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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, October 9, 1952 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. hy mail No. 26
‘Lights On’ Campaign For Funds Here Next Wed.
Workers Will
Start Canvass
At 7 O’Clock
Residents Willing To Give
Are Asked To Turn
On Porch Lights
The Lititz Community Chest
'Lights On” Drive for funds
will be conducted throughout
the borough next Wednesday
night starting at 7 p.m.
Plans for the intensive cam­paign
which will begin at 7
p.m. -with a blast of fire sirens
and announcements relayed
through borough streets by am­plification,
were completed at
the public meeting of the Com­munity
Chest held Tuesday eve­ning
in the Community Center.
A parade headed by the Lit­itz
High School Band will offi­cially
open the drive, according
to plans announced at the meet­ing
by Dr. Howard B. Minnich.
Fire trucks will then make a
tour of borough streets with
banners and with sirens blast­ing
forth their message for
funds.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
of the borough then will go from
door to door delivering pam
W ILL SING HERE Mass Meeting
At Rothsville
Over Merger
Director Asks Voters To
Discuss Union Issue At
Meeting Monday Eve.
LOCAL MODELS FOR FASHION SHOW
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The proposed union school
district to be voted upon at the
polls November 4 will be de«
bated pro and con at a public
meeting to be held in the War­wick
Township High School on
Monday evening.
Announcement of the meeting
was made by members of the
Warwick Township School
| Board who openly predicted
that some of the arguments may
become rather heated as inter­est
in the issue grows steadily
as election day approaches.
I Clarence Binkley, president
of the joint district established
¡between Warwick, Elizabeth and
i Lititz last August, will preside
_ _ _ _ _ _ j over the public meeting and
p . n , r> \ will explain the advantages of
community Concert Group forming a union district.
Mails Tickets For 1 9 5 2 - i Following Mr. Binkley’s talk
1 9 5 3 Attractions ithe mefuing , — (open to the p ublic fobr ed,, etbvhartfoew. n
A concert by Janice Moudry, ! While predicting - that a sub­stantial
majority of the voters
First Civilian Air Raid Test
Will Be Held Wednesday;
Lack Of Interest Scored Here
RECEIVES DISCHARGE Burgess Forrest Announces
Wilbur Factory Whistle
To Sound Warning
Concert Series
To Open On
October 18
phlets setting forth aims of the mezzo-soprano who has won ac- , f the union
CCoommmmuunniittyy CChheesstt cCaammpDaa igen aa ndd claim ln Nseeawso nY orwk ilCl itoyn ednu rtinhge ! odfi stthriec t,t owmnesmhbipe rfsa voofr tthhee uWniaorn-th.
t workers w.U , 952P5f c ~ ni ” c o S I « " ■ Township b° “ d
ies here at Fellowship Hall on *bat one member, at least, has
Saturday evening, October 18. ¡been working against the union
ITn announcing the open,i ng at­district.
As a result of this, the
traction of the current series,
announcing
follow them door-to-door a few
minutes letter.
Residents will be asked to
turn on porch lights indicating
they will donate to the drive. ; meeting is expected to become
j a lively discussion period,
j The meeting will open at 8:00
o’clock.
| Name New Director
| At their last meeting mem-ibers
of the Warwick Township
Board accepted the resignation
, , , , n , . ,of Fritz Kroeck, who moved
public meeting held Tuesday. Times declared: “Keep your eye ; from the district. Henry Tennis
at on this young singer. She has a I coal dealer> of near Lexington,
n- ! voice of beautv and enough in- j was appointed to ’fill the vacan­cy.
Director Hackman, who was
The amplification of the same members of the local committee
message through the streets called attention to favorable
will be done by members of press reviews Miss Moudry was
he Lititz Junior Chamber of given following her opening re-
Commerce. cital at Town Hall in New York
A budget of $10,220 for the City last year,
borough was approved at the i At that time the New York!
