Lititz Record Express

              Bi-Centennial
1956 The Lititz Record - Express
Serving The Lititz Area For Nearly Eighty Years
79th Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, a i The r Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The E ltitz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, February 16, 1956 5 oents a Copy; $2.50 per y e a r by mall,
within L an ca ste r County; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 46
Plan To Move Gen. Sutter's Body Is Opposed Here
W-L Dedication To Be Part Of 200th Celebration
Elmer Bobst
Reveals
Plans Here
Will Invite Leader, Duff
And Martin To Address
Celebration
Plans io r combining the d ed i­cation
of the new Warner-Laim-b
ert plant and a centennial celle- i
bration of the Richard Hudmut
Division, with Lititz’ Bi-Centen­nial
Celebration, were approved
Tuesday night by the local com­mittee.
The suggestion th a t the huin-dredth
anniversary celebration of
the Hudnut Division and th e
dedication of the four-million
dollar plant now under construe- 1
tion be combined with L ititz’ b ig
celebration was made by Elmier
Bobst, chairman of the board,
and Alfred Driscoll, president, on
a visit to Lititz last Saturday.
When the suggestion was p re ­sented
to the bi-centennial com­mittee
a t its meeting Tuesday
night, it was greeted with an en ­thusiastic
approval. The local
committee suggested th a t th e
Warner-Lambert dedication a n d
celebration be held eith er Thu rs­day
or Friday, June 28 or ¡29,
unless an evening program was
planned. In th a t event, to avoid
conflict with the Bi-Centenmial
pageant, th e committee suggeist-
.ed it be held eith er Ju ly 5 or 6.
According to Mr. Bobst, intvi-tions
will be addressed to Giov.
Leader, U. S. Senators Jaimes
Duff and General Martin, as wrell
as several members of P r e s i­dent
Eisenhower’s cabinet to
come here as guests and speak­ers.
Former Gov. Driscoll will
be directly in charge of all a r­rangements,
he said.
I t is expected th a t th e mew
plant here will be completed so
th a t the dedication can be m a d e
a t th a t time. This plant will be
identified as th e Warner-Hudmut
Division of the Warner-Lambiert
Company.
Plans for, th e Bi-Centenmial
celebration went into high giear
a t Tuesday n ig h t’s meeting wlhen
chairmen and members of th e
several dozen committees w ere
given detailed instructions on
how to proceed with th e ir wiork
by William LafTerty, rep re se n ta ­tive
of the Rogers Producing
Company, who a re supervisiing
„ th e observance.
Highlights of th e h isto ric a l
script for th e pageant were o u t­lined
by Dr. Harry Bender a n d
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FASNÀCHTS BY THÈ CARLOAD
International
Theme For
Girl Scouts
Girl Scout “Thinking Day”
will be observed on February^ 22
by Troop 118 and a program will
be presented with an I n te r n a ­tional
theme. This is the day
when Scouts remember ttheir
friends across th e sea. The ] pro­gram
will be held a t th e hiome
of one of th e leaders, Mrs. IHar-old
Zander, and th e guests will
be Troop 141. Mrs. Vincent
Dagen is the othe r leader.
A flag ceremony will openi th e
program and as the leaders p>oint
to th e various countries on the
globe, the girls will show a m in ­ia
tu re flag and a paper doll iwith
a Brownie uniform, re p re se n ta ­tive
of the country. Also any
o th e r articles they may havre on
display. Shawls and kimonos; will
be modeled by the Brownie®.
The program will close byr th e
Troop singing a song in F re n c h
and a Venezuelan folk song;.
Articles gathered by the girls
representing twelve countries,
and charts picturing breakifasts
around the world, will be om dis­play.
Refreshments will be iserv-ed
a t the close of the program.
At le ast th a t is th e way i t seemed, when one gazed upon,
th e hundreds and hundreds of fasnachts frie d Monday a n d
Tuesday by th e Women’s Work Organization o f th e local Church
of th e Brethren. The upper photo shows th e women prepa r­ing
th e fasnachts while in th e lower, a few of th e many work­ers
who participated, took off long enough to ta s te a few of
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California
Again
For Grave
Dr. Horne Enlists Aid Of
Cong. Dague In Oppos­ing
Attempt
A plan originating in Califor­nia
to have the bodies of General
John A. S u tte r and his wife re ­moved
from th e ir resting places
here to Sacramento, California,
will not only be opposed but is
destined to fail, it was asserted
here th is week.
