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Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
86th Year E stab lish ed April, 1877, a s The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The ¿ l t lt s Record» 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, March 21, 1963 7 c en ts a Copy; 88.00 per y ea r by m all
w ith in Lanca ste r County; $3.80 elsewhere. 12 Pages — No. 49
Retailers Start Thurs. Night Opening Next Week
MOW STREET SW EEPER : 15. Keith A rm stro n g , borough
manager. is try in g out tin- b o ro u g h 's new stre e t sweeper, while
Itiiv Landis ( le i■ ) street I'oreman gives him advice on how to
h an d le tin' maeliine. I lie new sweeper a rriv e d .Monday and
will en ab le Lititz to sweep th e s tre e ts freq u en tly , in s te a d of
twice a y e a r when they used to r e n t a mach in e.
Borough’s Street Sweeper
Will Do Efficient Job
Open For
Convenience
Of Shoppers
Most retail stores in the
downtown dis trict of Lititz will
s ta r t being open Thursday
nights as well as Friday
nights, s ta r tin g Thursday,
March 28, tho Retailers Asso­ciation
reminded local shopp­ers.
Some stores th a t had been
closed Thur sday afternoons
will now be open all day
Thursday until 9 p.m., but
will be closed on Wednesday
afternoons -— open in the
mornings only. Stores also will
be open Friday nights until
9 p.m.
Special sales of fine mer­chandise
and bargain prices
will ma rk the new schedule of
hours in the local, stores.
The new hours, were decided
upon a f te r several surveys had
been taken, indicating th a t
a rea shoppers wan t more, even­ing
shopping houffs. The Re ­tailers
emphasized th a t their
main consideration is to make
shopping Jiours m o re conven­ient
for a re a shoppers.
Lititz borough’s brand new
s tre e t sweeper arrived Monday,
assuring th a t Lititz, already
considered one of the cleanest
boroughs in the county, will be
even more spic and span than
ever.
Up to now, the borough has
rented a sweeper twice a year
at a cost of $8 00 a year. Now
the streets can lie swept much
3-Way Race
Develops For
Two Offices
Two three-way fights in the
Republican ran k s of the Wa r ­wick
a rea developed late Tues­day,
as the deadline for filing
petition for nominations was
reached. These were for school
director and for Warwick Tow­nship
supervisor.
Richard S. Allebach, 440 S.
Cherry St., Lititz, incumbent
school dire c tor who was “ pas­sed
over" by the GOP organiza­tion,
filed for director-at-large.
The party choices, who also h a ­ve
filed, are Rodney C. Welch,
Ph.I)., 415 S. Cedar St. and
Horace A. Kauffman, 25 E.
Lemon St.
.■In Warwick township th re e
men have filed petitions for the
office of supervisor: Paul R. Ib-ach,
Lititz R4, incumbent, who
has held -the office for 2 6 years;
RobertH. Kurtz, Lititz R4, who
is being backed by the party,
and Joseph M. Brubaker, Lititz
R3, an independent. Robert D.
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more frequently, and less ex­pensively.
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The new sweeper is a vacuum
type with a one cubic yard hop­per.
The special advantage of
the vacuum is th a t it keeps
down the d u s t problem. The
old ones required a spray of
water, and if -there wa sn’t en­ough
water it caused dust; if
too much, it caused mud s t r e ­aks.
Is M in ia tu re
The new sweeper actually is
a mina ture type, weighing 2300
pounds. I t cost $3,998.95 com­pared
With $10 to $12,000 for
the regula r size. I t was origin­ally
designed as an indus trial
sweeper to be used inside fac­tories.
The borough felt th a t
this one would do the job effec­tively.
One of the basic reasons
is th a t most of the s treets have
curbs an dthis tends to reduce
the cleaning problem, it was
pointed out by Borough Man­ager
R. Keith Arms trong. The
majority of -the s treets a re very
level, which means th a t the
small sweeper can be effective.
Although it c an’t be used as
well in wet weather as a larger
sweeper, borough officials felt
they could choose the ir own
conditions and th a t the smaller,
less expensive sweeper would
serve ju s t as well, even better.
