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(Consolidated with The Z,ltlts Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, August 26, 1965 7 cents a Copy; $3.00 per year by mall
within Lancaster County; $4.00 elsewhere 14 Pages No. 20
Rothsville Groups
Oppose Closing P. O.
Controversy has arisen In
Rothsville over the govern­ment’s
proposal to replace the
post office there with a sub­station
of the Lititz Post Of­fice.
Governmental Postal officials
Say the move is being done
to give better service to the
Rothsville patrons, as well as
for an economy move. How-
'fr, residents of the town,
u-d toy Raymond C. Groff,
whose address is Lititz R4,
say they will get up a petition
to keep their post office, and
will write to their Congress­men.
The Warwick Lions Club
Tuesday night passed a resolu­tion
opposing the dosing of
the Post Office.
However, Donald Stevens,
Reading, postal officer for a
four county area which in­cludes
Lancaster, said in, a
telephone interview yesterday
that the move is intended to
S. J. Palkovic
MSC Awards
MA Degrees
(Stephen J. Palkovic, 627 Kis­sel
Hill Rd., is one of nine­teen
county residents who
will be granted Master of Ed­ucation
degrees by Millers-ville
State College tomorrow.
He will receiVe his Master’s
in Guidance. Presently he is
mathematics teacher at Man-heim
Township High School,
where he is also coaching
football and golf. He hopes
to be a guidance counselor in
•‘■'e future.
.Palkovic received his B.S.
degree from Millersville in
1951, and taught at Lebanon,
his home town, from 1951 to
1954, when he moved to Lititz
and began teaching at Man-heim
township.
He is active in local civic
affairs and is manager of the
Lititz Springs Community
Swimming pool.
Others from this area who
will receive Master’s degrees
are Mary B. Clark, Lititz Rl;
Richard A. Smith and Ralph
E. Smith, Lititz, all in elemen­tary
education, and Richard
L. Mearig, Lititz, M.A. in so­cial
studies.
Lititz residents who will re­ceive
Bachelor’s degrees are
Hazel A. Balmer, Lititz R2,
and Mary Ann Felger, 121
Liberty St.
Two Teen-agers
Still Missing
No dues have been uncov­ered
thus far in the case of
two Lititz teen-agers who dis­appeared
more than a week
ago and were being sought by
Manheim Township police.
They are Elvin Landis, sev­enteen,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Chester M. Landis, Lititz R3,
who Was reported to he ac­companied
by Linda Burkey,
fifteen, Lititz Rl, a Warwick
High School student. Manheim
township police said Wednes­day
that teletypes had been
sent out to Ne'w Jersey and
other areas without results.
Landis, a Manheim Town­ship
High School student, left
home August 13 in a 19(tt
Improve the service. One of
these would be foot carrier
service to front doors of
Rothsville homes, making it
unnecessary for patrons to
have to go to the Post Office
for their mail, as they do now.
There also would be window
service for postage stamps,
parcels, etc., on a week-day
basis from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ilf patrons so desire they can,
still maintain Post Office box­es,
where they can get their
mail throughout the day, as at
the present time, Stevens said.
There will be deliveries of
mail from Lititz twice a day.
Postal officials said that
some time ago a survey was
taken for the purpose of de­termining
if the Post Office
should be discontinued or not,
and this showed that if it
were closed, the Post Office
could give far better service
at less cost, Stevens said.
Under the proposed plan,
the government would con­tract
with a Rothsville busi­ness
man or individual to con­duct
the postal service at his
place of business or home.
The little Post Office would
toe closed, and Postmaster
Chester Shirk would be given
another position in the Post
Office department, it wias said.
The neiw installation would
have the name “Rothsville
Branch of the Lititz Post Of­fice.”
Residents of the area
who presently receive their
mail through a Lititz R. D.
number would still continue
to do so.
Bids have been asked for
contracts to operate the sub­station,
but no action has
been taken yet, as far as is
known.
Groff said yesterday he will
get up a. petition for every­body
in the Rothsville area
to sign, and will also ask the
people to write to their Con­gressmen.
Senators Hugh Scott
and Joseph Clark, and Repre­sentative
Paul B. Hague.
“These fellows in Washing­ton
are always getting more
money, but try to take away
from smialler towns,” Groff
said. “They promised Chester
Shirk another job, but whether
he gets one and where is
another question.”
Rothsville residents were
quoted as fearing the town
would lose its “identity” if
the Post Office were to be
closed; Postal officials said it
would be called “the Roths­ville
Branch.”
