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PLAYGROUND ROYALTY. These children were crowned Kings and Queens of their res­pective
playgrounds at the annual playground picnic last week. Left to right: Itothsville King
and Queen, Leon Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Martin and Barbara Gingrich, daughter of
Mr and Mrs. Daniel Gingrich, both of Lititz R4; Brunncrville King and Queen, Newpher Shirker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Newpher Shirker, and Debbie Laser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Laser,
both of Brunnerville; Lititz Springs King and Queen, Carol Neidermyer, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Neidermyer, Lititz R4, and Kenny Stauffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Stauffer,
54 E. Center St. _______________________ _
Crown Kings & Queens pfc. Knight
At Playground Picnic To Attend
Annapolis
Private first class Glenn B.
Knight, USMC, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn F. Knight, 308 N.
Elm St., Lititz, has received an
appointment to the U. S. Naval
Academy at Annapois, it was
announced by the U. S. Navy
yesterday.
Pfc. Knight, eighteen, h a s
been accepted to the U. S. Na­val
Academy Preparatory sch-
The final week of Summer
playground was climaxed by
the annual picnic and the
crowning of the king and queen
from each area playground last
week.
At the Lititz Springs P^rk,
Kerry Stauffer and Carol Nei­dermyer
were crowned kinfc and
queen; from Brunnerville, New­pher
Shirker and Debbie Las­er;
Rothsville, Leon Martin and
Barb Gingrich; and the Lions
Playground Tot Lot king and
queen were George Weaver and
Lynn Brewer. -
The picnic was held last
Thursday with 120 children
fro mthe four area playgrounds
participating. The all-day affair
began with swimming at 9 a,m.
through 11:30 a.m., then the
picnic, followed by games and
contests in the afternoon. . :
On behalf of the Lititz Com­munity
Center and the play­ground
staff, Lee F. • Raffens-per,
director, thanked local mer­chants
for making this day pos­sible.
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The following stores donated
five pounds of hot dogs;
Ranck's meat market, East End
market, Kopp’s grocery, Kauff­man’s
market. Hoffman’s gro­cery
and Heistand’s market
donated six pounds of hot dogs
“ach; Manbeck baking Co., 30
iken hot dog buns; Lancas­ter
Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc.,
ten cases coke; Pensupreme
Sign Replace»
Lone Trailer
The lone trailer which has
reposed on property owned by
E. William Pontz, Lititz Pike
near the Millport Road has been
removed, and a huge advertis­ing
sign is being put up by
Advertising, Inc., - Lancaster.
Pontz had planned to put up
a trailer court in the location,
which he purchased from Sam­uel
High some months ago.
However, there were a number
of protests, as well as unoffi­cial
reports that the water sup­ply
was not pure.
Pontz declined to comment
on what is being planned for
the location, except to say he
was not starting the trailer
court now.
Dairy, 36 dozen popsicles;
Burkholder potato chips, two
cans; and Stauffer Vending
Machine Co., two boxes of
candy or approximately 200
candy bars.
Park Playground
The Lititz Springs Park play­ground
reported the following
winners for the week:
Pet Show, 5, 6, 7 age group:
Best trained and best groomed
dog, Jeff Mull; biggest and
longest tail, Jim and Debbie
Wolf; smallest, dog and short-
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•Trustées of Lititz Springs
Park will tour the park on
Sunday to - determine what
nèeds to be done in the way of
maintenance, Howard Redcay,
chairman; said following t h e
meeting of the board of trus­tees
Tuesday night.
The large trees have not
been trimmed since the reno­vation
of the park in 1956, and
steps will be taken to remove
dead branches. Several years
ago some of the elms suffered
blight,> but ..this, year none ap­parently
have been affected,
Redcay said., . " ■ ' t r
The triisteès received a let­ter
from the American. Busi­ness
Club of, Lititz explaining
the club’s plans for building a
ball diamond at’ the park for
the Little League. The club will
use soil excavated in the build­ing
of the Warwick High Sch­ool
running track, the earth
already being piled at the site.
