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Lititz Says Nuts To The Recession Busy!
The Lititz Record- Express
________ Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
82nd Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, a s T h e Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The £ it it z Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, May 8, 1958 5 cen ts a Copy; $a.50 per y ea r by mall,
w ith in n an o a ste r County; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 6
Brunnerville To Build $30,000 Community Hall
SPRUCE VILLA BARN BURNS Seek Funds To
Build Garage
For Ambulance
A fund raising campaign to j
build a heated garage to charges paid by persons who
house th e Warwick Community i aren ’t subscribers to the am-
Ambulance g e t s underway \ bulance" service.
. . —Record-Express Photo
Lititz and Brunnerville firemen a re shown in th is photo
panel fighting th e fire a t th e Spruce Villa Dairy F a rm S atu r­day.
Top picture shows flames ea ting thro u g h roof of th e
s tru c tu re while a t bottom firemen try to confine flames to th e
doomed structure . Damage was set a t $50,000,
As Usual After
Morning Barn Fire
Spruce Villa Dairy F arm's
two-story bank barn was burn­ed
down to the foundation
Saturday morning b u t S atu r­d
ay evening the usual evening
milking chores were carried
out there, thanks to an amaz­ing
job by firemen and other
volunteer records.
The barn, once presiously
destroyed by fire on Nor. 20,
1916, was practically a com­plete
loss a fte r fire roared
through it last Saturday mor­ning
a t a loss estimated a t
$50,000.
But Saturday night th e de­bris
had been cleared away
sufficiently enough to allow
evening milking of a dairy
herd of 45 Ayrshire cows.
The fire was discovered about
8 a.m. Saturday by Philip Mar­vel,
seven, a nephw of co­owner
Milton Brubaker, and a
foster son, Daniel Jenkins, ten,
Plug-in Set
For Firemen
Is Probed
“We w®re over a t Joe’s house
a t a party an d I had ju s t plug­ged
th e receiver in to th e wall
socket when th e buzzer sound­ed.”
Y
ou may be using those or
sim ila r words if you a re a mem­ber
of th e Lititz Fire Company,
and if th e investigations of
some of its members prove
feasible.
I t ’s a little box th a t you plug
rig h t in th e wall socket in your
home, when th e siren sounds,
th e speaker o r tra n sm itte r in
th e box gives oft a buzz, one
member explained.
I t does n o t affect rad io o r
TV and you could pick it up and
ta k e it along when you go visit­ing.
Every ac tive fireman could
have one of h is own.
I t was reported th e borough
of Wyomiasing uses them.
Other ide as on how to tra n s ­mit
th e fire signal followed
along th e lines o f sirens located
in different p a rts of th e town.
With th e growth of th e town,
th e sound o f th e siren is be­coming
h a rd to h e a r In th e out­lying
sections. Something must
be done in th e n e a r future , it
was sta ted by one of th e mem­bers.
who were playing in t h e
barn. They notified Brubaker
who summoned firemen from
Lititz and Brunnerville.
The 45 cattle were led from
the barn and Brubaker’s son,
James, carried out a newborn
calf. Neighbors responded and
with firemen carried out other
equipment. The portion of the
barn which stables cattle was
saved b u t some 300 chickens
were lost.
This week the cooperation of
firemen and neighbors w a
lauded by Brubaker and Jus
sister, Mrs. Neil Clark, v\ln>|
own the property.
In a le tte r to the Re<<ud-
Express they summed up the ir
g ra titu d e for the help turn
way;
“We a t the Spruce Villa
Dairy Farm want to th an k all
our neighbors and friends very
much for th e way they re ­sponded
to the recent fire. It
was heartwarming to know
what can be done with only one
thought in mind and th a t was
to salvage from ruins enough
to continue operating.
“ It w a s unbelievable to
those who were n o t here to
realize how a barn can burn
down in th e morning and be
readied to milk the cows in
the same b a rn in the evening.
It was amazing and could never
have been done without the
combined efforts and clear
thinking otf a well organized
group of men.
“We want to especially th an k
the firemen fo r the ir quick
and efficient response. We
want to th an k everyone for
the goodness and kindness in
a time of real need.”
The le tte r was signed by
Milton and Muriel Brubaker
and Nell and Mary Clark.
Saturday May 17, it was an­nounced
this week.
Members of the Lititz ABC
chapter will hold a chicken
barbecue at the Lititz Springs
P a rk from 4 p.m. until 8
p.m. th a t date with proceeds
going toward the construction
of the garage building.
Actually the building fund
has a $1,000 sta rt, with the
money being raised in a pre­vious
project plus s e r v i c e
Driving Ed
Course Has
15 Signed
Fifteen persons, all women,
have signed up for the Re­creation
Centers first summer
ad u lt driver education course
which will remain open to
applicants until June 1, it was
announced this week.
