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75th Year Established April, ‘1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, December 6, 1951 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 34
New Increase In Borough
Water Revenues Seen Result
Of Installing New Meters
300 New Metiers Result
In Boost Of
Nearly $600
The cost of installing approx­imately
300 new water meters
to replace an equal number of
worn-out meters is rapidly be­ing
repaid by increased borough
water revenues, it was disclosed
this week.
According to figures made
available by Borough Manager
Orville Over, the water depart­ment
billings in June after only
a few of the meters had been
installed, was $14,890. In com­parison
the billing completed a
week ago reached the total of
$15,444 or an increase of nearly
$600.
Mr. Over declared however,
that another six-month period
will be needed to see if p er­sons
receiving larger water
bills, as a result of new meters,
become more careful in the use
of water, which would lower
this increase.
He also reported th a t a large
number of requests have been
made for the testing of meters,
as a result of bigger water bills.
In all cases where meters are
found to be in good condition,
the borough places a $5.00
charge for the test made on
equipment recently installed at
the water plant here.
Woman’s Club
Xmas Meeting
This Monday
Stained Glass Expert To
Demonstrate, Exhibit
Biblical Designs
The Christmas meeting of the
Woman’s Club will be held on
Monday evening, December 10,
a t 8:00 o’clock, in the General
Su tter Hotel. There will be spe­cial
Christmas music by the
Club Chorus and Christmas
corsages will be on sale.
The speaker of the evening
will be B. Hay Gilbert, stained
glass artist, of the Rudy Glass
Company, York, Pa. Mr. Gil­b
e rt will explain the history
and creation of stained glass
windows, the origin and th eir
relation to Biblical events. These
points will be illustrated by his
original designs and pictures of
windows.
Mrs. James Cleland and Mrs.
Henry Walter will be the host­esses.
A tea will be served fol­lowing
the meeting. Mrs. Harry
Bender and Mrs. Mary Bechtel
will pour.
Contributions of canned goods
for the “Heart Haven”, at Lan­caster,
will be received. All
members are asked to bring a
can of fru it or vegetables of any
size.
V.F.W. And Auxiliary
Plan Christmas Party
For Local Children
On Saturday, December 15,
at 2 p.m., there will be a
Christmas party in the Post
Home for the children of all
active members sponsored by
the Lititz V.F.W. and the Aux­iliary.
Santa Claus will be here with
gifts for the children and re ­freshments
will be served.
All active members are urged
to bring th e ir children to the
Post Home for this yearly event.
SEES THREAT TO
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Borough Still
Interested In
Fluoridation
Dr. Horne Sees Great
Benefits From Water
Treatment
VETERAN ASSESSOR WATCHES SECOND WARD GROW
Rev. Francis Bell
Pastor Scores
Appointment
By President
“The Vatican Appointment”
was the subject of a sermon on
Sunday morning preached at
St. P au l’s Lutheran Church. The
Pastor, Francis R. Bell, said
th a t President Truman’s ap­pointment
of an ambassador to
Vatican City should be opposed
Tor the following reasons:
1. The appointment of an
Ambassador to the Holy See
endangers religious freedom in
America. For one Church, the
Roman Catholic, is given spe­cial
recognition and preference
and the Church given this pref­erence
does not believe in equal
freedom for all religious groups.
In countries such as Argentina,
Ita ly and Spain where the
Catholic Church is in the ma­jo
rity , Protestants are denied
freedoms in such matters as the
use of radio, publicity and edu-eatihn.
2. Such an appointment is
unnecessary because the United
¡States has an ambassador to
th e Italian government residing
in Rome and he can secure any
information available at the
Vatican.
3. The appointment is already
causing disunity and divisive­ness
in our country at a time
when national unity is needed
as never before.
4. The proposed appointment
violates the spirit of the Con­stitution
of the United States.
'The First Amendment to the
Constitution states th a t “Con­gress
shall make no law respect­in
g the establishment of re ­ligion.”
