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Within n a n o a ste r County; $4.00 elaewhere 12 Pages — No. 32
CHKCK lO K RKC ( ENTER: Mrs. William Sratrhard, president ot the Woman’s Club, pre­sents
a check lor $1,636.78 to Korbes Emsweller, vice president of the Recreation Center. At
left, looking on, is Mrs. Kmsweller, who was co-chairman of the Marine Hand Concert through
which the money was raised.
Women’s Club Gives
Check T o Ree Center
A check for $1,636.78 was
presented by the Lititz Wo­man’s
Club to the Recreation
Center a t the club’s meeting
Monday night in the Hotel
General Sutter. The check re ­presents
the profit realized
from the Marine band concert
sponsored by the club in Sept­ember,
and the money will be
applied to the Center’s build­ing
fund.
Presentation of the check
was made by Mrs. William
Scatchard, club president, to
Forbes Emsweller, vice presi­dent
of the Recreation Center.
Mrs. Emsweller was co-chair­man
of the concert.
Mrs. Richard Roth, ways
and means chairman, reported
on the rummage sale. Articles
not sold were divided between
the Lancaster County Home,
Wa te r Street Mission and the
Girl Scout rag collection.
Donations were announced
for Muscular Dystrophy and
Multiple Sclerosis.
Mrs. William Bell of the
public affairs and welfare de­partment,
asked members to
bring Christmas gifts to the
next meeting for patients in
the Harrisburg State Hospital
and the Lancaster County Hos­pital.
Fine Arts and Education
chairman, Mrs. J. Lloyd Sheaff
er, explained a new project
of the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs called “Dime
of Liberty” . Dimes are being
collected by all clubs and will
be used to help establish a
museum at the base of the
Statue of Liberty to be known
as “The American Museum of
Immigration.”
Mrs. William Mitchell re ­ported
on the Southeast Dis­tric
t meeting which she a t­tended
and the president an­nounced
the appointment of
Mrs. S. Reed Zimmerman as
local chairman for the benefit
performances of “Write Me A
Murder” to be presented Jan
29 to Feb. 1 a t the Fulton
Theater.
Mrs. John N. Garber Jr. an­nounced
the sewing contest
which will be sponsored by
the Federation. There will be
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Historians
To Seek New
Memberships
The L ititz Historical Foun­dation
will hold a member­ship
drive to be conducted
next Spring, according to plans
made b y th e • director»- At a
'meeting Tuesday night.
An interesting incident was
reported th a t showed the need
of th is organization, even be­fore
it was 'in operation. A re­cent
request on U. iS. Embassy
sta tiona ry from Bonn, Ger­many
came to th e Lititz post­ma
ste r, seeking details on the
history of General Sutter. This
was for use in the German
schools where an effort is be­ing
made to establish a better
understanding of our country
by th e armed services.
A complete life history of
Sutter was prepared by t h e
Foundation and this, plus a
copy of the Bicentennial book,
was forwarded. An acknowled­gement
has ju st been received
from Gapt. J. A. Ford, U. S.
Navy, explaining th a t this kind
of material was being sought
in connection with all famous
Germans 'who se ttled this
country and was a t g re a t in­te
re st to the German children.
’’This is a concrete example
oif what >our “people to peo­p
le ” program is doing abroad,
which is entirely voluntary,
b u t appears to be most re­g
a rd in g ito th e service men
participa ting,” directors said.
Park Trustees
To Nominate
Next Month
Nominations for new tru s ­tees
of Lititz Springs park will
be made next month, i t was
reported a t the reg u la r meet­ing
Tuesday night.
Four are to be nominated
Terms run for three years, and
directors can be renominated,
but six years is the maximum
they can serve, according to
Howard Redcay, chairman.
Redcay, who is serving as
director-at-large, has served
two terms, so must be replac­ed.
Charles J. Krushinski, re ­presenting
St. James' C&tbolic
Church, also has served two
terms so will not be available
for renomination. Two others
are completing th e ir first
three-year terms, so could be
renominated. They are Harold
Bortz, representing St. Luke’s;
United Church of Christ, and
William Hornberger, director-at-
large.
Trustees reported the re was
extensive damage a t the park
done by Halloween vandals.
They said 15 windows a t the
reBtrooms were broken and
had to be boarded up, several
young trees were damaged, ap ­parently
by youngsters swing­ing
from limbs, fencing was
broken as well as the railing
above the head of the pool.
