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Changes In Parking
Approved By Council
Borough Council, at its meet­ing
last week, approved some
changes in parking requested
by Police Chief George C.
Hicks and disapproved some
others.
They approved stop signs on
Laurel Avenue at Marion St.,
and on Cherry at Marion; also
to paint curbing on the south
side of W. Orange St., on
both sides of Pine Alley for
15 feet, and to paint curbing
at intersections of Main and
Locust Sts. They agreed to
give a 60-day trial to “no park­ing”
along the west side of
North Locust from Main St.
to the Reading RR crossing.
Before giving approval, they
will check a request to put
“no parking” signs in the Lit­itz
Springs parkway alonlg the
Ivan Behmer
Dies White
Vacationing
D. Ivan Behmer, sixty, Lit­itz
R2, died suddenly about
9:30 p.m., Tuesday, in a cot­tage
at Rehobeth Beach, Md.,
where he was vacationing with
members of his family.
According to his family, he
was preparing to retire for
the night when he fell over
dead, presumably of a heart
attack. He had had no history
of heart disease, it was said.
Behmer was born in Owl
Hill, Warwick township, the
son of John M. and Emma M.
Behmer, and resided in this
area all his life. He was a
member of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, Lititz, and was a 32nd
degree Mason.
Most recently he was em­ployed
at the LaPenn Machine
and Tool Co., 118 S. Broad
St., Lititz. Prior to that time
he was in business for himself.
He invented a hat-brim finish­ing
machine for the John B.
Stetson, Co., in Philadelphia,
on which he still held patents;
also had a machine shop and
was in the garage business.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Naomi Bigler; one
son, Robert E., Washington,
D.C.; two daughters, Mrs.
Bette B. Good, and Reba M.,
wife of Walter Kissinger, both
of Lititz; four grandchildren,
and these brothers and sisters:
Mary Z., wife of Monroe Leek-ing,
Lititz R4; Walter J. Beh­mer,
United Zion Home; John
H. Behmer, New Brunswick,
N.J.; and Eva, wife of David
Myers, Lititz R4.
Beck Bros., Lititz, is in
charge of funeral arrange­ments.
two-lane drive. Not approved
was “no parking” along Pine
Alley north of West Orange
St., or “stop here on red sig­nal”
sign at Broad and Main
Sts. Council also approved the
following detour when North
Broad St. is repaired by the
state: Water St., one-way north;
Cedar St., one-way south; no
parking south side of East
Main from Church Square to
Water; change ¿top signs so
that Cedar is a through street
and Front is a stop street.
Not approved was the request
for “no parking” on Water
and N. Cedar St. Bids for
North Broad St., are sched­uled
to be opened July 24.
They also approved a re­quest
of the Historical Founda­tion
to remove the parking
meter in front of the Histori­cal
building, 137-39 East Main,
to enforce “no parking,” and
to erect a Colonial style light
in front of the building.
Hevener Associates, Inc.,
were authorized to modify the
electrical wiring at the pump­ing
station, which will allow
the borough $75 credit. They
also will replace the plain win­dow
glass with wire reinforced
glass at a cost of $71.85.
Council asked that plans be
drawn up and submitted for
the construction of sidewalk
and curbing on Woodcrest
Avenue, between Second Ave-ner
and Walnut Street.
Approval was given to Al­len
Gbberman for construction
of one four-family apartment
building in Sutter Village.
A total of $495 was set aside
in the budget for cleaning
Lititz Creek. Bills of $6,300
for street repair and $1,679
for construction of storm sew­ers
were paid to JIra Wenger
and H. F. Huth Engineers Inc.
respectively.
5-Weeks-Old Baby
Travels By Plane
The tiniest passenger ever
to . ride in Dr. Robert B.
Huber’s plane, flew from
Columbia, Mo., recently.
The wee passenger was
Kelly Elizabeth Longenecker,
then five weeks old, grand­daughter
of Dr. and Mrs.
Huber, and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Longenecker.
Dr. and Mrs. Huber, with
children Esther and Bobby,
went out in their private four­seater,
based at Lancaster Air­port,
to get their daughter Ann
(Mrs. Longenecker), and the
baby. Unimpressed by her first
flight,- Kelly Elizabeth slept
most of the way. The baby
and her mother returned July
11 to Columbia by commercial
airline.
Foil Attempt To Cash
Altered Money Orders
Warnings were issued last
week to all merchants in town
by Police Chief George C.
Hicks of altered money orders
recently cashed in the Lititz
area. A pair of men is be­lieved
to be operating the rac­ket.
