Lititz Record Express

              Use Municipal
Packing Lot
84th Year
Brunnerville
Sewer Faces
Rough Road
Legal Rights of Way
And Five Annexations
Complicate Issue
Although formally endorse,,
by four official groups involt
cd, the proposed sewer exter.
sion from the borough to tin
Brunnerville Elementa ry School
Building, faces a rough legs,
ad ahead, it was revealeu
nbre this week.
To-date the proposal of e>-
tending the Lititz sewer facil -
ties to accommodate the Bruv
nervilie School, and possibL
adja c ent sections allready ia<
ing a sewerage problem, ha
been officially approved by tb
Warwick Union School Bo a ro ,
the School Authority, the Lit iL
Borough Council and, tlr,
week, the Lititz Sewer Authoi
ity.
' But — and this is a bi,
consideration — before _ til
ma t te r can be degnified with ..
status of legality, five larg.
farms and numerous rights Oi
way over which the main mus t
run, mus t firs t be annexed to
the borough,
These annexations would
materially change the shape
of the borough map with a
huge pole-like addition extend­ing
no r thwa rd ' from its p r e ­sent
form. And ju s t wha t will
be encountered when school
officials begin interviewing pro­perty
owners and Warwick
Township supervisors, remains
yet to be seen.
Should these legal techni­calities
be successfully over­come,
the School Authority
would sign contracts with the
nough to build the line out
of the general fund’ and the
Sewer Authority would repay
the borough.
Mrs. Keath’s
Sewer Now
Seen Solved
One of the mos t complicat­ing
and confusing , problems
facing the borough sewer
auth o r ity in the past several
years — the laying of a sew­er
line to serve the properties
of Mrs. Marguerite Ke a th —
finally appeared solved this
week.
At a meeting held Monday
evening, members of the sew­er
author ity pared down item
a f te r item in the ir previous
specifications and thus came
up with a contract price of
$1,714.50 as compared with
th e lates t low bid of $2,526.-
30, which they now hope
th e contractor will accept.
The project of laying the
-sewer line up Kline Alley to
serve Mrs. K e a th ’s properties
has been under various con­s
iderations for almost two
years. The project has been
advertised and re-advertised
with a u th o r ity members re ­jecting
a.l previous contract
quotations as being too costly
for the meager income which
will be forthcoming.
The la te s t low bid of $2,-
"5 2 6.30 was offered by Roger
Gerhart, local contractor.
Youth Arrested
Following Chase
Charged with indecently ap­proaching
two local women,
Matthew Lewis Vecero, 21,
of Lititz R2, was a rre s ted
following a chase th ro u g h
nearby cornfields late y es ter­day.
He was jailed in de­fau
l t of $1,000 bail on charges
of indecent as sault and dis­orderly
conduct.
According to Borough
- Police, Vecero grabbed an
-8-year-old girl a t Broad and
Market Streets Monday a f te r ­noon.
At noon Wednesday he
made insulting rema rk s to a
ma r ried woman on North
Broad Street.
Sighted by a group of
youths shortly afterward, he
was chased thro u g h corn­fields
on the Bucher farm,
n o r th of th e borough and
tu rn e d over to Officer Lloyd
Long.
Complaints agains t him
were filed before Jus tice of
the Peace George Burchfield,
of Neffsville.
Local Rebekah
Lodge To Meet
At Summer Home
The Lady Sutter Rebekah
Lodge No. 43 5 will meet on
Tuesday a t the summer home
of Mrs. Barton Sharp. A pound
social will be p a r t of the en­ter
tainment.
Members are urged to meet
a t the lodge hall no later
th an 6:50 p.m. Prom the re
tran sp o r ta tio n will be provid­ed,
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MINIATURE LAKE ON MAIN STREET
Douta: us to 1 lie location ol' maiiy mains
bas roNiilted in several delays hy workinen
complot.insï tbe excavai ion ol rhe okl streel
bed along’ Main Street. -In the photo above
is shown a miniature lake which formed in
front of John Keller’s shop after one of
the shovels had ripped out a water lateral
leading to the store. Record-Expiress Photo
Women Win Temporary Victory
In Battle Over Main St. Trees!
