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wlvhln Lancaster County; $3.00 elsewhere. No. 22
Councilman J. R. Helter Asks To Be Replaced
Ban On Cites Press of New
Hazing At
W. H. S.
Wild Outburst Ends With
Threat of Wholesale
Suspensions
Following a wild outburst
here on the first day of school,
Warwick Union School officials
yesterday slapped a stringent
ban on any and all hazing
among students.
Addressing the student body
of Warwick High School over
the loud speaker system, Prin­cipal
N. J. Fuhrman announced
that anyone participating in
any violence of this kind in the
future will be immediately
suspended from classes.
The Tuesday half-session of
school had scarcely ended
when upper classmen began
chasing members of the Fresh­man
class about the borough.
Carrying the protesting Fresh­man
to the park and dumping
them into the creek soon de­veloped
into the favorite brand
of hazing.
Clothes were torn, «hoes
damaged and students bruised,
school officials disclosed Girl
students, on the other hand,
kept hazing within a bit milder
boundary, merely lining Fresh­men
girls up in front of the
fountain pool in the square
and then threatining them with
a ducking if they failed to
sing lustily enough.
Freshmen girls proved they
were good singers, however,
and all were spared the threat­ened
ducking.
Fearing that some of t h e
hoys would be injured in being
tossed into the stream, a n d
n o t i n g numerous telephone'
complaints from p a r e n t s ,
school officials early Wednes­day
morning decided to put in­to
effect a ban established by
members of the school board
several years ago.
Enrollment Increases
The Warwick Union student
body numbers exactly 2,514
high school a n d elementary
school students, an increase of
106 over last year, Supervising
Principal Marlin S p a i d an­nounced
late yesterday.
The high school enrollment
is 957. The three elementary
schools total 1,557 in addition
to 17 students in the special
education class. Elementary
enrollments are: Lititz, 1,114;
Rothsville, 212, and Brunner-ville,
231.
The high school enrollment
by classes is: 7th, 202; 8th,
205; 9th, 175; 10th, 139; liée,
144; and 12th, 92.
Park Plan Display
At Spacht's Store
A large, color picture of the
proposed park improvements is
on display at Spacht’s Furniture
Store window.
The display shows the pre­sent
park, proposed new fea­tures
to be added to the park
and has caused a lot of interest
among passersby.
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If you do believe in signs, this fellow is car pictured above weighs all but a few
risking his neck, just as about 99 per-cent pounds of that weight. Add the driver’s 185
of those do who use the borough bridge on pounds and the amount is well above the
Oak Strefet over the Lititz Creek. The sign safety mark,
limits all loads to two tons despite that the
Bargain Rates For
Kiddie Rides Again
Bargain rates for rides for
kiddies at the Lititz Communi­ty
Show will be in effect Thurs­day
night and Saturday after­noon,
Carl Foltz of the show
committee annóunced t hi s
All kiddies rides will be
ten cents from 6 p.m. Thurs­day
until the show’s closing
time. On Saturday the kiddies
rides will be the same ten cent
rate’from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m.
On other hours the regular
rates for rides will be charg­ed.
Last n i g h t Breininger’s
Novelty Band entertained at
7:30 p.m. Thursday the band
stand will be occupied by
the Warwick High School
Band and on Friday the Lit­itz
Community Band takes
over with the German Band
following on Saturday night.
Also announced was th e
lineup of entertainment by
musical groups for the nights
of the show.
Musical entertainment begns
at 7:30 p.m. each day and is in
addition to other contests in­cluding
exhibit judging, Baby
Beef and tractor driving ¿com­petition
and the annual high­light
of the show the Baby
Parade on Saturday at 2 p.m.
The Baby Beef and Tractor
Driving Contest will be held
on the parking lot of the VFW
across f r om the Recreation
Center.
Farm Show activities will be
broadcast e a c h evening by
WLAN, Lancaster, an d by
WGSA, Ephrata, Saturday.
Farm Show
Program
Here is the schedule of events
for the annual Lititz Com­munity
Show which begins
Tuesday, September 2 an d
THURSDAY
9 a.m.— Judging exhibits in
school gym.
