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(Consolidated w ith The Xiititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday May 11, 1961 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per yea r b y m all
w ithin Lancaster County; $3.50 elsewhere. 14 Pages No. 4
PUTTING ON A NEIGHBORLY ACT — IN A GREAT BIG WAY!
T h irte e n n e ig h b o rs a b o a rd a fle e t o f th irte e n tra c to rs
p resen t an imposing p ic tu re as th ey tu r n o v er th e sod in a
— P h o to by G ran t Heilman.,-
wide p a th a s Lloyd Iveller, up tem p o ra rily from his sickbed,
waves a frien d ly g re e tin g to liis frien d s.
Tip Leads
To Arrest
Of Youths
The long series of auto
thefts and a local store burg-
'¡lary were cleared up over the
past week-end when borough
police took into custody two
local teen-agers who will be
arraigned before county juve­nile
court.
A chance tip from a civilian
led to the solution of th e car
thef ts which had baffled! boro
police for the past several
months, Chief of Police-George
Hicks explained.
The two were ' ta k e n Into
custody by Borough Police
Officer Lloyd -Loss , ~'w4r®v -has
been devoting many hours each
week seeking to1 solve th e ear
thefts.
The two included a seven­teen-
year-old Ma i n Stre e t
youth, who, when questioned,
implicated a sixteen-year-old
F ro n t Street youth. According
to police, the seventeen-year-old
admitted thé store burglary
as well as thé entire list of
nine auto thefts.
The younger youth was im­plicated
in two of the car
thefts and was allegedly the
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WILL DISCUSS
HOROSCOPES
Coletta Worth
Woman’s Club
Dinner Meeting
Monday Evening
The annual spring dinner
meeting of the Lititz Woman’s
OlitI) will be held in tlie Gen­era]
Suiter Hotel, Monday
evening at 0 : 1 r> p.m.
Mrs. Coletta Worth, of Med­ford,
New Jersey, will speak
on “Horoscopes and Astrology.”
She will describe the charac­teristics
of people born under
the twelve dif fe rent signs of
the zodiac, showing how to
better unders tand and live with
people of different personali­ties.
Audience participation is
p a r t ot this enter taning show.
-Mrs. Worth has been very
successful for many years in
Atlantic City and in Mianti
Beach, Florida.
Mrs. Paul C. Hess will in­troduce
tiie guest speaker.
The Club Chorus under the
13 Neighbors With Tractors
Plow 50-Acres For 111 Farmer
A fleet of thirte en tractbrs,
each operating in unison with
the others, a tt ra c ted much a t ­tention
as they were driven
back and for th across the
broad fields of a farm located
thre e miles west of Lititz last
Friday afternoon.
Plowing deep furrows, the
scene proved an interesting
one to many motorists who
happened by. The story back
of the united effort of so many
local farmers , proved even
more interesting.
The plowing occurred on the
farm of Lloyd B. Keller, who
has been confined to his home
under the care of a physician
for the past five weeks. Keller,
who is suffering from acute
colitis, is expected to be under
the care of his physician for
several weeks more.
As a result, the plowing
schedule on this truly model
farm, was completely dis rupt­ed
— a dire contra s t with the
orderly procedure annually
followed. Ke lle r’s plight be­came
generally known last
week.
Friday a t noon, the first of
the tractor s, with complete
plow a ttachments , drove up
the lane of the Keller farm.
Within the next few minutes,
twelve more tra c tor s , w e r e
driven to the farm —n and a
few minutes later the plowing
operation began.
By nightfall, approximately
50 acres of rich fa rmland ifad
been completely plowed and
prepared for the planting of
corn, tobacco plants, etc. And,
Larry Ferrari
To Play Locally
This Saturday
Larry Fe r r a r i, well known TV-and
recording artist, will pre­sent
an organ concert on Sat­urday,
May 13th, a t the Man-heim
Central Senior High
School Auditorium. Concert
time 8:00 p.m.
Mr. Fe r ra r i, well known to
folks who enjoy organ music,
has a weekly television pro­gram
out of Philadelphia, Pa.,
and also records for RCA
records. The evening program
will be made up of such selec­tions
as Stardust, Tea for Two,
Calcutta, selected favorite
Hymns and songs from South
Pacific.
The program is being spon-sqred
by the Lancaster County
Multiple Sclerosis Society in
conjunction with their annual
drive for funds. Tickets which
sell for $1.00 may be pur-,
chased at Hersliey’s Shoe Store
or a t the auditorium door the
evening of the concert.
to complete the picture, one
fa rmh an d announced he would
r e tu rn daily to do the farm
chores until Mr. Keller was
fully recovered.