From the sta rt this has
Ibeen interpreted by statesmen
¡such as Madison and Jefferson
to mean th a t the separation of
c h u rc h ’ and state is carefully
iguarded in the Constitution. In
1948 the Supreme Court wrote
a definition of this Amendment
stating that: Neither a state n o r
th e federal government can set
up a church. Neither can pass
laws which aid one religion
ev e r another . . . No tax in
an y amount, large or small, can
be levied to support any relig-
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The Lititz Borough Council
is interested in learning more
of the alleged benefits in the
fluoridation of borough water—
and cannot understand some of
the technical difficulties en­countered
in their search for
this information.
For example, borough council
has learned that to proceed in
its study of fluoridation of
water, a method which is sup­posed
to reduce dental decay
almost to a point where it is
non-existent in entire communi-i
ties, it must first obtain the
approval of a majority of doc­tors
and dentists in the com­munity.
Ju st why the borough cannot
proceed without this consent of
the very professional men it
will deprive of a lot of boring
business, is a point difficult to
comprehend, bu t th a t was the
information given council by
the borough manager, Orville
Over.
The borough manager also
let it be known th a t certain
other borough managersj do not
regard the system as too con­vincing
to-date, despite the
many reports to the contrary.
He also pointed out the changes
which would have to be made
at the water plant.
'Borough Councilman Byron
K. Horne is leading the move
to obtain estimates on the cost
of installing the system and is
conferring with officials at Lan­caster
and Elizabethtown where
the system also is being con­sidered.
New Protest Forming
To Locating Air Depot
South Of Kissel Hill
Andrew M. Shissler, who has held th e position of assessor ever since the Second Ward
became a p a rt of the borough, is seen busily engaged at his office on North Cedar Street.
Andrew Shissler Completes
37 Years As Assesor Here
Xmas Party
Marks Rotary
Ladies Night
Approximately 45 members
and th eir wives attended the
annual Ladies Night Christmas
P a rty of the local Rotary Club
held Tuesday evening in the
General Sutter Hotel.
The speaker of the evening
was Dr. Gustav Weber, of Potts-town,
orator and public re la ­tions
expert who served for
several years as a member of
the faculty of the Hill School,
Pottstown. Interspersing his re ­marks
with bits of humor, Dr.
Weber related a story by Tol­stoy
in emphasizing the theme
of his ta lk th a t riches and vast
holdings are not necessary to
achieve success and happiness
in the world.
A number of Pennsylvania
Dutch incidents and jokes were
presented during the evening by
Dr. Byron K. Horne, member
of the local club. The program
committee for the meeting con­sisted
of Vernon Kline and
Harry Grubb.
Music was furnished by Ira
Bowman’s orchestra and enter­tainers
and included the sing­ing
of Christmas carols by the
group, led by Benjamin Forrest.
The dining room was decorated
with Christmas greens for the
occasion.
LEGION AUXILIARY STARTS
SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion again is spon­soring
an annual subscription
drive to purchase additional
hospital beds and other sick
room equipment. Representa­tives
bearing officially signed
letters will call on the residents
of the county to explain this
plan in detail.
Regennas Candy Business
Gets Write-up In Look
One of Lititz’ smallest bus­inesses,
the candy manufactur­ing
business owned and operat­e
d by Harry Regennas, is the
subject of an interesting .illus­tra
te d article in Look Maga­zine
which went on local news­stands
Tuesday.
The article features a large
iphoto of little Bobby Leed ex­amining
a candy antlered deer,
(one of Mr. Regennas’ most fa­mous
Clear Toys. Other photos
¡show Mr. Regennas in various
¡stages of the manufacture of
1the candy toys so popular at
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Christmastime.
The article reads as follows:
In a’ narrow red-shingled
building in Lititz, Pa., Harry
Regennas makes old-fashioned
candies in the oldest of old-fashioned
ways. His suckers,
bumpers, sticks and barberpoles
are local traditions now grow­ing
to national fame. For
Christmas, candymaker Regen­nas
plays Santa, too—turns out
over 90,000 candy toys in bright
red or amber so clear they can
be seen through. The candy is
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Andrew S. Shissler, well-known
local rock-ribbed Repub­lican
P a rty supporter, this
week sta rte r his thirty-eighth
year as assessor of the Second
Ward, Lititz Borough.
