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(Con so lidated w ith T h e I iit itz R eco rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, April 1, 1965 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per yea r by mall
w ith in Lancaster County; $4.00 elsewh ere 14 Pages — No. 51
Pepsi Party Makes
Clean Sweep At WHS ui
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The “Pepsi” party at War­wick
High School made virtu­ally
a clean sweep in elec­tions
of officials for Youth
Day in Government, only
losing one office to the op­posing
party, the “GardiS.”
The lone “Cards” candidate
who won was Tom Brubaker,
who defeated Ron Nies of
the “Pepsi” party for a seat
on borough council.
Other successful candidates
'or the “Pepsi” Party —
(Party Enforcing Popular
Student Interests,) were as
follows:
Mayor, Don Showers; bor­ough
councilimen, Jean Meis-key,
Terry Kegel, Joyce Rei-denhach,
Fred Hess; -borough
List Captains
For Cancer
Drive Here
The American Cancer So­ciety
will begin its annual
crusade to raise funds for re­search,
educational programs
and the many other services
it renders, with a kick-off
meeting for all volunteers on
Thursday, April 1 at 8 p.m.,
in the First Presbyterian
"Lurch Social Hall, Lancas­ter.
In Lititz, Mrs. Paul Cooper,
chairman, announced that ten
residential areas have been
assigned captains Who are
now recruiting workers for
the door-to-door campaign.
The District Captains are:
District 1, Mrs. Kenneth Mc-
Closkey; District 2, Section 1,
Mrs. Robert Workman; Sec­tion
2, Mrs. Charles York;
District 3, Mrs. James Shan­non;
District 4, Section 1, Mrs.
Franklin Cassel; section 2,
Mrs. Edward Strohle; District
5, Mrs. Gordon Burkey; Dis­trict
6, Section 1, Mrs. Wil­liam
Whitten, Jr.; section 2,
Mrs. Paul Hess; District 7,
Mrs. Donald Krushinski.
The Industrial division will
be handled by William Horn-berger
and Mr. and Mrs.
George Kalenich, while the
business district will be cov­ered
by Mrs. Chester Slmith.
manager, Dick Gundrum;
School Board, Larry Hess,
Richard Bender, Lynn Stry­ker,
Doug Gaul, Gene Risser,
Ma r i l yn (Stauffer, Nancy
Ruhl; Chief of Police, Bob
Rosenberg; tax collector,
Linda Lindeman; Justice of
the Peace, John Hornberger;
Pennsylvania House of Repre­sentatives,
Peggy Bard and
Bruce Singer.
The Warwick “officials” at­tended
a banquet given Wed­nesday
noon in Odd Fellows
Hall, Lancaster, by the Jun­ior
Chamber of Commerce,
sponsors of the event through­out
the county. Local chap­ters
arrange the observance
in their own communities,
with C. William Dussinger,
new president, doing the hon­ors
in Lititz. They also spent
part of the day touring the
Lititz borough facilities.
The two state representa­tives,
Peggy Bard and Bruce
.Singer, went along to Harris­burg
with the others from
the county, and toured the
State Capitol where they met
with local legislators.
Those named to borough
council will attend the next
council meeting, Tuesday,
April 27, and those named to
the School Board t will attend
the next School Board meet­ing
on April 21.
At both meetings they will
be given an opportunity to
present their ideas for the
improvement of the borough
as well as the schools, as
outlined in their platform.
“'Mayor” iShowers, seven­teen,
is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene- Showers, 100
Market St. He is vice presi­dent
of. the senior class and
is taking the general course.
He is an Eagle -Scout.
YOUTH DAY IN GOVERNMENT: Above are
shown the ‘‘Borough Council” members elected at-
Warwick High School for Youth Day in government
held in the county yesterday. Left to right, “Mayor”
Don Showers, peering from behind “councilman” Jean
Meiskey; Fred Hess, Terry Kegel and Tom Brubaker,
other “counciln.en.” (Absent when picture was taken,
Joyce Reidenbach, “councilman,” and Dick Gundrum,
“borough manager.” )
Boro Council Considers
Setting Curfew In Lititz
Bulletin!
Sutter’s Gold Found
In Secret Dungeon!
