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RED TAG DAYS
BARGAINS GALORE
84th Year E s ta b lish e d April, 1877, a s T h e Su nbeam
(Consolidated with T h e Id t itz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, August 4, 1960 7 c en ts a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r by ma ll
within L a n c a s te r Cou nty; $ 3 :5 0 elsew h e re . Fourteen Pages No. 16
Shoppers’ Treasure Hunt Here Will Feature
Red Tag Days Sales This Friday & Saturday
To Donate
$1,500 In
Free Gifts
18 Participating Retail­ers
Slash Prices To
The Bone
A Shoppers’ Treasure Hunt
in which more than $1,500 in
gifts and prizes will be award­ed,
will feature the semi-an­nual
Red Tag Sales here this
Fr iday and Saturday.
With a total of 4 8 retailers
participating, the Shoppers’
Treasure Hunt, an innovation
this year, will present shop­pers
with a total of 9 6 gifts
ranging in values up to $2 0.
Shoppers to win free gifts and
prizes, must locate their
names posted in the store
windows or inside the stores.
Retailers have compiled
hundreds of names which will
he collected from each of the
4 8 participating stores today.
The names will be posted F r i ­day
morning.
Despite that the Main
Street, construction makes it
more or less difficult to get
across the street, axecpting at
the Square, Doster’s and Ce­dar
Street, merchants wrere
hoping that unprecedented re­ductions
in prices will prove
ufficient encouragement.
Several merchants declared,
this week that their custom­ers
fully realize the difficul­ties
which have faced local re­tailers
this year and repeat­edly
assure them of their
shopping support.
“The encouraging remarks
from customers who realize
the difficulties we are operat­ing
under, do a lot of make
up for any drop-off in bus­iness,”
Ed. Needles, chair­man
of the Red Tag commit­tee,
asserted this week. “The
retailers are doing everything
Within their power to make
it worthwhile for shoppers to
do their shopping right here
at home — where it is need­e
d ! ”
Shoppers also will be pro­vided
free parking. Jus t park
your car and put the money
in . the meter — the coin will
be returned to you by the re­tailer.
Receptacles of pennies
and nickles have been placed
in practically evry store here.
Shoppers also were remind­ed
of the parking spaces
available in the Municipal
Parking lot located just east
of. The Record-Express build-ng.
Spaces also are available
-around the borough elemen­tary
school as well as at a
number of local stores.
Girl Bitten
By Pet Dog
A local girl "was painfully
injured when suddenly attack­ed
by a German Shepherd hers
fas t Friday evening. She is
'Mary Lynne Welch, 14-year-old-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Rodney Welch, Eas t Third Aye.
After being treated 1 by Dr.
Paul Hess, the girl was remov­ed
to the Lancaster Genera!
Hospital where plastic surgery
was administered.
At the time the dog, hither
to considered a reliable pet
for children, was tied at the
heme of its owner, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Kreiner, Locust
St. The owner could give no
reason for the sudden change
in temperament of the dog ana
was holding it for observation
The bites were inflicted upon
the right side of the gi r l ’s
face and neck and her right
arm.
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Brunnerville
Addition
Approved
Sewer Extension Okay­ed
$335,000 Bond
Issue Sold
Work on the Brunnerville
School addition — including
running a sewer main from
the borough line to the school
— will get underway almost
immediately and should be
completed in time for the
opening of the school term in,
1961, Warwick Union School
officials announced yesterday.
After numerous delays and
set-backs had for a time
threatened the tentative dead­line
fixed for the project, an­other
series of meetings and
conferences during the past
week succeeded in removing
all obstacles.
Although still mildly blam­ing
Borough Manager Dave
Bauer for much of the delay,
school authorities gave him
full credit for “almost mira­culously”
whipping the sewer
extension project into shape
over the week-end. This in­cluded
obtaining the approval
of the State Department of
Health and the go-ahead sig­nal
from architects, engineers
and bond counsel — all with­in--
the course of three days as
compared with months of de­lay
previously.
The final crown of success
was added to the entire pro­je
c t Tuesday night when the
$335,000 bond issue to fin­ance
the construction was
sold at an average interest
rate of 4.1415 35 per-cent. The
issue was purchased by C. C.
Ceilings & Company, invest­ment
bankers of Philadelphia.
The bond bids were opened
by the school authority m the
presence of the school board.
Maturity dates for the bonds
range from 1967 to 1986 with
imeies t rates varying from
3 b per-cent to 4.15 per-
The addition to be built to
Hie John Beck School in
lirunnerville includes six ad-nal
classrooms, increas­ing
the size of the all-purpose
room and storage rooms and
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Center Ground-Breaking This Friday;
$ 1 4 9 ,0 0 0 Contract Signed Last Night
A contract for the con­struction
of the new Lititz Re ­creation
Center adjacent to Lie
Springs Park at a cost of ap­proximately
$149,9 8 3 was
signed at a meeting of the
Center Board of directors held
last evening.
