Lititz Record Express

              ¥"• - s- ' •- , > W*9m^:^f{¿rr^:mv^!3r$t:f^:^í.i4Cl-e>^"V^ivii‘v'-Oi:- -»v>- ;->-"?:¡¡w :^«Tîï,.
r - ' < ■ •■•:'•."- ' ; v ; tî.;; :ï - : • / ; / ; ; ^ . ^ . . ; ; :<iy
‘/'K-1
Serving The Warwick ÎArea For Nearly A Century
taissaasES
91st Year E s t a b l i s h e d A p r il, 1877, a s T h e S u n b e am
(C o n s o lid a te d w i th T h e I r t t i t z R e c o rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster €o., Pa. 17543, Thursday, April 27, 1967 10 c e n t s a C o p y ; $4.00 p e r y e a r b y m a i l
w i th in L a n c a s t e r C o u n ty 12 Pages — Np. 3
Petition Urges
Boro Council To
Purchase Sutter
Borough Council at its meet­ing
Tuesday night received a
petition signed by 17 residents
suggesting that the borough
purchase the Sutter Hotel prop­erty
and use it as a borough
building. It also suggested an
alternative which would in­volve
razing the property and
building a new fire hall.
Council President Curtis Am-idon
stated it was an “inter-é
s t i n g suggestion” but that
‘right now we have a full pro­gram.”
Evidently he meant
that he felt there were no
funds available.
In other business Council:
-Awarded a street resurfac­ing
c o n t r a c t to George M.
Scantling, Wrightsville, for
$12,437.
-Awarded a bid for a 1967
truck to Martin Chevrolet for
$3500. and the old truck.
-Approved the purchase of
a typewriter and duplicating
machine.
-Announced two Mercury
vapor night lights will be in­stalled
at the Municipal Park­ing
lot.
-Decided to open the Lititz
Springs Pool on May 30 with
a free day for all.
-Announced the summer
garbage collection schedule will
be bi-weekly Wednesday and
Saturday from June 1 to Sep­tember
30.
-Received a request from
Clyde Watts, 101 E. Main St.,
that the borough provide off
street free parking areas for
residents who live in metered
areas òr "élse issue them" sp'e-
(Continued on Page 6)
Orientation
For 6th Grade
Begins May 2
The Sixth Grade orientation
program for Warwick elemen­tary
schools will begin Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday, May
2, 3, and 4, when Stephen Palino­vi
c, guidance counselor, and
Carl B. Kaufman, Junior High
School principal, will visit the
various sixth grades in the dis­trict
to acquaint them with the
policies, rules, and regulations
of the junior high school. The
primary purpose of these pro­grams
is to simplify and expe­dite
the transition from sixth to
seventh grade.
The following schedule has
been set up ir conjunction with
the administration and guidance
counselors of the district:
, Tuesday, May 2, 9 a.m., visit
John Beck building, Brunner-ville;
Wednesday, May 3, 9 a.m.,
visit Lititz Elementary building;
May 4, 9 a.m. Visit Kissel Hill
Building.
Monday, May 8, 9:15 a.m.,
John Beck building will visit
the Junior High School; Tues­day,
May 9, 9:15 .a.hi., Lititz
elementary building will visit
the Junior High School; and
Wednesday, May 10, 9:15 a.m.,
Kissel Hill students will visit
the Junior High School.
On Wednesday, May 10 at 7
p.m., all sixth grade parents are
invited to attend an orientation
evening program in the high
school auditorium to acquaint
them with the policies of the
high school. Following the pro­gram,
a coffee hour will be held
in the cafeteria.
Boro Moves To Rezone
East Main St.; Atlantic
Expected to Drop Option
Five More Students Get Scholarships
, ---g¡ggg|
W ÊÊttüK ÊÊSK ÈÊ i
Z 'V ' «*hb
’¿ S i ; V
mÈÊSÊSÈ
Lititz Youths
Escape Work Camp
Area police have been alert­ed
to look for two Lititz area
youths who escaped from the
Pennsylvania Correctional In­stitution
at Camp Hill Monday
night.
According to a teletype, the
youths, Richard D. Enck, eigh­teen,
of 406 S. Broad St., Lit­itz,
and Harry D. Miller, eigh­teen
of Lititz R4, walked away
from a forestry camp operated
by the institution near Pinchot
State Park in York County.
