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86th Tear Batabllahed April, 1877, aa The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Iiltltz Beeord, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, September 6, 1962 7 centa a Copy; $3.00 per year by mall
within Iiancaater County; $3.50 elsewhere. 14 Pages — No. 21
Retailers Give Away
Barbecued Chicken
It’s shopping time in Lititz
— and to emphasize that,
there is no better place to
shop than at home this week
end as the Retailers Associa­tion
is holding a Chicken
Jamboree.
This week end, not only will
you save by buying high quali­ty
Lititz merchandise — at
low overhead prices — but
retailers are throwing in
chicken for the family too!
For every $1.50 or more
you spend in Lititz this Thurs­day,
Friday or Saturday the
Lititz Retailers Association is
)oing to give you a ticket for
Weaver's barbecued chicken.
So check the ads — then
shop Lititz — and save two
ways.
All of the participating mer­chants
will be advertising in
this issue of the Record —
check the ads — then come on
down town and shop.
Then take the tickets to the
Lititz Springs Park between
12 noon and 6 p.m. on Satur­day
— and pick up your
chicken. While you’re there
be sure to take in the In­dustrial
Exhibition sponsored
by the Jaycees.
Remember — with every
$1.50 or more you spend in
Lititz this Thursday, Friday
or Saturday you get a ticket
for barbecued chicken.
And the tickets can. be re­deemed
at the Park from noon
to 6 p.m. on Saturday.
Mrs. Smith Joins
Record-Express
Miss Susan Breakfield, who
has served with the Lititz
Record-Express for the past
f i f t e e n m o n th s , has
resigned to take a position in
the advertising department of
the Transcript Telegram, Holy­oke,
Mass.
Her place has been taken by
Mrs. Margaret L. Smith, of
216 Buch Avenue, Lancaster,
who was a reporter for the
Lancaster Newspapers for 24
years. While there Mrs.
Smith won numerous awards
for newswriting in contests
sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Women’s Press Association.
In 1944 she was first prize
winner in the Associated Press
newsphoto contest for the
state of Pennsylvania.
ABCD’s To Have Varied
Program Next Season
The A. B. C. D.’s will hold
-their first meeting of the fall
-Season on Friday, Sept. 7, at
8 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Wilbur Neff, Lancaster. This
will be a business and organ­ization
meeting and the group
will decide what civic projects
they will work on this year.
Several of their monthly
programs were announced as
follows, The October meeting
will feature a Hobo Party in
Behmer’s Barn with the A- B.
C.’s; the December meeting
will be held at the home of,
.Mrs. Betty Griswold when the
subject will be Christmas Dec­orations
and there will he an
exchange of gifts.
There will be no meeting in
January but a card party will
be held in February for mem­bers
and quests at the Rec­reation
Center. The subject
for April will be "Mental
Health” and the meeting will
Melvin Erb. A hobby & past-
- time show will be held in May
/at the home of Mrs. Robert
Hess.
The mother-daughter meet­ing
will be held in June at
the Recreation Center and a
Theater Party will be held in
Mount Gretna in July. The
group will hold a family pic­nic
with the A. B. C. D.’s in
August in the Springs Park.
The new officers include,
Mrs. Robert Derek, president;
Mrs. Elwood Zug, vice-pres­ident;
Mrs. Dale Shelley, sec­retary;
and Mrs. Henry Ros3,
treasurer.
Mrs. Derek appointed the
following committees,
¡Program, Mrs. Betty Zug
with Mrs. Doris Neff, co-chair­man,
Mrs. Betsy Scatchard,
Mrs. Pauline Ritz, Mrs. Ruby
Hess and Mrs. Griswold; mem­bership,
Mrs. Joan Darling­ton;
publicity, Mrs. Lois Ed-son;
telephone, Mrs. Lois Ross,
Mrs. Carolyn Morgan, Mrs.
- Sue Hodgson, Mrs. Ruth Wolf,
^ Mrs. Esther Yotter, Mrs. Vera
Hoaster.
