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Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
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Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 31, 1952 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 42
Borough Employees Given
Pay Boosts; Plan Vacations;
Plan To Build New Streets
Council Seeks Confab With
Sewer Authority
Over ‘Ditches’
Pay increases totaling $1,639
have been granted the 12 bor­ough
employees including three
members of the police force,
members of borough council an­nounced
at a meeting held on
Tuesday evening.
The increases, which are sub­ject
to the approval of the Wage
Stabilization Board, bring the
annual payroll of the borough
up to $31,660.
Members of council also in­structed
Borough Manager Or­ville
Over to work out a plan
which will enable all borough
employees to have one-week
vacations. This plan also may
include granting pay for from
three to five holidays during the
year. In the past no pay has
been granted on these occasions.
In order to permit borough
policemen to have holidays, an
extra man may be obtained for
the three-week vacation period.
To Build Streets
Members of council also
agreed to advertise for bids for
the building of approximately
four blocks of streets, all of
which have been built up for
several years and all of which
were planned prior to the in*
auguration of the current assess-menfc
plan. .
Contracts will be awarded in
time to enable work to start in
March, Council announced.
Streets to be paved are East
Second Avenue, South Cherry
Street, South Water Street and
East Marion Street. The borough
has asked sewer contractors to
complete the few remaining lat­eral
on these streets prior to
that time.
Hear Complaints
A meeting between council
and the sewer authority will be
sought as a result of complaints
that sewer trenches in certain
streets are being left in poor
condition for months. One com­plaint
heard by council was
voiced by John Nuss, Clair
Slosser and Guy Brubaker,
whose properties are adjacent
to Raspberry Alley, which they
claimed has been impassable
since last August.
Men’s Group
To Mark 78th
Anniversary
RESIGNS PASTORATE
Spring Is Just
Around The Corner
Don’t let the near-zero tem­peratures
fool you—Spring is
just around the corner!
Over the past week-end, Al­bert
Gocheneaur, sexton at the
Moravian Church, reported hav-of
the Moravian Cemetery. Mrs.
Arville Burkholder, Lincoln
Avenue, Saturday reported hav­ing
spotted a robin in her back
yard. . v
Council Firm
On Top-Heavy
WaterBills
No Adjustments Unless
Owners Can Prove
Meters Faulty
If your water bill is top-heavy—
and some of the last
ones were whoppers—borough
councilmen will lend a sympa­thetic
ear, if that will do any
good.
As for adjustments, they are
out unless the consumer can
show the borough that the
water meter was defective. This
was the edict issued Tuesday
evening when one local proper­ty
owner presented. one of the
lop-sided bills and sought to
have borough officials approve
a compromise.
Pointing out that the bill for
one six-month period was about
seven times the prior bill, the
property owner argued that he
knew no reason for the sudden
jump and declared the bill was
entirely out of reason. Borough
officials pointed out, however,
that the meter had been taken
out and tested and found to be
measuring 98 per-cent of the
water pumped, instead of more.
Borough Manager Over also
pointed out that the following
period, the bill returned to an
almost normal level.
“As members of council we
have no legal right to substitute
our judgment for the water
meter. We cannot change rates
other than through ordinance,”
^President of Council Menno
Rohrer declared in turning
down the request for a settle­ment.
Council announced that all
meters not now working will
be replaced in the next twb
months. Persons getting new
meters were advised to check
leaks carefully immediately be­fore
their bills go out of bounds.
Rev. Jacob T. Dick
Rev. J. T. Dick
And Family To
Go To Europe
Will Engage In Relief
Work In Germany For
Next Three Years
The 78th Anniversary of the
Men’s Missionary Society of the
Moravian Church will be ob­served
this Sunday, with the
Rev. Robert A. Iobst as the
guest speaker for the day.
Missionary Iobst has served
in Nicaragua, C. A., since 1939.
He is at present in charge of
the Moravian Mission at Puerto
Cabezas and four out-stations.
He will preach the sermon at
10:30 a.m., deliver a brief mes­sage
in the Lovefeast at 3:00
Rev. Jacob T. Dick, pastor of
the Lititz Church of the Breth­ren,
tendered his resignation
Sunday morning to., do relief
work in Germany, effective May
31. Rev. and Mrs. Dick and
their two children, Daniel, 5,
and Constance, 1, will sail in
June for Germany where Rev.
Dr. will assume the directorship
of the Volunteer Service and
Brethren Work Camps in Eu­rope,
sponsored by the Breth­ren
Service Commission.
