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              Siren Pole Stymies Giant Game O f Pick “Up-Sticks For Borough
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s jm i , stymied workmen:. in a ttem p ts to raise if last T h u rsd ay .
Pie« lire sequence ( niadie with a left handed camera, so you’ll
h av e to follow it from iright to le ft) shows th e action a s seen
by a second-story siiiiieriiitendent. F ir s t p h o to shows th e
h u d d le o f workmen a n d b o rough m a n a g e r David J . Itaiier.
Second Devi Y'erger’s crew p re p a re s to h o ist th e pole using
th e boom of a steam shovel. T h ird tile shovel proves in ad e­q
u a te an d Levi's crew re tu rn s w ith a cran e. T ig h t q u a rte rs
p rev en ted swinging th e pole su ffic ien tly to g e t it u p a t a
I spot .just a lo n g sid e th e fire company. Pole is re tu rn e d to I
I e a rth an d fin ally ('o u iiciltu an Hoy Kcidcnbaugh a n d fire
company m em b e r Theodore S ta u ffe r J r ., examine a possible
s ite on th e school g ro u n d s. Since th en th is s ite was ru le d
o u t th e sire n pole will be p u t up ju s t a d ja c e n t to th e r e a r |
of th e Rccotd-Kxpress. Now, in ad d itio n to so unding fire
a la rm s, it will serve to aw ak en th e employes in lime for
d in n e r.
' —R e c o rd -E x p re s s P h o to s
The hardest thing about
holding a job is the work
it requires. The Lititz Record - Express An argument: 2% fact;
98% friction.
Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
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w ith in E a n c a s te r C o u n ty ; $3:50 e lsew h e re . No. 30
The Milton Hersliey School Glee F lu b , the Lititz F lem en ta ry School a u d ito rium on
which appears in a fre e public c o n c e rt Monday, Nov. 10.
sp o nsored by th e L ititz W oman ’s Club a t
Zoners Split, Deny
Industry Expansion
An indus trialis t whose ex­pansion
plans were ha lted by
the Zoning Board of Adjus t­ments
plans to te s t th e ruling
in court.
William A. Miller, who
sought to expand an a lumin­um
foundry on X. Locust St.,
said he would seek a court
ruling a f te r a split vexdict of
the zoners denied him a
building permit by a 2-1
vote.
Miller’s factory has been
zoned as not conforming to
the residential n a ture of the
a re a in which It is located,
Warwick Acres.
Members of the zoning
group said they too hoped Mil­ler
would test the <case in
court, since they we re not in
agre ement on the decision.
Miller told the g roup he
.wanted to use his present
jplant for storage a n d t r a n s ­fer
manufactur ing equipment
to the new structure. He had
been issued a building permit
Tickets On Sale
For Adult Dance
On November 25
Tickets are now available for
the Fall Dance to be sponsored
by the Adult Dance Committee
of the Rec Center.
The dance will be held in the
Warwick High Cafeteria on
Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 2 5th,
from 9to 12, with music by the
Frankie Widder Quartet.
Tickets are priced a t $1.00
per person and can be obtained
from any of these members of
the committee: Mrs. Forbes
Emsweller, Mrs. Richa rd Roth,
)Dale Shelly, William Bell, Mrs.
Monroe Shaub, Richard Murr,
Mrs. Lowell Keatli, Miss Mari­lyn
May, Mrs. Raymond Deater,
William J a ede and Mrs. W. E.
Spicer Jr ., or from McElroy’s
Pharmacy.
four days before the Zoning
Ordinance went into effect
but it expired before cons truc­tion
was begun.
Wallace Hofferth who fav­ored
the request, felt th a t ex­pansion
had already taken
place and th a t -the building
inspector had erred in say­ing
th e 30-day period had
expired. He said the property
was all on one lot, th a t Miller
had hired a contractor and
surveyor and th a t some lan d ­scaping
had been done. There­fore,
Hofferth stated, he felt
it was not actually for the
board to decide since expan­sion
had already begun.
Board member Russell Mar­ke
t disagreed. He felt no
cons truction had been s t a r t ­ed
since no actual building
had been done by a contractor.
He said the permit is void u n ­less
actua l construction is be­g
un and felt the real issue
was contained in Section 33.1
which read th a t expansion
would cause “increased de­t
r imen ta l effect on the su r ­rounding
proper tie s.’’