News of th e plan to re tu rn
S u tte r’s body to California, the
second s u c h .a ttem p t in recent
years, was revealed in Washing­ton
D. C., by Congressman J.
A rth u r Younger, Republican,
from California.
Younger said th a t S u tte r’s
nearest of kin and only living
granddaughter, Mrs. Anna S.
Young, of Daly City,, California,
has agreed to th e plan to have
the bodies removed to Sacra­mento,
California.
He also said th a t Assembly­man
Richard Dolwig, of Cali­fornia,
has agreed to introduce
necessary legislation in the Cali­fornia
Legislature to officially
sanction th e move.
But, according to Dr. Byron
K. Horne, headmaster a t Linden
Hall, legislation passed before
the California Legislature will in
no way serve to force Lititz to
give up the body of General Sut­ter.
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Local Church Women Make
1,700 Doz. Fasnachts Tues.
Working day and night, a
group of local women th is week
tu rn ed out a record-breaking
batch of 1,700 dozen rich, puffy
fasnachts which found a ready
market when peddled among lo­cal
homes.
The women, who are members
of the Women’s Work Organiza­tion
of th e local Church of the
Brethren, launched th e ir Hercu­lean
ta sk a t noon Monday. Under
the direction of Mrs. Paul Shelly,
president of the group, activities
were going on a t full speed by
Monday evening.-
Various groups reported regu­larly
a t Intervals with th e results
th a t the fasnacht frying contin­ued
throughout th e n ig h t and
during most of Tuesday, Fas­nacht
Day.
Men of the church assisted by
delivering orders of the dough­nuts
to homes thro u g h o u t this
section. And when all was said
and done, a to ta l of 1,700 dozen
—th a t’s exactly 20,400 fasnachts
—had been sold, approximately
300 dozen more th an ever before.
Into th is record - breaking
batch went a to ta l of 825 pounds
of flour, 135 dozen of eggs, and
600 pounds of potatoes.
BOY SCOUT PAPER
COLLECTION SATURDAY
Collection of paper by th e Boy
Scout troops of town will s ta rt at
1:00 p.m. this Saturday. The
scouts will appreciate it if people
tie all paper in bundles, which
will facilitate ea sie r handling,
and prevent th e stre e ts from be­coming
littered. In event of rain
or snow, th e collection will be
delayed one week.
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A Rafie Photo
Day Of Prayer
Observance
At Noori Friday
A sh o rt noonday service will
be held tomorrow in T rinity Ev­angelical
Congregational Church.
The service, in charge of Howard
Good, has been planned by the
United Christian Youth Fellow­ship
in conjunction with th e
World Day of P ra y e r observance.
Good will be assisted a t th e
service by Sylvia and James
Swarr, and Ja ck Markert. Alt
Grade Pupils
Will Present
Musical Tues.
Lee Dunkle, vocal director of
Warwick Union School, has an­nounced
plans for th e annual
musical program of the first, \
second and th ird grades on Tues­day,
February 21 a t 7:30 p.m.
in .the auditorium of the school.
Subject of the presentation,
"Pages from Our Book of
Songs” , fea ture s many seasonal
selections, paying trib u te to Lin­coln
and Washington. The th ird
graders will open the en te rta in ­ment
with “Yankee Doodle” , and
“America the Beautiful.”
Second graders will present
“To My Valentine” and “ In Win­te
rtim e ” as th e ir theme. Pupils
from th e first grade will partici­pate
in th e rendition of “The
Gingerbread Boy”, “The Boy and
the Billy Goats Three” , and “ In
The Good Old Colony Times” .
“A Salute to National Broth­erhood
Week” , will fea tu re the
concluding group of songs, and
the Preamble to the United Na­tions
will be read.
THE REAL SPIRIT OF "HELP-ONE-ÀNOTHER"
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Many of th e 150 farmers who volunteered to ta k e p a r t
In the barn-raising n o rth of th e borough Monday a re seen
in th e top photo climbing about th e ra fte rs o f th e towering
stru c tu re , th e frame-work of which was completed in th e m a tte r
of hours. In th e lower photo th e group a r e seen filling a n e a r­by
shed where they consumed gallons and gallons o f rich,
thick chicken com soup an d veritable mountains of sandwiches
of every description.
