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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e Xiititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday, February 15 ,1968 10 c e n ts a Copy; $4.00 p e r y e a r b y m a ll Pages __ No. 45
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Sat. Afternoon
Movies Resume
At Kissel
Mrs. Sheaffer
Named To
News Staff
Mrs. Alta H. Sheaffer has been
named to the news staff of the
Lititz Record-Express.
Her newspaper experience in­cludes
s o c i a l editor for the
Coatesville Record and most re­cently
acting social editor for
the Lancaster Sunday News.
Mrs. Sheaffer, a graduate of
Linden Hall, studied piano and
organ at Linden Hall under the
direction of Miss Myrtle Eckert
and is a piano student of Earle
Echternach, Lancaster. Includ­ed
among her activities are:
member of the executive board
and Board of Directors of the
Lancaster County Mental Health
Association, a member of the
American Legion Auxiliary, and
Eastern Star.
Mrs. Sheaffer, who resides at
61 Broad St., Christiana, is mar­ried
and the mother of seven
children.
Woman’s Club
Sponsors
Creative Night
Creative Woman’s Night for
members of the Lititz Woman’s
Club will be held Monday, Feb­ruary
19 at 8 p.m. in the Luther­an
Education Building.
Entries in the sewing contest
will include the high school girls,
who will model their outfits
which they made.
All e n t r i e s for the contest,
sponsored by the Lititz Woman’s
Club, are to bring their items to
the Education Building at 7 p.m.
for judging. The contest is di­vided
into three categories: high
school, adult and child. There
will also be a knitting contest.
Judges for the sewing contest
will be: Mrs. Samuel Zug, Mrs.
James Johnson and Mrs. Wil­liam
Ridgeway. Knitting judges
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Saturday afternoon movies are
again being shown at 1:30 p.m.
in the all-purpose room of the
Kissel Hill Elementary School.
The films are sponsored by the
Ways and Means committee oi
the Kissel Hill PTA. A 25 cent
admission fee will be charged.
The next three scheduled films
are: February 17, “MAN FROM
BUTTON WILLOW” , a c o l o r
cartoon story story (81 minutes)
of Justin Eagle, California
rancher and trouble shooter for
the U.S. Government. Exciting
adventures of Justin Eagle as
the government’s first under­cover
agent fighting to foil the
unscrupulous forces working
against the government as it
seeks to join up the east and
west rail lines in 1869.
It also tells of the hero’s Eagle
Nest Ranch and its many lov­able
and appealing characters—
the wackiest carrier pigeon ever
to escape from an egg and also
the charming adopted Chinese
daughter.
March 2, “PANDA AND THE
MAGIC SERPENT” will be
shown. This is a Chinese fairy
tale (76 minutes). The tale re;
lates how the little panda and
his animal friends fought to save
their master from the evil pow­ers
of a cruel magician. There
is adventure and fun as the pan­da
helps his master escape from
the Magician’s prison.
March 30, “THE CAT” will
provide excitement and suspense
as an eight year old boy. lost
in the woods of California, be­friends
a wildcat kitten. They
both are hunted for different
reasons and how this adventure
unfolds, each helping the other,
is one you won’t soon forget! It
is a heart-warming 87 minutes
of entertainment.
Warwick Teachers Contemplate
Possibility Of Participating In
One Day "March" On Harrisburg
The Warwick Education As­sociation
has presented to Dr.
Curvin Smith, Warwick Superin­tendent
of Schools, a letter re­questing
March 4 as “Action for
Education Day.”
Warwick T wp. Announces
Details of Police Plan
Moravian Archives Receive
German Maps And Pictures
Warwick Twp. Issues
$14,400 In Permits
Warwick Township issued six
building permits totaling $14,-
000 during January, it was re­ported
by Joseph Brubaker, su-pervior.
The total represented
no new homes and consisted
mostly of farm construction and
renovation.
Greeting Our
New Teachers
(Editor’s Note: This is the
eleventh in a series of sketch­es
introducing the new teach­ers
in Warwick Union Schools)
PTA To Hear
About Lane. Co.
Reading Center
Mrs. Anne Kroehler, assistant
director of the Lancaster Coun­ty
Reading Center, will speak at
the Lititz Elementary School
PTA meeting tonight at 8 p.m.
in the school cafeteria. She will
discuss “The Function of the
Lancaster County Reading Cen­ter.”
