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No. 32
200 Needed
To Give Blood
Here Dec. 9
Local Committee Issues
Appeal For Volunteers;
Need Is Stressed
Approximately 200 volunteers
are needed for the visit of the
bloodmobile here on Tuesday,
December 9, members of the
local committee announced this
week.
The bloodmobile will be sta­tioned
at Fellowship Hall from
1 to 6:30 p.m. Volunteers are
asked to contact Mrs. John Her-shey,
chairman of the local
committee in charge; or Bur­gess
Benjamin Forrest, chairman
of the volunteer procurement
committee.
With fighting in Korea, be­coming
more intensified, need
for blood plasma is more urgent
than at any time since the close
of World War II, it was ex­plained.
Any person between
the ages of 21 and 59 years is
eligible to volunteer. Persons
older or younger must obtain
permission from parents or phy­sician.
In volunteering blood, only
30 minutes of a person’s time is
required and only one pint of
blood is removed from each p er­son—
yet this may mean the
difference between life and
death for some youth in Korea,
it was pointed out.
MENU
Woman’ Club
Donates Radio
To Rossmere
Dr. Everett Discusses In­vestments;
Miss Eckert
Directs Club Chorus
The Lititz Woman’s Club held
its regular meeting Monday eve­ning
at the Gerteral Sutter Ho­tel,
at which time it was an­nounced
that the executive
board had voted to present a
radio to Rossmere Sanitorium
on the recommendation of the
Welfare Committee.
Dr. Winthrop E. Everett, head
of the Economics Department
of Franklin and Marshall Col­lege,
spoke on “Women and In­vestments.”
The Club Chorus, under the
direction of Miss Myrtle Eckert,
sang “This Is My Country” and
j the Czechoslovakian folk song,
“Morning Now Beckons.” They
were accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. Gordon Trump.
Commies Use American-Made
Equipment In Korean Fighting
Lititz Soldier Discovers
A Lititz soldier, Private Bob Bomberger, now in the
center of the bloodiest fighting in Korea, has found that
fighting equipment being used against the U.N. forces, was
actually manufactured here in this country not far from
Lititz, although assembled by the Russians.
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ported in a le tte r to the editor VENISON ON MENU
of The Record-Express received i
here this week. I AT MORAVIAN HOME
At the time of the writing of
the letter, November 7, Bom­berger
reported he was on
“White Horse” Mountain but
expected to be moved to their
new outpost, “The Three Sis­te
rs” Mountains th a t night.
But on White Horse Moun­tain,
he and his comrades, he
reports, found a quantity of
equipment . abandoned by the
Chinese Communists in their
flight. The equipment, for a
large p a rt bore Russian m a rk ­ings
but one working p a rt of
the Russian automatic rifle was
found to have been manufac­tured
in Baltimore, Md.
They also discovered th a t
much o f the abandoned ammu­nition
was made in this country.
“It appears to me that history
is once again repeating itself,”
Bomberger comments.
His letter, in part, follows:
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The ladies at the Moravian
Home are enjoying venison
these days. The venison was a
gift from .Game Protector Wal­lace
Woodring who found a 130-
pound doe dead on the highway
near Mount Airy. It was indi­cated
th a t the animal had been
killed ju st a short distance from
the highway and then carried
there.
Co. Confab
'Of Student
Councils Here
Meeting Today To Study
I Problems Of Student
I Activities
| Approximately 65 members of
| student councils of Lancaster
i County High Schools will be
I welcomed to Lititz this after-
! noon when the Lancaster Coun­ty
Student Council Conference
, will convene in the local high
school auditorium,
j And although scheduled to be
dined and danced, the visiting
delegates will have more serious
matters on th eir minds and will
spend much of the afternoon
delving into various aspects of
student activities and behaviour.
| Four conferences arranged
J will discuss ways in which stu-dent
councils can gain greater
respect among students; how
funds can be raised to finance
school projects; and just how
: heavy a schedule of projects
student councils should assume.
Donald Ruhl, president of the
local student council, will wel­come
the delegates at the open­ing
assembly at 2:30 P.M. with
greetings also to be extended by
Supervising Principal G. Marlin
Spaid.
