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(Consolidated with The U t ltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, April 17, 1958 S cents a Copy; $8.50 per year by mail,
within Lancaster County; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 3
Envision
Shoppers
Paradise
The firs t warm breezes of
Spring were partly blamed.
Tuesday evening when local
planners projected the ir think-well
into the fu tu re and came
up with plans for a “Shop­pers’
P aradise” in L ititz ’.
The plan presented by Curtis
Amidon, president of the Lititz
Planning Commission, propos­ed
closing the first block of
E ast Main Street to all traffic
transform the present traffic
lanes into a beautiful, public
park where shoppers can stroll
leisurely and even park the ir
baby carriages.
The alleys— one of Which is
the currently -controversial
North Alley—would be enlarg­ed
to carry the present Main
Street traffic and also to pro­vide
off-the-street p a r k i n g
areas a t the rea r of the stores.
Amidon admitted he had
been reading a lot about a
similar plan being put into
effect in Oregon and plans be­ing
studied by a number of
large Cities a t the present time. [
Fellow members on t h e ]
planning commission express-1
ed themselves as being favor­ably
impressed by the idea.
Later it was reported th a t
Main Street merchants, who
ju s t a few years ago objected
to the five-day community show
closing of the streets, viewed
the plan as being a bit radical
—‘but felt dt should be given a
b it of study, a t least.
Zoning Plans
Charles Shepherd, a planning
consultant from the Bureau of
Community Development, of­fered
a report on the zoning
tools needed to prepare a
zoning ordinance.
Shepherd listed these zoning
tools A, use requirements; B,
Area requirements, an d C, non-conforming
nse and structures.
A rough d ra ft of a zoning
SPRING PLOWING GETS UNDERWAY Missionary Aide To
Visit After 5 Years
—Record-Express Pboto
, Held up by th e wea ther th e spring plowing got underway
in fu ll swing th is week. A familiar picture lover th e country­side
was th is one a t th e James B. Hess farm where Jo h n W.
Gehman tu rn s a furrow, F a rm is located along Route 772
between Brubaker’s crossing and Rothsville.
Ole Swimmin' Hole Ain't What She Used To Be
I t t # «sfar 'È '
—Record-Express Photos
Seibert’s swimming hole, long a favorite spot fo r a re a
kids, a in ’t w hat she used to be. Workmen h e re a re shown
as they prepared to dismantle th e bridge and abutments span­ning
th e creek. F e a r th e bridge would collapse under th e
weight of school bus tra ffic prompted its rebuilding. Base
of th e bridge h ad been washed away by th e creek and weakened,
uwlinaiKse wlH b e prepared fo r -Io-.»vald - a washing away aga in th e creek was widened--and
consequently will affect th e swimming a re a beyond th e bridge
which had been th e deepest p a r t of th e old swimming hole.
th e May meeting,
He suggested the Commission
begin work on establishing the
zone lines.
A lengthy discussion was
held on building set-back re­gulations.
No action was taken
b u t it was suggested a ll new
buildings be set-back h a lf the
distance of the stre e t rig h t
of way, but no less than 25
feet from th e rig h t of way line.
The exception to this ru le
would be in blocks where more
than 50% of the homes were
already constructed. T h e r e
regulations would be controlled
by the average set-back of the
rest of the homes on th e block.
Winter Picnic
Will Be Held
Tuesday Evening
The Moravian Winter Picnic,
postponed because of snow, will
be held in the basement of
Fellowship Hall on Tuesday.
A full course supper will be
served a t 6 p.m. followed by a
Mlarionette show pesented by
th e Luft Studios.
At th e supper hour, special
recognition will be given all
new members received in to the
Church since E a ste r 1957. All
members a re urged to attend.,
The pastor, Bishop Carl J.
Helmick, spent th re e days in
Bethlehem, Pa. th is week
a ttending sessions of an Inter-
Provincial Committee, repre­senting
both Northern and
Southern Provinces.
