d '
12 feet when the spring w a s'
h it and with the water tem- j
porarily a t least halting the j
work. At the same time, a
strong spring on an adjoining
property quiekly dried up
The water is so clear th a t the
bottom of the lake can be
viewed easily, giving the lake
a false impression of shallow­ness
despite its actual depth.
And while work on this sec­tion
has been halted, work on
the remainder of the treatment*
plant was going along steadily
despite th a t the contractors
have not been able to obtain
the number of workmen de­sired.
It is hoped th a t the pay­ro
ll can be greatly increased
and the pace of progress greatly
accelerated during the next
few months, engineers at the
plant stated.
BUSINESS LEAGUE
TO HOLD OUTING
CONFINED TO HOME
Miss Rufina Balmer, daughter
of Mr and Mrs Lester Balmer,
South Broad Street, who re ­ceived
the degree of bachelor
Judge Bard
To Speak At
Linden Hall
Commencement Week Ac­tivities
Will Start This
Saturday
The Linden Hall Commence­ment
activities will sta rt on
Saturday with the Alumni
Luncheon in the school dining
room at 1:15 P.M. when the
graduating class an d the tru s­tees
and th e ir wives will be
guests.
The business meeting will
follow with Miss Dorothy Mas­sey
of Philadelphia, in charge, j Gf science in music education at
Reports will be given of th e | commencement exercises h e ld 1
Philadelphia, New York and j j une 4. Miss Balmer took p a rt |
Lancaster-Lititz Branches, also J in many scholastic activities
of the Alumni House fund by i and served as vice president of
Mrs. Dorothy Honeycutt and the
Charles D. Kreider lib ra ry ex­tension
fund.
The school musical will be
held in Fellowship Hall S a tu r­day
a t 7:30 P.M. The Glee
Club will sing and there will
be piano and vocal numbers un­der
the supervision of the music
department in charge of Miss
Virginia Hunter and Miss Myrt­le
Eckert.
The sermon to the graduates
will be preached by the Rev.
John R. Weinlich, of Moravian
Theological Seminary, and the
church choir, directed by Mrs.
George Keehn, will sing “Sanc-tus”
by Grounod.
Expect To Reach Decision
This Evening Regarding
Status of Repairs In Park
Garbage Collection
Tuesdays and Fridays
Garbarge collection goes on
the summer schedule this week,
Borough Manager Orville Over
announced today. During J u n e ,!
July, August and September j
garbage will be collected
throughout the borough on
Tuesdays and Fridays. |
Receptacles should be placed
at the curb early and should
contain only garbage and not
cans, etc. he pointed out. j
the Delphian Society.
WiU Install
Rev. Harwick
Here Sunday
Assumes Pastorates of St.
Luke’s Here And Jer­usalem
At Penryn
Newton Buch, head of the
Borough Authority, who was
reported still quite ill a t his
home on Broad Stree. Mr. Buch
who has been under the doctor’s
care for the past three weeks
is suffering from overwork due
to the pressure of his borough
authority duties, friends said.
The Rev. Ray Linford H a r - ,
wick will be installed as pastor
of the Warwick charge of the
Class day for the Ju n io r Col-1 Evangelical an d Reformed
lege will be held on the Cam- Church, which consists of St.
pus in the afternoon at 2:30¡Luke’s here, and Je ru sa lem '
with Adair Shepler, the c la ss' Church, Penryn, at a service to
president, in charge of the pro- be held in St. Luke’s on Sun-
Robt. Keath Accepts
Position At Lehigh
Robert M. Keath, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Keath, Front St.,
and James A. Ryan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James F. Ryan, South
Spruce Street, received bachelor
of science degrees at F and M
Monday morning.
Keath has accepted an assis-tantship
a t Leigh University
where he will teach undergrad­uates
and work for his Masters
degree.
Ryan will accept a position
in the field of industrial chem­istry.
