Lititz Record Express

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Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
84th Year E s ta b lis h e d A p r il, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e Xiitltz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, September 8, 1960 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r by m a il
w ith in L a n c a s te r C ou n ty ; $3:5 0 e ls ew h e r e . Ten Pages No. 21
Registrars To Sit Here Friday and Saturday
575 Not
Enrolled In
First Ward
Group of 40 Workers
Conducting Drive To
Boost Vote
An intensive drive to enroll
approximately 575 potential
voters of the firs t wa rd who
have not registered, is being-s
taged by a group of nearly
forty men a n d .w ome n of the
ward.
The campaign to increase
the list of qualified voters was
launched several weeks ago by
Raymond Reedy, firs t ward
Republican pa r ty committee-ma,
n, and Mrs. Valentine Brob-s
t ,- f i r s t ward Republican com-mitteewoman.
in 'addition to making tele­phone
calls to all persons
krio-Wn not to be registered,
th.e group is dis tr ib u tin g in-foymation
and cards th ro u g h ­out
,the ward. - In contrast,
practically no activity of this
n a tu r e was repor ted in the
second ward.
- Results of the campaign are
expected to be app a ren t when
reg i s tra r s sit a t the Lititz
■Firehouse this Friday and Sat­urday
.from 12 noon to 9
'p,'-m.. regis ter ing voters for the
coming pres idential election.
*Yt th e las t regis tra tion here
many , persons stood in line
only to le a rn they already
were registered. To prevent
this, Mr.--Reedy urged all per­sons
who have any doubts as
to.- t/heir s ta tus on the voting
lis t,-to■,call him at-MA 6-6044
or , to contact Mrs. Brobst a t
M A 6-7411.
Mr. Reedy also explained
tlxa’t ^persons who have moved
from one dis trict to an o th e r in
tiie' pa s t year can call him and
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Chest
By Hairy 1». Eslileman
.'■Now th a t the time for clos­ing-
ba rbe cue pits and opening
kclidols' is upon us, the annual
'Coihhumity Chest campaign
Will soon ru n its course. How­ever
„this campaign, like any
oth e r w or thwhile venture, does
hpt 'ru n itself — it takes many
■people to do the job. Perhaps
yq*ii can help.
.."Local indus tries will be so­lic
ited and school collections
Wifi -be made this month, but
•the actual door-to-door cam-
I>aign'.will not begin until Octo­ber,,''
At the moment, volun­teers
-are needed to help with
neighborhood collections. Any­one,
-willing to assist, please
-contact e ithe r Dr. Robert Bru­baker'-(
MA 6-2571) or Ha rry
D.-Es -hieman (MA 6-22 82).
It's'- simple a rithmetic — the
ffior'e/wlio help, the easier the
’Wlible- job' will be. And in the
past, sufficient people have
volunteered to make the ac t­ual
routes covered easily
manageable. So much for the
pitch. If a word to the wise
is sufficient, we hope a word
to the willing will be equally
Sufficient.
With th a t off my chest, I ’d
like to offer some why’s and
whe re fore ’s about this column.
Mrs. George Keehn, who is
pres ident of the Littiz-Warwiek
Community Chest, ins tigated
this appeal by asking me (in
her very f la tte ring way which
seemed impossible to refuse)
whe the r I would try to wrire
up some facts on the history
of the Community Chest d r iv ­es
in Lititz over the years.
Since I know practically n o ­thing
on the subject, I sup­pose
this qualifies me for the
task. If nothing else is true
about the citizens of Lititz,
our eagerness to expound on
any and all topics is well
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WORK SLOWS UP AT NEW CHURCH BUILDING
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Only stone masons were on the job at Work has progressed sufficiently
the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church building he- the scheduled corner-stone laying
lug-, erected on West Orange Street, due to day. Record-Expr
a strike of the county carpenter’s union.
Cornerstone Laying Scheduled
For Lutheran Building On Sun.
The Rev. Raymond L. F e t ­ter,-
Elizabethtown, Lancaster
Conference pres ident of the
Lu the ran Church, will be the
guest speaker a t the corner­stone
laying service on Sunday
a t 2:30 p.m. a t the site of
the new Lu th e ra n Christian
E d u c a t i o n B u i l d i n g , W.
Orange and Wa ln u t Sts.
The new building is being-built
by St. P a u l ’s Luthe ran
Church a t an estimated cost
of $350,000. I t will be used
for the ch u rch ’s educational
projects.
One of the highlights of the
d ay ’s events will be a pre s ­entation,
in tableau form, of
the history of the local church.
