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(Consolidated w ith The I»itltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, November 16, 1961 7 c en ts a Copy; 83.00 per yea r by mall
w ithin Xaancaster Connty; 83.50 elsewhere. 14 Pages — No 31
Boro Planners Approve
600-Home Development
The Sutter Village Develop- elementary classrooms to bo
FROM THE CAPITAL TO LITITZ!
mcnt was tentatively approv­ed
by the Borough Planning
Commission a t a lengthy ses­sion
held last night — and
again attended by a large
group of objectors!
In generally endors ing the
600-home development, boro
planners urged the developers
to consider providing recrea­tional
areas as well as certain
changes in specifications for
lewers, drainage and grading.
The 17 protestors present
again voiced the fear th a t the
proposed development would
be “ over-crowded” . The plann­ing
board requested the chang­ed
plan be re-sumbitted for
the final go-ahead signal in
a month.
The proposed development
had been approved previously
by the Lancaster County Plan­ting
Commission with t h e
;uggestion to the borough
committees tha t they evalua te
he existing school, park and
ecreational facilities in rela­tion
to the needs created bv
an estimated ‘¿ ,‘¿00 new mem­bers.
•
Reporting at the county
meeting G. Marlin Spaid, Su­pervising
principal, reported
th a t if the project materializes
it will undoubted cause a num­ber
of school problems.
An elementary addition was
completed this year, but Spaid
said, a development of this
size would soon cause existing
COMPLETES b a s ic
crowded.
Plans for a senior high
school addition a re now be­ing
considered, Spaid r e p o r t ­ed,
however, th a t the effect
of such a development on the
high school might not be too
gre a t initially.
It was stated by the de­velopers
th a t the proposed
shopping area would be s t a r t ­ed
a fte r the homes are com­pleted.
The center will front
on a proposed bypass th a t the
planning commission hopes
will some day be built to re ­route
traffic on Route 501
a round the borough.
Last Lucky
30 Drawing
Saturday
The “ Lucky 30” drawings
in which local retailers have
awarded shoppers more than
$ 3,000 in gifts in the past
twenty-nine weeks, will come
t(. an end this Saturday morn­ing!
Reviewing the promotional
scheme, the first of its kind
ever sponsored here, retailefs
a t a meeting Monday morning
declared it had arounsed much
interest and enthus iasm among
local shoppers. A dif fe rent type
of means for a tt ra c t in g new
shoppers to the borough will
be considered shor tly a f te r the
first of the year.
This week’s d rawin g will be
less than th a t of last week
due to the fact th a t Ida Lei-sey,
100 S. Spruce St., won
the large accumulated jackpot
of $175 last Sa turday mo rn ­ing.
Mary W. Landis, 24 W.
Marion St., and Mrs. William
Woachter, Elm, won me rchan­dise
vouchers worth $25 each.
Three $25 vouchors, totaling
$7 5, will bo drawn this Sat­urday
a t 10:30 a.m. on West
Main Street. Drawings will be
continued this week until all
three are claimed, it was s ta t­ed.
Work On Public Pool Scheduled
To Start Here This Afternoon
Actual work on the construc­tion
of Lititz’ public swimming
pool will get underway shortly
a fte r noon today -— weather
permitting!
Several largo pieces of ex­cavating
and d i r t - m o v i n g
equipment arrived on the scene
late yesterday from Ha r r i s ­burg.
They will go into ac­tion
within an hour a f te r con­tracts
are formally signed this
morning, the pool architects,
McCloud & Scatchard, an ­nounced.
Contract forms will be
brought from the borough so­licitor's
office this morning.
As soon as these are signed by (For re s t, tha t swung the pool
the contractors, th e mayor and
the pres ident of council, the
entire group will hold a work
eonference a t the pool site.
Once the stakes put into
place this week are approved,
the work of removing dir t will
begin.
The decision on the pool
remained in doubt up to tlie
time of the borough council
meeting Monday night. It was
only the confidence shown in
the pool by D. Curtis Amidon
and Patrick Mas tromatteo and
the tie-breaking vote on the
pool cast by Mayor Benjamin
Warwick High Yearbook
Wins Top Nation Award
Today is th e big (lay! The Marine Hand
will be in Lititz .just, a b o u t th e time you
ro ad th is a rtic le a n d will ho s e ttin g up its
e u ipm en t in p re p a ra tio n fo r its co n certs
th is a fte rn o o n a t 1 : 1 5 -and th is ev en in g a t
8 :0 0 ill th e Warwick Union High School
.Auditorium. The co n certs a re sp o nsored by
thy Woman’s Club lo r th e b e n d it of the
1. Walton Itobst R e creatio n Cen ter.
P riv a te lti< liard G<-,/„ J r .,
son of Mr. an d Mrs. R ich a rd
Getz, Sr., 20!» E. Lea man St..,
g ra d u a te d recen tly from P a rris
Islan d , South Carolina, where
h e received his basic tra in in g ,
li e is now serv in g a fo u r week
advan ced tra in in g co u rse at
Camp LeJeu n e, North C arolina.
