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(Consolidated with The X.ltlt> Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, November 29, 1962 7 oanta a Copy; $3.00 par year by mall
within Lancaster County; $3.50 elsewhere. 12 Pages No. 33
North Broad Street
To Be Rebuilt?
State Says “Maybe”
A fourteen-year-old battle
on the p art of the borough
to get the state to reconstruct
¡North Broad Street appears
about to be won, according to
unofficial assurances given
Borough Manager R. Keith
Armstrong when he was in
Harrisburg on Tuesday. Arm­strong
reported this to bor­ough
council a t its meeting
last night.
Armstrong went over the
-lan s with the director of De-
,.gn Division of the District
Highway Office, and was given
an unofficial guess th a t the
work will be done in the
'Spring or early Summer. The
sta te has made a preliminary
study which indicates th a t not
much of the curb will need
replacing, nor will sidewalks
need repacing, except when in
bad condition. Property own­ers
would be responsible for
replacement of curbs, similar
to the Main Street reconstruc­tion.
No estimate of the cost has
yet been made, Armstrong
said. The sta te will pay for
the construction of the street,
which is a portion of Route
501, and the borough will be
required to pay for land dam­ages
and off- site storm drain­age.
The portion to be done
extends eight-tenths of a mile
from Main 'Street to the bor­ough
limits. P re sen t plans
ill for a six-inch sub-base,
ten-inch base, and 2-and-a-half
inch asphalt top, elimin­ating
the high crown a t sev­eral
points, but staying with­in
the limits of the present
curbing.
The borough sta rted In 19-
48 to try to get North Broad
Street reconstructed, or put
in b etter condition, I t has
Prosecuted For
Failure To Yield
Boro To Light Decorations Fri.,
When Santa Will Còme To Town
been surveyed several times,
but nothing ever had been
done.
Armstrong, who attended
the District Highway Utility
Coordination Association in
Harrisburg, Tuesday, also was
informed th a t the borough is
to get permits for traffic
lights a t Lincoln and Broad
Streets, and Second and Broad
■Streets within about a week.
The borough will be required
to pay for putting up the
lights a t an estimated cost of
$6500. Borough Council has
indicated th a t the lights will
be provided for in next year’s
budget.
119 Autoists
Get Tickets
For Parking
There were 119 meter vio­lations
during November, ac­cording
to th e monthly report
of Mayor A rth u r S. 'Griswold,
M. D., pesented to borough
council Tuesday night.
The rep d rt also included
ten parking violations, one
case of disorderly conduct,
one of driving to left of cen­ter,
one failure to stop a t ac­cident;
one failure to yield
the rig h t of way, one a rre st
for following too close, one
case of larceny under $50;
one a rre st for not stopping at
stop sign, one a rre st for reck­less
driving and two for driv­ing
too fast fo r conditions.
The cruiser travelled 3,008
miles for investigation and
patrol, and two officers spent
one day in court each on four
cases.
The Christmas season will
burst forth| in all its glory on
Friday night, when th e
Christmas decorations in the
borough will be lighted for,
the first time and Santa
Claus will be in his Castlq
fronting on East Main Street
in th e small thoroughfare
next to the General Sutter
Hotel.
The decorations will fe a t­ure
a Nativity scene a t the
Square and lighted trees plac­ed
along th e curbs of the first
block of East Main Stre et and
the first block of South Broad
Street. There also will be
lighted sta rs on the light
standards and strings of
lights between standards on
the first block of East Main
Stre et and two blocks of
North and South Broad St.
Stores will be open this
' Andy Hagy, one year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hagy, week-end a t the regular
4(1 E. Main St., expresses surprise a t bis first visit with Santa, hours, 9 p.m. Friday and 6
p.m. Saturdty. S ta rtin g Dec­ember
7 they will be open
every night, including S a tu r­days,
until 9 p.m., up to and
including December 22.
Santa Claus will be in bis
Castle this Friday night from
6 p.m. to’ 8:30 p.m., and on
Saturday, December 1, ,f r o ,\
2 p.m. to 4:30 'p.m. He will
return to his workshop a t the
North Pole for most of next
week, and will re tu rn th a t
weekend, December 7 and 8
when he will be back in his
Castle again. S tarting Mon­day,
December 10, he will be
there every day, from 2 to
4:30 p.m., and 6 to 8:30 p.m.
In between times, he will
make trips to outlying stores
which are not in the central
shopping district.
Christmas shopping in now
well-underway, with the local
stores offering all types of
tempting merchandise.
