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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, December 29, 1965 7 c en ts a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r by mall
w ith in L an c a s te r County; $4.00 elsewhere 14 Pages — No. 38
Record-Express Reviews
Second Half Of 1965
Last week the Record Express presented the
first half of “The Story of 1965,” listing top news
stories for each week.
The year was highlighted by politics and school
affairs, most of them culminating in the fall elections
and subsequent events.
The summary from June through December
follows:
J u ly 1 — F i r e destroyed
five buildings on th e farm of
Kay M. Longenecker, Lititz
R2, causing d ama g e of $65,-
000, the la rg e s t fire damage
since the Moravian Church
bu rn ed in 1957.
Ju ly 8 — ' th e contractor
du g up the temp o r a ry ramp
leading to Springs Pa rk a f ­te
r th e celebration was post­poned
the previous Saturday,
th u s ren d e r in g th e Square
and first block of North
Broad Street impassable.
Ju ly 15 — Ground b re ak­in
g ceremonies were planned
for Sunday a f ternoon, July
18, for two home s ifor the
Aged, one 'by the E.U.'B.
Church on th e Pier son prop-e
ty, and th e oth e r by the
L u th e r a n s on E a s t Main iSt.
Ju ly 2'2 — The School
Boa rd again leased four teen
rooms in two church build­ings
for e lementa ry school
classrooms. The State S a n i­ta
t io n Board began its in ­spection
here.
Ju ly 29 — Ba rb a ra Her-shey,
fifteen, d a u g h te r of Mr.
and Mrs. E l wood Hershey of
Lititz R2, was named 196<5
County 4-H Senior Queen.
Aug. 5 — The value of
building p e rmit s d ur ing Ju ly
b i t a high for th e ye a r of
$1,894,160, including as i t did
p e rmits for th e construction
of two homes for the aged,
plus oth e r properties. No r th
Broad St. was finally opened.
Aug. 12 — The Lititz VFW
Po s t Home was robbed and
the American Legion Home
suffered a n o th e r fire, th e
th i rd in less th a n two weeks.
Aug. 19 — Elizabeth town ­ship
rep o r ted 71 violators b e ­tween
6 and midnight the
p revious S a tu rd ay a t th e In-
Planners Table
Doster Request
The Lititz P lan n in g Com­mission,
a t its meeting la s t
week, received a petition
from Pau l Doster thro u g h
his a tto rn ey , J'ohn Gibbet,
a sk in g the b o ro u g h to remove
p or t ions of th e s t re e ts from
th e borough plan.
The se concern small sec­tions
of West Third Street
and S o u th Wa ln u t Street.
The commission sp en t a long
time considering it, as the
proposal has some fa r - re a ch­ing
effects as fa r as s treets
a re concerned, they said, and
then tabled it for future
s tu d y until J a n u a r y 18. The
a re a is a portion of the land
the School d is tr ic t has an op­tion
on as a possible site for
a new school building.
The Com'mission approved
plans of Robe rt Balmer to
proceed with the cons truc­tion
of extens ions of Balmer
Road, Rome Road an d Blue
Bird Road th a t a re on his
property. The proposal also
mu s t be approved by Borough
Council.
School Menu
MONDAY
Grilled hot dog, potato
nuggets , cele ry/p. butter, a s ­sor
ted fruit, roll and butter,
milk.
TUESDAY
Baked ham, candied sweet
potatoes, green beans, dough­nut,
bread and bu tte r , milk.
WEDNESDAY
Meat loaf, ma sh ed p o ta ­toes
, p eas , jello, bread and
b u t t e r , milk.
THURSDAY
Oven f r ie d chicken, b u t ­te
r e d p o ta to e s , re lish cup,
peaches , bread and butter,
milk.
FRIDAY
Pizza o r fish, corn, cheese
wedge, applesauce, b re a d and
b u t te r , milk.
tersoction of Routes 322 and
501. Hiring of a new police
officer revealed th e re is more
law violation th a n h ad been
thought.
Aug. 26 — Twenty-seven
new te a che r s will s t a r t wort(
a t th e Warwick Union Schools
when they open Wednesday,
Sept. 8.
Sept. 2 — Thre e new pr in ­cipals
were named for the
e lemen ta ry schools: Robert
He ron fo r Lititz, George Re-metz
for Jo h n Beck, and J e r ­ry
iShupp for Rothsville and
th e L u th e r a n Church classes.
