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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e Xaltlts R e co rd, 1987) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, October 12,1967 10 c e n ts a C opy; 9 4 .00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s t e r C ou n ty 14 Pages — No. 26
Police Hunt
Sniper On
S. Broad St.
Speeder Allegedly At­tempts
to Wreck
Boro Cruiser
A rash of speeders, one of
whom allegedly attempted to
wreck the bniough police cruis­er
at the liei'lil ol a Vnmile-
;m-hour etia. < . i epni t ■ of a
piper fi i'i n t i f 1 *■ . In,! . .'Ci oxs
Sotll ll I >!'<>;i(| 1 • i < ,:iU 1 .1 SCI' ■
irs ol live ai m I . ha unitor
viola! mils, ir I'■ ■;i m■ um- lor
dm inr v-Iii h m ■> i< ah ■! ke|)t
borough police on iIn- inn this
week.
Fear that a miner had gone
¡berserk on Soul fi Broad Street
arose late Thuiaday allernomi
when Borough Police Officers
Fritz and Keller heaid a series
of shots. At the same time,
Leon Her.shoy, proprietor of a
used car Jot on South broad
Street, summoned the two of­ficers
and informed Llcm some­one
had fired through one of
his cars.
Fritz and Keller traced the
shot, throne,h thr rule of a car,
out the opposite window and
embedded in a truck standing
a few feel away. The pellet
recovered indicated il was fired
from a high-powered hunting
rifle and the line of fire show­ed
it came from the vicinity of
the Woodridge .swimming pool.
The officers made a thorough
search of the pool grounds and
the nearby fields but were un­able
to locate the rifleman.
Inasmuch as the shots came in
a single volley, police also
were considering that a sports­man,
with mighty poor pudg-uenl,
may have been firing at,
u target until he suddenly rea­lized
where the shots were go­ing
and disappeared.
Chase Thru Town
The wild chase in which a
county motoiisl allegedly at­tempted
to wreck the police
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RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS!
Former Borough Councilman Tom Steffy is show­ing
Ms w'iife one of the many messages and gifts of con­gratulation
received by th e local couple when ¡they
quietly Observed the sixty-frith 'anniversary of their
■marriage yesterday.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Steffy
Observe 65th Anniversary
Work bard, count your bless­ing's
and when you are happy,
don’t go trying to change
things around all the time —
this was the advice given yes­terday
by former Borough
Councilman Tom Steffy as he
and his wife, Ada Lehn Steffy,
quietly observed the sixty-filth
anniversary of their mar­riage.
And when Mr. and Mrs. Stef­fy
spoke of enjoying your hap­piness
— without insisting
upon changes, they really
knew what they were talking
about. For the local couple,
both, have lived their entire
Jives on a single street, with
the exception of three months
when both became home-sick!
Both Tom and Ada were
born next door to each other
in Brownstone homes at Wal-ricch,
across from the Moun­tain
Trail Inn. These homes
are located practically on Route
501. After being childhood
sweethearts and attending the
same onc-room school house,
they were married and — be­lieve
it or not—merely moved
south on Route 501 to Broad
Street, Lititz.
Here. Mr. Steffy engaged in
several business ventures, all
of which proved successful.
These included his original
trade of stone-mason, then the
cement business and third, the
automobile business. He sold
B u i c k s and Chevrolet® for
many years, dating from 1927.
While in the cement business,
he laid most of the streets in
Manheim as -well as here in
Lititz, built the public pool at
New Holland and engaged in
countless other major projects.
During the late thirties and
early forties, he served for a
total of 12 years on the Lititz
Borough Council. Acting as
street superintendent most of
this lime, Tom was known on
many occasions, to take off his
coat, pick up a shovel and give
the street gang a hand when
they happened to get behind
schedule.
And all through these years
—Mr. and 'Mrs. Steffy lived
happily on Broad Street, rais­ing
a family of nine children,
seven of whom still are living.
A few years ago. Mr. and Mrs.
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P.T.A. To Hear
Candidates For
School Board
The Lititz Elementary PTA
Association will meet, in the
school cafeteria next Thursday,
October 19, at 8 p.m.
