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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e I*itltz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 4, 1962 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r C o n n ty ; $3.S0 e lsew h e re . 10 Pages — No. 38
Boro Council Reduces Size Of 1962 Budget
Trim Expenses To $7,825
Under Last Year’s Total
Tax Drops 3^/2 Mills
De^iHe a tax cut of three
and tne half mills, an d thus a
jowtr income, the borough will
be un d e r tak in g a n umb e r of
/ r e j e c t s this year, including
'the beginning of s torm sewer-
, age, a public pool, and a his­torical
survey.
In an announc ement a t the
meeting Tuesday n ig n t Boro
Manager. Keith Arms trong,
(stated, “The »ullage will be
1 2 Vi» mills or D.2 5 cents on
the assessed d o lla r .“ <
"Since percentages a re often
deceiving,’’ he continued, "il
would be more appropr ia te to
compare the property tax in­come
from 1961 and the 1962
budget income,
“ In 1961, the property tax
GRADUATES
I SOLEMNLY SWEAR
Nevin Bucher
Rothsville Man
Ends Combat
Training
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif
— Marine Pvt. Nevin L. Buch­er,
son of Mr. and Mrs. F r a n k
H. Bucher of Rothsville, Pa.,
completed the four-week indi­vidual
combat t ra in in g course,
Dec. 1C, a t the Second In fan ­try
Tra in in g Regiment, Marine
Corps Base, Camp Pendleton,
Calif.
Every new ma r ine u n d e r ­goes
this training following re ­cruit
training. Combat forma-
Itions, fire and maneuver, sup­porting
weapons, individual
protection and safe movement
during day and n ig h t are
ta u g h t by carefully chosen in­structor
».
Emphasis is placed on the
teamwork and self-reliance re ­quired
in assaulting a fortified
position, combat in towns, ver­tical
envelopment by helicop­te
r and coordinating tan k and
infan try attacks.
Center Drive
Over The Top
Final repor t on the Recrea-tion
Center Membership Drive
shows a total of 1,831 new
members sold d u r in g the c u r ­ren
t drive. An additional 35 1
members have a life-time
membership making the total
membership 2,182. Las t year’s
campaign netted 1,800 includ­i
n g the life memberships.
The d r i v e ’s co-chairmen,
Mrs. Albert Ebbert, Mrs. John
Skinner, Mrs, Rodney Wolfe,
a n d Mrs. Harry Eshleman
wish to thank the Record-Ex­press,
the ir captains and wo rk ­ers
for making this drive a
success. They urge th a t any­one
missed, during the drive
may still obtain cards by con­tacting
them or by stopping in
a t the new Recreation Center.
Persons may also mail their
checks to the Lititz Communi­ty
Center, Box 225. Lititz, Pa.,
and receive their membership
cards by re tu rn mail.
Memberships by different
age- group a re : Pre-School and
Elementary, Total — 397; Jr.
High School, Total — 271; Sr.
High School, Total — 351;
and Adults, Total — 1163,
making a grand total of 2182.
yielded approximately $75.200,
while in 1962 this will be re ­duced
to $74,435,"
Despite the drop in the uvl!-
age, and subsequent drop in
incoming monies, the borough
has outlined an ambitious plan
for 19 62.
A total of $15,000 from the
General Fund and $2,500 from
the Highway Aid Fund has
been set aside for gradual cor­rection
of storm drainage pro­blems
anl plans a re in process
now to cetermine which seg­ment
of tie problem should be
handled first,
ily hanliing the storm sew­er
probleu over a period of
years with the funds available
borough iflicials s ta ted th a t
they hope to be able to avoid
issuing boids and also avoid
the interes th a t is a pa r t of
any bond ssue.
