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Serving The Warwick Union Area For The Past Eighty Years
80th Year E stablished April, 1877, as T he Sunbeam
(Consolidated with T he X.ltitz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 21, 1956 5 cents a Copy; $2.50 per y e a r by mail,
within L an ca ste r County; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 12
Boro Council Votes To Establish Water Authority
Legal Technicalities Delay School Tax Boost
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
-R e c o rd -E x p r e s s Photos.
In th e upper photo are seen th e first group o f office employees
busily engaged In the warehouse being used as th e temporary
office fo r Ijiunbert-Hudnut. In the lower photo, Barbara Jeanne
Baldori, o f Lancaster, is pointing ou t th e historic plug-in o f the
switchboard pressed into service after President Eisenhower
suffered h is heart attack.
Presidential Memento
Is Installed At
Lambert - H’nut Plant
Board
Seeking
Answers
A maze of legal technicalities
last night prevented members of
the Warwick Union School Board
from passing the annual budget
or fixing the tax rate for the
coming year.
The tax rate is destined to be
increased, members agreed, but
the extent of this increase will
not be known until after local
directors can have the present
confused situation cleared up
with definite decisions by state
officials.
The confusion results from the
salary boosts accorded teachers
in one bill passed by the le g is­lature
and the action of Gover­nor
Leader in vetoing a later
bill providing funds to pay for
the salary boosts. Local officials
now are endeavoring to learn
vhat action other districts have
taken.
Salary boosts total an amount
equal to a three-mill tax boost
in the Warwick Union District,
it was explained. The present
tax here is 32 mills.
Another factor preventing ac­tion
on the budget last night is
an answer to the question o f ju st
what part of the improvement
being made in the three existing
school buildings, will the sta te
consider re-imbursable? State
Department of Education officials
will have to break down the costs
figures between what are Im­provements
and what are replace­ments
and repairs, it was indi­cated.
Last night’s lengthy meeting
also was interspersed with a liv e ­ly
discussion over Warwick
Township tax exonerations. This
large reduction in tax the district
had hoped to collect is the result,
of mistakes and errors made by
a previous assessor, it was e x ­plained.
Before exonerating th e
list submitted, each case w ill be
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Josh Roflman Started
40 Yrs. Ago Today With
$25 Horse, $10 Wagon
Forty years is a long time—
and a lot can happen during that
time, according to Joshua Roll-man,
well-known local drayman.
And Joshie ought to know—
for today he is observing his
fortieth anniversary at the job
of making local deliveries in Lit­itz.
His celebration characteris­tically
is consisting of making
his usual rounds and at his usual
pace, somewhere between a rapid
walk and a run!
"It was on June 21, 1916 that
I launched my business with a
$25 horse and a $10 wagon,”
Josh explained, “And that first
day was a long one. When it had
ended. I had earned a net profit
o f 50 cents.”
But since then, business ha s
improved, Josh added. From th a t
one team he increased h is busi­ness
until at one time he owned
nearly forty head of horses and
numerous wagons, as well as
scoops, etc., used in digging out
cellars.
Horses remained an important
part of his business for many
years and he sold his last pair
only two years ago, he explained.
At present he is owner, along
with his son, Henry, of a fleet
of 35 trucks and pieces o f equip­ment
extending from the delivery
truck Josh operates daily to
huge trucks used in the hauling
of heavy machinery and equip­ment.
This year’s fireworks display
which w iir climax the July 4th
program not only w ill be one o f
the most spectacular but also w ill
embody the Bi-Centennial theme.
Included w ill be a large set-piece;
"Lititz 1756-1956”. But
this is only one of several dozen
features of the display which a l­so
will include patriotic selec­tions
such as “Salute to th e
American F la g ,” "Tree o f Lib­erty,”
“Betsy Ross,” “American
Flying Eagle," “The Star Spang­led
Banner,” in which Old Glory
floats earthward from 5,000 feet
A memento o f the days when
President Dwight Eisenhower
was recuperating from his heart
attack on his farm near Gettys­burg,
was brought to Lititz this
week!
When the tempopary telephone
switchboard was installed at the
Lambert-Hudnut plant on Mon­day,
officials learned that the
board was the one used at Gettys­burg.
One of the keys on the lower
row is equipped with a bright
red light— and this light was
the one which flashed each time
the president lifted the receiver
of his own private phone. During
the days of his convalescence,
this line was in almost constant
connection with the presidential
offices in the White House at
Washington.
