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1956
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(Consolidated with The L it it z Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 19, 1956 5 cents a C opy; $2.50 per y e a r by maU,
within L a n c a s te r C o u n ty ; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 42
D r. G r isw o ld U r g e s C om m u n ity A m b u la n c e P r o je c t
Council Tosses Out
All ‘Unusual* Means
To Raise Funds Here
ARCHITECT'S PLAN FOR LOCAL SW IM CLUB
All Agree, However, That
Boost In Property Tax
Is Inevitable
One lengthy budget meeting
on the part of members of the
Lititz Borough Council—and all
ideas of extra-curricular meians
of raising taxes here quickly
went out the window!
After spending hours cullling
over the bulky proposed budget
submitted by Borough Manaiger
David Bauer, last Thursday |
night, members of council assort­ed
that proposed new means of
raising funds, such as a boroiugh
income tax, definitely have bieen
abandoned.
All agreed, however, that de­spite
stringent cutting of as
many appropriations as possilble,
the increase in the borough tax
rate of from three to five miills,
proposed by President of Coumcil
Menno Rohrer, undoubtedly will
have to he made.
Members of council also took
a stand to endeavor to get (cer­tain
major improvements starlted,
at least, wunout the formation
o f an authority at this time. The
most urgent of these major proj­ects,
it was agreed, is the con­struction
of a 350,000-gallon res­ervoir
atop Kissel Hill, and m em­bers
of council are exploring the
possibility of starting the laying
of a main to Kissel Hill this year
and then raising sufficient funds
through a bond issue to com­plete
the work.
The reservoir would provide
needed additional pressure to
make the entire system mores ef­fective,
it was explained.
Mr. Bauer pointed out that the
borough can incur an indebted­ness
of $74,014 without a vote
o f the people. Should the matter
then be taken to a referendum,
the borough could, with the ap­proval
of the voters, increase this
another $185,035, bringing lit to
a total of $259,049, based uipon
the 1955 assessment.
Sufficient leeway to compílete
the reservoir in this manner and
without resorting to an author­ity
would be provided by an. in­crease
in assessment to be miade
during the coming year.
And on this note—the meeting
adjourned to meet at least once
again before the January meet­ing,
Tuesday, January 31, wAen
the tax rate for the coming year
must be fixed.
W-lToiCs
Emerson
Merger
The day when little blue bot­tles
and the Bromo Seltzer which
goes into them is manufactured
in Lititz may be closer, accord­ing
to an announcement miade
last Friday by the Warner-Lam­bert
Pharmaceutical Company in
New York.
According to the announce­ment,
Warner - Lambert has
reached “an agreement in prin­ciple
on a plan to merge Emer­son
Drug Company into Warner-
Lambert.”
That Lititz figures in future
plans to result from the proposed
merger was indicated more than
a month ago when inquiries were
made here regarding a railiroad
siding for the Maryland Grlass
Company, a wholly-owned (sub­sidiary
of Emerson Drug Com­pany
and manufacturers of the
blue bottles in which Bromo S e lt­zer,
chief product of the Emeirson
Company, is merchandised.
The merger plan will be (sub­mitted
to stockholders of the
Emerson Drug Company for
their approval in March.
ECONOMIES INCLUDE
KEEPING PRESENT
BOROUGH CARS
Among economies being pro­posed
to keep borough taxes
down are to keep the old 1940
station wagon operated by the
water diepantment since 1941
for at least another year as well
as keeping the three-year-old
police car a couple more years,
withholding several proposed
salary boosts and holding off
purchase of several new pieces
of equipment. But, it was point­ed
out, all added up doesn’t come
anywhere near a mill in taxes!
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Lititz Still
Has Low Rate
In County
Even with a boost in the local
tax rate, Lititz will be far from
the top, taxwise, among county
towns, Borough Manager David
Bauer revealed this week.
After compiling data from all
boroughs in the county, he re­vealed
that with the exception
of East Petersburg and Stras-burg,
all other boroughs of the
county had a tax rate of 10 mills
or more during the past year.
Denver borough had a tax rate
of 18 mills. Ephrata has had a 1
15-mill rate for at least the past Idea 0 ! Family Member-ten
years, and at Manheim the , . _ i n • j
rate has been 12 mills. Mount j Snip uFOlip IS KeCeiVed
Enthusiastically
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A bird’s-eye view of the proposed swimming pool, recreational area and parking spaces of
the family membership swimming club being organized here is shown in the drawing above.
