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(Consolidated with The L i tltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, March 30,1967 10 cen ts a Copy; $4.00 per y e a r by mall
within Ziancaster County 12 Pages — No. 51
Township Permits
Hit All-Time High
Fifteen building permits with
a total value of $220,350 were
issued in Warwick township in
the period between March 1
and March 28, it was reported
by Mrs. Ruth Wetzel, building
permit clerk.
This is the largest monthly
figure on record for the town­ship.
Of the total, 12 permits were
for new houses at a combined
'•ost of $203 700, one was for a
lew car wash at $5500; one
for a new calf barn at $S000,
and only one was for remodel­ing,
at $2150.
Local Units
Have Lowest
T a x Costs
Lititz B o r o u g h, Warwick
tdwnship and Elizabeth town­ships
have what are believed
to be the lowest costs for tax
collection of any other places
in the state, a listing of col­lections
and costs reveals.
The taxes referred to indude
borough or township taxes,
school taxes and county taxes,
combined.
In the borough total collec­tions
were $568,933.72, and the
costs were $7201.60, a little
over one percent. The costs in­clude
the salary of $4168.95
paid the tax collector, Raymond
S. Reedy.
In Warwick township, costs
were only a little over one per­cent.
The total was $374,654.39
and cost to unit, $4949.32, .in­cluding
salary of tax collector,
Ruth Wetzel, $3894.60.
In Elizabeth township, costs
ran a little over one and a half
percent, the figures being .$98,*
840.62 collected, cost to unit,
$1560.40; tax collector, Cathryn
Adams, $1123.61, included
In contrast, it costs the Lan­caster
County Tax Collection
Bureau about 4.4 percent to
collect the wage tax.
LOO.F. Honors
Past Grands
Seven of the new houses will
be constructed by Lloyd May
for resale, four on the east side
of Fai rview Drive, at costs of
$14,300, $15,300, $14,600 and
$14,300; one on the west side
of Faii*view, $17,500; one at
the corner of Fairview and New
Haven Drives, $14,300, and one
on New Haven Drive, $14,900.
These combined permits amount i
to $107,200. I
Other permits for new dwell
ings were issued as follows: I
Garth Becker, 141 S. Spruce St.,
new dwelling fronting on Wood ' *
land Ave. in the Woodcrest Dc ;
velopment, $26,000; Hoy Keen- j
er, Manhérjn R2.' < ontiuitoi, '
east side of Newport ltd one
mile wèst of 501, split level
house, $32.000; Charles M Hal
mer, Lititz R2, new iwo-siory
house north side of Manheim
Street, $16.000; D & M Build­ers,
Manheim Ri, new dwell­ing,
south of. Brusen Drive for
Abram Geib, $18,000; Frederick j
J. Buch, Lititz Rl, dwelling and
relocate trailer on West side
of Dridge Hill Rd„ $6500.
Allen .W„ Weaver,. Lititz Rl,
was issued a permit to con­struct
a, new frame calf barn
on the south side of Carpenter
Rd. for $9000.
Paul H. Kurtz was issued a
permit to -build a four-bay ear
wash next to his garage at
Rothsville at a cost of $5500.
Robert' B. Risser, Lititz Rl,
was issued a permit to re­model
the kitchen at his farm
for $2150:
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Water Treatment; Nixes
Sutter Site Gas Station
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KOREAN VISITORS here are shown at their former home m Kenya, Africa.
Left to right, Mr. and Mrs. Kyu Sup Chung and children, Margaret, Peter, David
and John Franklin, who recently visited Dr. and Mrs. Franklin K. Cassel. Chung is
presently assigned to the Korean embassy in Washington, D, C. ' ■' , ' ■ . -
2 Girls To Attend
Teen Conference
Candace Seiveriing, Lititz Rl,
and' Shirley Buekwalter, Lititz
R3, are among six teen leaders
from Lancaster county who will
ti
L e a u e s n i p
Southeastern Pennsylvania to
be held at the Cocoa Inn, Her-shey,
Friday. Saturday and Sun­day
About 80 young people
from 13 counties are expected
to attend.
Korean
Visit Cassel Family Here
Korean Minister and -Mrs.
ake part in the 1967 4-H Teen I ng and children,
. l e ade r ship conference for J °h" * ranklm David Peter
Warwick Church Ass’n
To Revise Constitution
’’A new proposed Constitution ; Paul’s Evangelical Congrega-
A Past Grands night was
held by the Lititz IOOF Lodge
1050 March 27 at the Lodge
Hall.
