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(Consolidated w ith The la tita Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, November 6, 1958 7 cents a Copy: ?300 per year by “iail w ith in L an ca ste r County; $3:50 elsewh ere. No. 31
Council Expected To Rush Swimming Pool Plans
Yule Savings Here
To Total $240,000
Lititz banks are preparing for
the distribution of $240,000 in
Christmas Club savings which
w illjs ta rt to go into the mail
within the next two weeks here.
The amount of money stashed
away in Christmas Club savings
plans a t the Farmers National
Bank and the Lititz Springs
National Bank each to ta ls ap­proximately
$120,000.
Christmas saving plan3, avail­able
in denominations as low
as a qu arte r weekly, have gain-
Rebuilding
Firehouse
Debated
Although openly admitting
doubts as to the steps to be
taken, borough council in­structed
Henry Shaub, Lancas­te
r architect, to prepare de­tailed
plans and specifications
for re-building th e Firehouse
floor, a t a special meeting held
Monday evening.
Members of council admitted
they are in a dilemma inas­much
as th e building, b u ilt
in 1918, is valued a t $49,000
and now Is showing serious
signs of deterioration. The
floor which has been cracking
up for several years, developed
two definite weak spots last
summer.
Estimates of replacing the
floor vary from $3,000 to $25,-
000. Actual cost cannot be de­termined
until a fte r specifica­tions
are drawn up and bids re ­ceived,
council pointed put.
Something must be done,
th a t much is sure. The use
of the fire company engines, in
fac t the possible in ju ry o r loss
of life of people using the
building must be safeguarded.
To this end, temporary sup­p
o rts have been put in th ro u g h ­o
u t the basement.
I t is expected th a t' a major
p a rt of the cost will not be in
th e floor itself, b u t in moving
walls, plumbing, electrical fix­tu
re s and equipment o u t and
in. If the cost is low, work
will proceed next spring.
If the cost is high, Council
will probably consider th e ad­visability
of going to another
building, since it would seem
short-sighted to put $25,000
into a building worth only
twice th a t much.
Involved in all th is is the
ce rta in knowledge th a t the
Council Chambers and Borough
Office, which are crowded now,
will be completely inadequate
as the town continues to grow.
Legion Auxiliary
Holds Meeting
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion met on Mon­day
evening a t th e Legion
Home, Mrs. Betty McKonley,
th e president, was in charge of
th e meeting.
The group contributed $5.00
fo r the planting of the United
Nations tree and admitted four
new members. They are: Mrs.
Ja n e Long, Mrs. Elota Miller,
Mrs. Herminn Walters and Mrs.
Rosemary Helms.
Mrs. Ardell deWald will rep ­re
sen t the unit a t the Veterans
day dinner to be held a t the
Elks Club, Lancaster and Mrs:
McKonly will attend th e n a tu r­alization
dinner to be' held in
Lancaster on November 14th.
. Albert Lutz, commander of
th e Post, was present and
thanked the ladies for their,
help in th e polio injections. A
covered dish supper will be
held a t the next meeting and
a grab bag for th e exchange of
Christmas gifts.
ed depositors over th e years.
This year the Farmers bank
.reported it had 1,500 members
in its Christmas club plan. Lit-
Springs bank club members to­taled
1,125.
The club plan payments end
in November so th a t checks can
be mailed out to depositors well
in advance of th e Christmas
shopping season.
The total of $240,000 here
was topped In the county only
by Columbia, Elizabethtown,
E p h ra ta and Manheim. County­wide
Christmas Club funds to­taled
$2,782,650 while the
combined city and county to ta l
th is year was $6,085,650 which
will be mailed to a total of
5 4,723 club members.
Value Goods
Made Here
Tops I n Co.
Lititz Borough outstripped
every othe r Lancaster County
borough in th e value of goods
manufactured here during
1957, th e annual report of the
Bureau of In te rn a l Affairs of
the State Department of Labor
and Industry reveals.
