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12 Pages — No. 45
Failure To Get Land Stalls Hammer Creek Dam
Political
Pot Is
Boiling
Candidates Begin Circu­lating
Petitions Here
) • In Borough
With the first of the politi­cal
petitions being circulated
here this week, the public re ­mained
largely in the dark
as to the names ot candiidates
fo r various local offices, to a
large extent.
In te re st seemingly c en te rs
over the selection of candi­dates
for burgess to succeed
B en jam in F o r re s t as well gs
who will seek positions on bor­ough
council.
The dearth of known candi­dates
in fa c t indicates a re ­luctance
on the part of more
than a dozen potential candi­dates
discussed, to give their
consent to run. These Includ­ed
a t lea st thre e local busi­nessmen
being urged to run
fo r borough offices.
•' Petition s being circulated to-date
include those of Ju s tic e
of the Peace Paul F . Diehm.
seeking re-election, and of
Borough Police Officer Howard
Dissinger, candidate fo r re-election
as first ward con sta ­ble..
Things were a b it different
in Warwick Township where
a citizens group Monday night
sponsored the candidates of
Joseph Brub ak e r, K isse l Hill
land developer, to fill one of
th e vacancies on the township
p r , E d w a r d Kowalewski,
board of road supervisors, and
Rothsville, as a candidate for
a position on the Warwick
Union School Board.
Jo h n Neff Mishler, of Brun-nerville,
got the jump on
others, however, when he filed
his petition at the cou rt house
in L anca ste r yesterday. Mish­le
r seeks the Republican nom­ination
as constable.
A petition also was being
circulated in the township by
Ju s tic e of the Peace Richard
Hotter, of Brun ne rv ille , who
is seeking re-election.
With the so-called citizen’
committee planning to put a
full sla te in the field and with
the regula r republican org ani­zation
not included in their
considerations, it was gen eral­ly
considered th a t contests will
develop for practically a ll local
offices in Warwick Township.
ENJOYING A WELL-EARNED REST
— Record-Express Photo
W illis Gochnaner, whose picturesque a landmark and point of in te re st to visitors,
farm implement and ladder warehouse ancl j s shown relaxing at his home here,
store on North Broad S tre e t, long have been
Lititz Famous Ladder-man Retires
After Conducting Business 45 Years
L ititz ’ famous ladder-man
has re tired!
He is Willis Gochnauer,
this week announced the sale
of his famous implement store
on North Broad Street, bring­ing
to an end a career which
in business here of approxi­mately
forty-five years dura­tion.
The building housing the
WIN HONORS
Center
Sponsors
Benefit
; The Warwick R e c re a tio n
Center will sponsor a B en e fit
B a sk e tb a ll Game between the
Warwick Union School Dis­tr
ic t Teachers and th e Penn­sylvania
S ta te Policem en on
F rid ay March 3 at 7 :3 0 P.M.
a t the Warwick High School
Gym. All proceeds will go for
the New I.W. Bobst Re c re a ­tion
Center now under con­struction.
The S ta te Police ha s held
several Exhibition B e n e f i t
Games in the a rea to support
healthy activ itie s for th e local
community. They sport a fine
seven win and one loss record.
They will be coached by Pete
Zablotney, th e ir player roster
will fea ture Jo h n Fed in, Tom
Ziemba, Gerald Depen, F ran k
Wetzher, Harlan Zimmerman
and Charles Zagorski.
The Teachers will have on
th e ir roster, Bob Alspach, Ray
Adelizzi, Phil Bomberger, John
"\Miller, Lloyd Ruoss, Stan
*Schoenberger, LeRoy Trupe,
Tom Vaux, Don Sheehan,
Dick Pohner and Dan Ciervo.
The re is a possibility th a t some
of the old-timers will make an
appearance for this benefit
game. The complete line-ups
will be listed in nex t week's
paper.
Local officials are making
arrangements for a special
half-time show fea turing Hen-ney
Lutz in a Fre e-T h row Con­te
s t with an outstanding free-thrower
in the area. T he Ju n ­ior
Board of Directors will seli
refreshments during th e game.
The Ju n io r Board o f Direc­tors
will hold a F r e e Dance
a fte r the game a t the Lititz
Elem. School gym. P rice for
the game 35c donation for
students, 60c donation for
adults. L ets all turn out for
this wonderful benefit game.
business, which has been con­spicuous
for many years be­cause
of the many' ladders dis­played
on practically every
side of it, has been purchased
by Robert Posey, owner and
proprietor ef the Sunshine
Farm Supply store jus t north
of the Gochnauer store.
