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(Consolidated w ith The Ziltltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, December 11, 1958 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per yea r by m a ll
w 'thin L ancaste r County; $3:50 elsew h ere. No. 36
Wage Tax Approved At Boro Budget Meeting
Fire Safety Check
Planned At Schools
A spot check of Warwick
Union School District buildings
for fire hazards was conducted
last week, and a more compre­hensive
check is planned by
firemen of three area compan­ies,
Lititz Chief Raymond Runk
revealed this week.
Chief Runk said he will ask
Fire Chief Claude Young of
Rothsville and Chief Milton
Landis of Brunnerville, to
make thorough fire checks
with him of th e four Warwick
school buildings.
The entire fire saftey check
was induced by the recent dis­astrous
school fire in Chicago
in which 91 lives were lost
when a Parochial School was
■ destroyed .
Runk said Fireman Donald
Stauffe r of the Lititz Company
made a quick check for major
fire hazards of th e Lititz Ele­mentary
School and of War­wick
High School.
However, the chief said, be-
• cause some doors were locked
Stauffer was unable to check
all closets and possible fire
hazard spots. Runk said the
three chiefs will request school
authorities to have school
maintenance men accompany
them on the fire check, so th a t
locked doors can be opened
and the inspection carried out
thoroughly.
The plan, He said, is for
Chiefs Young and Landis to
handle inspections a t Roths­ville
Elementary School and
John Beck School, Brunner­ville,
respectively.
The quick check of school
buildings showed no ma jor fire
hazards, Runk explained, b u t
added he felt it in th e best in­te
re sts of safety to “ go over
the buildings with a comb” .
Boro Units
Ready For
Snow Duty
Lititz Borough’s snow remov­al
equipment is ready for the
winter weather, Streets Depart­ment
Foreman Ray Landis
said this week. '
Borough crews were out
cindering icy spots a fte r Mon­day’s
light snow which slicked
spots of borough streets when
it was followed by subfreezing
weather.
Several modifications and
improvements to equipment
have been made and Landis
said he felt the department
was ready for whatever the
winter will bring.
New flashing warning lights
have been mounted on th e cab
of th e borough’s 1948 two-ton
-dump tru ck used for snow re­moval.
A new generator, cap­able
of carrying a heavier elec­tric
al load, has also been in­stalled.
A signal light has also been
installed on th e one-way plow
so th a t the truck driver will be
able to b etter judge the plow’s
bite.M
odifications have been
made to the Huber Malntainer’s
blade. The equipment, essen­tially
an ea rth moving piece of
machinery, was fitted with a
snow bucket. A cab was also
b u ilt on it to afford th e driver
b e tte r protection from the ele­ments.
The 1953 cinder tru ck has
been equipped with iron piping
on the rear, to give cinder
crews a place to hold. Cinders
will be spread by manpower
again, since the borough bud­get
didn’t allow for the pur­chase
of a spreading apparatus.
The borough receives cinders
free from Wilbur-Suchard Cho­colate
Co. They a re mixed
with calcium chloride which
induces melting
Short Circuit
Causes Fire
At Glassmyer’s
A short circuit in electrical
wiring caused a fire in th e k it­chen
of the home a t Glass-myer’s
Drug Store, F ire Chief
Raymond Runk reported.
He said the fire was discov­ered
about 8 p.m. Saturday by
Jane and Harry Essig who in­vestigated
afte r smelling
smoke. They traced th e odor
to a spot in the first floor kit-,
chen wall where a sh o rt cir­cuit
had ignited .
Mrs. Essig called volunteer
firemen and Essig fought the
fire until they arrived. Chief
Runk said the timely discov­ery
averted a more serious fire.
rtnmAp’© at about
CLEAR SCHOOLS IN MINUTE
How long does It tak e to
clear Warwick Schools In
th e event of a fire ?
From a minute to a minute
and 15 seconds, say school
officials. The times are
gathered from monthly fire
drills conducted a t a ll War­wick
schools.
Officials said the fire
drills re su lt in th e school
being cleared of all students
within a minute and 15 sec­onds
a fte r the bell is sound­ed.
F a ste st time, they said,
has been a minute flat.
Park Playground
Used Later Than
In Other Years
Renovated Lititz Springs
P a rk ’s new playground facili­ties
were used longer this year
than other years.
P a rk workmen ju st put away
th e movable playground equip­ment
for the winter. Caretaker
F ran k Brown said the new fa­cilities
were used by to ts rig h t
up until th e freezing weather.
