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86th Year E s ta b lis h e d A p ril, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e Xiltltz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, May 7, 1964 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 p e r y e a r b y maU
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Library Board Elects
Officers and Directors
M. C. Demmy was elected
president and a director of the
Lititz Public Library, Inc.,
Tuesday night, at its first meet­ing
since it became incorpor­ated.
It has been incorporated
for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining a free public
library for the benefit of the
residents of the Borough of
Lititz and vicinity.
Mr. Demmy’s term runs until
1966. He has served for more
han six years as president con-
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M. C. Demmy
secutively and, iprior to -that
time, was president several
other terms. He was one of the
founders of the library.
Other directors nominated
and elected to serve the follow-
.ng terms and offices: Thomas
Hartenstine, vice president,
(1969); Alfred L. Douple, treas­urer,
(1965); Mrs. Edward Kos
enquist, secretary, (1966); Miss
Myrtle Eckert, (1968); Mrs. Eu
gene Steffy, (1965); and Mrs.
John iHershey (1967).
A study group was formed
to investigate the possibilities
of permanent housing for the
library, which presently occu­pies
quarters in the General
Sutter Hotel which is to be sold
at public sale, June 6.
Mr. Couple presented the fol­lowing
treasurer’s report for
the year May 6, 1963, to May 5,
1964; Receipts: American Busi­ness
Club, $100; Lititz Wom­an’s
Club, $100; Delphian So­ciety,
$25; Welcome Wagon
Newcomers Club, $40; Lititz |
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
$150; Lititz Community Center, |
$429: Lititz Borough, '$200; Girl
Scouts, $13.97; individuals, $15;
fines, $44.03; total receipts, $1,-
117.09; balance May 3, 1963,
$609.85 total receipts and bal­ance
$1,726.94. Expenditures
were as follows: rent, General
Sutter Hotel, $480; books and
supplies, $506.13; FP&L, light,
$17.08; tablfe, $12.45; legal, (in­corporation
papers), • $128.90;
total expenditures, $1,144.56;
balance May 5, 11964, $582.38;
total $1,726.94.
The board allocated $300 for
the purchase of new books.
Library officials stated that
everyone who belongs to the
Library is a member of the cor­poration.
All members, 24 years
of age and -over, have voting
privileges. The meetings will be
held quarterly, February, May,
August and November, on the
first Tuesday of the month, and
notice of the meetings will ap­pear
in 'this newspaper a week
prior to the date. Everyone is
urged to attend these meetings
and exercise their right to have
a voice in the future of their
library. Election of new direc­tors
will be held annually at
the May meeting.
GETTING READY for Post-Prom Party: Members of the Adult committee are pictured
working on table arrangements for the Post- Prom party to be held Friday night in the War­wick
High School cafeteria following the Junior- Senior Prom. Left to right are Mrs. Melvin Erb,
Mrs. Curtis Long, Mrs. John Troutman, Mrs. R obert Hershey, Phillip McCloud and Mrs. Forbes
Emsweller.
Maps Studied By
Scout Troop 44
Boy Scout Troo-p 44 met on
Thursday evening in St. ¡Paul’s
Lutheran Education building
and worked on map orientation,
compass bearings and map sym­bols.
The hoys also designed flags
for their patrols -and originated
a troop yell. Plans were dis­cussed
for the forthcoming
camporee to -be held at the new
Boy ¡Scout camp, May 22
through 24. Part of the evening
was devoted to competition be­tween
patrols. Games were set
up to test physical fitness.
Scoutmaster Lester Lahr was
in charge.
New, Brighter Lights
Or Retain A tmosphere?
Should Lititz install modern street lights or
should the borough attempt to maintain the histori­cal
atmosphere with the older type lights?
Borough Council is faced with this question
since the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
has made a proposal to replace the present lighting
system on Broad Street, with more modern fixtures
and mercury vapor lamps, when the street is re­surfaced.
P.P. & L. has further agreed to install
several of the lights on a trial basis at no cost to
the borough.
Opinion among borough residents seems to be
divided. Some believe the present lights fit in better
with the historical image of the area while others
feel that the streets should be brighter at night with
more modern fixtures. The new lighting would cost
the borough, about $200. more per year than at pre­sent.
Thus, the question is not really one of cost.
At least two boroughs in the-county — Manheim
and New Holland — have installed the new lights.
One suggestion has been forwarded that Broad
street might be equipped with the new lights so that
the major traffic artery through the town would be
better lighted. The older type lights could be re­tained
on the historic area of Main Street.
