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Antiques Show
Scheduled For
July 4th Weekend
The 14th annual Lititz
Antiques Show and Sale is
set for the week-end of the
Fourth from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
oh Friday, July 4 and on
Saturday, July 5.
The show will be held in
the Lititz Recreation Center
in Lititz Springs Park.
General admission is $1.25.
Profits from the show, as
in the past, will be used for
the care and upkeep of the
Johannes Meuller House,
one of the borough’s
historical points of interest.
Chairmen for the event
include: Mrs. John H. Fissel,
Show Chairman; William
Light, Equipment; Richard
Rader, Treasurer; Mrs.
John A. Wenger, Publicity;
Harlo Smith, Posters and
Cards; Mrs. Robert Mearig,
Flower Arrangements; Mrs.
Alfred Melzer and Mrs. John
Bingham, Co-chairmen of
Food Stand; Mrs. Irvin
Miller, Tickets.
Committee members are:
Poster Distribution: Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Douple, Mrs.
Harlo Smith, and Mrs. Glenn
Mc E l r o y ; P r i n t e d
Materials: Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Longenecker; Food
Committee: Mrs. J. M. Leed,
Mrs. Richard Rader, Mrs.
Harriet Rodgers, Mrs.
Russell Templeton, and Mrs.
William Light.
Cashiers: Miss Barbara
Wise, Mrs. William Light,
James Ward, and Mr. and
Mrs. John Luttenberger.
Callers for Food Donations:
Mrs. John Morman, Mrs.
Kenneth Olsen, Ryan Shank,
Mrs. Douglas Livingstone,
Mrs. Harlo Smith, Mrs.
Vance Forepaugh, Mrs.
William Ringer, Mrs.
Clarence Rutbell.
Additional helpers with the
Food Stand: Mrs. Dale
Shelley and Mrs. Gerald
Weaver.
Ticket Sellers: Mr. and
Mrs. Ford Gochenaur, Mrs.
John Williams, Mrs. Martha
Cartwright, Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Wenger, Miss
Catherine Adams, Mrs.
Winifred Walls, Mrs. R. A.
Eichholtz, Mrs. Carl
Mathers, Mrs. Robert
Mearig, Miss Lisa Mearig,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Douple,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Longenecker, Ralph Sloat,
Mrs. Edward Pelger, Mrs.
Sally McMullen, Mrs. Larry
Van Brookhoven Jr., Mrs.
Gerri Willis, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Derek, Mrs. Harold
Ruth, Mrs. Arthur Griswold,
Mrs. Blanche dePerrot, Mrs.
Louis Fortier.
Lititz Area Prepares for
Annual 4th Ce ebration
A holiday spirit has already invaded the Lititz area, as
the community gets ready for annual Fourth of July
festivities.
Many residents have begun flying flags from their
lawns and porches, several Bicentennial flags have been
introduced into the area, grocery stores are advertising
the traditional hotdogs and other picnic fare that seem to
go with the Fourth, and even the weatherman is optimistic
about a warm, clear holiday.
The biggest event in the area will be the annual
celebration in Lititz Springs Park, on Friday, highlighted
by fireworks and the Queen of Candles Pageant that
evening. (The celebration will be held Saturday in case
the weatherman turns out to be wrong.)
The Park program will begin at 3 p.m. and continue
until about 11:30 p.m. Activities will include a rock con­cert
by the Jordan Brothers, band concerts by the
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Hower to Fill Vacant
Boro Council Seat
five votes cast for the Second
Ward Council seat. The other
vote went to William
Stauffer, 34 E. Market St.
In all, seven men applied
for the position, the seventh
one, Carlton B. (“Skip” )
Walls, III, 125 Liberty St.,
announcing his candidacy
last Wednesday (June 25).
The others, whose names
were announced on June 24,
were Stauffer, James L.
Snavely, 233 Front St.,
James Eby, 216 E. Lincoln
Ave., Allen H. Eshleman, 201
N. Broad St., and Thomas P.
Rearich, Jr., 143 N. Cedar St.
Council could not get the
necessary three votes on
June 24 to pass a motion
nominating Hower for the
position. Three Councilmen
abstained from voting, and
one was absent.
A second session was
called for June 25. Voting
was done by closed ballot.
Hower, who is principal of
Manheim Township High
School, served two previous
terms on Council from 1960-
1967. He ran for another
term, but was defeated by
Richard Mearig in the 1968
election. He has been
principal at Manheim
Township since 1967, and
prior to that was a noted
area football player,
mathematics teacher at
Manheim Township, and
school director of student
activities.
He is a graduate of
Manheim Township High
School and Franklin and
Marshall College. He holds a
masters degree from
Temple University.