Mr. Gochnauer’s reputation
as a dealer of ladders became
widespread throughout South­eastern
Pennsylvania during
the past score or more of
years when he specialized in
ladders. His stock is by far
the .larges t ■ in this section of
the state and ranged f r o m
two-foot step-ladders to exten­sion
ladders of 3G feet and
more.
“ I found that placing so
many of the ladders about the
building in full view of the
public was my best advertise-m
e n t ,” Mr. Gochnauer ex­plained
as he discussed his
long business career from the
living room of his h om e at
108 South Broad Street.
“Many motorists traveling
on 501 from considerable dis­tances
away would stop at the
sight of these ladders and the
amount of business, especially
over the week-ends, was great­ly
increased because of t h e
large supply.”
Mr. Gochnauer also s o l d
ladders regularly at Ro o t ’s
Market and his sales included
practically ail schools and
many institutions of practical­ly
the entire northern half of
the county.
His frame store and ware­house
on North Broad Street
also long has been a landmark,
largely due to the many com­panions
who spent their lei­sure
hours sitting about the
establishment playing checkers
— or. jus t conversing.
And, believe it or not, most
of these frequenters of the
Gochnauer' store carried on
their conversations in pure,
unadulterated Pennsylvania
Dutch. And even now, in his
r e t i r e m e n t , Pennsylvania
Dutch flows freely in the
Gochnauer living room as his
friends drop in to spend the
hours with him.
“I enjoy having them here,”
his daughter, Mrs. Ed Cole,
explained. “When they, the
c r o w d which formerly sat
around the store, get together
in our living room i t ’s really
a riot — they have so many
jokes to tell and so many
(Continued on Page 6)
Retailers
Launch
Campaign
Aim To Make Lititz
Lively Bargain
Center
Determination to make Li t ­itz
the most attractive shopp­ing
center in Northern Lancas­ter
County was expressed at
an enthusiastic meeting of Lit ­itz
retailers in Weaver’s R e s t ­aurant
Monday evening.
As a feature of the meeting,
businessmen endorsed a plan to
present special inducements of
a varied assortment regularly
t\ach month and not just sea­sonally
as in the past.
Questionnaires will be mail­ed
to all retailers, service sta­tions,
garages, etc., this week
in an effort to obtain as nearly
100 per-cent co-operation in
the plan as possible.
And while the record-break­ing
snows of the past winter
did much to slow up business
here as well as elsewhere, the
volume of business being re­ported
by local retailers is
showing a slow but steady-recovery
from the lows of last
summer when street construc­tion
brought activities here to
a stand-still.
Businessmen also expressed
the opinion that the type of
bargains which the small-town
businessman can offer — plus
the type of service provided
which is conspicuously lacking
in shopping centers and big
cities, insures a steady flow of
business — providing retailers
do their share of down-to-earth
promoting.
Shoppers throughout the en­tire
area will be assured their
business is desired here by the
type of friendly inducements
being planned for the coming
year, the retailers committee
asserted.
PASSES STATE TEST
4 Owners Asking From Two To
Three Times Offers By State
Owners of land needed for
the proposed fishing lake along
the Hammer Creek are asking
from two to three times the
amounts offered by the state,
it was disclosed here this
week.
The failure of four owners
>f approximately 192 acres of
land to come to an agreement
with the fishing commission o f ­ficials
is def ini te ly' delaying
approval of the project, mem­bers
of the fishing commission
in Harrisburg asserted.
The four property owners in
question are asking a total of
approximately $125,000.
Officers of the Lititz Sports­men’s
Association who were
contacting the four property
lwnevs in question this week,
reported that all apparently
ire determined not to lower
their figures.
Sportsmen, however, still
held out hope that the fishing
commission will agree to in •
ititute land condemnation pro­ceedings
at their meeting Mar.
20 when the fate of the Ham­mer
Creek dam definitely will
be decided.
But, Wallace Lausch, repre­senting
the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce, pointed out, the
fishing commission up to now
has been reluctant to institute
proceedings inasmuch as an
adverse decision would leave
them with a lot of land — but
insufficient funds to develop
the proposed dam.
The four land-owners who
haven’t agreed to state offers
to-date are as follows:
Charles Martin, who is ask­ing,
according to the fish com­mission
$750 an acre for 20
acres sought. The commission
has offered him $3 75 an acre.
Charles Myer, who is .ask­ing
$55,200 for 4 7 acres need­ed
by the fish commission. The
state has appraised this lahd
at $23,000, however.
Paul Neff, who is asking
$40,500 for 60 acres, according
to state officials, who have
offered him $25,000..
MEET OL' UNCLE DRYROT
Marjorie Klenin
Dorcas Circle Celebrates
Its Fiftieth Anniversary
The Dorcas Circle of St.
