Lititz Record Express

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Polls Open For
A lot of people who
spout about “capital and
labor” never had any cap­ital
and never did any
labor.
Primary Election Tuesday -—
Lititz Record -
Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A
Vote Early and Often
The penalty for not hav­ing
prejudices is that you
have to use your head.
Century
83rd Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, a s The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The U t l t z Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, May 14, 1959 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per y ea r by m ail
w ith in L an ca ste r County; $3:50 elsewhere.
No. 6
Contests
For Both
Co. Posts
‘Independents' Back
Organizations In
Both Parties
Warwick area voters go to
.he polls Tuesday to cast bal­lots
in the Primary Election
spiced by several independent
candidates who are bucking
the organizations in several
posts.
Polls will be open from 8
a.m. to 9 p.m. Daylight Saving
Time. The Primary Election
decides which candidates rep­resent
each party in th e No­vember
General Election. '
F o r th e benefit of those
unacquainted with th e elec­tion
laws, the Record’s
streame r urging you to vote
is sincere; th e advice to vote
often, suffice to say, is face­tious;
if not downright ille­g
a l.
In local offices th e re a re no
contests. Three Republicans,
D. Curtis Amidon, C. Wendell
Hower and Robert Aument
seek nomination for th e Gen­eral
.Election as council can­didates
for Lititz. Three Dem­ocrats,
Homer C. Zong, Robert
Weaver and Stephen J. Palko-vic
seek the nominations for
--their party.
j For School Directors three
'p re se n t directors, Wilbur H.
Graybill, Dr. H. B. Minnich
and Raymond Groff seek the
Republican nomination and
Homer Martin J r., R. Glenn
Hershey and W. Scott Cum­mings,
the Democrats appro­val.
Again th re e a re to be
elected.
Contests
Contests loom for County
Commissioner. Democrat Com­mittee
members endorsed Her­b
ert J. Wagaman of Lititz,
present commissioner and C.
Stanley Albright of Columbia.
Unendorsed but running inde­pendent
of party sanction is
Edward G. Wilson of Manheim
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Diehm Plans
For Primary
From Bedside
Justice o f th e Peace Paul
F . Diehm, who underwent su r­gical
trea tment a t the Lancas­te
r General Hospital Monday,
is ju s t as concerned over Tues­day’s
election as over his own
sta te of health.
The election will be the first
in the past 15 years th a t the
local justice of th e peace and
Republican county committee­man
will not be present pass­ing
out sample ballots in front
of the firehouse. During th a t
period of time he invariably
has spent most of the day a t
his post passing out informa­tion
to both Republicans and
Democrats.
Realizing th a t he will still
be confined to the hospital
Tuesday, Diehm this week call­ed
several friends to his bed­side
and completed sub stitu te
plans for getting out th e vote
for the primary.
GOP CANDIDATES SWING THROUGH LITITZ
' Republican candidates swung thro u g h
L ititz for lunch la st Thursday, stopping a t
th e Hotel S u tte r where candidates m e t War­wick
a re a Republican committee members.
L ititz was th e midway point on th e ir to u r
of th e county. Pictured ju s t before lunch
a t th e S u tte r a re (standing) O. Abram Snyder,
candidate for county commissioner; Mrs. C.
Eugene Long, F irs t Ward committeewoman;
Jo h n H. Wenger, candidate fo r county treas-
—R ecord-Express Photo
u re r; Sol Strohm, Warwick Twp. committee­man
and H a rry H. Gring, candidate for
reg iste r of wills. .S e a ted is Atty. Richard
A. Snyder, Republican county chairman;
H arry E. Meyers, candidate for sheriff; Rich­a
rd H. Witmer, candidate for county com­missioner;
Mrs. Betty Deater and Mrs. F lo r­ence
B. Ibach, Warwick Twp. committee-woman.
Poor Timing Costs
T rucker $400 Fine
... Poor timing—and a sudden
impulse to duck out of sight
quickly—this week cost Ivan
Adams, Jr., local tru ck e r, a
$400 fine, one of th e largest
ever imposed in th e borough.
According to testimony pro­duced
a t a hearing held before
Justice of th e Peace J. B.