Here’s just a tasty example of what to expect at the Fashion Show to be presented in Fel­lowship
Hall next Tuesday under the sponsorship of the Lititz Woman’s Club. Starting at the
left you see Miss Patsy Lutz, pertly modeling a casual outfit, with Joanne Fryer, next, in an
attractive blouse and reversible skirt. Mrs. E. C. Bertolet, center, models an early evening gown;
while Miss Nancy Smaller, at her left, shows off a cocktail dress to considerable advantage;
with, at her left, Mrs. J. Wilbur Wolf, modeling a short-length evening dress.
Fashion Show To Be Held
In Fellowship Hall Tuesday
REPAIR CHIMNEY
that time showed that the Com-! voice of beauty and enough in-munity
Che6t had expenditures telligence, human sentiment and
during the past year of $2,560.70 musical instinct to carry her
as compared with receipts of into the first rank.”
S2,672.37.
The annual report of commu-
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List Workers
For Com’unity
Chest Drive
Other newspaper critics prais­ed
her singing of songs of Arne,
Haydn and Morley in which
“every moment held a new
pleasure”; and hailed two arias
from Bach cantatas in which
“she displayed some of the
thrilling quality of tone which
is the mark of great mezzo-sopranos.”
Tickets for the series were
being mailed to members this
week along with complete de­tails.
Othr concerts will include
DISTRICT 1 — Mrs. J. A.
Bettes, Jr., captain; Mrs. Roy
Reidenbaugh, Mrs. Frank Long-¡Gary Graffman, pianist, on Feb-enecker,
Mrs. Clyde Hendricks, j ruary 4; and Graudans, cello-
D1STRICT 2 — Mrs. William | piano due, on March 26.
Spacht, captain; William Spacht,
Mrs. Mildred Meiskey.
DISTRICT 3 — John G. Her-shey,
captain; Mrs. John Weng­er,
Mrs. Mary Ann McCormick,
William Whitten, Howa rd
Swarr, Landis Stehman.
DISTRICT 4 — Mrs. Dean
Miller, captain; Mrs. Paul Ritz,
Mrs. Charles Forry, William
Myers, Mrs. William Ringer.
DISTRICT 5—Mrs. P. F. Sny­der,
captain; Frank Longeneck-er,
Mrs. Valeria Gibble.
DISTRICT 6—Alfred Douple,
captain; Elmer Bomberger, Mrs.
Roy Keller,. Mrs. E. Richard
Hess.
DISTRICT 7—Mrs. Paul Mc­Cloud,
captain; Miss Mildred
Young, Miss Vera Hoffman, Miss
Patricia Garner.
DISTRICT 8 — Mrs. Charles
Wagaman, captain; Mrs. Clar­ence
Sturgis, Mrs. William Fas-nacht,
Miss Betty Girvin, Mrs.
Robert Heagy.
DISTRICT 9—Mrs. Franklin
Cassel, captain; Mrs. Joseph
Grosh, Mrs. Galen Minnich, Mrs.
Wilson Spang, Christian Arndt,
Jr.
DISTRICT 10—Mrs. Edwin
Stroble, captain; Mrs. Charles
Landis, Mrs. Charles Sweitzer,
Mrs. Bruce Burkholder.
DISTRICT 11— Miss Martha
Sturgis, captain; Byron K.
Horne, William Klunk, Ray
Mann, Levi Weaver, Mrs. John
Todd, Miss Ann Weitzel.
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DANCE AT LINDEN HALL
vice-president, presided.
The Senior Class of Linden
Hall Academy will hold a dance
in the school gymnasium on
Saturday, October 18th. Sally
Stayman of Pittsburgh, class
president, is in charge of ar- ___, --------------- .., r ------- , .
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Hall went to Hershey on Jj'ricjay
evening to see 41m opera ‘‘‘Car­men”
at the Hershey Theater.
Local Degree
Team Installs
At Pittsburgh
The degree team of the local
lodge of Odd Fellows, which has
not been active in recent years,
came to life with a bang over
the week-end when members
motored to Pittsburgh to install
officers of a lodge there.
