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88th Year E s ta b lis h e d A p ril, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e cord, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, March 25, 1965 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r C o u n ty ; $4.00 e ls ew h e re 14 Pages — No. 50
Creator Of Lehnware
Copies Offers Annual
Gift To Linden Hall
A Cleona man who has
made conies of Lehnware over
a period of fifteen years, has
offered to present a replica
of a spice ¡box to Linden Hall
for presentation at ¡graduation
time to the girl who excels
'n craftwork.
The artist is Robert P. Frey,
Veterans Administration ther­apist
in Rehabilitation Psychi­atrics,
who lives at 105 N.
Lincoln ¡St., Cleona. His fa­ther,
Paul B. Frey, formerly
of Lititz, recently sent him a
copy of the Lititz Record-
Express ¡which contained ‘an
article about a Lititz man hav­ing
started to make replicas.
Dr. Byron K. Horne, head­master
of Linden Hall, said
the school will ¡be glad to ¡ac­cept
the gift.
In a letter to this newspa­per,
Frey said that a spice
cup would he given each year
for ten years, beginning in
1965, and the offer Would be
extended indefinitely after
that, if the school desires. He
stated that Lehn made many
of these cups as souvenirs or
presents for the girls at Lin­den
Hall and the ‘parents of
he girls. He said he felt that
presentation of one of the rep­licas
might be a worthy tradi­tion
to establish.
Frey stated that he has
worked on a wood lathe since
he was ten years old and was
inspired to reproduce Lehn­ware
because of this talent
and because of the high pric­es
brought by the ware. He
has had a small card print­ed
to accompany the pieces
be has sold, explaining the
historical significance of the
ware.
“It is always helpful to the
purchaser to become acquaint­ed
with the background of an
antique, its maker or the re­production,”
he says. “In this
small way I feel that I have
helped ‘■carry the torch’ for |
Joseph Lehn, spread a meager
education concerning him and
have encouraged other people
to learn wood turning which
is truly an art in itself.”
Frey has sold his pieces all
the way .from the gift shop
at Landis Valley to shops in
the 'Poconos, and even in oth­er
states.
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¡Most of the reproductions
are finished in the natural,
beautifully grained wood, hut
a few are painted.
Frey says he has been
“pleasantly surprised” on many
occasions to learn of the gen­eral
public’s interest “in a
man of local origin who con­structively
whiled away his
spare time casually turning
wood and never dreaming of
the day when his handiwork
would bear his own dame—
(Lehnware) — or be highly
sought after by antique lov­ers.”
Install New
Doors At P,0.
Lititz IOOF
Will Honor
Past Grands
Past Grand Night will be
observed by Lititz Lodge 1050,
I.O.O.F., on Monday, March
^¡9, at a dinner meeting at
( p.m.
'Sixty-year pins will be pre­sented
to Elmer Clamen, Lit­itz;
Clayton Haverstick, Lan­caster;
H. D. Wolf, Westón,
Mass., and H. W. Gilbert, Har­risburg.
Fifty-year pins will be pre­sented
to Claxton Suavely,
Wilson Gantz, both of Lititz;
A. M. Striekler, Columbia, and
Daniel Rettew, Millecsville.
Raymond Reedy, Lititz, will
be toastmaster, and the speak­er
will be Crestón Shuemaker,
Mayor of Downingtown, and
ex sheriff of Chester county.
He will lecture on different
types of guns, and display
several.
William Peziok, Warwick
High School senior, the local
lodge’s youth delegate to the
United Nations in 1964, wiill
give a short talk on his ex­periences
at the U.N.
All past grands are urged
to attend, as election of Grand
Officers of Pennsylvania will
be held.
'Considerable activity is go
mg on in the way of altera
tdons at the front of the Lititz
Post Office.
New doors have been in­stalled.
But, they are so heavy
that they are difficult to open.
However, Postmaster Richard
,C. Rader said they are pur­posely
so, in order that chil­dren
can’t open them and get
their fingers caught. He said
they would probably loosen
up some within a week or two.
The front steps are being
torn up in order to reset the
granite blocks which had be­come
loosened.
Plan New Storage Shed
At Borough Garage Site
Church Census Lists
5679 Adults In Area
NORTH BROAD STREET is just one big man-made mud pie as work starts
in earnest to reconstruct the street. The view is shown looking northward, with
heavy equipment at work on the first steps of the reconstruction. Re-laying of
various lines — water, sewer, telephone and power — is virtually completed in
preparation for the final stages. (Record-Express Photo.)
