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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 Xdtltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, August 29, 1963 7 c en ts a Copy; $3.00 p e r y e a r by m all
rlth ln L an c a s te r County ; $3.50 elsewhere. 12 Pages — No. 20
Woodridge Wins Second
Consecutive Championship
For the second consecutive
time, the Woodridge Swim
Team outstroked all competition
in the annual Lancaster City-
County swim meet Saturday at
the Millersville Lions Club pool.
Woodridge ran up a total of
243 points in the second annual
Lancaster Aquatic Club-spon­sored
event to win the league
trophy. John Apple, coach of
the winning team accepted the
championship trophy from meet
director, Jack H. Michael.
In helping his team to vic­tory,
Bill Eiwen broke two re­cords
by swimming the 25 me­ter
backstroke in 19 seconds
and the 25 meter breaststroke
in 20.9 seconds. Lydia Kowale-wski
swam the 25 meter back-stroke
in 20.0 seconds for a
meet record.
Woodridge swimmers captur­ed
three first places, eight
seconds, seven thirds, eight
fourths, seven fifths, and 12
sixth placings. They went on to
add three of the relay cham-.
pionships, one second place
and four thirds to their host
of winning points. Time in the
100 meter relay for girls under
10 and, the 200 meter relay
for girls under 14 were new
records for the meet.
In the 100 meter relay for
girls 10 and under a record
timé of 1:14.7 was set. T h e
Woodridge team was composed
of Donna Ross, Lydia Kowal-ewski,
Ann Rannels and Marie
Burkholder.
In the 200 meter relay for
girls 14 and under a record
time of 2:14.9 was set by Nina
Lausch, Debbie Essig, Chris
Wetzel and Beverly Hanna.
Twenty-seven new meet re­cords
were set and two were
tied. Four swimmers in addition
to Eiwen set two records each.
Finishing second to Wood­ridge
was Skyline with 212, and
third place went to Brookside
with 176. Others finished as
follows: Lancaster C o u ntry
Club, 113; Willowood, 97; Mill­ersville,
72; Ephrata, 43; Over­look,
39; Media Heights, 27;
Locust Heights, 22; Adamstown,
18; Lititz Springs, 15; Lancas­ter
YMCA, 6; Conestoga Coun­try
Club, 3; Ko-Ka-Le-Ko of
Denver, 2.
Medals were presented to
first, second and third place
winners, while ribbons went to
winners fourth through sixth.
Other Lititz swimmers winn­ing
medals were as follows:
Freestyle
25 Meter girls 8 and under
— 2. Anne Rannels, W.
25 M. girls 10 and under —
3. Marie Burkholder, W.
25 M. boys 10 and U n d e r *—
3. Jeff Peters, W.
50 M. girls 14 and under *—
2. Nina Lausch, W.
100 M. girls 17 and under :—
3. Wilma Owens, • W.
Backstroke
25 M. girls 8 and under —
2, Anne Rannels, W.
25 M. girls 10 and under —
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Front row is the Woodridge 100 meter relay team for girls 10 and under which set a
record on Saturday at the City-County swim meet. (Left to right) Donna Ross, Lydia Kowalew­ski,
Ann Rannels and Marie Burkholder.
Back row is the Woodridge 200 meter relay team for girls 14 and under who also set a
meet record. (Left to right) Beverly Hanna, Nina Lausch, Debbie Essig, and Chris Wetzel.
Manne Band Has Place
In Hearts Of The Young
Two Woodridge City-County Swim meet winners were
(left) Lydia Kowalewski who swam the 25 meter backstroke
for a new record and Bill Eiwen who broke two records, the
25 meter backstroke and the 25 meter breaststroke.'
Over 1,500 letters a month
prove that the world-famous
United States Marine Band
still holds a very special place
in the hearts of young Ameri­cans.
The letters received by
the Band office may vary in
style from typewritten requests
for information from college
students to simple, scrawled
notes for “some pitchers of the
Marine Band", but they all de­note
interest in hte country’s
oldest military symphonic or­ganization.
The Marine Band will appear
in Lititz at a special matinee
concert for students of all
ages Tuesday, September 17;-
at the Warwick High School
auditorium. The evening con­cert
— for the “young in heart”
is set for 8:00 p.m. The net
proceeds from both concerts
will be used toward the Build­ing
Fund of the Lititz Com-;
munity Center.
The Band has caught t h e
fancy and imagination of youth
since its inception in 1798.
