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(C o n s o lid a te d w ith T h e Xiltlts R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa. 17543, Thursday, December 28,1967
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No. 38
A Year Of Progress
The Warwick Area
HAS GOOD A D VICE FOR THE YOUNG
Miss Sarah Rettew
E.U.B. Home’s ‘Happiest’ Guest
Observes Her 103rd Birthday
Council Holds Tax Rate Down
For Seventh Straight Year
1967 Was
Throughout
In sharp contrast with the
infusion and t u r m o i l of
much of the world, the War­wick
area enjoyed a more-nor­mal
year during 1967—but a
year marked by considerable
expansion and growth.
This becomes strikingly ap­parent
as one reviews the past
12 months and realizes that in
the future when history is
written, 1967 will stand out as
a year in which much was
started with these benefits ex­tending
into the coming year
of 1968.
A review of local activities
and happenings culled from
the Record-Express files fol­lows:
January
5— Building permits for 1966
totaled $3,605,886, Boiwigh Man­ager
Steedle announced. This
large total was due to the en­largement
of the Warner Lam­bert
p l a n t here for which a
b u i Iding permit of $2,200,000
was issued.
6— Borough police investigat­ed
a total of 69 complaints dur­ing
the mo n t h of December
Chief of Police George Hicks
reported.
7— The Warwick High School
band accepted an invitation- to
participate in the inaugural pa-vple
at Harri’9bung January 17
,ften Governor Shafer will be
sworn a n .
8— Te a che r s of Warwick
School District met and discuss­ed
curriculum development.
15—The Wa rwi ck School
Board approved the purchase of
a 35ja;ere t r a d adjoining the
present high school from Mr.
and Mrs. Roy S. Buc-h for $65,-
000.
18— J. M. Leed was re-elected
president of the Lititz Springs
Park trustees.
19— Snow removal here dur­ing
December required a total
of 393 man hours, the borough
¡reported.
26—Borough council retained
its 12xk mill property tax rate
and the $10 per capita tax -in
the 1967 budged approved.
February
2—The borough announced
that a survey will be made to
determine if waiter consumers
desire the installation of water-s
o f t e n i n g and fluoridation,
through letters ma i led to all
consumers.
2—Warwick junior and senior
high school cheerleaders made
a clean sweep of the Lancaster
County cheerleaders contest.
6— With Lent storting Febru-
•'■ly 8, thousands of fasn-aebts
«re consumed here in the ob­servance
of fasnacht day.
7— -A total of eleven inches of
snow was dumped on the War­wick
area in the first near-bliz­zard
of 1967. The storm was fol­lowed
by a frigid -spell in which
thermometers here dropped to
13 degrees below zero.
10—The borough reported re­ceipts
of $12,844.52 during Jan­uary
as compared with expendi­tures
of $16,599.91 leaving a de­ficit
of $3,758.38.
21— The Wa rwi c k School
Board appointed G. Marlin Spa-id
to the newly-created post of As­sistant
District S u perintendent
and also to the new position- of
Acting District Superintendent.
22— Although the sale of hard
liquors was higher throughout
*'he state, liquor sales here
pped to $186,253 from $190,-
23— E 1 i zabeth township suc­cessfully
operated on a $41,400
budget during 1966, ending up
the year without a deficit.
24— The Warwick Township
budget for 1967 listed estimated
receipts at $90,150 as compared
with expected expenditures of
$87,690.
March
1— Borough council approved
-th-e re-building of Wood crest
Avenue for a stretch of approxi­mately
2,500 feet.
2— After drilling to a depth
of 118 feet at the Locust Street
site, water was obtained at the
rate of 300 gallons per minute,
the borough reported-.
3— The borough agreed to a
request to take over mainten­ance
-of th-e 'Lititz Springs creek
' -it decreed that the ducks, long
a familiar -sigh t in the park,
must go.
4—-Preston Krebs was elect­ed
president of the Lititz Retail­ers
Association.
6—The General 'Sutter Hotel
was -reported sold- by -the Farm­ers
National Bank -to Richard L.
Young, Lititz R4.
16—-Retailers announced a
mammoth 'Easter Egg Treasure
hunt for a d u l t s and children
Club will make 'their fifty-eighth
■annual b i r d census here this
Sunday and maintain its record
of being one of the oldest groups
in the United States and Can­ada
to have made the count un­interruptedly.
In fact, -Sunday’s pilgrimage
into the nearby wooded sections
-actually makes the local group
of bird-watchers one of les-s than
-a dozen groups with as long a-n
unbroken record, according to
the records -of -the 'National Au­dubon
Society.
