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within Lancaster County; $3.00 elsewhere. 14 Pages — No. 31
Postmaster
Vacancy At
Rothsville
Examinations for the offii e
of Pos tmas ter a t Rothsville
will be held December 4, m
the Lancaster Post Office, it
was announced in Washington
today. The salary is $5,3u
,per year. Applications will 1»
accepted up to the d a te of tin
examination.
Competitors for the post
master vacancy must have .r
least one year of experience
(education above high school
level may be substituted for
six months of experience)
showing th a t they have the
ability to maintain simple re .
cords of accounts or th a t it
has given th em - a knowledge
of postal procedures.
Competitors must also
show th a t they are of good
reputation and th a t they can
meet and deal with the public
agreeably and effectively.
Applicants must tak e a
written test. Those who pass
will be assigned final ratings
on the basis of th is te st and
on the ir experience, and fit­ness
for the position. They
m u st have resided within the
delivery of the office for one
year immediately preceding
.the closing d a te oi the exam,
ination. In addition, they must
have reached th e ir 18 th b irth ­day
on the closing date for
acceptance of applications.
Persons over 70 years of age
cannot be appointed.
Complete information ab­out
the examination and in­structions
for filing applica.
. lions may be obtained a t the
post office for which this ex­amination
is being announced.
Application forrqs must be fil­ed
with the U.S. Civil Service
Commission, Washington, 25,
D.C., and must be received or
postmarked not la ter than the
closing date.
Lebanon TV
To Move To
Lancaster
M rs. William Seal« hard, Jr., president of the P itit/ Wo­man’s
(Tub, presents cheek for $18<>.5<>, representing the pro­ceeds
of the recent Hook Saks to Alfred L. Douple, treasurer
of the Lititz Public Library.
Go. Planning Body
To Sponsor Area
Meeting At Denver
The FCC on Wednesday
November 7, 1962 authorized
WLYH-TV, Channel 15, the
Keystone Group station in Le­banon,
Pa^ to move its main
studio to Lancaster, Pa., it
was announced today by Ro­ger
W. Clipp, Vice-President
for the Triangle Station.
The hew studio will be sit­uated
in the Greist Building
in downtown Lancaster and
will be in operation by Ja n u ­ary
1, 1963.
WLYH-TV yvill continue to
maintain and operate from its
existing studio in Lebanon.
On January 1, 1963 the
CBS TV network will recog­nize
the arrival of the second
/T V operation in Lancaster by
switching its network affili­ation
from WGAL, Channel 8
in Lancaster, to WLYH, Chan­nel
15 in LancasterJLebanon.
With WLYH.TV joining the
CBS TV network the CBS vi­deo
program schedule will,
for the first time, be available
to additional thousands of
homes in the central Penn,
sylvanla area.
The opening of the main
WLYH-TV studio in Lancas­te
r will fu rth e r expand the
services of the Keystone Sta­tions,
WHP-TV in H arris­burg,
WLYH-TV in Lancas.
ter.Lebanon and WSBA-TV in
York, to the central Pennsyl­vania
area.
The Lancaster County P lan ­ning
Commission will sponsor
a meeting of Area 2 tonight
at 7:30 p.m. in the Denver
Borough F ire company build­ing,
Fifth and Main Streets.
The area includes Lititz
borough, Warwick and Eliza­beth
townships, Epharta, Ak­ron,
E p h ra ta township, Den­ver,
Adamstown, East Cocal.
ieo West Cocalico and Clay
township^.
Among the items to be dis­cussed
are rthe Commission’s
recently published population
report, a preliminary presen­ta
tion of findings from the
economy ' study, Community
Planning Services, a prospos.
ed planning school for local
officials, and the need for and
planning of p a rk and recrea­tional
facilities.
In order to prepa re for its
1963 budget and staff require­ments,
the Commission is d e ­sirous
of obtaining an indi­cation
of the number of pos­sible
requests for Community
Planning services next year.
