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Serving The Warwick Are For Nearly A Century
92nd Year E s t a b lis h e d A p r il, 1877. a s T h e S u n b eam
(C o n so lid a ted w ith T h e L it it z R e cord, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, July 18, 1968 10 c e n t s a Copy; $4.00 pe r y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s t e r Cou n ty 12 Pages No. 15
BoroWater
Capacity
Impressive
Adequate For Many
Years To Come,
Survey Shows
Although given a big assist by
heavy rains this year, the Lititz
Borough water supply is ade­quate
to w i t h s t a n d future
drouths as well as future expan­sions
for many years to come.
This was the opinion express­ed
this week by Borough Man­ager
George Steedle, following a
close study of statistics for the
past several years.
“We now are holding the max­imum
amount of water that can
be retained in our underground
reserves,” Mr. Steedle asserted.
“With the wells added last year,
the system’s capacity is far
ahead of current demands.”
Measurements showed that all
wells today are in better shape
than at any time in the past five
or so years. Well No. 1 today
measures three inches more wa­ter
than last year and an impres­sive
21 inches ahead of 1966.
Wells No. 2, 3 and 4 alsD are
well ahead of former years.
In addition, Wells 5 and 6 add
another 59 inches of water.
Demand for borough water
also is increasing yearly. Today
the demand is 6,125,000 gallons
per week as compared with a
daily demand last year of 5,600,-
000 gallons for the past month
and 5,450,000 gallons in 1966.
Heavy rains this year also
have greatly benefitted farmers.
Many wells long dry again are
filled with water.
The height of the wells indi­cates
the status of the county
water table, which fell drastical­ly
during the recent five-year
drought. Although the wells are
higher now than they were in
1967, they would be even higher
if the recent rains were steady
and soaking, instead of short
and violent.
Albert Becher, hydrologist in
the Harrisburg office of the geo­logical
survey, said most rain
from intense, sudden storms
tends to flow into streams and
rivers, rather than soak into the
soil.B
echer said the state regular­ly
takes measurement at two
wells in Lancaster County, one
at Elizabethtown and the other
near Landisville.
The Associated Press said the
heavy rains of May and June
have washed away the threat of
another Northeast water short­age
and filled reservoirs to over­flowing
or near capacity.
Richard E. Will
Language
Teacher
Resigns
Richard E. Will, social studied
teacher who introduced the
teaching of Russian to Warwick
area students, has submitted his
resignation, to accept the posi­tion
of principal of the Manheim
Central Junior High School. .
Will, who resides at 461 N.
Maple St., Ephrata, is a gradu­ate
of Bergstrasse elementary
school, Ephrata High School,
class of 1948; Millersville State
College, where he received a
bachelor of science degree in
1952.
He obtained his master’s de­gree
at Temple University in
1956 and studied at both Frank-
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Would
Catfish For
Kiddies Day ^
Next Spring’s Kiddies’ Fish
Day may be changed into an old-fashioned
catfish day if plans
discussed by Lititz Sportsmen
Monday night materialize.
Meeting at the home of Sam­uel
Hall, at the Speedwell Lake,
fisherman expressed dissatisfac­tion
over continuing the annual
kiddies fish day at the Lebanon
Pumping Station as has been
done for the past ten years.
The idea of hauling catfish
here from the Chesapeake Bay
and releasing them in a local
farm pond or similar body of
water, met With an enthusiastic
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Drainage
Now 90%
Corrected
With the completion of storm
drainage projects now in pro­gress,,
the borough will have
solved ninety per-cent of its
storm-flooding problems, Bor­ough
Manager George Steedle
pointed out this week.
The program to eliminate seri­ous
floodings during flash storms
has been in progress here for
the past several years. Only two
spots remain to be corrected,
S. Cedar Street near the ent­rance
to the Moravian ceme­tery,
and through Rollman’s
property, just north of this, Mr.
Steedle explained.
An important part of the
storm drainage project is being
installed by L. H. Taylor, of
Toughkennamon, Pa. This is the
laying of a huge pipe up Cherry
Lane and across 500 feet of the
Linden Hall campus. This main
is oblong shaped and measured
72 inches on two sides and 42
inches on the other two, giving |
is a tremendous capacity.
