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86th Year Batabiiahaa April, 1877, a* *h a sunbeam Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, October 18, 1962
(Consolidated with The l i t i t z Record, 1937)
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within Ziancaater County; $3.60 elaewhere. 12 Pages. No. 27
Hallowe’en Parade
Set For October 30
The Lions Club will spon­sor
the annual Halloween
Parade in the borough on
Tuesday, October 30. The rain
date is Wednesday, October 31.
The parable will start at
6:30 p.iu. at Spruce and
Orange Street, and proceed
east on Orange to Broad,
north on Broad to the
Square, east on Mulii Street
to Church Square* around
the square to Cedar Street,
then south oil Cedar to
Main, and West on Muin to
the Square where the parade
will disband.
The High School Band and
he Community Band will par­ticipate
in the parade.
The Halloween Queen and
her court, who will not be
known until the evening of the
parade, will be central figures
in the event. The Queen is
selected from three contestants
by students of the High school,
and the two runners-up are
named the Queen’s court. The
F u tu re Homemakers of Ameri­ca
of the Warwick High School
also will enter the ir Queen.
Confetti and noise makers
will be given out to children
marching in the parade.
The Lions Club also will
have a food stand between the
F arm ers’ Bank and John Kel­le
r’s Store which will feature
home-made pumpkin pies, hot
dogs and sauer k rau t, barbe­cue,
cider and candied apples.
John Steffy Jr., and J. Donald
Steffy, are co-chairmen of the
parade committee. Raymond
Pettyjohn, Sr., Charles Klopp,
William Klunk and Pete De-
Leo are co-chairmen of the
food committee.
Trick or Tre at nights will be
held October 29 and 30, Police
Chief George Hicks reminded.
Boost Limited Access
Highway For Rt.222
A four-lane, limited - access
highway connecting Lancaster
and Reading to relieve the
crowded and truck-clogged
th is week as the ir No. 1 P rio r­ity
Project by Lane. County’s
four veteran House Members.
In a joint statement urging
an immediate s ta rt on the
long-needed north-south arte ry
to the county and city, the
legislators charged the Law-ence
administration of not only
dragging its heels — but in
keeping all county local offi­cials,
city, boroughs and town­ships,
completely in the dark
as to tentative plans.
But with th e election of
William Scranton as Governor,
Lancaster 'County’s North-
South highway will become
No. 1 project to be tackled by
th s new sta te Administration,
the county delegation of State
Representatives assured.
As a result of the clo^k of
secrecy, much speculation has
resulted as to the route for
.the proposed highway. Route
222 would remain a sta te
highway for th e use of local
traffic.
“We realise this problem is
ow under study,’’ the joint
Jons Sponsor
lecreation
tudy Tonight
The Lions Club will sponsor
i open meeting following
eir regular dinner meeting
»night a t the General Sutter
Hotel to discuss recreational
problems of the community.
The dinner is a t 6:30 p.m.,
and the meeting sta rts at
7:30 p.m. Both events are open
to all groups and interested
individuals in the borough.
(Last week it was errone­ously
reported th a t th e meet­ing
was sponsored by the Ro­tary
Club.)
The Rotary club, however,
'ill attend the meeting in a
ody, according to Forbes
msweller, club president. It
hoped th a t many other or-nizations
in the borough
1 do likewise,
ibert E. Reese, Jr., direc-of
recreation of the Lan-r
Recreation Commission
. be principal speaker. Ways
.nd means of financing the
local Recreation Center, Lit­itz
Springs Park and other
recreational facilities will form
the basis of the program.
School Menu
Monday
Cheeseburger, baked po­tato,
peas, asst, fru it
Tuesday
Ham and strin g beans,
cole slaw, applesauee
Wednesday
\ Beef barbecue, corn, re-ih
tray, jello fru it cup
Thursday
thicken loaf, gravy, but-ad
limas, ca rro t sticks,
h half
F rid ay
ta to soup, egg relish
dch, lettuce wedge,
alad
, bread and butter,
re served with each
statement issued today asserts,
adding “ and we sharply criti­cize
th e consultants retained
by the State Highway Depart­ment
for not taking into their
confidence the township and
borough officials involved
along the proposed ro u te .’.’
