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              T he Lititz Record ■
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88th Year _______ j
Estab lished April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The X.ititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, April 8, 1965 7 cen ts a Copy.; $3.00 per yea r by mall
w ith in Lanca ste r County; $4.00 elsewhere 14 Pages — No. 52
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arents To Approve
Weekday Religious
Classes For Children
Further plans for the re­leased
time religious educa­tion
classes which will be
sponsored by the Warwick
Association of Church start­ing
next September, were an­nounced
this week. This will
be the first time the pro­gram
has ever been held in
the Warwick District.
The classes will be for all
seventh grade pupils in the
Warwick Union Schools, and
enrollment will be by re­quest
of the parents only.
Pupils now in the sixth
grades will be given cards
next Monday, April 12, which,
they are to take home and
fill out, and then return to
the public school teachers as
soon as possible. This will
give the committee an indi­cation
of the number of pu­pils
who will attend in the
Fall.
A number of sub-commit­tees
composed mainly of lay­men
were recently appointed
to expedite the program for
the weekday church school.
Named to the curriculum
committee were Howard Ros­ter,
advisor; Mrs. Wendell
Hower, chairman; the Rev.
James K. Rapp, Harold Zim­merman,
Mrs. Ruth Husser,
Mrs. Willy dePerrot. This
committee will select the
courses to be used in the re­leased
tim« classes and deter­mine
all other classroom ma­terial.
The Rev. Mr. Rapp will
assist as coordinator between
the released time school and
the public school. The com­mittee
will handle all matters
of insurance for children,
crossing guards, transporta­tion,
arrangements with the
churches for space to be used,
cost of the rooms, support of
PTA and any other aspects
deemed necessary.
The staffing committee con­sists
of the Rev. Robert My­ers,
advisor; William Hazlett,
chairman; Miss Edith Witmer,
Harold W. Swisher. Its func­tion
is to establish qualifica­tions
for teaching, maintain a
(file of teachers, interview
them and make recommenda­tions
to the committee-at-large.
It will arrange the
teaching schedule and in-ser­vice
training program for
teachers.
Art Group Has
New Exhibition
The Village Art Associa­tion
has a new exhibition of
oil paintings and water col­ors
at Bingeman’s Restaurant.
The members exhibiting are
Mrs. Chester Ruth, John Wen­ger,
Mrs. Leon Himimeliber-ger,
Miss Mary Lefever, Miss
Rita Washburn, Mrs. Russell
Templeton, Floyd Hackman,
Mrs. Earl Roth, Mrs. Andrew
Leib and Mrs. Geonge Weyer.
Included in the show are
paintings of scenes in Lititz
The finance committee in­cludes
the Rev. Donald Co­hick,
advisor; Earl Deibler,
'chairman, and Ira Dissinger.
matters pertaining to the
St will arrange all financial
operation of the weekday
church school.
The liaiason and publicity
committee includes Donald
Young, advisor; Milton Sober- j
pf, chairman; Paul Cramer,
Russel Sohreiiber and Richard
Boose. It will coordinate in- j
formation from the various
committees for publicity for
the program^ to subttr/ut to
local newspapers and to the
■churches.
The next meeting of the
'committee is scheduled for
Tuesday, April 20, at 7:30
p.m. at the First Church of
God. The committee said that
all clergymen and others in­terested
in the program are
invited to attend.
T ext of Proposed Curfew
!V9ade Public By Mayor
Million-Dollar Estate
Becomes Available For
Distribution To Heirs
Zoning Board
Turns Down
Antique Shop
The Lititz Zoning Board of
Adjustment Tuesday night ap­proved
two requests for spe­cial
exemptions and turned
down a third.
Approved was a request
from Harry and Nancy Beam,
30 W. Orange St., who sought
permission to operate a rec­ord
shop at their home on a
part time basis.
‘Permission was given to
use one room' of their home
for this purpose, and to erect
a suitable sign on the porch.
However the board, which set
9 p.m. as the daily closing
time, prohibited any other
exterior displays or advertis­ing.
T
urned down was a request
from Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F.
Myers Jr., 139 Liberty St., to
operate an antique shop in
one half of the garage at the
rear of their property.
Myers said there was no
objection on the part of the
adjoining neighbors but the
request was denied on the
basis that it would be a full
scale retail establishment,
not just an incidental, part
time business.
The board approved the
request of the Lutheran So­cial
Services to construct a
Home for the Aged at 600 E.
Main St., as a philanthropic
institution.