Reports Due On Sewer
Situation At Council
27 New Teachers In
Warwick District
Two Hearings
Also Scheduled
KINGS AND QUEENS were chosen 'and crowned at the local Playgrounds
during the final sessions last week. Above is the “royalty” at the Lititz Springs
Park. Front row, left to right, King Ray Kincaid and Queen Sandy Kreider;
back row, left to right, King Ross Groff, Queens Sharon Grimshaw and Carol
Snayely, and King Mike Kreider.
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ROYALTY FROM Rothsville, Brunnerville and Lions Tot Lot: front row,
left to right, Queen Malanie Gouse, Kings Daniel Gingrich and. Dennis Bender and
Queen Barbara Gingrich; back row, left to right, Queen Linda Roether, King Mike
Adams, Queen Sharon Dagen and King Jeff Miller.
Playgrounds Name Kings And Queens
As 1965 Season Comes To A Close
Pupils of the Warwick Un­ion
District, when they replort
back to school on Wednesday,
Sept. 8, will be greeted by
27 new teachers, including one
transfer and one substitute,
it was announced by Super­vising
Principal G. Merlin
S'paid.
There are also several new
courses and other curricula
changes. In the seventh grade,
a self-contained classroom is
being started for pupils with
difficulties in reading, history
and geography, with the aim
of helping pupils to go into
regular classrooms later.
New courses include Ad­vanced
Biology, 12th Grade;
Political Science, 12th Grade;
Journalism, 11th Grade.
All foreign languages now
will start in the 9th grades
for a four year sequence, in­stead
of the tenth grade for
three years. These include
Russian, Spanish and French.
All-Time High
New estimates of enrollment
now place it at a total of 3.230,
highest in history, of whom
1,244 are in the high school,
and 1,986 in the elementary
schools. A breakdown of these
show 972 at Lititz elementary,
including the two rooms at
Trinity E.C. Church; 343 at
John Beck School, Brunner­ville;
239 at Rothsville, and
432 in the 13 rooms at St.
Paul’s Lutheran Education
building.
A seven classroom addition
is underway at the John Beck
School which will be com­pleted
in September 1966, in
an attempt to relieve the
classroom shortage in the dis­trict.
Because of the construc­tion,
pupils at John Beck are
asked to carry their lunches
to school the first two weeks.
The kitchen is being enlarg­ed,
and there is some delay
Nursery School
Enrollment Open
Registration is still open
for the Wednesday and Fri­day
morning, as well as Wed­nesday
and Friday afternoon
classes at the Recreation Cen­ter
Nursery School.
Mrs. Lois Ross and Mrs.
Rosann Lowry will again in­struct
these classes beginning
in September. .
The rate. is $18 a semester
and this is due the first day
of each semester, or $36 for
the year.
Classes are held from 9 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.. and 1 p.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Three hundred and seventy
children from Rothsville, Brun-nerville
and Lititz enjoyed a
“mountain of food” and an
“ocean of Soft drinks” at the
annual Summer Playground
Picnic, Thursday in the
Springs Park Pavilion.
'The day also included a two
hour free Swim and a variety
of games and contests. All of
the food used at the picnic
was donlated by local mer­chants.
Last week’s program includ­ed
the crowning of Kings and
Queens at the various play­grounds.
This was the final
week of the season.
Winners for the week were
as follow's:
Rothsville
Rothsville’s King and Queen
of Playground were — Queen,
Linda Wertsch T o “Reign”
Over Industrial Exhibit
Melanie Gouse; King, Mike
Adams, in the 5, 6 and 7 age
group; Queen, Barbara Ging­rich;
King, Daniel Gingrich,
in the 8 and 9 age group, and
in the 10 and over group,
Queen, Linda Roether, and
King, Dennis Bender.
Other c o n t e s t winners
throughout the week are as
follows: Checker tournament
winner, Earl Wilkins; Doll
Show winners, biggest doll,
Ginger Smith; smallest, Linda
Roether; best dressed, Louise
Hilton; youngest looking, Gin-bara
Balmer, 1,000 post marks;
2, Debbie Laser, china col­lection,
and 3, William Zell
monster collection.
Lititz Springs Park
The Kings and Queens of
the Lititz Playground were as
follows: Queen, Sandy Kreider;
King, Raymond Kingcaid, 5, 6,
7 age group; Queen, Sharon
Grimshaw; King, Ross Groff,
8 and 9 age group; 10 and
over, Queen, Carol Suavely;
King, Mike Kreider.
Winners of the Nok-Hockey
in getting materials for its
completion, Supervising Prin­cipal
Spaid said.
The new teachers, many of
whom will be embarking on
their Careers for the first time
this fall, are as follows:
High (School
Business Education, Miss
Carol Schwartz, and Aristot-eles
Theros, both of Lancas­ter.
Miss Schwartz, a gradu­ate
of the University of Mi­ami,
Coral Gables, Ella.,
taught one year at Columbia
Taylor School, Philadelphia.
