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No. 33
State Gets Funds For Proposed Fishing Lake
Code Violation Is
Charged To Florist
MEMORIAL TROPHY
A charge of violating the
borough’« building code lias
been filed agains t a local
florist.
Hut as of yesterday, the
florist, W. Clyde Hendricks,
said he knew nothing about
it. The charge is th a t Hen­dricks
violated th e building
c • by constructing an 8x2 6
fo.-i. addition to his g re en­house
facilities without hav­ing
a building permit.
C h a r g e s w e r e filed,
Borough Manager David J.
Bauer said, with Ju s tic e of
(lie I’eacc I’aul F. Dielun.
Yesterday Dielun was de e r
h unting and unavailable for
comment.
Hendricks said yesterday it
Parked Cars
Damaged In
Collision
Over $1,000 damage re sult­ed
in a four-car accident in
which a dr iv e r was charged
with operating a motor ve­hicle
while intoxicated by boro
police Thanskgiving morning.
Police said Vernon C. Stirein-er,
Lititz R4, posted bail on
) charge before Ju s tic e of
tile Peace Paul F. Diehm a f te r
his automobile s truck th r e e
parked vehicles.
The accident occurred ab o u t
1 a.m. Thanksgiving morning
as Shreiner was headed south
in the 200 block on N. Cedar
S tr e e t. Police said he lost con­trol
of the vehicle and collided
with pa rked automobiles (own­ed
by Miss Naomi Malem, IHalti-more,
Md., Gladys A. Hacker,
E p h r a ta R2 and John A. Bu rk ­ha
rt, 215 N. Cedar St.
Damage to Shreiner's car
was es timated a t $350. Miss
Madlem, a teacher in the Ba lt i­more
school system, was home
for the Thanksgiving vacation
and d amage to her 19 59' ve­hicle
was estimated a $¡500.
Police said the new car had
been driven only 6,000 miles.
An estimated $100 d ama g e
resulted to the Hacker auto
and $300 to th a t of Burklhart.
Police said Shreiner was exa­mined
by a physician and pro­nounced
under the influence
of^intoxicants.
2nd Water Line
Link Completed
To Water Street
, The main line of Lit itz ’
•new water system is now in­s
t a l l e d from th e sq u a r e to
Wa te r Street, the borough
said yesterday.
Borough Manager David J.
Bauer said the second ma jo r
link of th.e system, from Cedar
Street to Wa te r Stre e t on
Main, was tes ted and pro­nounced
fit by the borough.
The borough previously
tes ted and approved the sec­tion
of the main line in the
firs t block of E. Main Street.
With the main line approved,
work is now proceeding on
connecting residences along
the second link to the line.
\Kork on digging the install-
) laterals is being done by
Bdrough workmen and the
contractor, Lititz Machine Co.
Meanwhile Ba u e r said
ryesterday, he was awaiting
a n estimate on th e n umb e r
of working days which will
be required to finish, th e
¿ job which extends some
. 800 feet beyond th e
borough’s ea s te rn limits on
■Main Street.
. Borough Council, a t »last
we ek ’s meeting, had in s t ru c t ­ed
Bauer to get an es timate
from J. Hurley Nuss, off the
machine company. If thie es­tima
te isn’t satisfactory,
council said, it will seek a n ­othe
r meeting with Nuss in an
effort to expedite work.
In seeking a completion
date, council told Baue r to
confer with Nuss and set a
schedule on the res t of the
job.A
s th e job how s tands lay­ing
of the main line is well
ahead of the lateral Ins talla­tion,
council was told. I t had
been anticipated th a t in p u t­ting
in the laterals, th e old
pipes could be pulled through.
This d id n ’t work, however,
j l it has become necessary
UP excavate for laterals, slow­ing
the job.
was news to him. “ It seem® 1
to me i t ’s awful s t ran g e th a t
I haven’t heard about it ,” he |
said. j
The case stems back to an
appeal Hendricks made to the
Zoning Beard of Adjus tments
when his application for a
building permit was refused
because his florists business is
zoned as not conforming to
th e residential n a tu r e of the
area. Under the Zoning Code
any expansion of “ non-con­forming”
uses mus t be ap ­proved
by the zoning board.
