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(Consolidated w ith The I>ititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, December 10, 1964 7 oents a c o p y ; $3.00 per yea r by m a il 16 Pages ___ No 34
w ith in Lanca ste r County; $4.00 elsewh ere &
LITITZ STORES OPEN TO 9 P. M. EVERY NIGHT
Hope Coffee
Shop Will
Open Soon
Progress is being made to­ward
the reopening of the
General Sutter Hotel, but no
definite date has been set yet,
^cording to the official spokes­man.
However, there is a possi­bility
that the coffee shop
might be open soon. This
hinges on several factors. One
is that the new owners, who
have received their articles of
incorporation as the “General
Sutter Hotel Inc.,” won’t get
formal possession until Decem­ber
31. However, they could
still open the shop with the
permission of the sellers.
Another factor is that there
is not yet a new manager, al­though
it is hoped to get one
■soon.
The target date for com­plete
reopening is February,
1965.
The Hotel In its present
form was bought by the Lititz
Community Hotel Company in
October 1929, and extensively
remodeled. Henry Y. Shaub,
well-known Lancaster archi­tect,
was employed to design
the remodelling. He 'was the
architect of many important
-mblic buildings and schools
a Lancaster city and county,
among them McCaskey High
School, which was “ahead of
its time,” and still keeps pace
with the most modern struc­tures.
The general contractor
for the work was W. B. Aier-stuck,
well-known contractor
of Lancaster. The building was
reopened on December 1,
1930, with H. A. Mills as its
first manager. Roy H. Wag­ner
became manager on May
16, 1931, and continued until
a year ago when he retired.
Actually, a part of the
building is 200 years old, when
it started out as a tavern.
Mrs. Walls
Injured In
Accident
A Lititz woman suffered a
fractured leg in an automobile
ccident Tuesday, Dec. 8, at
4:15 p.m. at North Alley and
N. Cedar Street
The injured woman is Mrs.
Winfred Walls, 317 Linden
St., who was treated by Dr.
Paul G. Hess in his office, and
returned home. She also suf­fered
a bruised forehead.
A passenger in her car, Mrs.
Russel Longnecker, 351 Front
St., sustained a cut on the left
ear which required several
stitches to close. She also was
treated by Dr. Hess.
Mrs. Walls’ car collided
with one driven by Barry Lee
Kofroth, twenty, 358 E. Main
Lititz, who was headed south
on N. Cedar St. in the left
turn lane. The traffic in the
right lane stopped to allow
Mrs. Walls’ car, travelling east
on North Alley, to cross the
intersection, police said. When
er car got between the right
lane southbound traffic, she
could not see the traffic in
the left lane and collided with
Kofroth’s car, it was report­ed.
She will he prosecuted by
Borough Officer James Fritz
before Justice of the Peace
Paul F. Diehm for failure to
yield the right of way. Dam­age
to the Walls’ car totalled
$350, and the other car,
owned by Helen Kofroth, was
damaged to the extent of
$150, it was estimated.
V.F.W. To Hold
Children's Potty
The Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 1463 will hold their
annual Christmas party for
children of active, auxiliary
and social members on Sun­day,
December 20, at 2 p.m.
at the Post Home.
The program will feature
entertainment, refreshments
■•nd a visit from Santa Claus.
The VFW auxiliary will
meet December 15 at the Post
Home at 7:30 p.m. There will
be a covered dish supper, and
members are asked to bring
a $1 grab bag gift.
BIG IMPROVEMENT: New sidewalks have been completed on Woodcrest Avenue, giving a
cityfied appearance to a suburban area. The walks were paid for by the property owners.
Woman Injured
In 2-Car Crash
One person was slightly in­jured
in a two-car accident
Which occurred Dec. 3, at 2
p.m. at the intersection of East
Main and. Locust streets.
One car was driven by Betty
Wolf, Rothsville, who was
treated by Dr. Paul Q. Hess
at the scene and later taken
to his office.
The driver of the other car
was Mrs. Ruth Husser, 208 N.
Elm St., Lititz, who had three
young children in' the car. No
one was injured.