This was authenticated last
Tuesday 'evening a-t a meeting
of the Lititz Bird Clufb when
Barton L. Sharp, senior mem­ber
of the club, produced the
report of the first census in De­cember
1910 kept by the Late Dr.
Herbert H. Beck, long the out­standing
historian and ornithol­ogist
of Eastern United. States.
The first census was made by
Dr. Beck and Elmer Kiautz ait a
time when only 78 groups in
-the United States and: Canada
-participated.
A year or so later, Mr. Sharp
joined the group which contin­ued
making the local bird cen-in
covering the four -areas of
the new -state constitution to (be
-compiled during Pennsylvania’s
Constitutional Convention, Dr.
Byron K. Ho-rne, of this bor­ough,
a delegate to the conven­tion
disclosed -this week.
And 'as further evidence of
the thoroughness to which dele­gates
-are applying themselves
to the gigantic tas-k, Dr. Horne
disclosed the volume of “home­work”
delegates brought- home
with them when the ■convention
-adjourned for the -Christmas
holiday.
)And w ih i l -e the convention
does not .go back into session un­til
Tuesday. J a n u a r y 2, Dr.
Horne and other members of
th-e H-ome Rule Committee will
return to Harrisburg today to
-hold p u b l i c hearings upon a
number of proposals for the
functions of local governments.
These hearings are being held
in Room 131, Finance Bldg., on
capitol -hill and are open- to the
public. In addition to many in­terested
citizens, a good portion
of the 103 “professional lobby­ists”
Who -are registered with
the convention, also will be in
A group of 27 residents of a
section of Pine Hill proved, once
again, that there r e a l t y is a
Santa Clau-s when- they poured
in upon a family -stricken with a
bat of hard luck recently, with
foodstuff, gifts and $85 in cash!
The family remembered by
the large group of their neigh­bors
is that of Mr. and Mrs. Mel­vin
Miller, Orchard Rd„ Pine
Hill. Miiller_ a-n employee at the
Binkley Bros, stone quarry, had
been con-fined to the hospital
for nearly a month and still is
far from recovered. The couple
alike as a s a l e s inducement
from March 16 to March 25.
18—The Recreation Center
planned a mortgage-burning
ceremony to ibe 'held this 'Spring.
21—‘Lititz was '-tih-e first coun­ty
community to -share in Proj­ect-
70 funds. A cheek for $5,250
has been presented to borough
council for the development of
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-sus during Christmas week each
succeeding year. During the ear­ly
years, Dr. Beck compiled the
annual reports.
In 1930 Mr. Sharp was given
the job of making up th-e report
each year, a task he performed
until la'st year when he turned
the compilation over to Charles
Regennas.
The 'bird club members and
any volunteers who wish to join
them in making the count -are
asked to -meet at the corner of
Broad and Lincoln Ave., at the
photo shop which Mr. and Mrs.
Sharp operated until recently.
The census will start at 8 a.m.
with the census-tokens breaking
up into six or eight group's, de­pending
upon the turnout. The
census will cover an -area of a
15 mile radius of Brickerville,
and will continue until 5 ¡p.m.
Comparing r e c e n t surveys
with the first few censuses, Mr.
Sharp explained that the -bird-count
today i-s far different from
that of half a century ago.
“There has been a big de­crease
in number of species and
In t'he count, d u e largely to
modern spraying methods, etc.,”
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attendance to study -any and all
.proposed changes ¡in the consti­tution.
“It its important that the pub­lic
attend these hearings and
know as much as possible about
the proposal's—so that they will
be 'able to vot e intelligently
when the1 constitution -is to be
approved,” Dr. Horne explained.
“The hearings in Harrisburg
'this week are Intended to -sound
out grass. roots sentiment on
some of the proposals that have
¡been introduced 'in the four
main -areas of consideration, lo­cal,
judicial, debt limit and 'ap­portionment,”
he1 added.
Among proposals now before
the convention are those which
would:
'Eliminate Pennsylvania's $1
million debt limit, and require
a referendum of the voters on
-any borrowing pro-posed by the
Legislature -except when need­ed
for suppressing an insurrec­tion,
rehatibitatimg O'-sa-ster ar­eas,
or acquiring li-rvl for state
parks, reservoirs, m l other con­servation-,
recreation and his­toric
purposes.
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has four children.
'The decision to help the Mil­lers
¡enjoy Christmas was reach­ed
'at -a-n informal -gathering of
persons living -along Orchard
Rd. and Clay -Rd., Pine Hill.
'Word -of the plan quickly spread
with the result that 27 persons
w-ere on hand to greet the Mil­lers
Christmas Eve,
“They’re a thrifty, hard-work­ing
f amily — and we ju-st hated
to see them have -so much bad
luck,” one -member' of the group
commented.