Making their headquarters at
the Fort Pitt Hotel, the group
conducted a public installation
of officers of I.O.O.F. Lodge
1043. Those who made the trip,
accompanied by their wives,
were as follows: W. Martin
Hess, deputy grand master;
Robert Weaver, d.d. grand war­den;
Ed Grosh, d.d. grand chap­lain;
John Keehn, pianist;
The Lititz Woman’s Club will
sponsor a Fashion Show to be
presented by the Ann Shops, at
Moravian Fellowship Hall on
Tuesday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
All types of costumes will be
shown, embracing the entire
gamut of accepted apparel for
early morning to late evening.
The first group of models will
show Pajamas, Dusters, Robes
and Negligees. A feature of this
phase of the show will be Dem­ocratic
and Republican Pajama
sets with their respective em­blems
of the Popkey an.d the
Elephant.
Next to be shown will be the
sportswear group, including
slacks, skirts, sweaters and
suits. This will be followed by a
presentation of afternoon and
cocktail frocks. Of special in­terest
to the fashion-minded is
a cocktail dress made of black
taffeta with inverted pleats
showing shell colored accordian
pleats. The shell colored com­bination
is carried through from
the bodice from a peek-a-boo
neckline.
One of the outstanding fea­tures
of the show will be a for-
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Abstract Art
Being Shown
At Weaver’s
TO RECEIVE DEGREE
The chimney on the school
building which was badly dam­aged
when struck by lightning
several weeks ago, has been re­paired
and the fires in the fur­naces
have been started.
604 South Broad Street.
Christ Nissly
Issued First
Sewer Permit
Warn Owners Not To Con­nect
Until Notified;
Treatment Plant Ready
Firemen List
Fire Hazards
To Combat
U jil N u sk /'ck tft-^ e cm a ry ;
Gochenauef, d.d. inside
Uña Robert Heagy, d.d.
guard.
Columbia Highly Favprèd In
Football Clash Here Saturday
F. And M. To
Pay Honor To
Judge Wissler
The honorary degree of Doc­tor
of Laws will be conferred
upon Judge Joseph B. Wissler,
by Franklin and Marshall Col­lege
at the Founders’ Day Con­vocation,
October 24.
Announcement of the honor
to be bestowed upon the local
jurist was made by college offi-
The first show of abstract art
in Lititz is now on display under
the sponsorship of the Village j cials as part of the institution’s
Art Association at Weaver’s | observance of the 100th anni-
Restaurant. The show consists . versary of Franklin and Mar-of
ten casein paintings by Jo- shall Colleges,
heph Meierhans of Bucks Coun-! Judge Wissler has served as a
ty, Penna^and New York. [judge of the .JUanpaster County.
MeidH«lg.^nrho wm born in Court of Co&jtwn Pleas fiir**
Switzefla^Jpiwi came to the 1942. He is. a member cl __,
United®W«i*'1918,.started as board o f t o r s of the f^rnp1
« silk cfcsfgner and -today is a 1 ers’ National Bank, this' bor-national
authority on silk manu- ough; and a past president of
facturing. He studied art under j the Lititz Rotary Club.
Tod Lindemuth in Allentown! Both Jud wissler and Jo.
and at the Art Students League siah F1 d Buzzard, ophthamol-m
New York under John Sloan. :Qgist and • otolaryngologist who
Meierhans has had^ numerous wiu be honored at the same
one-man shows in New York,;ti are graduates of Franklin
and has exhibited with various
Compile Questionnaire As
Part Of Fire Prevention
Week Observance
By THEODORE STAUFFER, Jr.
The following are check lists
for the home, the store, and the
factory. This is “Fire Preven­tion
Week,” and the week set
aside for us to check our sur­roundings
for fire safety. We
ask each and every one to be
a Fire Chief for your respective
surroundings and make a thor­ough
inspection. Any fire haz­ard
found should be corrected
at once. So let’s go, Chief, here’s
the check list—
INSPECTION OF HOME
1. Is there any rubbish such
as old papers, broken furniture,
junk, etc., in the attic . . .
basement . . . closets . . . garage
. . . yard?