Siding with Ma rke rt was
Leon deFernelmont, chairman
of the board who s ta ted he a l­so
felt there was a possibility
of increased d e tr imenta l ef­fect.
The second Case he a rd was
the reques t from Henry Ty­son,
local contractor, to erect
a dwelling a t 432 S. Cedar
St., the proper ty of James
Mummert which was recently
purchased from John New­comer.
The lot is 10-feet n a r ­rower
th a n th a t required by
the zoning ordinance and
there is jus t 15 feet available
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DR. LA \ DIS ■ ENTERS
NEW YORK INSTITUTE
Dr. Charles A. Landis Jr.,
entered the In s titu te of Phy­sical
Medincine and Rehabilita­tion,
400 E. 3 4th St., New York,
1G, N.Y. on Sunday. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Landis
and will remain a few weeks.
Delivery Expedited On
3 Borough Mail Routes
Concert Is
Free, Open
To Public
The Lititz Womans Club will
present the Milton Hershey
Glee Club in concert at its next
meeting, Monday, November
13, in the Lititz Elementary
school auditorium, Ster/rditiS to
Mrs. F r a n k Longenecker, presi­dent.
The local appearance of the
popular singing group will pre-eeed
the regula r business of
the Club, and will be in the
form of an open concert to
which the public is invited
without charge according to
Mrs. V. Scott Garman, pro­gram
chairman. Concert time
is 8:00 p.m.
’ The Milton Hershey Glee
Club, under the direction of
Virgil L. Alexander, has e a rn ­ed
a growing reputation as one
of central Pennsylvania’s finest
enter taining groups. They are
known for the ma tu re quality
of tone and impeccable mus i­cianship
which has won them
repeated “ super ior” ra tings in
state music contests and often
finds them favorably compar­ed
■ to college groups.
Especially acclaimed by cri­tics
and audiences alike is the
unique and effective in te rp re ­tation
the boys bring to their
music. Moving with ease about
the stage, they physically in­te
rp re t each song, according to
its own character, adding to
the vocal presentation a re ­freshingly
interes ting visual a-spect.
The Glee Club makes about
40 concert appearances each
school year for such varied oc­casions
as churches, schools,
civic concerts. TV, service clubs,
professional meetings nad state
and national conventions.
The group will climax its
eurent season when it sings
for the opening session of the
.White House Conference on
Youth in Washington, D.C. in
March, 19 60.
Hostesses for the evening
will be Mrs. Abram Beck, Mrs.
Robert L. Bomberger, Mrs. Wil­liam
Light, Mrs. Paul Hess,
Mrs. Howard Minnich, and Mrs.
J. Wilbur Wolf.
Schloads Observe
150frh Anniversary
Mail delivery on six s treets
has been trans fe r red to the
mounted route of Lititz Post
Office to expedite service,
Pos tma s te r Richard C. Rader
announced yesterday.
The change in delivery se r­vice
came a f te r a recent in­spection
of the th re e foot
delivery routes by A r th u r Bad-orf,
supe r intendent of mails,
the postmas ter said.
Added to the 'exis ting
mounted route were deliveries
in this sections:
Second Avenue oust from
Cherry S tre e t,
C h erry S tre e t n o rth from
econd Avenue,
Marion S tre e t e a s t from
C h erry S treet,
Locust S tre e t s o u th from
Main S treet,
> a n d all of F o rn ey d riv e an d
Plum S tre e t.
The auxiliary mounted
route has been serving Sutter
Circle and the Kissel Hill
Road area.
Pa tro n s living on the above
s treets will have the ir mail
delivered between the hours of
10 A.M. and noon daily. For
many this will mean as much
as three hours earlier service.
Pos tma s te r Rade r also pointed
out th,at on this enlarged
mounted ro u te all parcels will
be delivered along with the
regular letter mail hecessitiat-ing
only one tr ip into the area
daily.
Some indication of the tr e ­mendous
work done by foot
carr iers in Lititz was revealed
by the inspection. In one six
day period each of the three
carr iers delivered daily 1300
pieces of letter mail and 700
pieces of newspapers and mag­azines
in addition to regis te r­ed,
C.O.D., insured and other
assorted items. All pieces car­ried
by all carriers in this
period totaled 36,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Wa lte r Sch-load,
502 E. Main St., Ephra ta ,
celebrated the ir Golden Wedd­ing
Anniversary last Friday.
