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(Consolidated with The Ztltitz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, February 18, 1960 7 cents a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r by mail
within Xiancaster Cou nty ; $ 3 :5 0 elsewhere. No. 44
Pool Opinion Letters Will Go Out Next Week
Miss Hill To Get |3,700 Per Capita
Crown Next Week
Will Officially Begin
Reign As National
Peach Queen
Mary Jan e Hill, daughte r of
Mr. 'and Mrs. Ar th u r Hill, will
leave on Sunday for Washing­ton,'
D. C., to receive the crown
she won as national peach
queen. She will be accompanied
by her mother and will register
a t the Sheraton P a rk Hotel for
the three day stay.
-The crowning will tak e place
on Tuesday evening at a ban­quet
a ttended by representa­tives
from fifty peach grow­ing
states. Secretary of Agri­cu
ltu re Ezra Taft Benson will
give h e r - the crown. The b an ­quet
will be followed by a
dance.
Mary Jane is permitted to
bring guests for this event and
has invited her teacher in
Home -Economics. Mrs. Elsies
Zug, Mrs. Paul Doster, Mary
Ann Doster, Alvin Getz, Ber­nice
Minnich, and Phoebe Grif­fith
of E p h ra ta to be present
on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Zug
accompanied her to the State
. contest.
Other high lights of the trip
will be a visit to the White
House on Monday afternoon
with the ladies of the Council,
and a 'luncheon in the evening.
There will be a trip to Mary­land
on Wednesday but Mary
Jan e expects to come home on
Wednesday.
She attended the Apple Blos­som
queen contest held in the
Yorktown Hotel, recently where
th e re were five contestants.
Lititz Woman’s
Club To Host
Co. Federation
The local Woman ’s Club will
serye as, hostess to the Spring
County Federation dinner to
be held on March 22 a t 6:00
p.m. a t the General Sutte r Ho­tel,
according to the announce­ment
made a t the meeting held
on Monday evening a t the
hotel. Mrs. F r a n k Longeneeker,
the president, urges all mem­bers-
t-o attend.
Mrs. David ft. Jones, who
served in a mission in Blue-fields
and Managua, Nicara­gua,
four years, showed pic­tu
re s of th a t country and told
of the life there. She stressed
the need of keeping informed
of the needs of the people in
foreign countries in order to
support our government, in its
problems and decisions. Mrs.
William Mitchell introduced
the speaker.
To d a te $23 5.00 has been
realized on the card party
which was given for the benefit
of the Community Center. Mrs.
Clyde Benner and Mrs. John
Kendig Jr., were hostesses and
poured a t the tea table.
MRS. EVANS ELL .
Mrs. Be r tha Evans, 21
Spruce Street, is confined to
her home a f te r undergoing a
foot operation las t week in
the Lan c a s te r General Hospi­tal.
BAKE SALE FRIDAY ■
A bake sale for the benefit
ofthe building fund of St. J a ­mes
Catholic Church will be
held Friday, F eb ru a ry 19 at the
fire house from 4 to 8 p.m.
Miss Mary Jane Hill
Lititz PTA
Barbecue
February 27
The Lititz P a re n t Teachers
Association will hold a chick­en
barbecue on Saturday,
F eb ru a ry 27, ‘ meals will be
served from 4:00 to 8 p.m.
in the Elementa ry school Caf­eteria.
Two pits will be used this
year and the committee plans
to have one thous and chick­ens
tak en from the pits at
five o'clock. In addition to
serving chicken the re will be
chips, apple sauce, b un and
butter, ice cream, coffee and
orange drin k on the menu.
Adult tickets a re $1.50 and
children $1 .00.
Take-outs will be sold for
one dollar half chicken. Last
ye a r 1600 half chickens were
sold.
Fred Rettew is chairman
of the Ways and Means com­mittee
and Omar Bucher gen­eral
chairman of the Barbe­cue.