Municipalities anticipating
such requests will be able to
discuss them at these meet­ings.
The Commission is consid­ering
the possibility of con­ducting
a planning school for
local officials early in 19 63.
Professional instructors would
teach a variety of planning
and zoning topics and a small
enrollment fee, if any, might
be anticipated. The course
would generally follow an out­line
prepared by the Public
Service In stitu te of the Penn­sylvania
Department of Public
Instruction and would Consist
of one evening meeting for
from six to eight weeks. In
order to obtain an indication
of the possible number of offi­cials
th a t could be expected
to enroll in such a course,
those attending the area meet­ings
will be asked to express
their interest.
The meeting at Denver is
one of a series being held
(his month.
Book Sales
Nets $186
Newspaper To Be
Received Friday
The Lititz Record-Express
will be received by subscrib­ers
next Friday, because Thurs­day
is the T'nanKsgivmg holi.
day.N
ext week’s paper will be
the kick-off of the Christmas
shopping guide.
School Menu
Monday
Baked sausage, buttered
noodles, limas, half of peach
Tuesday
Home made vegetable
soup, crackers, beef salad
sandwich, popsicle
Wednesday
Ham, string beanä,
slaw, applesauce
cole
Thanksgiving Vacation
The total receipts from the
sale of books for the Lititz
Public Library amounted to
$186.85, according to the re ­port
submitted by th e Fine
Arts and Education Depart­ment
-of the L ititz Woman’s
Club which conducted ‘the
sale. Mrs. J . ’ Lloyd Shaeffer
was in charge.
There were 2500 books
collected for the sale; . 227
placd in the library; and 1873
sold. The 400 books th a t
were left -after th e sale were
taken to the Lebanon Veterans
Hospital.
Wages On
Increase
In Lititz
A survey of wage policies
among employers in the Lititz
area shows th a t the average
sta rting wages have increased
several cents an hour over the
past two years, according to
Borough Manager R. Keith
Armstrong, who made the su r­vey.
T
wenty-six employees were
requested to provide informa­tion
and nineteen replied. A
total of 1,668 employes were
represented in the survey, of
whom 977 were men and 691
were women.
The average sta rtin g wage
for unskilled labor was as fol­lows:
office, men, $1.42 in
1962, $1.39 in 1961 and $1.38
in 1960; office, women, $1.40
in 1962, $1.35 in 1961 and
$1.29 in 1960; factory men,
$1.60 in 1962; $1.54 in 1961,
and $1.43 in 1960; factory,
women, $1.43 in 1962; $1.40
in 1961, and $1.33 in 1960.
Increases are -expected soon,
which could increase the 1962
averages by as. much as 4.2
cents, Armstrong said.
The average monthly tu rn ­over
is estimated at 2.2 per
cent in 1962, as compared with
3 per cent in 1961 and 1.3 per
cent in 19 60.
’Benefits also were surveyed,
and are as follows, with the
corresponding figures for 1961,
where available, in parenthe­ses:
paid vacations, a t least
one week, 99.3 per cent (99.0
per c en t.); two weeks a fte r a
certain length of time, 89.1
per cent (82.0 per c e n t); three
weeks afte r certain length of
c e n t) ; some benefits for sick
leave, 77.4 per cent; (58 per
time, 18.9 per cent (27.0 per
cent).
Paid holidays; a t least four,
97.7 per cent (98.0 per cent)
at least five 93.3 per cent; a t
least six, 90.2 per cent (73.0
per cent) at least seven, 54.5
per cent; a t least eight, 47.0
per cent; a t least nine, 32.4
per cent )33.0 per cent.) Two
and three tenths per cent had
no paid holidays.
Sixty-one per cent of those
replying h a d ' pension plans,
compared with 6 5 per cent in
1961; 75.3 p e r c e n t had some
type of hospitalization or me­dical
plan; 83.7 per cent had
group insurance; 58.7 per cent
had a Christmas bonus; 31.5
per cent had educational bene­fits;
14 per cent birthday bon­us
and 0.9 per cent had profit
sharing plans.