George R. Male, driver ed
in stru c to r a t Warwick High
School, who will teach the
class, said all registrants must
he signed up by June 1 since
it will ta k e about two weeks
to receive le a rn e r’s permits
from the state.
Lessons will begin June 18.
Two or three pupils will be
instructed a t once, with ap­plicants
taking tu rn s doing
actual driving.
Class periods will ru n about
an hour to 75 minutes and
each class ■ member will re ­ceive
two hours of instruc­tion
weekly. A total of 16
class sessions will be held.
Upon completion of t h e
course Male will take members
to th e Lancaster S tate Police
Barracks f o r the ir driver’s
examination.
Annual Report
The annual report of the
ambulance service showed in­come
la st year ending March
31, of $8,881.96 and expenses
of $6,619.95. The receipts in­cluded
$2,092.31 listed as the
cash balance.
Subscriptions were th e chief
source of income, amounting
to $3,296. Donations totaled
$861.70 and service charges,
$810.50 with a fund raising
project netting $1,240!
The biggest expense item was
$5,000 fo r the purchase of an
other ambulance, a 19 5 4 Cad-dilac.
Gasoline and oil main­tenance
cost $401.54.
It was reported 180 trips
were made covering 4,578
miles. Last y ea r’s ambulance
subscriptions t o t a l e d 1,337
compared to 1,283 fo r this
year.
The ambulance service was
established in 195 6 and began
operations with an ambulance
borrowed from Dr. Harry S.
Berberian, Lancaster. Qualifi­ed
drivers on 24-hour call vol­unteer
th e ir services and the ir
employers have granted them
time with pay for ambulance
duty.
A 1948 used Cadillac was
the firs t ambulance purchased
by the service and was in
operation until t h e present
19 54 Cadillac was bought in
September 19 57. This recent
purchase is fully equipped with
all necessary first-aid and ox­ygen
supplies. ^
The firs t ambulance w a s
housed, free of charge, in a
garage owned by Roy H.
Long, however when the old
Reading Railroad Passenger
Station became available fol­lowing
necessary renovations,
the ambulance w a s moved
there in order to provide more
needed space.
With the recent park renova-
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Once Rumored Gambling Den,
Park Cave Closed Since 1883
By Ralph E. Buch
Closed for almost a century,
a cave in th e wall at the
head-end of tlhe pool of th e
Lititz Springs, has been re ­opened.
A n a tu ra l phenomenon
of an opening of this n atu re is
always mysterious and intrigu­ing,
whether small, or as large
as Mammoth Cave, probably
because of its geological age.
The large vault underneath
the old Lititz brewery, over
100 feet in length, across from
the Lititz Park, a beautiful
masonry job costing thousands
of dollars, is almost forgotten
and probably will remain so,
as there is no longer beer
to store there for maturing,
which required a period of
six months.
Now th a t the cave a t the
Springs has been .restored, it
brings out many stories re ­miniscent
of the early days,
erroneous as a whole, because
of the cobwebs of time. The
most general information now
handed out follows something
like this: “As a boy,” they
say, “ I remember th e cave
and I explored it by crawling
back along a narrow passage­way.”
Another person re la t­ed
th a t the cave was used by
the whites and Indians as a
trading center. The Springs
was a camping place for the
Indians, without question, hut
it is doubtful if they ever saw
any of the oaves, a story of
the early history of the pool
and surrounding wall being
too lengthy to discuss in this
article.
I t must be admitted th a t
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Rotarians Hear Folk
Music Of The Dietsch
Members of Lititz Rotary
Club viewed a program on
Pennsylvania Dutch F o l k
Music given by Prof. J. Wil­liam
Frey, F ranklin and Mar­shall
College, Tuesday.
Prof. Frey, who directs the
Vivaldi Orchestra, Lancaster,
accompanied himself o n a
g u ita r d u rin g the renditions.
THEY STAND READY TO SERVE YOU
McGonigle Speaks
Here On Saturday
Republican candidate for the
nomination fo r Governor of
Pennsylvania, A rth u r T. Mc-
Gonigie, will visit L ititz Sat­urday
morning.
McGonigle, on a whirlwind
to u r of the county, will a r ­rive
here and is scheduled to
speak a t the square a t 10 a.m.
Local republicans will travel
to Manheim and bring Mc­Gonigle
h ere from th a t town
where he will make an earlier
speech.
-Record-Express Photo
Sealed for »lmost lO # ydars, the opening o f a cave In
th e lieadend has been complete j). The old cave is ju s t to
the le ft of th e main opening In th e headend wall. „Bottom
le ft is a closenp of th e opening and a t rig h t F ra n k Brown,
park caretaker, kneels inside th e cave, h and on cave roof.
