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(Consolidated w ith The L ititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lahcaster Co., Pa., Thursday, March 21, 1957 5 c en ts a Copy; $2.50 per y ea r b y mall,
w ith in Lanca ste r County; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 51
Borough Operations Wasteful, Rohrer Charges
Re-Paving
Program
Annou’ced
Borough Seeks To Prevent
Digging Up Of Newly
Paved Streets Here
The first attempt to enforce
the new stree t opening ordin­ance
will be made in another
month when the borough will
launch its 1957 street re-paving
program, Borough Manager Da­vid
Bauer announced yesterday.
The stre e t ordinance passed
a t the February meeting of coun­cil,
endeavors to restrict the re­opening
of newly paved streets
for a five-year period, other
than for emergencies.
In order to aid property own­ers
to make installations of ser­vice
lines which may be needed
or to extend these to vacant
lots which are to be utilized
this year, Mr. Bauer this week
announced th e stre e t program
which will be sta rted around
April 15.
Streets to be re-surfaced are:
Center and Orange from Broad
to Cedar; Marion from Spruce
to Cedar; Cedar from Orange to
Leaman; Liberty from Lincoln
Ave., to FTront; Front, from
Broad to Water, and Lincoln
Ave. from Broad to Cedar Street.
Lincoln Avenue and parts of
Cedar and F ront were re-built
in 1954 but now need to be re­surfaced,
Mr. Bauer explained.
Base also will be laid on Goch-enauer
Avenue and sh o rt spaces
of Locust and Elm Streets.
All stree t re-surfacing will be
done by D. M. Stoltzfus, of Tal-mage,
who was awarded a con­tra
c t for the work a t a meeting
of council las't-Thursday night.
To Preach Here
—Record-Express Photo
Mrs. Charles Brown, o f th is borough, and Rev. Norman
Bowers, representing th e county association, are shown a s they
graphically depicted the pathetic accounts of how multiple sclerosis
,can strike down apparently healthy persons r ight in th e prime o f
life, a t a meeting o f the Lititz Woman’s Club Monday night. They
are repeating their impressive lecture throughout th e drive for
funds being conducted the remainder o f March.
Multiple Sclerosis Drive
Starts Here This Evening
Says Bauer Failing
To Provide Council
Effective Leadership
The Borough of Lititz is being inefficiently operated,
too many men are hired for street and water department
work and Borough Manager David Bauer is failing to
provide council with real leadership.
These were the triple charges voiced by President
of Council Menno Rohrer at the mid-monthly meeting
last Thursday night. Accepting his share of responsibility
as a member of council, Rohrer made plain that the
charges come as a result of an intensive study of borough
finances which he conducted over the past two or three
months.
“My thought and study has -------------------------------------------------
convinced me th a t many of the
CLUB WOMEN PRESENT PLAY
Dr. David Dunn
Mission To
Be Conducted
At St. Luke’s
A Preaching Mission will be
conducted at St. Luke’s Evan­gelical
and Reformed Church
next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings at 7:30
o’clock, it was announced th is
week by Rev. Alton P. Albright,
pastor.
Speaker for the meetings will
be Dr. David Dunn, professor of
Christian history and Dean of
the Evangelical and Reformed
Theological Seminary, Lancas­ter.
P
reaching Missions were orig­inated
about ten years ago by
the National Council of Churches
for the .purpose of emphasizing
the power of preaching, not only
within the congregation, but
throughout the community be­ing
served; and are generally
held during the Lenten Season.
The Thursday night service
will be conducted in Jerusalem
E and R Church, Penryn; while
Harry Niedermyer will direct th e
Senior Choir of St. Luke's in
connection with the meeting here
on Tuesday night.
A plea for contributions and
for volunteers to help conduct
the local campaign to fight mul­tiple
sclerosis was voiced here
th is week by Mrs. Charles Brown.
Final plans for the drive which
will get under way here th is eve­ning,
were made a t a meeting
held Tuesday evening a t th e
home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Gardner, when Mrs. Gardner
was named co-chairman with
Mrs. Brown for th e Lititz area.
The drive will continue until
April 1, with coin containers
being placed in stores and vari­ous
business establishments
throughout the town, and a
house-to-house campaign con­ducted
by local volunteer work­ers.
'
Persons anxious to donate also
are asked to contact Mrs. Brown
or Mrs. Gardner.
Appearing before the Lititz
Woman’s Club on Monday eve­ning,
Mrs. Brown presented an
illustrated lecture in which she
brings out th e facts regarding
the sudden manner in which the
dreaded disease can strike— all
based upon an actual case his­tory
of the disease.
