Lititz Record Express

              The Lititz Record - Express
Serving The Warwick Union Area For The Past Eighty Years
81st Year E s ta b lis h e d A p ril, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e Xdtltz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, August 22, 1957 5 c e n ts a C opy; $2.50 p e r y e a r b y m a il,
w ith in L a n c a s te r C o u n ty ; $3.00 e ls ew h e re . No. 21
Water Supply Unaffected By Severe Dry Spell
Boro Wells Remain
At Normal Level
Despite Lack of Rain
Despite the dro u g h t and an additional daily draw of over
83,000 gallons of water, the old reliable Lititz wa te rshed is ju s t
as reliable as ever, borough officials said this week.
While neighboring communities are putt in g restrictions
on water consumption, Borough Manager David Bauer, said no
such action is contemplated here.
Field Day Proves A Big Success
Above a r e pic ture s showing th e h ighlights of la s t weeks
exciting playground Field Day which was held in th e Lititz
Springs P a rk . In th e top le f t Miss playground 1057 poses with
her court. F r o n t Row le f t to r ig h t a re Donna Wiegand, Miss
Animal Trap, Nancy Kline, Miss Springs P a rk , Debby Ella,
Miss Brunnerville, Bren d a Sites, Miss Lions Playground, and
Bonita Carvell, Miss Rothsville. Top Row, Charlotte Houchin,
P a tr ic ia Carvell, Linda Weaver, Shirley Houchin, who is Miss
Playground 1957, Beverly Weaver, Virginia Sweigart, and
—R e c o rd -E x p re s s P h o to
Dena Cole.
In th e top r ight, Miss Playground, Shirley Houchin, is
feeling th e h uge muscle of Billy Mitchell. Bob Suthe r land is
me a suring Mitchell’s muscle in th e muscleman contest. In th e
lower left, David Bo th and J e a n Eckman ( s tanding) archery
champions, pose with th e i r runner -ups , Jo e Willis, and Sandra
Donley.
In th e lower r ight, Be rn a rd Rider, me a sure s th e muscle of
Emme t t H a n n a while Ken n e th H a n n a waits his tu rn .
Miss Playground, Mr. Muscleman Selections
Highlight Closing Of Summer Program
¡Purchase Tract For
ProposedCommunity
I Ambulance Garage
He said the springs which
feed the Lititz Wa te r P lan t
have shown no noticeable sign
of a recession despite th a t the
borough is pumping 83,757 gal­lons
of water daily over last
y e a r ’s average pumpage.
Most of th e increase, he
said, is a tt r ib u ted to th e Lam-ber
t -Hu d n u t plant. Wa te r de­p
a r tme n t records show th a t the
past 2 8 days the borough has
pumped 583,857 gallons of
water daily of which 150,321
gallons was t r a n s fe r re d to the
upper standpipe on Third
Avenue.
Last year the average daily
pumpage was 500,1 00 gallons
with 126,300 being tr an s fe r red
to the upper standpipe.
There has been no unusual
demand for water here he said,
primarily because th e r e is li t­tle
wastage of water.
This is traceable to th e water
ra te s here which discourage
res idents from wantonly using
water to wet down lawns and
ga rdens and for summer time
cooling off such as allowing
children to play with hoses.
He said the borough has kept
its eyes on the water gauges for
the past two weeks and there
was no significant drop in the
water level on any one day.
Warwick Union
Enrollment Will
Total 2 ,4 3 6
The Warwick Union school
enrollment will total 2,436
students, an increase of 108
boys and girls over th a t of
las t year, when clas ses con­vene
September 3, Supervis­ing
Principal Marlin Spaid an ­nounced
last night.
Appointments to two new
teachers also were approved
by the board of d irector s a t
theh same meeting. They are:
Mrs. Helen M. Markham, of
Lancaster, who will teach
second grade, and Mrs. Lucy
Brubaker, this borough, who
will teach four th g rade in the
Lititz Elementary building.
Mrs. Bru b ak e r formerly t a u ­g
h t the same grade here. Mrs.
Markham ta u g h t in the Lan­c
a s ter City schools las t year.
