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The Lititz Record-Express
72nd Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
('Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday AUGUST 12, 1948 5 cents a copy; $2 per yr. by mail No.18
Roads Leading To Lititz
In Need Of Repairs
Survey Here Reveals
State Oddly Not Making
Any Repairs This
Summer
Agitation to bring about road
improvements in this section was
reported started here this week
in view of stead ily-deteroirating
roads and highways on all sides
of the borough.
Lititz has only one approach to­day
which can be considered in
good condition, it was pointed
out. This lone highway Is the
Lititz Pike leading to Lancaster.
The worst approach to the
borough is the iRotohaville Road
whicicb hais been getting worse
each year. Last winter, heavy
trucks tore large holes in this
road and while these have been
covered over, the road still re­mains
a bumpy-rocky threat to
springs for- any motorist ventur­ing
to drive over 80 miles an Dr. J. Grosh
houlr.
The highway from Lititz to
Lexington and rickeville in parts
is equally bad, a local group who
made a tour of inspection report­ed,
With no repairs being made
in this stretch this sumkneer a
bad winteer will (render this
section of highway impassable, it
was predicted.
West of the borough a similar
situation exists. Both the Lin­coln
Avenue and the Orange
Street approaches to the borough
and ading to Mariheim are In only
a slight degree better condition.
Despite that all but one ap-proch
to the borough is in bad
condition no road building Is go­ing
on this summer The Peeters-burg
oad section inside the bor­ough
was Improved last year but
may be extended to the borough
line in the near futur. e
Teen Talk
By Don Fisher
A handful of “howdy do’s” to
the hebdomadal readers of this
hodgepodge of facts.
While attending the “hot rod”
races at Hill Top this past Sun­day
youns falsely saw another
speedway fan in Lairry Pierson.
After ohit abating hello’s he said,
“guess I’ll have to do the same
with my convertible.’’ Buit since
the track ois only a quarter-mile
long and the Packard is just a
little less than (half of that, he
can’t get around rtJhe turns. That’s
the only obstacle dn his plans.
Well, you might saw it in half
and make two oars!
How ¡many people in town knew
that Chet Howard the New York
popular 'band leader is Larry
Howard’s brother?
“Good things come in ¡small
packages.’’ That old saying is
true about most things, but not
shoes. Take Donald Reidenlbaugh’
word tor it. When he bought his
last pair practically every shoe
»tore in Lancaster ¡County was
visited before ’he finally located
a good old fashioned snug fitting
two-some. No, he wasn’t looking
for a particular style or make,
just a FOURTEEN. Yea gads!
Dussinger to Dussinger, dust
to dust, isf ¡Dick’s not the man my
prophecy’s a bust, Thank you
James Whitcomb Riley.
Named Legion
Commander
Local PostWill Hold An-nual
Election In
September
Dr. Joseph W. Grosh, prominent
local physician, was named post
commander ¡off the Garden Spot
Post of the American Legion here
Tuesday night at the annual nom­ination
¡of officers.
¡Dr. Gnosh will be unopposed
tor the ¡position at the annual
election to ibe held by the local
legionnaires at their September
meeting. He ¡will succeed Menno
Rohrer, ¡present commander.
¡Other officers nominated were
as follows:
First Vice Commander, William
Scatchard and Bari ¡Disisingar.
¡Second Vice :Oom|mander, Harry
Ruley.
Adjutant, IMary Suavely.
Finance Officer, Robert Herr.
Historian, Dr. Jonas Risser and
Norma Putt.
IDhaplain, Rev. Paul Miller.
Sergeant-at-arms, Walter F.
Aiukar and IBarl Walters.
Directors, three to be elected,
Domer Brenner, Frank Ford, Sr.,
Dr. B. E. IMdMullin, ¡Robert Eich-holtz,
¡Carl Mathers and Menno
Rohrer.
The resignation of Frank M.
Hunter as a director was received
and accepted. In accepting this
resignation, Post ¡Commander Men-nio
Rohrer ¡pointed out the ¡many
years in ¡which IMr. Hunter played
an outstanding part in Legion
affairs and in getting the present
post home ¡both financed and built.
IMr. ¡Hunter is resigning due to
his ¡moving from Lititz to a farm
near York. ¡He expects to make the
change this month when alter­ations
will Ibe completed there,
A total lof 50 members were
present. Commander Rohirer an-ouniced
that the post now has 505
members as copared ¡with 347 two
years a®o.