Normally, he said, park usage
dropped with the first chill of
the fall. This year the improved
play area, resulting in better
drain ag e conditions, was utiliz­ed
until the ground froze.
Meanwhile it was reported
th a t work has sta rted on the
renovations to th e bandshell.
I t will progress as the weather
allows.
ROTHSVILLE WOMAN SUCCEEDS
No wonder Mrs. Alverta Moore, of Rothsville, appears in a
happy mood in th e photograph above. F o r th is is h e r firs t deer
in th irte en years of hunting participated in by herself and her
husband, Charles Moore. Mrs. Moore’s deer is a five-pointer
which she shot a t exactly 8:1 0 a.m. opening day. Taking up
hunting 14 years ago, Mrs. Moore missed only one season since,
th e year h e r d au g h ter was bom. Mr. Moore is ju s t as faithful
deer h u n te r—b u t as yet not as successful.
Measles, Colds Cut
Elementary Classes
Rotary Club,
Wives Attend
Holiday Party
A total of 104 Rotarians and
the ir wives attended the annual
Christmas P arty held a t th e
General S u tter Hotel Tuesday
evening. Ladies were presented
with gifts of candy.
Rev. Clarence Rahn, of Tem­ple,
was th e speaker of the
evening. He was introduced by
Dr. Byron K. Horne. Music was
presented by a group of Linden
Hall music students.
Visitors included District
Governor Mark Tice and his
wife ,of Lebanon. Roy Verger,
Rotary president, presided.
On Tuesday evening members
of the local club will hold the ir
meeting in th e Brunswick Ho­tel,
Lancaster, a fte r which they
will be taken on a to u r of Bell
Telephone facilities.
Lititz and Rothsville ele­mentary
school children have
pretty well weathered the
school year’s first wave of
children’s diseases, it was re ­ported
this week.
Measles and the common
cold were the chief ailments
which h it heaviest in the Lititz
and Rothsville schools. At
John Beck School, Brunner­ville,
Principal Harold Zim­merman
said absences have
been normal.
Lititz Elementary School
Principal J. Richard Zerbey
said the wave of illness jump­ed
absences th e re from a nor­mal
of 45 daily to as high as
153.
Last week absences a t the
Lititz building averaged 145
daily out of an enrollment of
1,091. Most of the children, he
said, were of kindergarten and
first and second grade age.
At the beginning of this
week, he said, the absentee ra te
had dropped to an average of
111 and it is believed the con­tagion
has reached its peak.
Lester Stark, Rothsville
Principal, said first and sec­ond
graders were the hardest
h it there, with up to one-third
of some classes being out with
illness. One class with an en­rollment
of 30 children, had 11
absent one day last week he
said.
School authorities asked par­Moravians
Advised Of
Possible Building Use
Multiple services and u tili­zation
of church school facili­ties
were among a number of
suggestions made by a church
building consultant to meet ex­panding
needs the Moravian
Church was told la st week.
The suggestions were made
by Dr. John R. Scotford, n a­tionally
known building con­sultant,
following a to u r of
facilities a t the church last
Sunday.
Dr. Scotford made the ob­servations
in talking to church
school officers and teachers and
to members of the Board of
Trustees. He said the pres­ent
church school facilities at
the church would lend them­selves
to providing a day n u rs­ery,
thus getting more than
one day a week usage from the
structure.
Many churches, he said, are
doing this with th e re su lt be-ing
th a t new families are be­ing
1 attra c ted to membership
whose firs t contact with the
church was through the day
nursery.
He also pointed out th e ad­vantage
of multiple services in
satisfying the needs of grow­ing
congregations. Presently
St. P a u l’s Lutheran Church
conducts multiple services.
Dr. Scotford will make a
written report of complete
recommendations and sugges­tions
for best using the present
Moravian facilities and the
proposed new church.
C. OF C. TO MMET
The Lititz Chamber of Com­merce
will meet this Tuesday
evening a t 8 p.m. in the Young
Men’s Business League. Several
ma tte rs of importance will be
discussed.
ents to he especially observant
of th e ir children. Any child
having symptoms of stomach
ache, running nose, cough or
fever, should be kept home and
th e family physician consulted
they urged.
Arrest 3 For
Robbery T ry ;
House Ransacked
Three men were arrested late
yesterday on c h a r g e s of
attempting to rob the Hiestamd
Market, South Broad Street, as
a result of th e alertness of
Officer Lloyd Long.