Sept. 9 — The Public L i ­b
ra ry made re ady to open on
Sept, 14 a f te r having been
closed for eight months.
Sept. 16 — Daniel Heilman
died a t the wheel of a tru ck
he was d r iv in g in the Square.
The vehicle h i t the fountain,
causing damage. Death was
Caused by a h e a r t atta ck,
physicians said.
¡Sept. 23 — The accident
r a te in Lititz is ru n n in g way
ah e ad of 19 64, it was r e p o r t ­ed
by Police Chief George
Hicks, who u rged e x tr a cau­tion.
There were more th an
70 accidents th u s far, com­pared
with 9 7 d u r in g the en­t
i re year of 19 6 4.
Sept. 30 — Borough Coun­cil
cancelled the proposed wa ­te
r conservation proje c t u n ­der
Pro je c t 70, an d will seek
a new site for a wa te r well
in th e borough which also
could be used for r e c r e a tio n ­al
purposes.
Get. 7 — The Rev. Dr. Ea r l
S. Rudisill, pa s to r o" Salem
L u th e r a n Church, Kissel Hifi,
observed the '5 0 th an n iv e r ­sary
of his ordination.
Oict. 14 — Warwick Union
te a che r s asked the Board to
re s to r e me r it pay raises to
the same level as la s t year.
They were cut in ha lf this
year.
Oct. 21 — The new g a r ­bage
collector s t a r t e d and
quit th e same day — “ too
much g a rb ag e .”
Oct. 28 -— Bids were open­ed
for the new Kissel Hill
School, th e a p p a re n t low bids
coming to a tota l of $9 70,-
244. Borough Council made a
new ag re eme n t with .the g a r ­bage
collector, ra is ing his pay.
Nov. 4 — Republicans made
a, clean sweep of borough and
township offices, a lth o u g h
Jo h n A. Wenger, Republican
incumbent school director , de­feated
a sp i ra n t Alb e r t S. Eb-bert,
Democrat, by only 33
votes.
Nov. 11 — A crowd of 250
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Local Pupils In
Band Festival
Five s tu d e n t mus icians from
Wa rwick High School will
p a r t ic ip a te in the 27th a n ­nual
So u th e rn District Band
Fe s tiva l to be held a t Man­heim
Centra l High School on
Thursday, F r id a y and S a tu r ­day,
J a n u a r y 13, 14 and 15,
The band will consist of
185 s tu d e n t mus icians from
four counties, Lan c a s te r ,
York, Adams and F ran k l in .
The gues t conductor will
be Mitch Miller, television,
radio, and re cording pe rson­ality.
The Warwick students will
include Linda Stauffer and
Mary Swarr, flutists; Sandra
McConaghay and Jennifer
Eberly, clarinetists, and Col­leen
Grube, bassoonist.
T h e r e will be two public
concerts Fr id a y and Saturday
nights. Tickets for ad u lt s at
$1.50 and fo r s tu d en ts a t
$1.2 5- may be obta ined by
wr it ing to Luke Hains, c h a ir ­man,
Manheim Central High
School. Ha ro ld Kern, dire c ­to
r of in s t rume n ta l music at
Manheim Central, will be host
for the festival.
NEW HOME FOR LIBRARY: This house, at 302 South Broad Street, the
former home of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abram Batdorf, has been donated to the
Lititz Public Library for its headquarters.
Batdorf House Donated
To Lititz Public Library
14,140 Birds
Counted On
Annual Trip
Lititz Bird Cluib “bird ­wa
tc h e r s ” counted 14,140
birds of 50 different species
in the an n u a l Bird Census
tak en on Sunday. This was
ne a r ly as many as the L an ­c
a s te r Bird Club counted in
th e i r area, even th o u g h th e r e
were only eight Lititz “ wa tch­e
r s ” on the trip. The L an ­c
a s te r club, with 2 7 mem­bers,
counted 14,210 birds
in 57 species.
Ba r to n L. Sharp, of the
Lititz club, said th a t the
count was much lower th an
la s t ye a r, when ten more
species and many more in ­dividuals
were spotted. He
a t t r ib u te d this to ‘he s trong
cold winds which kept many
birds a t home. F o r example,
they d id n ’t see any white
winged crossbills, even though
they know for a fact th a t
some a re roos ting in the
Moravian church area.
