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FURNISHINGS FOR MUELLER HOUSE: Mrs.
Henry Walter, leit, chairman of the House Furnishings
committee, and Mrs. Clair Rice, chairman of the
Museum committee for the Lititz Historical Commis­sion,
display a rare piece of homespun linen purchased
at a recent sale. They are seated on a handsome dower
chest loaned to the house by Mrs. R. K. Yotter of
Lititz.
Women’s committees of the
Lititz Historical Foundation are
busily at work making ready
for the public opening of the
Johannes Mueller house at 137-
139 East Main St., on June 10.
There will be a preyiew for
members on Saturday, June 5,
and one on Sunday, June 6,
for the directors of the Buch­anan
Foundation for the Pre­servation
of Wheatland who
have placed many items of
Lititz origin on loan.
Many antiques have been
presented to the Lititz Founda­tion
for the house, and many
others have been placed there
on loan.
These items are being ar­ranged
by the House furnish­ings
committee and the Mus­eum
committee. The log por­tion
on the west side of the
house is being used presently
as the museum.
The House furnishing com­mittee
includes Mrs. Henry
Walter, chairman; Mrs. Wil-
Bldg.Permits
$552,860 In
1st Quarter
Building permits with a to­tal
value of $69,560, of which
"'■61,500 is for new construc-don,
were issued by the bor­ough
during April, it was an­nounced
by Borough, Manager
George D. Steedle.
This compares with $80,025
for the same period last year.
However, the figure for 1965
to date is considerably high­er
than the first quarter last
year, [being $552,860 from
January 1 to April 30, 1965.
compared with $329,135 for
the same period in 1964.
Permits for new construc­tion
were issued as follows:
Sherman Walton, 549 Golden
St., new home, $15,500; Rob-
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Senior Class
Is Listed At
liam Miksch, Mrs. John Gar­ber,
Mrs. Robert Mearig, Mrs.
Paul McCloud, Mrs. Ellsworth
McMullen, Mrs. Lee Brenner,
Mrs. B. John Losensky, Mrs.
Frank Longenecker and Mrs.
Albert Ebbert.
The museum committee con­sists
of Mrs. Clair Rice, chair­man;
Mrs. Charles Wagaman,
Mrs. Owen Hershey, Miss Doro­thy
Habecker, Mrs. J. M. Leed,
Mrs. Harvey Bachman and
Norman Habecker.
Among the items in the
house is a dower chest on
loan, homespun linen purchas­ed
at a recent sale, a living
room table, the Lane bed and
quilt, trundle bed and cradle,
two beds bought at a sale, a
sawbuck kitchen table and
bench, ladder back chairs
which have been done over
with real rush seats; Stafford­shire
china on loan, a dough-tray
on loan and many items
from the Dr. Cameron E. Lane
estate, either on loan from
Wheatland, or purchased at a
sale.
In fact, the house is filling
up quite rapidly, and taking
on a lived-in look. Handsewn
curtains will go up this week,
and rubber matting has been
placed on the floors by the
committee to protect the hand­some
antique wide board floor­ing.
Starting June 10, the house
will be open to the public
from 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays and
Sundays; Saturdays and holi­days
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Guides will be present to as­sist
visitors.
MUSEUM PIECES: Mrs. Clair Rice, left, chair­man
of the museum committee, and Mrs. Charles
Wagaman, committee member, display an antique lan­tern
and bottle, respectively, from the Lane collection.
They are in the log portion of the Mueller house
at 137-39 E. Main St., which will be used as a
museum.
Withers’ Properties
To Be Sold At Auction Elwood Zug
Linden Hall
Forty-two girls are members
of the Senior Class which will
graduate from Linden Hall at
'he Commencement exercises,
Monday, June 7 at 10 a.m.,
in the Moravian Church They
represent three foreign coun­tries,
eight states and the Dis­trict
of Columbia.