P aul ’s Lutheran S u n d a y
School, an organization started
by the late Prof. A. S. Long-enecker,
long a prominent fi­gure
in local educational cir­cles,
Tuesday night observed
its fiftieth anniversary.
As a surprise for the occas-sion,
Mrs. Ada Summy, of
Lexington, presented class
members with a huge golden
anniversary cake which mea­sured
a foot in height and
several feet in circumference.
The class which had a mem­bership
of nearly fifty members
when organized still has a
membershop of ten. Its motto
is, “Not for Ourselves But
For Others.”
Following Professor Long-enecker’s
death, his widow,
Mrs. Mary Longenecker, taught
the class - for many years.
Present officers are: Mrs.
Abram Foltz, president; Mrs.
Lester Dietrich, vice president;
Mrs. Josephine Owens, secre­tary;
Mrs. A. D. Brubaker,
assistant; and Mrs. Roy Weav­er,
treasurer.
-—Photo by Harry H. Landis
William Scatcliard, le ft, expresses more than a casual
note of surprise as he learns he has been tapped to play the
part of l ud e Dryrot in the ABC’s Main S tre e t -Minstrels here
April 7 and 8. He is shown accepting the script from Dale
Shelley, co-chairman of the show.
The show, to be presented In the Warwick High audi­torium,
will fe a tu re trad itiona l b la ck fa ce music and humor
as well as s ta rtlin g dramatizations of some “ little known”
fa c ts in the history of L ititz . Uncle Dryrot is the show’s h is ­torian.
18 Warwick Students
Getting Trial Teaching
Robert C. Meek, this bor­ough,
lias passed the S t a t e
Board examinations fo r phar­macy,
it was announced at
Harrisburg this week. Meek
has completed his' apprentice­ship
under the supervision of
Clyde O. B enner, lo ca l phar­macist,
and will continue as a
registered pharmacist at the
B en ne r pharmacy. He is a
graduate of the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy and W a r­wick
High School.
Ralph Buch Regards Peking Ducks
As Fresh, New Enigma For Lititz
I F IR E CO. A U X IL IA R Y
? SOCIAL NEXT THURSDAY
j T h e L ititz F ir e Company
Auxiliary will hold a covered
j dish social on Thursday even-
' ing, March 2, beginning a t
6 :3 0 in the F ir e Hail. Each
member is asked to b rin g their
own table settings and also a
gift for games. Mrs. Mable
Rotb is chairiady.
Richard Engle
Three Students
Reach National
Merit Finals
Three local students have
reached the 99 per-cent brack­et
in scholastic endeavor —-
that of becoming finalists in
the national merit scholarship
competitions, it was announc­ed
here this week.
, They include two Warwick
High School seniors and a
Linden Hall student, all of
whom now are eligible for
scholarship grants from lead­ing
universities and colleges
of the nation.
The two high school stu­dents
who emerged from their
scholarship examinations taken
in January with flying colors
are Richard Engle, son of Mr.
a ad Mrs. Henry B. Engle,
Marion Street ; and Marjorie
itlenin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jules Klenin, Main Street.
The-Linden Hall student also
attaining this high scholastic
rank is Je an Willison, seven­teen,
a college prep senior,
formerly of Saudi Arabia. Her
(Continued on page a)
B y Ralph B uell
An enigma now brought be­fore
the residents of Lititz, a
surprise to excite the curiosity
of newspaper readers, is the
information that four “white”
Peking ducks will be “ import­ed”
into the basin near the
entrance to the Springs Park.
The basin is being clogged
with algae and the question as
it now stands is to see if the
ducks consider this a green
delicacy or not, bating it with
gusto or taking an occasional
peck at it. I t will be an in­teresting
experiment to watch
and save labor and money if
the trick works.
Ducks have a wonderful
digestive system eating contin­uously
if given the chance.
This quartet of waterfowl will
have a real job cut out for
them to consume this aquatic
plant growth as fast as - it
grows. The ducks' lives are at
stake. Mr. Ja c k Leed, head of
the Park Trustees, made the
statement that, “If, it doesn’t
work out there will be a
duck dinner for his fellow
trustees.”
Long ago, when the Lititz
creek was pure, many home-owners
living closeby kept
ducks. Some had Peking ducks,
but many other ducks were of
the nondescript varieties, lay­ing
blue eggs and probably
had a strain of wild blood in
them.
As a boy, having raised many
of the Peking breed I confess
I don’t know whether they
ate algae or not,, but was sat­isfied
to get an abundance of
large eggs and frequently have
roast duck on the table.