State Of Pollution
Exists In Springs
Creek, Report Says
Shirley Ann Stenke, 1 %
Spruce St., Lititz, was prose­cuted
for failure to yield the
rig h t of way and for violation
of a restricted license as the
result of a two-car accident
on November 24, Police Chief
George Hicks announced to ­day.
A
ccording to Chief Hicks,
Mrs. Stenke was headed east
in a private alley, and was go­ing
to tu rn on Pine Alley,
when she collided with • a
tru ck driven by V. Orval Won­der,
1112 E. Broad St., Ak­ron,
who was entering the in­tersection
of Pine Alley, near
Kline’s Laundromat. Accord­ing
to the .police chief Mrs.
Stenke stated she did not see
the truck. He said she was
n o t wearing glasses, as re­quired
by her license.
Jacob S. Buckwalter, Jr.,
Lititz R2, was prosecuted on
November 25, a t 10 p.m. for
driving too fast for conditions
on East Main Street. Prosecu­tion
was made by Officer Earl
Steffy Jr., before Squire Pqul
Diehm. .
Charles L. Dawson, Mon-toursville
R l, Pa., was prose­cuted
on Nov. 21 for a red
light violation before Squire
Diehm.
Penryn
Shoots Bear
Ervin R u tt, Lititz R2,
(Penryn,) shot a bear which
weighed 280 ipounds while
hunting near Camel, in Ly-eoming
county on Tuesday a t
7:10 a.m.
R u tt has goiie bear-hunting
for four years, b u t th is is th e
first one he has ever shot. He
pointed out th a t they a re .d if'
ficult quarry, and th a t only
one out of seven hunte rs gets
a bear. The animal, a male,
was estimated to be five to
¡seven years old.:
The Penryn man was camp­ing
with fo u rte en people.
Game laws permit two bears
to a camp, and one to a per­son,
so with this bear, he has
shot his limit. He said the
bear came . out of a patch of
laurel about 75 feet away
from him and he got it
on his first 's h o t. The
wounded animal ran 150
yards before it finally fell.
R u tt said it took six people
two hours to carry the bear
out. They were a mile from
th e ir car, and six miles from
the camp. '
Hepp House
Withdrawn
From Sale
The property at 145 East
Main Street, known as the
Hepp house, one of the ori­ginal
houses in Lititz, was
withdrawn from Public Sale
on Saturday for lack of suffi­cient
bids.
The opening bid was $14,-
000 where it remained for
quite some time before there
w a s 1 a second bid. The bids
then crept up to $15,100,
when there were no more
forthcoming, and the house
was withdrawn. It will be sold
privately, according to Owen
Hershey, attorney. , v
The house was built in 17-
9 4 by Christian Schopp, of
stones dug out of the back­yard,
according to the present
owners, who are descendents
of Schopp. Their gréât grand­father,
George Thomas, was
born in the housA and their
gran d fath e r of jhe present
alko was born there. She mar­ried
George W. , Hepp, th e
gran d fath e r fath e r of the pre­sent
owners, Miriam E. Hag­en,
Louis B. Hepp and Ruth
C. Kilgore.
At one time the re was q
shoemaker ' shop at. the west
ehd of the house, which then
was single story. In 1865
soine classes were conducted
in the. house for the Rickert
owners, 'Miriam E. Hagen,
Louis. B / 5Hepp and Ruth
and • Hepp school, which suc­ceeded
the. John ¡Beck: School.
■It continued a t the same time
to be a residence.
In 1909 the house was
“modernized” With, the addi­tion
of a vestibule a.nd sta ir­case
and other improvements
and in about 1930 p art of the
first floor was made into an
apartment.
A sta te of pollution "obvi­ously
and definitely” exists in
Lititz Springs 'Creek, accord­ing
to the report of the Hea­lth
and Sanitation Committee
presented to 'borough council
at its meeting Tuesday night.
Dr. Joseph Grosh is commit­tee
chairman, and other mem­bers
are: Dr. Chester Wert-sch,
Dr. Charles Eshleman
and Robert E. Buch.
The committee listed the
possible causes of this pollu-
I)anolle . (Uervo, three year old d au g h ter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Ciervo, 1 West O ran g e Ht., accepts gift, from Hanta Claus.
St. Luke’s Approves
5-Step, Ten-year
ion
TRAHH FIR E
The Lititz Fire Company
was called out Wednesday at
12:15 p.m. when a cornfield
caught fire from a burning
tra sh barrel on the property of
Robert Wood, Owl Hill, Lit­itz
R4. The blaze was extin­guished
however, before the
lire department arrived, ac-.
cording to Fire Chief Ammon
Shelley.