Sunshine, Mrs. Janet Coat­es;
social, Mrs. Loretta Erb,
with Mrs. Betty Rosenberg,
co-chairman, Mrs. Mary Binge-man,
Mrs. Rosanna Buch, Mrs.
Annabel Ebbert, Mrs. Yvonne
Bomberger, Mrs. Doris Stoner,
Mrs. Irene Ross, Mrs. Jean
Herr, Mrs. Betty Saus, Mrs.
Grace Miller, Mrs. Patricia
Buckwalter, Mrs. Irene Weiler,
Mrs. Dorothy Searles, Mrs.
Patricia Sensenig.
Scrap Book, Mrs. Ruby
Hess; Year . Book,. Mss. Lois
Edson, Mrs. Derek; decora­tion,
Mrs. Mary Lee Fevre,
and Mrs. Norman Wike co-chairman,
Mrs. Joan Williams,
Mrs. June Shelley, Mrs.Olivia
Ross, Mrs. Marian Weaver,
and Mrs. Janet Kepner.
Bi-centennial
Committee To
Hold Meeting
Alfred L. Douple, president
of the Lititz Bicentennial
Foundation, Inc., has an­nounced
a special meeting of
the organization.
The meeting, scheduled for
8 p.m., Tuesday, September
18, in the Lititz Recreation
Center, will be for the purpose
of considering proposals to
amend the Articles of Incor­poration
and bylaws, Douple
said.
Proposed amendments in­clude
the following; 1, to
change the name to Lititz
Historical Foundation, Inc.;
2, to change certain purposes
of the corporation; 3, to limit
the purposes of the corpora­tion
to exempt purposes of or­ganizations
as set forth in
Section 301 (c) (3) of the
Internal Revenue Code and its
Regulations; 4, to provide up­on
dissolution of the corpora­tion
for distribution of its as­sets
exclusively for such ex­empt
purposes; 5, to provide
for an audited report an­nually
to the corporate au
thorities of the Borough of
Lititz, and 6, for the publica­tion
of an annual audited re­port
in at least one news­paper
of general circulation in
the Borough of Lititz.
Douple said the meeting is
open for consideration of the
proposed changes and for such
other amendments as may be
proposed, and such other busi­ness
as may come before the
meeting.
R ID IN G HIGH IN THE SADDLE
Walter Roland, ldft, and John Snyder, right, have been
the object of quite a few stares in town this month as they
tried out their new “bike's”. Jerc Bucliter, center, made the
bikes for the boys during his spare time. Buehter estimates the
bikes, wliicli seat the rider about six feet of terra firma, cost
about $25 to build, discounting parts. ...... -............... ...............
Old Gas Station On
North Broad Street
To Be Torn Down
Warwick Union Schools Open
With Record Enrollment - 2865
Warwick Union Schools
opened yesterday with a re­cord
enrollment of 2865 pupils,
highest in the history of the
district, according to G. Mar­lin
Spaid, supervising princi-pal.
E
nrollment in the high
school is 1135 or 65 more than
last year, and elementary
pupils number 1730 about 35
more than last year a total
gain of 100 pupils.
The teaching staff has been
increased by nine new teach­ers,
making a total of 125
teachers to take care of the in­creased
enrollment. Fifty-seven
teach in the high school and
68 in the elementary schools.
As a special friendly touch,
Student Council members plac-
Police Prosecute
Two Motorists
A local motorist will be
prosecuted for ignoring a stop
sign and causing an accident,
it was announced today by
Chief of Police George Hicks.
Carl D. Kreiner, 215 Lea-man
Street, was arrested Sun­day
by Officer H. Lloyd Long,
who said Kreiner was going
south on Oak Street and fail­ed
to stop at the stop sign be­fore
entering E. Main St. Ac­cording
to police, Kreiner came
into the path of an auto
operated by Kenneth E. Bink­ley,
Lititz R. D. 4, causing a
collision between the two ve­hicles.