Valid money orders sold by
the National Express Company
bought in Phoenixville were
altered so that the amounts
were raised from $1 to $100
with a check writer.
Lancaster City detectives re­ported
that a well dressed
man “smooth talker,” estab­lished
a c count s at the
Conestoga and Fulton Nation­al
Banks in Lancaster on July
1, making the deposits with
the altered money obders.
Then on July 3 he withdrew
$1,400 from the Fulton Bank
and $800 at the Conestoga
Bank. According to police,
while he was trying to with­draw
an additional $775 from
the Lititz Springs Branch of
the Conestoga Bank, employes
of the bank became suspicious
and the suspect fled before
police arrived. He is believed
to have driven off in a car
bearing Florida license plates.
Police have been unable to
find any trace of him since.
Chief Hicks said the payee
named on some of the orders
is Francis A. Kiefer. The writ­er
signed the names John Sen-senig
and Paul E. Saver. The
bank symbol number on the
order is 3-76/310, The series
numbers of the money orders
in circulation are: R1377950
through 1377952, three orders;
R1377960 through 1378049, 89
orders; R1378057 t h r o u g h
1378059, three orders.
Police said the man purchas­ing
the orders is about six
feet tall, about thirty-six years
old, with black hair, and the
man who passed them was
about five feet, eight; 170-180
pounds; both well dressed and
“smooth talkers.”
Police believe another pair
of men has been passing mon­ey
orders in Chester and Leb­anon
counties.
Woman’s Club
Garden Party
¡The Lititz Woman’s Club
will hold a Garden Party on
Thursday, July 23 at 1 p.m.
in the sunken garden at Linden
Hall. The party is open to the
public and visitors will be
welcome to come early and
see the rock garden and the
campus.
Bridge will be played and
coffee and dessert served. The
Girl Scouts in charge of Mrs.
Richard Yotter will assist in
serving, they include, Gloria
/Brubaker, Dawn Ketterman,
Jo Beth Long, Barbara Spaid,
Diane Spaid and Kathy Wills.
The proceeds will be used
for the Girl Scouts, a project
of the Club.
Carl Shuman is spending
the month at Chase Tennis
Camp, Westtown, Pa.
WHAT HAPPENED? Wooden marker north of town on
Route 501 shows signs of dilapidation not in keeping with
the rest of this neat town. It is believed that it was put up by
the State long ago and it is hoped the state will replace it with
an iron marker.
Wooden Marker On 501
In Dilapidated Condition
List Winners For Variety
Of Activities On Playgrounds
To say the wooden sign
which proclaims the town of
Lititz at the north approach
on Route 501 is “beat up,” is
to put it mildly.
The top of the sign has been
knocked off, so that the town’s
name is missing. There is a
large crack through the mid­dle.
The only words discern­able
are: “founded by Count
Zinzendorf, Moravian Mission­ary,
1756.”
Somebody thought the sign
has been hit by a truck,
which would explain its rath­er
disreputable condition.
It is believed that the sign
was erected by the State quite
a number of years ago, and
it is hoped that when North
The Republican presidential
convention now underway in
San Francisco presents any­thing
but a favorable picture
to most Lititz people, a sam­ple
poll of a cross-section of
the citizenry reveals.
Most people expressed dis­like,
if not downright disgust,
at the disunity and “name­calling”
which seems to mark
the convention. Because those
polled declined to have their
names used by a ten to two
ratio, it may be inferred that
most of them were critical of
the GOP’s actions. Their opin­ions
followed the same ratio.
Democrats here, however, are
delighted with the “goings-
Broad Street is repaired, the
State will put in one of its
iron markers. But it would be
more appropriate farther out
on Route 501, or “Furnace
Hills Road.” Like so many
other markers in so many oth­er
towns (and even here), the
state markers are so situated
that they are hard to read. If
a motorist slows down, he
blocks traffic. Some are half
hidden by trees. There is a
marker on South Broad street
at Lemon which refers to Sut­ter,
but which is rather hard
to see without stopping the
flow of cars. There is also a
descriptive marker at the east
end of town put up by the
state.
against the GOP. They are de­feating
themselves. Some of
the things are so assinine, such
as the letter Scranton said he
didn’t write and didn’t read
before it was sent.
“But,” he went on, “we still
have our fingers crossed. I
still think Goldwater would
make a better president than
Johnson.”
This man said he had ob­served
President Johnson in
Maryland, and was disgusted
at the way a “poverty” inci­dent
was so obviously staged
for publicity. “After the smoke
blows away, Goldwater will be
a better man than Scranton.
