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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lltltz< Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 16, 1955
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within Lancaster County; $2.50 elsewhere No. 11
CD Mass Ambulance Demonstration Successful Here
Protests Lodged Against Noisy Night Drivers Here
Seek
Police
Action
Women Preparing 65 Vats Of Soup For Firemen’s Festival
E. End Businessman Says
Speeders Disrupt Early
Morning Sleep
Tha t speeders and noisy driv- I
ers are dis rupting the peace ai'd
quiet a f te r midnight in several I
sections of town was repor ted |
here this week.
According to an east end bus
inessman who declared he i:
getting in touch with boroui.li
police in an effort to b re ak up
the outbreak of “ cowboyin.-
the reckless driving occurs sev-1
eral times a week.
As a rule, the fast drivinv in
which the motorists slide I heir j
tires a t intersections, race i l ii ir
motors and travel through lown
without mufflers on the ir cars, j
s ta r t s shortly a f te r midnight. |
‘‘I t seems these young d r iw r s
keep an eye on the police < ur. '
the local businessman deckm-d
“When it is parked in the Square
they head to the eas t end .mil
when it is in the east end,, 11n
cowboys head out South Broad
Street.
“Not only do they present ai
traffic hazard but they hoi p
many persons awake for hour'.."
he concluded.
Th a t considerable cowboMim1
persists along the Rothsville !
Road also was reported by resi-1
dents in th a t section. One rosi-dent
declared he intended ta k ­ing
his complaint before town-1
ship supervisors in the hope
township constables can enlis t
the aid of state police in b ring- |
ing this s ituation to an end.
Pontz Named
Commander
Of Legion
Jack H. Pontz, 33 E. Lemon
St., was elected commander of
th e local Legion Post a t the
meeting held on Tuesday eve­ning.
Other officers elected to
serve for the ensuing year are:
F irs t vice commander, John
Linton; second vice commander,
E arl Walters; finance officer,
Harry Ruley; historian, Jonas
Risser; chaplain, Harry M.
Lowe; sergeant-at-arms, Ray
Burkholder.
Delegates to County Council:
Albert Lutz, W. Roy Enck, E arl
Walters, John Linton, Daniel W.
Miller, Jack Pontz and Harry
Ruley.
Alternates: Harry M. Lowe,
Norman Almoney, Carl Mathers,
Ray Burkholder, Norman Ha-becker,
Paul Spickler and Ever­e
tt Harner.
Directors (3 y e a rs): Albert
Lutz, Paul B. Spickler, and Earl
Walters.
W. Roy Enck, chairman of the
Graves Registration Committee,
reported th a t 356 flags were
placed on veterans’ graves In 23
cemeteries.
Harry Ruley, chairman of
Keystone Boys Camp, reported
th a t two boys would be sent to
Lock Haven Teachers College
from June 25 to July 4. Gerald
Kemper and Douglas Minnich
were selected. These boys are
being sent with the sponsorship
of the Lititz Lions Club and the
Legion.
I t was decided to send a tele­gram
to Governor Leader re ­questing
approval of Senate Bill
174, to increase teachers’ sa la r­ies
a t the Scotland School to the
same level as the public schools.
Listing
Children
From Birth
31 Vehicles Mobilized
At Trap Co. Plant
In Dramatic Display
Enumeration Here
Next Week
The school board la st night
agreed th a t this year all child­ren
will be enumerated from
birth to 18 years of age. Prev­iously,
th e ones under school
age were not tabulated. Mr.
Spaid, supervising principal of
Warwick Union pointed out th a t
th is will enable them to anti­cipate
the needs of the schools
several years in advance of the
actual enrollment.
They plan to get the enumera­tion
here in the borough next
week and the rest of th e district
will get under way in the very
near future.
The board accepted resigna­tions
from two of the teachers,
namtely: Nancy Herr, giM’s
health and physical education;
and Ja n e t Drumheller, music.
A th ird vacancy is to be filled
due to the need for an additional
first grade teacher. All vacancies
have been filled with these three
exceptions.