By John Helter
December 26lh was a truly
special day for Miss Sarah Ret­tew,
one of the happiest and
most jovial of the guests at the
Quincy Evangelical United Bre­thren
Home on South Broad St.
For on the day after Christ­mas,
Miss Rettew observed a
holiday few people are fortu­nate
enough to enjoy — her
103rd birthday!
Born in the Millersville area,
in 1864, to David S. Rettew and
Susan Manning, she spent most
of her life in Lancaster County.
She attended a one-room
school house until the age of
16. Many of her years were
spent working for the Rose
Brothers who operated an um­brella
factory in the building
now occupied by Van Scivers.
Later, when they opened a re­tail
store, Miss Rettew was the
manager.
The family moved to Lancas­ter
where she resided for 80 of
her years.
She was one of seven chil­dren,
three sisters and three
brothers who are all deceased.
Much of her spare time was
spent in the Lord’s work. She
taught Sunday School for over
50 years and was always busy
in the Ladies Missionary Society
of the Covenant Evangelical
United Brethren Church. She
was one of the early members of
this church and boasts a mem­bership
of 88 yeans.
She offered this advice to
young people ‘follow the Lord’s
Johannsens
Observe 50th
Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jotoann-sen,
of 115 Second Ave., this
borough, observed their 50th
wedding anniversary on Christ­mas
Day when they w-ere guest's
o-f honor at a family dinner at
the Glockenspiel in Kutztown.
They also received numerous
cards and gifts from many of
their friends here.
They were married by Rev.
Harper a-t the Evangelical Con­gregational
church -here. They
lived here their entire married
lives with the e x c e p t i o n of
World War I days w-hen ¡Mr.
Johartnsen was assigned to the
Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Mrs. Johannsen- is the former
Dorothy May Eshlema-n and is
a native -of Lititz. Mr. Johann-sen
came -here with the -Stiff-eh
Freeman Safe Company. When
Sitiffel-Freeman closed its plant
here he joined the Champion
Blower & Forge Co., -Lancaster,
where he worked a total of 47
years until Ills retirement four
years -ago..
GIRLS BASKETBALL
GAME HERE SATURDAY
The annual girls alumni bas­ketball
game will be played in
the Lititz Elementary gymna­sium
this Saturday, December
30, at 9:30 a.m. Spectators are
welcome.
teachings for his plan for you is
always good.”
Her mind is sharp, for which
she is thankful and we found
her to have a good sense of
humor and a memory full of
only the pleasant things in life.
In Pa. State Band
William Boose
Boose To Play
In Gater Bowl
-A Lititz musician will be pa­rading
before a TV nationwide
'hook-up this -Saturday a f t e r-noon.
H-e i-s William R, Boose, a
member of the Penn State Uni­versity
'Blue Marching Band
which will be playing ait the
Ga-teir Bowl, Jacksonville, ¡Flori­da,
'Starting at 2 p.m.
Boose is a sophomore at Penm
'State -and -i® majoring in recrea­tion
-and parks in the College
of Phy sic at Education. He sp ent
th-e Christmas holiday with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
-Boose, 301 Goobenauer Avenue.
The game will be broadcast
over Channel 6.
Youthful Trio
Touring Europe
Dar lene Bucher, Lititz R2;
Joan Michael, Lititz R2 and Lois
Killian,, East Petersburg, are
spending -three weeks on -a Eu­ropean
'tour arranged by t'he Ru­ral
Youth group of Nebraska.
The -three Lancaster County
gir'le are members of the Na­tional
Rural Youth Organiza­tion-.
The tour will include: Ireland,
England, East and West Ger­many,
Italy, Switzerland and
France.
“GULLIVER’S TRAVELS”
AT KISSEL HILL
“Gulliver’s Travels” will be
shown in the all-purpose ¡room
of the Kissel Hill Elementary
S-chool on Saturday, December
30 at 1:30 p.m.
A ll elementary school chil­dren
in the Warwick School Dis­trict
are -invited to see th-e film,
A donation of 25 -cents per per-
'«m will h-e taken at the door.
For the seventh consecutive
year Lititz borough wild retain
the -current 12.5 mill tax rate
an-d the $10 per capita tax, it
was -announced 'this week follow­ing
'approval of the borough
budget for $186,000 for 1968.
After spending Christmases
past in practically every corner
of the world, James A. Michen-er,
famous author, and his Poly­nesian
wife, Cookie, decided
this week that “Lititz is the best
place to enjoy the yuletide.”
