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y™ MUM Free Prizes, Parking, Kiddie Rides, Ice Cream For R ed Tag Days If you’re careless enough, your present car will last you a lifetime. The Lititz Record - Express Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century A good father, finding his son on the wrong track, will provide switching facilities. 83rd Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, a s The Sunbeam (Consolidated w ith The I iltltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, July 16, 1959 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per year by mall w ith in Lanca ste r County; $3:50 elsewhere. No. 14 Days For Sale July 24 And 25 Retailers Plan Prize Jackpot For Shoppers Here R e d Tag bargains galore, a jackpot of prizes, free parking, free rides for the kiddies and free ice cream cones. T h a t ’s what is in s tore for Lititz shoppers next weekend when members of Lititz Reta ile r s ’ Assn, throw the ir semiannual Red Tag Days Sale on Friday and Saturday of next week, July 24 and 25. Re ta i le r s said they were shooting for a ja c k p o t of prizes wo r th $1,000. The prizes would be given to shoppers who become eligible to win merely by signing th e i r n ame to a slip of p ape r in participating stores. Merchants will issue slips next Friday and Sa turday, Then th ey ’ll drajw winners and po^t the name of the winners in th e i r store th ro u g h o u t the next week. All you have to d o is stop in to see wh e th e r your name wa s drawn. If It was, collect your prize. The jackpot has become a favorite fe a tu re of Red Tag Days and retailers said they were aiming for a bigger and be tte r jackpot than ever. F r e e P a rk in g Added to the sales promotion this year will be free parking a t the borough’s metered spaces. Borough Council, re quested by retailers, approved a motion granting hooding of the parking d uring the sale. Still fu r th e r incentive will be the issuance of free tickets for kiddie rides. Tickets will be issued to any child accompanied by a parent next Fr id ay and Saturday. Kiddie rides will be set up one on the elementary school grounds, the o th e r at th e front end of the p a rk , and free rides will be given next Saturday to those bolding tiek- A number of stores also plan to give free ice cream tickets. Read the ads to see where these tickets may be obtained. Ros-ey’s tru ck will redeem the ice cream tickets for cones S a tu r day, July 25 a fte r 1 p.m. F u ll details of Red Tag Day will ap p e a r in next week’s edition of th e R e cord, including a lis ting of th e ja ck p o t of prizes. The Retailers Assn, remin d ed participating me rchants of a meeting at the Young Men’s Business League Mkmday, July 20. At this meeting tickets will be dis tributed to merchants . They should also pick up othe r Red Tag promotional material a t th a t time, 7:30 p.m. Council Meets August 4 On Zoning Changes A special meeting of Lititz Borough Council has been called for Tuesday, August 4, to discuss changes in a proposed zoning ordinance for Lititz. Changes in the original d ra f t' of the ordinance were made by members of th e Lititz Planning Commission a fte r it had held a series of public and private meetings with persons who objected to c ertain portions of th e code. Council set up the special -meeting so it could devote its entire agenda to the zoning changes. The meeting begins a t 7:30 p.m. Public Pool Cost Estimated At $135,000 The principle of th e Sheaffer Spring Hook, named a f t e r its designer, is successfully demo ns tra ted by a United States Air Forc e C011- v a ir F-106 interceptor. Landing a t a speed of a b o u t 125 miles p e r hour, th e pilot re leased th e hook which was held flush ag a ins t th e fuselage d ur ing flight. The spr ing steel sha f t whipped the hook into position to catch the runway a r r e s tin g cable and bring th e plane to a smooth, quick stop, llruc e R. Sheaffer, a Lititz native conceived th e hook. Ex-Lititz Mans Design For Dedee Worth $ 2 ,0 0 0 Bruce R. Sheaffer ( le f t ) , formerly of Lititz, receives an Initial wa rd of $2,000 f rom All American Engine e r ing Company fo r his ou ts tan d in g design for a new lightweight a i r c ra f t a r r e s tin g hook. Pre s en tin g th e check to Sheaffer, P ro je c t Designer a t AAE, is Ro b e r t B. Cotton, AAE Vice P re s ident. Youths Fined For Disorderly Conduct Thre e youths were charged with disorderly conduct a fte r a scuffle in the 300 block of N. Cedar St., borough police said. Police identified them as Paul Dawber, 113 W. Lemon St., Victor Lefever Jr ., 325 S. Broad St., and Vernon Shrei-ner Jr ., Ea s t Peter sburg. The scuffle occurred early in the morning of July 9, police said, and the trio was committed to jail in de fau l t of bail. They la te r paid the fine and costs before Jus tice of the Peace J. B, Herr. MOTORIST CHARGED He rb e r t F. Nixdorf, Lititz R3, was prosecuted by borough police on a charge, of driving too fast for conditions. He will be given a hearing before J u s tice of the Peace J. B. Herr. Buch Tells of Sailor Reprimanding Dewey By Ralph Buch Wayne Longenecker, who conducted the railroad r e s ta u r an t here, was probably the only sailor who repr imanded Admiral George Dewey— and got away with it. The local lad was on the flagship Olympia before the ibattle of Manila Bay. The admiral sent our order s forbidding whistling on account of confusion with the communication » system. While on deck duty Longenecker heard someone whistling and he discovered it was Dewey himself. Keeping out of sight he shouted “Cut out the whistling, fHdn’t you hear Dewey’s o rd e r ? ’’ There was no fu r th e r whistling. Of all the li te ra tu re concerning the g re a t victory a t Manila Bay, his torians missed the main