In an effort to help Borough Council come to a
decision on the matter, the Lititz Record-Express in­vites
you to call or write a postcard to the paper or
Borough Council members. You can call the Record-
Express at 626-2191 or write to Box 266, Lititz.
Lititz VFW To Sponsor
“Lite A Bike” Project
Featured vocalists at the Warwick High School concert Saturday evening will be, left to
right, standing, Vicki Howell, Pat Weisen, David Keehn, Fred Sample, Marilyn Stauffer, Ted
Stryker, and Bob Donmoyer. Emily Klenin is seated at the piano. Record-Express Photo.
Final Concert Saturday
By Warwick Musicians
The second Spring Concert
of the Warwick School music
department will feature the
senior high orchestra, the
senior high glee club and the
junior high band.
The final concert of the sea­son
is scheduled to begin in
the Warwick High School audi­torium
at 8 p.m. on Saturday,
Vlay 9.
The 86 piece junior high
band will open the program
with selections from Bach,
Strauss and Anderson. Featur­ed
with the band will be a
trumpet trio of Neil Meiskey,
John Reideribach and Larry
Shertzer, and a baritone horn
solo by Steve Rannels.
With the senior high orches­tra,
violinists William Pezick
School Menu
Monday
Grilled steak in roll, fresh
limas, carrot sticks, assorted
fruit
Tuesday
Chili, saltines, relish cup,
ginger bread with lemon frost­ing.
(Wednesday
Meat loaf, whipped potatoes,
green beans, applesauce
Thursday
Chicken corn soup, peanut-butter
& marshmallow sand­wich,
fruit jello
Friday
(LUNCH SERVED AT ELE­MENTARY
SCHOOL'S ONLY)
Barbecued hot dogs or grilled
cheese, baked beans, carrot
strips, popsicle ___:
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and Richard Landis, and pian­ist
Janice Myer, all members
of the junior class, will be
featured in the first movement
of Baqh’s Concerto for Two
Violins and Piano. The or­chestra
will also play high­lights
from “South Pacific” and
“Farandole” by Bizet. Other
selections are “The Queen of
Sheba” by Gounod, and “Bacch-anole”
by Saint-Saëns.
Highlights from Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s Broadway musi­cal
“Carousel” will feature four
glee club soloists. Featured
soloists are Elaine Dagen, Ro­bert
Donmoyer, Marilyn Stauff­er
and David Keehn. Incidental
solos wiU be sung by Diane
Taft, Kaite Schilling, Emily
Klenin, Fred Sample, Patricia
Weisen, Vicki Howell, Glenn
Ludwig and Theodore Stryker.
The accompanist is Charles
Hornberger, and the glee club
is directed by Miss Mary Jean
Sakoski. Directing the junior
high band will be Henry C.
Steiner, while Ray W. Kauff»
man will wield the baton for
the orchestra.
HONORED AT COLLEGE
Douglas Rossi, Lititz, was one
•of four. Pennsylvania high
school students honored recent­ly
for leadership potential by
Alpha Tau chapter of Phi ¡Del­ta
Kappa, at Pennsylvania State
University. The fraternity is
-made up of men training for
educational posts.
Man Hit By Car
At Broad & Main
Samue l -Robinson, 31 S.
Broad St., was injured when
struck by a car May 2 at the
intersection of Broad and Main
Street.
The driver of the car 'was
Barry D. Allwein, seventeen,
500 Kissel Hill Rd., Littiz, ac­cording
to Chief of Police
George C. Hicks, who witnessed
the accident. The youth will be
prosecuted by Chief ¡Hicks be­fore
Justice of the Peace Paul
F. ¡Diehm for reckless driving.
Chief Hicks said the pedes­trian
was in the crosswalk ¡head­ed
north crossing Main on the
south side of the fountain, and
the car was headed s-outh on
Broad St., turning left onto
Main ¡St. The driver stated that
his attention was on another
car in the intersection and he
did not see the pedestrian.
Chief 'Hicks, who was nearby,
said he heard tires squeal and
turned in time to see the pe­destrian
push himself away
from the car. lHe said Robinson
suffered injuries to the left
forefinger, thumb and arm, and
was treated by a doctor.
Tickets On Sale
For PTA Festival
Walter H. Texter, principal
of Lititz elementary school,
and chairman of the PTA Fes­tival,
announced that advance
tickets may be purchased from
pupils in Grades 'One through
Six beginning today and con­tinuing
through May ¡13.
The festival will be held Sat­urday,
May 16, from 1 to 7 p.m,
in Lititz Springs Park,
Robert Derek
Derek Gets
Top AmBuc
Award, ’63
Robert Derek was honored by
the Lititz Chapter, American
Business Club, 'Saturday night
as being the outstanding Am-buc
of the year 1963, and Was
presented with the George B.