Students soon find studying the
Band’s history can help them
Woodridge staff accepts trophies for winning the Lancaster City-County Swimming Meet.
(Left to right) Jack Michael, meet director presenting meet trophy to John Apple, Woodridge
^pach; Carol Kowalewski, co-coach and Jack White, pool manager, holding league trophy.
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ee Dunkle
rites From
Far East
Even though a month-old,
copies of the Lititz Record-
Express are most welcome to
Lee. Dunkle, former Warwick
High School music teacher, who
is now teaching in '« school in
Kyoto, Japan.
He writes that the articles
about his Lititz- friends and
former students are “most en­joyable”,
and that it is the best
way he knows of to keep up
with current events in Lititz.
Japan, ne says, publishes at
least four English-speaking
'newspapers, so it is not too
difficult to keep up with world
events.
’“Needless to say, one gets a
considerably different view­point
of American affairs from
this side of the world, and it
does an American a world of
good to see him as others some­times
see him,” Dunkle says. Friday night to direct a small
“But the Japanese people and
newspapers are usually friendly
and sympathetic to American
viewpoints and our lives and
economies are very closely in­tertwined.
I was surprised to
discover that the circulation of
.my newspaper is over 41,000.
It wduid be interesting to know
how many of those copies are
read by Japanese people. The
English-speaking newspaper is
particularly important to me
when one realizes that the only
radio available is FEN, the
American Armed Forces Far
East Network. It -originates
from Tokyo, and I sometimes
have difficulty getting clear re­ception
in Kyoto, a six-hour
ride by express train. Try as I
may, I still can understand lit­tle
or nothing of Japanese
news and weather commenta­tors.”
Mir. Dunkle tells about a
church supper —: the Japanese
Version of a “covered dish so­cial”
— which was held at
the Yamato Kyokai (Church) in
Gakuencho, Nara, Japan, about
a 35-minute train ride from
Kyoto, where he goes every
learn the history of their
country, for the Marine Band
has played in the White House
for every President since John
Adams. Since music is now ac­cepted
part of the school curri­culum,
the Marine Band no
longer has to be concerned ab­out
developing students into po­tential
recruits i |,miiiiilii III Tl'li
files of Lt.
Col. Albert Schoepper, Direc­tor
of the Band, are filled with
applications from high school
students, college graduates and
members of other professional
music organizations. With so
many applicants and only ab­out
three vacancies a year, the
Marine Band now does its part
in maintaining interest in mus­ic
by helping young people
learn music appreciation via
the specially planned student
matinees. Always colorful and
entertaining, they just natur­ally
evoke students’ enthus­iasm
and love for the best in
music. Much of the Band’s ap­peal
to the youth of today can
be credited to Colonel Schoep­per,
for he devotes much time
and thought to these programs
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community chorus sponsored by
the church.
Last year this chorus was
directed by James Camp, an
American missionary who is a
friend of Gordon Burkey of
Lititz. The supper was in the
nature of a “farewell party”
for the Camp family when they
recently returned to the United
States for a furlough. The idea
for the covered dish social was
brought back by the minister,
Rev. Ichiro Saito, after he visit­ed
America.
Dunkle says that once a
month the congregation gets
together for a similar social.
He feels this church is rather
unique in Japan, being siuated
in the center of a completely
new community whei^e many
new homes and apartments are
still being built.
“One of the founders of the
church who • visited America
found that the church is often
the center of activities for many
small American towns, so he re­turned
with the idea of having
this church serve the same
function in Gakuencho,” Dunkle
says. “Needless to say, with on-
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Lititz Springs
Pool Organizes
Social Club
A group of members of the
Lititz Springs pool met at the
pool last Wednesday, (August
21) to organize a permanent
club to carry on various acti­vities,
social as well as aqua­tic.
Officers were nominated, and
other nominations are being
asked for at the next meeting,
scheduled for September 12.
Anyone also may nominate of­ficers
by calling the pool of­fice,
it was announced.
Those nominated last week
are as follows: for president,
Don McGarvey; for vice presi­dent,
Curtis Long; for secre­tary,
Mrs. Marie Kalenich; for
treasurer, Ralph Pfautz.
The purpose of the organic
zation is to promote social ac­tivities
of the pool members on
a year-round basis; to improve
and maintain the recreational
facilities at the pool site, and
to plan and promote related ac­tivities
at the pool.
The membership will be
open to all members of t h e
Lititz Community Pool. A
board of directors will consist
of all officers plus three mera-bers-
at- large, and the pool
manager is automatically a
member of the board.