,S)t a r 11 i n ig new evidence
came to light today to show
that General John A. Sutter
was anything but the impov­erished,
disappointed man he
led people to believe even
unto this day, nor did he
come to Lititz to find a haven
in Which to lick his wounds
after the miseries of Cali­fornia.
No indeed! History and
tradition are shattered today
by the revelation that he
came to lititz to establish a
secret hiding place to stash
away millions of dollars
worth of gold!
This hiding place was in a
dungeon in the basement of
the hotel that now bears his:
name. Renovations at the ho­tel
today brought to light a
passageway in the basement
which on further exploration
is found to lead steeply down­ward,
opening into a huge
cave or dungeon. More amaz­ing,
after scraping away the
dirt of decades, workmen, in
the light of flickering torches,
found Sutter’s gold — bars
and ingots of it, bagis of it,
nu-ggets of it, baubles and
bangles of it. Imimediately,
the cave was sealed off from
the public and guards placed
on duty while officers of the
two banks here are down
there counting the loot 24
hours a day. While no official
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Churches Could Double
Membership, Census Shows
Boro Employes
Work 2584 Hours
The borough works depart-hours
during the period de­ment
put in a total 2,584 man
'tween February 15 and 28,
it was reported by Borough
Manager George D. Steedle to
[Borough council. .
Of the total, 268 hours were
spent on- the water system on
North Broad St., plus 92 hours
elsewhere on the system.
“SCHOOL BOARD” for Youth Day in Govern­ment
at Warwick High School: front row, left to right,
Marilyn Stauffer, Nancy Ruhl and Lynn Stryker; back
row, Doug Gaul, Gene Risser, Richard Bender, and
Larry Hess.
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Jaycees Announce Active
Program For Coming Y ear
C. William Dussinger, re-1 school, hold an industrial ex-eently
installed president of Mbit-ion and also the -annual
the Lititz Junior Chamber of
Commerce, appointed commit­tees
for the year at the
monthly meeting last Thurs­day
in the American Legio-n
Home.
He also announced the year’s
planned program and submit­ted
the new budget for mem­bership
approval.
The committee chairmen
are as follows: membership,
Charles York -and Roy Straus-baugh;
orientation, Dr. Rob­ert
Brubaker; -constitution -re­vision,
Don Caldwell; social,
Richard Oberlin; Ways and
means, James Perini; sports
and recreation, Don McGar-vey;
publications, Karl Horst;
scrap book, Dale Frantz; chap­lain,
Paul -Cramer; property,
James Perini.
The proposed project for
the coming year are as fol­lows:
charcoal sale, street
fair, Jaycee Day at the pool,
new teachers’ banquet, Get
Out the Vote, Youth Day in
Government, Christmas shop­ping
for underprivileged chil­dren,
party for Senior Citi­zens,
build a pavilion at the
pool, install an outdoor bas­ketball
court at the high
Christmas holiday basketball
tournament.
Th-e yeaf’s programs will in­clude
a talk (by a gas com­pany
representative, a trip to
“OFFICIALS” for miscellaneous officers in Youth
Day in Government: Left to right, Bruce Singer and
Peggy Bard, representatives to the State assembly;
John Hornberger, justice of the peace; Linda Linde­man,
tax collector; Bob Rosenberg, chief of police.
BANK OPENS NEW DEPT.
The Farmers National Bank,
a ball game, annual picnic, i Lititz, announced yesterday
tour of WGAIL-TV; Christmas | that it has opened a new per-par-
ty and State -convention a-t j sonal credit department with
Pittsburgh. °ffic-eS °n ^ e balcony at the
, , East Mam Street office. Any young men between
the ages of 21 and 36 inter- James H. Shreiner, R. D. 3,
ested in joining may contact
Charles York, 626-7125.
Manheim, will direct the new
department
School Menu
Monday
Meat loaf, gravy, masked po­tatoes,
carrot cup, assorted
fruit.
Tuesday
Hot dog, baked beans, cel-ery/
p. butter, cookies,
Wednesday
Beef barbecue, potato puffs,
peas, jello crystals.
Thursday
Chicken corn soup, p. but­ter
and marshmallow sand­wich,
prunes,
Friday
Fish sticks, buttered noo­dles,
tomato sauce, pears.
Mrs. Amidon Wins ì nree
Firsts In Flower Show
Mrs. E. Curtis Amidon, 582
Front St., Lititz, won first
prize in all three flower ar­rangement
competitions at
the “Creative Woman’s Day”
program held last Saturday
by the Lancaster County Fed­eration
of Women’s Club.