Appointed by the court in
1915 when a p a rt of Warwick
Township was annexed to the
borough in order to form the
Second Ward, Mr. Shissler has
been re-elected to fill the same
position ever since. For many
years he also held the position
of Justice of the Peace.
At his office this week he re ­called
the many ‘changes which
have come about since he first
took interest in politics—and
raised a huge campaign pole in
his front yard in the Brubaker
Valley during the McKinley
campaign. He cast his first pres­idential
vote for President
Howard Taft.
When he started in as asses­sor
in the Second Ward the to­tal
assessment th ere was $551,-
370 and his original book, still
preserved in his office book­case,
also lists 56 horses valued
at $3,400; and th ree cattle val­ued
at $105.
At th a t time the ward in­cluded
181 property holders;
184 male tenants; 55 single
men; 324 residential taxables
and 39 non-resident taxables
or a total of 363 taxables. His
job then also included listing
45 male dogs and two female
dogs.
The job of assessor took a
sudden jump in 1919 when wo­men
were granted the right to
vote and then were included in
the assessors’ books. This in­creased
the total list of tax­ables
in the Second Ward to
741 of which 327 were women;
59 single men and 205 male
tenants.
In comparison, this y e a r’s
Second War assessment stands
at $1,095,400 with a total of
1,479 taxables of whom 702 are
freeholders; 587 tenants; 94
single men and 96 non-resident
taxables holding property.
In the past thirty-seven years
in which Mr. Shissler has serv­ed
as assessor, only three ap­peals
have been entered against
his assessments at the Court
House in Lancaster.
Legion Auxiliary
Announces Gifts
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion contributed
a net sum of $112.00 to various
causes at the meeting held on
Tuesday evening at the Legion
Home. Eighty-two dollars was
given to Veterans Hospitals and
th irty ’dollars for the Christmas
Box fund.
Mrs. Rbbert Thompson was
in charge of the social commit­tee,
assisted by Mrs. Betty Mc-
Konley and Mrs. Woodrow Erb.
Mrs. Robert Martin, the pres­ident,
was in charge and twenty
members attended.
Donald Coble
Is Promoted
Fort Jackson, S. C.—Donald
C. Coble, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul W. Coble, 501 Spruce St.,
Lititz, Pa., has been promoted
to sergeant while serving with
the 8th Infantry Division at
Fort Jackson, S. C. He is as­signed
as a radio instructor in
the Division’s Specialist Train­ing
Regiment.
Sgt. Coble was graduated
from Lititz High School in 1946
and completed the course of
study a t Northrop Aeronautical
Institute in 1949. Before en ter­ing
the service in February,
1951, he was employed aS a
mason in Lititz. He is a mem­ber
of the Ju n io r Chamber of
Commerce and the .Lititz Sports­men’s
Association.
During 1946 and 1947, Sgt.
Coble served in the United
States Marine Corps.
HOLLAND COUPLE VISITS
BROTHER AND FAMILY
FRACTURES HIP
Mrs. Emma L. Witmyer, 24
East Main Street, this borough,
sustained the fracture of her
rig h t hip when she lost bal-auce
and fell at h er apartment
last Saturday. She is a patient
in the Lancaster General Hos­pital.
Mrs. Witmyer is the
mother of Kenneth Witmyer,
local florist, and John Witymer,
local commercial artist and
president of the Lititz Lions
Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Girard Pelger,
of The Hague, Holland, are vis­iting
Mr. Pelger’s brother, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Pelger and
family, Broad St. They also vis­ited
a son and daughter in Can­ada,
besides traveling all over
the United States and covering
approximately 12,000 miles. They
have two daughters in Muske­gon,
Mich., who are going to
school there for one year as
I exchange students.
| The Pelgers will leave for
; th eir home in Holland on De­cember
12, when they will
board the liner “Veedan”.
I GETS DEER
Donald Weaver, of th e Rec­ord-
Express mechanical staff,
shot a four-point buck while
hunting with his father-in-law,
Clair Slosser, also of this bor­ough,
in Sullivan County.