STUDENT LIBRARIANS
Joan Strickler, a sophomore
a t Warwick Union High school,
was elected secretary o f the
executive committee of th e Stu­dents’
Library Association of
th e southe astern district of
Pennnsylvania, a t th e meeting
held recently in the Warwick
Union High school. Approxi­mately
one hundred persons
attended th e meeting which
was followed by a social hour.
GIRL SCOUTS TO HOLD
SAMPLE FAIR SATURDAY
Girl Scout Troop 146 will
hold a Sample F air a t the
Lititz Firehouse this Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Door
prizes will be awarded and
baked goods will be on sale.
Tickets must be obtained
from troop members o r a t
th e door. Mrs. Guy N. Bow­man
is troop leader, assisted
by Mrs. Harry Eshelman.
A CORRECTION
Floyd Hoffman,. of F ro n t
Street, th is week rep o rted th a t
h is wife, adm itted to the Lan­c
a ste r General Hospital, two
weeks ago, had suffered from
hemorrhaging an d not from an
overdose of sleeping pills, as
reported in th e Record-Express.
Mrs. Hoffman was ta k e n to
th e hospital by h e r husband
an d n o t in th e community
am(bulance.
Women’s Club To
Hear Blind Woman
Five years of clerical work
in a Mennonite mission a t Addis
Abbaba, Ethiopia have passed
“ quickly” for a former Lititz
girl who is planning to come
home in September.
The girl, Mliss Alice S. Sny­der,
left here In July of 1953 for
work with the mission. This
week members of the Mennonite
Church in a le tte r learned she
will re tu rn home on furlough
in September.
A sister, Alma Snyder, resides
on F ro n t St.
The latter», mimeographdd
and distrib u ted to the church
congregation, te lls of a 600-mlle
bus tr ip to n o rth e rn Ethiopia
and of some of the hazards of
t r a v e l in th a t backward
country.
Delays enroute were forced
by reponts of “polticial dis­turbances”
in th e town of As­mara
but all seemed well when 1
Mliss Snyder arrived.
Another delay was caused
when th e bus broke down and
had to wait almost a day until
a p art coul<j be made to replace
the broken one.
,M;lss Snyder, a daughter of
th e la te r Mr. an d Mrs. Jacob
B. Snyder, described Addis
Abba a s a quiet spot. There
is an American army post there
but she said th e Ita lian influ­ence
is quite in evidence. Her
bus trip took h e r through
many historical spots of the
Old Wlorld including Nazareth.
Strangely, she said, some
p a rts of th e Old World rich in
the history of Christ, forbid
active evangelism movements.
In re fe rrin g to h e r five years
in Ethiopia Miss Snyder wrote
“ the time h a s passed so quick­ly.”
B
efore entering clerical work
with th e mission She was em­ployed
a t th e Hershey and
Glbbel office.
To Visit Here
Honored
Alice S. Snyder
Mrs. Nadine Clouid who will
be th e g u est sp e ak e r at the
meeting of th e Woman’s Club
on Monday, April 21 a t 8:00
p.m. a t th e General Sutter
Hotel, h a s overcome difficulties
which would have vanquished
a less ‘determined person.
M!rs. Cloud lived a normal
life fo r ‘the firs t nineteen years
o f h e r life, then, suddenly she
was stricken blind, an d a few
years la te r was left a widow
with a small son to support.
She had never worked before,
b u t now she realized th a t this
was going to be a necessity —
th a t she must ea rn the living
fo r herself an d h e r child. She
studied typing an d Braille and
Shorthand and th en acquired
a seeing eye dog, who h a s been
h e r companion and guide ever
since.
Currently she is a valued
emlplayee a t Lever Brothers
in New York, where She oper­a
tes a dictophone machine and
tu rn s o u t work of th e high
calibre and in th e same volume
a s her fo rtu n a te associates.
(Continued on Page 12)
JayCees To
Sponsor
Road-e-o
Lititz Jaycees will sponsor
th e 5th annual Teen-age Safe
Driving Road-E-0 here Sat­urday,
April 26, with complete
details to be announced next
week.
The contest is open to any
driver who will not reach his
2 Oth birthday before Ju n e 7
date of the National Finals in
Washington, D. C. when win­ners
of local and sta te contests
will vie fo r national honors,
Allen Cooper, local Road-E-O
chairman, announced.