Accidents In Borough
Keep Police On Jump
A flurry of accidents oc- Floy Ulrich, crashed into an
curred in the borough during I auto operated by Floyd A.
the past week, some of them j Parmer, 309 Broad St., Terre
attributed to the two heavy
'Two mail boxes are being
installed at the curb, instead
of one, so that one may be
used for local mail and the
other for out-of-town mail.
Some months ago the one al­ready
there was moved down
from the street corner be­cause
of the detour.
The work is being done by
the General Services Admin­istration,
with Joseph LaMon-aoa,
Lahcaster, as contractor.
Lititz To Get
$25,000 From
Project 70
REVIEWS PLAN
The Lancaster County Plan­ning
Commission, Tuesday
right, reviewed the prelimin­ary
subdivision plan of ¡Sec­tion
A of “Libramont,” in
Lititz Borough, west side of
Kissel Hill Road. Messick
Realty, Inc., is subdivider.
There are 50 lots in the first
section, and eventually about
300 homes 'will be ¡built.
School Menu
Monday
Pork barbecue, baked lim'as,
potato nuggets, assorted fruit.
Tuesday
Baked ham, string beans,
->ole slaw, doughnut.
/ Wednesday
Cheeseburger, corn, butter­ed
potatoes, peaches.
Thursday
Chicken pot pie, corn, ap­plesauce.
Friday
Pizza or fish, cheese wedge
The State has allocated $25,-
000 of Project 70 funds to
Lititz borough for three proj­ects
it has applied for, it was
announced in Harrisburg.
The borough had requested
$60,250 which it planned to
match in order to carry out
three projects. However, the
state received requests amount­ing
to more than $56 million,
or nearly three times the in­itial
$20 million earmarked
for local expenditure under
the $70 million bond issue ap­proved
by the Voters in 1983.
The borough twill either
have to out back its plans
for the projects, or pay for
them itself. The projects in­clude
purchase of land west
of the borough for protection
of the water shed, $100,000;
other land adjoining Wood-crest
avenue for the .same
purpose, $4,000, and devel­opment
of a recreational area
along the creek, $16,500.
snow falls.
A truck owned by Robert
and Irene Balmer, 518 Rome
Rd., suffered $250 damage
when it was struck on March
1‘9 by a car owned by Walter
P. Michels, 140 Lawrence
Place, New Rochelle, N.Y.,
at the intersection of North
Cedar and New Sts. Michels
was charged with failure to
yield the right of way by
Borough Officer James Fritz
before Justice of the Peace
Paul F. Diehm. Damage to
his car was estimated at $20.
3-Car Craish
Douglas E. Blow, Lititz R3,
was charged by local police
with ignoring a red traffic
signal following a three-car
accident March 22 at Cedar
and Main Stre ' .
Blow, who wa_ charged be­fore
Justice of the Peace Paul
S. Diehm ¡by Policewomen
Eighty Attend
Pool Dance
3 Car Thefts
Reported Here
Wrestling Team
Guests At Supper
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rodger
entertained ’ the members of
the Warwick High School Var­sity
wrestling team at a buffet
supper in their home on Fri­day
evening.
The guests included ‘the
boys who Wrestled at least one
varsity match during the year
and are members of the sen­ior
class. They were as fol­lows:
Dennis Keiller, Gregory
Ludwig, Wayne Srnythe, Fred
Rodger, Dave Newcomer, Fred
Zimmerman, John Hornlberger,
Everett Smith, Phil Conlin,
John Heller, iDan Rossi, Floyd
Stonèr, Fred Hess, Earl Mar­tin,
Bruce Singer, Mike' Roth,
Douglass G‘aul, Dennis Heven-er
and El'an Hershey; also
Manager Dick Gundrum, ¡Coach
Ronald Mdlntyre and C'oach
Frkvnvrl Jmirnov’.
Two autos were stolen and
•ecovered in Lititz last week­end
and a third was rescued
from thieves in the nick of
time. All three cars still had
the keys in them, Police Chief
George C. Hicks said.
Robert Hershey, 14 E. Third
Avenue, reported to police that
Sunday at 1:30 a.m. he had just
parked his ear and gone in
the house when he heard some­one
starting his car. He re­membered
he had left the keys
in the car, and rushed outside.
Two youths were in the car
with the motor running, he re­ported,
but when they saw
him they jumped out and ran
away.
A car owned by Joan Keath,
318 Gochenauer Avenue, which
was reported stolen sometime
Saturday night or early Sunday
morning, was discovered by
Officer Leroy P. Emmerich
parked behind Diem’s Imple­ment
Co., Cedar and Lincoln
Avenues.