Lancaster City and County
House Members insisted th a t
nothing less than a four-lane
highway in which access is
rigidly controlled, similar to
the Route 230 by-pass north
of the city, will prove ade­quate
for fu tu re needs.
The legislators also agreed
th a t a “ feeder” route into
downtown Lancaster, plus a
southern by-pass of tjie city,
should be placed on th e high­way
d ep a rtm en t’s planning
board immediately,
The four State Re p r e3ctit'd-tives
favoring the north-south
highway are Eugene S. Ruth­erford,
city district; Norman
Wood, Baker Royer and Ed­win
D. Eshleman, county.
Jayne Cees To
Hear Talk By
R. G. Hanna
R. G. Hanna will speak to
the Jayne Cees a t the meeting
to be held on October 25th at
8 p.m. in the Recreation Cen­ter.
iHanna spent several years
in Berlin and other parts of
Germany. He will be in tro ­duced
by Mrs. Ronald Loerch-er.
The ladies are planning a
costume Hallowe’en party to
be held on Saturday, October
27th a t 9 p.m. a t Spring Lake.
Another activity will be a
Card P arty and Fashion Show
to ibe held on November 14th
at 8 p.m. a t the Recreation
Center. Door prizes will be
given and tickets are now on
sale.
A toy demonstration will be
held this evening a t Western
Auto store with Floyd Hagy
as host and Mis, Robert Henny
chairman o f th e committee.
Refreshments will be served.
Mrs. Ronald Nuss is chair­man
of the Hallowe’en Party,
assisted by Mrs. Ronald Loer-cher
and a new member, Mrs.
Donald Caldwell. Mrs. Richard
Ditzel and Mrs. Albert Vigu-nas
are the hostesses for the
month.
Bank Building
Gets “Facial”
The former Lititz Springs
National Bank, now a branch
of the Conestoga National
Bank, has been undergoing a
“ facial” this week, and has
emerged pristine clean after
a thorough sandblasting.
Another improvement now
underway is the Telephone
Building on Cedar Street,
where the front is in the pro­cess
of being completely re ­modeled.
JOHN BECK PTA
The John Beck PTA will
hold th e ir first fall meeting on
Thursday evening a t the John
Beck) School, Birunnerville.
There will be room visitation
sta rtin g a t 7:30 p.m. Mr. Les­te
r Lahr will be the speaker,
“Knowing your child’s te ach ­e
r,”
Mrs. H erb ert E. Fry, president of th e Welcome Wagon Newcomers’ Club, is shown
presenting a check to Alfred Douplc, president of the board of the Public Library, as a con­tribution
amounting to the cost of one month’s re n t of the library building. Tills is tile club’s
firs t contribution of any kind to a civic project.
Newcomers Present
Donation T o Library
Mrs. Herbert Fry, president
of the Lititz-Manheim Welcome
Wagon Newcomers Club pre­sented
a check for $40, re ­presenting
one month’s rent
for the Public Library to Al­fred
Douple of th e Lititz
Springs Library Tuesday even­ing
a t the regula r monthly
meeting of the, club.
This was the first civic pro­ject
the group lias undertaken.
Mrs. Fry presided» a t the
business meeting and plans
were made for members to
drive any elderly person wlio
otherwise would be unable to
List Songs
For Navy
Glee Club
The program for the con­cert
to be presented by the U,
S. -Naval Academy Glee Club
on October 20, at 8 p.m. in the
Warwick Union High School
was announced today. The con­cert
is sponsored by the Lititz
Rotary Club for the benefit of
local community service or­ganizations.
