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within Xiancaster County; $3:50 elsewhere. No. 30
Predict Heavy Vote On Swim Pool Bond Issue
See Usual
Republican
Majority
Boro Seeks
To Boost
New Homes
Council Discusses Policy
On Opening Of New
Streets
Has the borough's two-year-old
policy of paying no p art
of the cost of opening new
stree ts served to stifle the
building of new homes here?
This was the question which
lead the borough fathers into
a lengthy but inconclusive dis­cussion
which marked the
monthly meeting of council
Tuesday evening.
“ I notice we issued no build­ing
permits for new homes
during the past month,” Coun­cilman
Roy S. Reidenbaugh
declaired in introducing the
topic. ‘‘This worries me and I
wonder if there is any tru th to
the claim it is difficult to build
h e re ? ”
Admitting the question to
be a good one, President of
Council Russell Templeton ad­mitted
th a t “ it is possible the
policy could be changed.”
“This policy was adopted by
council several years ago be­cause
we wanted to balance the
budget without raising the tax­es,”
Mr. Templeton explained.
"“The borough had been spend­ing
approximately $25,000 a
year for new stree ts.”
Borough Manager Dave Bau­e
r pointed out th a t the number
of lots remaining on streets a l­ready
built is becoming smaller
each year. He also pointed
out th a t although no permits
were issued during October,
six new homes, for which per­mits
were issued previously,
now are in the process of con­struction
in the borough.
He also predicted th a t new
homes soon will be going up
along Gochenauer avenue;
which has stood partially com­pleted
for several years. Mat­te
rs delaying connecting-up of
the sewer main already laid on
the stree t are expected to be
se ttled by November 1. Until
then, however, the stre e t can­not
be completed.
Bauer also pointed out th a t
■ one development — a t Kissel
Hill — is being planned with
22-foot streets and 80-foot lots,
which he said is sub-normal ac­cording
to borugh standards.
He urged th a t council add its
weight and efforts to th e work
of the county planning com­mission
to obtain "reasonable
sub-division and building code
regulations” for areas outside
th e boroughs of the county.
Council also expressed its
displeasure over reports th a t
the county re-assessment pro­gram
is behind schedule and
may not become effective until
1962 instead of in 1960.
À COUPLE OF PRIZE W IN NER S
Store Signs
Debated
By Council
Store signs—which became a
touchy subject with local mer­chants
several months ago—
again came up for official action
by borough council th is week.
And unable to reach any de­cision
on ju s t how la rg e the
signs hanging in front of the
stores should be, council de­cided
to reta in the present
building codp regulation—but
agreed to study each sign ap­plication
on its i ndividual
merits.
The present regulation which
confines to within a few inches
of the building line makes
more than a dozen signs pres­ently
hanging illegal, Borough
Manager Dave Bauer pointed
out in presenting council with
measurements on all signs now
hanging.
“The p r e s e n t regul:|tion
seems ridiculous,” Councilman
H arry Ruley pointed out—and
was reminded th a t he had
voted for the code. It then was
suggested th a t th e limit be
changed to four feet b u t this
too was regarded unfavorably.
In the end, members of coun­cil
agreed th a t applicants can
appeal th e building code reg­ulation
and council th en can
use its judgement in settling
each application.
A lease of the borough lot
a t Spruce Street and Second
Avenue to the L ititz Lions
Club, which operates th e tra c t
as a playground, was renewed
for another five-year period a t
a charge of one dollar p e r year.
Three new borough appoint­ments
include Leroy Miley,
Cedar Street, as an employee
of th e sewer depa rtment to suc­ceed
John Grubb, who resigned
to accept a position with the
boron ah of Wnnrthnrv N J •
Fawn Show
Reported
Disbanding
Reports th a t the Lititz Com­munity
Show Association plans
to disband and discontinue
presenting its annual Farm
Show, were being circulated
here this week.
Members of the association
pointed out however th a t rhe
group has not met since the
farm show and th a t no action
of this sort could be taken oth­erwise.
Several members of
the group indicated the re was
some agitation to quit due to
the fact th a t th e show ended
with a financial loss this year.
With some bills yet to be
paid, the group estimates its
losses for the last show a t
somewhere between $700 and
$800. Several farm show work­ers
also expressed the feeling
they had been unduly criticized
because of alleged gambling
among some of the concession­ers.
