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JANUARY
88th Year Batablisbed April, 1877, a s The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The L ititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 14, 1965 7 c en ts a Copy; $3.00 per yea r by m all
w ith in L an ca ste r Connty; $4.00 elsewhere 12 Pages — No. 40
Lititz Battles Snow;
Main Thorofares
Cleared By Monday
Lititz had eight inches of
snow dumped on it on Sun­day,
according to official
weather reports, in the first
real snowstorm of the 1964-65
season. ¡It began snowiing about
6 a.m. Sunday and kept it
up until well into the night.
However, in some outlying
sections, snow was unofficial-
’ estimated at more than 10
...ches. The area was fortu­nate
in that there was little,
if any, drifting, and by Mon­day
morning all streets in the
borough and roads in the
townships were open. By Mon­day
there was some melting
on the sunny side of the
streets.
The biggest hazard around
8 a.m. Monday was a heavy
white fog which blanketed the
areas outside the borough.
This made driving on the Lit­itz
Pike fraught with danger,
but as far as is known, there
were no accidents. Some spots
were icy, but places such as
Kissel Hill had been cindered.
It was not necessary to
close schools, and all rural
PLCB Controls
Fate Of Hotel
The final sale of the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel is subject
to obtaining a hotel liquor
license, it was confirmed by
a spokesman for the group of
business and professional men
who are negotiating for its
purchase.
The spokesman said that
the license was applied for
promptly, but as yet has not
been received. For this rea­son,
he said, the time for the
settlement has been extended
until such time as the license
is granted by the Pennsyl­vania
Liquor Control Board.
This is the reason for the de­lay
in announcing plans to
open the hotel.
If the license is not grant­ed,
there will be no sale of
the hotel, it was confirmed by
the spokesman. This means
that it then would revert to
the Lititz Community Hotel
Corporation, which has owned
it for more than 30 years. It
was closed a little more than
a year ago.
postal routes were reported
open Monday morning. Eliza­beth
township plowed all its
roads on Sunday, and went
over them again on Monday,
insuring that they would be
open.
Borough streets were pret­ty
well cleared by Monday af­ternoon
but as of Monday eve­ning,
the Municipal parking
lot had not been plowed.
Police Chief George C.
Hicks reminded property own­ers
that they are responsible
for removing snow from their
sidewalks, and asked this be
kept in mind for any future
snow storms.
Help Mail Get Through
Postmaster Richard C. Rad­er
appealed to customers on
rural mail routes to help their
rural carriers make mail de­liveries
during bad winter
weather.
He emphasized that the Lit­itz
Post Office has four rural
routes, covering a total of 200
miles of road from Neffsville
to Hopeland and from Lin­coln
to Elm.
Postmaster Rader asked
rural customers to observe the
following rules: approaches to
mail boxes must be kept open
by customers; obstructions to
delivery of mail on rural
routes should be removed or
minimized to the fullest ex­tent
possible.
He said the carriers may
leave a notice to keep box ap­proaches
clear, and if they
are not kept clear, it may be
necessary to withhold delivery
of mail temporarily.
Rural carriers are not re­quired
to perform service on
foot when roads cannot be
traveled with the vehicles nor­mally
used, but they are ex­pected
to make every reason­able
effort to serve as many
of their patrons as possible
without physical exertion or
added financial cost, Rader ex­plained.
If excessive detours are
necessary to effect delivery of
mail, 'customers should tem­porarily
relocate their boxes
on the new line of travel,
arrange to receive their mail
through other patrons’ boxes,
or make other arrangements
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^orm “Committee Of 100’
To Push Toll-Frèe Calls
A “Committee of 100” has
been formed here in an - ef­fort
to get local residents to
reconsider toll-free telephone
calls to Lancaster.
A few months ago the pro­posal
lost out when a major­ity
of telephone subscribers
failed to return cards to the
Denver and Epihrata Tele­phone
Co., and every card re­turned
was counted as a “no”
vote.
Heading the committee are
Dr. Byron K. Horne, chairman;
Don Kepner, publicity chair­man,
and Mrs. Robert Trainer,
secretary.