Judges will be Chief of
Police Lloyd Hoffman, George
Male, school driving instructor,
and others. Entry blanks can
be obtained at the post office,
Recreation Center or a t War­wick
High School.
Tombstone Tete-a-Tete
Has Church In Turmoil
A tete-a-tete over a tomb­stone
has caused Moravian
Church officials some turmoil
recently.
This came to light la st Sun­day
when windshields of ve­hicles
parked in the vicinity
of the church were plastered
with a printed card criticising
the church.
The cards apparently were
ordered printed by H. E.
Sheaffer, Owl Hill, who has
been feuding with c h u r c h
fathe rs over the location of a
tombstone on a family plot on
the Moravian Cemetery.
Sheaffer’s wife was recent­ly
buried on the plot Which
was purchased by h e r family.
As fa r -as could be learned
Sheatffer was upset because he
felt the l a r g e plot-marking
stone infringed by a m a tte r of
inches on wihait is one remain-n
ig grave site.
Church officials maintained
the stone, placed many years
ago, le ft plenty of room for
another grave and said mov­ing
th e stone would not be
tolerated since Sheaffer did n ’t
own the burial plot which was
purchased by his wife’s family.
In addition, they to ld the
man, moving the stone would
throw the burial markers out
of line.
Sheaffer, however, had a
contractor move th e marker.
When church officials found
out, they had it moved back
to its original place.
Sheaffer threatened to have
it moved again but was warned
not too since the plot isn’t
deeded to him.
He apparently followed up
with the cards which were
t u c k e d beneath windshield
wipers of Sunday school and
church goers Sunday morning
attacking the church.
Used Golf Clubs Sought
For Ree Center Lessons
Ya got any old golf clubs
sticking in a closet somewhere
or up on th e attic th a t yon
don’t need? If so, kindly do­nate
them to the Rec Center.
Director Bill Bell said the
clubs a re needed because of
a fine tu rn o u t of persons for
golf instruction by Dr. Charles
Lapdis and Kenny Simmons.
Dec Landis teaches adult
classes Monday evenings and
Simmons handles a children’s
class Thursday. With th e in­flux
»of persons interested in
golf, old clubs can be utilized
in th e instruction periods.
Both men plan on taking
the ir sessions outdoors soon
and the clubs will be needed
if the instruction is to be car­ried
on properly.
Both instruc tors said this
week th a t any persons in te r­ested
in joining th e classes
may still do so. They need not
be beginners since lessons are
a l s o devoted to improving
one’s golf game.
Until weather permits mov­ing
outside, classes are held in
the Elementary School gym.
Sessions begin a t 7:30 p.m.
and persons willing to con­trib
u te th e ir old clubs to the
cause can eith er bring them
to an instruction period or
contact th e Rec. Center.
Lions To Banquet1
Mothers-Daughters
The 22nd annual Mother and
Daughter Banquet of th e War­wick
Twp. Lions Club will be
held in th e Lions Hall April 26
a t 6:30 p.m.
E nte rta inment an d souvenir
gifts will be given th e ladies.
Harold S'ha-ak is in charge of
the entertainment.
To Preserve
Bi-Centen’l
Data, Etc.
Bi-Centennial montion pict­ures,
historical books, slides
and other d a ta pertaining to
the 1956 celebration are to be
preserved for fu tu re genera­tions.
The decision was made a t a
meeting of th e Bi-Cenntenia.1
Foundation, Inc., on Tuesday
evening a t the Young Men’s
Business League.
Alfred Douple, president of
the Foundation, was asked to
s ta rt a movement to gather the
necessary material to make a
package-deal which would be
entrusted to a library or to
some local historical society.
It was reported th a t colored
motion pictures of the parade,
which were taken by Elmer
Rock of Clay and paid for by
the Foundation, had been re­paired
by th e Coe Camera Shop
and were now in the posession
of Carl Reedy.
Any colored slides taken by
people will be gathered and
reproduced and added to the
collection.
