Lititz Record Express

              rrz Record - Express
Serving The Warwick Area For Nearly A Century
94th Year E s ta b lish ed April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with T h e L it itz Becorej. 1937) Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna., Thursday, December 3, 1970 10 c en ts a C o p y ; $4.00 per y e a r hy m a il
w ith in L a n c a s te r County 18 Pages No. 35
Local Retailers
Set Additional
Store Honrs
Local Retailers have announc­ed
extra store hours lor the con­venience
of Christmas Shoppers.
Stores will be open this Fri­day
until 10 P. M. for the Lititz
Turkey Party.
Extra Hours
Most stores also will be open
until 9 P. M. starling next Wed­nesday,
December 9 every night
until Chritmas.
Stores will close at 5 P. M.
Thursday, December 24, Christ­mas
Eve.
Santa's Castle Hours
Santa Claus will be wailing
in his castle, located beside the
General Sutter Inn. this week­end
to greet youngsters and give
them a gift, provided by the
Lititz Retailers’ Association.
Santa will be in his castle
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fri­day,
Decmber 4 and from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, De­cember
5 and from 6 p.m. to 8
p.m. Thursday, December 10,
Banks Drive Up
Windows Open
Till 10 P.M. Frl
In cooperation with (he Lititz
Retailers’ “Turkey Shopping
Party” the drive up window of
the Commonwealth National
Bank and the Farmers National
Bank of Lititz will be open until
10 P. M. Friday (December 4).
The Farmers Bank walk up win­dow
will also be open. The banks
are participating with extra
hours as an added service to
customers and, shoppers.
The Lititz Record Express will
also be open from 0 to 10 P. M,
Friday.
Pant Suits Okayed For
Students At Warwick
Harold Swisher, principal ol
Warwick High School has an­nounced
the following addition
to the school’s dress code.
Effective the first week of
December girls may wear pant
suits or slacks to school during
the cold winter months.
The code states that no dun­garees,
jeans, tight fitting or
psychedelic slacks will be per­mitted.
The school administration
would appreciate the parents
co-opcration on this change.
Lititz Slips Schedule Turkey
Parti; from o-10 p.m. Friday
A Turkey Party, featuring free turkeys, will be held in
downtown Lititz Friday evening from 5 to 10 p.m.
Storting at 6 p.m., a turkey will be given away every 15
minutes until 10 p.m. The turkeys, along with special bar­gains
at many stores, wiSS highlight the special evening sales.
Tickets eon be obtained free from participating mer­chants
between about 5 and 10 p.m. No purchase is neces­sary
to obtain the registration coupon.
The customers should sign his or her name and address
and deposit the coupon at the drawing booth located at the
recently named Zorn Anker Alley on East Main Street be­tween
the Slitter Inn -and Lippart's Clothing near the Square.
Names of winners will be posted on o bulletin board at
the drawing booth and turkeys must be picked up by 10:15
p.m.
Participating shops will remain open an additional hour
beyond the usual 9 p.m. closing.
Many shops will also offer special bargains for shoppers
between 6 and 10 p.m". (Check advertisements throughout
the RECORD-EXPRESS for more information on these speci­als).
Both Lititz Bonks, located on East Main Street near the
Square, are cooperating in the special sale. In addition to
their regular bonking hours Friday, the Commonwealth Na­tional
Bonk drive-up window and the Farmers National Bank
of Lititz walk-up and drive-up window will be open from 6
to 10 p.m.
The LITITZ RECORD-EXPRESS, which is normally open
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, also will be
open from 6 till 10 p.m. fro cooperate with the sale. A special
classified advertisement rate of 50 per cent off will be avail­able
either by phone or in person at the 22 East Main Street
office from 6 to 10 p.m.
The following shops ore cooperating in the Turkey Party!
Candy Jar
David Armoid Jeweler
Backporeh Candle Shoppe
Clyde O. Benner Pharmacy
Bingeman's Restaurant
Bob's Save Rite Mkf.
Byler's Self Service
Carpet Shop
New Charlotte's Shop'pe
Commonwealth National
Bank
Farmers National Bank
of Lititz
Fife & Drum Music Shop
Flanagans
Genera! Sutter Inn
Glassmyers
Nagy's Western Auto
Harris Variety Center
Herb's Sandwich Shop
J. B. Hess Men's Wear
Kathryn's Gifts & Flower Shop
John W. Keller Gifts
Kenyon's Pastry Shop
Klotz Kleners
Kreider Hardware
Lippart's Clothing
'•Lititz -Book Store
Lititz Record-Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger Home
Center Inc.
