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(.Consolidated with The Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, September 21,1967 10 c en ts a Copy; 84.00 per y e a r by m all
w ithin L an ca ste r County 16 Pages — No. 24
To Submit ¡Will Represent Lititz ¡5 ta b b e d
Re-zoning |At Ephrata Fair
Proposal
Council Finns Public
Hearing On
October 31
Finn! plans for re-zoning
several «(»(-lions of the borough
will be submiHed lo borough
.mril Tin:.-day evening by
members of the planning com­mission.
If approved, council is ex­pected
to order an ordinance
prepared and plans to an­nounce
a public hearing on
the proposed changes, to be
held in councilman-ic chambers
on Tuesday, October 31.
The principal changes
would be to rc-zone North
Broad Street from industrial
and residential to eommcicial.
A commercial zone at Fen­wick
Development will be
changed to strictly res-idential.
Council also will consider
making a temporary load and
unload zone at the E. U. B.
Church, given a trial during
the past two months, a perman­ent
one. This zone is in ef­fect
'Sunday and Monday af­ternoons
and lias proved very
beneficial, resident s state
Linden Hall
An engineer’s plan for end­ing
the flooding of Linden
Hall campus following heavy
rainfalls, will he submitted
by - Henry Huth, Lancaster.
Hut-h also is expected lo pro­vide
the borough with a com­plete
estimate of costs.
Quick -action on this project
has been requested by Linden
Ha-ll officials who ate anxious
start a big ¡building expan­sion
early next year.
Four From Here
Hunt Caribou
In Labrador
Four local sportsmen will
leave here today for a ten-day
trip to the wilds of Labrador
where they will hunt for cari­bou.
The group includes Stanley
Weit, of Hopcland; John Keller,
John Henry Hershey and John
Helter, all of this borough. They
will return Saturday, September
30.
They will fly to Montreal to­day.
From there they will go to
Seven Islands and on to Labro-dor
City. From there they will
be flown by one of the pictures­que
bush pilots in a seaplane to
an “out-camp” on a lake appro­ximately
100 miles notheast of
Labrador City.
While originally planning to
divide their time between fish­ing
and hunting, the group
learned this week that fishing
restrictions will eliminate this
phase of their activities,
Death Disrupts
Reunion Plan
What was to have been a
happy reunion of l.hire-e focal
youths, all enlistees in the
air force, was saddened yester­day
by news of tine death of
the mother of one of the trio.
The youth being» recalled
less than a day after enter­ing
the service is Robert La-
Vigne, who left for New Cum­berland
Tuesday only a few
hours before the death of his
mother, Mrs. Mary Jl. LaVigne,
at 3:30 p.m. in the General
Hospital.
The Red Cross almost in>
mediately endeavored to inter­cept
La Vi grit: and have him
returned home but did not
.jucceed in contacting him until
Wednesday at Lackland. La-
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School Menu
Friday
Holly wood burgei'/lettuce, to­mato
& onions, chips, pineapple,
roll, milk
Monday
Chili - con - carne, l e t t u c e
wedge, apple crisp, bread, milk
Tuesday
Pork, sauerkraut, mashed po­tatoes,
peaches, bread, milk
Wednesday
Pizza, cheese wedge, buttered
corn, sunset salad, bread, milk
Thursday
Chicken & waffles, mixed
vegetables, celery sticks, home-
•made cake, bread, milk
Friday (Sept. 29)
Deep sea poodle (fish in roll),
potato buds, carrot sticks, as­sorted
fruit, roll, milk
Disturbing
Students
3 Drove Motorcycles
Thru Campus At
Linden Hall
The return of Linden Hall
students each September proves
an interesting and pleasant ad­dition
to the local scene.
Their appearance here this
year, however, was marred to
some extent by two incidents
of rowdyism, both of which
were quickly curbed by borough
A $100 savings bond will be,P°^cc a total of five ar-presented
to the winning candi-
Mrs. Ammon Shelly, 135 Mar­ket
St., will represent the Lititz
Fire Company at the Mrs. Fire
Chief contest at the Ephrata
Fair Thursday evening Septem­ber
28.