Board meetings will take
place once a month, and club
meetings twice a year — in
the spring to plan and set up
the summer program, and in
the fall to review the summer
program and plan the winter
activities. The president wi l l
have the power to call both
board and organization meet­ings.
Committees will be names as
follows: properties, swim team,
summer activities and winter
activities. A newsletter will be
gent out to members monthly.
The meeting September 12
will be held at 7 p.m. at the
pool. All season ticket holders
are asked to attend, and bring
their suits, weather permitting.
In the event of rain the meet­ing
will be held indoors, the
place 1o be named later.
Boro Council Vetoes Pedestrian
Lights At Broad & Main Streets
Borough Counicl at its meet­ing
Tuesday night decided that
pedestrian lights were not ne-cesssary
at the intersection of
Broad and Main Streets.
Many complaints from citi­zens
had been made that pe­destrians
had difficulty cross­ing
the intersection.
Police Chief George Hicks
contacted Wednesday stated
that, “as the lights now exist
they do not provide adequate
protection for the pedestrian.”
Council had previously deci­ded
against pedestrian lights
as being too costly.
Although, this original esti­mate
was for a full stop of all
traffic so pedestrians could
cross in any direction. Later
estimates as to the cost of a
limited pedestrian stop, as ex­ists
at most intersections, have
been substantially lower.
In other business Council
strayed from its present policy
and approved a request from
Carl Wolf, 427 North Alley, to
provide his property and two
others with water.
The three properties are not
connected to the sewer system
while Wolf, his wife and six
Permits Total
$38,170. So Far
In August
Building permits issued to
date in August totalled $38,
170.00, of which $29,725.00 was
for new,' construction, and $8;
445.00 for remodeling, it was
announced by R. Keith Arm­strong,
borough manager,
The ” 7~|T iifriii1 ......" ~~'u
o new houses for Leon
W. Meek, 509 N. Water St., at
$13,000. and Robert Balmer,
508 Robin Road, at $14,500.; a
new garage for Glenn McEl-roy,
$1,100.; outside stairway
for Theodore Frey at $175. and
Lloyd Grille, 432 E. Main St.,
$950.
The remodeling permits were
issued to John Garber, 143 S.
Spruce St., new porch floor;
A. Reid Stoner, 148 Spruce St.,
alterations to kitchen, etc.;
Ralph M. Hoffman, 129 S. Ce­dar
St., new roof; Moravian
Congregation new roof on
house; Long and Bomberger,
100 Kleine St., re-roof shed;
Elmer Bomberger, 217 S.
Broad St., siding and insula­tion;
Mary Bohr, 15 W. Or­ange
St., replace outside stairs;
M. B. Shreiner, 216 S. Spruce
St., support for house; John
Bender, 205 S. Locust St., add
kitchen, move garage; Theo­dore
Frey, 234 S. Broad St.,
make back entrance; and Mel­vin
Eichclberger, 24 E. Lin­coln
Ave., replace porch.
Local Boy
Held In
Auto Thefts
A fourteen-year-old Lititz
youth, who was awaiting a
hearing before juvenile authori­ties
on charges of stealing four
cars prior to June 13, was ar­rested
in Manheim last Thurs­day
night and implicated in six
other auto thefts since then.
Chief of Police George Hicks,
who withheld the name of the
youth, said the boy and a sev­enteen-
year-old companion were
arrested driving a car stolen
from a Lititz garage earlier
this week. /
Recent Thefts
An investigation today of six
auto thefts in recent weeks in
the Lititz area implicated the
pair, Hicks said.
The car in which the two
youths were caught Thursday
was stolen from William B.
Fry, Lititz garage operator.
Hicks said other autos the
pair is accused of stealing dur­ing
the last month and a half
were owned by:
Herbert Long, 9 Lemon St.,
Lititz, an auto stolen by both
June 30 and abandoned after a
“jqy ride” on a Lititz Street.
Abandoned Near Field
Harry Morgan, 108 S. Cedar
St., Lititz, an auto stolen by
fourteen year old July 25 and
abandoned near a cornfield a
mile from Lititz.
Robert Watts, 414 Linden St.,
Lititz, an auto stolen by both
youths, also found abandoned
near the borough.
Howard Mowrer, 21 W.
Orange St., Lititz, stolen by
both Aug. 7 and used in a
burglary at Penryn.