Raymond Reedy served as
Master ot Ceremonies and pre-! ministers plus seven lay dele
sented membership awards to gates from each church. Pres-and
by-laws have been drawn
up by the Warwick Association
of Churches and have been
mailed to all ministers, lay rep­resentative
«, and presidents or
lay leaders of each member
church.
The hew Constitution and by­laws
have been- submitted for
study and approval by each
church-governing body. On
Thursdày, May 11, the minis­ters,
lay delegates, and repre­sentatives
of the ten member
churches will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Lititz Moravian Church
to discuss the proposed Con­stitution
and by-laws.
Previously the membership
consisted of member churches’
these Lodge Brothers: Eugene
Long, Lititz, and William Hen­ry,
Columbia, 60 years; Robert
Brown, Columbia, Harry Storm-feltz,
Lititz and Louis Sturgis,
Lititz, 50 years.
Harry Gring, Reinholds, State
Assemblyman, was the guest
speaker. Herbert Carvell, no­ble
grand, presided at the meet­ing.
Lodge members voted for
Grand Lodge officers.
ently the Warwick Association
of Churches is operating under
tional, Erunnervillc Evangel!
cal, United Brethren, Lititz Ev­angelical
United Brethren, Sa­lem
Evangelical United Breth­ren,
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lu­theran,
Moravian Congregation,
and St. Paul’s United Church
of Christ.
The president of the associ­ation
is James C. Gibbel; vice-president,
Rev. James E. Stou-gh;
secretary, Mrs. Edward C.
Crowl, Jr.; treasurer, Elmer C.
Allwine; executive board mem­bers
at large, Mrs. David D.
Forry, and Rev. Donald M. Co-hick,
, Gibbel, Rev. Stough, and
Allwine tormulated the pro­posed
Constitution and by-laws.
The projects of the associa­tion
include the Release Time
School, where 7th and 8th grade
students are offered non-sectar­ian
religious education for one
and Margaret, Washington, D
C„ spent the weekend visiting
| Dr. and Mrs. Franklin K, Cas­sel.
34 S. Broad St.
Mrs. Chung is the former. In
Sook Choi who had lived With
the Cassels for four and a half
years. She graduated from War­wick
High in 1955 and received
an honorable mention at the
Elmer Bobst awards presenta­tion.
She attended Juniata Col­lege,
Huntingdon, and George
Washington University, Wash­ington,
D.C.
In June of 1956, she mar­ried
Chung- who was serving as
a Korean Diplomat and tvavel-a
provisional, constitution and l hour per week, World Day of
by-1 a w s with ten. 'membe r ! Prayer service. Week of Pray-ehurches
represented by their 1er services, men’s communion
ministers and two lay delegates
— one man and one woman
from each church. The repre­sented
churches are the Lititz
Church of the Brethren, First
Church ot God, Trinity Evan­gelical
Congregat ional , St.
Opera Workshop Gives
Recital At Woman’s Club
The Lititz Woman’s Club held > Donations to the Cancer Fund
its monthly meeting Mareh 27
at the Warwick House, with a
varied program. The evening
got underway with candlelight
dessert, followed by musical se­lections
presented by members
of the Lancaster Opera Work­shop.
Mrs. William Jaede present­ed
Romaine Bridgett of the op­era
group who introduced solo­ists,
William Burnaford and
Putty Miller, and gave club
members a synopsis of the op­era
‘ Die Fledermaus.” A bene­fit
production of the workshop,
“Die Fledermaus” will be pre­sented
at the Fulton Theatre
June 14, 15, 16, and 17. Julia
Lindenmyer accompanied the
soloist in the portions of the
opera.
Mrs. Frank Everett present­ed
Mis. Willis Shenk. Lancas­ter,
who reviewed Herb Gard­ner’s
“A Thousand Clowns”, a
light comedy pointing up the
need for gaining a new' perspec­tive
in this computer age.
During the business meeting
which followed, presided over
by Mis. Garth Becker, presi­dent.
the slate of officers for
the 1967-68 season was approv­ed
by the membership. They
are: Mrs. Garth Becker, presi­dent;
Mrs. Herbert Fry, 1st
vice president: Mrs. Frank Ev­erett,
2nd vice president; Mrs.
Dennis Craig, secretary; Mrs.
John Skinner, c o r r e sponding
secretary, and Miss Barbara
Wise, treasurer.
of $25 and to the Crippled
Children’s Society of $35 were
approved, as was $50 to the
Post Prom Frolic of the War­wick
High School Senior Class.
Mrs. Ray Kauffman, chair­man
of the Fine Arts commit­tee,
a n n o u n c e d Federation
events in which the club will
participate. On April 10 there
will be a “walking tour” of
Strasburg, including a ride on
the Strasburg Railroad. Dead­line
for reservations, to be made
with Mrs. Kauffman, is March
31.