T h e firs t mass mobilization of
ambulances and emergency veh­icles
in the his tory of Lititz took
place here in a dramatic civilian
defense demons tration here last
night.
A total of thirty-one vehicles
including ambulances, trucks
and station wagons from Lititz
and four other county commun­ities
joined in the air raid test.
The Lititz fire truck took up
its position a t the Animal Trap
'Company parking lot shortly
before seven o’clock and was in
touch with civilian defense head
quarters in Lancaster and at the
firehouse here throughout the
evening.
Find The Raccoon!
To Restrict
Parking On
W. Line. Ave.
Eeeemagine!
’Coon Would
Enter Trappy
BORO STREET WORKMEN
CREATE NEW RECORD
Borough workmen created a
new record for laying water
main Tuesday when a to ta l of
20 sections of main were com­pleted
on Marion Street. The
main is being laid for approxi­mately
1,000 feet from Locust to
Cherry Streets.
J u s t a few of th e one hundred or mte-e women of th e
F ire Company Anxiliary who worked to make th e affair a success.
Top Left: Mrs. Sallie Templeton, Louise Amer, Mrs. Gertie
H elter and Mrs. Emma Snavely. Louise Amer is 93 years of age,
b u t did h e r sha re of th e work.
Center L eft: Mrs. Stanley Stauffer, Alice Ulrich, P a u l Sipe,
and Mrs. Viola Meiskey.
Bottom Left: Mrs. Anna Wagner, Mrs. Dave Webber and Mrs.
Lester Bingaman.
Top Big h t: Mrs. Isaac Moyer, Mrs. H a rry Brubaker, Mrs.
Mazie Adair an d Mrs. May Schleith.
Second B ight: Mrs. Beatrice Wonder and Bill Wiggins.
Third Rig h t: Mrs. M. C. Demmy, Mrs. Guy Calvert and Mrs.
Albert Owens.
Bottom Rig h t: Mrs. Anna Nuss an d Mrs. Arville Burkholder.
-R e c o rd -E x p re s s Photos
Andy Hersh’y
Marks 92nd
Birthday
There’s no secret for longevity
— and th e re ’s not much point in
living beyond a certain age!
, This was the unusual sla n t on
life handed out yesterday by An­drew
Hershey, second oldest lo­cal
resident, on the occasion of
his ninety-second birthday —
which he spent rig h t on the job,
as he has been doing daily for
many years past.
Still a picture of health,
Hershey daily opens up the
Gochenauer Implement Store on
North Broad Street and is in
charge of the office most of the
day. He has not missed a day’s
work for many a year.
“ I am very fo rtuna te in th a t
I have not had any serious ill­ness,”
he explained, “but getting
old is no fun and I do not look
forward to many more birthdays.
I appreciate the friends I have
and am satisfied to spend my
days with them.”
Mr. Hershey lives with his
daughter, Mrs. Amos Snyder,
Lincoln Avenue.
ATTEND ORDINATION
OF NOBLE CLARKE
Corn Soup
Was “Best
Festival
Ever”
GARBAGE COLLECTIONS
NOW TWICE A WEEK
Borough garbage collection
now is on the summer basis of
two collections per week, Bor­ough
Manager Bauer announced.
Collections will be made
throughout the borough on Tues­days
and Fridays from now un­til
October 1.
NooneyToBe
Patron Of
Pa. O.E.S.
Mr. and Mrs. William Miller,
Willy dePerrot, Mr. and Mrs.
Je an d eP erro t and Mrs. George
Clarke attended the Ordination
of Noble Clarke, last Wednesday
a t Christ Church, Gettysburg.
Martin Wins State Road-E-O,
Now Seeks National Honors
Edwin Martin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles H. Martin, Lititz
RD2, won first place in the Penn­sylvania
Road-E-O held a t Johns­town
recently. The contest is
sponsored by the Ju n io r Cham­ber
of Commerce.
Martin won his chance a t the
State Championship by winning
th e local competition held by the
plaque and a wrist watch. He
will be entertained a t a banquet
in September which is under the
auspices of the State Motor
Truck Assn.