They were married in Ephra ta ,
November 6, 1909 by the Rev.
C. E. Boughter, Pa s tor of the
United Bre th ren Church and
have been life long res idents
of Ephrata.
They are the parents of three
children, Esther , wife of E.
Forry Zartman, Lititz R l ; Paul
.and Walter, both Of Lititz and
six grandchildren. They were
enter tained by their children
on Sunday a t a (Jolden Anni­versary
Diner a t A r t ’s Banquet
Hall in Manheim.
GUEST SPEAKER
The Rev. Albert J. Brinker,
p a s te r of Jerusa lem United
Church of Christ a t Penryn,
will be the guest speaker a t St.
Lu k e ’s on Sunday at the 10:45
a.nt. service.
Editorial
Over-R egulation
Handcuffs Growth
Lititz is suffering from an epidemic of over-regu­lation!
At least this is the impression many of us re­ceived
this week when the borough board of zoning
appeal flatly refused to permit a thriving local indus­try
to enlarge its plant—and invited the owner to
take the matter to court.
The case which serves to point out just how build­ing
and zoning regulations are being applied locally
is that in which W. A. Miller was denied permission
to enlarge his aluminum foundry on North Locust
Street.
The fact that Miller planned to landscape and im­prove
the general appearance of his foundry as a part
of his expansion program appears to have made little
impression upon the borough or the board of zoning
appeal.
Nor does the fact that most communities are
seeking new and bigger industrial installations to hdlp
them meet mounting tax loads appear to have gotten
through to the zoning group, none of whom are bus­inessmen
or face the task of meeting weekly pay­rolls.
As for the practice of making confusing regula­tions
and then inviting applicants for permits to take
the matter to court, we can’t imagine how a munici­pality
could possibly be less friendly to one of its
taxpayers.
Business in Lititz today is the cause of concern
among many local businessmen—and if you have any
doubts of the truth of this statement, just go to the
trouble of asking a few of the downtown retailers.
We would be a lot better off if we would spend
our time and effort to seeking more and more indus­tries
than in over-regulating the ones we have.
Add to the decisions of the zoning and planning
groups, the borough building ordinance which con­tains
quite a few" controversial rules, and one can
quickly see a threat to the future expansion of our
borough.
Our building ordinance, for example, makes it
practically impossible for many downtown places of
business to expand—merely because they cannot pro­vide
off-the-street parking. And off-the-street park­ing,
-incidentally, is more of a borough problem than
the problem of the individual property owner.
Over-regulation has caused many persons- to build
homes outside the borough limits. And over-regula­tion
could easily drive new industries outside the
borough—or completely out of our district, if we con­tinue
in the direction we now are headed.
It’s about time the whole borough policy was re­examined.
Senior Play
Nov. 20, 21
At School
The Senior Class of Wa r ­wick
High School will pres­ent
“Midnight” , a three-act
mystery-comedy, on Friday
and Saturday, November 20
and 21 a t 8:00 P.M. in the
Warwick High School Audi­torium.
The admission will
be $.70 per person.
The story takes place in
the old, deserted Greenwood
Mansion on New Ye a r ’s Eve.
Before long the house begins
to take on all the aspects
of Grand Central Station;
more people walk in and out
of the place-appear . and dis­appear,
sometimes mys terious­ly,
and sometimes for perfect­ly
logical reasons. Many my­sterious
and hilarious antics
lead up to a surprise ending.
The romantic leads a re por­trayed
by J a n e t lVIessner as
Claire Greenwood, and her
fiance Bob Morris, played by
Glenn Dusginger.
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TURKEY CARD PARTY
AT IOOF SATURDAY
The Lady Sutter Rebekah
Ledge will hold a card party
on Saturday, Nov. 14th at
8:00 p.m. in the I.O.O.F. Hall,
North Broad Street. Five h u n ­dred
and thre e and four hand­ed
pinochle will be played and
turkeys will be given as prizes.
Linden Hall
Jr. College
To Close
An expansion of Linden Hall
Academy and the elimination
oi the two-year junior college,
which opened in 1935, was an ­nounced
this week.