This will be presented in Lit­itz
Springs Park, immediately
following- the cornerstone lay­ing
ceremony.
The n a r r a tio n of the
ch u rch ’s seventy-five jrnar his­tory
was written by Mrs. E u ­gene
Steffy. The stage work
is being handled by Mrs. Noah
F u h r man and Mrs. Charles
Kopp, assistant.
The Senior and Young-
People’s Choirs will sing and
members of the Lu th e r
League ’will tak e important
parts in the program. Several
■descendants of church found­ers
will also be on hand for
the presentation.
After the program in the
park, a fellowship supper will
be served.
The evening service a t 7 p .
m. will fe a ture four former
pastors: the Rev. W. Raymond
Sammuel, Gettysburg, a re ­tired
minis ter; the Rev.
Charles Tru n k Jr,, pastor of
the Evangelical Lu the ran
Church of Frederick, Md.; the
Rev. Francis Bell, St, L u k e ’s
Church, Williamsport, and the
Rev. Henry Spangler, York,
recently retired from the pas­tora
te of the local church.
The evening devotions will
be conducted by Miss Ethel
Dentzer, a missionary whose
Pigeons Cause
Apartment Fire
Local firemen were slightly
in e rror when they reported
a faulty oil burne r as -the
cause of a slight fire in the
Douple Apartments, 140 S.
Broad St., Saturday night.
According- to workmen who
examined the b urne r later, fire
was caused, of all things, by an
excessive numbe r of pigeons
making- the ir home in the
chimney.
Six -dead and two almost-
■dead pigeons were removed
from the chimney. The only
damage otherwise was th a t
caused by smoke.
FIREMEN TO SPONSOR
CHICKEN BAR-B-QUE
The Mastersonville Valley
Firemen will sponsor a chick­en
bar-b-que on Saturday at
the fire hall from 4 p.m. to
8 p.m. The menu will consist
of chicken, baked potato, fruit
salad, cake, ice cream and
drinks.
Nursery Program Will
Open Here On Tuesday
The four th annual pre-school
nursery program is
scheduled to open on Tuesday
morning at 9 a.m. in the
Lititz I.O.O.F. Hall on North
Broad Street.
According to William E.
Bell, local Director of Recrea­tion,
the re is still a chance
for parents to regis ter their
children for the coming ses­sions.
Regis tration is open to all
children thre e and a half years
of age to five years of age.
They mus t live within the
Warwick Union School District
to be eligible.
Interes ted parents should
call Mrs. William Bell a t MA
6-738 3 as soon as possible.
The children will be divided
into l-wo groups. The first will
meet on Tuesday and Th u r s ­day
and the second on Wednes­day
and Friday. Both groups
are scheduled to open sessions
on Tuesday and Wednesday,
respectively.
Sessions will ru n from 9
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. -daily in
the I.O.O.F. Hall. Capable
teachers will care for and tra in
the young students -during this
time.
The Nursery program is en­tering
its four th year of opera­tion.
In the past it has proved
very successful and many have
expressed the ir wishes to ex­pand
tlie program.
The pre-scliool nursery pro­gram
is sponsored by the
Lititz Community Center of
which William Bell is the d i ­rector.
work in India was supported
by the church.
The day’s special events will
begin a t 9:30 a.m. when Dan
Reitz, former Sunday School
supe r intendent and now assis­ta
n t pas tor a t Grace Church,
Lemoyne, will teach the les­son.
Music d u r in g the d ay will
be provided by the choirs, and
by Miss Francis Nissley, h a r ­pist
and Phil Mummert, trom­bonist.
The pastor, the Rev. James
Shannon, will preach a t 10:45
a.m. in the niorning worship
service.
Lutheran Church Founded
Here By Elders In 1885
St. P a u l ’s Lu th e ra n Church,
which will observe the 7 5 th
anniver sary on Sunday with
all-day services, was firs t pro­posed
on Augus t 7, 1885 by a
group of twenty-five persons
who met in the office of J.
A. Buch and Brother. The
meeting was presided over by
the Rev. .1. Peter, pastor of
the New Haven (Kissel Hill)
Church.
At this meeting a commit­tee
of nine was appointed to
procure a site and erect a
Chapel. The committee in­cluded:
Chris tian Lipp, J. A.
Buch, F. B. Buch, Jacob M.
Becker, Reuben Becker, A. G.
Killian, W. H. Enck, " James
Sesseman, and Aaron Kline.
Afterward F. B. Buch was
elected chairman; J. A. Buch,
tr e a su re r ; and A. G. Killian,
se c re tane
The Lititz Express of Sept.
