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(C o n s o l id a t e d w i th T h e l i t i t z R e c o rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., I’a. 17543, Thursday, July 14, 1966 7 c e n t s a C o p y ; *3.00 p e r y e a r b y m a i l
r l t h l n L a n c a s t e r C o u n ty ; *4.00 e l s ew h e r e 12 Pages — No. 14
Local Schools To Get
$43,000 State Bonus
—
The Warwick Union School
district, along with all other
school districts in the state,
will share in the $34 million
“bonus” which will be dis­tributed
by the state from this
year’s excess funds, “with no
strings attached.”
Warwick Union will prolv
ably get the same amount as
they did last year, when they
,‘ceived $43,245.74. However,
last year’s distribution includ­ed
a teacher’s salary bill,
whereas this year there are no
restrictions as to how the
funds may be spent.
The entire county will prob­ably
receive about $850,000,
about the same as last year,
according to County Superin­tendent
of Schools Harry K.
Garlach.
He stated that as yet the al­locations
have not been com­puted,
but has received a let­ter
saying this will be done
soon.
The Warwick School board
is expected to appoint two
new members to the board to
comply at the regular meeting
Tuesday, July 19. The dead­line
is July 31, after which, if
Water System
At John Beck
To Cost $12,392
The Warwick Union School
Board at a special meeting last
Thursday awarded a contract
for $12,392 to Lloyd G. Cope,
Manheim, for a water supply
system at the John Beck Ele­mentary
school.
Cope’s bid was accompanied
by a letter stating that he
could not guarantee that the
work on the system would be
completed by September 1.
This is the completion date
requested by the School Board.
Other bidders were: Clarence
H. Barnett & Sons, $15,595,
and W. S. Horst, $14,745,
The low bid was $2,900 over
the architect’s estimate.
In another motion the board
was asked by the school au­thority
to provide up to $5,000
to pay for the water system in
the event there was not
enough money in the building
contingency fund. Various es­timates
were given as to how
much remained in the fund.
No one could say for certain;
consequently, the motion for
.he board to provide up to
$5,000.
Arrests Drop
From June ’65
Crime apparently dropped in
Lititz during June compared
to a year ago, according to the
monthly report of Police Chief
George C. Hicks.
There were only 16 arrests
compared with 27 in June
1965.
Three arrests were made for
speeding, two each for buck­ing
traffic, reckless driving,
and traffic light violations, and
one each for disorderly con­duct,
excessive noise, failure
to yield the right of way, lit­tering
the highway, driving
too fast for conditions, minor
consuming alcohol, and faulty
lighting equipment.
There were 77 meter viola­tions
compared with 89 in
June 1965, and four parking
violations, compared with 27
a year ago.
The cruiser traveled 2,877
miles on investigation and pa­trol,
and five accidents were
investigated. One juvenile was
petitioned into court, compared
with six in June, 1965, and
three policemen spent six days
in court.
the board had not acted, they
must be appointed by the
court.
A total of $21,737.87 in con­tract
awards were recommend­ed
by the School Board to the
School Authority for the John
Beck Elementary addition and
Kissel Hill Elementary build­ing:
Furniture—Roberts & Meek,
$7,947.25; Provident Book
Store, $847.10;
Visual Equipment—J. P. Lil-ley
& Sons, $2,180.75: DeLucas
Camera Center, $260; RCA
Service Company, $524.55; Wal­ter
Whalen, $280;
Maintenance Equipment —
Firestone Paper & Supply
Company. $74.40; Phillip V.
Hugueis & Sons, $527; Up-Right
Scaffolds, $214; Industrial San­itation
$146.25; Hoover Co.,
$109.95;
Medical Suite Equipment —
Lancaster Surgical & Supply
Co., $291.78; Allied Surgical
Co. 214.69; Climax Dental Sup­ply
108;
Library Equipment — Play
Co. Sales, $2,515;
Physical Education — Shenk
Brothers, $1,364.65; Degler &
Whiting, $349.50;
Miscellaneous Equipment—J.
M. Engle Co., $300; Standard
Duplicating Machines Company
$476.50; 3-M Business Products
Sales Company, $714; Bud
Mearig, $220.50; Alton Reifsny-der,
$535.
Rainfall In June
Only .88 Inches
The total rainfall for June
was only .88 of an inch in the
borough, according to the new
rainfall gauge which has been
installed at the water depart­ment.
No comparison of a similar
period can be made as yet, as
the borough has only had the
gauge a month. But no gauge
is needed to tell residents that
June 1966 was one of the hot­test
and driest ever experi­enced.