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In the good old Summertime, it
shouldn’t take any advertising
to tell heat-baked city dwellers
that Summer has arrived in full
force. The idea that it has, and
that it’s cool and comfortable in
Atlantic City, is exemplified by
blonde Gregg Sherwin, one of
Ar.'.erica’s cover girls, who took
time out from her holiday to
nose for this appealing weather
report.
Woman’s Club
Fall Program
Is Announced
Phila. Speaker To Address
First Meeting Here
Sept. 20
The program comknittee of the
Woman’s Club announced the pro­grams
for the coming year, all
¡meetings with the exception of
two will be held in the General
Sutter hotel and the program for
April ’ 18th will! be announced
later.
The first meeting will be held
on September 20th when Mrs.
Esther ¡Ganlitz from Gilmble Bros.,
Philadelphia, will present “Fash­ion
on' a Bludget.” There will also
be a reception for new members
¡at this meeting.
An open meeting is planned
for October 18th in the high
schood auditorium when J. K.
Bowtman of the State department
of public instruction will speak on
“School Reorganization.”
The ladies will he hostess to
the Girl scouts on November 15th
in the basement ¡of St. Plaul’s
Lutheran church and the Junior
League of Lancaster will present
the puppet show “Hansel and
Gretel.”
Mrs. Charles S. Musser of
Landsdown will apeak on “Bells
Around the World’’ on December
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Sports Çlub Tightens Grip
On Third Place Position
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Art Myers Will
Open Store Here
A new paint and wallpaper
store will be opened a t 39 Bast
Main Street by Arthur IMyers,
Ideal painter and paperhanger, on
A lay, August 20. The store Is
located in ¡the ¡Hertz building
which is being remodeled
According to Mir. Myers, ¡who
has had approximately 20 years
experience in this line, the store
will feature a complete line of
paints, wallpaper, Venetian blinds,
paper drapes and interior decorat­ing
materials. He also will ¡feat­ure
Wagner custom Venetian
¡blinds.
The Lititz ¡Sports d u b tightened
their grip on ¡third place in the
Greater County ¡League and also
a ¡spot in the post-season play­offs
with a sweep of a two game
series with Marietta last week­end.
¡Marietta handed ¡the locals a
5-3 gift Saturday as they com­mitted
five errors. ¡Bari Ludwig
weut the distance ¡for Lititz and
was touched tor 10 ¡hits, Including
a homo run off ¡the hat of Jay
Miller, Marietta second-baseman.
¡Miller’s drive, an arching shot
that ¡had Wally ILau'sch and Henny
Hershey, Lititz outfielders, run­ning
aroiind like a couple head­less
chickens broke uip a 2-2 tie.
Hershey chased the drive, which
¡was ¡stroked out into centerfield,
¡the hall ¡struck an iron post on
the bleachers and then oaroomed
¡¡back into the ¡playing field. As
Lauaoh ran to retrieve it he slip­ped
and kicked the ball back to­ward
the football field. By this
time Miller had legged it around
the bases ¡for a homer.
Lititz won the giarne in the
eighth when (Penyak, visiting
short-stop, and Wiley, lefibflelder,
pulled an Alplhonse and Gaston
on a short ¡fly into left. Their
¡muff of this with a couple walks
■and Elly Ifreider’is ¡rifle-shot dou­ble
gave Lititz the winning runs.
¡Sunday’® contest resembled
¡ball game a bit ¡more. Lititz clus­tered
five runs in the third, three
in the fifth, ¡and tour in the eight,
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Farm Show Committee
Will Offer Big Prizes
In Annual Baby Parade
Entire Block Of New
Farm Machinery
And Autos
A ¡baby parade 'with ¡prizes ¡which
will ¡break all previous ¡records
here ¡will be a ¡feature of the 1948
Lititz Farm ¡Show ¡September 30,
October 1 and 2, according to act;
ion taken by the show committee
Monday evening.
Competition among local moth­ers
for prizes reached a new peak
during the parade sponsored by
the park committee on the Fourth
of July. At that time several of
the floats were ¡unusually elabor­ate
and works ¡of art.
Considering this, members of
the farm show committee an­nounced
that every effort will be
made to continue this inters! and
declared prizes will equal if not
exceed those offered in the past.
The resolution favoring the par­ade
was introduced by Raymond
Reedy and seconded by Harry
Gorton.
The latest in farm machinery as
¡well as new 1949 models of auto­mobiles
will ¡occupy an entire
block of Broad Street from the
¡Square to Orange ¡Street. Ctarl
Reedy, chairman of this committee,
also announced. The ¡farm mach­inery
exhibits especially will
feature the very latest in modern
devices, some of which never ¡be­fore
have been shown here, he
explained.