Approximately 18 local people
are planning to a tten d th e an ­nual
meeting of the Grand Chap­te
r of Pennsylvania, Order of the
Eastern Star, a t Philadelphia
next week.
During th is session, Walter G.
Nooney, an executive of the Ani­mal
Trap Co., will be Installed
Worthy Grand P a tro n of the
State Chapter, and Mrs. Mildred
Reese, 509 S. Cedar St., will be
installed District Deputy Worthy
Grand Matron. Mrs. Virginia
Forry, 209 E. Second Aye., Is
Worthy Matron of the local
Chapter, No. 499, and Mrs. Wal­te
r G. Nooney is the Associate
Matron. Mr. Nooney and Mrs.
Reese are also members of Lit­itz
Springs Chapter, O.E.S., No.
499, which is the local organiza­tion.
The Grand Chapter of Penn­sylvania,
of which Mr. Nooney
will be Grand Patron, has ju ris­diction
over 538 surbordinate
chapters with a to ta l member­ship
of 123,000. This will be the
61st annual convention of the
group.
As champ, Martin will repre­sent
th e sta te In the national
event to be held in Washington,
D. C., Ju ly 25 to 29, a t which
PAPER COLECTION
The Boy Scouts will hold a
Paper Collection on Saturday
afternoon a t 1:00 P.M. They will
greatly appreciate it if those
By Jo h n Boyd
Well, when the smoke of b a t­tle
cleared away la st Saturday
evening the Lititz Fire Company
counted the money and found
th a t it had made about $3,000
through the annual Chicken
Corn Soup Festival, with ninety
percent of the resu lt due to the
admirable efforts of the Ladles
Auxiliary under th e able direc­tion
of its president, Mrs. M. C.
Demmy.
Few people who do not be­long
to the fire company or to
its auxiliary realize how much
work is entailed in the prepa ra­tion
and sale of the vast quanti­ties
of food th a t are handled dur­ing
the Saturday of the festival.
This food consists not only of
chicken corn soup, b u t also clam
mix, ham and chicken salad,
French fried potatoes, pies,
cakes, ice cream, strawberries
and coffee. Now le t’s see how this
food is obtained in the raw state
and how; it is made ready for
sale.
The activities — this year un­der
th e general chairmanship of
F ran k Wonder — sta rted with
the securing of donations of
chickens from the farmers in the
vicinity of Lititz. Years ago prac­tically
all the chickens used
were donated, but in recent years
additional chickens had to be
purchased. This is no reflection
on the farmers, b u t the result
of th e fact th a t a t the present
time th e re are several othe r re ­cently
established fire companies
nearby who also have festivals
and solicit chickens. Each com-
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CARL FREDERICK
PREACHES FIRST SERMON
Rev. Carl Frederick, student
assistant a t St. Jo h n ’s Lutheran
Church, a t Hagerstown, Md.,
preached his first sermon on
Sunday. Among those who went
to Hagerstown to hea r him were
Mrs. Hershey
Tea Guest Of
The Queen
Mrs. John G. Hershey, East
Third Avenue, concluded a th rill­ing
European trip in which she
attended a tea a t St. James P al­ace
as the guest of Queen Eliz­abeth,
when the ship, the Queen
Elizabeth, docked in New York
yesterday.
Mrs. Hershey was the guest of
Mrs. Berg, who spoke before the
Lititz Woman’s Club, la st winter
when Queen Elizabeth invited
both to attend the tea, honoring
the leaders of the Girl Guides
movement in England.
The tea was one of a series
of interesting experiences for
Mrs. Hershey. After touring
Italy, she accompanied Rev. and
Mrs. Jacob Dick to Egypt where
Egyptians aided in Germany by
Rev. Dick, entertained them in
th e ir homes. From th e re she vis­ited
Arabia where Rev. John
Barwlck, formerly of Lititz,
made it possible for h e r to be
entertained in th e homes of
prominent Arabs.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershey will
leave today for a western trip
during which they will attend
the Church of the Brethren
Conference a t Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The borough’s program to bet­te
r traffic conditions here will
be continued a t the June meet­ing
of borough council, it was
disclosed th is week.