Herr, Ivan was in the act of
hauling a ra th e r large load of
stone and pebbles from the
Binkley quarry to his- home
north of the borough.
. ^ The stone was needed to
complete th e paving about
the tra ile r camp Adams con­ducts
adjacent to his home.
After leaving th e quarry, the
local tru ck e r drove into th e
scales a t th e Wilbur Choco­la
te Company to have th e
load weighed.
But as he drove in, Adams
caught, sight of two sta te
troopers, who, it la ter develop­Youth
Dances
Planned To Aid
New Center Fund
John Landis was elected
president of the Ju n io r Board
of Directors of the Recreation
Center a t a meeting held
Tuesday night a t which the
board decided to hold weekly
dances, all proceeds going to
the center building fund.
The dances, beginning June
3rd, will be held every Wed­nesday
a t th e Rec. Center.
After expenses, the proceeds
will go to the building fund.
E arlie r this year the Junior
Board of Directors donated
$500 to the fund.
Other officers elected are
Jack Ruebman, vice-president;
Mary Jane Good, secretary and
Roy Clair, treasurer.
Ralph Buch Writes On
Robbery At Post Office
By Ralph Buch
(F ifth Installment)
To omit the Post Office rob­bery
would be remissibility it
was an exciting phase in the
history- of Lititz.
At 1:30 o’clock in th e morn­ing
the town’s night watchman,
Clarence Kreider, was held up
a t the point of a revolver by
two men. While he was cov­ered,
the safe in the Post Of­fice
was blown open and the
culprits marched Kreider to
Rome.
Miss Grace Keller, a tele­phone
operator here for over
fifty years, looking out the
window of th e * Hotel Sutter,
saw th e proceeding b u t was
too scared to give th e outcry.
Dr. M. H. Yoder, retu rn in g
from a night trip saw Kreider
walking down th e stre e t with
two men, but had no reason to
be suspicious.
Money and othe r possessions
taken from Kreider were re ­turned
with th e rema rk: “We
don’t rob working men.”
Varied Recollections
A parade of Civil War vet­erans
of three counties was a
fea ture here over fifty years
ago.
Sahm, a red-headed man had
a leg mangled on the railroad
track and died several days
later. He kept a flock of
white goats in the yard of his
home near Eby’s mill.
Chickens were kept in near­ly
every backyard and the
town enjoyed the distinction of
raising prize-winning stock
equal to none. Pigs were com­mon
in backyard pens and
the owners vied in seeing who
could produce the heaviest
porker. At killing time results
were reported in th e town
papers.
As I look back I appreciate
th e pleasure of seeing th e
town evolve from plain liv­in
g to conveniences ^nd in ­creased
in d u stria l life here.
The chocolate factory s ta rt­ed
from the Kendig Candy
Company.
J. M. Mast came to Lititz
and sta rted making traps in a
small way, also fishing tackle.
It was th e beginning of the
Lititz Trap Company.
After th e wate r system was
installed in town, th e first
electric lights were tu rn ed on,
in 1894, a project by a local
company.
Third Paper
. A th ird newspaper, The Tim­es,
was s ta rte d here over fifty
years ago by a former school
teacher, Edgar Enck. The pap­er
lasted about two yea rs and
paved the way Dor Enck getting
a lucrative job as advertising
manager in Kauffman's big
store in Pittsburgh. Paul Beck
drew weekly cartoons for the
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ed, ju s t happened to be th e re
for no reason in particular.
According to th e officers
th e ir attention was attra c ted to
Adams when he hurriedly back­ed
his truck off the scales and
prepared to leave the scene.
They then ordered him to drive
the tru ck back on th e scales
and declare th a t they found th e
truck to be 5,040 pounds over­weight.
‘Squire Herr imposed the
heavy fine, compiled according
to rules laid down by th e act
of the legislature covering
truck, weight limits.
Annual Fire Co.
Festival Date
Set As June 13
Lititz F ire Company’s an ­nual
festival will be held Ju n e
13, general chairman Donald
Stauffer announced this week.
The festival is the main
source of income for th e op­eration
and maintenance of
borough fire equipment anti a
goal of $4,000 has been set
for this year. The money will
be added to the company’s
equipment fund.
