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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, August 6, 1953 5 cents a Copy; $2 per yr. by mail,
within Lancaster County; -$2.50 elsewhere No. 18
Good Charges Boro Shirking
Responsibility And Blocking
Development Of South End
Claims Boro Wants Him To
Spend $1,000 To Have
Entire Area Surveyed
That the borough in refusing
to accept its responsibility for
drainage* problems in the south­western
end of town is blocking
development of the entire sec­tion,
was charged this week by
Elvin Good, local plumbing con­tractor.
For nearly a year, Good em­phasized,
the borough has re­fused
to grant him a building
permit for the construction of a
new residence at West Third
Avenue and Walnut Street,
claiming he should sign an agree­ment
to take care of the drain­age
problem existing there.
This situation remains despite
that Henry Huth, borough en­gineer,
has decided the responsi­bility
rests with the borough. In
addition, the borough has asked
him to put up $1,000 for engi­neering
costs in establishing
grades, Good continued.
Good was denied a building
permit last fall after he had ex­cavated
for the basement of the
new residence on the southwest
corner of the intersection at
Third and Walnut Sts., an in­tersection
already having homes,
which were built years ago, on
each of the other three corners.
For nearly a year now the in-completed
basement has stood
idle with its owner unable to
proceed in building the home he
had hoped to occupy by the mid­dle
of last winter.
After bringing the matter up
for discussions several times,
borough council referred it to
the borough solicitor, Paul A.
Mueller, of Lancaster. In the
meantime at the borough’s sug­gestion,
Mr. Good explained!, he
hired Henry Huth, of Lancaster,
engineer regularly employed by
Lititz Borough, to examine the
situation.
When he hired Huth he was
given to understand that council
would accept his recommenda­tions,
Good asserted this week.
Instead, he insists, council now
refuses to consider Huth’s opin­ion
in the matter.
“Huth looked over the land
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LUTHERAN BROTHERHOOD
OUTING TUESDAY
The Lutheran Brotherhood
will hold an outing in the Springs
Park next Tuesday for their fam­ilies
and friends. Roast corn and
hot dogs will feature the menu
and members were asked to
bring their own utensils.
Businessmen
Will Sponsor
Tent Camp’gn
The Christian Business Men’s
Committee of Lancaster and co­operating
churches of Lancaster
City and County will sponsor a
tent campaign from August 9
through August 23. Meetings will
be held each night at 7:45 p.m.
in the large tent erected on N.
Franklin Street, Lancaster, op­posite
McCaskey High School.
Children’s meetings will be held
at 10:00 a.m. on Saturdays, Aug­ust
15 and August 22.
Rev. E. J. Daniels of Orlanda,
Florida, director of the Revival
Cavalcade will conduct the meet­ings.
Rev. Daniels is a former
newspaperman and also served
as a pastor for 16 years. He now
is a magazine editor, the author
of many books and director of
an extensive radio program. Rev.
Daniels is sometimes referred to
as a modem “Billy Sunday.”
Early this year, one of his evan­gelistic
messages was awarded
first prize in the “Sword of the
Lord” contest.
Ellis Zehr, Rockville, Illinois,
will be bass soloist. Thousands
throughout free Europe have
been thrilled by Mr. Zehr’s fine
solo renditions while traveling
with a Youth for Christ group.
Mr. Virgil Hale, Hoiightqn, N. Y.,
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Visit Relatives Here
After Spending 10 Years
In The Pacific Area
After spending ten'years in
the Pacific, Mr. and Mrs. George
Fleischman and their son, Nickie,
arrived here this week to spend
some time with Mr. Fleischman’s
sister, Mrs. Homer Adams, South
Spruce Street.
Mr. Fleischman has spent'
much of his time in Japan as a
civil service employee of the
United States Government. In
returning to the Pacific, where
they plan to live permanently,
they will motor to Seattle, Wash,
where they will board ship for
Hawaii.
HACKMAN ENLISTS
Clarence E. Hackman, of 54 E.
Main St., this borough, has en­listed
in the U.S. Marine Corps
for three years, the enlistment
office in Lancaster announced
this week.
Hackman has been sent to
Parris Island, S. C., for basic
training.
New Parish Worker We’re For The Firemen! Passes Exams
(An Editorial)
Miss Ruth Sonnenberg
Mo Vian Home
Board Elects
Mrs. Kling
Mrs. Arthur Kling was elected
treasurer of the Board of Man­agers
of the Moravian Home at
the meeting held on Monday
afternoon in the Home parlor.
She succeeds Mrs. Robert Rus­sell,
who recently resigned.
