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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1'937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 25, 1953 within Lancaster County; $2.50 elsewhere No. 12
O v er 1 ,0 0 0 W o rk ers S tart V a c a tio n s H ere
New Low-Cost Insurance Plan
Will Be Made Available To
Pupils Of Union District
Increase In
Yellow Tags
Noted Here
Will Cover Accidents Ln-curred
Enroute To Or
Home From School
A new type of insurance plan,
becoming more popular with j
county school districts yearly, 1
was approved by the directors of
the Union District at a meeting
last week.
The policy, which would be
paid by the parents of school,
children, at a cost of only $1.25
per school year, would give each
student enrolled coverage of
$2,000.
Board members explained it
would cover the children enroute
to and home from school in addi-toin
to protection against acci­dents
which may occur during
school hours.
Used Other Places
The policy would be in effect
for one hour previous to and
following classes and has been
approved and put in use by many
other county school districts.
It was explained that the new
policy would not have any bear­ing
on students participating in
athletics since a separate policy
is in force on them.
At the beginning of the next
school year literature will be |
distributed to students which is
to be taken home. It will inform '
the parents of all details of the
new insurance plan and those
wishing to take advantage may
do so.
The policy is in no way com-!
pulsory. ____
Two Brownie
Troops Visit
French Creek
Two Brownie Troops and their
families spent a day at French
Creek State Park Saturday,
June 20.
Brownie Troop 91 and their
leaders, Mrs. Helen Corbett and
Mrs. Alice Todd, and Brownie
Troop 17 and their leaders, Mrs.
Virginia Forry and Mrs. Dorothy
Rosenberg, made the trip.
Each family furnished their
own supper and ice cream was
served by the troops after which
games were played.
The afternoon was spent bath­ing
and swimming in the lake.
About 100 persons from Lititz
enjoyed the trip. Elaine Longe-necker
of the Senior Troop, was
the Junior life guard.
MACADAMIZE TWO
TENNIS COURTS
Work on macadamizing two
tennis courts on the Athletic
Field was completed this week.
The courts, the two southern­most
courts, were in such poor
shape that it was decided to pave
them instead of trying to get the
sod back into suitable playing
condition.
Four other courts are in play­ing
condition and have been in
use since the end of the school
term.
INJURED IN FALL
Mrs. Elizabeth Muth, a guest
at the Lititz Moravian Home,
was reported in a satisfactory
condition in Lancaster General
Hospital Wednesday. She suffer­ed
a hip fracture at the home
last Friday and was removed to
the hospital via ambulance.
INJURES EYE
Ruth A. Weaver, Lititz RD2,
was treated at Lancaster Gener­al
Hospital Monday for an in­jured
eye. She told hospital au­thorities
she was struck in the
eye by a twig from a tree.
MUSICAL PROGRAM IN
SPRINGS PARK SUNDAY
A musical program will be
presented this Sunday afternoon
in the Lititz Springs Park.
Appearing will be Mrs. Thelma
Lutz Stauffer and Benjamin Lutz
III, vocalists, B. F. Lutz, piano,
Patsy Lutz, saxophone, and John
Lutz, musical saw and goblets.
The same group will travel to
the Coatesville Veterans Hospital
to present a program Sunday
evening.
Crash Victim
Pfc. Robert G. Bushong
Plane Mishap
Causes Death
Of Local Boy
Pfc. R. G. 'Bobby’ Bushong
Dies In Worst Air
Disaster
Boro Police Issue 135 More
Than For Previous
Year
, If it seems like you have been
j getting more parking meter vio-i
lation tickets lately, it’s prob­ably
because you are.
For the first six months of this
year, and with several days re ­maining
in that period, the bor-
! ough police department has dis­pensed
135 more of the yellow
tickets than they did during the
first six months of last year.
In fact with the exception of
January of this year, every
month had outstripped the com­parative
month in th e number of
I tickets issued.
j The total number of tickets for
the first six months of 1952 was
901. Thus far this year police
have placed 1,036 of their little
“greeting” cards beneath the
windshield wipers of errant mo­torists.
Monetary return from last
I year’s ticket harvest was $438.50
but the figure for the first six
months of this year will reach
over $500.
Monthly totals for the compar­ative
periods, are listed chrono­logically.
January, 207-120; Feb­ruary,
126-166; March, 176-223;
April, 171-219; May, 115-152,
and June 115-146.