18, 1885 states “On Sunday a f­ternoon
the cornerstone of St.
P a u l ’s Evangelic'al Lu th e ra n
Church was laid with appro­priate
religious ceremonies
which began in the P a rk
where addresses were made by
the Rev. Mr. Pe te r of Man-heim,
Stall and Ecke r t of
Lancaster, and , the pastor of
the Moravian congregation of
this place, th e Rev. Clement
Reinke. - 1 '■
One thousand persons then
met a t the site of the new
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Sign Ban
Contin’ed,
Clarified
Bauer Claims Steffy
Sign Violates Bldg.
Code
The Steffy garage sign bann­ed
las t week is not a zoning-law
violation but merely does
no-t conform with a building
code section — but still can­not
legally be erected, Bor­ough
Manager David Bauer re ­iterated
this week.
The building code section is
th a t which retailers have dis­puted
almost since it was en­acted
in 19 5 3 and which, in
19 5 9, was amended a fte r sev­eral
retailers appeared before
council and voiced tlieir com­plaints.
As it now reads, signs mus t
not be over 40 square feet
whereas the Steffy sign meas­ures
approximately 46 square
feet. Steffy, too, can take his
complaint before council at its
next meeting if he desires but
as the ma t te r now s tands he
cannot legally issue a permit,
Bauer explained.
News th a t the sign had been
banned by the borough man ­ager
b rought forth many com­plaints
from res idents and
businessmen who felt th a t
the re is no need for regula ­tions
of this type — especially
since Steffy proposes erecting
his sign far back from the
street in a used car lot jus t
north of his garage. .
Before leaving on a vacation
this week, Steffy -indicated
th a t he is considering appe a r ­ing
before borough council at
its next meeting. He also ad­mitted
th a t many friends, in
eluding local businessman,
have urged him to go ahead
and erect the sign despite the
regulation, but th a t he did
not consider so doing.
The regulation of signs,
principally those in the main
business section, has been a
bone of contention here for
several -years d u r in g which
time several signs have been
ordered taken down.
A GREAT PLACE FOR RAZOR BLADES!
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Shown above are the members of the letic Field. The squad, com lied by Sian
I9 6 0 Warwick High School Football squad Schoenberger, is captained h.v veteran Terry
which w ill open its season on Saturday Hartman. Only nine senioqs are on I lie
against Manheim Central on the Lititz Atli- squad this year.
Warwick To Host Manheim Cen.
In Football Opener On Sat.
The Warwick Wa rr iors will
open the ir 19 6 0 football sea­son
when they enter tain the
Barons of ManlyeinP Central
on Saturday on the Lititz Ath­letic
Field.
Kick-off time will be 2 p.m.
with a special pre-game per­formance
by the Warwick
High School Band at 1:40 p.
m. The Manheim Central
Band will perform a t h a lf ­time.
Most fans ra te the game as
a “ tos s-up” since both squads
are almost identical m their
make-up. Both squads will
field better th a n average back-fields
and inexperienced lines.
Warwick finds only thre e
s ta r te r s re tu rn in g from a
squad th a t was 7-3 last sea­son.
Re turning will be all-s
tar center Terry Ha rtman,
halfback Dennis Bortz and
qua rte rba ck Bill Lmdeman.
Ha r tman and Bortz are sen­iors
and Lmdeman a junior.
Bolstering the Warwick a t­tack
will be members of an
outs tanding junior vars ity and
the school’s best junior high
team in its history. Last
ye a r ’s junior vars ity finished
with a 2-1-1 mark. This rec­ord
included a 13-6 win over
Manheim Central and a 20-7
victory over Ephra ta . They
tied Columbia 13-13 and lost
to Manheim Twp. 20-7.
Las t y e a r ’s junior high
turned in the best record in
the school’s his tory with a
3-1 mark. This included 2 5-
6 and 2 5-0 wins over Cocali­co,
a 14-12 win over Ep h ra ta
and a. 14-6 loss to Elizabeth­town,
S a tu rd ay ’s tilt will match
two new head coaches agains t
each other. Galie Weidman,
tr an sp lan t from- Cocalico. will
head the visiting Baron forces
while Stan Schoenberger will
lead the Warwick attack.
Richard Will, of Ephra ta , will
also he a new addition to the
Warwick staff.
Captain Terry Ha r tma n and
veterans Barry Male and Sid
Adams will head the line for
the Warriors . Pre-season per­formances
indicate th a t the
Warwick line may not be as
weak as most believe.