Hendricks appealed to the
board and his appeal was
neard Oct. 12. Members of the
ooaid of ad jus tments then de­cided
to make a field tr ip to
his place to determine first
hand wh e th e r the addition
should be improved.
Upon arr iving they found
the building had been con­s
tructed. The zoners approv­ed
his appeal, not because the
building was a lready up they
said, b u t because it wa sn’t
d e tr imenta l to th e su r ro u n d ­ing
neighborhood. •
The penalty upon.conviction
of a violation of the building
cade is a $25 fine plus a $5
fine for every day th a t con­s
truction is done without a
permit. The $5 assessment
wouldn’t apply since the
building is completed.
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Lititz Reminded
Of CD Test On
Monday, Dec. 7
Lititz and the sur rounding
a re a will participate in the
statewide civil defense te s t on
Mon.. December 7, between the
hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00
p.m.
Except for listening for . the
public ¡action signals, the re
will be no public participation
such as stopping of traffic
The purpose of this tes t is
to familiarize • the public with
the "A le r t ” signal and the
“Take Cover” signal. These
signals will be given by sound­ing
the factory whistles of
Wilbur Chocolate Co. and Ani­mal
Trap Co.
The “Ale r t” signal will be a
th re e minute continuous blas t
of the whistles. The “Take
Cover” signal will be a series
of shor t blasts. The second
sounding of the “Ale r t” signal
will signify “Ail Clear” and
conditions r e tu rn to normal.
The Civil Defense h e adqua r ­ter
s located in th e Borough
office will be manned d ur ing
the two hour period.
Kopp Improved,
But Unconscious
Spencer “ Skip” Kopp was re ­ported
“ still unconscious but
showing slight improvement”
in E p h ra ta Community Hospi­tal
yesterday.
Yesterday was the 18th day
in which he remained in a coma
a f te r being injured in Wa r ­wick’s
las t fotball game of the
season. He u nde rwent surgery
a t ’ the hospital las t Thursday
and yesterday spoke the first
words since his injury, ac­cording
to relatives.
He has been eating and is
responding , to commands, the
family said.
He re is th e Be rnie Ride r
Memorial Trophy which will
be presented to th e Outs tand­ing
Lineman In Lanc a s te r
County by the Southcentral
Penna. Coaches Assn. Coun­ty
football coaches a re nom­ina
ting boys for th e awa rd
which is being made a s a
memorial to Wa rwick ’s la te
head football coach.
Memorialize
Grid Coach
With Trophy
A trophy memorializing the
late Be rn a rd J. Rider, will be
presented to the Outstanding
Lineman in Lanc a s te r County
by the Southcentral Penna.
Coaches Assn.
Rider f.ormer head football
coach a t Warwick, died Sept.
19. He was an active member
of the coaches group, members
of which set up the trophy
presentation in his memory.
Named the “ Bernie Rider
Memorial Trophy” it will be
presented a t a meeting of the
'Lititz Lions Club, of which
Rider was also an active mem­ber
and former secretary.
P re s id e n t Charles J . Wa-g
aman of th e Lions Club said
a da te fo r th e presentation is
being set. Selection of the
player is made by th e coaches
of (jaunty hig h scliol foot­ball
teams.
Each head football coach has
been asked to submit the names
of thre e lineman as nominees
for the award. The selections
a re to be des ignated first, se­cond
and third choice. The final
award, will be made by scoring
each nomination on a five,
three, two point basis according
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Directory
Of Lititz
In Making
Project Would Aid
Newcomers, List
Services Here
A Directory of Lititz, the
combined work of th e Lititz
Jayne-Cees and Wa rwick’s
supervising principal. G. Marlin
Spaid, is due to be printed.
The booklet, containing a
shor t history of Lititz, and
information p e r t inent to go­vernment,
churches, stores and
services, is expected to be avail­able
about the fi r s t of the year.