Long was attracted by the
suspicious ipovement of the
car occupied by the trio and
then found a ladder a t the
market. He gave chase, obtained
the license number but could
not overtake the car.
The three a rrested la te yes­terday
are Charles B. Schaeffer,
21, of Manheim; Robert Whitt-more,
18, of Penryn; and James
Harrington, 21, Manheim R. D.
3. State police also are question­ing
them regarding other area
thefts.
House Entered
Officer Hicks is investigating
the ransacking of the home of
400 S. Broad St., some time
between noon and 8 p.m. last
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Longenecker,
night. Entrance was gained
by forcing a re a r door and
the en tire first floor was
ransacked.
Nothing of value was taken
and the job was apparently the
work of ran k amateurs, Hicks
said.
Two cases of prowling being
probed by borough police are
attempts made th is week to
enter the homes of John Steffy,
Jr., Lincoln Ave., and Elbert
Ebbert, S. Spruce St.
Pool Cost
Study Set
Monday
Borough Council sitting as a
swimming pool committee will
meet with three architects Mon­day
in a fact-finding session on
a proposed public pool for Lit­itz.
Purpose of the meeting is to
determine cost, size, and oper­ations
of a swimming pool su it­ed
to the needs of th e JAtitz
area.
Architects invited to sit in
with the pool committee include
Paul W. McCloud of McCloud
and Scatchard, Howard Levan,
Harrisburg and architects for
VYellbuilt Corp., Camp Hill.
The meeting will be general­ly
a question and answer ses­sion
and council intends the
answers will influence them
greatly in whether they exer­cise
the power given them a t
the last election to borrow
funds to build a public pool.
Basic questions which Will
be involved are:
How big a pool will be re ­quired
to serve th e are a ?
What would it cost to built,
operate and maintain a pool?
Which materials are best
suited for building a pool and
How much would the various
firms charge for services ren ­dered?
Council decided on th e meet­ing
with architects a t the ir
November meeting before mak­ing
any concrete steps toward
building a pool or rejecting
the idea.
heads group Solicitor Directed
To Draw Up Papers
Holiday Cabaret
At High School
On January 3
Boh Stetler and his orches­tr
a will provide the dance
music for th e Holiday Cabaret,
which will be held Saturday,
Jan u a ry 3rd in th e Warwick
High School Cafeteria.
The Christmas Adult dance is
being sponsored by th e Lititz
Community Center. The fol­lowing
persons a re serving as
a Planning Committee: Mrs.
R i c h a r d R o th a n d M rs.
Forbes Emsweller, Co-Chair­men;
Mrs. Monroe Shaub, Rich­ard
Murr, John Reiz, Dale
Shelley, Mrs. B. John Losen-sky,
Claude Swartzbaugh, Mrs.
Ira Yeagley and Ben Forrest.
Anyone wanting to attend
should call MA 6-7114 for
table reservations.
REV. FLOYD McDOWELL
Form Assn.
Of Warwick
Churches
The Rev. E. Floyd .McDo­well
was elected president of
the newly formed Warwick As­sociation
of Churches a t the
meeting held on Tuesday eve­ning
in the Trinity Evangelical
Congregational church. The
organization includes the min­isters
of the are a and six lay­men
from each congregation
who will serve until Dec. 31,
1959.
Other officers were as fol­lows,
the Rev. Joel Hartman,
vice-president; Miss Verna
Weaver, secretary; and Rus­sell
Murr, treasurer.
A finance committee was ap­pointed
including a represen­tative
from each church, as
follows, Isaac Gibble, Flo.yd
Hagy, John Eshleman, Roger
Martin, Carl Risser, Verne Por­ter,
and Joseph Gearhart.
Departments were set up as
follows, Department of Chris­tian
Education, Eugene Dech­ert,
chairman and William Car­per,
secretary; department of
United Christian Women, Mrs.
Paul Shelley, chairman and
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Bus Fares May
Go Up 12 Cents
For Area Riders
Lititz bus riders are going to
have to pay another 12 cents
more per trip to Lancaster if
plans of the Conestoga Trans­portation
Co. are approved.
The_CTC last week asked the
Public Utilities Commission to
approve a new fare hike pro­gram.
If approved it will up the
cost of a one-way fare from 29
cents to 3-5 cents, or 12 cents
roundtrip.
The ra te increase amounts to
a 2 per cent hike for county
riders and only five per cent for
city riders.
