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HOUSEWIVES!
Save Rags For The Senior
Girl Scouts Spring Rag
Collection Here May 10th
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Save Rags For The Senior
Girl Scouts Spring Rag
Collection Here May 10th
76th Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937)
Century-Old Wooden Pipe
Dug Up By Sewer Workers;
Found In Perfect Condition
Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, April 10, 1952
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Will Start Repairing Pave­ment
On East Main
St. Next Week
Wooden water mains, hewn
from heavy logs and thought to
be from 100 to 150 years old
were unearthed here last week
by workers on the sewerage fa ­cilities
construction.
The ancient logs, still in per­fect
condition and still carrying
water, were unearthed on the
Paul Martin farm northeast of
the borough and a short dis­tance
north of the sewerage
treatment plant. Operators of
a shovel digging a trench
through the meadow came
across the pipe.
As far as could be determined
the log mains carry fresh drin k ­ing
water from a spring house
a q uarter of a mile distant to
an old mill on the farm.
To Replace Pavement
Engineers of the J. B. Shultz
Company this week announced
that the sidewalk along the
south side of East Main Street
from Cedar Street to the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel will be re ­placed,
starting next week. This
will eliminate the rough hump
in the center of the pavement
over which shoppers have had
to walk during the past several
months.
Create New Record
The arrival of Springlike
weather seems to have spurred
sewer workmen in th eir efforts
to create new records. After es­tablishing
a new one-day record
of 428 feet of eight-inch main
on Monday, April 31, the same
gangs employed by A. Shuttle
and Company again broke their
previous record last Monday
when they laid 466 feet of eight-inch
main.
With other gangs, however,
it was the same old story—
progress fair due to excessive
rock and water.
Annual Public Meeting
To Be Hold May 14
The annual public meeting of
the Lititz Community Center
will be held at the Center on
Wednesday, May 14 at 8 p.m.
when two new members will be
elected to the board of direc­tors,
Herma R. Losensky, secre­tary,
announced this week.
The directors will be named
from nominees submitted by the
various organizations and clubs
of town who sponsor the Center.
Plans for the coming y ear also
will be discussed as a feature of
the public meeting.
INVITE MUSICIANS
TO TAKE PART
WISHING YOU A HAPPY EASTER!
All local musicians who play
brass instruments are invited to
participate in the Easter Dawn
service at the Moravian Church,
it was announced today. A re ­hearsal
will take place this eve­ning
at 8:45 at the church.
Light Vote ~
Expected Here
In Primary
A close race between Taft
and Eisenhower was being p re­dicted
for the primary election
here Tuesday, April 22, in what
local political observers felt
would be an unusually light
vote.
Despite th a t this is an elec­tion
year and th a t interest in
the coming conventions com­pares
with th a t of former elec­tion
years, there have been no
indications of any campaigning
locally.
As far as the Republican or­ganization
is concerned, no ef­fort
will be made to influence
voters in any way, and this was
the word being passed along by
both local committeemen.
Change Voting Place
Voters of the Second Ward
will cast th eir ballots at the
Enck Building on North Broad
Street. Notified Tuesday that
the Linden Corporation build­ing,
formerly used as the voting
place in this ward, would not
be available, Committeeman An­drew
Shissler rented the front
space on the first floor of the
Enck building.
Noon-Day Meetings
Break All Records
A1 previous records for a t­tendance
were broken this week
at the noon-day Holy Week
services held in the Trinity E.
C. Church for local school stu­dents.
On Monday a total of 517
students attended, 531 on Tues­day
and 545 Wednesday. The a t­tendance
was so great the side
room adjoining the church audi­torium
had to be used also.
Mrs. Thomas Dussinger serv­ed
as organist and Harry Forbes
as song leader. Pastors of town
addressed the meetings and
Senior boys served as ushers.
Hello Mrs. Veiss. Come in and
set down. I am glad you stopped
o v e r because I had about half
decided on doing some Spring
house-cleaning this after. But it
is so cool th a t I thought I would
chust let it go for a couple of
•days more. Besides, I would
ra th e r talk to you anyway. I
suppose yours is all done al­ready.
Well, what had to be done is
clone, although to tell the* tru th
I didn’t feel like doing as much
as usual. I thought I would
wait and do a more thorough
chop when the sewers is all
finished.
And th a t’s a very good idea.
A body can’t keep up with the
d ir t and mud. I see in the paper
th a t the sewers is about sixty-six
percent, done, so maybe the
worst is over by now.
Let us hope so because th e re ’s
enough d irt in these other things
going on to worry a person.
<Chake says there was enough
d irt in the things th a t happened
in Washington last week to dig
A sewer to the moon and back.
Yes, this Washington business
looks p re tty awful. It seems like
everybody down there is either
being inwestigated himself or
yelling fo r somebody else to be
inwestigated. What’s the matter
with everybody?
Don’t ask me. Chake chust
shakes his head and mutters
and grumbles to himself when
h e ' reads the paper and don’t
say much. Yesterday he says, he
believes th a t nobody wants a
political chop to do the country
or the people any good or save
■them any money to buy grocer­ies
with, but chust to make a
quick buck or a lot of quick
bucks for himself—besides the
salary he gets from the gover’-
ment.
