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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, April 3, 1969 10 c e n ts a Copy; $4,00 p e r y e a r by m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r County 14 Pages No. 52
Easter Dawn Service
At Moravian Church
Holy Week observance with a
history of more than two cen­turies
will come into focus once
again this year, for the Moravian
Congregation of Lititz, as it con­ducts
it’s 211th Easter Dawn
Service at 5 a.m. Sunday, con­cluding
in God’s Acre, the
ancient hilltop south of the
Church.
It all begins as the pastor,
The Rev. William Matz, an­nounces
in the quiet santuary
the affirmation “The Lord Is
Risen”, and the congregation
responds “He Is Risen Indeed”.
The first Easter Dawn Service
of what there is record was
held on April 13, 1732 on the
hill called the Hutberg just out­side
the Moravian burying
ground. When Moravian’s came
to Pennsylvania in the early
1740’s they brought the custom
with them.
As has been the custom for
these 211 years the resident of
Lititz will be awakened between
3 and 4 a.m. Easter morning
and the melodies of brass instru­ments
sounding over the town.
The Trombone Choir of the
Lititz Moravian Congregation,
under the direction of Mr. John
Keehn, breakfast at 2 a.m. in
the Fellowship Hall, will play
on Church Square at 3 a.m., and
will divide into several bands
and walk the streets of Lititz
playing the joyful Easter choral­es
heralding the resurection.
The Senior Choir directed by
Julia Zercher Keehn will break­fast
in the Fellowship Hall at 4
a.m. in preparation for their
participation in the congrega­tion's
dawn service in the
Church at 5 a.m.
The service will be conducted
„y the pastor Rev. William W.
Matz, who will be assisted by
Rev. David Wickmann, Assis­tant
Pastor. Dr. Byron K.
Horne, Headmaster of Linden
Hall, the Rt. Rev. Alien W.
Sehattschneider D.D. S.T.D.,
and the Rev. John Morman,
Assistant Headmaster at Linden
Hall.
The Senior Choir' will be
singing “The Lord Is Risen”
by Geisler accompanied by two
horns played by David Keehn,
and Michael Stallnecker. At a
designated point in the service,
the congregation will withdraw
from the Church and, as the
divided Trombone Choir plays
antiphonally, will move in pro­cession
to God’s Acre. Here led
by the traditional chorales and
the Liturgy for Easter Morning,
which will end as the sun ap­pears
over the Linden Hall
Campus.
The Lora's Supper will be
observed in the church at 6 p.m.
At 10:30 a.m. the Easter Liturgy
will be prayed with the Rev.
David Wickmann guiding the
worship, and the Rev. William
W. Matz will preach on the
theme “I Am The Ressurection
and the Life”. The Senior Choir
accompanied by organ and a
chamber orchestra -will sing,
“Glory Be To Him” by Wolf,
“As It Begins To Dawn”, by Vin­cent
with Thelma Keath as
soloist, “Praise, Thanksgiving.
Glory, Honour”, by Bechler, and
the “Halleluyah Chorus” by
Handel taken from the Messiah.
Wayne LeFevre will preside at
the console of the organ.
The Easter evening service
will conclude the Passion Week
Reading Meetings scheduled for
7 p.m. with the theme,” The
Resurection of Jesus”. Thé
Senior Choir will be singing,
“Litany for Easter”, by Young,
and a mixed quartette will be
singing, “For Me, O Lord” by
Wolle, in combination with the
choir. Quartette members will
be Thelma Keath, Jean Bender,
Russell Erb, and Charles Horn-berger.
Viisitors and friends
are invited to any and all of the j
services.
Traditional Easier Rifes
To Be Observed Here
Easter, the celebrating of the
the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
and symbolizing the immorality
of man, will be observed in Lit­itz
and surrounding areas with
traditional services.
A community Good Friday
service will be conducted in the
Moravian Church from 1 p.m. to
3 p.m. The service is being con­ducted
under the auspices of
the Warwick Association of
Churches. Pastors from the vari­ous
parishes will be speaking on
“The Seven Last Words.”
On Good Friday, most stores
will be c losed at least part of
the day, usually from 1 p.m. to
3 p.m. commemorating Christ
upon the Cross of Calvary.