Lititz Theater
Closes 2 Weeks
The Lititz Theatre will close
its doors following th e Satur-1
day evening show and will re­main
closed until Christmas
day, according to tin announce­ment
made th is week by Her­b
ert Roth, manager.
The t wo-week closing will
permit employees an extra-long
Christmas vacation, he ex­plained.
The th e a tre will re­open
with the annual Christ­mas
day matinee.
Father, Son Duo
Each Kill Deer
A fa th e r and son nunting
team bagged deer in Sullivan
County la st week.
M. H. Brubaker, assistant
high school principal a t War­wick,
shot a 4-jpoint buck and
his son. Dr. Robert Brubaker,
E. Main St., bagged a 7-point­er.
They are members of the
Hemlock Lodge apd th e 18-
member camp returned a total
of ten deer.
Following a prelminary bud­get
meeting, ordinarily not a t­tended
by reporters, last night
members of council through
Borough Manager Dave Bauer
announced they have endorsed
a wage tax “ should fu tu re
events make such a tax de­sirable”
Bauer’s statement reads':
Sportsmen
To Report
On Fish Dam
A progress report on nego­tiations
to build the proposed
Fish Commission Dam north of
Lititz will be made to members
of th e Lititz Sportsmens’ Assn,
a t th e ir meeting Monday night.
Club members will meet a t
the Lititz Legion a t 8 p.m. and
business will include an up-to-date
report on th e Zartman’s
dam project.
Lititz Sportsmen have long
been active in attempting to
secure a dam in the Zartman’s
mill area, working on th e pro­ject
for the p ast four years.
The club said it was hopeful for
a final decision soon.
Stocking of some 50 cock-birds
for propagation was com­pleted
by the club la st Sun­day.
M
embership chairman Rob­e
rt Snyder, said th a t only 100
of an intended 500 membership
goal.has been reached, and per­sons
interested in conservation
or outdoor sports who would
like to join an active organiza­tion
toward those ends, may do
so by contacting him a t MA
6-8321.
Following the business meet­ing
an outdoor film will be
shown. The meeting is open
to members and non-members
alike.
SCOUTS DO BIT FOR CIV IL DEFENSE
Civil Defense Aided
By Girl Scout Troops
Girl Scouts of the Rolling
Hills Neighborhood distributed
C i v i l Defense information
throughout the Warwick area
schools as an observance of
Civil Defense Day, which was
December 7th.
Wallet-size cards bearing in­formation
on shelter prepara­tion,
evacuation kits, warning
signals and civil defense pre­cautions
were distributed.
Mirs. Eugene Steffy was in
charge of distributing the cards
in th e Warwick area and the
key committee who worked with
her consisted of Judy Getz and
T n rv R a d o r f f rom B r o w n ie
Ju ila Miller from Senior Troop
122.
These girls met with Mrs.
Steffy and divided th e cards
into packs which they labeled
according to room numbers. The
cards were given to the home­room
teachers and a Girl Scout
in each room passed them out to
the students. A total of 2,4 6 9
cards were distributed.
The scouts expressed special
thanks to Mr. Marlin Spaid,
Mr. N. J. Fuhrman, Mr. Richard
Zerby, Mr. Harold Zimmerman,
and Mr. Lester Stark for their
oo-nneration in th e nomunitv
Brownie Scouts Judy Getz and Tory Bad-orf
an d Senior Scouts Lynn Roth and Ju lia
Millot* Huff to piolii\ Bi'Anqpp riirU Tlnfonco
dren as p a r t of th e ir observance of Civil De­fense,
Day here, u nder th e chairmanship of
Early Mail
Request Is
Being Met
The “mail early” request is
being taken seriously by local
patrons with the Christmas rush
of greetings and parcels getting
off to an unusually early sp u rt
this week, Acting Postmaster
Raymond Reedy reported yes­terday.
With th e rush expected to
reach major proportions d u r­ing
the coming week, a crew of
21 college and university stu ­d
en ts home for the holidays
will be added to the post office
force sta rtin g Monday. They
will serve as extra carriers,
clerks and mail sorters.
In addition, windows in the
postoffice will be open from
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. instead of th e
usual 8:30 to 5 p.m. in force
during other periods of the
year. Saturday, December 20,
the postoffice will remain open
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
No Mall Sunday
No mail will be delivered
Sunday, December 21, but the
i postoffice lobby will be open
| for the convenience of “box-holders
as well as to permit
persons to deposit mail.