The struggle against Commu­nism
in far-off Korea become
forcibly real to Lititz residents
last week when the Air Force
reported a well-known Lititz
youth, Pfc. Robert G. “Bobby”
Bushong, was killed in a plane
crash.
His death resulted in what was
termed the worst air disaster in
the history of aviation when a
giant Cl 14 Globemaster fell from
the sky over Japan, killing 129
servicemen.
It was carrying the men on ro­tation
leave from Japan to the
Korean battle-front.
A son of Mrs. Edna Bushong,
202 S. Broad St., and the late
A. W. Bushong, Bob was well
known to local people. He was
best remembered as an athlete
during his high school days from
1944 through 1947.
While attending school he
played varsity football and bas­ketball
during the years when
Lititz was a dominating factor
in the county-wide athletic pic­ture.
A pleasant, mild-mannered
youth off the field, he was a spir­ited
competitor and contributed
much to Lititz High’s unbeaten
football team of 1945 and their
basketball successes of that year.
His death came as a shock to
his relatives and many friends
here. Tuesday prior to the acci­dent
he had had a telephone con­versation
with his wife, the form­er
Doris Shelley, and informed
her he expected to return home
in August.
He was the first local youth
to be killed as a result of the
fight against communism in Ko­rea.
In addition to his wife and
mother, he is survived by a
brother, A. W. Jr., Lititz RD3,
and a sister, Nancy, wife of John
Troutman. He had been in the
service since Feb., 1952, and
overseas since October of that
year.
MRS. M. C. DEMMY
ENTERTAINS WOMAN’S CLUB
Mrs. M. C. Demmy, chairman
of the Ways and Mearis commit­tee
of the Woman’s Club the past
year, entertained the members
at her cottage at Mount Gretna,
at luncheon and cards. The
guests included Mrs. Lester
Stark, Mrs. M. H. Yoder, Mrs.
Ralph Spacht, Mrs. Bruce Cor­bett,
Mrs. Robert Watts, Mrs.
Harry Landis, Mrs. Alfred
Douple, Mrs. C. Eugene Long,
Mrs. Adam Batdorf, Mrs. Sue
Green, Mrs. Joseph Hess, Mrs.
Thomas Walker, Mrs. Warren
Diehm, Mrs. David Wright, Mrs.
Wilbur Miller and Mrs. Barton
Sharp.
LOCAL GIRL IS WED
TO AIR FORCE SGT.
Esther Mae Habecker, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Habecker, this borough, and
S-Sgt. Alvin Barker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Barker, Pal­myra,
were united in marriage
at Meridan, Miss., on June 15.
The bride was employed a t the
A. J. Beford Shoe Co., and the
bridegroom is stationed at Craig
Air Force Base, Selma, Ala. The
couple will reside at 302% Le-
Mar Ave., in Selma.
PAPER COLLECTION
The Boy Scouts of Lititz will
hold a paper collection this Sat­urday.
Please place paper on
curb by 1:00 P.M.
NO RECORD
NEXT WEEK
The Record - Express will
not be published next week
in order that our employees
may take a vacation. Publica­tion
will be resumed the week
of July 9.
6000 Expected To Attend
Annual Grocers Picnic
Arrangements have been made
with the Pennsylvania Railroad
for five trains, or a total of 70
railway coaches, to accommodate
up to 6,000 people of Lancaster
and adjoining counties for the
43rd Annual Grocer’s Picnic Ex­cursion
to Atlantic City on
Thursday, July 16 — sponsored
by the Lancaster County Home-
Owned Grocers. The first train
will leave Lancaster about 5:00
a.m., Daylight Saving Time; and,
returning, the first train will
leave Atlantic City at 7:00 p.m.,
D.S.T. Tickets will go on sale at
the P.R.R. stations about July 1.
With one exception, Thursday
has always been a fair weather
excursion day at the beach even
though it often rained on the way
down or on the way home.
Hundreds of dollars worth of
prizes will be given away to the
excursionists. Before the 5:00
o’clock Water Show on the Steel
Pier prizes will be awarded to
lucky people. Merchandise prizes
will be awarded in Lancaster,
after the excursion, to other
lucky persons whose names were
deposited at the Steel Pier Pic­nic
Headquarters. All winners
will be notified by letter.
The following were named to
serve on the Picnic Committee:
General Chairman, Charles B.