Kiddies Fete
To Benefit
Rec. Center
A group of 30 children in
the vicinity of Pfautz Avenue
and West Orange Street will
hold a Kiddies Kandy Karnival
for the second year on Satur­day,
July 18, from 11 a.m. to
2:30 p.m., for the benefit of the
Lititz Recreation Center.
The Karnival will be held on
the lawn of th'e home of Mr.
and Mrs. Dale E. Shelley,
Pfautz Ave. and W. Orange,
one and a quarter miles from
Broad and Orange St.
This year the affair will be
on a much larger scale, and
will include rides on a pony-drawn
wagon. There will be
many games and items which
will cost only a few pennies,
but all of the proceeds will
go to the Recreation Center
Fund. There will be hot dogs
and orange drink, cupcakes,
homemade candy, popcorn,
snow cones and taffy apples.
Penny toss games will be
featured, as well as a puppet
show, fish pond and balloons.
All the stands will be run by
the children themselves, who
have also done all the other
work, including decorating.
They range in age from five
to fourteen years. ,
The rain date will be July
Nobody ever heard of him
(Scranton) five years ago. If
the progressive element of the
GOP could take over the par­ty
and get rid of the old guard,
there would be some hope for
it.”
But there was another view
of it in the opinion expressed
that “it just looks as though
the Republicans are putting
on this type of show to give
the party more of a boost, so
the people will sit up and lis­ten
to the criticisms of the
Democrats and also will lis­ten
to the platform.”
There also were two oppos-
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A variety of games, tourna­ments
and relays were held
during the first full week that
the Lititz Recreation Center
summer playground program
was in progress.
During the week, there were
1,286 visits to the playground;
553 visits to the swimming
classes, and 39 visits to the
tennis program, a grand total
of 1,878 visits on the part of
the various children, most of
whom made more than one
visit.
Winners of the events are
listed below.
Lititz Springs Park
Winners of the 4-square
tourney in the 8 and 9 age
group were: Dennis Fink and
Sharon Grimshaw. In the 10
and over age group, Jim Hop­kins
won, followed by Donald
McClune; honors in the girls’
division went to Donna Ston­er
and Carol Snavely who tied
in this event.
A Scavenger Hunt was held
for all age groups. Winners
Rec Center
Gets $2000
FromHudnut
A gift of $2000 from Lam-bert-
Hudnut Laboratories has
been presented to the Recrea­tion
Center, it was announced
at the meeting of the board of
directors Monday night. The
laboratories also gave the Cen­ter
$2000 last year.
A. Reid Stoner, acting direc­tor,
stressed the appreciation
of the Center for the gift,
pointing out that it is still
“in the red” and the gift will
enable them to operate until
September 1. He expressed the
hope that the proposed Recrea­tion
Commission composed of
members of borough council,
the school board, and the pub­lic,
will go through rapidly
and that new impetus will be
given to recreation in the
town.
Three applications for full­time
recreation director start-
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DONATIONS
Donations are still being
received at the Recreation
Center to help the Summer
Playground Program. The
Association expressed thanks
and appreciation to Mrs.
James Whitcraft for her do­nation
of games, books, rec­ords
and toys; to Stauffer’s
Market, Inc., for twenty wa­termelons,
and to Mary G.
Engle and Leroy Ammon for
their contribution of $10
each. Also a special thanks
to the boys and girls, them­selves,
who have given cash
to the Arts and Crafts pro­gram.
Mrs. Kay Shuman has
volunteered her time, three
days per week, to the Arts
and Crafts program. Our
thanks and appreciation to
her.
in the boys’ division, 5, 6, 7
year olds, were Mike Frey,
Jerry Shank and Glenn Spick-ler.
In the girls’ division, win­ners
were: Audrey Ehrhart,
Debbie Hatton and Sandy
Kreider.
In the 8 and 9 age group,
winners in the girls’ division
were: Donna Hummer, Linda
Beamesderfer and Joan Grim­shaw.
Dennis Fink, Dudley
Gorton and Mike Kreider took
the honors for the boys.
Winners for the 10 and over
group, girls’ division were:
Dee Rapp, Carole Miller and
Donna Stoner. Top three for
the boys’ group were: Pat Mc-
Alpin, Jim Hopkins and Bob
Rapp.
Backwards Day — a day in
which the boys and girls
dressed backwards and each
and everything they did was
in reverse. Winners for the 5,
6, 7 year olds were: Funniest,
Cathy Gockley and Glenn
Spickler; Most Backward, San­dy
Kreider and Ricky Myers;
Most Original, Cathy Gockley
and Glenn Spickler.