No one was injured and
total damage was $ 7 0 ,'police
said.
Faces Prosecution
John Bomberger, Lititz ,R2,
was arrested at 9:25 p.m. Sept­ember
2, oh S. Broad St., by
Officer James Lucas. He will
be prosecuted for driving too
fast for conditions and pass­ing
over an intersection.
Rotarians Hear
Ensign Clark
Ensign Joseph A. Clark, a
Rotary Foundation Fellow, was
the main speaker at the Tues­day
night meeting of the Lit­itz
Rotary club.
Ensign Clark, just returned
from one year of study at
Goettingen University, Goet­tingen,
Germany, was granted
special leave from the U.S.
Navy so thaf-tre -could accept
the fellowship offered by Ro­tary.
The speaker’s .father,
Howard E. Clark, is a mem­ber
of the Rotary Club of
Lancaster.
Saadat Hasam Chief of Press
and Public Liasion, Arab States
Delegations Office, New York
will be the featured speaker at
the September 11 meeting of
the Lititz club.
Saadat Hasan was born in
a small village near Jerusalem
and received his early school­ing
at the American Friends
Boy’s School in Ramallah.
He came to the United States
in 1949 and graduated from
the- Illinois Institute of Tech­nology
with a degree in Chemi­cal
Engineering.
He established and directed
the Chicago branch of the
Arab Information Center until
I960, when he was transferred
to the New York headquarters
as Chief of Press and Public
Liasion.
He has lectured and ap­peared
on television through­out
the country and has ap­peared
in many journals in the
U.S. and the Middle East. He
speaks fluently in both Eng­lish
and Arabic.
After more than two months
of agitation by the Lititz
Borough Council, it appears
that the unused building on
North Broad Street along the
Reading Railroad tracks may
soon be torn down.
At the July meeting of
Council the Reading Railroad
Company was requested to re­move
the building which had
become an eyesore, a health
hazard and a hangout for va­grants.
When no action was taken
by the August meeting, Coun­cil
voted to write a letter to
the railroad company saying
that if the building were not
cleaned up within 10 days of
receipt of the letter charges
would be brought against own­ers
of the property.
Since the August meeting,
Elmer R. Shiffer, 503 State St.,
Ephrata, has notified the boro
office that he is negotiating
with a contractor to remove
the building.
Shiffer, who holds a lease
on the property, said he had
not disposed of the building
which was formerly a service
station, • because some 6f the
national oil companies had ex­pressed
interest in operating a
service station on the premises.
Since the oil companies no
longer express interest in the
site, Shifljer reports he . will
cancel his lease with the Read­ing
Railroad at the end of his
30 day /lease cancellation
period if his negotiations with
the contractor result in the
building being torn down.
lohn lootf'Writes Story
On Mesmerism For Retord
LITITZ WCTU TO MEET
The September meeting of
the Lititz WCTU will be held
in the Craft room at the Rec­reation
Center on Monday,
September 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Department directors will be
appointed tor the coming year.
Officers will be installed.
Registrars To Sit
In Boro Saturday
A special voter registra­tion
session lias been sche­duled
for Saturday after­noon
in the Lititz fire hull.
Registrars will sit in the
boro from 12 noon until 9
p.m. on September 8 to
register residents from Lititz
and surrounding areas.
PLAN HARP CONCERT
A benefit harp concert by
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Du Fais,
will be held Saturday, Sept.
15, 1962 in the Ephrata High
School auditorium at 8 p.m.
The program is sponsored by
the Historical Society of Co­calico
Valley for the renova­tion
of the recently purchased
Connell home at 249 W. Main
St., Ephrata, into the Ephrata
Public Library.
AMONG THE SICK
Miss Patsie Leonard is a
surgical patient at the Osteo­pathic
Hospital.
Russell Galebach is a med­ical
patient at the Lancaster
General Hospital.
