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Serving The Warwick Union Area For The Past Eighty Year§
81st Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The Xiititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, April 4, 1957 5 c en ts a Copy; $2.50 per y ea r b y mail,
w ith in L an ca ste r County; $3.00 elsewh ere. No. 1
Boro Finds
27 Water
Pipe Leaks
Bad Break Is Eliminated
This Week On Broad
Street
Largely through a sound-de­tection
method employed by
meter readers, the borough has a
list of 27 “ known” leaks in the
mains running beneath streets
here, Borough Manager David
Bauer disclosed this week.
And while the borough has
made considerable progress in
eliminating leakages In our half-century-
old water main system,
it will be necessary to make an
equal number of stre e t excava­tions
here th is Spring in o rd er
to bring the loss of water to a
bare minimum, Bauer explained.
One of the worst breaks in.
wate r mains found in recent
years was eliminated this week
a fte r borough employees had ex­cavated
in the center of Broad
Street ju st south of the Square.
Here they discovered th a t the
main had cracked a t a point
near the la teral leading to the
home of Mrs. Thalia Hostetler a t
22 South Broad Street. A second
leak was found in th e la teral
close to the curb.
This leak, as many others,
was discovered by a meter read­er
who detected th e sound of
running w ater when he listened
n e a r the water pipe leading into
the Hostetler home. And while
in most instances the meter re a d ­e
r had to place his e a r close to
th e pipe to detect the sound, in
this case the sound could be
heard from a distance of many
feet.
Of the 27 “ known” leaks p lo t­ted
on a borough map as a re ­su
lt of this audio system, one
near the Zartman store is corasid-
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Htrr Fine Record
Miss Weit
Sandra Weit
Honored At
Leb. Valley
Annville, Pa.—Sandra J . Weit,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E a rl
C. Weit,- 309 South Cedar St.,
Lititz, has been named to Pi
Gamma Mu, honorary social
science society a t Lebanon Val­ley
College.
Membership in the naitonal
society requires the completion
of a t least 20 semester hours
in social science courses with
an average grade of at least
85 per cent.
Miss Weit, a 1954 Lititz High
School graduate, is a junior ma­jo
rin g in sociology a t the co­educational
college.
She has served as chairman
of the college’s Campus Chest
drive, and has been active in
women’s sports, th e Student
Christian Association and Kappa
Lambda Sigma social society.
. . . But if any man be a wor­shipper
of God, and doeth His
will, him He heareth.—(St.
John 9,31.)
So many of us, in bewilder­ment
and misunderstanding,
often seek to find a quick
“short cut” to our Heavenly
Father’s love and mercy. But
the Bible is a never-failing
guide, and Jesus tells us the
straight, sure way to reach
God through devotion and
j prayer.
STILL NEED A STEEPLE — AND PEWS!
—Record-Express Photo
The new B reth ren in Christ Church located ju s t n o rth of Elm.
New Church Near Elm Nearly
Completed In 6-Week Period
The hopes and aims of a new
church congregation to hold its
E aster services in a new church
building now being completed
near Elm th is week appeared al­most
out of the question—prin­cipally
because of the delay in
a shipment of pews for the new
structure.
Work on the new church, an
attractive frame stru c tu re lo­cated
on the edge of a forest
along the road leading from Elm
to Speedwell, was sta rted less
th an six weeks ago— b u t this
week reached the point where
services can be held in it as
soon as the much-needed pews
arrive.
I t is th e Brethren in Christ
Church and will house a congre­gation
numbering in excess of
fifty families living in the imme­diate
te rrito ry and in Manheim.
The pastor of th e flock is Rev.
Jesse Dorte, of nea r Elizabeth­town.
Much of th e work on the struc­tu
re has been done by members
themselves, led by Roy Brubak­er,
of Manheim, an d Benjamin
Forrey, of Mount Pleasant, both
retired farmers and both of
Origin Of
Barn Fire
A Mystery
One of the oldest barns in this
area was destroyed by fire sh o rt­ly
before midnight Friday. I t was
located on« the farm of Harvey
Reifsnyder on Route 322 in
Brickerville, and had been con­structed
on the foundation of a
barn which burned in 1747.