Mrs. Shelly was elected as a
candidate by the Ladies Auxi­liary
of the Lititz Fire Company
at a dinner meeting held recent­ly.
Candidates competing for the
Mrs. Lancaster County Fire
Chief title will be judged on
the basis of their participation
m Fire Company activities or
the activity of their husbands in
his respective company.
Mrs. Ammon Shelly
Woman’s Club
Hears Talk
By Analyst
The Lititz Woman’s Glulb
held its first meeting of the
1967-68 season on Monday
evening in the Lutheran Edu­cation
Building. Mrs. Garth
Becker, club president, pie-sided.
Mrs. Curtis Amidon
read the Collect.
“Let’s Face It,” analysis
from the Face and Features
was the -title of the different
and delightful program pre­sented
-by Mrs. Ruth L. Samp­ler,
Rosemont, Pa.
Reports from various com­mittees
were given. Mrs. Paul
Hess, chairman of the Wel­fare
committee, announced that
the comrmlteee will be fold­ing
TB stamps and asked for
volunteers.
The club voted to continue
sponsorship of the 14 Girl
Scout Troops of Lititz, upon
the motion made by Mrs. Ray
Kauffman, -chairman of the
Fine Arts and Education- com­mittee,
'Mrs. Kauffman also
announced that on Monday,
October 9, a -tour of Landis
Farm Museum will be con­ducted,
The tour is 'sponsored
■by the County Federation- as
part of their Community Ac­quaintance
program. Those
interested may contact Mrs.
Kauffman or be at the museum
at 9:30 «.mi: to join the tour.
The Home Life committee,
Mrs. John Garber, chairman,
will entertain members of the
Senior -Citizens in October.
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date with a $50 savings bond re­warded
lo the first runner-up
and a $25 savings bond going to
the second runner-up.
Mrs. Shelly is the financial
secretary of the local Ladies
Auxiliary and she operates the
Fire Base Station for Zone 2
at her home and at the place
where she works for the past
five years. She is employed as
a secretary to Paul F. Diehm,
Justice of the Peace and sur­veyor.
Mrs. Shelly, whose husband is
the fire chief of the local com­pany,
is the mother of two
children, Nancy, 19 and Gary
16, a junior at Warwick High.
Band Uniform
Fund At $2,470
Donations to- the - Warwick
High School band uniform
fund have reached a total of
$2,470.19, according to a re­port
submitted at a meeting
of the Warwick Uniion School
Board Tuesday evening.
Curvi-n C. Smith, newly-elected
superintendent of the
school district, was present at
the meeting. In defining his
duties, directors placed him in
complete charge, with Marlin
Spa-id, supervising principal,
and Herbert E. Fry, business
manager, reporting to him.
Resignations were formally
accepted from three teacher’s:
Mrs. Anna 'Mellinge^ element­ary
art; Mrs. Martha Gingrich,
Rothsville, and Mrs. Mary Dra-beck,
music, high school.
-Mrs. Alice Keener was em­ployed
-as temporary sixth
grade teacher in the Lititz
Elementary School. Stephen
Palkovie will take over the
duties -as advisor to the Senior
High School Student Council
formerly provided by Richard
Will, who asked Lo be relieved.
rests.
The hrst complaint was re­ceived
by police last Tuesday
night shortly after 9 p.m. when
three : -youthful motorsyclists
disrupted the peacefulness of
the campus by driving their
motorcycles along the Linden
Hall paths.
Police took into custody two
17-year-old youths and and 16-
year-old, all of this borough.
The juveniles, whose names
were not divulged will be ar­raigned
before Justice of the
Peace Harold Kauffman on
charges of trespassing.
Last Wednesday two 18-year-old
youths were taken into cus­tody
in the Lititz Springs Park
after they allegedly created a
disturbance during an outing of
Linden Hall students.
The two charged with dis­orderly
conduct are Lee Martin
Sheaffer, Lititz Rl, and James
Robert Willis, 508 Golden SC
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Plan To Hold
Hallowe’en
Parade, Party
Lititz’ annual Hallowe'en par­ade
will be held Tuesday, Octo­ber
31, at 7 p.m., according to
plans completed here this week.