Restoring th e opening is p a r t of th e p a rk renovation project
which is moving toward completion.
PTA Festival Set
Sat. Rain Or Shine
Lititz PTA’s annual festival 3:30 to 4 p.m. followed by a
will b e h e ld Saturday, May 10, concert by th e ju n io r high
and in case of ra in will be j school band from 4 to 6 p.m.
—Record-Express Photo
Members of th e Warwick Community am- Hess, Herb Kraybill, Melvin Eichelberger,
bulance drivers group are shown with th e Claude Swartzbaugh, Roger Martin, Vernon
ambulance. Kneeling in fro n t a re Dervin ?l ,a n rk ’ ° ma r Buc,ler> James Hess, Jo h n
ij,, . .......... Tr , „ „ Wagaman, Christ Koehler, Sid Long, Wayne
Hershey, Harold Horn and Schreiber Jo h n Beck and Robert Bomberger.
Jo h n Adams. Robert Longenecker is on th e Harold Kauffman and Dale Shelley were
stretcher. Standing are Dan Garner, Lester absent when the photo was taken.
Maude Zellers Wins First
Prize In Merchandise Quiz Another $40 worth of Shop-
In-Lititz merchandise certifi­cates
were handed out by The
Record-Express th is week with
Maude E. Zellers, of 118 South
Broad Street, th is borough,
winning the major award.
A certificate worth $20 in
m e rc h an d is e a t any of the
stores participating in the Re­cord
contest was mailed to
Mrs. Zellers yesterday.
Other winners th is week are
as follows:
Second Prize of $10— Anna
Mary Frank, of 57 E a st Main
Street, this borough.
Third Prize of $5— Charles
Shreiner, of Rothsville.
F o u rth Prize of $5—Ruth
Seibel, of Lititz, R.D.2.
Over 100 E n te r
Of more th a n 100 entry
blanks mailed to the Contest
Editor th is week, none were
100 per-cent correct. E ight of
the contestants had nine out
of ten statements correctly
identified in the tru e o r false
contest.
These eight were placed in
a h a t and the drawing was
conducted publicly by Paul F.
Diehin, president of the Lititz
Chamber of Commerce, which
has endorsed t h e Shop-In-
Lititz Contest.
Others who sent in nine out
of ten correct answers this
week included; Mrs. J o h n
Siegrist, 309 F ro n t Street;
Mrs. T. T. Dussinger, 33 W.
Marlon; T. H. Erline, 527 N.
Water; and Eugene Stauffer,
311 S. Cherry.
More th an 40 other contest­ants
had a total of eight out
of the ten statements correct,
speaking very highly for the
contestants inasmuch a s the
statements were considerably
more difficult than in any
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held in the gymnasium of the
Lititz Elementary School.I
The affair will be h e ld lra in
or shine beginning a t 2 p.m! un­til
8 p.m. Chicken cornsoup,
barbecues, baked goods and
soft drinks will be served.
Games and rid e s w ill be avail­able
for th e children an d th e
Elementary School Orchestra
will present a concert from
Schools To
Set Up Air
Raid Drills
An a ir ra id evacuation drill
system will be set up by schools
of th e Wlarwick Union District,
Supervising Principal G. Marlin
Spaid said th is week.
He sa id th e need for a drill
system was pointed out during
Tuesday’s Civil Defense alert
during which pupils had the
meaning of th e sirens explained
to th em by th e teachers.
Several days prior to th e drill
Tuesday th e school received
notification and some instruc­tions
b u t Spaid said th is week
he wants to get more detailed
information on how evacuation
drills should be carried out.
By next fall, he said, h e hopes
to have a system set up similar
to th e monthly fire d rills con-d
u c te d ja t th e schools, so th a t
pupils an d te achers will have a
definite evacuation p a tte rn to
follow.
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Proceeds will be used for PTA
projects during th e school term.
Tickets will be in charge of
Russell Murr, they will be
sold previously by children who
will receive a ten cent bonus
for every ticket sold, they will
also be available on t h e
grounds.
Other chairmen include, Mrs.
G. Marlin Spaid, pies and
cakes; Mrs. Paul Roos, barbe­cues;
Mrs. Roy Roger, baked
beans; Harold Horn, ice cream;
games, James Rice and Lester
Hess; lemonade, Mrs. John
Helter and Mrs. Curtis Long;
soft drinks, Richard Zerby;
Mrs. James Rice, hot dogs;
Mrs. John Good and Lester
Stark, chicken corn soup, which
will be made by Mrs, Isaac
Moyer; Garth Hacker, tables;
Mrs. James B. Hess, table se r­vice;
Mrs. Barton Kent, cof­fee.