Citizens of Lititz will be
awakened about 3 a.m. Easter
Sunday morning by the Mora­vian
Trombone Choir, under
the direction of John W. Keehn.
a tradition which has been prac­ticed
for more than a century.
This will be followed by the
Moravian Easter Dawn service
— beginning in the church, then
Woodridge Swim Club
Elects New Officers
Volunteers were busy last Saturday
cleaning out the debris in the pond located
at the entrance of the Lititz Springs Park.
The men used a different method to get all
the debris out by using a farm rake attach­ed
to a cable which was maneuvered by a
winch on a truck. The volunteers includ­ed:
Dan Shenk, seated on wall, Elmer
Ruhl. Mayor Russell Templeton, who
directed the operation and Elmer Bom-bergcr,
all of Lititz.
Two Car Accident-
Injures Drivers
A two car collision occurred
at the intersection of E. Lincoln
Ave. and Liberty St. at 3:05 p.m.
March 27.
Robert L. Bollinger, Stevens
Rl, driving south on Liberty St.,
failed to heed the stop sign at
the intersection and collided
with a car driven by Abram
Hershey, Lititz Rl, which was
headed wést on E. Lincoln Ave.
Both men suffered minor in­juries.
Damage was estimated
at $2,000. Police Chief George
Hicks charged Bollinger for a
stop sign violation before
Squire Paul F. Diehm.
Warwick Students Win
Awards At Science Fair
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Two Warwick High Sli
were among the winnet
1969 Lancaster City CounQ
Science Fair which was held at
the Lancaster Township Junior
High School last Wednesday.
Both students won awards in
the Biologv category.
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Retailers Will Hold
Breakfast Tomorrow
The Lititz Retailers Associ­ation
will hold its annual Good
(Friday breakfast tomorrow at
6 a.m. at the General Sutter Inn.
The Clergy of Lititz and vici­nity
will be guests of the As­sociation
at the -breakfast. All
merchants are encouraged to at
tend the affair and employees
and their wives or husbands are
especially welcome.
mmMichael Weirich
17. a
Kissel Hill PTA
Elects Officers
The Kissel Hill PTA elected
officers for 1969-70 at a meet­ing
which was held last Thurs­day
evening at the school. Elect­ed
were: Oren Spangenburg,
president: Glenn Beamesderfer,
vice president; Mrs. Richard
Ross, secretary and Mrs. John
H. Ilorshey, treasurer.
The attendance flag award
J for the year was presented to
Miss JoEllen Graves, first grade
teacher, for attaining the high­est
number of parents attending
PTA meetings.
' j It was announced at the meet-
- i ing that the student record book
¿a j will be on sale in the near fu­ture.
Further information on
the book will be sent to the par­ents
with the report cards.
| The playground fund commit-i
tee donated S24.10 to the PTA
j group for the purchase of play-
] ground equipment in the fu­ture.
At the monthly meeting of
the Board of Governors, of the
Woodridge Swim Club, the fol­lowing
officers were elected:
John Hanna, president; Jack
White, vice president adminis­trative;
Donald Coble, vice pres­ident
pool and grounds; Max
Hoffman, secretary; Ruth Lebo,
asst, secretary; P. F. Kingswell,
treasurer; and Betty Griswold,
asst, treasurer.
The newly elected Board
Members for a -three year term
are: Roy Yeager; Richard Good-ling,
Rufus Burkholder, Ruth
Lebo and Donald Coble.
An interesting and varied pro­gram
to cover all age groups is
Deputy Appointment
Asked For Eliz. Twp.
Norman M. Dillon, Lititz R2,
who is constable for Elizabeth
Township, petitioned Business
Court that James R .May, of Lit­itz
Rl, be appointed a deputy
constable of Elizabeth Town­ship.
Dillon, in his petition, said a
deputy constable was needed be­cause
the township police offi­cer
recently resigned and the
ai ea is too large for one man to
cover.
being set in motion by President
John Hanna. It all points to a
great summer at Woodridge.
There are about 25 membership
open at Woodridge for the 1969
season. It is not too late to
join—call Bob Kauffman. 626-
5278.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. David Shaner
and children, Daniel, Catherine,
Cedric and Coille from Helena.