School Mena
Monday
Chuck wagon steak, b u t­tered
peas, assorted fru it.
Tuesday
Sub sandwich,
chips, applesauce
potato
Wednesday
Hot dog on roll, baked
beans, celery sticks, peach
cobbler
Thursday
Oven fried chicken, corn,
carrot sticks, pears
Friday
Baked fish, creamed po­tatoes,
cole slaw, cup cake
AUXILIARY PARTY
The Lititz F ire Company
auxiliary will hold a 'Christ­mas
p arty Thursday, Dec. 6,
a t th e Fire House. Each mem­ber
is asked to bring a one
dollar grab bag gift. Mrs.
Mary. Mease will be chairman
in charge of refreshments.
A five-point program of e x -,v e r and Joseph Gearhart, dea-pansion
for St. Luke’s United I cons'. Ray Pettyjohn was in
2 County Men
Shoot Bear
Two Lancaster County men,
one from Lititz, sh o t two
black bears on a hunting trip
near Cedar Run, T ioga 'County
on Tuesday.
They were Ray/4ongeneck-er,
Lititz 'R2, and Harold
Zook, Lampeter Rd. The
bears were estimated to be
two years old, one weighing
about 100 pounds and the
other 150 pounds.
T.B. Society To Give
Chest X-rays Here
The Tuberculosis Society of
Lancaster County will have a
mass community x-ray pro­gram
in Lititz on Wednesday,
December 2.
The mobile un it will be
stationed at the Farmers Na­tional
Bank from 3 to 8 p.m.
It also will be stationed a t the
Lititz elementary school a t 1
p.m., and the Warwick Union
High School a t 2 p.m.
Several students from War­wick
Union School will assist
a t the Community program a t
the 'bank. They are: Miss Bar­bara
Zander, Miss Martha
Bredhauer, Miss P a tr ic ia . Wei-ser
and Miss Patricia Simon.
AH the girls scouts of th e
borough, under the direction
of Mrs. Charles Eshelman,
will distribute flyers to homes
in the area announcing the
program. Posters will be plac­ed
around the town.
Last month children in
first, sixth and tenth grades
of the schools were given tu ­berculin
tests. Positive rea ct­ors
and school personnel will
be x-rayed when the unit vis­its
the elementary school and
the high school th a t same day.
Church of Christ which will
take an estimated ten years
to accomplish was approved
by the church congregation .at
its special dinner meeting
Monday evening at the church.
The five’ point's in th e pro­gram
would be: 1) to-acquire
property west of the church;
2) to build" P a rt I of an en tire­ly
new educational building;
3) to removate or expand the
present church building or to
build an e n tire ly new sanc­tuary;
4) to build P a rt’ II of
the educational building, and
5), to build a new parsonage.
Step number one has been
accomplished in th a t several
lots in the back of the church
adjoining the present property
already have been purchased.
The sum of $3,100 was set
aside in the 196-3 budget, also
approved Monday night, as
payment of principal and in­terest
on these lots.
No costs as yet have been
estimated for the remainder
of the project. The congrega­tion
approved the five-step
plan to the point of giving
the building council permis­sion
to s6t up a master plan.
Several years ago th e con­gregation
purchased the Bru­bak
e r property a t 218 N.
Broad St., to the south of the
church.
The first floor of this pro­perty
is being used for an ed­ucation
unit, and the second
and third floors asa parson­age.
T
he committee which made
the study of the church’s
needs and reported to the con­gregation
includes George
Weyer, Paul Bushong, Rus­sell
Markert, George Weaver,
Joseph Gearhart and Rqy
Bushong.
The 1963 budget was pre­sented
by Russell Pettyjohn,
chairman, and a fte r a sug­gested
increase in the Christ­ian
Education Division, it was
approved a.t/ $15,650.
Oren Spangenberg was
elected an elder; George Wea-charge
of the business session
and the Rev. Robert M. Myers
was ihe moderator.
PLAN VISITATION
v The men of St. Luke’s
Churchmen’s Fellowship will
meet tonight: a t 7:30 p.m. to
discuss the Spiritual Renewal
and Visitation to be conducted
by them on Sunday Dec. 2 be­ginning
a t 1:30 p.m. I t is the
desire of the men to visit all
members, prospective mem­bers
and friends and invite
them to 'become more in te r­ested
in the services and ac­tivities
of the church.
The goal of each visiting
team will be to have all fam­ilies
visited in the 'Church ser­vice
on Loyalty Sunday, Dec­ember
16th which is designat­ed
as Citizenship Sunday.