facts, ijongen-e ek e r explained the h a rb o r was heavily mined, bi-sides h aving shore batteries and search lights. Yet the Spanish fleet inside was tak en by complete surprise. The only direct hit by the Spanish was a missle which s t ruck the deck of- th e Olympia, n o t a dozen feet away from where th e Lititz sailor was s tationed -a t a forward gun. Fo r tu n a te ly it was a “d u d ,” and the repair to the flooring can be seen on the ship now on permanent display in Philadelphia. Officers of the English fleet nearby, were dubious th a t Manila could be taken. Admiral Dewey had a joke r up his sleeve. Ins tead of advancing in the main harbor , he chose a back passage, little used and dangerous , and proceeded with all lights out by night. The American fleet opened up with full fire before the enemy was aware of its pres enc e , with the result th a t startled the world. Only one man in the fleet knew the passage and his skill as a navigator and his name was never recorded in history. Lititz Losing 200,000 Gallons Of Water Daily Lititz is unable to account for some 200,000 gallons of wa te r daily and has intensified its wa te r leak location program. The borough said it is accounting for about 53 per cent of the water pumped. This is considerably higher than was accounted for several years ago, but the borough is worried over the increased loss of the gallonage daily. Council expressed concern over J u n e ’s s tatistics from th e wa te r d ep a r tme n t which showed th a t tills ye a r th e daily minimum pumping to ta led 248,000 gallons compared to la s t J u n e ’s daily tmlnumiim of 156,000 g a llons. V v Pumping hours per day rose from 13.8 in Ju n e of last year to 16.5 this year while the total number of gallons pumped rising from 15,646,000 in Ju n e of 1958 to 24,220,600 this June. The borough said ' it believes the leak has been traced to somewhere in the n orthe rn end of town but thus far is unable to pinpoint it. The loss of the 200,000 gallons of water daily would be enough to fill a swimming pool the approximate size of Woodridge. BRETHREN CHURCH HAS PARK SERVICE The Church of th e Brethren will be in charge of the se rvice in the Springs P a rk on Sufiday evening a t 7:00 p.m. The Rev. E. Floyd McDowell will deliver the sermon and the Senior choir, directed by Lee Dunkle will sing. ■EGBERT HAS SURGERY Albert S. Bbbert, 603 S. Spruce St., underwent surgery in St. Jo s ep h ’s Hospital and is reported in a satisfactory condition. MRS. EMSWELLER ILL Mrs. Forbes Emsweller, 422 S. Linden St., is a surgical patient a t St. Joseph Hospital, Lancaster. Bruce Sheaffer Makes New Arresting Hook For Jet Planes Bruce R. Sheaffer, a native of Lititz, has received an initial award of $2,000 from All American Engineer ing Company for his outs tanding design of a new, light-weight airplane a r re s ting hook th a t has won the acceptance of the United States Air Force. Sheaffer, who lives a t 4 Kenble Court, Hyde Pa rk , Wilmington, Del., is a project designer for All American En gineering. The a r re s tin g hook he designed has been named the “ Sheaffer Spring Hook,” by the company in honor of his achievement. I t was developed basically for use on the supersonic speed Century Series of Air Force fighter and interceptor aircraft. In designing his hook, Sheaffer depa rted sharply from s tan d a rd designs in which hooks a re affixed to heavy, solid steel, round-bar sha f ts a n d weigli up to 300 pounds. By contrast, the Sheaffer a r r e s tin g hook consists of a light steel hook a tta ch ed to -a f la t spring steel sh a f t a n d weighs only 35 pounds. In operation, the Sheaffer hook is a ttached flush to the under side of a plane. The re a r or hook end is fastened to th e fuselage by two release bolts. When the pilot of the a i r plane wants to use the Sheaffer a r re s ting hook to engage a runway a r re s tin g cable, he simply flicks a switch to re lease the bolts. The released sh a f t springs and positions the hook to snag an a rres ting cable as the plane moves down a runway. A res ident of Wilmington since 1955 when he joined All American Engineering as a designer, Sheaffer has worked on many of th e company’s ma jor programs including its safety ba r r ie r -a r re s ting hook developments and its hydrolift landing gear designs. In addition, he has demons trated his . engineering versatility, by designing for the company, under contract to DuPont, a stocking s t re tche r to te s t the durability of stockings. Born in Lititz, Sheaffer “went We s t” as a young man, (Continued on Page 2) May Delay Rec Start Until ‘60 Bankruptcy Proceedings May Snarl Progress On Getting Site The s ta r t of actual construction of Lititz’ I Walton Bobst Recreation Center was seen delayed by legal technicalities until 1960. Technicalities involve the site of the new center and a b an k ruptcy proceeding agains t Lititz Springs Pretzel Co., owner of one of the buildings involved. The owner of an o th e r building involved, Charles Brown, Princess Ave., Lancaster, who formerly owned and operated the bakery, conferred with members of the c ente r ’s building committee. Richard S. Allebach, cha irman of th e committee, said yesterday Brown lias made tile c ente r a n offer and it appears likely the committee will seek to have an option drawn up to those terms. Allebach said Brown’s offer was “reasonable,” b u t declined a t this time to quote price. Brown is the owner of the dwelling located between the bakery and the present re creation center. Member of the building committee settled on those two properties a fte r proposed sites a t two othe r placeg were r e jected. One was the Buch tract, west of the Lititz Springs P a rk which is being purchased by the borough and the other involved th e parking lot of