Mrs. Russell served as a mem­ber
of the Board for forty years
and thirty-five years as treas­urer.
She was elected to the
Advisory Board. Other members
of this board include Dr. Harry
E. Bender and A. L. Douple.
Other officers are Mrs. P. F.
Snyder, president; Mrs. Harry
E. Bender, 1st vice president;
Mrs. C. Eugene Long, 2nd vice
president; Mrs. Chester Keith,
recording secretary; Mrs. Abram
Beck, corresponding secretary; |
Dr. Joseph W. Grosh, house phy­sician,
and Mrs. A. F. Gochenaur,
matron.
Committees appointed for the
year include Mrs. Long, Mrs.
Charles Pfautz and Mrs. W. Mar­tin
Muth, household; Mrs. Bend­er,
Mrs. Norman Badorf and
Mrs. Clarence Grosh, ^ applica­tion;
Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Harry
Gorton and Mrs. Snyder, contri­bution;
Mrs. Keith, Mrs. Graybill
Bitzer and Mrs. Kling, inmate.
Kiddies Fishing
Day To Be Held
At Rudy’s Aug. 16
The annual Kiddies Fishing
Day will be held Sunday, August
16, at Rudy’s Dam, according to
an announcement made by the
Lititz Sportsmen’s Association.
The fishing will be permitted
from 12:30 on and the same
rules will apply as in former
years. The affair is open to all
children from Warwick and Eliz­abeth
Townships and Lititz
Borough.
Only children fourteen years
old and under will be permitted
to fish in the dam. Prizes will be
awarded for the largest bass and
the largest blue gill.
N O T I C E !
The Dental Office of Dr.
Charles W. Eshleman at 237 S.
Broad Street, will be closed from
Saturday, August 8 thru Friday,
August 14.
Parish Worker
To Take Over
Duties Sunday
Miss Ruth Sonnenberg Will
Be Introduced To Mora­vian
Congregation
Miss Ruth Sonnenberg, Who
has been appointed parish work­er
and assistant to the pastor of
the Lititz Moravian Church, will
be introduced to the congrega­tion
this Sunday morning at
10:30 o’clock.
Miss Sonnenberg will be form­ally
installed by the Rt. Rev.
Carl J. Helmich, to whom she
will serve as assistant in Chris­tian
Education.
Miss Sonnenberg is a native of
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin,
and graduate of the Lincoln
High School of that city. She at­tended
the University of Wiscon­sin
before entering St. Olaf Col­lege,
Northfield, Minn., from
which, in June, she was gradu­ated
with the degree of Bache­lor
of Arts in Christian Educa­tion
During the .past two
months she has been on the staff
of the Junior-Hi and Young
People’s Conferences of the
Western District of the Moravian
Church in Wisconsin and Minne­sota.
For several summers she
has been a teacher and counsel­lor
in these camps.
She is a member of the Mo­ravian
Church of Wisconsin Rap­ids
and during her college years
she has been actively associated
with the Moravian Church of
Northfield in Church School and
youth work.
Miss Sonnenberg’s duties will
include supervision of * the
Church School and of the church­wide
program of Christian Edu­cation
for children, youth and
adults. She will also assist the
Pastor in general Parish work.
She will make her home with
Mrs. Elizabeth Hepp, 145 East
Main Street, this borough.
QUELL FIRE ON TRUCK
Thé Lititz Fire Co. was called
at 5:45 p.m. Monday to extin­guish
a fire in a truck operated
by Joseph Lucas, of Reading.
Fire Chief Raymond Runk
said Lucas had picked up some
junk at the Manheim dump and
apparently put some smoulder­ing
rags in his truck or else
sparks from a cigarette ignited
the contents. There was no prop­erty
damage.
Printing both sides of any controversy is arid always
will be the policy of this newspaper.
And when anyone is charged with anything in any item
appearing in this paper, he will always have the right to
voice his reply, no matter how silly that reply may be.
We thought we had proved that policy to all of our
readers on numerous occasions, yet this week Ted Stauffer
loudly upbraids us for having printed a letter sent in by
Norman Dillon stating his side of the Speedwell incident,
in which local firemen were denied the right to pump water
from the Speedwell meadow.
What we want to emphasize is that once Dillon had
been charged with giving the local firemen an unceremonious
“heave-ho”, then Dillon had all the right in the world to
voice his side of the matter.
We might never have heard of the whole thing if the
group of firemen had not contacted a Record-Express re­porter
and given him the story. In fact Ted patted us on
the back after reading that first news item and told us that
“every word is correct and 20 to 25 firemen will back you
up on that.”