Rev. Norman Bowers, repre­senting
the Lancaster County
Multiple Sclerosis Society and the
fath e r of a boy who died from
the disease, also spoke and assis­ted
Mrs. Brown.
| Funds are needed for research
i in an effort to find the causes
and something equally import-
Womans Club
Enjoys Play
A home-talent play, “They’re
None of Them Perfect,” scored
a big h it when presented a t a
meeting of the Lititz Woman’s
Club held in the elementary
school auditorium Monday eve­ning.
Directed by Richard S. Alle-bach,
th e cast included Mrs. Win­ifred
Sheaffer Walls, Mrs. Rich­ard
Allebach, Mrs. G. Martin
Kutz, Mrs. William Scatchard,
Mrs. William Whitten, Jr., and
Mrs. John A. Wenger.
The club voted to donate $25
to the Girl Scout Day Camp and
to present $30 in awards in a
Senior Girls’ Oratorical contest
to be sponsored in the Warwick
Union High School. Mrs. William
Scatchard, chairman of the ways
and means committee, announc­ed
a rummage sale will be held
in Lancaster, May 16.
The annual nomination of offi­cers
resulted as follows: P re si­dent,
Mrs. John Losensky; first
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ant, some cure for multiple scler­osis,
she said. The county group
is hoping to be able to set up
a clinic for patients here.
Funds also are needed to help
patients receive care, treatment
and transportation. In some in­stances,
it is hoped to be able
to help families of parents who
are stricken, many in the prime
of life.
I t was reported by the chair­men,
th a t sixty per-cent of all
funds collected in the Lancaster
County are a remain with th e
Lancaster County group to be
used in local work, with the re ­maining
forty per-cent being e a r­marked
for research projects.
The drive for funds in the
Penryn, White Oak and Elm dis­tric
ts will s ta rt tomorrow, Mrs.
Draper Buch, chairman, an ­nounced
yesterday. Collectors
will easily be identified by arm-bands,
she explained.
operations of our borough have
been and are most inefficient,”
Mr. Rohrer declared. “ In the
Borough of Manheim a private
water company producing a
profit for its stockholders and
with rates which may be lower
than they are in Lititz, conducts
all of its operations with two
employees, one man In the office
and one man to tak e care of the
w ater plant and all outside work.
“This outside man actually
lays the pipe for all w ate r lines
and laterals. He may hire occa­sional
labor to assist him when
it is necessary on a major job
or in an emergency. Of course
th e Manheim wate r plant has
automatic controls, so th a t the
plant man is free to do the out­side
work.
“ In th e Borough of Mount
Joy, where the borough owns and
operates the water plant as in
Lititz, only one full time em­ployee
is presently on th e bor­ough
payroll to take care of the
water plant. The outside work is
done by a general borough pub­lic
works force which does all
the borough outside work on
streets, etc.
Neither Manheim,nor Mt. Joy
have adopted the Borough Man­ager
form of government.
Under Fire Members o f tile cast, o f the one-act play presented a t a meeting
of tlic Lititz Woman’s Club in tlie Elementary School Auditorium
Monday evening are as follows, le ft to right: Mrs. John Wenger,
Mrs. Martin Kutz, Mrs. WTm. Scatchard, Richard Allebach, director;
Mrs. W. Sheaffer Walls, Mrs. Wm. Whitten, Jr., and Mrs. Richard
Allebach.
Marjorie Heilman Wins
Carnegie Institute Award
Boro Manager Bauer
“Contrast th is with Lititz
where we have four men em­ployed
full time a t the p lan t and,
since early in 1956, have had
three men employed full time
doing-outside work-for th e water
department—seven full time em-
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SEVEN MOTORISTS NABBED
BY BOROUGH POLICE
Seven motorists were handed
summons by borough police this
week. Complaints filed before
Justices of the Peace Diehm and
Herr include the following: Fred
Nagle, Lititz RDI, reckless driv­ing;
Joseph Pamitis, Marlin, Pa.,
and Martin Peifer, Christiana,
too fast for conditions; Clayton
Myer, Manheim, and Ronald
Mull, Millersville, stop sign vio­lations
;and Larry A. Young,
Bareville RDI, creating excessive
noise.
To Dedicate Warwick
High School Sunday
The Warwick Union High School Building, a struc­ture
which has attracted the attention of architects, build­ers,
and educators from throughout the east due to its
ultra-modern layout and elaborate array of facilities, will
be formally dedicated this week-end.
The public will be able to
The Carnegie In stitu te Prize
for th e best example of sculp­tu
re exhibited in th e 47th an ­nual
exhibition, now in progress,
has been awarded to Mrs. Mar­jorie
Heilman, of Lititz RD3, it
was announced this week.