Ground will be broken for
the new building this week-end
with actual .construction sche­duled
to get underway Mon­day
morning, representatives
of the contracting firm of Rice
& Weidmau, Lancaster, assur­ed
members of the Cente*
board.
The actual contract agreed
upon is several thousand do!
Mrs less than the original bids
submitted for the work. In
recent conferences with the
architects members of the Cen­ter
board eliminated a number
of features which, they ex­plained,
can, if desired, be add­ed
an a later date.
One of these was an ultra
modern kitchen, fully equipp­ed,
which has been trimmed
down to a “snack” kitchen
It desired, additional kitchen
equipment will be added later,
William Spacht, president or
the Center board, explained.
The signing of the contract
for the construction of the
Center occurred within, a few
Diehrn Has Busy Time
At G. O. P. Convention
Jus t ice of the Peace Paul
F. Diehm, often referred to as
Mr. Republican of Lititz, had
a busy, busy time at the Re ­publican
National convention
in Chicago last week, twice
appearing within the range of
the TV cameras! -
On the opening day of the
convention he earned for him­self
the title of a “Pusher For
Nixon” when the crowds sur­rounded
the vice president’s
upon his arrival at the Black-stone
Hotel.
Nixon had made a few re­marks
from the car and had
shaken numerous hands when
secret service agents present
realized the crowd was too
great to get the vice president
into the hotel. Turning to
several persons nearest the
car, including Mr, Diehm,
they asked help in pushing
Nixon’s car to the side en­trance
where a path had been
cleared.
After the pushing episode,
Vice President Nixon made
several futile attempts to
shake the hands of those who
bad assisted but was unable
to reach Mr. Diehm. Later
when President Eisenhower
arrived in Chicago ‘Squire
Diehm again, was on hand to
PUSHER FOR NIXON
hours following receipt ’Wed­nesday
of a $100,000 check
U'om Elmer Bobst.
At last night’s meeting, tl -
lectors estimated that the
board will have to place: va
mortgage of approximately
$25,000 on the structure and
expressed the hope that L>ey
will be able to pay off tins'
obligation within the next few
years.
At present the Center t rea­sury
includes slightly less than
$13,000 raised in the current
building fund drive, scheduled
to be concluded within thè
next two weeks. Herbert Kray-bill,
campaign chairman, pre­dicted
the drive total ■ will
leach $15,000 when r ep o r ted !
canvassers are completed'. “
When the building i s . com­pleted,
little will have to be
spent upon furnishings, direc­tors
pointed out. Game tables
used in the former Center 'care
again be installed along with
folding chairs, tables, etc. “
Paul F. Diehm
welcome him.
As the president's car roll­ed
into sight, a CBS TV cam­era
suddenly began toppling
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Break Record
in Registration
A record-breaking enroll­ment
of voters was chalked up
here Saturday, with Republi­cans
far exceeding Democrat4
in the number of new voters
registered. ■ • ■ -
A total of 4G3 persons, most
of whom were from Lititz Boro
and Warwick Township, ’.ap­peared
at the firehouse whetp
registrars sat from noon until
9 p.m. Those registered in­cluded
361 Republicans, V 8 8
Democrats and 14 indepen-dents,
in addition to 30 w h o
merely changed addresses.,
The outpouring of, voters
not previously registered w i-<
by far the largest ever enroll­ed
here in a single day, even’
in a presidential years. A ear
equipped with a loud- speaker
with Firs t Ward Republican
Committeeman R a y m <> u il
Reedy at the micropiroire-,:
Which toured the borough’ aiM
nearby spots, was credited
with effectively reminding pére
sons of the opportunity t4
register. /■}' A
Juvenile beatniks of every type and de­scription.
some even dei.ving description, in­vaded
the Springs Park a t a Beatnik Pa r ty
sponsored last Friday by Hie playground.
In die lower piloto a te local kiddies of the
live to seven year brat ket while in tile up­per
photo are those front eight, to thirteen
years of age.
Carnival And Picnic To
Conclude Playgrounds
During the final week of
the playgrounds there will be
a carnival and a picnic. These
will be the big features of
the final week of the play­grounds.
The most colorful feature of
the playground this past week
was the beatnik show. The
winners of the beatnik show
and other contests follow:
Beatnik Show
Ages 5, 5 and? — Most
realistic — Dean Mastromat-teo
and Nancy Ganter; most
comical looking — Kerry
Stauffer; best acting beatnik—
Billy Wilier and Julie Burk ­holder;
most original makeup
— Kerry Stauffer and Nancy
Ganter.
