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(Consolidated w ith The X>ltltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, September 21, 1961 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per y ea r by mall
w lthm Lancaster Connty; $3.SO elsewhere. 14 Pages — No. 23
Police Seek Arrests
In Sudden Outbreak
Of Vandalism Here
Borough police thi s week
were busy running down clues
in a wave of vandalism which
struck the borough during the
past week.
Despite a long series of
offenses in which considerable
damage resulted, Chief of Po­lice
George Hicks expressed
the opinion th a t the outbre ak
is the result of the activities
of a single group of teen-agers.
Descriptions of the youths and
of a car used are being run
down in the effort to bring
about arrests.
The minor crime wave r e ­cord
goes something like this:
Last Thursday night, bricks
removed from a building pro­ject
in the southeas tern end of
the borough, were tossed
through the windshields of
thre e automobiles, resulting in
damages of approximately
$100 to each car. The ma­chines.
all of which were p a rk ­ed
at the time, are owned by
Roy Clair, Five-Points grocer;
Harvey Artz, 125 S, Broad
St., and Ralph Myers, 104 S.
Spruce St.
On Friday morning some
time a f te r 1 a.m. a garbage
can was stolen from a home
on Forney Road and the con­tents
s trewn over a neighbor­ing
lawn. La te r a ¿garbage can
was stolen from in f ro n t of
the home of Charles W. Moore,
2 39 E. Main St., the contents
dumped out — an d the can
tossed thro u g h the window of
Continue Drive
On Reckless
Motorists Here
This week saw the borough
police continue th e i r c ra ck ­down
on reckless driving in
town as six offenders were
b rought before ’Squire Diehm
Kenneth Bushong, Lititz R3
• was b ro u g h t before (the Siyiire
on a charge of driving to fast
for conditions when he was ap­prehended
going 45 miles an
h our in a 35 limit zone.
L a r r y G. Eichelberger,
Rothsville, was prosecuted on
a stop sign violation an d Anna
Martzall, Lititz R2, was hauled
in for passing a school bus
unloading students.
Brought in for operating a
vehicle without a drivers li­cense
was Arlington W. Myers,
309 N1. Cedar St., while Daniel
L. Moyer, Lititz R2, was pro­s
e c u t e d for violating his re-
'■ stricted license by not wearing
glasses. >
The pent-up enthus ia sm of
a service man home on leave
got him into trouble here Wed­nesday
morning when he was
prosecuted for making exces­sive
noise. He is Harold J.
Irvin, nineteen, of Lititz R4.
According to borough police,
Irvin manipulated his auto
key to cause a series of loud
explosions from his exhaus t
in the second block of South
Broad Street shor tly a f te r 7
a.m., when he c aught s ig h t of
several friends. Irvin is an
enlistee in the Air Force.
a ga rage a t the re a r of the
property. -
Sunday, all four hub ca'ps
were stolen from an Ep h ra ta
ma n ’s car which had been
parked in the Wilbur Choco­late
Company lot.
Several nights this week,
more garbage and tr a sh cans
have been emptied over lawns
and pavements. In addition
barricades have been thrown
across several streets endang­ering
motorists.
“ I am convinced th a t all of
these offenses were caused by
local youths and we are hope­ful
th a t we will be able to
bring them in within the next
few days,” Chief Hicks a s s e r t­ed.
‘‘We intend to stop v an ­dalism
of this type if we have
to make wholesale a r r e s ts .”
A BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS!
Condition Of
Robert Hanna
Now Improved
Robert J. Hanna, local busi­nessman,
was repor ted “ recov­ering
satis factor ily” a t the
General Hospital late y es ter­day
following his collapse
while operating his automobile
here Sa turday a t noon.
At the time of the attack,
which occurred as he made the
tu rn from Broad Street into
Second Avenue, Hanna was re ­ported
to have suffered a sub­arachnoid
hemorrhage. As he
collapsed a t the wheel, his car
s t ru c k a tre e on Second Ave.,
damaging the car slightly. He
sus tained no injuries from the
crash.