But when Dillon’s letter appeared the following week
those pats on the back were lowered about three feet.
We agree with firemen that parts of Dillon’s letter
are a bit silly. The claim for example, that local firemen
were out of their district. That question wasn’t raised less
than two years ago when these same fellows rushed up there
and risked their very necks to fight the Speedwell bam fire!
It’s silly in fact, as we see it, for anyone to pick an argu­ment
with a bunch of volunteers out doing someone a kind
deed, as they were when they went up'to Speedwell. Espe­cially
when a quiet discussion would have settled everything.
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Chief Kreider Brands Wide
Base Of Fountain In Square
A Menace To Traffic Here
Tuesday morning Chief of
Police Clarence Kreider stood
surveying the remnants of a huge
flagstone which had been knock­ed
out of place and cracked by
a trailer truck making the turn
from Main into Broad Street.
“This is the seventh time we
have had to repair this section
of the fountain base,”-* Chief
Kreider lamented soberly. “And
the worst part of it is that the
truck drivers are not to blame
—the base of the fountain never
should have been built as wide
as it was.’’
And then Chief Kreider re­vealed
that borough council al­ready
is considering the neces­sity
of removing that section of
the memorial fountain base out­side
the decorative stone wall,
especially on the northwestern
corner of the fountain.
“At the time the fountain was
being built I protested that the
base was too wide but those de­signing
it ignored my recom­mendations,”
Chief Kreider add­ed.
“By extending the base of
the fountain out as far as they
did, they did not leave enough
room for large trucks to make
a turn into Broad Street.
“Most communities are getting
rid of all obstructions in the
middle of thoroughfares, not
adding to them, as we did here.
And the fact that the flagstone
is jarred out of position so often
seems conclusive proof that the
base must be altered by the
borough some time in the near
future,” Chief Kreider con­cluded.
Seeks Improvement
Buch Recalls Baseball Jinx
Which Lasted Many Years
By Ralph Buch
A baseball game, no matter
how thrilling at the time, is soon
forgotten. In a period of over
fifty years of following the sport
locally, only one game stands
out conspicuously and was so
potential that I hope I wil never
see another one like it. It was
a game played between Lititz
and Parkesburg at the latter
place just before the beginning
of the First World War. Lititz
had made twenty-six outs, when
the jinx hit the team wtih a ven­geance
that lasted for many
years, bringing a great change
into the lives of the ball play­ers,
such as homicide, suicide,
insanity, court action and other
things.
The game was progressing
finely, with Lititz ahead by 4 to
3, and one more out needed to
put the game on ice. McCloud,
who was pitching, made the
Parkesburg batter miss the third
strike, and then the jinx struck.
Vermont Miley, an old-time
catcher, missed the ball. A run­ner
on third scored the tying
run and the batter reached first
base and eventually scored the
winning run. The game was shot.
Naturally, it was a heart-break­er,
but it was nothing to what
followed;
The hero of the day was
“Nails” Brenner, of York, a
former F. & M. athlete. With the
bases full, he dumped the apple
cart by hitting a home run, put­ting
the Pretzels in the lead.
Later during the war he got into
a financial jam and committed
suicide. ____
Eddie Harper, of . Reading, the
starting pitcher fin: the Lititz
team, became a policeman ahd
shot a man stone dead. He had a
revolver duel with a robber in
the rear of a store in line of
duty and received a promotion.
Ellis Butzer, an outfielder that
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Local Scouts
At Chiquetan
Next Week
Two troops of Lititz Boy
Scouts will spend next week at
Camp Chiquetan. Leaving here
this Sunday afternoon the group
which will number approximate­ly
forty boys, will remain at the
camp until the following Sat­urday
afternoon.
Scoutmaster Eugene Dechert
will be in charge of Troop 43,
the Fire Company Troop, while
Scoutmaster Harry Regennas
and his assistant, John Smith,
will be in charge of Troop 42,
the Moravian Church Troop.
A number of local persons
also plan to attend the Big
Campfire at Chiquetan on Fri­day
evening, August 14, one of
the most popular of the many
camp activities and one which
is open to the public.
Three local youths are mem­bers
of the camp staff this year.
They are Rud.d Henderson, spe­cial
activities;’ James Witmyer,
activities; and Donald Garber,
crafts. ____
N O T I C E!
Dr. Charles A. Landis, Jr.’s
dental offices will be closed Aug­ust
11, 12 and 13 inclusive.
Chief C. R. Kreider
Rotary Club
Hears Talk
By Dr. Barnes
We can defeat all “isms” in
America today by taking our
young people right into our in­dustrial
plants and letting them
learn about American economics
at first hand.