Ano th e r fa c tor is th a t the
flocks of s ta r lin g s and crows
a re lessening a t long last,
for . which everybody can
give thanks . Even a t tha t,
they counted 10,000 s ta rlings
and about 1600 crows,, which
made up the bulk of the
birds seen. However, this is
nothing compared to ten
years ago when the Lititz
a rea was infested with h u n ­dreds
of th o us ands of s t a r ­lings.
The most unusua l observa­tion
was of ab out 100 snow
buntings, and they also saw
some s c a t te r ed flocks of eve­ning
grosbeaks.
The group covered a 15-
mile radius, cente ring a t Lex­ington,
and r a d ia t in g out 7V2
miles in all directions. The
Count is made for the Na­tional
Audubon Society, and
every club covers the same
a re a each year, in order th a t
they d o n ’t overlap.
T'h'ose making the trip, ;n
ad dition to Sharp, were John
Wi tm y e r , , Charles Regennas,
Eugene Bowman, P a t Bow­man,
Robe r t Haines, Donald
Garner and Jo h n Spahr.
Youth Group
To Give Program
The Church of God Youth
Advance of the F i r s t Church
of God will p re s en t a p ro ­gram
on Sunday a t 7:30 p.m.
The invocation will be giv­en
by Mike Koser; prayer ,
Karl Koser; poem, Kandace
Keller; ■ ¡Scripture, Bryan
Hess.
A skit, “The Angels Sang,”
will, be given by the Youth
group and directed ■ by Karl
Koser.
The F i r s t Church of God
will receive new members a t
the 10 a.m. service on Sun­day.
The Rev. Donald M. Co­hick
will br ing the message.
The home of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Abram Batdorf , at
302 S. Broad S tr e e t, has
been dona ted to the Lititz
Public Library for its per-m'anent
¡headquarters, it was
announced thi s week.
The house is being given
by the B a td o r f ’s children,
Robe r t A. Ba tdor f ¡Sr., 13 27
Hillcres t Rd., Lan c a s te r ; Cur­tis
Ba tdor f and M,rs. Beatrice
Link, both of Lebanon, as a
memorial to th e i r pa rent s .
The late Mr. Ba td o r f Was an
officer of the Liberty Can
and Sign Company in L an ­caster.
The Lib ra ry will tak e pos­session
as soon as the deeds
a re recorded, on or before
December 31. After this, th e
Libra ry Board will seek pro­fessional
guidance, p a r t ic u l a r ­ly
from Dr. ¡S. K. ¡Stevens,
executive dire c tor of ¡the
State Historical and Museum
commission, to le a rn what
can be done to make a p rop­er
libra ry property. This will
probably take several months,
so meanwhile the lib ra ry will
remain a t its comparatively
ne<w h e a d q u a r t e r s a t , 3 Eas t
Orange Street.
The house has fifteen
rooms — six on the first
floor, six on the second floor
and th r e e on the th i rd floor.
It is on a good-sized lot and
it is hoped to make a p a rk ­ing,
a re a in the re a r , libra ry
officials ,said.
Cooper To Give
2 Lectures Here
The Lititz Ro ta ry Club
will p re s ent two le c ture s by
th e p opula r Don Cooper on
Sa turday, J a n u a r y 15, in the
Warwick High School.
Cooper, whose specialty is
the F a r North, will speak
on “ Ins ide P a s s age a n d Aleu­tian
I s lan d s .” This will be
his th i rd ap pe a ranc e in Li t ­itz
in as m'any years.
His previous le c ture s were
so p opula r th a t this year a
matinee p e r fo rman c e h a s
been, scheduled a t 4 p.m. Sat­urday,
J a n u a r y 15, in a d d i ­tion
to th e re g u la r one a t 8
p.m. the same nig h t t.
The a f te rn o o n performanc e
is open ‘ to ad u lt s and chil­dren;
to season-ticket hold­ers
as well as individual tic ­ke
ts , The t i c k e t window in
the school au d ito r ium will he
open a t 3 p.m. for the p u r ­chase
of individual tickets .
S’NO USE WISHIN’ FOR SNOW around here,
seems as if. But if there hasn’t been any snow by the
time you see this picture in the newspaper, you can
make your own snowman, like Sylvan L. Gochnauer
did at his home, 115 West Orange St. The six-foot-tall
snow man was made by first building a frame,
then covering it with chicken wire, then two layers
of furnace cement, and finally painting it. The jolly
snowman’s eyes and nose light up, like the many
lights strung along the house.