Rev. Dick and his wife will
be doing relief and rehabilita-
Brethren Volunteer Service
Unit, which is composed of
people who have volunteered
their time and service without
salary doing relief and rehab­ilitation
work in different parts
unteer Unit members are single
of the world. Most of the Vol-young
men and women. The
Brethren Volunteers serve in
dispensing material aid, a health
clinic, a tuberculosis hospital in
Austria, in building hospitals,
schools, churches and housing
units for refugee families.
Volunteers also serve in edu­cational
programs for refugee
children and youth, in the ex­change
student program, in the
heifer projects and in the work
camp projects, many of which
are international and consist of
youth from many countries
working on their ideal of a
peaceful world.
The Church of the Brethren
sponsors this program in Europe
purely to build peace, goodwill
and brotherhood among the na­tions,
for there are no congre­gations
of the Church of the
Brethren in Europe.
(Continued on Page 4)
Bloodmobile
To Come Here
On Feb. 29th
Local Committee Headed
By Mrs. John Hershey
Seeks Volunteers
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will visit Lititz on Friday, Feb­ruary
29, according to an an­nouncement
made by a newly-organized
blood-doonr group
here this week.
The visit of the blood bank to
this borough will be the first
since the close of World War II
when several hundred volun­teers
here gave blood at regu­lar
intervals. Efforts will be
made to obtain more than 200
volunteers to give blood this
time.
Mrs. John Hershey has been
appointed chairman of the local
effort and will be responsible
for all arrangements and getting
volunteers to serve during the
time the bloodmobile is here
from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Bur­gess
Benjamin Forrest has been
named chairman of the Blood
Donor Recruitment Committee.
Mrs. Reyer Swan will be in
charge of the nurses from the
community and Mrs. Alfred
Douple is chairman of the
workers’ canteen.
In emphasizing the need for
volunteers to come forward and
donate blood, Mrs. Hershey
pointed out that blood is a ma­jor
factor in lowering of the
death rate of war wounded. A
preliminary survey of the J0to-rean
conflict has shown a death
rate of 2.5 for all wounded ser­vicemen.
The need for more and more
blood is becoming more urgent
as the Korean fighting contin­ues.
Any health man or woffiah
between the ages of. 18 and 60
may give blood. A physician
will be in attendance at the
bloodmobile at all times.
Jlllarch of Dimes Poster Boy Local Merchants Are Ready
For Mammoth Sales Event
To Begin Here Tomorrow
DAVE WRIGHT ILL
David Wright, Wilbur-Such-ard
official, is confined to his
home on South Broad Street,
suffering from a virus attack
which has settled in his ear. His
condition was reported improved
this morning.
Seven-year-old Larry Jim Groat, 1962 March of Dimes Potter Boy, sym­bolizes
the tens of thousands of polio patients who receive help
when the disease strikes. Larry it the son of Warrant Officer and
Mrs. Jim Gross and has been living In Wiesbaden, Germany, where
his dad Is stationed with the Army Air Force. Larry was stricken
with polio in Tampa, Florida, when he was 16 months old. He still
needs a brace on his left leg, but doctors hope that continued care—
with March of Dimes assistance—will bring even greater recovery.
Basketball Games Will Aid
March Of Dimes Campaign
Well now—Mrs. Espenshate!
Come on in and set down. I
p.m., and present an illustrated hope you don’t mind the smell1 ions and a
of smoke in here still.
Why—did you burn
thing?
Chust some potatoes.
lecture on Moravian Missions
in Nicaragua at 7:00 p.m. in
Fellowship Hall.
In the morning service the
choir will sing “Arise, O Lord”
(Hoffmeister-Deis). In the Love-feast
the selections
“Jesus Shall Reign"
and “Ye Shall Go Out With j teries and the potatoes
Joy” (Bamby). Mrs. Thelma'burned on the bottom.
Stauffer will sing the solo parts i see. Well, I often do that
in. the second selection. | myself and if a body stands
! over them and watches them
I they never seem to get done.
cipe. You take bacon and chop
it all up and fry it with on-little
winegar and
I some other ingredients and
some-; pour it hot over the potatoes.
j I don’t believe I would like it
Chake made that way.
put some on to boil because he : Oh, it’s all right for a chainch
wanted to make potato salad but I know most people nowa-will
be for supper and then he got read- days like it better made with
(Spross) I ing one Gf these whodunit mys- mayonnaise. Sort of sweet like.
got That’s the way I make it. It’s
a lot easier and quicker now
that you can get the mayon­naise
al lready made in such a
char at the store.
Did you ever try to make
Mrs. Es-
Would Adjust
Assessments
That there is a real need for
the revision of all assessments
in both wards of Lititz Borough,
was asserted in a discussion
which featured the borough
council meeting this week.
Recent realty sales have fix­ed
much higher values upon
some properties than upon oth­ers
just as valuable which have
not changed hands for years,
councilmen asserted during the
discussion. Assessments here
range from less than 10 per­cent
to more than 40 per-cent
of the actual value of proper­ties,
one member of council
asserted.