They include Nili Alembik,
Austria; Julia Fanchon Als-paugh,
Washington D.C.: Vera
Au, Columbia, South Ameri­ca;
Kathryn Helene Bertolet,
Reading, Pa.; Betty Anne
Bradshaw, New Canaan, Conn.;
Barbara Ann Bruzgo, Summit
Hill, Pa.; Sally Oldham Conn,
Wilmington, Del.; Elizabeth
Anne Denne, Old Greenwich,
Conn.; Linda Elizabeth Dole,
Taunton, Mass.
Elizabeth Gerda Erickson,
Salisbury, Conn.; Diana Foure,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Susan Mar­garet
Hanson, Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia; Maiy Elizabeth Heden-berg,
Milton, Pa.; Ann Holds-worth
Hutchins, and Sharon
Holdsworth Hutchins, Mitchell-ville,
Md.; Nancy Ann Isaacs,
Milton, Del.; Judith Lucille
Jackson, Riverside, Conn.;
Margaret Ann Kawecki, Fleet-wood,
Pa.; Nancy Ellen Laux,
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Real estate an>d other' bf-fects
which belonged to the
late Daniel W. Withers Will
he sold at public sale Satur­day,
June 26, by the executors
of the estate, the Farmers
National Bank of Lititz.
Among the properties to be
offered is a well-known busi­ness
location, 11, 13 and 15
South Broad Street. At this
location A1 Bamberger con­ducted
for many years a hard­ware
store which was pur­chased'
by William Amer, who
also had a hardware store. H.
J. Pierson purchased the prop­erty
from the Amer estate,
and in 1939 Withers became
the owner, later converting it
into two stores and apart­ments.
Presently the stores
are occupied by J. B. Hess
Men’s Clothing Store, and J.
H. Gearhart’s Five and Ten.
Other properties that will
be sold are located at 15
North Locust Street, 304
South Broad Street, ' 122-124
South Cedar Street, and 413
South Broad Street, which
was the Withers’ resilence.
The following bank stocks
also will be sold: 376 shares
of Farmers National Bank of
Open House
At Coleman
Open House will be con­ducted
at the 'Coleman
Mansion and the Coleman
Memorial Chapel on route 501
one half mile north of the
route 322 intersection at
Brickerville, on Saturday,
June 5.
There will be guided tours
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. show­ing
the history and artifacts
of the ironmasters as early
as the 1750s when plate
stoves were cast at nearby
Elizabeth Furnace and where,
later, during the Revolution­ary
War, cannon balls and
grape shot were made for the
Continental Army. Here, too,
Henrich Wilhelm Stiegel con­ducted
his now famous glass­making
experiments. Some
of his glassware will be dis-
June 5th
Properties
played.
The tour of the grounds
will include the terraced
gardens with their ancient
boxwoods. The Coleman Me­morial
Chapel of miniature
cathedral architecture with
unique stained glass windows
was built as a memorial to
James Coleman, great grand­son
of Robert Coleman who
built the mansion.
All the proceeds of the
Open House will be directed
to the Chapel Improvement
Fund.
The origins of Coleman Me­morial
Chapel are interesting­ly
a part of the initial settling
of the northern area of Lan­caster
County by ironmasters
and their German immigrant
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Lititz; 54 shares of Conestoga
National Bank, Lancaster; 30
shares of Fulton National
Bank, Lancaster, and 30
shares of Manheim National
Bank, Manheim.
Among the items of per­sonal
property are Bavarian
china, Dresden china, numer­ous
pieces of Carnival glass,
hobnail glass, blown purple
art glass water set, consisting
of six tumblers and a pitcher;
two alphabet plates, vaseline
d:'shes, antique cups and
saucers. Chell china twelve-place
setting, Prussian berry
set, Magelica plate and pit­cher,
Bristol vases, copper
lustre cup, chalk dog, old
jewelry and a few old coins.
Some of the furniture includes
dry sink, cream cupboard,
hanging lamip, cherry four-leg
dropleaf table, blanket chests,
coverlets, old dolls in excel­lent
condition, old toys old
marbles, spelling blocks and
a school bell.
The sale will take place at
the former Withers’ home at
413 South Broad Street, Lit­itz,
with Elmer Murry as auc­tioneer.