Theÿ also except to purchase
additional earth for fill. Work
vyill begin soon, and is expec­ted
to be completed by Spring.
The ABC asked the trus­tees
to ban parking next year
on the diamond during the
Fourth of July celebration, be­cause
if there would be wet
weather the newly filled area
might not be able to bear the
weight of many cars. Later on,
when the ground becomes firm
parking probably could be re­sumed,
it was said. The follow­ing
year will be the crucial
year, it was pointed out. Trus­tees*
will meet with club to
discuss the project.
New School
Planned For
Lititz Area
A new elementary School for
the Warwick Union District is
in prospect, it was revealed
when the school board took the
initial steps for its construc­tion
last week.
The school will be located in
the southern end of the bor­ough
in the Kissel Hill area, al­though
a definite site has not
been selected, it was said.
Land for the school probably
would have to be annexed ad­jacent
to the borough, and sew­er
and water facilities would
be needed, according to Wilbur
Graybill, chairman of the build­ing
committee. Tentative plans
have been sent to the state for
approval.
At the same time the board
set Monday, Aug 26 as t h e
date when specifications for
the new high school addition
will be available to contractors
with Sept. 26 set as the date
for the bid opening on this
project.
G. Marlin Spaid, supervis­ing
principal, said the board
will submit a request to the
Department of Public Instruc­tion,
Harrisburg, for an inspec­tion
number on the new ele­mentary
school thus providing
the district with a priority
number on this project.
The proposed school, he said,
would contain 20 classrooms of
which two will be for kinder­garten
classes and the remain­der
for grades one through
six. To show the need for a new
elementary school Spaid ex­plained
the district is now lea­sing
five rooms from local
churches for elementary clas­ses
and the anticipated enroll­ment
for the 1964-65 term is
such that three more additional
rooms will be required.
In other business, the sch­ool
board awarded a contract
to Bomberger’s Elm, for new
flooring in the principal’s off­ice
and the girl’s rest room at
the local elementary school for
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olorful Marine Band
Will Present Concert
Résidents of the Lititz area
have a real treat in store on
Tuesday, September 17, when
the famous 165-year-old Mar­ine
Band will appear on t h e
stage of the Warwick High Sch­ool
Auditorium.
Presented by the Lititz Wo­man’s
Club to raise funds for
the Lititz Community Center
Building Fund, this program is
certain to be one of the out­standing
musical entertain­ments
of the year for the en­tire
family.
; The band is defined as the
world's foremost “military sym­phonic
concert band” and was
aptly described by the music
critic of the Forth Worth Star
Telegram, E. Clyde Whitlock,
as a “superb musical instru­ment”.
Audiences are constant­ly
surprised by the sweeping
diversity of music which this
concert band presents in all
their programs.
Credit for the outstanding
performances must be paid to
the director, Colonel Albert
Schoepper, who started making
these tours in 1934, a master
at program-building. His years
of experience as soloist and
then assistant conductor have
made it possible for him to
study audience r e a c t i o n
throughout the country and to
plan programs to include all
the music “they like to hear”.
The “they” includes the
young people of the present
“hootenany” crowd who t e l l
us they wouldn’t want to miss
the student matinee because
“well — this Band is \ differ­ent”,
as well as the older ci­tizens
who confess that t h e
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Park Service By
Holiness Church
The Lititz Holiness Church
will conduct the religious ser­vice
of the Warwick Associa­tion
of Churches in Lititz
Springs Park on Sunday at 7
p.m.
The Rev. Richard Maurer,
pastor, will speak on the
theme,” God’s Plan for H i s
People.” Special music will be
provided by members of t h e
congregation.
Borough To Effect Saving
Through Bond Refinancing
Borough council at its meet­ing
next Tuesday night, will
discuss several major projects,
among them refinancing of wa­ter
bonds to result in a sub­stantial
saving, a proposal to
test the Lititz Springs stream,
and a report from the state on
the languishing plans to repair
North Broad St.
