Lititz Record Express

              T he L ititz Record - Express
S e r v in g T h e W a rw ic k A r e a F o r N e a r ly A C e n t u r y
94th Year aSstaljlUfoefll April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(C o n s o lid a te d W ith T u e ju itit z .Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Counts, Penna., Thursday. SepL'mhci' i9. 19 ¡0 10 c e n t s a C o p y ; $4.00 p e r y e a r h y m a i l
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Fire Shuts Down
Loss Exceeds $175,000
81-Hilt Trailer Park
Underway in Penn Twp.
A major- fire near the center
of Lititz Saturday evening has
caused extensive damage to
Eby’s Mill, Inc., a farm feed
manufacturing firm.
County Fire Marshall Paul
Knier said the fire is believed
to have started from an over­heated
chimney and he estimat­ed
damage at $175,000 to $195,-
000.
Eby’s Mill management has
not made any decisions on the
future of the structure. While
the manufacturing facilities
presently are not operating, ar­rangements
have been made to
continue service to customers, it
was learned.
Lititz Fire Chief Ammon
Shelly said the alarm was turn­ed
in at 8:05 p.m. and four fire
hoses were pumping water on
the blaze at 8:15 p.m., when he
turned in a general alarm.
Additional fire companies
Barbara Tshudy of the Lamplighter Shop in Lititz had
an outstanding display of antique dishes at'the antique show
Saturday.
5 0 Exhibitors Display
A tLititzAntiqmShovo
Lititz’s second antique show
in as many months was a color­ful,
carnival-like event under
the hot sun and pleasant
breezes of the Saturday before
Labor Day. The last show was
held July 4.
Fifty exhibitors from all over
Pennsylvania, as well as Mary­land,
New Jersey, New York
and North Carolina took part in
the fourth annual event, held in
Lititz Springs Park, Sponsored
by the park trustees.
All proceeds from the event,
plus those from the chicken
barbecue held in conjunction
with the show, will be used for
improvements at the park.
Among the displays were an­tique
baby furniture — a cradle
that looked like a basket,- a
chair on wheels and an early
stroller.
Ornate silver was tastefully
displayed on luxurious black
velvet. There was fragile crys­tal
and cut glass, elaborately
hand-painted china and pottery
and Oriental-style vases.
Medals from different coun­tries
and thousands of antique
buttons and coins were in evi­dence.
There were several anti­que
tools and cooking imple­ments.
Dolls, some dressed in the
elaborate style of the 19th cen­tury,
quilts, laces and hand-crocheted
items were all on dis­play.
There were mostly small
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Mrs. Risiteli Becomes Mew
Welcome Wagon President
Mrs. William Rishell is the
new president of the Lititz Wel­come
Wagon Club for the 1970-
71 club year. She will conduct
the meeting Tuesday at 7:45
p.m. at Bobst Community Cen­ter.
Elected first vice-president
and program chairman in May,
she succeeded to the presidency
upon the resignation of Mrs.
Francis Roberts. A new first
vice-president will be elected
later.
Mrs. Rishell, who lives on
Becker Drive, Lititz RD3, last
year served the club as treasur­er.
The year before, she was
chairman of the fashion show.
A graduate of Lock Haven
High School, she attended
Juniata College, Huntingdon,
majoring in home economics.
Her husband is a geneticist
with Indian River Chicks. The
Rishells moved to Lititz in De­cember
1967. from Ames, Iowa.
They have two elementary
school-age children, Bill and
Lisa.
Mrs. Rishell is a Fellowship
Key Woman in Highland Pres­byterian
Church. Her hobbies
include sewing, reading', skiing,
swimming and needlework.
“Getting to Know You” will
he the theme for Tuesday’s
meeting, with “crazy cards” and
conversation the order of the
evening. A prize will be award­ed
to the high scorer.
The Rev. Edward Albee will
be present to talk to members
about the new coffee house for
teens, which the club is consid­ering
as a service project.
Hostesses for the evening will
be Mrs. James Harnish, chair­man;
Mrs. Carl Hedburg, Mrs.
Alfred Melzer and Mrs. James
McGarrigle.
Other officers for the year
are Mrs. Terry Hendricks,
second vice-president and hospi­tality
chairman; Mrs. Zane Wil­son,
recording secretary; Mrs.
Jack Lamoreux, corresponding
secretary; M r s. Lawrence
Green, treasurer; and Mrs. Carl
Frank, historian and publicity
chairman.
Committee chairmen are Mrs.
