Lititz Record Express

              Lititz Record - Express
Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
86th Year E stab lish e d April, 1877, as T h s Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The L ititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, December 26, 1963 7 c en ts a Copy; $3.00 pe r y e a r by m all
w ith in L an c a s te r County; $4.00 elsewhere 10 Pages No. 37
Boro Blanketed By
Heavy Snow Storm
Lititz people didn’t haVe to
“dream about a White Christ­mas’’
they HAD it, and in
no uncertain terms!
Monday’s snowstorm, while
not the worst in memory, was
a heavy one, and what saved
it from being really bad was
th a t the re was little, if any,
drifting.
Snow began to. fall, lightly
a t first, around 9 ' a .m .. Mon­day,
and lookeg deceptively
innocent, b u t it kept up ste adi­ly
and then got heavier, until
an unofficially estimated nine
inches had fallen by n ig h t­fall.
A light rain for a short
time during th e evening caused
some icing-up of highways and
windshields. " "
T h e borough sta rted > its
snow removal program about
10 a.m. Monday with salt an d
calcium and began plowing
about noon. They continued
plowing until 1 a.m. Tuesday,
when the men were ready to
drop from exhaustion. Most of
the stre e ts were in passable
shape, b u t those plowed first
already had another mantle
of snow upon them by even­ing.
The crews were out again
a t 6 a.m. Tuesday.
The borough’s ’ full crew of
five men were on duty
throughout Monday,' and on
Tuesday the re were si* addi­tional
men and six . dump
Bird Club To Moke
Count December 28
The Lititz Bird Club wi l l
assist in the 63rd annual bird
count for the National Audu­bon
iSociety.
The Lititz Club has taken'
the annual census d u rin g ’ the
la te r p a r t o f December each
year since 1912 making it one
of the oldest group* in Penn­sylvania.
Arty person <irishing te as­sist
is Welcome, artd aSked to
assemble a t Broad St. and
Lincoln Ave. a t 7 A.M. Sun­day,
December. ’28 th. Bird
counters will ibe> divided into
4 or 5 groups so the area «an
be more thoroughly covered.
trucks from, local contractors.
Some difficulty was encoun­tered
by people parking too
far out into the street. House­holders
were out in full force
shoveling snow, and some
shoveled it back into the
street, adding to .the difficul­ties
involved.
The main highways leading
into the borough were well
cleared by Tuesday morning,
and most roads in ru ra l areas
were cleared or; passable by the
time' th is paper went to press
'Tuesday Digit. ■
'S a n ta Grounded
The snow changed the plans
of Santa Claus, who was' due
to arrive a t the airp o rt Tues­day
morning by plane. He- had
to arriv e in the Lititz Fire
truck instead, but made his
usual tour of the town, and
then was stationed, a t the Fire
Hall for the remainder of the
day, where he was visited by
about 1300 children.
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To Reappoint
Board Members
" T h re e - men are expected to
be reappointed to various com­missions
and boards of t h e
borough a t the meeting of
borough council Monday, De­cember
30. , ,
Dr, Byron K. H ora e is. ex­pected
to be reappointed to
thhe board of Historical Re­view;
Hiram Efberly to t h o
Shade Tree Commission, and
Warren Newcomer to the
Sewer Authority. He is com­pleting
art unexpired term a f­te
r filling a vacancy/
Council is expected to hear
a request frtmi jVeis Markets
asking approval 'o n an addi­tional
sigrn \
They will discuss the pos­sible
sale pf an old partially
abandoned alley to the Mor­gan
Paper Company.
Borough officials said there
ia no comment a t the present
time on the' almou-pt- of! t h e
proposed b u d g e t/fo t 19$4, or
the tax ra te . ;
SNOWFALL BRINGS OUT SLEDDERS: Ä group of Lititz Children who rejoiced in the
snowy weather of late, and enjoyed several days of sledding. F irs t row, le ft to right.: Don­ald
Peters, Mark Kissinger,, David Hartman, Eddie Mann, Chuck Lanza, .Jim Miller, .left Welt,
David Zug. Second row, le ft to rig h t: Jimmy Zug, Jeff Peters, Gary Ober, J e ff Eshelman, Jim
Ober, Charles Eshleman, Billy Ulrich, Chris G erfen.
Identification Of Roads
Is Planners 1st Project
The Warwick Township Planning Commission suggestions from residents
this week issued a call to all “old fesidenters” to come about appropriate possible
to its assistance. The planners want to know the
names of all roads in the township and are looking
for people with long memories to figure out some of
them.
