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90th Year E stab lished April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The Iiltltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, June 30, 1966 7 cants a Copy; $3.00 par year by mall
w ith in Lanca ste r County; $4.00 elsewhere 14 Pages — No 12
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Lions Club To Sponsor
Hoxie Circus July 19
The Lititz Lions Club will?prove u wun an outstanding
sponsor the Hoxie Bros. Cir- array of talent. Aerial artists
eus, famed as “America’s | and acrobats share the spot-
Greatest Family Circus,”
A REMINDER TO RAISE YOUR FLAG on the Fourth of July! . . . This is how
the square looked 61 years ago when it was decorated for the Firemen’s parade
on July 4, 1905. The scene shows the old Roebuck fountain and looks west
toward the site of the present Lititz Mutual building.
Fairyland Of Candles To Glow
.in In Park On Glorious 4th
in
Lititz on Tuesday, July 1-9.
The circus a genuine old-time
circus ‘under the big
top”, and the largest to play
this community in many years,
will give two performances at
2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Lit­itz
Springs Park.
The Hoxie Bros. Circus pre­sents
over 20 featured acts,
bringing the old time thrills
of circus day to young and
old. The tent circus is not
dead, and the Hoxie Brothers
Agai
For the 124th consecutive year, Lititz Springs
Park will become a “Fairyland of Candles” on the
Fourth of July, when the evening of the great day
arrives.
And for the 25th year, a Queen of the Candles
will be crowned at 9:15 p.m. to preside over the fairy­land,
and to spark the lighting of the candles at
9:30 p.m.
However, the celebration
will go on much earlier in
the day, and a new feature
this year will be a Hootenan­ny
from 2 to 4 p.m., with
forty young people participat­ing,
some as individuals and
others in groups.
The contestants comprise
senior and junior high stu­dents
from the county who
will present solo, duet and
group numbers, competing for
prize money totalling $250.
Hootenanny
Participating in the contest
are: Cathy Krebs, Leon and
Tom Brubaker, Judi Ebbert,
Dennis Balsbaugh and a group
comprising Michael Weirich,
Jeb Moore and Jeff Hosier;
Gary Martin and group, Jim
Hopkins, Jim Enck and Rick
Martin; Barbara Kraft and
Gale Iamurri, Lynn Bogart,
The Villagers, Brenda Buch,
Daphine Schaeffer, Ralph
Stoner and Tony Adair; Karen
Wenger and Martha Reynolds.
The Double D’s, Cindy Ditz-
Moravian
ChurchOpen
On July 4
The Moravian Church and
archives Museum will be open
to visitors on Monday, July 4,
from 1 to 4 p.m., in connec­tion
with the annual commun­ity
Fourth of July celebration.
Guides wearing the costumes
of the early Moravian sisters
will be in attendance. The
church was built in 1787 and
was preceded by the quaint
coffee kitchen, built in 1762,
where the early ministers’
families prepared their meals
and made the coffee for Love-feast
services. The Christmas
Eve candlelight service is a
traditional Lovefeast which
was begun in 1756.
Another point of interest is
the “Leichenkapelchen,” the
German word meaning “Little
Corpse Chapel,” which was
built the year before the
church was started.
Also open for inspection will
be the Eshbach Memorial par­lor
and Museum, containing
old furniture and a fine col­lection
of musical instruments
and many other interesting
items.
Guides in attendance will be
Mi's. James Aumon, Mrs. Har­vey
Bachman, Mrs. David
Graybill, Mrs. Robert Posey
and Daniel Graybill.
Summer Hours
For School Offices
Summer hours are being ob­served
by the Warwick Union
School district, with all high
school and elementary offices
open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Phone calls or visits may
be made during those hours
to the three elementary prin­cipals,
Jerry Shupp, George
Remetz and Robert Herron,
as well as to Harold W.
Swisher, high school princi­pal;
Carl B. Kaufman, junior
high school principal, and G.