Candidates seeking positions
on the School Board in the No­vember
elections have been in­vited
to the meeting to express
their views and qualifications.
Elementary teachers will also
be introduced. Carl Suavely,
PTA president will conduct the
business meeting.
New memberships will be ac­cepted
at the meeting.
Travelogue On Norwegian Fjords
To Open Rotary Series Saturday
Charles Landis
Gets Degree
From Pa. State
■Charles A. Landis III, for­merly
of this borough, has as­sumed
the duties of principal
of the Junior High School at
Oatskill, N.Y. He is the son of
Dr. Charles A. Landis Jr., of
East Main Street.
Landis graduated from Penn
Stale last monlh when he re­ceived,
the degree of Doctor of
School Administration. Ho re­ceived
his bachelor's degree
from Ohio Wolyan in 1959
and then sneiil a year as ree-realional
director at Olovers-ville,
N.Y.
He received his Masters De­gree
from Syracuse University
in 1962. afler which he kught
'wo years in the public scnools
at Syracuse, N.Y. before en­tering
State in 1991.
He graduated from Warwick
High School in 1954 and was
active in various sports.
School Menu
Friday
Fish sticks, buttered noodles,
buttered peas or tomato sauce,
pineapple, bread, butter, milk.
Monday
Grilled hot dog. French fried
potatoes, relish tray, assorted
fruit, roll, butter, milk.
Tuesday
Italian steak sandwich, glaz­ed
carrots, apple sauce, roll,
butter, milk.
Wednesday
Chicken pot pie. French style
green beans, cole slaw, jello
crystals, bread, butter, milk.
Thursday
Chili-con-carne, grilled cheese
sandwich, orange juice, peach
hall, bread, butter, milk.
A
The first of the Rotary Club’s
travel and adventure series of
illustrated lectures will be pre­sented
in the Warwick High
¡School Auditorium this Satur­day
afternoon and evening at
3 and 8 p.m.
The opening attraction will
be a color film on the Norwe­gian
Panorama® to be narrated
by Joe Adair, travelogue lec­turer
and .world-famous pho­tographer.
Adair, one of Amer­ica’s
youngest travelogue lec­turers
has lived and traveled
in 30 countries on five con­tinents.
The travel and adventure
series is the fifth annual series
to be sponsored by members
■of the Lititz Rotary Club. Dur­ing
this time the series lias en­joyed
a growing popularity
among residents of the entire
Warwick area. Tickets still are
'available, George Kcllerman,
ticket chairman, reported.
For the first time, this year’s
series will be presented twice,
once in the afternoon at 3 p.m.
and again Saturday evening at
8 p.m., in order to make them
more attractive to students and
younger people as well as to
meet the increased demand.
Mr. Adair is a graduate of
State College of Iowa and was
a contributing editor to the
book. “Letters from the Peace
Corps,” with which he served
in- Africa for several years.
IT-is lecture will include tifie
scenic wonders of the world
that belong to Norway •— the
fjords and the midnight sun.
Nature, in a frenzy of creativ­ity,
has wrought an incompar­able
blend of earth and sea.
“Norwegian Panoramas” en­compasses
the vastness Of Nor­way
'and the moods of her
people.
From the fragrant fjords in
springtime to the forboding but
•fascinating norlhlands, Norway
offers great variety and diver­sity
of latitude and scenery.
And in the activities and pur-
Joc Adair
suits of her peoples, we find a
zest for life eounled with spon­taneous
hospitality for the vis­itor.
The magic of the color cam-
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Delphians Discuss
Current Events
An interesting discussion of
Current Events was enjoyed by
the members of the Delphian
Society at their rec:nt meeting.
Mrs. Valentine Brobst, presi­dent,
presided.
Topics discussed included:
“What Other Countries Think
About the US”, “New Trend
With Negro Mayor in Cleve­land”,
“Forgotten Indians”,
“The Hershey Medical Center”,
“T h e Doctor S h o r t a g e”,
“Changes in Education” and
“Genetics.”