Inspired by t h e , dras tic
s tand taken by a local woman,
th e b a ttle of the Main Street
shade trees appeared only be­ginning
— although too be­latedly
to save the majority
of the trees.
Hacking' away a t the trees
with abandon and without
missing more th an one or
two, workmen succeeded in
cutting down jus t about every­thing
from the Square to the
vicinity of the Church Square
when they encountered their
firs t determined opposition.
This opposition came when
Mrs. Ella Wike Carvel, owner
of an E a s t Main Street home,
took her s tand a t the side of
a large tree and defied work­men
to cut it down. Her
s tand was a determined one
unusually well expressed for
one of the dis taff side and
the workmen made no effort
to cut the tree down.
Observing the success of
Mrs. Carvel’s stand, Miss
Mary Sturgis, local school
teacher whose home is jus t
east of the Carvel property,
took a similar although a bit
milder s tand but with the
same result.
A th i rd tree escaped the
axe when Monroe Shue, whose
home is east of the Sturgis
To Crack Down On Bike
Riders Chasing Firemen
Borough police this week
issued s tern warnings and pro­mised
crack-downs on the
Iwo complaints — exploding
fire crackers and bicyclists rac­ing
after the fire trucks.
A fresh outbreak of fire­works
has persisted ever since
July 4th causing complaints
to be filed from all parts of
the borough, police onnounced.
At the home of Bsker Sharp,
5 03 S. Broad St., an explosive
was placed in a milk box con­taining
five bottles of milk with
the result th a t the box was
completely shattered, sending
a shower of milk and glass
over the front of the house.
In announcing the ir promis­ed
crack-down, borough police
declared they will prosecute
anyone possessing, tr an sp o r t­ing,
exploding or selling fire­works.
Prosecutions will be
made under the s ta te criminal
code which makes this a mis­demeanor
and carries fines of
from $100 to $500 and possible
jail sentences of from 9 0 days
to three years.
The complaint agains t local
cyclists resulted last week when
an estimated 6 0 to 7 0 bicyclists
raced east on F ro n t Street be­hind
local fire trucks respond­ing
to an alarm. The bicyclists
rode down the center of the
street and failed to yield the
right of way even to firemen
seeking to reach the fire in
private cars.
Boys and girls riding bi­cycles
in the middle of the-street
or on pavements, or in
reckless manners, will have
their licenses and riding pri­vileges
suspended according to
the boruogh ordinance, police
said.
Doll Show. Peanut Hunt Feature
Busy Playground Schedule
To u rn ame n ts and contests
ranging from a doll show to a
peanut hun t featured a busy
schedule of activities in the
Lititz Springs P a rk Playground
during the past week.
The winners of the events
were as follows:
Nok-hockey Tournament —
Girls 8 and 9 -— Miss Donna
Cole; Runnerup, Miss Becky
Schermick.
Doll show: 10 and over —
Larges t number, Donna Wie-gands;
Largest (tie) — Darcy
Buchter, Sharon Seifert; Smal-
’est, Brenda Sites; Prettiest,
Babs Weaver; Funnies t, Connie
Lowe; Most reallistic, Donna
Wiegand; Pre t tie s t Hairdo,
Betsy Showers.
8 and 9 years old — La r ­gest
number, Deena Cole;
Smallest, Deena Cole; Prettiest,
Phyllis Kreamer ; Most unusual
Dixie Reest; Oldest, Susan Hoff
man; Pre t tie s t Hairdo1, Sandra
Reinhart; Most realistic older
doll, Beth Wrich; Most realis­tic
baby dòli, Donna "Waiter.
5, 6, and 7 year old — L a r ­gest
number, Jennie Long; L a r ­gest,
Jennie Long; Smallest,
Mary Lahr; Pretties t, Nancy
Ganter; Most unusual, Paula
Murr; Most realistic child doll,
Jennie Long; Most realistic
baby doll, P aula Murr.