After being, given first-aid
tre a tment, Han n a was tak en to
the General Hopsital. The am­bulance
also was pressed into
service to tak e Lloyd Smith,
• Broad St., also to the hospital
when Smith collapsed a t the
scene. He was re tu rn ed to his
home la’t ^ i f t tire-’d a f . »**■■**
H a n n a ’s condition g t e w
worse Monday nig h t when he
was considered critical. A
change for th e be tte r develop­ed
Tuesday and was continuing
th ro u g h o u t ■ yesterday, mem­bers
of the family said.
While it was though „ at
first th a t ' an operation would
have to be performed, his im­provement
now has ruled out
th a t possibility for the present
a t least. He also was reported
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' This could be one of th e more im p o r­ta
n t e n tra n c e s to th e b o ro u g h fo r a larg e
n um b e r of re s id e n ts o f Warwick Township
— Record-Express Photo,
in s te a d of a d isg ra c e fu l a sso rtm e n t of ru ts '
ami weeds, if th e powers-to-be could only
g e t th e ir -heads to g e th e r!
Welfare
Chairmen
Named
Local chairmen of the Unit­ed
Campaign were announced
this week by Raymond A.
Runk, 3 5 E. Lemon St., Wa r ­wick
Union dis trict director
for the drive.
In the borough, Ha rry David
Eshleman has been named
chairman and Ernes t Johnson,
co-chairman. Miss Betty Zwal-ly
,is chairman of the drive in
Elizabeth Township.
In Warwick Township, Mrs.
Fdward J. Kowalewski, Mrs.
Donald R. Weaver, Raymond
Bushong and Joseph M. Bru ­baker
have been named co-chairmen.
In each a rea the chairman
will be responsible for secur­ing
volunteers, organizing each
collecting area and conducting
the campaign. Last year over
5 0 volunteers were needed to
complete solicitation in Wa r ­wick
Union.
This y e a r ’s . goal has been
set at $1,118,842 to meet the
needs of all 24 health and wel­fare
agencies of th e county.
Completing Plans For
Recreation Center
Dedication Sept. 30
WILL PRESIDE
Failure Of Officials To Agree
Keeps Kissel Hill Road Closed
Wh a t could -— and should
—: be an impo r tan t entrance
to Lititz borough for res idents
of Warwick Towhship east of
Kissel Hill has been boarded
up for the past six months —
because of the failure of boro
the road a re obvious. At th e
borough end of the road, the
ba rr ie r is placed a t the very
end of - a wide, well-paved
street lined with fine homes
and beautiful homes.
At the spot where the inl­an
d township officials to agree proved s tre e t stops, all de-
NED FOLTZ RETURNS
TO ART SCHOOL’
Carl Ned Foltz, this bor­ough,
has re tu rn ed to the
Philadelphia Museum School
of Art for his senior year.
Foltz, who is majoring in com­mercial
advertising» already
has done work which has ap­peared
in th e TV Guide and
in Esquire Magazine.
Hunting Moose
In NewPdland
Two local sportsmen will
leave today for th e wilds of
no r th e rn Newfoundland in
search of moose and bear —
armed only with frail bows
and arrows!
They a re Henny Hershey,
Main Street shoe retailer, and
Jame s Eckman, also of this
borough. While eligible to
shoot either moose or bear,
both were anxious to obtain
moose.
They will drive to Victoria
Valley where they will meet
th e i r guide, Jame s Newhook.
The trio will spend an entire
week tramping about the .wilds
more th an 50 miles from the
n eares t settlement, Millertown.
Both Eckman and Hershey
were prepared to withs tand
the rigors of sub-freezing
weather.
Paul Coble Marks 35 Years
With Pa. Power & Light Co.
Paul Coble, R. D. # 3 , Lir-itz,
recently observed 35 years
of service with the local elec­tric
utility industry.
