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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, April 26, 1962 7 c e n ts a Copy; 83.00 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 u n ty ; $3.50 e lsew h e re . 14 Pages No. 2
Building Soars To
$250,000In 3 Months
Borough Manager Keith
Arms trong released figures
tins week th a t show the bor­ough
has undertaken a q u a r ­ter
million dollars worth <«f
building d u r in g the months of
January, Februa ry aud March!
And the end of the building
does not seem in sight with
the school planning a new ad­dition
and the Sutter Village
development not counted in
the total.
The three month building
spree includes $140,000 ifor
tlie Lititz Springs swimming
pool and *00,000 for improve­ments
to the Wilbur Choco­late
factory.
The other *04,655 rep re ­sents
individual building on a
smaller scale.
According to A r m s t r ong
this record of a q u a r te r mil­lion
dollars for the three
month period puts us ahea^
of every town in the county
except Lancaster City itself.
In fact, according to Arm­strong's
figures, no other
town has come within *200,-
000 of reaching our total.
Ephrata , assessed highest
in the county, with a popula-
Operetta
Give By
Students
An operetta, " In Grand Old
Switzerland,” will be present­ed
by the fourth, fifth, and
sixtli grades a t 8 p.m., May 3
& 4, in the Lititz Elementary
School auditorium.
The story revolves around
two eccentric old men, who
think they have problems u n ­til
some American tour is ts
pay them a visit and compli­cate
ma tte r s Krr«»- w w,
The music includes solos,
duets and several numbers
“ yodeled” by the chorus.
The speaking cast: Antho­ny
Adair, Scott Ke tte rman, Ni­na
Lausch, Jeff Searles, Char­lotte
Good, Carla Rineer,
Steve Kraybill, Gail Grube, and
Iloy Stryker.
Staging and musical direc­tion,
Mrs. Hazel W. Moore;
designing and painting set,
Mrs. June It. Smith; accom­panist,
Mrs. Carolyn Shank.
Tickets may be purchased
by students in fourth, fifth and
sixth grades from homeroom
teachers until Tuesday, May 1.
Tickets will also be on sale
at the door the nights of the
performance.
tion of 7.GS8 has only had
*22,720 worth of building in
the past th r e e months; and
Columbia has not had a single
building permit taken out so
far this year.
East Peter sburg c o m e s
closest to reaching our total
with $45,380 in construction
done in the past three months.
Elizabethtown follows with
*31,500.
The monthly report for
March to the borough council
shows th a t remodeling per­mits
in the borough have
doubled from a year ago to
14 from 7. New construction
permits in March increased
from 4 last year to 6.
Remodeling permits were
given to: Charles Lehman,
432 S. Cherry St,, repairs to
house; Garth Pecker, 146 S.
Spruce St., remodel; G. Gray-bill
Diehm, 5 S. Spruce St.,
recons truct a f te r fire; Tho­mas
Steffy, Marion and Rroad
Streets, new garage roof; R.
C. Zercher, 28 E. Market St.,
remodeling; Arvilla Burkhol­der,
42 E. Lincoln Ave., re ­siding.
(Continued on page 3)
Russell Murr’s Hobby Takes Him
Around The World Through Stamps
STAMP COLLECTOR Ilussell Mu r r ’s hobby s t a r t ­EXTRAORDINARY
ed out as a relatively small
one — to collect one hundred
envelopes, addres sed to him,
and postmarked from different
countries around the world.
But as th e letters began
pouring in it grew, both in
scope and in intensity, until
now, eight years later. Murr
can boast 863 covers, the
stamp dealers fancy name for
the envelopes, from almost
all of the countries, te r r i to r ­ies
and stamp issuing organi­zations
of the world.
In fact the only cover he
does not have to date, th a t he
knows has been issued, is the
one from Northern Laos
and lie is bargaining with an
East German stamp collector
for th a t one.
And Murr makes the collect­ing
even more difficult by
s tipulating th a t the letter mus t
he addressed to him. I
Thus, in the, case of his le t­ter
from North Korea, for
example, which does not have
a mail service with the Unit­ed
‘ States, he had to go
through almost, unbelievable
channels.
(Continued on Page 2)
No Curfew For Boro ;
Youth Plan Studied
YOUR NEW SCHOOL TAX
(Assuming 5-4 mills on assessed real estate)
Your Real
Assessed Valuation Estate Tax
$2200 ______ ___________ $118.80
3000 __________________ 162.00
4000 ...________________ 216.00
5000 __________________ 270.00
Add to above 1% of your total earned income (Wage
Tax) and you have your total school tax!