Bortz, reported th a t the con-
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C. Rod Heinrichs Takes
Position In Fort Wayne
C. Roderick Heinrichs, who
h as been a resident of Lititz
since 1961, and has participa­ted
in many civic affairs, has
le ft Lititz for a neW position
in F o rt Wayne, Ind.
His wife and two children,
a boy, th ree and a girl, 10
months, will remain in Lititz
until their house is sold, and
then will join him.
Heinrichs is taking a posi­tion
with Allied Mills, Inc.,
Wayne Livestock Feed Divi­sion,
as Eastern Regional Ad­vertising
and Sales Promotion
School Menu
Monday
• Joes dinner, green beans,
lettuce w edge/French dress­ing,
assorted fruit.
Tuesday
Turkey loaf, whipped pota­toes,
corn, .cranberry sauce,
lice cream.
Wednesday
Hot dog, baked beans, cel-e
ry /p e an u t bu tte r; cookies.
Thursday
Thanksgiving Day - No Sch­ool.
Friday
No School ,
Manager, ills region covers
th e a re a from Vermont
through South Carolina, and
from Ohio to th e Eastern sea­board.
He served as a member of
the board of direc tors of the
Lititz Recreation Center, and
was'Chairman of th e fund-rais­ing
'committee fo r payment of
the capital debt. He also was
chairman of the ' activities
committee (19 63-64) acting as
liaison between the board and
the Recreation director. His
ressignation from the board
was accepted 'by the directors
a t the ir last meeting with a
note of commendation.
Heinrichs also was a mem­ber
of the Lititz Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce, and w o n
th e 'Pennsyvania ¡State Spoke
award ( 19 62 ) fo r outstand­ing
participation. He was
chairman of the Ways and
Means committee, 19 62-63,
chairman of public relations
and advertising fo r the local
industrial exhibition, and was.
chairman of five money-rais­ing
activities.
From 1961 to the present
time h e was agricultural As­sociate
fo r ¡Grant Heilman,
Agricultural ¡Photography in
Lititz»
Fire In Home
Started By Tot
With Matches
The Lititz Tire Department
extinguished a blaze a t the
home of Francis A. Miller,
Lititz R4, on Saturday a fte r­noon,
having received a call
a t 4 p.m.
Captain William Powers,
who was in charge of the fire­men
in the absence of Fire
Chief Ammon Shelly, said the
fire was sta rted in the base­ment
by one of the children
playing with matches. Damage
to the house and content« was
approximately $350.
Chief Shelly sta ted th a t in
the past month the re have been
two fires which could have
been much more serious, which
were sta rted by children play­ing
with matches. One was the
Miller fire and the other Was a
barn a t Kissel Hill. Prompt
action on the p a r t of the fire
department saved both pro
perties, which are estimated to
have a total value of $130,000,.
“but some other time we may
not be so lucky,” Chief Shelly
said.
He cautioned parents to fee
strict with the ir children about
playing with matches, and also
warned parents to put matches
away from children and n-ot
leave them lying around where
the youngsters can get a t them.
Ask Ideas For
4th Celebration
The public is being asked
to make suggestions for a new
type of entertainment for the
afternoon of the F o u rth of
July, the Lititz Springs Park
Trustees announced today.
For many years, band con­certs
have been featured, but
now some new form of en te r­tainment
is desired for the
afternoon. The concerts pro­bably
will be continued in the
evenings, according to Howard
Redcay, chairman of the tru s ­tees.
Warwick HS
Honor Roll
Announced
The Honor Roll at the War­wick
Union High School for
the firs t nine-week marking
period was announced today by
Harold W. Swisher, high school
principal.
The list is as follows:
Seniors: |Shel1a Brubaker,
George Clark, Elaine Dagen,
Deborah Eckert, Nancy Eck­ert,
Vicki Gocbnauer, M.
Elaine Graybill, William Grosz,
Lynn Hollingsworth, Emily
Klenin, Jo Anne Pfautz, Don­ald
Rannels, Richard Reese,
Brenda Roth, Patricia Simon,
Audrey Snader, Ruth Ann Sny­der,
D i a n e Spaid, Nancy
Sprout, Mary VauBrookhoven,
Lynn Welch, Carole Wenger,
Terry . Young and Eileen Zug.