The enrollment lists 1,531
elementary s tudents, an in ­crease
of 59; and 905 High
School students, a boost of 4 9.
This y e a r ’s Senior Class will
total 9 8 students.
12 Apply For
Vacancy On
Police Force
Twelve applicants will ta k e
written examinations for the
position of pa tro lman on the
Lititz Borough Police Depa r t­ment
a t the high school to­night.
There currently is one v a ­cancy
on the d e p a r tmen t as a
re sult of Borough Council vot­ing
to increase from a th re e to
four man force. The wr it ten
exam will be given a t 7:30 p.m.
in Room 211 a t th e high
school. Applications will be re ­ceived
until th a t time.
Requirements a re th a t an
applicant mus t be 21 years of
age, weight not less th a n 150
pounds, be not less th a n five
feet eight or more th a n six feet
five inches and be licensed, to
drive a car in Pennsylvania.
Star ting salary a t $238 per
month jumping to $252 a f te r
satisfactory completion of a 6-
months p roba tiona ry period.
Patrolmen will be considered
for a raise a t 12-month in t e r ­vals
until reaching the maxi­mum
pay of $320 per month.
Officers mus t furnish the ir
pistol and shoes with th e bal­ance
of the uniform being fu r ­nished
by th e borough .
Midget Football
Commission Formed
The Warwick Midget F oot­ball
Commission, to sponsor an
11-man football league here,
was officially formed la te yes­terday
afternoon. T h e g roup set
a goal of $2,000 needed for
equipment.
Two regis tra tion points for
Lititz candidates a lso were an ­nounced
as follows: Clair’s
Grocery, 93 F ro n t Street, and
the homle of Barry Kauffman,
25 E. Lemjon Street. Officers of
th e committee a re Russell Erb,
commissioner; Dubbs Halde-man,
pres ident, a n d B a r ry
Fill Up
Lexington
Fire Dam
Added fire protection re ­ached
property owners in the
vicinity of Lexington Monday
night when six local fire com­panies
united in pumping
20,000 gallons of wa te r into
a newly-completed community
cistern.
Laying more th a n a mile of
hose, th e firemen pumped the
wa te r from Snavely’s Dam to
the cis tern located a t the
northwe s t of Lexington on the
site of the old Union Sunday
School Building.
I t required approximately
an h o u r and a ha lf of constant
pumping to fill the cistern.
Companies partic ipa ting in­cluded
Lititz, Brunnerville,
Penryn, Brickerville, Roths ­ville
and Manheim.
The cis tern is covered and
th e wa te r kept from stagnating
by a system of aereation. The
cis tern was entirely financed
thro u g h contributions from
th e citizens of Lexington and
was built partly th ro u g h vol­un
te e r labor. Morris Sturgis
was cha irman of the fu n d ­raising
committee.
COLLECT ITEMS FOR
LIONS AUCTION TODAY
Persons who have articles to
contribute to the Lititz Lions
Club for th e i r annua l auction
a t Lions Playground tomorrow
a re reminded th e articles will
be collected tonight.
A sound tru ck will precede
the collection tru ck to an­nounce
th a t any articles will be
accepted for the auction which
begins a t 6:30 p.m. Friday
( tomo r row) .
Proceeds from the sale are
used in sight-conservation and
charity work by the local
Lions.
Farm Show
Eliminates
Baby Parade
The baby parade, long a
popular fe a tu re of the Lititz
F a rm Show, will be eliminated
this year, according to action
taken by the show committee
Monday evening.
The resolution passed by the
committee declares th a t “ since
th e borough has refused the
use of th e s t re e ts for farm
shows and since th e p a rk may
not he suitable for the parade,
it is decided to drop the baby
pa rade th i s yeor.”
The committee did announce
th a t Spruce Street n o r th of
Main will be closed, however.
In obtaining the necessary
consents of proper ty owners,
as specified by borough council
the committee would only have
to get one of two s igna ture s
inasmuch as only the V.F.W.
and th e Center own property
on this half-block.