A proposal to refinance $372,
000 worth of water bonds that
are presently outstanding would
involve a total reduction to the
borough of $60,871.30 over the
next 20 years, it was explained.
Glenn B. Knight
o’ol at Bainbridge, Md., prior
to attending the Naval Acad­emy.
He had been serving as
the Executive Officer’s orderly
aboard the heavy attack air­craft
carrier USS Independence
prior to his selection for the
schooh He was flown from the
Independence on August 8,
while the ship was enroute to
the Mediterranean for a seven
months’ cruise. After taking
leave at home he will report
to the Prep school by Septem­ber
1.
Upon successfully comple­ting
the nine months’ Prep
School, Knight will attend the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
After four years of military
and academic studies are com­pleted
successfully he will gra­duate
with a Bachelor of Sci­ence
degree in Engineering
and will be commissioned as
an Ensign in the United States
Navy or as a second Lieuten­ant
in the Marine Corps, which­ever
he chooses.
A 1962 graduate of Warwick
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New Manager
Is Sought For
Finance Co.
Stockholders of the Courtesy
Finance Company, Lititz, are
expected to ask the Inter­nal
lonal Rediscount Corp. of
Baltimore to furnish the Lititz
firm with a new manager so
that it can continue in business,
it was learned yesterday.
The president and manager,
Herbert U. Moore, has been
missing a little . over two
months, since June 19, and is
charge with fraudulent conver­sion,
forgery and embezzlement
from the local company. A spe­cial
audit revealed a shortage
of $297,169, according to W.
Hensel Brown, Jr., attorney for
the Courtesy Finance Co. Of
the total, $252,577 was in ac­counts
backed by International
Rediscount Corp. and $44,591
from accounts backed by Cour­tesy
Finance Co. Of 615 confi­dential
accounts, Brown said 604
are definitely “phony.”
The car which Moore ap­parently
drove to New York and
abandoned was returned to Lit­itz
last week. It was reported
that it probably will not be
sold but will be used by an
employee of the company.
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GOP CANDIDATES HERE: Two candidatesfor county offices are shown with members of
the Women’s Republican Club of Lancaster County at their luncheon meeting Tuesday in the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel, Left to right: Joseph Martin, candidate for Register of Wills; Mrs C. Edwin
Ireland, president of the club; Mrs. Mary Buch and Mrs. Kathryn Stroud, members of the Lititz
Club, and Carl B. Musselman, candidate for county treasurer.
G. O. P. Women Hear
Talks By Candidates
GLASSES FOUND
A pair of gold-rimmed bi­focal
glasses were found on
Front St. near Elm, it was re­ported
by Police Chief George
C. Hicks. The owner may have
them by showing proof of
claim.
Two candidates for county­wide
offices were guest spea­kers
at the luncheon meeting
of the...Women’s Republican
Club of Lancaster County held
Tuesday at the General Sutter
Hotel, Lititz.
Carl B. Musselman, candi­date
for county treasurer, spoke
on the growth of industry in
Lancaster county and Joseph
Martin, candidate for Register
of Wills, spoke on the work of
that official.
Mrs. C. Edwin Ireland, Blos­som
Hill, president of the club,
presided at the luncheon and
at a board meeting which pre­ceded
it. She announced that
the annual summer party, held
last week, was a great finan­cial
success and gala event.
The Political Activities com­mittee
announced that Mrs.
Theodore Thomas will teach a
^course in practical politics in
October on four successive;
Thursdays in the club rooms,
29 N. Prince St., Lancaster,
from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Regis­trations
for the free course
may be made with Mrs. Esther
Gordy, secretary of the club,
at the headquarters.
It was announced that a
luncheon meeting will be held
September 17 at the Spanish
Tavern, Quarryville, at 12:15
p.m. An opportunity will be gi­ven
to meet some of the can­didates,
and slides will be
shown of the candidates. The
membership is invited. Reser­vations
may be made through
the club rooms.