Post 1 46 3, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Both the borough and the VFW declined to sell their land. Ironically, it is the third site which the planning committee favored even before the borough and the VFW were (Continued on Page 3) $475 Damage In Accident At Orange, Spruce An estimated $475 damage occurred in a three-car accident at Spruce and Orange Streets, borough police reported. Police said the crash occurr-a t 6:15 p.m Thursday, July 9, when an automobile driven by Carl W. Connelly, 22 N. Main St.. Manheim, collided with anothe r vehicle operated by- Marion E. Walker, 117 W. Third Ave. Connelly was headed east on Orange Street and the Walker car south on Spruce. After the collision with Connelly the Walke r vehicle also struck a parked auto owned by John H. Ulrich Jr., 28 S. Spruce St. Damage was estimated by Officer H. V. Dissinger as $250 to Ulrich’s car, $175 to the Walke r auto and $75 to Gon-nelly’s. No one was injured. T. T. Dussinger Undergoes Surgery Thomas T. Dussinger, 33 W. Miarion St., well known locai insurance agent, is a patient in Lancas ter General Hospital. He underwent surgery Satu rday and was reported in a satisfactory condition. Rev. Mitchell New Brethren Minister The Rev. Olden D. Mitchell of Detroit, Mich., has accepted the pa s tora te of the Lititz Church of the Brethren, effective September 1, 1959. The Rev. Mr. Mitchell is presently Pa s tor of the Fir s t Church of the Bre thren in Detroit. Born and reared near Roanoke, Virginia, he is the son of a minister, grandson of a minister, and has two bro th ers now active as Pastors, Ear! and Floyd, all serving in the Church of the Brethren. He was ordained to the minis try over twenty-six years ago, and has held Pas torates in Shippensburg and Ridge, Pa.; Nokesville, Va.; and Staunton, Va. He has also served as District Executive Secretary in the Districts of Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, and Wisconsin. A g rad u a te of Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va., and (Continued on. Page 3) GETS POSITION Miss Ba rb a ra Ann Grube, nineteen, d a u g h te r of Mrs. F r a n k Grube, 143 N. Cedar St., has been plaeed as a re s ervation ag en t by E a s te rn Airlines a t Washington, 1). C., th e f i rm announced. A g r a d ua te of Warwick High, 1058 she also g rad u a ted from the National School of Aeronautics, Kansas City, iii April of this year. Committee Reports Estimate Includes Cost of Four Acres May Revise Figure In Final Report Due August 15 A public swimming pool for Lititz could be built for an estimated $135,000, a committee has reported to the borough. Council members heard the repor t from George Kalenich, chairman of a committee studying the possibility of a self-supporting pool for the borough. He said the $135,- 000 figure was “ the best rough e s tima te ” the committee could come up with. . Voters, last N o v em b e r , authorized the borough to float a bond issue of $175,000 for a pool. Kalenich’s rep o r t was th e second th e committee has made to council since it was commissioned to investigate Pretzel Co. Enters Bankruptcy Petition Rev. Mitchell A bankruptcy petition lias been filed in E a s te rn District Federal Court by th e Lititz Springs l ’retzel Co., i t was a n nounced yesterday. .Filing of the petition confirmed a story in the Record's edition of Ju n e 25, repor ting the pretzel firm had ceased operations.. The bankruptcy petition was filed Ju n e 26. . . Creditors of the company have been notified th a t a fi r s t meeting of creditors lias been scheduled for Wednesday Ju ly 22 a t 2 :3 0 p.m. D.S.T., in the Lanc a s te r County Court House. Edward O z i li s k i, Norristown, is among the incorporators of tile company. Russell L. Hiller, referee in bankruptcy, said the court appointed attorney Robert L. Pfannebceker, Lancas ter to take charge of the b a n k ru p t ’s assets pending the firs t meeting of creditors. At the meeting next week creditors may at.tend, prove their claims, elect a trustee and appoint a committee of creditors to examine the pretzel company’s records. The late day to file claims was fixed by Hiller as J a n u ary 22, 1960. Meanwhile the Inte rna l Revenue Service re leased- a claim it had filed on equipment in the pretzel company. ]RS last Friday had seized the plant, padlocking it. The revenue service had intended to auction plant equipment unless a balance of $1,419.62 in 19 5 8 witholding and social security taxes was paid within ten days. Yesterday, Howard ■ /e a r n er, of the Lancas ter office of IRS, said the seizure order was released. He said IRS h a d n 't known of the b an k ruptcy petition a t tile time it padlocked the historic pretzel plant. Now, he said, IRS, will be among the claimants a t next week’s bankruptcy hearing. He Girls ‘Sorry/ No Action In Vandal Case Three Lititz girls given the choice between an apology and juvenile court action, last week made amends for smashing two decorative flower pots at the home of Reuben H. Dull, 135 Liberty St. ; Dull, in a story published by tlie Record las t week, appealed to the girls to apologize or face police action. The girls read of the offer and went to Dull’s house where they explained they h a d n ’t intended to smasii the flower pots,' ju s t take them from an ornamental tree and place them nearby. However, a Liberty Street neighbor, who witnessed the girls removing the pots, s ta r t l ed them, they said, and, they accidentally dropped them. The girls promised to make re s titu tion and_Dull and police said they were satisfied th a t ju v en ile court action wa sn’t req u i r ed., . . . The girls denied being implicated in other recent vandalism a t Roy Clair’s grocery, where potatoes and dog food was stolen and s trewn over the neighborhood.. said