After an application had
been made to close othe r
s treets of town, council de­clared
no s t re e t would be
closed with o u t th e consent of
a ma jor ity of res idents and
of proper ty owners. The com­mittee
then decided n o t to
a ttemp t to use Wes t Main
Street.
This y e a r ’s show will be held
on the V.F.W. p a rk in g lot
and In the park. Buck Ben­son,
popular cowboy musician,
will provide the en te r ta inmen t
for the opening evening,
Wednesday, September 11.
Entries of fa rm produce,
fruit, canned goods, vegetables,
fancy work, etc., will be re ­ceived
in the Recreation Cen-
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Odd Fellows Plan
Corn, Doggie Roast
A corn a n d doggie ro a s t for
Odd Fellows and th e i r familes
will be held a t F o ltz ’s cottage,
Bru b ak e r Valley, Monday, Aug.
26 a t 6:30 p.m.
All members of the local
lodge a re invited to bring th e i r
family to a t te n d th e outdoor
festivities.
The local lodge Saturday
sponsored a bus load of Wa r ­wick
Midget-Midget League
baseball players to th e Phillies
game. All told 166 boys and
30 ad u lt s made th e tr ip in four
'Hiiaaoo.
The crowning of Miss Play-gound
1957, b rought to a close
a very exciting two day Field
Day, which was sponsored by
th e Playgrounds in th e Wa r ­wick
Area Summer P la y ­ground
p rogram cast Friday.
Miss Shirley ouchin of th e
Lions p la y g ro u n d was crowned
Miss Playground 1957, being
chosen from, a field of twelve
candidates by playground di­rectors.
The crowning climaxed a
two day p ro g ram which saw
approximately 200 boys and
girls compete for 23 honors, in­cluding
a M)uscle M)an contest,
and th e picking of Miss Play ­ground.
The fi r s t day, T h u r s ­day,
was spent in eliminating,
so th a t semi-finalists could be
found. F r id ay was spent in
finding the cahmpions.
In the muscleman contest,
th re e winners were chosen ac­cording
to th e i r ages. In the
6-9 division, Mike Shaak won
with a bicep of 10 inces. The
10-12 g roup had a tie among
Barry Dull, Terry Grube, and
La r ry Roth who all h ad mus ­cles
miasuring 10 inches. In
the 13 and over group, David
Roth to o k th e honors with a
muscle of HVfe inches.
Name Queens
In th e beauty department,
five oth e r awa rds were given
besides th a t of Miss Play-
Residents Must
Dispose of Lawn,
Garden Waste
With the time of falling
leaves not too f a r removed,
borough officials this week
reminded res idents th a t the
borough leaf collection service
is not to be abused.
They said borough wo rk ­men,
as usual, will collect
leaves and othe r material
which falls onto th e streets.
However res idents a re asked
not to abuse the service by
p u tt ing garden weeds and
lawn cuttings out for collec­tion.
I t is up to individual house­holders
to dispose of this ma t ­erial.
Likewise th e borough
also wa rned aga ins t burning
leaves in the gu tte r . .It is in
violation of a borough ordin­ance
because of damage caused
to s tre e t sur face and also
creates a smoke nuisance.
DISSINGER’S MARK 25TH
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr and Mrs. E a r l V. Dissing-er,
141 N. Cedar St., marked
th e i r 25th Wedding Annivers­ary
Sunday with a dinner a t
th e i r home. The anniversary
da te Tuesday, Aug 20.
Attending were Mrs. Lillian
Getz, Mr. an d Mrs. Thomas
and Mrs. Gary Sipe a n d son
Rearich and son Dean and Mr.
R a r r v .
ground. A beauty queen was
also chosen f rom each of the
five participating playgrounds.
The queens include, Miss
Rothsville, onna Wiegand;
Miss Brunnerville, Nancy Ella,
Miss Springs, Nancy Kline, Miss
Lions, Brenda Sites and Miss
Animal Trap, Donna Wie-grand.
In the regula r Field Day con­tests,
Robe rt Wolf, became the
Boy’s Horseshoe Champion, and
Nancy E c k e r t took the same
honor for the girls. The Kalah
championship went to Herb
Clause nwho took the champ­ionship.