C. Wendell Hower
Meeting in a special public
session to elect a new
councilman last Wednesday
night (June 25), Boro Council
voted four to one to add C.
Wendell Hower, 367 N. Broad
St., to its ranks.
Hower was one of seven
candidates who applied for
the vacant Council seat,
created by the resignation of
Curt Amidon former Council
president, now the assistant
borough manager.
Council Vice-President
Jim Yerger took over as
president just prior to the
session and conducted the
meeting, with Amidon
serving as recording
secretary, in the absence of
Boro Manager David An­derson.
Councilman Bill
York was elected vice-p
re sid en t, succeeding
Yerger.
Hower received four of the
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Mrs. Betty Mearig, 337 E. Second Ave., displays
some of the unique dried flower arrangements she
has created for the Lititz Antiques Show and Sale
to be held this week-end at the Lititz Recreation
Center. Betty has made floral decorations for the
show for several years. Her creations, always
R e c o rd E x p r e s s P h o to
enthusiastically received by the public, are the
result of a blending of her talent for floral design
with antiques such as the old ash and dirt sifters
shown in the photo above.
Local Stores Moving, Expanding
Lipparts to Open Sept. 29 Charlotte Heck To Add
In Former Hagy Building Period Furniture Elegance
Lippart’s of Lititz, clothing
store for big and tall men,
has officially purchased the
former Hagy’s Western Auto
Store, 46 E. Main St., with a
grand opening scheduled for
Sept. 29.
The firm will be vacating
Jim Lippart
its present store at 22 E.
Main St. on Sept. 28, ac­cording
to Jim Lippart,
owner. That building will
then be occupied by two
shops now located in Zum
Anker Alley - Charlotte
Heck’s Antiques and The
Leather Set.
Lippart said he will be
m a k i n g e x t e n s i v e
alterations to the front in­terior
of the former Western
Auto store, using a nautical
theme. The back section of
the building will be
remodeled in the spring of
1976, he said.
An innovation planned by
Lippart for his new
headquarters will be a Kid’s
Kommunity Korner, in
which any child (up to senior
high school age) will be able
to display artwork, crafts,
etc. for a one-week period,
from Saturday to Saturday.
The “Korner” will be
located in a closed-in area on
the main floor, just inside the
front door, and will be
available to young artists on
an individual basis, one at a
time. Children can begin
registering for the room
after Aug. 1, Lippart said. A
special calendar will be
available to sign up for the
room.
Lippart opened his
present store five years ago,
on Oct. 1, 1970. He formerly
was in the menswear
department of the Lancaster
Sears Roebuck and Com­pany
store.
Charlotte Heck, proprietor
of Charlotte Heck Antiques
in Zum Anker Alley at the
rear of 24 E. Main St.,
recently told the Record-
Charlotte Heck
Express that she plans to
move to 22 E. Main St, at the
end of the summer.
The building at 22 E. Main
St. is now occupied by
Lipparts of Lititz men’s
clothing store. Jim Lippart
has purchased the old Hagy
Western Auto Store at 46 E.
Main St. and will be moving
out at the end of September
with the official opening
scheduled for September 29.
After a two week period,
during which time Charlotte
will be redecorating the new
store to suit her display of
antiques, she will be open for
business about the middle of
October.
The new Heck shop will
occupy the front of the store
building on the west side
adjoining the General Sutter
Hotel. According to
Charlotte, the new store will
give her more room and will
put her business more in the
mainstream of customer
travel as it fronts Main
Street.
Still continuing her
longtime interest in and
handling of antique jewelry,
she told us she plans to add
more period furniture to her
inventory of antiques. “I’m
going to buy things I like so if
I get stuck with them, I can
use them myself,” she said.
She said she hopes to be able
to stock her shop with pewter
cupboards, desks and “any
other kind of furniture the
public shows an interest in.”
Zoning Snag
Looms in Plan
For Llbramont Another complication in the ongoing controversy over
another apartment unit in the old farmhouse in residential
Libramont reared its head Tuesday night, even as the
local Planning Commission voted thumbs down on
recommending approval of the latest preliminary plan for
the lot.
Mylin Messick, the developer who has been trying to get
the plan approved for several months, drew what looked
like an ace in the hole from his sleeve and informed the
planners that his land had never actually been zoned when
it was annexed into the borough in 1972.
“As of today, there is no zoning in my area,” Messick
told the Planning Board. Boro Manager David Anderson
added that “records show that it was not brought into the
borough zoned.”
“So,” Messick said, “I could bring in semi’s - that’s not
a threat, but I could.”