IRS had moved in to protect the gove rnment’s claim when it learned the plant ceased operation. The Lititz Springs Pretzels have been manufactured since 1890. The bakery, opposite the park on Pine Alley was built by P. B. Bucher and Samuel Erb and la te r operated by Jame s J. Huebener, F ra n k Buch, Homer E. Sturgis, Louis “Dewey” H a i n e s , C h a r l e s Brown and Bruce Wike and now the incorporation headed by Ozinski. The bakery proper ty along with a dwelling owned by Brown have been designated as a portion of the new site for the I Walton Bobst Recreation Center. Playground Attendance On The Rise Attendance a t the three Lititz are a summer playgrounds is growing daily with the special event this Friday “ On Wheel Day.” Recreation Director William E. Bell said 152 children are registered for Lititz Springs Playground., 48 children at Riothsville Playground and 22 a t Brunnerville Playground. Registration is still open, he said, all children have to do is report to th e playground neares t them. In addition, to “ On Wheel Day” a special event Friday will be a balloon blowing contest. Special tou rn amen t s listed for next week include horseshoe and quoit pitching, tetter - ball, shuffleboard and box hockey. Next Wednesday the J u n ior Olympics will take place. Winners of th e special events for th e f i r s t week of playground we re listed by tlie ins tructors. Competition was divided into th r e e age groups, five th ro u g h seven; e ight and nine; and ten and (Continued on Page 3) tlie possibility of a pub’jc pool for Lititz. Kalenich said the group is aiming for all August 15 completion of its task so th a t council may make a decision on th e pool a t the August meeting. Other members of the pool group are Dr. Byron K. Horne, Atty. Menno B. Rohrer, Charles J. Wagaman and Floyd Hagy. Kalenich told council the committee reached two unanimous decisions. One was for locating the pool on the Buch tra c t, directly behind the water works and bordering the school property. The other was th a t the size of the site should be four acres. Kalenich reported the committee may have to change the $135,000 estimate as it re ceives and analyzes fu r th e r information. However, he said, the figure, which would include the cost of the four acre site, will be “ the upper limit for a self-supporting pool.” Pool Size Poser Committee problems, he said, include determining a pool size. He said the choice th e committee faces seems to be either to base the size on th e borough population or assume the lack of interest shown in Warwick and Elizab e th Township’s, according to pool application returns , is incorrect. Were the assumption taken th a t more persons would use th e pool from the township, th e n it would be necessary to base pool size on the population of the school district. He said tlie decision could be made easier if residents of th e township, who did n ’t reply to the borough’s application b u t who would use tlie pool if it were built, would reply within the next week. Another alternative, he told th e borough, would be to accept monetary donations to the pool which would allow cutting down on the amo u n t of money to be borrowed. Council said it wouldn’t permit any donations a t this time since it was the unders tanding the analys is by the committee would be made on the basis of the pool suppor ting itself. Kalenich said it is hoped line drawings of a plot plan an d facilities can be had for council before they decide on wh e th e r to build the pool. Kalenich pointed out his re p o r t was a “ preliminary” one, a n d depending on remaining information to be gathered the final repor t “ could be quite d if fe ren t .” Scouts Car Wash Saturday, July 25 Explorer Post 342 of Lititz will hold a car wash at Kline’s Garage, Kissel Hill, all day Saturday, July 25, it was an nounced this week. Proceeds from the car wash will be used to make improvements on the scout cabin in Lititz Springs, P ark. Explorers said they will pick up and deliver cars. Persons wanting to help the Explore r’s project should dial MA 6-6 726 or MA 6-5831. Prices will be $1.25 and $1.50 for vehicles with white wall tires. Police Start Check On Auto Safety Equipment Lititz Borough Police will cooperate in a safety check of automobiles being sponsored by the Lancas ter County Law E n forcement Officers Assn., acting chief H. Lloyd Long said yesterday. Long, pres ident of the officers group, and acting chief of police in the absence of vacationing chief Lloyd ,J. Hoffman, said, broough officers will s ta r t a check of vehicles for faglty equipment. If equipment, such as lights, tu r n signals, muffler, tires, - steering, brakes and Other safety devices are fa u l ty, officers will issue a notification slip to the owner Of tlie car. The owner will be given a reasonable length of time to make repairs. When repairs have been made the auto owner will have the garage fill out a sh o r t form which mus t be mailed to police. If repairs a r e n ’t made, the owner can he presecuted for operating with faulty equipment. Long said the drive is being conducted on a countywide basis. Official State Inspection Stations and authorized mechanics only are allowed to make the repairs. The drive is aimed a t re ducing accidents a tt r ibuted to mechanical failure. Long sajd the idea is to help drivers to become aware of the importance of having the ir vehicles safety equipment in working condition. Long emphasized th a t police, under a section of the Motor Code, could ins titute prosecution immediately for such defects, but the program is d e signed to correct defects r a th e r th a n punish violators who sometimes may not be aware th e i r vehicle isn’t conforming to safety regulations.
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