Mrs. John G. Hershey will
speak on her trip to' the Middle
East and show slides at the next
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Norman Badorf on Thursday,
November 2, at 8 p.m.
Criticize
Pre-Dawn
Hunting
To Instruct1 Youths At
Center Meeting
October 21
A change in the hunting reg­ulations
— th(jt of permitting
hunters to start half an hour
before sunrise — is looked
upon as a definite hazard to
the safety of hunters, a con­census
of area sportsmen dis­closed
this week.
The rule which goes into ef­fect
at the beginning of the
small game season, came in for
a vigorous discussion at a
meeting of the Spe e dwe l l
Forge Club at its annual hunt­ing
meeting held Monday night
at the Elks Club in Ephrata.
The new regulations were ex­plained
to club members by
Game Protector Wallace E.
Woodring, of Ephrata, who
agreed that the change per­mitting
hunters to go into ac­tion
before sunrise held a def­inite
threat to the safety of
all concerned.
Barton L. Sharp, local game
warden, also went on record
here yesterday as being oppos­ed
to the rule for the sake of
■safety and declared that all
wardens he has contacted also
feel the change a poor one.
At the Speedwell Forge Club
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TO TRACE HISTORY
Rev. Robert EUcr
Historical
Meeting
Next Thurs.
The most active year in its
history will be reported by the
Lititz Historical Faundation at
its annual meeting to be held
in the Mary Dixon Chapel, Lin­den
Hall, next Thursday eve­ning,
October 19.
While the business session
for members of the foundation
starts at 7:30 p.m., the public
has 'been invited to attend the
annual public meeting at 8
p.m. when 'Rev. Robert Etter,
pastor of the Coleman Memori­al
Chapel will speak upon “The
Colemans.” His talk will in­clude
much of the history ol
Northern Lancaster County and
will be illustrated.
A substantial increase in vis­itors
was reported at the Jo­hannes
Mueller House during
the past summer despite that
the museum was open only
four afternoons a week. Plans
already are being made to ob­tain
more volunteer guides in
order that the Mueller House
can be kept open longer hours
next summer.
Antique Show Profit
The antique show sponsored
by the historical foundation in
the Recreation Center last July
proved the most successful in
the past six years. The profit
from this year’s show was $1,-
990.83, the show committee
headed by Mrs. Glenn McElroy,
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Sex Programs
Each Tuesday
In order to help area par­ents
and children to more ful­ly
understand sex education,
the Warwick High ¡School is
providing facilities to view tel­evised
programs the next five
Tuesday evenings, Carl Kauff­man,
Warwick High School of­ficial,
announced yesterday.
Rooms 601 and 602. opposite
the high school office, will be
provided for the publ i c to
watch programs to be 'broadcast
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MEETING INCREASED DEMANDS
i /
| The new brick 'and concrete block
building housing all offices and equip­ment
oi Warwick) Township will be
thrown open ¡to the public all d'a.y Satur­day
with a flag-raising and dedication-tferSmony
at 11 &.m. Shown standing in
' fronit of the new municipal building are
the th re e Warwick Supervisors: Robert
Gobble, Joseph M. Brubaker and Isaac
Stoner. - .
Open House Saturday At New
$44,000 Warwick Twp. Bldg.
An “Open House” between
10 p.m. and. 4 p.m. will be held
thii Saturday to give Warwick
Township residents an op-por-tuiity
to. view the new $44,000
Municipal Building, located on
Claw Road near the Reading
Railroad line.
■ 4 feature of the program
will be the dedication of a new
25-ijoot flagpole and the raising
of # commemorative American
flagf which Hew over the na­tion’s
Capitol, given to the
Township by the Warwick
Township Lions Club. This
ceremony will take place at
llfa.m.
Another feature of the Open
IldLse- will he the . opportunity
for citizens to view the new
municipal facilities, which have
been called the finest in this
area for a municipality of its
size.
Residents will also be able
to learn first-hand about muni­cipal
programs, currently in
progress, suchVas' water, sew­age
and zoning.
