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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e I i ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, February 25, 1965 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 p e r y e a r b y m a il
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Council Names Long
To Boro Rec Board
Curtis E. Long was appoint-1 ment at a cost of $1,400. The
ed to the Lititz Borough Rec- used machine has 20,000 miles
reation Board by Borough | on it.
council Tuesday night, thus
completing the five-man board
which will administer the fi­nances
of the local Recreation
Center. Long is president of
the Center’s board.
Two of the other members
represent the borough, and
two represent the school
•board, under the new set-up.
A request for the borough
to employ an additional cross­ing
guard was delayed until
an opinion can be furnished
by the solicitor as to the legal
status of the guards. The
question involved is whether
they are just to guard chil­dren,
or have other police
powers.
Borough Manager George D.
Steedle presented a list of
about 12 blocks of borough
streets plus some alleys for
council’s consideration for re­surfacing
during 1965. Coun­cil
will make a decision at a
later date. He also presented
three proposals for the con­struction
of a 32 by 72 foot
addition to the borough ga­rage,
which will be studied.
Council approved the pur­chase
of a 1961 half-ton pick­up
truck, including a snow­plow,
for the works depant-
Ask Franchise
For Cable TV
Members of the new firm,
“Denver and Ephrata Cable
TV, Inc.,” appeared before
Borough 'Council, Tuesday
night, to request a franchise
to install a cable antennae TV
system in the borough. The
firm recently received a 50-
year franchise from Ephrata
for the same project.
The representatives empha­sized
that the new firm is not
the same as the Denver and
Ephrata Telephone Company,
although the members appear
to be the same individuals.
The proposed cables would
run from a 200-foot tower in
Ephrata into Lititz, and would
guarantee 12 selective chan­nels,
including the new educa­tional
Channel 33, they said.
The system would do away
with the necessity for roof-top
antennae, they said. Although
the cost is not definitely es­tablished,
it is estimated at
$10 for the connection and
$4.50 monthly for the service,
both charges to be paid by
the individual user.
Council seemed receptive to
the idea, and asked the firm
to present an ordinance to
Council which would insure
that the system would be in­stalled
within a reasonable
time.
lit was reported that Wilbur
Chocolate Company has a hot- j
water sewer meter on the dis­charge
side of their boilers j
and that scale and other for­eign
material coming through
the line causes the meter to j
read low. The company asked
the borough to try to deter­mine
a rate which would be
more suitable way to pay the
sewer bill. |
Borough Council approved a
request of Police Chief George
C. Hicks for stop signs at W.
Marlon and Golden Streets at
their intersections with Gen­eral
Sutter Avenue. They al­so
accepted the deeds to por­tions
of W. Marion Street and
Sutter Avenue.
Steedle reported that the
North Broad street construc­tion
project is expected to be
completed by August 1.
Meanwhile, council report­ed,
utility companies are
working on their phase of the
project and this work is ex­pected
to be completed by
March 5. This portion of the
project is currently 75 to 80
per cent completed.
Two bills were approved.
One was in the amount of $6,-
065 to Roger E. Gerhart Inc.,
Lititz R4, for work on the
street project; and the other
amounted to $190 to Henry F.
Huth Engineers Inc., Lancas­ter.
Council also reported the
Animal Trap Co. has installed
sewage facilities to handle in
dustrial wastes instead of
pumping this material into the
creek.
Also approved was the pay­ment
of $50 a month to Eph­rata
for handling the local
police calls.
A proposal was received con­cerning
the construction of a
water basin and drainage sys­tem
off Woodcrest Avenue, lo-
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Wm. K. Kunkle C. Daniel Dieter
New Branch Managers
Named By Farmers Bank
William K. Kunkle and C. vancement of Management,
New Jr. Board
At Rec Center
Members of the Junior
Board of the Recreation Cen­ter
revised the board at a re­cent
meeting, paring it from
twenty members to twelve.
It consists of three mem«
bers from four high school
classes. Each class voted on
the other three classes with
a secret ballot.
Those chosen were as fol­lows:
Peggy Bard, Carl Shenk,
Alan Klase, seniors; James
Watson, Fay Miley, Robert
Huber, juniors; Bruce Buch­er,
Connie Hollinger, Jeff
Ross, sophomores; Christ
Brumbach, Fran Kauffman,
Sue Sprout, freshmen.
Reduction in the size of the
board was approved by the
senior board at its last meet­ing,
as a means of making it
’more efficient.