Russell Murr, 1520 Noble St., shows off the cover that nett­ed
him $20. The cover, from Africa, was sent, to him with a
rar<\.sta:np on it. Needless to say Murr immediately wrote back
to see if tlie nation would make the same mistake again. As
yet no letter lias been forthcoming.
Council Delays
Decision For Study
Library Open Saturday
A. M. Starting April 28
Community
Calendar
April 2 0— 4:15 P.M. — Base­ball
- Warwick vs. ten n
Manor - Away game.
7:30 P.M. — Stamp Club
at. the Recreation Center.
8:00 P.M. — John Beck
School PTA meeting.
April 27— 6:00 P.M. — High
School Athletic Banquet.
April 28— 8:00 P.M. — Con­cert
at. the Warwick High
School featuring the Jr.
High Boys Chorus, the Jr.
High Girls Chorus and the
Sr. High Band.
April 29— 2:00 P.M. — Wel­come
W a g o n couples
Bowling at the Dutch
Bowling lanes.
April 80— 4:00 P.M. — Boys
Tennis - Warwck vs.
Donegal - Away game.
May 1— 4:15 P.M. — Baseball
- Warwick vs. Manheim
Twp. - Home game.
6:00 P.M. — Rotary Club
Meeting.
7:30 P.M. — Historical
Society meeting a t - the
Recreation Center.
7:30 P.M. — Community
Chest meeting at the
Recreation Center.
May 2— 4:00 P.M. — Boys
Tennis - Warwick vs. Gar­den
Spot - Home game.
May 3— 4:15 P.M. ■— Baseball
- Warwick vs. Ephrata -
Home game.
6:30 P.M. — Lions club
meeting at the General
Sutter.
7:30 P.M. — Fire Com­pany
Auxiliary meeting.
7:30 P.M. — Community
Chest meeting at the Re­creation
Center.
. Star ting this Saturday the
’Pifóte Library will be open on
Saturday mornings from 9:30
a.in. to 11:30 a.m.
From 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
will be reserved as a time for
to exchange books. Then from
the children of the community
to a.m. to 10:30 a.m. there will
be a reading hour sponsored
by Girl Scout Troop 263.
At this time the children
will he divided into two age
groups, 4 to 6 and 6 to 8, for
a story hour.
Senior scouts Marsha Hei­tor,
Karen Nagle, Renee Ni-quette,
and Diane Spaid will
bo readers for the session.
These senior scouts arc
working on th e i r child care
and library aid ba rs and to
e arn the awards must, do a
minimum of 30 hours work
in each field.
From 10:30 to 11:30 the
library will be open to the
public. Mrs. Henry Walter,
Mrs. Ruth Greenfield and Miss
Mildred Young have v olunte e r­ed
the ir time as librarians on
a lte rn a t in g Saturdays,
This is the second' expan­sion
of hours by the library
in the past year. The increas­ed
hours are duo in pa rt to
the move of the library from
the grade school into it ’s own
room in the General Sutler
Hotel.
Daylight Saving Time
Arrives Sunday
I t ’s Daylight Saving time a-gain!
So Saturday night .or Sun­day
.morning d o n ’t forget, to
turn vour clocks ahead an
hour.
Otherwise Sunday morning
you’re liable to turn up at
Church ju s t as everyone is
leaving.
Daylight Saving time offici­ally
s ta r ts on April 29, Sun­day,
and the churches in the
borough will use saving time
for their services.
Council put off more than
they passed Tuesday night, as
in the four hour long meeting
they tallied six decisions while
only passing three, .Most, pro­blems,
council felt, needed fur­ther
study.
Council did manage to
award a contract for street
striping to Edward .1. Biar—
dcau, Reading, at his hid of
*795.03.
However an o th e r contract,
which had been referred from
the last meeting, was again
put off. Repaving, which coun­cil,
opened bids for two weeks
ago, remained unrewarded
Tuesday night, due to some
changes in the final plan.
Chief of Police Hicks r e ­quest
for a ‘‘Walkie-talkie”
radio to lie used at. night, so
two patrolmen, one in a
cruiser car, can keep in close
touch with each oilier, was
also passed over to next week’s
council meeting.
Also referred to the next
meeting was a decision on ex­tending
Market Street, as re ­quested
by Jack Yoder, and a
resolution to set up a Board
of Health in 1he borough.
Stream Pollution
A request by the Lititz
Sportsmen asking the borough
to join with them in some d e ­finite
action to stoil pollution
in the Springs Creek was left
THE WARWICK HIGH SCHOOL BAND
hanging a fte r discussion.