Also ineltded ill this year's
budget is , pension plan for
borough etployees; council
(Confined on page 6)
Churchts Plan
Progran For
Prayer Week
The Week t l^Tayer will be
held J a n u a ry th to 11th in­clusive,
spomred by the
Men’s and Vtmen’s d e p a r t ­ment
of the Wrwick Associa­tion
ot Church». All services
will be held at7:30 p.m. and
the host churc will provide
the music. T h ^ e n e ra l theme
will be “A Wrld a t Peace
Through a WoJ of Pray e r " .
Monday. J a n i t h , the ser­vice
will be heldh the Church
of the Brethren-ith the Rev.
Janies K. Rapp.ustOr of the
Trinity E. C. C'irch, preach­ing
the sermon The Will of
God and Christii Ma turity”
and the Rev. ORi D. Mitch­ell
in charge of b service.
Tuesday, the s*ice will bo
held in the E.R. Church
with the, Rev. Ja r s Shannon,
pastor of the u t h e r an
Church, preaehii on the
theme “The Willf God and
Renewal in the Crch ” . The
Rev. F r a n k A. Niel .will be
in charge.
Wednesday, the rvice will
be held in theMoravian
Church with the R' William
Grosz, pastor of thBrunner -
ville E.U.B. Cburehreaching
the sermon on t, subject
“The Will of G o d ia Civic
R i g h t e o u sness’bhe Rev.
Marlin Schaffstall v be in
charge.
Thursday, the seCe will
be held in St. P a u l ’sRheran
Church with the Rt. y. Carl
J. Helmich p r e a c h in g the
subject “The Will of id and
the World Mission f the
Church” . The Rev. leorge
Scherer will preside.
The church bell w ring
previous to the servs, in
case of inclement weak the
bell will not ring and t s e r ­vice
will be held on iday
evening in the same chu as
scheduled.
L ititz ' new Mayor Dr. A rth u r Griswold
is shown bein g adm in is te re d th e out It of
office by Ju s tic e of tile Peaee Pau l 1'. Dielnu
in b o ro u g h council ch am b e r Tuesday even­ing.
— lte e o rd -L x p re s s , Photo.
’Viewing tile ceremony, at th e le ft of
M ay o r Griswold a re th e two new members of
b o ro u g h council, Floyd Hagy, local b u sin e ss­man,
a n d Mr. M. C. Demmy, re tire d borough
school official.
M. G. Demmy Appointed To Fill
Vacancy On Borough Council
A vacancy on the ju s t- re ­organized
borough council was
quickly filled Tuesday evening
with the appointment of M. C.
Demmy, long active in civic a f ­fairs
here.
The name of Mr. Demmy
was circulated here during the
past week, with the result tha t
the appointment was more or
less expected in the well-fill­ed
council chambe r Tuesday
night.
lie is a re tired supervising
principal of the Lititz Boro
School system prior to the
formation of th e Warwick
Union District. He also has
been active in civic affairs
and served several terms as
president of the Lititz Cham­ber
of Commerce as well a
secretary of tho Young Men’s
Business League.
The appointment of Mr.;
Demmy fills the vacancy caus­ed
by the -recent d e a th . of
Councilman-elect Robert J.
Hanna, who would have taken
office Tuesday night. The a p ­pointment
made by borough
council as soon as it re -or­ganized
is for the entire four-year
term.
Retiring Mayor (Benjamin
Forre s t presided over the meet­ing
until a fte r the oath of
office had been administered
Mayor-elect Dr. Ar th u r Gris­wold
by Justice, of the Peace
Paul F. Diehra. ’»Squire Diehm
also adminis tered the oath of
office to C o u n c i 1 in a n-elect
Floyd Hagy.
With Dr. Griswold presiding,
the new council quickly no­minated
and elected Curtis
Amidon pres ident and Mr.
Hagy vice president. In its -s e ­cond
action of the evening, 1he
new council passed a resolu-fill
the vacancy in its ranks.
Mrs. Judy Miller was ap ­pointed
to collect borough tax­es
and borough manager. R.
Keith Armstrong, was named
secretary.
Pay F o r Council
Borough council later took
tip I be subject of paying them­selves
salaries of $25 u month
during their terms in office.