All families of the 'Church
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Christmas Program
Planned By WCTU
The WCTU Christmas pro­gram
will be held a t the home
of Mrs. Robert Hanna, 38
East Second Ave., on Monday,
December 3, a t 7:30 p.m.
Christmas readings, carols
and a candlelight service will
comprise the program. Mem­bers
are to bring gifts for Vet­erans
a t the Lebanon Hospi­tal.
Miss Ella Stauffer is
charge of the program.
Gets Permit
For Fall-out
Shelter Here
F all-out shelters were in
the news again, probably due
to the Cuban situation, when
the monthly report of build­ing
permits was presented to
borough council at its meet­ing
Tuesday night.
Michael Elko, 412 Rome
Road was g ranted a permit to
construct a fallout shelter at
a cost of $150. Several per­mits
were issued last year for
this purpose, b u t th is is the
first one this year.
There were nine permits is
sued altogether, for a total of
$18,180. New construction, in
addition to the fall-out shel­ter,
included a new home for
Robert Balmer, 510 Bluebird
Road, for $14,500.
Remodeling permits came
to $3,530, as follows: W. Eu­gene
Clair, 354 E. Main St.
replace old porch, $250; Joyce
E. Ember, 205 N. Broad St,
siding, $2000; Robert Hower
119 S. Spruce St., replace tin
roof, $400; Ja ck Watson, 225
N. 'Broad St., demolish ex-auc­tion
b arn, (no cha rge;) Char­les
and Ella Martin, 1'4 0 Lib­erty
St., replace half of roof,
$150; Bertha Althouse, 103 S
Broad St., replace slate porch
roof with asphalt shingle,
$8 0; William Getz, George
Forry, 22-24 W. Lincoln Ave.
replace shingles on roof, $650.
Sen. Snyder
Takes Oath
Of Office
Richard A. Snyder, a native
of Lititz, was sworn in as
State Senator representing the
13 th District a t ceremonies
held in the S tate Capital at
Harrisburg Monday.
Senator Snyder, now of
Lancaster, once was a page in
the Senate, in 1929, for Aar-»
on B. Hess.
Among those present for
the ceremonies was the new
Senator’s mother, Mrs. Paris
F. Snyder,. 6 6 E. Main St
Lititz. Dauphin County Judge
R. Dixon Herman administer­ed
the oath of office.
Senator Snyder is the th ird
Lititz man to serve as State
Senator.
Borough Uses
Over 16 Million
Gals. Of Water
The borough water depart­ment
pumped a total of 16,
860,300 gallons of water dur
ing th e month ju st past,
daily average of 602,154. The
maximum amount was on Oc
to-ber 30, when 8.28,500 of
water were pumped to fill the
¡Spruce S tre e t standpipe.
The sewer report showed a
total flow of 14,415,600,
daily average of 514,843.
The works depa rtment to
hours representing 5.13 men
taled a to ta l of 914 man
The largest number of hours,
472, was spent in cleaning
stre e ts of leaves.
Lititz Expends
$11,841 In Nov.
The borough had receipts
of $2,452 and expenditures of
$11,841 during November.
The ending balance was $21,-
893, which includes the bal­ance
of $31,282 on hand at
the beginning of the month.
To date th is year expendi­tures
have been $136,014, in
relation -to the 19 62 budget of
$164,627.
The sewer Fund \ia d re­ceipts
of $11,038, and spent
$1,111, having a balance of
$88,990.
The Water Revenue Fund
showed a balance of $1378
receipts of $133, and expendi­tures
of $963, leaving a bal­ance
of $549.
Try Limited Parking
On East Orange St.
Parking will he available on
the north side of East Orange
Street except during school
hours, on a tria l basis, Police
Chief George Hicks announced
today.
He pointed out, however
th a t the signs still read “ no
parking at anytime,” because
new signs are not yet avail
able. The new signs, when
available, will read, no park
ing during school hours.”
Warwick Assembly
Meets December 11th
The Assembly of the War­wick
Association of Churches
will meet on Tuesday, Dec­ember
11 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Educational Building of St.
P au l’s Lutheran Church.
Russell P. Schreiber, the
president, announced th a t
election of officers will take
place, and budgets from all
departments for th e coming
year will ibe presented a t this
time.
Final plans will be made
fo r the Christmas Caroling on
Christmas Eve for all the
youth of Lititz, sponsored by
the Youth Department of the
Association.
ODD FELLOWS
There will he no dinne r in
connection with the Odd Fel­lows
meeting on Monday,
December 3. However, the
regular lodge meeting will be
held a t 7:30 p.m.