9 a.m. - noon—E n t e r 1 n g
Baby Beef exhibits at VFW
parking lot.
6 p.m.—Exhibits open to
public.
7:30 p.m.—Baby Beef Con­test
and music by the War­wick
High School Band.
FRIDAY
2-10 p.m.-—Exhibits open
to public.
7:30 p.m. Tractor Driving
Contest and music by the Lititz
Community Band.
SATURDAY
Noon—Exhibits open to
public.
2 p.m.—Baby arade.
3 p.m.—Removal of Baby
Beef Exhibits.
7:30 p.m.— Music by the
German Band.
AUXILIARY BANQUET
NEXT THURSDAY
The Lititz Fire Company
Auxiliary will hold a banquet
next Thursday evening at the
Warwick House at 6:30 P.M.
All those interested in attend­ing
should contact Mrs. Fred
Shank or Mrs. Elton Reed no
later than this Friday.
Amos H. Geib Wins $ 20 Certificate
In Record’s Shop - In - Lititz Contest
Amos H. Geib, of Lititz R.D.
2, is this week’s winner of the
first prize $20 certificate in
th e Record’s Shop-ln-Lititz
Contest.
One of five readers who
submitted perfect entries in th^
contest last week, Mr. Geib’s
slip emerged first in the tie­breaking
drawing resulting.
Other lucky winners of mer­chandise
certificates are:
Second Prize of $10—James
B. Long, Lititz, R.D.l.
Third Prize of $5 — Mrs.
Henry Siebert, of 29 We s t
Lincoln Avenue.
Fourth Prize of $5 — Miss
Virginia A. Kline, of Lititz,
R.D.l.
A perfect answer also was
submitted by Stella A. Kline,
of Lititz, R.D.l, but her entry
was not included in the first
drawn from the hat.
A total of ten readers sub­mitted
answers with only one
mistake in th e true-or-false
classifications. They are: Carol
Beck, 231 Noble Street; Ella
Mae Clausen, 33 East Second
Street; Elaine Wenger, 208
East Front Street; Anna Mary
Franck, 101 South Broad St.;
Charles G. Shreiner, Roths-ville;
Harry Greiner, Lititz,
R.D.l; Mrs. T. H. Erline, 527
North Water Street; Jimmy
Long, L i t i t z R.D. 1; Mrs.
Charles Sweitzer, 38 Center
Street; and Mrs. Leota Miller,
12 South Broad Street.
The certificates will be in
the mail today and winners
can cash them with any of the
businessmen whose advertise­ments
appear on the contest
page. This week’s inpouring of
answers was one of the heaviest
since the contest was launched
by T h e Record-Express 19
weeks ago.
The Contest Page appearing
in this issue is the final one in
the current series—so turn to
the Contest Page now and see
if you can find the ten state­ments
hidden among the ads
and place them in their cor­rect
true-or-false category.
Then mail your blank to
the Contest Editor — that is
all you have to do, and who
knows, you may be one of the
prize winners next week.
Historic Facts Feature
Record’s Contest Page
Some interesting h i s t o r i c
facts were featured in th e
statements printed last week
in the Record’s Shop-ln-Lititz
Contest.
For example, the log church
built in 1744 on George Klein’s
land, was known as St. James
Church. In Zook’s Historic Lit­itz
we read:
“In the year 1744 a lo g
church was built on Klein’s
land at the instance of a num­ber
of Lutheran, Reformed and
Mennonite attendants on the
preaching of Rev. Lawrence
Nyberg, a Swedish Lutheran
minister, who was stationed at
Lancaster a n d occasionally
preached in this vicinity. He
entered, heartily into Zinzen-dorf’s
plans for a union of all
churches, though he had been
sent to this country to oppose
them. This church stood near
the road to Lancaster, on the
ground occupied by the old
graveyard. It was known as
St. James Church, having been
dedicated by Nyberg on th e
festival of St. James, July 25,
1744.”