The arrangements were on
the themes, “Coming of
Spring,” “Your -Choice,” and
“Beauty of Spring.” ‘Mrs.
Richard Allebach, Lititz, was
third prize winner in the first
category, and Mrs. Ben Lea-man,
Lititz, received honor­able
mention in the second
grouping.
Mrs. Amidon used unusual
materials for her arrange­ments,
such as Chinese cab­bage
and spinach, rarely
found in floral bouquets. She,
is shown mirrored in the ac­companying
photograph with
her arrangement for “Beauty
of Spring.” It consists of a
witch hazel branch, Chinese
cabbage, chartreuse moss aftd
driftwood. Her arrangement
for “Your Choice” was uni­que
in that one of the com­ponents
was a olear-toy horse
made by Charles Regannas
in 1963, which was original­ly
red and has weathered
Mrs. Amidon
and floral arrangement
to a soft pink. It was com­bined
with Japónica branch­es,
spinach and white cro­cuses.
As part of the day-long
program, members of the
Lititz Woman’s Club present­ed
the play, “The Amazing
Arabella.”
To Register
New Pupils
In April
Registration for children who
will enter the first grades of
the Warwick School District
next fall, but who are not at­tending
kindergarten at pre­sent,
and for pupils who will
enter kindergarten next fall,
will be held late in April.
First grade registration for
children not presently at­tending
kindergarten will be
as follows:
Brunnerville, Elizabeth Town­ship
area: Tuesday, April 20, 9
to 11 a.m., cafeteria, John Beck
School.
Rothsville area: Tuesday,
April 20, 1 to 3 p.m., cafeteria,
Rothsville School.
Lititz area: Friday, April 23,
9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.,
kindergarten rooms, Lutheran
Education building.
Kindergarten registration
will be as follows:
Lititz area: Monday, April 26,
9 to 11 a.m., and 1 to 3 p.m.,
kindergarten room, Lutheran
Education building.
Brunnerville, Elizabeth Town­ship
area: Tuesday, April 27, 9
to 11 a.m., cafeteria, John Beck
School.
Rothsville area: Tuesday,
April 27, 1 to 3 p.m., cafe­teria,
Rothsville School.
Parentis are requested to
bring vaccination certificate,
State birth certificate and other
health record information.
School officials said regis­tration
will take about one
hour, and asked that parents
come early enough to com­plete
registration during the
scheduled time.
it is entirely possible fort
some of the local churches to
double their -congregational
membership in the near fu­ture,
according to the latest
figures released as a result
of the religious census taken
in the Warwick Area on
March 14 -by the Warwick As­sociation
of Churches. Tabu­lation
reveals a prospective
list (for some congregations
larger than their present
membership.
The prospective list totals
3,338 families as compared to
a total of 2,226 united families
claiming membership in the
twenty congregations. This
startling picture is temJpered
by the fact tha-t the prospect­ive
list includes “split” fam­ilies,
where a husband or wife
already belongs to a local
congregation but the other
spouse belongs to a different
congregation and the spouse
is a prospect. A duplicate
card has been given to the
pastors of both congregations
involved.
'The prospect list also in­cludes
families who belong to
congregations outside the War­wick
area. These cards have
been given to pastors of the
same denomination in the lo­cal
area. The list also includes
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Advise Filling
Spaces Around
Main St. Trees
The Lititz Shade Tree Com­mission
has recommended to
Borough Council that it parti­ally
close the “wells,” or open
spaces around the young
trees on East Main St.
Members of the commission,
which consists of Hiram M.
Etoerly, William Light and
Edward Bear, said that not
only are the “wells” pedes­trian
hazards, but are not
necessary for the growth of
the trees. They pointed out
that one of the local banks
has bricked in the spaces
around their trees. In this
way, as the trees grow and
need more space, brides can
be removed.
Because the spaces will be
smaller, the Girl Scouts will
have flowers ‘left over for
planting, thus will be able
to plant the areas in the sec­ond
block of East Main. They
have already ordered their
flowers. Branches from the
East Main Street trees will
be removed this summer in
order to afford more head-room.