While placing a $2,100 item
in the burget for tins purpose,
members of council pointed
out th a t the proposal has not
tion electing Mr. Demmy to i ben finally approved.»
Griswold Launches Wholeheartedly
To Improve Status Of Borough Police
Mayor Ar th u r G r i s w o l d
launched immediately into bis
duties Tuesday night a t tile
budget meeting when he went
to the defense of tho borough
police over several items in
the budget.
And be got bis way — bor­ough
police will have a new
man in the ir ranks, council
will be asking for bids on a
new police car, and police will
receive seven dollars a day
for off-duty hours spent in
county court.
The mayor has traditionally
been the police representative
in council but it has been a
long time since any mayor has
taken this duty ms seriously as
Mayor Griswold is taking it.
But this is not the only fa­cet
of his duties that' the new
mayor takes seriously. Later
this month he will l»o going to
Harrisburg for a council
school set up by the state —
and if Tuesday's meeting was
any indication, he plans to be
a very real voice in council
meetings from now on.
It seems tha t Mayor Gris­wold
is going out of his way to
squash tho campaign threats
of his democratic counterpart,
who based his campaign on
the theory that, a doctor would
not be able to devote enough
Record-Express Sale
Ann’ced This Week
$1,550 During 1961
Boro Stan
Pool Driv<
“We’re off to a good rt
on the pool tickets ,” Bot^h
Manager Arms trong s t a d ,
“why with the campaign ty
on for two days we have d
$117.60 worth of family -
ets for next se a so n !”
Tickets are on sale i n »
borough office now for »
1962 season with the fat
tickets selling for $30 and
individual tickets going
$15.
If the proposed sale of $
Firemen Launch
Funds Drive
At Rothsville
The Rothsville Fire Com­pany
will launch its annual
funds drive during the next
ten days when coin cards will
be dis tributed th ro u g h o u t the
area. Collection of the cards
will be made April 20 to 30.
County Chaplain Paul B.
Ritter, Lititz R l , presided ov­er
the ins tallation of newly-elected
officers Tuesday night.
Those installed are F. H. Buc­her,
pres ident; Donald Ging­rich,
vice pres ident; Russell
Douse, secretary; Charles Ec-enrode,
tre a su re r ; Jacob Long-enecker,
financial secretary;
Claude Young, tire chief, and
Harold Weinhold, trus te e for
three years.
Larry Hawk and John lleis-er
were named delegates to the
county firemen’s association
with William Weit and Rich­ard
Landis, alternates. Claude
Young and Herbert E h rh a r t
are Zone 2 delegates and He r ­bert
Beard and Larry Hawk,
alternates.
A total of 33 men attended
the meeting. Mrs. Betty Scho-enberger,
pres ident of the la- 1
The Lititz Fire Co. worked
a 17-hour year in 1961 with a
total of 37 2 men answering a
total of 29 calls.
With 1961 closing out as
one of the safest years in
borough history, fire wise, to­tal
fire loses in the borough
Were -kept to $ 1,550. though
losses out of the borough came
to $37,325.
This year's extremely good
record can be vividly seen
when the fire loss in the boro
is divided into the total popu­lation.
Divided up each person
in tiie borough lost only
twenty-five cents in fire dam­age
over the last year.
To Open Bids
Firemen also announced
th a t bids on the new pumper
lire tru ck will be opened on
J a n u a ry 30. The company de­cided
to buy a new pumper
ra th e r than a ladder truck be­cause
of the close proximity
of several ladder trucks.
Bids will be received from
the Scgravc Machine Co.,
Howe and American, and La
France.
Elect Officers
Recently elected a t yearly
elections were:
President, ChrisL B. Koehl­er;
Fir s t Vice President, Ray
Bixler; Second Vico President,
William Knicr; Secretary. Paul
Diehm, Jr.
Treasurer, Ed Gro sh ; Finan-cial
Secretary, Lloyd Smith;
Chief. Ammon Shelly; Chap­lin,
Win! Carper; ' Trustee for
three years, Paul Diehm, Sr.