ARTISTIC CREATIVENESS shown by Senior Citizens’ entries in Hobby show.
In top photo, Philip Bucher, Lititz R3, is shown with the beautiful hooked ru g ,“Eas­te
r Parade,” which he made, and in the lower photograph is th e artistic and delicate
Easter Egg tree created b y his wife. These were among the outstanding exhibits in
the hobby show held by the Sr. Citizens last week in th e Rec. Center.
(Record-Express photo)
School Menu
MONDAY
Grilled hamburg, potato nug­gets,
carrot sticks, assorted
fruit, roll, milk.
„TUESDAY
Sub or grilled cheese, chips,
celery sticks, applesauce, roll
or bread,'- milk.
WEDNE$DAY
Glazed meat loaf, buttered
green beans, cole slaw, cookies,
bread, milk.
THURSDAY
Oven fried chicken, mashed
potatoes, buttered peas, jello
with topping, bread, milk.
FRIDAY
Fish sticks or pizza, cheese
wedge, buttered corn, fruit,
bread, milk.
Damage Is $370
In 2-Car Crash
Total damage estimated, at
$370 resulted in a two-car ac­cident
at North Cedar and New
Streets April 19, it was report­ed
by Chief of Police George-
C. Hicks.
He said a car driven by
Miriam E. Herr, 1926 Blue
Ridge Drive, Lancaster, stopped
at a stop sign and entered the
intersection in front of a car
driven by Matilda Sharpless,
Lititz Rl. Mrs. Herr will be
charged with failure to yield
the right of way by Officer Le­roy
P. Emmerich before Jus­tice
of the Peace Paul F.
Diehm.
Forgot Glasses j
A two-car accident at S.
Broad Street and Juniper Lane
on April 24 was attributed to
the fact that one of the driv­ers
was not wearing glasses, 'as
her license required.
Chief Hicks reported that
Kathleen K. Adams, seventeen,
Lititz R4, hit the rear of a car
(Continued on Page 2 )
Senior Citizens’ Hobbies
Reveal Artistic Skills
A Lititz couple has shown
outstanding -artistry and creat­iveness
in arts and craft work,
it was revealed through the
Hobby show held by members
of the Senior Citizens Club at
the Lititz Recreation Center
on April 20.
Attracting quite a bit of at­tention
were the displays of
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bucher,
Lititz R3. Bucher has made a
number of handsome hooked
rugs, while his wife specializes
at present in creating artistic
decorated Easter eggs.
The show was held in con­junction
with a covered dish
banquet attended by 116 mem­bers.
There were about 20
hobby exhibits.
One of Bucher’s finest ex­amples
of rug making Is a
three by five foot rug entitled
“Easter Parade.” It contains
blending shades of yellow,
York Radio Thinks Test
Is Real Fire In Lititz
Only one thing went amiss
with a highly successful fire
test conducted by the Lititz Fire
Company Monday night, when a
simulated fire was “fought” at
Long and Bomberger.
Even though all fire calls
went out preceded by the
words: “This is a test,” a York
radio station intercepted the
call, lost its head, and rushed on
the air announcing that “a big
fire was burning in the center
of Lititz.” To quell the rumor,
the dispatcher went on the air
again stating that this specifi­cally
was a test; fire officials
called the York station, and
they apologized for going on
the air without checking first.
The fire test began at 6:10
p.m., and ended at 6:45 p.m. In
less than seven minutes six fire
companies had responded to
the call with nine fire trucks,
according to Lititz Fire Chief
Ammon Shelly. It took less
than two minutes to get water
flowing, and they were pump­ing
over 2000 gallons a minute,
Shelly said. He added they
were very well pleased with the
water supply, pointing out that
they used to have trouble be­fore
the Kissel Hill station was
activated. They used six 2Vz-inch
lines; two 1 Vz-inch lines, I
one deluge stream and one |
letter stream. Eighty-five fire­men
took part from the fol­lowing
companies: Lititz, three
pieces of apparatus; Manheim,
two pieces; Penryn, Brunner-ville,
Rothsville and Neffsville,
one each.
While the maneuver attracted
plenty of attention, no one ap­peared
to think Long and Bom­berger
was burning down.
brown, green, red, maroon, or­ange
and gray in the floral
design'.