The 100-man chorus will
open its program with the
following group of songs:
Frates In Unum, (Fitzgerald;
Where’er You Walk, (Han­d
e l); Hush to1 Peace, (Arne);
Charlottown, (Arranged by
B ry a n :); The Testament of
Freedom, (Thomas,,) (P a rt 1:
The God Who Gave Us Life.)
The second portion will in­clude
th e following: As Off to
the 'Sauth’ard We Go, (a rra n g ­ed
by Bartholomew) Across
the Western Ocean, (Arranged
by D o u g h e rty ); Away to Rio,
I (Arranged by Bartholomew),;
Roving, (Rowley.)
The third portion, following
intermission, will include pop­ular
songs: Do I Love You,
(Rodgers); In the Still of the
Night (P o rte r); Maria, (Bern­ste
in ), a n d ' selections from My
F air Lady, (Loewe.)
A group of four men called
the. Anchormen are members
of the glee club who have
worked up songs in the style
of the Kingston trio. They will
perform during th e intermis­sion
so th a t there will be con­tinuous
Entertainment while
the rest of the Glee Club gets
a rest.
The entire program will last
about one hour and 45 minu­tes.
T
he Glee Club is under the
direction of Chief Musician
Joseph McCue, U.S.N.
Net proceeds of th e concert
will be distributed among the
, Lititz Recreation Center, Pub­lic
'Library, Lititz Springs
Park, and Rotary Student Loan
fund, according to George
Ketterman, club president.
go to the polls tin election day,
November 6. Members are to
'contact the ir local committee­men
who will contact Mrs.
David Young, civic chairman.
The Constitution and By-
Laws of the Lititz-Manheim
Newcomers Club were read
by Mrs. Jack Watson and were
voted upon and accepted by
the members.
Mrs. John Lange introduced
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Herr, Lit­itz
R3, who showed colored
slides of the Western States.
Hostesses for the evening
were Mrs. Kenneth McClaskey,
Mrs. Arthur Grimm and Mrs.
John Bingham. 1
Couples Bridge will be held
at the home of Mrs. Kenneth
McClaskey, 307 N. Broad St.,
this borough, November 3 a t
8:30 P.M.
A Coffee C h a t t e r for
newcomers will be held Tues­day
evening November 13 at
the home of Mrs. John Lange,
43 6 Woodcrest Ave, Lititz.
Mrs. Alfred Melzer will be co­hostess.
A square dance sponsored
by the L i t i t z - Manheim
Newcomers Club will be held
November 9 a t the I. Walton
Bobst Recreation Center, Lit­itz
from 8:30 p.m. till mid­night.
Tickets are on sale and will
be sold a t the door the night
of the dance. The public is
invited to attend. Proceeds of
the dance will benefit club pro­jects.
Mrs. C. R. Heinricks, MA
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The 16th annual “Voice of
Democracy” Broadcast Script-writipg
Contest sponsored by
the National Veteran’s of
Foreign Wars will offer high
school students in the 10th,
11th, and 12th grades of all
pu,blic and private schools in
Lititz a chance to compete for
national prizes of four college
scholarships of $5,000, $3,500,
$2,500, and $1,500 respective­ly,
a free trip to Washington,
D. C., and other awards.
Jack Keath, contest chair­man
from the local Lititz
Springs Veteran's of Foreign
Wars Post #1463 announced
th a t the following local prizes
will be given: 1st - $25, 2nd -
$10, 3rd - $5, 4th - $5. Under
the supervision of Scott Car­man,
Warwick High School
Speech Teacher, contestants
will write on “What Freedom
Means To Me.” These three-to-five
minute scripts will be tape
recorded and judged on con-
Youth Hurt
In Kissel
Hill Crash *
A Lititz youth is in serious
condition in the intensive care
unit of the Lancaster General
Hospital as a re su lt of a
one-car crack-up Monday in
which his female companion
was killed. . . •
The youth is Gerald R. Wei-rich,
sixteen, Lititz R4, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Wei-ricli.