1962 MIDGET CH AM P IO N S
Yankees line up to be counted after winning the Midget Championship. Seen, 1. to r.,
are, front row, fmrt-y Gordley, Rick Sipe, Jeff Hornberger, Ralph Bair and Jim Davidson,
coach; bark row, Jim Siebert, Neal Sheneberger, Ed Nixdorf, Steve Keller, and Barry Dull,
Ed. note: Very often we
are reminded at the Record
office that the paper which
goes to print every week is
¡the result of several generat­ions
of work. Not all of the
reminders are gentle ones—
but this one was a joy to re­ceive.
From Ethel Becky Zook,
daughter of the former own­er
of the Express, we received
an article written by her
father.
She writes: “My Father
wrote the article but it is
about his father, also John
Zook; who died in 18 80. So
I never saw him. He lived in
Lititz a short time, in house
No. 22-24-26 E. Main; which
home he had built. Before
that he had lived with his
family on a farm near Landis
Valley. It was there that the
mesmerizing took place. He
died a few years after moving
here.”
Ethel found ¡the article
while going through her per­sonal
papers at the Moravian
Home.
MESMERISM
Those who have seen sub­jects
used by the performers
of the mystic art can not ex­plain
the method, but could
not deny some facts related by
the subjects.
While I was a 'student at
the Millersville State Normal
School, one of my classmates
spent a week with me during
one summer vacation. ¡He was
Milton J. Brecht, who later
became County Superintendent,
Railroad Commissioner and
member of the Public Service
Commission. Also my bro­ther-
in-law, as w!e married
sisters.
On different occasions my
father used Jacob Hacken-berger,
a blind man, who was
frequently aj ¡guest at our
house, as a subject for his
performance of Mesmerism.
He was his best subject.
Father said he could not use
me and never suggested about
teaching me the mystic art.
He refused to use many, who
had a desire to benefit throu­gh
the experience.
One summer day father
wanted to get some informat­ion
about my uncle Henry
wlio had a farm and saw mill
at Lost Creek, Juniata Coun­ty.
I had been at the place
when about 14 years of age
on a visit with father and was
there a week, helping some in
sawing locust posts, ¡and hav-
High Award Is Shared
By Miss Nina Stroble
Miss Nina Stroble, who gra­duated
from the University of
Pennsylvania School of Nurs­ing
last Thursday, was co-
Winner of the White Award
for highest general averages.
The award carried with it a
substantial cash amount. The
other winner was Miss Mary
Louise Haddock of Folcroft,
Pa. Miss Stroble is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stroble
and is a graduate of the War­wick
Union High School, class
of 19 59 when she was the ro-cipent
of a Bobst award.
She served as president of
her class at the University
and also was co-editor of the
Class Year Book. She will en­ter
Elizabethtown College next
week where she will work for
her degree in nursing and
serve as school nurse.
The following attended the
Commencement exercises from
town, Mr. and Mrs. Stroble,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rader,
Nina Stroble
Miss Joan Riehl, Miss Vivian
Hotter; Miss Kathy Clarke,
Millersville; and John Miller,
Jr., Pennsville, N.J.
New Recreation Head
Assumes His Duties
ing a fine time with cousin
John, Jacob, Mary and Mattie.
Mr. Brecht, myself and a
couple others were present
in the room. Father seated
himself in front of Mr. H. and
•took hold of his hands and
was soon asleep or in a trance.
He then said to Jacob now
we will start on our journey”
and Jacob replied that, he was
ready. As they traveled west­ward
he asked Jacob to tell
what he saw, which was the
Susquehanna River, Harris­burg,
Juniata River, and fin­ally
arrived at uncle Henry’s.
Jacob had never seen the
place, but he described it cor­rectly.
He found uncle Henry
and when .he had secured the
information sought they start­ed
on the return journey.
Arriving at home he was
asked to look around the room
and state if he saw anyone in
the room. He replied he saw
two young men. Ask the
taller one his name and Jacob
said he says his name is Bre­cht.