According to Charles L.
Adams, chief of the Brickerville
Fire Company, the fire was al­ready
out of control when the
firemen arrived; but th a t in or­der
to protect the adjac ent St.
Jo h n ’s Lutheran Church and
other nearby buildings, firemen
were summoned from Lititz,
Brunnerville, Penryn, Lincoln
and Akron.
An estimated loss of $40,000
was suffered by Reifsnyder in
the blaze. The only livestock in
the building a t the time were 13
sheep and five lambs, all of
which were burned to death. Two
tractors, other farm implements,
and crops of grain were also de­stroyed.
Firemen were at a loss as to
the origin of the fire and stated
th a t faulty wiring is quite un­likely
to have been the cause.
An investigation is being contin­ued,
Mr. Adams stated.
whom have devoted th e ir full
time to the job.
And while the church proper
has been completed excepting for
shingling of the front, a steeple
and front porch remain to be
constructed hefore the formal
dedication, expected to be held
shortly a fte r Easter—providing
those much-needed pews are pro­cured.
In addition to Brubaker and
Forrey; members of the church
board are John Wolf, Speedwell;
William Saylor, Mastersonville,
and Norman Griffin, who lives in
the property adjoining the
church.
NewSchool
Impresses
Rotarians
More th an 700 Rotarians from
Eastern and Central Pennsyl­vania
were as much impressed by
the new Warwick Union High
School as they were by the
speeches, judging from the com­ments
of the delegates here last
week-end.
In fact, the Governor’s Ball,
Saturday night, got off to a late
s ta rt principally because many
of the delegates and th e ir wives
were busy touring accessible sec­tions
of the new building. “I ’m
from Hershey where most of our
school buildings were paid for
by the Hershey Foundation, hut
I never saw anything quite as
fine as th is,” one delegate as­serted.
Regular conference sessions, a
memorial program and a buffet
supper in the evening featured
the Sunday schedule also held
here. On Monday morning the
conference moved to the Ephra ta
Legion Home where the affair
closed Monday night with a ban­quet
attended by approximately
600 Rotarians and th e ir wives.
Wives of Rotarians were enter­tained
a t a luncheon in the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel Monday noon
and then taken on a to u r of the
Lambert-Hudnut plant.
Will Raze
Station
Next Week
Ambulance To Be Placed
In Garage At Rear Of
Business League
Demolition of the century-old
Reading Railroad station will
sta rt next week, it was disclosed
yesterday by the board of tru s­tees
of the Lititz Springs Park,
who are in charge of the park
improvement program.
The historic landmark, for
many years the scene of count­less
arrivals and departures of
thousands upon thousands of
people attending family reunions
and picnics in th e park, was
abandoned two years ago when
the famous 99 year lease expired.
The local station had the dis­tinction
of being the only one
on the Reading-to-Lancaster line
which had any semblance of
beauty of architecture o r grounds
and the only one with a platform
for loading and unloading of pas­sengers.
A platform was deemed neces­sary
here due to the ten to
twelve coach loads of people fre­quently
attracted to celebrations
in the park during the summer
months.
In the early days of the station
it served as a meeting place for
townsfolk, and some of the older
folks recall th a t it also served as
a loafing place for gay blades
of th a t era.
Passenger service on th is line
reached its peak about 1928 and
from then on the re was a gradu­al
curtailing of th e service until
it was finally discontinued alto­gether
ten years ago. During
these la tte r years th e station
building was also allowed to de­te
rio ra te noticeably.
Ambulance Housing
Razing of the station was de­layed
by the park truste es until
a suitable building could be ob-
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Road-E-0 Tests
This Saturday
The Teenage Road-E-O driving
test sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be
held this Saturday a t 9:00 a.m.
on the west parking area a t the
Warwick High School.
Contestants who have not yet
taken the written portion of the
te st will he permitted to do so
on Saturday, Robert Sutherland,
general chairman of the commit­tee
announced.
The driving course with all the
prescribed obstacles will be set
up early Saturday morning.