Hospital atten d an ts said
the boy suffered head and
neck injuries, a shoulder in­jury
and face cuts.
Killed in the crash was Dar­lene
Marie Gibble, seventeen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al­vin
Gibble, 243 Charlotte St.,
Manheim. Akron Deputy Coro-nor
Dr. William G. Ridgway,
who was called to the scene
in the absence of Dr. Gilbert
N. Clime, Lancaster deputy
coronor, stated the girl pro­bably
died instantly from a
broken neck.
According to Officer Jan
Fisher of the Manheim Town­ship
Police Force, the car,
operated by Weirich, was tr a ­veling.
South on the Kissel
Hill Road, and as it rounded
a curve ju st south of the
Oregon Road intersection, it
went out of control. The car
left the east side of the road,
crashed into a telephone pole
then veered back onto the
road w;here . it upset. Miss
Gibble was thrown through
the windshield, and the hood
of the overturned car landed
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tent, originality, and delivery
by members of the Lititz Ro­tary
Club. The local winner
will compete in a District con­test
which includes Lancaster
and Chester counties. The Dis­tric
t winner will receive a $50
Savings Bond and be entitled
to enter in the statewide com­petition.
The state winner will
receive a $10 00 Savings Bond.
The top winner in each of
the 50 states will receive a
free trip to Washington, D. C.
next March for the national
awards ceremonies and three
days of activities around the
nation’s capital.
The contest is endorsed by
the U.S. Office of Education.
The National Association of
Secondary - School Principals
(a department of the National
Education Association) , has
placed the Voice of Democracy
Contest on the Approved List
of National Contests and Acti­vities
for 1962-63.
VFW Will Sponsor
Writing Contest For
Voice o f Democray
Warwick H.S. And Linden Hall
Headquarters For Community
Sabin Polio Vaccine Program
An effort will bo made to
have every man, woman and
child in the Lititz-Warwick
area — an estimated 6000
people receive Sabin Oral polio
vaccine in the county-wide
mass immunization program on
November 18 and January 6,
1963. Persons planning to take
advantage of the program must
receive the vaccine on both
dates. Type I will be given on
Sunday, November 18, and
Type II on January 6. The
program is sponsored by the
Lancaster City and County
Medical Society.
The Society recommends
th a t everyone have the vaccine
whether they have had Salk
vaccine or not.
Both Warwick Union High
School and Linden Hal] Col­lege
will serve as the head­quarters
for the administra­tion
of the vaccine, according
to a joint statement issued
by G. Marlin Spaid, supervis­ing
principal of the Warwick
2000 Books
To Be Sold
As Benefit
Book sales will be held this
Friday and Saturday, and
again next Friday and S atu r­day,
October 2 6 and 27, in
the F arm ers’ National Bank
annex on the square. The sales
on Friday will s ta rt a t 10 a.m.
and end a t 9 p.m., and the
Saturday sales are from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
The book sales are spon­sored
by the Fine Arts and
Education Department of the
Lititz Woman’s Club and the
Public Library Board for the
benefit of the library.
Mrs. J. Lloyd Sheaffer, chair­man
of the committee and
Mrs. Edward Rosenqulst, a
member of the Library Board,
are in charge of th e sale. The
following women assisted in
the collection of books, sort­ing,
marking and selling, Mrs.
Garth Becker, Mrs. Gordon E.
Burkey, Mrs. G. Dale Cart-:
wright, Miss Myrtle Eckert,
Mrs. Max E. Hoaster, Mrs.
Jules Klenin, Mrs. G. Martin
Kutz, Mrs. J. William Miksch,
Mrs. Winifred S. Walls, Mrs.
Robert Bender, Mrs. Dennis
Craig, Mrs. Ruth Feldmann,
Mrs. L. W. Greenfield, Mrs.
Bern Angstadt, Mrs. William
Light, and Mrs. •William' Bell.
Posters advertising th e sale
were made by Mrs. Max Hoas­ter,
Mrs. Marlin • Schaffstall
and Bille' Lindeman.