Thanksgiving Day
Service In Churches
Lee O. Dunklo, former Warwick Union music teacher, now
teaching in Japan, is shown at a Rotary club meeting in Tokyo,
Japan. What appears to be a hearing aid in his left ea r actually
is a tran sisto r-tran slato r, so the foreign visitors a t th e meeting
can understand the parts of th e program in the Japanese lan­guage.
Former
Relates
Local Teacher
Life In Japan
What it’s like to attend a
Rotary club meeting in Tokyo
was described by Lee ‘C. Dun­kle,
former Warwick music
teacher, in a le tte r received by
a fellow Rotarian in Lititz.
Dunkle resigned last spring
from th e Warwick Union
High school where he was q
music teacher for six years to
go to Japan under the spon­sorship
of the United Church
of Christ to teach music for
Conservation
Meet Nov, 19
A water shed and conser­vation
meeting wil be held in
the Penryn Fire Hall on Mon­day
a t 7:30 p.m. November
19.
A color-film entitled “Bey
ond Tomorrow’’ will be
shown, depicting the need for
conservation and what is be­ing
done about it in 'Pennsyl­vania.
The film was produced
by the 'Pennsylvania Depart­ment
of Agriculture.
There also will he a panel
or several farmers from the
area who will -discuss th e pros
and cons of conservation as it
is being applied on the ir own
farms. The local county soil
technician, Martin Muth, will
be present to assist in the
program and to answer ques­tions.
A special invitation is ex­tended
to farmers who fee}
they have an erosion problem
on the ir 'farms and would
like to find the solution. The
meeting is open to all in te r­ested
persons. Following the
program snacks will be serv­ed.
Guner Dougherty Wins
Junior Citizen Award
Retailers Name
Loerdier Pres.
Ronald Loercher was elected
president of the Lititz Retail­ers
Association a t a meeting
held Monday night in the S utt­er
Hotel.
Other officers named -include
Robert Trimble, vice president
arid Robert Meek, secretary-treasurer.
Directors elected in­clude
Joseph Gearhart, Pre s­ton
Krebs, Robert G. Campbell
and James Hess, outgoing pre­sident
of 1962.
It was recommened th a t
stores be open every night
until 9 p.m. sta rtin g Friday,
December 7, to December 22
inclusive.
The 45 retailers- present also
discussed the Christmas pro­gram
and lighting. Details will
be announced a t a la ter date.
Plan Civic Dinner
For December 1st
Invitations are being issued
now to the annual Civic Din­ner
to be held this year at
the General Sutter Hotel on
Saturday December 1. <
Attending will be members
of 'Borough Council and all
the -commissions, boards and
committees which work with
Council. Wives of the mem­bers
also will attend. The ev­ent,
is strikly social; the re will
be no speeches or other for-
-mality.
Miss Guner Dougherty, four­teen,
of Warwick Union Junior
High School, was selected from
her school to receive the “Ju n ­ior
Citizen” award from the
Lancaster Optimist clubs.
The awards were made to
representatives from junior
high schools throughout the
city and county a t the -dinner
meeting of the Optimist
club Tuesday, November 13 in
the Hotel Brunswick.
Each of the 20 Junior citi­zens
received an award in­scribed
with his or her name
and the name of the school.
The candidates were chosen
from the ninth grades of all
the schools by the faculties.
Miss Dougherty is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ad
dison Gery, Lititz R l. She is
a member of the Ju n io r High
orchestra and glee club, a par
ticipant in the Ju n io r High
Dramatic club, and was secre­tary
of her class in the eighth
grade. She received the Ameri­can
Legion Medal in the 8 th
grade.