Theros, a graduate of Frank­lin
and Marshall college, Tem­ple,
Elizabethtown, and Mil­lersville
State .College, will be
teaching for the first time.
Physics and chemistry: Na-
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Plan Barbecue
In Springs Park
ger Stnith; prettiest, Stephanie ! tournament in the 5, 6, and 7
Miss Linda Dee Wertsch has
been named “Miss Industrial
Exhibition” by the Lititz Jay-cees
to preside over their In­dustrial
Exhibition to be held
in the Lititz Recreation Cen­ter,
September 9 through 11.
Miss Wertsch, twenty-one, is
the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
C. L. Wertsch, 453 S. Broad
St., Lititz. She is a graduate
of Warwick High School, class
of 1962, and is employed as a
receptionist at Hershey and
Gibbel. She hopes to major in
psychology at the Night School
of Franklin and Marshall Col­lege
this fall. A member of
the Lancaster Venture Club.
-two -o® d r-' s eoa n twit rèîw m i e 'ïffti
and- light - blue bottom, - and
was believed to have taken
Linda with him.
CANCEL PLAY
The play “Towards Zero,”
sponsored by Lancaster Chap­ter
Order of Demolay, has
been cancelled for Friday and
Saturday, August 27 and 28 at
Manheim Central High School,
because of illness, it was an­nounced
Tuesday.
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ing . and ! horseback r iding.
The show will be similar
to the first exhibition held in
1962, when the work of local
industries was attractively dis­played.
To date, 12 industries have
notified the chairman Robert
C. Meek, of their intention to
exhibit. One of these is Lam-bert-
Hudnut, which will have
a slide projector tour of the
plant, showing the employes
at work.
Gouse, and the oldest, Linda
Roether.
Hobby Show winners, most
unusual, Ginger Smith, Bar­bara
Gingrich and Lynwood
Wealand; largest, Stephanie
Gouse and Melanie Gouse;
best foreign, Linda Roether
and Scott Weise; best organi­zation,
Lucinda Weise and
Steve Carson; most valuable,
Linda Roether and Daniel
Gingrich.
Stuffed Animal winners, big­gest,
Ginger Smith, Debbie
Lutz, and Stanley Sammet;
smallest, Lucinda Weise, John
Jordan, and Joe Zekany; most
unusual, Linda Roether, and
Randy Levan; funniest, Rod­ney
Carvell and Curt Gahring;
most colorful, Dennis Bender,
Melanie Gouse, and Judy Sam-met;
oldest, Kathy Helt and
Dennis Zekany; cleanest, San­dra
Shreiner and Timmy Zek­any.
atge group were as follows: 1
Sandy Kreider; 2, Archie Shel­ly;
3, Brett Rearich; 8, 9 Four
Square Tournament, 1, Sharon
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The Lititz Springs Park
Trustees announced Tuesday
the annual chicken barbecue
for park funds will be held
Saturday, Sept. 4. Lunch may
be brought or bought toy pa­trons.
The trustees announced their
balance on band is $3,691.97.
Receipts for the past month
were $2,008. Bills were paid
amounting to $724.04.
HOCKEY PRACTICE
'Mrs. Johanne Smith, physi­cal
education teacher, an­nounced
that hockey practice
for all High School girls who
are interested will begin at
9 a.m. Monday, August 30, at
the school. The girls are
asked to report with $4 in­surance
money.
Rachel Coldren
Miss Coldren
Heads Drive
For Arthritis
Miss Rachel Coldren, 45 E.
Second Ave., Lititz, has been
named Lititz chairman again
this year for the Arthritis
Foundation Drive which starts
in September. She was ap­pointed
toy the Lancaster
County Committee of the Cen­tral
Pennsylvania Chapter of
the Foundation.
She was graduated from
Warwick High School, in 1940,
and at present is attending
Mi'llersville State College,
where she expects to gradu­ate
in 1966.
'In the meantime, she Was
afflicted With arthritis, and for
eight months was un’able to
Walk. After her recovery, she
took care of her mother who
had become ill, and after the
latter died, Miss Coldren de­cided
to domplete her educa­tion,
and entered Millersville.
The Arthritis Foundation
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'Borough Council is expected
to discuss the seWage disposal
situation in Lititz, at its meet­ing
Tuesday, August 31, pro­vided
they receive a new re­port
from engineers for the
Morgan Paper Company on
changes made in the com­pany’s
system which reduce
the amount of waste.
George D. Steedle, borough
manager, Said that presently
the plant is operating satis­factorily
as far as the popula­tion
ratio is concerned—need­ing
only about 50 per cent of
the capacity which has been
set at a figure of 9,800 popu­lation.