150 Fanners Take Part In
Dietrich Barn-Raising Here
Bernie Lehman Fired
As Center Director
In Surprise Move
To Be Replaced
a n i l l a
Bernard Lehmann
PLAN SKIING TRIP
Three local skiing enthusiasts
will leave here Sunday, F eb ru ­ary
26, for a week skiing in
Vermont. They are John Wit-myer
and James Yerger, of this
borough, and Arthur Gray bill, of
Stevens RD. The trio will spend
most of the time In th e vicinity
of Stowe, Vermont.
5 6 In 1 9 5 6 !
The sale of $100 certificates
as a means of providing prelim­ina
ry financing for the Bi-Cen­tennial
Celebration here has met
wit han enthusiastic reception,
even though not generally offer­ed
to the public up to now, the
committee reported th is week.
The appeal made th is week by
the Bi-Centennial finance com­mittee
is as follows:
Your be-centennial committee
needs 56 forward looking civic
minded individuals who are will­ing
to help finance the program
of your committee.
We are seeking 56 individuals
who wiil advance $100.00 each
to th is committee for in itia l fi­nancing.
All we have to offer this
group of community spirited per­sons
is a page in the program
in the program and also a certifi­cate
certifying the advance or
contribution.
Should the bi-centennial pro­gram
be a financial success these
persons will be reimbursed from
the net proceeds b u t only to the
extent of th e original investment
of $100.00. NO PROFITS SHALL
ACCRUE TO THE BENEFIT OF
THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.
Please place yur call Immedi­ately
to any one of th e following
members as 56 is a small number
in a community which has bless­ed
so many with so much.
John Steffy ......................... 6-2216
J. M. Leed ....................... 6-2531
John Hershey .................... 6-2136
Alfred Douple .................... 6-2141
Harry Bender .................... 6-8417
Hiram Eberly ............. ,..... 6-2749
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More th a n 156 farmers raised
a barn on the fafrm recently sold
by J. Madison Dietrich, nea r Lex­ington,
on Monday. The entire
framework and about 25 per­cent
of th e siding was completed
in one day on the stru c tu re
which measures 56 feet by 96
feet.M
ost of th e men and th e ir
wives are members of the Men-nonite
faith and were recruited
by Zimmerman and Brubaker,
carpenters. The ladles prepared
chicken noodle soup, sandwiches,
cakes and coffee for the workers.'
The barn replaces one th a t was
destroyed by an arsonist on Oc-
T h e above is a reproduction tober 21 of la st ye a r’ on the 125
ta k en from a r a r e photo of Gen- acre ^arm now owned by Landis
era l S u tte r which was ta k e n I Martin, Lititz RD1, which he re-while
h e was a resid en t of L it- ! cently purchased from Dietrich
itz. for $40,000. Martin plans to oc-
No Mystery Where
The Grackles Went!
There’s no- mystery ’ as to
where the several hundred thous­and
grackles which created such
a nuisance here for several
months, have gone!
In fact, it’s a wonder we
haven’t been able to h e a r the
noise of th e fusilade which was
accorded th is undesirable flock
since it has found its new perch­ing
place.
The v ast grackle flock, which
includes thousands of starlings
and other birds, has settled in a
huge wooefed tra c t adjac ent to
the community reservoir a t Han­over,
Pa., it was learned here
th is week.
The grackles arrived sudden­ly
one night about the middle
of January, according to Henry
Bougart, who lives in the vicinity
of the reservoir section. The sec­tion
is filled with evergreens and
shrubbery and is much similar
to th e corner of th e Linden Hall
campus here which th e grackles
completely destroyed by the ir
mere presence.
The time of the a rriv a l of the
flock, the la rge st ever seen in
th is section of th e sta te , coin­cides
almost to th e day when
th e grackles, a fte r being bom­barded
by more th a n a hundred
local sportsmen, departed from
th is section.
Since the flock reached Han­over,
W. L. Sterner, hardware
merchant of Hanover, has ex­perienced
an unprecedented mid­winter
demand for shotgun
shells. Each night th ree or four
residents of the reservoir sec­tion
bombard th e flock as it a r­rives
back a t its roosting place.