Entertaining features of the
assembly consist of a duet, Judy
Meiskey and Rochelle Kopp; a
vocal selection, “Blue Moon,”
by Audrey Risser; juggling by
Carl Thorson; and baton tw irl­ing
by Svea Eckert.
At a dinner at 5:30 in the
school cafeteria and served by
the cafeteria staff,, William Fas-nacht,
president of the local
school board, will be the speak­er.
Following the dinner, a
dance will be held in the gym
from 8 to 11:30, with music by
the “Blue Notes”.
A total of 13 county schools
will participate.
OBSERVE 50th ANNIVERSARY
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Burgess Forrest Suspends
Police Officer Luther Nagle
For Alleged Inefficiency
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Mr. and Mrs. Adam Showers
PENN TWP. TRACT SOLD
A two-acre tra c t of land in
Penn Township, on the Elm-
Penryn Road, having a two and
one-half story frame dwelling
and a combination barn and
poultry house, offered at public
sale Saturday by Mary B. Nel­son,
was purchased by Ray
Burkholder, Elm, for $14,900.
Henry J. Snavely was the
auctioneer.
LAUNCH CHRISTMAS GIFT CAMPAIGN
The Hospital Committees of
the American Legion (Garden
Spot Post 56) and the Veterans
of Foreign Wars (Lititz Springs
Post 1463) opened a Christmas
Gift Campaign with the theme
of “Give a Gift to a Veteran in
the Hospital” on Friday evening
and will continue through Sat­urday,
Dec. 20.
Chimneys have been placed in
the various business places, also
cards have been placed in other
windows reminding us th a t we
may all participate in this pro- Hospital,
gram by placing our gifts in one (Continued on Page 6)
of the chimneys. The gifts will
be distributed to veterans who
are patients in the following
hospitals: Lancaster General,
St. Joseph’s, Rossmere Sanator­ium
and the Lebanon Veterans
Turkey Dinner
To Cost Less
Survey Shows
Gobblers Being Quoted At
10 Cents Less Than
In 1951
The family Thanksgiving Din­n
er in Lititz this year should
cost several dollars less than
last year, despite generally high
prices, local grocers revealed
this week.
Turkeys, the main item on al-
1 most any local Thanksgiving
table, were being quoted a t an
average of ten cent per pound
lower this year than last. Sev­eral
local stores priced turkeys
1 a t 12 cents a pound less and re ­ported
them plentiful.
Cranberries, potatoes and a
few other items were higher
but only a cent or two per
pound and by no means offset
the savings to be realized by
lower turkey prices. Frozen
foods were found to be lower.
Special Thanksgiving services
were being planned either , for
Wednesday night or Thursday
morning by most local churches.
With factories, stores and offices,
banks and postoffice closed,
many persons here were plan­ning
to attend nearby football
games.
A number of students also
were arriving home this week­end
for the holiday, to be fea­tured
with a number of social
events.
P.T.A. Square Dance
To Be Held Saturday
The second square dance of
the season will be held on Sat­urday
night in the school gym­nasium,
from 8:00 to 11:30.
These dances are sponsored
by the ways and means com­mittee
of the P a ren t Teachers
Association.
Dances are open to the public
and tickets will be on sale at
the door on Saturday night.
Tickets will sell for $1.00 per
couple.
Local Couples To Observe
50th Wedding Anniversaries
Fiftieth wedding anniversaries ai% being observed by
three different couples here within the course of a single
week.
------------------------------------------------ Mr. and Mrs. Adam E. Show-
Where Lincoln Stood ers- serv e th eiKr 5J^0tauhi nw sedhdi.nwgi na nonbi'­versary
next Wednesday.
In honor of the occasion they
will be entertained by their
children at open house this Sat­urday,
from two to eight o’clock,
to which their relatives and
friends are cordially invited.
The couple was married by
the late Rev. H. S. Sonnon at
his home in East Petersburg.
They were attended by Henry
Nies of town and the late Mrs.
Nies, a sister of Mr. Showers.
They have §ight children:
Paul, of Ephrata; Mrs. Chester
George, of Manheim; Frank,
Charles, Mrs. Harry Adams,
Mrs. William Getz, Mrs. Albert
Garner and Mrs. George Smith,
all of Lititz. There are twenty-one
grandchildren.