This was the message express­ed
by Dr. Horace Barnes, re­tired
Franklin and Marshall Col­lege
professor, in a talk before
the local Rotary Club Tuesday
evening. Dr. Barnes described
an educational plan put into ef­fect
in Lancaster by the Ameri­cans
For the Competitive Enter­prise
System, known as the Aces.
Although organized largely
through the efforts of Dr. H. M.
J. Klein, of Lancaster, the Aces
is already a state organization
and promises to extend its activ­ities
to a national scale, he ex­plained.
To Hear Hershey
John M. Hershey, who recent- ,
ly returned from a ten-week tour
of Europe, will describe his ex -'
periences and show colored pic­tures
taken on the trip, at a meet­ing
of the club next Tuesday.
On Thursday, August 27, club
members and their wives will
hold their annual picnic at the
summer cottage of Dr. M. H.
Yoder near Brickerville.
TWO DRIVERS PROSECUTED
Two motorists were prosecuted
by Lititz police Tuesday night
on charges of driving too fast
for conditions in the center of
the borough. They are Ernest
Kessler, driver for the York Mo­tor
Express," and Wilbur Faus,
this borough. Both will be called
for hearings before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm.
Harry Sheffy
Licensed By
Federal Comm.
Passes Five-Hour Test To
Become 1st Class Com­mercial
Operator
Harry J. Sheffy, of this bor­ough,
has successfully passed the
required examinations to qual­ify
for a first-class commercial
radio operator’s license, the Fed­eral
Communications Commis­sion
announced at its Philadel­phia
office this week.
Mr. Sheffy was examined by
the commission last Thursday
afternoon. The written examin­ation
required fire hours’ inten­sive
work in order to qualify
with the commission’s strict re­quirements.
This examination covered all
technical phases of F,M., tele­vision
and radio broadcasting.
Mr. Sheffy now is permitted to
s u p e r v i s e construction and
broadcast operations of any type
of commercial broadcasting sta­tion
in the U.S.A. or its pos­sessions.
Mr. Shefly is associated with
the Garden Spot Appliance Com­pany
of this borough. He former­ly
was affiliated with R.C.A.
Dr. Bowman
Will Address
Park Program
The Union Community Ser­vice,
to be held in the Lititz
Springs Park, Sunday at 7:30
p.m., will be conducted by Dr.
Earl M. Bowman, pastor of the
Lititz Church of the Brethren.
Dr. Bowman has chosen as the
subject of his message: “Compro­mise
in Canaan.” Special music
for this service will be presented
by' the Lititz Brethren Male
Quartette.
“Right Paths” is the subject
of Dr. Bowman’s sermon to be
presented at the 10:30 o’clock
morning worship. This is the
fourth in the series of sermons
on, “The Shepherd Psalm.”
The services in the park have
been unusually well attendedi
this year although last week’s'
service had to be held indoors at
Fellowship Hall, due to inclem­ent
weather. Rev. Francis Bell,
pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, spoke.
Carl Foltz
Is Improved
Infection which resulted from
a dip in the ocean at the shore
recently, was declared the cause
of the serious illness of Carl
Foltz this borough, who has been
a patient for the past week in
the Lancaster General Hospital.
The infection spread from his
ear to one eye and was accom­panied
with severe swellings and
intense pain, it was explained.
His condition showed a real turn
for the better on Monday.
Boro Completes Work On
Smoothing Out ’Test Block’;
Cost Approximately $500
Miss Shirley Mae Frymier
Miss Frymier
Submits Her
Resignation
Local Parish Worker Takes
Position With Norris­town
Church
Miss Shirley Mae Frymier has
resigned as parish worker and
assistant to the pastor at St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church, it was
announced by Rev. Francis Bell
Sunday.
Miss Frymier has accepted a
call to the Trinity Lutheran
Church at Norristown. At pres­ent
she is taking a six-week
course of special instruction at
Temple University, Philadelphia,
and will report to her new posi­tion
in Norristown around Aug­ust
15.
At Norristown she will organ­ize
a kindergarten school. In ad­dition
she will serve as assistant
to the pastor in the Youth pro­gram
presented by the church.
Miss Frymier has been assist­ant
to the pastor of the local
church for the past two years.
Her work included visitations to
the sick and shut-ins.
Christ Nissley
To Enact Role
Of Amishman
Former Councilman Christ
Nissley, who can be talked into
doing anyone a good turn, this
week talked himself into the task
of enacting the role of an Amish­man
— which he will perform
this Friday out on John Burk­holder’s
Sunny Acres Farm, east
of this borough.