Getting up from his sick
bed, the owner of the farm
was assisted to the field where
the tra c tor s were working, in
order , th a t he might personally
thank his neighbors for their
thoughtfulness.
Fa rme r s who took pa rt in
the neighborly act of kindness
were: John Brubaker, John
Nissley, Mervin Souder, John
B. Keller, Martin Nolt, Robert
Sensenich, Harold Esh, fa rm­hand
employed by Paul Balm-er;
James Graybill, Charles
Graybill, Abram Longenecker,
Clinton Rohrer and Bill Kell­er,
all of Lititz R2. and Rich­ard
Bruchart, of Manheim R l .
Big Fire Demonstration
Here Monday Evening
Fo u r neighboring fire com­panies
will come to the assis­tance
of Lititz firemen in a
simulated fire demons tration
to be s taged in the center of
the borough early Monday eve­ning.
The demons tration will he
for the purpose of enabling
the public to witness the man­ner
in which a ma jor fire
would be battled. This will in­clude
use of the Fire Radio
set-up in bringing equipment
here thro u g h a Mutual Aid
Alarm.
The alarm will be sounded
a t 6:30 p.m. Monday with the
Spacht F u rn i tu re Store in the
first block of Ea s t Main Street
as the hypothetical target. Im­mediately
borough and fire po-
North Alley, Cedar Street and
North Alley. *
Lititz firemen will respond
and then, through use of the
radio system, send out a call
for help to the Brunnerville
Fire Company, the Rothsville
Fire Company, the Neffsville
Fire Company and the Man­heim
Fire Company.
The Lititz pumpers and the
Manheim pumper and ladder
truck will take positions in
the first block of Ea s t Main
Street. Brunnerville, Neffsville
and Rothsville pumpers will
take positions at the Lititz
stream at the re a r of t h e
Spacht Building.
In announcing the project,
local firemen expressed the
hope th a t the public will avail
themselves of the opportunity
lice will block off traffic a t I to observe the operation. Bor-the
Square, Main and Cedar lough officials are giving the
Streets, Broad Street and project their full support.
Warwick And Borough Contests
To Be Decided At Polls Tuesday
To Complete
Rec. Center
By July 15
The new Lititz Recreation
Center Building will be com­pleted
by July 15, according
to a repor t submitted at .the
annual membership meeting
Monday evening.
Richard Allebach, chairman
of the building committee, re ­ported
work progressing ac­cording
to schedule in a work
repor t compiled by the con­tractors,
Rice & Weidman.
Elect F o u r Directors
Four new director s were
elected to the Senior Board.
Results of the balloting as r e ­ported
by Pres ident R. William
Spacht, showed the following
elected for three year terms:
Richard S. Allebach. 440 S. |
Cherry St!, Mrs. Rodney L.
Wolf, 1!» S. Spruce St., J.
Robert Hess, 512 S. Spruce
St., and Forbes S. Emsweller,
42 2 S. Linden St.
Outgoing director s are Alle­bach,
John R. Marks, Joseph
M. Carl and R. William Spacht.
P o st Prom Plan s
Dale Shelley, co-chairman of
the Post Prom committee, an ­nounced
th a t the annual
Junior-Senior Post-Prom will
be held on Friday, May 19, at
the Warwick High School
cafeteria from 12:00 midnight
-to 4 a.m.
The theme of the dance will
be “The Carribean Capers.”
Pie also announced th a t Open
House will he held from S
p.m. to 10 p.m. so th a t parents
and the general public may-view
the decorations and the
entire set-up.
Shelley also announced th a t
the fourth annual adult dance
will be held Saturday, May 20,
at the high school from 9 p.m.
to - 2 p.m. Reservations may­be
obtained by calling Mrs.
Forbes Emsweller or Mr. Shel­ley.
Final Concert Saturday
In Spring Music Series
The , final conc e rt of
19 61 Spring Music Festival
will be presented this Sa tu r ­day
evening a t 8 o’clock by
three Warwick High School
music Organizations — The
Seventh Grade Chorus, Junior
High Band and the Senior
High Glee Club.
Four selections by American
composers — “The American
Hymn” , “ I Hear A Song” ,
“ Brother Will, Brother J o h n ”
and the familiar “Tre e s” will
be sung by members of the
Seventh Grade Chorus tp open
the program. An ensemble ot
eleven girls will be heard
singing - “Tre e s” . Accompanists
are Janice Myers and Darlene
Helman.