Dr. Byron K. Horne, head­master.
said the board of t ru s ­tees
made the decision to eli­minate
the jun io r college be­cause
expansion, of it would
involve expenditures of some
$3.5 million.
He said the board has been
pondering the question for
some time. Linden Hall Jun io r
College has 4 5 girls. These
girls will complete the ir cours­es
but no. new junior college
students will be admitted.
Members of the board said
they envisioned th a t within the
near fu tu re there will be a
number of junior colleges fi­nanced
by the State out of tax
monies.
Linden Hall Academy, 213-
years old, would be expanded
to include .more dining and
dormitory space and a student
service building, according to
Dr. Horne.
While the junior college will
go out of existance as a formal
school, girls who wish to take
post-graduate of extra-curr icu­lar
studies on the level it of­fers
willl be able to do so.
Dr. Horne said th a t the staff,
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Miss Marion Getz
Melvin Jones
Miss Getz,
Jones Given
Rec Honors
Miss Marian Getz and Mel­vin
R. Jones have been select­ed
as the Boy and. Girl of the
Month by the Recreation De­pa
rtment, it was announced
a t a school assembly today.
The selections are made
monthly during the school
year the ir selection was the
first for th e 1959-60 term.
Awards a re made on scholas­tic
ability, character, and
good citizenship traits.
Miss Getz, seventeen, is a
dau g h te r of Mr. and Mrs. Wil­liam
S. Getz, 2 4 W. Lincoln
Ave. A member of th e Mora­vian
Church she is secretary
of the Moravian Youth F e l­lowship.
In school activities
she is chairman of the Typist
Committee of the Yearbook
Staff a member of the Glee
Club., Girls Ensemble and
Girls Chorus and a typist for
the school newspaper.
Secretary o p the Senior
I Class, she is also a member
of Girl Scout Troop 142. An
honor roll s tudent she works
p a r ttime in the office of Mc­Cloud
and Scatchard, Land­scape
Architects.
Jones, also 17, is a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Elton C. Jones,
444 S. Broad St., and a mem­ber
of St. P a u l ’s Luthe ran
Church, the youth group and
Ju n io r Chorus.
Vice-president of the Senior
Class he is also on the Year­book
Staff, in the Senior play,
Pres ident of the Glee Club and
a member of the Russian
Club. He is a vars ity guard on
Warwick’s football team, does
the extra point kicking and
is also a member of the
National Honor Society and
a n honor roll s tudent. Dur­ing
the summer he coached
a Little League baseball team.
Invite Farmers To
Watershed Meeting
Fa rme r s in the Brunnerville
are a have been asked to attend
a meeting on soil and water
conservation a t the Brunne r ­ville
Fire Hall, Nov. 19 at
7:30 p.m.
Members of the Lancaster
County Soil Conservation Dis­trict
will be present to 'discuss
watershed practices.
Edward Buch is a medical
patient a t the Lancas ter Gen­eral
Hospital.
Foundation Proposes
Museum For Lititz,
Seek Public Opinion
Bicentennial Group
Recalls Displays
of Local Lore
Should Lititz preserve i t ’s
history with tangible objects?
This question is of much
concern to the officers and
members of the still existing
and active Lititz Bicentennial
Foundation Inc.
At i t ’s annual meeting in
October, members of the State
chartered organization, voiced
opinions favoring the sponsor­ship
of a local historical mus ­eum.
E
v e r since th e summer
days o f I!»,-»«, when sto re
windows d isp lay ed a n tiq u e s
which p ro claim ed th e rich
local lore, in d iv id u a ls, g ro u p s
an d o rg a n iz a tio n s have dis-cused
th e p o ssib ility of a
museum fo r L ititz .
It was th o u g h t this organiza-
■tior^,v“deti1catet3 -to the re s to ra ­tion
and preservation of his tori­cal
landmarks , documents and
lore of Lititz,” should be in­s
trumental in its founding.
Boro Seeks Wheel
To Leaf Loader
The borough has lost the
front wheel of its leaf load­er
and appealed to anyone
finding same to please re tu rn
it.
The wheel, six inches in
diameter and two inches
thick, is used to jack up the
leaf loader while the borough
truck is dumping - a load.