Searles, Jr., award.
The award is presented to the
Arttbuc who has contributed
outstanding service to the -com­munity
and the club. The -pres­entation
was made by Mrs.
and music was supplied by the
Bob diMaio orchestra.
The club was chartered April
7, 1954, with 40 members. Thir­teen
of the charter members
are still active in the club, and
the present membership is
sixty.
The Lititz Ambucs won three
awards at the District conven­tion
held recently in Trent-on,
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“Lite a 'Bike for 'Safety” will
again be sponsored by the Lititz
Springs Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post ¡1463, on 'Saturday af­ternoon,
in conjunction with the
nation-wide public service pro­gram
undertaken by the VFW
in the interest of bicycle safety
for children.
The project consists of plac­ing
reflective tape on the bi­cycles
in three -areas, red in the
rear and white in the front
The manufacturers say the tape
will pick up headlights from as
far away as 1,500 feet. The tape
is given out free of charge.
Through the cooperation of
the Minnesota Mining and !Mfg.
Co. of St. Paul, Minn., national
Veterans of Foreign Wars head­quarters
¡has received at no
charge sufficient -reflective tape
to “light up” some two million
bicycles during national “Lite
a Bike” week.
This is not to take the place
of a light for night riding, nor
is it recommended that young
people do their bicycle riding
at night, VFW officials said.
But if it is necessary, this tape
is a safety feature, besides hav­ing
your light which is required
by law.
Jack Keath, Commander of
the local VFW, said bicycle
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210 Kindergarten
Children Enroll
A total of 210 children en­rolled
Monday and Tuesday for
the Warwick Union 'School dis­trict
kindergartens, it was an­nounced
by Edgar L. Lawton,
director -of elementary educa­tion.
At Lititz elementary, there
were 120; at ¡John Beck, IBrun-nerville,
45, and 'Rothsville, 45.
Enrollments are now being
taken for first ¡grades.
School Board Action
On Ree Fund Request
Due At May 13 Meeting
Plantation Gardens
Theme of Post-Prom
“'Plantation ¡Gardens” will be
the theme of the tenth annual
Post-Prom Frolic sponsored by
the Lititz ¡Community Center
following the Warwick High
School Juni-or-Senior Prom.
The Prom Will be held Fri­day
evening, May 15, -at the
Dutch Town and Country I-nn,
Vintage, followed by the Post-
Prom frolic at the Warwick
High ¡School cafeteria, Lititz,
from midnight until 4 a.m.
The focal points of the dec­orations
will be a large back­drop
painting of a Southern
plantation home with surround­ing
¡gardens and a garden house
and fountain. The painting de­picts
early ¡Spring in the South.
The backdrop will extend
about three-quarters of the
width of one end of the room,
with flowering trees, shrubs and
other flowering plants sur­rounding
the front of the foand-
Charles York
Named To State
Jaycee Post
Charles H. York, 209 Elm St.,
Lititz, was elected International
director for the State of Penn­sylvania
Junior Chamber of
Commerce at the state conven­tion
held in York, April 30 to
May 3.
York was president of the
Lititz Jaycees in -1962-63; was
national director of Area 5 in
1963-64; chairman of the Lan­caster
County ¡Red Rose Asso­ciation,
Jaycees, in 1963454, and
has been very active in all
Jaycee projects.
stand. Trees ¡will also foe placed
around the room and the en­trance
to the cafeteria will be
decorated with a -rose trellis
and other plants. A large crys­tal
ball with flowering arms
will be suspended from the ceil­ing
along with tree branches
decorated wit-h spring flowers.
The tables will be covered
with white cloths and each will
be centered ¡with a chimney-type
candle surrounded by
flowers.
Attendance will be limited to
couples Tram the junior and
senior classes of Warwick High
School, and admission will be
by reservation only. Reserva­tion
deadline is Monday, 'May
11.
Refreshments will include
baked bam and chicken salad
sandwiches, relishes, potato
chips, Moravian sugar cake, cof­fee,
fresh orange juice and soft
drinks.
Financial assistance for the
event is. provided by the follow­ing
Lititz organizations: Lions
Club, Woman’s Club, Rotary
i Club, Ambucs Chapter, Junior
1 Chamber of Commerce, Jayne-i
Cees and Welcome Wagon New­comers’
Club.
Mr. and Mrs. ¡Forbes Ems-
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Warwick Twp.
Cons Proposed
Junk Ordinance
A junk ordinance Was pre-
- sented to the Warwick Town­ship
supervisors at their meet­ing
last Friday night -for study
and to recommend any changes
that might be needed.