Borough manage r Arm
strong, in connection with tin
pollution, reported th a t near
the sewer plant refuse, in­cluding
dead animals, old gaso­line
drums, garbage, trash,
and bottles, have been caught
coming down the creek.
Bill Washdiysion. repre­senting'
the Sportsmen’s As­sociation,
told council his
group fe f t’th a l some In d u s tr ie s
were dumping ma terials into
tlie creek which were harmful
to th e fish.
(Continued on Page 2)
Mayor Griswold brought
his proposal for borough
youth to council chambers
Tuesday night in an effort to
get both the council and the
School Board behind his plan
for delinquent youth.
And immediately ran into
problems!
While the School Board had
greeted his proposals with en­thusiasm
and general agree­ment
— council gave him the
thumbs down on almost the
entire plan.
Problems arose primarily
because oil the wide disparity
of opinion on council — with
each member picking different
parts of the plan to either
praise or pan.
At the end of t He discus­sion
— though no formal
votes were taken — the con­census
of opinion seemed to
he th a t a curfew in Lititz is
definitely out. for the present,
at least, and tha t Griswold’s
proposals will have a tougher
lii.ll to climb than was previ­ously
expected.
Griswold argued tiiat. youth
today have to he entertained,
tha t we shower them with pos­sessions
and groups but we
give them no time to grow up
by themselves.
"We never had to he en te r ­tained”
, Griswold stated, "we
made our own. There are too
many activities. I think that
the Recreation Center is a
Delinquency In Borough
On The Rise Says Hicks
GRAND MASTER
Carl Reedy
Seen here lire members <>l (lie l9<tl-(>2 three concerts to lie presented by the miisii
Warwick High School Rand. The band w ill department, tills Saturday evening,
bo performing' in the second in a series of
High School Stages Second
Of Three Musical Programs
Music by two junior high
school choruses and the Sen­ior
High Band will comprise
Warwick’s second program of
the 1962 Spring Music Fe s t i­val,
to be presented this Sat­urday
evening a t , eight ’o
clock in the High School Aud­itorium.
A group of choral selections,
both new and old, will be sung
by members oi the Junior
High Girls’ Chorus to begin
Saturday evening’s program.
Their number s include “ Broth­er
J ame s ’s Air” . “ I Heard A
Fore s t P ray in g ” , "The Best
Things In Life Are Free” , and
"Ma r ia ” - from Rodgers and
Hamme r s te in ’s hit musieale
"The Sound of Music” .
The fifty-voice Ju n io r High
Boys’ Chorus will be heard in
the second portion of the con­cert.
They will sing a varied
group of hymns, patriotic n um­bers,
and several songs in the
popular idiom, including “ Syl­vie”
- popularized by Harry
Belafonte, and “ Hey, Look Me
Over” , from the Broadway
show “Wildcat” - s ta r r in g Lu­cille
Ball. Darlene Hetman and
Janice Myer are accompanists
for both choruses.
Selections ranging in style
from the traditional march t i
a band a r ran g emen t of Anton
Dvorak’s stirring Finale from
the New World Symphony will
he presented by the Senior
High Band in the filial por­tion
of the Sa turday concert.
They will also play selections
from the Lerner and Loewi'
musieale now playing 011
Broadway - Camelot.
Celeste Long and Philip
Mummert, both’ senior mem­bers
of the Band, will be fea­tured
soloists on th e clarinet
and trombone, respectively. In
recognition of the Civil War
(Continued on page 3)
Reedy Heads
Odd Fellows 1
Carl V. Reedy, 438 S. Spruce
Street, is the new grand mas­ter
of the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, Order of Odd
Fellows, a mail ballot, showed
Saturday.
j Reedy a former deputy
grand master, succeeds John
11. Matthews, Pulaski.
Ins tallation is scheduled for
¡ June 19 in Pittsburgh during
j the Odd Fellow's Convention.
Reedy, a member of Lititz
Lodge 10 5 0 since 19 2 1, also
served as grand warden of the
lodge. He was recording secre­tary
of the Lititz Lodge for
fine years, was grand con­ductor
of the grand lodge
and also grand guardian.
In ' 195S. Reedy placed a
wreath on the tomb of tlie
unknown soldier in Washing
toil, D. (!., as a representative
of the Pennsylvania Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Reedy also headed the Bi­centennial
Committee in the
borough, was chairman of the
Fa rm Show for several years
and is an active member o
the Lions Club.
BOROUGH OFFICE
CHANGES PHONE NUMBER
Tlie borough manage r a n ­nounced
this week th a t the
borough office phone number
lias been changed from MA
6-2228 to MA 6-2044, The
change was due to renovations
iu t}ie borough phone system-
Chief of Police Hicks r e ­vealed
yesterday that, the, ra te
of juvenile delinquency in
town has jumped in 1961 to
reacli a high of 27 offenses
for the year.