In addition it' was decided
to donate hard-bound copies of
historical book to th e Library
of Congress, State Historical
Societies, Landis Valley Muse­um,
the Lititz Public and War­wick
Union Libraries.
A motion was made to do­nate
25 copies of the Historical
Book to the Warwick Union
High School, upon the request
of Mr. Fuhrman. All other
books a re to be offered for
sale a t local book stores and
the General S utter Hotel.
Flagpole Painter
Wm. Scatchard, Jr.
ABC Club
Award To
Scatchard
William Scatchard Jr., local
architect, was presented the
firsit annual George B. Searles
Jr. Award of the Lititz Chapter,
American Business Clubs.
The award was instituted by
the club in honor of the late
George B. Searles Jr., who- was
a ch a rte r member of the local
chapter.
Established by th e board of
directors of th e club it is to he
given annually to the member
who because of sustained inter­est
-and outstanding service to
the club an d th e co-mim/unity
best upholds th e tradition
exemplified by Searles who was
made a member in memoriam.
The aw a rd was presented by
his widow, Dorothy Hess
Searles, a t the 4th anniversity
dinner of th e group held last
Saturday a t th e Dutch Town©
& Country Inn, Vintage.
Guests a t th e affair included
7th District Governor Joseph
Bowen, Pottstown; New Jersey
Governor W a lte r Callahan,
Trenton, Penna. Governor W.
J. Darlington of th e local club,
Borough Manager David J.
Bauer an d representatives from
clubs in Bethlehem, Allentown
and Lancaster.
William S. Miller III was
social committee chairman and
floral arrangements were pro­vided
by Schmid’s Greenhouse.
SPORTSMEN MEET MONDAY
The Lititz Sportsman As®c.
will meet Monday evening a t 8
o ’clock a t th e American Legion
Hlome. Movies on tro u t fish­ing
wil be featured.
Alvin E. Kochel, of 308 S.
Cedar St., is confined to his
home as result of a heart
attack suffered April 6.
THOMAS HANN ,
AT FT. HOOD, TEXAS
Thomas J. Hann, son of Mr.
and Mlrs. El wood Hiann, of Lin­den
Street, th is borough, is
now located a t Ft. Hood, Texas
with ithe U.S. Army undergoing
his basic training. He is a grad­uate
of Ltitiz High School and
of the Culinary In stitu te a t
New Haven, Connecticut. He
was recently employed a s a
chef a t th e General Sutter
Hotel. His wife, formerly
Phyllis Hackman, resided in
Ltitiz. She is also a graduate
of Lititz High School.
Local Women
Attend Meeting
Mrs. M. C. Demmy, Mrs. J.
Lloyd Shaeffer and Mrs. John
Newcomer attended the board
of direc tors meeting of the
United Auxiliaries' of th e Lan­caster
General Hospital held
recently a t the Hospital to
make final plans fo r th e an­nual
Bazaar to be held on
May 27 with Mlay 28 as the
rain date.
The Bazaar will be held- on
th e stree t and on the Mary
Sachs property on Duke Street,
Lanc aster; t'he card p a r t y
around th e swimming pool; the
candy booths in th e y a rd and
the concessions on th e street.
The Lititz Auxiliary will, as
in previous years sell Moravi­an
sugar cake.
The local organization is
making plans to hold a bene­fit
dinner a t th e cottage of
Mrs. John Steffy, Mount Gret­na
on Tuesday, June 17th.
This will be open to the public
and is for the benefit of the
linen fund.
—Record-Express Photos
Painting a flagpole isn’t th e
simplest job in th e world as
th is pic ture shows. Here a
workman paints th e flagpole
a t th e entrance to th e park.
P a r t of th e pole had been
painted before it was erected.
The re st wasn’t because a sling
had to be placed about th e
pole to place i t upright. Once
erected th e foreman, Bob Bow­ers,
jumped in to a sling and
was hoisted by th e crane to
finish th e p a in t job.
Need Teams
For Summer
Softball
One or two more teams are
needed for the Summer Soft-ball
League, Rec director Bill
Bell said th is week.
Teams interested should con­ta
ct the Rec Center.