Lititz was incorporated April
24, 1888 and Johnson Miller
was the 1st burgess. May 28 th
of the same year the most des­tructive
hail s t o rm of the
century passed over Lititz, all
northern window panes were
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Girl Charged
After Crash
A charge of failing to yield
the right of way was preferred
against Linda Williams, Owl
Hlill, Warwick High School
senior, following a two-car
collision at Second Avenue and
Linden Streets Friday evening
shortly after seven o’clock.
According to Officer Howard
Dissinger, who filed the com­plaint
before Justice of the
Peace J. B. Herr, Miss Wiliams
was driving east on Second
Avenue when she figured in a
collision with a car being opera­ted
on Linden Street by Marie
S. Sheneberger, of Lititz R. D.
4.
Mrs. Grace Janick, of Second
Avenue, a passenger in the
Williams car, sustained a deep
cut behind the left ear and
bruises of the arm. Following
treatment here, she was taken
to the General Hospital Sat­urday
for x-rays of the arm.
Both drivers also were treated
for shock by Dr. Arthur S.
Griswold.
Damage to the two cars to­taled
more than $800. The
Williams car hit head-on into
the side of the Sheneberger
car, Officer Dissinger reported.
Officer Dissinger also stress­ed
the need for more stop signs
on Second Avenue, scene of
three bad crashes in the past
three weeks.
Park Drive
Will End
This Week
$31,716 Donated To-
Date; Industries And
Organizations Lag
The Springs Park Drive for
funds this week reached a total
of $31,716.25, according to a
report made public yesterday
by Wilbur Miller, campaign
chairman.
The drive definitely will end
this week in order that proper
credits can be given in the
booklet to be issued at the park
dedication Sunday, September
14, Mr. Miller explained.
He also reported that the
organizations and industrial di­visions
are lagging and urged
workers in these two divisons
to complete their reports this
week.
The door-to-door canvas, now
completed, brought forth do­nations.
totaling $4,410. Gifts
from former residents now liv­ing
in all parts of the country
total $712.
Park officials hoped that
complete reports this week-end
would bring the drive total
much closer to the goal of $45,
000 needed to complete present
park plans. Of the total con­tributed,-
$18,500 constitutes
the gift of land purchased by
the borough.
To Vacate Post
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John R. Helter
Woman’s Club
To Hold Dessert
Card Party
The Lititz Woman’s Club will
hold a Dessert Card Party at
Dr. Yoder’s Cottage on Thurs­day,
-September 11th, at one
o’clock.
. -Mrs. William Spacht, chair­man
of the Ways and Means
committee is in charge of ar­rangements.
There will be bridge, canasta,
pinochle, and five hundred; as
well as entertainment for those
who wish to enjoy the atmos­phere
but do not play cards.
The donation of one dollar
includes dessert, coffee or tea,
plus table prizes. For reserva­tions
call Mrs. John H. Steffy,
dial MA 6-2408. This is the
second project which the Club
has arranged to make money
for its extensive community
welfare program.
Classes For
Toddlers At
Ree Center
The Recreation Center’s pre­school
program inaugurated
with much success last year,
will be continued again this
year director William Bell an­nounced
this week.
Pre-schoolers from ages 3%
to 5 years are eligible to enroll
for sessions which will begin
Sept. 16 and 17. Last year
some 30 pre-school agers were
enrolled in the Rec. Center pro­gram.
Children attended the ses­sions
twice weekly and the
same schedule will be observed
this year.
Mjothers who wish to enroll
their children should contaot
Mrs. Bell at MA 6-7383. The
pre-school classes are for any
children in the Warwick Union
School District.
Classes will be held from 9
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday
and Thursday and Wednesday
and Friday. Children will be
assigned to one class session or
another.
GENERAL AUXILIARY
PLANS OUTING
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Lancaster General Hospital will
hold the first' meeting of the
season at the cottage of Mrs.
Barton Sharp, n e a r Spring
Lake, on Tuesday afternoon at
2:00 p.m. This will he a bus­iness
meeting and Mrs. M. C.
Demmy, the president, will be
in- charge.
Duties as Reason
Firemen And
Boro Council
Meet Tonight
Members of the Lititz Fire
Dept, will meet with borough
council members tonight to de­cide
what should be done about
the local fire house.
