Lititz Record Express

              fretting tfje frnbltc for nearlp a Century
76th Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa.,' Thursday, September 25, 1952 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No. 24
Farm Show Proves Success;
List Of Prize Winners For
Exhibits Are Announced
PLANS RE-DEDICATION
One of the most successful
Farm Shows in local history
came to a close Saturday eve­ning.
With unusual entertainment
being offered nightly, local at­tendance
records were broken
over the past week-end. Show
officials described the show as
a financial success while ex­hibits
and displays in the high
school compared favorably with
former years.
Prize winners in the various
classes are as follows:
FLOWERS
Winners in the Flower entries
of the Lititz Community Show,
asters. Mrs. Abram Mease, 1st;
Mary Alice Galebach, Penryn,
2nd; Mrs. Howard Nelson, Lititz
RD2; curled asters, Mrs. David
Rickert, Lititz RD1, 1st; Bill
Hershey, Manheim RD1, 2nd;
calendulas. Helen Flowers, Lit­itz
RD3, 1st; Mary Lou Thomas,
Lititz RD3, 2nd; Mrs. Ellis
Spickler, 3rd.
Coxcomb, crested, Mrs. Daniel
Brubaker, Ephrata RD1, 1st;
Mrs. Elam Becker, Lititz RD1,
2nd; Mrs. Adam Redcay, East
Petersburg, 3rd. Double, C. M.
Brubaker. 1st; Mrs. Ira Longe-necker,
Lititz RD3, 2nd; Mrs.
C. M. Brubaker, 3rd. Chrysan­themums,
Mrs. Raymond Runk,
1st; Elma Landis, Lititz RD3,
2nd; azalea, Mrs. Raymond
Runk, 1st; Mrs. Ellis Spickler,
2nd; Mrs. Elam Becker, 3rd.
Dahlias. cactus, Mary B.
Harsh, Bareville, 1st; George
Harsh, Bareville, 2nd; Mrs.
Elam Becker, 3rd. Pompon, Mrs.
Robert E. Pfautz, 1st; Mrs. Elam
Becker, 2nd; Glenn Nelson, 3rd.
Decorative, Mrs. Anna Yerger
and Mrs. Jeanette Studenroth,
2nd; Mrs. Lloyd Garman, 3rd.
Delphinium, Mrs. B. J. Lo-sensky.
1st; Mrs. David Rickert,
2nd; Mrs. Elam Becker, 3rd.
Japanese anemone, Mrs. John
Newcomer, 1st; Mrs. Henry
Shenk, 2nd; Gaillardia, Mrs.
Abram Mease, 1st; Mrs. Curtis
Amidon, 2nd; Mary Lou Flow­ers,
3rd; Gladiolus, Gloria Bru­baker,
1st; Mrs. Daniel Bru­baker,
2nd; Mrs. Lloyd Garman,
3rd.L
antana, Mrs. Alice Reedy,
1st; Mrs. Daniel Brubaker, 2nd;
Marigolds, large, Mrs. Abram
Mease, 1st; Gloria Brubaker,
2nd; Bill Hershey, 3rd; Chry­santhemum
flower, Jeanette
Studenroth, 2nd; Lois Nolt, Lit­itz
RD3, 3rd; Double French,
Mrs. Guy Brubaker, 1st; Johnnie
Sheaffer, 2nd; Mrs. Howard
Nelson, 3rd. Single French, Bill
Hershey, 1st; Mrs. Guy Bru­baker,
2nd; Mrs. Oscar Forrey,
3rd.N
asturtiums, Mrs. Arville
Burkholder, 1st; Mrs. Ira Long-enecker,
2nd; Mrs. Elam Beck­er,
3rd; Roses, Carl D. Huber,
1st; Mrs. R. E. Pfautz, 2nd;
Mrs. Carl D. Huber, 3rd; mixed
colors, Mrs. Henry Shenk, 1st;
Mrs. John Newcomer, 2nd; San­dra
Mundorf, 3rd. Scabiosa,
Mrs. Guy Brubaker, 1st; Mrs.
Lloyd Garman, 2nd; Mrs. Ar­ville
Burkholder, 3rd.