Groff Supports
Bible Reading
Raymond C. Groff, local
school director, was in Har­risburg
on Tuesday in behalf
of House Bill No. 104, which
would permit Bible reading
in the schools on a voluntary
basis, with the parents’ per­mission.
The bill is now in
committee.
If enough persons are in­terested
and will write to Rep.
Charles D. Stone, chairman of
the judiciary committee, it
will be brought out of commit­tee
for passage, according to
Groff. The bill was introduced
by Harry P. Otto, James K.
Smith, William Appleton, and
Donald O. Bair, Allegheny
County Republicans.
Rep. Stone’s address is as
follows: State Capitol, House
of Representatives, Harrisburg,
Penna.
Daniel Dieter will join the
staff of the Farmers National
Bank of Lititz on March 1,
bank officials announced to­day.
Kunkle has been named as­sistant
vice president and man­ager
of the Lancaster Shop­ping
Center office of the bank,
and Dieter will become man­ager
of the new Neffsville of­fice
of the bank.
Kunkle comes to the Lititz
bank from the National Bank
of Topton where he has been
assistant vice president with
responsibilities in branch man­agement
and installment lend­ing.
A native of Detroit, Mich.,
he is married and has three
children. He presently resides
in Emmaus, Pa. He is a gradu­ate
of Muhlenburg College
with a B.A. in Economics and
Accounting. After serving in
the Quartermaster Corp of the
United States Army, he work­ed
for a short :;.me for Con­solidated
Vultee Aircraft. ;In
1946 he joined General Ac­ceptance
Corporation at Beth­lehem
where he became as­sistant
office manager. He
served as credit manager for
Dull Motors, Allentown, for
two years. In 1954 he joined
the National Bank of Topton
where he has been employed
until now. i
Dieter comes to the bank
from the Medical Bureau of
Lancaster where he was as­sistant
credit manager. He had
previous banking experience in
the installment loan depart­ment
of a Lancaster city bank.
He is a graduate of Franklin
and Marshall College, is mar­ried
and has three children.
He has served in the United
States Air Force for four
years and attended Millers-ville
State College and York
Junior College prior to his
graduation from Franklin and
Marshall College. Dieter has
been active in many organiza­tions
in the Lancaster area,
including the Manheim Town­ship
Community Park Board
of Governors, the Manheim
Township Chamber of Com­merce,
the Society for the Ad-and
Alpha Delta Sigma, the
national advertising fraternity.
James H. Shreiner, assistant
vice president, who has been
serving as manager of the
Lancaster Shopping Center of­fice
during the interim until
a new manager was selected,
will return to the main of­fice
in Lititz where he will
assume new responsibilities in
the field of personal credit
and lending.
Jaycees Plan
Industry Show
The Lititz Junior Chamber
of Commerce will hold an In­dustrial
Exhibition in the Lit­itz
Recreation Center, Septem­ber
9, 10 and 11, it was an­nounced
today.
The exhibition will be sim­ilar
to the first show held in
September 1962, which was
well received by both the pub-1
lie and industry. More than I
3.000 people visited the ex­hibits
of 19 local industries.
The purpose is to acquaint
citizens of the area with the
products produced by local in­dustry.
The hours of the show
will be 7 to 10 p.m. on Sep­tember
9 and 10, and 9 a.m.
to 10 p.m. on September 11.
Robert C. Meek, 265 Noble
St., Lititz, is chairman, and
will receive applications for j
the exhibits. Other members!
of the committee are: Thom-1
as Hartenstine, Charles York, |
Carl Horst, Dale Frantz, |
James Perini, William Miller
and James Whitehead.
R. L. Templeton To Seek
Nomination For PJayor
HORSE RUNS AWAY
A call that a horse was
loose and running around the
south end of town was re­ceived
by Borough Officer Le­roy
P. Emmerich at 6:30 a.m.
Wednesday. He corralled the
horse in the Weis Market
parking lot and held it for its
owner who lives in a farm
nearby.
To Present Travelogue
On “Beirut To Bagdad
School Menu
Monday
Hot dog, baked beans, cel­ery
sticks, assorted fruit.
Tuesday
Italian steak sandwich!; po­tato
nuggets, applesauce, fast-nachts.
Wednesday
Spaghetti and meat sauce,
green beans, celery/p, butter,
jello crystals.
Thursday
Turkey barbecue, peas, car­rot
sticks, pineapple delight.
Friday
Sub or grilled cheese sand­wich,
potato chips, celery/p.
butler, cherry crumb dessert.
