Lititz Record Express

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The Lititz Record - Express
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 I iltltz Beoord, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 27, 1963 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per y ea r by m a ll
w ith in Lanca ste r County; $3.50 elsewhere. 10 Pages — No. 11
Lititz Experiences Tremendous Building Boom
Building Permits Total Over
$1,450,000 In First Six Months
Coundl Closes
Alley; Front St.
To Be 2 - Way
Borough Council Tuesday
■night took official action to
close an alley in the borough
but, a t the same time, to ap­pease
petitioners agains t the
move changed a one-way street
ck to two-way status.
T h e action concerns the clos­ing
of Kline Alley, between Ro­senberg
Alley and an unnamed
alley, originally requested by
Long and Bomiherger.
Representatives of the Arm,
informed council the company
wishes to buy additional pro­perty
from the railroad, ex'
pand the business and erect
fencing a round the property.
A petition, signed by 101
res idents of the area, protest­ing
closing 380 feet of the al­ley
was received by council. It
was pointed out since F'ront
Stre e t was reserved for one­way
traffic many of the a re a
re s idents used the alley.
(An investigation by th e
Record Express as to the
101 signers of th e petition
revealed th a t 50 were non­residents
and 51 were resi­dents
of L ititz Borough. Of
the 51 residents 18 were
jiroperty owners, 4 owning
property in th e immediate
a r e a ) .
To solve the problem council
.ecided to open F ro n t Street
to two-way traffic, between
Broad and Cedar Streets; and
passed an ordinance to close
the alley.
Representatives of the AfBC
Club, aired plans to construct
a ball diamond, with park tru s ­tees
approval, a t the Lititz
Springs P ark but they need
about 5,000 cubic yards of fill.
Since the borough is studying
the possibility of the construc-
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Borough Properties
Require 875 Hours
Maintaining the borough pro­perties
took 875 man hours
during the month ending June
22, IR. Keith Armstrong, bor­ough
manager, reported to b or­ough
council.
Oif the total, 133 hours were
used in stre e t cleaning; 137 in
care of the swimming pool;
140 in care of the water sys­tem,
and 101 hours in mowing
grass and weeds, to mention
only the la rg e r number of
low s.
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AT BROWNIE DAY CAMP: A group of lSrowni<\s from Troop 252 of Hruiincrville, try
out th e ir cook-out recipe for Spanish rice which tasted pretty good, as they were hungry a fte r
hiking all the way from Rriiimerville to get to the camp in Lit it/, Springs Park. Left to rig h t
are Debra Laser, Donna Ditzler, Sandy Hevener, Brenda Slicnk, Suzanne Keith and Kathy
Eckert.
Family Tickets
Net $7,800 For
Borough Pool
A total of $7,800 in family
season tickets have been sold
to date for the Lititz Springs
municipal swimming pool, ac­cording
to the monthly finan­cial
reports of the borough.
There also have been $1,27">
in individual season tickets,
and $4 65 daily admissions up
to June 2i2. Concessions as oi
th a t date brought in $1,176.97,
which added to the beginning
balance of the swim pool ,i -
count, makes a total of $19,
191.93 in ^receipts. Expends-1
tures totalled $5,239.43, leav-|
ing an available sum of $11
9 52.50. The expenditures■ in­cluded
wages, $945.86; mi--
cellaneous, $176.51; eonce —
sions, (food), $743.48; u tili­ties,
$5T5.6 7; debt service, $2.
800; chemicals, $57.91. The
pool construction fu n d showed
expenditures of $589.39, and
an ending balance of $2,792.
49.
The borough’s general fund
showed a balance on hand of
$25,546.07; receipts of $31,
6/27, for a to ta l o f '$57,173.38.
Expenditures were $10,680.48,
leaving an ending balance of
$46,492.90.
Library Will Remain
At Present Location
The Lititz Public Library
will remain in its present lo­cation
in the General Sutter
Hotel for an indefinite period,
it was announced yesterday by
the Lititz Historical Founda­tion.
The Foundation stated th a t
while the library and the mus­eum
are now incorporated un­d
e r one head, the re has been
considerable misunderstand­ing
as to how they are to
function. They explain th a t the
Lititz 'Historical Foundation,
Inc., is the parent organiza­tion
with its own officers. The
Library also has its own offi­cers,
and “ is happy with its
present location.’’
“This unit, (the library) is
one of the few operating effi­ciently
in the county, being run
by volunteer workers who have
given many hours of the ir
time,” they said.
The Wissler building, it is
hoped, can soon be restored
dation said, in time a suitable
building would be erected in
the re a r to house a museum.