Others ass isting are,
Les ter Hess in charge of pits;
Mrs. Gloria Becker, tickets;
Mrs. Carolyn Shank, take -out­line;
Mrs. Jan e Peters, serv­ing
in the cafeteria; and Mrs.
Joseph Klos, tables.
127 Make
HonorRoll
At School
A total of 127 Warwick.
Ju n io r and Senior High
School pupils made the Honor
Roll for th e second marking
period, the school announced
yesterday.
Eleventh grade pupils top­ped
the list with 37 followed
by ten th grade with 2 3. There
were 16 seniors, 19 freshmen,
18 eighth grader s and nine
seventh grader s on the list.
Honor s tudents by classes
were:
Seniors: Mary Beth Carl,
Glenn Dussinger, Marian
Getz, Linda Harvey, Jeffrey
Hoaster, F red Johns , Melvin
Jones, John Landis, Mary
Ann Leonard.
I rma Martin, Richard Rad ­er,
Dean Rapp, James Reese,
George Myers, Carol Rohrer,
Joan Seldomridge,
Ju n io r s : Sarah Adair, Car­ol
Beck, Ha r lan Bleacher,
James Brubaker, Ju d i th Eber-ly,
Rochelle Enck, Richard
Engle, Elizabeth Galbaugh,
Penelope Groff, Virginia
Grube, Martha Gundrum, Lin­d
a Herr, Byron Hornberger,
Susan Hosier, Ba rb a ra Jo h n ­son,'
Linda Johnson, Ba rba ra
Sue Jones, Marjorie Klenin.
Willis Martin, Nancy Mc­Kinney,
Ju l ia Miller, Richard
Minnich, Robert Peiffer, Car­olyn
Petticoffer, Robert Po­sey,
David Roth, P au la Roth
Richard Ruhl, Carol Shank
William Sigmund, Jean Sny­der,
Linda Stehman, Sara
Steiner, Susan Thompson,
Joyce Weber, Susan Wolf,
Sara Zartman.
Sophomores: Robert Bach­man,
James Boose, Te r ry Da-gen,
La r ry Greybill, Thomas
Hoover, Claudia Hostetter,
Richard Keller, Ann Kofroth,
Pearl Martin, Lynne Mathers!
Marcia Meiskey, Philip Mum-mert,
Lester Nagle.
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Tax Payers Asked
For March 10 Reply
Reply Cards Will Note
Deficit Would Mean
Tax Increase
The text of a le t te r to he
l sent to Lititz Borough’s 3,-
5 700 per capita tax payers
\ sounding them out on a pub-i
lie swimming pool, was draf t-j
ed by borough council Satur-
! day. -
i Meeting in informal session
I council agreed on a one-page
i le t te r which will give per
I capita tax payers a capsule
I re p o r t of the swimming pool
j committee and which will in-
! form them th e r e is a possibi-
I lity a per capita ta x hike will
be made if th e pool loses
! money.
Tax payers will get the let­te
r next week. With it they
will also receive a r e tu rn post
card on which they should in­dicate
th e i r desire:
1. I am in favor of
building a Borough swim­ming
pool, with the under­standing
that the tax rate
may have to he raised to
rover deficits.
2 . I mn opposed to the
Borough building a swim-in
u ig pool.
Council .-»¿id
lx rot ui
p do
Week Events -
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ip post cards
■ I by March
non of coun­win
be bas-ol
th e cards.
proposed
limit on the
n est of the
i cost about
Id be the
of Man-lies
would
wading pool
nd other
facilities,
suppor ted by
hips payable
Mrs, Butzer, ‘'
97, Honored
On Birthday
Mrs. Annie Butzer observed
her 97th bir thday on Feb. 9th
a t the Zion Home where she
has been a guest for the past
seven years.
She previously lived for many
years on Cedar Street in Lit­itz.
She enjoys excellent health.