Ages 8 and 9 — Most rea­listic
— Kerry Lodish and
Dixie Reese; most comical
looking — J im Zellers and
Phyllis Kreamer ; best acting
beatnik — J im Zellers and
Sandy Reinhar t; most original
Late Rally Brings Lanco
Teener Title To Lititz
By Barry Kauffman
I t took a long time, but the
breaks finally favored Lititz—
just in time, too — as the
Lititz Teneer squad captured
the championship of tne Lan­co
Teener League on a 4-3 vic­tory
over Neffsville, last Mon­day
on the Lampeter-Strasburg
High School baseball diamond.
Showing the hustle and de­termination
that inarm (hem
champs, the local squad battled
back twice to take the lean,
the last time for good in the
last inning.
F o r a play-by-play de­scription
of (he game and
a pitru.ro ol the new
champs, turn to Hie spoils
page.
All night tlie Teeners battled
with evrey break going to their
opponents. Time and again
their long d iL e , whip r wigai.
runners were thrown out at
home and to top it off unearn­ed
runs were piled up against
them.
Finally, in the last inning
the tide changed and Steve
Smith’s ( .256 ) grounder was
hobbled. Dick Keller ( .5S2)
cent one deep to short, but
Doth runners beat the throws.
Then, to top it off, a wild
pilch set both runners in scor­ing
position.
Bob Landis {.4 S 1 l bounced
another one to deep short,
scoring the run to tie the game
at 3-3 With onlv one away,
Dale Huber ( .3 7 2 ) lifted a
long fly to right, scoring Kel­ler
with the winning run
At the time, however, the
one run lead looked very slim.
Neffsville managed to get two
iminers on m the bottom ot
roe seventh. With one out,
itliber was called in to relieve
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— Doug Ecker t and Sandy
Reinhart.
Ages 10 and over — Most
lealisLic — Tom Burkholder
and Joyce Nagle; most comical
looking — J e f f Ross and
Marilyn Stauffer; best acting
beatnik — Dave Miller and
Joyce Nagle; most original —
Tom Burlthloder and Joyce
Nagle.
Fashion Show
Ages 5 , 6 , and 7 — Prettiest
— Jenny Long and Lois Fry,
best model — Jul ia Burkhold­er;
cutist — Barbara Mitchell;
funniest — Nan Mathers; most
adult looking—Jul ia Burkhold­er,
most glamorous — Karen
Carpenter.
Ages 8 and 9 — Prettiest —
Susan Williams; best model —:
Brenda Rossi; cutist — Dixie
Reese; most adult looking —
Robin Brenner; most glamor­ous
— Robin Brenner.
Ages 10 and over — Cutist
— Peggy Bard; funniest —
Barbara Krei-der; most child­like
— Brenda Sites.
Hobby Show
Ages 5, 6 and 7 — Biggest
collection — Steve Weir (ba.se-oall
cards) ; most unusual —
Mary -Aim Lahr (dolls from
■different countries) ; rarest —
Julie Ami Burkholder (coin
collection); most useful —
Billy ■ Bell and Steve Weir
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Sunday Program
Sn The Park
The Rev. Olden D. Mitchell,
Pastor of the Church of the
Brethren, will conduct, the
Community Service of Worship
m the Lititz Springs Park on
Sunday evening, August 7 at
7:00 p.m. He wall present a
sermon on the topic, “Neither
Shall Tnev Learn War Any
More.”
Special music will be pro­vided
by the Senior Choir of
me church under the direction
ot Miss Et ta Jean .Hershey. The
choir will sing “Holy Lord of
All” bv Welsh-Williams ann
“Rise Up, O Men ot God” by
.\ob:o. Mrs. Gorton Trump vvul
m-aside ni .the uigira.
20 Entries
For Talent
Show Aug. 5
Over 20 entries urill compete
m the home talent show which
will be held this Friday, Au­gust
5, at 8 :0 0 p.m, at te Lit-ilz
Springs Park. Entries will
be received until noon of F r i ­day,
August ’ 5.
The show, which is open to
persons of all ages, who are
living in the Warwick Union
District, is being sponsored by
the Recreation Department as
a benefit for the New Rec rea­tion
Center Building Fund. No
admission will be charged but
a collection will be taken and
given to the Building Fund.
There will/ be four classi­fications
— (1 .) eight years of
age and under; (2.) 9 years
old to 12 years old; (3.) 13
years old to 18 years old; and
(4.) adults. All types of talent
is invited to participate in­cluding;
musical, artistic, dra­matic,
humorous, dancing and
organization groups.