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Industry To Begin Closing
Doors Friday For From One
To Two Weeks For Vacations
hold these truths to be self evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Cre­ator
with certain inalienable rights, that among these
are Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
From the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental
Congress, Ju ly 4, 1776.
Fourth Of July Program In
Springs Park, Initiated In
1842, To Be Given 111th Time
FOURTH PROGRAM
6:00 A.M.—Ringing of Church
Bells (a custom followed
since the days of the first
celebration). ,
9:00 A.M.—Clearing of the Park
Grounds for the day. (Tick­ets
go on sale at this time).
12:00 Noon—Program of record­ed
music through the cour­tesy
of Reedy’s Record Shop,
Lititz.
2:30 to 5:30 P.M.—Music by the
Lititz High School Band.
4:00 P.M.—Entrants for the
Baby Parade meet at the
“Coffee House” for regis­tration.
4:30 P.M.—Baby Parade, fol­lowing
the main paths of the
Park. ■
7:30 to 10:30 P.M.—Music by
the American Legion Band
of Palmyra.
9:15 P.M.—Pageant of the
Queen of the Candles.
9:30 P.M.—Illumination of the
entire Park with thousands
of candles.
10:30 P.M.—Grand Finale—Gi­gantic
display of fireworks.
Henry Gibbel
Henry Gibbel Chosen
To Enter Seminary Of
Church Of Brethren
Henry Gibbel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry B. Gibbel, 6 E. Third
Ave., has beep chosen an elector
to Bethany Seminary, Chicago.
A member of this year’s grad­uating
class at Lititz High School
he is currently touring the west­ern
states with his parents.
He was elected to attend the
Church of the Brethren seminary
at a Church conference held in
Colorado Springs, Colo., and will
enter the school this fall.
JAYCEES HELP TO
SPRUCE UP PARK
In an effort to help get the
Springs Park in shape for the
July 4th celebration, members
of the Lititz Junior Chamber of
Commerce staged their own type
of paint-up week.
Armed with brushes and paint,
members of the organization
went to the park last Monday
and applied a fresh new coat to
lamp posts, fences and other
items which were showing the
wear of inactivity.
Will Again Include Fire­works,
Baby Parade And
Display Of Candles
The annual Pageant of Can­dles,
dating back to the Presi­dency
of John Tyler and unique
to Lititz, will be repeated in cel­ebration
of this nation’s indepen­dence
from Britain for the 111th
time this July 4th.
A complete program has been
laid out for the many persons
who will visit the Springs Park
again this year to take part in
and witness the annual festivi­ties.
To Ring Church Bells
In line with a custom dating
back to 1842, four years before
Texas was admitted to the Union,
local church bells will peal out
at 6 a.m. on the morning of the
Fourth, heralding the signing of
the Declaration of Independence.
Entertainment of the after­noon
and evening will include
concerts by the Lititz High
School and Palmyra American
Legion Bands, the Baby Parade,
Crowning of the Queen of Can­dles,
the illumination of the
fairyland of candles and a gi­gantic
display of fireworks.
Scaffolding for the candles was
being placed about the park this
week in preparation for the cel­ebration
and the creek was
dredged. Members of the Lititz
Junior Chamber of Commerce
also painted lampposts and
fences.
Crown Queen
Queen of the Candles this year
is Miss Audrey Risser, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Risser,
347 N. Broad St. She was select­ed
by popular vote of the student
body of the school.
The ever-popular Baby Parade
feature of the celebration will
take place at 4:30 p.m. and will
cover the main paths of the park.
Mrs. Willis Bucher is chair­man
of the parade and said any
child who has not yet entered'
school is eligible for prize
money.
The child must be accompan­ied
by an adult and each entrant
will be admitted to the park free.
Registering of entrants will take
place at the coffee house at 4
p.m. and a $25 Savings Bond will
be given for the float judged to
be the best in the parade.
Other prizes ranging from $10
to $1 will be given for the best
float, most - artistic, decorated
coach and most artistic coach.
Also participating in the
Queen of Candles ceremony will
be a court of the following high
school girls. Phoebe Ann Spacht,
Phyllis Hackman, Dorothy Le-anza,
Patricia Lutz, Roberta
Lutz, Debra Diehm, Nancy Frey,
Wilma Seaber, Polly Ann Risser,
Shirley Steely, Audrey Reist and
Annabelle Singer.