Joseph R. Snavely, Planning getting in touch with anyone
Commission chairman, has an- who knows the historic names
nounced the identification of of the many roads in the
all stree ts and roads ip the
township as the Commission’s
firs t work project for 1964,
The work is scheduled for com­pletion
in the next month to
six weeks. All roads and streets
named will then be included in
a map of Warwick Township,
to be d rafted this spring by
the Lancaster County Planning
Commission.
“We are p articu la rly in­te
re sted,’’ said Snavely, “ in
Christ Koehler
Reelected Head
Of Fire Co.
Christ B. Koehler was re­elected
president of the Lititz
Fire Company a t its annual
meeting Monday night. He has
served eight years in th a t capa­city.
Other ofieers named include
Ray Bixler, firs t vice presi­dent;
Carl Brubaker, second
vice president; Eric Buckley,
Jr., secretary; Paul F. Diehm,
tre a su re r; James Snavely, fin­ancial
. secretary; Edward
Grosh, chaplain; Ammon H.
Shelly, fire chief for the third
year; Howard Mowrer, truste e;
Kenneth -Sipe, John Hatfield,
and Melvin Burkholder, dis­ability
board.
F IR E CO. AUXILIARY
The Lititz F ire Company
Auxiliary wilil hold Its month­ly
meetipg Jan u a ry 2, a t 7:30
p.trt. a t Fire House. An orange
social will he held and all
members are asked to bring a
small gift for games. Mrs.
Fred Bhenk is chairman in
charge of refreshments.
Tree Burning
Scheduled Jan. 3
The Ju n io r Chamber of
Commerce will conduct the
12th Night Christmas Tree Col-lection
on Thursday, January
2, sta rtin g a t 7 p.m. House­holders
are asked to put their
trees on the curbs fo r t h e
collection.
Thé trees will bé burned on
Friday, Jan u a ry 3, b e tw e en -8
p.m. and 9 p.m. A few will be
picked up th a t evening, as
well, but persons are urged
to have them ready on Jan.
2. . . . . .
The tree burning ceremon­ies
will tak e place a t Zart-man’s
quarry n e a r Zartman’s
garage. The Lititz F ire com­pany
will light the trees and
stand by for th e burning.
The Jaycees expressed their
thanks to John Zartman for
permission to use the quafry.
area. Some of these are com­mon
knowledge, such as New­port
Road and Pine Hill Road.
Others have already been nam­ed
a n d 'm a rk e d , such as Owl
Hill Road and Woods Drive,
“But the re are many others;
particula rly small sections in
outlying areas, which are not
so easily identified. We want
to name these roads correct­ly,
if possible, and if this can­not
be done we want to receive
i'f1 f *'Increase Funds
1 m* For Fish Lake
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-of-Year” ln Lititz
about last suiftmer sometime; Lititz was re­ferred
to by a news writer from a metropolitan daily
published in a large city 65 miles or so east of here
which shall remain nameless, as a “tiny sleepy town,”
where nothing ever happened, or so it seemed to imply.
Perhaps it seemed so at-the time, but in retro­spect,
looking over the issues of the Record-Express
for 1963, it was neither so sleepy, nor even so tiny.
(It grew quite a bit in the number of new homes.)
What other city or town
in Pennsylvania, or anywhere
ea st of Billy Sol Estes, for th a t
m a tte r, could boast of the em­bezzlement
of over $300,000,
for example? In Lancaster
county th e re has not been a
th e ft of th a t . magnitude for
about 30 years, when a ?103-
a-month-bank clerk managed
to defraud a Lancaster bank of
th a t amount, and spend it on
automobiles, races and the
like, before he was Caught —•
fake ledgers in hand, right in­side
the bank by the bank exa­miners.
But here is Lititz, the alleg­ed
perp e tra to r of th e crime has
n o t only disappeared, but no
trace of him has been fourtd,
up to this time, a matter of
more than six months after his
peculations were discovered.
We refer to Herbert. U. Moore,
manager and president of the
Courtesy Finance Corp., who' is
charged with embezzlement,
forgery and fraudulent convert
sjon from the firm, having
helped himself to a sum e s ti­mated
at over $300,000. He is
being sued fo r $312,791 by
International Rediscount Corp.,
Thursday.
Hot meaf loaf sandwich,
green beans, assorted fruit.
Friday
Fish sticks, tomato, sauce,
mashed potatoes, earrot sticks-,
popsicle.
Baltimore, Md„ who redis­counted
notes for the Lititz
Firm. Moore actually disap­peared
June 19, 1963, and
for some time a fte r th a t there
were lively speculations th a t
irregula rities had occurred in
the books, but nothing could
be confirmed.’ I t came to light
when a Brooklyn man came to
Lititz in July to try to collect
on a $15,000 judgment. Moore
could not be found, and all
th a t stockholders would say
was th a t he was “on vaca­tion.”
