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w i th in L a n c a s t e r C o u n ty 16 Pages No. 46
To Discuss
Petition
A petition, unfinished and
new business will be discussed
at the Borough Council meeting
next Tuesday, February 25 in
the council chambers,
A petition, from property
owners residing along S. Cedar
St., will be discussed by council-men.
The petition protests the
D. and E. Telephone Company’s
street opening request.
Included in the unfinished
business will be: the reviewing
of the proposed changes in the
zoning ordinance as submitted
by the planning commission.
Council will prepare the or­dinance
for a public hearing in
April.
The borough solicitor will
present an ordinance which has
been drafted in regards to the
requirements and regulations
governing door-to-door salesmen
in the borough.
Council will discuss a request
from Keller Bros. Auto Com­pany
which will ask council to
modify their junk yard variance
to permit parking of new autos
in the macadamized area along
the north side of the proposed
W. 7th Street.
A resolution, being drafted by
the borough solicitor, authoriz­ing
the local Police Department
to assist other P. D's in accor­dance
with act 324, a new law
enacted by legislature, will be
presented for councils approval.
In new business, council will
be asked to execute an agree­ment
with PP and L to provide
five additional street lights for
the Lititz Springs park.
Building Fund
Stressed At
Trinity Church
The monthly Building Fund
offering will be received at
Trinity EC Church following
the morning worship service
this Sunday, February 23. Rev.
Ralph Bornman will deliver the
message “Science Catching Up
With the Bible” at the morning
service.
The mid-week Lenten service
will be conducted on Wednes­day,
February 26 and the ser­mon
topic will be “Lord Who Is
It?” The annual election of
Church School officers will take
.‘place during the Church School
session on March 2.
Ambucs show chairman Elwood Zug
(left), looks over the score of “Destry
Rides Again” with show director James R.
Green (center) and Ambucs president
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Jack Marks. ‘‘Destry,’’. a broadway hit
musical, is slated for March 28th and 29th
on the Warwick High stage.
Destry Rides Again” Is
Ambuc’s Tenth Show
“Destry Rides Again”, the
Broadway musical termed “a real
landmark in horse operas” will
be the Lititz Chapter of Ameri­can
Business Clubs’ annual of­fering
at Warwick High School
on March 28th and 29th. The
show will be under the direction
of James R. Green.
“Destry” follows a string of
nine successful Ambuc shows
beginning in 1959 with “Mins­trel
Days” and followed more
recently by “Wonderful Good”
and “Going Buggy”, both Amish
satires, “Arabian Sugar Cake” in
1967, and last year’s first Broad­way
attempt, “Carnival.”
Previous Ambuc shows have
poured nearly fifteen thousand
dollars into community service
projects such as Ambuc spon­sored
Warwick Community Am­bulance
Association. The Lititz
Fire Company, Lititz Library and
the Lititz Springs Park have
been recipients of show profits
along with the local Recreation
Center and midget sports.
Green is well known in area
theatre circles having been co­director
of “For Heaven’s Sake,”
a religious drama which played
to more than five thousand peo­ple
including performances at
Cornell University. Green shar­ed
musical honors with Harold
“Pat” Stryker in last year’s “Car­nival”
which was directed, by
Robert Kauffman. Green is cur­rently
instructor in music in the
Penn Manor School Distinct. Be­fore
moving to the Lancaster
area, he was director of the Mil­ford
Players in Milford, Penn­sylvania.
“Destry” is our kind of show,”
said co-chairman Ralph Seaman
who is assisting Zug. “All the
roles are played by Ambuc mem­bers
and their wivies, many of
whom have become seasoned
players over the years. Other
members will be building sets,
selling tickets and soliciting
prbgram ads. It’s a lot of fun,
and it helps the community,”
Seaman explained. “Tickets will
i be on sale soon,” he added.
Traffic Signals At Main
And Locust Streets Operating
Chief of Police George Hicks
calls the attention of motorists
to the new traffic control system
at this intersection. He also
points out that while this system
will aid in protecting and con-trolling
the flow of traffic, that
when traversing an intersection
on the green signal, it is not
always true that intersecting
traffic will halt on the red sig­nal—
especially at a newly in­stalled
system. Motorist are
cautioned to drive defensively.