Famous Marine Band Arrives
For Concerts Here Today
The Warriau Yearbook of
the Class of 1961 a t Warwick
I High School lias been awarded
t the Fir s t Place Certificate by
tlie Columbia University Scho­lastic
Press, according to no­tification
received this week.
The awa rd was made in the
| 27th Animal Yearbook Criti­que
and Contest, conducted at
Columbia University on Octo­ber
13th when yearbooks from
high schools in every station
of the nation were eulered
into tlie competition. Results
were announced this week fol­lowing
a month s s tudy on the
pa r t of the judging staff.
This is the first time a high
school in Lancaster County lias
been awarded this honor. The
Warr iau was .recognized when
published as an outs tanding
yearbook.
Zander Unaware
Name Was Not
On The Ballot
Harold Zander. Democratic
nominee for mayor here, was
at no time notified by the
county commissioner.: th a t his
name would not appear on the
general election ballot, he dis­closed
this week.
“ I was never notified by the
county th a t 1 mus t take a
loyalty oath or my name would
not appear on the ballot, and
fully expected th a t my name
would appear on the voting
machines here until I read
otherwise in The Record-Ex­press
one week before elec­tion,”
Zanders explained.
.i "I called County Commis­sioner
Herb Wagamau and he
declared it was not the re ­sponsibility
of the county com
missioners but the responsibili­ty
of the party committee,”
Zander declared, adding “ h e ’
apologized and explained tha t
the fact I was not notified may
have been because, although I
won the Democratic nomina­tion,
I had been registered as
a Republican.”
As a result of the omiuission
of Zander's name, he polled
only a handful of votes as com­pared
with the s t ra ig h t Demo­cratic
vote cast in the three
borough polls. He also was
informed by friends of both
parties th a t they found it all
but impossible to “ write-in’’
names on the voting machines,
Zander said.
“One friend who is short
and left-handed told me he
1 jus t could not get near enough
to the slot to write ill nij
name ,” Z a n d e r s related.
“Others who tried to write in
idy name did not realize th a t
before they could get the slot
open they first had to lift, the
lever where my name should
have appeared.”
Center Board
Fills Vacancy
'George J. Morgan, local a t ­torney,
was elected Monday
night a t the monthly Recrea­tion
Center Board meeting to
fill the vacancy on th e board
created by the res ignation of
Robert Hess.
The board learned th a t last
month the Center had received
a total of $506.05 in contr ibu­tions
toward the building fund.
The contributions were receiv­ed
from various service clubs
and local business establish­ments.
The board also acknowledg­ed
contributions from the Sen­ior
Citizens and the Woman ’s
Club. The Senior Citizens do­nated
silver and dishes for
the kitchen while the Woman’s
Club donated- a coffee urn.
When the eighty-five mem­bers
of the United States Ma­rine
Band arrive* this morning
for the ir concerts here this
afternoon and evening, they
will find they will be playing
to more-than capacity crowds
both matinee and evening.
The Lititz Woman’s Club,
sponsors of the concerts, have
done so well with the ir ad­vance
ticket sale th a t all scats
in the Warwick High School
auditorium were sold over a
week ago — and in addition
all “ chair -seats” which could
be crammed into the | audi­torium
without v io la t in | fire
regulations, also h a v e | been
reserved,
In addition to their concerts,
a number of members of the
band will be enter tained at
homes as well as tak en on
tour s of the borough and out­lying
countryside.
Band members also will be
greeted here by tlie mother of
one of their former members,
Dr. John Donald Mohler. I)r:
Mohler toured with the band
a number of years.
The musicians of the 163-
year-old band, appearing in
their traditional scarlet tunics,
will present an exciting color­ful
picture as they open the
evening concert in the War
wick High School Auditorium
with “ The Diplomat” by John
Philip Sousa. This famous
ban dma s te r , and march com­poser,
rightly earned his title
as the “March King" while
serving as the Marino Rand’s
four teenth leader.