’ Beginning his utility c a reer
in . Lancaster in 1926 a s a
groundman with the Edison
Electric Company, Mr. Coble
has also served as a lineman,
first class, in Lancas ter an d in
Lititz. He is currently employ­ed
as an electric repairman.
Mr. Coble is a member and
past commander of American
Legion Post No. 56, Lititz,
Manheim Lodge No. 587, F.&
A.M., and the Ltiitz Sports­ma
n ’s Association.
He is married to th e former
Alverta Mae Mowrer of Paoli.
They have two sons..
Mr. Coble is one of 191 PP
&L employees who a re obser­ving
the 3 5-year service mile­stone
d u r in g 1961. Approxi­mately
14 per cent of the u ti l­ity’s
more-than-6,000 employ­ees
have been with the Com­pany
for 35 years or more.
in shar ing th e costs of repairs!
The s t re e t in question is*
Kissel Hill Road often com­monly
re fe rred to as th e New
Hill Road. A ba r r ie r was erect­ed
a t both entrances to the
half-mile s tre tch of road half
a year ago a fte r nearly a dozen
automobiles .were badjy 4»aiu7
aged a ttempting to use it.
Differences of opinion over
shar ing the cost of repairing
the s t re tch of road developed
several years ago. At th a t
time, the road which extends
to the top of Kissel Hill from
a point within the borough,
was regularly used by many
res idents of this area.
Since then the road has de­ter
iora ted, largely because no
repairs were made, until today
it is a s tre tch of holes, gulleys
and ruts. Weeds and shrubbe ry
th r e a ten to ultimately reduce
the former road to a mere
path.
The tragic re sults of the
failure of officials to maintain
Will Form
Club For
Newcomers
A Welcome Wagon Club for
newcomers will be organized
at the new I. W. Bobst Recrea­tion
Center on October 11 a t
1 p.m. unde r the direction of
Mr’s. Doris Fens termacher,
Welcome Wagon hostess of
the Lititz-Manheim area.
The first meeting will be an
organizational one and will
be followed with a member­ship
meeting on November 8.
All newcomers to the com­munity
in the past two or so
years are urged to attend.
The purpose of a Welcome
Wagon Club is to u nde r take
and complete one or more
charitable, h umanita r ian, so­cial-
welfare or civic projects
each year.
The aim of a Welcome
Wagon Club is to take an ac­tive
interes t in the social, civic
and moral welfare of the com­munity;
to promote and en
courage good citizenship and
good neighborliness; and to
aid our country and communi­ties
through the gift of our
time, energy and efforts for
worthy purposes.
Where the members „ are
concerned, it brings people to­gether
who, though they may
be s trangers , all have some­thing
in common:
a. The n ewc ome r s ’are in te r ­ested
in making new friends
and becoming a pa rt of their
new city and community. Many
of them would like to tak e an
active p a r t in civic affairs, but
d on’t know how to go about it.
b. Those who have moved
from one neighborhood to
another are interested in inte-
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velopment ends also. The fields
on either side, all potentially-desirable
building sites, a re
left undeveloped.
The borough-township line
runs n o r th and south directly
thro u g h the cente r of Kissel
Hill Road as fa r south as the
borough line, where the entire
road is in Warwick Township.
At numerous conferences
held d ur ing the past several
years, the borough has con­tended
it had no responsibility
—>■ or r ig h t —■ to maintain
more th an half the road inside
the borough limits — and
none of th a t extending beyond
Warwick T6wnship supervi­sors
were reported willing to
go ahead only if the borough
and the township equally share
the cost of re-building the
entire stretch of Kissel Hill
Road now blocked offito traffic.
At best, it is a sad state of
affairs th a t the two groups
cannot solve as uncomplicated
a problem — and. thus deprive
res idents of both the township
and the borough of the use of
wha t could be an important
thojjftf a fefaKk,-.....,****,.. -... -
Thfs was the opinion gener­ally
expressed by res idents of
both the township and the
horough.