This particular system is acti­vated
by a detection device bur­ied
in the street. Ordinarily,
Woman’s Club Announces
Sewing Contest Winners
MODELING THE OUTFITS they made for the Creative
Woman’s Night program held by the Lititz Woman’s Club
are the winners of the high school and adult categories:
Miss Linda Antes, left, a senior at Warwick High and Mrs.
Kenneth Martin, Woman’s Club member. Miss Antes wears
a dress-coat outfit and Mrs. Martin is wearing a cape-suit-hat
ensemble.
Miss Linda Antes and Mrs.
Kenneth Martin were chosen as
winners in the sewing contest
which was conducted during the
Creative Woman’s Night pro­gram
held by the Lititz Woman’s
Club at the Sutter Inn last Mon­day
evening.
Miss Antes, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Antes, 534 W.
Marion St., represented the
high school students. She
modeled a grey dress featuring
a white diagonal design. The
yolk on the dress matched the
coat of the two piece ensemble.
The gray coat featured a nehru
collar, patch pockets and a belt
in the back.
Mrs. Martin, Lititz R2, a mem­ber
of the Woman’s Club, model­ed
a cape-suit-hat ensemble
made from blue, beige and
brown wool plaid.
Both winners will represent
the Lititz Woman’s Club at the
Creative Woman’s Day program
which will be held at the Dutch
Town and Country Inn on March
12.
Winning second and third
place in the high school contest
were: Miss Candance Seiverling
and Miss Karen Bomberger.
Miss .Seiverling, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Seiverling,
modeled a princess style coat
with loop and button closing
and simple style dress both
made of mint green cotton
homespun material. Miss Bom­berger,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Phares Bomberger, wore a red
wool and gray houndstooth
check school dress featuring a
gray collar and cuffs and trim­med
with round covered but­tons.
Also participating in the
school contest were: Miss Patti
Whitcraft and Miss Branda Vol-lenweider.
Miss Whitcraft,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Whitcraft wore a turquoise A-
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the signal, on East Main Street
will be green arid will remain
that way until a vehicle crosses
the detection device on either
North or South Locust Street.
There will then be a slight delay
and then the signal will change
to green for Locust Street.
Pedestrians who desire to cross
East Main Street will notice
that on the traffic light system
poles located on the North West
and South East. corners of the
intersection, there are mounted
“Pedestrian Buttons” with print­ed
instruction panels. By push­ing
these buttons, the signal will
change ..to. change to red for East
Main Street and the pedestrian
will then be .able to .cross East
Main Street.
This traffic control system is
regarded as a safety device, but
Caution and Courtesy on the
part of the motorist are still
necessary.
Skits Highlights
Cub Pack 42’s
Annual Banquet
An “Olde Time Mellar Dra­ma”
presented by the Webelos
Den of Cub Pack 42 highlighted
the entertainment at the Blue
and Gold Banquet held last
Wednesday in the social hall of
the Moravian Church. One hun­dred
and sixty persons attend­ed.
Other skits presented were:
“Operation A” by Den 2 and
“Cub Scout Trail” by Den 3.
Cub-master Kent Krause wel­comed
Brian Zimmerman into
the Pack and presented him
with a Bobcat pin.
Robert Derek, awards chair­man,
made these presentations:
Dan Carrigan, wolf, gold arrow,
bear book; Tim Groves, two
year pin, bear, webelos book;
Donald Rowell, two year pin,
webelos book; Philip York, den-ner
stripe;
Jan Long, asst, denner; Hal
Becker, denner, bear, webelos
book, Kevin Herzer, asst, den­ner;
Steve Meir, gold arrow,
silver arrow; Joe Meir, wolf,
bear book; Larry Kimborough,
asst, denner, one year pin, Jim
Pettyjohn, denner; Bob Craig,
wolf, bear book.
Receiving Webelos activities
badges were: Kevin Krause, ath­lete,
Gary Derek, artist, athlete
and Mike Boaman, showman­ship.
Woman's Coot- Found
The Warwick Ambulance As­sociation
has reported that a
woman’s coat was left at the
scene of an accident along Rt.
501 on February 7. The coat,
which is in good condition, may
be claimed by its rightful own­er
by calling 626-8816.
School Board Elevates
Entry Age For Pupils
A COLORFUL AND ATTRACTIVE calendar composed
in the Amharic language and picturing Ethiopian natives, is
displayed by Miss Alice Snyder, 301 E. Second Ave., Lititz.
Miss Snyder, manager of a Mennonite missions book store
in Ethiopia, recently spent a four months furlough at her
home.