Turning from the brisk
march tempo to the music of
Pietro Mascagni, the band will
then present the buoyant excit­ing
overture to tlie composer’s
opera “ Le Maschcrc,’’ “ The
Masqueraders.”
Italian opera will give way
to the American musical come­dy
as, Lt. Col. Schoopper con­ducts
a thrilling symphonic ar-jold,
United Nations bead, and
Andrew W. Cordier, his assis­tant,
for their work toward
world poaeo. Members of the
staff - of tlie yearbook and
Supervising Principal Marlin
Spaid visited the U.N. in New
York and presented Cordier
with a copy of Tile Warriau.
Me ill tiers of the staff of I be
yearbook were Robort Posey,
editor-iu-oliiof, now attending
Rutgers University; Martha
Gundrum, literary editor, now
a t Millcrsville State Teachers ’
College;- Jan e Markert, a r t
editor, now enrolled a t Eas t
Stroudsburg State Teachers ’
College ¡Robert Peiffer, busi­ness
manager, now a student
at University of Ohio; Richard
Ruhl. a r t editor, now a t Penn
State University; and William
Sigmund, photographic editor,
The yearbook was dedicated now a ttending Rensselaer In­to
the lato Ragua Hamarsk- statute.
St. Paul’s Thankoffering
Service Sunday Evening
Miss Marianne Fague, who
spent several years doing mis­sionary
work in British Gui­ana,
will be the speaker a t tlie
Thankoffer ing Service to be
held Sunday evening in the
social hall of St. P a u l ’s Lu­the
ran Church new education
building.
The program will s t a r t a t
7:30 p.m. Miss Fague is sup­ported
by St. P a u l ’s and this
will be her first visit to the
church. She also will show
slides depicting various phas­es
of her missionary work.
Miss Fague is the d aughte r
of Rev. and Mrs. Ha rlan I).
Fague, formerly of Lancaster.
She is a g rad u a te of McCaskey
High School and received her
bachelor’s degree from Susque­hanna
University and her mas ­t
e r ’s degree from the Biblical
Seminary in New York.
She first went to British
Guiana in July 1954 and serv­ed
for three years. She then
re-enlisted for a second term
in 1958 and engaged in w r i t ­ing
l i te ra tu re , for Sunday
Schools and Women’s Leagues.
She re tu rn ed home on fu r ­lough
in August.
Ushers a t the service will
be members of the Guild: Mrs
Melvin Koch, Mrs. Jacob Mus-ser,
Mrs. Warren Snyder and
TO SPEAK
raugement of Cole Po r te r
songs expressly written for the
band by Us chief a r ran g e r
William Jolly.
Completely original baud
music is in the offing next as
the a r t is t ry and technical ex­cellence
of the cornet section
is displayed in programming
Walter Smith’« famous cornet
showpiece “ Bolero.”
Tlie first, half of the evening
program comes to a close in a
more sorious musical vein with
another original hand work,
the inspiring “Mass” and gra-
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Reedy To Head 40,000
Odd Fellows In State
Marianne Fague
Mrs. Edwin Hess. Arrange ­ments
are in charge of the
Hanna Circle of which Mrs.
Robert Hanna is leader, assist­ed
by Mrs. A. V. Becker.
A reception in honor of Miss
Fag u e will follow the Thank-offering
service by the Lydia
Circle of which Mrs. William
Haines is leader.
Carl V. Reedy, this borough,
will, be installed as tlie head
of the 40,000 Odd Fellows of
Pennsylvania when the Grand
Lodge, session convenes in
Pittsburgh next June.
“ Reedy, now deputy grand
mas ter of the Grand Lodge ol
Pennsylvania, was nominated
without' opposition for c l o u ­t-
ion to grand mas ter a t the
semi-annual session of the
grand lodge in tlie Odd Fel­lows
Home at Middletown the
past week-end. He will suc­ceed
John H. Matthews, oi
Pulaski, R2.
The officers will be elected
by the past, grands of subord­inate
lodges voting in tlieii
home units the last meeting
night, in March, with the grand
todge election board scheduled
to count the ballots in April.
Reedy has been a member
of the Lititz Lodge 105« since
1924 and has served as grand
warden of the lodge as well
as recording secretary for
nine years, a grand conductor
of the Grand Lodge and also
grand guardian.
Is'b.inon Mooting Satu rd ay
District No. 14 of the In­dependent
Order of Odd Fel­low’s
will meet, Saturday, Nov.
18, in tlie Eagles Building,
116 N. 8th St., Lebanon, for
their annual rally.