This installation is expected to
correct flooding of the Linden
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Ground Breaking
Ceremony Here
Sunday, July 28
A ground-breaking ceremony
which will mark beginning of a
$200,000 expansion Will be held
by the local Church of the Breth­ren
Sunday morning, July 28.
Following the 10 a.m. worship
service, the entire congregation
will go to the site of the new me­morial
chapel and fellowship
hall to be built just west and
south of the present church
building on West orange Street.
According to the Rev. W.
Clemens Rosenberger, several
speakers may be obtained for
ifre protrram ribw*’he'h^'ioVffpil-ed
and to be announced next
week. This program also will in­clude
singing • oy Miss Barbara
Heck, music director at Linden
Hall.
The new memorial chapel will
be built at an estimated cost of
$125,000 with- the fellowship hall
planned to'-Cirst approximately
$75,000;
The chapel is being built and
furnished by the Henry B. Gib-bel
family in memory of Henry
R. Gibbel, Henry B. and Lois
Gibbel, and in honor of Florence
B. Gibbel.
Actual construction will start
August 1.
To Start Re-surfaditq
South Broad Street
Within Next 10 Days
In contrast with vandalism which has plagued park
officials for several years, other youngsters of the area are
Younq Artist equally interested in making the Lititz Springs Park as de-
\t ■ ~ . sirable and pleasant as possible. This was illustrated last
VOlunreers week when Miss Dianne Griswold, 17-year-old daughter of
Services Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Griswold, South Broad Street, went to
the park with her paints and brushes and completely re-painted
the elephankslide, one of the most popular kiddie
attractions there. Miss Griswold is shown relaxing at the
completion of her job.
Local Service Clubs Sponsor
Awards For Outdoor Art Show
Seek To Make
Bank Addition
Holdup Proof
That the new facilities being
built by the Farmers National
Bank will include the most mod­ern
protection equipment to
i guard against holdups, was dis­closed
this week,
i Work on the new structure
t which will provide three drive-ins
in addition to more parking
] spaces and offices on the second
floor began last week. Accord-
I ing to a building permit issued
by the borough, the new struc­ture
will cost approximately
$91,000.
• The two-story building, which
includes employee parking fa­cilities
in a part of the base­ment,
is expected to be com­pleted
by Thanksgiving, After
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Three Lititz service clubs this
week added their support to the
second annual Lititz Outdoor
Art Sh4w to be held Saturday,
July 27, with a fourth local club
planning to take action this eve­ning.
As a result of the co-operation
of the organizations, awards of­fered
artists exhibiting their
paintings and sculpture have
been increased. Entries for the
show already are passing expec­tations
with every indication
that this year’s show will include
more than 125 participants, ac­cording
to Floyd Hackman, in
charge of arrangements.
groups this week included crea­tion
of an A.B.C. Award, for all
other media, of $40; a Rotary
Award for the best oil color,
$40; and prizes for children’s
paintings, $25 by the Lititz Jay­cees!
The Lititz Lions Club is
planning similar action at a
meeting tonight.
The show is being sponsored
Woodstream To Vote
August 1 On Merger
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“Shop in Lititz Jackpot” winners are
presented checks by Bob “Ike” Kauffman
(center). Samuel Lane, 18 S. Broad St.,
(left) received $90 and Floy Ulrich, 132
Front St., received $20. This was the first
time that both cash prizes were claimed at
the weekly drawing. Kauffman represent­ed
Woodridge Swimming Pool, sponsors
this Saturday of a chicken barbeque.
'Jackpot' Winners Get $110; Gift
Certificates & Cash At *150. Sat.
Th ree Bonus Gift
Certificates To Be
Given This Week
Two lucky Lititz people won a
total of $110 cash in the eighth
Saturday drawing of the “Shop
In Lititz Jackpot”.
Samuel Lane, 18 S. Broad St.,
won $90 and Floy Ulrich, 132
Front St., won $20 in the weekly
drawings. These “Jackpots” will
be for $30 and $20 at this week’s
drawing.
Seven names were also drawn
for* $10 gift certificates. Three I
winners present were given
their certificates and the remain­der
were mailed.
Robert “Ike”. Kauffman, rep­resenting
Woodridge Swimming
Pool, drew the names. Wood­ridge
is sponsoring a chicken
barbecue Saturday and tickets
are now on sale.