“Should the library wish
space in this building at th a t
future time, this could be a r­ranged
through a nominal ren­ta
l and thus tie the two to­gether,”
the sta tement said.
The Historical Foundation
can now receive donations th a t
are tax deductible, which' ap­plies
to both museum and li­brary,
it was explained. The
Foundation hopes th a t persons
interested in th is worthy pro­ject
will now make themselves
known and offer th e ir services.
“Priceless antiques have
been leaving our community at
a rapid rate, often because col­lectors
have felt th a t the citi­zens
of Lititz were not Inter­ested
In preserving them,”
members of th e Foundation
said. “When given in tru s t or
o u trig h t gifts, th is organiza­tion
can now give some assur-and
furnished with antique ance th a t anything received
fu rn itu re and open to the pub­lic
a t all times. Then, the foun-
Three Local 4-H Clubs
Select Posture Queens
Three girl’s 4-H clubs in this area have elected
Posture Queens to represent their clubs at the County
4-H Convention Field Day to be held July 18 in Long
Park.F
lying Fingers Club
Judy Buckwalter was select­ed
as Posture Queen to re ­present
the Flying Fingers 4-H
Club a t the Field Day 4-H Con­vention
to be held in Long
P ark Ju ly 18. The judges were
Judy Snavfely and Barbara
Jones, both college girls.
The community project for
the girls will be to care for
flowers in the Springs Park.
They worked there on Tuesday
morning with th e ir leader,
Mrs. Willis Bucher. Reba Shel­ly
gave a ta lk on “How to
Select Color Combinations.”
Sew and Sew Club
Cathy Rannels was elected
Posture Queen a t the meeting
held recently a t the home of
Mary Swar by the Sew and
Sew 4-H Club. Joyce Bowman
is the runner-up.
The business meeting was
in charge of Janice Knight, the
president, and the games were
led by Mary Spangler and
JULY 4 HOLIDAY
The Lititz Record-Express
will be published on Wed­nesday,
Ju ly 3, instead of
on the usual publication
day, Thursday, which this
year falls on the F ourth of
July*. This is done in order
th a t the employes may en­joy
the Independence Day
Holiday.
Persons having news and
those wishing to advertise
are asked to cooperate by
having the ir material in the
office by Monday, with 10
a.m. Tuesday, July 2, as
the final deadline.
will be 'carefully preserved and
put on exhibition when the new
building is available.
“Proof of the sincere in te r­est
in this project is evidenced
by the amount of volunteer
work p u t in our antique show,”
the Foundation officials Con­cluded.
“Every cent of profit
from this venture goes toward
the museum.”
BABY PARADE AT SWIM POOL: Winners, le ft to right,
are, Joe Stoyanovich, “Ben H ur,” most, beautiful; Billy and
P e te r 1 Kissinger, “Two peas in a pod," most original; and
David DeWald, “Do i t again, giant,” most comical.
Announce Winners Of
Baby Parade At Pool
Donald Showers
Don Showers
To Achieve
Eagle Rank
Donald Showers, fifteen, 100
East Market S treet, will b e­come
an Eagle Scout a t 'cere­monies
'Sunday a t 10:30 a.m.
in th e Moravian Church.
Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Showers, is a member
of Troop 42, of which Charles
Miller is Scoutmaster. Robert
Harding is chairman of the
Troop 'committee.
The highest ran k in scout­ing,
th a t of Eagle, will be con­ferred
on Donald by Wayne
Ackerman, Lititz RD., d istric t
commissioner. Two other boys,
Eugene Rannels and Timothy
Sltrickler, will receive the Star
Scout ran k during th e cere­monies,
which will be attended
by all members of the troop,
as well as th e troop committee.
Donald will be a ju n io r a t
Warwick High School in the
fall. He is junior assistant
scoutmaster of Troop 42 and
is an a ssistan t counselor at
Camp Chiquetan.
L ititz Is having one of the
biggest building booms in its
history, according to the value
oif the building p ermits issued
the first six months off the year,
up to Ju n e 22.
In th a t period, permits to ­ta
lled $1,394,105. In addi­tion,
over $58,000 more in
permits has been issued since
Ju n e 22, to date, making an
approximate to ta l o f more
th a n $1,452,000.
This compares with $320,
9'69 fo r th e same period last
year, which included $140,000
for the Lititz Springs swim­ming
pool and $50,000 for the
Wilbur iSuchard Chocolate com­pany.