Ans. Fires seldom start in
clean places.
2. How often is paper and
rubbish disposed of?
Ans. Never leave paper and
rubbish accumulate.
3. Are walls, floors, ceilings
protected from overheated
stoves, pipes, and furnaces?
Ans. Asbestos covering should
be used to protect from 'hot
stoves, pipes, and furnaces.
4. Are hot ashes kept in cov­ered
metal containers?
Captain Robert Bomberger,
who has been stationed at Olm-stead
Airforce Base, Middle-town,
received his honorable Lititz will have its first
discharge from the service on peacetime air raid test early
Tuesday. He is the son of Mr. next Wednesday afternoon, de-and
Mrs. Guy D. Bomberger, spite that the local lack of in­terest
will make it an impossi­bility
to properly man the civil
defense posts here, Burgess
Benjamin Forrest, who heads
the local civil defense set-up,
revealed today.
“There has been so little in­terest
in civil defense that when
we call meetings only two or
three persons report and seem
willing to participate,” Burgess
Forrest asserted. “It seems that
the public does not take the
need for civil defense seriously
enough and that everyone is too
busy to become active in this
work.”
""The alert will sound at ap­proximately
1:50 p.m. on Wed­nesday
afternoon. The Wilbur
Suchard factory whistle will
give the intermittent blast warn­ing
the public of the hypotheti­cal
approach of airplanes which
became so familiar during
World War II tests.
The test is expected to end
at 1:56 p.m. with the minute-long
all-clear blast from the
same factory whistle. Burgess
Forrest asked that all available
wardens and auxiliary police
patrol their areas during the
test.C
harles Kling has been ap­pointed
deputy director in
charge of this work.
He also announced the follow­ing
rules of conduct for the
public when the alert is sound-
The first permit to hook-up
with the new sewerage treat­ment
system was issued Tuesday
morning to Former Councilman
Christ Nissley—and at press­time,
the former borough official
still was the only person who
had rushed into the borough
manager’s office for the official
permission.
With the treament plant east
of the borough ready for ope­ration,
the borough manager’s
office mailed a total of 30 notices
Monday afternoon directing
property owners to hook-up
with the system within ninety
days.
Those notified were located on
the south side of East Main
Street from Cherry to Locust
Street and the block of Willow
Street south from Main.
Nissly was granted a permit
to hook-up a house he owns at
9 South Locust Street. Work of e<*:
actually hooking up was started
and completed within a few
hours after the permit was
If you are driving a car, pull
to the side and stop. In stop­ping,
be sure to leave at least
handed Nissly by Janet Meli- one ^ane open for emergency
inger, secretary to the borough
manager.
Warning to persons in other
sections of town not to hook-up
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Domer Brenner New
Simplex President
Three Lititz area men have
been elected to the three top
positions of the Simplex Paper
Box Company it was announced
by officials.
The action came following
the retirement of Capt. John M.
Groff as president of the firm,
who now is president of the
Board of Directors.
Domer Brenner, Lititz RD3,
for many years vice-president,
was elected r-to presidency
effective Æ>ctpb«r g
traffic.
If you are on the sidewalk,
or out in the yard, go inside.
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Rev. Shissler
Hurt In Crash
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Rev. Henry Shissler, formerly
of this borough, is recovering
from injuries sustained in an
automobile accident near State
College ten days ago, according
to word reaching here this
week.
Rev. Shissler was returning
from State College where he
had delivered a lecture when he
failed to negotiate a sharp curve
and lost control of his car which
a
aq^..oçpls
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presldent^and William Ë. Ring­er,
-4»lä Laurei Ave., was nahied
secretary.
A real “toughie” of the Con­ference
of Roses, once-beaten
Columbia High School, comes
here Saturday for a game with
Lititz High, that finds the visi­tors
in the role of heavy favor­ites.
Bouncing back from the foot­ball
doldrums after several
years of mediocre clubs, Colum­bia
is making a serious bid to
dethrone the Palmyra High team
as Roses Conference champions.