Boys Pretzel Eating Contest:
5, 6 and 7 years old — Richard
Gerlach; S and 9 years old —
Don Auker; 10 and oyer —
Jeff Kent.
Pe an u t Hunt: 5, 6, and 7
years old — Yellow peanut
(worth 10c) Carol Rette w;
Blue peanut (worth 5c) Mike
He r r and Lois Fry; Most pea­nuts,
Ba rb a ra Mitchell; Most
money, Carol Rettew 10c.
8 and 9 years old — Yellow
peanut (worth 10c) Jimmy
Hopkins; Blue p e anut (worth
(Continued on page six)
See Hope Of Starting Work On
Hammer Creek. Dam In Spring
Hope th a t the proposed
half - million - dollar Hamme r
Creek Dam project could he
s ta r ted early next year was
expressed by John W. Gren­oble,
state fish commissioner,
at a meeting of county spor ts­men
in the Springs Pa rk
Tuesday evening.
Due to the inability to get,
consent of five property own­ers
has delayed the project,
he said. Gerald Darlington,
of Speedwell, one of the ob­jecting
landowners present,
explained he objected to the
man n e r in which stakes were
driven into ground in his
fields, resulting in damage to
fa rm machinery.
Following .his reques t for
“more consideration” , Gren­oble
as serted he would be
“ happy to oblige.” Other
property owners present seem­ed
impressed by this spirit of
co-operation.
Tha t the Hamme r Creek
Dam will be one of the cost­liest
in the state also was s ta t­ed
hy the fish commissioner,
who predicted it will cost ap­proximately
$3,4 00 per water
acre, as compared with $2,-
800 per acre spent elsewhere.
Already 2,700 man hours
and $8,0 0 0 has been spent on
the project and they still do
not have consent of all 3 2
land owners involved, he d e ­clared,
property, pointed out th a t this
tree stands seven and one-half
inches inside the line — and
the ■ state is demanding only
eight inches.
Agreeing th a t a half inch of
space is scarcely reason for
cutting down a .healthy tre e ,
the supervisor in charge of
the s tre e t construction agreed
it should stand. Yesterday,
however, some doubt" was ex­pressed
as to whe the r any
fu r th e r a ttemp t s will be made
to remove the th re e trees in
question.
"With res idents from all
pa rts of town criticizing the
destruction of so many trees,
th e re was a shifting of r< -
sponsibility for the whole a f ­fair.
Those In charge of the
s tre e t work pointed out th a t
borough workmen had indicat­ed
which trees mus t go. Bor­ough
Manager Dave Bauer
previously had as serted he
followed state ins tructions on
the matter.
Whe the r most of the trees
could have been saved by
more vigorous stands, similar
to those tak en by the local
women this week, remained
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Warwick Lions
Would End Curve
"Warwick Lions have renew­ed
a safety project they or­iginally
sponsored exactly ten
years ago — the elimination
of a dangerous curve on the
road from Rothsville to
Brownstown. A petition is be­ing
circulated and will be for­warded
to state officials.
A similar petition got no
results a decade ago but
members of the club hoped
for a more effective reception
this time. Members of the
committee in charge a re R.ay-mond
Groff, John Reitz and
Henry Burkholder,
I 111 1ST RETURNS TO JOB
A r th u r Reist, 82, water d e ­p
a r tmen t employee who was
found in a daze a t his desk
Wednesday, July 6, was able
to repor t back to work this
week.
Center Drive
At $9,483,
Incomplete
To Pass $10,000 Mark
Today; Rothsville
Teenagers Donate
$75,00
The Center Building Fund
campaign will pass the $10,060
ma rk today and should reach
$15,000 when completed, Herb
Kraybilll, drive chairman, an ­nounced
late yesterday. At that
time, donations turned in
amounted to $9,48 3.