What’s a quick buck, for
heaven’s sake?
I didn’t know either, but
Chake explained th a t a buck is
another slang word for a dol­la
r and a quick buck is making
a dollar without working for
it. You could mrfke one honest
or you could steal it or take it
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Unusual Church Services,
Egg Hunt, Social Affairs To
Mark Easter Week-end Here
WILL PLAY DURING
MUSICAL TEA
Those bright little tots happily contemplating you
a Happy, Happy Eastertime! They are:
photographs and art work by VarNer Studio
from the lily buds are our way of wishing for you,
Left to right: Top Two—Re­becca
Joan Davidson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. David-on;
Nancy Ann Shelly, d aughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ammon H.
Shelly.
Secohd Row—Claudia Ann
Adair, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman P. Adair; Victoria Ba-dorf,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John T. Badorf; Richard Neider-myer,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Neidermyer; Trudy Zell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Zell.
Third Row—Michael Keller,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Keller; James Nelson Bowden,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Bowden; Susan Bender, daugh­te
r of Mr. and Mrs. Jo h n Ben­der;
Deborah Lynn Hare, daugh­te
r of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hare,
Jr.
Fourth Row—“Duffy” Cle-land,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James
D. Cleland; Mikie Hess, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. Hess; L a r­ry
Edward Bucher, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Omar H. Bucher;
Johnny Mike Wolf, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Wilbur Wolf.
Concert Asso.
Will Conduct
Member Drive
With a goal of least one hun­dred
members, the Lititz Com­munity
Concert Association will
conduct its annual one-week
membership campaign starting
Monday, April 21.
Announcement of the drive
was made in letters an d tickets
mailed this week to all former
members of the association, all
of whom have been asked to
obtain; at least one additional
new member.
The association, which has
been sponsoring fine musical
programs here for the past sev­eral
seasons, can be assured
three top-notch programs next
season if it reaches its goal of
100 members, Benjamin M. Lea-man,
president of the associa­tion,
pointed out.
The price of tickets is the
same as former years, $6 for
adults and $3.60 for students.
To attend the concerts, season
tickets must be obtained as no
tickets are sold before each con­cert
or for individual concerts.
Local Odd Fellows Will
Mark 60th Anniversary
The Sixtieth Anniversary of
the Lititz Lodge, 1050, Indepen­dent
Order of Odd Fellows will
be celebrated a t an anniversary
banquet to be held a t Town’s
End, Monday evening, April 28,
at 6:30 o’clock.
Speaker of the evening will
be Rev. George Wilt, pastor of
the Zion Lutheran Church,
York, Pa., chaplain of th e Grand
Lodge. Justice of the Peace
Joseph B. H err will serve as
toastmaster and Raymond S.
Reedy as song leader, accom­panied
by Harvey Artz.
Surviving ch arter members of
the lodge are Hiram Workman,
Charles Dussinger, Levi Rudy,
J. M. C. Biemesderfer and Paul
Gable, Washington, D. C. The
local lodge was instituted at
Clay Lodge, Lincoln, Pa., in
1892.
The banquet committee con­sists
of Edgar Sturgis, chairman;
Robert Workman, Edward
Grosh, Earl Blank, and John
Singer. Robert I. Heagy, Sr.,
is in charge of tickets.
Robert I. Heagy, Sr., will be
installed as noble gran£ of the
Lititz Lodge, this coming Mon­day
evening in the lodge room
at the Center. Installing will be
do n e-b y Deputy Grand Master
Alvin Long and his staff from
ElizabethtoWn.
Others to be installed are:
Marlin Wolf, vice grand; Charles
Bowman, J r., 3rd member re ­lief;
Samuel Nuss, trustee; Ed­gar
Sturgis, representative to
the Grand Lodge Convention at
Reading Ju n e 8 to 11.
To A tten d U.N.
David Amidon, Jr., local high
school student, has been select­ed
to attend the U.N. Assembly
sessions a t Lake Success this
summer Under the sponsorship
of the Lititz Lodge and the Re-bekahs.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Harry R. Way, of this bor­ough,
underwent an operation
at the Lancaster General Hos­pital
this week. His condition
was reported satisfactory.
Seek Vandals
Who Looted
Local Plant
Vandals were blamed for
breaking into a local manufac­turin
g plant and looting a cash
box as well as damaging a
parked automobile here during
the past week.
The robbery occurred a t the
plant of the Linden Corporation,
North Broad Street, where th e
intruders gained entrance by
breaking a window on the north
side of the building. Inside they
emptied a cash box and stole
two ja rs of crackers.
The robbery occurred either
la te Saturday night or some
time Sunday. It was discovered
by Harry Grubb, operator of the
plant, upon his re tu rn Sunday
afternoon.
The parked automobile dam­aged
was standing n e a r the
borough school building when
the aerial was demolished and
a door handle broken off Satu r­day
evening. The damage was
reported to police by th e owner,
David P ra tt, of Harrisburg.