The document was presented
by George Morgan, solicitor for
the township.
At the same -time a few
changes to the trailer -ordinance
were tentatively proposed.
The supervisors are planning
to build a new shed and office,
and the first concern is a -plot
of ground on which to build
ohe. Isaac H. Stoner, president
of the supervisors, asked any­one
who has a plot for sale to
contact one of the supervisors.
Plans for street lights for the
Pfautz development on West
Orange St. were discussed.
The unexpired term of audi­tor
left vacant by the retire­ment
of Martin K. Fry will -have
to be filled in the near future,
Stoner said.
PREVIEW OF RAG COLLECTION: Little Brownies of
Troop 288 get an advance contribution from Mrs. Robert Thomp­son,
117 Front St., for the Brownie and Girl Scout rag collection
in the borough Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Left to right
the children are Patty Zander, Ann Hartman and Jean Snader.
Proceeds of the collection will go to the Rec Center.
Residents are asked to place rags on the curb by 9 a.m. If
not collected by noon they are to call Mrs. Charles Eshelman,
1626-5252. The rain date is May 16.
Members of the Warwick
Union School Board and the
Borough Council ¡held a joint,
closed session Tuesday evening
to discuss the financial prob­lems
of the Recreation Center.
Council proposed that they ah
locate $4,300 and the school
board $6,700. This $11,000
would be sufficient to cover the
anticipated deficit in the bud­get
of the Rec Center for the
year July l, 1964 to June 30,
1965.
Council members had previ­ously
stated the extra funds
from their budget could foe al­located
without a tax increase.
It is hoped that the same would
be possible in the school
board’s case.
School board members pres­ent
at the -meeting said the
board would consider the re­quest
at their meeting next
Wednesday, May 13. For the
most part, they looked favor­ably
towards the fund alloca­tion
and the formation of a
Rec. Board, which they had al­ready
gone on record as favor­ing
at their April meeting. -
In any event, the school
board’s decision must foe made
before May 18, the date set for
final adoption of the 1964485
budget. The budget, as ¡now
tentatively approved, maintains
the ¡present tax -millage at 47.
Book Sale Benefits
Lititz Public Library .
Thousands of books were do­nated
to the book sale held last
-Friday and ¡Saturday by the Lit­itz
Woman’s Club for the bene­fit
of the Lititz Public Library,
in the Lititz Historical House.
Receipts are still incomplete,
but to date they total $199.22,
which will he given to the -Pub­lic
'Library, plus about 200
books.
The sale represented a com­munity-
wide effort which as­sured
its success, club members
said. ¡Books were collected by
the Woman’s Club and library
¡members and stored in the Lit­itz
Springs garage. The Histor­ical
Foundation offered its new­ly
renovated building for the
sale; the Jaycees moved in ta­bles
contributed by the Fire
Company and the -Moravian
Church, -posters were made by
the Girl Scouts, and the Senior
Scouts, Woman’s Club and li­brary
members sorted, priced
and sold the books.
Community
Calendar
May 7-9-11 A.M.—First grade
registration at Brunnerville
School.
1-3 P.M. — First grade re­gistration
at Rothsville
School.
6:30 P.M. — Radio Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
7:30 P.M. — Fire Company
Auxiliary meeting at the
Fire Hall.
7:30 P.M. — Weight Lifting
Club meeting at the Rec.
Center.
8:00 P.M. — Lititz Elemen­tary
Spring Musical program.
May 8—8:00 P.M. — Lititz Ele­mentary
Spring Musical Pro­gram.
8-11 P.M. — Jr. High Student
Council Dance.
May 9—8:00 P.M. — Spring
Musical at the Warwick High
School Auditorium.
May 11—6:20 P.M. — Tap &
Ballet classes at the Rec.
Center.
7:30 P.M. — Odd Fellows
meeting at I.O.O.F. Hall.
8:00 P.M. — Sr. Board meet­ing
at the Recreation Center.
May 12—6:00 P.M. — Rotary
Club meeting at the Re­creation
Center.
7:30 P.M. — Sutter Encamp­ment
No. 45 at I.O.O.F. Hall.
May 13—7:00 P.M. — Y-Teens
meeting at the Rec. Center.
8:00 P.M. — School Board
meeting.
May 14—6:00 P.M. — St. Luke’s
United Church of Christ Cov­ered
Dish Supper, Recreation
Center.
6:30 P.M. — Radio Club
meeting at the Rec. Center.
7:30 P.M. — Weight lifting
club meeting at the Rec,
Center,