BROWNIIES VISIT
PHILADELPHIA ZOO
Members of the Young Men’s
Business League will hold th eir
first summer outing this a fte r­noon
and evening at the home
of Tal Brubaker, North Broad
Street. Dinner will be served
on the lawn at 6 P.M.
Miss Lorraine Wagaman
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Wagaman, re tu rn ed this week
to Bloomsburg State Teachers
College where she is enrolled
in a 3-week summer course.
16 Brownies, of Troop No. 91,
with th e ir leaders and chaper­ones,
spent Monday ,in Phila­delphia,
a t the zoo.
Brownies going on the excur­sion
were: Jo an Kautz, Kath­leen
Longenecker, Sandra Cor­bitt,
Loretta Keller, Orpha Her-shey,
Bonnie Kauffman, Roch­elle
Schlutker, Beth Todd, Bebe
Kreider, Dawn Davidson, Carol
Davidson, Nina Stroble, Debra
Lebo, Mary Carol Seaber, Phy­llis
Kling and Margaret Coul-son.
The girls were accompanied
by the following: Chaperones,
Mrs. Howard Redcay, Mrs. Ric­hard
Zartman and Mrs. Robert
Kreider; leaders, Mrs. John
Todd and Mrs. Bruce Corbitt.
BIKE LICENSES DUE
gram. This will be followed by
the Academy Class day at 3:15
day at 7:30 P.M<
Five ministers will tak e p a rt
with Rita Timmons in charge. jn the service, Dr. Allen S.
Lions Club
Will Install
New Officers
Arth u r Eshelman, Paradise, j
P a st District Governor, Lion’s
International, will induct the I
newly elected officers of t h e !
local Lion’s Club, at their meet- 1
ing, this evening. |
Those being inducted are:
John S. Witmyer, president;
Charles W. Dussinger, 1st vice
president; Charles Reidenbach,
2nd vice president; Clarence K.
Herr, 3rd vice president; Will­iam
E. Ringer secretary; Harry
F. Ruley, treasurer; Tail Twis­ter,
John Ludwig; Lion Tamer,
Edw. S. Stroble; directors, El-vin
Good and Raymond Petti-john.
Plans are being made for the
Carnival to be held, June 21-22
on the Lion’s sponsored play­ground,
Second. Ave and Spruce.
A garden p a rty will follow for
the classes and th e ir parents
and friends.
Dr. Byron K. Home will be
Meek, president of the Theo­logical
Seminary, Lancaster,
will preach the sermon and the
Rev. Truman A. Crist, pastor of
VACATIONING STUDENT
HAS WORK ON EXHIBIT
in charge of the closing Vesper ! st. Jo h n ’s E. and R. church, 1
to be held a t 6:00 P.M. in Mary j Harrisburg, and president of the
Dixon Chapel. j Lancaster Synod, will conduct
Judge Guy K. Bard, of th e ;th e installation service.
Federal Court, Philadelphia will The Rev. Francis E. Ringer,
be the guest speaker at the
Commencement exercises to be
held on Monday at 10:00 A.M.
pastor of Zion E. and R. church,
New Providence, will be the
liturgist and the Rev. W. Miller
in the Moravian Church. Miss; p r ice, pastor of Christ E. and R.
Virginia Hunter will sing “Hal-j ch u rch , AnnviUe, and secretary
leluiah” by Hummel.
Thirty two girls will be grad- so participate.
¡of the Lancaster Synod will al-
Well - come on in, Mrs.
Espenshate. I was hoping you
would come over because I
hadn’t anything to do and I am
expecting a phone call and I
didn’t want to leave th e house.
Expecting a phone call? How
is that?
Why, my niece in New York
wrote to me and said she and
her husband and th e ir two
children were taking an auto
trip and th a t she would call
me this a fte r and tell me when
they expected to get to Lititz.
So, I am waiting for th e call.
I see. How long will they
stay here with you?
That I wouldn’t know. May­be
chust over night because I
know h e r husband is one of
them restless New York men
and no doubt will want to be
on the road again. They a re go­ing
all the way to California.
My land. With two children.
Now th a t I wouldn’t care for
much.