Marlin Spaid, supervising prin­cipal.
ler and Cindy DeVeaux; The
Living Ends, Dan Blaylock,
James Bowden, Kirby Martel,
Glenn Felter and Bob Snader;
The Mystics, Gary Esher, Bill
Newcomer, Don Rhoads, Bon
Rigshurn, Bob Kline and Rick
Donnelly; Syd Silversten and
group, Noel Reifel, Donna
Reichard and Beverly Reifel.
R. Will Brandau, New Hol­land,
will be the Master of
Ceremonies for the Hootenan­ny.
George K. Biemesderfer,
6 E. Third St., Lititz, is in
charge of the arrangements.
Queen Pageant'
The Pageant of the Queen
of the Candles was begun in
1942, and the first Queen, Mrs.
Robert E. Keenan, the former
Polly Moyer, will be present
to crown this year’s Queen,
Miss Gloria Brubaker, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A.
Brubaker, 237 Front St.
Miss Terry Kegel, last year’s
queen, will pass on the light
to the new Queen.
The event will take place in
the band shell at 9:15 p.m. In
the tableau, light from the
Queen’s candle is passed on to
the members of her court,
then to the torchbearers and
finally to the boys lighting the
candles in the park. The pro­cessional
begins at the arch
bridge and proceeds up the
center aisle to the bandshell,
returning to the arch bridge
following the crowning cere­monies.
Spectators are asked
to keep this aisle open for the
processional and the recession­al.
The Queen’s court includes
Lana Buch, Connie Davidson,
Linda Garner, Candace Kopp,
Donna Longenecker, Nancy
light with jugglers, tumblers
and ' clowns while animal ac­tors
cavort capriciously to
show that circus day is still
the happiest holiday of the en­tire
year. Dogs, horses, ponies
and monkeys will hold the at­tention
of the small fry, while
all the family will marvel at
the performing. Traveling in a
vast convoy of motorized
eqquipment, the circus will
present an all new show th:s
season.
Boro To Provide Some
Extra Police Protection
Lititz Chief
First To See
Cornwall Fire
It was a sort of “busman’s
holiday” for Fire Chief Am­mon
Shelly of Lititz on Tues­day
evening, when he discov­ered
a woodland fire near
Cornwall and was the first to
put in the alarm.
Shelly and an employe, Jim
Reed, had been to an auto
auction in that area and were
driving home about 9:30 p.m.
when they spotted a flare-up
on the mountain.
After observing the fire as
they drove a mile or two far­ther,
they thought it was get­ting
larger and might be a
barn fire, so they stopped at a
farmhouse and Shelly called
the Penryn Fire department.
The two men turned back and
went to the area of the fire,
but at first couldn’t find any­thing
and thought maybe they
had called Penryn for nothing.
But when they climbed the
Cornwall Fire tower they dis­covered
a big blaze nearby.
When Penryn arrived, Shel­ly
and Reed stood by at a
Penryn fire truck, and later
were asked by Penryn Chief
Eugene Shelly (Ammon’s un
Jcle) to call Lititz and Brun-nerville.
Brickerville also re­sponded,
and Manheim stood
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JULY 4th PROGRAM
6:00 a.m. Ringing of Church
bells.
9:00 a.m. Clearing of the
Park Grounds. Tickets
go on sale at this time.
12:00 noon. Program of Re- •
corded Music.
2:00 p.m. Hootenanny Con­test.
R. Will Brandau,
M-C.
4:00 p.m. Program of Record­ed
Music.
5:00 p.m. Supper Hour.
7:00 p.m. Concert by the
Rohrerstown Band.
9:15 p.m. Pageant of the
Queen of the Candles.
9:30 p.m. The Fairyland of
Candles.
10:00 p.m. Gigantic Display of
Fireworks.
10:30 p.m. Concert by the Roh­rerstown
Band.
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Shelly, Marcia Smith, Barbara I by. Chief Charles Adams,
Spaid, Donna Weaver and i Brickerville, who also is for
Kathy Will, all graduates of
Warwick High School this
year. Vickie Lynn Zercher,
seven, will be the Queen’s
flower girl, and Henry R. Gib-bel,
seven, will be crown bear­er.
Roy and Eugene Clair are
directing the pageant.