Members of th e Ladies Aux­iliary
to th e department will
prepare 1,500 gallons of chick­en
corn soup, 300 q uart of
clam mix and strawberries,
french fries and the other us­ual
menu items for the affair.
Mrs. Margaret Sherwood
Duchess’ Cousin
Is Speaker For
Club Women
The Lititz Woman’s Club
will have th e ir spring ban­quet
on Monday evening, May
18, a t 6:15 a t th e General Sut­te
r Hotel. Mrs. Margaret
Sherwood of New York City
will speak on “Enterta ining
Can Be F u n ” .
A native New Yorker, de­scendant
of the first colonial
governor of Virginia, European
educated, Mrs. Sherwood prom­ises
to be cosmopolitan, poised,
and persuasive. She is a first
cousin of the Duchess of Wind­sor,
and like her famous re la ­tive
is a woman of surpassing
style and charm.
Her gift of anecdote and
mimicry make her lecture
“good th e a te r” . Mrs. Sher­wood
will impart secrets of the
great hostesses and give clever,
unusual tips on party-giving.
Group To
Quiz Public
On Shopping
How to make shopping in
Lititz a more attra c tiv e exper­ience
was th e subject of a
meeting .of some 20 local bus­inessmen
a t the Young Men’s
Business League Monday night.
The meeting, called by the
reta ile rs committee of the
Lititz Chamber of Commerce,
saw th e reorganization of local
businessmen in an effort to
provide a unified approach to
providing b etter shopping
facilities to the Warwick area
public.
In an effort to do so, th e
group decided, It would seek
th e advice of a re a residents
on th e shopping picture here.
A questionnaire will be sent
out asking local persons to
te ll th e businessmen what
they should do, w hat serv­ices
they should provide, and
what suggestions th e public
would have along those
lines.
Heading a committee to
draw up. a list of questions
will be Harold H. Kauffman,
121 W. Lemon St. He w.ill be
aided by David R. Armol’d, 55
E. Main St., Simon T. Ficking-er,
23 E. Main St.; Robert J.
Hanna, 38 E. Second Ave., and
Edward Needles, 24 E. Main
St.
The committee will report to
the group next Monday a t 7:30
p.m. a t th e business .league.
Any local businessmen in te r­ested
in attending a re invited.
At th a t / time the organiza­tion
will select a name. Elected
to head the group was J. B.
Hess. Preston Krebs is vice-president,
Marvin E. Miller,
secretary and David H. Hie-stand,
treasurer.
The group will work with
the chamber of commerce re­tailers
committee, headed by
Floyd Hagy.
ABC Field Day
Has 136 Entries
The Annual Field Day, spon­sored
by th e Lititz Chapter,
ABC in cooperation w.ith War­wick
Schools, gets underway
a t 1 p.m. Saturday with 136
area youth entered in the
events.
The Field Day will be held
on the Athletic Field and
Chairman Ken Simmons urged
parents of children to come
out and see th e affair.
Children entered should re­port
to th e Athletic Field by
12:30 p.m. Saturday for ori­entation
prior to th e 1 p.m.
sta rtin g time.
Of 136 entries th e re a re 90
boys and 46 girls.
Court To Rule
On Seibert Case
I
A charge of breaking and en­te
ring and assault and battery
lodged against Henry Seibert,
29 W. Lincoln Ave., was re ­turned
to court by Justice of
the Peace J. B. H err Monday.
Seibert posted $500 bail. He
was arrested early la st T hurs­day
morning, May 7, when he
allegedly threw a chair through
a front window a t the home of
James McMullen, 17 Market
St,, his father-in-law.
Police said an altercation fol­lowed
and was caused by Sei­b
ert attempting to persuade
his estranged wife and the ir
two children to re tu rn home
with him.
Millage Rate Cut Said
‘Likely’ For District
School Board Seen
Setting Rate Wed.
Explosion
In House
At Penryn
Damage To Home Said
Caused By Leak
In Gas Line
An early morning explosion
severely damaged a Penryn
home la st Friday, causing an
estimated several hundred dol­lars
damage.
The family of James Shrein­er,
including his wife and two-year-
old son; were routed from
th e ir beds about 6:20 a.m. by
a loud blast and fire. They
weren’t injured but the living
room floor of th e ir housl.e was
buckled and th e foundation
damaged.