Montana, returned to their
home after visiting Mrs. Shan-er’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Stoner, Lititz R4, the past two
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fas-nacht,
608 Spruce St., Lititz,
spent 3 weeks in Florida and
Winston-Salem. N. C.
Grass Fire
At Rothsville
The Rothsville Volunteer Fire
Co. answered a call at 2:30 p.m.
Mar. 27 to a one and half acre
field fire on the property of
Norman Forney. Lititz R4. The
blaze was started by sparks
from a trash barrel on adjacent
property.
when the first rays of the sun­light
announce the coming of
dawn, the congregation wPl file
outside to “God’s Acre” in the
cemetery for the final part of
the service. ,
Easter Dawn services will al­so
be held by St. Luke’s UCC
at the Old Zion Church, at
Brickerville and at the Coleman
Chapel, Brickerville as will
several other churches.
School Vacation
Schools in the Warwick
School District began their Eas­ter
vacation at 12 noon Wednes­day,
April 2. All schools will
re-open on Tuesday, April 8 at
the regular time.
EASTER EGG HUNT
Lititz
The annual Easter Egg hunt
sponsored -by the Lititz Lions
Club will be held at the War­wick
High School on Saturday,
April 5, at 2 p.m. v
There will -be approximately
125 dozen colored eggs plus
hundreds of candy eggs and rab­bits.
Also there will be prize
eggs included in the hunt having
cash values of 25c, 50c and $1.00
each.
The various age groups will he
located at the following places:
Ages 1, 2. & 3 in the circle in
front of the High School; Ages
4, 5, & 6 will be on -the Base-bail
Diamond; Ages 7, 8, & 9
will be on the practice Football
Field; Ages 10, 11, & 12 will be
in the field east of the Lititz
Community -Swimming Pool.
The Co-chairmen of the
Easter Egg Hunt Committee are
George Male and Harold gander.
Lion President John Troutman
invites all children of the Lititz
area to participate in this Com­munity
activity.
Rothsville
The Warwick Lions Annual
Easter Egg Hunt will be held on
Saturday, April 5 at 2 p.m. at
the Lions Hall on Twin Brook
Road, Rothsville. All Warwick
area children ages 12 and under
are invited to -participate in the
Egg Hunt.
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Donald Deibler
Rotary Travelogue Séries Presents
"Portraits Of Austria", Aprii 12
SchoolMeau
Monday. April 7
- NO SCHOOL — EASTER
VACATION.
The Lititz Rotary Club will valleys dotted with blue dia- j
present the final program of its
“Travel and Adventure” series
on Saturday, April 12 at 3 p.m.
and 8 p.m. in the Warwick High
School auditorium.
Due to the anticipated large
crowd at the evening perform­ance,
it is suggested that atten­dance
at the afternoon program
may be more convenient for the
patrons.
The featured film is titled
“Portraits of Austria” and will
be narrated by Curtis Nagel.
Scarcely anywhere else has na­ture
laid out such wealth of
scenic grandeur as in Austria
,.— the dramatic mountains of
the Tirolean Alps crowned with
eternal snow, their deep, green
Illegal Passing
Causes Two
Car Collision
A two car collision occurred
at the intersection of S. Broad
St. and E. Lemon St. at 5:10
p.m. March 30.
June L. Welk, 24, 14 E. Lem­on
St. At this same time a car
driven by Donald L. Ruhl, 17,
Lititz R4, passed the Welk ve­hicle
on the left side and the
collision resulted. Spencer Ehr-hart,
15, 16 Picnic Road, a pas­senger
in the Ruhl car received
injuries. Estimated damage to
the Ruhl car was $650 and $40
to the Welk car.
Ruhl was charged by Patrol­man
Leroy Emmerich for illeg­al
passing before Justice of the
Peace Harold Kauffman.
Chimney Fire
Lititz Fire Company answer­ed
a call at 10:45 a.m. Mar. 31 to
the farm of Abram Landis, Lit­itz
R2, to a chimney fire. He was
mond lakes, and charmin
towns like pictures from a book
of fairy-tales. Austria is a land
steeped in history and tradition,
but animated by the rhythm of
present-day activity — a land o!
music, festivals, operas, ballets
and eoloi'ful folk dances —■ all
captured in superb color and ac­tual
sound, by the magic camer­as
of the famous team of award­winning
film artists, Curtis Na-1
gel and William Moore.