While all entry cards will be
held for the grand prize draw­ing
for the 1968 Chevy II at the
end of the 12-week contest, it is
necessary to re-register each
week for the weekly gift certifi­cates
and cash bonus drawings.
Anyone over 16 years of age
is eligible to enter this continu­ing
contest. All it takes is to
sign up at any one of the stores
of the 29 participating Lititz
merchants. Register as often as
you wish; no purchase is neces­sary.
But, to be in each week’s
contest be sure to REGISTER
EACH WEEK.
The next drawing will be held
this Saturday, July 20, 2 p.m. at
the Conestoga Bank Parking lot.
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Directors of Woodstream
Corp., of this borough, will meet
August 1 to vote upon a pro­posed
merger with the Kings-foi’d
Co., of Louisville, Ky.,
Richard Woolworth, president,
announced this week.
Following the approval by
directors, a date will be set for
a vote of stockholders, who also
must approve the merger be­fore
it can become effective.
The stockholders’ vote probably
will be held hefore September
1.
Woolworth said the merger,
if approved, will create a com­pany
aimed at the outdoor lei­sure
time market.
Woodstream, once known as
Animal Trap Co., manufactures
outdoor sporting goods such as
fishing tackle, hunting and ski­ing
equipment. It also makes
rodent and game traps.
Kingsford, listed on th e
American Stock Exchange, is
the nation’s largest producer of
charcoal briquets, and also
makes charcoal lighting fluid.
Woodstream has 350 em­ployes
in plants here at Lititz,
Niagara Falls, Canada, and Pas­cagoula,
Miss., while Kingsford
has about 600 employes at
Tough Job
Eliminated At
Sewer Plant |
A back-breaking job, the bane
of all local sewer plant workers, i
will be eliminated through the [
modernization of the plant at a |
cost of $16,725. I
Meeting last week, members
of the borough sewer authority
awarded a contract to Steve
Black, of Carlisle, to improve
the digesters and to motorize de­canting
valves.
In l a yma n language, this
means that when the valves be­come
clogged with sludge in
the future, workmen will not
have to spend hours tediously
grinding away with the present
man-operated equipment.
Louisville, Belle, Mo.; Parsons
and Beryl, W. Va.; Burnside,
Ky., and Springfield, Ore.
Woolworth said the terms of
the stock transaction will be an­nounced
after approval to the
merger is given by the boards of
directors.
Kingsford markets its bri­quets
through food chains in
the United States, Canada,
South America and Europe, It’s
brand names are Oakbrune and
Kingsford. The company also
makes private brands and sells
fertilizers for lawns.
Woodstream has 450 stock­holders
and Kingsford has 2,-
900.K
ingsford’s sales for fiscal
years ending Sept. 30 rose from
$9.7 million in 1964 to $13.2 mil­lion
m 1967.
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by the Lititz Village Art. Associ­ation
and the Lititz Retailers As­sociation.
Among prizes offered
by the two sponsors is a first
Actiohs taken by’ Service] p'FM'Tor best' o'f "tM‘ ‘sfhow'“'of
$100 and a total ip adult prizes
of $325. •
■ Mr. Hackman also emphasized
the need for area artists-to send
in entries before this Saturday
in order that the names and ad­dresses
of exhibitors can be
placed in the show catalogue.
All artists living in a 50-mile
radius of Lititz are eligible to
compete for the prizes. Three
adult divisions are for oil paint­ings,
watercolors and all other
media.
There is one division for chil­dren
14 years and under in all
media. Most of the works of art
displayed are offered for sale by
the artists.
In addition to attracting many
leading artists of the area, the
show also attracts hundreds of
art lovers to Lititz. '.
Stiegel Lions
List Projects
For The Year
An ambitious séries of pro­jects
for the coming year was
outlined at a re-organization
meeting of the Baron Stiegel
Lions Club, of Elizabeth and
Clay Townships held at Polly’s
Restaurant, Brickerville, Thurs­day
evening.
The newly-elected president,
Lyle Sherk, was in charge of
the meeting. The new club bud­get
presented listed proposed
administration costs of $3,039
and benevolence activities of
$1,225 for the coming year.