Members of the Disability
Board are Paul Sipe, Jr., Ro­bert
Ituhl and Ted Stauffer.
Christ B. Koehler, president,
announced th a t 1 24 8 boxes of
candy and oranges were given
out a t the annual Christinas
party.
The sale of The L i t i t z
Record-Ex-press to Robert G.
Campbell, Lancaster County
newspaperman, was announced
this week by W i l l i a m N.
Young, publisher of tho paper
since October 1 5, 1938.
The transaction, which be­came
effective J a n u a ry 1, in­cludes
the business, equipment
and machinery of The Record-
Express, one of the county's
oldest weekly newspapers, and
The Record Printing Company,
commercial printing u nit op­erated
jointly with the paper.
Mr. Campbell is publisher of
Lancaster F a n n in g , a weekly
agricultural paper which c ir ­culates
th ro u g h o u t the county.
Mr. Campbell, who is 34, has
been actively engaged in vari­ous
forms of newspaper edit­ing
and publishing for the
patsl eight years.
He was born, raised and has
¡hod his ‘entire life in Lan­caster
County and now re ­sides
with his family a t 1110
Itohrcrs town ltd., Lancaster,
but plans to move his family
to Lititz in the- near future.
He is a g rad u a te of Valley
Forge Military Academy and
the Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania. He served in
the U.S. Navy from 1945 to
1 947 and in tho U.S. Army
from 19 51 to 1953 with s e r ­vice
in Korea. He was com­missioned
a first lieutenant.
He is presently pres ident of
the Conestoga Chapter, Ameri-
Burning Of Trees Saturday
Really An Old, Old Custom
BUYS RECORD
Robert Campbell
can Bus ine s s . OhH» and 4s a
member and past president ol
the Lancaster Junior Chamber
of Commerce.
He is married to Lucinda
(Cindy) Taylor Campbell, a
g radua te of Linden Hall Acad­emy,
1 950, and Pennsylvania
»Slate University. The Camp­bells
have two daughter s , Lisa,
five, and Christine, two.
Mr. Young, who has been an
active newspaperman since his
graduation from Columbia Uni­versity
in 1925, will continue
temporarily with the editorial
and news writing phases of
tho. paper.
Statistics Prove Police
Earning Their Money
By Susan Bronkefield
When th e Jaycees ’ burn the
Chris tmas trees this Saturday
evening, J a n u a ry 6, they will,
literally, be pe rpetuating a
custom th a t is more than 10,-
000 years old!
For modern day Christani\v
Twelfth-night signifies the
ending of the Chris tmas sea­son
and the beginning of Epip­hany.
i t is in reality the be­ginning
of the message of
hope thro u g h Christ — for
Epiphany signifies the beginn­ing
of Jesus' ministry.
Yet the burning of Christ­inas
trees on this da te is a
custom tha t dates far beyond
Chris tanity i die s auxiliary, was present and to the beginning 000 worth of ticke ts is a c ln th a n k e d, mem- be rs f_ or t,,h e i. r co- ,l of Tm, a. n s e. xistence . as, man., , It has been Christanized to
RETAILERS TO MEET
ON TUESDAY EVENING
J The Lititz
d a t io n
Retailers Asso-will
hold a meeting
Tuesday night a t 7:30 p.m.
in the Young Men’s Business
League. There will Ibe a dis­cussion
of Red Tag Days at
the meeting.
ed ,b y May.,. . Geo,r ge. ...K....a..l enn o pe ra t.io.n .d u.rin. g . the pa st vear. pool co, m,m, it. te..e ch a ir.m an , te„* * Ham suppers ” will b, e spons- a ssu red th a t the pool wil,l h^aj i r e d F e b ru11a ry 10 an d M*arch
a mo re th a n balanc ed 1 0 .
for 1962. _ _______
With the present pool hue \\ COM E ltS PARTY
get showing a surplus of (,vV |(;|>Xk s DAY AFTERNOON
$5,000 for 19 62 the pool con.
mittee feels th a t this will giv \ get-together social hour
the pool a handsome base o ^ card party will be held
which to build future budgets- members of the Newcom-
In explaining this years bud-s Club in the Recreation
get Kalenich explained, “ Ifnter Wednesday a t 1:30
we can sell season tickets to-,K Reservations can be made
(Continued on page 2) calling the Center.
life!
out
be sure and yet in Christanity
it still retains i t ’s old flavor
— a flavor of hope.