Her visitors included, Lillian
Marks, h e r d a u g h te r from
Rothsville; Miss Arlene Beck
and Frances Little from the
Elizabethtown Hospital; Mrs.
Ralph Habecker, Mrs. Stanley
Diehm and Mrs. J.,C. H. Light,
Lititz. She received 38 cards,
Moravian sugar cake and oran-
The Recreation Center will
cooperate with the annual F a ­the
r and Son Obsrevance d u r ­ing
the week of Feb ru r ay 22
through Feb. 29.
The center will be made
available for activities each
evening between 7 p.m. and 10
p.m. for ping pong, shuffle
board or pool. The elementary
school gymnasium will also be
made available for those who
wish to use it. Reservations for
the gym should be made
through William Bell, re crea­tion
director.
F a th e r a n d Son Week is an
annual observance and this year
the county chairman for the
event is Clarence Hendrickson,
former Lititz High football
coach who said the slogan for
the week is “ Spend an hour
together— you’ll both be glad
you did.”
There were pJ< my of t a r om :o Hie
age old question of P > i r >
tin e ” , la s t week. 1 1 ■ i ■'
f i r s t grade r s in t in ■ v 1 j
Blondell a t Lititz School, Top photo shows
Mrs. Blondell d ur ing th e h ighl ight of F r i ­day’s
school session, giving o u t Valentines.
In th e top photo Ka ren We rtsch seeks
some advice on a name while Ka th le e n Ris-
1 Je
! limi} ni 1 ' , '$ 2 5 aii-
.1 Miller ' (l-i
■ . e ir turn,
it a re Betty Chris t
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Boss a n d J immy Miller. At bottom Linda
Griffe an d Pre s to n Wh i tc ra f t a n d Betty
Mentzer (closest to . came ra) open Valen­tines
th ey received. ’
LITITZ P.T.A. MEETS
AT SCHOOL TONIGHT
The reg u la r meeting of th e
P.T.A. will be held this eve­ning
a t 8:00 p.m. in the aud­itorium
of the Elementa ry
school building. Dr. Lyman
C. Hunt, Associate Professor
of Education a t Pennsylvania
State University will be the
guest speaker.
Boy And Girl Of Month Award
To Miss Hagy and Dean Rapp
Miss Christine Hagy and
Dean R. Rapp, have been
named th e Girl and Boy of
th e Month by the Recreation
Department.
' T h e y w e r e p r e s e n t e d
awards a t a high school a s ­sembly
by R. William Spacht
of th e Center Board.
, Both a re seniors a t War-mÊÊÊÊÊÊ
!\Iiss Chrisiiiu- ìlari!
wick High School, Miss Hagy,
seventeen, is a d a u g h te r . of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd S. Hagy,
46 E. Main St., and a member
of Trinity EC Church where
she is active in th e church
youth council. A member of
the Yearbook staff, Tepee
Topics, Girls Chorus, the
high school orches tra and
All-County Orchestra she also
played hockey and is a mem­ber
of the Russian Club.
She served as pres ident of
Girl Scout Troop 146 and is
secretary of the scout plan­ning
board of th e county. She
also participates in the Senior
Girls Bowling League and
works p a r t time a t the , Gen.
Sutte r Hotel.
Rapp, seventeen, is a son
of the Rev, asd Mrs. James
K. Rapp, 40 E. Orange St.
He is also a member of Trin­ity
Church and pres ident of
the youth council. Pianis t
for the Chancel Choir he is
supe r in ten d en t of th e Mission
Band and was a delegate to
the Warwick Asss. of Church­es
Youth Council.
Literary editor of th e ye a r ­book
he is also a member ■* f
i Glee Club, National Ron-
Society an d woa f i r s t place
in the Science F a i r and Pen­na.
Ju n io r Academy of
Science. He served as dele­gate
to the county science day
program and was a member
of the junior and senior play
casts.