$463,450 In June
The value of all permits is­sued
during - th e -month end­ing
June 22 came to $463,450,
of which $459,575 was for new
construction and the remainder
for alterations. Included in this
total were 12 homes a t $14,500
each on Golden stre e t to be
built by the Susquehanna Buil­ders,
(Sutter Village.) Of eight
permits issued since June 22,
four are fo r four more houses
in S u tte r Village, accounting
for $58,000 more.
Also included in Ju n e ’s per­mits
are Weis Market, S. Broad
St., and 7th St., $150,000; d ri­ve-
in window for th e Farmers
National Bank and remodeling
off old building, $43,000; and
drive-in window and parking
lot if or Conestoga National
Bank, $35,000. Also listed un­der
new construction are homes
for Clifferd Dudley a t 505 Blue­bird
Rd.; John Keath, 318
Gochenauer St., and Elser Ger­hart,
415 S. Locust St.
April Big Month
-One of the largest months
Lititz experiences was April,
when permits with a total of
$673,000 were issued. This was
the largest -amount issued in
any area of the county, inclu­ding
Lancaster city, which re­ported
$412,624 in permits, and
Manheim T'w:p., which had a
total off $317,700.
Still more new homes are
expected to burgeon within the
'borough limits, according to
Borough manager R. Keith
Armstrong. He reported th a t
John Hogan of Hogan Homes
planned to s ta rt installation of
water lines yesterday in his
development a t Kissel Hill
which is within the borough
limits. When this is completed,
new homes will be started.
Diane Palmer.
The group voted to contri­bute
$10 to the Lancaster
County 4-H Council. Refresh­ments
were served in honor of
Mary Swarr by the Sew and
next meeting will be held to­day
a t 7:30 p.m. a t the home
of Mary Swarr. Fourteen a t­tended
the meeting. ^
L ititz - Manheim
Mary Alice Graybill was
elected Posture Queen of the
Lititz-Manheim Community 4-
H Club held on Thursday even­ing
in F airland School. Joyce
Bowman was runner-up.
Mary Alice will represent
the group a t the County Con­vention
to be held on Field
Day on Ju ly 18 a t Long Park.
Miss Barbara Hershey gave
a, demonstration on Flower
Arrangements. Daniel Hershey
and Linda Peiffer represented
the Club a t the State 4-H Club
Congress held at Pennsylvania
State University.
Thirty-three members a t­tended
and the following adult
advisors, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Sangrey, Mahlon Kreider and
Mfs. Neil Clark. The next
meeting will be held Ju ly 11.
Ever Ready Class
'Cynthia Bucher was selec­ted
as Posture Queen of the
Ever Ready Cooking class held
on Tuesday a t the home off the
leader Mrs. Willis Bucher. She
will compete a t the 4-H Round­up
to be held in Long Park
July 18.
Mrs. Bu'cher gave a demon­stration
on favors and Margar­et
Grulbe made open-tfaced sand­wiches.
The girls made ap ri­cot
coffee cake. Margaret Grube
also led the singing.
Duck Displaced
By Renovations
Even Lititz has its “disposs­essed”
and “ displaced” as a
result of renovations due to
progress.
This time it’s a Mallard duck,
which keeps coming back to
the old homestead, even though
a new home has been found
for her.
When workmen dug out a
hedge fence while making the
new parking lo‘ for the F arm ­ers
National Bank on Monday,
they discovered a d u ck ’s nest
in the hedge, with a duck sit­ting
on the eggs. Workmen
moved the nest to Lititz
Springs Park, the du'cik
kept retu rn in g to the site of
the hedge. Workmen stopped
work and kept p u ttin g her
back on -the nest, but appar­ently
She would have none of
it.
Some people say th a t iff a
duck nest is handled, the mama
duck won't re tu rn to it.
Billy and Pete r Dussinger,
sons of Mr. and Mrs. William
Dussinger, 215 E. End Ave.,
won the prize for the “most
original” in the first annual
baby parade held a t the Lititz
Springs pool on Sunday.
The theme of the ir entry was
“ two peas in a pod.”
The winner of the most com­ical
was David DeWald, son
Of Mr. and Mrs. David DeWald,
206 E. Leaman St., who por­trayed
a TV Commercial, “Do
it again, gian t.”
The prize for the most beau­tiful
was won by Joe Stoyano­vich,
son of Mrs. Betty Stoy-anovieh,
324 S. Broad St. He
was dressed as Ben H ur in a
costume made by his mother.
Loving cups were presented to
the winners in each category.
An entry in i;he comical di­vision
by James Snavely, 629
Kissel Hill Rd., was “ disquali­fied,”
because his “baby,” P at
Mastromatteo, was too old for
the contest, being in his th ir­ties.
Instead, th e two p u t on
a co/mic sk it along with two
liffe guards.