Sewer Project
143 Per Cent
[ Completed
Rock Far Over Estimate;
I Expect Drop In
The Future
Lititz’ sewer system is ap­proximately
43 per-cent com-,
pleted at this tim e ;' according
to a report compiled late yes­terday
afternoon by Lou Sa-voca,
chief inspector for the en­gineering
firm of Albright &
Friel, in charge of the project
here.
Despite th a t the job is ru n ­ning
somewhat behind schedule
and th a t rock deposits are con­siderably
higher than had been
estimated, sewer contractors
predicted th a t from now on they
would be catching up with the
time-table and th a t the sewer
system here might be in opera­tion
even before next July.
This contention is based upon
the fact th a t 72 per-cent of all
big pipe is completed and it is
primarily the big pipe where
rock exceeds the estimates.
On the J. B. Shultz contract
No. 1 in the central p a rt of
town, work is 51 per-cent com­pleted
but at the same time is
24 per-cent behind schedule
due to the fact th a t they have
encountered 40 per-cent more
rock than had been estimated.
On this contract 98 per-cent of
the large pipe has been laid.
On contract No. 2 being done
by the Shuttle Company in the
southern end, work is 65 p er­cent
completed and is two p er­cent
ahead of schedule.
On contract No. 3, also held
by Shuttle in the north end of
town, work is only 17 per-cent
completed and is 38 per-cent
behind schedule.
Shuttle explained th a t he
will complete contract No. 2
possibly by the end of Decem­ber
when he will transfer all
of his gangs to contract No. 3
which will then quickly recov­er
its lost ground.
Xmas Musicale
At Moravian
Church Sun.
Senior Choir, Quartet And
Soloists To Sing
In Afternoon
A Christmas Musicale will be
presented by the Senior Choir
in the Moravian Church on
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Special numbers of interest
will include: “Let the Heavens
Rejoice" by Gaul. “Unto Us a
Child Is Born” by Peter, which
is one of the 2,000 recently re ­covered,
but still unpublished,
original Moravian manuscripts
from Colonial America. “The
Omnipotence” by Schubert, will
be sung by the guest soloist,
Sara Leaman Even,wel, soprano.
A quartet, consisting of
Thelma Stauffer, soprano; Kath­ry
n Zercher, contralto; Benja­min
Forrest, tenor; and Frank
Brown, bass, will sing “Adeste
Fideles”.
The Choir is under the direc­tion
of Ju lia Keehn, with Viola
Witmyer a t the organ. The
members of the choir are as fol­lows:
Soprano: Thelma Stauffer,
Elizabeth Stauffer, Rosemary
Rice, Mary Lutz, Ruby Adams,
Roberta Lutz, Joanne Wagner,
Wilma Seaber.
Alto: Mary Rice, Dorothy
Forrest, Herma Losensky, P a t­ricia
Lutz, Nelda Brubaker,
Nancy Strotile, Marion Kutz,
Jean Bender.
Tenor: Benjamin Forrest,
Benjamin Lutz, Hubert Kauff­man,
Carl Foltz, Harvey Artz,
William Stauffer, Arth u r Myers.
Bass: Howard Burkhart,
F ran k Brown, Abram Beck,
George Keehn, Lamar Sipe,
John Lutz, Robert Hess, Donald
Garber, Donald Reidenbaugh.
Prod. Credit
Opposes Air
Depot Here
The second joint annual
stockholders meeting of the
Lancaster Production Credit
Association, of which G. G.
Minnich, this borough, is presi­dent,
and the Farm Loan As­sociation
of Lancaster last week
went on record as opposing lo­cating
the proposed a ir depot
in this county.
The resolution adopted “defi­nitely
opposed . . . the using of
good fertile farm land as an
Air Force Base for military
purposes.” A total of 374 farm­ers
and th e ir families attended
the annual meeting.
During the morning an in te r­esting
ta lk was given by Charles
Spotts, professor of religion at
Franklin and Marshall College.
