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              The Lititz Record
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86th Year Established April, 1877, as The sunbeam Lititz. Lancaster Co,, Pa., (Consolidated with The I.ititz Record, 1937) Thursday, October 8, 1964
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Pupils Participate
In Painting Contest
The annual Halloween win­dow
painting contest spon­sored
by the Recreation Cen­ter
is now underway in the
Warwick Union School district,
with the cooperation of prin­cipals
and teachers.
Elimination contests are be­ing
held in Grades Four
through Seven in Lititz, Roths-ville
and Brunnerville. After
the pictures are finished and
winners selected, prizes will
awarded, after which the
pictures will be placed in win­dows
of local merchants from
Monday, October 26, through
October 31.
Paintings will be judged in
four groups, Grades Four, Five,
six and Seven. Children will
plan sketches in advance,
drawn freehand without help.
In fact, contestants are “hon­or
bound” to do their paint­ings
without help, and any
painting which shows help will
be disqualified.
Elimination contests will be
held in each classroom before
Wednesday, October 14, and
the first three winners in each
classroom will receive materi­als
to compete for prizes. Ma­terials
will be given out at the
schools October 14, and all
paintings must be turned in
by Wednesday, Oct. 21. Judg­ing
will be done Thursday and
Friday, October 22 and 23.
The Recreation Center will
furnish the materials, includ­ing
non-toxic paint and a 22
by 28 show card for the pic­tures.
In each grade, prizes will be
awarded as follows: 1st, $5;
2nd, $3; 3rd, $2. Winners will
be announced in the Lititz
Record-Express.
Children who want their
paintings after the contest
must pick them up at the
stores by Monday, November 2.
Local Educators
Attend Congress
G. Marlin Spaid, supervising
principal of the Warwick Un­ion
School district; Harold W.
Swisher, High School princi­pal;
Carl Kaufman, assistant
High School principal, and Ed­gar
L. Lawton, director of ele­mentary
education in the dis­trict
schools, attended the Edu­cation
Congress held in Harris­burg
last week.
About 700 school administra­tors
and other educators at­tended
to review educational
achievements of the past and
hear of expected accomplish­ments
of the future.
.«pwmm jo Discuss Boro - Twp
• y JP Cooperation In Planning
Construction Of Broad St.
To Cost An Added $2,500
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SIGN UP FOR REC HOLIDAY; Early arrivals register for the Recreation Holiday for
Women at the Recreation Center last Tuesday. Left to right are Mrs. John Marks, Mrs. John
A. Wenger (standing), Mrs. Walter Shuman, Mrs. Keith McClure (standing in front), and Mrs.
Abram Mease.
Construction of North Broad
Street will cost the borough
about $2,500 more than it had
anticipated, it was confirmed
this week by Borough Manager
George D. Steedle. The orig­inal
contract was for $37,539.
This is because the water
main will have to be lowered
from Kleine Street to Front
Street, instead of just from
Front Street to north of the
borough line, as originally es­timated.
Steedle said they made tests
in three different spots, meas­ured
the depth of the water
main, and filled the holes in
{ again. The line was found not
to be set deep enough. In plan­ning
for the construction,
Huth Engineers used all the
available information regard-
Herman Stark Retires
After Sixty Years Work
Lititz PTA To Fete
New Teachers Oct. 15
The Lititz PTA will hold
regular monthly meetings on
the third Thursday of the fol­lowing
months: October, No­vember,
January, February,
March and April. All meetings
will start at 8 p.m.
The first meeting will be
held October 15, when “Meet
the Teachers Night” will be
^observed. The program will
feature a film, “Listen,” which
tells of the community serv­ices
available in Lancaster
County.
PLAN BOOK SALE
Mrs. Dale Cartwright, chair­man
of the Fine Arts and Edu­cation
Committee of the Wom­an’s
Club, requests all persons
who may have books they wish
to dispose of to give them to
the Club for their spring book
sale. The following ladies will
call for them: Mrs. Cartwright,
Mrs. Reyer O. Swan and Mrs.
'’■'rdon Burkey.
Herman Stark, 110 East Sec­ond
Ave., completed 60 years
of active work last Friday
when he retired from the
Animal Trap Company of
America.