The prize-winnig piece of
sculpture which won the plaud­its
of the judges is entitled Ado­lescence,
and is a wood carving
done in walnut. The sculpture
is th a t of an adolescent female
figure and stands approximately
18 inches in height.
Mrs. Heilman displayed five
articles in the exhibit of asso­ciated
a rtists a t Carnegie In sti­tu
te in Pittsburgh. These includr
ed two pieces of sculpture, two
p rin ts an d one example of em­broidery.
In former years, Mrs. Heilman
on two occasions won awards a t
the Carnegie In stitu te exhibi­tion
but this is the first time her
work has been judged the best
in the show. The exhibition will
inspect the building during a
two-day Open House, th is F ri­day
evening from 7 to 9 p.m.
and Saturday afternoon from 2
to 4 p.m. The formal dedicatory
program a t which Dr. Herbert
Longenecker, of Pittsburgh, will
be the principal speaker, will be
held in the school auditorium
Sunday afternoon a t 2 p.m.
From its approaches where
buses have ample space to swing
around to protect loading plat­forms,
to the classrooms within,
the entire building is modernly
designed and equipped. Even the
sprawling buildings have been
so situated as to capture the
most advantage from th e natura l
su n ’s rays.
118 Room Structure
That the structure is one
of the most complete In the
east is indicated by the fact
that . it . contains, including
classrooms, shops, office suites,
cafeteria, etc., a total o f 118
rooms, practically the size of
a large metropolitan hotel.
These include 18 standard
classrooms, 4 oversize class­rooms,
5 science rooms, 4 com-
\ mercial rooms, 4 homemaking
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Even In Defeat - We Celebrate!
Teen-Agers To
Compete Sat.
In Road-E-O
The first phase of th e Teen
Age Road-E-O being conducted
by the Ju n io r Chamber of Com­merce,
will tak e place this Sat­urday
morning a t 10 o’clock in
the cafeteria of Warwck High
School, when a 45-minute quiz
will be held.
Robert Sutherland, general
chairman, stated th a t entry
blanks are still coming in, and
while today was to have been
the deadline, the committee a-greed
to accept them right up to
the time of the examination Sat­urday.
Saturday’s te st will comprise
fifty questions requiring writ­ten
answers. There will be 2 5
matching questions and 25 tru e
or false questions. All answers
will be studied and graded prior
to the actual driving test on
April 6.
Planners Favor Purchase
Of Home By Park Group
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
Tuesday night went on rec­ord
as favoring the purchase of
the property a t 16 North Broad
Street by the newly formed board
of trustees for the park, even
though such action would en­tail
the abandonment or reloca­tion
of Pine Alley.
The group recommended th a t
property owners be contacted
to determine th e ir feeling in the
matter, and suggested th a t David
Bauer, borough manager, con­tinue
the traffic count at the
intersection of Pine Alley and
Broad Street, to determine how
much the alley is used.
Members o f th e championship Warwick High
School basketball squad are shown a s they lined
up on the porch o f the Young Men’s Business
League to receive th e plaudits o f lo ca l rooters
after being defeated for the district title by P a l­myra
la s t Friday night.
And as in victory, th e squad proved them-
—Record-Express P hoto b y H arry H . Eandls
selves champion in th e real sense o f th e word, in
defeat. But having attained th e record o f vic­tories
they piled up before being eliminated
seemed enough for local rooters inasmuch a s ap­proximately
1,500 of them crowded in to th e
Square upon their return from Hershey and gave
the team a real, lively reception.
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Mrs. Margaret Souders
Observes 90th Birthday
rMs. Margaret J. Souders, 226
South Spruce Street, who ob­served
her 90th birthday last
Thursday, was guest of honor
a t a dinner on Sunday a t the
Spruce Street address which is
th e home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wagaman.
Among th e 22 persons in a t­tendance
were Mrs. Souders’
three daughters and th e ir hus­bands,
five grandchildren and
eight g rea t grandchildren. Mrs.
Souders received more th an one
hundred expressions of congra­tulations
and well wishes.
9M
Marjorie Heilman
be continued to April 18.
Mrs. Heilman is th e wife of
Grant Heilman, nationally fam­ous
for his photographic ability.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Heilman a re
regula r contributors to maga­zines.
They live ju st west of th e
borough.
Ambul’ce
Campaign
Launched
New & Renewal Subscrip­tions
Due April 1; No
Door-to-Door Canvass
An appeal for residents of the
Warwick Union area to renew
the ir subscriptions to th e War­wick
Union Ambulance service
was made this week by Dr. Ar­th
u r S. Griswold.
New and renewal subscriptions
to the ambulance service will be
due April 1. For the convenience
of subscribers, a coupon is being
printed a t the bottom of the
page.