Judges for the event will be
Police Chief Lloyd Hoffman, Sgt.
Aumen of the State Police; Ray
j Mullen, driver training instruc-j
to r of Millersville State Teach-j
ers College; and J. B. Zartman,
• who is donating five 1957 Dodge
automobiles for use of the con­testants.
LEGION AUXILIARY
COMPLETES FIRST AID
The F irs t Aid Class, sponsored
by the Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion will finish its
nine weeks course th is evening,
according to Mrs. Guy N. Bow­man,
presdent. Thirteen have
taken the course and will tak e
th e examination a t the Legion
Home given by the instructors of
the Red Cross organization of
Lancaster.
District Girl Scout Meeting
To Be Held Here Fri. Night
The Northeast District Girl
Scout Council of Lancaster Coun­ty
will hold a District meeting
this Friday evening a t 7 o’clock
in the Warwick Union High
School.
All Brownies, Intermediate
and Senior Scouts, also all regis­tered
adults in Scouting, are
urged to attend. Mrs. John G.
Hershey, district chairman, will
be in charge.
The program will open with
a color ceremony. Lorraine Mill­er,
Senior Troop 15, will call.
“Round-Up” in review will
highlight the program. This re ­port
will be given by ten girls
from the council, directed by
Mrs. Robert Hawthorn, of Lan­caster.
Brooke Minnich, of town,
is one of th e group. The Senior
Scouts of the Rolling Hills
Neighborhood, will provide the
music, directed by Miss Betty J.
Cannon, who is district director.
There will be an international
ceremony by Susan Horn of
Brownie Troop 80; Rochelle Pel-ger,
Intermediate Troop 122, and
Nina Stroble, Senior Troop 15.
This will be followed by each
Neighborhood presenting th e ir
contributions to the Ju lie tte Low
World Fellowship Fund. Bar­bara
Kutz will represent the
Rolling Hills Neighborhood. Mrs.
C. F. Fitz, Ju lie tte Low chair­man
of the Lancaster County
Council, will receive the contri­butions.
The Rolling Hills Neighbor­hood
will be hostess to the dis­tric
t and the Brownie and In te r­mediate
Troops will serve as ush­ers.
The District officers a re as
follows: Mrs. Hershey, chair­man;
Miss Cannon, district direc­tor;
Mrs. Harvey Wise, chairman
of Cocalico Neighborhood; Mrs.
Charles Bender, Cloister; Mrs.
John Wentz, Brownstown and
Leacock; Mrs. John Gudikunst,
New Holland; Miss Cathryn Ad­ams,
Rolling Hills.
Senior Citizens
Mark Birthday
With Huge Cake
A giant birthday cake measur­ing
two and one half feet in
diameter featured the Senior
Citizens Club meeting a t the
Recreation Center Monday night
when 32 members celebrated
the second birthday of the or­ganization
a t the Center.
Sally Templeton, Spruce St.,
was declared the April Fool of
the evening when she tried in
vain to cut a cake prepared by
Mrs. Robert Sutherland, who
is reputed to be quite a baker
of delicious cakes. Only this one
proved to be a cookie tin coated
with a beautiful icing of soap
suds!
Rev. William W. Barkely, pas­to
r ad interim of St. P au l’s Lu­th
e ran Church, was the guest
speaker; and Miss Dorothy For­rest
served as pianist. Mrs. Dor­othy
Emsweller, Mrs. Charlotte
Redcay, Mrs. Betty Walker and
Mrs. William Bingeman were in
charge of arrangements.
F IR E CO. AUXILIARY
TO BE FETED TONIGHT
Ladies of th e F ire Company
will be feted tonight with a
baked ham supper a t the fire­house
a t 6:30 o’clock. This is an
annual affair a t which time the
men prepare th e meal, serve the
ladies and even ta k e over the
dish-washing chore. E n te rta in ­ment
will be furnished by Carl
Foltz, Hermann Reedy, John
Keehn and John Weaver. John
Helter will serve as master of
ceremonies. William N. Stauffer
is general chairman of the com­mittee
on arrangements.
NEGOTIATIONS STILL GOING ON!