This is borne out by the
fact that on July 6, when there
was a heavy thunderstorms in
the county, the gauge showed
that .6 inch fell during that
evening alone. The heaviest
rain was at Intercourse where
more than three inches of rain
fell.
The borough water depart­ment
pumped a. total of 25,-
052,300 gallons of water dur­ing
June, about two million
more than the same period
last year.
The daily average was 835,-
076 gallons with a maximum
of 1,094,500 on June 6, and a
minimum of 539,000 on June 5.
Of the total, the Kissel Hill
station pumped 13,190, a daily
average of 439 gallons.
The sewage disposal plant
handled a total flow of 12,-
228,800 gallons, a daily aver­age
of 407,626.
Boro Building Permits
Over $874,000 Mark
In First Six Months
COOL WATERS — A good place to be when the weather’s hot is the Lititz
Springs Swimming Pool. These youngsters are enrolled in the Recreation Asso­ciation’s
Swimming classes, and are receiving their first instructions from Barry
Male, instructor, on the opening day of the playground season Tuesday. Left to
right the pupils are Julie Long, Kathy Whitcomb, Carrie Long, Cynthia Whit­comb
and Diane Weirich. (Record-Express Photo.)
Local Woman
Found Dead
Under Car
Miss June Ditzler Hauck,
thirty-five, 148 Raspberry Lane,
Lititz, was found dead under
her car parked near a cabin
in Lebanon county about 8
p.m. Tuesday by Lititz Police
Chief George C. Hicks.
Dr. Richard Eckroth, Leb­anon
County Deputy coroner,
pronounced death due to car­bon
monoxide poisoning, and
ruled it a suicide. The woman
had been reported missing at
9:15 p.m. Monday, after she
failed to report at work at the
RCA plant in Lancaster, did
not return home Monday, and
failed again to report to work
-Tuesday*.~The - jcaroner , act . the
time of death at 8 a.m. Mon­day.
Chief Hicfcs said that when
the woman was reported as
missing her sister recalled
that her uncle had owned a
cabin in Heidelberg Township,
which had been sold, however.
Acting on the theory she
might have gone there, Chief
Hicks went to the cabin, locat­ed
in the vicinity of the Leb­anon
Pumping Station, and
found her body under her car.
Miss Hauck was born in Lit­itz,
a daughter of the late
Thomas and Celia Rupp Hauck.
She was a member of the Lit­itz
Church of the Brethren.
Surviving are two sisters, Ver­na,
wife of' Ernest Blow, Lit­itz,
and Jane Hauck, Lititz.
Funeral services will be
held Thursday (today) at 10
a.m. from the Beck Funeral
Home, 216 S. Broad St., with
interment in Longenecker’s
cemetery. There will be no
viewing.
Playgrounds Have Big
Appeal On Opening Day
Plant Growth Affected
By Electric Stimuli
The death of a plant can be
caused by an electric field. So,
too, can a great increase in
crop production.
These two conflicting fea­tures
of electrotropism — the
New President
For E'town College
Dr. Morley J. Mays has been
named President of Elizabeth­town
College, succeeding Dr.
Roy E. McAuley, whose resig­nation
becomes effective Au­gust
31.
Dr. Mays, the tenth man to
hold the title of President at
the College, is currently Vice
•President for Academic Af­fairs
at Juniata College. Dr.
Joseph W. Kettering, Eliza­bethtown,
chairman of the
Board of Trustees, said Doc­tor
Mays will begin his duties
at Elizabethtown October 1.
Larry Murr
response of plant metabolism
to an electric field — have
been demonstrated by a Penn­sylvania
State University re­searcher,
Larry E. Murr, in­structor
in engineering me­chanics.
Murr is a native of
Lititz and a graduate of War­wick
High School.
“Plant growth in a continu­ously
applied electrostatic or
electrokinetic field can be
stimulated or retarded in cer­tain
instances,” Murr reports.
“In all cases, however, -leaf
damage occurs.”
Laymen have been studying
electric fields for many years
in attempts to relate thunder­storm
activity ■ and artificial
electric grids to increased
plant growth, Murr points out.
A Presbyterian minister, in
his book “The Power of Pray­er
on Plants,” even carried
out hundreds of experiments
which “proved” that “directed
concentration” stimulated plant
growth.
Scientists, however, have
consistently shunned direct ex­periments
on electrotropism as
“a sort of ‘mythological’ phe­nomenon,”
Murr said.
So Murr has become an “ex­pert”
by default. He became
interested in the subject while
working his way through col­lege
as a florist’s helper. Af­ter
graduation from Penn
State in electrical engineering,
I he worked for the U. S. De-
| partment of Agriculture Re-search
Service, which gave him
| the freedom to follow up this
i area of interest.