As in former years the Hallo­we’en
parade and party, includ­ing
the crowning of the Hallo­we’en
Queen, will be sponsored
by the Lititz Lions Club. In case
of rain the parade will be held
the following evening.
There will be three divisions,
as in former years: Children’s,
Adult and Group divisions. The
Hallowe’en Queen and her at­tendants
will be chosen by War­wick
High School senior class.
The Warwick High School
Band and the Lititz Communi­ty
Band both will participate.
Harold S. Zander is the parade
chairman.
It Doesn't Cost Much To Tour Europe
Local Students Prove This Past Sutnmer
Two adventurous Penn State
seniors, Tim Strickier and Rich­ard
Reese, undertook a ten
week educational European
trip this past summer to ob­serve
“first hand” some of fa­mous
museums, art galleries,
cathedrals and famous cities of
Europe.
The budget-minded students
prepared a well planned itiner­ary
themselves and utilized ac­comodations
that were offered
at -numerous hostels. A Eurail
pass provided them with rail­road
transportation to wherever
they wished to go and a special
student card admitted them to
the museums. Buses and trolleys
also were used for “getting
around.”
Tim, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Slrieklcr, Lititz R4, and
Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Reese, 649 E. Main Sl„
began their trip with a charter­ed
jet flight from Kennedy Air­port,
N.Y. The flight had been
arranged for the youth’s by
authorities of the college.
An account of the trip was f
related by Tim. The first flight
stop after leaving Kennedy Air­port
was at Shannon Airport in
Ireland, where a four-hour de­lay
was experienced.
Their tour of London took
them to see the Westminster
Abby and Big Ben. The most
unusual sight they saw was at
Hyde Park Speaker’s Corner, a
free speech area, where every­one
was talking and singing at
the same time. All the partici- ^ „
pants needed was a soap box to Although trav e lin g as economically <as anybody
stand on and a loud voice. ever t'oured Europe, Tim S trid d e r’s one weakness was
The boys hitchhiked to Lan- to corral a bunch of interesting souvenirs, as shown
caster, England to visit Mr. and above. These included a n ostrich wallet, pigskin tobacco
Mrs. William Webster. Mrs. pouch, watch, cameo, cashmere sweater, which he is
Webster and Tim’s mother are wearin.g, anid a Moro'ccon gown, which he is holding
pen pals. Relatives of the Web- ancj w hich he purchased for his Sister — with the ad-s
e is , wio ive m en a , oo mj ^ ed result th a t when he arrived home he-had exactly
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LAWNS AND SHRUBBERY MUST GO!
The effect th e proposed widening
of th e Owl Hill Road will have on a
number of the older residences border­ing
th e road, a re strikingly depicted in
the above photos. Left is th e home of
Mr. an d Mrs. Robert Martin, where a
large portion of th e lawn and front
steps will be removed, and right, the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cummings,
where the new roadway will reach a
point withm a few feet of th eir front
door. ,
Boro's Three
All Staying
Lititz borough’s three maj­or
projects —street re-pavings,
storm water drainage and
waiter improvements ■vrtere
ra pidly near i rag completi on
this week—and to date stay­ing
satisfactorily within bud­get
limitations.
■ The street re-paving pro­gram'
in which 22,612 square
yards of topping was laid, was
completed last week. This pro­ject
was launched on August
22 and within the three-week
period a total of 211.81 tons
of macadam base material was
put in place, rolled and re­opened
for public use.
The total cost of this sum­mer’s
comparatively large
street re-surfacing program
comes to exactly $12,942.75,
almost -exactly as previously
estimated, Borough Manager
George SteedJe announced.
An important step in elim­inating
a mean storm water
drainage problem, also was
completed this week when
work was finished1 on the
drainage sewer along Maple
Lane. This will drain water
from the area in the vicinity
of Alsam Shoe Company plant
and carry it a total of 825
feet to Maple Street.