Clair R. Mc'Collogh, presi­dent
of WGAL, Inc., was the
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Adult Dance
At Rec. Center
An ad u lt dance will be held
a t th e Recreation 'Center on
February 2, it was announced
following a board meeting
this week.
Teen-agers are asked to
wear winter dress for the ir
Saturday night -dances from
now on. Suits or sports coats
and ties are required.
The board asked persons
who -call the center to use the
number 626-5096, because one
of the other iphones listed it
a -pay -phone not in the office.
Groups are asked to consult
the Community calendar be­fore
planning activities.
Guner Dougherty
principal speaker and pre­sented
the awards in behalf
of the combined Optimist
clubs of Lancaster city and
county.
Sabin Vaccine
Program Sunday
The Sabin Oral Vaccine will
be given a t Warwick High
School and a t Linden Hall on
Sunday, from 11 a.m. to
p.m.
Those who are going to the
Warwick High School to re­ceive
their medication are
asked to park on the gymnas­ium
area, G. -Marlin Spaid, the
supervising principal, request­ed
today. This is adjacent to
Orange 'Street, west oif the
building. People are asked to
come in the west door of the
gymnasium lobby.
The -circle in fro n t of the
school will be reserved for
doctors, nurses and other as­sistants.
, The (program is sponsored
by the Lancaster City and
County Medical Society, which
hopes to -get every resident
the Warwick area to take the
vaccine. This would be around
6000 people.
three years in a girls’ college.
Dunkle attended a Rotary
meeting in Tokyo where a
picture was taken of each vis­iting
Rotarian. In the -picture
he is wearing a tran sisto r ea r­phone,
“with the rest of the
gadget in my pocket.” The
rest of the outfit is resting on
the middle of the taJble.
‘Many of the tables had
them and foreigners were thus
furnished -with instantaneous
translations of all Japanese
parts of the meeting. As yet
haven’t made sufficient pro­gress
with my language to be
able to carry on an intelligent
conversation. However I now
can ta lk to the barber and the
girl a t the corner flower
shop.”
MANY VISITORS
Dunkle says the re jverq
many visitors a t the meeting,
including several Germans
who were interested in the
names Lititz and Manheim.
There was a California pastor
who knew th e president of the
Lancaster ‘Seminary. Also pre­sent
was an American repre­sentative
of Rotary In te rn a ­tional,
who brought appro­priate
greetings — in a Vir­ginia
drawl, no less. The pro­gram
featured a classification
talk ‘by a Tokyo 'banker. Ju st
like Lititz, they work on a
time schedule and the poor
guy had little time left after
the Virginian was finished
with his message from the
President! The members of
the Tokyo club are obviously
in a wealthy bracket, as wit­nessed
-by th e fact th a t many
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CHURCH OF THE
BRETHREN
The Lititz Church of the
Brethren, 300 West. Orange
Street, will have the annual
Thanksgiving Day service on
Thursday, November 22 a t 9
a.m. The Rev. Olden D. Mit­chell
will present the -message
on the theme “O Give Thanks
Unto the Lord.” He will he
assisted a t the service by John
K. Graybill and Henry II.
Gibbel, members of the Board
of Administration of the local
church.
There will be Thanksgiving
hymns by the congregation and
special music will be presented
by Miss Jean Seachrist, soloist,
accompanied by Mrs. James
Shank, organist. Mrs. Shank
will play a Prelude and Post-lude,
“Now Thank We All Our
God” by Beethoven.
Mel Ehrin
To Play For
Club Women
Mel Ehrin, pianist from
York, will 'present the pro­gram
a t 'the meeting of the
Woman’s Club on Monday
evening, Nov. 19 a t 8 p.m. in
the music room a t Linden
Hall.
Mr. Ehrin played 1600 pro­grams
from 1954 to 1957 in
high schools, colleges, and
Community -concerts in the
United States, Canada, and
MORAVIAN CHURCH
The Moravian Church will
have a Harvest Home service
on Thanksgiving morning at
9:30 a.m. wilh gifts of food,
garden produce, canned goods,
etc., for the Moravian Home.