“The state of the art was
chaotic,” Murr wrote in the
British journal, Nature. “Some
investigators had reported
gr owt h increases, others
growth decreases, and still
others having had the modesty
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The mixture of kids, leaders,
play areas and the swimming
pool got together July 11 and
12, and resulted in a lot of
fun for everyone.
Registration was very good
in all areas with Lititz Springs
Park leading the way with a’
total of 138 registered. Roths-ville
had 60, with Lions Tot
Lot counting 37, and Brunner-ville
35. On Tuesday morning
more than 250 children flocked
to the Lititz Springs Pool to
register for swimming instruc­tion.
Swimming classes are offer­ed
each Tuesday, Wednesday
'and Thursday' morning'between
the hours of 9 and 11. Ad­vanced
Beginners, Intermedi­ates,
and Swimmers classes are
held at 9; while Beginning
classes are held at 9:30-10 and
10:30. Anyone who has not
registered for playground or
swimming lessons can still do
so by contacting one of the
playground leaders.
The first week of Play­ground
was entitled “Lift-Off
Week” and featured a Treat
Day for all areas, Backwards
Day, a Scavenger Hunt, and a
Picnic.
Borough Crew
Works 1140 Hours
Borough employes worked a
total of 1,140 man hours dur­ing
the month of June, ac­cording
to the monthly report
of Borough Manager George
D. Steedle.
Duties which took more
than 100 hours included street
and alley maintenance, 168
hours; street signs and mark­ings,
153 hours; water system,
130 hours, and inspections of
new developments, 103 hours.
These inspections were of
curbs, sidewalks and drive­ways,
17 hours; new water
mains and fireplugs, 26 hours;
sewer main line and tests, 60
hours.
The total man hours for the
first six months come to 6,568.
Next week, July 18-22, will
be “Feature Your Creature
Week.” The highlights will in­clude
a Penny Hike, Go To
The Circus Day, Exploring
Day, and a Pet Show.... ........
Arts and Crafts
Indian Head Dresses, Peace
Pipes, T-Bird Necklaces, Tile
Coasters, and Tube People are
just a few of the projects
made by the Playground A-go-goers
under the direction of
Mrs. June Smith. Arts and
Crafts Classes are available to
all participants in the Play­ground
Program.
The following articles are
(needed for the Recreation
Center’s Crafts Class: medium
sized tin cans, cardboard tubes,
plastic detergent bottles, small
boxes (such as jewelry boxes),
aluminum pie plates, shoe box­es,
baby food jars, spools, qt.
milk cartons.
Persons who have any of
these items are asked to bring
them to the Recreation Cen­ter.
They will be greatly ap­preciated.
Tennis Instruction
Anyone between the ages of
nine and 14 interested in ten­nis
instruction may contact
Keith McClure, Recreation Di­rector,
right away. There will
be no cost other than Rec
Center membership for this in­struction.
TRASH FIRE
The Lititz Fire Company ex­tinguished
a trash fire at the
rear of Lambert-Hudnut Thurs­day
at 11:06 p.m. Chief Am­mon
H. Shelly said the trash
involved scrap material dis­carded
by workmen building
an addition to the plant.-
Twp. Junkyard
Law Faces Test
The validity of Warwick
township’s junkyard ordinance
will be tested in the near in
ture when proceedings will lx
brought against two junkyaid
operators who have failed in
take out licenses, it was learn
ed this week.
The defendants are Chester
K. Long, Akron, who stores j
his junk material in Warwick |
township, and Herbert Shue,
Lititz R4. Prosecution has
been brought by part-time Con­stable
Eugene P. May before
Justice of the Peace J. Lowell
Forney, Rothsville. Both re­portedly
have failed to pay
the annual license fee of $25
as required by the ordinance
which pays for the inspection
of the junkyards.
The defendants have the
right to employ attorneys to
test the validity of the ordi­nance.
It is expected that the hear­ing
will be held this week.
Woodridge Plans
Barbecue Party
Woodridge Swim Club will
hold its annual chicken barbe­cue
on the pool parking lot on
Saturday, July 23, rain or
shine. With Graybill Miller of
Elm, local barbecuing favorite,
in charge of the pits, chicken
halves will be served from 4
to 7 p.m.
Proceeds of the affair go to­ward
defraying the expenses
of the championship Wood­ridge
swim team, four time
City-County open meet win­ners.
Price of the chicken
halves will be $1.