Penryn F ire Company re ­sponded
and extinguished a
slight fire. Cause of the ex­plosion
isn’t d e f i n i t e l y
known b u t i t is believed to
have been set off by a leak
in a bottled gas line.
The Shreiner home is heated
by gas and it was reported a
leak developed-, filling the
basement with fumes. When
the gas burned “kicked off”
about 6:20 a.m. it triggered
the blast and fire.
An investigation is being
conducted by th e gas company
to determine the exact cause.
Firemen said Shreiner had dug
some post holes for fence posts
the day before, and the possib­ility
a gas line may have been
struck was being probed.
Firemen kept fire damage
down but the explosion and
smoke was said to have caused
several hundred dollars worth
of damage.
‘Fish Day’
For Kids
On Sunday
Kids from th e Warwick
school district from ages 5 to
14 are invited to th e Kids
Fish Day Sunday a t the Leb­anon
Pumping Station Dam to
fish for real live tro u t and a
host of prizes.
The Kids Fish Day is an an ­nual
promotion of Lititz Sports­mens
Assn, and will be con­ducted
between 1 p.m. and 4
p.m. Sunday under the chair­manship
of Homer C. Zong.
Anyone from th e a re a Is
invited and eligible to win
prizes. P aren ts must furnish
tran sp o rta tio n to th e event
however. Sportsmen a re ask­ing
a il children to reg ister
since gate prizes will be giv­en
as well as prizes for catch­es.
Fishing sta rts a t 1 p.m. and
continues to 4 p.m. Through­out
th a t time popsicles, donat­ed
by Elmer “Dutch” Harding,
will be distributed to the kids.
In case of rain the a ffa ir will
be held May 24.
Assisting Zong in the pro­ject
a re sportsmen Donald
Walters, Lester Zimmerman,
David Sammett, Harry Lausch,
Eugene Showers, Robert Hard­ing
and Raymond Rudy.
Donating the prizes a re Le­roy
Pfautz, E arl Steffy, Harold
McCreary, Harris Store, Her­shey
Grocery, Zong’s Barber
Shop, P. T. Trimble Hardware,
Western Auto and Kreider
Hardware.
$25 Reward Offer
In Boxwood Theft
A reward of $25 has been
offered for information leading
to th e recovery of nine box­wood
trees stolen from a prop­erty
near Rothsville.
Offering th e reward through
the classified section of the
Record-Express th is week was
Lee E. Brenner, E p h ra ta R2.
He said th e boxwoods, about
18 inches high, were taken
from his property south of
Rothsville n ea r L ittle Cones­toga
Creek.
ATTEND FB I SCHOOL
Borough policemen were in­structed
on how to combat
racketeering a t an F.B.I. school
conducted Monday a t Lower
Swatara Twp., nea r H arris­burg.
Members of th e local
force who attended th e session
were Officers Lloyd Long and
George Hicks.
NEW BIKE LICENSE
Lititz, Pa.
BICYCLE
LICENSE
EXPi RES
JUNE T, 1960
N? .0
Here is Lititz’ new bicycle
tag, complete with a repro­duction
of th e famous “head-end’’
of th e Lititz Springs
Creek. They’r e available a t
25c each a t th e Borough Of­fice.
A Borough Ordinance
makes, i t mandatory fo r every
resident of th e borough who
owns a bicycle to purchase a
license. The law was passed
in 1942. L a st yea r 387
license tags were issued. The
cu rren t license expires Ju n e 1.
Purpose of th e license is to
aid police in re tu rn in g lost,
strayed o r stolen bikes as well
as providing bicycle safety
rules. The bicycle reg istra ­tion
application contains tips
on safety which rid ers are
urged to follow. Violation of
th e rules is violation of a
borough ordinance and sub­je
c t to penalty.., The new
license is black on red and Is
of th e “ sticker” variety” . ,
Park Issues
‘Go Wading’
Invitation
If you’ve ever had an itch-to
go wading through the big
tro u t basin a t Lititz Springs
Park, you’re invited to do so
by th e park committee next
Monday.