To re-build Kissel Hill Road
and make it available to the
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Zoners Okey
Rosenberg’s
Sales Barn
Dr. H. K. Cooper
Center Building
Accepted After
Inspection Tour
20 Center Courses To
Start Next Month
Regis tration is open for fall
recreation programs which will
begin during the fi r s t week of
October in the I. W. Bobst
Recreation Center, William
Bell, recreational director, an ­nounced
this week.
Registration can be made in
person a t the Recreation office
6r by calling MA 6-5096 or
MA 6-7 38 3. Pre- regis tration
will be required for all class­es.
Class periods will include:
Art Ins truction, Welding, Be­g
in n e r ’s Typing, Bridge In ­struction,
Tap & Ballet, Ball­room
Dancing, Day Nursery,
Women’s Afternoon Bowling,
Cooking Classes, Woodwork,
Baton, Women and Men’s Vol­leyball,
Beginner’s Spanish,
Beginner’s French, Architec-turaU
Drawing, Printing, Metal
Shop, Shorthand, and Book­keeping.
Remember th a t the Recrea­tion
Center will sponsor any
class if enough interes t is
shown to re ta in an ins tructor.
Day Nursery
Day Nursery will be held
four days per week. Each class
will meet twice per week;
one class on Tuesday and
Thursday, and the othe r class
on Wednesday and Friday. Ad­ditional
classes may be added.
Class periods, 9 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. on these days. Classes
will begin on October 3rd for
the Tuesday and Thursday
class, and October 4th, for the
Wednesday and Friday class.
Women’s Afternoon Rowling;
The Women’s Afternoon
Bqwling will be held on Tues­day
afternoons at 1 p.m. at
the Lititz Bowling Alleys. A
6 or 8 team league will he
established. Clubs, card parties'
church classes and others who
are interested in forming a
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- Wednesday was moving day
for the Lititz Recreation Cen­t
e r staff! . .
„ Forma l acceptance of- the
building from the contractors
At a special meeting held | w a s 'ma d e shor tly before noon
Tuesday evening, borough zon-1 Wednesday when keys to the
ers approved the application
for a sales barn to be operated
a t 5 8 South Alley, this boro.
Application for a non-con­forming
approval for the busi­ness
was made by Nick Rosen­berg,
who has been operating
a sales barn on North Cedar
Street for the past thre e years.
The huilding a t 5 8 South
Alley is the former Jess Stoner
warehouse and is owned by
Eby’* Mill; in c i Rosenberg ’WTI'
convert the entire first floor
of the large s t ru c tu r e for his
auctions. Before permission
was granted, Rosenberg in­formed
members of the zon­ing
board th a t he has improved
the appearance of the first
floor of the warehouse.
He also pointed out th a t
three othe r businesses a re be­ing
conducted as non-conform­ing
enterprises within a half
block of the warehouse.
building . were - turn ed ; over to
William Spacht, pres ident of
the Center Board of Directors.
The acceptance followed a
lengthy and detailed inspection
Of the luxurious new I W.
Bobst Memorial Center Build­ing
made Wednesday morning.
With the building accepted,
William Bell, .local recreation­al
director, and members of
his staff began moving in fu r ­niture,
typewriter s and. re ­cords
.■ sh o r t ly , a f te r l.. p.m. , >.
The Center s ta ff has been
making it s he adqua rte rs , since
demolition, of th e former Cen­te
r building, in a section of
th e borough elementary school
building. Mr. Bell announced
th a t the new offices will be
open today but th a t no activi­ties
will be held in the new
Center building until a fte r the
dedicatory program Saturday,
September 30.
The board was escorted on
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Dr. Herbert K. Cooper will
be mas ter of ceremonies a t the
dedication ceremony for the
new I. Walton Bobst Recrea­tion
Center to be held-’Sa tu r ­day,
September 30th. Rec. of­ficials
expect to have all es­sential
equipment and furnish­ings
installed by the opening
date.