And the seventh auto stolen
last week, also was owned by
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Moment Of Silent Prayer And
Pledge Of Allegiance Expected
As Opening School Exercises
It was indicated Wednesday by a member of the
School Board that opening exercises at Warwick
Schools would consist of a moment of silent prayer
followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
The expected policy was announced following
the State Attorney General’s ruling concerning reading
of the Bible and the Lord’s Prayer. Several other
school districts in Lancaster County hatre already in­dicated
they would follow a similar policy.
A school hoard member stated that a meeting
of the Warwick Board would probably be held and he
expected this would be the policy adopted.
G. Marlin Spaid, Supervising Principal, had re­commended
a similar policy at the last school board
meeting if the state ruled as was expected.
Board members decided at the time to await the
state ruling.
As several board members and school officials
stated, you may not like the ruling, but it is the “law
of the land” as declared by the Supreme Court and the
law must be followed.
SchoolOpens
Wednesday
All schools in the Warwick
Union District will open for a
full day next Wednesday, super­vising
principal G. Marlin Spaid
said this week.
Cafeterias will offer meals
to students on the first day,
with lunches at 35 cents and
milk at four cents. Pupils will
be expected to pay for meals
on a day to day basis, Spaid
said.
The doors of the elementary
schools will open at 8:40 a.m.,
and classes will start at 8:50
a.m. At the high school, doors
will open at 8 a.m. and classes
start at 8:15 a.m.
Assignments
High School students will re­port
as follows: Grade 12, audi­torium,
center section; Grade
11, auditorium, left section;
Grade 10, auditorium, right sec­tion;
Grade 9, cafeteria; Grade
8, gymnasium, right side; Grade
7, gymnasium, left side.
Children going to the Lititz
elementary school will be assig­ned
to classrooms as follows:
First Grade pupils will report
to the auditorium and their
teacher will take them to the
classroom; second grade pupils
will report to the same class
rooms they were in last year;
third grade pupils will report
to the cafeteria and their tea­cher
will take them to the
classroom; fourth grade pupils
will report to the same class­room
they were in last year;
fifth and sixth grade pupils will
report to the gymnasium for
their classroom assignments.
At the John Beck and Roths-ville
elementary schools lists of
pupils will be posted by the
classroom door. These buildings
are small enough that the chil­dren
will be able to find their
rooms easily. Some children in
the upper grade will help the
younger pupils find their ropms.
All parents of first grade
children in all schools are re­quested
to pin to the child a
card with the child’s full name
on it.
Parents with Kindergarten
children will receive a letter
telling them when to bring
their children and meet the
teacher, Spaid said.
School Bus
Routes Set
Except for the following
changes and changes of which
parents will be notified, the
school bus routes and t ime
schedules will remain essential­ly
the same as last year accor­ding
to Walter H. Texter, Jr.,
elementary school principal.
New students are asked to re­port
to the stop nearest their
homes.
The K-6 Bus (Kissel Hill-
Brubaker development) will
stop on New Haven Drive near
the corner of Mayfield a n d
New Haven Drives. This stop
will be in addition to the us­ual
stops at Brubaker and New
Haven Drives, and Wood and
New Haven Drives. Students
residing in this area east of
the Owl Hill Road, and who
last year waited for their bus
at Buehter’s Garage, should re­port
to this new stop or to
one of the other two stops in
the development. Elementary
school students in this area
who live west of the Owl Hill
Road will ride the K-5 b u s
which will stop at Buchter’s
Garage at approximately 8:15.
Texter also asked that t h e
Safety (walking) Patrol of the
6th grade at Lititz Elementary
this year report to the elemen­tary
School Auditorium next
Tuesday, September 3, at 3 p.m.
Chicken Bar-B-Q
On Sat. By
Park Trustees
A chicken barbecue will be
held this Saturday in the Lit­itz
Springs Park from 4:00
P.M. to 8:00 P.M. sponsored by
the Board of Trustees of the
Park. Proceeds will be used for
Park improvements. Regular
platters for adults and children
will be served in the park.
There will also be take-outs.
The Lititz Community Band
will hold a band concert in the
Bandshell starting at 4:00.
First Grade
Assignments
First grade assignments for
the entire school district were
released today by Warwick Un­ion.
School officials requested
that all parents of first grade
children pin to the child a
card with the child’s full
name on jt.
First grade pupils will re­port
to the Auditorium and
their teacher will take them
to the classroom.
Miss Elizabeth Workman
Ronald Adams) Gail Baldwin,
Glenn Bergman, Michael Char­les,
Douglas Deibler, Harry
Galen Hess, Robert Hoffman,
Jill Keath, Robert Keller, Debra
Kreiter, Kathy May, Richard C.