John’s farm was chosen some
time ago by the publicity depart­ment
of the DuPont Company
as the subject for a pictorial
book to be published by them.
Last week and this, photograph­ers
have been busily engaged
snapping photographs of every
phase of the ¡lives of John and
members of his family.
To illustrate the difference be­tween
horse-drawn methods and
modern tractor styles, they want­ed
to corral 12. head of horses
to draw implements beside a
tractor. Christ heard of this and
pledged to go down into the
Amish country and get not only
the horses but the Amishmen to
drive them.
Instead, Christ had to get the
horses at Hershey and when he
could not recruit any Amishmen
to pose for their pictures, agreed
to do this himself. And so Fri­day,
Christ will don an Amish-man’s
outfit and pose for pho­tographers.
Leaves For Korea Same Day
As Engagement Is Announced
The armistice in Korea work­ed
in reverse for one local ser­vice
man and resulted in delay­ing
his plans for an early wed­ding
as had been planned.
He is Pfc. Kenneth L. Shen-eberger,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Levi Sheneberger, of Millway,
who has been serving with the
Marines as a military policeman.
Due to his training he was ord­ered,
to head for Korea last Sat­urday.
He had originally planned to
return to his home near here to
be present at a social affair to
mark the announcement of his
engagement to Miss Rose Marie
Thibodeau, of Fort Fairfield,
Mass.
Experiment Is Successful;
Will Start Work On
Front St. Next
Borough workers this week
completed their first “testblock”
in a proposed campaign to
smooth-off sewer-scarred streets
here—and the experiment gen­erally
was regarded as highly
successful, from an economical
standpoint.
Motorists, including every
member of borough council, who
drove over the block on South
Spruce Street extending from
Marion to Lemon, reported that
the re-surfacing of the block had
considerably smoothed it out In
addition to eliminating about
three-fourths of the bumps caus­ed
by depressions where laterals
and trenches had been dug, the
work vastly improved the ap­pearance
of the street.
But, from the borough’s point-of-
view, the most important re­sult
of the test block was that it
proved the borough can complete
a borough block of street for
approximately $500. Strict cost
sheets maintained on the work
completed this week proved it
costs 18 cents a square yard for
oil and chip and an added eight
cents for a layer of stone, both
including the necessary rolling.
“As compared with 25 cents a
Square Yard spent to smooth
out the street in this manner, it
would have required more thaw
$1.50 a square yard or approxi­mately
$3,200 a borough block to
re-build the street,” Borough
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Local Student
Makes Tour
With Caravan
Carol Losensky returned on
Sunday from a six weeks’ trip
with the National Youth Cara­vans
which took her hundreds of
miles through seven states and
gave her many and varied ex­periences.
The group had a training per­iod
of nine days at Heidenberg
College, at Tiffin, Ohio, and the
64 young people who were chos­en
from all over the country,
were dviided into groups. Carol’s
group included Becky Mann, of
Cyprus Chapel, Va.; Janet Buch-heit,
St. Louis, Mo.; and Bruce
Hansch, Akron, O. They were
known as the “Sunflower Spe­cial.”
These four young people serv­ed
five churches in Wichita, Kan-sis,
Hiawatha, Kansas, two in
Newton, Kansas and one in Ok­lahoma
City, Okla. Their work
varied from taking charge of
entire church services to paint­ing
the foundation of a church
and Parish house. They also held
Youth Fellowship and Family
gatherings, took a church census
and put on radio and television
programs. Carol’s particular job
was to play the piano, pipe organ
or electric organ, whatever the
instrument happened to be, and
see that the program on the air
stopped at the right minute by
adding an extra hymn or two.
They were entertained in the
home of the members and found
the people very hospitable. In
Oklahoma City they worked
with some full blooded Indians
who belonged to the church in
that city.
The Youth Caravan is spon­sored
by the Evangelical and Re­formed
Congregational Christian
Church and Carol was recom­mended
by Rev. Ray Harwick,
local pastor.
TO PREACH SUNDAY
Mahlon Clark will preach
from the pulpit of S t Paul’s
Lutheran Church this Sunday
morning. A student at the Luth­eran
Theological Seminary at
Gettysburg, he is scheduled to
graduate in 1955.
VISIT HERE
Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Break"
iron, of St. Petersburg, Fla., this
week visited Mrs. Beulah Muss-er,
this borough. Mrs. Breakiron
is the former Ruth Keiffer, oJ
Rothsville.
GREINER IN HOSPITAL
William Greiner was admitted
to the Lancaster General Hos­pital
last Thursday for observa­tion.