Mrs. Kroehler graduated from
Asbury College, Kentucky and
received an AB in Religious Ed­ucation.
She received her certi­fication
as an elementary teach­er
from Morris Harvey College,
Charleston, W.Va., and Mary-wood
College, Scranton, Pa. She
pursued graduate work in ele­mentary
education at Temple
University and University of
Pennsylvania, where she receiv­ed
her master's degree.
Her teaching career included
elementary schools in Kanawa-ka
County, W. Va. and Clifton
Heights, Pa. She taught reading
at the Clifton Heights Junior and
Senior High School. From 1961
to 1963, she was employed as a
reading consultant at the Media
Boro School; from 1963 to 1964
she taught remedial reading for
second graders in the Lancaster
City Schools; from 1964 to 1966
she served as director of the
Lancaster Township School Dis­trict.
Carl Snavely, PTA president,
will conduct the business meet­ing.
Mr. Kenneth Fry is a fourth
grade teacher at the Lititz Ele­mentary
School.
A graduate of Ephrata High
School, class of 1963, he will
complete his studies at Millers-ville
State College in August
1968 where he was a member of
the choir and Madrigal Singers
Group.
Mr. Fry did his student teach­ing
at the Lititz Elementary
School.
His hobbies include reading,
stamp collecting and music.
The Archives of the Moravian
Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylva­nia,
has received approximate­ly
500 photographs of maps, ar­chitectural
drawings, and town
plans pertaining to America
from the Unity Archives of the
Moravian Church at Herrnhut,
Germany. Included in the pic-t
u r e s are the earliest known
view of Bethlehem, an architect­ural
drawing of the Gemeinhaus
in Bethlehem (the oldest build­ing
remaining), and many oth­er
items pertaining to Bethle­hem,
Nazareth, Lititz and other
places in Pennsylvania; Hope,
N.J.; Bethabara, Salem, and
Bethania, North Carolina; and
Savannah, Georgia.
The project was carried out
with the cooperation of many in­dividuals.
Dr. F. P. Stocker, a
member of the Archives Com­mittee,
inquired about the pos­sibility
of receiving photocopies
of certain items concerning
Bethlehem when he v i s i t e d
Herrnhut several years ago. Mr.
Ralph Schwarz, a former resi­dent
of Bethlehem, selected the
items of which copies were de­sired
during a visit to Herrnhut.
Dr. James Massey of the His­toric
American Buildings Sur­vey
also visited Herrnhut and
encouraged the project.
A total of 78 items have been
photographed so far. Many were
photographed in both color and
in black-and-white. In most cas­es
there are full views and sev­eral
closeups. Although some of
the items are duplicates of maps
or drawings already h e l d in
Bethlehem or Winston-Salem,
most of them had been unavail-
Post Office
Will Close
On Feb. 22
Postmaster Richard C. Rader
announced today that the Lititz
Post Office will be closed Thurs­day,
February 22, in observance
of Washington’s Birthday. He
said there will be no window
service and no delivery of mail
by city or rural carriers. The
Post Office Lobby will remain
open for the convenience of box
patrons from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Spe­cial
delivery service will be pro­vided.
Mr. Rader stated that on this
holiday there w ill be a receipt
and dispatch of a late afternoon
mail. Individual mailers who
want their outgoing mail to leave
Lititz on this holiday should de­posit
such mail in the post of­fice
lobby before 4:30 p.m. or
in Star Marked Street Letter
Boxes before 5 p.m. Large mail­ers
should have their outgoing
mail at the Post Office prior to
3:30 p.m.
able in the United States before
now.
Of particular interest to Beth­lehem
is the earliest known view
of the community. It is a small
drawing in the corner of a map
entitled: “A Chart of that Part
of Pensylvania wherein the
Breathren does Reside.” The
picture, which can be dated 1743
or earlier, shows the Gemein
haus (with six chimneys), the
Married People’s House (on the
present site of Central Moravian
Church), the 1744 portion of the
present Sisters’ House, and a
glimpse of the Bell House.
The architectural drawing of
the Widows’ House in Bethlehem
is especially significant. It in­cludes
many details such as the
location of the tile stoves, the
number of panes in the windows,
the angular pattern of the front
door, the slope of the stairways,
and even the construction of the
privy.