Martin, Karen Miller, Kevin
Miller, Brian Morgan, Gregory
Newswanger, Cheryl Ober, Bon­nie
Oberholtzer, Kevin Root,
Douglas Royer, Sharon Seitz,
Dennis Shaub, Cindy Shreiner,
Cindy Stoner, Judy Weaver,
Penny Whitcraft, Th oma s
Young.
Miss Mary Sturgis
Robert Bowermaster, Bradley
Brubaker, John Bucher, Danette
Foltz, Catherine Gockley, Mich­ael
Gross, Brian Grumbling
Jean Huff, Teresa Ingram, Con­nie
Klos, Craig Lawson, John
LeFevre, Michael McCarvey,
Jeffrey Miller, Ricky Moore,
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children, carry water from a
neighboring residence. Wolf
asked the borough to pay for
the water line, although the
policy is for the property ow­ner
to pay for the line in al­leys,
and the borough manager
was authorized to install a wa­ter
main for the three proper­ties
involved thus providing
sewer connections at the same
time and eliminating the out­houses
now in use.
Two contracts were award­ed:
John K. Denlinger, Smoke-town,
resurfacing of N. Locust
and S. Walnut Streets, $4,780;
and Roger E. Gerhart Inc., Lit­itz,
$5,239.20, storm drainage
facilities on Woodcrest Avenue.
Another apparent low bidder
was J. Richard Nissley Inc.,
Lundisville, $37,605, construc­tion
of a bridge and roadway
on Oak Street.
Council discussed the possi­bility
of keeping the pool open
on weekends while good wea­ther
prevails as occurred last
year, but agreed to close it on
Labor Day.
It was noted that Valentine
Eitnier has been making some
progress on repairs to his pro­perty,
as previously ordered by
council, so the deadline will be
overlooked. Instead the bor-'
ough manager will make a con­stant
check of the property. -
A resolution was passed to
accept the Blue Bird and Rob­in
Roads in the Warwick Acres
development. Also passed was
a resolution to apply for coun­ty
aid to be used for street
construction. This would am­ount
to about $4,000.
An agreement was signed
with the Lititz Springs Park
and the Moravian congregation
to accept responsibility for
maintenance of the roadway
through the park for the next
ten years.
Council approved a request
from the Lititz Retailers Assn,
to close W. Main Street on
Sept. 5, 6 and 7 for a display
of camp trailers.
In other business council
heard a report from a local res­ident,
George Kamm, who sta­ted
that wafer in the Lititz
Creek is milky and there is a
lot more paper pulp on t h e
rocks in the vicinity of the
Morgan Paper Co. Kamm
claims this condition is extre­mely
bad and much worse than
in previous years.
A report from the Huth En­gineering
Co. revealed the cost
of a stream survey has been
estimated at $1,500. This infor­mation
is to be turned over to
the Health and Sanitary Advi­sory
Committee which reques­ted
a cost estimate of the pro­ject.
Council also approved a re­quest
from the Farmers Na­tional
Bank to eliminate a park­ing
place directly in front of
John Keller’s store and to
move a tree there about four
feet to the east. The changes
were requested to provide eas­ier
access to the bank’s drive-in
window.
Traffic Violations Up
For Month Of August
Parking meter violations
during the month ending Aug­ust
17 were climbing as 92
persons were prosecuted as
compared to 70 during the
same period last year.
According to the report
there were 6 traffic violations;
three auto thefts two burglary
and larceny; one disorderly
conduct; two driving when in­toxicated;
two for excessive
noise; one failure to stop at
accident; one failure to yield
right of way; and seven for
larceny under $50.
George L. Keehn
Breaks Hip When
Ladder Collapses
George L. Keehn, 30 East
Market St., after looking for
a leak in his garage roof on
Monday evening stepped on a
six foot step ladder which col­lapsed.
Mr. Keehn fell to the
ground and was taken to the
Lancaster General Hospital at
8 p.m. in the ambulance. He
was found to have a broken
hip and underwent an opera­tion
on Tuesday afternoon.
School Menu Wednesday
Hot dog, baked beans, car­rot
sticks, choice of fresh fruit.
Thursday
Beef barbecue, peas, baked
potato, jello cubes.
Friday
Macaroni & cheese, tomato
wedge, lettuce, sliced luncheon,
applesauce.
Milk, bread and butter, will
bo served with each lunch.