Michael Kolenda, membership;
Mrs. Robert Tallman, service;
Mrs. Irel Buckwalter, civic; Mrs.
Gerald Anderson, ways and
means; Mrs. Gary Willier and
Mrs. Steven Vlasak, yearbook
and telephone; Mrs. Russell
Mellinger, social; and Mrs. Ken­neth
Evans, newsletter.
Welcome Wagon hostess is
Mrs. Harry Bomberger; assis­tant
hostess is Mrs. Ronald Mc­Intyre.
responded and at the height of
the blaze some 16 hoses were
in use by seven fire companies.
Shelly this week estimated
that the fire was actually out of
control from the time it was re­ported
until about 9:15 p.m. It
took considerably longer, how­ever,
to actually put the fire
out. By midnight there was
very little fire.
Firemen remained on the
scene until early Sunday morn­ing
wetting down the smoulder­ing
building and its contents.
The fire flared up again at
about 7 a.m. Sunday when a sec­tion
of floor loaded with corn
gave way, allowing air to reach
some smouldering debris. Fire­men
spent another four hours
at the scene, but Shelly estimat­ed
there was little, or no addi­tional
damage from the flare-up.
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by’s Mill, owned by Joel Ha-begger.
of Akron, has been a
Lititz landmark for 60 years.
Located at 35 N. Cedar St, it
is just across the street from
Morgan Paper Co. Inc. and only
half a block north of the town’s
East Main Street commercial
district. A railroad siding separ-
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.... Firemen feed hose through door of Eby’s-Mill on North
Cedar Street Saturday night to mop up the blaze after the
fire had been brought under control.
A new 81-unit trailer park is
under construction between
Manheim and Lititz and the
first 30 to 35 units should be
completed in November.
Alien Ober, owner and de­veloper,
also said the remainder
of the 81 units are expected to
be finished next year on the
15-acre tract he owns.
The site is in Penn Township
is adjacent to Poe Run Road,
a direct Manheim-Lititz route.
Some preliminary ground work
began earlier this summer, but
full-scale work on site prepara­tion
has been underway only in
the past three weeks, Ober said.
When completed, Ober will
rent spaces complete with wa­ter,
sewer and electricity. But
Ober will not own the indivi­dual
trailers, he said.
Ober said he is now trying
to work out details for putting
all utilities, including electrical
lines, underground.
Ober also has made arrange­ments
to purchase trees to
landscape the trailer park.
.A paved u-shaped road will
be constructed this year and an
additional internal road is plan­ned
next year.
Ober said the minimum lot
size will be ,40 by 115 feet with
some 50 by 115.
Overall, Ober said, he is aim­ing
for an attractive, quality
development.
New Slop Signs
In Warwick Twp,
Two new stop signs have re­cently
been placed on Warwick
Township roads, it was an­nounced
at last week’s meeting
of the Township Board of Su­pervisors.
The new signs are located oh
Warwick Road at the intersec­tion
with Millport Road and on
Picnic Woods Road at the in­tersection
with Main Street,
Rothsville.
Additional stop signs have
been requested by the Town­ship,
but the' request has not
yet been granted, pending sur­veys
by the Pennsylvania De­partment
of Traffic.
These are to be located on
Log Cabin Road at the inter­section
with Becker Road and
on East Petersburg Road at the
intersection with Water’s Edge
Road. The latter would have an
additional “Right Turn Keep
Moving” sign.
Circulation Doubles to 120 Boohs a Day, Hours To Be Increased
Lititz Library Celebrates 35th Y ear
The 35th. anniverary of the
Lititz Public Library will be
celebrated by increasing the
hours the library is open.
The expanded service is due
to an increase in the number of
books in use by library patrons,
according to Mrs. Eugene
Steffy, head librarian.
Beginning Monday, weekday
hours for the library will be
3 to 9 p.m. Previously, the
library was open from 4 to 9
p.m.. It is also open Saturdays
from 9:30. to 11:30 a.m. .
The circulation of books this
year has more than doubled,
Mrs. Steffy said. The average is
120 to 130 books a day.
For local, residents who are
not aware of what the Lititz
library has to offer, there are
extensive collections in both
adult and juvenile fiction and
non-fiction, several sets of en­cyclopedias
and other reference
books, a pamphlet file and nu­merous
magazines.
Collection Includes
There is a rotating supply of
books from the Lancaster Coun­ty
Free Public Library, so there
are always new ones available.