F u tu re Events
A doughnut dip will be held
Saturday a t 10 a.m., with hot
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Evenwel Graduates
From Swiss School
Gerald J. Evenwell, J r., son
off Mr. and Mrs. Gerard J. Ev­enwel,
Zurich, Switzerland,
was graduated from the Ameri­can
Section of In stitu te Mon­tana
in Zuigerberg, Switzerland
on Ju n e 21 as valedictorian of
his class.
He attended the Warwick
Union Elementary school
through th e first six grades
and in 1957 moved with his
family to Düsseldorf, Germany.
He attended schools in Düssel­dorf,
Brussels, Belgium and
Switzerland.
The Evenwel family will vi­sit
in Lititz and Lancaster in
July and Gerard, J r., will re ­main
in this country contin­uing
his education in an Amer­ican
University.
Meter Arrests
On The Decline
Lititz residents a re more
careful about overstaying their
time in metered park in g spaces
than they were a year ago, it
was indicated by the fact that
there were only 47 meter vio­lations
during the month end­ing
June 22, compared with 120
for th e same period last year.
According to the report of
Mayor A rthur S. 'Griswold, M.
D., which comprises the police
report, the re were 13 parking
violations, four auto thefts,
three arre sts fo r disorderly
conduct, two fo r reckless d ri­ving,
and one each fo r la r­ceny
under $5 and excessive
noise.
Six accidents, Including one
fatality, were investigated. Five
juveniles were referred to au th ­orities,
and twb police officers
spent fo u r days in court. The
cruiser travelled 2,378 fo r p a ­tro
l and investigation.
Chief Hicks Urges Precaution
To Prevent Vacation Burglaries
17 Million Gallons
Water Used In June
The water depa rtment pum­ped
a total of 17,155,900 g a l­lons
off water during June, a
daily average of 612,710 gal­lons,
according to the report of
borough manager R. Keith
Armstrong. The maximum day
was May 25, when 774,400 gal­lons
were pumped, and the min­imum
day June 9, with 474,
200 gallons.
The sewer p la n t reported a
total flow of 16,744,400 gal­lons,
a daily average off 598,
014.
This is the time of the year
when burglars and f o w l e r s
have easy “pickin,” said George
Hicks, Lititz Police Chief, to­day.
Most citizens will soon be
going off on week-ends or va­cations
and virtually abandon­ing
th e ir homes to burglars.
Ju n e 30 through July 6 has
been declared by the Lititz Pol­ice
Dept, as Burglary Preven-tion
Week, a period during
which Chief Hicks hopes to
make all homeowners more
aware of t'he precautions they
may take to fru stra te the a t­tempts
of would-be burglars
this summer.
“The unconcerned and care­less
a ttitu d e of many was la r­gely
responsible for the b u r­glaries
committed in our town
last year. Although most peo­ple
didn’t intentionally invite
in tru d e rs to ransack th e ir
home, they might ju s t as well
have hung up a sign saying,
no one’s home, burglars wel­come!”
Chief Hicks said.
A stroll around your neigh­borhood
any day will tell you at
a glance who's away: the ir por­ches
will be Cluttered with cir­culars;
an accumulation of
milk bottles on the stoop; an
unkempt lawn; an empty gar­age
with the door open; or a
bulging mailbox; tip-offs th a t’ll
broadcast “n6 one’s home” to
anyone canvassing. the neigh­borhood.
In the evening, most empty
homes can be spotted too; ju st
look for th e dark houses. I t ’s
a known fact, lig h t is one of
the best deterrents to crime,
yet most homeowners go out
for an evening and leave their
homes completely dark. Or,
they’ll go off for a weekend or
vateation and leave the same
light burning day and night.
No light a t all, or the same
light burning continuously is
a good giveaway “no one is
home.”
A simple, hut effective means
of having light in your home
every evening, is by connecting
an automatic timing device to
one or two lamps. Such a timer
will tu rn a lamp “ on” early in
the evening, then tu rn it “off”
several hours later. With lights
turning on and off during the
evening hours i t ’ll give th e
appearance someone is home
and may avert a possible b ur­glary
attempt!
L ist Precautions
Chief Hicks went on to say
th a t homes and apa rtments ac­count
for more than four of
every ten burglaries. By ob­serving
a few simple precau­tionary
steps, you can red fee
the possibility of a huvigla)c
selecting your dwelling as his
ta rg e t next time you’re away:
Connect a lamp to an auto­matic
timer to tu rn lights in
the home on and off each even­ing.