To tlie Chris tian Epiphany is
the beginning of ma n ’s jo u r ­ney
to salvation in the form
of the crucified yet re su r re c t­ed
Jesus the Christ.
To primative man this sixth
of J a n u a ry also signified hope
for it was the date when the
lil'e-giving Sun finally once
again began to gain control
over the Moon — for him also
it was the beginning of
On this date through
the eons primative man sent,
burning logs and bushes down
hills to signify to the. Sun that
it has bis moral suppoi t. And
I he Sun responded by conquer­ing
tho Moon, the days be­come
longer, and planting
could again take place.
The Sixth of J a n u a ry lias
always been the festival of
hope in re-creation — it has
been the date when man re­affirmed
his belief tha t the
days of darknes s and stirility
(winter) would end in time —
th a t hope, would again come
into the world.
And it is to Chris tanity’s
credit tha t it did not toss out.
this festival of renewed h o p 1,
— but rattier gave it. a r ig h t ­ful
place in the Christian
calendar.
For this is the time when
men have always rejoiced in
tho fact tha t there is some­thing
gre a te r than themselves
— and that, this something is
good.
This is the fifth time that
the Jaycees have tak en part
in this custom — yet the cus­tom
is older th a n any of us
(Continued on page 6)
Have you ever wondered
jus t how the borough police
spend their time?
Well, if the borough reports
are any indication, they are
earning their pay.
And here arc tho statistics
to prove it!
. There are five men on the
borough police force; they
run a rotating schedule so
tha t someone is on hand 2 4
hours a day, every day of ev­ery
week.
What, do these live men do
in an average w(sek?
They band out an average
of live meter violation tickets
each per week and each catch
about one parking violator.
They drive the police car a
total of 870 miles patroling
tiie borough — to give them
a grand total of 22,767 miles
in the vehicle in a six-montli
period.
And on the average of ev­ery
week they a rre s t someone
Cor either reckless driving or
driving too fast for conditions.
Every month our lawmen
arrest, four persons for either
ABC To Hear
Political Talk *
The l-.ititz ABC will meet
larceny-burglary or disorderly
conduct — and they probably
prevent twice as many cases
by being on constant patrol.
And in addition three times
a week they apprehend some­one
committing a minor or
ma jo r violation of the driving
code. Under this heading we
include driving without a li­cense,
illegal turns, failure to
stop a t a stop sign, and any
other motor violations that,
comes to' the ir attention.
Yet as Chief George Hicks
explains the most important
statistics for the six months
are the number of arres ts that
do not need to be made.
For this is the real job of
the borough police — not to
catch the offender — but ra th ­er
to make sure that, few peo­ple
have a chance to become
offenders.
And this is a 24-hour a day
— seven days a week ■— 365
days a year job!
time to borough affairs.
Opposition was raised to
Griswold’s proposal th a t boro
police should be paid at. least
witness fees for tile, time they
spend in court.
However Mayor Griswold
brought up the fact th a t bor­ough
police are often forced to
spend six or seven off-duty
hours a week protecting tax­payers
by appearing in county
court as prosecutors, and that
at Ibis time they get. no addi­tional
compensation for this.
The rate of seven dollars a
flay for tHo lime police would
appear in ccnirt will add a-nother
$2a2 lo the borough
budget.
During the councilmanle
discussion Major Griswold al­so
stood up for Hie police, and
other borough employees when
ii came to proposed increases
iri pay.