The author of a dozen best­sellers
and his attractive wife
arrived at the General Sutter
Inn last Friday and spent their
time, right up to their departure
Tuesday morning, touring local
points of interest as well as his­torical
spots in Northern Lan­caster
County.
Dining in the Dutch Pantry
shortly after their arrival, the
famed couple was fortunate
enough to have Carol Cox as
their waitress. Miss Cox, who
is the daughter of Mrs. Selina
Cox, described the Moravian
Christmas Vigil to Mr. Michen-er.
When he expressed the de­sire
to attend, Miss Cox obtain­ed
tickets for him — and in re
turn, received an autographed
copy of one of his books.
After attending the Vigil, Mr.
and Mrs. Michener also viewed
the “Putz” on display in the
Mary Dixon Chapel of Linden
Hall. The singing of carols and
the playing of the trombonists
throughout town Christmas Eve
also deeply impressed the visi­tors.
And while Mr. Michener kept
Moravians To
Eliminate Watch
Night Service
Lititz Moravian Church will
hold the final services of this
year at 10:30 and 7:30 this com­ing
Sunday. At the morning ser­vice
Assistant Pastor David
Wiekman will preach the ser­mon,
and the Junior and John
Hus choirs, directed by Mrs.
Hazel Moore, will sing the an­thems.
At 7:30 in the evening a ser­vice,
replacing the traditional
“Watch-Night” service, will be
held in the church. The service
will include a number of tradi­tional
watch-night features,
such as the selection of “texts"
by members of the congrega­tion,
and the singing of “Now
thank we all our God”. The sen­ior
choir will sing an anthem,
and Bishop Schattschneider will
preach the sermon on “Between
the Gates”. There will be no
midnight service this year.
Holy Communion will be cele­brated
on Sunday, January 7,
with services at 8 and 10:30
A.M. and 3 P.M.
One of Ibe oldes-t if mot the
oldest structure -in Lititz, the
Ulysees Delp barn -at Front and
Water Streets, has 'been present­ed
to the Lititz Historical Foun­dation
us -a site for a future mu­seum-,
the American Tobacco
Company announced Monday.
News that the barn was being
considered -as a museum site
leaked out last week when arch­itects
with the state- historical
department, l ooked over -the
structure and 'declared it an
ideal 'structure in which to
house historic objects-. The barn
was used as -a tobacco1 ware­house
for many years but even
this had been abandoned in re­cent
years.
William -B. Oehme, chairman
of the building committee of
the Foundation said that pre-s­emi
plans call for the -addition
Retention of the 12.5 mill tax
rate -comes in the face of an 'am­bitious
b o r ough improvement
program which will include a
$160,900 street - building sched­ule,
to be financed through a
his eating habits to a restricted
diet, Mrs. Michener thoroughly
enjoyed typical Pennsylvania
Dutch breakfasts of scrapple
and sausage.
Mr. Michener, who is secre­tary
of the Pa. Constitutional
Convention, also brought along
some of the many reports to be
studied — and found the quiet
atmosphere of the General Sutt­er
Inn ideal for this purpose.
Among many best-sellers to
his credit are: The Source, Ha­waii,
Tales of the South Pacific
and the Committeeman.
“We have enjoyed Lititz
thoroughly — and now that we
are so well acquainted with this
community, we plan to spend
many more week-ends here,”
Mr. Michener declared as they
departed Tuesday morning.
Minnie Roth
Celebrates Her
90th Birthday
M-rs. ¡Minnie Roth, 115 S. Ce­dar
'St., c e 1 >e to r -aited her 90th
birthday on December 27. The
occasion was observed quietly
for Mrs. Roth who resides with
'her grandson, John Hollinger
and his family.
Mrs. Roth, -a daughter of the
laite Jacob and 'Elisa Kiting, has
lived in Lititz all her life. S'he
is -a member of the ’Lititz Mar-
-avian Church and of the Ladies
Bible Class. iShe had been em­ployed
at the Simplex Box Com­pany
for 42 years.
Mrs. Roth has seven- grand­children,
24 great-grandchildren
and three great-great grandchil­dren.
A brother, Robert Kling,
is a guest at the United Zion
Home and a «¡ester, Mrs. Harry
Showers, resides ait 115 E. New
St.
Linden Hall Grad
Wins Art Contest
Miss E. Joan ¡Runyan-, of Eliz­abethtown-,
who graduated from
Linden Hall School for Girls
las-t June, is winner of the $200
third ¡prize -in Seventeen Maga­zine's
16th international art con­test.
-A water color and pen and
ink drawing which won her the
prize Will -appear in the January
-issue of ¡the publication.