With more th an $50,000
needed to complete the build­ing
on which work is expected
to get s ta rted next week, Kray-bill
urged all solicitors to -com­plete
the ir work_ as quickly as
possible. Solicitations in Roths-vilie
and Kissel Hill also were
late in gettng s ta r ted and have
not been nearly completed to-date.
Donatons this week included
a $7 5 check from a teen-age
group in Rothsville which was
the proceeds from a dance held
recently in the Rothsville Ele­menta
ry School Building. Mrs.
Raymond Deater is adult leader
and J a n e t Messner, the teen­age
leade r of the group.
Borough District 3 emerged
with the highes t total this
week. Co-chairmen in this dis
trict are Mrs. Forbes Emsweller
and John Landis who reported
donations of $1,0 2 6 for the
area including Ea s t Marion to
Cedar; Cedar from Marion to
the borough line; Eas t Second
and Third Avenues from Broad
to Cedar and Linden Street.
Y’e s te rd ay ’s totals showed a
total of 12 out of the 19 boro
dis tricts still incomplete. Ad­ditional
repor ts from outside
the borough included $142 from
Warwick Township west of the
borough, of which Dale Shelley
is chairman; $110 from Owl
Hili, Ha r ry Wagaman, chair­man;
and $35 from the Brick-erville
area, still incomplete.
Linden Hall
Fawn Now
Quite Tame
The Linden Hall fawn, now
completely acclimated to his
surroundings , is becoming quite
a showman!
Since his birth in the center
of the local campus on the
night of Ju n e 22, the small,
feeble fawn has grown stronger
daily. And each -day he has be­come
less fr ightened at the
sight of so many persons s ta r ­ing
at him th ro u g h the campus
fence on Marion and Locust
Streets.
In litre this week lie began
pi’aneing in Iron! <;1 (be
specialoi's. even, lying down
lor a nap mi lull view, ac­cording
to Dr. liyron lv.
Ilorne, Linden Hall h e ad­master.
And a t tunes (lie:
lawn seems pist as curious
over those outside as they
are over him.
The mothe r deer, however,
remains well hidden most of
the time, feeding upon the
healthy green shrubbery and
foliage of the campus., So far,
Dr. Florae insists the doe and
ner fawn have done no per­ceptible
damage to the s h ru b ­bery
— and he has no in ten ­sion
of getting rid of either!
In lact the stern h e adma s ­ter
has become so loud ol the
two deer dial some ieel he
has visions ol keeping I hem
there ¡is p e rmanent mascots
lor (he Linden Hall sludeut-bodv.
We Have Our Mall - But Business Is Still Bad!
“ The borough zoners said we should have a pedes­trian
mall — and th a t’s exactly what we have!”
This was the philosophic attitude taken by one
East Main Street retailer this week. And despite that
business has dropped off due to the street re-building,
this attitude was typical of many other East Main
Street merchants.
The tearing up of Main Street has deprived local
shoppers of many parking spaces. But, merchants
reported, more persons than ever before are using
the municipal parking lot ju st east of the Record-
Express building.
Parking spaces also can be found around the
borough elementary school and in several parking
areas north of Main Street. And when the weather
is good — the first block of Main Street does rese-able
a crude mall over which pedestrians can stroll at
will.
Monday when it rained, the mall became a
quagmire and everyone venturing across got muddy
shoes. But this situation is 'a very temporary one
with the base of the new street expected to be com­pleted
in the course of a few days.
So — during this period of poor business — give
the local merchant a bit of ex tra consideration. Even
if: you have to park half a block away and do a bit
more walking (usually, less than is required in any city
or shopping center) give your home-town merchant a
lift — help him over this rough period.
He’ll appreciate it no end — and you will find
th at when you shop in Lititz, satisfaction is guaran­teed!
New 1960 Cadillac Ambulance
Purchased by Warwick Service
The purchase of a new 19 6 0
Cadillac ambulance was ap­proved
last week a t a meet­ing
of drivers and officers of
the Warwick Ambulance Ser­vice
a t a meeting held in the
Ambulance Building.