—Record-Express Photo
This view of th e Garber home on North Broad Stre et clearly
shows th e extent to which th e fro n t of th e Lititz Springs P ark
will be widened, providing negotiations which have been pending
fo r more th a n a month, a re successfully culminated.
Park Plans Being Delayed
Pending Property Purchase
Doubt Whether State
Will Rebuild Entire
Length Of E. Main St.
Just how much of East Main Street does the State
Department of Highways intend to re-pave this summer?
This is a question borough officials were anxious to
clear up this week but with the result that they began
i to wonder if state officials themselves know exactly how
| big the local project is going to be!
Plans for improvements to the
Lititz Springs Park are being
held up—and may be fu rth e r de­layed
until July—while negotia­tions
for the purchase of the
Garber property on Broad Street
still are pending, it was disclosed
th is week.
Purchase of the Garber prop­erty
would enable the park com­mission
to plan a much-larger
entrance, it was emphasized. And
with all concerned still refusing
to abandon hope th a t the prop­erty
adjoining the park to the
south, will be purchased, Mc­Cloud
& Scatchard, architects in
charge of the planning, have
been practically marking time.
Owners of the property last
week indicated th a t a fu rth e r
conference with officials of the
Atlantic Refining Company is
needed inasmuch as a sales
agreement with the oil company
has been continued until Ju ly 1.
This does not necessarily mean
th a t the July 1 date cannot be
changed, it was hinted.
But with the park commission
bid for the property somewhat
below the Atlantic Refining Com­pany
bid, plus a reported real­to
r’s commission, the picture still
requires a bit of clearing up.
Another factor which could
possibly delay the purchase of.
the property would be any dif­ference
of opinion relative to re­locating
the alley which pres­ently
runs at the southern border
of the park. Unless th is alley
can be moved and the Garber
property made p a rt and parcel
of the park tract, the commis­sion
would not be interested in
Grade Students
Will Present
Easter Program
A program “An E aster Greet­ing”
will be presented by the
Elementary grades one, two and
th re e on Thursday and Friday
evenings, April 11 and 12 a t
7:30 p.m. in th e auditorium of
the Elementary building.
"Chicken Licken” will be pre­sented
by th e children in the
rooms of Miss Nancy Brubaker,
Miss Vera Hoffman and Miss
Elizabeth Workman; “The An­imals
E a ste r” , Mrs. Mary Blon-dell,
Mrs. Mabel Grimes, Miss
Mary Sturgis.
“Eggbert, the E a ste r Egg” ,
and “P e te r Cottontail” Mrs.
Gladys Brubaker and Miss Mar­th
a Sturgis; “Trick on Mr. Rab­b
it” , Miss Ruth Frantz, Mrs.
Nancy Herclerode aqd Miss
Gladys Sanko; “The Ugly Duck­ling”
, Miss Donna Benner, Miss
Ethel Denny, and Mrs. Miriam
Fasnacht; “Mrs. Bunny Rabit’s
E a ste r Bonnet” , Miss Kathryn
Gantz, Miss E sth e r Lorry, and
Mrs. Je an e tte Zook.
FATHER REPORTS SONS
FOR SHOOTING DUCKS
Disproving the theory th a t
most parents refuse to see any
wrong in th e ir own children, a
local fathe r, on learning recent­ly
of the shooting of wild ducks
a t Binkley Brothers quarry,
questioned his two boys and they
admitted they had been the cul­prits.
On the advice of Justice
of the Peace J. B. Herr, th e
fath e r took the boys directly to
Melvin Binkley to make re stitu ­tion.
OSTEOPATHIC GUILD
TO MEET TUESDAY
The reg u la r meeting of the
Lititz Guild of the Lancaster
Osteopathic Hospital will be
held on Tuesday evening a t 8
o’clock a t th e home of Mrs. Jo ­seph
Wuersch, Neffsville. Mrs.
Edmund Baltozer will serve as
co-hostess.
NEW OFFICER REALLY
ENGROSSED IN HIS JOB!
L ititz’ newest policeman has
been so engrossed in his new
duties, he almost got himself
fouled up with th e law this
week.