Joan was art -editor of the
Li n d e n Ha l l yearbook and
■school literary magazine and
president of the 'ant club: She
■now -i-s a't t e n d I n g the Tyler
School of Art at Temple Uni-v-
ersOty -and hopes to combine1 a
oareer -in art with 'travelling.
of a frame upper portion along
the ancient stone sbr-ucture, and
that the building would eventu­ally
house a museum-.
“Th-e gift of this building,”
Oehme says, “will allow the
foundation 'to display many
items donated to -our organiza­tion
which we ¡have not been
able to display for the public
because of a lack of -space.”
The structure is built of field
stone, measuring 95 by 35 feet,
and is described by Oehme as
being “in first clta-ss condition.”
A latter ¡brick 'structure, meas­uring
41 by 35 feet, is also at­tached
'to -the original barn:
Built in late 1741 or 1742 by
John Klein, who settled in
Warwick Twp. iim late 1739, the
building pre-dates the coming
of the Moravians to this area.
“This budget could not be
-trimmed down one cent without
eliminating at least one of -the
items on the proposed schedule
for the coming year,” Borough
Ma n a g e r George Steedle ex­p
l a i n e d yesterday. “We are
hopeful that our -estimates o-f -ex­penditures
w-i-lil prove accurate
—while we expect that our es­timate
of revenues may be a
bit low.”
The doubtful ¡Item in the mat­ter
of estimating receipts is the
increase in -the bo-rough’s -prop­erty
assessment total. With five
industries -all expanding during
1967, -it wa® -estimated for bud*-
get purposes that the assess­ments
will be boosted approxi­mately
$600,000—-but this figure
could possibly prove to be from
20 to 30 percent higher, it was
felt in some circles.
Dangerous Intersection
Borough council at 'the De­cember
meeting also endorsed
parking changes aimed at re­ducing
the hazardous conditions
-at 'Main- and Locust Streets, de­scribed
by borough police -as the
'borough’-s most dangerous inter­section:
The yellow -area on both Main
and Locust 'Streets will be ex­tended
and a one-hour parking
limit from 7 am. to 6 p.m. will
be tried out for distances on
eatoh side of the yellow lines.
This system will be -given a 60-
day trial when th-e change will
be made permanent or elirndm-ated.
The borough repeatedly has
requested permission to place a
traffic tight at -this intersection
■but 'the State Department of
Highways has -ruled that the vol­ume
of traffic on Locust Street
to -be insufficient for -a light.
Hower Honored
Borough Councilman Wendell
Hower, whose term expires D-e-
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New Year’s To
Be Quiet Here
Coming on a Sunday evening,
New Year's Eve celebrations
throughout the Warwick area
will to a large -extent take on- a
“family flavor”, a -survey re­vealed
this week.
And whi l e the tooting of
¡horns and the more boisterous
party-type celebrations will not
be -entirely missing, they will be
confined -to -private parties in
■hotels and clu-bs, at was indi­cated.
And — if you are1 planning to
welcome the New Year boister­ously
— be sure not to mix al­coholic
drinks and driving, Chile!
of Police George Hicks warned
yesterday.
“So many deaths occurred
-over the Christmas weekend
that G-overnor Shafer has asked
-all police departments to double
our -efforts to prevent accidents
this weekend,” Chief Hicks as­serted.
“We will patrol the bor­ough
throughout the weekend,
and in case of -any emergency,
all members of the force will be
subject to call,” he explained.
Few Watch Night Services
In contrast with former years,
only .a few area churches were
planning to ¡hold the u s u a l
Watch night service to welcome
in the New Year at midnight.
Instead, most churches in this
section wiill observe family-type
services and get-togethers ear­lier
in -the 'evening.
Dinner parties Saturday and
Sunday evenings will be a big
part -of -the weekend 'activities,
judging from reservations -at the
General Sutter Inn.
School Menu
p - . ■
Tuesday
Grilled hot dog, baked beans,
carrot sticks, assorted fruit, roll,
milk, butter.
Wednesday
Beef barbecue, French fries,
lettuce wedge, apple sauce, roll,
butter, milk.
Thursday
Homemade chicken noodle
soup, peanut butter & marsh­mallow
sandwich, sliced
peaches, milk.
Local Bird Census One
Of Oldest In The Nation
Members of the Lititz Bird
Delegates Labor Over
Holidays, Horne Says
-No sitonie will be left unturned
Pine Hill Family Given
Surprise By 27 Neighbors
bond issue.
James Michener and Wife
Enjoy Christmas In Lititz
225-Year-Old Ulysses Delp Barn
Donated To Historical Foundation
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