Dean R. Rapp
Troop 142
Plans For
Camp-Out
A covered dish supper was
held by Boy Scout Troop 142
in Fellowship Hall on Th u r s ­day
evening, Scoutmaster Ke­vin
Bowman was Master of
Ceremonies and Robert Rosen­berg.
chairman of the troop
committee was in charge of
arrangements.
The Rt. Rev. Carl J. Hei­nrich
gave the Invocation and
Rosenberg spoke on the duties
of a troop committeman. -Bion
Ha r tman, as s is tant scoutmaster,
told of the plans for the troop,
in June a Father -Son camp-out
will be held; in July every boy
scout in America will camp out
as a fifty year memorial pro­gram:
the troop is considering
a camp tra ile r for the t r a n s ­porting
of necessities; and a
camp-out for this week-end is
planned.
Charles Regennas, advisor
for the Explorer Pos t ,told
about the enlarging of the log-cabin
in the Springs P a rk which
was done by the Post. This he
said was a large project and
will benefit fu tu re scouts.
Lynn Bell, dis trict executive
announced the district camp­oree
which will be held May
13, 14, 15 and all parents are
invited to attend. Rosenberg
made a display of all the
articles the boys take on a
week-end camping trip. The
evening ended with a film on
the Valley Forge national J am ­boree
in 19 57.
Criag Carrier, Tom Weiler
and Leonard Weidler were thè
three boys who recently be­came
members of the troop and
received neckerchief slides in
the Armory in Lancaster.
JA Rubbing Hands
Over Sales Upturn
A group of young business- ducts, buy raw materials,
men this week counted on a j lick production problems and
Valentine’s weekend sp u r t in , finally sell enough of their
th e sale of hand lation to p u t product to pay r e n t for their
RETAILERS NOMINATE
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
them into the black for the
year.
The group is the 12-mem­ber
JaScent compasy, made
up oY local h ig h . school s tu ­dents*
and organized thro u g h
the Ju n io r Achievement pro­gram,
a national non-profit
educational program sponsor­ed
by business asd indus try
th ro u g h o u t the country.
Valentine’s weekend sale
of JaScent, a hand lotion
manufa c tured by the group
and not by the sponsoring
Lamb e r t-Hu d n u t Mfg. Labora ­tory,
has pushed the volume
of sales for th e year to over
the 300 bottle mark.
With the big sales push the
local s tudents a re optimistic
they will be able to pay a
dividend on 30 0 shares of
stock, sold a t 50c per share,
when -they close the books on
the y e a r ’s operation.
The forma t of a JA com­pany
is simple: a t th e be­ginning
of a school ye a r a
group of high school s tudents ,
unde r the guidance of thre e
a d u lt advisors from a local
sponsoring company, organize
a min ia tu re company. They
sell stock, pick the ir pro-
Girls Fail In
Car Theft Try
Two 14- year-old girls who
tried to take an unauthorized
ride in a car Thursday of last
week, 'were apprehended by
borough police and will face
Juvenile authorities.
Police said the girls got into
a pa rked car owned by Kenneth
Reed which was on the high
school parking lot and a ttemp t­ed
to> drive away. One of the
Nominations for officers of
the Lititz Re ta i le r s ’ Assn, were
made Tuesday a t . a meeting of girls hit the accelerator instead
the group a t the Young Men’s of th e brake, police said, and
Business League. s truck another parked car.
Nominations will be sent out Police said the owner of the
on a ballet to retailers who second car is not known. Dam-will
be asked to indicate the ir age was slight. Police said
choice of officers. A p rogram n e ith e r of the girls knew how
committee was appointed to to drive. Reed a t the time was
line up sales promotions for the a ttending the Warwick-Solanco
coming year, wres tling meet.
qua rte rs , pay salaries and
commissions an d occasionally
even pay dividends to the ir
investors. Actually th ey a re
junior businessmen learning
to operate a real business
from A to Z.