The value of goods manufac­tu
red in Lititz totaled $28.6
million during 1957. Colum­bia,
with a $17.8 million figure,
was second to Lititz, E p h ra ta
with $14.4 million th ird and
Elizabethtown, with $9.6 mil­lion,
fourth.
The four boroughs, combin­ed
with Lancaster City, ac­counted
for 27,690 of th e 43,-
368 persons employed in man­ufacturing
plants in Lancaster
County.
Total employes of Lititz in­dustries
h it 1,780 and th e an ­nual
payroll for wages and
salaries was $6.7 million.
Bauer Speaks
Before Rotary
Lititz has all th e n a tu ra l ad­vantages
a community could
wish for, is growing steadily
and has a well-balanced tax
base, Borough Manager David
Bauer informed members of
the Lititz Rotary Club Tuesday
evening.
After lauding local officials
for th e ir devotion to duty,
Mr. Bauer added “ all of them
are good men and if you have
disagreed with them, make
yourself available for public
office—the job is not easy.
“We a re a small community,
but the problems are as baf­fling
as though we were large.
The conflict of interests is al­ways
a m a tte r of concern.
Our borough is respected by
those who know of us. We
have all the n a tu ra l advantages
a community could wish for
and the stewardship of those
advantages has been sound.”
Positive factors cited were:
(1) The number of home own­ers
in Lititz is increasing both
numerically and percentage
wise. (2) The number of va­cant
houses is ridiculously
low. Peoule are willing to
sell only If they can make a
profit. (3) We have a well-balanced
tax base with a large
amount of industry to carry
much of th e tax load for serv­ices
to residences. (4) Our
growth in population has been
a steady one. (5) Our tax,
water and sewerage rate s are
in line with other communities.
(6) Our community facilities
a re steadily improving.
Discussing county govern­ments,
Bauer declared th a t
a fte r “ being out of i t ” for the
la st 150 years they now a re
being prodded into a general
overhauling.
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Brunnerville’s newly completed Commun­ity
Building and F ire Hall will be open th is
weekend to the public. In th e planning
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stages fo r 18 years, th e building is located
adjac ent to th e Brunnerville Hotel, and cost
an estimated $30,000.
Brunnerville Fire Hall To
Hold Open House On Weekend
Open house will be observed
this weekend a t Brunnerville’s
newly constructed Community
Building and F ire Hall, the
realization of a 13-year dream
of the fire company.
The building 32x100 feet and
equipped with a modern k it­chen
will be open for public
inspection Friday from 6
p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday from
noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday
from noon to 6 p.m.
Located adjacent to the
Brunnerville Hotel it is con­structed
of brick with a stone
front. The newly completed
building, constructed a t a cost
of approximately $30,000,
gives Brunnerville a fire hall
and community building second
to none in a village of com­parable
size.
Members of the building
committee, Russell Keith, Clar­ence
Hoffer, Milton Landis,
Wayne Grube, Joseph Hack-man,
Harold Dull and Morris
Eckert, said the building rep­resented
a 13-year dream of
the company which was first
organized in 1936.
At th a t time a small group
of men from the Brunnerville
area decided something should
be done to provide b e tte r fire
fighting facilities in the village
and its environs.
At a meeting they decided t<5
build a cistern and dam on the
E rnest Helman property along
the Lititz road. More me'etings
followed and in 1944 it was de­cided
to organize a non-profit
organization which was cha r­tered
on Nov. 10 of th a t year.
Bandshell Improvement
Next On Park Program
Soil Conservation Meeting
To Be Held Here Monday
Soil and water conservation
in the Lititz Run watershed
area will be discussed a t a pu­blic
meeting to be held in the
Elementary School auditorium
Monday, November 10.
Pictures of soil and water
conservation practices will be
presented by W. Martin Muth,
work unit conservationist of
the U.S. Department of Agri­culture.
Willis Bucher will serve
as moderator.