But th e re ’s a hitch. Chair­man
of Grounds J. M. Leed
said you’re welcome too, if
you’ll show up to help clean
the basin of unsightly algae
which is growing there.
He called fo r volunteers
to aid in th e project which
will get underway a t 6 p.m.
next Monday, May 18. Vol­unteers
should bring hip
boots, rakes, forks, hooks,
o r any equipment which can
be used fo r dragging th e a l­gae
to th e stream walls and
taking i t out.
Leed said a truck will be
the re to haul it away. The
basin was cleaned la st fall, but
the fast growing algae has
moved in to mar the beauty of
the spot. Several weeks ago
Borough Policeman H. Lloyd
Long took it upon himself to
try to clean the basin b u t found
the job is too much for one
man.
P a rk Trustees decided Tues­day
nigl^t to appeal to local
firemen, sportsmen and resi­dents
to aid them in the algae
riddance Monday.
Rotary To Host
Warwick High
Honor Students
Honor students of th is year’s
graduating class a t Warwick
High School will be guests of
honor of th e Lititz Rotary
Club a t a meeting to be held
a t the American Legion Home
Tuesday evening.
Winners of a rhetorical con­te
st sponsored by the local Ro­ta
ry Club will be announced
and the first prize winner will
be the speaker of the evening.
Rotarians la st Tuesday .were
addressed by Grant Heilman,
who described his work of
taking photographs. Classi­fied
as an agricultural .stock
photographer, he submits
photos to agencies which in
tu rn sell them to magazines,
trad e papers and advertising
agencies.
Approximately 1,000 photos
a re sold each year, of which he
seldom sees more th a n five per­cent
in print, Heilman explain­ed.
One photograph has been
sold as many as 60 times, Tie
added.
He was introduced by Jo­seph
Gearhart, program chair­man
for the meeting.
B o a r d President Says
Amount Of Cut Not
Yet Certain
A cut in last year’s 49 mill
property tax ra te for th e .W a r­wick
Union School District was
seen “ likely” yesterday.
Wilbur H. Graybill, presi­dent
of the school board, said
th e liklihood existed and that*
the board expects to have a
final answer on th e millage
ra te a t its meeting next Wed­nesday
a t 8 p.m.
Last week board members
sat down in a "special finance
committee session to go over
the budget which, as tenatively
set a t the April meeting, call­ed
for a $5 per capita tax, a
one per cent wage tax an un­specified
millage rate.
The holdup on adopting a
tenative millage r a te was
said due to th e lack of final
assessment figures fo r th e
district. At th a t time i t ap­peared
th e millage was to be
reta in ed a t la s t year’s fig­ure.
P rio r to la st week’s budget
session with the finance com-
Birth Announced
Before Delivery
I t ’s a p re tty n e a t tric k b u t
announcemtnt of a b irth was
received in Lititz th e day be­fore
th e delivery of th e child
la st week.
I t happened when a cable­gram
was received by Mr.
and Mrs. Hiram Eberly from
Yokosuka, Japan, announc­ing
th e ir daughter, Jose­phine,
had given b irth to a
son, Scott Allen Dagle. The
Eberly’s got th e cablegram
on May 12 an d th e b irth
announcement said Mrs.
Dagle delivered on May 13.
—Ja p an time.
Mrs. Dagle’s husband, a
lieutenant in charge of th e
Army’s public information
office in Yokosuka, will be
stationed th e r e 'fo r . another
year.
A ttributing to th e time
angle of th e incident, of
course, was th e inte rnation­a
l date line.
Pool Committee
Discusses Site
Members of the Lititz
Springs Swimming Pool com­mittee
met' yesterday with a
representative of the State De­partment
of In te rn a l Affairs
and discussed the possibility of
the western end of the park as
a pool site.
Chairman George Kalenich
and committee members Charl­es
J. Wagaman and Dr. Byron
K. Horne met with Lester Ben­son,
chief of the division p f
municipal planning and arch­itecture,
to discuss th t tra c t
which is partially on th e park
grounds and partially on the
Buch tract, being purchased by
th e borough.
Committee members have a l­so
met with two pool builders
and a member of the pool
committee is expected to be on
hand to report to borough
council a t th e May 26 meeting.
