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SER VING THE WARWICK AREA FOR N E A R L Y A CENTUR Y
98th Year E s tablish ed A p r il, 1877i as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The Iiititz Record, 1937> Lititz, Lancaster County, Penna. 17543, Thursday, September 12,1974 10 cents a C opy ; $4.00 per ye a r b y 'm a il
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Shoe Repairman Closes His Shop
After 28 Years In Lititz Boro
“We’re taking it with us,” answered
Grace and Eugene Harry when asked
what they were planning to do with
this old brass cash register now that
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they are retiring from the shoe repair
business after 28 years. The store,
long a landmark at Five Points, was
the last shoe repair shop in Lititz.
Blast Victim Reported
‘Fair’, Son Released
Mrs. Betty Young, victim in an explosion last July at
her Front Street home, is reported in “fair” condition at
Lancaster General Hospital, where officials said she is
now getting “more ambulatory,” and becoming able to
feed herself.
Mrs. Young has been a patient at the hospital since a
propane gas explosion caught her and her 17 year old son,
Jacob, when they were attempting to light a gas water
heater in their basement.
Jacob was also in serious condition at the hospital, but
has since been released.
Lititz Fire Chief Howard Mowrer said this week that the
fire company’s investigation of the explosion was of­ficially
ended, once it was established that a faulty
automatic shut-off valve on the water heater failed to
function. He said the matter is now in the hands of in­surance
companies representing owners of the Front
Street property and manufacturers of the water heater
valve.
Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Burkholder, who own
the Front Street double home that was ruined by the ex­plosion,
have moved to a house at 217 Raspberry Lane,
after having lived about six weeks with relatives since
their former home was condemned.
Mrs. Burkholder said this week that they are
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Warwick Band
In Competition
The Warwick High School
Marching Band will par­ticipate
in the Lower
Dauphin competition at the
Hershey Stadium at 7:30
p.m. today (Thursday).
Competing will be: East
P e n n s b o ro , L eb a n o n ,
Hershey, Cedar Cliff and
Warwick.
Bus tickets at $1.00 may be
purchased at the time of
departure 6 p.m. at the band
room parking lot.
In This Issue
Business Directory 16
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 12
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Benner's Pharmacy
Bingeman’s Clothing Store
Bingeman’s Restaurant
The Carpet Shop
Commonwealth National Bank
rarmers First Bank
General Sutter Inn
Glassmyers
Hagy’s Western Auto
dershey’s Shoe Store
4ess Men’s Wear
The Jewelry Shoppe
<enyon’s Pastry Shop
Klotz Kleners
Lads & Lassies Children's Apparel
Lippart’s of Lititz
Lititz Book Store
Lititz Paint Shoppe
Lititz Pet Shop
Lititz Record Express
Lititz Sewing Center
Lititz Sports Center
Long & Bomberger
McElroy Pharmacy
Shoes ’n Things
Spacht's Furniture Store
Spring Meadow Farm (Lititz Central
Market)
Trudi K Shop
Wilbur Choc. Factory Candy Outlet
by Bonnie Szymanski
“I couldn’t have done it
without her,” smiled Eugene
Harry as he spoke candidly
about his wife’s importance
to himself and to the
business he is about to leave
after 28 years as a Lititz shoe
repairman.
“I did cementing, inking,
polishing, dyeing and
worked here at the counter,”
added Grace Harry while at
the same time she pulled a
customer’s card out of the
file they have kept over the
years for people who have
come to them with special
shoe problems.
Customers just kept
coming in - some to pick up
shoes for the last time and
some, who hadn’t heard
about the closing, to drop off
shoes as they had done for
years.
“Where are we going to
take our shoes for repair
now?” The Harry’s had no
definite answer for their old
customers. They hesitated to
recommend anyone they
didn’t know well, and it
seems that shoe repair
shops, good, bad or in­different,
are one of the
many vanishing American
small business species.
“There’s plenty of work in
this town to keep a shoe
repair shop going ten hours
or more a day,” insisted
Harry, but young people just
don’t want to spend the time
learning a trade like this,
anymore, when they spend
eight hours in a factory and
make more money.”
The Harry’s both
estimated the closet shoe
repair school to be in.
Philadelphia. But Mr. Harry
didn’t attend school to learn
his trade; “I learned it the
hard way, with no wages.”
Eugene Harry had just
been released from the
service and was debating
whether to take up barbering
or shoe repair when he
became apprenticed to a
Columbia man for six
months to learn shoe
repairing.
At the time of his ap­prenticeship,
no wages were
provided for those just
learning a trade. How did
they manage during those
six months? “She worked in
the silk mill,” answered Mr.