That the school board had in­stituted
a study of assessments
more than a year ago was dis­closed
by President of Council
Menno Rohrer, who is solicitor
for the school district.
At this point another member
of council suggested that school
directors, councilmen, the asses­sors
and outside real estate ex­perts
get together in an effort
to equalize all assessments of
the borough.
Action was postponed, how­ever,
when several members of
council took the stand that the
.borough has enough on its hands
now, with the sewers being
built and new water meters
being installed—but felt such
action could be taken at a later
date.
A basketball fiasco will be
held in the high school gymna­sium
next Wednesday evening,
February 6, to raise funds for
the local March of Dimes drive
and promises something really
special.
The first game, which will
start at 8 p.m. will be between
the “B” Squad of the Lititz
Sports Club and Henner Lutz’
Big Five, with Henner promis­ing
some lively competition.
The second game will be be­tween
the Sports Club and an
aggregation of old-timers, fea­turing
Chip Martin, Dave Sam-met,
Martie Kutz, Dick Stark,
Charlie Brown, Bob Myers, Ray
Herr and others.
A group of high school musi­cians
will play between games.
Mrs. M. C. Demmy, local
j dimes drive chairman, reported
I encouraging returns in the cam-
I paign to-date. The house-to-i
house canvass directed by Mrs.
| Benjamin S. Forrest brought
¡contributions of $118. Five con-itainers
remain to be opened,
j Collections were taken in the
Lititz Theatre Friday and Satur­day
evening by Girl Scouts di­rected
by Mrs. Willy DePerrot
and in the schools under the di­rection
of Miss Harnish, the
nurse.
RE-ELECTED TO
HEALTH BOARD
¡What kind of potato salad was mayonnaise yourself,
he aiming to make? penshate?
NOTICE
The office of Dr. Edward J.
Kowalewski, Rothsville, will be ! Oh, some old-fashioned kind
closed Monday and Tuesday, he called it like mother used to
February 4 and 5. (make from an old Cherman re-
No, that I never even tried.
It is quite a chop—and mostly
(Continued on Page 4)
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Councilman Charles Kling re­turned
to his home yesterday
where he is recovering from an
operation upon an infected wis­dom
tooth, performed in the
Lancaster General Hospital on
Tuesday. He was admitted to
the hospital Monday afternoon.
Mrs. D. P. Bricker
Will Review Book
The Women’s Missionary So­ciety
of the Moravian Church
will hold a meeting in the
Church Parlor, on Thursday,
Feb. 7th at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. D. P.
j Bricker will review the first
half of the book, “Dayspring on
| the Kuskokwim”, by Anna Bux-
| baum Schwalbe, who spent
many years as a missionary in
Alaska. The book tells the his­tory
of that field of Moravian
Missionary work.
The part to be reviewed at
this meeting describes the be­ginnings
and early history of
the work during which time
Mary Huber and Emma Huber
Rock, aunts of Miss Winifred
Huber, the present missionary
there, supported by the local
congregation, served in that
field.
Everybody is invited to at­tend-.
Borough Fire
Loss Totaled
Only $1225
Chief Runk Lists $81,338
Loss For Section
Outside Boro
Fire losses inside the borough
during 1951 totalled only $1,-
225, the lowest record of the
past decade, Fire Chief Ray­mond
Runk reported last eve­ning.
The report was submitted
during the annual smoker of the
local fire company in which
more than 300 firemen sat down
to their yearly turkey feast and
listened to an unusually lively
program of entertainment. Doz­ens
of door prizes also were dis­tributed.
As compared with the low
loss from fire inside the bor­ough,
Chief Runk reported loss­es
totaling $81,338 in the sec­tions
outside the borough limits,
resulting in a combined loss of
$82,563. This amount is a per
capita loss of $.2227, one of
the lowest in the nation.
During the past year there
were 21 alarms in the borough
and 17 alarms outside. Firemen
traveled 29 miles, spent 85
hours, laid 7500 feet of hose
and put of 96 feet of ladders in
responding to these alarms.
In its annual report the fire
company reported donations of
$275.50 plus $90 received from
the sale of obsolete hose. Ex­penses
during the year totaled
$1101.04.
Clyde O. Benner, local phar­macist,
who was re-elected to a
five-year term on the borough
board of health by members of
the borough council Tuesday
evening. In its annual report,
the health board, headed by Dr.
M. H. Yoder, reported contagi­ous
diseease to be held at a
minimum, all local eating places
to be clean and all nuisances
to have been abated.