100 Apply
To Form
Swim Club
Joy has a 10-mill rate but
charges an $8.00 per capita tax,
twice that of Lititz. Mount Joy
also: is on the threshold of con­structing
a sewer system which
will give taxes there a further
boost.
Other nearby tax rates higher
than Lititz, even if a boost is
made this year, include: Adams-town,
15 mills; Akron, 15; Co­lumbia,
17; East Donegal Twp.,
18; Elizabethtown, 12; Millers-ville,
16.
Boost Surplus
To Half Million
The surplus of the Farmers
National Bank was increased to
half-a-million dollars, in an ac­tion
taken by directors at their
annual re-organization meeting
held Monday.
Henry B. Gibbel was re-elec­ted
president of the bank for his
second term in office. Other offi­cers
re-elected are: Paul Bom-berger,
vice president, cashier
and secretary; Alfred L. Douple,
assistant cashier and trust offi­cer;
James Mummert, assistant
cashier, and Robert Wonder, as­sistant
trust officer.
Formation of a swimming club
here appeared to be off and run­ning
this week, when it was re­ported
that over 100 persons
have applied for membership in
the proposed Woodridge Swim
Club which is aiming at the con­struction
of a pool just west of
the Lititz pike near Kissel Hill.
Members of a 15-man group
who are spearheading the move
said a report meeting this week
indicated the enthusiastic res­ponse
of over 100 persons. The
figure could go even higher
they said, because several of the
Historic Exhibits Planned
By Bi-Centennial Committee
Plans for placing exhibits of
local antiques and historical ar­ticles
in practically every store
window of town during the Bi­centennial
pageant next June,
were approved by the celebra­tion
committee at a meeting
held Tuesday evening.
In addition, Barton L. Sharp,
chairman of the exhibits, re­vealed
that it -may be possible
to obtain several historic train
coaches from the Reading Rail­road,
to be placed on a local
siding at the same time.
The committee also has been
promised the luse of antique
fire apparatus, now stored in the
basement of the Lititz Mutual
Insurance Company building,
both for the county firemen’s
parade and for the historical
pageant. Carl Drepperd, cura­tor
at Landis Valley, also has
promised the committee the loan
of other historic material for
MRS. EDMUND SCHWARZE
BREAKS HIP IN FALL
Word was received in town
that Mrs., Edmund Schwarze, of
Winston-Salem, N. C., fell and
broke her hip. She is the mother
of Mrs. Edwin I^ortz, a former
resident of town. Mrs. Kortz is
spending the month of January
with her mother in the south.
98th Birthday
Observed Tuesday
Mrs. Katie Bear, mother of Ed­win
Bear, 18 West Lincoln Ave.,
•quietly observed her 98th birth­day
on Tuesday.
Mrs. Bear’s health is good but
her vision has been failing for
some time, confining her for the
most part to her own room.
She makes her home with her
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Bear. There are
three grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
Lutherans Study Plans FoT
Building Near New School
It was disclosed this week by
officials of St. Paul’s Luthieran
Church and the Moravian (Con­gregation
that relocation of! the
present Lutheran Church is; be­ing
considered.
'■> Building of a brand new edi­fice
on Moravian land near the
n.ew Junior-Senior High School
bi ulding would solve the present
congestion in the steadily grow­ing
.»Lutheran membership, pro­vide
i^uch needed Christian edu­cational
facilities, and more ade­quate
larking space, Rev. Ffran-held
last week it was decided to
take no action on the matter
until an intensive study of all
possibilities is made, using as
a guide, a plan drawn up by the
Department of Church Archi­tecture
of the United Lutheran
Church.
This plan calls for a study
of community needs, potential
growth, etc.; as well as a com­prehensive
report on the present
educational program of the
church and its future needs.
Edwin A. Hess, Daniel Miller,
committee of 15 were unable to j the game purpose
attend the first report meeting I Hiram Eberly, chairman of the
because of other duties and| home-coming celebration, an-hence
no report of their prog- nounced that letters inviting
ress was available. | former residents to return to Lit-
Another report meeting will itz for the bi-centennial celebra-be
made next week, a spokesman ; tion will start going out in the
said. Meanwhile persons in the I near future.
Greater Lititz Area are being Plans also are being completed
contacted by the organizational j for having guests visit the arch-group
and plans for the opera- ives room at the Moravian
tion and proposed construction Church with the possibility that
of the pool are being explained parts of Fellowship Hall also
to interested persons. | may he used for historic exhibits.