EASTER EGG TREES are beginning to “bear fruit” in Lititz, as a number of
the gaily decorated trees are making their appearance. This one is at the home of
Miss Vera Hoffman, 129 N. Cedar Street, ' who combined plastic Easter eggs and
pussy willows for this attarctive arrangement. Lititz was a pioneer in establishing
the custom of decorating egg trees at Eastertime.
STONE BASE ON N. BROAD
A stone base will be laid
on North Broad Street with
a macadam surface, George
D. Steedle, borough manager,
said this week. The base will
not be concrete, as has been
the case in some other towns,
he said, pointing out tbatj
this could create difficulties
nearby places of interest and I ^ h i® ever necessary to go
still life. ! doWn to the utilities below
the street level again.
Safety Awards
Given To 55
D. &E. Drivers
The Denver and Ephrata
Telephone and Telegraph
Company on Friday honored
55 drivers for “an excellent
safety record” established
last year.
Of the men cited the top
ten have a combined total of
230 years of safe driving.
They include Harry F. Fel-ker,
30 years; Henry R.
Lesher, 28 years; John P.
Mahler, 28 years; William B.
Brossman, 24 years; J. Reed
Berkbeimer, 24 years; Wil­liam-
Riick, 18 years; William
W. Royer, 17 years and J.
Jay Burkins, 15 years.
Mrs. Bertha B. Blair, com­pany
president, congratulated
the employees for the new
record and awards were pre­sented
to the men by John
W. Lebmone, supervisor of
engineering and inspections
of the Atlantic Mutual In­surance
Company, and Wil­liam
B. Brossman.
Awards for 15 years of
service were presented to
Charles 'Miller and Raymond
Deck by Mrs. Blair.
A buffet luncheon conclud­ed
the program.
Rob't Antes Heads
Local VFW Post
Robert Antes was elected
commander of Veterans: of
Foreign Wars Post 1468 at the
meeting held April 1 at the
Post Home.
Other officers elected for
1965-66 are: Donald Rofroth,
senior vice commander; Nels
Highberg, Junior vice com­mander;
Geonge Wunderlich,
quartermaster; Clayton Seitz,
chaplain; Menno Rohrer,
Judge Advocate; Joseph W.
Grosh, M. D., surgeon.
Trustees were named as fol­lows:
Charles Weller, one
year; Richard Weik, two
years; Edward Musselman,
three years.
School Menu
Monday
Grilled hamburg, corn, car­rot
sticks, sunset salad.
Tuesday
Roast beef, potato filling,
relish cup, fruit jello.
Wednesday
(Spaghetti & meat sauce,
wax beans, cole slaw, peaches.
Thursday
No lunch served; school
dismisses early.
Friday
'No school.
Fire Co. To I old
Ham Egg Breakfast
The Lititz Fire Company
will again sponsor a Hath
and Egg breakfast at the Lit­itz
Fire Hall < on ¡Saturday,
April 10. -Serving will start
at 6 a.m. and -continue until
1 p.m. The menu includes
ham and eggs, home fries,
bread, coffee and .milk for
the children. Half price for
children. This breakfast, like
past breakfasts, benefit the
annual children's Christmas
■party. The price -for adults
is $1.00.
Churches Prepare For
Palm Sunday Services
The triumphal entry of - the choirs will be joined by
Christ into Jerusalem amid Eramanual Lutheran Church
the cheers of people who singers in a cantata at 4 p.m.
Six institutions stand to re­ceive
more than $150,000 each
from the million-dollar estate
| of the late Daniel W. Withers,
of Lititz, who died ten years
ago, but whose estate had been
placed in trust for his widow,
Mrs. Ella B. Withers, 413 S.
Broad St.
Mrs. Withers died March 28,
1965, at the age of 92, in the
Lancaster General Hospital,
where she had been a patient
since 1957. She received the in­come
from the estate during
her lifetime.
In addition to the public be­quests,
Withers made bequests
to relatives and friends which
amounted to $95,300. His estate
was estimated at the court
house as $1,007,812.42.
One sixth of the estimated
residue of approximately $914,-
312 is to go to each of the
following institutions, or about
$152,000 each: Lancaster Gen­eral
Hospital Ostedpathic Hos­pital,
Lititz Church of the Bre­thren,
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, Lititz; Elizabethtown
College, and Rossmere Sani-torium.
Because Rossmere has
spread palms before Him will
be celebrated in song, sermon
and Scripture in the -churches:
oif Lititz on Palm Sunday,
April 11. Y-et six days- later
He was to be rejected,
crowned with thorns and
crucified by many of these
same people, and to rise
again on Easter morn.