Boro Holds Tax Rate At
12y2 Mills-$10 Capita;
School Bd. Study Rents
Robert Zink Appointed
School Board Member
Robert G. Zink, Lititz R4,
Warwick Township, was ap­pointed
to the Warwick Union
School board at a special meet­ing
of the board Tuesday night
at the high school.
Zink, forty-eight, replaces
Dr. Edward J. Kowalewski,
who resigned from the board
on December 6. The meeting
also marked the first time the
new board president, Horace
A. Kauffman, presided for the
full meeting, as he was nam
ed at the December 6 meeting
Zink has been in the
guidance department at the
Conestoga Valley High School
for seventeen years, this span
of time also including period
in which the school was the
Upper Leacock Township High
School.
A native of Mount Joy, he
was graduated from Mount Joy
High School in 1937, worked
for one year, attended the Uni­versity
of Alabama for one
Robert G. Zink
year, then worked at the Mid­dletown
Air Depot. At the
time of the Pearl Harbor at-
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Lititz In Readiness
To Greet The New Year
Lititz is in re adine s s to
'welcome in the New Year of
196 6, as 19 6*5 swiftly draws
to it s close.
Th e re will be New Ye a r ’s
Eve 'services in several
churches an d va r ious church
groups will observe th e oc­casion
with special programs .
New Y e a r ’s Eve p a r t ie s a re
being planned in public and
semi-public places, as well as
in p r iva te homes. In public
places in Lititz and th e vi­cinity,
you can go p a r ty in g
for anywhere from' “ no cov­er
Charge” to $ 7:50 for one
of the b e t te r places, an d all
the way to an amaz ing $51)
cover a t a pHatce only a few
miles away.
The Re c re a t ion Center will
hold a d an c e for young peo­ple
on New Y e a r ’s night,
J a n u a r y 1, a t 8:30 p.m., fe a ­tu
r in g “ The Rivals .” This is
the l a s t of th r e e holiday
dances held a t he Center.
The Jaycees a r e conduct­ing
a basketball to u rn ey Dec.
2 9 ( to n ig h t ) and December
30.T
he fore c a s t for 1966 looks
good, a lth o u g h overshadowed
Park Trustees
Elect Members
The election of fo u r t r u s ­tees
and the ap p o in tmen t of
a fifth in te r im member took
place a t a me e t in g of the
Lititz P a rk Board of T ru s ­tees
recently.
Named to thre e -ye a r te rms
were Rich a rd Wa l te r s of .St.
P a u l ’s L u th e r a n Church;
F red Hall of Trin i ty E v a n ­gelical
Congregation Church;
Joseph Carl of Lititz Mora­vian
Church, and George Bie-niesderfer,
!a membe r a t
large.
Hall was appointed to his
se'cond term. The o th e r s will
begin th e i r first term's.
William Oeh'me was named
to fill a post vacated by the
re s igna tion of Russell Murr
of Lititz Evangelical United
Bre th ren Church. Oeh'me will
serve for one year.
I t was announced th a t two
checks to ta lin g $3 00 were
received. One fo r $100 was
co n tr ib u ted by an u n id e n t i ­fied
local bus ine s sman and
the oth e r for $200 was re ­ceived
from th e Lititz Ro­ta
ry Club.
A me e ting will be held
Wednesday, J an . 19, for r e ­organization
and election of
officers.
J. M. Leed is president.
by the increas ing n umb e r of
l'oo’al men going over to Viet
Nam. T h e re will be neiw
schools which a re underway,
expansion of in d u s try now in
drawin g board stages, and an
increas ing . n umb e r of new
homes will b e built.
The Record-Expres s will
s t a r t its 90th year of p u b li­cation
in 1966, having been
founded in April, 1877,
Boy Hurt On
Way To Santa
A li tt le Lititz lad, dashing
acros s th e s t r e e t to see San­ta,
Claus, suffered a f r a c tu re d
a rm when hit by a car on
Fr id a y , December 24, police
reported.
The boy is Scott H'alibleib,
seven, son oif Mr. and Mrs.
Robe r t Halbleib, 35 Wes t
Linc'oln Avenue.
Witnes ses told Police the
boy d a r te d across Broad
Stre e t a t Lincoln in the pa th
of an oncoming car 'driven
by Brian Bachman, Lititz R.2.