Firemen will be asked to give
council an idea of their plans
for the future so that the boro
can decide whether or not to
spend $27,500 for repairs to the
existing fire house.
The fire company has long
felt the need of adding a ladder
truck to their equipment and if
this is done it might mean the
company would have to have a
larger building.
Council wants to know what
the plans of the company are
so they don’t spend the $27,500
for repairs to strengthen the
existing building and then find
the fire company may be vacat­ing
it.
The meeting with firemen
was decided upon so both
groups could arrive at the most
feasible plan.
Trinity Roll
Call Sunday
Roll-call Sunday will be ob­served
in the various services
in the Trinity Evangelical Con-gergational
Church on Sunday,
Sept. 7th.
An effort Is being made to
procure a one hundred per cent
attendance in the Sunday
School and Church service.
The senior' Choir which “haft
been on vacation, will be back
and the evening services at
7:00 p.m. will be resumed.
Borough Council has been
advised to seek a replacement
for second ward councilman
John R. Helter, 53 Front St.
Hielter has privately advised
council to find a man to fill
his seat in borough government
because of the press of busi­ness.
Formerly advertising di­rector
of the Record-Express.
Helter has accepted a sales­man
position with Eby Shoe
Co., Ehrata.
Because his duties will keep
him away from the borough
for an extended length of time
Helter, who was elected to
council January a year ago,
has asked to be replaced. He
expressed regret at being no
longer able to continue and
urged council to find a replace­ment
as soon as possible.
His request immediately set
off a guessing game in borough
circles. Several names have
been mentioned to fill the post
but would be contingent upon
acceptance of the men involved.
Helter’s term will be filled by
appointment until it expires.
Then the second ward would
elect a councilman to fill the
spot. Prominently mentioned
as successors to Helter have
been veteran store proprietor
Barton L. Sharp. Also mention­ed
were Henry J. Suavely,
well-known local auctioneer,
Edwin W. Bear, longtime post
office worker, Roy Clair, Earle
V. Dissinger and Curtis E.
Long.
Council said they would first
sound out any prospects and
when one is secured will name
him to succeed Helter.
Helter has long been active
In borough civic affairs and in
sportmans circles. He has ser­ved
on the Recreation Center
Board,
Park Officials Spike
Malicious Reports
CROSSING GUARD
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Swedish Youth
Will Depart
On Tuesday
Goran Frolech, son of a Swe­dish
count and countess who
has been spending the summer
here as the guest of local Rot-tarians,
will sail home from
New York Tuesday—filled with
fond memories of just how
Americans live, and anxious to
return to these shores some
day!
Attending Tuesday evening’s
Rotary meeting, the youth at­tempted
to tell members of the
local club how much he appre­ciates
the way he has been
entertained—but after a mo­ment
of silence declared: “The
words I cannqt find, to tell all
of you how much I have enjoyed
myself this summer—it has
been wonderful.”
Later he admitted that, since
spending the summer in Lititz,
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False reports of charges
made for the use of the Springs
Park—apparently being bandi­ed
about to harm the current
drive for funds—were emphat­ically
denounced by park offi­cials
this- week.
One rumor reaching the park
officials was that a class of 30
1 persons was charged $30 to use
the park and that a group of
Scouts was charged $25. Both
of these reports are absolutely
untrue, park officials asserted.
There is no charge made at
all for family groups, classes
Scouts, Cubs or other organi­sations—
but all are given the
opportunity to donate, Frank
| Brown, park director, declared.
The suggested donation is ten
cents per person.
In case an organization de­sires
to reserve either of the
pavilions, the band stand or to
use amplification equipment,
charges of from $5 to $20 per
day is made. For example, the
Moravian Sunday School re­served
the pavilion, bandshell
and amplifiers for a total of
$55. The Reading Sunday
School, whose picnic was at­tended
by more than 800 per­sons,
paid a total charge of $65.
All of these picnics require
park attendants to arrange ta­bles,
etc., and the money paid
Is used for park upkeep.
Charges made here for large or­ganizations
are much less than
other parks of the county.