In addition to the regular
Palm Sunday morning serv­ices,
cantatas will be sung
at ot-her hours, notable at
Trinity E.C. Church where
New Survey Favors Free
Phone Calls To Lancaster
Toll free telephone service
between Lititz and Lancaster
may become a reality in
October, 1966, as a result of
a recently completed poll of
the Lititz subscribers, Mrs.
Bertha B. Blair, president of
the Denver -and Ephrata
Telephone and Telegraph
Company announced today.
A citizens’ committee, head­ed
by Dr. Byron R. Hforne,
-president of Linden Hall,
has spearheaded efforts to
get all subscribers to vote in
the poll which was original­ly
mailed last June. As a re­sult,
53 per cent of the cus­tomers
have voted in favor
of an increase in local rates
in order to eliminate the
toll charge.
GYM EXHIBITION
SATURDAY NIGHT
This Saturday evening,
starting at 7 p.m., Warwick
High School’s senior high
boys and girls will put on a
physical education demon­stration
in the high school
gym. . ■ ;
The management of the
Telephone Company has stat­ed
that it will place orders
immediately for the necessary
equipment .so that the ex­tended
service can be estab­lished
in October of 1966.
Engineering, manufacture, in­stallation
and testing of this
equipment usually requires a
period of eighteen months,
Mrs. Blair explained.
At the same time the Den­ver
and Ephrata Company
plans to install a newly de­veloped
syste-m in the Lititz
telephone office for handling
toll calls o-n a dial basis.
With this system, called Au­tomatic
Number Identification,
it will no longer be neces­sary
for the calling custom­er
to give his telephone num­ber
to the operator when re­quested
to do so. Instead the
telephone number of the call­ing
customer will be auto­matically
identified and re­corded
for billing puiipos-fes.
For ¡technical reasons, the
use of this method of hand­ling
calls will be limited to
customers with onetparty-and
two-party service.
Fire Ladies
Give $500
To Company
The Ladies Auxiliary of
the Fire Company presented
the firemen a check for $500
on Thursday evening when
the firemen entertained the
ladies at dinner in- the fire
house. Mrs. Elton Reed, the
president, gave the check in
be-halif of the organization to
Christ Koehler, president of
the Fire Company.
Paul Diehim Was master of
ceremonies and Edward
Gro-sh gave the invocation.
Tori Badorf, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Badorf, en­tertained
with folk song se­lections
on her guitar.
Announcement of a rum­mage
sale to be held on
April 23 - in the fire house
was made and Mrs. Jacob
Yerger will be in charge.
The ladies will sponsor a
Von -Bros, circus on the
Lions Playground, ¡South
Spruce Street, on May 7.
There will be two shows at
4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets
are now on sale from the
members or Mrs. Read.
A Mothers’ Day program
will be presented at the next
meeting, May 6, and a Chi­nese
Auction will -be held.
Mrs. Violet Simon will be in
charge of refreshments.
Fire Co. Seeks
New Members
The Lititz Fire Company
this year has changed the
procedure for securing and
ren-eWing memberships in the
local company, Ammon Shel­ly,
Fir-e Chief, announced.
Quite a few members from
previous years wer-e under
the impression that envelopes
sent out were for new mem­bers
only. The company em­phasized
that the cards and
envelopes are not only for
securing new members, but
for renewing old member­ships.
Those who have not re­newed
memberships or ne'wily
joined up may do so hS con­tacting
the Lititz Fire ^Com­pany,
Center Square, Lititz.
A number of 'the churches
will hold confirmation rites
and reception of new mem­bers.
These include St. Paul’s
Lutheran, Moravian, Liti-tz E.
U.B. and others.
¡St. James Catholic will
have the traditional blessing
of the -palms and procession­al
on Sunday.
Holy We'ek services will be
held nightly in the Moravian
Church starting -Saturday,
April 10. There will be spe­cial
Holy Week services for
public school children in
P r o t e s t a n t and Catholic
churches.
In observance of Good Fri­day,
April 16, most stores
downtown will be closed dur­ing
- the three-hour period
from noon to 3 -p.m. During
these hours the Warwick As­sociation
of Chur-ches Will
hold a combined service in
the Lititz E.UjB. Church.
Banks will be closed1 all
day Good Friday, but will be
open S-aturday, April 17,
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.mi. The
Post Office will be open as
usual, because government of­fices
do not close on religi­ous
holidays.
Warwick Union School pu­pils
will have their Easter
Vacation from April 15
through 19. Linden Hall
girls start their Easter vaca­tion
Friday, April 9, (tomor­row,)
and return Tuesday,
April 20.