The commission recom­mended
that the same species
of tree, Scanlon’s red maple,
be planted along North (Street
after it is reconstructed. They
are raised especially for city
use, growing only to a maxi­mum
of 35 feet, and having
roots which don’t disturb the
pavement or sewerage system.
Religious Classes S ta rt
Next Fall In District
A program of week-day re-, state law which legalizes week-
Hgious education on released day religious instruction on a
Churches Plan
Park Services
Plans to hold services in
Lititz Springs Park during
July and August were made
at the meeting of the War­wick
Association of Churches
held on Tuesday evening in
the Church of the Brethren.
These services will be spon­sored
toy this organization.
Details will toe announced
later. .
There will be a three-hour
service again on Good Fri­day,
this year in the Lititz
E.U.B. (Church. The theme
will toe “The Seven Last
i Words of Christ.” There Will
also be a service for the chil-
I dren in the Trinity Evangeli­cal
Congregational Church.
The pending bus bill was
discussed and individuals
were told to write to their
Congressmen. Elmer Allwine,
president, was in change of
the meeting. The next meet­ing
will include the reorgani­zation.
time from the public schools
is being established by the
Wa rwi c k Association- of
Churches for the first time
in this area.
The program, for the sev­enth
grades only, will begin
in the fall of 1965. ft is the
plan of the Association to ex­pand
to cover other grades,
if the response warrants it.
A Curriculum is toeing
studied preparatory to pre­senting
it to the Warwick Un­ion
School Board for approval.
Qualified- teachers for the
week-day educational program
are being sought. Those in­terested
-may get in touch
with their own clergy or
Howard Koster, chairman of
the Planning committee, 569-
0137, or Donald1 J. Young,
secretary, 626-2763.
Letters and registration
cards are being sent to the
parents of sixth grade stu­dents
for approval and to as­certain
the number of chil­dren
and classrooms that will
be needed for the program.
Week-day religious educa­tion
will be in addition to
the prescribed courses -of
study in the Warwick Union
School district.
Committee members (cite
the following section of a
“Kissel Hillbillies”
Opens 2-Night Run
“Kissel Hillbillies” opens
tomorrow night on -the War­wick
High School Stage -for
a two-night stand after seven
months of preparation. Cur­tain
time is 8:30 p.m. This
sixth annual original musical
comedy presented by -the
American Business -Club of
Lititz for the benefit of local
projects, is alive .with music,
dancing and comedy.
Brief -glimpses of a strictly
confidential script depicts life
today in the -hills of Lititz
and the interruption of the
day-to-day living of a typical
hill family -known as the
“Smashers” toy “worldly”
Peace Corps and Poverty
Corps politicians.
Through-out the light-heart­ed
production emotions change
from laughter to sadness, but
musical comedy prevails as
footlights are turned on in
this 1965 production which
according to the best authori­ties
is bigger and better than
previous shows.
Many wonderful -hours of
fun and laughter have been
put into this show of shows,
but thousands of hours of
work also go on behind the
scenes in -preparing for this
annual affair so many Lititz
residents look forward to each
year.
Show chairman Max Hoff­man
reports that (Saturday
night tickets are almost gone.
For those who have not as
yet assured- themselves of a
seat on Friday or Saturday
night, tickets will continue to
be sold at Gl-assmyers’ and
McE-lroy’Is: and will ibe avail­able
at the box office for both
you will all see iwhen th e1 nights while they last.
released -time basis: “Any
board of school directors of
any school district shall have
power -to enter into suitable
arrangements with a religious
group, or organization of re­sponsible
citizens resident in
the school district, -who are
interested in organizing part-time
weekday religious educa­tion
for school (pupils. In such
cases the board of school di­rectors
shall have power to
adopt such rules and regula­tions
for the release from
school sessions of those pu­pils
whose parents, or surviv­ing
parent, or guardian, or
other person having legal cus- “oro Uses 9 Vi
tody of such pupil, desires to Million Gallons
have them attend a class to
Mayor Arthur Griswold and
Police Chief George Hicks re­commended
to borough eO’jnicl
at its meeting Tuesday night
that council consider the adop­tion
of a curfew ordinance for
Lititz.
Both officials stressed that
the recommendation of a time
limitation on minors under the
age of eighteen was not meant
to put an unnecessary hardship
on local young people, hut
mainly to control those “out­siders”
and a few local teens
who are “trouble makers".