COMMUNION AT
TRINITY E.C. SUNDAY
The Summer Communion Ser­vice
will be held a t Trinity Ev­angelical
Congregational Church
on Sunday. Services are sched­uled
for 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
The pastor, Rev. G. Robert
Booth, will speak on the medi­tation
theme, “In Remembrance
of Me,” a t the 10:30 service. The
Senior Choir, under the direction
of Harry Neidermyer, will sing
the anthem. This will be the last
appearance of the choir for the
summer.
Two Locdl Graduates
At Temple University
Two local students were
among 1,565 who received de­grees
at Temple University’s
67 th annual commencement ex­ercises
last Thursday in Conven­tion
Hall, Philadelphia.
They are Dale E. Shelley, son
of Mrs. Archie D. Shelley, who
received a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Pharmacy, and John
A. Cooper, son of Dr. and Mrs.
H. K. Cooper, Lancaster, former­ly
of Lititz, who received a Doc­tor
of Dental Surgery Degree.
Both are graduates of Lititz
High School, class of 1945.
Boro Youth
Said Suicide
John Edward Beck, Jr., 20, j
rear of 712 S.‘ Broad St., com­mitted
suicide with a .20 guage
shotgun yesterday afternoon.
Dr. M. H. Yoder, county cor­oner,
issued a verdict of suicide.
It was learned Beck ended his
life following an argument with
his wife.
The couple resided over a ga­rage
and his wife, hearing the
shot, rushed to the first floor to
find his body at the foot of the
stairs leading to their second
story apartment.
Born in Lancaster, he was a
son of John Edward and Alsie
Sieber Beck, of Lancaster, and
was employed in the plate de­partment
of the Hamilton Watch
Co. He was a member of Salem
Lutheran Church, Kissel Hill,
and the Lancaster Young Men’s
Christian Association.
Besides his parents, he is sur­vived
by his wife, the former
Bernetia Ember, and a son, Rich­ard
Allen Beck, at home. Also
surviving is a brother and sister,
Shirley Ann and Donald G.’Beck,
both of Lancaster; and his pater­nal
grandfather, John H. Beck,
also of Lancaster.
TWO BORO YOUTHS AT
ROTC TRAINING CAMP
Two Lititz youths arrived at
Fort George G. Meade, Md., June
20, to attend six weeks of intens­ive
field training.
They are William L. Brubaker,
Jr., and John K. Garber, Jr.,
who are enrolled at the Pennsyl­vania
State College.
The primary objective of sum­mer
training camp is to aid in
developing Infantry 2nd Lieu­tenants.
The camp will run until
July 31.
A picture of every boy and
girl in Lititz and rural areas
served by the local post-office is
the goal of the Record-Express,
your friendly newspaper. These
photographs are needed so that
cuts can be made and the pic­tures
published in its news col­umns.
To be certain that we have a
recent portrait of your child,
one that you like best, we have
made arrangements with the
Landry Studios of Philadelphia,
specialists in child photography,
to come to Litit on Friday, July
17th, to take the pictures.
On this date expert photog­raphers
with all the necessary
equipment for this specialized
work will be here. The studio
will be set up in the General
Sutter Hotel and will be open
from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
There are absolutely no strings
Engaged
Miss Kathleen Hess, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hess, 36
Market St., whose engagement
to Carl J. Frederick, this bor­ough,
was announced this week
by her parents.
Four Bible
Schools Hold
Programs
Four Daily Vacation Bible
School closed Friday, after hold­ing
half-day sessions for two
weeks, culminated by demonstra­tion
programs.
The Evangelical and Reformed
school with almost 100 children,
presented a program with Mrs.
Donald Kreider, superintendent,
in charge, assisted by Mrs. James
Roth, Mrs. Charles Getz, and
Mrs. Clarence Troutman. The
theme of the school was “Living
With Jesus.”
The Trinity E.C. school enroll­ed
103 pupils and gave a program
on Sunday evening, with Rev.
G. Robert Booth, superintendent,
in charge, assisted by Miss Vivian
Landis, Nancy Newcomer, Mrs.
Earl Hollingsworth, Benay Getz,
Mrs. William Hornberger, Mrs.
George Gardner, Mrs. Carl Bru­baker,
and Mrs. Warren New­comer.
St. Paul’s Lutheran school,
with 150 enrolled, had a demon­stration
program, with Mrs.
Charles Wagaman, superintend­ent,
in charge, assisted by Mrs.
James Mummert, Mrs. Howard
Redcay, Mrs. Robert Hanna, Mrs.