TO BUY TRUCK
The Penry-n Fire Co. is ac-,
cepting bids on a 1,000-glal-lon
-tank truck and th-e final
decision on the purchase of
the equipment will be made
at the regular meeting on
Tuesday, April 27.
Township Buys
Plot For Shed
The Warwick township su­pervisors,
at their meeting last
Friday, approved the purchase
of three acres of ground on
which to erect a new township
shed.
The plot is located on the
Clay Road northeast of the
Reading railroad tracks, and
south of the Newport Road.
It was purchased from Titus
Martin for $3000.
The shed is budgeted to
cost $15,000. It will replace the
present one at Binkley Bros.
Quarry, which has been hemm­ed
in by the quarry and is
not expandable. The new shed
will be larger in order to ac­commodate
the new gnow plow,
according to Isaac H. Stoner,
president of the supervisors.
been closed since the will was
written, the judge of Orphans
Court will decide where its
share is to go, trustees said.
The private bequests were
made as follows: Rev. Cloyd
Withers, Coatesville, a nephew,
$4000; Mr. and Mrs. Elma
Withers, nephew, $2000; Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Withers,
nephew, $6000; Erla and Harry
Wissler, niece, $6000; Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis Withers, cousin,
$4,000; Mr. and Mrs. George.
Withers, cousin, $3,000; Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Withers, cou­sins,
$3000; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Withers, cousin, $3000; Hannah
Withers, $300; Rosie Hertzler,
cousin, $2000; Mazie Layser,
cousin, $2000; Sadie Lentz, cou­sin,
$2000; Earl and Lorraine
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Boy Scouts 42
Plant 15 Trees
¡Sixteen Boy Scouts of
Troop 42 spent the Weekend
camping out at their camp
site and working for advance­ment.
They planted fifteen
small pin oak trees under the
supervision of George Beam-esderfer
as -part of their con­servation
project. Construc­tion
was begun for a new
bridge to replace one which
the spring rains had washed
away. It will be placed in a
new position. Charles Regem
nas taught the Sunday School
lesson on Sunday. The boys
were accompanied' by Scout-muster
Robert Herzer, As-ssitant
Joseph Rios, E-lwood
Em'merick, and Committee­man
Charles Aliment.
Lions Club
To Sponsor
Egg Hunt
The Lititz Lions Club will
sponsor the annual Easter
Egg Hunt on Saturday, April
17, at 4 p.m. on the Athletic
Field of Warwick High
School. The various age
groups will be located at the
following plates:
Ages 1, 2 and 3, circle in
front of High School;
Ages 4, '5 and 6, High
¡School baseball diamond;
Ages 7, 8 and 9, old Foot­ball
Field;
Ages 10, 11 and 12, area
south of High School.
It is planned to have ap­proximately
105 dozen col­ored
hard boiled eggs, along
with chocolate eggs and rab­bits.
There will be numerous
cash prizes awarded to the
thildren finding the lucky
eggs. The dash prizes will
range from 25 cents to $1.
The rain date for the egg
hunt will be Monday, April
19, at 4 p.m.
The ¡Club reminded the
parents that the children are
the participants, not the par­ents,
and asked them to let
¡the children hunt the eggs
-and candy. .
Lion President Elton Jones
has appointed George Male,
¡Robert Weaver and : Harold
Zander as co-chairman of the
¡Easter Egg Hunt.
Details of a proposed ordin­ance
establishing a curfew in
Lititz were released by Mayor
Arthur S. Griswold and Police
Chief George C. Hicks this
week.
Public opinion appears to
be greatly in favor of esta­blishing
a curfew, an unoffi­cial
survey showed. The “man
in the street,” when queried,
was “all for it,” for the most
part. Police Chief Hicks said
he had heard many favorable
comments on the proposal,
and has been asked to ad­dress
the Lititz PTA on the
subject.
The ordinance would be pat­terned
after the one in Man-heim
township which became
effective June 18, 1962. This
regulates the presence of min­ors
under the age of eighteen
years in public places and pri­vate
establishments between
certain hours, defines the dut­ies
and responsibilities of par­ents
and proprietors of esta­blishments,
and provides penal­ties
for violations. It also lists
certain exceptions to the cur­few.
“It defines “public place” as
any public street, highway,
road, playground, vacant lot,
public building or similar
place, and “establishment” as
any privately owned place . of
amusement or entertainment,
or place of business operated
for profit.