A
resolution urging borough
council not to allow this type
of concession upon local streets
in the future, was passed last
week by the local Church of
the Brethren.
Members of council reported
they had not received a copy
of the resolution a t th e ir meet­ing
Tuesday night but th a t the
rumor of the disbanding of the
show association had been dis­cussed.
TONS OF ALGAE!
" <.v. a ♦'•***. t r y
Photographing all of the outstanding Hal­lowe’en
paintings in the business section was
an impossibility — they’re a ll outstanding!
And so th e Record-Express photographer
—Record-Express Photos
settled for th e two above. The pumpkin
design is th e work of Helen Good while the
“ a r tis t” a t work in th e lower photo is Carol
Cox. Both a re eighth graders.
Mum’ers Parade
Will Be Held
Here Tonight
Crowning of the Queen will
fea ture th e annual Hallowe’en
parade and block party to be
held here th is evening under
auspices of the Lititz Lions
Club.,
The queen will be selected
from one of the three student
nominee, Rufina Grube, Nina
Stroble and Joan KJlopp, with
the other two becoming mem­bers
of the queen’s court.
The parade will form a t 6:45
p.m. a t Spruce and Orange Sts.
and is scheduled to move
promptly at 7:15 p.m. The par­ade
route is north on Broad to
the Square, east on Main to
th e Church, Square and back to
the first block of East Main
Street.
Music for th e marchers will
be provided by the Lititz Com­munity
Band, making one of its
rare appearances in recent
years; and the Warwick High
School Junior Band.
Prizes will be offered in
several categories for indivi­duals,
couples, groups and
floats. The firs t block of East
Main Street will be blocked off
and turned over to th e mum­mers
following th e parade.
Among othe r attractio n s Lions
will conduct a refreshment
stand.
The judges stand will be
erected' in th e center of the
block and will be presided over
by Claude Swartzbaugh and J.
Richard Zerby. Jack Marks and
Donald Steffy a re co-chairman,
for the parade and party. Ray
Pettyjohn, Sr., is in charge of
the food stand.
In case of rain th e parade
will be held on Monday evening.
Halloween Paintings
Give Boro Ghost Look
Downtown Lititz took on the
appearance of a ghost town this
week, but it was all in the spirit
of the season.
Spooks of all sorts came
springing out from downtown
store windows a s young a rtists
cooperating with merchants and
the Recreation Centers Hallo­ween
Window Painting Contest
applied the ir brushes to some
46 stores.
Over 140 children entered
the contest and of th a t number
89 were selected to participate
in the contest. Windows were
assigned to various groups as
follows:
The 6th grade of Rothsville
an d Brunnerville schools had
windows on Broad Street from
Sharps Photo Shop to Frey’s
store. Fifth grades of Roths­ville
and Brunnerville had those
from Frey’s to Glassmyer’s Cut
Rate.
Fifth grades of Lititz schools
had windows on E. Main Street
from Lititz Office Equipment to
the Hess Men’s Store on Broad
St. Sixth grades had windows
from Wild’s store to Hess Men’s
Store. Seventh grade from
Reedy’s Store to Kreider Hard­ware
and the eighth grades
from Keller Gift to Kreider
Hardware.
PRIZE WINNERS
Eighth Grade: 1 Helen Good,
Fickinger’s jewelry store win­dow;
2. Donna Rosenberg,
Spahct’s. 3. Martha Bredthan-er
and B a r b a r a Grube,
Spacht’s.
Seventh Grade: 1. Shelia
Brubaker, Rannel’s. 2. Bar­bara
Seaver, Marjene. 3. Mar­sha
Heiter, Hershey’s Shoe
Store.
Sixth: 1. Carole Good and
Sandy Ditzler a t Beck’s. 2.
James Wiegand a t Beck’s. 3.
Richard Bender a t Gea rha rt’s.
F ifth : 1. Jane Weaver and
Donna H a rtran ft a t Doster’s.
2. Linda Garner a t Acme. 3.
Bonnie Stump, Gindy Buch and
(Continued on Page 12)
Nine Brownie Troops Hold
Unusual Halloween Parties
Reedy Donates
TV Set to School
Herman Reedy, local dis­trib
u to r for Philco TV, has
donated a used télévision set
to the John Beck School,
Brunnerville.