The Tetherball Boys
Champioinship was tak en by
Robert Wolf of the Springs
Park. The gir ls championship
A wa te r fountain will be
included at the Broad Street
entrance of the remodeled
Lititz Springs P a rk a f t e r all,
it was learned this week.
Last week members of the
P a rk Trus tees had removed an
a lte rn a te bid for the fountain
from the overall plans in
ord e r to keep the remodeling
program within th e i r budget.
The decision, J. M. Leed,
chairman, said, was passed on
to Elme r H. Bobst, who has
donated $100,000 to the im­provement
of the park, and
Bobst, in a le t te r to trus tees
asked them to res tore the
fountain to the plans.
Leed said this will be done
G. Marlin Spaid, Supervis­ing
Principal, today announced
the following ass ignments for
the Kin d e rg a r ten s of the Wa r ­wick
Union Elementa ry
Schools.
The following ass ignments
of pupils a re listed as an aid
to pa rent s in a r ran g in g for the ir
Kin d e rg a r ten attendance. As­s
ignments m(ay be changed by
you, the p arent, providing, you
can find a pa ren t who would
like to exchange th e morning
or a fte rnoon session for th e i r
child. All changes mus t be
completed by September 6,
19 57, a f t e r which tim'e as­signments
become permanent.
T h e Lititz Kin d e rg a r te n
Teachers, Miss E s th e r Eby
and Mrs. Ann Strickler, will
a r r an g e for you an d your child
to visit th e school d uring th e
dates of September 4, 5 an d 6.
Please try to keep y our ap­p
o intment d u r in g the designat-oil
Hmlo P lo c a o a f (\r a ll
went to Linda Spang.
A playground checker champ
was crowned by playground of­ficials
on Friday. E a r ile r in the
summer, Joe Willis h ad tak en
the championship in a special
playoff. Since th a n Willis has
not done any practicing, and
thus was eliminated in the
opening round yesterday.
The new “Champ” is 13 year
old David Roth who defeated
6 year old Greg Ludwig in the
final playoff round. Ludwig
put on quite a show for the
spectators, as he eliminated
several of the favored older
candidates. Roth finally ma n ­aged
to p u t the stopper on
Ludwig’s luck, and in doing so
became the new checker champ
and in o rd e r to stay within
the budget P a rk Trus tees mus t
delete an o th e r portion of the
improvements for th e present.
He said a meeting will be
held within a day or two to
determine wha t should be
tak en out so th a t the fountain
may bd included. When this
is decided the committee can
approve the contract for the
final portion of the $100,000
expenditure.
Except for excluding the
fountain Bobst expressed ap­proval
of the rema in d e r of the
contract calling for the ex­penditure
of $69,479 which
was submitted by He rman
Wohlsen’s Sons, Lancaster.
g a r ten pupils of th e Lititz
Building will begin on Septem­ber
9, 1957.
J o h n Beck Kinde rga r ten,
Brunnerville
Mrs. Helen Spence will visit
pa rents and the assigned Kin­d
e rg a r ten child a t th e Jo h n
Beck School on September 4,
195 7. P a re n t s will be informed
as to the time of the appoint­ment.
Mrs. Spences’s classes
s ta r ts on Friday, September
6th.
Rothsville Kin d e rg a r te n
Mrs. Helen Spence will visit
with th e pa rent s and th e as­signed
Kin d e rg a r ten child a t
the Rothsville Elemen ta ry
School on September 5. P a r ­ents
will be informed a s to the
time of th e appointment. Kin­d
e rg a r ten class s ta r t s Friday,
September 6th.
P.M. KINDERGARTEN
SESSION
LITITZ: Mrs. Anne Str ickler
THnv,rti»v, n nnnu r% t_
of the Warwick Playgrounds.
Archery Po p u la r
The a rche ry contest drew
the most spectators, and proved
to he very exciting. Je a n Eck­man
became the Girl Archery
Champ while David Roth took
the honors in th e male division.
Out of a possible 81 points,
Roth had 55, and Eckman had
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Carl Helmich, Jr.