Literature has been prepared ' Three new appointments to the
on the project, it was reported celebration group include Bur-at
this week’s meeting and plans gess Benjamin Forrest, co-chair-
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Eight Violators
Nabbed In Boro
During The Week
Eight more prosecutions were
mpde by the Borough Police dur­ing
the past week in what is
proving to be a real crack-down
on traffic violators.
Charged with driving too fast
for conditions were Carl Shirk,
15 Maple Street; Mark Holsing-er,
RD1; Thomas C. Sietz, Punx-sutawney,
and William Heidig,
Lancaster; Arthur Boston, Leba­non;
and Adeline Snyder, Eph­rata,
were charged with reckless
driving.
Luke Good, RD3, was charged
with ignoring a traffic light; and
Robert Dickel, Lancaster, for ex­cessive
noise. All were ordered to
appear before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm.
man of the special events com­mittee;
William Light, co-chair­man
of exhibits; and Wilbur
Miller, co-chairman of the finance
commtitee.
John Witmyer reported plans
are being completed for decora­tions
for the central part of the
borough. The committee also ap­proved
a cemmemorative bi-cen-tennial
plate to be sold prior to
and during the celebration. Other
fund raising means also were
approved.
It was announced that the lo­cal
committe will confer with
officials of the pageant-producing
company on February 14.
37c Donation
Aids Polio Fund
Thirty-seven cents doesn’t
mean a lot as compared with
Lititz’ contribution to the polio
fund — but for genuine spirit,
it stands for a lot!
Inspired by the March of
Dimes appeal, Tommy McCloud,
nine-year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul McCloud, and Joey
Carl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
M. Carl came up with an im­promptu
puppet show at Tom­my’s
home Sunday a/ternoon
during his parents’ absence.
In quick order, puppets were
made, advertisements went up
throughout the neighborhood
and a gang of kids quickly cor­ralled
— at two cents each. Even
the family pretzel jar was looted,
at one-cent apiece, with the re­sult
that the grand total of
thirty-seven cents was realized.
Monday morning the two
marched to Kauffman’s store
and proudly placed the entire
amount in the polio container
there.
Approve
Faculty
Changes *
Homer Hackman Is
Named Ind. Arts
Instructor
A number of faculty changes
were announced at a meeting of
the Warwick Union School Board
here last night at which plans for
the renovation of the borough
school building this summer
were formally approved.
The school board also an­nounced
that bids for the pur­chase
of equipment for the new
junior-senior high school build­ing
will be opened Feb. 14 and
16.
Plans and specifications are
available from Marlin Spaid, su­pervisor.
Homer Hackman, who taught
here ten years ago, has been
appointed industrial arts instruc­tor
in the woodworking shop.
His appointment was one of
those approved by the board last
night.
Hackman taught here from
1929 to 1937 and in the Hershey
Public Schools from 1939 to
1943 and in the Hershey Indus­trial
School from 1943 to 1945.
Until recently he was engaged in
the furniture business.
John W. Kambis, who will
graduate from Millersville State
Teachers College in June, was
named a social studies teacher
in the High School and will serve
as assistant football coach. Kam­bis
is well known in athletic
circles.
The board also announced that
Claude Swartzbaugh, present
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Womans Club
Hears Talk
On Cancer
Th causes of cancer — and the
first danger signs to be noted —
“Queenie” Home
After Finishing
First Semester
The local police force has a
full complement of members now
that “Queenie” has finished her
first semester of schooling.
According to Officer Howard
Ludwig, who relinquished owner­ship
of the German Police dog
to the borough, when they
agreed to finance her scholarship,
“She was plenty good before, but
this training has really made her
one to respect.”
At the command of the officer
“Queenie” will charge, stand
guard, ifetch, find, go, sit,
heel, stop, down, stay, and a
number of others. After deter­mining
her weak points, if any,
she wil return to the school at
Dover, N. J., to complete the
course.
Fire Losses
Hit New Low
During 1955
Notwithstanding an increase
CLAM MIX SALE —
BY OSTEOPATHIC GUILD
A Clam Mix Sale will be held
on Saturday, January 21st at
the home of Mrs. James Sen-,
senig, 221 East New Street, for
the benefit of the Lititz Osteo­pathic
Guild. The ladies will de­liver
the mix if desired., Orders
should be phoned either to Mrs.
Sensenig, 6-8606, or Mrs. Will­iam
Klunk, 6-6321.