The collection includes a vari­ety
of types of material, with
emphasis on maps and architec­tural
drawings. Illustrations of
some of the types of material
are: a plan of a cemetery in
North Carolina; a drawing of
the machinery of the waterworks
Basketball Tickets
Available
Leroy Trupe, Warwick’s ath­letic
director, will be selling
adult tickets on Thursday at
the high school from 11 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. and again at 3:30
p.m. for the Friday night’s
basketball game between Con­estoga
Valley and Warwick.
in Bethlehem; a map of the Del
aware River; a view of Nazareth
in 1761; a view of the church
parsonage, and the seminaries
at Lititz.
The items are now being proc­essed
by the staff of the Archives
in Bethlehem and will be avail
able for study at the Archives
Building. Copies will also be sup­plied
to researchers and re
search institutions according to
normal Archives’ regulations.
The Archives at Herrnhut, the
owner of the originals, contains
materials of interest to research
ers in every part of the world
Unfortunately Herrnhut has not
always been readily accessible
for American researchers. Com
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In effect the teachers are ask­ing
for no classes that day. The
request is being made because
of recent action at a state meet­ing
of the Pa. State Education
Association. The action designat-
Warwick Township Supervisors
announced the details of a full­time
police protection plan after
their meeting last Thursday. It
had previously been reported by
the Record that such a plan
would be announced with no in­crease
in taxes.
The plan went into effect this
past Saturday, February ID.
Almost $15,000 was allocated
in the 1968 budget for police pro­tection.
Richard I. Hoffer, sec­retary,
said this is better than
120% over last year. When ques­tioned
how this increase’ could
be made without raising taxes,
he said, “This was possible be­cause
last year’s budget includ­ed
a substantial sum for the
new township building. This
money is being allocated for po­lice
this year.” Also extra mon­ey
for police was obtained by
paring in other places, Hoffer
added.
The provisions of the plan are
as follows:
-Two policemen putting in a
total of 56 patrol h ours a week
between them on an eight-hour-a-
day, seven-day-a-week basis.
-One of the policemen on call
at all times.
-Purchase of a township police
car equipped with a police radio.
-Outfitting of the policemen in
uniforms provided by the town­ship,
,
Advertisements for bids for
the police car are now being
published. The uniforms will be
purchased locally. The radio
will remain a C.B. hook-up for
the time being.
Hoffer said the two policemen
will be John F. Mishler, 56, Lit­itz
Rl, and Paul H. Haines, 33,
Lititz Rl.
Hoffer said $14,635 of the town­ship’s
1968 general budget figure
of $61,340 was being allocated
for police protection to persons
and property. Police money in
1967 amounted to only $6,617.
The township budget for 1968,
he added, is now on. display in
the Municipal Building, Clay
Road, Lititz Rl.
Hoffer’s announcement ended
a controversy over police pro­tection
in the township that had
arisen Jan. 31 when part-time
police chief Eugene P. May re­signed.
Mishler, who works part-time
in the Wilbur Chocolate Co., is
presently serving his second
term as Twp. Constable and has
been a part-time policeman for
several years. Haines drives his
own truck.
CLAM MIX AND BAKE SALE
A clam mix and bake sale,
sponsored by the Ladies Auxili­ary
of the Brickerville Fire Co.,
will be held in the fire hall on
Feb. 24.
Old Cla vier
Found At
Linden Hall
David Tannenberg, as Lititz’s
18th century organ builder and
at his death in 1804, the most
famous and skilled organ build­er
in America, was renewed by
the recent publication of a book
on his life and work by William
H. Armstrong.
Reference in it to the ■ fact
that he had made at least two
pianos and that one had been
sold to Linden Hall sent the
school into its storage rooms.
Last week it came upon the
clavier (piano) which because
of extensive rebuilding was for
many years thought 1,o have
been a piano of much later ori­gin.
T
his very significant work is
in disrepair and will need care­ful
restoration, but is nonethe­less
a major find for American
history of music. Though there'
is no immediate intention to re­store
the instrument there will
be a careful effort to gather in­formation
needed for its re­storation..
A representative from
the Moravian Archives, Bethle­hem;
will visit the school next
week to look at the instrument.
The Archives had a similar
instrument restored as a gift of
Frederick Steckel and Barbara
Steckel White. That piano had
been made by Gottfried Silber-mann
who in turn taught Joh­ann
Klemm. Klemm, a Mora­vian
then taught Tannenberg,
whose work soon exceed his
teacher’s. Though Silbermann’s
contribution in the development
of the piano, Tannenberg’s role
was important in the American
contribution. Silbermann lived
and worked in Germany.