And— like the numbers which
appear on the uniform of such
baseball immortals as Babe Ruth
and Lou Gehrig— President Eis­enhower’s
personal telephone slot
has been sealed, not to be used
again for at least some time to
come.
The memento received more
than a passing notice Monday
as another historic event occur­red:
the first group of office
workers assembled and began the
very first work o f its kind being
done for Lambert-Hudnut in the
new, partially-completed four-million
dollar plant here.
The group consisting of twenty
local women were stationed in
the warehouses where the tem­porary
offices will remain' until
the permanent office building is
illuminates the entire sky.
In the spectacular aerial finale
and bombardment will be com­bined
75 nine-inch shells, 75
nine-inch flashes, ten 12-inch and
eight 15-inch battle in the cloud
shells, after which a large
ground-piece, “The American
F la g ” is illuminated, followed
by the deafening sound of an
18-inch flash cannon report.
Tte fireworks display w ill be
staged by the Keystone Fire­works
Company, o f Dunbar, Pa.
Glenn McElroy, local pharmacist,
is chairman of the fireworks
completed around the middle of
July.
For the time being, most of
the work consisted of instruction
in the complicated bookkeeping
machines to be employed by
Lambert-Hudnut as well as le s­sons
in the bookkeeping methods
used by the company.
In charge were J. D. Cox, di­vision
controller; J. P. Nolan,
cost supervisor; W. E. Lewis,
cost accountant; J. E. Murray,
who will be in charge of the de­partment
permanently, and R. H.
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Local Student
And Father Die
In Plane Crash
A Linden Hall sophomore and
her father both were killed Sun­day
when their single-engine
airplane crashed and burned in
a farm yard near North Collins,
New York.
The student was Miss Karen
Ann Wesson, who completed her
Freshman year at Linden Hall
this year and who had won citi­zenship
honors awarded by Lin­den
Hall. The plane was piloted
by her father, Ross T. Wesson,
fifty , president and co-founder
of the Your Host Restaurants.
At the time o f the mishap,
Wesson and his daughter were
en route to Dallas, Texas, for a
National Restaurant Association
meeting.
Wesson often flew to the Lan­caster
Municipal Airport to v isit
his daughter during th e Linden
Hall school term. His. last v isit to
Lititz was on Tuesday, June 11,
when he and his daughter left
by plane for their home in
Buffalo.
EBY’S DONATES PAINT
FOR THE BANDSHELL
The Beck Memorial Bandshell
in the Springs Park w ill be look­ing
its best for the Fourth of
July crowds. Workmen Monday
morning began applying a coat
o f paint to the structure, in keep­ing
with other improvements be­ing
made throughout the park.
Paint for th e bandshell wa s do­nated
by Eby’s Mill, o f th is bor­ough.
Work of applying the coat
was being done by Francis Shear-
Fireworks Display To Be
Bigger Than Ever Before
New Street Residents Will
Place Protest Before Council
At Meeting Monday Night
A mass protest against the
proposal to make New Street a
dead-end street, w ill be lodged
before the members of borough
council Monday evening by more
than 25 property-owners and tax­payers
of the district.
Advised of the large group de­siring
lo place their complaints
before borough council, Borough
j anager David Bauer this week
mailed letters to all property-owners
advising them that coun­cil
would hold a special session
at the firehouse on Monday eve­ning.
Later it was decided to
make this the regular monthly
meeting.
The protest developed after
borough council erected signs no­tifying
residents of the plan to
end New Street at Locust in
order to eliminate the present
culvert at that intersection.
The present New Street bridge
has three pipes beneath, which
allow on!y 21 square feet of
water to pass through during
flood stages, it was explained.
This has proved inadequate and
v;as blamed by borough officials
for repeated floodings of Noble,
Water and Leaman Streets dur­ing
heavy rains, and flash floods.
The bridge on Locust street
has 80 square feet beneath and
this is considered adequate. Ra-
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Girl Scouts
To Sell Bi-
Cent. Books
Will Canvass Borough On
Monday Evening,
6:30 To 8:30
Girl Scouts w ill make a house-to-
house canvass to sell the Bi-
Centennial Historical Books as
their community project, it was
announced this week.
The girls will make their can­va
ss on Monday evening from
6:30 to 8 :3 0 . The books are be­ing
sold for one dollar each and
all of the proceeds w ill be turned
over to the Lititz Bi-Centennial
Committee to help defray expens­es
of the local celebration.