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Full Text | y™ MUM Free Prizes, Parking, Kiddie Rides, Ice Cream For R ed Tag Days If you’re careless enough, your present car will last you a lifetime. The Lititz Record - Express Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century A good father, finding his son on the wrong track, will provide switching facilities. 83rd Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, a s The Sunbeam (Consolidated w ith The I iltltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, July 16, 1959 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per year by mall w ith in Lanca ste r County; $3:50 elsewhere. No. 14 Days For Sale July 24 And 25 Retailers Plan Prize Jackpot For Shoppers Here R e d Tag bargains galore, a jackpot of prizes, free parking, free rides for the kiddies and free ice cream cones. T h a t ’s what is in s tore for Lititz shoppers next weekend when members of Lititz Reta ile r s ’ Assn, throw the ir semiannual Red Tag Days Sale on Friday and Saturday of next week, July 24 and 25. Re ta i le r s said they were shooting for a ja c k p o t of prizes wo r th $1,000. The prizes would be given to shoppers who become eligible to win merely by signing th e i r n ame to a slip of p ape r in participating stores. Merchants will issue slips next Friday and Sa turday, Then th ey ’ll drajw winners and po^t the name of the winners in th e i r store th ro u g h o u t the next week. All you have to d o is stop in to see wh e th e r your name wa s drawn. If It was, collect your prize. The jackpot has become a favorite fe a tu re of Red Tag Days and retailers said they were aiming for a bigger and be tte r jackpot than ever. F r e e P a rk in g Added to the sales promotion this year will be free parking a t the borough’s metered spaces. Borough Council, re quested by retailers, approved a motion granting hooding of the parking d uring the sale. Still fu r th e r incentive will be the issuance of free tickets for kiddie rides. Tickets will be issued to any child accompanied by a parent next Fr id ay and Saturday. Kiddie rides will be set up one on the elementary school grounds, the o th e r at th e front end of the p a rk , and free rides will be given next Saturday to those bolding tiek- A number of stores also plan to give free ice cream tickets. Read the ads to see where these tickets may be obtained. Ros-ey’s tru ck will redeem the ice cream tickets for cones S a tu r day, July 25 a fte r 1 p.m. F u ll details of Red Tag Day will ap p e a r in next week’s edition of th e R e cord, including a lis ting of th e ja ck p o t of prizes. The Retailers Assn, remin d ed participating me rchants of a meeting at the Young Men’s Business League Mkmday, July 20. At this meeting tickets will be dis tributed to merchants . They should also pick up othe r Red Tag promotional material a t th a t time, 7:30 p.m. Council Meets August 4 On Zoning Changes A special meeting of Lititz Borough Council has been called for Tuesday, August 4, to discuss changes in a proposed zoning ordinance for Lititz. Changes in the original d ra f t' of the ordinance were made by members of th e Lititz Planning Commission a fte r it had held a series of public and private meetings with persons who objected to c ertain portions of th e code. Council set up the special -meeting so it could devote its entire agenda to the zoning changes. The meeting begins a t 7:30 p.m. Public Pool Cost Estimated At $135,000 The principle of th e Sheaffer Spring Hook, named a f t e r its designer, is successfully demo ns tra ted by a United States Air Forc e C011- v a ir F-106 interceptor. Landing a t a speed of a b o u t 125 miles p e r hour, th e pilot re leased th e hook which was held flush ag a ins t th e fuselage d ur ing flight. The spr ing steel sha f t whipped the hook into position to catch the runway a r r e s tin g cable and bring th e plane to a smooth, quick stop, llruc e R. Sheaffer, a Lititz native conceived th e hook. Ex-Lititz Mans Design For Dedee Worth $ 2 ,0 0 0 Bruce R. Sheaffer ( le f t ) , formerly of Lititz, receives an Initial wa rd of $2,000 f rom All American Engine e r ing Company fo r his ou ts tan d in g design for a new lightweight a i r c ra f t a r r e s tin g hook. Pre s en tin g th e check to Sheaffer, P ro je c t Designer a t AAE, is Ro b e r t B. Cotton, AAE Vice P re s ident. Youths Fined For Disorderly Conduct Thre e youths were charged with disorderly conduct a fte r a scuffle in the 300 block of N. Cedar St., borough police said. Police identified them as Paul Dawber, 113 W. Lemon St., Victor Lefever Jr ., 325 S. Broad St., and Vernon Shrei-ner Jr ., Ea s t Peter sburg. The scuffle occurred early in the morning of July 9, police said, and the trio was committed to jail in de fau l t of bail. They la te r paid the fine and costs before Jus tice of the Peace J. B, Herr. MOTORIST CHARGED He rb e r t F. Nixdorf, Lititz R3, was prosecuted by borough police on a charge, of driving too fast for conditions. He will be given a hearing before J u s tice of the Peace J. B. Herr. Buch Tells of Sailor Reprimanding Dewey By Ralph Buch Wayne Longenecker, who conducted the railroad r e s ta u r an t here, was probably the only sailor who repr imanded Admiral George Dewey— and got away with it. The local lad was on the flagship Olympia before the ibattle of Manila Bay. The admiral sent our order s forbidding whistling on account of confusion with the communication » system. While on deck duty Longenecker heard someone whistling and he discovered it was Dewey himself. Keeping out of sight he shouted “Cut out the whistling, fHdn’t you hear Dewey’s o rd e r ? ’’ There was no fu r th e r whistling. Of all the li te ra tu re concerning the g re a t victory a t Manila Bay, his torians missed the