Awards for the 8 and 9 year
olds went to: Dennis Fink,
Alan Hummer and Mike Wel­ler.
In the 10 and over age group
Bobby Rapp was the funniest;
Most Ba ckwa rds , Russell
Snavely, Bill Wier, Sue De-
Wald, Jenny Long and Carol
Snavely.
During this first week of
playground the Lititz Springs.
Park had a total attendance
of 892 visits.
Lions Tot-Lot
The Lions Tot-Lot, under the
supervision of Miss Becky
Hoover, held a scavenger hunt,
foot races, story times, dodge
ball and follow-the-leader.
First place winners in the
scavenger hunt, boys’ division,
Reid Stoner, second place hon­ors
to Bobby Reiter. In the
girls’ section, Diane Burkey
took first place and Donna
Clausen came in second.
Grand Champion of the foot
races was Darrell Becker. Reid
Stoner took second place in
the boys’ division and Julie
Becker came in first for the
girls. Donna Clausen was run­ner-
up in this event.
A total attendance of 91 vis­its
was taken at the Lions Tot-
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Many Frown On Disunity
Of Republican Convention
on.”
“It’s the best thing that
could have happened for the
Democrats,” one said, “but
don’t quote me! They’re not
helping to get any Democrats
into the Republican party, but
are driving the Republicans
into the Democratic ranks. The
only way for the country to
make progress is to offer the
young people something they
can work on, and Goldwater
is not doing it. Scranton has
progressive ideas, but can’t
win. They are all making (un­printable)
of themselves, and
have only themselves to blame.”
Another citizen said: “As a
Republcan, II am disgusted.
It’s unfortunate that all the
name-calling is going on, as it
will be used in the campaign
Siren Silent
For 2 Days;
Blame Fuse
The Lititz fire siren was
out of order for two days,
Monday and Tuesday of this
week, and was finally fixed
late Tuesday.
After a silence of almost
48 hours, it suddenly blared
forth at 5:10 p.m., , and then
kept going for what seemed to,
be an awfully long f ive
minutes.
The fire trucks didn’t go
out, however, being notified
that it was only a test, Fire
Chief Ammon Shelly said. How­ever,
a lot of people craned
their necks on Main St., and
started off in cars to hunt the
“fire.”
The direct cause of the fail­ure
was a blown fuse in the
United Zion Home where the
siren is set off. How the fuse
was blown is still uncertain,
Chief Shelly said. At first it
was thought due to the power
failure in the borough last
Saturday, but later it seemed
to be in the phone site. A
lock was cut off to try to deter­mine
the cause, and it will be
replaced. The Electric Com­pany
and Bell Telephone Com­pany
worked on it all Tuesday
afternoon.
Mexican Teacher Guest In Lititz
Homes Through Rotary Club Program
A Mexican school teacher,
Miss Josefina Moreno, is be­ing
sponsored in Lititz by the
Lititz Rotai'y Club under the
Rotary Foreign Exchange pro­gram.
She will spend eight
weeks here, a week in New
York and three weeks more
in places of her own selection.
Miss Moreno, whose home is
in Acapulco, stayed with Mr.
and Mrs. John G. Hershey, 512
Linden St., when she first ar­rived
and, at present, is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ben­jamin
G. Forrest, 108 West
End Avenue. Other hosts will
include Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
L. Douple, 321 E. Second Ave.;
Mr. and Mrs. Verne E. Porter,
Lititz R4, and Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Brubaker, Lititz R3, in
whose homes she will stay
two weeks each, until August
27. The students all over the
country sponsored by Rotary
will then gather in New York
City for visits to places of in­terest,
among them the
World’s Fair. Two places she
definitely plans to visit on her
own are Niagara Falls and
Chicago, where some cousins
live.
Miss Moreno traveled from
Mexico City by train to Lare­do,
Tex., where she boarded
a bus which took her to St.
Louis, Mo. She was with a
group of other exchamge
teachers. They stopped in
Washington for four days,
where they visited all the
places of national import, and
were welcomed by Senator Hu­bert
Humphreys. She spent
three hours in the National
Gallery of Art, being a great
lover of art, especially that
of the Renaissance.
The Mexican girl, twenty-five,
has been a teacher of
English for four years in the
MacGregor School, a private
school at Ejido, Mexico (in
Alcapulco). She teaches the
first grade, which has 65 pu­pils,
and the second and third
grades, each with 50 children.