To Be Ordained
Sunday Morning
Carl J. Helmich, J r . will be
ordained to the Chris tian min­istry,
as a Deacon of the Mor­avian
Church, by his fa th e r
Bishop Helmich, in Sunday’s
10:30 A.M. Service a t Lititz
Moravian Church.
Carl, Jr. has accepted a call
to the p a s tora te of the F i r s t
Moravian Church of Philadel­phia,
F a irmo u n t an d 17th
Streets. He will be ins talled on
Sunday, September 8 by a
member of the E a s te rn Dis­t
r ic t Executive Board.
Mrs. Virginia H u n te r Bur-key,
head of the Music Depa rt­ment
of Linden' Hali, will be
the soloist, singing the “ 91st
Psa lm” and the chants in the
ordination service.
Bishop an d Mrs. Helmich in­vite
members and friends to
“open h o u s e ” in the temporary
parsonage a t 54 W. Lincoln
Avenue, between 3 - 5 p.m.
and 7 - 9 p.m., in h onor of
the ir son’s ordination.
Bingeman, Donald Eu g en e
Blauch, Thomas William
Bowman, Charles E.
Bushong, Jame s Edwa rd
Eitn e r , Elwood I.
Eshelmlan, Je f f rey Walls
Diemi, Jame s Douglas
Heisey, Gary Allen
Jones, Ross Thomas
Kraybill, Douglas Alan
Long, Rickey Ray
Pe te r s , Carl Je f frey
P la t t, Michael William
Simons, Richa rd Eugene
Snavely, Russell Gene
Stark, Richa rd Michael
Will, David Robert
Yeagley, Gary E rn e s t
Balmer, Bridget Mae
Breitigan, Constance Lee
Birkenbine, Sherry Lyn
Liebert, P a tr ic ia Ann
Nissley, Teresa May
Oberlin, Ka ren Sue
Rapp, Deborah J e a n
Sentz, Nancy I rene
Ulrich, Beth Ann
BRUNNERVILLE FIREMEN
WILL MEET TUESDAY
The monthly meeting of the
Brunnerville F i r e Company
will be held on Tuesday even­ing.
Several ma t te r s of Im­portance
will be discussed.
Two Groups
I Come Up With
Same Answer
At leas t two dif ferent civic
groups here are inte re s ted in
improving business conditions
in Lititz— even though they
d on’t bother comparing notes!
The lack of co-ordination in
the drive to mak e Lititz the
o u ts tanding county shopping
center, came glaringly to the
forefront Tuesday evening
when the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce debated ways and
means of a tt ra c t in g more busi­nesses
a t a meeting held in the
Young Men’s Business League
At th e same identical mom­ent,
the borough planning com­mission
and a group of local
retailers were deba ting the
same project at a meeting held
in councilmianic chambers in
the firehouse.
And— oddly— both groups
independently came up with the
same conclusion— th a t Lititz
needs more diversified stores.
And both groups expressed
considerable doubt as to wha t
method of procedure should be
used to correct this sitution.
A lack of clothing articles
for teen-agers was cited by i
Pau l F. Diehm, pres ident of j
the Lititz Chamber of Com­merce,
as one reason why some
shoppers from th e ru r a l dis­tr
icts pass up Lititz a t times.
“While we h ave many fine
stores, there is one age-bracket,
the teen-agers, which is not
adequately c ate red to ,” Mr.
Diehm declared. “Our meeting
felt th a t if we could induce new
businesses which would fill this
gap, th a t more family units
would come here to shop.”
“Lititz is growing and there
are many business opportunities
here which a re being ignored,”
Mr. Diehm; added. “The Cham­ber
of Commerce is studying
the ma t te r to filling these
gaps.”
The Lititz P lanning Com­mission
in its findings added
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Five Alarms
KeepFirem’n
On The Run
Local F ir eman responded to
five calls within th e las t week,
none of which was very serious.
In most of th e cases, th e fire
was traced to the hot and dry
weather.
Eby’s feed mill was the
scene of the first a la rm, when
fire broke o u t In the s t a r te r
of a diesel engine. Chief Ray­mond
Ru n k said th e damage
was confined to the s ta r te r
of th e engine, a n d th a t proper­ty
damage re sulted to about
$75.00.