Dr. Cooper is a lifelong
friend of Elmer H. Bobst, do­nor
of $100.000 for the center
in memory of his father, a
former local minister. Cooper
is a native of this area and
has achieved national acclaim
as head and founder of tb s
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic.
Mr. liobst will be the hon­ored
guest at the brief dedica­tion
ceremony scheduled for
4:15 p.m. following the Wa r­wick--
Cocalico football game.
The laying of the corner stoné
will s ta r t the program. Tins
will lie followed by a brief in­door
ceremony.
There will he plenty of
seating capacity in the main
assembly hail according to
Rec officials who are expecting
a big tUrriout. Public inspec­tion
of the new Center will, be­gin
following the ceremony
and continue ■ th ro u g h ’ Sunday-evening.
A public dance is
scheduled for S a tu rd a y , eve­ning.
Rec officials a re busy thüi
week dusting off, equipment
th a t has nt boeen used since
the old "Re c ” was vacated..
Donations have beén con)ipg
in from various individuate
and organizations covering ad­ditional
items needed to> equip;
the building. A few items rare*
Hot covered, according to' Wil­liam
Spacht. Rec Board Pres­ident.
Spacht invited anyonW
interested in helping cover the
cost of these items to contact
him this week. ’
Magazine Article Lauds
Boiough’s Water Lines
The Lititz water pipes re-i tion is about 500,000 gal-ceived
s ta r billing in the Sept- ions and maximum daily con-ember
issue of the U.S. Piper, I sumption has been as high as
Permit Issued For First
Air Raid Shelter Here
Yesterday the firs t Lititz re ­sident
filed application in the
borough office for a building
permit for an air raid shelter.
“We've been talking about
it for a ye a r,” W. A. Miller,
320 N. Locust St., said. “ F in ­ally
the wife and I figured
we’d ju s t build it and then
hope we’d never have to use
it .”
Using Civil Defense plans,
Miller plans to construct the
shelter in his back yard, or
r a th e r under his back yard.
The only p a r t of the shelter
which will be visible will be
a small hatch, the shelter will
be four feet u nde r ground.
“ I figure to make it big
enough for the five of us, the
wife and me and the kids, and
I plan to build it myself. That
way I can build a good solid
shelter for about $1,000.
“ I t will be larger th an most
of the plans the Civil Defense
gives o u t,” he added, “ an d
maybe a little more fancy.”
While this is the firs t shel­te
r application issued by the
borough the office made it
clear th a t any application for
a shelter will automatically be
accepted unde r the present
policy.
Ail th a t is necessary is for
the applicant to fill out the
form and pay the fifty cent
permit fee.
While Miller’s application is
the firs t so fa r received the
borough office s tated th a t se­veral
oth e r horough res idents
have asked about the borough
policy on shelters and th a t at
the moment a movement is
underway to- do away with the
necessity of getting a permit
to build a shelter.
Borough employees stressed
th a t any action on th a t re ­quest
would have to be made
by the borough council.
published by The United States
Pipe and Foundry Co.
And Lititz go i t ’s share of
kudos too!
In a thre e page article the
Piper reviewed the his tory of
Lititz and its water system
placing special emphasis on the
new piping laid on West Main
Street during the repaving.
And the article let out with
some mighty fancy figures to
prove th a t Lititz is indeed a
progressive town wa te r wise.
“Wa te r of good quality,
which receives no other t r e a t ­ment
th an chlorination, is ob­tained
from four wells. I t is
dis tributed to some 185 0 con:
sumers thro u g h 18 miles of
cast iron pipe, the oldest of
which has been in service
since the original system was
built in 1893.
“Average daily consump-
900,000 gallons.”
After going on for a space
on the mechanics of the water
system the article adds:
“ From a residential s tan d ­point
Lititz is a pleasing
combination of the old and
the new. There are numerous
stone and frame homes tha t
predate the Revolutionary
War. Then there are others
th a t havg been built during
the intervening years r ig h t up
to the present. Regardless of
age the homes are well ma in­tained
and a tt ra c t ive ly set
along beautifully tree-lined
streets, Indeed its neat, com­fortable
appearance and its
friendly people make Lititz
one of those places th a t re adi­ly
impresses- a visitor as a fine
place to live.”