Ducks are easy to raise, not
having the many diseases of
chickens and the eggs are al­most
a hundred per cent fer ­tile
— thus the ducklings can
be counted before they are
hatched. Set an old' Plymouth
Rock hen on a dozen diick
eggs and in four weeks the
fuzzy little beauties are on the
way, growing rapidly. In no
t ime th ey will be ready to test
out the algae theory.
Peking eggs can be secured
at Esbenshade’s Hatchery,
near Smoketown, a big com­mercial
plant, or probably ma­ture
birds can be bought there.
Whether any variety of
duck eats more algae than an­other
variety, as stated by the
Springs authorities, remains to
be seen.
As an experiment, why not
try the Muscovy duck. I t is
quackless and there would be
no complaint by neighboring
residents on account of the
monotonous clatter. The Mus­covy,
really a goose, a native
wild bird of South America, is
equally as choice eating or
better than the Peking, which
would be up to the Springs
officials to decide, if it comes
to that end.
The Indian Runner duck —
also has its good features, lay­ing
as many eggs — as a
pedigreed white Leghorn hen.
I f this variety were imported
to the pool the high executives
could have duck eggs the year
round.
(Continued on page 6)
Seek Polling
Place For
Third Ward
A committee to select a
polling place for the newly-created
third ward was named
at a meeting of workers held
in the McElroy Building last
Thursday evening.
The committee named Glenn
McElroy, Republican commit­teeman
for the ward, consists
of Ford Gochenauer, Rodney
Welch and Mrs. Valentine
Brobst.
A total of 22 men and
women attended the meeting
which spent part of the even­ing
discussing candidates for
local positions.
Eighteen Future Teacher
Club members of the Warwick
High School taught elementary
classes last Thursday. Miss
Annette Keefer, gir ls ’ guidance
director for the high school,
J assisted in the readiness for
class teaching- experiences.
Miss Theresa Gaffny, read­ing
consultant for the Row
Peterson Book Co., gave three
reading demonstrations f o r
teachers in the Warwick Un­ion
Elementary Schools. The
demonstration for the teach­ers
of the first and second
year pupils was given in Miss
Elizabeth Workman’s room.
While the teachers observed
this demonstration and attend­ed
the following discussion of
the demonstration, the mem­bers
of the Future Teacher
Club were in charge of the
classroom. The total time prac­tice
teachers were in a single
classroom was eighty-five min­utes.
At the end of the eighty-five
minutes the regular classroom
teachers returned to t h e i r
room.
The second demonstration
started at 1 0 :3 0 a.m. T h ip
practicum was held for the
teachers of the third and
fourth year pupils. The dem­onstration
was held in Mrs.
Iris Hoffman’s room. The
eighteen Future Teachers as­sumed
the duty of these teach­ers
’ classrooms for eighty-five
minutes.
Fi th and sixth grade teach­ers
observed the las t reading
demonstration during the af­ternoon
session. I t was held
in Mrs. Judy Shober’s room.
The Future Teachers complet­ed
their day of teaching at
the end of the third demon­stration.
The Future Teachers
had a fine opportunity to exr
perience working with various
age groups of student?. I t was
hoped that the Future Teach­ers
have • a better understand­ing
of the various age groups
of pupils and that this ex­perience
will aid them in se­lecting
the group in w h i c h
th
Gerald Darlington, who is
asking $17,000 for 25 acres
which the state feels is appro­ximately
two and one-half
times as much as the state will
pay.
Lausch also pointed out that,
in all fairness, properties of
Myer and Neff include build­ings
which would be torn down
if the dam were built.
A delegation who went to
Harrisburg last Friday to con­fer
with state officials were
informed that failure to work
out an agreement for the pur­chase
of the land probably will
delay the project two or three
years.
Thus far the commission
has obtained options to pur­chase
2 7 of the 31 tracts need­ed
to build the lake.
Executive Director Albert
M. Day told the group that the
asking prices for the four re­maining
properties is $60,000
more than the commission esti­mates
they are worth. The
over-all price tag on the pro­je
c t is $363,000.
Day said that the amount
asked by the four land owners
cannot be allocated, and if the
land cannot be had at a cheap­er
price the project, which got
under way in 1958, may be
stalled indefinitely. Construc­tion
was tentatively scheduled
to start this spring.
Because of the delay in ac­quiring
the tracts, the commis­sion
said, priority on the com­mission’s
list of projects.
T w o possible alternatives
were proposed by the Lancas­ter
group, composed of Her­bert
R. Wagaman, county com­missioner;
Robert E. Fasnacht,
secretary of the Lancaster
County Federation of Sports­men’s
Clubs; Clayton B. Shenk,
also of the Sportsmen’s Federa­tion;
Theodore R. Stauffer,
president of the Lititz Sports­men’s
Cl u b ; Wallace E.