Landis Becker, chairman of
the Lancaster County Com­mittee,
Agricultural Stabilza-tion
and Conservation, will de­scribe
the ag ricu ltu ral stabil­ization
program in the county.
A panel discussion will follow
with th e following farmers par­ticipating
along with the audi­ence;
Clarence Barber, New
Danville; Suavely Garber, Wil­low
Street; Christ Groff, Roths-ville;
Samuel Kline, Lititz; and
John Melhorn, Mit. Joy.
Robert G. Struble, Pa. Soil
Conservation Commission con­sultant,
will serve as chairman
of the panel with Amos Funk,
chairman of the Conestoga Val­ley
Association, scheduled to
sum up th e discussion.
Rev. Je re Cassel will furnish
the invocation. Refreshments
will be served in the cafeteria
a fte r the meeting.
The public is invited to a t­tend
the meeting which will
s ta rt a t 7:30 p.m.
Lititz Springs P a rk takes
step number five in its im­provements
program th is week,
with th e advertising o f bids
for refurbishing the bandshell
area.
Bids must be submitted by
November 11. P a rk Trustees
have a meeting th a t night and
will open bids. The work is
to be finished by May, 1959.
J. M. Leed, chairman of the
trustees, said contract five
calls for these specfic im­provements:
Replace rotted wood in the
bandshell.
Raise floor level by building
concrete floor.
Face concrete floor with
stone.
Pave and slope seating area
for b e tte r vision.
Grade areas adjacent to
seating are a to eliminate mud­dy
conditions.
Leed explained th e work
done under contract five will
be paid for with money allo­cated
from funds collected d u r­ing
the recent Park Fund
Drive. I t will be 'th e first
major park improvement made
with local funds.
Others to follow will be pur­chasing
benches, picnic tables,
char.coal burners, planting
trees and seeding and planting.
Bids must be received a t the
office of McCloud and Scatch-ard
by 5 p.m., Nov. 11.
P a rk trustees said th e im­provements
to th e bandshell
County Form Women
Elect Mrs. Clark
Mrs. Neil Clark of Society of
Farm Women No. 1 was elected
tre a su re r of the County organi­zation
a t the annual Convention
held on Saturday a t the Hemp-field
High School. Other mem­bers
attending were, Mrs. Roy
Brubaker, Mrs. Henry Burhold-er,
Mrs. Adrian deVink, Mrs.
Martin Moore, Mrs. Ju lia Fry-ock,
Mrs. Raymond Newcomer,
Mrs. Clayton Sangrey, M r s .
Benjamin Sheaffer, Mrs. Amos
Shenk, all of Lititz R. D., Mrs.
Cullen Carpenter, Mrs .Scott
Garman and M|rs. Raymond
Hess, of Lititz; Mrs. Howard
Wolf, Akron; and Mrs. Daniel
Brubaker, and Mrs. Simon Sny­der,
E p h ra ta R. D.; and Mrs.
Margaret Hopkins, Lancaster.
and th e bandshell are a will do
much to make it a more use-,
ful and effective p a rt of the
park.
Buijt and dedicated to the
memory of Paul E. Beck in
1937, the bandshell has never
undergone a serious improve­ment
program.
Hospital Aux.
To Meet Tuesday
The Lititz Auxiliary of the
Lancaster General Hospital
will meet on Tuesday, No­vember
11th a t the home of
Mrs. John G. Hershey. A film
for the detection of cancer will
be shown and Dr. Robert Smith
will conduct a question and
answer period.
The Ladies are planning a
bake sale on Friday, Novem­ber
14th a t the Business Men’s
League. Mrs. M. C. Demmy
will be in charge.
Incorporators included Ray
Hoffer, Ralph Keith, Ernest
Helman, Marlin Wise and the
late Morris Shaeffer with Clar­ence
Hoffer, Russell Bishop
and Jacob Fisher as trustees.
