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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. (Continued on Page 6) 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 ê 1*11111!1 -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 (Continued on Page 6) 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 (Continued on Page i ) 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, (Continued on Page 6) 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.
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1963-12-26 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | Lititz newspapers 1877-2001 |
Publisher | Record Print. Co. |
Date | 1963-12-26 |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
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Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
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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.
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