John Weld, of California,
will present his travel-adven­ture
film, “Lebanon-Beirut to
Baghdad,” at the Lititz Rotary
club’s fifth travel and Adven­ture
Series program in War­wick
High School Auditorium
Saturday, March 6 at 8 p.m.
John Weld was born in
Birmingham, Alabama, and is
now a resident of California.
After his formal education he
set out to learn about the
world by travel. He has been
successively a bell-boy on a
passenger ship, a traveling
salesman, a stunt man in the
movies, a reporter in New
York, a foreign correspondent
in Europe, a director of pub­lic
relations for the Ford
Motor Company, a novelist
and a newspaper publisher.
He parachuted from the first
plane he ever ascended in.
During the production of his
first travel film, “Freightboat
to Asia,” he and his wife were
shipwrecked in Tokyo Bay and
barely escaped with their
lives. John Weld has written
several novels, including:
“Don’t You Cry For Me,”
based on the Donner Party
incident in California history;
“.The Pardners,” a story of the
California Gold Rush; “Sab­bath
Has No End,” and “Mark
Pfeiffer, M.D.”
US State Dept. Official
To Address Local Clubs
The Lititz Lions Club will
be host to other service clubs
of the town at a dinner meet­ing
Thursday, March 4, at
6:30 p.m. in the Recreation
Center.
The guest clubs will include
Lititz Rotary, R. William'
Spacht, president; American
Business Club, Wilbur Neff,
president, and Junior Cham­ber
of Commerce, Robert
Frey, president.
The principal speaker will
be Harry W. Seamans, Wash­ington
DjC., chief of the Or­ganization
Liaison Division,
Office of Public Services, De­partment
of State. His sub­ject
will be “The Citizens’
Role and United States For­eign
Policy.” Elton Jones,
Lions club president, will pre­side,
and Forbes Emsweller, liaison
Harry Seamans
relation with about
John Weld
Novelist Weld has filmed a
story of a journey to the land
of pre-Biblical days1. Starting
at the eastern shore of the
Mediterranean and focusing
on structures which date from
the Stone Ay" he explored
the coastal cities of Beirut,
Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, and Trip­oli.
It was from these that
the Egyptians, many centuries
before the birth of Christ,
came to load great timbers
harvested from the Lebanese
mountains—the renowned Ce­dars
of Lebanon. Enroute
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program chairman, will intro
duce the speaker. The visit­ing
club presidents will be
seated at the speaker’s table.
Seamans has been serving
since February, 1946 in the
Department of State charged
with maintaining an active re­lationship
with private nation­al
organizations in the United
States. He is primarily respon­sible
for providing informa­tion
and interpretation of
United States foreign policy
to organizations which have a
major interest in internation­al
affairs and for relaying
their attitudes on these mat­ters
back to the Department.
His work has brought him
into close working relation
with national leaders of busi­ness,
higher education, men’s
service, religious, youth serv­ing,
and other organizations.
Under his supervision the
State Department continues a
Drops Lighter;
Hits Parked Car
A parked car owned by the
I Rev. Father Joseph H. Driscoll
was damaged to the extent of
I about $500 Friday at 8 p.m.
when struck by another ve­hicle
on N. Water St. The car
was parked on North Water
St. alongside St. James Catho­lic
Church, of which Father
Driscoll is pastor.
According to Police Chief
George C. Hicks, James Ed­ward
Fuller, Jr., Lititz Rl, told
police he was headed north on
Water Street when he dropp­ed
his cigaret lighter, caus­ing
him to strike the other
car, pushing it into a telephone
pole. Fuller’s car also suffered
about $500 damage.'
Fuller admitted to police
that he had been drinking and
was taken to Lancaster for a
drunk-o-meter test, which prov­ed
negative. However, Hicks
said, the man had been driving
during suspension of license.
He was charged by Officer Ho­ward
Dissinger with driving
during suspension before Jus­tice
of the Peace Paul F.
Diehm and posted bail for
court.
90 YEARS YOUNG: Bright-eyed Mrs. Mary Beck­er,
351 N. Broad Street, is shown in her attractive
home surrounded by some of the gifts of fruit and
flowers given her by friends on the occasion of her
90th birthday, February 22, same as the “Father of
Our Country.”
Mrs. Becker Celebrates
Ninetieth Anniversary
450 major organizations.
A graduate of Park College
'in Missouri, Seamans received
his Master of Arts degree
from Columbia University and
has taken graduate work at
Union Theological Seminary
and at the University of Il­linois.