main facts, ijongen-e ek e r explained the h a rb o r was heavily mined, bi-sides h aving shore batteries and search lights. Yet the Spanish fleet inside was tak en by complete surprise. The only direct hit by the Spanish was a missle which s t ruck the deck of- th e Olympia, n o t a dozen feet away from where th e Lititz sailor was s tationed -a t a forward gun. Fo r tu n a te ly it was a “d u d ,” and the repair to the flooring can be seen on the ship now on permanent display in Philadelphia. Officers of the English fleet nearby, were dubious th a t Manila could be taken. Admiral Dewey had a joke r up his sleeve. Ins tead of advancing in the main harbor , he chose a back passage, little used and dangerous , and proceeded with all lights out by night. The American fleet opened up with full fire before the enemy was aware of its pres enc e , with the result th a t startled the world. Only one man in the fleet knew the passage and his skill as a navigator and his name was never recorded in history. Lititz Losing 200,000 Gallons Of Water Daily Lititz is unable to account for some 200,000 gallons of wa te r daily and has intensified its wa te r leak location program. The borough said it is accounting for about 53 per cent of the water pumped. This is considerably higher than was accounted for several years ago, but the borough is worried over the increased loss of the gallonage daily. Council expressed concern over J u n e ’s s tatistics from th e wa te r d ep a r tme n t which showed th a t tills ye a r th e daily minimum pumping to ta led 248,000 gallons compared to la s t J u n e ’s daily tmlnumiim of 156,000 g a llons. V v Pumping hours per day rose from 13.8 in Ju n e of last year to 16.5 this year while the total number of gallons pumped rising from 15,646,000 in Ju n e of 1958 to 24,220,600 this June. The borough said ' it believes the leak has been traced to somewhere in the n orthe rn end of town but thus far is unable to pinpoint it. The loss of the 200,000 gallons of water daily would be enough to fill a swimming pool the approximate size of Woodridge. BRETHREN CHURCH HAS PARK SERVICE The Church of th e Brethren will be in charge of the se rvice in the Springs P a rk on Sufiday evening a t 7:00 p.m. The Rev. E. Floyd McDowell will deliver the sermon and the Senior choir, directed by Lee Dunkle will sing. ■EGBERT HAS SURGERY Albert S. Bbbert, 603 S. Spruce St., underwent surgery in St. Jo s ep h ’s Hospital and is reported in a satisfactory condition. MRS. EMSWELLER ILL Mrs. Forbes Emsweller, 422 S. Linden St., is a surgical patient a t St. Joseph Hospital, Lancaster. Bruce Sheaffer Makes New Arresting Hook For Jet Planes Bruce R. Sheaffer, a native of Lititz, has received an initial award of $2,000 from All American Engineer ing Company for his outs tanding design of a new, light-weight airplane a r re s ting hook th a t has won the acceptance of the United States Air Force. Sheaffer, who lives a t 4 Kenble Court, Hyde Pa rk , Wilmington, Del., is a project designer for All American En gineering. The a r re s tin g hook he designed has been named the “ Sheaffer Spring Hook,” by the company in honor of his achievement. I t was developed basically for use on the supersonic speed Century Series of Air Force fighter and interceptor aircraft. In designing his hook, Sheaffer depa rted sharply from s tan d a rd designs in which hooks a re affixed to heavy, solid steel, round-bar sha f ts a n d weigli up to 300 pounds. By contrast, the Sheaffer a r r e s tin g hook consists of a light steel hook a tta ch ed to -a f la t spring steel sh a f t a n d weighs only 35 pounds. In operation, the Sheaffer hook is a ttached flush to the under side of a plane. The re a r or hook end is fastened to th e fuselage by two release bolts. When the pilot of the a i r plane wants to use the Sheaffer a r re s ting hook to engage a runway a r re s tin g cable, he simply flicks a switch to re lease the bolts. The released sh a f t springs and positions the hook to snag an a rres ting cable as the plane moves down a runway. A res ident of Wilmington since 1955 when he joined All American Engineering as a designer, Sheaffer has worked on many of th e company’s ma jor programs including its safety ba r r ie r -a r re s ting hook developments and its hydrolift landing gear designs. In addition, he has demons trated his . engineering versatility, by designing for the company, under contract to DuPont, a stocking s t re tche r to te s t the durability of stockings. Born in Lititz, Sheaffer “went We s t” as a young man, (Continued on Page 2) May Delay Rec Start Until ‘60 Bankruptcy Proceedings May Snarl Progress On Getting Site The s ta r t of actual construction of Lititz’ I Walton Bobst Recreation Center was seen delayed by legal technicalities until 1960. Technicalities involve the site of the new center and a b an k ruptcy proceeding agains t Lititz Springs Pretzel Co., owner of one of the buildings involved. The owner of an o th e r building involved, Charles Brown, Princess Ave., Lancaster, who formerly owned and operated the bakery, conferred with members of the c ente r ’s building committee. Richard S. Allebach, cha irman of th e committee, said yesterday Brown lias made tile c ente r a n offer and it appears likely the committee will seek to have an option drawn up to those terms. Allebach said Brown’s offer was “reasonable,” b u t declined a t this time to quote price. Brown is the owner of the dwelling located between the bakery and the present re creation center. Member of the building committee settled on those two properties a fte r proposed sites a t two othe r placeg were r e jected. One was the Buch tract, west of the Lititz Springs P a rk which is being purchased by the borough and the other involved th e parking lot