But, they report, the shots fail
tn /Imini iViO hlrHa
enpy the farm in April, a t which
time Mr. Dietrich will move into
the home he purchased a t 425 E.
Main Street.
The original barn was built in
1805 by Jacob Brubaker, and
was twice before destroyed by
fire, once in 1897 and again in
1914. 1
Borough School
Repairs Will
Cost $253,019
Bids were opened la st night
for renovations to th e Lititz
Borough School.
Repairs and improvements
will cost a to ta l of $253,019, acc­ording
to th e five low bids acce­pted
by the board. The general
contract was awarded to H. M.
Horning and Sons, of Goodwille
a t a cost of $99,623. In addition
to improvements throughout th e
building the general cantract
calls for removal of th e skylight
over th e auditorium to increase
each evening, th e thousands j classroom space, building of a
which make up the flock r e tu r n ! bus-loading un it in front park-to
roost in the same grove of jng space a t the side, drinking
tre e s- ! fountains in all th e classrooms,
Learning th a t a flock of th is etc.
type had created a nuisance here, I Heating and ventilating, in-
Sterner la st week obtained infor- \ cluding change-over to oil-fired
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See Hope For
Center Drive
T hat th e $5,000 goal of the
Recreation Center Drive may yet
be realized seemed a certainty
last night according to John
Helter, president o f the hoard of
directors. He said th a t Dr. Her­b
ert K. Cooper, Lancaster, had
assured Center boaTd members
th a t if the drive locally raised
$4,000, he had been authorized
by Elmer Bobst to pledge the ad­ditional
$1,000 on behalf of
Warner-Lambert.
The drive fo r funds now
stands a t $3,900, Bernard Leh­mann,
th e director, announced.
This amount, however, includes
th e annual appropriation of $1,-
500 tu rn ed over to the Center by
the Lititz Community Chest.
Contributions from th e current
drive are listed a t $2,400.
Students - Teachers
Net $79.83 For Polio
The annual Student-Teacher
games a t Lititz High School for
the benefit of th e March of
Dimes were held last Friday.
Games of volleyball were play­ed
between a team of girl stu ­dents
and lady teachers, follow­ed
by games between a team
composed of male students and a
team of male members of the
faculty.
The games are sponsored by
the Student Council. Admission
is by contribution for the March
of Dimes. This y e a r’s to ta l was
$79.83.
Lions Plan
Ladies Night
A Ladies’ Night deluxe is be­ing
planned by the local Lions
Club, Clyde O. Benner, chairman
of the committee, announced yes­terday.
I t will be held a t the
General S u tter Hotel on the eve­ning
of March 15.
The filet mignon dinner will be
a $5 per plate affair, and accord­ing
to Benner, no detail is being
overlooked in an effort to have
the best of everything for the
occasion.
Dinner music is to be furnish­ed
by a local group who have
been appearing toge ther for
quite some time, b u t have not
tak en time to give themselves a
name. Mrs. Alvin Mease, Lex­ington,
is th e pianist; Harry
Neidermyer plays th e oboe, Ray
Kauffman, th e flu te ; and Hazel
Moore Is the soprano.
Mrs. John Roth, comedienne,
of Florin, will be th e entertainer.
“There will be no sp e ak e r!” said
Benner emphatically!
Others on the committee are
David Wright, Lester Balmer,
Edwin Stroble, Ray
David White Family
Still Without Home
In spite of th e intensive search
for a home for the David White
1 furnaces Contract for was award- family, on th e p a rt of members
ed to Margot’s Plumbing and J of the Lions Club, none had been
Heating whose low bid amounted
to $43,121. The same firm was
awarded th e plumbing contract
a t a bid of $29,886.
Electrical work, including
flourescent lig h ts thro u g h o u t
was awarded to Shirk Electric,
of New Holland, which bid 67,-
260, while a contract fo r in sta ll­ing
kitchen equipment was
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found la st night, according to
Ray Pettyjohn, who has spear­headed
th e movement to find
b e tte r facilities fo r th e family. '
Board Is Dissatisfied With
• Showing During
Past Year
In a surprise move, members
of the board of directors of the
Lititz Recreation Center this
week requested the resignation
of Bernard Lehmann as director
of the Center.
While the board did not make
any formal announcement of its
action, individual members ex­plained
th a t the group felt Leh­mann’s
Inexperience has prevent­ed
him from presenting the type
of recreational program needed
here. His services as director will
te rminate April 1.