A car owned by Wilmer
Shelly, 134 S. Spruce St., re­ported
stolep. about 2 a.m. Sun­day
from in front of the own­er’s
home, was recovered out
the East Petersburg Road off
Water Edge Avenue on the
farm of David Buckwalter,
Chief Hicks said. A pair of
teen-age youths are being
questioned.
Hill. Blow’s auto then struck
a car operated by Edward T.
Moen II, 1370 Fruitville Pike.
Fails to >Stop
A car driven by James D.
Reed, 326 N. Broad St,, was
damaged to the extent of $90
when struck by a car driven
by Roy B. Zartman, Lititz Rl,
on March 18, at N. Broad and
Lincoln Avenue. Zartman Was
charged ¡by Police Chief
George C. Hickis with failure
to stop at a stop sign.
Bumps iFender
A oar owned by Ray Long-enecker
and driven by Evelyn
E. Longeneoker, Lititz R2, was
struck by a car driven by
Bonnie Jean Landis, 73 N.
Oak St., Lititz on S. Broad
St., March 18, according to
Borough Officer James Fritz
who investigated. He saidthlat
Mrs. Longenecker, in the
northbound lane, was attempt­ing
to bapk into a parking
space, when the other car
turned from W. Orange St.,
and bumped her left rear
fender.
Parking Accident
Another parking accident
happened on March 20 when
a car driven by Eugene L.
Ruhl, Penryn, was backing
into the curb on E. Lemon
St., and slid into a car owned
by M!artha A. Myers, 561 W.
Main St., Mt. Joy. Officer Le­roy
P. Emmerich, who in­vestigated,
said Ruhl’s rear
window was covered with
snow at the time.
Cash Stolen From Bar
The theft of $27 in cash
from the Springs Bar, East
Main St., was reported yes
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Approximately 80 persons
attended the second annual
dance held by the Lititz
Springs Pool Association at
the ¡Sutter Hotel, Saturday
night.
The first spot dance was
wbn by Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Zug, who received a patio
light. Mrs. Curtis Long and
Russel Row won the special
elimination dance for mixed
couples and eaoh received a
setting for picnic tables. Mr.
and Mrs. Forbes Emisweliter
won an air mattress for a spot
dance. The third spot dance
was won by Mir. and Mrs. John
Helter.
Door prizes were won by
the following: Walter Mull,
cooler chest; George Kamrn,
barbecue set; Frank Showers;
picnic basket; Ralph Beaoh,
cot.
Fred Royer, president, ex­pressed
appreciation to all
those who assisted.
'TWelve local congregations
united in taking a religious
census of the Warwick Area
on Sunday afternoon, March
14, sponsored by the Warwick
Ministerial Fellowship, of
which the Rev. Robert M.
Myers is president, and the
Rev. Donald M. Cohicfc is sec­retary.
The Rev. Frank A. Nickel
was general chairman of the
census committee, and the
Rev. James G. .Shannon
mapped out the areas to be
covered in the Lititz Borough,
Warwick Township and a part
of Elizabeth Township which
comprises the Warwick ¡Scho ol
District. The Rev. James F.
Gross is serving as tabulator.
First reports, up to March
18, indicated that 364 visitors
called on 2991 families in 207
areas. These partial reports
listed 5679 adults and 3409
children living in the War­wick
Area.
It is estimated that between
450 and 476 persons actually
participated in the census,
counting ‘the 'chairmen in
each congregation, their co-chairmen,
all the captains and
those ¡callers Who did not
write their names on the re­port
sheets.
A total of 798 call-backs
were being made during the
week on families not home
on Sunday. At press dead­line
there were two original
first reports not yet turned
in and 43 visitors Who had
not yet completed 217 call­backs
on families Which could
not be found at home.
Partial reports indicate the
following number of united
families (all members of the
household belonging to one
local church), the congrega­tion
listed alphabetically:
Brethren in Christ, (¡Speed­well
Heights), six families;
Church of God, 24 families;
Church of the Brethren, 210
families; St. Paul’s Evangeli­cal
Congregation, Rothsiville,
40 families; Lititz Evangelical
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To Display Antiques At
Moravian Music Fete
The first Lititz Festival of
Moravian ¡Music will be pre­sented
in the local Moravian
Church next ¡Sunday evening
at 7:30 p.m. The 44-voice
choir, directed1 by Julia Zer-cher
Keebn, will be accom­panied
by organist Wayne B.