He will be seventy-four
years old in November.
He was first employed there
in 1904 when it was under
another ownership, but for a
seven and a half year period
was employed elsewhere, so
he has been in the trap busi­ness
for more than 50 years.
Forty of these years were
with the Animal Trap Com­pany
o f America, which
bought out its predecessors in
1924.
When Stark started work, he
received five cents an hour
and worked ten hours a day
for fifty cents. His take-home
pày was $3 a week. But then
he quotes figures to show that
a dollar went a lot farther in
those days than it does now.
For example, butter was 18
cents a pound, eggs, 15 cents
a dozen, cheese, 12 cents a
pound, bread, nine cents a loaf
and milk, seven cents a quart.
One of his first jobs was
bending the rat trap hinges
by hand.
Mexican Adventures Are
Subject Of Travelogue
Romain Wilhelmsen, Pasa­dena,
Calif., will deliver the
first in the series of Rotary
Club Travelogues on Saturday
evening, October 17, at 8 p.m.
in the Warwick High School
auditorium.
His subject will be “The
Soul of Mexico,” presented in
a new color film which he
narrates.
Wilhelmsen attended St. Jo­seph’s
College in Indiana for
two years, and is a graduate
of the Pasadena Playhouse,
Pasadena, Calif., training school
' - the stage. He is a member
v. the Los Angeles Adventur­er’s
Club, and has written a
number of newspaper articles
and magazine stories of his
adventures.
Wilhelmsen started his film-lecture
career in 1953, and,
to date, he has completed six syndicated on “Bold Journey’
lecture films. He estimates and „j Search for Adventure.’
that he has appeared in per­son
before more than 2,000
audiences.
He has made three educa­tional
films, about 50 personal
appearances on television, and
eight of his shows have been
School Menu
Monday
Chili, lettuce and tomato
wedge, assorted fruit.
Tuesday
Hot roast beef, whipped po­tatoes,
gravy, cole slaw, fresh
apple.
Wednesday
No School, Visitation Day.
Thursday
Oven fried chicken, parsley
potatoes, relish cup, peaches.
Friday
Fish sticks, tomato sauce,
buttered noodles, fruit jello.
Herman Stark
Although a small man —
five feet two inches tall, 120
pounds — Stark is vigorous
and spry for his age. He has
rarely been ill. In October,
1963, he was hospitalized for a
minor operation, and this was
one of the few times he was
sick.
Stark worked for four own­ers
of the Trap Company. At
first it was the J. M. Mast
Manufacturing Company, then
the Lititz Trap Company oper­ated
by a Mr. Shultz, then the
Oneida Community (the same
firm that makes silverware)
and, finally, the Animal Trap
Company of America, as it is
now. It has grown tremendous­ly
from one small building 40
years ago, to a huge complex
of many buildings. For 28 of
the 40 years with the firm,
Stark worked as office janitor,
and packing mouse traps was
his last job there. In between
times, he worked six years for
Eby Shoe company; one year
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Romain Wilhelmsen
Martin Chevrolet
Succeeds Steffy
Martin Chevr ol e t , Inc.,
opened this week as the newly
authorized Chevrolet Dealer in
Lititz. The new firm is . locat­ed
at 732 S. Broad Street, for­merly
Steffy’s Chevrolet build­ing.
Martin had been associated
I with Messick Chevrolet, Eph-rata,
for five years previous
to opening here. Mervin Mes­sick,
Martin’s father-in-law, has
been in the automobile busi­ness
for 40 years and will be
active with Martin Chevrolet.
70 Enroll
For Women’s
Rec. Holiday
Sevent y women registered
Tuesday in the “Recreation
Holiday for Women” program I
at the Recreation Center. Some .
of them registered for moie
than one of the classes, so that,
there was a total of 112 teg
istrations.
Slimnastics drew the largest
number of registrants — 32.
Other enrollments included
beginners’ bridge, 15; art, 13,
knitting, 17; rug braiding,
eight; weight control, seven;
investments, 20.
The Home Nursing class was
dropped for lack of interest.