In the public schools, English
is not taught until High
School, but in private schools
it is taught from the earliest
grades. Miss Moreno attended
an English school in Mexico
City for her preparation.
She explained that English
is stressed in Alcapulco be­cause
of the large numbers of
tourists who come there the
year round to enjoy the
beaches, nightclubs and other
attractions. Education is com­pulsory
in Mexico, she said,
and in villages where there
are 10 houses or more they
must have a school. Children
in villages of less than ten
houses go to school in the next
village. Miss Moreno said that
the former First Lady, wife
of President Adolfo Lopez
Mateos, has made great ef­forts
to have the government
provide education, and is
building an institution to give
food to the needy. President
Lopez is completing his six-year
term of office and will
be succeeded by Gustavo Diaz
Ordoz, who was elected July 5.
During the short time she
has been in Lititz, Miss Mor­eno
has come to like it very
much, she says, adding that
it is much quieter than her
home town. However, it was
actually hotter here at first,
than in Alcapulco, which is
284 miles south of Mexico on
the Pacific Ocean. It has a
temperate climate the year
round, she says. She has had
time only to visit the elemen­tary
school, which she thought
to be very fine. She observed
the summer reading course
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MEXICAN TEACHER on visit here, sponsored by Lititz
Rotary Club. Miss Josefina Moreno, (left) of Alcapulco, Mexico,
is shown with her current hostess, Mrs. Benjamin G. Forrest,
108 W. End Ave. She will stay with several other Rotarians
during the summer.
READY FOR PLANE RACE: The boys shown above made
their own planes which they will fly during the Jaycee Day
program at Lititz Springs Pool on Sunday afternoon. Left to
right, Mike Long. Barry Shelly, Mike Wolf and Lynn Adams.
Jaycee Day
At L. S. Pool
On Sunchy!
A model airplane race will
be one of the features for Jay­cee
Day, Sunday, July 19, at
Lititz Springs Pool.
The program will open at
2 p.m. with the presentation of
a check for $140 from the Jay-cees
to the borough for the
purchase of games and equip­ment
for the pool. This will be
followed by the airplane race
and other games for all ages.
Prizes also will be awarded.
A mother-daughter camp-out
will be held Friday night at
the pool, open only to season
ticket holders. Registrations
may be made at the pool, at a
cost of 75 cents per family.
Other events on the calendar
include goggle and fin night,
Monday, July 20, at 7:30 p.m.;
diving club, learn coached by
Donald McGarvey and Robert
Frey, Tuesday, July 21, at 7
p.m.; Teen night, Wednesday,
July 22, 8 to 11 p.m.; beginning
men’s volleyball tournament,
Sunday, July 25.
Trinity EC
Will Conduct
Park Service
The Community Worship
service in Lititz Springs Park
on Sunday, at 7 p.m., will be
conducted by Trinity Evan­gelical
Congregational Church.
The Rev. Darryl Maxwell,
newly appointed pastor of the
Rothsville Evangelical Congre­gational
Church, will preach
the sermon. The Rev. James
K. Rapp, pastor of the host
church, will conduct the serv­ice.
The Trinity senior choir
will sing under the direction
of Charles Hornberger. Dean
Rapp will be pianist.
Lititz Wins
119-89 Over
E.Petersburg
The Lititz Springs Pool swim
team defeated East Petersburg
by a score of 119-89 in a meet
at East Petersburg, Tuesday
night.
Winners were as follows:
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Pa. Officials
Inspect Creek
Members of the State Sani­tary
Water Board made a 45-
minute inspection of Lititz
Springs Creek yesterday, as
part of a threc-day inspection
trip which will cover some
400 miles in several counties.
The party arrived aboard a
inis, got out at the head of
Ihe creek, got in and drove
as far as Morgan Paper Com­pany
where they got. out again.
They commented on a white
effluent flowing into the creek
but were assured by John P.
Durr, regional sanitary engi­neer
of the State Health de­partment
that it is not harm­ful
and that the company has
submitted plans to install an
improved filtration system.
The group got in the bus
again, drove to the Animal
Trap company, turned around;
drove to the borough sewage
disposal plant, turned around,
without getting out again any­place,
according to Borough
Manager George D. Steedle,
who went along with the party.
The officials also included
Dr. Charles L. Wilbar, state
secretary of health; Albert M.
Day, executive director of the
State Fish Commission; Maur­ice
K. Goddard, state secretary
of Forests and Waters, and
several state engineers.
Steedle said they made no
final conclusion.