This is an increase of 20
over the total for I960.
The four year graph showed
a fluxation of total offenses.
1958 showed a total of 36
offenses in the borough with
I a tt r ib u ted to juveniles. Then
n 1 959 the total jumped to
T8 with juveniles accounting
or 18 of these malt'actions.
Tlie total dropped in 1960 to
14 and juvenile offenses took
a like drop to 7.
In 1961 the re were 79 of­fenses
committed in the boro,'
with adults involved in ouly
5 2 cases.
I 11 revealing the figures
Chief Hicks stated: “ I feel
tha t the majority of youth in
the borough are good solid
citizens. I t 's just. '& "few that
make it tough on the re s t of
ihem. Most of the youths a re
good s tudents, active iu church
affairs and good family mem­bers.”
However, Hicks revealed
tha t tiiere were few if any
duplications on the list of
offenders and tha t his figure
of 2 7 indicated 2 7 different
youths ra th e r than 27 offenses.
Motor Violations
Benay Pettyjohn, 151 S.
Street Sweeping
Schedule
Below is the schedule for
the borough street sweeping.
If tli 0 sweeper is rained
out it will continue on its r e ­gula
r schedule re tu rn in g to
the areas rained out at. a
later date.
April 2(itli: West side of
Cedar from the railroad to
Marion; Orange Street; Maple
Street; Center Street; Lemon
Street; North side Marion
Street; Main Street from Ce­dar
to Spruce; Broad Street
from th e railroad to Marion;
Walnut Street,; Spruce Street,
from tlie Recreation Center to
M arion.
April 27tli: East side of
Cedar Street from the railroad
to .Marion: East. Main St. from
Cedar St. to the Boro limits;
ChiinJi Street; Willow Street:
Water Street, from Main to the
llialroad; Locust Street, from
lie railroad to Marion St.:
Forney Drive; Plum Street;
Elm St. from Main to North
Alley.
April 2 8 th : West side Cedar
from the Railroad to the Boro
limits; F ro n t St. from Broad
St. to Cedar St.; Liberty St.;
North New Street; Lincoln
Oee.; Market St.; Kieine St.;
Warwick St.; Walnut St. north
:>f Lincoln; North Broad St.
from the railroad to the Boro
limits; Manheim Street.
April 80 th : Eas t side 'Cedar
from Marion to 3rd; South
side of Marion from Cedar to
Locust; Laurel Ave.: S. Cherry
St.; Gochnauer Ave.; 3rd from
Cedar to Cherry; 2nd from
Cedar to Locust; Locust from
Marion to Gochnauer; Kissel
Hill Road: Sutte r Place.
M ay 1st: South side Marion
Street from Cedar to Wa lnut;
Second St. from Cedar to
Spruce: West side Cedar from
.Marion to 3rd; South Broad
Street from Marion to the
Boro limits; South Spruce St.
from Marion to 6 th; Wood-crest
Ave.; West End Ave.;
West Third St.; Eas t 3rd from
Broad to Cedar; Wes t 4th St.
Broad Street, was charged
with following too closely af­ter
she hit the rear, of a car
driven by Raymond Hackman,"
356 E. Main Street, on North
Cedar Street April 18. Dam­age
was estimated, a t $300.
Pa trolman Fred Lucas pro­secuted
Robe r t Newer, Lan­caster,
with to fast for condi­tions.
He was bro u g h t before
Jus tice of the Peace Harold
Kauffman.
Charles M. Oleskowitz, 329
Front Street, was charged by
pa trolman Dussinger before
Jus tice Kauffman with exces­sive
noice on April 22; the
same day Barry C. Sensenig.
211 Now St., was prosecuted
for a stop sign violation by
patrolman Steffy before J u s ­tice
of the Peaco Harold Kauff­man.
Abram K. Shirk, Columbia,
was prosecuted by patrolman
J/ong before Jus tice of the
Peace Paul Diehm for passing
at an Intersection on April
22.
P a trolman Dussinger prose­cuted
Robert Gray Anderson,
Wright,stown, before Jus tice of
the Peace Kauffman for a stop
sign violation.
Morals Offense
Wednesday a young mother
called borough police with a
rep o r t of a. morals offense.
Borough police have the li­cense
number and a descrip­tion
of the offender and an
a rre s t is expected momen ta r i­ly.
Police also stated tha t the
juvenile th a t led officer Fred
Lucas on a chase to Motint-viilc
earlier this year has been
tried before juvenile court.