Ha r tman will s ta r t a t cen­ter
while Male is scheduled to
go a t right guard. He will
be flanked by either Dick Kel­ler
or Paul Roos, both u n d e r ­classmen.
Left guard Terry
Kauffman will not see action
because of an injured hand.
At the tackle slots it will be
underclassmen Lester Nagle
and Bob Landis while tackle
A1 Jones is expected to see
limited action because of a
back injury.
At the ends i t ’ll be a toss-up
between Jack Mitchell and
J im ‘Weaver a t the left t e r ­minal
while Adams will go at
right end. "Weaver is recov­ering
from a severe cut on
his h ea-d.
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tool, well shortly alter lie alinosi slipped imo the deep hole.
Record-Express
Century-old Well Almost j Hits the News Again! :
Main S tr e e t’s century-old
well which for many years
furnished water for the trough
which stood in the s tre e t in
front of where the General
Sutter Plotel now stands, a l­most
figured prominently in
the news again last week!
WreckedCar
Remains On
Front Porch
The fu tu re of a car th a t
has been resting since Sa tu r ­day
on a Briekerville porch, is
still uncertain.
Late Saturday nig h t the car
was involved in a 'two-car
crash a t the crossroads of
Rts. 501 an-d 322, and it was
-driven’ onto the front porch
of Alton Reifsnyder.
Reifsynder decided to im­pound
the car and refuse to
let the owner remove it with ­out
payment for the damages
to the porch. The d amage was
estimated a t being $200.
- As of late Wednesday even­ing,
the owner, Lester Shamber
Jr., twenty-four of Sheridan
R l , had sent ho word about
his car. So, th e ’ damaged ve­hicle
remains on Reifsynder’s
porch.
According to state police
the Shamber car was trave l­ing
west on Rt. 322 and tvas
a ttempting to make a left
tu rn onto Rt. 501 when it
was s truck in the re a r by a
westbound car. The westbound
car was driven by Richard C.
Bradley, twenty-six, Lititz R2.
Bradley suffered a lace ra­tion
of the tongue and a
possible chest fracture. Sham-ber
escaped injury.
Damage to both cars was
estimated at $700 by State
Police at Ephra ta .
Public Library
Fall Schedule
The Public Library will be
open d u r in g the month of
September on Tuesday even­ings
and will be in charge of
Mrs. Rettew, librarian for the
elementary schools. The hours
are as follows, Sept. 13th 6:30
to 8:00 p.m.; Sept. 20th 7:00
to 8:00 and Sept. 2 7 t h - 7:00
to 8:00 p.m.
During the summer months
1,3 0 5 books were tak en out.
Mrs. Robert Bender, Mrs. E d ­ward
Rosenquis t and Mrs.
Harold McCreary were in
charge with Miss Mildred
Young as subs titute.
LITITZ W.C.T.U.
TO MEET MONDAY'
The W.C.T.U.
Monday evening
at the home of
low, Hopeland.
will meet at the
Ralph Gon-der,
St., at -7:00 p
portatimi. Miss
the president,
charge.
will meet on
at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. Ira Fa r -
The members
home of Mrs.
108 S. Spruce
m. for trans-
Ella Stauffer,
will be in
ENTE RT A IN C LASS
Mrs. Lloyd Smith and Mrs.
Margie Arntz enter tained their
Sunday School class at a pic­nic
supper held a t the home
of Mrs. Smith’s- dau g h te r , Mrs.
Paul Bomberger at Elatonville
on Tuesday evening.
Although unea r th in g ’ the
well-constructed stone well
some weeks back, workmen
rebuilding the street did ’ not
open it up until a trench
digger sank partially into, the
3 0-foot hole last Thursday
morning. ’ -
The well then was opened
completely and was fbund Jo
be in perfect condition- with
practically every rock -still ,jn
position. The well, is 'd ry
and comes to within three; feet
of * the street surface.;----.....
'"'One workman who was’ as­sisting
in the op e ra t io n ’, of
the trench digger was thrown
off balance, when the machine
sank a foot into th e well, blit
was not endangered.
With considerable d i r t 'a n d
rock on hand, workmen fill­ed
up the hole — ma rking the,
end of what once was a his ­toric
spot locally. - The - well
had been covered over more
th an sixty years a g o . '
First Park
Barbecue Is
Great Success
Over 1600 half -chickens
were sold Saturday a t- the first
annual Springs P a rk Barbecue
for the benefit of t h e 'P a r k ’s
redevelopment pro'grhfti:’~'
The sales were way over the
expected total and officials r e ­port
th a t inore;chickeii- Could
have been sold if more Would
have been prepared.