According to Chief of Po­lice
George C. Hicks, the Wolf
ear was traveling east on East
Main, when the Husser car
pulled out of Locust Street
into. Main in front of it. The
Wolf car struck the Husser
car broadside, and the vehicle
continued over the curb, side­walk
and embankment onto
the property of Gordon Trump.
Mrs. Husser will be charged
with failure to yield the right
of way, Chief Hicks said.
Local Students
In LVC Program
Three students from Lititz
at Lebanon Valley College will
participate in the college’s
community Christmas service
Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m.
They include Charles Horn-berger,
David Keehn and John
Yerger, all in the bass section
of the 140-voice choir.
Warwick High Athletes
Will Receive Letters
Athletic awards, including captain; Sue Horn, co-captain,
varsity letters and blazers, Barbe Singer, manager; Linda
will be presented to Warwick
High School athletes at two
assemblies Friday.
The Junior High awards as­sembly
will be held at 12:30
p.m., and the Senior High
awards assembly at 2:12 p.m.
Junior High football letters
will be presented to Richard
Oelune, Mike Roth, Dennis
¡Nagle, Scott Ketterman, Steve
Kraybill, Joe Nagle, Larry
Reitz, Phil Conlin, Everett
Smith, Tony Rossi, Jeff Waga-man,
Roy Strickler, Jeb Moore,
Dennis Beck, Mike Dougherty,
John Male, Rick Eckert, Boh
Derr, Mike Gerhard, Joe
Seitz and Jeff Hornberger.
Senior High football awards
will be made to Bill Landis,
Dick Bender, Jeff Ross, John
Helter, Randy Reist, Fred
Sample, Gary Young, Dan
Rossi, Dick Ludwig, Rick Sipe,
Boh LaVigne, John Reitz, Den­nis
Zimmerman, Tom Murr,
| Rick Smith, Jim Willis, Dick
Gundrum, Doug Pennington,
Tim Conlin, Larry Klopp, Mike
Hammond, Tom Burkholder,
Denny Kissinger, Phil Ehr-hart,
Bruce Singer, Ed Palm­er,
Ed Nixdorf, Joe Weidler,
Paul Groff, Art Thorn, Roy
Garman, Fred Rodger, Dave
Brumbach, Dave Wenger, Bob
Myer and Gerry Reifsnyder.
Senior Girls hockey awards
Garner, Donna Longenecker,
Dawn Ketterman and Nancy
Ruhl; letters: Mary Neider-myer,
manager; Gloria Bru­baker,
Joanne Eshelman, Jo
Beth Long, Marcia Groves, Fay
Miley, Linda Bajhowski, Don­na
Weaver, Judy Campbell,
Barb Foreman, Peggy Bard,
Sue pfautz, Phyllis Ober, Deb­bie
Essig, Mary Conlin, Ken,
dra Kauffman, Barb Hershey,
Barb Spaid, Carol Bredthauer,
Connie Hollinger, Nina Lausch,
Barb JCreider, Fay Burkhold­er,
and Cathy Will, who will
receive recognition, having
been awarded a letter previ­ously.
Sr. Citizens
Plan Yulei
Banquet
The Senior Citizens will hold
their first Christmas banquet
on Thursday, December 19, at
6:30 p.m. in the Recreation
Center.
A caterer will serve the
meal, and dinner music will
be provided by Dean Burk­holder.
Other entertainment
will be given by a group of
students from the Warwick
High school choral group. The
program will be climaxed by
a candlelight service in charge
of Mrs. Elsie Becker and Miss
Mabel Bushong.
The members are requested
to bring a gift for the County
Home. Items suggested are
small boxes of tissue, talcum,
hankies for men and women.
The articles are to be gift
wrapped and labeled as to the
sex of person to whom it
shall be given.
The deadline for reserva­tions
and cancellations for the
dinner is Monday, December
14. Anyone desiring either is
asked to call Mrs. Forbes
Emsweller, phone 626-7114,
general chairman. The com­mittee
on arrangements in­cludes
Harry Winnerling, Har­ry
Lowe and Ralph Wohlsen.