Informed th a t his services no
longer would be needed, a t the
meeting Monday night, Lehmann
requested th a t he be permitted
to remain long enough to in tro ­duce
a new director to what he
he has done in the past.
Lehmann also requested de­tails
of the reason prompting
his dismissal. John Helter, presi­dent
of the board, disclosed la te r
th a t this will be explained a t a
conference with Lehmann and a
representative of the national
recreation association to be held
here Friday afternoon.
Lehmann, a gradua te of In ­diana
University, where he re­ceived
his bachelor’s degree, and
New York University, where h e
won a ma ste r’s degree in educa­tion,
was appointed to the posi­tion
in November 1954. He is
the first full-time director named
for the Center here under the a r ­rangement
in which the State
Department of Education u lti­mately
will pay a big portion of
the salary cost of the Center.
Lehmann blamed much of the
cause for his failure to make a
b etter showing due to the small
budget made available to him.
This , has made it impossible to
install new equipment or facili­ties
with the resu lt th a t many
phases of supervised recreation
could not be presented, he said.
I t also was revealed th is week
th a t local school authorities were
not too happy over the limited
progress made by the Center.
Stockholders
At Trappy
OK Board
At th e annual meeting of Ani­mal
Trap Co., stockholders held
in the offices of the company la st
Friday, th e seven directors who
were seeking reelection were
unanimously approved.
They are ; C. M. Woolworth,
Richard G. Woolworth, J. Guy
Eshelman and C. C. Straley, all
of Lancaster, E. J. Buell, Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada; Charles
A. P ra tt, Windsor, Conn., and
Harold O. Babcock, Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
A vote of more th a n 55,000
stockholders overwhelmingly ap­proved
the amending of the com­pany
by-laws to reduce th e num­ber
of board members from nine
to seven. This represented more
th a n 95 per-cent of th e stock­holders.
In response to an effort on* the
p a rt of stockholder Charles E.
hotel.
Already Collecting Tallow
For 4th Of July Candles Here
In announcing th a t Harry Reg-ennas
had again been authorized
to make the candles for th is
y e a r’s Ju ly 4th celebration in the
P a rk , it was noted th a t la st year
was the only time in the history
of th e celebration th a t th e can­dles
used were not hand-made.
Having had difficulty in acquir­ing
a sufficient amount of tallow
Regennas was forced to buy the
manufactured candles.
He explained th a t it takes con­siderable
time to accumulate the
P ettyjohn, 500 pounds needed to make the
Sr.,
n r r i
Paul Lauderman and How-
T.ehf) Elvin Good is nresi-required
5,000 candles, and th a t
only beef kidney tallow will do
P ettyjohn said the Whites,
w.ho were moved into the P a rk ' Chicago, to have th e by-
View Hotel la st week by th e laws oi th e comPany amended so
Red Cross a fte r th e foundation th a t directors of th e company
of th e shack where they had been woul(? necessarily have to be
living collapsed, a re still a t th e f ‘ockholders: the company s Patatuolr neEy’ aMnda eplrleesr­>
ident of the State Bar Associa­tion,
asserted th a t th e present
by-laws conform with th e laws of
the sta te of Pennsylvania, as well
as those of most other industria l
states.
Mr. King was unable to obtain
sufficient proxy votes to effect
th e amendment.
I t was ascertained th a t a ll of
th e Directors are substantial
stockholders and always have
been.
Company operations fo r th e
past year were favorable and
good prospects were evidence fo r
1956.
expressed th e opinion th a t th e
glow of th e machine made can­dles
was more h arsh than th a t
of the hand-made ones.
Mr. Regennas has been mak­ing
th e Ju ly 4th candles since
1942, the year th a t Walter Light
passed on. Light had made the
candles more years th an he
could remember.
The committee also decided a t
its meeting la st Thursday night
to engage th e Women’s Air
Force Band for the celebration
this year. Miss Marybelle Nissley,
formerly of th is borough, and a
former musician in the Lititz
High School Band, is the di-
MARY ANN TEMPLETON
ON DEAN’S LIST
Miss Mary Ann Templeton, a
student a t Kutztown State Teach­ers
College was on th e dean’s
list the past semester. Miss
Templeton is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Russel Templeton and