In addition to the Board of
Supervisors, which includes
Robert 'Gibble, chairman; Isaac
Stoner, secretary-treasurer, and
Joseph Brubaker, member of
the Township Planning Com-
A HISTORIC FLAG
mission and Citizens W a t p r
Committee will be on hand to
answer questions. Many officials
from nearby communities, as
well as the area’s representa­tives
in Harrisburg, are expect­ed
to be in attendance.
Of interest is the fact that
the American flag to be
raised was flown for a day
over the Capitol in Washing­ton
and was obtained by the
Lions Club for the Township
through the cooperation of
Representative Edwin D. Esh-leman.
The flag pole was pro­vided
by the Lions as a com­munity
service project.
The new brick and concrete
block municipal building con­tains
a large garage and shop
area for the storage and main­tenance
of township equipment,
three offices including a recep-
The American Flag flying
over the new Warwick Twp.
Building is a historic one, in­deed,
having flown over the na­tion’s
capilol recently lor a day.
The flag and pole will be dedi­cated
by members of the War­wick
Twp. Lions Club at 11 a.m.
Saturday. Shown standing at the
flagpole are John Mishler, club
president, and Robert Gibble,
president of the board of super­visors.
Center Plans
To Re-vamtp
All Programs
A re-vamping and ■ updating
oi present recreational pro­grams
and the addition of many
new activities, was launched at
a meeting of Recreation Center
directors Monday evening.
Following the meeting, John
Gibbel, president of the Cen­ter,
named a committee con­sisting
of Robert Alspach, chair­man;
Daniel Marks, Mrs. Helen
Mikseh, Robert Scatchard and
himself, to review all programs
presently being conducted by
the Center and to recommend
an entirely new program.
A suggestion that the Center
be closed until the augmented
program could be arranged,
was rejected by board mem­bers.
Due to the withdrawal of an
application prior to the meet­ing,
the board could take no
action in search of a recrea­tional
director. Plans now are
being made to interview one
more applicant next week.
■Efforts also will be made to
stimulate interest in the Adult
Night program in which the
Center is restricted to adults
on Monday evenings from 7:30
to 10 p.m-. Adults are invited
to come to the Center and en­joy
ping pong, pool and to use
other facilities each Monday
evening, the bpard explained.
Permission was given the
Midget Football league to con­struct
a storage locker at the
Center for its equipment. Plans
also are being made for the an­nual
membership campaign,
December 4 to 9 with Girl
Scouts distributing material to
the homes on December 2.
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY
FOR DR. AND MRS. SMITH
The Warwick Education As­sociation
will hold an open
house at the Warwick ‘High
School library this Sunday af­ternoon
when teachers and
school board members will en­tertain
Dr. Curvin C. Smith,
new district superintendent,
and ¡Mrs. Smith.
The drop-in will continue
from 2 to 4 p.m. Girls of the
Home Ec. department are pre­paring
cookies with Mrs. Geòr­gie
Lucas and Mrs. June Smith
in charge of the refreshments.
lion room and quarters for the
supervisors and planning com­mission,
and a larger public
meeting room. The meeting
room is available for the use
of any township organizations
or groups upon request.
Principal construction of the
building, located on nearly
three aefes of land purchased
in 1964, was Started last Oc­tober
and completed in Febru­ary.
Finishing touches have
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Rothsville
Parade Oct. 28
The Hallowe’en parade, pa­geant
and crowning of the Hal­lowe’en
Queen will be held
Saturday evening, October . 28,
starting at 7 p.m., according to
plans completed this week. The
parade will form at the Groff
Development and p r o c e e d
through the community.
The committee in charge
consists of Arne Forney, Low­ell
Forney and Marvin Feiler,
representing the Warwick Twp.
Lions Club; ¡Edward- 'Steffy and
Glenn Bowman, representing
the Rothsville Fire Co., with
their, yvives, Mrs. ¡Steffy,-'and
Mrs. Bowman, representing the
Fire Co. Auxiliary.
The Warwick Lions will hold
their annual Hallowe’en party
on Tuesday, October 24< At a
meeting held this week, Lu­ther
Ober and John Rail, of
the Baron Steigel Lions Club,
showed pictures taken during
the Lions International con­vention1
in Chicago recently.