Zinnias, large, Mrs. Adam
Redcay, 1st; Mrs. Ira Longe-necker,
2nd; Mrs. Alice Reedy,
3rd; small, Bill Hershey, 1st;
Johnnie Shaeffer, 2nd; Mrs. Ira
Longenecker, 3rd; Mary Alice
Galebach, 3rd. Mexican, Mrs.
Elam Becker, 1st; Johnnie
Shaeffer, 2nd; Bill Hershey,
3rd.
Straw Flowers, clover, Mrs.
Ira Longenecker, 1st; Mrs. Guy
Brubaker, 2nd; Gloria Brubak­er,
3rd. Honesty, Mary Lou
Thomas, 1st; Mrs. Arlie Hack-man,
2nd; Miss Violet Keppel,
3rd; best table bouquet, Mrs.
Lloyd Smith, 1st; Mrs. Edna
Huebener, 2nd; Mrs. Curtis
Amidon, 3rd.
Best Berry bouquet, Mrs. Cur­tis
Amidon, 1st; Mrs. Harry
Wonder, 2nd; Mary Lou Thom­as,
3rd; Best arranged bouquet
in basket, Mrs. Amidon, 1st;
Mrs. Franklin Cassell, 2nd; Mrs.
Elam Risser, 3rd; Bouquet, Mrs.
Cassell, 1st; Mrs. Raymond
Runk, 2nd; Mrs. Amidon, 3rd.
Best Winter Garden, Mrs. El­lis
Spickler, 1st; Elma Landis,
2nd; Mrs. Amidon, 3rd; Snap­dragons,
Bill Hershey, 1st; Mrs.
Alice Reedy, 2nd; Mrs. Lester
Rhinier, Lititz RD3, 3rd.
Ferns, Richard Buckwalter,
Lititz RD3, 1st; Mary Lou
Thomas, 2nd; Mrs. B. J. Losen-sky,
3rd;' African Violets, Mrs.
Lloyd Garman, 1st; Mrs. B. J.
Losensky, 2nd; Richard Buck-waiter,
3rd; best house plant,
Mrs. Abram Mease, 1st; Howard
Swarr, 2nd; Mrs. B. J. Losen­sky,
3rd; Louise Haddad, 4th;
Other varieties, Mrs. Amidon,
1st; Donald Nessinger, 2nd; Mrs.
Elam Becker, -3rd.
Miscellaneous flowers, Mrs.
I Amidon, 1st; Mrs. Lester Rhi-
¡nier, 2nd; Mrs. John Newcomer,
13rd; Mrs. Franklin Cassell, 4th.
Small Child
Hit By Auto i ——
| A small child was painfully
injured when he darted into an
automobile on East Main Street
Saturday afternoon shortly be­fore
the start of the baby pa­rade.
He is Farrie Knier, Manheim
RD3, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
K. Knier, Manheim RD3, who
j was crossing Main Street at a
point in front of Rosenberg’s
| store, when struck by an auto-j
mobile operated by Ralph Weid-j
man, Ephrata.
The injured child was given
first-aid treatment by Dr. M.
H. Yoder and then removed to
St. Joseph’s Hospital where he
is thought to have sustained a
j concussion. Local police exoner­ated
the driver.
Cars Damaged
Damage estimated at $150
was sustained by two automo­biles
which crashed at the inter-
| section of Broad and Orange
I Streets Sunday. Howard Eckert,
of Clay, had stopped his car
for the red light when Donald
IL. Tennis, Lititz RD2, crashed
¡into the rear of the Eckert car,
borough police reported.
Forming A Union District
Would Relieve Congestion
In Three School Districts
w i l l s p e a k Borough Officials Reprimand
Local Police Officer Following
Brawl At Football Game
Cub Scouts Organize
At Lutheran Church
The first organizational meet­ing
of the Cub Scouts was held
in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
on Monday evening with ap­proximately
35 parents in at­tendance.
There is enrollment
of at least 15 in the Cub Pack.
The meeting was conducted
by Bob Hamilton, Scout Execu­tive
in the Lancaster area, who
showed film strips on the his­tory
of Scouting and the activi­ties
of Cub Scouts.
Another meeting for parents
will be held next Monday eve­ning
a t 7:30 o’clock in the So­cial
Room of St. Paul’s Luther­an
Church.