The entertainment committee
¡headed by Lloyd ¡Smith reported
that features will include a con­cert
toy the Warwick Township
Band, toeing ¡sponsored' toy ’the "Sum-
¡shine Feed -Oomtpany, this borough;
the Dutch Band of Elizatoethville
and Uncle Jack and ¡Mary Lou.
PICNIC AT LEAGUE
The Young Men’s Business Lea­gue
scheduled to be held at Dr.
Yoder’s ¡Cottage today will he
held at the League due to the
rain. Supper, ¡featuring chicken
corn soup, will be served at
5:30 P. M.
Community Band
Will Play Sunday
At New Holland
The Lititz Community Band will
■present a concert this ¡Sunday
evening in the ¡park at New Hol­land.
The ¡program, ¡being spon­sored
toy the New Park 'commit­tee,
¡will toe held ¡from 7:®0 P. M.
to 10 P. M. and is open to the
public. It will be directed toy
Harry Neidermyer.
The band last ¡Sunday evening
played to a large audience at the
Landisville ‘Camp Grounds.
To Present Recital
Here August 26th
¡Mrs. Verna Umber Teacher of
piano and violin will ¡present her
students in a recital in Thursday
evening, August 26, a t 7:00 p.m.
in the Moravian S..S: The public
is invited to attend. Those who
will participate are: Beverly Ross,
John Eby, Erma Yerger, Jane
Krushinski, Patsy Dull, Brooke
Minnich, Phyllis and Darlene For­ney,
Audrey Sensenig, Lorna
Lang, and Evelyn Weik, Gladys
and Thelma Sangrey, Frances and
Mary Lou Buekwalter, Patsy Kof-rotih,
Lee Fry, Richard and James
Delp, Betty Jane ¡Snyder, Janet
Kreider, Pauline ¡Nolt, Leah Jane
Becker, Verna Bear, and Virginia
Senseuig from Lititz. Those frolm
Denver who will participate are:
Patsy Ann Sweigart, Diane Sho-
¡Walter, Caroline Davidson, Sandra
Lee Grube, Harold Weitzel, and
Betty and Peggy Shober.
HOME ON FURLOUGH
Ray Rohrer, Lititz, RjD.4, ¡who
is stationed in ¡Son Antonio, Texas,
with the air ¡corps, medical div­ision,
is spending a 20-day leave
¡at his home, east of this borough.
MT. AIRY PICNIC SATURDAY
The greater Mt. Airy Union
S S. picnic will be held this Sat­urday
in the grove north of Clay
on route 322. Music will be furn­ished
by the famous Allentown
Band during the afternoon and
evening. (Rev. N. Jj, Fake will
Speak at 6 P. M.
Registrars
To Sit Here
September 4
Local electors will ¡have an op­portunity
to register tor the com­ing
presidential election on spec­ial
days when iregistras will sit
here, ¡the Lancaster County Oom-
Imisistoners announced today.
The registrars ¡will sit at the
firehouise on Saturday, ¡September
4 from 10 'A. ¡M. to 10 P. IM. they
will 'register qualified voters not
already registered, those who have |
changed withe their addireals or I
¡painty affiliation or ¡persons who]
have become of age.
An opportunity will be -given
Warwick Townshpi voters to re­gister
¡when the ¡registrars twill
isdt at the high school building in
Rothsville on Wednesday, August
25. They will Sit at ¡the store of
Wayine Weidman, Brickerville, on
Friday, ¡September 3, and at Sch­uyler
Mellinger’s, Clay, on Tues­day,
August 84.
(Persons outside these various
districts can register at any time
the registrars are sitting. A com­plete
list of these ¡sittings can be
found in an Official announce­ment
elsewhere in this issue.
Brunnerville Fire Co.
To Hold Memorial
Service This Sunday
A memorial service will be held
by the Brjunnerville Fire ¡Com­pany
this Sunday evening In the
Brunnerville United Brethren
Church. The (program will begin
at 7:15 -P.M.
Selections will be rendered by
the Northern Fellowship Male
Chorus. All members are request­ed
to meet ¡at the fire hall and to
proceed to the dhurch a t 7 P. M.
Legion Auxiliary
Delegates To Attend
Phila. Convention ¡¡j
Mrs. Mildred (Branshy, Miss
Caroline George and Mns. Thomp­son
will leave On Wednesday,
August 18th to attend the Amer­ican'
Legion Convention in Phila­delphia.
They will ¡represent the
local Auxiliary at the Convention
Which -continues until August 22.
The Past-Presidents of the
Ladiels Auxiliary -attended a past
presidents ¡party held at Manheim
recently. Ten of the sixteen ait-tended
and ¡Mrs. ¡Olair Rice was
elected secretary of the organ­ization.