A curfew ordinance would
regulate the presence of putt’
ors under the age of eighteen
in public places and private
establishments in the borough
between certain hours.
The suggestion met mixed
reaction among council mem­bers.
Griswold stated that Man-heim
Twp., Ephrata, Lancas­ter
City and Manheim all have
adopted curfews and have
found them effective. Re said
that some delinquents now
come to Lititz because it has
no curfew.
Police Chief Hicks displayed
before an amazed council wea­pons
that had been taken from
teenagers in Lititz in recent
months. They included a 32
caliber pistol, brass knuckles
and a switch blade knife with
about a six inch blade.
Hicks reviewed the cases of
a few juveniles to stress the
need for more ways to combat
teenagers who give local police
anxious moments. He said
other communities with cur­fews
have found it does not
put an undue hardship on
young people and that the or­dinance
itself could allow for
exceptions to the time limita­tion
for legitimate functions,
such as rec dances, etc. He
said the “great majority of
the “kids” are good, “but we
must control those few that
are not”.
Police Chief Hicks stated
yesterday that he would be
available to any group or
meeting that would like tp
have more information and
an explanation of the pro­posed
curfew. He urged local
civic clubs, etc. to contact
him.
Griswold stated he had talk­ed
to school officials and gui­dance
counselors including Su­pervising
Principal Marlin
Spaid and High School Prin­cipal
Harold Swisher and they
were in favor of a curfew.
He stressed it is primarily to
protect the many, many good
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receive religious education, in
accordance with their religi­ous
faith fo-r -not more than
one hour a week, subject,
however, to such condi tionls
and the keeping of such rec­ords
of attendance at such
classes and other records for
the inspection of school au­thorities
as the board shall
deem proper. No part of the
cost and expense of such re­ligious
instruction shall be
paid out of public school
funds.”
Sr. Citizens
Meeting One
Week Early
Th-e Senior Citizens will
meet on April 8 at 5:30 p.m.
in the Recreation Center.
The meeting has been sched­uled
one week earlier than
usual 'because of Holy Week.
Tt will toe a buffet dinner pre­pared
toy the food committee
so this year 'the guests will
not bring food but are re­quested
just to bring the table
setting, including a cup.
The men 'will serve as hosts,
arranging the tables and do­ing
the preliminary work, but
the food committee will plan
and prepare the food and
Sloouts will help to ¡serve.
Mrs. Ellsie Becker and Miss
Mabel Bushong are co-chair­men
of the committee which
also includes Mrs. Ethel Fibr­il
art, Mrs. Jennie Beamesder*
fer, Mrs. Esther Bruner, Mrs.
Mary Bushong, Mrs. ¡Ehima
Partridge, Mrs. Ella Grutoe,
Mrs. Edith Heisley, Mrs. Liz­zie
Moyer, Mrs. Aileen Kauff­man,
Mrs. Mabel Mumima, Mrs.
Irene Kofroth, Mrs. Eva Kilns.
Water In 2 Wks,
The wa t e r department
pumped a total of 9,416,700
gallons of water during the
period between February 15
and 28, it was reported to
Borough Council by Borough
’.Manager George D. Steedl«.
The daily average Was 672,-
,621, the maximum day being
814,300, and the minimum
day 498,800.
, The sewer plant reported
!a total flow of 7,770,600 gal­lons
with a daily average Of
555,042. The .South digester
produced 95,993 cubic feet of
gas, and the north digester,
4,485 cubic feet.
Community
Calendar
April 1 — 6:15 P.M. Fire Co.
Auxiliary at the Fire
House.
6:30 P.M. Radio Clulb at
Rec Center.
7:00 PjM. Jaycee board
meeting, home of William
Dussinger.
April 2 — 8:30 P.M. ABiC
Show at Warwick Hi Audi­torium.
April 3 — 8:30 P.M. ABC
Show at Warwick Hi Audi­torium.
April 5 — 7:30 P.M. Odd Fel­lows
at I.O.O.F. Hall.
April 6 — 1:30 P.M. Garden
Club at Rec Center.
6:00 Rotary Club at Rec
Center.
April 8 — 5:30 PjM. Senior
Citizens at Red Center.
6:30 P.M. Radio Club at
Rec Center.
8:00 P.M. JayCee meeting
at American Legion