McElroy's Pharmacy
Michael's TV
Henry K. Neff
Spocht's Furniture Store
The House of Warwick
Planners Deny Gas Station Proposal,
But Will Reconsider Town House Plan
The Lititz Planning Commis­sion
Tuesday night denied a re­quest
for a zoning change that
would allow a new gas station
on East Main Street, but de­cided
-to give further study to a
proposal to build town houses
in the Libramont area.
Benjamin G. Forney, Roths-ville,
asked for a tract of land
on the south side of East Main
Street, Lititz, to be rezoned from
residential to general business.
Forney indicated he wanted the
change to allow construction of
a gas station.
The commission previously
denied a similar request for a
gas station in the same general
area near the entrance to Luther
Acres.
The Libramont proposal was
made by Mylin M. Messick of
Messick’s Realty Corp., Lititz.
George Steedle, Planning Com­mission
secretary, explained
that there is presently no pro­vision
in the borough ordinance
for construction of row houses
or townshouses for sale. Town-houses
are permitted for rental.
Steedle explained that the rea­sons
the borough has not al-iowed
townhouses for sale in
the past include:
—Off-street parking is a major
problem. The developer, how­ever,
has come up with a way
to provide off-street parking
that he thinks will be accept­able,
Steedle noted.
—Minimum lot area. The
borough’s minimum lot area for
an R-X district like Libramont is
5,000 square feet for a semi-de­tached
structure and 4,000 square
feet for an apartment complex.
Steedle said the minimum lot
area is important in controlling
“population density.”
—Responsibility for common
green area. Jn a townhouse
apartment building, which has a
single owner, responsibility for
the green area is clear-cut, but
this may not be true if the town-houses
are sold, Steedle explain­ed.
D
uring the meeting, Edgar G.
Reese, borough councilman, sug­gested
that the borough’s re­quirements
for off-street park­ing
in future construction should
be increased from the present
one and one-half parking spaces
per dwelling to two per dwelling.
His proposal, which would apply
to both apartments and residen­tial
dwellings, will receive
further study, the commission
indicated.
Also tabled for further study
was a rezoning request recom­mended
by the Lititz Chamber
of Commerce to rezone a por­tion
of the downtown commer­cial
district to a historical dis­trict.
A request from modular
home builder Albert Edeison to
remove a portion of Noble Street
from the borough plan, was ap­proved.
The planners were informed
that a traffic problem exists at
tiie five-way intersection of
Woodcrest Avenue, Second Ave­nue
and Spruce Street. The
borough manager was asked to
discuss the situation with the
police chief and report back to
the commission. There is pres­ently
no traffic light at the in­tersection.
A special meeting was sched­uled
for 7 p.m. Tuesday, January
12 to consider the housing code
review.
Museum Gets 200-Year-Old Panel
cates the groove in an up­right.
A Lititz man has donated an
outstanding example of a more
than 200 year old home-made
panel built without nails to the
museum of the Lititz Historical
Foundation.
The ingenious panel, which
would be comparable to today’s
interior partition, consists of
hand-hewn wood, rye straw and
clay.
Calvin K. Frymyer, 47 XV.
Lincoln Ave., Lititz, saved the
panel for Dr. Byron K. Horne,
well known local historian, dur­ing
the remodeling of a home
north of Lititz.
Dr, Home was quite enthused
about the panel and said, “It is
an example of what ingenious
methods were used by peopie
who settled in this area to build
their homes when such items as
nails were scarce or not avail­able.”
Dr. Horne said such fine ex­amples
of the old interior con­struction
are very rare and other
museums, such as Landis Valley,
would prize the panel highly.
The panel consists of two hand-hewn
uprights about seven feet
long, two inches thick and six
inches wide.
Grooves an inch or more deep
were cut into the narrow sides
of these uprights. Thin oak and
pine boards served as lath and
the laths were placed in the
grooves.
The laths were covered with
rye straw and clay and were
placed one on top of another un­til
the space between the up­rights
was filled.