The vehicle is the ' first
brand new car to be owned
by the local ambulance se r­vice
and will be one of the
finest and most completely
equipped ambulances in Lan­caster
County.
The new Ca-dillac is being
purchased from the Superior
Body Company, of Philadel-
NAMED BY COURT
M. C. Demin \
Robert JE. Pfautz
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\ E \ R B \ DO I >l!i ’R! I !S
two liearoy roDDeries wmen
occurred Fri-day night were be­ing
investigated by police this
week Carl Kline, proprietor of
a garage at Kissel Hill, re ­sorted
th a t thieves who entered
through a side window had
stolen approximately $8 in
cash. A heavy safe was re ­moved
at the airp o r t the same"
evening.
AMONG THE SICK
Mrs. James K. Rapp is a
satient in the Allentown Gener­al
Hospital.
Borough Manager Dave Bau-
-:r this week received an an­onymous
letter violently com-daining
of a dusty street.
But, oddly enough, the street
n question was not Eas t Main
street, where -dust clouds have
bepn the almost Gaily oc
.‘urrence for nearly a year —
out Manheim Street, s ituated
n the northwes t end of town!
Manheim Street is one of
wo -dirt roads still on the boro
d an and the only one on which
Mere are no houses or other
itructures yet built, the boro
manager explained. He su r ­mised
th a t the complaint of
lus t came from some one living-nearby.
The street which extends
westward from Broad Street
to the borouglv line 1ms never
phia, a t a cost of approxi­mately
$13,000 with delivery
scheduled around Labor Day.
Already officers and drivers
of the Warwick Ambulance
Service are planning an Open
House and formal housing of
the new vehicle, possibly on
Labor Day,
In announcing the purchase
of the new ambulance, John
Beck, executive secretary of
the service, emphasized th a t
there positively will be no
solicitation of funds for the
new ambulance and th a t it
The task of dividing up the
Ward in the borough in-lo
two wards of more or less
equal size, was placed in the
hands of th re e prominent
first ward res idents in ap­pointments
made this week by
Judge Joesph B. Wissler.
The men selected as a
hoard of commissioners to
dieide the F i r s t Ward are:
Glenn McElroy, propr ietor of
the McElroy Pharmacy. Main
and Cedar Streets; Forme r
Supervising Principal Maurice
C. Item,my, of South Cedar
oirei't, and F o rme r Pos tma s ­ter
Robert E. Pfautz, of
South Broad Street.
In notifying th e th re e ap ­pointees,
Judge Wissler re ­quested
th a t the work of
dividing the F i r s t Wa rd be
completed within the next six­ty
days. The three appoin­tees
this week indicated they
are planning to s ta r t their
work immediately and th a t
they hope to have a plan to
be submitted to the court not
later th a n Labor Day.
The survey of the popula­tion
of the ward will neces­sitate
a close study of v ote r s ’
lists and othe r sources of in­formation.
The geographical
aspects of the two new wards
to be created and the possib­ility
of immediate fu tu re
growth also., will be tak en in­to
-consideration.: e....:;;-:
At present the F i r s t Ward
has 1,7 0 0 registered voters as
compared with 90 0 registered
(Continued on page three)
Mrs. Smith
Injured In
Crash Here
A, local woman was painfully
injured and a Manheim driver
prosecute-d following a head-on
collision at Broad and Second
Streets last Friday afternoon.
The woman injured is Mrs.
Bruce Smith, twenty-one, of
Lititz R3, who sustained the
f ra c tu re of her nose, lace ra­tions
of the face, bruises and
possible internal injuries. After
being given tr e a tme n t ; at the
office of Dr. Ar th u r Griswold,
located at the scene of the
acci-dent, she was removed to
the Lancas ter General Hospi­tal
for x-rays.
Borough police*reported th a t
the car she was driving south
of Broad Street was struck by
a car driven by .1. K. Halde-man,
5 5, of Manheim, who was
prosecuted for failure to yield
r ight of way before Jus tice of
the Peace Paul F. Diehm.