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School Menu
MONDAY
Grilled l iamburg. buttered
corn, relish tray, assorted fruit,
roll, milk.
TUESDAY
Sub or grilled cheese sand­wich,
cup tomato soup, chips,
banana, bread or roll,, milk.
WEDNESDAY
Baked ham & sliced cheese,
lettuce, baked potato, cookies,
bread, milk.
THURSDAY
Oven fried chicken, mashed
potatoes, gravy, buttered peas,
jello with topping, bread, milk.
FRIDAY
Deep sea poodle (fish), pota­to
buds, tomato sauce, popsicle,
roll, milk.
breakfast, Holy Week services
for elementary school pupils,
Good Friday services, commun­ity
park services every Sunday
evening in summer, and the
Reformation Day Rally. The as­sociation
is presently consider­ing
expanding the Release Time
School to include 9th grade
students and to hold a Youth
Rally in autumn.
Man Collapses,
Is Hospitalized;
Companion Fined
Borough police were called
to the Parkview Hotel at 11:30
p m. Monday, where a man had
collapsed.
Officers James S. Fritz and
Leroy P. Emmerich responded,
and summoned Dr. Joseph
Grosh, who ordered the man
taken to the Lancaster General
Hospital in the Warwick Am­bulance
and admitted.
The man’s name was given as
Robert Witmer, 2605 Lititz
Pike, Neffsville. His condition
was reported by hospital at­tendants
as satisfactory Tues-1
day.W
ith him was Larry Geib,
eighteen, 55 N. Broad St., who
iiad been drinking according to
police. He v/as charged with
a minor consuming alcohol by
Officer Emmerich before Squire
Diehm. and paid a fine of $59
and easts.
ed to Germany. England, and
Africa. , • • , i >
Chung has just completed a
two-year .term of duty as, Am­bassador
to Kenya, Africa, and
is now assigned, as Koreaa Min­iator
in the Korean Embassy
at, Washington,. D.C.,..
AutoCrashes
In Boro Mar
Safety Score
Damage totaling $475 result­ed
from a two-car accident
March 23 at West Fourth and
South Broad Streets, it was re­ported
by Chief of Police Ge­orge
C. Hicks.
He said that John M. Neff.
357 E. Main St., was traveling
north on S. Broad, and after
he passed a vehicle which was
signaling for a left turn onto
West Fourth Street,1 struck a
car driver by Evelyn D. Wal­ters,
208 E New St, traveling
south on South Broad. Neff had
passed to the loft of the ve­hicle
which had stopped to
turn He will be prosecuted for
illegal passing at an intersec­tion,
Chief Hicks said. Damage
to Neff’s ear was estimated at
$150, and to the Walters car',
$325.
Damage Is $550
An accident in which a car
struck a parked vehicle result*
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Legion Award For
Miss FenstermacHer
Donna Lynn Fenstermacher,
formerly of Lititz, who now
lives at 110 S. Prince St., Lan­caster,
will receive a Me r i t
Award from American Legion
Post 34 Friday evening, April
7, for her action in giving
emergency first aid to a strick­en
man in a downtown depart­ment
store March 24.
Donna applied mout h-to-mouth
resuscitation technique
to Raymond O. Stauffer, Holt-wood,
who suffered an appar­ent
heart attack while shop­ping,
and fell to the floor. Lat­er
he was taken to the Gener­al
Hospital where attendants
credited Donna with being a
big factor in saving the man’s
life.
The seventeenyear-old girl,
now a s e n i o r at Lancaster
Country Day School, learned
the mouth-breathing technique
while a student at Warwick
High School. Her teacher who
gave her the instructions was
Miss Jo Anne Smith, physical
education teacher at Warwick
for about ten years, who is now
teaching at a college in Bos­ton.
Donna’s mother is Mrs. Doris
Fenstermacher, formerly Wel­come
Wagon hostess and su­pervisor
in this area, and now
executive secretary of the Lan­caster
Heart Association. Her
father is Robert J. Fenster-macher.
41.3 Laurel St., Lititz.
U 99 Arabian Sugar Cake
Opens 2-Night Stand
“Arabian Sugar Cake” opens, also go in behind the scenes in
tomorrow night on -the War-¡preparing for this annual af-wick
High School Stage for a ! fair so many Lititz residents
two-night stand after s even
months of preparation. Curtain
time is 8:30 p.m. ...