For several years, storm
water running down Maple
Lane has created a bad situa­tion
at Orange -Street, especi­ally
'during winter months
when' the water would freeze
Club Tours
Local Sights
A tour of the Moravian
Church complex and the Lin­den
Halt School for Girls high­lighted
the first meeting of the
season for the Lititz Welcome
Wagon Club, Tuesday. The
tour of the Moravian Church
was in charge of Mrs. Robert
Posey, and John F. Mormon,
Assistant Headmaster of Lin­den
Hall conducted the tour
through Linden Hall,
Following the tour club
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and create a mean traffic haz­ard.
Although carrying water
underground, this drains adl
but the parking lot at the Al­sam
plant where flood wat­ers
still must be pumped out
occasionally.
The water improvement pro­gram
was progressing satis-factorially
through the Springs
Park. Instead Of a plan,. previ­ously
announced, the contrac­tor,
W. Robin,son Martin, Pitts-fcown
Pa-,, decided last week
not to dig up Broad Street in
order to lay the new 12-inch
main leading from the new
wells to the borough pumping
station, at this time. Insteal,
the project was reversed and
the main is being laid from
the water plant eastward
through the park.
An unusual phase of the
work of laying thte- main will
be the drilling of an opening
beneath the Reading Railway
tracks to a point just east of
the new Woodstream ware­house.
Last week a huge exca­vation
measuring 30 feet in
length, seven feet wide and
nearly ten feet deep was dug
on the north side of the tracks.
, .Yesterday ./a huge boring
machine was lowered' into the
excavation for the purpose of
drilling beneath the tracks. A
steel easing then will be put
in place and the water main
placed inside this. The matin
will be 5Yz feet beneath the
tracks.
After crossing under the
tracks the main will be laid
beneath the stream'. The water
already has been laid' from
this point to Broad Street.
Rotary Club Series
To Start October 14
Police Probe
Thefts Here
A mild wave of lootings total­ing
less than $50 was rcnorled
here last week, according to
Chief of Police George Hicks.
Breaking into Hen & Dave’s
Bicycle Shop, East Main St. Sat­urday
night, thieves obtained
$7.00 in cash. Entrance was gain­ed
by breaking a window in the
rear of the shop.
The same night, the same
amount of cash was reported
stolen from Posey’s Garden
Shop, North Broad St., although
police could find no signs of
forcible entry.
A purse containing $20 in
cash was reported stolen from
a car in the Hershey & -Gibbei
parking lot Monday afternoon.
Eveline Longer, 330 W. Lemon
St., Lancaster, informed police
the car had been in the lot less
than ten minutes when she re­turned
and found the purse
missing.
fall garbage schedule
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1st
The fall and winter garbage
collection schedule of one col­lection
per week will go into
effect October 1, Borough Man­ager
George Steedle announc­ed
this week. The collection will
be made throughout the boro
on Saturdays and residents are
requested to place covered
recepticles at the curb.
The Lititz Rotary Club will
present its fifth series- of
travel and adventure series,
including six internationally
known world travelers, begin­ning
.Saturday, October 14.
The sale of tickets for the
series of films and lectures
started this week, George Ket-terman,
ticket chairman-,. -am
nounced. Tickets can be ob­tained
from Ketterman1 or from
any member of the club.
For the first time, 'the film-narratives
will be presented
twice, at a matinee at 3 p.m.
or in the evening -at 8 p.m.. in
the Warwick High School
Auditorium.
The opening attraction, on
October 14 will be presented
by Joe Adair, one of the
youngest of the group, who
will show a youthful and fun-filled
view of Norway and
its many ‘Norwegian Panora­mas.”
The series will include the
following additional attrac­tions:
Saturday, November 25,
Jonathan Hague, who will
show films of .Scotland.
Saturday, February 10,
James Forshee, “The Pacific
Northwest..”
Saturday, March 16, Dick
Reddy, “Adventures in Switz­erland,”
with Mark Twain.
Saturday, April 6, Robert
Brouwer, “America—of Thee
1 Sing,” a spectacular trav­elogue
on American sights.
Saturday, April 27, James
Metcalf, “Wings to Puerto
Rico.”
More Arrests
Due To Fight
Borough police this week
started prosecutions against
two local youths who alleg­edly
participated in the teen­age
brawl which disrupted a
Center dance here August 22.