BACK FROM FLORIDA
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Mease,
RD 2, have returned home after
spending two weeks at St. Pet­ersburg,
Florida. Rev. Harry To-
Russell Markert
Heads Brotherhood
Russell Markert was recently
elected president of the Brother­hood
of St. Luke’s Evangelical
and Reformed Church. Larry
Roth was elected vice president;
Harry Brendei, treasurer, and
William Carper, secretary.
Joseph Snavely, a state annu-alist,
was the speaker at the
meeting held on Tuesday eve­ning.
The group is planning a
Father and Son Night, to be held
in February.
Local Cub Pack
Views Aero Train v
Cub Pack 142 went to Lan­caster
on Saturday afternoon to
see the Aero Train, Which was
on exhibition at the railroad sta­tion.
They were accompanied by
the Den Mothers and Fathers.
Their next meeting will be
held on Friday, January 27, at
7 p.m. “Pirate Waters” will be
the theme.
On Wednesday, February 8,
the Cubs and Scouts will hold
were emphasized in an address , -within the boro, fire losses for
by Dr. Wilhemina Scott before, the local distrlct hit a n6W l0w
members of the Lititz Woman’s for recent years, according to the
Club in the General Sutter Hotel
Monday evening.
Dr. Scott also showed two
colored moving pictures recently
released by the American Cancer
Society. She was introduced by
Mrs. Paul Hess. The annual can­cer
drive opens April 2.
Members of the local club al­so
have knit a total of 52 articles |tion, was roughly $1.30.
of clothing to be sent to Korea,
according to a report submitted
by Mrs. John Bettis, Jr. The ar­ticles
includig mittens, stockings
scarves and caps were on dis­play.
The report also stated the
Club would be helping to send
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annual report announced yester­day
by Fire Chief Leroy Bare
and his predecessor, Raymond
Runk.
Property losses within the
borough limits totaled $8,600 as
compared with $3,575 in 1954.
The per capita loss in the bor­ough,
based on a 6,600 popula-
Outlines Plan To
Obtain Vehicle On
Subscription Basis
Voices Need
Dr. Arthur S. Griswold
Chest Funds
Of $7,167.53
Are Distributed
ABC Will Be Contacted
To Get Project
Started
| That a move is being planned
to provide Lititz with a com-
Smunity ambulance was disclosed
1 this week by Dr. Arthur S. Gris­wold,
local physician who, a year
;ago, was largely responsible for
adding a life-saving resuscitator
to the local fire company equip­ment.
j An ambulance is badly needed
at present, with all indications
that the need will increase, he
said. Dr. Griswold also announc­ed
that he is submitting the need
for' an ambulance to the Lititz
Chapter of the American Busi­ness
Club as the group’s major
project for 1956.
Quoting an editorial which ap­peared
in last week’s Record-Ex­press,
Dr. Griswold asserted that
I “so far we have been mighty
| lucky here In that there have
! not been too many emergency
calls for ambulances.”
But, Dr. Griswold added, there
have been several instances
where ambulances could not be
obtained. The need for an ambu­lance
to take patients to hospit­als
in more distant points also
A total of $7,167.53 raised ,18 urgent, he explained.
in the recent Community Chest
campaign was distributed at a
meeting of directors held here
Monday evening.
Dr. Griswold indicated that
overtures already made before
the local ABC has found the club
enthusiastic over the prospects
of the newly-proposed project.
Funds were appropriated as Hr. Griswold is chairman of the
follows: $200 to the Lititz Pub­lic
Library; $1,500 to the Corn-project
committee.
“My plan, which of course is
munity Center; $3,657 to the made merely as a suggestion, is
Lancaster County Community ! that all families here be contact-
Chest, and the balance of $1,810- ed and asked to subscribe to an
.53 retained in the general fund Ambulance service for approxi-of
the Lititz Community Chest, ¡mately $2.00 a year,” Dr. Gris-
The visiting nurse reported a t ° ld add®d\ “This subscription
total of 488 calls made d n r in g i^ 6“ WOuld i“sure “ em free use
the past three months. A trea -|trl as needed wlthin a 60_mlie .
surer s report showed expenses radius_ and on a cost basls be_
during this period of $994.28 :vond that dlstance
as compared with receipts, main-i -We would have to have the
ly from nursing services, of co-operation of some group such
$521, leaving a balance of I .(Continued on Page 12)
$1,422.68 prior to the disburse-!_______________________________
ment this week.
Dr. C. W. Eshleman, president
of the chest, submitted a report
showing that current bills of
the Chips family, victims of a
tragic pre-holiday auto accident,
had been paid. Dr. Eshleman al­so
revealed that the rent of the
local apartment occupied by the
family had been cancelled by the
landlord. A balance of $62.69
left in the fund donated by lo­cal
residents was turned over
to the family.