Harry with that “I couldn’t
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Looking south, newly modified intersection at
North Cedar and Lincoln Avenue shows how
roadway has been graded, and new curbs and
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sidewalks installed. The area was a former
spot for the borough, with narrow patched
and poor drainage.
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Boro Spends $15,500 to Revamp
Cedar-Lincoln Intersection
This summer the borough has been involved in some of
the most extensive and numerous street projects it has
faced simultaneously in many years.
Several have been completed, including a complete
revamping of the intersection at North Cedar Street and
East Lincoln Avenue.
The area was a trouble spot for the borough - the street
was narrow and full of patches, the result of installation of
water and sewer laterals for new houses. Rock had to be
cut back by developer A1 Edelson to install curb and
sidewalk and a shoulder on North Cedar. On top of this, a
leak developed in a major water main on the street.
Last year Boro Council authorized engineering plans for
reconstruction of the street, including some new storm
sewers and refurbishing the bridge and walk area nearby.
This year the storm sewers were installed, the west side
of Cedar and the north side of Lincoln were cut down for
better storm drainage, six property owners installed curb
and sidewalk, and complete resurfacing of the street was
done.
Boro Manager George Steedle estimates the entire
project cost the borough about $15,500, not including
borough labor or equipment costs. Resurfacing the street
cost an estimated $10,000, materials for other refur­bishing,
about $5500.
The entire intersection is now about seven feet wider
than before, and a new stop sign has been erected at North
Cedar Street.
Another completed project was a face lifting for West
Main Street, where an abandoned fire hydrant was
removed, a water leak repaired, underground conduits
were installed for new traffic signals at the Square, and
the street was completely resurfaced.
The Lititz Fire Company recently put in new curb and
sidewalk in front of the building on West Main that will
soon serve as the new fire station.
This year’s street resurfacing program, which included
a total of 10 streets and one lane, was finished in August,
at a cost of $22,000.
Work is still continuing on West Second Avenue where
curb and sidewalk are being installed for a new housing
development by Hurst Brothers Builders and for a
professional medical building. The borough is paying half
the cost of water and sewer lines for this area.
Water and sewer mains, curbing, and base material for
nine feet of shoulder have been installed, and as houses
^pe constructed, sidewalk will be installed to replace that
amaged during blasting to lay the sewer line. Steedle
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Ba rb er Follows N ew Trend
To B e com e A Hair Stylist
CONTEST ENDS NOON SATURDAY!
When is a barber not a barber? When he is a hair stylist.
“You can’t dictate to the public,” responded Eugene
Buchter recently when asked why he added styling to his
repertoire of barbering skills. “You must give the public
what it wants.”
According to Buchter, who has been in the barber
business for 26 years and the styling business for three,
the trend to longer hair began in the early fifties on the
west coast and slowly filtered east until it reached the
Lititz area in the early seventies.
Buchter estimated that he averages only about three
crew cuts or flat tops a week: A big difference from the
heyday of the barber twenty years ago when every kid in
town came in for a trim every other week.
But that’s fashion, and Eugene Buchter has gone along
with it for three years, ever since he began taking courses
in men’s hair styling. He has studied in Philadelphia and
New York, as well as in Lancaster, but feels that he
gained the most from the classes conducted by members
of the Associated Master Barbers and Beauticians of
America, Local 386, in Lancaster. These classes were held
by and for the organization’s members for the express
purpose of furthering and developing their styling skills.
Clean hair: that’s the basic ingredient to go into a hair
style. Buchter insists on beginning each styling session on
a clean head of hair. But, the most important step in
assuring a successful style and a happy customer is the
cut itself.
“If the hair is properly cut, then the customer can take
care of it himself,” explained Buchter. “When the hair is
cut evenly over the top of the head, you can style it many
different ways.” He proved this by combing his son
Douglas hair into a side part, a middle part, and a few
other casual styles, all of which looked equally well.
Although styling hasn’t brought his business back to the
stage where it was when he began his apprenticeship with
his father, Harry Buchter, in 1948, the volume is still
growing and, according to Buchter, “there is definitely a
demand for styling.”
During the two years he was apprenticed to ms ratner m
a shop in Rothsville, Eugene Buchter recalls working
every evening, except Sunday, until 9. or 10 p.m. Now, the
shop is closed on Mondays, and althougn tney are open
from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. weekdays, they close at 3 p.m. on
Saturdays.
Of course the Buchters still have their share of regular
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“ It didn’t hurt at all,” joked Richard
Shutt, Lancaster, after Eugene
Buchter had cut and styled his
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medium length hair. It's apparent
that Richard is as pleased with the
results as Buchter is with his work.