The two additional actions
brought the total arrests as a
result of the bra-w'l to eight.
The two local youths sched­uled
to appear before Justice
of the Peace Paul F. Diehm
are Larry Marlin Geib, 19,
55 N. Broad St., and Donald
Euigene Nessinger. 23, 519
Front St., both charged with
disorderly conduct.
Chief of Police George Hicks
also announced that a charge
of aggravated assault and bat­tery
against Tim Brown, has
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lie "Spirits" ef
Warwick Township
“A swig of Applejack a day
will keep the doctor away”
was more apt to be the slogan
of our ancestors than the fa­miliar
one heard today. While
corn and rye were among the
first crops the German settlers
planted after the forest was
cleared, they lost no time in
starting orchards. These were
“cash crops” that could be sold
by the “gallon” when neces­sary.
Reference is made in the
Royer Family History that
during the 1730’s Sebastian
Royer, who is credited with
settling Brick-erville, “did a
thriving business with the In­dians,
trading his famous ‘Ci-derlung’
”, The Nanticokeswere
then on a reservation nearby,
adjoining the Brubaker and
Eberly tracts.
Before the still was available
our first farmers would put
down as much as fifty barrels
of hard apple cider every fall.
After the water content froze.
the hard stuff would be re­moved
and the demand was
constant throughout the cold
winter months.
Grain whiskies were valued
as medicines, While some of
the old, reliable Indians’ rem­edies
were soon adopted, they
were seldom used without al­cohol
being added to increase
their efficiency and these be­came
our first patent medi
cines. Alcohol was the only
sedative available t h e n and
practically everybody drank to
some degree. They got. an ear­ly
start, for peevish infants
were often given a soothing
mixture of Paregoric and spir­its.
The eye-opener was quite
popular among e a r l y risers.
Then there would be “lifts”
and appetizers during the day,
finally ending with a night-cap
—'and all from the same jug.
Grain was hard to transport
to the city markets and oft
times just as hard to keep from
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Owl Hill
Road Job
retested
Residents Pull Out
Stokes To Block
Widening
Plans for widening a two-mile
stretch of the Owl Hill. Road
oddly met with opposition this
week when a number of resi­dents
proceeded to pull up
stakes in front of their proper­ties
State Highway Department
workers planned to start the
project next week — and indi­cated
the work will go ahead,
providing they can get the
stakes back in the ground again
in lime.
The state plans to widen Owl
Hill Road from the intersection
of 501 at Stauffer’s Market east­ward
to Brevity Lane, a distance
of slightly less than two miles.
The widening will consist of
adding two feet, nine inches on
each side of the present road.
Opposition to the plan de­veloped
as soon as the stakes
were put iri place by state en­gineers
and apparently was bas­ed
upon two different reasons.
A number oi' houses along this
road already are located only a
few feet back from the road.
Location of the stakes show­ed
that the widened road will
bring the road almost at the
doorsteps of several homes.
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Honor Former Teacher
L jb i
Mis. Selma fox first presi­dent
of the Barbara Snyder
(lass, formerly the Mother’s
Class, of the Moravian Church,
stands beside the gas lamp the
class has donated to the church
in honor of their former teach­er,
Mrs. Barbara Snyder Musser,
who had taught the class for 35
years.D
onate
Gas Light
A Gas Lamp, donated by the
Barbara Snyder Class of the
Moravian Church, has been
placed at the south entrance
of Fellowship Hall, in- honor
of Mrs. Barbara Snyder Mm-ser,
formerly of Lititz, now
living -in Charleston. W. Va-.,
Who organized the class and
served faithfully as its teacher
for 35 years.
Mrs. 'Selina Cox was the first
president when the class was
organized in March 1932. Mis,
Eric Buckley, Sr., served -as
vice president. Th-c Mother's
Class, as it was first named,
grew from an original group
of eight mem bel t's to a mem­bership
of 45 women.
On January 15 1943 at a
class meeting, the women voted
to change the class name to
Barbara Snyder class -and per­mitted
women who were not
married or mothers to join.
Various fund raising pro­jects
have been conducted by
'the class over the years and
included: Tom Thumb Wed-
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