“ If we paid these eniplov-ees
by the hour we would havs
lo have a 90 mill tax in this
b o rough! ’’, Griswold stated,
“ in view of this 1 think th a t
Die council should make every
effort to assure th a t our em­ployees
are paid wages con­sistent
with the rest of the
community."
Councilman Wendell Dower
assured Griswold that council
had made several studies of
I he problem, and th a t every
Ihing possible was being done
to assure employees of ju s t
wages.
Police requests tha t their
new ear be allowed to have an
Interceptor motor were squash­ed
by council on the grounds
that for a borough of this sizj
and density such a motor was
unnecessary.
The new car, approved by
council at the meeting, will
be of standard size, with n
wire screen between the front
and back seats, and will carry
15 Inch tires.
Banks Boost
Interest Rates
Both Lititz banks this week
announced increases in inte r­est
rates, following resolu­tions
passed at meetings of
the directors Wednesday.
Effective immediately, , in­terest
on certificates of depos­it
will be boosted from thr^
per-cent to three and one-ha,
per-eent, officials of the Lititz
.Springs and the Fa rme rs Na­tional
hanks announced.
Effective February 4, in te r ­est
on savings accounts are in­creased
from two to two ttfitf
one-half per-cent. "
Brunncrville Girl
Scouts Entertain At
Pleasant View Home
Intermediate Girl Scout
Troop 246 of Brunnerville en­ter
tained the guests a t the
Pleasant View Rest ‘Home
with a candlelight carol ser-
Wcdnesday evening in Evans I vice as a part of their holiday
Re s taurant, Manheim, with
their guest speaker for the
night Dr. Sidney Wise, a pro­fessor
of government at
Franklin and Marshal College.
Dr. Wise will speak to the
members on “The American
Political System," dealing pr i­marily
with the conflict be­tween
the executive and the
legislative branches of govern­ment.
He is a g rad u a te of Ha r ­vard
College and received his
PHD in political science from
U.C.L.A. in 1952.
activities. They also made fav­ors
for the guests.
They also filled a basket
with food, took a box of toys,
clothing and a Christmas tree
to a local family.
The girls spent an evening
with their leaders a t the
Dutch Lanes Bowling instead
of exchanging gifts. This
Troop consists of fifteen girls
and was organized in 4960.
sponsored by the Brunnerville
Fire Company. Mrs. Addison
-Gerv is the leader, assisted by
Mrs. David Shertzer.
Community
Calendar
Ian. I— 6:30 P.M. — L i e n s
Club meeting.
7:30 P.M. — Lititz Fire
Company Auxiliary me e t­ing
a t the Fire Hall.
8:00 P.M. — Table Ten­nis
Match at. the Recrea­tion
Center - Lititz vs.
Boys Club.
■Ian. .>—4:00 P.M. — Jr. High
Basketball - L i t i t z vs.
Penn Manor - Away game,
6:45 - 8:00 P.M. — Var­sity
Basketball - Lititz vs.
Conestoga. Valley - Home
ga me.
7:110 P.M. - - Wrestling
match - Lititz vs. Mc-
Caskdy - Away.
8:00 I ’.M. — Rolling Ilills
Girl Seoul, meeting at St.
Luke’s Church of Christ.
Jan. « 7:00 P.M. — l.O.O.F.
meet ing.
8:00 P.M - American
Legion Auxiliary meeting.
Jan. » 2:00 P.M. — Lititz
Auxiliary to the General
Hospital meet at the Lit-iiz
Church of the B re th ­ren.
6:00 P.M. Rotary Club
meet ing.
0:15 P.M. — Varsity Bas­ket
b;i II - Warwick vs. Gar­den
.Spot - Away game.
7:1 >0 P.M. Coin Club
meeting at the Recreation
Ceil I or.
inn. 1» 1:30 P.M. — New­comers
Club meeting a t
the Recreation Center.
Jim. I I— 8:00 P.M. — Table
Tennis - Lititz vs. Eph-r
a t a - Away game.