However, pressure grew,
and sta te police were called in
la te in July to investigate the
shortages. Moore was said to
be accompanied by a “girl
friend,” Mrs. Beatrice Diffen-derfer,
who was believed to
have received a call from him
This was undoubtedly the
“ story of the year” i'or Lititz.
However, the re have been
other tempests, as well as steps
forward for the borough.
Stream pollution was a hot
issue in the spring and summ­er,
and the Health and Sanita­tion
commission recommend­ed
th a t engineers be brought
in to confer with borough offi­cials
and heads of industrial
plants. There was also a furor
over the Oak Street bridge,
the borough deciding to repair
it, then not to repa ir it, but
finally making “ temporary re ­p
a irs” on it a few weeks ago.
A loud out cry arose in the
Kissel Hill area early in the
year, when 20 acres of ground
were bought for a tra ile r camp.
This actually sparked the fo r­mation
of a Planning Commis­sion
for Warwick Twp., which
is now a t work — Inspectors
from the sta te were called in
on the grounds th a t wells on
the property were polluted, but
the ir reports were never made
public. Late in the summer
the land was purchased by a
large property owner nearby,
as she sat under a dryer in a afanrdm e(itj has continued to be
beauty parlor in Lancaster, ,In another development
her hair m jumbo rollers. She
was said to have le ft in a
hurry, without waiting for her
hair-do to be finished. A set
of curlers, la te r were found in
Moore’s car which had been
abandoned in a New York City
garage early in August. The
ca r had been the re for about
three weeks. According to
m | a ■ ■ . ' —«¿police, attorneys and stock-
% f | |A A l f n d f t l TiWders, nothing has been
heard rtf the couple who seem
to have disappeared into thin
air, (if th a t would be pos­sible.)
Assets of the local fin­ance
company have been taken
over by the Baltimore firm.
The Brooklyn su it was recently
argued ,in Arugment Court and
is awaiting decision.
the
borough manager resigned in
November a fte r a series of
disputes with borough, coun­cil,
and a new borough manag­er
was elected.
Lititz had an all-time high
in the number of new resi­dences
constructed — 5 4 units
with a total value of $846,000.
I t was the th ird largest year
in the total number of per­mits
issued, w'ith a value of
more than $1.8 million. The
permit for the new high school
addition, for Weis Market, and
for an addition to Animal
Trap Co. helped to swell the
total.
In politics, too, there were
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Lititz Resident
In Who’s Who
A Lititz resident, Ralph J.
Wohlsen, 311 S. Locust St.,
is listed in “Who’s Who in
the E a st.”
Wohlsen only recently, rno-ved
to Lititz, on October 30,
where he is' engaged in archi­tectural
drafting, public re la ­tions
and shopdrawing. He Was
born in Lancaster in 1897, a
son of P e te r Nicholas and An­na
Susan Wohlsen, and h a s
lived in various cities in New
York S ta te / New Jersey and
Connecticut.
Some oif his arch itec tu ral
works include residences a n d
apartment houses in White
Plains, Larchment, Bronxville
and Rye, N. Y.; the presi­d
e n t’s home and a dormitory
a t Hartwick College, Onepnta,
N.Y. Cathedral in Clifton, N.
J.,, fo r the Ukranian Ortho­dox
Church, and Ascension
Lutheran Church, Lancaster.
He has been an active Luthe r­an
churchman, Mason and
Shriner. He now attends St.
P au l’s Lutheran Church, Lit­itz.
• DONATION FOR RECREATION CENTER — Samuel
R. Hoffman, left, tre a su re r of th e Senior Citizens Club, presents
check for $50 to Richard 8. Allebach, president of th e Center’s
Board o f Directors. The money was raised thro u g h donations
from club members.
Senior Citizens Make
Rec. Center Pet Project
The 'Senior Citizens Club,
sponsored by the Recreation
Center, this .week presented a
check for $50 to the building
fund of the Center, bringing
the ir to ta l contributions up to
approximately $250 since the
club was , formed about 10
years ago. ; . ,
The members do not have
any formal p ro je c t fob rais­ing
money, but simply, take' up
a collection a t each of their
monthly meetings. There is no
set amount — each- member
may give as much or .as lit­tle
as he or she desires.