His contribution makes it
possible for fifth and sixth
grade classrooms to each have
th e ir own television set for the
televised school science pro­gram
which is beamed Mon-
H a v e o f Q * 3 0 o m
The nine Brownie Troops of
the Rolling Hills Neighborhood
a re celebrating Hallow’en by
holding Parties.
Perhaps the most unusual
one was held by Troop # 9 8 a t
the home of th e leader, Mrs.
Alvin Mease at- Brunnerville.
The girls took th e ir fa th e rs as
guests all In masquerade.
Games and refreshments were
in charge of M!rs. Donald Wea­ver,
Mrs. Kervin Wetzel, Mrs.
Mervin Keith, Mrs, Edward de-
Veaux and Mrs. Eugene Roth.
The affair was planned by
Mrs. Mease and Mrs. Morgan
Hollinger, assistant leader.
Troops 69 an d 203, Mirs. Wal­lace
Hlofferty and Mrs. Robert
Workman, leaders, will have
parties th is week a t th e home
of Mrs. Howard Redcay.
Troops 198, 191, an d 200,
Mirs. Richard Gaus, Mrs. Vernon
Ranck an d Mrs. Richard Yotter,
leaders respectively, will hold
th e ir parties HP~4 th is week in the v»4 + vt T7*Wrr,»»rroi;«nI O cn v. rv
tional Church.
Troop 163, of Rothsville,
Mrs. Harry Adams, leader will
hold theiir party in th e Lions
Club building a t Rothsville th is
week.
Jere Eshelman
Seriously Hurt
Injured in a fall a t the
borough elementary school,
Jere, eight-year-old son of Dr.
and Mrs. Charles W. Eshelman,
Broad Street, was found to
have sustained a brain con­cussion
a t the Jefferson Hospi­ta
l in Philadelphia where he
was removed late yesterday.
The in ju ry was sustained
Wednesday morning b u t the
boy was not removed to th e
Lancaster General Hospital un­til
3:30 p.m. a fte r h e began to
act peculiarly. Fearing brain
surgery was necessary he then
was taken by the Community
ambulance to th e Jefferson
—Record-Express Photo
Despite th a t the tro u t basin a t th e Broad S tre e t. entrance
to the Lititz Springs P a rk was thoroughly cleaned five weeks
ago, park employees this week removed tons of algae .from the
pool. Means of keeping the vegetation growth within bounds
is proving a major problem in the park, Willis Bucher, shown
a t th e left, chairman of th e p a rk grounds committee, revealed.
Also shown in the photograph are P au l Leonard, a volunteer
worker; Warren Pettyjohn and F ra n k Brown, park caretaker.
Asst. Postmaster Eld Bear
Will Retire Tomorrow
Solicit For
Needy Kids
At Parade
Young people of Lititz
churches will take a hand in
aiding needy children of foreign
lands by soliciting nickles and
dimes for UNICEiF during
Thursday’s Halloween Parade.
UNICEF is the United Na­tions
International Childrens
Emergency Fund and provides
food and medicine for needy
children the world o v e r .
Church young people will so­licit
down town during the par­ade
with collection ja rs and it
is hoped last yea r’s total of
over $300 can again be reach­ed.
Solicitors will be identified
by the orange and black collec­tion
ja rs and an identification
tag bearing the letters UNICEF.
After the collection is complet­ed
volunteers may tu rn over
the ir collection ja rs to UNICEF
committee members a t either
th e Moravian Church or the Re­creation
Center.
Conducted on a matching
fund basis, the UNICEF drive
is aimed solely a t alleviating
hardship cases among children
in the world’s less fortunate
places.
18th Rothsville
Halloween Fete
On Friday Night
Rothsville’s 18 th annual Hal­loween
Parade will be held F ri­day
a t 7 p.m. sponsored by the
Rothsville Fire Co. and the
Warwick Twp. Lions Club. .
The parade will form a t
Wentling’s row and will offer
$150 in prizes. The Warwick
High School band will be in the
line of march and also boy and
girl scouts, cubs, brownies and
float entries.
Prizes will be given to indivi­duals,
couples and floats. A
Halloween Queen will be select­ed
from among Warwick Twp.
students in grades nine through
12. Refreshments will be avail­able
a t the fire hall and the
judges stand will be set up in
front of the fire hall.
Vivian Landis Keath and her
Lititz iRangerettes will be in the
line of march.