Earl Landis, operator of the
Brunnerville Iron Foundry,
donated a portion of his build­ing
for a fire hall and in 1945
the company purchased its
first piece of fire equipment, a
used Hajiji engine from Shaef-ferstown.
The engine was in service
until 1950 when a new Chev­rolet
engine, still in service,
was purchased. Capital for
the building, program was se­cured
by staging numerous
carnivals and solicitations. The
money was invested wisely with
the ultiftiate goal a new Com­munity
Building and Fire Hall.
After much discussion on the
matter it was decided in the
spring of th is year to build a
fire hall. Wayne Grube was
named general contractor and
his workers, aided by a vol­unteer
crew, constructed the
new building.
Fire company officials said
the building is open for private
or public affairs and bookings
for the building should be
made through Donald Eckert,
Lititz R l.
The building consists of the
kitchen, double engineroom, a
dining area, meeting room and
has a parking area capable of
handling about 40 autos.
Lititz Man To
Film Oil Fields
In Saudi Arabia
A Lititz man will leave Nov.
12 for a five-week trip to the
oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
The man is Aldin H. Brown,
112 E. Lincoln Ave., who will
do specialized filming of the
holdings and operating meth­ods
of the Arabian-Ameriean
Oil Co. in Saudi Arabia.
Presently employed a t a
Lancaster photography shop,
Brown will fly to the oil fields
in an Aramco plane. With
stopovers, th e flight will take
three, days. He will leave from
Idlewild Airport...
Enroute home the* Aramco
party will make several stops
in Europe.
Com’unity Chest
Total $13,937
This yea r’s United Commun­ity
campaign went over the top
by more than 10 per-cent with
a total of $13,937.12 raised
here, Raymond Runk and J.
Robert Hess, co-chairmen, an­nounced
yesterday.
This is th e largest amount
raised for the Community
Chest in any peacetime year
and exceeded only by World
War II totals when funds for
U.S.O. were included in the
budget.
This yea r’s borough totals
are: Residential, $3,704.61;
schools, $624; clubs and o r­ganizations,
$158 .10; mercan­tile,
$722; industria l, ,$6,459.-
50; and employee solicitation.
$2,268.91.
Workers were warmly th a n k ­ed
by the local chairmen “ for
the very fine effort put fo rth .”
“Exceeding the goal is an in­dication
of the willingness of
the community to support the
Welfare Agencies,” Mr. Runk
declared.
Pharos Newcomers
To Mark Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Phares New­comer,
of this borough, will
observe th e ir fiftieth wedding
anniversary on Mopday. Mrs
Newcomer was the former Em­ma
B. Landis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. Reist Landis, la te
of this borough.
They have th ree sons: Ray­mond,
Lititz, R.D. 2; Warren,
this borough, and Clarence, of
Manheim. In recognition of
the anniversary members . of
the family and "friends will
hold a dinner in th e ir honor
Saturday evening a t Kauff­man’s
Tea Room, East Peters­burg.
Proposed Bond Issue
Approved925 To 733
VETERAN REPUBLICAN
VOTES AT PENRYN
Talton Weachter, who is
ninety-three years of age, ap­peared
a t the " polls a t Penryn
Tuesday and cast one of his
many votes, over the years,
for Republican candidates. He
is thought to have been th e old­est
voter to cast a ballot in the
county this year.
75% Vote
Cast In Boro
Tuesday
Obviously increased by in­te
re st in the swim pool bond
issue, the vote cast here Tues­day
proved approximately ten
per-cent higher than a t the
last gubernatorial election.
A to ta l of 2,040 votes were
cast in the borough, 1,324 in
the first ward and 716 in the
second. Local voters did prac­tically
no " ticket-cutting in
either party, in contrast with
results from other sections.
In the borough, Republican
candidates were given p lu ra ­lities
of three to one, an aver­age
which held out in com­paratively
heavy voting in both
Elizabeth and Warwick Town­ships.