Originally the brainchild of
Spaid, who felt it would serve
as a guide for- acquainting new
teachers with the Lititz area,
the booklet has become a club
project for the Jayne-Cees.
Listed will be town offi­cials,
churches, organiza­tions,
clubs, hotels, r e s ta u ­ran
t s , physicians, dentists,
man u fa c tu re r s , an d o th e r
special services. The booklet
will also contain a de ta iled
map of Lititz.
Members of the Jayne-Cees
took over the correlating of
ma terial for th e boklet with an
eye to helping new teachers to
get to know the community and
also for d is tr ibution to new­comers
in the area.
Jayne-Cees have been con­tacting
local business men for
listings in an effort to make
a complete listing of special
services offered in Lititz, Busi­nesses
or services which would
like to be listed b u t which
haven’t been contacted a re ask­ed
to notify Mrs. Craig Kil-bourne,
MAdison 6-6398.
Listings cost" tfic” businesses
or individuals $1, which is to
be used to de f ray printing
costs. The booklet will be
printed a t school and will sell
for a quarter.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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Fighting Rooster
Now Door-Knocker
Dexter Christener, a surgical
pa tient a t the Lancas ter Gen­eral
Hospital, had a toe amp u ­tated
on Saturday. His condi*
lion is reported as being satis­factory.
, E dwa rd Jerome Vogeler,
w r i te r , philosopher and breeder
of gamecocks, has come up
with the perfect Chris tmas pre­sent
for the person th a t has
everything.
He ’s sanding out to his
“ roostdr f ighting .fr iends”
door-knockers in the shape of
a fighting rooster. Vogeler had
the knockers specially cast and
says h e ’ll give about a dozen
of them for Christmas.
The sage of White Hackle
Studios, who has been b re ed ­ing
fighting chickens fo r 60
years, wil send th e knocke rs
to owners of his “Nugget”
gamecocks in Mexico, Gua te ­mala,
El Salvador, P u e r to
Rico, th e Phillippines, H a ­waii
an d Canada.
“ They’re not for sale, see,
Ed assured us, “ but th e y ’ll
make nice Chris tmas presents
to the people th a t have my
roos ters .”
The knockers, cast of brass,
are five inches high and about
four inches wide. Ed says he
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had them cast from a model of
a fighting cock he has drawn,
sketches of which hang in the
Crossroads of Sports and th e ’
Sports Gallery, the two top
sports a r t galleries in New
York.
What, made him thin k of the
d o o r knockers? “I ju s t g e t
cuckoo rueas, see,” he explain­ed.
“But this is a unique thing,
because nobody ever heard of a
fighting cock door-knocker be­fore
.”
Donegal Chapter
Award Goes
To Marian Getz
Miss Marian S. Getz, dau g h ­te
r of Mr. an d Mrs. William
Getz, 2 4 W. Lincoln Ave.,
will receive the Donegal
Chapter D.A.R. Award as the
Good Citizen of Warwick
High School.
The presentation will be
made a t a meeting of th e
chapte r on Thursday, March
10, a t th e Ir is Club, Lancas­ter.
The D.A.R. annually
sponsors th e contest, open
only to girls of th e senior
class.
Class members select th re e
girls who a re outs tanding in
th e following qualities: De­pendability,
truthfulne s s , loy­alty,
punctuality, service, co­operation,
courtesy, consider­a
tion of others, leadership,
personality, self-control, abil­ity
to a s sume responsibility,
and patriotism.
The names of the th re e
girls selected a re th en given
¡to th e i r teachers who select a
winner. Miss Getz will be
eligible to compete for the
selection of th e State Good
Citizen which will be d e te r ­mined
by a competitive,
standa rdiz ed te s t on pur
national government an d The
Constitution of the United
States and i t s ' amendments .
As a prerequis ite for nom­ination
girls had to have a B
or be tte r in Social Studies
d uring th e i r 9th, 10th and
l l t 'h grades and the first re ­port
period of this year.
Employes of the
of happy Thanksgiving!