Juniors: James Brewer, Da­vid
Fyock, Ann Gearhart, Cath­erine
Hess, Dennis Hevener,
Stephen Kowalewski, Trina
Leed, Robert Long, William
Pezick, Linda Rahn, Richard
Posey, Neil Shenenberger, P ris­cilla
Spangler.
Sophomores: Gloria Brubak­er,
Constance Davidson, Robert
Huber, Dawn Ketterman, Can­dace
Kopp, Joyce Nauman,
Floyd Stoner, Diane Waltz,
Irvin' Wenger, Nancy Martin.
9th « rad e : Centra Adams,
Howafti ^Beittenmiller, Linda
BoWmap, Vicki Davidson, Lin­da
Fisher, Larry GOrdley, Mar-'
garet .Barbison, Constance Hol-linger,
Charlotte Houchin, Jon
Keller, William Rlsser, Anna
Grace Mease, Dorothy Moyer,
Kathleen Shannon, Betsy Show­ers,
Doris Snyder, Viola Ures,
NeiL White, Dennis Webster.
8th g rad e : Jennife r Cart-wrigfet,
■ Michael Dougherty,
Dennis ; Keller, Joseph Lahr,
Thomas . Reidenbaugh, Mary
SWajr, Denise Witwer.
7th grade: Jessica Bender,
Jay Bomberger, Michael Car-vell,
Linda Colon, Ann ' Deem-er,
Madeline Dougherty, Jane
Foréiftan, Darlene Gockley,
James Harbison, Nancy Hoffer-e
th , Susan Hoffman, Margaret
Keith, Jan e Kauffman, Shirley
Klos,, Dennis Leyan, Beth
Martin, Romaine MCAlpin,
Donna McCoy, Ja n e t Mitchell,
Dianos Neal, Cynthia Pelger*
Kathy Petticoffer, Shelby Pon­te,
Cathy Rannels, Sczan&a
Regennas, P atric ia Roos, Bren­da
Rossi, Candace Seiverling,
Erma Shirk, Marta Smith,
Mary Spangler, Barbara Steffy,
Brénda , Waltz, Michael Wei-rich,
Kathleen Young.
Council Has
Etili Agenda
For Nov. 26
Borough Council will ’d is­cuss
th e preparation of an
agreement with the Morgan
Paper Co. on th e ir inclusion
in the borough’s san ita ry sys­tem,
at council’s meeting next
Tuesday night.
'Presently the Morgan Com­pany
has th e ir own primary
tre a tm e n t fo r industrial waste,
font the effluent from it goes
into 'the 'Lititz Springs Creek.
Awarding of th e contract
p ro v id in g 'g ro u p h e a lth in su r­ance
for iborough employes is
expected to ta k e place. A re­commendation
was prepared
’for Council by Borough Man­ager
R. Keith Armstrong.
An ordinance changing th e
w ate r and sewer ra te s is ex­pected
to foe passed.
Council h a s rèviewed in In­formal
session th e revision of
sub-division regulations, a n d
plans to discuss it.
T h e r e will be a discussion
on reducing thè am ount of
bond required as improvement
■guarantee of S u tte r Village.
At present they a re holding
$60,000 and the borough in­dicated
it wouldl reduce the
amount to $20,000, a fte r the
sewer and water- lines a r e
complete.
Th'ey also will, discuss a
possible solution to the Ham­ilton
storm drainage problem
below Sutter Village. Arm­strong
will have . a report of
Tuesday’s fire in a storm drain
a t Woodcrest Avenue, and
what should he done in the
situation.
There also will foe another
discussion of the 'completion
of the rechannelling of t h e
San Domingo (Creek across
Frog Hollow, a meadow own­ed
-by Levi Yerger, and they
also will discuss th e Wood-crest
drainage facilities, which
are nearly complete.
Council will tak e up t h e
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Council To Name Naval
Officer As Manager
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INSPECT WINDOW: Officials of th e F a rm e rs’ National Bank shown in frb n t of new
drive-up window which will be opened to the public on November 27. L eft to rig h t: James
>1. Mummert, cashier; Alfred L. Douple, bank president, and Ja ck S. Watson, vice president.
Insurance
FirmToOpen
In New Bank
Open New Drive - Up
Window At Fanner’s
James C. Gibbel
The Hershey ana Gibbel In ­surance
firm will open a local
insurance sales office approxi­mately
December 4 in the
front office of the new F arm ­ers
National Bank building
annex a t 7 East Main St.