LeFevre and a 1‘4-piece or­chestra
of professional strings,
woodwinds and brass ¡from ¡the
symphonies of York, Lancas­ter,
Reading and Lebanon Val­ley
College.
The concert is open to the
public.
Most of the Early Ameri­can
Moravian Music Was com-formance.
Compositions by
Hertost, Wolle, Peter, Mueller,
Freydt, Geisler and Gregor
will be heard. The first four
were men1 who lived and
worked in Lititz.
Climax of the concert will
be the 'contemporary “Canti­cle
of the Martyrs,” a cantata
19 minutes in length, writ­ten
by Vitorrio Gianni ni for
the Moravian 500th Anniver­sary
observance in 1957.
Prior to the concert, the
Moravian Trombone Choir of
about 20 instruments, direct­ed
¡by John W. Keebn, will
play a prelude of Colonial
chorales on the lawn in front
m.
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i Jay H. Wenrich
Jay Wenrich
Heads PTA
In Lititz
Jay H. Wenrich was elect­ed
president of the Lititz Par­ent
Teachers Association at
the meeting held on Thurs­day
evening in t)he elementary
school building.
Other officers elected were
follows: ¡Charles iShenk,
president; Miss Elmma
as
vice
posed in the 1700s and has , . ,,
only recently been made avail-1 ®
able for modern choir per. j cert they will play a postlude
on the church
Further Reduction
In Phone Toll Rates
Another change will be
made to the telephone toll
rate schedules, it was announc­ed
by Mrs. Bertha B. Blair,
President of the Denver and
Ephrata Telephone and Tele­graph
Company.
Effective April 1, station-to-station
day rates for hauls
over 600 miles will be reduced.
Evening and night rates were
reduced on February 1.
Under the new schedules the
maximum charge for a three-minuie
station-to-station call
anywhere in the continental
United States will be $2 from
4:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday-thru
Friday. At present the
charge for such a call is $2.25.
TO DISPLAY ORGAN PIPES: Wayne LeFevre,
organist of the Lititz Moravian Church, is shown with
parts of a 1787 Tannenberg organ which will be on
display during the Moravian Music Festival here on
Sunday. In his left hand he is holding an old wooden
pipe and in his right hand a tiny pewter pipe. They
are from an organ now dismantled which was built
at the same time the church was built. He is seated at
a 1793 Tannenberg organ in the Echbaoh parlor of the
Moravian Church.
i of chorales
lawn.
I The service will begin1 with
| the congregational hyirmn
“Come, Let Us .Sinjg the Song
of Songs,” with descant writ­ten
by Giannini. After brief
devotions by Bishop Alien W.
Sehattschneider, the following
program will be rendered: “I
Will ‘Sing to the Lord,” by
Johann Frederick Peter; “Mein
Heiland Geht .Ins Lelben,” (¡My
Saviour Lies in Anguish), by
Georg Gottfried Muller, -sung
in German, by Rochelle Erib
Dietz of Dallastown; “For Me,
O Lord ¡My God,” by Peter
Wolfs; “He Ts Joseph Your
Brother,” by Christian Gregor;
Ode to Nov. 13 (a) “Who Is
Such a Friend,” .and (lb) “For
All Promises Are Fixed,” toy
Johann Ludwig Freydt; "God
Was in Christ,” by Johannes
I-Ieribst; “Life Divine, With
Awe We Greet Thee,” toy Pe­ter;
“Thou Hast Given Us
Bread from Heaven,” by Geis­ler;
“The (Canti'cle of the
Martyrs,” by Giannini.
Soloists and members of a
special quartet, besides Mrs.
Dietz, are Marilyn Stauffer,
James Auman, Jean Hanna
Bender and Harold T. Stry­ker.
Twenty ¡music lovers are
coming to the concert from
New York City; others from
Staten ¡Island, Philadelphia,
Detroit, Bethlehem, Wilming­ton,
Kingston, New York and
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Herr, treasurer; Miss. Doro­thy
D'ildine, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Betty Zug, re­cording
secretary.
Robert Alspach and Miss
Johanne Smith, teachfers of
physical education of the ele
roentary and high school re
sportively, ¡gave demonstra
tions with twlo elementary pu­pils
and eight high school pu
pits of their work and spoke
briefly.
Plans were made for the
annual PTA Festival to be
held on Saturday, May 15, in
Lititz Springs Park with Carl
Snavely as general chairman.
Mrs. Hazel Moore and the
sixth grade Chorus will be
guests at the next meeting to
be held the fifth Thursday in
April. There will also be in
stallation of officers.