However, although
quantity-wise the system is in
good shape, it is trying to han­dle
more solids than borough
officials would like to see,
Steedle said. There has been
talk of enlarging the disposal
plant, but no action has been
taken.
There will be a discussion
concerning the rezoning of the
property at Water, Cedar and
Leaman Streets to “general
business,” and a hearing will
be held for those who wish to
express an opinion. There also
will be a hearing concerning
the removal of the proposed
W. Market St. from the bor­ough
plan. This involves prop­erties
owned by St. Luke’s
U.C.C. Church, Mrs. D. M.
Graybill and Mrs. Samuel Nuss
There will be further dis­cussion
concerning the pro­posed
youth guidance and par­ental
responsibility program
which is expected to take the
place of a curfew. The so­licitor
is drawing up changes
in the ordinances dealing
with conduct and safety, and
tightening up on other laws
which concern juveniles vio­lating
the laws.
Further discussion of a junk­yard
ordinance is scheduled
to take place, according to
Borbugh Manager Steedle Ac­tion
hinges on the hairline
definition of “junkyard.”
•Council plans to pass an or­dinance
changing the namés
of alleys with 16 foot right­way
or greater from “Alleys,”
to “Lanes.”
A report will be given of
street and alley resurfacing,
which got underway this week.
Steedle will present a re­port
on North Broad Street,
with bills from the Contractor
J. D. Eckman and Mahlon
Young, who is putting in the
sidewalks. All sidewalks have
not yet been completed, but
those which already have been
done at the expense of the
property owners, are contrib­utory
to the improved appear­ance
of the street, council
feels.
Council is expected to ap­prove
a directional sign at
the square for the General
Sutter Hotel parking lot.
Brunnerville
Cleona Girl Gets ABC Scholarship
Linda Wertsch
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.
Assisting Meek on the com­mittee
are Thomas Harten-stine,
Charles York, Karl
Horst, Dale Frantz, James Fer­ini,
William Miller and James
Whitehead.
King and Queen of the
Brunnerville playground were:
Queen, Cynthia Sonnen; King,
Glenn Laser.
Hobby Show winners were
as t follows: In the 5, 6, 7 age
groupy 17"Anita-' Balmer, salt
and: pepper shakers; - 2. Kathy
Eckert, china horses; 8 and 9
age group, 1, Darrell Sonnen,
U.S.'S. Oregon battleship; 10
and over age group. 1, Bar-
The Rec Center office and
game room hours until Sept­ember
3rd are as follows:
Monday - 1 to 4 p.m.; Tues­day
thru Friday - 9 a.m. to
12 noon, and 1 to 4 p.m.
Rothsville EUB
In Charge Of
Park Services
The Lititz American Busi­ness
Club, at its family picnic
last week in Lititz Springs
Park, made presentation of a
$600 scholarship to Miss Mari­lyn
Bowman, of Cleona. I The sermon will be deliv-
The presentation was made ered by the Rev. Robert
The services in Lititz Springs
Park Sunday, August 29, at
7 p.m., will be conducted by
Salem ¡E.U.B. 'Church of Roths­ville.
in behalf of the National As­sociation
as its project fi­nanced
by national, not local,
funds. The scholarships are
for physical therapists.
Elwood Zug, president of
the Lititz club, presented the
scholarship to Miss Bowman,
which will go toward the tui­tion
for her senior year at
Thiel College, Greenville, Pa.
She intends to become a phy­sical
therapist.
Smothers, pastor.
The choir, under the direc­tion
of Mrs. Wilbur Hoffcr,
will sing, “The Lord Is My
Shepherd” iby Carl Mueller.
The male quartet will sing
“Just a Whispered Prayer.”
In case of rain the service
will 'be held in the Lititz
E.U.B. Church.
Since 1955. the National As­sociation
has granted 600
scholarships with a total val-are
made only to juniors and
seniors - in Collège. They are
made possible by gifts of in­dividuals
and clubs. Seventy-one
scholarships have been
granted in 1965 with a total
value of $29,000.
Community
Miss Bowman’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Bowman, and
_ _ _ her brother, Timothy, were
RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP: Elwood Zug, presi- guests at the picnic, which
dent of the American Business Club of Lititz, presents was attended by 181 persons.
$600 scholarship to Miss Marilyn Bowman of Cleona, These included members,
(in behalf of the National organization. wives and children.
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August’26 — 6:30 P.M. Radio
Club at the Center.
— 8:30 P.M., Jaycees
meeting, American Legion
Home.
August 30 — 9:00 A.M., Girls’
hockey practice, High
School.
August 31 — 6:00 P.M. Rotary
at the Sutter.
— Tuesday Night Dance—
“The Respectables.”