Moravian Group
To Mark 136th
Anniversary
The Women’s Missionary So­ciety
of the Moravian Church
will observe the 136th anniver­sary
on Sunday with special
services. Gordon Sommers, a
middler in the Theological
Seminary a t Bethlehem will
speak a t the morning service
a t 10:30 a.m. and a t th e Love-feast
a t 3:00 p.m.
Mr. Sommers is a native o f
Edmonton, Canada and a mem­b
e r o f the Brmederfeld Church
b e spent the summer serving
with the missionaries in Nic­aragua
and will tell about the
work there.
A recognition dinner for
! Sunday School teachers will be
held a t the General Sutter hotel
on MatiHov mrAViiri’fT o + £ • A A'
Assistant Postmaster Edwin
W. Bear will retire from the
postal service tomorrow a fte r
completing 41 years and one
month of service in the local
post office.
Mr. Bear is the fifth veteran
employee to re tire this year.
Others who have gone on the
retirement, list since last Jan ­uary
are Former Postmaster
Robert Pfautz, Ed Ranck, Paul
Bushong and Amos Yerger.
Effective Friday, Chester A.
Witmyer will be promoted to
the position of assistant post­master
and Arthur E. Badorf
will be elevated to the job
of superintendent of mails,
Acting Postmaster Raymond
Reedy announced this week.
Mr. Bear sta rted working in
the post office on October 1C,
1917 and was made assistant
postmaster in 1941. He has
served under six postmasters.
Postal service today is far
different from what it was in
1917, he recalled this week. At
th a t time the post office win­dows
were opened up at 7 a.m.
and remained open until 7 p.m.
But in order to dispatch the
mails for the first northbound
train which departed here a t
5:30 a.m., the work day for
the post office employees s ta rt­ed
a t 4:30 a.m. Mail was receiv­ed
and dispatched on six of the
eight Reading daily trains and
on two trolley cars to Lancas­ter.
H
e also Served as secretary of
the civil service board for 19
years, dating from the day city
service was inaugurated. At th a t
time the staff consisted of ten
Retiring
Christ Koehler Named
Judge of Elections
In 1st Ward
With interest in the proposed
bond issue soaring high, a com­paratively
heavy pooling of
votes was expected in the gen­eral
election Tuesday.
Experienced observers here
predicted the vote in the boro
would total around 2,250. This
prediction is based upon the
1,800 vote cast in the borough
at the last gubernatorial elec­tion
and 2,400 cast a t the last
preisdential election.
The borough and the War­wick
Union area was expected
to tu rn in a majority for Re­publican
Party candidates, al­though
it was doubtful in some
quarters if the three-to-one ra ­tio
piled up by Republicans in
recent elections here, would be
maintained.
Forecasters also predicted a
close vote in the balloting on
the proposed $175,000 bond
issue to finance a public swim­ming
pool in the borough. With
approximately 500 persons hav­ing
signed the petition to place
the issue on th e ballot, pro­ponents
estimated th a t the issue
would be approved unless a pro­test
vote is forthcoming.
Interest in the bond issue far
exceeded the interest in both
the gubernatorial and senatorial
elections to be decided.
Koehler Appointed
One change in the line-up of
local election officials was an­nounced
this week. Christ
Koehler, of Cedar Street, has
been named judge of elections
in the first ward, to fill the
vacancy created by the resigna­tion
of Eric Buckley. Buckley
served in this capacity one elec­tion.
Voting machines will be used
in both wards for the th ird time.
So far, results show th a t the
use of machines here has in no
way cut down the number of
Edwin Bear
men, five of whom were ru ra l
carriers.
In 1917 receipts a t the local
office amounted to $14,000 a
year as compared with approxi­mately
$200,000 a year today.
And while the records do not
show it, Mr. Bear probably has
“ licked” more than two million
stamps in his career.
Mr. Bear also is recognized as
an .authority for his knowledge
of postal rules and regulations.
A surprise p arty was held for
Mr. Bear by the post office staff
a t the Mountain Trail Inn,
Waldeck, T u e s d a y night.
Miss Yeagley, Ned
Partridge Honored
Miss Barbara Yeagley, seven­teen,
d au g h ter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Yeagley, 115 Market St.,
and Ned Partridge, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Rider, 426 S.
Cherry St., were named War­wick’s
Boy and Girl for Octo­ber.
/
The announcement was made
a t an assembly program a t the
high school Thursday (today.)