Approximately 2000 books
have been donated for . this
sale including Children’s books,
Teen-age books, histories, re ­ligion,
fiction, many current
novels, encyclopedias, old text
books, copies of the National
Geographic and o th e r maga­zines.
A copy of “A History of L it­itz”
by th e la te Miss Mary
Huebener will also be for sale
at the reta il price. This is by
far the most complete and
authentic history of Lititz
available, one. which will
doubtless become a collector’s
item before long.
List Committee
To Plant Trees
In Springs Park
Dr. Rodney Welch was nam­ed
chairman of a tree com­mittee
to supervise a rep lan t­ing
program in Lititz Springs
Park a t a meeting of the Park
trustees thifj week. Elmer Bom-berger
and M. M. Leid was
named to the committee.
William M. Light, landscape
gardener, said the park is los­ing
about half of its newly
planted large oak trees and
many of the elms have Dutch
Elm disease. There are morf:
than 400 trees in th e /p a rk .
The board authorized the ex­penditure
of up to $300 for
the purchase of new trees.
Mtes Elizabeth Gf ay bill was
appointed to handle park re ­servations
for the year. Prices
will remain the same except
for the North pavilion, which
recently was renovated. It will
cost $20, an increase of $5.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kings-well
visited friends in Torring-ton,
Conn.
Union District, and Dr. Byron
K. Horne, president of Linden
Hall College. The hours will
be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
To faciiitiate the program,
the borough is being divided
into two sortions, with Cedar
Street as the dividing line. All
people living on Cedar Street
are to go to Linden Hall for
their vaccine, and all those liv­ing
east of Cedar Street, in­cluding
the Brunnerville area,
Rothsville are a and Lexington
area, are like wise to go to
Linden Hall.
Those living west of Cedar
Street are to go to Warwick
High School, including people
who live in the Kissel Hill
area, Brickcrville area and
Speedwell Heights.
The Medical Society will
supply two physicians, a p h ar­macist,
one supervising nurse
and six general duty nurses a t
each of the two schools.
In addition, volunteers will
assist the program. At Linden
Hall, members of the staff
will serve as reg istra rs and
students will be volunteer
ushers. At Warwick Union, 16
members of the Woman’s Club
will serve as reg istra rs and 12
members of the- High School
Nurses’ Club will serve as ush­ers.
An effort will be made to
have every man, woman and
child— in • the -Lititz-Warwick’
area — an * estimated 6000
people receive Sabin Oral Po­lio
vaccine in the county-wide
mass immunization program
on November 18 and January
6, 1963. Persons planning to
take advantage, of the program
must receive the vafccine on
both dates. Typé I will be giv­en
on Sunday November 18,
and Type II on Jan u ary 6. The
program is sponsored by the
Lancaster City and County
Medical Society.
Five membere of the Litiiz
Ju n io r Chamber of Commerce,
headed by th e ir » president,
Charles York, attended the
meeting of the Planning Com­mission
lâst night to see what
the Jaycees might b e ab le, to
do to fu rth e r the project of
revitalizing Main stre e t,
York told Chairman Garth
Becker and other members of
the Commission th a t the Jay­cees
will hold a board meeting
tonight and will discuss it. At
the reg u la r Junior Chamber
of Commerce meeting on
Thursday, October 25, thé en-and
will be voted upon by the
tire project w ill. be discussed,
membership. He said th a t all
the merchants In town will
be invited to attend the meet­ing
and 'hear the discussion in
an effort to clarify some points
in the proposal which ap p a r­ently
beve been in doubt.
One of th e points in ques­tion
is ' th a t some merchants
had the impression th a t the,
was ti> be zoned “historical,”
first block of E a st Main Street
which is not so, was empha­sized.
The block will remain
under its present zoining clas­sification.
York said he would like to
have a .representative of the
Planning commission a t the
meeting. Becker replied th a t
he would be gad to go and
expressed th e hope th a t the
other members also would
attend.