In a statement issued by
the committee they said:
“Unlike any other voting
procedure and voting privilege
that a democracy affords, the
passive citizen who either
dn’t care or who couldn’t
„e bothered—his do-nothing
vote had to be counted as a
no vote against the toll-free
service.”
The committee said, “ft is
quite obvious” that the Den­ver
and Ephrata Telephone
Company would stand to lose
toll revenue amounting to
$1,200 a month, plus the ex-
School Menu
Monday
Spaghetti & meat sauce,
chef salad, hard roll, peaches.
Tuesday
G. cubed steak sandwich,
baked beans, relish cup, jel-lo
crystals/topping.
Wednesday
Roast beef/gravy, mashed
potatoes, filling ball, tossed
'lad. plums.
Thursday
Chicken pot pie, peas, cole
slaw, jello fruit cup.
Friday
Baked fillet of Haddock, po­tato
puffs, corn, popsiele.
1 pense of new equipment, al­though,
they said, this cost
could be amortized over many
years. They stated the D&E
js 100 per cent in favor of
the toll-free service, in view
of the fact that future de­mands
will require it, and the
company prefers to face the
issue now rather than wait.
They added. the company can
increase their rates slightly,
which, they said, would help
the company cause.
“A committee of 100 local
people are not taking this un­democratic
voting method sit­ting
down, nor can we com­prehend
that the majority of
our people do not want this
extended service,” their state­ment
said.
The committee said that
rates would be increased by
65 cents to $1, with the larg­est
increase affecting those
with private lines. At the
present time, the “626” ex­change
provides a toll-free
calling area of 14,600 D&E
customers, and the extended
service would provide 52,300
toll-free calling customers, the
committee said, pointing out
that this is an increase of
three and a half times as
many people that Lititz sub­scribers
could call, and the
same number who could call
here. These would include in­dustry,
medical units, schools,
business, as well as individuals.
The committee went on rec­ord
as saying that “we can­not
pursue an isolationist at­titude
and still maintain our
initiative. We feel we are a
progressive and an industri­ous
people. We maintain this
is a small price to pay to
gain better real estate values
and open up our area even
further by removing the toll
this short-distance. We strong­ly
believe, too, that by this
organized manner, we will get
the job done.”
19S5Imporlant Election
Year For Local Offices
Bobst Gifts To Center
Now Total $124,000
The sum of $22,500 has been | school board, and one from
SNOW, ICE AND FOG may be a pain in the neck to many adults, but not so for these
young ones who think it’s all fun. Lined up for sledding with happy faces are Scott Spence,
505 E. New St.; Glenn Moore, 9 W. Orange St.; Tom Brosey, 215 E. Main St., and Nevin
Weidler, 18 E. Orange St.
Farmers Bank Approves
100% Stock Dividend
The stockholders of the tionship of capital to deposits
Farmers National Bank of
Lititz, at their .annual meet­ing
Tuesday, approved the 100
per cent stock dividend pay­able
to shareholders of record
Jan. 12, and an additional
capital increase in stock of
10,000 shares to be sold at
$37.50 per share to raise a
total of $375,000.
Present shareholders will
have the right to purchase one
of these new shares for each
two shares presently held.
The Board of Directors rec­ommended
the increase in
capital structure for a num­ber
of reasons. In order to
have a strong bank, the rela-
R. Reidenbaugh
Dies At 65
Roy S. Reidenbaugh, dixty-five,
414 Woodcrest Ave., Lit­itz,
died at 9:50 a.m. Jan. 9
in Lancaster General Hospital.
He was born in Neffsville,
a son of the late William B.
and Lizzie Sonon Reidenbaugh.
He was founder and presi­dent
of the Roy Sonon Reiden­baugh,
Inc., electrical con­tracting
firm; member and
former trustee of the Mora­vian
Church in Lititz; former
member of Lititz Borough
Council; Past Commander of
the Garden Spot ¡Post, Ameri­can
Legion; member of Man-heim
Lodge, F & AM; Lan­caster
Lodge of Perfection;
Reading Consistory; Zembo
Temple, Harrisburg and the
Lancaster County Shrine Club.
Reidenbaugh, a veteran of
World War I, saw action in
France with the 34rd Balloon
Co.