Fire Co. Aux.
Halloween Party
On Nov. 2
Forty-one members of the
Ladies Auxiliary to the Lititz
Fire Company attended the
monthly meeting recently.
During the business meeting
conducted by Mrs. Viola Meis-key,
president, a new member,
Mrs. Karen Diehm, was accepted
into the organization.
A rummage sale will be spon­sored
by the auxiliary at the
Fire Hall on Friday 13 from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Mrs. Pauline Yer-ger
will be in charge of the sale.
It was announced the group will
sell candy as a fund raising pro­ject.
Mrs. Robert Keller will
serve as chairman of this pro­ject.
A Halloween Party will be
featured at the next meeting at
the Fire Hall on November 2 at
7:30 p.m. Members are asked to
wear costumes to the affair. Mrs.
Jackie Grumbling will be the
hostess.
Trick-Treat Night
Monday, Oct. 30
Monday night, October 30,
was designated this week as
Truck-or-Treat Night for Lititz
Borough Hallowe’eners by Chief
of Police George Hicks. Mas­querading
and knocking on
doors for tricks or treats is to
be restricted to this night, tfie
chief declared.
On Tuesday night, October
31, the masqueraders are urged
to participate in the annual
Hallowe’en parade and crown­ing
of the Queen here.
Boro To
Act On
Sub Shop
Claim Ecenrode Has
Failed To Eliminate
"Noise Makers"
Failure of an East Main
Street sub-shop proprietor to
gel, rid of a pinball machine
and a pool table, is expected to
result in the find prosecution
under the borough’s zoning or­dinance
which was passed more
than eight .years ago, Borough
Manager- George Steedle disclos­ed
yesterday.
The businessman presently in
poor graces with borough offi­cials
is Phares Ecenrode, pro­prietor
of the delicalessan at
353 East Main St., and subject
to several borough hearings due
to zoning restrictions. At the
last hearing before the borough
zoners on September 5, Ecen­rode
was given permission to
operate his sub shop and popu­lar
place for local juveniles, af­ter
he supposedly had agreed
to remove the pinball machine
and pool table, not later than
October L
“Ecenrode has not removed
either of the objectionable items
and in conversations with him
I do not believe that he intends
to comply with the zoning board
restrictions,” Borough Manager
Steedle explained. “In a regis­tered
letter mailed him Tuesday
I have informed him that the
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TO SING HERE
Marie Shepherd
Musical To
Open Woman’s
Club Season
“One World in Song” a mu­sical
presentation by Marie
'Shepherd, lyric coloratura so­prano
and concert comedienne
of Miiplewood, N.J. will high­light
the program of the Lit­itz
-Woman’s Club meeting
which will be held on Monday
evening at the Lutheran Edu­cation
Building.
The musical program will
range from folk melodies to
gland opera — soft lullabies to
stirring songs of patriotism —
tender love songs and reverent
music of the church — around
the world from America to th«
Orient, Music, the international
language, knows no boundaries
Mrs. Shepherd' will also ex­hibit
a collection ol colorful,
interesting and unusual dolls
from many different lands and
an international display of
handicraft, silver and jewelry.
She studies at the Clarke
Conservatory of Music, Phila­delphia
and at the Julliard
School of Music, New York
and with Marguerite Barr and
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Community
Calendar
Oct. 12-12 noon to 9 p.ra.,
Woman's Club Rummage
-Sale at Odd Fellows Hull
Oct.13-8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wom­an’s
Club Rummage Sale
at Odd Fellows Hall.
-9 a.m. to 9 p.m.. Wom­an’s
Club Book Sale to
fie held at the Public Li­brary,
benefit for the
Library.
Oct. 14-8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wom­an’s
Club Book Sale at
Library con’t.
Oct. 17-7:30 p.m., Stamp Club
at the Center.
-7:30 p.m., Welcome
Wagon Club at the Cen­ter.
Oct. 19-7 p.m.. Senior Citizens
at the Center.