“In order to obtain just the
right shade,” Bucher explained,
“I buy a large amount of
white wool and my wife dyes
it eight different shades.”
Bucher, who retired two
years ago from the Sensenich
Corp., where he was employed
for 22 years, states he was
self-taught in his hobby with
the aid of several books. He
estimates it took him about
six months to complete the
rug, - which he made in his
spare time.
A gaily decorated Easter egg
tree and an array of artistical­ly
decorated eggs of different
sizes were displayed by Mrs.
Bucher. Utilizing such items
as beads, jewels, rickrack, rib­bon,
sequins and velvet, she
has created unique pieces of
handicraft in the forms of bas­kets,
bird houses, and a varie­ty
of scenes. Miniature ani­mals,
birds and people are
used in depicting the scenes.
Backgrounds are obtained from
greeting cards.
Mrs. Bucher noted that she
preferred to work with duck,
goose, turkey and “banty”
eggs. The eggs have been col­ored
or covered with velvet.
They are attached to the tree
by pipe cleaners and jewelry
chains.
Mrs. Bucher, who has been
working on her hobby for a
year, also finds time to braid
wool rugs and do needlepoint.
Other Hobbies
Also exhibiting rugs were
Mrs. Nettie Minnich, three mul­ti-
colored braided wool rugs
and Mrs. S. C. Rannels, . a
hooked rug in a tree and leaf
design. N
A novel idea was created by
Mrs. Elsie Becker who crochet­ed
circular hot dish pads from
twine which was formerly used
to tie mail at the local post
office.
A unique bouquet of roses
(Continued on Page 2)
; Fi ve more Warwick High
School students have received
scholarships, it was announced
.at,,the school this week.
ifohn Rohrer, son of Mr. and
Mfs. "Menno Rohrer, 5 Kissel
Hill Road, has been offered a
scholarship by New College,
Sarasota, Fla., amounting to
$1550 for each of his four
years, a total of $6200. Rohrer
is -a member of the National
Honor Society, the band, or-v
ehestra, yearbook staff and
took part in the class play.
Eileen Grube, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Grube,
Rothsville, received a $1000
scholarship from Pennsylvania
Higher Education Assistance.
She will attend Keystone Jun­ior
College in LaPlume, Pa.,
where she’ will major in mer­chandising.
She is on the
school paper and yearbook
staffs, member of Pep Club,
band and orchestra, and is a
library assistant.
Two other students received
70th-, Wedding
For Local' Pair .
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Meiskey,
who live at the United’ Zion
Home,- will observe their 70th
wedding anniversary on May
19, 1967.
Former residents of Lancas;
ter. they have ' been ' guests at
jthe home since September 1961'.
’ Mr. Meiskey. was- horn Jamb,
ary 25, 1874, making him nine-ly-
lhree years old, arid his wife
Cora was born January 28, 1875,
making her ninety-two. They
are members of the Hempfield
FUB church.
Although both are nearly
blind, they are able to get
around, but spend most of their
lime in their room. They oc­casionally
listen to the radio.
Woman’s Club
Praised For
Scout Work /
The Lititz, Woman’s Club
was honored for its part in
Girl Scouting by the Penn
Laurel Girl Scout Council at
its meeting April 20 in York.
The Council acknowledged
and expressed its appreciation
to the club for its outstanding
support and interest in the
program. The club has fully
accepted the sponsorship' re­sponsibilities
of all Lititz Girl
Scout Troops since 1941. Mrs.
Garth Becker, president of the
club, was presented with an
engraved Girl Scout statuette
as a token of thanks and ap­preciation.
Over 700 organizations and
institutions sponsor Girl Scout
troops in the council.
COMPLETES COURSE
Officer Robert C. Keller, of
the Lititz Police force, recent­ly
completed a 40-hour basic
municipal police course con­ducted
by the Pennsylvania
State Police. Keller, who was
recently made a full-time po­liceman,,
was one. of 40 officers
who took the course, Which be­gan
last February.
"ïmÊÊÊÊÈm
a « » ^
Í -V
w
1 I I P
' *‘* k
s "rii1
John Rohrer /
scholarships from Pennsylvatiia
Higher Education. Donna Wie­gand,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George. H. Wiegand, 323 E.
Second Avenue, was awarded
$350; and Carol Miller, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R.