The sums of money have
been contributed in amounts
ranging from $25 to $100
from time to time. In addi­tion,
the club has equipped
the kitchen with enough dish­es
to serve approximately 100
people, including cuips, plates,
dessert dishes, pitchers f o r
Newcomers Club Donates
$40.00 To Public Library
The Welcome Wagon New­comers’
Club recently donated
$40 to' the Lititz Public Libr­ary,
it was announced at
Monday’s meeting. The sum
represents one month’s rent.
Mrs. Charles Edson, civic
chairman, announced several
members of the club are work­ing
in the library on Thursday
afternoons and evenings. They
are: Mrs. Theodore Bush, Mrs.
Wayne Wagner, Mrs. Jack Dav­is,
Mrs. John Lange, Mrs. Harry
Landis, Mrs. Dale Frantz, Mrs.
Richard Goodling, Mrs. John
Hughlett, Mrs. Ray Lowry,
Mrs. David Neely, Mrs. Doug­las
Jarnagin, and Mrs. Donald
Brubaker. Mrs. Alice Heilman
of the Lancaster Public Libr­ary
will conduct a training
session at the Lititz Library
on Tuesday Jan u ary 8,.a t 9:30
a.m. 1 •
Mrs. A rth u r Grimm, mem­bership
chairman, introduced
four new newcomers to the
group.
Following the business meet­ing
Mrs. Herbert F ry read
Christmas poems. Mrs. Wagner
sang: “Count Your Blessings”
and “White Christmas,” ac­companied
on the piano by
Mrs. John Fleurent. A Christ­mas
reading entitled “God
Rest You Merry,” was given
by Mrs; Davis. The group play­ed
games, sang carols and ex­changed
gifts. Refreshments
were served by the committee
which included - Mrs. Lowry,
Mrs. Harold Vandegrift, Mrs.
Buch, Mrs. Lange, Mrs. Donald
Rowe, Mrs. Albert Rollin, Mrs.
Frantz and Mrs. Fleurent.
Couples’ Bridge will be held
on January 4 at the home of
Mrs. Keith Armstrong with
Mrs. Alfred Barthlomew as co­hostess.
Mrs. Buch will enter­tain
Couples’ Pinochle on Ja n u ­ary
11.
A coffee Chatter for new
newcomers will be Held on
January 14 at the home of
Mrs. Frantz with Mrs, Fleurent
as co-hostess.
coffee, sink trays and Other
kitchen paraphernalia.
A splendid g ift from indi­viduals
w,as silverware fo r 10 0
place settings donated b f Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Adair, 206
N. Broad St.
The club was organized a
decade ago by the first direc­tor
of the Center, Bernie Leh­man,
and by now has grown
to 100 members, with an a t­tendance
of 60 to 75 a t each
meeting. They hold a formal
program each month, as well
as annual covered dish sup­pers,
indoor chicken barbe­cues,
square dancing, bingo
(for .prizes only), games,
picnics in the park. They also
tak e two o r th re e bus trips a
year,,- and have visited the
Christmas Pageant in New
York city, Gettysburg, the Po-conos„
Scotland School and
Washington, D.C.
Mrs. ForbeS Emsweller' has
been advisor for the p ast eight
years, assisted ¡by Mrs. Ber­nard
Rider. Mr. Emsweller is
liaison between the club and
the Senior board of directors.
At the club’s recent Christ­mas
p a rty , 75 members were
present. They had been asked
to b rin g gifts to the County
Home, and went over the 100
per cent mark —- there were
79 gifts. The group was en­tertained
by the Lindenaires,
a group of singers from Lin­den
Hall School.
Soliciting Of Ads
«O.K., Hicks Says
Police Chief George • C.
Hicks reported Monday t h a t
soliciting of merchants fo r ad­vertising
in a police publica­tion
were on the level, after
all.
He said the. solicitation was
being done by a Philadelphia
concern ifor tlie Pennsylvania
Chiefs of Police Association.
However, they neglected to
inform him th a t they were do­ing
this, with the result th a t
Chief Hicks received a num­ber
of complaints .and t h e n
made investigations.
The Général S tate Authority
has approved an increase of
$35,000 for th e Hammer
I Creek Fishing Lake project, it
was announced in Harrisburg.
This will brirtg th e total allo­cation
up to $385,000 for the
lake, which is to be located in
Elizabeth Township north of
Lititz. ' ' '
Plans for the dam h it a
snag when th e -GSA original
proposal • of ; $350,000 was
found tQ be insufficient for
construction. The State Fish
Commission • asked for more
funds following a, meeting with
sportsmen and legislators from
Lancaster County.
Last week, the commission
said, It was advised th a t GSA
has okayed the extra money.
The g ran t means th a t the
sta te cart proceed, with- fin a l
construction drawings, the last
stage before moving for bids
on the project: • ■
There Was no indication how
Jong it would take to prepare
final construction drawings.