Miss Yeagley, a member of
the Moravian Church, is secre­ta
ry of th e Youth Fellowship
and a Sunday School teacher.
She is a member of the church
choir, secretary of th e school
Library Club, tre a su re r of the
church choir and a past presi­dent
of the Y-Teens.
She works in the nursery
a t church, is a library assistant,
member of the Yearbook Staff
an d also works in the church
office. With all her extracurri-eular
activities Miss Yeagley is
still an honor roll student.
Partridge is a member of St.
P au l’s Lutheran Church and the
church choir. He was vice-presi­d
en t of the ju n io r class, presi­d
en t of his freshman class and
also president of the Warwick
Varsity Club and Glee Club.
He attended Keystone Boys
Camp in 19 58 and was elected
mayor of the Thomspon City
group a t the camp sponsored
by the American Legion. Co­captain
of Warwick’s 1958
football team he is a three year
letterman an d two yea r basket­ball
letterman. Partridge is also
a Yearbook Staff member and
had a role in the high school
operetta, South Pacific in his
junior year.
Both Miss Yeagley and P a rt­ridge
a re members o f the Senior
Class.
ballots cast.
Brickerville Lions Make Merry
At Family Night Hallowe’en Party
Witches, goblins and ghosts
made merry a t the family night
Hallowe’en p arty held by the
Baron Steigel Lions Club on
Thursday evening a t Die
Scheier, Brickerville.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Brumbach
walked off with first and sec­ond
prizes respectively in th e
most comical class in the adult
division with Mrs. Velma Eck-a
r t taking th ird prize. Nancy
Snyder took first prize for the
most comical in th e children’s
division, Robert Ulrich, second,
an d Patricia Brumbach, third.
The program featured Mar-iimbo
solo® by Mis® Esthe r Us-ner
of Mt. Airy and games and
entertainment were in charge
n'4TU/-v~4-
P e te r Hanly, zone chairman,
conducted an Induction cere­mony
for three new members
who were received into the or­ganization,
they were, Lester
Messner, Luthe r Ober, and Mel­vin
Weachter.
Sixty three persons attended
th e party, a chicken dinner was
served and Clarence Fasnacht,
th e president, was in charge of
the business meeting. The
next meeting will be held the
second Thursday in Novem­ber.
The Club will sponsor a
Shooting Match a t Rock’s
Garage on December 20th for
the benefit of the Elizabeth
Pool Issues
Aired At
Forum
Pros and cons of the propos­ed
$17 5,000 bond issue to fin­ance
a public swimming pool in
the borough were voiced in a
lively discussion which marked
a public forum held in th e ele­mentary
school auditorium
Monday night.
The public meeting sponsor­ed
by the Lititz Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce was attended
by sixty-five persons. Audience
participation in the hour and
a half question and answer
period soon revealed a differ­ence
of opinion among those
attending.
Highlights of the discussion
included:
(1) A public swimming pool
here should be self-liquida­ting,
judging from Manheim
borough’s experience, b u t the re
is no guarantee of this.
(2) If expenses exceed! in­come,
the difference will have
to be paid out of tax revenue.
This difference would have to
be added to the property tax
in as much as a maximum per
capita tax now is being collect­ed
here.
(3) Expression of sentiment
th a t the growing need is for
a pool which could be operated
12 months of the year.
With Kenelm Shirk, former
sta te president of the Jaycees,
serving as moderator, ques­tions
asked by the audience
were answered by Menno Roh-rer,
former president of the
Lititz borough council, repre­senting
th e swim pool commit­tee;
Borough Manager David
Bauer, Councilman Melvin Red­cay,
of Manheim; and Paul Mc­Cloud,
landscape architect, rep­resenting
th e park. J. M.
Leed, head of the park tru s ­tees,
also took th e platform to
answer questions and to ex­plain
the p a rk ’s position.
Mr. Redcay, a fte r explaining
the pool set-up in Manheim, de­clared
they ended up a 57-day
operation with a net income of
$9,700. He estimated Man­heim
will require $10,000 year­ly
to meet inte rest payments
and cost of redeeming bonds.
Interest is not payable until
1960 and nothing has been de­ducted
for depreciation.
Answering the question re­garding
a tax boost, Mr.
Rohrer explained th a t the bond
issue will not block water im­provements
inasmuch as water
improvements will be financed
through the water authority.
Mr. Bauer explained th a t the
$175,000 bond issue would con-