The Southeast Regional Pol­itical
Activity Conference" will
be held September 19 at the
George Washington Motel East,
Trevose, Pa. Reservations may
be made at the clubrooms.
Lititz Odd Fellows
Will Have Outing
Lititz Lodge of Odd Fellows,
No. 1050, will hold its annual
picnic for members and their
families on Monday, August 26,
at 6:30 p.m. at Foltz’ Cottage
in Brubaker Valley.
Transportation will be fur­nished
from the hall at 6 p.m.
There will be games and re­freshments.
Prices High
For Auction
A crowd estimated at 1,000
persons enjoyed the unique
auction put on by the Retailers
Association last Thursday even­ing.
T
he sale was unique because
the only dollars which could
be spent were “Lititz Confeder­ate
dollars” which had been
given away free with; equal
purchases during the two weeks
prior to the sale. Lucky people
who made large real purchases,
especially on double dollar day,
were present at the sale with
huge fistfuls of the play money.
Consequently, prices went
sky high for many items. For
example, a card table sold for
$175, perfume $150; a lawn
spreader, over $700; water­melons
up to $135 each, a sew­ing
kit, $75; a swim suit $190;
a . basket of groceries,. $275;
wall plaques, $45 each — all
“Confederate” money of course.
' The Retailers’ committee urg­ed
people to save the “Con­federate”
money they may still
have, in case there is another
auction. The items were all
donated by local merchants for
the sale.
The Jaycees sponsored a
chicken barbecue downtown
Saturday night, for which mer­chants
gave out tickets with a
value of ten cents toward the
purchase of a half-chicken.
Traffic Signals
In Operation
New traffic signals are now
in operation as of yesterday
noon on Broad Street, and have
been approved by state engi­neers.
Lights have been placed at
the intersections of Second and
Broad streets and Lincoln and
Broad Streets, which are moti­vated
by electronic devices. The
lights are set for green on the
main highway 24 hours a day,
and are changed by cars com­ing
from the side streets. When
the car hits an electronic de­vice
the metal >in the car re­ceives
a signal and transmits
the signal to the light, and
changes it from red to green.
Each car has 5 seconds to cross
the intersection. A bicycle will
not set off the device however,
borough officials said, but a
motorcycle will.
Lights also have been placed
at the square, Broad and Main
Streets, and are not yet quite
finished, as additional parts are
still needed. There will be a
timing device which will hold
up northbound traffic on Broad
St. in order that southbound
traffic can make a left turn
onto' Main Street. These lights
are not electronic and will
flash amber from 11 p.m. to
6 a.m.
The lights at Orange and
Broad and Main and Cedar have
been augmented by placing
lights on each corner, so if one
set is inoperable, the other set
will work. These lights also
will flash from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
The proposal is being worked
out through the Co n e s t o g a
Bank, because a prior proposal
with the brokerage firm of Kid­der,
Peabody and Co., did not
work out, according to Borough
Manager R. Keith Armstrong.
Under the new proposition,
the bonds will be paid off in
20 years, instead of 24 years,
and the total debt service each
year, including principal and
interest of three per cent will
be between $2000 and $3000.
For example, if the present
system were continued, pay­ments
in 1964 would be $28,
802, while under the new sche­dule
they would be $26,600. In
1965, instead of $29,282, they
would be $26,544. In addition,
the new arrangement will make
it possible to redeem the debt
much earlier and thus further
savings will be made available
for future redemption.
To Survey Stream
Council will discuss a letter
from H. F. Huth Engineers Inc.,
outlining an industrial waste
survey they will make in the
Lititz Springs stream. They
propose to take samples of
water and measurements of the
current, and if it is found that
any industry is discharging un­stable
inorganic wastes, it may
be necessary to determine the
chemical oxygen demand as
well as the biochemical oxygen
demand. The firm said the cost
of the survey would be on a per
diem basis, and should not ex­ceed
$1500. If pollution is
found, further tests will be
made.