The Ju n io r'an d Senior Class­es
of the Warwick High school
will be guests a t th e fifth an ­nual
“ Post Prom Frolic” to be
held May 22nd a t th e High
school Cafeteria from twelve
midnight to 4:00 a.m.
The a ffa ir is sponsored by
the Lifitz Community Center
with financial assistance from
th e Lititz Woman’s Club and
the Lititz Lions Club.
Mrs. Forbes Emesweller and
Mrs. _ R ichard Roth a re co-chairman
for th e a ffa ir with
the following assistants, Dale
Shelley, decorating committee;
Mrs. Monroe Shaub, food;
Richard Murr, properties and
supplies; Claude P. Swartz-baii&
h, waiters.
Other members of th e plan­ning
committee are, Mrs. B. J.
Losensky, Mrs. Ira Yeagley,
Mrs. Benjamin Forrest, Daniel
Reitz, Homer Hackman, co-or­dinators
from the ju n io r and
senior classes, Joan Strickler
mittee, the school board had
met with borough council in an
informal gathering. Council
had asked an explanation of
why millage rates hadn’t been
dropped, or if it will be cut
since th e school district is get­ting
the benefit of the one per
cent wage tax.
Council said previously un­less
the board could provide
a satisfactory answer, th e
borough would exert its rig h t
to levy a one half of one per­cent
wage tax. Council re ­minded
th e school board it
stepped aside to allow the
board to levy a wage tax with
the understanding it would re­su
lt in a big cut in millage
rates and thus benefit more
people in th e Warwick área.
Yesterday Graybill said “ I t’s
.likely th a t there will be a tax
cut. How much we don’t
know yet because a fte r the
meeting (with th e finance
committee) w e\w an ted to go
over the budget again to check
our figures.”
He said he believed the mil­lage
rate will be agreed upon
a t the meeting next Wednes­day.
The board’s budget is
$1,057,067 or $78,000 more
than last year. Over half of
the increase and over half of
of the total budget is for items
over which_the board has no
control.
Swap Ideas
On Proposed
Zone Areas
An exchange of ideas on
proposed zoning regulations
for Lititz was made by mem­bers
of the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce with th e Borough
Planning Commission Tuesday
night.
Í The idea of the meeting was
to discuss phases of th e pro­posed
Zoning Ordinance. The
Planning Commission has wel­comed
comment on the pro­posed
code and is meeting
with various groups and indi­viduals
to iron out what seem
to be objectionable portions
of the code.
The Planning Commission
will meet next Tuesday, May
17, to discuss th e sugges­tions
broached by th e cham­ber
and other persons.
Chamber of commerce repre­sentatives
felt the code le ft too
little an area for industrial
and commercial expansion.
Planners said they felt th e re
was plenty of area for com­mercial
expansion if the entire
area designated for such were
to be utilized.
Other items to be considered
included a proposed shopping
mall, the possibility of diagon­al
parking on Main Street and
one-way traffic. These ideas
will be considered by both
groups a t future meetings.
The chamber said it felt th e
industrial zone in the proposed
code was insufficient and sug­gested
additional industrial
zones. However the planners
pointed out the zones proposed
by the chamber are out of town
and thus were not under the
jurisdiction of the proposed
ordinance.
and John Landis, juniors; Lin­da
Williams and Ned Partridge,
seniors.
Working personnel: Richard
Allebach, doorman; -Richard
Roth, Donald Steffy and Forbes
Emsweller, headwaiters; Mrs.
Richard Zartman, Mrs. George
Rose, and Mrs. John Zartman,
kitchen personnel; Robert
Hess, Ray Kauffman, Dr. Rob­ert
Brubaker, Richard Collins,
and Ronald Nuss, waiters.
Open house will be held from
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. th e
night of the Frolic with th e
following -women serving , as
hostesses, Mrs. Richard Aile-bach,
Mrs. Raymond Deater,
and Mrs. Robert Watts. This
is held for th e underclassmen,
parents, and the general pub­lic
to preview th e decorations
and the en tire set-up.
The Frolic is open only to
members . of th e Junior and
Senior Classes by reservation.
5th Annual Post Prom
Frolic Set For May 22