Miss Dorothy Habecker, one
of four local artists who will
present the program during a
Musical Tea to be sponsored by
the Lititz Auxiliary of the Lan-
[ caster General Hospital on Sat­urday,
May 3, at 2:30 p.m. in
Fellowship Hall of the Mora­vian
Church.
Miss Habecker is a well-known
pianist and teacher of
piano. She is a graduate of Lin­den
Hall and studied in Phila­delphia
with Dr. Henry Howell,
former p’upil of Leschetiszky,
noted teacher in St. Petersburg
and Vienna. She graduated from
Peabody Conservatory in Balti­more
and studied under the
well-known Australian pianist,
George F. Boyle, and Pasquale
Tallarico. She is a former mem­ber
of the Lancaster Musical
Art Society Six Piano Ensemble.
Others who will participate
in the Musical Tea program
are: Mrs. Edwin Kortz, violin­ist;
Benjamin Lutz, tenor; and
Miss Mildred Young, contralto.
Elizabeth Twp.
Okays Merger
School Directors of Elizabeth
Township favor a union district
merging Elizabeth, Warwick
and Lititz, according to an an­nouncement
made this week
following a meeting of the
township directors.
At the same time, Elizabeth
Township directors unanimous­ly
went on record as opposing
a joint-district in which the
three districts continue to be
run by the full membership of
the three boards. The joint sys­tem
has been described as un-weildy
in some sections where
it has been tried.
Directors of Lititz and War­wick
will meet next week.
Should they endorse th e union
plan, the matter will be placed
on the ballot next year.
Union Good Friday Service
In Moravian Church;
Egg Hunt Sat.
Joyous Easter will be observ­ed
in Lititz this week-end with
a long series of outstanding
church and musical programs,
dozens of social affairs marking
the return of service men as
well as students from colleges
and universities.
And—providing the weather­man
changes his bad habits of
the past several weeks—the
usual parade of nattily-attired
Easter promenaders throughout
the borough Easter afternoon, as
attested to by a last-minute pre-
I Easter ru sh made upon local
clothing and dress shops this
week.
Following a custom of many
years, local stores and offices
will close fft>m 12 noon tomor­row
until 2:30 P.M. during
which time Union Good Friday
services will be held in the Mo­ravian
Church, with various pas­tors
of local churches taking
charge of each half-hour period.
Special music also has been
planned.
The annual Egg Hunt, always
a popular pre-Easter feature
sponsored by the local Lions
Club, will be held in the Springs
P a rk a t 2 p.m. Children will be
divided into two age groups and
several dozen prizes will be
awarded winners in each class.
One of th e outstanding pro­grams
to be presented here from
a historical point of view as
well as in the widespread in te r­est
aroused, will be the 194th
consecutive Easter Dawn Ser­vice
to be held at the Moravian
Church. This is erne of the old­est
services which have been
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POISONED BY DEAD RAT
Borough Police were inform­ed
this week th a t the cruel boy­ish
prank of tossing a dead ra t
in a young g irl’s face had caus­ed
h e r to contract a skin poi­soning.
The incident was rep o rt­ed
by Mrs. J . C. Slagel, Front
Street. The doctor who exam­ined
the girl confirmed the be­lief
that the poison, similar to
ivy poisoning, was contracted
from the body of the rat.
THE ROYAL SCOTS
TO PRESENT PROGRAM
“The Royal Scots” will p re­sent
a program of music on
Tuesday, April 15, at 12:15
p.m., in the High School Audi­torium.
They wear a colorful,
authentic wardrobe and pre­sent
a distinctive program.
Three are graduates of the
American Conservatory of Mu­sic.
Lititz Record-Express
Is 75 Years Old Today
The Lititz Record-Express is
seventy-five years old this week!
For exactly seventy-five years
ago today, the late John G.
Zook, long editor of the Express,
laboriously rolled from the press
the first neat copies of The Sun­beam,
the forerunner of the
Express.
The Sunbeam office was lo­cated
at 22 East Main Street,
now occupied by the Varner
Photo Studio and located di­rectly
in front of the present
Record-Express office. The press
was hand-fed and operated by a
second person turning a huge
wheel at the side of the contrap­tion.
The Sunbeam was a monthly
publication and was described
in its first issue as “A Journal
of Literature, Education and
General Intelligence.” Its con­tents
included a number of
poems, several short stories, es­says
and editorials upon such
topics as “Reputation and Char­acter,”
“Education in Switzer­land,”
“The Sensitive Chord,”
“Marriage Among th e Ancients.”
Several columns similar to
those in modern magazines and
newspapers also were included
in The Sunbeam. These were
labeled as “Wit and Humor,”
and “Thought Gems.” Its ad­vertising
columns principally
advertised pianos, organs and
sewing machines although sev­eral
patent medicines made up
in ambitious promises what they
lacked in space.
The Sunbeam was prin ted in
pages which measured 9 inches
by 12 inches and included th re e
columns of type. Each issue
contained 16 pages. The Sun­beam
continued until Septem­ber
9, 1881, when it was chang­ed
into an eight-column news­paper
and its name was changed
to The Litiz Express.
The Lititz Record, which
merged with the Express in
1937, came into being in Sep­tember,
1877, and was estab­lished
by th e late F ran k Buch.
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