No, nor I, b u t then young
people don’t seem to mind such
things. And then besites, they
have plenty of time and money
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Chief of Police Clarence Krei­der
announced th a t bike lic­enses
for 1951 are now due. All
bike owners a re asked to re ­port
to the borough manager's
office on the second floor of the
firehouse and obtain tags upon
payment of the 25 cent bor­ough
fee.
NOTICE „
The office of M. H. Yoder,
M.D., will be closed Ju n e 10 to
17 inclusive while he is attend­ing
the American Medical As­sociation
Convention.
uated from tjie Ju n io r College,
they a re as follows, Academic
Nancy Anne Raab, Columbia,
Pa.; Liberal arts, Helen Bake-tel,
Marblehead, Mass.; Johnna
Ruth Crokett, Baltimore, Md.;
Jean Audrey Dannelly, Allen­town,
Pa.; Louise Garot Grosh,
Lancaster; Doris Elaine Gulick,
Lancaster.
Elizabeth Anne Harvey, P itts­burg;
Marian Stoner Mellon,
Jeannette, Pa.; Maria Christina
and Magdalena Roca of Bogota,
(Continued on page 12)
Returned Missionary *
Addresses Meeting
Miss Sarah Snyder, who is
on h er first furlough from the
India mission field, spoke a t
th e combined meetings of the
Missionary Societies of St.
P au l Lutheran Church, Tuesday
evening a t the church.
She told of h e r experiences
as a nurse and the difficulties
of learning the Telegu language.
She bought with h e r ^native
custumes, curios, jewelry, dolls
and pictures which were on
display.
Seva Eckert, accompanied by
h er mother, enterained with
violin selections.
Kathleen Hess, accompanied
by Joanne Maharg, sang a solo.
Mrs. Ruth Newcomer p re ­sided
over th e meeting which
was followed b y a social hour.
FARM SELL FOR MORE
THAN $400 AN ACRE
The combined choirs of the
Lititz and Penryn churches, dir­ected
by Miss Meda Diehm, will
sing.
The Rev. Mr. Harwick is a
native of Quakertown and a
graduate of the Coopersburg
High school, he received his B.
A. from Fran k lin and Marshall
College, class 1947 and he was
awarded second prize for his
work in Christology a t the
Theological Seminary commen­cement
class ‘51 and ordained
in First Reformed Church, Lan­caster
last Sunday. He served
(Continued on page 7)
Miss Ju d y Troutman, a stu­dent
at Traphagen School of
Design, New York, has re tu rn ­ed
here to spend the summer
vacation with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Troutman,
Front Street.
Some of Miss Troutman’s il­lustrations
and costume designs
will be included in the school’s
annual exhibition which open­ed
Wednesday, a t Traphagen
Galleries, New York.
EASTERN STAR GARDEN
PARTY TO BE HELD TO-DAY
Lititz Springs Chapter, Or­der
of Eastern Star, is having
a Garden Party, Thursday,
Ju n e 7th from 4:00 - 8:00 P.M.,
a t the home of Mrs. Harry
Ruley, 113 West Third Ave.
Strawberries, ice cream,
doggies etc. will be on sale. The
public is invited to attend.
In case of ra in the party will
be held a t the Recreation Cen­ter.
Park Committee Presents
List of Complaints
To Authority
Contractors in charge of the
sewerage work in the Springs
P a rk will announce definitely
this evening whether stipu­lations
presented earlier this
week by the P a rk Committee
can be fulfilled in time to hold
the Fourth of Ju ly Celebration.
Meeting in the park Tuesday
evening, members of the p a rk
committee, the sewerage au th ­ority,
contractors and Louis
Savoca, inspector for Albright
& Friel, personally examined
the condition of the park.
The p a rk committee then p re­sented
the following stipulations
to be completed prior to thi
Fourth which they stated thej
felt were necessary in order fa
hold the celebration: The stream
be cleaned out, the paths be re ­paved,
the roadway be rebuilt,
grass be planted throughout
the park, rocks removed, ground
leveled more completely and
the ball park repaired.