Arms trong satu uie new eq­uipment
will save considerable
money over the years, as the
sweeping will cost about $100
a year, even though they will
be sweeping more frequently.
Therefore, each year the bor­ough
will amortize $700 of the
cost because of the saving in
not having to re n t equipment
at a cost of $800.
Woman’s Club Makes
Various Contributions
Several contributions were
made a t the meeting of the Lit­itz
Woman’s Club held on Mon­day
evening at the General Sut­te
r Ho-tel.
One hundred dollars was gi­ven
to the Lititz Public Libr­ary;
fifty dollars to the United
Cancer drive; thirty five dollars
to He a r t Haven; and twenty
five to Salk Polio Foundation.
I t was announced th a t $228.95
as raised for -the Recreation
Cfenter a t the benefit card p a r ­ty
held recently and a check for
th a t amount will be sent to the
Center.
School Menu
Monday
Pork barbecue, corn, pot­ato
sticks, assorted fruit.
Tuesday
Vegetable soup, ham or
beef salad sandwich, f ruit
cup.
Wednesday
Hot pork sandwich, peas
and carrots, pickle chips,
jello.
T h u rsd a y
Spaghetti & meat balls, b.
limas, carrot sticks, peaches.
Fr id ay
Candied sweets, corn, slic­ed
luncheon & cheese, le t t ­uce,
cup cake.
Miss Helen -Good, a senior
Girl Scout, gave an interesting
resume of the Round-Up which
she a ttended -last summe r in
Bu-tton Bay, Vermont. All Girl
Scout leaders were guests of
the Club a t this meeting. The
Scouts are sponsored by the
Club.
The paintings entered in the
Elementary Art Contest were
on display.
Mrs. William Mitchell, chairs
man of the nominating com­mittee,
announced -the slate of
officers for the coming year, a3
follows; Mrs. William Scatch-ard,
Jr., pres ident; Miss Ba r ­bara
Wise, vice pres ident; Mrs.
G. Marlin Spaid, Second vice-president;
Mrs. Menno Rohrer,
secretary; Mrs. John Skinner,
Jr., corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Robert Watts, tre a sure r .
Dr. Fred Bryan, sup e r in ten ­dent
of the Hairrisburg schools,
was the guest speaker, his sub­ject
-was “Youth in To-day’s
World. He was introduced by
Mrs. Robert S. Posey.
Miss Ba rb a ra Wise, program
chairman, previewed the April
meeting a t which time Richard
Thomas, world trave le r and
lecturer, will speak on “World
News Up to the Minute.’’ This
will be an open meeting and
will be held April 2 2 a t tho
General Sutter Hotel. Mrs. Wil­bur
Miller read the collect and
Mrs. Henry Wa lte r and Mrs.
Paul Seaber were hostesses.
George J. Morgan
George Morgan
Will Address
Kissel Hill Assn
George J. Morgan, attorney,
Lititz R3, will addres s the
members of th e Kissel Hill
Area Civic Association Tues ­day,
March 26, a t 7 :3 0 , p.m.,
in the Education . room • of
Salem Lu th e ra n Church, Kissel
Hill. 1 ,
Mr. Morgan, whose hotno is
in Warwick tow n sh ip , ... anil
speak on “Annexation.”
Wayne Wagner, pre s id en t of
the Association, announced
th a t the by-laws will be ad opt­ed
a t the meeting, which is
open to all res idents of the
Kissel Hill area.
A meeting of the officers
and director s will precede this
meeting a t 7 p.m.
YOUTH DAY WINNERS AID HISTORICAL F uLN D A T luN . J . M. Leecl, le ft, of th e H is­to
ric a l F o u n d a tio n , receiv es $40 from Mary A n iid o n ,. (c e n te r) a n d P a t Yeagley, (r ig h t) a s
th e - p ro ceed s of a b ak e sale a n d b arn , dan ce held S a tu rd a y by th e TNT (Top Notch Teens)
p o litical p a rty of Warwick Union Higii School. Miss Ainidon was e lec ted a “ s ta te re p r e s e n ta ­tive"'
a n d Miss Yeagley a "school d ire c to r.”