Products from various JA
companies from coast to
coast range from salad dres s­ing.
t r an s is to r radios and per­sonalized
cufflinks, to sou­venir
gavels of wood from the
U.S.S. Constellation — and
hand lotion.
As p a r t of th e i r business
set-up they pay ren t for the
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Lititz Chapter,
A.B.C. Donates
To Scholarship
n g n t oi j i s u was present­ed
to the A.B.C. National
Scholarship F u n d by the Lit­itz
Chapter a t a dinner -me et­ing
held las t n ig h t a t the
Legion. Dr. Thomas J. Nato-li
M.D., of Norristown, was
guest • speaker. Charles A.
Herr, Lititz R2, was installed
as a new member.
Dr. Natoli, a f te r receiving
the gift from A.B.C. Pres ident
William Darlington, express­ed
g ra t itu le to th e local club
for th e i r fine suppor t of the
fund which provides scholar­ships
to advanced s tudents in
physical therapy. Dr. Natoli
explained th e growing need
for therapis ts ‘ to work with
people suffering from cereb­ral
palsy and re la ted diseases,
and expressed hope th a t the
work of A.B.C. nationally
would help offset a fu tu re
shortage.
Accompanying Natoli were
Vernon E. Brooks, P a s t Na­tional
Pres ident of A.B.C.
F r a n k O. Batdorf, Norris­town,
and A r th u r Welch,
Trenton, N. J., represented
th e 7 th District.
William Scatchard, n a tion­al
project chairman for th e
local club, was in charge of
the program.
158 Attend Cub Scouts
Blue And Gold Banquet
Cub Scout Troop 142 held a
Blue and Gold Banquet on
.Friday evening in Fellowship
Hall. John Badorf, Cubmaster,
was in charge and 15 8 a t te n d ­ed.
The Rev. Marlin Schaffstall
gave the invocation and Thomas
Hackman led the flag cere­mony.
Invited guests included the
Rt. Rev. Carl J. Helmich, the
Rev. Mr. Schaffstall, Miss Lynn
Eeidenbaugh, Lynn Bell, E a s t ­ern
District commissioner
Scoutmaster and Mrs. Nevin
Bowman and son, Barry, Mr.
and Mrs. 'Willy dePe r rot.
The meal was served buffet
style and was prepared by the
following d en mothers, Mrs.
denner stripe; Mike Gerhard,
gold arrow.
Den 4, Thomas Hackman,
lion badge and th re e silver
arrows ; den 5, Jef frey Hossler,
denner stripe, Jef frey Sturgis,
as s is tant den n e r s tripe; den 8,
Scott Kette rman, bear badge,
Lynn Yerger, bear badge and
denner stripe. Bob Evans, as­s
is tant denne r stripe, Thomas
Harding, bear badge, gold a r ­row,
three silver arrows.
Graduation exercises were
held for Craig Carrier who was
given a webelo badge and a
pin was given to his mother.
He was introduced to Scout­ma
s te r Bowman and presented
with a boy scout neckerchief.
nually.
F ami ly o u t of town, $30
annually.
Individual res ident, $10
annually.
Out of town individual,
$12.50 annually.
While th e tenor of the le t­te
r is th a t of th e pool com­mittee
rep o r t and indicates
the pool would be self-sup­porting
over a 20-year bond
liquidation period, council
will inform p e r capita tax
payers th a t if th e pool does
lose money it may be neces­sary
to raise th e p e r capita
tax r a te to unde rwrite d e ­ficit,
Lititz per capita taxes were
increased $2.50 for -196ft
making a total of $7.50.
All-County
Orchestra
Here Sat.
■ The All-County Orches tra
will give a concert Saturday
a t 8 p.m. in , W arwick High
School Auditorium, the first
time ever th a t Lititz has
played host to th e group.