of Post 1 46 3, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Both the borough and the VFW declined to sell their land. Ironically, it is the third site which the planning committee favored even before the borough and the VFW were (Continued on Page 3) $475 Damage In Accident At Orange, Spruce An estimated $475 damage occurred in a three-car accident at Spruce and Orange Streets, borough police reported. Police said the crash occurr-a t 6:15 p.m Thursday, July 9, when an automobile driven by Carl W. Connelly, 22 N. Main St.. Manheim, collided with anothe r vehicle operated by- Marion E. Walker, 117 W. Third Ave. Connelly was headed east on Orange Street and the Walker car south on Spruce. After the collision with Connelly the Walke r vehicle also struck a parked auto owned by John H. Ulrich Jr., 28 S. Spruce St. Damage was estimated by Officer H. V. Dissinger as $250 to Ulrich’s car, $175 to the Walke r auto and $75 to Gon-nelly’s. No one was injured. T. T. Dussinger Undergoes Surgery Thomas T. Dussinger, 33 W. Miarion St., well known locai insurance agent, is a patient in Lancas ter General Hospital. He underwent surgery Satu rday and was reported in a satisfactory condition. Rev. Mitchell New Brethren Minister The Rev. Olden D. Mitchell of Detroit, Mich., has accepted the pa s tora te of the Lititz Church of the Brethren, effective September 1, 1959. The Rev. Mr. Mitchell is presently Pa s tor of the Fir s t Church of the Bre thren in Detroit. Born and reared near Roanoke, Virginia, he is the son of a minister, grandson of a minister, and has two bro th ers now active as Pastors, Ear! and Floyd, all serving in the Church of the Brethren. He was ordained to the minis try over twenty-six years ago, and has held Pas torates in Shippensburg and Ridge, Pa.; Nokesville, Va.; and Staunton, Va. He has also served as District Executive Secretary in the Districts of Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, and Wisconsin. A g rad u a te of Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va., and (Continued on. Page 3) GETS POSITION Miss Ba rb a ra Ann Grube, nineteen, d a u g h te r of Mrs. F r a n k Grube, 143 N. Cedar St., has been plaeed as a re s ervation ag en t by E a s te rn Airlines a t Washington, 1). C., th e f i rm announced. A g r a d ua te of Warwick High, 1058 she also g rad u a ted from the National School of Aeronautics, Kansas City, iii April of this year. Committee Reports Estimate Includes Cost of Four Acres May Revise Figure In Final Report Due August 15 A public swimming pool for Lititz could be built for an estimated $135,000, a committee has reported to the borough. Council members heard the repor t from George Kalenich, chairman of a committee studying the possibility of a self-supporting pool for the borough. He said the $135,- 000 figure was “ the best rough e s tima te ” the committee could come up with. . Voters, last N o v em b e r , authorized the borough to float a bond issue of $175,000 for a pool. Kalenich’s rep o r t was th e second th e committee has made to council since it was commissioned to investigate Pretzel Co. Enters Bankruptcy Petition Rev. Mitchell A bankruptcy petition lias been filed in E a s te rn District Federal Court by th e Lititz Springs l ’retzel Co., i t was a n nounced yesterday. .Filing of the petition confirmed a story in the Record's edition of Ju n e 25, repor ting the pretzel firm had ceased operations.. The bankruptcy petition was filed Ju n e 26. . . Creditors of the company have been notified th a t a fi r s t meeting of creditors lias been scheduled for Wednesday Ju ly 22 a t 2 :3 0 p.m. D.S.T., in the Lanc a s te r County Court House. Edward O z i li s k i, Norristown, is among the incorporators of tile company. Russell L. Hiller, referee in bankruptcy, said the court appointed attorney Robert L. Pfannebceker, Lancas ter to take charge of the b a n k ru p t ’s assets pending the firs t meeting of creditors. At the meeting next week creditors may at.tend, prove their claims, elect a trustee and appoint a committee of creditors to examine the pretzel company’s records. The late day to file claims was fixed by Hiller as J a n u ary 22, 1960. Meanwhile the Inte rna l Revenue Service re leased- a claim it had filed on equipment in the pretzel company. ]RS last Friday had seized the plant, padlocking it. The revenue service had intended to auction plant equipment unless a balance of $1,419.62 in 19 5 8 witholding and social security taxes was paid within ten days. Yesterday, Howard ■ /e a r n er, of the Lancas ter office of IRS, said the seizure order was released. He said IRS h a d n 't known of the b an k ruptcy petition a t tile time it padlocked the historic pretzel plant. Now, he said, IRS, will be among the claimants a t next week’s bankruptcy hearing. He Girls ‘Sorry/ No Action In Vandal Case Three Lititz girls given the choice between an apology and juvenile court action, last week made amends for smashing two decorative flower pots at the home of Reuben H. Dull, 135 Liberty St. ; Dull, in a story published by tlie Record las t week, appealed to the girls to apologize or face police action. The girls read of the offer and went to Dull’s house where they explained they h a d n ’t intended to smasii the flower pots,' ju s t take them from an ornamental tree and place them nearby. However, a Liberty Street neighbor, who witnessed the girls removing the pots, s ta r t l ed them, they said, and, they accidentally dropped them. The girls promised to make re s titu tion and_Dull and police said they were satisfied th a t ju v en ile court action wa sn’t req u i r ed., . . . The girls denied being implicated in other recent vandalism a t Roy Clair’s grocery, where potatoes and dog food was stolen and s trewn over the neighborhood.. said