'Close and lock all doors, in­cluding
porch, gasement and
garage. Use pin-tumbler cyl­inder
locks on outside en tran ­ces
and safety latches on the
windows.
Be sure all screens are fas­tened
from the inside,
around; keep them in a safety
'Never leave valuables lying
deposit box.
And, if you’re leaving for a
week-end or longer, Chief
Hicks also suggest:
■Notify your police d ep a rt­ment
when you’ll be leaving
and how long you expect to
be away.
'Cancel all deliveries, such as
■milk, laundry, cleaning, etc.
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Ask Parents
To Assist At
Playgrounds
P aren ts whose children will
b e participating in the Rec.
Cen te r’s 19&3 Summer play­ground
program are urged to
assist the individual play­ground
le ade r during the six
week program.
P a ren ts who possess skills
in a rts and crafts, story te l­ling,
singing, music, dramatics,
sports, dancing, etc., should
let it be known to the play­ground
supervisor so the le a ­d
e r ¡can Incorporate this in his
overall planning.
P a ren ts may help with ju d ­ging
of various contests, tra n s­portation,
when and if the need
arises, storage of play equip­ment,
water facilities, “good­ies”
fo r playground parties,
etc.P
ersonnel who will be con­ducting
playground activities
this season are as follows:
Lititz Springs Park, Dick
Pohner, Bob Alspach, Barry
Erib, Sue Hendricks. Rothsville,
Dan Ciervo; Brunnerville, Nel­son
Glatfelter; Lions Tot Lot,
Becky Hoover; Warwick Acres
(Rome Road), Rochelle Dietz;
Arts and Crafts, June Smith;
Swimming Instruction, Lucy
Snavely.
Phone Ass ’n
Observel 1th
Anniversary1
The 11th anniversary d in ­ner
oif the Independent Tele­phone
Pioneers Association,
Keystone State Chapter, South-eastern
area, was held Friday
evening, June 21, at the Dutch
Town and Country Inn a t Vin­tage.
Approximately 112 Pio-neers
and the ir guests a tten ­ded.
The Southeastern Area Pio­neers,
those with 15 or more
years oif independent telephone
service, included members from
six regional telephone compan­ies;
Denver and Bphrata, York,
Enterprise, Columbia, Cones­toga,
and Commonwealth. Be­ing
held within its service area,
Commonwealth T e l e p h o n e
Company was the host com­pany
a t this year’s meeting.
Allen W. Ryder, Common­wealth
district manager, Ban­gor,
and past State Pioneelr
President, served as toastmas­ter.
T
hree are a Pioneers, Mrs.
Bertha B. Blair, chairman of
the board and president of the
Denver and Elphrata Telephone
and Telegraph company, John
H. Martin, secretary of the
Enterprise Telephone company,
and Samuel D. Merkey, p la n t
superintendent off the Bethel
and Mt. Aetna Telephone com-anpy,
received special recogni­tion
from the group fo r th e ir
respective 50, 57, and 54 years
oif service in the independent
telephone industry.
M. S. Baker, Commonwealth
vice president, gave a brief wel­coming
address. Introductions
of the Pioneers present was
made by W. A. Frutchey, man­ager
of Commonwealth’s Quar-ryville
district.
E nte rtainment was provided
toy employees of the Bell Tele­phone
Company of Penna.,
Reading district, Richard Col-dern
and Robert Noll, in th e
form of a telephone skit.
REC. CENTER HOURS
The Recreation Center
will be Qlosed from Monday,
Ju ly 1, through Friday, July
5, because of the Antique
Show which will be held
there July 3, 4 and 5.
Summer office hours at
the center will be as fol­lows:
Mondays, 1 to 4 p.m.;
Tuesdays through Fridays,
9 to 12 a.m.; 1 to 4 p.m.;
closed Saturdays.
Community
Calendar
June 27— 7:30 P.M. — Stamp
Club meeting a t th e Re­creation
Center.
Lutheran Church S. S. Pic­nic
at the Lititz Springs
Park.
7:00 P.M. — Jaycees meet­ing,
Becker’s Woods,
June, 30— 10:00 A.M. — Lititz
Church of |the Brethren,
Christian Citizenship Ser­vice,
Dr. Wayne Glick,
speaker. Haldetnan Reunion
a t the Lititz Springs Park.
July 3, 4 & 5— Antique Show
a t the Recreation Center.
July 4—F ourth Celebration at
the Lititz Springs Park.
Public Library Hour»
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
STORE HOURS
Downtown stores a re now
open a ll day Thursday and
Friday u n til 9 p.m. Most
stores a re closed Wednesday
afternoon instead of T hurs­day,
as formerly.