This panel was then mortised
into the floor and ceiling joists.
By adding these panels side
by side in a series, rooms of
Oie desired size could be built.
A coal of piasler, consisting
again of rye straw and clay,
was applied over the entire par­tition.
In some homes a coating
of white wash was applied after
the plaster was dry; however,
this was optional.
Dr. Horne said these partitions
would be very sturdy and eom-pcrablc
in appearance to todays
plaster walls. He said the par­titions
provided.excellent insula­tion.
Dr. Horne noted that such
construction was used more than
200 years ago at a time when
labor was generally much cheap-
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Each of Mrs. Love s 19 Music Boxes Has 'Something to Say'
Mrs. James Love, 206 Landis Valley Valley Road. “Each one recalls an occa-
Road, admires just some of her 50 music sion," she said,
boxes at her home recently at 206 Landis
By Pat Wilson
Special Feature Writer
Collections that have been
lovingly added to through the
years, commemorating special
occasions and recalling old fri­ends,
take on special meaning at
this time of year when close re­latives
and friends are wonder­ing
what will be closest to the
hearts of the recipient.
Such a collection is one of
about 60 music boxes belonging
to Mrs. James Love, 206 Landis
Valley Road, who has been re­ceiving
them for about 30 years.
Recently, Mrs. Love unpacked
the special Christmas music
boxes she has been storing care­fully,
protecting them from dust
and breakage.
Among the holiday figures
complete with music works arc a
Christmas tree in a container
which, when turned over, is veil­ed
in a snowstorm.
Two richly toned golden bclJs
can be suspended in a doorway
(o ring a holiday message. Tiny
angels playing musical instru­ments
revolve themselves on a
rotating base, while music plays
within the works.
Other Chrislmas-thcme music
boxes include a church with
stained glass windows, an angel
that plays “Silent Night,” a
French Santa Claus and a Mrs.
Santa seated in a rocking chair,
which actually rocks while music
plays.
Most prized of Mrs. Love’s
Christmas music boxes is an
intricate and completely detailed
creche that hangs on the wall.
“This one stays out all year.”
she pointed out, adding that it
N one of her favorites.
A big plush stuffed snowman,
also musical, is Mrs. Love’s new­est
acquisition. Her first was a
large stuffed teddy bear.
Most of the musical boxes—
in amazing variety—have been
given to her as gifts, either for
birthdays and Christmas, or
when she had to spend time in
the hospital.
“I have more that 50 now,”
she explains, “but 1 haven’t
counted them lately. I must
have given that many (50)
away.”
Among her special favorites in
a non-holiday theme are a musi­cal
teapot and matching cup and
saucer. Both the teapot and the
cup, decorated with flowers,
play “Tea For Two.” She also
has another “everyday” teapot
in lettuce-green pottery.
There is a matching set of
golden earrings and cufflinks and
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Warwick Twp,
Issues $115,350
In Permits
Building permits with a value
of $115,350 were issued in War­wick
Township during Novem­ber.
Four new houses valued al
$108.000 will be constructed by
Joseph M. Brubaker, Brubaker
Rd.; Kepner Construction Co.,
Becker Drive, Woodcrcsl; Wal­ter
Cammauf, Lehoy Forest
Drive; and George L. Geibe, 746
Orchard Road.
Other permits were issued to
Walter H. Hess, 750 Orchard
Road, siding; John Todd. 313
Lexington Road, siding; Paul
Burkholder, Skyvicw Lane, resi­dential
alterations; Lloyd K.
Sensenig. 306 Lexington Road,
siding; Warren Harding, Hack-man
Road, gai age addition; and
Wayne Stauffer, Meadow Val­ley
Road. Millway, interior
renovations to warehouse.
FIRE CALL
The Lititz Fire Company re­sponded
to a call behind Fry’s
Garage at 3:25 p.m. Sunday.
They extinguished a blaze in the
back seal of a 1942 Cadalliac,
Here is an outstanding example of the materials used in
interna] house construction in this area more than 200 years
ago. Lath (hand hewn hoards about two feet long) are fit­ted
between seven-foot uprights, which in turn are grooved
to the floor and ceiling. The lath was covered with rye straw
and piaster. The result was a solid, durable and nearly
sound proof partition, according to Dr. Byron K. Horne,