The tu rn o u t of voters was
steady from the opening of the
polls and delays were very
few. Few workers, in fact, re­mained
a t the i>olls with the
day passing comparatively un­eventfully.
County Commissioner G.
Graybill Diehm made one of his
few visits to Lititz since his
recent -sick spell, when he
showed up a t the firehouse to
cast his ballot a t 8:3(1 Tuesday
morning. A group of friends
had gathered to greet him.
The vote in th e borough was
approximately 75 per-cent of
the registration of 2,719 per­sons
enrolled in the two major
parties.
Thq vote in th e county prov-eded
to be the biggest Repub­lican
plurality piled up since
the election of Former Gover­nor
James and this Wednesday
was being interpreted as being
to the credit to the campaign
presented by Richard Snyder,
Lititz native, now serving as
Republican County Chairman.
In substantially approving
the proposed $175,000 swim­ming
pool bond issue Tuesday,
voters of the borough handed
members of council one more
project—upon which quick ac­tion
is expected to be taken a t
the ir next meeting, November
26.
That the pool can be com­pleted
and ready for operation
next Summer if council sta rts
work immediately, was as­serted
yesterday by Borough
Manager David Bauer.
Although discussing th e pro-
| ject informally a t th e ir special
meeting Monday night, council
members have merely awaited
results of the election before
attempting to compile a time
schedule.
Mr. Bauer also indicated
Wednesday th a t the borough
now will negotiate for the pur­chase
of the Buch tract, or a t
least p art of it, on a different
basis. While the agreement
previously drawn up calls for
the paying of the tra c t over
five years, an immediate p u r­chase
now will be sought.
The tra c t located a t th e rea r
of the Springs Park and ad­jacent
to the borough wells
has been mentioned repeatedly
as the ideal site for the pool.
In addition to acquiring the
land, council will have to make
arrangements for floating
bonds, having plans and spec­ifications
drawn up and ad­vertising
for bids before actual
work can be started.
This, it was indicated, will
require several months time.
Council also will have to de­cide
whether to operate on a
membership basis or a public
pool. With many picnics a t­tending
the park each summer,
it may be necessary to make
the pool a public one in order
to benefit from these, it was
indicated.
Of the heavy vote cast Tues­day,
almost 400 voters casting
th e ir ballots failed to vote upon
the proposed bond issue, re­sults
revealed. The bond issue
passed handily with comfort­able
majorities in both wards.
Yes No
F irst Ward 579 485
Second Ward 346 248
Total 925 733
LEAVE FOR FLORIDA
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Demmy,
of South Cedar Street, plan to
leave this morning on a motor
trip to Florida, where they will
visit Tampa and Miami.
INJURED IN FALL \
Harry Bu rk h art, 16 South
Broad Street, is a patient in
St. Joseph Hospital suffering
from a fra ctured pelvis sus­tained
in a fall from a truck
recently.
Nina Stroble Reigned
As Halloween Queen Here
Ju st about everything from
the sublime to th e ridiculous
was included in the annual Hal-lawee’n
parade presented here
la st Thursday evening by mem­bers
of the Lititz Lions Club.
Miss Nina Stroble, Warwick
High School Senior, reigned as
queen of the festivities follow­ing
her coronation. Her atten ­dants
were Miss Joan Klopp
and Mass Rufina Grube.
Miss Francene Nissley and
dog captured the grand prize
in the parade. Other prize win­ners
were:
children’s division, best artistic
individual, R i c k e y Lebo;
couple, Geraldine Kreider and
Sharon Einck; most comical in-
RING AROUND THE TRAFFIC LIGHT POLE
A shifting load of thousands of bottles
bound for th e Lambert-Hudnut p la n t tipped
over a tra c to r tra ile r tru ck Monday, literally
wrapping th e big rig around a traffic light
stan d ard a t th e intersection of Broad St. and
Lincoln Ave. Most of th e bottles, packed in
cartons, were not damaged. The lig h t stan-
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dard was bent slightly b u t otherwise u n ­damaged.