The afternoon program will
open at 1:30 p.m. with tlie
first, second and third degrees
being conferred on a class of
candidates from the four coun­ties
in tile dis trict, Berks, Lan­caster,
Lebanon, a n d Schuyl­kill.
At the same time tlie Iie-bekali
Degree will be confer­red
on a class of -women.
John Matthews, grand mas­ter
of the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, will attend the
meetings.
Dinner will he served in the
Eagles Auditorium at. 6 p.m.
and an “ Odd Fellows Talent
H u n t” is scheduled for 8 p.m.
Cash prizes of $100, $75, and
$50 will be presented to the
UNOPPOSED
Unruly Public Disturbs
Warwick Union Directors
Members of the Warwick I give the public only the do-
Carl V, Reedy
winners of tlie talent, contes t
which will be open to the pub­lic.
Union School Board admitted
last week th a t they a re dis-:
turbed by the manner in
which the public has been
speaking out at school board
meetings!
So much so, in fact, th a t
they consulted their solicitor,
Konelm L. Shirk, to determine
how far they have to go in
allowing discussion by the
public, attending a board meet­ing.
The letter from the solic­itor
has informed them they
can oven call in police and
oust spe c ta te r s should the
meeting become u nruly and
out-of-hand.
Shirk also informed the
board th a t no person but
school director s has any right
to speak in a board meeting
and th a t the board has the
right to silence any person
who rises to speak.
These facts were brought,
out by the board a fte r accu­sations
had been made by
George Kalcnich th a t the
board has been tr e a ting the
public unfairly a t its meetings.
His accusation, in turn,
was in response to F ran k
Longeneekcr’s complaint th a t
the press had been treating
the board unfairly.
Kalcnich retorted, “The
press may have tre a ted you
unfairly but the public has
been treated even more un­fairly
by you. Most of your
business you handle out of
the spotlight, i n committee
meeting, and when you finally
do decide on something you
into actuality.
Botli Amidon and Mastro­matteo
agreed in writing to
subsidize tho pool to the ex­tent
of $10.000, the additional
money noeded in the tru s t
fund, if the pool should go
into debt over the $15,000 al­ready
in hand.
Afler the offer had been
read Amidon stated, “ I, feel
and Bat feels tha t the $1-0.080, ,
still in the planning stage,
will lie raised. Both of us
have all the confidence in the
world tha t this thing will
work out. We are offering this
agreement, in lieu of not hav­ing
the cash now.’’ 1
“We're not trying to be
heroes." he continued, “This
is an indication of the confi­dence
we both have in th e
Chamber of Commerce and tho
Jaycecs. Wo have only made
out this agreement in order to
show our confidence in these
men.”
A motion to rescind the r e ­solution
in which the borough
insisted the $25,000 fund bo
in hand, council ended in a
lie vote with Amidon, Reese
and Bower voting to go ahead
with the pool and .Aliment,
Reidenbaugh and Hnck voting
against rescinding the-motion.
Til is tie was broken by Ma­yor
Benjamin Forres t who
voted to go ahead with the
pool, in the first and only
tie-breaking vote he has cas t
in his 13 years as borough
head. ' '
Subsequent motions to ac­cept
tlie bids and to approve
the bond issue' passed when
Aliment shifted from those op­posing
going ahead with the
pool and voted with th e pool”
advocates.
As a result of thi3 action
council accepted tho bid of the
Ivldcr Rea body & Co., Phila­delphia.
and Reynolds & Co.,
Lancaster, for the $140,000
(Continued on page 3)
cisiou. You gentlemen are ask­ing
for trouble when you ireat
the public th i s way.”
It was at this point in the
m e e t i n-g tha t Longeiiecker
road the letter from the soli­citor
stating th a t the public
lias no. right, to be heard 111 a
board meeting.
Approve Development.
, In othe r business a t the
meeting the board gave its ap-,
proval to the Goberman-Ken-dig
development when the
plans wore submitted to tlie
board by The county. Tlie
board also gave approval to
the Pfautz development, Lit­itz
R l .
Clyde Hendricks, of the
buildiug and property commit-'
toe, noted tha t tlie committee
had studied plans for the high
school addition but had decid­ed
to table its decision until
after Jan. 1. Hendricks ex­plained
tha t all school pro­jects
have been frozen by tlie
state until tlie redistricting
program is set up.
Seek Traffic Light
rt was also reported th a t
the committee met Oct. 31 to
discuss the possibility of in­stalling
a signal light, on the
corner of. Orange and Cedar
St. a t tiic elementary school.
Hendricks said it was felt ;<
flashing light is desirable and
this ma t te r will be taken up
with the new borough man a ­ger.