A. J . Bet’ord Shoe Co., got an armful
1 wishes from th e firm last AVednesday.
F o r the second time In two years each employe was presented
wi th a basket of apples, courtesy of th e company. Here Hoy
4V. S tau f fe r J r ., (left) hands a b a ske t to Before! foreman,
Dave Enek, 32 S. Locust St. All told the firm gave away 300
baskets of apples, purchased from Stauf fe r ’s Market, Kissel
Hill,
Graybill Slated To
Head School Board
Wilb u r H. Graybill, Lititz
R2, is scheduled to be re ­elected
as pres ident of the
Warwick School Board a t the
g ro u p ’s reorganization meet­ing
Monday, December 7.
Graybill has been pres ident
of th e board since 195 4. At
th e same meeting the thre e
incumbent school directors
will be sworn in for new six
year terms.
They include Gjaybill, elect­ed
a® the Elizabeth Township
representative; Dr. Howard
B. v|fljnnjch, 410 Woodcrest
Ave., board vice-president,
representing Lititz Borough,
and Raymond C. Groff, Lititz
R4, the Warwick Township
representative.
Under s ta te law school
boards mus t meet for reorgan­ization
purposes on the first
Monday in December.
Dr. Minnich has been a
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Leaf Collection
Nearing The End
The annual leaf collection
in the borough is expected to
be finished within a week.
Collections have averaged
four truckloads daily for the
past 40 days and the leaves
have been trucked to persons
who reques ted them for use as
fertilizer.
If any areas of the borough
have been overlooked, residents
were asked to notify the boro
office.
Yule Lights
For Borough
Installed
The borough’s y Chris tmas
lights are ins talled and will
add a holiday a ir to local shop­ping
as stores remain open u n ­til
9 p.m. tonight, Friday and
Saturday.
Electrician E. Pelger Sr.,
said the venerable lights,
which have been a p a r t of the
Lititz Chris tmas season for
some 15 years, have been
strung and tested.
The store openings all day
Thursday (today) follows a
traditional Chris tmas season
schedule of hours. Added hours
were also established for Sat-uray
shopping by most members
of the Lititz Re ta i le r s ’ Assn.
Star ting next Thur sday stores
will be open every night except
Sunday, until 9 p.m.
Retailers advised early shop­ping
while store stocks still
give the widest selection. The
association reminded shoppers
th a t retailers still have avail­able
the “ parking meter bowls”
for meter pennies for either
curbside or municipal lot p a rk ­ing.
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Slopen until 9 p.m. on|5
Relates shown in thep
«shopping calendar be-$
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| DECEMBER
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Federal Allocation
Seen Spurring Sits
At Zartman’s Mill
Survey Teams Rounding
Out Work Began
Year Ago
The State Fish Commission
ha® received the funds with
which to build a proposed
fishing lake a t Z a r tman ’s dam,
it was learned yesterday.
Receipt of monies which the
state previously said were e a r ­marked
for the Hammer
Creek project was announced
by William Voigt, Jr ., execu­tive
director of the commis­sion.
I t has been a ye a r since
th e commission firs t a n ­nounced
it was considering
the Hamme r Creek a rea as
a site for a fishing and
boating lake. Preliminary
survey work has been done
an d surveyors from the
commission a re finishing up
th e i r work now.
Options have been secured
on some of the 30 pieces of
I II Wilbur H. Graybill
GIFTS FOR SHUT-INS
The Brownie Troops a r e pre­paring
gifts for underprivilig-ed
children and also for the ir
mothers and fathers. They will
go caroling for shut-in^ before
Chris tmas and also remember
them.
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Dec. 24
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Ko.m. Open Dec. 26. ss
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Auto Recovered
An automobile owned by D.
L. Diem & Sons kas stolen
Thanksgiving night and found
abandoned near Brickerville
the next day.
Police said the car was u n ­damaged
and theorized it was
tak en for a “joy ride .”