HORTON TO CROWN
BI-CENTENNIAL QUEEN
Edward Everett Horton,
famous star o f stage, screen
and TV, w ill be present a t
the opening night of th e Bi-
Centennial to formally crown
the Bi-Centennial Queen, ac­cording
to arrangements com­pleted
yesterday by Burgess
Benjamin Forrest.
Horton, who is appearing in
the opening play o f th e re­vitalized
Ephrata Legion Play­house,
w ill be brought here
early next Thursday evening.
Inasmuch as he must return
for the play, the crowning o f
riiss Lititz w ill take place at
p.m., ha lf an hour earlier
than originally scheduled.
Horton w ill be a t th e pageant
at 7 :4 5 p.m.
Swim Club
May Open
July 3rd
-- The pool of the Woodridge
Swim Club w ill in a ll probabil­i
t y be opened the first week in
f July, members o f the club's
building committee revealed this
week.
The pool is approximately 95
per-cent completed while the
bathhouses are more than 75
per-cent finished, Paul McCloud,
chairman o f the committee, said.
Other members of his committee
are Victor Kingswell and Russel
Templeton.
“We hope to be able to an­nounce
the opening date within
the coming week and already are
planning special ceremonies for a
gala opening,” Mr. McCloud- ex­plained,
and said that July 14
has been tentatively chosen for
the event.
He emphasized that th e are*
around the pool will be paved
and sodded in time for opening
the pool to the membership,
which w ill probably be two
weeks in advance of the opening
day ceremony.
Members of the Lititz Wo­man’s
Club are supervising the
book sale. Those now being sold
are the second edition inasmuch
as approximately 500 books were
issued in time to go .on sa le dur­ing
the firemen’s convention.
The historical book contains
a wealth o f photographs, some
of which are many years old.
These make a striking contrast
with the more modern pictures
and illustrations.
Historical sketches o f local
organizations a s well as the de­velopment
of Lititz also are in­cluded
in th e book which will
become a collector’s item here in
years to come.
The historical books also are
being placed on sale in various
stores of the borough.
Paul R. Seaber
Will Resume
Gover’ment Work
Paul R .Seaber, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul M. Seaber, Church
Square, is expected home on
Saturday following graduation
¡from the University of Roches­ter
where h e ha s been awarded a
Masters Degree in Geology.
He w ill leave on Sunday eve­ning
for Washington D. C. to
Tesume his duties with the U. S.
Department o f the Interior. He
has been associated with this
branch of the Government dur­in
g summer vacation, and last
year spent th e entire season in
Alaska.
One summer he accompanied
Boyd th e explorer on a confiden­tia
l mission to northern Canada,
at th e insistence o f the Canadian
Government., Seaber plans to
continue with th e Department
o f th e Interior for two years
and then enter Princeton Uni­versity
to continue his studies
Opening ceremonies w ill in­clude
exhibitions of swimming
and diving and a luncheon at the
poolside for members of the club
and their families.
Members o f the committee
planning the opening day pro­gram
are Scott Garman, man­ager
of th e club; Dr. Charles
Eshelman and Marvin Miller. I
Pouring o f concrete in the
pool has been completed and the
final coping was being put in
place yesterday. This week-end
the pool w ill be given a hydrau­lic
application of cement paint,
completing this phase of the
project.
Filters and mechanical equip­ment
also are being installed.
Members, working two Satur­days,
have completed clearing
the picnic woods and area and
tables and benches will arrive
next week.
Work of grading and paving
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Five Divisions
Scheduled For
Baby Parade
A total o f $175 w ill be given
in prizes for th is year’s Baby
Parade th e afternoon o f July
4th, it was announced th is week
by W illis Bucher, chairman;
with a Grand Prize of a $25
Savings Bond for the best float
in the opinion of th e judges.
There w ill be ten other prizes
in th e float division totaling
$55. Six prizes totaling $21 will
be given in each of th e follow­ing
classifications: Bi-Centennial,
Most Artistic, Most Original, and
Best Baby in Decorated Coach.
Assisting Mr. Bucher on the
committee are: Charles Regge-nas,
co-chairman; Mrs. Richard
Gruibe, Mrs. Argille Burkholder,
Mrs. Robert Hanna, and Mrs.
Fourth Speaker
Senator Beall
Name Speaker
For Program
In The Park
U. S. Senator J. Glenn Beall,
of Maryland, will be the principal
speaker of the July 4th Indepen­dence
Day ceremony in the
Springs Park which will bring to
a dramatic close the 200th anni­versary
of the founding of Lititz.