Miller, 320 S. Broad St., was
awarded $200.. Miss Wiegand
will attend Millersville State
College, majoring in Library
Science. Her activities include
hockey, Glee Club, Pep Club
and Varsity club.
Nursing Scholarship
Jennifer Eberly, whose guard­ians
are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
.Snavely, 429 E. Main St., re­ceived
a $600 Scholarship from
the Lancaster'Gsteopa I hie Hos­pital.
She plans to attend the
Lancaster General'# Hospital
School of Nursing. Her extra­curricular
activities: include
working as a nurse’s aide at
the Osteopathic Hospital, and
participating in the school
band.
Jennifer Eberly
IB
i
WÊÊm
Eileen Grube
High School Honor Rolls
List Total jOf 135 Pupils
Swarf, Denise Witweri
Tenth grade: Michael .Car-vell,-
Madeleine Gery, Patricia
Deneeri, Donald Deibler, Peg­gy
Griffith, Glenn Grove, James
Harbison, Nancy Hofferth, Jane
Kauffman, Beth Martin,... Ro-maine
MeAlpin, Diane Neial,
V’ickie Ober, Kathy PetticoffeV,
Marta Smith, Rebeeca Shannon.
‘Junior High School
Ninth grade: Thomas Boa-man,
Margaret Cravens, Donna
Feaser, Linda deFernelmont,
Rebecca Doster. Susan Good,
Karen Irvin, Denise Kline, Ly­dia
Kowalewski, Ricky Long,
Barbara Rathman, Gary Ober,
James Shannon, Donna Steffy,
Diane York.
Eighth grade: Sandra Bol­linger,
William Bell, Brian
Dorimoyer, Jamie Everett, Re­becca
Busch, John Gery, Ken­neth
Grube, Susan Harbison,
(Continued on Page 2)
1802 Petition
Against Sutter
Gas Station
That the whole town is al­most
100 percent opposed to
having the General Sutter Ho­tel
torn down to make way for
a gas service station is evi­denced
by 1802 signers of a
petition presented to Council
Tuesday night, opposing the
project.
A total of 135 Seniof arid
Junior High School ; students
are on the Honor Rolls, for
the marking period ending
April 17, it was announced’ Jby
Harold W. Swisher, Sèriiof
High principal, and Carl B.
Kaufman, Junior High princi­pal.
• ’ ' . , •
The Senior High students
number 47, including 18 in the
10th grade, 15 in the 11th
grade, and 16 in the 12th
grade.
The 7th grade in Junior High
had the largest number of all,
a total of 54 pupils. The 8th
grade had 19, and the 9th
grade, 15 on the roll.
The rolls are as follows:
Senior High School
Twelfth grade: Rebecca Da­vidson,
Kenneth Eshleman,
Wilma Gibble, Eileen . Grube,
Peggy Harbison, Constance
Hollinger, Charlotte Hduchin,
David Klase, Delores Mishler,
John Reidenbaugh, John Roh­rer,
Kathleen Shannon, Doris
Snyder, John Spahr, Dennis
Sprout, Neil White.
Eleventh gradé: ftiehahi Cor-daro,
Charlotte Good, Tÿrône
Griffith, Roger Hershey, Den­nis
Keller, Joseph Lahr, Caleb
Minnich, Richard Oehme, Lin­da
Ressler, Barbara Schben-berger,
Robert Seibert, Howett
Seiverling, Nancy Smith, Mary
Late Bulletin!
George Tracy, manager of
real estate for the Atlantic
Refining Company in Phila­delphia,
was contacted by
this newspaper late Wednes­day
afternoon and Informed
of Council’s d e c i s i o n to
change the zoning on East
Main Street to prohibit gas
stations.
Tracy stated, “This is ex­cellent
. . . They’re going
about it in the proper and
right way. If this is the -will
of the people and Council
wants it (the zoning change)
that is fine. The proper ap­proach
is to change the zon­ing.
Before, we couldn’t step
aside and let a competitor
construct a Service ■ station;”
Tracy was informed that
the zoning change would
probably not become effective
until Council’s May 31st
meeting, and asked if .Allan-,
tic might exercise its option
previous to that time, he1
said, “We are not of fhe teni-per
to go out of our Way W
beat it. We want to do. busi-_
ness with the people and ap­preciate
their good Will. We
have not signed a contract to
buy, only an option. We
would not use gimmicks OF
technicalities.”