Paul Beittenmiller Elected
Warwick Youth Day Mayor
Warwick Group
To Discuss Plans
The Warwick Tovvnship Ci­tizens
Association will meet
April 4, a t 7:30 p.m., in th e
Brunnerville Fire Hall, it was
announced today by William
Sharpless, president.
The group has appointed
a zoning and planning com­mittee
to follow up on the
various plans th e township
may have for planning and
zoning, Sharpless said. They
also will discuss th e trailer
ordinance being adopted by
the township supervisors, and
the forthcoming elections.
A split ticket was elected for
Youth Day in Government by
s tudents of the Warwick Union
High School on Tuesday, a l th ­ough
the TNTs capubred tho
-major share of tho offices —
fourten, compared to six won
-by the HEADS,
The HEADS, however, got
ithe top spot on the slate —
the office of Mayor, won by
Paul Beittenmiller.
Other re sults were as foll-
-ows:
School Board: Carol Cox,
(TNT) ; Jim Kulp, (TNT) ; P a ­tricia
Yeagley, (TNT) ; Bill
Brubaker, (TNT) ; John Cassel,
(TNT) ; Rick Martin (TNT).
Borough Council: Bobbie
Jekn Adams, (HEADS); Dale
Huber, (HEADS) ; Phil Hess,
(HEADS); Bob Herr, (TNT) :
Sue -Minnich, (TNT) ; Terry
Kauffman, (TNT).
Sta te representatives ; Alan
Jones, (HEADS); Mary Ami-don,
(TNT).
Tax collector; Donna Rosen­berg,
(TNT).
Jus tice of the Peace: J im
First Aid Course
Starts March 28
T h e r e will be an advanced
course in Red Cross F i r s t Aid
training beginning March 28 at
7:30 p.m. in th e Warwick Am­bulance
Garage.
The course is being held pri­marily
for Warwick ambulance
drivers, but anyone else in te r ­ested
in the Lititz-Manheim a r ­ea
may also attend, and may
regis ter by oalling -Herbert
Kraybill, 626-2766,
The course will run for eight
consecutive weeks on Thursday
evenings. The ins truc tor will be
George W.. Nickel, Jr ., who
was ins truc tor for the basic
course ju s t completed.
Nuss, (TNT) ; Linda Miller
(TNT).
Borough Manager — Ned
Bushong (TNT).
Chief of Police: Wayne Goe-kley
(TNT).
An assembly was held Mon­day
when each of the parties
was given 15 minutes to pre­sent
the ir platforms and intro­duce
their candidates. Dr. Ro­bert
Brubaker, of the Jun io r
Chamber of Commerce, spons­ors
of the project, addressed
the group. v .
Youth Day in Government
will be observed on March 26,
when the “ officials” will visit
various county institutions.
Tlie Warwick s tudents will a t ­tend
the meeting of borough
council th a t evening.
Jaycees, Jayne-Cees
Present Outstanding
Awards To Members
Odd Fellows
Will Elect
Lititz Lodge 1050, I.O.O.F.,
will hold its annua l Pa s t Gra­n
d ’s banquet on March 25, a t
6 p.m. in the Lodge Hall, when
there will be election of officers
of Lititz Lodge an d of the
Grand Lodge.
The guest speaker Will be
State Trooper Edwin Grazer, of
the Lancas ter Barracks , who is
in charge of school safety p a t­rols
in Lancas ter County. He is
a member of the Odd Fellows
Lodge a t Farrell, Pa.
Tliirty-two members of the
Lodge journeyed to F an n e tt -
Metal High School, F ran k l in
County, on Saturday, March 16,
to conferr the F i r s t and Second
degrees of Odd Fellowship. The
lodges of four Central P e n n ­sylvania
Counties sponsored a
la rge rally a t the time. Six lo­cal
members received the Pa s t
Grand degree a t the rally.
Woman Dies
In One-car
Smash-up
Mrs. Gladys A. Kroeck,
thirty-three, wife of E. Robert
Kroeck, 645 Ea s t Main St.,
Lititz, was killed ins tantly
when her car crashed into a
culvert on Route 7 72 between
Schaum's corner and Roths-ville
a t 11:55 a.m. Tuesday.