With th is y e a r’s Christmas
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ABC Family
Social Set
For Tuesday
Lititz Chapter, ABC will hold
a family Christmas social Tues­day,
December 16 a t the Lititz
Legion when Santa Claus will
make a visit to ABCers and
the ir wives.
The elub announced its mem­bership
and attendance award
was won by the team of Elwood
Zug, Wilbur Neff, Dale Shelley,
Don Reidenbaugh and Randy
Clapper.
Another fea ture of the social
meeting will be the election of
officers. At th e last meeting
William Scatchard explained
the ABC’s national project to
provide aid for the ap ists now
in training and how these tech­nicians
are needed to tre a t those
with muscular dystrophy and
spastic paralysis.
Several ABIC members also
aided in construction of the
new Warwick Ambulance Gar­age,
helping to shovel stones
“Council has decided to ask the
solicitor to prepare legal pap­ers
to ,e n a c t a borough wage
tax should fu tu re events make
such a tax desirable.”
Bauer refuser to comment
upon what “ fu tu re events
meant but it was felt council
has in mind the enactment of
a wage tax by Lancaster City.
Since Lancaster City an­nounced
it will levy a tax on
wages earned there by both
residents and non-residents,
the issue has mushroomed.
At least two county
boroughs, Mountville and
\ Strasburg are discussing a
1 wage tax, as is Manheim Twp.
Last week it was suggested th a t
in light of the Lancaster tax,
it might be well for the
borough to reexamine the pos­sibility.
Figures gathered by Lititz
Chapter of the American Bus­iness
Club in 19 54 indicated
th a t some 533 Lititz residents
work in Lancaster and under
the proposed one half of one
per cent wage tax, would pay
the city over $10,000 annually.
The borough might be well
to tak e another look a t the
wage tax possibility, Wilbur B.
Miller, borough auditor agreed,
since it would mean borough
residents would be paying a tax
to the city and not receiving
any city services.
When th e wage tax was pro­posed
here ju st two years ago
this month, it met with tre ­mendous
opposition and was
immediately dropped by coun­cil.
The Lititz proposal was to
have been a one per cent levy
on wages, salaries and com­missions
of borough residents.
It was estimated the levy
would have yielded between
$45,000 to $60,000. The $5
per capital tax would have been
dropped.
Women See
Novel Ideas
At Meeting
The Woman’s Club added an
interesting feature to th e ir De­cember
meeting held op Mon­day
evening a t the General
Sutter Hotel. The “ Pantry
Shelf” was an innovation to add
to the trea sury but it was also
packed full of novel ideas and
surprises.
Mrs. Grant Heilman carved a
wooden walnut block to make
Springerle, a toothsome bit she
baked with the word Noel and
a sta r on it. Mrs. John N. Garber
brought a tre e she made of
sticky buns resplendent with
raisins and nuts.
The members brought the ir
holiday specialties with the re ­cipes
tucked inside. They in­cluded
sandtarts, hermits, da*e
and n u t loaves, banana bread
and all kinds of Christmas
dainties. Mrs. William Spacht
gathered many hags of sweet
gum b urrs from her back yard
which sold readily for decora­tions.
Dr. H. K. Cooper was the
speaker of the evening. He
subject was "Aladdin’t Lamp” ,
he stressed giving of ourselves
i and the abiding faith of Al­addin.
* The Girls’ Ensemble of the
! High school sang with Sally
1 Sue Hamp, Sandra Shaub,
Peggy Mundorf and Shirly
Waltz singing solos and Marian
Getz, Shirly Waltz and Sally
Sue Hamp took reading parts.
Other members of the ensemble
| are, Marie Armold, Joanne
I Strickler, Kathleen Longeneck­er,
Jean Landis and Thelma
| Willis, Pauline Groff and Roch-
, elle Enck. Susan Thompson is
; the accompanist.
Mrs. Bruce Corbett, the pres­ident,
presided; Mrs. Scott Gar-man
read the collect; Mrs. Gor­don
Burkey and Mrs. John N.
Garber, served as hostesses;
and Mrs. William Miksch an ­nounced
the next meeting Jan.
19 when Mrs. Helen Stark
Thompson of Lancaster will
discuss her work with the
American Friends Service in
Paris, France.
Place Barrels
For Toy Drive
Barrels for “Toys for Tots”
were placed a t Keller Bros, on
South Broad Street, and Wiliam
B. F ry ’s garage on East Main
Street, this week. Toys deposit­ed
in th e barrels will be taken
to Lancaster where the Marine
Reserves will make repairs and
re-paint them.
Members of the Lititz Rotary