Quotations for the construc­tion
of a new building at the
borough garage will be pre­sented
-by Borough Manager
George D. .Steedle to Borough
Council at its meeting next
Tuesday night.
The building will .be 32 by
72 feet in dimensions and will
be used to store equipment.
It is expected to cost .between
$8.500 and $11,000. Steedle
said, but added that bids have
not, yet been asked for.
Steedle will make a report
on the progress of reconstruc­tion
of North Broad Street.
The water relocation proj­ect
will be ¡basically finished
by that time, and the tele­phone
relocation Work ateo
will be finished, he said. The
laying of the gas lines also
has .been completed. A num­ber
of trees were taken out
last week.
The Sewer Authority Was
awarded the ‘contract for low­ering
the sewer lines to J. D.
Eckman, Atglen, general con­tractor
¡for the reconstruction.
The manholes ¡will be lowered,
and about 10 laterals will be
installed including some lead­ing
into vacant lots, in order
that the work need not toe
done later when the new pav­ing
would have to he torn up.
Steedle said council expects
to receive a plan from the
Pennsylvania Power and Light
Co. to locate an underground
street lighting system in the
sidewalk area. The caíble will
be installed after the curb is
replaced.
It is hoiped to have traffic
signals installed at N. Broad
and Lincoln Avenue by the
time Council meets.
The borough has received
$1,150 as its 1¡965 liquor and
malt (beverage license refund,
and its allocation of $10s33'3
for the liquid fuel tax for
1965, ¡both ¡from the state.
A decision (will be made on
whether or not to install cuito
radius on W. Market Street,
where some of the property
owners questioned the advis­ability
of doing it.
It is expected that Nathan­iel
McLean, manager of Mor­gan
Paper .Company, will ,be
present to outline the status
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To Test Tots
April 6 & 8 In
Manheim Area
Sr. Citizens
Lead In Rec
Center Drive
Pre-school testing program
for the elementary .children
in the ¡Manheim Central
School District, will toe held
on April 6 and 8, 1965, it was
announced .toy Robert S. Eshe‘1-
man, supervisor of elementary
education.
The dates and time are list­ed
below: Elm Tree Elemen­tary
School, iMastersonville
Elementary School, Manheim
Elementary School, Fairland
Elementary School, all April
6, (a.m. only); Sporting Hill
Elementary .School and .White
Oak Elementary School, both
April 8, (a.m. only).
Parents will be notified toy
letter, regarding the time and
school for this enrollment.
Parents who have not re­ceived
their letters by April
1 are asked to notify the
elementary supervisor, phone
665-2200 or the school in their
area.
Birth and vaccination certif­icates
should be presented at
the time of the registration.
To enter First Grade in Sep­tember,
15965, the child must
be 6 years of age on or be­fore
January 31, 1966.
'Children who are current­ly
attending kindergarten
classes in the District have
been given the Pre-School test
and will not report for class­es
during this enrollment
period'. Registration for kin­dergarten
in the Manheim
Central .School District for the
1965-66 school term will toe
held on April 23.
The Lititz Senior Citizens
Club is leading the way in the
1965 Rec Center membership
drive.
According to Mrs. Forbes
Emsweller, advisor to this
group, 118 Rec Center mem­berships
have been purchased.
This figure well represents
more than 100 per cent of the
active members, and many of
the inactive members have also
obtained memberships.
Seven hundred memberships
have been sold during the first
month of the campaign.
It will take the full support
of the Community in order to
realize the goal of 1,500 mem­bers
by May 1, officials said.
This is the goal which has been
set by the Membership com­mittee
of the Center.
HAM SUPPER
Brunnerville Fire Co. Aux.
will hold a Ham and Turkey
Supper Saturday, March 27
from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Fire
Hall.
Community
Calendar March 25 — 6:30 P.M. —
Radio Club at Rec Center.
8.00 P.M. — Neighborhood
Scout meeting at Rec Cen-
, ter.
8:00 P.M. — Lititz Jaycee
meeting at American
Legion.
March 27 — 8:00 P.M. — Ro­tary
Travelogue film at
Warwick Hi Auditorium.
8:30 P.M. — Junior Board
Dance at Rec Center. “The
Bazars”.
March 29 — 7:30 P.M. — Odd
Fellows at I.O.O.F. Hall.
March 30 — 6:00 P.M. — Ro­tary
Club at Rec Center.
7:00 P.M. — Women’s Vol­leyball
at Elem. Gym.
April 1 — 6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club at Rec Center.
7:30 P.M. — Fire Company
Auxiliary at Fire House.