Ask him if he ever
thought about getting married
and his reply was “Oh, all
young men sometimes think of
that.” Mr. B. had not uttered
a word but he afterwards said
that is about what he would
have said. After putting a
few questions to me father
clapped his 'hands and Jacob
woke up with a start, stretch­ed
himself and yawned.
There is something never
satisfactorily explained. 1
looked up in the cyclopedia
everything said about Mesmer­ism,
Animal Magnetism, Clair­voyance,
etc. It was about
the year 1915 when in New
York City overnight I stopped
in a theatre one evening on
Broadway and the only thing
I remember about it is an act
in which a fellow “Mesmer­ized”
about half ¡a dozen
subjects in such a way ¡that
they were like clay in a pot­ter’s
hands. He cofild do all
sorts of tricks with them.
John G. Zook
son
of John Zook
The fall program of the I.
Walton Bobst Recreation Cen­ter
will follow the same gen­eral
lines as have been esta­blished,
it, was announced to­day
by Lee F. Raffensperger,
new director.
Raffensperger assumed his
duties on September 1, coming
here from Gettysburg where
he was director of recreation
for two years. He is a gra­duate
of Towanda High School,
1952, and the Pennsylvania
ed an apple on the desk of
every teacher* with the greet­ing:
“Welcome Back.”
Police Chief Hicks issued an
appeal to all motorists to drive
very carefully, now that
schools are open again. Fif­teen
- mile - an - hour warning
signs have been posted in the
vicinity of the schools in the
borough.
The "old" teachers held a
picnic supper last night in
honor of the new teachers
who have joined the staff.
School board members also
were honor guests. The picnic,
originally planned for Lititz'
Springs Park, was held in the
high school cafeteria instead,
because of the weather. A
total of 165 persons attended,
including the teachers, board
members and their husbands
and wives.
Robert Alspach was chair-!
man of the committee in.
charge, which included: Mrs.
Hazel Moore, Miss Connie
Wdgner, Karl Wagner, Miss
Joanne Smith, Richard Pohner
and Mrs. Iris Hoffman. ,
Lee F. Raffensperger
State University, i9 6 0 ,'having
served in the U.S. Navy for
four years after graduation
from high school.
* Raffensperger said he will
announce specific activities at
a later date.
Meanwhile, the Nursery
School will' start Tuesday,
September 18, and will be held
from 9 to 11 a.m. every Tues­day
and Thursday. Mrs, Lois
Ross will be teacher. It is
hoped to have a second class
on Wednesdays and Fridays.
There are still openings for
this class, the new director
said, and the beginning date
can be established when the
class is filled.
Reservations for the use of
rooms at the Center for meet­ings
and various activities can
be made by calling the secre­tary
at the center.
Raffensperger said yesterday
he had found a home at 311
EaBt Second Avenue, and will
move there next Monday, Sept­ember
10. He and his wife,
Janice, have two children,
Karen, two and a half, and
Laura, one year old.
The new director is a mem­ber
of the Pennsylvania Park
and Recreation Association,
the American Recreation As­sociation
and the National Re­creation
Association.
RETURNED HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin For­rest
returned on Montjiy
after spending ten days at
Wildwood Crest, N. J. 'Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Earhart and dau­ghters,
Cheryl and Virginia
and Mr. and Mrs. Barry Zim­merman
and son, Brian, spent
the week-end at Wildwood.
Mayor Griswold
To Cut Ribbon
At McElroy’s
A ribbon cutting ceremony
will signal the official re­opening
of one of Lititz’s old­est
business places.
Sporting a completely re­novated
storeroom and en­trance,
Mcfilroy’s Pharmacy
will officially reopen at 12:30
Saturday when Mayor Arthur
Griswold officiates at a ribbon
cutting ceremony.
Particularly interesting is
the colonial-style architecture
at the entrance of the store.