Lausch, of the Lititz Chamber
of Commerce, and David J .
Bauer, Lititz borough manager.
They first suggested that
the Fish Commission file con­demnation
proceedings in the
Lancaster County Court. The
court would condemn the pro­perties
and the commonwealth
would have to buy it at price
set by a jury.
ey would like to specialize
at college.
Members of the F u t u r e
Teachers Club who aided us
(Continued on page 3 ) ,
Grand Patriarch To
Address I.O.O.F.
Ber t Crone, of Shamokin,
grand patriarch of the Encamp­ment
of Pennsylvania, will ad­dress
members of Lititz Lodge
1050, I.O.O.F. in the Odd F e l ­lows
Hall Monday evening at
7 :3 0 p.m.
Grand officers as well as a
group of visiting Odd Fellows
from New Holland also will
attend the meeting. Refresh­ments
wil be served.
Midget Baseball
Meeting Wednesday
Coaches and men who would
be interested in working with
the Warwick Midget and Mid-ge.
t-Midget Baseball Teams are
urged to attend the first
meetings of the season at the
Lititz Elementary School gym.
Wednesday, March 1 at 8 :0 0
p.m.
Bob Gibbel, league presi­dent,
announced nominations
for league officers will be
held. If any of present coaches
or new men ■ interested in
coaching cannot attend the
meeting they should contact
Bob Gibbel or the Recreation
Center. A total of .1.3 teams and
over 250 boys participate in
this program.
Bob Gibbel announced the
new set up established in Lan­caster
County for “Organized
Baseball for Boys, Inc., will be
explained and voted on to see
if we are going to take an
active part' in the entire pro­gram,
he explained.
The main purpose of the new
organization is to unite the
different leagues in the county
i n , regard to age, and other
eligibility requirements. He
urges all coaches to be present
if possible.
Community
Calendar
Feb. 2!)— 6 :1 5 P.M. — Father
and Son Banquet at St.
Paul ’s Lutheran Church.
8 :0 0 P.M. — J u n i o r
Chamber of Commerce
Meeting at Amer. Legion.
8 :1 5 P.M. — Music P a r ­ents
Annual Concert at
the Warwick High School.
Feb. 2 4— 4 :0 0 P.M.— Basket ­ball
— J r . High — War ­wick
vs. Ephrata. Away
Game.
7 :3 0 P.M. — Wrestling—
District Tournament at
Manheim Central.
8 :0 0 P.M. — Varsity Bas ­ketball
— Warwick . vs.
Garden Spot. Away game.
Feb. 25— 9 :0 0 A.M.— Eastern
Star Bake Sale at t h e
Fire House.
3 :0 0 to 7 :0 0 P.M.— PTA
Chicken Barbecue.
8 :0 0 P.M. — Wrestling
District Tournament at
Manheim Central.
Feb. 2 7— 6 :3 0 P.M. — Mar­tin
Luther Choir rehearsal
at St. Paul’s Church.
7 :0 0 P.M. — I.O.O.F.
meeting at the I.O.O.F.
Hall.
7 :0 0 P.M.— Junior Choir
and Confirmation Class
meetings at St. Paul ’s
Church.
8 :0 0 P.M. — Young Peo­ple’s
Choir rehearsal at
St. Paul’s Church.
Fob. 28— 6 :0 0 P.M. — Rotary
Club meeting at the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel.
6 :3 0 P.M. — Lions Club
Charter and Ladies Night
at the American Legion.
7 :3 0 P.M. — Brunnerville
Fi re Co. Meeting at fire
hall.
8 :0 0 P.M. — Boro Coun­cil
meeting in Borough
Hall.
8 :0 0 P.M. — Lititz Jan -
cee’s Meeting.
Mar. 1 6 :3 0 P.M. — Amer.
Business Club Meeting at
Amer. Legion.
8 :0 0 P.iVI. — Senior Choir
Rehearsal at St. Paul ’s
Church.
Mar. 2— 6 :3 0 P.M. — Ladies
Auxiliary to the Fire Co.
will hold a Covered Dish
Supper.
8 :0 0 P.M. — J u n i o r
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors Meet­ing.
All clubs and organizations
a re asked to co-operate in this
p ro je c t by calling the R e c re a ­tion
Center any day from 3 :3 0
p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and
Fridays from 10 to 1 2 a.m.
and 1 to 3 p.m. Those wish­ing
to write in may do so by
niniliiiB to P.O. Box 2 2 5 .