School Menu
Monday
No School, Memorial Day
Holiday.
Tuesday
Grilled hot dogs, soup, car­rot
sticks, assorted fruit.
Wednesday
Beef barbecue, potato nug­gets,
applesauce, cookie.
Thursday
Chicken corn soup, peanut
butter & marshmallow sand­wich,
fruit jello.
** Friday
Fish sticks, mixed vege­tables,
mashed potatoes, pop-sicle.
Monday
Grilled steak sandwich, but­tered
peas,- relish, peaches.
Tuec-.Ty
Grilled hamfourg, corn, cel-ery/
p. butter, banana.
Wednesday
Sub sandwich, wax [beans,
'potato chips, popsicle.
;;*Last cafeteria day for
High .School.
Elwood Zug
Heads ABC
Elwood C. .Zug, 220 E. Mari­on
St., will be installed as
president of the American
Business Club of Lititz on
Wednesday evening, June 2, at
a banquet in Manheim.
The other officers to be in­stalled
include J. Donald RosS,
first vice president; Bruce B.
Wike, second vice president;
Douglas Jarnagin, secretary;
Paul R. Diehm, "treasurer;
John R. Marks, sergeant at
arms; Ray Lowry and Max
Hoffman, directors.
The guest of honor, who will
install the officers, will be Le­roy
Buckwalter, the Ambuc’s
Regional director. Wives of
members also will be present.
List Donations
To Flower Fund
Voluntary contributions to
the “Flowers ter the Foun­tain”
fund for 1965 were an­nounced
this week. They
ranged from $1 to $10.
Geraniums were especially
requested, and could not have
been planted without the do­nations
which made it pos­sible.
¡Mrs. D. Curtis Amidon
was in charge of the planting
which was done by the local
Girl Scouts.
The committee requested
that children riding their
bicycles along Main Street
be very careful that they do
not ride over the small
square planting areas under
the trees, in which flowers
have been planted.
The contributions were giv­en
by: Mrs. Thomas Erb, Jr.,
Mrs. J. M. Leed, Mrs. Mar­garet
Simith, Mrs. W. S. Walls,
Mrs. Guy Snyder, Mrs. Willy
DePerrot, Robert Heagy, Mrs.
Elsie Rathkey, Miss Dorothy
Habecker, Miss Mary Summy,
Edna and Louise Cox, “Red”
Eichelfoerger, Mr. Kendig, V.
F.W. Auxiliary, Conestoga
National Bank, Mrs. August
Fleckenstein, Miss Edna Mc­Intyre,
Lititz Fanners Nation­al
Bank, R. K. Yotter, Mrs.
Frank Ford, Mrs. Ruth Wolf,
Mrs. Paul IT. Bombergev,.
Council & Police Argue
Overtime Salary Issue
NEW PAVILION GOES UP: Members of the Jaycees and the Lititz Springs
Pool Association are fast at work building a new food pavilion with their own
hands. Started May 16, the structure is expected to be completed by Saturday,
May 2d, wnen the pool opens. Working on the building in picture above are Fred
Rover, (P.A.), Karl Horst, (J.C.), John Troutman, (P.A.), Don Wier, (P.A.) and
Don McGarvey (both P.A. and J.C.,) chairman of the pavilion committee.
Memorial Day Services
In Lititz, Rothsville
J. Cs. Build
Pavilion At
Lititz Pool
The Lititz Jaycees, demon­strating
their versatility in
action, have turned1 to car­pentry
and allied building
skills to construct a new pa­vilion
at the Lititz Springs
pool.
The structure, 20 by 40
feet in dimensions, has been
taking shape rapidly since
the cement for the floor was
poured on May 16. The build­ing
is expected to be ready
for use when the pool opens
on Saturday, May 29, and will
be dedicated at 3 i.m. The
Jaycees will man a food
stand under its bright new
white roof.
The American Legion Post
No. 56 and the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 1463 will
conduct Memorial Day Serv­ices
in Lititz and Rothsville
on Monday, May 31, including
parades and programs.