A combination of marches,
overtures, and musical comedy-will
be played by the Junior
High Band, Special numbers
will include a sousaphone solo
by Charles Hornbe rge r and a
French horn solo played by
David Keehn. Elaine Dagen
and Michael Allebach will pre­the
, sent a dance routine to the
music of Leroy Anderson's
“ Blue Tango” , and the Junior
High Majorettes will do a
baton routine as the Band
plays a John Philip Sousa
march. ,
An enjoyable evening of
music for all is assured as the
Senior High Glee Club con­cludes
the program with selec-
.ions from the Broadway hit
if 1946, “Annie Get Your
Gun” . Numbers to be sung in-dude
“Th e re ’s No Business
Like Show Business” , “Doin
What Comes Na tu ra l ly ” , “ You
Can’t Get A Man With A
Gun” , “ I Got the Sun In the
Morning” and “They Say Its
Wonderful” . Glee Club accom-
>anists are Marcia Meiskey
md Marjorie Klenin. Soloists
for this performance a r e
Claudia Plostetter, S a n d y
Shaub, Terry Ha r tman, Bill
lamp, Mary Sue Dissinger,
fames Brubaker, and members
>f the Girls Ensemble and the
Warrians.
Warwick’s New High
Filled To ‘Capacity’
Fifth Drawing
This Saturday
Despite a downpour of rain,
more than fifty Lititz shopp­ers.
gathered on West Main
Street Saturday afternoon for
the weekly “Lucky 30” d raw­ings.
Inte re s t in the promotion
program ih which merchandise
vouchers are awarded to lucky
shoppers each week is increas­ing,
Ronald Loercher, cha ir­man
of the committee, re p o r t ­ed
this week.
In order to increase the in­terest,
retailers will meet'Mon-day
to consider changing the
rules and possibly the size or
number of vouchers given out
each week. This week, how­ever,
the same plan of awa rd­ing
two vouchers will be con­tinued.
Last week’s voucher for $50
in merchandise, was awarded to
Lewis Perini, of 13 W. Lincoln
Ave., whose name was the third
drawn from the wheel. The
voucher is redeemable with any
of the participating merchants.
The second drawing for $25
was not claimed and as a re ­sult,
this voucher will be in­creased
to $50 this week, mak­ing
a total of $100 to be offer­ed
this Saturday afternoon at
3 p.m.
Dog Bites Child
Owner Arrested
A local dog owner was
prosecuted this week a fte r a
three-year-old girl had been
bitten. Pie is Robert Eitnier,
2 7 E. Lincoln Ave., who was
prosecuted before Jus tice of
the Peace Paul F. Diehm for
permitting the dog- to r u n
loose.
According to borough police,
the child bitten is the three-year-
old dau g h te r of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Vanx, 37 E. Lin­coln
Ave., who required three
stitches to close the gash.
Hazel Moore
Local Teachers
Will Appear Ip
Lane. Operas
Two local teachers will ap­pear
in operas presented by
the Lancas ter Ciouhfy Wo rk ­shop,
Freder ick Robinson, di­rector,
a t Reynolds Junior
High School in Lancaster this
Friday and Saturday a t 8:30
p.m.
Miss Rochelle Erb, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Erb, R l , Lititz, will sing the
role of Leatitia in “The Old
Maid and the Th ie f” by Menot-ti.
Miss Erb is a graduate of
Wes tminster Choir College and
is now teaching kindergarten
in Conestoga Valley Joint
School Disrtict. She has. sung
leading roles with the former
Lancaster Summertime Play­house
and is a member of the
Princeton University Savoyards
where she sang leadipg roles
in two Gilbert and Sullivan
productions.
Hazel W. Moore, wife of
Howard Moore, resides on E.
Second Avenue and is an in­s
truc tor of vocal music in War­wick
Union School District.
She is making her operatic
stage debut in the title role of
“ Secrets of Suzanne,” a one-act
opera in English by Wolf-
Fe rra ri.
Mrs. Moore is a music major
gradua te of West Chester
Teachers College. She has been
a Workshop member for one
year and is continuing her
vocal tra ining a t the Morgan-
Robinson Studios, Lancaster.
Rebekahs To Hold
Mother's Day Service
The ladies of the General
Sutter Rebekah Lodge No. 435
will conduct a Mothers’ Day
service at the Rebekah Home,
Harrisburg, on Sunday. Ail
members and friends are in­vited
to attend. They are re ­quested
to meet at the Lodge
Hall at 2:45 p.m. Mrs. H . . M.