The others -attending in­cluded,
¡Mrs. Nariman Habecker,
Miss ¡Mae Brenner, Mrs. Howard
Holllnger, Miss Ann Weitzel, Mrs.
Irene Kofrofh, ¡Mrs. Guay Enck,
Miss ¡Mabel -Schnerer, and Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Dtouple.
A report at a recent meeting
revealed the ladies took $138.00
worth of merchandise to the .party
held for the veterans a t the ¡Coats-ville
Hospital. They -also provided
refreshments and -thirty ¡five ladles
accompanied the »group.
Sportsmen Will
Meet Here Monday
A ¡meeting of the Liititz Sports­men’s
Association will be held at
the firehouse this Monday evening
at 8:30 P. M. when plans will be
completed for the sportsmen’s ex­hibit
at this year’s Farm Slhow,
¡Other matters of interest per­taining
to ,the coming hunting
season will Ibe discussed. John
Steffy, president, will preside.
DAYS OF POMPEII RECALLED
{OfficialNavy Photograph)
R are Art Draws Sailors—When the American destroyer USS Carry
visited Naples with the Twelfth Fleet the crew members shown used
p a rt of th e ir shore liberty to examine an original painting unearthed
in Pompeii.
Launch Sewer Survey;
To Measure Cellars Next
Armed with ¡transits, measuring
rules -and pliumlbs, a gang of sur­veyors
and engineers ¡started the
sewerage survey -here this week.
Beginning the task of plotting
grade® and the degiree of drop at
the south end of the ¡borough, the
group was working toward the
Lititz creek. After this is com­pleted,
a task which will probably
take several week®, they will ¡go
to -the north end of the borough
and again ¡start the trek toward
the creek.
James ¡Breaker, engineer in char­ge
of the local gang, announced
today that engineers employed by
Albright & ¡Friel, who are making
the survey, will visit local homes
next week for the -purpose of
measuring the depths of -cellars.
These engineers ¡will have let­ters
of identification signed by
Borough ¡Secretary Elam E. Hab-eokeir.
Mr. Brooker explained tor
the benefit of local householders
that It is necessary to obtain these
figures hut advised that no work­man
toe admitted without the let­ter
of identification.
Shortly after starting their sur­vey
here Wednesday, the survey­ors
encountered an obstacle at
Seciond Avenue When they weer
unalble to determine the exact
course of the oil lines in this
section. This ¡phase Will be -com­pleted
later when official maps
are obtained from the oil co.
New Zealand Girl
Enrolled At Linden Hall
Mrs. Horace G. Miller of Now
Zealand came to Lititz on Mon­day
to enroll her daughter, Mar­got
Cecily, as a senior in Linden
Hall Academy. The couple flew
from their home in Wellington,
N. Z. to Lititz in forty hours flying
time. They had a twenty ¡four
hour stop in Honolulu and they
also stopped in San Francisco be­fore
landing at the Lancaster
air port.
Ben Forrest
Speaks Upon
European Trip
The traveler today returns from
Europe thankful that (he is an
American and glad to be able to
enjoy the privileges lof life in a
community such as Lititz, Ben
Forrest, Wilbur Suchard head here,,
informed -members of the local
-Rotary Club Tuesday evening in
a talk on his recent ¡European
trip. .
“Switzerland iis ¡the nearest
thing to the United States,” he
added explaining “there the build­ings
are modern and clean and
the food is very 'good. In England
the Britisher feels his -country is
so far in the ¡red ¡that ¡he is down
in the ¡mouth. Most Europeans
feel communism is a nuisance
tout little more.”
Mr. Poorest 'was introduced by
-Elmer Bamberger, program chair­man.
Next Tuesday local Rotar-ians
will hold a picnic and corn
-roast in the ¡Springs (Park after
■which ¡they will -watch the Rotary
Midget-Midgets play a team from
¡Lancaster. Vernon Kline is in
charge of arrangements.
POLICE PENSION COMMITTEE
TO MAKE APPEAL FOR FUNDS
At a meeting held Monday
evening, members Of the (police
pension committee announced an
appeal for funds will be made to
the public in letters now being pre­pared.
The appeal is an annual
one aimed to swell the fund to
provide retirement for borough
policemen. A percentage of the
pay of local policemen also aug­ments
that contributed by the pub­lic.
A similar appeal was made
last year shortly after the fund
i was instituted.
H. S. Football Practise
Will Begin Next Wednesday
By Don Fisher
Well here it is almost Fall and
time for a brief roundup about
that ever-exciting game, football.