Rev. Raymond L. Fetter,
pastor of Christ Lutheran
Church, Elizabethtown, will
deliver the annual Memorial
Day address in the Lititz Mor­avian
Cemetery at 11 a.m.,
Monday. Rev. Fetter is a well-known
minister and influen­tial
speaker.
Children will decorate
graves of veterans with flow­ers.
Rev. Roy L. Yund, re­tired
minister and Army
chaplain, Lititz, will give the
invocation. Nancy Singer will
present Lincoln’s Gettysburg
Addres's. Albert S. Elhbert
will lead the audience in sing­ing
“America” and the Na­tional
Anthem, accompanied
by the Warwick High School
Band and the Lititz Commun­ity
Band. Rev. Elmer N.
Young, pastor of the Holiness
Christian Church, Lititz, will
pronounce the benediction.
' Prior to the Memorial Day
Service a parade will form
at 10:30 a.m. on Spruce St.,
proceed at 10:45 a.m. east on
West Main St. to the Moravian
Cemetery. Organizations par­ticipating
in the parade should
report at the starting point
promptly at the time men­tioned.
In Rothsville, the parade
will form at Wentl'img Road
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Want Overtime
Pay On Saturday
While In School
An argument for overtime
pay for police while attend­ing
the State Police School
at Hershey erupted at Bor­ough
Council meeting Tues­day
night.
Officer James Fritz is pres­ently
attending the school
five days a week. On Satur­days
he works a regular eight
hour shift in the borough
Fritz and another policeman,
LeRoy Emmerich, due to at­tend
the school next year,
evidently understood they
would be paid Overtime for
the Saturday shift while at­tending
school.
Council stated that an agree­ment
was made in January
that no overtime would be
paid for this work.
The time involved is 8
weeks at 8 hours a Saturday
for a total of 64 hours at
$2.90 per hour, the overtime
rate.
Patrolman Emmerich, who
attended the meeting, was
quite emphatic that he artd
Fritz definitely understood
that the Saturday shift would
be at the overtime rate. He
stated that this was the ease
in industry and among other
police forces.
He said also that regardless
of what the previous agree­ment
had been, council could
change it. He stated, for in­stance,
council had original­ly
promised them a raise af­ter
six months, and this was
changed so they did not re­ceive
a raise.
Police Chief Hicks stated
he thought Fritz understood
that he would not be paid
overtime, but that this was
not fair because officers at­tending
the school Work frdffl
6 a.m. to 10 p.m., five days
a week and are away from
their families, then must work
an 8 hour Saturday shift,
Mayor Arthur Griswold,
who originally suggested that
the overtime rate be paid,
said he was willing to pay
Fritz’s overtime out of the
The finances for the proj­ect
are being provided by the
Jaycees, and manpower is a
joint effort of the Jaycees
and the Lititz Springs P. As­sociation,
(know s “P.A.”
for short.)
John Troutman, (P.A.), lo­cal
contractor and builder,
donated his time to the proj­ect,
and Harold Keppley, ce­ment
contractor, took care of
the cement, part of the pa­vilion.
Don McGarvey, who repre­sents
both the Jaycees and
the P.A., is chairman for the
project, and others assisting
include Karl Horst and Bill
Dussinger of the Jaycees;
Fred Royer and Don Wier of
the P.A.
The Jaycees will serve bar­becues,
baked beans, potato
salad, macaroni salad, pepper
ca/blbage, watermelon, cup
cakes and cold soft drinks.
Boro's Balance
Is $14,420.98
The borough ended the
month of April with a bal­ance
of $14,420.98, according
to the monthly reports of
Borough Manager George D.
Steedle.
Receipts during the month
were $38,321.99, of which $26,-
131.22 was from real estate
taxes and $11,280 from per
capita taxes. The remainder
was from1 other sources. Ex­penditures
were $9,016.68, of
which $2,441.83 was for gen­eral
government; $2,299.14
for protection to persons and
property; $3,990.01 for high­ways;
$262.40 for health and
sanitation, and $23.30 for mis­cellaneous.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
The summer garbage sche­dule
will go into effect on June
1 and continue through Sept­ember
28, it was announced
by Borough Manager George
D. Steedle.
Garbage will be collected in
the borough each Tuesday
and Friday, both sides of the
railroad.