In addition to his wife,
Helen Weidman Reidenbaugh,
he is survived by two sons
and a daughter- Robert Roy,
Lititz; Donald W., Lancaster;
and Janet Eileen, student at
Penn State University, Also
surviving are one brother,
Guy Reidenbaugh, Lititz, and
seven grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday from the Moravian
Church with interment in the
Moravian cemetery.
should be maintained, they
said. With the exceptional
growth the bank experienced
this past year, it was not pos­sible
to create the necessary
capital increase from earnings.
The number and size of
larger borrowers who do busi­ness
with the bank is increas­ing.
There is more and more
demand for large-sized loans.
The new capital structure,
combined with the transfer of
$200,000 to surplus last year
end will increase by 50 per
cent the maximum loan the
bank is permitted to make.
¡In addition, many good cus­tomers
would ¡like to buy
stock in the bank. The great­er
number of shares will make
it possible for more '-people
to acquire an interest in the
bank.
Approved also was an amend­ment
for changing the date
of the annual meeting.
Elected as directors were:
Henry L. Bomberger, Ray­mond
D. Buckwalter, Alfred
L. Douple, Henry H. Gibbel,
•H. Lloyd Hess, Dr. Paul G.
Hess, Joseph B. Wissler and
Jack S. Watson.
John Rohrer
Wins Current
Events Contest
John Rohrer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Menno B. Rohrer, 5
Kissel Hill Rd„ is local win­ner
in Time magazine’s 29th
annual Current Affairs con­test,
conducted in sophomore
American History classes, it
was announced by J. Lorell
Price, American History teach­er
at Warwick High School.
Other high-scoring local
pupils include Kathy Shan­non,
daughter of the Rev. and
Mrs. James G. Shannon, 215
S. Locust St., and Jon
Michael Keller, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Keller, Lititz
Rl.
The test, given this year to
more than 750,000 college and
high school students in the
U.S. and Canada, consists of
100 questions on national and
foreign affairs. Top scores in
each of the more than 5,000
classes enrolled receive a
certificate from the news­magazine.
Lane Items
Will Return
To Lititz
The Lititz Historical Founda­tion
will receive 129 items
valued at $3,250 from the an­tique
collection of the late
Dr. Cameron E. Lane of Lit­itz
who willed all his collec­tion
to the Buchanan Founda­tion
for the Preservation of
Wheatland. They will be
placed in the Lititz Historic
House, less than a block away
The Lady Sutter Rebekah|from Dr Lane’s former home
Lodge will meet at the I.O.O.F 011 Main St.
ELIZABETH SUPERVISERS
William E. Hickman was
reelected president of ¡the
Elizabeth Township supervisors
at their annual reorganiza­tion
meeting last week. Isaac
Leaman Was reelected secre­tary-
treasurer, and Earl But-zer,
roadmaster.
TO DISPLAY ITEMS
Hall 'Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 8
p.m. A demonstration of cop­per,
crystal, brass and wood
will take place at 9:30 p.m.
This is open to the public,
and all those interested are
asked to be at the lodge hall
by 9:15 p.m.
Wheatland officials had said
previously that they would
loan to Lititz items which are
particularly associated With
the town, and asked the Lit­itz
group to make known its
desires. It is believed it will
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donated by Elmer Bobst, pres­ident
of the board of Warner-
Lambert, to the Lititz Com­munity
Center, bringing his
total donation up to $124,000
to date, it was announced by
Curtis E. Long, president of
the Center board.
The total cost of the Cen­ter
has been $179,103.18, which
included tearing down an old
building, purchase of proper­ty,
incidental expenses and
Construction Of the new build­ing.
The actual cost of the
new building, including the
architect’s fee, was $159,211.
The remaining indebtedness
is $16,122.57, after deducting
$4,300 received in the fiscal
year July 1963 to June 1964,
and $577.43 during the half
year July 1964 to January
1965. These amounts repre­sent
contributions from vari­ous
organizations, Long said.
the Rec Center to be named
by these four.
The day after the meeting,
Dr. E. J. Kowalewski, presi­dent
of the school board, said
that the board has already
named its two delegates: John
A. Wenger, a school board
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Auto Skids
Into Trench
On N. Broad
at a meeting of the board of
directors Monday night at the
Center.