At th a t time an ordinance
now being prepared by the bor­ough
solicitor’s office will be
presented to re stric t parking to
the north side of West Lincoln
Avenue, from Broad to Warwick
Street.
With the sta te planning to
widen the remainder of West
Lincoln Avenue to a point be­yond
th e site of the proposed
Warner-Lambert Company plant,
this will serve to prevent any
traffic jam where the stre e t can­not
be widened, Borough Man­ager
David Bauer explained.
State Highway Department en­gineers
were busily engaged
continuing th e ir surveying of the
stree t this week. Plans are ex­pected
to be completed next
week when the improvement of
West Lincoln Avenue by the
sta te will be placed on the bid
list, it was predicted.
Motorists this week were be­coming
accustomed to the bor­ough’s
first two one-way streets,
West Main Street from Broad to
the alley; and East Marion from
Broad to Cedar Street. Borough
officials declared both innova­tions
were proving highly suc­cessful
and th a t few violations
of the one-way regulation were
reported.
EMPLOY ASSISTANT
FOR BOROUGH OFFICE
Miss Darlene Bucher, daugh­te
r of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Buch­er,
Lititz RD2, was employed
this week as part-time secretary
in the borough office. Miss Buch­er
graduated from Manheim H.S.
th is year with honors.
Make a b etter mouse trap and
even the raccoons will seek it
out!T
he local Trap Co. had this
experience early Tuesday morn­ing
when a full grown ’coon
tried his darndest to gain en­trance
to the factory via one
of the F ro n t Street windows. He
was spotted by workmen chang­ing
shifts a t 7 o'clock, climbing
around between the metal grille
and the window.
How he got into the enclosure
remained a mystery, since the
grille seemed to be tig h t on all
sides.
Judging from the number of
employees attra c ted to the out­side
of the building, the c ritter
could have been trying to sabo­tage
the production of traps.
If it wasn’t the regula r “ coffee
break ” , he sure slowed down the
wheels of progress for a few
minutes.
Six station wagons and the bo­rough
tru ck made up the Lititz
delegation. The first out-of-town
! contingent reached th e pa rking
I lot shortly a f te r seven o’clock
and consisted of two motorcycle
escorts, four station wagons and
a tru ck from Elizabethtown.
Five minutes la te r the Ephra -
ta civilian defense mobilization
consisting of two ambulances
and th r e e station wagons, equip­ped
with two-way radios, a r r iv ­ed
followed closely by th re e
station wagons from Mount Joy
and thre e tru ck s and two station
wagons from Manheim.
The group was kept aler ted u n ­til
shortly before eight-thirty
when order s came through, mov­ing
the caravan to Brickerville.
Upon th e i r r e tu rn to Lititz they
were dismissed.
Graduates Here
Finding Jobs
Several members of the gradu­ating
class of the high school
have found employment and a re
working, some for the summer
and some permanently. Among
them are Marlene Adams and
Jane Risser, Armstrong , Cork
Co., Lancaster; P o rtia Bowman
and Sylvia Wertsch, Buckhill
Falls, Pocono Mountains; Norma
Ditzler, Alsam Shoe Co.
Donna Foltz and Joanne Sny­der,
Lancaster General Hospital;
Constance Sharp and Linda Wit-myer,
Ocean City, N. J.; Marian
Sturgis, Shirley Keath and Mar­gare
t Newcomer, Alcoa; Nancy
Newcomer, Dr. H. B. Minnlch’s
office; Robert Singer and Dawn
Hoffman, Wagaman Bros.; Lynn
Kemper, John Newcomer and
George Gardner, Ocean City,
N. J.
(Continued on Page 9)
Lions Tonight
Finish Plans
For Carnival
ATTENDING CONVENTION
W. Martin Hess, Lititz R4, is
representing Lititz Lodge 1050
IOOF a t th e Odd Fellows State
Convention, being held a t Johns­town,
this week.