IRS had moved in to protect the gove rnment’s claim when it learned the plant ceased operation. The Lititz Springs Pretzels have been manufactured since 1890. The bakery, opposite the park on Pine Alley was built by P. B. Bucher and Samuel Erb and la te r operated by Jame s J. Huebener, F ra n k Buch, Homer E. Sturgis, Louis “Dewey” H a i n e s , C h a r l e s Brown and Bruce Wike and now the incorporation headed by Ozinski. The bakery proper ty along with a dwelling owned by Brown have been designated as a portion of the new site for the I Walton Bobst Recreation Center. Playground Attendance On The Rise Attendance a t the three Lititz are a summer playgrounds is growing daily with the special event this Friday “ On Wheel Day.” Recreation Director William E. Bell said 152 children are registered for Lititz Springs Playground., 48 children at Riothsville Playground and 22 a t Brunnerville Playground. Registration is still open, he said, all children have to do is report to th e playground neares t them. In addition, to “ On Wheel Day” a special event Friday will be a balloon blowing contest. Special tou rn amen t s listed for next week include horseshoe and quoit pitching, tetter - ball, shuffleboard and box hockey. Next Wednesday the J u n ior Olympics will take place. Winners of th e special events for th e f i r s t week of playground we re listed by tlie ins tructors. Competition was divided into th r e e age groups, five th ro u g h seven; e ight and nine; and ten and (Continued on Page 3) tlie possibility of a pub’jc pool for Lititz. Kalenich said the group is aiming for all August 15 completion of its task so th a t council may make a decision on th e pool a t the August meeting. Other members of the pool group are Dr. Byron K. Horne, Atty. Menno B. Rohrer, Charles J. Wagaman and Floyd Hagy. Kalenich told council the committee reached two unanimous decisions. One was for locating the pool on the Buch tra c t, directly behind the water works and bordering the school property. The other was th a t the size of the site should be four acres. Kalenich reported the committee may have to change the $135,000 estimate as it re ceives and analyzes fu r th e r information. However, he said, the figure, which would include the cost of the four acre site, will be “ the upper limit for a self-supporting pool.” Pool Size Poser Committee problems, he said, include determining a pool size. He said the choice th e committee faces seems to be either to base the size on th e borough population or assume the lack of interest shown in Warwick and Elizab e th Township’s, according to pool application returns , is incorrect. Were the assumption taken th a t more persons would use th e pool from the township, th e n it would be necessary to base pool size on the population of the school district. He said tlie decision could be made easier if residents of th e township, who did n ’t reply to the borough’s application b u t who would use tlie pool if it were built, would reply within the next week. Another alternative, he told th e borough, would be to accept monetary donations to the pool which would allow cutting down on the amo u n t of money to be borrowed. Council said it wouldn’t permit any donations a t this time since it was the unders tanding the analys is by the committee would be made on the basis of the pool suppor ting itself. Kalenich said it is hoped line drawings of a plot plan an d facilities can be had for council before they decide on wh e th e r to build the pool. Kalenich pointed out his re p o r t was a “ preliminary” one, a n d depending on remaining information to be gathered the final repor t “ could be quite d if fe ren t .” Scouts Car Wash Saturday, July 25 Explorer Post 342 of Lititz will hold a car wash at Kline’s Garage, Kissel Hill, all day Saturday, July 25, it was an nounced this week. Proceeds from the car wash will be used to make improvements on the scout cabin in Lititz Springs, P ark. Explorers said they will pick up and deliver cars. Persons wanting to help the Explore r’s project should dial MA 6-6 726 or MA 6-5831. Prices will be $1.25 and $1.50 for vehicles with white wall tires. Police Start Check On Auto Safety Equipment Lititz Borough Police will cooperate in a safety check of automobiles being sponsored by the Lancas ter County Law E n forcement Officers Assn., acting chief H. Lloyd Long said yesterday. Long, pres ident of the officers group, and acting chief of police in the absence of vacationing chief Lloyd ,J. Hoffman, said, broough officers will s ta r t a check of vehicles for faglty equipment. If equipment, such as lights, tu r n signals, muffler, tires, - steering, brakes and Other safety devices are fa u l ty, officers will issue a notification slip to the owner Of tlie car. The owner will be given a reasonable length of time to make repairs. When repairs have been made the auto owner will have the garage fill out a sh o r t form which mus t be mailed to police. If repairs a r e n ’t made, the owner can he presecuted for operating with faulty equipment. Long said the drive is being conducted on a countywide basis. Official State Inspection Stations and authorized mechanics only are allowed to make the repairs. The drive is aimed a t re ducing accidents a tt r ibuted to mechanical failure. Long sajd the idea is to help drivers to become aware of the importance of having the ir vehicles safety equipment in working condition. Long emphasized th a t police, under a section of the Motor Code, could ins titute prosecution immediately for such defects, but the program is d e signed to correct defects r a th e r th a n punish violators who sometimes may not be aware th e i r vehicle isn’t conforming to safety regulations. |
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