A visit will be taken to Salz­burg
— city of Mozart and de­lightful
setting for “The Sound
of Music.” Here is the home of
the Salzburg Marionettes. We
will see the jeweled cities of
the Alps. Then we will travel by
excursion steamer through the
beautiful valley of the Danube
from Linz to Gay Vienna. All
this on the latest amazing all­color
film.
Curtis Nagel and William
Moore have filmed in over 70
countries of this interesting,
colorful world; in fact, Curtis
Nagel had the distinction of be­ing
one of the world’s five most
travelled men. He was a pioneer
of color motion picture photo­graphy
with the Technicolor
Motion Picture Corp., when it
was originally developed many
years ago in Boston, Mass. He
organized the first company
producing travel-films in Tech­nicolor,
and personally produc­ed
over 65 theatrical Techni­color
Classics for Educational
Films, 20th Century Films and
Paramount Films. In associa­tion
with William Moore, an­other
ace Hollywood cinemato­grapher,
they have literally
photographed the world and its
people. Their n ow famous
“Coiorlogues” — the trade
name for their color ti-avelogues
— are presented yearly in over
200 theatres, auditoriums and
Michael K. Weirich,
senior at Warwick High School,
'Oil of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wci-i
ich. Lititz R3, won first place
i ccognition.
Ilis ■ project was titled ‘‘The
Effects of Temperature In­crease
on the Gill Efficiency ol
. Lepomis Gibbosus (pumpkin-
| seed sunfish).”
i In his experiment he deter-i.
mined that any temperature | Tuesday, April 8
over 31 degrees (C) — 89.6 (F) Weiner Wink, french fries,
j — definitely would have a dele- shredded lettuce w/dressing,
j terious effect on the breathing assorted fruit,
of the sunfish.
! Donald Deibier, 18, a senior I Wednesday, April"
at Warwick High School, son of Macaroni and hamburg cas-
| Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Deibler, serole, wax beans, sunset salad,
i 653 E. Main St.. Lititz. won i cookie
| second prize.
His project was titled “The
| Effects of Light upon the Respi-j
ration of the Crawfish.” I
He found that the highest
oxygen consumption for craw-
I fish occurred when there was |
I no light. The crawfish’s breath­ing
decreased as the intensity of
light increased.
Curtis Nagel
and with the addition of actual
“on the spot” recording, they
have achieved the ultimate, in
travel-lecture film productions.
Job Opportunity
Available At
Rec Center
The Lititz Community Center
is now accepting names of those
Jr. and Sr. students who are in­terested
in obtaining summer
employment. The Center hopes
that the various businesses will
make job openings lists avail­able
so that the area students
may be placed in summer em­ployment.
Thursday, April id
Chicken corn soup, peanut
butter and marshmallow sand­wich,
pear salad.
Friday, April 11
Ham boat sandwich, french
style green beans, cole slaw,
apple sauce.
Open House
At Bank
Well Attended
Approximately 1,200 people
attended the Open House which
was held by the Farmers Na­tional
Bank’s Main Office in
Lititz last Saturday. Bank offi­cials
reported tha t comments
from persons touring the build­ing
were quite favorable in re­gards
to the remodeling and ex­pansion
program.
Mrs. Betty Mearig, 337 E. Second
!Ave., Lititz, exhibits some of the lovely
decorated eggs she makes as a hobby.
Mrs. Mearig utilizes various size eggs
Community Good Friday Service
burning wood in a stove and the | clubs aerpss the United States I
chimney caught fire. No dam- j and Canada. With the finest and \
age occurred. j latest cameras and techniques, '
Good Friday will he observed
this year with' a single comm­unity
service conducted in the
Moravian Church, under the
leadership of The Rev. William
W. Matz who is serving as chair­man
for the Warwick Associ­ation
of Church. The service
will begin at 1 P.M. and will
conclude by 3 P.M. and will
center around the Passion Week
Manual of the Moravian Church
with .meditations given to the
Seven Last Words by the clergy
of the community. Special music
will be provided by the choirs
and soloists from the various
churches.