When Officer Charles Mor­row
drove to work Tuesday,
fellow-Offlcer Lloyd Long no­ticed
Morrow was driving a
car with a 1956 license plate.
Morrow immediately retu rn ed
home and changed to new
plates. He has been so busy
' studying up on borough ordi­nances
he got th e impression
he did n o t need th e new pla te
u n til April 15, h e explained.
obtaining it, it was emphasized
recently.
In th is respect, the borough
planning commission recently
went on record as favoring re­location
of th e alley.
The first phase of improving
th e park, th e trimming of all
trees, has been completed for
more than a month. F u rth e r
contracts will not be awarded
until a fte r the Garber property
sale is eith er completed or aban­doned,
it was asserted.
Stan Stauffer
Heads VFW Post
Stanley Stauffer, Lititz R l,
was elected commander of Lit­itz
Springs Post 1463, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, a t a meeting
last Sunday in the Post Home,
it was announced this week.
Also elected were, Floyd Ha-becker,
senior vice commander;
Robert Havener, Jr., ju n io r vice
commander; Howard Dissinger,
q uarte rm aste r and ad ju tan t;
Francis Enck, chaplain; Dr.
Joseph W. Grosh, surgeon; Men-no
Rohrer, judge advocate; and
Jack Todd, tru ste e for a three
year term.
Installation of these officers
will take place on Sunday, April
28, with Howard Dissinger, past
post commander, in charge. It
was also decided the Post will
participate in the Armed Forces
Day parade.
Hershey Named
Chairman Of
Hospital Drive
John G. Hershey, 14 East 3rd
Avenue, this borough, has been
named local are a chairman of
the County Big Gifts Division
of th e Lancaster General Hos­p
ita l’s 1957 Charity and Replace­ment
Campaign. The announce­ment
was made by Pryor E. Neu-ber,
division chairman.
Hershey, a member of the
Hospital’s Board of Directors
and holding th e office of sec­re
ta ry of the Board, has served
as an are a chairman for the
past several years.
The County Big Gifts Division
will campaign through April 14
for a goal of $23,580 of the
total campaign need of $105,280.
This y ea r’s campaign theme is
“YOU CARE ENOUGH TO HELP
ENOUGH.” All of th e funds
raised will be for the care of
charity patients and th e replace­ment
of necessary vital equip­ment
a t th e hospital.
ROBERT ZARTMAN
ON DEAN’S LIST
Robert E. Zartman, of Lititz
R l, a senior in geology and min­eralogy,
is one of 28 students in
the College of Mineral Indus­trie
s a t th e Pennsylvania State
University named to th e dean’s
list, it was announced th is week.
Zartman completed th e semes­te
r with a 3.84 average out of a
possible 4.00.
To Address Graduates
Name Speaker
For First
Commencem’t
Class Of 94 Students To
Receive Diplomas On
June 12
The first graduating class to
receive diplomas a t the new War­wick
High School this June will
consist of approximately 94 stu ­dents.
Commencement exercises will
be held in the new plush audi­torium
on Wednesday, June 12,
and the speaker will be Dr. Har­old
Morrison Smith, president
and headmaster of Bordentown
Military Institute.
Announcement of the selection
of Dr. Smith a s the first com­mencement
speaker was made
th is week by Supervising P rin ­cipal
Marlin Spaid. Dr. Smith
has spoken here before, having
delivered the commencement ad­dress
a t Lititz High School ap­proximately
a decade ago.
Dr. Smith is president of the
Boarding School Association of
the Philadelphia Region and has
served on the executive commit­tee
of the Association of Mili­ta
ry Colleges.
He is a noted speaker and
lecturer and has always been
deeply interested in work with
youth. He was for five years state
chairman of Y.M.C.A. activities
in New Hampshire. In New J e r ­sey
he has been active with Boy
Scout work. He also has held im­portant
positions with th e Bap­tist
Church denomination and is
a 33rd degree Mason.
He possesses numerous hon­orary
degrees.
Borough Needs
200 More Deeds
Approximately 200 or more
deeds are needed to complete
the borough’s deed-registration
project, Borough Manager David
Bauer announced late yesterday.