Retailers Group Plans To
Hold Dinner Meeting
The Retailers Association
will hold a November dinner
meeting with a speaker ob­tained
from a national me r ­chandising
company.
The decision for the dinner
meeting was made a t the last
retailers gather ing when the
members decided to s ta r t on
long and short range pro­motions
to focus the view of
the public on Lititz as a shop­ping
area.
Dave Armold expressed the
hope th a t the merchandising
man.will be able to give the re ­tailers
organization some ideas
on fu r th e r promotion of Lititz
as a Shopping Area and will be
able to show the retailers
means by which they can ex-
And on th a t fine note the pand their calling are a to iu-article
ended. elude Neffsville and the other
suburban areas a round Lititz.
In conjunction with their
theme, A Lititz Shopping Area,
the merchants agreed to look
into the possibility of sending
out a monthly flyer to the su'i'-
burban areas advertising spec­ials
and including, tips to the
housewife.
They felt th a t this method
of advertising, in addtition to
the regular advertising, would
give them the best solid cover­age
in the su rb u rb an a rea and
would have the greates t ap­peal
to the housewife..
The organization expects a
large tu rn o u t a t the Novem­ber
meeting and a t this time
hopes to have several definite
proposals to tu rn over to the
general membership.
Club Women Aid
Girl Scouts
Mrs. H. William Mitchell,
Pres ident, presided at the op­ening
meeting of the Lititz
Woman’s Club on Monday eve­ning
at the General Su tte r
Hotel.
The program “ Fir s t Ladies
and their Inaugura l Gowns"
was presented by Mrs. J e n n ­ings
B. Grimm of Dovej*,, Pa.
The Club is contributing
$24.50 to the Girl Scout Day
Camp and also is paying the
$10.00 rental fee for each of
the 22 Girl Scout Troops.
The Welfare Committee Is
collecting used eye glasses for
the needy.
Mrs. Clyde Hendricks',’Mem­bership
Chairman, introduced
the new members in nthe re­ceiving
line. ir*
The Collect was read* %y
Mids Myrtle Eckert and the
hostesses were Mrs. William
Light and Mrs. Robert Boru-berger.
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Community
Calendar £.*'
Sept. 21— 6:30 P.M.— L i o n s
Club meeting a t the Gen-
, eral Sutter.
7:30 P.M.— Senior Citi­zens
meeting a t t h e
I.O.O.F. Hall.
Sept. 2:1— 2:00 P.M.— Football
— Warwick a t Manheim
Central.
Sept. 24— 2:00 P.M. — Midget
Football opening games
a t Warwick High School
Athletic Field.
Sept. 2r>— N O S C H O O L —
Teachers Ins titute.
Sept. 2«— 4:00 P.M. — Hockey
— Manheim Township a t
Lititz.
6:00 P.M. — Rota ry Club
meeting a t the General
Sutter. .
7 : 30 P.M. — Boro Council
meeting.
7:30 P.M. Bruniiervllle
Fire Company meeting;
8:00 P.M. — Lititz Jayh-cees
meeting a t t h e
American Legion.
Sept. 28— 4:00 P.M. — Hbckey
— Warwick at Conestoga
Valley. 1
6:30 P.M. — E p h r a t a
Toastmasters meeting a t
the Amvets, Ephrata .
8:00 P.M. — Stamp Club
meeting.
AH d u b s a n d organization*
a re ask ed to co -o p erate In th is
p roject by callin g th e R e c re a ­tio
n C en te r any day from 8 :8 0
li.in. to 3 p.m., T h u rsd ay a n d
F rid ay s from l o to 12 a .m .
mid 1 to 8 p.m. Those w ish ­ing
to w rite in may d o w by
mailtu g to P.O, Box 220-
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