According to the model or­dinance,
curfew would be in
effect after 10 p.m. each even­ing
except Friday and Saturday
when it would be in effect
after 12 midnight until 6 a.m.
If adopted, it would make it
unlawful for any minor to re­main
in any of the places
above-mentioned unless accom­panied
by a parents or on an
errand or engaged in gainful
lawful employment, in which
case the youth must carry
written identification and evi­dence
of such employment. Par­ents
and operators of establish-
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Police Chief Urges
Safety In Driving
An appeal to motorists to
exercise caution in their driv­ing
now that (Spring has ar­rived
was issued by Police
Chief -George C. Hicks.
-He pointed out that With
the good weather, more chil­dren
are out playing, and
urged ¡that motorists keep ‘an
eye out for them and £6r
pedestrians. He urged them
especially to watch out for
children on bicycles.
Chief Hicks said he had
received a number of com­plaints
of children riding
their bikes the wrong way on
oneway streets, and empha­sized
that the same traffic
rules hold good for bicycle!
as for automobiles.
Peiffer Appointed Clerk
At Lititz Post Office
Lloyd J. Peiffer, 307 South post office, it was announced
$2,255 Damage Results
From 4-Car Accident
Spruce Street, Lititz, has been
appointed to a Career Position
of substitute clerk at the local
by Postmaster Richard C. Rad­er.
Peiffer assumes his new
post on Saturday.
Penffer is a four-year veteran
of the U. S. Air Force. He was
selected for this appointment
from the top of a list of Civil
Service eligibles. Most recently
he was employed as a teletype
i operator at Alcoa in Lancaster.
I A lifelong resident of the Lititz
1 area, Peiffer is married to the
former Lucille Roth. They are
the parents of four children
residing at home.
Other recent personnel chan­ges
listed by the postmaster in­clude
the assignment of C.
Howard Wagaman as the uni­formed
Window Clerk, Gary
Sipe has been changed from
substitute to Regular Clerk,
Samuel Hess has been reas­signed
from Sub. Clerk to Sub.
Carrier and Eugene Y. Beck­er
has been converted to a
Career Clerk. A vacancy still
to be filled is that of a Tem­porary
Indefinite Clerk-Carrier.
A four oar accident early
Tuesday morning on Bast
Main Street resulted in $2,-
255 total damages, borough
police reported.
Only one of the four cars
was moving and the other
three Were parked. There
were no injuries.
Borough Officer James
Fritz, who investigated, re­ported
that Dale L. Showers,
tWenty-two, 100 East Market
St., driving a 1995 sedan,
was beaded ¡west on- East
Main St., at 2:30 a.m., Tues­day,
when he struck a 1964
sedan parked in front of 63
E. Main St., owned by Doro­thy
Alice Kincaid, Bethle­hem,
who lives at 66 E. Main.
Her ear was damaged to the
extent o-f $1,600, Fritz said.
The impact turned the car
sidewise, pushed it up on the
sidewalk, and it in turn hit
a 1957 sedan owned1 by Betty
M. Stoy-anovitch, 63 E. Main
St., causing another $200 dam­age.
This car in its turn was
pushed into still another 1957
sedan which was only dam­aged
to the extent of $5, Of­ficer
Fritz said.
¡Showers’ car suffered $460
damage, Officer Fritz said.
He charged -Showers1 with
reckless driving and having
no operator’s license, before
Justice of the Peace Paul F.
D-iebm.
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REPORT BURGLARY
Officer Fritz discovered a
burglary and larceny at the
Dan Marks cafe on Kleine
Street at 2 a.m. Tuesday,
when he noticed the look had
been torn off. He notified the
owner who came down, and
determined that about $5 was
taken from the cash register,
because that was all that had
been left there at closing
time. The intruders possibly
stole a few bottles of beer, as
a broken bottle was found on
the floor, Fritz said.
Community
Calendar
April 8 — 5:30 P.M. ¡Senior
Citizens covered dish sup­per
at Rec Center.
6:30 P.M. Radio ¡Club at
Rec ¡Center.
8:00 PjM. JayCee meet­ing
at American Legion.
April 12 — 7:30 P.M. Odd
Fellows at I.O.O.F. Hall.
8:00 P.M. Senior Board
meeting at Re-c Center.
8:00 P.M. 4-H District
Leader meeting at Rec
Center.
April 13 — 6:00 P.M. Rotary
Club at -Rec Center.
7:30 P.M. Rotary Board
meeting at Rec Center.
April 1’5 — 6:30 P.iM. Radio
Club at Rec Center.
7:30 P.M. Stamp Club at
Roc Center.