Tracy noted that if the
zoning is changed Atlantic
will probably drop its inter­est,
but may attend the Plan­ning
Commission meeting pit
May 9.
•’t i ”i i Hu - - I.’ m 1 r M>r
Flower Planting In Park
Reveals “Maverick” Tulips
The first planting of native
wildflowers was made in the
Lititz Springs Park by mem­bers
of the Conservation de­partment
off the Lititz Wom­an’s
Club last week.
Small groups of red and yel­low
columbine, lavender hare­bells
and wild bergamot were
planted for summer blooming.
Orange butterfly weed, violet
and sedum will be added lat­er.
Additional plantings are
scheduled for fall.
Preparation for the seedlings
included the use of' weed kil­ler
by the park commission
last fall.
With fewer weeds, a cluster
of yellow tulips was noticed
for the first time in the area.
Any information on the his­tory
or origin of the bulbs
would be greatly appreciated
by the conservation depart­ment
who are responsible for
the planting project.
People are asked to Call 626-
6814 if they know the narrie
of the tulip or who planted it
there, apparently many years
ago, as the foliage is wide­spread
throughout the rough­er
ground on the slopes.
The island near the Recrea­tion
Center will also be ■ re­planted
by members \of the
conservation department. Mrs.
Howard Minnich is in ''charge
of the project.
Warwick Grads
Flan Banquet
The executive committee of
the Warwick High School Alum­ni
Association announces plans
for the eleventh annual ban­quet.
This year’s banquet will
be held at Plain and Fancy
Farm in Bird-In-Hand on Sat­urday,
June 3, at 6:30 p.m.
The anniversary classes to be
honored will be the classes of
1957, 1947, 1942, 1937, 1927,
1917, 1907 and 1897. The mem­bers
of the anniversary classes
will be mailed invitations next
week while other alumni should
watch for the announcement in
the coming issues of the Lititz
Record-Express on how to se­cure
tickets for the banquet.
The presentation of the Rev.
I Walton Bobst Awards will
be made to the top three rank­ing
members of the class of
1967 of Warwick High School.
The officers of the Alumni
Association for this year are
James C. Gibbel, president;
Samuel L. Hess, vice president;
Richard L. Mearig, treasurer;
Mrs. - Geneva Rapp Hopkins,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Joan Klopp Clair, assistant cor­responding
secretary; and Mrs.
Linnea Minnich Hershey, re­cording
secretary.
The signatures -were obtain­ed
throughout the borough -by '
an army of about 200 men,
women and young people, whô.
organized of their own Voli­tion.
(This grovip of “âüntite*
mèn” was sparked, by Mrs.
Dennis Craig, 28 S. Brbcfd St, >
who, the minute she hpafd
about the proposal, felt tMt
something should be done to
preserve the historic appear­ance
of the center of town.
She enlisted the aid of Mrs.
Franklin Cassel who had cus­tody
of the list of Community
Chest captains and workers,
and the two immediately alert­ed
these people and had the .
town covered within a few
hours. .
Meanwhile, the Historical '
Foundation, the Shade Trée
commission and the Lititz Li­ons
club went on record as op­posing
the proposed gas sta­tion.
, ( ,
In addition, letters opposing ;
it were sent by Keller Bros.
Auto Co., Long & Bomberger, ’
Wm, B. Fry, Charles Lehman ,
and Way Oil Co., Lancaster.
And the borough also, weiit
to work to take steps Which
would seek to' préserve the
present status of the Square.
The Lititz Borough Plan­ning
Commission has called
a public meeting to be held
May 9, at 7:30 p.m. In thé
borough office at South Broad
Street, to consider recom­mendations
to amend the
borough’s zoning ordinance,
by making changes in the
(Continued on Page 2)
Community
Calendar
May 2-6:00 PM., Rotary Club
at the Sutter Hotel.
-8:00 PM., Rebekah Lodge'
#435 at I.O.O.F. Hall.
May 4-6:30 PM., ABCD Moth­er
& Daughter Banquet at
the Center. - , ,
-7:30 PM., Eire Company,
■Auxiliary at Fire- House. .
-8:00 PM., Rolling ; Hills •;
Scout meeting at'the Cen­ter.