Flaldeman, who had been
driving north on Broad made
a left hand tu rn in front of the
Smith car, police allege. Dam­age
to the two cars was e s ti­mated
at $550.
Motorists Prosecuted
Two additional prosecutions
on motor violations were re ­ported
this week bv borough
police. Michaell W. ' Hackman,
of Manheim R l , was charged
with driving too fast for con­ditions
on West Lincoln Avenue
Monday morning. Russel R.
Light, Jones town R2, was pro­secuted
for driving a tractor
tra ile r truck- with a shifting
load of pulverized fetilizer.
Both complaints were filed
before Jus tice of the Peace
Paul F. Diehm.
been surfaced by the borough.
And, according to the borough’s
street-building policy of several
y e a r s ’ standing, new streets
can only be built on the one-third
assessment plan, in which
adjoining property owners pay
two-thirds of the cost of con­struction,
or the 100 per-cent
assessment plan in which pro­perty
owners shoulder the en
tire cost of street, water and
sewer mains.
And so, in order to provide
relief to the allegedly dusty
situation, property owners wiii
have to come for th and express
their willingness to foot the
hill, it was explained. Other­wise
it looks like a dus ty sum­mer
for more th an ju s t Bast
Mam Street!
will be completely paid for
during the coming year.
In addition to a $4,000
trade allowance for the pres­ent
19 54 model ambulance)
the service tre a sury contains
sufficient funds for an ad­ditional
$5,000 down pay­ment.
“The reason a new amb u ­lance
was ordered was be­cause
the present one, a 1954
model, will need extensive
repairs in the near fu tu re —-
and a f te r weeks of looking,
anothe r good used ambulance
could not be found,” Beck
declared.
Continuing, Mr, Beck as­serted
th a t “ there _ positively
will be no solicitation of
funds from the general public
or business places. While we
cannot pay the entire amount
a t present, we feel th a t with
our present rate of income, we
will be able to pay off all in­debtedness
in less th a n one
ye a r ’s time .”
Income of the service con­sists
almost entirely of $2.00
family memberships which en­titles
all members of these
families to free ambulance
service for the year. The
type of .service offered the
public since the ambulance
service was originated four
(Continued on page six)
General Chairman
Raymond A. Hunk
Area Chairman
Dr. R. K. Brubaker
Welfare 1960
Drive Chairmen
Are Announced
Fire Chief Raymond A.
Runk, of this borough, will
serve as general chairman of
the Lititz-Warwick area for
the 19 60 drive of the L an ­caster
County Community
Chest, according to an an ­nouncement
made this week..
In the Lititz-Warwick Area
Dr. Robert K. Brubake r will
serve as Chairman and direct
the drive in Lititz Borough,
H. Ray Bushong in Warwick
Township and Betty Zwally
in Elizabeth Township, Ar th u r
W. West, affiliate of Lambert-
Hu-dnut Manufacturing Labs.,
Inc., Inc., Lititz, will be In ­dus
trial Chairman of the Lit­itz-
Warwick and Manheim
Area.,, Assisting Mr. West
will be John Garber, Richard
Heistand, Wa r ren Hurst, Dr.
Rodney Welch, Wa r ren New­comer,
Marty Strayer, Wood-row
Meiskey, He rbe r t Kray-bill,
Max Hoas ter and Ed
Savoca.
- (Continued on page two)
PLAN CARD SHOWER
FOR GERTIE HELTER
Friends of Mrs. Gertie Flelter
this week launched a card
shower for the well-known lo­cal
woman who is a patient
in the Roaring Springs Flospi-tal,
Roaring Springs, Pa. Mrs.
Helter sustained fractures of
the wrist and hip in a fall
while visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Robert Huddle, of Wood­bury,
Pa.
MRS. KATIE n u n m :i :
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. Katie Bricker was ad­mitted
to St. Jos eph’s Hospital
on Sunday for observation,
Three Appointed To
Divide First Ward
Getting Rid Of This Dusty Street
Could Be A Cost ly Boro Project