The following Girl Scouts
will assist in serving: Bar­bara
Spaid, Gloria Brubaker,
Joanne Eshelman and Char­lotte
Houchin. Mrs. Emsweller
and Mrs. Bernard Rider are
the advisors.
Twp. Permit’s
At $38,500
Building permits with a total
lvalue of $38,500 were issued
in Warwick township during
November by Mrs. Ruth Wet­zel,
building permit clerk.
Those lifting the permits
were H. Ray and Anna Mary
Bushong, Lititz Rl; Paul F.
Diehm, 24 S. Broad St., Lititz;
and J. Kenneth Hershey, 112
S. Main St., Manheim.
Opera Workshop Singers
To Fete Woman’s Club
John Darrencamp and Miss heme” and “Carmen.” She is
Diana Wronski will entertain I a former soprano soloist of
at the Woman’s Club on Mon­day,
December 14 at 8 p.m.
in the Lutheran Education
Building. They will present
“The Christmas Songbook,” in
solos and duets.
The couple has presented
programs for professional as­sociations
and women’s clubs
in the Lancaster area. In 1962
they appeared for the Lititz
will be presented as follows: Club in scenes from “LaBo-
Blazers: Darlene Helman, co-
Warwick Lions Observe
25th Anniversary Dinner
The Warwick Township
Lions Club observed their
twenty-fifth anniversary on
Tuesday evening by having a
venison dinner in the Memori­al
Building in Rothsville.
Four of the original char­ter
members attended. They
are Paul Bushong, Fred Kauff­man,
Benjamin Forney and
Joseph Long, who is eighty-eight
years old.
Paul Esbenshade of New
Holland, llnternational Coun­selor
who organized the group,
was a guest and spoke on
Lionism. The fact was stressed
that this is the only Club in
Pennsylvania which owns its
own building for meeting pur­poses.
They also own eight
Lititz Bird Club
To Count Beaks
December 27th
The Lititz Bird Club will
take their ¡annual bird census
Sunday, December 27. The
rain date is January 1.
The census is taken in co­operation
with the National
Audubon Society and will be
the 52nd annual bird count
for the Lititz group. Within a
two-week ¡period the bird cen­sus
will ibe taken over the en­tire
North American conti­nent.
heme.” Darrencamp is a mem
ber of Lancaster Opera Work­shop
and has sung major roles
in “Secret of Suzanne,” “La
Boheme,” and “Carmen,” arid
will appear in “Faust” in 1965.
Darrencamp is a baritone
soloist with First Methodist
, , , Church, Lancaster. Miss Wron-acres
of land. , ski is a former member of
Other guests included Parke |^ an,caster Workshop and has
Groff of New Holland, zone sung major roles in “La Bo-chairman,
and Louis Schmid
of Pine Hill. The current proj­ect
of the Club is selling
knives. Plans were made for
the annual Christmas party
for the children of Warwick
Township to be held jointly
with the Fire Company and
the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Fire Company. It will be held
on December 19 in the Roths-
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.First Methodist Church, Lan­caster.
At one time she was
a member of the Singing City
Chorale, Philadelphia. While a
member of the Chorale, she
sang on occasion with the
Philadelphia Orchestra in
Philadelphia and New York.
Mrs. Howard Moore will in­troduce
the couple.
The County Hospital and
Home will be recipient of all
gifts which the membership
brings to the meeting. Hand­kerchiefs,
stretch socks, toilet
water, or after-shave lotion
would be acceptable gifts.
Each gift should be wrapped
and have an attached paper
stating contents and sex of
person to whom it should go.
The conservation committee
is working on decorations
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School Menu
grilled
relish
sauce,
lVIo> ■ ■ /
Sub sandwicr. or
cheese, potato chips,
cup, peach crunch.
Tuesday
Spaghetti & meat
corn, fruit jello.
Wednesday
Beef barbecue, baked pota­toes,
peas & carrots, pineap­ple
ring.
Thursday
Chicken rice soup, chicken
salad sandwich, carrot cup,
chocolate cake.