There are still five more
openings for bridge; three for
weight control, and several for
investments. Women who are
interested may register next
Tuesday when classes starts at
9 a.m. The committee request­ed
that everyone arrive early
enough so that classes can
start promptly on the hour
designated. Mrs. John Wenger,
a member of the board, is
chairman of the program.
Registrations were held dur­ing
a coffee hour on Tuesday.
Coffee breaks will be held mid­morning
each day the classes
are in progress.
The classes will continue
every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to
noon for eight weeks.
While the women were regis­tering,
27 children were at play
in the nursery which will be
conducted each week during
the classes, in order to free
the mothers to attend.
Fifty-one new Recreation
Center members were obtained
through the program Tuesday.
ing the water lines, but the
line is 71 years old, and the
records are not accurate,
Steedle said. He added that it
“zigs and zags” in places over
rock, and in spots goes up
and down.
As a result, the engineers
have recommended to Council
that 250 feet of new pipe will
be needed, and council is ex­pected
to approve it at an ad­journed
meeting next Tuesday
night. Meanwhile, Roger Ger­hart,
holder of the contract,
is starting at Front Street to
lay new pipe to the borough
limits, so after council has ap­proved
the extension, they can
Cóme back and lay the line
from Front to Kleine.
GFTS PIIOTS I.H I.XSE: Michael Dunn, seventeen, is
shown beside plane in which he won his private license in a
test at the Reading Airport.
3 Prosecuted For
Traffic Violations
Three mi otorists were prose­cuted
for traffic violations last
week before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm.
They are: Leonard J. Duer-smith,
Accomac Rd., Wrights-ville
Rl, red light violation, on
Oct. 2; Daniel S. Sensenig,
Richland Rl, red light viola­tion
on October 3; Robert
Woods, Jr., Mount Joy Rl,
stop sign violation on Oct. 4.
Lititz Areas To Get
Liquid Fuel Taxes
Lititz borough will receive
$3,244.52 from the State Liquid
Fuels Tax as its October pay­ment,
it was announced by
Highway Secretary Henry D.
Harral.
Warwick township will re­ceive
$5,686.49 and Elizabeth
township, $2,962.21.
Parade Tonight Opens
Manheim Farm Show
He started his professional
career on the stage, and en­joyed
two successful seasons
on Broadway. But his heart was
not in acting — so he left the
theater to take up a life of
adventure and exploration. He
was especially interested in
the “wild” parts of Mexico,
Central and South America,
and he avidly studied all that
he could find on their lost
cities, missions, lost treasures
find remote civilizations.
While he soon determined
that source material in this
country was limited, he found
much more in the national li­braries
and missions of the
Latin American countries.
When he had gathered enough
history on an area to deter­mine
where these old treasures
might be located, he set out
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Commend 3 Students
For Exam Efforts
Three seniors at Warwick
Union High School have been
honored for their high per­formance
on the National
Merit Scholarship qualifying
test given last Spring. While
they did not reach the status
of semifinalists, they were giv­en
formal letters of commen­dation
from the High School
principal and the president
of the National Merit Scholar­ship
Corporation.
They are Alan R. Klase,
Trina S. Leed and Neil M.
Sheneberger, it was announced
by Harold W. Swisher, school
principal.
J. William Pezick, a senior,
achieved the rank of semi­finalist,
it was announced last
week.
and 6th, $10 each; 7th and 8th,
$5 each; 9th and 10th, $3 and
$ 2.
Any persons may enter the
parade. Last minute details
can be arranged. The prizes
do not include industrial floats
of any kind.
After the parade the Malta
Band of Lancaster will present
a concert beginning at 8:30
p.m.
A tractor driving contest
will be held Friday at 1 p.m.
at the High School, which is
open to youths (under 18;
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Manheim’s Farm Show Pa­rade
will get underway tonight
at 7 p.m. with the following
bands participating: the Man-heim
Central High School
Band; Northern Lebanon High
School Band; the Malta Band
of Lancaster; Garden Spot
High School Band; Twin Val­ley
High School Band; York
White Roses Junior Drum &
Bugle Corps; West Shoreman
Drum & Bugle Corps; the
Chocolatiers of Hershey and
the Drill Team of Lebanon—
the VFW Victorian Guards.