He has two honorary
degrees—a Dootor of Humane
Letters from Baldwin Wallace
College and a Doctor of Laws
from Phillips University.
As a member of the Amer­ican
Seminar he has studied
social and economic conditions
in several European countries.
Seamans has held adminis­trative
positions in colleges,
y o u t h-serving organizations
and adult education associa­tions
in (Illinois, Oklahoma
and Pennsylvania. He also has
been associate executive sec­retary,
National Council of the
YMGA’s, (Senior 'Community
Participation Advisor in the
National Housing Agency and
Chief of Employee Relations
for the Office of Price Ad­ministration.
'Seamans was a member of
the State College, Pa., Rotary
Club for eleven years, and
has been an Honorary Associ­ate
(Diplomatic Service) mem­ber
of the Washington, D.C
Rotary Club since 1946.
John Beck PTA
To Elect Officers
The John Beck Parent
Teachers Association met last
Thursday evening with the
president, Roy F. Shelly Jr.,
in . charge. Mrs. William
Sharpless spoke on “The
Structure of the P.T.A.”
The following nominating
committee was appointed to
report at the next meeting
when there will be the elec­tion
of officers: Harold Zim­merman,
Robert Derr and
Mrs. Donald Weaver.
“The Hickory Stick” will be
the subject for the next meet­ing
to be held March 18 at
8 p.m. in the school. There
will be a film and a discus­sion
following. Walter Reed
of the Mental Health Associa­tion
will be the discussion
leader.
Mrs. Mary Becker, 351 N.
Broad St., Lititz, celebrated
her 90th birthday on Monday,
February 22 — Washingtons
birthday. 'She was born in
Goodville, Lancaster county,
in 1875, the daughter of Mar­tin
M. and Magdalene Sen-senig,
whose name also was
Sensenig before marriage.
She is the widow of John
Nauruan Becker, who died in
1941. She taught schools in
Lancaster county for a total
of 15 years, starting in West
Earl Township where she
taught two years. She then
taught in Ephrata township
for six years, and after that
in Brecknock, Caernarvon and
Paradise townships. She has
lived in Lititz since 1947.
A bouquet of carnations was
placed in Coleman Memorial
Presbyterian Chapel last Sun­day
in Mrs. Beckers honor,
and Monday night about 20
people from the church paid
Lititz Pool
Group Plans
Adult Dance
The newly reopened General
Sutter Hotel has been chosen
as the 'site for the Lititz
Springs Pool Association Adult
Dance to be held Saturday,
March 20. Jack Frank and the
Majors will provide music for
dancing from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m.
The decorations committee,
Mrs. John Helter, chairman,
plans to follow the theme
“Spring Splash.” The decora­tions
will be designed toward
Spring’s pool life.
Walter Carvell and Frank
Showers, co-chairman of ticket
sales, plan to make pre-sales
of between 75 to 100 couple
tickets. The dance is open to
the general public and ticket
sales are on a first come, first
served basis.
Initial plans for the dance
include chairman of the fol­lowing
committees: Mrs. Rus­sell
Rowe, entertainment; Don
McGarvey, prizes; Steve Pal-kovic,
master of ceremonies.
“Spring Splash” will be held
on the first day of Spring,
which should give the dance
some added enthusiasm with
the realization that the open­ing
of 1965 pool activities is
just around the corner.
her a surprise visit, bringing
gifts.
Mrs. Becker is in very good
health and goes to Church
nearly every Sunday, where
she is transported by Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Scherf, Kissel
Hill. She reads the scriptures
and newspapers daily and lis­tens
to the news and sermons
over the radio, but does not
care for television.
Mrs. Susanna Risser, a nurse
at the Neffsville Brethren
Home, lives with her and does
all the housework, as well as
her work at the Home.
Russell L. Templeton, 152
Front St., a former borough
councilman and president, Will
run for nomination for Mayor
of Lititz Borough on the Re­publican
ticket. The Record-
Express learned yesterday.
The present incumbent,
Mayor Arthur S. Griswold, M.
1)., will not seek renomina-
1 ion, it was reported.
All other incumbents in of­fice
will seek renomination,
and thus far no contests have
been indicated, it was stated
on good authority.
This is in contrast to War­wick
township, where con­tests
are developing for
school director, supervisor and
justice of the peace.
Templeton, sixty-one, has
lived in Lititz for more than
44 years and is an employe of
Downingtown Paper Co., Down-ingtown.