Rev. H en ry L. Reed
Penr’n Church
Marks 200th
Anniversary
Special Services Start Sun.
At St. Paul's Lutheran
Church
St. Paul’s Evangelical Luth­eran
Church, Penryn, will cele­brate
its two-hundredth anniver­sary
with special services start­ing
Sunday and ending the fol­lowing
Sunday.
The congregation, formerly
known as the White Oak (Weis-eichenland)
congregation, can
trace its beginnings to the year
1752; It was in that year that
three trustees of the Lutheran
congregation and two of the Re­formed
made application for a
deed for a cemetery and a
schoolhouse. It was also on De­cember
1, 1752 that the first
Lutheran baptism was recorded.
The early history of St. Paul’s
reveals that the people in this
area were ministered to by
itinerant preachers, candidates
for the ministry, catechists, and
some full-time pastors. The con­gregation
through the years has
been a part of many different
parish arrangements, having
shared pastors with congrega­tions
as far distant as Hummels-town,
Middletown, Harrisburg
and Bernville, near Reading.
One of the most illustrious pas­tors
of the congregation was
Rev. Frederick Augustus Muh­lenberg,
son of Rev. Henry Mel-
! chior Muhlenberg, patriarch of
the Lutheran Church in Amer­ica.
Later Frederick Muhlen­berg
became the first Speaker
of the House of Representatives
of the United States.
The first Church building was
a small log Church erected very
early in the year 1832. It was
used jointly by both the Luth­eran
and Reformed congrega­tions,
and stood on the site oc­cupied
by the Reformed Church
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Issue To Be Decided At
The Polls On
Nov. 4th
With local voters scheduled
to go to the polls in less than
six weeks and to decide whether
j the three local school districts
I shall form a union district, the
Record-Express this week pub­lishes
the first of a series of ar­ticles
to discuss all phases of the
question.
The articles are being pre­pared
largely by the directors
of Warwick and Elizabeth
Townships and Lititz Borough
who recently formed a joint
district to carry on the work of
the three districts until after the
question of a union district has
been decided.
Other articles will appear
weekly until election day.
1. Reasons for forming a
Union District:
(a) Relieve present crowded
j conditions.
j (b) Provide adequate facili-
I ties.
j (c) The Department of Public
i Education at Harrisburg will not
; approved any important and
j needed additions to any of the
i individual districts. If it were
possible for each district to ex-
| pand their own facilities to
i properly accommodate their own
pupils, the cost to do this sepa­rately
in the three districts
would be considerably higher
than the cost would be for the
three districts to do it as one
unit. Economies would be effect­ed
by eliminating duplications
in three districts.
(d) Making possible a larger
range of study—the range of
equipment used by farmers and
i industries - today is mtlth rtlore
i varied than it was 25 years ago
| and likewise the range of study
of the pupils should be more
varied than it was 25 years ago.
2. The present enrollment of
the three districts at the present
time is about 2,000 pupils in­cluding
the 12 grades. The num­ber
of pupils leaving the War­wick
schools during the High
School period is large and the
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St a n d a r d t im e s t a r t s
THIS SUNDAY
There will be no excuse for
being late to Sunday School
Sunday, inasmuch as clocks go
back to standard time anytime
after midnight this Saturday.
All local church services will
be conducted on standard time.
Leadership Training School
To Start Here October 12
A Community Worship and
Leadership Training School will
be held on six Sunday evenings,
October 12th through Novem­ber
16th, in the Trinity Evan­gelical
Congregational Church,
sponsored by the Ministerial
Association and the Sunday
School Superintendents Asso­ciation.
Four courses will be offered,
three of them will be credited
by the division of Christian Ed­ucation
of the National Council
of Churches of Christ in the
U.S.A.
A Worship Service will be
held at 7:00 p.m., with devo­tions
and meditations by the
pastors and lay leaders. Special
music under the direction of
Harry Neidermyer with the
members of the participating
churches assisting.
Dr. Earl M. Bowman, pastor
of the Church of the Brethren,
will conduct “The Bible Hour”
from .7:30 to 8:30, this will be
directed on the Epistle to the
Hebrews.