The victim died instantly,
according ’to Dr. Ralph J. Gold­in,
Brownstown, d eputy eoro-nor.
An autopsy a t Ep h ra ta
Community Hospital showed
th a t her death was caused
by a broken neck, and th a t
she suffered a c rushed chest,
and compound fra c ture of the
left ankle.
Mrs. Kroeck, mothe r of two
young sons, had been visiting
her mother, Mrs. Allen Bom-berger,
in Leola, and left a t
11:40 a.m., according to the
coronor.
Ep h ra ta State Police rep o r t­ed
th a t the accident occurred
jus t west of th e Intersection
of Routes 7 22 and 2 22 a t
Schaum’s Corner, on a slight
curve. Trooper Jo h n Lazur
s ta ted the Woman’s 1954 sedan
smashed into the concrete a-butmen
t of the Culvert with
terrific impact.
Was Alone
He said he could find no
evidence th a t the woman', who
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WARWICK CHURCHES
The Assembly of the Wa r ­wick
Association of Churches
will meet Tuesday, -March 26th,
a t 7:30 p.m. in th e Moravian
Sunday School -Chapel. The
meeting is for all rep re sen ta ­tives
of the member churches
and will be in charge of E l­mer
Allwine, Pres ident.
Outstanding Jaycee and Jay-ne-
Cie awards were presented
a t -the ins tallation banquet of
both groups held last Saturday
night in Evans R e s ta u r a n t in
Manhcim.
Mrs. Albert Vigunas received
a special award as the out;
standing Jayne-Coe for the six
years she has been in the or­ganization.
Mrs. Carl Kaufman was n am­ed
outs tanding Jayne-Ceo of
the year, and Thomas Hartcn-stlne
outs tanding Jaycee of tho
year.
Mrs. Vigunas lias been a
member of the board for the
past four years, and has held
tho following offices: treasurer,
vice president, and president.
She was chairman of Ways and
Means and also publicity cha ir­man.
She a ttended many coun­ty
and state meetings and also
worked in the snack bar for the
Jaycee’s In d u s tr ia l exhibit.
Mrs. Vigunas was captain of
the Muscular Dystrophy drive,
and is the Jayne-<Cee’s repre­sentative
to the Pos t P rom fro­lic.
She was co-chairman of the
ins tallation banquet.
Mrs. Kaufman was chairman
of the Senior Citizens program,
and Civic chairman. She was in
charge of the Chris tmas gifts
for underprivileged children,
and also in charge of th e gifts
sent to the State Hospital. She
was a captain in the project for
the revision of the Lititz d i r ­ectory.
Hartens tine , new Jaycee p re ­sident,
was outs tanding in tho
two most impo r tan t phases of
th e Jaycees work th i s y e a r —
leadership tra ining and Civil
service. He was chairman of
the Indus trial exhibit and dem­ons
trated the ability to lead
fellow Jaycees. In -presenting
awards, it was said th a t he al­ways
b rought to a successful
conclusion all projects. He se r­ved
with othe r civic organiza­tions
in -the community and
was faithful in a ttending meet­ings.
Richard L. Merk, first vice
pres ident of the State Jun io r
Chamber of Commerce, ins tall­ed
the officers, headed by H a r t ­enstine
as pres ident of the J a y ­cees
and Mrs. Ronald Nuss as
pres ident of the Jayne-Cees.
.Mrs. Albert, Vigunas
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AD'S. C arl K au fm an
J. M. Leed Heads
Advance Gifts
J. M. Leed has been named
chairman of th e Advance Gifts
committee for th e combined
F u n d Drive to be held in late
April, it was announced today
by Ja ck R. Watson, campaign
chairman.
John G. Hershey was appoin­ted
co-chairman of Leed’s com­mittee,
which will seek subs t­antial
contributions.
The names of William Sna-c
h t’s Retail committee memb­ers
also were announced. They
are: Robert Dull, Joseph Gear­h
a r t and Ronald Loercher.
Ambulance Drive
Starts April 1st
The new subscription yfe’ar
for the Warwick Ambulance be­gins
April 1, it was announced
today.