This eighth annual original
musical. comedy presented by
the American Business Club of
Lititz for the. benefit of local
projects,, is. alive with music,
dancing and comedy. . •
Brief glimpses of a strictly
confidential script depicts the
life qf.a Persian nobleman who
has too. many wives- and- his
search for only one Ideal mate.
Throughout the lighthearted
production e m o t i o n s change
from laughter to sadness, but
musical comedy prevails when
the footlights are turned on in
this 1967 production, which .ac­cording
to. the- best - authorities,
is bigger and better than previ­ous
shows. -
Many wonderful hours of fun
and laughter have been put in­to
this show of shows, ¡but
thousands of hours of work
look forward to each year.
For those who have not yet
assured themselves of a seat
on Friday or Saturday «rights-,
tickets will continue to be sold
at Glassmyer’s, Bi n g e man’s,
Kepner’s, McElroy’s and will
be available at the box Office
for both nights while they last.
Robert G. Keller
Name Keller
Full Time To
Police Force
Robert G. Keller, 21 S. Sprute
St., was appointed a full-time
police officer by. Borough Coun­cil
at their meeting Tuesday
night to succeed the late How­ard
Dissinger.
Keller has been serving as a
part-time patrolman for the
i borough for the past year. He
is presently attending a 40-
hour basic police course con­ducted
by the Pennsylvania
State Police.
A native of Lititz, he is the
son of Mr. and Mrs, Clarence
B. Keller, 118 Liberty St., Lit­itz.
He is married to the for­mer
Ethel Carlton, of Ports­mouth,
New Hampshire, and
they are parents of three chil­dren.
Keller is a graduate of Lititz
High School and served eight
years in the Air Force. He is
a member of the Lititz Fire
Company.
Area Farmers Honored
By Stiegel Lions Club
Brickerville Fire
Co. To Get $1000
From Supervisors
The Elizabeth Township su­pervisors
have included the
sum of $1000 in their 1967 bud­get
to be allotted to the Brick­erville
Fire Company as a pay­ment
on their new fire engine,
William E. Hickman, chairman, j on the benefits derived from
said. 1 his vocation. Zerby gave a brief
The total expenses in the talk on Vo-Ag work. Lion Clar-new
budget are listed at $28,- ence Stauffer was in charge Of
265.78. No figures for income the entertainment,
were made public. The tax rate | The next meeting will he
will remain the same: eight j held April 13 and will feature
mills real estate, and $5 per i a Hobby night, and nomina-capita.
j tions for officers for 1967-68.
An Easter Egg Hunt was held
Fanner’s Night was observed
by the Baron Stiegel Lions
Club with a dinner meeting
March 23 at Polly’s Restaurant,
Brickerville.
Guests of honor included 13
area farmers, Clair W. Zerby,
Vo-Ag instructor at Warwick
High and FFA contest winners,
Lynford Weaver, Fai l C. Stauf­fer
and Howett Seiveriing. Fi­nancial
aid toward the contest
had been furnished by the Stie­gel
Lions. Weaver is treasurer
of the Cloister Chapter Of the
FFA; Stauffer is unior presi­dent
of the Cloister Chapter of
the F F A, and Seiveriing is
County president of the FFA.
Each of the winners showed
pictures of their work and spoke
March 25 at Mt. Airy and
Brickerville. Approximately 2Û0
children participated at each
urea.
Home Ransacked,
Money Stolen
- The home of Robert W. Delp,
425 S. .Broad Street, was bur­glarized
over the weekend, and
$8 in c h a ng e was stolen,
according to Chief of Police
George W. Hicks.
He reported that sometime
between 9 a.m. Saturday and
7:30 p.m. Sunday, while the
Delps were away for the week­end,
someone entered the home
through a rear window which
was pried open and the lock
broken off. Several rooms were
ransacked, and the thieves took
$8 in quarters and dimes, Chief
Hicks said.
List Lexington
Volunteers For
Cancer Drive
Mrs. Thomas B. Smith, Lititz
Rl, is chairman of the Lexing­ton
Cancer Drive volunteers
who will start their canvassing
on Saturday.
Her assistants are Mrs. Jean
V. Gosselin, Mrs. Darwin Mil­ler,
Mrs. Ernest Shaffer, Mrs.
Ralph Snyder and Miss Donna
Tennis, all of Lititz Rl.
FFA WINNERS were among honor guests' at Stiegel Lions’ dinner. Left to
¡right, Earl C. Stauffer, junior president of Cloister Chapter, FFA; Lynford Weaver,
treasurer of Cloister Chapter; Howett Seiveriing, County FFA president.
Sportsmen Plan
To Reorganize
The board Of directors of the
Lititz Sportsmen’s Association
will hold a reorganization meet­ing
Monday, April 3, at 7:30
p.m. at the American Legion.