The youth has been placed on
probation and has had his
license suspended.
good thing, but it must have
its limitations.”
To instill the sense of re ­sponsibility
in youth, he has
tentatively set up a five
group program to deal with
delinquent youth caught in
the borough.
in planning this lie got per­mission
from Judge Joseph B.
Wissier. president judge of the
Lancaster County Court, to
have 1I1 is program effective
for all youth caught in the
borough, no matter where they
come from.
I11 other words a youth from
another area, for example, if
caught doing something wrong
in the borough would come
under borough jurisdiction.
Under the plan the borough
police, on apprehending an of­fender,
would channel him to
one of two groups, a Hlgn
Scluiol Discipline. Council, ar
the Planning Committee of
Civic Groups and Ministerial
Association.
The Student. Council would
take care of the. less serious
"offenses while the Planning
Committee would be in charge
of the more, serious offenders.
It was the Student' Board
that came in for the most
criticism at the Council meet-'
ing with council questioning
whether the school’s author ity
(Continued on Page 2)
ABC Holds
Field Day
The Lititz Chapter of the
American Business Clubs will
hold it ’s seventh annual Field
Day on Saturday. May 26, be­ginning
at 1 p.m. on the play­ing
field of the Warwick
Union School District.
Bovs and Girls -in grades
five through twelve a re eligi­ble
to compete in the events
which will include the high
jump and broad jump, softball
throw, shot put. 40 yard dash,
50 yard dash, 100 yard dash,
440 yard dash, 200 yard med­ley
and the 4 10 yard medley.
All boys and girls in te re s t­ed
in participating in this
y e a r ’s events are urged to re ­gister
with their physical ed u ­cation
director or the recrea­tion
director as soon as possi­ble.
Prizes will ho awarded to
the winners of each event.
Brunnerville
PTA Holds
Elections
The P a r e n t Teachers Asso­ciation
o:f John Beck School
will meet, this evening, April
26, a t 8:00 p.m. in the All-
Purpose room.
Airs. Mary Rice will show
pictures taken on her recent,
trip to Europe featuring the
Passion Play at. Oberammor-ga
11.
A discussion will he held on
1 lie participation otf the John
Beck pupils in the Field Day
Activities on May 12 at. Lititz.
Election of officers will be
held and ref reshments will he
served by the executive board
with Airs. Donald Weaver in
charge.
Fire Co. Called
Twice This Week
Two calls brought borough
fire fighters scrambling to the
fire hall this week as dry,
windy conditions presented i-deal
fuel for brush fire.
The first came in on Mon­day
when youngsters called iu
011 ' some brush burning in
front of the Recreation Cen­ter.
H
owever, the blaze was
more smoko than flame and
was quickly subdued.
The second call came late
Wednesday afternoon when
firemen; were called to help
support, companies In the area
ba ttling a blaze in the Corn­wall
fore s t past Brickerville.
So fa r over five companies
hae t e e n called to ba tt le the
blaze.
Mrs. Scatchard
Club President
Airs. William Hrntchard w£
elected president, of. the W<
ma n ’s (Tub at their rec-iproeit
nice ting AI o 11 d a y evcnhii
Eight members of the variov
woman’s clubs of Lancasti
County were guests of t l
clul).
Other officers elected were
first vice president, Barbai
Wise; second vice presiden
Mrs. G. Alarlin Spaid; recort
ing secretary. Airs. J. Dona]
Steffy; corresponding seen
tary, Airs. Walter Shumai
treasurer , .Mrs. Robert Watts.
Mrs. Jules Kien in and Airs.
Wa Iter Shuman we re appointed
to till' board of the Recrea-tion
( 'e tiler.
Tlie d u b voted 011 the fol-
10 wing donations Crippled
Chi Idre ns Society, *35; Den-tai
Hygeiie Association, *3
(Continued on Pago 2)
Athletic Dinner
At High School
Tiie Warwick High School
Athletic Banquet will be hold
Friday evening, April 27, at
6 p.m. in the cafeteria.
After the dinner Dr. Jame s
Bonder, head football coach
from West Chester State Col­lege,
will speak in the audi­torium.
Parents are invited to a t­tend
tlie program in the au d i­torium.
It. will s ta r t at about
7 p.m.
FIRE COMPANY PLANS
HAM-EGG BREAKFAST
The Lititz Fire Company
will Hold a Ham and Egg
Breakfas t on Saturday, April
28, from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. The
cost, is $1 for all you can oat.
Proceeds from the event Will
lie used for expenses incurred
in the annua l children’s Christ­mas
party.