Missionary Enjoys Her
Career In Ethiopia
Rotary Club
Presents Fourth
Travelogue
The Lititz Rotary Club will
present the fourth program of
its “Travel and Adventure” ser­ies
on Saturday, February 22 at
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the War­wick
High School Auditorium.
The fourth feature is entitled
“Hidden Jewels — An Ameri­can
Mosiac” and will be present­ed
by Joe Adair. The film will
provide great fun and will cap­ture
America’s little-known won­ders
and weave them into a
colorful mosiac that will be
visually pleasing and emotion­ally
meaningful.
The audience will fly away
across the blue of America’s
skies with a pair of restless
wings as the Panoramic Camera
carries them to new horizons of
TRAVELOGUE fun. If we don’t
immediately recognize our sur­roundings
that’s because here,
vividly portrayed, are America’s
secreted treasures, her little-known
wonders!
Tickets for the program are
sold on a first come first served
basis.
Family Injured In
Two Car Collision
A Lititz R1 man was admitted
to Osteopathic Hospital and two
other members of his family
were treated following a two-car
collision on the Lincoln
Highway, about a mile and a
half east of Lancaster on Febru­ary
15.
Admitted to the hospital was
Paul Blessing, 34. He suffered
lacterations of the head and a
possible concussion.
Treated were his wife, Betty-jane,
32, for abrasions of the
right leg and a possible fracture
of the right hand, and a daugh­ter,
Kathy, 9, treated for con­tusions
of the nose. Both were
treated and released.
State police said the Blessing
car was struck in the rear while
attempting a right turn from
the highway. The driver of the
other car was identified as John
P. Shoop, 18, 923 N. Prince St.
Shoop will be charged with
driving too fast for conditions,
state police said. Total damage
was estimated at $1,100.
Sertoma Club Plans
Formation Here
The Conestoga Sertoma Club,
Lancaster, has announced it is
forming a Lititz Sertoma Club.
All active men of the communi­ty
are asked to attend an or­ganizational
meeting which will
be held at the General Sutter
Inn on Monday, February 24 at
7 p.m.
A willing desire to attain a
clerical position, where she
could contribute the best of her
abilities working with and help­ing
others, has provided a uni­que
type of employment in a
foreign country for Miss Alice
Snyder.
Miss Snyder, 301 E. Second
Ave., Lititz, is employed as the
administration manager of the
Mennonite Mission Book Store
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior
to going to Ethiopia, she was
employed at the Mennonite Cen­tral
Commission, Akron. When
the need arose for a mission
secretary-bookkeeper in Addis
Ababa, Miss Snyder, accepted
this position and worked in a
mission office located in a
school for the blind from 1953
to 1958.
In 1959, she was intorduced to
the book store work. “I had to
do some learning,” she recalled.
The book store, sponsored by
the Eastern Mennonite Board of
Missions and Charities, Salunga,
is a self contained unit. The
store serves as a retail and
wholesale outlet, specializing in
“special ordering services.”
The store, according to Miss
Snyder, was set up chiefly for
religious purposes, initially
there are religious items, but
not exclusively as there are
maps, a good selection of Ethio-
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Kindergarten and first grade
pupils enrolling in the Warwick
School District must be five
years and six years of age, re­spectively,
on or before Sept.
15.
That policy, adopted Tuesday
night by Warwick School Board,
represents a change from the
present age groupings which
permitted enrollment of chil­dren
whose fifth and sixth
birthdays came before Feb. 15
of their kindergarten or first
grade term.
Children already enrolled
will not be affected by the
change, but Board action was
taken on the policy change be­cause
pre-registration for the
district is scheduled in April.
Resignations
Resignations were accepted
from these three teachers:
—Miss Nancy M. Bredthauer,
elementary art; ,
—Mrs, Priscilla H. Pettyjohn,
fourth grade -at Lititz Elemen­tary
School;
—Charles Hornberger, Junior
High School music.
All three resignations are ef­fective
June 30.
Employment of Mrs. Nancy
Lacy to teach in the Lititz
School fifth grade; Mrs. Faith
Lange to teach elementary art
as successor to Miss Bredthau­er
and Henry Rush as assistant
track coach also had Board ap­proval.
Provision of either free or re
duced-price lunches for children
from underprivileged h o , s
will become effective March I.