Analysis Back
On Explosive In
Bombing Cases
Powder from a blas ting cap
or cherry bomb was used as an
explosive in the homemade
bombs which shattered windows
in three Lititz homes two weeks
ago, borough police learned.
Police said a laboratory a n a ­lysis
of the residue left by
by the bombs was made and
provided th a t conclusion. The
powder was packed into tele­vision
antenna tubing which
was pinched shut a t either end,
and probably ignited by a
fuse, according to police.
Borough . police said they
were awaiting w o rd ’from State
Police on whe the r it was the
same type of explosive charge
which was contained in anothe r
homemade bomb which wa3
found in Ea s t Peter sburg. Tha t
bomb is being analysed in the
State Crime Laboratory in H a r ­risburg.
Advent Service
At Zion Home
The Women’s Guild of St.
Lu k e ’s United Church of Christ
will present an advent service
a t the Zion Home on Sunday,
December 6 th a t 2:00 p.m.
Charles Neiswender, a minis ter­ial
student, will present the
message and the Ju n io r Choir,
directed by Mrs. Joel Ha r tman,
will sing. The ladies will visit
the guests in t h e Home and
present each one with an ap­propriate
favor.
Free Salk Polio
Clinic Slated
Here Saturday
Another free Salk Polio
Vaccine Clinic will be held
on Saturday, December 5th, in
th e American Legion Home,
109 North Broad Street, Li t ­itz.
Sponsored by th e Lititz
American Legion Post, the
clinic will be held between
th e hours of 9:00 in the morn­ing
until 3:00 in the a f t e r ­noon.
Jack H. Pontz is the
chairman of th e Post Clinic
Committee.
Chris tian C. Rury, Chair­man
of the Lancas ter County
Chapter for Polio, Arthr itis ,
Birth Defects an d Virus
Disease®, sa id Salk Vaccine
shots will be given free of
charge to anyone eligible— re ­gardless
wh e th e r it be the ir
1st, 2nd, 3rd or Booster Shot.
The Lanc a s te r County
Chapter is paying for th e nec­essary
Salk Vaccine and the
necessary equipment, such as
needles, syringes, etc., a re be-p
a r tme n t of Health through
th e office of Dr. Oscar Davis,
county medical director.
Persons who haven’t s t a r t ­ed
th e four-shot immuniza­tion
program a r e urged to use
this opportunity to s ta r t them.
Others who have already
s ta r ted th e i r immunization
shots and who hav en ’t com­pleted
th e entire four shots
a re being urged to secure the
necessary shot to help pro­te
c t . them aga ins t • paralytic
polio.
Other clinics a r e being plan­ned
and Rudy said th a t those
Who will be ju s t s ta r tin g their
immunization program may
continue th e i r shots a t these
fu tu re clinics.
Pontz said th a t directional
signs will guide those a t te n d ­ing
the Lititz Clinic and th a t
ample parking facilities will
be provided.
Truck Strikes Tree
Limb On Front St.
An es timated $500 damage
to a tra c to r - tra ile r tru ck oc-cured
Monday when it struck a
low-hanging tree limb in the
100 block of F ro n t Street.
Borough police said Everett
N. Moore, Cardiff^ Md., was
driving east on F ro n t Street
and swerved to allow a Con­estoga
Transpor ta tion Co. bus
pass, s triking the limb.
Mrs. Smith At Church
To Mark 90th Birthday
Mns. Mar tha Smith 311
South Broad St., was recogniz­ed
at the service in the Mor­avian
Church on Thanksgiv­ing
morning in observance of
her 90th bir thday anniversary.
She was born on Orange
Street and has lived in Lititz
her entire life. She resides
with her son C. Lloyd Smith
and family.
Mrs. Smith and her h u s ­band,
the late William Smith,
operated the laundry when it
was first installed a t Linden
Hall. She served the school
in many ways for th i r ty five
years, s ta r tin g in the dining
room, then as cook and later
in th e laundry. She was
recognized among the teach­ers
as an expert laundress.