Lined up to compete in the
league is Brunnerville, man­aged
by Russell Keith; Luther­an,
managed by Donald Buch;
Strobles, managed by Chet
Kepley and Kissel Hi'll, man­aged
by Ray Kreider.
Warwick House and Orioles
were entered last year but
won’t field te ams th is year
necessitating another entry or
two for the 1958 season.
Game nights are Monday,
Tuesday a n d Thursday. On
April 28 a work party is
planned to get the diamond In
shape. Volunteers should re ­port
with tools to spruce up
the field for the season.
Lititz R2 Man, 40
Jailed On Charges
Henry Welk, forty, Lititz
R2, was arrested Monday by
E p h ra ta S tate Police on char­ges
of sodomy an d incest in­volving
two juveniles.
He was arraigned before
Justice of th e Peace Leroy
Firestone, Rothsville, and com­mitted
to th e Lancaster County
prison.
Tack Two Days On
To School Year
Warwick’s 1957-58 school
tetrm; was lengthened by two
days a t a special meeting o f the
School Board la st week.
The te rm will end on Ju n e
12, th e two added , days making
up -the two days of school lost
because of th e heavy snow in
March.
The board also appointed
Jamie J. Kline-, 113 S. Spruce
St., to the position, o f superin­te
n d an t of b u i l d i n g s and
grounds. He fills a vacancy
le ft by th e death of Albert Bohr.
First Week’s Winners Announced
In New Shop-in-Lititz Contest
Competition really proved
stiff in the first week of the
Record-Express Sho-p-in-Lititz
i Contest, handing the judges a
real job in selecting ¡the winners
of th e $40 in merchandising
celrtificates.
With 15 persons sending in
'00-rnec-t answers to th e -ten
“tru e or false” statements, the
shop-in-Liititz slogans proved
th e means of breaking the tie
an d in deciding th e winners.
Officers of th e Lititz Chamber
of Commerce who did th e judg­ing,
announced th e firs t week’s
re su lt as follows:
1st P riz e o f $20: Won by
Curt Baer, Lititz, R4, fo r the
following slogan — " I enjoy
shopping in Lititz because it is
convenient, friendly; the selec­tio
n s an d prices a re good; my
dad can park and o u r family
feel a t home in every sto re .”
2nd P riz e of $10: Awarded
to Mrs. Charles Swei-tzer of 38
Center St., Lititz, fo r complet­ing
the sentence a s follows:
“th e quality of merchandise is
high, prices reasonable and all
stohe owners reliable .”
3rd Prize of $5 awarded to
Paul R. Cramer, Lititz,R3: “ I
enjoy shopping in Lititz because
I know th a t in every store best
quality ru le s and lowest prices
possible prevail.”
4 th Priz e: Mrs. John H.
Keath, Lititz R3: “ I enjoy
shopping in Lititz: because
everyone is so friendly and
personally inte rested in one’s
wishes. I t ’s like buying from
one big family.”
This Week’s Contest
This week an o th e r $40 in
Merchandise Certificates will
be awarded to winners in the
Sho.p-in-Lititz Contest. So tu rn
to Page 2 -and find th e true-or-false
sta tements hidden in the
advertisements — then fill out
th e little jingle and send it in
to th e Contest Editor.
I t’s fu n — an d might be
mighty profitable, too!
Evaluat’n
Studies
Underway
Warwick H i g h School’s
sprawling facilities were under­going
a -thorough study by an
independent e v a l u a t i n g
committee th is week.
The committee, headed by
Dr. William S. Sterner, associ­ate
professor of education a t
Rutgers University, Newark,
N. J., spent Tuesday, Wednes­day
and Thursday to u rin g the
building to determine whether
Warwick -shall be carried on a
list of accrediated secondary
schools.
He is being aided by 15 other
educators from various sections
of the Pennsylvania and New
Jersey area who will evaluate
not only th e physical p lan t of
the school, but its teaching
philosophy, its program of
studies, pupil activity, guidance
service, library and th e school
staff.
Thursday afternoon the com­mission
will make a brief verbal
rep o rt on th e ir findings and
then, about th ree months from
now, will submit a detailed,
written -report of th e en tire
proceeding.