Mr. Showers is a veteran of
the Spanish American war, hav­ing
served in the Philippines
and during the Boxer Rebellion
in China.
Peiffers Plan
A n Open House
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Peiffer,
313 E. Main St., will celebrate
th eir 50th wedding anniversary
on Thanksgiving Day. Their
friends and relatives are invited
to visit them a t “Open House,”
from three to eight o’clock.
The couple was married on
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1902
a t the parsonage of the United
Evangelical Church, Manheim,
| by the late Rev. F. S. Borkey.
I They are the parents of nine
j children: Russell, of this bor-
; ough; Esther, wife of P au l Nei-dermyer,
Bareville RD1; Bea-i
trice, wife of John Mohler, Lit-
| itz; Edith, wife of Oren Mc-
, Gonigal, Newville RD1; Naomi,
wife of Howard Smith, Bethel
RD1; Robert, recently returned
, from Tokyo, Japan; Margaret,
, wife of Fred Haggerty, and
! Kathryn, wife of Lester Kem-
! per, both of Lititz. One son,
I John R., is deceased,
j They also have 22 grandchil-
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Officer Nagle
Boro Council Will Consider
Dismissal At Meeting
On Tuesday
Borough Police Officer Luther
Nagle has been suspended from
duty for inefficiency, Burgess
Benjamin Forrest disclosed yes­terday.
Nagle’s suspension will be
, ] brought before borough council
; at its monthly meeting Tuesday
evening when Burgess Forrest
is expected to recommend that
the officer be dismissed.
“This action must come from
council,” Burgess Forrest as­serted,
adding, “all that I care
to announce a t this time is th a t
Officer Nagle was suspended for
inefficiency.”
Barry Horne
Gives Address
At Gettysburg
Standing on the very spot
where the Great Emancipator
stood, Dr. Byron K. Home,
headmaster at Linden Hall, yes­terday
delivered the annual ad­dress
marking the anniversary
of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettys­burg
Address.
“The conditions which p re ­vailed
in Lincoln’s time, still
prevail,” Dr. Horne informed
members of the Lincoln Fellow­ship,
who gather at Gettysburg
each year to keep alive the tr a ­ditions
of Lincoln.
“Today we stand in the day
of testing. And no nation can
take its place in the family of
nations without confirming the
faith of its founders—namely a
faith in God,” Dr. Horne con­cluded.
The Lincoln Fellowship ad­dress
last year was delivered by
Governor Adlai Stevenson, of
Illinois, defeated Democratic
presidential candidate.
ROTARY VIEWS MOVIES
Sidney Long
Is President
Of Jaycees
Sidney Long was elected pres­ident
of the Lititz Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce at a special
election held last Friday night.
He will succeed Ray Oatman,
who resigned inasmuch as he
had reached the age of 35, a t
which age he no longer is elig­ible
for membership in the
Jaycees.
Other officers named are EM.
Crowl, first vice president;
Wayne Fahnestock, Jr., second
vice president; Ned Leaman,
secretary; and William Spacht,
treasurer.
Local Jaycees are conducting
a membership drive during this
month and are contacting young
men between the ages of 21 and
35, inclusive. Long emphasized
th a t anyone interested in join­ing
the Jaycees should contact
any of the officers. The local
drive is coordinated with cam­paigns
in the state and nation.
G. Marlin Spaid Named
Sup. Principal Of New
Union School District
A sound moving picture de­picting
the automobiles of the
future as well as reviewing the
methods of mass production of
cars today was shown at a meet­ing
of the Lititz Rotary Club
Tuesday evening by Jonathan
F'orry, president of the Keller
Brothers Auto Company, of this
borough. He was introduced by
Harry Grubb, program chair­man.
G. Marlin Spaid was elected
supervising principal of the
new union school district a t a
joint meeting of the three
school .boards last evening. N. J.
Fuhrman, supervising principal
at Rothsville, was named p rin ­cipal
of the Warwick and Eliz­abeth
Township Schools to
serve in the capacity of assist­ant
supervising principal of the
new district.
Additional preparation for
formation of the union district
on Ju ly 1, as a result of the re ­cent
vote at the polls, was an­nounced
by Clarence Binkley,
who presided. Committees to be
named at the next meeting are
building, site, athletic finance,
name, transportation and sup­plies.