The committee also asked the
authority if it would stand good
a loss of $260 in picnic fees
canceled to-date tout no de­cision
could be made upon this
a t the time.
Representing the contractor,
Tony Galazzo declared his com­pany
would study the work to
be done and would give th eir
decision not la te r than this
evening when the two groups
again will meet at the park. He
also stated th a t every effort will
be made to have the work
completed in time for the In­dependence
Day Celebration.
A 26 acre farm in Elizabeth
Twp. brought $10,900, a t Pu b ­lic
Sale, Saturday.
The property, which was of­fered
for sale by the executors,
of the estate of Wayne K. Z a rt­man,
Israel B., Roy B., and
John B. Zartman, was bought
by Jacob Peters, Manheim R l.
Household effects also offered
fo r sale brought good prices.
Elmer Bobst Honored At
End of Busy Week Here
A weekend of Alumni ac­tivities
was climaxed for Elmer
H. Bobst, formerly of this bor­ough,
when he received an hon­orary
degree of Doctor of
Humane Letters, a t F and M,
Monday morning.
Bobst, was the principal
speaker a t the Lititz High
School Alumni Banquet, Friday
evening, where he presented
the Bobst awards to three
graduates of the Class of 1951.
The awards were presented to
the following: James Delp, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Delp,
East Lemon Street, who receiv­ed
$500; Joanne Maharg,
daughter of Mrs. Ella Maharg,
Oak Street, who received $300
and Mary Ellen Galebach,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Galebach, South Broad Street,
who received $200.
The donor of the awards an­nounced
-that he is establishing
a fu rth e r gift of $2,500 to be
presented annually to the H ig h '
School. This gift will include
th ree awards totaling $1,000 to |
be presented in th e field of
Betterment of Human Relations
to begin in the y ear 1952; $1,500
will go to th e school for the
purchasing of Library books on
history, philosophy and psy­chology.
- :-s.
All the awards are given as
a memorial to Bobst’s father,
the Rev. I Walton Bobst, a
former minister a t St. P au l’s
Lutheran Church.
Girl Scouts
Register For
Day Camp
Ju n e 9th will be the last day
registrations will be accepted
for the Rolling Hills Girl Scout
Day Camp, which will be held
in the Lititz Springs P ark , Ju n e
19th - 22nd.
P a rt of th e program offered
by th e camp will be Sketching
and water color work, under
the direction of Mrs. Alonzo
Diller; Basketry taught by Mrs.
Nathaniel Bailey, on Tuesday,
Ju n e 19th and Thursday, Ju n e
21st. Photography instructions
will be given by Barton Sharp
on Tuesday, June 19th.
On Wednesday, Ju n e 20th.
the girls will enjoy swimming
when they visit Furnace Hill
Camp for the day. Miss J a n e
Hartman, is life guard an d in­structor.
Other camp activities will in­clude
outdoor cooking, treasure
hunts and hikes.
The last meeting of the Day
Camp Staff will be held Thurs­day,
June 7th a t 4:00 P.M. in
the P a rk and will feature a
cook-out. At this time final a r­rangements
will be made fo r
the Day Camp.
All Senior Girl Scout Pro­gram
Aides a re asked to attend
the staff meeting. The rain date
will be Friday, Ju n e 8th.
BEHMER GRADUATES
Robert E. Behmer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Behmer. Lititz
RD2, will graduate in mechan­ical
engineering from Massa­chusetts
Institute of Technol­ogy,
in Cambridge, Mass., this
Friday .
CAR CRASHES INTO
MRS. HEPP’ PORCH
Mrs. Calvin Kendig of Lan­caster
parked h e r automobile
on Church Street on Monday
in fro n t of the Pfautz home
while she was visiting in the
Moravian Home. The car started
backing and gaining momentum
as it went, crossed Main Street
and crashed into Mrs. Elizabeth
Hepp’ porch, breaking off the
side bench. The car was un­harmed.