A “Summertime in Hawaii”
party is scheduled for adult
members and guests on Satur­day
evening, July 30. ’ Dress
for the ladies will be muu-muus,
sarongs or grass skirts:
the men will wear aloha
shirts and Bermudas. While
the traditional poi (eaten with
the fingers) will be dispensed
with for ¡sanitary reasons, . a
succulent meal will be provid­ed
for those not wishing to
bring their own food. Meal
tickets can be purchased. Tic­kets
should be purchased in
advance to enable the plan­ners
to estimate how many
meals to prepare.
Lt. Rader
COFFEE SHOP CLOSES
The coffee shop at the Gen­eral
Sutter closed its doors
yesterday; and only the dining
room will be used from now
on, the management said. It is
hoped to rent the room, it was
said.
Lititz Springs Sinks
Willow Street 212-147
The Lititz Springs Swim team
splashed home Tuesday night
with a decisive victory over
Willow Street to the tune of
212-147, in a meet in the home
pool.
This is the third straight
victory for Lititz Springs this
year — the best season they
have ever had thus far. Jo
Beth Long is coach.
Jennie Long broke two pool
records and won three races.
Bill Carvell- also bad three
wins, and broke one record.
Karl Kreider and Bill Liven-good,
with two victories each,
also each broke one record.
Gary Shelly broke one record,
and Deena Mull, while not a
•record breaker, had three in­dividual
victories.
Lititz won five out of eight
relays.
Individual winners were as
follows;
Freestyle
25 Meters
!tRecord broken.
Girls 8 and under: Carmitch-el,
WS, 21.1; Zimmerman, WS;
Sheryl Long, LS.
Boys 8 and under: *Karl
Kreider, LS, 17.8; Elias, WS;
Eichelberger, WS.
Girls 10 and under: Hoff-mier,
WS, 18.7; Regina Whis-keyman,
LS; Cindy McGarvey,
LS. Boys 10 and under: Randy
Stauffer, LS, 17.0; Jeff Mull,
LS; McCord, WS.
50 Meters
Girls 12 and under: Deena
Mull, LS, 37,5; Weaver, WS;
Mowrer, WS.
Boys 12 and under: Werner,
WS, 35.9; David Heiter, LS;
Mike Powers, LS.
Girls 14 and under: * Jennie
Long, LS, 31.4; Cindy Kauff-
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HONORED AT CAMBRIDGE
Robert B. Posey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert S, Posey, 609
Spruce St., has received an
Honors Degree for his first
year, at Cambridge, England.
Robert has received a scholar­ship
and will continue his sec­ond
year in International Law
at Cambridge.
Lt. Rader
Discharged
From Army
Lt. Richard C. Rader, II,
son of Postmaster and Mrs.
Richard C. Rader, 422 S. Cher­ry
St., was discharged July 10
from the U.S. Army after two
years of active duty with the
Reserves, including a month’s
duty in Saigon, Vietnam, re­cently.
He has returned to his
parents’ home.
Lt. Rader was graduated
from the Pennsylvania State
University in March, 1964,
when he was commissioned a
lieutenant in the United States
Army Reserves. After ten
weeks of student teaching at
'Easton, Pa., he wrote for his
orders and asked to come on
active duty.
From July 1964 to Febru­ary
1965, he was at various
Army schools, and then was
assigned to the 319th Military
Intelligence (MI) Battalion, at
Fort Hood, Tex., where he re­mained
two months. After
this he was assigned to the
United States Army of the Pa­cific
(USARPAC) and trans­ferred
to Fort Shatter at Hon­olulu,
Hawaii. He volunteered
for active duty in Saigon in
1966, where he remained about
a month, and then returned
to Hawaii.
Rader said that the Viet­namese
war seemed far away
when he started out on his
duties on the East Coast of
the United States and he was
not particularly interested in
it at that time. But he found
that as he moved to the West
Coast, and on to Hawaii and
then Saigon, his interest was
very much heightened, and he
felt much more involved and
in favor of the war.
Rader, twenty-three, said
that he feels personally that
the Vietnamese people are
fighting for their way of life
in South Vietnam, and that
the United States is helping
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7 New Houses
Started In June
Building permits issued by
the borough during the first
six months of 1966 totalled
$874.498. it was reported by
borough manager George D.
Steedle.
This is about $110.000 ahead
of the same period last year
when the permits came to
$765.760.
Permits issued during June
totalled $126,221. as compared
with $185,000 for the same pe­riod
last year.
Seven new dwellings ac­counted
for $105,000 of the
total, and remodeling permits
came to $21.221.
The permits for new homes
all were taken out by Susque­hanna
Builders, and are as
follows: 457 Fort Ross St., $13,-
000; 455 Fort Ross St., $13,000;
504 Gen. Sutter St., $14,500;
506 Gen. Sutter St., $14,500;
510 Hensley St„ $13,500; 512
Hensley St., $13,500; 211 Ox­ford
Drive, $23,000.