The courses include, “The
Children We Teach”, taught by
Mrs. Simon Snyder, teacher and
principal of William Henry
School, Lancaster; ‘How to
Teach in the Church School”
with N. J. Fuhrman, supervising
principal of the Warwick Town­ship
schools, as the teacher
“The Church’s Program for
Youth” taught by Rev. Ray L.
Harwick, pastor of the Warwick
Charge of the Evangelical and
Reformed Church; and “Friend­ship
and Courtship” by Rev.
Francis R. Bell, pastor of St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Rev. Paul E. Whitmoyer, pas­tor
of the Salem Lutheran
Church, Kissel Hill, is the dean,
and Russell E. Murr is the regis­trar.
The participating churches
include, Church of the Brethren,
Evangelical United Brethren,
Jerusalem Evangelical and Re­formed,
Penryn; Moravian, St.
Lukes Evangelical and Reform­ed,
St. Paul’s Lutheran, Salem
Lutheran, Kissel Hill, and
Trinity E. C.
Moravian S.S.
Rally Day
This Sunday
Promotion and Rally Day will
be observed in the Moravian
Church this Sunday, with Miss
i A. Myfawny Roberts, Director
of Childrens’ Work, Penna.
State Council of Christian Edu­cation,
Harrisburg, - as the
speaker.
Miss Roberts will address the
combined departments of the
Church School at 9:15 a.m., at
which time promotion exercises
will also be held for the Nurs­ery,
Beginners, Primary and
Junior Departments, under the
direction of the respective Su­perintendents,
Mrs. Melvin
¡Hoover, Mrs. B. John Losensky,
Mrs. Robert Girvin and Mrs.
Winifred Walls. The General
Superintendent, Benjamin G.
Forrest, will preside.
At the 10:30 morning wor­ship
hour, the Church School
officers and teachers will be in­stalled
for the new school year
by the pastor. Miss Roberts will
speak on the subject, “The
Bible, Our Guide.” Copies of
the new Revised Standard Ver­sion
of the Bible will be on dis­play.
At 7:00 p.m-, the Church
School will sponsor the showing
of the sound film, “A Wonderful
Life”. It is the timely, modern
story of the simple faith Of one
man and how his Christian ex­ample
touched the everyday
! lives of his family and friends.
On Tuesday, September '30,
leaders of the Church and the
Church School will join with
fellow workers of the other
churches of the community in a
banquet in Fellowship Hall at
6:30 p.m.
Boro Honored
By State For
Safety Record
Dr. Bashore Presents Cer­tificate
At Meeting Of
Lions Club
Certificates honoring Lititz
for its record of no fatal high­way
accidents in the past seven
years, were presented to bor­ough
officials this week.
Speaking before the local
Lions Club Thursday evening,
Dr. Andrew Bashore, public re­lations
official of the governor’s
highway safety advisory com­mittee,
presented Burgess Ben­jamin
Forrest with a certificate
for one year’s perfect record.
Burgess Forrest then formally
presented the certificate to Chief
of Police Clarence Kreider who,
with Borough Manager Orville
Over, were present as guests.
Later the one-year certificate
was replaced by Dr. Bashore
with a seven-year certificate.
In his talk, Dr. Bashore laud­ed
borough police for their rec-jord
in safeguarding local high­ways.
Burgess Forrest also add­ed
his word of praise to the po­lice
and to members of the lo­cal
school patrols who direct
traffic during the school days.
Aux. Reviews
Year’s Work
Fifty members and friends of
! the Auxiliary of the Lancaster
I General Hospital held a covered
! dish luncheon in the Church of
¡the Brethren on Tuesday noon,
i followed by an electrical dem­onstration.
j Mrs. Hiram Eberly, the presi-
: dent, was in charge of the bus­iness
meeting and announced
the organization had contributed
$500 to the United Auxiliaries
treasury. Her report also re­vealed
that 1742 women in 93
days made 24,698 units for the
hospital.
The United Auxiliaries is
comprised of eighteen organiza­tions
from the boroughs and
towns of- the county and their
special work is to replenish and
care for the linen needed in the
hospital. Last year they spent
$8,200 for this cause.
SGT. ELWOOD KREIDER
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
Rev. R ich ard H. W in ters
Banquet Tues.