Church Plans
Mission Study;
Choi To Speak
Every Sunday evening at 7:00
o’clock during February, the
local Church of the Brethren
will study Latin America in the
Second Annual School-of-Mis-sions.
On February 3, Dr.
Franklin Cassel will show pic­tures
of Korea and explain his
work in that country in the
worship period after the study
hour.
On February 10 Oong Choi,
brother of In Sook Choi, Korean
student living at Dr. Cassel’s
home, will speak in the worship
son of the Minister of Social
Aairs in the Korean Republic.
On February 17, two sets of
slides will be shown depicting
the work of the Church of the
Brethren in South America at
Bella Vista, Equador.
Rotary Club
To Sponsor
Minstrel Show
The Lititz Rotary Club will
preesnt a 100 per-cent home­town
Minstrel Show in the
High School Auditorium on
Thursday and Friday, April 17
itz Community Center, it was
announced this week.
The minstrel will feature
Pennsylvania Dutch singing and
humor and will be written, di­rected
and acted entirely by lo­cal
persons, Dr. Howard B.
Minnich, chairman of the com­mittee
in charge, declared.
Burgess Benjamin Forrest
Practically A11 Retailers
Offering Hundreds
Of Bargains
The first of the familiar red
and white pennants were post­ed
in local stores this morning
as merchants completed their
plans for what promises to be
the most successful Red Tag
Days sales event in the history
of the borough.
Red Tag Days will be observ­ed
by local retailers this Fri­day
and Saturday with approx­imately
90 per-cent of the store­keepers
participating.
Hundreds of money-saving
bargains are being offered with
the retailers placing quality
merchandise under the axe in
order to make the sales days
one long to be remembered.
As an added feature this year,
merchants will display lucky
numbers on the windows of
their stores. Similar numbers
will be placed on circulars to
be distributed throughout this
section today. Persons able to
match up lucky numbers with
the numbers on the circulars
will be presented with free
gifts.
It was estimated that several
hundred free gifts will be hand­ed
out during the two days of
the sale.
Large signs at all of the ap­proaches
to the borough also
heralded the Red Tag Days to
the public this week.
Frosh Frolic
Will Be Held
Here Saturday
A Freshman Frolic will be
held in the High School Gym­nasium
this Saturday evening
by members of the Freshman
Class of the local high school.
The theme for the affair will
be “Down on the Farm” afid
the festivities will continue from
8 p.m. to 11 o’clock.
Committees in charge are as
follows:
Decorating committee: Linda
Witmyer, chairman; Charlotte
Mathers, Russel Pettyjohn, Jane
Risser, Emily Zercher, Gary
Zong, Richard Delp, Lynn Kem­per,
Donna Foltz, Donald Kell­er,
Joanne Peiffer, and Sylvia
Wertsch.
Food committee: Iris Hall,
chairman; Janice Keath, Mary
Mastromatteo, Marion Sturgis,
Audrey Sensenig, Ruth Hoster,
Ethel Cassel.
Clean-up committee: Gary
Zong, chairman; Gilbert Myers,
John Newcomer, Robert Singer,
Ronald Aument, James Howell
and Glen Koffroth.
Program committee: Portia
Bowman, chairman; Connie
Sharp, Karen will arrange the music. The ____ _B_a_er_, __M__a_r_sh_a_ll
writing of the script will be j Ember, Donald Good, Bill Her
done by a committee including ! shey.
Marlin Spaid, James Cleland j Ticket committee: Judy Wag-and
Hiram Eberly. Mr. Spaid aman, chairman; Doris Whit-and
Dr. Minnich will direct | craft.
while end-men will include Advertisement committee:
Glenn McElroy, William Hen­derson
and others.
Dr. Byron K. Horne, head­master
of Linden Hall, will
serve as interlocutor.
The entire proceeds will go
to the Center.
To Entertain Boro Officials
Borough officials will be
guests of the club next Tues­day
evening when an address
upon the fluoridation of water
will be presented by Dr. Paul
Bomberger, of Lancaster.
A sound movie upon first aid
was presented last Tuesday by
Thomas Walker, program chair­man
for the meeting. District
Governor William Beckner, of
York, attended the meeting and
spoke briefly.
Charlotte Mathers, chairman;
Marlene Adams, Richard Delp,
Donald Sheffy, Linda Witmyer.
Music committee: Max Hoff­man,
chairman; Sonia Augsber-ger,
Shirley Shenk, Joyce El-
-liott, Shirley Keath, Marlene
Kreiner.
STUDENTS ENJOY TRIP
TO PHILADELPHIA
Henry Hackman, head of the
science department of the local
High School, and advisor for
the Science Club, accompanied
35 members of that organization
to Philadelphia on Saturday to
see the Planetarium and tour
the Franklin Institute.