Friday
Fish sticks or hot dog, but­tered
potatoes, celery/p. but­ter,
cookies. John Darrencamp — Diana Wronski
As Outstanding
English Pupil
William Pezick, a student
at Warwick High School, has
been cited as one of the out­standing
students of high
school English in the country,
it was announced at the
school.
The National Council of
Teachers of English has nam­ed
him a 1964 national winner
in its annual Achievement
Awards competition.
Last Spring a committee of
English teachers from the high
school nominated Pezick to
represent the school in the
competition, for which almost
8,000 students were nominat­ed
throughout the nation.
From these, 860 finalists were
chosen. These students were
recommended by the NCTE
for college scholarships in 1965,
and their names sent to every
college and university admis­sions
officer. In previous years
99 per cent, of the awards
winners entered the college of
their choice.
William’s English instructors
are Carl Kaufman, Miss Linda
Itzoe and Robert Kauffman. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Pezick, Lititz Rl.
Boro Consults
Plant On Water
Drainage Idea
Borough officials have con­sulted
with executives of the
Wilbur Chocolate company re­garding
a proposed plan to
divert clean water from the
plant into the head of the Lit­itz
Springs Creek, Borough
Manager George D. Steedle
said this week.
Meanwhile, officials of the
Morgan Paper company will
report to council at its next
meeting on their latest find­ings
with respect to alleged
pollution of the stream in that
area.
At present the company
discharges water into the
creek at the bridge, and it
was tentatively suggested that
a pipe be extended out to
the head of the creek and the
water discharged there. How­ever,
Steedle said, the com­pany
wants to retain its pres­ent
discharge point, but is
amenable to discussing the
possibility of a second dis­charge
point at the head of
the creek. All industrial cool­ing
water, including that from
air conditioners, the loading
docks drains and the roof
drains now come into the
creek at the bridge.
At latest reports there was
water in the lower pond, but
none in the upper, Steedle
said.
Early Publication
Dates For Paper
The Record Express will be
published Wednesday, Dec. 23,
instead of Thursday, Dec. 24;
and also Wednesday, Dec. 30
instead of Thursday, Dec. 31.
Articles concerning Christ­mas
programs in churches and
by organiaztions will be re­ceived
in the office starting
December 17 or earlier, to
insure efficient handling and
good space in the newspaper.
The deadline for the Dec. 23
issue is Monday evening, Dec.
I 21.
Articles concerning Christ­mas
programs on Sunday, Dec.
20, will be published in the
December 17 issue, and arti­cles
should be in this office
no later than Monday, Decem­ber
14.
Festive Air Imbues
Town As Holiday
Season Accelerates
Santa To Be
At Fire Hall
December 24
The Lititz Fire Company
will sponsor its annual visit
from Santa Claus the day be­fore
Christmas.
Santa will arrive in town
on Thursday morning, Decem­ber
24, shortly after 8 a.m.,
and will tour the town. At 9:30
a.m. there will be a full length
show at the Lititz Theatre.
The film is “The Snow Queen,”
a cartoon,, which will last
about two hours.
Immediately after the movie,
the children will be escorted
to the Fire House to meet
Santa Claus who will be there
until 4 p.m.
Melvin Burkholder is chair­man
of the committee in
charge.
Big Damage
In Two Car
Collision
Damages estimated at $950
was done to two cars which
collided Tuesday, Dec. 8 at
4:05 p.m. at the Beford Shoe
Company parking lot and War­wick
street, police reported.
Both drivers-will be prosecut­ed
by Borough Officer James
Fritz before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm.
The officer reported that
Richard R. Rutter, 103 E.
Main St., Lititz, was headed
south on Warwick St., when
a car driven by Mrs. Betty J.
Keener, Manheim R2, pulled
out from the parking lot into
the path of his car and the
two collided. Mrs. Keener will
be prosecuted for failure to
yield the right of way, and
Rutter for reckless driving,
Fritz said.
Mrs. Keener suffered a vis­ible
bump on her forehead,
and four passengers in her car
complained of soreness and
stiffness. All said they would
see their own doctors. The
passengers included Sarah
Brandt, Manheim R2; Bertha
Heilman, Ferdinand St., Ar­lene
Engle, Memorial Drive,
and Rose Sbenenberger, N.