A number of years
ago he served eight years on
borough council and two years
as its president. He and his
wife, Earla, are parents of
two married daughters.
Other councilmen who will
seek reelection are D. Curtis
John Beck
Addition To
Be $365,000
The Warwick Union School
Board at a special meeting
Tuesday evening approved fi­nal
plans for an addition to
the John Beck elementary
school.
The addition and equipment
at Brunnerville is expected to
cost about $365,000. It will
consist of seven classrooms,
a library, and extensions to
the cafeteria and kitchen. Bids
will be called for by April 15.
The board also passed res­olutions
to purchase the nec­essary
land for the new ad­dition.
It was agreed to sign
“agreements of sale” with
James Sauder for $2,000, and
Harvey Ober for $5,100.
•In other business the board
followed up their condemna­tion
proceedings for the Hogan
Homes, Inc. property on Kis­sel
Hill by authorizing a $36,-
000 payment for the 18 acre
site. The site is the location
of the new Kissel Hill ele­mentary
school. Should the
property owners not accept
the $36,000, the case would go
to a Board of Review.
HS LIBRARY TO OPEN
The Warwick High School
library will be open every
Tuesday evening from 7 to 9
p.m., starting Tuesday, March
2. It had been closed since
the 'Christmas holidays be­cause
of building construction
and also the illness of the
librarian. The library is open
to the public during those
hours.
Ambulance Ass’n Starts
Annual Membership Drive
The Warwick Community
Ambulance Association is
once again preparing for its
annual membership drive. The
new memberships will be ef­fective
as of April 1, and will
be available to all who live
in the Warwick School dis­trict
or have a Lititz address.
The membership cost again
will be $2.50 per family, a
family being defined as a
household or those living un­der
one roof.
During the past member­ship
year, the Association
serviced a total of 1,800 fam-
' ily memberships with approxi­mately
300 actual calls.
The Warwick Ambulance
Association was founded in
1956 and first used a bor­rowed
ambulance to make 70
calls that year. The Associa­tion
soon purchased its own
ambulance and was established
as a necessary part of our
community. During the nine
years that followed the As­sociation
has had three am­bulances,
has purchased land
and built a garage, and at this
time the non-profit organiza-
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Templeton
Ami don, 532 Front St., coun­cil
president, from the Second
Ward; Floyd S. Hagy, 46 E.
Main St., First Ward.
Still other borough incum­bents
who will seek renomin­ation
are John A. Wenger,
school director; William E.
Ringer, auditor; Raymond S.
Reedy, tax collector; Christ B.
Koehler, judge of elections,
First Ward; and Charles E.
Rineer, inspector of elections,
First Ward. Edward Grosh,
154 N. Locust St., is newly
seeking nomination for judge
of elections in the Second
Ward, in place of Ammon
Shelly, who chose not to run
again.
Warwick Twp. Contests i
A lively contest is anticipat­ed
in Warwick township for
the primaries where, to date,
two Republicans will vie for
the nomination as school di­rector;
three for township
supervisor, and two for jus­tice
of the peace.
Two contenders for school
board have both filed their pe­titions
for the nomination.
They include Raymond Groff,
Lititz R4, incumbent who is
completing twelve years, or
two full terms, and John M.
Evans, Lititz R4.
Aaron N. Martin, Lititz Rl,
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Community
Calendar
Feb. 25 — 6:30 P.M. Radio
Club, Recreation Center.
Feb. 26 — 8:00 P.M. Radio
Club Dance, Recreation
Center.
Feb. 28 — 2:00 P.M. ABC
Show Rehearsal for entire
cast, Recreation Center.
Mar. 1 — 7:30 P.M. Odd Fel­lows,
I.O.O.F. Hall.
Mar. 2 — 9:00 A.M. Recrea­tion
Holiday for Women,
Recreation Center.
1:30 P.M. Garden Club,
Recreation Center.
6:00 P.M. — Rotary Club,
Recreation Center.
7:00 P.M. Women’s Vol­leyball,
Elementary Gym.
Mar. 3 — 9:30 A.M. Sewing
Class, Recreation Center.
1:15 P.M. Tailoring Class,
Recreation Center.
Mar. 4 — 6:30 P.M. Radio
Club, Recreation Center.
6:30 P.M. Joint dinner
meeting of the Service
Clubs, Recreation Center.
7:30 P.M. — Fire Com­pany
Auxiliary, Fir«1
House.