After serving five terms in the
House of Representatives, Sena­tor
Beall was elected to the Sen­ate
in 1952 where he has served
on many important committees.
Since 1923 he has held public
office, having served on the Alle­gheny
County Road Commission,
the House and Senate of the
State of Maryland, and has at­tended
state and national Repub­lican
conventions.
He attended Gettysburg Col­lege
and during the first World
War served in the Ordnance
Corps, U.S. Army, wtih the rank
of sergeant. Upon his return to
Frostburg, Md., Senator Beall
entered the insurance and real
estate business with offices in
that city and in Cumberland. He
remains active in both enter­prises.
He also has been very ac­tive
in work among crippled
children.
ELMER BOBST TOURS
NEW PLANT HERE
Arriving in Lititz Tuesday
morning, Elmer Bobst, Warner-
Lambert chairman of the board
and former resident of the bor­ough,
made a tour of the part­ially-
completed Lambert-Hudnut
plant. Following the tour he ex­pressed
satisfaction with the
progress already made and hin­ted
at some o f th e surprises in
store for the local operation.
Mr. Bobst, who returned re­cently
from England where
another extensive Warner-Lam­bert
plant was opened, was ac­companied
on h is tour by Dr.
H. K. Cooper.
Trinity E. C. Picnic
Being Held Today
The annual picnic o f Trinity
E. C. Sunday School and the
Daily Vacation Bible School will
be held this afternoon and eve­ning
at the New Holland Com­munity
Park.
A bus will leave the church
at 1:00 p.m., and free swimming
will be provided for all children
attending.
A program of games and con­tests
has been arranged by the
committee, headed by George
Gardner, which will be highlight­ed
by an old-fashioned cake walk
to close the affair.
Other committee members are
E. C. Slosser, Ira Hall, Sherwood
Dietz, Lester Shreiner, Mrs. Rob-ort
Will, Mrs. Richard Pfautz
and Mrs. Richard McCloud.
Rain date for the affair is
next Thursday, June 28.
ROY KAUFFMANS
MOVE TO COLORADO
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Kauff­man,
359 E. Main St., th is bor­ough,
are motoring to their new
home in Denver, Colo., where
their son, William, has been liv ­ing
for the past five years. Mr.
Kauffman, formerly shop fore­man
for the Record-Express, was
employed the past number o f
years as a compositor a t Lan­caster
Press. It is his intention
TTVM1Í eoAitwo A w n l o v w o i u t i t i T i o n r o r
Only Feasible Means
To Get Needed Funds
Boro Officials Decide
JOHNNY PODRES
UNABLE TO ATTEND
The unexpected transfer of
Johnny Podres, baseball immor­tal,
from Bainbridge. to Newport,
has forced him to cancel his
scheduled apeparance during the
Youth Day activities o f the Bi-
Centennial next Thursday, Ra­leigh
Tozer, director, announced
yesterday. Efforts are being made
to obtain a substitute to appear
along with Barney Ewell, Lan­caster
trackman.
30 Floats,
15 Bands
In Parade
Parade Facts
Parade w ill form on Marion
and a ll streets south and east
o f there.
Parade w ill move a t 1 :3 0
p.m., Sat., June 30.
Parade Route: West on Sec-one
Ave. to Spruce St., north
on Spruce to W. Main St., to
Broad St., north on Broad t o
Lincoln Ave., ea st on Lincoln
to New St., ea st on New to N.
Cedar St., south on Cedar to
Front st., ea st on Front to
Locust, north on Locust to
Main St., w est on Main to
Broad, south on Broad to Sec­ond
Ave.
Parking prohibited along
route o f parade.
Length o f parade: Three
and one-tenth miles.
Divisions: Civic, Industrial,
Commercial, Mummers, Horse
& Buggy, Antique Cars, Mod­em
Cars, Patriotic, Official,
Fire, Farm Machinery. Entire
Pageant cast w ill be in line
o f march.
Cloaked in as much secrecy as
possible, work was proceeding
this week in several dozen floats
which will be exhibited during
the Bi-Centennial historical pa­rade
here Saturday, June 30.
Occupying a large building at
the Municipal Airport, a num­ber
o f the floats already were
beginning to take shape and to
give indication of th e spectacu­lar
beauty of the floats. Sponsor­ing
concerns and organizations
apparents are sparing no costs
in their efforts to make the pa­rade
an outstanding event of the
celebration.