Christmas Stamp Is
Available At Local P.O.
tion as Insufficient flowage at
the source, outlets feeding in­to
the stream, refuse being
thrown into the stream, suds
from the disposal plant and
muskrat damage to th e basin.
Several outlets drain into
the stream from th e Morgan
Paper Co., according to the
report. Two appear to be
drain pipes, one from the
north side and one from the
south side, it was said, and
others from the filtering and
settling beds. There are six
to ten outlets directly under
the plant, one of which ap­pears
to be dumping raw sew­age.
There are also several out­lets
at the Animal Trap Com­pany,
the report stated, one
being at the boiler room and
the San Domingo stream.
There are settling or filtering
beds to the east of the factory
which are shallow and con­tain
residues such as paint,
oil, and possibly acids, the
report stated. These are sub­ject
to overflow during rain­storms,
it was said. The re ­port
stated th a t the general
condition of this area is th a t
of filth, there being consider­able
refuse along both sides
of the stream and in th e
stream.
Other outlets listed in the
report are: four openings
from the Manbeck warehouse,
one a t the borough sheds, one
a t the Tabernacle parsonage,
outlets from Weaver’s Restau­ran
t and Leed’s Locker and
ice plant, and several open­ings
from the Wilbur Choco­late
Co. under th e Broad
Street Bridge.
Deducations and recom­mendations
listed by the com­mittee
are as follows:
Pollution such as occurrf^i
on August 30. 1962, from the
Wilbur Suchard Chocolata
Co., should not be allowed to
enter the stream. This wfit*
later found to consist of pot­ash
and vinegar.
A way should be found to
control the starch which é¿-
ters the stream from the
Morgan Paper Co.
F u rth e r investigation sho­uld
be made a t several in tak e
pipes in the stream, one a t
Weaver's Re staurant and on«
a t Leed’s 'Locker and ica
plant.
There is a constant flow of
foreign material in to th $
stream from the Morgan Pap­er
Co. “We do not feel th a t
there are adequate controls
of th is material to guárante«
th a t it is pollution-free.” ; ■
A complete investigation of
the disposal procedures a t th a
Animal Trap Co. should he In­stituted.
The committee concluded
th a t there is a gradual recufr-rence
of vegetation and ani­mal
life a short distance be­low
the Animal Trap 'Co., and
that any vegetation from the
east end of the borough up­stream
is a catch-all for alf
forms of debris and filth, in­cluding
dead animals and.
pulp-like material.
The committee noted th a t
below the borough line to th e
disposal plant the only pollu­tion
evident was due to sur­face
drainage from McCre­a
ry ’s junk yard.
The Committee urgently re ­quested
th a t borough council
take immediate action to rem­edy
this situation “ so th a t
this ‘open sewer’ may he re ­placed
with a ‘thing of beau­ty
.’ ”
RECEIVE COMPLAINT
A le tte r of complaint wa$
received about a ju n k yard at
the east end of Lititz, which
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An ample supply of the
first Christmas postage stamps
ever issued by the United
States was annuonced today
by Postmaster Richard C. Ra­der.
T
he unusual four-cent new
issue will be available a t the
local post office th ro u g h Dec­ember
31.
The Christmas stamp, in­tended
especially for use on
season’s greeting cards, de­picts
the traditional holiday
symbols — b u rning tapers
and an evergreen wreath, ad­orned
with a red bow. L etter­ing
is in Old English.
Issuance of the stamp ties
in with the Post Office de­partm
en t’s “ Shop and Mad
E arly” campaign, the post­master
pointed out. The stamp
will supply a colorful fillip to
greeting cards — and this is
in response to heavy public
request, Postmaster Rader
noted.
I t will encourage the use of
first class .postal ra te for
greeting cards, providing pre­ferred
handling and return-to
-sender service in the event of
non-delivery. The stamp is in­tended
for general postal use
and plans are to re-issue a
Christmas stamp during fu­ture
holiday seasons. 'It will
remain on sale indefinitely a t
the Philatelic Sales Agency,
Washington 25, D. C.
Community
Calendar
Nov. 2»— 7:30 P.M. — Stamp
Club meeting a t the Re­creation
Center.
Dec. 1 — Society Farm Wo­men
No. 1 will ho ld ?«
Christmas P a rty a t tbe
Moravian Home.
Dec. 5— 6:30 P.M. — AMBUC
meeting a t Evans Restau­rant,
Manheim.
Dec. «— 7:30 P.M. — Litit*
Fire Co. Auxiliary Christ­mas
Party a t the Fire
Hall.