The association has been in
existence for over 30 years,
but has been fairly inactive the
last few years. The hoard, in
urging all sportsmen of the
area to attend, stated that the
future of the organization de­pends
on the outcome of this
meeting. They state the pres­ent
officers will relinquish their
offices at this time officially,
and that it will be necessary
! for others to volunteer their
I services as officers. If there is
not enough interest to secure
a slate of officers at this meet­ing,
the association wi l l no
longer exist, they said.
Pheasant raising and stock­ing.
trout raising and stocking,
stream improvement, tree and
shrub planting and the Ham­mer
Creek lake are all on the
list of active accomplishments
of the Lititz Sportsmen’s asso-
1 ciation. The local group also is
a member of the Federated
Sportsmen’s clubs Of Pennsyl­vania,
and participales in their
activities.
Borough Council at its meet­ing
Tuesday night reviewed re­sults
of a recent water fluori­dation
poll taken among resi­dents,
but delayed voting on
the proposal until more infor­mation
is available.
Counci i decided to visit, oth­er
companies with soft water
equipment and fluoridation to
determine actual experience.
As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, 1,242
ballots had been returned. Citi­zens
voted in favor of fluorida­tion
981 to 221 and in favor-'of
water soitemnu 934 to 28z-. ■
A vote win come onry when
conn l h it ine information
it can get and all of its ques­tions
answered. It was reported
this would take omu time and
the question detinitely would
hot be on next month’s agenda.
Donald E. Rannels, 123 S.
Spruce St. urged council not
to install the water softening
equipment. He felt it was to©
expensive and there were oth­er
more vital matters which
needed financing. He was not
oppos ed to the fluoridatM«
project. '
Council decided to write a
letter to the Atlantic Refining!
Company discouraging them
from building a service station
at the site of the Genefal Sul*
ter Hotel. ’
Council had heard that the
company was investigating the
property for that purpose. They
felt it would be a bad site due
to traffic and pedestrian prob­lems
at that corner.
Elmer H. Bomberger, 217 :S.
Broad St., a former member of
council for 12 years, was named
to the Planning Commission to
fill theunexpired term of Garth
Becker.
The Lititz Evangelical United
Brethren Church asked council
to prohibit parking in front of
the church, on N. CedarStreet,
at all times. Council passed a
recommendation to establish a
‘Toad and unload” zone theft
on a 60-day trial period.
It was announced the traffic
signs and stop signs, are to be
upgraded by Dec. 31. 1968.
The Jaycees were granted
ermission to close the first
lock of E. Main Street on Sat*
urday, May 27, for a street
fai r.
Plans were made to dedicate
a plaque in the Revolutionary
War Ceme t e r y on E. Main
Sh eet on Memorial Day.
/A contract was awarded tb
International Harvester, Eptifa-la
for a 1967 industrial tractor
equipped with a 60-ineh rotary
mower at a cost of $2,018.87.
- The low bidder for a street
resurfacing , was Ge o r g e M.
Scantling, Wrishtsville. with a
bid of $12,437.12.
In other business:
-Borough manager George
S t e e d 1 e announced that the
state highways department in­formed
him that Woodcrest
Avenue would be completed be­tween
April 15 and May 15.
-It was reported income from
retail liquor licenses amounted
to $1500.
-Apparent low bidder for a
1967 stake truck was Martin
Chevrolet with a net cost to
the borough of $3500. Bids will
be studied and awarded at the
next meeting.
-Council accepted an invita­tion
to the Lititz Rotary’s meet­ing,
Council Appreciation Night,
on April 4,
- A p p o i n ted the following
swimming pool personnel: man­ager.
Robert Sensenig; refresh­ment
stand assistant, Mrs. Reba
Miller; refreshment stand, Judy
Shuler, Diane Waitz, Connie
Hollinger, Kathleen Whiskey-man:
head life guard, Nancy
Bredthauer; lifeguards: Dennis
Nagle, Michael Carvell, Gary
Shelly; office assistant, Bar­bara
Jo Spaid.
Community
Calendar
Mar. 31. 8:30 PM.. ABC Show
at High School Auditorium.
Apr. 1. 8:30 PM., ABC Show at
High School Auditorium.
8:30 PM.. Jr. Board Satur­day
Night; Dance at the
Center featuring “The Em­bers”.
Apr. 4, 6:00 PM., Rotary Club
at Sutter Hotel.
8:00 PM., Rebekah Lodge
#435 at: I.O.O.F. Hall.
Apr. 6, 7:30 PM., Fire Co. Aux­iliary
at the Fire House.