Possessing one of the finest
backs in scholastic ranks this
year in Jack Yohe, Columbia
last Saturday rolled over Man-heim
Township High School
28-0.
• Township defeated Red Lion
earlier this year, 20-6, a team
that topped Lititz 7-6.
One again it will be up to
the defensive unit of Dave Mac-
Nicoll’s club to throw a monkey
wrench into the offensive ma­chine
of the visitors.
Thus far this year the club
has played outstanding defen­sive
ball, and with a little more
luck in their offensive play,
could give the Columbians an
interesting afternoon Saturday.
groups in this country and
Europe.
Meierhans, who recently turn-and
Marshall College. After re­ceiving
his bachelor of arts de­gree
there in 1913, Judge Wiss­ed
sixty has gone through many ¡wlehr ewree nth teo Hgraardvuaradte dL awin Sch19ologl
different phases in art and is jand was admitted to the bar
the same year.
in color and full of movement
:and are all together exciting
and accomplished abstractions.”
. (N. Y. World-Telegram).
! “Meierhans starts with spe-
! cific subject, simplifies it to ab­stract
terms and spins his com-
Despite the fine brand of ball positions of decorative color
the Lititz team has exhibited thinly applied in veils and trail-this
year, there -is a general ing lines”. (N. Y. Herald-Trib-opinion
among county ranks une).
that Columbia will go on to This show will be on display
their fourth win of the year. during the month of October.
constantly experimenting. The
following are extracts from re- j _ _
cent press notices on his work, j
“Meierhans’ paintings are strong HALLOWE’EN PARADE
PLANS STILL INCOMPLETE
.Plans for a Hallowe’en Parade
which will include at least
three bands in the line of march
to be held Wednesday evening,
October 29, were being consid­ered
this week by members of
the local Lions Club. Several
hundred cash prizes will be of­fered
for the most artistic, the
most original and the most ri­diculous
costumes.
P.T.A. To Discuss Merger At
Opening Meeting Next Thurs.
William Fasnacht, president
of the local School Board, will
be the speaker at the first meet­ing
of the Parent-Teachers As­sociation
to be held on Thurs­day,
October 16th at 8:00 p.m.
in the school auditorium. He
will discuss the Union School
District.
Four members will represent
the Association at the three day
Parents’ Conference to be held
at Franklin and Marshall Col­lege
beginning October 28th.
They' are- JVJrs. John Hershey,
Mrs. William'' Whitten, Mary
Ann McCormMfc spid Mrs. Rob­ert
Posey.
The financial budget will be
presented for approval and the
executive committee, which will
hold monthly meetings, will in-clude
all officers and committee
chairmen and G. Marlin Spaid,
supervising principal.
The group decided to buy
four plaques to be presented at
each meeting to the rooms hav­ing
the best attendance. A so­cial
hour will follow the pro­gram,
with the hospitality com­mittee
in charge.
Joseph Carl, the newly elect­ed
president, appointed the fol­lowing
committee chairmen:
William Pennel, program; Mrs.
Richard Allebach, membership;
Mrs. Charles Wagaman, hospi­tality;
David MacNicoll, publi­city;
Max Hoaster, budget and
finance; Albert Ebbert, Ways
and Means; Mrs. Robert Girvin
and Miss Vera Hoffman, room-mothers.
Passing motorists tJpk him to
State College Hospital where
six stitches were required to
close a cut in his scalp. Rev.
Shissler is conducting a course
at Lycoming College, Williams­port.
He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew H. Shissler, North
Cedar Street .this borough.
Ground Is Broken For
New Church At
Speedwell Heights
Ground was broken for the
building of the Holy Trinity
Church at Speedwell Heights on
Tuesday evening. With members
of the small congregation stand­ing
about, the first spadeful of
dirt was overturned by Rev.
Charles Whitman ,of Lebanon.
Rev. Isaac Kauffman, of Nar-von,
and Paul Parrish, member
of the congregation, then took
turns in breaking ground for
the church building. Tractors
were on the job yesterday and
it was expected the project will
be ready for the pouring of
concrete by Saturday.