They said th e driver stopped
in an effort to avoid the boy,
but knocked him down. Scott
was ta k e n to the office of Dr.
Joseph Grosh where he was
t r e a te d for minor bruises and
it was e s tablished he h ad a
f r a c tu re d arm. He was th en
tak en to L an c a s te r General
Hospital where he was a d ­mi
tted for x-r’ay an d t r e a t ­ment.
His condition was -e-ported
as satis factory.
Police said no' charges
would be b ro u g h t ag a in s t the
driver.
Bucks Traffic
L a r ry Groff, Manheim R l ,
was charged on December 24
by Officer J ame s Fr i tz be­fore
Ju s t ic e of th e Peace
Ha ro ld H. Kauffman with
bucking traffic in the first
block of E a s t Main Street.
Power Failure
Affects Borough
Lititz was with o u t electric
power late 'Sunday n ig h t and
ea rly Monday morning, for
ne a r ly 'three hours .
There was a power fa ilure
a t 11:33 p.m,, which affect­ed
'most of the borough,
about. 1,000 customers , ac­cording
to PP&L. The pow­er
rema in ed off Until 2:16
a.m. Monday. T h e in t e r r u p ­tion
re su lted when a pr ima ry
wire b u rn e d down, PP&iL
said.
Borough council at its meet­ing
last night held the proper­ty
tax rate at 12Yz mills and
the per capita tax at $10. It
represents the fifth consecutive
year that the tax rates were
held at the same figures.
At the same time council
tenatively approved the 1966
budget. It will be on public
display until its adoption on
January 25.
In other business council:
— Announced the junk yard
ordinance is effective January
1 and stated it will be enforc­ed.
— Adopted the Youth Gui­dance
and Parental Responsi­bility
Ordinance.
— Approved a solicitors fee
increase from $900 to $1100.
yearly.
— Sent a letter of commen­dation
to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Buch for the many improve­ments
made to the Pretzel
House.
Reap p o in tmen t s to various
borough boards and commiis-sions
were made as follows:
Sewer Authority, H. Lloyd
Hess, to December, 1970;
Shade Tree commission, E d ­win
H. Bear, December 31,
19 70; Board of Historical
Review, Abram R. Hershey,
December 31, 1968; B’oa rd of
Zoning Adjus tment, P a u l W •
S. Wissler, December 31,
1968; He a lth and S an ita tio n
Advisory Board, Dr. Ches ter
L. Wertsch, December 31,
19 69.
Council adopted a n o rd i­nance
re s tr ic tin g the p a rk in g
on North Cedar Street, which
has been on a 60-day tr ial.
No parking will be allowed
on the east side of N. Cedar
between Front and Water Stl.
There was a discussion of
the Ea s t Center S tr e e t traff­i
c flow, concerning th e pos­sibility
of re s tr ic tin g the
p a rk in g to one side, or mak­ing
th e s t r e e t a one-dray
s treet, or both.
Council decided not to ffi&k«
any changes.
The Dak Street itotm
'drainage proje c t h a s been
completed, and Council ac­cepted
it and au th o r iz ed pay­ment
of the bill.
A rep o r t was received con­cerning
the Locust Street
bridge damages. The borough
has sued for damage's from
■MeMinn Asphalt, the low bid­d
e r who diid not pe rform the
’work. Council claimed they
b a d to pay $1,141 more to
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School Board
Rescinds New
Rental Rates
The Warwick Union School
Board at a special meeting last
night rescinded the newly
adopted schedule of rentals for
school facilities. The board
had set the new schedule at a
meeting on November 10 and
in most instances it provided
for a substantial increase in
rents paid by various civic
groups, etc. for use of school
facilities. The matter was re­ferred
to committee for addi­tional
study.
In other business the board:
— Accepted the resignation
of Jack Noll, H. S. math teach­er,
who has accepted a posi­tion
in the Lane, city school
district.
— Named a new teacher,
Katharine Hartenstine of Potts-town,
to replace Noll. She will
also be the Math. Dept. head.
— Made the following teach­er
appointments: Miss Sara
Homsher, Elem. Special Ed.;
Mrs. Ellen Witmer, Jr. High
English; Miss Mary Jane Ear-ley,
Elem. Spanish.
— Let the third Tuesday of
each month as the regular
board meeting.
— Granted a request to the
Rec Center to use the Lititz
Elementary gym for their rec
program.