CHICKEN BARBECUE
The Penryn Fire Co. will
hold a Chicken Barbecue Sat­urday,
May 10th a t the Fire
Hall from 4 to 8 p.m. Price
$1.50 tak e out chicken $1.00.
Mother’s Day
This Sunday
J u s t a friendly reminder
men. Sunday is Mother’s Day.
T hat means you’ve got only
a couple of shopping days to
get the little woman a Mother’s
Day gift and card.
To all the mothers in our
circulation area the Record-
Express extends its congratula­tions.
And to th e men who
forget th e ir wife on Mother’s
Day go our sincere condol­ences.
Will Also
Serve As
Fire Hall
Work was sta rted yesterday
on the construction of a new
firehouse at Brunnerville ex­pected
to cost in the neighbor­hood
of $30,000 and to be
completed by early fall.
The firehouse will incorpor­ate
a large dining room, k it­chen
and other facilities which
will make it a complete com­munity
building for all types
of activities in the Brunnerville
neighborhood.
Actual work on the n e w
community building began only
a few days ago a fte r Brunner-ville
firemen voted in favor of
the project. At th e ir meeting
last week, members went over
details of the building and the
financing and voted unani­mously
in its favor.
The new building will be
100 feet by 32 feet and will
be located on the lot adjacent
to the Brunnerville Hotel. The
building will face on th e Pine
Hill road and will have a
stone front.
The interior will consist of
a double engine room, a large
combination dining room and
a u d i t o r ium, a membership
meeting room and a spacious
kitchen,
A large cistern w i l l be
located under the engine room.
Parking facilities for approxi­mately
40 cars will he located
on the southeast side of the
firehouse grounds.
Wayne Grube, of Brunner-ville,
will serve as contractor
and much of the work will be
done by firemen themselves,
augmented by other local labor.
The fire company building
committee consists of Morris
Eckert, Harold Dull, Joseph
Hackman, Russell Keith, Clar­ence
Hoffer, Milton Landis
and Grube.
Richard Hoffer, vice presi­dent,
presided a t th e meeting
in the absence of the president,
Robert Ober.
Warwick Lions May
Let Rec Use Hall
Members of the Warwick
Twp. Lions Club are con­sidering
allowing th e ir club
meeting hall to be used for an
expansion of the recreation
program in Warwick Twp.
Lions club members dis­cussed
the possibility a t a
meeting and are expected to
give an answer to the recrea­tion
center board by th e time
it meets on Monday.
Club members talked over
t h e possibility of allowing
the ir building to be used for
expanding rec program activi­ties
in the Rothsville-Warwick
Twp. area following a talk by
rec director William Bell some
time ago.
Lack of a suitable place to
center recreation activities has
hampered th e ir expansion to
the Rothsville area.
It was said the Lions club
favored giving th e use of
their building with one or two
stipulations.
Should they approve it means
the rec center can secure sd-
Chicken corn soup will also ditional funds from the state
be sold by the quart. Donald for th e ir program and thus
Stauffer will serve as treasur- allocate those funds to the
e r for th e festival. Rothsville area.
Interest In Local History
Increases Due To Questions
Last week’s contest questions
were a b it h a rd e r th a n before
and as a resu lt only six of
approximately 100 answers had
nine out of ten correct—des­pite
th a t more th an twenty
turned up with eight correct
answers.
The principal s t u m b l i n g
block was Question No. 3 re ­garding
the re-opened cave in
th e park. Local historians
diffe r with many who believe
this cave was open about
forty years ago and th a t many
local men can remember play­ing
in it.
The cave in th e p a rk is
being confused with th a t of
the distillery, and actually
was not open fo r many years
prior to th a t. Ralph Buch,
former Record editor, went to
park since Revolutionary Days.
While the Fairyland of Candles
celebration is the oldest of its
kind in the nation, the first
was not held until 1843 when
a group of local youngsters
floated candle display down
the stream in the park.
The innovation proved so
popular th a t it was repeated
year a fte r year, increased in
size a n d beauty constantly
until it became the dazzling
spectacle which draws thous­ands
from all p a rts of the
east Ju ly 4th.
In addition to entries being
mailed into the contest, the
Contest Editor th is week again
received several le tte rs and
calls commenting upon th e In­creased
interest in local history
which has developed as a re ­su
lt of the Records Shop-In­considerable
trouble in check- ! Lititz Contest
ing his sources and had written | You will find th e complete
article ?n list of la st week’s questions
subject which appears in th is and answers printed on an-lssue’
other page in this issue.
A n o t h e r misconception Is And why not join in the fun
th a t the candlelight celebra- —tu rn to the Contest P ag e'an d
tions| have, been held In the fill out the entry blank now!
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