These contracts; totalling $15,-
589, were awarded for the pur­chase
of school supplies;
—L. B. Herr & Son, Lancas­ter,
$5,735; Lititz Book Store,
$1,078; Garrett Buchanan Co.,
$2,148; Clinton Paper Co., Lock
Haven, $4,659; J. L. Hammett
Co., $1,526; Arts and Crafts,
Inc., $441.
Approve Land
Purchase of a 65-food strip of
land adjacent the Warwick High
School was approved unani­mously
by the Board. The price
to former owner Warren Buch
was $5,000.
The Board will accept bids
for the rental use of a 17-acre
plot, owned by the district, on
East Petersburg Road. The land
is suitable for a variety of crop
plantings, it was indicated.
Sophomore and juniors of the
district will be permitted to sell
magazine subscriptions, as a
fund-raising project, one week­end
each school year. Previous­ly,
such sales were not sanc­tioned
by school authorities.
200 Year Old
Log House Is
Ruined By Fire
A 200 year-old log structure
house was destroyed Feb. 16 by
a fire believed to have started
as a result of a short circuit in
the electrical wiring.
The fire destroyed the home
of John Styer 2128 Main St.,
Rothsville, who was not home at
the time. A neighbor, Mable
Kilian, put in the fire call to
Rothsville Fire Company at 2:37
p.m.
Fire Chief Claude Young theo­rized
that the fire started in the
kitchen due to a “dead short
circuit” caused by too heavy a
fuse for the electrical system.
Young noted that the kitchen
clock had been melted and stop­ped
at 2:24 p.m.
Firemen were in service at
the scene until 5:53 p.m. Chief
Young estimated total, damage
in excess of $10,000. Lititz and
brunnerville Fire Companies
assisted.
Debbie Wolfe, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Rodney Wolfe, 234 S. Spruce St., and
Bill Matz, son of Rev. and Mrs. William W.
Matz, were selected to reign as Queen and
King of Hearts at the seventh grade Valen­tine
party held last Friday evening in the
High School cafeteria. The students were
chosen as the result of homeroom competi­tion.
SehoolMents
Monday, February 24
King-Queen Chosen A t Party
Approximately 160 members
of the seventh grade attended
“Project Valentine,” the seven­th
grade Valentine party held
Feb. 14 in the high school cafe­teria.
“Peanuts” characters and
an abundance of red hearts and
colored balloons adorned the
ceiling and walls.
Early in the evening the re­sults
of the homeroom competi­tion
for King and Queen of
Hearts were announced. Debbie
Wolfe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rodney Wolfe, 234 S. Spruce
St., Lititz, was crowned Queen,
while Bill Matz, son of Rev. and
Mrs. William W. Matz, Church
Square, Lititz, was crowned
King. Debbie wore a corsage of
baby pink chrysanthemums, and
Bill wore a red rose bouton­niere.
Debbie and Bill’s court con­sisted
of the other contestants
for King and Queen — Karen
Meiskey, Carol Spacht, Carol
Remetz, Anita Balmer, Peggy
Knier, Donna Hollinger, Kathy
Garner, Cindy Eberly, Brian
Hanna, Glenn Spickler, Jim Pet­tyjohn,
Ray Bienert, Kurt
Kreider, Don Peters, Guy Caval­cante,
and Dale Coble, the class
president, substituting for Ran­dy
Good who was ill.
“We Folk,” four students
from the Annville-Cleona High
School, provided a program of
instrumentally a c c o m panied
folk and popular songs. This
group has performed on radio
and television and at various
local shopping centers and rest
homes in the Lebanon area. The
seventh graders enjoyed them
very much. The latter part of
the evening was spent dancing
to records.
Proceeds from the King and
Queen competition and the sale
of tickets and refreshments
were exceptionally satisfactory.
These have gone into the seven­th
grade treasury.
Weiner Wink, french fries,
peanut butter and celery, assort­ed
fruit.
Tuesday, February 25
Chili-con-carne, grilled cheese
sandwich, carrot sticks, pine­apple
tidbits.
Wednesday, February 26
Baked ham, green beans, pars­ley
potato or candied potato,
cole slaw, rainbow dessert.
Thursday, February 27
Turkey Imperial sandwich,
w/lett-uce and tomato, potato
nuggets, glazed carrots, creamy
chocolate pudding.
Friday, February 28
Sub sandwich or grilled
steak sandwich, cup of tomato
soup, chips, fresh fruit.