Warwick Students Chosen
For Annual Band Festival
Three Warwick Area students have been selected to
take part in the 29th Annual Southern District Band Festi­val,
sponsored by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Asso­ciation.
Dr. James W. Dunlop, Director of Bands at Penn­sylvania
State University will be guest conductor.
This year the festival will be
held at West York Area Hign
School, York, on ¡Feb. 22, 23 and
24. Those students from this
area chosen to participate are:
Mary Swarr, flute; Colleen
Grube, bassoon; and Jessica
Bender, trombone.
The band membership is com­posed
of 175 outstanding young
musicians representing 37 high
schools in Lancaster, York and
Adams Counties. Membership
was selected from over 600 stu­dents
after competition held in
Palmyra last December. Alan
Wyand, Director of Instrumental
Music at West York High School,
will be host.
James F. Burke, internation­ally
famous cornet virtuoso from
New York City, is to be guest
soloist. He will play “Carnival
Fire Chief Asks
Help Of Citizens
Ammon Shelly, Lititz F i r e
chief, asks that all residents be
extremely careful about burn­ing
rubbish during heavy winds.
According to t h e ordinance,
rubbish may be burned in metal
barrels or other suitable con­tainers,
but this does not pre-veit
sparks from flying to sur­rounding
areas.
Throughout Lancaster Coun­ty
firemen have been plagued
with calls due to brush fires.
Chief Shelly hopes for coopera-tian
from everyone to avoid
this happening in the borough.
TO HONOR VOLUNTEER
Mrs. Forbes Emsweller will
represent the volunteer helpers
of the Lititz Community Center
at a reception March 6 spon­sored
by the Volunteer Service
Bureau of the Community Coun­cil
of Lancaster County. A cer­tificate
will be given to Mrs.
Emsweller at that time honor­ing
the entire volunteer helpers
staff.
of Venice” Variations by J. B.
Arban.
Burke is one of the world’s
most celebrated cornet soloists.
He combines incredible tech­nique,
rich tone, and exquisite
musicianship to make him one
of the most sought-after cor-netists
of our time.
National recognition came
while he was still in his teens.
He became NBC cornet soloist,
a member of the Radio City Mu­sic
Hall Orchestra under Erno
Rappee, and soloist with the
touring’ Sigmund Romberg Or­chestra.
Mr. Burke has recorded sev­eral
numbers as soloist and con­ductor
and has been featured on
many television and radio
shows, including “The Jackie
Gleason Show” , “Wide Wide
World” and “Thy Kingdom
Comes”.
Dr. Dunlop, guest conductor,
is also conductor of the Penn
State Blue Band has been on the
Penn State faculty since 1947.
Since 1949 he has been director
of the ' Pennsylvania Future
Farmers of America Band. He
has been named president of the
Eastern Division, College Band
Directors National Association.
Born in Morris Run, Pa., Dun­lop
is a graduate of Blossburg
High School at Blossburg, re­ceived
his bachelor of Science
degree in public school music in
1935 from Mansfield State Col­lege
at Mansfield, and a master
of music degree at the Univer­sity
of- Michigan in 1939. He was
conferred the honorary doctor of
music degree by Salem College,
Salem, W. Va., in 1964.
Public concerts will be held
Feb. 23 and 24 at 8 p.m. in the
school auditorium. Tickets can
be purchased in advance by writ­ing
to Mr. Clair Krone, ticket
chairman, 2975 E n g l ewo o d
Court, Dover R6, Pa. 17315. Tic­kets,
if available, will be sold
at the door. Mail orders are
urged to assure seats.
Catching-up on local progress — Miss Susan Breake-field,
Washington, D. C., former editor of the local news­paper,
from June ’61 to September ’62, “catches-up with the
progress of Lititz by checking authentic records and visiting
with friends during a weekend visit at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene L. Steffy, 313 S. Broad St.
Former Record Express
Editor Visits Here
ed March 4 as the day teachers
should “march” on Harrisburg.
Dr. Smith will present the let­ter
and his recommendations to
the school board at its regular
meeting next Tuesday, Febru­ary
20.
However, the letter and re­quest
for the day off may be
withdrawn. The presidents of
the education associations in the
county were to meet last night
and it was learned that this is­sue
would be discussed.