Applications for family mem­berships
have been mailed to all
boxholders in Lititz and the
ru ra l delivery areas, b u t about
400 were not included on this
list. . . .
The -ambulance will be a t th e
Square this- Friday night and
next Friday night, March 29,
during banking hours. There
will be tables inside both banks
where people can buy the ir
memberships.
Complete New Addition
To Telephone Building
NEW FACADE: Tho fro n t of tlio Den v er a n d E p h ra ta
Telep h o n e an d T eleg rap h Co., So u th C edar St., p re se n ts a new
face to tin- world since its remodeling' h a s been completed.
The doorways, balconies, plume booth an d s h u tte rs a re new.
T h ere is also a new a d d itio n housing' dial eq u ipm en t.
Thè revitalization of the
down-town are a of Lititz has
tak en anothe r big step forward
with the completion of the Den­ver
and E p h r a ta Telephone and
Telegraph Company office on
South Cedar St.
Not only has entire front of
the building been remodelled,
but an addition to the re a r and
side has been made -to house
additional equipment, a t a total
cost of $150,000.
The a ttra c tive new front has
two doorways with Porticos of
Doric columns topped by colon­ial'pediments
. Two pay teleph­one
booths which formerly
were inside the building have
been placed outside between
the two doors. The second floor
line is ma rk ed horizontally by
a white railing, and white sh u ­tte
r s have been added to all
front windows. The name of
the company has been placed in
‘large stainless steel letters ac­ross
the front above the second
floor windows.
Telephone service fo r th^.
Li-titz area will be accelerated
with the completion Of the ad­dition
to the office building,
which is constructed of reinfor­ced
concrete faced with red br-ick,
tr immed to match the ex­isting
building. This section
will house dial switching equi­pment.
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Mrs. B. B. Blair, pres ident of
the Denver and E p h r a ta Tel­ephone
Co., s ta ted th a t “ to en­gineer
and construct a dial tel-ehne
exchange, to plan it to
fit the needs of an individual
community, is a complex, ¡time-consuming
task. Ju s t connect­ing
one subscriber’s telephone
line, for example, takes about
600 hand-soldered connections.
More th a n 200 subscriber s ’ lin­es
and 500 terminals a re invol­ved
in the new addition a t a
total cost of $150,000.”
5500 S u b scrib ers
-Mrs. Blair said the project is
expected to be completed in a
few days. The additional equip­ment
is necessary because of
the continued telephone g row ­th.
She explained th a t the re are
now over 5500 telephones serv­ed
by th e Lititz central office,
compared to 2700 telephones
ten years ago,
“We are expanding ouff^fac
ilities to. provide not only foi
the increased telephone dem-
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T. VV. H n rte u s tin o
Community
Calendar
Alar. 21— 10:00 A.M. — New*
comers Club Sewing Group.
7:30 P.M. — Senior Citizens
meeting a t the Ree. Center.
8:00 P.M. — Lititz PTA
meeting a t the Elementary
School.
Mar. 24— 9.00 A.M. — y gt.
Jame s Catholic Church l a d ­ies
Altar Society Commun­ion
Breakfas t a t th e Sutter
hotel.
7:30 P.M. — Church of the
Brethren, Fellowship Class,
Travelogue.
Alar. 25— 8:00 P.M. — Ball­room
Dancing Clase a t thè
Ree. Center.
Card Party. Ladies Auxiliary
of American Legion a t Le*
gioii Home.
Alar. 2«— 7:30 P.M. — Church
of the Bre thren Lenten Ser­vice.
8:00 P.M. — JayneCees
meeting a t th e Ree. Center.
8:30 P.M. — Church of the
Brethren Fellowship Tea.
Mar. 27— 8:00 P.M. — F oot­ball
Testimonial Committee
meeting a t the Ree. Center.
7:30 P.M. — Marine Band
Committee meeting a t the
Recreation Center.
1:00 P.M. —- Newcomers
Club Card club.
Mar. 2K— 7:30 P.M. — Stamp
Club meeting a t the Ree.
Center.
8-.00 P.M. — Jo h n Bed?
PTA meeting.
P u b lic Libi-
Tuesdays, 7
Thursdays, 2