Members of th e 15 8-piece
o rches tra will practice .Satur­day
morning and afternoon, it.
preparation for th e concert
which will be directed by
Powell Middleton, dire c tor • of
the orches tra a t We s t Chester
State College. '
Tickets, available a t the
door, cost 75c for ad u lt s and
50c for children. Included in
th e 12 county high schools
represented in th e orchestra
a re 2 3 from Warwick. The
orches tra members by school
are;W
arwick— Doris Hess, Mar­th
a Gundrum, Ja n e Markert,
Carole Dennis, J a n e t Reiden1
baugh, Donald Bru b ak e r
Jackson Bucher, Orlena Bru­baker,
Susan Thompson, John
Brubaker, Hyla Neff, Orpha
Hershey, Linda Dillman,
Dianne Forre s t, Celeste Long,
Susan Wolf, Rodney Lutz,
Richard Rader, Phillip Mum-mert,
Te r ry Ha r tman, Sara
Steiner, Lonnie Ibach, Sally
Adair. - ■
Cocalico Union— Ka r l Neid-hardt.
Columbia—Seda Yeager. •'
E l iz a b e th town , — S h i r l e y
Miley, Mary Zuck, Linda Kay-lor,
Dolores Hoopert, Susie
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Boychoir Group
Concert Tickets
Placed On Sale
The nationally k n ow n ' Col­umbus
Boychoir of Princeton,
N. J., will appe a r in cottceH
a t the Warwick High School
auditorium on Friday, March
4, sponsored by th e Warwick
Music P a ren t s Club.
Members of the Music P a r ­ents
will use proceeds- from
the concert to aid th e mhsic'ej
groups of Warwick High
School. Tickets for the Con­cert
a re available a t Fickiflg-e
r ’s Store and McElroy P h a r ­macy
a t $1.50 for ad u lt s .ami
75c for students.
The Columbus Boychoir 1s
a nationally known group
which was founded as a com­munity
enterprise in Colnim
bia, Ohio, by Herbert, Huf f ­man,
minis ter of music-• al
Broad Stre e t Presbyteriai
Church. v;
Assisted by th e ' Kiwanii
Club and the B r o a d ' Strfbi
Church, he founded th e Co­lumbus
Boychoir School' ‘it
1940 with an enrollment ¡:,ol
30 boys from th e c ity.. Al­most
a t once the choir at-
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Open House At
Church Sunday
Dedication an d open hous<
services will be held in tin
Holiness Chris tian Church oi
Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Feb
21 a t 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
The guest speaker for hot!
services will be the Rev. Ir(
Joseph Klos was awarded blue j W. Bechtel of P o tt s town , ' Pa
John Ba-dorf, Mrs. William and gold shoulder cord which ! Rev. Bechtel is the Genera
Darlington, Mrs. Charles Ger­hard,
Mrs. Leon Seibert, Mrs.
Wilbur Miller, Mrs. Ed g a r Stuiv
gis, Mrs. Joseph Klos, Mrs.
Bruce Wike and Mrs. James
Harbison assisted.
The Pinewood Derby will be
held on April 29th, according
to an announcement by Cub-ma
s te r Badorf, who gave the
following awards, John Reiden-baugh,
two year pin; d en 3,
Robert Seibert, bear badge and
one year pin; Barry Todds
promotes him to position of
Den Chief,
Committee chairman Joseph
Klos presented Cubmaster Ba­dorf
with a Fifieth Anniversary
book on Scouting and all den
mothers were given certificates
in recognition of the ir work.
The en te r ta inmen t of the
evening featured the trained
dogs of Steven Pawlak, Lt.
Robert Kincinski and Joseph
Matueilla all members of the
State Police.
Superintendent of the Holmes-;
Christian Conference.
Extensive renovations hav<
been made on th e interior Oi
the Church from the ceiling t(
the floor. A new organ has alsc
been dona ted to the churcl
which will be dedicated am
used for th e first time on this
occasion.
P a s to r K. E. Wa lte r issuer
an invitation to friends ant
neighbors to a t te n d th e s e r ­vices.