The objectives of the bene­volences,
local and general, are:
Beacon Lodge for the Blind,
sight conversation, leader dogs
for the blind, eye bank, fire
companies at Brickerville and
Durlach-Mt. Airy, playground
and ball park at Hopeland, com­munity
egg hunt, Christmas bas­kets,
Zion Church restoration,
sponsorship of scout troops and
miscellaneous donations.
A. M. Gottschalk is secretary
of the Baron Stiegel club.
GEARHART ILL
Joseph Gearhart, proprietor]
of Gearhart’s, North Broad
Street, is confined to his home
by illness. Mrs. Gearhart also
was on the sick list this week
but was able to be about Wed­nesday.
The re-surfacing of South
Broad Street from the Square
to South Fourth Street will be
started within the coming
week or ten days, it was an­nounced
this week.
Borough workmen are com­pleting
the job of raising water
valves, manholes and the check­ing
of all laterals. This will be
completed early next week, it
was indicated.
McMinn Industries, Lancas­ter,
was the low bidder for the
work and indicated all plans are
ready to start. The contract was
awarded by the State Depart­ment
of Highways.
Other Re-Surfacing
The borough’s program of
summer street re-surfacing, at a
cost of approximately $12,000,
will start Monday, July 29,
Bo r o u g h Manager George
Steedle announced.
A contract for this work was
granted George Scantling, of
Wrightsville. ,
Streets to be re-surfaced with
one-inch mix of hot macadam
include: North Cedar Street be­tween
Main and Fourth Street;
West Center, west of Spruce;
North Locust, Plum Street,
North Walnut and the following
lanes: Light, Maple, North and
Raspberry.
This program is expected to
be completed in 10 days, weafh-.
ei permitting.
Jaycees Will Dedicate
New Basketball Court
Members of the Lititz Jaycees
Tuesday evening completed the
major work on a, full-size out­door
basketball court, located on
park property south of the Lit­itz
Springs Swimming pool.
Officers of the club announced
that plans are being completed
for a formal dedication of the
new facility. The dedicatory
program in all probability will
include the first scheduled out-
Warwick teachers.
The basketball court was built
largely with funds raised in the
basketball tournments. The club
also hopes to be able to install
playing lights in the near future
or as soon as funds can be ob­tained.
The final step, installing of the
backboards, brackets and sup­ports
was completed this week
with only landscaping and seed
door game of basketball here. ! ing to be done to complete the
one between the Jaycees and the 'project.
A Scene
To Be Repeated
Here Soon
Main and Broad Streets in the center of town will again
be transformed into a veritable gallery of works of art of
every description Saturday, July 27, when the second annual
outdoor art show will be held under sponsorship of the Vill­age
Art Group and Lititz Retailers. The scene above was
snapped during the first show last year.
Kent Herzer
Will Receive
Eagle Award
Kent G. Herzer, son of Scout­master
and Mrs. Robert G. Her­zer,
Lititz R3, will receive the
Eagle Scout Award at a cere­mony
conducted in the Moravian
Church this Sunday, July 21, at
the 10:30 a.m. worship service.
Barry Seidel, Eastern District
Executive, will make the presen­tation.
The seventeen-year-old youth
has participated in scouting for
five years. During that time, he
has served as troop treasurer,
scribe, patrol leader and instruc­tor.
Kent, who is now serving as a
Junior Assistant Scout Leader,
received the God and Country
Award in 1966. He is an Ordeal
member of the Order of the Ar­row.
He attends Warwick High
School and is a member of the
Jr. Sr. High Bowling League.
Kent is a member of the Mor­avian
Church and the Young
People’s Department of the
Church School. He is a main­tenance
employee of the church.
Clyde Forney
Now In England
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Forney,
Lititz R4, visited their son, T-Sgt.
N. Clyde Forney over the
weekend at the Dover, Del., Air
Focre Base.
T-Sgt. Forney is being sent to
Mildenhall, England for 90 days.
He’s a member of the 941st Mag.
MeChord A.F.B., Tacoma, Wash,
The group was activated in
January during the Peublo cris­is.
Sgt. Forney is a crew chief
on a C-124 Globemaster.
His plane had a 12-hour lay­over
at Dover. Also visiting Sgt.
Forney at the base were a broth­er,
Melvin Forney, his wife Dor­is
and son Sheldon of Laurel,
Del.
Sgt. Forney is a graduate of
Warwick High School, class of
1961.