And absolutely no charge is
made for picnics or outings not
reserving the pavilions or band-shell,
Brown declared.
art Move To Form
Conservation Group
Old Zion Church
Anniversary
September 14
Dr. Truman Crist, of Harris­burg,
president of the Lancaster
Synod of the United Church of
Christ, will be the speaker at
the anniversary service at the
old Zion Church, Brickerville,
on Sunday, September 14th at
2:30 p.m.
There will be special music
and the Rev. Joel Hartman,
pastor of the Lititz Church,
will be in charge of the services.
Guy Snyder is chairman of
the Synodical committee in
charge of the restoration and
maintenance of old Zion as an
historical landmark.
Lititz’ first women crossing guards took up duty this week,
guarding dangerous borough intersections while children were
going to school and enroute home. Here Mrs. Eldon Rahn,
Front, Street, helps some children across the Main and Cedar
Street intersection. Mrs. Rahn’s job was complicated by the
sudden influx of Cedar Street traffic due to re-routing Broad
Street traffic for the Community Show.
Three Women Crossing
Guards Are Appointed
Three borough women have
been named to the Women’s
Crossing Guards, borough man­ager
David J. Bauer announced
this week.
A fourth woman, to serve
as a substitute, will be named
at a later date. The three wo­men
will aid school children in
crossing three dangerous boro
intersections.
Named' to the guard unit
were:
Mrs. Geraldine Rineer, 12
Market St.. Carol Beamesder-fer,
129 E. Mhin St., and Mrs.
Eldon Rahn, 511 Front St.
The three women began their
duties Tuesday with the open­ing
of school.
Normally they will guard
crossings trom 7:45 a.m; un­til
9 a.m. and from 2:45 p.m.
until 4 p.m. The unit was form­ed
so that children enroute to
and coming home from school
would not have to cross the
busily traveled intersections
without adult supervision.
A move to organize crossing
guards began last year after a
Rothsville kindergarten child
was killed attempting to cross
the road near her home.
Rothsville has a 21-member
crossing guard volunteer unit
whose members alternate as­signments
for children at
Rothsville Elementary School.
Steps to form an association
for soil conservation practices
in the Lititz area are being
taken with an open meeting
planned- in early November.
Inaugurated by the loss of
top soil which was washed
down onto the western end of
the park during heavy rains
this summer, the move has
, support of borough council
and the park trustees.
Two of the members of a
group which it is' hoped will
bring about cooperative soil
conservation practices in the
area just west of the park will
be Council John R .Helter and
Willis H. Bucher, Lititz R2, a
park trustee. Helter however,
has asked to be relieved of his
eounoilmanic duties aud it is
likely council will name another
person to the conservation post.
J. M. Leed, chairman of the
park trustees, said this week
he has appointed Bucher to at­tend
the meeting. The park is
interested in soil conservation
practices to prevent flooding of
its western end. The newly re­novated
areas of the park were
not flooded because of improved
drainage systems and grading
elevations.
A member of the ' United
(States Soil Conservation Ser­vice
will be obtained to ex­plain
to the group the advan­tageous
results of a soil con­servation
plan.
The situation west of the
park is such that, if put into
effect, soil conservation would
save farmers the loss of valu­able
top-soil during heavy rains
and subsequent water runoff;
the school district could alle­viate
a drainage problem on the
field adjacent to the new high
school which will sometime in
the future serve as an athletic
field; the park would not be
flooded by uncontrolled runoff
of water and the danger of
flooding further downstream
at the borough sewage plant
would be lessened because the
runoff of Water could be con­trolled.
Members of the Conestoga
Valley Assn., a countywide soil
conservation organization, will
be invited to attend as will be
area farmers, and a representa­tive
of the school district.
Zug Family
Holds Reunion
The Zug family organized
at its first annual reunion held
Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mlrs. J. Clair Zug and family,
Lititz R. D. 4, with a total of
106 persons attending.
Those attending were from
this section, Lancaster, West
Che s t e r , Newtown Square,
Cochranville, Downingtown,
Avondale, Rohrerstown, Blos­som
Hill, Pine Hill, N.J., Man-heim
and Ephrata.
The second annual reunion
will be held in West Chester
next year according to tenta­tive
plans made.