Dr. Smith pointed out that the
Southern District of the Pa. State
Education Association, of which
Warwick is a part, did not ad­vocate
a “strike” of one day,
but went along with the major­ity
at the recent state conven­tion.
He said, “ the indications I
have are that more than half
the teachers in Warwick Union
are not in favor of a holiday
anyway. They would not do any
thing illegal.”
It would seem that the local
teachers' argument is with the
state legislators and not with
the local board. However, there
is disagreement among teachers
how best to approach the salary
requests with the legislators.
Many teachers feel a unified
front is necessary in order to
prevent dissension within the Pa.
State Education Association and
thus kill efforts at a union take
over of the group.
The following is a statement
by Jerry Shupp, president of the
Warwick Education Association:
Ma n y delegates were angry
due to no action on our salary
and subsidy bills. It is true that
our salary and subsidy bills were
ready last summer. Due to the
statement on the tax issue this
year, these bills were not intro­duced
until late November 1967
or early December 1967.
Since they have been intro­duced
the legislature has been
in session only four or five days.
This is due to holiday recess and
the constitutional convention.
Southern region felt we should
give the legislature ample time
to consider these salary and sub­sidy
bills. Four or five days were
not enough.
Never-the-less, PSEA dele­gates
want a “March” on Har­risburg
March 4th. Let’s con­sider
this. On March 4, only
enough legislators will be back
in Harrisburg to call a session
and make it a recorded day for
pay purposes. There is usually
no agenda for the session. These
few men who come in March 4
will only arrive between 3-5 p.m.
It seems to me the teachers will
report at 1:00 p.m. and have no
one to impress with their pow-
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Volunteer
‘Block Parents’
Sign Up
Three h u n d r e d volunteer
Block Parents have “signed-up”
as a result of the efforts put
forth by the Lititz Block Parent
Committee, sponsored by the
Lititz Elementary PTA, and its
assisting solicitors.
At a committee meeting held
at the home of Mrs. Robert Kel­ler,
last Monday evening, com­mittee
members typed and filed
all names and addresses.
The next step in the program
will be the screening of volun­teers
by Police Chief George
Hicks which will be followed by
an interview.
Block Parent window signs
will be distributed to the volun­teers
as soon as they are re­ceived.
Miss Susan Breakefield, Wash­ington,
D.C., former editor of
the Record-Express, renewed ac­quaintances
with local friends
this past weekend. Miss Breake­field
was a guest at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Steffy,
313 S. Broad St.
Susan is the daughter of Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Durwood E.
Breakefield. When her father re­ceived
an appointment to the
War College at Chambersburg,
for one year, S u s a n attended
high school there as a freshman.
She first met “Cookie” who was
teaching at the school at that
time.
Upon the completion of her
secondary education at Wash­ington
High School, Washington
D.C., Miss Breakefield returned
to Chambersburg where she at­tended
Wilson College and grad­uated
with a BA in Religion in
1961.
Following her graduation, she
came to Lititz and was employ­ed
at the lodal newspaper, from
June 1961 to September 1962.
During this tirhe, Susan lived
with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rus­sell,
Lititz R2. The Russell’s are
presently' residing in Mt. Joy.
After leaving Lititz, Susan
worked on the advertising staff
of the Holyoke Transcript Tele­gram,
Holyoke, Mass, from Sep­tember
1962 to September 1964.
In September 1964, she! ac­cepted
the position she now
holds, Account Executive for
theater and women’s clothing
ads with the Washington Daily
News. - . ■' .
Miss Breakefield enjoyed a
two week Caribbean clipper ship
cruise in 1965 and last year she
visited England and Malta.
Commenting on Lititz, SuSan
remarked, “I like it here. This
is the kind of town people
dream about.”
School Menu
Fri., Feb. 16
De e p sea poodle, buttered
corn, cheese sticks, apple sauce.
Monday, Feb. 19
Barbecue w/bun, baked Idaho
potato, carrot sticks, assorted
fruit.
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Chuck Wagon steak, buttered
peas & carrots, lettuce w/Rus-sian
dressing, banana.
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Hamburg patty on bun, potato
gems, sweet potatoes or b c-coli,
popsicle.
Thursday, Feb. 22
Oven fried chicken w/gravy,
mashed potatoes, buttered froz­en
limas, cherry tart.
Friday, Feb. 23
Macaroni & hamburg casse­role,
green beans w/butter
sauce, pineapple delight, cookie.