All of the prospective players for
-the 1948 ¡season are waiting for
next Wednesday as that’s when
coach Rider is calling the first
practice. A ifeiw of the fellows
hare already ¡invaded the athletic
field -hoping to get the jump on
their position rivals toy getting
-into shape, o at least toe in toetter
physical condition when the eigh­teenth
rolls around. Most of last
year's lettenmen have gained any­where
from five to twenty pound®,
this plus -experience should give
Lititz High a «rather rugged team.
An over-all picture of this year’s
squad indicates light ust ends,
heavy hard to move linemen, and
good passing, hardrunning backs.
The following boys should toe the
toulkjwlard and nucleus tor the
(forth-coming grid ¡classics: Wen­dell
'Hower, ¡Orville IHaldemlan,
Johnnie Steffy, Lester Wftiwer, Le­roy
Stief, Bob COchran, Dick
OtoerMn, 'Harold (Frederick, Dick
Jameson, Albert Leunza, Joe Hess,
Don -Steffy, Haul Dewald, Caspar
Haddad, George Biemesderfer, Jim
Risiser, and mascot Jerry Welk.
(Besides -the regular varsity -sch­edule
the junior varsity also has
lined up five and iposibly ¡six op­ponents
tor the -year. The sched­ules
for the two ¡team® Is:
VARSITY
Sept. 10 West York -Away
Sept. 18 -Red Lion Aiway
Sept. 25 ¡Shillington Home
Oct. 2 'Palmyra Away
Got. 8 Lane. Catholic Away
Oct. 16 COtulmibia Home
Oct. 23 Manheim Twp. Away
Oct. 30 Manheim ¡Boro 'Home
t Nov. 6 Bphraita Home
JUNIOR VARSITY
Oct. 4 Manheim Twp. Hbtme
Oct. 11 E-town Away
Oct. 18 Columbia Away
Oct. 25 Lane. Catholic Home
NoV. 1 Open
Nov. 8 Ephrata Aiway
Military
Funeral
This Sunday
Services Will Be Held For
T-4 Clyde W.
Stauffer
-Military services ¡will be held
here this ¡Sunday afternoon at 2
P.-M. for T-4 Clyde W. Stauffer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Stauffer,
West Orange Street, who was
killed in action in France.
¡Stauffer’s body accompanied b
a military escort, -will arrive at
Lancaster ¡at 12:43 P.M. ¡Friday
and will ¡be ¡brought -here immed­iately.
The -dhip which brought
the ¡body, along with several
thousand others, from -France,
docked several weeks ago.
The service Sunday will be held
at Spadht’s wi-th further service«
at the graveside in the Maopelah
Cemetery. Members -of the Amer­ican
Legion will present the ser­vice
with Rev. Paiul ¡Miller, chap­lain
of the Garden Spot 'Post and
pastor of -the E.U.B. -Church, of
¡which Stauffer ¡was a member,
preaching the funeral -sermon.
'Stauffer, who was 23 years of
age, wa-s killed on December 22,
1944. He is survived by his father,
his step-mother, and the follow­ing
brother :s Theodore, Jr., this
¡borough; Stanley, New Providence,
R. D.; Donald, William, both of
this borough, and Larry, U. S.
Navy, ¡stationed at 'Great Lakes.
A half brother, John, a half-sister,
¡Shirley, at 'home, -and -a half-sister,
Jane, wife of Williard Adams,
this borough, and his grand­father,
William Stauffer, also
¡survive.
Wilbur Again
To Broadcast
From Schools
As -soon as school sessions get
under way in September, radio
listeners will again hear programs
put on by the students and broad­cast
-diretet from the ¡county scho­ols.
The programs will toe spon­sored
toy the Wilbur-lSuchard Cho­colate
Company, Inc., of this
borough. There «will be a half
hour program each week, on Fri­day
afternoons and -each school
will plan and execute whatever
kind of entertainment it desire®.
¡During -the last school year
such programs were broadcast
from twenty-five schools and col­leges
¡within the county and from
hundreds of letters received toy
the company, they were much en­joyed.
In -addition teachers and
parents told -the company that
these radio programs were having
a great deal to do with encour­aging
children to excel in musin,
singing, dramatics and other non-athleti-
c activities.
Among the first schools to toe
heard this year will be those of
Christiana, Gap, -Denver, Upper
Leacock, Mountville and Elast
Cooalico, depending on how soon
after school starts these schools
will be ¡ready -to go on the air.
Programs will be ¡broadcast
over ¡Station WLAN, Lancaster,
and on ¡radio programs these
broadcasts will be termed “High
School Varieties.’’