The tru ck cab an d the tru ck
tra ile r nestled around th e standard, leaving
it sticking o u t like a sore thumb. Truck
dirver was H arry Graver, Lancaster. He
suffered a back in ju ry and was tak en to Lan­caster
General Hospital.
dividual, Tom Murr; couple
Jan e and Bonnie Buch.
Adults, most artistic Indivi­dual,
Jay Reed; couple, Anna
Showers; most comical indivi-dual^
Blll Pennell; couple, Mrs.
John McCreary; most original
ind iv id u al H , e l e n . Kochel;
couple, Esther White and Reba
Gantz; childrens’ groups, best
artistic, Francene Nissley; 2nd,
Brownie Troop 24; most comi-
School Visits
Urged Here For
Education Week
Warwick Union schools will
cooperate in the 38th annual
observance of American Edu­cation
Week during th e week
of Nov. 9 to 15, it was announc­ed
by school officials.
Thursday, Nov. 13, has been
set aside as visitation day for
parents. Supervising P rin ­cipal
G. Marlin Spaid said the
hours from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
have been set aside especially
for the parents, to visit class­rooms.
Parents, he said, are’also en­couraged
to visit classrooms a t
any time during the school year
th a t it is convenient to them.
The theme for American Ed­ucation
Week is “Keeping up
with the Kids,” and it is hoped
th a t parents will accept the
challenge by visiting school to
cal, 1st, Girl Scout Troop 118;
2nd, Brownie Troop 198; mis­cellaneous
division, most com -! acquaint themselves with the
ical rig, Kenneth Hackman. ! program being offered.
■— ! Daily topics will be stressed
LEAVES ON CRUISE j during the week. The topics
for Sunday Carl William Miller, son of through Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Miller,
Speedwell Hgts., le ft Monday
on a month’s cruise in the
Caribbean, aboard th e U.S.S.
Intrepid following * a 23-day
furlough.
are: Character Building, Re­sponsible
Citizenship, Educa­tion
and Survival, The Curricu­lum,
The Teacher, Developing
Talents, and Community Team­work.
Carol Ressler Crowned
Queen At Rothsville
Carol Ressler, d au g h ter of
Mrs. Viola Ressler, Rothsville,
was crowned queen of th e
Rothsville Halloween Parade
sponsored by th e Warwick
Twp. Lions Club and the Roths­ville
Fire Co., last week.
The queen was chosen from
among contestants residing in
Warwick Twp. Her court con­sisted
of Sally Felker, daugh­te
r of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy
Felker, Dianne Ressler, daugh­te
r of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ress­ler
and Janice Bucher, daugh­te
r of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bucher.
Last yea r’s queen, Florence
Bowman, crowned Miss Ress­ler.
Music was furnished by
the Warwick Ju n io r Band the
prize for the best individual
group went to th e Rangerettes,
Vivian Keath Landis’ marching
and baton twirling group.
The parade began about
7:14 p.m. and festivities in­cluding
the crowning of the
queen ended about 9 p.m .Free
candy, ice cream and foot ru l­ers
were distributed to the
crowd.
Prizes were won in these
divisions by:
Preschool and school best
dressed, Sherry Lou Koehler,
Vicki Strohm and Paul Werd-man;
ugliest, Terese Zook, Lor­raine
Knauer and Camille Kla-asen;
most comical, Ricky
Ruth, Darlene Helman and
Donnie Good; most original,
John Hornberger, Margaret
Herr and Eddie Ruth.
High School best dressed,
Dwight Meiskey, Vaughn P a r­mer;-
most original, Ju lie Sto-yanovitch
and Charles Horn­berger;
ugliest, Robert Fry,
Nevin May; most comical, Rod­ney
May and Richard Rhodes.
Adult best dressed, Anna
Showers, Eva Rineer, Mary
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