Tobias will be the guest speak­er.
Tuesday evening a memorial
service will be held a t the
Lodge Hall for all. members
who passed away during the
year.
School Board Fight Is Center
Of Interest; J. of P.
Contest In Boro
Despite
important
settled,' a
th a t a number of
contests are to be
comparatively light
vote is expected to be cast at
the primary election on Tues­day.
Polls will be open from 8
a.m. to 9 p.m. with voting to
be carried on . in thre e wards
or the first Lime in the his-ory
of the borough. Voters
living in the new Third Ward,
all of whom have been notified
by mail by the county commis­sioners,
will cast their ballots
at Wag ama n ’s, West Second
Avenue.
Two of half a dozen local
contests which are a ttra c ting
the most attention in an oth e r ­wise
quiet election are the
naming of two justices of the
peace in the borough and two
Warwick Union directors in
the school district.
Three candidates for the two
offices of justice of the peace
Post Prom
Frolic
Next Friday
The Severn» annua l Post
Prom will be held on Friday,
May 19th from 12:00 .mid­night
to 4:00 p.m. Saturday
in the Warwick High School
Cafeteria. It will follow the
Ju n io r Senior Prom which will
be held a t the Dutch Town
and Country Inn, Friday eve­ning.
It is sponsored by the.
Lititz Community Center.
The theme will be “Carib-ban
Capers” , there will be
dancing and a floor show of
three acts will be presented
by a well known orches tra. Spe­cialty^
and spot dances will be
held. Table decorations will
be in Jteeping with the theme,
fiesta colored tablecloths and
corresponding mats to blend.
Centerpieces of fresh pineap­ple,
oranges, bananas, limes
and greens sur ro u n d in g t h e
taper.
Students arr iving a t ' the
Post-Prom will be greeted by
Richard Allebach as doorman,
cars will be parked in the
school parking lot by volun­teer
drivers from civic organi­zations
in town. William
Spacht, pres ident of the board
of directors of the Lititz Com­munity
Center, will ’ extend
greetings.
Mrs. Forbes Emsweller and
Dale Shelley are co-chairman
for the affair, othe r members
of the committee are, Mr. and
Mrs. James Whitcraf t, Mrs.
Monroe Shaub, Richard Alle­bach,
Richard Murr, Donald
Ross, Forbes Emsweller, and
William Bell', director of the
Recreation Center.
Student. Coordinates, (senior
class) Richard Engle, presi­dent,
Jan e Markert, William
Sigmund, Sandra Shaub, Har-
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Local Students
In State Band
Philip Mummfr t, son of Mr.
and Mrs, James Mummert, 432
Cedar Street, and Celeste Long,
d a u g h te r of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Long, Lititz R l , will
represent Warwick High School
in the State Band Festival to
be held in York Suburban High
School today, Friday and Sat­urday.
Philip, a trombonist, and
Celeste, clarinetist, won first
chair positions in the Southern
District Band held at Susque­hanna
Twp. High School near
Harrisburg.
The 2 00 specially selected
musicians will be directed by
Prof. James Dunlop, director
of the Penn Sta te University
Blue Band.
Concerts are planned for
F iid ay and Saturday evenings
at 8 p.m.
W A RW IC K HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB
direction of Mrs. Gordon Bur-key
will present a program of then, if anything
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The spacious Warwick High.
School, now only a few years
old, already is filled to — and
slightly above capacity —
Supervising Principal Marlin
Spaid pointed out yesterday.
The s t ru c tu re was built for
a capacity of 1,000 .students.
This year a total of 1,0 21 boys
and girls are attending classes
and next y e a r ’s student-body
will sh,ow a fu r th e r increase
of from twenty to thirty more.
Graphs prepared year by
year also show th a t the in­crease
of from twenty to more
than fifty boys and girls will
continue for many years and
possibly will
rate of in­crease.
This explanation was fo r th ­coming
following filing an ap­plication
for a proposed ad d i­tion
to the high school before
the Lancaster County School
Hoard. The application did not
include details as to the type
or size of the addition.
According to Mr. Spaid, the
addition will be in the form
of a new wing which will con­sist.
solely of classrooms. He
furnished no estimate of costs.
“This application was filed
at this time merely in order
to have the proposed addition
placed oil the state , list for
re imbur s ement ,” Mr. Spaid ex-
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in the borough are Paul F.