Hen Lutz, famous Lititz
sportsman and Ted Mack Tele­vision
Amateur Program 'p e r­former
will be a feature p e r ­former,
playing’ a musical
selection on his saw. Entries
can be made by calling MA
6-7 38 3 before noon on August
Local Group Visits
Elmer Bobst's Yacht
Elmer Bobs t ’s luxurious 9 6-
foot yacht, “Alissa,” anchored
at Brielle, N .J., proved more
interesting than fishing to
members of a local fishing p a r ­ty
last Friday afternoon. The
group included 'Wallace
Lausch, Charles Grube, Rod­ney
Welch, Fred Haggerty and
Frank Brenner, all employed at
the Wilbur Chocolate Company
plant.
Being .advised that the group
would be in the vicinity of
Brielle, Mr. Bobst extended
them an invitation to visit the
yacht. The group was taken on
the tour ny Captain \\ llhams
in Mr. Bobs t ’s absence.
TREES RECOMMENDED FOR MAIN STREET
Main Street!
The first block of East Maia
Street has been torn up for
such a long time that, despite
the effect upon local shopping,
it has become the but t of much
local humor.
Last Friday, pedestrians
suddenly noticed a small tree
m a tin can sitting in the space
marked for a tree-hole in front
of the Benner Pharmacy. On
Monday moning George Evans,
former school caretaker, began
watering and tenderly caring
for the small, foot high tree.
Tuesday morning a four-foot
tioe stood in the same, small
can and George claimed it was
ail the result of his tender
care. Not to miss a good thing,
Clyde Benner, proprietor of
the drug store, then hung a
card on the tree, crediting his
vitamin pills for the phenome­non.
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Main Street may present a
picture of utter desolation as
far as the excavating work is
concerned — but everybody
agrees the memorial fountain
m the Square never looked
more beautiful.
Every week, groups of gin
scouts show up with their
sprinkling cans and trowels
and spend hours cultivating
the aiready-oeautiful Lower
oeds. As a resuit, tile fountain
plot is a collection of liiany-coiored
buas ana plants wliica
attracts the attention of every­one,
despite that it is almost
impossiuie to reach the plot.
Friday afternoon a sporty
convertible obviously filled
with persons from out-of-town
diove westward in the torn-up
street. Reaching the Square
they realized they could not
go further and began the
laborious task of backing up to
Cedar Street while pedestrains
ioudly ofered them an over­abundance
of advice.
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The week-end downpoui
created a near-lake in the first
block of Main Street. A num­ber
of merchants placed rags
at the -disposal of their patrons
so that they could at least
attempt to get their muddy
shoes back into shape. “I t ’s
jus t like the street was back
in 1 9 0 0 , ’ one old-timer com­mented.
Mrs. Blanch AUebach ot New
Jersey arrived on Tuesday to
reside at the Moravian Home.
Scanlon Red Maple Armstrong' lied Maple
The Battle of The East Main Street
Shade Trees Goes On And On And On
The battle of the Main
Street Shade Trees waged
fiercely this week with retail­ers
and property owners more
or less -divided over the bor­ough
project.
The first indication that a
difference of opinion existed
regarding the borough’s plan
to beautify Eas t Main Street
from the fountain eastward to
the borough line, when work­men
-dug a number of holes
for the trees in the pave­ments
on both sides of the
first block of Main Street.
But as the battle drags out,
members of the borough shade
tree commission reported yes­terday,
sentiment for the
trees appeared gaining some
ground. The Shade Tree Com­mission
has no intention of
abandoning the project al­though
it will not attempt to
force the planting of trees
where property owners ob­je
c t,
This, at least, was the con­census
of opinion of members
of the commission. On the
other hand, Borough Manager
Dave Bauer, now on vacation,
informed the commission
members that the effective­ness
of the plan is impaired
if the trees are not planted
uniformly alone the enitre
street.
“I favor sending a letter to
all property owners- telling
them what we have in min i
and explaining that we have
no intention of forcing trees
upon anyone,” Ed Bear’, a
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Commission Describes Types
Of Trees To Re Planted
The Lititz Shade Tree Com­mission
has finally received the
necessary information on the
Lees to be planted along Mam
street. ri’o clarity numerous
misunderstandings and still
tne rumors, we submit here­with
a -description ol the var­ieties
to be used in this, pro­ject.
This week's issue of the
Recor-o will be confined to the
type of trees recommended for
Lie business section of town.
. I™- l iuhnmi Arinsiroiiy; —
“Armstrong’1 Red Maple has
a very narrow form, similar
to the Lombordv Poplar, but
with none of i t ’s faults. This
is a new variety — the young
trees make satisfactory grow­th:
above average, but not the
fastest growing tree. It has no
seed and the leaves turn red in
the fall.
This particular type of tree
is recommended for the bn-si-
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