In an effort to j^g up the
ta rdy property-owners' who have
failed to take th e ir deeds to the
borough office, le tte rs were mail­ed
to the 200 yesterday. Bor­ough
council had hoped to com­plete
th is work during March.
Recording of the deeds was
slowed up a bit this week by a
breakdown of the machine ren t­ed
for this purpose. With an av­erage
of ten deeds being submit­ted
daily, clerks were rushing
them to the Wilbur-Suchard of­fice
where machinery installed
there was being utilized.
DAVID E. ROTHMAN
David E. Rothman died in the
Lancaster County Hospital yes­terday
afternoon a t 1:40. F o r
many years he worked as a la­borer
for a number of local bus­inessmen.
He was. th e son of
the late Daniel and Mary Cain
Rothman and was the la st of his
immediate family.
Services will be held Friday at
2 p.m. from th e Beck funeral
home. Interment will be made in
th e Longenecker Cemetery.
Friends may call a t Becks,
Friday from noon to 2 p.m.
At State Highway Department
offices in Harrisburg over the
week-end, it was announced th a t
more than a mile of East Main
Street will he re-graded and
completely re-built. This would
mean th a t the re-construction
would s ta rt a t th e Square and
would go to the borough line.
The Harrisburg announcement
also indicated th a t this will be
the largest single stretch of high­way
to be built by the sta te in
this section this summer.
Reached by borough officials
th is week, however, State
Highway Department officials
a t the Lancaster County office
declared th a t th e re-building
job will extend only from th e
Square to a point n e a r Linden
Hall, supposedly Wa te r Street.
Apparently the m a tte r will not
be cleared up until a fte r plans
and specifications arrive from
Harrisburg, and to-date th a t has
not occurred.
At best, it was confirmed th is
week, work on E ast Main Street
cannot be expected to- s ta rt be­fore
Ju n e 1 and in all probability
not until a fte r July 1, if then.
Before actual work sta rts, th e
borough must be given specifi­cations
so th a t it can pass th e
usual preliminary ordinance.
Once given the new grades, th e
borough then will have to deter­mine
th a t all th e service mains
are deep enough—and on th is
point borough officials will be
greatly fooled if it is not neces­sary
to replace a considerable
number of lines now runnig too
close to the surface of East Main
Street.
If th e plans call fo r tak in g
th e highway to th e borough
line, re-locations will have to
be studied in order th a t land
releases can be obtained from
property owners, an o th e r p re­requisite
to th e sta rtin g of th e
work.
Completing Orange Stre et
State workmen again b a rri­caded
West Orange Street a t
Broad as work on the widened
stretch leading to and beyond the
new high school was resumed.
School buses now must use
Maple Street to reach the high
school while traffic to Manheim
was being re-routed along th e
East Petersburg Road an d Lin­coln
Avenue.
Help Yourself
Help Others
The saying “Better la te than
never” is too often a tragic pro­nouncement
in cancer.
More th an 75,000 American
lives could have been saved from
cancer last year if trea tm en t had
begun in time.
These facts should be remem­bered
during the April Cancer
Crusade. In addition to giving
and giving generously to can­cer,
make it a point to have a
health examination—no ma tte r
how well you feel.
As the American Cancer Soci­ety
sums it up: “F ig h t Cancer
With a Check-up and a Check.”
After all, p a rt of the money
the Society seeks will be spent
encouraging Americans to make
th e health check-up a regula r
habit. This is your best cancer
insurance. He who gives to th e
ACS, but fails to take a check-up
is only robbing P e te r to pay
Paul later.
So help yourself, help others
and fight cancer by supporting
the 1957 Cancer Crusade.
And don’t forget th a t check­up.
DONALD MOHLER GIVEN
A PERFECT GRADE
Donald Mohler, of this bor­ough,
a senior in the School of
Music a t the University of Michi­gan,
is one of 171 students to
receive a “perfect” grade dur­ing
the fall semester, the college
announced th is week.
“The man who doesn’t know
the meaning of the word ‘fear*
usually is ignorant in other
ways, too!”