The library is working at
building up an extensive his­tory
collection and presently
contains the minutes of the
Lancaster County Historical So­ciety
with everything pertain­ing
to Lititz. This is now being
iatalogued. There are also old
histories of Lancaster County.
The Women’s Christian Tem­perance
Union keeps the library
supplied with drug abuse and
alcoholism pamphlets which
are useful to students doing re-
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search papers on these very
present-day topics.
Persons interested in a speci­fic
book which is not available
at the local library may make
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M. C. Demmy, (left) former super­vising
principal of the Lititz schools, was
president of both the Lititz Chamber of
Commerce and the Lititz Rotary Club at
the time the two organizations were influ­ential
in establishing the Lititz library. Al­fred
L. Douple, president of the Farmers
Bank, has served as treasurer of the Lititz
library for 35 years.
Luther Acres io Leticate New Wing
A new 26 bed, $225,000 addi­tion
to Luther Acres will be of­ficially
dedicated Sunday.
The new V-shaped wing is
named Peacock Wing in honor
of Jacob S. Peacock, local com­munity
leader, industrial and
benefactor, whose estate pro­vided
funds for the new wing.
• The new wing brings the total
bed capacity of Luther Acres,
located on the eastern edge of
Lititz, to 87 and represents
Plaque in New Wing
To be Unveiled This Weekend
nearly a 30 per cent increase in
v capacity.
Started in October 1969, the
ew wing is the first new con­struction
since Luther Acres
was originally built in 1966.
Luther Acres is a non-profit
facility sponsored by Lutheran
Social Service — Bast Region.
Herman M, Melitzer, director,
bureau of community consulta­tion
of the office of family ser­vice,
Department of Public Wel­fare,
will be the speaker at the
dedication.
Mrs. Ruth Horting, a member
of the Board of Directors of the
agency and former Secretary of
Health, Education, and "Welfare
for the Commonwealth will in­troduce
Melitzer, who also ser­ves
as Commonwealth coordina­tor
of the National White House
Conference on Aging to be held
in 1971.
Melitzer is a member of the
Human Relations Commission
of Harrisburg, the American
Civil Liberties Union and the
National Association of Social
Welfares. His special interest is
Harnish Resigns
As Director
At JRee- Center
•James Harnish, who has serv­ed
as director at the Recreation
Center for the past two years,
has submitted his resignation
effective September 8 to the
Lititz Area Recreation Commis­sion.
Ronald Reedy, president of
the Commission Board, stated
the resignation has been accept­ed.
The Board will be accepting
applications for a new director.
Harnish, who recently gradu­ated
from Millersville State
College, has- accepted a position
with the Lancaster County Chil­dren’s
Bureau.
the aging and their welfare. He
has served 14 years in the De­partment
of Public Welfare.
The Rev. J. N. Carlson, exe­cutive
director, reports that
several “open houses” will be
announced, which will make it
possible for visitors to view the
Plome and the new addition.
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use of the inter-library loan,
which permits them to borrow
books from other libraries. All
they need to do is fill out a slip
and they will be informed when
the book is at the Lititz library
for them to pick up.
Students who need to do re­search
outside of school hours
may use the reference room of
the Lilhz iinidiy The collection
includes Colliers Encyclopedia,
Encyclopedia Brittanica, Ency­clopedia
Americana and the
Harvard Classics. There is also
an old copy of the World Book
Encyclopedia which may be
checked out.
A section of “browser books”
may be checked out and kept
out of circulation indefinitely
by someone who needs to do a
great deal of research or who is,
perhaps, a slow reader.
The adult collection includes
something for everyone, includ­ing
most of the books on the
New York Times list of best
sellers. These, however, usually
are taken out as soon as they
are catalogued and placed da
the shelves. Science fiction and
mysteries, two very popular
subjects, are plentiful at the
Lititz library.
In the juvenile section are
most of the books that appeal
to youngsters from pre-school
to high school, including some
picture books tor the very
young.
In one alcove is a group of
paperbacks which have beeft
donated to the library. In ex­change
for a donated book, a
library member may take one
of those on the “bring one, take
one” shelf — and keep it for
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Inclement weather failed 'to dampen
the eagerness of starting school for local
students as observed in a first grade class
at the Lititz Elementary School. Miss Vera
Hoffman describes one of the colorful fall
poster on the bulletin board in her room to
three new pupils — left to right — Cindy
Hutto, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Hutto, 25 S. Spruce St., Lititz; Douglas
Auker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Soreno Auker,
Lititz RD2 and Mary Beth Gibbel, daugh­ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibbel, 11.E.
Third Ave., Lititz.