200 Budding Fishermen
Take Part In “Fish Day”
Over 200 children partici­pated
in the Lititz Sportsmen’s
“Kids’ Fish Day” Sunday at
the Lebanon Pumping Station,
while more than 200 adults
viewed the proceedings.
More than 300 brook, brown
and rainbow trout ranging
from seven to 19 inches were
dumped Saturday evening to
give the day an added attrac­tion
for the youngsters.
Sixteen of the fish were
tagged with $1 gifts and one
19-inch brown trout carried a
$5 tag.
The Sportsmen also took
care of “Pop” by stocking over
250 trout in the area from the
Red Bridge to the dam. This
area was open to adults of all
ages.
The fish cooperated with the
weather to make it a bang-up
day. Ten of the tagged fish
were caught and one dollar was
awarded to each of the follow­ing
youngsters: Sherry Biemes-derfer,
Denver; Lloyd Biemes-derfer,
Lititz; Sandra Miller,
Manheim RD 3; Tom Weaver,
Lititz RD 1; Jeff Perrini, Lit­itz;
Gary Shelly, Manheim RD
1; Sandra Royer, Lititz; Jeff
Weaver, Lititz RD 3; Joannie
Stoner, Manheim; Jacklynn
Young, Manheim R3.
Corn, salmon eggs, minnows,
bread and worms plus an as­sortment
of sinkers and bobb­ers
of all descriptions were
tossed at the unsuspecting fish.
Robert Buch, president of
the association reported good
s p o r t s me n s h i p prevailed
through the whole project.
“Saturday evening,” he said,
“when we stocked the fish,
there were a dozen or more
men fishing the dam. Every
one of them packed up his rod
and left when we told them
about the fish day for kids.”
It was estimated that more
than half of the stocked fish
were caught by the youngs­ters.
However, the $5 fish was
not hooked by one of the chil­dren,
but was caught .after
Fish Day was over by an adult.
Little Jan Graybill, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Graybill, N e w m a nstown
R. D. 1 . . . caught the
first fish. Jan hooked and
landed this nice 13 l/z inch
rainbow, While Doug Roy­er,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Royer, Front St., Lit­itz,
caught the largest fish
of the day, a 17/z inch
brown trout.
salary he receives as mayor.
Council entered into a dis­cussion
as to whether an
agreement should be changed
after originally made and as
to the statement of policy for
the police force, which states
overtime may be paid while
attending school.
The discussion became
somewhat antagonistic and
Councilman Wendell Hower
| suggested the whole matter
be tabled until council could
| discuss it further.
| Council discussed the de­linquent
juvenile guidance
'Program that had been pro­posed
in lieu of a curfew.
President Amidon appointed
Councilmen Reese and Demmj
as a committee to study and
recommend what program is
desirable.
Although the curfew it­self
was listed on the agen­da,
nothing was said direct-
: ly concerning it.
The Record-Express, Wed­nesday,
asked Borough Man­ager
George Steedle if coun­cil
had received any letters
concerning the curfew. He
confirmed that the Ameri­can
Business Club, Lions,
Lititz P.T.A., Jaycees, Ro­tary
and the Warwick Union
School Board had all writ­ten
to council approving of
the curfew. He said each
council member had received
a copy of the letters, but did
not know why the letters
were not read or acknowl-
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Community
Calendar
May 27 — 6:30 P.M. — Radio
Club at Rec Center.
8:00 P.M. — Neighborhood
Scout meeting at Rec Cen­ter.
8.00 P.M. — JayCee meet­ing
at American Legion.
June 1 — 6:00 P.M. — Rotary
Club at Sutter Hotel.
June 3 —6:30 P.M. — Rafflo
Club at Rec Center.
7:30 P.M. — Fire Co. Aux­iliary
meeting at Fire
House.