At 7:15 p.m. the new Farm
Show Queen will be crowned
by last year’s winner, Miss
Pat Graham, in front of Ret-tew’s
Department Store. The
three girls vying for the title
are: Miss Sandra Hollobaugh,
Miss Denise Myers and Miss
Alice Rohrbaugh. The winner,
who is chosen by the entire
Senior High student body, will
receive a $25 savings bond and
a silver medallion. The two
attendants will receive a $12.50
gift certificate at one of Man­heim’s
dress shops. The girls
will appear on a float decor­ated
in a southern motif.
Along with the many bands
and drum and bugle corps,
many floats of all characteris­tics
will appear. The prizes
awarded in the float catagory
are: 1st prize, $30; 2nd prize,
$25; 3rd ,$20; 4th, $20; 5th I George C. Hicks.
Open Car Door
Hif> By Auto
A two-car accident occurred
in front of 116 East Main St.
on October 4, when a motorist
opened his car door into the
stream of traffic and the door
was hit.
Edward W. Ranck, 125 E.
Main St., had just parked his
car at the curb, and opened
the door on the street side.
The door was struck by a car
owned and driven by Elva G.
Hollinger, 419 Linden St., Lit­itz.
There were no injuries
and no prosecutions, as the
law does not provide for any,
according to Police Chief
Youth, 17,
Passes Pilot
License Test
Michael Dunn, seventeen-year-
old senior at Warwick
High School, has successfully
passed his test for private air­plane
pilot.
The youth is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Dunn, 329
Gochenauer Avenue.
His final test, in a Piper
Cherokee, was administered by
A1 DeRonde, flight inspector,
at the Reading Municipal Air­port.
Prior to this rating ride,
Michael was required to suc­cessfully
pass a written ex­amination
and take several
solo cross country flights, one
of which had to be a minimum
of 100 miles each way. For
that segment, Mike flew to
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and re­turned.
In addition he was re­quired
to demonstrate pro­ficiency
in basic navigation,
meteorology, radio and flight
instrument flying.
He1 is currently flying out
of the Lancaster Municipal Air­port
and desires to obtain a
commercial rating.
3 Accidents
On One-way
Thorofare
Three accidents have oc­curred
on North Water Street
in recent days, attributed by
Police Chief George C. Hicks
to the fact that the street has
been made one-way north, but
motorists apparently forget to
pull to the left to make turns
at intersections.
He urged motorists to keep
in mind that North Water is
now one-way north, and S
Cedar Street is one-way south,
and reminded them they should
pull over into the proper lane
before making turns.
A car owned and driven by
Jacob E
A meeting to discuss co­operation
between the borough
and township has been called
by the Warwick Township
Pl a nni ng Commission for
Thursday, October 15. at 8 p.m.
in the Brunnerville Fire Hall.
Fred Hershey, director of
the Bureau of Municipal Af­fairs,
Department of Internal
Affairs, Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, will be a special
guest and speaker. He will
discuss the ramifications of
Borough-township cooperation
and relationships. He is a na­tive
of Paradise, Lancaster
county, and is a recognized
authority in the field of mu­nicipal
relationships.
The general purpose of the
meeting is to learn definitely
what range of cooperation ex­ists
between the borough and
township at present, and to
point out the areas where co­operation
can or canhot be
achieved.
The meeting will be attend
ed by the Warwick township
supervisors, and invitations al
so have been extended to El
lis Ilarned, executive direotoi
of the Lancaster County Plan
ning Commission; George Mor
gan, Warwick township solici
tor; Dr. E. J. Kowalewski
president of the Warwick Un
ion School Board; George D
Steedle, borough manager,and
a representative of the Bor­ough
Council and of the Lititz
Planning Commission.
Delay Bridge
Construction
In Townships
Elizabeth and Warwick towo-ship
supervisors are marking
time until they hear more
about the proposed Hammer
Snyder, 150 Front’ Creek project before they re-
Street, collided with a truck
owned by the Organic Plant
Food Co., Lancaster, driven by
Paul Ortega, 80 Conestoga
Drive, Lancaster, on October
6 at N. Water and Kleine Sts.