Mrs. Smith enjoys good
health and assists daily with
the housework. She plans to
bake Chris tmas cookies as
she does every year, the v a r ­ieties
she plans to make are,
Scotch cakes, Sand tarts,
Shrewsbury, sugar and co-coanut
cookies.
Mrs. Smith has a s ister and
a brother, Mrs. Annie Carper
a t the Moravian Home and
Edward Diehm of Spring City,
Pa,
proper ty involved in the pro­posed
site, but fu r th e r work
was delayed by , a lack of
funds, which the commission
said would come from the
Federal Government’s Fish
and Wildlife Service.
I t was learned yesterday
th a t the U. S. Fish and Wild­life
Service lias allotted $119,-
17 8.89 in Dingell-Johnson
funds for the fiscal year end­ing
June 30, 1960.
With the allott'.nent Ha r r i s ­b
urg sources said yesterday, it
was expected the local project-as
well as a fishisg lake pro­ject
in Cumberland County
would get the green light.
This allotment compares
with approximately $121,000
for the previous year.
The Dingell-Johnson act
provides for the dis tribution
to the states of revenue from
a federal excise tax on certain
selected items of fishing
tackle. These funds may be
used by the states for a n um­ber
of purposes intended to
improve fishing opportunity.
Since the inception of the
program several years ago the
Fish Commission has used" its
share exclusively for the ac­quisition
of needed land and
for the construction of new
fishing lakes.
Voigt said th a t the reduc­tion
of approximately $3,000
is relatively small in view of
th e fact th a t fishing licenses
sales declined in Pennsylvania
and full allotments were made
to the new states of Alaska
and Hawaii.
Together those states re ­ceived
$316,200, a majority
of which would otherwise have
been available for dis tribution
to the remaining 48 states.
The maximum amo u n t receiv­ed
from Dingell-Johnson funds
oy any stale was $263,500,
wnile the minimum was $52,-
700.
Pennsylvania received its
apportionment from a total of
$5,589,379.26, on the basis of
a formula th a t considers the
are a of the s ta te and the total
iishmg licenses s’old.
Postponed Play
Of Senior Class
Opens Tonight
Warwick High School’s sen­ior
play, “Midnight” opens
T h u r sd a y (to d a y ) a t 8 p.m.
and repeat® Saturday a t 8
p.m. a t the high school au d i­torium.
The play, a mystery-com­edy,
was originally scheduled
for November 20 and 21 but
was postponed because of the
d e a th of Senior Class Advisor
Richard C. Gaus. r. ,
Admission is 70 cents and
seats a re on a firs t come
firs t served basis. The lead­ing
roles in the play a r e fill­ed
by Miss J a n e t Messner and
Glenn Dussinger.
Completing the cast are:
Shirley Waltz, Mel Jones, Sel­ina
Cox, Dean Rapp, Diug
Stark, ' Mike Worrell, Dick
Rader, Sarah Amidon, Marina
Gramola, Joan Strickler, and
Je f f Hoaster.
Committee Chairmans a re :
Posters, Leslie Reinhart;
Stage hands, John Landis;
Tickets, Fred Johns ; Prope r ­ty,
Carol Rohrer; Make-up,
Mary Ann Leonard; Publicity
and Program, Mary Beth Carl.
The prompters are Genevieve
Hertz and Susie Way. The
head u sh e r is Marian Getz.
Fingerprint May
Trap Thief Who
Stripped Car
Greasy fingerprints left on a
used car which was “souped-down”
by a mechanically inclin­ed
thief, are being processed
by State Police in an effort
to solve a $310 larceny here.
Police said perfect finger­prints
were found on the hood
of a 19 59 convertible automo­bile
a t the Leon Hershey used
car lot, left by a thief who
stripped the vehicle of “ hot
r e d ” carburetors and equip­ment.
Hershey discovered the the f t
Wednesday of last week but
police theorized it occured the
previous Saturday under cove,"
of heavy fog.
The equipment stolen could
be used to “ soup-up” a 1959
Chevrolet, police said, and app­ealed
for information concern­ing
any recently “souped-up”
cars of th a t make and model.