The main item on the afternoon
program was an address by R.
R. Filbert, vice president of the
Federal Land Bank and P ro ­duction
Credit Corp., on the
subject of Korea. He had been
a resident of Korea for several
years.
Lititz Defeats Rothsville
52-37 In Hard-Fought Game
Lititz High’s basketball team
opened th eir exhibition season
Tuesday night, defeating War­wick
High 52-37 in a bitterly
contested tilt on the Rothsville
floor.
The 15-point victory bulge
however was a false indication
of the tightness of the game
which Dean Miller’s squad put
on ice in the dying moments of
the th ird period and through­out
the final stanza.
Up until th a t time it was
anybody’s ball game. Rothsville,
always a tough customer on
th eir home court, demonstrated
this in the first period assuming
a 14-10 advantage, largely due
to the efforts of husky Bob
Hess, a hard-working center.
A switch in strategy by Lititz
coach Dean Miller, effectively
bottled up Hess’ scoring punch
in the second period as the lo­cals
gathered momentum and
outscored the home club 12-4 to
take a 22-18 halftime lead.
Landis and Ross continued
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Would Extend From Top
Of Hill Into Village
Of Neifsville
A new protest was develop­ing
here this week over the ap­parent
decision of the Army
Air Corps to place its proposed
a ir depot from a point near the
top of Kissel Hill, through the
municipal airport and ending
inside the village of Neffsville.
Branding selection of this site
as “the worst possible location”
from a civilian point of view,
members of the committees a t­tending
sessions in Washington
returned home with the infor­mation
that apparently the
army up to now has considered
only two possible sites, one
northwest of Lititz and the
other south of the borough.
The air corps also disclosed
th a t the a ir depot would have
a single runway three miles
long and th a t this might even
be increased in size. On cross-examination
army heads declar­ed
they could not possibly state
whether the a ir depot would be
a permanent installation or not.
Suggestions were being con­sidered
here this week to con­duct
a poll of Lititz and Kissel
Hill residents. Prospects of a
strictly local committee being
formed also were bright.
Pre-Christmas
Activities At
Linden Hall
Traditional Moravian cere­monies
play a large p a rt in the
Christmas celebrations a t Lin­den
Hall. A semi-formal Christ­mas
dance will be held by the
Academy seniors and members
of the Junior College on Satur­day
evening in the gymnasium,
which will be decorated with
Christmas scenes, trees and
other traditional greens.
Dance chaperones will in­clude
Dr. and Mrs. Byron K.
Horne, Mrs. Avis Stengel and
Miss Barbara Wise. The other
members of the faculty and
hostesses will be guests.
On December 17, the annual
tu rk ey dinner will be held in
the dining "room. Tables will be
decorated with Christmas greens
and the room will be candle-lighted
from Moravian bees­wax
candles in shiny red ap­ples
as holders.
Students will sing Christmas
carols between courses and the
traditional birthday hymn for
all those celebrating birthdays,
sinces the beginning of the
school term.
“Christmas On the Village
Square” , a holiday play will be
presented after dinner. Miss P a t
Sullivan is directing the produc­tion
and members of the cast
are the Misses Sheila Burke,
Joan Guildin, Catherine Pickle,
Narilee Fu ller and Gail Corbett.
On December 18, the tradi­tional
corridor Christmas par­ties
will be held and a t the
same time, Dr. and Mrs. Byron
K. Horne will entertain mem­bers
of the school faculty in
the school parlors.
The Acting Class a t T.inden
Hall presented a play on Tues­day
evening in the school audi­torium
directed by Miss P a tri­cia
Sullivan, dramatic coach.
The first of a series of teas
will be given on Thursday a t
4:30 p.m. by the Academy Stu­dent
Council in th e Sophomore
Social Room at Linden Hall.
BUSINESS LEAGUE
TO ENJOY TURKEY SUPPER
The members of the Young
Men’s Business League will en­joy
a Turkey Supper on Mon­day
evening, a t 6:00 o’clock.
The supper will be held a t the
Business League, on S. Broad
St. William Oehme, Jr., is in
charge of the meal.