5,000 Candles
Approximately 5,000 candles
will be lighted in fanciful
holders above the Lititz
Springs stream, by boys of the
community using flares. In the
early days kerosene torches
were used for this job, and
it was only in recent years
that flares replaced these
torches, which however, are
still used in the Pageant of the
Queen by the torchbearers. In
the early days home-made can­dles
were used, made from a
special formula of beeswax,
tallow and other ingredients.
This work was usually done
by a member of the commit­tee
and his family during the
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est fire warden, said he be­lieved
the fire was touched off
by lightning. The alarm was
put in at 9:40 p.m.
Grass Fire
About two acres of grass
behind the property of Ray­mond
C. Groff in the Groff
development, Rothsville, burn­ed
Monday at 6:45 p.m. Fire
Chief Claude Young, Roths­ville,
said the fire apparently
started from sparks from trash
being burned nearby by Mrs.
Richard Null. The Lititz and
Brunnerville companies also
responded.
Police Report
Law Violations
George W. Barrett, 843 Un­ion
St., Lancaster, was charged
with a red light violation in
the borough on June 22 by Of­ficer
Robert Keller before
Justice of the Peace Harold
H. Kauffman.
John Simpson, 400 Atwood
Rd., Philadelphia, was charged
with littering the highway on
June 14 by Officer Leroy P.
Emmerich before Justice of
the Peace Paul F. Diehm. Po­lice
said he threw a beer bot­tle
out on the street.
Wilbur Faus, 145 N. Locust
St., was charged with disor­derly
conduct after a disturb­ance
at his home on June 22,
by Officer Keller before Jus­tice
of the peace J. Russel
Graul, Manheim Township.
Larry L. Weaver, New Hol­land
Rl, was charged with
bucking traffic in the borough
on June 26 by Officer Keller
before Squire Diehm.
Barbara Seaber, nineteen,
Lititz, escaped injury in a two
car collision in Lebanon Coun­ty
June 19, about two miles
north of Fredericksburg.
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List Events
At Lititz Pool
The Lititz Springs swim
team will meet the Ephrata
team tonight at the home pool.
Events scheduled for the
coming week were announced
by Steve Palkovic, pool man­ager,
as follows: July 3, Fa­ther
and Son Camp out for
members with season tickets;
July 4, morning dip, pool open
at 10 a.m.; July 6, adult moon­light
swim; July 7, swim meet,
Lititz Springs at East Peters­burg.
All A’s For
Hornberger
At Purdue
W. Bryan Hornberger, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William B.
Hornberger, 425 Linden St.,
is on the list of Distinguished
Students at Purdue University,
Lafayette, Ind., it was an­nounced
at the University.
The list comprises those who
have received straight “A’s’’ in !
their field, and have had an
average of at least 5.5 points
out of a possible 6.0. Hornber-ger’s
average was 5.8. He is !
completing his freshman year
in mechanical engineering and
nuclear physics, after having
attended Franklin and Mar­shall
College, and serving a
term in the U. S. Navy.
Hornberger, twenty-three, is
still in the Navy, and has just
started a summer course in a
government educational pro­gram
which will enable him to
complete a five-year course in
four years. For every month
he spends in college he is ob­ligated
to spend a month and
a half in the Navy, which he
expects to make his career.
He is married to the former
Connie Miller, and they are
parents of two children.
Library Asks Return
Of Overdue Books
Quite a few library books
are still out, probably due to
the fact that the library was
closed so long, M. C. Deinmy,
Public Library president, said
this week in making a plea for
the return of overdue books.
He said that when the books
are returned, no overtime will
be charged for them during
the period the library was
closed. He added that softie
books may possibly belong to
the Lancaster Free Library,
which loans them to Lititz for
short periods, and the local
library will have to pay for
them if they are not returned.
Spectacular $70,000 Fire
At Keath Planing Mill
ANTIQUE BOOKS will be exhibited by Hubert
Kauffman, 308 E. Main St., at the Lititz Antiques
Show, July 4, 5 and 6 in the Recreation Center, in
connection with the Fourth of July celebration.