Diehm. who is seeking re-election:
Harold Kauffman,
local grocery, and C. William
Dussinger, a newcomer in the
political arena.
in spite of a popular mis­conception
tha t tlie offices of
justices of the peace are filled
by wai'ds. voting is borough-wide
with voters in all three
wards to name the two nom­inees,
One of the two nominees
will fill the vacancy caused
by tlie death of the late J o ­seph
1!. Herr.
The contest to name two
school directors has attracted
the center of attention among
local voters due to the fact
tha t five candidates are seek­ing
the two Republican nom­inations
to be made.
The five candidates are Dr.
Rodney C. Welch, Wilbur
Chocolate Company executive;
Ralph L. Sloat, of the Linden
Kail faculty; and Mrs. Carolyn
Shenk, wife of a local dentist,
all of the borough; Dr. Ed­ward
Kowalewski, Rothsville
physician; and Rev. Robert
W. Etter, of Brickerville,
scientist of considerable re­nown
and pastor of the Cole­man
Memorial Chapel.
Borough Offices
111 the borough, voters will
nominate candidates for bur­gess,
two members of borough
council, as well as fill several
constable positions and name
election board personnel.
Republicans who filed peti­tions
are: For Burgess, Dr.
Ar th u r Griswold, who will be
unopposed; Robert Hanna, for
council from the third ward,
and Floyd Hagy, from thè
first ward. Thomas Rearich is
a candidate for constable from
the second ward, and Robert
Bachman, in the third ward.
A contest for the Republi­can
nomination for constable
in the first ward is being
waged by Borough Police Of­ficer
Howard Dissinger and
F o rme r Borough Police Officer
Lester Haines.
In the first ward, Christ
Koehler is a candidate for re-election
as judge of elections
and Charles Rineer is a can­didate
for inspector. Ea rl Sing-
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Community
Calendar
P ic tu re d h e re a re th e eig h ty mem b ers of Warwick High
Nehool's Senior High Glee Club. They will present selections
from Irv in g B e rlin 's great, Mind calc “Annie Get Y o u r Citiu"
in th e fin a l concert of th e Sp rin g Music F e stiv a l
th is S a tu rd ay ev en in g in th e h ig h school a u d ito rium a t
8 o ’clock.
May 1 1— w O m a n ’ s C l u b
Spring Rummage Sale.
6:30 P.M. — Ep h ra ta
Toastmasters meeting a t
the Amvets in Ephrata .
May 1 ———Lititz Guild to the
L a n c a s t e r Osteopathic
Hospital Meeting.
7:30 P.M. — Chinese
Auction at the Lititz Fire
House.
May 13— 12:00 Noon — PTA
Festival at the Elemen­tary
School grounds.
8:00 P.M. — Warwick
, H*fth School Vocal a n d
Ins trumental concert.
1:00 P.M. — Woman’s
Club Special Project Com­mittee
Meeting (U.S. Ma­rine
Band Concert) ali
committee chairman and
members be present a t
Warwick High S c h o o l
Auditorium.
May 14— 2 P.M. — Regular
meeting of the Elstonville
Sportsmen Association.
May ir>— 6:15 P.M. .— Din­ner
meeting of the Lititz
Woman’s Club.
6:30 P.M. — M a r t i n
Luther choir rehear sal a t
St. Paul's Church.
7:00 P.M. — Ju n io r choir
and confirmation classes
a t St. P a u l ’s Church.
8:00 P.M. -— Young Peo­ple's
Choir 1 rehe a r sa l a t
St. P a u l ’s Church.
May 1«— 4:15 P.M. —■ Wa r ­wick
High Baseball —
Warwick vs. Cocalico —
Away game.
6:00 P.M. — Rotary Club
meeting at Hotel Sutter.
7:30 P.M. — Planning
commission meeting a t
Boro Hall.
May 17— 7:30 P.M. — School
hoard meeting.
8:00 P.M. — Senior Choir
rehearsal at St. P a u l ’s
Church.
Woman's Club s ta te Con­vention
at the Penn Ha r ­ris
Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa.
May IK— Woman’s Club State
Convention at the Penn
Harris Hotel, Harrisburg,
Penna.
7:30 P.M. — Inter-De­nominational
Silver Medal
Speech Contest a t the
E. U. B. Church, N. Cedar
St.
All clubs a n d o rg an iz a tio n s
a rc ask ed to co-operate in th is
p ro je c t by callin g th e R e c re a ­tio
n Cen ter any day from 3 :3 0
to o p.m., T h u rsd ay a n d
F rid a y s from 10 to 12 a.m.
a n d 1 to 3 p.m. Those w ish ­in
g to w rite in may do so by
¡m a ilin g to P.O. Box 225.