James. C, Gibbel, son of the
late Henry B. Gibbel, will
operate the new sales office.
He is a grandson of the Rev.
Henry R. Gibbel, who with
Rev. John W. G. Hershey,
formed the insurance firm at
the tu rn of the century. Both
were Church of the Brethren
ministers.
James is a graduate of Lititz
High School and Ju n ia ta Col­lege.
He has taken insurance
courses a t Oberlin College,
sponsored by the National As-
Agents, and la st Friday com-sociation
of Mutual Insurance
pleted a four week basic
Casualty company in Reading,
agents’ school at American
Only t w e n t y men from
throughout the country were
privileged to take the course.
Upon graduating from Jun-
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The new drive-in window at
the F a rm e rs’ National Bank
will be open fo r business for
the first time at 10 a.m. Wed­nesday,
November 27, bank
officials announced. I t will foe
open th e re a fte r a t 8 a.m. each
Friday morning.
For the- first 50 depositors
using the new window, t h e
bank will provide an uncircul­ated
silver dollar a s a mom­ento
of th e occasion.
I t is th e p re sen t ■ Intention
olf the bank to operate the new
drive-in window a t peak p e r ­iods
to relieve th e congestion
a t t h e existing window.
Hours of operation will be
lengthened as custamen d e ­mand
requires. Blanche Sch­effer,
a former full-time em­ployee
of the bank, will oper­ate
the drive-in window. Dup­licate
banking facilities will
be available a t both windows'.
The drive-in window is
equipped With a Diebold elec­tric
deal drawer, i t is elec­trically
heated and air-COndi-i
tioned. Both telephone a h d
alarm signals a re incorpora­ted
into th e design. The
building is constructed of
stone to match the facade of
the bank building itself. Plan­ters
are provided on bo th ends
of the window and a, divider
strip running between th e exit
driveway and th e b a n k park­ing
lot also will foe planted
with trees and shrubs.
The bank decided early in
1963 th a t because Of th e tr a ­ffic
bottleneck caused by the
activity a t the present drive-in
window it would b e necess-a
r to construct an additional
drive-in. window. With th a t
thought in mind th e Keller
property was acquired and the
plans sta rted fo r th e new Win­dow,
In order to create ,a maxi­mum
amount of parking are a
in th e re a r of the buildings
on the north side of Ma i n
Street, the bank also decided
to (level th e area behind th e
Trimble hardware sto re and
regrade it so th a t the entire
are a could be paved as one
continuous unit; H arris Var­iety
store cooperated by hav­ing
th e ir parking lo t repaved
in the same operation so th a t
one smooth continuous paved
area was Created from the
western edge of the Farmers
National Bank customer park­ing
lot to the ea ste rn edge of
the Harris Variety Store pro­perty.
, i
Traffic entering tra in Main
(Street will foe able to use .both
the present and th e new drive-in
windows. Oh those days
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LCDR Steedle
To Take Helm
Of Borough
Council is expected to name
Lt. Comdr. George D. Steedle,
Jr., USN, Lancaster, as hew
borough manager at its meet­ing
Tuesday night in the feoro
building.
He will replace R. Keith
Armstrong, who resigned, ef­fective
between Jan. 1 and-
March 1.
LCDR Steedle, who lives a t
1616 Magnolia Drive, Lancas­ter,
has ju st retired from the
U. S. Navy afte r 20 years Of
service, and most recently
served as commanding officer
of the U.S. Naval Training-
Center in Lancaster. - "
Thirty-eight years old, he*
entered the Navy a t the age
of 18, and was made a L t:;
Commander in 1957. He is
married, and father of two
children, a daughter, thirteen;
and a son, ten. He is original­ly
from Palmyra, N. J., where
he attended High School.
LCDR Steedle was very
highly recommended to coun­cil,
who met last Saturday to ’
interview him, it was said.
Starting soon a fte r December
1, he will work with Arm­strong
for a time to become
acquainted with the work.
Local Club
To Observe
Stamp Week
The Lititz Staitnp Club Will
join in the nation-wide cele­bration
of National. Stamp Col­lecting
Week, November 18-24,
with a presentation this even­ing
of a slide program and an
ex h ib itio n -o f, material by club
members. The meeting will
take place a t the Lititz Com­munity
Center sta rtin g a t 7:30
p.m. i
The exhibit will consist of
selected material from the col­lections
of several of the club
members. The slide program is
entitled “U.S. Commemorative
Stamps of 1-901-1932” and
consist of 100 slides showing
source material for the designs
used on the commemorative
stamps of this period. There is
a commentary accompanying
the slides Which brings in
various interesting side notes.