Center
Campaign
Lagging
An appeal for workers to hur­ry-
up solicitations in the Cen-
I ter drive for funds was issued
here yesterday.
Despite that plans had been
made for reports to be submitted
several times during the week,
few reports had been received up
to last evening. The total repor­ted
amounts to less than a thou­sand
dollars, one-sixth of the
The burglary early Sunday; to*;a^ sought,
morning at the Veterans of For- a result, the huge ther-eign
Wars here, has been linked i niometer erected in the Square
“Vets” Burglary
Linked To Others
In This Area
Brownies Hold
Doll Show Here
Brownie Troop 141 held a doll
show recently and the following
girls received prizes: Most orig­inal,
Barbara Adams; infant doll,
Barbara Kutz; most realistic,
Marcia Groves, first; Barbara
Kreider, second; Donna Hart­man,
third.
Patriotic, Linda Lausch, first;
Jane Weaver, second; Linda Baj-kowski
.third; funniest, Donna
Singer; largest, Anne Bowden,
first; Barbara Foreman, second;
Kay Miley, third; nationality,
Kathy Will, first; Barbara Spaid,
second; most characteristic, Judy
Ranck, first; Brenda Weit, sec­ond.
Mrs. Paul Miller was the judge
to others in the county, it was
discovered yesterday.
Police have found that the
marks left by the tool used to
jimmy a window at the local
V.F.W. Post are identical with
those found on the window of a
refreshment stand on the Man­heim
Pike, which was entered
the same night.
A sportsmen’s club at Reams-town
was also entered over the
week-end, but the thieves were
Despite several destructive ! unable to find anything of value,
barn fires, losses in the districts members of the club reported,
outside the borough limits show- I At the «Vetg» lt was estimated
ed a decrease. Last year’s losses !about $100 had been stolen from
are estimated at $163,050, as cigarette and pin-hall machines,
compared with $213,130 in 1954.
Total for the district was $171,-
650.
Local firemen responded to a
total of 33 calls during 1955, in
which they traveled 107 miles
and extended 194 feet of ladders.
and another $100 in property
damage, according to Chief Hoff­man.
Due to the similarity in the
patern of these robberies, police
are anticipating an early arrest.
still registered . only a small
patch of red although workers
hoped to be able to have this
marker halfway up the flag­pole
this week-end.
As part of the campaign, Ro-tarians
entertained Center di­rectors
and heard an appeal
made by John Helter, president,
at their meeting Tuesday eve­ning.
This evening, two reels of
moving pictures, one on local
recreational activities an-d the
other of a more general nature,
will be shown before local Lions
and at a meeting of the P.T.A.
Appeals also will be made this
week-end through the use of a
public address system.
Battle Of Birds Appears
Now To Be Definitely Ended
The “Battle of the Birds” ap-1
pears to have ended! An esti­mated
$100 worth of ammuni­tion
did the trick!
When Wallace Woodring,
game protector, called on tjie
Lititz Sportsmen’s Association
last Friday night, requesting
them to meet the following eve­ning
at dusk in a concerted ef­fort
to scare the horde of star­lings
and grackle out of the
pines at Linden- Hall, over a hun­dred
men turned up armed to the
teeth.
In spite of the barrage of shot
counted for on Sunday morning.
In the evening a sizeable crowd
gathered along Marion Street at
the usual roosting time and all
agreed the shotguns had served
their purpose, when only a very
small percentage of the birds re­turned.
When the gunners met again
on Monday evening, the flock at­tempting
to roost at the campus
had diminished to one of normal
size. On Tuesday only one size­able
flock was observed and that
one was quite high and made no
attempt to come in for a land-
WCTU Marks
Dry Anniversary
The thirty-sixth anniversary
of the advent of prohibition, Jan­uary
16. 1920, observed Mon­day
afternoon at the monthly
meeting of the Lititz W.C.T.U,
held at the home of Mrs. Lloyd
Smith, Broad Street.
As has long been the custom
of the W.C.T.U., the first meet­ing
of the year was in the form
of a prayer meeting. One new
member was admitted, making
a total of 19 now enrolled.
The local W.C.T.U. will ob­serve
the anniversary of th®
birthday of Frances E. Willard,
great W.C.T.U. leader with a
Willard tea here on February
17. Each local union will make
a contribution to the Willard
Memorial Fund to be used for
organization and furtherance of
the work.
A discussion of proposed leg-