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Photo by Jennifer Kopf
LiTITZ ON THE RISE — A one-day postponement, due to windy weather, didn't deter the crowd at
Sunday’s bai'oon launch Even more people turned out Sunday than Saturday, and had the treat of
watching the preparai.on ard flignt of seven hot air balloons, many sponsored by local businesses Even
July 4th Vice Chapman Jim Muss get into the act catching a ride, appropriately enough, in the '•Lititz 250"
balloon Dealers show old treasures
LORIN BEIDLEH
Record Express Staff
The Lilitz Historical Found ii.on
helped Lititz kick off its 175th conse­cutive
July 4th celebration last
weekend by holding its 31st annual
antique show and sale.
Forty-one exhibitors converged on
Warwick Middle School for the two-day
event, held on Friday and Satur­day.
Exhibitors filled the school’s
(.jictcriu and an adjoining lounge,
in i luicd so cr.il oi the halls.
in addition to a vanel) of antiques,
veitors could also injoj Lancaster
County cuisine. A squad of locals,
led by Buzz Hartzell, staffed the
“School House Pantry,” a small
buffet-style eatery that featured such
Pennsylvania German specialties as
chicken com soup and home baked
pies and desserts.
According to Suzanne Sload, who
has diiecied the show for die last
se\cn years, die show has been, wnh
Uo exceptions, the sole souicc ol
income lor the Lititz Historical
Foundation. The foundation under­took
capital campaigns in the early
1970s (to Finance the creation of the
Johannes Mueller House) and in
1991 (to finance the creation of the
Lititz Museum.) Otherwise, all of the
group’s revenue has come from the
antiques show, Mueller House tour
fees and membership dues.
The tra d itio n continues Folio,-, a,, t the third and last
installment m a sent s o f excerpts on
the hiu'ry o ' Lam' ¡75-year tradi­tion
of ‘ oU. ni a community-wide
July 4.1 cehb-ation. The excerpts
are taken fr.,m a book compiled by
Ron Re. 7y „ a> u 01 be sold to com­memorate
th • i >5th r'.eurMon. Pre-viou:
in\Uill,,iei is covered the years
from ¡Sid through '9-2.
■ The >ear 1 ;42 was t big one for
Lnit/’ Ju-y th tradmon desp'le the
lact that Woilo War 11 forced the
canccILii >n oi omc events — 19-12
marked me i00’h anniversary ol the
Fairyland ol CmJlcv and the lirsl
year ol ih. Ouec-i ol Candles
pageant
A inu'i le. tv track commemorat­ing
the event was initially planned
but the csecudve committee called it
oil, fearing u would waste resources
being conserved for the national
defense elfort.
The year al so saw Lititz’ first July
4th snowball fight. The fight was
staged on the ballfield between two
Lititz Boy Scout troops. Reedy’s his­tory
states that the snow was real but
does not specify its source.
The idea of a queen of candles is
credited to Omar K. Bushong. The
July 4th committee was looking for a
way to commemorate the 100th
(Turn lo Page 15) Sun greets the garden tour
JENNIFER KOPF
L ltitr Record News Editor
In a shady area at the rear of the
Bill and Mary Sweger yard, there’s a
testimonial to many hours of garden
enjoyment.
It s not the small bench, placed in
the dappled sunlight, or even the var­iety
of well-established perennials—
it’s the shadow of a dart board, a
circle of unblemished paint inside
marks of long-ago, errant tosses.
The gardens included on Sunday’s
tour, sponsored by the Lititz Histori­cal
Foundation, were often like that
(Turn to Page 19) Plane crashes near Lititz; no
leads yet in earlier fatality
LOR N REIJLER
Record (ix;jr~ss S ta ff
It joulij be mourns bcfoie the
cause oi ~ recent plane ciash that
claimed 'he ia e o f a Lititz man is
made public, investigators said this
week
A n ’o i'i'ig ui Chu> k Leonard, a
National T ..n sp on a tion Safety
Board ir .e slig .. o r v-no is looking
mio me in s i.ip dial ‘esuited m the
death o' it'i la n n ' Kesiiicr, su'd
that U sim. hi ic , ukc his orgam/a-uon
as t *ng ... nine months to com­plete
jn c u .¡u.nes.
Kestne* ancxpcrii iced pilot, was
killed on J m l '1 whin the plane he
was cop.' i'iP- cut down just short
of ilk : nr a> a wa' ..ppiOkhing al
Ihe Nev C .s’ e Cimiti) A ¡poil.
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facto ”S i.I ! s oasi. Leonard
des,, li tin ! VC P lots as being
“hnih C\i ei i. ' i 'J ai>d lompeient. "
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piane 1 lia a com! sa!il> retord
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(Tarr to Page 15)
Photo by Jennifer Kopf
Permission was given on Friday to move the remnants of Thursday’s
plane crash to the rear of the Thomas Farm Market parking lot. A
steady line of passersby continued to stop along Route 501 to look at
the crasn site.
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Robert Cook keeps a watchful eye on his wife Jean’s antiques booth at the Lititz Historical Foundation’s
annual antiques show and sale Saturday. The Cooks, who live in Lititz, have been selling antiques for
around 15 years and have been exhibiting in the Historical Foundation shows for the last six.
T H I S W E E K I N T H E R E C O R D E X P R E S S
Lititz Retailers’
treasure hunt
3 E
Lititz Retailers’
TREASURE HUNT
UNDERWAY...
Now through July 18, you
can win in-store prizes
throughout the Lititz area...
Plus your knowledge of Lititz
could win you the special trea­sure
hunt grand prize pack­age.
(We’ve even posted
answers in participating
stores to help you out). See
page 21 for details.
D u s s i n g e r ' s a r t t a l e n t s
h e l p w i t h c e l e b r a t i o n
Bill Dussinger Jr. grew up in
Lititz, and now he’s using his art
talents to help with Lititz’ 175th
anniversary Fourth of July
celebration. Among the many
things he has done for the celeb­ration
are create the program
cover, and paint a poster. Read
more on page 20.
Pirates earn two wins
to reach the .500 mark
The Lititz Pirates of the
Lebanon-Lancaster Twilight
League earned wins over the
Ephrata VFW and Reamstown
last week to reach .500 with a
6-6-2 record. Pitchers Bryan
Faus and Keith Groff picked
up the two wins for the
Pirates. Read more on page 8.
T H E I N D E X
Business 24
Church 16
Classified 26-29
Editorial 4
Manhelm 18
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6
Social 22-23
Sports 8-11
WEATHER: Partly cloudy
Wednesday through Friday.
Chance of afternoon or evening
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