The Center will receive ma­jor
support from the School
District and the borough this
year, and will be administered
by a board made up of two
representatives or appointees
each of the borough and the
Lititz 4-H
Club Members
Win At Show
Two Lititz young people
carried off top honors in the
4-H Club Ayrshire competi­tion
at the Pennsylvania Farm
Show this week.
Fourteen-year-old Judy Ann
Flory, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd G. Flory, Lititz
R2, won the 4-H grand cham­pionship
with a two-year-old
daughter from her first calf
project.
She was Florydale Preferred
Patsy out of Toll Gates
Queen’s Princess.
A blue ribbon entry of the
Lancaster County 4-H dairy
roundup last summer, Patsy
was being shown in Farm
Show competition for the first
time Monday.
Repeating as reserve grand
champion in the 4-H Club
division was a senior yearling
heifer exhibited by sixteen-year-
old Paul M. Brubaker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Brubaker of Spruce Villa
Dairy, Lititz Rl.
She was Spruce Villa Royal
Ann, a home-bred project by
Mountain Valley B. Com­mander.
Judy Ann also won first for
master fitting, and she and
Paul also placed in master
showmanship.
In the open division Lloyd
G. and Maxine Flory, Lititz
R2, had the reserve grand
champion bull.
The election year of 1965 is
an important one for small
municipalities, such as bor­oughs,
and townships, and
school boards, because many
officials’ terms expire.
Here in the Lititz area,
elections will be held for May­or,
councilmen, borough audi­tors,
township supervisors,
township auditors, school tax
collector, justices of the peace
in the townships, and election
board officials.
Although election day seems
a long way off, the first day
for filing petitions for election
or reelection is February 8,
only three short weeks.
In the borough, the term
of Mayor Arthur S. Griswold,
M.D., expires. At the close of
,1965 he will have served one
four-year term, and has in­dicated
unofficially that he
will not be up for reelection.
The terms of Councilmen
D. Curtis Amidon, who is pres­ident
of borough council,
Floyd Hagy and M. C. Demmy
also will expire the end of
this year. Amidon will be
completing six years on bor­ough
council. He was elected
in 1959 for a regular four
year term, and took office
January 1960. He was again
elected in November 1963 for
a two-year term, which will
run until the end of 1965.
The two-year term was made
necessary because an addi­tional
ward was formed in
Lititz, so the two from the
second ward were given stag­gered
terms, Amidon being
one of them. He said this
week he plans to run again.
This time his term will rut)
for the normal four years.
Hagy took office January 1,
1962 for his first four-year
term which will expire the end
of 1965. He stated this year
he had enjoyed the work very
miles per hour in a 35-mile-1 much, had gained a lot of
an-hour zone. Patrick J. Toom-1 experience, had felt that the
ey, 18 N. Marshall St., Lan­caster,
was prosecuted by Of­ficer
Emmerich on Dec. 31 for
failure to check faulty equip­ment
on his car. Mark C. Wag-aman,
335 E. Second Ave.,
was prosecuted by Police
Chief George C. Hicks for
Neal J. McGee, 806 Conodog-uinet
Drive, Camp Hill, Pa.,
was prosecuted by Borough
Officer Jamas Fritz before
Justice of the Peace Paul F.
Diehm on January 12, for
This“ report was presented| reckless driving after an ac-cident
in the construction
area of N. Broad St.
According to police, McGee
was headed south on Broad
St., and skidded into a trench!.
Damage to his car was esti­mated
at $950.
Four other motorists were
prosecuted before Squire
Diehm for traffic violations.
Martha Simmons, 1828 Mariet­ta
Ave., Lancaster, was prose­cuted
by Borough Officer Le-
Roy Emmerich for going the
wrong way on a one-way
street on January 8. Paul
Gogets, Myerstown, was pro­secuted
by Officer Emmerich
on Jan. 7 for traveling 45
council was a very coopera­tive
group of men, and that
if asked, he will run again.