Charlotte St, all of Manheim.
Damage to the Keener car
was estimated at $650 and the
Rutter car was damaged to
the extent of $300, police said.
A festive holiday air has
taken over Lititz, with Christ­mas!
Christmas! Christmas! —
everywhere!
The borough has put up a
beautiful big tree in the
square, as a perfect backdrop
to the charming Nativity
scene which annually graces
the fountain.
Starting tonight, the Lititz
stores will be open until 9
p.m. every night until Christ­mas.
They are crammed with
good and lovely things, and a
Santa’s Hours: 6 to 8:30
p.m. nightly; Saturdays, 10
a.m. to noon; 2 to 4 p.m.;
6 to 8:30 p.m.
shopping tour showed that
many of the same things that
are found in shops of larger
towns can be found in Lititz
—and at a lower price. There
are also many beautiful gifts
which can be found only in
Lititz.
Santa Claus’ castle at 69 E.
Main St. in the former Reedy
building is quite the nicest
he’s had for a number of
years. It has been beautifully
decorated with a lovely tree
lighted with blue lights, huge
decorated snowballs hanging
in the windows and gaily
wrapped gifts scattered about.
There is ample space for tots
to wait in line to see the jol­ly
old Saint. This Santa will
be ready to greet his little
friends from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
every night from now on,
and on Saturday from 10 to
12 p.m.; 2 to 4 p.m., and 6
to 8:30 p.m.
The Lititz Fire company
will have its Santa Claus come
to town the day before Christ­mas,
and after a tour of town
and a movie for children, he’ll
be stationed at the Fire House
the rest of the day.
There also will be Santas
at Brunnerville and Rothsville
for the children of those
communities.
As a special service to the
public, the Radio Club, com­posed
of high school youths,
will send Christmas and other
holiday messages for local res­idents
to people throughout
the world.
Churches of the Commun­ity
have the Christmas season
well in hand, most of them
starting no later than this
Sunday to hold special pro­grams.
The post office is a busy
spot these days and early
mailing is urged by the Post­master
to ensure arrival of
packages and greetings in am­ple
time for Christmas.
Recreation Center Plans
Movies For School Tots
The Recreation Center is in
the process of setting up Fri­day
evening movies for ele­mentary
age children of the
Warwick Union School Dis­trict.
Plans are incomplete at
this time, but it is hoped this
program will get under way
by February 1.
Other classes and activities
currently being conducted fol­low:
Women’s Bowling — Wed­nesday
afternoon from 1 p.m.
to 3. Gloria Kegerise, secre­tary.
There are still a few
openings for anyone wishing
to bowl regularly on a team.
Those interested are asked to
be at the bowling alleys at
1 p.m. Wednesday.
Jr. and Sr. High Girl’s Bowl­ing
— The bowling started
December 3. Miss Jo Smith is
the instructor. These girls
will practice for three weeks,
then will form teams for reg­ular
league competition.
Jr. and Sr. High Boys’
Bowling — These boys start­ed
bowling Saturday, Decem­ber
5. Ray Adelizzi is the in­structor.
Rick Lebo is the sec­retary
, for the league.
5th and 6th Grade Girl’s
Bowling — Wednesday 3:30
to 5 p.m. Mrs. William Sharp­less
is the instructor.
6th Grade Boy’s Bowling —
Wednesday, 3:30 to 5 p.m. Mrs,
Ken Simmons is the instructor.
Rick Simmons is secretary of
the league.
Holiday for Women
The second eight week ses­sion
of the “Recreation Holi-
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Community
Calendar
Dec. 10—6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
Dec. 14—7:30 P.M. — Odd
Fellows meeting at the I.
O.O.F. Hall.
8:00 P.M. — Rec Center
Senior and Junior Board
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
Dec. 15—6:00 P.M. — Rotary
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
8:00 P.M. — Newcomer’s
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
Dec. 17—6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
7:00 P.M. — Stamp Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
7:30 P.M. — Senior Citi­zen’s
meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.