Both were headed north on
Water, and Snyder made a
left-hand turn from the right
side of the highway, causing
the accident. He will be
charged with improper turn­ing,
Chief Hicks said. There
were no injuries.
Cars owned and driven by
John D. Ebersole, twenty-three,
112 N. New St., Lititz, and
Lloyd Wertz, sixty-five, 409
Laurel St., both headed north
pn Water Street,, collided at
N. Water and Front Sts., on
October 2. Wertz made a left
turn from the right lane,
causing the collision. He will
be charged with making rn
improper turn, according to
Chief Hicks.
On the same date, at N.
Water and N. Locust St.,
where the one way traffic
ends, cars driven by Harold
S. Dull, thirty-four, Lititz Rl,
and Michael J. Kane, seven­teen,
259 Noble St., Lititz, col­lided
when Dull, headed south,
attempted to make a left turn
into Locust in front of Kane’s
car. He will be prosecuted for
failure to yield the right of
way, Chief Hicks said.
Punt, Pass & Kick
Scheduled Saturday
A number of local boys have
registered for the Punt, Pass
and Kick competition Saturday
at 9 a.m. at the football prac­tice
field of the Warwick High
School. The contest is open
to grade and junior high school
boys of the Warwick area,
and the public is invited to
attend.
Last week, members of the
F & M football team, led by
head coach George Storck,
held a clinic on punting, pass­ing
and kicking on the War­wick
field. The boys who at­tended
the clinic received
many tips on football and met
the players of the college
team. It is hoped to make
this clinic an annual affair.
The boys in this area will
be testing their football skills
at the same times as thous­ands
of other lads throughout
the country in the age group
eight to thirteen years.
pete during half time at NFL
games. Twelve national final­ists
will compete at an NFL
championship game in Miami,
Fla., after a trip to Washing­ton,
D.C.
Any ties among the local
boys will be played off at the
end of the program, and in
case there are ties in the zone
or district competitions there
will be a special play-off day..
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Rec. Juniors
Sell Candy
winners will compete at the
district level in the 14 Nation­al
Football League areas, and
these area winners will com-
The Junior Board of Direc­tors
of the Recreation Center
are having a Halloween candy
sale.
Hershey bars will be sold
in an assortment of ten bar
packs. Lunch bars, Milky Way,
Hershey bar, plain and almond
bars will be sold in boxes of 24.
Orders may be phoned in to
Zone. the Recreation' Center, 626-
5096.
The Junior Board members
will also be selling candy from
door to door in the near future.
build a bridge on the road
from Snavely’s Mill to Brubak­er
Valley.
Since the proposed bridge is
on the township lines, they
will share the cost. equally;
they said. But they may have
to build a much more expen­sive
bridge than they had
counted on because they are
bound by the Department of
Forests and Waters which, is
dictating the size and strength,
etc., of the bridge, a spokes­man
said. The bridge would be
about a mile downstream from
the lake that would be formed
by damming the Hammer
Creek.
Elizabeth township supervis­ors
said they had gone ovër
the project with an engineer
who felt that the bridge could
be repaired instead of rebuilt,
but no estimate has been re­ceived
yet. A spokesman said
they could build a bridge that
would cost about $8,000, but
the bridge the state wants
would cost three or four times
that much.
Community
Calendar
Oct. 8 — 6:30 p.m., Radio Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
8:00 p.m., Table Tennis
match at the Recreation
Center.
Oct. 10 — 8:30 p.m., Jr. Board
Dance at the Recreation
Center, featuring the Cali­entes.
Oct. 12 — 7:00 p.m., Jayne
Cees Babysitting course at
the Recreation Center.
7:30 p.m., Odd Fellows
meeting at I.O.O.F. Hall.
8:00 p.m., Sr. Board meet­ing
at the Recreation Cen
ter.
Oct. 13 — 6:00 p.m., Rotary
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
12:30 p.m., Food Surplus
at the Recreation Center.
7:30 p.m., Adult Girl Scout
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
Oct. 14 — Visitation Day fór
Warwick Teachers.
7:00 p.m., Y-Teens' Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
Oct. 15 — 6:30 p.m., Radio
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
8:00 p.m., John Beck and
Lititz P.T.A. meetings.