Remodelling permits were
issued as follows: Wagaman
Bros., Second and Pine Sts.,
addition to present building,
$16.000; Ember Witmer, 142
Spruce St., aluminum siding,
$1,680: Kervin Martin, 230 New
St., new siding, $1,000: Wal­ter
Strickler, 44 E. Center St.,
aluminum siding, $991; Vernon
Dillman, 120 W. Third St.,
new roof, $700; Robert Buch,
219 E. Main St., enclose rear
porch for kitchen, $250; Mar­lin
Wolf, 5 W. Orange St., re­pair
front porch, $200; Ray­mond
Reedy, 151 S. Spruce
St., repair porch roof, $200;
M. C. McCloud, 158 E. Front
St, install new powder room,
$ 200.
Lititz - Neffsville
Firemen To Tangle
In Donkey Ball Game
Lititz Firemen are practicing
up on their “donkeymanship”
to meet the Neffsville Fire
Company team which has chal­lenged
them to a game of Don­key
Baseball Saturday, July 16,
at 7 p.m. at the Manheim
Township community park,
Neffsville.
The ballgame, which is play­ed
from the backs of trained
donkeys, is reputed to be wild­er
than a rodeo and funnier
than a circus. The animals are
supplied by the Buckeye Don­key
Ball Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Both clubs have announced
that their players are on a
strict diet of oats and raw
carrots. Several of the Ideal
druggists announced on hear­ing
of the game that they are
increasing their supply of
liniment in anticipation of a
large increase in business the
next day.
The Lititz Fire Company
line-up will be Skin Mowrer,
Potty Bingeman, Wiggy Wie-gand,
Grubb Grumbling, Deep
Walls, Dong Zong, Hatty Hat­field,
Dippy Reed, Windy Sna-vely,
Fire Ball Shelly, Killer
Keller and Chubby Keller.
The Neffsville Fire Company
All Starts have announced
their line-up as follows: Baldy
Kratzert, Shorty Getz, Speedy
Rothfuss, Slim Ross, Red Rear­don,
Smoky Stauffer, Oily Wetz-ler.
Woody Herr and Grub
Ruth; subs: Blacky Overly,
Teach Stauffer and Banker
Buch.
Tickets are on sale'" and may
be obtained from members of
the Fire Company. Gerald Elm­er,
chairman of ticket sales
reports a brisk advance sale,
and urged spectators to get
their tickets as soon as pos­sible,
as the seating , capacity
of the park bleachers is limit­ed.
A midget game will precede*
the donkey ballgame, the Neffs­ville
Red Sox vs the Landis-ville
Midgets.
2 Men Cause
Disturbance
On 2nd Ave.
Two young men were ar­rested
for disorderly conduct
following an altercation with
a police officer last Friday
night on W. Second St., in
front of Wagaman’s printing
firm, according to Chief of Po­lice
George C. Hicks.
They were Kenneth Df Ditz-ler.
twenty-two, Pequea Rl,
who is currently on state pa­role
for burglaiy and larceny,
and Ronald S. Weirich, twen­ty-
one, 108 E. Lincoln Ave.,
who were brought before Jus­tice
of the Peace J. Russel
Graul, Neffsville. Ditzler plead­ed
guilty to charges of dis­orderly
conduct and paid a fine
and costs. Weirich posted bail
for a hearing after being
charged with disorderly con­duct
and obstructing an officer
in the execution of prosecu­tion.
Chief Hicks said that Officer
Leroy Emmerich was on pa­trol
and was making a routine
check of a car which had gone
into a private driveway. He
Was stopping the car when the
driver (Ditzler) and a pas­senger
(Weirich) became loud
and disorderly. A second pas­senger
did not cause a prob­lem
and was let go.
Ditzler also was charged the
same day with having an un­signed
operator’s license be­fore
Justice of the Peace Har­old
H. Kauffman by Officer
Emmerich.
Bucks Traffic
William K. Kisser, Salunga,
was charged with bucking traf­fic
in the borough on July 8
by Officer James Fritz before
Justice of the Peace Harold
H. Kauffman.
Minor Accident
A two-car accident occurred
Tuesday at 11:55 a.m. on North
Broad St., at North Lane, it
was reported by Chief of Po­lice
Hicks.
He said that Willis J.
Greenawalt, Box 1102, Lancas­ter,
was parked at the curb
near the intersection, and
pulled away, entering the lane
of traffic and colliding with
Leroy Miley. 117 S. Cedar St.,
Lititz, who was traveling north
on North Broad St. Total
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