According to Graybi.ll Mill­er,
chairman of the event, the
barbecue was a g re a t success.
The co-operation of borough
organizations was extremely
outstanding.
Over 165 representatives
from local churches, civic or­ganizations
and lodges were
on hand to help make tlie
event such a success.
Music was provided, free of
charge, by the Lititz Band,
directed by John Keehn. The
occasion also served as the
annual family picnic for mem­bers
of the band.
The P a rk Trustees were
very pleased and plans are
already being discussed for
another such event next year.
Work Stops
Here Due
To Strike
Brunnerville, Rothsville
Schools Are
Affected
The c a rpente rs ’ strike in
the county b rought work to a
halt on two local school pro­jects
and slowed up progress
on the new Lu th e ra n Church
Building here, this week.
At the Rothsville E lem . ’
School, carpenters walked off
the job despite th a t less than
two days of work remain to
complete renovations there.
This has not hampered the
opening of classes, however,
school officials said.
At the Brunnerville School
where a six-room addition is
being constructed, work was
completely stopped when c ar­penters
refused to continue
while the countywide strike re ­mains
m effect.
Progress to-date has been
such tha t, should the striko
end quickly, the addition .will
be u nde r roof well before c-old
weather sets in, contractors
explained.
Work also stopped a t the
borough water plant where
automatic equipment is being
installed. This job is approxi­mately
2 0 per-cent complied
blit the delay is not expected
to prove any hardship inas­much
as the present equipment
can be used indefinitely.
At the Lu the ran Church
building, masons still were on
the job completing the corn­er
of the s t ru c tu re where the
corner-stone laying v*ill be
performed this Sunday.
At the new Recreation Cen­ter
Building work was held
up this week, but not be­cause
of the strike. In laying
the foundation for the new
Center, workmen encountered
a veritable bog at one corner.
Finally however, after go­ing
down eight feet, a layer
of solid stone was reached and
work on the foundation then
was resumed.
JOINS AIRLINES
l .Indilli A. Zorihor. (laugli-ilc
i of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Zorchrr. -¡X Markrl SI., this
borough, has been assigned
the position of Ticker Agent
for National Airlines and will
be stationed in New York
City. She attended . Warwick
High School and has complet­ed
the AYeaver Airline Per­sonnel
School course in Kan­sas
City, Mo.
HOSPITAL ACXLIARY*
TO MEET TUESDAY'
The Lititz Auxiliary of the
Lancas ter General Hospital
will meet on Tuesday a f te r ­noon
at 2:00 p.m. at Dr.
Y'oder’s Cottage. Mrs. Walter
Kauffman of Lancas ter will
speak to the group on “Hats,
Old and New.” Mfrs. Fran k l in
Cassel, president, will be in
charge.
Old Zion Church Will Mark
213th Anniversary Sunday
The Rev. Dr. Theodore L.
Trost, Jr., pastor of St. P e te r ’s
United- Church of Christ, Lan­caster,
will be the guest speak­er
a t the 2’13th anniversary
services a t old Zion Reformed
Church, Briekerville on Sunday
at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Al­bert
J. Brinker, pastor of J e r ­usalem
Church, Penryn. will
be liturgist, and special music
will be provided by the Muddy
Creek United Church of
Christ choir, under the direc­tion
oi Mrs. Karl Reddig, Eph­rata.
Old Zion Church, many
times re fe rred to in old his­torical
accounts as “Royer's
Church” , was organized some­time
in 1747, on land purchas ­ed
from Sebastian Royer. The
first, church building- was a
wooden s t ruc ture erected on
tlie southeast corner of what
is now the cemetery. During
tlie Revolutionary War this
building was used as a hospi­tal
for soldiers. Many of
these died while being cared
for there, and are buried in
unma rked graves in a long
row down the middle of th e
burial grounds.
In 1813 the present church
s truc ture was erected, and
stands today as a unique ex­ample
of its type of architec­ture
in the Evangelical and
Reformed Church in this area.
The building has a foundation
of dressed sandstones, many
of which are from six to eight
feet in length. The interior of
the building has a. sharply slop­ed
gallery extending along
three sides. Originally the re
was a wine-glass pulpit, with
a sounding board, but shortly
before the turn of tlie century
if was removed.
When the orginal building
was no longer used, the logs
of the first church building
were brought to Warwick and
used to build the home of one
John Kissinger. Later owners
of this dwelling were Monroe
Kreiter, his brother Charles
Kreiter, Daniel Bryden and
Ephriam Larentz.
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