Members of the Lititz Histori­cal
Society will also be on hand
at the ceremonies. The society
Welcome Wagon Club
To Hold Activities
The Welcome Wagon Club
for the Newcomer Couples pin­ochle
card party will be held
this Saturday evening starting
at 8:30 p.m. at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fenster-machor,
413 Laurel Ave.
A Coffee Chatter will also
be held on Tuesday evening at
the September 11 meeting be­ginning
at 8 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Charles Edson, New
Haven Drive, Lititz R'3, MA
6-2679. Co-hostess will be Mrs.
Janet Bowman.
is promoting restoration of
buildings in the area to make
Lititz more attractive as a
tourist center.
However, the outside of the
building is only a small part
of the job of renovation which
includes the entire store. A
new floor, display cases and
modern lighting make the
store one of th e 1 most up-to-date
in the area.
Industrial Exhibit
All Set For Today
Twenty Lititz industries will
exhibit their products in the
Lititz Jaycee’s Industrial ex­hibition
which opens today to
continue through Saturday, in
the I. Walton Bobst Recrea­tion
Center.
Highlighting the event will
be the crowning of Miss Selina
Cox as Miss Lititz of 1963, by
Miss Mary Jane Hill, Miss Lan
caster County of 1962. This
will be the opening ceremony
of the entire celebration, tak
ing place at 6:45 p.m.
Mayor Arthur Griswold,
M.D., will cut the ribbon lead­ing
to the exhibits, after vari­ous
dignitaries have been in­troduced.
Saturday afterndon the Fen-cibles
will present an exciting
re-enactment of a Civil War
battle on the Lititz Recreation
Center parking lot.
Standpipe Story
Reprinted In
Nat’l Magazine
Lititz boro’s toppling stand*'
pipe was in the news again
last week, but this time on a
national scale.
In the current issue of “The
American City” magazine is a
complete story of the demise
and fall of the old landmark
which came to a dignified end
earlier this summer.
Borough Manager, R. Keith
Armstrong, with descriptive
words and a series of six pic­tures
of the process, told how
the standpipe was severed
from its base with acetylene
torches and gently toppled onto
the turf just east of the new
swimming pool.
The magazine, which goes
to borough managers and other
persons interested in municipal
governments all over the Unit­ed
States featured the story on
two full pages.
In a draruatih series Of pic*
tures, the standpipe totters
from the purpendiculars ap­pears
to be crashing down on
the scorer’s booth, and finally
lies at rest in a cloud of dust,
Armstrong explained that thé
process saved the boro near­ly
$4,0(Mi over the cost of
dismantling the standpipe.
Cloister Associates
To Hear Historian
An additional performance
of the musical pageant “Vor*
spiel”, last in the 1962 series,
will be held at Ephrata CloiS*
ter, Ephrata, Saturday, Sept*
ember 8 at 8:30 p.m., follow­ing
the annual meeting of
Ephrata Cloister Associates,
sponsors of the pageant. Nò
tours will be offered that even­ing.
Speaking at the annual
meeting, which starts at 6:30
p.m., will be Dr. S. K. Stevens,
Executive Director of the
Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, adminis­trators
of the Cloister proper­ty.
Awards will be presented
to the Junior Guides who as­sisted
at the Cloister this
summer. G. R. Klinefelter,
president of Ephrata Cloister
Associates, will preside.
County WCTU
Will Convene
The Lancaster County WC-TtJ
Convention will be held
in the ¡Evangelical Church.
South 9th St*, Akron, on
Thursday, September 13, With
afternoon and. evening ses­sions.
The Rev. Olden Mitchell
will be the guest speaker at
the evening session at 7;30
p.m. Mrs. Naomi Smith and Mrs.
John Mohler are county Offi­cers
and will attend a business
session of the convention on
Thursday morning.
LIONS CLUB TO MEET
The Lions Club will hold
the first in-door meeting of
the season this evening at
6:30 p.m. at the General
Sutter Hotel. Ray Mullen,
head of the driver training
course at Milleirsville State
Teachers College will be the
speaker and Forbes Emsweller,
the president, will preside. .
A meeting of the board Of
directors will follow at the
Hotel.