The Moravian Men’s Choir
will open the service with the
Negro spiritual “Were You
There”. Those speaking on the
seven last words will be:
1. “Father Forgive” — The
Rev. James Shannon of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church.
2. “Today Thou Shalt Be With
Me”—The Rev. Donald Cohiek
of the Church of God.
3. “Woman Behold Thy Son”
—The Rev. Ralph Bornman
of Trinity E. C. Church.
4. “My God, My God”—The
Rev. Harold Young of the United
Methodist Church.
5. “I Thirst”—The Rev. David
Wickmann of. the Moravian
Church.
6. “It Is Finished”—The Rev.
Robert Myers of St. Luke’s Uni­ted
Church of Christ.,
7. “Father Into Thy Hands”—
The Rev. Clemens Rosenberg of
the Church of the Brethren.
Music for the service will con­sist
of the: Moravian Men’s
Chorus a Youth Ensemble for
Warwick High School, a ladies
trio including Mrs. Eugene
Bracken, Mrs. Richard Boose,
and Mrs. Samuel Hess, and two
soloist, Mrs. Marian Metzler and
Miss Betty Zercher.
Liturgists for the service will
include The Rev. James Stough,
The Rev, Howard Reiper, and
The Rev. William W. Matz.
Everyone is welcome to attend
the service.
which she ornaments with braid, pearls,
ceramic symbols and medallions. She also
decorates styrofoam eggs with elaborate
and artistic ideas.
Intricately Decorated lu ste r Eggs
Is Hobby Of Mrs. B etty Mearig
Easter decorations, much in
evidence throughout town and
the surrounding areas, provides
a wide range of individual ideas.
A unique exhibit, on display
at the Sewing Center, S. Broad
St. has been made by Mrs. Betty
Mearig, 337 E. Second Ave..
Lititz. Mrs. Mearig, who claims
decorating Easter Eggs as her
hobby, has been adorning eggs
■of all sizes with her ingenuity
and artistic skill for “many
years.”
“I usually begin to decorate
the eggs shortly after Christ­mas,”
she commented. There is
a good deal of preparation in­volved
before 1 start to apply
any ornament or paint the eggs.”
Her collection of eggs, she
works with, consists of goose,
chicken duck, ostrich and pullet
sizes. She also uses plastic,
china and styrofoam eggs.
In her basement, Betty has a
workshop set up. The variety
in the size of egg's, she mention­ed,
serves to break up the mon­otony
of working with, just one
size egg. She utilizes different
types of material, braid, pearls
and .medallions etc. on each egg
to gain its own special appear­ance.
Revealing a trade secret, so to
speak, Betty related the method
she uses to remove the raw egg
from its shell by making only
one hole. “I use a hypodermic
needle”, she confided. “The
air from the needle forces out
the egg inside.” Very clever
idea!
‘•‘Styrofoam eggs provide a
larger area to work on,” she re­marked.
Her creativeness is
really expressed in three beauti­fully
constructed creations. The
most elaborate egg in this
category is a pale blue lure
covered one, which is adorned
with white, yellow and silver
braid and topped off with white
pearls. Two ceramic medallions
lurex. Four openings have been
filled with artificial flowers.
Strands of pearls and braid are
used to compliment the flowers.
This large egg rests on a com­bination
drawer pull.
For persons desiring to
decorate hard boiled eggs, Betty
suggests they might like to try
boiling them in onion shells
which will give a brown colored
shell. Designs may be scratched
on the shells “lightly” with a
paring' knife.
When queried as. to how many
eggs she has decorated, Betty
exclaimed, “O My, I have no
idea, hundreds I guess.” “I
thoroughly enjoy my hobby be­cause
it is time consuming.”
“I'm trying to encourage my
friends to make an effort to
decorate eggs, too,” she remark­ed.
The folks who have stopped
are used for special interest, j by the Mearig home to admire
The egg is mounted on a candle! all the lovely creations made by
holder. i Betty, all agree that she has an
A larger size styrofoam egg! artistic touch that “comas
has been covered with pinknaturally.