The commission -said it has
all but three of the 31 proper­ties
required to construct the
dam and flood a fishing lake.
The others, thé commission
said, will be acquired ¡ by con-nation,
if necessary.
names to be assigned.”
Which Is Right?
Snavely pointed out several
problems which have already
been encountered. “What do
you do about Route 501?” he
asked. “Lancaster has called it
the Lititz Pike and numbered
the houses as far north as the
Oregon Road. The borough of
Lititz calls it- Broad Street
within the borough limits.
What do you do afte r 501 leav­es
Lititz? Is it still the Litjtz
Pike? Someone has suggested
that it be designated as Lititz
Pike North and. L ititz Pike
South. This is ju s t one of the
headaches hovering over the
Planning Commission.”
Another involves the Kissel
Hill Road. “The borough says
this runs from Locust Street
to the Owl Hill Road and
stops. Manheim Township says
it runs from Landis Valley to
Kissel Hill. Warwick residents
say the Landis Valley Road is
really the Kissel Hill Road.
Furthermore, the two Kissel
Hill roads do not connect!”'
After these problems have
been ironed out and all roads
have been assigned provisional
names, a public meeting will
be called of all township re ­sidents
to approve or correct
the proposed names, a fte r
which the approved names will
become an official p a rt of
Warwick Township.
Snavely noted th a t the re Is
grea t inte rest in this project
on the p art of the local post
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One More Early
Deadline For News!
, The next issue of th e Rec­ord
Express will be published
as usual on Thursday, J a n ­uary
2. However, in order th a t
the staff may have a holiday
on New Year’s Day, the issue
will go to press on Tuesday,
December 31. .
The deadline fo r copy is
noon Monday, except fo r ev­ents
happening Monday a fte r­noon
or evening, in which
case the deadline iB 10 a.ffi.
Tuesday.
L. Ë. Mim* Has Article
In British Publication
An article written by Law­rence
E. Murr, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Murr, 220 Noble
Street, has been published in
a British scientific journal en­titled
“N ature,” according to
a dispatch received from Lon­don,
England, sent by Science
Service..
Murr is instruc tor of -en­gineering
mechanics a t the
Pennsylvania State University,
where he is studying for his
Master’s degree.
The /a rtic le deals with ’ ex­periments;
with plants, reveal­ing
th a t orchard grasses grew
less and th e ir leaf tips were
burned when the plants were
subjected to high e ’ectric
fields. The plants also appear­ed
to be d a rk e r green than
normal. These and other re ­sults
definitely establish th a t
an environmental electric field
influences plant growth, Murr
stated.
The results showing damage
to plants are also in opposi­tion
to former studies stating
th a t electrical fields can bene­fit
plant growth.
, i r' ,
By. .placing aluininum wire
mesh electrodes below and
above .the soil where the seed­lings
grow, Murr established
an electric field with potential
gradient volts as hign as 80,-
000 every 3.28 feet.
The burning of t’he leaf
tips is similar to mineral de­ficiency
burning but quite d if­ferent
in appearance. It was
usually first detected afte r the
plants were several inches
high. The damaged tip zone
showed an absence of epider­mal
or outer layer cells.
Biochemical mechanisms re ­sponsible
■ for the plant cel!
damage ‘ are not fully under-concentration
increased by
more than 180%.
By tending to slow down
stood, explained Murr, but i t
seems logical th a t some ioniza­tion
phenomenon is involved.
Murr believes th a t the e lec tri­cal
field stimulated resp ira­tory
enzymes in the plant cells
to such an extent th a t th e ir
respiration of intermal cells,
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Calendar
Dec. 3fl— 6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club meeting a t the Recrea­tion
Center.
7:30 P.M.—Weight Lifting
club meeting a t the Recrea­tion
Center.
Dec. 27— 7:30 P.M. — Lititz
Church of the Brethren Cub
Pack meeting.
7:30 P.M. — JayCees Bas­ketball
Tourney a t the War­wick
High School Gym.
Dee. 30— 7:30 P.M. — Odd
Fellows meeting a t Odd Fel­lows
Hall.
7:30 P.M. — Boro Council
meeting.
ju n . 1— 7:00 P.M. — New-
Year’s Dance a t the Heerea-tion
Center.
7:00 P.M. — Lititz Church
of the Brethren Bible Study
and Prayer Service.
7:45 P.M. -— Lititz Church
of the Brethren Spiritual
Nurture Commission.
Jan . 2— 6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club meeting a t th e Re­creation
Center.
7: 30 P.M. — Weight Lifting
Club meeting a t the Recrear
tion Center.