For Church
Workers Here
Will Mark 500th Anniver­sary
Of First Printing
Of Bible
A banquet for Sunday School
and Church Workers will be
held at the Moravian Fellowship
Hall on Tuesday evening at
6:30. This banquet is an annual
affair sponsored jointly by the
Church School Superintendents
and the Ministerial Association.
All Sunday School and church
workers and other interested
persons are invited.
The banquet takes on a spe­cial
significance this year in that
it marks the 500th Anniversary
of the first printing of the Bible.
Similar church gatherings are
being held all over the world on
this same day. In addition to
the commemoration of the first
printing of the Bible, these ob­servances
also mark the release
of the New Revised Standard
Version of the Bible.
The speaker for this occa­sion
will be Rev. Richard H.
Winters, Director of Admissions
at Franklin and Marshall Col­lege.
Rev. Winters will speak
on the new translation of the
Bible and its significance for to­day.
Copies of the new Bible
will be oh display at this meet­ing.
GROUP ENJOYS BUS TRIP
TO NEW YORK CITY
Approximately thirty-two per­sons
enjoyed a bus trip to New
York City over the past week­end,
headed by Mrs. Gertie
Helter. The group stayed at the
McAlpin Hotel.
Among some of the things
they enjoyed were a boat ride
down the Hudson River, a show
at the great Palace Theatre and
a tour of Radio City. A few of
the ladies also went to Green­wich
Village.
FILL ELECTION BOARD
IN SECOND WARD
Preparatory Service
At St. Luke's Sunday
This Sunday at 10:45 a.m. St.
Luke’s Church will conduct the
Preparatory Service for the
Holy Communion which is to
follow the next Sunday.
The sermon topic, last in a
series of three sermons center­ing
upon the Revised Standard
Version of the Bible, is “The
Word of Life In My Life.”
At 2:00 p.m., the Women’s
Guidw will drive to the County
Home, where they will conduct
a worship service for the pa­tients.
The evening Vesper service
will be the annual Installation
of Youth Fellowship Officers.
Officers to be installed are Paul
Stoner, president; Nevin Bush-ong,
vice-president and Janice
Keath, secretary-treasurer.
Sgt. Elyood Kreider, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kreider,
Orange St., received his dis­charge
from the U.S. Army at
Indiantown Gap yesterday. He
recently returned home after
spending approximately sixteen
months of duty in Germany.
Installation
At Church Of
The Brethren
A special service of installa­tion
and Consecration of all
office-holders of the church and
every auxiliary of the congrega­tion
will be held at the Church
of the Brethren Sunday morn­ing,
at 10:30 o’clock.
Dr. Earl M. Bowman, the pas­tor
of the Church, will present
a message appropriate for the
occasion on the subject: “Come,
Follow Me.” The Senior Choir,
under the direction of B. Garis
Daniels, will sing the anthem
entitled “We Would Be Build­ing.”
Rally Day Program
A special Rally Day program
will be presented by the Sun­day
School at 9:30 a.m.
Candlelight Service
A Candlelight Installation and
Consecration Service will be
held at 7:30 p.m., for the officers
of the Church of the Brethren
Youth Fellowship.
This impressive service will
be conducted by the young
people and will feature two se­lections
of special music by the
Chapel Choir, namely: “Come,
Let Us All Unite and Sing,” and
“Savior, While My Heart is
Tender,” both under the direc­tion
of. Mr. Daniels, the choir­master.
St. Paul’s
Church News
The serf on subject for the
10:30 a.m. service on Sunday at
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will
be entitled “Pages of Power”.
In presenting the message, Rev.
Francis R. Bell will give special
emphasis to the new Revised
Standard Version of the Bible.
There will also be a Bible dis­play
of the new translation at
this service.
The Intermediate and Senior
Luther Leagues will observe
Youth Sunday with a “Rally
for the Conflict” at the 7:00
p.m. Vesper service. This will
include a pantomime of the
United Lutheran Church of
America’s educational program
for the youth of the church. The
Leaguers and members of Mr.
Ruk’s Sunday School Class are
asked to bring box lunches to
the church at 5 KM) p.m. Sunday.
Dress rehearsal has been called
for 5:30 p.m.