To Fix Street?
Two state senators are work­ing
in behalf of Lititz in try*
ing to get the State to repair
North Broad Street from the
square to the borough limits,
a distance of eight-tenths of a
mile. State Senator Richard A.
Snyder, who is borough solici­tor,
and State Senator Thomas
A. Ehrgood, who represents
Lebanon and Northern Larcas—-
ter county, including Lititz,
have both written letters to
Secretary of Highways Henry
D. Harral, asking for action. It
has been fifteen years since
the borough first asked t h e
State to repair the street, as
it is part of Route 501, and
there have been many prom­ises,
but no action. Most re­cent
examples: In January,
1962, R.E. Eisminger, Deputy
District Engineer of the High­ways
Department, said it would
be done in 1962. In December,
1962, the state said plans would
be ready in May of 1963. In
June, it said plans would be
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Park To Sponsor
Chicken Barbecue
The annual Labor Day Week­end
Chicken Barbecue will be
held in Lititz Springs Park on
Saturday, August 31. This af­fair
is sponsored by the Board
of Directors of the park with
proceeds being used for park
improvement.
Graybill Miller will be the
barbecuer and dinners and
take-outs will be available from
4 to 8 p.m.
The Lititz Community Band,
directed by John W. Keehn,
will present a program of music
from the bandshell beginning
at 4 P.M.
Forfeits, Rain Mar
MUSICIANS TO APPEAR HERE: Above is shown a portion of the woodwind section of the
United States Marine Band which will appear here on September 17 under the auspices of the
Lititz Woman’s Club,
Enroll 2961
School Pupils
A total of 2961 students have
enrolled in the Warwick Union
School District for the fall term,
it was announced by G. Marlin
Spaid, supervising principal.
This is 130 more than last
year.
Of the total, 1773 are elemen­tary
pupils and 1183 are in the
high school.
Any pupils who have not yet
registered are asked to do so
at once, and not wait until the
opening of school, Mr. Spaid
said.
The schools will open on
Wednesday, September 4, when
there will be a full day of
school, with the cafeterias
operating. The doors of the
elementary schools will open at
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BaseballT ournament
The fourth Warwick Recrea­tion
Baseball Tournament ran
afoul of “Old Man Weather”
Tuesday evening, making ne­cessary
some rescheduling.
However, the championship
games in each division are still
slated for 1 p.m. Saturday at
Wilbur Field.
The revised schedule follows:
Midget-Midget
Last night: Brunnerville Bra­ves
vs. Salvation Army; To­night:
Mountville vs. IBEW:
Friday: (semifinals) Landisvillc
vs. Holtwood at the Lititz
Springs Park Softball Field;
Friday: (semifinals) winner of
Wednesday’s game vs. winner
of Thursday’s game at Wil­bur
Field; Saturday: (Champ­ionship
Game) the winners in
Friday’s two games meet at
Wilbur Field.
Junior-Midget
Last night: Brunnerville Ti­gers
vs. Manheim; Tonight:
(semifinals) winner of Wednes­day’s
game vs. Anderson; Fri­day:
(semifinals) Lititz White
Sox vs. Lititz Indians; Satur­day:
(Championship Game)
winner of Thursday’s game vs.
winner of Friday’s game at
Wilbur Field.
The results up to, and in­cluding,
Monday night’s games
follow:
Lititz Yanks 10 -
Manheim Township 40 & 8 <
Rick Sipe struck out 15, hit
a homcrun and two singles, and
scored twice to star for t h e
Yankees. Rick’s batterymate.
Bob LaVigne, homered and
singled, and Risser and Gord-ley
each had two hits for the
winners.
Christiana 20 -
Rothsville Orioles 5
Seventeen basehits, four each
by shortstop Diem and catcher
Canon, overwhelmed the Orio­les.
Christiana scored six in
the fourth and eight in t h e
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