The second local fire was a
gras s fire a t the home of E d ­ward
G. Reese, 509 S. Cedar
Street. Mrs. Reese h ad been
burning tra sh , when sparks
from the inc ine ra tor ignited
the dry grass. Mrs. Reese had
the fire u n d e r control by the
time the fireman arrived.
The th i rd fire of th e week
broke out on Saturday a f t e r ­noon
in an oil burne r a t the
home of Edwa rd Crowl, 515
E. Main St. Little damage was
reported.
On Sunday evening fireman
were summoned to the home of
Jame s M. Rice, 206 E a s t Third
avenue. The fo u r th fire of the
week proved to he anothe r
grass fire caused by sparks
reaching th e d ry grass. Little
proper ty damage resulted.
The fifth fire of th e week
was on Tuesday when fireman
were called to th e Morgan
P a p e r Mill where several bales
of paper were smoldering.
Once again th e we a th e r was
blamed for th e fire, a s th e bales
were in th e h o t sun. Little
proper ty d amage was again
reported.
SUTTER ENCAMPMENT TO
HOLD STAG NIGHT
General S u t te r Encamp­ment,
7 6 will observe Stag
Nite Thursday, Aug. 29 a t
6:30 p.m. a t the home of Carl
Reedy, 438 S. Spruce St. All
members a re u rged to a ttend
with fun for all a n d plenty of
The community ambulance
soon will have a p e rman en t
home— and the borough will
be rid of an eye-sore which
recently brought forth an o u t­burst
of councilm'anic wrath!
These are the two develop­ments
resulting from the p u r ­chase
las t week of a small one-story
shack and tr a c t of land
a t North Alley and Wa te r St.
by the Lititz Chapter of the
A.Il.C.
Appearing at a sheriff sale
conducted in the Lancaster
County Court House, Clarence
Newcomer, Lancaster attorney,
bid in the property for $402
representing back taxes and
costs standing agains t the
property.
The small tra c t which me a s ­ures
30 feet along North Alley
and 69 feet along Wa te r Street,
first drew public a ttention
when members of borough
council decided a t th e i r July
meeting to buy th e shack
ra th e r th an let it fall into
private hands and be convert­ed
into a dwelling.
Publicity given this move
attra c ted th e attention of
local ambulance drivers, who
have been frantically seeking
a p ermanent home for the
community ambulance since
razing of the old Reading
Station.
Members of the ambulance
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Makes Presentation
Henry B. Gibbel
PlaqueGiven
Phillies At
Game Sat.
A plaque honoring the P h il­lies
ball club was presented to
the team a t a pre-game cere­mony
Saturday a f ternoon wit­nessed
by several h u ndred local
midget players included in the
audience of more th a n 20,000
persons.
The presentation is the firs t
annual award of this n a tu r e to
be made by th e Pennsylvania
Federation of Mutual In s u r ­ance
Companies and was made
by Henry B. Gibbel, of this
borough, secretary of the Lititz
Mutual Insurance Company
and pres ident of the state fed­eration.
The plaque was formally ac­cepted
by Curt Simmons, one
of the leading Phillies pitchers.
The qlaque reads : " In
recognition of an o u ts tanding
contribution of inspiring
and Nnited Community in te r ­sportsmanship
for o u r ' youth,
est for all the citizens of Dela­ware
Valley in 1957. Presented
to “ Phillies” Baseball Club by
the Pennsylvania Fede ra tion of
Mutual Insurance Companies.”
Saturday also was observed
Day. Another local man intro-by
the Phillies as Odd Fellows
duced to the crowd prior to the
game was W. Martin Hess,
s ta te head of the I.O.O.F.
EASTERN STAR PICNIC
THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The Lititz Springs Chapter
of the Ea s te rn Sta r will hold
a picnic this Sunday a t Lo n g ’s
Park. The program will s t a r t
at 2 p.m. for members and
the ir families.
“One sore thing wrong
with the younger generation
is that a lot of us don't belong
W ill Revise Park Bid
T o Include Fountain
Kindergarten Classes Listed
For Warwick Union District