A petition asking the appoint­ment
of Clarence Brubaker as
judge of elections in the Second
Ward of the borough, will be
presented in county court this
Friday. Mr. Brubaker will suc­ceed
William Ringer who served
in this position for a number
of years but who had to resign
recently when he moved into
the First Ward.
Rothsville Fire Company Adds
Emergency Oxygen Units
The Rothsville Fire Company
First Aid Unit is proud to an­nounce
that it now has two re­suscitation
oxygen units for
emergency use.
A family of Rothsville pro­vided
the financial aid neces­sary
for the purchasing of the
equipment.
In the last three months the
First Aid Unit has made great
strides in procuring the neces­sary
training and equipment for
th establishment of an adequate,
well trained, first aid service.
Each member of the unit has
received training in the proper
administration of oxygen resus­citation,
as well as all the other
phases of first aid, and will
shortly receive their Red Cross
first aid certificates.
The auxiliary fire truck has
undergone the necessary changes
so that it can, at a moment’s
notice, be converted into an
emergency ambulance. A roster
has been set up for day and
n ig h t. emergency ambulance
crews, to give first aid and to
man the ambulance. It is not
intended, at present, that this
ambulance will be used for rou­tine
calls.
This first aid unit is entirely
on a volunteer basis and their
service are available to the
general public whenever re­quired.
Claim Nagle Left Seem
Before Disturbance
Had Ended
Burgess Benjamin Forrest and
members of the borough police
committee this week launched
a probe into an alleged fistic
brawl which followed Saturday
afternoon’s football game be­tween
Lititz High School and
Palmyra, in which one set of
the local goal posts were tom
down.
Following the session held be­hind
closed doors, Burgess For­rest
disclosed that Borough Po­lice
Officer Luther Nagle had
been given an official repri­mand.
“I was not present at the
game but borough officials who
were present or who heard the
testimony given at our meeting
feel that the police officer should
have broken up the disturb­ance,”
Burgess Forrest announ­ced.
B
orough Councilman Russell
Templeton, who is a member of
the borough police committee
and who asked that the session
be called, reported that when
Officer Nagle had been asked to
protect the school property he
had moved his automobile and
then had driven back into town.
When Nagle was questioned
by borough councilmen he de­clared
that he had moved his
automobile out of the way. of
traffic and then, when it ap­peared
that the disturbance was
breaking up, felt he was not
needed and had driven away.
Councilman Templeton reported.
Spectators declared tha* a
group of adults from Palmyra
had rushed to the one goal post
and that it was down before
many present realized what was
going on. When they started for
the second goal post, a group
of local spectators, plus a group
from Ephrata, stopped than
with their fists.
“Taxpayers’ property was de­stroyed
and any uniformed offi­cer
at any time is responsible
for the protection of property,”
Mr. Templeton declared, ex­plaining
that a new system will
be used in the future—but that
Nagle will not be assigned to
duty at games in the future.
The new system calls for two
of the three officers, who will
include one or two local con­stables,
to station themselves
on the playing field at the close
of the game and to remain there
until the crowd has dispersed.
The third man will direct traffic.
“The incident Saturday was
partly due to the fact that two
constables present had to hurry
from the field to help untangle
traffic congestion on Spruce
Street which developed as a re­sult
of the Farm Show,” lir .
Templeton also explained.
Lititz High Travels
To Quarryville For
Night Football Game
Lititz High’s gridders play
their first night game of the
season this Friday when they
go to Quarryville for a game
with Southern Lancaster Coun­ty
Joint High School.
Losers of two close decisions,
7-6 to Red Lion and 12-6 to Pal­myra
last week, the Pretzels
will meet another club that has
lost both of its games thus far
this year.
Last year Lititz defeated So­taneo
27-7 for their only
of the season.
HOME OVER WEEK-END
Airman 2-C Donald E. Peters
returned yesterday to Selfried
Field, Michigan, where he is
stationed, after spending the
week-end at his home here. He
expects to return October 1 few
a 15-day furlough. Peters has
been in the service 16 months.
HYMN SING
A Hymn Sing will be heli
this Saturday evening at Longe
necker’s Church of the Brethrei
at 7:30 o’clock.