Members are requested to
please place these gifts in the
Preparation room on Wednes­day.
The Rt. Rev. Allen W.
Schattschneider will preach on
the theme “The Grace of Grati­tude",
and Hie senior choir
will sing the anthem “ Prayer
of Thanksgiving” , a Nether­lands
Folk Song.
ST. LUKE’S
The St. Luke’s United
Church of Christ will hold
the ir Thanksgiving service on
Wednesday November 21 a t
:30 p.m.. The Rev. Robert
Myers will preach the sermon
and the Children’s choir, di­rected
by Mrs. William Haz-lett,
will make their initial ap­pearance
and sing “Come Ye
Thankful Come”.
TRINITY E. C.
The Young People of the
Trinity Evangelical Congrega­tional
Church will hold a
Thanksgiving Day Breakfast a t
7:30 a.m. in the Social Room
of the church with the ir advis­ors,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weav­er,
Lititz R. D. 2. The theme
will be “F ath e r We Thank
Thee". A trio, including, Pame­la
Horsey, Leslie Shreiner and
Gail Grube will sing. Others
participating will include Gail
Evans, Mary Van Brookhaven,
Charles Hornberger, and Mrs.
Weaver, who will speak on
The Rock of the Pilgrims”
based on Deut. 32:4.
Donald Stauffer will be the
chef.
EUR CHURCH
Tiie E. U. B. Church will
hold a service of Thanksgiv­ing
and Holy Communion on
Thursday, November 22 a t
9:30 a.m. The Senior Choir
will sing and ithe Rev. F ran k
A. Nickel will preach on the
theme “Living in .Thank»*
giving” .
Farmers’ National
Lengthens Service
Extended banking hours Will
be provided during the holi­day
season by the F armers’
National Bank, it was an­nounced
today by bank offi­cials.
Effective November 19, the
b ank’s drive-in windows will
be open until 5 p.m.,_for the
transaction of business. The
bank officials pointed out the
convenient location of the win­dows
also makes it possible
for walk-up customers, as well
as those in cars, to use this
service.
The new banking hours
were announced as a result of
the recent survey taken by the
Jaycees, which indicated a
need for longer banking hours.
Therefore the hoard of direc­tors
voted to provide -the ex­tended
services.
F arm ers’ National officials
stressed the importance of the
need for local businesses to
work together to stimulate
business in Lititz, and to pro­vide
the best possible facili­ties
for the shopping public.
“Banking is changing, ju st
as other businesses change,”
an official said, “ and banks
must adjust to keep in step
with the times. We want to
serve the people and the busi­ness
community of Lititz and
to fulfill th e ir needs insofar
as we are able.
Tickets Now
Available For
Testimonial
Plans have been completed
and tickets are now available
to the public for th e te sti­monial
program honoring the
Warwick Warriors, their cokeh-es
led by head coach, ^ tan
Schoenberger and the parents
of the players. The program
will be held a t 8 p.m. Wed­nesday,
November 21 in the
Warwick High School Audi­torium.
The program will be in
charge of the well known fe r­mer
Lititz 'High ¡School grad
uate, Marvin E. Miller, who
will act as Master of Cere­monies.
P h ilad e lp h ia’ Eagles Foot,
ball star, Pete Retzlaff will
be the featured speaker.
> The High School Band un­der
the , direction of Henry C.
Steiner and Miss Johanne
¡Smith’s Varsity Cheerleaders
will be on hand to add spec­ial
zest to the program.
Complimentary tickets for
the program have been sent
out to the honored guests and
interested team supporters
can now obtain the ir tickets
for a donation of ,$1 a t the
following locations: Bell’s
Book Store, Benner’s P h a r­macy,
Dick’s Restaurant, E rb ’s
Service Station, ’ Brunnerville,
Glassmyers, McElroy’s P h a r­macy,
Stroble’s Barber Shop.