Demmy was appointed a
member of borough council
in November, 1961, to take
the place of Robert J. Hanna,
who had been elected in N6-
failure to yield the right of1 vember, 1961, but died before
way, resulting in an accident, he took office. Thus Demmy,
on December 2». i (Continued on Pare 2)
Registration For 2nd
Rec Holiday For Women
Book Review
To Feature
Woman’s Club
Mrs. Dorothy Bolbach, li­brary
supervisor in the Lan­caster
Township School Dis­trict,
will present a book re­view
at the meeting of the
Woman’s Club on Monday,
Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. in the Luth
eran Education Building.
The book will be the 1964
best-selling novel “The Spy
Who Came in From the Cold”
by John le Carre. Mrs. Walter
Texter will introduce the pro­gram.
Volunteers are needed to
help fold seals for Heart
Haven on Tuesday, January
19, and anyone who can as­sist
is requested to contact
Miss Mildred Young.
Mrs. E. William Jaede, Jr.,
will preview the February
meeting and will read the Col­lect.
The hostesses will be
Mrs. John Worth and Mrs.
William Light.
GRAND CHAMP: Judy Ann Flory, fourteen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd G. Flory,
Lititz R2, is shown with her two-year-old Ayrshire cow, Florydale Preferred Patsy, who was
4-H Grand Champion Ayrshire at the Pennsylvania Farm Show this week.
Registration day for the
second session of the “Rec­reation
Holiday for Women”
sponsored by the Lititz Rec­reation
Center will be Tues­day,
January 19, from 9:30
a.m. to 12 noon.
Classes will begin on Tues­day,
January 26, and continue
each Tuesday morning through
March 16 from 9 a.im. until
12 noon. The nursery will be
open beginning on registra­tion
day to care for children,
two to six years old, of par­ticipating
mothers.
Classes offered for partici­pation
by all women from 18
to 80 in Lititz and surround­ing
areas will include: Invest­ments
taught by Jack Watson,
vice president of the Farmers
National Bank, and selected
specialists. The interest was
so great in the original class
that this will be a repeat for
those who missed it or were
unable ¡to attend the first
eight week session. Advanced
Knitting will be taught by
Mrs. Polly, Roth who is well
known in Lititz and Lancas­ter
for her instruction class­es.
Advanced Bridge will be
under the able direction of
Mrs. Melverne Evans who is
returning for this second ses­sion.
Mrs. Faith Lange who
earned her degree in Art at
Pennsylvania State University
will again teach a class in
oil painting or watercolor.
A new class added for this
session is Public Speaking.
Mrs. Eileen Davis, a member
ol the Lancaster Theater Arts
Association, who studied in
England and taught drama in
England and the United
States will teach. Another new
class being offered is Hatmak­ing.
This class will be in­structed
by Mrs. Betty Ann
Jones who is well known in
the Lancaster area for her
hatmaking. Members will
learn to remodel old and make
new hats. Slimnastics will
again be offered, and Mrs.
Barbara Shultz, a Physical
Education Major, will put this
class through its paces. A
note from the family doctor
is necessary for this class for
those who did not participate
(Continued on Page i t
Community
Calender
Jan. 14, 6:30 PjM.—¡Radio Club
meeting at the Recreation
P p r i
7:30 P.M.—1 Stamp Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
8:15 P.M. — Newcomer’s
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
Jan. 15, 7:30 PjM.—F or the
benefit of the Teachers
Scholarship Fund, the
Women Teachers will play
the ABiCD’s in a prelim­inary
volleyball game,
with the Men Teachers
playing the ABC’s in a
Basketball game to high­light
the evening. Hi
School Gym.
Jan. 16, 8:00 P.M.—Rotary
Travelogue Film at the
High School Auditorium.
Jan. 18, 7:30 P.M.—Odd Fel-lows
meeting at the l.O.
O.F. Hall.
Monday, Jan. 18, 8:00 P.M—
Lititz Sportsmen’s Asso­ciation,
American Legion
Home.
Jan. 19, 6:00 p.m.—-Rotary
Club meeting at the Rec­reation
Center.
Jan. 20, 9:30 A.M.—Demon­stration
Sewing Class at
the Recreation Center.
6:30 P.M.—Junior Board
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.—Radio Club
meeting at the Recreation
Center.
7:30 P.M.—Senior Citizens
meeting at the Recrea­tion
Center.