Fill in the form with your
name and address, check wheth­er
the subscription is “new” or
“ renewal” and enclose the $2.00
subscription fee. The coupon and
remittance should be mailed to
the Warwick Union Ambulance
Service, 402 S. Broad St., Lititz,
Pa.
A receipt will be mailed to all
subscribers.
The ambulance will be station­ed
on Main Street a t the Square
this Friday evening and all day
| Saturday a t which time subscrip­tions
also will be received. The
two dollar fee covers ambulance
service for all members of th e
family residing a t the same ad­dress
and includes tran sp o rta­tion
within a 60-mile radius.
A group of twenty competent
drivers, trained in first aid, is
being maintained on a 24-hour
basis. During th e past, and first,
year of service, a to ta l of 175
ambulance trip s have been made.
The service is made available
through your physician, local
police, fire chief o r s ta te police.
Do not call a driver directly, the
committee explained.
But Act Today — Clip th e
coupon and send your two dollar
| fee. There will be no door-to-
Dr. Byron Horne
Recipient Of
Comenius Award
Dr. Byron K. Horne, presi­dent
of Linden all and a mem­ber
of borough council, has been
named recipient of the annual
Comenius Day Award by the
Moravian College Alumni Asso­ciation
in recognition of out­standing
achievement in his cho­sen
field.
Dr. Horne gradua ted from
Moravian in 1922 and the Mora­vian
Theological Seminary in
1927. He was given the honor­ary
degree, Doctor of Divinity in
1947.
The award will be presented
during the Comenius Day cele-braton
a t Moravian College, Be­thlehem,
on April 5 at a banquet
in College Hall a t which Gov­ernor
Theodore E. McKeldin
will deliver the principal add­ress.
John Amos Comenius, in
whose memory the award is
titled, was a 17th Century Mora­vian
bishop recognized as the
forerunner of modern educa­tional
methods.
door canvass. All residents of
Warwick Union School District
are eligible to participate.
Dr. H. K. Cooper
To Address PTA
Dr. Herbert K. Cooper, Sr.,
will address the P arent Teachers
Association a t the ir meeting this
evening in the Lititz Elementary
buldng a t 8 o’clock. Dr. Cooper
is nationally known for his re­search
and development of tre a t­ment
for cleft palate victims, and
will show slides of work being
done a t the Cleft Palate Clinic
in Lancaster which he founded
and serves as its head.
The F u tu re Nurses Club of
Warwick High School has been
invited to attend this meeting.
An election of officers to serve
the PTA for the coming year
will also be conducted. Follow­ing
the meeting refreshments
will be served by the hospitality
committee.
LIFEGUARD INDUCTED
AS BOROUGH POLICEMAN
Charles Morrow, formerly of
E phrata, was sworn In as a bor­ough
policeman by Burgess Ben­jamin
F o rrest a t a brief cere­mony
in the borough office F ri­day
afternoon.
Morrow, who is 21, brings the
force back to its four - man
strength.
Don Fuhrman
Winner In
H. S. Contest
Donald Fuhrman, son of War­wick
High School Principal and
Mrs. N. J. Fuhrman, astounded
the judges of the Oratorical
Contest for senior boys held on
Tuesday morning in the new
auditorium under the sponsor­ship
of the American Legion
Post, all of whom are members
of the speech class tau g h t by
Scott Garman.
Young Fuhrman was awarded
first prize of $15 for his master­ful
handling of the subpect,
“Horse Sence and Horse Power,”
in which he so effectively pointed
out the folly and danger of reck­less
driving.
Teachers and classmates alike
were high in th e ir praise of the
manner in which he employed a
natura l sense of humor to force­fully
get his points of emphasis
across to his audience.
Second prize of $10 was won
by Bruce Horne, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell K. Horne, 369 N.
Broad Street ,whose theme was,
“F u tu re High School Education.”
In his discourse Horne com­pared
present teaching and
grading methods with those of
the past twenty years and also
those of post World War I years
when the emphasis seemed to be
to get the pupil through, quali­fied
or not.
He stressed the fact th a t Rus­sia
is purportedly developing
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POLICE PROBE ROBBERY
AT BOWLING ALLEYS
Borough police this week con-tiued
their investigation into
the robbery of approximately
$100 in nickels from pin-ball
machines broken into a t the Lit­itz
Bowling Lanes, N. Broad St.,
last Friday night. The thieves
entered through a window.
WILL JOIN HUSBAND
IN HEIDELBERG, GERMANY
Mrs. Jack Ringer sailed last
week to join h er husband, Pvt.
Jack Ringer, who is stationed
with the U.S. Army in Germany.
They will reside in Heidelberg
for the next 15 months. Pvt.
Ringer, th e son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Ringer, Klein St., is
serving as a cryptographer.