$2,204 WAS RAISED
IN CANCER DRIVE HERE
The recent cancer drive In this
are a raised a to ta l of $2,204.90,
the la rgest amount ever sub­scribed
here, according to final
tabulations made public yester­day.
The rep o rt does not Include
donations from Rothsville, still
to be tabulated.
JOSEPHINE MAE EBERLY
YMCA CAMP COUNSELOR
Josephine Mae Eberly, 411
Linden St., th is borough, has
been selected to serve th is sum­mer
as a counselor a t Hilltop
YMCA Camp. Miss Eberly a t­tended
training sessions a t th e
Father’s Day TV Show In
Tribute To M. S. Hershey
A trib u te to the la te Milton
S. Hershey, founder of Hershey,
Pa., and the world-famous school
for orphan boys there, will he
enacted on a network television
program th is Sunday, as p a rt of
the nationwide observance of
F a th e r’s Day.
The life of Hershey, who
amassed a fortune from milk
chocolate and then devoted his
wealth to philanthropy, will pro­vide
the drama for the Hallmark
Hall of Fame program on the
NBC television network. The
show will be seen coast to coast
a t 5 p.m., EDT.
The half-hour drama will de­ta
il Hershey’s development of
milk chocolate as a confection
50 years ago, his establishment
of the model town of Hershey,
Pa., and his endowment of the
Milton Hershey School for or­phan
boys.
The Hall of Fame televisiol.n..
dramatizes a segment from the
life of an inspiring figure in
history “who has contributed in
a substantial way to making this
a b etter world.”
An Impoverished Pennsylvania
farm boy, Hershey failed In the
candy business a t least three
times before he finally won suc­cess
a t Lancaster, Pa., when he
was nearly 40 years old. In suc­ceeding
years he poured his In­creasing
wealth from th e choco­late
business Into building the
utopian commdnity of Hershey
and with his wife, Catherine,
founder th e re his unique school
for orphans which has attracted
world-wide attention.
Childless himself, Hershey
was widely known during his
lifetime for his kindliness for
children, an a ttitu d e th a t is
thought to have contributed to
his in te rest In th e candy busi­ness.
More th an 1,000 orphan
i . 4V«
The entire membership of the
local Lions Club is urged to a t­tend
to n ig h t’s meeting to be held
a t Wagaman’s prin t shop. The
Haldeman’s of the Warwick
House will ca te r the meal to be
served.
Of primary Importance a t this
meeting, will be formulating and
completing plans for putting th e
playground in shape for the car­nival
scheduled for June 23 and
24. The proceeds of the carnival
will be used for the maintenance
of the playground and equip­ment.
During the carnival on Thurs­day,
June 23, both the Roths­ville
and Lititz High School
Bands will furnish music and on
Friday, the 24th, entertainment
will be in charge of the Denver
Dutch Band. There will be pony
rides and a merry-go-round for
the kiddies and many othe r
amusements for both young and
old.T
hese affairs have always been
very enjoyable and it is hoped
the townsfolk will tu rn out in
goodly numbers to lend th e ir
support to th e playground proj­ect.
Herm’n Drach
Killed In
Auto Crash
Herman Drach, for many
years affiliated with th e Animal
Trap Company here, was fatally
injured Monday night when a
sport car he was driving n e a r
Nashville, Tenn., overturned and
crushed him.
Alderman James C. Walker,
Huntsville, Ala., who was a pass­enger
in the car, reported th a t
th e accident resulted when
Drach swerved sharply to miss
striking a cat on th e highway.
The accident occurred a t Chapel
Hill, south of Nashville.
Funeral services will be held
a t Indianapolis, Ind., where
Drach lived for many years.
Several months ago he accep-ed
the position of vice president
of the P. R. Mallory Company, of
Huntsville, Ala. Drach came to
Lititz in 1929 as an engineer
with the Estes Company.
Incentive and production con­tro
l systems which Drach Insti­tu
te d in the trap company plant
here so impressed Trappy offi­cials
th a t Drach was offered the
position of p lan t superintendent.
He was promoted to vice presi­dent
in 1939 and remained with
n*iw ...ill 1 fiilO