The club extends an invita­tion
to collectors and non­collectors
to a tten d the meet­ing.
A special invitation is
extended to parents to bring
th e ir interested sons or daugh­ters
to get acquainted. There
are presently some junior mem­bers
in the club and there is
inte rest in seeing more junior
as well as adult members in
the club.
Recently the d u b was ad­mitted
to the National Federa­tion
of Stamp Clubs and has
scheduled some slides and
films through th e Federation
for fu tu re meetings, including
this evening’s program. Other
meetings will feature programs
presented by local collectors
as well as out of town guests.
Stamps are usually available
to pick through without charge
and swapping between mem­bers
is encouraged.
FIGHT FIRE IN DRAIN: L ititz firemen extinguish blaze
which began in pile of leaves and spread to a storm d rain on
Woodcrest Ave., nea r th e property of William Whitten Jr., 430
Woodcrest Ave. The leaves ignited ta r inside th e d rain pipe,
sending billowing black smoke thro u g h th e area. I t took firemen
almost, an hour to p u t out th e fire. The leaves were being
burned by George Evans, 19 E. Second Ave.
Schools To Close
Over Thanksgiving
All schools in the Warwick
Union School district will be
dosed for th e Thanksgiving
holidays on Thursday and F ri­day,
November 28 and 29.
The Christmas holidays will
begin a t the dose of school
December 20, and children will
re tu rn Thursday, Ja n u a ry 2,
1961.
Evening Store Hours
Start December 5
Most of the stores in the
Lititz downtown a re a will foe
open sta rtin g Thursday, Dec­ember
5, u n til 9 p.m, every
night except Sunday. This will
continue through Decembers
up to Christmas Eve, Decem­ber
24 when stores will close
a t 5 P.M.
There will he official light­ing
of the Christmas decoVii-tions
downtown on December
5.
DELIVER PAPER
FRIDAY, NOV. 29
The Record-Express Will
be delivered next week Oh
Friday, November 29, be­cause
of - the fact th a t
Thursday, November 28, the
usual delivery date, . -is
Thanksgiving Day. The pap­er
will go to press on Wed­nesday,
as usual. -
Calendar Nov. 21— 6:30 P.M. — hwlfi
Club meeting a t the Recrea
tion Center.
7:30 P.M. — Sr. Citizen:
Meeting a t the RecreatiOl
Center.
7:30 P.M. — Stamp Clul
meeting at the Recreatioi
Center.
Nov. 22—7:30 P.M. — Litit
Church of the Brethren Cal
Pack meeting. •
8:00 P.M. — Warwick Higl
School Sr. Class Play in th<
auditorium.
Nov. 23— 8 A.M. to 1 P.M. —
Ladies S u tte r Rebekah Lodgi
No. 4 35 Bake Sale At Òdi
Fellows Hall.
9:00 A.M. — Jr. & Sr. HTgi
Boys Bowling a t the Litit:
Bowling Alleys.
8:00 P.M. — Warwick H #
School Sr. Class Play in tfei
auditorium.
9:00 P.M. — Adult Dance %
the Recreation Center.
Nov. 24— 8:00 P.M. — Litlfe
Church of the Bret href
Friendship Church ©chbt»’
class discussion.
Nov. 25— 7:00 P.M. — Od(
Fellows meeting a t Odd Fel­lows
Hall.
Nov. 26— 1:00 P.M. — Wó
•men’s Bowling at the Lititi
Bowling Alleys.
3:30 P.M. — 5th and 6tl
grade boys and girls bowlitii
a t the Lititz Alleys.
6:00 P.M. — Ròtary 'clfel
meeting a t Hotel Sfetter.
8:00 P.M. — •Ja-yfe‘è'Cèfe1
meeting a t thè &eOrt*W<yf
Center.
Nov. 27— 7:00 P.M. — 'ÌM'
leyball a t the Lititfc
tary School gym.
7:30 P.M. — Explórèr SèfefoS
Dance a t the Rècreàfcèf
Center.
7:45 P.M. — Lititz Churcì
of the Brethren Commtsstoi
meeting.
Library hours: Tuesdays afot
Thursday, 2 to 4 p.m.; 7 tt
9 p.m.