When Dr. Milton S. Osborne
was in Lititz a week ago, he
informed his audience th a t
the Curtis Publication had u n ­dertak
en to underwrite the
costs of the study for urban
renovation,, a t a cost of $25
per building. Yotrk said th a t
if the Jaycees agree to under­take
the jobs of promoting the
projects, they would find as
many source of reference
about Lititz as they could,
and would then write to the
Curtis Publishing Company
asking them to make a study
here.
The Jaycees’ p a rt in the
program primarily is to make
a survey of the merchants in
town to see -how many would
be in favor of matting the res­toration
to theiir store »fronts
which would provide a unified,
harmonious appearance. It
The Society recommends
that everyone have th e vac­cine
whether or not they have
had salk vaccine.
Both Warwick Union High
School and Linden Hall Coll­ege
will serve as the head­quarters
for the administra­tion
of the vaccine, according
to a joint statement issued by
G. Marlin Spaid, supervising
principal of the Warwick Un­ion
District, and Dr. Byron
K. Horne, president of Linden
Hall College. The hours will
be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
To faciiitiate the program,
the borough is being divided
into two sections, with Cedar
Street as the dividing line. All
people living on Cedar Street
are to go to Linden Hall for
their vaccine, and those living
oast of Cedar Street, includ­ing
the Brunnerville area,
Rothsville area and Lexington
area, are like wise to go to
Linden Hall.
Those living west of Cedar
Street are to go to Warwick
High School, including people
who live in the Kissel Hill
area, Brickerville area and
Speedweli Heights.
The Medical Society will
supply two physicians, a phar­macist,
one supervising nurse
and six general duty nurses a t
each of the two schools. .. .
In addition, volunteers will
assist the program. At Linden
Hall, members of th e staff
will serve as registra rs and
students will be volunteer us-hers.
At Warwick Union, 16
members of the Woman’s Club
will serve as reg istra rs and 12
members of the High School
Nurses’ club will serve as us­hers.
It is emphasized th a t this
vaccine is not given by injec-
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was said th a t while thpre was
a good deal of enthusiasm
around town for the rejuven­ation
program, none of the
merchants themselves had
made any comments. The ac­tual
restorations would, be
paid for by the merchants
themselves. Dr. Osborne, . in
his talk last week Said th a t
Lititz docs not need much
restoration because the pro­perties
have been well cared
for, and th a t in most cases is
would probably cost about
$150 to make the resporta-tions.
. ; >
In another action, the board
approved a subdivision of four
semi-detached 'buildings on
F ront SUreet to be sold as in­dividual
dwellings by Eugene
Long and Guy D. Bomberger.
Although they do no,t quite
meet zoining requirements the
board approved the plan and
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Community
Calendar
Oct. i s _ 6 : 3 0 P.M. — Lions
Club meeting a t the Sut­te
r Hotel.
7:30 P.M. — Senior Citi­zens
meeting a t th e Re­creation
Center.
7:30 P.M. — PTA meet­ing
- Classroom visitation
a t the Lititz Elementary
School.
d e t. 26—2:00 P.M. — Foot­ball
- Warwick vs. Cocali­co
- Away gamo.
8:00 P.M. — U.S. Naval
Academy Glee Club Spon­sored
by the Lititz Rotary
Club.
Oct.. 22— 8:00 P.M. .— Wo­men’s
Club Flower Show
at the Recreation Center.
Oct. 23— 4:00 P.M. — Hock­ey
- Warwick vs. Donegal
- Home game.
8:00 P.M. — Jaynecees
meeting a t the Recreation
Center.
Oct. 25— 6:30 P.M. — Troop
No. 241 Hallowe’en Party
at the Recreation Center.
7:30 P.M. — Stamp Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
Nov. it— Rolling H i l l s Girl
S c o u t s Neighborhood
meeting.
Jaycees Offer Aid
In Main St. Project