By pafade time, members of
the committee expect a total of
at lea st 30 floats, many depict­ing
various phases in local his­tory,
to be in line. Arrangements
also are being made for at
ieast 15 bands and musical
organizations.
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Bond Issue May Reach A
Total Of $860,000
Survey Reveals
Lititz Borough Council w ill es-jtablish
a Water Authority in
order to build the proposed Kis­sel
Hill reservoir and to expand
local water facilities, according
to a vote taken at a special meet­ing
held Tuesday evening.
The authority is the only fea s­ible
means of obtaining funds,
which may reach as high as
$8 60,000 needed to bring local
water facilities up to an adeuate
level, Borough Solicitor Paul A.
Mueller informed council prior
to the vote.
With Mr. Mueller and Henry
Huth, of Lancaster, borough wa­ter
engineer, present, members of
council spent several hours re­viewing
the need for more ade­quate
water storage a s well as
better means o f distribution, as
recommended is a survey com­pleted
early th is year by Mr.
Huth.
Inadequate water storage and
lack of presure in some parts of
the borough, due to inadequate
main, definitely creates a ser­ious
hazard here, members o f
council agreed. Mr. Huth con­curred
in this.
The borough now has only
50,000 gallons o f water under
pressure at any one time and in
case of power failure or serious
outbreak of fire, th e borough
would be without water in the
matter of a few hours, they sta­ted.
Added pressure also is
needed to meet the rapidly ex­panding
industrial needs.
A plan previously considered
by council to raise funds through
a new act of the legislature, was
declared unfeasible by Mr. Muel­ler
inasmuch as the new a ct’s
legality has never been tested
in the courts. To test th is act,
which would have to be done
before potential bondholders
would consider bidding for the
bonds, would prove too costly
and take too much time, Mr.
Mueller explained.
Borough Manager David Bauer
w ill confer with Mr. Mueller to-
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Gochenaurs To Spend
Three Years In Munich
Capt. and Mrs. Fred Goche-
>aur, Youngtown, N. Y., arrived
here on Sunday for a thirty-day
visit with relatives and friends,
after which they will sail for
Munich, Germany, where Capt.
Gochenaur has been assigned for
three years.
Capt. Gochenauer has been
stationed at Fort Niagara, N. Y.,
for the past two years, and has
more than 14 years service in
the U.S. Army, which he chose
as a career.
Extend Ticket Sale For
The Home-Coming Banquet
Lititz w ill have a fine home­coming
banquet— that is if Lititz
folks decide th ey ’re going to
attend— according to members of
the committee in charge.
And while a total of 300 res­ervations
had been made up to
last Saturday, the greater bulk of
these are from out-of-town per­sons
including many former resi­dents
from as far away as the
west coast.
“I don’t know how it got start­ed,
but there appears to be a
false impression among some res­idents
of the borough that the
Bi-Centennial Home-Coming ban­quet
is primarily for out-of-town
gu ests,” Hiram Eberly, home­coming
chairman, declared. “This
is not the case and we urge all
local residents to g et their ban­quet
tickets immediately.
“Due to the slow sale o f tick­ets
locally, the ticket sa le is
being continued. Due to the fact
that the caterer must be advised
ahead o f time, however, there
absolutely w ill be no tickets sold
on the day o f the banquet,” be
concluded.
T h e T T n T n A -P nm in c r ‘R n r irm A t
w ill be held at the Lambert-
Hudnut plant on Saturday, June
30, at 6 p.m. Folks are urged to
come as early as 5 p.m. in order
to look over the new plant, which
will be a revelation to everyone
and will give all an opportunity
to meet former residents from
out-oMown.
Paved parking w ill be avail­able
near the two entrances. The
building is cool and well-lighter,
with a good speaker system and
comfort rooms nearby. The aged
are urged to come, and w ill have
every possible consideration.
There will be no long speeches,
as it w ill be necessary for th e
guests of honor to leave at eight
o ’clock for the pre-pageant ap­pearance.
A1 Ebbert has arrang­ed
an interesting musical pro­gram
in which all will join.
Our host, Elmer Bobst, w ill
close the meeting with an inter­esting
description o f the new
Warner-Lambert plant that w ill
house the banquet. The food and
favors for a ll w ill more than
offset the $3.00 charge necessary
tn attoTiH th e