Borough workmen said the
wheel appa rently fell off
while they were working yes­terday.
The loader was being used
in the vicinity of Cedar,
F ro n t Streets and Lincoln
Avenue and North Alley.
Water Pollution'
Meeting Subject
A discusión on water pollu­tion
problems will be heard by
members of th e Lititz Sports­men’s
Assn, a t a meeting a t the
Lititz Legion a t 8 p.m. Monday,
November 16. „
John Durr, a member of the
State Sanitary Wate r Board,
Reading, will be present. Invit­ed
to attend were Robert Bielo
and Robert Betts, members of
the Pennsylvania Fish Com­mission.
Sportsmen have been con­cerned
with wa te r pollution
problems for some time, but a
recent pollution of Hammer
Creek has spur red additional
interes t in it.
Suggestions presented at the
meeting included the possibility
oi purchasing one of the older
dwellings or building in the
town. This would then he fu r ­nished
with antiques similar to
or used by the early residents
of our community.
Persons furnishing a com­plete
room or the ma jor por­tion
would be recognized with a
plaque.
Officers of the Foundation
said no details have been de­cided
and no official action
has appeared on the minutes
but th a t every possibility will
be th orou ghly investigated.
Alfred L. Douple, president
of the Foundation s ta ted “ In
no better way could this or­ganization
serve the public
ar.d future generations. This
too, would help to be tte r unite
the citizens of the community
and justify the existence of the
Lititz Bicentennial Foundation,
Inc. for generations to come.”
Pa. Silent
On Main St.
Rebuilding’
Lititz Borough still has not
received any word from the
State Highways Department in
regard to the s ta r t of recon­struction
work on Main Street.
Several months ago the boro
was informed th a t the State
will rebuild Main Street. The
Department of Highways said
¡he s treet was on the approved
list for construction this year..
Since then, the borough said,
it has heard nothing.
Meanwhile, Lititz Borough
has gone ahead with its pro­gram
for lowering the Main St.
water lines. I t was necessary
because plans shown to the
borough by the state would
lower the roadbed, leaving ex­isting
lines too close to th e s t l r -
face of the street.
Work on the lines this week
had extended to nearly the eiid
of the block between Cedar and
Church Avenue.
Lititz Machine Co. installed
a new 12 inch line a t the in­tersection
of Main and Cedar
Streets, and the intersection
will be opened to Cedar Street
traffic. Work on Completing
tap-ins in the first block fo
East Main Street is nearing
completion.
The job a t the Cedar and
1 Main Street intersection was
complicated by the relocation
of. a valve which had to he
moved for storm sewers.
Morgan Whistle Serves
As Fire Alarm System
Lititz will use the Morgan
Paper Co. whistle as a fire
a la rm for several days while
the saga of th e fire siren goes
into another act which should
close the cu r ta in on a perfor­mance
dating back to August.
The final act, the borough
hopes, will be the raising of
a 5 5-foot utilities pole on the
municipal pa rk in g lot a t the
re a r of the Record Printing
Co.
This is expected to be done
sometime this week. How­ever,
instead of mounting the
old fire siren which the fire
company. Had repaired, the
borough now will move the
new siren' it had erected at
the athletic field and mount
it on the pole.
If th e fire company gives
its p ermission, th e old siren
will be o ffe red a s a tr a d e
on th e new one which will
cost ST 5 0 . F irem en , who
claimed th ey couldiBt h e a r
tlie new siren , h ad ju s t
p aid $00 to h av e th e old
I one re p a ire d a n d h a d in ­ten
d ed to p u t it back in to
service.
Last Thursday efforts- to
raise the pole and ins tall it
ju s t to the re a r of th e fire
house failed.
The siren story dates back
to August when the old one
became in need of a motor re ­winding
job. Borough coun­cil
said it had been told th a t
it wasn’t feasible to rewind
the siren motor and secured a
temporary siren which it
mounted a t the Wa te r Works.
Firemen- said it wa sn’t high
enough an d ' leaves on the
trees muffled fhe noise so the
borough, with the permission
of the school board, erected a
siren pole on the athletic
field.
This too, was inaudible,
firemen claimed, and they
called a meeting and decided
to have the old siren motor
rewound. Council said it
would call a meeting within
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