Members of th e evaluating
committee were guests of the
school board a t th e annual ban­quet
for school employees in
the cafeteria Wednesday.
Aiding Dr. Sterner in evalua­ting
Warwick a re these educa­tors:
Heber R. Miu-tch, supervis­ing
principal, Susquehannock
High School; Carlton Chew,
Industrial Arts teacher, Nesha-miny
High School; Mrs. Ethel
H. Darkes, guidance and math
teacher, Lebanon High School;
Miss Mary C. Fox, music -teach­er,
Mechanlcsburg Area High
School; Eugene F. Hogenauer,
language teacher, Westtown
High School.
Miss Marie Meyer, home
economics teacher, Douglas
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Much Interest Is Aroused
In Local Historical Questions
In te re st in local history was
stirred up and local history
books were du sted off as a
re su lt of the “Shop in L ititz”
Contest which began in last
week’s Record-Express an d will
continue for the next several
months.
At le ast th a t is th e word
received from quite a f e w
readers who submitted entries
for the $40 in merchandise
certificates being given away
free each week.
The f irs t statement—Lititz
was founded in 1752—proved
a stumbling block to some des­pite
th a t we observed our
200’th anniversary in 1956.
Naturally, the “x” should be
placed in th e false square for
this one.
Another bit of local history
over which many were in doubt
is th a t the native Indian tribes
which were h e re before t h e
white man were th e Oanesta-goes
or Conestogas, who be­longed
to th e strong Susque-hannocks,
and not the Eries
as we intimated in our contest
statement.
These Indians lived in the
vicinity of th e head-end of
th e Lititz Springs P a rk , where
for many years, a large number
of arrow heads were discover­ed.
One question which did not
fool anyone was th a t Elm was
originally known as P.ennville.
Located a t a point where five
roads c o n v e r g e , its Molly
P la ste r’s tavern was famous
as a rendezvous for mountain­eers
and iron workers in the
old- days when forges a n d
furnaces were in full blast.
The only othe r false sta te ­ment
in last week’s contest
was in relation to th e Revolu­tionary
Soldiers monument on
E a st Main Street. Most of our
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Boys Chorus
Sings Before
Rotary Club
Popular h it tunes featured
a musical program presented
by the Junior High School Boys
Chorus and directed by Lee
Dunkle at a meeting of thè
Lititz Rotary Club Tuesday
evening.
Robert Peiffer introduced
the numbers. Philip Mummert,
trombone, and Christina Sig­mund,
flute, were the soloists
while Marcia Melskey a n d
Marjorie Klenin accompanied.
The songs included several
from popular Broadway shows
and the novelty arrangements
offered by th e group of more
than 30 boys made a big h it
with the local club.
Mr. and Mrs. Willy deP errot
also presented colored pictures
and an interesting talk on the ir
visit to the Swiss Alps last
Summer.
Local Robarians and th e ir
wives will attend the district
Rotary conference to be held
a t Hershey April 26 to 28.
480 Elementary
Students In
Spring Operetta
The Lititz Elementary School
will present th e first, second
and third -grade boys and girls
in the annual spring program
next Wednesday and Thursday,
April 23 and 24, a t 7:30 p.m.
The program will consist of
an operetta called “Pageant of
Flowers.” After th e operetta
is given, a 150 piece flutophone
group will be heard.
There will be approximately
480 children participating in
the program.
There will be a donation
of twenty-five cents.
We're Sorry!
Due to a last-minute flood
of advertising, a map of streets
which council proposes main­taining—-
and which illustrates
streets not to be maintained by
the borough—could not be
published this week. The map
will appear in next week’s
paper.
Five Teachers At
Steiner Lecture
Five local school faculty
members attended a lecture and
demonstration on methods and
curriculm of t'he Rudolf Steiner
Schools conducted by Edward
R. Stone Saturday a t th e Lan­ca
ste r F re e Public Library.
Attending were Richard Zer-by,
Carlos Ziegler, Lester Lehr,
Mrs. O. F. Blondell an d Super­vising
Ftrincipal G. Marlin
Spaid.