Students may obtain tickets
at the High School by con­tacting
George R. ‘Male,
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Mel Ehrin
Hawaii. Last year he took
leave of absence to play 130
concerts in the New England
States, New Jersey and Penn­sylvania.
He received his B. S. in
Music Education from Indiana
College, Pa., and his Masters
a t Carnegie Tech. He taught
music in the P ittsb u rg h pu'b
lie schools, Rochester, N. 14
Mid-Pacific In stitu te, Homo
lulu and is presently director
of vocal music in William
Penn high school a t York.
Mr. Ehrin has -a rare talent
for harmonizing classics and
modern style. His captivating
enthusiasm and creative pia
no provide a refreshing pro­gram
of exhilarating enter­tainment.
Schooled in the classics,
with a Masters Degree in Mus­ic,
Mr, Ehrin has enjoyed
years of teaching young peo­ple
and has won acclaim from
a wide variety of concert a u ­diences
across the country,
Hawaii and Canada, perform­ing
University concerts, Com.
munity programs, night club
and hotel dates, radio and
TV programs A masterful
music educator, exciting pian­ist
and entertainer, he has
developed a gifted facility for
stimulating audience partici­pation
in the wonderful fun
of making and enjoying mus­ic
together.
Whether playing one of his
own jazz improvisations on a
popular theme, performing a
classic, or “ breaking up” his
audience with his hilarious
parody of performers’ musical
styles, Mel Ehrin presents
piano pagentry a t its best, sen­sitive
classics and light com­edy.
He will be introduced by
Mrs. Howard Moore.
Mrs. ‘Donald Ranriels and
Mrs. Gordon O. Trump will
serve as hostesses and Mrs.
E. William Jaede, Jr., will
read the collect.
Youth Arrested
For Recklessness
Warren Shirk, sixteen, 15
W. Maple Ave., Lititz, will be
prosecuted by Police Chief
George Hicks before Squire
Dielun for reckless driving as
a result of an accident Novem­ber
11, a t 1:05 p.m.
¡Shirk was headed east on
East Main St., when he stopp­ed
a t the intersection of Lo­cust
St. to back and tu rn
around. Reba Rosenberg, Boy-ertown
R2, was approaching
the intersection at Locust St.,
and stopped a t the stop sign,
waiting to enter the highway.
When she saw Shirk 'backing
his car, she sounded her horn,
but Shirk apparently didn’t
see or hear her and backed
into her car, causing $189 da­mage
to it, according to Chief
Hicks.
Open House Held
At Warwick High
Open House was held Tues­day
night at the Warwick Un­ion
High school in observance
of American Education Week.
Parents were given an oppor­tunity
to visit the classrooms
and visit with .the teachers.
Pupils in the d istric t had
a holiday yesterday when sch­ools
were closed because of
■the annual County Institute
for the teachers.
TURKEY SUPPER
The Young Men’s Business
League will hold a turkey
supper on Monday, Dec. 10 at
the League. John Burkholder
and Robert Mearig will be in
charge.
Community
Calendar
Nov. 15— 7:30 P.M. — Sen­ior
Citizens meeting a t the
Recreation Center.
8:00 P.M. — Lititz PTA
meeting a t the Elemen­tary
School.
Nov. Hi— 8:00 P.M. — Senior
Class Play at the Warwick
Union High School.
Nov. 17— 8:00 P.M. — Senior
Class Play a t the Warwick
Union High School.
Nov. 1»— 8:0.0 P.M. — Sports­men
Club meeting.
Nov. 20— 8:00 P.M. — New­comers
Club meeting at
the Recreation Center.
Nov. 21— 6:30 P.M. — ABC
meeting at Evans Restau­rant,
Manheim.
8:00 P.M. — Celebration
for the Warwick Football
team at the High School
auditorium.
Nov. 22 — Happy Thanksgiv­ing.