Kauffman is shown holding some of his books which
range from history to nature to sports. Some of his
books on sale date from the 1700’s, while others are
comparatively recent. (.Record Express photo.)
Lititz suffered an outbreak
of fires during the past week,
the most serious of which was
a $70,000 blaze at the Keath
Planing Mill last Friday,
June 24.
Fire Chief Ammon Shelly
blamed the fire on excessive
I heat, saying it started in a
bin containing shavings.
Eighty firemen from the
i Lititz, Rothsville, Manheim,
Neffsville, Brunnerville, Pen­ryn
and Brickerville Fire
companies fought the blaze
for nearly three hours, and
the East Petersburg company
stood by in the Lititz Fire
house. The fire was termed un­der
control by 6 p.m.
Wayne D. Schreiber, Lititz
R4, president and manager of
the company, said the fire
spread from the shavings bin
to the boiler room and stor­age
room which contained lum­ber
arid plywood stacked in
small racks.
The company makes church
fences, church and house
doors and corner cupboards.
The building occupies about
a half block and is 120 feet
wide at its widest point.
Schreiber, who employs 27
persons at the mill, praised
the firemen for their efficient
work in preventing the fire
from spreading to other parts
of the plant.
Fire in Apartment
A fire which broke out
Sunday at 6:17 p.m. in Harry
Buchter’s apartment house,
120 N. Liberty St., was blam­ed
on spontaneous combustion,
according to Chief Shelly. The
fire, on the third floor, was
discovered by a neighbor,
Samuel Reed, 113 N. Liberty
St., who turned in the alarm
at the Fire Hall. Damage was
estimated at $75.
The second floor is occupied
by Robert R. Good and ihe
first floor by Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Amig, who were
married Saturday and were
not at home during the fire.
Auto on Fire
An old automobile being
towed on South Broad Street
caught fire Monday mornin
and the Lititz Fire Company
responded. The owner, Charles
Shaver, had just bought the
car, Chief Shelly said, ahd was
towing it when it was my­steriously
ignited in the 400
block. Shelly said no one
seemed to know how it start­ed.
He said the car was worth
less than $50 when it was
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Scouts To Attend
Philmont Ranch
Five members of Boy Scout
Troop 42 will attend the Phil­mont
Scout Ranch, Cimarron,
New Mexico, July 4 to 21.
They are Ronald Miller,
John $pahr, Dennis
Jere Eshelman and
Balmer.
Brown,
Gregory
Worn Kids Not
To Get In Way
Of Fire Engines
Children on bikes or on foot
are warned not to congregate
at the fire house, ride their
bikes’ in the street or run
across the street during fire
alarms in the borough, Police
Chief Hicks said this week.
- He stated the firemen have
been hampered this week
when there have been several
fires, and pointed out that the
children constitute a traffic
hazard at these times by get­ting
in the way of the fire
engines.
Motorists, too, are asked to
pull over to the side of the
street or road and stop when
they hear the fire sirens.
C.P.O. Spickler
CPO Spickler
Off To Vietnam
' Chief Petty Officer James S.
Spickler, formerly of Lititz, is
now stationed aboard the
Fleet Oiler U.S.S. Manatee
and is enroute to the South
China Sea and Vietnam war
zone to join the 7th Fleet. He
has had duty in the Indian
Ocean, Pacific Fleet and At­lantic
Fleet, which included
various tours of duty in
Europe.
He wears the good con­duct
medal with three stars,
American Area medal, Eu-ropean-
African Middle East­ern,
Asiatic-Pacific area with
one silver and three bronze
stars, Philippine Liberation
medal, World War II Victory
medal, Navy occupation
Service medal, United Na­tions
medal, Korean medal.
Presidential citation medal,
and Defense medal with one
star.
Chief Spickler’s father, El­lis
E. Spickler, resides at 320
E. Main Street, , Lititz. Chief
Spickler has two daughters in
Lititz: Mrs. John Imber of S.
Cedar St. and Mrs. Fredrick J.
Buch of Lititz R2. A son,
Bruce lives in Columbia, and
another, James, is in the Air
Force stationed at Anchorage,
Alaska. Jim’s wife Gladys and
granddaughter, Suzanne, live
in Lakewood, a short distance
from his home port, of Long
Beach, Calif.