Leo Kleinfelter and Mrs. Elvin
Klase.
The Moravian school also held
a program. Its theme was “Liv­ing
With Jesus” and the enroll­ment
was 120. Mrs. William Sny­der,
the superintendent, was in
charge and was assisted by Mrs.
Archie Shelley, Mrs. Willis Buch­er,
Mrs. Robert Strickler, Mrs.
Robert Herzer and Mrs. Winfield
Rosenberg.
The Mennonite School, with
1150 enrolled will continue eve­ning
sessions until June 26.
The Church of the Brethren
will hold its school in July.
have to be a subscriber or even
attached to this offer, you don’t
a reader of the Record-Express
nor is it compulsory that you
purchase any pictures of your
child or children after they are
taken. However, you may do so
if you wish, but that will be en­tirely
up to you as no high-pres­sure
salemanship methods will
be used to urge you to do so.
It has been said that “The Best
Investment for the future is in
Our Children,” and you had bet­ter
take a good look at them as
they pass you on the street for
they are our “Future Citizens”
of tomorrow, on whom all of us
are depending to make the future
world a better one than it is right
at this time.
The only way we can give all
our readers a good look at these
“Future World Builders” is with
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Other Smaller Shops Will
Close Over July 4th
Holidays
Over 1,000 industrial workers
in the borough will begin vaca­tions
this week, in line with a
policy begun here several years
ago.
Close Doors
Major industries in the town
will close down for varying per­iods
of time in order that em­ployees
may take vacations at
this time of the year and plan
observances for Independence
Day.
Hundreds of other workers in
smaller business ventures also
will have their vacation time
granted over the holiday period.
Total of 1,099
A check of local industry
showed that approximately
1,099 workers will be affected by
the temporary halt in produc­tion
and will return to work
following either one or two week
vacations.
Only skeleton maintenance
crews will be kept by industry
as a matter of necessity.
Plants closing include the Wil-bur-
Suchard Chocolate Co., Ani­mal
Trap Co., A. J. Beford Shoe
Co., Morgan Paper Mill, Badorf
Shoe Co., and the Alsam Shoe Co.
When the machinery of the
plants grinds to a halt it will
signal the beginning of vacations
for workers here which will run
from as early as this Friday
through July 19.
/ Closing dates of the factories
and the number of persons in­volved
is as follows:
Alsam Shoe Co., June 29
through July 6, 75 workers; Ani­mal
Trap Co., July 4 until July
19, 200 employees; Badorf Shoe
Co., June 26 through July 6,
90 persons.
Beford Shoe Co., June 26 to
July 6, 209 employees; Morgan
Paper Mill, June 27 through
July 13,125 workers and Wilbur-
Suchard, June 26 through July
15, 300 workers.
All local merchants will be
closed Saturday, July 4th, and
many of them will remain open
until 9 p.m. Friday, July 3rd.
School Board
Sets Budget
At $450,333
A budget of $450,333 for the
1953-54 school year was approv­ed
by members of the Warwick
Union School District Board ot
Directors last week.
The figure is the same as the
tentative budget announced by
the directors about a month ago,
when a tax rate of 32 mills was
set for the district.
A $10 per capita tax was also
levied as well as an 80-cent tax
on trailers.
It was the final meeting of the
board before they become offi­cially
a Union District on July
6. In other action the board
named tax collectors as Leo C.
Rossi, Lititz, J. G. Conrad, War­wick
and Isaac Singer, Eliza­beth
Twp.
At a separate meeting of the
Lititz Board a report showing
$1,074 in tax exonerations was
accepted and the use of the home
economics room granted to the
Lititz 4-H Community Club.
PARKED CAR DAMAGED
IN BROAD ST. CRASH
A parked automobile was dam­aged
in the amount of about $300
early Monday morning on S.
Broad St., borough police report­ed,
when it was struck by an­other
vehicle.
Police said Robert Mattem, 28
W. Orange St., was driving north
on Broad Street and apparently
fell asleep. His automobile hit a
parked car owned by Robert
Kauffman, 141 S. Broad S t, a t
about 3:25 a.m., rousing nearby
residents.
N O T I C E !
The Dental Offices of Dr. R B.
Huber and Dr. Edmund H. Lange,
12 S. Broad Street, will be closed
from Wednesday, July 1, until
Monday, July 6.
Lititz Area Children Invited
To Have Pictures Taken Free