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Woman’s Club
To Hear Talk On
Yule Flowers
The Lilitz Woman’s Club
will hold its monthly meeting
.on Monday evening at the I.
\V a l t o n Bobst Recreation
Con tar, at 8 p.m.
Mrs. H. New-bold Van Trump
Jr. of Glen Milts, a nationally
accredited flower show judge,
will present the program “Hol­iest
Your Merry Chris tmas” .
She will illust-rate her talk
with intriguing, inexpensive
and easily-arranged decora­tions,
making some tha t would
lie suitable for different types
of houses, front and hack door
ornaments, corsages f o r J’1thS
hostess, etc.
Hostesses wi l l be Mrs.
Clyde Benner and Mrs. XL
Marlin Spaid. Mrs. Delbert ;E.
Smith will read the Collect,.'
Mrs. II. William Mitchell,
president, will preside a t the
business meeting which will
precede Mrs. Van Trump's
alk.
General Aux.
Holds Meeting
Final plans for the annual
hake sale to be held this
Friday a t the Young Men’s
Business League, were made
at tlie meeting of the Lititz
Auxiliary of the Lancaster
General Hospital field on Tues­d
a y a t the home of Mrs. Ray­mond
Buckwalter, Lititz R3.
The sale will fe a ture in ad ­dition
to food, white elephants
and pecans.
Dr. Griswold showed pic­tured
taken on a tr ip to
Pue rto Rico. Thirty-six a t te n d ­ed
the meeting and Mrs. War­ren
Diehm, the president,, was
in charge. The -membership
numbers 311. Tlie group de­cided
to make favors a t the
next, meeting J a n u a ry 9t,h for
the, hospital in the Valentine
I heme. The. meeting will he
held in F e 1 1 o w s h i p Hall,
Church of the Brethren.
Board Frowns On Adding
To Bus. Manager’s Chores
The School Board h i t a
snag a t the end of i t ’s well
ordered meeting last Wednes­day
and again exploded into
a flury of a rg umen t over the
Business Manager and his pro­posed
duties.
Donald flannels, local beau­tician,
s ta r ted the verbal up­roar
when he arose a t the end
of tho meeting to ask when
and if the Business Manager
would take over the duties of
Secretary.
“ I want the Business Man­ager
to take over the duties of
secretary.” he stated, ” 1 think
he could do a more effective
job for the district, if he did
so, and this move would cut
out the se c re ta ry’s salary and
save the taxpayers over $7 00
in tax money.”
“ I think the hoard should
up now and be counted on this
issue. L e t ’s not put this into
committee and let it die out.”
Runnels suggestion was met
with contention on two points
by the board meiners, first,
tha t tho proposed switch of
duties would cut out tho $7 20
paid the secretary per year,
and, second, . th a t the business
manage r was ready a t this
time to take over the duties.
Wilbur Graybill, pres ident
of the board, slated, “ Do you
mean Mr. Runnels tha t you
want us to add to tlie business
man ag e r ’s duties without giv­ing
him added compensation?"
“ 1 will stand up public.’)lly
and say th a t 1 think I lie busi­ness
manage r is amply com­pensated
for this extra d u ty ”
Runnels retorted, “ 1 d o n ’t
think lie should tie paid an
vote on this now,” lie oontimi- additional $720 a year for
ed, " I would like you to s ta n d | (Continued on Page 8)
Community
Calendar
Nov. 1«— 2:00 P.M. — Stu­dent
Marine Band Con­cert
at the Warwick High
School.
6:30 P.M. — Lions Club
meeting a t the General
Sutter.
8:00 P.M. — U.S. Marine
Ba nd Concert at the War-wick
High School u n d e r
the sponsorship of the Lit­itz
Women’s Club.
Nov. 17—Tlie Lititz Auxiliary
to Hie Lancaster General
Hospital will hold a bake
sale a t the Young Men's
Business League.
Nov. 1 8 - 1 : 0 0 P.M. — Young
Men's Business League
Shooting Match on th e
farm of Paul Balmcr. ,,
Nov. ao 7:00 P.M.—J.O.O.F.
meeting.
8:00 P.M. — Women’s
(Tull meeting at the Itcc.
Center.
8:00 P.M.— Lititz Sports­man
meeting a t the Ree,
Center.
8:00 P.M. — American
Legion Auxiliary meeting.
Nov, 21— 6:00 P.M. — Rotary
Club meeting.
7:00 P.M. — Planning
Commission meeting.
Nov. 2Jt THANKSGIVING
DAY. SCHOOL VAC A*
TION.