“Would our official zoning map carry it?” Chairman
Dennis Craig inquired of the borough’s solicitor, William
Crosswell.
Hesitating first, Crosswell replied: “I would hope you
can find some records.”
Messick’s slammer threw the planners into a big of a
quandary as they tried in vain to remember if any
resolution had actually been drawn up by Boro Council to
zone the land when it was annexed to the borough.
Anderson ahd Harold Kauffman, a real estate agent
who handles some of the Libramont properties, said they
had scoured old records in the borough office that day and
could find none confirming a resolution.
“I’m amazed that whoever drew up the annexation
made no zoning resolution,” Craig said.
Meanwhile, Anderson and Boro Council President Jim
Yerger started digging into bound volumes of old Council
minutes, while the planners waited for the verdict.
Finally, Yerger came up with what the borough hopes is
enough of an answer - a bound volume of 1972 Council
minutes recording an ordinance that adopted the entire
zoning map for the borough, a map that includes
Libramont and the farmhouse property.
Crosswell said the ordinance covers the borough on
zoning. However, Messick was not convinced. He told the
Record-Express later that Crosswell was “walking on thin
ice,” and that he doesn’t think the ordinance is enough,
that a resolution zoning his property specifically is
necessary.
The planners, ready and willing to take Crosswell’s
word on the zoning dilemma, voted to recommend to Boro
Council that Messick’s plan be rejected, and then advised
Messick to petition Council for an ordinance that would
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In This Issue
Business Directory 12
Church News 13
Classified Ads 14,15
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7
Women’s 10
“We’re going to change all
the colors in the decor and
use a lot of blues:
We d g e w o o d b l u e ,
Williamsburg blue - we’re
trying for an elegant look,”
she said. “We’re even put­ting
in a fireplace.”
New Column
This week the Lititz
Record-Express in­troduces
a new column,
“News from Your State
Representative” Nich­olas
B. Moehlmann
(102nd Legislative
District). The column
will deal with state
legislative issues of
interest to readers in
this area. Moehlmann
will also be answering
questions on state topics
submitted by readers.
The column will appear
on the Editorial Page of
the Record, Page 4.
Leather Set Will Feature
Classes, Demonstrations
The end of summer will
see The Leather Set,
operated by Ron Musser,
move from its present site at
6 Zum Anker Alley to the
Ron Musser
east side of the present
Lippart’s of Lititz building.
Situated on the east side of
the building next to Charlotte
Heck’s new antique shop,
The Leather Set will con­tinue
as a retail sales store
for leather crafts created by
Ron, but it will also become
an educational-working shop
where classes will be held in
the art of leathercraft and
where customers can come
in and watch as leather
becomes not only belts and
wallets, but knife sheaths,
barrettes, planters, even
mugs and other formed
items.
Classes will be taught by
instructors in colonial dress
in keeping with the pre-
Revolutionary atmosphere
Ron plans to initiate in the
Main Street shop.
The shop is to be divided
into various segments; each
segment, according to Ron,
will be devoted to a different
kind of leatherwork, For
example, one segment will
contain all Western
leathercrafts such as belts,
and pouches; others will
offer leathercrafts in the
modern or contemporary
mode; another will show how
colonial craftsmen made use
of leather for the practical
purposes of everyday living.
Included in the colonial
segment will be the mugs
and pots formed of leather on
wooden forms and made
useable by lining the inside
with pitch. Also, handbags
for men patterned after
those used by colonial men
will be offered for sale.
Ron said that he was not
going to close up shop at the
end of summer and take time
to refurbish and decorate the
newer, larger store. Instead,
he plans to keep the old shop
open until the day he opens
the doors to his new store on
Main Street.
Fire Police Get Uniforms
Lititz Fire Police model new uniforms they will
wear this weekend while aiding the local police
department with crowd and traffic control during
Fourth of July activities. Most of the cost of the
uniforms was covered by $1,000 donated by Boro
Council. The association, recently revitalized, will
be working under the direction of the police chief,
and also will be available to organizations and
groups for special control duty and security. Left to
right in the picutre are Capt. Jim Snavely, Dick
Guthrie, Sgt. Carl Martin, Tom Hartfranft, Elton
Reed (also a member of the Manheim Special
Police), Lt. Jim Heisey, Bob Nagle, Clyde Thomas,
Roger Ulrich, and Richard Carlozzi. Two other
members, not present for the picture, are Christ
Koehler and Raymond Mease. Snavely was recently
elected president of the association; Heisey, vice-president
; Koehler, treasurer; and Carlozzi,
secretary. In addition to special policy duty in the
Park on July 4, the group also will operate a
dunking machine (and are looking for volunteers to
sit on it!)