Local 4-H'ers
Receive Awards
Mary Alice Graybill. Lititz
R2, and James E. Kettering,
Lititz R3, were presented with
$100 scholarships Tuesday by
the Kiwanis Club of Lancas­ter.
The winners were selected
from among five applicants
each of whom wrote an essay
on What 4-H Club Has Meant
to Me. Contestants were
judged on the basis of their
4-H Club records and need,
according to John C. Long Sr.,
chairman of the club’s agricul­ture
committee.
Miss Graybill is a sopho­more
at the Pennsylvania State
University of Indiana, and
Kettering will be a freshman
at The Pennsylvania Stale Uni­versity.
SPECTACULAR blaze which caused $70,000 damage at Keath planing mill
last Friday. Seven fire companies responded with eighty men who fought the
fire for nearly three hours before it was under control. (Record-Express Photo.)
Two Officers
On Duty School
Days 7:30 - 9 A,M.
Borough Council at its meet­ing
Tuesday night approved
an additional one-half hour per
day for each policeman to pro­vide
an additional one and
one-half hours per day extra
police protection. The extra
protection means two, rather
than one, officers will be on
duty during certain hours.
On a normal school day two
officers will be on duty be­tween
7:30 and 9 a.m. At other
times betv/een 11 p.m. and
12:30 a.m. The plan will be­come
effective tomorrow (July
1).
Russell Templeton, Mayor,
said it is during these hours
when an extra policeman is
needed most especially in the
morning when the children
are going to school and traf­fic
is heavy with people going
to work.
Extra cost to the borough
for the overtime for the re­mainder
of this year will be
$527. During 1967 the extra
cost will be $1,095.
Council directed thè bor­ough
manager to advertise for
bids to provide storm sewers
from Orange Street to Maple
Lane and in the vicinity of
Alsam Shoe. Cost is estimated
at $13,106. Bids will be re­ceived
at the July 26 meeting.
Council reported that the sys­tem
to dispose industrial waste
from the Morgan Paper Co.
will be in operation in about
three to four weeks. Concern­ing
this council passed a res­olution
permitting Morgan to
dispose of its pre-treated in­dustrial
waste water by the
spray irrigation system on
farmland, and will not require
the mill to connect to the bor­ough’s
sanitary sewer system
for this purpose. The peSoftn
tion requires that the; mill
comply with state require­ments,
the recommendations of
its geology and spray irriga­tion
experts and the national­ly
accepted standards for the
use of this method; assure
that the borough’s water sup­ply
is not adversely affected,
and permit borough officials
to make independent investi­gations
to make sure all pro­visions
are being carried out
properly.
in other business council:
—Hired John J. Krause,
Lititz R2, as an employee in
the works department. Pat Ma-harg
and Harry Wertsch were
hired as summer employees.
—Directed that a letter be
sent to Hugh Workman, Lan-
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Some Plants Close
For 2-Week Holiday
Several manufacturing plants
here will shut down for a two
weeks’ vacation period, al­though
their offices will re­main
open.
The Lambert-Hudnut manu-faeturing
and packaging de­partments
will close down
Thursday (tonight), and the
employes will return Monday,
July 18. The offices and ship­ping
and receiving depart­ments
will remain open during
that time and employes will
have staggered vacations.
Woodstream Corp. will shut
down from Friday evening un­til
Monday, July 18, except
tor the offices which will be
manned by a skeleton staff.
Morgan Mill, Inc., also will
close down for two weeks from
Friday until July 18, although
some employes will come in
lor the second week. Mean­while,
the office and main­tenance
forces will remain on
duty.
Wilbur Chocolate Company
will operate as usual, and em­ployes
will have staggered va­cations.
Community
Calendar
July 4 — Fourth of July Cele­bration
in the Park.
July 4. 5. & 6 — Antique
Show at Rec Center.
July 5 — 1-3 p.m. Baton Les­sons
at Rec Center.
— 6:00 p.m. Rotary at the
Sutter.