Family Drives 5,500 Miles
To Visit Relatives Here
LOCAL WOMEN WILL
APPEAR ON TV
Mrs. George L. Keehn and
Mrs. William Stauffer will be
interviewed on TV on Friday
afternoon on the program “To­day
with Kay” from 2:45 to
3:00 p.m. Excerpts from the
cantata “Song of Thanksgiving”
by Mander, will be given. The
cantata in its entirety will be
given in the Moravian Church
at the Sunday morning service.
| To drive 5,500 miles by car
i would probably seem a chore to
| most people but to one couple,
th eir two children, ages two and
four, along with a dog and a
| cat, it was a journey th a t was
. certainly looked forward to for
I a long time.
On October 24, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cross and family de­parted
from Anchorage, Alaska,
by car, and arrived here on
November 10, to spend some
time with Mrs. Cross’ parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Erb, of
Lititz RD3.
Before coming here for th e ir
visit, Mr. Cross was employed
by the District Engineers De­sign
Branch of the Elmendorf
Air Force Base in Alaska.
Approximately three years
ago, Mrs. Erb and h er daugh­ter,
Nancy, had made the trip
from here, by airplane, to An-
The action is the second in
recent months that Officer Nagle
has been called to task by Bur­gess
Forrest and members of
the borough police committee.
The first occurred when the lo­cal
policeman was charged with
failing to put forth any effort
to stop a disturbance following
one of the opening football
games here.
The current action, taken fol­lowing
a special council meeting
held last Friday night, is based
upon Nagle’s alleged failure to
report on duty when the warn­ing
light was lighted on the
Satin-day evening previous.
At the special meeting of
council it was alleged th a t Offi­cer
Nagle was absent from duty
for “a t least an hour.”
Following the special meeting,
dining which several girls fac­ing
charges of disorderly con­duct
preferred by Nagle, also
were heard, council agreed th a t
any suspension, if any, must
come from Burgess Forrest. Bur­gess
Forrest acted on Monday.
Since then the part-time ser­vices
of local constables have
been called upon to help handle
local police duties by Chief of
Police Clarence Kreider.
Should Nagle be dismissed by
council on Tuesday he will be
entitled to a hearing before
council and the civil service
board, if he so desires. Follow­ing
th a t action he also can take
recourse to the county court,
should he desire.
Five Given Hearings
For Disorderly Conduct
Hearings were held before
Justice of the Peace Paul F.
Diehm last evening for three
women and two men charged
with disorderly conduct as a
result of allegedly shouting dis­paraging
remarks a t Borough
Police Officer Luther Nagle.
When testimony indicated
th a t only the girls had shouted,
the two men, Carl Steffy, Kissel
Hill; and Mervin Foreman, L it­itz
RD3, were released. A th ird
defendant, Patricia Koffroth,
Lititz RD1, a minor, was placed
on probation and ordered not to
be seen in the borough a fte r
midnight unless accompanied by
her parents.
Costs of prosecution were im­posed
against the remaining two
defendants, Virginia Kling,
North Cedar Street, and Bar­bara
Myers, East Lincoln Ave.
chorage for a visit. At th a t time
Mr. and Mrs. Cross had started
homesteading on 160 acres of
land on Turnagain Arm, and
that has been their home ever
since.
Living costs are about 25 p er­cent
higher in Alaska. The cost
of a quart of milk is 45 cents
while white bread sells for 40
cents a loaf, however most ev­erything
is even easier to ob­tain
there than it is here in the
states.
The coldest weather they have
had is when the thermometer
dropped to 40 degrees below
zero. They havd only about two
weeks of spring and the same
for ’-fall, therefore it jumps al­most
directly into summer or
winter weather. In fact, they
had snow and ice when they
left home.
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Local Choir
Will Attend
Church Rally
Members and friends are in­vited
to attend a special Rally
a t Moravian College in Beth­lehem
Sunday a t 4 p.m. in the
new “College Hall.”
The local Moravian Choir and
Trombone Choir will join with
other choirs of the churches of
the Eastern District of the Mo­ravian
Church in providing mu­sic
for the occasion, which it is
expected, will bring together an
audience of several thousand
persons from Pennsylvania,
N ew York, New Jersey and
Maryland.